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you can get in front of you. Sum up all



the claims of service. You cantoutmatch them



“ at the nearest Goodrich dealer. WithGoocL



rich tires -‘ and prices, he W111 prove that: he,

has the best‘ tires» at the: lewe‘st first cost.





Every Goodrich Tire-1's, . a Cord. Our vast'

output provides you a choice “Sure to deliver"

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Goodrich provides cords. that are strong-2,;

they include every. betterment known to\

tire making—carcass strength ;"tough, slow

wearing tread; and extra- rubber insulation.



TWhen you/buy Goodrichf‘tires you ‘buw

mileage, and you buy it, at“ the il‘owest'price.»

The farm dollar goes further in: them than}

anyWhere else, and you measure its ‘dis‘



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LIVE STOCK ,MEN INVITED To

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HE’ Annual Live Stock Feeders’

"Day‘will be held at Michigan State

College, East Lansing, Friday, June 4.

The third year’s results in feeding

baby beef calves will be presented and

the calves will be on..eXhibit.in the

pens-just as they have finished the

experiment. ,



'- A comparison is being made of self-

feeding versus hand-feeding, a more

limited grain ration, and another com-

parison of an entirely home-grown ra-'

.tion with one containing a purchased

protein supplement.



The feeding of rye and cull beans to

fattening pigs will be discussed, and

,also a trial of economical rations for

.wintering work horses.





FARM RELIEF DISCUSSIONS.





 





HE Closing debates on farm relief



legislation in the house were char-

acterized by a. virulent display of party

politics. At times the discussions

were acrimonious and devoid of com-

mon sense. The desire to help agri-

culture was lost sight of in the at-

tempts to put the other fellow in the

hole. But on the whole, the speeches

indicated that congress is desirous of

doing something that will actually

help agriculture, providing a way can

be found to accomplish this end with-

out granting special subsidies or in-

creasing food costs to the consumers.





WANT CANADIAN DAIRIES lN-f

SPECTED.





 





HE representatives of dairy organ-

izations have appeared at hearings

in favor of senate bill 4126, introduced

by Senator Lenroot, of Wisconsin, re-





~ quiring milk producers of neighboring





countries to conform to the same

standards as are required in the Unit-

ed States, when producing milk for

consumption in American cities.

Senator Copeland, of New York, said

that as a protection of the public

against disease, the inspection of milk

should be taken care of before leaving

Canada and should not become a bur~

den on officials in the United States.

William F. MacDonald, of the New

York State Department of Farms and

Markets, and C. P. Osgood, state milk

inspector for Maine, who have made

extensive investigations of Canadian

dairies, said they found unsanitary

conditions existing in many of them.





CONGRESS IS BUSY.





 





BOTH the senate and house have



been holding night sessions for the

purpose of clearing up the rush of

bills. Yet there is little prospect of

ending the session before June 15. On

the night of May 10; the senate passed





. seventy-six bills, one of which was the





Capper-Tincher bill extending to co-

operatives the right to hold member-

ship on boards of trade other than

contract markets, while still retaining

the patronage dividends feature. This

bill applies to cooperatives handling

agricultural commodities. The





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TUNE IN, ON STATION WKAR.





 





E are never too old to learn, and

you will learn many new things

if you will tune in on radio station

«WKAR, Michigan State College at

,East Lansing. This station broadcasts

on 285. 5 meters and will put the fol-





 





 





coming week:





May 22—12 00 noon, weather, mar.

lkets, question box. "



May 24-—12: 00 noon, weather, mar-

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

kin’s bedtime stories; 8:15 p. m., gar-

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



May 25——12: 00 noon, weather, mar-

kets, question box.



May 26—12:00 noon weather, mar-

kets, ,question box; 7: 45 p. m., land-

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

musical program.



May 27—~12:00 noon, weather, mar-

kets, question box.



May 28—.—12: 00 noon, weather. mar-

kets, question box, 7: 45 p. m., land-

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

state department program.





Lzz‘tu/ ’éout Lats ,





THE other day I was in the city,

nd I see farming ain't alloud near

cities no more. They cut cow pas-

tures inta small hunks and sell ’em

to the white collar boys fer lots—fer

lots of money. Some day thesewhite

collar fellows expect they’ll get lots

more fer the lots they've'bought.

Lots is places ta put houses on, but

there ain’t lots 0’ room on a lot ta put

a house. There ain’t no place ta keep

a cow or chickuns. About the only

thing I see runnin’ around or pasturin'

is oughtoes. They

run around loose

and pasture in the

road—there ain’t

no other place fer





’em.

On them‘ lots

there’s about





 





room fer a house,

garage and a con-V

ple o’ clothes

But even nowadays there ain’t





posts.

room fer the clothes post, and the

folkses has got ta send their dirty

clothes to a. washin’ factory where





you pay ’em fer the dirt they get

outa your clothes.





clothes flappin’ ta the breeze is goin'

fast in the cities. It ain’t no use ta

have ’em flap, ’cause they get dirty

flappin’, and then the flappers get ’em

dirtier after they get ’em on.





The days is goin' fast in the cities

when you kin see everything your

neighbor wore, by seein' it on the

clothes line. Of course, it ain’t neces-

sary ta put ’em on the line nowadays

fer that purpose, ’cept fer the men's

clothes, and nobody cares about ’em

anyhow.



The diffeiunce between the city and

the country is in the country you got

a lot 0’ land ta a person, andin the

city a lot 0’ persons ta a land. They

have ’em livin’ one on top 0’ another

sometimes fifteen deep, and the coops

they live in is numbered like the cells

in a jail. If you forget your number,

you’re outa luck—you’re lost and ypur

wife’s wonderini Why you don’t come

home. .



You know lots about your neighbors

in the city, still you know nothin'

about ’.em You kin hear’ em s‘wear at

each other. etc., but you don’t know

whether they’re bootleggers or not. You

have so many neighbors in the city,

you don't know none o""em.



Well, anyhow, it's good we got cit-

ies, ’cause ci es is what we farmers

make our livin’ out o’. The more cities

and the less farmers, the better it’ll

be fer those What are farmers.



Fer me, though, I’ll take farmln’,

where your home and your business

is tagether, and Where you ain’t got

so many neighbors but What you kin

apprechiate What you got. I like‘ it





glowing program on the :air for the". 1‘





The clothes is

dried in a machine—so the days 0' "





where I kin get over ta the other side i
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HERE is a general feeling that

the improvement of rural school





. buildings and school advantages





have hot kept pace with rural devel-

' opment along, other lines.





 





 





A Pioneer School. r ‘





progressive farm communities the old





/ farmhouse has either been remodeled





or displaced by a modern dwelling. A

new barn, chicken“ house, and hog

house have been provided and the

most modern machinery has been pur-

chased and put into use. In many of

these communities improvements have





been made in the school building and

: grounds, while some have been neg-





leéted.

The farmer’s responsibility and the





eve] ral .





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M‘ICHIGAN SECTION THE CAPPER FARM PRESS





 





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. By‘B. F. Ford,‘





competition between farming interests

and other industries have gradually





increased, but many of our boys and

) girls from thefarm must depend upon





the one-teacher, eight-grade school,

and do not have high school advan-

tages. This means that in such dis-

tricts they must either discontinue

their school work on completion of

the eight grades, be sent away to high





 





 





A Common -Type of Rural School.





school, or that the parents must move

to town. A good many farms have

been turned over to tenant farmers,





,or have been vacated because the par-

ents were compelled to move to town

,to educate their children. This works

to the detriment of both the farmer

and the farm. Many of these farmers

would be‘happier, and the old farm

would be in a much better state of

tilth and production if they had re-

mained on the farm. Their children

could have been served to much better

advantage in the grades and could

have received suitable high school ad-

vantages if a. rural agricultural school

had been provided in the vicinity of

the farm home.



The future welfare of the state and

the nation, and the perpetuity of a

high standard of rural life demand

that the farm boy and girl shall re-

ceive shool advantages that are on a

par with those given to the boys and

girls of, our villages and cities. This

is a project that demands both local

and state-wide attention. A few Mich~

igan communities have solved the

”problem through organizing a larger

school unit. Several communities have

thus brought together a large enough

valuation and school population to





 





 





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RELIABlLlTY

SERVICE





NUMBER xxi ~-





Schools





 





 





 





make it possible to reduce the number

of grades to one or two per teacher

and to support a high school. In forty-

nine of these communities, rural agri-

cultural schools have been establish—

ed, in which vocational work is includ—

ed as part of the high school courses.

They have modern buildings. The

state contributes toward the mainte~

nance of the school and transporta~

tion of the pupils to these schools.



It will be of interest to compare the .'

original pioneer type of oneroom log

schoolhouse, the common one-room

school building, and the rural agricul-

tural school building.





 





 





The Modern Consolidated School.





Private Invcsugatlon of Public Affairs

A Farmer End: 0112‘ Sometflifig Aéout Me Wéyr am/ lVéere/ores of Tar/fl '





HIS is the story of how one

Michigan farmer carried on a:—

private investigation of how the

tariff affected the price of his beans

and beets, and without leaving his

farm home,c concluded that a higher

tariff wall on beans and beet sugar





' would hardly be desirable this year,





at. least, and incidentally learned that

politics are so involved after all, and

that politicians are mostly human in

spite of reports to the contrary.



“Why shouldn't the tariff on beans

and sugar be raised by congress?

'Wouldn’t such action insure Michigan

farmers a fairer price for their prod-

nets in the same way that adequate

protection has aided so many business





. interests?" Those were the questions





that this Michigan farmer submitted

.to the two men from near his locality

who represented districts in the con-

gress of the United States, with in-





. ,structions to find out what they could





and report. It may have been rather

Of a stiff assignment, but each repre-

sentative did his best to work it out,

.and especially the young congressman

fivho represented the farmer’s particu-

lar district. .

Both representatives immediately

agreed on one thing—no Change of the

tariff would be possible thl's year. It

happens that this is a campaign year

and any tanipering’ with‘ the tariff

._would be considered highly improper

and inadvisable at this time for Quite

. ‘ which have to do with

- terms: as the

th were

' ve





 





 





' tics” involved





By the Farmer’s Son





either beans or sugar would be objec-

tionable this year, even though con-

templated.





First, with true professional acu-

men, he laid the farmer’s questions

before a government agricultural econ-

omist and asked his help. Any tariff,

of course, the economist would have

him understand, Was designed simply

to keep foreign products out of com-

petition with our own home-grown

products, and right here, in connec-

tion with beans, was an important

fact It seems that a large propor-

tion of imported beans are of many

odd and queer varieties, which, accord-

ing to the economist, cannot be grown

in this country and are only imported

for certain foreign born citizens who

have cultivated a taste for old country

dishes and still demand them. Then,

too, the ecOnomist pointed out, im~

ports vary so much from month to

month in the types of beans, lima, pea,

kidney, or others, that competition

with any one of the hoine- grown varie-

ties is never long enough sustained to

seriously endanger prices paid our

own growers. The economist supplied

the representative with figures for the

farmer client, which showed that af-

ter all it is the domestic production'

of the pea bean that governs the price

Michigan farmers get for their prod-

uct. That was the impression the rep-





resentative got from his interviews





and communicated back to his farmer

friend with all the figure; and statis-_





 





* port .back from 11113

.ltrie'nd. He hadn’t; succeeded in re-_





to his satisfaction, the young eon-

gressman tackled the problem of

whether or not the sugar tariff wall

warranted raising. He was aware that

Senator Smoot, of Utah, was the lead-

er of the farmer beet sugar interests

in congress, and probably knew more

about the subject than anyone else in

Washington, so he carried the farm-

er’s question .tothe senator. It took

only a few minutes to get Mr. Smoot’s

opinion. The senator harked back to

the last fight for a revision of the sug-

ar tariffwonly on that particular oc-

casion not so long ago, the tariff board

was contemplating lowering it instead

of raising it—and would have succeed-

ed even over the protests of Senator

Smoot and his henchmen had not none

other than the President intervened

for the farmers. “We won that fight

by the skin of our teeth,” was the way

Senator Smoot expressed it, “and ob—

viously it would hardly be good policy

to attempt a higher tariff, even though

it is warranted, with the memory of

that last battle still fresh in every

body’s mind;” Then he answered the

farmer’s question in a single state-

ment: “1 would consider any attempt

to petition for a higher tariff on sugar

this year a most‘dangerous proced-

ure,”‘an‘d with this message from Sen-

ator Smoot the young representative





concluded the report of his investiga-





tion and 'duly forwarded it to his





' farmer constituent.





In due time» the farmer got .the re-

representative





. A





forming farm legislation or, as he

would have liked, in padding the

empty folds of his fellow bean and

beet growers’ pocketbooks, but he‘

had found out the “why” of it all.

And he certainly learned one thing—«1 '

that politicians, most of them, are 011-.

1y human and that politics

involved but that a farmer can carry

on a. p1etty satisfactory investigation

on his own hook. Next year the farm-

er may want to demand changes in

the tariff on his beans and the sugar

from his beets, and when he ‘does

he’ll know just about how -to go

after it.





 





WANTS DIFFERENT TYPE OF

RURAL TEAQHER.





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GREAT deal of the tragedy in

American farm life is due to a

lack of educational idealism, to a lack .'





'of vision, outlook and understanding





on the part of men and women who,

live there, according to Dr. Foghtjof I

a South Dakota industrial school, who

1ecently appeared before a cong1es—

sional committee in favor of the bill





to establish a department of education . A I





in the federal government.



This lack of educated leadership, he

says, is traceable directly to the; type‘

of rural school that we have in this . .

country. He declared that Japan has





a better and more complete system of A U





rural schools than we have.



First of all, we do not have the type . ~

of teachers that we need to implant. in» 7

boys and girls a love of the land. and

an understanding of it, a direct pr,

paredness for living in the open c ‘

try and in the rural villages





 

   





 





 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 





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VOLUME CLXVl NUMBER TWENTY-ONE





DETROIT, MAY 22, 1926

CURRENT COMMENT





 





HE one thing most





Our





needed by agri-



culture today, stated



BeSt one of the speakers

Teacher at the recent Farm





ElectrificatiOn Confer-

ence at Chicago, is an efficient and ef-

fective sales service. Such a sales

organization would need to sell not

only farm products, but also agricul-

ture to both the farmers and the

public.



In the matter of selling farm prod-

ucts, many progressive farmers have

recently shifted their viewpoint. No

longer is the price the only item about

the marketing of a crop on which they

wish to be informed. At one time this

was true, but now, farmers are more

disposed to study profits. What is

over and above costs is the command-

‘ing factor. Unless cost can be kept

below the prices received, the farmer

of today knows that he is failing.



An important phase of this study of

profits ‘is the type of product that

farmers are offering for sale. It is

now better known among farm people

that it is difficult to sell a poor prod-

uct, and relatively easy to sell a good

one. After all, the old system of mar—





.keting would not have been so bad





had dealers received from the farm

a. more salable product. It required

the (experience gained in cooperative

marketing to teach farmers. the neces-

sity of better production methods.





80‘,” it is not surprising to find today

that our most successful farmers are

.thinking of the needs of the consumer

from the time they break the soil un-

til the crops are secured. A part of





, their marketing program consists in





preparing the finest SEed bed, select.

ing the choicest seed, providing the





"best cultural methods, and giving the

.wniost eflicien-t protection against dis—.





sesand insects. g’These m‘enj_seek





\dians.





. “follow the best practices of the in-. .





 





the iaigest’prem' for the ['qu *1‘111





-1 A . primal experience in cooperativemar?





 





keting has pointed the Way to a bet-

ter agriculture. What is now most





needed is to extend this experience to .





agriculture generally.





E are’ never. too





‘Never too . old to learn! So '

Old to steadfastly do e s a

certain resident of

.Learn our state believe in





this old adage that,

according to a recent report, although'

sixty-two years of age and the father

of five children, this man has attend-

ed night classes at Cass evening

school for thirteen years. He is a tool

and dic~maker in a Detroit automobile

plant.



This man is a staunch believer in

education, “continuing education,” as

we might term it, for even in his ma—

ture years, he has not been content;

he has sought for more "and more

learning. .



It is said that every man has two

educations—that which is given to

him» and that which he, gives to him-

self. Of the two kinds, the latter is

unparallelled in personal value. Even

though our school days may be an«

cient history, our education is not

complete. - We may be through receiv-

ing education, but 'We are not through

obtaining it for ourselves.



‘With the great strides that have

been made in education during the

past decade, this process of self-educa-

tion is much easier than in the past.

Our agricultural colleges have worked

out splendid programs along this

line; the radio brings many a good

lesson to us while we rock in our easy

chair; books, magazines, and papers

are now available on any subject we

wish.



In fact, even though we do not have





out. We are really: nevpr too old to





learn, dor yet too young to begin.

E were amused

A 2 at hearing the

[experience of a fellow

Who travelled without

a coat. He was d1 ess‘

ed in khaki, service—

able tor travel, as well as clean and

neat. But he was denied admission to

dining cars and dining rooms in ho-

tels. Thus he became aware that the





Social





Symbol





 





worker. \' V’

T HE "weather has

AboutM . been a common , '

the . subject for a’gcs. It-

. _ d s more frequently; .,

Weather _ discussed t has n the





latest scandal and has



a long-time record of front page posi-

tion in the newspapers. . ,



Older folks say the weather is



changing. That is true, for the ”Weath-



or is constantly changing. But we





coat was an important factor as a) still have the good old- fashioned win-





social symbol;

Even in the army, city police forces,





and fire departments, the coat plays





an important part. Regardless of the

duty or the weather, the a1my man

has to wear his coat. Policemen 3113

required to be in full uniform though

their duties require that they "stand in

the sweltering sun. In respectable ball

rooms a man is not allowed to appear

without a coat. But, ladies can expose

their epidermis to a. daring degree. In

fact, the more f01mal the affairtho

more dressed up a man has to be, and

the less dressed the woman.



The coat is useful for keeping warm,





but from a social standpoint, it is one \ it





of the useless heritages under which

we still sufier. The man who does

things has to take ofi his coat to do

them efficiently and comfortably. But

the coat, like the white 13011111, is a

symbol that one is not working with

his hands. It parallels the long finger

nails of the high caste Chinese.



We still have lingering with us the

idea that manual labor is subordinate

But we me coming to the realization

that little wouldbe accomplished with—

out the coatless man. And we may, in

due time‘, be able to attend social func-

tions where men can be dressed in





 





Mrs. Arthur Copper is Dead





RS. ARTHUR CAPPER, wife of



Senator Capper, of Kansas, pres-



ident of the Lawrencé Publish-

ing Company, publishers of the Mich-

igan Farmer, died at the Hospital for

Women of Maryland, in Baltimore, on

Monday morning, May 10. Death came

following an operation perform’ed

about five weeks ago, from which she

never recovered. Senator Capper and

a party of relatives and friends, took

Mrs. Capper’s body~ back to Topeka

for burial. ' ~



In Topeka the state house flag and

a. number of other flags over the city

were placed at half—mast Monday, and

remained so until after the funeral at

four o’clock Wednesday afternoon.

Kansas is mourning the passing of a

pioneer, as well as the wife of one of

her most prominent citizens.

MrSpCapper had an intimate and



unusual connection with the history of

Kansas. She was the first daughter

born to a governor of Kansas while

he was governor, and forty-six years

later saw her husband take the oath

of office as the first native borngov-

ernor of Kansas.





Mrs. Capper spent much of her early

life in Washington Where her father,

for more than thirty years, represented

Kansas and Kansans. .She attended

the public schools and Bethany Col-

lege in Topeka, and a private school

in Washington, and also took a spe-

cial course in music at the Conserva-

tory of Music in Boston. . '. .



He1 ancestors were renowned for

their military achievements. Her fath-

er, Samuel J. Crawford, was a. cavalry

leader in the Civll\War, and played a.

big ,part in the wars against the In-

He was one of the best known

early Kansans, and in 1870 founded

the town cf Florence, Kansas, naming.

it for Mrs. Cappe r—F‘lorence Chase

Crawford before her marriage

Senator and Mrs. flapper were mar-





 





iied Dec’ember 1, 1892, and from that

time until Kansas sent Senator Capper

to Washington in 1919 he1 home and

interests were in Topeka. In Mr. .Cap-

per’s struggling years as a young pub-

lisher, she assisted him actively in his

business.



Mrs. Capper was never-known, ex-

cept to relatives and her very intimate

friends, as the brilliant, talented wo-

man that she really wasf She was a

writer of verse and a very talented

musician. She was an especially skill-

ed harpist. She published several

songs of he1 own composition and

played a number of her own compo-

sitions on the harp. She collabo1ated

with Mrs. Myra Williams Ja1rell on

songs for children.



While not naturally given to public

appearance 01 display, M15. Capper

long exercised a quiet but effective

influence on Kansas affai1's./ She was

always intensely interested in her hus-

band's career, had a keen perception

of people and events, was familiar

with state affairs, and acquainted in

national circles. She was an able

helpmeet and. partner to Senator Cap-





' per.





Mrs. Capper was a personal friend

of M13. Coolidge. On May 6, the latter

drove from Washington to the hospital

in Baltimore, where the two women

had their last visit together.



Mr. and Mrs (Zapper have always

\been “home lovers.’ During the four

years'that Arthur Capper was gover-

nor of Kansas they lived at their own

"home on Eleventh and preka. Ave-

nues, rather than at the executive

mansion. Practically all of their time

aWay from Washington, with the ex-

caption of their European trip, was.

spent at home. ,



So it is at their old home, in the

midist of familiar surroundings, that





- Senator Capper arranged to have the

. Simple. funeral ceremony performod.





ters that grandpa talked about, as the

last one has pioven.



Nothing shows that the weather is

making permanent changes. In fact,

a recent bulletin from the ’Michigan

State College, which gives the experi«

ences of eighty winters” in Michigan

orchards, refers to records whiCh-shew

that usual and unusual weather has

occurredcver since the 1840’s. ,Many

of these records were taken from old

copies of the Michigan ‘Farmer. .- I





The weather will remain a, much

cussed and discussed subject because

it keeps us guessing, and it keeps us

guessing because of our ignorance of

“hen the fundamentals which in<

fluencc weather are m01e thoroughly

unde1stood, we- will be able to tell

whether it will be favmable picnic

weather next Sunday or not One man,

“J10 claims to know, says this year

u ill be one of sudden changes in tem-

peratu1e, and next year will be one

without a summer. When it is all

over we will be able to determine if

he was light 01 not.





ENNESSEE does





Naming not claim to be

the modern, ’ with refer

ence to evolution,



Farm but ”recently it put a





law 011 its books

which shows that, in some respects, it

is ahead of many, other states. The

Tennessee legislature passed a law

p1 oviding f01 the registiation and pro—

tection of distinctive farm names.

T1ade names and marks have alwayg

been found valuable in commercial

fields, soyaluable, in fact, that many

companies list them in their financial

assets. There is no doubt as to the

value of a trade-mark which has a

good reputation behind it, for it be-

comes the seal or sign of that repu:





tation. Trade-marks and names also

mean distinctiveness. Somebody’s

flour is better than'fiour, therefore,





people buy such common things as

flour by name. The mere fact that

somebody has given something a name

shows that he has some special in-

terest in it.





You1 farm is your home and your

business, it therefore needs distinc-

tion. To give the farm a name indi-

cates a pride in it. It shows that the

one vé‘ ho lives there appreciates the

asthetic side of farming, as well as

the business s'de. And that he also

takes a pride in‘ endeavoring to make-

that farm a success. then one gives

his farm the distinction of a name,

he is likely to stand back of it with

better fanning. The pioducts of the

faim alSo gain distinction, as, for in-

tance, Shady Elm Faxm eggs would ‘

attract the buyer much quicker than

o1dinary hen fruit.



A name will take your farm out of

the 1anks of the ordinary, providing

that you are conducting a farm bush

ness worthy of a name. - .





 





Thc'garmer cooperative movement

in_-t_his country has been most popular

inltho north central states. In these

states only seven per cent have failed "

during the past year, while in Michi-

gan and the country as a Whole, the

percentage of failure is nine. In the

mountain states, tfe'myat ‘ oer ‘ "

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P to the spring of 1925, with

. .What I had read, and What ex-

, ".1 ’ ' perience I had, it would seem

"‘ 1' ' that\ sWeet clover possibilities were

‘ exhausted, but after the experience I

' had the past season, I began to re-

alize the sWeet clover proposition is

only in its infancy as regarding sur-

prises. .

_ _ In the spring of 1924, I sowed with

' " . . ‘ oats, twenty-two acres of Biennial

' W111te Blossom on the best of clay

; « loan) sell, and got not only a perfect

I," ,.«; stand or young clover, but a bumper

‘. ' , i crop of oats as well: *

z * i In the spring of 1925, as work was

I? _ crowding, I couldn’t get time to fence

1‘ - 1 off a piece for pasture, so Ilet the cat-

« ..; - tle have entire run of the whole piece

' ’ until the sixth of June, when I fenced

off five acres. From then until Sep-

tember 1, those five. acres pastured

'ten cow’s, one heifer that came the

November previous, and four head of

horses. .





 

 

 

 





 





 

 





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With the exception of a shdrt while’,

owing to a defective line fence, I

turned them at night on a piece of

light ground with a scant stand of



.clover. i All during the day they had"

free access to salt and water. Of the \

~~ ten cows, only two were fresh in the

spring—none of the others were fresh

later than the firstvof the previous

». November, but 'I never got such a

, ‘ deluge of milk in all my life, including

the years when my cows .freshened in





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(I. : . E have all, been told repeatedly

I", v» that successful cooperative or-

‘. . ' ganizatio'ns are founded on the

.f , plan or" each member pooling his in-

terests With the other members. Co-

operation means working with the

other felloW, not competing with him.

It is now relatively easy to find ex-

amples of successful farmer owned co-

- operative associations. Farmers have

demonstrated that they can submerge

,personal initiative and freedom to

work together when it is to their mu—



tual economic benefit.

It has remained for two farm c0-

woperatives, located at BruCe Cross-

ing, Ontonagon county, Michigan, to

furnish an example of unselfish, yet

[exceedingly efficient, cooperation be-





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merchandise.

was

those charged in other stores.

gross profit was only 17.8~ per cent,

while the actual expense was but 7.6

per cent, an extraordinary low cost

of doing business.

was $8,371.13.

on all invested capital a Considerable

sum was put

'funds, and a trade dividend of 71/2 per

cent was declared.





Greater Posszéz/ztzes T flan Pxpectezz





By Fred Barber





during spring on the native grasses.





Never dreaming of such a flodd, I

had sent all my calves and young

stock to a istant pasture, and all I

had left at me to consume the skim-

milk was three hogs, tw’o calves, one

heifer, and _thirty head of chickens.

During the high tide of production, I

gave as much as fifteen gallons of

skim-milk per day to a neighbor, after

which I got busy and bought some

pigs.





On the first. of September, I decided

there wasn’t much good left in the

old stubby seed-laden stalks—that it

would be worth more for seed. I

turned the stock into a_ field of new

seeding and cut three loads of hay

from the old pasture. . The cows went

down on their milk production and the

'seed wastoo ripe, and shelled so I

didn’t think it worth

thresh. It made fairly good hay, but

it would have been much more valu-





 





 





 





 





 





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The stock of the store

sold at prices comparable to

The





The net surplus-

After paying. interest





into various reserve





Only $3,000 has been invested in





the Store, and yet in these‘seven years

the net worth has grown to $26,486.44.

The patrons of the store have receiv-

ed good quality merchandise as cheap

or cheaper than they could purchase

the ,same articles elsewhere;





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tween two cooperative organizations.



These two cooperatives are the Setr

tlers’ Cooperative Trading Company,

which operates a cooperative store,

and the Ontonagon Valley Cooperative

rCreamery: Association, owners of a co-

operative creamery.



~Bruce Crossing is a small town,

probably less than 100 people. " In this

Upper Peninsula. section, the. lumber-

ing days are not yet over, and most

of the farms have been started since

'.1910 Land clearing is still the chief

farm enterpriseron the 200 farms that





_occupy the trading territory contigu-





ous to BrucelCr-dssing» Over eighty

per cent! of. these farmers are of Fin-

nish nationalitg or descent. They are





-a thrifty-hardworking group of pion-





eer farmers. The soil of the county-

is a heavy red clay, and dairying is

depended upon as the chief income

producing farm enterprise.



These new farmers organized‘ a. co»





operative store in 1919 The grass sales





192,5 were $812,683; 30.. The av.

“We carried Was about





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been given a generous patronage divi-

dend at the end of the year; have se-

cured interest on their invested capi-

and at the same time they have

seen this investment of theirs multiply

in value eight times during the seven—

year period The store company has

no indebtedness of any kind. Late in

1925, a branch store was started at





 





Good Sweet Clover Crop.





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able if. used for pasturing purposes; i

On the remaining seventeen acres;

1 cut the first crop of hay, commence:

ing the last week in June, and Ithe

quality was the very best, owing to

the stock grazing it so late. The sec-

ond crop came on immediately. It

grew so quickly, and looked so warm .

ising, that I decided to let it go to -

seed. About twothirds of it got dry

enough to be threshed, but the other

third had to be used as hay owing to

damp, cold weather in the fall. All

told, I got thirty bushels of seed. Be—

sides, the clover straw made good



hay which the stock ate with relish.





I haven’t had a case of bloat,for

over three years, or since I pastured

the stock on sweet clover. I think

that is pretty fair for one piece of

ground, four crops in one short-sea?

son—pasture, two crops of hay, and

seed, to say nothing of the crop of

milk, hogs (including the neighbors’),

etc. And as a fitting sequel, I will say~

that I am just now in the process of

harvesting one of the finest crops of

large, strong, lusty calves that has

ever been my pleasure to raise. ' I am

no prophet, but out of thirty acres

which I seeded this season, I expect

to pasture ten acres, milk twelve cows 5,

and keep four horses, and I am forti~

fying myself against a cloudburst of

milk by assuring myself plenty of

porkers. This cow, hog and clover,

business is sure great stuff.





in Me Upper ' Peninsula





Paynesville, a town located three miles

east of Bruce Crossing.



The outstanding success of this co-

operative store has been due to sev-

eral factors. The Finnish people are

unsurpassed as cooperators, and the

farmers in the Bruce Crossing com-

munity have given their store loyal

support. The store manager, Mr. John

Polkky, possesses to a rare degree,

those qualities that fit a man to man-

age a cooperative retail business. He

has a personality that from the very

first won the confidence of the people

of the community. He is a 'careful

buyer, an excellent accountant, and a

good executive in his relationship with

the other employes of the‘store com-

pany. '



Much credit is due the Cooperative

Central Exchange, with head offices at

Superior, Wisconsin, but which is in

reality a central administrative agen-

cy for sixty—five cOoperative organiza-

tions operating in Minnesota, Wiscon-

sin and—Michigan. The Cooperative

Central Exchange operates a coopera-

tive “1101853”le grocery, a wholesale





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





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bakery, a hardware jobbing service,

an expert accounting service that and-

its twice a year the books of all its

member organizations, and also trains

men and women for service in the .

various cooperatives that are members

of the Central Exchange. From the

first the Settlers’ Cooperative Trading

Company has maintained a close con-

tact with this central organization.



An important project with the store

at Bruce Crossing has been the --

cream buying station operated in con-

nection 11 1th the store. There was no

local market for cream and the store'

acted as local agent for a centralizer

creamery that operates a. plant’ in a.

nearby city. A couple of years ago ~

the farmers began to talk about form-

ing a cooperative creamery associa-

tion and operating a creamery. The

co—op store at once announced they

would not compete with a. cooperative

creameiy, and would cease to act as

agent for the centralizcr, provided the

creamery project could be carried

through. This meant a loss of income

to the store, but an issue like this

showed the difference between a co-

operative store and a privately owned

store.



The new creamery was nearly two

years in maturing into an incorporated

oiganization, erecting a creamery

building, installing the machinery, and

actually getting started with the man

ufacture of butter About 180 men

invested $50 to $500 each, and signed

an agreement that pledges them to de—

liver all of their cream to the cooper-

ative creamery or else forfeit their in-

vestment as liquidated damages.



A commodious creamery building

was constructed. It is built of vitri—‘

fled tile, and is practically fire proof;

All modern and efficient machine ”

was selected to equip the buildi

They have an ammonia refrigerating

system, and cold storage for a caring

of butter. An artesia’n 'well over '
meat of. ever 322500031. "





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It is now generally recognized by farmers and dairymen

that it pays well to rotect stock against fly annoyance.

“And it has also come enerally recognized that ' ‘

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better than before—more powerful action with less odor;



“Improved Dairyman's FLY-K11." does actually protect cows all day

against fly annoyance. It kills instantly every fly it hits and is a positive

repellent for many hours'after spraying. It is colorless, sweet smelling,

will not stain or burn the hide and positively will not taint dair products.

That “Improved Dairyman’s FLY—KIL” does the Work e ectively is

proved by the fact that it is the most widely used dair man’s spray in the

country. Practically all of the leading agricultural colleges and principal

dairy herds of the central states use it.





“HOUSEHOLD FLY-Kn.” -

a new product, is equally effective for residence use. Contains no oily

substance, safe and pleasant to use, 'rids the home of flies, mosquitoes and

other insects. Millions of gallons of fly spray are used in city homes-—-you

can now keep your house free from flies.

“FLY-K11." is demonstrated right on your own farm by our factory

representative. We want him to show you how it works on your place.

If our man has not called on you write for prices and name of nearest

distributor.



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‘ essary $22,000 investment. Local

financial institutions were reluctant to

advance money to a cooperative en-

terprise that had not yet. demonstrat-

ed it could or would operate success-

fully. There was a short period when

those interested in the creamery. were

at theii wits’ end to find a way to





tory "in operation.





It was at this time the Settlers’ Co«

operative Trading Company stepped

forward to take $4,500 from their re-

serve funds and turn it over to the

cooperative creamery organization.

Never was an offer more thankfully

‘ accepted. While it was true that many

farmers were members of/ both organ-

izations, and to them it was only a

uprocess of, taking money from one

pocket and placing it in another, the

“fact remained that the membership

rolls were a long way fgom identical.

Added to this should be considered

the reluctance any young organization

would naturally have to tie up its

liquid reserves. The unselfish spirit

that prompted the store association to

loan the $4,500 to the creamery organ-

ization meant the giving up of a plan

that was much desired by the store

association members. In 1922 the co-

on store burned to the ground with a

“complete loss of the building and mer-

chandise. . <



The store business has since been

carried on in cramped quarters in a

;warehouse, and the plan has been to

gerect a commodious store building in

;keeping with the volume of business

ithat is being done. Loanin'g this mon-

;ey to the creamery organization meant

the indefinite postponement of this

plan. ‘



‘ The $4,500 loan put the creamery or-

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0U are busy. You haven’t time to learn about

things unless they can really interest you. Yet

here’s a way to learn about everything that concerns

your personal life ,in almost no time at all. Just

turn through pictured pages and run your eye down

interesting reading. You learn lof the best way to

shave, dress, brush your teeth, make your food bet-

ter, health stronger, home richer, self happier. The

razor, underwear, tooth-brush that will act in the

best way for you. New wonders you can buy—-

where to buy them, what to pay, the exact good

they’ll do. What thousands of other people are en-

joying, just what those enjoyments are. Good taste

in home decoration, serving of foods—how to avoid

mistakes, make the most of yourself, the most of

your money; how to save.





All this in just the few minutes it takes to glance

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ust 12, 1925. An excellentnearby de-

mand for the butter made’it possible

‘to sell every pound at the creamery

‘door, and without making it necessary

[for shipments to be made to outside

Epoints. Over 20,000 pounds of butter

.are being made each month, and a net

Iprofit of about $500 has remained from

each month's operation after the farm-

ers received ,the centralizer price for

butter, all expenses were paid, depre-

ciation charged on the building and

equipment, reserves set up for contin-

gencies: and interest paid on all in-

vested capital and borrowed money.

The cooperation between the cQ-op

store and the cooperative creamery

did not stop with the loaning of the

$4,500. Both organizations felt the

need of a skilled ac'countant, for it is

,now common knowledge that accurate

and detailed financial statements, reg-

ularly placed in the hands of the offi-

cers and stockholders of a cooperative

association, are an invaluable safe-

guard, and an aid to the establishment

of confidence in the organization.

Neither the store nor the creamery





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 





   





 





had a volume of business that would





large enough to secure a really skilled

accountant. An arrangement was

therefore worked out whereby the two





_ concerns shared in, the expense, and





this man spendsuhis mornings in the’





. store and his afternoons in the cream-

_ . cry. .. Both organizations have the ads

, ' vantage of better bookkeeping records

, :than either could secure singly, and





at less actual cost. ’

The 'store‘ operated a truck that de-





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5 . cream some over M We territory.

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of their servicenand at practicallymo

additional. expense. Incidentally .the

farmers of the community

both. ways. i





The identity and individuality of the

co~op store and or the cooperative

.creamery have been carefully .preserv~

ed. The friendly cooperation between

the two organizations has not cramp-

ed or injured either concern. On "the

other hand, each has ~benefited. The

creamery would have been hard press-

ed without the $4,500 loan, and the

store will profit from the increased





{revenue that will accrue from the pres '





ence of an improved local market for

cream, the chief farm product.





 





 





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The woman’s divisioii of the Ama- -





teur Athletic Association has urged

the elimination of competitive athletic

contests between women. -The thought

is to devote more time to physical de-

velopment than to “physical destruc





tion.”





Rioting and civil war rages in Pol-

and, With all but two provinces rally-

ing to the support of Premier Witos.

The revolt leader, Marshall Pilsudski,

IS demanding terms which will virtu-

ally make him premier.





. Michigan State College celebrated

its Sixty—ninth anniversary on May'13.

Charles Garfield, of Grand Rapids, a

graduate of the class of 1870, spoke

on “Looking Both Ways.” =



The total automobile production in

this country for 1925, asannounced by

the federal commerce department, is





4,157,830, which includes all types of«





motor vehicles. '





Edwin Denby, of Detroit, former sec?





ary of war, is interested in a floating



hotel at Beaufort, S. C. The hotel will

be built in the hull/of the old U. S.

Monitor Amphritrite. ,





An airplane route has been opened

between Chicago and; Dallas, Texas.

witliairships which are called “flying

trucks,” because they are larger than

the usual commercial flying planes.





.Henry Ford recently bought the

pipe used in the first water system

ever built in New England. These

wooden conduits were laid by the Ply-

'mouth Aqueduct Company in 179:.

They will be added to the collecrien

of relics at Ford’s Botsford Inn near

Detroit. ‘





The royal servants of King George

were detailed for strike duty during

the big strike in Great Britain.



Rioting between Fascists and Monar-

chists in Paris caused injury to over

400 people. ‘-





Despite the strike, England will

make its regular payment of $67.9l'0,—

000 on its debt to the United tSates.



Commander Richard Byrd flew in

the “Josephine Ford” airplane over

north pole on May 9. He accomplish-

edln a few hours what to k Com-

IIllaéldeI‘ Peary months to do huh dog

s e s. .





Alton B. Parker, democratic nomi-

nee for president in 1904, who was

defeated by Theodore Roosevelt. died

.in New York, from heart disease on

May 10.





Investigation shows that the Russian

Soviets are selling American arms and

ammunition in China. These war sup-

plies are part of what Russia bought

from us during the world war.



_The\British general strike, which for

nine days paralyzed the industry of

Great Britain, was called off May 12.

The miners, for whom the other un-

ions w cut. on strike, will still remain

idle pending negotiations for better

erms.





American , bankers v in connection

with _London financial leaders, are

planning to loan Europe $400,000,000.





' The railroad "strike in Cuba, which

mviolared three railroads, has «been

en 9 . ~ .— '





The Amundsen-Ellsworth dirigible

sailed over the north pole on .May"‘12.

three days after Commander Byrd did

the same feat.





-~ W. O. Hotchkiss, president of the

Michigan College of Mines, said that

the iron supply in theLake Superior

region would la'st only about





years if used at the present ,





consumpt, .- ion-





 





his-’baa.‘ ' l "





have- gained '





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"HE Scarcity. "otman pewer on

"" our {arms is rightly. considered .

one of 90m; major agricultura‘L

pinblenis." Nothing in sight at the

present . time seems" to- indicate the

easing up of this condition, hence the

‘wide use ogJabor—saving, machinery is

rendered" imperative. ” r,

and, in compliance with economic

law, to which alfmust inevitably sub-

mit, those who steadily refuse to avail

themselves , of more efficient imple-

ments cannot hope to successfully

compete with the more progressive





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F's

Home-made Five-horse Hitch.

Dimensions shown are correct for

two-bottom gang plow, 14-inch bot-

toms, two horses in furrow, three

horses on unplowed ground. Point of

attachment to plow 15% inches from

furrow wall, or 221/; inches‘ from cen-



ter of furrow. -~.. ’ .



B—Halter tie chain.



C—Draw-chain about 10 feet long.



M—«Bridle reins with. ring loose

where it loops. .



N—Buck strap tied into loose ring

on bridle reins, thence to draw-chain.

Prevents rear horses pulling too far

forward. "





farmers that do. .If, in these days of

.. agricultural stress, even those whose

equipment enables them to turn out

the maximum amount’bf product per

hour of man labor, are barely able to

keep the balance on; the right side of

the ledger, what will be the condition

of those who accomplish no more per

f man hour than they did ‘during ex-

tremely favorable agricultural condi~

tions? , —»





Manufacturers, to meet. the fierce -





competition in their field, are con!

stantly compelled to invest heavilymin-

'new machinery or go under. Under

the "Conditions of our social and eco-

jn'omi‘c structure; no man’s reward is

necessarily proportional to the amount

of hard work done, but is absolutely

determined by the results accomplish:

éd, minus~the cost of production.





fThis question then, is one worthyl





~of caretui thought. The, tractor has

‘ tethe farmer's aid, and with it





“ pcgcumplish as much as





9.11%: '





‘ t





- ffirz‘ém mag." 392.22%;





Barnum , ’. '

yet, uork their farms with horses and

mules. .- ‘ . .



A rapidly increasing percentage of

the farmers in this group, seeking to

accomplish the maximum amountpf





work per man, have turned to the use





of larger’horse-drawn implements and

multiple hitches. .





The multiple hitch is easily arrang-

ed on many tools, but with others, es-

pecially the gang-plow, various prob-

lems arise. Two horses abreast hitch-

ed to a plow, work very satisfactorily.

However, when the number is increas-

ed to three or more, the questions of





side-draft, over-heating, crowding, har-





ness—chafing, and others arise.



The Horse Association of America,

cooperating with the University of III-

inois, has spent much time in working

out hitches that will overcome the

above difficulties, and their efforts

have met with marked success. They

have demonstrated beyond doubt that

the tandem hitch is the most satisfac-

tory method of applying horse-power

to the gang plow, and have worked

to ingenious devices that make the

handling of horses so hitched an easy

matter.





By using the tandem hitch, the effec-

tive pull offlthe horses is directly for:

ward of the “true center of draf ” of

the plow. Thus the plow is pulled

with the minimum amount of effort

and can do its best work. The lead

horses are driven from the plow seat

with lines, while the wheel team is

automatically controlled by “tie” and

“buck” straps, B and Nun the accom-

panying diagrams.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





’ Heme-made Four-horse Hitch.





Dimensions shown are correct for

two-bottom gang plow, 14-inch bottoms.

Point of attachment to plow 16 inches

from furrow wall, or 23 inches from

center of furrow. ‘



R—Forward end of draw chain and

clevis. Draw chain about 13 feet long,

adjusted enough‘ so that rear horses

cannot step on doubletree of leaders.

- X—‘-—Weld large ring in chain 3 feet

from end.“ This allows flexibility hie-

,, tween front and rear pair, yet pre-



vents rear team from gloing too ' far

*: head, iii. buck straps 3 cold loosen.





S





VERY man wants power



and judges values by it.



Power is a sure, and accu-

rate measure of merit in men, ma—

terials or machines. You respect

it wherever you see it.





The speed of a horse, the strength

of an ex, theiendurance of a mule—

all are examples of power revealed

in work. You judge an animal by

his power to perform. And you

are safe in using the same yard-

stick to measure the value of a

truck, a tractor, or any farm ma-

chine.





You can quickly tell when you

get more power. We emphasize

the power of Havoline Oil for that

reason. You cannot be deceived

about power—it is there or it isn’t

—-and any oil which invites so

rigid a test has a right to your





 





M? ”H.- see lanthanum-horse ‘ '





Indian Refining Company, Inc.

Lawrenceville, 111.





Oil is more than oil— it is power





 





confidence. Proof is so easy!





Havoline is all made at one

great Central States refinery, from

a consistent, first-grade crude

piped in from surrounding oil

fields. For more than 19 years the

refining of Havoline has been in

the hands of the same experts.

Therefore uniformity is certain-e;

the Havoline you buy a month

from now will be the same as that

you buy today. ' ’





Get the power you paid for from

all your farm engines. Try Havo-

line! Oncc you feel the improve- .»

rnent it makes, you will be sold to

stay sold. Order now—in S—gallon

cans, 30- or-SO-gallon drums—di—

rect from nearby Havoline dealer

plant or a convenient Indian sta-

tion. Reliable, prompt delivery is”

part of Havoline service. "





 

 

 





INDIAN GAS





Havoline’s parto

nor in power—-

made from the

same crude, by

the same ex;

perts, at the .



same Central ‘ . ,

Statesrefinery ‘

at Lawrence-f

Ville, In. .'_"
HIGHWAY RIGHTS.





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The county has set stakes for the

improvement of a road running past

my farm. The stakes are set three

' feet inside my fence. A row of apple

trees outside the fence three feet will

be six feet on the highway. Has the

county a right to have these trees de-

stroyed ?—B. ..R





The county has the right to make

.Use of all the land within the high-

way so far as necessary for mainte-

nance of a proper road for travel; and

{when this necessity arises it may,

upon suitable notice, require the own-

.er of the trees to remove them, and

.if he fails to doso, the highway com-

,missioner would have the right to re-

move them. Land could not be taken





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 





We {Paid Him

$603.00





YOU would have had to dig up

every penny of it in cold cash. But

not so with A. J. Murphy, Carthage,

S. D. He was protected with a

Woodmen Accident policy. IT

SAVED HIM $603.00.





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





You know farm work IS hazard-

ous. One farmer in 8 is seriously

injured each year. YOUR turn may

come any day. Accidents lurk

everywhere. Yet, protection costs

little.





001m: WEEKLV INDEMNITY

FOR HOSPITAL CASES

DEATII sv TOTAL DISABILITY

xfugur $IoooA wrtx

PARTIAL

are $250





DISABILITY

LOSS OF





   





demnation.——Rood.





   

 





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A PRIVATE LAKE.





 

 





 





   





I own three-fourths of a small lake,

equal to about two and one-half acres.

My neighbor owns the remainder.

This lake has no inlet or outlet and

cannot‘ be reached without trespassing

on our property. No fish have been

planted in it by the government to

our knowledge, at least, not for the

last twenty- five years. Can we keep

the public from fishing and bathing

‘ in this lake?— G. B.





Apparently the lake is private prop-

erty and the public may be excluded.





   

     





You simply can’t

afford to carry

your own risk. It 5

too grea t. Just

think what t h 1 s

policy saved Mur-

phy. Study the

chart. See the re-

markable benefits

it ofiers. Mighty

big savings when

injuries come.

T h o u s a n d s of

farmers swear by

the Woodmen Ac-

cident policy. In-

“ vestigatel





 





   

   





   





FENCE ALONG PUBLIC ROAD.





 





'92L°AWEIK

LOSS OF





 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





I On the farm I have bought, there is

a “rotten barb Wire fence next to the

road.” May I legally replace this with

a good barb wire fence. or must it be

made of something else?~—F. C. H.

There is no obligation to maintain

a fence along the highway, but the

pwner may build one of any substance





couPON Ania 3: Jéwshthe W'hiodmen

cc en save over . _ . _

BRINGS $5 000. 000 for its policy holders 1116 may desn‘e that Is not particularly

for accidents and accidental (chulgerouS t0 the DUIth A bar d





deaths. Greatest farm accident





policy Prot t y ur it NOW.’ ' _

“I”. Get all the 33111113. “find what wire fence 1s a legal fence. Rood.

DETAILS hundreds of policy holders say. .________



Mail the coupon TODA AN INTRUDER‘ DOG





 





 





 





A dog which has no license tag





mechanism

flaw out





item on

of mint-13111392911.





in our chicken coop. May I shoot him

and not be liable ?—D. S.





The dog may be killed whenever

,found within the inclosure, not accom-

panied by an owner or his agent.





 

 





LOCAL ADMINISTRATOR NECES-

SARY.





 





 





 





WOODMEN ACCIDENT com "





Lincoln, Nebraska.





Please send me details of your

accident insurance policies.





 





 





 





 





: I gave a married woman a mortgage

on a farm for six years. It was due

March 1,1926. Before this date the

lady died. I have been paying to he1

through a local bank. I am ready to

pay this mortgage up but have been

informed that it cannot be dischaiged





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oxup‘t'm‘ now without an administrator being



P. O appointed in this state. The lady was



a resident of Ohio when she died He1



. State ............................. 3,321) ............... husband did not hate he1 estate pro-





bated in Ohio, but I have been told

that he has assigned part of the mort-

gage to his daughter, accmding to ab-

stract. Can I be charged compound





 





WOOL BED BLANKETS & BATTING





w 1 ed t r t 1 1 inteiest from March 1 until it is paid?

a are now ecu pp 0 manu ac are your vrg'in woo



Into bod blankets and batting at moderate cost to What is thS prpper procedure to get

'0“. Custom work a specialty. Give us a. trial. West this settled _W F- M-





1011. Custom work a speciality. Give us a trial. West , ,

unlty Woollen Mills. IOB Lynn St..wm Unity. Ohio. It is not apparent how there could

be any charge made for interest on





the ir terest. It is necessary to have

FRUIT P MIKAEES ‘





an administrator appointed in the



MANUFACTURERS POF ALL ma 0:!" FRUIT County ‘Vhere the land. is, although

1 AMERICAN PINT “Eggegganr BASKETS the mortgagee. was a non-reSIdent of

01,111.11: AND BUSHEL BASKETS FROMPT the state. This IS necessary to clear

We, now SH‘PMENT' Write for ”do“ {the title. No payment could be made

THAYER & COMPANY until an administrator is appointed





BENTON HARBOR. MICHIGAN and ualifie to receive the o .

‘ Dept. M. ,POST OFFICE BOX m q d . m ney





4* BEE HIVES





 





 





A BEAN CONTRACT.





 





I had a bean contract with a com-

pany, which furnished us the seed

which came to $160. We had a poor

cam” yltlear. The beans mere idol goodthand



t e company wou no a e em

BERRY BASKETS The company was to take their seed

8: 16 QT. CRATES out of our beans, as stated in the con-

g?ydlisioumépgc1’1i“mgmm shit. b I didldmirti pray theml forh the



a 9 see ut so y cans esew ere.

in”? "a“ M m m" The ccmpany did not- live up to the

M. H. HUN-1' 3:801! contract, so I- did not. Seven and a

Burials-sing. Miskito. lhalf years after this, or last 1111111111;





Sections, Comb Foundation, Smok-

ers, Etc. Everything for the bus.

Beginners’ outfits or equipment fm‘





bots you now have. Bond M 1m





   





 





l m. Mal

‘ ‘b.’ qwlfl::d.guofh”€mi to “5:01-01





outside of the highway without con-





comes to my place and sucks the eggs .





 

 

 





   





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all on





 





company started trying .to collect on

this contract. Can they collect?

Nothing had been paid on it and the

matter had run for seven and one-half

years—E. M. L.





Unless there has been some new

promise it would seem that that lia-

bility is outlawed. The statute of lim-

itations must be especially pleaded as

a defense. —Rood..





EM PLOYE’S INSURANCE.





 





Is the1e any law in Michigan that

would require an employe working at

any trade or occupation to carry any

insurance of any kind for his own or

his family’s benefit in case he should

meet with some accident while thus





employed?’ Do you know of any other . ‘





state that has such a, law?—L. G.



We are not aware of any law of this

or any other state requiring employes

to carry insurance—Rood.





DEBT OUTLAWED.





 





May a debt be collected after a pe-

riod of six and one—half or seven

years?—‘—R. B.



Simple debts are outlawed in this

state six years from thetime the debts

became due, or the last payment of

principal or interest 113s paid upon

it, 'or from the date of‘the last writ-

ten promise to pay it; but if the debt

is secured by a mortgage upon land

the mortgage may ‘be foreclosedxat

any time within ten years from these

dates—Rood.





DAMAGE FROM DOGS.





 





,1 would like the opinion of Mr. Rood

on the dog law passed in 1919, pages

603 and 609. It states thata justice

shall View the animals killed or in-

jured, and report the damage to the

board of supervisors. It also states

that the amount paid for horses can-

not be mo1e than $100; cat e, $50;

hogs, $12. It says nothing a out the

price of sheep. Has the board any

authority to pass a resolution that they

will not allow more than $15 for any

sheep killed? If a man has a ram that

he has paid $75 or $100 for and the

dogs kill him and the justice values

him at $50 or $75, has the supervisor

any authority to say they will only

allow $15?—-H. A. B.





The law has placed with the justice

of the peace the determination of the

amount of the damage, and this power

cannot be taken from him by any ac-

tion of the supervisors. The board of

supervisors has no authority to abro-

gate state law—Rood.





SHOOTING BLUE JAYS.





We encourage robins and other song

birds to make their home with us; we

have been told that blue jays destroy

these birds, and wish to know if it is

permissible to shoot blue jays.——A. B.



The subject of this question seems

to be covered principally by Public

Acts (1921) No. 117, which provides

(Section One), “All Wild animals and

wild birds, both resident and migra-

tory (native and introduced) found in

this state are hereby declared to be

the property of this state.” Section

Two, “No person shall at any time of

the year, or in any manner take, pur-

sue, wound, or kill any wild animal or

wild bird mentioned in this act.” The

only birds excluded from the protec-_

tion of the act are, English sparrows,

black birds, crows, hawks, kingfisheis,

and owls.





 





During February of this year, five

times the number of tractors were ex-

ported from this country that were

exported in February of last year. Ov-

er 7,500 .t‘ractors were exported, of

which Russia received over 3,500«





 





Michigan has 124 accredited hatcher-

ies. The territory around Zeeland has

twenty-eight, and the Holland region

has nineteen.- Ottawa county, in which





 

 





these two cities are located, has a to- ; :.





taint fiftyone accredited hatcheriés.





 





 





“Your Far-111





 





Take concrete into part-

nership. Use it to mod-

erniZe old buildings. Use

it to construct new build-

ings. Use it to increase/

the value of your farm, ‘

increase producdon, cut

repair bills, save labor

and to makethe business

of farming yield greater

satisfaction.





Crib or granary walls floors,

and foundations of concrete, ef-

fectively keep out rats. You can I

sell rats. Why feed them?



More milk and more beef per

acre result from concrete silos.



Concrete walks mean less

work for your wile. They keep

mud and dirt out of the house.



Clean dairy barns mean

healthy, contented cows, 11 great-

er quantity and a better quality

of milk—hence increased dairy

profits. Concrete in 'the barn is

easy to clean and keep clean.



Concrete gives fire protection.



'It protects people in houses. cat-

tle in barns, and feed in silos. It

is firesaie. v



Sand today for our free booklets,

' 'Psr‘manent Repairs on the F arm" and

' 'Plam for Concrete F arm Buadtm‘ ’





PORTLAND CEMENT

ASSOC IATION





Dime Bank Building

DETROIT. MICH.





I National Organization

to In: on and Extend the

sea of Concrete





orricss It: 31 cmBs





For Scmhliin

KILLS "IE





Collars

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STRAWBERRY PLANTS

150 Ben. Dunlap. 150 Warfields

Hampton 81. Son. R. 3.





300





 





Po

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Bangor. Mich.





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Traction Sprayer-





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





in crop raising. Insures investment in

crops and increases yield from 50 to

200 per cent. Eliminates bugs, mold

and blight. Quickly sprays potatoes,

tomatoes, garden truck, cabbage,

cucumbers, pickles, tobacco, beans,

sugar beets, celery. etc.



The Eureka has 1 , 2 Oi‘ 3 nozzles per

row and 4, 6 or more rows per boom.

Wheels adjustable to various width

rows. 60 to 100 gal. tanks with double or

triple action pumps. May be equipped

for spraying orchards and bushes.





In stock near you. Write to-

day for catalogue '01! Eureka

Sprayers and Potato Machines





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





Does the biggest, most necessary job A





Eureka Mower Co. 81111th Utica. NJ;
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-N.L_,the.~1 spring 011924 the» Michigan

State 'College‘VDeveltopment Bureau

eran‘ a7_,Pure—bred~ Dairy Sires Special

through,"'the Upper Peninsula in Can-

nection‘vv‘ith the Pure-bred Sires Cam-

paign. At the _present time, while the

campaign is ‘ovér, Ithe‘effect and influ-

enCe still carry pn. .— .‘



Toivo Mattsdn, a young“ farmer liv-‘

ing near TrenarY, visited the train

When- it stopped at Trenary back in,

1924, and there he heard something

of the. value1of a pure-bred bull, saw

some good ones on "the train, took

home a prize package and thought the

whole thing out. ' One or the bulletins

in: the package Was all about club





i work" Toivo read this‘through sev-





eral timesand when the county “agent

made his rounds in the spring, sign-

ing up'fnembers,‘he became a “char-

ter” member in his neighborhood.



Toivo proved to be an excellent

member, attending meetings and dem-

onstrations and studying all the time.

In the course of time he won a pure-

bred heifer as a prize for being a

champion club boy. He was some-

what disappointed when the heifer

gave birth to a bull calf, but he raised

the calf to a, nicely grown out indi.

vidual. '



The cow tester found a buyer for

-the calf in.. a man by the name of

Keutta, but Mr. ’ Keutta delayed too

long and his neighbor, John‘ Savola‘,

hearing of the good qualities of the

bull went over and purchased the an—

imal from Toivo. ‘





i ' Profits Sin





   

 

 

 





 

 





, Kasuattaminen.”





. , M" -~.:

1 w ‘ ~ . I is.

‘4 ~>rh .





UPI-Is toldme to try and get his pur-





' ~ Chase put‘ in the Michigan Farmer,”





writes Toi'vo,‘“because he is going to

kill his Scrub bull.” « So, as a result of

the work two years ago, another re-

placement of a scrub bull is credited

to Alger county—"E. G. Amos.





 





SEASON LATE.





 





HE season is. two or three weeks



rate in ,, the Upper Peninsula this

spring. ' Ice has left the lakes the lat-

est forinany years. Farmers who or-

dinarily, have their cats planted at this

time are somewhat concerned. The

lateness has also affected navigation

in the Great Lakes, especially with

iron ore shipments. Last year ore

boats were picking up loads on the

fifteenth of April, and it will be the

seventh or eighth of May this year.





 





N EW BOOKLETS.





LYPSYKARJAN ROUKKIMINEN”

may be a twister for some people,‘

but try this———“Karjan Rehun Kotona

The first one is the

dairy feeding pamphlet written by J.

G. Wells, Jr. The second is on the

growing of field crops for dairy farm-

ers in the Upper Peninsula. This is

'written by G. W. Putnam, superintend-

ent of the Experiment Station at Chat-

ham. The Upper Peninsula Develop-

ment Bureau published them both.





There is a large demand for these





booklets among the Finnish farmers «





in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.





Tomatoes





Newaygo County Grower: Make Money





I ‘ HE addition of tomatoes to the

list of profitable cash crops that

can be grown in northern Michi-





gan seems to be. assured by experi-‘





ments in Newaygo county last year.

About fifteen years ago the Fremont

canning Company tried “the growing

of tomatoes, but early fall frosts de-

stroyed the bulk of the'c'rop and it

was given up as a failure. But with

the develOpment of an early maturing

strain of theMJohn Baer variety by the

Michigan State College, northern can-





_/ . -ners hope'to‘ harvest full .crops of this





luscious fruit, and the success of grow:

ers last year for the Roach Cannery

at Kent City promises to fulfill expec-





— tations.





Hugh Ranney, of Ashland township,



‘ planted two acres on May 30, setting

3,000 plants to the acre. He used 200

pounds of.2»12-6 fertilizer to the acre.

A heavy wind storm destroyed about

a third of the plants soon after set-

ting. The field waslcultivat‘ed' twice





and heed twice. The first picking was





made August 10 and the last October





.- 5. A totatot'thirty tons was harvest-





ed, which at the contract price of $12

a tonbbrought $180 an acre. Mr. and

Mrs. Ranney /were able to pick the

crop until they were ready to harvest

\lima beans: when $20 was paid for





.vhe'lp; The only other cost was for





plants at $3.50 per-thousand, or $10.50

per acre. The netgreturns were thus

$159.50 per acre. ‘





_ I, H. D. «Hollinger-["013 the same town-

:ship, set outvfour acres on the same





dayasMr. Ranney. He set these four





. imby four and one-half feet, using 9,000





plants", and 175 moreWere used for





. resetting, one. hundredfpounds of a

,' ?~.12;§,fqmliz_erawas broadcast over the

field; lair; ~H<illingoij asserts that broads





' or is \better‘ than the

’ «the large.





 





The first picking of packing toma—





[toes was made August 15, but prior to .





[this fifty or sixty bushels were picked

.and sold to local consumers at fifty to

seventy-five cents per bushel at the

farm. During the last days of the sea-

son, hired pickers picked 7,00 bushels

at seven cents per bushel. One picker

averaged seventy-five bushels per day.

The total crop was 2,200 crates, or

sixty tons at $12 a ton, or $198 an

acre. Mr. Hollinger received an ad-

ditional $50 for plants selected and

picked for seed, making a total of $842

income from four acres, from which

he paid $49 for picking and $31.50 for

plants. His idea is that W0 people

can care for two acres Of tomatoes.





Walter Purcey grew tomatoes for

the general .market, and he secured

the remarkable yield of 500_bushels

.from 500 plants by heavy fertilizing

.with barnyard manure and the use of

water during the dry season. He had

a patch of black raspberries just set

out eight feetseach way, and he set

the tomatoes half way between the

raspberries. He has an overhead ir-

rigation system far the raspberries

and he used this three times on the

tomatoes. The plants grew until they

touched. He then went through them

with a corn knife and relentlessly

mowed off the tops.





~- The plants were grown in four—inch

potsiin the greenhouse and transplant-

ed directly to the field. They were

set about the middle of May and a.

frost came after they were set. Mr.

Purcey prepared for this by covering

them with discarded tin cans’frOm- the

cannery. .He .began picking in July

and continued throughout“ the season,

the entire. crop maturing.» He receiv-

ed from fifty'cents a bushel to seven



cents a pound. ' '

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the new and better. »

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This cream separator brings with it the McCormick-

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“i I oasis in the desert of present-day ag~





ricultural gwriting, when. everybody

and, every organizatiOn seems bent

upon getting anybody but the farmer

to do something for agriculture. Ag-

ricultural news has been One long

succession, of dispatches about this

group and that going to W‘ashington

to memorialize the. President and con-

gress, importuning each to do some-

thing to save the American farmer

“from the state of virtual bankruptcy

in which he at present finds himself.”

And when Kelly came along with the

suggestion 7 that «there were some

things that the farmer could do him-

self to 'better his own situation, it was

like a refreshing vagrant zephyr that

wafts over the hayfleld on' a depress.

ing July day. ,



During the last three or four years,

there has been so much talk about

agricultural depression, and so many

delegations have beckoned to congress

for assistance for agriculture, that

tempmarily agriculture seems par-

alyzed with self-pity. I am a farmer

myself; I sow my Own alfalfa seed,

spread limestone with my own right

arm, slop my own hogs and drive my

own horses, but it strikes me that this

perpetual din about farmers being

down at the heel has got to the point

where it is doing a. lot of harm with-

out any compensating good. [When-

ever the idea gets abroad that agricul-

ture is about bankrupt, that is the

time when farm boys and girls leave





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the farm; when farmers have dimcuity

in getting their mortgages renewed,

and when there is little .faith in’ a ..

great, industry that has always been;

basic, and by the saute token always

will be. With population increasing

as fast as it is in this country, the

man who raises food will be a factor

in American life for many years to

come.





Put tersely, the farmer has but one

problem. His problem is to keep the

cost of his'produ'cts less than the sell—

in-g' price. And there; are “but two ‘

ways to do this, one to increase the

selling price and the other to reduce

the costs. If The can do both, he has

just that much more to gain. ’





At .a time when it was unpopular

to say so, I said that -~I believedjhe





solution. for the farmers’ problems lay





in the organization of cooperative

Amarketing enterprises that would han-

dle his products at cost, study mar-

kets and make an attempt to adjust

supply to demand. I am of the same

opinion still. The only good help

there is is self-help. .The fellow who,

by accident, has a game leg will new

or get any better if he does not event-\-

ually throw his crutches away and go.

it alone. Just so long as he depends

upon his crutches, just so long will

he have to depend upon them. Go-

operative marketing, now endorsed by

all students of the farmers’ problems,

is "the sane solution that will work

us out of the preSent morass of low

Govern-

ment help must be regarded as a very

fragile crutch at the best, surely to

be thrown aside when the sufiererac-

cumulates more strength-J. J. M.





 





TEACH THE CHILD To LIKE coon

FOOD. ,





0ES.your child eat what he



likes? I hope so; 91' rather I



hope that he likes the good food

that you supply,‘for it is a sad thing

if there is no pleasure at the dining

table. Even the most finicky young-‘

ster, if trained carefully and persist-

ently, learns? to eat Wholesome food

with enj'oyment. But if good food

habits are spoiled in the early years

of life by unlimited indulgence in

sweets and other palate ticklers, you

will need genuine patience in bring-

ing back an appetite for healthful food.

It can be done, however.



Milk .is a standard food for every

growing child. The bones need it, the

blood needs it, the teeth positively

cry for it. Your child must take milk.

Early prejudices against it may beov-

ercome in some cases by the simple

trick of encouraging the child to’ take

it through a straw. If necessary,- it

can,be colored by chocolate, or ‘flavs





.ored with fruit juice or vanilla. There





are many ways to serve it. other than

as a beverage.‘ It can be used plenti-

fully on- cereals, in stews and gravies,

in mashed potatoes, in’puddings and

sauces. It makes little difference how

it is fed, but be sure that you feed it.

The standard is one quart a day.

Fruits and vegetables are very es-





sential to any diet, but especially that





of the growing child. Since oranges





‘ and grapefruit are often expensive,

, cheapo: fruits may be substituted. The





humble prune is still the friend of lit-

:tle children, and properly Cooked, is

very appetizing. Apples can be kept





most children are easy ,9! digestion.





 





‘The exceptional child who finds dial





culty in digesting apples often can 'eat

baked or scraped apple without trou-

ble, thereby demonstrating that the

real trouble is careless mastication.

Let every child eat spinach. It may

be given almost from babyhood. Stew-

ed canots may also be given at an

early age, and as the'child grows oldf‘

er he may eat them raw, if he likes.

‘A sweet, raw carrot isaquite a treat to

the child who learns to like it. Let

tuce. celery, . chard, and cauliflower

are good vegetables for health, too;

do you give them to your children?





CATcHING SCARLET FEVER.‘





Theie is a family living close to us

where there is a case of scarlet fever.

If a member of the family comes ove:

to xisit me, could she carry it to us?

How old do you have to be before it

is not very dangerous to youth—X. .\.





Scarlet fever is a very' contagious

disease and there is just a possibility

that it may be carried by intermediate '

persons who do not have the diseaso,

but have been in contact with the pa

tient. The chief element of danger is

being in direct contact with the pa

tient, of course, but there is; some

possibility of the disease being spread

by discharges from the patient being

caught in the clothing or on the per-

son of attendants, and so transmitted.

The most susceptible ages to scarlet

fever are those of children and quite

young adults; but it is quite possible

for older persons to take it.





The “eyes” of a star fish are at the

ends (if its arms.





the greater part of the year, and for‘ ,-
Perched on cliffs overlooking Hud-

son, these New York apartment





houses emulate cliff dwellers. Strathey Hall. an old





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George McLaughlin, auto dealer in Bangor, Maine. is inventor of

a new type of automobile which travels equally well on land,

snow, ice or water. . It is propelled by a 70 H. P. plane motor.





Henry Ford’s penchant for old-fashioned dances was visualized re

cently b)’ The Bacon dancm‘s on the lawn of his Szn‘annah estate,

colonial mansion built in 1760.





Great throngs in Tokyocelebrated

the 2.494th birthday of Gautama

Buddha,





 





 





 





 





James Barton. proprietor of towing—path’ inn between Oxford and

lffley, England, fell from his rul'l, recently. His luneral car was

the same raft polled down the river by his sons.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





His» Majesty, Alfonso XIII, decorated the Span- LieutGeneral Sir

ish aviators who successfully flew from Palos \





to Buenos Aires. (ler 0!? Boy Scouts.





Robert Baden-

PuWell is the founder of the or-





 





 





 





 





 





 





lllrs. Rosendal, wife of the contain (it schooner,

li'one, which battled the Purim" tor a month

and a hall with only fish and min \\’:'.t« l-' to eat. ,





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





_, .Someth-ing.'went‘wrong .with W. T. CereW's plane as he was flying

.goveg'yCaeonut Grove, Florida, and he landed on the roof of this

Meg-low with only slight injury to self and. his mechanic.





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, The girl stared. at the slouch-

“1’.“ " ed form, at the peaked, beard-

oovered face and shrank nearer the

Wall; A moment ago he had come





7._ pwaying ”down the" trail and half faint- .

“-ed on the step.





"I’m Martin," he resumed, after the





fiftinterval. . Ruth’s heart all but ceased





‘ boating. _ .

‘ -"You—y0u’re Martin?" she gasped.





‘ The other nodded.





“Yes. That’s me. And I’ve come all

the way from camp. I've walked and

‘ run and crawled all these twenty miles

since morning. And I’ve got to get





"i back tonight.”





“You’re a murderer," the girl went

on. struggling against an overpower-

ing desire to faint. “You killed Old

Ted last week. And now—~now you've

broken out of jail.”



“Right again, little woman," he re-

turned with a grin. “I’m it. But may-





' _be—-maybe you can get me something





to eat. Haven’t had a bite since last

night. And—and it’s a long tramp

back.”





'VVithout a word Ruth groped along





. the wall toward the cupboard. setting





.out. the crude, cold fare that had await:





s’ed her father’s return. She was thank-





ful for the excuse to move—to get

away from him. Maybe. while the man

was eating, there would be a chance

of getting the revolver that hung in

the corner. She noted, too, that Mar-

tin was unarmed.



“All alone?” the man spoke up blunt-





ly, while he devoured the crisp, cold

bacon. Ruth nodded. It was better

to tell the truth.



“Dad’s at camp,” she explained. “But

he’ll be home before dark." she added.

The man glanced

nervously about.



“1—1 got to get back to camp—be-

fore morning, girl." He took a deep

drink of cold tea. “Got a horse-—

maybe?”



“You’ll have to ask Dad.” she falter»





ed. Martin shrugged his shoulders

and flowned.

“Can’t wait that long. It’s twenty





miles down the trail—~and I want an

early start. If you don’t mind, I’ll just

borrow one and”——he started to his

feet and lurched toward the open door.

With a heart that choked in her throat,

Ruth whirled about and gripped the

revolver from the holster on the wall.



“Sit down!” The shrilly pitched

voice caused the man to turn in a.

flash. At the sight of the leveled re-

volver, he sank wearily into a chair.

A half-smile twitched at his thin lips.



“that’s this for?” he finally broke

out.



“You're going to stay here and wait

for Dad," the girl returned. “He’ll take

you back to camp—in a hurry, I

reckon."



“You—you ain’t going to make me

stay until then, girl," he answered,

evenly. “I got to get back—right

away. I got to save a man’s life. A

life of an innocent man, girl." .



“I—I don’t believe you! You’re try-

ing to get to the railroad and escape

from the country!"



“Listen to me, girl,” Martin came

back. "I killed a man, and I guess

there’s a price on my head, but no

matter how bad I am, I’m not going

to see an innocent fellow suffer. ‘I

broke jail, and he’ll be responsible for





it. I didn’t think much about it at the





time: but if I don’t show up before

morning—it’ll go hard with the fellow.

The boys are desperate and not re-

sponsible. I just got to get back there.

You won’t make me wait until your

Dad comes, ,will you, girl?”



The gun slipped from Ruth’s fingers

and clattered to the floor. The first

color showed in her cheeks.



“You—you’re going to give yourself

up—to save the other man ?” she stam-

mered? “You’re going to do that?”



“I'm guilty. ’Tain’t right to make

the boy suffer.”



“i didn’t think any man would do





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that,” she went on. “Why——ypu're go-

ing back to camp—to die! You’re free

now. Suppose they did hang the boy

for letting you get away—do men—

like you—care?" -



His face wrinkled curiously and he

fumbled for the space at his torn,

black shirt. ~



“I guess, sometimes, when men like

me are in a tight hole—we get to

thinking, thinking pretty hard. I killed

old Ted in self-defense, but the boys

won’t believe that, and there’s no one

to prove it. Besides, you can’t blame

them. either. 'cause Ted was one of





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“God, but you’re a brave little wom-

an " he choked.





CHAPTER II. ,‘_ “



\They plunged straight from the yard

into the, deep, shadowed gully. '

. Ruth led, guiding carefully around

the sharp twists in the dim trail, avoid-

ing the deeper ruts, fashioned [by late

cloudbursts, and choosing a single path,

out of half a dozen that seemed to

radiate here and there like a veritable

mystic maze. ‘



After an hour’s ride, they crossed a

low:- log—built bridge and she waited





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. A Maytime" Song .





By C. A. Brunais





O, that my pen could but portray

Some of my springtime ecstasy!

And that my hand could share the

fire

This Maytime beauty does inspire

In my lethargic breastl/

Beauty abounds! The old crab apple

tree

Stands forth in

snowy white,

And welcomes the complaining bum-





hie-bee,

Who takes her all, yet deems the

gift but light





And leaves still voicing his complaint.





A butterfly mounts on the drifting

breeze,

Sips here and there, surmounts the

nectared crest





petaled dress of ‘





And flitsaway. A flash among in:

trees ' ‘

Proclaims the pride whose pending

nest

Rocks cradle-like in the old elm.





A little wren makes music for my





song.

A bluebird’s young are in the hollow

pole.

Here from my window I see.all day

long

A yellow-hammer drill himself a

hole ,





Wherein to make his summer home.





The robin’s call at break of day



Drives slumber's drowsiness away,

And as the sun comes rolling o'er

The hilltop I am at the door-—



My spirit’s on the wing. ‘





 





them, and I was a stranger.”



Already the sun had slipped behind

the rise and the blue. cold shadows

were creeping up from the dim canon.

A flock of bluejays scolded loudly

about a tall pine near the door. The

man watched them, dully, his head

bent forward, his fingers at rest, and

wordless. Ruth, her pulses galloping

beyond any attempt at control, clung

desperately to the table edge.



“You—can take either one of the





ponies—outside,” she wavered. “Bet-

ter get away before Dad comes."

The man straightened. “Thanks,”





he answered simply. And, coming erect

to his feet, he stumbled slowly across

the floor.



An abrupt recollection flashed to

Ruth’s mind and she put out an arm

to his shoulder. »



“You've never been down the trail

before, have you?” she asked. The

man turned and shook his head.



”Then you can’t make it—alone!”

Martin shrugged his big shoulders and

went out into the yard. Ruth followed.

At the gate Where both the ponies

grazed, he turned and faced the girl.



“What you following for?” he asked,

sharply.



“You can’t ever make it to camp—-

alone.” she answered quietly. I’m go-

ing along. We got—got to save the

man, haven’t we?”



For the moment Martin stood there,

dumb with amazement; and then he

put out his hand. .





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for the other to come up, while her

pony drank deep of the swift-running

stream. Where the canon widened,

the moon flooded the trail in a won-

drous silver sheen.



“You’re very—quiet, little woman,"

Martin spoke up, breaking the silence.

that had lasted between them since

the start. “Thinking, are you?”



Ruth looked up from the stream and

nodded. “Just thinking how brave you

are—and how cowardly I am,” she





“ answered.





But the man laughed. “Cowardly?

A girl who can guide a man down these

rocks—Ln the nlght—ain’t a coward to

my way of thinking.” He leaned for-

ward, suddenly serious. “Did-any one

ever call you that—a coward ?”



“Howard called me that!” came her

reply. He raised a clenched fist and

brought it down upon the saddle.



“I’d have liked to have been around



at the time,” he burst out so earnestly

that the girl drew back in amazement.

Then they rode on. , -

. “Tetll me about it,” he begged, urg-

ing hlS pony alongside of her. “Will

you?” Ruth felt a strange bond of

sympathy for this brave, unconcerned

man who couliride so lightly, so care-

lessly to his death.



“Howard and I -were to have been

married—last week,” she began slow-

ly, her eyes upon the pony’s drooping

ears. “I had all my clothes ready”—

her mind Iraced back to the little dark

bedroom of the shack in which the gar-





 





 





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the horrid

fainted





. the: _

woundr'sickenedme

» en Igawoke he





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erafile coward. I told himto go away,

and. never, never s ask to me again.





 





   





I went back with 13.1 {the pretty clothe-s '





-—and cried all nigh .

Martin did not reply fer an interiiu.

and « only the ~‘steady pound of the

orses' hoofs broke the silence. Then





he looked up. . -

_ .“What was “his name—his full

name?” '





"Howard Blake," she replied, andto "





hide the tears, that forced themselves

un-bidden from her eyes, she urged the

pony ahead. And the man followed;

more slowly, while in his eyes there

burned a strange light that did not

dim for a long time. -





They were steadily ascending now, “





and the walk of the ponies became

slow and monotonous. Sometimes, be-

cause of the towering walls, the canon

was shrouded in a deep, almost im-

penetrable gloom; and ‘ again, for

stretches, the trail became vivid in the

flood of moonlight.





It was while jogging wearily through .





a dark cut, and chancing to glance

ahead, where the trail crept out into

the light, that Ruth uttered a sharp

cry and reined in her mount.



“Dad's coming!” she exclaimed. “He

mustn't see us. He—he wouldn't un-

derstand!” And, obeying her sum-

mons, the man followed her quickly

into the dense undergrowth that, lined

either side of the road.



The approaching horseman jog ed

steadily down toward them. In he

shelter of the brush, both Ruth and

Martin waited, anxiously. The father

might [have passed, wholly unsuspect—

ing, (1 not one of their. ponies

stamp d/ unexpectedly.



_ Out-on the trail the horseman reined

in and his .voice came in the silence.



“Whon there? Speak up!”.



.Ruth’s trembling, numbed fingers

found the other’s arm. An age seemed

to pass before she dared to breathe.

And then came the shot, ringing like

a bell from wall to wall. Martin lurch-

ed and swore. The girl’s heart took a

sudden throb and threatened to stop

beating. .



“You hit?” she choked, feeling her

throat tighten at the words.



“Just a bare scratch—on my arm——

that’s all,” Martin returned. The horse

man, evidently satisfied at the ensuing

Silence, rode on. Almost an hour the

two waited among the deep shadows,

speaking only in whispers, and then

but seldom. Finally they made their

way out and went slowly up the trail.

The next hour dragged. Ruth's poor

little head and body began to ache

and throb dreadfully. Somehow ’Mar.

tin seemed to lag behind more than

usual, and to aid him, where the trail

was faint, she held back the pony and

waited. -



With the slow passing of the weary,

dragging hours came the first faint

tinge of daylight. Countless pink

streamers came slowly upon the high





, est peaks, tinting them 'lik fire.‘ And





yet, below them, in the doe gully the

little stream roared steadily, swathed

in an impenetrable mist. . \



When, half an hour later, they reach-

ed 1ts.level, she allowed‘her pony a

rest and a deep, refreshing drink, turn~





— ing to watch the man approach. An.





abrupt determination came to her.



“I think it would be better if—if I

bound up your arm,” she declared, con-

selous that he swayed limply in his

saddle. “I’m afraid the loss of blood

is-——wea ening you.”



“Do yous—think you can?” he mam

aged to return. faintly.



In ansWer she slipped swiftly from

the saddle, bent over the stream and

wet her handkerchief in the cold wa-

ter. Straightening, she started to bare





\ . Frank, R. "Lever





   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   





 





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fifflxifihd 6‘ :‘fix





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:froke out,

, r mess mée‘kon-

’ ——--1 Was onlysyour arm“!

«hid: Your side”—- .





The man laughed in a.p’1tiful,futile.

attem t to ease her fears. “It ain’t

much,’ he hurried, clapping a hand to

cover the ugly, bleeding gash that

showed distinct in the faint light.

“Never mind, ‘g’irl. .It isn’t pretty to

look at, either. It’ll make—you Sick."





The sight of the dripping blood un-

nerved her and she put out a hand to

the saddle in order to keep herself

erect. And yet, somehow, with almost

unnatural courage, she managed to get

his hand away, to bathe the wound

and then to carefully, tenderly bind it

up with the torn strips of his shirt





When she had finished. the man put

out a timid, cold hand to her throbbing

head. “You—you’re a bully-——little

woman ” he gasped, and his words

served to strengthen her wondmusly.



They went ahead.



The sun came higher and higher;

the canon walls grew more and more





“Would—you m‘ind riding—long-

side?” the man spoke up again at

length. “Just keep—a hold on my arm.

I'm a bit dizzy. Funny, ain’t it?”



Ruth obeyed, dumbly. And for a.

long time they went on and on, the

trail steadily widening, until, finally,

at a sudden turn the girl uttered an

exclamation.





- distinct.





“Look, look!” she cried. “There’s

- the camp! Don’t you understand? It’s

the camp. We’re here, before sun-

rise.” 1





Martin swayed drunkenly in his sad-

dle as he lifted his head. But in his

eyes there shone a great light.



“You—you got me here—in time to

save—the boy, didn’t you?" he whis-





 

 





her ’





 





red hosrsely ‘tdust in time. He

heaven

—-little woman—not now”—

" t do you mean?” :she interrupt~

ed, while he grew heavy on her arm.

. “What do you mean?”



Martin groaned and toppled from his

horse full ac1oss her saddle. Like a

woman possessed, she clung to him

madly and went on. His “lips were

moving, and sherbent down to catch

the half incoherent words.



“It's—Howard Blake—you’ve saved,”

he murmured, his thin, white lips smil-

ing. “He was the man who—was

watching me. I guess—we’ve got here

———just in time’ ——



His lips trembled and a curious little

shiver traveled through the length of

his body.



Looking up through her tears, with

the body of the man held before her

and dragging like a leaden thing upon

her arms, she saw a crowd of men

running toward her, and at their head,

bare-headed, was Howard. '





 





 





She gasped a few, mumbled sen-,





tences, and the fearfiil strain over, it

was his arms that caught her as she

swayed forward, and it was his eager,

trembling words that rang so sweetly

in her ears.



“Brave little woman," he said. “God





bless you ! ”

THE END.





LIABILITY 0N NOTE.





 





A. and B. live in Wisconsin. A. gives

a note to B. Later, A. moves to Mich-

igan and'is owner of property there.

Can B. collect the note‘?——L. M.





The maker of the note is liable per-

sonally upon it wherever he may be

found. Judgment may be recovered

against him there and any property

liable to execution seized.





 





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HEN Blackie Crow poked his



head out of the hollow of they

gnarly oak tree, the Little Gold



“Watch was grasped tightly in his bill.

“Caw, caw! What is that?” asked

his mate. ~

“I don’t know,” answered Blackie

Crow, “but see how it shines!” Black-





. ie Crow had always had a particular





fancy for anything that Was bright

and shiny. -



“Yes; but what will we do with it?

Caw, caw, hurry, hurry, Slinky Sly

Fox is coming,” said Blackie’s mate,

and off they'flew. High up in the air,

Blackie cawed to his mate, “We’ll take

our treasure to old King Crow. Per-

haps he can tell us What it is.”





They had not gone far when “Ker-

chool'” Blackie had to sneeze, and

away went the Little .Gold \Vatch

straight to the ground.



“Oh, oh, oh!“ thought the Watch,





 





The Little Gold Watch Went Tumbling

" to the Ground.





“now I’ll be broken and Billy will nev-

er find me.” 'But the little Watch was

not broken. It fell on a bunch of soft

grass. As Blacki‘e darted down to-





V ward the ground to pick up his treas.

lure, he heard a “gruff, gruff" close by.

Flying up in the air at a safe distance,





51.12111; Crow turned to see Billy Goat

Gallop night beside the Little Watch.

.. {scam caw, go away from my treas-l





FIR'iii‘DUR! It

LITTLEWFDLKS





Adventures of Tilly and Billy





. ‘ T/ze Endof‘t/zeTa/e of t/zeTch' Ufa II In};





get it?” asked Tilly.

day we were playing in the woods."





> all the. man could answer.





 





“I ,want it, I want it," cawed Blackie,

flying as near as he dared?



“You can’t have it. I shall take it

to my master. He will find the own-

er,” replied Billy Goat Gallop.





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man—Sized job





And the husband of this Minnesota

farm woman is away most of the

time.





But it is done—a Faribault County

woman tell’s"howz





“I can pump water myself by only

pulling the switch and adjusting -

the belt. I can open the chute, let



down the desired amount of feed, '

press the button and the feed is

ground.”





The General EIeCo

tric Company manu-

factures many

electrical products

which are used on

the farm. The G-E

Farm Book describ-

ing these products

may be obtained

from‘your local light

and power company.





That briefly is the story of elec-

tricity on the farm. It eases the

everlasting grind of farm work and

makes farm life more worth while. .





 





Then illy Goat Gallop picked the

Little God Watch up carefully be-

tween his teeth and galloped off.



“Tick, tick, tick," said the Little

Little Watch, very frightened, for, not

at all, did he like to be carried in a

goat’s mouth.



Out in the garden Billy Goat Gallop

found his master. He was just plant-

ing some seeds. Standing by watch—

ing him were a little boy and girl.



“Well, (well, look what Billy Goat

Gallop has brought us this time,” said 1

the man, stroking the goat on the

head. Then the man picked up the!

Little Gold Watch that Billy Goat Ga1~ '

lop had laid at his feet.



“Why. that’s my Watch.” said the





 





 





little boy that was standing by, Who'

was none other than Billy Bounce.

“See, it has my name on it. ”





 

 

 

 

 





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Every (‘llllk and egg sold is produced on my own plant. No stock is farmed out

hI'ICdLDI-l pens are from hens with records of 240 to 8.34 eggs in our war.

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





CERTIFIED CHICKS AND HATCHING EGGS

I~‘very male and female in our flock has been handled and passed by an Insper tor from Miihigan Stabs

(allege. Only three other flocks in the state have met these requirements. I bred and raised the birds

whining first and third places in the 1924 Michigan llgg Contest. Some of the dams and sires that. pro-

duced these winners are now in my matings. Write for miccs and mating list.





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'All males used in

Yearling breeders' eggs must





 





“But where did Billy Goat Gallop

“You lost it the





“Billy Goats do ‘queer things,” was





Then the Little Watch ticked mer-





rily in Billy’s pocket, glad to be safe.

' again.





But it was veiy sorry it could





 





 

 

 

 

 





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-And \the night—in-gale’s a wonder,





not tell its master Of the adventure!





with Bunny Brown Ears. Frisker the

Squirrel, Slinky Sly Fox, Blackie Crow,

and of how good Billy Goat Gallop

had been to bring it Jiack safely to

the'owner.





THE' SWEET SINGER.





 





The canary, as a songster,

Is a most enchanting bird.





Where his melodies are heard.





And some praise up the meadow lark,

And some the chick—a-dee, '



But none of these can fill the bill

If you just ask me.





,For the song that reaches to my heart. 1 '





And does me good to hear, .

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41.111111113011114
UR old family doctor had been a



diet specialist. When ready to



retire from active city practice,

he moved to noithein Montana, where

he could fish and hunt to his hea1t's

content away f1om scenes of pain and

suffeiing. His fame had follow ed him,

however, and we, his new neighbors,

would not let him rust out nor forget

what he knew, Hale and hearty, he

practiced what, he preached on health

questions, he had not had a sick day

in his life. I shall never forget how

he would preach to us on the thera-

peutic value of buttermilk and "clab-

ber milk.”



“It’s generally admitted,” he would

say, “that the Balkan nations show the

highest record for longevity. It is

nothing unusual over there to see men

and women a' hundred years of age

-,or over, who look no older than our

people at sixty. Why is this? you ask.

Because they live largely on butter-

milk, sour milk, koumiss, and pota-

toes boiled with their jackets on. The

potato skins contain valuable vita-

mines, while the sour milk, etc., can

do more than anything else to pre-

vent fermentation in the bowels. Pre-

~ mature old age‘is caused more by such

fermentation and its resulting putre-





 





 





 





 





These Lads of Milford, Michigan, Have

Grown up to be Real Farmers.





 





 





faction than by any other known

cause.”

"Did you know, young lady,” Doc





,would go on to say,’ “that the sour

milks will do much toward improving

your complexion? Taken internally,

their pu1ifying effect on the blood

clears the skin, and when applied ex-

ternally to hands, face and neck and

allow ed to d1y on, the lactic acid whit-

ens your skin 'beautifully, without

causing the harm which the artificial

~ bleaches do.” ' -~ -



“There are so many vitamines in

,unboiled buttermilk and so much real

nutriment, that athletes in training

, haverbeen known to let one of their

daily meals consist of nothing but aun—

sweetened buttermilk. Yes, unsweet-

ened! Till you are used to it, it may

be a little hard to drink it that way,

“but you cheat yourself \of some of the

beneficial effects of the milk by ad-





' ding sugar, that starts the fermenta-





tion all over again, inside your sys-





- ' tém. ”





' iiiKGradually these little sour milk ser-





 





 





calth and Beauty in Buttcrm





Sal/r Mlle Also Has Many (/36: in 7752': Farm Home





Mrs. F. E. BuChcn





prefer buttermilk as a beverage to

sweet milk. 1





As we grew more and more accus— '





tomed to it and realized its thera-

peutic value, it occurred to me that

we could learn to cook with it, and

thus profit still more from the knowl-

edge gained from old friend Doc. So

we searched through all the cook

books we could find, but to no avail;

all the recipes, as if to mock us, ex-

pressly called for sweet milk. What

should we do? After experimenting

and mustering our ingenuity, we dis-

covered that in nearly every baking

recipe. sour milk or buttermilk could

be substituted for sweet milk, provided

we used one level teaspoonful of bak-

ing soda for each two cups of sour

milk or buttermilk needed.





Our next step was to learn to make

cottage cheese from clabber milk, and

then to concoct new tempting dishes

containing this cheese. A kind old

farmer’s wife, a cracker-jack of a cook,

gave us several recipes which she had

invented, and which we tried out and

found very good. In closing, I will

write down these recipes, so that oth—





. ers may profit by her culinary wisdom.‘





Cottage Cheese. ‘





Put some sour milk in a warm place

Jntil the curds and whey separate, but

not for too long a time, or the cheese

will grow tough. Then hang it up‘ in

,a. bag, as for making jelly, to drain

the whey from the curds. Next wash

the curds repeatedly by pouring water

through them. This step‘ is of im-

p01'tance;'by paying attention to this

detail, you wash away every vestige

pf the whey, which if left in, turns

sour and spoils the cheese. Next, mix

the curds with sweet cream or butter,

salt, and pepper to taste. Some prefer

a. small amount of carroway seed, and

others, chives, a'fine grass onion, cut

up finely, to give the cheese a. flavor.



Cottage Cheese Fruit Salad.

dieese, 11113111150an





1,1 cup chopped nuts

Lettuce leaves





1 cup mind, preservvd

fruits



~73. cup plain cottage



Add the nut meats and half the pres

served fruit to the cottage cheese, and

mix well. Place a large tablespoonful

of this mixture on lettuceleaves and

garnish your dish with some more of

the preserved fruit. This will be

enough for a family of average size.





.-





Filling For Cottage Cheese Pie.





Juice of 1,5 lemon 3 eggs. beaten separately

1 cup 0! sugar 3 cups of cottage cheese





To the sugar and beaten yolks, add

the lemon juice. Stir. Beat the cheese

thoroughly so as to remove lumps and

then add it to the other ingredients.

Lastly. fold in the whites, beaten stiff,

in a pie-plate with puff-paste or plain

pie dough. Pour in the filling and

bake with moderate heat.





 





DIRT AND TENSION CAUSES THE

LION’S SHARE 0F TROUBLE

FOR SEAMSTRESS.





IRT causes eighty per cent of all

D sewing machine troubles and



poorly adjusted tensions causes

three-fourths of the other twenty per

cent, estimates clothing specialists.

Loose andéworn bearings plus dirt

make any machine run hard.



As a warning to sewing machine

owners against the efforts of salesmen

to sell them new machines, it is first

most economical to see if parts are

not available to replace . the parts

worn out on your old machine. If

your dealer cannot supply you with

the necessary parts, write a letter to

this department, giving the name _of

your machine and the number of the

part to be replaced. We will do the

best We can to locate the parts for

you. . '



If you do not have complete direc-





- tions for using all the attachments for





your machine, you are losing time

with every day’s sewing. ,On receipt

of a stamped self-addressed envelope

to this department, I will tell you

where you may obtain this time-saw

ing information—Martha Cole.





A SMALL HOME-MADE CHURN.





 





ANY farm wives make butter for



,market during cold_weather, but"

find it easier to sell cream during the

summer. If the family. is small, they

do not need to use the large churn

used in churning for market, when

they only wish to churn enough for

table use. Anyone that has had expe-





rience knows what a “messy” task it .





is to churn a gallon of cream infi. ten-

gallon churn. ‘ We have solved this





problem, and now churn as small an -





amount of Gleam as we wish, thus





 





 





Robbing Self » ,, '~





HE p10pe1 management of a home is at last beginning to be 1ecognized





as something more than a mere accident.

simply because she is a woman,

is fast disappearing.

requires much study and a goodly‘ amount of

The business of homemaking is making rapid strides toward a





how to manage a household,

ognize that homemaking

training.

high place in the list of professions.





To keep up with any profession, no matter What one’s experience may ‘

The’ extension departments of our agricul-





be, 1equl~res continuous study.





'ILhe old idea that a woman,

instinctively and intuitively knows

we are coming to rec—





u.





tural colleges have done commendable work in broadcasting the seeds of





inspiration





toward better homemaking.





The daily press, weekly, and





monthly magazines are, more and more, guring stress and space to things





of interest to women.





 





 





having fresh butter as often as we

want. My husband took the lid from

an eight-pound lard pail and made a

hole in the center just. large enough

for a broom stick to pass through

smoothly. This was then pounded

down so as not to leava rough edges.





With the short broom stick for a ham / '





dle, he made a small dasher to- fit in

the lard pail, and our little oldwfa‘sh-

ioned dasher churn was (template;-

Mrs. N. D. i I





I





cuppso FROM LETTERS.





HAVE found that a rubber sponge

is excellent for taking up the fuzz,

lint, and hair that collects on woolen

clothing. Molsten the sponge with wa~





ter and squeeze almost dry, then rub '





 





 





 





 





 





Bird Houses’ Aptly Located, will Keep _





Feathered Friends Near the House.





 





over the material to be cleaned. This





kind of flange is also good to moisten '





woolen aterial



H. D.

This spring when I was cleaningfny



basement, I hit upon the idea of at





for pressing.~—Mrs.





taching a faded window shade to the“





shelves that hold my canned'fruit'a-nd

vegetables. Now, ' i

to wrap each jai separateto keep out

light and dust, I merely have to pull

down the shade. ——Mrs. V. K. .





I keep a small box of paper clips in

my sewing basket and use them 3.1-

most as much as I do pins. ———M‘rs. FKR.



I use a small glass jar with a screw

top, such as commercial foods are

purchaSed in, as a dentalner for string

in my kitchen. The string isdust tuck-





ed ,into the' jar and I can readily see _

,I use-the, same ‘





what string I want.

kind-pf a- jar in my sewing basket for.

buttons, and by Shaking it I "can see

if 'I have the kind of button I need.

When my sewing basket is accidents





ally tipped over, no buttons go rolling





oVer the floor. ——Mrs; S. O. 3,:





To keep my straight undervslipo I

from hanging below myidress when I:





The homemaker does not want for infbrmatlon 011*



any branch of her homekeeping business. , . ins

-- It is the duty of every homemaker .to' so arrange her daily work'th ‘t :,_

she will have tinie to study the material that is so readily av - ,





 





 





instead .of having '
3 .

Enlb1106





'No, ‘355—Style for stout figures. Cut

in ‘Sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48

incheS"-bust measure. Size 36 requires

3% yards of. 40-inch material.



0. 227—Bloomer dress. Cut in siz-

es 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. Size 4 requires

2% yards of 40-inch material with 3A;

yard of 15-inch - contrasting.



No. 258—0ne—piece dress. Cut in

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

ibust measure. Size 36 requires 3

yards of 32-inch material with 7/1; yard

of 32-inch contrasting. ,



No. 248—Frock with side flare. Cut

in sizes 14, 16 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42

inches Ibust measure. Size 36 requires

41/4, yards of 40-inch material with 179

yard of 32-inch contrasting and 214

yards of binding.



No. 363—Smart junior frock. Cut in

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

requires 1% yards of 40-inch material.



N0. 382—Frock with shirrings.

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

inches bUSt measure. Size 36 requires

4% yardsof 36—inch material with 1%

yards of binding.



These patterns can be obtained

through the Michigan Farmer Pattern

Department, Detroit, Michigan, for 130





each. Enclose 130 extra when you or-





der your pattern, and a copy of our

large Pattern Catalogue will be sent

to you.





 





 





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CAKES FOR THE WEDDING DAY.





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I amto be married the last of June.

So many questions have come up for

me to decide, that I am wondering if

you can help me. We are planning on

a. home wedding. Could you give me





‘ a good recipe for a wedding cake and





a white cake? .Should ‘the fruit cake

be made early, and how can the cakes

be decorated at home ?——Miss F. T.





. Custom declares that the wedding





~cak§wshouhl be richwwith nuts and





£111 '. , Anygoodoake Wm serve, but





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twice, and add it alternately with the





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10 egg yolks 2 cups each of raisins



2 cups sugar and currants



1 cup sour cream 1 cup each of diced r-it-



1 (-up molasses mm and figs



1 tsp. soda 1,r-up blanched almonds. I



4 cups flour shred



1 tsp, each of cinnamon. 8 egg whites



cloves, and auspice



Beat egg yolks very light and add

sugar, Add half of soda to molasses

and half to sour cream. Mix well and

add to mixing bowl. Dredge fruit and

nuts with part flour, add them with

rest of dr)r ingredients to the mixing,

bowl. Lastly, fold in the beaten egg}

whites. Steam three hours and bake:

one hour ‘in a slow oven, or bake in a i

very slow oven for five hours. Thisi

makes three loaves. A fruit cakeI

should be made early to allow the}

flavor to develop. If you have no!

pastry tube, crystallized flowers andll

little silver candies will make attrac-

tive decorations. To make them, se—

lect firm, perfect flowers. Violets and

rose petals are very pretty. Make a

sugar syrup of one cup of sugar and

one-half cup of water. Boil until it:

forms a hard ball‘when dropped into

cold water. Completely immerse the:

'flowers and petals in the syrup by

means of a hat pin. Lay on a waxed j

paper t’o cool. If the flewers are com—

pletely coated with the syrup, they

will not turn dark.



A good recipe for a bride’s cake

which tradition says must be white, is

made by this recipe:



1% cups sugar 4 tsp. baking powder



1 cup shortening Salt. flavoring





’31 cup milk 8 egg whites

2% cups flour





Cream shortening, beat in sugar.

Sift flour, baking powder and salt





.- Al. _‘





milk. Add flavoring, and lastly fold

in the beaten egg whites. Bake in a ‘

‘inoderate oven. Baked in pyramid

fashion and decorated with colored

icing, makes a cake that is attractive





 





 





 





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, 100% Live Delivery Giiarantetfl—Postpaid prices 25 50 100 500 1000

English White & Single & 11. Brown Loghomq ....... $2.75 $5.50 $10 $45 88

Jluli’ and Black Leghorns ................................... 2.75 5.50 10 45 88

Barred & White Rocks. it. I. Reds ......................... 3.75 7.00 12} 62 120

Black Mlnorcas, Mottled Anconas ........................... 3.75 7.00 13 02’. 120

V‘Vhlw Wyandoth-s. Butt Rocks ............................. 575 7.00 3 G2 120

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Special May Prices. June Prices.





Per l‘l'l‘ I or l'er Per Per For For



50 100 500 1000 50 500 1000



S. (I. W. Leizlioms ............................ $5.50 $10.00 $47.50 5 05.00 34.75 3 ’l 00 $42.50 3 00



; Browns. 61: Anvouas, Barred Rocks .............. 7.00 13 00 02.50 12000 6.50 1".00 57 50 110

. ii. (2. Beds ................................. .. 7.50 14.00 67.50 135.00 7.00 13.00 05.00 130

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Due to the fact that we hatch several of the more profitable breeds. together with the fact. 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 absoluter sound

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

from the prices given below. _

guarantee 100% live :delivery and satisfaction. 1 , ,

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Q 9:; V-arieties Postpaid prices on 500‘ . 1000

3 ERvfls C. White and Brown LeghornS. S C. Anconas .......... $10.00 $45.00 8 90.00’

Barred Rocks ................... 1 .. .............. r ........ ,. . . . 13.09 60.00 1333





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Pure Michigan





«and B A B Y 0 ll I 0 K S Accredited





We have not only selected our breeding stock and mated our birds for beet results. but It! ll" Okla?

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baby chicks. Write for literature and





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live delivery. Writetod





price list. Our chitin; cost no more and you can feel safe. 100%





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get it if you expect to buy chicks this year.



PRICES; Our prices are reasonable Our chicks are good. write today.



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It is worth your while, to





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m‘ .~"

lProduction winners in State and National Shows and

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50 ")0 500 WOO

”$5. 25 $10. 00 $47. 50 8 90. 00

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fiifie’ldnfl? s‘fWThITT. ' ' .. l1 2'5 12. 00 57. 50 110.00

Mixed Chicks, (not Accreditcd). 100, $8; 500, $40; 1000. $75Th

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Silver Laced and -White Wyandottu ..... 13.23 :(1’ 57 ,





" Columbian Rocks. Jersey Giants ........................

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pricesefiPom May 24th to July 5th.100 652080 £333

B. P. Rocks, (extra special) ...... “$13 .30) $57. 00 110

B. P. Rocks (selected) ..... 12. 5700 110

RHIReds ............................. 12.00 50.00 95

English \Vhite Leghorns ............ ./ ....... . . . . . . . 10.00





Dundee Hatchery & Poultry Farm. Dundee. Mich





Order from this ad. or write for catalogue.





 





Michigan accredited chicks from flocks which have stood careful inspection Our

White Leghom Cock Bird won 151. at Eastern Michigan Poultry Show, 1926. in

, both prodm um and exhibition classes. We won him pullet class. Catalog free.



Prices (post paid) on 25100 500

a. C White Wm 34. 00 81050 814. 00 $67. 50

‘ Bar. Roars 11.1. 800 15 00 12. 50

White Rocks” White& B. LWyan dottesu 8.50 16.00 71.50 150





‘ Assoc-ted (‘bicks :12 00 per 100.

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HE turkey is the only purely

American fowl, and takes advan-

, tage of the fact by always bring.-

ing his owner several cents a pound

more than can be secured for chickens,

ducks, geese, or even the sweet song-

ed Guinea hen.

Turkeys are not difficult to raise- If

one remembers that they must be kept

dry until at least six months old, that

they need free range or plenty of let-

tuce, and that June is plenty early

enough for the first hatching.

Keep the Young Dry.

While poults are young, they can

be kept in runs five fee. square, and

they must never be let out of their

coops until the sun has dried every

bit of moisture from the grass. A

dwbbled turkey is a dead one. The

houses should have open fronts, with

a. heavy wire tacked across so that

the young birds cannot. get; out on

rainy days. Several houses are better

than one large one, and eight turkeys

can be comfortably raised in a house

(seven feet long, five feet wide and six

feet high. When they are approach-

.ing maturity, .they will insist upon

sleeping in trees, but to let them ,do

so is a bad practice. Build a. long

open shed with tree branches for

roosts, in one end of the'iange, feed

the tu1ks their supper in this shed,

and you will have little difficulty in

encouiaging them to roost there.

If growing turkeys cannot have

fresh grass, give them green food

three or four times a day, lettuce be-

ing perhaps the best food, with dande-

lions and freSh—cut clover once a. day.

Diet For Poults.



For new hatched turkeys give beat-

en egg and milk, one egg to each cup-

ful of milk, and during dog days give

a teaspoonful of epsom salts in a gal-

lon of milk or water every other day.





4If there seems_a tendency to loose-





ness of the bowels. Keep a good-sized

handful of rusty nails in the bottom

of the drinking dishes, or give a few

drops of tincture of iron in the drink-

ing water. It is well to cut out all

green foods except lettuce, until the

trouble is entirely controlled. '





Turkeys will grow more. in three

sunny days than in a week of cool

spring weather, and the late hatched

birds will often surpass-those who

were stunted during early cold days,

when Thanksgiving time comes.



The critical time in the life of a.

young turkey is when they “shoot the

red,” usually at about a month Old.

(The feathers disappear from their

heads at that time,.and iii a few days

new ones grow. It is during this pe-

riod that the feeding of raw eggs is

especially recommended, and a. light

dusting of cayenne pepper over the

egg is advisable, if the poults reach

this trying period during a continued

rainy spell.



' ' Use Hens For Hatching.



The turkey hen will usually lay

about thirty eggs, before wanting to





hens as fast as settings of eight “can

be secured. Setting too many eggs

,under one hen is a. mistake, as eight

young poults will be all she can brood.

The domesticated bronze turkey is

very similar to its wild ancestors, and





weight. White turkeys seldom weigh





the some. -' ; ,. 2

Turkey eggs batch in ‘ out

will it _





 





Turkey Ralsmg Hints

- s . Some Essential: For Success __ -

. . 7 By L. M. Thornton _,





set, and these can be placed under._





is the heaviest of the breeds, about

thirty-Six pounds being the average"





lover in. enty—six pounds, and Narragan- '

setts and buff and red breeds about»?





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the faithfulness with which take re-

mains on the nest, often coming to

the end ‘of. her Work so weakened be-

cause of food and exercise, that‘she

needsthe best of care in' order to

properly nourish her brood—L. M. T.





 





Avom SLOPPY WET FEEps.





 





D URIN'G our career in the poultry ’

game, we have had our ups and g ‘





downs. One of the things'that we





I learned early in the business was not

to feed mash until the chicks was a '





week ‘or ten days old. 'But mother

used to feed wet mash or corn-bread

dough to the little chicks, and natur—

ally, since she did lit—why, her son

thought it was all right. However,

“éxperience keeps a dear school, and

fools will learn in no other,” has con-

vinced us to not feed any kinds of

sloppy wet feeds. This is due to the

fact that the young Chick's digestive

system is not well adapted to the as-

similation of wet mashes. Moreover,

it is impossible to keep the utensils

sanitary when feeding wet foods.

Then, too, a. great deal of labor and

time is required in preparing them:

The only thing that can be. said in

favor of feeding the mash wet is that

the chicks will eat more of it; How-

ever, it is harder to digestnnd more

is wasted. If the chicks neVer get





_ 'started to eating it, they will never





know how much better it: tastes than

the dry mash. Therefore, feed dry

mash at all times. oaked bread

should be given to the old hens but

not to the growing chicks. We have

learned ‘from experience. If you don't

believe this,. keep feeding the wet





mash to your young Chicks and when"





you lose half of them, tack this motto

up in‘your poultry yard: "Experienco

Keeps 9. Dear School, But Fools will

Learn in No Other.”—-H. Q. Holt.





WHEN DO DUCKS_'LAY? ».





 





My ducks have laid about ten,'eggs,





then stopped laying. They never set.





What is the trouble with them? Will-

d-ucks lay in one nest all the time?.





Will they start to my again? What

can I do for them?—.—H. 0.

Many duck breeders keep their





stock fastened up early in the morn-





ing as most of the eggs are produced .1





at that time and ducks do not‘ always

lay in the same nest. In fact, the





eggs may be laid all around the range "





and even in the, water. The time that





egg production stops will ‘vary' with ' 1

different ducks, and in some cases it 2. . .





does not pay to hold the breeding





birds long after May 1, because of the ' ‘





low production.

Some dii'ck. raisers plan to sell all





surplus breeding birds as soon as they ‘ 7





stop» laying. They moultasoon‘After .





production stops, and are usually in

better condition to market than after





the moulting has continued for several ' '





days. Egg production will vary acme

what, depending on the feed. If the

ducks receive the same' laying mash

used for hens, it “willph'elp to stimu-

late production. This can be given





twice each- day, mixed into a crumbly ._ .,





state with water. , .





 





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, lessly behind.





' if , It entered into Qvery life and dominat-





PEAKING of wells makes me think

of the time when I was pastor of





a little church at Scituate, Massa—”





chusetts. Here Samuel Woodworth

was born, famous as the author of

“The Old Oaken Bucket.” Woodworth

as been dead since 1842, but people

still point out the farm where he liv-

ed when he Wrote his fanfous song.

One day Isaac’ s herdsmen had trou-

ble with the ‘Philistines. Their master

‘had become wealthy, and his'sheep

’and cattle and camels cOvered so

many hills that he became the envy

of his neighbors. Water is as hard. to

get in that land as whiskey is 'in

Michigan, and when water gives out,

it means move, or the death of the

.animals. So quiet, even-tempered,

kindly Isaac moved. He did not fight,

nor assert his rights. Perhaps he

should. Evidently

he believed that

the meek shall in-

herit the earth.

He might have

contended for his

rights, and won.

We would all up-

hold him in that.

Filling up Wells

in order to kill off





 





tone’ s animals is contemptible, dastard-





ly business. It is like poisoning one’ 5

dog, only on a larger scale.



But Isaac did not fight. He moved.

VVhenhe got to where his father had

lived before him, he dug out the old





_wells and gavevthem the old names.





Strange, isn’t it? Different from what

an American would do. The American

would dig new wells, with new ma-

chinery, give them new names, and

then advertise what wonderful water

he had discovered, which would cure

every kind of rheumatism



The old wells, the old names. It

sounds good to read about it. He had

entered upon the work of his fathei.

Come to think of it, how much of what

we have is the fruit of our fathers’

toil? The old folks get in the way,

we think, at times. They must make

way for progress. But when it is all

over, and we have gotten a little older

ourselves, we begin to consider that.

father and mothe1 were not so hope-

If they had not work-

ed, lived clean lives, been moral, been

religious, practiced thrift, where would

we be now? Young folk often are

impatient with father’s ways, but they

always seem willing to accept father’s

cheques, or eat mother’s pies. Well,

Isaac thought that father’s wells were

all right. So he opened them up and

used theiil





OW, for fear I am misunderstood,

this point ought to be pressed 8.

little further. One cannot live on the

past, and a community where things

are done as they always have been

(lane, is a first-class place for young

people to leave. The old have not the

right to impose their ideas on the

young,.beyond reasonable limits. Each

generation must work out its own des-

tiny. Come to think of it, the older

generation ought not to brag too

much. They are leaving to the on?

coming youngsters a world in debt up

to its eyes, with misunderstanding and

hatred between nations, and class war

going on somewhere most of the time.

Before the older ones complain too

loudly of the next generation, they

must take stock of what they are leav-

ing behind them.

Now religion cannot escape this

process of change. Some peeple shiv-





'er when one says that, but it is true.





Look back. I see a' great statechurch,

that dominates the lives of millions.





Our Weekly Srfman—‘By N. A McCum





_ It is all right to make rouge for the





9011121112151 TEXT:—-—A soft answer turn-





ble woe to him if he opposed “any‘ of

the practices of the church. He found

himself in a prison cell, or standing

tied to an iron s’take, with the flames

about him.



Someone had to oppose this, and

someone did. Millions began to be-

lieve differently. We are glad they

did. Not so long ago ministers on Sun-

day morning preached on the damna-

tion of babies who died unbaptized.

That, too; has changed, at least for

most people. Hence, we must notlbe

over-critical at the religious beliefs of

the young today. They should be

taught and reasoned with, remember-

ing that these seemingly wild ideas

are growing pains. No doubt Isaac

believed exactly as his father did. But

he lived in an uneventful, static age,

when change was unknown.





NE thing is forever true: respon-

sibility is sobering. Many a. young

man thinks not too seriously on re-

ligious things. But when he becomes





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a father, and babes climb his knee and

ask him for a bed-time story, he be—

gins to think. Every year the church-

es receive thousands of new members

'who have been brought face to face





with the facts of life, by reason of the '





child1en around the hearthstone.



The old wells! Is the old or the

new the more necessary? We Ameri-

cans would have nervous prostration

if we had to give up the new. But

what wduld we do if we had to get

along without the old? Drink is a live

subject. Some folk say. they must

have easier access to drink other than

water. Suppose we all had to give up

water, the oldest beverage known, and

drink alcoholic beverages. But we

need not press that. It would not

work. “Water is incomparably the best

known drink for man and beast. And

the next best is also very ancient.

When our ancestors caught and tamed

their first wild cow no one knows.

Probably they did not catch a cow at

all,.but a calf, and brought her up. in

the way she should go, and began to

get milk from her. There would be

trouble enough should we endeavor to

get a substitute for this extremely old-

fashioned drink.





ND light. What substitute for the

sun? And the growth of crops?

And the soil? Synthetic chemistry is

marvelous, but not as marvelous as

the radishes that grow in your garden.





outside of your skin, but you want

something better for the inside.



“Tell us how tobe happy,” said a

little girl once. That is what lots of

folk are saying, and it looks as though

happiness will have to travel by the

old worn roads for a long time to

come. Henry Vandyke has set up a.

few guide-posts for travelers:





“To be glad of life because it gives

you the chance to love and to work

and to play and to look up at the

stars; to be satisfied with your pos-

sessions, but not contented with your-

self until you have made the best of

them; to despise nothing in the world

except falsehood and meanness, and

to fear nothing but cowardice; to be

governed by your admirations rather.

than by your disgusts; to covet noth-

ing that is your neighbor’s except his

kindness ofvheart and gentleness of

manners; to think seldom of your en—

emies, often of your friends, and every

day of Christ; and to spend as much

time as you can with body and spirit,

in God’s out-of-doors—these are little

guide-posts on the foot-path. to peace.”





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON ‘FOB

-_ ~ MAY 23. 1





 





SUBJECTz—Isaac and his wells. Gen-i.





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Are CrossWords Beneficial?

. mm: Merry Cur/em" Opz'mom





li..t'l‘AlNLY they are! Indeed,

C why not? However, for the hen-



Lfit of the skeptical ones, here

are a few reasons given in the follow-

ing paragraphs:



First, crossword puzzles Increase

one’s vocabulary. I do not believe

2 anyone will doubt this. When one is

working the puzzles out, as the un-

familiar words are usually keyed en-

tirely, he will learn these words and

what they mean from their definitions.



Second, the crossword puzzle fan

becomes acquainted with art, science

and other subjects of interest to ev-

ery man or woman, boy or girl, who

wishes to discover something new,

something he or she has not known

' before.



Third, the crossword puzzlesmake

one think more swiftly, especially if

the puzzles are used whichvare desig-

nated as those that should be ~eom-

pleted in ten, fifteen, or even twenty

minutes, ifthe puzzle is very difficult.



Fourth and last reason, when a. long





 





Some of Doris Remington's Young

Friends.





journey is being taken on the train,

how monotonous becomes the trip in





the swaying, jerking cars! Of course,

the picturesque lanthcape can be seen

from the window, but that cannot be

enjoyed as the train speeds on. Then

with what welcome relief one turns

to the crossword puzzle on the back

of a stray newspaper.



It may also be mentioned here that

a most enjoyable evening can be spent

at home with a _cr0ssword puzzle. This

every fan knows, of course. Then one

becomes better acquainted with the

dictionary and other literature from

which the words are gleaned. Inci-

dentally, a knowledge of much that is

helpful is gained.



NO'V, Merry Circlers and other

friends, are you not agreed that cross-

word \puzzles are. beneficial and should

not be abolished as some would have

us believe? Lucile Nagelkirk. '





 





Croesword puzzles are great fun and

solving them is a harmless amuse-

ment. But we are told by Dr. H. E.

. Jones, Columbia University psycholo-

gist, that they do not extend‘one’s





of an obscure word or two. They are

more easily solved by the intelligent.





/

crossword puzzle anda dictionary. As

for myself, I find no special amuse-

ment in them, as I very seldom solve

them.~—L‘inda Gaeth, M. C., Unionville,

Michigan. ’





 





Yes, they are beneficial. These puz-

zles acquaint us with many new and

educating words. They increase our

vocabulary, develop our minds to

work faster and also encourage one

to consult the dictionary "'more fre-

quently, and arouse our interest in

many things that we were not ac-

quainted with before.





It is true that some may neglect

their school duties, but those some do

not include all. They must probably

would if these puzzles were not heard





of anyway. ’And as to the neglect of





studies: Aren’t crossword puzzles sim-

ply a review of any school lesson? Do

we ‘not get different items pertaining

to history, 'weight

even grammap review, as in pronouns

and such like? In fact, we can Say

these puzzles are commonly taken

from our School studies.





They, too, are very interesting and

help pass the time away much faster.

If it were not fun, we may have pass-

ed these same hours in loneliness.

Why, then, find fault? Let them con-

tinua—Genevieve Heing, New Loth-

rop, Michigan.





 





 





 





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Dear Uncle Frank.



I certainly miss Harold Coles and

Herbert Estes. Have they passed the

age limit or have they gotten black

eyes? I have been answering contests

by the bushel, but the prizes go to

the highei class ones, I guess Well

I will close. —Your want-a—prize—niece,

Frances Tillman, M. C, Osseo, Mich.



Harold is beyond the age limit, and,

I guess, Herbert is just resting. I am

sorry that you have not had better

luck, but I admire your pluck in keep-

ing on with the puzzles. I bet they

have done you some good, even though

you have not won a prize.





 





Dear Uncle F1ank:



I have wanted to write you and

thank you far my M. C. pin, but moth-

er has been too busy to help me. I

like the pin very much and wear it to

school every day.



We hays had a great deal of water

around here. One morning mother and

sister were going to take me to school

in the car. We have two bridges right

together to cross. We had to go about

twenty yards through water almost to

the running board, before we got to

the bridges. We got to the first bridge

and found that the boards were gone

off of it. Several had been washed

partly off, so we could not go across.

Mother tried to back, but the bands

got wet and she could not control the

car. So she had to get out and walk

through the icy water to the house,

which is one-half mile back, and then

had to go on back ,to the woods an-

other half mile before she could get

daddy. My sister and I stayed in the

car, and we had a good time On all

sides, water, and once in a while the

water would go out from under some

ice and the ice would crack. We had





Three Qualities For Su'ccess.





. as good a time as you did.





a. good time reading and singing.

When daddy came, be fixed the bridge

and we went on to school. But I’m

kind of afraid every time I go across

that bridge.



Well, I must stop. Thanking you

again for the pin, and I’m going to try

and live up to it,



Your mother apparently didn’t have

It must

have been lots of fun sitting on top

of the water and singing.

that the auto could not have been

turned into a boat. Your contribution

helps. Thanks.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



Well, Mr. George Peterson. you de-

mand an answer to Helen Kish’s let-

ter, do you? I’ll say it again and

again, that prohibition is not enforced

enough. The punishment is not strict

enough, so there!



Now about my poem—everyone

can’t. think the same way you do,

George, so you see I don’t in the least

understand why I should have com-

posed my poem in the way you did,

because I don’t believe in what you

preach



Now, don’ t get the idea that I abhor

sheik belts, sweaters, bell pants, etc,

as I don’ t-—in fact, I like them, but

why you boys slam at our dress and

actions is beyond me, seeing that boys

are every 'bit as silly.



Evolution? Bunk! I don’t believe

in it, do you Uncle? I’m not a beauty,

but I can’t be convinced of such bunk

that my ancestors were probably

monkeys. No, siree!



Gee, Uncle, I sure miss the M. F.

I always looked forward to the day

when we expected it. How is the M.

C. fund growing?

toward it. Solong, every ne.—-—A City





Emphasized éy Dr. S/zdi/rr Mat/16w:





Here are three qualities that I believe will help you win success as





men or farmers:





HONESTY.—-—No man can hope to be a really successful man without

this quality. He may make temporary gains, but it is quite impossible for

vocabulary and explain the meaning a man to succeed permanently who is known to be tricky and insincere.

SOCIAI:MI'NDEDNESS.——The ability to act as a member of a~commu~





nity and not simply as an isolated individual.





In the new age, into which





Experiments have shown that they are we are going, it will be impossible for any man to win the respect of the





, good intelligence tests. The students

received a copy of the puzzle and

were instructed to fill in the vacant

spaces as quickly as they could”. After

forty or forty-five. minutes, the papers



» were gathered and the numbers of the





student so as to obtain a crossword

score. As a. result, it was found that

,‘the students who scored highest in





1 the puzzles also.

Million of people seek no further





the intelligence ,test scored highest in '





supplied by a, .





world, or amount to what he should,

mindedness.





THE SPIRIT OF- SACRIFICE for the good of others. I





unless he has this quality of social-





To see how valu-





able this is, a boy has only to ask himself how he likes to see other people





act. The boy who will play the game





honestly as a member of a team, and





with a willingness to sacrifice his own advantages for the benefit of the

_ correct words were tallied for each whole team, will make the sort of man the world needs, and that is more





important than simply to grow rich. —-—Sha.iler Mathews. -. “ -





One f America’ s foremost reIi

Chicago





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Jane Cousin, Helen Kish,M CI

. So you have ”moved. to the city. How





, do you like it? I would like to be out .’





in the country at this time of the year.

You» can find out something about





,, liquor enforcement in Detroit. While





we i may not- have come from monk-





eys, plenty of ‘us make monkeys ,of I

_ ‘ I am glad you miss dun

M. C. activities.





oursetves;

You ought to have

the. paper come to your house, even

though youare in’the city-





 





Dear Uncle Frank.





I Wonder if you are doing what I .





am—making flower beds. We planted

eighteen different kinds, so I think

we have enough for one year. _,



Uncle Frank, why don‘t you have the

ones who send money, put, some kind

of a mark on the envelope so you

would not have to open everyone to

see if there was any?



As for the Charleston. it looks as if





' some hen was trying to scratch and





did not know how. I have long legs,

but I can’t learn to do it fast enough.

Uncle Frank, don’t you think the





- world is getting worse than it used





to be? I do, in ome ways. —-—Etty M.

‘Davis, Vassar, ich. »





‘ I don’t think it necessary to put

marks on the outside of an envelope

containing a contribution for the fund.

The main thing is to put the coin; in





 





Carl Cowing Makes His Pei: Dog and



Cats leo Each Other. 1

the inside. I open every envelope. No,

I don’t think the world is getting any

worse. I think it is getting better.

No, I'm not planting flowers, but wish

I.were.





From Fzma’ Contrz'éutom





Below are extracts from .afew let-

ters which came with contributions

for the M. 0. fund, which" is being





raised‘to buy a radio for the_Crippled '





Children’ s Home at Farmington.





I am sending a. dollar for the 1adio

fund. I feel sorry for the boys and

girls who cannot run and play and

have good times. Now I am going to

tell you how I got this dollar.



Our school entered the spelling con-





test that is being carried on by a.





newspaper. I won in my grade, then

spelled the school down, then went to

the district contest that was held at

Romeo High School



My grandfather told me that if I

won he would give me a dollar.

not w,in but was not the first one

down either, so he gave me fifty cents.

My mother gave me five cents each

for my sister Louise, my brother Rob-

ert, and my baby sister Helen My

grandma gave me thirty-five cents to

make a dollar.



I am eight years old and in the fifth

grade. Lois is in the primer 011138.—

From your niece, Dorothea Ebel.ing





I am a grandmother. I~wasreading

the children’s: letters. to my- little

grandchildren and they want to send

their birthday money to the crippled

children at Farm‘l ngton. Althea. asked

me to write for herand send her mon-

ey. She asked, "Will the little- girls

and boys like the radio?"

that it”y will help to pass the t1111'e





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. ink yen ha at 111941 way 0

ktertgning 1661513111- 111 the hi-

ous Isadore is Dr. Shailer Mathews of " « ‘1 , f

niversity, long president 0 the Federal Council of the Oh

~ of Christ in America, and author of many notable religious

should study his message, especiatiy his emphasis





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- . . , than ever- before, after the attem t at

qualities of farming as an occupation enforcing iPrOhibiti’on' p

s





and as alife. There are a great many. 7 My pen poqr and my paper is im-

features about farming that are much possible, so I W'ill ciose.—-—Warno Hel-

better than‘city life, but I think many finder: Ont‘magon’ Mien-

have not actually thought out why You are not ludicrouslyyocabular—

farming is better. This contest is for will anyhow, are you?. 1’ too, often

the purpose of stimulating thought shiver in sympathy Wl‘fh _a flapper.

along these lines.» . The trouble w1th prohibition is~that

For the ten best papers of 250 words the rummers have been feeding some

or less we will give prizes as follows: 0f the enforcement omcers wet hay.





The first two, the latest style pock‘

et pencils; the next three, dictionaries

of over 300 pages; the next five, cute

little pocket knives. '



Please write your name and address ,

in the upper left-hand corner of your girls at the Crippled Children's Home,

'paper, and put M. .C. after your‘name would like. It will take some time to

if you are a Merry Circler. Send your get that radio if the nickels and dimes

papers to Uncle. Frank, Michigan don’t come faster. Please speed yours

Farmer, Detroit, Michigan, before May 810118:- ‘ “

28, as the contest closes then. Several have asked how they should

' send their money. Most of the money

comes in coin, generally wrapped in

a piece of paper. None has been lost,

HE following had all of the an— as far as I know, by sending it this

swers to the Read-and-VVin Con- way. Others send stamps, and still





test Correct and were fortunate enough others send money orders, espeCially





to be picked as winners in the con- 1f the amount 15 falfly large. I} is

test: _ not hard to send the money and it is





Pencil Boxes. not hard to get a nickel or dime, s

' Margaret Brauher, Ithaca, Mich. uhyrot send yours now.

Margaret Cox, .Rockwood, Mich. Here are the names of those who





/ Dictionaries. have sent in mone from Ma 3 to

Frances Phair, R. 8, Goldwater, Mich. May 13 inclusive' y y





inez Ordish, Grass Lake, Mich.

Henrietta Kierpaul, Prescott, Mich. North West, Thurman Huff, Levado

. Pencils. Huff, Myra Smith, Raymond N. Calo-

Mildi-ed Rush, R. 3, Clarksville. von, Anna Athearn, Arthur Sturgis,

David Fero, Levering, Mich. Rena Pluggemeyer, William Tomp-

kins, Rodney G. Unterkircher, William





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THE READ AND WINNERS.





 





Margaret Shelby, R. 3, Coleman.

Thelma L. Brown,'R. 2, Hudsonville. Slager, Arlene Ballard, June Wake-

Arthur Dannes, R- 1. Whitmore man, Eleanor Cheney, Elisabeth

Lake, MiCh- Glynn, Grace Lankfer, “A Ni ce,” A1-

— ” fred Dinsmoore, Ida Masti , Lila



Smith, Dorothea Smith, Josephine Van

Singel, Emma Carty, Una Smith, Ida



" Renfors, Howard Schneider, Rowland

BELOW you will find the answers Schneider, Lucile Schneider, Dorothea

, to the Read-and-Win Contest an. Ebeling, Mrs. S H. S., Juliet Glupker,

“A Farm Mother,” Hazel Bowles,

-Glenn Crawtor, Florence Haubenstrik-

er, Grace Smith, Elsie Tousignant, E's-

. ther Richardson, Marjorie Stickley,

3—~Edward Averill—54515. Delia Stickley, Irene McComb, Etty

4—Parma, Mich1gan—5-615. . . Davis, Jeanette Daining, Cecelia

S—‘A collar which causes strain on \Heimler, Helen Kish, "Vera,” Caniff

the shoulder muscles—638-28. Leavenworth, Ruby Rosenberg, Agnes

6"“1‘0t 11‘636‘26- Blanshan, Anna G. VVrona, Mary Lou-

7—Mrs. T' R"630'20- ise Baker, Marjorie Barry, Martha



1., 8—D” Kenyon L‘ Butterfleld~ Speckine, Edna Ratzlaff, Doris Han-

6.;4—24. sen Elton Hansen, Thelma Hansen,

9-133 bushels—11-621. Pearl 'Boysen, Margaret Cook, “Ten-

10*]-'200_632'22' derfoot," Francis Hay, Roberta Brace,

‘Hazel Crispin, Howard Krick, .Etta

Krick, Kenneth Springett, Ada Miller,

Mildred Rush, Mabel Dening, Wilbur

Huff, Claretta Pluggemeyer, “May-

flower,” Edgar Harwood, Josephine

Szelog Mildred E Merritt, Veikko Pihl.





READ-AND-WIN ANSWERS. ,





 





nounced two weeks ago:

1—Saturn—'624-14.

‘ '2—Harry Burn’s—23-633.





OUR COWS.





We have a little cow,

"And her name is Rose,



She is nearly all brown,

Except her nose.





 

 

 





it has been as complete 8.





crimes, deaths, etc, have appeared





HE contributions keep coming but ,

not as fast as I, or the boys and





_WOLF HATCHING & BREEDING 00., Box 43.





 





 





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OHIO ACCREDITED





BABY CHICK! _

3:1 BIG CUT IN EAGLSE NEST CHICKS ’9





50 100 300 600 1000 .

White, Brown and Buff Loghoms ...... $2.75 $5.25 $10.00 $28.00 $45.00 8 90 .

§ 5;





 

 





 

   

   

   

 





White and Silver Laced Wyandottes.

Barred. \Vhito and 13qu Rocks. Blar'lx

Minorcas. S. C. & II. C. Rods, and





Ancnnas ............................. $3.25 ’35 12.00 34.50 57.00 110

‘ 1': 00 47.00 75.00





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But! Minorr'as ......................... 4.50 8.25 .

Heavy Mixed, $10.00. per 100. _

Light. $8.00 per 100.

O der direct from this ad June prices effective May 24th.

UPPER SANDUSKY. OHIO, U. S. A.





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THE EAGLE NEST HATCHERY. Dent. l7.





 





     





 





 





’Oino ACCREDITD CHICKS '

REDUCED PRICES





on these fine mire-bred baby (‘hl'k8. 5 hi '



but. lower prices. i am: 311 quality and good service.

SPECIAL STOCK.

ature tells tho story.

gricfs fig-tivefi Juno 1st. 25 50 100 500 1000

. ‘. .. r.. Bu Loinorns. Anconas 3.00 5.25 10 40. 0 f



S C & R. (‘. Rods.Brd.. Wh. Rocks. 3 5 3 S 5 3 )5





“'rito for prices on extra quality chinks. Our liter—





 





“ Blk. Million-as 3.2 12 5*: ‘ "

Buff Orpingtons. VVh. Wyandotios ................ 3.755 0.755 11:12 €3,550) 11?}.6 Bebt Pure

White Orplngtons .............................. 4.00 7.25 14 07.50 135 b d

Jersey Giants, Sil. Spangled llninhurgs ........... 0.00 11.00 20 95.00 re



Mixed Heavies (Not Accredi'i-ill, $10.00 per 100.



Mixed Light (Nor. Amredited). $0.001“ 100. 100% live delivery. Order today Stock





 





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MATURING BABY CHICKS





From Pure—bred Blood Tested Stock





We cull, we tnpnost. we blood tit-st all our breeding stock. Our experience is your guarantee a! quality.





size and egg production. l‘ricw l’osiiuilil on 25 50 100 500

Foreman Strain. B. P. Rocks. & R. 1. Beds .............................. 8 4.75 $9.50 $18.00 $515.00

Extra Select B. P. Rocks, &'R. I. Rods ................... 4.25 8.00 15.00 70.00





Select B. I’. lax-ks & It. I. Reds ........................... 3.75 7.00 13.00 00.00

Spunnl American 8. I“. White Leghoms (Tam-rod) ......... 4.00 7.50 14.00 05.00

Utility & English Barron S. (‘. \V. Leghorns .............................. 3.50 0.00 11.00 55.00

AMixed I‘hii-ks (Heavy or Light) ............................................. 3.50 0.00 11.00 55.00



Order direct from this ad with full remittance to save time. or write for circular telling why our

foundation Stork. with their high official records assures you of high avm'zige egg production. Your

yearly profits are determined by the breeding of your chicks and the number that you raise. Many

pleased customers say our chicks are the best they ever purchased. Member of International Baby Chick





Ass'n.

MILAN HATCHERY, BOX 4, MILAN, MICH.





ONE MILLION“GOOD LUCK"3%EE§

LEADING BREEDS ~ . LOWEST PRICES!

BUY YOUR “GOOD LUCK” CHICKS Now





LAST CHANCE FOR 1926. Thousands of pleased customers again testify this year

to the Quality of our Inspected “GOOD LUCK" (‘llll'li§. Don't rail to get our ART

BOOK. showmg mu- birds in their natural colors. mum lam-rs highly indorsing our

Chit-ks. All Loading Vurietios. 100% Live Donn-r: Cum-unread.



Postpaid Prices Effective lune lat—Sent. Int. 25 50 100 300 500 I000





 





 

   

 





 





. _ VVhito and 1500' Leghorns, Anconus .......... $2.50 $4.75 3 9.00 $25.50 $42 3 3"



Single (‘ouili & II. I‘. Brown Leghorn; 2.50 4.75 9.00 25.50 ~12 80



Bin-red a. White Racks. 11. (a & s. (‘. Rods ....................... 3.25 0.00 11.50 33.00 52 100

White & Silver Wyandoitos. Blill‘k Minorvas ....................... 3.75 7.00 13.50 30.00 02 120

, Buff & White Orplngtons, Buff Rocks .............................. 3.75 7.00 13.50' 39.00 02 120





Buff & White Minon'as. 50. $8: 100. $15. Assorted. .lloavy, $9.50 per 100 straight. Assorted Light. $8

per 100. Also QUALITY and SPECIAL QUALITY “GOOD LUCK" CHICKS. . .

I. B. C. A. NEUHAUSER HATCHERIES. Box 62, NAPOLEON. OHIO.





Diligent. Chicks Did It & Will Do It For You





Ideal weather is with us now. and look at our III'II'H. Our stock culled by the

very best. experts. Do not pay fancy prices for x‘hiwlu that are not better.

We guarantee safe delivery. Ten years of lltlnl'st dealing behind. us. Send

us your order today. Pullets after May first,





 





500 100 50 I5

5. C‘. White Leghorn: ..................... $42.50 3 9.00 $4.75 $2.50

Barred Plymouth Rocks .................... 62.60 11.00 5.75 3.00

S. C. Rhoda Island Reds ................... 52.50 11.00 5.75 3.00

8. {X Mottled Anconas .................... 45.00 9.50 5.00 2.75

Mixed Chicks ............................. 32.60 7.00 3.75 2.00





DILIGENT HATCHERYGI. POULTRY FARM. Harm J. Knoll. R. No. II.

HOLLAND. MICHIGAN.





 





Then we have another,

Her name is Tillie,



She snorts like a bull,

But looks like a Lillie.





Then the big red one,

Her name is Jess.

l She tries to milk lots

But always milks less.





Here comes a pet,

Her name is Bell.

She is so very small

That she fell in the well.





Then comes a black‘one,

Her name'is Daisy.



She can’t hardly, walk,

'Cause she's so blamed lazy.





Here is a funny one,

Her name is Kitt,

On one of her'sides,

, It's just like a mitt.





Then comes. an old one,

Her name is Blossom.

She walks in the barnyard .

And tries to “Bossem.” markably 0W pr1c-s.

That’s all I have time for,



To tell you today,

“ I may‘drop in again, . »

Perhaps in next May.

——-By Raindrop.





VOCABU LA’RY (AND FLAPPE'RS.





Dear Uncle Frank and M. C. Cousins: *‘

“I am through, the grade sc‘hoofl, but .

_ the much :d-e- '

sired ,S‘VOCabulariea ” words. If that '_.

, strum! ‘I‘et'm' um Webstergand"

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wThese chicks, even at the





 

 

 

   





 

 





 





 





 





 

 

     





Extra Ordinary Low Prices on

Superior S. C. White Leghorns





During the weeks of May 31, June ‘7, 14, 21 or_28 we W111

deliver to you, prepaid, and 100 per cent live delivery guar-

anteed,‘Su erior S. C. White Leghorns at the followmg re-

Just fill in the coupon below for the

number you desire, and mail it today. We Will Shlp your or-





Thesé Chicks are Michigan Accredited





igan [accredited and will pass the exacting requirements to be

classed as-such. Superior Chicks are those chicks that, un-

der practical farm conditions, make good.

day and avoid disappointment. . .

fiiotures all about Superior Leghorns and spec1a1 matings at

‘-, igiher prices, sent on request. ..

iei. .. SUPERIOR POULTRY FARMS, [1110.]



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1000 for $85





 





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BARRED ROCKS & REDS





CHICKS from blood tested pure standard

bred. Choice selected flocks.





Prices 50 100 500

Fore-an Strain B. P. RockL. - - $9.00 $11.00 $00.00

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

Selected II. I. lied: - - - ~ - - 8.00 15.00 10.00

. Mixed Heavy - - - ‘ - - - - - ll. 00 50.00

10097 /0 live delivery guaranteed.

Parcel Poet prepaid.





Holterman' s B. P. Rocks Trapnested Hatch—

ing Eggs, per 15 eggs $5. 00.

Order from this ad.

Second year of blood test for White Diarrhea





anEPEB POULTRY FARM &. HlchEnl

MILAN, MICHIGAN.





unsouamy Glass 1 11111013





From Michigan Accredited and Btstn- in-

spected stock. Alter May 10th: S. 0

English White and Brown Leghorns llc:

Sheppard's Anconas 12c; Barred Rocks

and II. I. Reds 18c: Assorted Chicks 0c.

No money ‘down with order. Pay full

amount tcn days before chicks are ship-

ped. Also 0. O. . Bank references.

0.; live delivery. Postpaid. Catalogue free.

THE 808 HATCHERY. H. 2-H. Iceland.





BARGAINS





in S. t". W. Leghorns, the world's greatest tags ma,-





 





 





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chino. 25,000 chicks for May and June delivery at

greatly reduced prices. 100% live delivery guaran-

teed. 50 for $5.25: 100 $10.00; 500 for $46.50





or

postpaid. For June lst tlnd themattm- 1c less per

chick. All chicks are from Mich. Accredited flocks.





DRENTHE HATCHERY,

Rt. 3, Box 95, Zeeland, Michigan





SEND NO MONEY!“ own: u"”(lflCIlS





W'stu ship 0. 0. D and guarantee 100% live delivery





 





rdy. pure-bred chicks White. Brown and

beckon-113.10“ Anconss, 11c; Barred Rocks White

S. C. and s, Blark Minorcas.12c:





Bufl shacks, Bun‘ oming'tons wlme Wyandottes,140:

ixed, 8c. Less than 100 chicks 1c eachm

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





SPECIAL PR ICES





on Michlm Accredited Chicks Pallets. Cookerels and

filing ens. Circular free Member of I. C. A.

rAIRVIEW HATOHERY





 





 





s. ”111113. Dept. '11.. 11.

3, Iceland. Ilioh.

BLOOD TESTED BABY CHICKS

Prices per 100 5001000

Extra. Selected B. P. 11001111.. .39 $17 $82.50 8180

Selected B Rocks and Beds 8 15 72. 00 140

B. (1. White ghoms ......... 7 62.50 120

100% lived delirery guaranteed. Parcel3 Post prepaid.

GARLETON HATOHERY. Carleton. Illeh.





 





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DIMENSIONS OF “MODEL" cow

STALL.





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HE grain and ensilage manger of



the model cow [stall is made right

on top of the cement floor 01:? the sta-

ble. It is two feet wide and the ce—

ment sides are six inches high. The

front of the stall, the side towards the

feeding alley, .is five feet high, with a.

door‘ or space eight inches from the





.bottom through which to feed grain





;and ensilage.



The hay manger is formed by nail-

ing :1 2x4 to the feeding alley front on

the side towards the cow, and twenty-





To this 2x4 are nailed four-inch slats

projecting back over the cow’s head

at an angle of forty-five degrees and

nailed to another 2x4 which is sup-

ported by the partitions between the

cows. These slats are three feet long.



The bed for the cow, and which

keeps her absolutely clean, is formed

by placing a. 2x4 edgeways across the

stall just in front of the cow’s hind

feet when she stands naturally, eating

from the grain manger. This space

between the manger and this 2114 just

in front of her hind feet should be

filled in with earth or matted with

straw even with the top of the 2x4.

nWhen the cow lies down she naturally

steps ahead and lies upon this clean

bed. That is the reason she never

is dirty in the stable. The cow is fast-

ened with a chain a~round her neck

which is stapled to the upright form-

ing the partition between the‘cows.

.This stall gives the cow the utmost

freedom possible and at the same time

compels her to keep clean.





SHORT-COURSE MEN HONORED.





 





EN from fourteen different coun-

ties received special honors dur-

ing the short course commencement at





 





 





Michigan State College. These honors

were distributed among the Winners

in the live stock judging contest, box-

ing tournament, wrestling tournament,

and those making the basketball team.

The competition for all of these hon-

ors was very keen as there was a‘ total

of 252 men and women enrolled in the

short courses this winter.



The live stock judging contest un-

doubtedly receives the warmest come

petition. The winner of the contest

this year was Morris Carter, of Lake

Odessa. His father was also a grad-

uate oi the Short Course in 1898. The

other winners were as follows:



Second, Albert Holtforth, Fenton;





_ first judging horses, George Brooks.





 





eight inches above the_grain- mangerp





. laxative.





Clinton; first judging beef cattle, Sey-

mour“ Hesche, Lowell; first judging

of sheep; Glenn Butler, Plalnwelir‘first

judging dairy cattle, James Vander-

star, Fibre; first judging of swine, Del!

mont Chapman, South Rockwood. ‘





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FEEDING THE GROWING LAMBS.





 





HE flock owner who is anxious "to



push his lambs should direct spe

cial attention to feeding liberally

while they are suckling their dams.

Good milking ewes produce enough

milk to give the lambs a good, start,

but additional feeding is necessary to

keep the lambs growing.



I have always found it a splendid

practice in ”the management of my

growing lamb crop to supply the lambs

with a light grain ration as soon as

they are old enough to feel the need

of more nourishment than they are

receiving from the ewes. I find it pays

to construct a small pen in a. conven-

ient place, either in the sheep barn-

or pasture, with a shallow trough

where grain may be kept in easy reach

of the lambs This pen should be so’

constructed that there is a small op-

ening for the lambs to pass in and

out, but not large enough to admit the

old sheep. '



I have found it an easy and quick

way to build this pen to have fOur

panels constructed so that when they

are put together, they will make a pen

twelve feet square. The opening is

,built into one panel in a. way that it

is adjustable so that it may be made





llarger as the lambs grow older. I





can set this pen up either in the sheep

,barn 01' pasture. The trough'is eight

feet long and ten inches wide, with

fou1 inch sides and mounted on ‘legs

six inches up from the ground. There

is a six-inch strip through the center

of the trough so the lambs can not!

get into the trough and get their feed

dirty.



The grain ratio’n for growing lambs

should be appetizing, nutritious and

It should not be fattening,

but should have essentials to encour-

age i‘he lambs to grow bone and keep

in good flesh. My experien’Ce has been

that wheat _bran, two parts; finely

ground oats, one part; with a. small

allowance of oil meal, make an ekcel-

lent grain iation to grow the lambs

on. Later, I add one part more of

cracked corn (old corn) to the ration.

This ration may be kept before the

lambs without any danger of over-

feeding.—Leo C. Reynolds.





84 ‘ Testers Report





T Airmen Percent of Cow; Exceed {(0 My. Butter-Fat in a Month





URING the month of March re-

ports were received from eighty?



four Michigan Cow T'eSting As-

sociations. More than 23,000 cows

were tested in the 2,115 herds owned

iby the members 1.. these associations.

A summary of all of the reports

shows that 2,961 cows made more

,than forty pounds of butter-fat for the





rmonth of March, while 1,527 cows pro-





duced above fifty pounds of butter—fat.



An interesting item showing that

the work of .the cow testing associa-

tion is continuous and is not a‘ short.

time piopositlonIis found in the num-

ber of unprofitable onws sold out of

the associations during March. The

average Michigan association tests

about 290 cows, while in March alone:

more than 320 cows“ were sold as un-

profitable animals. Thus it Could. be





 





 





Associations was sold for beef during

March.



Feed shortages are becoming more

acute in many sections. A new test-

ing association, reporting for the first

time, shows that seventeen herds were

losing money and that the majority of

the dairymen were very low in feeds.

Springtime will thus be Welcomed by

all. It. will be especially welcomed

by the dairymen, in that it helps re-





duce the labor about the barn, and





the cows will respond also because of

the improvement and change in the

feed.





Dairymen should be particular. how-1





, eyer. regarding turning their cows out





on pasture too early. The first growth



of pasture grass is exceedin I



in water content Morel ' ‘ '

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two above 33,000 1111111111111.an '

1. 350 lbs. butter. both "with “World's my ‘

His dam is a 31-111.a 36.5411.

cow with 1231.75 1112.11uuarw-m 26.053 lbs.

milk in a. year





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Special Sale or Fire-shred

Holstein cows and Heifers





ALL are sired by,o rbred to. ed the great bulls

of the breed—Count rveeman 801d! Plebe. ALL have ‘

zoodcdvancodreclstiyrecordsaudareoutofrecord ’1

cows.



ALL are from JulLv accredited herd and free from

disease. SEVERAL have show records. Write for

information We have some real hard bull prospects



at $100. LAK/EFIELD FARIB. Clarkoton. Mich.





HEREFORD 511515113





60 Wt. around 925 lbs. 06 .Wt. around” lbs.

80 Wt. around 730 lbs. . >82.Wt. around 1650 lbs. .

88 Wt. around 550 ll”. 48 Wt. around [500‘ lbs.





 





 





 





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Good quality. dark reds, daiorned. well 'Here—

ford Steers. Good stockw order. The heel ty, are

usually market toppers when finished. Will sage your





choice of any bunch. ,.‘~





Van D. Baldwin, Eldon ,Wapello (10., Iowa.

HEREFORD STEERS FOR SALE





137- 500 1111., - 173- 600 11:11:55 , ,

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rule. excellent from B. '0! ll.

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JERSEY BULLS Reach for Service





from Register of Merit. siredby a‘ son of ‘ ’

Blondes Golden Oxford. Federnl Accredited Her-1L ‘





Notten Farm, Grass Lake, Mich.





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151111 cows. 4 Bulls man. or II. Chance ._

select from horde! «70. Come fresh. 6111mm 5;

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Oii'ers Milking Strain Short

horns, ill of breeding ~-





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are. from heavy milking 11g, easy flashing dung. Wriw

JOE MORIARTY. R. No. 3. Hudson. Mich. ..

Roan Shorthorn Bull ‘fit.$3‘g°‘fiafi

dam. W. E. Thompson. R. No.‘ 4, Winston. Mich.





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owned by the Michigan Farm Colony

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the Tuscola No: 1 Cow Testing Asso-

ciation... A pure-bred Jers owned





‘by J. M.‘ Laughs, of the Hillsdale No.





2 Association, was second— in this age





class, for all 'cow’sunder test in Mich-





igan.

E W. Fentofi,‘member of the Ma-





comb No. 2 Association, owned the

highest. threoyear-old. His cow pro-





der four times a day milking, and was

retested under oflicial testing super-





 





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‘o‘wned'by Black & ‘Nieuwsma, mom-“‘-





bers 'in the ‘NeWaygo County Cow





”Testing Association, oldest Tin - the

'United States, was the highest produc-





ing four-year-old. This cow, under re-

test and three 'tim'es a day milking,

produced 87.47 pounds of butter-fat.



H. B. McMurray had the two high-

est producing cows in the mature age

class; both of these pure-bred Hol-

stein cows were retested. Mr. Mc-

Murray is a member of the Kalamazoo

No. 2. Cow Testing Association.



The following list compiled by the

Dairy Extension Office, Michigan State

College, of the ten highest producing





'cows in each age class out of more





than 23,000 cows under test in Michi—

gan during March, is as follows:





 





 





Ten High Cows Under Three-year Class.





 





 





 





Aver

.. Association and Owner. Bree'd Date Fresh. Av. Milk. %Test. For

>Tuscola No. 1. Michigan Farm Colony (x). B 1-20-26 1965 3_9 70.54

Hillsdale No. 2. J. M. Landis ......... 2-20-20 1519 5.0 75.95

Kent East, Maryland Farm (xx) 2- 4-20 1655 4.5 74.48

('tiatlevoix. Elmer Murray' (1:) ............ 1649 4.5 74.21

light East. Maryland Farm. (xx) 52-10-20 2325 3.1 72.08

lii‘nt-Granddtaplds. 'John Buth ................... PB ll 2-19-20 1503 4.4 60.13

Washtenaw-Ann Arbor. James F. Warner .......... r1; .r 227-20 1200 5.5 00.00

Kent-”East. Maryland Farm (xx 2) .................. PB H 3- 3-20 1000 3.8 64.97

Allegan North. Zurfas Brothers ..................... P15 H 2-14—20 1804 3.6 64.94

lsabella. Myron Maxwell ............. . ............. Gr H 3- 5-20 1513 3.9 63.10

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, Ten High Cows Under Four-year Class.

Mmiomh No. 2, E. W: Fenton (xxo) .......... PB H \3- 0-20 2393 4.2 100.49

85: Joseph. W. (‘. and C. L. Harder (r) .......... PB J 52-23-26 1240 7.3 90.05

lonIa-Beldlng, Michigan Boformatory (xx) ........1’B H 2- 5—20 2013 3.1 81.00

.Uakland. Pontiac St. Hospital (xxf) ................ PB II 2-27-20 , 2310 3.2 73.92

Delta South, Emil Moson ................ . ........ Gr H 12-28—25 1209 0.1 73.75

(iv‘nl‘s'l't‘ No. 1. Ivan Parsons ....... ..... ........... PB J ...... 1228 6.0 73.08

(Emma-Jamestown. Clyde Ilollis (r) ..... Gr J 1-2020 1535 4.81 73.71

Siiiawasse‘e. George Wino-gar & Son ...PB . ...... 1204; 0.0 72.30

(re-aha East, Ernest Haight (r) ................... PB G 223-2? 1198 5.99 71.88

Ganesee No. 5, Miller Bros. 8:. Dickenson (r) ...... Gr C 2-23-20‘. 1131 5.0 71.58



Ten ngh Cows Under Five-year Class.

Newaygo. Black & Nieuwsma (x r) ....... . ......... T’B J 1-..-2.‘; 1502 5.0 87.47

Kalamazoo-No. 2. H. B. MrMurray (x r) .......... PB H 2— 4—20 2004; 3.0 79.98

Oakland. Pontiac St. Hospital (x if) .............. PB H 2—23—2'; 2039 3.9 79.52

Jackson-Rives, Herman fichmidt (x) ....‘ .......... l‘BH 10-18-21 2170 3.6 78.38

Gogebic, C. E. Johnson ........ . ................... Gr. 11 3-12-20 2133 3.6 70.79

. Jackson-Puma, Dennis Cobb v? .................... PB H 2-10—2'} 1931 3.9 75.31

Ottawa-Coopersvillc. Ed Johnson ................... Gr H 1-11-20 2341 3.3 75.25

Kent-Grand Rapids. Robert Holms ............... PBG 12-14-25 1209 0.1 73.75

Kalamazoo No. 2, L. J. Bradley ................ PB J 2- 3-20 1311 5.6 73.43

Shiawassee. Fred Martin ............. .... .......... ’B H 12-15-25 1730 4.2 72.91



p , Ten Hugh Cows Over Five-year Class.

Kalamazoo No. 2. H. B. McMurray (xx r) ..... .....PB H 3- 7-26 2570 3.9 ' 100.33

Kalamazoo No. 2. II. B. MvMurray (xx r) .......... PB H 2—23-20 2883 3.4 98.02

‘(hmesee‘No 3, Michigan School Deaf (xx 0) . ...... 2718 3.0 97,87

Bay-Pinconning, Herb Wilder (xx 0) ....... 3- 3-20 2480 3.9 96.51

(Ignacio-Reed ('ity. ‘F. Hurst (x r) ........... ‘2-24-26 2403 3.8 93.82

Genesee No. 3, Michigan School Deaf (xx) ...... 2589 3.6 93.20

Washtenaw-Ann Arbor, John G. Lewis ‘(x) ---------- 2-27-26 2233 4.1 91.76

Ionia—Belding, Ionia State Hospital (x) ............ PB H 1-27—20 2372; 3.8 90.14

Alger, U. P. Experiment. Station (xx r) ............ PB H 1-20-20 2210 4.05 89.43

TuscolaNo. 1. Frank Crosby (2r) ....... . .......... PB J 1-28-26 1506 5.7 89.26





One (x) indicates three-time milker: two

has been run: one (0) indicates cow was on olficlal

‘ days; and one (it) indicates 29 days.





(xx) indicates four-time milkor: one (r) indicates a retest





test: one (2) indicates 28 days: one (f) indicates 30





 





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to Over 1700





of milk per cow, annually





Increased production is the first result of feed—

ing Michigan State Rations everywhere, every

More milk per cow—more money, for

what you sell—more dairy profit at the end





time.





of the‘year.





One herd reports an increase of 400 lbs.





per day. Others report bigger production,

smaller feed bills—and more profits.





A Feed

for Every Need





Eight difl'erent formulae—one for every need-

each prepared by dairy experts to insure the right

feed for every herd,——-a feed adapted to the needs of

each herd. Michigan State Ratione formulae were

prepared for the use of State-owned herds—not for

selling purposes. They were designed to give the





proportions of protein, fat, and digestible nutrients to insure big





milk production.





Cost Less than Ordinary Feeds





The materials used in Michigan State Rations actually cost more than those in





ordinary feeds but you can buy them for much less.





and milling. Direct selling from the mill to you eliminates middlemen's profits.

You buy at a price that saves you





high expenses and commissions to salesmen.

$4.00 to $8.00 per ton.





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gan Slate Ra! ions.





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bent—then buy that feed at a big saving. Write todayl





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right





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ADD TO INTERNATIONAL ATTRAC-

‘ Tl-ONS.





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HE International Live Stock Expo-





‘ ‘ sition, to be held at Chicago, No-





vember 27 to December 4, should prove

more attractive to both exhibitors and

visitors than ever before, as a result

of action [taken at the spring meeting

of the board of directors. A new class

for swine Carcasses of the bacon type

has been added, and the Rambouillet

wether Classes reinstated. The rules

have been changed to allow the feed-

ing of concentrates to carloads of

feeder cattle between October 1 and

committees will

.soon make other important announce-

ments, according to Secretary-Manag-

.er B. H. Heide.





MICHIGAN GUERNSEY CHAMPION.





HE new Guernsey state champion



.of Michigan in Class EEE (junior

three-year-old, 305~day record, ‘milked

twice daily), is Wil-Holm Bondta 134-

511, with a record of 6,729.7 pounds of

milk, containing 367.8 pounds of but-

ter-fat. She was bred, and is owned

by Robert A. Holmes, Grand Rapids.





CLOSE‘R FARM INSPECTION IN

SIGHT.





, , HE average American dairyman

probably feels that; he is already





over-inspected, but there is a possi-





bility that‘he will be'checked up even

closer. While talking with the health

inspector of one of the larger Wiscon-

sin cities. he told me that he was try-





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remedy L everything by tests of the

milk at the distributing plant.



It is the old idea of keeping or se-

curing the milk in good order right at

the source, so that the problem of the

distributor will be simplified; the

keeping of dirt out of the milk, rather

than of removingdt afterwards. What

the dairies will look and test for prob—

ably will be harmful, types of bacteria,

such as haemolytic “strep” and other

patogenic or disease-producing germs,

which faulty pasteurization might lot

by occasionally.





It seems to me that the farmer who

is anxious to produce the best possible

quality of milk should welcome the

help of the bacteriologist. Most dis-

tributors want to keep their farmer

patrons, and will desire to shut off

only these who_persistently try to

evade all the rules of producing clean,

safe milk. One of the greatest ben-

efits of a constant bacteridlogical

check-up is that it tells exactly what

is wrong with the milk, so that a rem-

edy may be applied without delay.—

W. A. Freehoff.





 





HORSE MEAT SOLD ABROAD.





MERIfiC'AN horse meat is being

* sold quite extensively in Europe,

according to the department of com-

merce. France and Holland are large

consumers.

Amsterdam Says the increased sale of

American horse “flesh in Holland is

due to the fact that it is the product

of young horses raised and fed ex—

pressly for meat purposes, and there-

fore more tender and palatable.





 





Fires are raging in the forests on

Grandfather mountain in North Car-5





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The American consul at





 





Tile Silo for as low as $220—fire-safe.

frost-proof, permanent, attractive.

Write for free book With new low

rices and easy terms. . _

uilding Tile for all farm buxldings.





Kalamazoo Tank 8: Silo Co.

Dept. 412





 

 





 





So-Boss Cow Hobble 66 Tail Holder.

prevents cows kicking or awllchlngloil.

5c--hardware slores or sent prepaid.





, 7

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Also Glazed





 





' Hooves, Oongho. Goodman-





_,-‘ or, Worms. .. Most (or cool.

N“ Two cans satisfactory-10!

.5, Heaves or money back. $1.20

per can. Dealers or by mail.





The Newton Remody‘co.

Toledo. 0M0.





 





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strains,





gists or

write.





atdruggists or delivered. Book I R free.

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antiseptic liniment for bruises,





heals and soothes.





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Thickened. Swollen Tissues,

Curbs, Filled Tendons. Sore-

neee from Bruises or Strains;

stops Spavin Lameness, allays pain.

Does not blister, remove the hair or

lay up the horse. $2.50 a bottle





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cuts, wounds,

painful, swollen veins or glands. It

$1.25 a bottle at drug-

postpaid. Will tell you more if you

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back. 81.10 Box Sufficient for ordinary cases.

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60 -- Michigan Guernseys -- 60





.ISecond Annual Consignment Sale





East Lansing, May 27, 1926

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





Cows --- ‘bred and open heifers --- heifer calves --- bulls.

' A. R. and C. T. A. records backing.





Some of the females are sired by, or in call to sons of such noted bulls as ItchenyKing,‘

I Langwater Eastern King, Brookmead s





A. R., Langwater Master Fred, A. R., .

Sensation, A. R., Rockingham Holliston, and Lone Pine Ranger

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS

, Tuesday, May 18.

Wheat.





Detroit—No. 1 red $1.65; No. 2 red

$1.64; No. 2 white $1.65; No. 2 mixed





. $164





Chicago—July $1.35@1.351,§; Sept.





$1.31@1.311/3.





Toledo—“Theaé $1.621,é@1.631/§.

orn.



Detroit.«—No. 2 yellow at 780; No. 3

yellow at 750; No. 4 yellow 70c; No.

5 yellow 65c.



Chicago.-——July 73%0; Sept. 77%0.





Oats.

Detroit—No. 2 white Michigan at

46c; No. 3, 45c.

Chicago—July F$410; Sept. 41%0.

e





y .

Detroit—No. 2, 85c.

Chicago—July 83140; Sept. 85140.

Toledo—Rye 84c.

Beans.





Detroit—Immediate and prompt

shipment $4.40. ‘

Chicago.—Spot Navy, Mich. fancy





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

neys $9. .

New York—Pea, domestic $4.50@

5.25; red kidneys $8@9.

Barley. ,-

Malting 74c; feeding 690.

Seeds. .

Detroit.—.Cash red clover at- $21;

alsike $17; timothy $3.45. '

Buckwheat.

Detroit—Buckwheat $1.75 per cwt.

Hay

Detroit—No. 1 timothy $23.50@24;

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

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

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

straw $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





After several days of firmness,

wheat prices have had another sharp

decline. Crop news is generally favor-





able, and pressure to move old crop~





time to time,

liquidation of speculative

holdings of the May delivery. Settle-

ment of the British strike has not

brought enough improvement in ex-

port demand to stem the tide. The

official forecastrof 549,000,000 bushels

of winter wheat was slightly lower

than expected, but, since the reports

were gathered, rains have improved

prospects in the dry sections of Kan-

sas, Nebraska and Colorado. No basis





holdings appear from





for an upward trend in prices is ap»





parent at present. The small reserves

of old crop wheat are a strengthening

factor and will tend to slow down the

decline to a new crop price level. The

chance of any important advance be-

cause of these limited holdings\se_ems

to have passed. Evidence of serious

damage to the new crop seems to be

the only factor likely to cause a mate-





rial upturn.

RYE





Unfavorable prospects for the new

crop, a decrease in the visible supply,

and indications of light stocks in first

hands were the main strengthening in

fluences in rye in the past week, but

the market does not respond well

as the visible supply is large, export

business is lacking and Russia seems

to be in position to make fair ship—





ments again.

CORN





Corn prices had a modest rally af-





‘ ter declining to new low levels for the





season. Demand appears to be a lit-

tle better, while the movement from

first hands is slow, and the vis1ble

supply has declined for six consecu-

tive weeks. Underlying conditionsin

corn remain weak, so that any rise

in prices will be slow. Stocks still

on farms in the surplus sections are

large. These are likely to come on

the market sooner or later, although

in spasmodic fashion. No chance of

export sales is apparent, with Argen-

tina ready to market a surplus of 225:;

000,000 to 250,000,000 bushels, and lib-

eral offerings of” old crop corn Ilieing



eav-





domestic supply, but abundance is as-





OATS ‘ ’





Opening of lake navigation has been





1'”.' marked by a heavy movementmf oats

;’eastward, but current cash demand is





 





 





 





dull._ Prices have not changed much

for two weeks. Receipts are small,

but terminal stocks are heavy and new‘

cats will fill up southern demand with-

in a month or six weeks. The new

crop is developing a little unevenly in

the middle west.

, ARLEY



Cash demand for barley has, been

more active recently, both in the mid-

dle west and along the Pacific Coast.

The new crop has been affected“ ‘un-

favorably by weather-conditions in the





nortliw est.

- ' SEEDS





The spring demand for seeds is

about over. Sales fer the season were

curtailed by the unseasonable weath-

er, but prices held up unu’Sually well.

Retail prices in general averaged low-

er on May 1 than on the correspond-

ing date in 1925.





FEEDS





The feed market is irregular with

demand slackening as pastures im-

prove. Wheat feeds are more plenti-

ful and were marked generally lower

last week. Demand is chiefly for small

lots for immediate shipment, and or.

ders for future delivery are scarce.





" EGGS





Receipts of fresh eggs continue





large but prices advanced at the close .,





of last week. The flush in production

is coming later than usual this year,

due to the cold spring, and the lay

will continue longer into the summer.

The high point has been passed in

some sections/how‘ever, and receipts

will begin to decrease in two or, three

weeks when prices of strictly fresh

eggs will gradually advance. The hold-

ings of eggs in storage on May 1 of

3,717,000 cases were more than 3. mil-

lion cases short of the same time a

year ago, making for a strong statis-

tical situation.



Chicago—Eggs, fresh firsts 28%@

29c; extras 29%@30c; ordinary firsts

2634433271,“; miscellaneous 28c; dirt-

ies 26@261/2c; checks 260. Live poul-

try, hens 271,é@30c; broilers 42@50c;

roosters 19c; ducks 30@32c; geese at





160; turkeys 350.

fresh candied and





Detroit—Eggs, .

graded 29@2917éc. Live poultry, grog-S

1g





ers 45@50c; heavy hens 32c;





hens 30b3’31c; ducks :35@36c. ',





BUTTER ,

The butter market continued in ‘a.

strong position last week chiefly as

a result of ,moderate supplies. Pro-

duction has ,been affected :by the late





‘ season, and the excess over the make





in the corresponding time last season,

when the heavy spring out ut had al-

ready started, is fast d minishing.





Current receipts continue to increase





from week to week, however, and with

pastures rapidly getting in conditidn





following the recent rains, there \is ‘ 4





every' reason to expect a liberal sup.

ply of butter. Consumptive demand

is excellent, and'dealers have been

more active in taking on. supplies

ahead of their immediate require-

ments. Some butter was stored last

week, and the excess over a’year go,





is mounting. Holding on May 1 tofial- 1 75





ed "17,490,000 pounds, a surplus of

nearly 14,000,000 pounds over the cor-

responding date last season. The

trend in butter prices during ihe next

month will depend largely on the

weather, but in view of the liberal

supply, it does not seem likely that

prices will be marked much higher





for awhile. . ,





Prices on 92-score creamery were:

Chicago 39%c; New York 411750. In

Detroit fresh creamery in tubs sells-

for 38@4OC per pound. ,.





POTATOES ‘





The old potato market was unset-

tled last week and prices declined.

Supplies were not burdensome, but the

large percentage of poorly graded

stock depressed the market. Prices

are already recovering, however. - The

movement of old stock normally de-

creases rapidly during May until by

June 1 more new stock than old stock

is rolling to market. Shipments of

new potatoes so far this season have

been less than half as large as

corresponding period last year, and

prices have averaged nearly twice as

high. New stock remained firmly held

during the ast Week in spite of the

lower prices on old potatoes. Northern

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

at $3.50@3.75 per 100 pounds, sacked,

in the Chicago carlot market. Florida





Spaulding Rose, U. S. No. 1, are held _





at*$10.50 per double-head barrel.





 





 





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.Thebean'market‘ mm nodule“ 't a '

week with fancy 0.1-1. 3“ whine-qua"

ed slightly higher- at $4.45 r_“"100

pounds, f. o. m.¢~-Michisan 11119111118 ;

points. There are stiliplenty of beans '.

left in, growersf hands, ut the upset .

isfactory' prices and' '6- press of

spring work keep the noveltient to

market at a minimum. Demand is mod-

erate and gives little evidence of ,pos-~

sible improvement... " ' '





GRAND RArlss '- .

Better. growing weather during the.

past two weeks .Was " edigthis





 





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. reflect

week in larger offerings of farm pro-

duce and lower-prices on the Grand

Rapids .ma’rkets. Quotations follow:N

Asparagus 75c@$1 per dozenbunches;

rhubarb 75Q@$1.25 bu; sginadh”$1i50@



. bu ; green onions ”0@25c dozen

bunches; leaf lettuce 17@180 per lb;

radishes- 85c@$1 dozen bunches;flrot-

house tomatoes $3.25 per 7-lb. basket;

cucumbers $1.75@2 ,dozen; hothousg‘

cabbage‘$2.25 bu; potatoes $1.75@2.2

bu; beans $3.65@*3.75 cwt; red kidney

$8 cwt; wheat $1.46 bu; apples $1@

2.50 bu; eggs 26@27c; butter-fat 410;

old hens 25@30c; broilers 35@500.





WOOL ' ’





, Wool trade has made but little pro-

gress recently. 'Settlement of the Brit-

ish strike eliminated continental in-

quiries for foreign wools in this coun-

try as well,as the possibilityihat im-

ortations of British woolen goods,

ould be checked. Domestic mills are .

not domg much buying, so that see.-

board marketsare almost at a stand- .





 





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MARKETS av " RADIO.





 





AILY market reports and

‘J weather forecasts may be

obtained each" week day from

the following Michigan stations:

WKAR—Mlchlgan State Col-‘

lege, 12:00 noon. . ‘ ‘

WCX—Detroit Freo‘Preso, at

2:15 -P. M. ‘ .

wa—Detroit News, 10:25 A. '

M., 12:00 noon, 4:00P. M. ‘

WGHP—Geo. Harrison Phelps.

7:00 P. M. . ' ~ .





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Tuesday, May 18.





CHICAGO ‘ ~





Hogs.

ReCeipts 16,000. Market mostly un-

changed at Monday’s average; a few

light weak to 100 lower; majority 240-





325 butchers $13.30@13.85; bulk desir—m





able 200—225 weight $13.90@14.25; bulk

better 180 lbs. down $14.35@14.50; top

150—160 weight $14.60; packing sows

largely $12.50@13.75; selected killing

pigs up to $14.70. '





Cattle.



Receipts 10,000. Market on matured

fed steers slow, weak to 150 lower;

y .arlings steady; shipping demand is

ngrrow for weighty kind; best heavy

$10.25; long yearlings up to $9.85;

light yearling heifers in liberal. sup-

plies; she stock uneven, steady to low-

er; better grades fat cows sharing

steers’ decline; canners, bulls, active,

strong to 100 higher; vealers erratic,

mostly 15@750 up; bulk to packers at

$11@12.60; outsiders up to $14.



Sheep and‘ Lambs.



Receipts 8,000. Market on fat clip-

ped lambs and slanghter sheep full

25c higher; California spring lambs

opening 500 higher; {our cars of Cal-

ifornias with light sort average around





$17@17.25; bulk of desirable clipping .





lambs $15.25@15.50;'top $15.50; in-be—

tween and grassy offerings $14.25@

14.75; choice 113-11). clipping Califor-

nia ewes $8.25; good California lambs

and yearlings mixed $14.50;. these 50c

higher than last week; demand for

thin California broad; asking about

$14 for best end. “ “ -





DETROIT





. ' ’ Cattle.

‘ Receipts 245., ..Market steady.





 





Good to choice yearlings, ‘ ,

dry-fed . . .~ ......... $ 9.00@10.00

Best heavy steers, ‘dryx d 8.506;) 9.00

Handy weight butchers . . 7.50@ 8.50

Mixed steers and heifers -7.00@‘8.5.0

Handy. light butchers 8.4 .50@, 7.00

6-00@‘i,3, -





fiesta; [500. 9 ms $13,

49W.“ “ ’





Best COWS'Vo-ooovooonooio 6v50@ 7.00

Butcher cows . . . .;. . . . . . 5.50@ 6.50

Cutters .‘llluOOlOIOOOOOOQl 4.50% 5'00

Canners 4.00 4.50

Choice light bulls . . . . . . . . .6.50@ 7.00

Bologna bulls . . . . . . : . . . . 6.00@ 6.75

Stock bulls 5.50@ 5.75

Feeders ...... . 6.50@ 7.75

Stockers ............ . . . . 6.00@ 7.00

Milkers and springers. . . .$50.00@ $100

Veal Calves. .



Receipts 663. Market steady.



est .............. . . .— . . .$13.00@13.50

Others .................. 4.00@12.50





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 642. Market 25c higher on

lambs; sheep steady.





Best ... . . . . . . .$14.50@14.75

Fair lambs ,. . . .' ..... . . . . 12.50@13.25

Light and common ..... . 7.00@10.25

Fair and good sheep . . . 7.00@ 7.50

Culls and common ...... 3.00@ 4.00

Hogs.

Receipts 469. Market steady.



Mixed hogs ......... . , . .$ 1 .6‘



Heavies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘13.00@13.75

_PigS ....l.....o.‘..su.‘... ‘ 15-00

Yorkers choocoolt-IIOOOOO '14'75

Roughs » 12.25

Stags IOIIOIOIIIIOCIOOII.‘ 9-00





_. BUFFALO





- Hogs. . , .

Receipts 1,140. Hogs cl'osingesteady.





,Heavy $14; medium $11.50@15;25; un-





der 200 lbs. mostly at $15.50; packing

sows and roughs $12@12.25. .

. » Cattle.

Receipts 100. Market is steady;





steers 1100 lbs. up $8.25@9.90; steem ._ \.

May 25———M"





1100 lbs down $6.50@9.25; yearli ‘8

$9.75; heifers-”@850; cows '$3@7.2 ;

bulls $5027.25: . -- H - -

, , S cop and Lambs.



Receipts 250. Market sterilize -~ No

choice lambs here. Best clipped}

11%)” 1:2 figus , $13 dawn;— best year; rigs

ewes $6.50@8. ._ , . ,





 

 





 

 





 





 





 





.en bunches;





aged wetheraati $.8.50@9;,





still, and prices are largely nominal. _ ‘

More buying in the west» has taken ..

place since the sale of the'Jericho '

clip. A range of ~31 34c more most

of the sales. In Mic gan, growers are

holding for 38@40c, with buyers eta.

fering 35c or less.‘ Whether prices'

will recover later depends to 'a large '

extent on thegdegree of the slump in

general business.





DETROIT CITY MARKET



Asparagus $1.60@2 dozen bunches:

apples $1@.2.50 bu; beets 60@75c bu;

carrots $1.50@2.50 bu; beets “@750

bu; cabbage 75@1 bu; dry onions,$1.40

@150 bu; green onions ‘50@_75,c doz-

root parsley .$3@4 (bu; '

curly parsley 50c dozen bunches; .po- --

tatoes $2@2.75 bu; topped turnips/$1

@1.75...bu; dadelions 50@75c bu; par-s-

nipe $1@1.75 bu: lacks $1@1.25 dozen

bunches; rhubarb. hothouse 80c@$1.15

dozen bunches; outdoor 80c@$1 dozen

bunches; horseradish $1@2 bu; sorrel





4 0 $2@2.50 bu; cabbage plants $1@1.'25





flat; tomato plants $1@1.25 fiat; spin-

ach $2 bu; celery plants $1.25@1.50

fiat; aster plants $1.50 flat; pansié's

$2.25@2.50 per 15-lb. box flat; gei‘an—

iums $2.40@3‘dozen; butter ,55@60c; ‘

maple syrup $3@3.50 gallon ;-' eggs,

wholesale 30c; retail 33@35c; . hens,

wholesale 33@35c; retail at ,35@,37c;

broilers, wholesale 45c; retail ‘50@60c;

veal' 17@18c; small live pigsfat“$7.'50

each; dresSed hens 40@450. -.





comma LIVE sroCK'SALss»





 





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.M 27—14: ,Gue‘msei Breed

, 3133’s Remit“ 9h». ‘ ' 9,” ‘ '

its.” ' f ' ‘ i .1
figmeganIe—zvnh‘hold mm for twelve

“hours, then give sahtonin and caIOmel,





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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' ‘ a. half grain of each, in elatin cap-

4 .i sale. This can be repeat once each'

4 -





 





mha.—’—M little pigs were all well





until about two weeks alga), when they;

became covered with a kind of scab-

The backs of their ears crack open





and part of their tails drop off. What

is the cauSe of this? Can you give me

a cure? H. _J. S.-—Keep the pigs in

clean, dry quarters. Give a laxative,

such as epsom salts. This is also of

benefit, through its alkaline action on

the blood. It would also be advisable

to reduce their feed.





 





COUNTY CROP REPORTS.





Allegan 00., May 13 -—Farmers are





- behind in oat seeding. Wheat looks





poor; soil is dry: Pastures are some-

what backward in starting. Potatoes





are nearly all sold at $2. 25 per bushel.





Bay (30., May 14,—Farm work is





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





',wANTED—-m hear from

proved land in: sale. 0. ‘Hawloy. mama. Wis.





 





. Baltimore.





 





   





WANTED FARMS





owneroffarinorunim-





 





M [SCELLANEOUS





 





READ 0011 AD ABOUT "FLY-K11." on page 680 of

this issue Every word of it is true. It is a won-

derful product with tremendous sales posriibilities. Our

men are making big money selling it—earnlngs that

would surprise you. For the next 90 days this is

the .livcst selling product you can get hold 01’. Write

at once for proposition. “Fly-K31" Division, Will-

helm Oil (f‘o.. St. Paul. Minn.





 





QUALITYDARK BLUE FOXES—That produce large

Litters and wonderful l’clts. Buy direct. from one of

the world's largest Blue Fox Farms. Low Prices.

Breeder Agents wanted. Write for Free Bwklert.

price list and credit. plan giving the piu'chaser one

year to pay after delivcry. Member Chamber of Com-

merce. Bank references. Grover Cleary Fox Farms.

Smith Bldg, Seattle, Wash.





 





MAIL YOUR KODAK FILMS to us: we develop roll,

make 6 good prints and return for 25c coin 01' stamps.

(‘.owic Studio, 12 Fountain Ave” Springfield. Ohio.





 





mess of- Cabbage and Tomato Plants: oops-.11..

bacon.





 

 





Market Bullhead. and Wakefield: cabbage 4

plants: Baltimore, New Stone and Matchless Tomato ‘ _

Plants. $1. 25 per thousand. Delivery charges collmt. =11

V. C. Lankford & sons, Franklin. Va.





FOR SALE—Red Kidney Beans, choice seed-3101*

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

Henry Foley. R. No. 5. Mt. Mich».





 

 





   

 





 

   





 





 

 

 





Pleasant.





 





   

 

 





SPECIAL OFFEIU—For 20 days I will sell Cumber-

land Raspberry for $10 per 1000; Dunlap Strawberry

for $3.25 per 1000. Fred Stanley, Bangor, Mich.





 

 





   

   





 





MILLIONS. Cabbage. Tomato and Onion Plants. 31.

1000. Catalogue free. Clark Plant 00.. Thomasvflle.

Georm‘a. ~.





PLANTS—leading varieties.





   

   

   





open field grown. Cab—





   





 





   





 





 





   





bage, 1000. $1: Tomato. $1: Ruby King .Pepinl‘. $2.

Prompt shipment. IV. W. \Villiams. Franklin. Va.

TOBACCO





   





 





HOMESI’UN TOBACCO GUARANTEED—~Chewing.

five pounds, $1. 50; ten, $2. 50. Smoking, ten, $1. 50.

Pipe tree; pay when received. United Farmers. Bard-

Wcll, Kentucky.





 

   

 

   





 





   

   





HOMESPUN (-‘HEVVING or smoking lobar/co: 5 1b..





   





 





 





 





 





$1.25; 11-11. 2: twenty. $3.50. Satisfaction guaran-

PET STOCK teed. United Farmers of Kentucky, Paducah. Ky.

REGISTERED COLLIES. from natural heelers. 12 GUARANTEED TOBA(‘(‘0——chewlng or smoking. 6

champions in pedigree. Cloverleaf Farms, Tilfln. lbs.. $1.25: tcn, $2; pipe free. pay when received.

Ohio. Farmers' Association, Maxon Mills, Kentucky,

comm rupfi’gfs-A. 11;. c. pedigreed. natural heel- ‘

('I‘H. C. 11. ingcr, errien Sp ngs. Mich.

- POULTRY

- COMMISSION FIRMS



WHITE LEGHORN HI) NS and cockbirds new ball

, . > price Thousands of eight- week old pullets. Also

“In PAY MORE for Dimitry. 6885 and, veal. A trial baby Chicks and hatching eggs shipped quick. Trap-

slnpmcnt w1ll convince you. East Coast Poultry (10.. nested, pedigreed foundation stock. egg-bred 26 yam.





 





   

   





 





 





 





 





Ell-“91'“ Market, Detroit, Mit‘h- Winners at 11: egg contests. Catalog and special

price bulletin free. I ship 1". 0.34D. and guaaanteu

satisfaction. 0. B. Ferris. (‘ Shirley, rand



FARM MACHINERY Rapids. Michigan.



F0“ SALE~MWWG “Emmi! P1111102 “Hi” 4 (“51 1mm:- wsim Pomish; Buff. Partridge f‘ochins:



motors 110 \olts 13- 5 I‘- y 93‘“ 240 Amp Langshans. Brahmas: Susscx, Polish: Campinas, Hou-



Battery 5“ rclls, 01””- 300d condition. One unit “(“7” dans; Iinmburgs; Amlalusluns. Spanish, Mlnorcafiz



“““d other ”53d 1 yr. 2 HD- motor 1ncluded A Jams: Giants: Bantams: ’l‘uvlicys: Ducks: Game:



bargain Write Richland Rural Agricultural SChOOI GuinI-as. State Wants. Arthur Jarvis. \Vuvoland. Ind.



Itichland. BliCll



., . , VVIIITTAKICR'S TRAI’NT‘ISTED REDS—{Both Combs.



RICH MAR S (“om Harvestcr, P00" mans Prl""’" Michigan Accrcilitcd. hlumllt'stt‘d. Eggs. (‘hicks,H€ms



only $25.01) with bundle tying attm‘hmfllt- FTP“ cat- and l'ullcts. Sixtccnth Annual Catalog frcc. Inter.—



slog showing pictures of harvester. Box 528, Salina. 13km; Farm. Box 9, Ljuvrvnwv, Mich.





Kans.

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SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK





 





 





FROST PROOF (‘ABBAGE AND TOMATO PLANTS

wVarieties: Charleston and Jersey Wakefields, Copen-

hagen Market, Succession and Flat Dutch. Tomato.

Bonnie Best, Earliana. Livingston Globe and Greater

Prices. Parcel. Post Paid, 500. $1.50:

5.000 and over, express collect, $1.25

We guarantee to ship promptly a

Tifton Potato Co..





1,000. $2.50:

per 1.000.

size plant that will please you.

Inc” Tifton, Ga.





 





Stone, Bonnie Rest.

Fiio Varieties, (‘ab«

Lettuce, Beets, Onions.

100. 301-: 300. 75c;





TOMATO I’LANTS—Earliana.

Grcatcr Baltimore. Red Rock.

bago, three Collard. (“elem

Brussoll Sprouts. Post paid.

500. $1.00: 1,000. $1.50. Not prepaid. 5,000 $4.50:

10.000, $8.00. Ruby Kim: Popper. Egg Plants: Poi-2t

Paid, 100, 401-: 300, $1.00: 1000, $2. 25. "Moss Pack-

cd. Satisfaction Guaranteed. D. F, Jamison, Sum-

mervillc. S.





.\IILLIONSr——open field grown (‘abbage and Tomato

Plants. (‘.opcnhagon. Flutdutch, Danish Bullhead

Walvoflcld; Tomato. Greater Baltimore. Stone Matchless,

300, ‘ 500. $1.25; 1000. $2. Postpaid. 10,000.

$12.50 express. Potato and Ruby King Pepper, 300,

$1.50; 500, $2: 1000. $3.50. If you want good plants

and a square deal, order from Ideal Plant Company.

Franklin. Va.





 





 





CABBAGE PLANTS. 5 ACRES. Ready June 1st.

Copenhagen Market. VVakcficlds. Ballhead. Flat Dutch.

Prepaid. 100. 451': 300, $1.00; 500. $1.25; 1000. $2.25.

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

500. $2.25; 1000. $4.00. Prepaid. Moss packed.

(‘riticzfily assorted. Guaranteed. Buy near home grown

W .I. Mycrs. R. 2. Massillon, Ohio.





 





and improved Baltimore to-

mato. early and heaviest bearer known. (‘hoice plants

damp moss packed: also Bcrmuda onion. 200, 500:

500, $1.00; 1000, $1.75; 2000, $3.00. Loading varieties

cabbage. 300. 501': 500. 75c; 1000, $1.25: 2000. $2.00.

Prompt shipment. Good condition delivery guaran-

teed. Progrcss l'lant Co. Ashburn. Georgia.





I‘LANTS‘BOImy Best:





 





VEGETABLE PLANTS—Millions now reudv. SD11- ial

tholnmlo Prices. Cabbage, $1 1000: 5000, $4. 50:

10,000, $7.50. Tomato, $1.50: 10,000, $12. 50. PUDDN‘

$2.50: 10,000, $20. Cauliflower. $4; 10.000. $30.

Sweet Potato. $3.50; 10.000. $30. (‘a-sh. Prompt

shipments. dclivcrcd safely anywhcrs. Farmers' Sup-

ply (‘0.. Franklin, Virginia.





 





MILLIONS hardy cabbage and tomato plants, flcld

grown, dozen varieties. 500. $1.25: 1000. $1.75. prc‘

paid. Expressed. 10,000. $10. (‘auliflowcn 50c per

100; $4 per 1000. prepaid. Wcll packed. satisftu-tlon

guarantccd. price list. late plants free. J. T, (‘oun-

cill & Sons, Franklin, Virginia.





 





TWO DOZEN GERANIUM PLANTS SENT postpald

to your nddrcss for One Dollar and Twenty-Five

Cents. Any color or mixed. Don’t be without flow«





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK EGGS for hatrhing.

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

50. $9.00 per 100. 11‘. III. Fogle. Okcmos, Mich.

HATOIIING Eflflsifi'hfto Rocks, Buff Orpingtons.

Won 11ch ("anti-st. ('ircular. \Valnut Hill Farm.

Milford. Mich.



ENGLISH “TUTE LEGUORN PULLETS—B weeks.

851‘; 10 wcclis‘, 951-. Ed. Kroodsma. chland, Mich.





 





GEESE EGGS. 50 cents each.

\lich.





LARGE TOULOUSF

.I. McLeod, Imlay City,





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





BABY CHICK S





 





SPECIAL SAIiFr—Tancred and Tom Barron RWnita

Imuhorns, Pa’rks Barred Rocks. C. I

Reds. We are now booking orders for. our

special sale which starts May 22nd. Scnd for our

very instructive catalogue and this special price list

today. and get your Chicks on time this year. State

Accredited. 100% live delivery, and satisfaction guar-

anteed. Brummer & Frederickson Poultry Farms.

Holland. Mich,





 





CHI(‘KS~Folks. buy Book order without

remittance. Prices. S. W. Leghorns. 120 each;

B. Rocks and R. I. Reds. 140 each. 1000 lot In

less each. all delivered 100%. We are near you and

will please you with strong stock. Book order. we

will ship on date wanted. Merrill Hatchery, Merrill.

Mich. .





the best.

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BABY CHICKS from stack all newly blood-tested for

Bacillary White Diarrhea. Third year blood«testing.





Eight popular breeds. Hatchery State Accredited.

Catalog and price list ready. Pierce Hatchery. Jer<

ome. Mich.





 





STURDY CHICKS-“Blood tcstcd for Bacillary “'hite





Diarrhea. also Michigan Starc Accroditcd. Loghorns.

Barred Rocks, Rcds and White Wynndott/cs. Ru-

‘duccd prim-s. June and July. Sunnybrook Poultry

Farm, llillsdulc. Michigan.





 





Rll‘I-IARI)SON/S ROFKY RIDGE Barred Rock and

\Vhltu Leghorn t‘hix. locks blood tasted. second time

for Bacillury \Vhiie Diarvhca. llunovcr. Mich.





 





BABY CHICKS AND EGGSASuperior Ringlet Barred

Rocks. Rose (‘omb Reds, “'hite Leghorns. Catalog.

Wyndham’s ldcal Poultry Yards, Tillin. Ohio.





 





BltlilLTO-LAY BARRED ROCKS and Hanson White

Leghorn Chicks. blood tested. three years. Get our

prices 011 Junc chicks. Nonc better. Aseltine Poultry

Farm, Burlingamc. Grand Rapids, Mich.





 





S. (‘2 BUFF‘ LEGHORN

Accredited Stock. Send for circular.

Bath. Alii'li.





BABY (“HICKS from State

J. W. Webster.





 





 





 





 





aWEET POTATO PLANTS—Pure Nanry Hall, South~

ern ()uetn. Porto Rico Grown from Dice hand-

picked, chemic~ally treated sced.f1cc from disease.





 





- \ i backward but progressing nicely at

1 - i . '1 .1 this time. The weather is cold. Soil

e' .v ' \ is drying out good. Live stock is in

d , " ‘ fair condition, with the feed supply

I- “‘1‘ ' ‘ ~ short. Paasture is tcoming sicwlg.

ll - ' ‘ Beans an hay are emg mar e e

rm ;«- . -. 0U need our horses Beans bring $3. 75; ,hay $25. Good help

; '3 - ‘ every day. atch care- is scarce. ——J. M.

P. ,_— 1 ' " fully for strains, bruises and lonia Co., May 14. ———Farmers are two

9 i ' .. minorailments.Andbcsu1-e tokeep or three weeks behind in work on ac-

.’ Gombault’ ICauatio Balsam onyour count 0f the backward spring. Oats

" ; 31,9“-..“43. for instant use. For are about all sown and plowmg for

; ’ .corn has begun. About the usual acres

~ over 41 years it has been famous as a

Will be planted. Seed corn is scarce.

B remedy 10' Sprains, Spavin. Splint, Wheat is improving some. Help is

7 CW?“ H°°k Curb F“t“l°"Th°" hard' to secure. Hay is about all used

D pnfihpin,SbooHBoils,Poll Evil, Wire up, but plenty of old pats on hand

3 Cuts and Muscular Inflammation. PastUre is short. Alfalfa will be given

. t our e .Just follow direo- a larger trial this spring. Wheat is

1 » Applyi y a H b l M h bringing $1. 55; potatoes $2. 50; beans

tions that came with on e. no $3 50 t 450; wool 350 butter-fat

better thanfiringand doesn’ tdiaoolor 40c; e 0: S360 _.’J,

P , ' , ' ‘ the hair or. leave the slightest soar. g g

,- Dontlotyonr 11am. Iufi'er from something Ontonagon 00.. May 13 —~Crops 100k

.- ' \ vyon can cure your-e11. BuyGomqull'l geod. Farmers are finishing seeding.

.- ‘ Clam; 3:1!“ todflV- 33-00:“ ;“ druuifis Fruit will be in bloom next week.

.- °' “'° "m ‘" °" "mp ° ’"°°' Prospects are good for a hay crop.

3‘ Lawrence-Williaml Co.. Cleveland. 0. Old hay is scarce at $22 pgr ton; eggs

9 . GOOD FOR‘HUMANS. T00 22 c; creamery butter 39c; potatoes at

- ‘ $2. 50 per bushel. Milch cows are

- ' I. , scarce, several cars having been ship-

. ped out last winter. Labor can be

‘” had at $3.00 per day. Weather is good,

* . there being plenty of rain. Roads are

. 7 p ‘ ‘ good—E. L. .

-. , Shiawassee 00., May 13.——Weather

. is too dry and soil conditions are un-

favorable. Oat seeding is beloanor-

‘ - mal on account of late spring. any

Imde "19.719110" farmers are doing no hiring on ac-

. M Ira count of high wages. But little ground

,4 my “inc rm has been opened for corn and beans.

‘ ‘ 0“" 21”“):4mm Stock is looking good. Coarse feed is

_ x \\ .. . * scarce and high. Not much marketing

./ being done. Eggs are plentiful; pota-

toes scarce. —C. C.

m I” SfifiiEdefififltggg 3315’ Lapeer 00., May 13. ——Oats are a little ‘

\ W’ 82000 farm. My dairy herd better than half sown, with more than

. - - rig/111mb?“ 15 pture-bireda. the usual acreage planted. Weather

0“” 5 W“ e" is cold grass just nicely started. Not

and turns. 9 d 11 ld ’ . - .

ass:misstsrhaaéa much .p...mg 1.5 done hee Lwe

of potatoes. Just turned down an ofl'er of‘ StOCk Wlntered falrly W811. Only a few

‘. 85000 for the farm. Profitapaid oi} the beans are left to market. Ninety per

deb‘gyngz‘r‘r‘fett’fifgéngggegsftfi andlamlay- cent of the farmers in this section are

”is,“ yearsretums 5,59,63,12“ 83 Any sellmg_m11k. Eggs are quite plentiful

\ farmer can done well 111 Maine if he' is will- and bring 250 Per dOZBD~—-A- D-

.- inertOWPIR Berr'ien 00., May 12.~——Oats seeding

. " “N h“ '3 "“9 "“1!” 8W1!- Read what 100 is two weeks late but is practically

‘ otherfarmera say in. ’

. - , _ . . , completed. Some corn has been plant-

, . » .- V, ‘~ Maine Farmers Make Good ed. A considerable amount of plowing

" -, , ~ An official publication. Write today for is yet to be done. The weather is cold

' , * . youth“ “WAnggFfis‘MI and dry. Soil works up fine. A great

‘ AI NE deal of s ra in has been done. There

DgPfiRThéEEEOF AGRICULTURE is excellgntyprébspect for a big fruit

9 e” 20' 9‘ °“‘°-A“3“5tan Mai“ supply. Many farmers are out of hay.

E“ 1 while pastures are slow. No help to

\v‘ , be had. A few tramps, but they do

Standard Garden Tractor not want work—C. c.

’1 agwedui‘flflgtor gultizatorgnd Iawnmaworlor' It". Barry (30., May 11.—Farmers are

’ 351.2123“? 15.21.1“r2b, “é'fiffi’xw‘”! A" bus;r putting In spring crops. Some

n 063 4 Men. Wor. . have. planted potatoes; others are

, 323;;ugggwagfggfgugmfipgm . plowmg for corn. The weather is

- ' STANDARD ENGINE COMPANY 1‘! backward, and heavy ground has been

;\ .; _ 3211 Como Avo.S. I... Minneapollo,Mlnn. too wet to work.

' , r111: classified advertising depuun nt established 1 1.11 vent of 1 1

Small advu'tisemmtd bring but. results eunder classified headlines. oT‘i-gnlt 13:10:11.: ginseng-13:;

, tising. miscellaneous articles tor‘sale or exchange. Poultry advertising will be run in this department

3 at classified rates, or in display columns at commercial rates.

Rate. a cent: a word. each insertion. on orders for less than four insertions: for tour or more

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

- display type or lllnstntio one admitted. Remittances must accompany order

Live stock madvurtlslng_ tin a lop-ram department and In not accepted as olaulflod. Mlnlmum

charge lb word I.

‘ One Four Four BIG UIPPED ORCHARD 1mm —s rifl‘ d .5100

‘6 ‘10.”...“80.” $2.40 20..."...82. 08 86.24 Unde?QValue. Incapacitated by riticunailgtisme ogering

‘ '8‘ 3-“ at........ 3-1 i 6-“ place costing. and well worth $16 000 for 311000

‘ ‘ 121”...” '°6 2'” 83..."... 1“ '6." with 1020 choice fruit trees 120'acr’es good i'ami

- .. 13...”... 1.04 8.11 ........ 3! 0... land easily worked on graveled road convenient

l"""""l'n 8'“ ""”°' 1‘0 7'” 800d, towns' brick house of 10 rooms water'inside

“"”'"' 8'“ 31"""" 2°48 7'“ good 100x54-ft barn silo other bldgs If settled

‘ 13: 8'“ ”""" 3'“ 7‘“ quickly horses .tract‘m: and'attarhments costing $1200

I” 'W "2" t“ “4 7-” cow. full line. machinery. vdiicles included. can“;

' :::.::::: 1:13 3:3 :::::::: ii: iii of lifetime if .0. hm 0 A Km. mm

ao....-.... 1.10 no u........ an 8.13: Micki!“ -_...

_- 11:22:32: 1:3: ‘ til 72:22:10 ,. 3:11 mes-ACRE. "mm amnion—2 .5... Mann:

1.81 11.112 u........ 1.1: 9.30 horses and 4 cattle. 75 chickens. farm tools. crops in-

.98 5.16 9.60 £21331 {)zsgetglficaflMmuglidyi 14103431: ngfgglnog.

n... . ocaoouil . - mu: eve -

’00 6 00 ll :39 9“ making crops: 15-cow spring-gwatered gesture. estimat-

m” ed 1000 cds. wood. variety fmit: new (broom smcco

s can] Nohce discontinuance ”a." house; fi-room house. 60 and 80- ft. barns. double

p "m if” 5.. garage. granary, etc. Unusual bargain at $3. 850 for





 





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Details pg'. 60 his new Illus. Catalog.





cash.

Detroit.





$69; Strout Agency, 205- BC Kresge Bldg”





11011. SALE on EXCHANGE—brick bungalow. equity,

$6,800 for vacant. improved or unimproved farm. Win.

5933 Iroquois _Ave., :Detrolt, Mich.





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i' ostpaid, 500 for 32:1000 for $3. 50. Expressed. $3.25

pir 1000. Jesse Russell, R. 2 Bowling Green, Ky.





 





FROSTPROOF‘ CABBAGE PLANTS. leading varie-

ties, 500. $1 25:1000, $2.00,postpaid:10,000 express.

$12. 50; pepper, tomato, cauliflower. sweet potato, May.

lune delivery. Satisfaction our motto. Maple Grove

Plant Farms. Franklin..Va.





OOPENHAGEN CABBAGE

matoes. $1: Ruby King

$2; Onion, :1.





 





PLANTS. $1. 1000; To-

Pcppcr. '2: Syn-ct potato.

Large open field grown. 1‘1ompt ship-





crs on the farm. Buckley Geranium Company. Spring-



iiuld, Illinois. TURKEYS

TOMATOES—frost-proot’ cabbage. collards and on— TURKEY EGGS: Thousands of them. all breeds.

inns. Leading varieties. 100, 40c; 300, 851-; 500, strictly purrbrod. Spccial price list free. Eastern

$1.10: 1000, $2.00. Peppers. 100, '500; 1000. $2.50. Ohio Poultry Farm. BcallSVille. 01110.



Ivlvwrything postpaid and guaranteed. East Texas »



Plant (‘o.. Ponta. Texas. MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY EGGS. $0.00 per 10.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





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I HELP WANTED

1,

|YOUNG MAN as milk salesman. Must be respon-

isiblo, hay: references and $200 cash bond. $35 a

wet-k guarantccd. Write for appointment. Belle Isle

(‘rcamcry. 3000 Forest I-Z., Detroit. Mich.





 





 





 





iHoueu KI. ppm: WANTEDman elderly woman,

.axound fifty years. on farm. German preferred. A

[home if suited .Iohn Bulil, Mayiille, Mich.





 





   





work. by monthjor

Detroit.





MARRIED COUPLE for form

your. Write Box 1172, Michigan Farmer,





 





 





 





 





merit. Quitman Plant (‘.0, Quitman. Ga.

CERTIFIED ROBUST BEANS—Improved Strain.

germination 98%. $3.75 per bu. in 10 bu. lots Get

good while they are cheap. C. 11....0viatt,

Bay City. Mich. ., ~

CERTIFIED nitrite





V'ED ROBUST BEANS-choice,

hand picked. $6. 50 per hundred 0. B. Owosso,’

bags tree. Freight prepaid on five Fhundred or more.

A. B. Cook, Owosso. Mich.





CABBAGE AND TOMATO PLANTS—Standard va—

rieties one dollar per thousand Cauliflower plants

tour dollars per thousand. Charges collect. Cash

with order. Clifford A. Cutchins. Frank-1111.. Va.





CHOICE DARK RED KIDNEY BEANS—tree from

sprouts. First. prize. 1926 crop show. 810. 60 per hun-

F‘.‘ O. B Mason. Bags tree. Willis Collar.





 





 





 





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Dansville. Mich. .





AGENTS WANTED





AGENTS*0ur New Household Cleaning Device washes

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

Costs 19511 than brooms. Over half profit. Write

Harper Brush Works. 173 3rd St... Fairfleld. Iowa





 

   

   





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mum 11‘0le A’l‘ noun

stitxhcd and embroidered pillow cases.

booklct. Rose Art ('.,o Dundee. Mich.





MICHIGAN FARMER‘

Classified Ads. pay well.

Try one.
.Accordihg to apmminent farm Paper it cost thiamidfiie «

western farmer-‘32“ cents per acre to cleanwh‘eat seeds at





   





   

 





 

 

 

 





 





 





 

 





planting time. But'the cleanedse’eds produced I 8 bushels?! , . i: f

of wheat per acre, asagainst art It bushel yield for ’un—y _ , i





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same field. And the grain fromthe‘ cleaned seeds brought“ ‘

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.1 fl ,. , Ii Mobiloil, like cleaned Wheat seeds, costs/a trifle more , i 4. -

\ .b All” {'2’ , - ' than common oil. ‘But once MObiloil goes to WOrk in .3, . I: ' “J

,.~:’3‘:'~; ‘ I ‘ " ' - ' ' . ’ your engines, you will find that in many ways it'pays ' I,

(”5232' ‘ .. 2. handsome dividends on the few cents moreyou pay forit. _

: fl 2” . For one thing, Mobiloil frequently reduces oil con. l

-‘ W“ _ -‘-“-— ~ -~--— sumption in cars and trucks, from 10% to 50%. And in i :32 r j

Cleaned seeds produced 18 tractors a crankcase full of Mobiloil often gives efficient . . 1 f -‘“~

bushels 0f Wheat per acre. lubrication for twice as long as other oils. -, ’ t ' - ‘ 7'



Ir: " _ Nor is that all. Mobiloil leaves surprisingly little 1

carbon. It\also provides the best proteCtion against un- - [j ‘ ’ ‘ ‘

duewear and unexpected breakdowns. By the year and ‘ --' if



g A}: tlze mile, Mobiloil is actually we e/zeapest oil to use. - i .. _ , ' i

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.. . Your first step toward lubricating economy is to buy oilo’ 3 '- . ‘ ‘

I ’I‘HE correct grades ofGargoyle'Mobiloilfor l ' - - ' ‘ ' _ . . I V . ‘ ‘ ' ~ .

». engine lubrication of prominent passenger high {I‘lfmty' Your next and equally .lmleftémt StCP ’3 to I ,

cars are specified below. buy 011 of correct body and character. An 011 that fits your ,‘M‘ Z ‘

'Th d fG ! M U! ‘I . d' d ‘ tractor perfectly, may cost you «burned-Out bearing, if -

C gra e5 0 argoy C 0 10] are In Icatc ' , ‘ . ' W ‘.

~ by the letters shown t-bclow. f‘Arc" means used In your car or tl‘UCk‘ " ‘ , » l

Garg°yle M°bd°fl Am'c' Butit is easy to buy the right oil for each of your engines , .» a

’ _ ‘ "youflar ,8 not ‘liseed Ber’é,‘“‘s’ee Wi‘é’rfipl‘ete when you go to the Mobrloxl dealer. He has the Mobllml

Mobiloil Chart at your dealer’s. Chart to guide him. Thls Chart is prepared only after

painstaking study of .111 automotive engines by the _ ' ~ l

Mobiloil Board of 42 Engineers. And 609 manufacturers of - {l

‘ automobiles and other automotive equipment approve this - . ’}

:méNchg r. t .. a .. r. .. Chart. See the ne‘arest'Mobiloil dealer today.,~ Put scien- . ‘ , » 2

E u u o . ‘. . ' v " A , ' ‘:

cuts, 5 E 3 .§ g .23 § .§ tifically correct lubricatlon to work'in' your car, your farm - J ,ll

m 3 "’ 3 "’ 3 m 3 , truck and your farm tractor. It will save you bOth money

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