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' , American Farm Bureau Federation and.“

3 “ senate committees on agriculture sev-
. eral days last week.

  

. 1y p0 -
ture bill was before the hodse 1111113

in explaining
this bill Dr. Charles L Stewart of
Illinois University, said it would bring
our farmers American prices for their
products at least cost to consumers.
It would help producers of cotton, to-
bacco, corn, corn-fed products, rice and
oats: It avoids, a treasury cash sub-
sidy by using exemption from import
tariff duties but doesnotreduce these
import duties. It avoids equalization
fees or taxes, either upon producers
or consumers. It requires no federal
board, and would secure for the pro-
ducer increased prices without dipping

taxing the farmer.

A debenture rate of ten cents a bush-
el on wheat would enable exporters
and jobbers to bid for wheat, not mere-
ly the amount which world market
quotations would permit, after deduct-
ing for costs, insurance and freight to
foreign markets, but ten cents more.
If-the wheat rate were twenty cents
a bushel, the bid price in interior
American points would be that amount
above the price otherwise sure to pre-
vail. As a. result, the plan would ef-
fect a like increase in the price of
wheat actually shipped abroad, and in
the price of all other wheat in interior
American markets.

Senator Harreld, of Oklahoma, has
introduced S. B. 3782, a modification
of the Dickinson plan. It permits the
proposed federal farm board to act
when prices are depressed by a lack
‘of orderly marketing as well as when
they are depressed by the actual ex-
istence of a surplus. It aims to pre-
vent export dumping at an inoppor—
tune time, and provides for assisting

any surplus or any part of the crop
which is likely to glut the market and
depress the price.

 

FOOD MERGER ORDERED DIS-
SOLVED.

 

HE two billion dollar Ward Food

Products’ Corporation has been or-
dered by the government to unscram-
ble its varied interests and surrender
its charter within thirty days, on the
ground that ‘it would monopolize the
baking business of this country. At-
torney-General Sargent denies that the
recent decision of the District of Col-
umbia Court of Appeals in the pack-
ers’ .. consent decree case leaves the
packers in the same position they oc-
cupied before the decree was entered
in 19.20. He holds that the decision
was not a. denial, but a postponement,
and that. the decree is still binding
upon the packer interests.

 

co‘rrou pnooucens JOIN CORN
~ ‘ BELT COMMITTEE.

 

HE proponents of the corn belt

committee bill have been reinforc-
ed by a delegation representing the
Southern Cotton Exchange. Speaking
for this organization before the senate
agricultural committee,‘C. L. Staley,
general manager of the Oklahoma CotL
ton Growers’ Cooperative Association,
indorsed the middle west proposal, in-
cluding the equalization fee, but with
four eXCepitons:

1. That the corn emergency section
in the corn belt committee bill be elim-
inated.

2. That corn be added to the list of
basic agricultural commodities.

3. That the operations of the board
be continuous rather than during
emergencies. ./

4. That the collectiou of the equal-
ization fee“ on cotton and corn’ be de-
ferred three years.

These changes are acceptable tothe

other interested groups ~ ’
This newly amended proposition

 

 

into the public treasury and without

cooperative associations in carrying

 

thine yearsfl is

hogs and wheat groWers should de-
mand exemption of their products as a
consideration ~for their support. there
would be little left :exCept the creation
of a federal board. -

CongresSmah J. N. 'l‘incher, of Kan-
sas, a member of the‘ house agricultur-
a; committee, says the hearings be-
fore the committee will end soon, and

that a farm relief bill will be reported .

out, but it will be unlike any of the
pending measures. Secretary of Agri~
culture Jar-dine continues his opposi-
tion to any farm relief legislation that
embodies a fee on agricultural prod-

ucts to be used in handling the sur:

plus problem.

 

 

News of the WéE'IE

Over one million auto licenses have
been sold in Michigan this year.

The Isaac Walton League will plant
30,000 seedling trees in the Traverse
City municipal forest next month.

The police or London, England, re-
cently broke up a parade of 500 un-
employed men who were carrying ban—
ners denouncing the government.

The ship LaMariniere, the last con-
vict ship of the twentieth century left
La Rochelle, France, with 340 life pris-
oners who are being take-n to Devil’s
Island, in the French Guineas, to serve
their sentences

The medicinal beer which will soon
be onsale in drug stores, is not a bev‘
erage, as one quart will cause internal
disturbances before intoxicatiou.

Air mail service from New York to
the Pacific Coast has been established.
The trip takes f01ty hours.

Christine Moncrieff, of Jersey City,
aged. five, made her third trip alone
across the Atlantic 1ecently.

A fungus ailment attacking banana
groves is decreasing production to
such an extent that, “Yes, we have no
Bananas” may become a truth.

A bill to depOrt all aliens under
forty years of age who have not ap-
plied for citizenship papers has been
introduced in the house of represents»
Ives.

“Red Grange, the popular football

star, will not carry ice this summer.
as has been his custom while attend-
ing college. He is busy filling movie
contracts.
- The cotton and corn growers of the
south and west have joined forces in
order to get relief legislation through
congress.

Religious rioting between the Hin-
dus and the Moslems near Calcutta on
Easter caused the death of 200.

.Mrs. Yeservsky, 109 years old, of
Baltimore, walked all the way home
from the funeral of her husband, Pas-
Bach Yeservsky, 111 years old.

The Russian royalists are trying to
re-establish themselves, with Grand
Duke Nicholas as their leader. They
have had conferences in Paris regard-
ing means of putting themselves in
power. w

Semi—official advices indicate that
the League of Nations will not accept
the reservations which the senate
made a condition for American entry

. in the League.

The Canadian government is much
wrought up over the arrangements the
Grand Trunk Railroad made with Mich-
igan with reference to moving the
roadbed between Detroit and Pontiac
to make room for the superhighway.

A report of the investigation made
by the United States district attorney
for New York, shows that sixty million
gallons of industrial alcohol are di—
verted annually for bootlegging pur-

oses He claims that bootleggers are
doinga $3, 600,000,000 business annu-
ally. But he says the drydaw can be
enforced.

Michigan’s revenue frOm the state
gas tax brings it the fourth highest
amount of any state.

Reports filed with the Massachusetts
tax commission show that the Ford
Motor Company has assets of $743, 000, -
000, making an increase of $100,000,-
000 in one year.

Two Detroit women were snow-
bound in a touring car for six days
near West Branch, Michigan, during

 

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- loss is a direct drain on the wealth of
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‘ .j 1- MICHIGAN .
4' 7vOLu‘ME "CWT"

HE annual loss of $150,000,000
from fires on farms in the Unit-
ed States is a challenge to those
who appreciate the importance of the
The

loss is scattered over a large area and

‘ time that we do not appreciate its

enormity.
Our country is losing goods that not
only have an important money value,

but that represent years of human la»

her and a great deal of nature’s goods

chat are limited in amount and becom-
, ing increasingly valuable as the years

go by. The fact that a part of the
value of property destroyed is covered-
by insurance does not minimize the

I' significance of the loss except to the

individualyovvners who have the fires.
As a nation we still have to stand the
loss. ’

The total value of "the property lost
in farm fires does not tell the entire
story of its effect'on our agricultural
and industrial life. We mustlrecog—
nize that most of this value represents
productive goods; property that is be-
ing used to increase the wealth of the
nation. When we permit the loss- of a
building, we are permitting an added
loss of a large amount of potential
wealth. '

Farm buildings in the United States,
according to the 1920 census, are
worth eleven and one-half billion do]-
lars ($11,486,439,433). The part of this
represented by barns and outbuildings
is distinctly productive capital and the
part represented by farm dwellings is
productive to the extent that innumer-

 

 
 

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MICHIGAN sacrroy THE career. FARM raass

Fire’s Toll‘ From Our , Farms

Fact: Presmted to fire Waste C 02026:! Are Amazmg

  
   

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Christie

Director of Indiana Experiment Station

able tasks, such as separating milk,
churning, canning, testing seed, etc.,
are often performed in houses.
we have a different problem with farm
buildings than with city buildings, a
greater per cent of which are homes
that may be destroyed by fire without
seriously affecting the contribution of
the occupants'to productive channels.
The people merely move to another
house and keep on working.

The buildings on farms are the man-
ufacturing plant of the agricultural
business where millions of dollars
worth of raw products, in the shape

Thus ,

of crops, are worked over into more
nearly finished products such as meats,
milk, eggs, etc., and where the machin-
ery, equipment and work stock are
necessary to produce the crops are
sheltered. This $11,500,000,000 plant
on which the fire loss now amounts to
a one-and-one-third per cent interest
charge, is too important to the welfare
of the nation to allow fire_to jeopard-
ize its efficiency and cut down its con—
tribution to our wealth.

_ The fire loss on farms in the United
States is significant in terms of lumber
depletion. If we assume only one-half

 

 

 

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- QUALITY
RELIABILITY
SERVICE

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of the fiIe loss to be in buildings (the
rest coveIing the contents), the $76,.

000,000 would build 37,500 barns 36x50 .

feet in size at a cost of $2,000 each.
With each of the buildings requiring
about 20,000 feet of lumber, a total of
740,000,000 feet would be required an-
nually, which is one—eighth as much
lumber as grows each year in all the
forests of the United States, according
to the United States Forestry Service.

The value of human lives lost in
farm fires cannot be measured. The
fire demon takes his toll from our
fires in large numbers every year.

If the situation were improving as
time goes on, the problem would not
assume the importance it now has.
While the total per capita fire loss in
the United States is being reduced, the
decrease is coming largely in the cit-
ies. There education of the people,
and impmved fire-fighting equipment
and methods have been proving their
efficiency. -

Figures from the Farm Insurance
Association for twelve of the middle-
western states show an increase of
twenty-nine per cent in fire losses on
farms for the five-year period ending
December 31, 1924. A part of this is,
no doubt, due to the relatively low in-
comes received by farmers during this
period which reduced the expenditures
for rodding, repairs to roofs and fines,
etc. However, it seems reasonable to
suppose that as farmers introduce into
wooden inflammable buildings larger
amounts of ,such improvements as au~
tomobiles, electricity, acetylene lights,
gasoline engines, tractors, milking ma-

(ContinUed on page 535).

Suggestions on Growing Peppermint

Wflat Experience MM Me Crop Has T mtg/2t One Farmer
By M. E. George

WING to the high price of pep

. permint oil the last two seasons,

this year will see many new
growers taking a hand in the mint
growing game. In conversing with old
growers and prospective new growers,
there is no doubt about the demand
for roots exceeding the supply, so the
thing for each to do is to make every
root do full duty. Some may say that
the peppermint root is a hardy plant

and will grow any place.~After several ,

years’ experience in growing mint, I
can state that mint is like any other
plant, the better care it receives the
greater the return we. will receive.

I would like to offer my methods of
raising mint, as it may help the new

grower and may possibly suggest new
' ideas to the experienced grower.
' weather, the condition of the soil, and .

The

the labor situation may cause some
variation, but following are my plans
in general. _

Like the cats crop, the earlier the
mint roots are in the ground, the bet—

s' 'ter the prospect for a good crop in
,_ ; the stall; so I have never failed to plow
Tithe ground the fall before.

This gives
' do begin fitting the
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a spring-tooth drag, usually the latter.
It is well to” fit only a portion of the
field in advance of planting, as fitting
too far ahead may require that the
work be done oveI. By keeping the
*planting. well up with the fitting, much
labili‘ may be saved, and often the
roots are planted before bad weather
does come.

We sometimes roll- the, ground be—
fore making the furrows for. the roots,
and when it seems inadvisable to roll,
we drag it crosswise to the direction
of the furrows. The furrows in which
the roots are to be dropped should be
from two to four inches deep. The
width of the furrtrw is of less import-
ance than its depth.

We have used different contrivances
to make these furrows. One year we

gused/a common single shovel plow.

The next year we rigged up a double
shovel plow with shafts, which helped
to steady the plow, making the fur—
rows straighter and more even. The
shovels were thirty-two inches apart,
and we had a marker "attached so that
“We made four rows with each round.

Another satisfactory marker is made .

out of ”common three-inch plank across
‘ were fastened two or three run

ners. The front ends of the runners
should be blunt. The driver stands
on the marker, and to make it go deep-
er he steps to the front end, and to
make it go shallower he steps towards
the rear end of the marker. By at-
taching a marker, we can make four
or six furrows to a round, a saving of
considerable time when several acres
are being planted.

The roots are carried in a bag slung
over'the shoulder and dropped in the
furrow so that the ends of the roots
touch, making a continuous string of
roots the length of the furrow. As the
roots are dropped, the person drags
his foot along over the loose dirt, shov-
ing it into the furrow, covering the
roots from two to three inches deep.

The mint shoots are slow in coming
up through the ground, so we Usually
drag the field about three times before
they get through. We use a light
spiketooth drag for this work. The
teeth are set on a slant of about forty-
flve or fifty degrees so that they will
not pull the roots from the ground.
This dragging is}. very important part
of the care, for after the shoots are
up, very little cl'ose cultivating can be
done, since these shoots come through

so irregular that one is liable to cover
the smaller ones up if he attempts to:
cultivate close to the rows. A two
horse cultivator or an aJax is used
after finishing with the spike drag
\Ve practice cultivating as often and
as late in the summer as possible, at.
least once every ten days, until the
new roots begin to grow out from the
plant.
cultivating, we have found that it paid

us to hoe the mint twice during the

summer.

When the mint leaves begin to Show -

a brown or golden color in the fall, or
about the time the mint begins to
bloom, we get the hand scythe out and
sharpen it to a razor edge. Some
growers use the common mowing ma-
chine with what is known as pea
guards attached, for the cutting of. the
mint. When the oil is as valuable as
at present, cutting it by hand is the
more economic method, as it is im-

possible to get all of the leaves with -

the mowing machine. As soon as the
mint leaves are fairly dry, we haul to
the still.

From thirty to forty pounds from
the first year's crop is a good yield.
Some have had larger yields, but an
average of forty pounds from six acres
for one year is the best we have been '
able to obtain.

In addition to the dragging and”

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VOLUME CLXVI NUMBER SEVENTEEN

DETROIT, APRIL 17, 1926

CURRENT COMMENT
AST week, the

Robert 0- state lost another
farmer of the old

Graham school in Robert D.
Passes G r a h a m, of Grand

Rapids, who died at
his farm home in Walker township,
where he had lived for more than half
a century. “Bob” Graham was born
in Ontario, Canada, in 1855. A year
later his parents settled on a farm in
Minnesota, wherB they were so mo-
lested by hostile Sioux Indians that
they moved to Michigan in 1864, and
purchased a farm just west of Grand
Rapids.

Here Robert Graham’s business ca.-
rebr began in 1879, when, with savings
of $600, he made the initial payment
on a thirty-acre tract of land adjoin-
ing his father’s farm and planted it
to fruit, which venture proved a suc—
cess and was the foundation of his
successful career as a horticulturist.
The young man helped his father on
the truck farm in the summer and
“read" law in the Winter until admit—
ted to the bar, but gave up law as a
profession to return to the farm and
aid his father who needed his assist«
ance.

Success as a farmer and fruit grow—
er brought Mr. Graham into contact
With the Fifth National Bank of Grand
Rapids, of which he became a director
in 1886. Later this bank was merged
with the Commercial Savings Bank,
of which Mr. Graham became presi—
dent, and continued to head until 1914,
when 'he became president of the
Grand Rapids Trust Company. He
retired from this office last year and
was made chairman of the board of
directors. He also had other business
interests in which he served in an
official capacity.

His . service to the state included
two terms as a member of the legisla-
‘ ,turevand one term in the state senate.

for many years W chairman of

board.

During all these wide activiti he
continued to live on and operate his
fruit farm. In 1917 he presented the
Michigan State College ”with a fine
fifty-acre tract near his own farm for
experimental purposes, which was ac-
cepted and became the Graham Horti-
cultural Experiment Station. This will
remain a permanent monument to his
interest in and devotion to Michigan
horticulture, after the host okpersonal
friends who mourn his loss have also
passed the great divide.

HE recent reports

il'zi on intentions to
5:151?! ng plant give confidence
t 3 .arm that the nation’s farm
Business program is being sta-

, bilized. Since 1919,
the department of agriculture says, we
have had two years of heavy sur-
plusscs, two years of readjustment of
our cropping system, and two years of
fairly stable production. If present
indications for 1926 are carried out,
this year will further stabilize our pro-
duction program.

This is most encouraging in a bus-
iness like farming, where no farmer,
or group of farmers, has a corner on
any one crop. Here, ’the profits are
gauged by the relations of supplies of
farm products to the demand for them.
In the long run, plantings will give a.
volume of production that will balance
consumption. From the records of the
past five years then, it. would appear
that our farming program has nearly
recovered from the disturbance occa-
sioned by the World War and is gain-
ing its regular stride.

In the past our farmers have faced
two unstabilizing factors—expansion
of farmin , and better farming. To-
day we have but one of these to deal
with in this c0untry. Our great fron-
tier is gone. Whatever increase in
production we have from now on will
come from better farming.

But this unstabilizing factor'is real.
Through it farming costs are reduced.
When a farmer discovers that he can
produce twenty-five per Cent moré on
his land at less cost per unit, it will
be difficult to keep him from making
the venture. And until the increase in

i'population will absorb these in-
creased supplies, this factor is going
to be at the root of our big agricul-
tural problem.

In the meantime, if farmers could
be~persuaded to devote a few acres to

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the good of farming in general, and
would add stability to the whole agri-
cultural business.

T HE week from Ap-

Grow ril 18 to 24 will be
-‘M f known as Forest
" are, Week. During that
Forests time various means of

creating sentiment in
favor of forest conservation and crea-
tion will be used. Forestry will be
discussed in the schools, at clubs,
farmers’ meetings, and other gather-
ings throughout the country.

Forestry is a subject which has been
constantly before the present genera-
tion. In the past it was lumbering,
the very antithesis of forestry. Tim-
ber is a long-time crop, about one crop
a generation. Our crop has been cut,
and we have not replanted as we
should.

A few years ago the great thought
in connection with forestry was con-
servation, but now it is creation, as
we do not have much to conserve.

Besides coming to the realization
that we have not harvested our timber
crop in an orderly and judicious man-
ner, we are awakening to the fact that
much land has been de-treed for farm-
ing purposes, which should have been
left to timber. At present, in this
state especially, there are thousands
of acres which will grow better timber
than they will farm crops.

It is pleasing to note that public
sentiment is being moulded favorably
to these facts. The demand for seed-
ling trees is an indication of this. Per-
sistent effort to keep forestry before
the-public will, in time, put timber in
its proper place among the American
crops.

OW much are

What you worth? To
’ the most of us, the
Arc Y0: answer is very puz‘
Wort]!- zling, and perhaps of

a variable quantity
conformable to the day. But, accord-
ing to a professor of chemistry in one
of our universities, if the average-siz-
ed man were divided into the elements
of which his body is composed, there
would be water‘enough to wash a pair
of blankets, iron enough to make a
ten-penny nail, lime enough to white-
wash a. good-sized chicken coop, phos—
phorous enough to make a. hundred

Here ‘Are The Judges

To Select file Tm Farmer: IV/m zine to Receive t/ze Degree ofMarter Farmer

HE purpose of awarding the degree of Master Farmer, as announced
in the March 6 issue of the Michigan Farmer, is to give public recog-

nition to those who have succeeded as real dirt farmers.

To make

certain that these honors go to the right men, real dirt farmers have been

selected as judges.

The native‘ability, the continuous active farming experi-

ences, and the training of the persons named below qualify them beyond

question to select the farmers who merit this honor and degree.

Here ar'e

the names of these persons whom we selected and who have accepted the

role of judges in this matter:

Hon. Jason Woodman, who has spent a lifetime successfully operating

his farm near Paw Paw, Van Buren County, and who for several terms was
a. constructive force on the State Board of Agriculture

Hon. Addison M. Brown, who also has succeeded to an unusual degree
as a farmer on his farm near Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo county, and who for a
number of years was secretary of the Michigan State College.

Mrs. Edith M. Wagar, the mistress of an up-to—date farm home near
Carleton, Monroe county, and a member of the Board of Directors of the

Michigan State Farm Bureau.

These three persons have kindly consented to act with the Editor as
judges in this important and difi‘icult task of selecting the ten leading farm-
ers from the nominations that have been, and are being filed as candidates

for this degree.

While the names of several prominent farmers have already been filed,
there are many others who would, if nominated, have an even chance of

receiving this award of merit.
community to name its best farmer.

It should be the aim of every agriculturaL was Sunday.

It will be necessary in many in-

stances, for individuals to take the responsibility for sending in, nomina-

clo‘sing the nominations is May 1

tions, unless local farm organizations become responsible.
making nominations and preliminary scorings will be sent on request to any
person Who desires to nominate a. neighbor or himself.

Score cards for

  

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contributing to their own benefit, ,to .~

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mind body, though, these elements are
so bound together with a. thinking
brain that the value of a. person 15.1101:
to be estimated in dollars and cents.

But do we not often think of our
bodies as machines, requiring food as
fuel to keep them running, to execute
our daily tasks, giving little or no at-
tention to the fuel as long as it is sat-
isfying? Nutrition specialists have
proven, though, that. the food with
which we- refuel our bodies is relative
to the efficiency With which we are
cute our daily work. The same spe<
cialists also tell us that our daily diet
is most often 'deficient in lime, iron,
and phosphorus.

It is one of mother’s big jobs to see
that her family is properly fed, that.
they may hold fast to that most desir‘
able, quality, health. The year is at
the spring, the season of lagging ap-
petites, and perhaps at no other time,
is the family food questionideserving
of more careful attention by mother
and all the members of the family.

.4 Invite

OU know Sofie wrote a. articul
while I was sick and it brought a.
letter askin’ us ta go fishin'. Just why
Sofie’s articul should get us a invite
ta fish and eat fish, I don't know, on
less the folkses what wrote the letter

 

knows fish is brain food and thought

that Sofie needed some.

Anyhow, I' m goin’ to let my sochul
secretary make a. note 0’ this date and
if engagemunts with work, etc. ‘and
etc, don’t prevent, maybe we’ll go and
sit in the boat with them and hold a.
line. You know, work and me is such
good friends I hate ta leave it, even
fer a littul While.

Now, this same feller what invited
us most 3. taken a shine on Sofie. Any-
how, he’s invitin'
both 0’ us, and he
- says he likes my
writin’s all right
but Sofie’s is just
as ‘good. He says.
*‘If you’re‘ not
equally joined to-
gether on the
work, you’re all
right for a joke.”
That fellow’s insultin’ me, ’cauSe
he’s callin' me a. joke, and I guess Sofie
thinks the same as he'dOes. But, he

 

says she’s as big a joke as I am, So'

I’m willin' ta admit it and I pardon
him fer callin' me one so long’s he’s
called Sofie one, too. I sometimes
think she belongs ta a differunt breed
0’ cats than I do. So, I’m glad ta secs
Sofie classed in the same catagory as
me, fer a change. .

This invitor says/if we come he’ll
fill us so full 0’ fish bones and fish
stories, I ,won’t be abul ta get my
shirt off ta take a bath. Now, I’m
willin’ ta. be so fullo' fish that my
shirt’ll stick, but I ain’t great on them
Fish stories is awful
hard ta get down, but I’d like ta eat a
mess 0’ fish anytime, and then go ta.
sleep. Me and pigs is the same in
that reSpect.

About this shirt and bath business.

That’s O.’ K. I’ve be‘en"tellin’ Sofie
it’s better ta. leave the shirt on so I
don’t expose myself, and then I kin
wash me and the shirt at the same
time. That’s the kind 0’ eflichuncy
what’s made some men rich.
' I want ta thank this fellow fer his
invite and good wishes. The measles
is all gone, thanks, and if the rain
quits I won't have no more excuse fer
not workin'. Then I’ll wish every day
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Fg‘RTY years ago. today,- April 6,

' . ”18—86.-

is a date that stands out
strongly in my memory.

It is a

date which is recalled by many of the“

f‘oldest inhabitants” as the day of the

.big April snow storm which buried

Michigan under a deep white blanket
blocked the highways, and tied up
railroad traffic. I remember it as yes-
terday, because of. the job I was doing
at the time, The season's supply of
fuel had been cut into four-foot cord-
wood and. hauled home from the wood
lot, and I was engaged at the welbre-
membered task of “bucking” it into
stove-length". The "old-timers” who
read this story will know just what
that meant to a farm boy, and whyI

remember the big April snow storm

, of forty years ago So vividly.

That experience of digging the wood
out of the deep snow and sawing away
on it day otter day with the bucksaw,
came back to me more vividly than
ever one day last week. There wasa
big pile of “sled-length" wood in the
same back yard; but the young man
who is now managing the farm didn’t
seem at all concerned about it. A
neighbor. who is mechanically inclin-

ed, had attached a. buzz saw to the

front end of another neighbor’s trac-
tor. They drove this rig into the yard
in the morning, and at noon the wood-
pile was in stove lengths. » The job
which had been a back-breaker for the
farm boy of forty years ago was, by
comparison, a playspell for the young
man of today. Small wonder that this
reminded me 'of the same job in the
spring of ’86—it was so different!

This comparison made an invitation
to go through the Ford factories with
a group of farmers the more welcome.
The operations, carried on in the dif-
ferent units of the great plant Where
tractors are built, were more interest-
ing because of this illustration of the
man power saved in one simple farm
operation. Still more interesting was
the human viewpoint of the repre—
sentatives of the Ford Motor Company
with whom we came in contact on

 

A 72 Example witfl a JV fia/emme Moral
I By I. R. Waterbury I»

this sight-Seeing trip. Many of them
had been farmers or farm boys
and'still had the farm viewpoint. The
fact that the tractors and trucks they
were helping to build or sell were
making farm work easier and more

profitable than they found it as farm

boys, seemed to give them the greatest
_ satisfaction. _
In going from one great factory to

another on this trip, we passed by the-

old Ford farm home where Henry Ford
was born, and'where he worked as a
boy. There the stirring of. that native

illustrated when the party visited the
tractor assembly plant and saw the
finished Fordsons dropped off the as-
sembly couveyor at the rate of one a
,minute. There they were mechanical—
ly started and driven away under their
own power.

This little illustration of labor—sav-
ing efficiency is typical of every op—
eration at the g1eat Ford plants, car—
rying out as it does to the minutest
detail the founder’s early dream of
substituting mechanical power for hu-
man labor at every possible point.

 

 

out

The Ferd Farm Home, where Henry Ford Was Born and Had His First
' Dream of Power Farming.

genius, which has since carried him
so far, led this farm boy to resolve
that some day he would provide farm—
ers with a source of power, other than
their own hands and horse— flesh, which
would lighten the hard labor of farm-
ing, speed up its operations, and make
it more profitable. How he has made
that early dream come true was fully

The magnitude of the Ford indus~
tries beggars description by the print—
ed word. A full day's trip enables the
visitor to see only a few of the “high
spots” in this marvelously organized
enterprise. But everywhere is to be
observed the application of Mr. Ford's
original idea as applied to farming. In
every operation, large or small, the

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most efiicient of

sawing has been lightened and the effi—
ciency of man power employed at that
task increased on my farm, through
the use of one of the products of this
great plant.

During the past month several thou-
sand Michigan farmers have enjoyed
a trip through this plant by the court»
esy of the Ford Motor Company or
ganization. There they have seen the
special machinery being built in the
machine shops for use in the factories.
including mighty steam turbines to
provide more power and further light--
en human labor in the manufacturing
processrs.
production of materials and parts for
the Ford products, from the drawing
of copper wire, fine as human hair, to-
the rolling of heavy bars in the steel
mills, with every operation as nearly
automatic as specially developed ma-
chinery can make it. There they have
seen the virgin wool from their farms
almost automatically made into finish
ed cloth, and sand from a nearby de
posit converted imo the finest of plate
glass, with a minimum of human lay
bor. There they have watched the;
molten iron poured direct from the
great blast furnaces into the casting;
molds for motor parts and axle hous
ings, as it is done nowhere else in the)
world, and seen crank shafts and other
steel parts beaten into shape by a few
strokes of giant steam hammers in the
forging plant. Everywhere they saw
economy of.human labor, and a scrup-
ulous cleanliness combined with the
most comfortable working conditions
possible to piovide

Lack of these visitors have doubt-
less carried away slightly different im~
pressions, but none can have failed to
learn important lessons which they
can apply to their own business. And
such is the law of human relations
that doubtless they have, in turn, left
something in the way of fresh inspire
ation with their hosts.

Some Advance Information
A 72 (fizcmzrcz'om lezilmz‘z'wz

By Harv Hess

SHORT while ago, I got an at—
tack...of St. Vitus dance in the
brain and, before they could get
it back to its former inactivity, I had
written a dirge on agricultural side—
lights taken from a magazine back in
1843. That was when kids and wheat
was both cradled. Well, one day short—

ly after this article appeared, I was .

standing on one of our busy thorough-
fares .in Ironton, trying to figure out
the difference between tWo yards and
six feet, when somebody clapped me
on the back and, turning around, I
looked into the face of one of our
traffic cops.

“Say," I said, “you’ll out yourself it
you ain’t careful; you just missed my
shoulder blade. How are you today,
anyway?" '

“Fine—ten dollars "

“Why, what for?” I

queried in
amazement. '“ '

. “I was told to arrest you because»
1 1 you beat your wife up every morn-
ing" and he begun to laugh. “Listen, "'

he goes on, “I read that article of

yours in the Michigan Farmer about

 

 

 

 
 

. add—ll

I’d nurse a baby What is this job?"
“The Policemen’ s Protective Associ—
ation isgoing to throw a banquet next
week and I want you to‘give an ad-
dress.” _.
“That’s easy.
you want

Whose address do
I have some real snappy

“Honestly,” he interrupts, “-you’re
hopeless; 'and yet they go clear to
Africa. for ivory; You’re to give an
oration. Now is that clear?”

“Yeah, it’s as clear as. mush. . What
do you want me to talk about‘Z'f

.“Oh, about two minutes,” says, the
can. “that will be about all we can
stand." ' 1 ,

‘-‘I mean, what will the subject be?”

“Well,” he replies, “seeing as how
you're so tend of music, you’re to
write a forecast of the agricultural sit-

‘ nation fifty years henCe "

- “But why write it? Wait till then
and you can see tor yourself?” ,
“Now, don't argue with a cop.

,1 You’ ve got your orders and you be on
iiiliano that night, Or I’ll be on, your
neck like a boil "

iunravgi a traffic as,

And he was at! to

wesn’t that a fine mess for a

 

ally? But then, ten dollars was ten
dollars, and I needed it.worse than a
lung needs air. And, while giving it
some heavy pondering, I happened to
remember that maybe I might fall heir
to an idea or two up at the public
library, so I hustled over to Where
we’ve got our monument erected to
Andrew Carnegie, chased an old wom-
an out of a nice, comertable chair,
and sat down in communion with a
couple of reference books.

I hadn't been there very long, it
seemed, when I heard someone calling
my name and, looking up, my good

,friend Chester White Berkshire was

standin’g'at my side. Chet is the own—

*- er of a classy quarter section just a

little ways from where my mortgage
is located. and is an apple knocker by
trade.

Says he: “Ain’t you going to that

orchard demonstration this P. M., and

learn how to make a.pa1r out of two

, peaches 1'”

“Sure," I answers, “when, where,

. what and , why: is it ‘2"

“It’s out to my place and we’ve got
pretty neat all- of a minute to get
there.” .1

» “I know Chet, but-" _ '
“m don’t tall: back; use your

  

, shoes instead or your mouth so much,“

and with that he starts leading me up
a stairway toward the roof.

“Wait a minute, Chet,
going?’.’

”Up 'Where they
011 the roof garden. I’ve got a brand!
new little “’oodpecker Flyabout I
want you to try out. She makes 125-,
miles per hour and runs on cider.”

“On cider!” I asked in amazement,

“On nothing else but. And since
they've got to using it for motor fuel.
all us apple grafters are fairly reek—
ing with money. Hop in and we’ll take
the air,” and We raised straight up,
heading in, a southerly direction.

“Theie’s a fine looking farm," I re»
marked, looking over the side from an
elevation of about a hundred feet,
“who owns that?"

“That belongs to Angus Galloway,
one of our best farmers. .He has his

where we

raise aeroplanes~

  

 
  

specially designed ’
machinery is used to lighten human“
labor and increase production per man
empIOyed, just as the labor of wood-

There they have seen the_

entire farm electrified. There’s wires -

running all over the place, under--
ground, and when he plants afcrop he’
turns on the juice the very first things
This, of couise,

and grow like sixty.

the concrete, you see, and when it-

makes the ground
warm, the seeds germinate right away"
You know mes,
state of Michigan keeps its trunk.
lines open in winter the same ways"
Electric wires are distributed through 7

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”starts snomng‘, they turn on the
Switches; This heats the roads and
the snow melts as fast as it falls.- And 5
the beauty of it is, that the farmers
raise their own electric light plants."

"From bulbs?" I asked.

“No, currant bushes. See that sixty-
acre field down there? That’s. where
a crook named Gherkin ra‘ses his new
wartless variety of pickles.‘ '

“Sixty acres of pickles? VVhew! He
must hire the American Legion to pick
them.” .

“Not him. he has a new way of
handling them. You know how easy
a pickle vine is to train. Gherkin has

. his trained so well that when harvest
time comes he just sits down at the
end of the field, starts playing a tune
on a piccolo and the vines crawl right
down to him. They’re just dying to
be picked.”

“My, and I’ve got scars on my back

yet from the old. p aymve used* to!
do i'”“ .,= f g i; ‘

“And, that fellow across "the road
there”,- continued Chet, "tends a bun-
dred acres of sugar ,beets, besides
looking after fifty Jersey cows.”

‘Avsugar’ and cream guy, eh?” says
I, out 'of the corner of my mouth, “and
what a sweet job it must be to har-
vest 100 acres of beets. I’ll bet his
farm looks like a part of Mexico dur-
ing harvest time."

"Nothing of the kind,” says he; "his
beets aren‘t lifted, topped or hauled to
town, you bet you.” "

“Let’s ha.ve~~it,” I begs, “how does
he do it?”

“By keeping millions ot little-ants.
When sugaring—off times come these
little insects are turned loose and,
would. you believe it, they bore into
the ground, dig the sugar right out of
the beets and then. mind you, they

' ings" that“ . a, -
“Well, I’ll ‘ be a. buckwheat. cake! ‘ ,
Isn't that marvelous,” was all I could

as in: mag: .

re 6,8118 ..
say. . .v .
"And we don’t have to' bother much
about the weather any more, either.
If a sudden drouth happens along dur»
ing- theseaslon, why we just hang the
sprinkling attachment on the aerd-
plane and by the time we’ve flown
overia field three or four times the
ground is pretty well soaked. So you
see, farming is decidedly on the up

and up. Right now it’s time for the

hourly crop report from station JAY at
Washington. Let’s get it.”
“Onion market getting stronger as
supply of Michigan leeks diminishes."
“Rabbits have advanced a, hare.
“Bad break in egg market causes
buyers to run for gas masks.
“Goose feathers are on the .DOW’N
grade, except stock from Michiganders.

"/’,..:

"Ersanrfis risingéj' 1' .
sputtering and finally died.

“What’s the matter with her, Chet?"

“We’re "out of cider. .We’ll have to
make a landing." - . . ‘

And we did, too, only instead of com—
ing to earth gracefully, we dropped
with a crash on a concrete silo. You
can imagine how a- tumble like that
would shake you all up. I was quite
rudely shaken. In fact, as I opened

my” eyes, the janitor at the library was

shaking me like I was a couple of
dice. “Hey, you big rube,” says he.
“this is the public library, not a Pull-
man. You been sleeping here for two
hours. New snap out of it and the
next time you take a nap put on a.
vmuffler.”
That's all.

 

 

 

LATEAGRICU

LTURAL NEWS

 

 

 

 

MOVE TO STABILIZE AGRICUL-
TURE IN GERMANY

ERMANY is setting the United
G.States a precedent in farm price
stabilization. The German Reichstag
appropriated $7,150,000 to be used by
a German Grain Trading Company
composed of farmers, fertilizer syndi-
cates and others, says XV. A. Schoen-
iield. American agricultural commis-
sioner at Berlin. He says the purpose
of this company is to study ways and
means to render German agriculture
profitable, and also to stabilize grain
prices by buying, storing and selling
grain.

FARM CONDITIONS REPORTED AS
IMPROVED.

N improvement in farm conditions,

compared with a year ago, was re-
ported by the presidents of the twelve
federal land banks to Chairman Bob-
ert A. Cooper, of the federal farm
loan board. The live stock industry is
in a very much improwd condition.
Hogs are high in price and relatively
scarce. Beef animals are bringing a
good price. Sheep prices are also good
and indications are for sustained pric-
es, although wool in the west is now
selling at thirty to thirty-five cents per
pound, or somewhat less than a year
ago.

Potatoes continue high, and this is
likely to see next season’s crop over-
done. The lamentable decision of the
farmers to increase the acreage, bears
out the old saying that. “high priced
seed potatoes means a low priced
crop.” In other words, potato prices
seem to swing in a two-year cycle, and.
the pendulum is started downward if
these early reports of the farmer’s
intentions to plant are correct.

The reports Show that the supply of
draft horses in many parts of the coun-
try is short, and man'y of the animals
are old. ' In the middle west there has
been a greater registration of pure
bred breeding stallions than for some
years past.

The presidents of the twelve banks
report that money for making mort~
,gage loans is plentiful in almost every
district and at low interest rates.

The federal farm loan system is as-
sembling some reliable and highly use-
ful agricultural data, having to do with
the ability of farmers to liquidate their
debts. This is considered the acid test
of the condition of agriculture. If
farmers show a favorable balance at
:the end of a year of operation, after
they have met all the conditions that
confront them, then it cannot be de-
nied that this industry is on a sound
basis and profitable. The conclusions
of the land bank presidents as to fav—
orable condition of ‘agriculture are

" based upon the ability of nearly 400.-

000 farmers distributed throughout the
nation, to meet their financial obliga~
tions.

NEXT WEEK IS FORESTRY WEEK.

MERICAN forest week, which is

proclaimed for the week of April
18-24, is accomplishing much in calling
attention to the necessity for forest
tree planting. Each year reports com-
ingto Washington tell of increased in-
terest in the subject. Many farmers
are annually enlarging their forest
plantings through the inspiration re-
ceived during forest week.

DAIRYMEN TO MEET IN WASH-
INGTON.

EPRESENTATIVES of the dairy

industry will hold a conference
with the dairy specialists in the de-
partment of agriculture at Washington
On April 19-20-21. It is called by the
American Dairy Federation commit-
tee on “cooperation with the govern-
ment departments having to do with
the dairy industry.”

Those who attend will visit the dairy
bureau’s experimental farm at Belts-
ville, Maryland, where theywill meet
the men who are digging into the foun-

.land for timber, protection.

dation problems of breeding and feed-
ing for milk and butter production.
They will be conducted through the
offices of the dairy markets section in
the bureau of agricultural economics,
and will meet the specialists in the
bureau of dairying who represent the
leaders of the dairy industry in doing
the pioneering which makes the growth
and progress of the industrypossible.

BROADENS FOREST POLICY.
\ .

HE Natioual Forest Commission
will authorize the purchase of
Hereto
fore, its policy has been to purchase
land forstream protection only. It is
said that this broadening of policy will
insure the carrying to completion of
an adequate federal forestry plan by
permitting purchases of forest lands
in the-lake states and in the pine reg-
ions of the south.

TUBERCULOSIS EFFECTS MILK
PRODUCTION.

UBERCULOSIS has a depressing
effect on the milk production in
affected herds, according to reports re«
ceived by the bureau of animal indus-
try. In one case it was found that

 

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milk production in the herd began to
decline almost simultaneously with the
development of tuberculosis among the
cows. In two years the spread of bo-
vine tuberculosis caused a decrease in
income from the sale of milk amount-
ing to $870 for a herd of ten cows.

Information obtained from hospitals
by the bureau of animal industry show
that onethird of all tuberculosis in
children is of the cattle type, chiefly
transmitted in milk from diseased an-
imals.

STATION WKAR HA8 NEW SCHED-
ULE ..

R‘ADIO Station WKAR, Michigan
State College, at East Lansing, has
inaugurated a new program for the
spring months which calls for but
three evening program broadcasts
each week. These are on Monday ev-
enings from 8:00 to 9:00 o’clock, and
Wednesday and Friday evenings from
7:45 to 9:00 o’clock. The noon pro-
gram, which has been enlarged to in~
clude weather forecasts, market re
ports, and the reading-of questions and
answers, now lasts for half an hour.
This program has been found to be
one of the most popular of the educa-
tional programs broadcast by the col-
‘lege.
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The program for next week is as
follows:

April 17—12:00-12:3’0, weather, mar-
kets, question box.

April 19—12:00-12:30, weather, mar-
kets, question box; 8:00 p. m., Farm~
erkins bedtime stories; 8:15 p. m.,gar-
demng; 8:35@9:00 p. m., engineering.

April 20—12200-12230, weather, mar-
kets, question box.

April 21~12200~12z30, weather, mar-
kets, question box; 7:45 p. m., land'-
scape architecture; 8:00-9:00 p. m.,
musical program.

April 22—12:00-_12:30, weather, mar~
kets, question box.

April 23—7—12:OO~12:30, weather, mar-
kets, question box; 7:45 p. m., land-
scape architecture; 8:00-9:00 p. m.,
state department program.

LETTERS AID TRUTH-lN-FABRIC
MEASURE.
SENATORS and congressmen are re-

ceiving many letters from their
constituents, asking for the enactment
of the Capper truth-in-fabrics bill. It
is expected that it Will pass the sen-
ate at an early date. Itpis tied up in
the house interstate and foreign com-
merce committee, however, and unless
it can be transferred to the commit-

tee on agriculture it is doubtful if in
can be brought to a vote in the house.

‘ The farm organiZations are united in

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push the fight for it: whenever there is _
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‘Roueng Muscovke/y‘, and Wild Mal-
lard ducks, and find them all easy
to raise, and they don’t take any more
care than chickens. I have always

"'75:.‘tound that three ducks are about the

best number for any drake, whether
they are the big or small kinds. -:No
special feed is necessary during mat-
‘ing and laying time. I feed‘ them the
same as I do hens, and they nearly
always produce 'fertile eggs.

V Most duCks start laying as soon as
the weather warms up, and they do
not care for a ready-made nest, like

" -‘geese.’ “They generally hunt a place

they like ‘best, and make their own

'* nest, and then a person can get some
chaff or short straw so they will keep‘

it, for ducks are apt. to change their
nests quite often if they don’t like the
place, or if they are disturbed.

Most of the ducks will lay an abund-
ance of eggs and will keep on laying
until Julyand August. The eggs may
be hatched by hens, or put in an in-

  

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defitaéleP
" "r. , ' By Mrs. Antoine Lin’dcr‘er

The Black Muscovey is known as
the old-fashioned American duck. She
will lay from twenty-five to thirty
eggs. One must be cautious, so that
the eggs do not get too old. It is best
that the first eggs are hatched by a
hen and the ducks will hatch 'the rest.
There is only one duck that equals the
Muscovey in being a good mother, and
that isthe little wild Mallard duck.

The hatching period for Muscovey
eggs is five weeks, and the young
ducks can be fed and “raised like any
other duck. A Muscovey duck will lay
and raise two flocks each season. The
average weight for a duck isirom five
to six pounds; and the drake will weigh
about ten pounds. They are of a quiet
nature, and have a--very good, mild-
tasting meat.

As a judge of taste, I can say that
the meat of every variety has a differ-
ent taste and any farm wife who can
afford to buy a few settings of eggs of
different varieties is well supplied with
good meat for some time. Of all the

 

Some of Mrs. Linderer’s Ducks."

cubator, like hens’ eggs, but they
‘should be sprinkled twice a day. My
choice for hatching any kind ‘of eggs,
wild or domestic, is the hen. Some
hens will look rather “funny at their
but ‘ will mother
"them just as ’good as they would the
chicks. Ducklings must be kept warm
after they are hatched, and they must
be. thirty-six hours old before they re-

'- gceive food of any kind;

Their first food should consist of
hard—boiled eggs, mixed with corn-
meal. Soaked bread may be fed as
they like it 'real well. I feed this for
about- a week, and after that I let
them have all the ground corn they
want all day long. A little oatmeal
put on top of their drinking water is
also good, andvit is great fun to watch
them fish it out.

Ducklings should not be exposed to
wet grass in the morning for at least
the first four weeks. I never fancy
leaving poultry out during the night,
on' account of weasels and the big
,timber owls which like to prowl
around at night and carry off poultry
if they get a chance. .. Ducks are not
particular about feed; they will eat
almost anything, but the best grow-
ing and building feed I have ever used
‘is cooked cull potatoes, mashed and

.mixed with bran and cornmeal. AS
ducks are great water fowls, they
should be supplied with plenty of wa:
ter. A big pond or near-by creek‘will
suit them first rate, but a. person has
to keep watch for turtles that like to

-' pull ducks underwater to lavish their

' ‘ appetites. _

fAnother thing .1 want to remind the

7 readers of, is to keep an eye on little
__ ducklings; on accent of bees. As itis
a nature to' _:ca'tch_fiies, they

   

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ducks, I like the Mallard ducks the
best; they are just as easy to raise as
Pekin ducks. Of course, they are not
very heavy, but their meat is of a bet-
ter quality and more expensive.

The only thing a person has to be
careful about is that they don’t get
any more than one feeding of corn a
day when they are full grown. A big
flock of ducks circling through the air
Over the farm, taking their daily exer-
cise is a beautiful sight to see, but a
fat wild duck, roasted nice and brown,
will suit any one’s taste and appetite.

GROWING OUR RHUBARB.

 

OST families will find a few good

clumps of rhubarb furnishes an
abundant supply for the early spring
use, but it is important that these few
clumps be kept growing thriitily, for
it is this quality that insures crisp,
tender stalks. Stunted growth makes
for tough, strong leaf stalks, and much
less in' quantity.

Rhubarb wants very rich soil. Lib-
eral mulchings of stable manure sup-
plies this best. A box or half-barrel
around the clumps helps to keep the
mulch in place, and admits watering,
which is another aid to tenderness and
crispness. Dividing when the - old
clumps are crowded will keep the
crowns stronger and produce fewer
but better stalks, It is easy to bank
up around barrels set over clumps if
we have heating stable manure. This
will force growth and give earlier
crop’é‘, and the cutting off of the light,
except above, makes the stalks run
up, giving more tender stalks and less
lean—L. H.'C.

Ike Denslow, of Remus, Michigan,
hauled 226 bushels into market recent-
ly. This is 531de be the largest load
hauled-to market in Michigan". He re-
ceived-Iifi531.89 for the load, more than

whole 2937095 irr-pooi' seasons.

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‘ Is it allowable'i'or a person to catch
minnows with a net for bait, for fish-
ing trout with hook and line in Mich-
ig'ain?S What size net must be used?

Compiled Laws (1915) Section 7715,
recognize the right to use minnow
nets not to exceed nine square feet in
size.

ABSENTEE OFFICE HOLDER.

 

Can a non-resident taxpayer hold
Our supervisor
has not lived in the township for over
a year, and ‘our to‘wu clerk has moved
to the city. They both own farms in
the township.——W. F. G.

The statute explicitly declares the
office vacated by removal of the ofl‘lcer
fromthe township, county, or city in
which he is chosen.

THE WIDOW’S SHARE

 

\Iay a widow hold a sha1e of a farm
and live on it after she marries again,
if she has seven children whom she
will not care for?—.Reade1.

The widow’s dower‘ right is not de-
pendent upon her supporting her chil-
dren, nor upon her remaining single.
She has an absolute right to one-third
of the property in fee, if there was
no will, and to a life estate in the land
even in spite of the will—Rood.

VALU E OF ABSTTi—ACTS.

 

Several years ago I bought a place
on contract. Before the contract was
paid up, a friend informed that my
place was sold on tax title and I re-
deemed this title and finished paying
for the place and received the deed.
Is a tax title as good as an abstract or
should I have anothe1 one, and how
(cum I get it?~G. .R.

’iax titles, unless foieclosed 'as pro-
vided by law within five years, become
void. Abstracts are private writings
having no legal force or validity.
They are merely memoranda of the
contents of the public records. Any
person with or without ability can
make an abstract; but banks and per-
sons making loans ofts-n refuse to rec-
ognize or give any credit to abstracts
made by persons not generally engag-
ed in the business of making them.

TAKING PERSONAL PROPERTY
FOR TAXES.

 

Has a tax collector the right to lexv
\upon hay 01 any personal pioperty and
take possession of and sell same at
auction for taxes in ariears? This was
done upon three days‘ notice—Sub
scriber.

It. is the duty of the tax collector
to collect the. taxes (both taxes upon
real and personal property), and if
the taxes are not paid before default
the towu treasurer is justified in tak-
ing possession of and selling any per-
sonal property belonging to the debtor
sufficient to pay the taxes—Rood

 

RIGHT TO KILL DOG.

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May a dog he allowed to go off his
ownei ’s farm w1thout being accompa~
nied by his master. 9 If a dog runs into
the road and barks at someone, has
the pol son at whom he barks a right
to kill him? The dog in question is
kind to anyone who is kind to him,
but if he is sworn Eat 01 kicked he be-
comes ang1y.E——R .C.

According to Section 19 of Public
Acts (1919) No. 339, 'it is unlawful for
any person other than a police officer
to kill, injure, or attempt to injure,
any dog bearing a license tag, except
as provided in that section, and the
section specifies that any person may
kill any dog he sees in the act of pur-
suing, worrying, or wounding any live
stock, .or attacking persons. Under

this section any person‘ attacked would

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defense. He does not have to wait to
learn by demonstration mother the
dog would bite. —Rood. -

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RENTER’S SI'LO.

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A., a renter of B.’ s farm, built a silo
on the farm. If B. sells the farm may
A. remove the silo?——C. S.

The law is quite liberal in permit-
ting tenants to remove fixtures from
rented premises. The test usually ap-
plied is whether the thing can be re
moved without being destroyed, and
leaving the premises in substantially
the same condition as they were be-
fore the annexation Under this rule
it is believed that the tenant could
remove the silo.

OWNER OF MANURE.

 

B. allowed A. to keep his stock in
B.’s barn through the winter. A. bought
his feed of B.. feeding it on this farm.
To whom does the manure belong?——~
Reader.

On rented farms where feed is rais-
ed and fed on farm. the manure re—
mains the property of the landlord. In
the above case, it is my opinion that
the landlord surrendered any claim in
the manure when he sold the feed to
the second party, unless otherwise
agreed upon at outset—F. T. Riddell.

CUTTING ROADSIDE TREES.

 

If I wished to cut down some trees
between the road and the fence en-
closing my fields, would I have to get
permission from the road commission-
er before doing so? W‘hat distance
each side of the road do land owners
have control of property?-—-R. E.

The owner of land abutting on a
highway ordinarily owns to the center
of the road. It is Only in peculiar sit-
uations that the entire highway is tak-
en from the owner on one side of the
road. It sometimes happens that the
fee to the ground within the highway
has been conveyed to the city, county,
or state, but such conveyances are
very rare. Ordinarily the abutting
owner owns the land to the center of
the road subject only to the public
easement of travel. He may grow
crops upon the highway to any extent
that does not interfere with the public

' ' lic use or the highway for travel;

to take it away at any time so 10.9
as he does not interfere with theepub-
Br
Act No. 2 of the first special session
of the legislature in the year 1921 it
was declared: "It shall be unlawful
to cut, destroy, or otherwise injure any
shade or Ornamental trees or shrubs
growing within the limits of any pub-
lic highway within the state of Mich-
igan Without the consent of the au-
thorities having jurisdiction over such
roads.”
clare that in trunk line roads and fed-
eral - aided roads, the state highway
commissioner shall be deemed to have
jurisdiction. The state highway de-
partment, under this act, assumes au-
thority to prevent the owners of the
trees growing upon the highway re-
moving same. Manifestly this statute
is uncenstitutional and void as an at-
tempt to deprive the abutting owner
of his property without compensation,
and-he may lawfully remove the prop—
erty without liability to anyone for do-
ing so. If the legislature. had provided
that the trees should not be removed
except under regulations by the high-

Believes. " in

is,‘,tho owner of the 1311 has wright

The act then proceeds to de- '

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wad-cm" HELP» sno. occur:

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UITE a lot 01m tux-m, Lam. . 1‘
conducting on a; two-year m-
, tation. of beans and oats. I seed
“red clover in the?’ oats and .plow
up the following year in May for
beans. As a usual thing my oats
are very heavy and my clover
very light.
whether thereis some other seed
(clover or 'other) that I could
sow with the oats and get a bet- '
ter green manure crop under the ,
circumstances Has any reader
a suggestion. -——A. B. Cook, Shi-
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against the highway being blocked by
\that means, the law would undoubted‘
1y be valid, but such is not the inter-
pretation given to the law by the high-
way department, and~manifestly was
not the intention of the legislature.
The statute is therefore abso'utely
void—Rood. ‘

Sugar Beets '

T/z‘z'rzér Prevent Contract zlr Rearmed/y Fa‘vomé/e to #2:? Farmer

HE year 1926 should be a sugar

beet year in Michigan. That is
the opinion of Prof. J. F. Cox, who re-
views the situation and sees in the
seven dollar a ton minimum guarantee
of the sugar factories, insurance of a
good margin of profit to growers of the
sugar crop. This is the substance of
a recent statement of Prof. Cox, in
which he outlines the most up-to-date
tried methods of beet culture, and
says:

“In View of present crop conditions,
with prices of most general field crops
low, sugar, beets stand out as one of
the most desirable and certain crops
for Michigan’s sugar beet areas for
1926. The companies are giving the
same‘ contract as prevailed during the
past year, which insure. a seven dollar
minimum and offers the opportunity
for a share in the increase, if the do—
mestic price of sugar rises. Most of
them pay a dollar a ton additional for
hauling to the factory. In other states,
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'After the severe losses which occurred
in the fall of last year, many sugar
beet growers were discouraged. but
the season was a most unusual 0 1c.

“The farmer who getsa large yield

per acre makes the most from sugar;

beets. By thoroughly fitting the .Seed<
,bed, using fertilizer, good cultural
methods, large tonnages can be secur«
ed. Instead of an average of eight to
tell tons, it is easily possible for most
groweis to get fourteen to sixteen tons
per acre, following good methods.
“Where fall-plowed land is available,
it should be utilized; but little fall
plowing, however, was done. last sea-
son. Early spring “plowing, therefore,
is advisable in fitting land for beets.
Spring plowing should be at a good
depth, at least six inches. The plow
should be followed immediately with
the cultipacker, or a weighted roller,
and followed by a harrow. The culti.
packer is the best tool to use in fitting
the seed-bed for beet-s, beans, and oth«
er cultivated crops. It firms the lower
part of the furrow slice and leaves a.
-well surfaced, compacted seed—bed.

“Where available, manure sliould be
applied before plowing, using six to
eight tons or more per acre. At the
time of planting, the use of from 200
to 500 pounds per acre of a 4-12-4 com«
mercial fertilizer, or several hundred
pounds/of acid phosphate on well ma-
nured land will start the beets off in
excellent shape.

“Farmers should keep in mind that.
the help employed by the sugar fac-
tories to do the blocking and thinning
is paid by the farmer, and attention
should be given to having the sugar
beet Workers take proper care in their
work. The blocking should be done to

the strongest bunch and the thinning‘

to the strongest plant, leaving plants
eight to ten inches apart in the row.

’ Attention to this one thing will make

often a difference of two to three tons
per acre, for it is easier for careless
workers to pull the laigest plants in
thinning, and leave the weaker ones.

“In view of the fact that danger of
over-production is removed. by‘ the

guarantee, sugar 11th are the most

logical crop to be grown on a large

acreage of Michigan’ 8 favored sugar ‘

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Thorough cultivation and good
seed contribute largely to the rais-
ing of any crop. ’

4 But no matter how well the soil is

prepared or how strong and vigor-
ous the seed, the best yields can-
not be produced unless» the seed is
put in the ground properly.

It should be deposited in the ground
and covered at an even depth in
order that it will grow and ripen
evenly, producing a uniform
quality of grain

With Fordson plenty of time is

allowed to do a,thorough and care-
ful job of putting the seed into the
ground. More acreage can be
planted in a day and at a lower
cost with the Fordson. '

Plant on time and plant right this
year with Fordson power. Then
have your Fordson ready for the
heavy work of crop cultivation and
harvest which taxes the power on
every farm. Your nearest Ford
dealer will explain the payment
plan that makes it easy to put the
Fordson to work on your farm.

 

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use Kelly Cushion'lires

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is excessive.

Kelly Cushions are practically as easy-riding as
pneumatics and while they cost a little more they are
far cheaper in the end because they will stand up under
heavier loads, are not subject to puncture and will last
tWo or three times as long. _ .

They come in sizes to fit 30x3%, 30x5 and 33x5
rims.

KELLY-SPRINGFIELD TIRE CO;
250 West 57th St. New York

‘ . Michigan garden.

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a good appetite for the many
things’ that may be grown in a
If to thisappetite
he adds the required industry and skill
he may provide'much of the food used
by his family throughout a long sea
son. ,

The garden belonging to the house
into which I had moved was too small
to meet my requirements, so I pro-
ceeded to enlarge it .

A strip of gzound on the west side,
next to the fence, for yea1s had been
|abandoned to grass and weeds. This
I subdued and planted to beets, to-
matoes, carrots, onions, and gladioli.
On the east side was another strip,
.where ashes, old cans, and an aban-

. doned path to the barn held sway.

After clearing out the rubbish and
subduing the soil, I grew there fine
beans, radishes, kohl-rabi, and four-
o’clocks. Extending across the South
end of the garden was a wide border
of wet ground, given over to trash and
rank weeds and grass. ,By opening a
ditch on the boundary line, and clear-
.ing the area, I came into possession
:of quite a. bit of very fertile soil. Here]
I grew the main crop of sweet corn,
some unusually‘fine squash and cu-
cumbers, and a lot of delicious cab-
bage. By these three extensions I ad-
ded at least one- thi1d to the super-
ficial a1ea of the ga1den.
Thoroughly Prepared Ground.

I broke up the g10und much deeper
than had been the custom; and ther-
oughly pulverized it, thus providing in—
creased feeding space f01 the loots .pf
crops. I also made a libelal applica-
tion of bainyaid manure and commer-
cial fe1t111ze1s, thus increasing the size
of ,the garden by giving the growing
crops more to feed upon. By thorough
and frequent cultivation, air was ad-
mitted to IIthe soil, at moisture-conserv—
ling dust mulch was provided, weeds
were kept out, and all the space and
plant food were given to the crops.
Deep plowing, adequate fertilizing, and
thorough cultiva tion—these are three of
the most effective helpers in a garden-
enlarging program. This, together with
{extending the superficial area, would
Iseem to some gardeners to be suffi—
[Cient
But there was still one more way.
,Drought, I was told, had sometimes
curtailed the yield of this garden. For-
tunately I could use a fifth method for
enlarging production. There was no
{city water, but there was an unused
well in the northeast corner of the
garden. From this well I pumped wa-
ter which I then conducted through old
eaves' troughs and open ditches to all
Ithe higher, dry ground. The yield of
some crops was more than doubled.

Well Rewarded.

The many good things we had to eat
were an adequate reward for. all the
work put upon the garden. The many
fine flowersmgladioli, sweet peas, as-
ters, pansies, portulacas, and the like
~which we had for the house, and for
friends, and for the weary passer-by,
were a constant delight. So I am
more than willing to pass on to others
this five-way plan for enlarging a
garden. x.

‘ HOW WE MANAGE OUR VEGE-
TABLE ‘GARDE‘N.

 

UR garden is heavy clay soil and
we find it very satisfactory to put
on a heavy coat of fertilizer in the

, fall,-sinCe itnleaches well through the

soil,’ making the fertility available as
soon as germination begins, and when
plowed in the spring the humus is
turned under and during decomposi-

7 tion warms up the soil.

The plowing is done as early as pos-
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By Luther K. Long
ORTUNATE is that man who has

narrowed twice with a spring-tooth
harrOw,ther,1“ raked crossways to level
and mulch the soil. If there are any
stones they are picked up, as they are
a great hindrance to proper cultivat-
ing.
Planting Time.

No calendar will fit all localities for
a planting date, and seasons are dif-
ferent. Just as soon as the soil is
tillable we mark but the rows, using
a line to get them straight. We allow
about twenty inches of space between
the rows, except for peas, which should
be about twenty-two inches. Then we
plant some hardy vegetables, such as
lettuce, radishes, spinach and
peas. At that time we also sow cab—
bage seed if it was not started in the
hot-bed. A little later, when the cherry
and plum trees blossom, we make a

second planting of the above named -

vegetables and include beets, onions,
carrots, endive and salsify. When the
apple trees are in full bloom, we plant
late peas, string beans, lima beans,
sweet corn, pumpkin, squash and en-
cumbers. We also plant additional
radish and lettuce Seed and New Eng—
'1and spinach, which is drought resist-
ant, .and does not go to seed, and as
only the leaves and tips of plants are
cut it keeps producing until frost. At
that time we set out a few strong to
mate plants. When the apple blos-
soms are gone we set out the remain-
der of the tomato plants, the peppers.
cabbage and cauliflower.

“'hat is in greater demand than ten-
der green onions, both for home and
market use? \Ve buy onion sets and
put them out at the earliest possible
time, placing them about four inches
apart. If we wish to keep some for
wintex use, we pull every other onion.
making room for the remaining onions
to get their full growth. If one cares
to use all of them as soon as they are
large enough for green onions, a sec-
ond planting of peas, spinach or beans
may be planted where they grew.

Frequent cultivating is necessary
throughout the season to keep down
weeds from a dust mulch.

Change Location.

We change the location of the vege—
tables in the garden each year.

Not many farm women have the
room, or care to start tomato plants
in the -house. We have four large
south windows and there among the
house plants we make room for a box
30x20x6 inches" deep, which we fill
with soil from what had been a hog
pen. The soil is placed near the stove
to wa1n1. then worked until real fine.
Then the tomato seeds are sowed in
rows about three inches apart. The
box is kept near the windows and kept
well moistened, and when the plants
are from three to four inches tall, be—
fore they get spindly, they are trans—
planted into two boxes of this size.
Then when the plants are about six
or Seven inches tall, they are trans-
planted into a hot-bed where they are
carefully watered until large enough.

,and the weather is favorable to set

them out. Before setting them out
they must gradually be hardened to
out doo1 air by opening the hot-bed a.
little each day. We sow the soil about
the middle or latter part of March, de-
pending upou the season

Farther south it isn’t necessary to
start them\in the house. We have fol—
lowed this plan for yea1s and always
have strong, vigorous plants which

bear earlier than those started in the

hot-bed, or where the seed is sowed‘
out doors. We like the Bauhaus. and
John Baer for early tomatoes, but the
Bonny Best is also a fine variety.

' The Enkhuizen Glory cabbage has
proven very satisfactory because of
its large heads, its Crispness and de-
licious sweetness. ———Mrs. W G Not

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HE so-called “stings” on apples

and peers are of two classes.

Some are caused by curculio,
and of the remainder. the great ma-
jority is the result of attempts made
by newly hatched codling~moth la1vae
in their efforts to gain entrance to the
interior of the fruit. From the find-
ings of Mr. L. G. Gentner, made dur-
ing the season of 1925, it would ap-
pear that the great majority of
“stings” is caused by attempts made
in the skin of a fruit by larvae com-
ing from eggs which were deposited
on the fruit itself and not on the
leaves. This view is explained and
the evidence reviewed in a bulletin
soon to be published.

Eggs Laid on Foliage.
1 As is well-known, the majority of
codling-moth eggs is laid on the fol-
iage, and in the case of well sprayed
orchards the leaves are covered with
poison, which disposes of the larvae
from eggs laid on the leaves, befme
they ever reach the f1uit. Howeve1,
in the case of a. well-coveled fruit, the
larvae from an egg laid on the fruit
gets a little of the poison while gnaw-
ing its way through the skin of the
apple, and perishes shortly afteI the
final opening is made. This minute
opening, if made by the first genera-
tion of larvae, usually heals ove1,p10-
ducing a blemish of little consequence
further than to disqualify the fluit
from the class in which it would oth-
erwise belong. If the puncture is
made in August 01 September by a
larva of the second generation then
the blemish is even less conspicuous,
although at that time the f1uit has
nearly completed its growth so that
less perfect healing follows the injury.

Wormy Apples vs. Stings.
“hen apples are grown in a district
where the population of codling-moths
is excessive, then unsprayed orchards
will suffe1 severe loss f1om “wormy”
apples, them being but few “stings”

present. This is, of cou1se, indisput-
able and to be expected. When, on
the other hand, such orchards are

well-Sprayed and the foliage and fruit.
are both kept well cove-red, the larvae
from eggs laid on the leaves will be
practically all of them killed before
they can injure the fruit, while the
fifteen per cent or thereabout, com-
ing from eggs laid on the fruit, will
manage to produce blemishes.‘ The
number of “stings” found at harvest
time, therefore, may be considered as
.‘exprossing the size of the total cod-
ding-moth population in the orchard 01'
district, besides serving as Well as an
index to the effectiveness of the con~
trol by spraying. It is, of course, ob-
vious that a larva which produces a.
“sting” and which dies in the process,
would have been able to do greater
harm, resulting in a wormy apple, if
the poison had not been present, and
if it (the poison) had not done just
What it was placed there to do.

Cutting Down Moth.

It is also a fact that in certain parts
of the state, spraying alone, as it has
been practiced, seems inadequate to
greatly reduce the sum total of
“stings” successfully, except as such
lsprayings reduce the. total population
501’ codling—moths present. The well-
sprayed orchards in such districts
seem to produce quantities of “stings”
with a noticeable absence of “wopmy”
.apples ,

With these facts in view, we are
forced to conclude that the elimina-
tion of “codling~moth stings” must be
brought about, if at all, by a. reduction
of the total annual population of3the
moths, or by using a spray Which will
kill the eggs. The latter undertaking
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The Sting ‘ Of: Apples
‘ ‘ T fie Warm T lzat Sthrted But Dzd’ 72f Fem/2-
By R. H. Pettit

Entomologirt q/‘Exp. Station

  
  
 

 

 

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veloping an ovicidal spray, though they. _

eggs continue to be laid over a loug
period of __time Even if we had a.
spray which won] accomplish this
end, it is likely that many costly ap-
plications Would be required in order
to‘really gain control. The most prom-
ising program, as it seems to the writ-
er is to make a special effort to con—
txol the laxvae of the first generation.
by very careful and diligent spraying
Use thlee pounds of dry powdered
arsenate of lead, and remember that
the average time for the entrance of
the first larvae is just about three
weeks after the petals fall. Be sure
that a good thorough spraying is done
just at this time, and use full strength
sprays, at least for a few years, in the
districts where so-called “stings"
abound.

Many larvae pass; the winter under
loose bark. flakes and the removal of
all such loose flakes. at least below
the snow-line, will help. Many larvae
are captured by birds, when "the co-
coons are placed at a distance from
the ground, but the birds can do little
in the way of collecting larvae at the
foot of the tree because of the snow.
Therefore, in the autumn, scrape off
all loose bark, at least from the trunk.

Treat Storage Houses.

Cold storage houses should be fum-
igated with sulphur before they are
throwu open in the summer. Many
cocoons will be found tucked away in
cracks and crevices. Burn three
pounds of brimstone to each thousand
cubic feet of air-Space in the house.
and fumigate the entire house at one
time. Formaldehyde is useless when
used as a fumigant against insects——
use sulphur, and use plenty.

Destroy all neglected and volunteer
trees in the vicinity and encourage
any too deliberate neighbors to spray
on time, and in an acceptable manner.

The actual depopulation of moths
can be more easily accomplished when
efforts are divided against the first
brood, than when one relies on poison-
ing the second br.ood The period dur-
ing which lar1ae hatch out and start
their work being less extended than in
the case of the second brood. Then,
too each larva of the first brood that
is killed. cuts down the number of
individuals in the second brood many
fold.

Keep Trees Well Covered.

In districts where excessive num—
bers of codling-moth “stings abound,
it is iecomma nded that a strong effort,
be made to get the trees well covered
with a stlong application Of arsenate
of lead at the time of the entrance of
the greatest numbe1 of larvae, which
occurs normally about twenty-one days
afte1 petals fall Do not let up on the
August spr'ay The large number of
“stings” prove its value, since each
sting would have been a 1ulls1zcd
wox n1 hole if the August spray had not
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SETTING PEACH TREES.

 

What is the best time f01 setting
peach trees, fall or spring? What kind
Ivgould Abe best for Ogemaw county?

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Spring is by far the best time for
setting peach trees, in fact, the best
time for setting most any kind of
tree, except large ones. It would not
be advisable to set peach trees in
Ogemaw county as the winters would
be too se1<re-. In very favorable lo—

cations the Hill’s Chili variety might -

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gen County ~Pomona. This fact is
largely due to the work and'pthe influ-
' ence of the worthy lecturer, Mrs. Nel-

lie B. Chisholm, of. Muskegon. For
x ' fourteen years, Mrs. Chisholm has oc—
' ' cupied the chair of pomona lecturer in
Muskegon county, and for 3. considers
ably longer periOd, she has held the
' - * oflice of county school commissioner.
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fall.
‘ Her final program,was given at the
. pomona meeting with Fruitland

“i. ‘ Grange early this year. We are en-
; ‘ closing Mrs. Chisholm’s picture, be-
; cause we feel that Michigan Farmer

readers will be glad to learn of the

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Nellie B. Chisholm.

l. ' ' . program, and to see the picture of the
lady to whom the good patrons of
Muskegon county are indebted for
, mali'y years of untiring service in their
1 behalf.

l . , To illustrate the type of program
l ' put on by this good lecturer, we note
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meeting. A banquet was enjoyed by
‘, l * over a hundred people. Community
' singing was a special number. The
agricultural situation as to national
legislation was set before the dele-
gates by the editor of the Muskegon

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Chronicle. The chairman of the board
«of supervisors outlined the matter of
v/i'eassessinent of the county, suggest-
ing the value of the pomona grange as
a place for the presentation of matters
of public _concern. A half hour of hu-
morous entertainment was furnished
by members of Cloverville Grange;
l l i and answers to the startling question,
‘\ “What is your local grange doing to
’ justify its existence?” inspired every-
one with practical suggestions. County
Agricultural Agent Knopf as usual
{ , brought his practical message of work.
" ( I i ‘ Mrs. Chisholm’s services to the
‘ grange have been enhanced by reason
i of her wide acquaintance with people
t of influence and ability. At her re-
l quest many of these have been willing
' to contribute to’the programs and ac-
tivities of the order. Fortunately, Mus-
kegon will continue to have the good
council of this resourceful leader.

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mation direct with the manufacturers,
The Monitor Furnace Company, at Cin-
cinnati, Ohio.

A convenient time payment plan enables

you to pay as you save.

Adrian ....... Wilcox Hdwe Co. Kalamazoo ..P. Kmmdyke at. Son
Almont ...... Almnnt IIdwe. Co. Keeler .......... Leon 1.. Myers
Bangor ...... M. D. Trim & Co. Lansing .......... D. T. Warne-
Had Axe ......A J. Dunn 8:, Co. McBrides ....Mt-Jir'ldes Mere. 00.
Belsay ......... Belsay Lbr. C0. Midland .......... E. B. Clason
Benton Harbor ....Frank Sc’hutt Mindcn (‘ity ....P‘rank E. Mahon
Breckenridge ...... P. C. Thomas :{ODU‘OSO .....II F. gidgllobémsl:
Buchanan ...................... Ol'fllll'l .......... .. . . u
..... We“ County E190. Slim) Morley . .. .. ....-J. B. Pattie
L‘apao ......... Herbert G. Siegel fi‘ISR‘fF‘m ---- m0 BY“
Caledonia ....Wenger & Clemens aslmlle....W. B. Hera & Sons
Cedar t‘lly ....Sbonek & Sheba 33,11? """"‘;",;L%"211A& F3130“:
(‘ilaaanlng ..Lhesanlng Sales LO' Owendale ..Oovendale IIdwo. Co.
(31K) .......... ‘ ..... Li. C. D0248 I’otoskcy.... McCain Hdwe. CO.
1.0le ...... (.oloma. Hdwe. L0. Pigeon ......... E. Paul & SOB
(‘oopersville ........ Pal. F‘ca Co. l'lylnouu), Jewell»Bla.ich~McArdlo
391.3)“; ....... Eugahagt‘sGStggg Pontiac ........... w. .1. Taylor
ry en ...... as N Richmond. ........ A. L. Hartway
Eau Claire .......... Glenn Clark Riga. ............. W. G. Btebncr
Essexville, Jos, Duprow lidwe. ()0. Romeo ....(‘erhard Ko‘ll &. Son
Fennville ....Claude Hutchinson St. (,‘lalr ..... ..A. F. Wright
Flint ............ A mes Plbg. ()0. :ebgwallils ....J U. when & Co. _
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gfimléapidasflédlmes H‘ Benton Staiitfind ...... Stanton Hdwe. Co.
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........ Highland Park Fm. (.0. ......... Gaylord & Ostrandel'
Holly ............ M. M. Hudson ,
Howard City Sunfleld ...... “09.11.“? 3000:}
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Wheeler.... Lankshaw Bdwe. (h

lonia ..............Henry Gable

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Take Your Full Profit.

A. NY man who can thresh his grain

 

 

 

  
   

 

whenever—he wants to is better ofi‘

than the man who can’t.

He can save more of his grain.
it to market in better condition.

He Can get
He saves

both himself and his wife a lot of hard
work. He can get at his Fall work earlier.
He makes more money.

To make the most of
Case Steel Thresher.

these advantages, own a
More than 50,000 Case

owners will tell you that-—

The Case is simple—you can do good threshing the
first time you use it.

 

Established
1842

It is light running—every Case machine has great
,capacity for the power required.

It threshes all grains and seeds—fast, clean and
without waste. , _

It lasts for years—most of the first Case steel
machines, built in 1904, are still at work, and the
present machines are much more durable.

It is fireproof, weatherproof, and demands little
expense or work for its upkeep.

These are money making advantages. The Case
has all of them. Therefore, you can make more

Foreighty-four years this
Company has specialized
on machines that made
more money for farmers.
The Case thresher, trac-
tor and combine, are all
examples of t h e h m h
entrain capacity stand-
“do 0 Case products.

Dept. R13

      

TRADE MARKS KEG U St PAI OFf

”filing a

tutu-3r!
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money with a Case. Write for “Profit by Better
Threshing,” which tells the whole story. ~

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Incorporated

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sTATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP. MANAGE-
MENT. CIRCULATION. ETC.. REQUIRED BY
THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, l9l2.

0! THE MICHIGAN FABMER, published weekly at
Detroit, Michigan. for April 1. 1926.

State of Michigan,
(‘ounty of Wayne. 35-

Bcfore me. a. Notary Public, in and for the State
and County aforesaid, personally appeared I. R.
Waterbury. who, having been duly sworn according to
law. deposes and says that he is the Manaser of
THE MICHIGAN FARMER. and that the following
is, to the best of his knowledge and belief. a true
statement or the ownership, management (and if a
daily paper, the circulation). etc.,.oi’ the aforesaid
publication for the date shown in the above caption,
required by the Act of August 24. 1912. embodied in
section 411. Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on
the reverse or this form, to wit:

1. That the names and addresses of the publisher.
editor, managing editor, and business managers are:

Publisher. the Lawrence Publishing Company, De-
troit, Michigan.

Editor, Burt Wermuth. Detroit, Michigan.
Managing Editor,-I. R. Waterbury, Detroit. Mich.
Business Manager. I. It. Waterbury. Detroit. Mich.

2. That the owners are: (Give names and ad-
dresses of individual owners. or. if a corporation, give
its name and the names and addresses of the stock-
the total aniount of stack).

The Lawrence Publishing
Ave” (.‘lex'eland. Ohio.

1' Arthur Copper, Eighth and Jackson Streets, Topdm,
mnsas.

Company. 1013 Oregon

Paul T. Lawrence, 2590 Fairmont 1pm., Euclid!
Heights. Ohio.

Mrs. C. B. Rogers, 13519 Lake Shore Blvd, Cleve-
land. Ohio.

Lillian Cotton, 9400 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, Ohio.

Kate E. Munsoll, 180. East. Grand Blvd. Detroit,
Mich.

F. H. Nance, 1672? Clifton Blvd., Lakewood. Ohio.
Ned Iiaing, 261 South Third Street, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania.
‘ I. R. Waterbury. 1632 Lafayette Blvd, Detroit.
Michigan.

3. That the known bondholders. mortgage“. and

other security holders owning or holding one per cent

or' more of total amount of bonds, mortgages. or

other securities are: (If there are none, so state).
Dime Savings Bank. Detroit. Mich.

4.'That the two paragraphs next above. giving the
nominal the owners. stockholders, and security hold-
cred! any. contain not only the 'list of stockholders
and security holders as they appear upon the books of
the company but also. in cases where the stockholder
upon the books of the com-
sny other fiduciary relation.
or corporation for whom mob
en: him that should, {vapor-
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Each lS—cent pack-
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so simple any woman
can tint soft, delicate
shades or dye rich, per—
manent colors in lin—
gerie, silks, ribbons,
skirts, waists, dresses,
coats, stockings, sweat-
ers, draperies, cover-
ings, hangings—every—
thing! _

.Buy ~Diamond Dyes
«no other. kind—and
tell your drugg‘ist whether the material
you wish to color is wool or silk, or wheth:
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knowledse and belief . as to the circumstances sud
conditions under which stockholders and
holders who do not appear upon the books of the
company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a

capacity other than that o! a bans tide owner; and.

this stflsnt has no reason to believe that any other
person, assOcistion, or corporation has any interest
direct or indirect in the said stock. bonds. or other
securities than as so stated by him.

5. That 'the average number or copies of each
issue of this publication sold 0? distributed. throush
the mails or otherwise. to paid subScribers during the
six months ore-cod .the date shown above 1
('Il'lhlf information is required from daily publications
0 y .

I. B. Voter-bury. Business Manner.

Sworn to and'subscrihed before ms'this Elshth
Day of April. 1926. ..
- . Louis Koch. not... " mac. ‘

My commission expires November. 20. 1980'-

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suit-.03 A new BARN wrrH OLD
MATERIAL.

 

 

AFTER my barn, corn-house, gran-

ary, etc., were destroyed by fire,
last spring}, naturally, began to think
of building‘anew. And, more especial-
ly of a barn; that being the most im-
mediate necessity. ‘

, I had something left to start with~
the wall; Which, being“ of concrete,
was practically uninjured, and being a
basement construction,‘was quite an
item with which to start. In spite of
this, however, careful estimates placed
the cost of construction ofanew barn,
balloon-frame type, the dimensions of
the old, at approximately $2,000.

Through the dark clouds that op-
pressed me at this time I got my first
gleam of hope by talking things over
with my banker—~we’d do well to con-
.sult bankers oftener, I think—etheir
advice is based on a clear and un—
biased insight into things that are safe
and helpful.

This banker advised the purchase of
some old barn that would fit my foun-
dation, and the removal of this, if
near by, or wrecking and rebuilding if
it were not practical to remove with-
out.

Taking this advice, I ran across a.
barn that met my requirements. This
was an old livery barn in the town
three miles from home. Finding it
impractical to move this bodily, I made
a “bee” and got about thirty-five of
my farmer friends together, and—Say!
You ought to have seen the boards fly.

Fortunately, insofar as the wrecking
was concerned, this barn was built at
a time antedating the use of the mod-
ern wire nails. This simplified the
removal of the roof-boards and siding
to an appreciable extent. About all
that was necessary in this case was
the business end of a twoby~four in
the hands of aI‘two-fisted farmer, and
those old cut nails would give up
easily. "

I have been unable to learn just
when that barn was first erected; but
it was some time during the stage-
coach days of\the Detroit-Fort Dear-
born trail which passes through this
city; but repeated reroofing had pre-
served the Old. whitewood and beach
.timbers admirably. In fact, I had more
of most timbers than I needed for the
new barn, which, however, is much
shorter. ' ‘ '

Then, too, the frame was four feet
«wider than my wall, which did not

 

 

,out, making an over—shoot.

8 my own work.

 

 

matter; in fact, was an advantage, as
we hung the extra four feet right on
And, by
the way, I never knew how many ad-
vantages the oldtime basement over-
shoot possesses over the more modern
flush—With-the-wall construction”. It
makes a place under which to walk
dry—footed and dry-necked, to the sev-
eral doors of the basement—besides
affording that extra, space above for
the storage of hay. I ‘

I was again fortunate, in the erec:
tion of the barn in getting the services
of a. farmer neighbor who is "handy
with tools,” also who has a head for
figuring things out. This hen, togeth-
er with the entirely unskilled help of
myself, got the frame together with a
crosscut saw (which I had to file fre—
quently), an ax, and muscle.

Now, friends, I’ve left the sweetest
until the lash—that is, the cost, $585.
New siding, and, of course, new'rOof-
ing, together with the" purchase price
of the'old barn and all that I paid out
for labor. In this I have not of unted

This~ might not seem. like a very
great individual saving to somemen.
But: $5851. seems it far cry {re

t0 the ordinary “5&1?me ”

  

  
  

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timber—framebarn than any of the bal-’
loan-frame construction ;, for Michigan » »

is becoming almost as windy.as_Kan<
sas used to be.——‘“Al" Rice, Sturgis,
Michigan. ' "

 

TO KEEP LADDER FROM,SLI,P—_
PING.

 

' I ‘HE accompanying illustrafitionsgive I

the details of a spiked shoe for a
ladder. Cut four pieces of %x2—ineh
flat iron about eight inches long, as
shown in Fig. 1. About four inches

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1.1.7.
Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Fig. 3.

from one end, bend as shown in Fig.
2. Weld the lower ends of two pieces
together and sharpen to a point. Drill
two holes in the sides and attach to
ladder. completed, the spike will be
like Fig. 3.—H. R. Zelley.

TIRE MIL§AGE.

 

M OVING the tires forward as they

wear is one of the best ways to
prolong their life. If you start with
all new tires, run them for about half
of their guaranteed mileage, and then
exchange front and rear. The greatest
strain and wear comes on the rear
tires, so these should always be the
strongest and newest. The tires on
the right side wear faster, because
that side of the road is_ rougher, and
the weight of the car is thrown .more
to the rightside by the crown of the
road. S‘o move your tires forward as
theyr wear, in the following sequence:
The new tire should be placed on the
right rear, then moved to the left
rear, then to the right front, and last
to the left front—XV. L. Gordon.

 

REPLACING PISTON RINGS.

 

WHEN the old piston rings are

merely refitted, as when remov-
ing carbon, care should be taken to
replace the rings in the same position
they occupied previously. The bottom
side of the ring will be found much
more brightly polished than the upper
side. Therefore, in replacing a ring
be sure that the brighter side is placed
downward—W. G.

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CLEANING THE GEAR CASE.

 

IF the grease in the gear case is

fluid enough, it may be drained by
removing the plug at the bottom of
the case. Replace the plug and pour
in a gallon of kerosene. Jack up one
rear wheel, run the engine, and use
the different gears to wash them clean.
Change the kerosene several times ifl
you want a particularly thorough job.
Then drain out the kerosene, replace
the plug and fill with the required
weight—of oil to the bottom of the main
shaft—G. L.

It is reported that the Michigan
State Fair will have a building for per-
manent exhibits of industrial products
which will be ‘open, the entire year.

 

An exhibit showing the evolution of I

the automobile will probany be one
of the features in the building, .

 

   
  

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advice "of L. L. Drake, who played an
' important part .in the development of
certified seed work, and promoted oth-
, er. forward-looking projects for the
farmers in Antrim and other north-
western counties.
‘Michigan Development Bureau, and
Michigan State College consummated
this arrangement Mr. Drake will co,
operate with county agents, and in
counties lacking such agents, commit-
tees selected by the board of super-
visors will likely be the medium of
Contact. .

spection work last year, incorporate
”and form an association for them-

:Nature, too, has become careless in

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Hill-farmers of northeastern Mich-V
“igan are to have the counsel and

The Northeastern

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ROADSIDE MARKET OWNERS TO
.oneApLIZE IN JERSEY.

 

HE New Jersey bureau of markets
has recommended that the farmer
roadside market owners, who had in-

selves. This was suggested to make
the inspection work more effective,
and to put the business of selling at
the roadside on a more substantial
basis. Michigan farmers situated
along main—traveled roads will watch
the New Jersey experiment with much
interest.

 

 

More than 2,000 members of the pro
duce industry have indicated their de—
sire to enroll as cooperators in the
agricultural department’s plan for
standardizing trade terms, trade. prac—
tices, and-methods of adjusting dis-
putes through arbitration.

 

There would be less speculative risk
if the farm were inventoried, 0r pur-
chased at figures which will enable the
average good farmer to make the regu-
lar rate of interest on those figures.
Such a level of land values will pro-
mote better management and farm or-
ganization.

 

Qalifornia grape growers have left
10,000 cars of choice grapes rot during
the past season because of an unsat-
isfactory market for them, and this
in a year when the crop in the east
was light. ‘ '

 

The little “chicks are not one bit
better off where you insist 'on feeding
{them before they are forty-eighthours
old. in fact, their chances for'devel-
oping into useful birds are much en-
hanced by such delay.

 

Farmers generally have not yet
come to know the value of a sharp
- pencil in making the various lines of
farming profitable.

 

The next step~ is to educate the
American public of theiood value of
‘ice cream. For a hundred years we
have been looking upon it as a dessert
and a delicacy. -

 

A questionnaire shows that ninety-
ilve per cent of the farmers who own
radios look upon the equipment as a
utility as well as a source of amuse
ment.

 

Two people out of three are now

. actively favoring extension work as _

compared with one out of twenty-live
actively opposing it.

 

We are Just wondering if Mether

' her attitude toward the law, and slip-
.ped- another winter ‘in the place of
__spring. - .- ‘

 

Farmers should learn to tie knots

  
  
  
  
 
  
    
 
  
   
     
 
 
  

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This new automatic plant completes
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battery plants in several sizes—selfL
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Here’s the farm engine you want—an
engine that lasts longer, runs better, re-
quires less attention and is safe to op-
erate. It’s the John Deere Type E.

Every important working part on
this engine is completely enclosed—
fully protected from sand and dust.

All of these protected. parts are
automatically oiled withm the .dust
proof case without the use of a smgle
grease cup or lubricator.

No gears exposed—no shafts ex-
tended on which clothing might be
caught. The boys and the women folks
can safely run it.

Starts easily in winter or summer,
and it supplies an abundance of smooth
labor-saving power. Furnished 1n 1-%,
3 and 6 H. P. sizes, either stationary
or portable. See it at your dealer 5.
Watch it run.

$.st kahuna Malamxm sameness-«semi. m... .- R). . I." ‘

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W 30th tully Illustrating the John

Deere Type E. the enclosed engine
that oils itselt, also a valuable account
book. “Bookkeeping on the Farm.” Tell
no what implements you need this year
and get our special literature. Drop a
card today to John Deere. Mousse. Illinois.

and ask tor booklets WG-83.

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Pumping outfit

It's the John Deere
TYPO I Engine and the
John Deere Enclosed
rump Jack. Compact.
limp e—io gears or bolts
for thestook to get into
—power taken direct
from the engine flywheel.
Worm- and gear-drive on
jack, fully enclosed, and
operates in oil—insures a
continuous and stood,
new of water. You can
buy the pump jack 3
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So- Easy to Use

' --In Poultry Houses, Cow Barns. Etc.—

Carbola is a white paint and powerful disinfectant combined in powder form.
Simply stir the powder in a pail of water and it is ready for brush or sprayer—
no waiting or straining. Does not clog sprayer. Won’t peel or flake.

The owerful disinfectant does not evaporate but keeps its strength on the
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FUNCTION OF FORESTRY EXPERI-
-- MENT STATION.

 

HEN the United States Bureau
of Forestry proposed to establish

Peninsula, the” question was raised,
“what is the need and the work for a
forest experiment station?”

The station is still in its initial
stages, and hence it is too soon to
speak of its accomplishments. In ad
dressing forestry students and others
at the University of Michigan, Mr. S.
T. Dana, director-of the Forestry Ex-
periment Station of the Northeastern

- chusetts, explained the need of fores-
try research, and since conditions in
the northeastern states are very ‘sim-
rllar to those in the Great Lakes states,
much that he said is applicable to
Michigan.

Director Dana pointed out that, while
planting and fire control are funda-
mental in the work of reforestation,
they are a long way from solving the
problem of meeting our timber require—
ments from our own resources. There
remains the further problem of in-
creasing the yield of wood per acre
from the mature forest that we now
have. We now produce on an. averagev
thirteen cubic feet of wood per acre
of forest, which is only a fraction of
what is achieved in most other ad-
vanced countries which are practicing
scientific forestry. In order to supply
.our own wants, we shall have to do
.very much better than this. Indeed,
we shall have to do better than any
country is at present doing. If we can-

‘ not do this, we shall suffer a timber

famine. That is mathematically cer-

There is" a great deal about tree
growth which we do not as yet under-
stand, .particularly as related to our
own trees—diseases and insect pests,
effects of moisture and sunlight, var-
ious types of soil and soil organisms.
It is the work of a forest experiment
station to ascertain what are the facts
in regard to these questions.

The Germans discovered after many
years that a certain variety of spruce
which they regarded as ideally suited
to their conditions, had the effect of
exhausting the soil to such an extent
that its growth had to be abandoned.
In New England, plantings of Scotch
pine did very‘well, but after they had
'stood for thirty years it was discov—
‘ered that they were taking a cork-
screw form which rendered them very
largely useless for building purposes.
If this fact could have been ascertain-
ed experimentally, much time and ex-
pense would have been saved. The
precise effects of thinning is another
matter requiring scientific attention.

ARRANGE POULTRY BREEDING
, PENS.

 

T this season. attention should be

poultry breeding pens, according to P.
L. Gulliver, of Marquette, poultry spe—
cialist for the Michigan State College.
Eggs will soon be saved for hatching,
and the point of raising only good
stock is important, he thinks.

“Only females showing good produc-
tion points should be saved,” said Mr.
Gulliver. “Those with physical handi-

‘caps, such as crooked back, crooked

feet and cross-bills should be culled
out; also those lacking breed type,
color, or any standard disqualifications.
Other things necessary are health, vig-

 

an experiment. station in the Upper,

States, situated at -Amherst, Massa-~

given the problem of selecting“

for thirdplace. Virginia, 0mm}
Iorpahd vitality. -. ‘“ _ - . , 3 ' ‘ " VP 5‘ "M ‘
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is raised. _He must have in addition,
all the qualifications of the female."

OUR MOST RAPIDLY INCREASlNG
CROP. ‘

 

F especial interest to farmers of

Upper Peninsula are the prospects
of an increasing number of tourists
for 1926. This “crop” is proving espe-
cially valuable to a great many farms
ers who find in the tourist a ready
market for vegetables, chickens, eggs,
milk, etc.

“The tourist traffic of the Upper
Peninsula has trebled in the last six
years}? said Mr. G. E. Bishop, secre-
tary of the Upper Peninsula Develop-
ment Bureau. “On a very conserva-
tive estimate it left $7,500,000 with us
last year, and we can reasonably'ex-
pect more this» season. Farmers are
rapidly learning that attractive goods
find attractive prices.”

 

MANY SEE FOREST TRAIN.

 

OVER one thousand people a day
are being reached by the Forest
Fire Fighting Flyer, which has started
its tour of fifty stops in the Upper Pen<
insula. Women’s clubs and schools.
sportsmen’s associations, and civic or-
ganizations are taking an active in-
terest in the train, and doing every‘
thing possible to make it a success.

At Moran, in Mackinac county, the
school children walked a mile to the
train, carrying a. huge banner which
stated that they were against forest
fires. Such spirit as this can never
die.

 

WHO HAS A WILDCAT?

 

MUTT and Jeff, two trained cub

bears, will attract attention to
the Cloverland exhibit at the Outdoor
Life Exposition to be held in Chicago,
May 10-16. The cubs will be loaned
to a “booster” from Iron River.‘ The
use of an American eagle ‘has also
been promised by Joe Baker, of Stam<
baugh: To omplete the animal attrao
tion, the an‘eau would like to get a
young wildcat or wolf, and a young
porcupine.

 

COUNTY SURVEYS POPULAR.

 

INFORMATION obtained in the land

economics survey conducted in Me
nominee county during 19.25, will be‘
given out at a meeting in Menominee,
this week. H. J. Andrews and L. R.
Schoenman, of the state department
of conservation, will present the ma-
terial with the use of maps, charts
and graphs. ,.

A large group of business men,
farmers and county officials will at~‘

‘ tend the meeting, it is expected. Fu-

ture agricultural development of Me-
nominee county will be worked out
from data presented there. This is
the first definite attempt to use the

information obtained in any one coun‘ .

ty, although eight counties have been
surveyed in the Lower Peninsula.

A similar survey was started in
Chippewa county last fall, and will be
completed this coming season. Other
counties in the Upper Peninsula will
be surveyed later.

 

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the nation’s apple production. Wash-
ington led the states, New—York was
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" two national forest‘units will be estab-
lished in Michigan and Minnesota,
with a total area of 2,245,078 acres.

“The Michigan State College will op-

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.FIRE’S TOLL FROM OUR FARMS.

_ chines,“ feed grinders, and similar

‘ is exercised. An examination of the

cause. Investigations carried‘ on in.

, ings, for every $1.00 on rodded build-

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equipment, the loss from fires.,will
continue to increase unless important
steps are taken to prevent it.

. ‘We are told by those closest to the .
situation that from seventy—five to
ninety per cent of the fire losses on
farms can be prevented if proper care

list of causes of farm fires indicates
the reasonableness of this estimate.
Lighting is given as the largest single

Ontario, Michigan, and elsewhere, in-
dicate that when buildings are prop-
erly rodded the protection from light-
ning is practically 100 per cent. One
company in Michigan, 'Which insured
only rodded buildings, and these only
after their inspectors had examined
and approved the rodding, paid out
only $32 for damage by lightning dur-

ing four years on a risk totaling over /

$55,000,000. The $32 covered three
small claims, all due to defects in red-
ding overlooked by the company’s in-
spector. In Iowa for an eight-year pe-
riod insurance companies paid out $76
lightning claims on unrodded build-

ings. The prejudice of farmers against
lightning rods, which dates from a
time when ’many farmers were hoaxed
with improper rodding and unreason-
able prices, needs to be overcome. Too
few farmers recognize the adequacy
of protection from lightning rods prop-
erly installed, or the danger from rods
improperly installed or damaged after
installation.

Defective chimney flues rank second
as known causes of farm fires. Here
we “need education, not only of the
farmer, but also of the builder, so that
chimneys will be constructed with the
bricks laid flat, rather than on edge,

to the ground to_ prevent cracks caused
by settling of timbers. It will also be
desirable to use a. suitable lining.

Fires caused by sparks igniting
roofs, by carelessness~with matches,

by smoking’in barns, by careless use '

of gasoline and kerosene, and in many
other ways, could be almost entirely
eliminated if farmers were made to
appreciate the‘danger and given prop-
er- information on prevention.

' 1 " The lire problem on farms presents
a somewhat‘dmerent aspect from the ‘

problemjn cities. With medern fire-

fighting machinery and methods, city__

people .do not usually pay as great a.
_ carelessness ,~ as do people
thy. mEven after a city fire

  

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' more than protect surrounding build-
ings, and often. even this is impossible.
Individual action by farmers is there-
fore the chief solution of the fire prob-
lem on our farms, and practically the
only solution, unles! inventions and
developments make fire-fighting appar-
ature more useful than they now are
with the sparse settlement and limited
riment station water supplies of the country. Farm
ers should realize that. they ”fle’ paying
eral authorities, in order an enormous tax annually through
“ans or combatting this loss, and that they have it within
the borefi' . their power to reduce the amount of
; the tax considerably. It is important
' If the plans' of. the Michigan Live that their attention he called to meth-
Stock Loss Prevention Association are 0‘19 that they can use to prevent a
large part of this enormous destruc-
tion. Some good work has already
been done along this line by insurance
companies and others, but that the
present work is not adequate is shown
by the fact that the loss goes on in
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Like the all steel sleeping car——
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‘ Tl-IE FAMtLYPROPERTY. .

WOULD like ‘to reply] to “Farmer’s
Wife” in your issue of April 3. My

husband. " I heard a ‘great many arg’u-‘L
ments between him and my mother,

' land early in life decided that when a
' young man and a young woman start-

:ed tot eke a borne, it should be just
{as muc the property of one as the

. .other.

I am now sixty-seven years old, and,
as county surveyor for more than forty
years, I have had abundant opportu-
nity to get acquainted with conditions
on the farms, and as yet have seen
nothing to change my ideas on the

. subject.

There are a. few women so lightly
balanced as to be unable to say “no"
to an unjust demand from a husband,
.such as transferring the title of their
property to their husbands, but Ithlnk
they are far in the minority and are
becoming less all the time.

I was married at the age of twenty-
one, and my wife and I inherited about
equally from our parents, something
like $5,000 in all. We have accumu-
lated, with the inheritance, a. 400-acre
farm, and have built improvements on
it amounting to $12,000.

My wife and I had about the same
vieWs regarding the property question,
and several years ago made a joint
will giving to the survivor the full use
of all our property andrat the death
of the survivor, it is to go to the chil-
dren, according to certain terms.

It seemed only just that the chil-
dren of a first union should be guaran-
teed the net results of the labor of the
parents, while such union existed, and
that any subsequent union of either
should stand on the same footing.
That was the idea behind our will, and
while it seems to be all right, as un-
der ordinary circumstances the income
from a good farm of 400 acres would
likely care for either of us, yet Ithink
there should be a provision in such a
will that the property could be sold in
case it should become necessary to
take care of the survivor. For in-
stance, I have a close neighbor who
was stricken with paralysis after arse
marriage, and, if he should' have put
all of his property out of his hands,
as wife and I did, he and his last wife
might find themselves in straightened
circumstances.

, I am married again, having previoas-
1y informed my present wife as to the
provisions of our will. My present
wife also has a pretty good property.
and instead of asking her 'to transfer
the title to me, I tell her never to put
her property out of her hands under
any circumstances. There is another
point regarding property questions
that seem vital to me. I deposit all
money in the bank and make out all
other personal property papers to my
wife. jointly, so that she can draw on
any of them just as easily :2 can.
As long as my health is good. feel
that I can take care of the business
just as well, and possible better, than
she can, or better than she would have
been able to do had she not always
had the same treatment that I am ex-
tending to her. The facts are that she
is just as able to take care of our busi-

ness as I am, simply because she has

had plenty of experience.

We all have to have our tumbles,
not only in learning to walk, but in
the handling of property._ I well re-
member some of~ theigreen moves I
made when -I started to learn business,
and some of the encouragement my
old friends gave me. I’think "t is high

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dependent upon them. and:their/treate

‘ 4:."J resent 10f usjisa ,neitnreny'.~4neuencsd "

nd

.time that the men of this country «
. make partners of their wives, andlalso
.of ttheir‘thildren, since none ‘of us \ national bank £01198,an _ ,

for Our Reade”. \r i V ’ , __
~ some eatentbyour treatmentmtthnn. :
.I think a woman is only. balf.hviag_.- =

who is not 'amed'n-wordilnxth‘e man:
agement ofrthe business that is of so
vital interest tea/them, and I am. very

sures-that I get"more outofvilfe by '"I
being liberal-minded. tW‘ard my focally '

than some of the pinch-fists I have’be-
‘come acquainted with in the last forty
years—Granddad. ~-

ON GOVERNMENT ECO/MOM Y.

I WAS glad to see in a recent issue,-

your comments on the policy of .

the United States Government in re~
ducing taxes instead of continuing the
present tax and paying our govern—
ment debt. This is the policy men in
business generally pursue, and would
seem to appeal to most such men as
the wiser policy for the government.

Reducing the taxes Ofithf‘ American
people has a. fetching sound, but how
many of the “American people" will
be able to discover any reduction in
their taxes? The statement was re-
cently made on the floor of the United
States Senate by Senator Frazer, of
North Dakota, that the income tax of
Sheretax'y of the Treasury Andrew
Mellon would be reduced a milloin dol-
lars by the new measure, and, singu-
larly enough, he favors such a reduc-
tion. But Mr. Mellon does not run a.
mint, and‘those who use the goods his
factories produce have the tax to pay,
and how many who buy aluminum
wear will be able to discover any re-
duction in the price because of this
reduction in the taxes of the American
'people‘.’ I don't believe that, because
a man holds a high‘offlcial position he
should be singled out for castigation,
We need such capable men for such
positions, and they are entitled to due
honor. But this serves as an instance
of the reduction in the taxes of the.
American people as well as the natur-
al inclination of such men. ‘

The general policy of our govern-
ment doesn’t seem to have’been to pay
our debts. The policy of Great Britain
hasn't been. It. doesn’t see-m to be re-
membered that of our twenty billion
indebtedness just about three-quarters
of a billion is carried over of the old
Civil li‘ar debt, and not a dollar of
that indebtedness has been called
since 1888. Of course, part of that is
composed of the greenbacks—which
we don’t want “paid”—and some of
which has been lost and never trill be
presented for payment, but much of
it is in bonds proper and on which this
countryfithe taxpayers—has been pay—
ing interest ever since the Civil \Var.

Those refunded Civil ’War bonds are

continued, of course, as abasis for the ..

national bank circulation, and if the
bonds were redeemed some other
“basis" would be needed, and the in-
terest rate has been lowered because
of the desirability for this purpose of
those bonds. But why continue such
an unbusiness-like and expensive sys-
tem? The national banks are the only
institutions in this land that are priv-
ileged to draw interest on what they
OWe. Everybody else has to pay in?
terest on what they OWe. But the cap-
ital of the national banks is invested
in bonds, and those bends are only
held by the United States reasury as
security for the notes. If those bonds
were to be redeemed and paid off, the
circulation would not be reduced by a
single dollar, for the bank notes would
simply be exchanged for a different
currency and the banks could go right
on doing business as before. But the

interest on those bonds, which aggre- -

gates at. good deal, notwithstanding the
low rate, would be stopped. . '

'If the people generally thoroughly
understood, the exact. status offitigese
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3 ports“; that "during .December,

105‘ c0w testing associations wet-cop-
”crating, ”eighty-three . .
' parting with a total of‘23,31_1 cows be-
” ing tested ‘in these associations. There-
’were 2,152 " cows which produced above
forty pounds of butter-fat. ‘ ' ‘

The highest producing cow for the
entire state in the age class under
three years, was a pure-bred Jersey
owned by Wm. Knoblock & Sons‘, of

Allegan, Michigan. This cow freshen-
ed, November 9 and produced 1,256
pounds of milk and 76.62 pounds of
butter-fat. A. F. A‘lban, member in the
Chippewa-East Association had the
highest cow‘in the under-four-years-of-
age class. His cow, 9. grade Holstein,
produced 1,457 pounds of milk and
77.22 pounds of butter-fat. The Mich-
igan Reformatory, member in the
Ionia-Belding ‘Association, had the
highest cow in the under five and over
four-years—ggage class. _ This cow, a
four-time a day milker, produced 2,074
pounds of milk and 91.26 pounds of
butter-fat. Jay Bowlby had the high-
est producing mature cow in the en-
tire State of Michigan this month. This
pure-bred Holstein was retested and
under three-timea—day milking produc-
ed 2,554 pounds of milk and 112.38
pounds of butter-fat during the month.

DAI’RY COWS HIGH ER.

IGHE‘R prices for butter and but-i

ter-fat are reflected in higher
.-prices for dairy cows. Butter receipts
are about like those of last year, but
considerably heavier than during the
same period in other recent years. The
production of dairy products has gain-
ed over last year.

CERTlFlED POTATO SEED GIVE
LARGER YlELDS.

REPORTS of the department from
experiment stations, based on 11,-
627 tests, show an actual increase of
46.4 bushels per acre for certified pota-
to seed over uncertified seed. Individ-
ual tests showed an increase of as
much as 219 bushels per acre by the
use of certified seed. And the crop
from good seed will invariably grade
ahighcr per cent of No. 1 stock than
will'that from ordinary seed, thereby
enhancing the value of the good seed.

BEAN EXPORTS DECLINE.

o.

XPORTS of dry beans from the

pnited States have declined stead-
ily since 1919. The 1925 exports of
498,969 bushels are the lowest since
1919‘, according to the department of
commerce. This decrease is due very
largely to increased production in Eu-
ropean countries in 1925.

The Eaton County Farm Council
board of directors now consists of nine
members. This board has one repre3
sentative from each of the following:
Pomona Grange, Gleaners, County
Bankers’ Association, County Minis-
terial Association, County" Farm Bu-
reauhthe combined business men’s as-
sociation, and three from the board of
supervisors. This organization has
control of the countyflagent work.

FINDS ANOTHER ELEMENT.

.. Dr. B. S. LHopkins, professor of
chemistry at the University of Illinois,

has found one of the five unknown’.

chemical elements. It is known to
science as No. 61. Thus far eighty-
seven of the possible ninety—two sim-
:ple substances known on earth have
. ., been'found.

’9 hi,6 general index“ of purchasing
. . ‘ a‘roductd in term of

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eed salt and save feed ’

say eminent agricultural authorities

The subject of scientific feeding, balanced rations, is receiving in-
. creasing attention from stock raisers and farmers.

feeding of salt has been given special thought and study.

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AN, .. HURQH :13 Bolt Moore
climbed ever the rail feneealong
Warren'Lyon's supper meadow, ‘
“ ‘and struck. down through. the
field tothe willow fringe along Buck-

‘ horncreek. .

May was marching across the fields,

spreading a bright tapestry beneath
her feet as she went. Gray silken cat-
’ kins on the willows had grown large,
“ Were dusted with golden pollen, and
laden with a nectar so pungently
sweet that bees and tiny flies dared
together the rigors of the chill spring
air, to feast on it. Marshes were tak-
ing on a faint tinge of green, where
sword-like grasses pushed up from the
bogs. Clover dotted the meadows in
bright tufts. Here and there early
dandelions fiecked the fields with scat-
tered specks of gold. The marshes
were riotous with the same bright col-
or, Where cowslips bloomed rankly,
and in the dry woods shy liverworts
pushed their flowers up through the
sun-warmed, rich smelling leaf carpet.

iSwelling buds had opened on the
trees, turning the hardwoods a magic
frosted green. From the depths of
them a dove called plaintively, “Coos
coo-coo-oo.” A blue bird undulated
across the meadow, caroling as he
went, on his way to a hollow post
along the lower end of the field, where
a nest was already under way.

The two men came to the willow
fringe, followed it upstream, keeping
back ashort distance from the banks,
to where a fallen maple made a gap

    
   
 
  
    
 
   
 
  
    
    
     
 
  
   
    
  
   
    
    
   
 
 

  
 
       

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A small flock of grackles and red-
wing blackbirds followed in his wake,
searching the fresh turned moist earth
ea‘gerly for’ squirming delicacies.
When he stopped and turned to face
them, these retiz’ed a shortdistance.
When he pulled the plow backin the
furrow till it was free .of soil, so that
the. horses might take up their great
burden without sudden strain, and had
started them with a word, plodding
steadily ahead again, the birds came
up close, lighting fearlessly ahead of
the team, close beside the man, wher-
ever they chose. '

The fishermen in the grove watched
the progress of the slow, patient work
while they ate. Dan nodded finally in

The Trouble With The Markets

By‘ W Leonhardt

The silent Dolt smiled, and paid out
more of his silken line.

Below the next bend some bright
blue thing lay on a dry heap of brush,
on the south slope of the bank, where
the sun struck warm. Dolt saw it first
and stopped fishing. He made no com-
ment, but stood silent, admiring, ap
preciating that bit of coiled sky, till
the blue-racer, alarmed at the swish of
Dan’s rod tip against the willows, un-
curled and flashed away, up the bank.

“See that?” Dan’cn'edr‘dust a streak
of blue. Sunning himself, likely.” He
took off his old felt hat and lifted his
face ,to the warm spring sun. “Don’t
blame him any,” he remarked.

A new sound reached them sudden-

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ment, silently~“he Was about ten or d... ll-
eleven then. He’s about thirteen years. ' ‘
younger_ than me." . ‘ >

They finished their lunch, leaned
back and basked contentedly in the
warm noonday sun. Dan watched Ly- .
ons unhitch the'-«“ team from the plow "
and start across the field toward the
house. From the village of Silver— . ' .
wood, five miles distant, the sound of .1 g:
the noonday whistle at the wagon fac- ' ‘
tory, came faintly. .

“Works till plumb twelve," Dan .
said. Dolt made no answer. He was .. .
studying through half closed eyes‘the
work of an early honeybee, in a. white
trillium chalice, and had fallen into
his habitual silence again.

In the lower end of the woods a
partridge drummed. Both men turned
to face the sound, without comment.
From overhead, presently, a new A ’
spring song trailed down to them, re- '
mote, but clarion clear. A woodcock
had gone aloft for his frenzied wooing,
that would. not cease till after the
warm spring dusk had fallen, and the
evening star su’nk below the rim of
the sky. Dipping and swinging, the.

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in the thick willows.
selves on the

he had worn rolled dow
on the tram
joined together their long slender; rods,
fitted the reels in their seats, filled and
lighted stained and ancient pipes, and
stood up.

Church, the older of the two, and
the heavier, a solid rotund man, like
a well-grown, unpruned tree, studied
the stream.

“Water’s high this spring, Dolt,” he
commented.

The slighter Dolt. tall and angular,
nodded silently, while he took a flat
tobacco tin from a pocket in his loose
floppy coat, fished therefrom a pair of
huge, twistingly \ resentful earth-
worms, looped them deftly and loosely
on his tiny hook.

“Snow was late melting, Dan,” he
reminded. '

Together they stepped down into
the cold fast water of the little stream,
gave the writhing masses of worms
to the swirling turbulent current, be-
gan to pay out line, slowly, from the
reels.

A kingfisher stopped just overhead,
. scolding them harshly for their intru~
sion. The big Dan laughed good—na-
turedly. “Why, you greedy scamp,” he
berated the bird. “All you can get is
chubs anyway, and if we catch them
we'll throw ’em back for you!"

From the distant woods, above the
tinkling ripple of the current, sucking
over stones, under driftwood logs,
came the prolonged sad call of the
mourning dove. Dan stopped the care-
ful movement of his rod tip, whereby
he strove to coax the hook into a dark
cave beneath the overhanging roots
of a basswood clump, and listened a
long minute. ,

“Funny chap,” he said thoughtfully.
“You'd think to hear him he was the
lonesomest thing in the woods. But
he ain’t. That’s his nesting song." He
paused to give attention to the rod
again. “You know, Dolt. if I couldn’t
go trout fishing, when the cowslips
come out, and the mournin' dove starts
callin’, I don’t know what I’d do! I
don’t see how a man stands it to plow
or make garden this kind of weather,
without stoppin’ to pick up every wig-
glin’ angleworm he turns up!”

Seating them-
smooth gray trunk of
the old true, they went deliberately
‘ about preparing for their fishing. Each
pulled up and strapped the hip boots
n to the knees,
p across the upland. They

I’ve an old and very aged friend
Who couldn’t sell his wool;

The market, it was crowded,

And every buyer full.

A youthful friend then offered
For to help the situation;

In confidence he told him

It would help most every nation.
“Come! Pass it to me quickly,"
Said this patriarch of old.

“I was over self-indulgent

In the greediness for gold."

80 the youth abruptly told him

If the ladies would but wear
Their dresses a little higher
Where their necks are somewhat bare,

It would make an awful difference
In some million pounds of wool,

Since the sheiks were wearing panties

That Were rather large and full.
And, if they wore dresses

Farther down below the knee,

The financial situation

Would be bettered, you'll agree.
“There is method in your madness
And the truth you may have spoke,
But I want to tell you, youngster,
That I’m not exactly broke.

I’m not bragging of my riches,

And my pocketbook ain’t full,

But as the skirts are hung today,
I'd sooner keep my wool."

 

 

ly, from a strip of flooded marsh, be-
hind the fringe of willows. A bittern,
so touched with the magic of May,
that he could not wait till sunset for
his wooing to begin, was pumping out
his gutteral love song to a mate, hid-
den somewhere in the dead rushes."

The two fishermen laid their rods
down on the bank, and crept on hands
and knees together through the wil-
lows, to where they could see the un-
gainly tall marsh bird, standing
staunch and straight in the shallow
water, while he bubbled forth his hol-
low—~“Lump—ga—roo! Lump-ga-roo!”

“Go. it, old stake-driver," Dan whis-
pered. “I wouldn’t think I was trout
fishin’, if I didn’t hear you." They
crept silently back to their fishing,
leaving the bird undisturbed.

They ate lunch an hour before noon,
sitting in a sunny spot in a grove of
ancient. oaks, a mile down stream
from the fallen maple, where they had
begun fishing. While they ate, they
watched Warren Lyons, plowing in the
corn stubble field below the woods.

Back and forth across the long field,
patient and untiring behind his three-
horse team, slowly, steadily widening
the brown band of fresh turned fur--
rews. At intervalshe stopped the
team for a few brief minutes of rest.
While they stood, relaxed and slumped,
dark sweat and patches of dirty lather
drying under the loosened harness, Ly-
ons turned his back ‘to them, so he
might lean back on the plow handles,
while he studied the band of straight
furrows behind him.

the direction of the‘plowman.
“Hardest worki
ship,” he commented.
farmers around
ing plows. No ri
though.”

“The

The silent Dolt nodded, by way Of,

answer.

“Do you know
have fished the
twelve or thirteen years now, since
Warren bought this place, and in all
that time we’ve never seen him fishin’
once. Works like a horse, summer and
winter, that man does!”

Dolt nodded again, watched the team
turn at the end of a furrow, saw the
swiftness with which Lyons dragged
the plow into place, was himself mov-
ed to comment.

“I watched him in haying, when I f

was fishin’ for bluegills, down on the
lake last July. I could see the side of
his lower meadow from the lake. He
worked there one whole day, alone,
loadin’ from the ground, with Mary
driving the team, and he never walked
a step that day. Ran from one hay«
cock to the other, and cleaned them
big bunches of timothy atone forkful,
all but a handful of. loose rakings!”

Dan leaned back, stretched and sigh—
ed a fisherman’s deep sigh "- of com-
fortable contentment.

"And what has it got him and
Mary," he mUSed. “Slaved their lives
almost away, and they’ve got the farm,
what ain’t lake or crick or hills, out

of the hundred and twenty acres, an’
I guess they’re out of debt on it, or

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other
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ding plow for Warren,

,” Dan resumed, “we
Buckho-rn here for

marsh bird sent his wing song, born

of the spring air he ‘cleaved, down at

regular intervals. An ecstatic throb‘

bing whistle, cadenced perfectly. The

fishermen listened to the first few ,
measures. Common impulse stirred

them, and they arose, picked up their

rods, and moved toward the stream.

They came up from their fishing in
midafternoon, crossing Warren .Lyons’
plowed field, on the way‘ to the road.
He saw them coming, stopped his team
where their course would intercept his
furrow, and rested till they came up
to him, calling a greeting to them
while they were yet some distance
away.

“Hello Dan, and Dolt.”

“Hello, Warren.” They stopped be
hind the plow, sitting down on‘ the un-
turned side of the furrow to rest while
they talked.

“Been fishing, eh ?” Lyons queried. ‘

Dan nodded. “First time this year,"
he said.

“I told Mary

 

last night it was gettin’
time for you to come out trout fishin',"
Warren told them. “We had our first
pieplant pie for supper last night. I
knew'it muSt be about time. Any
luck?” . '

“Fair,” Dan said. He opened his .
creel, drew from’its cool, grass-lined {'
depths, four trout, wrapped them in a. '3
handful of young marsh grass from
the creel. ,

“Put them in a cool place in the s.
shade of the fence when you get down "_
to the end of this furrow,” he said, ‘
“and take ’em up for supper.”

“Shucks now, Dan,“ Lyons protest-
ed. “You don’t need to do that." The
big fisherman silenced him with a.
laughing gesture, and Dolt looked up
rom an inspection of his own creel.
“Sure four’s enough for a meal, War-
ren ?" he asked.

“All we can eat," Lyons declared,
“and thanks to both of you.”

“Say, \Varren,” Church began sober—
ly, "Dolt and l was talkin’Jhis after-
noon. Vt‘e have fair luck down in the
creek there, but there ain’t the trout
there that there was ten years ago.
The state’s got a new hatchery, up at
Glen Springs, and they’re furnishing
young trout free for planting. Trying
to keep the streams stocked. We was
wondering how you'd feel about it, if
we sent up and got a can or two of ,
fry, and,put ’em in there. If we do it
every spring, for a few years, it ought
to help a lot. We’d get the benefit in
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to. You can plant young bull frogs if creek. The whole strip on this side chances of purchase. He crossed the
i I you want,” he laughed. “I’ve told you is black and bare as a rock!” yard, put rod and creel away in the
*‘-\ beforeto do anything you like down “Like it!” Lyons exclaimed angrfly, car, and together they went down

there in the crick. It’s all waste-land.

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3 in the spring. Sure, Dan, go ahead.”
‘ ,, CHAPTER II

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.. road from Silverwood was a-pleasant

i" , winding vista, paséing over ridges
i where scrub oaks were Coming out in
0 leaf, scarlet and silver-powdered green,
dip-ping down into hollows where Wild

plum and hawthorne thickets and scat-

tered wild crab apples made riotous

banks of bloom. A closed car, long

and low, with a single occupant, came

, down the road as far as the bridge
across Buckhorn Creek, and stopped.
‘ T In the center of the length of rail
-. , fence that spanned the creek, nailed
to the top rail, eifectively barring in-
gress to the turbulent, willow fringed,
down-stream stretches. was a big

hand-painted sign.
“No fishing."

bordered road.

big robust man, just past middle age.

clear. and firm, but not unkindly. His
clothing, like his car, bespoke control-
led prosperity an enjoyment ot‘ the
plentiful resources at his command,
that yet scorned pretentiousness.

It was Sunday. Warren answered
the stranger's knock.

“Good morning,” the big man said
. { briskly. .
} “Good mornin’.” Lyons’ greeting

was cordial enough, yet his tone held

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“I see you have a posted stream
down the road a short ways,” the
;\ stranger said. “Must be good trout
2 fishing.” ’

Z . “Fair,” Warren conceded.
;' “I thought so, or you wouldn’t both-
! er to post it,” the other Commented.
“ _s there any way I can get to fish in
it today?" ‘
. “W’hy~” the old landowner in the
\\ doorway hesitated. “Why, I guess so,
yes.”
“I’d expectto pay,” the man said
pleasantly.
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l ,/ May marched across the fields again,
'; . unrolling her bright tapestry over
. meadows, marshes and ‘woods. The

After a brief minute’s survey the big
car started smoothly on climbed un-
laboring the knoll'beyond the bridge,
resumed its silent way along the brush

In front of “’arren Lyons’ house it
drew aside out of the Wheel tracks,
and stopped. The lone occupant climb-
ed out, and Went across the yard to—
ward the front door of thehouse. A

Iron gray hair, and steel gray eyes,

 

that.” His wife appeared in the door-
way behind him, silvery haired and
smiling. .

“We’ve had a sight of trouble with
folks tramping over our place, the last
year or two,” she explained apologet-
ically. “Warren’s got all out of’iia-
tience. That’s why he put up that
sign. But mostly they don’t pay no
attention to it.”

-The stranger nodded. “I under-
stand,” he said. “If I may use your
stream today, though, Mr.—?”

 

“Lyons,” Warren told him cordially.

“Mr. Lyons,” the man resumed. “I
will promise you no abuse.”

He came up from fishing late in the
aftern00n, a row of flies stuck about
the brim of his hat, his creel well fill—
ed, a wide grin of satisfaction Crink-
, \.\ ling the corners of his mouth, and an

odd zestful gleam in his gray eyes.
He found Warren standing at the
(Edge. of the orchard, watching pink
3 ow drift down from the laden trees.
“Great stream down there, Mr. Ly-
ons,” be greeted the older man, indi-
‘ eating with a sweep of his rod case,
the reacheS'of Buckhorn from the road
bridge to the lake, at the foot of War-
ren’s lower fields. . V ‘
Lyons nodded. “Fishermen usually
like it,” he agreed. -
' “Do you own both banks?” the
stranger asked.
Lyons nodded again. “That’s my
back line, there aCI'OSS the field "be-
yond the creek,” he said, pointing;
“The .br-ushy hedgerow, and the rail
fence?” the other asked.
“Yes,” Lyons said. “It runs into the
corner of the lake, there a few rods
‘West of the mouth of the creek. I.
own all the creek, and an acre or two
of the lake on this end."

The stranger studied the land a min-
ute, lips nursed, speculative puckers
at the corners of his eyes. '

“You’ve got a great building spot,
down in that oak grove,” he said.

_ “Bolt Moore, and Dan Church always

liked, hat I bye?- .Warren told him
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' se’" No good to me. onlytwe get a mess 01' set by a couple of men fishing last fields-

\ two of cowslip greens out of the marsh week. I saw it burning and went At the fence across the lower end of

dowu. Ordered them out, and at first the firSt meadow,

. 0. The did pointing to a square hole, Where the
fillleaylli§tbutgle¥hgyou$§£ slighty Ishean “T1593 had been cut and benpback. .
about it. I felt pretty bad about that ,, Hunters did that 135‘. f9“, he sald'
fire,” he added slowly. “I was work- Needs patching, but I amt found t1me

in’ down there along the crick yester- yet. They ”roiled
day afternoon, fixin’ fenge. Found I???“ bEILCh- He
more than a dozen redwing nests, in 15 gr.etances as

the willows, and three or four 1;“.ka fed a flock of quail, down in that swale
nests up along the meadow, all burned below the barn, all W}D_UBI' the year
up. One old, stake-driver got caught before About twanty in the flock.
by the fire, and a nest of young rab- Theyd stayed aro

bits.” was almost as

u - p u These fellows flushed ’em out in the
“I $32,121,525”? Séolhvleoitfiagifrfig reed. orchard. I was huskin’ corn in the south

He turned to Warren suddenly. field, and heard th
“Would you sell here, Mr. Lyons?" “I" and there com

. . Just six birds came over. I got up
Lyons stared at him, surprised, could . . '
for a moment find no answer. “Why and started to the house to Older the

why, I don’t know,” he said at last, nunters oil. I was

' lo fr 1‘1 1‘ . A :
fumblingyvith the words. “VVe’ve of- mg a nb the 0 01a d fenm, whtn one

ten talked about it, Mary and me. Get- Of em ShOt again.

tin’ old and tired of chores, and all.”

someway, we never just got ready to of the orchard. I
leave. Always figgered we had to make all right Four of
a living somewheres, and we was out ‘ '
of debt here. lhl don‘t know What

” shot the cut, because cats killed so
to sa .

, _ man oun ua'l.
“Well,” the man said quietly, “I’ve y y g q 1

taken a fancy to the place here. It’s chance! An’ they

, __ had a dozen of my the least Mme?" you may ‘
away from the main “351(13an SQ” 0‘ quail in their pockets right then!” fyalgfi‘jgifigf”°§ffe‘;’§$§$"§%‘{2
quiet. I JUSt found my “'33 through (Concluded next week). 8501bs.Pricesaslowas$24.95.

by accident. Took the wrong turn at
the corners south of Silverwood. I
like that stream, too. I’ll buy it' you "The character 0

want to sell.” ly shaped by the homes in which they Ge? °ur “fer firs“ Shipping

“Maybe you'd like to lock the fields dwell. The profou

over, Mr.— early childhOOd are
‘fPardon me," the stranger said. “I circle.”

tau; Theyasedto talk forgot. Haynes is my name.”
about‘that‘ patch of oak a lot. Used “Mr. Haynes,” Warren finished. "Go
’1: "fish: none myself. to stop there and eat lunch, most ev— around the line fences and get an idea
Never seem to find time.' ' Only time cry time they went fishin’.” of the place.”

we get a mess of fish is when you two “Great, building spot,” the man said Haynes saw tha
catch ’em and give ’em to us. But just again. “But say, I don’t like the idea oldenman if he made the trip of in-
go ahead. Put in all .the fish you'want of burning over the marsh along the spection. That it would better his

there was old Boots, Mary's 01d cat

He stopped again, looked off across that sled had ttn years rolling and

, “ twistin’ around under a little heap of
the fieldS, went on uncertainly. But apple brush I’d piled up at the corner

seen me, behind the fence. Said they tonny°“'°wnway'at°m

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formation is very anxious to know,
and also asks if it is safe to allow
children from a home where typhoid
exists to'attend school, church and so-
cial gatherings. My opinion is that
this case of typhoid does not exist in
the family of the inquirer. He feels
that «quarantine is rather slack. He
wonders if his own family is in dan~
ger. Very properly, indeed, he asks
for information.

I have been engaged in public health
work for many years, but I admit that
the question of- quarantine is just as
vexing now as ever. Take this mat;
ter of typhoid fever, for example: For—
merly it was not considered conta-

, gious at all. Nowadays we know that it

is very decidedly contagious. Yet we
also know that proper precautions in
handling the discharges from the body
of the patient will give perfect safety
against the spread of contagion. It is
not a diseaSe that a visitor to the sick
room Wi carry about in his clothing.
We doubt if there are any-such dis-
eases. There is no reason why the
family of a typhoid patient should be
shut away from the public, but there
is every reason for daily inspection of
every member of the family.

Even in the diseases that are consid-

'ervd more virulent as to contagion,

the same principle is true. We shut
up all the children who live in the
house of a patient with diphtheria, but
it is not because we fear that there
is some mysterious entity that they
will carry on their clothing; it is be-
cause we do not know what time the
apparently well child‘will develop the
disease and, having it himself, Will
thus infect others.

More and more we inclined to the
opinion that most contagious diseases
are transmitted only by contact with
one who carries in himself the germs
of the disease. As we find more vac-
cines against Specific diseases, we may
be able to render, ourselves safe with-
out having quarantine. For example,
you are perfectly safe against small-
pox and typhoid if vaccinated against
them. Soon we may find it Wise to be
vaccinated against six or ten diseases
in childhood, and thus be safe from
contagion forever.

VARIOUS STYLES OF ITCH.

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What is the difference between Cu-
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diseases, or what precautions should
one use?_ Which is the most common
at this time of year? Some one of"
these three, or perhaps all three, have
been prevalent in this part of Michi-
gan, for several years. Is any one of
these like' the old-fashioned itch?—
Mrs. M. M.

Cuban Itch means nothing. It is~a
name sometimes applied by rather un-
scrupulous doctors toklight cases of
smallpox which they do not care to
report. .. Imptigo Contagiosa is most
common in children, and generally be-
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one child jo‘the other by using the
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I have high blood pressure. Would
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out tobacco and cofiee?—X. Y. Z.

Is is true that the use of stimulants
and narcotics of all kinds aggravate
high blood pressure, but I don’t think
you are going to work at the problem
in the right way. Instead of selecting
certain things and offering to cut them
out in the hope that by so doing you
may possibly make some gain, you
should go right to the bottom of this
matter. You should insist upon a.
searching investigation as to the cause
of the high blood pressure. If there
is cause for suspecting that excessive
indulgence in tea, coifee or tobacco
may be the source of your trouble, by
all means cut out these luxuries, but
first make sure that such is the case
or you will be disappointed in your
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I have. two bunions on my feet and
they pain terribly. Can you tell me
how to get rid of them?—Miss S.

If the bunions are of recent develop-
ment they will go away by taking off
the pressure of ill-fitting shoes. You
can buy a bunion protector, to wear
inside the shoe, at any good shoe
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F one meeting does all this, I won-
der what six will do,” said Mrs.
A.’ s husband after inspecting the
changes made in Mrs. A.’ 8 kitchen as
a. result of the suggestions gained at
the first Household Management meet-v
ing held by Mrs. A. L. Bradbury, a.
local leader in Washtenaw county.
Saved Twenty-two Steps.
After checking up on the arrange-
ment of the kitchen and pantry, Mrs.
A. discovered that she was taking very

 

 

A Good Egg Beater Speeds up the
Beating.
unnecessary steps.
boaids and shelves were moved fiom
the pantr5 to the kitchen and placed-
near the w01k table and sink. Mis. A.
had leained that equipment and ma-

many Her cup-

terials if used at the same time,
should be placed in close proximity in
order to save time and energy. After
the change. only eleven steps were
necessary to gtt cooking equipment
and ingredients together. It had taken
thirty three steps with the 01d ar—
rangement. The old pantry was made
0v e1 into a laundry, which again saved
time and energy. “I wouldn’t go back
to the old way for anything,” contin—
ued Mrs. A.

Washtenaw county is one of the
seven counties where the home- mak-
exs am studying household manage-
ment undei the diiection of Edna V.
Smith, of Michigan State College. The
other counties are Cass, St. Joseph,
Hillsdalc, Allegan and Mecosta. This
work is reaching 107 local groups or
communities, with 173 local leaders
enrolled, and 1,026 women enrolled.

Miss Smith defines household man-
agement as “the wise spending of our-

 

“To make. and inspire the home,

To lessen suffering and increase
happiness,

To aid mankind in its upward
struggle,

To enoble and adorn life’s work
however humble,

These are women’s high preroga-
tives.”

 

selves, our strength, our time. and our

money." It means a very careful study ’

of the wiSest expenditure of the in-
come and other resources.

Since statistics show that the aver»
age housewife spends seventy per
cent of he1 time in the kitchen, Miss
Smith centers the that year’s project
around the work shop or food labor-
atory of the homemthe kitchen. The
kitchen alone presents many complex
problems which can only be solved
, with careful study It is here that

, mother assembles the food materials

of the. farm and the nation, and pre-

pares them for the table, according to
- the latest information available in nu-
trition and food preparation; it is here

“that mother must wash the dishes 365

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still more problems for the busy house-
wife. It is therefore apparent that the
kitchen is a vital part of the home and
deserving of careful study.

Miss Smith first introduces a kitch-
en score card which is really an out-
line of the course. The first point is
the consideration of the furniture. It
must be so arranged that the house-
wife can perform her duties with the
greatest efficiency. In the second place
the type of furniture must be right for
the comfort of the individual worker,
and it should be in good condition.

The second point on the score card
is equipment. 'Again arrangement is
discussed. such pointed questions as
these are asked. Are pieces of equip-
ment used at the same time stored in
the same drawer or cupboard to save
time and steps? Do you have a suffi—
cient number? Are the various places
satisfactory in size and shape; are
they convenient. to handle, free from
rough edges and unnecessary grooves?
Are the handles of the right kind? Are
lips properly placed in sauce pan and
kettle? Will it be used enough to jus-

tify its purchase? A discussion follows
on the quality, use and care of the
equipment.
Kitchen Must Have Beauty.

The next question is beauty in the
kitchen, for Miss Smith believes with
Lord Byron, “I live not in myself, but
I become a portion of that around
me ”

\Vhat kind of floors and floor cove1-

ings are m o s t
s u i t e d to the
kitchen ? Should

it be hardwood or
softwood, w i t h
linoleum or other
coverings, a n d
how should such

woodwork,
ing.

 

Miss Edna Smith.

Then comes the delightful discus-
sion, “From the Kitchen to the Dining-
room and Back.”

used, follows.

Every woman wants to know how
to, serve a meal properly. She wants
to know how it can be served with
the least time and energy.

Hot foods must appear on the table,
hot and cold foods, such as salads,

By L. M.

She doesn’t boil soap in her grandmother’s way,

be treated? Adis-
cussion of walls,‘
light-
both natural
and artificial, and
just what kind of
curtains shall be

to Save Step: and to Serve Family [VIM a M]! Balanced Rattan

cold. One of the greatest helps in set— the business of housekeeping.

ting the table and serving the meal is
some form of service wagon. It is
almost equal to a second person.
“Such a. wheel tray may be made out
of an old-fashioned washstand," says
Miss Smith.

The story, however, is not complete

until the dishes are washed and again

ready for use. The dish washing
equipment is important. A demonstra-

 

A Dish Drainer Saves Time, Towels
and Steps.

tion of cleaning of silver, aluminum
and braSS carries many suggestions.

Local leaders and group members in
their various counties are finding the
work most helpful. In Genesee county,
Mrs. Flora L. Faner and Mrs. Annis
L. Scully report that practices adopted
from the project are put on a contest
basis. The side that reports the great-
est number of kitchen improvements
will be tendered a banquet by the los-
ing side. Mrs. Eugene Ladner, of Me-
‘costa county, made this statement that
she refrained from attending Dollar
Day in Big Rapids because she was
not sure that she knew what equip-
ment she needed just then. . Many of
the women are developing a keener
sense of values. .

Able to Take a Day of Rest.

Forty women have reported that be—
cause of the system they had devel-
oped in their scheme of housekeeping,
they were able 'to take a rest each
day. Innumerable changes in arrange-
ment and purchases of equipment
have been reported.

This form of extension work is mak-
ing it clear that the largest single fac-
n the life of the family is the
home. Since mother so often must do
her work alone, labor-saving conven-
iences are necessary. She must have
time to think about the selection of
foods and preparation of meals; she
.must have time to associate with her
children in reading, music and play;
time to meet with neighbors; time to
go to town; and time to consider her
own needs. This can only be aCcom—
plished when she has a well-ordered
house, and a clear understanding of

tor 1

A Modern Farm Woman

Thornton

is

And she’s never too busy to laugh or to, play

' With her "kids" trooping in, rosy checked from their school,

For she does everything by an
She doesn't spend hours rubbi

But has every help that her purse can afford,

up-todate rule.
ng clothes on a board,

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For her bank book shows always a. healthy increase,

While her biddies lay eggs and she sells ducks and geese.
She reads farming journals and gatherafrom these, ’
Suggestions and help hints her husband to’.please.- '

She does all his errands, ’tis better by far ’

When everyone’s busy that She runs the car. .
Oh, the modern farm woman’ s a partner worth while, .
. She can save, ,she "ca pea ,-

include the living-room and other fea- ,
tures which will make the house more
livable. -—-—Mrs. Julia Brekke. »

 

The new project for next year will

SWEET- SCENTED FLOWERS FOR
SPRING.

 

VER since I have been old enough

-to notice gardens, I have thought
that there was something more subtle
and wonderful about the unseen charm
of fragrance, than the more striking
charm of color. My mOther never con-
sidered he1 flower garden complete
Without a few mignonettcrplants.1‘o
many, this plant is unattractive, be-
cause of its lack of color, but. in mak-
ing up bouquets of less‘fragrant flow-
ers, a few sprays will add just the
right delicate odor.

There are many charming favorites
that possess both color and fragrance,
and these include sweet peas. sweet—
leaved geraniums, petunias, phiox,
stocks and the like; but for additional
fragrance we must resort to many of
the old-time favorites. In our grand
mothers’ day there were few gardens
but that could boast of a. clump of lav-
endar, sweet-leaved geraniums, rose-
mary, thyme, lemon-scented verbena,
and sweet-smelling herbs of various
sorts. As soon as the spring seed cat—
alogues come I am always anxious to
sit down and pick out a number of
sweet—scented flowers for my spring
garden—Mrs. N. P.

A HINT FOR EVERY DAY.
Saturday—To toughen a. new‘ broom
so it will last twice as long, add a tea—
spoon of lye to two gallons of hot wa~
ter. Let the broom stand« in this for
an hour. . '
, Sunday.—SCratches on silver, if not
too deep, can be removed by rubbing
the places with Chamois skin dipped
in olive oil.

Monday—Make a sleeve board by
covering a solid roll cf paper with a
cloth. This may he slipped into a
sleeve with the seam pressed open.

Tuesday—Add two tablespoons of
powdered alum to the paste with
which you are going to paper a me-
dium-sized room and it will stick
much better.

Wednesday.——In making tucks by
hand, sew the tucks on an unthreaded
machine first. The tucking can be/
made more even by following the
needle holes.

Thursday. —When lace becomes yel—'
low, wet it and place on a clean cloth
in the sunlight. Time is required for
the bleaching process and the lace
must be kept wet ‘ ..

Friday—Save the liquid left in the
jars of pickled peaches and pears.
Pour a cup of this liquid, together
with a cup of water, over a. beef or
_ ham roast-and haste frequently. The
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gathering. Only part of the prize-win—

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Week. The remaining ones will ap-
pear next week—M. C.

A Blow-out.

Pick out two captains and let them
choose sides. Give each person a new
paper sack (four or, five-pound size).
They are not to open them up un_til
the leader gives the signal. The cap-
tains then open their sacks and blow
them up and burst them. Then the
next in line and so on. each one must
wait until the last one has his sack
.bursted before he even opens up his
sack. The game is to see which side
gets all their sacks bursted first.

Jumping the Jar. _

Place three quart glass jars in a row’
.on the floor. ,Then blindfold a person
and pick up .the‘jars as carefully as
‘ possible so he will not hear them. Tell
him to step over the three without
touching any of them. Someone even
pretends to guide him, and he raises
his feet so gingerly, and steps so high,
that he is very much chagrined when
the blindfold is removed and he sees
the jars have disappeared. Part of the
party can be in another room. The
stunt can be repeated a number of
times. .

Barnyard Echoes.

The guests are arranged in a circle
and the leader tells each one secretly
“to be perfectly quiet,” but one he
tells to “bark like a dog” or “bellow
like a bull” or "quack like a duck” or
to represent some barnyard animal.
Then at a signal, each one is told to
do, with all his might, what they were
told to do. If it is done quickly so

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that is to yell something, will yell so

loud that it is quite a joke.
Slang‘Contest.

Hand each person a pencil and pa-
per and tell them to write all the slang
words or phrases they can think of in
five minutes. The one who has the
most is told he ought to be ashamed
to know so much slang and is award-
ed the “booby” and the one with the
least is given a small prize and is
commended for his good English.

Stants From a Hat.

.Write on slips of paper different
stunts to be performed, such as “dance
a jig," “sing a verse of a certain song,"
“shake hands W/ith-your nearest neigh-
bor," “leap like a rabbit,” and ever so
many things a person thinks, of. Each
guest chooses a slip from a hat. and
in turn must do his stunt.

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An egg race is done by several per—
sons each trying to carry a supposedly
fresh egg on a. teaspoon to a certain,
point. Hold the spoon in only one,
hand. If the egg drops and breaks}
you’re out of the race, ,but if it drops’
and you pick it up and put it back on i
the spoon and get there first. second;
or third you get a small prize. Lots
of fun as it isn’t so easy as it sounds.
A big surprise awaits the contestants
when they discover that the eggs are
hard boiled.

Make ,a Spring Bonnet.

Let each man choose. a girl, then
give each man a newspaper He is
to try to make a hat for his partner.
Have a judge to decide which is the
prettiest and best and give a small
prize. Give them just two or three
minutes to make the hat—Mrs. C. E.
L., of St. Ignace, Mich.

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No._ 250—Child’s Pajamas. Cut in
sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. The
8-year size requires 2% yards of 36-
’inch material.

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No. 356~Button-down-the-front Dress
for Girls. Cut in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and
14 years. Size 8 requires 2% yards of
32-inch material, with 5,4 yard of 18-
inch contrasting.

55} LM-ichigan Farmer Pattern. Service
[misting on Fullness, T diet it Fr'om S’zirring:

binding.

in Flare:

material.

No. 484—Bloomer Dress. Cut in siz-
es 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. The 4-year size
requires 2% yards of 36—‘inch material,
with 3/3 yard of 40-inch contrasting.

No. 483—Juniors are Wearing
Flares. Cut in sizes 6, 8, 10‘, 12 and 14
years. The 8-year size requires- 2 yards
of 32 or 36-inch material, with 1/, yard
of 40-inch contrasting.

No. 493—Afternoon Frock. Cut in
sizes 16 years, 36, 38, ~40 and 42 inches
bust measure. Size 36 requires 3 yards
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By Julia.

0 many houses are (Wm-decorated
with pictures As soon as the av-
erage housewife sees, a blank,
space on the wall/she says to herself:
“That place will just do for that little
landscape, or a 'JapaneSe print.” The
landscape or print is placed on the
wall just as soon as -it can be pur-
chased. -
We once saw a room built entirely
round a pair of blue eyes. The blue
eyes belonged to 7a lady in a picture.
She had on a blue scarf and a white
dress,“ and apart from the blue carpet,
there was no other color in the room.
,And, of course, no other picture.‘
The charm of the water-color de-
pends almost entirely on its environ-
ment. And the right environment for
water-colors is the living-room and the
bedrooms in country; houses. Water-
colors lose all their delicacy and sig-
nificance in large rooms. To create
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No. 481—Street Frock. Cut in sizes
16 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust
measure. Size 36 requires 3% yards
of 40-inch material, with 57;, yard of
40-inch contrasting.

 

No. 470v-Attractive Apron.

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sizes 1‘6 years, 36, 3
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6% yards of braid
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inches bust measure.

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No. 494—Popular Design. Cut in
sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches
bust measure. Size 36 requires 4 yards
of 36-inch material, with ‘34 yard ofi
24-inch contrasting and 2 yards of
binding.

No. 344—Slip-on Dress. Cut in sizes
16 years, 36, 38, 40, 42-and 44 inches
bust measure. Size 36.requires 31/2
yards of 40-inch material, With 154
yards of 18-inch contrasting.

  
     
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
   
   
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

   

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No. 348—Frock with Circular Flare.
Cut in sizes 16 years, 36, "38, 40 and
42 inches bust measure. > Size 36 re-
quires 3% yards of 40—inch material,
with .176 yard of 27-inch contrasting,
and 2% yards of binding.

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sizes 16 years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44
Size 36 requires
3% yards of 36-inch material, with %

wNo. 475—Suitable for Bordered Lg.-
Size .
36 requires 2 yards of 54-inch bordered

'No. 490—Dress of Tailored Genre. ‘
Cut in- sizes 16 years, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44
Size_36
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roundings, they would 'have to be
massed together, and such treatment
would be ugly. NeVer, under any cir-
cumstances, have deeply colored mar-
gins around your pictures.

It is within the means of almost all
.to collect a few prints. The prints
,may be portraits or landscapes, and
are beautiful framed in moulded black
with a tiny scalloped border of gold.
Uncolored prints do* best entirely
alone, with no colored pictures nearby
to make them look drab, and they
.must have plenty of light to bring out
their own subtle color. ‘
Needless to say, a colored frame
would kill almost any print. Have
your print-room light, by all means,
but make your walls a. gray or gold
color, and your carpet brown or fawn..
It is always a matter of regret that
,flower pictures are still so misunder-
stood. We mean oil paintings with gay
flowers painted on them. For these,
never use a heavy gold frame, but a
simple wooden moulding placed flat
against the wall and painted the same
color as the wall itself. Thus the flow-

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Use this department to help solve
. your household problems. Address
your letters to Martha! Cole, Michigan
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STORAGE FOR HOME-CURED
MEAT. ‘

 

Could you tell me the best way to
keep meat for home consumption, that
has been cured?—~Mrs. G D B

Some advise coating the cured meat
with a complete coating 'of wax, but
you can also suspend the meatin
clean paper sacks to 'keep all insects
and‘vermin away, and store in a dark,
dry, cool room. The U. S. Department
of Agriculture recommends painting
the bags of meat with the following
wash: ' 7 ‘ . , .

Three pounds oi: 7 barium sulphate,
One ounce of dry?r glue. ‘

One and one-fourth ounces of chrome
yellow. ’

Six ounces of flour. .

Thoroughly mix the flour in a. half
pail of water. Mix chrome yellow and
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" The dining-room is perhaps more dif-'
ficult than any other‘room 'inthe house -
to furnish with pictures. FOr this";
room, select only one. or two of your _
choicest collection. ~ . ' 7 '45 , ‘

The bedrooms are‘easy to decorate. ' ‘ ,
Water-colors, flower pictures, etchings.
colored/prints, all may be used» Jap- .
anese prints are bright and cheerful, ‘ “
and their comparatively formal design
does not lead the observer into worry-
ing mental problems. They are easy
to frame also, for here the narrow gilt
frame, or the (meet ebony, looks well.

Never ovJercrowd your pictures; it
is betterto “live” with a few good
ones than many poor ones.

   
        
      
     
     
  
  
   
  
  
   
  
 
 
  
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
  

 

FOOD SELECTION FOR vouNcsa
GENERATION. »

 

. HE time-'worn ,question, "What
shall we cat?” has been attacked
from a new angle in a. government
bulletin written for junior homemak-
ers. MisCellaneous Circular 49, “A
Guide to Good Meals for the Junior '
’Homemaker,” recently published by
the United States Department of Agri-

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culture, approaches a group not pre-
viously appealed to in the literature
of nutrition. 7 '

, The interest of younger children has
for some time been attracted by food-
and health rhymes, by iilustrations of
animated milk bottles, grinning cereal
bowls, and dancing egg cups. Adults

publications, both popular and techni-
cal, to choose the right food‘for them-

 

adolescents at the pious-eating. ice-
cream-gorging stage have not until.
now had a government bulletin solely
for themselves. . ' ' '
The circular containing these valu-
able suggestions to home-makers of .
the future may be had while the sup-
ply lasts, by writing to the United
States Department of Agricmture, at
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It Would not be wise to paint over .
a calcimined wall. Even-though you "-
oiled it, the oil would not cut the cal-
cimine and the paint would cleave om
First‘remove the calcimine by ‘washg
ing the walls with strong solution of
vinegar, and using a stifl brush to re—
move the rest of the calcinine. Wash 7.
the walls with clear water and when _ 7 ‘
thoroughly dry, they may .be painted.

REQUESTED RECIPES.

 

Pop-bvers. ,
1 clip flour am m ,1
1-3 tsp. salt ‘ melted ' .
1 cup milk ’7‘ tan. “PW '

Beat eggs and turn all the materials“
into a mixing bowl and beat four min-
~utes. The hot iron pans must he
greased. Fill each half full‘ and bake
thirty minutes. During the first: halt
of the cooking” periodhavejthe ovenl ‘

ut'es before the. cooking period is up,
turn _off.the heat or open the oven
door. Requested by Mirage. H.“ I,-

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the ration which. they crave. The use
of a balanced dry mash and plenty of
fresh green feed will usually keep the
birds from eating litter, feathers, or
indigestible trash. Certain. hens seem
to develop depraved appetites in spite
cf the best of feed. Operations for
crop bound extend their life but do
not break the habit. Such birds might
be confined in a colony house contain-
ing a roost and mash hopper, but no
litter. If a few months isolation is
only followed by a return of the litter-
eating habit, it is probably best to kill
them.

When the hens are first turned on
rang‘ein the. spring, it does not pay
to- promptly discontinue the use of
fresh green feed. This may cause
certain hens to fill upon old dry grass
in their search for bulky material for
the ration." This dry twisted grass is
very apt to make birds crop bound. As
soon as the fresh new grass appears
the hens will seldom fill up on the
tough old grass and the use of green
feed can be discontinued if the flocks
are on a; grassy range.

MY SMALL FLOCK OF CHICKS.

A YEAR ago last November, I was
given a small flock of seven wee
baby chicks and, as I am a cripple and
nearly a shut-in, those sure were
treasures for me. I made a little pen
[for them from a cardboard box by re-
moving the bottom. I put perches
across each way from the corners
by fastening the. perches in the middle.
They could not move either way. I
then made the bottom of the box larg-
er so that it was about three inches
each side of the box. By placing the
sides over the bottom, I could keep
the chicks off of my floor. By putting
sand in the inside, it was easily clean-
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nicely until spring. As my husband
was away at camp and I was alone

my cat family, and chickens, they all
became very dear to me. Soon I had
the most wonderful of pets when
spring came and the chickens got
large enough to tell one from another.

I only had» him hens, little white
Leghorns. One I called Susie and the
other Mollie. One rooster got his foot
hurt so I could not sell._him and I kept
him and called him Hippy because he
was lame. Each one learned its own
name. Susie was always a lot of both-
er for she always stole her nest. My
little Mollie always laid near thehouse
and she wanted to set, so I set her
and after she had set about a week
and a half, she took the white diar-
rhea. ‘

We lived a long way from town and
I did not know What to do, so I doc-
tored her myself. To a little cup of
water, I put four drops of essence of
peppermint and a little bit of baking
soda, about the size of a good pea. I
shut her up and fed her by herself.
She never left her nest and was soon
well, and raised me nine of the sweet-
est little chicks any mother hen ever
had. Then came my trouble, as the
hawks were awful thick. I tied Mollie
up by the house and just gave her
string enough to get around close by
the door so I could watch her and her
babies. One day a hawk flew down
right under the window where I sat
at work, and stole one of the baby
chicks, leaving me only eight. I raised
them without any loss and am now
wondering how soon I will be able to
set little Mollie again—Mrs. Almeady
Brown.

 

An Idaho farmer mysteriously dis-
appeared after telling the neighbors to
care for his thousand baby chicks. He
claimed that the constant peeping of
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Our careful selection and breeding.
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STATE FARMS ASSOCIATI

0N. Kalamazoo.
ACTIVE MEMBER INTERNATIONAL BABY CHICK ASSOCIATION.

ECKARD’S S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS

Every chick and egg sold is produced on my own plant. No stock is fanned out. All males used In
.breeding pens are from hens with records of 200 to 292 eggs in one year. Yearling breedm‘ ecu must
Weigh 24 ozs. to the dozen to be used for hatching.

CERTIFIED CHICKS AND HATCHING EGGS

livery male and female in our flack has been handled and passed ”by an inspector from Michigan State
College. Only three other flocks in the stat» have moi these requirements. I bred and raised the birds
winning first and third places in the 1924 Michigan Egg Contest. Some of the dams and sires that pro-
duced these winners are now in my matings. Write for prices and mating list.

W. C. ECKARD, 13 MADISON STREET, PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.

BUY MICH. ACCREDITED CHICKS

WHITE LEGHORNSmBest grade chicks from males from hens with known trap-
nest records or 245. 208. 200. 195. 200. 230. 194. 199. 195. 205. 220. 201. 202. 214. 221.
211. 75% Taucred and 25% Hollywood strains. We won lst. 3rd and 4th helm and
Best Display in Utility class at Muskegon in 1920. Order Now.

Information cheerfully furnished. First hatch March 22nd.
Write for Circular with Prices.

PROGRESSIVE POULTRY FARMS

P. VER HAGE, MANAGER Box A ZEELAND. MICHIGAN

KEYS TONE HATCHERY

HIGHEST PRODUCTION QUALITY

That is what you get in KEYSTONE CHICKS.

Mlohloan

 

 

_ CONTEST WINNERS bred for
heavy egg production. vigor and hcalih. Heavy Assorted. 100.

100% Live Dcllv. Guar. Postpaid prices 50 100 500 1000 $12. Assorted all va«

Foreman Strain Barred Rooks ......... $9.50 $18 $85 $105 rietics, 100, 311:500.

Selected Barred Rocks ................ 8.00 15 70 135 $55. 5% discount is

Extra Selected S. & R. C. lleds..... .. 9.00 17 80 155 allowed on all orders

$§efwd“s. ‘9‘; Iée C. Reds .............. 8.00 15 70 135 [m- 200 Chicks or

H: (van 0 s .................... 9.00 17 80 155 more it full amount

GET CATALOG Tancred American s. C. White Leghorm 7.50 14 05 125 is sent with the or-

AT ONCE Utility English Barron White Leghorns 0.50 12 65 105 der.

CAPITAL KEYSTONE HATCHERY. Dept. 50 LANSING. MICHIGAN. Member I. B. C. A.

 

BABY CHICKS THAT LIVE AND LAY

FROM MICHIGAN STATE ACCREDITED FLOCKS.

combined with the close culling of the Inspectors of the Michigan
State College, places our birds in the front rank

WE HATCH WHITE AND BROWN LEGHORNS AND ANCONAS.

Catalog fully describing our matings. and giving some interesting
I Chicks and how to raise poultry for profit.

CITY LIMITS HATCHERY, - ROUTE 5, - BOX M.‘ - HOLLAND, MICH.

' Our big husky chicks are money makers. Every Dresden carefully ”looted,
tested. culled by experts. CAN SHIP AT ONCE. .
0 Order direct from this advertisement. flava time.

     
       

Adventures of
T/ze Travel:

ERSPIIASH,’? went a little Rain-
drop right on the end of Tilly’s vapor."
nose, even though she was car-

rying her daddy’s big umbrella.

“Oh, you naughty Raindrop! Where

did you come from?” exclaimed Tilly.
“I came from the big ocean,” said
the Raindrop. ‘
“You must be very tired if you came
so far," said Tilly. “Is that why you
fell on the end of my nose, thinking

    

“Where Did You Come From, Little
Raindrop?" Asked Tilly.

,you would find a good place to rest?”

“Oh, no,” said the Raindrop, “for
me there is no rest.” .-
“I don’t understand,” said Tilly. “Do
tell me how .you got here from the big
ocean. Uncle Jim says the big ocean
is a very long 'Way away.”
“It is a. long, long way.” answered
Rotating), “Awhile \ago I was just
I: of. the g in? Ethic, big ocean.

   

   

 

 

   

. must have been dreaming."

11 Then__ ..

Tilly and Billy
of a Raindrop

separated me into tiny particles of

“What is vapor?” asked Tilly.

“It is water separated into such tiny
particles that you can’t see them and
it is drifting around in the air all of
the time,” said the Raindrop. “After
the sun had separated me into tiny
particles of vapor, the wind carried
me high up into the air. Then it blew
me along over the ocean until I came
to the land. It blew me about so much
that very often I bumped into other
particles of vapor and we became one.
Thus I grew and grew and at last I
became a Raindrop and tell to the
ground.” ’

“You mean you fell on my nose,”
said Tilly, “but where are you going
from here?” she asked.

f‘There are many ways for me to
go," answered the Raindrop. “But I
think I’ll just join a little rivulet andi
run down to the big river and the big

White, Brown. Buff Leghorns, Heavy. Mixed .......................................
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50 100 500
86.50 812.50 360.00
7.75 1
White. Burr necks and Wyandottes. Buff Omingtons. .b ...............

5.00 72.50

 

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White Orpmgtons, Silver Wyandotles. White. Black Longshans ..................... 9.00 11.00 8150
Light Weight Mixed, $5.50 per 50; $10 per 100. Light Brahmas. $12 per 50: 822 our 100. Sheppard's
Anconas. $7.50 per 50: $14 per 100.

_ May chicks. $1.00 per 100 less.
Add 35c extra It lets than :00 chicks are wanted.
Postage prepaid. Bank relax-once.

LAWRENCE HATCHERY,

Juno chicks. $2.00 per 1001-9.
100% liie delivery guaranteed.
Grand Rapids NationaldBank. Hatching Eggs. Free catalog.

R. 7, PHONE 76761, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Michigan Farmer Pattern Service
Flare: and Straight Limo“ Are Popular T In} Sprzhg

_No-. 299—0ne-piece, Dress. Cut in
sizes 16 years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44
inches bust measure. Size 36 requires
31/2 yards of 36-inch material with %
yard of 27—inch contrasting.

 

and .46 inches bust measure. Size 36
requires 27/8 yards of 40-inch material.
with 5,4; yard of 32-inch contrasting.

 

river will carry me back to the big
ocean. Then I may come to see you
again by the same trip," said the Rain—
drop.

“Do come,” said Tilly, “but please
‘don’t fall on my nose next time."

Then Tilly wokeup.

“Why, why, there is no Raindrop on
my nose,” said Tilly to herself. “I

  

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No. 334—Straightline Frock. Cut in
sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches
bust measure. Size 36 requires 37/3
yards of 36-inch material.

These patterns can be obtained

 

 

“Tilly, Tilly, where are

you ?’-’ called
Tilly’s mother. ’

    
   
    

bust measure.
yards of 36-inch material, with s4 yard
of 27-inch contrasting.

;. -~.Cut in aizea.,,1§_yea.rs. 36,38. 40, 42, 44.

through the Michigan Farmer Pattern
Department, Detroit, Michigan. for 13c
each. Enclose 130 extra when you or-
der your pattern, and a cop? 01 our
large Pattern Catalogue will be sent~
to you. _ ,. , ," -

No. 367—Sports Design. Cut in siz-
s 16 years,,36,‘ 38, 40, 4-2 and 44 inches
Size 36 requires 3%

No. 338-11: Many Occasion Frock.

   

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IF YOU want early broilers-—
If you want November layers-—
You must avoid the back-sets it;

your growing flock.

Add Dr. Hess Poultry‘Palg-i-he'og
to the ration daily.

Then never mind about disease,
bowel troubles, leg weakness and
gapes.

Pan-a-ce-a takes caré of fall
that. ,

Pan-a-ce-a tones up- the appetite

”promotes digestion.

Pan-a-ce—a helps your flock td
turn the feed to good account—n
growth, bone, flesh, feathers.

Nou can tell a Pan-a-ce-a flock
'every time by the good feeling—
‘always happy and industrious.

Costs Little to Use Pan-a-ce-a

The price of just one two-pound

broiler pays for all the Pan-a-ce-a

200 chicks will eat in sixty days.

Tell your dealer how many
chicks you have. He has a right-

eized package for every flock.

REMEMBER—When you buy any Dr. Hess product, our .
responsibility does not end until you are satisfied that
Otherwise, return the

empty container to your dealer and get your money back.

DR. miss & CLARK, Inc., Ashland, Ohio,

your investment is a profitable one.

prevents the bask-sets

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For sale by the local Co-op. or Farm Bureau agent. Insist on
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MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU SUPPLY SERVICE

Lansing. Michigan

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LOCK records taken from some 300,
Indiana farms, involving over 30,-.

000 birds, gives a clue to some of the
factors responsible for success or fail-_
ure \with poultry. These records. indi-
Cate that profits are influenced mainly
by two things.
hatch and brood the chicks, and the
other the ability to make these chicks
lay when mature.
of these records will demonstrate the
truth of these statements. .

One is the ability to

A glance at a few

Farm No. 1 had 109 Rhode. Island

Reds producing eighty-nine eggs per

bird during the year 1923-24. During
the incubation season sixty per cent
of all the eggs set produced livable
chicks. Only- forty-two per cent of all

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to livability,
choice of enacting poultrymm.

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your copy at once.

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LEARN MORE ABOUT THESE UNUSUAL CHICKS.
a clear. truthful In!

om FFI IALL ENDORSED HIGH PRODUCING STOCK.’

fr 0 C YEN Better bred. cost no more than ordinary chicks. Order from ad. Catalog Free.
1800‘ alive‘postpald. Aik about our Special “stings. 50 100

..C White Leghorns .............................................. $3.50 86.75 $18.00

She pnrd 8min A ......... 3.76 7.5 14.00

S. (if B. 1. Beds. Barred Rocks .................................. 4.00 7.75 16.00

White Wyaudottes 4.60 8.60 16.00

Mixed Chicks Light) ................................................. 8.00 5.60 10.00

Mixed Chicks ( eavy). .25 .25 .00

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MICHIGAN STATE CERTIFIED AND ACCREDITED

\Egg Line Baby Chicks are the State Certified and Accredited prod
matings in America. Poe

- BOX M, HUDSONVILLE, MICH.

uct d the tin-
eessing mo ualltlss essential
tity egg pmduci'iao: they are the Hatching results were normal. and the

Write for

low. The hatching percentage was
‘fairly good, but the mortality of chicks
was very heavy and the cost of repro
,ducing the flock was high. This meant”
that compensation for labor given was
far from satisfactory.

On farm No. 2, 158 Plymouth Rock
and Leghorns were kept that averaged
100.6 eggs per bird. Sixty-four per
cent of all the eggs set hatched into
(chicks, and ninety-six per cent of the
chicks grew to maturity. As a result,
this farmer obtained $434.71, or $2.76
per bird for his labor. Egg production
in this flock would he considered low,
but the hatching results were good and
the percentage of chicks reared would
be classed as excellent.

A Profitable Flock.

Farmer No. 3 had a small flock of
seventy-two Plymouth Rocks. They
(were bred and fed for high egg produc-
tion and he obtained 148.6 eggs per
bird. Sixty-one and five-tenths per cent
of the eggs set, hatched, and eighty-
eight per cent of all the chicks were
reared to maturity. The total labor
income was $379.28“, or $5.26 per bird.
The egg production was excellent.

success in rearing the chicks was of
the highest order.

l These three flocks are typical of
hundreds of others on which definite”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.1 ords up to 295 ens per year.P Conteetmc roco
Chicks from flasks”. mated to Tan

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25. 33.75: 50. 87: I00. Sis: 500. 862.50: I000.
Ana May Postpaid. 00

STATE ACCREDITED FLOCKS AND
rd flocks.

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BARRON - TANCRED W.

records are available.

LE G H OR N S V They illustrate
alumna“. 8m. we, ,m, m. that the greatest profits—come from
M523“; gargantuan flocks where not 0915' 888 production

edigroed cred cockersls si
50.88.50: loo. SIG: 000. 875. GRADE B. Chicks from good Utiliw nooks
production. mated with cocherels 0! Stats demonstration flock.
Deli Alig- Aprll 15th. lo per Chick go‘s.
Li v uarantesd. cm
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is high, but where the percentage of
eggs hatched and chicks reared is like-
wise high. These tactors can be cone
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Every breeder approved of by state experts. Buy the best at the lowest price 14 pure~
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Investigator: Reveal: T we Eumttal:

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egg production is low it takes a fancy
price for eggs to make up. this loss. It
eggs tail to hatch, or if chicks are not
raised successfully, the best egg pro-
duCtion" will not overcome the cost of
reproducing the flOCk. Replacing a
part of the flock each year is a neces-
sary practice and one that involves
considerable expense. If we can hatch
sixty per cent of the eggs that we set,
and raise eighty-five per cent of those
that are hatched, we will probably
makes profit from our poultry. A
good deal of failure to brood chicks
inadequate equipment.
The man who reared only forty-two
per cent of his chicks did not have
satisfactory brooding facilities. The

 

rize Ancona Chickens in the Coop.

farmer who raised ninety-six per cent
had realized what an investment in
brooding equipment was money well
spent.-—-E. D. Griflln. '

WHITE DIARRHOEA.

 

ACILLARY white diarrhoea is a

much used term, that is consider-
ably misused. Bacillary white diar.
rhoea is an infectious, and serious dis-
ease of baby chicks. It“ is not neces-
sarily a bowel trouble. True bacillary
white diarrhoea may be inherited from
the parent stock through the egg. In
the baby chicks it shows up usually
between the time of hatching and the
fourteenth day of the chick’s life.
Chicks that are affected appear droopy,
trail their wings, spend the greater
part of their time under the hover, and
apparently gasp for breath and have
difficulty in breathing, dying within a
short time.‘ Sometimes these symp-
toms are accompanied with a bowel
discharge that is white and pasty, but
in numbers of cases no bowel trouble
is evident. Upon examination, it is
usually noted that there is a small
amount of food in the crop of the
chick, but the chick appears light in
weight and wasted in appearance, the
shanks usually being wrinkled and
withered. and the abdomen seems to
be inflated or bloated, feeling putty to
the touch. Upon opening the chick,
the liver will be found to be very light
colored, yellow, instead or red, and the
egg yolk will be found to be still pres-
ent, often times partly decomposed. In
a healthy/normal chick the egg yolk
should be completely absorbed at the
end of 100 hours. In diseased chicks.
with my be found during the second

   
 
     

  
   
    

 

 

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If you set A good price for eggs. With BARRAL
COMPOUND you can preserve eggs in perfect condi-
tion for months. and sell them when the price is right.
BARRAL COMPOUND is absolutely guaranteed. anti

Baltic and hmim.

One disc for preserving 100 eggs, 50 cts. post paid.
$2.00 post paid.

Five disc m:- preserving 500 eggs.
ROLLAND and ROLLAND. Ltd..
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From Duh-bred. heavy leyin
Inspected and
SPECTORS.

and 2nd Cockerei and 6th Pullet
Muskegon S o

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Bend at once for Free Catalog, lull particulars and de-

tailed prices. Bonk Reference.

HILLVIEW HATCHERY

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ACCREDITED 0H|0KS

flecks.
Culled by 8T TE IN-
PRIZE WINNERS. in
Second Best Display at Holland and

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TANCREO STRAIN WHITE LEO-

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chlorinated

der to eight gallons of water.
danger in this disease lies not only in

in the fact that the birds once affected
rarely if ever, recover.
The disease affects the ovaries of

isms to pass with the egg yolk into the
egg before it is laid, accounting for
the disease in newly hatched baby
chicks.

There is a test for this disease
known as the aglutination test, that
can be given a flock by drawing blood
samples from each bird individually,
sending these samples to a laboratory
and removing the reactors. Further
information regarding this test can be
obtained by writing direct to the Bac-
teriology Department, East Lansing.

There are many other forms of how"
e1 trouble in baby chicks cauSed by
chilling, overheating, or improper
feeding that is not contagious, nor is
it caused by any disease organisms,
and great care should be taken to dis—
tinguish between the bowel trouble
caused by chilling and overheating.
and the bowel trouble caused by bacil-
lary white diarrhoea, before the parent
stock is condemned as carriers of the
disease.

. Disinfection of incubators, maintain-
ing proper heat for the broodcrs, prop
or feeding, and good care will prevent
many cases of so—called White diar-
rhoea that are caused by other things
than bacterial infection. The feeding
of sour milk early in the chick’s life
tends to prevent bowel trouble not

 

 

 
 

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CREDITED FLOCKS.
by cute Inspectors
ENGLISH.
LEGHORNS.
1.: BARRED

SHEPPARD STRAIN
ROCKS. RHOOE

and full price particui

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RY. Box 6-6 ZEELANO,
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from MICHIGAN AC.
Inspected and Culled

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A ted Mixed Chicks. SIO P R

UP. Postpfiod'. Full Live Delivery Guaranteed. EAR-
LY PULLETS AND YEARLING HENS. Bank Ret-

bacillary in nature—4A. J. Hannah.

COLONY HOUSE PLANS.

I expect to get a 150~175-egg incu-
bator and brooder. What size brooder
house should I build? I wish to ob-
tain plans for a brooder house to use
with this incubator and brooder.~—S. T.

 

  

20,000 Weekly. 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed.
Postpaid prices on-— 50 100 500

 

gvniw.lgugig Brow: Leeho‘ms..$;%$fi $2: colony houses smaller than 8x10, even
rred k. . orcoa. nconas ..... . ‘ _

gw‘hlte aofiulr Rocks. R. 1. Beds ........ 8 If there are. only 100 to 150 chicks to
White Wyandottee. Burr 0mingtons...... s 15 70

Mixed. $10 per 100. Heavy Mixed ...... 7 12 60
0rd" from this ad. Save time. Fine Free Catalog.
GOLDEN RULE HATOHERY. Box 8. Bucyrm. OI‘IIO

   

A chlony brooder house. either 8x10
or 10x10, will be large enough for 200
to 300 chicks. It hardly pays to build

brood. The colony house makes a fine
roosting place for the growing stock

 

We ship 0, 0. D. and glut-mm 100% live delivery
of sturdy. pun-prod chicks. ., ..
horns. 13o; Bd. Rocks. Wh. Rooks. S. C. Rode. An-
con”. no: But! Roch. Bun Own. Wh. Wyen. 160:
Black Mlnor.. 15c: Mixed, ioo chicks.

SEND Ilo Will‘s‘mmm
OLA,“ Department, Michigan State College,
Wh Br a. Buff Leg-

100. Ian than
in cool: more. SILVER LAKE HATCHERY. Box
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PRQFIT STRAINS
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From high and. flocks of recognized heavy
Ieylng lblllm bred for hl I: on. roduo-
non. Leading varieties. oetgai . Live
delivery. erte Ior eel-loo d etailfl how
we insure chick! thru critics period.
Globe Hatchery. Box Jo. . Borne, Ind.

BLOOD TESTED BABY CHICKS

the! hove been carefully culled end selected for qual-
ity end heavy laying. Flock: mated with high-clue
In]. birds. 3. P. Backs. R. 1. Beds and White Leg-
horn. Wriu for prices. 100% live delivery gum-
teed. OARLETON HATCHEBY. Carleton. Michigan

‘OH'IO"‘ACCREDITED_
10 Leading Breeds. Inspected. culled and
handed by O. S. University Experts. Hatched
and shipped under our personal supervision.

right. 9th Year. Free Cir. Ban .
IUNBEAM HATCHERY. Box 2553. Findlay. onto.

BABY CHICKS

Pure-bred. good laying strains, free range. 13 varie-
ties. 8 cents up. Beak reference. 100 live prepaid.
Write for circular end prices.

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- one and the ' time

until they are ready to go into the
laying-house. Write to the Poultry

East Lansing, for the plans of a colony
house which they have for free distri—
bution. This house is equipped with
sliding windows so they can be opened
in good weather, and allow the pure,

unfiltered sunshine to strike the
chicks. .
The coal burning brooder stoves

give very good results in colony hous-
es. and are of special value if the
chick flocks consist of 200 birds or
more.

 

MATING DUCKS.

I have no drake and must take my
duck to a neighbor who has one, so
I can set my (luck eggs. How long
will I have to leave him there to be
sure of fertile eggs? Also, how long
after I take him home will the eggs
be fertile?~-A. C.

After mating it. is usually consider,
ed safest not to Use the eggs for hatch- “
ing for about ten days to two weeks. I
The production of fertile eggs may:
,continue for a week or more after mat— ’
.ing, but there is no definite time.
When saving eggs for hatching from
one duck you could continue to save
them after mating until the test prov-
ed them infertile. In such cases the
purpose is to obtain a few ducks, and
if’a few eggs are lost because of in.-
fertility the loss is not great. The
same regglt would occur amOng chick-
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.‘ lahioks affected had, best be killed and

buried deeply or burned and the house
- thorou‘ghly‘disinfected, preferably with
lime solution after the
house has been thoroughly cleaned.
Chlorinated lime for disinfectant pur-
poses should be used at the rate of
one pound of dry chlorinated lime pow-
The

the heavy mortality of the chicks but

the adult bird and the disease organ-

Please remember Quality goes ahead of price.

ad direct.
hatched from BLUE RIBBON PENS, 50 per (‘liit-k higher.

 

Our careful selection and b
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Dear Uncle Frank: .

I am really interested In the Merry
Circler page. I read the children’s
page in other papers, but none seem
so interesting as this page.

Well, how is the money for the rad-
io? I am sending a nickel, which will
help out a little bit. How much will
the radio take? Do the children know
or is it a. surprise for them? I sup-
pose you will think I am asking too
many questions, but I always like to
know things.

Well, I will be your niece for I have
no real Uncle Frank, but only a cousin
Frank—Mary Crandell, Williamston.

I am glad you find our page so in-
teresting. It will take about $100 to

    

Leland Rock is Cow-back Riding.

get the radio. We have about half of
that amount now. So we need about
1,000 nickels yet. The children at the
home know about the radio.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

Do you read all the letters contrib-
uted? Judging from the letters pub-
lished lately, if they are the best, I’d
hate like “pizen” to read the worst.
Do you want my opinion on the
Charleston? I’ll let you have it ‘any—
way, free gratis. I adore it, it is posi-
tively the oyster’s earmuffs. ’
May we not have a written debate
about it, Uncle Frank? Each one could
choose which side they prefer, then
they could prepare a paper and submit
it to be judged. The best paper, re—
gardless of which side it was for, or
the best paper on each side, would be
the prize-winners.

Here are a. few points for it: It is
good exercise; it isn’t a. bit more im-
moral, just because it is more strenu-
ous, than the Virginia reel; George
Washington, honored and admired,
danced. Why shouldn’t we? You’ll
notice, Uncle Frank, that the ones that
are picking at it all the time are the
ones who don’t know how to dance it.
Do you know what my ambition is?
I’m going to be a satirist My English
teacher is always scribbling across the
top of my paper, “Don’t be so cynical,
please.” —- '

Did I hear you groan, “turn off the
loud speaker,” Uncle Fra.nk?——-Tom—
boy.

Wow! that first paragraph was some
slam. What are we going to do about
it, M. Cs? Yes, there are pros and
cons on the Charleston. For instance,
some who like dancing don’t call the
Charleston a. dance, but rather a. sys-
tem of physical contortion. They

think“ that it may be all right for a

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negro boy to dance, but it adds noth-
ing to the grace and beauty of a fair
young lady. Nevertheless, it may be
good exercise. I agree that often those
who do not know about things are the
ones who do the most kicking. , .

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

We think it is our duty as Merry
Circlers to contribute a little toward
the Merry Circle Fund. It isn’t much,
but we hope it may be of some use to-
wards getting the radios for the crip
pied children—Three M. C. Cousins,
Ruth and Iva Moline, Elsie Brolin,
,Manistique, Mich.

Thanks for your contribution. If
each_M. C. thought as you girls do, it
wouldn’t take long to get the fund

completed.

 

To the Merry Circle:

I haven’t written for a year or more,
but I’ve a question I’d like to have you
think about. Most. of you are in high
school, aren’t you? And aren’t the
schools which most of you attend mod-
ern. up-to-date, well equipped build-
ings, with plenty of class rooms, and,
above all, a gym? I’m pretty sure
you will all say yes to that question.
I’m a. junior in high school. Our school
is quite modern. We have a pretty
good auditorium and the class rooms
are well equipped. We also have ten-
nis courts and an athletic field, but we
haven’t a. gym. We’ve tried our best
for years to get one. A question to
be voted upon is to be put before the
town people pretty soon. This ques-
tion is whether or no the town should
be bonded for suflicien ‘ money to build
a. gym and three new class rooms.

We have organized a. Booster Club
and were trying our hardest to put the
proposition across, but it takes an
awfully large amount of convincing to

    

 

    

make some people think they should
vote; yeg. Don’t you think, Uncle Frank,
and all the Merry Circle, that a. gym.
is‘a. necessity, not a luxury?- ' "

But don't forget—don’t on
every high school should owe a gym?
Why, we’ve even been. playing basket

ball at a dance hall about ten miles,...

from town—all winter.-—M. C.

I am becoming convinced moreand
more that physical education is very
important and therefore, means .~should.
be provided in schools for it. Of.
course, in some places athletics are»
overdone. Let’s hear from others on
this subject of physical education.

Children Reply
‘ FEW weeks ago I told you of the-
nice bunch of letters I received
from the Howell Sanitorium to be sent
to the Crippled Children’s Home. A

 

 

few days ago I received another fat .

envelope, but this one contained let~
ters from the children at the Home,

to be sent to those at the Sanitarium.
.They were answers to the letters from
the Sanatorium.

Miss Anderson at. the Home, Wrote:

“They were indeed delighted to re-
ceive the letters, and also appreciated
being able to answer them. No doubt
they will soon be enjoying a regular
correspondence.

"‘They seemed very pleased to see
their letters in print in your magazine,
and ell-ways look forward eagerly to
the time the next magazine will ar—
rive.” .

I am sure that all the Merry Circ-
lers Will be pleased to know that this-
correspondence has sprung up between
these two places where every endeav-
or is made to make sick children well.
It is also pleasing to know that the
young folks at both places are so in-
terested in our Merry Circle activities.
-—-Uncle Frank. »

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From the Children’s Home

A Few Letters from t/ze Young Folk:

Dear Friends of the Merry Circle:

I read the letters written by the
girls and boys of the Howell Sanator-
ium, so I am going to tell you about
my life, and how I happen to be here.

My mother died when I was six
years old. My father and I went to
live with my grandmother and aunt.
Last. April as I was playing tag with
some of the boys and girls of the
neighborhood, I fell and hurt my knee.

My aunt, of course, called the doctor,‘

but I didn’t get any better. In about
two months I was in Children’s Hos-
pital in Detroit. I was there for three
months, and then was sent to the Con-
valescent Home at Farmington.

I was a bed patient for a time out
here; now I am walking with crutches.
Oh, but it seems good to be up and
around again. '

I go to school every day. I .am
twelve years old and am in thesxxth
grade. We study the regular grade
work and have one hour of hand work

Plant Breeder V Gives Advice ‘

For W ark. Errentz'a/

IRST, strict business integrity. A love of your work is a. first requisite
.,also. You can get to love your work by working at it intelligently and
faithfully. Enthusiasm in your work prevents the work becoming burden-
some, and makes all kinds of work easy.
better not undertake .it unless you can learn to do so.
My" heart goes out to the young man and young woman
who is just starting out in life, and I would helpthem
in any way I could by. word or deed.

has to feel , his own way along through life, being faith-

5 fu1_to yourselfmand anythingtin your charge. If this
does not bring success, than I. do not know what suc.-'_
'cess is.i’——Luther Burbank. " ‘ ' ’
Everybody knows‘_ about Luther
Wizard,"

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If you cannot love ,your work,

Burbank, , the won;
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every day. I have made a. bead mat,
dressed dolls, and helped embroider a
bedspread. ' *

There are nice woods on" our
grounds. We have slides, swings, and
‘3. pet dog, in fact, many things to
make us happy. There are about 150
boys and girls.

.I am giving my love to my new
friends of the Merry Circle.——~Kathryn
Woodbeck. _

Dear Friends of the Merr?v Circle:

Perhaps you would Ike to hear
something about my life. Well, my
case 1s a stiff leg. About five years
ago, I fell out, of bed on a needle.
Well, you know a. needle travels.

We changed doctors. They took an
X—ray and found the needle was going
in the knee-cap. They drained the
knee-cap but the needle had gone
through already. Anyway, it came out
with the. pus. l have had an opera-
tion to get my leg straight, so you see,
I feel I have found a place where they
calm do some good at last—Billy Fla-
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Dear- Friends:

We haye had your magazine on our
school library table. While reading,
I read your page of the Me Circle.
I thought I would tell you a ut my
life in this home. . . .

I have been here nearly a year. in
the summer, all thebed patients go
"out on the porch. Now I am up in a.
wheel chair. I go to school, In the
morning, we haVe arithmetic, geogra~
phy, English, and spelling: When we
get our arithmeticdone, and it is cor-
rected; we may go in the library and

lead. . . . .

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As I was cleaning up this morning,
I picked up a torn page from the
4 » . . Michigan Farmer, in which I found a.

‘ Merry Circler letter which had the
question, “Can prohibition be enforc-
ed?” I would like to say that I be-
lieve that it will in timebe enforced
as well as the law against murder, or
. other laws. \Ve do not hear the ques-
5 Town ' tion, can murder be stopped? but we

i teach that it is wrong to kill another

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Since the earliest 'd‘ay‘sfwhen
man used the stars for a‘ clock; .
everyone has » been ,. interested in -
the twinkling heavens. ' There is
an attractiveness about the night
heavens whichno one. can deny,
and nowhere is, the evening sky
observed to greater advantage
than in the open _country. In or-
der that rural folks may be better
acquainted with that which they
see nearly every night, this article
and the star maps are submitted
to our readers—Editors.

PRING has come, and astronom-
S ically, we are made aware of that
‘ fact by the presence in the east-
ern evening sky of the kite-shaped cen-
stellationof Bootes, the Bear Driver,
with the brilliant, creamy~white Arc-
turus; while towards the south, in the
constellation of Virgo, the Virgin,
shines another first magnitude star,
Spica.
ArcturUS is of special interest to‘as-
tronomers because of its large “proper
motion,” which is the name given to
the movement of a star across the
heavens. To most of us the stars, and
their groupings in the constellations,
are symbolic of unalterable perma~
nency, an idea which has been employ—
ed by cigarette manufacturers to ad-
vertise their constant quality, and also
by the Mormons in Salt Lake City,
who have placed the figure of the
Great Dipper on the west wall of their
Temple for a similar reason.
However, the stars are actually mov-
ing in the sky with varying speeds,
most of them, it is true, so slowly that
in a lifetime the keenest observer
could not detect any change with the
unaided eye, but in a few thousand
years the Dipper, Orion, and other fa—
miliar star groups will no longer have
the shape we see them in at present.
Likewise, if present man had been on
earth 20,000 years ago, in the time of
the CroMagnon race, the constella-
tions would have looked strangely dis-
torted.

Astronomers measure this proper
motion by the apparent distance that
/a star will travel in a year, using a
second of are for their unit. An idea
of the size of a second may be gained
from the fact that the moon’s disc is
about half a degree, or thirty minutes,
or 1,800 seconds, of arc in diameter.
.Of the stars Whose proper motions
have been measured, Only about 200
are known that move more than one
second in a year, and as Arcturus trav-
els about two and a quarter seconds
annually, it is really a “runaway stafi"

was;

The Northern Half

The star with the fastest known mo-
tion is too faint to be seen with the
unaided eye. it was discovered by the
late Professor Barnard, of the Yerkes
Observatory, and travels at the enor-
mous speed of more than ten seconds
a. year. ' ' ._
Since the starsare so far away from
the earth, the actual motion of such a
body as Arcturus, compared to the sun,
for example, is enormous, in this case
something like ninety miles a second,

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ceedingly brilliant star, for it steward _

as far from/it as we are from the sun.“

it would look 130 times as‘brigh‘t. ‘
The other bright star in the eastern

sky, Spica, of alpha Virginie, as the.

”astronomers call it,'_.is also an interest-
ing orb. Though to the naked eye, and "
even with man’s most powerful tele-
scopes, it seems to be a single"body,'-
astronomers know that it is really
double. The bright star that is seen
is accompanied by a dark and invis-
ible'attendant about 12,000,000 miles
from the brightrbody. Every four days

they revolve around oath other, and
together they weigh more than fifteen '

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times as much as the sun. The amount
of light that they give out is more
than 4,000 times as much as the sun
and they are so-i'ar away from us that
this light, though traveling fast enough
to encircle the earth seven times in
a second, takes more than 300 years
to reach us!

All these facts about this heavenly
couple, half of which is invisible, have
been learned through the fact that the
light from the bright member of the
pair carries its message to earth.
When the light from a star is analyzed
with the spectroscope, the astronomer
can tell not only what it is made of,
but also a great deal about its motion.
The dark and bright lines which ap—
pear in the spectrum photograph carry
this message in their position, for if
a star is moving from theearth the
lines are displaced in one direction,
and if the star is approaching the
earth they are shifted to the other.
These lines invthe spectrum of Spica
move back and forth, because, as the
bright and dark members of the pair
rotate around each other, the bright

   

 
   
  
     
         
      
    
    
      
    

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largely as astrology, a pseudo—science
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ited, for we know that the stars have
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so the constellation was associéted-
with the harvest tinie.‘ This is shown ,

by the ancient Star maps, for there

she is represented as a Woman With . .‘ f
wings. walking, and curving some". _
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corn. According 'to the ancient poets.
she represented Astraea, the goddess

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Sky to the South.

the naked eye planets are visible in
the early evenings of April, but Saturn
rises in the east at about eleven
o’clock, and can be seen during the
rest of the night. Neptune is in the
constellation of Leo, near the Sickle,
but it is well below the limit of naked
eye visibility and requires a. powerful
telescope to reveal it Even then it
does not look very interesting. Venus
can be seen in the morning sky, and
towards the end of the month it will
be joined by Mercury. Mars, also, is
in the morning sky, rising a few hours
before the sun. It is still approaching
the earth, and on the fifteenth of April
will be 137,420,000 miles away.

TH E‘ BIRD’S STORY.

 

Do you know what a little bird told me
toda " '

I’d never have dreamed it, my lad,
That a brave, manly fellow would
throw clear away

His courage and manliness, even in ..

- play~ - -
But a little bird told me you had.
A little bird -told me a story that’s
true '

He told megalthough he was dead,
HOW his body was crushed by a stone
that you threw. .
At first I could hardly believe it of-

youy '
But that’s what a little bird said.

But the little bird thought, if I once
made it plain
How nothing is noble or bright
That makes any creature feel sorrow
or pain,
You’d promise me never to do it again.
Now tell me, my boy, was be right?
~—Roy Temple House.

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the lime works. When one_of them

\\went out, one said to the other, "Pat,

let’s draw the face of a, donkey on
Mike’s coat.” The other agreed, so
they drew the picture with lime.

When the one that went out came
back he had the coat on his arm. He
looked puzzled. The ,two looked as in-
nocent as they could, "and one said,
‘What’s the matter, Mike?”

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' God .permit’isinl to enter—Alia
worldrfs sin necessary? «Why-
doesn’t God abolish it? You-remem—
' her how Friday asked. Robinson .Cru-
see why God did not kill the devil?
'What is the purpose‘of life? Is it
not to create moral character? A man
;with a character that will stand every
test. A soul that has come to be like
" God in its goodness, is the highest at-
‘ tainment in this world. But how is
such character attained? In a hot—
house? In a fairy garden. shielded
from every chill wind of temptation,
or evil suggestion? No, character
'grows by reasonof making_the right
choices all the way along through life.
Choosing the right, choosing the hard
.thing', choosing the course that is dis-
agreeable or haz-
“ ' tardous. It is
' choose, choose, all
the time. Decidy
ving between the
good and the bad,
the right and the
w r o n g, between
the best and the
second best.
Well, if a human

 

being has the power of choice really‘

given him, not as a toy, but as a real
working tool, he must have the power
to choose wrong, as well as right. And
if he chooses the bad as over against
the good, when he should have chosen
the good, it is wrong, and the other
word for wrong is, sin.

Sin entered the world because there
-was_ no way to keep it out if humans
were to be free moral agents. At the
same time God did not give man the
right of choice and then leave him to
his own devices, without instruction.
Ways of instruction were provided. As
one of the prophets quaintly puts it,
God rose up early in the morning to
send prophets unto the people (Jer.
7:25). And, as time went on, at last
there came the perfect guide as to
what was right, and a cure for all that
was wrong, when Jesus came into the
world

UT to come back where we began,

when there are two alternatives on
a question of morals, one is right and
the other wrong. And if character is
«to be developed, it must develop by
the power of choice. All through life
it is a question of choosing. When'
there is no choice, drifting follows, so
that the result is as if the choice had
been deliberately wrong. To teach
the young to leave the bad and choose
till? good is the chief function of the
church, home and school.

One night a group of American
youth were walking down a street in
.Paris. One said, “Come on, boys, let’s
the sights tonight. No one at
home will know where we go. Let’s
paint gay 'Paree red." They went, all
but one, and he leaned against a lamp
post and thought a moment or two
and said, “No, I’ll not go.” He became
lone of the wealthiest manufacturers
lot candy in America, and gave away
thousands of dollars. His stores, I be-
lieve. still keep the custom which he
lestablished of closing all day Sunday.

The, matter of not choosing aright is
very serious business. One is dealing
with the most fateful force in the
.world when "he handles the power of
lchpice. ' Once a youth followed a beau-
tiful maiden. She led him on and on,
decoying him into desolate places and
over wide, fever-filled swamps. Then
he caught her and was pressing a kiss
on her—{awhen he did not have a young
womanf in his arms, but a withered
and. hateful hag that hissed at him.
_’ nghoosing'jthe Way of pleasure, the
/ ,_ th ,01' dailiance. is the
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fear and care away. But at last, at
last, not at first, "it billet): like a ser-
pent and. stingeth like an adder.”

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TODAY there are a dozen plausible

reasons for choosing the wrong
way, to one reason yesterday. .At least,
so it seems: “When a man is tempted
to do a tempting thing, he can find a
hundred ingenious reasons for gratify-
ing his liking.” “The woman thou
gavest me, she did beguile me—”.
Blame it on heredity, on environment,
on the trend of the times. But excuses
(1g not travel far.

Is a good environment enough? We '

are told that, by a certain school, with
much emphasis. But Eden seems to
give that the lie. That was a good en-
vironment, as good as God, could make
it, and He knows how. There was
everything to make glad the heart of
man, to sustain him, to make him
monarch of all. But that is where he
fell! There he made his deliberately
wrong choice. Environment is much.
But it is not everything. Inner strength
to decide for the good and reject the
evil must also be a part of character,
or it is not character at all.—

He had faults, perhaps he had many,
But one fault above them all

upon him,

Tyrant of a patient " hrall.

Tyrant seen, confessed and-hated.
Banished only to recall.

Oh! he drank? His drink was water!
Gambled? No, he hated play.

Th’en perchance a tenderer feeling
Led his heart and head astray?

No! both honor and religion
Kept him in the purer way.’

He could plead, expound and argue,
Fire with wit, with wisdom glow;
But one word forever failed him,
Source of all his pain and woe:
Luckless man! he could not say it,
Could not, dare not, answer—No!
“And they heard the voice of Je-
hovah God walking in the garden in
the cool of the day: and the man and
his wife hid themselves.” Jehovah God
had been pretty good to Mr. and Mrs.

Adam, hence, why their fear? How
weakening an instrument is 'con-
science! How powerful a weapon is

conscience! It all depends on which
rway its edge is turned. “The wicked
fleeth when no man pursueth, but the
righteous are bold as a lion.” “Be
sure your sin will find you out,” (Num.
32:23). ‘

GOD wanted to know where the two ‘
we1

‘e. Does He have the right to
know at all times where we are? Do
we want Him to know? If we had a
feeling of that we did not want to do
that which God would not approve, or
be where He would dislike to see us,
it would do aWay with a great deal of
diseased society. But one difficulty is,
we do not think of God concretely, and
it is hard to be influenced by His
pleasure or displeasure. People used
to be held in awe by the fear of hell,
but hell seems a long way off, now.
Hence if one can think of his mother,
or father, it helps in temptation, of-
ten. Would I go where I would be
ashamed to have my mother see me?
Have I anything to hide from her?
Such thoughts have protected many a
man from falling into bad ways, which
would have swallowed him up.

“The woman thou gayest me.”
ting it on someone else.
beguiled me.”
ment.

Put-
“The serpent
Laying it on environ—
Is this honest with ourselves?

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR
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SUBJECTz—The Beginning of Sin.
Lesson, Gen. 3:1 to 24.

GOLDEN'TEXT:+For as in Adam all i

die, so also in Christ shall a1
made alive. ICor- 15:22. ’ '

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ICHIGAN farmers” will be inter-

" sows and their litters which has
cut the cost of producing pork 3. nice.
tidy sum. This system of swine san-
itation was devised by live stock men
of the United States Department" of
Agriculture. It was first tried in 1919
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on the forty farms with severe infes-

tation, the number in the litters‘in- .

creased 2.7 pigs per litter;

3. Where the sanitation. work was
complete, there were no mute, and
an average of only one runt in every
100 pigs on the 154 farms.
borhood farms of the same type where
pigs were raised the old way,
runts numbered eighteen to each hun-
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This Bunch Has Been Held Too Long and the Buyer is Quite Certain to
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7 carrying it out. The results will prove

profitable by increasing the number of
pigs raised from litters and in devel-
oping the pigs more ,rapidly and eco-
nomically. *

Below are the steps involved in the

plan. There are only four of these,
but all are necessary to the success of
the plan. The object is to pre'vent the
little pigs during the first four months
of their lives, or until they are rea-
sonably resistant to infestation, from
swallowing worm eggs. The four
steps follow:
1. Just before the sow is due, clean
the farrowing quarters and scrub
them with one pound of lye to thirty
gallons of boiling hot Water, and then
,spray these quarters with one pint of
cresol solution to four gallons of wa-
ter. The hot water kills the worm
\eggs; the dirt is loosened by the lye,
land the disinfectant destroys the
germs of infectious diseases.

2. Wash the sides and udder of the
sow with soap and water before put-
lting her in the clean farrowing pen.
.This removes the worm eggs from the
sows, and prevents their passing to
the pigs when they suck.

3. , The sow and pigs should be haul-
ed (not driven) to pasture Where no
ghogs have run for at least a year, and
preferably where none have run since
some cultivated crop has been grown.
This avoids contamination from filthy
hog lots.

4. Confine the pigs to clean pasture
until they are at least four months old.

The results of this work last year
,was reported“ from 154‘ Illinois farms.
)The following ”is ‘a summary of these
.reports asrecently compiled and pub—
lished by the "Illinois Station:

1. On these 154 farms the usual
number of pigs were raised from one-
fourth Jess sows. On forty of these
farms where severe losses had oc-
curred in the past; the farmers raised
their usual number ”of

'2. .On“ all'the/ farms itheia‘

 

climber stiles in meme“ ~ ,

ed ninety—eight per cent of the'pigs

saved at farrowing time. ’ .
5. On ninety-nine. per cent of th

farms reporting, the pigs were raised

more cheaply by the. sanitation sys-

tem.

6. When four months old, the aver—
age weight of the pigs raised by the
sanitary system was twenty-eight
pounds more than those raised b" the
old plan. -

4 7. The sanitation pigs were ready
for the market when seven weeks
younger than the usual market age.

8. The sanitary pigs were more uni-
form in size and cOndition when mar-
keted. . '

9. The system fits into the regular
crop rotations.

10. All farmers who reported on
their intentions for 1926 indicated that
they would continue the sanitation
system.

SPRING-FRESHENING cows.

 

HE dairyman' seeking to maintain
4 a uniform milk flowihroughout
the year has a portion of the herd
fresh during the spring months. In
the management of my herd I aim to
have.cows freshen all seasons of the
year, consequently, as usual; I shall
have a number of coWs come fresh
about the time grass is ready. And.
after all, grass seems'to be the most
economical food for producing milk.
Spring-freshenlng cows, however.
should’ be handled with even greater
care ' than cows freshenin’g at other
times of the year. 'While grass is a
natural milk~maker, it is also a natural
trouble maker. In the twenty-five and
more years I have been in the dairy

business I think I have encountered
more udder. trouble with spring-fresh- g

ening cows than at any other time» I,

,can: account . for -~~this"",only ‘_ on...»the
' ground ' of so high-pressure" feeding.
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believe a light grain ration materially

assists in balancing up the pasture,
yet with newly freshened cows it is
very apt to over-work the milking sys-
tem.

I have found it good practice to re-
duce the grazing hours "if the pasture
is luxuriant. In this way, the milk
secreting glands are not over-worked.

,I also find it'good practice to encour-
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possible. This satisfies the appetite
and lessens the danger of over-work-

. ing.—-R. L.

 

LET THE MUSES SING.

 

H ERE are the words of a song writ-

ten by Clifford Wagner, tester in
one of Macomb’s cow testing associa-
tions. It was sung to the tune of
“Michigan, My Michigan,” by the Hol-
steiners gathered at the recent meet-

‘ ing of the county Black-and-Vi’hite en-

thusiasts. Now, if the breed from The

. Netherlands can inspire such words as
, these, it seems certain that the other

breeds Of dairy~cattle ought to bring
forth something of equal poetic merit.
Send in your breed songs. Here is
what Mr. \Vagner wrote of the H01-

. steins:

(Sung to the tune, “Michigan: My
Michigan.”

The Holstein c0w’s a wondrous thing,
She makes a feller’s pockets ring,
She fills ’em full and runs ’em o'er,
And pads up bank accounts, galore.
\l'here’er you find the Black-and-White,
You know the country must be right;
That men, who prosper greet the day
And praise again the Holstein Way.

This Holstein Way is paved with jack

That springs up in the Holstein's
track;

There men with milk pails light the
way

And sing of “sweet alfalfa hay.”

The way is lined on either side

By buildings, planned with care and
pride,

And healthy children’s faces shine

To crown their bodies, fat and fine.

Their mothers come to greet them
there ,

Vi'ith faces still unlined by care;

Their laughter rings out glad and free

'And echOes “Holsteins” o’er the lea.

And all‘the bossies graze, serene

Out where the grass is sweet and
green; '

Content to prosper those who join

The Black—andsWhite for ready coin.

SHOULD RAISE AVERAGE MILK
PRODUCTION.

 

HE latest available figures show-
ing average production of milk for
the cows of each country show that
the United States stands in sixth place
with a. production of 4,260 pounds.
Netherlands leads with 7.585, the or-
der of the others being as follows:
Switzerland, 6,614; Denmark, 5,622;
The United Kingdom, 5,562; Germany,
4,850; United States, 4,260; Canada,
4,003; Sweden, 3,600; France, 3,599
pounds. '
The United States has made au‘inark-
ed increase in average producrion per
dairy cow in the last twenty-two years.
Following are the statistics: 1910,
3,113 pounds of milk; 1917, 3,716; 1920,
3,267; 1921, 3,945; 1922, 4,021; and
1923, 4,260. The dairymen of the Unit-
ed States should bring their average
production up to compare with that of
the other leading dairy countries of
the world. This could be done by bet-
ter feeding, breeding, and closer cull-
ing. .It would result in the production
of dairy products needed, by a fewer
number of cows.

 

'BETTER FEEDING PAYS.

 

- GOOD dairyman" came along one
day. saw a cow. that appealed to

,V .' him. bought. her, tuck her home, and
are,

 

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’ ng the'icntire summer, and all‘winter, ‘

long she had an abundance of alfalfa

‘hay and' corn Isilage, and she was fed

grain according to production. She
Was housed in a. clean, comfortable,
well—lighted, well—ventilated barn, and
she wastreated kindly.

Like all good cows she responded .

generously to such feed and care. In
one year she produced 7 3 pounds of

butter-fat. They know her record now,

every year, because her new owner,
like most good dairymen, keeps pro-
duction and feed cost records of his
cows. Such records always tell the
same story—that it pays to keep good
cows and to feed them well.

In one cow testing association, the
herd that ate the least in dollars
worth of feed per cow, produced the
least milk, produced the least butter-
fat, and had the lowest average in-
come over cost of feed. In that same
association the herd that ate the most
in dollars worth of feed per cow pro-
duced the most milk, produced the
most butter-fat, and had the highest
average income over cost of feed.

Average Per Cow For One Year.

Feed cost ......... $33.41 $ 60.40
Milk ............... 3,026 lbs. 7,202 lbs.
Butter-fat .......... 133 lbs. 359 lbs.
Income over feed

cost ............ . . $16.36 $105.00

Compared with herd No. 1, herd No.
2 ate almost twice as much feed per
cow, produced almost two and one-half
times as much milk, almost three
times as much butter-fat, and return-
ed more than six times as much in-
come over cost of feed. We do not
know what herdNo. 1 would have
done if it had been fed as much as
herd No. 2, but we do know that herd
No. .2 was a good herd and that it paid
to feed that good herd well.

CARE OF SHEEP AT LAMBING
TIME.

 

F there is anything that a sheep

man needs more than patience and
common sense, it is a lantern. Not an
old, smoky, choked-up affair, giving
scarcely enough light to make one
wink, and liable to explode any min-
ute, but an up-to—date and clean one,
filled every day and the wick trimmed
and cleaned off. Kerosene is all right
when properly used, but don’t neglect
the lantern nor set it” down in the
barn. Either keep hold of it or hang
it up securely on a hook. .

Before going to bed at night take
the lantern and make the rounds in
the sheep barn and see if everything
is all right, and go yourself; don’t
send the hired man. The sheep will
be startled at first to see the light in
the yard at night, but soon become
used to it. An experienced man with
sheep can tell very closely by watch-
ing their udders and general actions,
about how many are likely to drop
lambs within the next few hours.

Ordinarily, a healthy sheep will not
require any assistance unless the lamb
is abnormally large. This sometimes
happens. Only last spring one of the
largest and most valuable ewes, in a
nearby farmer’s flock, would have died
only for help at just the right time.
Her lamb was nearly twice as large
as that of an ordinary sheep.

The weaker sheep often need help.
Sometimes the mother refuses to own
the lamb. She may neglect him for a
few hours only, or may develop such
a hatred that she never will give it
any attention thereafter. This is more
apt to happen with sickly ewes that
have but little milk. ~

The only remedy then, is to feed
the lamb from a bottle. But sometimes
strong, full milkers will disown their
lambs; just why they do this is a mys-
tery. In this case the best plan is to

hold the mother and let the lamb help ‘

himself—JR M C. "

 

A farmer near Rushville, Indiana,
recently confessed to stealing chick-

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his farm, the material he built his '
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during the winter.
following amazing results:
Number of cows

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Cost of feed per cow

 

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No 36

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“ Your juicy spring pasture is good feed but it is not
enough to produce a full flow of milk and maintain the
condition of your cows at the same time. The Minnesota
Cow Testing Associations have proved the truth of this:
Farmers Owning 700 cows fed nothing but grass during
Farmers owning 300 cows fed a
grain mixture with pasture.
The records for one year show the

Pasture Only Grain and Paoturo
700 300
238 lbs. 302 lbs.
541:87 $49.85

The cows which had grain every day during the year produced 64
pounds of butterfat per cow more than those that had pasture alone.
It is true that their feed cost was slightly more than pasture, but

To 64 lbs. extra butterfat at 40c $25. 60
Less grain, per cow for pasture

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Registered from eight to twelve months, best of
breeding. large and gmwlhy, with quality. Priced

reasonable. Inquire F. l. WILBER. Clio. Mlch.

REGISTERED GUERNSEYS

Herd Sires: Lone Pine Banger: Dam' 3 Record 936 lbs.

 

fat Ilmnlimead's \lasmr Warrior 5 nearest Dun
713 lbs. for Stock for sale at different times.
M. WILLIAMS. No. Adamo. Mich. GILMORE BROS’;

Camden. Mich

 

Wallinwood Guernseys
May llosc—-Glenwood bred bull for sole.
F. W. WALLIN. JENNON, HIGH.
UERNSEYB for sale. melee. females. sired by
sires whore dun: hav019.460.l0 milk.

records
809.06 fat. and 1510910 milk. 778. 80 fat. 1'. V.
HICKS. R. l. Battle Creek. Mich .

Dairy Heifer Calves. Prattically
Guernsey l’ure- bred 8 weeks old, 820mb.
We ship C. 0.1). Write L. Terwlllloor. Wauwatou. Wu.
Some real bargain In re:-
Guernsens lowed cows and belle-a. one
young bull. W. . Burdloli. Willlumton. Mich.

Boésloml liuemscys, “‘5’ 3°” ”'°"‘”“““‘”‘“‘
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and heifer calves. WAL-
NILL FARM. Milford. Mich.

FORS practically purebred GUERNSEY or ROL-
calves from heavy, rich ken
write EDGESWOOND DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater. Wit.

Amov ‘ “with
cows wand calves. F.

 

 

Registered Guernseys
VI. RUEHS. Caledonia. Mich.

 

Type and Production Combined

Bull born 860me 26. 1925. Two-thirds
white and nicely marked. A straight techno
and good depth of body, in fact.~ an excel-
lent individual in every way.

Ilia sire. Grahambolm Colombo. Lad.
eight 1.000»1b. sisters. including
world‘s records.

Ills dam is a 31- lb. three—year- old daughter
of n 354 lb. four— “year old cow. both of extra
good type.

Send for pedigree of Bar Tag 182.
Bureau of

Animal Industry
Dept. ‘C _
Lansing, Michigan

   
    
  
   
     
  

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COUNT VEEMAN sameness,

A champion out of a 1273 lb. cow,
and brother to America’s Champion
butter producer.

Fully Accredited.

LAKEFIELD FARMS,
CLARKSTON, MICH.

 

Registered Holstein Springer-s. yearling
For sale heifers. months old herd sire
CHAS. METZ. R. No. 3. Evert. MIchloan..

 

HEREFORD STEERS

60 Wt. around 925 lbs. 06 Wt. around 800 lbs.
80 Wt. around 730 lbs. 82 Wt. around 650 lbs.
88 Wt. around 550 lbs-18 Wt. around 500 lbs.
Good quality, dark reds,(lahorn1-d well marked Heme-
ford Steers. Good stm 1191‘ order. The beef type are
usually market toppers when finished. Will sell your
choice of any bunch .

Van D. Baldwin, Eldon ,Wapello Co.,lowa.
MFlNANClAl. KING JERSOEYSM

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excellent
COLDWATER JERSEY FARM.° Mlell.

Sophie Tormentor---Sl. Mawes Jerseys

Bulls from Register of Merit Dams making around '\

1500 1mm and Also a few cows and heifers.
l. K. HATFIELD. DRomul. Mlcli.

ready for service. and
bull calves. for sale
herd. SMITH a'

 

Choice Jersey Bulls
from R of M. dams accredited
PARKER. Nowell. Mich.

BULLS

BUI IER BRED JEEr‘Bfi’EAw

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM
Silver Creek. Allegan County. Mioblgan

{Bullofromlhofm Cows. Chenee'to

Isadoctfrmhadollo. Bomolreuh, othmbred
for fall Minion. Colon C. Lillie. Coopornlno. Mich.

DISPERSION SALE

 

OF SCOTCH SHORTHORNS~

Wednesday, "May 5th,” 1 926.
, n l‘O'elock P.M.

mu! 3” “firm 7 Mt 40th 81..

:ME Curtis.“ F bredm Mullah odes cows with

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bull-.M. Mom. or V. f. lop.

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UNDER date of February I0. I922.

there were thirteen cow testing.
asswlatlons operating in Michigan. On
the sonic date in 1923 there were
twenty-six associations; in 1924 there
were seventy-five associations; in 1925
there were 106 associations. while on
February 10, 1926, there were 109 as-
sociations operating. This February
eighty-five associations reported 23,210
cows tested. Out of the 2,090 herds
tested, 328—unprofitable cows were sold
and forty pure-bred sires were pur-
chased. '

In listing the ten highest producing
two—year—old heifers for all Michigan

steins; one a grade, the other nine
pure-breads. The highest butter-fat pro-
ducing cow, milked four times a day,‘
in this group is owned by the Ionla.

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”Twenty-year-old Ayrshire Drops Her

Eighteenth Calf Fortyt-hree Days
After Completing a Record of 10, 668
lbs. of Milk.

State Hospital, member in the Ionia~
Belding Association, Jens Hansen, test-
er.. In the three—)Lear-old age claSs the
ten highest producing cows are all
Holsteins, and two of the ten are
grades. The highest producing cow is
a grade Holstein oWned by the State
Sanitarium at Howell, Livingston Cow
Testing Association, Harold Larsen,
tester. Mark Lathers. member of the
Washtenaw—Ypsilanti Cow Testing As-
sociation, Hoover Kirby, tester, has
the high cow in the four to five-year-
old age class for the state. His cow
\was retested. and is credited with 100.-
l75 pounds of butter—fat, and 2,343
pounds of milk, average test 4.3 per
cent. This cow was fresh December
30, 1925. Thehigh cow in the, mature
class, and also the highest cow for all
of the testing work in Michigan for
the month of January is owned by
Maryland Farm, Dudley Waters, own-
er, member in the Kent-East Cow Test-
.‘ing Association. This cow, 3. four time
,a day" milker, is credited with 2,738
pounds of milk and 102.94 pounds of
butter-fat. This cow was retested by
Marion Jorgensen, the cow teeter.

DON'T MAKE THE MlLKlNG PE-
RIOD TOO LONG.

 

OME farmers make a. practice of
milking the cows almost up'to the
Itime they become fresh again, but in
our own dairy we have found that this
is an unprofitable method to follow.
The important thing is not the quan-

but the amount she produces-in atyear.

While my experience is limited, this
much it indicates, that if a. bow has a.
rest of flveror six'weeksmbefore calv—
;ing, she will giVe more milk during
the twelve months than if milked con-
(tinuously, or up to within twoweeks
of freshening. Allowing that on an
average a cow gives 300 pounds of
.milk, mOre or loss, during the last six
weeks, that amount is soon made .up
by the better flow it the cow has had

' bfrest of five or more weeks.
I have in mind a Jersey ,thlatigwus-

milked up to calving, and tbebest she
would do'the following year ,Was thir-
lfy-flve pounds per day when in flush.
{rhe following year she bade. rest of
gain weeks,
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honors. it is found that all are H01»

tity that a cow gives in a day’or week, _

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before, “a
617 business, which I new ‘3!

“teen years, where an actual 193 has.

resulted by milklng the cows too long,-
and I am convinced that .In practical
work it pays to dry on the cover at
least five weeks bolero {reshaping so

as to give airest to the hulk-elaborat-, ,- ., "

ing machinery, while another function
of the maternal machinery draws heav-

ily on the vitality of the animal. l'

have also seen farmers milk their cows
up to within ten days or so of calving
time, and then the milk not being good
any longer, was drawn off and thrown

away. The result was that when the

cow drbpped her .call she did not se-
crete enough milk to properly nourish
the calf, and the floweould not be es-
tablished for six weeks or more, and
then it did not reach the normal yield.
Theselpoints are apparent trifles, but
upon the sum of a number of Judi. such
seemingly unimportant points depends

'the profit and less of the dairy. 'And‘

the margin of profit is none too large
at the best—V. M Couch.

STOMACH wonms IN sHE'EP.

 

TOMACH worms are -among the ~

worst enemies to sheep, and cause
heavy loss annually to the sheep in-
dustry. Where sheep are pastured in
large numbers upon a limited area,
infested pastures propagate the trou-
big and must be given attention.

My experience at Forest Grove Farm
has beenthat the stomach worm in
sheep can be very largely controlled
by "the rotation of pastures. The fre—
quent expression that the farm has be-
come “sheep tired” on account of the
sheep becoming infested with stomach
worms, need not obtain. Proper and
immediate treatment of the, flock by
drenching will obviate the trouble terns
porarily, and judicious rotation of pas»
tures will, in reasonable time, com-
pletely overcome the difficulty.

Frequent changes of pastures. and
not over-stocking. are vital factors in
keeping down the stomach worm. I
find it. a good practice not to use a

 

 

ThisJersey Cow Has Six Official Tests
Averaging 710 lbs. of Buttersfat.

pasture more than two years without
giving the pasture a rest Of several
months, or plowing the land up and
reseeding. I have a. considerable area
of permanent. pasture which I am‘able
to handle quite successfully for sheep
pasture by giving the pasture intervals
of two or three months rest during the
pasturlng season.

Wheie sheep have become badly in:
tested with stomach worms, rotation.‘
of- pastures alone will not-overcome
the trouble. It is necessary to treat
such sheep by drenching. There are
a. number of effective drenche's that
have proven very successful. I have
used the copper sulphate treatment
with excellent results.

The breeding -

.flock should be drenched at least three , .

.or four times during the season.
Sheep troubled with stomach werms
should be well fed. If on pasture ..a.

light grain ration should be supplied“

to assist the ewes in gaining flesh.

Sheep in good flesh are much less. . :

likely to stomach worm trouble than

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QHE success-outgthe System describ-

, ed in last week's issue of the
Michigan Farmer‘is best illustrated by.
the experience of William Hinckley.
In 1923, a veterinarian looked over Mr.
Hinckley’s farm and told him that he
might as well give up trying 'to raise
hogs. He had lost 220 out of 250 pigs
that spring, and the year before, 150
'outof300. Mr. Hinckley changed his
system of management and raised 192
strong, healthy pigs from twenty-sev-
en sows, which is an average of seven
pigs per sow. In 1923, he had raised
an average of less than one pig pe’r
sow. In 1925, by a more careful se-
lection of his breeding stock, and un-
der this same plan of handling, he
made an even better record. Other
farmers have obtained similar results.

RAPE FOR HOGS.

 

I have bought 480 acres of land,
mostly muck soil». I have a little high
land and would like to sow some pas-
ture this spring for hogs. I intend to
pasture about 250 to 300 shoats, and
as I have no alfalfa, I would like your
advice as to what I can sow to take
its place. I would also like’to know
how one may get a good catch of al.
falfa. What kind of oats should I
plant? My oats go mostly to straw,
Riavisng only a light crop of grain.—

Rape is one, Of the best substitute
pasture crops for hogs. It should be
sown as early in the spring as the
seed—bed can Q3 well prepared. If sown
in rows, from two to four pounds of
seed per acre is sufficient; if drilled
in solid, from four to six pounds should
be used.‘ The Dwarf Essex variety is
to be pref-erred. 'If possible, divide the
field into two parts and pasture alter-
nately. 7

In securing a seeding of alfalfa only
hardy northern ,grown seed should be
used. The Grimm, Cossack, and On-
tario Variegated strains are exceed—
ingly well adapted to Michigan condi-
tions. The seed-bed should be well
firmed and the soil should not be acid.
The land should be well drained. Un-
der the conditions you mention, I
would sugegst Worthy oats. The VVor—
thy has a much stiffer straw than oth-
er varieties, and frequently stands up
when others lodge badly.

On muck soil you will find the use
of phosphorous and potash of great
value in preventing the lodging of
grain—C. R. Mégee.

AUTO-INTOXIACATION IN SHEEP.

 

My sheep are getting the best! of
food and care, but there is something
wrong with them’. They are coarse-
wools. Their ears will begin to twitch
and they will go partially blind. Some
days they 'can see some, and others
they can’t. They seem to eat good for
the first few days, and then they go
down and-die. I can find no grubs in
their heads.

This is due \to too much feed, and
lack of exercise. This produces con-
stipation, indigestion, and the resulting
absorption of toxines from the boWels.
Reduce the amount of feed and make
them take more exercise. When first
seen ailing, give them six to eight
ounces of raw linseed oil, and one-half
ounce of turpentine and aromatic spir—
its of ammonia. There is such a thing
as being too good to sheep in the win-
ter time. Where they are allowed to
rough it a little more, they appear to
escape many pre-lambing ailments, and
are. in better physical condition when
lambing time arrives.

NEW BU LLETINS.

 

‘ I‘HREE specialized bulletins and
the regular quarterly bulletin are

‘ being mailed to subscribers after
a lapse of a month or two during
which little new matter came from the
bullgtizti presses.

“ u .ure'of Greenhouse Lettuce," by
John W. Grist, probably will interest
mainly the limited number of early
in ct truck growers and hothouse
lat-devotes most of his

,_ 7v 5 goggrgrtfiizatlon.

 

 

 

This pest appeared in alarming num-

 

A’lso mix 20' pounds each of ground

 

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bers last fall after, twenty-five years
of apparent inactivity.

“Honey Vinegar,” by Frederick W.
Fabian, should be especially interest-
ing to bee-keepers who have supplies
of unmarketable, foul brood infected,
or otherwise undesirable honey which
may be used for this purpose. All the
steps in the vinegar making process
are outlined by Mr. Fabian in this
bulletin. .

The February Quarterly Bulletin is
of unusual interest and should find a

 
 

place in the libraries of many Michi- ‘

gan farmers outside of the regular

sixty thousand odd "subscribers who
ordinairly receive it,» The bulletin this
month contains eighteen reports of ex-
periments on various agricultural sub-
jects and concludes with an obituary
to the late Prof. Leslie H. Coolidge.—
Cook.

 

Advice through this column in given free to our lublcl’lb-
en. Lettcn Ihould' Irate fully the history and symptoms of
each cane and give. name and address of the writer. Initial.
only are published. When a reply by mail is rcqucncd the
cervice becomes private practice and 31 must be enclosed.

Growth on Teat.—I have a cow that
is very hard to milk. .There is a little
hard bunch inside some of her teats.
Is there any way to remove them? J.
T. S.——These growths can usually be
removed by an operation, which should
only be performed by a veterinarian.
There is always danger of infection of
the quarter, following operations in
the. teat canal. Thus it is always ad-
visable 'to delay having this done, if
the cow can be milked satisfactorily
in her present condition. .

Obstruction in Teats.——Heifer came?
fresh three weeks ago and something
went wrong with one quarter of the
bag. The milk comes down“ but can’t
get out. Have. been using a tube but
don’t get much with it. Is there any-
thing I can do to have this quarter of
the bag? She has come fresh twice
before, and was all right. W. R.—
Quite frequently there is a membrane
forms across base of teat, completely
closing the opening. Good results are
often had from painting base of teat
daily with tincture of iodine. Continue
using the rfiilk tube, boiling each time
before using. If you still fail to get
all the milk, let your veterinarian ex-
amine it, as it might become neces-
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operation.

Swelling on Hock.——Our horse has a
soft swelling on the inside of the hook
joint. She is slightly lame. M. G. N.
——Apply a blister, composed of one-
half ounce each of red iodide of mer-
cury and powdered cantharides, and
four ounces of vaseline. Rub in for
five minutes and wash off in twenty-
four hours, and grease with vaseline
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Swelling on Side—«On February 22,
1926, our cow stood the T. B. test and
a week afterwards a large swelling
occurred on the right side below the
hip bone, three inches from the injec-
tion. It' is as large as two quarters,
and is there yet. What should be
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en it and swab out with the iodine.

Large Sore.~I have a young brood
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It is hard and has a large scab on it
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looks all decayed where I Can see un-
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ond day.

Cows Eat Wood.—We feed our cows
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daily, salt, and plenty of fresh water,
but they will chew up wood when they
are outside. What is the cause and
cure? M. S. G.—This is due to feed-
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F OR SALE OR TRADE for young stock, 35-p01md
sire. Good indiVidual. For information write
MART DOEZEMA, R. No. 3, Grand Rapids. Mich.

 

F AIRLAND MILKING SHORTHORNS. Herd of
75, headed by a son of Madeline Clay & Grand-
son of Glenside Laddie. Several extra. good bulls and
heifers, also a few rows for sale. 1. J.

SONS. Niles, Mich.

- - of quality, cows and heifers.
Milking Shorlhorn: Mostly Glenside breeding.
Write your wants. Irvin Doan &. Sons, Croswell. Mich.

lhm Shorlhom Bulls

Union City, Mich.

Best of quality and breeding. Bulls,
Shorthorns cows and heifers l'or sale. BIDVIELL.
STOCK FARM. Box 0. Tecumseh. Mich.

 

for sale. also a few fe-
males. J. A. BARNUM,

 

 

HOGS

DUROC BRED GlLTS

April farrow. cholera immune and weighing over 425
lbs., in growing condition. Also boars.

Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich.

 

 

- i We won G. C. Boar,
Grand Bhampwn Durocs .925. a... F... a...
from the Grand Champion, bred to Super ()0. Boar,
April farrow, $75 to $100. Fall boars, over 200 lbs.
$50. 1. M. WILLIAMS. No. Adams. Mich.

 

(,‘holce fall boars. sired by
Duroc Jersey Valley Col. 13m. Priced

right. R. EUGENE iNWOOD, Romeo, Mich.

 

A few choice fall boars with the right
”WOO Jamey: type quality and breeding. . ,I
DRODT. Monroe, Mich.

 

B IO TYPE Chester Whites. Choice fall zllts and
bears. also spring boar pigs at weaning time.
LUCIAN HILL. Unlon City. Mich.

 

L‘ARGE TYPE POLAND CHINAS for sale. Brod
tilts weighing 400 lbs. at $75. Also fall pigs,
either sex. A. A. FELDKAMP. Manchester. Mich.
Polan’d china Saws 22......“ “greatness:
hon invited. Bubar stuck Farm, R. 5. Bellows. Mich.

 

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100 head of Road Horses. 5 to S
wanted yrs". old, 1100 to 1250. Must be
sound. SHAW 8803.. 572i Lawton Avenue, Detroit.
Michigan. .

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FOR SALE 0:11in r25: Slat-mgoll lbsferdimea
Rice, Millington, Mich.

 

 

 

Advertising
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Classified Ad. to sell
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to get that extra help.

They bring results with little

cost, see rates on page 557 of
this issue.

The Michigan Farmer,

Detroit, Mich.

 

  


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' > GRAIN QUOTATIONS

Tuesday, April 13.’
Wheat. .3
Detroit—No. 1 red $1.79; No. 2 red
figs; No. 2 white $1.79; No. 2 mixed

Chicago—May $1.633/ @1.63%; July
$1.39%@1.391,4. ‘
Toledo—“meat $1.77@1.73%.
Carn.

Detroit—No. 2 yellow at 80c; No. 3
yellow 770; No. 4 yellow 72c; No. 5
yellow 67c. . _

Chicago—May 735562373040; July at
77%@771;§c.

Oats.

Detroit—No. 2 white 'Michigan at
47c; No. 3, 46c.
Chicago—May 41%@42c;
2%c.

Rye
Detroit—No. 2, 940.
Chicago—May 9114c; July 92%0.
Toledo—94c.

Beam

Detroit—Immediate
shipment $4.10.

Chicago—Spot Navy, Mich. fancy
hand~picked $4.50 per cwt; red kid-
neys $9.25.

New York—Pea, domestic $4.506)
5.25; red kidneys $8.25@9.

Barley
Malting 74c; feeding 690.
Seeds
Detroit—Cash red clover at $21;
alsike $17; timothy $3.35.

Buckwheat.
Detroit.—~Buckwheat $1.65 per cwt.
Hay
Detroit.——No. 1 timothy $.23.50@24;
standard $22.50@23; No. 1 light clover,
mixed $22@23; No. 2 timothy $21@
22; No.1 clover $20@21; wheat and oat
straw $12.50@13; rye straw $13.50@14.
Feeds

Detroit.——Bran at $32@34c; standard
middlings at $30; fine middlings $36;
cracked corn $35; coarse cornmeal at

$33; chop $30 per ton in carlots.

WHEAT

The wheat market has been draggy
during the past week. Domestic de-
mand for cash what has been slug-
gish, foreign buying has not been
‘brisk enough to lift the world price
level, and speculative activities have
been to restricted to .give the market
Light
receipts at primary markets in recent
weeks have been matched by slow
milling demand, small exports, and
anxiety to clean up holdings before the
crop year ends. Foreign buying shows
an occasional spurt, but sustained ac-
tivity is lacking.

The condition of the winter wheat
crop as of April 1 was officially report-
ed at 84.1 per cent, compared with 68.7
last year and a ten-year average on
that date of 79.2. The report was
slightly lower than private estimates,

.however. The reduction of 24,000,000
bushels in the official estimate for Ar—
gentina was a bullish development of

the past week.
CORN

After dropping to a new 'low level
for the crop year, corn prices have had
a minor rally. Primary receipts have
been small for the last three weeks,
and the last visible supply report
showed a small decrease for the first
time since early in November. The
demand is fair, but even on the cur-
rent low basis, buyers are not aggres-
sive, as there is no prospect of com-
mercial scarcity for many months.
Sales for export are. reported, although
the amounts are too small to have
much effect marketwise. An unfavor-
able "planting season is the chief pos-
sibility of a pronounced rise 1n corn

prices.
OATS

Export demand gave the oats mar-
ket a firm tone during the past week,
although buying from this quarter
deemed to be tapering off at the close.
'Most of these sales are for later ship-
ment, so that they may not show up
in. shipments from primary markets
or decreases in the visible supply for
several weeks. Seeding the new crop
is being delayed by the unfavorable
weather, and this will become a strong
market factor if it continues.

SEEDS -

The “active season in the seed mar-
ket has been held up by the weather,

July at

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and prompt

, vivhich has closely resembled the mid-
, ”winter variety. Trade during the past

week has been. at a standstill, an‘l

“”67 prices generally have been Shim“: in

 

ButChel‘ COWS .1 a o o} e o e i u w“ _'

order to stimulate demand. ' Dealers

once the weather returns to normal,
so that the period of unsettled prices
probably is only temporary.

EGGS

The egg markets are still feeling the
effects of the unSeasonable weather of
a week ago which checked production
and delayed’ shipments 'to distributing
markets. Receipts at. the leading mar-
kets last week were 30 per cent small-
er than in the corresponding period a
year ago. Country costs are high and

prices all along the- line are holding-

very steady. The intostorage move-
ment is under way, although stocks
are not being accumulated as rapidly
as a year ago. The carry-over in the
four markets on March 1 was the larg-
est on record, but present stocks are
less than half as large as at this time
last year. April is usually the month
of heaviest egg production, but so long
as the season remains backward, sup-
plies will not be burdensome. Prices
are likely to follow a gradual upward
course from now on.

Chicago—Eggs, fresh firsts at 28@
281/50; extras 3505c; ordinary firsts at
27c; miscellaneous 27%c; dirties 260;
checks 25%c. Live poultry, hens 32c;
broilers 50@55c; springers 320; roost-
‘ers 210; ducks 32c; geese 19c; tur-
keys 35c.

Detroit—Eggs, fresh candied and
graded 29((0293éc. Live poultry, heavy
springers at 340; light springers 28c;
heavy hens 340; light hens 32c; geese
22@23c; ducks 38c; turkeys 42c. .

BUTTER

The butter market had a temporary
spurt of strength last week when re-
ceipts were no larger than at the cor-
responding time last year for the first
week in nearly six months. The small-
er supplies were due to the difficulty
of getting to market rather than to
a falling off in production, however.
Receipts are already showing an in-
crease over last season, and prices
have declined again. Prices are con-
siderably lower than at this time last

are expecting a giand'rush of business-

year, but dealers expect some in,
decline-y before the market finally
strengthens. Fresh butter is so plenti-
ful that there is little demand for
storage butter, and the surplus over
a. year ago is. steadily mounting. Con-
sumption has not expanded sufficiently
to absorb the 'increaSed supplies,‘ and
recently therehas been noted in=some
sections a disposition to cutfidown on

  

purchases of butter. ~

Prices on 92-score creamery were;
Chicago 390; New York 391,4c. In Do-
troit fresh creamery in tubs sells for
38%@391,éc per pound. ~

POTATOES

The potato market continues in a”
very strong position; ‘ The demand in
the Chicago market was slowed down
by unfavorable weather, but prices

have again started upward with the ‘

highest prices of the season being-
paid. Supplies of potatoes at many
shipping points are rapidly being
cleaned up and carlot shipments are
decreasing. Some new potatoes are
arriving at the larger distributing
markets, although the movement is
not active as yet. A smaller acreage
than last year is indicated for eight
mid-season states, which is in line
with the plantings in southern states.
Northern round whites, U. S. No. 1,
are quoted at $5.10@5.25 per 100 lbs.,
sacked, in the Chicago carlot market.

BEANS

The bean market was extremely
quiet and dull, with buying scattered
and offerings not being pressed for
sale. C. H. P. whites are quoted at
$4.30 per 100 pounds, f. o. b. Michigan
shipping points. Supplies left in the
state are believed to be liberal, but
the price is low. It is too early for
the delayed arrival of spring weather
to have any effect on the market.

WOOL

A slightly better tone is apparent in”
the wool trade as buyers .are more
ready to take hold on the lower level
of values established recently. Belief
that the low point. in values has been

 

 

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Tuesday, 'April 13. '

CHICAGO

Hogs

Receipts 22,000. Market is opening
steady to 10c higher than Monday’s
best prices; latter trading dull; steady
to 250 lower than yesterday’s average;
lighter weight shows full decline; top
140-150 average $13.35; early bulk of
good 200—225 weight at $12.75@13.20;
better 180 lbs. down at $13.30@13.60;
240-300 weight butchers $11.90@12.70;
sorted killing pigs $14 down; packing
sows $10.40@10.80.

Cattle.

Receipts 12,000. Steer trade slow;
weak to 15c under Monday’s average;
market steady to weak with Monday’s
close; best heavy cattle early $10.50;
yearlings $10.35; bulk at $8.75@9.85;
stockers and feeders and bulls steady;
she stock slow; steady to weak; light
heifers up to $10; liberal supply light
heifer offerings; numerous lot. selling
at $8.50@9.25; outstanding weighty bo—
logna bulls $6.35; vealers $8.50@9 to
packers; few at $9.50.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 18,000. Early sales of fed
lambs steady to strong; market weak-
ening off later; few sales of desirable
wool lambs $13.50@13.75; three lots
to outsiders $14; steady to strong;
practically no early sales of clipped
lambs; asking about $12 for the best
handy weight; 800, head of good Cah-
fornia. springers $15.50; 63 head out
of three double decks, steady; few
odd fat wool ewes $8.75@9.25; steady:
nothing done on shearing lambs a coun-
try demand improved; decline small.

DETROIT .

Cattle.
Receipts 389. Market on canners
and bulls 25c lower; others steady.
Good to choice yearlings,

dry-fed ........ . .. . . . . .3 9.00.@10.00
Best heavy steers, dry-fed 8 25@ .925
Handy weight butchers . 7 50@ 8.25
Mixed steers and heifers 7 25@ 8.00
Handy light butchers . . .. 00@ 7.00
Light butchers .......... 5.50017. 5.75
Best cows. . . . . . . . . 6.25 , 6-75
4075 .7 5.50

  

' ped $12 25
. shorn sheep $6.5 @750“.

Cutters .................. 3.75@ 4.25
Canners ................. 2.75@ 3.50
Bologna bulls ........... 5.50@ 6.25
Stock bulls ............. 5.00@ 6.25

Choice light bulls ....... 4.50@ 5.75
Feeders . . . . . ......... 6.50@ 7.50
Stockers ................ 6.00@ 7.00

Milkers and springers: . . .345.00@so.oo
Veal Calves.

Receipts 785. Market steady. ‘
Bulk good ...... . . . . 2‘. . .$13.00@13.50
Others ..... 4.00@1.2.50

Sheep and Lambe.

‘ Receipts 713. Market steady.
Best $11.00@11.5,0

Fair sautixxizxxx 10.00@10.75
Light and\common ...... 6.00@10.00
Fair and good sheep . 8.50@ 9.00
Culls and common 3.00@ 5.50
Wool lambs ............ _13.00@13.50
Hogs. ‘
Receipts 1,740. Market 10c lower.
Mixed grades ........... $ .
Roughs ................. 10.25
Pigs .................... 14.00
.Stags ........ . .......... ‘ 7.50
Heavy yorkers .......... " . -
Heavy hogs ............. 11.50@12.25
Yorkers and lights .....
BUFFALO
, , Hogs
Receipts 4,800. Closing steady;

heavy $12@12.75; medium $13@13.75;
light weight $13.75@14; light lights
and pigs $14.25@14.50; packing sows
and roughs $10.75.

‘ Cattle. .
Receipts 150. Market is stea '
medium steers 10@25c lower; stein:
1100 lbs.‘ up at $8.50@10.25; steers

1100 lbs. down $6.50@9.50; no choice

yearlings here; heifers at $5.50@8.50;
cows $2.50@7; bulls $4.50@6.50.

‘ Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 200. No wool lambs here;

clipped yearlifigs $19.50@10;—"best clip:

. ; c ppe eWes $6.50 9.50;-

good wethers $8 8.50; ewes at@$8.50;

 

 
  

 

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DAILY market 17390118 and
weather forecasts arobrohad- -'
caet each weekday “2:15,: each
em standard tlmc,'by the'Detrolt.
Free Press, Station WOX, cadet
10525, 12:00, and 4:00, by the De-‘
troit‘ News, Station WWJ. You-
can getmarket and weather re:
ports at 12:00 o’clock 'over
W'KAR, Michigan State Colic”,
East Lansing. and at 10:00 a. m.
over WREO, Lansing. . Market
and weather reports can also he.
obtained from WGHP, of Detroit,
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place. In Wyoming, the trading basis
is around 33 to 34 cents; in Utah, 34
to 350, and in Idaho and -Washington,
sales at 31% to 33 cents are reported,
With some transactions at 26 to 29
cents. The Jericho pool is held at 40
cents, which is above the market. In
the bright. wool sections, but little
trading is 4n progress as yet.

GRAND RAPIDS

Potatoes advanced to newhigh pric.
es for the year .in Grand Rapids this
weekytouching $3.25 a“ bushel. Green-
house products were .slightly easier,”

lettuce selling at 8@9c a pound, and

radishes at 50c per dozen bunches.
Eggs were slightly lower at 266270,
and butter-fat held around 430 pound.
Poultry was higher, with fat hens top-
ping at 28@300, and light ranging at
23@28c. Other commodities were
about steady. Beans were slow at
$3265 per cwt., and wheat was barely
steady at $1.54 a bushel. Apples were
moving a little better, but prices were
unchanged, most winter varieties oth-
er than Spies selling at $1621.35 per
bushel. Spies were scarce at $2@3 3
us e.

DETROIT CITY MARKET

Fair weather made offerings uch
larger and seemed to stimulate . 115*-
ng. ‘
Apples $1@3 bu; beets 50@90c bu;
carrots $‘1@2.50 .bu' cabbage,
$1.50@2.5o. bu; red si.50@2 bu; dryon-
ions $1.50@1.75 bu; leaf lettuce $1613
5 bu; root parsley $3@4 bu; pota4
toes $3.25@3.50 bu; topped turnips at
$1@2.50 bu; parsnips $1@2.50 bu;
bagas 75c@1 bu; pop corn $2 bu;
vegetable oysters $1 bu; horseradish
$2@4 bu; 'butter 55@60c; honey $1
per , 5-lb. pail; eggs, wholesale 30@‘
320; retail 35@400; hens, wholesale
35@37c; retail at 38@40c;. Leghorns,
wholesale 34c; retail 36c; veal 17c;
dressed hogs, small 22c; dressed poul-
try, geese 40c; chickens 38@45c.

COMING LlVE STOCK SALES.

M y 5—Cur3hmmm'
a. . 58
City, Mich. Farm,

COUNmon‘rs‘.“

Kent 00., April 8.~—-Fanners are not
making any progress ,with their spring
work because the ground is still froz—
en. It is very wet and Will take some-
time for the soil to settle, No maple
sugar was. made this spring. About
the average acreage of crops will be
put in. ‘ Those having orchards expect
to spray, LIVe stock is in good con-
dition and feed supp) is plentiful ex-
cepting hay; wheat .69: hay $17@

 

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1...... ...$0.80 $2.40 28. .......$2.08 .803:
' 11.......'. .88 2.84 I? 216 6.48
n........ .96 2.88 18.. 3. 6.72
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10..."... 1.12 8.30 80. 7.20
15...”... 1.80 8.80 81. 7.44
10......” 1.28 3.84 88. 7.68
........ LIB 4.00 88 7.92

1 ........'1.44 3.82 34 8.16
1.... . 1.5! .58 85 8.40
10. ... 1.60 4.80 88. 8.64
21. .. . 1.08 5.04 81 8.88
18. . 1.76 5.20 9.11
88. . 1.81 5.53 30. . 9.36
14.. 1.02 6.76 40...”... 0.60
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'$1-_ 0; eg' 3 25c; ,buttepfat 390; ,Farm-

9113 are ackward with their spring
work, as it is impossible to do much.

Calhoun 00., April 5.—~There is not
much chap e in farm programs, ex-
cept- that t e oat acreage mil be in-
creased. There, is still much snow.
About the usual amount of spraying
will be' done and there will be a little
change in the amount of fertilizer
used. The feed" supply will probably

be a little short. «A few hogs are be- G

ingmarketed at 13c: wheat $1.56; rye
73c; oats 450; -corn disc—L. D.
Osceola 00., April 5.—About the us-
ual acreage of crops will be planted
this year. There will be more spray-
ing and fertilizing than in the past.
Live stock is in good average condi-
tion. About all of the feeds will be
used up. A few are now buying after
the unusually long winter. Roads are
blocked with snow. Most of the live
stock on feed has been shipped. The
last of the potatoes are being sold at
$2.50 per bushel; butter-fat 470; eggs
23c; ‘cattle 4@80; veal calves 7@12c;
hay $186325. Farm labor is very scarce

and. farmers are getting by with as,

littlehelp as possible-11. M.

Tuscola 09., March 5.——There will
bequite an acreage of spring wheat
sown here. The beet acre-age will be
above normal. Probably fewer beans
-will.. be planted than usual. Other
crops will be normal. The season is
late, with the ground still covered
with snow. No spraying here, but
nearly everybody uses fertilizer. Live
stock is in good condition and there is
plenty of feed. Not much grain going
to market. Beans are being stored.
The price now is $3.70; oats 350;

Missa’ukee 00., April 5.-—There will:

crops grown this year. Fertilizers are
used only in a small way, and spray-
ing is largely confined to the potato
crop. Stock is in fair condition, with
the feed supply pretty well used up.
Some farmers are buying hay at from
$24@26.- Fields .are still covered with
snow from one to six feet deep. There
is about the usual amount of stock in
the farmers’ hands. Potatoes are now
bringing $4.56 .per cwt; eggs 250; but-
ter-fat 44c. There are about the usual
number of farm auctions.-E. H.
Ogemaw 00., .April 4.——Although the
firstof April, we have sixteen inches
of snow and it is still snowing. The
weather conditions are such that it is
difficult to say what will be done in
the way of. planting of spring crops.
At present everything is at a» stand-
still. Spraying and fertilizing are not
much practiced here, excepting the
fertility. from the barnyard. Stock
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lam ~o 13111525— arch has passe
.ed. It. came-inks a lion, and went out
with a roaring northeast galeof snow,
sleet, and ‘rain.. Farmers are prepar-
ing for spring work. But many are
on the sick list with the flu. Some
cattle have been sold to ,ranchmen,
bringing a. little higher price on ac-
count of feed values. Wheat and rye
suffered the last week in March from
freezing and thawing. Butter-fat is
43c; butter 45c; eggs 300; potatoes
$2; apples $1; hay $15@18, loose;
beans $3.80. Auction sales are in or-
der again. Stock bringing fair prices.
Horses are also on a. higher level.
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know, that while most
brands of roofing look alike
from outside appearance
there is a decided differ-
ence in the wearing qual-
ity of the better grades as
compared with inferior
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manager: of a
successful ranch. Covers heart-pen plan in use. $1.50.
Grieg Lake Fur Farm, .West Branch. Mich.

 

onmn FENCE ros'rs, 8 7L, 4 to 5 inches at top.
any quantity. 18 cents, our Detroit yard. Barnes
Wm Fence Company. 10371 Northlawn Ave. Detroit.
.Ilt'h.

COINS AND STAMPS—Old Coins and Stamps Want-
ed. Buying list free. Stamp and (‘oin Collector, tells
about coins and stamps. 0 months 25c. Kraus. 409
Chestnut, Milwaukee, Wis.

 

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—Good 240-933 incu-
bator. Franz Dickinson. Spring'port, Mich.

SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK

CONCORD GRAPE VINES, strong planting Etude.
$20 per 1000. Three-year Concord $75 per 1000.
Niagara. one year $40: two years $00. Worden. Aga-
wam. Moore’s Early two yr. $50 per 1000. Cuthberrt
Red Raspberry $12 per 1000: Cumberland Black $14.
Columbinn Purple 100 for $2.50; 1000 for $23. Straw-
berry I’lants. alk best, varieties. $4 per 1000. Eldorado
Blackberry. 1000 for $15. I'cdigreed “'ashington As-
paragus Roots. one year 1000 for $6: two years 1000
for $9; 100 for $1.25. Palmetto. one year $5 per
1000: two year $8; 100 for $1. Seven Spires. for 31.
Eight Dr-utzia for $1. Shrubs. Everything to plant.
Free list. l’restage .3. Sons. Allegan, Mich.

 

REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED seed corn and oats.
Clemeht's white cap yellow dent, and Duncan's yel-
low dent. Fire-dried. on racks. ear-tested and germ-
ination waranteed. From high-yielding stock. Reg-
istered and Certified Worthy cats. I. atld’ straw and
high-yielding variety. developed by the Michigan State
College. All seeds grown under inspection of the
Michigan Crop Improvement Association. Michigan's
largest producer or seed corn. Paul C. Clement,
Britten. Michigan.

 

FROST PROOF CABBAGE AND TOMATO PLANTS
——Varictios: Charleston and Jersey Wakeflplds, Copen-
hagen Market. Succession and Flat Dutch. Tomato.
Bonnie Best, Earllana, Livingston Globe and Greater
Baltimore. Prices, Parcel Post Paid, 500. $1.50;
1,000. $2.50: 5,000 and over. express collect, $1.25
per 1,000 We guarantee to ship promptly a gmd
size plant that will please you. Tifton Potato 00..
Inc. Tifton. Ga.

 

CROP SATISFACTION insurance is Certified Seed
ffiim latest improved strains of highest yielding va-
rieties under Michigan conditions, Wolverine oats. Ro-
bust beans. two to twenty bushels clean. heavy.
treated. certified eats. all ready to drill, one dollar
a bushel. Over twenty bushels. ninety cents, F. 0.
B. Bags are free. In bulk at farm, eighty cents.
1926 seed circular, yours on request. A. B. Cook,
Owosso, Mich.

 

FROSTPROOF CABBAGE, ONIONS. ALSO TOMA-
TOES—Leading varieties Immediate shipment. Strong,
hardy plants, 100, 40c; 500, $1.10: 1,000. $2.00. Post-
paid. Express collect. 5.000. $6.25;10.000, $12. Pep-
per. 100, 50c: 1,000. $2.50. Postpaid. East Texas
Plant Co.. Ponta. Texas.

 

FOB SALE—Fresh dug and trimmed plants. Dunlap
Strawberry. $4.00 per 1.000. 6 other varieties. Cuth-
bert and Early King Bed Raspberry, $15 per 1.000.

Cumberland Black Raspberry. $12 per 1.000. Lucretia
aembm'. $12 per 1,000, Fred Stanley. Bangor.

 

VEGl'I'l‘ABIJ’. PLANTS shipped anywhere United
States. Will ship prepaid mail. 50 VVakefleld or All«
head Cabbage Plants and 50 Bonnybcst or Baltimore
Tomato Plants (garden full) all for 50¢. Cauliflower
and Pepper Plants 05- hundred, prepaid. Carlisle
Produce (,‘o., Inc., Valdosta, Georgia.

 

FOR SALFr—Cnrtiflcd Wolverine Oats. Golden Dent
Seed Corn (Germination 05%). Manchu Soy Beans
and leading varieties of early and late potatoes. John
C. W'llk. St. Louis, Mich.

 

EARLY PLANTS——Tomato. Bermuda Onion, 1,000.
$1.75. Cabbage, $1.25. Sweet Potatoes, $2.50. Large
lots cheaper. Livo delivery guaranteed. Catalogue
free. Progress Plant l‘o.. Ashburn, Georgia.

 

DAIILIASv—m Assorted Double, 050. Gladiolus. 15
large assorted. 25c: 50 blooming size, 250; 250 bulb-

kits,I 25c. Postpaid. John Nelson, R. 1. Cadillac.
10 I.

 

APPLE AND PEACH, low as 100. Grapevines 5c.
Best varieties. postpaid. Catalog free. Benton Coun-
ty Nursery Co, Dept. 111, Rogers, Arkansas.

 

TWELVE two-year or twenty yearling grape plants.
dollar prepaid. Write for quantity prices. Root &
Son, Bangor, Mich.

MILLIONS. Cabbage, Tomato and Onion Plants, $1,
1000. Catalogue free. Clark Plant 00., Thomasvilla.
Georgia.

 

SEED CORN—~1925—~90-day Yellow Dent.
Test 87%. $3.00 per bu.
Ettinger, R. No.

M. S. C.
Bags furnished. C. W.
1, Dearborn. Mich.

 

 

 

COPENHAGEN (‘ABBAGE PLANTS, $1.00.
large open field grown. Prompt shipment.
Plant C0,. Quitman, Georgia.

1

1000;
Quitman

 

ASSORTED COLORS GLADIOIA BULBS—~60 large,
or 125 flowering size, $1.00 postpald. Martha. 05-
mond. Festoria, Mich.

      
   
  
  
     

  

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warm LEGHORN nuns and cockblrds m- lair
price...» Thousands of eight—week-old pulletsI’, All" .
baby chicks and hatching eggs shipped quick. Trap- 4
nested. pedigreed foundation stock. ego-bred. 6 you-s.
Winners at 10 egg contests. Catalog an
price bulletin (me. I ship C‘
satisfaction. Geo. ’B.

634 Shirley. -Grand
Rapids, 'Michigan.

Ferris.

 

HATCHING EGGS—$1.10 per setting. postpaid. (mm
our matings of heavy laying prize winners in Blue
Andaluslans. Buff. “'hite Minorcas. Partridge Rocks.
Lone Pine Poultry Farm, Silver Lake. Indiana.

 

S. C. BROWN AND \VHITE LEGHORNS-332 I38.
Trapnestcd. Pedigreed stock. 6383 $1.00 up. Catalog.
Harlan Fulton, Gallipolis. Ohio.

 

IMPERIAL Binglet Barred Rock Eggs from a State
Accredited flack. $6.00 per hundred. Robert Martin.
Woodland. Mich.‘

 

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK EGGS for hatching.
from our heavy laying strain. $2.00 per 16. 85.00 pm
50. $9.00 per 100. F. E. Fogle. Okemos. Mich.

 

RHODE ISLAND REDS—R. C. Large Fancy Cock-
erels at $3 to $5 each. Burt Sisson, Imlay City.
Mich.

 

“’HITE AFRICAN GUINEAS-~I'Iatclllng E388 33,00
for 15. Breeding Stock. singles. $3.00. pairs $5.00.
Axford Amps. Clyde. Mich.

HATCIIING EGGS~Whitc Rocks. Buff Orpingtons.
Won Egg Contest. Circular. Walnut Hill Farm,
Milford, Mich.

 

PARK'S BRED-TO-LAY Barred Plymouth Rook
Hatching Eggs. $1.75 per 15. Clinton Famam. Fre—
mont. Mich.

 

 

 

I Chicks and Eggs.

lished 1910.

a
\VIIITE “WANDOTTES EXCLUSIVELY—Eggs $5.00
per hundred. prepaid. Raymond Eash. Shipshewana.
Indiana.

 

IMPERIAL \VHITE PEKIN DUCK EGGS. $2.00 per
11. Postpaid. Chas. Stutz, Saranac. Mich.

PURE TOULOUSE GEESE EGGS—ten (or $4.75.
Loyd Southworth. Allen. Mich.

 

 

 

BABY CHICKS

SPECIAL SALE—Tanned and Tom Barron White
Leghorns, l’a-rks‘ Barred Rocks. S. C. R. I.
Rods. We are now booking orders for our
special sale which starts May 22nd. Sc (1 for our
very instructive catalogue and this special price list
today. and get your Chicks on time this year. State
Accredited. 100% live delivery. and satisfaction guar-
antecd. Brummer & Frederickson Poultry Farms.
Holland. Mich.

 

 

BABY CHICKS from superior quality, heavy laying
stock. We have one of the largest and oldest hatch-
cries in the Middle West. 25 years' experience in
mating. breeding and hatching standard-bred poultry.
100% live arrival. Prepaid. Every chick guaranteed.
Catalog free. Loup Valley Hatchery. Box 340. St.
Paul. Nebr.

CHICKS—Folks. buy the best. Book order without
remittance. Prices. C. W. Leghorns. 12¢ each:

Books and R. I. Reds. 14c each. 1000 lot lo
less each. all delivered 100%. We are near you and
will please you with strong stock. Book order. we
wfill ship on date want/ed. Merrill Hatchery. Merrill,
ll ich.

 

 

ENG. W. LEG. CHICKS—direct from our M. A. C.
Demonstration Farm Flock. All chicks sold until
May 15. Prices after May 15th. $47.50 for 500. $90
for 1000. Live delivery guaranteed. Circular free.
Model Poultry Farm, R. 4, Zeeland, Mich.

 

BABY CHICKS from stack all newly blood-tested for
Bacillary White Diarrhea. Third year blood-testing.
Eight popular breeds. Hatchery State Accredited.
Catalog and price list ready. Pierce Hatchery. Jer-
ome. Mich.

 

BABY CHICKS—White Leghorns. $10 per 100: White
Rocks, R. I. Reds and Barred Plymouth Rocks. $12
per 100. prepaid by parcel post. Snowflake Poultry

 

Farm & Hatchery. R. 5. Middle'ville. Mich. L. Verb
Schie, Proprietor.
WIIITTAKER'S ‘TRAI’NESTED RIIODE ISLAND

REDS—~Both Combs. Michigan State Accredited.
Bloodtcstcd. Michigan's Greatest color and egg strain.
Sixteenth Annual Catalog Free.
Interlakes Farm, Box 9, Lawrence, Mid".

 

BABY CHICKS——Elexen varieties.
culled and inspected hooks.
numbers.

from free range
Liberal discounts in large
Send for circular and price list. Estab~
Shepard Poultry Farm, Litchfleld, Mich.

————

STURDY CHICKS—Blood tested for Baelllary White

 

Diarrhea. also State Accredited. Leghorns. Rocks.
Reds. and White Wyandottes. Sunnybrook Poultry
Farm. Ilillsdale. Mich.

 

SUPER-QUALITY WHITE LEGIIORN CHICKS of
heavy laying, 35 years trapnested ancestry. I’re-wzu'
prices. (‘atalog free. Missouri Poultrn Farms. Box
110. Columbia, Missouri.

 

BABY (‘HICKS AND EGGS—Superior Ringlet Barred
Rocks. Rose (‘omb Reds, White Leghorns. Cataloc.
Wyndham's [deal Poultry Yards, Timn. Ohio.

 

 

    

 

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REAL ESTATE " “

 

A MILD WINTER AND, PLEASANT SUMMER. A
farm with a commanding view of the entire country.
naturally drained. good productive soil. Land at
$20 an acre. A new bungalow. the material costing
only $200. Two or three crops a year. General farm
chops with a. few cows, hogs. and hens paying your
while early vegetables bring high
making your money .crops, and enable you.

acre of radishes brought $270.50 net, March 18th.
roads, standard schools, pleasant neighbors. low
cash payment, easy terms. Can you beat such an
offer? Write and let me send you full information.
«W. E. Price. General Immigration Agent. Room 671.
Southern Railway System, Washington. D. C.

 

Ten-mommoderm brick house Overlooking lake, ten-
ant houses“ Large barn and outbuildings. For m4
up adding}! up Evan, Michigan.

C 4011." Good build.-

 

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158 ACRES—3 cows. 8 hogs. 50 poultry, team.
wagon. (111711688. tools included. 100 acres tillable,
level, many crops. including alfalfa: estimated 5000
cords wood. 350,000 feet timber. variety fruit: good
house, 00—foot barn: lllle'xl'ellcd climate and water,
has grown ‘10 bu. corn and halo of cotton per acre;
disabled owner, only $1.500. $500 cash. Free cat.-
alog. United Farm Agency, Ill—HF \Vcst 10th fit”
Kansas (‘ity, Missouri.

 

WELL-IMPROVED MID~WEST FARM—108 Acres.
Horses, Mat-hinm'. (tows. crops; nm‘ live wire should
prosper hem: good markets. smooth dark—loam fields.
stream in pasture; attrax-tile 9-mom house. ample
farm bldgs. $7.000 for all. part cash. l’ictlu‘e and
details pg. 01 big Spring Catalog. Free. Strmit

Agency, 205-B(‘ Kresge. Bldg. Detroit. Mich.

‘list.

 

GOLDEN YELLOIV SEED CORN~Tests 94-97%.
Hand husked and air dried in crib. Write, Geo. W.
Needham. Saline, Mich.

TREES. shrubs, roses, lines. perennials, etc.
Aldi'il'li's Nurseries, Farmlngton, Mich.

Ask for

PET STOCK

PUllEdlltED AIIIEDALESHOOrang strain. puppies
and grown stock. Will sell several fine brood matrcns
that will raise you fine litters of puppies. Send for
circular. Superior Kennels. I'inconnlng, Michigan.

 

 

WAN'I‘ED-1\Ialcs, pedigreed. eligible A. K. C. Pups.

Police, Airedale, and other breeds. Send picture,
pedigree. etc. ('ash paid. John Benson. Dcalm‘.
Mcdway, Mass.

 

FLORIDA OPPORTUNITIES in agriculture. dairying.

poultry, trucking, fruits. Rich soil. healthful climate,

paved highways. bidding for real dirt farmers. Cham-
of Commerr-e Fl, Starker, Flu.

 

OWNER. WANTING TO SELL. reasonable price.‘

good Michigan farrm Write M.
Maple. San Antonio. ' Taxa s.

Sicimel, 114 \V.

 

 

WANTED FARMS

WANTED—1‘0 hear from owner of farm or unim-
provod‘land for sale. 0. Hawley, Baldwin, Wis.

 

 

 

HAY AND 5me
ALFALFA and all kinds hay. Ask for delivered
priced. Barry D. Gates Company. Jackson. Michigan.
W
MISCELLANEOUS.

 

 

' m lease or take partnerships in Nordiern

Creamery or Cheese Factory. by experienced operator.
Details and terms. ,T. C. Wisterman. 771 Richie
Ave” Lima, Ohio. ‘ '

CEDAR FENCE POSTS m on lots. direct from for«

est to user. Ask for delivered price. I E. DOW. At-

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you SALE—.Nicely marked Sable and white grade
('ollie Puppies, males. $5.00; females. $4.00. Elias
Gregory. Brutus, Mich.

REGISTERED (,fOLLIESmall colors, natural hoolers.
Silver-wrest Kennéals, Glndwin. Michigan.

TOBACCO

KENTUCKY’S BEST LEAF TOBACCO-AGuammeed.
3 lbs. chewing $1.00; 4 lbs. best smoking $1.00; 6
lbs. medium smoking $1.00. Pay for tobacco and
postage when received. (Jo—Operative Tobacco Grow-
ers. anesyille, Ky.

 

 

HOMESI'UN TOBACCO GUARANTEED~(‘hcwing.
five pounds, $1.50; ten. $2.50. Smoking. ten, $1.50.

- Pipe free; pay when received. ‘United Farmers. Bard-

well, Kentucky.

 

HOMESPUN TOBACCO: Chewing. flve lb., $1.50: hm,
$2.50: smoking, five lb.. $1.25; ten, $2; cigars, $2 for
50, guaranteed. Pay when received, pipe free. Boy
Carlton. Maxons Mills, Kentucky.

 

 

WANTED—~White Ilennery Eggs.

 

S. C. BFFF LEGHORN BABY CHICKS from State
Accredited Stock. Send for circular. J. W. Webster.
Bath. Mich.

CHICKS ~Slut0 Accredited English “'lllte Leghorns.
Barred “(Wits and Block Minorcas. Circular. Hill~
side Hatchery. R. 3. Holland. Mich.

 

RICHARDSON'S Rocky Ridge Barred Rock Chicks.
$10 per 100. Stock blood tested second time for
Bacillary \Vhite Diarrhoea. Hanover. Mich. '

 

 

TURKEYS

 

TURKEY EGGS—all breeds. Strictly pure—bred. Book«

ing orders for early spring delivery.
Poultry Farm. Bcallsvllle. Ohio.

Eastern Ohio

 

WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS-IIau-hing Eggs 7&-
each. ten or more 00c each.

Breeding stock. Axford
Acres, Clyde. Mich.

 

 

COMMISSION FIRMS

 

Can use 400 Box.
per week. Only men that want a good. all year
around outlet need answer. Prices to suit markoi
conditions. At present am paying 32 cents F. O. B

 

Detroit. Give full details in first letter. Address
Carl F. Gerda, Halfway. Mich.
WE PAY MORE for poultry, eggs and veal. A trial

shipment will convince you. East Coast Poultry Co.,
Eastern Market, Detroit. Mich.

 

 

AGENTS WANTED

AGENTS—Our New Household Cleaning Device washe:
and dries .vwlndows. sweeps. cleans walls. scrubs. mops.
Costs less than brooms. Over hall7 profit. ertA
Harper Brush Works. .178 3rd St. Fairfield. Iowa. '

 

 

POULTRY

 

HATCHING EGGS from R. C. Rhode Island Reds.
Heavy winter layers. carefully culled. $1.75 per 15. 88‘

 

per 100. Stats Demonstration Farm. Ralph" A
B. No. 2. Bear Lake. Mich. .

ICHIGAN _
Classified Liners bring}.

results." Try one. . .

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engine lubrication of prominent passenger
cars are specified below.

The grades of Gargoyle Mobiloil are indicated
by the letters shown below “Arc” means
Gargoyle Mobiloil Arctic.

Follow winter recommendations when tempera-
tures from 32° F (freezing) to 0" F (zero) prevail
Below zero use Gargoyle Mobiloil Arctic (except
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or the time “that it was searcely fit for pas-
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paid tfie entire dm'inmg fiill.

How Savings return Mobiloil’s higher price

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Like this draining bill, Mobiloil’s few cents '

extra per gallon is not additional expense 'J.

/but a profitable investment.

First, Mobiloil users frequently teport a
reduction in' oil consumption of 1.0% to
50%. And the marked decrease'in carbon
and other troubles paves the way to impor-
tant savings in yearly repair bills. It is
because Mobiloil 18 the cheapest oil to 1‘38"}

‘f that Mobiloil is asked for by more farmers ,
than any three other oils combined. M ”

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of your. automobile engine and putting them
in your truck or tractor engine. But do you
realize that the diflerent pistons in these eni-
gines may require entirely different grades of

l oil to properly lubricate and seal them? One
grade of oil cannot possibly give you the best
results 1n all your farm engines.

- affect the selection of oil for your engines have
all been carefully studied by the Mobiloil Board
of 42 engineers. They have sup lied your
MobilOil dealer with a completeu liibrication ;
Chart of Recommendations. This Chart has "
the approval of 465 manufacturers of automo- '1’

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