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HE week ending May 8 was

farmers’ week in congress. \De-

hate on the three farm relief





committee, was begun in the house on

May 4 and continued four days. It

was claimed that a. combination of

middle west and southern representa-

tives had been formtd to put through

the Haugen corn belt committee bill,

creating a federal farm board with a

$375,000,000 fund to handle crop sur-

pluses. But the‘ debate did not dis-

close any evidence of such a coalition.

The attitude of some. southern mem-

here, however, as voiced by one of

.them, was to the effect that they would

vote for the bill if they. could be as-

sured that the President would veto it.





The Haugen bill showed some

strength early in the week. Senator

.Gooding, of Idaho, leading the move-

ment for the Haugen bill, announced

that twenty-seven senators had pledg-

ed not to permit adjournmcnt until ad-

equate farm relief legislation was pass—

ed. But the senate will make no move

until action is taken in the house on

one of the farm bills.





President Coolidge was told by

Chester H. Gray ,and Russell F. Bow-

er, of the American Farm Bureau Fed-

eration, ~that their organization pre-

ferred the Haugen bill to the -~Tincher

bill, which has the administration

backing, and would create a federal

farm commission with a $100,000,000

revolving fund from which loans would

be made to cooperatives. The Presi-

dent, however. did not indicate any

change of mind concerning farm legis-

lation, and it is believed that the

Tinch-cr bill is as far as'he will go' in

government aid to agriculture.



A letter addressed to Senator Frank

B. Willis, of Ohio, from L. B. Palmer,

president of the Ohio Farm Bureau,

and made public in the senate, has

done much to weaken the position tak-

en by the national organization. Mr.

Palmerwrote that the Ohio Farm Bu-

reau favored the establishment of a

division of cooperative marketing as





Nary bill, but have been opposed to

impracticable equalization fees, such

as was present in the Dickinson bill.

“We believe,” says Mr. Palmer, “this

is equally true of the present Haugen

bill. The organization is on record as

definitely opposing government subsi-

dies and price fixing. I just attended

a meeting of representatives of the

mid west farm bureaus presidents and

secretaries, and the division of opinion

was sufficient that they failed to pass

any resolution indorsing the present

.I-Iaugen bill. I also have a wire from

one member of the legislative commit-

.tee of tho American Farm Bureau de—

oration in which he says the Haugen

bill is not. in accord with their reso-

lution and they cannot approve it. He

also urged mid-west leaders to accept

the principles of the Cnpper-Tincher

bill in place‘ of the equalization fee, as

an amendment to the bill supported

by farmers’ organizations.”



Secretary of Agriculture Jardine is

insisting that the Tincher bill will pave

th way for a better stabilization of

prices than farmershave ever before

enjoyed.



B. F. Yoakum, author of the Curtis-





'the Haugen bill, says the farmers do

not want a law for getting further into

debt. They want a law Under which

they can make money to get out of

debt.\ -\

Much opposition in the house to both

the Hangen bill and the Tincher bill

centers around the provision for selec-

tion of a federal farm board by the

.farm organizations. It is declared to

(be revolutionary and unconstitutional.

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department .of agriculture, is the Mc-.

Keown bill, H. R. 11253, whiph would





create a federal farm board with'pow«

ers to standardize production. Excise

taxes are levied on purchasers of ag-





ricultural products, and debentures is- ~





sued to producers in such manner as

to reduce production of certain staple

farm products to domestic demand. It

is figured that a reduction of acreage

in wheat, corn, hay, oats, cotton .and

a. few other crops to the extent of

52,000,000 acres would enable the farm-

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Gladys Dempsey, of 'Buchana

chosen queen for the southwpesggg

Michigan blossom festival which will

take place .in St. Joseph, May 16-23.

Three counties, Berrlen, Cass and Van-

Buren, will take part in this festival.





It is said that the area of sevent —

five miles by twenty-five miles occii-

pied by Berrlen, Van Buren and Cass

countles grows more fruit than any

other equal area in the world.





Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. wh -

such a spectacular start in the? 111133:

paper busmess, is now in financial

straits, and several of his papers are

suspending publication.





Various labor unions in Great Brit~





Iain have gone on strike, involving five





million workers. It is said to be the

greatest strike in history. Its cause is

due .to lowering the wages of coal min-

ers in Great Britain, with the sanction

of the government.





The Russian Reds believe that the

10351112151131 strike is just the beginning of

n1sm assertin itself ‘ -



out the world. g through





George Peabody, sevent -three- ' ar~

old banker of New York, leigally adcfpts

a thirty-Slx-year-old widow in order

iltllatatriile wlork oi; philanthropy he starts

\ ', s e ass s ed ‘11 ' '

after his death. 1 ’ may continue



All newspapers are

Great Britain during the strike, except

one published by the government, de-

spite thestrikers’ threats, The gov-

ernment Is also broadcasting news ov-

er the radio.





siti'n a. talk before the American th-

lans’ ssociation, Dr. Ralph Ma'or

claimed that high blood pressureJis

being cured by treatment with liver

extracts.





Captain VVllkins, who heads the De-

troit Arctic Expedition, at Fairbanks,

Alaska, plans to make a. 500-mile ex-

gedétlon 1n the airplane into unknown



ar 5.





Oscar Straus, the first man of

Jewish faith to become a United Stairs:

cabinet officer, and a well known New

York philanthropist, died recently at

the age of seventy-four years.





. A two-headed lamb which took nour-

ishment from both mouths, and was

able to see from its four perfect eyes.

was born near Goodclls. St. Clair coun-

ty, on the farm of Roy Newton. It

lived for‘ an hour.



Governor Groesbeck has announced

that he intends to run for his fourth

term as governor.



President Coolidge recently welcom-

cd. General Baden-Powell, of Great

Bl‘ltalll, the founder of the Boy Scout

movement. General Baden-Powell is

making a trip through the country vis—

ltmg the various scout organizations.





Mrs. Arthur Capper, wife of Senator

Capper, owner of the Capper publica-

tionshhas been seriously ill after un-

dergomg a major operation at the Hos-

pltal for women at Baltimore, Md.





A party of seventy editors of news-

papers of South and Central America

v1s1t_ed Detroit recently and inspected

ltS industries. ~ ’





On April 30, a photograph was wire-

lessed over the Atlantic for the first

gin]? It was sent from London to New



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A freak chicken was born near New

Castle, Pa., which has thrce eyes and

two months. It was hatched from a

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HE east north central group of

states contains about one-fourth

'of the wealth of all farm b'uild-





‘ ings in’th’e United States, and'Michi-A





gan alone, whose farm buildings are

valued at $477, 499, 672,

about one—sixth of the wealth of the





’ yeast n01 th central group, and stands





second among theso in the number of

term—owners.



Buildings on farms operated by own-

ers are somewhat larger and are con-

siderably better paintedand decorat-

ed» on the average, than on farms

which are operated by tenants, .And

this is quite natural, as, of course,

there is no pride of possession among

tenant- operators of fa1ms.



One of the aids to farm beautifica-

ltion is the so—called deceiative fence.

There are so many types of fences and

enclosures, f1om elaborate trellis-work

to simple boarding, that it would be

impossible to describe, or even to cat-

alogue all of them, as many‘are dis—

tinctive and originated by their own-

ers. But it is important to protect

with suitable paint those fences which

.are always exposed to wind and weath-

er. And here it may be said that good

exterior house paint is far preferable

to ordinary calsomine or whitewash,

which‘is so often used, as it is more

durable and gives a far brighter color

than the ordinary whitewash or other

water paints, and is protective besides.



If you have an unattractive patch of

ground, whether it be the plot that

surrounds your home, or a small or—

chard, you will never know its decor-

ative possibilities until you try sure

rounding it with an appropriate fence;

painted white or some suitable light

00101. Such treatment will frequently

produce a charming effect upon an

otherwise drab plot of land. Try it

sometimes when you have such a plot

which has jarred on you by its unsight-

liness.



Color contributes as much to beauty

as does design. A house of beautiful

architectural design may be quite Ugly-

if it is painted in harsh or conflicting





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Selectlng a Farm Color Scheme





- ‘ How it Ml/ Increase tlze Attracti ewes: of Farm Premises





By Frank Price Heckel,





colors. Conversely, a house of quite,

ordinary design may be made very at-

tractive by the use of an appropriate

color scheme.



Thole are so many considerations to

be taken account of in the matter of

color harmony, that the successful so





 





painted a bright red, presumably on

the theory

color, regardless of the fact that it

may be very "glaring” against. an open

sky or background, or clash with the

colors of other parts of the house,

though such a roof might be interest~





 





The Owner Delights in the Time when a New Coat of Paint: Can be Given





the Farm Home.





lection of a suitable color scheme may

will give pause to the home Owner.

There are, however, a few fundament-

al principles which will greatly assist

him in choosing an appropriate color

scheme for the exterior of his home.

One of {the chief causes for the ugly

color combinations on so many of the

houses that one notes in passing

through the country, is lack of har-

mony. The colors of these houses do

not blend into their backgrounds and

surroundings. ,There has been no at—

tempt to harmonize the roof, trim and

body, either with themselves or with

their surroundings. Roofs may be all





Often this is Done in Spare Time. —





ing and attractive against trees or





. with foliage partly screening it.





We must also consider the setting

of the house; whether it be located in

the open country and alone, 01' in the

city next to house-s of varying color

schemes. Then, too, we should con-

sider the type of architecture and the

general climate of the territory in

which it is located. For instance- a.

stucco house with salmon—pink walls,

would be entirely charming in an‘ ap-

propriate verdant setting of foliage

and vines, but startling indeed when

in unrelieved contrast with the snow

banks of winter. Yellow might be a





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good color for a house in the woods,

but hardly so in the city.

contrasts of deep brown, light buff and

brick red, eminently suitable to an

English half-timbered design, would be

impossible for a Colonial farmhouse;





and the colors appropriate to a Dutch I





Colonial house might be most unsuit-

able for a Georgian.

must consider our instinctive likesand

dislikes. Our taste and feeling ineline





to Certain colors, intensities and com—“





binations.



No general rules for exterior color

schemes can therefore be laid down.

There are so many exceptions that we

must rely mainly on sound judgment

and common sense. However, we

should always be guided by the prime

considerations of design, color contrast

and lighting and attempt to coordinate

them.





Large body surfaces in solid color,.





should be relieved by contrasting col—

ors on trim and rooi.





some other material, as bn’ckwork, for

instance, or the graining of wood. 7 It

should be remembered that color

masses make different impressions at

varying distances.

inspected for color, both closely and

at a distance.



Usually farms are blessed with plen-

ty of “landscape” surrounding them.

They would be inconspicuous and dull

indeed, were their buildings to be

painted in some drab color.

nothing that presents a more attract-

ive appearance to the passerby than

farm lands, whose buildings are at-

tractively decorated in brilliant, or

harmonizing colors.





In most cases, one will find farms





are painted in one or two bright solid ’





tones. The colors selected are com-

monly, white, yellow, red and green.

The reason for the preference of





bright color, is, that the duller hues

would not show so well at a distance,

nor would they be as cheerful as the

brighter shades.





How the Hired Men Helped Me





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just about ”as fresh as they



make em " as the old saying

is. 1 did not know but a very little

about farming, although I had been

brought up on a farm, but having been

away in other business for fifteen or

twenty years I found that while I had

been napping, the farming business





WHEN I came on the farm 1 was





' had been going on with great'strides.’





I had great confidence in myself, how—

ever, and for a time prided myself on

being able to be my own boss. ~

A time came when I realized that I

was making some mistakes, and they

were costly mJStakes, too. I had some





A. warnings of what was coming, from

1; the neighbors, and sometimes my hi1?





ed men had been good enough to try

to put a flea in my ear. - You know

how it is, though. It takes several





 





like this to them: '“Now, men, you

have helped me fine with your hands.

I want you to help me a little. bit more





T fleir Cooperation Proved More Help/ill 7%!” T éez'r





with your brains. Some of you have

been on the farm longer than I am,

and know more about the business.





 





 





When we Scanned the Mental as well as the Physical Assistance of Our

' , Hired Help, the Work went on Much Better. —





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Opposition



From this time on i want you to speak

right out and give me your advice and

criticisms. I’ll try to take them right

and I hope you will be free and frank

With me.”



Well, they were a good bunch. 1

got some pretty good wallops at that

very fnst session. I came near firing

back and upsetting my own kettle of

fish, but I held on to myself the best

I could and we went ahead together

after that a great deal better. The

men did not impose on me, as they





might, when they saw that" they had —





me down, but many times they have

made suggestions that have been

Worth many dollars to me. I have





made up my mind that farm owners

sometimes lose out by not keepinggfs'





shoulder to shoulder and. heart to

heart with their men.





 





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Houses should be .





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little cooperative plant, or should be;

and it needs the best efforts of all to’





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DETROIT. MAY 15, 1926

\ CURRENT COMMENT





N a recent issue





some of The Michigan

. Farmer appeared an

Show article dealing with

Fight t h e l e g 3.1 require-

ments for disposing





of cornstalks and corn remnants in

districts where the European corn bor-

er is known to exist. Several letters

have been written in reply to this

story. Many of these letters were for

further information, and a few asked

questions that would cause depression

of the mind of a Philadelphia lawyer.

Still others showed fight.





By this last class we are reminded

of a. committee of farmers who, not

long ago, organized to oppose their

state in its effort to carry out the pro

gram for the control of this insect.

These farmers contended that the

prapaganda. put out on the European

corn borer was mostly bunk. The dam-

. age to corn had, in their Opinion, been

greatly exaggerated. They thought,

however, that their fight could be

more effective if first-hand information

was on file. To secure such informa-

tion, the president of the organization

was chosen to visit the infested fields

of Ontario. He was to bring back evi-

dence with which they hoped to suc-

cessfully oppose the corn borer

“myth."



This mam went with his eyes open

and was alert for every bit of informa-

tion. He got evidence that was over-

whelming. He came back loaded, but

not with the sort of ammunition that

he went for. He returned to the Unit~

ed States a changed man. His skep—

ticism had gone. The organization he

“represented adjourned sine die the

night he gave his report. ‘



, This man saw fields of good corn

“fjchanged to a. mess of manure by the



’ pest. The sight haunted him. The

; story of the damage the insect could

_ fidolhad not been exaggerated. In fact,





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one 'hope to "keep on raising com. This





sly carried-out, , if, -

man and his friends are now fighting

hard to save their state from the rav-

ages of the European corn borer.





LAST errors is be-





The ing made by the

"bureau of economics



Corn of the federal depart-

Acreage ment of agriculture to





. reduce the production

of corn. The thought has gotten

abroad that enough corn will be used

commercially to absorb our normal

surplus. The economists advise‘that

the velume used for commercial pur-

poses will not exceed 225,000,000 bush-

els, which is only a small percentage

of the total crop.



The surplus of corn is usually dis-

posed of by raising more hogs. Such

a course, however, is likely to bring

some grief, because an increase in the

hog feeding capacity of the country

would tend to lower hog prices and in-

crease corn prices. For this reason

the economists are urging farmers to

reduce their corn production and hold

to their present hog production in an

effort to pmperly adjust both corn and

hog prices. .



We are bringing this matter to the

attention of our readers because we

do not think this message is specially

meant for Michigan farmers. We feed

more corn than we produce. A large

per cent of the acreage goes into the

silo, and what is husked is generally

fed upon the farms or firms commu-"

nity win-re grown. Further, in a. sys-

tem of farming where such diversity

is practiced as here in Michigan, the

reduction of the corn acreage would

tend to disturb crop rotations more

.than where corn is the hub of the crop

program;



In the few localities of the state

where surpluses of corn are produced,

we feel that the government’s sugges-

tion should be given attention; but

where a farmer is consuming on his

farm all the corn he grows, and per-

haps more, there would seem to be

some justice in sticking to his cus-

tomary acreage of corn.





E have just read





Use' of of the agricul-

Modern tural methods used in

_ [Manchuria An Amer-

Metbods ican had gone there

to manage a. large





ranch. He introduced modern machin-

ery, but a great many of his Chinese

tenant. farmers steadfastly clung to

their time-tried methods, which they

thought were the best.’ They joked.

about, and cast ridicule upon, machine

farming. . ’



The American found some of the na-

tives very efficient in the use of their





hand methods; in fact, some of the re-,





sults would be hard to duplicate by

machinery. No doubt the human hand

work can produce some results which

machinery can not. But. time is a

great factor these days, in fact, it is

in life. Our time on earth is limited.

So, if some means can be used where-

by we can accomplish ten times as

much as by primal ways of doing

things, we do the world and ourselves

greater good.



However, there are thousands of

farmers in our own modern America.

who, to some extent, have the same

attitude 'that'these Chinese farmers

have. They look with suspiCion and

ridicule upon most every improvement

made. They seem to have a. fear of

progress, or feel a pride in what_they

can accomplish in the old way.



But, for instance, regardless of how

quickly and how well one can handle

a. shovel in digging ditches, he can not

hope to compete with the man behind

a. steam shovel. In most every line of

human activity, the man with a. ma-

chineis the; one‘who is accomplishing

--things. Farming-is no exception. :In





. thorities.”





 





. HE news that.





The Ed_ . Russian college

‘ . - professors are being

"cam?“ disciplined where they

MaChlne fall to teach biology





. or political, -science

from .. any other than the Marxian

standpoint, is exactly what should

have been expected. There it is nec-

essary for those,in power to restrain

freedom in- education. If the ministers

of the Russian schools fail to provide

a curriculum supporting the principals

on which the Soviet government‘is

founded, the future would hold little

hope for the followers of Lenine.



But we need not wonder at this, for

we can find educational restraint here

in our own land. The fact is, thate

every political or social creed and ev-“

ery economic system strives to perpet-

uate itself by establishing control over

the machinery of public education, ex-

tending that control, if possible, to the

curriculum and the faculty. In America.

we are seeking to train our youth in

the duties and the responsibilities of

democratic government largely through

our educational system.



The idea everywhere is to take the

children and mold them to our heart’s

desire. This undoubtedly will always

be true. It is the only sure method of

establishing ideas, ideals, and systems.

The plan will serve both good and evil

ends. The final working out of pro-

hibition and of cooperation probably





will be through such a course.

The matter of our school curriculum





is, therefore, a most potent ”factor in

determining the destiny of the nation.

It should be jealously. guarded by

thOse who aspire to the highest ideals

of government and of life. .





, NE objection" voic-





ed by many repre-



Why :sentatives ,of the peo-

1712;171:1118 ple in and out of con-

Kick gress to the creation





‘ of more government

boards and commissions, is their nev-

er-ending and ever-increasing demand

on the federal treasury. More than

$3,000,000 have been spent by the Fed-

eral Trade Commission in making spe

cial investigations directed by the sen-

ate, the house of representatives and

the President during the eleven years

of its existence. The investigation of

the farm implement trade cost the

Federal Trade Commission $104,665.

The grain export investigation cost

$103,703. The food costs investigation

used up a total of $653,665. Many of

these investigations have resulted in

little or no benefit to anyone, meas-

ured by tangible results.





HE practical ques-





Profits tion, ,“Why all

F Cl this trouble?” has un-

ram ea" doubtedly come to ev-

Herds ery person who has





, had his cattle tested

for tuberculosis. Looking at the mat-

ter in a perfectly local way, it does

seem like “much ado about nothing.”

But there are economic phases of this

work, outside of the protection it gives

to health, that the farmer who keeps

goo‘d cows cannot afford to overlook.



Here is a. little item of news that

tells the story in part. “Many cows

are now being shipped from Michigan

and Wisconsin to the Chicago milk

area to take the place of cows destroy-

ed in the tuberculosis-eradication cam—

paign,~or of those whose milk is being

shut out of Chicago by the health au-



Nor is Chicago the only place to

which cows from clean localities are

being exported. Train load after train

load of healthy dairy stock is going

from accredited counties in .this state

to the Atlantic Coast milk areas to re-

place cows that are worn ’out from

service and disease. The milk-produc-





e





g the mornin’.





.





7 p , n’ out of .Michigan is?

supply this demand are‘tro'm herds in





accredited counties. The counties that

have neglected or fought the'_ move-

ment to get rid .of TB cows, are not

enjoying the advantages that come





from this unusual demand for cows.

The premium prices go only for cbwe





that can show. a clean record. _

Farmers who can produce good

cows in sanitary surroundings need

have little worry .over surplus farm

products. With a. little forethought in

the management of their farming busi«

ness, they can escape all loss due to

over-production. By developing an in-

creasing number .of healthy young

dairy cattle, they will find an active

market where premiums are offered

and that without the necessity of levy«

ing on the producer an equalization fee;





[Var/5

,NEVER seen a spring when the

weather came and went so often

as this year. There’s days when I

think the corn ought ta be in, and

then other times when I feel winter

ain’t over yet. _



Spring work is work, and when the

weather is playin’ around, it’s rush as,

well as work. It ain’t right fer a farm«

er ta have it easy all winter and then





 





.have ta jump right inta the hardest





kinda work in spring. It’s hard on

the constitooshun. "There’s some farm

" relief work what

ought ta be taken

.up with the

weather man.



‘I ’spose ”there’s

farmers, or near»

farmers, what

‘ think maybe con«

gress kin legislate

some relief fer

, ' spring work. If it

kin, I want ta be on the committee ta

see that it’s done. I’d go right up ta.

the Presidunt and tell him if he had

ta get out and do spring- work, he’d

see ta it to have congress pass a bill

to regulate the weather. ‘



Sam Smith says 'you'can’t legislate

no kind 0’ farm relief, but the farm-

er’s gotta .work out his own relief. 1

think maybe he’s said sOmethin’ with

truth in it. Things is gotta 'work out

accordin’ ta natchurul laws.



But farmin’ ain’t quite as bad as it

was when they used ta flail out grain.

etc, and cradle it, and etc. Them was

the days when a fellow had ta use all

the brute force in him.’



But nowadays they use brains fer

farmin’. They say brains is the best

fertilizer a fellow kin use on a farm.

And I guess it’s right. Some folkses

with brains better’n we got, has made

machinery ta do most everythin’ on

the farm. They’re even usin’ air-

planes in the south for growin’ cotton.

The airplane spreads the dust fer kill.

in’ boll weevil, etc. VVe’ve got trac—





 





 





 





 





 





tors fer plowin’ nowadays, but wait till '





they get airplanes hooked up with

plows, and just watch ’em zipp along.

They’ll make the dirt fly, all right.



I’m fer machinery, ’cause it is help«

in’ ta free men from hein’ slaves ta.

work. And if_there’s anything I hate,

it’s bein’ a slave ta work. I’d rather

wear out a machine any day than my-

self.



Sofio says machinery’s all right if

some 0’ it is fer use in the house. She

says wives wear out s well as hus-

bands, and machinery 11 help ta keep

a. woman young better’n paint and

powder. She says she’s goin’ ta get

up a machine ta get me outa bed in





the smell 0’ a nice breakfast up ta. the





bedroom, I’d be there right away, in! ,

There’s some .





vestigatin’ the smell.

enducement ta. get up when you get





one‘ 0’ them breakfast smells, but it .





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“comm—um, 4‘ ‘ .
NE of the largest sugar beet seed



farms in the world, Where 3,000



acres of beets are grown annu-

ally and 3,600 peoplefiemployed, is not

to be fOund in America, but near

Madgeburg, Germany, that famous old

‘ historical town. Beets are grown prin—

cipally for the seed, yet a well-bal-

anced farm is run.



This practice of growing seed began

in 1860. In 1830 two Germans, Rab-

bethge and Giesecke, founded one of

‘the first sugar beet factories in'Ger-

'many, the country where sugar beet

culture was first started Very good

sugar beet seed was produced, and to

handle the business a stock company

,was formed in 1885. While the pro-

duction of sugar is of secondary im-

portance, an average of 1,300 tons, of

beets are worked daily during the har-

yesting season. Recently, while in Ger-

many, I visited this large farm because

I was certain there are many points of

interest and of value to the American

farmer, who has a growing interest in

the sugar beet industry.



Back in 1830, when beets were first

used for sugar, the Silesian beet was

- experimented upon. The first methods

of testing for the best mother beets

was very crude, but eventually the

sugar contest was readily obtained by

means ‘of an instrument called the

"polariscope." Today, the polariscope

ls so improved that 2, 000 beets canbe

tested by it in a day.



It took many years to improve the

Silesian beet so that it would be prof-

itable to grow for its sugar content.

Four different types of beets are pro-

duced, which are known the world

over. One type is a heavy yielder and

" and has a long growing period; "an-

other type is designed for heterogen-

ous soils, is a fair but reliable yielder.

and has a medium growing period. A

third is adapted to cold, moist cli-

mates, fertile soils, and a short grow-





ing period; and finally the last, which,





is designed for unusually adverse con-

ditions of temperature and moisture.

As a result of improved cultural opei‘

ations, fertilization and plant breeding





pounds per acre, to 4,488 pounds from

1850 to 1914. _

Imagine a milliOn beets separately.

tagged and labeled, washed and weigh-

ed separately! That is the number





.used each year for improvement work





on this farm, and this is only one-sev-

enth the total number that are pulled.

Here are pure-bred and registered

beets, each with an accurate account

of the family history kept on file.

These field tests require a large

amount of work and close supervision.

Highly trained men are needed and, as

everything is systematized and divid-

ed, but few mistakes are made. The

field selected beets are chemically an-

alyzed in the laboratory. The floor

space of this laboratory covers 10,000

square feet. The work of analysis be-

gins in January and is completed by

March. Only about five out of every

1,000 tested beets are retained for

breeding stock and there is a still

further elimination in the progeny

tests. There is a “Rogues Gallery” in

this laboratory, too. Besides being





crmany





A Survey of Me War/a”: Largest Beet Farms

By M. M. McCool





numbered, each mother beet is photo

graphed. These beets are planted the

next spring for propagation. Besides

being examined for sugar content, the

beets are tested for purity and the

seed stock is carefully tested for germ-

ination and growth.



The seed storage houses are fire

proof, provided with elevators, huge

revolving drums for. drying the seed

automatically, and seed distributors.

In short, they appear to be the last

word in modern factory construction.



A trip through these is very inter—

esting indeed, and very enlightening,

giving one an insight into the many

things that must be done to produce

reliable and high grade sugar beet

seed. Many visitors come to see this

farm and the methods of preparing the

seed for market. To entertain these

guests, the company has provided a

large guest dining hall. When I visit-

ed this farm, I sat down to luncheon

With one of the managers of the farm,

and about one hundred secondary ag—

ricultural school boys who were study-





 





 





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”work the average sugar production in A View of the Sugar Beet Warehouses and Laboratory for Testing Beets

This Factory, the Author Believes, is the Last Word in Efficiency.





Germany was increased from 1,636





ing the various practices being follow- -





ed. As we were being seated someone

performed at the piano and they all

sang "Deutchland uber Allies”, I was

under the impression that it was rath-

er pathetic, especially in the light of

the results of the recent war. I was

requested to speak after the luncheon

and did so.





I was privileged to go over this farm g





and to study the soil and. observe the

method of farming. The land isex—

cellent for the production of the crops

grown. For the most part it is level

to gently rolling and resembles very

much our dark colored prairie soils of

the corn belt. The surface, twelve or

more inches, is composed of very dark

colored silt loam, high in organic mat-

ter, below which lies a layer of slight—

ly finer texture. Still deeper is found

a deposit of calcareous gravelly mate-

rial which insures good drainage. Here

the average rainfall is twenty inches,

considerable of which comes in April.

Aside from an occasional droughty

season, conditions are excellent for the

production of sugar beets and other

crops that thrive under conditions fav-

orable. for beets.



The cultural operations on this farm

are very thorough, more so than is the

case. in America. The land is plowed

fourteen inches deep for sugar beets

by means of heavy steam engines. The

fertilizer distributing machinery and

tillage implements are large, the beet

cultivator, for example, takes eight

rows :11. a time. The thinning and

Weeding of the beets are performed by

hand labor. They have a machine

which lifts and tops the sugar beets

at one operation. Although this ma.-

chine was not working perfectly, it is

probable that in time it will be per—

fected. If so, this will remove much

of the hand labor from beet growing.



Large tractors are used for drawing

grain pulling

four machines. The small grain and

sugar beet seed arc threshed by means

of very large stationary separators.

They are capable of threshing about

ten thousand pounds of grain per hour,

are equipped with straw presses, and



(Continued on page 651).





Legumes, Lime and Manure





They Mate Sol/5 Flow MM Mile and Honey

By Ove F. Jensen





HE value of legumes was ex-



tolled by early Roman writers



on agriculture nearly two thou-

sand years ago, but it was not known

why legumes are such efficient soil im-

provers until about forty years ago,

when it was definitely proven that

they fix nitrogen from the air through

the aid of bacteria living on the roots.

The nitrogen then becomes a part of

the plant, which, when the crop is

“plowed under, decomposes so that the

nitrogen in turn becomes available for

other crops.



In spite of this knowledge and ex-

tensive campaigns to‘ induce farmers

to grow more legumes, the acreage of

“legumes has, for ' the most part, re-

mained constant, or actually decreas-

ed. Take red clover, for instance.

Michigan in 1899 grew 225,636 acres;

in 1909, 168,180 acres; and in 1920,

120,299 acres. The decrease is not so

much due to a fall in the popularity

of red clover-as it is to the increasing

inability to grew it. '





,Red clover has many merits and is _





~ ' one of. the’ most valuable soil improv-

’ ere we have. butJt is rather particular

in semen! its soil requirements. These





ures practically unknown. It [was just

as easy to grow clover in southern

Michigan forty years ago as it is to

grow it on the comparatively new land

of the Upper Peninsula now. Years

of cropping have greatly depletedthe

lime and phosphorus content of the

soil, on both of which legumes are

heavy feeders. Many failures with

clover that are usually attributed to

changing seasons or dry weather, can

safely be laid to soil acidity and lack

of phosphoius. .





It is not known exactly how much

nitrogen is fixed by legumes, but the

best opinion is that' under favorable

conditions, all of the nitrogen in the

tops or the per-tions that, are harvest-

ed may come from the air, and’ that

the nitrogen in the roots, which is

about one-half of that in the tops, rep-

resents the amount removed from the

soil. ' Where the soil already contains

a large amount of organic matter and

nitrogen, very little fixation may take

place, even though the plants are in-

oculated. In either case, it is evident

that merely plowing under— the roots

and stubble of the crop does not add

111th and organic matter to the





soil. If legume hay is sold off the.

farm, there may be actual loss in the

nitrogen balance. It takes nerve to

plow under a good growth of clover,

but the benefits in the crops following

make such a practice very much worth

while. "





Less than one-half of the five mil-

lion aCres of small grains in Michigan

are seeded to clover, clover and tim~

othy, and alfalfa. As a general aver-

age i‘or the state of Michigan, the

nitrogen fixed by legumes does not

amount to over nine pounds for each

acre of’improved land in farms, where-





as the average removal of nitrogen by.





crops is somewhere between thirty to

fifty pounds per acre. 0n rolling and

hilly land, nitrogen is lost through

erosion in addition to that removed by

crops. To make up for this, however,

from five to eight pounds are added to

each acre annually by rainfall. Some

nitrogen is also added to the soil by

the free-nitrogen—fixing organisms.

Nitrogen mayalso be added in fer-

tilizers, but since it is the most ex-

pensive of the fertilizing elements, it

is necessary to use nitrogen fertilizer

in comparativer small amounts to be





efficient and profitable,

of legumes to supply the bulk of the

nitrogen used by the general crops is

the most economical and effective

means of maintaining the nitrogen

supply. ’



A wonderful increase in the alfalfa

acreage of Michigan has taken place

in the past four years, mostly be«





cause the cultural methods for this*





crop are beginning to .be better under—

stood. There should be a continued

increase in the acreage of other leg-

umes, such as soy beans, sweet clover,

field peas and vetch. Each of these

has its special adaptation. As an all-

purpose legume, red clover will no

doubt Continue in its popularity, and

will be growu more and more as its

soil requirements in liming and fertil-

ization are understood.

Liming for Bigger Yields.



The longer a soil is cropped, the

more acid does it generally become.

unless lime in some form is applied.

A considerable amount of lime is lost

from most soils in the drainage water





—-often as much as the equivalent of»

500 pounds of limestone a year which "

is seve1al times the amount contained:





in an average Crop. .

Most all Michigan soils are acid, and





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ROUND has just been broken at

‘ the 'Michigan State Fair grounds

forthe erection of a modern agricul—

tural building. This structure will be

located between the colosseum and the

dairy building and will harmonize

with the former building in architec-

tural design. For the present only one

wing. will be erected. This wing will

be 120x240 feet. The board has agreed

that the building will be used ex-

clusively for educational purposes. No

concessions will be sold. Competitive

and educational exhibits will feature

the general displays. .

Among the various organizations

and industries to be called upon to

take part in putting on exhibits that

will reflect Michigan’s agricultural

achievements, Will be the various farm

organizations of the state, including

both educational and commercial as-

sociations. The development bureaus

will have their displays. The sugar

beet industry will also be asked to

show how Michigan sugar is produc—

ed. The seed interests will have a.

chance to set forth Michigan’s suprem-

acy as a producer of high quality seed.

The bean dealers and potato handlers

will also be called upon to take a.

part. In the center the florists can

place their attractive exhibits in a

well lighted area. Since this building

will lack the usual noise occasioned

by concessioners seeking to dispose of

their wares, suitable music will be

provided. When completed no other

state fair can boast of an agricultural

building of the advanced type that

this is planned to be.





MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN PRO-

GRESSING.





IT is reported that the membership

campaign being conducted by the

farm bureau in thirty counties of Mich-

igan is progressing very satisfactorily.

There is every indication, states a let-

ter from headquarters at Lansing, that

we are going to sign a large and loyal

membership of the best farmers in

these counties. A number of rally

in etings are being held and schools

for instructing voluntary workers will

also aid in this work of building a.

strong membership for the organiza-

tion.





 





OFFER AMENDMENTS TO FARM

LOAN ACTS.





" HREE bills amending the federal



agricultural credits acts of some

interest to farmers have been reported

favorably by the house banking and

currency committee. One provides

that loans may be made upon paper

covering agricultural crops being

grown for market. Another provides

that secretaries and treasurers of farm

loan associations shall be selected

with the approval of the directors of

the federal land bank in the district

in which the association is located.

The other one prohibits the offering

for sale as federal farm loan bonds

any securities not issued under the

terms of the farm loan act.





 





FARMERS NOT ACQUAINTED

WITH WAREHOUSE ACT.





HERE is said to be a lack of un-





derstanding among farmers in re .





gard ~to the federal warehouse act.

Judging from many inquiries received

at the department of agricultu1e, large





' ‘ u-mumbers of farmers do not know that





 

 

   

   

 





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‘— - there is any such law. The depart-





fluent is continually receiving sugges-

tions to the effect that the farmer

should be able to borrow on his prod-





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thing should be done to give him suit-

able paper for such credit, H. S.

Yohe, in charge of administration of

the United States warehouse act, says

that this is just what the act was

enacted to accomplish. The depart—

ment is taking steps to acquaint the

farmers more generally- with the pro-

visions of the warehouse act. It. is

said that no producer storing prod-

ucts in these bonded warehouses has

sustained a dollar of loss on this ac-

count since the act became effective.





 





IRRIGATION PROJECTS FAVORED.





()TVfi'lTHSTANDiNG strong oppo-

sition to federal aid in expanding

our agricuitural area, coming from all

parts of the country, congressional

committees ctmtinue to reportjavor-

ably on western irrigation /projects.

An appropriation of $450,000 for the

Hillcrest extension of the Boise irriga-

tion project in ldaho has been reported

favorably by the house committee on

irrigation and reclamation.

CANNERS COMPLAIN OF OVER-

PRODUCTION.





HFJ canning industry, like the

grain farmers, is suffering from

an over-production of canned goods,

says a representative of the industry.

A general reduction in acreage of can-

nery ciop; is being urged as a means

of 1eli ing the canning industry from

a seiious depression, and at the same

time helping the growers.

UNDESIRABLE ALIENS ARE BEING

DEPORTED.





 





Bit: increase in deportations of



undesirable aliens is reported 'by

Harry E Hull, commissioner 'general

of. immigration. There were 44,000

aliens admitted to the United States

in March, and during the same month

12,439 aliens left the country. During

March 938 undesirable aliens were

deported. Of these, 145 aliens were of

the criminal class. The remainder en-

tered this country without the formal-

ity of passing through a regular immi-

gration station, or were likely to be-





 





come public charges. It is 'said that

there never has been a time when so

much care was taken to keep out'un-

desirables as at the present. _



Assistant Secretary of the Treasury

Andrews says prohibition administrat-

ors have found that the preponderance

of law violators come from the foreign:

born element. General Andrews also

says that a house~cleaning such as

Representative Holaday’s bill for de-

portation of certain classes of aliens

contemplates, together with a more'ef-

t‘ective border control, should relieve

the United Statesand the states indi-

vidually of the support of many aliens

in prisons and similar institutions.





WANTS SUGAR TARIFF CUT.





HE President is disqualified as a



maker-of tariff rates because he is

expected to act in accordance with

his party’s policy in such matters, Ed-

ward P. Costigan, a member of the

United States Tariff Commission, told

the senate committee investigating the

commission. It is indicated, however,

that Commissioner Costigan, who ac-

cuses the commission of being influ-

enced in its decisions by party politics,

is himself not entirely free from par-

tisan prejudices.



In reply to his arguments, Senator

Smoot, of litah, said: “Teday there

may be seen in the windows of many

grocery storesla sign reading, ‘sugar,

five cents a pound,’ and that is the

retail price. I wonder if there is any

other commodity produced in the Unit-

ed States that is so low in price, even

lower than before the war?

none; and I want to say now that if

it were not for the tariff on sugar to-

day there would not be a single sugar

concern in the United States but what

would be in the hands of a receiver.





LAST CONFERENCE ON WOOL

GRADES.





HE adoption of further refinements

in wool grades worked out by the

Bureau of Agricultural Economics and

proposed as official United States

standards, was discussed at a confer-

ence of wool growers, spinners and





 





 





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manufacturers at the department at

agriculture recently.‘



Twelve numerical grades of wool

and wool tops based upon the diam-

eter of fiber are proposed as meeting

the needs of the woolen industry.

These grades, according to Lloyd S.

Tenney. assistant chief of the Bureau

of Agricultural Economics, were work-

ed out in cooperation with representa—

tives of the English wool industry.



The twelve grades were indorsed

unanimously by representatives of the

wool industry, and in as predicted

that they would be accepted as inter«

national as well as national standards.





WATER TRANSPORTATION MAKES

MONEY.





HE barge transportation system



operated by the'lnland \Vaterways

Corporation, a government owned con-

cern, on the Mississippi and “'arr'ior

rivers, made a gain of $498,091 last

year, returning to the government a

net income of $298,192 over the open

ating expenses.





MORE ABOUT PEPPERMINT.





AVING received some inquiries

= requesting further informationre-

garding the growing of peppermint,

relative to the article published in the





.April 17 issue of the Michigan Farmer,





I wish to offer this information.

Approximate cost per acre of the first

crop:





Roots delivered to field ......... $30.00

Plowing, etc., ready to plant. . .. 6.00

Planting ................ . ...... 12.00

Spiking and cultivating ......... 7.50

Two hoeings ......... . ........ ' 12 00





Mowing by hand ...... - ......... 10. 00





Delivering to still .............. 3. 50

Distilling—30 lbs. per acre... . 15.00

Total estimated cost ......... $96.00





There will be some‘difference of

opinion on the above estimate, but am

quite sure that it is too high, rather

than too low. The roots never sold so

high before 'in this locality as they

have this year, the average price being

about $20'a load. The other estimates

are also at a higher figure than the

cost of such has been in my own ex—

perience. \Vith luck the yield the first

year should be much greater than thir-

ty pounds.



Obtaining Roots.



The bulk of the peppermint oil in

Michigan comes from the southern

part of Michigan, in the Kalamazoo

section. A few hundred acres

grown near the Montcalm an

county line. There are .veral other

small centers in Mic gan, and some

is also raised in Wis onsin, New York,

and considerable 1’11 Northern, Indiana.

Ordinary years roots could be obtained

from roost any of these sections, but

'on account of the great demand it is

more difficult this year. 1



Kind of Soil.



Have seen good crops of mint grown

on soil of a medium sandy texture, but

a dark sandy loam is better. Best of

all is a well-drained muck soil, or a.

near muck soil. Have also seen good

crops grown on clay loam, with yields

of twenty-five to thirty-five pounds of

oil to the acre.



The Still.



The still consists of a common

steam boiler, usually two tanks, one

of which can be filled while the other

is being steamed, coils of distilling

pipes, an overhead water tank, ropes

and forks to take the steamed straw

out of the tanks, and other minor *ac-

cessorles. I have usually hauled my

mint to ‘my neighbor’s still and paid

him about fifty cents a pound to have

it distilled. This neighbor estimated

that an ordinm'y still would cast am
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'us to get married?”





' that is the important thing.

_ you ”are grown. you decide to be 21.,





HEN I was in the first year of





high schOol, there Was a man in





.theY. M. C. A. who was the





host high jumper and polevaulter I

ever knew. He showed me how to

polevault, and helped me until I was

able to win the high school champion—

ship of New York. I used to worship

him. He used to tell me how some

day he was going to have some boys

of his own whom he would show how

to do all. those athletic stunts which

he was showing me, ‘so that they would

be champions too. I remember when

he was married, and I used to see him,

a fine tall man walking with his little

wife. The other day we met, and I

asked him if his boys were turning out

to he athletes, as he had hoped. No,

they were not. They were both under-

siz 1d and too small to be in a class

with the others, and so they are not,

and never can be, polevaulters, and it

is a great sorrow to‘ my friend. It

doesn’t seem possible that a man could

have been so shortsighted as to ex-





' pect to have athletic sons if he mar—





ried a small undersized woman, does

it? Oi.‘ course not. If somebody had

called my friend’s attention to that

fact before he fell in love, he might

never have married that girl



Advice Not Liked.





We young folks do not always like

advice, do we? I still feel like a boy,

and I am always going to keep my

hea1t at about seventeen and nevei

let it grow older, but my few years of

experience have added some things to

my head which boys’ heads do not

hold. No boy can look back on his

boyhood. And no boy can think back

to all the good advice which was given

to him, at which he laughed, and won-

der wlzat and where he would be now

if he had acted according to it No

boy has people come to him with ques-

tions about mairiage as they come to

me. Some ask me—“Is it all right for

Others have, per-

haps, a poor, insane or feebleminded

child and they ask me how it was that

lod gave them such a child.’ _



So I want to give you a few hints

on how it is possible to have the kind

of children that you would like to

have. Remember, we’re just a bunch

of boys now discussing the question,





and this olde1 boy is going to share





some of his experience and observa-

tion with you. . -

Experience Expensive Teacher.

You can’t learn these kinds of things

from experience very well before mar-





\ ria.ge,‘so knowledge of them will help





you, and that is why they are the

thingsthat you need to remember.

W'hen people came to me and say—





“\Ve’re' in love, is it all right for us to ,





get married ?” I just-say, “If I told you

not to, it would only make you more

determined to.” After a fellow and a

girl fall in love, it is almost too late

to help them with advice about getting

married. That’s why I am giving you

this little advice now.





First, get an idea]! If you happen

to go tovan agricultural school, you

will remember that there is a picture

there of an ideal cow and an‘ ideal

bull. The ~Holstein-Friesi‘an Cattle

Club had these made, not from life,

because nothing alive is perfect. But





they had the artist make up a picture,





of what an ideal cow ought to look

like. E11 my day you look at that pic-

ture. Every day that picture gets

more and more impressed on your





mind. Even now when you go through





the country and see scrub cows, you

can tell they are scrubs because you

just know it. The reason is that they

are not anything like your ideal, and

If, when





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head.





cow dealer tries to sell you. You will

examine every cow for certain things

—-her size, her quality, her shape or

proportions, her milk veins, her udder

apd the placement other teats, and so

forth. Yes, sir, she will have to be a

good cow before you will buy her. Her

milking capacity is the chief thing you

ask about, for all the other points are

indications of her milk producing abil-

ity. You might get a good milker that

is badly off in some points—~11. hard

milker, let us say. What about her?

Your judgment will. tell you that you

don’t want any of her calves and they

will go for veal. And when you mate

the cows, the bull will have to be a

mighty fine bull to get your eye to

allow you to mate him with your cows.

And that’s all because you have an

ideal in your mind’s eye.

Establish Human Ideal.



But suppose that .you have a picture

of an ideal humanw animal in your

mind. Suppose that every day you

review in your mind what an ideal hu:

man is. Now, “there ain’t no such an-

imal” as a perfect human, but. some

have been pretty near perfect. Look

at Abraham Lincoln! I can’t think

of any better example. He had a won-

derful body, he had great endurance,

a fine, brain, a tender conscience, and

he turned out work. His deeds will

live as long as history. He is a good

ideal of anyone.



You would like to have boys who

would grow up to be as noble men as

Abraham-Lincoln was. History is full

of examples of noble women, too——

women who were not only nearly per-

fect physically, but mentally, too. .Get

an ideal woman pictured in your mind.

You want- your girls to be the finest

examples of womanhood, don’t you?

Of course. So, keeping these ideals in

mind a fellow couldn’t very well fall

‘in love with a girl who was not his

ideal or one who could not raise a

family of the right sort of children.



Value of Ideal.



If you have an ideal family fixed in

your mind, the idea of marrying a de—

generate person will never enter your

You can’t fall in love with the

wrong person then. Such a thing

would be disgusting to you.



Secondly, you may realize too, that

in your family is a defective person

and you will know that the defect is

passed on in the family in a definite

way. If so, you would just naturally

not fall in love with somebody who

has the same trouble in her family. I

guess not. You want to have perfect

children.



Keep a Pedigree.



Your dad keeps pedigrees. If he is

a farmer, his cows and hogs and

horses have pedigrees, or ought to

have. If you live in the city, he has

pedigrees of the dogs. He thinks they

are very valuable, and they are. By

the time you are grown to manhood

people will be keeping their own pedi-

grees. Some day in the future, your

children are going to wish that you

had started one forcthem. I advise

every boy to start today and make

out his pedigree very carefully. Last.

week I sold a good dog for $10. The

day before I sold him a man offered





~ me $50 for him if I could furnish pa~





pers with him. Just think, the dog

would have been w01th five times as

much if he had had a pedigree. Take

my word for it, the day is coming

when men and women will be worth

mo1e'to America when they can show

a pedigree, for all the laws of: inheiit-

ance that apply to the cows and dogs

apply to‘us, human folksas well.



I- have advised you to get an ideal

and to get a pedigree. Do it. Then

Some day you won t be like my friend

who wanted to have athletic boys, and

whodidn't realize that to have them

he must marrysa girl “from-athletic



, (Continued _on page 669).





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My son bought stock in a factory in

1922 He did not ask my consent, and

he is not of age yet. Can I demand

his money? SVhat will I have to do to

get it? I was on the farm and he was

in the city at the time he bought the

stock. ——R. McD



The son’s contract for purchase of

stock, he being an infant, is voidable

.by him upon reaching the age of twen-

ty-one years. It does not appear how

the inquirer has any right to the

money.——'—R‘ood.





ERROR IN CONTRACT.





 





I sold a farm four years ago on con-

tract and the second party paid $1, 000

down, There was $200 and inteiest

to be paid annually. Second party paid

Interest only for one year and a half,

but no principal. I paid most of" the

taxes. .There is a mistake in contract.

Only twenty acres instead of forty

acres is mentioned. and second party

will not have contract fixed, nor will

he move or pay anything. This mis-

take was made by a real estate man.

We bought twenty acres and later a

twenty acres adjoining that. The twen-

ty acres on which the buildings are is

not mentioned in contract. What can

geKdo to get our property back?—





Where a mistake is made in draw.-

ing a contract of sale by describing

property not intended to be conveyed,

the person discovering the error is

bound to act promptly in, notifying the

other party of the mistake and de-

-n1anding amendment. ~If he will not

consent to that, suit should be brought

at once to have the contract corrected.

A good lawyer should be employed——

:Rood.





FORECLOSURE.





 





A person bought a piece of land and

signed notes, payable monthly, to pay

for his land. He was not able to make

the monthly payments exactly on time,

but made them when he could, and

paid the taxes. The seller now threat-

ens to foreclose. How long does the

buyeI have to finish payments befo1e

the seller can take the land from him?

——Reader.





If the payments are not made at the

.time and in the manner specified in

the contract, the seller may at any

time before-«the payments are made,

declare the land contract forfeited for

the default and bring summary p1‘0<

ceedings to recover possession. The

statute provides that the purchaser

may redeem at any time within thirty

days after the judgment is rendered

in the proceedings to recover posses—

sion.—-Rood.





COLLECTION OF NOTES.





 





Mr. X. and his wife purchased a

farm about twenty-five years ago, and

four years ago had their deed changed

into a joint deed. Recently oiedit01s

have demanded pay for notes the hus-

band signed Without consulting his

wife. Can c1edito1s collect their dues

from the fa1n1? Can they take peis

sonal pxoperty such as stock, tools,

etc, with which they are 1unning the

fa1m?——Subsmiber.



If the debts were contracted before

the farm was transferred to entirety,

the land of the husband is liable, sub-

ject to homestead exemption. They

may also levy upon the stock and tools

of the husband used in operating the

farm, subject to the execution exemp-

tion of $250 each for team and tools.





—Rood. .





LICENSE FOR SELLING MILK.





 





We have a number of cows and we

make butter. We go into town two

or three evenings a week. A number

of people have asked us to bring them

cxeam and milk when we go in. Will

you kindly let me know if this requires

a license?——E. A. A.



Compiled Laws (1915) Section 6376,.





 





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or cream from' a wagon, depot, or

store, or delivering milk or 01 earn to a.

hotel, restaurant, boarding house, 01'

other public place, shall be considered

a milk dealer‘and shall be required to

obtain a. license from the, dairy and

food commissioner at Lansing. The

penalties are $25 fine, or imprison

ment in the county jail, or both. The

license fee is $1. 00.





LIABILITY FOR TAXES.





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I bought a farm last June and tax

is assessed to the man I' bought of.

Can my personal property be seized

to pay the land t2 x?~—C. S





The land was sold before the tax be—

came a lien, and between the sellei

and the buyer, undoubtedly the buyer

is bound to pay the taxes. But the

assessment being made against the

seller, it is not apparent how there is

any personal liability by the buyer to

the state. So far as the state is con-

cerned, he is a stranger and his per-

sonal property could not be taken for

the taxes.





 





OBLIGATION OUTLAWED.





 





A. has owed a doctor bill since Jan-

uaiy 30,1919. The doctor put the bill

in a lawyer’s hands to collect in June,

1919. A. paid $20 of the account, the

last payment being made to the lawyei

August 21, 1919. Now, after six years

and six months, can the lawyer collect

the balance of $109 How long does it

take for a debt of this kind to outlaw?

~B. L. G.



The obligation is outlawed six years

after the last item became due, and

six years after the last payment was

made upon the account, or the last

promise toipay made.





LIABILITY OF MEMBERS OF

MUTUAL COMPANIES.





 





How long may a mutual fire insur-

ance company collect on policies can-

celled and not cancelled but expired?

If one keeps 011 1cnewing can the com-

pany collect on p1ev10usly expiied pol-

101es9—J





Members of Mutual Insurance compa- '





nies are liable if the company becomes

bankrupt, for all risks assumed during

the period of 'their membership,

though the loss occurred after the

membership expired or was cancelled.





DEEDING PROPERTY TO WIFE.





 





Can a husband legally deed his p101)-

ery to his wife, with one dolIar in con-

sideiation? May his heiis p1 obate the

property after his death? May a pro-

bate judge set a quit claim deed aside

after it is recorded ?——L. R.



Our supreme court has sustained a

conveyance by the husband to the wife.

The consideration may be any value,

or mere love and affection. Any per-

son interested in the estate may peti-

tition for probate. Probate courts can~

not set aside conveyances.





SHARES IN PROPERTY.





 





According to Michigan laws, who are

the rightful heirs and What share are

they entitled to, in the following case?

The mother having died previously,

the father dies and leaves some cash

in bank and some invested mortgages.

He leaves eight children. Soon aftm

his death one of the daughters dies,

leaving a husband but no child1en Is

this deceased daughter’s husband en<

titled to a share equal to that of the

real children? How much. In propor—

tion would he get, if anyth1ng?—O. S.



Upon the death of the husband, his

estate vests in his children in equal

shares. Upon the death of the daugh-

ter Without parent or children, one-half

belongs to the husband and the other

half to the brothers and sisters of the





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leg disease of the potato. This fly is

somewhat smaller than the common

house fly and is generally on the wing

'during the potato planting season. If

the seed potatoes are kept in screened

rooms after being treated; and it the

seed is planted immediately after it is

cut, the risk of black leg infection will

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are run by means of electricity. I was

informed that the total length of the

high tension wire on this. farm is more

than twenty miles.



I also observed a system of field

railways connecting the different units

and the railway stations. This reduces

the labor cost of distribution of lime,

fertilizer, and seed, as well as the

storage and marketing of crops.



A four-year rotation is practiced on

this farm. It consists of beets (3,000

acres), barley, potatoes and wheat. A

catch crop of yellow clover is sown in

the wheat and turned under for green

manuring purposes. In addition, .spe—

cial crops are grown, such as peas for

canning purposes, cabbage, alfalfa and

others. As is the case in nearly all

German farms, the land is well pre-

pared before seeding the various crops.

This means a uniform and high per-

centage germination. No weeds are

permitted to grow, and the wheat is

tilled two or three times in the spring

in 01 der to keep down weeds and thus

conserve moisture.



A sufficient number of sheep is kept

on the farm to keep down the growth

along lanes or roadways between the

fields, as well as to consume the rough-

age that accumulates. Since there are

no fences on’ this farm, a herdsman

takes care of the sheep. The fatten-

ing 0’? cattle is an important industry.

The residuespr by-p‘roducts from the

sugar factOry, such as molasses and

sugar beet pulp, areconsumed in this

manner. The cattle are stall fed, bed-

ded with dry peat, and arrangements



. are made so that they have access to

running water at all times. The straw

from the small grains is very finely

separated before it is fed to the live

stock. Hog raising and dairy cattle

production are also important parts of

the farm practices. ,



The barnyard manure is a. very im¢



. portant source of fertilizer on this

farm, yet in addition to this and the

green manure crops that follow the

wheat, large amounts of commercial

fertilizer are added to anvacre. The

beet crop, for example, receives about

400 pounds of ammonium sulphate, 300

pounds of acid" phosphate, and 400

pounds of potassium sulphate, or the

equivalent of about a 9-5-14 mixture.

I was informed that the sulphate is

used in preference to the muriate or

.chloridepotassium because it does not

affect the soil injuriously as does the

potash fertilizer that carries the chIOr-

ides. I was informed also that the

wheat crop receives a heavy applica-

tion of fertilizer.



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AS a result of experiments conduct-



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ythis disease has been regarded as a

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,twenty-flve to fifty 'per cent of trees

are not uncommon, and certain lots

of trees in extreme caseshave even

shown a loss of ninety-five per cent.

The nurseryman who has to discard

only five 01 ten per c ~nt of his trees

on ca1eful inspection at digging time,

is usually considered fortunate.



The serious problem confronting the

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not materially injure the roots of the

trees. This was discovercd in Semefi

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developed by the Du Pont interests.



In the experiments of 1925 the or-





2,619 grafts, representing a number of

different varieties, with the result that

the total number of trees obtained at

digging time. with both large and small

galls, amounted to 6.1 per cent, as

compared with 32.6 per cent on 2,619

untreated grafts of the same varieties

which were used as checks. The pro-

portion of the total number of large

galls in the treated grafts of all varie-

ties Was two per cent, and in the un-

treated, or check grafts, 28.7 per cent.



The importance of the discovery

made for controlling this disease may

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,entirely propagated in France for use

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the department of agriculture is pub-

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ONION CULTURE.





 





Please tell me how to grow a good

crop of onions, and especially how to

control the maggot. What varieties of

onions are best?——A. M.





In growing a crop of onions, it is

well to remember that as a general

rule it is the early sowu crop which

produces the best yield. The seed

should be sown after the danger of

hard freezes are over. The ground

should be well prepared, free from

Weeds, and all coarse trash and litter

should be raked off in order to make

cultivation easier. The seed is sown

at the rate of three to five pounds per

acre in rows twelve to fourteen'inchcs

apart.



Cultivation is carried on by means

of a hand wheel hoe and should be

shallow and frequent. At least one

hand weeding will probably be neces-

sary, as it is essential that the crop

be kept free from weeds at all times.

Onions will respond rapidly to heavy

fertilization. On muck soil the formu-

la 2-8-16 is recommended, but on the

upland soil, it would perhaps be better

to male a formula running around 4-8-6.



The onion maggot is a very destruc:

tive linseet, and sometimes causes

great damage, as it is impossible to

kill the maggot when» it has entered





 





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the onion. In order to control this pest

it is necessary to catch the parent fly

before its eggs are laid. This is done

by use of a trap made up as follows:

Dissolve one-fifth ounce of sodium

arsenite in hot water, and add a quart

of cheap molasses, or corn syrup. It

will be well to put a. few pieces of





chopped onionsgin this mixture. This

material is placed in shallow pans

which are scattered at intervals





through the onion fields shortly after

the seedlings are‘above- ground. It

should be used at the rate of about

twenty pans per acre. It is well to

remember that this'is‘ a deadly poison





- and must be used -with caution. It





sometimes happens that. bees will be

attracted and it is well to screen these

pans with a screen whose mesh is

small enough to exclude the bees, but’

large enough to allow the flies to pass

through.



The Michigan Yellow Globe onion is

a good variety. or a good strain 01'

Yellow Globe Danve’rs will always sell

well on the market—George Starr.





KNOW YOUR SEED DEALER.





EEDS of known variety and pur-



ity, of cabbage and other import-

ant crop seeds, are so easily obtained

through local cooperative seed-growing

organizations or from reliable dealers,

that it is hard to understand why any

farmer will permit himself to be taken

in by an unknown agent who tries to

sell seed about which the farmer

knows nothing whatSOever. No farmer

should accept any seed unless it is

sold'subject to all the provisions of





the state seed law, and he should in:





sist upon knowing the variety and

source of the seed. Tests have shown

unknown goods never to be above av-

erage market grade, and often they

are below. Frequently they are bin-

run goods or “scrub” stock of no/rec-

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strangers is to court disappointment

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PEA WEEViL.





Will you please advise me how to

get the bugs out of seed peas? I have

some of last year’s seed and find the

bugs are not all dead yet, although

ghefi- 13ers scaled up in glass jars —«





To dest10y weevils in peas I would

fumigatc the peas with carbon disul-

phide, using one dram of the liquid to

a. cubic foot of air space in the com

taincr in which the peas are placed.



Put them in a tight barrel or box

and place them where they will be-

come warmed up to about seventy de-





grees, then put the liquid-carbon di-





sulphide in a dish and place 011 top of

the peas, leaving a space overhead so

that the gas can circulate all through

the seeds. This should be done .of

Course, away from fire, and one should

not breathe the gas any more than

necessary since it is poisonous.



After twenty-four hours one can air





.out the peas and the beetles should





be all dead.



[take it that the amount to be treat-

ed is small, and for a fairly small

quantity of seed this treatment should

not be expensive, even if one purchas-

ed the carbon disulphide from the

druggist.——R. H. Pettit.





 





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desired, a warm sandy loam should be.





selected. Where heavy yields are im-

portant a clay loam is preferred.’



Well rotted stable manure in the

hill, supplemented with 400pounds of

acid phosphate per acre. should give

maximum crop.





As the plant is very tender, seed A





sowing should be delayed until the

ground Warms up and all danger of

lfrost is over. Around June 1 is the

:time preferred {in this state.



Planting in hills is still the practice

of some growers, but a large part of

the crop is planted. in drills.





4x5 or 5116 feet apart, depending on

soil fertility. .



When sowed in drills, the rows are

spaced five or sixfeet apart, using two





' to three\pounds of seed per acre. The





seed is sown in continuous row with

Plants are later thinned so





apart in the row—George E. Starr.





ASPARAGUS CULTURE.





 





- I have followed the directions for

planting asparagus, which I saw in

your paper, and would like a little ad-

vice on how to care for it afterwards.

How long will it be before it will have

tote thinned out or will it have to

be fertilized each year?——M. G.





When asparagus plants are grown

from seed, it is customary to dig the

plants when they are one year old and

set them out in the permanent planta-

tions or if the seeds are planted in

rows far enough apart, the plants may

simply be thinned out, leaving them

about eighteen inches apait in the

row. When the plants are set, they

usually are set about eighteen inches

apart in the rows; and the rows three

or four feet apart. It is not necessary

to thin the plants in any way after

they have been set out in the perma-

nent plantations.





"No shoots should be cut from the

asparagus bed until the third year

from the time it is set. The cutting

season then should not be continued

too long; not more than ten days or

two weeks. The cutting season, after

the third year, may be continued six

or eight weeks and even longer, with-

out doing any harm to the plantation.

The usual care of the plantation is as

.follows: '





Work the soil thoroughly over the

.bed very early each spring. This may





:be done in large plantations with the





disc barrow, or in the small planta-

tions with the ordinary hand culti-

vator. At the end of the cutting sea-

son, work into the soil a good heavy





vapplicatiOn of well-rotted manure, and





if this is not available make an appli-

cation' of about ”1,000 pounds per acre

of a good high-grade complete commer-

cial fertilizer. Keep the plants thor-

oughly cultivated, and continue just as

long as it is possible to get between

the rows.





After growth has stopped at the





close of each season, the tst should"





be cut ‘off and removed from the patch

and burned. It is highly important to

give very thorough cultivation through-

out the season and keep the soil well

fertilized at all times—R. L. Loree.





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‘ how much salt they need





The ideal method of salting stock, authorities agree, is to hate

plenty of dry, loose salt in accessible places whom the animals can

get to it as often as they want.





“ But it is important that this bé’the right kind of salt. If it con-

tains impurities and is bitter and harsh to the taste, animals will eat

~ only minimum quantities, and will not thrive as they should.





Give your livestock clean, pure salt—of a quality which you

would serve on your own table. Then they will eat all they require,

and yen will have better milk-producing animals, heavier meat ani-

mals, more efficient work animals.





The ideal farm salt

For 39 years, Diamond Crystal has been accepted as “The Salt

that’s all Salt.” The salt deposits from which it is taken, 2,200 feet

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Diamond Crystal is mild. Pure salt is always mild. And that is

why farm animals like it—and always eat enough to keep them in

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There 1s a Diamond Crystal Salt for every farm use—~for table and

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‘N7E cannot help the farmers by

building up-for them a coopera-

ltlve trust, adding expense for interest

and storage, without providing 3. mar-

ket. We complain of the high cost of

living, why try to boost it higher?

Our home markets are well stocked

with high priced foreign goods, while

home products go begging because

their food value is not understood.

Legislation in the interest of consum-

ers would be of real help to the farm-

'er. We have laws requiring weight

and quality stamped on packages, why

not require also the food value, in

terms of calories, “servings,” or the

relative price per pound at one cent

'sale, whether in cartons, cans, or in

.bulk? The vitamins and minerals

might also be required. The depart—

ment of agriculture in Farmers’ Bul-

letin No. 1313, gives the information.

It claims that one cent per serving is

about the average cost and shows that

many of the high priced foods are the

cheapest. Remember that a “serving”

never varies in heat or energy, and

compare their prices per pound on the

.basis of one cent per serving: To~

marocs, lc; apples, 20; potatoes, 30;

xcherries, 4c; milk, 30; corn meal, 160;

flour, 1613; oat meal, 180; shelled pea-

.nuts, 25c; sugar, 180. If these, and

similar values were required to be

(posted .on packages, the buyer could

[tell :11; once which to choose. One

pound of oat meal (five cents) equals

six pounds of potatoes (now) 360.—

C. E. Reeves, Benton Harbor.-

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SCHOOL

QUESTION. '





A 8 Mr. Alexander has stated certain



facts in a previous article on “The

Little Red. SchoolhOuse” which were

entirely contrary to my own experi—

ence. I feel like taking exception to

some of these statements. I lack one

year of having as much experience in

teaching as he had, though all of my

nine years have been spent in rural

schools. ’



I was about the first member of our

country school to attend a city high

school. \Vhile there I was frequently

surprised to find that I could hold my

own with the city students. I was

commended more than once on my

good scholarship which was attained

rthrough faithful application to my

work.



There is one fact which cannot be

{overlooked—411% is, rural students can

be depended on to work. Though they

may lack some of the polish and gen-

eral information of the city, they still

retain the ability to absorb and digest

text books as -well as their city cous-

ins. Tlme and again have I heard the

good-report of country students in the

city school. .



In my second year of high school,

the freshman. class was crowded with

a large enrollment of green students——

many from the country and a great

many underytwelve years of age from

the city schools. There was about as

much preparation and intelligence

among the country'as among the city

students. But the city boys and girls

maks a better showing because of their

numbers. The proportion of 1:10 is

.the same as 101100, which about repre-

sents the good students from the mud

.try and city schools. The awkward-

.ness of country students out of their

sphere is equaled by the frivolities of

city children in their sphere.



Mr. Alexander would have us think

that the causes contributing to the

decline of the rural school are all from

within; whereas, there are grave caus-

es pressing upon-it from without. The

nation is merging from an agricultural





 





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drier; '

tories and professions and mechan.

ical trades-areclaiming the very best





of our men and women. ‘ The spotlight"





of attention is turned to these other

classes of work. Things pertaining to

country life are neglected and unno-

.ticed,’and thus it is that the country

schools are treated with indifference

by th" general public, though the work

i: as solid and dependable as ever. It

would be as fair to say that congress

is to blame for the agricultural depres‘

sion in this country as it is to say

that the quality of education in the

rural schools is to blame for their de—

cline. Only two weeks ago I saw the

report of a rural high school student

averaging ninety-eight. All through

the country are positions of trust and

skill being filled by our country boys

and girls (grownup). The farms are

being drained of their best men and

women. There is a general criticism

, of all the lower grades——a desire by

someone higher up to blame someone

else for what he has failed to'do.

There is fault all along the line. In

my home town is ,a college'graduate





from the city making a failure of his





teaching.



Find some remedy that will bring

people back to the farms, make coun-

try lit‘o more attractive, and you will

find the thing that is the matter with

rural schools—Rural School Teacher.





BELlEVES IN EQUAL RIGHTS.





 





HE letter from “Subscriber” in the



May 1 issue indicates that there

is'one woman who is surely entitled

to the sympathy of persons who like

to see fair play.



\Vhat would any man do if he had

to get along with the work on the

farm and do the housework, too? One

end of the business is just as much of

a necessity and a help as the other,

and any man, or substitute for a man,

who would be guilty of talking to his

wife in any sum a manner as stated,

is not a. dcsira le citizen in any com.

munity. ‘



When the man and wife work to

gether for years to accumulate prop

erty and lay aside some'for later years,

they should be only too glad to have

all of it on a. fifty-fifty basis and try

to enjoy life as they go down the

long slope that they can never climb

again.



And when she speaks of leaving for

a home above, I don’t see how there

would ever be any chance for such

men to ever see St. Peter or the gate

he attends.



Often one sees such people puffing

themselves up, assuming a mightier-

than-you air and feeling themselves as

lord and master of the house. I per—

sonally know of cases like this, and

don’t see where they get that kind ofl

stuff. Some people should read over

their marriage ceremony once in a.”

while and see whether they are not

forfeiting on their contract.



If a woman is not an equal in rights

to the man, why should the man use

such poor judgment in' choosing?

Don’t play marbles and whine if you-

get heal. When playing partners, die

vide the spoils.——From a Supporter of

equal rights, J.- C. Edden.





 





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N, Y husband and'I have settled this .





question years ago. We reared a.

family of six children—three boys and

three girls. We executed a warrantee

deed with the understanding that the

same was not to be recorded until

both of us were dead. They now are

all of age and earning their own liv—.

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respond profitably to applications of





limestone. Not all crops, however, are





benefited by liming. Watermelons and

black raspberries, for exainple, are ac-

tually injured by liming. Beans, po-

tatoes, tomatoes, turnips, and millet

are usually not benefited by applica-

tions of lime. At the other end of the

scale, sweet clover, beets; celery,

muskmelons, lettuce, spinach, timothy

and Kentucky bluegrass have a high

lime requirement. Red clover, alsike

clover, corn, soy beans and the cereal

crops have a medium lime require-

ment, and will tolerate a slight acidity

in the soil, 'but‘ they also respond to

liming. Liming, therefore, may be said





, to benefit principally the legumes, but





the larger growth of legumes usually

results in increased yields of other

crops in the rotation.





While liming has other effects, such

as improving the physical condition of

the soil, and, the liberation of plant

food, its main purpose is to correct

the acidity of the soil. The only way

to tell how much lime should be ap-

plied is to test the soil for acidity by

one of a number of tests for this pur-

pose. Your county agent or the Soils

Department of the Michigan State Col-

lege at 'East Lansing, will determine





_ without charge the lime requirement





on samples sent in, and can advise on



the form of lime to use, and the best



methods and time of application.

Making the Most of Manure.



The live stock on Michigan farms

consume more feed than the state pro-

duces. This, in one way, is good bus-

iness for Michigan, for every bushel

of grain or ten of hay brought into

the state and fed to live stock'is a

potential source of fertility for Mich-

igan soils. Under good' management

from one—half to three-fourths of the

fertility in crops. fed can be returned

to the soil in manure. With the num-

ber of live stock in Michigan, it is

themetically possible to return foul

tons of manuIe per acre every three





years on all the cropped acres, or one





and one-third tons per acre annually.

Practically, however, there are few

farms where such a program is possi~

ble‘ or is realized. Most farmers must

of necessity be content to manure the

poorer fields once in a rotation, and

allow the better fields to go unmanur-

ed for longer periods. Frequently all

the manure is concentrated on a few

acres fonpotatoes or some other in-

tensive crop.





On many farms much of the plant

food in manure is wasted by careless

methods of handling. Not every farm

can afi'ord a covered manure shed, but

it takes little additional labor to‘place

manure from the barns in compact

piles where the losses from leaching

are minimized, than it does to allow

it to spread in a shallow open pile all

over the barnyard. The most efficient

way to handle manure is to haul it out

to the field in a spreader as fast as

produced, but this practice is not al-





‘ ways feasible.





Manure contains valuable plant food,





in the ratio of about one pound of,





phosphoric for each two pounds of

either nitrogen or potash. Manure can

be utilized most economically by those

crops which are heavy feeders on

nitrogen and potash, such as corn, po-

tatoes- and beets, rather than on the

small grains, which require more phos-

phorus. On most soils phosphorus is

the first limiting factor. If enough

manure were used on a crop to supply

all the phosphorus removed, the

chances are that much of the nitrogen

and potash would be wasted, because

of the greater ability of the soil to

supply these two elements. Therefore





farmer is to spread it over more acres.'





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every three years, the acid phosphate

increased the wheat yield 3. 3 bushels,

com 6.2 bushels, and hay 413 pounds,

on an average for twenty-one years.

Another way to make manure go





In a Pennsylvania experiment thirty

tons of manure over five acres gave an

increase of ninety-one bushels of corn,

while the same amount spread over

three acres produced an increase of

fifty-one bushels. At the rate-of ten

tons per acre, the value of the crop

increase was $2.29 for each ton of

manure, but at the rate of six tons per

acre, each ton of manure was worth

$3.29.





WILL ESTABLISH BARLEY

GRADES.





 





EARINGS upon proposed official

grain standards for barley, to be

established by the secretary of agri-





standards, are being held by the chief

of the bureau of agricultural econom-

ics in leading barley markets. Official

standards have already been estab—

lished for wheat, shelled corn, rye,

oats and grain sorghums.





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automobile stage plying for public hire while operated at such time

by a licensed driver, and in which insured is traveling as a fare-

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in policy. ‘



For loss of life sustained by the wrecking or

Pays $29000 disablement of any vehicle or car operated by

any private carrier or private person in which the insured is riding,

or by being accidently thrown therefrom; or for the loss of hands,

feet, or sight, as specified in policy. '



By being struck or run down while on a

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$1 a Year is the Total Cost





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I certify that I am a paid-in-advance reader of The Michigan

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HE Michigan Elevator Exchange



held their first meeting in re-



gard-- to the proposed bean pool,

at Saginaw, on,May 4. It was the con-

Sensus pf opinion of those present that

the 'bean growers of Michigan were

very much in favor of a bean pool, also

that a growers’ organization should be

organized.





The meeting was opened with Mi'.

H. D. Horton, president of theMichi-

.gan Elevator Exchange, acting as

chairman. The following proposed

plan for a bean pool was read and dis-

cussed: “Beans to be pooled through

cooperative plants.

to be signed by the pooling growers

before October 1 of each year. Local

cooperative elevators will handle all

poole-l beans, but will also handle

beans for others who‘do not wish to

pool in the same Way they are per-

forming this service now. Pools to

run for eight months, including the

.‘months of September, October, No-

vember, December, January, February,

March and April. All poolers to re-

ceive the same price except that a car-

rying, or storage charge will be paid

to the grower who holds his beans at

the fai m. The storage charge will be

by the month and each farmer will

have this additional pay paid to him

when he receives his settlement. These

pooled beans will be sold by the Ele-

vator Exchange as fast as they can be

prepared and, in their judgment, the

market warrants.”



After a full discussion by members

present, the following resolutions were

.passed:



Moved and supported that we, as

representatives of the bean growing

and bean selling section of the state,

unanimously approve the plan as pro-

posed by the Michigan Elevator Ex-

change for a bean pool. We also rec-

ommend that the Michigan Elevator

Exchange continue to investigate this

proposed bean pool and make plans to

have this bean pool operated this year.



A second motion was passed ag fol-



,lows:

l Moved and supported that the Mich-

igan Elevator Exchange be asked to

communicate with the officers of the

Michigan Bean Growers’ Association

and ask their endorsement of the plan

of the bean pool for the 1926 crop.



There were present at the Saginaw

‘meeting approximately forty delegates

composed of farmers, elevator man-

agers and county agents.





TREATING POTATOES FOR SCAB.





 





 





Can you tell me how to keep my

potato crop from becoming scabby?——





Scabby potatoes are caused by a

bacterial organism which produces a

rupture of the skin of the tuber. Gen-

erally soil mites and other insects

work in these ruptures and produce

what is known as deep scab. The scab

organism lives not only on the skin of

the potatoes, but also in soils, and is

generally worse in alkaline soils. In

soils that are slightly acid the scab

organism does not thrive.



In controlling scab it is necessary

[not to plant potatoes on the same

piece of land more often than once in

four or five years, and to apply stable

manure several months before plant-

ing time. Fresh stable manure often-

times promotes the development of

scab, since the ammonia in it produces

an alkaline reaction in the soil. In

,the matter of lime, care should be tak—

en to put the lime on the alfalfa or

clover seeding and not apply it just

before planting potatoes.



. i The scab organism does live on seed

[potatoes and may cause a scabby crop.

,It is therefore, very important that





' seed potatoes be treated with corro-





sive sublimate for the control of not





   





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which is often v-ery cOmmon on pota‘

toes. The formula recommended is

four ounces of corrosive sublimate to

thirty gailons of water, the potatoes

being soaked in this solution for thirty

minutes—H. E. Moore. "





 





MIXING SWEET CLOVER AND

ALFALFA.





 





Would it be advisable to sow sweet

clover and alfalfa mixed?~When would

be the proper time to sow it on wheat

that was sowed last fall? Would it

be satisfactory to drag the wheat after

sowing the clover and alfalfa?—R. C.





It is not usually advisable to mix.





sweet clover and alfalfa seed. The

sweet clover is ready to cut for hay

previous to the proper time” of harvest-

ing alfalfa. A few farmers, however,

follow this practice, claiming that they

get a heavier crop of hay the first sea;

son that the crop is cut for hay.



Sweet clover or alfalfa, or a mixture

of both, should be seeded on the wheat

as early in the spring as the seed can

be covered with a spike-tooth harrow.



The seed should be inoculated. Ma-

terial for inoculation may be secured

from the Department of Bacteriology,

East Lansing, Michigan. The price is

twenty-five cents per bottle and each

bottle contains sufficient material to

inoculate a bushel of seed. Directions

accompany the material. ‘



Dragging of the wheat after the

sweet clover or alfalfa is sown will

not injure the wheat, if the dragging

is carefully done—C. R. Megee.





RADIO PROGRAM FROM WKAR.





 





HERE will be a change this week



from the regular broadcasting

schedule of Station VVKAR, Michigan

State College, East Lansing. Hereto—

fore, this station has regularly been

silent on Sunday, but on Sunday, May

16, it will broadcast the dedication of

the new People’s Church at East Lan-

sing.



The following is the program for the

week:



May 15—12:00 noon, weather, mar-

kets, question box.



May 16—10230 a. m., dedication ser-

vices Feople’s Church, East Lansing;

7:30 p. m., dedication services People’s

Church, East Lansing.



May 17—12z00 noon, weather, mar—

kets, question box; 8:00 p. m., Farmer-

kins’ Bedtime Stories; 8:15 p. m., gar-

dening: 8:35-9:00 p. m., engineering.



May 18-—12:00 noon, weather, man

kets, question box.



May 19~12z00 noon, weather, mar-

kets, question box; 7:35 p. m., land-

scape architecture; 8:00-9:00 p. m.,

musical program.



May 20—12:00 noon, weather, mar-

kets, question box.



May 21—12:00 noon, weather, mar-

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floor gleamed in theaunshine; a

big maltese cat lay asleep on

V the .strip of “hit and mi ." car-

Ipet bythe Stove; the aroma ‘0 baking

cookies mingled with the fragrance“ of

thacinthstorne on the teasmg Wind

which flapped the newspaper in Pa’s

' rocking-chair, twisted the calendar

from the wall, and took impertinent

liberties with Ma Benson’s apron and

he hair. . _



, e dropped the rolling-pin With a

'5‘ba’ng and with an impatient gesture

pushed back the crisp, gray curls 'as

she turned to close the window. VVlth

her hand lifted to the sash above, she

paused. Her son David was going .to-

ward the back gate. Pa-was comlng

up. the walk to the house, but turned

and called guardedly, “You know, Dav-

ey, Ma’s bark is always worse than

her bite. Don’t be scared of her. Just

be diplomatic like I am.”



“All right, Pa, we will see,” chuckled

Dave as the gate swung shut behind

him.



“Humph!” grunted Ma, "“My bark

is worse than my bite’, eh?” and then

as Pa glanced up and saw her, "'VVe

will see about that bite,” and lowered

the sash with a bang which jarred the

dishes inxthe cupboards



Pa stepped .jauntily across the porch,

opened the screen door and let it slam

behind him. Ma, industriously cutting

cookies, kept an uncompromising back

toward him as she watched him in the

looking glass over the table. She smil-

ed grimly at his sheepish grin, and at

his sudden start as he sniffed appre—

hensively and then settled himself. in

his chair with a “do or die” expresswn

of cheerfulness. “Now he is going to

be diplomatic,” thought Ma wickedly.

“He isn't scared.”



“Jiminy Pipers, Ma, you stepped

right on my sore corn!”



“Well, move your feet then. They

stick out in my way every time I go

near the stove. I’m sorry I hurt that

toe, Pa.” Ma looked ashamed and sor-

ry, though yet ‘riled clear through’ as

she would say.





Pa edged his chair back to a safer

zone and ruefully rubbed his foot. Ma

jerked the oven door open and pulled

out a pan of cookies, spicey, fragrant.

It was a tantalizing odor; one which

would have made the mouth of any

man water; any man but Pa. He only

sniffed again, plainly dismayed. “What

is it this time, Ma? You always bake

those dadburned ginger—snaps when

you are put out about something.”



Ma Benson waddled impatiently

across the floor, treading on the cat’s

tail enroute, and flopped her pan, bot—

tom side up, on the bread board.

Socks, short for Socrates, with a yowl

of profanity, dodged under the stove,

where he sat, alternately licking his



jdamaged caudal appendage and glar-

9 ing from beneath the boundary of his

., refuge.





_ “Put your tail in your pocket next

time,” snapped Ma to the wickedly

effervescing cat. “Pa, why did you tell

Dave he could move into our little

house next door? You know I won’t

have anything to do with his shiftless,

no-account wife. He has made his own

bed and he can lie in it, if he is my

boy.” Ma whisked out her dishpan,

and after a reckless juggling of'the

teakettle which sent Pa’s chair back

another prudent hitch, began to

wash up.



“Oh, well, Ma, houses are awful

scarce, you know, and ours is empty.

Didn't seem right, somehow, not to

let him have it. They got to have

some place to live. They have to leave

that little place they are in. It has

been sold.”



“He would have had a good home if

he had married Madge and a number

one good wife. Madge is a girl a body

can love. SeemS‘as if our boy would

have had better sense than to have

been caught with a doll—baby face. But

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him. That’s all." Ma’s tones were

final. « ' _



Up to the time David had gone to

the State University and Madge to the

Teachers' College, Ma had felt that

Madge would eventually be her daugh-

ter-in-law.

because she hoped it, but the young

people were good friends. She could

not say that th‘ey were ever loverly,

in the least, but that would come in

time, she thought. They were “both

Give them a little time, she

reflected comfortably. So she dreamed

happily and planned their future ac-

cording to her own design.



Then Madge was graduated and took

a high school position in a distant city.

David came back to Raineyville, and

entering the hardware business with

his father gradually assumed the man-

agement, thus giving Pa the leisure

he longed for without retiring outright.



Pa was happy, but Ma was uneasy.





Perhaps she expected it.





talus at him, she never showed herself.



Ma had nursed her grievance tender-

ly. It was flourishing. ,And now Pa

had threatened its growth“by letting

Davey have the little house next door.



So Ma. rattled her pans in the sink.

Pa hated to talk against an ‘infernal

racket’ he always said. But this time

Pa just would talk ,in spite of her bar-

rage of noise.



“Bessie is a right nice little -girl,Ma.

Not so smart as Madge, of course, but

she will make Davey a good wife. She

is his choice, Ma. Seems like Davevy

ought to be allowed to pick out his

own wife. You could like her if you

would, and everything would be 'com-

fortable,” pleaded Pa.



Ma emptied her dishpan, gave the

dishcloth a vicious twist and mapped

‘up the drainboard in silence.



“What say, Ma?”



Ma took off her apron and hung it

behind the door, swatted a .fly,





 





 





She felt that Davey had made a mis-

take in permitting Madge to go so far

awty from him. No telling what might

happen. When she diplomatically voic-

ed her fears to her son, he had just

laughed. “\Vell, and why shouldn’t

Maggie have a sweetheart? Most girls

acqu1re one, sooner or later.” The next

thing she knew he was going with

Bessie Baines.



To do Ma justice, it was not her lack

of property that made Bessie undesir—

able in her eyes. She considered her

weak. “No-account, 'shit'tless,” as she

expressed it. No Baines ever had

amounted to anything, so no Baines

ever could amount to anything, accord-

ing to Ma’s logic. She was pretty, of

course, but that. Was the most one

could say. She did not understand

what Davey saw in her to admire, but

men were queer critters. Davey must

be saved from the results of his own

foolishness. She would see to that.

So she frowned upon the friendship

and snubbed the whole Baines connec-

tion. Seeing that this method did not

produce the expected results, she tried

force.



“If you marry that silly, doll-faced

Baines girl, David Benson, I am

through with you. Choose between

her and me. Do you understand?”



"Oh, I wouldn’t, Ma,” Pa had cau-

tioned, but Ma was angry and would

not back down. Afterward her' pride

would not permit the surrender. '.



“Suit yourself, Ma,”.Davey had an-

swered. The very next day he had

married Bessie.



Ma, true to her threat, dropped him

from her life. At least she had per-

suaded herself that such was the case.

David, taking her at her word most

disconcertingly, never came near the

house when he came to see his father.

They always met at -the burn, and

though Ma peeped through the cur-





straightened the carpet, and started

toward the stair door. With her foot

on the first step, she turned.



“I've had my say.”



“Whew! Not safe for male critters

in this here kitchen, when Ma bakes

ginger-snaps. Eh, Socks?” ,



“Humph!” snorted Ma as she toiled

up the stairs. "



Ma. was cleaning out the spare room

bureau. The room had belonged to

Davey. “Why, my land! Here are

Davey’s field glasses. I wonder if he

knows he left them?” She experiment-

ed with the binoculars. “Good land!

I can see Mrs. Smith standing by her

kitchen stove as plain as plain, and

she lives most half a mile off.” She

turned the spy glasses upon the homes

of other acquaintances, on the school-

house, on the store. “Why, I won-

der?” She carefully hid the glasses

under a pillow and hurriedly finished

her work.



Pa had eaten his dinner and gone;

the kitchen was spick and span when

Ma labored up the garret stairs. “I

might as well begin housecleaning,”

she puffed as she paused at the head

of the stairs to rest, “and I always

have commenced in the attic. My!

that window is cobwebby.” Ma stepped

briskly to the window. She gave it a

vigorous rubbing. It looked toward

the little house. So did a kitchen win-

dow, but Ma preferred this. It was

safer. No telling when Pa might come

home and catch her spying. She had a

good healthy curiosity concerning her

new neighbors. and their affairs, but

she didn’t intend Pa to find it out.

She was careful to keep away from

that window when he was around, and





had even moved her mending basket





to another place where the light was °

not so good. ”

When Pa told her that Davey had

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The window» pelished, she thoroughly-

dusted the curtains. “More hole than

cloth,” ruminated- Ma as she arranged

the holes so they would not show from

the outside. Then with a guilty glance

over her shoulder she pulled the field

glasses from her big pocket, put them.

to the biggest hole, adjusted them, and

deliberately settled herself for a good,

uninterrupted examination of as much

of Bessie’s housekeeping as ‘lay within.

her field of visiOH. The door of the

little kitchen stood open. “She keeps

her range shining. Looks better than

mine. I’ll“ say that much,” Ma confid-

ed to a noisy .bluebottle fly. “Tea-

towels on the’line are white, too. There

goes her Aunt Judy up the walk. She

will stay for supper, I reckon. _ I just

naturally can’t abide that Judith

Baines. Nosey old woman. The very

idea of her saying what she did to Ann

Hicks.“ ‘Bessie wouldn’t listen to her;

was bound to have Dave Benson,

though he wasn’t half good enough for

her!’ As if Davey wasn’t worth more

than the whole .kit and bilen of

Baines.” .



Ma had overheard Judy at the “Lad-

ies’.Aid" and had nearly boiled over.

She dared not defend Davey because

of the uncompromising stand she had

taken against the. young people, so she

hit her tongue and savagely bided her

time to even the score.



“Ma. 011, Ma! Where in tarnation

are you, Ma?” ‘



“If that isn’t just like a man! Never

can depend on one to do what you

think he is going to.” She popped the

spy~glass into an old trunk, slammed

the lid shut, and waddled to the stair

head. "I’m up garret. What do you

want?”



“What you doing up there?”



“Housecleaning. What you want?”



"Oh, nothing. JustAvanted to know

where you are. Coming down pretty

soon '2”



“Might as well,” sighed Ma with a

regretful glance toward the window.



Several weeks later as Ma. descend

ed the attic stairs armed with broom

and dustpan, Pa commented, “Must be

a sight of dirt up there this year. You

have been cleaning up there most a

month. What is the use of being so

particular, Ma? Nobody ever sees up

there, anyhow?”



“That is just like a man,” snapped

Ma. “They want things clean where

they show. They sweep the dirt under

the rugs and never dust the top of the

bookcase.”



“You needn’t be so personal like,

Ma.” Pa looked injured. He and Dave

had kept house once when Ma as laid

up with a sprained ankle. “A body

couldn’t find any dirt in this house, not

even with a microscope,” grumbled Pa.

“But say, that makes me think of some:

thing. Have you seen anything of

Davey’s spy glasses around here? He

wanted them the other day and couldn't

find them. He thought maybe he nev-

er moved them.”



Ma started and glanced sharply at

Pa. “If Davey took better care of his

things, he would know where to find

them. Seems like those" blnoculars

wouldn’t be so easy to lose. When did

he have them last?”



“He can’t seem to remember."



“Well, he ought to remember. Those

glasses cost money. But it is nothing

to me. I’m through rememberingt‘or

him. Let his doll-baby try it awhile.’

Ma's voice took on an edge as she noted

a fleeting twinkle in Pa’s shrewd old

eyes. “Consarn a man,” she muttered

as she hung up the broom and dust-

pan. “I’ll let him know about that

bite.” '



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across the garden fence. .She had met

Bessie several times, once on the

street, , again in the grocery store.

Once they had sat in the same room

and worked on the same quilt. at the

“Ladies’ Aid,” but Ma had not spoken.

She had noted, uneasily, Bessie’s flush-

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had felt a little sorry for Bessie, a lit-

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to the poor, little thing; but Pa and

Davey made her So consarned mad.

“Manage me! Humph!” Ma. had near-

ly upset the quilting frames as she

jabbed her needle 'wickedly into the

ninepatch.



'At another time she had nearly col-

lided with David at the store door. To

his friendly, “Hello, Ma,” she had, re-

sponded with a curt nod. Curiosity

to observe how he had taken her cold-

ness had romptedher to glance back

through t e window. What she had

seen made her set her lips grimly.

“Well, let them laugh,” she had fumed,

“I’ll show them. Make fun of me, do

they? We’ll see who laughs last."





“I wonder what she is sewing on so





busy every day? \If that window was

a wee mite lower .1 could see.” Ma

focused her glasses in vain. “Must





be a new dress, she is so terribly in-r





terested,” she surmised, and then dis-

gusted at her failure~ to satisfy her

curiosity, she shifted her view- to the

little yard and garden.





“Land, sakes! There is Mrs. Sim’s

old cow in their late corn! Itis just

ready to eat, too.” Ma was ambiguous,

but. disturbed. “Davey ought to mend

that fence. Somebody ought to drive

it out. Bessie can’t see it. It will be

well-nigh ruined.” Ma started, got as

far as the head of the stairs, then stop-

ped stubbornly. “ ’Tain’t our corn. Let

them look out for themselves.” Going

back to her window, she picked up her

spy glasses and grimly watched the

destruction wrought by the animal.

However, she sighed with relief when

she saw Pa drive out the beast and

mend the fence.



“You old fool, to care. anything about

it,” she scolded herself as she went

down stairs and mixed up a batch of

ginger-snaps. As she turned out the

first spicey panful, Pa stepped across

the porch and hung up his hammer.

His hand was on the latch.



“Dadburn the luck," he sniffed, as

he turned and fled toward the barn.



f‘Humph!” grunted Ma.



Ma’s curiosity was thoroughly arous-

ed. She could not discover what made

Bessie so busy every afternoon. “If

it is a new dress it must be a terrible

nice one, it takes her so long. She

hassat right there by that Window

every afternoon for most a month now.

Seems like she’d get it done pretty

soon,” puzzled Ma with her eyes glued

to~the binoculars, as she stood be-

tween the parted curtains in her eag-

erness to learn the secret.



Suddenly she dodged’back between

the curtains which fluttered together.

Pa was coming from town and had

glanced up toward the garret window.

“But he couldn’t see me through that

little crack,” she comforted herself.

“What in tamation is he coming home

for this time a day?” she grumbled, as

she listened for his inevitable, “Where

are. you, Ma?” But the screen door

slammed and he did not call. A second

slam, a few minutes later, woke the

echoes. When she peeped again—this

time through a hole in the curtain—he

was going toward town on the trot.



“Whatever in the world?” Me. was

thoroughly perplexed. Scarcely con-

scious of her action, she again turned

her glass on the window of the little

house. Her mind was occupied with

Pa’s unheard of‘performance. What

did he want? Why didn’t he call?





.Just-then Bessie held up the garment





she had been working on, gave it a

little shake, and hugged it to her heart

for a brief second.



Ma gasped and nearly dropped the

glasses. Pa was forgotten. She sat

heavily down on the old trunk, her

face suddenly both tender and trou-

bled. “Oh, hum! Why couldn’t he

have married Madge?” she sighed. She

sat with the binoculars in her nerve-

less hand, without ambition enough to

strike at the ,fly which crawled boldly

across her forehead. Hereyes wan-

dered about the attic to the toys which

hadbeen Davy’s—an old veloc‘ipede, a





dilapidated printing-press, an». air gun;





to an old crib back under the rafters.

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and by” the time they were readjusted

by her trembling hands; everybody

had disappeared.



“Oh, Davey, lad!” she moaned as

she hurried toward the stairs. She

had reached the top step when her

poor, old legs refused to do her bid-

ing further. She could only slump

down on the stair step and tremble as

she repeated over and over. “Oh, Dav-

ey, my hey, my baby!”



How long she sat there she did not

‘know, but she finally contrived to

stumble down the stairs to her sun-

bonnet. Gathering strength with every

step, she fairly ran to the back deor,

fumbled it open, and came face to face

with Pa. Agitated as she was, her

keen eyes discerned that he didm-not

appear anxious. She paused to give

him a chance to tell her any bad news,

but he seemed strangely undisturbed.



“Davey twisted his ankle a little, at

the store, getting off a ladder. We

brought him home in Joe Wheeler's

car just. now,” he vouchsafed after

what seemed an age to her. “Nothing

serious. though,” he hastened to as-

sure her as he caught a glimpse of the

distressed face under the sunbonnet.

“Bessie bandaged his foot. Didn’t need

the doctor. She is right handy. Bessie

is. Where you goin', Ma?” questioned

Pa innocently.



“Out to look at my dahlias.

jections?” snapped Ma.



“None at all. Noue at all,” chuckled

Pa as he entered the kitchen.



Ma took a step and lingered. “What

were you after when you came home

and went back so quick? I heard you

down here. I was up in the garret at

the time.” she explained lamely, con-

scious that she was betraying herself.



“Oh, I just hustled home for the lin-

iment to l"1l) on Davey’s foot.”



“Why didn’t you call me?”



“I didn’t want to fetch you away

from your winder for nothin’. Get

out of my chair. you old cuss.” .Pa

wabbled the rocker until the protesting

cat jumped to the floor, and then set-

tled himself in the disputed territory.

“Must have found those binoculars up

there. Didn’t you, Ma?" but the screen

door banged as 'she waddled.briskly

across the porch.



That evening the kitchen was re—

dolent of ginger—snaps. “Why don’t

you bake some other kind of cocky for

a change?” complained Pa. “I’m about

fed up on these dingbusted ginger-

snaps." ,



There were many occasions during

that late summer and autumn when

Pa’s long-suffering olfactory nerve was

offended by the spicey odor he detest.—

ed, for Ma was troubled. She could

not bring herself to the point of sur-

render. She was proud and the hurt

was deep. Then. too, the uneasy sus-

picion that Pa and Davey were laugh-

ing at her; treating her unforgiving

attitude as a joke rather than as a

trial to be borne with sad submission,

irritated her. She would teach them

that some dogs used their teeth.



The little window in the attic was

free from cobwebs these days; the

binoculars were always adjusted to

bring the little house quickly within

her range of Vision: the stairs groaned

more and more frequently under her

slowly ascending stumble when the

dinner work was done.



“Jehosephatl” snorted Pa one after-

noon when he had returned unexpect~

edly. The ejaculation brought Ma to

the head of the stairs.





Pa was so exasperating. “Well,

now, what is the matter?" Her keen

nose, however, had supplied the infor-

mation. E’a’s announcement, “Some—

thing’s burning," reached her ears af-

ter she was well on her way down the

creaking stairs.



“Well, I reckon you will do Without

bean soup 101‘ your supper,” she pant-

ed as she snatched the smoking kettle

from the stove.





“Did you go up garret for yarbs?”

inquired Pa. .



“Open that window and let this

smoke our," snapped Ma. It just seem-

ed as it' a body never could do any-

thing without having to explain to

someone. She was more than ever

convinced of her inability to get by

Without explanations, when a few days

later Pa found her on her stiff, old

knees, on the floor before the open

drawer of the cherry bureau.



She had folded and refolded certain

funny, little yellowed shirts; tenderly

picked out the loops of a dilapidated

bow that bore every evidence of hav-

ing been ghewed; had smiled with a

tear in her eye as she recalled Davey’s

fat littlefeet in“ the fuzzy, blue boot-

ees, and Was thoughtfully lifting out a

downy crib blanket when Pa stuck his

head in at the door. '



“Hello, Ma. What you doing?”

Then without waitingfor her answer,





Any ob-





, he had withdrawn his inquisitive nose.’





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enjoying the shade of an oak. His

face is tanned and seamed, as are the

faces of those who spend their years

on the desert. His heard is long and

white. He fans himself with a palm

leaf.





The three strangers appear, and the

old man is all hospitality. He makes

haste to get them a suitable meal.

Cakes are made of meal, and a calf is

dressed for meat. He bids his servant

wash the feet of the guests, after the

oriental custOm. Overhead, the burn-

ing sun. Around, the heat that rises

in waves and cork screws. Overhead,

a vulture sails past with motionless

wing.





Three Men "appear, and Abraham

does not know that they are men of

consequence, but he entertains them

as if they bore a.

message from a

monarchfas, in

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the person who

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of any import-

ance? That all

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is important? If it is true that to the

chemist there is no dirt, and to the~

botanist there is no weed; if it is true

that out~of.garbage the finest of dyes

can be made, and flavbring extracts,

what can not be made out of humans?

To Christ all people are important. He

saw the unchiseled grace in every

crude soul.



Out of a crowd of young people no

one can predict with certainty which

has the greatest possibilities of suc-

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sibilities of spiritual growth. One night

a street preacher was conducting a

meeting on the street of an English

city. A little boy climbed up on the

edge of the platform and sat there,

listening. When the preacher was get-

ting off the platform, he put his hand

on the head of the little boy, saying,

“God make you a great preacher some

day.” He became Gypsy Smith, the

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UT we must not confine our ideal-



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such possibilities, else Christ would

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If you would know what such possibil-

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Harold Begbie, or, “The Ordinary Man

and the Extramdinary Thing ”





God tells Ab1aham what He intends

to do with the wicked gitics of the

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lPeople now are skilled in that kind of

itelegraphy. It is the most rewarding

kind known. Said Mary Slessor, “Pray-

er is the greatest power God has put

into our hands for service—prayer is

harder work than doing, at least I find

it so, but the dynamic lies that way to

advance the kingdom.”



Abraham was called the friend of

God, says St James (2:23). If that is

so, it is easy to understand why he

knew so much that other people did

not. You tell your friend what is in

your heart, and on your mind. God

treats His friends so. He told Abra-

ham. Humble, believing people are

often the best teachers of religion, be-

cause'they experience real religion. “I

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Hlm also that is of’an humble and con-

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quaintance with Him. There is so

much of us that no room remains for

the Divine Spirit. I-





BRAHAM‘prayed for the cities of



the plain. Sodom and Gomorrah

were situate near the Dead Sea. The

tradition has come down that the soil

is accursed and will bear no fruit. .But

before the fire' fell, Abraham prayed

for the inhabitants. He felt certain

that Jehovah was righteous. He sure-

ly would not destroy the innocent with

the wicked. Abraham feels the injus-

tice of that. If he, a human being fal~

lible, sinful, with errors of judgment

and shortcomings of conduct, feels the

injustice of such a course, will not

God, the Almighty, the Perfect, have

an even completer sense of righteous-

ness? Is it not fair to judge God, in

a sense, by ourselves? If we have

certain feelings of right and wrong,

is not God’s attitude on such questions

even more keen?





If not, where did man get his sense-

of right and wrong? The greater can-

not come out of the less. We must

get our moral sense from a greater

source. Of course, this must also come

by training. To read the press one

would not infer that some people had

much moral sense. But we know they

are exceptions.



God is just. Let us stick fast by

that. Abraham believed it, and that

was-the cause of his famous prayer.

He could not believe that the Creator

would destroy even ten righteous peo-

ple, along with those who deserved"

such treatment. The Judge of all the

But Why was he

so interested in Sedom and Gomorrah?

You and I read of a flood in China.

that destroys ten thousand people. and

we do not shiver.

we-do not. Somehow it is not easy to

get the imagination working in such

cases. It seems too vague and far

away. But suppose you lived in China

for six years. Suppose you knew by





drowned or rendered homeless. You

thought of the dark-skinned little folks

who are just about” as cute as' the

white children at home. it would all

be vivid enough. Said a. missionary

Who wanted to go back, "I cannot

sleep, for thinking of them.” He had

done something for these people, also.

That makes all the difference in the

world. When we help another, we are

drawn toward him. '





ABRAHAM had gone away on his

punitive expedition and had re-

turned a victor, and he had done it for

some of the very people who were g0-

ing to get the sulphur and hot lime-

stone dOWn their necks, and he felt

sorry for them. If there were any

worth salvaging, he wanted to be cer-

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escape. He felt that way about it, and

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way.

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Oscoda, Otsego, Presque Isle, Roscom-

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County hospitals are growing in fa-

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hOSpitals and gives a very interesting

account of one at Urbana, Ohio, which

manages to give its patients private

rooms at $2.50 to $3.00 per day, pre-

war rates. A rate of fifty dollars for

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The mayor of Urbana, a local phy-

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heard no criticisms. Pleased with the

way farmers take up with it. The

county could not have a hospital ex-

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rural hospital. Would recommend this

system for every county?



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(Continued from page 659).





the drawer hastily and scrambled to

her feet with the aid of the bed which

slid and squeaked on its casters.

When she had hobbled to the kitchen,

the screen door was swinging shut and

Pa's steps were heard making double-

quick time to the barn. A cautious

peep through the curtain a few min-

utes later further disturbed Ma’s ser-

enlty. Pa and Davey were standing

in the barn door laughing fit to kill.



“Consarn a man!” glowered Ma as

she filled the teakettle.





“What is that?”

and listened.



“Sounds like a knock. I’ll go and

see. What in tarnation does anybody

want this time of night?” grumbled Pa

as he pulled on his trousers and slip-

ped on his shoes. It can’t be Davey.

He could run over to Doc Webster’s as

quick as he could come here to tele-

phone. Somebody has broken down in

their flivver, I reckon. Dadburn it!





Ma sat up in bed





 





 





We ain’t no repair shop.” Pa groped

his way to the back door while Ma

listened. “What’s that blasted rocking

chair doing away over here? Dumb

it!” swore Pa as he wrathfully disen-

tangled himself in the dark.



“Hello, Pa!”



“Why, that you, Davey? What is

wrong? Wait until I get this dingbust-

ed door unlocked. The key sticks,”

cried Pa excitedly as he twisted the

stubborn key. After what Ma consid-

ered an eternity of senseless twiddling

with a perfectly good lock, the door

was opened. ~



“What’s the matter, Davey?”



“Why, nothing, Pa. I didn’t mean *

to scare you,” laughed Davey happily.

“We have a bran new daughter over

home. That’s all. I want you to tele-

phone to Aunt Judy to come and stay

a few days. The nurse can’t stay and

Bessie needs help. Tell Ma we. have

named the baby for her, Jerusha Blake

Benson—and say, Pa, she is a little





peach. Come over and see her—in, the

morning. Good-night, Pa. Don’t for-

get to telephone Aunt Judy right

away.”



Ma Benson lifted her voice. “Pa,

come right straight in here. Don’t you





dare telephone that old Judy Baines.”



Pa felt his way back to the bedroom

where Ma was dressing in the dark.

“Why, I got to telephone. Bessie needs

help,” protested Pa.



“Shut up and light the lamp,” snap-

ped Ma.



“Where you going, Ma?” inquired Pa

meekly as he obeyed orders. ‘



“Stop standing there with » your





mouth open and get the lantern,” di- ‘





rected Ma. as she emerged from the

closet with a big shawl with which she

swathed herself. And then as Pa hes-

itated, “Will you get that lantern, Jabe

Benson, or shall I? Do you suppose

that I am going to let that shiftless,

no—account Judy Baines ruin the health

and disposition of my grandchild?”

Although she noted the solemn wink

which Pa bestowed on his reflection

as he passed the mirror, she was mag-

nanimous. “You can get your owu

breakfast, I reckon. There are plenty

of ginger-snaps,” she chuckled as she





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surfaces.



Make Walls Neutral.



These backgrounds should be beauti-

ful in the sunlight, as well as in the

shadow. While gay curtains, lamps,

books, cushions, and bowls of flowers

add the colors needed to our rooms, it

is the. floors, walls, and woodwork that

should be strictly without, and lacking

in, intense colors.



The rooms should be beautiful be-

fore a piece. of furniture is placed in

them.' They should be luminous with

promise, hospitality inviting, and inex-

haustible in its suggestions of any

number of possible color schemes. A

wall, painted or papered in blue, is

limited. One may do only tWO or three

things with it, but a grey or cream

walled room has in it the capacity of

being rose, or yellow, blue or green,

demure or bright blue.



We advise walls of cream or grey

exclusively. These include many tones

of neutrality, from the delicate ivory

through sand tones, to light tans and

pearly greys. Between these, there are

many graduations.





Certain Rooms Require Warmer

Tones.



Northern and western rooms require

warmer tones on the walls-cream,

putty, tan—for instance. Further

warmth may be added by a properly

selected color scheme in the room fur-

nishings. Southern and western ex-

posures will welcome any of these

tints, but it is in these rooms that the

cool greys are at their best. The

color schemes selected for use against

the walls may be cool, also, depending

for degree'upon the sunlight and glow

in the room; but let blue and green

predominate, with accents of other and

warmer colors

ness.





Another consideration in the selec-

tion of a wall tone is the general color

scheme desired in a room. The neu-

tral tint that blends best must be the

one selected. Tan, for example, would

be unfortunate when the predominant

scheme is to be yellow. Grey is not

so good a selection with very predom-

inant blue as it is with predominant

green,'in the cool combinations; and

grey is really better with yellow than

it is with rose in the warm color com-

Ivory or cream goes with

everything, and a sufficient putty tone,

somewhat the color of bisque, may be





bination.





used delightfully in any room.





Light tones are as beautiful in our

living rooms and dining rooms as they

_ are in bedrooms. These days, neutral

'3 ‘ wall papers, are used in our homes‘by





to enhance the cool-





   

 





Choosc ”C0101” Scheme





To Give Proper Bacégrozmz/fir Errm'tzzre am! Accessorz'er





people of good taste. Tan and greys

are very suitable for living rooms.

This custom cannot be too strongly

recommended, and the fact that it is

being taken up by the majority of

women will recommend it to those who

distrust what they term new and plain

effects. Backgrounds are always best

plainé—Mrs. Julia Wolfe.





HUCKSTER,’S GARDEN PROFIT

FOR THE CHILD.





 





E have always been adverse to

buying our children to do things

about the home. We have tried to

teach them that the home is an insti—

tution in which we all must cooperate.'

But, last spring, I thought of a plan

by which our boy and girl, age nine

and eleven respectively, could make

their own spending money and thus





   





learn the value of money, and yet not

be paid directly for their efforts. When

the garden was ready for planting, a

full row across it was given to each

child. \Vith but little guidance by way

of suggestion, they were permittedto

plant what they wished. They tended

these rows all summer and whenever

we wanted anything from these rows

for the family table, they were paid a

small sum for them.



They soon learned if the vegetables

were well sorted and cleaned that

they received more for them. They

gave their rows careful attention and

watered them-during dry spells, so

that they might grow bigger and bet-

ter vegetables. .



But the proof of the pudding is in

the fact that both children are anxious

to try the plan again this year and are

asking for two rows instead of one.—

Mrs. C. L.





Baby’s Feeding Problems





Anymore/2’ 53/ Dr. C. H. Lemgo





 





 





When Summer Comes Baby's Food Needs Most Careful Attention.





T eight months of age the baby

A may begin to take supplemental

food. \Veaning may begin at the

ninth month by allowing outside feed»

ing to take the place of one or two

nursings daily. The process of wean-

ing should be completed from the tenth

to the twelfth month, depending upon

the vigor of the baby and the.favor

with which he accepts and digests oth-

er foods. It is not. wise to attempt

weaning during the hottest months of

the summer.

Feeding Cereals.





The first extra food to be given to a





baby is a cereal of some easily digest»

. ed variety.





A few years ago cereals

were withheld until babies were at

least a year old, but later investiga-

tions have proved the digestive pou-

ers of the babies are equal to them at

’a younger age. Some doctors now rec-

ommend them at six months. I think

it best not to begin until a baby is

eight months old. At that time cereal

feeding may begin Whether the child

is breast or bottle fed.





The‘ important point in preparing

cereals is to make very sure that they

are .well cooked. A double cooker

should housed and the cereal cooked





 





 





slowly for at least two hours. Oatmeal

and cream of wheat are examples of

the class of cereals to be used. In the





beginning serve only a teaspoonful to“





a tablespoonful, but as the little one

becomes accustomed to 'the .new diet

more may be given. W'ith this may

be given whole milk and a very little

sugar, though it is better to train a

child- to eat cereals flavored with salt

instead of sugar. '



At this age all babies enjoy and are

helped by a little fruit juice, prefer-

ably orange juice, once or twice daily.



' Other Food.



'As the baby becomes accustomed to

cereals, other foods may be cautiously

added. Zweibach, dry bread, toasted

bread or.\milk toast are well liked and

digested. Baked potato may be added

at nine or ten menths, and a little lat-

er boiled potato mashed-in milkI At

ten months a few teaspoonfuls of beef

juice may be given daily,‘also chicken

broth. A taste of green vegetables,

such as spinach, thoroughly cooked

and mashed toy‘a pulp may be. tried,

especially if constipation exists. In

giving these,,foods, regularity should





be observed and the feeding allow“ a





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process very gradually at first.

A Few Cautions Are Necessary.

1. When introducing a new foodrher

gin with a small amount, cautiously,

only increasing the quantity as it is

seen to be well borne. -





2. Never begin anew food in very ‘ a





hot weather, or when the baby is meet-..

ing unusual conditions, such as a jour-

ney from. home or a slight illness;



3. Be sure that every fOOd is thor-

oughly cooked.



4. Never give a baby bread that is

less than twenty-four hours old.



5. In the first year of life a baby’s

diet must be limited to water and o

milk; with simple cereals, including

dried bread and~ a little potato, and

easily digested vegetables, broths and

fruit juices in the terminal months.





 





DISCARDED AUTOmTlRES MAKE

FLOWER BED.





 





SINCE the modern motor truck has

come to replace, to a great extent,

the wagon of yesterday, the farm wom—

an does not have the fellies from the

worn—out wagon wheels to use as a

fernery in the front yard. As a sub

stitute, I use worn~out tires for this

purpose to a very good advantage. I -

stacked three tires, one on top of the

other, and secured them by running

strong wires through them and fasten

ing these wires to small posts inside

of the fernery thus formed” The tires .

were painted green and the circle fill- 1,

ed with rich soil, and planted tomy '

favorite flowers, asters, with a small

vine clambering over the edge. From

my dining mom window, I enjoy my

unique flour bed during the meal hour.

——L. F.





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HAVE found that a. large round tin ,



can with a tight fitting cover is ‘

excellent to store furs and other valu-

ables away from moths. The furs

must be thoroughly aired and cleaned

‘before storing—Mrs. D. L. ‘



When making biscuits to be served

with creamed chicken or other meat

and gravy, I cut them with the dough‘

nut cutter, then heap the meat in the

center and pour the gravy over all.

They are much more attractive.—«

Miss B. P.



My children are fond of peanut buts

ter and bacon sandwiches. I spread

the bread very thin with peanut butter

before laying on the bacon. They also

like a thin slice of cheese slipped into

3mg. jelly or jam sandwiches—Mrs.



Leftuover scalloped or creamed po-





 





 





tatoes or other vegetables make a ‘





tasty salad, if chopped onion, diced cel-

ery, and mayonnaise are added to the

left-overs and the whole served on

crisp lettuce—Miss T. H. '



After remodeling our house recent-

ly, we had a rather large piece of wall

board left. I covered this with white





cloth and find it just the thing to pin





dailies, curtains, and panels to when



drying them.—-—Mrs. D. I. i

"For a- change when frosting a. (fake.



Iallows. thin layer of melted chocolate





and





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'APPY is the bride that the sun

H shines on,” but happy also will

, - . be the bride who goes to her new

home'with her hope chest filled with

dainty yet practical things that will

add a bit of' color and a touch of her

personality ’to each room.





What bride would not enjoy cooking

in her new kitchen, if a pair of dainty

white curtains, embroidered in design

No."]1.089 fluttered in the breeze of

the open window. She might have the

curtains all embroidered and leave the

hems unfinished until she knew the

exact length she needed them. This

pattern contains three and three4quar-

ter yards of border, two inches wide.

It‘can also be used on scarfs. and

dresses.



No hope chest can have too many

towels and transfer No. 11011 contains

three designs that are simple to make

yet very effectiVe. Each design con—

tains two yards and they are one-half,





three-quarters, and one and three-quar— ‘





ters inches wide, respectively. They

will be found adaptable to many house-

hold articles and to children’s clothes.





Block initials add a touch of individ-

uality to a bride’s household linens.

Transfer No. 11012 contains three siz-

es of ,monograms, three sets one inch

high, two sets two inches high, and

one set three inches high.





Design No. 11119 includes dainty

flower sprays suitable for handker-

chiefs, lihge‘ries, and .infants’ clothes.



' e ' ' s v rydn’si’Ze from one and

, 3:113 hammer inch-





es to three by six and one-quarter

inches.



Besides being used on a tray, trans-

fer No. 11126 would add a quaint touch

to curtains, shelving, or table covers.





The pattern contains two sets, each'





four and one-half by fifteen inches.



The bride will find use for design

No. 11123 on a centerpiece or a pil-

low. It measures thirteen inches in

diameter. The flowers and leaves can

be embroidered in solid stitch, in out—

line stitch, or a combination of ap-

plique and embroidery is effective.



Transfer No. 11113 is easy to work

and adaptable to a multitude of col~

ors, if used on curtains, spreads, or

pillows. This pattern includes six Ino-

tifs, two of them eleven by twelve

inches, and the other four are eight

by twelve inches.



The three pillow designs illustrated

can be used in many different ways.

Basket spray No. 11009 contains ten

motifs. Forget-me-not border No. 11044

contains four and three-quarter yards

of five-eighth-inch border, particularly

suitable to the bride’s lingerie and

kiddies’ clothes. No. 11062 contains

six conventional motifs, suitable on

pillows, bags, and scarfs.



Border No. 11096 can be used on cur-

tains, pillows, or towels. It contains

four lengths of border four and one-

quarter by nineteen inches.



Any of these designs for stamping





y, can be obtained by sending 13 cents

.‘in stamps )or coin to the, PATTERN.





DEPARTMENT“:MICHIGAN FARM-





;sR“, DETROIT, 1v: ICH‘IGAN.





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A cash customer ~

at your gate





More than 5,000,000 cross ties, costing $6,500,000, were

purchased by New York Central Lines in 1925.





 





 





There were hardwood ties from the Adirondacks, and pine

ties from Canada, Nova Scotia, Georgia and Alabama.





Only a small amount of the lumher for these ties was pur-

chased along the lines of the New York Central, because

only a small amount was so available.





There are many acres of farm lands along the New York

Central Lines that are not suitable for crops or pasture

land. The reforestation of much of this land would yield

good lumber for cross ties.





The New York Central Lines is a cash customer for cross

ties from the sections it serves. (a





 





 





 





 





 





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Boston&Albany—Michigan Central—Big Four—Pittsburgh & Lake Erie

and the New York Central and Subsidiary Lines -

Agricultural Relations Department Ofiices

New York Central Station, Rochester, N. Y.





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466 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y.





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Prices pestiiaid on: 26 50 100 500 100(-

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Mixed Chicks (Heavies) not. accredit/ed ........... 3.50 0.60 12 00.00 120

Mixed Chicks (light) not accredited .............. 3.00





6.50 10 50.00 100

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FOR MAY DELIVERIES





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We hatch only Improved English White Leghorns. the large bodied birds with full loppcd combs.

Also Anconas and White Wyandottes. ,





Price for May Delivery 100 500

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"Silhouette Ha: lT/zree I Versions, file. Princes: Line,-

#253 Flared T ype and the Plaited One .4 - '





No. 283—Dress with Long Sleeves. No. 2086—Practiéal One-piece, Apron.





Cut in sizes 16 years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and Cut in,sizes 36, 40 and 44' inches bust

44 inches bust measure. . Size 36 re- measure.’ Any size requires 2 yards of





vquires 3% yards of 40-inch material. 32-inch material with 7 1,5 yards braid





with 1/2 yard of 36-inch contrasting and or binding.





8 yards of ribbon.





Cut in

sizes 36, 40 and 44 inches bust meas-





No- 4174—One-piece Apron.





ure. Any size requires 3 yards of 36-

inch material.



-—N;o. 357—Very New! Very Smart!

Cut "1 sizes 16 years, 36, 38, 40, 42

and 4 inches bust measure. The 36-

inch s 29 requires 3% yards of 36~inch

materi l, with ‘34 yard of 27-inch con-





Ntx 355—Style Suitable for Stout

Figures. Cut in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42,» 44,

46 and 48 inches bust measure. The

36-inch size requires 3% yards of 40-

inch material.



No. 194—Dress for Full Figures. Cut

in sizes 42, 44, 46, 48 mm 50 inches

bust measure. The 46-inch size re-

quires 3% yards of 54-inch material,

with 1/2 yard of 36-inch contrasting.





 





265—L0ve1y Afternoon Frock.





No.

Cut in sizes 16 years, 36, 38, 40 and





42 inches bust measure. The 36-inch

size requires 2% yards of 54-inch ma.-

terial.





 





 





No. 304—Dress with Godets. Cut in

sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches

bust measure. Size 36 requires 4 yards

of 40-inch material, with 21/2 yards 0f

ribbon. -~



No. 359——Frock with Side Flare. Cut

in sizes 16 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42

inches bust measure. The 36-inch size

takes 4%; yards of 36-inch material. ‘





 





No. 418—Apron Style. Cut in sizes

36, 40 and 44 inches bust measure. Any

size requires two yards of 32-inch ma-

terial, with 7% yards of braid or bind—

ing, with 1/8 yard of contrasting mate-

rial for pocket facings.



N03365—Smart.Junior Frock. Cut

in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size

8 requires 1 yard of 36-inch plain ma-

terial, with 1 yard of 36-inch .figured

material and 5% yards of binding.





No. 300—Charming Design. , Cut in

sizes 14, 16 years, 36, 38,’ 40 and. 42

inches bust measure. Size 36 requires

3% yards of 40-inch material, with 5%

yards of ribbon.





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The price of each of these patterns is 1.3 cents, as is also the price of





our Spring and Summer Fashion Catalog.





Besides the newest things in





spring and summer dresses for madame and miss, this cotalog contains a.





good variety for the kiddies.





And then, too, there are six full pages of





needlework designs. .The price of the book will be saved many times over





by the patterns you will need.





4 than 13 cents. .Address 'all orders to the PATTERN D

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; HERE 'is' heal-th'f‘inj végetablesi

" So says the food (specialist, bu





ities that are to be found in varying

amounts in this food, it must be

eookgd properly. And perhaps nopth—

er branch of- cookery reCeiVes less

attention.

Steaming is one of the most satis-

factory ways of cooking vegetables, as

the flavor and food properties are re-

tained. ”Spinach,’for instance, should

always be steamed. Some of the coars-

er vegetables, however, are boiled. Del-

icate vegetables, such as peas, bows,

and young carrots, can be cooked in

an earthenware casserole with a small

quantity of water.

All green vegetables should be cook-

ed in an open saucepan to preserve

their color, and root vegetables in a.

covered saucepan as the’ steam helps

to soften them. Only a small amount

of water should be used. ..

The following recipes for serving

vegetables are favorites , with our

readers:



Corn Oysters.

To a quart of grated sweet corn or

canned corn, add the yolks of two eggs

and about a cup of rolled White crack-

ers. Season with salt and .Depper.

Beat the egg whites very stiff and add.

If too moist for forming into‘balls, add

more cracker crumbs. Roll into balls

(flour on hands is a help) 'and fry in

hot fat. If canned corn is used the

liquid should be drained oft—Mrs. R.

B. M.

Escalloped Cabbage.





1 small cabbage 4 tb. flour

2 cups milk 1,6 cup grated cheese





.4 m. butter



Boil cabbage until tender. Chop and

place in a buttered baking dish. Cover

with a sauce made of the butter, flour,

and milk. Sprinkle the top with the

grated cheese and bake until cheese

is melted—Mrs. C. J. P.



., Spinach Omelet.



4 eggs ‘4 net-h





. _ spinach

1 lb. of cream or mill: 2th. white or brown

’4 tsp. hopper sauce

2 tb. melted butter 1,6 tsp. salt





To the eggs, add the cream or milk,

salt and pepper. Melt the two table-

spoons of butter in an omelet pan and

when -hot pour in the mixture; stir

slowly with a fork over a hot fire and

shake the pan. When set, shape the

omelet on one side of the pan; allow

it to take color in a hot oven and turn

quickly on a hot platter. Have the

spinach cooked and rubbed through a

sieve. Heat it with two tablespoons

of white or brown sauce, seasoned to

taste, and .fill into the center of the

omelet. Pour a little hot'brown sauce





——Mrs.’0. E. H. -

Greens with Dressing.





Greens 2-3 cup of water

1 slice of smoked ham 2 cg s

or bacon 1 tb. of flour

1/3 cup good strong vin- 4 tb sour cream

088! ‘easonings





Boil any kind of greens in salted wa-

ter until tender, and drain well. Out





of bacon in small dice, and fry. When

done, add the vinegar, .water and let

some to a boil. To the eggs, add the





 





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Bertha

*’ Lambs go Hungry.





the fire and stir in. the egg mixtu





 





Stir constantly until it.





 





to retain the health-giving qual- '





around the .omelet ahd serve at once,





a slice of smoked ham, or a few slices,





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with cheese,





. Amnesia;

Lem: bread crumbs l-tb. of m-

ath; noted cheese 1 cup Vmilh> "

_1 bunch asparagus . Salt and non

-* -' (cooked) ‘ ' 1 tb. o: butter





,Melt the butter. in a hot saucepan

and add flour. Stir in the milk and

the seasoning; do not let it lump.

Place a layer of asparagus in bottdm

of the. baking-dish and cover with

bread crumbs. Fill the dish with al-

ternate. layers "of crumbs and aspar—

agus; then pour over it, ,the cream

sauce. Cover the topwith the grated

cheese and bake.—-—Mrs."W. F.





BEAUTIFYING MY TEMPORARY

HOME.‘





 





HAVE found myselfmany times in

a new home with few shrubs and

sometimes none at all.

essary to leave the home grounds bar—

renof beauty, even if we are;to be in

the home for'only a year or'two. It

is easy to plant annuals that will al-

most take the place of the hardy

shrubs and perennials, though requir-

ing somewhat more care, of course.

For the bold plants in the back-

ground, the castor bean and canna are





 





My Best Vacation





ACATION time is just'around



the corner and it is time

that every one of us had our

reoreation' days all planned, ,ev-

en though we change those

plans several times before; the 1

stated date arrives. T ‘ .



Perhaps no one needs to take» :

a vacation more than does the

folks who live on the farm. No

matter how simple or how short

the trip, every. farmwife should

plan to get away with her family

to a change of scenery and from ,

daily routine.



Our readers are anxious to

hear about the best vacation you

ever had. Write a letter and

tell us about where you went

and how ‘you arranged it.



For the five best letterswe

will give oak-finished recipe files,

handy for filing all your clipped

and- tested weeipes. Address

your letters . to Martha Cole,

Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich-‘

igan, before May 21. ‘ ,





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‘ both well suited, and the halyhock has





always been a. great favorite for such

places, though it does not .bloom the

first summer unless the seeds are

planted inside very early. Vines over





a trellis or fence may be used for a -





background for flower planting or for

yard hedges, and the honeysuckle is

almost as beautiful as the best pruned

privet.





Cosimos bloom in the fall, but dur-

ing the summer the tall, tree-like

plants give a very fine fern-like green

and the new double sort will bear very

beautiful blooms, the center being fill-

ed with

bloom into a perfect rosette. Instead

of the hardy perennials in the border,





' "we can plant annual poppies, zennias,

four ofclocks, and‘many other showy "

fioWers that will answer almost as well, ,



.. We can have our violet beds by get-0





ting plants, and pansies for the shady

nooks can be grown from seeds. The

geraniums, and other house bloomers

that thrive outside help to add color,

and gladioli and the tuberous beg‘onias





. . are also eaSily planted and beautiful,.

flour and sour cream and beat with working in well -With~the'less showy

the egg beater until smooth. Then re- 3.95 finer annuals, such 3.3,

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Use this department to help solve

your household problems. Address

your letters to Martha Cole, Michigan

Farmer, Detroit, Michigan.





 





REMOVE PU'i'Tv.

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We are going to reputty our win-

vdows. How can the old putty be re-

moved ?—Mrs._ C. L.





If the putty is on the glass, apply a

heated' iron to the spot until it be—

comes soft and then it can be scraped

off with a knife. This same method

can be used to remove putty from

wood, being careful not to scorch the

wood.





FRUIT STAINS ON SILK.





Please tell me what Will remove a

fruit stain from my brown flat crepe

dress—Mrs. D. P.





Fruit stains that will not yield to

cold water are difficult to remove from

silk without injuring the fabric or col-

or. IWarm‘ water and borax is the

safest method to Use, but it is not suc-

cessful in all cases. ’ ‘





CAN HORSERADISH FOR WINTER.





Please send me a recipe for preserv-

ing horseradish for Wlnter use—Mrs.

F. C.





Grind the horseradish fine, and to

each pint add one-half teaspoon salt

\

and one-half teaspoon sugar. Cover

with three parts vinegar and one part

water which has been boiled. Pack

in sterilized jars and seal.



If your horseradish tends to have

a- flat taste, it is usually caused by

using too strong vinegar. The vinegar





 

 

 

 

 

 

   





taste will overcome the spicy taste

of the horseradish.



Several of our readers have told of

packing the horseradish roots in earth





in the cellar rather late in the fall and.





then of preparing them as they wished

to use them.





MARS ON FURNITURE.





How can I remove scratches, mars,





and rings from my walnut library ta-'





ble and furniture?——Mrs. C. 0.



If the mars and scratches are deep,

they cannot be removedeithout refin-

ishing. If only slight, these scratches

can be made practically invisible by

rubbing with a good furniture polish

or wax. To remove the white rings

caused by dampness, rub them well

with a damp cloth to which a few

drops of ammonia‘has been added: A

very good furniture polish can be

made at home by mixing equal parts

of vinegar, turpentine, and sweet oil.

Shake well in a bottle each time be—

fore using. Dampen a soft cloth with

this and rub the furniture well. Pol—

ish with a dry soft cloth.





 





POOR MAN’S WAFFLES.





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In answer to Mrs. R. Mfs request for

a recipe for “poor man's waffles,” Mrs.

L. A. sends this recipe. She says they

are sometimes called “fattigman.”





5 eggs . recipe calls for brandy)

5 tb. sweet cream Flour to make a stiff



5 tb. sugar dough



2





tsp. vanilla (the real



Mix as for cookies, roll very thin,

out in rectangular squares and fry in

hot fat ' '





 





 





 





 





Adventures of Tilly and Billy

T/ze Tale aft/26 Tick ofa Wale/1





S soon as Bunny Brown Ears and

Frisker the Squirrel were out of

sight, Slinky Sly Fox crept up





to the gnarly oak tree. He poked his

long slim paw with its sharp claws

down into the hollow and pulled out

the Gold Watch.

“Ah! Ahi” said Slinky as the Watch

' glittered in the sunshine. ,

“Tick, tick, tick, tick,” said the

Watch.

Slinky Sly Fox listened, and then

he listened again.

“What can it be? A treasure, a

treasure!” he said to himself. “It must

be valuable or Bunny Brown Ears





 

 





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Slinky Did Not See Blackie Crow and

' His Mate;





Jmuld not have hidden it so safely.

Lucky for me that I-spied on him. I’ll





\ Crow flew nearer

tree to listen.





Watch from its hiding place, in hopes

that Billy, its owner, would hear him.





of the tree that was just beside his

den in Hickory Hollow.



“Safe atJast,” said Slinky. “From

my front door I can see if any intrud-

ers come near my treasure,” and he

chuckled to himself at the surprise

Bunny and Frisker would have when

they found the hollow in the gnarly

oak tree empty.





Now Slinky Sly Fox was sly and his

sharp eyes usually saw everything, but

they failed this time to see Blackie

Crow and some of the rest of the Crow

family sailing around in the airvover-

head. No sooner had Slinky Sly Fox

slipped the Gold Watch into his safe

hiding place and disappeared into his

den, than Blackie Crow and his mate

flew down and‘ sat on a branch of the

tree where the _Gold Watch was bid-

den.





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“Caw, caw, aw, aw. What do I}





hear?” asked Blackie of his mate.





“CaW, caw, aw, aw. It’s only the:





tapping of Reddy \Voodpecker,” shej

answered.





“No, no, not at all," and Blackie

to the trunk of the





“Tick, tick, tick, tick,” said the





 

 

 

 

 





.just hide this in my‘own secret hiding

place and perhaps I'll learn more

about it.” . l .





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Then Slinky Sly For:f





Blackie listened again, then peeked

into the hollow opening. He saw some-

thing shiny and the, next minute had

disappeared into the hollow of the

tree.



“Caw, caw, caw., Come out, come?

out, you’ll get in a trap, Blackie," call-

ed his mate. '





:looked all

. ground him. He peeked" behind this

" tree, and‘lthat‘ to make. sure, norone, was





 





 

 

 





Diligent‘Chicks Did It & Will Do It For You





High in quality. low 111 price. Neva- before did I get so many eggs in m





’ time, writes one customer. Our stuck what! by the very best experts. Do not

’ my fancy prices for chicks that are not better. Ten years ol’ honest dealing





Mind us. Pullets after May first.



. _ 500 100 50 25.

S. C. White Longhorns ..................... $52.50 $11.00 $5.75 $3.00

Barred Plymouth Rocks ........ ...... 02.50 13.00 6.75 3.50

S. C. Rhode Island Reds .................. 62.50 13.00 6.75 3.50

B. C. Mottled Anconu .................... 52.50 11.00 5.75 3.00

Mixed Chicks ............................ 37.50 8.00 4.25 2.25





.DILIBENT ‘HATCHERYCL POULTRY FARM. Harm J. Knoll. R. No.

HOLLAND, MICHIGAN.





EAC’CREDITED CHICKS AND EGGS





' _ White Leghoms~Anconas Chicks hatched from free range. Mich.

.j State Accredited flocks. Send for our catalog and prices on chicks and

eggs. We guarantee 100% Live Delivery and insure chicks for one

week.‘ Satisfaction guaranteed. Write today. ‘





M. D. WYNGARDEN

ROUTE 4, BOX M, ZEELAND, MICH.

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25%"reduction certified chicks and hatching eggs May 18.'





Every. chick and egg sold is produced on my own plant. No stool: is fanned out. All males used II

breeding pens are from hens with records of 240 to 324 eggs in one year. Yearling breeders' eggs must

weigh 24 025. to the dozen to be used for hatching.





CERTIFIED CHICKS AND HATCHING EGGS



Every male and female in our flock has been handled and passed by an inspector from Michigan State

College. Only three other [locks in the state have met 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





 





 





 

 





 





 





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Reduced Prices for June Delivery





Varieties Postpaid Prices on 25 50 100 500 1000

' White Leghoms (Tancred) ................ $2.50 $4.75 3 9.00 $42.00 Write for



Barred Rocks, (Park's Strain) .............. 3.25 0.00 11.00 52.00 Special ‘

S. C. & R. C. Rhode Island Reds .......... 3.25 0.00 11.00 52.00 Prices :-





Mixed Chicks, $9.00 per 100. All chicks Michigan State Accredited. Smith hatched. Every breeder passed by

representative of Michigan State College. At egg—laying contests Laken'ew stock has made good. Order

from this ad. Free Catalog.





Lakeview Poultry Farm, R. R. 8, Box ' 6, Holland, Mich.

EGG LINE WHITE LEGHORNS





MICHIGAN STATE CERTIFIED AND ACCREDITED Egg Line Baby Chicks are

the State (fortified and Accredited product of tht finest Tanned—Barron flock mat—

ings in America. Possessing those qualitim essential to livability, rapid develop-

ment and quantity egg production, the} are the choice of exacting poultrylueln

and ‘at the low prices we quote are the outstanding chick value of the season.





WE ARE NOW BOOKING ORDERS FOR LATE MAY

AND EARLY JUNE DELIVERY





Write at once for valuable illustrated catalog.

clear. truthful way.





J. PATER & SON R. 4, - BOX M, HUDSONVILLE, MICH.





 





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DUNDEE PURE BRE





Stock all Michigan State Accredited





D CHICKS





and Blood Tested for white diarrhea





 





for the past two years. 100 per cent live delivery guaranteed. New low

prices from May 24th to July 5th. 100 500 1000

B. P. Rocks, (extra special) ......................... $13.00 $62.00 $120

B. P. Rocks (selected) ..................... .. ...... 12.00 57.00 110

4 R. I. Reds .......................... . ........ . ...... 12.00 57.00 110

= English White Leghorns ........................... 10.00 50.00 95





Order from this ad. or write for catalogue. Dundee Hatchery & Poultry Farm, Dundee, Mich‘





 





Prices for Early Summer and Harvest Hatched Chicks





“‘0 are able to promptly fill your order for chicks from high egg record and pure—bred flocks. Our chicks



are strong, healthy and vigorous. hatched from mac-range hens. Place your order direct from this ad



and save time, or get our Free Catalog. 100% Live Delivery Guaratecd.



Prepaid Parcel Post For 50 100 500 1000

White, Brown and Bud Leghorns ................ . ................. $5.50 $10.00 $45.00 $ 90.00

Black Minorcas. Anconas ......................................... 0.00 11.00 50.00 100.00

Barred and White Roeks. R. I. Reds ............................... 0.50 12.00 55.00 110.00

White and Silver Wyandnttes, Buff Orpington ....................... 7.00 13.00 03.00 120.00





 





Jersey Black Giants.





25c each. Hamburgs, lric each

Heavy. 9c.





. Assorted Light, Sc. Assorted Light and

Assorted Heavy. 10c. LANTZ HATCHERY.





Box I. TIFFIN, OHIO. Established I906.





 





 

 

 





Chicks that are hatched from free range brredcrs carefully selected. Our

docks and hatchery inspected and passed by representative or Mlchigsn State

College. Refer you to State Commercial Savings Bank. Order from this ad.

Prepaid prices for May 17-24. 25 50 100 500 1000

S. C. White and Brown Lexhorru. .......... $3.25 $0.00 $11.00 $52.50 $100

, Barred Rocks. 8. C. R. I. Reds ............. 4.00 6.25 12.00 57.50 110

Mixed Chickens. $7.00 per 100. Free catalog. 100% live delivery. prepaid. 10%





Our chicks are Michigan State Accred

R. II. No. 3. Box 50.





down books your order.

HUNDERMAN 8808..





ited.

ZEELAND. HIGH.





Special Sale of May Chicks





Due to the fact that we hatch several of the more profitable breeds. together with the (act that hatches

are coming better than ever. we some weeks find we have a. few hundred more chicks than we had

planned on. We will sell these assorted chicks at the following low prices:





100 for $8.00 500 for $37.50 1000 for $70.00





Remember we guarantee these chicks pure-bred from high. quality stock. They are absolutely sound

in every way. and will make money for you. Our live-prepaid delivery marantec holds good on. these

chicks. Send your order now to avoid disappointment.





VAN APPLEDORN BROS. HOLLAND HATCHERY 8: POULTRY FARM, R. 7-C, Holland, Mich,





 





 





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~ VIE HAVE BEEN PRODUCING and shippins hidi

class. well hatched Chicks from fur Emnestmof 11:52!



yin. m ou‘ and; of pleased customers, and renderng e s -

faction. Wynn duo manage for you in 1926. 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed.

Prices Elective May ms. 50 IN 500





   

 

 

 

 

 





 

   

 

 





       

 





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l\“":w~avt “”I “L vadots. But! 0113mm. Wh. Minor-cu .......... $7.00 $13.50 305.00 8125.33

”X' 1. Extra Quality Barron White Wow .................. 0.50 11.00 52.00, 100.



s. C. White. Brown. Buff and BI. Leghorn, Antennas 6.00 10.00 41.00 93.00

Barred Ind Wh. Rocks s. c. and R. c. Reds. m. Milton-as ........... 5.75 13.00 03.00 120.00

Assorted Heavy Mixed C ........................................... 5.50 10.00 41.00 93030 .

Parks Padlllmd Barred Rooks. 18¢: each. Assorted Light: 50. 54.50.: 100. :3: 500. $38: 1000. .375. a





Century tfinial“. give than

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If you have never raised 5 m and sun

INQTON. OHIO.





! 192!‘ or order direct from

i‘éusni. Box a. new WASH





Can ship 6. ‘0. D. by Express or Parcel Post.

a this year and be happy. Get our Free Catalog

time. Bet—Commercial hank. 20TH CENTURY HA





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Reduced Prices on Michigan Accredited Chicks





chi its at prices in this ad for delivery week June lot and 8th. Ev”

fimeryoggsscd cby inspectors under supervision of lilichitran0 fState College.





-' 15 Foam id prices 011: 5001000

8. 03131.38 and grown Leghorns. B. C. Anconas .. ...... “$10. 00 $45.00 8 00.00

Barred Rocks ................................................. 0.0 60.001.00 00

fixed or Broilers .......................................... 1.8 00 40.00 80. 00





It

i 1. hi or Ecpries. After week of June 8. 1c per Echick lees.

BM“ Mum“ at manly sh ET OUR “EwanATi‘I‘I-gG—”st§ geREE ood. All flocks milk ted. All

tal and learn why Town 611 c s mu goo

803.33%."an ngtxrhaed. 011E“ contest rectirds and show winnings fully described. write for low prices





on 8-10 week old pullets now ready for shipment.





J. H. GEERLINGS, Owner





R.F.D. 1, BOX M, ZEELAND, MICH.





 





 

 





 





52:: BABY GHIGKS i'é'l‘ill‘lfé‘.





t. we have joined



nl elected our breeding stock and mated our birds for best. results. bu



X: 1315;311:1101: thyredhted Association. An initiator 815031”tgedégficgllturfibgogsfiawwgg {gefiyte‘bgalm ms

and. ves you 0 mo -



$135: lilitmrosugu:hixz-lkosteggxsgnno mos-fai and you can feel safe. 100% live delivery. Write today.





Get Our Illustrated Literature





We have prepared a big. illustrated circular which tells all about our chicks.

get it if you expect to buy chicks this year.



PRICES: Our prices are reasonable. Our chicks are good. Write today.

WASHTENAW HATCHERY. 2501 Beddea Road,





1,000,000 BABION’S QUALITY 0H|0KS





36 VARIETIES. For 1926. Breeders otllishest 0113- -producing strait? in :11 leading vsrloltsgs).





It is worth your while to





ANN ARBOR. MICH-





 





100 500



100% Live Delivcn'ey Guaranteed. Postpaid prices ,

English White 6; S d: II. C. Brown Leghorns ......... . . . . . . . . .33. 75 $7. 00 $13 $6323 Sgt.)

Bui'i' and Black Lcfliorns ............................ . . .. . 8 75 .0 13 6





2 140



Barred & White Racks, R. 1. Beds .4.25 8.00 15 7



Black Minorcas, Mottled Am-onas . 4. 25 8.00 15 g :33



White Wyandottes, Bun’ Rocks .. . 4.50 8. 75 17



Mixed, all Heavies. $12 per 100. Light. Mixed, $10 per 100. Ducklings, White Pekins. White



. 25 $7. 50: 50, $15: 100. $30



...... may? .1313. he” .. °‘ TTTK ‘TTTTTETTTTTTTTTTTwas; mists. Remit:

rdor. o



:gixd‘l’:t.1g¢al(§vli(lé 23011511335021 TRAPNESTED LéYhERs’Wi'itgam. Ellis; httfdhg. than above prices. CHICKS

EN , 5 per Chick y er a o



Ilatohedt'rom BLUE RIBBON P S c FL'NT' M|CH|GAn_





BABION'S FRUIT AND POULTRY FARMS.





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PLYMOUTH ROCKS—WHITE LEGHORNS. chicks hatched from pure-

afid‘afilgod- tested accreditcd flocks on free range. Full um and safe 111-3167;]

1:11 iramm (1 Outer from 1111s .td for immediate or future olivery. Terms— 0

111111. with 111,110] 1111.1nto5days before chicks are to be shippedm 500 1000

. . . $17.00 $82.50 $160



. 15.00 72.00 140

. ' 00 65.00 130

DUNDEE, MICHlIGAN.





   





 





 





 





 





 





Barred Plymouth Rocks (AA)...

1111171111 Plymouth lion-ks (A). .

S. (‘. \\ ilte nghoms .....





$1 ILER HATCHERY,

EARLY MATURING





m... 3.21le CHICKS





STOCK ALL BLOOD TESTED





tion bred



b eedln has made our stock especially early in maturing. En produc



331,11 oglyloaileh‘fr‘dg. a.nglt'llc‘iial regcords. Egg production alt) agoearly "191‘ gel-fin more money {gr 150311 rEmsec-

d hatching eggs for us is B1001) TESTE WH ARREE



01;: 3:1? 300 b11132; testing. Our chicks are safe chicks and you can feel sure When you buy 31:5:wath



getting your money’ 3 worth Let us send our (ircular with photos of ofllcial high record



prices—White Leghorns. Barred Rocks. R. I. Reds, White Wysndottes. __





MILAN HATCHERY, BOX 4, MILAN, MICH.





 

 





 





 





State Accredited. Blood tested for White Diarrhea for the

past two years. Three Leading Breeds, B..P Rocks, R..I

Reds and English White Leghorns. Write for catalogue and





-price list. 100% live delivery guaranteed.

DUNDEE HATCHERY

BOX A., - DUNDEE, MICHIGAN.





 





 





   

 





Michigan accredited chicks from flocks .which have stood careful insDection. Our

White Leghorn Cock Bird won lst at Eastern Michigan Poultry Show, 1926, in

both pxoduction and exhibition classes. We won lst in pullet class. Catalog free.



Prices (post paid) on 25 50 100 500 1000

‘3.’ C. White Leghorns ............................ $4.00 $7.50 $14.00 $67.50 $130

Bsr. Rocks, 11. l. Reds, Anconas dz BL Minorcas 4.25 8.00 15.00 72.50 140

White Rocks" White & S. L. \Vyandottes ........ 4.50 8.50 16.00 77.50 150





A'. rted Chicks. $12.00 per 100.

m BOX 0. BIRMINGHAM. ulcu.





ACCREDITED @CHICKS





from. OFFICIALLY ENDORSED HIGH PRODUCING" STOCK,





Better bred. cost no more than ordinary chicks. Order from ad. Cztslea F530-





 

 





 





 





 





 

 





1005 alive postpaid. ABk about our Special Matinee. 0 0

8.0 . Wh1te Leghornl ................................................. $3.50 $6. 75 $l3.00

Sheppard StrainA ......... 3.75 7.25 14.00



SC. 8.] Reds. Barred Rocks ................................... 4.00 7. 75 15.00

White Wyandottes ........................... 4.50 8. 50 16.00

Mixed Chicks (Light).. ..... 3.00 5.50 10.00

Mixed Chicks (Heavy)... ... 3. 35 6. 25 l2.00

CARL POULTRY FARMS Dept. A WUOITBOMIRY, HIGH



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We offer you chicks that arehrcd from blood lines of proven laying ability. Our

breeds—





F RO/CKS personal attention is given to all orders. You hue your choice or three





all 2116 profitable.

GET OUR SPECIAL SALE PRICE LIST

LEGHQR :05 NSWrite for complete information on this money saving special sale of Michigan

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Accredited (‘hicks Our catalog tompletely tells all about our stack and our

experience in giving satisfactory 51-1-1419. Loam more about us and you will like

us ett ,



BRUMMER 81 FREDRIGKSON POULTRY FARM. Box 20, Holland. Mich.





 





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Every breeder approved of by state experts. Buy the best at the lowest price. 14 pure-

bred varietiee. Hatching eggs. Free circular and big discount before buying elsewhere.





BECKMAN H CHERY

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THE DIAGNOSIS 01: 0131211312.





HE first question which confronts

a poultryman with sick birds 18,

“what ails my birds 2’” It is obviously

necessaryto determine the nature of

the trouble before instituting preven-

tive oncurative treatment. But it must





' be understood that the average poul-

vtryman or farmer cannot diagnose





poultry diseases, either by external or

internal examination,‘with any degree

of certainty. In most; cases it, is pos-

sible by _a careful examination to lo-

cate the trouble, and thereby place it

1113a general group of disorders which

affect this or that particular organ in

a. given way.



Two Methods of Examination.

Theie are two general methods of

making a. diagnosis—external exami-

nation and postmortem examination

internally. An external examination

may show a certain well defined set

of symptoms which are always asso—

ciated with illness of any nature, and

which must be understood before at—





Symptoms to look for are: A lack of

interest in what is going on about it;

a. dumpy appearance, causcd by con-

traction of the neck, ruffled feathers,

sitting in one place, usually in a dark

corncr out of the way of the other

birds; the eyes closed most of the

time, giving the _bird a sleepy appear-

ance, the wattles and the comb shriv-

eled up. and dark or purple in color,

or very pale; and decided loss of ap-

petite.



When these symptoms are noted, the

bird should be isolated, and an at-

tempt made to more accurately define

the trouble. Whenever 51de die from

unknown causes, the poultryman

should make a postmortem examina-

ytion, and try to determine from the

general condition of, the internal or-

gans the,exact nature of the disease.

This may prevent any further out-

break, and the experience acquired by

dissecting and studying the birds will

enable the poultryman to do it each

time more accurately. You should" be

so familiar with the normal appear-

ance of the organs as to detect at once

any unnatural condition.



Value of Postmortem.



- The majority of birds which die are

victims either of a. simple disease or

of complications which have decided

internal and visible characteristics,

and with a. little study such postmor-

tem examination will prove both inter-

esting and instructive. The following

procedure is good in making such an

examination: Lay the dead bird on

her back, braced up on a piece of inch

board; extend the wings and legs, and

fasten with nails to the board. Pluck

the feathers from the breast and ab-

domen; then take a sharp knife, and

cut the skin on the median line, from

the crop to the vent, taking care not

to cut through the flesh and rupture

any of the organs. Next take a pair of

blunt sharp-pointed scissors and cut

the flesh away from the abdomen, cut-

ting the ribs on either side of the

breast bone, so that it may be taken

out entire. In doing this be careful





.not to injure the organs or to make





:them bleed. '

I Preparing the Bird.



After the breastbone is removed, the

entire cavity of the body is exposed,

and the organs will be seen lying in

their natural position. Now you can

study each organ, taking the upper-

most first, and ascertain if it is nor-

mal, 01, if not, whatds the cause In





.. making a. postmortem examination, if





the disease seems to haVe been locat-





 





or disprove of the supposition. “





 





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tempting to make an exact diagnosis.‘





ed, a" description of the disease should

be gone over carefully and compared *

with the conditions found, to verify , '





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eases _of\poultry and their symptoms

should _be gone over by the poultry-





man, as space will not permit of their

,‘discussion at this writing—Edward A. ;





Williams.





HOW I RAISE GOSLINGS.





» NOTICED last year some had diffi-

culty in raising g'oelings. I want

to tell you how I have raised g'oslings

for ten years and never lost one. I.

give them all the trash water they

want; also give them sweet skim-milk

‘with bread twice a day until about six

weeks old. After that I feed them

only once a. day, in: the morning. They

grow so fast when well fed, but I ,nev—V

er give sour milk. Goslings left to

shift for themselves soon die of,sTtar~

vationfor if; they do live, they are

stunted in growth It pays to feed

well, even if on good grass—J. Mc-

Leod,lm1ay City.





LIME FOR CHICKS.





AN adequate supply of lime in the ,





ration is important for the grow-

ing chick. Extensive feeding experi-

ments have revealed the fact that lack

of this important element in'the food

leads to a drain on the reserve supply

in the bones and soft tissues of the

young birds and interferes with their

proper development Even in the case

of mature hens, it is said, a lack of

lime will lower egg production.



Attempts to substitute other-mineral

elements in the ration for lime, such

as magnesium, which occurs so gen-

erally with lime in nature, showed that

nothing will quite take its place, and

that if it islacking the demands of

the body will be met by drawing on

the lime stored up in the bones and

muscles. Tests also showed that both

lime and phosphorus are taken from

the bones of the living bird more eas

ily than from dead bone ash which

may be fed to the flock.



Many rationscommonly fed to poul-

try contain much less lime than is re-

quired- for the proper functioning of

the body. Poultrymen are advised to

meet this shortage for growing chicks

by adding lime in the form of vegeta»

ble foods, such as young clover, alfal~

fa, etc. For mature fowls, oyster shell

or other inorganic lime compounds

will suffice.





Most grains are deficient in lime, it

is said, and the birds cannot eat

enbugh‘ to meet the lime requirements

of their bodies. Mature fowls can use

lime in inorganic form fairly we'll, but

young chickscannot supply their needs

from this source to such good advam

tage. For this reason it is highly do

sirable to provide a regular supply of

vegetable foods rich in lime for the

young stock in the flock. '





 





FEEDING GOES TO HENS.





I am feeding equal parts of ear corn

ground with cob, wheat middlings,

bran, ground oats, meat scraps. Is this

a good laying mash for hens ?——A. R.





It will be much better to use ground

corn in the laying mash in preference

to the corn and cobs ground together.

The cobs will consist of indigestible

material, and the hens ineed easily di-

gested ground grains tomaintain their





bodily weight and assist in egg pro-





‘duction



A ration, consisting of 100 pounds of

ground corn, ground oats, middlings.

bran, and meat scrap, makes a good





laying mash To each 500 pounds or,





the mint; add three pounds of fine

table salt, élf you have plenty of sour

milk avafldhlg for feeding; th‘ as
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" . . Tattered

and Tom Barron

8.0.. White Leghorn





Michigan State Lees-edited

Chicks Are Better Chicks

All Our flockeare individually inspected by

the Mic ' State College of Agriculture-

individually le -banded with state sealed and

' numbered leg isnd.‘ Insures highest quality.

‘ 160 Finest Tancred Males and Finest Large





Tom Barron‘Males now head our flocks. Best .

blo'od lines in the country.





“REDUCED PRICES

50466.50; loo-$12.00; 500-$57.50

1000-$ 1 10.00. Order Now.

Satisfaction Guaranteed. ~ Catalog Free.





KNOLL’S HATCHERY





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BARRED ROCKS & man‘s





CHICKS from blood tested pure standard

bred. Choice selected flocks.





Prices 50 100 500

Foreman Strsin B. l’. Rocks - - $9.00 ”7.00 $80.00

Selected B. P. Rocks - - - - - 8.00 15.00 70.00

Selected R. I. Reds .- - - - - - 8.00 15.00 70.00

Hired Heavy - - - ' - - - - - l2.00 60.00

I 00% live delivery guaranteed.

Parcel Post prepaid. ‘





Holterman’s B. P. Rocks Trapnested Hatch-

ing Eggs, per 15 eggs $5.00.

Order from this ad.

Second year of blood testfor White Diarrhea





KIIUEPEII POULTRY FIRM &. HIIBHEIII

. MILAN, MICHIGAN.





.IBBREDITED cmus





From pure-bred. heavy laying flocks.

inspected and police by STATE IN-

SPECTORS. PRIZE WINNERS. 1st

and 2nd Cooker'el and 0th Pullet.

Second Best Display at Holland and

Muskegon Slums.



TA‘NCREéD STRAIN WHITE LEO-

HORNS. BROWN LEGNORNS.

BAR-RED ROCKS.



100% Live Delivery Postpaid



' 80 EACH AND UP.

Send at .once for Free Catalog. full particulars and de-

tailed priccs. Bank Reference.





HILLVIEW HATCHERY





* C. Boven. Prop. Box M. Holland. Michigan.





ans uuamy class ABHIGKS





From Michigan Accredited and State-in-

spected stock. After Maleth: 8. C.

English White and Brown Leghoms llc:

Sheppard's Ancona-s 12c; Barred Rocks

and R. I. Rods 13c; Assorted Chicks 9c.

No moncy down with order. Pay full

amount ten days before chicks are ship-

ped. Also C. 0. . Bank references.

1”!) .0 live delivery. Postpaid. Catalogue free.



THE cos HATCHERY.‘ R. Z-M. Iceland. Mloh.





$00 no MONEIsi'iuVE'ECHICllS





We ship C. 0. D. and guarantee 100% live delivery

of sturdy. pure-bred chicks. White. Brown and Bull

chhorns, 10c; Anconns. 11c: Barred Rocks. White

flecks. S. (Y. and R. C. Reds. Black Minorcas. 12c;

Buff Rooks, Buff Orpingtons. White Wyandottes. 14o:

mixed. 80. Less than 100 chicks 10 each more.



SILVER LAKE HATCHERY. Box M. Silver Lake. Ind.





‘ wcorners ULE cmcns





20.000 weekly. 100% Live Delivery Guaran-



teed. Postpaid prices on 60 100 5



Buff and Br. Leg.. Anconas..$5.50 $10.00 $48

I Beds 6.60 12.00





 





 

 





 





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Buff Orplngtons. White Wyandottcs 7.00 13.00 63

Buff Rocks. Black Minorcas ...... 7.00 13.00 63

Mixed. $8 per 100. Heavy Mixed. 0.00 10.50 50





Order from this ad.

GOLDEN RULE HATCHERY.





SPECIAL PRICES





on Michigan Accredited Chicks. Pullets. Cocksrels and

Yearling Hens. Circular free. Member of 1. B. C. ’A.

FAIRVIEW HATCHERY a FARMS. Dept. IL. R.

2. lssland.. Mich.





BLOOD TESTED BABY CHICKS





Save time. Fine Free Catalog.

Box 8. Bucyrus. Ohio





 





 





Prices per 50 100 500 1000

Extra. Selected B. P. Rocks...” $17 $82.50 $100

Selected B. P. Ron-ks and Reds 8 15 72.00 140

8. C. White Leghoms ......... 7 13 62.50 120

100% liv delivery guaranteed. Parcel Post prepaid.

CARLET N HATCHERY. Carleton, Mich.





 





From’irspnested, pedigreed bloodlines. EM CDC '

omen Winner: for years. Ship C. O. D. m

Grimm-J on Live. Prompt Ship-mu. Low Prices. PULLBTS

Write for Special Sale Bulletin and Fine CaulobflENS

5.





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\ W8. Inspected. culled an

, ipnclgighegng'émw Experts. Hatched.

f9 3?! c.“ F_ ,cpersonsl supervision





 

 

 





 

 





' Of the" contest was G. D. Wyngarden’s





. high production of last week.





‘ in six months.





is given to each bird, and in this way

the poultryman is sure that all mem-

bers of the flock receive the worm

medicine.

cient than feeding the tobacco dust in

the mash, but requires more work.





build a new $500,000 chemistry build-

ing this summer.





n Bank Rec prisons, thirty-five per cent are violat-

ors of the drug law.





 





 





 





HE high-producing p...

, week during thetw‘enty—slxth Week





Leghorn pen which produced fifty-sev-

en eggs, This is slightly less than the





The thousand birds in "the contest

produced during the week 4,430 eggs.

This brings the average production

per hen in the contest up to 102.4 eggs





Hanson’s Oregon Leghorns now

have a production of 1,399 eggs. The

Northland Farms Leghorns have pro.

duced 1,295 eggs, while Harry Burn’s

come next with 1,292. St. Johns Poul-

try Farm Leghorns have a score of

1,261; Marshall Farms, 1,246; and Get).

'3. Ferris, 1,244 eggs. The highest pen

other than Leghorns belongs to W. F.

Alexander. They are Barred Rocks,

which have produced 1,228 eggs.





DRIED BUTTERMILK.





Would powdered milk, the kind used

for pigs, be a good feed for hens? If

so, how should it be fed ?——Mrs. F. K.





Dried milk products, especially dried

buttermilk, is a fine feed for hens and

[can be used in the laying mash as a

substitute for meat scrap. A good

mash mixture consists of 100 pounds

each of ground oats, ground corn, mid-

dlings, bran and dried buttermilk.

Three pounds of fine table salt added

to 500 pounds of the mash will make

the feed more appetizing to the hens.





 





PREVENTING TUBERCULOSIS.





We have lost a. number of hens and

roosters. 0n opening their bodies we

found the livers very much enlarged

and covered with a hard yellow sub-

stance. Could these substances be

gall stones? Some of the hens were

also lame. Can you tell us the cause

and cure for the disease ‘?-—F. E.





When a hen becomes lame and

emaciated and the postmortem shows

the spots on the liver, there is reason

to suspect tuberculosis. This disease

is not curable. If you have a large

and valuable flock and the losses are,

frequent, it often pays to have a vet-6

erinarian inspect the birds and make

recommendations.



A laboratory examination is consid-

ered necessary to definitely determine

avian tuberculosis. It must be con-

trolled through prevention. This large-

ly consists of vigorous stock. on a bal-

anced ration, in sunny ventilated 1101154

es which are kept as clean as possible.





 





CURE FOR WORMS.





 





.I have suffered a heavy loss on my

Six-months-old Leghorn pullets in the

last two .weeks. I lost about twenty-

five to thlrty birds. They appear heal-

thy, and are free from lice. They will

drop suddenly and die when fed their

scratch grain. I am feeding dry mash,

equal parts of bran shorts, cornmeal,

ground oats, and meat scraps and

skim-milk. Also cabbage and beets,

and oats, wheat, and corn. Postmortem

showed nothing but long appearing

worms about the length and thickness

Of a toothpick, in intestines. Birds

have hearty appetites. Would certainly

appreciate some remedy._0. S.



The birds may be badly emaciated

due to a serious infestation of worms,

and finally die from weakness. Two

per cent of tobacco dust in the dry

mash is a help in controlling worms.

Then give epsom salts in the drinking

water at the rate of one pound of salts '

to 100 birds. Tablets containing to-

bacco extract are now on the market

to use in the individual treatment of

birds infested with worms. One tablet





It is probably more effi-





 





The Michigan State College will





Of the 7,000 prisoners in the federal





for- the





. you the unusually high quality chicks that we are producing this ycm‘.





 





 





It will pay you to investigate one of Michigan's oldest and best hatcheries. Eighteen

years' experience. Our‘ increased capacity. made necessary through absolute satisfaction

of our chicks in the hands of old customers. enables us to make you a. big saving.

Every chick hatched from selected rugged. froe~range breeders officially passed by ‘

inspectors from Michigan State College.





S.C. White Leghorns S.C.RJ. Reds,

(Large Type English) . (Special Muted American)

Anconas, Barred Rocks,





SEND ROR SPECIAL PRICE LIST





Let us send you our special price list on Michiga Accredited Chicks. which shows how you can save

money. Get your chicks from an old. reliable concern with an established reputation for square dealing.

100% live delivery prepaid. Satisfaction guaranteed.





 

 

 

   





   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Write Today for Free Catalog Which Gives Complete Information





VAN APPLEDORN BROS, Holland Hatchery & Poultry Farm

R. 7-C, Holland, Mich.





 





 

 





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Improved English, Hollywood, Tancred Leghorns





Production winners in State and National Shows and

Laying Contest. Our catalog describes and illustrates

these superb laying strains. Order chicks now for im-

mediate delivery from the same blood lines as our Official

Laying Champions.



Grandview Poultry Familnc" Box A. Zeeland, Mich;





 

 





Winner of First Prize is

Production Clssl Chicago

I925-M0nlper of our sificis

champion contest winners.





BABY CHICKS THAT LIVE AND LAY





FROM MICHIGAN STATE ACCREDITED FLOCKS.

Our careful selection and breeding. combined with the close culling of the Inspectors 'Of the Michigan

State Poultry‘lmprovement Association and the Michigan State College, places our birds in the front rank

of the high egg line. production bred Accredited nooks.

WE HATCH WHITE AND BROWN ’LEGHORNS AND ANCONAS.





Send at once for copy of our new 1926 Catalog fully describing our matings. and giving some interesting

and valuable information on the cure of Chicks and how to raise poultry for profit.





CITY LIMITS HATCHERY, - RQUTE 5, - BOX M. - HOLLAND, MICH

Ongc‘g'm 20° DOWN ’S LEGHORNS FOR EGGS





Dcwn's \l‘llim Leghorn; have been bred for egg production for nineteen

years. They arc grout winter lairrs, Many of Michigan’s largest egg famis

Dlll'l'llasf,‘ their (‘l’lll‘lis from us each year. Om: reports 04% production in N0-

i’embor from 775 l’ullcts. Our chicks are all Michigan Accredited. Write for





our iron catalog today. Prices rcasonahlo.

R. F. D. 1. ROMEO, MICH.





W. A. DOWNS POULTRY FARM;

V’BRNS

(WISE TRADE‘EElSt'





SUMMER PRICES 5‘3““ ”1‘15- ‘mh I-il' hatched. pure-brad Chicks





. that will make you money. Order‘right from this

ad and save time. 100% Live Delivery Post-paid. Member International B. C. .

6; Ohio C. A. Rot. Athens National Bank. Free Catalog.

POSTPAID PRICES EFFECTIVE MAY l7th. I00 500 I000

White. Buff and Brown Leghorn ........... 310,00 $4500 5 35

Ancona. R. C. Brown Leghorn... . . . . 10‘00

Barred and WIl. Rook, Reds. Bl. Illinorca.

___‘________. ‘ Wh. and Sil. Wyandoite. Bufl‘ Orpington

Tapered Leghoms, White Minorcas

ATHENS CHICK HATCHERY.





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‘AT‘REDUCED PRICES ’

From one of the founders of the chick industry 24 years in the business.

An old reliable hatchery. which has been putting out guaranteed chicks for

years. Our flocks arc the result of careful breeding and culling Over a

period of years. All our flocks have been stutc accredited and our Male

Birds have been leg—banded by the state. When seen. our chicks recoup

mend themselves. 5. f'. Vl’hite Leghorns. Barred Rooks. Rhoda Island Reds.

Dr. L. E. Hensley Egg Basket Stmin Bun' Leghorns. Write for free catalog.





Meadow Brook Halchery & Farms-Box K.-II.II. IIo. l.-IIoIIand, Mich





H. De Pree Sons





BUY INSURED CHICKS





BARRED ROCKS INSURED FOR 30 DAYS -- THESE LIVE —- GROW -- PRODUCE

Each breed on separate farm under special breeder. Egg records actually

made on Summers" own granny. h Advantage to new customers so that

you may ecome acquaintc wt t is stoc .



%?S%NR%1%NS Chicks Delivered to You Guaranteed I00 per cent PN‘Iscl.

ANCDNAS Hatching Egon—All Breeds: also Turkeys, Geese. Ducks.

WHITE. BROWN, BUFF Let us send you these (‘hicks or Eggs this year. Full descriptive Circular

LEGHORNB with reports from customer's own farms.



PULLETSn-Barred and White Rocks, Buff Orpingtons.





S ASSOCIATION Kalamazoo

STATE FARANIGTIVE MEMBER INTERNATIONAL BABY CHICK ASSOCIATION.'





LOOK





50 100



White. Brown. Buff Leghorns, Heavy. Mixed ...... . ................................ $6.50 $12.60

Barred Rocks. Black Minorcas, R. [. Rods. Both (Tombs .................... 15.00

White, Bufl' Rocks and Wysndottos. Buff 0117ingtons..x. .......................... . . 16.00

White Orpingtons. Silver Wyandottcs. White. Black Rongsbans ..................... 9.00 17.00 82.50

Light Weight Mixed, $5.50 per 50; $10 per 100. Light Brahmas. $12 per 60; $22 per 100. Sheppard's

Anconas. $7.50 per 50; $14 per 100. May chicks. $1.00 per 100 less. June chicks, 82.00 per 100 lac.

Add 35c extra if less than I00 chicks are wanted. 100% lim dI-livcn' guaranteed,



Postage prepaid. Bank reference. Grand Rapids Nalional Bank. Hatching Eggs. Free catalog.





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

QUIC GET OUR NEW LOW PRICES ON MICH.





 





 





 





 





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Our big husky chicks are money makers. Every breeder carefully selected.



tested, culled by experts. CAN SHIP AT ONCE.

0 Order direct from~this advertisement. gave time.

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In all our long years of breeding and hatching Baby I'Ill~'lis We have never before been in pesltion to om:

Many customers have again writ-

tun us enthusiastic letters commending our chicks this ,\'<-;u'~-mnny ordering more. Our modern hatching

facilities and the high grade of breeding slovk [15911,(‘Umliilwd with our long hatching experience. insures

the high quality you want.

We hatch White Leghorns, Barred Rocks and Anconss. all Michigan State Accredited.

T OUR NEW SPECIAL PRICES BEFORE YOU BUY.





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Make Chicks grow and hen: lay





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Michigan brand. Write for free Poultry feeding booklet. "Dept. c”





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How AbOut High School? 1,





Some Opinion: by M. C ’.r





E should go to high school be-

cause we need‘that education to

make our lives successful, and self-

reliant: it is essential in business.

Intellectual training is to be prized,

but practical knowledge is necessary

to make it available. The subject of

education is of interest to all who

have just appreciation of its merits. It

should be of interest to all within the

pale of civilizatiou, inasmuch as the

happiness of all ‘classes is connected

with the subject of education.

Education is development. It aims

to bring to harmonious action, all the

powers of mind. Its object, and when

rightly 00nducted, its effect, is to make

him a complete creature of his kind.

To his frame, it would give vigor, ac—

tivity, and beauty; to his heart, vir-

tue; to his senses, correctness; in oth-

er words, it will make one a well-bal-

anced man. Zella Marie Crankshaw.





 





 





I THINK all boys and girls should

go to high school if they possibly





can. It" a boy or girl, completing the





eighth grade, should want to get a job, __





 





 





Mildred Halsey is Offening‘the Shee



a Bit to Eat. . ‘

the only jobs open to them would be

in a factory or on a farm—Jones in

them you stay and do not rise.



On the other hand, a boy or girl

graduating from high school, goes out

and gets a job as stenographer or

bookkeeper, with an assurance of ad—

vancement. Or if they should go to

college, they may become teachers, en-

gineers, or have other professional

jobs which pay. \Vith a high school

education and two years in college, a

boy or girl can become a teacher, who

is able to get $200 a month.



So it is my opinion that a boy or

girl, whether intending to enter some

profession or not, should go to high

school, and if possible to college.-

Bertelle Wilson.





 





THIS subject brings to my mind a

little story which I read some time

ago. A man once asked President Gar-

field if he did not think a grade school

education was sufficient for the needs

of the average man.



Garfield looked at him for a moment,

and then answered slowly, “My friend,

when the Lord. wants a mushroom,he

makes it overnight; but when he wants

an oak, he takes forty years!”



That little story illustrates perfectly

my own views on this subject. Isin-

cerely believe that boys or girls who

have a chance to‘go to high school,

and are so short-sighted as to throw





their oppOrtunity away, are doing

themselves a positive injury. A per—

son who will quit school at an early

age in order to go to work, and thus

deprive himself of the advantages of

a high school educatio‘n, with all its

benefits, and the lasting associations

which are formed there, is doing some:

thing which he will have cause to re-

gret all his life.



It is true that many of the great

men of today, wizards in their respect-

ive lines, who had little or no educa-

tion as children, have risen from the

ranks to positions far above their fel-





 





low-men. That, however, is no argu-

ment against a‘high school educatiou.

Just think what these .men might

have done if they had gone to high

school, or even college? What master

minds they would have been! What

stupendous things they could have ac-

complished! Who can tell what mar-

velous deeds might have transpired if

some of these men 'had been highly

educated? Edison, who, With his gen-

ius, became the greatest inventor of

all time; Steinmetz, the great electri-

cal wizard; Burbank, the eminent

plant-breeder and horticulturist, and

countless others whose works have

greatly benefited mankind—what could

not these men have done if they had

been college, or even high school grad-

uates ?—Guilford Rothfuss. *





 





 





OUR LETTER BOX .9





 





 





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I read “Ginger’s” letter in the last

issue of the Michigan Farmer, and

agree with her about prohibition. But

there are many people Who don’t try

to enforce the prohibition law, and I

don’t think they are good citizens.—

fi'innie N. Baer, Remus, Michigan.



I agree that those who stand in the

way of law enforcement are not good





citizens.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I have been rather a. silent member

of the M. C. in the past, but the letter

'11)}7 '1‘. Norman Hurd aroused my dan-

( 81'.



Agreeing that unity is the only

means toward universal peace, 1 do

not think that joining the \Vorld Court

or any other such organization would

make any difference, for there will be

“wars and rumors of wars even unto

the end!” Although our nation may

be compared to the southern confer-

ences in 1861. I think that there are

reasons for all things. And when you

call the southerners stubborn, I think

it shows a lack of knowledge, for they

were only fighting for their rights. The

northerners may talk of the cruolty of

slavery. It was Tennessee that had

the first abolition paper, and it was

the Yankee slave traders who sold the

slaves to the southerners. '



As for joining the League of Na-

tions, if such a. thing happened, we

would only become further embroiled

in foreign affairs. Although the Euro-

pean countries may be. civilized and

tar-seeing,‘they seem to be as greedy

as ever. ‘



Perhaps Washington w0uld advocate

a Union for Universal Peace. I do not

think it would stop war, for it is hu-





man nature to fight, I think if Nor-

man’s letter was a. con, this one must

be. a pro.



I am enclosing my bit for the Merry

Circle Fund and hope the desired

amount is soon obtained. IVith best

wishes I remain, your nephew, North

\Vest, Dryden, Michigan.



You handle your subject well and

give interesting bits of history besides.

It is human to fight but we, as indi-

viduals, do not fight as much as we

used to. »





 





Dear Uncle and Cousins: ,



I was just reading the letter that

Florence Litkowski wrote about every-

one doing his share, so I thought I





would drop in a nickel for the Merry'





Circle Fund. I would put in more

but I can’t do any work this summer

to earn any money, as l have been

sick. I have not been to school for

two months.



Now just a word to Elnora Wilson.

It’s nice to The dad’s chore boy, isn’t it,

Eanra? But, Elnora, be careful not to

overdo. Your health is better than

work. I used to work just like a hired

man, until two months ago when I was

taken sick with a i‘apid heart.



I feel sorry for the children at the

crippled hospital. I also feel sorry for

the ones who haven’t any mother, be-

cauSe my mother died two and one-

half month ago. And many, many

times I miss her loving care—Your

silent reader, Bessie Bell Williams,

Eaton Rapids, Michigan.





Overworking is a thing. all young





folks should be cautioned against. It

may cause injury which may remain

for the rest of one’s life. The love of





I Pinchot Advises Farm Boys





Keepmg {It it





EXT to high character, which is





Bring: Succeu





the foundation of all success wbrth





having, perseverance, in my judgment, is the master quality. Any boy

who wants to accomplish a particular thing, and iswilling to stick to it in





spite of opposition and discouragement, very seldom fails.





Keeping ever-





lastingly at it brings success more often than any other





w ins.

believe you can.





way.





 





Pinchot.





quality I know of.



The boy who sticks to his job 'sees what it leads

to, and doesn't get scared in advance, is‘ the boy who

You can do nearly anything you like if you only





Most of the obstacles which stop people,.if-you

take the average all through life, are imaginary, any-

If you want to do- a thing worth doing, and will

undertake to do it, and will keep at itundismayed, the

chances are very strong that you will win out—Gifford





Few men in the United States today have served the nation more

worthily than Gifford Pinchot. author of this week’s “Success Talks for





Boys."





Probably no other man has done so much to arouse our people to.





the importance of better care of our forests and of our-natural resources





generally. For many years he was chief of the forest service of the United ,





States, was a member of the American Country Life Commission in 1908,

was president of the National Conservation Associatlon, and is now gover-





nor of Pennsylvania.

(Bundanl Form PW





   





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Dear Uncle Frank: .) ,





My mamma knows a little girl from’

Gladwin, Michigan, that has been a





patient at the Farmington Sanitarium ,





and received much help in the way of

now being able to walk, and a pleasant

and happy disposition—Your would-

like-to—be—niece, Myra J. Smith, May-

ville, Michigan. ' ,



I am sure that many boys and girls

are brought to useful lives through the

home for. which we are endeavoring to

buy a radio. The home seems to help

minds as well as bodies.





 





Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins: a



I agree With“Ginger” that prohibi‘

tion can be enforced. It cannot be

done all at once, and we muSt have

patience. Peculiar, one or 'two M. C.'s

when discussing evolution. get no farth-

er than monkeys! My idea of evolu-

tion is our'gradual development from

one stage of civilization to another.

Evolution never ends.





l'ncle Frank, I am seventeen years





-of age, am I too old to still remain an





 





 





Louise Fergus’ Pet Cat Has‘the Bird

House as an Observation Point.





M. C.? I certainly hope not! Wonder

if you could please tell me when I

joined the Merry Circle?-—A Loving

Niece, Marian Pickup, M. C.



I like your idea of evolution. The

trouble is that many people think it is

all monkey business. Everything that

grows evolves. I cannot tell you when





you became an M. C. You are not‘yet .





too old to continue as an M. C.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



You know my opinion of these kids

writing about “Evolution?” I‘thi‘nk,

as young as we are, we shouldn’t both-

er our brains about what man derived





from. But, oh gosh, Uncle Frank, there .





is .no use of me trying to tell you my

opinion, because I don’t know enough

about it to “peep.”





I’m really tickled that the bobbed .

hair and knicker questions are slowly, -





losing out, because it really is ridicu—

lous to criticize one another’s clothes.



I wish we could have a. subject. that.

is more sensible. I don’t'think, M. C.

cousins, that Uncle Frank is terribly

interested in constant criticisms.





Something different would be more in- . .—





teresting.





I think I would be. interested in oth- ¥

er cousms’ ambitions, their surround- .





ings, and chief hobbies. '

In regards to “Tomboy,” I don’t

think we ought to be so hard on her





Her slang really doesn’t hurt her D0- * ‘





sition and I think her letters are most

PeDDYo ,





Lots of love to you and allthe cons!" .





ins, Uncle Frank. Your want-tobe-V

niece,” Ruth Roosa, Sumner, Mich. . ‘





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subjects, I believe that it is good to I 'i





have an inquiring mind. Yes, a change

in- subject once in a while is always

good. If the telling off-hobbies and~

other things gives ; any thoughts of

value to others, theyiar‘evworth While.





 





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tobacco. ._I started to eat it.

eat much before I threw up, and I‘





den’t want any more tobacco.—~Ali B.





- Jarman, M. C., Farwell, Mich.





Thanks for the contribution. So you





helped to sell tickets on that quill:





from which the fund got $3.00, That’s

fine. You can get another M. C. but-

ton by sending ten cents for it. That’s

the only way. I’m glad you don’t like

tobacco.





_\ MIXED WORD CONTEST.





 





I ERE, is a contest which was Sug-

‘ gested by Leota Thornton. She

sent in some good words with letters





I. 'mixed' so, that they are hard to make





out. ..

To work this contest simply straight-

en out the letters to make a word and

then number the words in the same

way they are numbered in this con-

Write the ten words neatly on

a sheet of paper and put your name

and 'address in the upper left-hand cor-

ner. If you are a Merry Circler, put

M. C. after your name; please do not

forget this. If you wish to write a.





‘ “letter, put it on another sheet.





.Here is the list:





1. SSenhsifles 6. Ssenalzi





2. Ytirupmi 7. Iderp

3. Lohocla 8. Iregd

4. Permet 9. Elucidir





5. Sseniklus 10. Sidasee



Here is a tip-these are all words of

undesirable things.



New Prizes.



If many get all the words correct,

the correct papers will be mixed and

ten lucky ones pulled out. If only a

few right correct papers, the winners

will be judged by the neatness of their

paper. The ten prizes will be: Two

handsome pocket pencils; three dic-

tionaries, and five unique pocket

knives. The pencils and pocket knives

are new prizes which I am sure will

please. All who get correct papers

will get Merry Circle buttons and

cards if they are not members of the

Circle.



This contest closes May 21, so be

sure to send your papers to Uncle

Frank, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,

Michigan, in plenty of time.





NOTICE—The winners of the May

contest will be found on page 661.





OUR SWEETHEART.





 





(Continued from page 649).

stock—not a small unathletic girl. We

have all read in the papeis how rich

young men have run off and married

feeble-minded chorus girls. They for-

get that men do not gather figs from

thistles. They did not have any pic—

ture. of an ideal girl, for the ideal has

a fine mind as well as a pretty face.



“'hat do you think about it? Can’t

you see that it is possible to have

even better children than we our-

Selves? Yes, sir—I’ll bet my little boy

when he grows up will beat his fath~

er’s polevaulting record. \Vhy? Be-

cause I was lucky enough to have mar—

ried a. girl who comes from athletic

people. And I did it before I knew the

things I am telling you. So think what

you can do with this knowledge!



In order to further this great eugen—

‘ics movement, the American Eugenics

Society, Inc., will send, upon request,

copies of the Abridged Record of Fam-

ily Traits. To receive your copy, fill

:in the coupon below and mail it to

Dest E, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,

Michigan.





'The undersigned promises to return

one copy of the Abridged Record of

Family Traits plainly filled in with

ink, to the American Eugenics Society,

1110., within three months from receipt

of same.





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:they are at least six months old. Up

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ground oats, wheat bran, cracked corn

and a little oil meal.



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'be near the barn where protection

against cold storms can be readily

provided and where it is convenient

for feeding. For a little time during

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begins to decline it is advisable to be-

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feeding at all times should be carefully

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need plenty of? salt, water, and feed.

They should be afforded protection

against flies, either sprayed daily with

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dark stable well littered with—straw.

rIf fed milk, I like to stable the calves

in stanchion and feed the grain im-

mediately after to eliminate danger of

the calves contracting bad habits. The

dairy calves should be made comfort-

able, fed regularly and allowed the

run of a spacious pasture lot during

the summer.~—Leo C. Reynolds.





MRS. FRANZ WINS CUP.





 





HE silver cup given by the Bu-

chanan State Bank each year to

the highest herd in butter-fat pro-

duction, and which is to be retain-

led by the owner of any herd that has

that honor for two consecutive years,

was this year won by Mrs. Edith L.

Franz, of Niles; Michigan. This is the

third year the cup has been awarded.

Last year Fred W. Knott. of Niles,

won it, and the first year Adolph Knott

took the honor. All thrue of these cat-

tle owners are neighbors, living along

the lane known as Pucker Street.

Mrs. Franz’s pure-bred Holsteins av-

eraged 401.39 pounds of butter-fat out





' of an average of 12,7127 pounds of





milk. Her high cow, and also the high

cow in the association, was a six-year-

led the field with 531.31

pounds of butter-fat and 15,4856

pounds of milk to her credit. The same

herd produced the third high mature

cow in “Matina Traverse DeKol,” who

gave 491.26 pounds of fat. One of their

twoyear-olds. “Johanna Pontiac Hon-

ora,” took fifth place l‘or the year in

her class; and “Matina Segis Prin-

cess” placed fourth among the three-

year-olds. Ten of the Franz cows, or

about eighty per cent of the herd, qual—

ified for the Michigan Record of Por-

fo1mance Herd.



Frank C. Reum, of Niles, took sec-

ond herd honors in the South Berrien

Cow Testing Assooiation with an av-

erage of 391.7 pounds of fat from his

herd of high grade Guernseys. Mr.

Reum had high four-year-old in “Til-

lie,” who produced 484.96 pounds pf

butterefat Fourth and fifth places in

the four-year-old class are also held

by the same herd, the cowa."Quec11”





 





and “Young Spot” giving 426.81 and

422. 71 pounds of fat respectively. Mr.

Reum also has a Record of Peiform-

ance herd. \.



Sam Thomson, of Niles, had third

high herd for the year, his. high test-

ing, high grade ,Guernseys ayeraglng

385.12 pounds of fat. Sam had high

three-year—old in a bovine who produc-

ed 501.64 pounds of fat. This animal,

“Lassie of Creekside,” returned $3.48

to Mr. Thompson’for each dollar spent

for feed. Second high 00w in the ma-

ture class “May Rose,” belongs to the

same herd. She produced 494.03

pounds of fat- ’ '



Fred W’. Knott, of Niles, is the own-

er of the fourth high herd for the

year, his pure-bred and grade Guern-

seys averaging him 369.90 pounds of

fat and returned him $3.17 for each

dollar spent for feed. Mr. Knott had

high two-year-old in “Ethel of Ballard





of butter-fat. Eleven cows in the

South Newaygo Association, which is

only three years old, produced an av-

erage of Over fifty pounds of butte1-fat.

Thf’ee three-year-olds in this associa-

tion produced 1espectively 62. 1 pounds,

55.4 pounds, and 55 pounds of butter

fat. Two of these are owned by John

Meyer. His herd of six cows has for

the third month averaged over forty

pounds of buttel -fat for each cow per

month. —-—H. L. S.





LIKES JERSEYS FOR PRODUCING

CREAM.





 





OR the fa1me1 who, for lack of

land, 0r fo1 othe1 reasons, must

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must depend upon these cows for the

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Farm,” a. purebred purchased at the

last Guernsey sale in this county, who

produced 408.62 pounds of fat. “Iris’s

May King of Niles,” and “Promise,”

are other tWO-yearcld pure-‘breds of

the same herd who placed third and

fourth respectively. “Hopeful's May

Rose” a pure-bred threeyear-old, plac-

ed fifth in her class, while “No. 3,” a.

grade, was fifth in the mature class

with 490.07 pounds of fat to her credit.



One-half. of all the herds in the as-

sociation passed the 350-pound aver-

age mark, while all but seven herds

averaged over 300 pounds of butter—fat.

Over one-third the cows that finished

the year qualified for the Record of

Performance. The average cow in the

association produced 317.72 pounds of

fat.





All but four members are continuing

work another year, with eight new

members in the ranks. A great year

is expected to follow, both from the

standpoint of production and manage-

ment, management signifying more

efficient breeding, feeding and weed

jug—Nathan Brewer, Tester.





COW TESTING RESULTS IN

NEWAYGO.





 





HE April report of the cow-testing

, associations of Newaygo county

show some interesting figures. Thirty-

_one cows of the old associalion, more

than ten per cent of the number bee

longing, made an average of over fifty

pounds of butter-fat for the month. In-

cluded in this group were fourteen

registered Jerseys and thirteen high-

bred grade animals. The, best preduc-

or was a. ten~year-old grade Holstein





that produced 1,884 pounds of milk





with 71.6 pounds of butter-fat; a. twen-

ty-twomonth-old registered Jersey





herd ol‘ pure-bred Jerseys, so says

George A. Hotchkiss, of Osceola coun-

ty. I'Iotchkiss sells his cream and

keeps the skim-milk for his calves. All

heifer calves f1om his best cows are

kept and added to the herd or sold for

dailying purposes.



All duiing the sear of 1925 pastur-

age was poor because of lack of rain

in this section. The herd, mostly young

heifers, were on pasture and received

no additional feed. The heifers aver-

aged him $81.00 per head above cost of

winter feed and ' care, not counting

the inore‘ase. His oldest cow, Flaxey’s

\Vhite Tip ave1aged him around $110

each year above the cost of feed, not

counting increase.



Last year he sold 1 H8589 pounds of

butter- fat from his herd of nine young

heifers. One of his heifers soldto a.

dairyman in Genessee county Was put

on a well-balanced feed and tested the

second best in the county Hotchkiss

Jelieves in the cow testing association.

All of his herd are registered.



His two sons, George, J12, and'Wil-

liam, help with the milking and “have

a large share in the care of the herd.

For this reason he does not keep ‘a.’

bull after he begins to show ugliness.

Plenty of drinking water, a kind and

gentle manner and voice, and shelten

from the raw winds of Winter and late





fall, are necessary With Jersey cattle,





says M1. Hotchkiss. -——F. -.Berry





 





The representatives of fourteen:

~dairy associations met in Washing-





ton recently to make a three-day sur- '





vey of the United States Department

of Agriculture activities regarding the

production, manufacture and market-

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The Johnson deportation 11111, which





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Wallinwood Guernseys





M... Rose—Glenwood bred bull for sole.

F. w. WALLIN, JENISON, MIC".





- . EYS for solo. melee. funnies. sired by

'6 3,1,3 nitration dun! hm records of 19,400.50 milk.

009.05 in. end 15,100.10 milk, "8.80 m. T. v.

HICKS. n. I. cum crux. Mich.-





G .ns, 2 grade cows:

F O R S A L E suggest-tightened heifers.





..l' n from dams now‘dolng A. R. or C. T.. A.

fest-gag'I‘iHONEs &. ALLDREDGE. Cauopoits. Mich.





Guernsey’s

young bull. W. . .





Some real bargains in reg-

istered cows and heifers. one

Burdlok. Williamston. Mich.





practically pure-bred ausnnszv or HOL-

FOR STEIN calves. from heavy. rich milkerl.

write soczwoou DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater, wu.





‘ Pure-bred and Grades. all aims.

Guernseys single or carload in Grades._Send

for circular. WOODLAND FARMS, Monroe, Mich.





Forest Hill GUERNSEYS PM "W” "“11 ”I”





11 months old. Fine ped-

igree. $125.- M. Homne. R. 5. Grand Rapids. Mich.





 





Registered Guernsey Bwull Calf





 





7 mos. old. 5. TEED. Mesick, Mich.

.P"

\v ERY CHOICE GUERNSEY DAIRY CALVES. 7

weeks old, practically pure, $20 each. crated.





 





Spreading Oak Farm. R. l, Box 106, Whitewater. Wis.

Y EARLING GUERNSEY BULL of good individu-



ality and breeding for sale at a. very reasoneble

t-EEPWM; S. ORMSWN 8:. SON. st. Johns, Mich.





 





 





lF YOU WANT PRODUCTION





hero is your chance. Send for pedigree of

For Tag 025. born October 15, 1925. An ex-

cellent individual. two-thirds white.





His sire has 05 ‘A. R. 0. daughters, including

eight from 33.8 to 32.3 lbs. butter in 7 days

at 2 to 4 yrs. of ago.





His dam is a 27-lb. 4-yr.-old daughter of a

31.7—lb. cow with 933 lbs. butter in 10

months and her dam was a. 30-lb. cow. Send

for our list of bulls for sale by





“The Michigan State Herds”

Bureau of





Animal Industry

. Dcpt.C





Lansing, Michigan





 





 





 





 





 





Special Sale of Pure-bred





Holstein Cows and Heifers





ALL are sired by. or bred to, one of the great. bulls

of the breed—Count Veeman chls Piebe. ALL have

good advanced registry records and are out of record

COW-S. .



ALL are from fully accredited herd and free from

disease. SEVERAL have show records. Write for

information. 'We have some real herd bull prospects

at $100. LAKEFIELD FARMS. Clarkston, Mich.





HOLSTEINS





vav 2-yr.-old daughters of a 1000-”). sire, one from

an SOD-lb. dam, one daughter of a 30-11). cow.



yearling daughters of 30-lb. sires and great producing

dams. and one yearling double grandson of l‘iebe

Laura. Ollie Homestead King. These cattle '1‘. B. and





 





abortion free. guaranteed breeders. $700. Reg, trans-

ferred and delivered free within 100 miles.

.I. W. PETERS, HOMER, MICH..





 





HEREFORD STEERS





(:0 Wt. around 925 lbs. 66 Wt. around 800 lbs.

80 Wt. around 730 lbs. 82 Wt. around 050 lbs.

88 Wt. around 550 lbs. 48 Wt. around 500 lbs.

Good quality, dark reds. dehorned. well marked Hem-

t‘ord Steers. Good stocker order. The beef type are





I usually market toppers when finished. Will sell your





choice of any bunch.





Van D. Baldwin, Eldon,Wapello Co., lowa.

HEREFORD STEERS FOR SALE





137~500 lbs.; 173-600 lbs; 56-800 lbs.

0. F. BALL, Falrfleid. Iowa.





' FINANCIAL KING JERSEYS





for sale. excellent bull calves from R. of M. damn.

COLDWATER ‘JERSEY FARM, Goldwater. Mich.





JERSEY. BULLS Ready for Service





from Register of Merit dams. sired by a. son of

Blondes Golden Oxford. Federal Accredited Herd





Notten Farm, Grass Lake,Mich.





Choice Jersey Bulls fififii’ycfifligwfigf 3%:





from R. of M. dams accredited herd. SMITH

PARKER, Howoll, Mich.

BUTTER BRED m... BULLS

FOR SALE

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver 0reek.‘ Allegan County. .. Michigan





Cows. 4 Bulls from ‘n. or M. Cows. Chonco to





15 select from hard of 70. Some fresh. other: bred

for tall freahenlng. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersvfllo. Mich.





Milking Shorthorns "’“





Redeulld Calf. six

men , ‘

Grandson of Glenside'Daer S 0 “ed by a

of Glenslde Roan C





King. am from .a. son

. lay, th

ROBERT DOUGLAS. Groom".





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





e world's heuvlest bull.

Michigan.

out. of





Roan Shorthorn Bull



1:

dam. W. E. Thompson. 8. No. 4., Lfiihgtogf iii?

Milking traumas .. ggwm cor- ... m...





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_ wmyour vats. Minimum 0. Sogzslcgoawolirh‘ligha.‘





 





14 mos.





can“, .. '





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same farm name.





the—alfalfa-dairy campaign prize bull

at the Garfield Community House last

Wednesday. The bull was given to

the farmer having the largest crowd

on his farm for an alfalfa meeting. It

was won by John Dobben and given

.by him to the Garfield Farmers’ Club,

.who auctioned it off. John Stroven

was- the successful bidder.



The five farmers who won the bush-

el of alfalfa seed received their prizes.

These prize winners and the donors of

the prizes are as follows: Ivan Rull,

of Grant, from Grant State Bank; By-

ron Sorden, White Cloud, from White

Cloud Cooperative Association; A.

Matthews & Son, Hesperia, from Hes-

peria State Bank; John Dobben, Ne-

wafygo, from Newaygo State Bank;

Frank Douma, Fremont, from Fremont

Cooperative Association, Fremont

State Bank, and Old State Bank.

These banks and cooperativeassocia-

'tions together contributed the money

to purchase the prize-bull.





I





RIPENING THE CREAM.

, HE larger pr0portion of the butter





from sour cream. Years ago when

cream was separated'entirely by set-

ting the milk in pans or portable

creameries, it was almost a necessity,

for complete creaming or separation

was not always possible until the milk

was exchanged to some extent.



Therefore, practically all of the ed-

ucation of the consumer has been in

favor of butter that was. producible

after lactic fermentation had progress-

ed, and as a consequence, sweet cream

butter, which is made now to some ex-

tent by centrifugal separation of the

.milk and cream, does not meet the

taste of the general consumer. Lactic

acid flavor is demanded. There is a

class of trade among foreigners who

maintain that sweet butter has the

fine flavor and that it is a. longer keep-

er, but most people demand butter

with the quick, “nutty” flavor and

aroma.



Ripened sour cream also has the

economic advantage of more exhaus-





be recovered from it than from sweet

cream. It is, however, a process re-

quiring more careful watching and

greater skill to make a high-class arti-

cle from sour cream than from sweet.

The longer exposure affords greater

opportunities for unfavorable ferments

.and putrefactive changes, and there is

greater necessity for scrupulous clean-

liness and for ripening in a. pure at-

mospherc'and to just the right stage.

If the cream is allowed to become

aged, bitter flavor is likely to occur





it. in cold weather, too, ripening is

delayed and the time during which in-

jurious changes may occur is in-

creased.



A large proportion of the poor but-

ter made owes its faults to lack of

care at some point, or points, between

the time the milk is drawn and when

the cream goes into the churn. Of

icourse, butter may be spoiled in other

ways. It can be spoiled in the churn-

ing, in the washing, in the working,

salting or the packing, but the fact

nevertheless remains that most of the

faults which poor butter possesses are

due to improper management in the

{handling of the milk and ripening of

cream and the latterris one of the

points to which every butter maker

should give careful attention, not, of

course, to the exclusion of the others-

named, but it should receive close care,

,as neglect here is the cause of much

of the poor butter on the market.—

.V. M. Couch.





 





_L C. Kelly & Son have sold River-

s1de Stock Farm at Plymouth, Michi-

gan, and are now continuing their

breeding,,work at Marshall under the





 





I. WO hundred and‘flfty persons at-

tended the public auction sele of





marketed in this country is made





tive churning and more butter-fat can .





'and no good butter can be made from ‘





and try this simple test:





tested.





De Laval will save.





ever made.





 

 

 





 





SEE and TRY the New





. De Laval-





TRADE in your oldSepai-ator





 





this NewDe Laval

out Of our Skimmilko :Gégmsl‘ilgpown





THESE people were surprised to see a new De Laval E



Separator skim a quart of rich cream from a can of

their skimmilk. They thought their old separator was

doing good work, but the new De Laval proved it wasn’t.

Satisfy yourself that you are not losing cream in this way.

Ask your De Laval Agent to bring out a new De Laval





Alter separating with your old separator.

wash its bowl and tlnware In the skimmllk.

Hold the okimmilk at normal room tempera-

ture and run it through a new be Laval.

Have the cream thus recovered weighed and

Then you can tell exactly 1! your old

machine is wasting cream, and what a new





The new De Laval is the best cream separator

It is the crowning achievement of 4i.

48 years of cream separator manufacture. We?)





 

   

 





 

 





   

 

   

   

   

   

   

 

   





 





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Monthly





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guarantee 100% live

8. C. White Leghorna,

Reliable chit-ks

Order today at. above

RELIABLE HATCHERY.





 





90: Anconas.

have proved satisfactory

pnvm,

46 SEVENTEENTH ST..





 





LOW PRICES FOR JUNE CHICKS





There is still plenty of time to get rhirks that will make winter layers.

from the prices given below.

(Military





Order

Tlmst- chicks are strong, healthy and purebred. “'3

and satisfaction.



[00; Barred Rocks, lic: Assorted, 70.

for years. You can depend on them. ‘

Orders 10s.: than 100, 1c more. Bank reference.

HOLLAND. MICHIGAN.





 





Beautiful Catalog mtitled. “THE ART OF

>POULTRY RAISING," Free... 20 BEST

VARIETIES. 68 birds won 28 ribbons in

1925. Buy “'inning. HEAVY Laying. PROF.

,IT Paying “GENEVA” Chicks for 1926.

‘Bred. hatched and shipped under our personal

and “Write today for our NEW

i PRICES."





 





supervision.





. B. t. .

ETHE GENEVA HATCHERIES. Box 29. Geneva, Ind.





   

 





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LOW

Full Delivery Guaranteed. Rot—Bank of

‘Gcnovr... Mem. I ‘





CHICKS





S. C. W'. English Leghorns for May 24th and 315i:

delivery. $9.00 per 100.. 100% live delivery guaran-

teed. HENRY WATERWAY. R. 4. Holland, Mich.





 





Try a Michigan Farmer Liner





 





60 -- Michigan Guernseys -- 60 .





Second Annual Consignment Sale





East Lansing, May 27, 1926





Sale Starts at 12:30 P. M. (E. S. T.)





i60 Head of registered cows, bred and open heifers, heifer calves and ser‘viteable





bulls.





W. D. Burrington,





A. R. and C. T. A. record backing.





Just the place to buy those Guernseys you have been wanting

For catalogséaddress





Box 1018,





East Lansing





 





HOGS





MICHIGAN’S PREMIER

DUROC HERD





A few real fall boars. Several very typy gilts bred

for June and July furrow.





Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich.

D U R O C S BUY your fall herd boar





now out of Michigan's Grand

Champion.





J. M. WILLIAMS. No. Adams. Mich.

Chester While Boars

sonable. F. W. ALEXANDER,





Chester White Boars





w. FORRETT, Lonox Mich.





ready for service. Also March

Pigs. either sex. Priced rea-

Vauar. Mich.





Ready for service.

also March pigs. G.





 





Chester White Boar's ml“ of,“ pareu“e‘i“°,ivmf,f,9$§

blood lines. Cholera. immune. flhipped C. 0. D.





JOHN C. WILK. St. Louis, Mich.





B. T. P. C.





2 bred gllts.

Saline, Mich.





L ARGE TYPE POLAND CHINA8 for sale. Bred

lets weighing 400 lbs. at 875. Also toll pigs.

either sex. A. A. FELDKAMP. Manchester. Mich.





HORSES

Matched pair of Belgian





F OR SALE Draft Geldings, 36 hundred





lbs. Sound. 5 and 6 yrs. 1nd. wu. VAN SIcKLE.

Docket-ville. Mich. Phone 58 3,-l.





 





fall pigs all sold. Con spare

some dandy spring pigs and

Write G. W. NEEDHAM. about them.





 





 





 





 





SHEEP





1 Have For Sale





10,000 wry choice straight white fare Remboulllet

typo yearling ewes, no Wrinltlt-y; square built of the

very best typo pure‘breds. Excellent condition. all

medium wool or liner. Should shear 8 lbs. Want to

sell wool on it‘. 0. B. curs. i‘hugwater, Wyoming,

Will till orders for one loud or ten, guaranteeing

sheep to he as described. immediate delivery. For





further information and price, wire or write





0. A. MURNAN,

Union Stock Yards, DENVER, COLO.





 





Advertising That Pays





RY a Michigan Farmer

Classified Ad. to sell

your surplus poultry, or



to get that extra help.



They bring results with little

cost, see rates on page 673 of

this issue.

Michigan Farmer, Detroit





 





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GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Tuesday, May 11.





Wheat.

Detroit—No. 1 red $1.71; No. 2 red

$1.70; No. 2 white $1.71; No. 2 mixed

1.7 l. ,-

Chicago.——July $1.40@1.40%;

$1.353:§@1.351,é.

Toledo.—-Wlieat $1.67@1.68.

Com.

Detroit.—No. 2 yellow at 780; No; 3

yellow at 750; No. 4 yellow 700; No.

5 yellow 65c. _

Chicago—July 75%@751/1.c; Sept at

78%@787,8c. , .

Oats. »

Detroit—No. 2 white Michigan at

46c; No. 3, 45c. '

Chicago.-July at_42’;éc; Sept. 427/8c.

Rye.





89c.

87%@87%c; Sept.





0.

Toledo—Rye 89c.





Beans





Detroit-«immediate

shipment $4.20.

Chicago—Spot Navy, Mich. fancy

hand-picked at $4.40 per cwt; red kid-

neys $9.

New York.~—Pea, domestic $4.50(a}5;

red kidneys $8@8.50.

Barley.

Malting 74c; feeding 69c.

Seeds

Detroit—Cash red clover at $21;

alsike $17; timothy $3.35.

Buckwheat.

Detroit—Buckwheat $1.75 per cwt.





Hay





Detroit.—-—N0. 1 timothy $23.50@24;

standard $22.50@23; No. 1 light clover,

mixed $22@23; No. 2 timothy $21@



2; No. 1 clover $20@21; wheat and oat

straw $13.50@14; rye straw $14.50@15.





Feeds

Detroit—Bran at $35@36; standard

middlings at $34; fine middlings $37;

cracked corn $36; coarse cornmeal at

$33; chop $32 per ton in carlots.





WHEAT





The outlook for wheat prices in the

next. month or two is highly confusing.

, Prospects of a spring rise seem to.

practically eliminated by the perSist—

ent weakness in domestic cash Wheat,

rains and forecasts for more in the dry

area in Kansas, Nebraska and the

northwest, slow foreign demand,.and

the disturbing effect of the British

strike. Erratic fluctuations are prob-

able until the crop outlook isonore

clearly defined. While the statistical

symptoms indicate a small domestic

,carryover, they would have little ef—

fect on the market apart from a ser-

ious crop scare, since. no one deSires

to carry over wheat into a year when

lower prices are probable. The ofiimal

estimate of the winter Wheat crop was

about 50 per cent larger than the final

estimate for last. year and approxi-

mately equal to the ten—year average





Sept.





Detroit—No. 2-

Chicago—July

90





and prompt





yield.

RYE

Rye has been weak along with

wheat. The absence of export sales





and the liberal carryover in commer-

cial channels have offset the small

movement to terminals and indications

of a small new crop.





CORN





Corn prices dropped .to. a new low

point for the season during the past

week. Demand remains too narrow





to equalize the ample sales by produc- -





ers, together'with the heavy stocks

already at terminals. Deliveries on

May contracts were rather heavy, al-

though the liberal premium for more

distant deliveries offers a highly profit-

able carrying charge for elevators.

This may indicate fear that much of

the corn at terminals will not keep in

hot Weather. .Efforts to force this

grain into consumptive channels may

have a depressing effect. Anticipation

of larger sales by producers by the

end of May is another depressing in-

fluence hanging over the market.





OATS





Oats prices have eased. along With

other grains. The opening of lake

navigation is expected to be followed

by more rapid movement of terminal

stocks into channels of consumption,

but current demand is listless. Crop

news is not very stimulating as condi-





‘ tions were favorable for the comple-





tion of seeding. The crop has a good

start in most of theaimportant produc-





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SEEDS





Last minute buying of seeds has

kept the market steady at practically

unchanged prices.

are being cleaned up and carryovers

will be small. The big demand-for

clover, timothy and alfalfa seed is

about at an end for this season. The

early planted seeds have suffered from

the late spring, but the crop outlook

has improved recently,- due to more

favorable weather. - -'





FEEDS





Feed prices continue largely un-

changed, although demand is less ur-

gent, with pastures showing general

improvement. Feeds for immediate

shipment. still find a ready sale, but

orders for later delivery are few.

Wheat feeds are more plentiful and

prices for them may sag off from the





present level.

HAY





Moderate receipts of hay at the lead-

ing distributing markets keep prices

firm. The supply of high grade hay is

small, so that the outlet for the lower

grades is steadily widening. Remain-

ing stocks are not large, and prices

undoubtedly will continue strong

throughout the rest of the season.

New hay will be later than usual ow-

ing to the backward season. A year

ago, Kansas City was already receiv-

ing new crop alfalfa, but the move—

ment probably will not start before

the first of June this year.





EGGS





Egg production has been favored by

more seasonable weather recently and

receipts exceeded the corresponding

period last year for the first time in

several months. A year ago, however,

the flush of production came in April.

so that receipts at this time were on

the decline. Consumptive demand has

been curtailed by the high costs pre-

vailing recently, and with receipts on

the increase, supplies are somewhat

unwieldy and prices have been marked

down. Buying for storage continues

slower than a year ago, the shortage

at the four markets under a. year ago

totaling 600,000 cases. Dealers may

become anxious as the season ad~

vances and buy more actively. W'hile





Stocks of all seeds .





 





prir as are‘expected to resume the up-

ward trend, if production should con-

tinue to increase, the market would

be unsettled for a while.



Chicago—Eggs, fresh~ firsts 28%@

28%c; extras 35%‘@‘36%c; ordinary

firsts 27c; miscellaneous 27 34c; dirties

26c; checks 2535c. Live. poultry, hens

32c; broilers 42®46c:‘ springers 37c;

roosters 19c; ducksx.320; geese 19c;

turkeys 32c.



Detroit—Eggs,

graded 2814 @29c. Live poultry, broil-

ers 50@55c; heavy hens 340; light

hens 31@34c; ducks 38c.





The butter market advanced} last;





week under more active buying, al—

though many dealers believe prices

will go lower again. Production con:

tinues to increase each week and only

nominal reductions are made in ware-

house stocks, so that even’though con-

sumption is excellent, supplies are bur-

densome. The butter make normally

increases, during May and June. Once

grass butter is available, dealerswill





store the surplus, but‘moderate prices. ..- .- _ l "

for the next several months seem prob— er n bean crop ipromises to be a bump-





able.





Prices on 32-score creamery were:

Chicago 399/40; New York 410. In De-





troit fresh creamery sells for 39@40c .





POTATOES





Old potatoes have declined. Sup-

plies are more than ample for the de-

mand, and the large percentage of in-

ferior stock has tended to depress the

market. Supplies in farmers’ hands

are believed to be‘very, small. The

average quality of new potatoes is

better than usual and demand has im-

proved since prices have become more

reasonable. Shipments continue small-

er than at this time last year. North-

ern round whites, U. S. No. 1, are

quoted at $3.50@4 per 100 pounds,

sacked, in the Chicago carlot market.

Florida Spaulding Rose, U. S. No. 1,

are held at $11@11.50 per double head





barrel.

, BEANS





. The bean market has advanced dur-

ing the past week, with fancy C. H. P





fresh candled and





   





market and the price was put up, al- -

though demand has shown noimprove- ',

ment. Canners offer practically the

one outlet at this-season as consumer

demand is atla. minimum. The west~





 





MARK FTS BY ’ RADIO.





 





AlLY market reports and ‘

weather forecasts may be

~obtained each week day from:*



the followlng Michigan stations: - , '

hWKAR—Michigan State Col; .'



« lege, 12:00 noon. _ '



WCX—Detroit Free Press, at.



2:15 P. M.



WWJ—Detroit News, 10:25 A.



‘ >M., 12:00 noon, 4:00 P. M. I" .



WGHP—Geo. Harrison Phelps,-

7:00 P.’ M. ' ,





 





 





 





er one, with p entiful rains,_keeping it

in excellent condition. ,





WOOL ' ‘





Wool markets were encouraged by

the relatively strong tone at the ,Open-

ing of the London auction a. week ago,

but completion of the sale has been

postponed because of the British strike

situation, inducing an unsettled tone

in .the domestic market again. The

goods trade is not very encouraging,

although the arrival of warm weather

may bring some improvement. The

report on mill consumption ”of wool” in

March shows a continuation of about

the same rate of operations as in the

preceding ten months. Buying, of wool

in producing sections is proceeding

slowly. About 25,000,000 pounds are~

believed to have been bought in the

west and in Texas, dealers making ev-

ery effort to keep down prices. Some

Montana W’Dol's have been Obtained

within a range of 35 to 381750, but

Oregon and Idaho prices range several

cents lower. The well-known pooled





y





whites quoted at $430 per 100 pounds, wool at Jericho, Utah. was reported





f. o. b. Michigan shipping points. Farm-

ers were not bringing their beans into





 





 





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Tuesday, May 11. ’





CHICAGO





Hogs

Receipts 18,000. Market slow; un-

even; opening around steady at Mon-

day’s best prices; later trading 15@

25c lower; shipping outlet is narrow;

bulk 240—325 butchers $13@13.45; ma-

jority better 200-225 average $13.506D

13.80; bulk sorted 180 lbs. down $13.90

@1435; top 140-150 at $14.35; packing

sows largely $12.50@12.55; killing pigs

up to $14.40.

Cattle.





Receipts 11,000. Market fairly ac-

tive; steers general; market strong to





150 higher; yearlings and light weight“





steers show the most advance; killing

quality good, with a fair sprinkling of

choice; best heavy $10.35; few loads

medium weight $10@10.15; bulk $8.65

@9.75; light heifers up to $10.15: oth—

ers $10; most light heifers $7.75@9;

bulk strong to 100 higher; bulk bolog—

nas $6.50@6.75; vealers $9@10 to the

packers; $11@12 to outsiders.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 11,000. Market fat lambs

slow on higher; asking prices early





sales fed clipped lambs generally

steady; few loads of desirable handy

weight to packers at $14.75@15;





one load to shippers $15.25; slow sup-

ply of wool lambs held steady; a few





Cutters .................. 4.504?)

Canners ................ 4.00@

Choice light bulls ....... 6.50@

Bologna. bulls ......... .. ~6.00@

Stock bulls .......... .. 5.50@ 6.00

Feeders ................. . 6.50@

Stockers ................ 00@ 7 00





6. .

springers. . . .$50.00@ $100

Veal Calves.



Receipts 766. Market 50c higher.

Best .................... $13.00@13.50

Others





Milkers and





sh'e'e'ii' SHJ 'Léin’bs.

Receipts 1,124. Market steady. '

Best





.................... $14.50@15.00 ate.

12.50@13.75 went well at retail. .





Fair lambs ..............

“Light and common ......

Fair and good sheep. . . .

Culls and common ......





7.00@11.00





Hogs.

Receipts 1,610. Mixed





grades 5@15c

lower; others steady. ,-





Mixed grades . ., ......... $ 14.10

Roughs ................. 12.0

Heavy hogs ............. 12.50@13.25

Stags .............. . . . . . 9.

Yorkers .............. . . 14.25

Pigs and lights 14.50





BUFFALO

' Hogs ,





Hogs closing slow;

medium $14@14.35;





Receipts 1,600.

heavy $13@14;





sold at 341/20, which compares with 42c

realized last August for the 1925 clip.

In. Ohio"and Michigan, purchases of

fine wools at 38@40c have been re

ported. ' ‘





DETROIT CITY MARKET, ‘





The warm weather brought out all

kinds of produce and made buying

heavier. Flowers were especially

abundant and sold- readily. With “the

supply of potatoes in the produce





1 5-00 yards heavy» prices on the. markets

4.50 were cut. ‘





Green onions and bunched





7.25' radishes ,were quick sellers. .Quite a

7-00 bit of hotbed lettuce was ofler‘ed and





the demand was fairly active. Rhu-'





7.75 barb was a god seller at $1 a doZen





bunches. Some rather small-asparagus

went at $1.50 a dozen bunches and the

first ieal good sorrel, or sour grass, or

the season was snapped up ‘at‘ $4 a.

bushel. Carrots and parsnips were. in





4-50@12.50 fair demand but the call for other





roots was small. The supply of ap-

ples was fair and the demand moder-

Poultry sold readily, and eggs





Apples $1@3 bu; beets 60@75c bu;





7.50@ 8.50 carrots $1@1.75 bu; cabbage; $1@1.25

3.00@ 4,00 bu; leaf lettuce $1@1.25 per 6-lb. bu;





root parsley $3@4 bu; potatoes $2@

3.25 bu; topped turnips 75c@$1.25 bu;

parsnips $1@1.75 bu; bagas 7.5c bu: ‘ .

rhubarb 60c®$125 per dozen bunches;

horseradish $1@2 bu; cabbage plants

$1@1.25 per 100; tomato plants $1.25

@150 per 100; butter 55@60c; honey

$1 per 5-lb. pail; maple syrup $3 gal;

asters $1.50 per 100; asparagus $1.50

per dozen bunches, sorrel $4 bu; pan-

sies $2@3 per 15 boxes; geraniums

$2.40@3 doz.; eggs, wholesale 30@310;

retail 35@40c; hens, wholesale 33c;

retail 35@38c; broilers, wholesale 43

@45c; retail 45@50c; ducks, whole-





early sales of fatewes steady; clip- light weight $14.35@14.75;” light lights sale 38c; retafl_’40c;‘ dressed hens 33@





ped upward to $8; wool upward to $9;

spring lambs very slow. ' ,





- DETROIT





— Cattle. '



Receipts 264. Slow at Mondayls

close; cows and bulls 25c lower than

the opening.





Good to choice yearlings,'





dry-fed ............. .. . .s 19.00@1‘0.00

Best heavy steers, dry~fed 8.50@ 9.00

Handy weight butchers .. 7.50@ 8.50

Mixed steers and heifers 7.00@ 8.50

Handylight butchers 6.50@ 7.00

Light butchers .......... 6.00@ 6.50

Best COWS ............... 6.50@ 7.26

Butcher cows .50@ 6.50





' or





and pigs $14.75@15; few $15.25; pack-

»ing sows and roughs $11.50.

Cattle.



Receipts 200. Steady; steers 1100

lbs. up $8.50@9.75; steers 1100 lbs.

down $6.50@9.25; yearlings up to $10;

heifers $5.50@9; cows at $2.50@7.25;

bulls $4.50@7. . . ' .





Sheep and Lambs.





8 .9.~ ;

Cal @





, . - veer ‘

Reecipts 450.: .To . 1350;~ .feW ‘

culls $10.50 down. 9 $ s





 

 

 





 





42c; springers 38@40c.

comma LIVE s'rocx SALES-





 





.. Guernseys. .

May 27.—Michiga.n Guarnsey Breeders’-

» Ass'n., East Lansing, Mich. -- '





H urgn' 00., May 5.——_There. hasbeen A





Receipts 1,200. Best clipped lambs mug is rin seedin u . tordate. :The \‘ 1‘

5; others only fair; culls, at $13.50 ”land "is? vegy wwetggFegd is ‘s‘earce- -

gi’gvélisnggg tbg‘lsit Cliéipeddyeartlilngs a: Stock has wintered well. smears- ‘

' 3 3" DDe are we ers'a‘ start , s" .

>$1o:,best clipped-ewes? » * ed, onepotamea ”9:bem‘m‘1‘





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1924-25. "





 

 

 

 





 





ARKED shrinkage in the world

j ‘ ‘ __ carryover of wheat is indicated

/ _ by the certainty that. with only two

' months. remaining of the present Wheat

marketing season,’the total volume of

shipments will fall far below that of





 

 





 





 





, . 111111131111..." needed; 13101311511818





grainvleft in farmers’ hands to be‘sold.



without much extra help—S. H.

Barry 00., May 5.—Farmers are



oats. Some are not sowing any on





account of the lateness of the season.

The many hard freezes and lack of





 





 

 





 





 





   

   





.311 Last season the total net ,exports 0f rain to settle the‘5 ground has caused!

“ve’ wheat from surplus Producing coun- the surface to dry out, While below it

the tries were 744,000,000 bushels. This remains. wet and sticky. This county

5:; season the actual net exports for the IS b11153? hayitng cogsfiestedc foVr tuber-

. ., ., . first nine months have been only 500,- 0113:2032; as: 0M2; 55'—Vlfeat her is

’ .4 _, 000,000 bushels, With a liberal estimate very backward for spring seeding. We

for the remainder 0f the seas0n, 3.0- had quite a snow storm on the third.

. cording to the Bureau of Agricultural Farmers contemplate seeding alfalfa

’ ‘ . Economics‘ well below 200 000 000 on a larger scale than heretofore. A

b h l ‘ ’ ' ’ ' large acreage of peas also Will be

us e s. sown. It is too early to predict the

.- . , ~ condition of Winter Wheat. Fodder IS

; COUNTY CROP REPORTS. very scarce and farmers are getting

. from $201to $25 per Eon ttor; hay. Allmblt

' . the usua acreage 0 p0 a oes wi e

Jackson Co. May 5.—The late spring .



has, delayed spring work. Oats are $315169 dégggabtgc. $113591. 332,—foéatoes

about half sown. There is some plow- ' ’ . C ’M 2 F ~ fare

ing to do. The usual acreage will go bugsnh'zfulinog‘ mailihre 'Engrmglgwing

in. Fall wheat and rye 100k p001. W arm “leather is 'fair at present. Potatoes

T . are going to market at $3.50 per cwt.

The usual amount of crolps will Be

made mane planted. Many armers ere ma e

I —. . yon fruit growing a specialty. These I’Il‘llin

. 1" ’ s ' make a thorough jo of spraying. e

-—.. _.- thamfirm fruit farmers are buying large quanti-

- .1 u“, ‘Rxllllil'gm, ties of nitrates for apple orchards, es-

1p- ' ' “ '7/1 . \,--\' T ‘pecially those in sod. The results are

it .- ~ =3“ favorable. Resort property is boom—

2. TARTED f - - 5 ing and water fronts sell at ancy

m Swithadebtaclinsuigolilclgla prices. Eggs bring 24c; butter 400;



by \ mu $98215“? 135V dairybherd stock is in good shape.—VV..A. M.

an the hedge eff” “gigs-11ft: Genesee 00., May 2.——Ow1ng to the





' . and furnace and fields are twice as pro uc‘





1 1 tive. Raised a hundred‘barrel an acre crop

en of potatoes. Just turned down .an offer of

ke $5000 for the farm. Profits paid off the

as debt, made the improvements and I am lay-

he iniby something each year.



ast year's returns were $4238.83. Any

181 ' farmer can do as well in Maine if he is will-

er in to work.

be his is one man’s story. Read what 100 ' ‘





in other far-mega say in





 





 





 





ut Maine Farmers biake Good



1e _ An official publication. Write todayTor

Ol ’ your free copy. Address



1g STATE OF MAINE



[‘8 _ DEPARTRIENT OF AGRICULTURE

1,8 > Desk 20, State House, Augusta, Itiainc

V- .



19





cold weather, only a few farmers have

their oats sown. A few potatoes also

have been planted, but more will be

planted next week. There will be a

larger acreage of early potatoes plant-

ed than in normal years. Farmers are

not doing much spraying here this

spring. Very little marketing is going

on at present. Prices at Flint are:

Wheat $1.50; beans $3.60 per cwt; red

kidney beans $7; corn 75c; butter 450.





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o





STANDARD FOR GREEN CORN AND

CANTALOUPES ADOPTED.





 





 





3‘5 , ‘ ’ for Market





started, Raise Good Stock





1.2 Get all the Profit





{3; ' Ship Next Fall and Winter to

E5 , Detroit Beef Co.





.1 , ‘ 1953 Adelaide 51., Detroit, Mich.





 





 





:1 Raise Poultry





This is the time to get your flocks





Learn to Dress It and





FEDERAL standards for green corn

and cantalogpes have been defined

by departm it of agriculture and



are recommended for voluntary adop-



tion by shippers. The U. S. No. 1



green corn is to, consist of ears of sim—



ilar varietal characteristics which are





from damage caused by disease, in-

sects, mechanical or other means.

Cobs shall be well filled with plump

and milky kernels and well covered

with fresh, green husks. Not more

than ten per cent by’count of any lot

may be below the standard grade for

variations incident to grading and

handling.



U. S. Fancy shall consist of ears of

green corn which meet allthe require-

ments of L'. S. No. 1 grade, ,except that

'the. ears shall be free from insect in-

jury instead or tree from damage caus-





 





 





 





 





 





, ,, _ wintered-

~Jili'rell', W1tlf ‘ the supplies; cot hay and

coarse ‘ feeds about ggone‘.‘ ‘ . Very little

Farmers are not inclined to pay pre-

vaiiingv wages”. so they are getting on





about three weeks behind in seeding





well trimmed, well developed, and free.





 





 





 





   





 





   





 





 





 





 





 





n Write for new shippers’ guide. All ed by insect injury. An allowance of

‘ d :1 'f h' - 1 d d - ten per cent by count below the re-

13 313.313 ~0r 3 19131118. an ressmg quirements of this grade is made for

"f, mailed free on application. variations. .

) Unclassxfied shall cons1st of green

a corn which is not graded 1n contorm-

n ity with either of the foregomg grades.

51' U. S. No. 1 grade cantaloupes shall

.3- be of one variety which are firm, ma-

l' ture, well-formed, well-netted and free

5 from aphis honey dew, cracks, sun-

_ 7 . burn, decay, and from damage caused

é Toudvsrtisoourbusiness makonew friends_nnd introduce out by (1.th, mOlSCUI‘B, hall’ (1188215306, lIlSGCT‘tS

b n talozuooflillzlnwnches womllsendthlsolezsnt or mechanical or other means. INot

. mal postpnid fox-ONLY 51.13113“ delivery gunran- . , . r - ,

' (endgaDgi-mproofgxeaéesfigengduntaggem‘met.$333311}ch more than it‘ll D'E‘l CORT Oi. 4113‘ 101. may

? 35:13.8end'th'1isRdyertisemfilntwumwltggk‘gffnd watchwicllbs be vbelOVV FllE‘Sf) I‘EEQUII‘fi‘HlelltS. ,

g _ .=$13?§33§h§$§u$m&1?§$oBey3111:3371‘31'331123‘; Unclassrfied shall cons1st of_ canta—

: . . cmcnoo WATCH AND DIAMONDCO. loupes which are not graded in con-

. , - 4137‘Broadway,c”°““tm- iiormity With the foregomg grade.

S

5 \ ' ,,

Y " * i

: C ASSIFIED AD V ER I IS-ING 1

0 ' ~'

1- This classified advertising department is established (or the convenience of Michigan runners.

Small advertisements bring best results under classified headings. Try it for want ads and for adver-

S tising. miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange. Poultry advertising will be run in this department

- at classified rates. or in display columns at commercial rates.

j Rates 8 cents a word, each insertion. on orders for less than four insertions: for four or more

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

3 display type or illustrations admitted. Remittances must accompany order.

,_ Live stock advertising has a «pants department and is not accepted as classified. Minlmum

D ‘ charge 10 words. _

Ons Four Ono Four BIG MID—WEST ,‘ MONEY-MAKER—lfio Acres.

10 ........ 80.80 11.40 18........62.08 86.14 Hurst‘s, 17 (.‘attfir. hog. poultry. manure spreader, po-

11....... .88 1.84 ........ .1 8.48 tato planter. grain drill. fanning mill. cream sep-

11........ .96 1.88 » 18.....1.“ 8.72 arator, other machinery. tools, fumiturc; prosperous

........ 1.04 8.11 18......” 181 0.1. dairy and iron]. farming section, few steps pretty lake,

’ \\ . 3...... 1.11 _,3.16 ........ 1.40 7.10 markets at door: well-balanced fields, pasture and

‘ _1ll...,...... 1.10 3-30 3 ........ .48 7-44 wrxxlhind: new 5-1‘oom white house. large shade trees.

10..."...138 3-“ ........ 1:“ 7-38 barns. granary: etc. Widow must sell, only $4.800

...,..... .18 4.08 ........ 1.84 7.91 for all. part cash. Details pg. 02 big Illus. Spring

. 11........ 1.“ :1“: 11......“ 13;: 3:13 gatalog. 11:11.? Strout Agency, 205-B(.‘. Kresge Bldg”

.........1 . . ........ t , ,

so 1 4.10 16........1.ss m4 “M ‘1“ .. '

u:;:::::: 1:1. m , :::::::: 1:1: 9:... 123,3an mum in resort region or 1.0.1.1....

14....1.91 are 4o........ 1.10 9.60 M“ F” v” and LOW “50"“ “OM WW”- 1"“?

..-...... 1.00 16.00 41......“ 8.18 9.“ buildings. House cost $2.500. Woven wire fencing.

, . ~. . Equip}?! Slu- sheep. 'lSnxgnc biz-felt wiith old beaver

_ -.._ . 1m mi esideal she or ver resins as advo—

. m ESTATE cated by Government. 20 Acres valuable timber and

‘ f .. ' wood. Can givslimmediate possession $3.500. half

Will. price £181}! Address A. B. Co. Michigan Farmer. Detroit.

, . c igln. -





 

 





Sacks free.





1113531110118. Cabbage. Tomato and Onion Plants. $1.





 





1‘20 ,gACRESw—Néal' Beautiful Lakes. New 7‘Room

House. Equipment. Attractive white home. electricity.

large barn. garage: several, acres splendid orchard:





to city. Adjacent $9.000 and $10,000 places. Big

sacrifice at $3,800 for all, only $1,000 needed. and 4

rows. horses. calf. implements. vehicles. feed and

grain. thrown in to settle afl'airs quickly. John H.

Strung. Lakeview. Mich.





 





WANTED FARMS





WANTEm-to hair from

proved land for sale. 0.





 





owner of farm or unim-

Hawley. Baldwin-Wis.





 





 





COMMISSION FIRMS





 





WE PAY MORE for poultry. eggs and veal. A trial

shipment wlli convince you. East Coast Poultry Co..

Eastern Market. Detroit, Mich. -





half tillage. stream in pasture. easy walk motor bus





 





/

TOBACCO

GUARANTEED TOBACCO—chewing 0r 8111911103. 5





lbs” $1.26; ten. $2; pipe free, pay when received.

Farmers' Association, Maxon Mills. Kentucky.





 





 





HOMESI’UN TOBACCO GUARANTEED—Chewing.

five pounds. $1.50: ten, $2.50. Smoking, ten. $1.50.

Pipe free; pay when received. Unit/ed Farmers. Batch

well, Kentucky. '





 





, POULTRY





 





.lVHITE LEGHORN HENS and cockbirds now half

price. Thousands of eight-week-old pullers. Also

baby chicks and hatching eggs shipped (lllll'k. Trap-

nested. ptuixzreed foundation stack. ego-bred 20 years.





tWinners at 10 egg contests. Catalog and special

lprice bulletin free. I ship C. 0. D. and guarantee

satisfaction. Geo. B. Ferris. 6334 Shirley, Grand





‘ Rapids. Michigan.





 





FARM MACHINERY





 





FOR SALE—Kwanee Lighting Plant, 2 units. 4 Cyl.

motors. 110 volts. D. C. 5 K. W. each 240 Amp.

Battery, 56 cells. extra good condition. One unit ncvm‘

used, other used 1 yr. 2 1'). motor included. A

bargain. Write Richland Rural Agricultural School.

Richland. Mich.





 





RICH MAN'S Corn Harvester. poor man's price—-

only $25.00 with bundle tying attachment. Free cat-

alog showing pictures of harvester. Box 528. Saline.





 





Kans.



FOR QUICK SALE—Price Right. 20-40 Rumely Oil

Pull Tractor. 30—48 Advance Separator. Geo. G

Creel. Lyons. Mich.





 





 





SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK





 





FROST PROOF CABBAGE AND TOMATO PLANTS

-——Varleties: Charleston and Jersey Wakefields, Copen-

hagen Market, Succession and Flat Dutch. Tomato.





Baltimoret Prices. Parcel Post

1,000. $2.50: 5,000 and over.

per 1.000. We guarantee to ship promptly a

size plant that will please you.

Inca. Tifton. Ga.





Paid. 500, $1.50:

express collect. $1.25

good





 





TOMATO PLANTS~Earlianm

Creator Baltimore. Red Rock.

hallo. three Collard. Celery.

Brussell Sprouts. Post paid. 100. 20m; 300. 752-:

500, $1.00; 1,000, $1.50. Not prepaid. 5.000. $1.50:

10,000, 32,00, Ruby King Pepper. ling Plants: Post

Paid. 100, 40c: 300, $1.00: 1,000, $2.25. Moss Pal-k-

rd. Satisfaction Guaranteed. D. F. Jamison. Sum-

nun'ville. S. (.1. X





Stone, Bonnie Best.

Five Varieties, Cab-

Lcttuce, Btu-ts, Onions.





 





 





 





MILLIONS VEGETABLE PLANTSwCablmgo. W’ake-

fit'ld, Copelmagcn. Flat Dutch. Succession, 300.





‘BonnieQest. Edi-lions, [Livingston Globe and Greater.





Tifton Potato (‘0.. ‘





$1.00: ICHICKS— rout.





 





, .

DARK. White Cornish; Buff. Partridge Cochins:

Langshans, Brahmas; Sussex. Polish: Campinas. Hou-

(lens: Iiamburgs: Andalusians. Spanish. Minorcas:

Jams: Giants: Bantams: Turkeys: DuckS: Geese:

Guineas. State wants. Arthur Jarvis. Waveland. Ind.





 





WIIITTAKER'S TRAPNES'I‘FTD REDS—Both Combs.

Michigan Accredited. b100dte<tcd Eggs. Chicks. Hens

and Pullers. Sixteenth Annual Catalog: free. Inter-

lakes Farm. Box 9. Lawrence. Mich.





 





BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK EGGS for hatching.

from our heavy laying strain, $2.00 per 15. $5.00 per

50, $0.00 per 100. F. E. Fools, Okemos. Mich.





 





HATCHING EGGS—White Rooks.

Won Egg Contest. Circular.

Milford, Mich.





Buli' Orpingtons.

Walnut Hill Farm.





 





ENGLISH \VHITE LEGHORN





PULLETS—B weeks.

851': 10 weeks. 051-. Ed.





Krnndsmn. Zeeland. Mich.

:‘LAnon roommn GEESE

J. McLeod. lmlay City. Mich.





EGGS. 50 cents each.





 





{PURE TOULOUSE GEESE





EGGS—ten

Loyd Southworth. Allen. Mich.





for





 





 





BABY CHICK S





l





SPECIAL SALE—Tanned and Tom Barron RWhige





 





chhorns. Parks' Barred Rocks. S. ( .

‘ Reds. We are now booking orders for our

special sale which starts May 22nd. Send 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 guaxu

funleed. Brummer & Frederivkson Poultry Farms.

jHolland. Mich.



l





 





buy the best. Book order without





 





Copenhagen Market. \Vnkelields, Bullhead. Flat Dutch.

Prepaid. 100. 451-; 300. $1.00; 500, $1.25; 1000, $2 25,

Express. 5000, $7.50. Snowball Cauliflower. 100, r:

500, $2.25: 1000. $4.00. Prepaid. Moss parked.

Critically assorted. Guaranteed. Buy near home grown

' J. Myers. R. 2. Massillon. Ohio.





 





 





PLANTS—Bonny Best: and improved Baltimore to-

mato. early and heaviest bearer known. Choice plants

damp moss packed: also Bermuda onion. 200. 50:»:

500, $1.00; 1000. $1.75: 2000, $3.00. Leadingl varieties

cabbage. 300, 50v: 500. 751-: 1000, $1.25: 2000. $2.00.

Prompt shipment. Good condition delivery guaran-

teed. Progress ‘I‘lant C0,, Ashburn, Georgia.





 





 





 





 





500, $1.25: 1000, $2.00. Postpaid. Tomato plants lrmnittunr-e. Prices, 8. C. W. Leghorns. 121‘. each:

same price. 10.000, $12.50 by express. Porto Rico 1!. Rocks and R. I. Reds. 141‘ each. 1000 lot 11:

Nani-y Hall Potato plants and Ruby King Pepper, loss each, all delivered 100%. We an- near you and

100. 501-; 500. $2.00; 1000. $3.50. Postpaid. 10,000, will please you with strong stook. Book order. we

$30 express. Satisfaction guaranteed. Ideal Plant 1will ship on date wanted. Merrill Hatchery, Merrill.

Company. Franklin. Va. Midi.



CABBAGE PLANTS, 5 Acting, Ready June 1st. BBABY CHICKS from stock all newly blood-tested for





Zliar‘illary White Diarrhea. Third year blood-testing.





I'lighr popular breeds. Hatchery State Accredited.

‘Catalog and price list ready. Pierce Hatchery. .Ii-r-

ome. Mich.





 





lSTUllDY CIIICKSr-Aliloml tested for llui-lllul'}. “3117-.





Diurrlu'a. also Michigan Stat-1 Awrcditml. l.1‘,'.1ll(ll’l’i.~.

‘Rurreil Rocks. Reds and “hire \\',\'undum~s_ Re»

dured priced. June and July. Sunnybrmk Poultry

Farm. llillwlule. )Ili-hluun.





 





‘RICIIARDSON'S ROCKY RIDGE Barred Rock and

;\Vhitc Leghorn Chix Rooks blood tested MH'Illldllllld

H’or Burilluri‘ White Diarrhea. llzmnvcr. .‘llt'll.





 





. 1

TWO DOZEN GERANlUM PLANTS SENT 110811118111 1 BABY CHICKS AND I'IGGSm‘luperior Rinulet Barred





 





 





 





 





 





(1.32:3. 1).... . W...

, s. ' ' - ‘< 'l'n am’s c' olilt Y' 1:.T'0‘. 'l‘l.

ers on the farm. Buckley Geranium Company. Spring,L , .1 ry an 5 l in 0“)

field. Illinois. , , ,

, ERllflyTO-ILAIY BARRLD ROCKS and Hanson W'hita

‘ l i-zmm Ciiris, blond. tested. three years. Cet our

TOMATOLSffrost-prq): cabbage. 001131115 111.111 on- I prices on June chin-ks. None better. Aseltlne Poultry

Emit) 103(180dmsg2(lOan9t11:(?1;p€-i‘20l10%00’503901005?125?“? Farm. Burlmuanp'. (lmud Rapid» .‘llCll.

Everything 'post'paid and guaranteed. ' East. Texas? 1 _ ,

Plant Co.. l'onta, Texas. IS. (. BUF‘F 1.EGHORN BABY (‘HICKS from State

lfivrfmiited Stork. Send for circular. J. W. W'e-bstar.

at l. llllxh.

VEGETABLE PLANTS—10 million ready. Cagliage, E

$1.00 thousand; Tomato. $1.50; (,‘uuliflower, . .00;‘

Pepper. $3.00. (lash. Prompt shipments, satisfaction _ TURKEYS

mmrantced. Farmers' Supply Company. Franklin:

Virginia, ~ f'l‘iIOlml'(lIlBRlCl) Bourbon Rod Turkey Eggs. fifty





 





SWEET POTATO PLANTS—Pure Nancy Hall. South- ‘

ern Queen. Porto Rico. Grown from nice hand- ‘

picked. chemically-treated seed, free from disease. ,

Postpaid. 500 for $2: 1000 for $3.50. Expressed. $3.25 l





 





per 1000. Jesse Russell. R. 2. Bowling Green, Ky. l

VEGETABLE PLANTS shipped anywhere United

States. Will_ship prepaid mail. 50 Wakefield or All~





head Cabbage Plants and 50 Bonm'bmt or Baltimore!

Tomato Plants (garden full) all for 50c. Cauliflower





 





and Pepper Plants 05' hundred, prepaid. Carlislc’

Produce Co.. 11112. \‘aldosta, Georgia. I

FROSTI'ROOF CABBAGE PLANTS. leading





 





varie-

ties. 500. $1.25; 1000. $3.00. Dostpuid: 10,000 express. ,l

$12.50: pepper, 101mm. cauliflower. sweet potato. May. ,1

Juno delivery. Satisfaction our motto. Maple Grove!

Plant mes, Franklin. Va. ‘ l



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CERTIFIED IMPROVED ROBUST BEANS—choice,

hand pivliod, $0,350 per hundred I“. 0. B. 0‘VOSSO.1





 





 





,erul llOlth‘W’lfl‘li in small family.





rents opium“.

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Order early. 1’. Chapman. North-





villv.





TURKEY EGGS: Thousands of them. all breeds.

strictly purulmvl. Special price list free. Eastern

Ohio l‘nuliry Farm. Beallsvilli‘. Ohio.





 





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WAN’I‘I‘ID ei’apable. reliable girl or woman for grn-

. An ideal Christian

home. With pleasant surroundings and 14'me wages for





 





the light party. R. ll. Moulrnu, 250 S'xl'rzm anl.

Gh-nroe, Illinois.



YOI’NG .\l.\.\"‘:1< mill: sales-mun. Alvisr he murm-

sllle. liui- rote-trues and $200 l':l~ll llulifl. $35 :1

\l'tl'li annulment]. \Vrim for ummliupp'nr. 31-110 Isle





Creanu-r‘x‘, 3000 Forest 12.. Di'll'Oli, lip-ll.





 





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bags free. Freight prepaid on five hundred or more. ,0 'hours'. Stare wages, Edward Lulfim, New Bufl'ah’l

A. 13. Cook, Ownssc. erh. :Alli'll.

lIIOL’HI'Il\'l‘.‘l‘II’l'JR “'ANTICD mi elderly woman.

COPENHAGEN CABBAGE PLANTS. $1.90. 10002101101111! Ill'ly years. on farm. (irrmnn preferred. A.

Tomato. $1.00; Imlp' lxms Pepper. $2.00: Sweat I’o- llOllli‘ if suited. .Iohn Buhl. Vanilla, Rip-h,

into, $2.00; Onion. $1.00. Large open field grown;

Prompt Shipment. (initnmn Plant Co.. (211111111111. Ga. ;:\IARRll£l) COUPLE for farm Work, h); month or

your. Write Box 07:3. Michigan Farmer. Detroit.





PLAN'l‘S—lcadinu varieties. Open field grown. Cab-

bage. $1.00, 1,000: tomato, $1.00: Ruby King Pepper,





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





w. H. Ernst, Nunica, Mich.





 





Catalogue free. Clark Plant 00.. Thomasville,





Georgia.





 





DAH'LIAS—12 assorted double,

Nelson. R. 1,





650 postpsid. ‘ John





Cadillac. Mich.





for

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MARI-l

stitched and emln-oidered pillow cases. Send for free

booklet.





 





$2.00. Prompt shipment. \V. W. Williams. Frank-i SITUATIONS WANTED

liu. Ya. I



MOTHER AND DAUGHTE ~«Experienced cool: and

Gilldlhi ALFALFA SEED $19.88 bllslll’l. Fancy (11- vwaillxsss wuntg charge of [avg bOill'tllug llOllH‘. 31311-5-

lfalfa $12.50. June Red Clover $10.88. Z. T. Nichols ,1'mmn, 1,le East 40th St.. Cleveland. Ohio.

Kr. Sons, Lawton. Mir-h. §



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FOR SALE—Red Kidney Beans. choice seed $10 per AGENTS WANTED

100 lbs. All hand picked. Bags free. Order early.

Henry Foley. R. N0. 5. Mt. Pleasant, Ml<‘h~ tAGIINI‘S Our‘ New Household Cleaning Device washes



and dries windows. sweeps. cleans walls. scrubs. mops.

HAND PICKE‘D RED KIDNEY BEANS. 99 per cent . Costs less than brooms. Over half profit. Writs

germination. $12 per hundred. F. O Nunica. Harper Brush Works. 173 3rd St.. Fairfield. Iowa.





 





SALESMIIV v'i‘o srll Oil Cook Stmcs. Special price

your own 1134-. Write manufacturer for particu—

llpx 001?, Michigan Farmer, Detroit. Mich.





MONEY AT HOME selling stamped. hEm~





Row Art (10., Dundee. Mich.





 





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