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or a motherly woman



with sweet eyes and

white hair but what a re-

‘sponsibilit r is hers!



She is t e active partner

in the business of running a

home. She buys most of

the things which go to

make home life hap ,

healthful and beauti ul.

Through her slim, safe fin-

gers goes most of the fam-

ily money.



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ter than the average man

could spend it himself. For

women are better purchas-

ing agents than men: They

compare prices, Weigh val—

ues and shop carefully._



T h e y read advertlse-

ments regularly. You’ll

find the wise little home

manager. searching the ad—

vertising columns for news

that will add to the com-

fort, convenience and 1m-

provement of her home.

You will find the same clev-

er purchasing agent study-





“Home Manager--Purchasing Agent-- /

Art Director-—Wife” ‘





ing the advertisements to

find where and when to

buy, and what and how to

buy most economically. The

advertisements, too, tell

this responsive art director

how she can make her

home more beautiful, more

individual—the k 1 n d of

home that a man apprec1—

ates but never knows how

it is done!



Advertisements are the

wis e counsellors in the

s ending of mone that the

c ever housew1fe eeds.





The bulsiness of running a home is made easier

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schedule andvis toner 2. .000,000‘to

us in five years. after w ’ lch they will

renew negotiations. ’ '





Leon Vanderstuyft, a Belgian cyclist,





1broke' the world’s record for one hour’s





riding when he, covered 71.47 miles at

a meet in Montlhery, rance. , '

Wayne county no has aviation

laws on its books. These laws pre-

scribe the heightens must fly above a

city, and also rule against trick flying





-and the distribution of advertising





matter over cities from planes.





Paul O. Lobe, president of the Ger-

man Reichstag, said that Germany

was more than willing to extend world

disarmament. He made the statement

at a session of the inter-parliamentary

union at Washington. a





All hope was given up for those who

sunk with the submarine S-51, when a

rough sea prevented the raising of it.

The submarine was sunk when it col-

lided with the steamer City of Rome,

oft Block Island.





Dr. M. Nansen, the polar explorer,

is planning a trip to the pole in a

dirigible larger than the Los Angeles,

carrying a personnel of forty.



The aviation. board is planning an

increase in the army aviation activi«

ties to the extent of 2,500 airplanes.

It will cost the government $79,000,000

per year to maintain that number.



Eight million people filed income tax

returns during the past year. One in

every five was exempt.





According to the income tax returns,

the average annual wage of those who

filed statements is. $1,500.





The United States government in-

dicted thirty-one persons because of

a Florida land fraud. Five million dol-

lars is supposed to have been lost by

mid-west investors.





A prison commission of Texas abol-

ishes its honor farm near Sugarland.

Thus far this year forty-nine prison-

ers have escaped from this farm.





As part of the prohibition drive, the

government authorities are now

searching all freight trains which

come from Canada.



Mrs. Hannah Chaplin, mother of

Charles and Sidney Chaplin, the movie

stars, has been granted time until Feb-

ruary 1, 1926, to stay in this country

for medical treatment.





Plans are being made to construct

a fifty-six story hotel in New York, at

a cost of about $25,000,000. '



President Coolidge's invitation to

enter the Inter-parliamentary union

was responded to in person by more





representing thirty-eight nations.

Capt. Anton Heinen, German zepplin

pilot, said that ‘ Commander Lans-

downe, of the airsmp Shenandoah, was

entirely responsible for its destruction.

Governor Groesbeck has promised

thatLansing would have an airplane

landing field on state property.





Thousands of poor Swedish people

are making money harvesting a Swed-

ish forest berry called “lingon.” This

takes the same place on the Swedish

table that cranberries do in America.

They are also gaining popularity in

Germany.



Dr. Harvey J. Howard, of the Rocke-

feller Hospital. in Pekin, who was cap-

tured by bandits in July, was recently

rescued.





Floods covered 15,000 square miles

of land in Pekin, China, due to the

failure of a dyke in the Yellow river.

Over 2,000,000 persons were affected

by the flood.





Recent droughts in Virginia so dried

up fish streams that it will require ten

years to restock them, say the con-

servation authorities.





“Old Bill," a strawberry roan work-

horse, which has reached the age of

fifty-seven, and is known as the oldest

horse in the world, is now a side-show

attraction in a circus in New Jersey.





It is reported that thirty English

geologists are surveying for oil in the

Mosul district of Turkey.





Kennel Club, three thousand pet dogs.

worth $1,000,000. were shown leading

a "dog’s life" in the midst of satins

and steaks.





Sixteen airplanes took'part in the





through the middle-west. The tour

started Monday, September 8, and end-

ed October 3.





Five Japanese who were ousted from

Toledo, Oregon, are suing for $125,000.



The Inter-parliamentary Union 01)-

poses urging the United States to join

the League of Nations.



Ten airplanes out of sixteen finished

theflrst Ford commercial airplane re-

liability tour when they landed at the

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armlng Conditions In Northern Italy





Wflere Proficzmcy m Diversified Agriculture 1: Paramount

By M. M. McCool ‘





ORTHERN Italy, in the valleys

of the Rhine and Po rivers, and





on the Lombardy plain, from the ‘





‘_ agricultural standpoint: is very fasci-

,. nating.‘ The greater part of this reg—

,ion is intensely populated, especially





the Lombardy plain where 540 people

live on each square mile of territory.

The land is intensively cultivated and





' the general impression is that one is





passing through a succession of gar-





‘. dens, yet there are numerous large





holdings. Owing to the proximity to

the Alps Mountains and consequently,

water power. some of which is utilized

to generate electricity, manufacturing





_ plays an important role in the life of





the country. In the nbrthern part

there are many linen mills, silk mills,

woolen mills, machine shops and mod-

ern chemical factories.





”In this section of Italy one sees a

great variety of crops grown, such as





- potatoes, corn, wheat, rye, sugar beets,

» lupines,





beans, clover, alfalfa and

fruits of various kinds. The soils for

the most part are reddish brown in

color and fine in texture, although

there are areas of rather light soils.

The yield of the different crops is

high. I was informed that the Italian

farmer obtained the largest yield of

sugar beets of any. Most of the hay is

cut by means of the scythe. I have

seen‘as many as six men cutting hay

in this manner in a field of only a few

acres in extent. Owing to the small-





- ness of many of the fields, much of.





the labor of necessity is performed

by hand. In the irrigated districts, of

course, the fields are small, owing to

the irrigation and drainage ditches.

Trees of different kinds, such as the _

willow, elm, mulberry, apple and peach

are grown along these ditches. The





limbs of the three former are cut back

each year and serve as a source of

fuel for the people as well as for bas-

ket making.

how small, is utilized. They are made

into small bundles and stored in this

manner.





In the grape growing sections, the

vines are planted between the rows of

trees and the new growth is trained

on wires strung between the trees;

thus, one may see apples and grapes

on the same tree. The land not occu:

pied may be planted to wheat, corn,





Each twig, no matter ,





hay, onions, artichokes, etc. I have

seen as many as six crops growing on

a small patch of ground.





One .morning I left Milan and trav-

eled about fifty miles by rail to a

small village in order to come into

direct contact with the farming opera—

tions. When I got off the train I was





surprised indeed, to find that no one

at the station could speak English.

The village lay one mile away and the

people were taken to and from it on

a two-wheel cart with seats provided

on each side.





I took my kodak and





 





 





Famous Lombardy Plains in Northern Italy. 0n the Left a Field of Onions;

on the Right a Good Crop of Wheat; in the Center, Mulberry Trees.





walked several miles out into the coun-

try. I was indeed fortunate to meet

up with a priest who could speak Eng-

lish and could understand the Amer-

ican language, as it is spoken in the

middle western states. Hetproved to

be an accommodating fellow and as-

sisted me greatly in obtaining infor-

mation that I desired concerning a

near-by farm, as well as general agri-

cultural practices in northern Italy.



I visited a farm just as the laborers

sat down to their mid-day meal. The

dining hall was located on the ground

floor of the building and accommodat-

ed about thirty laborers. I noted that

their meal was rather frugal. The

buildings were arranged on four sides

of a rectangle, the house being on one

side and the barn and implement sheds

on the others. The members of the

household lived on the second floor.

Although this farm was run on a. ten-

ancy plan, numerous extra laborers

were employed. They were paid at

the rate of twelve cents per hour to

assist in the harvesting of the hay

crop, and perform other duties. The

hay was cut by means of the scythe.

Long-horned, mouse-colored oxen were

Used instead of horses as beasts of

burden. The seven head of excellent

dairy cows of the Jersey breed were

kept in the barn or barnyard, and

green hay or grass was cut and fed

to them. This method is not always

practiced, however.



The tenancy plan called for an equal

division of every kind of produce ex-

cept the dairy products, such as the

milk and cheese which the tenant re-

ceived. The tenant bore all the ex—

penses, but he could use the stock

stubble and catch crops for feed if he

so desired, but only one-half the pas-



(Continued on page 331).





Has Faith In the Good COW





Believe: Me Daz'ry-Legume Coméinatz’on a Hard 0726 to Beat

By W2 F. Taylor





HAT is to be the future of dairy-



ing? If one could give an ac-



curate answer to this question,

he would surely be much in demand.

However, the writer has thought much

about it,and here yields to a prompt-

ing to put some of his thoughts on

paper.



We hear much about over-production

in agriculture, and this not without

reason. For, with the coming of new

and better machinery, with conquests

of various diseases and injurious in-

sects, and with more efficient methods

of production, the, power of the human

hand is constantly increasing. We

could figure these increases rather ac—

curately, and could construct our var-

ious rules, by which we have made

our calculations.





Two or three years ago, many of us

were startled at the presence of a





' surplus of milk in the Detroit area in





months when a deficit was .expected.

We noted the steady advance in the

price of nearly all grains fed to dairy

cows. We listened to dairy speeches,

studied dairy bulletins, and articles in





' ‘dairy papers, and we noted the steady

advance of cow-testing associations,

' and, {gs the business cama more and

., more into romlnence, we wondered if





prices of dairy products could possibly

be maintained at a point that would

meet production costs, to say nothing

of profits. But, here we are, we folks

who milk cows, at the beginning of

the last quarter of 1925, and the price

of butter-fat is slightly better than we

had expected, and we see the coming

of a corn crop that will lower produc-

tion costs. The quantity of dairy prod-

ucts on the market has not increased

as rapidly, nor to the extent that we

expected. Nor has the number of cows

increased to an extent that portends

any serious consequences to the bus-

iness. On the contrary, some things

are happening, that we did not think

so much about. Though we might

have expected them had not our fore—

cast of the future been a little like

the Irishman’s blanket: He said “it

was too short. It little more than cov-

ered my feet. I pulled it up to make

it longer. But begorra! it was yit too

short. My feet were uncovered.”



The trouble with most. of our proph-

ecies is apt to be that we have not

taken all the conditions into account.





Much or flib dairy program does "





not increase the number of cows.

Thousands of Michigan cows have

been sent to the block in the last two

or three years because they have not

made good in the cow testing associa-

tion. The desire to weed out the poor

cows and raise the average production

of the herd spreads to men outside

the. association, and they guess that

some of their cows should go to the

block. They may be right or wrong,

but the cows go. This is not all. Peo-

ple are selecting calves for future

cows more carefully than they once

did, and tempted by the high price of

veal, or for other reasons, they are

rejecting heifer calves that a few

years ago they would have raised.

Again, with all our increased knowl-

edge in matters of breeding, and de-

veloping heifers, our progress is not

as rapid as many of us have hoped.

It is. easy to write about the possibil-

ities of a great bull, but it is not so

easy to deliver the bull. The writer

lives in a neighborhood where well-

bred bulls have been the rule for a

good many years. The first silver

medal bull “in Michigan was from this





locality. And another animal owned

close by was nearly as good. It will

probably be a long time, however, be-

fore two sires of equal merit with

these will happen so near together.

Of course, the time may come; but

when it is the rule, one may go out

among men, and look for orators like '

Clay and Webster, statesmen like

Washington and Lincoln, reformers

like Theodore Roosevelt, and business

men and economists like Henry Ford

and Herbert Hoover, in every county.





Make no mistake, the writer is not

opposed to progressive dairying. He

has no use for the scrub bull nor the

poor cow, not even if they be pure-

bred scrubs. He admires very much

the way Mr. Reed speaks out upon

this matter of dairy betterment. The

program of our dairy department is

right, but there are biological limita-

tions that make absolutely impossible

any very rapid increase, either in efii~

ciency of production or in quantity

of production, of milk and butter.



The demand for dairy products 13.,

constantly increasing. The present

eflort to exterminate bovine tubercu- ‘

losis should be continued. The‘write'r

wonders that in a single dairy county



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.voumn ouv NUMBER FIFTEEN





DETROIT, OCTOBER 10, 1925

CURRENT COMMENT





F one reads the pa-





 





 





About pers, he will be

aware of the fact that



Real EState there is something do-

Booms ing in Florida. Peo-





ple are rushing there

so fast that shelter can not be provid-

ed for them, and there is likely to be

an embargo on all who have no prop—

erty or business below Jacksonville.

This boom parallels the gold rush of

'49, and when it is over many people

will be sadder but wiser. Already no-

tices of indictments for fraud against

Florida land companies are beginning

.to appear in the news columns.



Not only is real estate booming in

Florida, but it is unduly active in cit-

ies in many other parts of the country.

Many a farmer who has sold his farm

for subdivision purposes may in time

have that farm back to cultivate again.

Some of our shrewdest economists are

warning people of this real estate

craze, telling them that the situation

is over-ripe and that a sad disquietude

may soon develop.





One thing is fortunate. Farm lands

have not been involved in this boom.

They have enjoyed a steady increase



‘ but are still sold on the basis of actual

value. It is conceded by most all sane

students of values that a man’s money

is much safer in farm lands than in

other real estate bought at present



. prices. A word to the wise is sufficient.





ICHIG-AN is very

Michigan’s - fortunate with

T B -"" reference to tubercu-

' ' losis in cattle. Con-

WOT}! sidering the amount of

dairy cattle it raises,

it has but a comparatively small per-

centage of cattle with the disease, as

may be seen by a map published else—

where in this issue. The eradication

Work that has been done along with

this comparative freedom from the dis-

ease has placed Michigan second

among states in disease-free cattle.

{This makes our state an especially

good one as a source of supply for out-

siders to get what they want in good

dairy cattle. In other words, our com-

_ parative freedom from TB, is a. real

economic asset to the state.





However, this situation may be our

very undoing. We may. sit content

. while other states with greater eradi-

cation problems to solve are working

wu1th might and 'main in their fight

:‘lagainst the disease. They may con-

aster this. dreaded foe, while it may





 





   

   

 

 





 





 

 





.' in clean-up work, in order that we





may not only maintain our posiiflon,

but improve it. It is a certainty that,

if we grow lax in our methods, other

states will get ahead of us, to our dis-

advantage, and besides, with delay our

cost of clean-up Will be greater. .



it will be economy to do a good job.

now. We mention this because our

appropriations for TB. work seems

small, only $250,000 as compared with

over four million in New 'Yofk, over a

million in Pennsylvania and Illinois,

more than $750,000 in Iowa and Wis—

cousin, $500,000 in Minnesota, and

$350,000 in Ohio.



If $250,000 is enough to properly do

the work here, all well and good. 'But

we doubt it very much. And we feel

that it is of vital concern to most

every producer and consumer of dairy

products in the state, that enough

money is available to do the job right.





NOE more the sea-





- Get the son is at hand for

‘ . laying by supplies for

Half“ of the winter. This ap-

Laymg by plies chiefly to farm-





ers, as now-a-days in

city homes very little food is stored

for the cold seasons. But it has been

rather definitely ascertained that the

average farmer secures about a third

of his living expenses from the farm.



This amount varies, however. Some-

times it is less than a fifth of the liv—

ing costs. This habit of not using

the things we grow, is poor econ-

omy. In a recent study of farm fam-

ily expenditures it was learned that

the city retail value of the products

the farm provides is more than double

the farm value. If, therefore, one ex—

pects to sell his products and go to

the city stores to replenish his sup-

plies from time to time, he is bound to

suffer financially—a thing which no

farmer can afford, however well he

may be prospering.



Then, too, securing one’s living from

the farm gives a feeling of stabil-

ity and safety. He not only can cut

costs, but he has a feeling that, if nec-

essary, he can get by during the lean

years—years that would prove hazard-

ous if he were obliged to go to the

markets for all of his supplies. There-

fore, the habit should be formed so

that, even in times of prosperity, the

farmer would constantly seek to lay

by the highest possible percentage of

his living from the farm.





S a. nation, we





To Whom have extolled our

captains of industry



Honor to such a degree that

is Due e v e r y school boy

throughout the land





not only knows their names, but all

the details of their lives, and aspires

to similar positions as a mark of suc-

cess. Such praise has not been ex-

tended generally to those who have

been instrumental in promoting agri-

culture. There are many agricultural

leaders who undoubtedly have accom-

plished more for the nation than have

many of the so—called captains of in-

dustry, but who remain unknown. No

public records are to be had of their

accomplishments.





We are, however, beginning to ap—

preciate the significance of such emu-

lation in the building of an agricul-

tural conscience. To this end, some of

our land grant colleges have adopted

the policy of erecting monuments to

the great men of agriculture. In the

newly erected horticultural building at

the Michigan State College, those who

have contributed to state and national

horticultural advancement are remem-

bered in bronze on the walls of its

corridors.



In a more local way this movement

is gaining somemomentum. There are

in Michigan 759 dairymen, members of

seventy—nine cow testing associations,

whose names have been placed upon





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The county agent of :Sanilac county.

and possibiy others, has made achieve-

ment day at the county fair 11. real fea-

ture by giving suitable recognition to

those farmers in the county who have

.accompdished something unusual with

the soil, crops, poultry, or live stock,

and to every farm woman who has

been more than "usually successful

with things pertaining to her home or

to community welfare. _



When agricultural accomplishments

carry with them the same pride and

recognition that industrial accomp-

lishments do, we may be sure that

farm life will appeal to the keenest

and highest type of young men and

women, thus 'insuring the future of

our agriculture as Well as that of our

national welfare.





4 PRESS item indi-





, The Cost cates that it costs

this state about twen-



°f Law En- ty—eight million dol-

Forcement lars a year to enforce





its laws. That’s quite

a bit, but, considering the fact that

there are so many laws to enforce, it

doesn’t look so bad. The cost is just

an indication of the complexity of our

legal system. Seemingly, we have

gone law crazy in this country.



When one is brought before the

courts and professes ignorance of a.

law, he is told that ignorance of the

law is no excuse. It is a safe bet that

there isn’t a soul but What is ignorant

of most of the laws on our statute

books. Even those new-fangled mem-

ory courses couldn’t help a fellow to

remember a small portion of them.



This complexity and congestion of

laws is great stuff for irresponsible

lawyers, for, because of it, a lawyer

can prove anything he wants. It al-

most seems that the laws were made

for lawyers and not for the people.



Another thing which adds to the

cost and complexity of our law en-

forcement is the “passing of the buck.”

Our law enforcers, from the constable

to the judge, have, under our present

system, opportunity for “passing the

buck” when it comes. to laxity in en-

forcement.





Lawyers’ cunning ways of getting

cases of their guilty clients delayed

also add to the cost of law enforce-

ment and obstruct justice. The great-

er the delay the more certain the ac-

quittal.





Parole systems are also abused. Gov—

ernors, being elected, perhaps; should

not have that power. Many governors

are now working for a change, asking

that the power to parole be given to

judges, who should be appointive for

life, instead of being elected. In this

state 1,191 paroled prisoners were re-

arrested in four years. This does not in-

dicate that care in paroling is nec-

essary?



This is written with full knowledge

that we have a host of honorable law-

yers, judges, and others engaged in

law enforcement. These more than

likely would favor the simplification of

our legal system, for they well know

that its complexity is favorable only





to those who seek ways of evading





justice.



This is just a plea for simplification

of our legal system, written with the

hope that it might interest a few more

of “we common folk” to use our in-

fluence to secure it.





OME people call



The advertising bunk,



but it is really a pro-



Be“: fession based upon

Advertiser some well founded





principles. To adver-

tising, we must give due credit for

most of ”the conveniences and com-

forts we enjoy in the present day, for,

if effective telling to .the multitudes

the advantages of our many now-oom-

mon things were “not possible,_thcy





. them " all beat.





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are for our comfort and convanience

There are advertisers and advertis‘

cars, but we know of one which has,

“That is the country-





side. This great advertiser uses all





the principles of advertising man-ever





know. It appeals to all senses, to the

eye, the nose, the ear, the touch, and

even to the taste. It makes'use of a.

frequent change of copy, thus main-

taining our interest at all times.’ (Zion-

stant and consistent advertising is an-.

other efiective advertising principle it

uses. ‘



Man tries feebly to cbmpete~ with'

nature. He sets up obnoxious bill-

boards in what he deems appropriate

places, but how can he hope to com-





pete with nature’s billboard which has .

How can





the horizon for its edges?

he hope to outdo budding spring, grow-

ing summer, varied‘colored autumn and





white blanket-ed winter? No change of .





copy can compete with the changes of

the seasons, or even of a day.



If you want to be a good advertiser,

take your hint from nature. She has

over a hundred million customers in

this country, and millions of others

who wish they could enjoy her more

frequently. So you, of the. countryside,

should not close your eyes to the won-

ders about you.





, Mutual Admirer/m”





THE other day I saw a. couple



‘where he was lookin’ at she and

she was lookin’ at he. She was look-

in’ like she thought, “My! what a man

he is,” and he was lookin’ like he was

thinkin’, “She sure is some chickun.”

Now, that is what the perfessor calls

mutual admirashun.



There’s lots 0’ he’s and she’s what

belong to the mutual admirashun so—

ciety. What each other says and does

is the finest thing agoin’, even if the

rest 0’ the world don’t think so. That’s

the way it is until they get marred.

Before gettin’ marred they like ta pat

each other, but

aft-er, they like ta

slap each other.



Love is real

mutual admira-

shun, but there’s

so much what is

just imitatshuns

0’ love. And

there’s lots 0’

folkses what be-

long ta the mutual admirashun society

what almost say ta each other, “you

flatter me and I’ll flatter you.” What

you call flattery is great stuff; it

makes you feel so good.



I read in the papers most every day

where some womin flattered some rich

or influenshul man until she got what

she wanted, and then she flattened

him. Flattery is one o’ the tools for

gettin’ specshul privileges. They say

it don’ t cost nothin’ ta be flattered, but

some folkses kin tell you, if they’d

tell the truth, that it costs a lot. Flat-

terin’ sometimes pays pretty well, but

to be flattered don’t. So, the cheapest

thing ta do is ta not believe all the

nice things somebody says about you.

Or, if you believe it, pretend not ta,

and try ta find out what they want





 





 





. instead 0’ what they’ re givin’.





Real mutual admirashun is O. K.

It’s encouragemunt, not flattery. Ta

know that somebody is got faith in

you helps a heap. You don’t feel like

you’re alone when somebody is stand-

in’ by you. Encouragemunt makes you

feel like doin’ more, while flattery

makes you feel satisfied. Flattery is

one o’ the arts 0’ wominkind what

plays on the weaknesses 0’ men. Now

don’t you think I know? Didn’t Sofie

flatter me and make me feel so nice

that I wanted ta marry her? And now

don’t she try ta make me work all the

time? Bein’ a ex—member o’ the so-

ciety, it just makes me laff a lot ta.

see what Some 0’ the active members





around me is doin’ ———HY SYCKLE.





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HERE is nothing which stands

out in agricultural activities





Cooperation is a broad term

and covers real cooperative activities,

as well as imitations of it. Imitations

generally fall, but even real coopera-

rtihn is not always a success- It offbn

fails because there are so many fac-

tors involved which must work satis-

factorily in order that it succeed“ So,

when there is a success, it is worthy

of consideration. Forthat reason, we





.. are telling of the Canadian wheat pool.





This pool is an aftermath of the

. war, as are'our eiforts to cooperative-

ly market wheat. During the war,

government control set the - price of

wheat; but in later years, when the

government moved out and depression

moved in, there were problems to

solve. ,



The first suggestion of a wheat pool

was made at the annual convention of

the Washington Farmers’ Union at

Spokane, in January, 1920. At this

meeting a non—stock, non-profit coop~

eratlve marketing plan was submitted

by Aaron Sapiro Several Canadians

were present, because they felt that

something to help wheat marketing

would have to be done in the near fu-

This feeling was made a fact

in July, 1920, when the Canadian gov-

eminent definitely announced that the





. wheat board and its support of the

.grain market would be discontinued





and the open market for the handling

of the 1920 crop would be restored.

The Canadian council of agriculture

proposed a plan for a pool late in 1920.

This plan was discussed throughout

1921, but the election during that year

put the farmers in power and a demand

for the re-establishment of the wheat

board was made.



However, constitutional difficulties





, made it necessary for each province





to decide upon the matter. Alberta

and Saskatchewan passed favorable

legislation, but Manitoba did not. This





with such prominenceas cooper-‘





situation made it inadvisable to form

the board for the two provinces alone.



In August, 1923, the United Farmers

of Alberta, after unprofitable experi-

ences of two years of free marketing,

decided to' form a provincial wheat

pool, based on .a five-year contract.

The Saskatchewan Grain Growers’ As-

sociation were also busy, but with a

purely voluntary non-contract pool;

while the United Farmers of Mani-

toba had no definite plans for organ-

ization. Mr. Sapiro met with both the

Alberta and the Saskatchewan grain

growers. As a result, the Saskatche-

wan people abandoned their voluntary

pool plan-and started to work on the

same basis as did the Alberta farmers.



The Alberta campaign started with

a 2,182,797-acre sign-up as an objective.

If that was not reached, the signers

could withdraw. When the campaign

ended, the wool was short 280,000

acres.





The withdrawal privilege was





One oftfle Greatest Cooperdtzve Eflorts‘ 172 Me World





good sign-up for the 1924 wheat crop.



The first year’s business closed on

July 15 of the following year. The

Alberta. pool had sold 34,092,805 bush—

els of wheat at an average price of

$1.03 per bushel. The growers receiv-

ed $1.01 for their No. 1 Northern per

bushel, the remainder being retained

for expenses and for a commercial re-



‘serve. The first year’s membership

was 29,440.



In the meantime, the Saskatchewan

pool had reached its objective with a

membership of ' 45,725, and an acreage

of 6,330,000. Manitoba started its drive

in March, 1924, with 1,000,000 acres as

an objective. The drive ended with

nearly 400,000 acres short. Withdraw-

als were permitted, but they were neg-

ligible and additional contracts signed

up brought the acreage up to 711,579.

The pool was then made operative.



With three pools in operation, a cen—

tral selling agency was organized in





 





 





A Typical Canadian Wheat Field, Near Brandon.





It Was Estimated to go





About Thirty Bushels to the Acre.





given, but the number of acres with-

drawn were no more than those sign-

ed up during the interim. So the

pool became effective.





The Saskatchewan contract stated

that if fifty per cent of the acreage

was not signed up, the contract would

be null and void. The campaign failed

to make the grade and, despite the

willingness of the signers to start. the

pool operating, it was thought best to

make haste slowly and work on a





September, 1924, which had for its

managing board three directors from

each provincial pool.





- The initial price paid the farmers

upon delivery of their 1924 crop was

$1.00 for No. 1 Northern, basis Fort

William or Vancouver. During the

winter, other payments brought the

amount up to $1.55. The final pay-

ment, made September 1, was for elev-

en cents, making the total $1.66 for

No. 1 Northern. Deductions from the





 





 





above included two cents 'per bushel.

for acquiring or constructing eleVatorsé‘

. one per cent, or 3.,0166’ for ‘a commer-

cial reserve, and $.006 per bushel for;

operating expenses of the pool. This

was about a four and one-third cent

reduction, leaving the grower a net of:

nearly $1. 62, which is claimed to be:

quite a few cents more than the non-

pool growers got.





 





These pools were organized respec—

tively as the Alberta Cooperativeftii

Wheat Producers, Limited; Saskatche- 5;,

wan Cooperative Wheat Producers._

Limited, and the Manitoba Coopera— ‘0

tive Wheat Producers, Limited. The





selling agency for the three pools is .





called the Canadian Cooperative Wheat ,

Producers Limited, but is commonly 'Q

known as the Central Selling Agency,





The wheat provinces had various co-





operative institutions, such as the

United Grain Growers’ of Alberta, the

Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator

Company, and the United Farmers of

Manitoba But they did not help to

keep the faImer from the mercy of

price fluctuations. The purpose of the

pool is to establish orderly marketing

and to give the growers the average

price of the season. These other or-

ganizations cooperated financially and

otherwise, in the formation of these

pools in order that the debt—ladened

farmer would not always be at the

mercy of the trader.





The traders went after the pool, and

almost had it by the neck at one time.

The price in January, this year, was

$2.18; in March it dropped down to

$1.38, which was less than the pool

had advanced to its members at that

time. The pool felt that this sudden

drop was due to manipulation in order

to break the pool, as the price was

much below what the actual condi-

tions would warrant. Therefore, in or-

der to save itself, it did the very

thing it was fighting against. It went



(Continued on page 335).





Now Im Building 3 Septic Tank





Or, One of T flare Buz/t-m Farm Convenience:





WENT over to Will Jordan’s the

other day to borrow his wire

stretcher, and found Will out in

the orchard digging a hole that he

could have used as a grave.for a mule.



“What the dickens are you doing

down there?" I called, “It looks as

though you might be putting down a

foundation for one of those German

siege guns. What’s all the sand and

cement for?”



“Hello there, Jerry,” said Will.

“Come on down in the hole and take

a shovel. We’re going to build a sep-

tic tank.”



“You’re going to build what kind of





. a tank?” said I.





“A septic tank. A concrete septic

tank, ” said he.



“Going to use it for dipping hogs or

sheep?” I asked.



“Neither one,” said Will. “Going to

use it hold the sewage and waste wa-

ter from the bathroom and kitchen at

the house.”



"That’s a new one on me,” I admit-

ted. “Go ahead and tell me about it.

ideas.

Maybe ,I- can understand this one if

you’ll explain it a bit.”



“Well, it’s just this way,” Will said,

as he came up the ladder and sat down

on a bag of cement. “I’ve been hear-

ing about‘ these ’new-fangled septic

tanks for some time. One day last





’ . week there was a fellow here selling

subscriptions to a farm paper, and





he as showing me some of the





stories they run in that paper, he

came across a story about a septic

tank. He told me about the work that

the county agent over in Wayne coun-

ty was doing along the lines of farm

sanitation. They’ve been holding a

lot of septic tank demonstrations over

there this year and I guess they’ve got

a lot of folks all stirred up about it.

Anyway, they’re falling all over them-

selves to get their septic tanks built.”



“This agent went on to say that

they’d been having a lot of typhoid

fever over there and that they’d traced

it to a. farm where there’d been a bad

case of the fever, and as near as they

could find, the disease had been car-

ried all over a township.





“Now, that set me to thinking. You

know, my wife had a pretty bad case

of typhoid fever last year. We always

thought that she picked it up over at

the fair. Well, you recall how we just

about gave her up for- lost several

days, and 'then how, just about the

time she began to mend a little, Will,

Jr., came down with the same thing

and almost died. I began to think

about that, so I asked this agent what

they had learned over in Wayne coun-

ty about the way the fever spread

over a township.





“He told me that they traced the

first case of the fever and then they

went all over that farm and found

that the folks had a sewer that drain-

ed into an open drain in a pasture.

They noticed that there were always





a lot of flies and insects hanging

around the outlet of that sewer. The

crows and blackbirds used to hang

around there, too, and wade around in

sewer outlet had carried some of these

health experts on the job, and darned

if he didn’t figure out that the flies

and bugs and chickens and other crit-

ters that did their loafing around that

sewer outlet had carried some of these

typhoid germs over to the neighbor’s.

They were the next ones to have the

fever,and it passed along the line until

half the farmers over in that section

had it.





“I put two and two together and

figured that maybe, after my wife

came down with it last year, some

flies probably brought the germs up

to the house and scattered them on a

milk pail, or maybe on some of the

food on the table and that’s how Will,

Jr. got it.





“This agent told me that they were

going to have another demonstration

over near Dearborn in two days. That

was last Thursday, so I just took a

day off and drove over there.





“They had quite a. crowd of 'folks

out at this farm where they put in

the tank. There was an engineer from

the agricultural college, and a doctor.

They both gave talks on sanitation and

explained all about this epidemic that

had made the rounds. Their stories

were about the same as what that

agent had told me.



“The fellow who owned the farm





a.)





had dug the hole according to the

plans in a bulletin. Here it is. They

handed one to eve1y body at the meet-

ing. I'm following the same plans

1ight now. They had some lumber

theie and a couple of fellows sawed it

up and hammered a wooden form to-

gether. You see, this wooden form

that I've built here goes inside the

hole in the ground and you pour the

concrete between the form and the

Wall. When it sets, you’ve got a tank ”



“What' 5 that little offset part of the

hole £01?” I asked him. The hole

was deep in one place and then at

one end it was more shallow. It look- .

ed as though Will figured on making 9

two tanks.



“Why, that’s the second chamber.

The dosing chambei, they called it at

the meeting,” said Will. "You see,

the sewage comes through this tile

from the house and runs into this big" ‘

chambei. It stays there until it is all 7

changed to liquid and this liquid grad-

ually ove1flows into this second cham— ' ;

her. That fills up to just a certain

point, when it is siphoned out through

this jigger here. That’s the automatic ,,

siphon. They make them up at the '1‘

college and sell them to you at cost.- 5‘

I ordered mine from this fellow from f};

the college last week and he shipped ' '

it right down to me. I got it Tuesday.

I suppose I could have made it, but

thought they could make it exactly

right up there, and it didn’t cost any

more, so I let them make it.”



“Well, what becomes of this «w
Jay-a rewnumre

' or.) drain tile in“: several '

~ ‘rointhe tank and thatwa-

11 ow from the tank, (‘sznto‘thosel

filter away into the soil.

~, hat they call an absorption

pm. said Wfll. ‘ g

Wynn have to add any chem-

. «to-km the germs?" I asked.

'Wo, you don’t add a thing. The

,eriaQW‘ithin the sewage convert.‘

' “solids "to liquid and this liquid is '

’bWBed by the’sofl.”

. I ' does this tank kin the





 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





_ ow, that’s something I asked this

engineering fellow and he explained it





 





HE European corn borer is no

myth. It already numbers bil-

, lions of recruits in its devastat-

ing army, moving against America’s

, corn fields. This army is rapidly con-

7’quering new territory, particularly in

the" district about Lake Erie. The

farmers of America have in this pest

an enemy a hundred times more for-

midable and dangerous than were the

Colorado Potato Beetle and the San

Jose scale. ,

Agricultural leaders are uneasy

about this borer, particularly the farm-

ers in the corn belt. As a result, it

was not difficult to urge representa-

tive agricultural leaders from twelve





 





ANOTHER CORN BORER

TOUR IS PLANNED.





 





LANS are being completed



for another European Corn

Borer Tour into the infected

area of Ontario on October 22.

This party will consist of Mich-

igan farmers, county agents and

any others interested. Further

plans will be announced in this

journal next week.





 





 





 





of the North Central States to make

an inspection trip of infested territory

last week under the auspices of the-

United States and Dominion Depart-

ments of Agriculture.



Over a hundred experts joined in

this tour. They passed through in-

fested areas of Ohio, Michigan and

Ontario. The results were impressive.

Former statements of entomologists

as to the danger from this borer gen-

erally had been discounted, but what

these men saw on this inspection tour

proved to them that the worst had not

,been told.





The party started from Toledo last

Tuesday morning and inspected fields

in the Bono district east of that city.

The first field visited consisted of six

acres of Yellow Dent, planted on May

20. The field was in pasture last year.

Five hundred stalks were examined,

.30 per cent of which were infested,

there being an average of nearly two

larva to each infested stalk.



On the farm of Henry Diefenthaler,

having a six-acre field of the same

variety of corn, planted on May 15,

the infestation was 28 per cent, with

an average of over two larva per in-

fested stalk. This field was in wheat

last year.



The third stop was at Reno-by-the—

Lake. In this field of four acres, which

.had been in corn for four successive

p years, we found the worst infestation

’ in Ohio. Of the 500 stalks examined,

53.8 per cent contained borers, the

tassels were largely gone, and many

of the stalks were broken over. Three

other fields in this area at which we

stopped had infestations varying from

4 to .33 per cent.



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said that there are certain bacteria in

the upper tumors of the soil which

would destroy these disease germs as

soon as-t‘he water gets into the soil.

These bacteria. are ronly in the upper

layers. That’s why you lay the the

pretty shallow.” ,



“How much is this thing going to

cost you?” I asked next.



“Oh, I can't say exactly what it will

cost. They had figures on the cost

of the tank they built over there the

other. day. That one cost less than

$50 when they figured in the labor for





40m Borer Becoming Rea? ,

Held: in Infested Areas of (Mia, Median and Ontario Appall .21 grim/lumbar





onstration of special corn binding mam

chi-nery.was given. It has been found

that as the season advances, the bor-

ers work downward in the stalks to-

ward the ground. At corn cutting

time, a considerable number of the

borers are below the point where the

corn ordinarily is cut, and then re-

main in the stubble over winter to

propagate borers the following season.

This special machinery, designed by

the engineering department of the

Ohio State' University, cuts the corn

not higher than an inch above the

ground. From the demonstration it

appeared that real progress was being

made in perfecting this equipment,

which consists of attachments to be

used on regular corn binders.



That this work promises to aid in

the fight against this pest, is home

out by counts made at the special

experiment station at Bono, which we

visited, where corn borer investiga-

tions are being conducted through a

cooperative arrangement between the

Ohio Experiment Station and the Unit-

ed States Department of Agriculture.

These figures from 1924 counts also

show that the earlier the corn can be

cut, the fewer the number of borers that

will be found in the stubble. Here are

the figures—the dates being the times

of cutting and the number of inches

being the heights at which the stubble

were cut.





Height of Stubble and Time of





Cutting.

Date. 18 in. 12 in. 9 in. 6 in. 3 in.

Sep. 10 22.7 16.6 11.1 7.3 2.9

Oct. 1 ..35.3 23.7 -14.5 8.7 4.0

Nov. 3 .66.4 41.8 32.7 22.7 10.0





According to findings at this station,

which need further corroboration, the

time of planting also has a material

influence on the number of borers

present in the corn. In the Ohio dis-

trict, the influence of this factor was

noticeable in corn planted after the

first of June. Corn planted there on

April 29, had an average infestation

of 15 per cent; that planted on ’May 8,

18 per cent; on May 19, 17 per cent;

on May 30, 10 per cent; on June 8, 3

per cent, and on June 19, 1 per cent.

The assumption is that there may be

an increased demand in the future for

corn that matures in a. short period.



The party then returned to Toledo

and drove north through the infested

area of Michigan. As the time was

late the examination of the Michigan

fields was only of a cursory character.

In Erie township of Monroe county,

a large field of sweet corn, owned by

A. Benore, showed a. 25 per cent in-

festation. Directly across, the road

was another large field of Yellow

Dent corn, showing a 12.4 per cent in-

festation. Near the city of Monroe,

on the farm of Edward Hech, was a

good-sized field of Yellow Dent corn

with a 9 per cent infestation. At

Frenchtown, on the farm of ‘Clarence

Dureocherr, .was another large fieid

of the same variety showing 6.2 per

cent infestation. Generally speakiiig.

these fields in Michigan were not as





 





   





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ydur mm and. it wouldn't cost you as

mueh as itlsd’id me, because-i had to

buy sand and gravel. ' i '



“There’s, just this about it.





how much the medicine cost me. Will,

Jr., Was laid up just when I needed

him on the farm, and, I had» to hire an

extra man, and if my sister hadn’t





come out to do the cooking, and house?

work I don’t know what that would





 





badly damaged by borers as were the

fields in other districts visited, this

undoubtedly being due to the fact that

the pest had established itself in the

other sections at an earlier date.





Ontario’s Loss is Heavy.





The following morning, under the

direction of oflicials of the Dominion

Department of Agriculture, the party

left Windsor and traveled along the

drive to Chatham for a study of the

most severely infested area in Ontario.

Here on an area covering roughly, 400

square miles in the counties of Essex

and Kent, the corn crop was nearly a

total loss. This infestation is but a

part of a continuous area comprising

all the corn growing territory between

Lake Erie and Lake Huron, and nearly

the entire north shore of Lake Ontario.



The methods of handling the corn

appears to have considerable influence

upon the rate of increase of the pest.

In areas to the east, where previously

the most severe losses have been suf-

fered, a major part of the crop refuse

was disposed of, either by plowing

under or by feeding. At no time did

the number of borers in this area ex-

ceed an average of ten larva per stalk.

In the present Kent-Essex district

where much of the crop is fed in the

field, leaving on the ground a large

amount of corn refuse in which the

borer lives over winter, the average

number of larva per stalk frequently





~exceeded forty in number.





The first field visited in Ontario was

ten acres of Dent corn near Tilbury.

This corn was planted between May

15 and 20. The ofl‘icials reported that

the field had made an excellent growth

early in the season, the soil being in

excellent cultural condition. Every

stalk, however, was infested and 90per

cent of the cobs also contained larva.

The average number of borers found

in a stalk was twenty—five. Last year,

the per cent of infestation in this lo-

cality was not more than 60 per cent,

with from one to ten borers per stalk.

As we proceeded toward Chatham

there appeared to be a gradual de-

crease in the amount of injury done.





In the city of Chatham, the visitors

were taken to the Dominion Govern-

ment Laboratory where corn borer

parasite breeding work is being con-

ducted. The breeding stock of the

two parasites propagated at this place

had been secured from the Corn Borer

Laboratory at Arlington, Massachu-

setts. These two parasites had the

following awful names: Habrobracon

brevicornis and Exeristes roborator.

They are being bred at this laboratory

by the hundreds of thousands. The

parasites are being released in the

worst infected areas where, it is hop-

ed, they will aid in checking the work

of the corn borer. Nothing definite,

however,-can be stated as to the suc-

cess that may be expected from this

source.



At Saint Ives the party stopped to

inspect a thirty-acre field owned by a.

farmer, formerly of Indiana. He is so





 

 





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Llet. 'me ' take. that? bulletififw11en' you’re--

That.

peck of sickness and it.rouble.cost_ me.

over $150 in doctor bills. I had; to pay,





that trained nurse $45 a week .fbr‘

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discouraged that he is planning to

return to that state. This field of

Dent corn, which was planted on May

15., showed every ear and every stalk

infested with borers. There was an

average of thirty-nine laws. in the

stalks examined. The corn had been

exceptionally well cared for, but the

discouraged farmer will have a very

low grade of feed when it is harvested.

This Man Lost All His Crop.



The last, and worst, field visited on

the entire tour, was ten acres located

on the town line between Romany and

Tilbury East. Two acres of this" was

Flint and the remainder Dent corn. It

was planted May 7 to 10. There was

100 per cent infestation of both stalks

and cobs. The average number of bar

ers per stalk was 41 in the Dent and

33 in the Flint variety. This field

was as near a total loss as it is pos-

sible to get. The officials stated that

there were probably a dozen such

fields in the district, and several hun-

dred other acres in nearly as, bad con«

dition. The stalks were broken down

so badly that it appeared to have been

hogged down. The ears were soft and

the kernels chaffy.





The party returned to Windsor very

much depressed by what they had

seen. They realized fully that in this

pest they had an enemy that likely

would not succumb to present known

methods of fighting insects. The fol-

lowing day a conference was held in

Windsor, at which provision was made

for mapping out a program dealing

with this borer. A report on this con‘

ference will be given next week.





 





STATE INTEREST IN FORESTRY.





 





SURVEY of recent forestry legis-



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_ by the American Tree Associa-

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state forests, thirty-three have fores-

try departments, sixteen maintain

state nurseries, and state forestry ap-

propriations approximate $5,500,000 3

year.





 





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My vacuum sweeper’s broken,

The toaster’s on the blink,



There’s something in the drain pipe

That’s stopped up the kitchen sink.





The hired men are quitting,

The barn is full of flies,

The crops all look so seedy,



It brings tears to my eyes.





The place is going to ruin,

But Bill, he doesn’t care,



Because he’s showing cattle

At the Tinkum County Fair.





For .Bill is “Fair Show” crazy,

HIS farm it just can ride,

With cane in hand, for hours he’ll

stand

To watch the judge decide.





Some ribbons blue may come his way,

But if they don’t he’s just as gay.

For Bill won’t care, just so’s he’s there



To show his cattle at the Fair.





They talk about us women, _ j



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With any man that’s got a bunch



Of cattle at a Fair. .



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‘ A. and B. have land adjorinirig VA.

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fence without permission. He used

part for fire wood and stakes. All he

put in its place was two wires which

do not keep in sheep. B. claims he

for sheep.

Would A. be liable for any damage

done by his sheep?——A. R.



Complaint should be made to the

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SAWDUST FOR FERTILIZER.





 





Is there any fertilizing value in mix-

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moisture in both cow and horse sta-

bles, also by placing it in the gutter

to absorb moisture? What harm or

good will result from its continued

use?——W. E. K.





Sawdust of any kind has very little

fertilizer value. If green sawdust is

used liberally it will injure the land,

making it sour and getting it out of

condition, but where you have no straw

it is permissible to use sawdust for

bedding, and when this manure is

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perceptible harm. Dry sawdust is a

fair absorbent in stables, and, of

course, is valuable in saving the liquid

manure and should be used if you do

not have straw for bedding.





UNPRODUCTIVE MUCK LAND.





 





We havea few acres of unproduc-

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was grubbed out ten years ago. Al-

though the muck is not barren like

it was the first couple of years, it

yields mostly weeds when sown to

cats or wheat. Corn does fairly well.

Would rye grow better, or can you

tell me the best method to handle it

in bringing about productivity? I sup-

pose fertilizing will do it good—E. C.



Muck land is quite apt to be sour

and wet. If it is wet, it must be drain-

ed. The Water level must be lowered

sufficiently so the roots of plants can

have a feeding ground. Even though

it is fairly well drained, it is usually

acid in reaction and, if so, must be

limed. There is no other way to cor-

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limestone per acre, at least, should

be used.



Muck land is not only liable to be

sour, but usually is deficient in two

essential plant foods—~phosphorus and

potash. Muck is rich in nitrogen,

but hasn’t sufficient of the mineral

elements to go with the nitrogen to

produce good crops. Now the practical

thing to do is to use some of this store

of nitrogen and you can only do it by

supplying phosphate and potash, plant

foods, and lime, a soil corrective.

Don’t try to grow wheat on muck.

It is not adapted for cereal crops. Bet-

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your meadow needs breaking up, do

so and plant to corn. Then reseed.





NOT AS REPRESENTED.





 





B., a. responsible farmer, sold to E,

five high<grade cows, saying that each

cow gives ten quarts and better at a

milking, giving full instructions to E.

how to feed them. E. follows instruc-

tions carefully, but cows hardly give

five to five and one-half quarts at

milking. B. holds note and same for

half their purchase price. What can

E. do? Ephas the cows just four

weeks—Reader.



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TAXES AND OWNERSHIP.





 





When a woman has a. deed to a

farm in her name alone, and the deed

is on record, if her husband pays the

taxes and has the tax receipt made

out in his name, can he hold the

amount of the taxes against the farm,





or take possession of the farm if she ‘





died? What is a tax title ?——M. G.



It is immaterial in whose name the

property is assessed, or who pays the

taxes. A person paying taxes assessed

against the land of another has no

right of action to recover the amount

so paid in the absence of mistake or

fraud inducing the payment. A tax

title is a. title given by the state where

land is sold by the state for taxes

which are delinquent for a. period of

two years and over after they are due.

—Rood.





AN ACCIDENT.





 





I have a man employed taking care

of cattle, a, Jersey herd, all having

horns on. While watering said cattle

one of the cows twisted his head and

tore the left eye out of the man’s

head. Kindly give me the law. What

must be done in said case?——A. W. F.



In the absence of vicious disposition

of the animal known to the employer,

there is no liability, as the risk is one

assumed instant to the employment—-

Rood.





A LIEN ON STOCK.





 





We let a man pasture his cattle on

our farm for seven months. At the

end of this time we asked for a set-

tlement, and the man claimed he owed

us nothing. We made no papers, think--

ing his word was good. What can

we do?—~G. S.



Persons taking stock to pasture

have a lien on the stock for the pas-





ture bill; or may sue for it.~—Rood.





' LIME NOT A FERTILIZER.





 





How is land lime as a fertilizer?

Is it just as good as a. commercial fer-

tilizer? How much would you use on

rye or wheat?——-Reader.





Lime is a soil corrective and not a

plant food. Hence, it can not take the

place of commercial fertilizer. This

is not saying that lime is not just as

essential in the growing of crops.



Good virgin soil contains an abund‘

ance of carbonate of lime. This grad~

ually becomes neutralized by the for-

mation of organic acids caused by the

decaying of organic matter in the soil.

When this natural supply of lime is

exhausted, then the soil becomes acid,

because there is no more lime to neu-

tralize it. Many plants will not thrive

at all in acid soil; many more will not

do well, while some do not seem to

be affected much by a. slight amount

of acid.



When crops are planted on this acid

soil, and fertilizer is used freely, they

will not do well. The plant can not

use the fertilizer. it is sick. Use lime

to correct this. acid condition of the





soil, then the plant can use its food





and become thrifty. But the plant

must have the food, even though the

acid condition of the soil is corrected.





 





. THE TITLE REMAINS.





 





Husband and wife own land jointly.

If wife should leave home, can she

.sstillvhold her half in the property?—





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Separation does not enable either to

dispose of the property without the

other joining. The title remains the

same as before. —-Rood. .





 

 

 

 

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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production belong to the land owner. .

An agreement was made with respect ,





to the minimum amount of commer-

cial fertilizer to use on the various

crops. Acid phosphate was the chief

fertilizer, to which nitrate of soda or





sulphate of ammonia were frequently ‘





added. As is the ease with much of

the Italian agriculture, very little pot-

ash was used- on this farm. I was

informed that many of the soils of





Italy run very high in potash, in some '





instances as high as eight per cent.

When the yields of the crops are very,

good, the land owner pays for the fer-

tilizer; and when less, the tenant

shares in the cost, the amount depend-

ing upon the yields obtained.



All supplies, such as fertilizers,

seeds, spraying materials, concen-

trates, etc., must be purchased through

Agricultural Trading Associations.

This is done to prevent adulteration.



My general impression was, in trav-

eling in Italy, that the acreage of

legume crops, such as clover, lucerne

and lupines, was very high. I learned

later that my impressions were cor-

rect and that there were good reasons

for this high acreage. The soils, on

the whole, grow these without the use

of lime and, in addition. agreements

were made under the tenancy system

in some regions to devote as much as

twenty per cent of the cultivated land

to these crops.



When potatoes are grown they pre-

cede wheat; clover follows, then

wheat, and either maize or hemp, then

clover, and again in turn potatoes; or,

in other words, a four-year rotation is

practiced. This rotation is common in

northern Italy, but in the southern

part the three-year cropping system

is more commonly followed.



Several hundred mulberry trees are

grown on the farm, the leaves of

which are used in the production of

silk. In fact, Italy is one of the large

silk producing countries of the world.

For much of it she calls upon the

lowly moth, Bombyx mori. This moth

is very particular about what it has

to feed upon when it spins the silken

threads. Its natural food is the leaf

of the mulberry tree, which means, of

course, that the production of this tree

constitutes a great agricultural indus-

try. Much artificial silk is also made

in northern Italy. The female of this

moth deposits about 600 eggs in Aug-

ust or September. These are hatched

the following May when the mulberry

tree comes into leaf. We were in

Italy at the time the leaves were be-

ing removed from the trees to be fed

to the small caterpillars. When the

catterpillars emerge they feed vorac-

iously for more than one month. at the

end of which time they are about three

inches in length. The hatching and

feeding take place indoors, often in

cottages. When through feeding, the

worm crawls up the twigs provided

for it and spins its cocoon. The silken

threads proceed from two little open-

ings in the worm's head, which are

called spineritts. Then, by moving its

head about it causes the threads to

wrap around its body from the outside

inwards until the job is complete. If

permitted to do so, the small moth

that forms in a. few weeks would bore

a hole in the cocoon and emerge ; but

the majority of them are not permitted

to do so. They are destroyed by be-

ing placed in heated ovens.



The next step in the process. of silk

manufacturing is to wind as much as

possible off the cocoons into hanks.

This is done by machinery. Each op

erator, usually a woman or child, has

before her a basin of hot water, the

temperature of which is constant, and

a. slowly turning reel. The cocoons





- are placed in the hot water, which





softens the mass, and the threads are

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HE fruit grading and inspection





markets. Michigan fruit has qualities

far superior to that of many other

fruit sections. These qualities have

long been recognized by discriminat-

ing buyers, but our fruit products

have suffered because of poor grading

In an effort





utaflon of western fruit for accurate

grading, and excellent packing, our

own grading and inspection laws were

hurriedly jammed through our legis-

lature. They have been in force long

enough now so that regults may be

easily summarized. "





Thinks Standard Lowered.

It is a. disheartening fact that the





lowering the standards for Michigan

fruits. This is due to the following

facts: Farmers fear the law and are

distressed at the prospect of falling

foul of any law. Consequently, rather

than run the risk of being haled into

court for violation of the grading law,

they mark their packages No. 2, or

commercial grade, even though the

fruit may be of excellent 'quality. In-

deed, we are treated to the illuminat-

ing spectacle of the chief inspector

himself complaining that fruit growers

are undermarking their fruit.





The inspectors appointed have in—





deeply impressed with their own im-

portance. They seem to think that,

in order to hold their jobs, they must

be abrupt in manner, dictatorial, arbi—

trary, and assume a know-it-all atti-

tude which is, to say the least, annoy-

ing. Rather than endure the abuse

and discourtesy of these inspectors,

the farmer marks his fruit 8. grade

lower than he knows it to be.

An Adventure.





I have talked with a large number

of fruit growers and they are unani-

mous in condemning, in no uncertain

terms, the unwarranted assumption of

authority by these inspectors.





Packing and stamping a bushel of

peaches has become an adventure,

with results in grave doubt. I do not

know of one mechanical grader in this

section, as we can not afford them.

Now, think of the foolishness of ask-

ing a man to count the number of

peaches in a bushel and stamp the

number on the package; think of

measuring every apple which goes in-

to a package when apples are selling

for fifty cents a bushel, and the bas-

ket is costing you twenty—five cents.

Yet the law states that the package

must bear the number enclosed, and

the contents must not vary over a

half inch in size. Then when the

bushel is packed and closed, you must

get out your box of rubber stamps

and spend a lot of time sorting out

stamps and stamping. It has actu-

ally reached the point where the pack-

age is hardly large enough to furnish

space for all the different stampings

which must go on it- How would you

bean, potato, rye, wheat, corn and oat

men like to be compelled to go

through all that rigmarole before you

could dispose of your crop?





Grading Laws Needed.





Now, I am not advocating the abol-

ishing of all grading laws. I do speak

for all fruit, farmers when I ask that

the grading laws be simplified and

then left alone, and that no inspector

be appointed who is not qualified in

every way for the position I recom-

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laws were sponsored with the

wholly laudable ambition ofmak- ,

in Michigan fruit supreme in the





new laws have resulted in actually '





variably been young men who were





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ioned horse sense, qualities which





seem lacking with the present run of





inspectors.



California. has been many Years in

standardizing and building up her

fruit product; we Michigan people are

trying to’blunder into the same per-

fection through the medium of laws,

and still more laws. These laws did

not originate with practical fruit grow-

ers, they were not passed by men who

knew nothing about fruit growing;

they were drawn up and jammed

through by a job lot of lawyers and

politicians seeking to create some

more fat jobs for political henchmen.

We fruit growers ask for simple jus-

tice, but we do want that—L. B. Reber.





HORT. SOCIETY WILL MEET

DECEMBER 1-3. ‘





 





HE Michigan State Horticultural



Society will meet at Grand Rapids

for its annual meeting, December 1-3.

It will not hold the usual apple show

in connection, but arrangements are

being made for an implement show.

The Grand Rapids Savings Bank is

planning an apple Show to be held

while the fruit growers are in con-

vention.





POTATO MAR K ET STEADY.





 





OTATO growers are advised not to



pay'any attention to talk of a big

crop or slump in prices. The yield

may be a. little more favorable than

promised' earlier in the season, but

the market is taking potatoes in geod

shape and there is no surplus'piling

up. It is stated that the late potato

states have shipped 11,000 more cars

thus far this season than last. If the

potatoes are marketed gradually, the

prices should remain firm throughout

the season.





ONION CROP SHORT.





 





' HE United States Bureau of Mar~

kets estimates that the fourteen

late shipping states reduced their acre-

age of onions by 1,400 acres this year.

Therefore the crop will probably be

short about 200,000 bushels, although

the average yield per acre is about

eight bushels greater than last year.





BUYING APPLES.





 





T is time to think of buying apples

for the winter, so a little fore-

thought about the kinds one puts in

the cellar may mean a big difference

in satisfaction during winter months.

If you desire a fancy eating apple





for use in November and December, '





ask for McIntosh. This is perhaps the

finest dessert apple grown, being

juicy, crisp, white-fleshed, and of a

pleasing aroma. Then, the Rhode Is-

land Greening is about the best apple,

both for eating and cooking, during

December, January, and part of Feb—

ruary, while the ever-popular Baldwin

is in season from January to March.

The Northern Spy, although often

more expensive than other varieties.

is usually in strong demand and is

rated as perfect for eating or for cook-

ing. \



Other good Varieties for winter use

are Delicious, Jonathan, Yellow New-

town, and for extremely late in the

season, Rome Beauty.





Using the variety best suited for a.

given purposefsuch as eating out of

hand, or for pie or other cooking pur-

poses, is much more satisfactory than

buying “just apples.” Also, it is well

worth while to keep in mind the sea-

son of the year, for varieties vary so

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The manufacture of silk textures in-

valves the impOrtant operations of dy-

ing and finishing. The silk is boiled

' in a strong solution of soap to extract

the natural gum before it is dyed.

There are many tricks known to the

It is said that silk may

be weighted as much as 900 per cent

But usually 100

1 pounds of silk makes 500 pounds of





’ silk trade.

during this process.





_ dyed silk.





Much artificial or fiber silk is made

It is made- from wood or ‘

: cotton cellulose, there being several

’ While we were in

Milan, we had an experience withan

The wife purchased

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in it, the supposition being that it was



silk, and she also purchased a silk

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f and wool suit.





and lose its shape. The skirt had sev-



‘ eral panels in it, and as we toured

through Switzerland it was cold

enough for the need of such an outfit.



‘ Hewever, in order to wear it, she took

‘ out a panel, later on another, and

still later another. The coat part soon

became large enough and long enough

to take the place of the whole outfit.

She also had an interesting experi-

ence with the sweater when we reach—

ed Berlin. It was necessary to have

the sweater cleaned, and when it was



_ returned by the cleaner, it was pink-

white in color and all of the beautiful



. figures had disappeared, and likewise

the silkiness. We came to the conclu-

sion that some of the merchants in

‘ Venice are not unlike some that may

be found in cities of the United States.

Previous to the war the silk indus-

try was much greater than it has been





' since. In 1914 there were 90,000 peo-





ple employed in this industry, mostly

women and children. ‘They operated

1,200,000 spindles, and 700,000 spindles





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fuel, and the copper, which is neces-

sary in connection with the industry,

was utilized for war purposes. Sev-

enty-five per cent of the silk in Italy

comes from the northern part, or Lom-

bardy, Vetinia and the Piedmont.





Hail storms are serious menaces to

the agriculture of Italy, and especially

to the vineyards, mulberry trees and

‘fruits. Much has been done to insure

against these losses. In 1922 there

were fifty-one societies, four foreign,

twenty-seven share companies, and

nine cooperative societies, also eleven

mutuals. The available statistics

show that in 1918 about 45,350,000 liras

were paid out by these companies as

a result of nine investigations. It is

reported that the maximum occurrence

of hail storms is found in winter in

the southern Mediterranean region; in

spring in a strip stretching from Lat-

ium through Tuscany and Elmilia, to

the border of Vetinia; in summer in

the Po Valley, and in autumn on the

coast of Tyrrheonion sea and Sicily.



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THOSE beans, in Kent county, that

were pulled, suffered injury by

the recent rains. Those standing suf-

fered much less. Beans pulled before

the rains, and threshed, are of very

fine quality. Estimates from various

sources gives a six to ten-pound pick

on beans in fields during rain. Yield

has been good, but threshing reports

do not bear up with other reports.

Some tendency to hold, anticipating a

better market.——K. K. Vining.

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LOCAL DEALERS





in con not this depart-1



ment, I don't know. I ain’t

never conducted much '0’ any-

t‘hin‘. Sofie says I ain’t even

conducted myself right. And

I ain’t no bricklayer or flor-

ist, neither. But I ain’t afraid

ta take , ahold 0' anythin'

what’s got a handle on it, if

the handle ain‘t inc hot.



Now, the Michigan Farmer



says they ain’t goin' ta be

responsible for anythin’ what

appears in here, and I ain’t

neither. So, if you write any-

thin’ what is got any. respon—

sibility ta. it, ‘you gotta take 4

that responsibility.

. You kin say anythin' fool-

ish about any sensibul sub-

ject, or anythin' sensibul

about any foolish subject you

wanta, as long as you say

somethin worth sayin’. If

you've found the fountain 0’

youth, or a remedy fer all

evils, tell us about ’em. ‘ If

you feel like throwin’ eggs,

throw the bad ones, ’cause

they shouldn’t go, ta market

anyhow. But whatever you

do, make it short and snappy.

I’n}:I hopin’ ta hear from you.

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JUST wl; I’ve been asked,





 





The Cost of Production.





Evidently the road to improved con-

ditions on the farm lies through or-

ganization. The people of this coun-

try are disposed to be fair, and are

willing to pay the cost of production,

plus a. fair profit, when once it is un~

derstood what such a sum is. If a

body of competent men in Whom gen-

eral confidence is imposed shall, after

careful study and investigation, an-

nounce a list of such costs, it will be

generally accepted as just. But that

large army of middlemen which is re-

sponsible for the wide spread between

the producers and consumers, may not

be expected to pay much heed" to any

such finds. The farmers themselves

will have to have a. controlling voice

in establishing prices. If manufactur-

ers of farm machinery and automo-

biles had as little to say in fixing the

prices their wares shall sell for as do

the farmers, and if those prices were

open to gambling, as the Chicago

Board of Trade and the New York Cot-





‘ton Exchange gamble on the prices





of farm staples months in advance,

those factories could none of them

exist—E. H. Hutchins.





‘ Well, if here ain’t my old friend

Hutch, solvin’ some more problems

again. He is one 0’ them level head-

ed fellows what knows What he is

talkin' about. It sure would be fine

if we could find a way to find what it

costs us to produce our produce.





 





Need of Timber Conservation.





 





During the past few years, think-

ing men have begun to wake up

to the fact that the timber resources

of the country, and especially of this

state, were fast passing away. About

this time also, people began to think

of conservation and Cooperation. They

began to realize that there were cer-

tain conditions that require concerted

effort to bring the maximum results.

This waste land proposition seems to

be one of these conditions. So, laws

were made lessening the tax on twen-

ty-acre tracts, trying to induce the

farmers to hold a wood lot; but too

late, as we see very few of those. Lat-

er, a law was passed making it an ob-

ligation on the state and township to

protect this forest and brush land from

fire. We want to do it, but do you

realize just what this means? It

means that we protect this brush be-

cause we want the timber. But please

remember this land pays a mere noth-

ing in tax. Also the individual owner

can cut the timber any time he sees

fit, even though they are only baby

trees, thereby making an extra fire

hazard for everything around it. It

doesn’t look ~like we were getting





 





   





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‘should be growmg trees. ' p ,



, It seems thht we need some more

laws on the same subject. First, that

the state stop the sale of this waste

land by tax title or otherwise, and

thereby acquirethe land as speedily





as possible. second, as there are many

- tracts“ from five to fifteen or twenty





miles, between important roads, that

the state be authorized to fence in

the tracts as large as they are, put

gates on the less important roads,an‘d-

allow the people to pasture this land





-to the extent that grass, the fire car-





rier, would be eaten off. As the tim‘

her is mostly pine and oak, neither

cattle or horses would browse it. This

would not interfere with the reforesta-

tion, but would lessen the fire hazard

and add needed humus to the soil for

the more rapid development of the

timber. ’At the same time. 'most M<

portant of all, 'it would make every

person that runs stock on the range,

an interested .fire fighter, as he would

have an interest there. It has come

to be a generally recognized fact that

the greatest fire protection is the in‘

terest of the local people—A Reader.



I guess Mr. Reader said somethin,’

all right. Fire is our greatest friend

when it"s in a. stove, but when it's out

in the woods it’s our greatest enemy.

Every fire is somebody’s fault. Most

o’ the fires in our house I gotta blame





on ‘Sofie, ’cause she gets up and starts

them.





 





Getting Boys and College-Acquainted.





It was evidently designed‘that our

district school should become a. feeder

for our state agricultural college.





The state superintendent is requir<

ed to procure from the president of

our agricultural college, at least twice

a year, a set of examination questions

in all of the studies required for ad-

mission to the college; a printed list

of those to be sent to each county

commissioner of schools.



It shall be the duty of the county

commissioner to give public notice of

this examination at the time of all reg-

ular teachers’ examinations.



“A standing of seventy per cent 'in

each branch will admit to Freshman

class of the college without further

examination.”



There is one place where the coun.

ty school commissioner might do much

to help our students of district schools

in bringing the work of our college to

the attention of our boys, making

them acquainted with its different

courses, especially its short term in

winter for those who can not leave

home for a full course—A. T. M.



Seems like when boys and college

get acquainted, the boys become col-

lege boys. Colleges won’t hurt a good

boy, and sure won’t do a bad one any

harm. Maybe if the state sups. hadta

do what A. T. M. says, when I was





wearin' short breeches, I woulda been

a college boy.





 





About Inspection Laws.





Over, on page 334 you will see some-

thin’ by L. B. Reber. Now, when Mr.

Reber says somethin’, he says it; and

if you’ll inspect his articul on inspect~

shun, you’ll say he does.



This inspectin’ business ain’t very

nice. Nobody likes ta have somebody

stickin‘ their noses in their business,

especshully if they’re sassy inspectors.

Now, I agree with Mr. Reber; it ain’t

no use ta have green inspectors when

there’s so many experienced ones

around. Fer inst., I know a lotta old

maids what would make fine inspect-

ors. Even if they ain’t peaches they

know What good appuls is. And they’d

be honest, ’cause you couldn’t move

their emoshuns any by ticklin’ them

under the chin. There’s also some

wives what’s been inspectin’ their hus-

bands’ pockets what kin qualify.



But, Mr. Reber, the inspectshun law

is young, so why not just give it a

chance? You was young once, too,

and made mistakes; but, even so, you

have grown up to be a tolera'lml good

man. Same with. them young inspect-

ors; when they grow up theyfllbebet-

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~*hair-million,"bushels, and thus stabilize

ed the market. It not Only saved itself,

but‘made a little money on its specu-

lation. _ ’ - ,

Everybody but. speculators are in-

terested in‘ these pools, because the

* basis of all activity «in these three

provinces is wheat. 'An'indlcation of

how the dfives for membership were

conducted is shown by the Manitoba

- drive. During the first drive, four

* hundred farmers gave freely of their

time and ‘en’orts to canvas for mem-

' bership in their respective neighbor-

. hoods. This year 650 farmers got

busy. In August they had 19,000 con-

tracts signed up, and special canvas-

» sers did the clean-up work, so the sign-

up this year is very good.





The contracts of the three pools are

’ now identical. They run until 1927

and bind the farmer to deliver all his

wheat to the pool except for seed

" purposes. The grower agrees that if.

he violates his contract he will be

liable for twenty-five cents per bushel

‘ as liquidating damages.

Each contract signer holds one

membership in the pool, for which he

pays $1.00. An organization charge of

$2.00 brings the total cost of member-

ship up to $3.00. This is much in con-

trast to $10 and $15 membership in

cooperative enterprises in this country.

There are ninety-one locals in the

pool. Each local has a chairman, vice-

chairman, and five directors. There

is also a shipping committee of three

~ at each shipping point. The head of-

fice at Winnipeg is always in touch

with the secretary of each local and

each shipping committee. As there

are four hundred shipping committees

in the three provinces, one can realize

how close the central selling agency

keeps in touch with the situation.





The provincial poOls are rapidly ac-

quiring elevators and other handling

facilities. The Saskatchewan pool, for

instance, built or purchased nearly

ninety elevators during the past year.

The central selling agency is also ac-



. quiring terminal facilities. It has a

large elevator at Port Arthur and an-

other at Buffalo. It has made some

very good selling contracts, having

sold direct to several European gov-

ernments. Its purpose is to handle

the wheat until it gets to the con-

sumer, and it is apparently succeeding.



There is a total membership of 102,-

000 in the three provinces, and the

central selling agency has sold about

80,000,000 bushels of wheat this year

without the usual go-betweens in the





sales. This is about half the wheat ,





produced in these provinces.



It is conceded that this is the great—

est cooperative effort on earth, and

its success during its one year of ex-

istence is remarkable. The outstand-

ing factor is that this cooperative

movement is built from the ground up.

There are no silk-shirted oflicers, no



high-powered bunk shooters.» Instead,

wheat growers, experienced in market-

ing, direct the affairs of the organiza-

tion, often without pay. Efficient sales-

men are hired at good salaries, but

the other officers are horny—handed

men of the soil who have wheat of

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. , oxen there. were—sturdy lit-



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. s‘ and-as white as snow, gleam-

riiom pink jaws.



. fy. snapped and growled in their

tugging at an ear, leg, tail that

‘ ,hed . to be conveniently within

'h. Each lived in the happypres-

t, as children do. The future lay

"sad, 9. life of long days tugging at

say clods over heavier trails, facing

e ‘r are of“ Arctic winters, of gnaw-

,‘.I ,the ice balls that formed on

air pads, of sleeping on their ration

frozen fish, 'so the heat of their bod-

“is: would thaw it sufficiently to eat,

rpf serving mankind as it is given no

ther. breed to serve.

' Of the pack of heavy-coated puppies,

the/one usually beneath the others.

the one with the brightest eyes, the

shortest legs, yet by far the most in-

telligent and active despite his phy-

sical handicap, was the Runt. - In the

.days that were to come, when perhaps

Dean’s very life depended upon the

strength of his dogs, the Runt would

be a liability. It is the unwritten law

of the frozen regions that only the

strong heart of heart and body shall

,‘survive, a natural law that governs all

living things.



As Dean would have stood out from

a. group of rugged men, so did the

dogs he bred stand out from the oth-

ers. In the man’s make-up was a deep

love for dogs, any kind and size of

dog, even mangy mongrels of the al-

leys; but above all he loved Male-

mutes. His love and sympathy urged

him to permit the Runt to live; but

the law of the land, which knows not

the meaning of love and sympathy,

ordered otherwise, and he knew the

Runt must go.



“Hang it all,” he growled, “I’ll have

to drown him!” He was silent a mo~

ment, then added desperately, “or

something. He’ll eat his share of the

food, but he can’t do his share of the

work, and that is a burden on the

others.” ‘



“By Gar!” protested Le Mar, the

French-Canadian who planned to win-

ter with Dean, “you no kill those pup!

He’s the smartest feller in the bunch!”



“It’s pretty tough all around,” Dean

replied; “but you can see he’s a runt.

He’ll never be a big dog. His legs

will always be short. If I lived in

town I wouldn’t care; but up here,

where every pound of food counts, it’s

different. He’s got to go', poor little

cussl”



For the first time the Runt noticed

the two men. His fellow pups imme-

diately became a minor consideration.

He scrambled and squirmed through

the irresponsible pack, spilled over

the last and landed nose first in the

dirt, simply because his forelegs were

. not long enough to prevent such a mis-

" hap. He

J haunches and eyed Dan quizzically,

.cocking his head first to right, then to

left. When Le Mar spoke, his atten-

tion was turned instantly toward him.

He waited patiently for some sign of

recognition from the men. None forth-

coming, his eyes brightened with a.

roguish gleam and he reared his body

upward, nipping at Dean’s bootlace

with his sharp teeth. Then, his none

too steady legs giving way beneath

him, he stumbled into a furry heap;

but he still held to the bootlace, his

eyes rolling in quaint humor until the

whites showed. This was real sport,

. far superior to biting another pup’s

-. ,tail or leg.



“Ah! Aw!" murmured Le Mar, “the



leetle Runt, by Gar!”

“You win!” exclaimed Dean. “I sim-

'1' . ply can’t do it now! Feast or famine,

we’ll find enough for you to eat, even

if I have to share mine."





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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Through the long, balmy days of a

glorious Alaskan summer, the runt

vied with his brothers in the matter

of food consumption. Twice a day

Dean placed great quantities of food

before the growing pups. A mad

scramble, a few gulps, and it had van-

ished, leaving each pup hungrier than

before. Despite his handicap, the

Perhaps the

strength of the food'went to develop

his brain, to make his bright, numer-

ous'eyes still brighter; certainly his

body did not develope to any appreci-





 





 





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twinge of unha piness when he was

not allowed to oin with his brothers

in dragging the block. The Malemute

pup instinctively enjoys work, and

when in leash will lunge forward and

pull for all he is worth, making even

a strong manextend himself to hold

the dog in check. The Runt did the

next best thing, he trailed behind the

others. Without knowing it, he had

taken an optimistic view of life. Early

he had discovered that a pup with

very short legs could keep pace with

one of long legs by the simple expedi-





 





 





BR UCE FARM

By thfLeonhardt





There’s an old and sleepy river

That meanders by the farm;



There’s a little fringe of timber

Where the shadows cast a charm



In the drowsy, amber waters

That reflect the sylvan hue-—



I greatly like the spot myself;

It’s worshiped by my Sue.



’Twas here our babies came and went,

And played beside the door;



’Twas here we cuddled them to sleep

When tempes-ts loud would roar;



’Twas here we kept the wolf at bay

In sunshine and in storm;



’Twas here we labored night and day

To keep the kiddies warm.



So you may know there’s many things

That’s dear to her and me.



Though rosy youth has lost its bloom

And time is slipping by.





The glass has turned the sands of life

And silver streaks the gray,



Yet love is fondly sweetened



’In her smiles along the way.



For age can’t rob affection's store

Nor steal the heart within;



The look of love is ever sweet

To hoary headed men.



Thus day by day we wander through

The land’scape of our dreams,



And glimpses catch of Heaven,.

In the autumn’s golden scenes.





. It’s here we sip life’s nectar





From the founts that seem divine,

And memory’s bliss grows sweeter

In the crispy autumn time.

For our children’s children greet us

And Love’s enchanting dream

Comes back in hallowed sweetness,

As I muse beside the stream.





 





 





able degree. He grew, of course, but





the others developed by leaps and

bounds.

“Look at those legs,” commented





Dean one day. “If I didn’t know oth-

erwise, I’d say there is a strain of the

dachshund in him.”



“By Gar,” responded Le Mar; “look

at those bright eye—~smartest feller—”



“Don’t I know it?” interrupted Dean.

“If he only had a body to match that

brain of his, what a wonderful dog he

would make!”



The others gradually took on names.

There was “Moose,” so named because“

he was the biggest of the several lit—

ters; and “Shorty," and “Mike,” and

“Cultus,”'the bad dog, and “Skokum,”

who was strong. And the smallest of

all was the “Runt.”



At an age when pups of warmer

climes are taught to heel, drop, and

ho, the Malemutes were fitted with

small harnesses attached to a block

of wood, which they dragged over the

grass as they learned that “Gee!"

meant swing to the right, “Haw!" to

the left, “Mush on!” to go, and

“Whoa!” to stop. Often Dean carried

a whip, but their wooly backs never

felt the bite of the lash—never would,

in fact. Dean’s method of training was

different. The pistol-like cracks were





used to emphasize commands and not





to force obedience through fear.



The Runt viewed the training of his

fellows with interest, while his active

brain speculated on the reason why





his shoulders were never fitted with a

harness, why he was not permitted the

joy of this fascinating new game. Per-

haps his stout little heart even felt a





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ent of taking two steps to one. Log-

ical enough, was the Runt’s way of

reasoning, and he followed it.



Shortly before the snow fell, the

Runt found himself in his first real

fight. Just how it started none of the

half-grown dogs knew, but Cultus was

supposed to have been the instigator.

The Runt found himself at the bottom

of the snarling pack. Dean burst from

the cabin, a warlike peacemaker. To

his amusement, the Runt held the field

very much to himself. The battle

was over as suddenly as it had begun.

A number of pups were nursing minor

wounds; others were pondering on the

futility of warfare; but the Runt, still

somewhat dazed, was experiencing the

sweetness of his first victory. Liter-

ally the under dog, he had turned dis-

advantage to advantage and made the

most of his position.



Dean noticed a change from that

day. When the irresponsible pack took

a notion to romp afield, the Runt as-

sumed leadership and the others trail-

ed along -behind. At such times he

would make his stubby legs move at}

top speed, though his brothers canter-

ed along without effort.



“Poor little devil!” whispered Dean

one day as the pack returned after an

absence of nearly three hours down

the creek. “He’s a natural leader, but

his little heart is too stout for his

short legs.” The others were still in

a playful mood, but the Runt was ex-

hausted. None had disputed his lead-

ership but it has cost him heavily in

strength.



With the coming of the first snow

the old dogs read the signs. After a





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The. Runt Was the firist of the ‘half-, ‘i

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ramped around as Dean brought forth

the sled andharnessed the. old do 5;

then be manifested extreme hope ul-

,ne’ss, as several of the younger dogs

~were harnessed beside their elders.

This was thee‘nnai' course previous to

actual Work 'with thesled. It taught

them to perform real work, to pull

with the others, to swing with them,





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and instilled the first feeling of pride '





and responsibility. ’

The Runt’s‘ spirits ebbed; but he





was not yet beaten; "He floundered :





through the fresh snow at top speed "





and barely held his own. A hundred

yards from the cabin Dean stopped,

and to the Runt’s ears came the cruel-

est words he had ever heard: ”Go on

home!: Go back, Rant!” Dean had

spoken them kindly at first; then, as

the Runt squatted down in the snow to

argue the point, a new and severe

note crept into his voice, but the Runt

stood fast. The others were bound on

a new adventure, why not he? True,

it was a. different sort of trail than

he had traversed in the summer, and

a dog’s legs sometimes sunk into this

soft, cold white stuff until it reached

but if a dog kept con-

stantly at it, wouldn’t he get some-

where? He most certainly would.



“Go on back!”



Disgraced and disappointed, the

Runt bowed his head in shame, but

his stubbyudetermined legs did not

move.



“Hey! Le Mar!” shouted Dean,

“Come and get the Runt! He wants

to go along, and the little devil is

floundering in snow to his belly al-

ready.”



With pipe gripped firmly between

his teeth, Le Mar emerged from the

cabin, a kindly grin upon his face.

“By Gar, those Runt, one smart pup!”

commented the man, as he caught up

the Runt by the scruff of his neck and

carried him to the cabin, an inglor—

ious, limp, crestfallen object. From

the corner of his eye the Runt had

seen the team leap into the harness in

response to Dean’s “Mush on!” had.

watched his ungainly fellows emulate

their elders; and every unharnessed‘

pup romp happily in the sled’s wake,

an ecstatic pack enjoying their first

real trail experience. _



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vanished, Le Mar regarded» the Runt

sympathetically, then muttering some«

thing in French he donned his parka

and called the Runt. to follow. Out-

side, he fitted a. small harness to the

Runt’s shoulders, attached it to a small

piece of wood, then set out, carefully

breaking a trail about the cabin. The

Runt followed happily; never had life

been sweeter than at that moment.

And when Le Mar quit after a half‘

hour of it, the Runt was still ready.

for more.



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always give time to the Runt’s enter«

tainment when the others were away.

The hateful words “Go back home!”

came frequently, and seared the im.

pression of disgrace on the Runt’s ac-

tive brain. He did not understand

why; but be sensed he was not want—

ed. Above all, he wanted to serve the

big, friendly man who was always kind

except for this one thing.



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half-grown dogs cared less for aimless

excursions about the cabin. The Runt

was still their acknowledged leader,

and when he trotted away they fol-

lowed dutifully enough, but they would

have preferred the comfort of the

kennel.



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ter lay heavy on the land, Dean pre—

pared for an extended trip to Fish

, Lake. It was a day’s mushing from

the cabin, and he would remain

about a week, depending upon his luck

0 in securing fish. ’ ,



“It’s quitea trip,” cornmented Dean,

“but I haven’t got the heart to leave

the Runt behind. He does enjoy the

trail work- so, and the loyal little fel-

low is lots of company. I’ll take him

with me, and when he’s tired he can

ride on the sled; the trail is pretty

well packed anyway, and the going

for short-legged pups accordingly is

much easier.”





pedition's start two days later. Dawn

Of theshort day was still far away

as Dean cracked his whip. A team of

seven dogs settled down as one, the

sled lunged forward, and with a final

wave Of his hand he was ofi. Close to

his heels followed the Runt, and trail-

ing behind him were eleven other

ups. .

p Le Mar remained standing motlon-

less in the doorway until the last pup

had vanished from view, then entered

the cabin and settled down for a week

of loneliness. In the winter kennel

beneath the cabin his own team quar-

reled among themselves over real and

fancied wrongs.





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eraging six miles an hour over a good

trail with a light load. This morning,

with the Runt’s short legs in mind, he

cut down the speed to four miles an

hour, and broke trail across country

until he came to the river bank, five

miles away. Below, the frozen stream

lay gleaming in the first light of the

dawn. Descending to its inviting sur-

face he lifted the Runt to the sled

and set off at top speed. He could

1* make real time now and reach the

l fishing camp, thirty-three miles ahead,

by night, provided the pups could

maintain the pace. It would be a good

test of their physical strength and

courage.

Shortly after noon Dean passed the

blazed tree on the river bank that

\ marked the twenty-three-mile pomt.

1, The team was still fresh, tails curled

7' over their backs, tireless. The pups

no longer cavorted about, but plodded

steadily, stopping occasionally to 1n-

vestigate some vagrant and myster1—

ous odo'r that chanced to reach their

curious nostrils; then to race like a

pack of young wolves to overtake the

sled. ,



In a land where fortune smiles when

least expected, tragedy Strikes With-

out warning. One moment, the cold

silence of the land was broken only

by the soft padding of many feet and

the gliding of the sled runners; the

next, the sickening; sinister crack of

shattering ice broke the stillness. The

sled reared upward, jerking the start-

led team to an abrupt standstill. Be-

neath the ice, sinking slowly from the

weight of man and sled, the waters

ran swiftly and dark. Dean, clinging

to the sled with desperation, felt the

water creep up his legs half way to

the knees, while its icy chill drove

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“Steady,” he cried sharply; then,

“Mush on! Mush on!”





The note of calmness in the ringing

cry steadied the team. In unison the

, dogs settled down and pulled—pulled

, until each back bowed and each belly

' . touched the ice from the strain, while

,. toes dug for footing and held. The

i load slipped from the lashings and

: tumbled toward Dean, the Runt rolling

‘ helplessly with the rest. In the brief

. moment that ice cakes and sled jam-

med, Dean hurled the Runt clear, toss-

ed a bundle of precious birch bark af-

3 ter him, then leaped himself. The re-

action as he leaped broke the jam.

’ The sled, caught by the current, was

sucked beneath the ice, pulling the

wheelers in with it. For one brief

instant the others held, then, as the

strain became too great, one gave way,

, and with him went the others. Dean

, ~ landed on his hands and knees, his



‘ right leg clear; the left, half in the



water, cracked against the ragged



edge of the break. Something snapped,



a sickening pain surged through his



. body, the world turned red for the brief-



est moment, then his vision cleared.



Once before he had experienced the



pain of a broken leg, and now he read



:3 the signs rightly. The ice about him

, _was cracking beneath the strain,

though here it was thick enough to

bear his weight. He crawled clear by

a supreme effort. The lead dog alone

remained above the surface, paddling.

with desperation; then his hind- quar-f

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touched his wet feet.‘ His feet and

legs would soon become blocks of ice;





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which a glacier moves down a valley,

the frost would work up. Breaking

through the ice—the tragedy he had

escaped so many times—had come at

last. And he was anne, except for

the pups. The Runt came close and

thrust a cold nose forward as if offer-

The others squatted

about, their heads cocked at quizzical

fingllles, as if seeking to understand



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Never had Dean’s need of the assist-

ance of a fellow man been greater. He

crawled to the bundle of birch bark,

then noticed for the first time that he

still retained his whip.



Gripping the bark and whip he com-

menced to crawl over the ice to the

shore. Each movement required a spe-

cial effort to execute. Behind, slowly

following,\came the pups, the Runt

leading.



Even while the frost worked relent-

lessly upward Dean managed to force

back the terror that leaped again and

again into his mind; each movement

was made with the calmness and de-

liberation of desperation. Ages later

he reached the shore. To a point

where last summer’s floods had piled

the driftwood high, he made his way.



With his mitted hands he tore at

the shattered bits of wood, pulling

away slivers and sticks that would

blaze up readily, until at last he had a

formidable pile.



Hardly breathing, he watched the

yellow flame flicker a moment, then

burst into a fierce blaze as the bark

flared up. It licked the wood so care-

fully piled above it and spread until

the whole mass was ablaze. The light-

er stuff would go quickly, but the

heavy logs of the tangled mass would

burn for hours. And then? With the

optimism of the north he gratefully ac-

cepted even a short lease of life, and

commenced the slow task of stirring

the circulation in his feet.



With his knife he cut and hacked

the moccasins and socks away, until

his bare feet were exposed to View,

bloodless and strangely white. “It’s

not so bad,” he whispered, “Not so

bad; if somebody should come along

and help me.”



The Runt, squatting on his haunch-

es, watched the preliminary process

of thawing with snow, his alert eyes

following every movement. The other

pups, stretched upon the snow, were

resting.



The spark of life within Dean had

always burned brightly, but it never

burned brighter, nor struggled harder,

than it did at that moment when the

agony of restored circulation com-

menced to torture his limbs. His great

strength and determination had pulled

him through so far; but it was mad-

dening, this thought of winning out

against the frost by his own efforts

only to die of hunger and cold because

of his helplessness. With his old dog

team standing by, he could have

crawled to the sled, wrapped himself

in his robes, and the wise old Male-

mute lead dog would have taken him

safely home.



Yes, the old team would have taken

him safely home. Some day, when the

pups had grown up they would be

trained the same way; but now they

were still irresponsible, playful young-

sters, the Runt alone displaying hints

of the wisdom and leadership of the

older dogs. Dean glanced up at the

Hunt, and when he looked into the

little fellow’s bright eyes, the answer

to his problem came. It was a long

chance, but the only one. Perhaps in

the Runt’s brain the instinctive knowl-

edge that enables the old dogs to find

and follow a snow-covered trail over

frozen lake and river, had developed

sufficiently to meet this emergency

successfully. Banking heavily on one

natural instinct, Dean would be going

up against an even stronger, the inbred

instinct that causes a dog to remain

with man to the end.





Dean was not one to fear the test.

With a sweep of his arm toward the

back trail he spoke in a low, sharp

tone: “Go back home, Runt!” The

Runt’s erect ears drooped suddenly;

the misery of his soul was pictured in

1118 expressive eyes. The joy of the

day was gone forever, yet he hesitated.

Something was wrong with this man-

god of his who crawled about on his

hands and knees, and whose face fre-

quently turned white from pain. The

Runt was quite certain his place was

here with the man and not at home,

miles away. His fellows bestirred

themselves and squatted about in a

circle, waiting for a move from the

Runt. Dean contemplated for a mo-

ment the "circle of pups, erect ears,

forming triangles on each side of their

quizzical faces, eyes bright and expect-

ant. The Runt alone drooped.



“Go back home!” said Dean again.

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m ,,with,the 9311. ' Twice more Dean

repeated the "command, then he reluc-

tantly. can ,1; up the whip. ' .‘

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a tuft of soft fur vanished from the

Runt’s'wooly back. In an instant the

~wolf‘ strain in the Runt’s veins leaped

to the front. Lips lifted in a snarl,

baring baby fangs; his fur bristled in

rage,’his defiance magnificent. Then

the domestic routed the wild, he whin-

ed a mute plea and shivered, turned

very slowly and walked away. The

others followed silently. On the ridge,

a hundred yards distant, he' paused

and looked back, the others grouped

about him. ' Dean, tears in‘his eyes.



watched .the tWelve youthful faces a

moment, then waved them on. The

Runt searched about uncertainly for

an instant, then picked up the trail

and trotted from view.





Le Mar was up to his old tricks.

Like many Alaskans, he had laid up a

stock of magazines in consecutive

numbers for the long winter. The

words, “Tobe continued” at the end

of an installment never annoyed Le

Mar. He merely picked up the next

number and continued

thriller had gripped his interest and

it was fully two o’clock in the morn-

ing; but he continued to read on.



Below, his

then, without the least apparent rea-

son, one of them howled the mournful,

wolfish note of the Malemute. Far in

the distance came an answering howl.

‘By'Gar!" exclaimed Le Mar. “Those

pup.”



The return of the pups could mean

but one thing—disaster of some nature

had overtaken the older dogs and

Dean. The pups would never return

of their own accord. He hurriedly put

on his clothing, grasped a flashlight

and stepped out. Into the white gleam

staggered the Runt. He dropped in

his tracks, the others, tails dragging,

heads hanging from exhaustion, fol~

lowed their leader’s example. For one

brief moment Le Gar regarded the

pups as if he expected them to tell the

story he sensed, then he drove the

tired pack into the cabin and called

out his own team and harnessed them

to the sled. Onto the sled went plenty

of robes, a first-aid kit, provisions and

other articles his experience told him

might be of use. Still,‘ the load seem-





 





place, he knew, .





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dogs stirred uneasily, .





it Lewerran'hackto

Ithaca-bin and returnedwith the Runt,

whom he tossed on top of ‘the robes.



The team, dragging the light load

through the night, jerked the driver

along at top speed. Sometimes he rode

short» stretches in order to rest, but

usually he gripped the handles of the

sled and raced behind. In the gloom

a few feet away, he could make out

the form of the Runt, sleeping the

slumber of the just.



At seven o’clock, with the dawn of

the short day still two hours away,

the “lead dog stopped and commenced

to sniff uncertainly. The trail ended.

Le Mar walked ahead cautiously and

located the spot where the team had

broken through, then shook his head

sadly. The hole was frozen over, but

the signs of the tragedy were there

in plenty.



“By Gar!”

“Dean—-he——”



The Runt leaped from the sled, gaz-

ed about uncertainly for one brief in-

stant, then glanced up at Le Mar as

if to say, “Here!

ing time for?”





 





he whispered softly:





“He , Runt!” shouted Le Mar ex-

Icli‘hedly, “what you try to tell me,





But the Runt did not waste words.

He located himself at that instant and

was away at top speed. Le Mar cir-

cled the thin ice and followed. Around

the nearest point he caught sight of

the glow of the charring logs. As he

neared, a form straightened up, then

into the light leaped Runt. For an

instant he hesitated, gripped by doubt,

then, as Dean opened his arms, he

threw himself forward, his tail wag-

ging furiously, his cold muzzle thrust

against the man’s cheek. Dean stifled

a groan that came from the sudden

movement of his leg and hugged the

happy form of the Hunt to his breast.

The pup’s body shivered with a joy

that was boundless, while his loyal lit-

tle heart pounded ecstatically. Some-

thing, he knew not what, told him that

he had rendered a signal service, and

that this wonderful man—god was grate-

ful. What matter if other pups were

harnessed to sleds with the big dogs

to make mysterious trips abroad?

Never had a dog, large or small, been

hugged as the Runt was being hugged

at that moment.



Into the light came Le Mar, his

parka glistening white with frost. “By

Gar, those Runt—” he began happily.





“You bet—those Runt!” rejoined

Dean brokenly.

“Huh!” grunted Le Mar. Then after





a long pause, “Huh! By Gar,one dam

babee!” And he roughly brushed away

a tear with his mitted hand.





 





   





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T wasn’t long after Bruin, Brownie,

I and Rolly Rabbit left Mrs. Kangar-

oo, with the little Kangaroo in her

fur—lined pocket, that they knew they

were very near Happy Land, the place

they had traveled so far to find. '

They knew they were not far away

because someone told them so. It

happened like this: ‘

“Oh, dearie, me, I’m tired,” sighed

Brownie, as the Woodland Wanderers





 





 





Bruin Couldn’t Find the Key. '





stopped beside the path to rest a min-

ute. “I wonder how much farther it

is to Happy Land.”



Then a. perk little head appeared

from behind the big rock Brownie was

leaning against. “Only one mile more,"

said a voice.



Belly Rabbit saw the little head as

it” showed from behind the rock. He





 





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thought it looked very much like the

Little Old Man of the Woods Whom

they had befriended when they first

came into this rocky country. But all

little gnomes look so very much alike

he could not be sure.



Anyway, when Bruin looked behind

the rock no one was there, and he

hunted every place near but did not

find anyone.



“Hurrah! Only a mile more,” they

shouted, and started off down the path

as fast as they could go.



In a few minutes they paused, all

out of breath, before a big iron door

that was right across their path. It

was the biggest door they had ever

seen. Three or four rocky steps led

up to it. '



Bruin was very sure that this door

led to Happy Land. He put his paw

on the latch to open it but the/door

did not budge. He pushed and Rolly

Rabbit and Brownie pushed, yet it did

not budge.



“I have it,” said Rolly Rabbit. “Per-

haps the key the Little Old Man of

the Woods gave us will unlock the

door.” ,



Then Bruin reached for the key

that he had carried, tied around his

neck. What luck! The key was gone.



The three Woodland Wanderers had

come all this way to Happy Land and

now Bruin had lost the key. What

ever would they dc? Next week we

will hear about what they did.





What are you wast— '





‘ The Hunger





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DwiJing method: for the Mimi-ion of

chful electric .m'vz'cc to the farmer i: the

problem now engaging the thought of

fifteen .rtutc committee: co—opcrutin g with

the national committee on the relation of

Elactricitfy to Agriculture.





Th: Committee on the Relation of





 





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0N0. 5246—Boys’ Suit. Cut in three



sizes, 2, 4 and 6 years. A four—year

Size requires 1% yards of 40—inch ma~

term] With 14 yard of contrasting for

collar and vest portions. Price 130.





 





No. 5243—~Child’s Dress. Cut in five

sizes, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years. A two-

year size requires 13/4 yards of 36-inch

material. Price 130.





No. 5234—Gir1s’ Gymnasium Suit.





 





years. To make the suit for a 12—year





 





Cut in five sizes, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16





of a Hundred   7

Million Souls _





The American farmer knows the meaning of a na-

tion's hunger. It is he who has so well satisfied



' his country's need for food that there has grown

another hunger—the hunger for progress which

has made America leader of the world.





That is why each new improvement, each forward

, step toward better living meets with a floodtidc of

demand. Two million new consumers were served

with electricity in 1914. The electric light and

power industry.has doubled its customers and scr-





chcn billion dollars is the people's investment in

the electric light and power companies. And now,

a' billion dollars every year is needed to keep pace

with the demand. New power stations are being

built, larger than the most ambitious dream of ten

years back ; high power transmission lines too, con—

vcrtcrs and transformers, and,lastly, the lines which

bring the current to the user.





The American farmcr, feeding a hundred million

souls, knows the cost of food in labor and equip-

ment. To supply these hundred million with elec-

tric service also takes time and labor and equip-





Elcctricity to Agriculture if compared of

cconomirtr and engineer: reprorenting the

U. S. Dcptr. of Agriculture, Commerce

and the Interior, Amer. Farm Bureau

Federation, National Grange, Amer.

Society of Agricultural Engines”, Farm

Lighting Mfg. Au'n, and the Notional

Electric Light Auociatim.





If you are interwedimhzk worh write for oz hoohlet descrihz'ug it.





NATIONAL ELECTRIC

LIGHT ASSOCIATION





29 West 39th Street, New York, N. Y.





 





Michigan Farmer Pattern Service





size, as in the large View, requires

ilg/g yards of 36-inch material. Price

0.





_No. 5235—Girls’ Dress. Cut in four

Sizes, .8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 10‘

year Size requires 31,4 yards of 40-inch

material if made as in the large view.

If‘made with long sleeves, 3% yards

will be required. Collar of contrast-

irég material requires 1/3 yard. Price



c.



No. 5256—Ladies’ One Piece Frock.

Cut in six sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and

44 inches bust measure. A 38-inch size

requries 4% yards of 40-inch material.

The width at the foot with 'plaits ex-

tended, is 1% yards. Price 130.





 





'No. 5265—Ladies’ Apron. Cut in’fo



Sizes: Small, 34-36; medium, 3843‘?



large, 42—44; extra large, 46-48 inches



bust measure. A medium size requires



513.1 yards of 36-inch material. Price

0. '
UTUMN winds are beginning to



blow cold, and our minds turn



instinctively to warmer clothing.

But there are many inferior qualities

of worsted and woolens on the mar-

ket, and one must be careful to ex-

amine the goods and find out for

oneself whether they are genuine or

not.





One of the greatest tests in connec-

tion with the selection of fabrics is

found at the bargain sales counter.

This is due to the fact that the mer-

chant has been able to buy a lot of

dress materials at one price and he,

in turn, puts them out at one price

for his customers. There may be qual-

ities from fifty cents up to three dol-

lars a yard, still they all go for the

same price—-a real opportunity for the

Woman who knows values.



Place Quality Before Color.



Usually the first thing that attracts

a woman at such a sale is the color of

the material. Quality should be the

first thought. Most woo-lens and

Worsteds are yarn-dyedfithat is, the

yarns are dyed before they are woven,

but nowadays there are so many dif-

ferent ways of dyeing successfully

that even a skilled person cannot dis-

cern the difference between the two.



if a good fabric is yarn-dyed the

colors are fast and will retain their

colorings longer than when piece-dyed.

If, when you take your handkerchief

and rub it across the fabric it leaves

a stain, the goods are 'poorly dyed

and should not be taken. Black piece-



dyed goods often rub, because the dye

has not been sufficiently soaked into





equally fine, but one distinguished for

its softness and the other for the op-

posite quality, is such that with the

same process and expense of manu-

facture the one will be worth from

twenty to thirty-five per cent more

than the other. There is a reason for

this, and it is that when the goods are

being made up the makers consider

at what price they are to be sold. The

more costly fabrics are given more

dressing, so to speak, but that does

not make their quality any the less

good; rather enhances the beauty of

the cloth. An undressed piece of

worsted has a. soft face, defining it as

not clean cut. A hard-finished piece is

evened off after being woven; that is,

the hairs are cut evenly and a dressing

put on. This you can readily see for

yourself by rubbing the cloth over the

hands or face.



Woolens are lighter in weight than





EAUTIFUL aurora waves a hand



above the eastern horizon, the



noonday sun smiles down upon

us, and then, all too soon. the chilly

shades of evening have fallen. Such

is October!



The exquisite bird notes, accompa-

nied by the deep vibrant tones of the

bullfrog, and tinkling murmurs of tiny

amphibious creatures, have passed un-

til another year.



Those “bright blue weather” days

are surely dreamy ones, with the

leaves all golden brown. We have





 





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worsteds, because they have only self-

filling yarns. A good piece of woolen

fabric suitable for a costume or suit

should weigh about ten to twelve

ounces to the yard. Those weighing

eight ounces to the yard are also good

“for draped costumes. Woolens weigh-

ing from fourteen to sixteen ounces

to the yard are for wraps or coats.





 





A KITCHEN EVOLUTION;





 





ALL the time scientists and men of

learning have been exercising their

brains concerning this much-talked-of

problem of evolution, there has been

another kind of evolution taking place

right in our own kitchens. And this

has been an evolution of considerable

improvement.

The average household has one or

more members who can recall the days

of old-fashioned gingerbread made





About this Time of Year





By Hazel B. Girard





didn’t like to beat the red squirrels to

the meatlest nut in the whole woods?



Back home—apples! apples! The

big red kind that polish so well for

the lunch basket, the cull ones we

carry to the never-to-be-fllled pigs, and

still on the ground they lie “in piles

like jewels shining.”



The cellar, too, has a story all of

its own. In shouting accents it tells

of bright planting days last spring,

back~breaking hours of hoeing and

weeding under the scorching sun—and





 





 





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WELL-DOING.





LET no man be sorry he has



ldone good, because others

concerned with him have done

evil! If a man has acted right,

he has done well, though alone;

if wrong, the sanction of all

mankind will not justify him.—

Fielding.





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





the cloth. In a yarn—dyed black cloth,

this will not happen, as the yarns are

dyed black before being woven.



Next in importance to color comes

the quality. which is usually given sec-

ond consideration by a woman at a

sale, as well as on ordinary occasions

of shopping. If you want a material

that will wear well, hold the piece of

goods to the light and if it. is well

woven the threads will be even, no

bumps, no blotches, no loose threads,

and a clear surface will be evident.

If, on the contrary, the surface shows

irregular weaves, bumps, (to, you will

know that it is inferior worsted and

one that will not give good service.



How to Test Wool.





One good test of quality for wool or

worsted is to take the goods up in the

hand. Place the thumbs on top about

half an inch apart, and the fingers un-

derneath, and pull from each thumb.

If it does not yield to your pulling it

is a good quality. If it is a poor qual-

ity the threads will pull or cockle, and

a hole will be the result.



Also, there is a vast difference in

the weight and finish of wools. First

of all, the difference in the value of

two pieces made of two kinds of wool





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About This Time of Year, Take a





not seen anything so picturesque since'





the night we saw the moonlight on

the wheat field.



Down by the swamps, no doubt, the

cranes still stand in thoughtful con-

templation and wonder why summer

must fade away. Perhaps we will see

them when we romp through the

woods with the kiddies on a nutting

expedition.



The woods render many valuable na-

ture lessons for children at this time

of year. Since the lovely, care-free

days when they can flit about with-

out hat or coat are nearly over, let

us give them just one more excursion

of oxygen on the hoof. Who ever heard

a little girl who didn’t like to look for

the prettiest leaf in the forest to take

home and press within the covers of

a book? Who ever saw a boy who





,maw, it sure doesn’t look like we’ll ’





Stroll Down to the Back Pasture Lot.





glassy rows of fruits, pickles, and veg

etables is enough to make any house-

wife stay in the cellar overtime. Each

kind is arranged in order; she knows

to the exact pint the amount of her

“wares.” The jelly cupboard alone is

a sight for appreciative eyes. i



The cellar never seemed so full be-

fore. There are cabbages there, fully

as beautiful as any that were ever‘

toted “from High Prairie to Chicago!”

and Brussel sprouts that were tried

just for fun, plus the other ingredi-

ents that supply the farmer’s wintry

hoard.



When the last bushel of potatoes

went into the cellar, Dad took an in~

ventory of the panorama, he shouted

like he does every October, “Well,





starve this winter.”





 





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with soda and molasses, the soda as

the alkali and the molasses furnishing

the acid. Then came the period of

baking with sour milk and soda, the

milk supplying the acid and the soda

taking the part of. leavener. ‘





Later came the days of baking pow-

der. The first baking powder was

made by substituting cream of tartar

for the sour milk. This allowed us

to have muffins, hot cakes, and tea

biscuit when the old cow went “dry."



From that time on, baking powder

has undergone many changes and

been made by many formulas, using

sodium aluminum sulphate, and phos-

phate. But now the little red hen has

come to do her part of leavening on

baking day. Recently the dried white

of fresh eggs has been added to bak~

ing powder and Biddy can say she has

her “finger in the pie," even when the

cook thinks she is making an eggless

cake.





 





AUTUMN MENUS FOR TWO DAYS.





 





THIS group of menus was planned .





by one of our recent prize win-

ners, and utilizes, to a good advan-

tage, the products of the farm.

Breakfast.

Baked Apple

Bacon and Eggs

Bran Mullins

Coffee





Cream





Milk

Dinner.

Tomato Soup

Boiled Beef with Cabbage and

Potatoes

Cranberry Sauce

Pumpkin Pie

‘ Supper.

Cottage Cheese Salad

Whole Wheat Bread

Baked Squash

Apple Sauce

Milk or Cocoa

Breakfast

Shredded Wheat with Fruit or Cream

Poached Eggs on Toast

Cereal

Coffee Milk

Dinner.

Creamed Potatoes

Buttered Carrots

Bread Butter





Milk





Butter





Steak





Custard

Milk

Supper.

Fruit Salad

Baked Potatoes

Corn Muffins

Buttermilk

——Mrs. E. M. 0., Midland.





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Honey





 





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chili-sauce, add one heaping tau





blespoonful of cornstarch for each cum

of vinegar.

gar and make a smooth paste by add-

ing the cornstarch, and then stir this

into the boiling liquid. This is a. time-

saver as it is not necessary to boil

the liquid—to thicken it—as long as

usual, and also prevents the strong

flavor sometimes produced when cat-





sup and chili-sauce are boiled for long

periods.-—Mrs. H. B. W. B





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' who has the future welfare and



progress oi! Michigan at heart, will

be glad to know that the Fitter Fam-

ilies contest of the Michigan State

Fair was a success and will be a prom-

inent feature of the fair next year.



‘ The contest" was under the direction

of Dr. G; Van Amber Brawn and‘ the

Eugenics Society of United States of

America, which society substantiates

its claims by statistics that human

”scrubs are multiplying far more rap-

idly than human thoroughbreds.



Then, if we do not strive to grow a

better' race of people in this great

country of ours, what else matters?





. 'And the only way we can produce a





better race is by the careful study of

eugenics; It» is' the purpose of these

contests and this national organiza-

tion to bring the public’s attention to

this all important matter.



Dr. Brown describes eugenics as:

Not sex hygiene, not public health, not

prenatal culture, not free love, not a

vice campaign, not physical culture,

not killing off the weaklings, not a

plan for producing genius to order,

not a scheme for breeding super-men,

not a. plan for scientific love making,

not a. plan for taking romance out of

love, not a scheme for “breeding hu-

man beings like animals.



“Eugenics is none of these," says

Dr. Brown, “although some of these

are excellent measures. Eugenics has

to do only with those agencies which

will improve or impair the unborn

health .and quality of unborn children.”





Hf Jéfii'

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-——__.——__





Use this department to help solve

your household problems. Address

your letters to Martha Cole, Michigan

Farmer, Detroit, Michigan.





AMOUNTS IN CANNING.





 





Please tell me how to judge the

amount of tomatoes and peaches when

canning—Mrs. A. D





When canned, one bushel of tomat-

oes will make about eighteen quarts,

and one bushel of peaches will make

about twenty quarts.





TREATING ROUGH HANDS.





 





Please send me some suggestions on

treating red hands. My hands are

rongIh and red most of the time—Mrs.

T. .





Glycerine and rose water is a good

lotion to keep your hands soft, and

your druggist can recommend a num-

ber of hand preparations on the mars

ket which have commendable proper-

ties.



The soap you use in washing your

hands has much to do with the condi-

tion of your hands. Find one that

makes them feel most agreeable. If

hard water roughens the hands on

cleaning day, soften it with borax. If

housework roughens or discolors your

hands, rub them with a little oat meal

when washing.





FROM A FARM WIFE’S KITCHEN.





 





FOR some time I have been a silent

reader of Women’s Interest, but

now I am anxious to pass on to other





‘ home cooks some recipes that have





helped me this fall.

'Whole Canned Tomatoes.



Here is the way I can my tomatoes

for winter: Scald and peel tomatoes.

Place one layer of whole tomatoes in

large pan with cover, and boil till ten-

der. Take them from pan and drop





“minto can, whole, putting one teaspoon

'. of saltr'on.top of each oan, and seal.





éa‘oni‘ertiatFair Maker Unwed! Discoveries '





In this eugenics contest forty-three

«families were examined, representing

127 individuals, among them fifty-nine

children, fifteen singles, two engaged

couples, and triplets. In two families

three generations were represented.





A search for health and not disease

was the primary aim in this contest.

No persons obviously ill were permit-

ted to enter. But in these 127 appar-

ently healthy persons entered in the

contest, the physicians found two cas-

es of diabetes, four cases of Bright’s

disease, two cases of incipient tuber-

culosis, three psychopathic cases, one

case of double cataract, and numerous

cases of pyorrhea, bad tonsils and

teeth. In other words, these physicians

found approximately ten per cent of

serious disease in, these apparently

healthy applicants, when they were

looking for health. This fact proves

we do not always find what we are

looking for. We may, in our own

mind, believe we are normally healthy

folks. but only a careful periodical ex-

amination by a competent physician

can determine the true status of our

health.





Some ancient philosopher said much

in those trite words, “An ounce of pre-

vention is worth a pound of cure."





In applying that to date, both the

younger generation and the older gen

eration can, by tho conscientious study

of eugenics, do their part to reduce

the number of human scrubs and im-

prove the health of the future citizens

of America.





 





This makes plenty of juice from to—;

When j

opened these taste like fresh tomatoes. ‘





matoes without adding water.





Cold-packed Succotash.





3 cups half-ripe shelled 3 cups corn cut trmn‘

cob





beans





Mix and pack in quart cans by us‘ '





ing a small stick. Seal, leaving co'vers

one-half turn back. Place in boiler

and cover to edge of rubber with wa-

ter. When hot let cook three hours.

This recipe makes two quarts.

Corn and Tomatoes Canned.



Scald and peel tomatoes, making



two cups. Mix with two cups of corn





cut from cob, and pack in cans with .





a teaspoon of salt on top of each can.

Seal, leaving covers one—half turn back.

Place in hot water bath and process

three hours.



Grape Catsup.





 





Washing dishes is hard work. If your

kitchen sink is old, antique in design

and too low, the work is so much harder.





A ’GStandard" kitchen sink, “yard-

stick-high”, provides comfort and pre-

vents backstrain. It is one of the greatest

possibleconveniencesforthefarmhome.

Handsome in appearance, easy to keep

clean and a great aid to kitchen work.





Standard Sanitary ‘mfig. 00.

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No. 5l86~—Ladies’ Coat. Cut in six

sizes, 34, 36, 3X, 40, 42 and 44 inches

bust measure. A fix-inch size, as illus-

trated,» requires 4% yards of 54—inch

material with 5/8 yard of contrasting

far collar, cuffs and facings. Price



0.



No. 5254-uLadies’ Dress. Cut in sev-

en sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46

inches bust measure. A {58—inch size

requires four yards of material 40

inches wide with 3/4 yard of contrast-

ing for collar, bands and puffs if made

as illustrated. The width of the skirt

at the lower edge is 25/8 yards. Price





 





 





4 lbs. grapes 1 tb. cloves



21,5 lbs sugar 7 so. salt



’5 nt. vinegar i4 tsp. red pepper

1 tb. cinnamon





Cook grapes well. Press through

colander, add remaining ingredients,

and seat—Mrs. C. I.





RIPE TOMATOES AT HOLIDAY

TIME.





 





ICK firm green tomatoes that do



not have a blemish. Wrap each

one in tissue paper and place on a.

shelf in a. dry, cool place. They will

ripen so gradually that they will be

just right for a Thanksgiving salad.





If you can get some perfect tomat-

oes, unblemished, of good variety, and

freshly gathered, try surprising your

family with ripe tomatoes at Christ-

mas time or later. Pack them into an

earthen jar, being careful not to bruise

or break. Pour over the tomatoes a

brine made by boiling water and add-

ing a cup of salt to each gallon. The '

boiling sterilizes and the salt is a pre-

servative. Pour over the tomatoes

cold and put a plate over the top,





13c.





 





.No. 5221——Ladies’ Dress. Cut in six

Sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches

bust measure. A 38-inch size requires

31/; yards of 54-inch material, with 554

yard of contrasting if made as illus-

trated. The Width at the foot is 1%

yards. Price 130.



No. 5229—Juniors’ and Misses’ Dress.

Cut in four sizes, 14, 16, 18 and 20

years. A 16-year size requires 21/2





 





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will be under the solution.





yards of 54-inch material if made as





illustrated in the large view. Without size requires





the cascade 2% yards are required.





With short sleeves 2%, yards are re-

quired. The width of the dress at the

foot is two yards. Price 13c.



No. 52:30 ----- Girls' Dress. Cut in four

sizes, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. A 10-year

size requires 2% yards of 32-inch ma-





 





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collar, cuffs, and pocket facings if

made wtih long sleeves. With short

sleeves 2% yards will be required.

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to chance or the whims'of‘appetite,

although she may be most carefu1_of

her {cod during the nursing period.

Wrong feeding" may be disastrous; It.

is not safe for the mother merely to

eat “what she is accustomed to” or

"plenty of geod nourishing food.” The

pregnant as well as the nursing moth-

er should flnd out from a physician

how much of certain essential foods

must be eaten daily.



The food needs during pregnancy

and the nursing period differ from

those of any other time. The mother's

food must maintain and repair her

body and furnish fuel for warmth and

work, and also provide for the growth

of her baby and for maintaining his

body temperature, muscular activities,

and body fat. Many of us eat too

much, but few mothers get enough of

the vitamin and mineral foods needed

for health, growth, and the normal reg-

ulation of body processes.



Simple, easily digested, and, in gen-

eral, laxative foods should be chosen.

Four or five small meals may be bet-

ter than three large ones. Eating too

much, hurriedly, or irregularly is

harmful. A hygienic, happy life, with

plenty of outdoor sunshine, enables the

mother to use her food efficiently.



When the mother has been properly

fed, the baby has a better chance of

being born a. fine, healthy child, vigor-

ous, and resistant to disease. The moth-

er Will be able to furnish milk for'him

and will have strength to give him

the right loving care. Her general

health should be improved by preg-

nancy—«Dr. Dorothy Reed Mendenhall.





POTTlNG SOIL FOR BULBS.





 





LL winter bloomers like a good

porous soil that will not pack, but

the bulbs will do better with a. soil

not so good than will house plants of

any other type. Give a. sandy garden

loam and you can have flowers. Fresh

manure is never to be used in the

compost and even well-rotted manure

should be well mixed and should not

make up more than fifteen or twenty

per cent of the bulk. If the soil is

too stiff and heavy, add sand and leaf

mold rotted to make it mellow. Be

sure there are no white grubs in the

soil, for they feed on the roots and

bulbs of many varieties. The use of

bonemeal for fertilizer is advised, as





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of his existence. . The expect-ant moth—.- ’ ‘

er is likely to leave her diet largely i





. pgaeenelfljtli Dumplings.- " .

Use one pint or cooked beans and

two pints of , bean soup.- For dump-

lings:

2-3 cup cold water

it . salt

.4 tsp. baking mdel' »

.Drop dumplings from a spoon and

cook about twenty minutes.

Spanish Rice and Beans.





1 cup cooked rice I onion sliced thin

1 cup cooked beans 1 green pepper-





Add one cup of diced cold meat,

pork, bacon, or veal. Season with salt,

pepper and sugar. Add two cups of

cooked tomatoes and bake half hour.



Klondike Salad-





1 pt. cold beans. whole 1 cup sugar

1 pt. chopped tart apples





Moisten with any good salad dress-

ing. Sprinkle with paprika and serve

on a. lettuce leaf, cold—Mrs. 'A. C. 0.,

of Ypsilanti.





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MEDITATIONS vFROM THE

KITCHEN.





 





RANDMA says that there is no



hope for the girl who can’t make

a dress nowadays, when it consists oi

nothing but a straight piece of cloth.

She says in her day a. dress had"

sleeves, the skirt had gores, the waist

had stays, and when it was completed





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”No 5078-Misses’ Dre Cut in

three “sizes, 16, 18 and 238 years '

16-year size requires 3% yards of

inch material, with % yard

trasting for vest, collar. and culls. The





 





No. 4593—Ladies’ House Dress.

in seven sizes, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46





Cut





and 48 inches bust measure. A 38-

inch size reduires 4% yards of 36-inch

material. The width at the foot is

two yards. Price 130.





No. 5082—Girls’ Dress. Cut in four

sizes, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 12-





01 con; ,

Jwgdth at the foot is .135 yards. Price "

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LONG with the buttons and braid of a. regulation. sailor suit are used

emblems as here drawn. They are exact size to transfer and embroider——

the anchor on dickey or tie, the eagle, with additional bars if you like, on





you’d made something.



Bill Straw says he’ll have to give

up his job if he’s ever going to get

all the odd jobs around the house

done, that his wife’s always pestering

him about—M. E. C.





WHEN T0 PLANT TULIPS.





 





Would you please tell us when to

plant tulips, and how deep? How deep

should we plant callas? When should

We let them rest, and for how long?—

Mrs. R. B.





Tulips can be planted most any time

yet, but if planted now in the fall,

they will blossom next spring. If

planted in the spring or summer they

will not blossom until the next spring.



In sandy soil they should be planted

at least three inches deep, four inches

will do no harm. In heavier soil two

inches is better.



Callas should be planted as deeply

as tulips. If allowed to rest during

the summer, they will flower in Win-

ter. Rest them by putting them in the

basement where it is cool, and don’t

water them at all. You can leave them

dormant in this way for two or three

months, and then take them out where

it is warm, and water them.





 





Lines indicate the length and the





year size requires 2% yards of 32-inch

plain material, and 1% yards of fig-

ured if made as illustrated. Price 13c.





 





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5083—Juniors’ and Misses'

Cut in four sizes, 14, 16, 18

A 16—year size requrilrles



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No.

Dress.

and 20 years.

3%, yards of 40-inch material.

width of the skirt at the lower edge





with plaits extended

Price 130.





No.‘ 4720—Ladies’ Apron. Cut in four



sizes: Small, 34-36; medium, 38-40;



large, 42-44; extra. large, 46-48 inches



bust measure. A medium size requires



5%, yards of 27-inch material. Price

c.





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N o. 5005-5045—Ladies’ Costume.





Blouse 5005, cut in six sizes 34, 36, 38,

40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure.

Bodice skirt 5045, cut in four sizes:

Small, 34-36; medium, 38-40; large, 42-

44; extra large, 46-48 inches bust

measure. The Width of the skirt at

the lower edge is 1% yards. To make

this costume as illustrated in the

large view for a. medium size will re—

quire one yard of lining 32 inches

Wide, for the bodice portion- of the

skirt, 4% yards of checked material,

and 1% yards of plain material, 32

inches wide. Two separate patterns,

130 for each pattern.





Any of these patterns, and many

others, can be obtained from the Pat-

tern Department, Michigan er,

Detroit, Michigan. If you do not find

the pattern you wish illustrated here,

send for our catalog of Fall Patterns.

Autumn frocks for mother and the

kiddies are attractively illustrated.

The price is fifteen cents. When or-

dering patterns be sure to state the





 





 





 





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‘ A‘DY PURDUE, of Purdue Univer-



‘ sity, with a world’s record 0131.341

eggs last year, has raised her own

mark to 1,406 eggs by September of

her ninth year of production.



For those interested in breeding

work there are many interesting facts

brought out in this record.



The average life of a hen for pro-

duction purposes is between two and

three years, This hen has completed

nine years of production.



Hens that lay more than eight or

nine dozen eggs each year return a

profit. >Lady Purdue has laid twelve

dozen or more. eggs during each of her

first seven years. Seven dozen in the

eighth year, and more than five doz-

en in her ninth year. Her ability to

lay eggs that would hatch was excep-

tional during the first three years of

production. From sixty-three eggs set,

fifty-six chicksywere hatched. Since

the third year her record shows the

same tendency, as many other hens,

to decline rapidly in hatchability. Six-

t‘y-six eggs were set during the follow-

ing six years from which only nineteen

chicks were hatch-ed. Unless this char-

acteristic of hatchability can be modi-

fied, the “Old Timers” will have to

justify their existence on the number

of market eggs produced annually. At

least apart of the poor hatching re-

sults from this hen may be attributed

to the poor shell texture of her eggs,

although she still lays an egg that will

stand shipment to market.





 





WILL LlGHTlNG PAY?





 





T doesn’t pay to provide lights-for



the poultry flock unless the birds

are allowed to eat from two to five

pounds more food per hundred hens.



By increasing the length of the day

it is possible for hens to consume

more food with which to produce more

eggs. And if properly used, lights will

retard molt and increase the winter

production.



But if lights are provided they

should be made to pay for themselves,

and some care must be taken not to

overdo. Lights are of no value unless

the birds will consume from two to

five pounds more feed per hundred

hens daily than they consumed with-

out lights, and at least two pounds of

this increase should be grain.



Regularity is as important in the

lighting system as in feeding and wa-

tering. No matter what the arrange-

ment, twelve to thirteen hours a day,

both natural and artificial light, is

enough for the flock, and when the

lights are stopped it should be done

gradually. A change of fifteen min-

utes a day is a maximum.



Late hatched pullets which are be-

ing forced under lights to hasten ma-

turity, should not be rushed to pro—

duction before they are fully grown.

Excessive use of lights with any birds

will cause them to become thin and

molt.





HOUSE FOR THREE HUNDRED

HENS.





 





We wish to build a hen house, to

maintain 300 hens, and wish to know

size, and most practical plan to use

for farm purposes. ——-B. F. J.





A house sixty feet long and twenty

feet wide will contain 1,200 square

feet of floor space, and be suitable for

390 hens. Birds of the heavy breeds

require close to four square feet per

bird. Large flocks of Leghorns may

thrive with only. three square feet of





floor space per bird.





I ~would‘ advise you to write the

Michigan State College Poultry De-





_ partment, East Lansing, Michigan, for

”plans .of the Hichigan poultry house.





- and observe various types of poultry





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This house contains a system of ven-

tilation which is giving good satisfac-

tion, and aids in securinggood winter

egg production during cold Weather.





The college field men have a fine-





opportunity to travel over the state





houses. They are constantly trying to

make this Michigan type house more

useful and the plans are worthy of





consideration by poultrymen planning





new houses.



In general, the plain shed-roof type

of houses give satisfaction. It is not

necessary to make poultry houses

elaborate and expensive in order to

meet all the requirements of light,

warmth and ventilation.





ENLARGED LIVER.





 





My hens are dying and I can’t diag-

nose the trouble. The heads turn yel-

low and swell when they are first tak-

en sick. I have dissected some and

the whole insides are yellow and look

like fat melted all through. They only

live forty~eight to sixty hours. The

livers are from two to three times

natural size—Mrs. F. H. D.





A great enlargement of the liver

is usually caused by inflammation,

which results from poison absorbed

from the intestines. Enlargement also

results from the accumulation of fat

in the liver until the liver cells are

unable to function properly and the

bird dies.



Hens of a breed like the Buff. Rocks

are apt to become too fat if they are

fed heavily on corn and take insuffi-

cient exercise. Some hens place the

material that should go into eggs near-

ly all into fat, and they should be

culled out if good egg records are de-

sired.



Liver trouble cannot be cured with

medicine, but must be prevented by

the use of a balanced ration, plenty of

green feed, and enough exercise to

keep the birds in good laying condi-

tion.





FEEDING POULTRY.





 





Kindly let me know a good balanced

ration for mature birds—F. A. S.





A good ration for mature stock is

a dry mash composed of equal parts

of corn meal, bran, middlings, ground

oats and meat scrap. The amount of

meat scrap can be reduced one-half if

you have plenty of sour milk. The





scratch grain can consist of equal'





parts of wheat and cracked corn in

the spring and fall. Feed twice as

much corn as wheat in the winter, and

twice as much wheat as corn in the

summer.





AVIAN TUBERCULOSIS.





 





What kind of sickness do chickens

.have when they have white pimples

on the liver, and other chickens have

trouble with bowels, have no appetite,

and cannot digest the food—P. B.





The symptoms of weakness, emacia-

tion and spots on the liver are often

indications of tuberculosis. This is

contagious and the sick birds should

be isolated to avoid infecting healthy

members of the flock. If the flock is

large and valuable and frequent losses

are occurring, it will pay to have a

veterinarian inspect the birds and the

housing facilities and make recom-

mendations.



There is no cure for tuberculosis in

fowls and it is known that the dis-

ease will spread to swine. This being

the case, it is a. serious disease and

the personal inspection of a veterinar-

ian is worth more than long distance

recommendations.





There is one fact that most poultry

raisers overlook, that hens cannot lay

eggs in winter when given the same

feed, as in the spring when new

sprouts and other food elements are ‘

plentiful.





 





 





 

   

   

   





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Little Story on tile Plearure: fir t/ze Sick





FAY, the radio has come,” cried

one little girl to another, as she

entered the room.



“Has it? How nice! Will it be put

up today, Marjorie?” Fay asked.



“I'm sure I don’t know, Fay, but I

certainly hope so. Let’s go tell the

others,” and with these words they

ran from the room.



In the boys’ cottage at Howell there

was excitement also because the

radio had arrived. Not a word of crit-





 





A Good Picture of Bernice Herold. In-

cidentally, Her Pet Dog is There

Also.





icism of how long they had had to

wait.



A week or more later the girls lay

back in their beds, and those able to

be up sank back in their chairs, with

sighs of content. You will ask, “What

have they been doing?” They have

been listening to a radio concert, and

enjoying it as much as we, who are

well, do.



Now, let us look into the future. Let

us see how these girls and boys turn-

ed out in later years, these same girls

and boys, whom we, as Merry Circ-

lers, helped. We helped a little bit

indeed, as compared with the great

number of Merry Circlers. To them,

as we shall see later, it was a great

deal, a great service, because we cheer-

ed their lives when they were sick.



Now comes the prophecy. Look

into the future with me. Fay Mount,





to whom you were introduced at the

beginning, is married and has a lovely

home. Three children, all rosy-

cheeked and strong, havé’ come to

brighten her home. Why are they

rosy-checked ?

Sanatorium made possible Fay’s recov-

ery from tuberculosis. ,,



She says, “My Ben and I are per-

fectly contented, because our children

are strong, and we have a lovely home

and many comforts. Howell Sanator-

ium made it possible. Because I am

strong, my children are strong. But

I could hardly have stood it in the

Sanatorium if it had not been for the

radio the Merry Circlers bought for

our cottage. My children are, or are

going to be, Merry Circlers.”



Mae Bennett is a nurse. In telling

how she chose her life-work, she asks,

“Do you know what made me decide

to be a nurse? I will tell you. It was

when I was in the Howell Sanatorium.

The days were so long, and I got so

lonely that I had begun to think I

could not stand it, that I would give

up and go home where I could have

companionship. Then the radio came

and the days were full of interest, be-

cause I could listen to it. It was then

I said to myself, "I will choose, as my

life-work, something in which I can

brighten other lives, even as the Mer-

ry Circlers have mine. Later I decid-

ed on being a nurse and I find that,

in this work, I can fulfill that desire.



Jack Gibbs, a banker, says, “My

children are Merry Circlers. I never

can forget about the radio the M. C.’s

sent to Howell San, and I want my

children to belong to the club. I know

they will be the better for it.”



Merry Circlers, if we can brighten

their lives now, and encourage them

to a life of usefulness, will we not be

the better for it? Shall we then be-

grudge our nickels and dimes? Our

lives will be the richer and more use-

ful for our giving. Then let us deluge

Uncle Frank with our nickels and

dimes, coins of any and all sizes——

Fanny.





 





 





OUR LETTER BDX





 





 





 





Dear Uncle and Cousins:



When I saw Herbert’s letter and

found out what he had to say, I just

made up my mind that I would hand

out a piece of my mind. I agree with

you, Herbert, in some things. In oth-

ers I don’t, but had a very hearty

laugh over it all.





Some boys are as good as the girls,

and other are not, and vice versa,

but you cannot, on the whole, class

one better than the other. It is only

what we make of ourselves, and how

we live m1r lives, that will tell how

far up the scale we stand. You will

no doubt agree with me. Also. some

girls are sassy.



That girl did not have any respect

for herself, or she wouldn’t stick her

tongue out at anyone, no matter where

she was. You never would catch me

doing such a thing. I want to treat

everyone respectfully, and expect as

much in return. We are living here

only once, and therefore “love thy

neighbors.” as the Bible quotes.





Boys, do not say, “My blood boils.”

It sounds rather savage and heathen-

like. I know it is rather hard at times

to overlook what one says about an-

other. I have had the same experi-

ence, but “Forgive them, for they

know not what they do,” as Jesus said

to his enemies while on the Cross at

Calvary.



I think it is dandy that we have

an M. C. Fund, and will enclose my





contribution. Hope I haven’t taken

too much of your room, and will say

good luck, everybody, and farewell,

Herbert.——Your Cousin, Ruth.





Yes, I think we all average up pretty

near alike. I don’t think that, right

in the bottom of our hearts, any of us

want to be sassy or mean, but some-

times we forget ourselves. I have

found it a lot easier to give advice

than to do things myself. That’s why

I give advice.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:





These are my ideas on smoking and

powdering: If a man is a man he

doesn’t need to show it by smoking

And if a girl or woman is pretty she

doesn’t need to powder. When she

powders she just tells the world she

isn't pretty.



Here I’ve been writing and haven’t

even thanked you for the membership

card and button. When I got it I just

felt like turning somersaults all the

way home, and yelling with all my

might, but I didn't. I just walked in

wearing it.



Herbert Estes. was right when he

said that all girls should have Helen

Piper’s name. Say, Herbert, I’ll do

my duty when it comes to writing, the





same as you are, because I don’t want'





the, girls to have this whole page to

themselves. Now, Uncle, if you don’t





Because the Howell.





rint this, I’ll get mad—not so much



ecause I want to see this in print,

but because I don’t want the girls to

say everything they want to.



haven’t written for so long that I

write about everything now, but I’ll

write more often hereafter, so I won’t

need to write such long letters.



My brother and I are sending a little

to help the fund grow. Say, you M

C.’s, hurry and send some money.

They want those radios—Roland An-

derson, Chief, Mich.





I agree with you on smoking, but

when girls paint and powder, they

spoil what beauty they have. Some

very pretty girls think they have to

make up. I’m glad you liked the card

and, button. It isn’t the girls’ fault

that they have so much of the p .

It’s because the boys are not doing

their share.





 





Hello, Uncle Frank and Cousins:



May I come in? I have intended to

ask you that question several times,

but I never got started before.



I’ve read your boys’ and girls’ page

for about, three years, and have al-

ways thought it was intensely inter-

esting.



George Nichols wrote a “peppy” let-

ter, all right. I think he has it in for

the rls. Eh, George? My sister and

I so dom go to dance halls, but we

spend our time playing ball, swimming

and horseback riding.





 





Louise Ingram Says, “Look for Form

of Squirrel on Calf’s Side."





I must close, hoping you boys will

quit saying that you don’t try for the

contests, because you don’t want to

discourage the girls, but will show us

that you can beat the girls—A so-

called chattering monkey, Eleanor

Wilson, Carson City, Mich.





Your suggestion to the boys is a

good one, an especially good one for

those so-called chattering monkeys to

make.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:





Say, Uncle Frank, we’ve had the

girls’ opinions on boys’ actions. Let's

have the boys’ opinion on girls’ ac-

tions.



I am sending a little for the fund,

which is from my sisters Victoria, Be—

atrice, Evelyn and myself. My sister

Evelyn is four years old. She had a

few pennies to spend for candy, but

when she heard of the little kiddies

at Howell, she said she wanted them

to have something, too, and she didn’t

care wizther she had anything or not.



The other M. C.’s have given their

opinions on “Which school is best?”

so I will give mine. I think the little

one-room school is best, and I heartily

agree with Mildred Merritt. We are

having the same kind of teacher as

she did, this year, for the fourth year.

We have learned to love her as our

dearest friend, and I am sorry that I

must leave our school. I am to attend

high school this year. I am sure I

will profit by going to high school, but

I will miss the good old one-room

school, with the good, kind, and sym-

pathetic, friendly teacher that I have

had for the last three years. Give me

the Little Red Schoolhouse with my

books and slate.



Well, I must stop my chatterand

sign oft—As ever, your faithful niece,

Florence Litkowski, R. 3, Saginaw,

Mich.



Your little sister has the right





spirit. You are fortunate to have such





No wonder you stick

up for the little school.





a good teacher.





 





Dialer1 Uncle Fragk:



aven’ muc to as this time.



The so-called "Bom’ywho writes to

the letter box, thinks it is very un-



gentlemanly to tell a girl togo ‘ lay'a

rick. ’ I agree that it is, but if the



girls did not say anything worse than





that, it wouldn’t hurt'the boys' feel-.,





ings any.



I have one thing to an, about Herb;

ert Estes, and that is th a: He has a

lot more ambition and manners than

the ones who write about him. The

reason that the girls became so angry

was because Herbert merely told the

truth about them. Stick to it, Herb.

the girls can't crowd us out—~A friend.

George Nichols.



George is apparently sticking up for

his colors. I Just hope the girls do

not crowd the boys out. In fact, I

would like to see a lot of boys who

are out, crowd in. '





 





Degfd Uncle Frank:



you ever try skiin , Uncle

Frank? If you haven’t, you dgn’t know

what fun you have missed; and if you

have, I'll bet I know what happened

the first few times. , Arms, 1 s, mit-

tens, skis and Uncle Frank—a l went

flying in the air in different directions.

Isn’t that right? I’ll bet it is. If it

isn t, you're not an ordinary mortal.

You d be some fairy, or something like

that, if it didn’t happen—«Your neph-

ew, Billy Dukes, Fennville, Mich.



"No, Billie, I haven’t skied all sum-

mer, nor any winter. I don’t see how

a fellow stays up on those skis. I cer-

tainly would be in a terrible mix~up

after an attempt. I’m far from being

a fairy, or anything like that.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I read Lura Lincoln’s and Helen Pip-

er’s letters the other day, and they

sounded like an invitation for an an-

swer. So here I am.



_Lura Lincoln seems to be a. little

bit cross, by the way her letter read.

She speaks about “chattering mon-

key," but I don’t comprehend. I don’t

know whether she means herself, or

is calling me a name. She doubtless

believes in evolution, but she didn’t

spring far enough, as she can chatter

as well as the other chatter rs.



Perhaps we males are lord y, 'but it

certainly is news to me. Our rights

may be. trampled underfoot, but they

won’t be very long, by jinks!



have answered as many contests

as you have, I’ll bet. I have answered

twenty-three of them.



Ah! HelearPiper. is piping again.

Your brothers, perhaps, have your

name, Helen, but I’ll bet they don’t

live up to it as well as you do.



Boys, you've read the sassy letters

of the girls, and still you do nothing.

Get to work. Don’t let the chatterers

run us off. Are you going to stand

like a bump on a log, doing nothing?

I don’t think so, not if you’re like the

boys you are reputed to be. Get the

tablet and pencil and go to work.

Don’t wait until tomorrow; do it to

day. Get busy! Go to work!



See if we can't beat the girls, or at





 





This is—-You Know Who.

least get even with them. Remember

our motto, “Work to Win." Use it,

you can’t win without working, can

you? No! Well, get to work quickly,

right today.—Herbert Estes, R. 3, Web-

berville, Mich. '



Herbert speaks for himself and the

rest of the boys. I do wish the boys

would take Herb’s advice and get busy.

The girls write “awf ” nice letters,





so you boys will have to go some to'





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It’s just as Uncle Frank says, “Some

may have taken nice trips, others





‘ probably stayed at home and worked.”





When school let out this spring, I

thought to myself, “Now for a lovely

vacation!” I suppose a lot of other

Merry Circlers thought so, too; but





if their experience was anything like





mine, their disillusionment was sure

.and sudden. Poor things! .

Anyway, the first thing, we had

twenty acres of lovely alfalfa to make,

a whole lot of corn to cultivate, the

garden to take care of, and that “ain’t"

all! Does that sound like a vacation?





 

 





. Some Memoir}:

By Gullfer’d Rothfuee, Norvell, Mich.-





 





For Boys Only





'OME of the girls have sug-



gested that, inasmuch as we

-had a contest for girls on how

they’ would like boys to act to-

ward them, ‘Weshould also have

one for the boys, to give them

a chance to tell how they would

like to see girls’ act. Here is

the chance, boys, to do this. I

would like to see you come

across strong. Make the sub-

ject you write about, “How I

Think Girls Should Act.” Try

to tell this in 250 words or less.

Ten prizes will be given. The

first two will be fountain pens;

the next three, handy dictionar-

ies, and the next five, handy

pocket knives. Boys, these priz-

es are worth going after. Just

swamp me with letters. Every

boy who sends in something on

this sdbject will get an M. 0.

button and membership card if

he is not now a member. Send

your papers to Uncle Frank,

Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.,

before October 16.





. out.





 





 





 





Maybe it does to some industrious

Merry Circlers, but not to yours truly.

(Pardon the slang, Uncle Frank)!



Well, right after the smoke of the

preliminaries had cleared, along trot-

ted Mr. Wheat-Crop, and, of course,

he had to be cleaned up. Then, in

rapid succession, came Mr. Rye, Mr.

Oats, and Old Man Alfalfa. You know

how it goes. We wrestled with‘ them

till we’d conquered them for sure, but

alas! it could not be!



Dad ordered some paint for our big

barn. It took us two weeks to do the

painting, and in that two weeks, I

found that what I didn’t know about

painting would fill all the books that

haven’t been written yet. That was

some job! Vacation, Where art thou?



All summer that’s just the way it

went—Work, work, work. And now

school is starting! Durn th’ luck, any-

way!





 





By Polly Sviniski, Stephenson, Mich.



School has started again and, al-

though I’m trying to study hard, yet

always in the evening, just after I’ve

finished supper dishes and am watch—

ing the sunset, or the stars coming

out, I permit memories of my vacation

to creep in. They are pleasant ones.



They would be almost ideal if my

parents had been with me. As it was,

the last three months were just slight-

ly tinged with loneliness.



My vacation was spent in Milwau-

kee. I worked. Earned my living and

also tried to get a few of the things

I will need for this year of school.



How I like to recall the sunny after-

noons spent at Washington Park,

where-there is the fifth largest zoo in

the world, pausing ’in my walks to

watch the hundreds of animals, such

a marvelous assortment!



The evenings were pleasant when

the street lights cast reflections, so

many glowing streams of light across





. . d

of the Summer

the lagoon, on which~~scores of happy

people. including myself, were pad-

dling their canoes, or rowing their

boats. .



Days spent at popular lakes. plays

at the lovely theaters, bus rides on

the top decks of ”double decker" bus-

es, public educational buildings, and

thousands of other things would take

pages to describe.



I returned a few weeks ago and, al-

though my vacation was a happy one,

John Howard Payne was right, and

I sure was glad to get “back to Mich-

igan, right on the farm.”





 





By Margaret Beckwith, Ovid, Mich.



A company of grange girls decided

to, rent a cottage at Park Lake the

second week in July, and asked me to

be one of the party.



I offered to take three of the girls

and their baggage in my father’s little

truck. We were within two miles of

the lake when one of my tires blew

We mended it, but it held for a

short distance only, and we made the

rest of the distance on the rim. How

we wished that there had been a man

or a strong boy on our truck!



There were ten of us and we divided

the work. I had to help get dinner on

the Sunday that we expected our fam-

ilies to visit us. I enjoyed that Work

better than washing the dishes. The

company complimented us on our meal,

but as they had brought well-filled bas-

kets, we took their compliments with

a. grain of salt (iodine).



It was cold most of the time we

were there, but we went in swimming

just the same. We fished a little,

watched the dancing in the pavillion,

popped corn and played cards and, of

course, read stories.



We parted friendly and planned to

get together another summer.





WINNERS OF VACATION CONTEST.





 





 





Y mistake this contest had to run

two weeks, but even so, it seems

the Merry Circlers like to make words

out of School Days, rather than to tell

about the nice times they had on their

vacations. Maybe many of you did

not have nice times, so you did not

care to say anything about the sum-

mer. But we did get some nice pa—

pers, a few of which are printed in

these columns. The prize Winners are

given below.

Pencil Boxes.

Polly Sviniski, Box 77, Stephenson,





Michigan.

Guilford Rothfuss, Norvell, Mich.

Dictionaries.

Margaret Beckwith, R. 2, Ovid,

Michigan.

Violet Steinkopf, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Philip Baumgras, R. 5, Lansing,

Michigan.

Knives.

Frances Herring, Litchfield, Mich.

Harold L. Mohler, Jonesville, Mich.

Bonnie Mahaffy, Kingston, Mich.

Esther Saari, R. 1, Ironwood, Mich.

Edna Kober, Conklin, Mich.





“SCHOOL DAYS" WINNERS.





 





HE “school days” contest was ap—



parently very interesting as a

great many took part in it. The win-

ners got a great many more words

from the letters in those two words

than I thought they would. The win-

ners are given below, also the number

of words they made. Their score is

not quite as high as they had it, as in

some cases quite a few words had to

be scratched out for some reason or

other.



Pencil Boxes.



Guilford Rothfuss, Norvell, Mich.. .163

Vera C. Seeley, Grand Ledge.. ....145

Dictionaries.



Kenneth Dean, Ada, Mich ...... ...109

Georgia M. VValrod, Ubly, Mich.... 97

Dorothy. Deachin, Ubly, Mich. . . . .. 96



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Willis Houghtaling, Reese, Mich.. 92

Glenn Schroeder, Owosso. Mich. . .. 91

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Dairying for





OILS, as well as persons, get hun-



gry. In fact, most soils that are



kept under the barrow need con-

stant nourishment from some source

or other. Dairy/farming is the best

method of doing this that can be

adopted. The reasons why this is so

can be stated in a. few words.





Every spear of grass, every stalk

of corn or other grain, we take from

our lands, leaves the soil in a little

poorer condition, so far as future crop-

ping is concerned. This is because,

intothe composition of all crops, no

matter what they are, certain things

enter; and these are-in large measure

taken from the earth. Some come

from the sky in the dew and rain

which fall; others are gathered up by

the plants out of the air. 'And once

gone, for the benefit of the crops we

hope to produce in the future. some

method must be taken of replacing

them.



Some farmers think that they can

do this effectively by the use of com-

mercial fertilizers; and to a. certain

extent, and for a period of time, this

can be done with varying results, ac-

cording to the amount used and the

regularity of its application. We are

apt, however, to get careless in the

course of time and think we can get

along‘ by a little less of this kind of

fertilizer, or we hate to pay out so

much money for it. '





One of my neighbors took it into

his head that he would not keep cows

on his farm. It made so much work

to milk them twice a day and to take

the milk to the creamery, or to make

it up at home. So he sold his cows.

For a. time he was able to maintain

the fertility of his soil by the use of

commercial fertilizers. He depended





. largely upon his sale of hay for his





income. But the day when he with-

drew the support of his soil by the





manure marked the beginning of his

farm’s decline.





His crop of hay fell ofl seriously.

The producing value of the soil grew

-less and less with every passing year.

His income suffered. The entire farm

showed the effect of this policy. If

‘he had continued to invest liberally

in commercial fertilizer and had used

it freely every year, it would have

been better for him; but you know

how easy it is to think, “I need the

money for other things this year. I

will save by buying less fertilizer. The

land will not miss it fer a single year.”

But the soil grows hungrier and hun-

grier, and neglect of this kind, if only

temporarily continued, shows itself in

lessened productive capacity. That

farm never has gotten back to its for-

mer state of productiveness, although

cows have been put back and other

means taken to restore the lost effi-

ciency.





Another neighbor tried the same

thing, but he did not keep it up very

long. He watched things closely; and,

because he noted a. sudden and mark-

ed deterioration in the capacity of his

land to produce, he hurried to put the

cows he had sold back, and he has

kept them there ever since. “I found

I must have cows to keep up the good-

ness of my soil," he said, and nothing

can convince him that this is not true.





Dairy farming meets the needs of

the farm better than any other kind





 





 





mg Suggestions.





The Michigan Farm

Bureau Supply Service





of farming I know of. True, stock-

keeping for beef, because it calls for

the feeding out of hay and grain pro-

duced on the land, is another way of

arriving at the same result; but dairy-





 





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the best, for the reason that it gives .

us a. steady income.



Cow's. take the hay and the corn and

sums them, provide us a good living

the other products of the soil, con-

from day to day, and also previde us

with nature's own fertilizer, to be put

back on the land and support it for

future crops. Wherever the feet of.

the dairy cow go they leave the im-

print of a, richer civilization, as well

as a prophecy of peace and happiness»

for‘the days to come.———E. L. V.





 





HAS FAITH IN THE GOOD COW.





 





(Continued from page-325).

in the state, there should be opposi-

tion to this program. Just now is the

time to rid Michigan of bovine tuber»

culosis. When one compares the num-

ber of reactors here, with the high

percentage in some parts of the east,

he can but feel the importance of this

work, which will clean up our state at

a moderate cost, and will conserve the

reputation of dairy p;oducts in the

mind of the consuming public; and in

this atmosphere of renewed confi-

dence, the demand will increaSe.



Have you noted the growth of the-

ice cream trade? Our own little local

creamery, twenty-five miles from the

city of Muskegon, has sold fifteen hun-

dred pounds of butter-fat‘in cream, to

an ice cream plant, within the past

two weeks.



There are many other bright spots

in the future of dairying, but. we have

said enough for this time. Just let

us close by saying that the cows never

looked better to us in the world, and

that we believe that alfalfa, sweet

clover and corn ensilage, fed to good

dairy cows, year after year, will fur-

nish as favorable a. market for farm

labor in northern Michigan as can

possibly be found.





 





MILCH GOATS.





 





THERE are very few milch goats in



this country. In parts of the south-

west and in Old Mexico they are more '

numerous.



A milch goat is said to be the

poor man’s cow, because a goat

can live and furnish a small amount

of milk where no cow could live at

all. Among the peasantry of Europe

and Asia, it is quite common for the

poor people to have a. family goat.

But in some places they are really

kept for commercial purposes.



Parts of Switzerland are noted for

milch goats. They can live on moun-

tain sides and thrive where cows

could not live. In some parts of North

Africa, goats are kept for commercial

purposes. In a. country like most of

ours, however, goats can never be pop-

ular. They can not compete with cat-

tle in a. good fertile agricultural land.



You might as well talk of having

Shetland ponies compete with the no-

ble Percheron horse. .Shetlands and

other breeds of ponies can suffice in

the Shetland Islands that are hilly,

rocky, and almost barren. There a.

Clydesdale oir'Percheron would not

long survive, but on the rich fertile

lowlands of England, France, or any

other country, the pony cannot com-

pete.



The quality of goat’s milk is good. ‘

Some physicians claim that it is es-

pecially valuable for small children.

Many of our rich people who have

their families winter in the south and

southwest think as much of having a.

milch goat with them as they do of

having servants. But there is some





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difficult to" get cow’s milk, and a goat

can be kept msos‘t anywhere and» will

furnish fresh milk for the children:



In parts of southern Europe much

pains is taken to improve the produc-

tion of milch goats. They are bred





“ and selected much on the same prin-





ciple as dairy cows, for improvement.

Records are kept of their production

the same. as . progressive dairymen

keep for the cows, and. the families of





the best individuals are very popular





and sell- for good money. But this is

for parts of the world where cows can-

not bekept. ~ ‘



It would not be thought advisable

for anyone ,to» attempt to have milch

goats take the place of cows in any

good agricultural land.



Good goats yield from three to six

and seven" quarts of milk a; day. I

have put the minimum too high, as

many goats will not give more than

one or one and one-half quarts per

day. You could not get prosperous

Yankee farmers to milk goats no more

than you could get them to farm with

Shetland ponies.



Milch goats are sometimes adver-

tise-d in agricultural papers in this

country and are bred to supply the

mountain resorts' where cow’s milk can

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MICHIGAN HOLSTEINS AT NA-

TlONAlm DAIRY SHOW._





 





WEN TY head of the best Holsteins



of our state will be taken to the

National Dairy Show to be held'at

Indianapolis, October 10-17. Arrange~

ments for the trip are being made by

officials of the State Holstein Associ-

ation.



The show stuff was selected at the

State Fair and the West Michigan

Fair, from the herds of E. M. Bayne

and J. B. Jones, of Romeo; The De-

troit Creamery Farms, of Mt. Clem-

ens; Lakefield Farm, of Clarkston;

Dudley Waters, of Grand Rapids; and

the Michigan Reformatory of Ionia.





 

 





‘trip last year to Milwaukee, where





 





end a "yearling better that '

shovm. this year, but which won a blue

ribbon at the State Fair last year.

The show this year should provide

very keen competition. The Michigan

contenders should not come. home

without honors, however, as among

them are the grand champion female

and grand champion bull at Grand

Rapids, the grand champion cow and

the second prize cow at Detroit, and

young " stuff that placed well up at

these leading State Fairs. Four head,

that are scheduled to go, made the





   





each placed. In fact, six head out of

eleven taken in 1924 won nine prizes,

including a first, a second, a. third, and

three fourths.



This will be the third time that

Michigan Holstein breeders competed

at the National. All Holsteiners of the

state will watch the show with inter-

est—J. G. Hays.





PURE-BRED SIRES MAKE GOOD.





 





NE of the outstanding demonstra-



tions of the value of, pure-bred

dairy sires was presented at the Ot-

sego County Fair this year. Six years

ago the agricultural department of the

Michigan Central placed five pure-bred

dairy sires in northeastern Michigan,

leasing them without charge to var-

ious communities for a period of two

years. At the end of three years, such

favorable results were indicated from

this project that the railroad felt jus-

tified in doing it on a larger scale,

and twenty additional pure-bred sires

were leased along the Mackinaw Div-

ision. Seven of these were placed in

Otsego county—six Guernseys and one

Holstein.



This fall the transportation company

offered $75 in prizes for a class of

live stock at the Otsego County Fair,

representing the offspring of these

seven pure-bred sires. The response

in number was gratifying, but in qual-

ity it was most pleasing. Twenty—

three heifers were entered in this



(Continued on page 351) .





 





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from a Michigan creamery:

for its butter.”





of both cream and butter.





produced.





material.

the state.





received by the producer.





as soon as convenient.

the quality.

.To summarize:





 





 





Quality Products Pay

By 0. E. Reed





'ECENTLY a buyer, who represents a large butter company,

made the following comment relative to the quality of butter

“I am looking forward to the time in

the near future when we can pay that creamery a much better price





Many times this and similar statements are heard from buyers

There has been a general improvement

in the quality of cream purchased for butter making purposes

during the past few years, but there is still room for improvement.

Michigan-made butter should be second to none because of the

natural advantages we have for production of high quality cream.

Butter of high quality can only be made by using high quality

cream and expert workmanship at the hands of the butter maker.

The greatest difficulty at the present time in making a uniform

high quality butter is, that there is too much low quality cream





The science of butter making has developed rapidly during the

past few years and experienced men have no difficulty making a

high quality of butter if they can only get the right kind of raw





' The producers really control the quality of the butter made in

Quality articles always bring the highest prices.

price paid for butter of high quality is always reflected in the price





The production of clean wholes0me cream is a very simple

undertaking. The cow used must be healthy and kept clean.

should be kept clean and free from dust and dirt particles from

the time it leaves the cow until the butter is made.

caution is to cool the cream as soon as possible to a temperature

of at least sixty degrees or below, the lower the better.

prevents bacteria which cause the cream to sour and other bacteria

which develop bad odors, from multiplying. Milk and cream are

highly perishable products and should be delivered to the factory

Frequent deliveries aid in keeping up





The chief factors in production of high quality

cream are~—clean cows, careful milking, keeping milk clean, cooling

cream to as low a temperature as possible as soon as convenient

after it is taken from the cow, and frequent delivery.

dairyman who sells cream in Michigan would follow these simple

rules,,3Michigan butter would always sell at a premium.





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TWELFTH ANNUAL SALE

Howell Sales Company of Livingston County





75 REGISTERED HOLSTEIN CATTLE 75

Howell, Michigan





mm. Dolober 23. ’25 at l0:30 O’clock A. u.





3 young bulls from high record dams, one with a large yearly record.

72 females, all of breeding age, except two, and all of good ages, only

eleven are over 5 yrs. old and only one over 7 yrs. old.



3 daughters of 25-lb. cows, two daughters of 24-lb. 4-yr.-old cows, oth.

ers from record cows.



55 that are either fresh or will freshen soon after the sale.



The best lot of individuals we have ever offered.



Whole County on the Accredited T. B. List.





For Gaialugi, address GUY WAKEFIELD, Fowlerville, Mich.

West Michigan Holstein Breeders’

Conmgnment Sale

At the Fair Grounds in Kalamazoo Michigan on





Wednesday, October 21, 1925





‘ including a. 31.2ti-lb. A. R. 0. Pow. with 17,000 lbs.

cow With 2.928 lbs. of milk in one month, 2). 263711). A. ll.





Cattle of I’roven Production.





months, a 28.87—lb. 0f mllk in 10





0. (low, a 24.4-lb. A.





R. O. Cow.



Several COWS with good (low Testing Association Records up to 600 lbs. of butter in one 'ear ood

heifers and heifer calves. There will be a 33.37—lb. seven months" old bull calf. and a. 31.61?le I‘ierd

Bull In this Sale. Also a 23—1b. yearling bull from a (lam with a good (‘ow Testing Association Record.





If you are looking for Now Milt-h (‘ows and Swingers. plan to attend this .‘alc

Sale begins at 12:00. Standard Time. s S .

H interested. write for a Sale Catalog.





W. R. Harper, Sale Manager, Middleville, Mich.





Chester \Vhite Spring Bears with size. Fa" Pig





either sex, b"

Fall pigs. either I the great Boar, The

of dams. W. E.





Wolverine. Priced reasonable. Best

vamgswn. Pal-ma. Mich.

March boars of quality .

t. reasonable nnces- Hampshires For Sale

Vassar, Much. ‘



JOHN W. SNYDER. R.





FRANCISCO FARM





Poland-China: and Shorthorns





nice spring and (all Boers.

Choice bred gilts. 12th year.

4. 8!. Johns. Mloh.





 





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ERD Must Go At Once. Having subdivided my

farm, it is necessary for me to dispose of my

herd of registered Ayrshircs. High producers. Farm—

ers' prices. DOUGLAS A. FRASER, Gregory, Mich.





For sale ii grade heifers, bred. and one open

heifer. 4 registered heifers, 6 months to 1-year old.

JONES &. ALLDREDGE. Caalopoiit, Mich.





 





Guernseys, 5 grade COWS giving milk.





 





- Guernsey cattle for sale at a

RegIStered price you cannot afford to pass.

as I am closing out. DR. E. A. SMITH. Box “4.

R. No. l. Birmingham, Mich.





 





 





Gue nseys fifis‘if’dnfwaae’ii‘filnf‘m

outage. Accredited herd. Write for prices.

GLENCHESTER FARMS. iNG.. Wyebrookc, Pa.

Some real bargains in reg-

Guernseys 1...... .0... m use... on.

young bull. W. W. Burdick. Williamaton. Mich.





 





 





A 34-“). Sire





Well grown, deep bodied, three-fourths white.

Born November 6. .1924. His seven nearest

dams average 32.6 lbs. butter in 7 days.



His sure has more than 100 daughters. 63

are tested and average 20.1 lbs. butter as

2 and 3-year-olds. -



His dam is a 34—lb. cow with 793 lbs. butter

in 305 days as a Swear—old, and her dam

is a 31-lb. cow with 933 lbs. in 305 days.





Send for pedigree of ear tag 671.





     

 

 





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“”3"“ Animal Industry

Dept. C





Lansing, Michigan





FOR SALE





3 pure—bred Holstein Bull, Charlevoix Ormsby Boy

No. 360989. born Sept. 10, 1921. Is a grandson of

Sir Pietertje Ormsby Mercedes, sired by Sir Pietertie

Ormsby Mercedes. 40th senior herd sire at Loch

Farms; he is a full brother to Queen Picbo Ormsby

Mercedes who has two records, ovur 1100 lbs. of

butter in 1 yr., and 3 seven—day records of 30. 34

His dam is Kolvain Alexander Kom-

dyke, a granddaughter of Pontiac Korndyke, with 859

lbs. of butter and nearly 20,000 lbs. of milk in 1

yr.. her dam is a half-sister to the dam of Kolvaiu

Marion Findorne, the wonderful cow developed at

Loeb Farms. This bull is very gentle. as he has

always been tied on a chain in the yard. and handled





every day. Price $150.

CARLYLE J. KEGK, R. I, St. Johns. Mich





 





 





 





 





 





Sons of Michigan’s Premier Holstein

Bull For Sale

No. 2. A straight calf just a year of ass. out of

a 21-lb. 2-year—old. This is a growthy bull of good

type. Price $250.





No. 3. A 10—months'-old call out of a Ins-lb.

junior, three-year-old heifer. A straight calf with

8 good development. Price $150.



No. 6. A January calf out of a 21.7—lb. three—year-

Old heifer. Price $100.



Bend for pictures and extended pedigrees. Also

Shropsblres and Durocs. .



LAKEFIELD FARMS. Clariuton. Mich.



We are offering for sale





mapiahurSi HOLSIEINS some high Class VOW

bulls from tested dams, and sired by a 30-lb. sire.

Also a 27-1b. cow now milking. WHITNEY BROS"

Onondaga, Mich.





HEREFORDS--For Sale





Repeater 173rd, a son of old Repeater; and from 'a



Bright Stanway cow. Allen Bros. paid $5,200 for



this bull. Have too marry of his heifers to keep him



longer. Will price him very low. Will also sell three



young cows in to hint, LOUIS G. HALL. R.

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URING a former period of de-



pression in the sheep and wool



industry a man said, "Just now,

on account of the low prices of all

classes of sheep, there isAittle incli-

nation among flock masters to over-

stock, and it is a good time to get rid

of the pelters and undesirables by cull-

ing the flock closely.”



We have just been thinking how

closely this statement applies to the

present slump in the sheep and wool

industry. It is a sort of see-saw affair

when one tackles the Sheep game.

High prices prevail for a. season, then

low prices take the front seat. W'hen

high prices prevail everybody wants

sheep. When prices drop, the major-

ity rush whole flocks on the market.

We have been watching the experi-

ences of a. number of sheepmen who

have been in the game for years and

who have been through a number of

alternate high and low periods. They





 





all say that the man who sticks to

the game through all sorts of condi—

tions is the one who ultimately wins.

This is certainly true when considered

from the'shepherd’s standpoint, and

isn’t it true in all kinds of work? The

one who jumps from one to another as

the fancy commands, is certain never

to get to the top.



A philosopher of olden times once

said that, “The time to mend a plow

is when it is broken.” Likewise, we

think that the time to cull a flock of

sheep of undesirables is when prices

are fairly active, but to confine the

culling to the prosperous period alone

is certainly wrong. True, the culls

will bring the best prices then, but it

is as necessary to rid the flock of the

undesirables when prices are low as

when high. Sheep men here, and in

general, who maintain the very best

flocks cull closely every season. Be-

sides this, they select some of the

choice lambs each year to be kept for

breeders.





A certain man who made a specialty

of breeding high-grade Merinos, had a.

flock which was always up to a high

standard through close and systematic

continuous culling. He was continu-

ally on the lookout for the poorest

ones of the flock. When any fell be-

low a. certain standard which he fol~

lowed in his culling methods, they

were marked for disposal and later

were eliminated from the flock. One

thing he adhered to closely, was the

disposal of all ewes that showed any

tendency to disown their lambs. He

would by no means tolerate a. eWe

which would disown a lamb. A man

remarked to him one day, “Maybe she

would be all right next time.” “No,

if they will not own the first lamb,

they’re likely to be of the same mind

the next time. They lack the motherly

instinct,” he replied. He never over-

stocked. His quarters were ample for

a certain number, and no high prices

ever tempted him to exceed that num-

ber. Nor would he permit anyone to

pick his flock. When he was offered

a big price for a few choice ewes he

usually said, “No, I’ll do the picking

myself.”



When culling the flock, usually the

first to throw out are the old ewes.

It is not good policy to keep ewes be-‘

yond the sixth year. There is often





 





 





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old, but it is" nearly'alwa‘ys true that





they are then so far on" "the. decline ' '





that they must be sacrificed to low

prices. Usually at"six. they ' are in





. their prime as far as price is concern-





ed, and can be well replaced byyoung-

er ewes. It does not pay to keep a.





ewe till she must be said as a pelter, v





but it is too often done. Extremely

old“ ewes are far from good sucklers,

for, as the dry weather comes on they

fail to nourish their lambs properly.

The lambs become stunted and, when

weaning time comes on, there is a'

bunch-of uneven and unthrifty lambs

as a. result. Also, these old ewes grow

short, light wool which falls to give

profit. ,



These old ewes are easily taken

care of when the lambs are weaned.

Ewes at six years will pick up rapidly

when given a. fair chance and will

soon__be ready to ship. Of course,





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Better Stock is Being Bred in Northern Counties of the State.





when prices are low it is discouraging

to the owner to place much stress on

their care, but we should not view it

in this light. Follow the same meth-

ods when prices are low, as when high,

if you wish to have success in the end.



Oftimes several ewes in a flock be-

come wild and tricky. By dodging

about and keeping the rest of the flock

excited they are a. menace to the flock.

When the flock is brought to the barn

they usually hang behind and when

the majority are through the gate they

turn and draw the whole bunch back

to the field. Such ones should be mark-

ed as culls for sure.



Sheep men cull most closely when

prices are low, it seems, for larger

flocks are sacrificed on the market

than when prices are high. Yet, when

the owner sticks to what real flock-

maSters advise, then he will cull alike

at all times.

courage to stick to one’s convictions

when prices are high to throw out

ewes which at certain times would

bring unheard of prices at the public

sales. But if it pays the owner to sac-‘

rificecwes when prices are low in

order to adhere to judicious culling

principles, then it certainly does pay

to push them to the market when

prices are ‘high. .



No live stock responds more quick-

ly, and with greater certainty, to skill-

ful breeding, generous and liberal

feeding, careful and intelligent selec-

tion and culling, and faithful care,

than sheep, and anyone who is honest

in their convictions will admit that

no stock will deteriorate faster under

neglect than sheep. A few culls and

undesirables in a. flock will give a

flock a. bad appearance and will prove

a loss to the owner rather than a

profit. Better replace the culls with

specimens which are a. source of profit

and a more reputable appearance to

the entire flock.





 





Geese should not be picked late in

the fall during cold weather, or dur-

ing the spring breeding season. Most

of the fall picking is done on the

geese that are killed for market. Live

geese may be picked in the spring

after the breeding season, although

the picking of live geeseis decreasing

and most of the goose feathers ‘mar-

keted seem to come from the geese

which are being dressed for market.





It does take a. lot of all r





250 Stocker a n d Feeder

SteerSu 75 Stacker Heifers.

All good Colors and all de-

horned. Will sell for immed-

iate or delayed shipment.





GHAY’S RANCH, Merrittmch.





9 Miles West of Houghton Lake

on M-55





Brennan, Fitzgerald &

Sinks Jersey Farm

' Farmington, Mich.





Offer for sale or Lease. Bull Rulers Diplomat No.

234233. born Feb. 15. 1924. Wyn 4th prize at

Mich. State Fair. 1924, 16 in class. Dam, Ruhr.

Golden No. 290968. Reg. of Merit Record on twice

a day milking. 10,209 lbs. of milk; 565.61 lbs. fat.

average % fat. 5.64. Sire. Lady Togas Raleigh No.

190912, a son of Fountaines Raleigh No. 106374.





FINANCIAL KING JERSEYS '





For sale. young bull ready for service. also a few bun

calves, from Register of Merit cows. COLDWATEB

JERSEY FARM. Goldwater. Mich.





 





Jerseys For Sale

from B... of M. dams. Accredited

Parker. R. D. No. 4. Howell. Mich.





150m. 4 Bulls from B. ol‘ M. Cows. Chance to

select from hard 0:10. Some fresh. others bred

for tall freshening. Colon C; Lillie, Ooopersville. Mich.

Registered Jersey cows. due to freshen in

600d October, also registered bull. 10 months

old. Fred Schnoor. R. No. 4, Paw Paw, Mich.

Best of quality and 11





reading. Bulls

SWMS cows and heifers for sale. mowers.

STOCK FARM. Box D. Teonmloh, Mich.





WILDWOOD FARM





FOB BALE—nix splendid young cows and two hath

era. Alsotwobullcalvee.8mos.old. Allotbesl

milking ancestry. Boland I. Boiand. Tecumseh. Misha





 





 





 





FOR SALE





A few choice registered milking Shorthorn bull calves.

rom heavy producers and sired by our unde-

feated Count Eickford. Michigan State Fair Grand

Champion this fall. F. W. Sullivan, Augusta. Mich.





lionday. October 26th, 1925.

Shorthom Sale For cums, mm, "_ 3_

PETERS 8; SON, Eltle. Mich.





FOR SALE Shorthom Bulls, two 1-year—old.





one 2-year. BARR a CURTIS.

R. No. 2. Bay City, Mich.





FOR SALE Brown 8W8 311118. Immo-





ablo ago or younger. A. A.

Foldkamp. Manchester. Mich.





 





 





Feeders For Sale 3% smmmfifieg'gsifi

800—lb. average. Price 0 and 61/50 per pound. JOHN

FERWERDA. McBain, Mich.





HOCS





BIG TYPE BERKSHIRES





We offer the lst in Class Jr. Yr. Berkshire Boar at

Michigan State Fair. 1925. at $75. or 2nd in Class

at 860. just a little more than pork price. Chole-

immune. They are from one of the best herds in

the country. Improve your Berkshires with the um

kind of a herd s





conav “hills, New Haven, Mich.

D U R O C S





Brod Saws

Spring Boar:

, Shropshire Rams , ‘

LAKEFIELD FARMS. Olariuton. Ii...

Plum Creek Stock Farm is

Duroc Jerseys otl'ering .0... v... no...

spring boars for fall service. at reasonable prices.

Write for particulars, or come and see. F. J.

DRODT. Prop" Monroe. Mich.





DURocs racemes use:

BUSH 8808.. Romeo. Mich.





RICIS'I'IRED 0. I. c. OIL"



ready for breeding for rail .u'row. Bears to

service. Also some extra good sprint piss. both 93-

All stock shipped on approvaL FRED W. KENNEDY.

R. No. 2. Plymouth. Mich.





Isabella. and. West Michigan State Fairs.

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IE is 3. mm belief among our

f' sheep, breeders , here , that theyoon—

aditibn of the ewes in the fall has a

marked influence on the offspring of

the following spring, and it is univer-

s’ally accepted that uniformity in the





condition of the ewes means a lamb-





ing period that is short and satisfac-

tory. The ewes breed about the same

time and the lambs arrive uniformly

as to time, and besides this they come

stronger and are more able to look

out {or themselves without much at-

tention on the part of the caretaker.

‘The lambing season is really the time

when the sheep breeder is making his

harvest, hence, the attention given the

ewes at this time will have more or

less to do with the results next spring,

so more than usual attention should

be given the condition of the flock

now.



It is rather surprising to see how

limited an extent fodder crops are

used for breeding ewes. There is rape,

either the first or second crop, roots,

fall-sown rye, and, possibly the second

crop of clover that may be used to

good advantage to help out the pas-

ture, which often becomes very dry

along in the fall. The use of fall rye

in conjunction with some of the root

crops may be a new feature to some.

This fall, rye and roots are being fed

in a way that appears to me as being

a very practical method, and one that

I expect will produce satisfactory re-

sults. It is a practice here to let the

sheep run over the rye, especially in

the fall, as soon as there is enough

feed in it for them. It is believed

that it benefits the rye crop, when not

pastured too much, and it is certain

that it furnishes the sheep with a very

satisfactory green food at a time

when such food is scarce—M. C.





PURE-BRED SIRES MAKE GOOD.





(Continued from page 349).

class at the fair and they were the out-

standing grade animals present. Six

of the sires were also entered and

completed one of the best object les-

sons on the value of pure-bred sires

ever presented.



The county agent, Mr. A. C.‘ Lytle,

said, “The offspring of these sires rep—

resents the cream of our county’s live

stock. We have shipped in some high-

grade animals that beat these, but

never before have we raised any like





 





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ing the effects from this project will

be, but we are certain that it has defi-

nitely established Otsego county in

the dairy business. The next five

years will probably see this county

take its place as the leading Guernsey

county in‘the state.”



It was largely through Mr. Lytle’s

efforts that these animals were placed

most advantageously and that the bet-

ter sire idea is going across in this

northern Michigan county: In almost

every case the farmers have purchas-

ed sires of their own after the railroad

animal was removed. Over fifty pure-

bred sires have been placed in this

county during the past four years

.through the efforts of its county agent.





 





 





 





 





STON E FENCE POSTS.





ENCE posts of concrete and steel



are common on farms in every

part of the country, wherever suitable

wood is becoming scarce, but the use

of stone for this purpose is very rare

except in a limited portion of eastern

Pennsylvania. In that state, in North-

ampton county, which produces more

slate and slate products than any oth-

er equal area in the United States,

the use of slate fence posts is very

common. The slabs of slate that are

to be used for posts are out about

three inches thick, ten to twelve inch-

es wide, and the proper length. Four

or more oblong holes are punched

through the posts to receive the taper-

ing endS'of wooden fence rails. Aside

from the nature of the posts, such

fences are like many of the old fences

in the east. A few years ago a post

boring machine was part of the reg-

ular equipment on many farms. To-

day, due to the scarcity of wood, and

the growing popularity of woven wire

to take the place of rails, a boring

machine is seldom used—H. L. B.





LOOK WITH DISFAVOR UPON AG-

RICULTURAL EXPANSION.





HE resolutions of the newly creat-



ed State Council on Conservation,

adopted at Lansing, September 9, con-

tain a number of points of interest

and importance to Michigan farmers.

Indeed, the farmers were represented

at the conference and had a voice in

its proceedings. It was agreed that

“no public encouragement should be

given to projects for the early devel-





 





 





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sources now wasting on our wild





geod chances for success and the na-.

ture of this evidence should be on

public record.” “The development of

real prosperity upon the farms now

established should take precedence

over the opening of new farms,” runs

another resolution. “The continued

farming of low-grade or badly located

lands upon which success and pros-

perity must be dubious and difficult,

or impossible, should be definitely dis‘

couraged."



Again: “There should be a steady

tightening up in the state’s control

and supervision over real estate deal«

ings affecting wild lands." A study

should be undertaken looking to the

more economical use of the forage re-





lands. There are few who are famil-

iar with agricultural conditions in

Michigan who will disagree with these

conclusions. Farmers will continue to

have representation on the Conserva-

tion Council, which includes represent-

atives of all state organizations in any

way interested in conservation and

land utilization.——L. A. Chase.





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Veterinary.





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CONDUCTED BY DR. S. BURROWS.





Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib-

ers. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms of

each case and give. name and address of the writer. Initial.

only are published. When a reply by mail is requested the

servxce becomes private practice and 81 must be enclosed.





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Ropy Milk—Can you tell me what

makes separator milk ropy after it

stands twenty-four hours or longer?

F. C. B., White Cloud, Mich.—Slimy

0r ropy milk is caused by germs that

get into the milk after it has been

drawn from the cow. Carefully wash

the cow’s udder and sterilize all ves—

sels and utensils with which the milk

comes in contact.





Infectious Mammitis.—Our cows

have a contagious udder trouble, bag

swells and they give ropy, bad smell-

ing milk. Can they be cured? F. N.

H., Bad Axe, Mich—The milk from

such cows is unfit for human use, and

usually the disease is incurable. Have

you had your cows tuberculin tested?





S.tifle Lameness.—I have a six-year-

old mare that is stifled. Is there any

treatment that would help her? S. 8.,

Bad Axe, Mich—Clip off hair and ap—

ply one part powdered cantharides

and four parts lard twice a month.

Chronic stifle lameness is very often

incurable.



Ovarian Cysts—I have a two-year—

old heifer that comes in heat every

fifteen to seventeen days, has been

served several times, but fails to get

with calf. P. S. C., New Haven, Mich.

—She might be suffering from ovarion

cysts, if so, have them crushed. This

is work for your veterinarian or an

experienced dairyman.



Protruding Vagina—Our nine-month-

old sow is troubled with protruding

vagina, the parts extend out four or

five inches. She has not been bred.

Will it do to breed her? J. H., VVeb-

berville, MichfiDon’t breed her, but

promptly fatten and market her. Dis-

solve a teaspoonful of boric acid in‘

quarter pint of tepid water and apply

to sore parts three times a day.



Worms—«It is not unusual to find

one of our April lambs dead. The





seams use "Terese“ is Egon-m: '

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SHEEP

Breeding Ewes For Sale 2°”f...5t§t‘l..§?e‘t§“§?

FURNISS. Nashville, Mich.





 





 





 





H AMPSHIRES and LINCOLNS. 30 registered

rams, a few ewes and lambs. Farmers' prices.

H. C. SKINNER. Dimondale. Mich.



' and Delaine Rams. combining size,

Merino long staple, heavy fleeces, quality.

Write S. H. Sanders. R. No. 2, Ashtabula. Ohio.

OXFORDS rams. yearlings and ram



_ lambs. Registered. H. W.

MANN, Dansvnlle. Mich.





 





Oxfords---Registered Ram Lambs

JOE MURRAY. :2. No. 2. Brown City, Mich.





 





XF‘ORD RAMS~25 breeding. the best.

priced to 5011. Shipped on approval. Write



or phone. Wm. Van Sickle. Deckcrville, Mich.

Oxford ycarlinus and ram lambs.





F O r sa 1 6 registered. The kind that please.

Geo. T. Abbott. Palms. Mich. Tel. Dcckerville. 78-3.





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~ 10 yearling rams and s. few ram

ShrOPShlres lambs. priced at $20 to $30 each.





C. .l. THOMPSON, Rockford, Mich.





__SHROPSHIRES





___ Yearling Rams

Ram Lambs





Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich.





 





 





lamb does not show any symptoms of

disease before death, but we suspect

their death may be the result of too

many worms. 0. B. 1)., St. Johns,

Mich—You might try giving each lamb

a teaspoonful of turpentine in one

ounce of raw linseed oil. One dose

only.



Hollow Horn—Wolf in the Tail.—

What is hollow horn and wolf in the

tail? What are the symptoms and cure

for such diseases. Can calves be reg-

istered whose mother is only two-

thirds pure-bred, if she is served by

registered sire? Mrs. J. H. W., Rub-

ert, Mich—Hollow horn, also wolf in

the tail are imaginary diseases. In the

first place, it should be noted that the

horns of all animals of the ox tribe

are hollow. The usual treatment for

the supposed hollow horn, which con-

sists in boring the horns with a gimlet

and pouring turpentine into the open-

ings thus made, is not only useless

and cruel, but is liable to set up an

acute inflammation and result in an

abscess of the sinuses. Wolf in the

tail seems to be vaguely applied to»

various disturbances of the digestive

function, or to some disease which

is in reality in the stomach or bowels.





 





 

 

 

 





Registered Shropshire Sheep

For Sale. Eight head of 2—yr.—old ewes. four head

of 3-yr.—old ewes for $275. One 3~yr.—old ram $40. one

yearling ram, $35. C. V. Tracy. Ithaca. Mich.





Is Your Flock Worth 2c?





That’s all it will cost. you to learn about those

big. husky. Woolly Shropshire rams we, have. Best

blood lines. F. H. Knox & 00.. Portland. Mich.





. ' yearling rams and ram lambs.

IIegIsIered ShorpShlfe also ewes and ewe lambs.

C. LEMEN & SONS. Dexter. Mich.





OR EWES. write or

call on ARMSTRONG

Mich.





 





 





 





For Shropshire Rams





BROS., R. No. 3, Fowlerville,





 





- a car load. Twenty—five

ShropShlres Yin-rams. Twentyfive ram

lambs. Mn): vwcs. All ages. ARTHUR DODDS.





Lancer, Mich. Phone 419-].



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Iwm lake Stock Farm R.‘,,,,_ on:‘§_;§f‘ Mfg 5:93;?

lings. W. E. JENKS. Balding, Michigan.





For Shrapshire Rams and Ewes

write or call on Dan Booher, R. No. 4, Evsrt, Mich.

SHROPSHIRES areasrm’ rare:





H. GERBERICH, R. No. I, Marion, Mich.





 





 





Maples Shropshires 3.23.1.2"... ”it“: 1.23:





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A calf of the breeding you give would

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Additional Stock Ads on Page 353
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GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Tuesday, October 6.

Wheat. '





Detroit.——No. 1 red $1.58; No. 2 red

gig? No; 2 white $1.58; No. 2 mixed





Chicago.—-December $1.40%@1.40% ;

May $1.4oyg‘ghmoag.

.Toledo.—- eat 1.59@1.60.





Corn

Detroit—No. 2 yellow at 85c; No. 3

yellow 84c.

Chicago—December at 78%@78%c;

May 82 Ac.





 





 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Oats.

Detroit.-—No. 2 white 45c ; No. 3, 43:3.

Chicago.-——December 40@401;§c; May

44%0.





Rye

Detroit—No. 2, 880.

Chicago.——December at 83c; May at





8%c.

Toledo—87c.

Beans .

Detroit.-—-Immediate and prompt

shipment $4.65@4.70.

Chicago—Navy, fancy. $6.50;

kidneys $12@12.50.

New York—Choice pea at $5@5.60;

red kidneys $10.75@~11.40.

' Barley

Malting 67c; feeding 720.

Seeds





red





Detroit—October red clover $17.50;

timothy $3.80; December alsike 14.50;

Buckwheat

Detroit.———$1.85@1.90.



Hay





Detroit.—No. 1 timothy $23.50@24;

standard $23@23.50; No. 1 light clover

mixed at $23@23.50; No. 2 timothy $21

@22





N6. 1 clover mixed $20@21; No. 1

clover $18@20; wheat and cat straw

$11.50@12; rye straw $12.50@13.-





Feeds





Detroit—Bran at $30@32; standard

middlings $33; fine middlings at $34;

cracked corn $40; coarse cornmeal at

$38; chop $33 per ton in car-lots.



Small Fruit—Prices at Chicago



Plums—Michigan, 16-qt., Damsons,



1 50





Pears—Michigan Bartletts, per bu.

$2.75@3; bushels, Michigan Seckeis

and Sugar pears, fancy $1.75@2.

Peaches—Bushels, Michigan Elbert-

as $2.25@3.



Grapes—Michigan, 5—lb. baskets at

39@420; poor lots lower.





WHEAT





A let-up in speculative pressure, to-

gether with a slightly better tone in

foreign markets, caused a temporary

halt in the decline in wheat prices, but

the downward trend was resumed

again. Liverpool and Winnipeg also

have been weak, but our markets have

lost about five cents of their premium

over the world level. Primary receipts

throughout September have been

slightly above normal for that month

in spite of the small crop and the ten-

dency of producers to hold wheat.

Thus far, there has been no significant

let-up in the movement. \Vith a large

volume of unfilled flour orders, the de-

mand from mills has continued sufli-

cient to absorb good milling grades

at high premiums. Small clearances

for export are still being made every

week and probably one—third of our

exportable surplus has already been

disposed of. Canada is having consid-

erable difficulty in selling its wheat.

Canadian growers are pushing their

crop on the market rapidly, both

through private sale and through de-

liVeries to the pool. Canada could sup—

ply most of the needs of importing

countries up to January 1 and still

have plenty of wheat left to export

during the winter and after lake nav-

igation opens next spring. But, she

must meet some competition from each

of several other countries.





RYE





Rye has been a little firmer than

wheat. Since it is selling practically

on a feed grain basis, it tends to fluc-

tuate more in sympathy with corn than

with wheat. As the crop year pro-

gresses, rye will probably narrow its





, discount.

CORN





Corn prices had a fair rally after

two weeks of persistent decline, but

has lost most of the upturn again.

There is a possibility of a few weeks,

more of moderate primary receipts

before new corn begins to arrive. The

visible supply decreased again last





 





week. Prices have reached a level

where buyers have less reason for

holding off. A little export business

was reported recently, and fair sales

may be made during the fall undyin-

ter, with prices as ow as at present.

Further declines are likely to be small,

at least until the heavy movement of

new corn starts.





OATS '





Oats prices are showing more re-

sistance to declines than any other

grain. Primary receipts have dropped

off sharply from the August peak, but

are up to normal for this season of

the year. Demand is fairly broad, and

additions to the visible supply are

small. Prices are low as compared

with other grains and hay, and moder-





 





MARKETS BY RADIO.





 





THOSE having radio sets can



receive daily market reports

and weather forecasts by listen-

ing in each week day at 2:15,

eastenn standard time, for the





reports of the Detroit Free

Press, Station WCX, and at

10:25, 12:00, and 4.00 for the





reports of the Detroit News Sta-

tion over WWJ.‘ You can also

get daily weather reports at

12:00 'M. o’clock over WKAR,

Michigan State College, East

Lansing, and at 10:00 WREO,

Lansing.





 





 





 





ate sales for export are helping

clear commercial channels. The east

may not be as heavy a. buyer of oats

as usual, but the south and southeast

will probably take an abnormally

large quantity this fall and winter.





EEDS





The trend of timothy seed prices is

upward and prices are already consid-

erably higher than a year ago. The

movement in important producing sec~

tions is active, and 75 per cent of the

crop was estimated to have left grow-

ers’ hands by September 22. Red clo-

ver seed was marked slightly higher

last week under an active demand.





1.





-' BEANS-*0.





_ .. ‘ gradual; The heavy surplus of'stomge

Bean prices are quoted at. $4.700 a ‘Will act as a check on o e

4.75 for C. H. P. w s i’. o. b. Mich‘ tigxgisstic dealers. v M’-





igan shippin points. Demand is fair

from the At antic seaboard and the

south, but is dull in the middle west.





Chicago—Eggs,

extras 48@49c; ordin firsts 28 '

34c; miscellaneous 38ggsc;dirties 22 :





Owing to weather damage, pickage is ,28c; checks 22 27c. Live 11] ,

heavy, and shipments have been de- ens 25c; springrs 22 c; £32333:

iayed. It is generally believed that 16%0; ducks 27c; geese 70; Write,“





prices are not far from a. merchandis-

ing level. So many buyers are waiting

for a chance to buy at $4.50 that if

that level were reached, the market

probably would not stay there long.





POTATOES ,





The potato market shOWs scarcely

any change'from a week ago. Ship-

ments are gaining rapidly, averaging

clase to 1,000 cars daily. rices at

Chicago weakened slightly, but the

general level is still 5 c to 1 above

last year. Northern round w ites, U.

S. No. 1, were quoted at $1.70@1.90

per 100 pounds, sacked, in the Chi-

cago carlot market. .





BUTTER





The butter market had a all ht set-

back at the close last week w en the

buying slowed down as the 50-cent

line was crossed at Chicago. Light

receipts, continued falling off in pro-

duction, and heavy withdrawals of stor—

age butter all favor the market. how-

ever, and no drastic declines are in

view. Consumption apparently has

no reaction to the prices so far, but

might ease off at any higher costs.

Present prices for butter-fat are so

attractive that a. strong effort will be

made to keep up the flow of milk.





200 pound. ~



Detroit—Eggs, fresh candied a d

graded 38@43c; storage 31®34c. Li ,0

poultry, heavy springers 270; light do.

21@220; heavy hens 28@29c light do.

18@190; roosters 15®16¢' geese 18c;

ducks 24@250; turkeys 2 c.





WOOL-





Wool prices are stronger than 1a

week ago. Domestic markets are tak-

ing part of their strength from abroad

as all foreign markets are firm. Con-

tinental countries and Japan are the

most active buyers in Australia. where

sales of new clip.wools are starting

without any ssg‘in values. in spite

of slight advances recently, prices at

Boston are below a full parity with

world markets when the tariff is con-

sidered. Since the goods trade is

healthy. conditions favor a further ad-

vance in this country. Western grow-

ers who stored their wools at country

points, or shipped on consignment to

the seaboard, continue to ask more

than the present market. Michigan

fleeces are quoted at Detroit at 45c

for three-eighths, uarter and half-

blood combing and elaine.





DETROIT CITY MARKET .





Barn feeding has already started in Trading was pnly fairly active. Of-

some sections where pastures faded farings were (1th liberal. The supply

out early. of ial apples was larger, and well-col-





ored stock moved well.





Prices on 92-score creamery were:

were too hard and





Chicago 4914c; New York 50%0. Fresh

creamery in tubs sells for 45@48c per

pound in Detroit.





POULTRY AND- £665





A firm, rapidly advancing market

has carried egg prices to new high

levels for the season. Receipts are

on the decline, and cooler weather and

the higher costs of fresh stock are

stimulating a more liberal use of stor-

age eggs. Withdrawals at the four

markets have even run ahead of last

year in the past week. The advance

has been most extreme on high-grade

eggs, those coming into competition

with storage eggs meeting with slow

sale. The proportion of fine eggs

should increase from now on, and ad-





Most pears

green to have ready

sale. Movement of cantaloupes was

slowed up by poor quality, while there

was little call for watermelons.



Good curly spinach was cleaned up

qmckly. Firm, well-colored tomatoes

moved readily. Lettuce had little call

and only a fair amount of other greens

was wanted. Cabbage, squash, pump-

kins and peppers and egg plant were

listed as slow sellers. Buyers were

not taking many potatoes. A fair

amount of poultry was offered and

was disposed of mostly at retail. .



Apples $1@2.25 b ' crabapples $2@

2.50 bu; grapes $3. 06135 bu; canta-

loupes $1.25@2.50 bu; watermelons at.

75c@$1 bu; pears $1-75@3 bu; peach-

es 2.50 bu; beets 75c@$1 bu; wax

beans $2.50@4 bu; carrots $1@1.25 a

bu; cabbage 60@75c bu; lima beans





 





 





Live Stock Market Service





Tuesday, October 6.





40@50c qt; cucumbers, slicers, $1@2

bu; gherkins $4@5 bu; leaf lettuce 40

@500 bu; green onions 50@60c dozen

bunches; dry onions $1.50@1.75 a bu;





'





ter ,5q bu;h c7e51er@y$125b@6’0c dozen, 'win-



. s uas c u; sweet corn 15



BUFFALO eggessoég.’g%@8-25. odd 101’- Of natives @250 dozen; quinces $2.50@3 bu; peas



Hogs . . . $5 bu; eggs, retail 55@70c a dozen;



Receipts 7,985. Market is closing DETROIT hens, retail at 32@35c lb; springers,

steady. Heavy $13@13.25; medium at Cattle. wholesale 23@30c; retail 28@35C;l

$12.75@13.25; other grades at $13.16@ Receipts 370. Market is Opening ducks. wholesale 26@28c; retail 28@‘





13.25; packing sows and pigs $11@

11.50.





Cattle.

Receipts 125. Market steady.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 600. Best lambs $15.75;

ewes $6@8.

Calves.





Receipts 100. Top $14.50;





CHICAGO





Hogs

Receipts 21,000. Market is uneven;

light weights mostly steady; medium

and heavy weight butchers and pack-

ing sows strong; slaughter pigs are

uneven; big packers inactive; bulk of

better 240-350-Ib. butchers at $12.25@

12.60; packing sows at $10.50@10.90;

strong weight killing pigs largely at

$12@12.40.

Cattle





Receipts 11,000. Market, buyers are

slow picking over; strong and steady.

in market type; quality very plain;

most fat feeders of value to sell at

$11 down; heavy speculative are held

above $15; lot or so at $16; medium

supply of Monday’s held; fresh supply

of western grassers; about 400 head

packers’ and feeders’ supply; well

cleaned up; vealers fairly active at

$13.50@14; to outsiders $14.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 21,000. Market, lambs gen-

erally steady; sheep strong to uneven-

ly higher; good fat native lambs $15

@1550; few to city butchers $15.75@

15.85; nothing done on fat’rangers;

several strain feeding lambs $143156)

15.25; few at $15.50; good fat range





culls $5.





es ...........

Fair lambs .....





Buck lambs .





slow; about steady; looks like lower 30C; live squabs “'25 pair; dressed





close. 1’0“”er ,henS 35@400; springers 35@.‘

Good to choice yearlings 400' br01lers 450.

dry-fed ............... 10.50@11.25 GRAND RAPIDS





Best heavy steers, dry-fed -9.50@10.25





. ‘ There was a stron er und ‘ '

gagdgwglght bu§h§1§m 6286]) $38 onion prices in Grfnd Ragi-dgnethli:

H1 63 1591551211111 9 ers 525(0) 625 week as a result of shippers bidding

Limhtybdfcher: C ers 4.25% 4-75 $1.75@2 per cwt. at the farms for the

Begt c ---------- 5-00@ 5-75 crop. Quotations here ranged at $1@

B s h ows -------------- 4-25 4-75 1.15 bushel, equal to $2@2.30 cwt. P6-

Cu 0 er COWS ----------- 3-00@ 3-50 tatoes were steady and fruits were

Comnmon COWS ---------- 225% 3-75 unsettled. Prices were: Peaches $2

an' ersb .ll . - d - :1; d ----- 5-00 6.25 @350 bu; potatoes 85c@$1 bu; apples,

H 0108 bul S. 1% fi 450@ 5-50 fall varieties 50c@$1 bu; winter $].@

Stea‘kyb 3103113- “ S ~50@ 4-50 2 bu; juice grapes $2@2.50 bu; pears

Fwd u S ------------- 6'00@ 7-25 mostly $1.50 bu; few best at $1.75@

ngclfggs 500% 6.75 2; carrots, cabbage, beets, turnips,

Milkers and springers. . . .$45-00@ 85.00 bagas, tomatoes and corn 50@65c bu;





pezppers 50@750 bu; cauliflower $1@





Veal Calves. 5 bu; celery 15@40c dozen; head





Receipts 438. Market 25c@$110Wer. ”lettuce 50@75c box; Hubbard squash

Best .................. ...$14.00@16.00 75c bu; beans, white $4.10 per cwt:

Others ....... 4.00@14.00 Eedtsfiémtléflsg cm; whea§0$1.35 cwt:



u er— a c ; eggs 0; poultry,



Sheep and Lambs fowls 17@24c- s rin are t 1 2 -



Receipts 3,789. Market steady. . ’ p .g a 7@ 50’

t .. ....... $15.25@15.60 ducks 18c, pork 18c, veal 17@180.





 





 





......... 13.00@14.00 ~

Fair and good sheep 6.50@ 7.25 COMING L_IVE STOCK SALES.

Culls and common . ..... 2.00@ 4.00

Light and common . . . . . . 8.50@10.75





Holsteins.





Oct.’23.—Howeu Sales 00., of Living—

ston county, Guy Wakefield, Fowler-





. . 10.00@ 14.50





essences.-





Hogs.

Receipts 1,693. Market is steady to





100 lower. “119' Mich. -_



Roughs $ 11.50 Shorthorrw- _. . -.



Mixed and yorkers , 13.00 Oct. 15.+T. E. Lsmoreaux, Hadley, .



its. muesli??? . J‘i‘é H a ' is e s... ' ‘

ea 88 on... 5:31”. {33...}... a , . ' cl.” 1‘" g, S : 58m . ’ , Rm,



P188 and light lights. 0 o o e 12075@12086 Mich: ' y . ’7 ‘ . 1%





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Woodman, County Agricultural Agent.





IV 3333’ ‘s - arger“ e‘ .g-b‘r'eaking in

duetry in din country. fame concerns





now engaged in the business are being

interviewed‘to find whether they are

able to break eggs in competition with

the oriental product. ‘



When the tariff act of 1922' went

into effect there were only two firms

breaking eggs in the United States.

In 1921 importations of frozen eggs

reached 50,000,000 pounds. Now, un-

der a six cent tariff the business or

egg breaking has developed into an

industry of considerable size, one firm

breaking 15,000,000 pounds and anoth:

er 6,000,000 pounds last year. But

most of the egg-breaking firms are do-

ing business on a cost-plus basis,

which is not considered satisfactory‘

from either the producer or consumer

standpoint.



It is the contention of those engag-

ed in the industry that the tariff

should be raised so that the American

demand can be supplied'by domestic

producers, thereby largel increasing

the market foreggs pro need in this

country. .





 

 





 





 





MORE ABOUT THE BEAN cnop.





Muskogon County. 5





This year Muskegon county planted

a large acreage of. beans, probably.

ten per cent larger than the 1924 acre-'

age. In spite of the drouth, growing‘

conditions throughout the summer

were quite favorable and all indica-

tions pointed to a bumper crop.



With the rains of late August came

also a severe attack of blight in prac-

tically all sections of the county. An-

thracnose is also prevalent in some

fields. The spread of these diseases

was somewhat checked by more fav-

orable weather during the early part

of September. .



Harvesting conditions were not fav-

orable during early September, and as

a result the early pulled beans had

to be handled many times in the field.

Some fields which were pulled later

were gotten into the barn without any

rain whatever.



Present indications are that the bean

crop of the county will be only from

fifty to seventy per cent of a normal

crop, although probably somewhat

larger than the 1924 crop. The qual-

ity of the crop is, however, consider-

ably better than that of last year.—

Carl H. Knopf, County Agent.



Sanilac County.



As to the beans in our county, would

say from twenty-five to forty per cent

of the beans have been pulled and

have been lying out in all this late

wet weather. These beans are dam-

aged from fifteen to forty per cent.

The other beans which have not been

pulled are standing up very well, but

due to other weather conditions pre-

vious to the wet weather, they are af-

fected with blight and anthracnose,

this resulting in damage to the beans

now standing, from fifteen to twenty-

five per cent.



We had a larger acreage this year

than usual, but due to the damage

through weather conditions, I do not

think there will be any more beans

than the previous year.—John D. Map-

tin, County Agricultural Agent.



Huron County.



I have delayed replying to your

bean inquiry of September 18, be-

cause I wished to get a few more

facts before making any statements.

Of course, the information we are fur-

nishing you in this letter is based en-

tirely on estimation, yet I believe it

is fairly accurate for the county.



The total number of acres in Huron

county this year is about 70,000. This

may be a little high, but I fully be-

lieve it is very close to our actual

acreage. The average yield will run

from ten to twelve bushels per acre.



About twenty per cent of our crop

was pulled and in piles previous to

these heavy rains. Some of these

beans were damaged slightly, but the

majority were damaged badly. We

figure that the average pick will run

aroung eight pounds, on this twenty

per cent that was pulled previous to

the rains. Our beans that were not .

pulled were damaged very light. If

no further heavy rains interfere, the

part of the crop being harvested now

will average from two to five pound

pick. About seventy per cent of our

crop is pulled and about fifty per cent

is either thrashed or in barns and

stacks. .



Blight and anthracnose both dld con-

siderable damage to us this year.

Beans did not fill well, especially the

early plantings, and we know that our

growers are going to be disappointed,

when they thresh. I think it is safe

to say that less choice hand-picked

beans will be shipped-from this coun-

ty than were shipped last year.——David





Oceans County. .





The bean crop in this section is





 

 

   





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. r.',while other: figmlo be in

good. condition“ it is impossible for

me to say‘at this time Just what per-





   





cen e of a pick there will be, but it

will epend largely on the amount of

rainfall in the next few days.—Carl H.





 





 





Hemstreet, County Agricultural Agent.





Radio Notes





PEPPING UP BATTERIES“





 





 





 





 





 





D 0 not use any solution claimed to

charge storage batteries instant-



ly, or even in a few minutes. Such

solutions will not take the place of a

battery charger, and may often .

a good battery.



Remember that a storage battery is

just what the name implies. You put

electricity into it. The battery stores

it up and you can draw it from the

battery as you need it. You've got- to

put electricity into the thing if you

expect to get any out. There’s no

electricity in a bottle dope.





 





 





‘ hear .England’this winter. So far

as we are concerned,

mean a thing. We, heard, a plenty of

England this summer when she ran

the price of crude rubber up on us.

Now we know that the message from

England meant that we could pay her

war debt back to ourselves. Every

time we hear from England it costs

us money. The first station that even

sounds like England will find at least

one radio fan disconnecting his bat-

tery and going to bed before he’s

stuck for a bill of some kind.





LISTEN FOR THE SCORES.





Y OU’RE going to take in some

mighty good foot ball games this



year, even if you don’t go to games

in person. Dozens of broadcasting





 

 

 

 





 

 

 





 





stations all over the country are go— Cardonl





ing to broadcast important games,

play by play, and you can get in on

them without paying any admission

or war tax. There have been lots of

ways devised for beating the war tax,

but so far as we know, radio is the

most honest of all of these.





 





 





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DRESSED POULTRY

DRESSED CALVES

DRESSED HOGS

ROAS PING PIGS

TAME RABBITS





TO

DETROIT B E E F 00.

DETROIT, HIGH.

36 years in the commission business in the same

location and under the some management. 3250,-

000.00 Capital and surplus. Prompt returns.

Write for free shippers guide.





Hdmesfilu'we (30.2429 Riopelle SI.





Commission Merchants. Dressed Beef. Hogs, calves,

923% Live A D ed Prowl-lone, etc. Correspon-





. one 2 years old. one yearling, four spring lam





Seed Racks





_, solve the seed corn ques-

tion. Best rack made to

dry. store and test seed

. corn in. Made of No. 9

galvanized wire. 29 inchm

square. hold 190 ears each

and fold fiat.

Write for catalog.

8088 V. RICHARDS

North Manchester, 1nd.





Eta—Small consignments from

producers in your territory bring

NOW. Paoapt re-

alms elwayl. Refer to Dun or r street.

Ship us your next cue. ZENITH BUT-

TER (s £00 00.. I70 Duane St. New York. N. Y.





SHEEP

For Sale Registered Hampshire Rams





 





4 E828.





vory attractive prices





be. All

good stock at reasonable prices. F. W. SULLIVAN,

Auguste. Mleh.





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Regulated Hampshire Buns

W. CABLER. Ovld, Mich.



R AMBOUILLET RAM8.. Have a few choice large

yearlings from heavy shearing ram. Priced right.



Few ewes later. all registered. H. W. HART. Green-



viIIe. Mich.. R. No. 2. 'Phone Gratton. mm.





20 BAMBOUILLET EWEB, also choice rams, year-

linxs and 2-year-olds. Von Homeyer strain of

breeding. E. M. MOORE, Mason. Mich.





FOR SALE—200 head of good. big breeding ewes.

all ages. Some yearlings and 2-year-olds. $8

per head. C. B. Siooer, Box 2M, Clinton, Mich.





Cotswolds, Lincolns. Tunis Kara-

Rm‘ For Sale kale: and 0mm. All record-





ed. Papers with each. L. R. Kuney, Adrian, Mich.





HORSES





breeding.

sell. W.





best of

price! to





 





FRO; I W , :radio"_msnu.ra" elm.

assured lethal: we’ll be able to “b

that doesn’t houses





CORN KING “'3





acres

ml“. mu. ”ma:

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. Low price 82.800 for quick sale. Part 0

E. A. Strout. Farm Agency. Inc.. Lakeview. mafia“





POULTRY AND FRUIT FARM—Fine 80 acres.



loam soil. iust one-half mile out 0: Kurt on



Line III-20. Good six-room house. fair baseman

line orchard. and adapted for all kinds of



fruit. or for the raising of chickens and other nullity.



Price 81.800, 3500 down and any reasonable time on



the remainder. Writs W. F. Umphrey. mm. Mich.





WE HAVE FOR SALE a farm of 90 Act” of mm

good soil which can be bought cheap K Mensa:





once. Also loo-acre farm for sole. with

and good buildings. Address Calhoun SteEIzOdBank.

Homer. Michigan.





FARM-97 acres along West Grand Traverse 3:5.

Emcee. cattle and form implements. Fred Heimf

. B. No. 2. notions Bay. Mich.





W

WANTED FARMS





berries.

barn with cement floor.





 





 





WANTED—Forms. 40 to 100 . ’

of Detmlt. Have some city acres “will? 50 miles





Write full descrip

Ava, “mm-ad price to Win. Milne. 9501





WANTED—To hear from

proved land for sole. 0.





WANTED. to rent.

Experienced farmer.





 





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Howiey.BeIdwin.Wis.





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HAY AND SI RAW





BAY—Timothy. clover and mixed—also alfalfa. Qual—

ity unnamed. Ask for dell .

Gem Compenv. Jackson. MEI?“ m M D





HAY FOR SALE. in car load lots. Write for

D. H. Young. R. No. 2. Sault Ste. Marie. Mich?!”-





 





 





 





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MARL nxcsvuvmo. 40¢ per yard. in 1000 yd. lots

within a radius of 50 miles of Three Rivers. Feath 3

stone 8: Hull. Constantine. Mich. er





[A353] W00? KNItTTbING mYARN forl sell; from menu-

rer a grea arga . amp as ree. 3.

Bartlett. Harmony. Maine. 9 A.





 





 





APPLES FOR SALE—Choice winter varieties. Ernest

J. Clark. R. No. 4. Shelby. Mich. Oceans County.





PET STOCK





I SPECIALIZE IN RAISING FERRJCTS—3O years’

experience. October prices. males. $3.25 each: females.

$3.60 each. One dozen. $36. Yearling females, spe-

cial rat catchers. $5.00 each. Yearling males., $4.00.

Will ship C. O. D. Instruction book free Lovi

Fernsworth. New Inndon. Ohio.





OOON. skunk. fox. wolf. rabbit hounds cheap.

sent on 10 days trial. "0. C. 0.".

Oconeo. Ill.





 





Broke

Kennels.





 





FOR SALE—fox. coon and skunk hounds. five months





 





old. Also one rabbit hound. two years old. John

Atdiison, R. No. 3. Harrisville. Mich.

PEDIGREED Airedale puppies. eight weeks' old.





sound. healthy stock. priced right. Superior Kennels.

Plnconning. Michigan.





 





FERRETS—speclalizlng in small trained rattan or

hunters. Information free. Then. Sellers. New

London. Ohio.





BEAGLE PUPS four months old. Write for descrip-

tion and price. M. B. Noble, Saline. Mich.





HUNDRED HUNTING HOUNDS cheep. Fur linden.

Catalogue. Kaskeskennels. F 183. Herrick. IlL





FOR SALE—Registered Collie puppies. natural heel<

era. Silvercmst Kennels. Gladwin. Michigan





COLLIE PUPS~—nnmral heelers. $15 and 520. Henry

Lou-on. R. No. 1. Ann Arbor, Mich.





 





 





 





 





GERMAN POLICE PUPB FOR SALE-Prices reason-I

able Dr. R. E. Bergman. Cassopolis. Mich.





PEDIGREED WHITE COLLIE PUPPIEH. Former!

prices. John Teller. Honda-son, Mich.





FOR SALE—Black 8; tan hounds. males 0. femal

$7.00. Harold Blackmer. Butternut. MiclI.1 “





REG. HOUNDS. farm raised. broke d . WW

E. Davison. Freesoil. Mich. m m





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HOM’ESI’UN TOBACCO: Chewing. live lb.. 81.50: m

82.50: smoking. the lb.. $1.25: ten. 82: cigars. 82 for

60, guaranteed, pay when received. pipe free. My

Carlton. Maxons Mills. Kentucky.





LEAF TOBACCO—Chewing. 5 lbs.. $1.50; ten. $2.50;

smoking. 5 lbs.. $1.25: ten. :2. Guaranteed Pay

when received. Pipe free. Albert Ford, Paducah, Ky.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





FARMERS ATTENTION!





We have some extra good Percheron and Belgian

Stallions of size and duality. Into-national A M

Fair prize winnm. If your locality is I.- led of I

on. you can one on out



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d elicited. Ref. Wayne County I Home Savings

Bank. Bradstreet. Detroit. Mich. Cherry 7664





good let-sire

breeding association—service fee plan.

STEVENS Co.. Inc" Breckenridge. Ileh.





 





 





CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING





This classified advertising department is established for the convenience of Michigan ins-marl.

Smell advertisements bring best results under classified headings.





lug. miscellaneous articlu for sale or exchange.





at classified rates. or in display columns at commercial ratea

insertion. on orders for ion than four inaction; for four or more

consecutive insertions 6 cents a word. Count as a. word each abbreviations. initial or number. No

display type or illustrations admitted. Remittances must accompany order.



Luvs stock advertising has a separate department and





Rates 8 cents a word. each





charge I0 words.





Try it for want ads and for adver-

Poultry advertising will be run in this department





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FOB BENT—100 some: fine loll: good buildings:

pend road: 21 miles from Detroit. 8500 yearly,

Samuel Robin. 6804 West Fort St” Domlt. Mich.





 





DANDY 20-ACILE FARM—«$1,650 with Horses. 4

Cows and Calves. hens, farm implements, em. assur-

ing immediate returns and comfortable winter‘s liv-

ing; on main pike, 1/; mile village; good strong soil.

stream-watered pasture. variety fruit: good 5-room

house and burn: views of $8,000 to $40,000 farms;

unable handle. low price $1,650 takes all, less than

half cash. Details pg. 40 Illue. Catalog farm bar—

gains throughout many states. Free. Strout Farm

Agency. 205—BC. Kresge Bldg. Detroit. Mich.





 





BO. MICH. FRUIT FARM—~20 Acres Apples. 400

Charles. peers. plums. peaches. 1% acres posted

gaps. 3 acres hen-lee: apples in full bearing 1.600-

sprlng watered. almost adjoining state road: excel-

lent shipping nmrket nearby: 6-ro0m house. all nec-

essary farm bldgs. Team. cows. poultry. pawn

sprayer. binder. other machinery. hay corn. oats potatoes.

eta. included at low price $11,500, but cash. Should

pay for imelf in two years. Clo II. Warren. I:

W. ghephel'd SI... Hartford. Mich.





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Chewing 5 lbs. $1.50: 10.

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TOP PRICES PAID for live fryer-s or broilers we'l ~

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TRIP TO CALIFORNIA. Get three good rc-

sponsible farmers to go with you to inspect Californm

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selling: organ-

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