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NUMBER FIVE





JULY 31, 1926





CURRENT COMMENT





GIFT of $50,000



has been made

0 the University of

Wisconsin by the

manufacturers of that

state, to be spent in

five years in a study of’ihe possible

effect of nutrition upon contagious

abortion in cattle.



In the light of experiments conduct—

ed at both the Wisconsin and Michi-

gan stations on the effect of food upon

the development and resistance of ani-

mals, one becomes suspicious that

there is a large field for careful inves-

tigation along this line, not only in

the different branches of live stock

breeding and feeding, but also in con-

nection with plants.





 





 





Nutrition

and

Disease





In the social world there is a. grow-\





ing consciousness among men that

crime will ,be checked only when our

efforts are turned to the bringing up

of a generation of boys and girls that

are taught and trained to use their

faculties in constructive work. Possi—

bly the same line of attack will be

necessary in these other fields.



If we can, through better knowledge

of the requirements of animals and

plants, give them the particular foods

they need, may it'not be possible that

many ailments now baffling us will

easily succumb to nutritional treat-

ment? Such, at least, would seem to

be the most desirable answer; and for





this reason we shall watch the. efforts ..





of the investigators with the keenest

interest.





IN the best city

How Do homes of South Af-

They .-. rica, very. little labor-

" saving equipment is



Do It? to be found, accord-

ing to press reports.

The electric iron, vacuum cleaner, and

Washing machine are practically un-

known. But for the fact that native

labor is very cheap, it is possible that





e' fin: \





m . ,.

slderation from the stronger sex. ' .1 . . _

care of a‘heavy meal inside, he is un-

Vder a double handicap. Besides, the





But South Africa does not contain

all the women who allow time to pass

without demanding home conven-

iences. 0n ounAmerican farms “the

powers that beware strangely slow in

providing the home with this needed

equipment. The washboard, outdoor

pump and water pail, the slop jar, and

the kerosene lamp still haunt home-

makers in millions of American farm-

homes. ‘



How the men folks can continue

to sell the family on the necessity of

buying hundreds and thousands of dol-

lars of equipment for the farm, that

is used only a short period each year,

while a small percentage of the cost

of these would provide a. bathroom,

water system, andsewage plant that

would have use 365 days in the year,

is a mystery. .



We are confident that a dollar prop-

erly spent in home conveniences will

return ten times the serv‘lce it would

if spent on many farm projects. At

least, it would not be. difficult to prove

such to be the case.





N the _’interest, of



the Michigan Mas-

ter Farmers' Club, we

have traveled over

more than half the

counties of the state,

inspecting some of the best farms to

be found in the commonwealth.



It has been interesting to observe

that every one of the candidates thus

far visited, save one, has used either

alfalfa, or sweet clover, or both, in

maintaining the soil fertility of these

farms. And those who seemed to have

brought their fields to the highest

state of crop—producing capacity are

those who have practiced legume soil

building over the longest term of

years.



The soundness of the legume pro-

gram can hardly be doubted when

these thoughtful, observing, progres-

sive farmers have won outstanding

success through these crops. The dis-

couraging reflection is, that while the

production of legumes from the angle

of soil improvement has been advo-

cated for years, relatively few havy

secured from them a maximum of

value.



Possibly in ‘the process of agricul-

tural evolution, those who fail to use

the most économical’means of soil up-

keep will be weeded out, leaving our

farms in the hands of the better type

of farmers. It behooves those, there-

fore, who wish to stick to agriculture

to give legumes a major place in the

crop rotation. If properly handled

with other methods of soil improve-

ment, legumes make possible the low-

est cost of unit production.



The inclusion of one or both of

these crops in the farm proglam, is

feasible, practical, and seemingly al-

most necessary to the conduct of suc-

cessful farming in this state. Would

it not be wise, therefore, for farmers

voluntarily to seek out just how these

crops may be growu and worked into

profitable rotations for their respective

farms?





Where

Legumes

Reign





The

’ Cold

Sfionge





erybody. Some say

one notices the heat

more when sitting

around than when

working. That is probably because

the mind is entirely occupied with the

discomforts the heat is causing.



Working in hot weather is, of

course, much harder than not working.

It takes more energy to work in the

heat than in invigorating weather, and

when the day is done one feels that

he has really put in a day.



During hot weather special care

should be taken of the diet. It should

consist chiefly of cooling foods, such

as fruits, vegetables and milk. Some

may argue that because they are work-





ing hard they will need substantigi





THESE hot days‘





are trying on ev-





heavy meals heat the binod and are

likely to cause sunstrok. ’



At the end of the day, when one-

feeis bedraggled and fired, there is

nothing so cooling and refreshing as a

cool sponge bath. Besides taking the

dirt off, it has a cooling eflect that

will last for hours, espechy if one

lets the water dry upon him. Another

cool sponge bath in the morning will

also help make a. man fit. These take

only a few minutes and can be taken

anywhere a. basin of water is avail-

able. .,



If one has enjoyed the refreshing

efiects of a sponge 9th, he should

also remember that his faithful horses,

who have been working in the heat

with him, and are covered with sweat,

also 'will enjoy the same treatment.



If one will keep the cold sponge

busy during the hot weather, the heat

of summer will occasion a. minimum

of discomfort.





AST week we vis-



ited a Clinton

county farmer, who

says he simply can

not rest when any

weeds are _in sight;

which means that he is everlastingly

up anad after these enemies of the

farmer.’



Weeds, he says, are one of the most

difficult enemies with which the farm:

er has to contend.~ We agree with

him. They reduce the crop yield;

they increase the expense of harvest-

ing; they impair the value of the re-

sulting crops; they furnish food and

shelter for injurious insects, fungi, and

crop diseases; they may poison stock,

or give off-flavors to, or lower the

grade of, animal products; and by

reason of these and other damaging

results, weeds lower the value of the

farmer’s investment in land.





There are many ways whereby

these pests of the fields become estab-

lished. The seeds may be carried by

the winds; marvelously contrived

barbs, or hooks, or teeth fit the seeds

to cling to the clothing of man, or to

the coats of animals; often the distri-





Don ’t

Tolerate





Weeds





. bution of manure spreads the weeds





to uninfested fields; birds some‘times

start new seedings, but on the whole,

they are one of the farmer s best help-

ers hi destroying weeds, roadways

frequently serve as a community

breeding ground for weeds; commer-

cial seeds and foodstuffs is a. most

prolific ' source of weed distribution;

railway trains aid in broadcasting of

weeds; and, most inexcusable of all,

many farmers continue to sow grains

and seeds that contain a heavy per-

centage of these undesirable weed

-seeds.



Good farmers have a. weed program.

They allow no weeds to ripen, if it is

physically possible to prevent; they

induce weeds to germinate at off times

that cultivation or the winter season

may kill the plants before setting

seeds; they cut the weed crops when

in —the seedling stage, as this is the

most vulnerable time to attack them;

they burn‘weeds bearing mature seeds

rather than plowing them under; me.-

nures are composted that the heat and

ferment may destroy-the vitality of

the seeds,‘although much of the nitro-

gen of the manure is thus ‘wasted;

crops are rotated; stubble fields are

mowed; sheep are allowed to clean

the pastures and fence rows; care is

taken that new seeds are not intro-

duced; every possible precaution is

taken to clean'weeds from the seeds

sown. Such are the means employed

by good farmers in the battle with

these enemies of the field and garden.





Another means that promises much

is just being introduced in Michigan.





It is the separation of weeds from the





farm grains and seeds by menus or,

mflty. The specific gravity org-rains“

and farm seeds. is. heavier ,





night specific gravity to





,assertive about it.





low .12"

heavier good seeds to sink. but to





hold the weed seed on top cf the ,





liquid, makes it possible to remove a.

very high percentage of the weed

seeds, and also the dead or Inferibr

grains, with the result that the seeds

remaining are not only quite free of

the noxious seeds, but much superior

to what ordinarily could“ be obtained.



This new method may become avail-

able to every Michigan farmer. .But





should it not, it still remains.for him-





to make every effort to see that only

desirable plants grow upon his prem—

ises. Eternal war must be declared

upon weeds. They impair the farms

and rob the farmer. The Clinton coun-

ty farmer is on the right track. There

are thousands upon thousands of oth-

ers who Should acquire the same apa-

thy for weeds.





Sweatm’ Hot . ‘

HY says that it is sweatin’ hot, so

he doesn’t feel much like writing.

He said that all his b1 ains have oozed

out through his poms during the past

few days while haying. Perhaps that

is so At least it does not take much

sweating for Hy to seem to run out



of brains. 1



The weather has been so cool so far

this spring that we’ll need some

“sweatin’ hot” weather for the season

to catch up in. I think our corn will

be knee high by

the fourth of Aug

ust instead of

July. The weath-

erman will have

to tack on anoth-

er month onto the

summer to; have

it come out right



for us farmers.



I have been see-

ing in the paper about the wife’s

share. I can \tell you one thing in

which the wife gets her share, and

often the husband is so liberal that

he gives the wife his share.





has never been any dispute in fam-

ilies about that, but quite often the

wife complains humbly because of the

burden on her. .That humble com-

plaining doesn’t work; you have to

stamp your feet and say things.



It certainly is gentlemanly, knightly,

or manly for MAN to give his wife all

the work she can do, and none of the

rewards that come with it. Some of

these fellows are so egotistical that

they think they are doing everything

when the wife is really the humble

guiding hand. They\ complain about

“sweatun’ hot” weather, but don’t real-

ize that the woman working over a.

hot stove in these hot days is also

sweating, really sweating, and work-

ing without the benefits of the cool

breezes that come over the fields once

in a, While.



Hy, of course, has those manly at:

tributes of feeling his importance in

our. affairs. But he is too lazy to be

Besides, Hy is

good- hearted, so things are not so bad

in our family, especially as I knW

how to handle him.



Isn’t it funny how people complain

about the weather? In winter it is too

cold and in the summer, too hot. Just

an occasional day when things seem

all right. It is good that it is so, as

ideal days all the time would become

monontonous. As it is now, we ap-

preciate the good days when they do

come.



When Hy complains about sweating

I tell him that it is good for him.

will help to clean out his system. He

needs to sweat to keep healthy. Then





he says that he does not want to .

sweat so much that he will get too





healthy. I believe that he thinks if-Ii

feels so good he might. 19953





That is _

.work, just plain, everyday work. There





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N Eaton county Charlotte Grange



is undertaking a unique commu-

, nity exp9riment. It is promoting

what is called a “Farm home grounds

improvement contest.” The' project

involves a direct membership of 250

persons, while indirectly it will prob-





,- ably affect several townships—not to





prophesy that the country-side round

about will catch an inspiration from

this organized attempt to secure bet-

ter planning and planting of farm sur-

' 'roundings. True, such an experiment

as» this Will require time to-show re-

sults“ But a. start isbeing made.



~It is particularly fitting that.Char-

lotte should launch a neighborhood-

wide effort of this sort this season, in-





asmuch as 1926 has been designated





as“Community service year” by Mas-

ter Louis J. Taber, of the National

Grange. Mr. Taber has requested

each unit of the entire organization to

commemorate the sixtieth anniversary

year of the founding of the order, by

making a constructive contribution to

its immediate locality. A Grange_that

consciously. did practical things to-

ward making its neighborhood a bet-

ter place in which to live, has been

called an “over-flowing Grange.” This

term may well be applied to any rural

organization that strives to make a.

"community” out of its once unorgan-

ized ”neighborhood” through efforts

for the common welfare.



Added to the fact that Charlotte for

,years has worked its ideals into real-



,e-ities, there is now in its midst Dr. W.



‘W. Diehl, pastor of the Methodist

Church, who is well known as a cham-

pion of the unfarmed possibilities of

country life—as to its soil, its live

stock, its orchards, its dooryards and,

most of all, its boys and girls, men and

women.



Here is, then, a happy combination

of resident, organized from folks, and

a strong rural-minded spiritual leader

who, together,‘ have chosen to empha~

size better-planned and more artistic

home grounds. This endeavor is to in!

'che a study of arrangements of

buildings, as well as planning, planting

and care of lawns, shrubbery, trees

and flowers.



In order to carry forward its plan

with system, the grange divided itself





 





»~» By Jennie Buell





into the four groups naturally made

by the intersection of two main streets

ofthe town.’ Most of the members,

however, live in the surrounding coun-

try. A general committee, consisting

of three men and two women, have

executive direction of the scheme

and consult frequently with the chair-

men, of the four sections. Mr. Ken-

neth Terrill is chairman of the gen-

eral committee. The first move of this

general committee, last spring, was to

call the leaders of in groups into con-

ference with Professor C. P. Halligan,

of Michigan State College. At this

conference ProfessorHalligan stressed

the larger aims to be kept in mind as

the objects Of the contest.



Among other valuable suggestions

contained in Professor Halligan’s pre-

contest talk with the leaders, were the

following observations: “If a farm

yard'is not well planned, it is usually

not well kept. The back yard of a

farm house is the barnyard; if that is

well arranged, and places are‘provid-

ed for the necessary tools and opera-

tions, it is usually kept tidy. The first

effort in landscape improvement is

cleaning up; when people do that, they

begin to see themselves where im-

provements can be made.





This contest, Professor Halligan

stated, will educate people as to’tlieir

rights as land owners in regard to

trees. It will open their eyes to future

possibilities and they will begin to see

what may be done in years to come as

to roadside betterment, rural highway

planting, improvement of cemeteries,

rural church and school grounds. Such

a contest as this will set people in this

locality to thinking in all sorts of

directions as to what might be done

toward beautification of surroundings

with comparatively little effort at any

one time or season. We" shall work

gradually toward home surrendings

that are more satisfying to ourselves

and also attract and delight passing

neighbors and tourists.



Through the landscape department

of Michigan State College, Mr. John

VV..Hyde was secured to visit the

farms that entered for this home

grounds improvement contest. He is

entering heartily into the movement”

and rendering valuable and fitting sug-

gestions as he visits the people who

ask for his service. He consults with

them as to what they have in mind

to do, and suggests how in his opin-

ion, they can carry out desirable

changes. He names to them suitable





 





 





One Way to Reduce the Unit Cost of Growing Crops is to Increase the Size

of the Teams, Advises Carl Bartle, of Brown City.





xperlment





ofl a Farm Home Grounds Corrie”





 





trees, shrubs and flowers to use for

the results they desire.



Later in the season another tour of

inspection will show him what has ,

been done, and a final tour will be

made in the fall, when he will score

upon the care and accomplishments of

the growing season. Every familyfin

the contest will have the score card

made on each of the three tours, thus

enabling it to judge of the progress

achieved, while the aggregate scores

in each section will determine the win-

ning sectional group. H



Charlotte Grange has had excellent

preparation .for this present contest——

which involves team work as well as

practical effort. Just previous to de-

ciding upon the present home improve-

ment contest, it closed a very success-

ful membership and program contest

in which six groups contended for

honors. The range of ability and skill

displayed in managing so many vary—

ing numbers are worth noting. Each

group put on a play, several of them

being original. One group made Easter

its theme; another reported Farmers’

Week at M. S. C., using all ages in

its membership to portray the differ-

ent phases of that great farm pageant

week. Familiar songs, in another

group, were dramatized by its young

people. West Benton juveniles staged

a debate on “Are Movies Detriment—

a1?” On one program a minister gave

an address on “Culture on the Farm,”

and a lawyer talked on)“Youth and

the Crime Wave.” A progressive farm-

er took a leading role in a play which

portrayed how a rundown farm was

rebuilt, the house modernized, and an

ideal home established. The local rep-

resentative of a farm loan association

also participated in this same play by

effectively telling how a young couple

might finance beginnings in farm own-

ership. In short, under stimulus of

the contest spirit, the members dis-

covered themselves and laid many un-

guessed abilities upon the altar of the

common good and pleasure.



Every rural community has similar

resources and talents that are often

unsuspected. The contest plan, wisely

regulated and guided, may prove the

match that will light these local flames

into surprising brightness.





notato Spraying Essentials





Efi‘ectz‘ve Spraying Prevents Insect and Disease [fljfllj/ and Increases Me Yze/a'

By H. C. Moore





for the development of tubers and

the production of satisfactory

yields, it is necessary that the foliage

, be well protected throughout the‘grow-

ing season with spray materials that

will ward off foliage diseases, such as

late blight, early blight, and insect

injury caused by Colorado potato

beetles, flea beetles, leaf hoppers and

~ other insects.

Practically all growers can get suc-

' cessful control of the Colorado potato

beetle, but with such pests as leaf hop-

pers and flea beetles, they may not

be successful. This season many grow-

ers report serious damage caused by





SINCE healthy leaves are necessary





- ./flea beetles, particularly on the early





‘ varieties. This insecd which is about

onesixteenth of an inch long, and eats

”tiny round holes in the leaves, can





‘best be controlled by‘ keeping the".-





plants covered with a Bordeaux mix-





” ' ture spray in which two to two and





'onehalf pounds of calcium arsenate,





' ‘or two and one—half to three pounds





 





silent! arsenate is added for each fifty





   





 





 





 





 





 





 





   





nate are used in combination with

Bordeaux mixture, very excellent re-

sults are obtained. The Bordeaux mix-

ture. acts as a repellant, keeping the

flea beetles out of the patch. The

arsenicals will poison many of the

flea beetles and will also control the

Colorado potato beetles.

Bordeaux Mixture for Leaf Hoppers

and Bth9



The most serious insect pest on p0-

tatoes in Michigan is usually the leaf

hopper, a small green insect that lives

mostly on the undersides of the leaves

and feeds by sucking the juice from

the foliage. This insects causes the

leaves of the plant to curl up and turn

brown at the margins during August

and September. In some years the

yields from unsprayed fields have been

-reduced fifty per cent or more by leaf

hopper injury. Bordeaux mixture,

(4-4- 50’8trength), is the most effective

mater/lei in controlling leaf hopper in-

ljury. It acts in‘the same manner as

in the case of flea beetles, that is, it





‘ wards on the insect. >

In [addition to Controlling leaf hop-.-





per and flea beetle injury, Bordeaux

mixture prevents early blight and late

blight. Early blight is of some con-

sequence every year, while late blight

,is often serious in restricted sections

of the state, depending upon weather

conditions. Generally when the'months

of July and August are cool and rainy,

late blight attacks may be expected.



How to Make Bordeaux Mixture.



Detailed directions for making Bor-

deaux mixture may be obtained from

Special Bulletins No. 117 and No. 125

of the Michigan State College, East

Lansing. The directions should be

followed carefully if the best results

are obtained. The main eSsentials in

preparing Bordeaux mixture are as

follows.



“Dissolve fifty pounds of copper sul-

phate (blue vitrol) crystals in fifty

gallons of water. ”The crystals should

be placed in a' sack and suspended





just beneath the surface'of the water._





Since it will require several hoursfor

the crystals to dissolve, they should

be placed in the water the night pre-

vious to spraying In a separate bar-





I





rel fifty pounds of stone lime should

be slaked by adding water until it

crumbles and then add more water to

make it a thick paste. This paste

should be stirred back and forth until

it is free from all lumps. Then water

can be added to make fifty gallons.

ln pase high grade stone lime is not

available, 'use hydrated lime at the

rate of seventy- five pounds to fifty gal-

lone of water.” .

The solutions thus made are suffi-

cient for 625 gallons of Bordeaux mix-

ture. It is necessary in making the

Bordeaux mixture to dilute the stock

solutions with water. The most con-

venient method where the grower

uses a fifty gallon tank is to first fill

the spray tank about half full of wa-

ter, then put in four gallons of the

copper sulphate solution. Add more

water to that so the spray tank is

about three-fourths full. After stir-

rifig the solution in the tank, pour in

four gallons of the lime solution. Stir

thoroughly and add water to fill the

tank ,

Care should be taken to stir- both

the copper sulphate and hme solutions

befOre they are put into the spray





tank. Also, all spray material should
has ,meeh sieve, this precautiéh'wgill.

of, the nozzles. ' g



,- In some seasons plant lice or aphids

are a. very serious pest. These insects

can best be controlled by adding one-

half pint of forty per cent nicotine

sulphate to each fifty gallons of Bor-

deaux mixture. It is necessary that





‘ 'the'spray be applied early before the





lice cause the leaves to roll. The

, spray should be directed towards the

undersides of the leaves so that it will

actually hit the lice. Late in the sea-

son when the vines are large, some

growers equip their spraying ma-

chines with a rod placed at the rear

of the machine just in front of the

spray boonyso that the plants are bent

over and the spray hits the undersides

of the leaves more effectively.

High Pressure Sprayers and Frequent

Sprayings Necessary.



To obtain satisfactory control of in-

sects and diseases on the potato, it

requires approximately 100 gallons of

spray material per acre, and it is nec-

essary that this material be applied

with a pressure of 200 pounds or more

so that it will entirely cover the plant.

Modern spraying machines are equip-

ped to maintain a high pressure and

have three nozzles for each "row so

that both the undersides and upper

surfaces of the leaves will be cov—

ered. In the past few years there has

been a marked increase in the number

of high pressure spraying machines

used by Michigan growers. Demon-

strations in all parts of the state have

shown that thorough spraying gives

greatly increased yields, and is an es-

sential operation in successful potato

growing. In several communities grow-

ers who have not felt warranted in

buying a high pressure sprayer for

their own individual acreages, have

joined in buying such a machine and

using it on sixty or eighty acres of

potatoes on a cooperative basis.



The question is often asked, “How

often is it necessary to spray? This

question can be satisfactorily answer~

ed by simply stating, “the number of

times depends upon the presence of

insect pests and disease and weather

conditions.” Where insects or disease

are present, or during spells of cool,

muggy weather, it may be necessary

to spray more often than would nor-

mally be done. The main point to

bear in mind is that the spray appli-





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farm. We can supply any reader.with blueprints, bill of materials,

and specifications, together with a description of the construction details





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cation should be made before insects

or disease get the upper hand.



The most successful growers make

the first application at intervals of

ten days or two weeks. Usually five

or more applications are made during

the season. Spraying should be done

often enough so that the new growth

can be kept covered with Bordeaux

mixture. It is signfiicant that all mem-

bers who qualified last year in the

Michigan 300 Bushel Potato Club used

high pressure Sprayers and applied

from five to eight applications during

the summer. The average cost per

acre for spraying throughout the sea-





son was approximately ten dollars.



Late in the" season when the vines

are large and cover the rows,- there

may be a tendency to keep the spray-

er out of. the fields. This is the time,

however, when the spraying should be

continued, since leaf hoppers may

cause serious trouble at this time. The

injury done the vines by the wheels

of the spraying machine is very slight

compared to the benefits resulting

from the spray. Teeth from a hay

rake may be mounted on a piece of

two-by-four-inch so that they will come

directly in front of the wheels and

will turn the vines.





 





 





«ARMERS having gooseberry plan-

tations are finding a greatly im-

proved demand for the fruit this year.

Besides being used for pies, the ber-

ries are now being preserved through

a new method of handling and proc-





essing.





 





Farm Bureau representatives met at

Lansing last week during the annual





 





 





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BULLY WEATHER

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meeting of the Michigan Elevator Ex-

change, for a conference. ‘





 





The canning plant at Frankfort will

be operated this season by Traverse

City firms. Besides cherries, the plant

will handle raspberries, black raSpber-

ries, and blackberries and apples in

season.





 





John Wierenga, of Spring Lake, is

asking farmers who attend the marl

demonstration meeting at his farm

this week to bring their wagons and

take away a load of marl that they

might test the usefulness of this ma-

terial on their land.





 





The state department of agriculture

is planning this year to enforce the

corn borer control regulations more

stringently than ever. As soon as the

green corn is ready for market, in-

spectors will be stationed along all

.roads leading out of the quarantined

districts.





 





An effort will be made by the farm

crops department of the Michigan

State College, and the extension forces

to double the Michigan acreage by the

end of the season of 1927. It is prob-

able that alfalfa trains will be oper-

ated over several railroads similar to

the soil and forest trains on the Mich-

igan Central last spring.





 





Creameries are furnishing a new

outlet for Michigan fruits. The De-

troit Creamery purchased ten carloads

of strawberries in the South Haven

district this year. This fruit will be‘

used in the manufacture of fresh

strawberry ice cream. .Peaches and

a. limited quantity of other fruits will

be used in a similar manner. v ,





 





About the middle of August the an-

nual inspection of the Pennsylvania





.demosstratisnr‘ tam? at mired 039m .





 





 





 





 





Newaygo county appears to be. the

best attended pf any of. these schools

yet held in the state. Over 860 tarm-

ers were present. ,





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ANcws of the Week};





 





France is in a political crisis due to V'





the franc falling to the lowest levelc

in history, being less than two cents“

for one franc. A large bloc «of the

chamber of deputies are asking for a

committee of public safety. ‘





.Forty persons are said to have been

killed by the heat wave last Week,

which established temperature records

for theyear. Five of these deaths oc-

curred 1n Detro . >-





An effort to sed'ure the cooperation

of foreign governments in an anti—

liquor war is reported to be discussed

in Washington.





‘It is expected that General John J.

Pershing W111 become the‘next nation-

al commander of the American Legion.





President Coolidge is .takin the o-

sition that legislation is necegssarypto

protect the consumer of coal in any

emergency. ,



The production of airplanes in the

Umted States increased twenty-three

per cent during 1925. The selling price

of these planes declined 6.3 per cent.

The total value of the output in 1925

was over $12,000,000.





The corn belt committee at Des

Momes, Iowa, plan to renew their fight

for farm relief legislation. They fixed

the price [of raising corn at $1.41 per

bushel._ That figure will be used as

the bas1s upon whic the fair returns

of the farmer should e computed.





_The Pere Marquette Railway ‘0!”



malaapproved the revised terms ft.

the inclusion of that road with the

Nickel Plate merger. '



Two small California towns in Son-

ora county were left in ashes, follow-

ing a raging forest fire, which is still

out of control.



The attitude of the United States

toward the war debts of the European

nations furnished the subject of a Six-

hour debate in the English Parliament

last Tuesday.



Ezra Meeker, ninety-six years old,‘

the. last adult survivor of the Oregon-

trail blazers. visited Detroit last week. .





The Michigan Public Utility Com-

missmn orders higher telephone rates

in Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, Flint, Pon-

tiac and Battle Creek.





As a result of rioting between mos-



lems and Hindus in Calcutta, the sit-

uation there is verytense.

. A new Greek government was sworn ‘

in on July 19. This is to be followed

by a decree re-establishing the consti-~

tution and abolishing the dictatorship

which began January 4.



Don R. Mellett; editor of a Canton. '

Ohlo newspaper, ,was assassinated

last _week. It is believed that the as-

sassms, representing the underworld,

were seeking vengeance for the vic-

tim’s effort to clean up Canton.





An explosion of TNT bombs during

manouvers at -Camp Devens, Mass,

resulted in the death of an army cap-

tain and injury of six cadets.





Experiments to determine whether '





moving pictures suitable for church

presentation can be made on a non-

commercial basis, is~being conducted

in New York. '



American tourists in Europe are

starting home fully three weeks ear-

lier, according to bookings on steam-

ships for the last week in July.





Evidence confirming the writings in

the Book of Joshua have been brought‘

to New York City from the ruins of

the. Biblical city of Kirjath-Sephar,

wh1ch was founded two thousand B.

$00 aéidcdestroyed by Nebuchadnezzar





Eleven youth were drowned when

their canoe ca sized on Lake Balsém

near Peterboro Ontario, last week.





One hundred persons are reported





to have been killed at Rugovo, Serbia,

by a hurricane accompanied by a.

cloudburst. ‘ .





The lavish buying of American tour-

ists in France appears to be adding

to the resentment of the French over

efforts of the American government





. to Collect the‘war debt from that coun~ ,





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‘Calls to help, fight forest _

Clare county "hue » .



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V complete failure,





" William Mart-in, (right), Custer town-





- igan counties.





' ssuaemsso. AT 6000 HAY CROP.





' the hay crop here would be light.





_, while fields that were soWn late last ‘

Strawberries felt,





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l ' "1118, at the ‘H; F. Probert farmsin





' I . Jackson county" “in” time ‘ to _ witness

‘ ' the harVesting eta fine piece of alfalfa,

‘ hay. This field containedse‘Ven acres '





and the alfalfawas two years old.

We have just received word from Mr.

‘ Probert that“ the men took twenty





- loads from th'e\fleld. Any of the loads





- that we saw would be readily accepted

by usfor a ton, providing we were

buying hay; and-if we were selling,





we would want to have credit‘ for at'





least a ton and a Quarter or a half. It

was our guess that this first cutting

' yielded semewhere between three and

“four tons per acre: The large yield

was due to the high state of fertility

to which this farm has been brought

by its owner.—B. W.





TESTING VARlETIES FOR CLOVER-

. LAND.





 





SERIES of tests for varieties of



alfalfa adapted to this section'are

being carried out in the Upper Penin-

sula this year. Regarding such a.test

in Dickinson county, it is reported

that Grimm and Hardigan are doing

equally well. The “Common” is a

while the Italian

looks "poor. The Italian seed is said

'to’germinate all right, buit it dies out

in a year or two, ,,as does the “Com-

mon” seed. Variety tests for root

crops are also being conducted in Go-

gebic county this summer.——Chase.





CHAMPION MEMBERSHIP TEAM.





 





' HIL O’CONNELL, representative

‘ in the state legislature, (left), and





ship, Sanilac County Farm Bureau

membership team,’ who enlisted seven-

ty-nine farm bureau members in their

township last month, and at last re-

ports were still in the field.





This Sanilac county team holds the ~





record for the several thousand volun-





 





teer two-men, man and wife, and in

some instances two-women teams en-

gaged in the farm bureau membership

campaign now. going on in thirty Mich-

O’C‘onnell and’ Martin

signed forty straight in three days;

and twenty-two another day. A num-

ber of teams have enrolled twenty-five

members or more, some thirty, and a

great many have reported ten to fif-.

teen memberships. No county mem-

bership oragnization has completed its

Work.





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HE farmers of Southern Genesee

,and northern Livingston counties

were agreeably surbriséd .when they

began the actual harvesting of their

hay. Early predictions had been that





But hay yielding two tons to the acre

has been cut and generally it is very

good. Oats that were suffering from

the long, dry spell have displayed a

wonderful recovery, following the rain

fall. ,There is a wide variation fin

wheat. Early sown wheat is excellent,

an mverwroor

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and! app!





ties hanging very ‘full, vwhile others

have few, if any,vpn them—G. E.





OATS SUFFER FROM BLIGHT.





 





THE agricultural agent of Gogeb’ic



county, Mr. C. E.- Gunderson, re-

ports that late sown oats in his county

are suffering from blight. The cats

yellow and the leaves die. He says no

remedy, is known for this disease,





which is believed to have a bacterial -





origin. Where oat fields have been

ruined from this cause, he advises

harrowing and disking and re—sowing

to Hungarian millet—a crop which ma—

tures in ‘sixty days; There is a good

deal of alfalfa being harvested in Go-

gebic county, this Summer, reports the

agent. Farmers there are said to be

enthusiastic over the results and will

re—seed. Two cuttings per season are

possible in this latitude, and Gogebic

farmers are realizing from two‘and

one-half to four tons per acre—C.





' A walnut tree on the Harry Mayo

farm, in Barry county, was sold for

$200. It was 106 years old, and bu-

sides bringing that amount of money,

provided nine more logs of good size,

100 fence posts, and many cords of

fire wood. ‘





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"‘n‘EsT '3‘: TEST:





 





 





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the real merit of any machine.





Actual test under all kinds of conditions, for a long time, will show

3‘ , whether or not it is reliable and durable.

The Auto-Oiled Aermotor has been thru the testing

‘\ 93,: period in every part of the world. For 12 years

it has been giving the most reliable service - to

a hundreds of thousands of owners.





, Auto—Oiled means that the gears run in oil

«is and every part subject to friction is constantly

flooded with oil. The gear case is filled with oil

\ and holds a supply sufficient to keep every bearing

“ 4,3 ‘perfectly oiled for a year or more.



" The improved Auto-Oiled Aermotor, is a wonderfully efficient





windmill. If you buy any windmill which has not stood the test of

time you are taking a long chance.





But you do not have to





f

experiment. There is nothing better than the Auto-Oiled Aermotor which has

demonstrated its merits wherever Windmills are used.





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filled with boxes, ready for use.

Write, phone or Wire.





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Phone 8217





 





Coal $2.50 per Ton, .





AT THE MINES ‘

Hand picked. shaker screened lump coal 0! the high-

est quality. Buy direct and save money.





FARMER AGENTS





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neighbors. Write today for free illustrated circular

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Deere No. 5 this year.





 

 

 

 





 





 

 





Make a conservative estimate of the advantages of

' - having a John Deere No. 5 Tractor Plow at work on





the better-work advantage of





this John Deere is worth only ten cents an acre, or

$100 in plowing 1,000 acres; say that its lighter-draft

advantage is worth only one cent an acre, or $10 in

plowing 1,000 acres, and say that its several years of '

longer service, with fewer repairs, is worth only $50 to

you. ’ Those three advantages, conservatively estimated,

make a J 0th Deere N o. 5 worth $160 more to you.





. You want all of those advantages. They are worth

to you more than ten times what they cost.

Vitals factors affecting your plowing—the most impor-

tant job on your farm.





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nick-detachable shares

1'. stay close-fitting and

last longer. Loosen one nut

to rem0vo share; tighten

the same nut and share

is on tight.



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—heavy bracin that has 3

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——land wheel set back as on.

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—-thus, the No. 5 does uni-

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BRING IN $1,571.





 





I LMOST $2.00 profit per hen above



the cost of feed during the month



of April is reported by Cleve Erhardt,



Elgin,‘lllinois, poultryman, as evidence



that thel money in keeping ~ood

paultry.



There are 802 Single Comb White

Leghorns in his flock, and they pro-

duced more than 16,000 eggs-in April.

Gross receipts from the flock during

the month were $1,571.92, and the feed

cost was $151.20.



A. L. Prouty, of Nashua, reported

gross receipts of $928.82 during the

same month from a flock of 332 White

Leghorns. His feed bill was $56, giv-

ing a net profit of almost $3.00 a hen.

,—J. C. M.





COOPERATIVE POULTRY HOUSE

BUILDING.





 





HROUGH a cooperative arrange-



ment between Gogebic farmers

and the engineering and poultry de-

partments of the Michigan State Col—

lege, a model poultry house is to be

erected on the farm of John Saari, of

Ironwood township. This represents

a return to the old idea of a farmers’

“bee” for the neighbors of Mr. Saari

will bring tools and help erect the

building. Similar service will be done

other farmers who desire it. The land

owner erects the foundation. In this

way local farmers will learn what a

model poultry house calls for.—L. 0.





WHY NOT CULL?





 





SUALLY about this time of year



egg production commences to de-

crease. Do you decrease your flock

and your feed bill as your egg produc.

tion decreases? If not, why not?

Why wait until September and cull

only once? _



The writer knows of a case where

a farmer was keeping about 150 hens.

(They were not keeping him). He

was persuaded to cull them the last

of June. He did, and culled out about

thirty-five, and his egg production was

a little higher than before, because

those remaining were not crowded so

much. The market dropped two cents

a pound the day after he sold, so he

saved about $4.00, plus a board bill for

thirty-five hens for at least two months

at ten cents a month—which is very

conservative—making a saving there

of $7.00, or a total of $11 for a couple

of\hours’ work, which is more than

most jobs pay.



Usually we all wait until August or

September, when the price is lowest,

for then springers are plentiful and

everyone else is culling.



" In view of the numerous culling

demonstrations it is still surprising to

find a large number of farmers who

do not know how to cull. We used to

think that the yellow-legged, nicely

feathered ’birds‘ were the best, and

those werepthe ones‘ that were kept,

.\and also those that molted first, for it

was thought that they commenced to



‘lay earlier in the fall, but now we

know that ordinarily they have a long-

er rest. ~‘



7" The three easiest methods of culling

now are the Hogan, Pigmentation, and

Molting.



The Hogan method simply measures

the distance between the pelvic bones

and the pelvic and keel bones. When

the hen lays these bones spread apart,



_ and when she is not laying they con-

} tract. Ordinarily on any breed, if one

3.5}: can get only one or two fingers be-

tween the pelvic bones, and only two



V 1‘ three between the pelvic and the



baubeges, ”the bird is not laying.





“augmentation test we and that





   





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places as she lays. It leaves in the

vent when approximately three eggs

are laid; eye ring, six to eight eggs;

ear lobe, twelve to fifteen eggs; beak,

thirty to thirty-six eggs; legs, seventy

eggs and up. \



The color varies with a great many

factors, but as a rye the above fig-

ures hold true. With small, active

birds having little green food, the col-

or would bleach out faster, etc.‘



Then in the molting test any birds





the color leaves the bird in various.





., comm .- Haws

unless. it is due tosndden chants/of,





feed, abnormal benditions, such as too“: ' ‘I





many lice, mites, etc.-,—'should be culled

out. The hens .molting now lay only

when eggs are the cheapest, and loafs‘

the rest of the year... ,



Of course, all birds lacking vigor,

having bad cases of scaly legs, crook-

ed beaks, ect., should be culled out.

When culling one should be very care-

ful not to scare the birds unnecessar-

ily, as scaring decreases egg produc-

tion. I





Body conformation, head conforma3





tion, quality, condition, etc... also enter

in, but now by using the above three

tests practically anyone can do a good

job of culling, and then cull again in’

another month or so.—J. Hoekzefna.





 





 





GATE TO OPEN FROM CAR.





 





. HE accompanying diagram shows



a home-made gate which is said

to operate quite satisfactorily. There

are also quite a. number of commer-

cial gates of this type on the market,





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point and part of the moisture is de-

posited on the tank as dew, just as on

a pitcher of cold water.



It would be possible by pasting two

or three coats of asbestos paper on

the tank to keep the warm, humid air

from striking the cool tank, but this





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bill.





which can be purchased probably,

cheaper than the, cost of lumber and

labor of a home-made one. In many

cases, these firms will sellrthe hard-

ware and furnish plans for building

the gate. If any, of our readers have

worked out a satisfactory gate of this

kind, we should be glad to have their

experiences—D.





GOOD TIME TO RENEW FELT

ROOFS.





 





ANY farms have one or more felt



roofs that are needing overhaul-

ing and resurfacing. The hotter the

day, the better it is for this sort of

work, since the coal tar or asphalt, or

whatever the resurfacing material

used, will penetrate the felt much bet-

ter when it is hot and dry.



Before resurfacing, replace any hold-

ing nails which have pulled out or

pulled through the tin washers. If

the felt is frayed or torn, it should be

patched by spreading down some ce-





. ment, laying a patch over' it, afid then





resurfacing over the whole thing.

With this a patch will hardly show,

especially if the patch is given an ex-

tra lick or two as it is gone oven—D.





ATTIC WATER TANK s‘WEATS.





 





For' our attic storage tank on our

gravity feed water system

house, we use a galvanized tank hold-

ing about eight barrels. When this is

filled during warm or dry weather, it

sweats very much and nearly'floods





the floor of the room where it stands. '





Is there anything wejcan do to pre-

vent this?





ing it on the samdas on a furnace; ‘do

any good? Any

appreciated—R. S





surrounding the tank. If :fthis‘éiair- is

hot and spawns madam».





in our.





Wourd covering ‘ the . tank

with a layer of asbestos paper. past— ‘





suggestions will be -





 





This moisture. comes from ,1 the air





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64ft! 7086’ opened me Car.





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would make considerable work and I

believe you wouldhave trouble to keep

the paper from peeling off because of

the moisture which would work in un-

der the layers of paper.



The best and safest solution for this

very common trouble is to put a shal-

low galvanized iron, or, tin, or oilcloth





.onl'y take care. or the w





118:-

ing/on the tank, but also of 7_any leak

due to rust, or freezing. or to an acci~

dental/overflow in. case the overflow

pipe becomes partially“, "choked; 'One ’

ofthese happens seener or later on

most attic tanks and then we are very

thankful to have this pan to catch it

and carry it away.——D. .





 





BEST WALL FOR WE'LL.





 





Can you tell me which makes the

best wall for a well, rock or hard

brick? In which is the water best and

coolest?-—W. J. D. ’





I have tested water from Wells with "

walls of sandstone; limestone, soft

brick, hard brisk, concrete "bloCks, and

so on, and so far as I can tell, {there ,'

is littlepractical difference as to taste

or coolness, so far'as the wall is con-

cerned. There is some objection to

sandstone and to very soft brick be-

cause of‘slow disintegration, but even

this is very slight belowr the frost line.



Whatever material is used for the

wall, it should be laid up carefully in

cement mortar, at least for the upper

twelve or fifteen feet, and back-plas-

tered with cement mortar, to prevent

surface water from entering; Also,

the wall should be carried up at least

a foot above the general level and

then finished with a tight-fitting con-

crete platform. It clay can be puddled

in back of the wall after it is, finished;

it_will make it that much more secure

against surface water. Vitrified crocks

make the ”safest wall lining—I. W. D.





KEEPING STOVE PIPES FROM

RUSTING. ‘





 





How can stove pipes be prevented

from rusting in the summer?—Sub—

scriber. 0





About the only practicable way to

prevent stoves and pipes from rusting

in the summer is to take them down,

shake and brush out. all the soot and

creosote deposits, black polish them

on the outside, and store ‘them in a

dry place. A film of vaseline or good

cup grease rubbed over the polished

parts will help to prevent tarnishing.

Cleaning the inside of the pipes thor-

oughly and coating with linseed oil or

some rust-preventive would no doubt

stave off rust 'to a slight degree, but

not enough to pay for the trouble.—

I. W. ‘ '





 





 





 





RIGHT TO ROAD TREES.





 





The state is putting a road by our

farm. Who has the right to the trees

that grew by the roadside, or rather,

on land which is now by the roadside?

Do they belong to the farmer? The

“Boss” takes them for wood—H. S.





The trees‘belong to the owner of





the land to ‘be disposed of as he-





pleases. Any person taking'them with-y

out his consent is liable to him for

the value—Rood.





 





USU RY CHARGE.





 





I borrowed $185 from the bank for

one year at seven per cent interest,

secured by my note. When I was

ready to pay this amount they added

the discount, making the amount $208

instead of $197 as we had figured.

This made a difference of $10.15. We

would like to know if this action was

lawful—C; M. ~





From the face of the, statement it





‘Would appear to be a ushr'ious charge





and nncOllectible.—-Rood.





 





" ’ 5 PROISERTY‘DIVISION.





 





 





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ers. ' This mortgage was due a year

before the older brother died, but he

said in a letter that he wished to let

it go until the brother could pay it.

There were no new writings. Is the

old mortgage good yet? May the wid-

ow collect? May' she collect the

amount due, or how much? How much

of the deceased’s property, there being

other pr erty, would the widow -get,

also the ro’th‘ers? The property is ,in

Minnesota "and‘the‘ two brothers are

in- Michigan. ‘One is living in Minne- .

sota and one died. theren—P. L. . ' '



By the law of Minnesota the home-

stead goes to the widow for life, and

,one—third of the other real property

absolutely. The 'rest goes to the chil—





dren.-——Rood.





 





TO SECURE ACTION ON PROHIBI-

' TION.





 





There are several places.- near my





home where the inhabitants handle





liquor. The officers stationed here

drink liquor also, and consequently

will not interfere with those who pro-

duce the liquor. Would you please ad~

vise me .as to where and how I can





« secure- help in stopping this" array 2?;

‘..B.1_2.~7N_.; -_ . ..





it can t. tingle: as; ”at
PRUN-E SHRUBBERY .Now.





 





OST of the' spring flowering

» shrubs now need to be pruned.

When such shrubs as spireas, weigel-

ias, bush honey'suckles, deutzia, climb-

ing roses, and syringas are pruned

_shortly after flowering, they produce

new growth which will hear more

flowers the next year. Pruning at this

. time of year also helps to keep the

bushes shapely. Neglected shrubs be-

come unusually tall and droop in an

untidy manner. Winter or early spring

pruning results in a loss of bloom be-

cause the wood which is removed

bears the ,flower buds. Summer flow-

ering shrubs may, however, be pruned

.in the spring or late winter, their

blooms being produced on the wood

of the current season’s growth. For

this reason most roses, as well as

hydrangeas, and those shrubs useful

because of ornamental fruits, may be

pruned in the spring.





 





FOR CABBAGE WORMS.





 





0 kill cabbage worms dissolve a



cup of salt in a pail of water and

apply with a watering pot. The salt

will kill the worms without injuring

the cabbage. Dusting cayenne pepper

on the cabbages while wet with dew

is another good way to get rid of the

worms. Repeat the operation once a

week if necessary—J. J. O’C.





DUST VS. SPRAY FOR POTATOES.





 





OR several seasons past experi-

ments have been under way on the

groundsof the New York State Agri-

cultural Experiment Station. at. Gen-

_ eva to test the relative efficiency of a

A. copper-lime dust and liquid Bordeauxw

., spray, which contains much the same

1 ingredients as the dust. mixture, for

the control of insect pests and dis—

, eases of potatoes, particularly potato

blight. The results of the tests show

a decided advantage in favor of spray-

ing over dusting.



In each of the four experiments, the

spray gave much the better results,

as shown both by the appearance of



- the foliage and by the yield of mar—

» ketable tubers. Both early blight and

late blight were controlled fairly well

by dusting, but considerably better by

spraying. For the control of tipburn

or hopperburn, caused by leafhoppers,

the dust proved almost valueless,





 





while the spray' showed high effi—

ciency. Since neither flea beetles nor

Colorado potato beetles were import-

ant factors in any of the experiments,

no data on the control of these insects

were obtained. .



Notwithstanding the lesser efficiency

of the dust, its use may be advisable

under certain conditions, for example,

' where water is difficult to obtain and

in small fields where it is necessary

‘to use hand machines.





A GOOD MELON TEST.





 





HAVE heard so many people ex-

claim on my being able to tell a

ripe watermelon by simply thumping

or snapping upon its surface.

However, it is not so hard, and ab-

' sclutely nothing mysterious or tricky

about it. A green melon has a very

hollow, loud sound, while 'his ripe

neighbor gives fortli a flat,- dead sound

when his sides are thumped. To make

, absolutaiy sure of it being ripe, hold

‘ ' n one hand, and





 





 

 

 

 

 





and tremble, while, if still green, it

will roll or remain solid like a stone.

Of course, different sized melons will

differ in sound just as the size of a

hole in a dead tree determines the de-

gree cf sound when you drum on the

tree itself. However, a few trials will

show you that there is a great varia-

tion in the sound, so a ripe melon is

very easily found.



To be sure you know just what I

mean by a flat, dead sound, just try

this. Snap the side of your shoe where

the leather touches the foot and is

drawn tightly, a flat, dead sound is the

result; a sound without carrying pow-

er.-J. 0. R.





DIVIDING TULIPS.





 





How often should tulip bulbs be di-

vided? We have some that have been

in the ground for two years. Should

they be divided? What is the best

time?—Mrs. R. L.



Tulip bulbs are best divided when

taken out of the ground each year. As

soon as the leaves on the tulips begin

to turn yellow in the spring, the bulbs

should be taken up and heeled-in

somewhere for a few days, in a partly

shaded situation in order that they

may get thoroughly dry. After having

dried, it is best to place them on a

shelf for a few days and then put

them in a paper bag until time for

planting arrives again. Perhaps the

best time to plant them is during the

month of September.





 





any, may be separated from the main

bulb and planted in the vegetable gar-

den or any other place where they

will receive good cultivation, when

most of them will bloom during the

second year.——J. W. Crist.





APPLE STING.





ODLING moth worm causes the



“sting” on the side of apples.\Sum—

mer spray for the pest, entomologists

report, should be applied about ten

days later than usual.





The “stings” are largely caused by

the summer _brood of the worm. It

eats of the apoison spray as it works

into the skin of the apple, and is kill-

ed. The blemish left is the “sting.”



“Midsummer spraying will checktlie

damage. The number depends in a

large part on the number of worms

that escaped the early spray. If the

first spray was thoroughly applied

there will be few worms left to do

damage.”





Both the worm and the adult moth

shun the light and to avoid it they

feed on the underside of the leaf.

Thorough spraying is not possible

from the top" of the tank. The oper-

ator should circle the tree and spray

from the bottom up, as well as from

the top down.





It is believed that the shot hole bor-

er, an insect which has been attack-

ing cherry trees in the west, has made

its initial appearance in Mason coun-

ty. The insect is a black fly, about a

quarter of an inch long, which bores

into the new growth, causing the

leaves to wither. Mr. Gettner, of the

horticultural department of the col-

lege, said that spraying was not ef-

fective in the cogitrol of this pest.





 





 





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, rush of bmias to the am. and V





this time I’ll release it via the

.« .gmouth. Did you ever hear of a crop

failed sorghum? I’ve had one in my

Wheat! for the past few weeks and, if

you’ll gather ’round the old cracker

barrel for a few minutes,I I’ll unbutton

‘ a little lullaby.



Several dark nights ago I was awak-

ened out of one of my loud slumbers

by an intense feeling in the ruminat-

ing region which told me plainer than



" words that me and our local dentist

were scheduled to go to the mat to-

gether, and the way that old tooth

was hurting indicated it would end in

a draw. This alarm clock in my jaw

popped off at 2: 30 a. m., (Aching Mol-

ar), and in less than one second later

I became very distinctly alive and

alert. Honestly, it’s appalling the kick

you can get out of so little a chunk

" of ivory, isn’t it? Yet Job wrote a

whole book about boils. If a guy had

only one-half as much ambition as is

encased in a single small tooth he

could do a season’s farming in a day.

Sweet cider, how she ached! And

with thirty-two teeth in the average

skull wouldn’t it be a thrill to have

them all wide open at the same time?

That’s the time when I envy the bird

that can park his teeth in a china mug

instead of his own.



I stood it as long as I could in bed,

then I unhayed, walked down to where

we have our little monument erected

to Alexander Graham Bell, and I rung

his last name until I was weak. We

only have one central at night, and

she sleeps with her mouth open and

her ears closed. Finally, about the

time I’m beginning to steam, she

smothers a yawn with:



“Number, please?”





“Say, central,” says I, almost mad

enough to be muzzled, “you’re harder

to raise than the mortgage. Where in

the deuce have you been?"



“Me? Oh, I just been out picking

a few currents off the wires.”





“That sounds kind/ of phony to me.

I’ll speak to Mr. Pullman about rent-

ing you a sleeper for the evenings—"



“Yeah,” she cuts in, “and if you

want to talk I’ll fix it so you can hire

the Elk’s hall. Who do you want this

time of night, anyway, the coroner?”



“Worse than that; give me the den-

tist’s, I’ve forgot his number.”



“Don’t worry, he’ll get yours,” she

replies sweetly and, a minute -or two

later, I was talking to one of the lead-

ing members of our dental profession

who went by the unusual nickname of

“Doc.”





“Now what’s the matter with you,”

he inquires rather gruffly, “have you

got a toothache?”



“No, Doe, I just called up to ask

you how long was a rope. Really,

that part of my anatomy which I work

the most, my jaw, feels like it had

been run through a silo filler. What

have you today in the way of first

aid?”



“Have you lots of hot Water?” he

asks.



“Sure. What do you want me to

do, bathe it?"





 





 





 





“Fill a hotwater bottle as hot as you

can stand it and hold that on your

jaw,” says he,



“Is that the best you can offer? I

could have got that information out

of a hod carrier. A hot water bottle

may be all right as a foot warmer, but





that’s about all I can give them.”





“Well,” says Doc, "time’s the best I

can give you till morning. You come

down to my office about 8: 00 and I’ll

see what can be done.” And with [that

parting stimulant he hangs up.



It was a long week from then until

18:00 the next morning, and I know I

came within a few miles of circling

the globe. There’s nothing will stim-

ulate foot action any quicker. A first-

class toothache will make a paralytic

get up and run. I’ve always had a

mortal dread of going to a dentist's

ever since the nurse said: “It’s a

boy;” but on this particular morning,

honestly, I c0uldn’t get there quick

enough. So at 7:30 I backed the old

can out of the incinerator and in less

than twenty minutes I had deForded

in front of Doc‘s office.



I entered the reception room tri-

umphantly and, as there were several

ahead of me, I 'sat down to wait my

turn. The reception room to a tooth

foundry is, in my estimation, all

wrong. After you’ve sat there awhile

and seen the faces of the other cli-

ents, you have a feeling that you are

in a morgue. If I was a member of

.the dental fraternity I’d most certain-

1y revamp‘my waiting room. For in-

stance, instead ofawall paper on the

‘walls I’d cover them With a black-

board and hire a first-class cartoonist

to draw funny pictures so the patients

could laugh a little instead'of sitting

there like pall bearers. In place of

an office girl or an assistant, I’d take

on a couple of good comedians, or a

snappy jazz orchestra or, better still,

why wouldn’t it be a grand idea for a

tooth teaser to convert his reception

room into a movie. The whole idea

being, you see, to keep the customers

from thinking about flowers. And an-





other thing, I’d subscribe ,to at least-





one up-to-date magazine.

Well\ I picked up one of Doc’s Sat-





urday Evening Posts and was reading.

.where the United States was contem-





plating entering the world war, when

Doc shoves his head out through a

jar in the door and says: “Next vic-

tim, please,” and that happened to be

me. Now, me and Doc have always

been close friends.- I don’t know

which is the closest; but once you’re





in the chair all friendship ceases, tem—'





porarily, at least. I’ve even knoWn

dentists to go so far as to crown their

patients. V



“And now,” says Doc, after I had

climbed into the chair, “what seems

to be the trouble?”





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I: Wort/z Two on the flew

By Harv Hess





 





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“Why, it seems like a couple of my





teeth are all gummed up; but my jaw





feels better now,” I answered, as I ob-

served a 'stand covered with a lot of

wicked looking little tools. ~

“When were you at a dentist’s last?”

he inquired. '

“Back in 1918.





on some of my teeth.”



“That’s about eight years ago. This

ought to be some easy money for me.

If you’ll just open your pan I’ll take a

look at it. You don’t need to open it

so wide, though. I’ll stay 'outside

while working on you,” and with that

he shoves the periscope into my'yawn-

ing abyss.



“Do you ever use a toothbrush 9” he

asked, prodding around in the corners

of my molars.



“Why of course I do.

spark plugs with one.”



“That’s what I thought. If it wasn’t

for boys like you they wouldn’t issue

so many DDS degrees.” By this time

he had located the seat of trouble.



“Ah,” observed Doc, “it’s the bicus-

pidor and it looks like an extraction.”



“You mean you’ll have to pull it

out?" I asked, feeling cold all of a

sudden.





“Exactly, only it won’t hurt much.

I’ll squirt a ““3 Spearmint into your





I clean my





gum which will eaden the nerve and

it will merely fe 1 like I’m taking the

top of your head off.”



“Be sure you do a good job, Doc,

won’t you?"



“I’ve pulled so many boners it just

comes natural for me. Of .course, there

are times when a piece of jaw will

break off with the tooth, and then

there is apt to be trouble. Only last

week one of my patients entered the

obituary column from a jaw infection;

but, as a rule, these cases are rare.”



I always thought that in pulling a

tooth, the dentist would sort of sneak

up on it when you weren’t looking,

slip the coal tongs over it andggive

her one quick yank. But Doc makes

no pretenses whatever He trots out

a‘ half dozen mean looking pliers, se-

lects the meanest locking one in the

bunch, closes down on this sweet-corn

cutter of mine, rocks it back and forth

a few times, throws in the clutch and

out she comes. Whew! He may be

crooked but he’s got an awful pull.



“Well,” grins Doc, holding the tooth

up for my inspection, “that one won’t

eyer give you any more trouble, but

you’ve got a lot more that need some

attention. "‘You know,” he/continues,

“a toothache isn’t any more necessary

than a tonsil. If you’d have your teeth

looked at every six months or a year,

all this jaw pain and nightwalking

could be avoided.”



They tell me that us apple knock-





   





have until we was I.





' gravy»





One of Uncle Sam’s

first lieutenant’s went through a drill





 

     





"point where-

we can’t eat anythin

then we have _ them yanked.

From new on, I’m, going to have an

annual date with Doe.- _And just one

more shot. You read adds‘labout pain-

less dentists. Personally, I think they

are fiction. Be as particular in se-

lecting your dentist as you are your

seed 1‘ corn, even though he does get



on your nerves. That’s all. \ '





 





 





RURAL HEALTH

'1 By Dr. C. H. Lern'ga ‘





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BESTTREATMENT Fog RUPTURE.





 





My doctor says I have a rupture. r

have a hurting in the left groin and

if I try to lift, a swelling comes there.

Doctor wants an operation, but I want

to know if there isn’t some other

treatment for rupture. I am a farmer,

tWenty-three years old—S.- D.





Yes, there are other ways, but none

so good, so safe, so prompt and so

cheap in the long run, as that of sur-

gical operation. When you contem

plate wearing a truss, or other device,

for some fifty. years, taking the risk of

the rupture getting worse at some

time when the truss is not in good

working order, buying new, trusses

from time to time, and everlastingly

having the bother of adjusting the

thing,‘ it really seems to be a small

matter to go into the hospital for two

weeks, get the rupture repaired, and

be soundly and safely fixed for a. life-

time. Many. persons have lost.their

lives from strangulated 'hernia.





DOES THE MOON AFFECT THE

HAIR?





 





Please say whether it makes any

real difference to the growth of hair

whether it is cut at a certain stage of_'

themoon. This is perhaps a foolish

question, but I’ve heard that it makes

a. difference, and my hair is getting

so Slim that I don’t want to miss any

chance—Bachelor.





Not a bit of difference. Keep it cut

fairly short, no matter what the stage

of the moon. Get a good pair of

brushes and spend five minutes every

night and morning with them. Change

your condition in life and you won’t

care so much.





TROUBLED WITH? RUPTURE.





 





I am thirty-four years old, in good

health, but have a rupture on the right

Side which has been giving me some'

trouble of late. Is an operation ‘dan«

gerous, if a person is strong?-——N. W





Not at all. There is very little dan-

ger in an operation for the repair of

a rupture if done by a surgeon of mod.

erate skill. A young man of thirty-

four who goes on through life trying

to palliate a rupture is doomed to

many years of discomfort and inter-

ference withhealth. Better have the

operation.





Frank R. Lee!





 





 





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V/Farcwcll to Climbing Roses

1:4 Merry Cz'fc/er’r Adieu

By Wilma Fry





LO, the morning hovers ’round,

Not an echo, nor a sound!



What a silence everywhere!

Green. the grass and fresh the air.





Now the sunshine tripping near

Brings the-brightness and the cheer.

Calls the robin from his nest,

Cheerily he sings his best;



“Wake, oh, wake, the morning light;

Sleep no more, gone is the night.



See, the roses greet the dawn,

Shaking dew upon the lawn.



Ope your sleeping eyes and view

What the world is giving you.



Hear us sing, hear us sing—



. Such a joyous chorusing.”





Is a poet ’ere amiss——



Ever on a morn like this?



can he shirk his duty rare



With the morn so fresh and fair?



So I call unto the muse



As once more my pen I use,



And the muse will hear my plea



In this verse I write to thee.



Where the paths of childhood meet,



Laughter tripping are so fleet '

~. Gathers for the run of life, __



Strength enough to brave the strife.



Lass and lads together go



Down the road of joy and woe;—



And like rosebuds then are they



Springing from a common clay.



While one swaying stem they claim,



E’en their be uty is the same.



But the war] looks down on them,



Plucks the flower from the stem,



Plants it in the vase of Truth,



Lets it root and calls it Youth.





'

In the days of twenty-one

I an M. C. button won. ~

Just a rosebud was I then

Nodding on a slender stem,

But the paths of childhood met

In the land of gay content, '

For the world had need of me

Even as its need for thee.

In the vase of Truth I grew

Into Youth I never knew——

And today I’m looking back

At that worn and beaten track,

All my high school days are o’er

Passed, away, for evermore. '

And one year of college gone

June time’s dews are there upon.

How the world about me plays!

Just a gambler-do I gaze

At the sea where Life runs deep

Waters there can never sleep!





Eighteen summer’s suns I've seen

Eighteen winter winds so keen.

So today I say to you



Each and everyone, “Adieu."





Be my parting words to Vou



Keep your aim both high and true,

Lest ye fall beside the way



And be naught but common clay.

Dig your roots, both firm and deep,

Health and happiness seek to keep.

Knowledge ever be your guide,

Common sense within abide.



Just forget that you are you,



Let the world see what you do.



If you work for money’s lust,



All your roses will be dust;



If you work for good of man,

Wide and broad will be their span;

If you strive for self alone,



Rose and perfume won‘t atone. ,

What you leave beside the way,

You will meet again some day.





“Do not look for sin nor evil,

You will find it if you do—



What you measure for your neighbor,

He will measure back to you.”





And to those whom I have me ,

Know you this—I won’t forge .

And, though every day be done,

On that last and only one



I will think of you a while—

Just before I cross, I’ll smile.

May the Merry Circle hue

Sparkle like the gems of dew,

And the Golden Circle gleam

Glittering as a bright moonbeam.

May the page for Boys and Girls

Last till every boy wears curls.





\





Boys and girls on you depends,





’ Our country’s future citizens;





Just as you are then you see



Will your own .America be.



And to him who qrganized



The Page for us and supervised,



And by readiness of thought

Boresome contests never brought——

He who sent his brightest gift*

Other’s burdens just to lift-—



He who kept this Page so long,

Listened to our prose and song,

Criticized by wit and praise,

Sunshine be in all his days.



There seems to be no way to thank——

He’s just our dear, good Uncle Frank.





("EThese lines refer to the Radio

Happiness given to boys and girls).





 





 





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Dear Uncle Frank:



I disagree with Elsie Ellis about

not’ being able to think nice things

about the boys. If it were not for the



oys, there wouldn’t be girls, and if

t ere weren’t girls, there wouldn’t be

boys; so there.



Remember Abe Lincoln’s quotation,

“All men are created equal,” (includ-

ing the girls). And let me tell you it

takes all kinds of people to make a

nation and also a world. Life is too

short to quarrel in a club that is sup-

posed to bring sunshine to every shad-

owed heart.



Well, I will close—Your Niece, Ruth

Leavitt; Dublin, Mich.





Yes, it takes all kinds to make a

world. I like your last sentence which

refers to bringing sunshine to every

shadowed heart. \





 





Dear Uncle Frank:

I have been a silent reader of “Our

Page” for some three years, since I

_'was admitted to the Merry Circle. I

wish to make an objection to the dis-

cusSions on our page. Bobbed hair,

knickers and sweethearts should be

left alone, espemall‘y sweethearts, until

,one, is over twenty. " '

1 ; .Why don’t one of you be

a scout, discuss scouting, a sits with

'1 other scouts? -' I am a scout myself,

. . you sink-can discuss-the merits

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th ‘ Dear Uncle Frank: V





bate with the Lone Scouts, and let

Uncle Frank decide the winner. I

have an Indian name of which the

readers of the Last of the Mohicans

are familiar. I want to thank you;

Uncle Frank, again for my pin and

card.—Uncas.



I bet you are some Indian. Scout-

ing is mighty good work. It would be

a good subject for boys to discuss.

Girls can also, as there are Girl

Scouts, too. “Sweethearts” is a uni-

versal subject, but I think we can de-

‘vote too much time to it, at any time

of life.





 





Dear Uncle:



I have answered the contest for this

week, and am sending it in with hopes

of‘success.



I was greatly surprised, when I read

a letter in the Michigan Farmer this

_week. The idea, Christine ’Zeck, of

your saying it’s perfectly all right for

boys to chew tobacco. I don’t think

any 'one agrees with you. Do you, M.

C.’s? I agree with Uncle Frank about

, chewing gum instead ofvtobacco.—-

.Lucy Molter,‘ Clarkston, Mich.





. I say ‘fAmen’,’ to your tobacco com-

ments. It is even better to chew th





rag than tobacco. ' . '





 





«:3 Hello, everybody! Don't tell, .us we





 

 





 





'a'refall _ a; gang of "monkeys, ' although ,





we sometimes act like ’em. John





.Rytie has nothing on me with a trap—





eze, for I can chin myself fifteen times

without stopping. , -



The girls haven’t got us killed yet

for a while, for I notice several boys’

letters berry—Bud. '



You said it-—folks do act like ’em

sometimes. I’ll say you are some chin-

ner, but how are you on chin music?





Can you beat girls in talking?





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



May I squeeze into these heated dis-

cussions and say a few things? I do

not believe it is necessary for young

girls to use rouge or lipstick, but I

do think powder is all right. I think

that when a girl uses rouge, she ad-

vertises to the world that she cannot

keep the roses in her cheeks, and has

given up the fight and uses artificial

“roses” instead. So, girls, let’s adopt

a motto, “down with rouge,” and stick

to it. I’m sure the boys don’t like

rouge, do you boys? Come on now,

tell the truth.



Uncle Frank, if you lose your M. C.

button, are you entitled to another

one? I lost mine and I didn’t know

whether you would replace it or not.



I think the Merry Circle is a won-

derful club, and I’m lucky to belong.

If you don’t believe me, ask some of

my friends. I’m always telling them

about the M. C.



Well, Uncle Frank, I think I’d better

Sign off and leave room for some oth-

er Merry Circlers’ letters, that is, if

mine doesn’t reach Mr. W. B.—Your

niece, Madeline Mercer, Paw Paw,

Mich.



Natural color is the kind to have.

The use of rouge is pretense, it seems

to me. You can get another button

for ten cents, but only M. C.’s can get

buttons at that price, if they have lost





theirs. I am glad you like the M. C.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I don’t believe in evolution, because.

in the first chapter of Genesis, verse

twenty-seven, it says: “So God creat-

ed man in his own image, in the image

of God created He Him; male and

female He them.” I think that is all

that is necessary to prove we are not

descendants from apes.



Billy Sunday said the rational pray-

er of the evol‘utionist is: “Our Father

who are in a cocoanut tree, hallowed

be thy name.”



well, I must close and wash dishes.

Lots of love to you and the cousins.—

Your niece, Retta Bell, Elberta, Mich.





That is a characteristic Billy Sun-

day remark. He must have something

in his “coacoanut” to think of such

pointed remarks. Thanks for the love.





Dear Uncle Frank:



Thank you so much for the pencil

I received July 4. I never won a prize

before, and when I did get one, it was

a first prize. It surely was surprising.



Those who want a club“ for those

over eighteen. do you think Uncle

Frank could take care of two clubs?

I should think he has enough to keep

one club in order. Although maybe

in about two or three years, I shall

want the same thing.



I think the children will enjoy the

radio. Right now our radio is going,

and I am not sure if I shall get dance

music mixed in this letter or not.



Every time our dog hears the





strange voices, he starts to bark and

jump around. If you could see her

you would think she was crazy. This

is a short letter, but I am going to

stop new—Helen Piper, Spruce, Mich.





Glad you like the pencil. Your let-

ter was all right, so I guess the music

did not mix in. Some dog you have.

You must be jumping all the time

when the radio is on.‘





ENTHUSIASM CONTEST ANSWER.





 





Below you will find the lines of the

quotation on enthusiasm in proper

order:



Enthusiasm is the element of suc-

cess In everything. It is the light that

leads and the strength that lifts men



atrnicc UM}! ‘



,R'L';l O Na’:' (I; '





 





 





 





 





 





Bernice White, an M. C. Artist, Gives

Her Impression of W. .





on and up in the great struggles of

scientific pursuits and of professmnal

labor. Itrobs endurance of difficulty,

and makes a pleasure of duty—Bishop

Doane.





 





TWENTY PRIZES.





 





HAT’S what we are going to give



in this contest. To the boys we

will give cuff links or tie pins, and to

the girls, beads or bracelets.



The contest is to make as many

words as you can from the letters con~

tained in the words “Twenty Prizes."

In this contest we won’t count proper

names and abbreviations. The twenty

who send in the largest number of

words Will get the prizes referred to

above. The contest closes August 6.

Send your list of words to Uncle

Frank, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,

Michigan, and don’t forget to put your





name and address in the upper left- ,





hand corner of your paper. If you are





a Merry Circler, put M. C. after your





name.





 





I go to school every day, and I am

in the fourth grade. We have a lib—

rary, and when we have a perfect

arithmetic paper, we may go in and

read. We have 137 books, and we like

to read them.



I hope the boys and girls of the

Merry Circle may soon become our

friends—Walter Puvowarski,‘ of the

Crippled Children’s Home.





Courage is Greatest Essential

’None' Can Succeed I/Vit/zouz‘ It, Sayr George H. Lorz'mef





HE leader in business must not only have worked like “his men, but to

rise above them he must have the cardinal business virtues, faith, hope,





and courage—and the greatest of these is courage.





To believe in yourself ;





to believe in your idea when people slight the one and sneer at the other;

to see the castles of your vision rising clear and complete on the far hori-

zon Where other eyes see nothing but the clouds; to aim straight ahead

over every obstacle that doubt and disbelief can raise—this has ever been





the course of the man who wins.





from George Horace





made Merchant to His Son,” and “Old George Gra.

Service. Copyright rm





(Standard Fm Paper Editorial





With high’ courage, men have failed;

without it, no man can succeed.—-GEGRGE H. LORIMER.





We are pleased indeed, to have this week a message for our farm boys ‘

Lo’flmer, of the Saturday Evening

two books which every success-seeking boy should read—“Letters of afielt-x





Post," and author .of'





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by Clarence Po». , - *
Planning Children’s Meals

W Izz'c/z Are Nutn'z‘z'our and Healthful

By Doris W. McCray .





OST of us are too busy to pre-

pare two sets of meals, one for

the grown-ups and another for

the children. When I started prepar-

ing vegetable soup and cereals for the

baby, I found the most practical way

was to make them so palatable that

they appealed to adults, too. As baby

grew older, our meal time became

more regular, to fit into his schedule.

When he began eating at the table, he

understood that, some foods were

“daddy’s,” but daddy, not schooled in

dietetics was tempted to share grown-

up foods with the baby. As a time-

saving plan I decided to plan baby’s

meals first, then ours afterward.

Foods suitable for the child below

kindergarten age are just right for





 





The nitrogenous foods are the most

expensive, and too much is not good

for the child.



Starchy Foods.



Besides potatoes once a day, mush

may be served for either breakfast or

supper. It must be very thoroughly

cooked. Bread is a starchy food, and

is best when toasted, to exercise the

teeth. Cracked_wheat, cornmeal, far-

ina, rice, hominy or oatmeal provide

variety with dry prepared cereals oc-

casionally. One dessert is usually a

starchy food, as cornstarch pudding,

bread pudding, custard (rich in pro-

tein), or tapioca.



Fats.

Plenty of cream is good for chil-





dren, about the amount on a quart of ,





 





 





An Exhibit of Food for Three Meals for Five People.





(Notice Milk for





Three Children).





grandpa, or any of the family who

must be careful not to eat rich foods.

Children’s foods are best for all of us.

A little dressing up, as hard cooked

egg with the spinach, mayonnaise with

the lettuce, and bread dressing and

gravy with the roast beef, add to at-

tractiveness.





Each child should have one quart of

milk each day, either as a beverage

or in the cooking. If they have not

been taught to like it, that amount

can be used by cooking more with

milk. This milk should have plenty

of cream in it. A pint and a half is

the minimum, and a pint for each

adult. Each day serve two vegetables

other than potatoes, one of these to

be a green vegetable. Each day serve

two fruits, one of these to be orange,

grapefruit or tomato. Allow one egg

and small serving of meat once a day.

Bread and breakfast foods should, if

possible, be from whole grains.





Protein Foods.





The average six-year—old

weighing forty-one pounds,

forty-one grams of protein. A baby

requires one—quarter to one—eighth

grams of protein for each pound body

weight. To give you an estimate of

protein requirements, one pint of milk

furnishes one-half ounce, or fourteen

grams of protein. This same amount

of protein is furnished by two eggs, or

two and one-quarter ounces of lean

'beef. or fish, or three cups of cooked

‘ cereal, or three tablespoons of pean'ut

butter. An average ~-day’s ration of

‘ protein would includean egg,'a strip

, of crisp bacon, and a-small serving of

lean meat besides the (mart of milk.





child,

requires





rich milk. Butter-three times a day

on bread supplies calories in concen-

trated form, and vitamins. Oleomar—

garine, unless churned with milk, is

deficient in vitamins. Cod liver oil,

for young and old alike, is insurance

against colds and respiratory infec-

tions. It supplies the vitamin needed

oftenest and is called “bottled sun-

shine.”

likes it, and we pretend it is good.

He never guesses that I dislike the

flavor, and at two years of age he

takes one and one—half teaspoons

daily, though he is normal in health“

and weight.

Fruits and Vegetables.



Vegetables are splendid for us. We

should set the children a good exam-

ple by eating them all. A different

vegetable each day is welcomed, as

even the best becomes tiresome when

served several days in succession. The

green leafy vegetables are most need-

ed. Sunshine is stored up in those

green leaves in a form needed to nour-

ish our bodies. Spinach, Swiss chard,

beet tops, dandelion greens, lettuce,

endive, watercress, and celery are all

good.



Other vegetables take their turn on

the menu. If young, and of good qual-

ity, (or nicely canned), then served

attractively they should appeal-to the

child. Wilted lettuce, gritty spinach,

too-strong carrots: and brown cabbage

cooked too, long with meat, grease,-

have no place on tlfe table. The wa-

terless cooker," fireless 'or pressure

cooker, conserves the minerals and

the mayor. Our little boy likes peas,

onions; beets, carrots, and turnips. Do“

not give children any fried foods.





     

 





It happens that my little boy ,





Vegetables are needed for their

lime, phosphorus and iron. They help

to build strong bodies. The bulky ones

are good laxatives, due to their cellu-

lose. Fruits are needed for the same

purposes. Most of them contain also

antiscorbutig vitamin, which is most

abundant in tomatoes, oranges, grape-





in double boiler to make most digesti-—

ble, garnished .with parsley),- whole-

wheat bread toasted, butter, oatmeal

with cream, golfee for adults, milk for'

children. -



Dinner.—Ba.ked potatoes, b'roiled’I

steak (not fried), tomato gravy, minc--

ed spinach, bread and butter, peach.





fruit and lemons. ’ All the fruits mawapioca with cream.





be used in turn to give variety to the



meal.-



- One Day’s Meal Plan.

Breakfast—Scrambled eggs (cooked





Reclaiming





Supper.—Bran muffins with dates in:





. them, butter, baked apples, salad of’





lettuce, peas, celery and boiled dressr

ing (made with lemon Juice.)





Old Chairs





By Recam'ng J’lzem at Home





UST as with basket making, the

J recaning of old chairs affords an

opportunity for doing a bit of hand-

iwork, that will prove to be fascinat-

ing work to the home manager, and

a real help in fixing up her home. It

will also afford an opportunity to make

a little pin money for herself if she

cares to recane a few chairs for her

neighbors. The high prices asked for

recaning at factories, and the incon-

venience and expense of shipping the

Chaim a long ways, makes the home

work of recaning in great demand.

You can buy cane for chairs at fac-

tories or at school supply houses. (If

you wish the address where this cane

can be purchased, send a self-address-

ed stamped envelope to this depart-

ment). The cane should be soaked in

water for twenty minutes before you

start to use it, so that it will’ be pli-

able. This kind of cane comes in dif-

ferentusizes, but it would probably be

best to use the original size. An awl

and a knife are the only tools you will

need for this kind. of work. -

The work is really quite simple and,

like basket weaving,._ is very fascinat-

ing once you get started at it. The

directions below are for the octagonal





 





 





 





 





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,the same as the first, but the lacings

go from the right side to the left side,

and on top of" the first lacings.



As illustrated in the third drawing,

follow the lacings of the front to back‘

rows by passing another set of lacings

over the first, in the same holes.



In the fourth step weave in 'another‘

set of canes from side to side, weav~

ing over and under, those of the first

and third step, and putting top strands

to right, and lower ones to left.



In the fifth step the weaving is done

diagonally and two of the opposite cor-

ner holes are used‘for the "first time.

In this step the cane is woven under

the front to back canes in pairs, and

over the side to side cane in pairs.-

The first and last pairs in each row

will be on the frame, and a small

wooden stick will helpin passing‘the

cane through.



The sixth step is just reversed to

the fifth, using opposite corners.

Where the strands in the fifth step

pass over, they“ pass under in this

step, and vice versa.



A little wider cane should be used

for binding off. Bring it up through

a corner‘hole and carry around to the

right, Couching it down at every other





 





 





Diagrams Show Progressive Steps in Weaving Chair Seats. ‘ '





weave, which is the most popular. As

illustrated in the first square, the

weaving starts from the front to the

back; To prevent sagging in the cen—

ter, start weaving with the center

hole. After adjusting the cane, leav-

ing three inches on bottom, hold in

place by pushing a small soft wood

plug into the hole from the top. Pass

cane through opposite hole at the

back, adjust until taut, and hold in

place by means of another plug. Con-.-

tinue this way until :all except t 'e





, {our corner‘holes‘are laced. , , —

t s , The ':se_comi' step illustrates; is Just '





hole with a finer cane. A part of this

finishing step is illustrated at the bot-

tom of the last figure.



One of the important things to have

on hand before starting to rec‘ane old

chairs is plenty ofsmall wooden pegs

to hold‘ the cane in: place in eachhole.

All the extra ends of cane left on the

wrong, side,,lshould be woven in. and

out. carefully. “The tighter the... cane





is-‘dra’wn if) ,the‘first foursteps, the 1'

b" j *‘ ._





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UNTY LOU sat shelling peas,





Pop, pop, vent» the pods as she

broke open their little green

houses.



Tilly and Billy stood beside her,

wanting to help. They were trying to

see which one couid make the pea pod

houses crack the loudest And who,

could. guess just how many tat little

green peas there were in each pod

house. ,



f‘Look here,” said Tilly, holding up

a particularly plump pea pod, “I think





~there are 'five fat little peas in this





pod house.”





“I think there are six," said Billy,

ready for a guess. Pop, and the door

of the little pod house opened to show

four fat little peas snug in their pod

house. But the middle pea was gone.

It popped‘out of the door aswsoon as

it was opened.



“There goes one just like Runaway

Popsy,” said Aunty Lpu.



“Who was Runaway Popsy?" asked

Billy, for he smelled a story.





“Well,” said Aunty Lou, "Runaway

Popsy was a naughty little pea that

ran away. Just as soon as the door

of her little pea pod 'house popped

open, Runaway Popsy popped out and

went rolling and tumbling across the

kitchen floor away from her little

brother and sister peas.



“Fluff, the little kitten, who had

been Sleeping with one eye open over

in the corner of\ the kitchen, saw Pop-

sy and was after her in a wink. She





Adventures of Tilly and Billy





Runaway Popry





cuffed Popsy to the right and to .the

{left just to see how far she would roll.



“Ouchie Ou’!" .yelled Popsy when

she bumped into the leg of the table.

“But Fluff did not hear at all and only

gave Popsy a harder cut! with her

paw. ,



“This time Runaway Popsy went

rolling and tumbling to the farthest

corner of the kitchen, and right into

a little mouse’s hole.



“ ‘Oh, Ohie, Oh,l yelled Runaway

Popsy as she went bumping and roll-

ing down the long black channel. ‘It’s

so dark here.’



“Right then Popsy bumped her head

on a. sharp corner, but still she went

tumbling down, down, down.



“After what seemed hours to Pop-

sy, she landed kerplunk on something

hard and stopped. It was still very

dark.



“‘Dearie me,’ said Runaway Popsy.

‘Where am I now?’ No one answered

her. ‘I wish I had not run away,’ she

sobbed, ‘I want to be back in the little

pod house with my brothers and sis-

ters. Popsy cried and cried.



“Right then a little'Mouse came by.

‘Oh, I’m hungry. I must hurry and

find something for my dinner,’ he said.



“Right then, Mousie spied little Run-

away Popsy. ,



" ‘Oh, don’t eat me up,” begged Pop-

sy as the Mouse came toward her.

But Mousie did not listen.



"Nibble, nibble, nibble went the lit-

tle Mousie, and that was the last of

Runaway Popsy.”





The Great Escape





Our Weekly Sermon—By N. A. McCune





HE little man in the mud cradle

that we saw last week, whose

mother was so shrewdly loving,

is now a man who has left his cradle

far behind. For forty years he has

lived at the court of the Egyptians,

and has learned the best of their civ-

ilization. ‘ For another forty years he

has dwelt amid the silent places,

spending his days with live stock and

no doubt many of his nights with the

stars. He is eighty now, and ready

for his life work! You eighty-year-

olders, don’t get discouraged. The oth-

er day I read of a Missouri farmer,

109 years of age, who said he was

getting .his farm in shape so that he

could spend his old age without work-

ing and he thought he would be ready

in five or ten years. Moses was not

in a hurry. At eighty he Was ready

for the hardest work of. his life.

In the midst of the vast prepara—





tions of getting, say two million peo- .





ple r e a d y for

moving into agfor:

eign land, Moses

took pains to take

the bones of Jos-

eph along. Joseph

h a d requested

that this be done,

should his nation

ever return to

Canaan. It seems

odd, doesn’t it? Taking the bones of





 





'a man who had been dead so long





that no one living had ever seen him.

But someway the Hebrews felt that in

doing this, they hhd Joseph himseTf

with them, and that they greatly de-

sired. They honored their gret men.

Irbrahain, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, were





 





,recting hand of Omnipotence.

ophy teaches that God, is the world- -





names in America, not because they

represent wealth, or privilege, but be

cause they represent goodness, char-

acter, achievement for the common

good. It is interesting to note the

names that have been added to the

Hall of Fame, in New York. These

persons are all supposed to have done

something worth remembering. You

will find people there who never had

more than a bare competence, all their

life, and some of them not that. But

they each did something—wrote poet-

ry that inspires, or wrought at inven-

tions that would lighten human labor,

or toiled to remove social sins from

society. A people can be judged by

the way they honor their great men.





The Hebrews were not always as care- .





ful about this as they were in the

case of Joseph.





UT let us hasten to the Red Sea!

The nation never forgot what hap—

pened that night! In the centuries to

come they turned longing gyes back

to the hour when Jehovah actually

teak a hand in helping them out. But





'it is curious that at the time they





complained loudly, and they hurled all

manner of uncomplimentary things at

Moses. Close at hand, the affair did

not look so inviting.





How was it done? By natural means,

as we would say. “And Jehovah caus-

ed a. strong east wind all the night,

and made the sea dry land, and the

waters divided.” We modems would

say that the wind blew all night, and

drove the waters back, which would

be true. But the Bible aScribes the





action of the wind directly to Jehovah,





which is also true. Nothing in the

universe takes place except by the di-

Philos-





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No. 52gi— —Grown-up Style. Cut in





sizes 6,10 and 12 years. Size 8 re-

quires 28 yards of 32 or 40—inch mate-

rial with 1%; yard of 27-inch contrast-

mg.



No. 533—Decidedly French. Cut in

sizes 2, ‘4, 6 and 8 years. Size 4 re-

quires 1% yards of 36-inch material





pwith 2% yards of binding.





No. 231—Girls' One-piece Dress. Cut





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





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

8 requires 1%, yards of 32' or 40~inch ,"

material with 55 yard of 27-inch con-

trasting and 1% yards of ruffling.



No. 507—Simple Flared Model. Cut

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

inches bust measure. Size 36 requires

2% yards of 40-inch material.



N0. 512—Plaits are Important. Cut

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

inches bust measure. Size 36 requires

414 yards of 36-inch material with 1/4.

yard of 36-inch contrasting.



No. 504—Boys’ Play Suit. Cut in

sizes 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. Size 4 re—

quires 1 yard of 32-inch plain mate-





 





I

rial, with 1 yard of 32-inch plaid ma-

terial, with 9/8 yard of 36 inch for lin—

ing



No. 505—Att1actiVe Design. Cut in

sizes 10 12.14.16 and 18 years. Size

16 takes 2% yards of 40-inch material .

with 6 yaids of ribbon.



No. 503—Bloomer Dress. Cut in siz-

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

2% yards of 40 inch material with %

yard of 36-inch contrasting.





These patterns can be obtained :

through the Michigan Farmer Patt n ‘

Department, Detroit Michigan, for - .

each. Enclose 130 extra when you

der your pattern, and a copy of,

large Pattern Catalogue Will be

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SET HIcH STANDARD~FOR ‘cows





 





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HE Detroit Creamery Company is



placing the largest herd of dairy

cattle in Michigan in cow testing as-

sociation work. The value of indi-

vidual records of milk .test and feed

consumption have made an especially

strong appeal to thousands or Michi-

gan dairymen, and this same desire

to have more complete information

about their herd of 590 cows, both

pure-bred and grade Holstein and

grade Jerseys and Guernseys, has

caused the Detroit Creamery Company





. herd to be put under production test.





J. E. McVVilliams, manager of the De

troit Creamery Company herd, be—

lieves firmly in record keeping of

production of dairy cows. He said that

:in 1925 every cow had to produce at

least 10,000 pounds of milk, but from

now on each cow must produce at

least 12,000 pounds of milk and have

a good butter-fat test and make a good

y'showing for the feed consumed.





No other cow testing association ex-

ists in the United States, according

to A. C. Baltzer, in charge of cow

testing associations, Michigan State

,College, East Lansing, which is com—

posed of one herd taking a month’s

time to test'by a regularly employed

Cow tester. Michigan dairying is mak-

ing progress in more efficient produc-

tion, and leads in this respect. The

breeders of pure-bred dairy cattle, and

.the owners of grade and pure- -bred

cattle, have no less than four per cent,

(or 32,000 dairy cows in Michigan un-

(der test. These cows averaged 7,259





 





pounds of milk and 292 pounds of but:

ter-fat in 1925. The largest number

of cow testing associations in the his-





by increased sales of alfalfa.

‘Year a secomiyear member or the ‘as- ; ,. -

(societies, Carl P. Hansen, led ‘with an 4

average herd production of 442 pounds

of buttefifat. ‘ Mr Hansen features

home-grown roughages and grains, .

‘ supplemented with commercial protein





 





 





 





 





Present prospects are that those who visit the 1926 State Fair will get a

new vision of Michigan’s agricultural and industrial development, and see

many improvements in the State Fair Grounds, including the splendid new





Agricultural Building now in course of construction.





The photo shows a.





group of prize—winning “doddies” at the I925 Fair.





 





tory of Michigan are active at this

time. There are 113 cow testing as-

sociations operating, testing more than

3,000 dairy herds, totaling more than

32,000 Michigan dairy cows.





TIMOTHY IS BEING ROUTED.





 





HE South-Menominee Cow Testing



Association completed its second

year’s testing, with Roy D. Maxon as

tester, on July 1. The most noticeable

improvement which has been brought

about by this association, is in the

feeding methods. Alfalfa and sweet





 





Keep upB the Milk Flow

By 0. E. Reed





HE average cow usually suffers more from underfeeding during

the summer than during the winter.

when the dairyman depends on June grass for cow pasture.

ing the first few weeks after the cows are





This is especially true

Dur-

turned to pasture, they





 





will usually increase in their milk flow, but as the grass matures

and hot, dry weather comes on, there are times when the cows

actually suffer from the lack of food. When cows are allowed ’00

subsist on scanty rations they will always'decllne in milk.



The reason for this decline in milk flow is usually laid to the

flies and hot weather, but the fact is that the cows are undernour-

ished. The same conditions which cause an increase in the num-

bers of flies also cause the pastures to “dry up” and become unpal-

atable. Hot weather and flies do cause considerable discomfort to

the cattle, but trials have been made and results obtained which

show definitely that these factors have very little influence on milk

production if the cows are properly fed.



More attention should be given to the condition of the pastures

during this seashn, and effort should be made to provide a sufficient

amount of feed to insure the maximum production of milk at the

lowest possible cost. '



When cows once decline in milk flow, it is almost impossible to

bring them back to their normal flow, and cows that are underfed

before they freshen never produce as much as they should during

the following milk period.



Heavy producing cows will always decrease in body weight

when they do not obtain sufficient food. '

produce milk at the expense of their bodies for aconsiderable

time after the food supply has been decreased, but experience

has shown that more food is required to bring them back to their

normal condition than would have been required to maintain them

in good condition.



Perhaps the best way to supplement the native pasture is to

provide temporary pasture, such as sweet clover. Alfalfa will also

make an excellent pasture if properly handled. Other crops have

been used with good results. Heavy producing cows should receive

some grain, regardless of how good the pasture might be, because

they can not consume enough grass to obtain the nutrients they

require.





It is impossible to obtain more milk from cows that are forced





to; gather all their food from dry, short, unpalatable pasture

grasses, than can be obtained by feeding a, ration consisting of only

, a. poor quality of hay during the winter feeding season.-





Profitable milk production can only be obtained by feeding the;

cow all she requires at the best and most economical food at all, 7





seasons of the year.





 





 





They». will continue to '





feeds. The association has reorgan-

ized for its third year’swork.





' FATHER A‘DVISES ON HOW TO

KEEP THE BOY INTERESTED.





E have the following communi-



cation from J. G. Taylor, of lonia

county, on his method of Jinteresting

the son in the live stock business. He

writes: ‘fIn 1917 my son, a. high school

boy, invested $48 in a trio of Poland

Chinas. He adopted the maximum of

growing into the business and of

breeding your own good ones. He

later bought higher-priced stock and

bred better ones. He did very little

advertising of his surplus animals

until the present season. He is now

geing to the western hog belt for new

blood. I am now merely a silent part-

ner in the business. All records are

kept in the name of the son, so if

something should happen to me, no

probate proceedings will hamper the

boy in carrying on. I can recommend

the plan to fathers who would like

the help of the sons on the farm.”





BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS

DEC-LIN as.





NCOURAGING results in the na-

tion-wide effort to eradicate tuberh

culosis of live stock are shown by a

survey just completed by the Federal





Bureau of~\Animal Industry in cooper- ‘





ation with state ,live stock sanitary

'oflicials.



Compilations based on more than

10,000,000 official tests show a. decline

in the' prevalence of the disease





among cattle,. from four per cent in"





1922, to ‘2.8 per cent on May 1, 1926..

Results of the new survey are espe-





’ cially valuable to the federal and





1 state eradication forces in serving as





 





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a basis for proceeding with future

work. The estimates were made on

a county-unit basis and it is now pos-

sible to judge with reasonable accu-





racy the approximate number of die-.





eased cattle in all parts of the country.

In spite of the encouraging trend

of eradication work, specialists of the

bureau of animal industry point out,

the situation is still serious in remain-

ing areas, in some portions of which

the average degree of infection ex-

c’eeds twenty per dent of the cattle.

Estimates show, also, that even with

the reduced per cent of tuberculous

animals; compared with four“

there are still





       





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’.
ed.

Coincident with the decline of tu-





berculosis among cattle, beginning in p

‘ tached, is" made each year so that ev-





1922, the same disease among swine,

as shown by federal meat-inspection

records, ceased to increase as it had

done during the previous fifteen years.

For two years after 1922, infection

among swine remained about at a

standstill, and in 1925 showed a no-

ticeable decline. Since the transmis-

sibility of bovine infection to swine is

well established, the veterinary spe-

cialists in the bureau of animal in-

dustry confidently expect further re-

ductions of swine tuberculosis if in-

fection among cattle can be still

further decreased.



Tuberculosis of fowls is likewise re-

ceiving attention in many localities. A

map showing the extent and degree of

infection indicates that the disease

among fowls is most prevalent in the

north central states.





 





CALF cLuss AID ~IN MP'UTTING ON

CATTLE 3Ho_w.





 





W0 calf clubs, -organized this



spring, with a. membership of

twenty-eight, each member owning a

pure- -bred Jersey, will unite with the

Breeders’ Association at two local Jer-

sey cattle shows. The first at Barry-

‘ ton, Mecosta county, on August 3, the

second ~at Palmer School House in

Hinton township, on" August 4.



Messrs. Morley and Dennis, of the

American Jersey Cattle Club, will ad-

dress both meetings. Premiums have

been provided by the banks and mer-

change and a fine program of music

and readings arranged. Picnic din-

ner.—-E. E. Twing.





 





OCEANA JERSEY BREEDE‘RS TO

STAGE SHOW.





HE Oceana County Jersey Cattle



Club announces that it will stage

a show of Jersey cattle in conjunction

with its’annual Jersey picnic and get-

together at the Hart Fair Grounds on

Friday, August 6.



Alfred Henriekson and Floyd C.

Shermand, of Hart, together with Sam-

uel Odell, ‘of Shelby, constitute the

show committee of the Jersey Club.

.These men are now busy completing

plans for the show, and they plan to'

pick thezcounty’s best show animals

from the various Jersey herds on Fri"

day of. this week. These animals Will

compete at the County Jersey Show

on August 6, and the best of them will

be used Ito make up a county herd of

twelve animals to exhibit at the Mich-

igan State Fair at Detroit. It is ex-

pected that Jersey enthusiasts li‘ ing

as far as 100 miles north and sOuth

of Oceana will be ,present to discover

for themselves whether Oceana’s Jer-

seys measure up to “their reputation.

---e. H. Hemstreet.





 





GRADE COWS AT THE NATIONAL

DAIRY EXPOSITION.





T HE dairy cow that must be

brought to a higher order of effi-

ciency is the average grade cow that

furnishes the great bulk of the milk

for the 117,000,000 consumers of the

United States. Just what per cent of

the cow population of the country she

makes is problematical but the fact

remains that in her present state of

inefficiency she is more or less a men-

ace. to 'all of her sisters that rate

above federal census figures in butter-

. fat production. A well~behaved, heal-

thy- upstanding cow that oats and

drinks regularly, and then returns as

much milk as will pay her owner for

the feed, labor and good care expend-





ed on her, winter and summer, does .





not deserve to be put in a position of

working in competition with the scrub





" producers.





sire to get





 





An exhibit of grade Cows-

trom.cow;test associations, with their

health and production certificates at-





eryone who attends may be shown

how he can own the best com for no

more money than he has now investad





in his herd, and thus turn his losses ,





into a profit. This can be done so

easily that it is not a question of mon-

ey as muc as of ambition, and a de-

etter returns from labor.

Dairymen ' who already hatre good

cows can get better ones on the same

terms as the dairyman who knows he

wants good cows, but is afraid he

can’t afford them.





Visitors will see the best way to

market cream and milk as well as how

to improve their herd. The annual

National Dairy Exposition is the mir-

ror of the dairy industry—it reflects

everything that is being done for the

betterment of dairying. Progressive

dairymen who want to improve their

business are planning now to attend

the exposition at Detroit, October 6

to 13.——W. E. Skinner.





 





AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL BUILDS

SEPTIC TANK FORMS.





T HE Menominee Agricultural School



has built a set of movable forms

for the use of Menominee county farm

folks in' constructing septic tanks.

The forms are the type developed by

the Agricultural Engineering Depart-

ment of the Michigan State College,

and will be loaned free of charge to

anyone wishing to use them.





/





TH E GREAT ESCAPE.





(Continued from page 97).

ground. “All things were made by

Him.”



So, the wind blew, because God

made it, althouthery natural causes

may have been the immediate agents.

It is said that this same thing has

taken place in other arms of the sea,

very much as it did on this occasion.

Space forbids enlarging on this.



The waters went back, the fleeing

nation went through!



But how human they were, with

their weeping and wailing! “Because

there were no graves in Egypt, hast

thou taken us away to die in the wil-

derness ?” Contrast this with the first

of the next chapter—“Then sang '* "

the ‘children of Israel this song unto

Jehovah, and spake saying, ‘I will sing

unto Jehovah, for he hath triumphed

gloriously, the horse and his rider

hath he thrown into the sea,’.” I sus-

pect they were somewhat ashamed of

their attitude of a few hours before.

Why the difference between them and

their leader? While they were in a

state of stampede He said to them,





“Fear ye not, stand still and see the .





salvation of Jehovah, which He will

work for you today, for the Egyptians

whom ye have seen today, ye shall see

them again no more for ever.” Why

the difference in attitude? Moses had

what is called faith, without which

nothing Worthy can—be accomplished.

A scientist defines faith: “Faith is

harmony with God, working with Him,

thinking with Him, feeling with Him.”

To have faith, then, get to know God

better. .



During the Civil War, Richard

Yates, governor of Illinois, became

alarmed over the victories of the Con-

federate armies, and wired Lincoln.

The President telegraphed back:

“Dear Dick, see Exodus 1,4—13—Fear ye

not, stand still, and see the salvation

of the Lord—Lincoln.”





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custom SCHOOL LESSON FOR

AUGUST 1.





SUBJECT: e—The DeliVeraice at the





Red Sea. Exodus 13:17 to 22, and ‘

r 14' 10 to 16. '-.





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White Leghcms. 8c} Brown and Bud Leghorn. 90':

Barred Rocks. White Rocks. 8. 0. Beds. Ancomu.

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wns, White Wyandottes. 12c: mixed chicks. 8c:





heavy mixed chicks. 100.

Silver Lake Hatchery. Box M. Silver Lake. Ind.





BREEDERS’ 0|REC'I'0RY

F 0 R S A L E





Four young Guernsey bulls: one fifteen months old:



2 about eight months: one four months; three of them



have AR dams. F. E. ROBSON. Room 303. M. C.



R. R. Depot Building, Detroit, Mich.



FOR practically pure-bred GUERNSEY or HOL-

STEIN calves. from heavy. rich milkel's.



writs EDBEWOOD DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater, Win.





 





 





 





 





 





I ' Dairy Heifer Calves, Practically

Guernsey Pure-bred. 8 weeks old. We ship

C. 0. D. Write L. Terwillioer. Wauwatosa. WII.





 





P RACTICALLY purebred Guernsey heifer calves—

the heavy milking kind—eight weeks old. .320 each.

NORMAN B. MEYER. Maple Plain, Minn.





 





 





ANOTHER REAL BARGAIN





This week' we are offering Genesee Prince

Echo Sylvia. a 6—year-old Bull that has been

in service in the Ionia State Hospital herd

during the past three years.



His sire is Echo Sylvia King Model.



His dam is a 23—lb. Jr. 2-year-old daughter

of a 32-lb. cow with a 933-lb. 305—day record.

and her dam is a 34—lb. cow with a 365‘day

record of 1.123 lbs. butter.





A sire backed by real production and a good

individual. $200 at Ionia.

Bureau of





Animal Industry

Dept. C





Lansing, Michigan





HATE Him





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BUY A PURE-BRED

B U L L





We offer typy young bulls. sired by two of the lead-

ing sizes of the Holstein breed. and out of advanced

registry record dams. at very low prices. We are

fully accredited and free from disease. Write for

extended pedigrees and pictures. .





Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich.





2 9

Tuscola Co. Holstem Breeders Assn.

offer a car load of exceptionally good registered H -

stein heifers, past two years old. and due to fresh n

this fall. Come quick and get first choice of any

number desired at a bargain. BEN REAVEY. Sales

Manager, Akron. Mich.





$ 4 0 o buys five registered Holstein heifers. one

and two years old. from A. R. 0. stock.

FRANK REYNOLDS, Lakeylew. Mich.





HEREFORD STEERS





so Wt. 220111169266 Wt. around 800 lbs.

80 Wt. around 7361 lbs. 82 Wt. around 660 lbs.

88 Wt. around 500 lbs. 48 Wt. amnd 500 lbs.

Good quality. dark reds. ashamed. well marked Have-



onlSteers. Goodstocker order. The best type. are

usually market toppers when finished. Will sell your

choice of any





Van D. Baldwin, Eldon,Wapelle 0)., low.





 





 





 





 





1500!! (Bulls from B. can. Chance.”

trauma". Sanctum; I'M

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ready for service. and

bull calvm. for sale

of M. dams accredited herd. SMITH I".

PARKER. Howell, Mich.





Choice Jersey Bulls





 





Davison, Michigan Breed-

ers of I’ure— bred Shorthom



Two extra good. dark roan yearling bulls, '01

very reasonably priced. Alex Bruce, Herdsmnh.





Shorthorn Red Roan Cattle





five cows, 3. heifer, and one young bull. Priced right

to close out. (‘ome and see them. IRA W. JAYNE

FARM. one mile south of Fenton. Mich.

A few choice young SHORTHORN

FOR SALE BULLS sired by a son of Maxwel-

mn Monarch. Write H. B PETERS. Garland. Mich

REGISTERED SHUIITIIIIRIIS ””1““ "”1“ 3°“

s.ox All ages. EL-

MER WESTBROOK, Crouwell, Michigan.

Best of quality and breeding. Bulls,

Shorthoms cows and heifers for sale. BIDWELL.

STOCK FARM. Box D. Tuumeeh. Mich.





Davison EsIaIe Farms

Cattle

sale,





 





 





 





 





 





for sale. Write or sol

them. Visitors welcome.

Manchester. MIch.





Brown Swiss Bulls

A. A. FELDKAMP.





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' ‘ HOGS





 





A few choice fall beers with the ridit

DUTOCJCTSGYS type, quality. and breeding g. . .

DRODT. Monroe, Mich.





 





Large. growthy fall gilts. duo



Duroc Jerseys last of August. for sale. Spring



boars. JESSE BLISS 81 SON, Henderson. Mlch.

Stool: of all ages for





BIG TYPE CHESTER WHIIES 3,1,, 51,... 1,, ohm.





pious, bred from Champions MAPLE HILL STOCK

FARM. Rt. 2. Can City. Mich.





 





 





l0 TYPE CHESTER WHITE SPRING OILTS.

bred sows and fall boars with size. type and

quality. LUCIAN HI’LL. Union City. Mich.





O. l. C’s. 15 Choice 2 Mo. Old Bears





CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe. Mich.





 





 





Type Poland Chinas.

now booking inquirim for fall pigs.

JAS. G. TAYLOR. Balding. Mich.





that have size with

B. T P C Spring Pigs QUALITY. See us

at the Fairs. GEO. W. NEEDHAM. Saline. Mloh.





Biglm Poland Chinas whit? ti... “Tints." 2’2:

CLARK, Breckenridge, Mich.





 





 





 





Large Type PoIand Chinas 33.33. 31.; $3351.15

too late. .IAS. G. TAYLOR, Balding, Mich.





 





 





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B REEDING EWES, for sale in cox-lots. 500 gotil.

young Delainc ewes. also 200 black Faced ewes.

Telegraph address Rockwood. Mich. Postal address.

South Rockwood. ALMOND B. CHAPMAN O. SON.





F O R S A L E 500 swaying) Deiainwreedm





hu

cent lamb crop. CAL STONER, ClInton, Mich.





 





 





for sale. 200 each month. Shrop-

shire. Hampshire grades and cross-





Breeding Ewes





 





breds. All yearlings. V. B. Furnlu, Nashville. Mich.

For Shropshire Yearling Rams “723’ 3,:





ARMSTRONG BROS.. R. No. 3, Fowlerville. Mich.

all recorded sent on apilrmval: Cotswolds.



Sheep'l‘unis. Lincolns. Karakul and



shires. L. R. Kuney. 648 Madison St, Adrian. Mich.





 





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" .jGRAIN QUOTATIONS





Tuesday, July 27.

_ Wheat. , ‘

Detroit.—-—No. 2 white $1.44; No. 2

red, $1.42; No. 2 mixed $1.43.

..,/' Chicago—July at $1.427/3; Sept. at

$14158; Dec. $1.46.

To edo.——Wheat $1.401/2.

- Corn.

' Detroit—No. 2 yellow at 8%; No. 3





yellow at 88c; No. 4 yellow 850;"No.

5 yellow 750.





Chicago.——July 7914c; Sept. 860;



Dec. 883/80. .



Oats.



3 Benoit—No. 2 Michigan at 480; No.

, c. '

Chicago—July 413/10; Sept. 440;



Dec. 46%0.



Rye.





Detroit—No. 3.



Chicago—July $1.04 '73

Dec. $1.10%.



Toledo—Rye $1.08.





Beans.





$1.10.

; Sept. $1.063/s;





Detroit—Immediate and prompt

shipment $4.20.

"Chicago.~Spot Navy, Mich. fancy





hand—picked at $4.65 per cwt; red kid-

neys $8.75.



New York.— Pea domestic $4.50@

4.75; red kidneys $8.75@9.00.





Barley.

Malting 75c; feeding 680.

Seeds.





’ Detroit—Cash red clover at $22;

fiuggist alsike $15.50; August timothy





Hay

Detroit—No. 1

standard $22.50;

mixed $22@23;

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

straw $13; rye straw $14.





Feeds





Detroit—Bran at $30@32; standard

middlings at $31; fine middlings $36;

cracked corn $34; coarse cornmeal at

$33; chop $32 per ton in carlots.





WHEAT





Rains over western Canada and

parts of the domestic wheat belt, a

let up in flour trade, limited export

sales and continued heavy primary

receipts gave wheat prices a down—

ward trend in the past week. While

the market may remain weak for a

while, both domestic and world con—

ditions appear strong enough to sup—

port higher prices eventually. Re-

serves are below normal.





 





Export sales are not as brisk 'as was '





hoped for by the time milling demand

slackened. But, actual clearances, not

including flour, in the week ending

July 17 were 5,258,000 bushels, and





prospects of making a big dent in our '





exportable surplus in the next two

months appear favorable. Wheat sup—

plies will have to be imported intolEu-

rope right along.





CORN





The recent rise in corn prices was

a remarkable affair as three—fourths of

the decline during the preceding Six

months were regained in fifteen bus1-

ness days. A crop scare provided the

argument for a bull move and_at—

tracted enormous speculative buying.

Recent hot weather has undoubtedly

done great damage to corn from Neb-

raska, northward, but it has forced

rapid growth elsewhere, enabling the

crop to make up for lost time due to

late planting and low temperatures





previously.

OATS 7





Oats prices have responded mildly

to the strength in corn. Some dam-

age has been done by extreme heat

and drouth in the northwest, but for

the country as a whole, the crop is

probably about the same as on July .1.

New cats are coming to market in



. larger quantities each week and the

commercial demand remains slow.





- FEEDS





The feed market has advanced since



. smaller flour demand is restricting the

‘ ,output of wheatfeeds which are of-

u:..'fered sparingly. A more active _dee_

”mend from consumers is developing.





RYE -



Clearance of rye for export has

”shown a decided increase in the last



" 1th weeks and new rye is not moving





"in large amounts as yet, sothat stocks »





i - .atteijminals have decreased. Reports





   





 

 





on the uropean rye crop continue

unfavora is, although Poland is said

to be offering for export at ,lower

prices than ours. Rye prices have

gained considerably\on wheat in the

last month or six weeks, but the dis-

count will probably be reduced still





further.

SEEDS





In between season dullness contin-

ues. to prevail in the seed market.

Retail sales during the spring season

of sweet clover, alfalfa, millet, sorgos

and sudan grass were considerably

larger than a. year agoL but high prices

kept sales of red clover, alsike, tim-

othy and redtop smaller than in the

spring of 1925. A big fall demand for

timothy is expected particularly if the

acreage of winter wheat is increased.





HAY





Poor prospects for the crop of tame





’hay and short pastures in many areas





where hot dry weather has prevailed

keep hay prices in a firm position.

Some of the dairy -districts in the

north, which will be forced to buy

hay this year, are already looking

around for supplies while prices are

still on a low basis.





BEANS .





While the bean crop is a little late,

there is a fairly good stand over the

bean district of the state as a whole.

Some fields are grassy and in a few

districts, it was necessary to reseed on

account of the maggot working "in the

young plants. The acreage is now

about as large as that harvested in

1925, which seems to promise for this

year a crop of smaller dimensions, and

prices took on a little advance last

week as the result. '





POULTRY AND EGGS





Production of fresh eggs remains

considerably larger than at the cor-

responding time last season accord-

ing to receipts at the large distribu-

ting markets. The end of the storing

season is at hand and the entire fresh

production will have to be consumed

so that dealers are interested in keep-

ing prices low enough to attract con-

sumers. Within a month withdrawals

from storage probably will be neces-

sary to supply the demand and a

gradually rising market for fresh eggs

is to be expected.



Chicago—Fresh firsts, 2755c; ex-

tras, 28@28%c; ordinary firsts, 260;

miscellaneous, 26%0; dirties, 22@24c;





 





CHICAGO





Hogs.



Receipts 21,000. Market on good

weight steady; few light weight 25c

higher; early pigs in very narrow de-

mand. 160-170 lb. average $13.50@

13.85; 180—lb. average held higher;

bulk butcher average 250-300. lb.

mostly $12.50@13.00; extreme weighty

butchers to $12.45; packing ‘sows

$10.40@10.90; light weight to packers

up to $11.00'and above.



Cattle. _



Receipts 11,000. Market on steers

down; few steers weak to 25c lower.

A liberal supply of vealers; best year-

lings and medium weight $10.10;

heavies $9.85; vealers $13.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 18,000. Market on fat

lambs 25c lower. Natives largely un-

sold; early natives $11@11.65 to pack-

‘ers; few $11.75; bulk natives $12.75@

14.00; sheep steady; fat ewes $5.50@

7.00; few sales $7.25; California, fat

lambs 57-lb. $13.50@13.65, steady; 72-

lb. kind $‘13.@13-.25, steady





DETROIT





' Cattle.





Receipts 357. Market steady. -

Good to choice yearlings..$ 9.50@10.25

Best heavy steers, dry-fed 8.5 @ 9.25

Handy weight butchers . . .

Mixed steers and heifers

Handy lightbutchers . . . .,

Lightlights'. . . . . .

Best cows 00"It’lO’COI‘ICl

Butcher cows ........r.

cutteps ..“.-.'r...-.o.o-.io.





~Canner3 Ioeooo’ooo‘tiol’oo.ve





Live Stock Market ~"Service





Tuesday, July 27.





‘ Receipts 250 :7





. \





checks, 22@24c. \. Live you try, hens





24c; broilers, 29c; sprin ers, 32c;

roosters, 18¢; ducks, 26c; geese, 16c;

turkeys, 26c. ~ ,



Detroit—Fresh candled and graded,

28@29%c, Live poultry, broilers 400;

heavy hens, 27c; light hens, 22c;

roosters, 180; ducks, 28c.





BUTTER





The butter market showed unex-

pected‘ strength in the past week" al-

though - markets are more liberally

supplied than at this time a year ago.

Dealers expect. prdduction to show a





steady-drop from now on particularly-





in view of the generally poor condi-

tion of pastures. Storage holdings of

butter are of record size for this time

of year.

were: Chicago 3854c; New York 410;

Boston 410; Philadelphia 42c. '





CHEESE





The cheese market remains steady»





although trading is quiet and supplies

at leading markets are liberal. South-

ern demand for cheese is very dull and

will not become active until cool

weather appears.





POTATOES





The potato market continues to de-

cline under the press of abundant sup-

plies. Prices both at shipping points

and in the large distributing markets

are lower than at this time ayear ago,

although prices to producers in June

averaged higher than in June, 1925.





PEACHES





Peaches are plentiful as hot

weather has hastened the ripening of

the fruit. Growers in Georgia are

holding back peaches in an effort to

prevent glutted markets and much

lower prices. The market continues

to slip with'Elbertas, U. S. No. 1

mostly $2.25 per bushel basket at Chi-





cago. ,

APPLES





The demand for early apples has

failed to improve and prices are low.

Quality is irregular with small Sizes

predominating in the offerings. Illi-

nois Transparents No. 1* large size are

offered at $1 to $1.25 per bushel at





Chicago.

WOOL





Wool markets are more quiet than

two or three weeks back, but prices

are holding their recent advance.





‘ .





Choice light bulls





6.00@ 6.50

Bologna bulls . . . . . . . . . 5.50@ 6.25

Stock bulls ............. 5.00@ 5.50

Feeders ..... . . . . . 6.00@ 6.75

Stockers ................ 5.25 , 6.25

Milkers and springers. . .$55.00§D$~100





Veal Calves.





Receipts 382. Market steady.

Best ..........

Others ................... 4.00@13.00





‘ Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts 152. Market steady. '

t $14.00@14.50





Bes ...... . .............

Fair lambs ....... . . . . 12.00@13.00

Light and common . . . . . . 9.00@ 11.00

Yearlings .......... . . . . 7.50@13.50

Fair to good sheep ...... 6.00@ 7.00

Culls and common . . . . . . 2.00@ 4.00

Hogs. 7



Receipts 67 0. Market steady. ,

Mixed ................ . . 14.35

Roughs .................. 10.25

Stags . .. .. ....... . ........ 8.00@ 8.50

Heavies .. . . . . . ........... 12.25@12.75

Pigs too-oooeoooocoonon .- 14.25



BUFFALO; _

, , Hogs. 7

“ Receipts 400. Market closing





steady; 'weig ty grade slow; heavies

$12.25@13.50,; medium $13.75@14.50;

light ’weight $14.50@14.75; one 10 d





$14.85; light lights and pigs $14.5 ;‘

packing sowsia‘i‘id roughs $10.50. '





.‘ Cattle. ‘ '

Receipts 225. Market slow. .





Sheen] _ ' _,

Ewes .$5@.7.~50.~ ;

600‘ 1





Prices on 92score creamery _





$14.00@14.50,





 

 





 





Pressure from, the new clip has lee?

sened, 6385 per cent of it, or more..-

has been sold or consigned. by growth ’ »

ers. -In parts of the far west, the

cleanup . as quite complete. - "

growers are , receiving ‘40. cents to; ‘

best .delaines and 27 to 38 cents for '

medium clips. 7 At Boston, 34 blood

wool is sellingmost freely. _ Prices at

the Londonsales have-held quite well

lik-view of the effect of the coal strike

on the British » industrial situation,

and the declinefiin French exchange.

With no pressure frOm the new clip

in the southernihemisphere until Sep-

tember, a firm market is probable‘

through the rest of the summer. »The

recent opening Von/light weight goods

has not resulted in enoughof a rush

of orders to stirriulate demand for

wool but a fair volume will be needed .

Egg mills and stocks are nowhere ex- -

5 ve. . * _ ‘





DETRIOT CITY MARKET





Last Saturday morning’s markets

were the largest of the season. Buy-

ing made up in a measure for the dull-

ness wh‘ich prevailed most of the

week. Good tomatoes were compara-





 





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MARKETS BY RADIO.

DAILY market reports and

weather forecasts may be

obtalned each week day from

the following Michigan stations:

WKAR—Mlchlgan State Col-

lege, 12:00 noon.

' WCX—Detroit Free Press, at'

2:15 P. M.

WWJ—Detrolt News, 10:25 A.

M., 12:00 noon, 4:00 P. M. ,

WGHP—sGeo. Harrison Phelps,

7:00 P. M.





 





 





 





 





tively scarce and a few 14-lb baskets

of fancy ones brought as high as $4.50

each. Spinach cleaned up at $2.00@

2.25 a bushel, but early sales were at

lower figures. There was a fair

amount of sweet corn Offered, but the

demand for it was not very brisk at —

the prices asked, 40@500 dozen. .





Cherries found a ready market at

$5.50@6.00 a case, while the call for

raspberries was lighter. Reds dropped

to $8.00@8.50 a casefi'while most

blacks sold for $66.00 a. case. Huckl-

berries ranged from $6.50@8.00 a case,

and a few blackberries were retailed

at 25@30c a quart. Good ‘currants

were easy sellers but the number of

gooseberries wanted was small.





First» class beans found ready sale

but many were old and poor quality

with prices low. Peas brought up'to

$2.50 a: bushel. Round radishes were

quick sellers .at $1.00@1.20 a. dozen

bunches, and there was a good de-

mand for other bunched stuff. Celery

was plentiful and in fair demand.

Mustard and turnips were scarce and

advanced to $1.50 a bu. Other greens

however were snapped up at $10.00 a-

bushel, and cucumbers at $4.00 a.

bushel. Live poultry enjoyed a good

retail demand and buyers took a fair

number of eggs. New potatoes, $1.25





@1.75

LAMB MARKET RALLIES.





 





After dropping to a new low for the

season, lamb prices have had a mod-

est rally in the last few days. Best

western lambs are bringing ‘ $15 at

\ Chicago, With choice natives at $14.75.

Receipts are due to increase sharply "

in the next two months, but most of

the gain in numbers will consist of

feeder lambs. The recént break car-

ried fat lamb prices about $1 below

the level of last summer and fall, so

that the market may be able to with-

stand the. gain in supplies of finished

lambs Without muc more decline.

Supplies in the last three weeks have

been about the same as a year pre-

vious. To what extent dry weather

over, the northWest _ Will reduce the

number of fat lambs to arrive remains

problematical, , f " " '—





 





~ The salesman had aye hogtied;

. he could: hardly emanates '1‘ “

pea—bolus to muons ;_
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. fully caught up.





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" cilimtwntqéfi‘ ‘0 "y ‘ There was

per cen , or , “a res. ,

‘ a decrease in: ‘ sins, . ew York, Ohio;





and Minnesota... Nebraska maintained

the same'. acreage. v There was a- con-

siderable increase in 'Idaho, Washing-

ton and- Oregon, and 'a‘ten per cent

increase in WiscOnsin. Michigan ranks

third in acreage, Minnesota being first

and New York second. Thedecmase

in New York was 17,000, and in Min-

nesota, 8,000," while the increase in

Michigan was 12,000, making a net do-

or so of 13,000 in the three leading

sta es, according to a statement is-

sued» by L. Whitney Watkins, commis-

sioner of agriculture, and Verne





Church, U. S. agricultural statistician, a





for Michigan.

The forecast of production, based

on the July 1 condition, was 334,044,-

000bushels. This is 'a

than 11,000,000 bushels over last year,

and approximately 60,000,000 bushels

less than the country'snormal require-

ments. ' However, the condition as re-

ported was six per cent below the av-

erage, and favorable weather for the

balance of the season might bring the

production up to normal or above, but,

with an acreage that is much below

normal, and” less than in any recent

year except 1925, it is improbable that

any surplus will be grown this year,

even under the most favorable condi-

tiOns.





1





___,__—————————‘





THE BEAN OUTLOOK.





 





THE preliminary estimate of the

acreage of beans planted in MlCh-

igan this year is,614,000, which is

the same as that of last year after the

acreage 'not harvested last fall was

deducted. All of the other leading

bean-growing states report an increas-

ed area except-Idaho. The prinmpal

increases were in Colorado, New Mex-

ico and California. The Pinto is the

leading variety in Colorado and New

Mexico, and the increase in those

states Will have little effect on the

white bean situation. As California

grows many other than white beans,

it is probable that only a portion, if

any, of the increase there is of the

white varieties. The estimated pro-

duction in the six leading states is

only 740,000 bushels more than .

final report for last year. There is a

considerable increase in the percent-

age of colored varieties planted this

year in Michigan, and in some of the

other states, hence the crop of white

beans may be even less than last

year's, unless there should be a decid-

ed improvement in condition later in

the season, according to a statement

issued by L. Whitney Watkins, com-

missioner of agriculture, and Verne H.

Church, U. S. agricultural statistician

for Michigan. -



The Michigan crop suffered some

damage from heavy ,rains in eastern

counties, and from high winds on light

soils. In addition, much injury was

caused by maggots and cutworms.

Much replanting, had to be done, and

many stands are uneven as the result.

On the other hand, there are many

excellent stands. The average condi-

tion for the state on July 1 was 73 per

cent. This is nine per 5cent lower

than one year ago, and 14 per cent

finger the ten-year average for that



a e. , .





 





COUNTY cnop REPORTS.





Alpena County.—About Hillman, hay

is a light crop. Spring crops are look-

ing fairly well, but a little late. Cattle

and sheep are in good condition. Help.

is scarce. Butter-fat brings 390; eggs

30c. Fruit was damaged by the frost.

Wool brings 400.—J. B. L.



Isabella County.~—Farmers are pro-

gressing with their haying and the

crop is a very fair one, Wheat is

looking good. Sugar beets promise to

be a full crop. The condensory is

paying $2.00 per hundred Weight for

milk. Corn is small and needs rain.

Spring pigs are a. light crop. Pastures

are. good—J. M. N 7 »



Ingham Dou'nty.——Farm work is not

owing to the late

Help “is scarce. The wheat





spring. ‘

and hay crops are a little short. Oats





are fair; beans and corn small. Dairy 11





cattle are looking good. _ Wool brings

38 cents. .Fruit outlook is good. The

farmers who have good cows are 0.

K.——A. H. C. ‘



Barry County.——Farmers are busy

cultivating corn and potatoes, and hay-

ing. The potato crop is looking- fine.

Recent hot weather has been helpful

to the corn Crop. Wheat is good. The





meadows, are getting dry, and cattle





“feed isshort. The lamb and pig'erops '

. were about an average. Strawberries





 

 





 





a to r prep. Cherries seem

le‘s will be «about.





1“ ' tle over. two 7





. '1" ,' was...

algkinfds‘ plgngllul.+linw.





'. ‘Beri‘ien Gounty.—.——There is 'no extra ‘





”help to be had. >Wheat prospects are

excellent. Meadows have'made a good

grewth, and hayis nearly all made.

Lots “of pasture, and cows are doing.

.well. Corn is backward. Some pep.

permint fields are very fine and" some

are not so good—C. A. C. ,



Otsego County.——There is plenty of

help here. Wheat and rye fields look

good, but are late. ,Hay was never

better. Potatoes are fine, but corn is

not very promising. Some fields are

being summer-fallowed. Dairying is

prosperous and growing. Live stock

is .fine; but no sheep. Wild berries

re 0. K., but very little tame fruit.

——S. J. L.



Onondaga County.——Crops are all

planted; corn very small; oats fair;

hay a light crop; Wheat and rye very

poor, except some early sown. There

is not as large an acreage of beans

planted this year and a great many

poor stands, due to hard rains.———R.





Shiawassee County.——Work on farms.

is fairly well up with the season. Hard

to get extra help. Wheat shows an

average prospect, but some Wheat

shows rust. Rye acreage is small.

Oats and barley yield is uncertain, the

stand is short on the ground. Beans

are looking good. Haying' is fairly

well

Live stock is doing well. Wool crop

is not moving. Fruit bids to be a fair

crop—C. E. G.



St. Joseph County..—-Farmers are

very busy. Haying about completed.

Some fields of wheat are in shock.

rCorn very small for middle of July.

Help is very scarce. The wheat yield

will be about normal. Oats promise a

good crop, and potatoes look fine.

Dairying is on the increase. Live stock

is in splendid condition. Pastures are

good. Wool brings 380. Apples, peach-

es, plums, and pears promise a big

crop. Spraying was well taken care

ofthis spring—H. C. S.



ttawa County.—Season is about

three weeks late. Wheat harvest be-

gan about the twentieth. Corn is very

backward. Very little extra help. Hay

is below the average, due largely to

new seeding being burnt up last year.

Oats look best in years, and will be





9 ready to cut as soon as wheat is har-





vested. Pasture is dried up and many

of us are using grain and silage. Milk

brings.$1.75 per, cwt. Cows are good

price and scarce. Apple crop will be

light; other fruit crops fair.——F. C. H

Newaygo County.——The outlook for

corn is a little diheouraging. i’I‘he hay

crop is good for this locality. Beans

are rather a poor stand owing to poor

germination of the seed, although

some fields are looking fine. A' large

acreage was planted. Wheat and rye

will average with other seasons. Help

is very scarce. No cherries to speak

of. Apples, plums, pears and peaches

are about 80 per cent of a crop. Cream

brings 400. It has been dry here for

some time—S. A

‘ Ontonagon County.-——We have plenty

of labor in this part of the state, but

the men do not care about working on

farms. The season has been rather

cold and backward until lately. Eggs

bring 300; butter 33c.





\.





 





VETERINARY.





Intestinal Parasites.—I have a pup

about six months old. At times he

will act very wild, running around

and barking for about two minutes,

and then he will be all right again.

B. C.—~‘Withhold food for twelve hours,

then give four grains of santonin in





“liv '. Water,

. giving.

. .weeks.





 





along with old meadows light. .





 

 

 





31...... pm ‘ mwarm

any fire that“ .ghly ’me

Repeat the treatment in hree





Abnormal Appetite.—-—My whole herd

of twelve cows, when turned out, chew

old dry bones, rotten wood, rags, and

paper. Could you tell me the cause

and a cure? I have been feeding sil-

age twice a, day, feed no grain except

the corn in the silage, feed alfalfa and

timothy and clover hay. Am feeding

a stock tonic and plenty of salt. R.

C.—This is usually due to a lack of

the right kind of feed, which would

contain the elements which the cow’s

system needs. Try feeding a regular

dairy ration, also give one tablespoon-

ful of equal parts of finely ground

bone meal and salt. '





 





 





CLEAN on A BOGSPAVIN





or thoroughpin promptly with

Absorbine. It is penetrating but

does not blister not remove the





 

 





 

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

   





 

 





 





   





 





 





 





 





 





hair. You can work the horse at

or postpaid. Describe your case

' for special instructions. Write

* A user writes: "Had one horse with

.’ , bogspavin on both hind legs. One bot.-

{\ now going sound and well." '

AB, NE

t. Irin

My items fit all of you. Salesman aver-

ages $1.00 profit for every] dealer called

makes $1.50 on $2.00 invested. Salesman

makes $1.00. If you are a Salesman or wish

in your life I will tell you how to make

better than $100.00 a week. (Address)

Mansfield, Ohio

PetOSke Lim stone

e





the same time.$2.50:t druggists,



for valuable horse book 4—S free.



a tie Absorbine cleaned them off. Horse



RADEMARK Houseman.



Salesman, Salosladies and Retail merchant.

on. Costs dealer $2.00, he sells for $3.50

to become one. If you never sold any thing

G E O. L. L A N E,

Highest Test—--Low Price





 





Chemical Analysis:

Calcium Carbonate 94.14%

Magnesium Carbonate 2.15%





Total Lime Carbonates 96.29%

Ask Your Dealer or Write for Sample





and Literature.





C. B; KNAPPEN,





General Sales Agent, Southern Michigan

Richland, Mich.





Heaven, Coughs. Condition-

er, Worms. 4 Most for coal.

Two can: satisfactory fol

Heaven or money back. 81.2.

pet can. Deniers or by mail.

The Newton Remedy 0..

Toledo. Ohio.





WOOL BED BLANKETS & BATTING





We are now equipped to manufacture your virgin wool

into bed blankets and batting at moderate cost to

you. Custom work a speciality. Give us a trial. Wont

Unity Woollen Milli. I08 Lynn 8L, Wait Unity, Ohio.

E Eta—Small consignments from



$859 producers in your territory bring



very attractive prices NOW. Prompt re-





turns always. Refer to Dun or Bradstreet.

your next case. ZENITH BUT-





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one ounce of castor oil. Warm the





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REAL ESTATE .



EIGHT?” ACRE DAIRY AND GRAIN FARM. five



miles Milan. level, «best sugar beet. . corn, alfalfa,



. 12 cows, silo. Interest in- silo filler. mid .100 month





 





.1011“ 10.99 “MAL , mined. below,

non-ore. n. 0.11mi? mm. nah.





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WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITIES-Southern Georgia

fam1 lands. Write for complete information. Cham-

ber Gammon-e. Quitman. Georgia.





rwamp FARMS





WANTED—to hear from owner of farm or unim.

proved land for sale. 0. Henley, Baldwin. Wis.



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MISCELLANEOUS





STORAGE BATTERIES of the Edison Alkaline type

do not have the faults of lead acid type. Fortunate

purchases from the Government. and other large us-

ers make possible a real buy. All voltages and am-

perages. For radio. motor boats and farm lighting

plants. 'Beforo buyina batteries set my interesting lit.-

erature stating voltage and amperage des . Ad—

dress B.’ flawley Smith. 306 Washinzton Ava. Den-

bury. Conn. *





BAGS—16-0unce cotton grain.

' free from holes. clean

e'is right. snipped subject to inspec-

C 3. Known. Rich-





light and heavy weight

and run!





for





 





I moist-.munfnetgd ..m'

gamma-Cream Marlee." ' .



AMERICAN. ‘1 AUCTION COLLEGE.'. m... ’7 to

Missouri. Tuition 3100. Home Study :25.





LOST AND FOUND





 





Airedale dog called Buck.

Grand Rapids to farm in neighboring county.

75, Michigbn Farmer. -





 





 





 





BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES





tabllshed Fox and Fur Farm with 10 pair Realm

Prince Edward Island Silver Foxes. Northern Mich.-

laan Resort district. small lake on property. Excel-





 





 





lent equipment. Will teach you the business. Dr.

H. G. Malloy, Levering. Mich. ‘

FILMS DEVELOPED i"





 





FREE—4:11 enlargement of any kodak film mithyour



roll developed and six prints: Special Trial 03er—



3051: World’s Photo Supply. Box 62. Westervflle.

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PET STOCK





THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS breeds of tree. den

and trailing hounds. noted for brains, eat-age. voice

and hunting qualities. Trained. partly trained and

untrained. Pups all ages. Prices reasonable. Will

exchange fine quality pups for skunk. coon. fox or

rabbit hounds. Send ten cents for photo group. and

fur and dog price list. or come and look our stock

over. 25 miles west of Detroit on five—mile road.

Lakeland Fur Exchange. Salem. ich.





HUNDRED HUNTING BOUNDS CHEAP—Fur find-





 





 





 





ers. Catalogue. Kaskaskennels. F. W. 69, Herrick.

Illinois.

REG. COLLIES. from natural healers. Write for





 





 





photos. Cloverleaf Farms. Tiflin. Ohio.

CORN HARVESTER

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





only $25.00 with bundle tying attachment. Free cat-

alog showing pictures of harvester. Box ‘20. Selina.

ans.





 





 





SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK





 





FOR SALE—Celery plants. French. Golden. Self-

bleaching, new strain, $2.00 per 1.000: $1.75 per

1,000 for 5,000 or more. F. 0. B. Grand Rapids.

Peter Melpolder. R. No. 3. Box 117. Cascade Road.

Grand Rapids, Mich.





 





FOR SATISFACTION INSURANCE buy seed oats.

beans. of A. B. Cook. Owosso, Mich.





TOBACCO





SPECIAL SALE—Homespun tobacco. smoking or

chewing. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded,

four lbs. $1: twelve $2.25. Pipe free. United Farm—

ers of Kentucky, Paducah. Ky.





 





 





HOMESPU'N TOBACCO GUARANTEED—Ch ’ .

five pounds. 31.50; ten, $2.50. Smoking. ten. $1.50.

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

well. Kentucky.

GUARANTEED TOBACCO—chewing or smoking. 5

lbs.. $1.25: ten. 82; pipe free, pay when received.

Farmers' Association. Maxon Mills, Kentucky.





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POULTRY





WHITE LEGHORN HENS AND MALES now half

price. Thousands of eight-week—old Pullets. Also

Baby Chicks and Eggs. Trapnosted. pedigreed foun-

dation stock, egg~bred 20 years. Winners at 16 am;

contests. Catalog and special price bulletin free. I

ship C. O. D. and guarantee satisfaction. Geo. B.

Ferris. 934 Union, Grand Rapids. Michigan.





WHITTAKER’S BLOOD-TESTED. ACCREDITED

REDS—March-hatched Single Comb Red pullets, $24

per dozen during August. Cocks and Cockerels. Cab

3103 free. Interlakes Farm. Box 9. Lawrence. Mich.





 





 





Low prices. 309





PULLE'I‘S—Well sized. All ages.





Hatchery. Zeeland. Mich.





PULLETS—_2.500. English White Leghoms. H. Knoll,

Jr.. R. No. 1, Holland. Mich





 





BABY CHICKS





SPECIAL SALE—«CHICKS 60. AND UP.—Tancred

and Tom Barron: White Leghorns. Parks Barred

Rocks. S. C. R. I. Reds. and broilers. chicks both

heavy and light breeds. Semi for our very instruc—

tive catalogue today. We have a hatch “every week

until Oct. 1st. Order your chicks now for Immediate

delivery, or for August and September. as we are

booking orders for these months. Late broilers have

proven profitable. 100% live delivery and satisfaction

guaranteed. Box 40. Brummer & Frederickson. ‘301-

land. Mich.





 





BABY CHICKS all through July. Eight breeds.

Parent stock, all bloodmmtod for' Bacillary White

Diarrhea, and culled by man from Michigan State





 





 





 





College. Ask for catalog. Pierce Hatchery. Jerome.



Michigan. -

TURKEY,



FORTUNE IN TURKEYS properly managed. Hun—





dreds testimonials say ours only blackth cute 24

Capsules and successful raising hints. $1: $3.50. 100.

Tufilfmy Herbs Remedy. 810 South Main. Santa Ana.

Ca .





HELP WANTED





DRIVER SALESMAN—23 to 35 years ago. Perma-

nent employment: good future. Write us if inter-

ested. Belle Isle Creamery. 3600 Forest F... Detroit.





Mich.





 





MARRIED MAN by year for general farming. must

be reliable. state full particulars. Box 86, Michigan

Farther.





 





AGENTS WANTED





MAKE $75 to $125 A WEEK selling to small town

and 'farm trade. remarkable remedy for ridding fowl

of lice and mites. Easiest. quickest known method,

thoroughly tested for three years on thousands of

flocks. No dusting: no spraying: no handling. Safe.

Econdmical. Harmless. Fine for baby chicks. tur-

keys and pigeons. We supply you with convincing

testimonials and selling helps. Sold on strict money

back guarantee. Low retail price; liberal discount

to trade. You can build a steady, profitable busi-

ness. Write at once for full details. Erindalo Poul<

try Farm, Route 6. Hamburg. N. Y .





AGENTS—Our New Household Cleanlnl Device Mel

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

Costs less than brooms. Over half profit. to

Harper Brush Works. 173 3rd St. Faiths“. lows.





MICHIGAN FARMEn.

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Eighteen bodies have. been recovered





 





 





from their tomb in the in-

S-51, now in dry dock at the





terior of the salvaged submarlne, . .

her s1de can be easxly seen.





Brooklyn Navy Yard. The hole in





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Rahman Bey, Indian fakir,





was

submerged nineteen minutes in

a'casket under Hudson River.





 





 





 





A piping shepherd herds a flock of sheep which

course of the Suneagle Club in New Jersey.

the course 1n good trim without the use of mechanical power.





 





 





 





mows the golf





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The sheep keep S eepmg car planes deve oped





with double motors,





 





plane travel more comfortable. .

will soon be in regularservice in Europe.





 





for passenger service make .aero-

These German planes, equipped





 





 





“Queen,” of Rainier National Park, has present-

ed, her proud consort with triplets, which remier Mussolini showsngreat

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have been named Hi, Lo, and Jack.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Th latest portrait of the Italian





strength of character and power.





 





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around the world, are seen

baggage from plane to. plane in Berlin.





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the “White Pines,” the summer White House?” even Whfl at





paper correspondents each Tuesday and





Prince‘Charles, of Belgium, wearin

British Navy, unveiled a memori commeminegting the attack on .

Zeebrugge by the British duringvthe World" ‘*





 





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