, 9.. “z: $3.3?15. 31.00 FIVE YEARS ‘3. 00 ONE YEAR 95”]: n \ “942342232; ., V a, 1925 DECEMBERS, 9 MICH., SATURDAY ’ (HT DETR «91 No. 23 "VOL. CLXV. Whole Number M ail" This Coupon for New Bulletin dvice When corn is high in price you sell some of it and buy protein feeds to balance the ration. When corn is low in price you are tempted to feed it with oats and cut down on protein. 13 this good reasoning? Does the price of com and oats change their feeding value? Can a steer make gains as cheaply on one pound of protein as on three pounds per day? Will a dairy cow return as much profit over feed cost on a 10% protein ration as she Will on ration containing 20% protein? Experience answers "NO. Illinois Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 159, says that cows on corn silage, timothy hay, clover hay and ground corn required 71.9 lbs. digestible nutrients to produce 100 lbs. milk. When Corn Gluten Feed was added they needed only 54.5 lbs. digestible nutrients to make 100 lbs. milk. Sell some of your grain and buy Corn Gluten Feed to balance your rations. You will get better results er 100 lbs. of feed. . You will save grain—make more money—and have etter conditioned animals. Good Practice Beats Theory The shbject of “Protein Variety" is interesting for discus- sion, but it doesn't mean very much to the practical feeder who knows his own animals. The feed lot test is the only one that fixes feed values. Let's stop theorizing anditalk about what we actually know. You need protein to balance your corn, oats and roughage. The rest and safest is the protein of corn as supplied by Com Gluten Fee . A single ton gives you the protein equivalent of nearly three tons of whole grain. , You get your protein "variety" in alfalfa, clover and other leguminous rou ges. So when you feed your grain and roughage, balanced with Com Gluten Feed, you get both variety and balance. Your animals will prove it to you. Tell us what kind of stock you are feeding 'and what home grown feeds you are giving them. _ We will go into the matter m a sermble way and suggest a ration that will make you more money. But whether you write to us or not, you should feed Corn Gluten Feed—for safety—for economy—for larger profits. Y‘oucan buy Com Gluten Feed from your feed dealer or any manufacturer. Associated Corn Products Manufacturers Feed Research Department Hugh G. Van Pelt, Director 208 South La Salle St., Chicago. "I. After M. Briana had given up his . cently took place in England. efforts to form a new French cabinet: Senator Paul, Donner was. asked by President Downer . to vtorm'the cab: ‘ met. His pianwil be to increase tats such to meet the financial needs or the . French government ' ' The registration of the new oneLthou- sandth international agreement was made with the League of Nations re- A- new tax reduction bill, which is to be presented to congress, cuts $336.- 236,000 from the nation’s income each year. One of the shortest murder trials re- It last- ed four minutes, and Sam Johnson, 'twenty years old, was sentenwd to death for the murder of 4a young woman. . A London physician says that peopl generally eat about twenty times the ambunt of salt that is good for them. Queen Alexandria, mother of King George V, of England. died November ' 20, at eighty-one years of age. Clara Morris, one of the most be- lovedr actresses in the history of the American stage, died recently at the age of seventy-nine. . recently. It was a train of nine loco- motives, headed for Cuba, the first of Over one hundred newspaper report‘ ers were sent to Columbus, Ohio, to witness “Red" Grange, famous football star of the Illinois University team, play his last game of college football. Eighty thousand people saw that game. A man in Massachusetts paid the Mission of the Holy Ghost $7,500 for “eternal life;” but, since the leader of this mission has died, this man has ltpstkfaith, and is demanding his money so . A British submarine, M-l, which fail- ed to come up after it disappeared in the water on the English coast, has not been located. The opening of the coffin of King Tutankhamen, in Egypt, revealed an inner human-shaped coffin of solid gold. Governor “Ma" Ferguson, of Texas, set a new record when she pardoned 1,112 prisoners on Thanksgiving. The state of Tobasco, in Mexico, has issued a. decree .that priests of all creeds must marry, in order to exer- cise the duties of their office. This is causing many Catholic priests to leave the state. The floor collapsed in the old home which was New york. A Shamokin, Pennsylvania, citizen need not worry over the hard coal on Crosby street, hard coal in his own back yard. The soft coal miners are now threat- ening to strike for better wages in the Jacksonville coal district, according to John L. Lewis, chief of the United Mine Workers. ‘ * Sixteen persons were killed as the result of an explosion of an ammuni— tion store at Ahwaz, Teheran, Persia. Three real estate men’ were arrested in Florida after a mob of more than 150 Negroes stormed their office be— cause of perpetrating What may be one of the most daring real estate frauds in Florida. William Z. Foster, former head of the Communist Party in this country, Burns with Intense BL UE FLAME No ashes. smoke. nor sparks. Safe, convenient. an practical. Keeps water in stock tank at the proper temperature m zero l weather for only $6 cent an hour. Ninth success ul year. 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The opening of the King Tut coffin. in Egypt, revealed that famous old- time‘king to be a boy. There is an endeavor to impeach Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, governor of Texas, because of unseeming action with reference to some state contracts. Michigan State College has an in crease of 434 students over last year, or an eighteen per cent increase. The total enrollment is 2,324 students, of which 1,662 are men and 653 women. Building construction in this country for the first ten months of 1925 has exceeded the total for 1924, and has broken records in most sections of the country. Twelve and one-half cents out of every dollar of the combined income of the American people went into tax— es, according to a recent investigation. In 1913, 6.9 per cent was the total tax rate, thus making the present rate nearly double that of the pre—war time. Live tissue taken from the heart of - a chicken in 1913 is still growing. It has to be pared down, nourished, and irrigated every day. The Rockefeller J Institute is keeping this tissue alive. \ cently. The league ofllcials are highly . . pleased with this remarkable record. An unusual train left Edystone, Pa., ' which was the only one under steam. , of former President James Monroe, strike, as he found an outcropping of i xv raw www‘i '0?" HRH-Fl“ R'sz‘ ‘- \M .‘r <-—. ‘k/J! ' MICHIGAN ' '- VOLUME om f interested in geese raising, but think geese are hard to raise. I find it easy, and fun, to raise them. Now is ,the time to select good, healthy, well-built geese, as nearly everyonewho has geese to dispose of likes to get rid of them before‘the bad weather sets in. Anyone who intends to get geese for breeding purposes, , should take especial care to get the well-built, healthy birds. If one; wants to raise geese for profit, he should get those of the big Toulouse type, because they do not eat any more, and require no more care than the smaller kinds; and they weigh more when it comes time to sell them. I generally buy geese for breeding purposes as early as possible, and from as near full-blooded and pedigreed stock as I can get. I always try to get a gander that weighs from two to three pounds more than a goose. I never get a crippled goose or gander for breeding purposes. When you look at the picture, you may wonder how many geese and gan- ders I had to get a big flock like that. D wgzxax aLlé’": 15",” 1843. - . A Practical Journal for the Rural Family MICHIGAN SECTION TIIE CAPPER FARM PRESS g A Cost for the Geese . , ' ' Tée Raising of Geese 25 Easy and Profitaé/e NDOUBTEDLY some people are . By Mrs. Antonie Lindercr I never keep more than three geese and one gander, and can raise more than ' those who have a half-dozen geese and ganders. When there are many ganders in a flock, they do noth- ing but fight. 'I bought three geese and one gander in 1914, from which I , . never raised less than fifty goslings. Two geese laid two and three times in a year, and their eggs were nearly all fertile. In 1918 my geese laid 103 eggs, of which ninety-four hatched. I lost some of the goslings when they were small, but saved eighty-eight of them. Mrs. Linderer’s Flock of Geese is Started with Three Geese and One Gander Each Year. QUALITY RELIABILITY SERVICE N UMBER XXIII I sold some for‘ breeding purposes, and the rest I dressed and shipped to Chi- cago, for which I received thirty cents per pound. I have been raising geese for twen- ty-four years, and would not like to , be without them. I enjoy taking care of them, and the money I make from them comes in handy. I have noticed in some of the farm papers and magazines, inquiries on what could be the matter with goslings that are weak in the legs, and that sit around a few days or weeks, and then die. The trouble is caused by nothing more than the lack of sand or gravel, which they should have at all times. I had some experience with this trou- ble, but I knew that, by watching the goslings carefully, I could easily find the cause of the ailment without help from experts. A young goose makes a good holiday dinner. Some people like them be- cause of their tender, juicy meat and low price. But, as it is Pilgrim style to have a big turkey for Thanksgiving, we had better not forget to raise the good old-fashioned turkey, too“ Story of a High Producing Man A Little 0 many stories are told of the ton-litter hogs, of heavy-fleeced sheep, and of grand champion steers, of high-producing cows, of high- producing corn, or of high-producing grain, that I thought it time to tell the story of a high-producing man—a man who has accomplished the unusual and noteworthy, a man whose ingenious- ness of mind outdoes the sinewy mus- cles of his back in his business of farming, and one who has made 3. rec- ord for work accomplished that prob- ably stands alone in its class. You folks living in the counties along the Lake Huron shore, in the Thumb District, the Saginaw Valley, on the heavier lands of lower central Michigan, or anywhere around one of Michigan’s beet sugar refineries, know what it is to haul sugar beets. Not much need to ask how you. like the job. With a snowy rain weighing down the atmosphere, with the ther~ mometer playing between twenty-eight and thirty-two degrees, with muddy feet, muddy beets, muddy wagons, and muddy ro‘adsL—always the mud, it looks like a tough job, doesn’t it? Well, it is. Nevertheless, C. R. Oviatt, Bay City sugar beet grower, certified seed grow- er, and community leader, is one farm- er who has that tough job tamed; not , in a small way, for Oviatt grows about 500 tons of beets each year; not by expensive equipment, for his invest- , ment is a modest one, but Oviatt has - tamed sugar beet hauling by methods practical on any farm for any farmer _ who is making a share of his farm in— come off sugar beets. “Dutch” Oviatt, for that is what the .. . burs called him when he played end ' , on? one of the iamous Ioot ball teams Ingenuity Mn! Far in Mating Profit: on thy Farm By H. C. Rather that represented M. A. C. ten years ago, farms 135 acres, four miles north of Bay City. On this farm, which is largely composed of black, heavy soil, he grows twenty-five to thirty-five acres of sugar beets each year. “Dutch” is the kind oLfarmer who makes his sugar beet fields produce for all they are worth. In 1922, twenty-eight acres yielded fifteen tons per acre. In 1923, thirty-six acres’ yielded 14.8 tons per acre, and in 1924, thirty—two acres went at the rate of thirteen tons per acre. For five years, he has secured an av- erage yield of more than fourteentons per acre, a 'pretty performance for any man’s land. But, as stated previously, between 400 and 500 tons of sugar beets lying in a soft field, four miles from a fac- tory or shipping point, is a forty—horse- power backache for the best of mor- tals. At three loads a day, for one man and team, hauling three tons per load, it’s a ninety-five day job, or a job for thee men and three teams all the month of November, with no vacations on Sundays and Thanksgiving Day. Maybe it was Oviatt’s early reverence for the Sabbath and Turkey-day that caused him to work out a system for moving those 500 tons of beets at the rate of twenty-five to thirty tons a day, with the assistance of only one hired man. His first move was to get a light agricultural truck of a type capable of making good road time, and carrying a heavy load as well. A tramway built ofi‘the side of his barn drive has pro— vi‘ded a convenient place for loading his motor truck in a hurry. Under or- dinary conditions, the one hired man a .J-"( .‘- , . ,-"._ L'»,~_.;.:‘.r T ‘- on the place takes the team and wagon to the field and hauls up about two and one—half tons of beets, an average load for the truck. He backs onto the tramway and dumps the load into the waiting truck. While he is in the field after a new load, Oviatt himself has time to run the truckload to the Columbia Sugar Refinery, four miles distant, unload at the factory’s power dump, a two—minute job, and get back to the farm for the next trip. The box on the wagon ordinarily used for bringing the beets out of the field is of the deep type of beet rack, and the bottom has been pocketed so the beets slide freely. The trap doors fall on each side of the reach. A full load for the wagon provides a full load for the truck doing the road work. Wet weather ordinarily puts the beet hauling behind, or in serious difficult ties; not so, however, under the Oviatt system. Oviatt’s practice to use the truck only, hooking his team on it to get the com- bination of power. Cooperation be- tween horses and motor power has been too much for any mud, and in three years’ time, wet weather has caused Oviatt a loss of only a half day’s hauling. By hauling direct from the field with his light motor truck, Ovaitt has “been able to make eight to ten trips a day, while by use of the wagon and dump in better weather, he has hauled as much as ninety tons in three days with his outfit. The investment in motor equipment is light. The truck, a used one, cost $500 in 1922, after it had previously made. 25,000 miles. It has been used on the Oviatt farm continuously for In wet weather, it has been‘ live stock and other trucking service, and has done outside commercial work to the extent of a $300 income. This has much more than covered its repair bill, and “Dutch” says the truck is so old now he doesn’t need to figure de- preciation The fact that he could haul the beets directly to the factory has, of course, added to the truck-earned income, as beets delivered directly to the factory bring an added dollar a ton. “There are many advantages to the system,” Oviatt tells us. “I have not had to start beet harvest nearly so early, and have thus gotten an extra fall growth on my crop. Ordinarily, I start lifting about the middle of Octo- ber and clean up my crop in three or four weeks. At this rate, I can handle my beets in all kinds of weather, and just as fast as a good family can take them out of the ground. Consequently, there is no shrinkage. I need no ex- tra horse equipment, having only three horses on my 135-acre farm; the horses never need be shod for road work, they’re never overloaded, and wagon equipment for heavy road Work is un- ‘ necessary.” It seems as though there is quite a bit to this beet hauling game. One who has worked out so many mechan- ical helps in the handling of the crop must have some good idea on how best to grow it, so we asked Mr. Ovi- att about that, too. This is what he said: “On low land, put in tile. I haven’t all of my sugar beet land tiled, as yet, but it is a big help. “For fertilizer, I’ve been using 250 pounds per acre of twenty per cent acid' phosphate. I've tried potash, too. but even on soil approaching muck in (Continued on page 561). .C. V V (on Wayitte Beulonrd Wed Weekly Established 1848 00th I”. The Lawrence Pub11sh1ng Co. Editors and WI Deholbmnbmn Telephone Randolph 1580 NEW YORK OFFICE, 110 W. BL CHICAGO OFFICE 608 80. Del: 31.. OFFICE 10114018 AV... 11.]. 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CHANGING ADDRESS. ——It is absolutely necessary that you giie the name of your Old Post Office. as well as- your New Post Office. in asking for a change of address. RATES OF ADVERTISING 65 cents per line agate type measurement. or 87. '10 pl inch (14 agate lines per inch) undo-- usement inserted for less than 81. 65 each insertion. No objectionable advertisements inserted at In! Second Class Matter at the Post Dulce at Entered as 1879. Detroit. Michigan. Undu' the Act of March 3. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. VOLUME CLXV NUMBER TWENTY-THREE DETROIT, DECEMBER 5, 1925 CURRENT COMMENT HE federal recla- Should ‘ ' mation of west- . . ern semi-arid lands Hue These from a farming Men standpoint has been to date a gene a1 failure. This, at least, is the tenor of. the re- cent repo1t of the secreta1y of the inteiior. It was the original intention that the money advanced by the gov- ernment f01 these projects would be paid back in ten years They have not been funded in twenty years. Yes, even worse, only nine and one-half per cent of twenty million dollars advanc- ed in 1908 has been paid. Notwithstanding this failure of the farmers to make a living on old es- tablished irrigation lands, and that we have been troubled with over—produc- tion of farm crops, our last congress made initial appropriations of over four million dollars on four new pro- jects which, it is estimated, will ulti- mately cost sixty million dollars. On these new undertakings, the acre cost will be higher than on the old lands, while the prospect of settlement is in- deed remote at this time; and without adequate settlement the failure of the p10jects is a foregone conclusion. We can see but one hopeful factor in the situation. That is to locate the salesmen who have been able contin- uously to sell congress on the advisa- bility of appropriating to these pro- jects, and hile them to sell our exist- ing agxiculture to the public and to officials If they could do that as well as they have sold these irrigation ven- tures, the solution of our many na- tional agricultural problems should be near at hand. BRIEF report of An the season’s bus- iness of the California Honorable Fruit Growers’ Ex- Ambition change, shows anoth- . er year of profit for this pioneer cooperative organization. We often wonder how it is that these westerners continue to work together successfully in their organized eflort. The answer seems to be that the Ex- change is making money for the mem- ' bers. It renders an economical ser- vice. Of course, this institution has an altruistic spirit. The men cooperate ‘ to some degree, no doubt, because it is healthy to cooperate. They feel that , cohraged. But, the big reason why laudable, and t’ it they keep on with their organization is that they get more for the crop, sold: through the Exchange, than they could otherwise secure. And, as we think about it, we won- der if that is not sufficient reason for cooperating. It probably is the one common basis on which most coopera- tive institutions could be founded. As individuals, we give attention prompt-' ly when increased profits are men. tioned. Most men aspire to the es- tablishment of a profitable business. Roosevelt once told his hearers-,that it wasgood to make money, because they could do some good with money, and very little real good without it. That appears to be the point. It is honorable to make money with which to do good; and perhaps we could add a. corollary, that it is dishonorable to fail to render service by neglecting business opportunities. RECENT newspa- The per item gives the information that there 50’900 are over fifty thou- Girls sand girls roaming the streets, doing things they shouldn’t do, because of unsatis- factory home environments. ‘ While this editorial is headed “The 50,000 Girls,” that is not its main sub— ject of discussion. The girls are the result; the home conditions. are the cause. Therefore, the latter is the subject to consider. Perhaps the greatest thing we can do for posterity is to help make our children better men and women than we are. There are none who have greater influence with the children for good or bad, than their parents. Per- haps we ourselves are good, and pas- sively think for the good of our chil« dren, but so often we are not aware how the many things we do, or leave undone, react upon the children. To do our real duty we must actively want to make our children better men and women. We must present them a home environment which is pleasant and helpful to them in their youthful years and ways. We should not force the wholesome virtues of life upon them, but indirectly make those virtues a part of their lives. We must get them to have confidence in us, and we can not do that unless we ourselves try to follow the virtues we are endeavoring to impart. Example is one of the most effective means of teaching. The raising of children is a great responsibility. But it is a wholesome and enjoyable one. It adds zest to life to look at that responsibility in the right way. Greater enjoyment and greater benefits for all concerned, can be obtained if one tries to become more proficient in those qualities which make a better life at the same time he is trying to impart them to the young. It develops a comradeship which is cherished by all. ROGRE‘SS 0f the Why motion picture in- dustry is little short Ree! Enter' of unbelievable. Twen- talnment .ty-nine years has en- compassed its growth, and yet that growth and progress, in both education and entertainment, ac- cording to President Coolidge, is an “outstanding achievement of the open- ing years of this century.” Every town and every community now has its movie house, put there by the public demand for entertainment. In twenty-five years we have gone from mud roads to paved streets, from bug- gies to automobiles, from grindorgans to radios, and from medicine shows to the movies. Great leaps thesewand with them have come economic chang~ es of moment. The corner grocery, once a lounging place, closes now in the evening; the saloon has been ban~ ned forever; the barber can go home to his family with the coming of night. port11nity one othr nee ‘ “ , and the movies he furnish the 99', Every community must consider the entertainment it aflords its citizens. It must- plan to meet all ages and all' types, to give to the young and to the old pleasure and relief from the strain of work and worry. Never before has the family found a form of amusement like the “movies, for only in the latter is there something of specific interest to each individual, and much that is appreciated by all. T is difficult to find Hard a person owning . taxable property who to Th'nk is not interested in About keeping down taxes. Yet there seems to be little disposition on the part of the American people to reduce the amount they pay out voluntarily for things that are not essential to their well- being. It has been calculated by no less an authority than the experts in The treas- ury department of the federal govern- ment that Americans have increased spending for non-essentials to the stag— gering total of eight billion dollars. To give us a better idea of this amount, it has been figured that one—half of this annual sum would be sufficient to connect every county seat in the whole county with paved roads. But, of course, we would complain if we were called upon to give up one-half of the things that are unnecessary to our living, even for the completion of so prodigious an enterprise as tying to- gether all the county buildings of the country. OME months ago Boost notice appeared in Flax For these columns of the . . progress being made Michigan ‘by Henry Ford in the improvement of methods for handling the flax crop. In the last number of the Textile World, appears an extended report of an ex- pert who has made an exhaustive study of Mr. Ford’s methods of hand- ling this textile crop. This report is most encouraging, it being the opinion of this expert that all the practical difficulties have been cleared away. What significance has this for the farming interests of the state? It seems to mean that Michigan farmers will have the opportunity of producing a large acreage of the crop. For in- stance, the Ford Motor Company alone will require 75,000 pounds of the flax fiber every working day, the total crop from 50,000 acres each year. Having produced six hundred acres on his own land this past season, Mr. Ford is confident that the crop is adap- table to this state. It is not his pur- pose to produce flax extensively on his own p1 operties but he rather hopes to encourage farmeis to include it in theii rotations. The new methods of handling seem to be well adapted to such a program, and if realized, will add to the diversity of crops in Mich- igan, and further stabilize our agri- culture. IFE would seem Handicap grand and glori- fN ous if there were no 0 .0 handicaps in it. But Handicaps handicaps there are, and often they seem as crosses for us to bear. Handicaps are multitudinous, and of great vari- ety. Some are inconsequential, but to the individual may seem as absolute barriers to the attainment of the de- sired objective. Some are self-impos- ed, but others are real handicaps which beople bear up .under, and strug- gle hard to overcome. But, of all handicaps, none are as insiduous, as destructive of the desire of attainment as no handicaps at all. r methods seem primitive and care- less in comparison. The reason given by this observer was that in the west 1 they had so many cultural handicaps that they had to do everything right. or failure would result. Their meth- ods have to be intense in order to grow the highest quality product, which, when it is grown, has a further handicap in freight rates to overcome. There is no doubt that our nearness to markets, favorable climatic and soil conditions have made it too easy to grow fruit. We are not compelled to use the most efficient mé‘thods we know of. The road to success is not the easy way. Obstacles must be overcome to get ahead. Sometimes one thinks he has no obstacles or handicaps, when he really has. Therefore, it often pays to think over the things which are standing in the way of success. If one is not making a go of things, there is something in the way. It pays to seek out that thing, and then work to overcome it. Most every one of us can find plenty of these handicaps in, our farm practice. giving thought to. Tao/r OOLS is things we do things with. Tools is what we made civiliza- shun with, and I don't know whether ta blame tools or give them credit fer that Anyhow, Adam and little Eve didn’t have no tools, but Eve started ta want things they couldn’t make with their hands and feet, so Adam hada figure out some tools ta help him with. And since then we’ve been get~ tin’ more and more tools. " Eve didn't like the clothes she had, ’cause she wanted a. change; she want- ed more clothes. So they hada get tools ta sew cloth with, etc. Now, with They are worth all the tools and machinery we got fer clothes, womin want less clothes. They say old wstyles come back again, but I’m hopin’ Eve’s styles don’t, ’cause there’d be lots 0’ machinery standin’ idle. In Eve’s days, they didn’t have no traffic cops, but Eve didn’t wanta stay home all the time, and she got tired walkin’, so they hada get somethin’ ta. ride in. And consequently, now we’ve got ma- chinery what makes machinery ta ride around in. Eve wanted a better place ta live in, so Adam hada make tools ta build a house with. So now we got houses, and after we got ’em we hada have somethin’ ta put in ’em, according ta tho womin. And after we got some« thin’ in ’em we hada have some way ta take care of the house, so we hada.‘ have tools for the household. Now, I’m glad we got farm tools, ’cause I’d be worked ta death, seein’ as Sofie is just like Eve was in wantin' things all the time. I kin tell you, though, if I was Adam I’d never let Eve had her way so. If Adam’d been boss, we’d never had the complica- shuns we got now. We wouldn’t be livin’ in this here tool age, with us making tools 0’ ourselves. But we’re too far along in civillzashun fer me ta. do anything with Sofie now. But speakin’ o’ farm tools, if I was getting out a dictshunary, I’d say farm tools was somethin’ ta use fer a short time, and then let it out ta rust the rest 0' the year. My observashuns is that nine-tenths o’ the farm imple- ,munts rust out instead 0’ wearin’ out. I kin talk this- way, ’cause I've had some out rusting, but last week Sofie makin’ made me put my tools under cover, for the sake 0’ economy, she says. HY SYCKLE, ... a . . ~ ...”: TX: ..—‘.x~ “1.. N Apnwv- ..,. ..-...n ,_.A 7, «...—.....- :~,~\—~ <1... A} - .1 .. 13W <~ a”: , -m.x N 4“” AHM_- -h ,M 7 "\fl‘ . vi, m, , .- _ \ .— A} » scale. FAVORITE story often told by Dr Bradford Knapp, now preeii- . dent or the Oklahoma Agricul-l tural College, was of a county agent in _ the early days of the Farmers’ Cooper- ative Demonstration Work trying to locate a certain farmer, and asked an old dar' ry, “Does Jim Smith live in this community?" To this the darky re— plied, No, Boss, Wdis ain’t no commu- nity; dis am jus’ a place. ” rm who are reading this article, stop right here for a minute and ask yourself seriously this question, “Where do I IIVe—in a community or in just a place?” What . constitutes ' a community brings forth diflerent answers from different specialists who have been studying this subject and have tried their skill at a definition. . One of ‘ the mast widely quoted was expressed Some years ago by Dr. R. E. Heironymous, of Illinois: “A com- munity consists of a. group or company of people living fairly closely together in a more or less compact, contiguous territory,- who are coming to act to- gether in th‘e chief concerns of life.” Kenyon L. Butterfield, president of Michigan State College, says: “A com- munity is the smallest social unit. that will hold together. Theoretically, a community could live unto itself; though that would be actually impos- sible; just as it is impossible for an individual to live really a hermit. A community is a sort 01’ individualized group of people. It is both the small- est and the larg. .t numb- .‘ of people that can constitute a real social unit. It is a sort of family of families." These authorities, and scores of ommunlty Progress t. I, S T he First Step Errential to Success is Give” in this Artze/e By Nat T. Frame "othersthoare on record in the pub- lications ofthe American Country Life Association, the'bulletins of the Agri- cultural Colleges, and of the United States Department of Agriculture, and through the farm press, are all, how- ever, in agreement. as to the funda- mental importance of this rural pri- mary. . group—economically, and in all other relationships that have to do with the standards of living in the country. ‘ It, then, these authorities are so nearly in agreement that any perma- ,— v N the community club, the small neighborhood group, where people know each other and are unselfish enough to work for a common cause, there can real progress be made.” nently satisfying rural life in this country is going to depend upon standards of community life as lived by the thousands of local groups, is it not first necessary that these local community groups. be made definitely .c0nscious of their own existence, and their importance in the whole pro- gram? To this end the Standard Farm Papers are planning to give increas- ingly larger space to news from and about country communities. The editors of this paper would like to have some first-hand information socially, about your community. .Will you not, this evening after supper, "take your pencil in hand” and make for us a map of your local neighborhood? Take a good-sized piece of paper and draw ' your map, not caring too much wheth- er the scale is exactly accurate, or the directions correct by the compass. With this map in front of you, put a check mark (v) at each home where live one or more members of the local community club, Grange, Farm Bureau, Gleaner, or whatever may be the local farmers’ organization to which you be- long. After you have checked this off, start and put a cross (1:) at the homes of the people who go to the same church or Sunday School your family attends. Then put a period (.) at the homes whence come the chil- dren who attend the same school that your children attend. Then if you be- long to some parent-teachers’ associa- tion, lodge, patriotic society, or other group, put a small circle (0) at the homes represented in these organiza- tions. It may take you two or three even- ings to finish this map, but keep at it. You will find it interesting and you will get most helpful information as a basis for. making your community what you want it to be. Meantime, talk with such of your neighbors as you know to be community-minded folkw. Try to get some of them either to pre- pare maps of their own or to help you with the map you have started. If your local club can be interested and this map can be tacked on the wall at a club meeting so that all may study it and make suggestions and criti- cisms, so much the better. You will, of course, run into such problems as how much territory you are going to take in, and what types of activities should be mapped. In Iowa where a survey was made by. George H. Von Tugeln and Harry L. Wells, three local neighborhoods cen- tering around consolidated schools have respectively eighty-three homes, 132 homes, and 170 homes. In Indiana, local clubs studied by Prof. A. W. Hayes, of Tulane University, seem to take in from seventy-five to 150 neigh- bors. Professor Kolb, of Wisconsin, thinks that about 200 families is as many as can “know each other well,“ and through such personal acquaint- anceship learn to “trust each other.” You see, we are not asking you to map the trade community where you buy and sell; nor the area covered by the breeders’ association, which is like- ly to be county-wide, or by any of the other organizations to which you may belong, that are organized on a coun- ty—wide or state—wide basis. We are asking you to think in terms of this local primary group, because we be- lieye it is important for this grOup to be conscious of its own identity, and to have a definite name, and be in agreement within itself as to its ap- proximate boundaries. When this has been done, the local gmoup is then par- tially prepared, at least, to tackle the country life problems they face, as a group as well as individuals. In succeeding articles we shall sug- (Continued on page 560). Feeding Versus Breeding Potatoes E have made rapid strides in the improvement of our potato crop through emphasis placed on the need for better seed, and the production of certified seed on a large This is a matter for congratu- lation am. has produced desirable re- sults. ' But, the job of improving our com— ‘ mercial potato crop does not stop with the production of the best possible *' seed, and even in this direction we are still far from obtaining the optimism of desirable results. While the term “certified seed” has come to mean something very much worth while in this state, it does not mean everything the name implies, as I shallattempt to show; nor does it . necessarily express what it might in the improvement of quality and yield of our commercial potato crop. Certified potato seed is analogous to pure-bred live stock, and is subject to the same, or even greater, variation in inherent quality. A personal experi- ence will illustrate this point. Four years ago last spring, I‘secured eleven one-bushel lots .of'certified seed pro— duced by eleven different growers. One row was planted from each lot in my potato field and a careful check! was kept on them thrOughout the‘season. . The difference in habit of growth, qual- . ity, and yield, was very marked. At digging time we saved the pota- toes from five of these rows for our next year’s seed production plot, which - was carefully rogiied. The result has ' been practically disease-free crops for . the past two years. Other lots of certi- fied seed tried during the past two years have not given as good results, either in quality or yield. as has the * ' seed stock from this performance so Some Charred/lion: ofa Commercial Grower By I. R. Waterbury lection made four years ago, proving that, after all has been said, “certified seed” is a relative term. But even the best seed does not tell the whole story. Good breeding is an important factor in profitable produc- tion, but good feeding is an even more important factor with potatoes, just as it is with live stock. In an attempt to satisfy this requirement, I have de— a season of rest. blind. and out and sightless days. the day, far into the night. —-—p_~-w sung, unheralded, she sits in the grandmother. The Mothers of Men * By Philip Kane W ITHERED and old was the little woman. hands, snow white her hair. busy household, a mere spectator as her little world moved on. Great grandchildren there were within that home, for grandmother was nearing the century mark. An old and fragile figure, almost unnoticed, except as each meal time came, or shadows called for It was always night for grandmother. _ Yes, the world had passed grandmother by. The miracles of to- day, except that of the radio, meant but little to her. of her grandchildren was as language in a foreign tongue. unnoticed, She sat, day afte1 day, her knitting needle flashing in Grandmother could still knit. Tiny was the little sock in grandmother’s hands, and yet, as I watched it seemed to grow as a living thing. ventured, “for a man child.” The bent frame straightened, the fad- ed eyes seemed to gleam with light. man child. For seventy years I’ve been knitting, knitting, much of Eight boys of my own. sons, ‘ a score of them. And now the sons cf their sons. love boy babies, I still can feel their chubby arms about my neck.” And grandmother’s smile was transforming, beautiful. Oh, the mothers of men, how much we owe them! grandmother had mothered men of heroic deeds in soldiery, of skill in medicine, of achievement in the arts of agriculture. But some day surely, there shall be great reward for such as Work-worn her Quite useless she seemed in a She was The chatter Quiet, What a comfort in her old “A pretty thing,” I “Yes,” she answered, “for a Then their But I And this' Un- shadow and knits. And knits. veloped this rotation on my farm: Po- tatoes are planted after alfalfa, the land is seeded to sweet clover with cats the following spring, and the next year the sweet clover is plowed down after it attains a good growth, and again planted to potatoes. The follow- ing spring the land is again seeded to alfalfa with oats, and this is cut for hay two years, when the rotation is repeated. This provides for the plow- ing down of a leguminous crop for po- tatoes each time, thus supplying both vegetable matter and nitrogen in lib- eral quantities and in a cheap form. Supplementary fertilization is practic- ed by the use of about 700 pounds of a 12:4 fertilizer, distributed in the row at each planting. The result of this good feeding, and the fine tilth promoted in the soil has been apparent, both in the quality and yield of the crop and in the freedom of the plants from disease. That it has been an important factor in the last named result seems to be clearly proven by comparisons we have been able to make. One side of the sweet clover field plowed down for potatoes last year. _ was a thin stand, while the other side was heavy. The stand of potatoes was excellent and the growth of the vines phenomenal. The crop was very good, too, both as to quality and yield. But very dry weather prior to maturing the crop gave us this object lesson. The vines on one side of the field, at first in spots, then all over the area, yel- lowed and died, while those on the balance of the field, with the exception ‘ of small areas, remained green and matured normally. By way of diag- nosing the trouble, we sent for an ex» M 3 pert from the college, who was unable ,- <=r;—ri~';._s,..-.-..~... , .v tut-f i to determine the trouble. He did find, however, that the dying stems Seemed to be attacked by a fungus just at the : surface of the ground. Samples of these were sent to the plant patholo- r' gist at the college, who diagnosed the trouble as ordinary Fusarium Wilt. But all the time. I had in the back of my mind, the thought of the thin » stand of sweet clover on the affected - side of the field, and believed that the failure of these potatoes to mature normally, under the prevailing weather conditions, was due to the fact that they were not so well fed. This idea was strengthened by an obje'ct lesson in a neighbor’s field, in which the end of each fourth row, for perhaps half its length, was similarly affected. These potatoes Were planted after al- falfa, which was an even stand all over the field. Fertilizer had been used in the row, and the only feasible explana- tion of the phenomenon noted, was that the fertilizer feed box on the plant- er had been filled every other round and had run low before being refilled. Thus the last half of every fourth row had not been as well fed as the bal- ance of the plants, hence the appear- ance of disease. On the st1ength of this diagnosis, I planted the supposedly affected seed this yeaI, without any appearance of disease whatever. So marked was its apparent absence that an inspector who was in the neighborhood, looking over some plots of certified seed, and who visited our fields, thought they must have been rogued. But. fortunately, we had another similar object lesson this year. This was just as interesting, though of a less startling character. One corner of the sweet clover field plowed down for potatoes last spring had been util- ized as a garden the previous year, and had thus not been seeded to SWeet clover. Another spot, of perhaps a quar- ter of an acre, in the field had killed out as a result of ice covering a slight depression last winter. These spots were given an application of stable ma- nure this spring, and there was no no- ticeable difference in the potatoes dur- ing the growing season, until perhaps two or three weeks before maturity, at which time these areas could be clearly defined, even from a consider- able distance, by the lighter color and gradual dying of the foliage. Here, , again, was a difference in the feeding of the plants, resulting in a compara- tive evidence of disease. Our conclusion is that while good breeding in the seed stock is an im- portant factor in profitable potato pro— duction, good feeding of the plants is of even greater importance, just as it is in profitable live stock production. ADVISES GREATER SUGAR BEET PRODUCTION. N a discussion of the relative value of sugar beets and wheat from an economic point of view, Harry A. Aus- tin. secretary of the United States Sugar lVIanufacturers’ Association, gives some pertinent reasons why it would pay the farmers of this country to devote some of their wheat acreage to sugar beets. - During the past ten years, Mr. Aus- tin points out, the United States im- ported an average of more than 6,000,- 000.000 pounds of sugar annually, with an average annual value of $295,000,- 000, In the same period the United States exported an average of 166,- 000,000 bushels of wheat annually, with an average annual value of $289,- 000,000. It will thus be seen that the entire sum which we receive from our total exports of wheat is not sufficient to pay for the sugar which we are now compelled to import from foreign countries to meet our requirements. Basing his figures on a ten—year av- erage, Mr. Austin figures that it re- .quires in round numbers, 218,000,000 bushels of wheat, grown on approxi- mately 15,000,000 acres of land, to pur- chase the sugar which we annually import from foreign countries. To pro; ditce this amount of sugar, Would re- 5 quire less than two and a half million acres of land in addition to that al- ready devoted to sugar beet culture. ' Considering the financial return to, the farmers,‘it is'found that the aver- age farm value of wheat per'acre for the past ten years, was $19.75. On an acreage equal to that required to pro- duce at home all the sugar which we annually import, American wheat farmers receive annually an average of $49,000,000. The average annual farm value of sugar beets per acre for the past ten years was $76.24. If we had produced at home the sugar which we imported during this ten-year pe- riod, American farmers would have re— ceived annually, $189,000,000, as against the $49,000,000 which they did receive from the wheat grown on a like amount of acres, That the necessary area of wheat land is adapted to sugar beet culture, is evidenced by the fact that of the 61,000,000 acres of land devoted to wheat in the United States in 1922, more than 35,000,000 acres were locat- ed in the sixteen states in which beet sugar factories are now operating. One 1.131139 ant point, however, ' . Austin evidently has overlooked, is the dinerenoe in cost of growing Wheat and sugar beets. To MAKE COMMUNITY PROGRESS. . (Continued from page 559). along the lines of counter community progress. Meanwhile, we hope'_you will work out this map and send it to the editor of The Michigan Farmer, with any supplementary letter of ex- planation you may desire. We shall be glad to bring your map to the at- tention of some of those who have done the most studying on this whole problem of rural neighborhoods, in-' cluding rural sociologists, farm organ- ization officers, religious leaders, and others. Through the cooperation we are already promised we are sure that we can help you in time to perfect your map to the point where it will be accepted by yourself and your neigh- bors, as including that particular group of folksrwho are conscious of a neigh- borhood identity and who, therefore, must face the challenge to be “unsel- fish enough to work for the common cause.” Ala-,0 Gm ”a." ad Illa-n IVA.» Sonia»: Sound Cums-t ‘- Cine to “DII'OQJ > 7 Asian-no a (M 089-" DRIVING WITHOUT A LICENSE. Is the owner of a car, or his wife, liable to fine when they have been driving the car all through the sum— mer of 1923 without a license; if so, to how much? Who should be notified to have this party prosecuted?—Sub~ scriber. Any person driving a car without proper license plates, is liable to fine and imprisonment. See prosecuting attorney—Rood. NEWSPAPER NOT WANTED. What is the law in Michigan about papers that are sent and not wanted? Can they collect for same? A city newspaper was paid up in 1911, and then stopped. They quit sending it for a time, but started again. (Maybe the rural route carrier forgot about it). So it has come ever since. Now our mother got a bill for $24. Must this be paid ?——E. V. D. K. Postal regulations forbid delivery of papers not subscribed for, unless marked “sample copy.” Recipient is not liable, unless paper was taken from post office continually under cir- cumstances implying promise to pay for same, so that such can be- found to be the intention of both parties.— Rood. ROAD REPAIR TAX. ' Can one be compelled to pay repair tax on a road where there is no work done ?—C. W. The liability of land for road rep-air taxes does not depend upon repairs being made in the immediate vicinity. —Rood. MORTGAGE ON FARM WITH LEASE. Can the owner of a farm (or his heirs), who has given a life lease to another of his heirs, place a mortgage thereon with, or without, consent of lease holder?—F. G. M. No person can rightfully make a val< id mortgage upon any greater interest Sitting 072 the World CITY FOLKS HAVEN'T ANY‘ Tame ON 05' LEET/o than .he oWusf , fig . rigiit to the property, ”bidet to a life lease, can mortgage his own interest without consent of the life tenant-— Rood. SUBLETTINGI ON SHARES. If A. rents a place of B. on shares, then B. turns the place over to (3., has A any right to give C. the share with— out a written consent from B? If A. did give C. their share, could B. come onto A. for his share? C. claimed that he took it off B.’ s hands, but A. didn’t get any consent from B. to gIVe C. his share. ——-VV. M. Unless B. assigned his rights to C., A. is liable to B. The rightsgof a. ten- ant under a share agreement of this sort. could not be assigned without the consent of the lesson—Rood. SETTLEMENTS BETWEEN HUS- BAND AND WIFE. My wife wanted a deed from me a few years ago. Trouble arose between us, and I settled with her out of court, giving her $2,500 in cash and a mort« gage for $1,500. She gave me a quit- claim deed. We haven’t a. divorce. She had an attorney, and I had one to draw up the papers. Are those papers legal without a divorce? Has she any come- back after her mortgage is paid? Can I sell the farm without her consent, as long as she gets her money? After I' pay her the $2,000, will I be responsi- ble for her maintenance ?—J. M. There being no divorce', the wife is one of the heirs of the husband, and would, as heir, take a share of his estate if he left no will. She would also have right of dower by the com- mon law, notwithstanding her con- tract; for a married woman can make no contract at commonfllaw, and of all persons, with her husband. But our supreme court has intimated that a fair agreement entered into by the wife with her husband after marriage, in which she has fully understood the situation, and not been imposed on, will be sustained against her. The provision must be clear. It might be difficult to find a purchaser who would accopt such a title. The agreement not being recorded, even if clear and vali , would leave a cloud on the mo 0rd title of the purchaser.——Rood. FAMILY TROUBLE. \ . Tell me if my father-in-law, mother~ 1n-law, and sister-in-law can come into my house and make trouble in the family. Have they any right to come on the place if I forbid them to come? I have worked hard for what I got and they seem to want to get it from me. They have me in jail now for cruelty to my wife, although I never touched her. —N. V. This looks like a desperate case. The fact that warrant has been obtain- ed, would indicate that some evidence is at hand to support such a charge. To maintain suit against them for ma- licious prosecution, acquittal of the charge would first be necessary. The parents of the woman, or anyone else. would have a right to come to her de— fence When assaulted—Rood. ON A CROP NOTE. A number of we farmers bought $100 shares in a co—op. elevat01 heie, also gave collateral notes for $100 each to do business with. Then, after a time the bank had a meeting called to make a change from collateral note to a bond sum. Did not sign bond. Can bank still hold parties to pay the igotgs? Answer best for us to do.— In answering this inquiry, it is as- sumed that the elevator company is incorporated, so that there is a debtor separate and distinct from the farmers giving the notes. If such is the case, the giving of extended time without the consent of the sureties giving the notes, releases the sureties. The mere failure to prosecute would not release the sureties. But surrendering the old obligation and taking a new one, pay- able at a later date, would, unless the sureties assented to its—Rood. An understanding of one another of. ten prevents legal entanglements. ' I A x a' .w-—.M~ WM”- ~ nun-a. a. n l—ll—lfiu ~91!“ u u \ k" «"~__.M” A‘s," “‘va* A and southern , slates are practically ~ WARNS AGAINST CORN BORER. ‘36Wels Were "p'awned‘by the ‘queen to l discOyer. America. . . :‘ ' Sills-til WStates are :‘groduc vast‘de‘anutjies or nar- eiSsus.fandl other fi'ower’lngplamt bulbs; Théir-f'buibs street just as high quality: as are being produced anywhere ‘on earth. . Those” grown in the eastern free from. disease andinsect pests. The growers. can, .if they are assured of protection from foreign plant pests, supply. the 'demand- for bulbs; in? this country. - ‘ . ARMERS, do you know there is an enemy lurking Just across your fence? »Perhaps he is already'on your field; he is in mine—the corn borer. Very few of us realize the damage that can be done by this insect. On October 22, I, with others, made a trip through Ontario, Canada, through the counties of Essex and Kent, along the east shoreshof Lake St. Chair and the nerth shores of Lake Erie. ~ The damage done in those sections by the European corn borer must be seen to be realized. It cannot be de- scribed. I saw several fields of ten to thirty acres that will not yield enough fodder and corn to feed one cow through the winter. Those fields had a good stand of corn early in the season, and'now there is hardly a stalk standing; the corn borer has mowed it all down. Fellow farmers, we are going to be up against the same trouble as the 'Canadian farmer is today, unless We make war against this enemy at once. Let‘ us not make the same mistake the farmers of Canada made by leav- ing cornstalks stand in the field until next spring, and then plow them un- der. We can hardly rid ourselves of this pest, as it is already among us, but we can do much in controlling it by filling our silos and by shredding the balance of our corn, rather than husking it by hand and giving the borer nice, dry quarters for the winter. Our slogan must be: .“No quarters to the European corn borer.”——G. J. Wolf. H lGH-PRODUCING MAN. I (Continued from page 557). character, I have obtained no apparent increases in yield. This has been care— fully checked in thirty-six-row alternat- ing strips, so the failure of potash to respond on my heavy land has been quite convincing. “The acid phosphate, however, is a big money-maker. It gets the beets away to a rapid start, and this not only increases tonnage, but the in- creased vigor gets the beets away from much disease. At- any rate, I have never plowed under a beet because of black rot, while others in this vicinity have lost field after field. “I plant beets on a field once in four years, and under normal conditions 'I can increase my tonnage as time goes on. Especially is this true with better drainage. Sweet clover andlalfalfa fur- nish most of my nitrogen and organic matter. A rotation of corn or beans, sugar beets, oats or barley, and sweet clover or alfalfa, gives me several val- uable crops to keep the’farm in bal- ance, keep up the fertility of the soil, and help out the sugar beet income.” _ APPLES IN STORAGE. C OLD storage holdings of apples in the United States on November 1, 1925, amounted to 3,613,000 bar- tnted is the Com "There are no songs - like the old songs” 1-: KNOW a farmer who is fond of , usic and thinks the melodies of his youth are best. For years he sought the words of a song his mother used to sing. It was "Nico- demus.” He remembered the air, but the lines eluded him. listening! ” No one could help him—— not even a music publisher to whom he wrote. He seemed wane ....... Nrwrml to be the only person in the uals and Old “heart songs,” as 3K1: I 3 -' i : _P,'°f’,';f.1;',‘; world who had heard of this well as for classrcal musrc and 33;} ;; 3 ; ffijfjfgfifif; song ' the steamyjazz of the night 321,”, ; g 3.; Leggy}; . , CIUbS. WW I ........ Damn Last Christmas the farmer ,, . $3503 Mn'..;.}.1ii‘.'§’£'i§:£i bought a radio set—for all the I like to hf“ the great :3? I I ' ' 'ufii'iiZZZ': family. One evening, out of the pr eac er 3’ too, says the far m- 333° . I I I I I .‘i’f‘iiifi ether came the lost favorite— a mellow baritone singing: "Nicodemus, tire slave, was 0 African birth, 11nd was bang/u fir a ag full quold; He was rukon’d a: part qftfie salt oft/re earth, But 12: died long ago, wary old.” home.” The farmer’s wife wrote down the words —all the verses. Radio Speakers priced from $1 2 to $2.8 Prkutlghb Hgbrfn- t‘c Roth's: commode- Canada. r—-\.‘_ —“_- Model so, 380 SAW YOUR OWN LUMBER with a New." Portable saw Mill. Turn your stand] timber Int. high price bulldwm at. the mere cost. 0! sawing. is demand {or lumber. lath and s on. Keep your engine busy the you round making Big Money In Custom Sawing figé'fi‘gwfi‘fifimfi lanes. made in several also. suitable for tractors of any size. Also Edgers. P Lath and Shingle machines. Write for tree Catalog, 3.8 R. R. HOWELL I co.. Mfrs. Minneapolis. ”Inn. Jr «at: s' m\— _-\—‘ —' _ t‘ d The Recelvln Set Illne- odel 2.0 act. This set is price at eighty donate. "That one song is worth ten times more to me than the money we paid for the radio set,” the farmer said. “Just suppose we hadn’t been And the farmer’s wife—what does she say? Her favorite is “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” sung by a male quartet. She hears it frequently, for broad- casters have Wisely recognized the demand for negro spirit- cr's wife. “But, I declare, the best thing about radio is that it keeps the boys and girls at Theirset is an Atwater Kent. Can you imagine a gift that would bring more hap- piness this Christmas ——to all your family? rels, as compared with 3,172,000 bar- rels on November 1, 1924, and a five- year average of 3,528,000 barrels; 8,- 590,000 boxes, compared with 6,602,000 boxes on November 1, 1924, and a five- year average of 5,202,000 boxes; 1,773,- 000 bushel baskets as compared with 1.1332030 bushel baskets on November I It is understood that Spain will send Queen Isabella’s jewels to the Phila- delphia exposition next year. These 3 MICHIGAN MILKMAKER DAIRY FEED provide funds enabling Columbus to The local co-op or farm bureau agent can Insist Upon m. supply you. If you want to know about ' , trademark the success othersthage with it, write Dept. C THE M. F. B. SUPPLY SERVICE . memo. urcmcm j . “Atwater Kent" The Meredith Publications,owned by Edwin T. Mcredith,ex-Secretary ongriculmregnd the (Zapper Publications owned by Arthur Copper, err-Governor o} Ksnau, recently asked farmers in many States what make of Radio they expected to buy. In both surveys the leading make wu Atwnter Kent. Every Atwatcr Kent owner knows why. Your dealer knows, too, and will be glad to tell you. How radio pays Its way RADIO has something for everybody. It brings into your home, from over the hills and far away, concerts, opera, plays, fiddling contests, spelling been, lectures, farm talks, university extension courses, the voices of the world’s leaders, including the President of the United States. To the farmer, It also brings market, crop and weather re- ports. The farmer who is missing this Governmentscrvice is losing money, as thousands of farmers, who are making money byowning radio sets, can testify. Hearthe Atwater Kent RadioArtlsto every Sunday evening at 9.15 o‘clock (Eastern Standard Time) through stations , ATWATER KENT MFG. CO. A. Atwarar Kant, Pruldant 4769 Wlsaahickon Ave. Philadelphia ' Penna. SEND FOR IT! We will lad! and m ru a u ofthl: brain/rill; illuryrratfadjz-pazls bulls! lfyou willjun write and all I“. In I! you will find durrlpfluu and prlcu of Alwaur Km: Ramo- lng Sun, Radio Spain: and uhn qulpmmr. Try a Michigan Farmer LEE} MAKE YOUR FDRIISIIN WORK , A Don't let your Fordson stand idle when it can be sawing poles. logs and lumber for yourself and your neighbors at good pay. Unit can be attached in five minutes and by changing bracket can be used on I. H. . Tractor. Guaranteed satis- factory. Write for details and prices. NEW WINONA MFG. 00.. Dept. 910, Winona. Minn. 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Us. this [or scratch shod or poultry houses, hoe beds, cold ‘ trusses, storm doors and windows, enclos- ln. porches tor else winter, etc., for ten do sand if you do notfindit lets in a more health- fu and agreeable light and warmth and gives better results than glass or any other glass substi- tute just return and we will refund your money; Common sense instructions “Feeding for Eggs with every order. Catalog on request. Turner Bros” Dept. 133 , Hindemfleb. Price the Chea est— Results the Best Compare with (as: or Other Substitute: ’ ENTION The Michi- gan Farmer when writ- ing to advertisers. Helen Nolan Cot times the Eggs after Usin EGGangll‘Y‘ "Before using E00 0 DAY we 90115 to 25 eggs 0 day. We now get 75 to 80 eggs 0 day from our 100 hens.’ Helen Nolan - hens cost Mrs. Nolan less than one cent, a day. She made extra profits of $1.80 to $2.50 , ' every day—or $54 to $75 a L/ month. These are the EXTRA mills at slight cost. You. too, can keep your slaying well all winter and make big profits. inexpensive EGG 3 DAY often boosts egg yield tunes. WE GUARANTEE MORE EGGS', ,« Your money refunded if it does not pay you well. 85c package supplies 250 hens a month Buy of your dealer or order from us. STANDARD CHEMICAL Mn. Co. ”I, 85 ; and menu. Omaha. user. -uu_mun.s.msmm mm THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. AT the end of the third week of the contest which started November 1, Hanson’s pen of White Leghorns, from Oregon, had a. decided lead. The pro- duction of that pen was 162, as com- pared with .142 eggs for the Leghorn pen belonging to George 8. Sutton, of Indiana, which is second. The third place pen is that of Dr. W. J. Robbins, of Plainwell, Michigan. There are three pens tied for fourth place; the Leghorns of the Peter Poultry Farm, Of Indiana; the H. & A. C. Behne, Maple City, Michigan, Leghorn pen, and the Barred Rocks belonging to F. E. Fogle. It is interesting to note that the Hanson pen produced sixty eggs dur— ing the third week, and that its total for the three weeks of 162 eggs is the . highest ever reached in these contests for that length of time. SAVE THE BEST HENS. I would like to know whether I should sell my old hens or not. I have 100 White Wyandotte hens which started moulting in October. How long before these moulting hens will come back to laying? Will it pay to keep them through the winter for their eggs? I have been keeping the hens shut up mornings, so they would eat more mash, and only feed grain (wheat), evenings. Should I feed grain twice a. day instead? The hens are fat. If I keep the' hens we will have to for another coop, as I'have 210 pul- lets ready to lay. I would also like to know what to do for a turkey hen that has a cold. I have been trying to keep the nostrils open. I have, a flock of 110 nice young turkeys.———Mrs. E. P. If you wish t0\breed from your own . flock next year, it will pay to keep some of the old hens, even if they lay only a. few winter eggs. You might cull the‘fiock and keep the late moult- ers of good type and vigor. Then you can sell the remainder. It might also pay to cull the pallets enough to re- duce the flock to the capacity of the hen house, if you wish to avoid build- ing another house so late this fall. It is very difficult to say whether a. flock of old hens‘will pay through the winter or not. But it is of great value to have vigorous old hens of good lay- ing ability, to produce hatching eggs in the spring. It is a general rule to feed about a. third of the grain ration in the morning, and two—thirds at night. Cutting out the morning grain will stimulate the consumption of the laying mash. Remove the mucous from the nos— trils of the turkey hen and inject com- mercial disinfectant with a medicine dropper. Isolate the bird in a dry, sunny coop, where she can be caught easily and treated until the infection is gone. Immigration and the Farmer. Immigration's been one o’ the best things for the agriculture 0’ this country, 'cause it has brought us some of the best farmers we have. But things are different than they were twenty—five years ago, and maybe there’s others what, like Mr. Reeves. think that enuf is plenty. Regarding immigration laws, there certainly is room for improve- ment. But why bring in any more of the artisans and farmer class, when we already are producing more of all, or any, crops, than can be sold profitably by the pres- ent remnants of farmers remain- ing on the farms, through force of conditions—41nd fully onethird of all improved farms idle in the state. Think this over. A board of. commerce in a city, discourages any enterprise that will compete with other establish- ed business in the same city. Why encourage importation of artisans and farmers to compete with the already established farmer?——O. F. Reeves. Against Consolidation. Seems like it was my friend Bill Shakespeare, what said, “To consoli- date or not to consolidate, that is the question." Anyhow, it sure is a ques- tion, and Mrs. King is takin’ one side 0’ it. It’s hard for me to say if I'd been any better if I’d went to a con- solidated school or not. A county school commissioner of this state wrote the secretary of a leading normal college, inquiring as to record of work, and efficiency of students from his county, attending that normal. The secretary reported the work and standing of these stud- ents as being among the very highest. The county is a. large one, and there is not a consolidated school in it. The high standings obtained are a tribute to the worth of our district schools, and the intelligence of parents who have withstood all attempts made to cajole or coerce them into exchanging their time-tried schools for something of which their good judgment did not approve. .. , . Preparation lines l“ There is abundant proof that eighty.“ Brickbats and Bouquets A Free—For—All Department Conducted by Hy Sycéle per cent or more of the leading men of our country, from the President down, came from its farms and through its district schools, provided for by the wisdom of the fathers in the ordinance of 1787. Scientists tell us that quite like-1y sunlight will run the machinery in our fields, and electricity will be so abund- ant as to be practically free; that there will be electric lighting and heating in our homes; that We shall see over the radio as well as hear; in fact, that see- ing should have come before hearing. With such super power, the hours of labor will be lessened to four hours a day, and in that golden age we all may again attend school in the “little red schoolhouse" transformed, and yet find the dreams of our youth fulfilled. —Mrs. C. E. King, St. Clair County? Over-production in Fruit. Mr. A. B. says something about fruit growin’, but he don’t say what time he is referrin’ to. There was a time when fruit on the tree looked like gold dollars, and real estate men, etc., and etc, capital- ized on it. But that ain’t been in the last half dozen years or so. Fruit, like everything in farming, had its depression, but it’s comjn’ ~ back. And, incidentally, some 0’ my fruit growin’ friends is got farms and homes I’d like to own. I‘d like to hear more about this subject.- It seems that the fundamental trouble in fruit growing is over- production. For many years, the farm papers and others, have been filled with stories of the fabulous profits in fruit growing. Then, the real estate men sold a. lot of worthless so—called fruit lands; the nurseries sold tens of thou- sands of trees; the package men sold packages by the carload; the commission men bought autos; and the farmers have worked like the dickens. If you should search the whole western Michigan fruit belt with a fine comb, I doubt if you could find as many fruit grow- - ers who have really made‘any money, as you could find prosper- ous business men in any town of twelve or fifteen thousand popu- lation—A. B. ' , IVE the “folks" Coleman . nick-Lites this Christmas! A Co eman Lamp for Mother, so she will have plenty of pure white, steady brilliance for every task and pleasure No wicks for her to trun, no soot, no smoke, nodally filling. ‘U.S. Price$9.00. And 3. Coleman Lantern for Dad! It's the all-purpose light for any 5%), any place. in an weather. md-Broof,rain-Proo , insect-proof; annot spil fuel, cannot be filled while lighted. U. S. Price $7.60. ' Adz Your Dealer to set aside aColeman Lam 'amdaCole- man Lantem or you until Christmas. he is not an lied, write us and we take care of your wants promptly. Address Dept. MF 17 THE COLEMAN LAMP Co. mascara mes no . iam- e a", sags: an: (11:19:. C9...| amen Quickflrefilmps andfimiemr ' s HensLay 10 Eggs Winter doesn't stop Mr. Henry's hens Readers whose hens are not laying well during these days of high egg prices, will find much of interest in the following letter from C. D. Henry, Alverton, Pa. He says: “I placed 10 pullers by themselves. and fed them Don Sung. The third day, my eggs in— creased from 3 to 9 a day. They have had Don Sung ever since and have laid continuously. Yesterday I or 10 e gs from them and am Willing to ma e allidavrt to it. Don Sung cer- tainly gets the eggs. It has paid for itself many tunes over." Don Sun , the Chinese egg laying tablet: which Mr. enry used, are opening the eyes of chicken raisers all over America. The tablets can be obtained from the Burr-ell - Bugger Co.. 739.Allon St., Indianapolis, nd Poultry raisers whose hens are not layin well, should send 50 cents for a .trial package or $1 for the extra’_large size,‘holdlng 3 times as much). Don Sun: is positively . work or money promptly retunM’so it costs nothing to try. Right now is, the the, .N'W '2 flung Don Sung toJour hens. so on will ve s good supply fresh eggsfi winter. teed to'do the “a mar-‘- C II" V‘ I-O‘P ‘ n—HUUIP‘DHUMU wvw<- I time these long evenings in an” in- tensive study. of the .1925 year— bodk ot-Michigan. A surprising tact, brought to light through this study. is ‘that a large number of counties lost population through the Llast decade. Now, I usedgtorlive in some at these ’ counties and-know a little‘about con- ditions. I' cannot understand why they have failed to presper. These counties form the north central group, ranging north of a line drawn through Grand Rapids, but even some southern coun- ties also lost. The state, as a whole, has gained rapidly enough to surpass some others, but this gain must be re- flected in: city growth, as it is evident the population is deserting the farms. 1 was in Clare when the first “Ann ‘ Arbor” train steamed proudly into the new depot; I" lived in Cadillac when the narrow guage log trains thundered ~ dailyPto the lake and‘ dumped thou- sands-of logs into the water, where they were floated to the huge Commer & Son, ;or Cobb & Mitchell mills; I played as a boy in lumber yards cov- ering a square mile, and piled to dizzy heights; I rode a raw-boned nag back to Evart after a doctor for a sick neighbor, and took my meals standing ’for several days afterward; I packed staves and clothespins at Custer dur- ing the summer months, and attended high school at Ludington in the win- ter; I attended dances at Steams, and hunted near Chase, worked at East ; Jordan, Petoskey and Reed City. I , hunted cattle in the woods at Tustin, and got lost at Sears and Forks. I - picked huckleberries at, or near, Lake City, and dug spuds at Goldwater. Yes, I think I know a little about that coun- try. There is an abundance of fine farm land, and square miles of oak ' grubs growing in white sand. The peo- . very elect, ple are, or at least were, among the and large families were the rule. Now, why is that land going backward? New Jersey and Maine are cashing in big on what was considered ' waste land, by growing huckleberries. . Much of that land in those counties is ideal for potatoes, beans, wheat, peas and rye, while wild berries grew to amazing size and sweetness. Concen- tration of our people in over-grown cit— ies cannot be a healthful condition. Evi- dently, there is a wonderful opportu- nity for men with little means to se- cure a farm in these counties, and live as a man should live, instead of being a slave to a whistle. Handling the Corn Crop. We made the finest corn crop we have had for years, but the next big question is, what are we going to do with it. I hear numerous complaints that the fodder will not dry out, and shredding is at a standstill. Those who did take a chance and shred part of the crop, had to fork out the shred- ded fodder, as it at once began to heat dangerously. There are numerous fields standing out in the snow and artfPi-Zéréfrir a . :iBy‘ L. B.'Rcb‘ejr . ' HAYE;been spending some of the Train, waiting for weather dry enough and disputed with bed bugs in Ala- mé Future“ 2;“ to permit-shredding. In the meantime, winter is drawing ne'arer everyday, and the-fodder is badly} needed for feed. We cut all of our corn in this part of the state, and corn fodder is in demand for feed, as we do‘ not raise hay, enough to carry us through the winter. -I do not know of one farmer who shucks standing corn and then turns in the stock, and the practice of hogging down corn is not followed anywhere around me. A western man would laugh at our corn patches of one to tenacres, but these small fields mean a lot to us just the same. 'Thus Far we Have Escaped the Fever. ' The Florida fever has not affected our neighborhood at all. A few “Wise Guys” in town have invested in Flor- ida landsL but I much fear they will \ get bitten again. After all, there is a real joy in bucking a snow storm, and there is real pleasure in standing in the barn and hearing the cattle crunch fodder, while a blizzard rages outside. In one way, we are always glad when cold weather comes and kills off the flies and bugs. Have you ever stopped to consider that flies, bugs, roaches~ and ants breed, and are active the year round in those warm climates? I know, for I fought roaches in Missis- sippi to see who would eat the dinner, bama to see who could stay in bed the longest, to say nothing of having the right of way along the path disputed by snakes, and lizards. Looking Ahead to Future Fruit Harvests. As soon as the weather settles I must take the trimming shears and get busy. The grapes will be extra hard to trim this year, as they bore no crop and threw all their strength into making new wood, most of which must be trimmed away. I shall give my young apple trees a looking over, but very little cutting will be done. No tree butchering for me, even though the young trees are showing a ten— . dency to reach to the skies. They will come down soon enough when the fruit begins to come. My bearing—age trees, set four years ago, have not borne an apple to date, and are outstripped in size and vigor by two-year-olds set at the same time. Neither have my dwarf trees borne, although they were ad- vertised to bear the next year from‘ setting. My Delicious trees, eight years old, have not borne an apple to date, but are making a fine growth. The fellow who makes the pictures and writes the reading matter'in the nursery catalogs, sure is a blood broth- er to Ananias. I set Gibson, Brandywine and Coop- er strawberry plants in the same patch last spring. The Gibson and Brandywine grew nicely until the rows, set four feet apart, are grown togeth- er; but the Cooper is almost a failure. Possibly it would do better on sand, as these plants are on black ground which lies rather low. ‘ Nate BOYS win honors at Ga lord Potat Sh . . I . 'Jr., who was awarded threey blue ribbo0 ow Left is Edward McVannel, , of Alpen county exhibits, ns and third place in the essay con- a, second in essay contest; right is boys and girls . come back to. Mother and Dad HRISTMAS TIME is visiting time in many a home. And sometimes the boys and girls who left home not so long ago to enjoy city life are surprised to find that today country life is actually ahead of city life. Fine motion pictures, fine radio sets and swift automobiles 'on good-1 roads running through attractive country have lent the one extra thing necessary, variety! Is nine o’clock bedtime? It’s more likely .to be Paramount time! The great organization behind Paramount Pictures is out to see that the finest possible motion pictures shall be regularly shown within driving distance of every home in the continent: Paramount Pictures such as “The Thundering Herd,” “Adventure,” Thomas Meighan in “Old Home Week,” Gloria Swanson in “The Coast of Folly,” .Betty Bronson in “Are Parents People?”, Raymond Griffith in “Paths to Paradise,” “Peter Pan,” “The Ten Commandments,” and “The Pony Express.” ~ law—n; .: z . What a difference such entertainment as this might have made in the old days! 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Writ. at onco for our special offer and free book about the improved harness with metal- to- metal wherever there' Is wear and strain. No old- fashioned buckles. Amazing strength and durability. Act quick! WRITE T0 Y. BABSON mos, 19mg fgggm" M- Chicago ‘Engage in dairying in a. county that combines orange growing. MOKSCEIIIIS general farming, poultry and live stock raising. Marion County has central creamerles and is central to best loral markets. Dairying in Florida, has big future. For trot booklet and particular information, address. MARION COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,804 N. Broadway, Ocala, Florida. Marion County FdnCDFll 9‘” s .30. This is Geor Beaudette of Michi- II who made 81, 800 from onlyw ensure of KeIIOgg Thorofired Plants grown the “ Keno: W.ny " Big profits from Strawberries comoeasy when on know how. Jacob Rod ers of Pennsylvania. made 3 ,700 on one acre; - Hansen Wisconsin,$l, 400:G California, $1, 600 and ”A ysong. Indiana, ‘1, 200 one half acre. on make more semen tells how. lso tells how to nab $100120 $300 cash profit from email ardens. This book II FREE. rite for it. I. H. KELLOGG CO. , 3624. “mm."Ich. LIKES McINTOSH APPLES. ILL Anderson, Brunswick, Mich- igan, a. prominent fruit grower, is so well pleased with the behavior of the McIntosh Red apple that he be- lieves it is destined to become one of our very .best' varieties. Out of 117 baskets of tree—run McIntosh, only five baskets were sorted out as culls. The remaining 112 baskets all went into A-grade apples. Mr. Anderson does not believe there is any other apple grown that will make this percentage of marketable fruit.—Spooner. REJUVENATES OLD ORCHARD. R. HAYNER, of Union City, says: “I am converted to the fruit bus- iness, and, having seén the metamor- phosis of my own orchard, I thought I would like to try the oldest and most run-down orchard I could find, and see What I could do for it.” So he obtain- ed a ten-year lease of the George Stray orchard, which has 360 of the original 400 trees set our forty years age. When Mr. Hayner took over tl‘Xs or— chard, there was still'a building on the place that was built for an apple evap- orator. ‘This orchard got rather the worst of it in its combat: v‘th its en- emies, and had grown up to blackberry bush and native shrubs. This is the fourth year of the lease, and this or- ’chard was a, sight to gladden the heart of an orchardist, when, this fall, over 300 Baldwin apple trees were laden with fine apples of unusual size and flavor. Two years ago there were as many apples, but the quality is better this year. Mr. Hayner sold from this orchard this year, six carloads of an pies. A car and a half were sold to the Piazza Hotel, of Chicago, and the rest was sold in South Bend. He has shipped in baskets, barrels, and the last carload in bulk. He Sprays twice during the season, if there is not fruit, and if there is fruit, he sprays five- times.——L. McIntosh. , REGULATIONS FOR MAKING CIDER. LACK of understanding of the re- quirements of the national prohibi- tion enforcement act in regard to the making and sale of cider is found among farmers generally, according to the prohibition enforcement ofli— cials, who are offering the following ' 1 advice as to regulations making cider: “Farmers who make cider in small quantities to sell the same day, or keep for personal use, need not ob- tain permits. _ “Farmers who operate large presses, and bottle, jug, or barrel cider, with necessary precautions to keep down alcoholic percentage, should take out permits. “Farmers making cider for vinegar purposes should be familiar with legal requirements that sodium bicarbonate or some other ingredient be added to make theii product unfit for beverage purposes.” NEWE LflVERLAN I FREIM ORDERS CLEAN-UP. NLESS the Farmers’ Market at Ironwood is maintained in a more sanitary condition, the district inspect- or of the state department of agricul- ture has given notice that he will order its discontinuance, at least for the handling of meats. FIRE LOSS iS HEAVY. OREST and brush fires burned over 41,184 acres in the district at the west end of the peninsula, this year, according to the report of the conser- vation officer in charge. There were 229 fires of all kinds. The property loss is put at $41,506. Fire fighting cost the state $10,273. This di’Strict lies in Gogebic and Ontonagon coun- ties. The costs do not include injury to soil 01' vegetation on recently logged land. The loss to logs is the largest item in the cost account. CLOVERLAND HENS RANK HIGH. MIL VVENBERG, of Dollard Bay, Houghton county, has a. pen of ten White Leghorns entered in the Third Michigan International Egg-lay- ing Contest. The first week’s results are very favorable to this local poul— tryman. His hens produced thirty eggs for the week ending November 7. There are twenty-eight pens of White Leghorns entered from Michi- gan; the Dollar Bay pen is the only one from the Upper Peninsula. There are twenty-two pens from thirteen oth- er states, and two from Canada. Other breeds are also represented in the con- test, bringing the total number of pens up to 100. The record of the first week’s performance for-all pens en- tered, is reported to show that eighty- six pens made a poorer showing than those of Mr. W‘enberg, while twelve laid a larger number, and one pen was- tied with him. GIRL ATTE‘N 08 INTERNATIONAL. ICKINSON county will be repre- sented at the International Live Stock Show at Chicago, by a. girl, Miss Florence Rhodes. Her pure-bred calf was awarded first place at the Dickin- son County Fair, this year. This is the girl’s first year as a calf-club mem- ber. She will receive free transporta- tion over the line of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, which is giv- ing similar treatment to other coun- ties served by its line. PUSHING COLLEGE WORK IN CLOVERLAND. HE annual conference of Michigan State College extension workers in the Upper Peninsula was held at Mar- quette on November 11-12-13. Several members of the faculty at East Lan- sing, including Professor 0. E. Reed, and Director R. J. Baldwin, with coun- ty agents, home demonstration agents, and boys’ and girls’ club leaders, gath- ered from all parts of the peninsula, and the work for the season «of 1926 was laid out. It Will be along much the same lines as in previous years. There is a. considerable force of col- lege specialists regularly detailed to the work north of the straits. They have their offices in the Marquette County Court House. 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' L " g -A Fragment of An Old Letter. - , i- ' HE stood, still drowsy from sleep ‘ in the heated car, with a half Sense {-5. V v, j of not remembering how she came ' _ to be there. The train rattled away into the night, and with its passing they were made suddenly aware of the ' savage force of the storm. The wind , ‘ seemed to scream» over invisible bar- riers as it passed, and the snow "drove against them in a blinding smother. :Some low shelter stood beside the track. A freight car, demounted from the trucks, and Chad took her by the :arm and led her to it. The door push- «ed easily back, and they stepped in- side, out of the storm. A window had been cut in each end of the substitute depot, and across one of these a length of stovepipe cut a wide shadow. A low box stove, where waiting passengers or storm-stranded crews could start a fire and warm themselves while they waited. Davis stood in the doorway a mo- ment, looking up and down the tracks. "There is no one her ,” he said. “I expected it would be hat way. We wouldn’t dare get anyone to take us up anyway. I didn’t know how bad the storm was, though. It’s five miles up to the place. Do you think you can make it?” Alice was shivering from the sudden ‘ change from the train to the snow- _drifted car. “I k-know I c-can,” she declared chatteringly, “please let’s s-start.” _ He hesitated a moment. “The wmd is in the south,” he said finally, “it will help us some. 'We’ll try it anyway.” A narrow road, but little wider than a single wheel track, ran north and south across the railroad, into the flat swamp land on either side. There was no fence along it, and the low growth of poplar and birch, cut with the thick willow of the swales, encroached on the open lane on either side. Davis turned north on to the road, breaking a path for the girl, through the knee deep snow. The wind tore past, whip- ping her skirts about her knees, till time and again she all but tripped in them. It was harder work than she had ever done before, this dragging one’s feet up out of the snow, ahead—— and down into it again. But it brought quick relief from the shivering cold that had struck into her body at the crossing, and she waded on, comfort- ably warm, panting for breath, close behind Chad. The snow was too thick in the air to let her see more than a few yards on either side, but she had a feeling that the night cloaked land, it she could see it, would roll away, mile up- on mile—a level sameness of poplar and birch and willow brush. And there would be the thick stumps of the pines, too, she knew, for she could see them—odd black shapes through the snow, so close to the road that she could have put her hand upon them as she stumbled past. Davis called back to her, his voice a faint thread of sound, trailing back above the roar of the storm. “Our tracks will drift full in an hour. By morning no one could even guess that we had gone" this way.” The girl shuddered. What if they should become too tired at last to go on—should stumble and fall and lie quiet in the snow. The road came up before her as it would look in the spring thaw—the dark, softening drifts -—and in the middle of the lonely road a black something—two black some- things that bulged .higher as the snow went down. She shuddered again; then the horror passed. That could not happen. He, there ahead, would not let her stumble and lie in the snow! Davis did not speak again for a long time. He was breaking the track and had no breath to spare, for one thing. Then, too, there were. times when doubts assailed him—«when his wife’s crime, complete in its premeditation, rOSe up before him, and left him with A ~Michigan Mystery” Oar New Find-Rim Serial Stoiy By a Popular Michigan Author I x' ‘ a cold desire to be accusingly silent. It was easy to blame her, tramping along this way, fighting the snow for her. It wasn’t so easy when he could see her face, and her wide gray eyes. Yet she was fighting, too—silently, without complaining, and he knew it was much harder for her. It wasn’t too easy to keep up the cold silence, even with her there behind him... He stopped, and turned around, to speak to her. The wind tore his breath from him in soundless gasps. He sheltered his face with his arms—,‘We’ll rest here—~till you begin—to chill. We’ve done—a half mile—and we’ve got to take it easy.” He let her step past him, in his tracks, and so shielded her from the wind. She leaned back against him, fairly sobbing for breath, and he un- buttoned his heavy coat and flung it about her. , . “Why didn’t you tell me you were all in ?” he demanded. once. The cold would strike in quick- ly while she was damp with sweat, from the walk. He was back in a moment, with an armful of swamp grass, and dry sticks of dead poplar. He laid‘a’handful of birchbark on the fireplace floor, piled the grass and wood upon it, and in a moment the flames were roaring up the wide chimney, lighting the far cor- ner of the desolate snow-drifted cab- in, with a lurid flickering light. He went out twice more for wood, and when he came in the last time, the girl was sitting up On the bunk, looking about the single room. It was a small cabin of ash and elm logs, well chink- ed with clay and moss. At the end opposite the fireplace“ was a single square window. The small“panes had fallen from the sashand a deep drift of snow was piled across the floor, as far as the foot of the bunk. Another drift had blown in through the sagging door, and was melting now, in the heat . ’/ \\t\ ’ /'“:- j \\:’ of the flames from the fireplace. Chad crossed over to her, and help-' “I’m all right,” she panted. They stood so, resting, till ,a shiver shook the girl’s body—and before he released her, and stepped ahead in to the snow again, Chad Davis bent. and kissed his wife upon the lips. “Only a quarter mile more,” he promised her, at last, as they plunged ahead. They had stopped—she did not know how many times. She had for- gotten to count, finally. Each time he had held her, encouraged her, till she began to grow cold, and they had stag- gered on. Davis himself was all but done out. Would the girl last to make it, he wondered? If she didn’t, could he carry her that last awful quarter mile? They had turned off the straight road more than a mile back, and the one they followed now, angling into the north-west, was even more closely brush grown and deeper drifted than the other. Step by step they dragged along; Alice had stopped thinking, years be- fore, it seemed. She pulled her weight- ed feet up out of the snow—pushed them ahead—lunged forward on them —endlessly—endlessly. Her legs——her whole body cramped and ached. She was wondering, in a dazed, detached way, if Chad would miss her if she just dropped down and rested a while. She could catch him, after she had slept. If he only wouldn’t miss her, and come back for her—she stumbled against him, sagged, and went limply down. ‘ The door, sagging half open on its hinges, yielded to his weight, and scraped slowly in a circle, on the floor of the room. Davis set down the bags ——the bags that had grown weighted with lead, that last mile—stretched his aching arms out a brief instant, and then stooped, lifted and carried her in- side. He knew where the pole bunk was built against the wall, and he car- ried her across to it, and laid her down. Then he took off his coat, flung it over her, rummaged a moment in his bag, and went out into the storm again. A stone fireplace chimney rose against the sky at one end of the shack, and they must have a fire at ~ er her to her feet. He steadied her for a moment, and then she smilingly put him away. “I’m all right now, and it’s so warm and cozy in here.” “Not cold at all?” She shook her head, and crossed to the fire to kneel before it. “I’m going out now, to get a pad for the bunk. Then I,want you to lie down and rest, and I’ll fix us a lunch.” He was gone a long time, and when he pushed the door open, and stepped in, with a huge bundle of dry swamp grass in his arms, he stopped in sur- prise. There was a rough board shutter for the one window, hung on a clumsy peg. It was pushed shut, and Alice’s fur coat, hung over it, shut out the last trace of the storm. The small, square table, built of planks, in a corner be- side the fireplace, had been brushed clear of the rubbish and dust of years, and on it, stuck in its own wax, a can- dle cast a soft radiance into the parts of the room where the firelight did not fall. Alice was standing by the fire again. waiting for him. He went over to the bunk, flung the bundle of grass down upon it, and turned back to her. “I rummaged in the bag,” she ex- plained. “Do you like it?” He stood with his hands upon her shoulders, looking down into the little disguised face. A queer feeling came upon him, that never again would he be able to blame her as much as he ought—perhaps not at all—for any- thing. I “Alice,” he said gently, “I love can- dle-light. .There is something deep and sweet, almost holy, in the soft radi- ance of it; the flame of a candle seems to me to glow as the Star must have glowed. It is associated in my mind and soul with good things. Nothing unclean, not even a thought, could live, it seems, in candlelight.” “I always thought, that if I ever had a wedding, I should want the supper, and the evening afterward, alone, in just candlelight—fl . His wife’s eyes were wet with un- Actz'vz'tz'er of All Acrer—A/ H45 4 Narrow Excapc in No Man’s Land shed ears; as “he ; “Chaser-hay 1 mm... . >97 .‘ . it for you; before? ou'YCame' whispered softly; f‘ o‘ onei'xewer appre- ciated an much, be ore. hing I did for‘ them, that I found things to eat, too. Let’s have/the wedding supper." They made fire, and ate on the MR candleglow. ished, Chad arose. chocolate over the open lank table, by the en they had fin- ‘_‘I don’t know what we will do, after tomorrow,” he said, thoughtfully. "You are safe enough here. - No one ever comes near the shack. ,But I can’t stay with you. They will be looking for me, up home, and Ill have to go, some time tomorrow. It’s only five miles, and I can come back, but I can’t be here long at a time—and you can’t stay alone.” “I can—I’ll have to,” she declared. He shook his head. “You don’t know how alone—how dreadfully alone—and quiet it Would be, by night! ” He stopped suddenly. “I believe you could. do it, though, if you had Bob?" “And who is Bob?” “Young Bob, the grandson of Old Bob—quarter English bull, half shep- herd, real shepherd, not collie, and the rest black and tan hound. do you like them ?” All dog—— “Do I like dogs? I would stay alone, forever, 'anywhere, unafraid, for the sake of the companionship of a dog; not a‘house pet, but a real dog, with an unhampered soul, and boundless knowing and allegiance. I’ll stay here, as long as you let me,,g1adly, if I can - have you part of the time, and Bob all the time. Tell me about him.” She dropped down on a short section of log, gray with the dust of countless winters and summers, in the unused cabin, that made a seat at one side of the fireplace. There she pulled Chad down at her feet, and drew his head back against her knees. “Old Bob was my first dog—~the Eng— lish bull. I was four when dad brought him home to me, so we had the best of our kid days together. He never was as brimming with mischief as the average pup. He came of a breed whose sons are born with a ser- ious mission in life, and he accepted the responsibility young. He wasn’t above chewing up an occasional rub- ber, of course, but he always went about it in a business-like, direct way, and only when there wasn’t a neigh‘ borhood puppy handy to chew instead. “I started to the country school when I was six, with a mile to walk each way. By that time Bob had got trust- worthy enough that he and I went after the cows every night down the long lane, to the new ground. We didn’t have a bell cow, and it was quite a, hunt sometimes, to find them in the fifty acres of uncleared land. The summer twilight had pretty well faded once or tw' e, by the time we were back to at ’ barn, but I was never afraid, and dad and mother never wor- ried, for Bob always kept close enough that I could walk with [one hand on his back, unless I sent'him away into the brush to bring one of the cows out. So, when I started for school the first morning, mother and Bob went with me. It didn’t take him long to learn, and within a month he was on the front porch waiting for me every morning. By mid-afternoon he would grow restless, and when mother finally gave the word, he was off up the road for the school-house, a racing streak of brindle that covered the mile with- out a pause. I used to find him wait- ing out on the steps for me night after night, all out of breath from his run, and wagging his stub of a tail nearly off, that he hadn’t had to wait any longer.” “I’d liked to have known that little country school boy.and his dog,” the girl out in suddenly, in a wistful tone. “Would there have been room for a third playmate, do you suppose ?" Chad Davis looked up_ at her, studying her as if making a decision for Old Bob, Frank R. Leet "Nil/”1”“, . LET‘S ARDITRATE! p I SAW SoMEWlNG MOVE AND Tuoueurrr WAS A ‘ RABBIT! I! ' , .1' " ass ~~ ~ t more import 1: than his own “There weald,” he told her finally, with quiet conviction, “for such as you would have bee ." “The ngxt spring they let us go fish- ing together down on the Tobacco,’ he went on; “those were the real days. Bob 'would chase chipmunks, and some- times a rabbit, through the new ground, while I caught big black suck- ers out of the muddy river. I’ve been trout fishing since, up on the head wa- ters of the Tittabawassee—but it's not ti: becompared. There never Will be fishing for me, again, like those first spring days when‘ the suckers were running. “When Bob got tired of hunting, or he was getting too far away, he would come back and lie on the sunny side of a big pine stump and watch me. He was lying that way, one day, when ,I 'fell into the river. A bull dog doesn t like water, but the Tobacco IS an old lumber stream, and the current in sucker time is a boiling mill race. If ‘ Bob hadn’t forgotten his aversion that time, they would have been a long While finding out, for sure, what had happened to me. .That was the final act. He was one of the family from then on. , “I grew old enough that I didnt need him on the way to school, but he still made the trip, because he liked it. Then the tragedy came. It was one morning during the last week in May, and the last week of school. ' One of our neighbors, half way to the school-house, kept a big mongrel dog that Was the terror of the nelgh- borhood. Bob had fought him in the road before the house once or tW1ce, and he had learned not to come .out when we went by. This morning, though, I saw him turn out of the yard while we were yet a quarter of a mlle away, and head our way, at a steady lope. I wondered at it, for he_had been shot at a few times and so didn’t usually go far from his own yard. think Bob must have understood that before I did. When he- fought-it was always in a. cold, intent, silent way, and if he challenged another dog it was lw an act and not a sound. He stopped suddenly, however, hackles raised, and lowered, and I heard a hideous snarl rattle up in his throat. It rang higher, broke in a raspy bark, became a choking growl once more, and then I 53W. The other dog,;srx or eight rods away, had broken into. a rfin. His head, low to the ground, was swinging from si e to side, and 1118 bared fangs dripped and flung great flec s of slayer as he came. All I cou see of his eyes were scarlet, bloodshot rims, about the rolled up whites, and he was making a noxse as much more hideous than Bob’s, as the scream of a maniac is worse than the shout of an angry man! Bob met him some thirty feet in front of me. There was a pause. Bob was still snarling a little, but he went in for the throat as coolly as I ever saw him, and the mad dog slashed and raged at hlm while he chose his hold. I was too scared to run, so I saw it all, but after that first minute they were just two thrashing, rolling, twisting bodies that never once broke apart. Bob was un- derneath when the mongrel lay quiet at last. I stroked his head, got him to let go, and the neighbor pulled him out. He wasn’t dead—but they shot him that night to save him from rabies." Chad stopped suddenly, and in the quietness the girl put a hand softly into his hair. “I will never be afraid, with the son of a dog like that, never. It will be almost as if I had shared Old Bob, himself, with you." “Not the son—the grandson,” Davis corrected, gravely. “Dad brought Gyp- sy home to me the next week. She was Bob’s daughter by a neighbor’s rabbit-hound bitch. A good dog, but :she never took the place of Bob. Then the year before I went away to school, young Bob was, whelped. He is Gyp- sy’s son, out of Leopold. Leopold is a shepherd, the first of his kind in our neighborhood, ‘With the faithfulness of a dog, and the intelligence of a man. And young Bob is a worthy son of him, W-orthy enough to even be the grandson of Old Bob.” “I wish we had him here tonight,” Alice said. “I don’t want to stay alone» without him, now that you’ve told me about him, and I don’t see how I can have him—how I can get him here.” Chad got up suddenly. “I do. I’ll go up tonight and get him. The storm is still raging, and the tracks will drift full. The folks will’think somebody has stolen him, and once I get him down here and tell him he belongs, he’ll stay, all right. Only you’ll have to keep him in for a day or so, and watch that he doesn't get far enough away any time to be seen.” “Can you make it tonight, in the storm, do you think?” i‘Easilyw It’s only a ten-mile trip, and I’ll be without a load, both ways. Are you. afraid to wait?” She. shook her head. “Not if you are sure‘you can make it back againstthe 'stdrml’fi Her anriety. it seemed, was not at all for herself, during the lonely hours in the cabin. “There are blankets in he bag,” Chad told her. “You'd bett r spread them on the bed, and lie down and try to sleep." He looked at his watch. “It’s quarter past midnight, now, I won’t be back before three, and it may be four. Don’t worry if I’m not here -till daybreak, and try not to be ner- vous." “I'm not the nervous kind," she said, with a quiet smile, “if I were—,1 would have broken, hours, yes, days ago. I shall go to sleep as soon as you are gone.” Davis hesitated a moment, awkward-‘ 1y, then reached into his pocket, and took out the little pearl—handled revol- ver that he had kept since that morn- ing in the hotel, and held it out With- out meeting her eyes. He felt sud- denly ashamed of his feelings that morning. She hadn’t use it—or if she had, she had had good cause. “It’s loaded again," he said simply, when she took the gun. Then he put on his hat and coat, and went out into the storm. Alice pushed the warped 01d door shut behind him, and stood, a moment, listening. There was no sound above the roar of the wind outside. An em- ber in the fireplace burst with a sud- den po-p, and the girl flinched at the sound. Then she laughed aloud——and at the hollow ring of her owu voice— was sorry she had laughed. Then she spoke deliberately to herself, “I’m not the nervous kind,” she said, with con- vincing firmness, and her voice did not ring quite so badly, “but if I don't go to bed Iwill be,” she ended, in honest acknowledgement. She crossed to the bunk and spread out the pile of dead grass. ‘Then she laid the two blankets over it, brought her coat from the window for extra covering, and sitting before the fire- place she removed her shoes, shock or puncture the rubber. General Oflices: This is the second installment of our gripping mystery story that began in last week’s issue. Don’t miss any of the succeeding install- ments, that you may get in on our Story Contest. out her hair that turned to garnet silk in the firelight, as deliberately as if before her dressing table. “I won't be afraid,” she whispered between tight- locked teeth. Then she flung fresh pieces of pine stump on the coals, and blew the candle. “That will keep the cabin light till I get asleep,” she re- assured herself in shivery hopefulness. Lying there on the bunk, taking in every detail of the old log walls, and the shake covered roof, in the dancing firelight, her nervousness gradually gave way to genuine interest. The old walls must have great tales to tell if they could talk. Had other brides been sheltered within them before her? Family raised, perhaps? She tried to p1cture it as it had been. The first bride—she for whom it had been built. _Her first baby. The first family loss, in the death of the old mother, per- haps; a sense of real security came over her. It was a friendly old cabin, after all. Her nameless fears. and dreads, had been imaginary—the acts of an overwrought mind. There was nothing here to shiver about. She was secure from the storm. She, too, had come as a bride, and in the morning Chad would be back. with young Bob. She was glad the threatening horror had been stopped. It would not come again, now, no matter how long she stayed in the cabin. She fell to studying each log—each knot—each piece of chinking. They seemed suddenly to take on almost human differences—perhaps because of the different points fnom which they had seen the things that had been lived in the crude old room. A dis- turbing thought crept in suddenly. What had her husband said about her being safe there as long as they chose to stay? That must mean that no one ever came near! Why? There must be. some cause—s‘ome terrible, fear-in- spiring reason why the people on the neighboring farms avoided the place as a pestilence! What was it? Fear of some occupant, past or present? The memory of some awful crime, committed in the room? Did Chad Davis know? And if he knew, Why had he left her there, alone, even for an hour? Fear, shuddering dread, hys- teria, were sweeping back upon her. 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"Minute-yum “165 3.14m Siam-so 'ruvrsshi HEN readingthis lesson, one of the most stirring-in the New ‘ Testament, I suggest that the reader lock' up the route of Paul’s ship ,on a map. The map in the back of the Bible will do very well. The ship left Caesarea, went north to Sidon, where it stopped a short time, and Paul vis- lited friends. Then , the ship sailed * slowly across that arm of the Med- iterranean, passing south of the large island of Cyprus, where Paul had had rememberable experiences in the-past. The ship stopped at the important sea port cf Myra, and there the, centurion who had charge of Paul and the other prisoners changed ships, and the party proceeded on a. grain-carrying vessel, bound for Rome. Most of the grain at that. time was not raised in Italy, as the soil had been impoverished to a. large ‘degree. From Myra. the ship . sailed south to Crete,arrd stop ped at Fair Hav- ens. From the statement that the Fast was kept at that time, Ramsay fixed the date of the beginning of the voyage as about August 17, and the run from Myra to Fair Havens as taking from September 1 to Sep- tember 25. After leaving Fair Havens, against Paul’s advice, the ship began to en— counter violent winds, which develop- ed into a. typhoon. A modern ship cap- tain said that the wind comes down from the mountains of Crete, “fit to blow a ship out of the water.” Driving before the storm for many days, they at length threw overboard the wheat, and finally even the ship’s gear, which shows the situation to have been des- perate. Without knowing where they were, and with no sun or stars to go by, (the mariner’s compass was not invented until many centuries after), they accidentally ran ashore on the small island of Melita, or Malta. There they remained the rest of the winter, all members of the party being saved, but the ship wrecked. 0W did it come about that Luke could write So vividly of this voy‘ age? It is considered one of‘ the best descriptions of ancient sea-faring. It ‘ has several items which teach us about the shipping of that time which would otherwise be unknown. Experts de— clare that Luke’s use of terms is very accurate. Did he get these facts from Paul? The answer to this, according to schOlars who have made careful study of it, is that Luke was present, traveling as Paul’s personal attendant, or slave. It sounds reasonable. Every now and then the writer says, “we” instead of “they.” We may think of Paul, on this voy- age, as a man who gave traveling ac- quaintances and officials the impres- sion of being a man of wealth, accom- panied by one or two slaves, a man of learning and personal presence, and cultured with a vast amount of travel. He impressed people with whom he came in contact. When the ship foun— dered, the soldiers wanted to kill the prisoners, but the centurion refused because he wanted to save Paul. What-are the points of great interest in this narrative? To begin with, it is a story of adventure. I suspect that all the 276 passengers and crew wished they had taken Paul’s advice not to leave Fair Havens. Everybody likes adventure; b11t, like other things, it can be overdone. The adventure of the Christian religion now is as cer- tain as it was then. If one doubts that, let him read the story of modern mis-' alone. The reason religion is not as exciting now as.it has been at some periods in the past. is because we re- Our Weekly Sermon—~By N. .4. Meals; sicians in diagnos .fuse to get excited. The adventures are thin because the adventures are few. GAIN, the factor of Divine Provim dence is always presentwhen Paul enters the scene. ‘ “He that will watch Providence shall never want 'a Provi- dence to Watch,” says the Scotch prev- erb. “Looking back, over my life,” says Sir Thomas Browne, "I see noth- ing but an abyss and mass of mercies.” It did not look providential to the worldly minded when this flaming evangelist was/arrested in Jerusalem, kept there two long, dragging years, then sent to Rome to appear before a. besotted emperor. But Paul said that God guided him all the way. When the storm was about to swallow the little sailing vessel, and its terrified crew, God seemed a long way on. Yet not so to Paul. He was the man of the hour, and had an encour- aging word for all, and begged them all to take heart. To cultivate an eye for Providence is the thing. There is no chance. Science ought to teach us that. But we didnft need to wait for science, for the Bible would have made that plain, long ago. And Providence creates a. cheerful- ness. The most cheerful man is the man who came from Tarsus. When the island was reached, he was -. 3ady to do good to the people of the island. He healed the governor, and did the same for others. They were there three months, so that there was time for a good‘deal of such work. ‘ SOME events that seem to us like total losses are not so. They are a multiplying of the treasures of the heart. When Alexander Duff was on his way to India, the vessel was wreck- ed. All of the missionary’s valuables were lost except some money on his person. On the share he found a copy of his book of psalms, and there he led the rescued passengers in a service of prayer. But, of course, it does not always end this way. Sometimes things do look as though God did not care. Yet we must remember that, out of such experiences have come the most pro— ductive times of the Christian religion. The New Testament teaches that suf- fering is one of the ways in which we can serve God. \Ve are to suifer for His sake. That does not sound like efficiency. The ”eiiiciency engineer” tells us we are to avoid all friction, loss of motion, mental disturbance, and move smoothly, sweetly and sweepingly on to the goal we have chosen. But some wise man has said that the stops as well as the steps of a. good man are ordered of the Lord. The stops often produce more than the steps. The other day I read a list of great prison literature—that is, books that have been written while the au- thors were confined to prison, or in exile. I wish I had written one of them. They are the children of suf- fering. They were created, not by “in- efficiency,” but by the highest possible efficiency. God makes the wrath and stupidity of man to praise him. Re- ligious faith can triumph over any- thing. “Neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities nor powers, nor things present, her things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR DECEMBER 6. SUBJECT. -—Paul’s v0 3. e and wreck. Acts 27: 1 toyii ship- GOLDEN TEXT. —Be of good cheer, it is I; be not afraid. Matthew 14: 27. ’ A new device makes it possible to“ make phonographic records of heart sounds. It is said this Will lid ph ”a. W ”W... . ._ W » . .“ufivw’m w, . ‘ ,r‘ / . mywlak-xl‘..«.ua- .. 77 ‘ WALWLA . w_ . rur «ew- .w - en” ~— «.84.. .. . a... L “3-)“-.. BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS.‘ BRILLIANT little handbill, re- splendent: in red, yellow and green,'has been left on my desk. It carries two lines of printing. The first is, “Buy Christmas Seals,”-the second, “Fight Tuberculosis." It seems that these slogans go together. The only other printing shown is the Christmas Seal watchword, “Merry Christmas and Good Health.” Well, it is a splendid combination. You may ’be sure that I shall buy Christmas Seals. I have spent many of my best years fighting tuberculosis, and I’m eager for help from any reli- able source. I learn that, although , Christmas Seals are bought with pen.- ” nies, their job is on a million dollar scale. Last year the total sale in the United States was $4,500,000. This is the Eighteenth Christmas Seal Sale of the Michigan Tuberculosis Association. The Michigan sale was $194,616.60 last year. The National Tuberculosis Associa- tion reports expenditure through na- tional, state and local associations, of $25,000,000 in education and organiza- tion, which, in turn, has resulted in the securing of appropriations from public Lands amounting to $150,000,000 for the establishment of tuberculosis agencies _ with a total annual maintenance bud- get of over $30,000,000. Fnom the same authority we learn that a good Christmas Seal Sale this year will give: 1. Additional hospital, sanatorium and other institutional provision, and home care for the treatment of at least 500,000 active cases of tuberculosis. 2. More intensive and continuous health education for children and adults, with a view to developing prop- er health habits. .‘ . flilLPrIVAfiD 3. Greatly increased provision for the discovery of active cases of tuber- culosis. ' If it carries out a small part of these projects, I am strong for it. Buy Christmas Seals. CARE OF SYPHILITIC PERSONS. Please ‘tell me something about syphlis. What i want to know espe- cially is, if it can be cured at home by a home treatment—S. F. Syphilis is a. very dangerous disease which may attack any tissue of the body. Although considered a “vener- eal disease,” it may be acquired inno- cently. It is contagious, yet if proper care is taken it is not hard to keep it from spreading to others. It is very important to have treatment by a phy- sician who gives special study to the disease. Its tendency, if untreated, is to get worse instead of better. LITTLE GIRL HAS CROSS—EYES. What about cross-eyes in a little girl of five? Can it be cured without can operation?—B. S. .5 You should take your little girl to an oculist at once. It is very import- ant that you go to a first-class doctor. By fitting glasses at this early stage of LIPS AND EYES SWELL. Would you please tell me what would cause a lip or an eye to swell up over night? And what can be used to lower the swelling?—-E. A. “I. If such a swelling is confined to one eye, or only a portion of the lip, it is very likely due to the bite of an in sect. The use of a poultice will help in the reduction. Such a swelling com- ing to both eyes, would give rise to a suspicion of kidney trouble. ' “'nuuua-Imm :‘W - E L‘ae. Adventures of T he Run-away Maura HERE am I going?" thought the heady eyes. little field mouse as Billy Bounce he was a little afraid, or perhaps he held him in his hand. Billy had one hand cupped over the top of the other to make a little cage so that the mouse could just see out through one tiny crack. “But it’s so warm and cozy in here, and so much better than it was under that old leaf. Before, I always ran from little boys and girls, because I thought they would hurt me; but this little boy seems very kind. Only, I wish I knew where I was going. The Little Mouse Had Run Away. "If that old chinky chipmunk hadn’t been so mean and stole everything from my winter cupboard, I wouldn’t be so hungry,” thought the little field mouse to himself. The mouse tried to be brave, but a bis:_tea.r rolled out of one of his little I Tilly and Billy Perhaps this was because was cold and hungry. “We’ll put him in your doll’s cradle,” said Billy, just to tease Tilly, as they went toward the house. “Mary Ann, my littlest doll, just wouldn’t have a mouse in her bed, and Lolly Lue’s cradle is much too big," said Tilly by way of an excuse. So it was decided to put the field mouse in a little box. After much urging, Tilly consented to allow the little field mouse to eat off her dolly’s best blue china. Then Tilly and Billy fixed enough food to fill two little mouses’ stomachs, placed it‘inthe box, and went away. “You know, mother says it isn’t po- lite to watch folks eat, and maybe the little field mouse wouldn’t like it if we watched him,” said Tilly. So these two young adventurers skipped out of doors again to finish their game of tag. An hour passed before they even thought of their little field mouse friend again; "Let’s see What he is doing now," said Tilly to Billy, and they ran a race toward the house. . “Perhaps he is asleep," said Billy, as they tip-toed up to the box. the trouble, it may be all corrected. But as Billy carefully and quietly lifted the cover of the box, he got one of the biggest surprises he ever had. The little field mouse was not there, and a hole gnawed in the corner of his box told which way he had gone. / ’ «F or a Better Michigan Farmer Tell Us What You Read We Want to make The Michigan Farmer a better paper. You can help us do it by telling us what you and the members of your family read regularly and what new features or articles you would like to see in Your Own Home Farm Paper. The following ballot has all the regular features in The Michigan Farmer listed. 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HEN the year has dwindled down to its lowest common de- nominator, when childish hints and desires permeate the atmosphere ——we know that Christmas is in the ofl‘ing. - Christmas is a season of good will, general benevolence and charitywbut it has also become a season of intense worries, frenzies, and arguments. It is true that men give the metallic jingle and brawn that goes into Christmas giving, but invariably it is the woman who gives the “nerves” and does the heavy work, as it were. One blessing about living in the country during the days before the big event is, that one has ample elbow room, and does not have to risk life Eliminate Work VERY minute that a home- maker can spare from her housekeeping duties is to the credit of a greater home com- panionship and recreation. To increase these spare minutes we must eliminate as much of our housework as possible, and find the easiest way to accomplish what must be done. Send us a letter this week, telling one way by which you have lightened or eliminated a part of your housework. For the five best ways we will send needle cases, containing a full assortment of needles. Address your: letters, before December 11, to Martha Cole, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich- igan. and limb in the great American game of Christmas shopping. As the season draws near, we are wondering what has become of the old- fashioned Christmas entertainments the district schoolma’am used to give. They were gala events. Every man, woman and child in the country for miles around, turned out. The school- room was decorated in befitting com- HEN Indian summer days have slipped by and fall weather gets settled down to a steady tem— perature, ready to immerge itself into winter, then it is that we mark, with a big red cross, a day on the calendar for butchering day. The caring for a home meat supply is a task that only a farmer’s wife has to cope with. If you wish to can a part of the meat this year, even down to the spareribs, or if you would like Strong For Chrlstma And the District C/znirtfi’mr Program memoration; a Herculean evergreen looked like a verdant toy shop. The little schoolma’am was frustrated for fear. someone would forget his or‘her “piece.” Every girl had a new dress for the occasion; the boys were junior Beau Brummels. Then followed the finished product bf many tiresome rehearsals. Every- thing went off with a hang. The frus- trated look passed from the school- ma'am’s countenance; a palpitating 'sllence pervaded. Then the jingling sleigh bells, and “Wihoa, Prince! Whoa, Blitzen!” and we knew whose resonant organs were functioning. A familiar fur coat came forward, and “Santa” passed out the presents. ' Remember some of the gifts that hung on the Yule tree of yesteryear? Take the shaving mugs, for instance. :I‘hey were given as much gangway as a masterpiece painting in an art muse- ~um. And the coffee cups—half as big as percolators—colorfui and pictur- esque. Some of them were embossed with “Father” or “Mother.” Some of the best ones were embossed in four- teen-“carrot” gold, and said——“A pres- ent.” Where and, oh, where have those district Christmas trees gone? Per- haps it is the coming of the radio—or the passing of the little red school- house itself, for something more mod- ern—or the utter convenience of a simple cantata, that has relegated the particular event into oblivion. Anyway, we still ‘have the radiating memories of it, the beautiful ever- green. As it stood in the schoolhouse corner, bedecked and laden, every needle seemed to inoculate with peace and cheer. To the older folks, it was a mere synonym; to us, the kiddies of yesteryear, it had a soul—Mrs. H. Girard. CHOP SUEY LUNCH EON. ESIRING to add the spice of va- riety when it was my turn to entertain the club to which I belong, I planned a chop suey lunch- eon. I decorated the house with crepe paper Chinese flags that I made my- self. Draped paper streamers in red, Preserve Meat at Home to preserve a part of the meat in a brine that will be sure to keep it and impart an unusually good flavor, we have a bulletin that will help you. This bulletin contains recipes and formulas for preserving beef, mutton, pork, and chicken. A quantity of the bulletins are now available. For a copy send five cents in stamps or coin, to Martha Cole, Detroit, Desk M. Michigan Farmer, Michigan. white, blue, black, and orange, the col- ors of the‘Chlnese flag, carried out the color scheme in the dining room. As hostess, I dressed as nearly like a Chinese ‘woman as I could. I wore a plain light blue dress with a wide red sash, and a red border around the neck, sleeves, and bottom of the skirt. With a black stocking as foundation, I made a wig, glueing hair combings to it. After making a queue, I dyed it black. With red cheeks and eyebrows, -I made quite a “Chink.” For the luncheon I served: Lemon Fruit Salad Chop Suey Rice Rolls Lemon Pie Sugar Cookies ' Tea If crushed pineapple and a. very little .minced carrot, together with cherries, is added to the lemon gelatine salad it will be very attractive. This is a very good recipe for chop suey: ' 2 cupfuls onion 2 tb. soy bean sauce 2 cupfuls celery 1 cupiul bamboo sprouts 2 cupfuls pork or chicken or mushrooms 2 cupfuls water Seasoning Cut the vegetables fine and fry in park fat. Cut the meat fine, add the other ingredients and cock like a stew until the meat is tender. Serve with boiled rice, steamed dry in the Chinese fashions—J. W. V. Fish Salad. 2 cups shredded lettuce 1 tsp. onion Juice 1 can tune fish (or 1% 35 cup mayonnaise lbs. cold. boiled fish) 1 cup finely cut celery $5 cup French dressing 1 tsp. chopped parsley Line dish with lettuce, place fish in center, pour over French dressing to which onion juice has been added, and cover with celery. Put mayonnaise on top. Sprinkle with chopped parsley. TELL TALE ’NITIALS. E‘llllllllllllllllllllllllH Hi If your name begins with E, Future greatness is for thee. Don’t stay littl%—don’t say can’t, Consider well the elephant! These initials are designed to use as embroidery patterns on things for children, on pockets, ramper yokes, napkins, pillow-cas- es or any other place for which the size would be correct. They may be transferred directly from this page through carbon and em- broidered as the stitches indicate in the patterns. WEAR RIGHT COLOR. I am thirty-three years old, and a. rather pale brunette.‘ What colors are :fippropriate to my complexion?—Mrs. . G. - A pale brunette can wear black with white relief, white and cream, all shades of brown, electric and sapphire blue, the delicate shades of purple and pink, and the amber and canary shades of yellow. Avoid red and green. Add a dash 'or two of cinnamon to the powdered sugar in which you 'roll your doughnuts, and the flavor is im- proved. If this spice is added toyour powdered sugar cake frosting, it proves a delightful change.———Mrs. M. E.“ C. ' 0R~iny brother and family. who ,live in an apartment in the near- by city, I have planned a large -brown reed basket, covered with groundpine. I will fill it from my supply of cold packed things, a quart of peas, whole tomatoes, corn, and spinach, a large can of dill pickles, one of sweet, and two glasses of jelly. I cover the cans and glasses with bright red crepe paper, flaring it out at the neck of the cans, and put caps of the same, tying back with green ribbon. The'chinks I fill up with red and green apples, pears, and black walnuts. I believe the finest store gift would not be received with. the enthusiasm this basket is onChristmas morning. To my girl friends who live in town I send boxes of maple cream. We make lovely maple syrup, and two weeks before Christmas I make my cream by boiling syrup almost to the sugar state. I take from the stove and beat until soft and white. My red Note Our New Fashions T lzere Six Design; Rig/1t from New York Show How to Achieve W inter Smarmerr No. 249——-Dress with Inverted Pleats. Iii-iii. ‘- . \AyTWb' Our *Redder: Christmas boxes, lined with waxed paper, are all ready to tie up and address. My sister, who has everything that money can buy, envies me my hand- embroidered linens. I will send her a. luncheon set. ,The cloth, 54x54, made of fine Indian head, has a border made by drawing out threads and drawing in yellow floss. In each corner is stamped a brown basket filled with yellow daisies. The napkins have the same border, with a single daisy and leaf in the corner.—Mrs. W. 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We pay all express and parcel post chum—and charge no commission. Bend for Raw Fur Priee Lint and great special offer to all shippers and fur buyers. MAIL THE COUPON TODAY fennel! sebum“ O lone. (Phone Hell 4001). III Henge Arm. Dell-en. “Del. I FREE Raw Fur Price List. market newe mdgfeiflofler to Fur shippers. $3.1; , ~.( Neon. Addreel' {a}; I£\\“{‘ E\\‘.\ _ By Two M. C. Bay: By Melvin Hartman. / I think that going to shool is going to prepare me for my future work in life. I do not go because I have to, but because I want to. _ I like to study about other coun- tries, ’and to learn how other people live and work. In grammar I learn how to speak correctly, which helps me to talk so people will understand me better. It is profitable to under- This Picture Apparently Shows Opal Beelby Going on a Hog Ride, Not Coming Back From One. stand arithmetic, because it is neces- sary to work problems almost every day. From history, I learn about the main events, and about the wonderful men who built up our nation. I not only learn things from books, but on the playground I learn that games make us healthy, and teach us fair playing and good sportsmanship. _ All of these things give me greater knowledge, and. that is what I am working toward, because I am trying to build, every day, a good citizen who will some day be able to help with the big things in our nation. By‘Bernard Alfredson. To the people of today, education plays an important part, and this im- portance will increase as time goes on, although there may still be found, in certain parts of this country, people who believe that attending school is a waste of valuable time which might better be employed in shoveling coal, cutting wood, or any of the sundry other useful occupations. Now, shoveling coal, cutting wood, etc., may be all right in its place; but as an improvement for the mind, I would not recommend it to my friends. We also know that, at least, a tech- nical knowledge of the regular high school subjects is required before one can hold a paying position. Let us take, for example, men like Franklin and Lincoln, who often burn— ed the midnight oil in order to add to their stock of knowledge. We may see from history that their efforts have not been in vain. For these reasons, it may be seen that it is a wise policy to learn as much as possible while the opportunity is offered. Later in life it will not be so easy to learn, and then the time wasted during one’s childhood will be regretted. @DUR LETTER sax: Bang! Bang! Hey, Uncle Frank, open the door! I want in! Say! Uncle Frank, I almost broke my toe trying to get in. I think it’s a nice thing to make me stay out in the cold, while you’re in there sucking your thumb. 0 Why don’t you tell us your name? If someone asked us whom we were writing to, we would say, “Uncle Frank.” He or she would ask us who that gink is. We probably would say, “Some guy down in Detroit.” I agree with that “Dear Flapper” about changing “Our boys’ and Girls’ ” page to “Merry Circle Corner,” and have a contest and have them draw a. picture and print “Merry ‘Circle Cor- ner" on it. Print this, pretty please. If you do, I’ll be your great granddad.—Paul Schoenhals, Evart, Mich. I’m not using this beCause I want you to be my granddad, as I don’t think you would make a very good one for the gink you don’t know, who sucks his thumb. Dear Uncle Frank: I will write once more, room for a Chatterbox like me. In regard to Miss “Flapper,” I think she had the wrong idea about tobacco. I really think a girl looks hideous us- ing tobacco, and a boy doesn’t look much better. I admire the boy who will refuse to use tobacco. It won't make you enemies, boys. It’s more ‘ apt to make friends for you, because you have a “will power” of your own. ‘The most hideous looking flappers I ever saw were at the Traverse City Fair. There were two or three girls there, with their hair out like a boy’s. It really is a disgrace to the United States. A lady barber from Chicago said that girls’ hair bleeds, and :they’ Will be bald-headed young. My! Won’t they look cute? . ' if you have > I agree with Uncle Frank and R01- and Anderson, that a girl spoils her beauty by using powder, and that a. man who will use powder for the same purpose is a “sissy.” Some of the young people have been writing about evolution. I absolutely do not believe in it. Although some people resemble monkeys very closely in looks and action, they can’t make me believe that we came by chance from a tribe of monkeys. Why do so many of the Merry Circ- lers sign nicknames to their letters? It sounds to me as if they were asham- ed of what they wrote. The first let- ter I wrote, I signed my address, and I got a letter the next day, so I leave it off—not because I ’don’t like to write, but because I might get too many. Ha! Hal—A sincere friend, George Nichols. Well, well, George doesn’t give his address because he’s afraid he'd get too many letters. Who ever got too many letters? Those nickname letters are not going to be used any more, except in special cases. Dear Uncle Frank: . I have just read the letter that Her- bert Estes wrote. Please remember, Herbert, I live just six miles away, so be very careful what you say against my sex. If a girl insults a boy, there is usually a reason. At least, that is the way it is here in the, town where I live. If boys would be a little more careful what they said, it would be so much better. So much for that, as I have a very important subject to write about, and this is it: Please read the twenty-first chapter of Revelations. If anything could be more beautiful, I don’t know what it is. In fact, I think the whole Book of Revelations is very. interest- ing. I must close—Your niece, Irene Horton, Fowlerville, Mich.“ . me“ What I Get Out of Sc‘h‘OOI/‘i 3 I think,..too, that it is muchnicer when boys are'gentlemen—‘hnd girls, ladies. I hope all will take Irene’s advice and read the Book o't.Reve1a- tions. Dear Uncle Frank: My! You think you are mysterious. But I’m just as mysterious as you are. I’m a boy or a girl; if you can’t tell which, it doesn’t make any difference; but, which ever it is, I’m “unsmoked.” I am extremely tall or short, and I’m between the age of ten and fifty. How'- ever, I haven’t last very many teeth, and have some h (gray or some oth~ er color). I weig between one hun- dred and three hundred pounds. I live in the city or on a farm. My occupa- tion is whatever I find to do, and my name is whatever people, who know inescall me.-—“Either,” Somewhere in You let the cat out of the bag; you are unsmoked. You shouldn’t have told that. What I don’t know about You would fill a book. Dear Uncle and Cousins: — I have been reading George Nichols' and Herbert Estes’ letters, and they stirred me'up a little. I have been ‘ like a bump on a log too long, Herbert. Now I am geing to let the girls know I am alive. , Now, Uncle Frank, please have this letter printed, because I want the girls to read it. If you don’t print this, I will do like Roland Anderson said he would do. I.guess I have said enough for one week, so will close “in a sec- ond or two.” Come on, boys! Let’s pull together. Do not wait for colder weather. If the girls be sassy and we be kind, We’re hgoiing to lose out and fall be- n . —From your nephew and cousin, Earl Fox, West Branch, Mich. This letter is all right, but I don’t: like the ending. I don’t think that you will lose out by being kind. Kindness is the best treatment to give sassy ones. Dear Uncle Frank: I am writing this letter so as to give a reply to “Happy” and “Flapper.” So Flapper” thinks a boy looks out of place if he doesn’t smoke. Huh? Well, I think a girl looks far more out of place if she smokes. And I don’t think a boy thinks more of a girl if she smokes, drinks, etc. In fact, most boys do not think much of your type, Flapper. A few boys may go with a girl of your type for what they call a. “good time." But when they marry, they generally take girls like the one who signed herself "Happy.” Say, fellows, and Uncle Frank, how would you like to come home some night and find your wife in the living room with a cigarette in her mouth, Looks Like Some Dogs to Me. Flor. ence Salesky Sent the Picture. babe in one arm, and mixin a c c ~ tall with the other hand? gDo grill. think you’d like that kind of a wife? I don’t I think that is the kind of a wife “Flapper" will make. I am sorry, but I cannot agree with you, Flapper. Your idea of a sport is allerong. ow or a few words with “Ha .” I think if you will stick to your 35):. tion, ‘Happy," you will go a lot farther than “Flapper” will. I, for one, will say your ambition is a fine one. When I marry, it will be a girl of your type. I hope a few more boys reply to “Flapper’s” letter, as I want to know what others think. I hope to see' other letters from;1 “Iiiaplpy” and “Flapper,” a er on,—— e nad Hod es, -. dotte, Mich. g g Wyan Reginald expresses some sentiments which I think many boys have. I am sorry-it takes me so. long to . use letters on a sub ect aft ., . brought up. i g _ er it has been 0 I HAVE jubt‘returned from the State Sanatorlum for TB at Howell, where I heard the radios which the Merry Circle furnished for Pershing Cottage for the boys, and Columbia Cottage for the girls. written the day before Thanksgiving, ,1 know that the boys and girls at the Sanatorium will have radio entertain- ment to add to. their enjOyment on Thanksgiving Day. The radios were installed the day before our visit, and that day they got over a dozen stations. In each cottage the radio is in the nurses' office where \it is warm, but the loud speaker is out on the porch, where about forty boys or girls sleep, as the case may be. The radios have a good quality of tone, and can be heard from all parts of the porches. Usually the boys, and the girls, too, have quite a noisy frolic before going to bed, but Tuesday night, after get- ting ready for the night in the dress- ing rooms, they came out quietly and crawled into their cots with as little noise as possible, as they wanted to hear what was coming from the radio. Dr. Huntley, in charge of the sana- torium, thought that the radios would be a great factor in discipline, as the nurses would just have to turn the radios on and there would be quiet. The sanatorium is going to build spe- cial cabinets for each outfit to help keep them ifi good condition. Later, We will probably get letters from the young folks, and may also have some pictuies of the children grouped around the radios. I am sure now, that all the Merry Circlers who contributed to this fund have done a real thing in living up to the Merry Circle tenets of spreading happiness. They have at least given the young folks at the sanatorium one more thing to be thankful for. __... VERSE CONTEST. ERE’S another verse which got very much mixed up, that I am asking you to straighten out. After you have it right, I think you will find it a good verse to keep in mind. The mixed verse follows: Nihkt igb nad uryo seded liwl wrgoi; Knith laslm dna loyul lafl dehbni; Tnikh atht oyu nca nad oyu lilw, Tsi lal ni het taets f0 nidm. To de- Ten prizes will be given. termine the prize winners, all the cor- rect papers will be mixed together and the ten lucky ones picked out. The prizes will be two pencil boxes, three dictionaries, and five little boxes of candy. This contest closes December 4. So be sure that you send your contest pa- pers to Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan, in. plenty of time. You have as good a chance to win a prize as anyone. VALU E OF PERSISTENCY. "A laugh is worth a thousand groans in any market.” ET’S laugh. I once heard of a lady who visited a country infest- ed rather densely with fleas. She had a little dog, Allie, a very cute, fluffy .‘thing, as I remember. Now, Allie’s mistress was not allowed to take her dog with her into her apartment, so Allie was informally deposited with the baggage. One by one, two by two, group by group, army by army, the fleas came. The first one pleased Allie, who found it passed away time, but as they came more and more, the busy dog hastily withdrew her “Salve” (welcome) sign, and was in too much misery to hang up a quarantine plac- ard. Alas! at last poor Allie became so discouraged and tired, that she fought no longer. And when her mis- tress came a little while later, she found, perched boldly upon poor dear dead Allie’s head, a flea, rapturously singing. “Alice, Where Art Thou?" .' P til relief.came, she might be living yet. As this ’is being And so I would say this, “NeVer Say Fail.” _ In life’s rosy morning,- In manhood's pride; Let this be your motto, Your footsteps to guide: In storms or in sunshine, Whatever assail, Will onward and conquer, ’ And never say fail. -—Wilma. Fry. THE PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS. HE vacation picture contest did not bring a very great number of pictures, so I did not have much trou- ble in picking the winners. Quite a few did not send in vacation pictures. The winners are as follows: Pencil Boxes. Elvin Voisin, R. 3, Rosebush, Mich. Lura H. Lincoln, Harbor Beach, Mich. Dictionaries. Mary Kanka, 527 Beach 72nd Street, Arverne L. I., New York. Lyman Murdock, Grass Lake, Mich. HelenKish, R. 1, Prescott, Mich. Candy. Violet Steinkopf, R. 6, Mt. Clemens, 1ch. Willo Redlin, Deerfield, Mich. Verda Cole, R. 7, Mt? Pleasant, Mich. Earl Steinkopf, R, 6, Mt. Clemens, Mich. Anna Sundstrom, Felch, Mich. QUEEN OF FLOWERS. As I wandered alone in the woodland, Whom should I chance to meet, But the queen of all the flowers, And I bowed down at her feet. With her sceptre green she touched me, And bade me to arise, And a light like heavenly beauty, Shone out of her deep blue eyes. She counts her years by the thousands, Yet there is something in her face, A look of ethereal beauty, That the years cannot erase. She has lived since the time of Adam, Thru times of struggle and strife, With never a thought of the troubles, That beset a human’s life. Her thoughts are on the flowers, That spring from the dark brown sod, To those tiny things of beauty, She is a living God. As I spoke to that lovely being, She seemed to drift away, And I tried in vain to recall her, From the hammock where I lay. You see, I was not in the woodland, And had seen no lovely Queen, For that vision of ethereal beauty, Was only a pleasant dream. ——Nelly G. Priest. A COUPLE 0F LETTERS. Dear Uncle Frank: Gosh, boys, we had better get busy. Milo DeHart sure hit it right; I also believe girls spend more on powder, lipstick, and rouge than is really need- ed. Of course, some boys use pow- der; but, then, boys never put as much on as most girls do Knickers are all right for country girls. We all read letters sent by country girls, and most all say that they help in the fields. And, boys, we all know dresses would be"somewhat of a bother to us if we_had to wear them while in the field. We often see these city girls wearing knickers, and all they have to do is wash and wipe a few dishes; but the city girls do that to show themselves and make them- selves look more like a boy than our country girls; and I believe the coun- try girls, or rather, most of them, look far better than an of those city girls. —Just an M. C.1\ ember. I am glad you give the country girls some credit. I think’they are gener- ally pretty wholesome and sensible. I don’t think the girls will feel as badly over this letter as they have some others. Hello, Uncle Frank: I think Herbert Estes made a mis- take when he worte that girls put pow- der on their faces a foot thick. I nev- er saw any girl with that much on; did you? All girls like to have boys at least actd respectful to them, which some boysd on ’t. If a boy has a pompadour hair-cut, I think he looks like a porcupine when it is going to throw its quills. That’s just how some of the boys look. --—A want-tobe—niece, Delia Ratzloif, R. .3 Mason, Mich. established. delay or red tape. Resources $9,500,000 lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll||||llllIIIIIIllllllllllll|||llllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|||l|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll IlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllIIIllIlIllllIIlIllllllIllllIlIllllllllIlllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllE’ 36 Years of Prompt Payment This company is now in its 37th year. 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Fine pedigree, good indlndual. -M. Hompe, Forest Hill: Farm. R. 5. Grand Rapidl. Mich. allNSEYS for sale. males. females. sired by Gigs whose dams have records of 19,460.60 milk, 909.05' m. and 15,109.10 milk, 778.80 In. 1'. v HICKS. R. I, Battle Creek. Mich. Some real bargains in reg— Guernsens iatercd cows and heifers, one young bull. W. . Burdick, William-ton, Mich. - Guc us or Holstein dairy Praetlcany Eighties. $3.20ey each, stated for Ihlpment. Edgewood Dairy Farms, Whitewater. VIII. iTllalcfarmco” Holsteins LET YOUR NEXT HERD SIRE be a “MACFARMCO” Colantha bred Bull from high producing A. R. O. & C. T. A. Dams. Visitors always welcome to our 20th century new Barn. MoPlIERSOII FARM 60.. Howell. Michigan. J Echo Sylvia King A coming century sire, already has over 100 daughters. 63 with A. R 0 ing a 32.33-lb. Jr. daughters as three-year-olds, lbs, and 37 as 2-yr.olds average 17.66 lbs. One of his sons from a good record dam will insure production in ’ your future herd. Bureau of Animal Industry Lansing, Michigan One new milch registered Holstein D. E. DEAN. R. No. 2. Milford, Mloh. 15 Cows. 4 Bulls from select from hard WARM WATER IS THE CHEAPEST FOOD. » x ' WATER is in. most important con- eighty-seven “per cent of the composi- tion of normal. milk. Furthermore, about fifty-six per cent of the cow’s body is water. It is the most import- ant food we give to our cows. But very few dairymen give their watering problem the attention it de- serves. Many men go to considerable trouble and expense to provide the right kind of concentrates for their cows, what ice water they can drink once or twice a day. A normal cow weighing 1,000 pounds needs about "six gallons of water daily MORE cow TESTERS ARE NEEDED. - ANOTHER appeal has been received for more young men to take up cow testing work. This appeal is being made by the Dairy Extension Department of the Michigan State College, East Lansing, Michigan. The rapid growth of cow testing work in this state has made it difficult to'adequately man the increasing number of associa- tions. Should any of the read- ers of this page desire to under- take this work, they should cor- respond with the above depart- ment. Usually young men who have completed their high school - course, or taken a short course in dairying at the Michigan State College, have the neces- sary foundation for this type of work. BesideS'the satisfaction of rendering a fine service, here is also a place where a young man can improve himself in the ' most important branch of Ameri- can agriculture. for maintenance. Then she needs about three gallons additional for each gallon of milk produced. In other words, a cow giving five gallons of milk a, day needs at least twenty gal- lons of water. And some dairymen expect her to consume as much ice. water. The facts of the case are, that the cow not only needs her water at such a. temperature that she can drink it, but she needs it at several intervals during the day. ‘ * There is another angle to the prob- lem. The water the cow drinks must be warmed to body heat before the cow can absorb it into her blood. How is it heated? In far too many cases, the cow is compelled to use the energy from the feed she consumes, to warm the water she drinks. The cow has to literally burn these feeds in her own body to heat the water. Coal or wood is a. lot cheaper: than corn and oilmeal. And a simple tank heater is easily in- stalled and easily cared for. Every timea siege of extremely cold weather sweeps the Country it takes a few million dollars out of the pock- ets of our dairymen in milk and cream checks. Not only that, but the health of our stock is impaired. Water is not only our cheapest food, but it is also the most important, and the “easiest to prepare—H. D. H. REPORT ON CASS ASSOCIATION. FOR the Cass County Cow Testing Association for the month of Oc— mun Maniac. Colon 0'. mm. Wfijtober, ad 1°???“ -et 9. ‘2 98111119 stituent in milk. It makes up’ and then compel them to get along on ‘ ants,» to . th and, pure-bred Holsteins produced an: average of 966 poundshr milk. and 39.7 pounds of fat. Leda Thfllips' grade Shorth’orn cow produced 1,255 pounds of milk, and 62.8 pounds of fat. He also has high three-yearjold, with 1,169 pounds of milk and 46.8 pounds of fat. Howard Hutton’s .purebred two-year- old Jersey gave 1,066pounds of milk and 42.6 pounds of fat. The last two weeks of October were rather unfavorable for farmers with a lot. of corn out, and not much barn room for cattle—C. Rossman, Tester. GETTING LARGER RETURNS FROM YOUR FEED. A MONG the many activities that go on in a cow testing associatiOn, some of the biggest benefits that are returned to the members are the feed helps given by the cow tester. The definite value of getting a rec- ord on each cow, and having a com- plete record on theherd, has proved :nmensely valuable to many cow own- ers. Further, many dairymen have been able to get a new vision of the. value of gdod sires through the cow testing association work. In addition to these points, however, the feed help obtained through the cow tester has possibly returned the biggest money values to many Michi- gan dairymen. The present member- ship of..nearly 3,000 dairymen in the 112 associations operating in Michigan, realize the great benefits that feeding brings to the pocketbook. One single illustration from a mem- ber’s herd brings out this point quite strongly. The tester found in Septem. her that each cow, in a herd of ten cows, was being fed four pounds of ground oats daily. The member was feeding each cow equally. No adjust- ment was being made to the actual milk and butter-fat production of each cow. The tester, Oscar Dowd, of Hills- dale county, checked up on the require- ments of each cow and found that one cow producing fifty pounds of butter- -fat during the month was being very sadly neglected. He recommended that this cow be fed at least ten pounds of grain, and another cow that was pro- ducing around thirty-five pounds of butter-fat for the month, that she should receive eight pounds of grain. ’In this way, Mr. Dowd distributed the pounds of feed more properly to the individuals in the herd. At the end of the month the herd owner found that he had fed a little larger amount than he had been accustomed to feeding. The additional expense involved in this larger feed amount was $7.35. The cow testing'association herd book re- vealed to him, however, that this small additional expenditure had made him an increased return over feed cost of $18.70. Making the feed fill the needs of the individual cow is a problem in itself, and the help that the cow tester can give on this point is money saved to the member. For winter feeding con- ditions, all Michigan dairymen should ‘ consider the needs and requirements I of the individual animals in the herds. Treating them all alike is bound to cause mistreatment and under-feeding and over-feeding in some instances. In other words, the best results are not obtained from the feed that is being put before' the cows. Good roughage, especially alfalfa and a succulent feed, such as silage, is the basis for best results. In addition, a mixture. of grains fed in the proportion of one pound of grain daily toth pound of fat produced inpa ck, ’ ’ ‘ daily supply the breeder emanate ‘7- ’3‘ . t! \ wwr'HH-HszDi‘ r-n—p—I. r! a ”x... limrc is ‘ ' ’ ifiopper in 1111's Steel. Wire \ \ Inorder toreeistmstclear to the core of the wire, we ‘ usecoppgr-bearingsteel. 15 WI“! Sqmreneallhioe (No Extra Put») In marked with a Red Strand. Alwaye look for. it. Thie made of the “Triple-life wire”. ‘ National! izeda th ' m“. midi“ '2} “gratings”? an un ' germ-m... T... m ."Gal "may out-teen fence. ’ m Write toda for these acts. Also t our analog and Roma's c tor. All 3 free to . Address. , mmsrmamco. m1 mmmrmna ‘ Outlasts any other Farm Fence ! lon‘t Buy a Rod of '{S . ENCING a ‘ Until You Get: My New Cut Price Bargain Book—IT'S FREE I have made a tremendous cut in my Prices again —n cut tfl’nt will save you real money. ’ve dropped my usual low pricee way down. That’s why i say don't buy until you get: In New 112; 6 Cat Face Bargain Book. You'l regret itl you do. Send torit today. My ‘ Freight Paid Cut: Prices are LOWEST—my Quality la guaranteed HIGH- EST. i’ve always quoted lower prices, but With mg MILLION cuetomers now, 1 am ofl'ering BIG- G R bargaine than ever. Get my New Catalo see for yourself the money my new out p can eave you. Jim Brown. 'I’IIE BROWN FENCE & WIRE 00. Dept. 2808 Cleveland. Ohio .‘ "(wrouvg , Heavee. coughe. col-Imel- , er, Worme. . Moet for cool. . ?. Two can: eatiafactory for . § ’5? Heavee or money back. $1.25 ‘ pet can. Dealere or by mail. The Newton Remedy 00. Toledo. Ohio. Free Trial! of Proved Swedish Abortion Treatment lFamoue Foreign Formula quickly relieve: badly infested herds. Gives amazing reeulte in cases believed hopeless. Thousands of American Farmers say the Fro- berg Swedish Abortion Treatment has saved their herds from destruction. This remarkable treat- ment has been used for years in the big dairy country Sweden, and has cleaned up whole dis- tricts over there literally rotting with abortion. Frank Halfman. Crown Point, Ind., writes: "Two years ago, I lost every calf from my herd of forty cows. All remedies failed until I used yours. I have never lost a calf since." c. c. C. (Cow. Calf. Control) is guaranteed to ' abeolutely atop abortion or the treatment cost is refunded. Write today for full details explaining our free trial ofier. . f at ,ply send your name and address, without in ear rthcr obligation on your part to Froberg Rem- 11...! 'fil. - , 51k" " i ' car-limo “M. 3 fat are twenty-seven cents. VOIX COUNTY. yr clation, all members except two fed grain during the ‘month of October. Alfalfa and silage is" fed by the major- ity‘of the members, but some are feed- . ing sweet clover instead of’alfalfa. The average of the association in milk production is 651 pounds, and of butter-fat, 24.5 pounds. Feed costs per cow, $6.73. Profits per cow are $4.00. Returns for each dollar expended was $1.05. Feed costs per pound of butter- Feed costs perfihundred‘ weight of milk are $1.01. Orchard Bay Farm has high herd in both milk and butter-fat production. The herd consists of tWenty-seven pure—bred Holstein cows, whose aver- age for the month is 1,035 pounds of milk, and 35.3 pounds of butter-fat, 'with $6.75 feed costs per cow, and a. profit of $8.79 per cow. High cow in butter-fat of the associ- ation fonthe month is a, grade Jersey owned by George Meggison. Her pro duction in milk is 1,174 pounds, with a. 5.9 test, making her 69.2 pounds of fat for the month—E. L. Miteen, Tester. ADVISES FEEDING THE LAMBS BEFORE MARKETING. IT has been our practice at Forest Grove Farm for years to put our lamb crop on feed early in the fall. We market them when they are in good flesh and the market is favorable. I know a. large number of flock own- ers consider it more profitable to sell their lamb crop off pasture without supplemental feeding, but it has been our experience that it is a splendid method of marketing some. hay and grain in a very profitable manner. This plan enables us to meet the demands of the market. Prime mut- ton always commands a good market price. During the fall of the year a large amount of mutton is going to market. A very high percentage of the offerings is off in flesh, and unfit for slaughtering purposes. Subse- quently a large portion of the fall and early winter marketed lambs find their way back to the feed-lot to be finished for the market. Lambs put on feed in the fall or early Winter take on flesh very rapidly, and under favorable conditions can be gotten into marketable condition along about the first of the new year, after the market has digested the fall run of half-fatted lambs and is ready for well-fatted stock at a higher price. Last fall I was offered fifteen cents for my lambs off pasture. I put them in the barn and fed them ninety-six days and sold them for eighteen and one~ha1f cents. While the margin of difference between fall and winter marketing of the lamb crop varies somewhat, yet I have also found that it generally has been profitable to flu- ish my lambs before marketing. At this writing, (November 23), my lamb crop is on feed. I am feeding clover hay and bean pods for rough- age, and two parts oats, one part corn and one part wheat bran for a grain ration. I always start the lambs on feed lightly, and gradually increase the ration as the lambs develop appetite. —L. R. MEAT CONSUMPTION INCREASES. THE consumption of imported meats in the United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands and France, has in- creased fifty-eight per cent in the last ten years, according to the department of commerce foodstuffs specialists. During the same time the principal producing countries have increased their exports seventy-four per cent, having developed a large export trade in meat products to those countries which were largely self-supporting be- fore the war, but are now dependent upon other'than domestic supplies. Agriculture is the most basic in- aims ‘ llh enmity “' IN the ,Charlevolx CowTesting Asso- ll - l * l. _ \, Guaranteed to skim cleaner The new De Laval has the wonderful “floatc ing bowl”-— the great- est separator improve- ment in 25 years. .It is guaranteed to sklm cleaner. It also runs easier with milk gelng through the bowl, and lasts longer. De Laval. $200 a year. The De Laval Milkcr If you milk five or more cows, 3 De Laval Milker will soon pay for itself. — F More than 35,000 in u use giving wonderful satisfaction. Send for - .‘ complete information. OUR old separator may be running all right and you may think it is doing good work, an easy way to satisfy yourself. Ask your De Laval Agent to bring out a new De Laval and try this simple test: Alter eeparetlug with your old eeperacor. wash in bowl and tlu- B were In the alum-milk. alum-milk at normal room tem- perature and run it through a new Have the cream thus recovered weighed and coated. Then you can tell exactly it your old machine to wearing cream, and what a new be Laval will eave. Thousands have tried this plan and many have found a new De Laval would . 7 increase their cream money from $25 to sea and my the New De Laval TRADE in your old Separator See Your De Laval Agent but is it? Here is SIZES Hand-Electric-Belr 56‘29 ro’l43_9 DOWN Balance in 15 Monthly add the Payments Bend coupon boo low for name 0! your De Laval A g o n t a n d fr .. Wmfif‘ V v .01?" Ni. , 29?. 6’ 9° _ \ V4ot (1)040 Don’t Fail to Attend Melle H. Green Dispersal Sale GZ‘Registered Holstein Cattle At His Farm One Mile from Elsie, Michigan :1 day—~many Wednesday, December 9th, 1925 Accredited Herd—Healthy and free from disease. Offers include a 29.87-lb. four. year-old, a 27-1b. cow,others with good records—cows with over 100 lbs. mllk ln well bred heifers and well bred bulls. Sir POM 4th, from 900-lb. dam. Send at once for catalog to Merle H. A royal bred herd sire by Green, Elsie, Michigan ’ I 'a The Best I; the . x: -\ {Si-‘41,." ;‘ Most Il Aetnormncusu . _ ‘ I" I . \!1"m Economlcal It costs the same per pound to ship average beef ani— mals to market as it does prime beef animals, yet the latter dress 10%) more. 2 Biro—m my will“? WILDWOOD FARMS ORION, MICHIGAN Best of quality and breeding. Bulls. - horillorns (tows and heifers for sale. BIDWELL. STOCK FARM. Box D. Tooumloh. Mleh. Our car choir-o folders. Mil-pound. FOR SALE ‘ all ‘ JOHN {H l-l‘llkc, (ll-horned. FERWERDA, McBain. Mich. HOGS Michigan’s Premier lluroc Herd odors a few choice spring boars at 835. Also sm'eral. sired by Sum-r Colonel and Colonel Designer. that are real llt'I‘d and ‘show boar prospects. LAKEFIELD FARMS, Clarkoton, Mich. W.E.SCRIPPS,Prop. SIDNEY SMITH, Sup Bull Bargains We offer three sons of Count Vccman chisTiebe. our 1.273—lb. champion. that arc ready for scmco at bar- gnin priccs. Those bulls are straight, good typcd. and out of dams with official records up to 21 lbs. as twoyour-olds. Wn'te for extended pedigrees and pic- till-cs. LIKEFIELD FARM, Clarkslon, Michigan For Sale—Young HOLSTEIN BULL by our (‘arna- tion sire. World’s record breeding on both sides. sire and dam. Also a. few flnc heifers. HILLCREST FARM. Kalamazoo, Mich. FINANCIAL KING JERSEYS D UROCS, Bl't'd sows by Son of twice Grand Cham— piou at international. to son of (lraml t‘llanlpion at Michigan Slum Fair. 1925. A few fllll pigs. lsflu‘llllil mlal’ullll‘t‘d. B. E. KIES, Hiltodaie, Sat- Mich. I’lum Creek Stock Farm is Duroc Jerseys ofl'erlna some very choice spring boars for fall service. at reasonable prices. Write for particulars, or some and see. F. l. DRODT. Prou., Monroe, Mich. UROC JERSEY BOARS for sale. nice ones. and the breeding is right. Write us for prices. NORRIS STOCK FARM, Casnovia, Mich. spring and fall boars of size ChCStCV Whltes and quality. Registered free. F. W. ALEXANDER, Vauar, Mich. Write for OIIICI HOGS On time HogBook Originators and most extensive breeders. THE l. 8. SILVER 60., Box 196, Salem, Ohio Francisco Farm Poland-Chinas A few big. strong. rugged. spring boars ready for sér~ TN "I “w" A -. , .E... A few choice young registered milking Shorthorn bull calves. All from heavy producing. dual-purpose cows. and sired by our undefeated Count Tickford. Also an April and a May bull calf. Prices reasonable. dustry of the country—Hoover. . I I F. W. Sullivan - Augusta, Mich. ale. excellent bull calves from R. of M. dams. vice. From big stock and big litters. . gdLaDWATER JERSEY FARM. Goldwater, Mich. P- P- POPE. R. No. 3, Mt. Pleasant, Much. Poland (.‘hina. gilts. bred or open: Jersey; For &le 3:1)“ ”:3; {magnet-71:3 FOR Syfiligy all's'oLél. l'iew_(-llofio hboars. cholera ' mm. mm: lc . from R. of K. dune. Accredited herd. Smith ll. unm ' ' Pal-tier. R. D. No. 4, Howell. Mloh. , Poland mum“ for 58h Grand — , sons Elg Type of the World’s Grand Champion and from prize winning sows. Also fall pigs. either sex. DORUS HOVER, Akron. Mich. B T. P. C. for sale. spring pigs. either sex. Cholera - immune. Also Brown Swiss bulls. Write or see them. A. A. FELDKAMP. Manchester. Mich. Addional Stock Ads. on Page 577 ,iw-J'LLL -.. ,“h .af”l“‘. .u mas. ‘seed, on the whole, “ ‘, 151.: GRAIN QUOTATIONS Tuesday, December 1. Detroit—~—No. 1 red $1.85; No. 2 red $1.33; No. 2 white $1.85; No. 2 mixed Chicago—December $1.66’;é @1.66%; 4 May $1.64% @1.64% Toledo—Wheat $1.83@1.84. . Com Detroit—Old, No. 2 yellow 900; old No. 3 yellow 890; No. 4 yellow, new 730; No. 5 yellow, new 71c. Chicago—December 73940; May at % c. Oats. Detroit—No. 2 white Michigan at 4454c; No. 3, 43%0. Chicago—December at 39%c; May 43%0. Rye Detroit—No. 2, 96c. Chicago—December at 9234c; May at 8.00%. Toledo—950. Beans Detroit.——lmmediate shipment $4.80@4.85. Chicago.——Spot Navy, Mich. fancy hand-picked $5.65@5.75 'per cwt; red kidneys $10.25@10.55. New York—Pea, domestic $5.50@6; red kidney, Michigan, $10.50@11.25. Barley Malting 77c; feeding 720. Seeds Detroit—Prime red clover $18.50; alsike $15.60; timothy $3.30. Buckwheat Detroit.——$1.85@1.90. Hay Detroit—No. 1 timothy $24.50@25; standard $23.50@24; No. 1 light clover mixed $23@23.50; No. 2 timothy $21 @22. No. 1 clover mixed $20@21; No. 1 clover $20@21; wheat and oat straw $12.50@13; rye straw $13.50@14. Feeds Detroit—Bran at $35@36; standard middlings $35; fine middlings at $39; cracked corn $40; coarse cornmeal at $30; chop $32 per ton in carlots. WHEAT The upswing in wheat prices started by damage to the Argentine crop con- tinued through the past week. The market has advanced about 25c from the low point early in October, and is practically back to the highest figures reached on the crop. Reliable observ- ers believe that the Argentine crop will do well to reach 200,000,000 bush- els. Evidence that the European crop was overestimated is becoming strong- er, and foreign statisticians are revis- ing upward their estimates of import needs, while available surpluses are shrinking. Conditions appear highly favorable for maintaining most of the advance in the world price level in the last month, and the domestic situation is strong enough to support prices in this country higher than abroad. CORN ”Demand for corn is not urgent, as buyers are still waiting for the winter movement. At what price level the demand will become broad enough to absorb the supply is still in doubt, but the market shows many signs of being on rock bottom, so that further de- clines are likely to be quite small. Some corn was sold for export in the past week. Since our prices are con- siderably below Argentine corn, fur- ther foreign sales are probable. The visible supply is so small that it will take some time to build up stocks of consequence. A flurry in prices may result if receipts in the next month are not sufficient to fill December con- tracts. OATS Oats prices have been in practically the same notch for several weeks. Pri- mary receipts are small, but demand is rather narrow in spite of fair exports from week to week. The visible sup— ply is close to record size, but it has decreased slightly in the last Six weeks, so that this burden is more likely to decrease than to gain further. Any decided change in oats prices is likely to be upward. \ SEEDS The clover seed markets continue strong. Seed, when offered, is quickly taken by dealers, and the particularly “choice qualities command a premium. Foreigners are ready sellers of their but there is a growing disposition to hold off, await- and prompt ing developgents in the domestic he. nation. FEEDS _ Buying of feeds is quiet, but prices are steady. Purchases are largely for immediate needs, with little contracted ahead, but wintry weather is expected to increase the demand and enhance values, so that dealers are not push- ing sales. EGGS The sharply higher prices for fresh eggs slowed down demand, and a sub stantial decline occurred at the close of last week. Supplies normally in- crease from December on, and with more poultry believed to be on farms than last winter, production during the winter should at least equal last year, unless weather conditions are-unusu- ally unfavorable. It is likely that pric- es will follow a downward trend dur- ing the next two months, with tempor- ary sharp rallies when severe weather reduces receipts. Chicago—Eggs, fresh firsts 54@55c; extras 60@610; ordinary firsts 46@ 50c; miscellaneous 53@540; dirties 27 @35c; checks 25@32c. Live poultry, hens 24c; springers 24c; roosters at 15940; ducks 200; geese .170; turkeys 320 a pound. Detroit—Eggs, fresh candled and graded 54@55c; storage 33@36c. Live poultry, heavy springers 25@26c; light springers 20c; heavy hens at 24@25c; light hens 15@16c; geese at 18@190; ducks 25@26c; turkeys 30@32c. BUTTER Butter prices have suffered a sub- stantial reaction from the recent ad- vance, brought about by a shortening in the supplies of fresh butter, which often comes in November. The low point in production has probably been passed, however, and receipts are al- ready beginning to increase. There is no surplus of the finest grades of fresh butter, but medium grades are in large supply and bear heavily on the. mar- ket. Winter butter production is yet to be determined, and while it issube- lieved that production will continue to show a marked increase 'over last year, prices may hold .close to present' lexiellis. 92. ** ,j . , ces on score creamery' wer ' Chicago 50c; New York 51c. In’Déét troit fresh creamery' in tubs sells for 44@46c pound. ' POTATOES V The potato marketis quiet after the advances of a week ago. . The tone is firm under the influence of high coun- try costs and the sharp reduction in daily carlot shipments as growers hold for higher prices. The arrival of field- frosted potatoes is aiso a strengthen- ing factor in the market. Northern round whites, U. S. No. 1, are quoted at $3.10@3.25 per 100 pounds, sacked, in the Chicago carlot market. BEANS Bean prices moved up slightly in the last week to $5.15@5.20 per 100 pounds for C. H. P. Whites, f. o. b.‘ Michigan shipping points, for immediate and prompt shipment. Dark red kidneys are quoted at $9.25 and light reds at $10. Demand is fairly good, and the movement of» beans out of the state for the season has been about normal. Buying may slacken moderately in the next few weeks because of the ten- dency to avoid large inventories at the end of the year. Imports of dry beans in the first nine months of 1925 totaled 1,125,833 bushels, against 869,479 bush- els in the same period of 1924. WOOL Wool prices have softened slightly in the last week. The peak of ofler—. ings of southern hemisphere wools will occur in the next two or three months, and British buyers have withdrawn temporarily to prevent a further rise. Both in Australia and South America, the market is slightly easier. Domestic prices have not changed, but manufac- turers are inclined to hold back to await the outcome of the larger offers of foreign wools. The recent advance Live Stock Market Service f Tuesday, December 1. CHICAGO Hogs Receipts 14,000. Market moderately B active; 10@200 lower; underweights show minimum change; big packers bidding $11.15 for best butchers; good and choice 140-170-lb. weight $11.35@ 11.50; top $11.50; bulk of good 190'- 300-lb. average $11.20@11.30; packing sows mostly $10@10..35; bulk of better killing pigs $11.50@11.90. Cattle. Receipts 16,000. Market on fed steers slow; steady to Weak; top 250 lower on in-between grades; quality largely medium, with moderate sprinkling of good to choice offerings; bulk $8.50@ 10.50; most weighty steers are held around $13; packers and feeders are active; mostly $7@8; she stock weak to 250 lower; other classes are steady; mostly. $10@11 on vealers to packers; outsiders up to $12.50 and better. Sheep and Lambs. Receipts 15,000. Market on all class- es aetive and mostly strong to 250 higher; bulk good fat lambs, early, at $16.50@16.75; handy weight to ship- pers $17; feeding lambs $16.25; aver- age around 70,000; early bulk fat ewes $8((D8.75; in-between offerings showing more than 250 gain; choice handy weight at $9.25; good yearling wethers $14. DETROIT Cattle. Receipts 466. Market is steady at Monday’s close. Good to choice yearlings dry—fed ................ $10.00@11.75 Best heavy steers, dry-fed 9.00@10.75 Handy weight butchers . . . 7 25@ 8.50 Mixed steers and heifers 5 75@ 6 75 Handy light butchers . . . . 4 25@ 5 25 Light butchers .......... 4 00@ 4 50 Bestcows..............'. 500((D 650 Butcher cows ........... 4 00@ 4 75 Common cows .......... 3 50@ 4 00 Canners ............ . . . . . 2 25@ 3 50 Choice bulls, dry-fed . . . . 5.00@ 6.50 Stock bulls ......... . ‘. 4.50@ 5.50 Heavy bologna bulls . . 3.50@ 4.50 Feeders ..... 6.00@ 7. Stockers................ 5.00@ 6.00 Milkers and springers. .$45.00@. 85.00 Veal Calves. _ Receipts 611. ’Market steady. Best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15.00@15.60 -' "awn-med: 2%“ "a ' , ”‘5‘ ‘7 ‘ ., ,_ Others 4.00@14.50 Sheep and Lambs. Receipts 3,258. Market steady. est ........... . . . . . . . . .$16.50@16.75 Fair lambs ........ . ...... 13.00@14.25 Fair and good sheep. . . . 7.00@ 8.00 Culls and common . . . . . .. 350(0) 4.50 Light and common. . . . . ,, 8.00@ 12.50 Buck lambs .......... . . . 8.50@15.75 Hogs. Market active; mixed 5c lower. Mixed cccccccc .aooenoecoooooococ Pigs IIIIIIIIIIII U...‘.I.......I 12.50 Extreme heaVies IICOOIOCIOOOOCC. 11.00 mghts oooooooo cools-eoloolcoonoe 12-00 Stags ..... 7.50 Yorkers .. 12.25 Roughs .............. 9.75 BUFFALO Hogs Receipts 2,850. Hogs are closing slow; heavy $11.50@11.85; medium at $11.85@12.10; light weight at $12.10@ 12.35; light lights and "pigs $12.75@ 131;O packing sows and roughs $9.75 @ . , . Cattle. Receipts 22,150. Market is strong; 1,100-lb. steers at $11; heifers at $5.50@8; cows $2@2.50; bulls $4@6. Sheep‘and Lambs. Receipts 10,400. Best lambs at $17; bulls $14; slow; yearlings at $12@13; ggsgd wethers $9.50@10; ewes $7.50@ Calves. Receipts 2,100. Top at $16.75; culls $12 down. demand for, apples was small. a... are. an... 9'13?th arr-rm nsrnorr cm’ MARKET Good, sound cabbage- sold gh‘. . First-class carrots and pars ‘s are in fair demand. Beets and 0 er root crops had few buyers, though. It tool: only a little spinach and other greens to satisfy the demand for them. The. The potato market seemed, to be a little stronger, though prices did not show any advances. Offerings of poultry were small, and there was very little demand for it. - .. Apples $1@2.50 bu; pears $1.50 bu; beets 75c@$1 bu; carrots, $1.25@1.75 bu; cabbage 75c@$1 bu; leaf lettuce $1.15@1.25 6-lb. bu; dry onions $1.50@ 1.75 bu; potatoes $2.10@2.25 bu; local celery 35@800 dozen; turnips, ’topped 750@$1 bu' winter squash 75c@$1 bu; pop corn $2@2.50 bu; vegetable ’oys- ters 75c@$1 bu; butter ‘60@65¢ lb; eggs, retail 70@90c; hens, retail 25@: 28c; colored springers, retail 25@280; leghorn springers, retail 22@25c; live pigs $6@6.50 each; dressed poultry, hens 30@35c; springers 30@35c; tur- keys 45@50c. - GRAND RAPIDS’ Slightly heavier receipts of fresh eggs tended to unsettle the market in Grand Rapids this week. Poultry was passing through a post-holiday quiet- ness, and not mueh interest was being shown in vegetables. Eggs 56@620; butter-fat 53@55c lb; poultry, fowls 15 @22c; springers 16@220; ducks 18@ 20c; geese 16@18c; hogs 10@11c; po- tatoes $1.7.5((})2 bu; celery 25@75c per dozen; OHIOnS $1@1.25 bu; carrots, beets, turnips, rutabagas, cabbage 50 @75c bu; parsnips $1@1.25 bu; spin- ach $1.25@1.50 bu; hothouse lettuce 14@15c lb; radishes 600 dozen; wheat $1.60 bu; rye 70c .bu; beans $4.55 cwt. COUNTY CROP REPORTS. .Kent 00., Nov. 25.—Potatoes have been dug and not many were frosted. A good many apples were frozen, how- ever. No fall plowing is being done here, it being too wet, raining and snowing nearly all the.time. The feed supply is good, and live stock is in satisfactory condition. Beans are about half marketed. Potato prices are down, and farmers are holding. Those sell- ing are now getting about $1.50 per bushel. Beans bring $4.60 per hun- dred pounds. Corn mostly in the field; some of it is moulding—C. V. Houghton 00., Nov. 23.———Farmers in this district raise enough bay for their live stock, but are obliged to purchase bran and other feeds. Potatoes are our chief cash crop, and they are sell- ing tléis fall at from $1.25@2 a bushel. Huron 00., Nov. 23.—The bad weath- er finds a lot of sugar beets in the ground. There is a good supply of feed for cattle, and all live stock is going into the winter in good shape. Fall .plowing is nearly all done. Early harvested beans are selling at $4.60, with a. two—pound pick; late ones are not so good—A. M. mu" m I c 3'. I ill.....rllll..lll William-«ll ME'I'AL SILO For fifteen ears the METAL Silo has stood-cg: tat of wind. cnsllage acid and fire hazard: and has pro- ‘ duced the ofsilaxe. Choose the . Silo constructed of COPPER - [ZED METAL with Exclusive Fen Inter-ad Write Your Own Guarantee! . Orders received now~for Immedlr are or future delivery—assure lower prices than later in season. We can make an interesting agency propo- sition. Write for complete literature THE THOMAS & ARMSTRONG C0. Dept. D , London. Ollie. Est. 1900 l'.‘ Qualifies Toe nfiwg “G: VVIV'I‘ 'l I“ 8‘ H wl" mo mm 4600 q... month. EHE same material Construction , which protects city the tricts against disastrous fires is available for every type of farm building. NJ—XTO (J HOLLOW BUILDING TI LE The Natco house is low in first cost—easily and quickly '3 erected—economical to maintain—comfortable to live? m—rnexpensive to build—and Fire Safe. Write for a free copy of the Natco home booki NATIONAL FIRE~PRGDFING romp/luv 844 FULTON BUILDING. PITTSBURGH. PENNA.7 PULVERIZEI) LIMESTONE Finely Pulvcrized High Calcium Limestone. either in bulk or bags. Highest grade sold in Michigan. Campbell Stone Co., lndian River, Mich. New Double Reversible Glove Do you throw your gloves away when they look like this. worn out at fingers and thumb but good as new on back, only half worn out. Buy the Ideal Double Reversible glove and wear out entire glove. Cuts glove costs in two. The Double Reversible is made of two thicknesses of cloth quilted together by ten rows of stitching across glove. flts either hand, wears four times as long as or- dinary glove made of same material. Patent applied for. If your dealer cannot supply you. will send 4 pairs prepaid for $1.05 or 4 pairs 0. 0 D. for $1. Order No. 66 KW. Leavengood Glove & G,Co. Dept; 3, Coshoclon, 0. SORBINE TRADE MARK REG.U.S.PAI. OFF. will reduce inflamed. swollen , Joints. Sprains. Bruises, Soft “.5 Bunches; Heals Boils. Poll Evil. Ouittor. Fistula and infected sores quickly as it re a positive antiseptic and germicide. Pleasant to use: does not blister or remove the hair. and you can Work the horse. 82.50 per bottle. delivered. F . Book 7 R free. ABSORBINE. JR..the antiseptic llnirnent for mankind. reduces Painful. Swollen Veins. Wens. Strains. Bruise" stops pain and inflammation. Price 81.25 per bottle at dealers or delivered. Will tell you more it you write. When! Trial Bottle for 10¢ Instamps. e W. F. YOUNG, "40.. 488 Lyman 8L, springlisld. Mass. NEW LAMP BURNS— 94% AIR Beats Electric or Gas A new oil lamp that gives an amaz- ingly brilliant, soft, white light, even better than gas or electricity, has been tested by the U. S. Government and_35 leading universities and found to be superior to 10 ordinary oil lamps. It burns without odor, smoke or noise—- no pumping up; is simple, clean, safe. Burns 94% air and 6% common kero- sene (coal oil). . Theinventor, J. 0. Johnson, 609 W. Lake St, Chicago, ”L, is offering to send a lamp on 10 days' FREE trial, or even to give one FREE to the first user in each locality who will help him introduce it. Write hi to-day for full particulars. . Also ask im to explain how .you can get the agency, and without experience or money “Saved $22.50 on 180 rode.’ says W. J. Heft. Wyan- dotte.Mich. You, too, can ‘ save b buying direct at Lowes Factory Prices. WE PAY THE FREIGHT. Write today for Free Catalog of Form Poultry and Lawn Fence, Gates Steel floats and Barbed Wire. mainstream. Dept. m auras. run. a figiGLOVER 00 to 88.00 lower than most dealers. Write us today 3}: free samples i beat Grade Home town Seed. Our rice is surprisingly ow. Get our sem- les and rlees on falfs Sweet C over. Timothy nndell s. ecan save you 'hi money on our seed bill. Write for free ssmples.spec el prices and page catalog. American l'leld need 00.. Dept. 131 chloaoo. Ill. m Catalog in colors explains how you can save money on Farm Truck or Road Wagons. also steel or wood wheels to m , any ru n m n g -. ., gear. Send for ,2 it today. Electrlclllhulco. 88 El- “ch This classified sdv miscellaneous articlu for sale or exchange. motive insertions 6 cents a word. Count as m "D. or Illustrations admitted shares, l8 s. ‘ One Pour One Four 10........80.80 . 8!.“ 86........82.08 86.84 . 3.88 3. . . 8.88 38... 8.34 8.78 18........ 1.88 8.18 88...”... 8.88 8.88 1 8.88 88......” 3.48 1.80 81........ 8.88 1.“ 88... ..... 8.88 7.68 88....... 8.84 1.88 84...”... 8.18 8.10 88......“ 8.80 8.80 88........ 8.88 8.64 81........ 8.96 8.88 88........ 8.04 8.18 80........ 8.18 8.88 40........ 8.80 8.60 .80 41...”... 8.88 8.88 88......” 8.0. . 0 All “Wu up SPeCIal Notlc distention“ orders or dump sf copy las- mdsd for the Classified Mannie"! mutt not]! this (fire all do]: In advance Mpu‘lflra tiers date. 18........ 1. seoeess. .18 88 88 18........ I.“ 1.88 80 .88 '8 . . eels-son 81......" 1 88......” 188 hpqppohuh 3882888828 ”_ REAL ESTATE EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY to buy on very favor- able terms. improved irrigated farms owned by Amer- ten‘ per cent cash and. balance spread over 34% loan Beet Sugar Company. at Lamar. Colorado. Only years at 5% per cent interest. Lands very produc- tive. averaging per acre, 3 tons alfalfa, 10 tons beets. 50 bushels barley, 71 bushels oats, and 41 bushels winter wheat. Ideal conditions, for dairying and con- stant markets. Beet sugar factories contract wrth growers for hosts at good prices. ’Feeding live stock profitable Fine schools and. churches. Good roads and wonder-ml climate. For detailed information write C. L. Seagravcs. General Colonization Agent, Santa. Fe Ry.. 993 Railway Exchange. Chicago. OPPORTUNITIES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA are better now than cier for the man of moderate means. who desires to establish a home on a few acres that will insure him a good living in a delightful country. Lands are reasonable in price and terms attractive. Crops best suited for different localities are well proved. Efficient marketing organizations are at your service. Southern California has a. climate you Will like—an enjoyable twelve months open season. There are thousands of miles of paved roads. Seaside and mountain resorts ofl'er recreation for everybody. Let me mail you our illustrated folder containing depend- able information on Southern California. C. L. Song-raves. Goneral Colonization Agent, Santa. Fe Ry., 912 Ry. Exchange, Chicago. 80-ACRE MICH. BARGAIN—~Only $2,000; 20 Acres Crops. horse, cows, heifer, hog, hens, grain drill. ma— chinery, tools, furniture for quick settlement nfl’airs; bright future for lucky man hcre; good stores, schools. churches, markets; 50 acres level cultivation, 15-cow pasture. estimated $5,000 wood to markct. fruit. her. ries: warm, pleasant (l-room house, 50—It. barn. poul- try house. $2.000 takes all to settle now. may terms. Details pg. 39 Illus. Catalog farm bargains in manv states. Free. Strout Farm Agency, 205-130, Kresge Bldg. Detroit, Mich. GROW FRUIT IN TRACY, CALIFORNIA—Cheaply irrigated subdivisions—large or small: economical liv- ing expenses; ideal climate and weather conditions make Tracy, California, the logical spot for the fruit grower. Capably managed tracts now produce a. gross profit of $750 per acre. Write Room 4, Tracy Cham- ber of Commerce, Tracy. California. DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by farming on James Ranch, California. No winter there, no drouth. Cmps growing 365 days in every year. and the beat markets entered anywhere. Land is state inspected and state approved. A going proposition for a. sua- oessful farmer. Write me for details. Herman Janss. San Joaquin. Fresno County. Calif. A REAL 80 ACRES, rim sugar boot and com soil. level, no waste, on good natural road, 1% miles to town. and fill: buildings need some repairing. but a. bargain to close out at $75 per acre. part cash. E. 0. Loveland. Milan, Mich. FINE FARM~95 acres, productive land. good loca— tion, good buildings. well equipped house and barn. Ill health reason for selling. George Blivcn, It. 1, Byron, Mich. I WANTED FARMS WANTEDaTo hear from owner of farm or unim- proved land for sale. 0. Hawley. Baldwin, Wis. HOCS Hampshire Spring Boars now ready to ship. Bred Gilts for spring farrow in season; 12th year. JOHN w. SNYDER, R. No. 4, St. Johns. Mich. IG TYPE Chester White Spring boars. Bred gilts and fall boar pigs with size. type and qual- ity. LUCIAN HILL. Tekonsha, Mich. SHEEP Cotswolds, Tunis. Oxfords, BRED EWES Lincolns, Karskulm. Also ram. LeROY KUNEY. Adrian. ‘Mlch. 200 Yearling Ewes 200 two and three-year-olds, and 200 solid mouths for sale in car lots. All are strictly choice black— faced stack. If interested, telegraph us at once as these Gives will soon be sold. ALMOND B. CHAP- MAN, 8. SON, South Rockwood. Mich. Telegraph Address Rockweod. Mich. * Oxford yearlings and. ram lambs. F O r S a i e registered. The kind that please. Geo. T. Abbott. Palms, Mich. Tel. Deckerville,78-3. Registered SHRUPSHIHES {3.53%. ”5:11 “5},“ Di“; BOOHER. R. 4. Evert. Mich. R It d. Sll 111 b all HIGH CLASS “355,5 ‘7’in e32” 5.231 rim lambs. c. LEMEN do SONS. Dexter. Mich. ' 10 yearling rams and a few run ShWPShll’eS lambs. priced at :20 to :30 each. c. .I. THOMPSON, Rockford. Mich. 20 High grade Black Top ewes and owe lambs. Good type. Heavy shearers. W. E. LIVING- STONE. Farms. Mich. HORSES FARMERS ATTENTION! WebavesomesxtrseoodPesnheronandBelglan Stallions of also and quanta. Intunstional & state ll'slrprlaewinncs. Hyourloeelltylslnneellote mum. you can easily sears-e so“... ....... . “or. '3' u ‘ D r . srevese o... Inns-fl. 3mm Elia. HAY AND STRAW ALFALFA and all kinds hay. Ask for delivered prices. Harry D. Gates Company, Jackson. Michigan. MISCELLANEOUS OLD MONEY WANTED—Will pay Fifty Dollars for nickle of 1913 with Liberty head, (no Buffalo). We CLAsfilggR ”AMQVERTISING ' st classified rates. or in display columns at commercial rates. Rates 8 cents a word. each insertion. on orders for less men four insertions: for four or more . Bunittsnces must ecoosnpe' order. Live stock advertlslns has a upscale department and Is not a sled es classified. Minimum for the convenience of Michigan farms-n _ Poultry advertising will. be run in this department a word each abbreviations. initial or numbmv No GERMAN POLICE PUPS~Two choice male pups. four mo. old. One black with gray markings, one wolf gray sired by Imp. Donar Berry-gust. Price. $35 each. Three wolf gray males. three mo. old. line specimens. Sired by Faepo Von Der Grcnslerburg. price $25 each. Homestead Kennels, Saranac. Mich. TOBACCO LEAF TOBACCO—Chewing. 5 lb.. $1.50: ten. $2.50. Smoking. 5 lb.. $1.25: ten. $2. Guaranteed. Pay when received. Pipe free. United Tobacco Growers. Paduceh. Ky. HOMESPUNTOBACCO. Chewing. 5 lbs.. $1.50: 10. 82.50. Smoking. 5. 81.25: 10, $2. Mild 10, 81.50. Pay when received. F. Gupton. Bardwell, Kentucky. KENTUCKY HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Four pounds chewing or five smoking. $1.00 postpaid. Clements d: Wettstain. Chambers. Ky. 50, guaranteed. Pay when received. pipe free. Boy Carlton, Maxons Mills. Kentucky. POULTRY WHITTAKER'S RED COCKERELS—Both Combs. from trapnosted stock. Michigan's Greatest Color and Egg Strain. Write for Catalog. Interlakes Farm”. Box 9. Lawrence. Mich. HIGH-GRADE ROSE COMB REDS‘I25 Pullets. Go non—setting yearling hens, few choice cockcrols left. :21 Land 310 each. Wm. Mmck, It. 1. Farmington. c . COCKERELS—Rocks, Reds, Leghorns. Turkeys. Geese and Ducks. Send for prices. State Farms Association. Kalamazoo. Mich. PURE~BRED CHICKS from State Accredited Stock. Fourteen varieties. Poultry Manual Free. fitoull'er Egg Farms. Route 26, Mount Morris. Illinois. ENGLISH White Leghorn Cockcrcls from pedigreed males and trapncstcd hens. M. Il‘ompe, It. 5. Grand Rapids, Mich. f‘TANCRED STRAIN”-——\Vhilc llcgliorns, Bufl’ Orp— inglons. Barred Rocks. State Fair Winners. Prices right. “'rltc Fenncr Bailey, Monrgomcr‘y. Mich. WHITE VVYANDOTTES—-Clloice. husky coq‘rerels at was-unable priccs. bred from heavy layers. Fred Bcl‘lin. Allvn. Mll‘ll. TOP PRICES I’AID for fryorrs or broilers weigh- ing 11/; to 29$ lbs. Ship today. East Coast Poultry (.0., 1300 Division St... Detroit. Mich. FOR SAI.IG~—Wliire Rock Cockc'rcls production strai . . n. selected stack, $3 and $5 each. Goo. D. Clarke. R. 2, Ithaca. Mich. S. C. BUFF‘ LEGHORN COCKERELfi—Pri - able. Willard Webster. Bath. Mich. can reason MAMMOTH TOULOUSE GEESE and wild ducks. fullbloods. latter are nice for pcls, and big proflt. 0r- der now. Mrs. Antonie Lindcrcr, Ncwaygo, Mich. 1924 WHITE EMBDEN GEICSE of standard rape and size. $4 calm. Edward Klever, Grant. Mich.J TURKEYS FOR SALE—Thoroughbred White Holland turkeys. toms $7. hens $5. Thoroughbred Flemish Giant rab- bitshw up. Leonard Norton. It. No. 3. Three Rivers. rc . GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS—Goldbank St i Choice young toms and hens at full prices. girl: Perry Stebbins. Saranao. Mich. ' MAMMOTH BRONZE, pure—bred turkeys. blu ' stock, 2-yr.—old hens. $8; young toms. 38‘;3 ngbOn hens, $6. M. Love. Bangor. Mich. AMERICA'S BEST Giant Bronze Turk s Ron bred. Winners at the large shows. Reasoivable. Wrist: Jonnson Turkey Farm. Six Lakes. Mich. I)URE~RRICD Giant Bronze turkeys hens $7. t $9. Unrelated Champion strain ' - . oms: worth. Mich. , - Ida Davy. Ella TURKEY'S—311 breeds. Strictly pure—bred. Get our special prices. Eastern Ohio P ‘ - ville, Ohio. oultry harm. Bealls 331mg IIOIEIAND Torrw'rumncvs from a. 30—lb. ; ' ung oms weigh to 20 lb. 1"" 1). E. Dean. Milford. Mich. S “('6' $10. “'HITE HOLLAND TURKEYS and “'hite E bd Geese. Mrs. Guy E. Welch. Elwell. Mich. m on pay cash premiums for all rare coins. Scnd 4c for Large (,‘oin Folder. May mean much profit to you. Numismatic Co., Dept. M. Ft. Worth, Texas. 3,200 EGG WISIIBONE INl‘ITBA'I‘Oll—-Ncarly new. A-l condition. Bargain for quick sale. T. E. Lamor— eaux, Hadley, Mich. ~ ALL WOOL KNITTING YARN for sale from manu- facturer at great bargain. Samples free. II. A, Bartlett. Harmony. Maine. PRINTING~500 letteu'heads. 500 envelopes only $6, complete. I'rompt service—send copy at once. The Independent Press. Mexico. New York. SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK CERTIFIED SEED GRAIN. from latest improved strains of highest yielding varieties under Michigan conditions. Wolverine oats. Robust beans. A. B. Cook, Owosso. Mich. PET STOCK FERRETS—Thirty years' experience. Yearling fe- males, the mother ferret. special mt catchers, $0.00 each. Young Stock females, $4.50. Males, $4.00. Will ship C. 0. . Instruction book free. Levi Fernsworth. New London. Ohio. FERRETS—speclalizing in small trained retters or hunters. Informntion free. Thos. Sellers. New London, Ohio. BIG TYPE Mammoth Bronze turke s It . llamsdell. Hanover, Michigan. y . I”. Eugene JUNE IIA'I‘CHICD Mammoth Bronze Tu k vs I: ones." Edith Bl0cher, Woodland, Micl‘i.03 I Good I’URE—BRED Bourbon Red Yearlin Tom Fausnaugh. ("lirlsaning, Mich. g ' $10. Freed. FOR SALE—«Purebred Bourbon Red Turk Harry Buggies. Llilford' Mich. 6115. Mrs. HELP WANTED WANTED—Thoroughly experienced married couple for strictly modern dairy farm. Man must know dairying from A to Z, and he very clean. and agreeable. We produce special baby milk. Woman to board one or two Single men. Good house. good wages and per— manont work for right party. Only thriftv, hustling country folks with good experiences need apply. Could {I SO [ISO ()llt‘ OF (“'0 single Illt’ll. ) '2 ' ' Acres. Augusta, Mich. AH)” Mgr., Syllan WANTED7Single man for general for work. Milking machine used. Good lillrbitgngncllalinrz dustry rmuircd. Steady job. State wages, age and particulars in first letter. Goldwater Jersey Farm Goldwater. Mich. - SITUATIONS WANTED EXPERIENCED FARMER. small family. wants work on farm. or manage same. 17 Pleasant Ava. River Rouge, Mich. AT STUD—-Pollard Von Polizen. pure-bred German Police Shepherd dog. Imported. service fee .reason~ able. Pine Hill Farm, Howard City. Mich. sum-S GOLD CERTIFICATE pedigreed Flemish Giants for sale. 2 to 8 months old. Satisfaction guar- anteed. Sadie North. Butternut. Mich. 1.000 FERRETS FOR SALE. C. Arthur Dimiclr. Rochester. ‘Ohio. RAT TERRIEBS. ‘fox terriers. rabbit hounds. Illus- trated lists 10c. Pete Slater. Pane. Illinois. AGENTS WANTED EASY TO SELL GROCERIES. Paints. Lubricating Oils. to consumers. Capital or experience unneces- sary. 53 years in business. Loverin s. Browne. 1776 80. State. Chicago. AGENTS-Our new Household Cleaning Device washes and dries windows, sweeps. cleans walls. scrubs. mops. Costs less than brooms. Over half profit. Writ. Harper Brush Works. 173 3rd St.. Fairfleld. Iowa. SALESMEN WANTED everywhere to represent us OI liberal commission. The Clyde Nursery. Clyde. Ohio. HOMESPUN TOBACCO: Chewing. five 1b., $1.50:tm. ‘ $2.50: smoking, fire 1b.. $1.25: ten. $2; cigars. $2 for . '5 \‘ wan-“swam! 15%?11'3 ./ Our Government Bureau in Bulletin 201 says: "A perfectly balanced bowl is necessary for perfect skimming. " “H ’ ll" “I” ‘ It“ \ I \V vi \ ’ ‘ *\\\\\ \_ § W” M! \N‘Wx‘l) The Imported Belgian Melotte Cream Sepa- rator with the sus- pended Self-Balancing Bowl is strikingly and absolutely difl‘erent from an y other separa- tor on the American market. Patents keep it so. It is the one sep- arator that shims as perfectb after ten or twenty years of serv- ice as when new. ‘\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\ - 3 ‘Wm \\\\\\\ ‘2 _ | §tf :__"‘_‘E‘-'- The Melotte Separator ":9. s. Baluon, M... 2843 West 19th Street Dept. 31-09, Chicago. Ill. 2445 Prince Street, Berkeley. Calif. Without cost to me or obligation in any wa . please send me the Melotte catalog which tells the full story 0 this wonderful sepa- rator and M. Jules Melotte. its inventor and your offer of “Don’t Pay for 4 Months." ’MlI-l‘ (Print nuns and ndhlreu plainly) Gumty ————— . State How many cows do you milk? lk M h, :0“. Eve Inge n milker wfilclh i. Mi ing ac me an to term vou— eotte qualitv- onnhl deed- ‘ nu ltyilf’tenued D mCheck here ,’ We will send an .imported Belgian Melotte Cream Separatpr with Self- Balancing Bowl direct to your farm and you don’t pay us a cent for 4 months. We make this offer because we know there is no other sep- arator in the world equal to the Melotte and we want tO'prove it to you. 1 We want you to see the only separator with a suspended self-balancing bowl—a bowlxwhich positively cannot get out of balance. ' You may have a 30 day free trial. At the end ’of that time you can make up your mind whether you want to keep the separator or send it back at our expense. Use it just as if ‘it were your own machine. ._Put it to every pos- sible test. Compare it with any or all others. The Melotte is easy to keep clean and sanitary because it has only one-half the tinware of other separa- tors. Tums soeasily that bowl spins 25 minutes after you stop cranking . unless brake is applied. No other separator has or needs a brake. Exa‘ the Melotte Shims Best , Mtln'ug'flse like]! The bowl of the Melotte is different from the bowl of all other separators. There is no bowl anything like it. Look at the picture. You will see that the Melotte bowl lS suspended on a hook from a smgle ball bearing. ‘ ’ The Melotte/bowl ban 3 just as a plumb bob and spins around on its own center of grayity. It is self- alancingw It is always in perfect balance. It cannot vibrate even if you leave out part or all‘of the discs. That is why the Melotte is the greatest ;skimmer ever made—a perfect skimmer the first day you run it; a perfect skimmer 10 or 20 years later. ‘ The whole secret of perfect skimmin is perfect balance. Almost any separa , tor W111 do a good job of skimming w en it is new and in balance. No se a- tor can skim aperfectly when it is out of balance. No hand-balanced > how can ‘ remain in b ance because it must be “balanced” by adding 0r taking away solder. It is never quite so ood today as it was yesterday because the bearings and solder have worn a litt e bit more. There is more looseness and vibration. The cream more and more remixes with the milk. ' The greater the vibration, the greater the cream loss. Only a tiny waste at first but a little more every day until final y by the time you decide to send the bowl to be rebalanced: the loss is enormous. In all the history of the Melotte" Cream Separator there has never been a bowl returned to the factory to be rebalanced. Never! Write-Mail coupon forMelotte—Catalos and Free man are: To get the greatest cream profits you should find out about the Melotte. You buy and raise cattle, feed them, build a barn to put them in, and spend long hours night and morning caring for them. So, when there is a separator which is better than any other sepa- rator, why not get the full story of the wonderful Melotte imme- diately? If you are using a hand-balanced separator which has not been rebalanced for 3 years, you are losing enough cream to pay for the Melotte in one year and we can prove it. Mail free coupon for free catalog and special offers today. THE MELOTTE SEPARATOR,"£’5§?5§3”’ 19th St. and California Ave., Dept. 31-09, Chicago, Ill. . _» va a,,..~-~.,__,. < ~ ea-- - «ww‘ ,_ _ .._._._~_...._,..__. ._-.._ W.