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HE “Ideal Fruit Farm," in Alle-

gan county, is Mrs. E. L Spring-

er, or Mrs. Springer is the farm
—Whichever way you choose to put it.
Men and women of her stamp have
made possible the stretch of fruit land
that winds like a reel of varied col-
ored ribbon from New Buffalo to Sau—
gatuck, a distance of seventy-five
miles. I daresay that few of the peo-
ple who speed along highway M-11
during the golden summer days,
whether in “Lizzies” or Rolls-Royces,
pause to considervwhat the making of

that country has involved: the break-‘

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A Good Pack of Apples.

011 An Allegau County Hillside

_How 30126 Little Woman Has Made A “ Go” ofa Fruit Romeo

By James Small

ferent varieties to see which will best
thrive there; the struggle with blight,
with low markets. and high-priced
help, and all the thousand and one an-
noyances that give zest to the race
and joy to its reward.

Picture to yourself an alert, active
little woman, not much over five feet
in height, with friendly voice, and eyes
that sparkle with vivacity, despite her
years (no, I shan’t tell you how- many,
for it isn’t polite to mention a lady’s
age), and you have the mistress of the
120racre ranch.

Fruit, especially peach, growing was
far from being the industry that it is
today, when Mrs. Springer, then Mrs.
Goodrich, left her girlhood home in La
Porte county, Indiana, and came with
her young husband to the Michigan
country. It was much more sparsely
settled in those days than it is now,
and the labor-saving devices that make
life bearable upon the farm now-a-
days, were then but the undreamed
of things of the future. But the youth-
ful couple were the right sort for the
tackling of the job. They had both
come from the sturdy stock that first
captured the wilderness and then tam-
ed it; they were filled with hope, and
they weren’t afraid to work. Both
lived to see their dreams come true,
and when Mr. Goodrich died a few
years ago he could point to the “Ideal
Farm” as one of the best kept fruit

ranches of Allegan county. Some
time after his death his widow married
Mr. E. L. Springer, of Chicago, who is
carrying on the enterprise with his
wife, though he will tell you with a
twinkle in his eye, that she is the
mainspring of the place. “Shucks,”
says he, “I was a city chap-didn’t
know a. pear from an apple tree when
I came over here. My wife has broken
me in pretty well, though. So I don’t
make the breaks I did when I first
landed.”

The “Ideal Farm” is Mrs. Springer’s
life work. Her enthusiasm has a trick
of glorifying the commonplace, and
when she talks of peaches and plums,
of Hyslop crabs and Northern Spy ap-
ples, it is in the spirit of an artist
who discusses landscapes and sunsets
and color effects. The farm lies on the
side of a hill, the slope of which is so
gradual that both air and soil drain-
age is very nearly perfect. It is owing
to this, says the owner, that there has
never been a complete failure of crops
in all of her thirty-five years of tenure.
One suspects, however, that Mrs.
Springer is a bit too modest, and that
a considerable part of the farm’s suc-
cess is to be attributed to her own
careful supervision and hard work.
There are, in all, 120 acres, with not
one of them going to waste. Part of
this is due, no doubt, to what the
Yankee calls “management,” and part

 

Mrs. E. L. Springer, Farm Manager.

to the character of the soil, which is
of dark loam and self-limed. Of the
total area, forty acres are set out to
peaches, with trees ranging from one
to eighteen years of age; thirty acres
in apples, from five to fifteen years
old; six acres in plums, three to fif-
teen years; and the same number of
acres in pear trees, some of which are
fifty years old, while others are mere
youngsters of twelve years. There are
a dozen acres of crabs, and a scatter-
ing of cherries, quinces, etc. The. rest
(Continued on page 638).

i He Doesn’t Do As the Romans

Toe Story of a Pioneer Farm in Miefizlgan ’5 Oldest and Newest County

ROM where White Fish Bay pours

the chilled waters of Lake Supe-

rior through the Soo Locks into
the St. Mary’s River, extending west
rand south to the timbered hills and
plains of Luce and Mackinac, and
reaching its arm southeastward to
Lake Huron, lies Michigan’s oldest,
her youngest, and one of her most in-
teresting counties.

The history of Chippewa county goes
back to those early days not so long
ago, after the Pilgrims landed at Ply—
mouth Rock. It was then that the
Jesuit Fathers established the farthest
outposts of civilization in carrying
their gospel to the red men of Michi-
gan’s wilderness. It is a history inter-
woven with the names of LaSalle, Mar-
quette, Cadillac, with Indian lore, with

A early trading posts. It deals with a
commerce which evolved from trifling
loads which had to be portaged around
the St. Mary’s Falls, to the time of 800
Locks of the St. ,Mary’s, one of the
earlier engineering achievements of
the United’States government, provid-
ing a shipping channel through which
there annually passes far more ton-
nage than goes through the great Pan'-
ama. and Suez Canals combined.

Its history deals with pioneer tam
ers around Sault Ste. Marie. who built
up an agriculture to supply the ships

By H.C.

that passed through the locks, and
who extended their clearings on the
low-lying, fertile soils of the valley to
supply timothy for the horses in the
scores of lumber camps of northern
Michigan.

Its more modern history still deals
With the extending of clearings, with
the battling of forest fires, with the
draining of flat new lands—pioneer
problems confronting farmers with

Rather

neighboring fields that decades of
farming have already worn out.
Chippewa’s agricultural story has
been essentially a story of timothy
hay. Timothy just relished the black
abundance of fertility that lay in those
acres upon acres of flat wooded plains,
land as fertile as any in Michigan’s
Thumb District, her Saginaw Valley,
or her prosperous southeastern coun-
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a ready outlet in the lumber camp hay
markets of the north. A Chippewa
county farmer just naturally grew up
with timothy hay. Fifteen hundred
farmers grow 60,000 acres of timothy,
more hay than the 4,000 farmers of
Monroe county grow, and twice as
many acres of hay per farm as is
grown in Sanilac, the leading hay coun-
ty of the state. The little hamlet of
Rudyard in one year shipped over 3,000
cars of timothy hay—and that just
didn’t leave room for much of any-
thing else.

Five years ago, an outsider, one of
these modern pioneers, moved into the
heart of the newer timothy hay coun-
try of Chippewa county, and took a
careful survey of the premises. On
all sides of him, he saw flat, cut-over
land and clearings of timothy. The
new land threw out its crop luxuriant-
ly, two, three, and four tons per acre.
But there was old land, too; fields
which had been into timothy consecu-
tively, for maybe twenty, thirty or
forty years, and which now were strug-
gling to produce sickly, dry stems of
timothy, interspread with myriads of
daisies, pretty to look at, but not so
good when it comes to paying the
taxes.

It was here, at Rudyard, that Mr.

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DETROIT, DECEMBER 26, 1925
CURRENT COMMENT

E have come to

 

The End the end of a
year. Another season

of the ‘has gone, and we now
Year stand on the ridge of

time from which we
may look back with knowledge of the
past season’s result, and forward with
hope and anticipation of the future.

The New Year means more to the
farmer than to the manufacturer, as it
brings to end, through natural causes,
the farmer’s season. But the indus-
trial man, as a matter of caution, uses
this as a time. of reckoning. He wants
to know where he is at, before he goes
ahead. Therefore, he takes inventory
and reviews the past season's busi-
ness. This gives help in improving
plans for the coming year.

The farmer, too. should look back in
order to make going forward more ef-
fective. A critical analysis of the past
season‘s methods will help to build
better plans for the coming year.

It profits us to approach this time of
the year in a cold and analytical way.
We should also approach it with a
feeling of sentiment. May it not be
well for us to bring to our own real~
ization the wonders of the seasons?
Each winter brings rest to growing
things; each spring brings forth blos-
soms of hope; each autumn, a harvest
to gather. Time goes unceasingly on;
and it is for us to use our allotted
time here to the greatest good.

Regardless of what 1925 has brought
you, our hope is that 1926 will be kind-
er to you in the fulfillment of your
hopes and desires, and will reward
you more freely for the honest efforts
you put forth.

HE sense of speed

Mother’s is all about us.
The farmer is contin-

New ually replacing his old
Year machinery with new
and modern imple-

ments that will help him to reduce his
production costs. The man in the fac-
tory is, all the time, replacing the old
machine with a. new one that will turn
out more pieces to the minute. Even
the children find their time crowded

.to the last minute. with their many

school activities, athletics, and music

lessons.

Amid all this hustle and bustle of

 

comfort, ma companionship, as well
as a place for refueling the body.
' As the. soil is the factory for the
farmer, so the home is. the factory for
the home-maker, and undoubtedly the
most important one.

At this time of the year, when each
and every one is looking forward to
the new yoar~n year which promises
much in measure of health, happiness.
and prosperity—4t is fitting to give
thoughtful consideration to the things
that mother needs to run her home
factory to give the greatest happiness
to herself and her family. Any device
that would lighten her labor and short-
en her hours devoted to housekeeping
would liberate that time for home-mak-
ing, of which no home can have too
much.

  

F the five hun-

so,"e dreu bills intro-
A . I duced in the house of
grlcu " representatives, at n d

tural Bills published in the first

issue of the Congres-
sional Record, more than twothirds
were. bills for the erection of post
offices or government buildings, most
of them in small cities or large vil-_
lages. Needless to say that very few
of these bills will ever receive more
than a perfunctory consideration by
the committee in charge of this legis-
lation. Among the ills which attract—
ed attention as dea ing with problems
of agricultural importance, can be list-
ed the following:

A bill calling for an appropriation
of $80,000,000 for the next two years
for good roads, and $8,000,000 a year
for the same period for forest roads.

A bill calling for the repeal of the
prohibition amendment.

A bill providing for notice of the
defeat of any effort to amend the Con—
stitution aimed at. ending the uncer-
tainty over the child labor amendment.

A bill providing a new child labor
amendment.

A bill providing for a commission to
investigate cooperative marketing.

Two bills, one for the stabilization
of the prices of farm products, the
other for the government purchase and
sale of farm products.

A joint resolution making it. cause
for the impeachment of any public offi-
cer to purchase intoxicating honor of
a bootlegger. .

A joint resolution providing thatcm
case of war there should be selective
conscription of capital, resources and
labor as well as men, for military and
naval service.

NE of our promi-
nent men has the

Lo in

0k g idealistic hope that in
For a due time factories run
Job? by water power will

be established in coun-
try towns so that farmers may work
in them during the winter, that season
when farm activities are down to a
minimum. This is a fine thought
which we hope may materialize, but at
present the factories are in the big
cities, and people flock to those cities
to get winter jobs.

Many farm folks make it a practice
to go to the industrial centers each
year in search of a winter's job, after
the crops are laid by. Such attempts
are variously successful. Often the job-
hunter goes home sadder, but wiser.
After he has tried it several times, he
knows how and where to hunt jobs.
But each year new recruits try their
hands at it. I

This is what happened the other day
to two young fellows from the north-
ern part of the state. They were walk-
ing along Woodward avenue, Detroit,
when a well-dressed man accosted
them, inquiring if they were looking
for jobs. Naturally, they answered
“Yes." He said, “I have jobs for you
at electrical work, but a few tools are
needed. I can get them at wholesale, so,
if you will give me the money I'll go
in and get them for you." One young
man gave him $4.00 and the other
$3.00. The young men learned later

finch occurrences are? not udccgnmoii.
At all times those who ore‘e'fter easy
money are plying. their trade. 'fl‘he'ir
methods are unique and varied. It’is

safe to beware of strangers, and their

promise of special favors after the re-
ceipt of money. Farm-earned money
is hard-earned money. Don't let it go
easily. If you can’t find 9. job through
regular channels, go back home.

_ - I T will be the editor-
To

ial policy of this

. paper for the coming
A'd (Fom- seasons, to aid in, em
munlttes cry possible way the

improvement of rural
neighborhoods and communities. It is

our conviction that every boy and ev‘.

ery girl is entitled to all the favor-
able influences that can possibly be
thrown about them. It is, also, our
conviction that men and women can
live fuller and more satisfactory lives
When in a live. progressive neighbor-
hood, than in a. place where there are
no plans, no activities, no ideals, no
Community life. ' '

That community organization Work
mightbe made. more attractive and-ef-
fective, we have published a twenty-
four page booklet on programs and
helps for local farmers’ organizations.
Briefly, the booklet gives suggestions
on local organization and planning
programs, (including plays and games
for regular holidays, as well as special
occasions), and short descriptions of
popular plays suitable for the average
talent. A copy of this booklet will be
sent to any address for ten cents in
stamps to cover costs.

UCCESS talks ap-

Success peal to everybody.

We have arranged for

Talks For a. series to be‘ run
Farm Boys \during the year 1926.

These talks, while ad-
dressed to the farm boys, will be read
as carefully by the girls and parents
as well, because of the high merit of
the contributions and the men who
write them.

Through an organization of a dozen
state farm papers, covering the entire
country, and known as the Standard
Farm Papers, it has been possible to
arrange for a series of heart to ,heart
talks on the elements of success, by a.
number of great Americans, which in-
cludes as the first on the list, our be-
loved President Coolidge.

Our success in life depends upon
our desires and attitude toward things.
Our minds and hearts will pull us into
almost any place that we earnestly de-
sire to reach. Our life’s desire not
only acts as a guide to our journey
through the years, but it takes pains
that we feed upon the mental and
spiritual food that will further that de-
sire, whether it be commendable or
not.

It is, therefore, of the highest im-
portance that the young people, espe-
cially, have the widest opportunity for
getting a straight view on this matter
of living a life. To this end these
talks from great Americans should
prove of the highest value to the boys
and girls on our Michigan farms.

HOSE who have

Europe been in a position
Turns to to sense tendencies in
. European countries.
Farming declare that the dom‘

inant note common to
all continental Europe, as well as to
the British Isles, is greater stress on

agricultural production. England, with '

her high unemployment and her short-

age of food, is seeking to improve both.

situations by a more intensive system
of farming. Italy is establishing a. high
tariff on agricultural products to en-,
courage home production. She is giv-
ing special attention to the production
of wheat. Other European countries

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our farmers to dock. more closely to
the task of jupplying home needs. We

still import agricuitural‘ products that

can be produced .on American soil : it
is felt that any change or expansion
should be in the direction of produc-
ing products like lumber. wool, edger.
of which we import large "quantities,
and many other staple and special
products.

Certainly this is no time for the de-
velopment, (as is' being propbsed), of
irrigation projects in the west. Such
enterprises can come when the west
has increased its capacity to consume.
It is a. time, though, for our farmers
to study definitely a'course similar to
the one European farmers are study-
ing—the satisfying of those markets
near at hand, with the products that
can be advantageously produced on
our soils. If we meet this thing
squarely. it may be that the emphasis
now being placed on agriculture in Eu-
rope will prove a real contribution to
the farming business in America.

 

Happy New Year

APPY NEW YEAR” is old. It’s

been said for centuries, and it’s
still bein' said. That shows it must be
good to last so long. Hopin’ and wish
in’ that somebody else will be happy
and prosperous is never goin' outa.
style, like clothes and hair cuts, or no
hair cuts do.

The new year is the time to start
over again. It don't make no differ-
unce what the old one’s been, we’re
hopin' and wishln' the new one will be
good, and we just keep on hopin’ and
wishin'. even if it don't turn out good.
It’s hope what makes us want ta live
do see the futchur.
'It's the mystery 0'
the futchur what
holds our lnterust.
just like the mys-
tery in a good do-
tective story.

You know, I’d
like ta. live for a
hundred years
'more, just ta find
out What things'll be like then. I just
hate ta miss the excitement o' growin’
crops with ’lectric tools, where all you
gotta do is ta push a. button, and ridin'
in air ships ta. Europe fer the week-
end, and etc.

I kinda think I was born too early,
’cause I think I'd kinda like push-bub
ton farmin'. But I guess Sofie'd think
that’d be too easy fer what you call
my well-bein'.

But speakin' 0’ New Years right
now; folkses welcome it in lots 0’
ways. Some drink it in, and some
pray it in, and some sleep it in. I
kinda figure I’ll do the last one, ’cause
sleepin’ is my spechulty, and I guess
New Years kin come alright without
my help. I ain’t got no business bein'
up late, anyhow. But maybe I’ll sit
by the fireside and the radio, listenin'
ta noise other folkses is makin‘ hun‘
dreds 0' miles away, when New Year
is born.

 

Don’t the year get old fast, though?
It starts a young baby, and in aflittul
while it’s a old man. I kin do lots
better than that. I’ve seen lots 0’ New

Years, but I’m lots younger than
1925. The year ain't a success
either. It don't come with much

clothes, and it ain’t got any more when
it leaves. So it looks like most 0' us
is more 0’ a success than a year.

For most 6’ us the year is lots what
we make it. Some 0’ us don’t think
so, but we’ve‘got somethin' ta. do with
the way the year turns out fer us.
Here’s hopin’ you’re plannin' ta have
a. good year, next year, and when the
year is over, you’ll find your plans
worked. That‘s just sayin‘, in another
way, I’m‘ wishin' you .a. Happy New,
Year. ._ HY SYCKLE,‘

  
   

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FTER having spent some time at

Lucérne, Switzerland, we left for

Frankfort, Germany, by .way of
Basel and the Rhine. When one‘ enters
southern Germany from Switzerland,
he does not observe any appreciable
differences with respect to conditions
in the rural districts. The soils are
similar, the farms are small, and the
cows are in common usage as beasts
of burden.

He observes, however, that the Ger-
man people are great for holidays.
When they have one, evidently every-
body turns out and takes strip some-
The people who do not travel
by train on the holidays may be seen
walking in the country districts
through the forests or public parks. Oc-
casionally we observed automobiles.

The topography of the country as
a whole, is quite variable, and in
many places, interesting and beautiful.
In parts of the country, the farms are

very large, and farming operations are

carried on in a scientific manner. As
to be expected, one is impressed by
the prevention of wastage on all sides,
and finally the scientific manner in
which the forests are managed.

We were stopped at the frontier
by the inspectors, but were treated
with consideration and courtesy. Our
baggage was not opened, and my pass-
port was not held up, but merely
glanced at. This was contrary to the
rumors that we had heard. We had
been told repeatedly that foreigners
were not permitted to take anything
of value into Germany, and if they at—
tempted this, the valuables would be
confiscated, the owners fined, and per-
haps thrown into jail. In addition,
there was a heavy duty on all goods
purchased out of Germany. 'Rumors
are as common around tourist rendez-
vous as gossip on ”main street”——in
some cases they are "malignant.” '

Evidently the German officials real-

. ize that a college professor is not like-

ly to attempt to take a great deal of
valuables, either into or out of the
country. The porters at the railway
station spoke English. '

Of course, it is prudent on one’s part
to get rid of the coins that he accum-
ulates in a country before he departs
from it; otherwise, money changers are
likely to gouge him considerably. If
one has the time, however, and goes to
a bank, this is not so likely to take
place. At any rate, I relieved myself
of all the Swiss coinage, which is en-
tirely different from that of Germany,
and took on several gold marks and

    

other coins of different denominations.

The population of Frankfort is 415,-
000. This, as other German cities, is
neat and attractive. The parks, prom-
enades and drives along the river main
and 'the wide streets, are notable.
There are numerous statues of soldiers
and other leaders. The street cars
move almost without noise, the tracks
are so well constructed and kept in
such good repair. Although there
were many beautiful dresses and oth-
er garments on display in the windows
of the stores, it was evident that few
people purchased them. The vast ma-
jority of the people did not have the
means of purchase, and were shabbily

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McCool

The trains were all crowded and, un-
less one had a reservation several
hours before the time of departure of
the train, he had a great deal of diffi-
culty in obtaining a seat. As in other
countries in Europe, the railway
coaches may be entered from either
end of the corridor, which runs length-
wise of them. In some cases one can
enter each compartment on either side
of the coach. Before the trains dew
part from the station, an attendant
slams all the doors that may be open,
and a whistle is blown by a train dis-
patcher. At each station one may ob-
tain refreshments of all sorts.

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The “Strip" System of Farming, Which Requires Almost Exclusive Hand
Labor, is Common in Germany.

dressed. They looked broken, under-
nourished, troubled and discouraged.
Neither did they laugh nor smile. They
treated us fairly; they did not over-
charge us; they did not annoy us in
any way.

As tourists should, when traveling
without definite or prearranged plans,
or on an organized tour, we shopped
for hotel accommodations. We were
surprised at the dilapidated condition
of the interior of large and attractive
hostelries. Apparently no improve-
ments had been made since prior to
the war.

‘ We went from Frankfort to Berlin
on Sunday, and although we had been
advised not to travel on European
trains on Sundays and holidays, I de-
sired to do so in order to see the
people, the way they dress, and how
they conduct themselves in groups, etc.

mans took their hand baggage with
them when they left their compart-
ments to go to the dining car, and
placards were posted in prominent po—
sitions in the coaches, warning the
passengers to beware of thieves. i
did not take any such precautions, and
did not lose any of my belongings.

We landed at Berlin about 12:00 M,
and asked a ponderous policeman
about a hotel, and was directed to a
good one by him. The week spent in
this great city was not without in-
terest.

Berlin is one of the three or four
largest cities in Europe. It has a pop-
ulation of about two million. It is
situated on a flat, sandy plain, the
area of the city being 25,000 acres. The
principal streets, which are very at-~
tractice are Unter den Linden, which
has four rows of lime trees, and is one

  
    

 

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* T/ieré Are Still Many Tfiingr in" m: Country to Remind One of Me Great ”7w
By M . M .

of the famous promenades of the city, ,
Wilhelemstrazza, Koenigstrazze, and
Leipzigerstrazze. The Tiergarten—a
park, is very extensive and is very
beautiful, and, inasmuch as it lies
within very close proximity to the
chief points of interest in the city,
it is made use of a great deal by the
inhabitants and tourists. Berlin is well
supplied with railway stations. They
are very large, and attractively con-
structed, and are so arranged that
large numbers of people can be taken
care of in a relatively short time.
There are several notable buildings in
the city, all of which are well con-
structed and attractive.

There are many statues in the city
of Berlin. Statues of the great war-
riors, and also other great men, who
Were not soldiers. It impressed me
that wherever the children of Ger-
many go, they are confronted by one
or more of these very large statues of
warriors, and it appears that such sur-
roundings should have their influence.
It might be advisable to remove the
uniforms from the statues and replace
them with the garb of citizens.

There are many unfortunate people
in Germany as an aftermath of the
war. Many of them are in absolute
poverty. One sees on the streets at
all times, many men, women, and chil-
dren without. means of support, and'
while we were in the city we were
met almost at every turn by requests
for donations. It is indeed a pitiful
condition. I talked with an English-
man, who was a representative of the
American Potash Corporation, who in-
formed me that he led thirty children
from October, 1923, to Easter, 1924.
He stated that so far as he knew, all
the food that these children obtained
was that which he gave them, which
consisted of soup and sandwiches. Ir-
respective of the depressed financial
conditions, the theaters were always,
ml and the beer gardens crowded
from midday umil late at night. I
was informed that the people had
reached the point Where they believed
in obtaining what enjoyment they
could as they went along, inasmuch
as they did not know what the future
held for them, especially with respect
to their money values.

It was apparent that the American
tourists had not been numerous in
Germany since the war, and they were
looked upon with a great deal of dis-
favor. in several instanCes the Amer-
ican lady tourists were sneered at.

(Continued on page 638).

The Year in the Markets

A” Review of the Major Cflaflges in Me Farmerr’ Market During 1925
By Gilbert Guzler

N the past year, agriculture regain-
ed more of the health and strength
lost through the economic malady
which befeil the industry in 1920 and
1921. It was the fourth consecutive
year of beating back toward prosperity.

All products were not affected alike
by the changes during the year. Hogs,
beef cattle, sheep, dairy and poultry
products, and potatoes were more prof-
itable than in 1924. Corn and cats
were disappointments as cash crops.
The decline in the price of cotton will
offset most, if not all, of the increase
in yield. Money returns from sugar
crops were low. Changes elsewhere
were .not extreme.

The improvement in the beef cattle
situation was one of the outstanding
economic changes of the year. The
reduced supply of pork helped to elim-
inate the beef surplus, so that average
prices paid to farmers for beef cattle

of all‘kinds was approximately sixty-
five cents higher than in 1924 in spite
of a five per cent increase in the num-
ber slaughtered. The year closes with

no apparent excess in numbers of cat-’

tie on feed.

An increase of fifty per cent in the
average price of hogs much more than
offsets a twenty per cent reduction in
the number slaughtered. The ratio be
tween prices of corn and hogs became
favorable for the feeder early in the
year indicated that expanding produc-

‘ tion might show up during the year in

larger receipts and lower prices. Num-
bers of lambs now on feed appear to
be smaller than a year ago. Wool pric-
es started the year on too high a level
to be healthy, and the inevitable col-
lapse came in the early months. From

this lower level, values gradually ad-
vanced, but pressure from southern
hemisphere wool has caused a spell of
mild weakness recently.

The farm price of butter has aver-
aged twenty-five per cent higher than
last 'year. Milk prices have been
slightly higher also. Egg prices have
averaged fifteen per cent higher, and
chickens six per cent higher. For the
most part, these gains in price were
not neutralized by decreases in the
volume of production. Receipts of but-
ter at the four leading markets were
three per cent less than last year, and
chickens ten per cent smaller. Nearly
five per cent more cheese arrived, and

receipts of eggs were a fraction of one

per cent greater than in 1924.
The year was much more profitable

for the live stock producer and dairy-
man than for the grain grower. Wheat
prices reversed several times, but the
average price level since 1925 wheat
started to move has been about
enough higher than in the same period
of 1924 to offset the twenty per cent
decline in yield. The opposite was
true of barley, Where a larger crop
offset much of the decline in price.
Oats production and prices both were
lower than last year.

Corn prices were extremely high .»
early in the year, and returns were

handsome for the 1924 crop marketed - -.
at that time. The twenty-four per cent 'V ?
increase in this year’s crop, coming
simultaneously with curtailed hog pro- V

duction, has resulted in a. decline of. 3.
nearly a third in prices. Ordinarily,
eighty per cent of the crop is fed on
the farm where grown. Since prices
for live stock products are higher than

   

      

      
   
 
      


 

 

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year, stock then are receiving

more per bushel for their corn ~thana.
j‘year ago. ,, Manufacturers never cdm-
plain when coal is cheap, and the

stock man finds no fault with low-
of
course, has been grievously disappoint-
The

four tines as hm as last year.
should ' much m then We
.sold.- as is actually reflected in many
potato growing. counties. ‘ ‘
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sections in the south where the crop
burned up will not be displeased if the
price remains low.

The hay crop was thirteen per cent
smaller than that of last year.
ceipts at the leading markets since
new hay began moving, have been ten
per cent less than last year. Prices
{have strengthened, but not enough to
compensate entirely for the decreased
farm surplus. Returns from the hay
crop, as a whole, are dependent upon
prices of live stock and dairy products
even more than is corn.

Potato markets have changed from
a feast to a famine affair. The 1924
crop was a record breaker, and sold
at extremely low prices. This year,
October freezes shortened a yield
which was already estimated at twen-
ty-four per cent less than in 1924. Pres-
ent prices to producers are three to

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closing level does not make such a
favorable showing. This year’s com—
mercial crop was nine per cent greater
than last year, so that the apple grow-
ers appear to be better off in 1925 than
they were in 1924.

Altogether, the agricultural situation
is better than last year. There are
many farmers Whose economic posi-
tion is far from secure, but reports of
farm bankruptcies are distinctly fewer
than two years ago.

This improvement has been effected
in a better market for the most funda-
mental element in farm production, the
land itself. Real estate dealers report
an‘increase of nearly fifty per cent in
the number of farms sold in 1925, com-
pared with 1924. This means that
more people are ready to buy farms,
rather than that more farms are of—
fered for sale.

 

   

FAVORS USE OF MUSCLE ~SHOALS.

HE declaration of President Cool-

idge that Muscle Shoals ought to
be developed for the production of
nitrates primarily, and incidentally for
power purposes, and that he was in
favor of disposing of the property to
meet these purposes, has lent encour-
agement to the belief that something
may be done by this congress to settle
the Muscle Shoals problem.

MODIFIED McNARY-HAUGEN BILL
SEEN.

HE proceedings of the American

Farm Bureau Federation at its Chi-
cago meeting gives conclusive evi-
dence that the McNary-Haugen agri—
cultural export corporation proposition
will be a live issue in W'ashington
this winter, with a chance that some
sort of a surplus disposal measure
may get through in spite of the admin—
istration's opposition. A coalition of
western and southern forces could un-
doubtedly put it through. It is certain
that nothing short of a modified Mc-
Nary-Haugen measure will satisfy
many thousands of earnest, well—mean-
ing middle west farmers.

POSTAL REVENUES ARE TOO
SHORT.

 

WHEN the postal salary increase

bill was before congress last win-
ter, President Coolidge was told that
the proposed increase in postal rates
would not only wipe out the annual
$40,000,000 deficit, but make up for
the $68,000,000 salary increase. In-
stead, it is now indicated that there

1‘3 will be an increase of not over $15,-

000,000 in postal revenues for the fiscal

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year, which is far short of meeting
the claims of the postal salary in-
crease promoters.

 

NEW TRUTH-lN-FABRIC BILL.

 

NEW truth-in-fabric bill has been

introduced in the senate by Sen.
ator Arthur Capper. It differs some-
what from former labeling bills. Knit
goods, as well as woven fabrics, are
included. \Voolens are divided into
two groups: virgin wool and mixed
goods. There is no requirement for
labeling all-virgin-wool materials. Mix-
ed goods must. be labeled to indicate
contents, whether cotton, re-worked
wool or silk is mixed with virgin wool,
and the percentage of each. Admin-
istration of the law is placed in the
hands of the secretary of agriculture.
Senator Capper says that truth-in-fab-
rics legislation is steadily gaining
friends, and stands a better show of
being enacted than it has in years.

 

 

SEEK LOWER TRAFFIC RATES.

E NEMIES of: the protective tariff

system have begun their fight for
a downward revision of the tariff rates
by the introduction of a house resolu-
tion asking congress to indorse a pol-
icy of reduction in tariff rates. Recent
assertions of certain middle west farm
leaders, that agriculture is receiving
little benefit from the tariff on farm
products, and threats of starting a
campaign against the tariff unless their
price-fixing tariff equalization proposi-
tions are given consideration, are evi-
dently lending encouragement to east-
ern interests who are clamoring for a
cut in tarifi rates. They do not expect
any consideration of tariff bills in con-

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the “decline in the bushclage to be

   

 

losses sax/smear“. urine-r.
. ERN AGRICULTURE.

 

THAT the older states must be re-
‘ stored agriculturall-y, was the key-
note of an address 011 land reclamation
by Secretary Work of the Interior De-
partment in Washington Dec. 14.‘ West-

,ern farmers,” said Secretary Work,

“cannot compete with the wages paid,
and hours, of city employers, and pay
freight to the east.” It is his belief
that further extension of far western
agricultural lands should wait until the
development of western cities and in-
dustries provide an adequate near-by
market for the products of irrigated
farms.

News of the Week

The Goodfellows’ sale of newspa-
pers, by former newsboys in Detroit,
netted a sum for charity of $50,000.

Japan has occupied Mukden, the
capital of Manchuria, China, in order
to protect foreign property there
against damage resulting from the
civil war now prevailing in China.

President Little, of the University of
Michigan, has demanded of the fra-
ternities on the campus that they co-
operate with him in making the uni-
versity “dry.”

Colonel William Mitchell, who has
been on trial for criticizing the gov-
ernment’s aviation activities, has been
suspended from the army for five
years.

“Old Bill,” the world’s oldest horse,
died at the age of fifty—seven. He lived
at Washington, New Jersey, and was
owned by G. S. Douber, a farmer.

Secretary Hoover believes that the
re-claimed rubber business will event-
ually bring down the price of tires.

Mel Dunham, seventy-two-year-old
fiddler from Maine, who was the guest
of Henry Ford, is going on the vaude-
ville stage.

It is said that huge cargoes of rum
are being brought to the United States
in German ships.

Gen. H. L. Rogers, chief quartermas-
ter of the American expeditionary
forces in Enrope during the war, died
recently at Philadelphia.

Amidst great excitement and cele-
bration, King Pahlavi, of Persia, was
enthroned.

Lord and Lady Atsley are traveling
from England to Australia in the steer-
age. Lady Atsley will act as a maid.
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00d t‘e iniprbvei” the waterways of this
country- , ’ ' \

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Allied nations paid the United States
$95,353,371 for interest and payment
on principal of war debt.

Fifty carloads of Christmas trees
have been received in Detroit, and are
being sold by ex—service men.

Urbain Ledoux, better known as
“Mr. oZero,” was ordained by his
friends as "Bishop of Wall Street,”
succeeding the late Rev. William Wil-

kinson. ..

The Michigan Central Railroad will
abandon the following railroad sta-
tions in Michigan: Mentha, Eckford,
Pokagon, Moran, and Snider.

“Battling” Siki, the black Senegalese
pugilist who became famous a few
years ago, was shot and killed in
“Hell’s Kitchen,” New York, as the re-
sult of a liquor feud.

Two thousand Paris girls mob Ru-
dolph Valentino in an endeavor to see
him in a French railroad station.

The Krupp factory, in Germany, has
been completely stripped of machin~
cry, in accordance with the peace term
requirements.

The federal government was instru-
mental in paving more than 13,000
miles of roads during 1925. Federal
aid roads cost $243,000,000.

A patient in the Belleville, Illinois,
hospital escaped with four radium
needles, valued at $4,000, in his scalp.

For the first time, a novel written
especially for radio broadcasting, was
broadcast fromIVVJZ, New York. It
was written by Cosmo Hamilton.

The Northwestern University, of El-
gin, Illinois, and the Armour Institute,
of Chicago, are planning to merge.

An Illinois farmer, Vasily Mentkesi,
has been sent to Europe by his father
to get a wife. The father claims that
the women of America would not make
good he1p~mates for ambitious farmers.

Thomas F. Ryan, millionaire, who
lives on Fifth Avenue, New York, re-
cently spent $600,000 for a lot next to
his home in order to enlarge his flower
garden.

Due to extensive purchases of tur-
keys by United States buyers, around
St. Thomas, Ontario, that city fears a
turkey famine. ‘

A recent survey shows that sixty
per cent of the farm debt of the coun-
try is in farm mortgages.

“Lubber,” the world’s largest horse,
is still gaining weight. During the past
year it gained 200 pounds. This horse
stands twenty hands high and weighs
3,000 pounds, according to A. E. Bou-
ton, of Nebraska, its owner. The horse
is five years old.

The department of agriculture places
the chicken population of the United
States at 400,000,000.

Michigan potatoes are sold in twen-
ty-eight states and Canada.

 

 

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WTTH peppermint all now Worth

about $11.50 a pound, and mint
on his farm - producing forty-eight "
pounds to the acre, Steven Cingana, .
Beavertown township, Midland county,
is congratulating himself upon his
perspicacity in sticking to this crop in
the face of a. comparatively poor year
in 1924. Last year, Mr. Cingana real-
ized $1,460 from seven acres. This
year he will" realize $3,500 from ap-
proximately the same acreage at the
present price. Last year his seven
acres yielded twenty-two pounds to the

  
 
     

   

 

top notch price reached last spring af-
ter Mr. Cingana had sold at the low
‘ price—J. D. ‘

for Winter

HOME CONVENIENCE TRUCK.

 

gan State College will conduct a
peninsula, next season. The truck will
terns. Mrs. Wells, assistant home dem— '
charge, asserts that the problem of a.

is e er n' s a ’s W ’s 0 o o
_ gréi‘ooogp‘nroolfoeml.“ ‘inofafiiooooifin its quality is unequaled, even

hibit will show how plenty of water

can be secured for home and farm use among Oils that sell for tWiCe

at small cost. . , x
as much.
HAS GOOD OAT CROP.

 

1925 oats crop by forty-eight bush-
the 1924 average, which was more than

manager of the Midland county farm,

is considerably elated over his success down ” under in“

in raising 804 bushels of oats, an av-

erage of eighty bushels to the acre, tense heat like lOW‘

during the past season. 0
His oats were raised on ground that grade 011$ (10.

grew corn last year. The. corn ground
merges:- pitrizz isms: En-ar—co Motor on WHAT ,F IT DOES
éflfiisolzstié’i‘éifi 3.5.1223: 0:22:51 creates aperfect seal 60 DOWN TO mo
tiniest;Immerse: between cylinder
ter suited to the past season thai'i‘hi: walls and piStonS,

the ground had been plowed.

light application of a phosphate fertil— preventing gasoline

izer made a quicker and more evenly

maturing crop. A heavy application of from seeping down

fertilizer applied directly to the oats

crop is apt to cause severe lodging into the crank‘case

through too heavy growth, Mr. Wind-

over says. He sowed ten acres and to dilute the gOOd

believes his average of eighty bushels
to the acre is an exceptional yield for

the dry 1925 summer.——J. D. . . Buy Good En-ar-co Motor
MANY STEPS co TO WASTE.“ ‘ Sign Of the Boy and

WE all do our work with too many
Steps' I do’ and I know I have En-ar-co Gear IMPORTANT: Changing the oil in the

lotsofcm n.1ft , . .
going abgutpfhiigs is aeiggtffia :11:ij Compound for crank-case isn’t all there IS to proper automo-
be improved by saving many Steps Transmission bile lubrication. Don t neglect the Trans—

and energy. The easiest way is Often . . mission, Differential, Steering Gear, Springs,
and Differential Brake Rods, Clutch Rods, Wheel Bearings,

 

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the best. -

A few nails driven, a gate repaired, 0f Tractors, Generator, Starter, Distributor, Water Pump,
:1 door put back on its track, and 3 Trucks and Speedometer, Clutch. There’s an En-ar—co
hundred similar things Would save _ Motor Cars. Lubricant for every part of a motor car.

 

 

hours, sometimes days, of work later
on. But we haven’t time to do it now.

vafifut it off, and later pay dearly THE NATIONAL REFININ

 

 

 

one end of the barn. He made a trip‘
was a fellow who didn’t care to be

With a bushel basket he could have
, cut that feeding to not more than three
- ; trips, and-maybe less. Why don’t we ,.

a think more or these things? Some- My Name is C Street or R'R
times it is easier to savega dollar than

 

 

 

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acre, less than half this year’s yield. .
Prices last year ranged from $6.75 to
$21.60 per pound, the latter being the .

Use

HE extension service of the Miehi- Keep your car in a healthy oil - preventing surplus oil
none convenience truck through the condition this winter by from creeping up into the
exhibit two simple home water syn lasing nothing but good En— combustion chambers to
,noooonon leader, who will be in arvco Motor Oil. 1t coSts no form carbon on spark plugs
oonvoniono woooo supplyio the kitchen more than low grade oil, yet and valves.

En—ar—co, being a pure oil,
acts like millions of tiny ball
bearings, giving smooth,
En—ar-co won’t “thin—out” silent operation, freedom
EXCEEDING the “state’s average like so—called “zero—test” oils from friction and heat, and
eh he the acre and nearly doubling do when the" engine gets protection to all parts with
the 1925 average wnnom Windover» warm. And it won’t “break—' which it comes in contact.

Try Ennar—co in

your car toda .

Drain out the o d
oil. Fill up with
good En—ar—co. For
winter or summer
driving it is best.
Don’t experiment
with unknown brands.
En—ar—co has a reputaé

tion of nearly half a cen—
tury behind it.

Oil at the
Slate

EN-AB-CO MOTOR on.
light — Medium — Heavy
Extra Heavy
Steel Drums . . 80c Per Gal.
Half—Drums . . 85c Per Gal.
lO—Gal. Cans . 95c Per Gal.
S-Gal. Cans . $1.00 Per Gal.
l-Gal. Cans . $1.15 Per Gal.
Prices subject to change
Special En-ar-oo Motor
Oil for Ford Cars

6 COMPANY

Sometime ago I Watched a farmer Producers, Refiners and Marketers of “Quality” En-ar—co Products for Nearly Half a Century
feed five horses and about a dozen - Branches and Service Stations in [15 Principal Cities of the United States

for each animal. I said nothing, for he! Send for the EN-AR-co Auto Game FREE:
told anything, but I thought some, The National Refining Company, -704M3, National Building, Cleveland, Ohio
I enclose 4c in stamps to cover postage and packing. Send En-arrco Auto Game FREE.

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we Your BiddiesaCJnce
7 1: Will Pay You to Give T‘lzem a com! Place to Live

ByR.A.Hill' ‘1 . .,

HE first‘illustration represents

the kind of poultry house which

can be found on a great many
farms, and is what one may expect to
ilnd on the place of the farmer Who
says, “Poultry does not pay." Some
people seem to think that any kind of
house will do for poultry, as long as
.the boards are close enough together
to keep them inside. One can imagine
what the inside of a hen house is like,

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A Common Type of Poultry House.

,by looking at the outside. What can
you expect hens to do in a house like
this? Nothing, except stand around
on one foot. and, as we used to say in
the game of Old Maid, “soliloquize on
.the miseries of life.” Houses such as
this are worse than a barn in winter,
and a pest house of disease in summer.

The other illustration shows what
can be done, with very little expense,
to transform such a house into one
that will “give Biddy a chance.” Biddy
pays well those who give her a chance.
This is proved every day by the re-
ports made by poultry flocks the coun-
try over. I know these reports are
true, for I have made some pretty tall
profits myself; such as, $88 from eight
,hens in one year.

There are several things that Biddy
will not stand for, and they may be
found in a large percentage of the poul-
try houses that can be seen through-
out the country. These are (lamp
floors, draughty houses, lack of sun-
shine, lack of litter to scratch in, and
roosts Without dropping-boards to keep
the droppings from falling on the floor.
.We came across one of these houses
a short time ago. There were about
.three dozen holes in the roof, and only
one little window in the east side,
about four feet. from the floor. The
,dirt floor was dry, but that was all
that could be said in its favor. The
roosts were placed on two scantlings
leaning against the wall. The hens
.were digging around in the droppings.
A supposed-to—be scratch pen was plac-
ed on one side, but it leaked like a
sieve.

Figure No. 2 shows what can be
done with any shed to make it into a
comfortable hen house. It would pay
to put in a double board floor, with tar
paper in between, which is the only
rat-proof floor there is. To make a
floor rat-proof, put it about eight or
,ten inches off the ground so it will be
iboo high for the rats to get at. The
.tar paper will keep out the draught,
and prevent the chaff from sifting
,through, which would gradually make
a pile high enough for the rats to
stand on to gnaw their way through.

Board-up the house around the out—
side, and leave a couple of holes, cov-
ered with netting, for ventilation. Cut
a hole about six inches deep across the
,front at the top (as shown), and cover
.with pieces of bran sacking. Cut a
hole about‘thirty inches high across
the front, about twenty inches from
the floor, and cover with No. 1 mesh
netting on the outside, and hang a
frame 0n the inside, which is covered
with light—weight bleached factory cot-
;ton or muslin. Place the roosts about
thirty-six inches from the floor at the
back, with dropping boards under-
neath. Put in a dry mash-hopper and
build a slatted shelf in one corner for
,the water pail.

, In this way, everything is kept on
(the floor, leaving full freedom for

 

 

scratching, and making it easy to keep

clean and to remove the litter, which
should be changed at the slightest feel
of dampness. And'while you are at
it, don’t forget the nest boxes. They
may be easily made of orange crates
and placed on a shelf undefthe drop-
ping-boards, or tacked up against the
walls. Orange crates make ideal nest
boxes, as the openings between the
boards allow them to be easily cleaned.

There are several other ways in
which you can “give Biddy a chance.”
'You will hear about them later.

I VENTILATION IN POULTRY HOUSE

NECESSARY.

ITH the onset of real winter

weather, ventilation becomes as
important as feeding. In order to se-
cure satisfactory winter production
a'nd to maintain the health of the flock,
it is mandatory that the birds be hous-
ed in comfortable, cheerful, well—ven-
tilated houses. The poultryman who
can keep his hens cheerful and con-
tented throughout the winter, has gone
far towards obtaining profitable pro-
duction. A large number, perhaps the
majority of poultrymen, are afraid of
fresh air, apparently having the idea
that fresh air is not necessary to main-
tain a flock’s health.

When is a house well ventilated?
A well-ventilated house is one that
smells sweet, and has no odor of am-
monia or hens. A well-ventilated
house is reasonably dry, and in such a
house it should not be necessary to
change the litter oftener than once in
two or three weeks because of damp-
ness. It may be desirable to change
oftener to keep it clean, but it should
be dry for that length of time.

The semi—King system of ventilation,
which is recommended for the Michi—
gan house, can be installed by anyone
at a reasonable cost. It consists mere-
ly of a tight outlet fine and several air

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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intakes. This outlet fiue,should be
from twelve to fourteen inches in di—
ameter it round, and from fourteen to
eighteen inches square if made of lum-
ber, extending from about fourteen
inches of the floor, up through the
roof, higher than the peak of the build-
ing, and topped with either a flat or
a revolving cap. This acts merely as
a chimney, the wind blowing across
the top and sucking the cold, damp,
stale air from near the floor of the
houSe. There should be one of these
outlets for each twenty-foot length of
house, and each should be placed as
near the center of the twenty-foot
section as possible.

Intakes should be provided on the
south side of the building, two for
each twenty-foot length of building,
placed as evenly as possible. To in-
stall these intakes, an opening should
cut between two pieces of the,stud-
ding, about eighteen inches from the
ground level outside the house, these
openings to be three inches Wide, and
the the full distance between these
studding. The space between the two
pieces of studding should be sealed
on the inside ’of the building with any
tight material, from the floor up to
within approximately six inches of the
top plate, thus providing a pipe in
which the aid' is taken from the out-
side at the bottom, coming into the
house at the top on the inside. Two

should, mum die ‘
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JOURNEYING THROUGH can.
' . MANY.

 

(Continued from page 635).
The poverty lofthe peeple was in-
dicated again by an incident whiCh. I
particularly noted at the hotel where
we stopped. The waiters at this hotel
ravenously ate the food that was left
by the diners.

We were invited to be, guests at one
of the homes in Berlin, and accepted
the invitation. After dinner a two-
year-old boy picked up a cigarette and
placed it in his mouth, went over to
his mother and asked in his baby talk
for a light. His mother furnished him
with a lighted match, and he puffed a
few times on the cigarette. It was my
impression that the youngster was lua-
ing taught to smoke quite early in life.

Prior to the world war the area of
Germany was about 209,000 square
miles, with a population of about 65,-
000,000. The area of this country at
present is about 172,000 square miles,
with a population of approximately 55,-
000,000. Germany also lost all of her
colonies. These colonies had a total
area, it is said, of about one and one-
tenth million square miles, with a pop-
ulation of about 13,000,000.

The surface features of Germany, or
the topography» is much diversified,
with mountains in the east and south-
east, and low, sandy plains towards
the sea in the north. There are nu-
merous rivers in Germany, which are
noted for their scenic beauty and
points of historic interest, such as nu-
merous old castles, etc.

The sfoils of Germany, as a whole,
cannot be classified as naturally first-
class. If one were to draw a line
from Dresden, northwest to the sea
coast through Bremen, he would divide
Germany into two parts with respect
to soil conditions. To the north and
northeast of this line, sandy or light
soils make up somewhat more than
fifty per cent of the area, and in ad-
dition there is a large acreage of peat
lands, ranging in bodies from small to
quite large lakes. It was my impres-
sion that under many of the sandy
soils, especially in central Germany,
the water table lies relatively near the
surface. This, of course, assists great-
ly in the profitable use of many of
these soils. South of the line spoken
of, it is probable that the light soils
make up approximately twenty-five or
more per cent of the area. As in other
countries, the heaviest soil types differ
quite widely with respect to their var—
ious characteristics.

, ’o.., y- ,abeut Went}? "11105.69 of
rainfallannually, but‘fortimately for
agricultural purposes, much of this
comes in the spring, and at the time
when it is most needed by the growing
crops. ~ ‘

ON AN ALLEGAN HILLSIDE.

 

(Continued from page 633).
of the farm is given over to grain land,
pasturage, etc. " ”'

It sounds like a lot of work, doesn't
it? Well, it is. During the past few
years I have come into rather close
contact with farmers and their prob-
lems, so I was prepared for the worst
when I asked Mrs. Springer about the
help proposition. “There practically
isn’t much trouble,” said shesmilingly.
“At the picking season I depend upon
home help. I have lived here so long
that I know everybody. we’re all
neighbors and get along fine. I em-
ploy an average of twelve pickers a
season, besides one or two peek-ere."
Then she added, “Of course, it isn’t all
fun. For instance, there are the diffiu
culties connected with marketing. The
cost of spraying material, to mention
another item, is enormously greater
than it was formerly. Help costs more,
and so does transportation. One year,
,soon after the close of the war, our
receipts were $20,000, and our expendi~
tures $18,000. Deduct the depreciation
that is incident to the wear and tear
in any business, and you’ll admit that
the return on the investment isn’t by
any means excessive.”

It is illuminating to get the little
lady’s slant on advertising. She be-
lieves in it, has tried it, and has got-
ten results. Last year she put ads in
twenty-seven different papers, local
and agricultural, that circulate in
Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. As a
consequence, people came in their
cars, some of them from quite a dis
tance, and picked and packed their
own fruit right in the orchard.

The amazing part of all this, (at
least, it was amazing to me), is that.
while fruit raising has been the work
to which Mrs. Spi‘inger’s life has been
devoted, it has not, by any means, rob~
bed her of a lively interest in other
things. She has found time to travel
and to read. Nineteen or twenty win-
ters out of the thirty—five have been
spent in the south. She has read wide-
ly, and even pleads guilty to have writ-
ten" poetry. But more than anywhere.
else, her heart is in the “Ideal Fruit
Farm,” and in the county which pro-
vides it with a setting. She is, indeed.
responsible for no less than twenty-
eight relatives, by blood and marriage.
Who are now living in the vicinity.

 

 

MENOMINEE LEADS.

 

THE 1925 agricultural United States

census shows that among the Up-
per Peninsula counties, Menominee
county leads in the number of farms,

- and it also leads in the number of

farm owners and farm acreage. In
1920 Chippewa county led in total farm
values, while Menominee took first
rank in 1925. In the number of horses,
Menominee led in 1920, while Delta led
in 1925. In 1920 Menominee county
led in dairy cattle, and again in 1925.

 

BETTER POTATO GROWERS.

 

M ICHIGAN State College extension

experts have drawn the conclu-
sion that Upper Peninsula farmers
have become more expert in the rais-
ing of potatoes. They note that during
the five years from 1920 to 1925. cen-
sus figures show that the number of
bushels produced by our farmers in.

 

creased 156,109 bushels, while the
acreage fell off 1,833 acres. The aver—
age potato yield in 1920 was 92.7 bush-
els per acre, while in 1924 it was 114.9
bushels per acre, or an average in-
crease of 21.2 bushels per acre. This
looks like progress.

 

CHANGES IN PRODUCTION IN
FIVE YEARS.

 

THE United States agricultural cen-

sus shows that the Upper Penin-
sula produced 1,668,100 bushels of oats
in 1919; and 2,315,867 bushels in 1924..
Rye amounted to 15,051 bushels in
1919, and 49,160 bushels in 1924. Hay
totaled 282,111 tons in 1919, and 311,-
302 in 1924. There were 1,632,116
bushels of potatoes produced in 1919,
and 1,788,225 bushels in 1924. Of
wheat, there were produced 117,968
bushels in» 1919, and 90,623 bushels

‘ in 1924.

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IN almost every automobile Junk lot,

there are from one to twenty-five
discarded Ford cars from which, the
gas tank, ’g'asfpipe and carburetor can
be obtained for a little ,,e1ipense, or
maybe you have on‘e;of your own. You
can arrange a handy automatic water-
ing device far your poultry flock with
but little effort, from them.

Build a small frame like the one in
the photograph, to support the 'taan
horizontally about two feet off the
earth, or higher if you prefer. Con-
nect thegas pipe as originally, also
the carburetor to its outer end, with
the gas bowl, or chamber, removed,
exposing the cork float to the open.
Let the carburetor rest uprightly on
the bottom of a shallow pan or basin.

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The Watering Device Waiting for the
Poultry.

Fill the tank with fresh, clean water.
It will run through the ais pipe and
carburetor until it reach 8 a depth of
about one and one-half niches in the
pan, at which point the cork float will
rise up and shut off the stream until
the fowls have consumed part of the
contents of the basin, when the Cork
will automatically drop, opening the
inlet valve, permitting a new supply
to run in from the reservoir tank.
When you are leaving for a vacation,
fill the tank and your flock will have
fresh water without attention until
you return. The tank, of course, should
be thoroughly cleaned of the presence
of gasoline—L. M. Jordan.

WiNTERiNG THE TRACTOR.

 

HEN the tractor is to be laid by .
during the winter months, see
that it does not suffer from its winter
idleness. Give it a dry Winter home
under a tight roof. Neglect during the
off-season causes more rapid depreciai‘
tion than hard work.
In getting the tractor ready for win-

, tering, drain out all of the water from

the cooling system. To remove the
water from the radiator alone is not
always sufficient. Many makes of
tractors have two or three drain cocks
and all of these should be opened to
remove all the water. Consult the in-
struction book given to you when the
tractor was purchased. If the machine
is equipped with a water pump instead
of the more common thermo—syphon
system, run the engine for a time dur-
ing and after the water cocks have
been opened. A very little water al-
lowed to remain will do untold dam-
age. If the engine is run, all this will
.be forced out.

See that all important bearings and
highly polished parts are well oiled to
prevent moisture from rusting the sur-
face. To' insure a good film of oil on
the inside cylinder surface, run the
engine at full speed, then cut the spark
suddenly. This will leave the piston
rings and cylinder walls well coated
with oil.‘ .. g ' , '

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Next, with , an oil can filled with
- fresh oil, go over and thoroughly oil

all joints and small hearings on the
control levers, shifting levers, clutch
L and brake pedals, so as to leave them
protected from rust. Fill and screw
down grease cups several turnsxtlhis
will force grease into the' bea gs,
thus preventing the entrance, of air
and moisture. Clean dust and dirt out
of the air filter. If the machine is
equipped with an air washer, empty
out the Water to prevent damage from
freezing.

The crank case can be left full over
winter, then drain it out and wash
with kerosene oil in the spring before
refilling. The gasoline or kerosene oil
tank may be left either full or empty.
But: in either case the carburetor
should be drained, cleaned carefully,
and readjusted before the tank is re-
filled next spring—L. H. Funk,

HOGS SLEEP UP STAIRS.

 

SECOND‘floor nests are great room-

savers in the hog pen. I built mine
three and one—half feet from the floor.
It is always dry. By providing a slant-
ing run that is well cleated, the hogs
soon learn to go up stairs for their
rest.

I have also constructed a door
through the wall on a level with this
second floor sleeping-room. Through
this door we can easily load the hogs
from the sleeping quarters to the wag-
on when marketing. If the door is
made to fasten on the outside, the
hogs cannot open it.

We also have arranged the parti-
tions in our hog house so that the oc-
cupants in every pen can drink from
the same trough. Having water piped
from our water system to this trough,
the hogs have drink on tap at all
times—H. L. L.

HAS HANDY SCALDING BENCH.

 

I "HAVE made a folding bench which

makes hog scalding easier. This
bench is six feet long, three feet wide,
twenty-six inches high, and is made
similar to a folding cot.

I used three-by-four hardwood for the
sills and legs. Legs are held in place
with one half-inch bolt through each
leg, six inches from end of sill. Two
of the legs are inside of sills, and two
are outside, which makes it possible
to fold them back. The legs are thirty
inches long, with a cross-piece four
inches from the top to hold legs from
spreading. The top of bench is made
of two-inch elm, with one end cut out
rounding, in which barrel fits.

The real convenience of this bench
is found in handling heavy hogs. The
two legs can be folded back and the
hog pulled up on the bench to the oth-
er end, when we raise the lower end
and pull the legs forward. This makes
it easy to get the hog in place to scald.

When not in use it can be folded,
and takes up little room—A. Ander-
son.

 

A BOON FOR ALFALFA.

 

D URING the past season all hays,
excepting alfalfa, were a failure
In the vicinity of Saline. Dry weather

early in the summer was the cause of '

this loss. A survey of the farms of
members belonging to the Washtenaw-
Saline Cow Testing Association shows
that, during the past summer, the num-
ber of alfalfa acres on the farms have
jumped from 272 acres to 432 acres
In addition there is now on these same
farms more than 175 acres of sweet
clover to provide pastlfre and hay.
These are efficiency crops in the pro-
duction of butter-fat.

 

 

 

 

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These are pictures of the same house—
Lead paint makes the difference

ONE house is ugly, shabby,
paint-hungry. The surface

is deteriorating rapidly.

There’s a way to preserve this
house for years to come for your—
self and your children—to save re-
pairs—to make it look as it does
in the picture on the right. Cover

the surface with lead paint.

The weather cannot harm wood-
en surfaces that are completely

Rain,
snow and sun beat down on un~
protected wood. Soon rotted steps,
window sashes and porch pillars
will need repainting, replacing.
The entire house is in danger.

finishes ofunusual beauty at a sur-
prisingly low cost. They make a
paint that, like Dutch Boy white-
lead and linseed oil, can be tinted
to any color to carry out distinc-
tive decorative schemes of great
charm.

Dutch Boy red—lead gives full

protection to metal against rust
just as Dutch Boy white-lead does
to non-metallic surfaces.
for metal gutters, railings, im-
plements and machinery, espe-

Use it

cially if the implements and ma—

covered with lead paint—and are
kept adequately covered. Lead paint

has been used for generations. It
is pure White—lead, made from the
it gives complete
protection to non—metallic surfaces
and makes farm property look

metal, lead.

like new again.

What paint to use

If you follow the example of thou-
sands of farmers, as well as prop-
erty owners in towns and cities,

you will cover the exterior
ofyour property with Dutch
Boy white—lead.

Dutch Boy white-lead is
pure white-lead. Mixed with
pure linseed oil it makes a
paint that is impervious to
the attacks of air and mois-
ture. This paint will prevent
your farm house from being
listed among the five and a
half million in the United
States that are deteriorating
from lack of paint. It will
keep "your home and farm
buildings safe, clean and
fresh for years to come.

For interior walls, ceilings
and woodwork Dutch Boy
white-lead and Dutch Boy
Batting oil give protective

chinery have to be kept or used in
the open.

Free book on painting

The “Handy Book on Painting”
is a little booklet full of paint in—
formation and formulas.
you in a simple way just where
paint should be used, how paint

It tells

should be mixed, and so on. It is
a storehouse of interesting infor-
mation and is sent free on request.

 

 

 

 

 

This Dutch Boy
trademark is
on every pack—
age of Dutch
Boy in]: ite—lead,
flatting oil
an d rcdelead
and is a guar-
antee of excep-
tional purity.

Dutch Boy white—lead, Dutch
Boy red-lead and Dutch Boy flat-
ting oil are made by National Lead

Company who also make
lead products for practically
every purpose to which lead
can be put in art, industry
and daily life. The Dutch
Boy trademark shown here
is the company’s guarantee
of products- of the highest
quality.

Ifyou would like to know
more about any particular
form or use of lead, or need
special information about
any use of lead, write to our
nearest branch.

NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY

New York, in Broadway; Boston, 13! State Street; Buffalo,
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Avenue; Philadel

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T h e California

prosperous as the
farmer in any other
state. According to
the 14th census the average farm in
the United States produces $2,300
worth of crops every year and the
average farm in California produces
$5,000 worth—over twice as much. .

In 1921 California grew $309.46
worth of crops for every man, woman
and child living in her rural territory This was
$110 more per person than was produced in the
next highest state.

What is the “Why” Back of These
High Production Figures .7

California farmers don’t work any harder than do farmers
anywhere else. They simply have help in getting ah‘Lad.
The climate is in their favor. Every month of the year Cali-
fornia land is in use. As soon as one crop is harvested the
seed bed can be prepared for another, working the land in
rotation so that there is always a variety ofwork to do and

‘ ‘ i‘n‘i‘fl

' always something ready for the markets.

No Cold Weather

There is no winter to pile up fuel bills, require heavy
clothing, buying of feed for stock, or the use of a big share
of the farm’s production in feeding them. It is a warm coun-
try but without a scorching sun or torrid heat.

Market System Perfected

In no other part of the United States has co-operative
marketing reached the high degree of perfection that it has
in California.

There is a ready market for every crop. The main trunk
lines and branches of the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Rail—
ways operate thru the farming valley. Refrigeration trains
carry garden produce to the Los Angeles and San Francisco
markets. State highways form a network over the state and
trucking of livestock, fruits, vegetables and other produce is
in wide practice.

California has only 3.2 per cent of the
population of the United States and it
producesS .4 per cent of the farm products
and pays 5.5 per cent of the income tax.

There is an opportunity awaiting YOU in James Ranch,
Fresno County. California. It is the best opportunity farm-
ing has ever offered anywhere. It is not a rich man’s country.
It requires only enough capital to make a first payment and
to stock and put up buildings on the ground.

BUYING TERMS on a. forty acre purchase, which is all the
average farmer can handle, are a requirement of $1000 for
first payment, with ten years allowed for the balance. Any
farmer who can make this first payment and put up tempor-
ary buildings and stock his farm can earn the rest off the
land if he is willing to work and is a good manager.

OUR PROPOSITION IS THIS: You visit James Ranch
right now and if you buy land there we will refund to you
every cent of the cost of your investigational trip. Write
for a Railroad RefundCertificate and other literature. Also,
if the prospects aren’t exactly as we picture them, we will
refund the entire cost of the trip.

Don't pass this up. There is no possible chance
for you to lose anything and there is everything
to gain.

Come out to the sunshine on the James Ranch
where nature works for you instead of against you.

~ HERMAN JANSS
San Joaquin, Fresno County, Calif.

3&7}: to make this department one of

     
  

farmer is twice as

 

 

 

mm in this department. space is
reserved for our readers to ex-
press themselves freely on. any

‘ subject w ich may come under the

broad hea ing of "rural”livincg." "Opin-
ions, comments, and constructive crit~
icism are invited. Your thoughts may

”most interesting in the paper.

 

GRANGE MEMBERSHIP IN
CREAses;

 

E note in your report of the State
Grange Session at Adrian you
unintentionally gave a. wrong impres-

igan. Complete and official figures for
the fiscal year show a gain of 1,363 in
actual members for 1925 over our
membership of 1924.

As to finances, while we do not dis-
play as imposing a row of figures as a
couple of years ago, we have had some:
extraordinary expenses to meet, nota-
bly, the' publicity and printing neces-
sary to secure the submission of a
constitutional amendment. For the
year 1925 the receipts more than bal-
anced the expensespand we are as
solid financially as any First National
Bank.

We want to thank you for the words
of appreciation of the grange contain-
ed in a late editorial of your paper.
Such expressions encourage officers
and members to renewed and increas;
ed effort—A. B. Cook, Master of Mich-
igan State Grange.

OVER-PRODUCTION OF INEFFI-
CIENCY.

 

N the December 5 issue of the Mich-
igan Farmer, A. B. shies a brickbat
at fruit growers for producing too
much fruit, and he seems to think this
is the cause of low prices and small
profits, and about all the rest of our
marketing'troubles. The remedy would
seem to be to grow less fruit. But to
induce the great body of fruit growers
to combine on such a program is'hard-
ly feasible, nor does the general public
take kindly to any combination to
limit the production for the purpose of
raising prices, and it is not wise to
run counter to a wholesome public
sentiment like this. So some other
means will, no doubt, have to be adopt-
ed for a cure.

The great difficulty in the way of
profitably marketing farm products,
and particularly fruit, is that the farm-
ers do not realize or appreciate their
limitations. In any successful enter-
.prise in the industrial line, the main
factor is the salesman. Not a factory
or wholesale merchant could operate a.
Week without one or more.

Selling goods is an art, and the suc-
cessful salesman must have not only
a genius, or aptitude, for the work,
but he must have experience as well.
Further, he must know the value of
the goods he sells, and also where a
buyer may be found, not to mention
going after the buyer. Here are four
absolutely essential qualifications for
a salesman, in every one of which the
farmer is lacking.

The manager of a. fruit exchange
told the writer a while ago of a mem-
ber of his exchange who had 600 or
.800 bushels of crabapples. These had
been selling for $1.50 to $2.00 per bush-
el, and a man came along and offered
him $3.00 for them. This looked good
to him, and fearing the manager would
not be able to get as much, he sold
them. The purchaser went at once to
this manager and asked him to market
the fruit for him, and wanted him to
Sell them for $4.50 per bushel. He
didn't quite realize this for them, but
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of the deal, without more than turning.

  

his hand over. He knew the worth of
crabapples and the grower didn’t This
is only an instance of the handicap
fruit growers are under when trying
to dispose of the products of their 01"-
chords.

In any other line of industry save

, farming, the marketing proposition is

a. distinct branch. But the farmer
has to be manager and boOkkeeper,
if any books are kept, and engineer
and roustabout, all
salesman as well. No man is suffi-
ciently versatile to combine all. of

these qualities under one hat.

Talk about aver-production of fruit;
why, if all the people of the state
had all the fruit they would like, it is
probable they would consume all there
is grown in Michigan. And no sort of
comprehensive effort is made to get it
to them. A few dealers are supplying
a few in the larger centers of popula-
tion, and that is about all, for the few
fruit exchanges handle but 3. compare;
tively small proportion of the fruit,
and these sell more outside of the
state than within. The greatest over-
production we are afflicted with in the
fruit game is in crooked packing, and
ignorance, and inefficiency in market-
ing—E. H., Allegan County.

 

THE BEAN GAME.

 

N our part of Michigan, we

are paying seven per cent per
pound, for having our beans picked.
That is what the elevators pay the
girls. They also charge like this: If
white beans are $4.30, the charge is
four and one-third cents extra; or, if
beans are $4.50, four and one-half
cents extra; if $5.00, five cents extra.
I have asked the managers of the ele‘
vators in the two towns nearest me,
what the extra charge on the pick was
for, and one of them said that it was
for handling our bag beans. The other,
was very evasive. He said they had aJ
nice room Where the girls pick the
beans, and they had to furnish light
and heat and machinery. I said, “In
other words, it is overhead expense;
still, you keep our cull beans and get
from them ninety cents to $1.00 per
hundred pounds.”

Now, we figure that they are just
skinning us on that extra money they
are charging. When we pay for hav—
ing the beans picked, the cull beans
belong to us, just the same as the cull
potatoes do when we have a man dig
and sort our potatoes. He doesn't
charge us for sorting the small ones
out, and then keep them, any more than
they keep the.nubbins when husking
corn. Why should the elevators charge
f01 picking our beans, and also keep
the culls?

They pay the farmer from eighty
cents to $1.00 less than the market
price at Detroit. During the war the
government allowed sixty cents on 100
pounds for freight and profit between
here and Detroit, and the elevator was
fighting a cooperative elevator in the
bargain. Now, the cooperative elevator
is busted, and they take a wider range
in price from here to Detroit. If beans
take a drop on the market, the ele-
vators will drop the price as soon as
they get market quotations, but if the
market goes up, they are not in as big
a hurry to put the price up.

The farmer wants a square deal. The
scales should be inspected and a seal
placed on all parts that can be “fixed"
to throw the scales off balance. We
farmers can prove that their scales
are not correct. The writer weighed
himself on a scale by the two bars,
one time on each bar, without step.
ping off the scale, and there was a dif<
ference of four pounds in the two bars.
That's what some of us are up against.
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it, Then, I remembered, I don’t
' know why, but the thought came
to me in a flash;~there was a picture
on the wall of my' room—a picture of
a young woman, dark and very beau:
. tiful, that I had always wanted to
know about, and had never " red to
ask! Maybe if I brought it own to
him, on our wedding night, he would
tell me who she was, before I killed
him. The desire to know became sud-
denly almost stronger than the 1m-
pulse to kill—and then he looked up
at me.“ , '

“He must have seen something
strange in ‘my face, for he wouldn’t
take his eyes away. I couldn’t put the
gun back in my pocket, without his
seeing me, so I waited as long as I
dared, without either of us speaking.
Then I slid the gun back behind the
clock, and left it there.

“I’m going upstairs for a moment,”
I told him. “I’ll be down directly,” I
remember that, as I left the library, I
had a feeling that someone was watch-
ing me, from some hidden place—-
some eyes besides his staring after
me. ~A little tremor of fear shook me,
and then I went on up the stairway,
and forgot about it. One’s nerves are
easily shaken when one is within a
few minutes of murder.~ ,.

“Merton must have heard me come
up the stairs, and thought it was both
of us, or else he lied to the police. I
went into my room, directly above the
library, without bothering to close. the
door. Then, as I put my hands on the
small dark frame of the picture to lift
it from the wall, I heard a noise down
stairs! A sound of someone .pushing
a chair quickly back, as if they sprang
up in surprise or fear! And then I
heard something going across the
floor!”

Alice’s hands were flung suddenly

up over her ears,and as Davis leaned
across to catch her wrists. her voice
broke in a half hysterical scream. “Oh,
if I could only forget that sound. It
is all that haunts me!" For a moment
she was too shaken to speak. Then
her voice became more quiet, though
it still trembled at the memory. “I
will never forget it as long as I live.
A creeping, hitching, something, that
I knew could not be walking upright.
I heard it scrape—scrape—scrape
across the floor. The sound became
softer as it reached one of the small
rugs. Inch by inch—creeping, creep—
ing, it dragged along. Then it stopped,
and the rooms were so still I heard my
heart pounding. There was a low,
muffled crash, then, and the thud of
something falling. I tiptoed down
stairs, and it did not seem as if I
dared to go into the library, with that
awful crouching something waiting
there for me. I had to know. thongh,
and I dared not cry out, so I went in
, through the French doors.
1 “The room was empty, save for Hen-
ry Coton, lying just in front of his
chair. At sight of him my nerves
cleared. This was the‘thing I had in-
tended to do, and someone had done
it for me. Henry Coton was dead. and
some way my fear seemed suddenly
gone. I went over to him, and my re-
volver was lying there almost under
his out-flung hand. I picked it. up. and
ran out into the hall for my wraps.
You ran into me on the street corner,
five minutes after that.”

For a time after she had finished.
there was no sound in the cabin. save
the deep breathing of the dog, in front
of the. fireplace. He was not asleep.
His deep brown eyes had not left
Alice’s face, during the story. At
times, at some tense, strained emotion
in her voice, he had come half to his
feet, and his hackles had raised men-
acingly, as though he sensed the deep
emotional fear and anger and sorrow
in the heart of this new-found woman-
god. Then each time he had sunk
down again—waiting.

 

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Our New Pint-Run Serial Story
By a Popularg-Michigan Author

 

 

What Happened in Previous Chapters

Chad Davis’ father went to, Northern Michigan in the days of “solid

pine,” and later “carved"a farm from the wilderness.”

In this environ-

ment, Chad grew up. At twenty-four, he is a minister in a small sub-

urb of Detroit, planning to return

home for an extended vacation.

Waiting for his night train, he meetsAlice Clair, whom he vividly remem-

bers as having once attended his .church.

Listening to her appeal

that she must immediately leave the city, unknown to her friends, and
that she had done nothing criminal, Chad offers his assistance and has-

tily marries Alice Clair.

At breakfast in a Saginaw hotel, they read

that Henry Coton, aged lumber merchant, who had just married his
twenty-one—yea’r-old Ward, Alice Clair, was slain on the eve of their
wedding. A gun which Chad observed in Alice’s pocket, revealed one

‘ t chamber bearing the stain of burned powder.
emp Y Chad struggles with himself, but de-

AliCe insists she is innocent.

cides to "cherish and protect” his wife.

In spite of this,
He hides her in a deserted

lumber cabin, five miles from his father’s home, with the protection
of Old Bob, his faithful dog, and goes home to avoid suspicion. Alice

discovers the remnant of an old letter signed by Henry Coton.

Chad

admits the cabin and tract of land belong to Coton, but an anger,

sullen and flaming, shows in his face.

(Alice tells him of her faint

childhood memories; how, according to Ode Grant, her father and moth-

er lost their lives in a forest fire;
dead.

I

and how she came to find Coton

 

Chad Davis got up finally, and came
around to her chair. His own hands
were trembling when he put them on
the soft hair—the hair that was like
the. floating moss on the bottom of the
little summer stream. Slowly he turn-
ed the drawn, tired face~the face that
had lost the pink flush upon its cheeks,
in the last hour—up to his own.

“Ellen Davis.” A glad smile touched
the lips and the deep gray eyes, at the
name. “I will never blame you again,
for anything. No matter what hap-
pens, now—no matter what I should
come to know, you have paid for it all,
in advance.”

He bent and kissed her upon the lips
and then he knelt and drew her head
down upon his shoulder for a long
minute.

It. was very quiet in the cabin. Bob
had lain down before the fire. with his
head on his forepaws. and was asleep.
Chad had gone back to his seat across
the table from Ellen. and both were
silent, lost in thought.

Coton’s shackwhis cabin there in his
pineland, Ellen mused. He had built
it, and used it. And she had all but
seen him killed—had all but killed
him herself. A sense of depression
was settling upon her—something born
of the rough log walls. She must shake
it off. This was to be her home—hers
and Bob's—she must not let the hor-
rors of last night come back. It was
as though, as Chad had said, the curse
of his presence was still upon the
place~—haunting it and all who dared
to come to it. The girl arose quickly,
and gave her body a little sharp shake,
as Bob would have shaken his, to rid
his heavy coat of snow. Then she
crossed to the window to look out.
From the blasted pine the dismal caW-
ing of the solitary crow echoed across
to her again.

“My Crow land call," she whispered
to herself. “Oh, it is desolate, this
Crow land. but it was Pine land once,
like Jimmy Klire’s, and it is mine now
for a time——and it will shelter me—”
and then she added in even a lower
whisper—“and keep me for him!”

Then aloud to Chad, still sitting by
the table. “Did you hear the Crow
land call again?”

He had been thinking of other
things. The thoughts of Coton and his
shack had, of course, been in his mind.
“Haunted with the curse of his pres-
ence.” Yes, that might be nearest to

 

 

 

 

Said, “T I’m! City Hunfec__Ez;ngrer fl/’

the truth after all. It did not matter
much. \Vhy think of Henry Coton at
all, now? Coton was dead—as he de-
served to be. Davis started guiltily at
the thought. He was getting far away
from his ministerial instincts. ‘He
couldn’t help it, though. There were
some truths so simple, so primitive
and stark, that even training and care-
fully built up codes must fail in their
presence. The justice of Coton’s death
was such a truth. It Has been just—
no use to evade. But why keep think-
ing of Coton, with Ellen—his wife,
there before him. A few minutes ago
he had had his hands upon that hair,
that was like spun floss of silver—his
first thought of it came to him again
—had kissed the face that was even
more beautiful than a cameo, because
of the soft warm curves of cheek and
throat—and now he could not believe
it. She was unattainable again—but
she couldn’t be—she was his wife, and
once she, beautiful as she was, had
even asked him to kiss her. If he
could keep her safe, and take her out
of Coton’s shack—out of the Crow
land, some day would she still be his
wife? He started at the sound of her
voice. It was as if she had known
what he was thinking about! He went
to the window and stood beside her.

“I’ve been thinking, Ellen,” he told
lfier, “after all you’ve been through you
can’t stay here alone.”

“But I’ve got to—and I can! I won’t
be alone, I’ll have Bob. And, don’t you
see, it’s all past now, and I haven’t
given way yet. There’s nothing to
frighten me now. What time must
you leave?”

“Mid afternoon, if you dare try it
alone one night. I don’t dare stop the
train at Cone Run. There might be
someone on who would know me, and,
anyway, a passenger boarding at, the
Run always attracts too much atten-
tion. I’ll have to go early enough to
cut across lots to Pequam—the little
town six miles below the Run. You
were asleep last night when we came
through it. The train doesn’t have to
be flagged there, and I’ll wait out of
town till nearly train time. It will be
dark by then, and I’ll slip in to the
depot without being seen at all up
town. We’ll have, to take a chance
that no one from home will be coming
up from Saginaw tonight, that’s all.”

“And then you can’t get home to—
night?”

"No. I’ll stay over at Badgerton till

againerl k ‘ puny.» ‘~

. Chad wa from. the window to
the door and opened it before he an-
swered. He bent and put his hand
into the snow at the side of the cabin

 

and glanced at his watch. Then he '

turned ha pily to Ellen. ' a _

“I’ve se 11 it happen just this way
before. A thaw ,on the very heels of
a blizzard. It’s- eleven now, and the
snow is commencing to run. By tonight
tracks will be indisce’rnable blurs.
Horses or men; all pretty much alike.
By tomorrow night if it doesn’t turn
cold, the snow Will be gone, except in
the sheltered hollows, and on the north
slopes. -

“I can come again tomorrow after-
noon.” ”

“Oh, that isn’t too long to wait,”
Ellen told him cheerfully. “Bob and
I will like it, being here alone, and
waiting for you. And can you come
often?” ; .

“I was always fond of tramping and
hunting through the new ground, and
the folks know it. It will be safe
every day, for the first,Week. Then
perhaps every other day. We must
be careful. But I won’t dare stay
long, and I can’t be‘here evenings or
nights. Can you stand it alone, do
you think?”

“I know I can!” -

The rest of the morning he spent
cutting wood. He had a great pile of
dead seasoned pine piled across the
end of the cabin when Ellen called him
for dinner._ He had taken pains to
take short dead pieces, and uprooted
stumps, from well out in the swamp,
and had taken them clean. No fresh
cuts or chips to mark the wood-gath-
ering.

“You had better keep the door shut
and the window covered when the fire
is burning or a candle lighted,” he told
her. “No one ever passes anywhere
near, but it’s best not to take a single
chance. We can’t afford to have you
found. And if anyone should come
don’t let them in, no matter who they
say they are!”

“I don’t needthat advice.” Ellen
replied with a laugh, “And with Bob,
I don’t think I need to worry.”

They had a cheerful dinner on the
rough plank. table. Chad marveled at
the girl’s coolness. She seemed to
have forgotten that she was to be
alone in Coton’s ghostly shack, that
night, with memories that were grew-
some enough to drive a man mad.
Truly, Jimmy Klire must have had the
strength of his pines, and the death-
less courage of the riverlands!

“I want Ode Grant’s letter,” Davis
said, before he left that afternoon.
“I’m going to do some sleuthing.”

“But surely you don’t think—7’

“I don’t know what to thinks Some-
one did it, and they have got to be
found. About all we can work on is
motives—and we haven’t got forever,
either.”

“But there are—there must bema
hundred people with motives enough,”
she told him.

“I’ve thought of that, too,” Davis re-
plied gravely, but somebody killed Hen-
ry Coton—and if it takes me, as poor
old Dan Lee said, ‘over the border, of
Hell goin’ in’ I’m going to find the-m.
I’ve got to, for my wife’s sake!”

There were tears in the gray eyes,
but Ellen smiled her thanks silently
at him. Chad turned to Bob and laid
a hand on the broad head. “Young
Bob,” he said slowly, “you stay here,
and take care of her! Don’t you leave
her day or night, and if you should
have to, watch her as Old Bob watch-
ed me——with your life.”

The steady brown eyes stared back
at him, unwinkingly, and when he fin-
ished, the dog turned gravely away
from him, walked across and put his
head against the girl’s skirt.

Tears overflowed in her eyes, un-
ashamed, and she knelt and threw her
arms about the shaggy neck. Bob did
not move, save that the brown eyes

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Chad 1).an Voice Was trembli but
exalted, as he knelt and encircled hem
both for a moment. “You need have
no fear " he told $11G girl. “You are
safer even than you would bé w1th
me.”

Then he pulled her face away from
Bob’,s and with the dog crouching
there between them, he rained kisses
down upon her cheeks, her hair, her
closed soft eyes, and her lips.

At the edge of the poplar brush,
Chad turned;
standing together in the cabin' door,
and she waved cheerily to him. The
crow had 1eturned to the dead pine,
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CHAPTER SIX.
Chad Meets the Sheriff.

The evening train from Saginaw
rolled in to Pequam from out across
the wide, level pine country and
sc1eeched to a stop beside the small
dark depot. Chad Davis stepped out
from the shadow of the building and
swung aboard. The quick glance he
took down the length of the coach
showed no familiar faces, and he d1 op-
ped hurriedly into the first empty seat.

The engine ahead whistled, puffed
slowly, ponderously, and the train
gathered speed for its rush into the
night again. The man felt, rather than
saw, in the darkness, when they flash-
ed across the crossing at Cone Run;
last night they had stopped there, and
from there had fought the storm, up
the bitter way to Coton’s shack. How
much had happened in that one day.
How much more he knew of her to—
night than he had known when they
began that fight along the snow—block-
ed road. And how much .more he want-
ed to be with her! He couldn’t qu1te
decide, even yet, if such a marriage as
theirs could ever be right, if good to
either of them could ever come of it.
But, at any rate, he no longer blamed
Ellen and he was willing and anxious
110w. to give it a chance; to play the
thing out to an ending; and hope. If
he wasn’t, then his kisses had been a
sin. But, somehow, he found he could
not blame himself very much for the
sinning. “Eve tempted,” he reminded
him-self, with a reminiscent smile.

He looked suddenly up, startled;
someone .had stopped beside his seat,
and was staring down at him.

"Well, Lord bless me,” a thin, high
voice exclaimed as he glanced up, “if
it ain’t young Chad Davis! How are
you, boy?”

Anyone who had watched them as
they shook hands, would have said
that Davis was not particularly pleas-
ed at the meeting. And they would
not have come far from right in their
surmise.

There were not many people around
Silverwood who especially liked Jed
Furtaw, and Chad Davis, and his fath-
er, too, for that matter, had never been
exceptions.

There were a good many reasons for
this feeling, all of them good ones——
but just now, perhaps the chief reason
that Davis did not feel like accordmg
the Silverwood man a cordial reception
was the fact that Jed was, and had
been for ten years, their county sher-
iff. And of all people whom he was
desirous of meeting, at that particular
moment, Chad decided, Furtaw was
last. He'sized him up, in the moment
of silence that came after the sheriff
had dropped down on the seat beside
him.’ The same long lanky legs. The
same gaunt, thin body and stooped
shoulders, with their arms that always
seemed to hang too low. The same
claw-like fingers. No difference in the
weather-browned, emaciated face. The
leathery, wrinkled skin; crafty pale
blue eyes ‘on each side of a thin, cruel
nose; tight lips that showed him un—
even yellow teeth below a straggly,
untrimmed mustache when he spoke
or grinned; the coarse hair, no grayer.
Not a detail of him was different than
when he had seen him last, Davis de-
cided. Even his clothing—the. rusty
black suit, with his sheriff’s star half
showing under the flopping lapel of
the coat, the broad—brimmed, flat—
crowned black hat of his church—~ex-
actly the same!

“You don’t seem to have changed
much, Jed,” Davis remarked. He was
sparring—maneouvering for time. Did
Furtaw know that he had gotten on at
Pequam? If so, could he forestall
the old man’s sharp curiosity?

“No, boy. Same old honest, God-
fearin’ sheriff,” Furtaw said soberly.
“Can’t say the same for you, though,
about changin’ any. Looks like you’ve
growed~up a lot. Lord, if I’d a knowed
you was on the train, I’d have been
back to talk to you before this. ” .

Chad settled Iago]: with a little sigh
of 1elief. The r mark had been made
so naturally, so without guile, that he
felt sure there was no need to doubt
“Just goin’ up

‘ as soon as the gates were Opened,” he

Ellen and Bob were

11‘ ,‘ home from Saginaw, I 'spose?” the '

sheriff went on.
~ “Firom Detroit, Jed. ” Chad corrected.

“Funny I didn' t see you in Saginaw
when you got on this train,” Jed re- ,
marked.

Chad hazarded a guess. “I was on,
explained. , .-
~ Jed nodded. “That’s it. I had to
run to get it. Most always a mite
late, I be, but I always get there, bey."

Davis took a deep breath again. His
guess had won out. Then he caught

himself sharply up. , He had lied. He~

had lied easily and without knowing
it. Wasn’t he even a decent Christian
any more, let alone a worthy young
minister? It didn’t seem to matter.
Nothing mattered but the gray— —eyed
girl up there in Coton’s lonely shack
Nothing else could matte1 so long as
he protected her!

“Goin’ to be home long, Chad?” Fur-
taw was talking again.

“A few weeks anyway, Jed. -Maybe
longer. I haven’t been given a final
charge yet. I haven't had any time
to myself since I started to school, and
I’m going to have a good little vaca-
tion now.”

“Let’s see. You trained to be 1a,
minister; didn’t you, boy?” ‘

Davis nodded.

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be trained. They’ 1e called! You could:
’a saved all this time that way Could
a’ stayed home, and helped your dad."‘

“I know. Jed.” Davis had no desire!
to anger the fanaticism of the man by ;
questioning his judgment. Better to
placate just now, and drop the thing i
Jed was a pillar of faith in his church, I
and you couldn’ t swing him, anyway. I

It was the church that had elected.
him sheiiff. Chad remembeied yet]
the night of his election and the Cele-1
biation that was held in the little
squa1e chu1ch, built of stone fiom the'
bed of the Tobacco. A chu1chman had
been made an officei oi the law, and
now the law 11 ould be upheld believed
his b1othe1s in faith! And Fu11av1,.’
gloating ove1 his success,n1ade g1eat
promises. It l11d been a wondeiful
night indeed f01 the little secta1ian}
gloup of honest devout faimeis. No
one else in the countr1 o1 communit1
had cared especially. To begin with ‘
it didn’t mattel much who was she1-
iff. In the second place, the dislike;
101 Fuitaw was a passive so1t of feel-!
ing. Of course, the man had his ene-
mies—genuine ones, as all men have
but for the most part it was mole just.
lack of f1iends :

‘The feeling seldom flamed into out»
right hatred. There was no reason,
why it should. ‘

The old sheriff was more or less of
a coward—a weakling at, heart, andl
somewhat deceitful, but his acts were
haimless enough, and had been since
he joined the church, twenty odd yeais
before. Lumber da1 legend pointed to
a wild caree1 befo1e that—«but that;
was past. Peihaps now it was his cant I
and hypocrisy that won, more than
any other factor, the disfavor of his
neighbors. 1

“W'as 10u long in Saginaw today,}
Chad?” Furtaw had diplomac1 enough
to bieak the shmt silence with a;
change of subject.

“Not long today Jed.” Davis felt a3
sense of relief. This once he had noti
been obliged to lie. 1‘

“Didn’t hear about old Henry Coton;
gettin’ shot, then, I don’t suppose?" ,

“Heard about that in Detroit yester—.
(133’, Jed.” Chad felt a slight uneasié
mess—a need to watch his words, in4
the new topic. “Detroit was pretty‘
well stirred up over it.” ‘

“Maybe you don’t think Saginaw
was.” the old sheriff declared. “Lord,
every man along the rivers from here
down to Bay City must a knowed old
Coton! l was foreman for him, along
the Tobaccer, you know." There was
pride in his voice. Jed’s heart feasted;
on notoriety, no matter what thei
source.

“I remember,” Chad replied shortly.
No need to cast one’s past errors up
to light in that fashion. That very
foremanship had gone farthest to win
original dislike for Jed Furtaw along
the river. Chad Davis had heard
many stories from his father and oth-
ers of the old rivermen, of the kind of
a foreman Furtaw had been. He would
not forget—nor any of their sons! The
real fault had been Coton’s, but Fur-
taw, the weakling, had made him a
good foreman!

“Yeah, I was foreman o’ Coton’s
camps for five years or more,” Jed
went on, either not noticing or failing
to heed the disapproval in Chad’s
voice “Them was the g1eat days.
Chad. Ask your dad, he knows!” The
old foreman was waxing jubilant. “Cot-
one was the big camps, all right.
Made millions out 0’ his pine, he did.
And now somebOdy shot him.” His
voice became melancholy as his mood
cha’nged. “Yeah—gone to his reward
——Gawd, I wonder who done it. I’d

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HIS week we will have. to put»
on twelve-league boots, to cove}-
twelve lessons, three months, in
a few minutes. But that is nothing
these days. Speed is our middle name.
(I). Paul in Athens. He did not
have a very happy time there, as near-
ly as we can tell by reading between
the lines. He did not mind being call-
ed a babbler, a talkative, ignorant fel-
low. But he did mind it when he
could make no inroads in the souls of
men. He quoted one of the Greek au-
thors, to win attention. Even that did
not seem to travel very far. Perhaps
that is the reason why, when he wrote
to the Corinthians later, one of his
first statements was, “1 determined to
know nothing among you, save Jesus
Christ-and Him crucified.” That is, he
found the best way to come right out
and give his mes-
'sage without
dressing it up in
rhetorical clothes.
Said a missionary
to me a f e w
weeks ago, “I find
that people want
a missionary to
be a missionary,
and give his mes-
sage straight." Like others of us, Paul
learned from experience. Some peo-
ple never do. I have heard, but can-
.not vouch for its truth, that mules are
used in mines because they have more
sense than horses. In a low ceilinged
mine a horse will knock his brains out
against the ceiling, while a mule will
carry his head a little lower.

police interfered and took .the distin-
guished visitb‘r before the court. “Great
is Diana!" they yelled, because busi-
ness had been interfered with. If re-
ligion.interf'eres with your business,
give up Your religion. That was the
math 01' the Ephesians.,We would not
feel so badly about it, if there were
.not ' so many Ephesians now. When
you get discouraged living in the coun-
try, count up your blessings. You do
not have to work till ,late Saturday
night in an unventilated store. You
do not travelto your work in a sub-
way which contains the original air
which it had when first built. Once I
worked in a big department store. I
was No. 5,122. When the superintend-
ent wanted me he would say, “Where
is 5,122?” That is the lot of many
city folk. But in the country even the
cows have names. Business is hard
and pushing, and the price of success
is high. Hence it often comes into
conflict with the forces that are ideal-
istic. They probably wanted Paul to
change his religion and go into busi-
ness in Ephesus.

(V). Drink. Think over your own
experience on this question. What is
your observation as to the enforce-
ment of the law? Would you like to
go back to the saloon? 'Wchd you
like beer saloons? Do you vote for
the selling of wine and beer in grocery
stores? These have all been used as
dispensers of alcohol at various times
and places. Whatever the argument
may be, you cannot get around this
boulder in the middle of the road~al-
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or whiskey.

        
      
      
    

 

II)’ In Corinth. Corinth was a bad on the road to prohibition. Let’s keep
town. It seemed to have all the qual- traveling
ities of a bad city, while at the same ' ,
time good people lived there, too. Pros- (VI)‘ The Farewell at Miletus. Thls

scene finds us where we live. “And
when he had thus spoken, he kneeled
down, and prayed with them all. And
they wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck
and kissed him.” This can be put into
two words—brotherly love. One of the
greatest of living preachers is Dr.
George A. Gordon, of Boston. Many's
the time I have heard him. Last year
he completed his fortieth year at ew
Old South Church. In his autobiog-
raphy he tells of the last time he saw
his mother. He came to this country
when a youth from Scotland, but re-
turned flve times to see his mother.
“My last look at her on parting in 1889
was from the street, before entering
the cab to drive away to the station.
There she stood at the ,Window, her

titution was carried on in the name of
religion. That is horrible, but it is
true of some religions yet. To do any
sort of evil under the guise of religion
,seems too repellant to talk of. See
that your local church has a good rep-
utation for paying its bills. Don’t
make people wait for their coal bill or
wood bill, or any other bill, unless it
is understood when the goods are
bought. Some merchants find it hard
collecting froma church. Today Cor-
inth is but a wretched village of two
hundred souls. Said Isaiah of Baby-
lon, “And Babylon, the glory of the
Chaldee’s excellency, shall be as when
God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
It shall never be inhabited, neither
shall it be dwelt in from generation to

generation.” That"may happen to any figure framed by the large pane of
bad town or city. glass, her face wrought into an ex-
pression of love and woe indescrib-

(III). Paul writes to the Corinthi- able; the tears were few, but the sense

ans. A modern writer has called Cor-
inth a witches’ cauldron. It must have
been worse that that. But what a let-
ter he writes! The most beautiful and
powerful of messages to the worst of
places! “Tho I speak with the tongues
of men and of angels—” And out of
Corinth came saints. “Nor thieves, nor
covebous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
nor extortioners, shall inherit the king-
dom of God. And such were some 0f
you!” The Good News of Christ could
do business, even in Corinth. No place

of bereavement and deathless love was
unutterable and unforgetable.” This
reminds us of Jonathan Edward’s last
message to his wife: "Give my kind-
est love to my dear wife, and tell her
that the uncommon union which has
so long subsisted between us, has been
of such a nature, as I trust is spiritual,
and, therefore, will continue forever.”
That was the kind of parting they had
at Miletus. It had been a spiritual un-
ion and would continue forever. '

_ (VII). Arrest in Jerusalem. Is this
is too bad- DldDyozl rfidnthe mfg“: anti-climax? It looks like it. But it
able article on 0c or e ogg, o a - is n F'

tle Creek, in the last American? Kel- at. or, out Of the arrest comes

 

another side to Paul. Out of that
comes one of the most precious leg-
acies of the church. The other day
the president of the University of
Michigan told the students that suffer-
ing was a law of life. Said he, “Never
side-step suffering.” ' .

logg once asked the chief of police of
Chicago where the toughest place in
the whole city was. The chief told
him, and Kellogg and his friends op-
ened a. mission there, in what I believe
had been a saloon. Christ is equal to
Chicago or Corinth. '

(IV). Paul in Ephesus. This is
where they gave that tea-party for
Paul. Remember? Everybody turned
out, though many did not stop to put Rome. _,

on silk gowns or dress suits. But they GgfiENsz§T=~Bem8 justified by
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SUNDAY sci-noon. LESSON FOR
, DECEMBER 27.

SUBJECT:——Review: from Athens to

 

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THE OLD YEAR OUT—THE new
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HAT .do you gain by an inven-

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the merchant has been selling some-
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to take full advantage of some article
that would make good trade. Ask the
manufacturer. Perhaps he is over
working part of his establishment; per-
haps allowing a portion to go to ruin
for lack of use or proper attention.
The principle is just as applicable to
your greatest asset—the only body
you ever will have. So check out with
the old year and in with the new, just
for the sake of making the best of
life.

Blood pressure is one of the things
every man should check. If normal,
your indications are very good. If low,
it may be that you should stoke up
with a better quality of fuel or give a
little less cf wear and tear, and a little
more building up to your engine.

If the pressure is too high, the time
to find out about it is at the earliest
possible moment. There are things to
be (lure then. Not much good trying
to treat high blood pressure after it
has reached such a pitch that every
move you make tells you about it.
Find it early and correct it.

Kidney action is another important
thing that should be checked. If be-

low forty, you may be content with the
ordinary chemical examination that a.
doctor can make in five minutes with
a Bunsen burner, a few chemicals, and
a mnrning sample. If past middle age,
the test ought to be microscopical. It
is important to detect early changes,
because at that stage diet will correct
them.

Heart action is only a little less im—
portant. There is not so much likeli-
hood of trouble coming to the heart
without warning, but still it's perform-
ance should be tested once a year.

The fact is, that the checking out
should cover all of your organs and
functions; and if you start the New
Year with a clean bill of health, the
knowledge will buoy you up and put
pep into your actions so that the ex-
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in the first week’s business.

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A woman forty—eight years old, who
has not yet passed “the change,” is
troubled with frequent and profuse
urine. No pain, but simply cannot re-
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change of life, or something more ser-
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Adventures of Tilly and Billy

M erry C/zrz'rtmar in 4 Suit Care

T ILLY TUMBLE and Billy Bounce
felt very sorry that they had

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unhappy, and decided to make this
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field mouse ever knew.

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and off they skipped to find Tilly’s
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their plan.

“That will be fun,” said mother.
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makes us happy, too. Let’s go to the
pantry to see what we can find.”

The very first thing they found was
two sugar cookies, out just like a bear,
with little black currant eyes.

“We’ll save these for the little
mouse; perhaps he will hang them on
his Christmas tree,” said Billy, when
he had almost taken a bite out of his.

“Here’s three raisins,” said mother,
“and a nice fresh carrot” '
“And here’s a. piece of new bread,”

.said Tilly, as she came running from

“But I think the little
like some. jam on it,

the bread box.
mouse would
mother.”

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When they had enough laid out on
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“I know,” said Tilly. “I’ll get Lolly
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but her suitcase was much too big for
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After Tilly and Billy had packed
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them, and laid the two animal cookies
right on top so he would be sure to
see them first, there was still much
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“Let's fill that with something to
keep the little mouse warm,” said
Billy.

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with a bundle of down from an old
pillow, to keep the little mouse warm.

With the little mouse and the suit~
case, Tilly and Billy skipped out to
the garden, where there was a little
hole in the ground, with hundreds of
little tracks going in and out. Billy
put the little mouse down on the
ground, and he scampered into the
hole as fast as he could go.

“He don’t seem to be hungry,” said
Tilly, disappointedly. “He never tast-
ed any of the nice things.”

“VVe’ll just leave it here, open,” said
Billy. “Perhaps he will come back.”

VVh-en Tilly and Billy went back af-
ter supper, the suitcase was empty,
not a single crumb was in sight, but
they imagined that down in the ground]
they could hear a little mouse singing.

  

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Housewives Have Elght-Hour Day

Experience: of Readers Sfiow W fiere to Elimmate Unnecessary Detail; of Homework

MAN’S work is from sun to sun,

but a woman’s work is never

done.” Many, many times we
have heard this repeated. But these
readers have found that it pays to
eliminate a part of the tasks they
thought were essential to good house-
keeping, that they might shorten their
working hours and have more time for
home-making. By putting these short-
cuts into practice, these farm wives
do not work from sun to sun. They
find an eightvhour day in their home
workshop sufficient, with the remain-
ing time for recreation, reading, and
home companionship—M. C.

Little Work To Do Dishes.

Most women dread “doing dishes,”
but we have a system in our household
which eliminates a part of this.

We rinse all greasy dishes under hot
water faucet, using a small ten-cent
brush kept for this purpose. Then all
of the dishes are washed in clean,
soapy water, stacked in strong Wire
dish drainer, which can be purchased
in any hardware store for seventy-five
cents to one dollar. Next, the dishes

 

 

She Found That a Dish Drainer Saves
Time.

are rinsed thoroughly with clear hot
water, and set aside to drip. While
they are dripping, we wash and rinse
glass and silverware, and wipe with
towel. By this method there are not
many tea-towels to wash, which also
eliminates work. Cooking utensils are
washed in the usual way, and when
they are finished, the dishes in the
drainer are ready to be stored in the
cupboard.—~Mrs. R. B., Marquette.
Follows Schedule.

Your request this week interested
me so much that I must tell some of
the things I have found helpful to me.
My greatest help in eliminating unnec-
essary housework has been a schedule
by which to do my daily work. By
following this schedule whenever pos-
sible, I have been able to accomplish
more work than by following a hodge-
podge method.

Also, I have many time-savers. When
I go down cellar, I take down every-
thing that should go down, and bring
back everything needed from the cel-
lar for the day. On the second floor I
keep a carpet sweeper. After making
the beds, a few pushes of the sweeper
keeps the rooms clean, with only an

' occasional sweeping with broom need-

ed. I save all the time possible and,
when my work gets ahead of me, I
stop and ask myself, if all the things
I think I must do, will make my fam-
ily healthier and happier.

I usually find some task that can be
eliminated, or done in an easier way,
so that I will have some time for home
companionship and recreation with my
boys and girls.——Mrs. S. A. W., Rives

Shortens Ironing Day.
In response to your inquiry for ideas

to lessen housework, I suggest that
we farm women eliminate unnecessary
ironing;3 .

‘ I find that my husband, kiddies, and
myself sleep just as well in night
shirts and gowns that are not ironed.
All of my coarse towels, every-day
sheets, and pillow-slips are taken from
the line, folded neatly, and put away.
This method I find saves a. good many
half hours for reading, fancy work,
and home companionship—Mrs. T. B.
M., Owosso.

Plans Meals Ahead.

In preparing meals I try to have
them planned ahead at least several
days. When preparing one meal, I
prepare, or partly prepare, some of
the articles for the next meal, or even
for the next day. ., In boiling or roast-
ing meat, I cook enough for two or
three days, as there are so many ways
'that‘meat can be Quickly and easily
served and not seem like left-overs.

When baking pie, I always bake two
or three pie shells, which can be quick-
ly filled for dessert. Often I fill with
fruit, either fresh or canned; if can-
ned, remove the juice and top with
sweetened whipped cream—Mrs. W.
T., Twining.

Kitchen Slate Helps.

One of my best time and energy-sav-
ers is my kitchen slate on which, as
I think of them, I jot down the things
I need to get or do. You can look over
your list and see what needs doing
most, or what you have time for then.
It is a big help, especially when you
have an extra full program—Mrs. E.
1-1., Parma.

 

TO MAKE STEWED DRIED FRUITS
DELICIOUS.

 

TEWED dried fruit is much nicer

if a little of the fresh fruit is ad
ded. This often can be done in the
case of apples. Lacking fresh fruit,
add the juice from canned fruit of the
same variety. It is well to save some
of the juice from canned fruit for this
purpose; or, when canning, to bottle
a little of the juice.

Dried apples are improved by the
addition of a. little lemon extract or
lemon juice, together with a tiny bit
of the peel grated, if liked.

To dried peaches a very little clove
flavoring gives zest; while to dried ap-

ricots a small quantity of both orange
and lemon Juice will give variety, and
prove delicious.

Any flavoring that is addesthouid

be put in when the fruit is nearly
done.

All dried fruits should first be wash}:
ed thoroughly, then left to soak in

cold water for twelve hours if possi-

ble. They have a decidedly richer fla-
vor when stewed slowly in the oven,
with a lid over the pan, than when
cooked rapidly, uncovered, on top of
the stove. —Z. M.

use ANIMAL METHODS IN CARE
OF FURS.

 

FUR-WEARING women should imi-

tate fur-bearing animals in the care
of their furs, advises home economics
specialist, if they would prolong the
life of these furs.

An animal always shakes its fur vig-
orously after it has been out in the
rain or snow—which is exactly what
the woman should do who is wearing
the animal’s coat. After this thorough
shaking, the coat should be hung on a
padded hanger and allowed to dry
slowly

Animals also are their own “dry-
cleaners," for their fur coats, for they
use the simple and very effective meth~
0d of rubbing sand thoroughly into
their fur by rolling up and down and
back and forth in it. The owner of a
fur coat may clean hers by thoroughly
rubbing certain similar materials in-
to it.

Hot bran, sand, or cedar and ma-
hogany sawdust may be used for dark-
colored furs. White corn meal, salt,
Fuller’s earth, cornstarch, or powdered
magnesia will clean white furs. Any
one of these materials may be used,
but should be rubbed thoroughly into
the fur. It is then removed by whip-
ping with two pliable smooth sticks,
after which the fur is brushed with a
clothes brush or furrier’s comb.

Rips and tears in a fur coat may
often be mended at home, but a fur-
rier’s needle should be used, as it does
not tear the skins as easly as a sew-
ing needle. Mercerized cotton thread
is good to use.

A padded hanger is preferable "for
furs, because skins are often weaken-
ed through dyeing; and hangers with

The Community Hot Dish

By Hilda Richmond

THE sensible community dinners,
that are now the rage over the
country, call for each family to bring
their own dishes, their own sandwiches
and cake, and one hot dish. These
dinners are not picnics, but are served
when institutes or public work is going
on and. everybody wants enough to
eat without being heavy and loggy af-
ter the meal. Each family has its
own place at the table, and eats its
own food, to avoid scattering of dishes.
The sensible rule, limiting the amount
of food, puts all on the same equality,
and the tenant who is having a hard
time of it, does not feel that he must
stay away on account of the cost,
while the well-to—do are able to see
that it is a wise rule for all.
Now, the one hot dish in some com-
munities is always baked beans. Beans

¢

are wholesome, good, and satisfying,
but it gets rather tiresOme to meet
them at every public dinner. Why not
try a change? At a recent dinner in
our community, escalloped corn, escal-
loped oysters, spagetti, baked noodles
and boiled noodles, Irish stew, sweet'
potatoes, Spanish rice, Swiss steak,
little sausage links delicately browned
and then cooked in a casserole, bread—
ed pork chops in a thick crock, and
lima beans, were served. Everything
was hot, delicious, and just enough so
that no one was hungry.

This same one hot dish is popular
at a picnic, a supper on a cold night
in spring or fall, or' on any occasion
where a heavy meal is not needed.
Many of them are good for the Sun-

day night supper in winter, as they-

are easily prepared and not expensive;

sharp points are likely to cause tears
in the fur. A

Vigorous heating with smooth; pli-
able sticks is excellent for furs, except.
the more delicate ones, such as squir-
rel. A thorough whipping for ten or

fifteen minutes not only renews the\

freshness of the fur, but also kills
moths and removes the moth eggs.

EIGHT GOLDEN RULES FOR GIRLS.

 

P ERSONS who have it that a young
lady should always be a young

lady, and that'girls who don knickers
and play boys’ games are not to be
included in either class, should be in-
terested in knowing that Michigan
State College co—eds play and have
teams in every sport participated in
by men students, with the exception
of football and wrestling. The follow-
ing list of self-imposed rules rigidly
observed by members of co-ed teams
should convince the most doubting
Thomas that athletics for girls has its
beneficial features:

1. Three regular meals each day.

2. Eat nothing between meals ex-
cept fresh fruit.

3. Drink nothing between meals but
milk or water.

4. Drink but one cup of tea, coffee
or cocoa.

5. Eight hours of sleep each night.

6. Have one hour of outside exer-
cise each day.

7. Be in bed by eleven o’clock.

9. Refrain from smoking—J. flock.

 

FROM THE COOK’S BAG OF
TRICKS.

TELL TALE ’NITIALS.

 

 

If an H begins your name,
You’ll just gallOp into fame;
Hold ’er steady. keep the course,
Win out, like a good race horse.

These initials are designed to
use as embroidery patterns on

things for children, on pockets,
romper yokes, napkins, pillow-
cases or any other place for which
the size would be correct They
may be transferred directly from
this design through carbon, and
embroidered as the stitches indi-
cate in the patterns.

 

I N baking pancakes you can avoid the
smudge of the griddle, by beating
into the batter a tablespoonful of un~

salted melted grease, and you do not
need to grease the griddle. ——Mrs.L.

When windows stick, rub a little
floor wax along the groove in which
the sash runs, and after it‘stands for
a few minutes, polish with a cloth.
Also good for drawers that do not
slide easily.

Apply a paste of salt and vinegar
to brass and let stand for ten minutes.
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No. 265——Becoming Design. Cut in
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bust measure. Size 36 requires 3%
yards of 36~inch material.

No. 2126—L0vely Frock for Party or
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bust measure. Size 36 requires 3%
yards of 36-inch material, with 7/3 yard
of 27-inch contrasting.

The price of each pattern is 130. Be
sure to state size, and write address
clearly. Send all orders to the Pattern
Department, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,
Michigan.

 

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Use this department to help solve.
your household problems. Address
your letters to Martha Cole, Michigan
Farmer, Detroit, Michigan.

T0 DYE GRAY.

Can you please tell me what propor—
tion of tea and copperas to use to dye
gray?—Mrs. G. C. B.

Will some of the readers who have
tried this method of dyeing, answer
this question?—M. C.

 

HONEY RECIPES.

 

I would like to learn to make cake
and cookies with honey-Mrs. G. I.

I believe you will find these tested
recipes successful.
.Honey Cake.

1A cup honey 1 tsp. ground cardamom
’fi cup shortening

3m.bcwenwvmteb unpwhibomw

5 cups flour 5‘ tsp. an:

2 tan cinnamon 1% cups water

1 tan. cloves 1% up. nod-

Bake in shallow pans (mixture about
Mod-

erate oven twenty-five to thirty-five
minutes.
Honey Cookies.

84 cup water 1 tsp. soda.
2 cups brown sugar. 6 cups flour
packed 1 tsp. powdered carda—
% cup lard mom seed
1 cup honey 1 tsp. cinnamon
1-3 cup egg yolks $5 tsp. salt
Heat the water, sugar, lard, and

honey until the lard is melted. VVThen

cool, add the yolks of the eggs and

the flour, sifted with the soda, and

spices. Bake in a moderate oven.
Honey Icing.

1% cup. sugar 1,5 cup hot water
$6 cup honey 2 egg whites

Boil sugar and water together until
it will thread when dropped from a
spoon. Add the honey slowly and re-
move the icing from the stove. Have
the egg whites beaten stiff, and pour
the hot syrup over them slowly, beat-
ing until the icing holds its shape.

 

A teaspoon of honey stirred into the
French dressing makes a pleasing
change. being delicious with tomatoes.

  
  

 

 
 

     
  

 

 

 

  

  

  

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Letters

HIS week we have another “spe-
cial.” We might call it the
“Radio Special,” as it contains let-
ters from the boys and girls at the
Sanatorium, which express apprecia—
tion for the radios which the Merry
Circlers have furnished. The picture
shows the girls grouped around their
Merry Circle radio. It is a bed-
time group, as the young folks
are dressed ready for the night. I be-
lieve that these letters will make those
who contributed for these radios glad
that they did so.——Uncle Frank.

We got the radio you sent us, and
we have music every night. The radio
is in the drug room, and the loud
speaker out on the porch. When we
go to bed at night, we listen to the

 

 

 

 

"of Thanks For the Radios

Boy: and Girls 42‘ Me Ho well Sanatorz'um Expres: Téez'r dpprecz’atiofl

you. .It is hard for us to pass the
time, because we have to be quiet, and
the radio will help us to get well.

I am ten years old, and I’ve been
here two years—Frank Orel.

I

We have. the radio here now.
Many thanks to ‘you people. We
find it very interesting and enter-
taining. It helps to pass away the
time. It was installed November
25. We get the Michigan Farmer
every week, and we get enjoyment
out of reading the boys’ and girls’
letters in it.——Norman Thompson.

 

Just a-few linesto thank you for
the radio. I enjoy it very much, and
it makes us very happy.

I go to school every day. We had

 

The Girls at Columbia Cottage Grouped Around Merry Circle Radio The
Picture of the Boys Was Not Clear Enough to Make a Cut.

radio one hour, and then we go to
sleep. I do not know how to thank
you for the wonderful radio. I enjoy
it so much that every time it plays I
listen to it until it is time to take
rest hour.

It is time to get on our beds for
temperatures.——Your friend, Benny
Pietrzykowski.

 

We got your radio Tuesday. We all
like it very much. I thank you ever so
much for it. We got many stations——

Nancy Gilbargo, fourteen years.

I thank you for the radio. It is nice.

~~Leona Smalley, eight years.

Thank you for the radio you sent Us.

a good Thanksgiving. We had lots of
fun. The radio shortens our rest hour.
~-»I~Ielen Zamenska, ten years.

I thank you for the radio very much.
ADorothy Presenski.

 

 

I like the radio very much. Thanks
very much for it. I will close with
lots of love.~—-Elizabeth Degel. nine.

Just a few lines to let you know
that I want to thank you for the

radio. We enjoy it very much. I

have been here seven months, and

it seems good to have something
to do, and listening to a radio
surely is something to do, and We
never get tired of it. We get the
weather reports. .

We have had'it three days, and we
enjoyed it very much. It helps us to
be nice, and that is what will make us
well. We got about twenty—five (lif-
ferent stations.

I am thirteen years old, and I am
having a lot of fun here. I have been
here one year and two months. There
are thirty-four boys here. Edward
Gizelak.

 

 

I thank you very much for the
radio. I used to get lonesome
here, but the radio cheers me up.
I can just write a few lines, be-
cause I have to sew my pants.
The radio puts me to sleep at

night.

Ihave been here about four
months. One boy has been here
four years. I am eleven years old.

My father and mother are both
dead—Gerald Tinholt.

6

 

We received your nice radio, and we
like to listen to it. We had a nice
time Thanksgiving, and we had a nice
time at the fair, too. We thank you
very much—Cleo Stephens.

 

I am very glad that you got that
radio for us. I know that it was very
hard to get it, and I want to thank

We receive the Michigan Farm-
er and read it. We have movies
every Friday, and church on Sun-
day and Tucsday.—Lovingly, VVen-
dell McCleery.

 

Just a few lines to thank you for
the radio. We have it playing at rest
hour sometimes. '

We go to school every day. Some-
times the teacher lets us play games
in school. We had a very nice Thanks-
givjng dinner. There are thirty—five
girls—Lillian Pesenski.

I thank you for the radio.
you are very kind.
u—Leona Smalley.

I think
The radio is nice.

 

\Ve all like the radio you sent.-«
Alice Lefler, ten years.

We have a good time, and I hope
you have a good time. We thank you
for the radio. We think you are fine.
—Olga Falling.

 

I thank you for the radio. I like it
very much, and it makes our rest hour
shorter. I must close for this time.—~
Lydai,Krantz, nine years.-

Just a few lines to thank you
for the radio you sent us. We en—
joy it very much. It makES our

 

 

rest hour seem very much shorter.

We had a good Thanksgiving. I
hope you had a good Thanksgiv-
ing, too. There are thirty-six girls
here, and we go to school every
day.—~With love, Helen Archibald,
eleven years old.

 

We thank you for the radio you sent

us. I like it very much.—Mildred*

Agatha, Mathias, nine years.

 

How are you today? I hope you are
well. We thank you for the radio. It
was so nice. I appreciate it.

I have a sister at home whose name
is Hilda I love her, and I love all my
nurses, too. The nurse is playing the
radio now—With love, Liezetta Mar-
gierte Menchinger, eight years.

 

We received the radio and like
it very much. We thank you for
it, as we enjoy it very much.—
Lillian Gleed, thirteen years.

 

We received the radio day be-
fore yesterday, and think it very
nice of you to send it.

I have been here six months last
Wednesday, and like it.~—Eleanor
Frazier, twelve years.

I like to hear the radio. Thank you
for it. I am five years old, and cannot
write yet.~—Louise Dinholt.

 

I like your radio very much. You
do not know how Liezetta and I enjoy
it, for we are the two girls who stay
in. But we went to the fair yesterday.
I bought a little pink blanket which
has a little white rabbit on it. I fished
in the fish pond at the fair; had lots
of fun.

I am eight years old. Have never
been to school, as I have been sick.
I cannot write, but can print all my
letters.

Thank you again for our radiotMil-

dred Devroye.
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I want to thank you for the radio
that you sent us. We enjoy it very

had some good concerts from De-
troit, Chicago, Louisville, Ken-
tucky, and a few other places.

I have written to you before,
and have an M. C. pin.

I must close now, but hope to
write again—With love, from a.
reader, Elizabeth.

 

We received the radio you sent
us, and thank you very much.—
Pearl Keely, eleven years.

 

We have a radio. I think you are
Very kind—Lucille Lucas, nine years.

 

We received your radio, and were
very glad to get it. we thank you for
it.—Ruth Elizabeth White.

 

We received your radio, and were
very, very glad to get it. And I thank
you .very much for it. I will close,
with many thanks and love, Veronica
Wepa, eleven years old.

 

I am thankful that you gave us a ‘
radio. We like it very much. \V'e I
heard it Thanksgiving. We had
a good time Thanksgiving. I thank
you very much—Beatrice Rich,
twelve years old.

I will thank you for the radio you
sent us. We like it very much.

We had turkey for Thanksgiving,
and it was good. I hope you had a lot
of fun on Thanksgiving, like I did.—
Edward Rychliczek.

 

I thank you very much for the radio
that you sent to the boys and girls.—
Rhea McGregor.

 

We received your
were glad to get it.
very much for it.

I go to school every day. We
have a good teacher. I am in the
fourth grade, and I am nine years
old—«Goodbye, Marie Stevens.

radio and
I thank you

 

I like the radio very much. I
am thanking you, for I like to hear
the radio play—Antonia Munoz,
eleven years old.

 

We got the radio you sent us, and

 

 

A Letter From Dr. Huntley

Dear Sir:

The radios are working very satisfactorily, and I assure you that
the children appreciate them. Not only do the children appreci—
ate them, but everyone who has the children in charge, appreciates
them, and are very thankful to the Merry Circlers.

I hope you will not take too seriously the letter of the small
boy who says he is unable to write further because he must sew

his pants.

We have three seamstresses, and I am not just clear
as to why he should sew his own pants.

I received quite a kick

out of' these letters, and believe they will be just as amusing to

you.

Since your visit here I have taken particular pains to look into
the matter of the Michigan Farmer, and I find that it has been

coming regularly to both of the children’s cottages.

The nurses in

charge assure me that there are some very faithful readers among

the children.

I shall be very glad to haVe you visit us again, and again as—
sure you that the children, and employes in charge of the children,
appreciate very much the efforts of the Merry Circlers in this

matter. Respectfully,

STATE SANATORI UM,

W. B. Huntley, M. 1)., Supt.

 

much, and it works fine.
music when we haven’t anything else
to do, and when we are lonesome. It
is the first time I ever heard a radio.

Elis Martinson.

It gives us

Will close for this time, with love,

 

I want to thank you for the
radio you sent us girls. We have

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very glad to get it.
over and over again.

Thanksgiving:
"tatoes, ‘ pumpkin, mince

we enjoy it very much, and we are
writing to thank you for it—Claud
Crabtree.

 

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We received yourradio, and were
We thank you

I will tell you what we had for
Turkey, dressing, po-
pie, grapes

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bananas. ,r ' ,le§,"oraa¥e. 18.111351. and lit-
tle’: ' 55325 ,~ _ suit. We had. a.
fair. They had a. auty parlor, s

and a jail. We had lots of fullq—M
Weiss, - ' - ‘.

We received the radio Tuesday, .,
and were very glad to get it. We
thank you very much, over and
over again.—,—Alice Boyce.

I like to hear. the radio. . I thank
you \for the radio” Love to you,
Dorothy Herman, Six years old.

 

I want to thank you very much for
that nice radio. You have made it
possible for us to have a. much better
rest hour. Not only dowe Enjoy list-
tening to it, but we gain a lot more
at the end of each week. It helps a
lot toward the cure. I hope you may
never know what it is to have TB. If
you do, I hope you will be fortunate .
enough to have a radio to enjoy, too.

Well, it is about time for rest hour,
so I will have to close—Very affection-
ately, Ralph Rieder.

We like the radio you sent us:—
Catherine Derroye, ten years.

I ' e your radio very much, and
than you. I heard a program
over the radio Thanksgiving. It
is a nice radio. I like to hear the
music.—Hazen Cronk, eleven.

We have the radio all put up, and
we have concerts from all parts of the
United States. It will help us with
the cure and to rest better. \Ve want.
to thank everybody. It seems nice. to
have music come from the air. We
are very thankful we have something
to listen to and to pass the time.—
With love, Edward Bitter.

I am glad to hear the radio:
thanking you now for sending it.
listen to the radio every day. '

I had a lot of fun Thanksgivmg. I
had some turkey that day—Gertrude
Liszyiewicz, thirteen years.

Read-and- Win

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We

 

T’S been a long time since we have

had an old—time Read-andNVin con-
test. So, I think it fitting that the last;
contest of the year be one.

The contest is easy. In order to find
the answers to the questions below,
read through the reading columns of
this paper. \Vhen you find the answer
write it down and give it the same
number as the question. Aléo put. the
number of the page upon which you

found your question, immediately
after it.
Do not rewrite the question, and

make the answer as short as possible.
\Vhen one or two words will answer
a question sensibly, use them.

Please put your name and address
in the upper left—hand corner 01' the
paper, and place M. C. after your name.
if you are a member of the Merry
Circle.

All the correct and neatly written
papers will be placed in a pile, and
ten lucky ones drawn out. These ten
will receive prizes as follows: The
first two, complete pencil hows; the
next three, handy school dictionaries;
and the next five, dandy clutch pencils.
All who have correct replies, and are
not Merry Circlers, will get M. C. but-
tons and cards.

This contest closes January 2, so be
sure to have your contest papers in on

time. Address your letters to Uncle
Frank, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,
Michigan.

The questions follow:

1.~—-What is the
Frankfort?

2.——How much higher is the farm
price of butter than last year?

3.-—When do they have movies at
the Sanatorium?

4.——How long did Dr. George A.
Gordon preach at the New Old South
church?

5.-——W‘ho had number 5,122?

6.—What did Chad observe in
Alice’s pocket.

7.——How many acres are there in
“Ideal Farm?” .

8.—How many bushels of oats did
a. thirty-acre field of oats yield?

‘9.—-0n whose farm was the state
avers? oat yield exceeded by forty-
eight ushelsper acre?

population of

   

    

 

' .10.th is theeich th 1016 the
”girls of the co-ed teams, of M. S. C.
follow? . .

 

THE WINNING canIcs.

\

HE critic contest brought in some

of the most interesting letters we
ever bad. So many of them were
good that it was difficult for me to
pick the winners, and to place the
winners in the order they should be.
I picked those letters which I thought
would be the most interesting to our
readers, and have tried not to show
partiality.

The winning letters, and some of
the others, will appear in the next
issue. I am sure that the grown-ups
will enjoy them, as well as the young
folks.

The winners are as follows:

Pencil Boxes.
June Nelson, Filion, Mich.
Mamie Balich, R. 1, Benton Harbor,

Mich.
Dictionaries.
Bernard Alfredson, Whitehall, Mich.
Dorothy L. Shoemaker, Carleton,
Mich.
Esther Amundson, R. 1, Ironwood,
Mich.

 

Pencils.

MCellorgc Nichols, Thompsonville,
101.
Ann Mulder, 1705 Godfrey Street, S.
W., Grand Rapids, Mich.
(luill'ord Rothfuss, Norvell, Mich.
Winifred Dewey. Gregory, Mich.
Ruth Yoder, R. 1, Mio, Mich.

THE GREAT MERRY CIRCLE.
In tho northland. ’way up yonder,

With the big white polar bear——
lll tho Sunny Southland, also,

Merry Circlers everywhere!

In the cool, green eastern clime,
lo the western states so warm,
They remind me very much
()I‘ a happy, bee-like swarm!

Turning sorrow into glee,
Making sad hearts light and gay,
Taking each day as it comes,
Sometimes work and. sometimes
play!

0h! :1 Merry crowd are we!
llig and little, short and tall,
And the Great Merry Circle
Circles ’round and ’round us all!
“Nellie Barber, M. C.

SMILE Al\lD SIEAD HAPPINESS.

I THINK every Merry Circler agrees

that they must “\Vcrk to Win.”

But l find this includes another factor.

For, while one works he can keep him-

self healthy~physically and morally—

and~~~smile. Merry Circlers, no one

has ever added up the value of a

smile! So (quoting Thoreau):

Smile awhile

And while. you smile

Another smiles, and soon

There’s miles and miles of smiles,

And life‘s worthwhile if you but smile.
Smile!

It’s the easiest and nicest way of
spreading sunshine and planting the
seeds of happiness. I’ve been blue
clear through, but what I always try
to do is—smile.—\1'ilma Fry.

 

A MICHIGAN MYSTERY.

(Continued from page 643).
like to catch ’em.” Sudden fire blazed
in tho pale blue eyes. “Bet’cha there’s
a purty reward out! I’d give my tenth
to my Lord, an ’say, wouldn’t I be
well heeled for a while, now!”

[lavis’ voice was steady. “They say
his bride did it, and got away,” he said
evenly.

“Yeah, so they read to me out o’
the, papers in Saginaw, today. Say, I’d
like to lay my hands on that girl! I’d
t‘etch her alright! They’re all alike—
yaller-haired daughter’s o’ Satan!”

Davis was conscious, of a sudden in-

voluntary tightening of his hands
across his knees. He sat very quiet,
waiting.

“'8 funny, too,” old Jed mused on,
“the way he took her when she was
just a kid, an’ she come, from up north
some’rs. Coton used to live up here,
’tween Silverwood, and the Run, Cot-
on’s shack. You must remember—”
The thin old Voice halted suddenly, as
though live coals had dropped on .the
wagging tongue. The pale eyes dilat~

, in an expression of surprised fear,
and old Jed put his hands out in front
of him, as though to ward off some
physical danger. “I—Oh, Gawd, Chad,
I forgot! Honest I did!"

(Cbnitnued next week).

    

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Begin now to reap the benefits Kow-Kare is
performing for other cow owners. Give it a
practical test and you will form new ideas of-
wmter dairying. Large size Row-Kare, $1 25;
medium sine 65c—at feed stores, general stores
and druggists. If our dealer cannot supply
you, order direct.

Write for free book, "The Home Cow Doctor."

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with the same
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Without stufi‘ing more feed into your cows—
there’s a sure _way of getting more milk out of
them. Milk income in the winter months
depends on] the cow’p ability to completely
assimilate and turn into milk the ration you
have to feed her.

Few cows go .into the winter in a sufficiently
robust condition to do this without aid. That s
why thousands of dairymen new use Row-Kare
regularly along with
tablespoonful of this

 

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onderful medicine-tonic

twice a day, one week each month will keep
your cows in top-speed production. A few cents
thus invested in regulating the cows mills-
making machinery accomplishes more than
many dollars spent in forced feeding.

And_all the while you are using Row-Kare you
are insuring your herd against disease and
expensive disorders. Kow-Kare acts directly
on the digestive and genital organs. It helps
you wm your battles against such ailments as
barrenness

, Retained Afterbirth, Abortion,
arget, Lost Appetite, etc., by

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Harry Ploegstia, Sr., a Hollander from
an Iowa corn belt farm. came to carve
out a home for him and his boys. Im-
mediately, he was confronted with this
problem. Should he do as the natives
.were doing, clear his land and put it
into timothy? That was the easiest
course. It was the only possible
course, many told him. The land was
,too wet for other crops,‘the season too

too scarce. But Mr. Ploegstra saw
,the other side, too, the fields run down
to daisies, the soured surfaces, the de-
pleted soils once fertile, a timothy
market that was flat, and farmers
moving out because that was their
only income, a valueless food for the
.milk cows he hoped to keep. Should

Doesn’t Do As the Romans

(Continued from page 633).

short, the soil unadapted, the labor.

 

sweet clover for pasture. The field in
which you see those thirteen cows was
seeded a year ago in barley. and heav-
ed out some last winter. It is being
pastured too close, now, but the cows
certainly do fine on it._

“My clover, I cure in coils as quickly
as I can get it piled up. It lays in the
swath about two hours and is really
cured without wilting. I believe that
is why my cows do so well, as they
get all the leaves.

“Instead Of timothy hay as an only
source of income, I have my cows, and
in addition to the feed I grow for them,
I have peas and wheat as cash crops.
My regular rotation is wheat, oats, clo-
ver, and then summer fallow for wheat.
Maybe some day I’ll have a silo and

 

 

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The Herd Has an Annual Average

he do as the others were doing, and
had always done? Here is what Mr.
Ploegstra told me about his answer to
that question:

“First of all, I decided not to grow
timothy hay. I don’t believe timothy
deserves to be called a crop. It spoils
the land and it spoils the man. As
you see, my land is naturally low and
wet, so my first job when I started
into the cut-overs was 'to put in about
a mile and a half of open ditches, with
a cross ditch, to take away the water.
I plowed eight acres the first year, ten
acres the second, and the third year
burned over and prepared for the plow
the whole eighty. My boys helped in
all this work.

“We plowed the land as deep as we
could, about eleven inches. You see,
it’s awfully stiff soil and it holds the
water. By going deep, we loosened it
up. Mr. McMillan, our county agent,
has tested this sub-soil and finds it
[very high in lime, and favorable to
clover growing. '
“That’s what we use for hay, Ithe
clover. You see, we are in the dairy
business. We started with that grade
Holstein over there as foundation cow
five‘ years ago, and we’ve always used
a pure-bred bull.

“The clover furnishes-the winter’s
feed for the herd. In 1924, our second
cutting was spoiling in 1the field be-
,cause of the unusually wet weather.
We got around that by putting this
,wet hay in a mow, and completely cov-
,ering it with tar paper. We used mud
to chink up the cracks, so as to make
sure no air got to it, with a fire' as
the possible result. It worked fine.
we took out an excellent grade of clo-
ver silage and our herd proved to be
one of the best producing in this part
of the state. The daughter of the old
foundation cow made ninety-seven and
One-half pounds of fat in March, and
ninety-one pounds in April, according
to‘cow testing asSoCiation records.

“While there is plenty of wild land

 

 

around here, we prefer a. crop like

 

 

 

   

of Over 360 Pounds of Butter-fat.

grow sunflowers. It’s too cold here
for corn.

“1 and my boys have cleared up
these three farms, and now have our
own homes, and this would have been
impossible on the high-priced lands of
Iowa, where we came from.”

Mr. Ploegstra and his sons are fore-
casting the dawning of a new day for
Chippewa county agriculture. What
farmers said couldn’t be done in that
kind of a country, they are doing, and
making it pay. I got this little story
from Mr. Ploegstra last July. Since
then, I have had a letter from D. L.
McMillan, county agricultural agent of
Chippewa county, stating that Mr.
Ploegstra’s herd was the high one for
the Chippewa County Cow Testing As-
sociation, producing an average of
366.4 pounds of butter-fat per cow per
year. A thirty-acre field of cats we
had visited yielded 1,800/bushels, and
a ten-acre field of Alaska peas produc-
ed forty-five bushels per acre, a gross
acre income of more than $100.

That the farmers of this county are
gradually breaking relations with tim-
othy, was further brought out by Mr.
McMillan’s letter. Several carloads of
Wbrthy and Wolverine seed oats of
excellent quality were produced as a
result of Mr. McMillan’s efforts to get
in certified seed of these Varieties,
while cars of dairy products, wheat,
marrowfat peas, and seed flax, the lat;
ter yielding fifteen to twenty-two bush-
els per acre on typical Chippewa coun-
ty land, will this year out into the
long trains of timothy that have thus
far been about the only agricultural
export of the county.

 

IN a dairy organization of Charlevoix

county, there are twenty-five mem-
bers. These members have on their
farms a total of 579‘ acres of alfalfa
hay. They own 300 cows. In other
words, they have practically two acres
of alfalfa for each cow. Many of these
men were growing this crop before
1920. ' ' '

  

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Twelve Days before detect publication
GUERNSEYB for sole. melee. females.

sires whose dams have

mom of
909.05 (st. and 15,109.10 milk.
HICKS. B. I. Bsttlo ka. Mloh.

FOR SALE- Reg. Guernsey Bull Call

Sire by Lone Pine Ranger whose dam has on A. ll
record or 11.6443 lbs. Milk.

. lbs. Pat. No Is-
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Adams: Gilmore Brothers. Camden.

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F. VI. WALLIN. Jenison. Mich.

 

Beg. Guernsey Cows, Bulls and

For Sale Bull Calves. A. a. Record Ms:

Rose Breeding. JOHN EBELS, R. 2, Holland. Mich.

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College Butter Boy

A sire of outstanding quality from s. 33-
dam with a 306-day record of 1.112 lbs. bung:
tar and 25.079 lbs. milk. He hes been in '
service in the famous Pontiac State Hospital
herd for several years. and has sired on on-
cans“ ntmiot of cagves. His first .
r m a over 00 lbs.
2-year-old. in a year as s Jr.
Select one of his sons for s herd size.
Pontiac Blood Will Tell.

Bureau of
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Lansing, Michigan

AUGTION SALE

Fifty Head Registered
Holstein-Friesian Cattle

December 30, 1925

Dinner at 1 1:00 ,

Sale starts at 12:00 o'cloek sharp. at my lam, 3”
miles northeast of Amblci or 5% miles ”101m.“
Morley, rain or shine. All tested, no rm all
A. B. 0.. 7—day and yearly record. mesh cam and
swingers, and younger. 35-h). head herd sire.

Side King Joe 351743. Other bulls up to 34 n...
Time will a given on bank racemes. FRANK
STAFFEN. R. No. 3. Howard Olly. Mich.

“Maoiarmoo” Holsleins

LET YOUR NEXT HERD SIRE be a.
“MACFARMCO” Colantha bred Bull
from high producing A. R. 0. & C. T.
A. Dams.

Visitors always welcome to our 20th

century new Barn.

McPHERSOll FARM 00., Howell, "Wan.
B I] B ' '

We 11' th n 1' Count Veeman S Picbe

1.273941? chgnalgnf ghat are ready for 3'91... a. bag:

gain prices. These bulls are

straight,
and out of dams with ofliclol records up to 21 lm
:wo-year-olds. Write for extended pedigrees and pin.
urea.

LAKEFIELI FARM.

For Sale—Young HOLSTEIN BULL by our Carm-
tlon sire. World's record breeding on “all sides. sire

warm. Alsoalewflneheflm, LLCR
FA'R . Kalamazoo, Mloh. , 58'

“FINANCIAL EING JERSEYS

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HEkf‘srmer who handles lots of
"stock and grows lots of grain, can
hardly get along without wagon scales,
or at least a. barn sc'ale. If he feeds
the stock, he has an opportunity to
weigh his grain and then weigh his
stock after feeding them. He will then
know whether he is feeding at a. profit
or at a. loss. When selling .my wheat
or.oats or hay, I can use my scales
and get the weight before I deliver it.
Then I know just What kind of a. deal
I was given by the other fellow. When
a. neighbor comes to purchase wheat,
oats, or corn, the weights can be tak-
en in a very short time, and the scales
put at rest all doubts in the minds of
either party as to the fairness of the
deaL

And after the cattle and other stock
are ready for the market, there are
the scales right at home to find out
whether we are getting a. fair deal,
whether we sell locally or consign to

a distant point—W. E. Farver.

A LITTLE BONE MEAL AND POTAS-
SIUM HELPED THIS COW.

l’ in Chai‘levoix county, Clarence

Mullet, a tester, tells of a. cow
that was not loing well. They gave
her small amounts of steamed bone
meal and potassium iodide. Soon the
cow was brought back in a thrifty con-
dition and she became the high pro-
ducing cow in the local association for
the pasl, year. A full sister and daugh~
for of this cow also averaged over 500
pounds of butter-fat.

SELLING THE POOR ONES.

N the district about Coleman and

Union, there is a group of dairy
farmers who are trying to improve
their herds. During the past year they
sold twenty—three cows from their
herds because the Babcock test and
tho scales in the hands of the cow
tester showed that these animals were
not. worth keeping for the production
of milk. The feed bills for these cows
were too high when compared with the
incomc from the butter-fat.

HAY FOR PIGS.

()’l‘ many farmers practice feeding

hay to pigs. 11' this hay is alfalfa,
they will find that it greatly improves
the health of the animals, and cheap-
ens lhc cost of feed. “'6: have found
that alfalfa is not 21 substitute for
protein concentrates, but when fed
with these concentrates and corn, the
gains me mad“, fastm and the amount
of (:Olll icquiiod to make these gains
is reduced more than the number of
pounds of hay fed. Of course, hogs do
not. have the capacity to eat large
amounts of roughage, as do other an-
imals. However, :1 little has a surpris-
ing effect, especially in winter, and
goes far in keeping the appetite stim-
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amount and quality of his stock; he
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The farm and farmstead should be
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and all stock should be up to specifi—
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Prompt delivery of registration papers
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iVill sell our Choice Heifer Calves from two to eight months old,

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who is one of the best show sons of Avon Pontiac Echo and May \Valker
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CATTLE
Bull: Maid's Triumph of Wankmha. No. 81030;
Sire, Aviator of Waukeshs. No. 40387. a show bull.
and sire of many show ring winners. Dam. Bunton's
mud of \Vaukushn N0. 802I5, A. It. milk 7,833.8.
fat 455.3 at 2 yrs. Price $200.
Bulk—Dora‘s Ada’s Ultra King No. 7834‘.1‘._ Sire.

Ultra. King of lldgcmoor. it sire of show ring winners.
Dillll, Dora's Ada of Sunmy V alloy No. 59315. A.
ll. milk 8,045.1. fat 4903 at 1 _\'r..11 mos. Prim
$150. Address. H. F. RHODES, Bella Vista Farms,
Ypsilanti. Mich.

SHORTHORNS

(‘ows with calves. bred heifers. and bulls. Will make

very attractive prices for the next 60 days. Over 100

head of well-bred cattle to select from. Ilcrd foundwl

at a time when we can afford to sell at farmers'

I‘Vrilte to Supt. GOTFREDSON FARMS. YD-
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prices.

silanti,
Shorlho Best of nudity and breeding.

"‘3 "and heifers to.- sale. BIDWBELL.
3100K FARM. Box I). Tums-eh. Nieh.

Brown Swiss Bull Calf

SPENCER. R. I. fiunfleld. Mloll.

 

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HOGS

Michigan’s Premier Duroc Herd

offers Service boars. bred and open gilts, fall pigs.

Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich.

Plum Creek St k F
Duroc Jerseys on...“ some m..." “$0133

spring hours for full service, at reasonable prices.
Write for particulars. or come and see. F.
DRODT. Prop” Monroe, Mich.

bred gills

Chester Whites W.

W. ALEXANDER, Vassar.

 

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Originators and most extensive breeders.

111: LB. SILVER 00., Box 196, Salem, om
O. I. C. HOGS FOR SALE

Tried sows, hours and giits. JAMES LEAVENS,

Linwood. Mich.
C ’ s. 10 (‘hoivc fall boars.

o ' I ' lluil' Rm k

CLOVER LEAF‘STOCK FARM, Monroe,

and
(01‘ kords.
Mich.

Francisco Farm Poland- Chinas

Boars all sold— just :1 few good gilts bred f)!‘ ii
and A111 11 11'11row llirst $50 (hooks get them.1wfll
P. POPE. Mt. Pleasant. Mich h. '

' I’oland- (‘hinzis
Blg Type of the Worlds
from prize winning sows.
DORUS HOVER. Akron,

for sale. Grandsons
Grand (‘hampion and
Also fall pigs. eithtx' sex.
Mich.

'1‘. P. C. for sale. spring pigs. either sex. h
8- immune. Also Brown Swiss bulls. Writecordgre:
them. A. A. FELDKAMP. Manchester. Mich.

Poland China Gills

good onus. bred for spring
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Registered fi‘i’c. WESLEY HILE. Ionla, Mich.
Hampshire Spring Boars now ready to ship. Bred
Gilts for spring furrow in season: 12th year
JOHN W. SNYDER, R. No. 4, st. Johns. Mich.
SHEEP
' rog1stc1od ll: 1mhonillet owe
EXtra Chmce lambs You liomcycr strain.

$20 per lit-21d for lot of ten or more. E. M. MOORE.

Mason. Mich.
Cotswolds,’1‘unis.

BRED EWES Lin: olns, Ksrakulm.

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Oxfords.
Also

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lambs. C. LEMEN _& SONS, _8I'I:(;(terfwlliic:n:

20 High grade Black Top ewes and owe lambs.
Good type. Heavy shearers. W. E. LIVING-

RoKi t d. Sh h
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HORSES

Wanted—Young Arabian Stallion
Address Glenlirook Stock Form. Plncknoy. Mich.

 

       
    
      
         


,GRAIN . QUOTATIONS
Tuesday, December 22.
Wheat.

Detroit.—-—No. 1 red
$1.80; No.
1.80.

   
  
    

7 $1.41%@1.41%.
Toledo.——Wheatc $1.79@1.80.
orn

  

No. 4 yellow 720; No. 5 yellow 70c.
82g’.1‘hicago.—~May 81@81%c; July
c.

Oats.
‘Detroit.-——No. 2 white Michigan
465550; No. 3, 451/“.
C icago.——May §3%c; July 441/..c.
ye

.Detroit..-——No. 2, 97c. '
Chicago—May 99%,; July 96%0.
.Toledo.——~9~ic.

Beans
Detroit—Immediate

Bhi ment $4.75.

hicago.—-Spot Navy,

kidneys $9.50@10.
New Yel'k.~—Pea, domestic $5.25@6;
red kidneys $9@9.75.
Barley
Malting 810; feeding 760.
Seeds,
Detroit—Prime red clover $18.75;
alsike $15.80; timothy $3.60.

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
((3322

'No. 1 clover mixed $20@21; No. 1
clover $20@21; wheat and cat straw
$12.50@13; rye straw $13.50@14.

Feeds

Detroit.——Bran at $36@38; standard
middlings at $34; fine middlings $38;
~ » cracked corn $42; coarse cornmeal at
'«l . $40; chop $33 per ton in carlots.

. WHEAT
* Wheat prices have been highly er.
, ratio in the last week, but finished in
. '2 a declining mood. Speculative opera-
“; tions played a large part in the move-
‘5 -ments. The immediate future is high-
? ly uncertain because of the dominance
‘ of speculative activity, but there are
strong symptoms of further weakness
for a while. There is a close adjust-
ment between supply and demand in
the world situation. Just how much
of a margin, if any, there is over re-
quirements, is in doubt, owing to the
uncertainty as to southern hemisphere
yields, as well as to the size of the
European crop.

The world situation appears strong
enough to force prices to new high lev-
els before the crop year is over. But,
the course of the market in the next

,; few weeks is quite problematical.

RYE

Rye prices have shadowed the move-
ments of wheat recently, but at a dis-
count of 60@700. The first sizable
export sales of rye in several months
were reported during the last week.
Clearances from the United States
from August 1 down to date, total only
about 1,500,000 bushels, while 25,000,-
000 bushels probably could be spared
during the crop year.

CORN

Corn prices declined slightly in the
past week. Receipts in the last ten
days have been only about up to the
average for this season of the year,
and the country is not offering at an
excessive rate for forward shipment.
. The market still suggests that the low-
"‘ est prices of the season have been

seen, and that the main trend is up-
ward, although the season of the year
indicates that its progress will be ex—

tremely slow.
OATS

Primary receipts of oats in the last
two months have been the smallest at
this season in several years. While
the-demand appears rather featureless,
the visible supply has been decreasing
and is down to 60,760,000 bushels, as
against 65,038,000 bushels five weeks
ago. In fact, it is no larger than early
in September. Exports thus far have
been over 20,000,000 bushels, or more
than twice as much as was cleared in
the entire previous crop year.

SEEDS

Red clover seed prices have fully
recovered from the recent decline, and
higher prices are generally expected.
The bulk of the domestic crop has
been marketed, and the little seed now

 

 

 
 

$1.81; No. 2 red '
2 white $1.81; No. 2 mixed

. .. Chicago.—-May 81.60% @1.601,4; July
Detroit.—New,No. 3 yellow at 78c;
at

at

and prompt

Mich. fancy
hand-picked $5.35@5.50 per cwt; red'

s strong in spite of a light. trade. a

FEEDS

in the market. Bran prices
but other wheat feeds

800d. .

HAY

ly. at the same time
marketings,

ment. The advent of

for hay,
stuff.

EGGS

Fresh,egg prices have rallied some-
what from the low point of the sharp
decline a week ago, but the market
does not show signs of permanently

boing offered commands a substantial
remium over imported seed. , Al‘s‘ike

Mild, weather over the feed-consum-
ing belt has caused an easier tendency
are stead .
are wea .
Stocks and production of all feeds are

Hay prices averaged practically un-
changed last week, with top grades
continuing in best demand. The mild
weather has restricted buying recent-
favoring country
but receipts at some mar-
kets were curtailed by the recent re~
ductions in prices, so that arrivals and
demand were in fairly close adjust-
colder weather
would put more snap into the demand
particularly for lower grade

  
 
  
  
 
 
   

 

Demand for poultry is excellent, and
prices are high. but stili‘roceipts fall
behind last year. The failures! re—
vailing prices to attract largervs ip- ,
ments ma mean that the bulk of the cepting the low
crop has on marketed and that the America still ‘showsuan *Iasy trend.
generally accepted estimate of mercyPrices atNQWJAchJind ,
chickens on farms than a year ago is ported to bounty an '1 ,
wrong. , year, when the market was

Chica o.--Eggs,. fresh firsts 38@40c; , S
extras 5@46c; ordinary firsts 34@
360; miscellaneous 3862390; dirties 25
@300; checks 25@29c. ‘Live poultry,
hens 23%0; springers 26c; roosters
16c; ducks 23c; geese 18550; turkeys: Potato markets advanced generally
400 pound. - . during the past week.. Receipts are

Detroit—Eggs, fresh candied and not hesvynand quality is irregular, «'as
graded 41@44c; storage 34@37c. Live
paultry, heavy springers 27@280; light
springers 20@21c; heavy hens at .27c;
light hens 18@20c; geese 20c; ducks
310; turkeys 40@42c.

.1 BUTTER

The butter market has suffered a.
sharp decline. A steadily increasing
production is largely responsible for
the declining market. The movement
into consuming channels is slow, and'
dealers'are reluctant to buy ahead of
immediate needs, so that demand is
quiet. Lower prices should stimualte
consumption, however. Storage butter

 
 

ed‘ 0n’4,th'é"lowbr~ eveli'es
gently, Australian marksmre
steady, uneven 11m, and. domestic
gram with-wool» ' salelv‘are‘not ao-
sunrises mired. South

 
 

  

 
 

paid last
. , soaring.
ome Oregonuwools of'medium grade
were reported sold recently at 45@:

46 cents. . p
POTATOES

mend is rather quiet as Sealers are
inclined to hold stocks down until af-
ter inventory. Northern round whites.
U.‘ s. No. 1, are quoted at $3‘.40@3.50
per 100 pounds, sacked, in the Chicago
carlot market. Idahosacked Russets;
U. S. No. 1, are held at $3.40@3.60 per
100 pounds sacked.»

GRAND RAPIDS

Potatoes were slightly stronger in
Grand Rapids this week, but green-
house products were easier. Other
commodities were about steady. Po-
tatoes $2 bu; onions $1.25@1.35 bu;

 

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THOSE having radio sets can

receive daily market reports
and weather forecasts by listen-
ing in each Week day at 2:15,
eastern standard time, for the

reports of the Detroit Free
Press, Station WCX, and at
10:25, 12:00, and 4:00 for the

reports of the Detroit News Sta.
tion over WWJ.. You can also
get daily weather reports at
12:00 M. o’clock over WKAR,
Michigan State College, East
Lansing, and at 10:00 WREO,
Lansing.

 

carrots, cabbage, turnips, beets 75c@$1
bu; parsnips $1@1.25 bu; celery 25@_
65c dozen; radishes 40@500 per dozen
bunches; leaf lettuce 10@11c lb; beans
$4.30 per cwt; wheat $1.60 bu; eggs
38@420; butter-fat 50c lb; pork 15c;
beef 10@14c; veal 16c; poultry, tur—
keys 36@39c; hens 16@22c; chickens
18@220; ducks 20@25c; geese 18@22c.

DETROIT CITY MARKET

The markets were liberally supplied
with all kinds of produceand buying
took on some of the holiday fever.
Better grades of apples were in de~
mand, and‘ prices advanced a little.
Potato prices held firm, but the
movement was not heavy. The de-
mand for good cabbage was strong.

is being regarded uhfavorably as 'the
shortage under a year ago is steadily
decreasing. With demand slow, domes-
tic supplies on the increase, and pric-
es on an import basis, it is probable
that the market may have to find a
still lower level during the next month
at which supplies can be absorbed.

Prices on 92-score creamery were:
Chicago 45140; New York 47%c. In
Detroit fresh creamery in tubs sells
for 42@44c pound.

BEANS

The bean market has softened in
the last few days. After being up to
$5.05 early in the week, the market
closed around $4.85@4.90 per 100
pounds for C. H. P. whites, f. o. b.

Michigan shipping points. The strength R001: crops were fair sellers, but
was due to active booking for ship- greens had very little call. First—class
ment early in January, but after these onions were easy sellers. Celery and

orders were filled, buying became quite

squash moved moderately well. Ducks
slack. Trade expectancy is that there

were scarce. Chickens had easy sale,

 

 

strengthening. Receipts are increas-
ing and are considerably larger than
at this time a year ago. Cold weath-
er is reported settling down over the
middle west, which may affect produc~
tion temporarily. Prices are not ex-
pected to gain very much from the
present level.

will be little doing until after the hol-
idays. Consumption of beans is be-
lieved to be quite heavy.

WOOL

The wool market is quiet, with pric-
es still showing an easy tone, but some
signs of stability are appearing, and
the decline may be about at an end.
Prices at London are being maintain-

but the call for turkeys and geese was
small. Dressed hogs sold readily,
while veal had few buyers’.‘

Apples $1@4 bu; pears 75c@$1 bu;
beets 50c@$1 bu; carrots $1.25@2 bu:
cabbage 75c@$1 bu; dry onions $1.50@
2.25 bu; endive, green $1 bu; French
endive $1.50 per 5-lb. box; potatoes
$1.90@2.35 bu; round radishes 900
$1.05 per dozen bunches; winter ra -
ishes 75c@$1 bu; topped turnips $1@

 

 

Live Stock Market Service]

1.50 bu; spinach $1@1.25 bu; local 'cel-
ery 35@50c dozen; parsnips $1.25@
1.50 bu; winter squash 75c@$1 bu; bag-
as 75c@$1 bu; pop corn $2 bu; kale 50
@60c bu; butter 6060650 lb; eggs, re

 

Tuesday, December 22.

CHICAGO

Hogs

Receipts 41.000. Market active, 10@
200 higher than Monday’s average.
Bulk good and choice 200-300-lb. butch‘
ers $10.75(&11.10; better grades 160~
180—lb. average largely $11.15@11.40;
practical tops $11.50; 140-150-lb. collec-
tion $11.40@11.75; bulk packing sows
$9@9.35; good killing pigs around $12.

Cattle. '

Receipts 9,000. Market fat steer
strong to 250 higher; heavies up; most
quality medium; best heavies early at
$12.25; several loads at $10.75@11.25;
bulk $8.50@10.50; she stock is mostly
steady; bulls steady to strong; vealers
250 higher; stots more, bulk to pack-
ers $10.50@11, few at $11.50, to outsid-
ers up to $12 and better; country’s de—
mand for stockers slow, about steady.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 20,000. Market slow. No
early bids on fat lambs; 500 lower at
$15.50@15.75. Choice handy weights
around $16. Few early sales feeding
lambs$16@16.35, or around 25c lower.
No early sales of fat sheep.

DETROIT

Cattle.
Receipts 1,185. Market steady.
Good to choice yearlings
dry-fed ................ $10.00@11.75

Best heavy steers, dry-fed 9.00@10.00“
Handy light butchers . . 4.75@ 5.50
Mixed steers and heifers 6.50@ 7 00
Handy light butchers. . . . 4.75@ 5 25
Light butchers . . . . . . . . . . 4.50@ 5.50
Best cows ,4.5_0@ 5.30
Canners ...... ......... 3.006) 4.0‘
Common cows . . . . . . . ., . .v 4.50@ 5.00

 

 

tail 65@85c; hens, wholesale 27@28c;

retail 30@320; colored ' springers,
Canners ................. .50@ 4.00 wholesale 27@28c; retail 30@320:
Choice bulls, dry-fed .. 5.00@ 6.25 Leghorn springers, wholesale 23@250;
Stock bulls ............. 4.50@ 5.75 retail 25@26c; ducks, wholesale 300;
Heavy bologna bulls 35%) 5.00 retail 35@400; geese, wholesale 250;
Feeders .................. .00@ 7.00 retail 30c; turkeys. retail 50@550; veal
Stockers ............ .00@ .50 18c; dressed hogs 15@18c; beef. fronts
Milkers and springers. . . .s45.00@ 85.00 13c 1b; binds at 14c; dressed poultry
Veal Calves. hens 32@35°1 springers» 30@350:
B Receipts 920. Market S$f§%g@1450 duCkS 450' geese 300-
est .................... . . .
Others ................... 4.00@13.50 E CHEESE

Sheep and Lambs
Receipts 1,195. Market steady.
Best ..................... $16.25@16.50
Fair lambs .............. 12.75@13.50

A decidedly firm tone prevails in the
cheese market. Primary prices have '
been marked up, and distributing mar-
kets, while largely unchanged, are

Fair and good sheep ..... 8.00@ 8.50 strong. Receipts in the past two weeks
Culls and common ...... 2.00@ 4.50 have been smaller than last .year. Pro-
Light and common . . . 8.00@11.50 duction in Wisconsin is running ahead
Buck lambs .......... -. . . 8.00@15.00 of a year ago, but the increase is not
Hogs. entitrely oflsetting the decline in the
.R 't1,7.\ k 1 h'h. 935'
Mixgge1.p.836Maret.$51(1.35g@(131‘.40 Prices for NO- 1 American cheese
Heavy yorkers .......... 11.50 were:
Heavies ................. 10.25’@10.75 Chicago—Twins 231/1,@231;éc; single
Stags ................. .. 7.50 daisies 23%@24c; double daisies 231,5
Pigs, lights, yorkers ..... 11.85 @23%c; longhorns 24%@.25c.
Roughs ................. 9.25 ZégevgéYork.—Flgts 2’ilc; sgn5g11e 62.5.2295
40 ; young mer cas, A c. ,
BUFFALO '

Hogs

Receipts 16,000. Market is steady7 to Trading in the apple market is dull,

 

 

     

, 250 higher. Heavies at $11.25 11.50; but prices hold steady. The holiday
medium $11_50@11_75; light wgght at demand should lend a better tone to
$1135; lights and pigs . $12_25@12‘50; the market during the nextsfew weeks.‘
packing sows and roughs $9.50@9.75. Washington Delicious “Pm! ‘9th .

Cattle fancy, large to very large, are quoted
, . - at $3.50@3.75 per box at Chicago.
Recelpts 250. Slow. . q ' . . ,
Sheep and Lambs. ' ‘ "
. Receipts 1,000. Best lambs at $16.75; 93°?“qu FIVE. BTOQKéALES'
ewes $8@9. , " ‘ . . 1H0” r ’W‘
‘ ' ~(hit/oil. ' - ”5:“ Dal-3.30. ‘ ' '
’ Receipts 200." ,43'998st‘815fi94 ' Qty

  

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severei ‘ [W ,8 thOLPIfln
Many“ ’ , duvet seed" still in‘the
“Wampum p,“ rm... . 6:"
Stock .' .' , _. D 91.5 9
winter plant in . Some new corn is
being marketed at 55c per bushel.
Wheat s being sold at $1.67.; rye, 860;
cats, 4 c; cloverseed, 815; potatoes,
$2. Hogs are very scarce. Dairy cows
are on the increase.
number soflamhs are being fed—H. S.

lngham Co., Dec. 17.——Very small
acreage. of wheat was sown this fall.
Much of this acreage was sown late
and has. made little growth. The hay
supply is short. and comparatively lit-
tle feeding is being done. Quite a per-
centage of beans were not threshed
and are being fed out in the pods.
Much of the wheat surplus has been
sold—A. H. C.

Sanilac Co. Dec. 16.-—This week will
see the finish of the sugar beet har-
vest. The cold, wet weather made it
a disagreeable job this fall. A number
of farmers have hired picking ma-
chines and are picking their bean crop
at home. In this way they get the cull
beans and save a little expense. The
machine picks about fifty bushels per
day—J. N.

Schoolcraft Co. Dec. 16.-——About 75
per cent of fall plowing is done. Poss
sibly ten per cent of the potatoes were
frozen. Live stock is looking fine.
There is not much sale for hay in this
locality. Eggs bring '60@65c; potatoes
$1.75; carrots $1.~——F. G.

Calhoun 60., Dec. 16.—-—-Most farmers
were able to secure their potatoes.
Some apples were left on the trees,
help being scarce to harvest them.
Practically no fall plowing has been
done. Farmers are busy husking corn,
there probably being 70’per cent of
the crop yet to husk. Hay crop was
short. New corn is selling at 600 for
70 pounds of ears—F. E. S.

Osceola 60., Dec. 15.-—Most of the
potatoes have been sold. There are
very few beets to be hauled yet. On
the average, the beet crop was good.
Beans have been threshed. There is
a. lot of feeding being done in this sec—
tion. Live stock is in good condition.
Potatoes bring $1.80; eggs. 45c; rye,
750; butter-fat, 580. There was a small
amount of fall plowing done.

Oscoda 00., Dec. 14.-——Farmers are
generally preparing for winter. Pota-
toes are all shipped out. Yield was
fairly good. Feed is not plentiful, and
fewer than the usual number of cattle
are on feed. Deer are more plentiful
than for years past. Hunters have not
taken out as many as would be sup-
posed, on account of young growing
timber being more plentiful.——H. H. S.

Marquette 00., Dec. 17.—-—All of the
potatoes, fruit, and other crops were
gathered in this county. A goodly
amount of fall plowing has been done.
Live stock is in fine condition. The
shortage of hay in some places is caus-
ing a reduction in surplus stock. Fat
cattle are bringing from 8@12c per
pound; butter-fat, 52c. Farmers are
cutting heavy on their timber holdings
as log prices are good—F. J.

 

 

 

WARNING ON SHIPPING FROSTED
POTATOES.

THE recent rejections on account of
frost injury, and the consequent
drop in demand and price, was
brought about through the shipment
of potatoes which should have been
held .at home long enough to have de-
termined Whether or not the stock has
frozen. The cost of re-conditioning at
the terminal is far greater than it
would be at the loading point, and
added to this cost is the price of new
sacks, as the trade will not purchase
spotted bags. It is safe to estimate
a loss of $150 to $200 per car in every
1nstance_where rot is in evidence at
the terminal. Michigan cannot afford
to stand this loss, and most of it can
and must be eliminated.
Potatoes must not be bagged until
they have been subjected to a rising
temperature for a. period of time suffi-
cient to have frozen stock show up at
home. The matter of two- per cent tol-
erance for decay cannot be used as a.
guide, as there is absolutely no safety
in_this: method. Dealers at receiving
pomts are demanding absolutely free
from frost deliveries, and are not in—
terested In any other deal. In order
to maintain our standard, the state de-
partment of agriculture will insist
throughout the entire season that more
than ordinary precaution be given this
condition. Potatoes in pits or in stor-
age may appear all right at time of
delivery, and still produce much rot
after being placed in a higher temperarI
ure. .
State inspectors will be advised to‘
tighten up on all inspections. and
believer m:

‘ d in mass mull? ' ..
of latesowing. ' A. deal!

  
   
   

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Greeters who. encourage business
ngs, only With potato shippers who
an honest e’itort to maintain
sen s rcputationgtor» quality pack,
are " ping . business judgment.
.e—in. meek. irector Bureau of Foods
and standards, State Department of
Agriculture. .

DECREASE IN CATTLE ON FEED.

   
 
   

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A DECREASE of three per cent in
cattle on feed for market in the

corn belt states, on December 1,
this year, as compared with the same
date last year, is estimated by the
department of agriculture. This was
due to smaller numbers on feed west
of the Mississippi river, where the in-
dicated decrease was six per cent.
East of the river there was an indi-
cated increase of over seven per cent.
The estimated percentage of last year
in Ohio, Indiana. Illinois and Minne-
sota is 110; in Wisconsin, Missouri and
Kansas, 100; Michigan, ninety-five, and
Iowa, ninety. '

An increase in light weights is re-
ported. This indicates that the large
crop and low prices of corn have caus-
ed feeders to buy light cattle for a
longer feed than last year.

The number of sheep and lambs on
feed for market in the corn belt and
the western feeding areas, was about
250,000 head less than on December 1,
1924, the total number being 4,898,000
head. This decrease was west of the
Mississippi river, the states east of the
river having practically the same num-
ber as last year. The largest de-
creases were in Nebraska, 120,000;
Iowa, 75,000; and Michigan, 30,000. In-
diana was the only state showing a
material increase, 32,000 over last
year. The average weight of feeder
lambs was reported somewhat heavier
than last year.

VETERINARY.

Rheumatism—I have a gilt O. I. C.
which I wish to breed this winter, but
she has developed a. lameness in the
rear quarters in first one side and then
the other. It seems to move back and
forth. Is it rheumatism? I am feed-
ing slops from house, some skim~milk,

 

 

s ' Hi Calcium. Either
Agricultural Lime 1,5,: or hymm,
Also spraying lime in wooden or steel barrels or pa-
per sacks. Price mulled on request. NORTHERN
LIME ‘5 STONE 00.. Petmkey. Mich. ,

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LOVER 5r

pasture. n8

clover- meow. Thoroughl recleaned,
undaoldluhecttolonrtest ‘11:.me
unplug mo clovwfifldma. Glover.
all Field ds and low With cot-lo".
Held Seed 00.. Dept. 531. chicane I .

 

 
  
  

 

 

This is the greatest bargain in long wearing all
rubber 4 buckles in America. Arctlcs of this quality
ordinarily sell for more than 33.00 a pair. Made
with double corrugated soles and heels. All seams
strongly reinforced. Snow excluding tongue. Guar-
anteed pokes your feet warm and dry in the wettest.
coldes: west er. They can be washed. $1 98
Sizes. 9 to 13, Sale price, plus postage ..... '

Genuine 3 .1,
fioatsHair PM

5;??? .2: 95I

2" t o
worsted sock with knitted top and reinforced toeand
heel. There is noth that. can equal them for
wealth and ear com ined. They areoimedlum

w
he. 'dflht.aldm.eaall worth” 8m.
”camamiwDMmuzposme. .00

Mfr-we For. Con FREE CATALOG!

53 ”IA’E;*'.‘3.“I?’§R C0

 

 

 
   
  

 

com. ” I can
. . shave oats,

. Suggest a remedy.
a E. 3., Swartaflre‘e , Mich.—Kee
the it in clean,_dry quarter .
one ram of saiicylate of soda in a lit-
tle slop three ,jtimes daily. Get two
ounces of the soda and divide into six-
,teen equal par-ts, each of which will
contain one dram. Also add one ounce
(of castor. oil to the slop every second
ay. ‘ ., . , ,.
Falls to Breeds—CI have a cow in
good condition. She eats well, but she
falls to come in heat. F. B., Eau
Claire, Michigan—This condition is us-
ually due to "yellow bodies" in the
ovaries. In a case of this kind, it
would be better. to have your cow ex-
amined? by a veterinarian, who would
give such treatment that he found nec-

  
 
 
 
  

   
 
   

 
 

 

 

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can.“
that had one calf about a year‘and a
half 1880. and was perfectly normal,

but now she don't come in heat. She,

is dry now, and has not been bred.
She is a valuable registered animal, or
I would beef her, as she is in good
flesh. What should I give her? If she
comes in hedt and I breed her first
time, should I continue to give treat.
ment so she would not fool me again?
E. K., Reed City, Michigan—This con-
dition is usually due to “yellow bod-
ies” in the ovaries. It would be ad‘
visable to have your cow examined by
a veterinarian, as the ovaries will need
local treatment. He would be able to
give whatever treatment he found nec-
essary. Two or three months after
breeding, have her examined for preg-
nancy. This would save much valu-
able time.

 

 

ing, Int-odious“- artlcles for sale or «change.
at classified rats, or in display coimnns at
8 cents a word. Count as

mun
illusmtlons admitted. Rani

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Ono Four 0 Four
10 ...... . 80.80 83.80 86. . . 83.08 86.38
11 ..... .. .88 3.68 31. ...... . 3.16 6.88
13... ,.. .06 3.88 38..... 3.38 6.13
18..... . 1.08 8.13 88... . . 3.83 8.88
18. . . . . 1.13 8.86 80 ..... . . 3.80 1.30
18 ........ 1.30 8.68 81 ........ 3.88 1.88
18 ....... . 1.38 8.88 83......“ 3.86 1.68
11 ..... 1.86 8.08 88....... 3.68 1.83
18 ........ 1.84 8.88 88 . . 3.13 8.16
10. . . 1.83 8.86 88. 3.80 8.80
30.. . 1.80 8.80 88. . 3.88 8.68
21. . 1.68 8.08 81. . 3.86 8.88
33.. . 1.18 8.38 88... ..... 8.08 9.13
38.. . 1.88 8.88 .. ...... 8.13 9.36
34.. 1.02 8.16 0........ 8.30 9.60

3.00 6.00 81........ 8.38 9.88

38.
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SpeCIal Notlce diumtlnuana "do"

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for quick action, only $3,000 with $1,000 nc-cdcd.
Details pg. 42 lllus. (.‘atalog farm bargains throughout
many states. Fm». Sirout Farm Agency, 205430,
Kresge Bldg” Detroit, Mich.

HOME—$1,000

DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by farming on James
Ranch, California. No winter there, no drouth.
Crops growing 365 days in every year, and _the best
markets offered anywhere. Land is state imported
and state approved. A going proposition for a suc<
cessful farmer. Write me for details. Herman Janus.
Dept. 1195. San Joaquin, Fresno County. Calif.

EIGHTY ACRES. good buildings. best of clay loam
land, 25 milcs from Toledo, 40 from Detroit. 1 mile
to town and R. 11. This farm adapted to sugar beets,
alfalfa and corn. Price, $7,000. part cash. E. 0.
Loveland. Milan. Mich.

TRUCK AND DAIRY F‘Allhlii’fll) Acres. All undcr
cultivation. Localcd on main i‘lcvolaml»TOlHio high—
way, F‘inc largo buildings. (filly electric power and
lights. Traction llnc handy. (‘an be divided mm
two smaller farms. Bargain for (“Ill-k sale. Tcrms‘.
Address: Estate, Box 297, Norwalk, Ohio.

 

 

WANTED FARMS

WANTi-JDreTo hear from owncr of {arm or unimproved
land for sales. 0. Hawley. Baldwin. Wis.

 

 

HAY AND STRAW

.EEASEFIED ADVERTISING

gm department is debit-had for the consulates of Michigan {emu-e.
Small advancements bring best reams under classified headinu. Try it Im want ads and for adver-

Pouliry adrortlsina will be run in this department

commercial
Ham 8 cents a word,'eech insertion. on orders for less than (our insertions: for tour or more

a word each abbreviations. initial or number. No

nces must accompany order.
L|y° mu advertlllnl has a "aerate den ment and I: not accented as classified.

HOMICSI’UN TOBA(‘(.‘0: Chewing. five "3.. $1.50:tm.
$2.50; smoking, five lb., $1.25; ten. 82; cigars, $2 (or
50. guaranteed. Pay when received. pipe free. Roy
Carlton. Maxons Mills. Kentucky.

 

 

POULTRY

WIIITTAKER’S TRAI’NESTED Rose and
(‘omh Illiodc Island Reds.
and Egg Strain.

 

_ Single
Michigan’s Greatest (‘olor
(‘ockl-rcls, Eggs, and ('hicks. ('nt.

 

p.198 Friar. Intrrlalrus Farm. Box 9. Lawn-me.
Mich.

WHITTAKER’B RED COCKERICLSU—Botli ('omhs.
from trapnested stock. Michigan's Greatest (‘olor and

like Strain. Write for Catalog.

Int, 1
Box 9. Lawrence. Mich. "mg Farm,

HIGHCRAIHC BOSE COMB REDS-425 I'llllots, {m

nonsctting yearling hens, few choice cockerols loft,

£15117“ $10 earn. Wm. Max-k. it. 1, P‘armington,
C .

 

COCKEIUCLS-IL (f. Ilcds and White Row-ks. Those
are excl-pilonally tine birds; cxccllcnt breed typo'
production eta-k. Write for dog-riptions. Stab;
Perms Association, Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

 

BARREI)deOCK l(.‘Ol'h’lCRI-jls. standard type and
coor, ire rom heavy producers. W. l‘
5, Benton Harbor. Mich. offman, R.

 

I:l7IiI‘1~BIll£D‘ CHICKS from State Accredited Stock.
Fourier-n ldrlOIli'S. l'oulrry Manual Frco, Stoufl'cr
ng Farms. Route 26. Mount Morris, lllinois.‘

 

TOI’ I’Rll'liS PAID for fryc‘rs or broil! '

. . ‘1 We] 1 ~
1115; llé‘lo 1% _Ih9. Ship today. East ('08); I'OIII‘IJI)’
to, loot) DivlthD 8!... Detroit, Mich.

FOR SALE—“flute Bock ('ockerols ' ' * '

, ., production strain
selected stock, 53 and -l ‘ ' .'
ll. 2’ Ithaca, Mich. 35 em l. (.00. D. (larkl.

 

comwnEI.S—rlalzorn1m'q strain of Barnd l'l' '
. . . - U1
Itrx'ks, strong hcalthy birds 84 00 each two! 5m?”

. .. . . , or .0 .
Mrs. Glen Arnold. Sui-unac. Mich. $1 0

IIIIODE ISLAND IIHH‘ R (‘ >r—(‘ockcr5 I;
. . . .. . . . ‘. and I’ulluti
31011me 8.5 to $5 each. Burt Sisson, lmlay (lily.

Silli'lillI_l..\(‘l-JD, Golficn nlltl “'hjtc “'i'andotloi‘mrk‘
ml). Llrculal', (‘. W, Browning. l‘ortlanrl. Mich.

"A BY ('IIII‘KS from “Ville Accl'l'djlnd ‘ ‘
‘ ‘ . Stuck. (.afalO'
“cc. Shady Lawn llutv-hcry, Zw'lund, Mich. Din", ML:

,(‘IIOII‘I‘J ISAIIIII.“ Ilfll'K ('OI'I'J'ZI‘I” ‘ Q r
g Lucian Hill. Tel-.‘ln5ha' 511,11. \ .I.S, "4 and 3*

s. (a RUFF LEGHORN BABY (114" n'
J. w. wl-mm, Bath, Allt‘h. I “8' for 1W"

I’IIJKIN DUI‘KB—"Michigan's Bed," Mary's I" It'
Walled Lake, Mich. l’hono Pontiac 7149 r 51.... L

 

ALFALF‘A and all kinds hay. Ask for delivered
prices. Harry D. Gates Company, Jackson. Michigan.

 

MISCELLANEOUS

ALL WOOL KNITTING YARN for sale from manu-
facturer at great bargain. gamples free. H. A.
Bartlett, Harmony. Maine.

CULL BEANS—~11 great Iced {or hogs. cattle, sheep.
$20 ton. sarks included F. 0. H. here. Port Huron
Storage & Bean (10., Port Huron, Mich.

CHOU ‘i‘: HON lCY. direct from produccr. postpalid.
5-Ih. hail. $1.25; 10 lbs. $2.25. G. Horn, Berrwn
Springs. Mich.

DELICIOUS (‘LOYIGII HONI'JY»H5‘1IJ. Dull $1.25.
postpaid. Leslie Bell. Rcading, Mich.

 

SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK

 

TURKEYS

li'URli-vlillliD Giant Bronze turkcvs, hum, $7: toms.
'89. Unrelated Champion strain. lda Davy. Ells-
’ worth, Mich.

 

 

 

| ’l‘lfltlil-IYS all breeds. SII'I' ill pure-bred. Gs-t our
I special prices. . Eastern Ohm l'oultry Farm, Beall‘r
. Ville. ()lu'o. * I

 

EP'IIITIC "DIELAND TORI TUIIIII'IYS from a 30-")
om; young oms weigh 15 to 20 lbs. P " . .
o. 14. man, Milford, Mir-Ll. “w 310'

 

.I’Iflll} GIANT Mammoth Bronze Turkeys, fine stock;
iridilgib 3‘10"!I hens $8. Mervin lie-nncy. ll. 2, Traverse
1 . z. .

 

: CHANT BRONZE TCItIiI'lYS—Goldlmnk . Slrnln.
ithom: young toms and lu-lls at full III'I”‘.". Mrs.
Perry wabins, Snranac. Mich.

 

CERTIFIED SEED GRAIN. from latest imDroved
strains of highest yielding varieties under Michigan
conditions. Wolverine oats, Robust beans. A. B.
Cook. Owosso. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—Purebred Bourbon Red Turkeys. Mrs.
Harry Iluggles., Milford, Mich.

 

 

INCUBATORS

 

PET STOCK

P‘ERIUCTS specializing in small trained ratters or
hunters. Information tree. Thos. Sellers. New
London. Ohio.

AT STUD—J‘Ollal‘d Von l’olizen. pure-bred German
l’olicc Shepherd dog. Imported. service fee reason-
able. Pine Hill Farm. Howard City. Mich.

I HUNDRED HUNTING HOUNDS. and cheap. Trial.
(‘ O

,. . D. Large Catalogue. Pack Photos, 25c. Kas-
kenncls. Herrick. lll.
l’EDIGREED AIREDALI-l PUPPIES—Four months

old. sound. healthy stock. Priced right. Shipped on
IDDMM. Superior Kennels. Pinconnlng, Mich.

5211! SALE—500 Ferrets. C. A. Dimick. Master.
0.

 

TOBACCO

KENTUCKY LEAF TOBACCO—4316111113 6
31.80: Tea $2.50: Smoking 5 pounds 81.25: Ten 32:
Guaranteed. pipe free. Pay when received. Coops-Ir
tive Growers. Elva. Ky.

W ma 5 be. $1.88: 10.

 

ms six-10 ‘ mu 31.1w

SIX HUNDREDJCGG BUCKEYE
'nlcaLIy new. A-.1 condition. A.
.\ lc .

lNCUBATOR-
T. Birk. Ann Arbor.

 

 

SITUATIONS WANTED

 

\VANTED»~I)5' experienced farmer. position as farm
foreman, beginning March lst. Box 79-0. cars Mich-
igan Farmer.

 

FOR HOLSTE‘IN SALES MANAGER. or pedigree ex-
pert. get J. E. Post, Durand, Mich. i’riccs reasonable,

 

AGENTS WANTED

SALES REPRESENTATIVES—Wanted by nationally
known Insecticide manufacturer to sell dealer: in
Michigan. etc. Splendid opportunity to sun cereal
thousand dollars during each season on commission
basis. Only high class men will be considercd. Givo
full particulars in your reply.
Militias: Farmer. Detroit, Mich.

 

Address Box 353.

AGENTS~Our new Household Cleaning Device washes
and dries windows. sweeps, cleans walls. scrubs. mops.
Costs less than brooms. Ovu- hal! profit. Write
Harper Brunt} Works. 173 3rd St. Fairfleld. Iowa.

WWWMmmmuon
MW neCIJdeNursery.deam

 

 

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Over tWo hundred Michigan farm folks have already been engage-dto tell the

' You haVe resolved to make 1926 a happy and‘prQSpeirous ye‘; Here is how we pla

of the Mz'c/zzyan.Fa'mer stories of accomplishment in their homes, on their farms, or ahou ,fW“

their communities. These will be short snappy, to—the~point stories drawn fromiii'h
daily experiences of our Michigan farm fol . , ' .

.We have resolved, with your assistance, to give my other ,Iinstructive and inspirin
stories of Michigan farm life, bearing messages of happiness and prosperity; This is how
you can help: /

Untold Stories in Your Neighborhood

You, or some of your neighbors, know the facts about some interesting local experience. i
The story may tell how a boy or girl was given a chance, how some man or woman gained "
a better outlook on life, how a good farm was built, how better crops and farm animals,
were developed, how a more satisfactory market was provided, how social or church activ-
ities were encouraged. Any story thatcan be of help to Michigan farm folks, on ht to be
told. Here is the opportunity. Send us the facts about these local experiences Eor publi—
cation. We will gladly pay for all the material that we can use.

Thus, by working together for a more. interestin Mic/24w” Farmer for 1926“, we will"
not only enjoy a deep sense of.sa't_isfaction, but will ma e a more prosperous and happy year
for at least eighty thousand Michigan farm families. .

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Some of Our 1926 Farm Stories

How a bumper crop made a burn. The new in crochet, needlework, and handicraft.
An insect overthrows our system of farming. A farm home where the sun shines after 7 :00 P. M.
Why our potatoes brought more than did our neigh- How dead chickens help poultry profits.
bors’. Getting eggs when prices are the highest.
A hunting trip bankrupts a Michigan farmer. ' Quality in eggs that brings profits.
Our community was saved by a club. . Raising baby chicks instead of losing them.
A Polish lad shOWS his appreciation. The kinks in duck, geese, and turkey raising.
An ash heap saves a herd of pigs. What’s the matter with the raspberry business?
HOW a bOY SUbSOiled Without power. Can the Duchess apple problem be solved ?
Sells twelve thousand dollars of farm produce from Feed your trees so that they will feed you.
forty acres. _ How to develop the market at your door.
The butcher helps to increase a dairyman’s income. Growing fruit for the canning factory. ,
Saves live stock business through a little pasture secret. Selecting Varieties for the local market.

HOW a neighborhood dled- More money from your strawberry patch.

Fighting pests 0f the celery CI'OD- The operation of cooperation.

Experiences of a truck gardener. A good garden, and how to plan it..

Patterns from NQW York desrgners. Cut your doctor bills in the garden.

Style hints for thick and thin folks. How to get the most from your garden.

Why a farm woman employed. “chemical hired girls. / . Make your old trees young. ,

Parties your friends won’t forget. Getting the bloSsoms to set.

How to make the human race more smart. , .

Making motherhood fashionable. Free SBI‘VICC t0 SlleCl'lbel‘S

Measuring brain power by marriage. . - - - ‘ -.

Selecting tools for kitchen workshop. G‘iriizxsgltranfs‘iegtiiiriie adjustment 0f unsatisfactory bus-

HOW a farm woman managed t0 8'0 130 college. Veterinary: . Prompt advice from expert veterinarian. ?

HOW Michigan mothers cut down “1811' “overtime.” Le 3]: Opinions on all points, from a upromjnentl

Why one farm wife planted ten dollars in her front awyer. '
yard. _ Health: Practical personal advice from an experi— .'

How one farm woman cut down her kitchen mileage. enced doctor. , ;’

One hundred seventy-five answers to “What shall I Farm: Answers to all kinds of farm questions, by '
serve, and how will I serve it?” competent specialists.

What to feed the most important member of the family. Home: Aid in the solution of all kinds of home prob-l

How farm women save time and make money. lems.

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One Year,

The Michigan Farmer

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