‘r'a :\« . / any-rt:- ‘3) VOL. CLXVII; No. 12 Whole Number 4731 FA 3 “0w '7 ,. $70795, , » ,, ,7,' / ED’ [843. _ fifiuum a l"1|llllHHIIn‘IIIHW‘III :I'Vlu‘llmlHM'I=‘MlI'lHlllI'HlllIIHIHUHHHlHlllIlhl'H||'X"|Iim,l||Hll'mmu-“y ONE YEAR 81.00 FIVE YEARS 83.00 This Service takes dairy feed formulas devised and ap- proved by the feeding ex- perts of thirteen colleges of agriculture. It buys the in‘ gredients for these feeds on a world market in tremen— dous quantities. It niixes these ingredients in a great, efficient, modern mill which runs to capacity. As a result, “Amco Mixed” feeds com— bine the two qualities every dairyman is looking for: the highest feeding value at the most economical price. American Milling Company Peoria, Illinois Amco 3 2 % Dairy Michigan dairymen can use this feed to the best advantage because they can mix it with their homevgrown feeds and- have a well—balanced, complete dairy ration. A ton of Amco 32% contains: 500 lbs. Cotton‘ seed Meal, 100 lbs. Soybean Meal, 500 lbs. Gluten Meal, 280 lbs. Linseed Meal, 100 lbs. Distillers Dried Grains, 260 lbs. Wheat Bran, 100 lbs. Hominy, 100 lbs. Molasses, 20 lbs. Steam Bone Meal, 20 lbs. Ground Limestone, 20 lbs. Salt. Here you have in con— centrated form the essentials. to good dairy feeding. Use it with your home—grown grain half and half. This is the best paying outlet for these home- grown feeds. THIS MARK ON A BAG MEANS CONFERENCE BOARD FEEDS, f‘AMCO MIXED” " “ ‘\ $Nfim’ >¢~ (“mas—c. 3;...) Mo. : mesa-m » a»; -Jh.a~ 1' ' ~v rum «road. ,2 ~.~. km ' "swans To " MICHIGAN VOLUME, cfxvn 4: QIW FUEL/SHE ED within/f“ A Practical Journal for the Rural Family MICHIGAN SECTION THE CAPPER FARM PRESS QUALITY RELIABILITY ‘SERVICE NUMBER XI ’_ Michigan Farmers are Honorc - Cfiarter Meméers of Master Farmers C [we to ée Addressed 5y ,. Senator Artéur Gripper, of Kansas, ZVext lVeeé .HE difficult task of naming the charter members of the Michi- gan Master Farmers’ Club is fin- ished. The selections were made by . a committee of" judges consisting of ' . Hon. A. N. Brown, of Schoolcraft; Hon. Herbert Powell, of Ionia, and Mrs. Edith M. Wagar, of Carleton, from data gathered by a representative of this journal who visited every farm in the contest, filling out a questionnaire and making a careful inspection of the premises. Despite the difficulties encountered, we feel that the judges selected a. group of farmers for this honor for whom no apologies need to be offered. Many of them are men whose work in agriculture has been outstanding for a long term of years, and their efforts have been recognized by farmers, ag- ricultural leaders and scientists. Sev— eral members of this class are cooper- ating in working out a number of prac- tical problems with the state experi- ment station, the agricultural college, and extension workers. Their efforts have counted for much. in bringing about better farming methods, better crops and live stock, as well as better farm homes and rural communities for Michigan. As we announced last March, ten men were to be selected as the charter members of this organization. The ‘ judges found, however, that in the list of successful candidates there were two brothers who, working together, have developed one of the fine farms of Michigan. It was decided that this farm enterprise should count as one of the ten farms to be recognized, and that each of the brothers should be awarded a medal. This arrangement is being followed, and there will be, therefore, eleven men to receive the Michigan Farmer medals this year. In making the decisions, the judges did not choose to go on record as fav- oring every type of farming followed by the various candidates. These facts however, will be brought out in the stories of the farming accomplish- Some of Our Master Farmers A. B. Cook. M. E. Farley. Paul C. Clement. Garfield Farley. ments of these men to be presented to readers through the columns of the Michigan Farmer. A complimentary banquet is to be given in honor of this first class of Master Farmers at the Michigan State College on Wednesday evening, Sep- tember 22, by the Michigan Farmer at which time United States Senator Arthur Capper, of Kansas, will speak and present to the men the Master Farmer medals. Agricultural and in- dustrial leaders of the state are being invited to participate in this event. In 1927, another small class will be selected to the membership of the club, and in succeeding years, other classes will be added. Is it too much to expect that these men who are pioneers in better farming methods will, in due season, crystallize and fos- ter a forward-looking agricultural pol- icy for Michigan? Would not the adoption of such a policy count much in keeping Michigan agriculture and her rural people in the forefront of America’s greatest industry? The following list and brief state- ments give to the readers of the Michigan Farmer, in alphabetical or- der, the names of the men selected by the committee of judges as the charter members of the Michigan Master Farmers’ Club: Ralph Arbogast sells quality cream, certified grains, pork, registered Guern- sey calves, eggs and broilers from his well-equipped GOO-acre farm near Un- (Continued on page 262). Dairymcn Watch Tariff Situation Want to Mate Sure Téat Interests are Protected 2'72 Next Congress HE election of -United States senators in Wisconsin, Ohio and several other leading dairy states this fall has attracted the at- tention of the dairy interests to the effect the results of these contests may have upon the tariff on dairy products. The victorious candidates will be in the senate for a term .of six years,‘ during which time the tariff will be subjected to attacks from many quar- ters“ If friends of an effective protec- tive tariff are defeateddt may mean the placing of dairy products on the free list, which leading representatives of the dairy interests believe would result disastrously to the industry. The National Dairy Union is so con- ‘cerned about the matter that it is sending out a questionnaire to each-'5 senatorial candidate, asking him to state plainly his position on the tariff on dairy products. By this method it is hoped that the farmers in these dairy states may have an opportunity to vote with a full understanding of the tariff views of the various candi- dates. , ’ In discussing this point, A M. 1400m- is, secretary of the National. Dairy .- M has certainly ’ dairy industry ‘ the By E. E. dairy interests, but to the swine grow- ing and corn growing interests, and also to the vegetable oil producers. “Had it not been for the energy and organized effort put forward by the several senators from the dairy states who are now up for re-election, the dairy interests would not have secured the favorable tariff rates given them in the present tariff act. Due to these men, there was secured for the first time in tariff history a schedule of Reynolds tariff rates on agricultural commodi- ties which actually come into the Unit- ed States in competition with Ameri— can agricultural products, somewhere commensurate with the other duties imposed by our tariff law.” The effectiveness of the tariff on dairy products and vegetable oils may be measured by the drop in imports Of these products since the Fordney-Mc- Cumber tariff act became effective. Notwithstanding the fact that all The State Experimental Farm Buildings, Located at Chatham. in the Upper -\ Being worked Out. . Peninsula, where a System of Farming for that Section of the State is - records in the history of the govern- ment for customs duties collected were broken in the fiscal year just closed, the dairy products imported into the United States had a value of $16,640,980 in the first half of 1924, $13,233,526 in the first half of 1925, and $12,529,392 in the first half of 1926. Imports of butter into the Unit- ed States decreased from 16,965,773 pounds in the first half of 1924, to 4,- 750,133 pounds in the same period of 1925, and 3,978,568 pounds in the first half Of 1926. Imports of butter from Canada dropped from 2,557,535 pounds in the first half of 1925, to 42,602 pounds in the first half of 1926. This heavy drop in importations was direct- ly due to the increase in the butter tariff by presidential proclamation from eight to twelve cents a pound. The imports of cocoanut oil, used largely in margarine production, de- creased from 281,063,000 pounds in 1919, to 233,174,000 pounds in 1925, peanut oil from 154,052,000 pounds in 1919, to 3,027,000 pounds in 1925, and soy bean oil from 195,808,000 pounds in 1919, to 19,493,000 pounds in 1925.. During this period under the fostering protection of the tariff, the production . of soy bean oil and other vegetable oils has increased rapidly in recent: years. .. .1 .. In»; Published Weekly Established 1843 Copyright 1926 The Lawrence Publishing Co. Editors and Proprietors 1632 Lafayette Boulevard Detroit, Michigan Telephone Randolph 1530 NEW YORK OFFICE. 120 W. 42nd St. CHICAGO OFFICE. 608 South Dearborn St. CLEVELAND OFFICE, 1011-1013 Oregon Ave... N. E. BHILADELPHIA OFFICE, 261—203 South Third St. ARTHUR cArrnn ....................... President M'ARCO MORROW ....... ' ............ Vice-President PAUL LAWRENCE .................. ‘ Vice-Precident F. H. NANCE ............................ 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LEGAL2~Opinions on all points. from I prominent lawyer. HEALTH,~—l’ractical personal advice from an expcricnr‘wl doctor. FARM:~Answcu-s to all kinds of farm quel‘ tions, by competent spa'ialists. HOME—Aid in the solution of all kinds of homo problems. VOLUME CLXVH NUMBER ELEVEN, ,h‘ _ ‘ Michigan No ad." DETROIT, SEPT. 18,1926 I CURRENT COMMENT OR many years ‘ The Bi the dairymen of D . g Michigan have. cher- alry ished the hope that Show some day they might have the opportunity to entertain the National Dairy Show. This hope is to be realized. The big show is scheduled for the Michigan State Fair Grounds at Detroit for the week beginning Wednesday, October sixth. There is good reason for wanting such a show in our midst. It furnishes a. type of education that cannot be ob: tained as effectively through any other avenue. There will be exhibited over one thousand of the best dairy cows in the country, representing all the five dairy breeds. The grade cow will also be shown, for she produces the bulk of the dairy products of the coun- try. The latest on herd improvement, on feeds and feeding, on the-produc- tion and compounding of feeds, and on marketing products, will all be force- fully brought home to the layman with due consideration for all other factors in the business. The mechanical side of the dairy- man’s business is of growing import- ance. Farm and barn equipment mean much in the economy of dairying. The milking machines, separators, stanch- ions, lighting plants, feed grinders, silos, silo fillers, farm machinery, trac- tors, utensils, building materials, to- gether with a hundred other items, have a potential interest to'both those who already have these improvements and those who have not. At the dairy show in Detroit next month there will be found one of the largest collections of equipment of interest to dairymen .4 that has ever been brought together. . If to these things we add the dem- onstrations on the value of a larger use of, dairy products, the health food , show, th'e‘farm women's educational work, and the boys’ and girls’ school and judging competitions, it will be most difficult, indeed, to find an ex- cuse for the family not attending the twentieth annual National Dairy Ex- position. Certainly Michigan farmers, both in and out of the dairy business, cannot afford to overlook the oppor- tunities offered them in this unusual exposition. E have attended The the State Fair, 5 and talked with many taée others who were also Farr there. From what we saw and heard, we are both pleased and disappointed. Some changes in the Fair program and exhibits have been made. The shifting of departments has aided in giving a little freshness to the Show. The fine exhibits of live stock is a fea- ture that can be favorably mentioned. Also, we noted with delight that farm- ers were more in evidence than in many of the former annual events of the Fair. ‘ But we cannot feel that the State Fair has, as yet, adequately reflected agriculture and industry. Our thoughts lead us to believe that there is still much to do to make the public understand what we, as a state, are doing and why we are doing it, and, perhaps in many instances, what we ought to be doing. By reason of the fact that the state has taken over this institution, it is not an unjust request of the/farmers and the laborers and the manufactur- ‘ ers and the merchants that the State Fair, as its amino implies, should fairly reflect their interests. ' Some states, have been over-sold. Others have not been scid at all. Mich- igan has only been partly sold to her own people and to the world at large. It is not asking too much to have her rescurces in men, materials, products and homes faithfully and fully pre- sented to herself and to the world. The State Fair can do much toward giving the public a fair appraisal of the progress we have made. May we not hope that some of the changes and improvements in evidence this year will in time accomplish this purpose and thus give us inspiration toward greater achievement. HO cannot re- Home Bah. member the time - H Id when, bounding into Mg 0 s the house after school Favor on baking days, we threw cur books into _a chair while mother cut us a thick slice of bread “right from the oven,” and covered it with jam while we im- patiently smacked our lips in antici- pation? Or instead, it might have been a gem, a Cookie, or a generous piece of gingerbread. Recent statistics received at our of- fice prove that these tempting home- made goodies are not going the way of many of ye-old-time customs, for the lion’s share of the flour produced in this country is still being consumed in the homes. It is estimated that there are about thirty-three thousand bakeries of all kinds in the United States. According to these statistics, bakeries used in 1923 (the latest year , Proposed Constitutional Amendments T 0 he Voted 072 at Noveméer Election T the general election this November, the following proposed amend- ments will be voted upon by the people of the state. They should be carefully studied by every person qualified to vote in the state. If one does not understand the purpose of the amendments, he should inform him- self before November 2. state: Here is the text as published by the secretary of To Increase Compensation to Members of Legislature. Art. 5—Sec. 9. days, and nothing thereafter. The compensation of the members of the legislature shall be twelve hundred dollars for the regular session. session, their compensation shall be ten When convened in extra. dollars per day for the first twenty Members shall be entitled to ten cents per mile, and no more, for one round trip to each regular and special session of the legislature, by the usually traveled route. to one copy of the laws, he is a member, newspapers not expressly authorized by this constitution. Provides for increasing compensation of members of the legislature from $800 to $1,200 for regular session, and from $5 per diem to $10 per diem for extra sessions. To Remove Restrictions on Sheriff's Office. Art. 8—Sec. 5. The sheriff shall hold no other office. at the general election for the term of two years. He shall be elected He may be required by law to renew his security from time to time, and in default of giving such security, his office shall be deemed vacant. sponsible for his acts. The county shall never be re- Provides for removing restriction which renders sheriff incapable of hold- ing the office longer than four in any period of six years. To Provide Metropolitan Districts for Furnishing Public Service. See. 31.~—The legislature shall by general law provide for the incorpora- tion by any two or more cities, villages or townships, or any combination or parts of same, of metropolitan districts comprising territory within their limits, for the purpose of acquiring. owning and operating either Within or without their limits as may be prescribed by law, parks or public utilities for supplying sewage disposal, drainage, water, light, power or transportation, or any combination thereof, and any such district may sell or purchase, either within or without its limits as may be prescribed by law, sewage disposal or drainage rights, water, light, power or transportation facilities. Any such districts shall have power to acquire and succeed to any or all of the rights, obligations and property of such cities, connected with such function or public utilities: villages and townships respecting or Provided, That no city, village or township shall surrender any such rights, obligations or property without the approval thereof by a majority vote Such general law shall limit on such question. of the electors thereby voting the rate of taxation of such districts for their municipal purposes and restrict their powers of borrowing money and contracting debts. Under such general law, the electors of each district shall have power and authority to frame, adopt and amend. its charter upon the approval thereof by a majority vote of the electors of each city, village and township, voting 011 such question, and, through its regularly con- stituted authority, to pass all laws and ordinances relating to its municipal concerns, subject to the constitution and general laws of this state—(New section). To Authorize the Taking of Land in Excess of Needs. Art. 13—Sec. '5. Subject to this constitution the legislature may authorize municipalities, subject to reasonable limitations, to condemn and to take the :fee to more land and property than is needed in widening of boulevards, streets and alloys, or for .so much of the land and purpose, the remainder to supply the funds to pay in whole the acquiring, opening and any public use, and after property has been appropriated for any such needed _ . may be sold or leased with or without such restric- tions as may be appropriate to the improvement made. .Bonds may be issued or in part for the excess property so acquired, and they shall not be included in any limitation of the bonded indebtedness of such municipality—{Now section). . Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 14. Resolved by the senate, the house concurring, That the eecmmry of state shall certify to the clerk of each county in the state, the question of a general revision of the constitution and the electors the year 192 . _ a convention therefor, to be submitted to qualified to vote thereon, at the general election to be held in\ I \ Each member shall be entitled .. journals and documents of the legislature of which but shall not receive, at the expense of the state, books or v! r‘ f . : for which comple figures ire avail- able) about 41,789,000'barrels of flour, compared to the use of some 54,600,000 barrels in homes an institutional bak- ing. Of the latter amount, it is esti‘ amted that home baking alone con- sumed over 34,000,000 barrels, or about eighty-two per cent of the' require— ments of our bakeries. In other words, despite the develop- ment of baking as an industry, it is apparent that the products of the old- fashioned home even continues to hold high favor and to be a. major source of the country’s supply of baked flour products. Do-sz I T’S been kinda cool round the edges 'the last few days, and it kinda made me think about do-nuts, ’cause I used to have to wait until they got cool around the edges to eat ’em. Do-nuts is a good name for ’em, for they’re a chunk o’ dough what is some— times as hard as a nut ta crack. They look‘liko brown painted life preserv- ers, but they’re called sinkers instead. I’ve come ta the conclushun that the best part 0" the do—nuts is the middul part 0’ ’em. The air hole won’t’ hurt n o b o d y if you don’t swallow it, and you gotta be careful about that, ’cause, the do-nut itself will make enuf air in- y o u r stomach, sometimes. Fer heavy food, do—nuts is O. K., but they ain’t advertised for a health food yet. But just the same they was handy food for the soldiers in the war. What would the Salvashun Lassie-s adone if they wouldn’t had do—nuts ta. pass out. I bet them do-nuts was worth goin’ after by the boys. just ta take a look at them lassies. 1 Do-nuts is handy for the womin folkses ta make. It must be lots 0’ fun playin’ with dough, makin’ round patties and cuttin’ holes in ’em. And then puttin’ ’em in hot fat and see ’em float around. I used ta like ta so my Ma make 'em, and ta. wait for the ones she used to make look like a man. Do-nuts an’ coffee ain’t what the doctors ’d tell a man ta eat, but they taste good, anyhow. The whole trou- but is that there’s too much stuff MASTER FARMER PROGRAM TO BE BROADCAST. THROUGH the courtesy of the Michigan State College, the program of the Master Farmer Banquet, to be given at the Me- morial Building of the College, Wednesday, September 22, from 7:00 to 9:15 P. M., eastern stan- dard time, will be put on the air by WKAR. The feature of this program will be the address of Senator Arthur Capper, of Kan- sas, who will also present the Master Farmer Medals. Station WKAR is on 285.5 meter wave length. tastes good What ain’t good for us. It kinda looks like our tastes is conspir- in’ with the doctors ta get us sick. I ’spose when they get things down real\.scientific, we’ll eat so we’ll always be healthy and, like the newspaper says, we’ll not even need ta sleep, and men 103 years old will have womin arrested for flirtin’ with ’em. But in them days they’ll still make (lo-nuts, but they’ll use ’em for pitchin’ quoits ta spend the time they used ta use sleepin’. until then or not, ’cause I like sleep too well, and- it takes too. much" strength ta pitch for quoits some do- nuts I've seen. But I don’t care if I .live HY SYCK‘L’E. “.0 w 1.. A‘V: ’ I -. \rw r we Vt, \ Agricultural“ A i Pramiring Factor in Agriculture . ' By V. 0. Braun ' F I wished to learn something of . ’the future 0r prospects in any line of business, as agriculture, law, au- tomobile manufacturing, Florida real estate, etc., I should take one of two methods to secure the information. The‘firstywhich, of course, would take time, would be to make a' detailed study, or survey, of the business, gath- ering data of facts and statistics on the economic and social phases of the business. The second, which would v' save time and money, although not quite as satisfactory, would be to se- cure the advice of an expert on the subject. This means the advice of a man who is thoroughly familiar with the business, who has made a scien- tific study of it, and who has had prac- tical experience in the enterprise. I was reminded of such advice when I listened to a lecture by Dr. Shaw, dean of agriculture of Michigan State College, a short time ago. He prophe- sied that the agricultural conditions of Michigan and the United States would High 3.1...an by Professor G. O. Schmidt, Profes- sor of Agricultural Education of the Colorado Agricultural College, is, “A productive farm enterprise, related to J'SChOOI work and supervised by an in- structor, carried to completion on a strictly business basis, requiring care- ful study, planning, recording, and ex- ecution, and summarized and reported upon at its close.” Sometimes this is referred to as practical agriculture, and compares with practical law in the law profession. The theory is taught in the court room, or on. the farm, depending upon the subject taught. .In this age of science, new scien~ tific ideas and facts are appearing at a rapid rate. Registered or pedigreed seed, registered stock, higher content fertilizers, improved machinery, and better methods are creeping into the agricultural field. These new and bet- ter ideas and methods are taught in the class room. of the Smith-Hughes high.. schools and practiced on the Improved Haying Methods, for Instance, Are a Real Help to the Farmer. improve. He further stated that the improvement would be slow and con- tinuous. There are several reasons for this prophesied improvement. One of them, and the one I wish to discuss, is that the newer, more business-like practices, together with the more scientific methods being put into use will result in a higher type of agricul- ‘ ture and a better farmer. It is a well-known fact that the fu- ture, or the success of any business or profession is largely determined by training or the caliber of the men who compose it. In order for a man to enter the medical or law profession, he must have a certain amount of training. .The machinist or the tailor must also serve his apprenticeship. Agriculture is adopting the same rule. The policy may not be as compulsory, nevertheless it is coming, and the trained'agricultural man is going to crowd out the untrained man. Agri- culture is a science which offers a challenge equal to that of any profes- sion. It is a subject, or science, which is being taught in our Smith~Hughes high schools and agricultural colleges all over the United States. Instantly, someone will say that ag- riculture can not be taught in the class room, and it is true that some phases of agriculture is quite difficult to teach in the class room', therefore we teach them in the field in the form of a project. Some phases are quite difl‘icult to teach in the class room, and we teach them on the farm in the form of a project, and this is the kind of training I wish to discuss, .“I’ll give him plenty of work, if he : QWW and which 'I believe will have a great bearing on the future agricultural in- : dustry and bring it to a higher stand- . ard. .I, believe as~Dr. Shaw, that the P398??? -W1111 be; slow. but it will be ,ers‘ of today, however, realize more farms during the summer months in the form of a project. This means that the agricultural instructor is a busy man. He must be on the job twelve months in the year, and must drive his flivver around over the com- munity to oversee, study, and super- vise his projects. This phase of agricultural education is becoming very popular in Michigan. In 1925 there were 122 Smith-Hughes high schools teaching this method of agriculture in Michigan, and State Supervisor of Agricultural Education, E. E. Gallup, announces that more will be added to the list this year. Each boy and girl enrolled in the agricul- tural course in high school, which con- sists of a four-year course, is entitled to take project work. The student re- ceives credit for this work the same as the academic or the vocational work; taken- in the regular school year..; One of the things in favor of the project work, however, is that the boy has a business, it is all his own to plan, to take care of, to harvest and to boast about. He takes an interest in it, and he learns the fundamentals and scientific phases of a business which is to be his own. As a general rule, we find his father interested in the work, and in many instances we see a lively race between dad and son for the best product, and junior generally comes out ahead. Once in a while dad will object to the boy_“fooling” with a project, and says, wants something to do.” Fortunately, these cases are rare. L In the pioneer days of project work, Professor B. A. Walpole, Professor of Agricultural Education at Michigan State College, states that such cases were more cOmmon, and that he ’en- counteredrsu‘ch difficulties. The farm- “VD! Mun 2: a” 31‘ {44051 the Act 4 ”Charles Mlliam THE CHARLES WILLIAM STORES, Inc., 150 Stores Building, New York City Please send me postpaid, at once, a copy of your new Catalog for Fall and Winter. " ame ... quickly a, 5,3 Stores Inc.) ”’ New York City ~for every order- ' every (13)? ' Man o7‘our antlers are 'shg‘p ed the same day an: 7%th -- 3f OUR" SERVICE~ /////'/////////// and radically all of the ' , fol/020m alance on the 24-110 R- ERVICB M.— HEN your order arrives at The Charles William Stores it is handled just as you would handle it, if you were here to personally supervise. We know that to you your order is of the utmost impor- tance, so we fill it accordingly. . . . 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These projects vary in form from the short time, smaller garden project to the larger, longer time crop or an— imal project. In 1925 there were 1,535 projects in Michigan carried on by high school agricultural students and supervised by agricultural teachers. There were forty different kinds or types, varying from watermelons to dairy cattle, in order to fit the needs of the commu— nity. From these 1,535 projects, the students’ net income amounted ot $140,390.64. This shows a very good profit and is a very important factor, for after all, if farming is to be made interesting and successful, it must yield a profit. In these 1,535 projects there were 236 potato projects which averaged a net income of $49.49, 185 bean project's averaging $103.25, f-our mint projects averaging $297.29, twen- ty sheep projects averaging $396.82, and two Celery projects averaging $561.47. These figures of net profit show that the young farmers are real- ly making money. Many of them make enough money in this manner to finance their college education. The projects vary as to kind in dif- ferent sections of the state in order to fit the community’s interest and needs. Mr. Earl Sindecuss, agricul- tural instructor of Eaton Rapids high school, specializes in registered stdck projects, and is doing a splendid piece of work in promoting better live stock in Eaton county. His projects consist of poultry, sheep, hogs, and dairy cat- tle. In 1925 his agricultural students exhibited their stock at Marshall, 4. f Charlotte, Kalamazoo, and Detroit fairs, and walked away with a num- ber of blue ribbons and a liberal amount of cash prizes. Three of his boys have won scholarships to Michi- gan State College for superior project work. The farmers around Eaton county are strong for this kind of teaching. Ten years ago, Professor R. S. Linton, of Michigan State. Col- lege, who was then agricultural each- er of bwosso High School, encouraged pure-bred Holstein cattle in his pro- ject work, and today Shiawassee coun- ty, as a result, boasts of her fine Hol- stein dairy cattle. An eastern buyer told me a few weeks ago that he se- cures some of his best cattle from this county. Another outstanding piece of project teaching of a different nature is being carried on by Charles Parks, agricul-' tural teacher of Hastings. Mr. Parks thought that the farmers of that com- ‘ .ymunity should grow better grains, sd. he went about, with the aid of his 147 agricultural students, to. accOmplish the trick. .4 Mr. Parks is. supervising over fifty crop projects, and all of them are certified or registered seed «projects. Mr. Parks was not satisfied to simply show the superiority of good seed, but encouraged the elevators of Hastings, to donate him 1,000 pounds of fertilizer in order to teach and show the effect of fertilizer on good crop production. His students’ projects are all placarded as to va- riety of grain, amount of fertilizer, etc. and to'look at this splendid piece of teaching is an inspiration in itself. It is little wonder that the agricultural students and farmers around Hastings the state of Michigan of different ag- arc strong for Mr Parks. I could give other examples over ricultural teachers teaching this same (Continued on page 275). iATE AGRICU LTURAL NEWS ' DECLINE IN CROP ACREAGE. N its study of the changes in the utilization of land in the United States, as indicated by a comparison of the census returns of 1920 and 1925, the bureau of agricultural economics finds a reduction in area of harvested crops for the country as a whole, in the five-year period of 19,000,000 acres, or five per cent. This is the first iii— stance in the history of the Country’s existence that the census has shown a decline in crop acreage. And while crop land decreased five per cent, pop- ulation increased eight per cent. DECLINE IN NUMBER OF HORSES. HE recent census shows a decline in numbers of horses, mules and colts of about 3,624,000 on farms and in cities between 1920 and 1925. This has released for other uses, or caused to lie idle, about 9,500,000 acres. As the feed consumed by horses and mules required for its production about twenty-five per cent of the crop area, or 90,000,000 acres in 1919, some idea may be gained as to the radical readjustment of crop area which would have to be made if we ever reach the horseless era in this coun- try. QUARANTINE FOR PINE BLISTER RUST. HE entire United States will be placed under quarantine October 1 to prevent further spread of white pine blister rust. The interstate ship- ment of five-leaf pines from any state is prohibited except under inspection certificate showing that they are free from the blister rust. Movement of five-leaf pines from any state east of the western boundaries of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisi- ana into states lying west of that line is absolutely prohibited. Shipments of currant and gooseberry plants, other than European black currants, is pro- hibited, except in accordance with reg- ulations which require inspection of shipments from all states, and treat- ment of plants in infected regions. IMPORTS OF CH EESE. HEESE imports of the United States are increasing in spite of the five cents per pound tariff. They totaled 28,505,882 pounds in the first half of 1926, compared with 26,182,740 pounds in the first half of 1924. These large cheese imports are said to be due to the increasing demand for “foreign cheeses, not only from foreign f‘immigrants, but native Americans who have acquired a liking for fancy for- .«eign brands. merce reports that more than half of the imported cheese. comes from Italy The department of com— _ and about one-fourth from Switzerland. It is predicted that the demand for foreign cheese in the United States will be maintained, as the imports consist of types not made in the Unit- ed States, or if made are insufficient quantities to meet domestic require- ments. WEATHER BUREAU SERVICE. EW persons realize the extent of the work of the weather bureau for the farmers. Special tobacco, fruit, truck and alfalfa warning ser- vices are maintained in various dis- tricts by the issue of frost and mini- mum temperature warnings, so that crops may be protected by heaters and otherwise. To the plains and moun- tains, to the stockinen and ranches, is telegraphed a Special warning ser- vice, giving them advance information of storms, cold waves and high winds. During the sheep shearing and lamb- ing periods, warnings of snow, rain or cold waves are widely distributed in the sheep raising states. A fruit—frost warning service is main- tained in several fruit growing sec- tions. A special appropriation of $12,000 for the present year is avail- able. The fruit men contribute an equal amount, and there is a growing demand for the service. As a,resu1t of the bureau’s cooperation with fruit interests, a very great saving of fruit was accomplished during the past year. There are now more than two million orchard heaters in use in the fruit industry, which enables the grow- ers to take advantage of the bureau’s frost warnings. The U. S. Forest Service has found that Tupelo is suitable for wood pulp because it yields a good grade of book paper. U. 8. STANDARD OF GRADES. TANDARDIZATION is the common trade language between buyer and seller, according to a market special- ist in the department of agriculture, who says it is necessary as a basis for all future contracts. Many cooper- atives have failed because members have not appreciated the advantage of standardization as a basis of trading. bLzfl/e Irrz'zfm‘zom of a Safety E'rsz‘ Driver 00 BE QU‘EY CHILDRENYOUR DA’S A SAFE ' TAX SAVING HIGH WAY a. WI! 'SECEDING FROM HIEIRRESPECWE I III I'M GOING SPEED up, DAD‘ “(10% NOT DRIVING . »~f\»\ , .\\\«\ ‘-\‘\“‘»:\\ "\T _~\§ . .1///// I "ID/"II ~NEW$ ITEM - _ ' new YORK, CHICAGO, PHILADELPHIA AND CLEVELAND ARE TALKING or gmm'esmusc 1149/ CAN’T HAVE use I SLATNE comm ~ United States recommended grades have been established for thirty-five leading fruits and vegetables. NEWS OF THE WEEK. A radical Chinese government, un- der the Nationalist movement, is re- sponsible for firing on British and United States war ships near Hankow, China. This government is favorable to Russia and hostile to the Uni-ted States and other powers. Floods around Terre Haute, Indiana, and Jacksonville, Illinois, have caused the loss of several million dollars worth of property and seven lives. The admittance of Germany to the League of. Nations caused huge crowds to cheer in Geneva where the league meetings were held. _ Anarchy is gripping Athens, and mu- tineers have been bombed by govern- ment planes in the outskirts of the City. The Pangalos rebel forces have been defeated, it is reported. The failureof the United States to keep the obligations made by Presi- gaelilit Wiflslgn at Paris in 1919, is the se 0 rance’s troubles, . Edward House. says COL Ruth E. Renington, daughter of Mr and .Mrs. Harold Renington, of De: tr01t, was. scored as a perfect baby at the Michigan State Fair baby show. Mr. Renington is a truck driver. A bill passed. by congress will ena- ble the government to add 130,000 acres of Michigan land to the national forest reserves in Iosco, Alcona, Oge- maw, and Roscommon counties. The German newspapers take tl admittance of German to tli ‘ ie of Nations cooly. y e League Great Britain is bitter over the l of twenty-two men in China when gift: rebels fired on the British. William Everitt, 103 years old (:0 Ifotrtyftwot-year-old woman arr'esltgd rying o vain) h‘ ' ‘ of Omaha. 1 im on the streets Spain resigned from the Le _ , a Nattipns blecausebof the lack of §dli$sicd€ era mm s own y the le I nation. ‘ ague to that Because of not being com Ilete Sesqui-Centennial Expositionlat PhtiIIaG- delphia may be run another year ac- cording to the director in chief. ’ . Over 275,000 pupils started l in Detroit on Tuesday, Septembeif3 3:01 India is challenging United St .. , ates gold control. Fifty—five per cent of the moltlg St gfiildfplroduction was absorbed a 1'] is i osses ‘ past year. p Sion during the Japan is importing skilled i _ abor figmplth? United States, especially in in mg mes. American lin operators are favored. otype Four hundred motion picture the- aters in Chicago Went without music because 3,000 union musicians were ordered out by the Chicago Federation of Muswians. Irenne Du Pont, of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & 00., says that science may eliminate sleep, and that chemistry may develop a superman in time. Laura Slovey, fifteen years old, and Margaret No‘rton, twelve years old, who have been mutes .since "infancy, - gainedability to speak (by beiggterri- fied during an airplane ride. " ,e ride was given them with the ' alike}: halving, them regain 131$th ‘ -;- ~y« emmwtag~L .9 . . I... m... *WW. Mew” -«'. 'I ”’7‘1‘7‘5’“ . 544:.“ ,_- .. 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Ruild. for Permanence Reduce Fire Hazards California Redwood performs both of these vital services in the construction of farm buildings Redwood is in the highest class for durability, by government test,when compared to other woods used in the construction of farm homes, barns, silos, implement sheds and other buildings. Redwood contains no resin nor pitch. Thus it is hard to ignite, slow to burn and easy to extin- guish. Numerous tests by fire have proved that Redwood greatly reduced the fire hazards as against other woods commonly used for similar purposes. It is a soft wood of great strength. Thus it is " easy to work, stays put. Its soft surface texture enables it to hold paint, although because of its great durability, even buildings not prorected by paint enjoy a remarkably long life. Build with Redwood. Increase the value and long life of your buildings without proportion- ately increasing their first cost. Agricultural Service Bureau For your benefit we have produced plans and spe- cifications for manyitems needed upon every farm. Check off on coupon below, those items which you intend to build. Send the coupon, filled out, to us and we will gladly mail the sheets requested. USE REDWOOD...”It rests” Septic Tanks California Redwood Association, Dept. 139 _"'—_—“‘—_— 24 California St., San Francisco. California POUIUY Houses Please send me free the plans and specifications for the items ' l have checked. My lumber dealer's name and address is: Mash Feeders fl Nests Name Irrigation Structures ‘ Addreu Feeders (Cattle. Hogs, Sheenl My Namfi Hurdles. Fence and Gate Suggestions Type ofFarming Rabbit Hutches My Addreir _m ., Mention the Michigan Farmer When Writing in Advertisers A Big Corn Crap Starts Here a A big corn crop starts with the seed. More than 100,000 farmers know they can grow from five to ten more bushels per acre by drying seed corn on Bain’s Peerless Seed Corn Dryer. Bain’s Dryer insures perfect drying of every kernel. Develops seed that; will thrive in spite of adverse conditions. Lasts a. lifetime. yet pays for itself the first season. Consider these six advantages: Six Points of Superiority 1. Every ear held separate. 2. Air circulates freely. 3. Hooks pene- trate the pith of the cob and help dry it out. 4. Dryer handles more com in less space. 5. Prevents loss by rodents. 6. Ears dry quickly and evenly, leavnig the kernel in perfect, condition for planting. And because of our large volume of business, you can buy the Dryer complete. for Just about what material alone would ordinarily cost you. Q WRITE FOR SPECIAL PRICES. Investigate Bain's Dryer. See what it has done for farmers through— PfE LESS SEED CORN ‘DRYER Get our _special offer toearly buyers. No obligation. Just write at once. BAIN BROTHERS MFG. COMPANY adar Rapids, Iowa J U. S. Reuthei Mndei POTATO BIGGER A sturdy, well made digger Dept. M tions. Agitation of bed can be regulated while machine is in motion. Mfg. by U. 8. Wind Engine & Pump Go. ~28‘Water St., Batavia, 111. .Write for Catalog and Prices V vestment, for all soils and crop condi- « CHARGE FOR USE OF GANG PLOW. What would .it be worth per acre to use my neighbor’s gang plow, using my own horses ?——H. D. As nearly as I can estimate, the cost of using a gang plow will be about fif- teen cents per hour, or thirty cents per acre, including interest on the in- depreciation, repairs, and sharpening, shelter, etc., for summer and fall conditions. For spring plow- ing, it would be a little less.~—D. USE SOCKET WRENCH. FTER you have ruined a few spark plugs by removing them with a monkey wrench, you will get a socket wrench that just fits around the plug and protects the core from accident. It costs only a few cents and pays for itself after it has been used a. few times. SOFT WATER. OFT water, and not hard water, should be used in the cooling sys- tem. Hard water contains more or less mineral matter, which cause de- posits in the radiator and water jack- etc. Especially is this true if the mot- or has a tendency to overheat and the water boil. MAGNETIZED SCREW-DRIVER. AKE a long, slender screw-driver to an electric light plant, or where there is a large dynamo, and hold it near the dynamo until it is well charg- ed. This screw-driver will be a great help when working on the car, as it will readily pick up small screws and parts that are often dropped inside . the car far out of reach of the hand. Then, it is very easy with this screw-driver to set screws, as the elec- tricity will hold the screw-driver firm- ' ly in the groove on the head of the screw, and the screw may be set by the use of one hand. It prevents the screw from slipping away and getting lost, often very annoying. One «good charge should last for at least a year or longer, and the slight trouble will repay the owner a hundred times. NOT ENOUGH WATER. a I have an eight-inch drilled well, 28 feet deep, in which I struck the gravel bed at eighteen feet. The well fur- nishcs only about six gallons per hour. which is not sufficient. Would it be all right to fill the well with rock and sand up to the gravel bed, and use a sand point? People around here do not use sand points, but I have been told that this well could not be pump- ed dry with a sand point. It would cost quite a lot to dig a large well, and v. all with brick. Any suggestions will be appreciated—~0. S. I do not see how filling the well with rock and sand up to the gravel bed, and then putting in a sand point. would increase the flow of water any. as the filling would simply decrease the storage space that much. If the gravel bed is large and well filled with water, and you pulled the casing at the same time you put in the sand point, you might possibly get more water. The proper thing is to get the advice of some experienéed pump or well man who knows the water con- ditions in your locality; but if the well were mine, I would want to put it down further to get more storage room and probably strike another good sand or gravel bed farther down—I. W. NEWS LARGE ALFALFA ACREAGE ON STATE HOSPITAL FARM. TOTAL of 160 acres of alfalfa was shown to visitors at the New- berry State Hospital last week, by Hugh Campbell, farm superintendent, during the Second Annual Luce Coun- ty Farmers’ Field Day held at that institution last week. Other crops in excellent condition shown by Mr. Campbell, included corn, sunflowers, potatoes, oats, peas, roots props, and garden crops. “The tour has convinced me,” de- clared one visitor, “that excellent crops can be grown on light sand soil if the soil is given proper treatment. The excellent crops grown on the State Hospital farms show that not only in Luce county can these crops be duplicated, but on many similar areas in the Upper Peninsula.” ' Other features of the field day in- cluded a picnic dinner, with a speak- ing program following, a horse dyno- mometer exhibit, a visit to the poultry plant, an examination of the pure-bred Holstein herd, and the dairy judging contest which decided the winner of, the pure-bred Holstein bull given by the hospital. MOST PRETENTIOUS AGRICUL- TURAL UNDERTAKING. ' HE Triangle Ranch, near- Amasa, is the Upper Peninsula’s most pre- tentious and considerable agricultural undertaking. Plans are making to make it a “dude ranch,” whereby high- toned citizens of Chicago and Milwau- kee can make their way thither by airplane and then enjoy a bit of real LDVERLAN I FRDM ranch-life—cowboys, riding the range, ranch feed—such as one reads about in “the wild west.” It is one of the several indications of southern inter- est in this north country for summer recreational purposes. CLOVERLAN D POULTRY PROFIT- - ABLE. URING the past winter there were forty—seven demonstration poultry farms in the Upper Peninsula, which had in all, 10,222 laying hens on them, according to the report of Mr. R. L. Gulliver, M. S. C. poultry specialist. The hens on these farms produced an average of 55.1 eggs for the period. The profit from each hen amounted to an average of ninety-five cents. This , is considered a good profit by Mr. G111- liver, and he advises Upper Peninsula. farmers to keep more hens and thus increase their cash profits. CROPS GOOD. HE copper country reports first- class crop conditions this season, principally because of abundant rains. Large crops of hay, potatoes and ber- ries are indicated. Time was when the copper country had to import its food supply largely from outside points. But this has long since been not the case, and instead of potatoes, berries, and occasionally hay are we ported. » The cherry trees, which are a. fa- mous .feature of the National Capital, were propagated from 15,000 stocks raisedwith particular care in»; Jaw anese nursery. ‘ .. .‘ : 'i “A “Ii—‘A‘ gM“ ‘1’» M a war— A .~_. ': ‘MV g , fl. jam cmxssmv . «v M _ ”was. .M NM, POTATO growers in “nerthern Mich- igan recently made a thorough study of potato fields in several of the more northern counties. The tour held under_the auspices of the Michi- gan Potato Producers’ Association 'started at Mancelona and included fields in the vicinity of Alba, Elmira, Gaylord, Vanderbilt, Levering, Alan- son, Petoskey, Central Lake and Bel- laire. Special study was made of seed plots grown by growers of certified , seed, and several fertilizer demonstra- tion plots were visited. Practically all of the fields observed showed very ex- cellent stands and most exceptional growth of the vines. It is believed that the general condition of potato fields in the northern icounties is much better than during'any of the past few seasons. Growers are particularly in- terested in the amount of disease that the various fields contain. It was en- couraging to note that fields contain- ed practically no serious disease and it is thought that the percentage of rejections this year in fields under in- spection will be considerably less than heretofore. The tour Was concluded at Bellaire, where a banquet and general meeting was held. Several talks were made by growers and college representa- tives. Among the visitors present was Professor John Bushnell, of the Ohio Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio. Mr. Bushnell has tested out during the past few years many strains of Mich- igan seed and reported very excellent results with it. Upon Completion of the northern tour several certified seed growers of the north made a tour to Oakland county where they joined the Oakland county potato tour. The southern growers were much interested in hear- ing the accmgits of the northern men and describing their methods of seed production. On the last day of the Oakland, county tour, the growers vis- ited the farm of Percy King, at Water- ford, where nearly 200;,strains of seed potatoes are under observation. Each strain was marked so that the grow- ers could study the field intelligently. Special interest in the Oakland coun- ty tour was manifested by growers in efficient _ spraying methods. It was found that many fields showed serious injury from leaf hoppers. Fields, how- ever, that have been thoroughly spray- ed with Bordeaux mixture were in ex- cellent condition and promised very satisfactory yields. TOP 0’ MICHIGAN SHOW AN INSTITUTiON. THE Fourth Annual Top 0’ Michi- Potato and Apple Show will be held at Gaylord, November 3-4-5, ac- cording to Mr. A. C. Lytle, secretary. A larger and more attractive premium list is being prepared, and an espe- cially strong educational program also is planned ‘for the occasion. Any grower from Cheboygan, Otsego, Crawford, Alpena, Presque Isle, Em- met, or Antrim counties is eligible to compete for the $1,200 in cash priz- es offered. In fact, every county, ex- cept Charlevoix, in the northern “tip” of Michigan, is contributing financially towaid the Show and is, therefore eli- gible The show is also receiving financial support from the Michigan Central ' Railroad, the Northeastern Michigan Development Bureau and ' ' the state of Michigan. M13 Fred Brudy, president of the show, and a prominent potato grower at Wolverine, says: “The Top 0’ Michigan Potato Show has become an institution in northern Michigan which we are unable to get along without. Not only has it advertised and demon- strated the fact that this is the home of real quality potatoes, but it has \i W 19/! if Red Top Hogging Down Crops Low cost temporary fences quickly erected with Red Top Steel Fence Posts HOGGING down» part of your 'corn crop is a profitable practice growing byleaps and bounds each year. It saves expense of husking, cribbing, re-loading and feeding. Hogs do better when allowed to forage for them- selves. They are thorough workmen—never miss an car. When you “hog down” part of your corn crop this year use Red Top Steel Fence Posts for your temporary fencing. Red Top Steel Drive Fence Posts make possible quickly erected and quickly removed, economical temporary fences. 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If pupils do not pass the eighth grade, and in the future intend to go to a. town school and take up ninth grade, are the parents of these chil- dren supposed to pay their tuitions, or does the school district have to pay it?-——A. R. Unless the pupil has the ,diploma from the eighth grade, the parents will have to pay the tuition—Rood. PRIVATE LAKE. There is a lake along the highway, with a creek running across the road, enabling a boat to get to the lake. The lake is claimed by a few club men who state that they pay taxes on the lake. They do not, neither ’on the fish in the water or the water, Can any man fish in that lake?—E. L It is not apparent that any person other than the owners of the land have any right to fish on the lake.— Rood. MAINTAINING THE FENCE. Please let me know What I can do if my neighbor does not keep his part of the fence up. His cattle come through on my fields—A. B. If the fence has already been divid- ed and the cattle come through from the failure of the adjoining owner to keep up his share, the cattle may be taken and held for the damage done, or the complaining party may call in the fence viewers and get an order for rebuilding of the fence, and if it is not built by the neighbor, he may him- self built it and have the cost levied, upon the land of his neighbor and col- lected as a tax. CLOSE FARM GATES 'AT RAIL- ROAD. A farmer’s driveway crosses two railroads before it reaches the public highway. The foreman in this section threatens arrest if the gates are not closed. The farmer is in the dairy business and is obliged to use the driveway seven or eight times a day, and it is impossible for him to keep the gates closed. Is he liable for any- thing killed on this crossing?—J. K. It is believed that the railroad company is in the right in insisting that the gates be kept closed—Rood. DAMAGE FOR TROOP HORSE. I rented my horse to Troop A at Camp Grayling. She was in fine con- dition when hey took her, and brought her back very poor and sick, infecting my barn and premises. They refuse to pay me for the damage done to the horse, outside of the regular rent amount. I even had to go after her and bring her home myself. Is there a“higher-up” that might see that we get justice in this case?—I. H. R You might write the War Depart- ment at Washington. 'No suit can be maintained against the United States, and the matter will have to be adjust- ed through the department—Rood. RENTAL AGREEM ENT. A. owns a farm and rents it to B. on shares, the rental year being from March 1 to March 1 of the following year. A. has cows, young cattle, hogs, and a horse on the farm. B. moved to the farm the preceding year so as to care for the live stock during the Winter months, as A. had asked him to do this. There is no written agree- ment. Is B. compelled to move by December 1, or shall he live on the farm ti’Il‘l the year is up on March 1?— E. In all cases of leasing on shares there is a serious question as to wheth- er the arrangement constitutes a leas- ing or a hiring of service. 1. If it is a. hiring of service, with wages payable in a. share of the pro- duce, the servant may be discharged at any time, and required to deliver up possession, being entitled to re- cover damages for the discharge dur- a lulu was as Mufti-b] ing the term of the difference between the price he was to receive and the amount he could earn elsewhere in a. similar employment. 2. If it constitutes a. lease, with rent payable in kind, the tenant is en- titled to possession until the end of the term upon making payment of the rent and could be dispossessed only upon” six months notice, terminating at the end of the year, or upon a. year’s notice terminating at any time, except that where the renting is for a single term the tenant is not entitled to notice to quit at the end of the term. ——Rood. TEACH ER’S CONTRACT VALID. Is a. teacher-contract made by the old school board legal when director wasn’t qualified member, and during his term he appointed one member of board as “the treasurer?” At the an- nual meeting a. new school board was elected and the question is, “are we bound by what the old board done, and is the treasurer illegal?" Have they the right to hire a teacher, know- ing all th1ee might not be elected again under these circumstances? Will the teacher’s contract hold under these conditions? Can the teacher holding a contract stop teaching when she sees fit. and at the same time col- lect her wages if the school discharges her? The past director was appointed to fill vacancy and at the time swore that he was qualified, but now admits that .115 is not. What is the penalty? Persons dealing with public ofiicers in actual possession and exercise of the functions of the office, are protect- ed without regard to the qualifica- tions of the officer, and therefore the contract of hiring is valid, although the officer was not qualified—Rood. TH E WIDOW’S SHARE. Husband has a warantee deed for a. farm and the wife’s name is not‘men- tioned, only as “his heirs.” In case of husband’s death What share could the wife hold if there are no children? What share could she hold if there were children? If wife can only hold tone-third when there are no children, who gets the rest? The husband has brothers, sisters, and parents—S. If there are children, one—third would descend to the Widow and two-thirds to the children. If there are no chil— dren, one-half would descend to the Widow and the other half to the father and mother of the deceased—Rood. MUST PAY IF ACCORDING TO CONTRACT. I bought a phonograph from a com- pany, paying monthly payments of $7 a month. I attempted to pay it all, but I found that the company’s bill and my bill did not correspond. It was agreed that I was to have a month’s free trial. Soon after I found that the leg was broke, and informed the company. They wrote and told me to have the leg fixed for $3.00 and they would pay for it. Now, you cannot get anything for $3.00. I told them this, and advised them to tradeuit in, or do something with it. I have al- ready paid $41, and still have $79.89 to pay. I wrote them and told them that if they would not do anything about it I would not pay any more. I have not heard from them since. Could they make me pay the rest of the money due? What can I do in this case? Please advise—M. M. Manifestly, the purchaser is liable for the price agreed, if the goods are furnished according. to the contract; but if the goods are not according to the contract, the purchaser would have a right to return them and demand his money back, unless by his delay he has waived this right, and in 'anyevent - he would have a right to a. reduction to the extent of the difference in value of the goods from What they wouldlbe it, according \to the contract. All of these matters are open to conflicting testimony in case of a trisl. and the results cannot be foretold. ' ' tor pulling three 16-inch plows and , and oil of 37.7 cents per acre, or cov- . College, chairman; ,, _ .agnnsbige Hollow;~ "Blunt farm, northeast of Charles City, lewa.. ' Three .tractor outfits were un- der test on field work. Outfit No. 1 was a 16-30 tractor pulling a ten-foot double disk, tractor seeder, and drag harrow; Outfit No. 2 was a 16—30 trac- one section of drag harrow; and Out- fit No. 3 was a 12—24 tractor pulling two 16-inch plows and one section of drag harrow; while a 20-40 tractor was shown a short distance away operat- ing a separator threshing the farmer’s stacked grain. All of these were op- erating on cheap furnace oil such as is "used in many of the gravity type heating plants of 39 Baume test, in— stead of the 41 Baume test kerosene usually used. This cost, delivered in barrels at the demonstration field, ten cents per gallon instead of 16.4 cents per gallon for kerosene. The tractors all used special heavy lubricating oil. The different outfits were operated for as nearly two hours as possible, with complete rounds of a field 1,850 feet long, of oats stubble in good plow- ing condition. The depth of plowing was—as near seven inches as could be maintained, each tractor being oper- ated by a bona—fide farmer. At the end of the run, the fuel and oil were measured for each tractor, the amount of work done computed, with the fol- lowing results: Outfit No. 1 double disked, seeded, and harrowed 5.098 acres in one hour and thirty minutes actual working time, on 5.52 gallons of fuel and .29 gallons of lubricating oil, at a. fuel cost of 10.8 cents per acre, a total cost for fuel and oil of 14.8 cents per acre, or covered 6.759 acres per $1.00 for fuel and oil. Outfit No. 2 plowed and harrowed 3.06 acres in one hour and fifty-one minutes actual working time, on 5.85 gallons of furnace oil and .369 gallons of lubricating oil, at a fuel cost of 19.1 cents per acre, a total cost for fuel and oil of 27.5 cents per acre, or cov- ered 3.63 acres for $1.00 for fuel and oil. Outfit No. 3 plowed and harrowed 1.97 acres in one hour and forty—three minutes, actual working time, on 4.84 gallons of furnace oil and .369 gallons of lubricating oil, at a fuel cost of 24.6 cents per acre, a total cost for fuel ered 2.52 acres per $1.00 for fuel and oil. Other tractors not in the actual tests were shown pulling variousfield equipment, such as binders with hitch and power take-off, corn-picker with power take-off, and hitch for picker and wagon; and so on, all of which drew much attention from 'those pres- ent. A point very noticeable was that the only stoppage due to tractor trou- ble was about one minute for Outfit No. 1, due to a few drops of water in the fuel. This is very much in con- trast to the conditions ten or twelve years ago during the. early demonstra- tions. ‘ Measurements for the test were un- der the direction of a committee com- posed of Prof. E. V. Collins, Iowa State I. W. Dickerson, correspondent for the Michigan Farm— er, and C. A. Baumgart, of Successful Farming. George Smalley’s baby has been sick and they’ve Visited seven difierent doctors in the nearby towns. Each doctor has cut something out of the diet of the baby until the poor kid would have to starve to death if they took all the advice they have paid for. P t m. omthe 7 Atlantic, Waves HAT there is no‘sl-ackening of the farmer's" interest in power farining was indicated by an at- tendance of over one thousand Iowa '7 farmers at the “Cut-the—Costs” demon- ‘ stration, held August 24 on the Walter FOR 50 YEARS ‘ -BEAN Hill-IIVEERSTERS HAVE LED ALL [MITATORS Write Le Roy Plow Co., Le Roy, N. Y. ‘WHBN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK WILL BUILD mEM It is no longer necessary to drain crankcase oil every 500 miles. Four changes of oil a year are enough, when you own a 1927 Buick. The crankcase in the 1927 Buick is vacuum cleaned! A vital new imo provement—the Vacuum Ventila- tor—dra ws all the crankcasevapors out into the open before they have an opportunity to do harm. Now, all that is necessary is to add oil occasionally and change 4 times a year, simply as a supercaution. The problem for years has been to stop oil dilution. And now Buick has accomplished it! Come in and let us show you the C O A L $2.75 PER TON AT THE MINES Hand picked. shaker screened lump. save money. Write today for free illustrated circu- lar and delivered price. Farmer agents wanted. Theo. Burt & Sons, Box 40, Melrose, 0. Satisfaction. guaranteed. a Michigan Farmer Liner Try vil‘l'llll;iilii'!i Rut-resisting Cooper-Steel— Aronm is the hi host unlit van included in bmdfindiozgg maizagdgg $3103: or have raved that o-Knrsroun Sheets ty is also unequaled for Booting Tin Pl AMERICAN SHEET ANDTIN PLATE COMPANY, General Offices: Prick Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. min 11 v;IIHHHIHHHIHIHHH For Culverts Flumes, Tanks. Silos. Roofing. 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L A N E, Mansfield, Ohio 8 our 77 GUARANTI' "“ ‘ ’ ’r verti Inc,- It fr! nds d mm on: o‘gll’tng “:12:an mn 337:5.- v‘re wilfleuditbhe on new co to): b nail post on. 1.55 a! doll on may we . ’ t proof «2:21;; windvufd etern‘netfmevlt I lo dec- ect met In"; for I "are. In erdaemeuttomwithtl. dud watch "be sent at one. I: wipe-t paid. or land”. 0 and will-en m watches. Sadat-adorn mend or money ”fun . CHICAGO ware" AND DIAMOND GO. 4181 Broadway. Chicago. Ill. new ..... oun- no'r suo'r nATrEgy Eveready Columbia Hot Shot Batteries contain 4, 5 or 6 cell: in a neat, water-proof steel case. It is not a "Hot Shot” unless u 1% volts is an Eveready Columbia. Fahnestock spring- cIip binding posts on the Eveready Colum- bia Ignitor at no extra cost. A high-power team .THROW the switch that brings Eveready Cog lumbias into action and you’ll get a-plenty of it. .These batteries work as hard as a team of Percherons. Their capacity for hard work is enormous, and they know how to rest too, for when work’s done they rest and restore their energies. Thus they not only work hard, but last a long time. There is an Eveready Columbia dealer nearby. Popular uses include— ine i nition heat regulators electric clocks ‘ ffififne anEl tractor ignition calling Moran porters telegraph starting Fords firing blasts doorbells ringing burglar alarms lighting tents and buzzers protecting bank vaults outbuxldmgs motor boat ignition running toys Manufactured and guaranteed by NATIONAL CARBON COMPANY, INC. New York San Francisco ‘ Canadian National Carbon 00., Limited, Toronto, Ontario EV EREADY COLUMBIA Dry Batteries -they last longer? remakes and 3qu A Forum For Our Reader:’ Opinions, Not Ours FOOD VALUES. N an interesting article in a recent number of the Michigan Farmer, entitled, “Food Values,” it is pointed out that different foods should be stud- ied relative to their constituency of starch, sugar, fat protein, minerals, vitamins and calories, so that the pur- chaser would be able to obtain the most value for his money. Paying for value received, rather than for bulk ' secured. I have absolutely no criticism to of- fer to the above. The reading of it, however, gave birth to a thought that might be termed a close relative. Are we not at present eating foods too highly concentrated? Is not the prev- alence of constipation and kindred dis- orders of the digestive tract due very largely to the fact that our present- day menu lacks sufficient bulk to ac- tuate the intestinal avenue to function properly? . I believe that while it is quite essen- tial that the human individual should post himself relative to the number of calories, vitamins, fats, sugar, starch- es, etc., that will best nourish and de- velop the human system; and in the ,interest of his pocket book, learn the amount of these elements that differ- ent foods contain, he should, too, see that there was sufficient bulk in his ;daily rations to impel the sewer sys- item of his body in bringing about ‘complete elimination of waste matter. .Greeley Everitt. ' SAW your request for readers of ‘ the Michigan Farmer to let you know what they thought of enforcing the prohibition law. I think your plan is a good one. We certainly need something done in this part of the ‘state. Our neighbors on both sides make moonshine. I have seen more twelve years, than I ever saw when the state was wet. What we need here is state officers who are not afraid, and who do not drink, to work in this county for a few weeks, for it is impossible for anyone here to get a man arrested. f PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT. l POTATO CRATES Try a Michigan Farmer Liner Standard bushel crates ready for use. F. 0. B. cars. Lansing. $3.75 per dozen, 50 {or $13.75. 100 for In this county the officers are in sym- pathy with the moonshiners. I ask you to use your influence to see if 326.25. M. H. Hunt ls gon. 5l0 No. Cedar $1.". Lamina. Mich. KRAG BAYONETS With scabbard. For use in 001's, 2 lbs. d Kg]; Carbines Cal. 30-40 ..... $15.00 Krag Sporting Rifles Cal. 30-40. 14.00 Krag Rifles Cal. 30-40 ......... 12.50 Spr’gf’ld Ca}. 45 Shot, Guns.... 4.75 No c. 0. D5. NEW cA'rALbG 7 w. sroxes KIRK. "527.“: NoJMh St..PhiIa..Pa. $339.2 V per 1000 sq. ft. Buys Real /WHITE PINE , % lAl’SllllNQ ., Write and get Money Sav- ing lumber prices. Why pay some one long profits when you can buy direct yourself and save up to $350:- more on every 1000 feet of new lumber and millwork. You can get everything you need direct from our yard: and save $500 to $1600 or more on your house or barn bill. WRITE for Money Saving Price List nude I but the patCh never Newfir ”dag: 05:0,. ing. lapsiding dimen- sions sheathing, etc. \ The tube may blow / PUNCTURE patched with Las- gagged; “0813:3333: Stik is patched forever. Vulcan- ~ rial—amt {rpm / ized by the heat of the road Las-Stik $255333} £39111; If” . becomes as much a part of the tube _wa can shin” fie as all the rubber around it. In the iirbigsimimflfiig I I Wham red and blue metal can, 50 cents. At: Hmognd Barn as witigo utiliti- ur dealer’s or b mail. ”today“ need“ 1mg; yo Y goal goggeaeetwm it p - LAS-STIK PATCH we. co. . rml' "hams sons 00., in. Hamilton, Ohio / Home Meet: 332 S. lithium Ave. / cum. m. /J \ Breather W ll. . A cm “ The White Tube Patch that Never Fails" something can be done—E. T. BASIS OF BANK ISSUE DWARD Hutchins wonders what would happen if the people gen- erally understood the basis of bank issue. This is a question that is getting old, dating back to the early sixties when greenbacks caused usur- ers on three continents to tremble. This was the clearest exhibition of the functions of money that had as yet been set forth as the government was aware of the virgin soil to draw on for everything to make a. fight. Money was even then._considered a creature of congress, “nothing in it- self except evidence of stored days work to apply in remote places” to draw real wealth from the soil and convert same to the use of congested population in convenient‘locations to pursue their varied work. The need for this is greatly increased in time of war, especially so in civil war, and the medium of exchange must be of such nature that there is no incentive to hold it for profit. That is what scared the usurers. They saw that if the government sustained itself a. promise to pay would be just as good Without interest as with it; and an exception clause was the only protec- tion the loan sharks or coin sweaters had. In the meantime they educated the financiers of the world as to the proper representations to make to congress that would, give banks the uets advantage over producers of wealth the moment a surplus for expert was assured. If the people will carefully examine the acts of Congress since the pulic land acts of 1863, they will see a very close connection between the rise and fall of land and crop prices. The first fit was thrown in 1878 on conversion;= the second was 1873 on silver limit- ing; the third was in 1893 on the re- peal of silver purchase act and the borrowing of gold on a world market to pay treasury notes, giving Morgan and Drexel the first big rake off. Then something happened that for a time disconcerted the gold bond holder. The sand in S. Africa and Alaska be~ gan producing gold and stimulated manufacturing. Wheat brought $1.00 in New York and Kansas had a bin. full. The western men began to buy bonds partly relieving the slump in the silver mining region. Then to cap all, Cripple Creek responded to the efforts of a carpenter and a‘ sheep rancher with gold, and commodity value began to have some purchasing DOWer again. Then came the Span- ish War and more opportunity for the western men to buy bonds with Ameri- can money and products.‘ Things gradually became better for the farmer. Cattle sold for five cents at . Buffalo and lo the East organized a meat strike, but they were only partly successful. Then, in 1907, came the rich man’s panic, the exposure of the life insurance graft that so closely allied the Insurance Companies with high finance that the president and Governor Hughes took a hand and made the excuse for the Federal Re< serve System which provides in a roundabout-way for an interest bear- ing greenbacks to be issued and re— called as the board saw fit without comptroller sanctions. As usual Con- gress had again delegated its consti- tutional power to a non-responsible board andthat is all we have to de- pend on unless the Canadians strike a mountain of gold and pay those cornichons off in the coin they pre- tend to crave. The Western farmer in 1920 was en- titled, according to law, to a redis- count totaling three hundred million dollars. He never used more than ninety-five million and before the de flation was carried to the point where the exporters and liberty bond scalp- ers wanted it, it stood at thirty-five million (see excerpts of speech of J. S. William former Comptroller). The bond scalpers tried the same thing on the RR. and coal mines and the labor unions were too well organ ized and look at their wages! Almost level with war wages. Then look at the farmers plight! No wages, “de— flated prices,” operating funds de‘ pleted an average of $2000 to 160 acres and no telling how much on real estate holdings. The remedy is for Congress to as- sume the power delegated and give us a single issue of money and one system of banking with a food value dollar based on the calorie and vita- min value of staples.———E. Richardson. MARL USERS ORGANIZE. A MARL users’ association for the purpose of promoting the digging and using of marl on farms near Lake City has been organized with thirty- five charter members. A marl digging outfit from Michigan State College has been engaged to take out two thousand yards of marl this fall. James W. Kelley, Elton Hull, Aldrich Hillsman, D. Duddles, and CarlHoitenga are the directors of the association. It is best never to leave the car standing without applying the enter » gency brake. ._ j w"- ...-‘\,_ *- “a“... r \uv‘ wqu! - ~ . .-,‘:_ email? kidney beans. should know regard- ing the kidney bean sport and the do» sirability of rogueng it from their -. beans“ This kidney bean sport is go- ~ ing to give the farmers a great deal ‘ of difficulty if they do not pull it from their kidney bean fields. The bean, when processed by the canners, or when soaked by the housewife, fades out very readily so that they have a poor looking product which is. not de- ,sirable for the trade or table. The -7 canners are objecting to this bean very strenuously, because it does fade out. ' 2f ' Since there is no market for the if kidney bean when it has a mixture of this sport, I would suggest to all farm- ers in the state‘who are growing kid- ney beans, that they get busy immedi- ately and rogue this sport, or any for- eign-looking bean from their fields. The sport bean is quite easily de- , tected in the field because it produces {I a vine-like growth, and also has many pods to the plant. The foliage is of a rather dark purplish green color, and the stems of the plant have a reddish cast; in contrast to the kidney bean, which is a bushy plant, and the foliage of a green color. ~ Since the bean fields are becoming as generally blighted as they are, we farmers should take as much precaui tion as possible in obtaining the best quality of kidney beans that we can 1 get this fall, and one means of doing this is to see that our beans do not contain any of this sport, so let’s— 1 everybody—rogue our kidney bean 5 fields—H. R. Pettigrove, Assistant }' . Professor of Farm Crops, M. S. C. ...-‘\,_ ‘_ “a“... r \uv‘ . SCAB BY POTATO ES. What is the cause of scabby pota- toes? I have them planted on the same piece of land as last year, and I used good stable manure each time. They were pretty good last year. But this year they are not good for mar- keting at all. Have I used too much manug‘Ie?K What can I do in this case? The cause of scab of potatoes is a, bacterial trouble which lives on the seed and also in the soil. Treating the seed [before planting, I 'with corrosive sublimate, kills the scab germs that may be on it. Using «. . a long rotation in which potatoes‘are ‘ not planted on the same plat more , often than once in four or five years ,i . helps to eliminate potato scab from ., ~ . the soil. . The potato scab organism thrives ; particularly well on soils rich in lime i It is, therefore, never a good practice ‘ to make heavy applications of lime ‘ shortly before planting the potatoes. t ‘ Whatever lime is used on the soil , ‘ should be applied a year or more be- fore potatoes are planted. Fresh stable manure, since it contains ammonia, produces an alkaline reaction on the g soil similar to lime and, therefore, fa- - vors scab development. It is not ad- , visable to apply stable manure just 4;, previous to planting potatoes. If pos- sible, put it on during the fall or win- ter previous to planting. I would recommend that a. sample of the soil in question he sent to the Soils Department of the Michigan State College for a lime test, and in case it is naturally rich in lime, appli- cations of commercial fertilizer at the rate of about 600 pounds to the acre would be very beneficial in controlling the potato scab. A good analysis fer- tilizer would be a 3-10- 4, that is, three per cent nitrogen, ten per cent phos- phoric acid, four per cent potash. The nitrogen should be in the form of sul- phate of ammonia, and this, with the ' '. phosphoric aéid in the form of acid phosphate, would produce a temporary acid condition of the soil which would check scab to some extent. —H. C. Moore. ‘ ._ . Tv. wwwf ‘ ~ HE farmers in the state who grow The basic sources of motor car value are not always apparent to the eye. 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Barden, of South Haven, is known far and wide as one of the leading fruit growers of the state and Seventy acres of the 182- acre farm is devoted to fruit, while a fine herd of Jersey cattle adds income Paul C. Clement has an eighty-acre clay loam farm near Britton, in Mon— Some years ago he be- came interested in the production of Today Mr. Clement has one of the best seed corn houses Corn that fails to meas- ure up to his high seed standards goes A. B. Cook for a long term of years has increased crop production on his 160—acre farm south of Owosso with- out the aid of live stock, through a. Please Mention The Michigan Farmer When Writing-to Advertisers “Over the Fence’ HILE Farmer Jones and Farmer Brown were haying close together, They stopped to talk across the fence about the crops and went her. The while they rested up a bit, as farmers like to do, And gossip some, and speculate, and take another chew. Said Farmer Jones to Farmer Brown, “I’d really like to know Just why you’re so successful, just how you make things go. Most everything succeeds with you, to which you turn your hand, You've made this farm the best there is— the pride of all the land. “You have the finest buildings found around here any- Where. The kind of stock you market, makes us all sit up and stare. You raise more grain upon your land than any othersdo— A real successful farmer, we dolf our hats to you." Said Farmer Brown to Farmer joncs, “It may not seem good scnsc, The reason that I do quite well is, just this good old fence. With duc deliberation I am bound, I think, to say, The fence I've built has made for me just what I have today. “It cost me time and labor, and yet I have to thank It for the money I have saved and placed dofivn in the bank. It sent the boys to college, and the girls to Normal, too, .And if you'd do as I have done, ’twould do as much for you. "You know that I have always claimed, and still I like to say, Each spear the land produces must be somehow made to pay. And while you take from out the soil just all that it will stand, You must put something back that will build up the ravished land. “And so I build good fences, and try to plan and work, To change what others mostly waste to mutton, beef and pork. And though I make my money through the hog and sheep and steer, I find my soil is better, getting richer every year. “I never sell a pound of grain, as other people do, I often have to buy a lot to take my cattle through . I never have to sell my corn at ten or twenty cents, For I can get a dollar, just by keeping up my fence. “When harvest comes upon us, and in haste we have to reap. There’s nothing goes to waste, because I keep a band of sheep. So, when the grain is taken off, and safely in the bin, To save the last blame kernel, I have just to turn them in. 9 ——by T.-W. STILLWELL “And, while they gather every head the men have left about, They also harvest all the weeds, and clean the mustard out. And, while they help me kill the weeds that others have to pull, They turn them into money through a bumper crop of wool. $250.00 T. W. Stillwell of Wentworlh, S. 1)., won $250.00 in cash for this Second Prize story in the Keystone Steel & Wire Company's $1500.00 Prize Essay Contest on “The Ad- vantages of (1 Well Fenced Farm." Ifyou are interested wn‘te for the names of other prize winners (Ind reprints of their stories. ‘I stretch a fence right through my corn, quite early in the Fall, And turn the shoats into one part and let them take it all. At first, the neighbors laughed at me and sometimes they would scoff, But now, I see that every one is trying ‘hogging off.’ “No scrubby bulls or mangy boars can trespass much on me. And leave their after bad effects, in doubtful progeny. So, when I sell my blooded stock. the buyer can be sure He gets the very best there is, and blood that's Simon pure. “My chickens search throughout my fields for bugs upon the grass, But cannot venture on the road where speeding autos pass. And every bloomip’ rooster that we hatch may live to see , The day when he is fit to make a toothsome fricassee. “I never had a lawsuit over cattle gone astray, My fences also safely keep my neighbor's stock away. My sheep are never killed, nor hurt, by dogs that roam about. I build my fences high and tight, and that has kept them out. “My orchards and my buildings are safer now by far, Than those of many farmers, where no fences ever are. For the prowlers of the night—time never seem to care to stop, If your fence is high and solid, with a barbwire on the top. “And then, again, my fences are to me my boundary line. What's outside may be others, but what’s inside is mine. And a sense of fond p0ssession ever with me will remain, When I View the friendly acres that make up my small domain." Said Farmer Jones, “It seems to me, your fence resembles you, With rugged posts and steely lines, it stretches straight and true. And though it must have cost you much. of labor and expense, I think that what you've said of it is plainest common sense. “I’d surely like to listen to your argument all day, But now we must get busy, if we finish up the hay. And I surely will come over, when I get my work in hand, “Red Strand." To have you help me figure how I ought to fence my land." RED STRAND “Galvannealed” Square Deal Fence surely was the one Mr. Stillwell had in mind when he wrote “Over the F ence.” Its much heavier zinc coating must be the thing Brown had to “thank for the money placed down in 7 the bank.” Send for copies of the larger prize-winning stories KEYSTONE STEEL & WIRE co. 4976 Industrial St., PEORIA, ILL. and the free “Official Proof of Tests. ” showing how nationally known laboratories try fence wire for rust—resisting, long wearing qualities and what they found when they tested Sent FREE with farm fence catalog. system of green manuring which he has worked out to meet his conditions. Garfield and M. E. Farley together farm 390 acres south of Albion. Dun ing the recent agricultural depression they have enjoyed a fine income from their extensive orchards, feeding cat tle, raising Oxford sheep and Hamp< shire hogs. They are also producers of a high class of certified grains. Frank Kinch is a sheep farmer, keeping over a thousand head of sheep on his thousand-acre farm near Grinds More of Our Master Farmers H. R. Probert. C. S. Langdon. stone City in Huron county. In his pure-bred flocks are found Rambouil— lets, Oxfords, Shropshires, Southdowns and other breeds. C. S. Langdon, known in some parts of the state as “Sam,” manages 280 acres, which he maintains in a high state of cultivation for a general farm. He keeps Holsteins and Poland Chi- nas. Sam is the only tenant farmer in this year’s list, he being the owner of forty acre and renting the re- mainder. C. R. Oviatt has all of his 135-acro farm near Bay City under cultivation. Besides producing certified grains and seeds he grows a. large acreage of sugar beets and keeps Belgian horses and grade Oxford sheep. M. E. Parmelee, of Hillards, is gen- erally recognized as Michigan’s cham- pion potato grower, having averaged over 400 bushels per acre for the past three years. He also has a fine herd of Holstein cows and a high-producing flock of Leghorn chickens. H. F. Probert, of Jackson, has long been counted as one of the leading Jersey breeders of the country. He has used for many years a liquid max nure system on his 180-acre farm, which is in a high state of cultivation. This is the list of men to whom we wish to do honor by making them the charter members of the Michigan Mas- ter Farmers’ Club. During the com- ing six months, stories of their ac complishments "will be published in this journal. Every effort will be made to keep the practical phases of their work in the foreground, while not for- getting the interesting things about their farming experiences. The program, including Senator Cap- per’s address, will be broadcasted over WKAR from 7:00 to 9:15 p. 111., east- ern standard time, on the evening of September 22. We would urge those having receiving sets to tune 'in on the College Station, East Lansing, for the event. MARKET PROVES POPULAR. HE Iron Mountain farmers’ pro duce market recently established, is proving inereasingly popular. On one day recently thirty-four farmers brought produce to the market, one of them coming thirty miles, and all are reported to have sold out early. Poul< try, eggs, butter, cream, potatoes and corn were especially salable. Farmers who had attended the previous market were present, as were also newcomers. Ironwood now'has a. farmers’ market twice weekly. ' ,Gold is said to have‘heeii the! metal work (1 b man - ' r «1. .onored‘ m u.‘l.,~_ .r..,‘v , V .. \ r ‘ \ Gertrude Ederle made a triumph— 'Packing allfitors has beCOme a growing industry. in—Caliform’a, This black crepe satin in the new ant return to New York after created by the puth’S demand for them as pets as well as fly bolero effect is popular for af- swimming the English channel. catchers. ternoon wear. Walter Beach (right) came in first, and Louis Melster (left) came It is planned to make a non-stop flight from New York to Paris in in second, on the annual Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour thirty-six hours with this three-motored Sikorsky plane. The that covered 2,564 miles. plane has successfully stood all test flights. Nerve was personified to the nth degree when G. Lebedeff—Boukreeff, once Czarl’s This remarkable job of tattooing adorns the this squirrel nibbled nuts within easy reach railroad director, is now a I‘all- back of David Warford, one of Roosevelt’s of this dog, road draftsman in U. S. or1g1nal rough riders. WW After conference with Ainbassador Shefl‘leld, of‘Mexfeo, Secretary , This unusual action picture shows six swimmers in the air at the ‘ of State Kellogg has announced that there will be no change in start of a race at Lake Arrowhead, California, where the annual . thawing-which the ‘Unlted States adopted toward Mexico. ‘ ‘ "mile high” championships will be held. j . 1 comm: by‘Undmdj a Underwood. New York. IRE-BALL escaped shortly past midnight, one March night when the snow was softening in a warm south wind and a quarter moon hung, yelléw and huge, near the tree line in the west. He effected the escape by a prodigi- ‘ ous leap from atop his sleeping hutch, landing on the horizontal strip of mesh that ran about the top of his pen to prevent his scaling the walls. From there he sprang lightly down to the ground outside the pen, and was free. No one at the Arenac Farms knew that from then till dawn he was with Bess, the collie on watch about the fox runs. She was standing at a far corner of the runs when the creaking of the wire mesh as the fox alighted upon it, caught her attention. She piv- oted and raced up the fence. When Fire-ball struck the ground, she was there before him, barring his escape. A brief minute they faced each oth— er, the dog growling her warning that she would not suffer him to pass, that he was not free after all, the fox hud— dled against the mesh of the pen, snarling his defiance and fear in a high rasp. Then the miracle occurred. An old instinct stirred in them, fanned by the spring wind. A call of spring that carries even to the wild packs, on the nights of melting snow. The dog, from her place as jailer, was first to sense it. Half reluctantly she yielded. Her ruff dropped, and the growling grew soft, died away. Fire-ball sensed the change before he realized the cause. He raised slow- ly from his crouching posture, and his snarl lowered. He took an inquisitive short step toward his warden, and when she showed no resentment, he advanced a second cautious step. This time Bess replied in kind, and sud- denly the dog-fox felt, too, the lure of the spring and the soft breath of the south wind. They were different in kind, ene- mies implacable and old-—but the hazy crescent moon above them, the moon under which the wild geese fare north- ward to their nesting places, was not a moon for enmity! Still, when their muzzles brushed for an instant of fleet- ing contact, the collie could not for- bear a single snap of distaste. Fire- ball, sensing this only as a spring mood of a vixen, flattened away with- out reply, and then advanced again. This second time he met with no re« buff. The instinct that draws trails together under the March moon, is af- ter all, the oldest instinct. It was old even before the hate between breeds was born. When the first gray smudge of day- break appeared in the east, long be- fore objects about the yard had begun to cast perceptible shadows, Fire-ball showed signs of desertion. He tested the morning wind that was blowing down from the direction of the house, for a few anxious seconds, standing motionless with sharp ears erected. Then he trotted off, halfway to the hardwood grove that came up along the west fence of the runs. Behind an old apple stub he stopped, looking Collie Blood By Ben Bast A Short Story Complete in This Issue back, waiting for the dog. She understood perfectly well what he expected of her. She did not be— long, though, out there where he was beckoning. His attentions might have been welcome here about the pens. To go out with him beyond the cleared yard was a different thing. She sensed unseen danger in going into the woods in the company of a wild thing. Un- knowingly, she could not forget that there was between them, after all, a feud, ages old. It had even made of this temporary friendship of theirs, thus far, an uncertain thing, with fre- quent ill suppressed growls on her part. ~ Beside all this, there was her duty here by the pens. Her master had put her here. Trusted her with the pro- tection of his property. It was un- thinkable that she should leave. The ‘N. a “\f 4;, é'rm , ,. . II,“ ' time to time to stare off into the hard- wood grove, with an odd uncertainty in her eyes. HE 'collie’s four pups, when they came, were a puzzle to everyone about the place. They were three weeks old before Bill Rudd, owner of Arenac Farms, finally recalled Fire- ball’s escape and made the right guess. He eyed them doubtfully for a few minutes after the thought first came to him. Veteran that he was with dogs, this occasion offered a new riddle. At the table that noon, though, he boasted openly, staking high on Bess. “Blood will tell,’ ’he declared. “You can’t lose collie blood by breeding wild once!” When it came to disposing of the lit- ter, Bill gave three away. The fourth, q‘ oldest instinct of the collie welled up in her, and when the dog-fox came fur- tively back and would have touched muzzles, by way of pleading, she flew into a rage, and snapped at him, bark- ing out savagely! He snarled back, wheeling away from her. As wise as Bess herself, he understood. There had been "between them for an hour of that March night, a truce. The truce was at an end. He raced across the yard, scourged by the old fear of a dog at his heels. In the edge of the woods he looked back. She had not followed him. Only stood there beside his empty pen, growling low in his direction. He stood for a minute to watch her. His fear faded and something of wistfulness came back into his manner. A door slammed at the house. Fire- ball's lips lifted in a final snarl, .and the uncertain gray light between the tree bolls swallowed him up. ' They made no effort to hunt for him that morning when they found his pen empty. He was only a red fox any- way, they remarked. If he were one of the silver tipped blacks, it would be different. Besides, he was not pen bred. They had brought him in from a trap the fall before, and yearling that he was, he had let it be clearly known all winter that he would never conform to the code of a pen. Little or no use to hunt for him, anyway, un- less they put the hounds on his tracks. He would be miles away in the hills and swamps to thenorthwest by now. Only Bess, lying in an open space before the runs, lifted her head from the largest and strongest of the lot, 'he kept for himself. “I’m going to keep him in the fam- ily,” he told one of the men. “And I’m going to make a collie out of him!” Bill Rudd prized Arenac Farms high- ly. He was vastly proud of the Are- nac strain of silver foxes, they reared in the pens. The foxes, though, held no place in his affection. What of it he had to give to the animal world, he levied on his dogs. Foxes and dogs alike, however, were secondary mat- ters after all. The solar star about which his universe revolved was his grandson, little Bill Rudd. 0n the hill south of the pens Carnes Rudd had built, five years before, a fieldstone bungalow. To it, when it was finished, he brought his young wife. They were still there, and little Billie Rudd had lived with them now for four years. They were a pair, this big, leathery- faced old Bill, and little Billie, with his thick red curls! Not so much a pair, either, as a king and a willing vassal. When Fire-hall’s strongest son was six weeks old, Bill carried him up in his arms and laid him down 011 the” porch of the bungalow. Billie’s mother, Alice, had misgivings from the start. “Blood will tell,” Bill Rudd boasted to her again though, “And there's nothing so good for a kid as a dog, and nothing so good for a dog as a kid!” “But he’s half fox,” she argued. Actzvzz‘zer of 11; flaw—Al Decider that He Need: a Few Swimming Lemons. "And thatred tax was- wild and cross. How do you know that it won’t be his blood that will tell?” " Bill laughed at her. “You don’t know collies,” he told her, and her husband joined him in laughing down her doubts. Four-year-old Billie swaggered the length of the porch and laid his hand , on the pup’s head. “ ‘Hut’s his name, g’an’dad ?” he de— manded. “Call him Pal, Billie,” old Bill said. “He’ll make the best one you’ll “ever have.” From the touch of the little boy’s hand, though, Pal was at that instant cringing away, fox-like, rolling up red- rimmed eyes that lacked the humor of a youfig dog’s. From that hour the fox in him show- ed forth. At the end of his second week away from his mother he had his first encounter with a strange dog.- One of Bill’s pair of beagles chanced to cross the yard. A pup would have romped forth to playwith this grown— up visitor, or lacking the confidence in the world’s amnesty to do that, would have bristled, stood his ground, and barked valiantly. In Pal, though, rose instantly the old ancestral fear of a hunting dog. He whirled and dived under the front porch, snarling as he ran. It is significant that the beagle paused, took scent of his tracks, and broke forth into a single rolling trail bay. Billie came out of the door at that instant, and the hound went on across the yard. Almost at once Pal grew cross. Day by day the viperish temper of the dog- fox showed forth in him, more and more plainly. At the same time his mother’s blood gave him a furtive courage that Fire-ball had never had. He came to snarl sullenly at anyone who passed too near to him. He bark- ed impartially and savagely at all new- comers in the yard, even members of the family. He even followed people who passed along the road, slinking after them at a safe distance, snarl- ing and barking; and when they turn- ed to face him they looked into red eyes that did not belong to a dog. Al- ways he had the cunning, when faced, to stop and leap sharply aside, into the cover of the roadside brush. A collie is possessed of a deep kind- ly intelligence. A fox has wild cun- ning and wisdom. To Pal had come an uncanny mixture 0 fthe two. Alice, watching him, grew more and more worried. Even old Bill shook his head doubtfully from time to time at the pup’s behavior. “Blood will tell,” he reiterated time and again, though far less confidently than at first. “Collie blood most of all!” Through all this time collie blood was indeed telling in one small de- tail. There was to Pal’s ill nature, one exception. 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He was always alert, always sly and furtive in the romps they had together, but so far as his half—wild heart was capable he seemed to feel affection-for the boy. The only affec- tion he knew, and enough of it at least to make the person of his little master sacred. . As the weeks of the early summer passed though, and Pal grew day by day more savage, more into the atti- tude of a wild thing held captive and hating his bondage, even Bill Rudd lost hope. “Guess we’ll have to give him up sooner or later,” he confessed to his son one morning, while they stood watching Billie run down the roadside behind the dog, trying in vain to get his hands on him. “I hate to think about it, too. I thought Bess’s blood was stronger than that.” He paused a minute. “I feel kind of sorry for him, too. He acts like old Fire-ball used to. As if he was in a pen all the while, an’ hated it. Wonder to me, he don’t run off an’ go Wild.” “D wish he would,” the younger Rudd declared heartily. “Alice won’t have him with Billie much longer if he keeps on gettin’ worse, and I kind of hate to be the one to shoot him.” Bill nodded. “Maybe he can’t run ofi,” he said thoughtfully. “Maybe the dog in him won’t let him.” ‘ Which was precisely the case. Pal was .indeed in bondage and hating it. Theside of him that was Fireball clamored fiercely for the freedom of the woods, and more than that for freedom from the presence of the thing he hated most, man! But the side of him that was of Bess would not let him go. The allegiance to man, the friendly serfdom, was of too long standing. Hate it as he might, the bond was not to be broken, least of all while his master was a child. Then one hot July morning, while the men were at work in a hay field below the barn, Billie came running to the house, holding one hand in the other, while blood dripped from his fingers. “Pal bited me, mother Alice,” he sobbed out to her. “I was jes’ pettin’ him, and he bited my hand!” A white faced Alice flew across the stubble of the hay field, with the baby strained close in her arms. While she was still a quarter mile away the wag— on paused beside a hay cock, and as its rumble ceased her scream rang out, shrill and terrible in its fear. The men picked them up from the ground together, and carried them back to the house. They laid Alice down on the couch, and bandaged Bil- lie’s lacerated hand. “Where did Pal go, Billie?” old Bill asked him gravely. “Don’ know,” the little fellow re plied. “Pal jes’ runned off.” When Alice had revived from her swoon, old Bill went down to his own house. for his shotgun. He came back presently, and he and Games went out together, to hunt for Bess’ son. Grim faced and anxious, they searched about the buildings and the fox-runs. To no avail. Pal was gone. They called and whistled to him, and Bill even climbed up on the new hay, and searched the dark corners of the mow. “I guess he’s gone,’ ’he said, finally, . and there was? this time regret in his tone,,as though» at missing a chance he':would ,have liked. “We might as There. smash 6.913911: him that he knows what he’s done an’ what he’ll get if he comes back!” Carnes Rudd nodded. “If he’s gone, he’s gone for good,’ ’he said, and then he added grimly, “I guess Alice was right, dad, after all. She said all along it would be fox blood that would tell.” Bill Rudd, student of dogs for fifty years, said nothing. Forty feet from the house they saw Alice burst out of the door, her face again drawn and white with fear. “Billie’s gone,” she cried out to them. “I went to the kitchen to get him a drink, and when I came back, he had slipped out again.” “How long ago?” old Bill demanded. “Just now.” They separated to race opposite ways around the house, and then from under the porch came a childish voice. “Here I am, mother Alice. We’re both here, and Pal’s sorry he bited me. Is you Pal? Is you sorry?" Bill Rudd, crawling into the narrow space behind the steps, thrusting his gun ahead of him, found he could not shoot. Billie’s arms were about Pal’s neck, and his body shielded the dog’s. Pal’s head lay across his chubby legs, and as old Bill advanced on them on hands and knees. with the hammers of his shotgun back, the pup’s tail began a feeble half-hearted thumping, for all the world like the. tail of a young col- lie, in disgrace and abjectly penitent. For Billie’s sake, and because of his tearful pleading, they let Pal off. “We’ll give the dog half of him one more chance,” old Bill said grimly, in the tone with which a judge grants a stay of execution. Strange paradox, this incident brought the dog half of Pal strongly to the fore. He no longer barked at passers-by, nor snarled when they came close to him. From giving to Billie a reluctant allegiance, he be- came his abject slave! Grovelled be- fore him, and even came to wait for, and seek, his little master’s hands on him. This for a week or two. Then, little by little the. wild emotions of Fire-ball swelled in his heart again, and day by day he grew irritable and untrust- worthy. Came the time in mid-August, when they dared delay no longer. No one save Billie dared approach him, except with the utmost watchfulness, and he was coming again to slink away be— fore the child, dodging his hands. To trust them together longer would be worse than folly. Ruefully even old Bill admitted it. “Collie blood lost out,” he said re- gretfully. Then he voiced again his former wish. “I wish he’d of run away an’ stayed!” At noon they tied him to an apple tree with a short length of rope. That night after Billie was in bed, but be- fore it grew too dark, Carnes would take his gun and lead Pal down the lane behind the barn. He had dug a narrow deep hole there, just after dinner. NOW there was a cross-way at the foot of the hill, below the house. An old corduroy road that branched off the traveled pike, leading out through the marsh to Bill Rudd’s back fields. Of all the places he knew, lit- tle Bill wanted most to play on that cross-way. Many reasons for this. Rip- pling rank grass grew tall enough on either side to make a play jungle, peopled with all the beasts a boy of four could wish to slay. Bright marsh flowers grew freely in the edge of the grass jungle. Gay brilliant dragon flies alighted on the grass stems, and‘but- terflies sailed slowly past. All this he had seen when his grandfather carried him over the crossway, astraddle his shoulders. Most of all he wanted to play there because it was the one place about the house that was for- bidden to him. (Continued on page 269). ' g I . k * IV a,“ M, Round dollars V’ for farm products The prosperity of farmers is as much dependent upon their ac- cessibility to large markets as upon the quality and quantity of their products. Accessibility to markets is determined by the time it takes to carry products from the farm to the markets. Farmers in the regions served by the New York Central Lines, although many are far removed from the great city markets, have the advantage of fast and dependable service to the most thickly populated region in the United States. 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Circu- lar. oblong and double shed styles. Write for catalog . and moneyos aving "‘ prices today. THE THOMAS & __ __ v ARMSTRONG CO. 128 min se tendon. 0M0 3’", HE book of Leviticus has much to say about obedience to law. It puts the matter 'of obedience very straight. If you obey, you will prosper, and if you do not obey it will be the worse for you. So religious was the Hebrew that, when the law said, “I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall con- sume the eyes and make the soul to pine away,” that he took it as law and gospel, and, to a. large extent, ordered his life by it. Today, the laws on our statute , books do not threaten us with the high and august manner of those days, but rewards and penalties are there, nevertheless. There is a new attitude on the part of many, toward the law. If you sit in a hotel lobby, you will hear people saying that there are too many laws, and the only way to treat them is to ignore them. Do as you please, they say. And it looks as though many literally fol- lowed this course. It is pretty cer- tainly true that some laws on the state’s books are of little use and might well be repealed. But to de- clare that laws ought to be ignored if they do not please you, is to preach disorder and anarchy. In every city there are people who would take advantage in an hour, of any let-down of law enforcement. Take the Boston police strike. No sooner had the police left their beats than the underworld came to the surface. Hoodlums of all degrees appeared on the main streets, coming seemingly like rats out of holes, and wrought violence and terror. The county jail, the sheriff and the justice of the peace. the bluecoat on his beat, and the police wagon are of more consequence to us than we imagine. Were these to go out of business, citizens would have to organize vigilance committees in every community, as temporary meas- ures. The deliberate violation of law in our country is one of the most om- inous signs of the times. It is a step toward the red terror that has wrought hell in other lands. That this atti- tude is taken by people Who wear good clothes, frequent exclusive clubs and smoke perfumed cigarettes, is to make the matter worse. Absolutely no ex- Threeafill‘oui Cu) 8 ayeax are being]! -ailIBSle .. on the same Limd~ on the Coastal Plains of Scull! Carolina Dale Farms Corporation, Dale, South Carolina. sold in one year $4041.00 worth of lettuce from ten acres. C. J. Ravenel, who lives near Charleston, planted sixty-five acres in cabbage and sold his crop for $30,030.00. He then planted the same land in corn and cow peas and got forty bushels of corn to the acre. John W. Garety, Yonges Island, South Carolina, ships more than 250 million plants per_year. These plants are sent to every state_m the Union and to practically every provmce in Canada. _ _ In the same section that is producing the above profits, we are offering in. units of ten acres, lands at prices that Will en— able any honest, industrious farmer to very quickly own his own home and be- come independent. Write today for ‘ Facts and Figures," a booklet that tells .all about this rapidly developing section. You dont need much money“ You can Intake 8. good livin and save money on .en acres?- Itwengty acres, properly cultivated, Will make 'you independent. L. H. SMITH-8c C0. SoleOwneI's . Aunt HALL FARMS, ' jg Dayton fits-MSavanmh. GI.- cuse exists for such. The speedy pros- ecution of a few of them would clear the air, with tonic effect. Look at what has taken place within a few weeks. One man killed in Can- ton, another in Chicago, a third at At- lanta, all of them men who opposed lawlessness and the underworld. It looks as though we needed laws with teeth in them, and officers of the law who had not lost their incisors. To preach law violation, and to practice it, is a crime that ought to have swifter and severer penalties. When we can each and all obey those laws which are convenient for us, we have relapsed into the day when “ev- ery man did that which was right in his own eyes;” we have returned to the frontier days when every man car- ried his six-shooter in his belt. We will admit that law is fallible. Injustice sometimes wears the suit of justice. Juries, prosecutors and judges are human. It is well to keep out of the courts if possible. But courts there must Fe, if we are not going to turn back the pages of history seventy-five years. . _ . senator Borah is a. prophet, and one much needed in our day. He has said repeatedly that to conduct referen- dums, for instance, on the eighteenth A; ‘\ Obedience toLaW“ w Our Weekly Sermon—By IV. A. Mr sze r amendment, as to whether we will obey it or not, is to turn our feet in the way of red Russia. To talk about referendums when the law is written into the constitution of the nation, is playing with fire. It is the way of criminal selfishness Which undermines the very existence of law. Our human laws do not go as far as ,«t ithc‘ spiritualfilaiviwe and assigns, , There the deepest maniacaa‘re'iound, . ., ‘ going to the 'center and soul of things. Statute law deals with the act; but spiritual law searches out the roots, the motives that inspire theact. Were \ the bible followed, human law would be easily observed; ‘ ~ SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 19. SUBJECT:-—Obedience to the law (temperance lesson). Levicticus 26: 3-5, and 14-20. ’ . GOLDEN TEXT:—-Levicticus 10.9. “GROWING PAINS" MAY MEAN RHEUMATISM. ~ T is twenty-six years now, since I first hung out my shingle. In those early days parents could bring a. child to see me on the plea the young- ster was troubled with “growing pains,” and get by with'it. But not of late years. The fact is, that I do not recollect ever seeing a genuine case of that kind. Growing does not cause pain. It is a. natural process, and aside from the eruption of teeth through the gums, I know of nothing painful that can be a'scribed to growing. When a child has indefinite pains that you‘can not properly account for, always think of acute rheumatism. Justxto be on the safe side, he sure to put that child to bed until the doctor sees her. If the pain is not rheumatism, it may be bone or joint tuberculosis, which is still worse. Even if it is only chorea you have done wisely in sending her to bed. When it comes to dealing with the aches and pains of childhood, it is best to takexthe safe side, for at that stage of life, things happen very quickly. Yes, I have known children to de- velop sudden ailments just about eight o’clock in the morning of a schoolday; ailments that make miraculous im- provement by ten 3.. m. I have known children who never feel well when chores are to be done. I leave all such to “father.” If he can’t tell when the youngsters are malingering, his kids are too clever for any mere» doc- tor to supervise. I’m talking about the child who really is ill, and I’m making this talk because I am con~ vinced that many a case of heart dis- ease dates back to the days of child- hood. The “growing pains” were rheu- matic. The joints and muscles didn’t have much of any swelling. The child was plucky, anxious not to miss school, and kept going in spite of feel- ing rather done in. And the father and mother did not realize that rheu- matism in a. child, no matter how much or how little it affects the joints, always affects the heart. If the child had been given ten days or two weeks in bed, everything would hays been well, and the heart safe. Lacking this, age forty/ finds her with chronic val- vular heart disease. Very well. Don’t let’s hear any more about “growing pains.” INHERITED DISEASES. Are there any diseases which may be inherited; if so what are they? What is the cause of a cancer Is it caused by a. germ? These are some difficult questions which were brought up in our physiology class—A 'H gh School Student. . There, are diseases that may bein- herited, though they are not nearly so common as was thought a few years . ‘ago. 5 The most prominent and is syphilis. MW ’1“ most deadly “these is still the deadly heritage of‘thou- sands of children born in our own‘ . country every year. Cancer is not one of the inherited diseases, and as far as is now known, it is not caused by a germ; at least, none has yet been recognized. , ———_______ DRY TETTER. My wife has a very bad case of “Dry Tetter” on the nose, and it seems «to be spreading to other parts of the face. We have used some salves but they have only checked it tempor- arily. Kindly prescribe a cure—S. B. The cure depends a great deal upon finding the cause, Frequently some local irritation is responsible. A case once came to my notice in which “ev- erything” had been tried. I observed that the patient wore glasses from which dangled a small chain that rub- bed the face. Its removal accomplish- ed the cure after all kinds of. salves had failed. ‘ REMOVE WENS. Do you know any way to keep wens from forming? I have a lot of them.- Is it a. difficult thing to have them re- - moved?—D. T. L. I do not know anything that will keep wens from forming, but it is not often that the same person has more than two or three. I once removed six from a woman’s head. I don’t think she felt much more inconven- inece than if there had been only one. The operation'is quite simple, and can be done by usinga. local anesthetic which is injected into the skin with a needle. The pierce of the needle is the full extent of the pain. Don’t suffer with wens. Have them removed. TEST FOR TUBERCULOSIS. I want to find out for sure whether I have tuberculosis of the lungs. Will a, blood test do any good ?—D. R. Blood tests will not positively de- cide whether one has tuberculosis. An examination of the lungs is more re- liable. If the germ of tuberculosis is found in the sputum, that is positive evidence, but it is quite possible that a person Whose sputum shows no germs may yet have the disease. Chest ' examination is the safest way, and this should be verified by ,X—Ray pic- tures. CHRONIC PLEURISY. I would like to know how to get rid of the pleurisy. Had a bad spell last February and it keeps coming back. Have a. soreness in the lower part of chest. When it is bad I keep spitting up brickdust colored sputum—B. S. D. Chronic ,pleurisy always suggests the possibility, of tuberculosis, and it iscured ‘by much the same treatment.- This means complete rest in .had- in 3 ‘ . the open air.» for a'proionged perigsl; freedom from all «“worlrl'and w , Isms .,.. . .M‘fi. ’14,- ‘ l i l l '. “Wm- , .__.. ,_. COLLIE BLOOD. (Continued from page 267)._ Billie heard him snarlslike that! , Not for worlds would Fire-ball have For eight or nine years now, the gone within striking reach of that dull cross-way had had a king, and the coil of death. Even BeSs would have grown-ups knew it. diamond-backed swamp rattler—saug— Even Bess, too, would The king was a known, but not known as well as he! have been er, Bill Rudd called him—and he had afraid. been only a short ugly little reptile a foot or so in length when Bill first son! saw him. He was now a great blunt- of a wild thing aroused. Pal knew, because he was Fire-hall’s Knew with every vital instinct Because he headed creature, only little longer than was Bess’ son as well though, he came a man’s arm, but of a repulsive weight between the little and thickness. Time after time he was seen, cross- master and the little master and the snake that warn- ed constantly, ominouslymand like a ing the corduroy ahead of them, or yellow rocket. leaped upon it, and coiled in the sun on the end of a not- away, flinging it out straight between ting mossy log. fore they could reach him he uncoiled Always, though, be— his jaws! Bill Rudd and his son were coming and slid away into the grass and tall up the lane to supper together when growth of swale, where neither Bill they heard Alice call. She had missed nor Carnes Rudd cared to follow him. Billie only the minute before, and then So, often as Billie cast longing eyes down toward the cross-way, he was sternly warned that that was one place where he must never, never go! had seen that Pal was gone as well. Carries Rudd raced from the house down the slope toward the fox pens, his gun ready. Old Bill turned south toward the cross-way. He was push- He grew 10119501119 this afternoon for ing shells into the breach of his double a playmate. P31 was “ed to the, apple barrel as he ran! tree, and he had been forbidden to He topped the crest of the hill and 001116 within Team Of him. H91 had came upon a sight that halted him in played 1D the barn and undo] the his tracks and brought his breath in porch. He had climbed the lilac bush short stifled gasps! Down there on byihe back steps, and had tried his the cross-way little'Billie was sitting, sw1ng, and drawn a load 0f June-glass his head just showing above the tall hay in his wagon. contented. When he turned out of the yard gered 331191.311, . These things hfld marsh grass. About him Pal was run— 1 all palled 011 111m finally, left 111m (115' ning in close wavering circles. dog’s head hung down, and he stag- Rudd could even see The E THE" .53“ C H I" G‘A N i 'F A RM E R . up, his eyes aflame! Never before had . I l l into the road, in late afternoon, he thin streamers of slayer drooling from had. no intention of going Ollt on the his half-opened jaws. . Pal was circling as a dog Hills only 1 road, toward the runs that lay on the in the final stages of rabies—blindly!j cross-way. He would walk down the other side of the hill, and watch the with deadly indifference! foxes for a while, and pick black—eyed lifted the Bill Rudd shotgun with trembling Susans for his mother’s supper table. hands—and then he dared not fire. The Just outside the back, and seeing Pal tied under the closing in on Billie. yard he looked dog’s circles were narrowing. He was 1 He came to the; apple tree, remembered the cause of child, dropped down, and Bill could? his loneliness. “Come on, Pal,” he exhorted. “Come on with Billie.” Pal’s rope was by now all out chewed through. At the second im- perious “Come on, Pal!” he flung him- self against the frayed strands. There was strength enough left in them to tumble him, but he rolled up from the ground, free, and raced out of the yard to Billie, with shreds of rope trailing from his collar. It was Pal who made the decision. He turned down the road, left, toward the cross-way, and in crazed delight at his regained freedom, refused to heed Billie’s calls to come back. Whereupon, perforce, Billie must fol- low him. He did, and the dog led him a frolicking race down the hillside, keeping a half dozen lengths ahead. Where the cross-way forked off, boy and dog halted together. The grass jungle of the swale called to them as kindred. Pal led out, unfearsome, and ~ with a single 'look back toward the house, Billie swaggered after him. Here at last was the supreme ad- venture! He picked marsh flowers while Pal made side trips a short way off into the thick tall grass. So they worked their way leislrely on, farther from the road, with the happiness of two savages utterly alone, at last, and when they were half way across the corduroy they came upon the King. The sauger was coiled on a favorite protruding log of the road-bed, bask— ing in the sultry late afternoon heat. It was August. His eyes were filmed, and he was oppressed and sullen at the humid breath of the sweating swale. Because of which, for once, he failed to uncoil and glide away before the noise of an intruder approaching. Instead he coiled even more closely, and from the coil there lifteq two waving tips, the one a warning, the other a messenger of death! Billie saw him, and started toward him with the little yell of delight that a toad or frog or beetle always won from him. Then he stopped in aston- ..ishment. , Pal was there, before him, ri‘i 5 WWW. Tliéi‘dog’s'rufl was l . 7.5.7?“ ‘ y' [fl-iii Q?“ 5"" ; ~. , (Continued on page 275). You Can’t Make a Silk Purse ~ 9 . T From a Sow 3 Ear -neither can a good overall be made , from a poor cloth. I want to send you FREE a quarter yard of my SUPER— EIGHT OUNCE DOUBLE DUTY DENIM Used exclusively by me in HEADLIGHT 0V E R A L L S Then you will know why I say: “A Smile of Satisfaction with Every Pair” gag?” - REMARKABLE GUARANTEE If, when this Overall is completely worn out. you do not think that Super Eight Ounce Double Duty Denim Headlight Overalls are better and will outwear any other overall made—l will give you back your money. Beware ot'imitations. LARNED, CARTER & co. Detroit, Michigan a n d a d d r e s s Send me your name l ... 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See the nearest Firestone Dealer. 111 Q Pave Way to Health With Celery Raw 0r Cooked 12‘ Ha: Heel/2% Giving Propertie: for Me Meme By. Julia W. Wolfe N several European countries celery grows wild. They call it “small- age” in England. It has an un- pleasant acrid flavor, but by cultiva- tion this is removed Because of the mineral salts it con- tains, celery is said to possess an anti- rheumatic property. To retain this, the vegetable should be eaten raw or, if cooked, done in such'a way that the mineral salts are not lost (as is largely the case in boiling). Stewing in a sauce or in the minimum amount of liquid (stock or water) which is to be used for the dressing, is the most valuable method. For the table, crisp young stalks should be served; but the outer stalks and roots which are strong in flavor and coarser fibred, should not be wasted, as these are valuable for soups, sauces, etc. To prepare celery for salads or to be eaten raw, cut away from the root and outer stalks, separate the crisp white stalks, wash thoroughly, brush well, and leave in cold water for a short time. This makes it crisp, and the addition of a few drops of lemon juice will keep it white. To give a'more decorative appear- ance to a glass of celery, the tips of the stalks may be curled, the larger stalks being split in two lengthwise. Perhaps this Young Man will be a Speed Cop Some Day. To do this, take a small sharp—pointed knife and cut the stalk into fine strips to a depth of two or three. inches, then place the stalks in cold water, and after a few minutes the tips will curl up. Put ice in the water if at hand. When using celery as a garnish for a salad, cut a few pieces about four inches in length, shred both ends in the manner just described, allowing about a half inch in the center uncut, then throw into cold water and leave until ends curl up. Here are a few ways of serving celery. V Celery and Mayonnaise with Walnuts. Take two or three stalks 0f white celery, half a pint of cracked walnut meats, one teaspoonful of cream, two tablespoonfuls of mayonnaise, salt, pepper and lettuce. Chop the walnuts rather coarsely, shred the celery fine- ly, .season with salt and pepper and mix with the mayonnaise and cream. Shred the large lettuce leaves, put these at the bottom of a salad bowlt ‘P , pile the salad on this, and garnish with the small tender leaves. This is delicious served with chicken or tur- key dinner. Celery and Macaroni. Take two bunches of celery, milk, water, salt, pepper, nutmeg, two ounc- es of macaroni, about a half pint of white sauce, parsley, one small bay leaf. Trim off the outer stalks of the cel- ery, wash the celery well, and boil until tender in half milk and half wa- ter, season and flavor with the bay leaf. ' Drain the celery and cut the stalks into pieces about two inches in length. Cook the macaroni in boiling salted water, drain and cut into small pieces. Heat up the sauce, made from liquor in which celery was cooked, season with pepper and nutmeg—and salt, if needed. Put in the celery and mac- aroni and heat thoroughly for about ten to fifteen minutes, being careful trim off the outer stalks, cut the white stalks into pieces about four inches in length. Place it in a casserole, or, white-lined pan, with the liquid and mace and cook until tender. Remove the mace, drain off the liquid and leave the celery on a cloth or sieve to drain. With one ounce of butter, the flour, and a half pint of celery liquor make a white sauce and season it well. Butter a baking dish, coat the bot- tom with a little white sauce, and ar- range the celery neatly in a. pile. Pour1 over the sauce, sprinkle the surface with a few bread crumbs, the grated cheese, and the half ounce of melted butter. Heat in a hot oven for ten minutes and serve hot. OUR UNWRITTEN LAW. N our Ladies’ 'Aid and our quilting parties, we have an unwritten, un- spoken law, understood by everyone PA SSERS-B Y By Arthur Wallace Peach Down the road they hurried, Figures, hooded, gray, Where a new house nestled Smiling at the day. “Who are you?” I questioned. “Hate and Grief a (1 Care,” Came the answer sho tly. “To this home we fare.” “But it’s new!” I argued. “Why not wait a While?” “Never!” said the trio With a bitter smile. “We must enter quickly, If Love reach the door, Vain has been our journey, Miles we’ve traveled o’er!” “You are late,” I answered. “If my eyes are true, There is Love with laughter Looking out at you!” . Then they viewed the window, Saw Love’ s smiling face, Turned and down the highway Strode with angry pace! not to break up the celery and mac- aroni. Turn out on a hot dish and garnish with parsley. Braised Celery. Three bunches of celery, seasoning, half pint of good ‘brown stock, three thin slices of bacon, some rich brown sauce, a slice of toast. ’ Trim the celery, using only the bet— ter stalks, wash and drain, dry in a cloth, and tie the pieces together in small bundles with fine twine. Butter the bottom of a casserole, add the celery, season with salt, pep- per and a little grated nutmeg, and add just enough stock to moisten the celery. Fry the bacon slightly and ar- range it on top of the celery. Cover with the lid, and cook in hot oven until the celery is tender, basting it with the stock if necessary. When ready, remove, take aWay the string and keep the celery hot. Reduce the stock, and add the brown sauce (there should be enough‘ sauce to coat the vegetables). Place the toast in a vegetable dish and ar- range the celery on\ top and strain the sauce over it. Celery Au Gratin. This dish is tasty and will take the place of potatoes for dinner. Take two heads of celery, a blade of mace, half pint of milk and water, salt and pepper, one and one-half ounc- es of butter, three-fourths ounce of flour, bread crumbs, one ounce of fine- ly grated cheese. . Choose firm; 'white , young celery, attending, that they shall not gossip in an unkind way. The neighborly happenings, incidents of our daily lives, the church, the school, chickens and children, things . political, and things non-political, all go, but the mistakes and private troubles, the things that will wound, or add sorrow to the hearts of our neighbors, must be left unsaid. If not, you will soon find that you are not welcome in this circle. No word was spoken, but grad- ually we came to understand, and not until you try, can you realize how much more satisfaction there is in the knowledge‘that you have “kept your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile.” This all came about from the influ- ence of one woman. We all make mis- takes but we can at least be kind.— Mrs. A. S. UTILIZING BED SPREADS. HE old-fashioned heavy bed spread has either worn out or is consid- ered hopelessly out of style, and the lighter, easily laundered one has tak- en its place, but it has not outlived its days of usefulness. Nearly every house has one or more of these worn spreads, saved against a future usefulness as a bed covering, or simply stored because it seemed \too good to throw away. If the 'spread is worn, cut away the ‘ worn portions and dye the remainder With any good cotton dye. ’i’ .: MW ‘12: pattern of the spread will give an or- iental effect, and a cloth much pret- tier than cretonne. Cut lengthwise sections and make window draperies. ‘One spread will give four sections, or enough for two windows, and a strip from the center for a valance over the top, with enough left over to cover‘ a cushion for a chair or to make matching pil- lows for a sofa. Utilizing a discarded bed spread, a bare bedroom may be transformed in- to a. thing of beauty. First, dye the spread either a delft blue, 3. deep ivory or any color that you would select in a drapery cretonne. Cut a valance, or side drapes for the windows, a bolster cover for_the bed, several mats to be used on the polished surface of the dresser, and covers for the chair cush- ion and one or more floor pillows that seem especially suitable for a bed room. With heavy silk or yarn, em- broider the raw edges and hang the draperies with small brass rings. If a second spread is dyed at the same time, it may be used in the mak- ing of a braided rug for in front of the bed. Cut stripes little more than a half-inch in width, sew as for carpet rags, and braid into longsections to be sewed together with stout thread or carpet warp, either in square or oval shape. For a room having an old-fashioned couch, a dyed bed spread makes win- dow drapes and a matching spread to be thrown over the couch, giving an Already for a Ride is Little Betty Fox. artistic touch to a thing of utility and too frequently, little beauty. Undyed bed spreads make excellent wash cloths, dish cloths, or, dipped in strong coffee, it is possible to make slipper bags, bags for sewing scraps, or an ironing pad. REPLANT DAFFODILS FOR BET- TER BLOOMS. IF you have any daffodils or narcis-~. suses that have been growing in one place for several years and have ceased to flower satisfactorily, dig them up now, separate the bulbs and ,replant. The clumps should be lifted out of the ground carefully with a. spading fork and pulled apart with the fingers. If the new roots have started much, they can be trimmed back to an inch or two in length before replanting. , Put in new ground and place several ‘bulbs or clumps of large bulbs with small bulbs attached, in a place. Don’t be afraid to speed them around gen- erously or to “naturalize” them under "t . c..__:..,.‘1_1.-, n_ H. - «a ,.. “M...“ _.-s... flaws—“N .. aqua , -... .. “A...— --...m ~.W._._._.._ ........._.‘ .—I..‘ s. A. __, - ‘\ ”amount of salt. . 1,. USUAL ODOR. 'EARLY everyone likes kraut, but few‘relish the preliminary odor. I no longer feel like apologizing every time a neighbor happens in while our supply of kraut is “in the making,” for the strong odor is entirely absent. Naturally, this trick of the trade or- iginated among the Germans, and as few people seem to know it, I am pass- ing it along. Shred the cabbage and with the hands mix in the required Do not salt to ex- treme, but just enough to suit the personal taste. Pack in hot glass jars, cover with boiling water and seal tightly. The kraut sours in about the usual time, tastes fine, and does away with both the odor and the extra care ' during the souring process—Mrs. P. D. THEY ARE TEMPTING AND TASTY. Baked Ham a la Apple. 2 slices ham, one inch 1A1 (10ch cloves thick 1A cup water 1/; cup brown sugar 34 cup vinegar 5 tart apples Rub ham on both sides with the sugar, and stick in the cloves. Core apples and slice in thick rings over the ham. Mix water, vinegar, and the remaining sugar. Pour over ,the ham and bake in a covered dish until ham is tender. Sandwich Supreme. Toasted sandwiches have taken this country by storm. Most everyone likes them, and this one is a particu- lar favorite with the men folks. Try this for Sunday night lunch, or even for supper on week days. Toast medium thin slices of bread, using half white and half whole wheat. On a slice of toasted white bread ar— range thin slices of left-over corn beef, minced onion, a teaspoon of hot catch— up, and two slices of cucumber cut lengthwise. Cover with a slice of SAUERKRAUT—BUT NOT THE. ’/'boasted Whole Wheat bread. Apple Coffee Cake. 114 cup melted butter 1 tsp. baking powder $6 cup sugar 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. grated orange peel 1 egg - 1 cup sour milk 2 cups flour 1/9 tsp. soda. Quarter-ed apples Make a stiff batter. by mixing dry ingredients, adding beaten egg and sour milk, to which the melted butter has been mixed. Pour batter into bak- ing pan, cover with quartered apples, brush with melted butter, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar, and bake half an hour in a moderate oven. Rasberry Sherbet. , 4 cups water 2 cups sugar 1 tsp. gelatin 1 tb. cold water Make a syrup of the sugar and wa- ter. Add the gelatin that has been softened in water. When cool add the fruit juice and freeze. HINTS WORTH TAKING. Rugs that have become worn and frayed at the end can be repaired by sewing down the frays and rubbing the stitéhes with glue. If the glue is well worked into the fabric the stitch- es will not pull out. . When your crochet thread persists in rolling away, pin your handkerchief by the four corners fast to your skirt and slip your thread into the pocket thus formed. When sending a few choice apples to a friend, dip them in wax and they will retain their flavor twice as long. Two button hooks are handy to lift jars of canned food from the hot wa- ter bath if you happen to use the jars that have the wire hoop' to hold the tops in place. Your husband’s pipe cleaner will keep clean the inside of glass straws that are. used” with cool drinks, or for the children’s milk. Loose now and then a scattered smile; and that I will live upon.— Shakespeare. Fathers and Schools By Emma Gary Wallace school pupils leave the special task of keeping in touch with school affairs, to the women folks, and this usually resolves itself into a pic- nic around about the close of school in the spring, a school entertainment about Christmas time, and possibly six or eight monthly meetings of the Parent-Teachers’ Association during the school year. Quite often the Parent-Teachers’ As- sociation is almost Wholly a group of women who meet after school at the schoolhouse for an hour or so, or at one of the home in the district some afternoon immediately following school, or earlier in the afternoon— although this prevents the teacher be— ing present, with once in a while, a Saturday meeting. To plan to have the fathers in at- tendance part of the time at least, is merely a matter of making up one’s mind and of doing it. It can be done. First of all, make the Parent-Teach- ers’ Association very simple as to gov- ernment and constitution. Someone has said that the longer the constitu- tion, the more society is handicapped, for they are told such a lot of things they must do and mustn’t do. It is doubtful if many Parent-Teachers’ As- sociations require a formal constitu— tion at all. Officers to carry on the business are often adequate. Set as a quota for the organization, every taxpayer, whether he has chil- dren or not, and every parent—both men and women in the community, to- gether with the teachers, of course. Have an active membership commit- tee who can keep closely in touch with members and prospects, and call for frequent membership reports as to growth, interest and suggestions for necessary work to be done by the Parent-Teachers' Association. A LL too often the fathers of our Set the meetings for a reasonable time when the men as well as the women can come. Don’t expect that they will be free around chore time, or during the busiest seasons of the year. Evening meetings will often bring men out who could not come otherwise. Include men in the officer list of the association. Plan for snappy, worth- while business meetings. Avoid long- drawn-out, dragging, pointless meet- ings which do not get anywhere. You cannot expect people to come if they are bored to death, or if they feel that their time has been as good as wasted. Have a program committee which will be wise in the interests presented. Let the program be constructive and cumulative in character. That is, let each season see some worth while problem worked out, or some good- siz- ed undertaking tackled, and if possi- ble, finished. This will develop com— munity spi1it and keep interest alive.‘ Seek the coopeiation of the busi- ness men as to the practical needs and possibilities of the school and of the community, and where and how the boys and girls themselves can help. It must be remembered that while the fathers and mothers and teachers are the leaders and guides, that the young people are being educated on their own account. The word educa- tion means “To lead out ” and as we lead them out, we develop the ability in them to do for themselves and to be self-reliant, far-sighted, courageous, _and possessed of true initiative. The community which stands back and leaves all its work for the teacher or teachers, or for the women folks with the teachers, is missing a lot of fun, a lot of privilege, and a vast op- portunity. What does it cost you to clean house, Dutch woman? “Just sand—white sand.” But sand can do nothing of itself, nor \broom. strength that you spend-— youth and beauty, chance to live. No woman should pay so much. The electric motor is as economical and efiicient in doing the farmer’s heavy chores as it is for his wife. The General Electric Company manufactures many electrical products which are used on the farm. 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Get rid of the smoke-house with its dirt, labor and fire risk; save that part of meat that oozes out in the heat of the smoke-house and drips into the fire. Use Old Hickory Smoked Salt and you too can enjoy a flavor that is unsurpassed and that will not fry out. Genuine hickory wood smoke on pure salt ——- put there by the Ed- wards process. No acid or dangerous chemicals. As the salt draws the moisture from the meat, the smoke “My wife and I have found that using Old Hick- ory Smoked Salt is mere play compared to the smoke-house method of curing meat. It saves the cost of building a smOke-house and all the work of smoking. The smoke flavor does not fry out of the hams and bacons and make the drippings too strong for other cookings. The flavor is unsur- passed. No noticeable shrinkage and our meat has kept perfectly. By following your directions nobody can fail to get good results.” :- C. A. 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The 36-inch size ”re- quires 2% yards of 40-inch material, with 7/3 yard of 40—inch contrasting. No. 577'2Youthfu1 Lines. Cut in siz- es 16 years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inch- es bust measure. The 36-inch size re- quires 4 yards of 40-inch material, with 2% yards of ribbon. No. 571—Smart Jabot Frock. Cut in sizes-16 years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and .Size 36 re- quires 273 yards of 40~inch material, with 1% yards of 18-inch contrasting. No. 550—A Model that Makes you Look Slim. Cut in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. Size 36 requires 3% yards of 40-inch mate- rial, with 1,5, yard of 32-inch contrast- ing. These patterns can be obtained through the Michigan Farmer Pattern Department, Detroit, Michigan, for 130 each. Enclose 13c extra when you or- der your pattern, and a copy of our. large Pattern Catalogue will be sent to you. \ ’“ 'i l / ‘, is 76.? xi: m5 ———____ ——-__.~_'__.. .__.~__._ Use this department to help solve your household problems. Address your letters to Martha Cole, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan. DIABETIC RECIPES. ECENTLY Mrs. R. E. asked for recipes for food that would be proper for people who have ‘diabetes. Mrs. A. B. sends these: Diabetic Ice Cream. Two hundred and forty grams of‘ milk, ninety grams of cream, two eggs, beaten thoroughly, saccharine and van- illa to taste, dissolving the saccharine tablets first. ‘ - » Diabetic custard can be made by this same recipe if it is baked instead of frozen. ’ Baked Salmon. Beat one egg slightly, add pepper, salt, and one tablespoon of cream. Mix with 100 grams of salmon. .Bake in a buttered dish until golden brown. If Mrs. R. E. will send me her ad- dress, I will send her addresses where she can obtain a number of recipes. CAN YOU HELP? Could some reader help me to find a good home for a sixteen-year—old girl where she could help with the house- work in a small family? She wants to earn money to help pay her way through business college—Mrs. G. T. If anyone can help Mrs. G. T., just write me a letter and I will be glad to put you in communication with her. VALUE OF ANTIQUES. Could you tell me the value of the following pieces of old-fashioned fur- iture that is about sixty years old, but in very good condition: One dou- ERV______ ble_spindle maple bedstead without} springs; one red cherry leaf table; pine kitchen chairs with straight backs; Bohemia china. soup plates; a. large Bohemia cashmere shawl with black background and a deep red bor-~ der; and an iron kettle withflegs to be used for a flreplace?——Mrs. A. D. The value of most antique furniture- is rather uncertain, depending mostly on how badly the buyer wants the cer- tain pieces. If you will send me a. stamped addressed envelope I will sendlyou the names of people interest- ed in antiques. ' SAVE FRUIT PULP FOR PIES. I HAVE made my fruit go twice as far/this yar by using the pulp left after making jelly for making fruit butters, jams, and pie filling. To four quarts of plums, I add one-half cup of water, then boil. When strained I use the juice for jelly and the pulp for plum butter, adding sugar to suit the taste. For a splendid fruit butter or pie filling, I use two quarts of-gooseber— ries, one-quarter cup of water, one cup of plum pulp, two cups of sugar, and two cups of other berries, either red raspberries or huckleberries. Cook this down to the proper consistency and can. Gooseberries go well with pine- apple, and strawberries go well with cherries. For pies, plums or gooseberries go well with huckleberries.—A Reader. “Do you play an instrument?” asked the bookkeeper of his friend, the bill- ing clerk. , “Only second fiddle at home,’.’ was the reply. l A Adventures of Tilly and Billy‘ F'DFW‘OUR H opper Get: Caug/zt HEN Hopper tried to fool Jip V‘/ by dodging behind the bush and hiding in the pile of leaves, he fooled himself, instead. Jip went running by just as Hopper planned he would, but when Hopper ducked his head into the pile of leaves, he went tumbling down, down, down. He was too frightened to cry out, and besides, he didn’t want Jip to hear him and come back. At last he landed kerplunk on solid earth. It was all dark around him. He tried to climb out but could not. The [i "‘///////‘a//’ ' " l . . . Billy’s Mother Helped Feed Hopper Milk and Bread. walls were very straight and he had nothing by which to hold on. "Oh, dearie me,” sobbed Hopper, ‘.‘I have fallen into a pitfall, and now someone .will come and carry me away.” Hopper’s mother had always told him he should keep away from pitfalls and had taught him how he might avoid them. But this time Hop- per had been careless, and now he began to cry. . v Tilly and Billy and Jip had just started. on their way hom'e,;,.jwhensude denly Billy stopped and listened. .“What is that?” he asked. Tilly listened, too. ‘_‘It sounds like someone crying,” said Billy, “but where are they?” And immediately they started to follow in the direction of the sound. ”Sh, sh, listen,” said Tilly, as she came near the pile of leaves by the bush that had hidden the pitfall. But le was there before them and had already'started digging, so all they could hear was the rustle of leaves. How the leaves did fly! When at last Jip had them all scratched away, there sat Hopper huddled in one oor- ner of the pitfall, very much fright- ened, and a big tear was running down from each pink eye. “Look! a little rabbit! But see, he’s crying,” said Tilly. “ aybe he’s hurt.- Let’s take him home.” Of ‘course, Billy agreed. Jip was so overjoyed to again find the rabbit he had chased so far, that he wanted to jump right down in the pitfall, too. But Tilly held him backwhile Billy leaned over the edge of the pitfall as ’ far as he could. He picked Hopperpup very carefully in hls hands, but Hopper struggled and kicked to get away, for he was very frightened and did not know what they-were going to do with him. Tilly and Billy were late home from school that night, but when their moth- ers learned the reason why, they did not scold. They took Hopper to Billy's house and his mother helped to feed him some bread and milk and some {fetish cabbage leaves, and put him to e . ‘ A In the morning they let, him out of the little box in which they, had fmsuie his bed, and he scam eredr back .to he" could- go, or careless - the woods and? his mg ”who“ fast as 7- » huteftsri l . _-.. . l h‘ I: . » ‘SOME POULTRY ADVICE. A young woman,who was reared in a Kansas town read in a poultry jour- nal that poultry raising was remuner- ative, so she decided to try it. She purchased a hen and set her on thir- teen eggs. She then wrote to a poul- try journal asking how long the hen should remain on the eggs. The paper wrote back: “Three weeks for chickens and four weeks for ducks. Later she wrote the poultry journal as follows: “Many thanks for your advice about the setting hen. She re- mained on the nest three weeks, and at the end of that time there were no chickens hatched, and as I did not care for ducks, I took her off the nest and sold the eggs.” KEEP ’EM GROWING. OW many of you have separated those cockerels and pullets? If you have kept putting it off, as many do, get busy and separate them as the cockerels will bother the pullets so from now on, it will retard their de- velopment. They should have been separated long ago. Such cockerels as are not disquali- field, that are well developed and show signs of becoming good breeders should be advertised and sold as breeders. Those that are disqualified _ and not promising as breeders should be sold on the market or eaten at home. Their eating qualities can be greatly improved by crate-fattening them for about ten days or two weeks. The close confinement in the crates breaks down the muscular tissue and if they are fed a-good fat-forming ra« tion this muscular tissue will be re- placed with fat and a rich, juicy meat that makes them very palatable. Look out for crowding in the brood coops these nights. They will crowd if you do not watch them and the result will be sweating, fall colds and other troubles that will cause loss both in birds and profits. Make a round of your colony houses after the birds have gone to roost and see that they are not crowded, separ- ating them by hand if necessary. The young stock should be roosting by this time. We teach ours to roost by first putting the roosts down close to the floor, (so they cannot hover on the floor. They soon take to them, and as they do, the roosts are raised. A little trouble at this time will save trouble later on. We have had several write us this fall that their young stock seemed to be at a stand-still, no appetite, etc. We recommended the fermented mash and have had several tell us that the chicks took a new lease on life and just forged right ahead in growth. Don’t neglect the fresh green feed now. It is just as important as ever. If you are letting them pick their own green feed, you will note that unless they have access to the garden, they are not getting much, as the grasses are getting tough and fibrous. Ours are getting Swiss chard and sprouted oats, half and half, run through a. grinder. They get all they will eat once a day, and how they do relish it. Keep up your fight on the lice and mites. A visitor at our place recently stuck his head in a pen, smelled the disinfectant and said: “That’s the way I like to have a chicken house smell.” We clean drop boards every day and spray every other day. Colony houses are kept well cleaned and sprayed, and the result is a. wonderful lot of chicks coming on. You can. do the same. - - '1.“ "The pullets will develop very rap- n-s \CX. ' '/~ “i§§ ()ll » idly as the fall weather comes on. Give them a chance by feeding a good, balanced ration and give ‘them plenty- of room. If they are beginning to redden up and sing as if, they were getting ready to lay, and you want to hold them back a little, just change them from one pen to the other once in a while, and that will help some. Keep everlastingly at it. They are now approaching the time when you can cash in on your hard summer’s work, so don’t let a little work cause any set-backs. Make your motto, “Comfort for the birds.” Live up to it, and they will come along 0. K. and pay you well in the end—Dwight E. Hale. MARKET CONDITIONS. THE usual decrease in fall produc- tion of eggs stimulated market conditions and prices are sharply high- er. Quotations on fresh eggs have ad- vanced five cents a dozen in the last month and it is reasonable to suppose that a weekly advance of one cent a dozen will be in prospect during the . month of September. The month of August has seen the starting of the harvesting of this year’s chicken crop, and with the in- flux of large receipts, the markets on fresh dressed chickens have dropped from three to five cents a pound. The market on dressed springers at pres- ent is on a steadier basis, with pres- ent quotations accepted by some deal- ers as being at a low point for the season. Dressed fowl have been in favor for the past thirty days, with prices remaining firm and with pros- pects to higher levels in the near future. A large consumption continues on both poultry and eggs and with more favorable weather, coupled with the return of vacaionists into the larger consuming centers, even better con- sumption will probably be stimulated. ——Priebe & Sons. WHY HENS DON’T LAY. I feed my chickens egg mash which I buy from the farm bureau. The chickens do not lay, and when I kill them the eggs inside are as if fried. The chickens have a squeaky sound in their throat. I was to a veterinary. He gave me some medicine for the chickens, but this didn’t help them. The laying mash is probably not to blame for the lack of egg production at this time. Some of the hens may have finished their spring production and moulted early. Others may not be laying because they lack the ability to be heavy producers during the hot summer weather. Some may have dis- eased conditions in the oviduct and be carriers of white diarrhea. It will probably pay best to cull out all hens that show by the spread of the pelvic bones, that they are not laying at this time, in spite of good feed and the best of management. Such hens can be replaced profitably with pullets which have been hatched early enough to be fall layers. The hens with the “squeaky” sound in the throat may have canker about the windpipe. Hold the bill open and examine the throat as deeply as pos- sible. Sometimes bits of straw, oat hulls or other bits of foreign material may become lodged in the throat. If patches of canker are found in the throat, remove the thick yellow mat- ter and paint the wound with iodine to kill the infection. Very old hens may develop a sort of asthma which cannot be treated except by continu- ally cuiling the flock and keeping vig- orous pallets or hens not more than two years old.- * 5ffifi3Mi6fiiGaniFARMER‘ ' FADA F.A.D. Play by play, vivid, clear, real! It’s new! It’s startling! It’s better! Fada Harmonated Reception is as much better than ordinary radio as the electric light is better than the oil lamp! For the first time every feature of both receiver and speaker have been thoroughly co-ordinated and protected. Ask the Fada Dealer for a demonstration and hear complete reception for the first time. 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En- cloge screened robes and germane" With Flex-0- Glasl avoid drafta.’1‘urn pm I discovered re station. to one 'zin Ultm-. i735}? y thrqu :bsglutely weatherprogf: wow, unbreak 16. Cut with cheers and tack on: Las Recommended by State Experiment Stations. “1 mg] 0“ ' . 19680! 8 ” Egyomlmw for 00. ( 1 it in. wide, 186 sq. ft.)CoverI Scratch lug 85 ' u brood “raisins: teammate. cat" 1.. -5 — ~. Bot-mg . or O. .X- '8’. p ”t d mo t0 mang- ahaaa 5' ° "“ . ‘. - an“. , ., f 1.33: fr - Two Short Stories - By Prize Winning Merry Circ/err Draw Your Own Conclusions. The mother came walking with slow, tired steps up the path toward the house. She paused, as if in inde- 'cision, and then slowly entered the building with her burden. She laid the still, white form care- fuliy and with infinite tenderness be- side those who had gone before. Not a tear escaped her eyes; not a whis- per, not a single complaint issued from her white, tightly compressed lips. Her face was pale and she seem- ed to be struggling with some deep emotion. It had seemed to her that the pass- ing of the others had been too much for her to bear. She had lamented wrong? Last year you seemed to like it.” “Yes, but it’s this way. I—well——I didn’t have to go alone last year, you know.” “I see,” answered his Mother, “well, you should look through the cloud to the silver lining and realize that some day you will be proud to say, “I’ve been clear through school.” “It’s so hard,‘ though,” he sighed, “and that silver lining is so far away. If there is anything I hate it’s walking that mile and a half to school alone.” "It’s not even a mile, son, when you take the short cut. Go, now, and bring Mother some wood.” As Mrs. Milton saw the door close The Season for Outdoor Dinners is About Over for M. C.’s. then, it is true; but this last—it seem- ed as if this last one had been a part of her very being. And now it, too, had gone, and she was left entirely alone. She stood for a moment, a drooping, dejected figure, beside the place where her loved ones lay. She turned once more to gaze, her. sad eyes upon the silent forms which had once moved as freely as she did. A shudder passed through her slight body and she turn- ed away as if she could not bear the sight of it any more. It was too much. It seemed as if she could not restrain herself from breaking out into a tor— rent of complaint against the cruel, cruel world. _ All of a sudden a weird, unearthly cry rent the still, morning air. Then another shriek, even more pathetic than the first, echoed throughout the place. Then followed a flood of emo- tion which seemed to afford her great relief, for her cries subsided as quick- ly as they had begun, and she walked calmly away. Life was so uncertain. She might lay another egg tomorrow, and then, again, she mightn’ti—Guilford Roth— fuss. The Silver Lining. Williard Milton sat under an old thorn apple tree in the pasture lot. It was a cool day, although a dazzling sun shone on the world. He frowned as he slowly rose and made his way up the lane toward his home. He found his mother busy in the [kitchen and said to her as he entered, “Oh, gosh, Mother, two weeks from today is so soon. I Will sure wish I were dead.” “Why, Williard, my boy, what lan- - i guage, and what thoughts. Really, you can’t ,dread school that bad. What’s behind him, she turned and sighed. Such a son, but then, all boys were problems and, of course, when she found out for sure she would tell him. Ten days had passed and Williard found himself again under the old tree. Such a short time in which to decide what to do, and the frown deepened in his face. It would soon be time for him to get the cows, a task he had once enjoyed. “Williard Milton!” clear, ringing voice. He turned and, half laughing, half unbelieving, rose and looked into exclaimed a those blue eyes beside him, as he said softly, “Wilma Marland, am I dream- ing?” “Oh, hardly,” she replied. “I just arrived, and thought I would be first to tell you I am back.” “I’m glad of that. When did you come? Who brought you—and, oh, say, sit down, let’s have a talk.” “That’s what I wanted to do, if you are willing. I’m glad I found you in my favorite spot.” “I’ve been here a lot lately.‘There’s the first call to supper. You’ll go with me after the cows?” “Of course, Williard, natural if I didn’t.” He took her arm as they rose, and drawing her beside him said, ”And now I’m almost eighteen and, let’s see, you’re sixteen '?” “You’re right, and there’s one thing more. I’ll go with you across the short cut to school this year.” “Really, honestly, do you mean it? Why, that’s something you would nev- er do before.” “Yes, but I like you betterthan I' used to,” and she looked at him shyly, it wouldn’t be “better than anybody else I ever kneW‘ or will know.’ I “Do you really mean that? But you ~ me. don’t know how well I like you.” His arm tightened around her as their gaze met. “Don’t you remember what I said about my pony once?” , “Indeed I do,” she answered, “for you told me you loved him and would risk your life for him.” “You’ re right, and I’d like to do more than that for you.” “I’ll let you, then, for I’m sure I know that. you'mean what you say.” “I realize the value of those words,” he said, as he drew her to him and their lips met for the first time under the old thornapple tree. The last sup- per bell rang, but they lingered a mo- ment and he Whispered to her, “I’ve really found the silver lining. It’s al- most 'too good to be true.”—Alice Chapman. Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins: Before departing, I wish to express to Uncle Frank, the cousins and com- panions of the Merry and Golden Cir« cles, my appreciation for the interest- 1ng page. I wish also to thank Uncle Frank once more for the honors he has given active member since last autumn, yet I have continued to be interested in the activities of others, To those who: enter as we older ones leave, my most sincere wishes for an interesting time, and good luck. I would be glad to hear from other Merry and Golden Circle members. Particularly the latter. There are so few, why wouldn’t it be nice to have a correspondence circle? Also, I would like to hear from others who, like myself, new term themselves “too old.” Good-bye, and good luck, your niece and cousin, Wilma Fry. It would be nice for Golden Circlers to correspond together. I am sorry that'you are now too old to be active in our circles. Let us hear from you sometimes, though. Will have a home- coming week soon. Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins: I haven’t written for a long time as I have so much to do. However, I read Our Page every week, and enjoy it very much, but I would like to see our brother cousins take more inter- est in it. I have done a lot this summer to make money for my school clothes and books. I picked cherries, straw- berries, and blackberries for two and one-half cents per quart,,and I have helped papa with haying and setting up wheat and oats, and got fifty cents per day, and weeded the potatoes for ten cents per row, and now mamma and I are picking an acre of cucum- bers every day. So you see I will‘ have quite a lot of money when school starts. I am thirteen years old, and like to do everything on the farm, ex- cept wash dishes. I know lots of M. C.’s, even young Ellis, and I don’t believe all he says about the girls, for he surely don’t act it. My big brother is an M. 0., too, but he don’t like to write letters, but he likes to read Our Page, and figure out the cross-word puzzles, etc., and he often draws pictures to send to you, but he wants mamma to send @DUR LETTER “ BOX»... Although I have ceased to be an. them for him, but she tells him he’s got to do it himself—Your niece and cousin, Susan G. Holland. You have been a busy girl, and it is nice that you like to work. I am sure that both boys and girls don’t mean all they say about each other. They just say things to find out what others will say. Your brother should get the writing habit. Hello, M. C. 8.: Say, about smoking. Well, if you lived in New York near high society, you’d be shocked, at least I was. I THE HARD 0F FA 1E I “MOLE "my Md“ my 1.5mm» : ' 'Lonavel tansvz This is Self-explanatory. That Paw of Mine Looks Awful Fatefui, Doesn’t it? won ’t bother to tell you much but, gee. .the Cornell University girls sure can smoke. Say, did you ever try it? Well, I was dared to, and when I was by myself I tried it. I smoked two. I puffed and puffed on the first one till that was all gone. Then I thought I’d try another, so I 'puffed on it. My head started to whirl, and. it felt as if I sure had drank a barrel of cid— When I landed on the floor like er. a pancake, I sure saw stars. Gosh, I never tried to smoke s1nce. No more of that stuff for me. But I’d advise you kids not to sm-oke.—~S’long, Tom Marshall. I wish all‘.boys would have your ex— perience in their first attempts at smoking. I never could get any en- joyment from it. I never felt clean when I did it. Sincerity, Loyality, Thoroughness flre Fundamental Qualifier 0f Sacra: INCERITY lies at the basis of all true life. That is, there must be a complete unity between thought, words, and actions. One of the defects of American life is its instability, therefore I put loy- alty next—loyalty to an ideal and loyalty to a task. their work and do it thoroughly without allowing their eyes continually to wander enviously abroad, are much more likely to arrive in the end than those who failed in this respect. oughness. -. \ Those who stick to The third quality I should stress is that of thor~ The old saying that anything that is worth doing at all is worth doing well, certainly applies to _ farm work. Every man who succeeds must put as much into his work as he gets out of it, 1 . CHARLES H. BRENT. »—~. Bishop Charles H. Brent, Who sends ,us this week's “success Talk for Farm Boys,” is one of the greatest religious leaders of our time. Besides serving as Episcopal Bisho ern New York, he has served as Bishop of the chief ,of the chaplain service of the American armies in 0"! West,- Lippine Islan ' - France}; (Standard Farm Paper Editorial ammo. amt 1936. w m 1 unites ” \ Shappv Sport Blazers UST the coat forlskating, hunting, and general out- door wear where comfort, warmth and service is the important need. A typical WIGWAM quality garment made of the best materials and finished in the highest class manner. Expert workmanship assures perfect fit. For real price economy this Blazer is un- matched. ‘ ‘Be sure to ask fbr W IGWAM Blazers. HAND KNIT HOSIERY CO., Sheboygan, WiSCOnsin Also Knitters of Wigwam Hosiery WIGWAM E7155. SHEBOYGAN ' kWanted-u’ Six Men With cars who can devote full time to sales work. Salary and expenses paid weekly to full time men. For complete information address Hosueev ‘ WISCONSIN The Michigan Farmer, Desk C, Detroit, Michigan T his Absolutely Guaranteed .AII Ha: mass 1%:- gs‘g‘ir ’ “(It A“ 2‘5 _ k .3 .;' .4“ t8 1 > ’ ‘ Whale afbesf 04k (fannedLeafher‘ imss filmed At your dealer's today—you can carefully 'examlne it before buying—also other styles—no [might or express to ay. Ask the thousands of farmers who have been using Everwear harness for years. They know because of it: high quality that it pays to buy the Everwear brand. , REMEMBER—you are trading with your local re- sponsible harness dealer who guarantees and stands back of Everwear harness. OLD Atanypoim ' qs ¢ fiyiglfi‘da Q fiiflt fl" . \ r ’ mm F O 4 s ‘7. CROSS-WORD PUZZLE. HIS week’s contest is a cross-word - puzzle, one which was sent in by a Merry Circler. Cross-word puzzles are so common that directions are not necessary. Just fill in the spaces on the puzzle printed here, and put your name and address on the lines below. If you are an M. C. put MKC. after your name. Please don’t forget it. All correct puzzles will. be mixed together and ten lucky ones will be drawn for prizes. The girl winners will be given beads and the boys base balls. 3 5 6 1 2 I ’ m. 3 o I ((9 I Name . .............................. Town ................................ State .............. R. F. I) ........... Horizontal. 1 What cans are made of. 3. Small insect. 5. A grain. 7. 9 Because. . To perform. 10. Joyful. 11. Masculine pronoun. 12. Abbreviation “for example." 14. Males. 16. Article. 17. To possess. Vertical. 1. Beverage. 2. None. 3. Preposition. 4. Also. 6. A fruit. 8. Feminine pronoun. 9. To color. 11. Covering for head. 13. “leapon. 14. I. 15. None. . end your puzzle answer to Uncle Frank, Michigan aFrmer, Detroit, Michigan, before September 24, as the contest closes then. FUNNY LETTER CONTEST.. THINK that this contest proves one thing; that when one tries to be funny, it is hard to be so. Perhaps some tried but could not be funny, and therefore gave up. At least we got very few letters. However, some of the letters received are very good and will be used in these columns in a few weeks. The prize winners are: Beads. Helmi Laine, Sundell, Mich. Alfreda Sting, Gagetown, Mich. Lorna E. Lange, Saline, Mich. June Nelson,-Filion, Mich. Alice Orvis, Charlevoix, Mich. Mae F. Adamson, St. Clair, Mich. Base Balls. Allen Henderson, R. 1, Clare, Mich. Albert Faber, R. 3, Hudsonville, Mich. Guilford Rothfuss, Norvell, Mich. Elwood F. Holland, R. 3, Quincy, Mich. ' THE MERRY CIRCLE FUND. ONTRIBUTIONS are not coming _ in very fast now, as it is an in- between time. The radio for the Children’s Home at Farmington has been ordered. Please remember, how- ever, that this fund is a permanent thing, and that soon we will have an; other project to work on. So keep the money coming. The followmg have sent money from August 9 to Septem- ber 11, inclusive: Mildred Failor, “Bob,” Larry, Velma Washburn, Frances Haindle, “Blue Eyes,” Mary. Stroud, Ivan Stoll, "‘Sar— alee,” Elmwood Holland. The fortieth,anniversary of Benz's automobile, patented in 1886, was cel- ebrated recently in Germany, where his original -“benzine buggy" is pre- served in the Munich museum. THEMICHI G A N- in M E‘ R\ ‘ ‘ AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOLS. (Continued from page 254). kind of work if space permitted. Truly, this is a splendid piece of teach- ing. It is accomplished in its natural setting, it secures the boy’s interest, it teaches him the art of manual 1a— bor, it gives him something to call his own, and it makes a business man of him. But this is not all. After the project proper is harvested or completed, the product must be marketed, and an ac- curate account or statement made showing net profit, together with a story of the project. Here the student learns something of marketing, of book-keeping, and of writing or mak- ing reports. Of course, much of this work is new to him and must be sup- ervised by the teacher, but all this work must be done and the report sent in to the state department before the student receives credit for his work. The success of this method of teach- ing speaks for itself. In 1924 there were 1,247 school projects completed in Michigan which brought a total net income of $114,038.22. As has already been stated, the 1925 reports show 1,353 projects, with a net income of $140,390.64. it is expected that the 1926 report will show even a larger in- crease. Each year the length and size of the projects are increasing and are becoming more business-like. Quite often a calf project; in the freshman year in high school will result in a herd project in the senior year. In an instance of this kind the high school graduate has a herd to start a business if he wishes to go to farm- ing, or an income to finance his educa- tion if he wishes to go to college. Mr. Campbell, agricultural teacher of Cass City, has several projects of this na- turc. When we glance over this method of teaching, and ponder over its'sig- nificance, we cannot help but feel that the future farmer will be a better farmer, a better trained man than the farmer of today. He will advance in his industry like the other industries advance, and he will become a real business man. From the results of this work, it can be seen that the com- munities over the state, who are not, receiving this kind of: training are g0- ing to demand that it be given in their school systems, especially if agricul- ture is important in the communityg Then when we ask concerning the fu-' ture of the agricultural industry, there will be plenty of trained men with expert knowledge and experience who can inform us; and I believe they will be too reasonable to listen to the; whims of some outsider, but will agree a with Dr. Shaw that the advancement of the agricultural industry, although slow, will be continuous, as any stable industry should be. COLLIE BLOOD. (Continued from page 269). see him stretching out his head to- ward the boy’s hand. He shouted their names, one after the other, hopelessly, madly, as he ran down to them, cutting through the corner of the marsh. Billie did not look up, and the dog lay beside him, unmoving save for spasms of twitch— ing that passed over his body. Bill had the gun muzzle between the dulled eyes when he saw the sauger, mangled and ripped, outstretched across the logs a dozen feet away. C der the apple tree. now. “Well,” he said, a trifle huskily, leaning on his shovel, “He spared us an unpleasant job." Old Bill smiled over little Billie’s bare head at the yellow heap of dirt. “Blood will tell," ’he declared sober- ly, “Every time!" ARNES RUDD had dug a new pit, He was filling it '. "~ . 1 ' in a corner of the front yard, un— , w; i? A DAY will do One farmer in 8 is seriously injured Farm work is hazardous. each year. Every hour you run the risk of a fall, cut, stepping on a nail, being injured by a machine or kicked by a horse. Who will pay the bills for doc- tor, medicine and extra help? Why take chances when the small cost of a Woodmen Acci- ' dent policy will save you ‘a lot of money when an accident comes? 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The Appleton, the first successful hueker. offers such unique features that we guar- antee it to do more and better work than any other Husker of equal else. A size for every form. Write today—Booklet E. AD 3388 N1: BRANCH D APPLETON MFG. CO.. Bolivia. Ill. Y Minneapolis APPLE TON HUSKERS sun room MICHIGAN .MILK PLANT ADDS MILK POWDER EQUIPMENT. ACHINERY for making milk pow- der has been added ‘to the equip- ment of the Michigan Producers’ Dairy Company plant at: Adrian, Michigan. ‘ This is an enterprise-for handling sur- plus milk for the members of the Michigan Milk Producers’ Association. Business has increased over 350 per cent in the past three years as meas- ured by the amount of milk received ,in June of each year. SPROUT OATS FOR BARREN COWS. T the U. S. Department of Agricul- ture’s experimental farm, at Belts- ville, Maryland, it has been found that the feeding of sprouted cats to barren cows was efiective in making them conceive. Six non-breeding cows were fed sprouted oats, and in from nineteen to forty—eight days after the feeding of the oats was started, five of them were in calf. Similar tests in Oregon also gave favorable results. Mr. R. R. Graves, in charge of this work, conceived the idea of using sprouted oats because of his work with smaller animals. that a fifth vitamin had a bearing on the reproductive organs. This vita- min, E, is found in lettuce and alfalfa and is especially rich in this vitamin. Mr. Graves is not ready to announce conclusive results on this work, but feels certain that feed has much to do with fertility. ’ MICHIGAN LEADS IN TUBERCULO- SIS ERADICATION. UBERCULOSIS eradication work among the dairy herds of the country is progressing at a rapid rate. The bureau of animal industry reports that 668,058 cattle were tested in July, with 25,353 reactions, but lit- tle over three per cent. There are now 10,877,215 cattle in 1,329,030 herds once-tested and found to be free of tuberculosis, and 15,365,123 head in 1,591,434 herds are under supervision, with 3,876,907 head on the waiting list. As there was a total of 22,290,000 head of milk cows and heifers reported in the United States on January 1, it will be seen that at the present rate it will not be long before the country is pret- ty well cleaned up of bovine tubercu- losis. Michigan is taking a leading place in tuberculosis eradication work, with twenty-seven modified accredited coun- ties, and 692,544 cattle once-tested free. In thisshe is only outranked by Wisconsin’and Iowa. Ohio has five accredited counties and 462,337 cattle once-tested free, while Pennsylvania has four accredited counties and 425,- 206 cattle once-tested free. NorthCar- olina, Which only recently has taken rank as a. dairy state, has sixty-four accredited counties and 516,999 cattle once-tested free. New York, long a leading dairy state, is lagging behind, with two modified accredited counties and 253,804 cattle once-tested free. But New York has 823,521 cattle under supervision, and 450,000 on; the wait- ing list. ' ' YOUTHS EAT CAT WITHOUT ILL EFFECTS. PPARENTLY it is no more than fanciful, ournatural disrelish to- wards the idea of eating the flesh of cats. At any event, an incident hap- pening Within the village of Fenton ' would obviously disprove the idea that . results for aid any. harmful ” arena He discovered , within this village, after simulating the daring deeds, one day, of Daniel Boone, - Ethan Allen, and other out-» standing, historical characters, con~ ceived as a fitting climax to this stirv ring pageant, a barbecue. The unwilling copartner who was to! play the painfully leading role in this salient feature, was a neighborhood tabby cat, who had lived a somewhat nomadic existence within the commu- nity, and Without doubt had been an. interested onlooker while the heart~ stirring, historical depictation was in progress. But tabby’s hour had ar- rived. Unheralded and unsung, out- side of a few plaintive cries, her feline spirit fled to join the spectres of oth- er grimalkins that had preceded her over the borders of pussy heaven. The- carcass was dressed, roasted and con- sumed with supreme gusto, and with no apparent pernicious effects to the digestive system of young America.— G. E. OWNERS OF 300-POUND HERDS TO BE HONORED. WNERS of herds completing a. year’s record averaging 300 pounds or more of fat per cow in cow testing association or herd tests, will receive recognition at the National Dairy Ex- position to be held at Detroit, October 6 to 13, inclusive. Any person certified by the state supervisor of cow testing associations, or the state superintendent of advanc- ed registry, as the owner of a herd of ,five or more cows that have produced an average of 300 pounds, or more, of butter-fat per cow per year, is eligible to the herd honor roll of the National Dairy Association. A diploma is given to each person qualifying. All cows, while in the herd, must be kept on test continuously throughout the testing year, and all cows in the herd nine months or more, must be included in the herd average regard- less of the number of months in milk. The yearly production is figured ac- cording to government practice. Last/year, 813 Michigan herds were recognized, the state ranking second. Wisconsin was first with 932 herd owners receiving diplomas. Michigan had only 108 cow testing associations, as compared to 170 for Wisconsin. A. C. Baltzer, supervisor of tests for this state, expects an increase in the number this year and has hopes that over 1,000 herd owners will be placed on the national herd honor roll at this year’s exposition. BEST ARRANGEMENT FOR FIVE HORSES. What is'the best way‘to work five horses on a gang plow—five horses abreast or a. strung-out hitch,.with‘ two horses in front and three behind? Would‘like the correct lengths and measurements, so I can make these hitches.——S. ’ ' From the standpoint of horse com- fort and well-being, there is but little question that the strung-out bitch, with two in front and three behind is the better. From the standpoint of the driver’s convenience, most people prefer the five~borse abreast bitch; but my observation is that practically every farmer who has really given the stmngout hitch.- a fair trial will ”go’ back to the abreast hitch. 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[I’ll/’01”! of 100 Grade Cows won a ration balanced with National Gluten Feed every day. You will need a good dition of your herd. of corn. any manufacturer. help you. Egfic—EEgEE—EEE—EBEE 12:3 agnE—sz—znanm No. 55 % W Last fall at the National Dairy Show our herd Their big milk and butter records were made on Corn Gluten Feed These cows and thousands of others like them —including_ more than 5000 high—producers in our Feeding Contest—~are getting Corn your fall and winter rations. Corn Gluten Feed for profit and the good con- It’s a pure corn product concentrated feed—— 23% or more protein and other good feeding parts It 15 nearly all digestible. Get Corn Gluten Feed from your dealer or If you buy a ready mixed feed be sure it contains Corn Gluten Feed. ~ Write for our new book on feeding Ask for Bulletin 5 -1 Associated Corn Products Manufacturers Feed Research Department 208 South La Salle St, Chicago, Ill. $5” '4/ ////’. ., I/u/ // I // ‘,’,II ;,.I , 12/2! ”a“. ’/////’ r1 1.4 118 out of 126 prizes concentrate to balance Pin your faith to g Egfia—ZEEHaE—EEEE—EE It will BEEE—EEEEEE BE—EEE—Z—ZEEBEEE—ZEE—Z_E BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us Twelve Days before date of publication Wallinwood Guernseys May Rose—Glenwood bred bill] for sale. | F. W. WALLIN. JENISON, MIC“ Guernsey bulls, one born March 25. 1925; has A. R. dam. One born Octo- ber 26.1925. FRANK E. ROBSON. Room 303, M. C. R. R. Depot Building, Detroit. Mich. FOR SALE— Two young FOR practically pure-bred GUERNSEY or HOL- 8TEIN calves. from heavy. rich mllkerl. write EDGEWOOD DAIRY FARMS, Whitewater, Wis. Dairy Heifer Calves. practically Guernsey pure bred $25. 00 each. We ship C. 0. D. Write L. Terwilliger, Wauwatosa, Wis. 10 Registered Guernsey Bulls, almost For sale ready for service. May Rose brwdinz. Cheap. Write JOHN EBELS. R. 2, Holland. Mich. registered Guernsey bull calves $50.00 Pure-bred and up. Also a few fine heifer calves. F. W. Meyer 8. Sons. Maple Plain. Minn. The Leading Sire Echo Sylvia. King Model is the Leading Sire of Honor List daughters for 1925— ’20. He has 75 A. R. 0. daughters. inlluding four above 30 lbs and nineteen others above 25 lbs. but- .ter in 7 days. His 75 tested daughters (only {our in mature form) average. Butter 7 days. 23.09 lbs. Milk, 452.9 % Fat. 3.96 Send for our Booklet— “MICHIGAN STATE HERBS." m Bureau of m" "“5 Animal Industry Dept. C l","l.‘. loll?“ (AWL- Lanainz, Michigan HOLSTEINS, Young Bulls, Heifers Foundation cows with high records. ”hard is fully accredited and headed by one of the good bulls of the breed. Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich. FOR' SALE GoodneslsteredBull. 10 bemonths old. from dam that will make over 5001 in as- sociation ERNEST RUEIHS. Caledonia, Mich. , s Re lsteln FOrEhsothAqLE Huff‘s u. Titian-(inform? aims-lb. E A. noun-'9. Aims. Nah ’ HEREFORD STEERS 22 Wt. around 1100 lbs. 69 Wt. around 1000 lbs. 74 Wt. around 725 lbs. 81 Wt. around 625 lbs. 45 Wt. around 550 lbs. 50 Wt. around 500 lbs. dark reds, dehorned. well marked . The beef type are usually market toppers when finished. Will sell your choice of one car load from any bunch. Can also show you Shorthorn steers, yrls or 2 yr old. Van D. Baldwin, Eldon,Wapello C0,, Iowa, HEREFORDS 5 bulls around a year old. also bred cows and heif- ers. Repeaters and Woodford breeding at farmer’s prices ALLEN BROTHERS. na Burdick Arcade, Kalamazoo. Mich- JERSEY FEMALES Having bought the entire well- known herd of H. B. Wattles Rechester. Jerseys I have some surplus cows and heifers, bred and open. to sell. Also clos- ing out 6 Shorthorn cows and heifers. IRA W JAYN E, Fenton. Mich. BUTTER BRED ”“3”... BELLS CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FAR M. Silver Creek. Allegan County, Michigan ready for service. and ChOiCC Jersdey Buns bull calves, for sale of ms accredited herd. SMITH G. PARKER. Howelld Mich. 15 Cows. 4 Bulls from B. of M. Cows. Chance to select from herd of 10. Some fresh. others bred f‘a' fall freshenins. Colon 0.1111110. Coopersvius. Mich. Milking Shorihorns For Sale “"98 bred heifers to freshen in September and November. One Roan. eight months old bull calf. one five year old, grandson of Glenside Dairy King, kind and gentle. Inquiries solicited. Visitors wel- come. Prices reasonabla BELAND 8:. BELAND. Tecumseh. Mich Best of nullity and breeding. Bulls. Shorthorns cows and heifers for sale. BIDWELL. STOCK FARM. Box D. Tallulah. Mich. Milking Shonhorns s..a‘“‘a..nn.“‘..t.”“ ding Write your wants Irvin Donn (I Sons. Crosweli, Mich. I I Milking Shoriimrns $31.31;}. limimii‘f' $3 milked. W. E. Thompson. R. No. 4, Ludinoton. Mich. Write or sea tors welcome. Brown Swiss Bulls m”; "‘33,, A. A. FELDKAMP. Manchester. Mloh. HOGS DUROCS Bred gilts, spring and {all boars. Michigan’s Premier Duroc Herd. Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich. D than. once lEBSEYS,’ rm and Spring nos:- m CLOVERLAND FOR SHEEPHV IRON county {dimers recently listen- sheepmenop the possibilities of sheep raising in this territory. The speakers were two former westerners—experi- enced sheep ranchers who came to, this district several years ago and had thoroughly tried out the country for sheep-raising. The farmers were told that sheep-raising here was more prof- itable than cattle-raising. County Ag- ricultural Agent Earl Roberts was in charge -of the meeting. The speakers told how they had found the western sheep range in- creasingly restricted in contract with the ample acreage which they had found in the Upper Peninsula. Remov- ing to upper Michigan, the sheep men had to adapt themselves to a different climate, new sheep diseases, and oth- er troubles. At first they pocketed losses, but that is now in-the past. It is a good time to enter the sheep game, the farmers were told. At pres ent Upper Peninsula lambs top the perlen‘ce- ed to talks by two Upper Peninsula . as we “have found 01min cur sis However. On an average, ;- these feeds must be geod on account. , of the competition on the market, and besides, they. have this. advantage, that they are scientifically prepared, calculated to~assist in bringing the pigs through the weaning peridd' in - first-class condition, whichJs a matter of real importance. These feeds are usually fed the Same as those we prepare from the materials we happen to have at hand » on the farm. In this respect, I wish to call attention to skim-milk. ‘Undoubt- edly, skim-milk should form the basis for all these preparations where pos- ‘sible, and fed‘in the form of a gruel, while the little fellows are quite young. Nothing'does young pigs near- ly so much good than to give them a. nice, clean, warm sleeping place, and plenty of good feed to satisfy their ravenous appetites, which they are cer- tain to have while yet young. Skim- milk fed in connection with other con- centrates and grains, will well repay‘ anyone, for a thrifty bunch of pigs ... ., _‘ -L *4... Chicago market, they said. Winter feeding is easy, according to one of the sheep men. In 1922 winter-feeding cost $1.25 per head. The average wool clip is seven pounds, and compares well with high-grade western wool. Last year each lamb returned a net gain of $9.22. Fencing cost $200 per mile. The sheep men had to learn to feed iodine in the sheep ration to guard against goiter, and to learn that tim- othy hay should not be used. Pre- dacious animals have been trouble— some, but assurances have been re- ceived from the State Department of Conservation that full protection will be afforded. Iron county was said to have only 20,000 cultivated acres, which leaves a. wide range for sheep. It was an- - nounced that, if sufficient farmers man- ifested an interest in sheep-raising, an effort would be made to bring a sheep specialist to the peninsula—Chase. DAIRY FEDERATION MEETS AT. DETROIT. HE American Dairy Federation is sending out invitations to its third annual banquet to be held at Book- Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, Michigan, Sat- urday, OCtober 9, 1926. Among the speakers will be Louis J. Taber, mas- ter of the National Grange; James A. Emery, counsel National Association of Manufacturers, and Dr. Kenyon L. Butterfield, president Michigan State College of Agriculture. N. P. Hull is chairman of the reception committee. FEED FOR GROWING PIGS. OR many years we have beenrais— ing pigs for home consumption, andto sell. The feeding problem -is an important item, and, especially is this so when the pigs are young, and growing bone and muscle. There are many commercial pig feeds on the market today, and a great many of them are cute llent’. ‘ For Three Years these Pure-bred Jerseys of D. J. Dinsen Have Been High Producers of Butter-fat in the Alto-Kent Cow Testing Association. will be the result, and this will be quite noticeable later on when the hogs have come to the fattening stage. They will be lengthy, well muscled, and put on more weight, which is the ultimate goal in raising hogs for prof- it.-—E. Swope. FIND A POOR SEPARATOR. HE month’s work of the South Ber- rien Cooperative Cow Testing As- sociation discloses the first non-effi- cient separator in the association in two years. In this particular case, the skim—milk tested 5.100 of one per cent, and the loss was figured at $1.15 per month. Action was taken by the mem- ber to recitfy the profit leakage. Doan Stroab, of Galien, had the high herd, his nine pure—bred and grade Holsteins averaging 37.54 pounds of fat. Doan also had high cow in “Cham- pion,” who gave 68.61 pounds of but- ter-fat, and high three-year-old in “Co— lantha Maid,” who boasts 58.02 pounds for the month. Sam. Thomson had high four-year- old in “Lassie,” a. grade Guernsey who had'501.-po_unds of fat to her credit as a three-year-old, and produced a pair of twin heifer calves to start off the present year profitably. Lassie gave 53.76 pounds of fat for the thirty- one-day period. High two-year-old for August was owned by F. W. KnOtt, of Niles, whose pure-bred Guernsey, “Lassy,” added 52.03 pounds of fat to her credit for the year’s work. Quite a few of._the members are sending pure-bred Guernseys along to‘ help in the county exhibit at the State Fair. This incident marks a. new era in pure-bred work for the small breed- er.—-Nathan Brewer. Two cow testing associations have?" been organized recently in Missaukee county during' the past year! and a! '1 third is in process ls- oresvom r. TGRNFO iii-(DU! T‘D’OO,¢ I Pm , - The rwo LiT'I'ERS A , YEAR. ANY farmers never think of rais- ing more than one litter from a ,mature sow a year, either because they do not want to bother with them, or cannot get any growth during cold weather. A good deal of this is imag- ination, at least it was that way with me for several years, or until I made a real effort to raise fall pigs. Mature sows should raise two litters ; a year; young sows should raise only one the first year. In the first place, the sows intended for breeding pur- poses should be fed liberally, so as to make good growth. Then after that they should be bred so as to farrow near the first of March. When the pigs are four weeks old they will eat readily and if fed separately they will be ready to wean when eight weeks old. Then the sows can be bred again to farrow the first half of September. If farrowed early in September it gives them a chance to get a good start before the cold weather comes. If possible give the sows a run of good pasture, or piece of early sown rye, and it will help them wonderfully. As soon as the pigs show a ten- dency to want to eat, fix a place to feed them separately from the sows and given a slop of milk, middlings, bran, and either tankage or oil meal. They will take to it readily and after they learn to eat well, the ration can be varied to suit the circumstances, ~ but beware of too liberal feeding of corn to little pigs. By the time they are old enough to wean, the pastures are just about gone, so feed them three times a day, all they will clean up well, and see that the trough is clean each time. The greater the va- riety of feeds, the better. They like a change, and as the days begin to get cold have their slop lukewarm. It is a wonderful help to the little fel- lows on a cold day. Their house should be comfortably warm, and free from drafts. Have plenty of sunshine in it, and byall means see that they have a dry bed when it is raining or snowing, and at times it may need to be changed ev- ery day. Do not put too many togeth- er. If there is quite a large number, divide them, placing the larger ones in one pen and the smaller ones in another. In caring for fall litters, in the win- ter when we have some leisure we can give them some special attention. I have found that it pays to do it. If the fall litters fail to do well under reasonably good care, do not blame the pigs, but look for the cause, which is generally found in the feeding.— V. M. C. LITTLE TUBERCULOSIS IN MISSAUKEE CATTLE. THE T. B. test which was recently completed in Missaukee county showed a large percentage of infected animals. Of the 14,000 head of cattle in the county, only seventy-four ani- mals, or one—half of one per cent, were found to be reactors. A re-test of in fected herds will be made in Novem- ber, after which the county will be given modified accredited status, ac- cording to H. L. Barnum, county agri- cultural agent. BREED ARMY HORSES. T HE Army _, Remount Association was organlzed in 1921 for the pur- pose of increasing the number of horses suitable for army purposes. The association now has over 300 stal- lions standing to breed to mares owned by local breeders and farmers in various parts of the country. As a result of this movement the foal production has reached about 25,000 colts suitable for light draft and rid- ing purposes born in the past five years. ' _These colts ”grade so high that 80 per cent of those offered for sale to the army are accepted, while only 10 per cent of the ordinary run of horses .oftered- to army buyers are I . .. 1.,” nacho of the Meri- can Remount Association, “Not' more horses, but better horses," has much to commend it in the experience of the association in horse breeding. crinary. _ :1. . NW. WNMWWHHWIHHHIHW CONDUCTED BY DR. S. BURROWS. i r l Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib- ers. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms of each case and give. name and address of the writer. Initial- only are published. When a reply by mail is requested the service becomes private practice and 81 must be enclosed. AA Navel Infection—We have a calf that is leaking 'firm matter at the nav- el. What should be done for it? C. E. W.—-Enlarge the opening, so that the pocket can be syringed out once daily with a solution of lysol, one des— sertspoonful to one pint of warm wa- ter. Afterward swab out with tinc- ture of iodine. Bloody Milk.—I have a cow which freshened March 28, and gives thick bloody milk. Last year when she freshened she gave bloody milk for about two weeks. She gives about five quarts of this substance. The ud- der does not seem swollen. Can you give the cause and cure? W. J. S.—- This is caused frequently by bruising or chilling of the udder. It is also caused by heavy feeding. Milk the affected quarter several times daily, at which time bathe the udder with hot water. Give one-half ounce of for— maldehyde in quart of water twice daily for five or six days. It would be advisable to reduce the grain ration until it becomes normal. Toxemia.—One morning I found my seven-year-old sheep standing in a very stupid condition. She seemed to be stiff in her hind quarters. She re- fused to eat for a while, but after much coaxing she ate'lightly. She then seemed to become brighter, but remained stiff, becoming weaker and eating less all the time. One day she was found lying on her back as though she were dying. We assisted her to her feet and she became able to walk. She has remained very quiet, either lying down or standing very quiet. She lies down most of the time now. Seems to be very weak and sick. Her breathing is getting poor. She breathes very short and quite hard. She has a bad cold. She always has more or less of a cold. I have been feeding corn silage, pea and cat straw, and ground oats. Her teeth are bad on account of age, so she refused to eat much roughage. Would the silage have caused this trouble She was in good condition»- not fat. but in good flesh. What is the cause? Is this catching? What is a preventative and a cure? G. K. This is caused by a lack of exercise, constipation and absorption of poisons from the bowels. Withhold food, supply plenty of fresh water. Give one ounce of turpentine in six to eight ounces of raw linseed oil, or one pint of mineral oil. If able to ex- ercise, see that plenty of exercise is taken every day. On account of age and bad teeth, the trouble may have 'been brought about by not being able to properly chew her food. Silage, if spoiled, would also cause this condi- tion. A little alfalfa or clover hay might be fed instead of silage. Fails to Breed—I have a twelve- year—old cow that is in fair flesh and seems to be well. She has never lost a calf and has always been easy to get with calf until now. I have taken her four times to one bull and two to another. She fails to breed. She comes in heat at intervals of two weeks if she is not bred. If bred she will go three weeks. How can I get her with calf? C. F. P.~This is usu- ally the result of some abnormal con- dition of the genital organs. Either an inflammation of the cervix (open— ing of the uterus) or cystic ovaries. It is necessary to manipulate the ov- aries, by passing the arm in the rec- tum, where they can readily be exam- ined and given such treatment as may be found necessary. It would be ad— visable to have these parts examined by your veterinarian, who would treat whatever he found to be causing the trouble. Ailing Rabbits—My rabbits have sores under their jaws. I feed them hay and oats, chop, and a little cab- bage and turnips. I give them water also. For two years now, when the rabbits began eating they get the sores. I have them in the chicken coop. Last year all the little rabbits died. R. W. H.——They should be kept in warm, dry quarters. The sores should be washed with a four per cent solution of boracic. acid, and then dusted with the boracic acid powder. It would be advisable to clean and then-spray the walls and floor of their quarters with a four per cent solution of carbolic acid. :Buy fence on past performance Page—the first Farm Fence—is the result of over 43 years’ close study of the exact conditions that must be met with in every type of farm use. Its design and construction are based on the actual work it must do and not on theory. All of the factors that go to make per- fect fence are present in Page. It is con- structed sturdy and strong to withstand rough usage. Elasticity is provided for to stand up under the impact of animals; to keep it rigid and taut under varying free climatic conditions and to make it easily adaptable to rough or hilly ground. Cor- rosion and rust are guarded against by a super heavy coat of galvanizing over wire made of high quality steel. A 58-! cure weave assures durability and long life. Line wires and stay wires are sec cured by the most efficient knots long experience has made it possible to devise. You willrfind a type and size of Page Fence to meet every farm need. Ask your dealer to Show you. You’ll find he carries the style you need. PAGE STEEL. AND WIRE COMPANY An Associate Companyofthe American Chain Co., Inc. BRIDGEPORT . CONNECTICUT Fence Department District Sales Office? Chicago. New York. Pittsburgh. an Francisco In Canada : Dominion Chain Company. Limited, Niagara Falls, Ontario Write for interesting liter- ature describing in detail the fence that has been first choice for three gener- . ations. No obligation. ' :J"' 35 GUERNSEYS at AUCT ON 35 First Semi-Annual Consignment Sale Michigan Guernsey Breeders Association East Lansing, Michigan, College Livestock Pavilion. 9 Cows—~Six with A. R. records up to 602 lbs. fat. 8 Bred Heifers—Two due day of sale. September 30, 1926 Sale Starts 12:30 (E. S. T.) Two with C. T. A. records. 9 Heifers Calves-Out of A. R. and C. T. A. record dams. Bulls-Out of cows with A. R. records up to 672 lbs. fat. For catalog, address W. D. BURRINGTON, Field Secretay. Michigan Guernsey Breeders Ass'n- East Lansing, Michigan FOR SALE Spring boars and gilts from Mich— igan pioneer herd of big typo l’. C. hogs. Some of the best prospects among thmu i ever bred. sired by "The Wolverine” and “Tho Grand Model." the best two-ymnold boar I ever owned. A boar or sow from this herd adds prestige to your own. W. E. LIVINGSTON. Parma. Mich. ' bred gills and pigs from CheSIer Whlle Bears the best prize winning blood lines. Will ship C. 0. 1). and record tin-rm free. JOHN C. WlLK. St. Louis. Mich. BIG TYPE CHESTER WHITES Eiféfks‘fieiliyafififif plons. bred from Champions. MAPLE HILL STOCK FARM. Rt. 2, Can City. Mich. Large Type Poland Chinas Big onos. best strains. Jan. 6. Taylor, Belding. Mich. . . 'th .i . . Big Type Poland Chinas $....“‘3.2’ it... $53.33.” Emit. CLARK, Breckenridge, Mich. HAMPSHIRE boar pigs of spring and summer for row for sale. 13th year in business. JOHN W SNYDER. R. 4, St. Johns. Mich. SHEEP BREEDING EWES Always on Hand in Car Loads or Train Loads. Both Native and Range Yearling Ewes. 6.000 beautiful Delaine Ewes. I ship all over the United States on mail orders. guaranteeing as represented. Feeding wethars and lambs. Send stamp for leaflet, “40 Years in Sheep Bus. iness," a. Resume of Sheep Industry. Please wire before coming. George M. Wilber. OAKLANDS, Mnrynille. Ohio TIIE MAPLES SHROPSIIIRES For Sale: 25 yearling rams of right type and quality. 2 stock rams s. few ewes. C. R. LELAND. R. 2. Ann Arbor. Michigan Phone 734 F I3 1000 CHOICE EWES For sale in lots of 50 or more. We do sell both-r owns for less money. Write for description and prices. or telegraph when you can come to inspect thorn. Telegraph: limkwrxxl. Post Office, So. iiockwrxxl, Mich. ALMOND B. CHAPMAN & SON. So. Rock- wood. Mich. Shropshires —Oxfords Yearling and ram lambs. Also a few Mc- Kerrow bred Oxford ewes for sale. Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich. SH ROPS-H IRES Offering choice yearling rams and a few ewes. Also 1 car choice Dolaine Ewes. Visit flock at State Fair. 0. L. CHAPMAN & SON. So. Rockwood. Mich. l’urv—brrxi Shropshire Ram, three ' . A. H. FOR SAL years old, pi'lr'u BROWNE. Scottville. Mich. ' Oxl‘orl Dowm . ‘2' L Wesl Manon Stock Farm 1., nims and“ e’ivewiié‘l’m for sale. WM. VAN SICKLE, Dockerville. Mich. ltogistm'rd Oxford Rams. bred FOR SALE from good stock, priced low. JAMES J. HACKER. Uhly. Mich. s. HROPSHIRES ~(lhoice yearling rams and ram lambs. sire, imported Buttar ram—Dams. Minton Buttar 6r Bibby bred. Prices very reasonable. 0. E. VREELAND. R. F. D. 5, Ypsilanti. Mich. - for wool and mutton. 15 year- Shropshlres lines. 40 ram lambs. m m... DAN BOOHER. Evart. Mich" Route NO. 4. For Shropshire Rams (61111 at the farm or write Mich. Also a few breedingym'vfiy- Noedham. Saline, ' for sale. 200 each month. Shrop- BIWIME EWCS shire. Hampshire Mes and cross- breds. All yearlings. V. B. Famine. Nashville. Midi. ADDITIONAL STOCK ADS. ON PAGE 281 i 7 ,_ . , crop, will begin to GRAIN QUOTATIONS Tuesday September 14. Wheat. Detroit—No. 2 white $1.33; No. 2 red $1.35; No. 2 mixed $1.35. Dec. at Chicago—Sept. at $1.35%; $1.38%; May $1.401/3. . Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red $1.351/2, @ 1.36%. Corn. Detroit—No. 2 yellow at 84c; No. 3 yellow 82c. Chicago—Sept. at 755/8; Dec. 85c; May 91%c. Oats. Detroit—No. 2 Michigan, old, 450; new 410; No. 3 old 44c; new 38c. Chicago—Sept. 385/3c; Dec. 427/8c; May 47%0. Rye. Detroit—No. 2 95c. Chicago—Sept. 95%c; Dec. $10014; May $1.06%. Toledo—«Rye 95c. Beans. Detroit—Immediate and prompt shipment $4@4.05. Chicago.-—-—Spot Navy, Mich. fancy hand~picked at $4.50 per cwt; red kid- neys $8.25. New York—Pea domestic at $4.50@ 5; red kidney $8.50((D9. Barley. Malting 72c; feeding 65c. Seeds. Detroit—Cash red clover at $20; September alsike $18.25; timothy $2.70. Hay Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $21@22; standard $20((’D21; No. 1 light clover, mixed $20@21; No. 2 timothy at $18; No. 1 clover $19.50@20.50; wheat and oat straw $12@13; rye straw $13@14. Feeds Detroit—Spring wheat bran at $29; standard middlings at $31; fancy mid- dlings $36; cracked corn $36; coarse cornmeal $35; chop $33 per ton in carlots. WHEAT The wheat market was steady dur- ing the past Week, being near to the low point of the decline which started over a month ago, but rallied strongly at the close, export sales increased, the reports of European crops were less favorable and Canada again re- ported that rainy weather was delaying harvest and damaging the crop. The amount of wheat coming on the mar- ket is large, however, and the crops in both Argentina and Australia, which are vital in the market outlook, are making rather favorable progress. The most important factor in the market outlook is the prospective yield in the southern hemisphere. No esti- mates have been issued as yet, but the general tenor of reports from both Argentina and Australia is favorable, so that fully average yields are indi- cated in comparison with the small yields of last year. The weather in both countries is notoriously fickle, however, and the crops is just ap— proaching the most critical stage of growth. RYE Rye exports of 536,000 bushels last week were the first in a month. Clear- ances would be continued at close to this rate through the rest of the crop year. The domestic visible supply is still increasing because of the new crop movement. The discount of rye prices under wheat is larger than us- ual, and continuation of export sales should result in some advance. CORN Continued perverse weather checked the decline in corn prices and has started what may develop into an im- portant advance. Widespread rains have prolonged growth and increased the danger fromfrost which 18 already predicted for some of the northern boundary states. While the area that is past the danger point is steadily widening, there remains a large acre- age that is but little past the roasting ear stage. Consuming demand for corn is not brisk, although it has shown some increase recently, and takings from commercial channels exceed .the sales by producers, so that the Visible supply continues to decrease. It is still ‘nearly 20,000,000 bushels, howev- er, and the rate of decrease is too - slow to suggest and possibility of a "commercial shortage before the new roll to market. Ix», ““Anxsr'ngp OATS Oats prices dropped to new low ground for the season. No. 2 white oats sold at 37140 at Chicago, equal- ling the low point of last season when the crop was considerably larger. The low point during the harvest move- ment in 1924 was 470; in 1923 was 370; in 1922, 31c, and in 1921, 320. Considering the improvement in prices of other grains since 1923, and the fact that feed grain supplies are less than last year, oats prices seem to be close to rock bottom. Rainy weather has interfered with threshing of cats and resulted in complete loss of some grain. This weather influence caused a sharp decline in primary receipts of oats in the last few days. SEEDS Clover seed was marked higher last week due to foreign seed advancing, following hot weather reports and the uncertainty of the final outcome of our own crop. Timothy seed strengthened with offerings only moderate and deal— ers inclined to look for a larger fall demand than was expected earlier in the season. FEEDS The feed market continues dull and unsettled, with offerings of mill feeds fairly liberal and demand practically at a standstill. Alfalfa meal strength- ened as a result of the higher prices for alfalfa hay. EGGS Fresh egg prices remain strong fol- lowing the sharp advances of a week ago. Receipts are relatively light and reports from the country indicate that production is steadily declining. Stor- age eggs are being used in larger quan- titles to supplement the moderate sup- ply of fresh stock so that the shortage under a year ago is constantly being increased. The satisfactory prices for eggs as compared with feed costs, may lead producers to force their flocks for late fall and early winter egg produc- tion, but prices are still a long way from the season’s high point and an advancmg trend is to be expected dur- ing the next two months. Chicago—Eggs, fresh firsts 34%@ 351/30; extras 36@37c; ordinary firsts 28@320; miscellaneous 3499c; dirties 20@270; checks 20@26c. Live poul- try, hens at 25%0; springers 25%c; roosters 18c; ducks 22c; geese 17c; turkeys 34c. Detroit—Eggs, fresh candled and graded 33%@35c. Live poultry, heavy springers 30@310; light springers 22@ 23c; heavy hens 28@29c; light hens 21c; ducks/26c. BUTTER The butter market eased off last week although prices were strength- ening again at the,close. Improvement in pastures throughout the prominent dairy sections led. to the general ex; pectation that the September output of butter will equal, if not exceed, that of the corresponding month a year ago. Receipts continue to fall short of last season, however, the storage situation has lost its bearish influence, with the surplus over a year ago be- ing steadily reduced, and distribution - into consumptive channels is on a sat- isfactory basis, so that, statistically, the market is in‘a strong position. Dealers prefer to keep prices at a lev- el which is attractive to consumers in order to maintain wide outlets for but- ter, but the upward trend is likely to be resumed shortly unless receipts show an unexpectedly large increase. Prices on 92—score creamery were: Chicago 42c; New York 430. In De- troit creamery in tubs sells for 38@ 40 1/20. POTATOES Prices for white potatoes have strengthened again following a brief period of weakness, although ship- ments are running ahead of last year, and dealers believe that lower prices are to be expected. The trend will depend largely on how markets are supplied, and with producers inclined to hold back whenever the market sags off to any degree, declines should LiveStock Market Service I Tuesday September 14. CHICAGO Hogs. Receipts 22,000. Market very un- even; light hogs mostly 50@75c lower then Monday’s best prices; medium weight butchers generally 25@40c off; heavy butchers and desirable packing sows mostly steady; weighty packing sows and rough kind slow tending lower; pigs and light hogs sharing decline; tops $14.10; bulk desirable 210le down $13.50@$14.00; bulk bet— ter grade 220-250 lb $13.00@$13.75; most 260-325 lb butchers $12.00@ $13.00; most light to heavy weight packing sows $10.50@$11.35; bulk de- sirable slaughter pigs $12.75@$13.25. Cattle. Receipts 15,000. Market on grain fed and grass steers, steady to strong choice fat steers all weight very scarce; active, better yearlings $11.50; best kinds considerably higher; 1,465 lbs bullocks $11.35, some 1,067 lbs average $10.90; western grassers early $7.50@$8.00; vealers 500 higher $13.00 @$14.00; other grassers steady. Sheep. Receipts 26,000. Market slow; early sales fat lambs mostly 25c. lower; no westerners sold; most natives $13.75 @31400; culls steady $10.00@$11.00; sheep steady; bulk fat ewes $5.50@ $7.00; feeding lambs steady to weak with Monday’s close; wholly 25c lower, tops at $14.75; bulk $13.50@ $14.50; short deck 876-lb yearling breeding ewes $13.75. DETROIT Cattle. _ Receipts 347. Market strong but slow. -. - Good to choice yearlings dry-fed ................ $10.00 11.00 Best heavy steers, dry-fed 9.00 10.00 Handy weight butchers . . 8.50@ 9.00 Mixed steers. and heifers 7.256.) 7.75 Handy light butchers . .. . 6.50@ 7.25 Light butchers . . . . . . . . , . 5.'00@. 6.00 Best cows .. ....... r. .'.. 5.506) 6.25 Butcher cows ........... 4.7565 6.75 Cutters ....... . . . . . . 4.00@ 4.75 Canners ............ . . . . 3.00@ 3.75 Choice light bulls . . . . . . . 6.00@ 6.75 Bologna bulls ........... 5.50@ 6.50 Stock bulls ............. 5.00@ 5.50 Feeders ................. 600(5), 7.25 Stockers ............ '.. . . 5.25@ 6.25 Milkers and springers. . . $55.00@ 90.00 Calves. Receipts 386. The market is steady. Sheep and Lambs. Receipts 1,951. Market steady. Light to common lambs.. 9.50@11.75 Best ..................... $15.50@16.00 Others .................. 5.00@10.00 Best grades . . . . . . . . ; . . . .$16.50@17.00 Fair to good ........ ,. . . . 13.25 Best lambs ............. 14.75@15.00 Fair lambs .............. 13.50@14.00 Light to common lambs. . 9.50@11.75 Fair to good sheep ...... 6.50@ 7.00 Culls and common ...... 2.00@ 4.50 Hogs. Receipts 1,574. Market steady. Hogs sold early $14.35@14.50.- Pigs closing 25c@50c lower on me- dium and 50c@75c lower on lights. Roughs ................. - 10.25 Heavy ....... . . ..... . . . 11.50@13.00 BUFFALO ’ Hogs. Receipts 10,000. Market uneven 10@25c lower; tops $14.75 paid liber- ally; others 150—210 lbs $14.65; 200-250 lb $13.75@$14.65; 260—300 lbs $13.75@ $14.00; 300 lbs up $12.75@$13.00; packing sows mostly $10.00@$10.50; pigs slow, mostly 14.25@$14.50. Cattle. ‘ Receipts 500. L1 ht weight steers $8.25; others norma 1y steady. Calves. Receipts 150. Market mostly steady. . Top vealers $16.00; practical $15.50; medium tops $13.00. Sheep and Lam be. tops Receipts 600. Market mostly Steady;- . i ,1 .5 ' r F fat lambs 25c higher; :tqps culls _$10.00@$11,_60; sheep at r}. . be neither drastic nor prolonged. The estimated production of potatoes was increased to 352,000,000 bushels, based on the condition on September 1,‘ com- pared With the August 1 estimate of 346,000,000 bushels. The crop is still .below the average for the past five years. Northern round whites, U. S. No. 1, are quoted at $3.10@3.25 per 100 pounds, sacked, in the Chicago carlot market. BEANS The national crop report has the fol- lowing to say about the dry edible bean crop: “Severe droughts with high temperatures and drying winds over the dry land bean areas of Col- orado and New Mexico, and extreme heat in the bean districts of California have reduced the total bean prospects by 2,000,000 bushels.” The indications are, however, for a crop of 17,235,000 bushels, which was exceeded by last year’s crop of 19,534,000 bushels and that of 17,397,000 bushels in 1918. WOOL Demand for wool was more active during the past week, giving prices a. firm tone and causing occasional small advances. Demand for goods is better than early in the summer, but mills MARKETS BY RADIO. AlLY market reports and , weather forecasts may be obtained each week day from the following Michigan stations: WKAR—Miehlgan State Col- lege, 12:00 noon. .WCX—Detroit Free Presl, at 2:15 P. M. WWJ—Detroit News, 10:25 A. M., 12:00 noon, 4:00 P. M. WGHPe—Geo. Harrison Phelps, 7:00 P. M. . * ’ claim that manufacturing margins are narrow, so that they resist advances in.p_rices on raw material and are not aiming to accumulate stocks. Boston quotes Ohio Delaine, grease basis, at 45c; half-blood 44@45c; threeeighths at 44c, and quarter-blood at 43%@' 440. Fine to fine medium staple terri4 tory'scoured basis is $1.07@1.08 in the gigégal bags, with half-blood at $1 ' GRAND RAPIDS A large tonnage of peaches and pears were being sold daily in Grand Rapids this week. A fair home can- ning-demand developed to absorb the canning varieties now coming to mar- ‘ket. Peaches $1@2.50 bu; Bartlett pears $1@1.75 bu; plums 50c@$1.25 bu; grapes $3@3.50- dozen 2-qt. bas- kets; apples, Duchess 30@50c a bu; Strawberry apples $16M bu; Wealth- 195 $1 bu; Sweet Boughs $1@1.75 bu; cantaloupes $1@2 bu. or crate; pota- toes $1.35@1.50 bu; onions $1 a bu; cabbage 65@75c bu; rye 75c bu; beans $3.50@3.60 cwt; butter-fat 450 pound; eggs 34@37c; chickens 20@280; hens 20@250. DETROIT CITY MARKET Saturday’s markets set the season’s record for amount of produce oflered. Over 750 loads of produce were on Eastern Market alone. After two days of rather light buying, buyers stocked up well today. Prices in the main were well maintained. Plums were in heavy supply and good ones moved off eaSily at $1.25@1.50 bushel, with.I a. few fancy ones selling as high as $3 a. bushel. The demand for first~class pears and peaches was good, and ap- ples had fair. sale. A fair number of grapes were offered and most were sold for 75@90c a peck. First-class cantaloupes were ready sellers at $1.50 @1.75 a bushel, and watermelons were taken well at 250 each or $1.50 a. bush- el. The supply of all kinds of berries Eva‘s1 small and most went to the retail ra. e. ‘4 V5 STOCK SALES. comma Ll V'I—V’II r—v-w ‘l-cab'é 'onowm snows eLow - moon ass. CROP growth‘*has made slow pro- gress under adverse weather con- ditions this season, but the favor- able outlook for the live stock indus- try, coupled with .a prospect of fairly well-balanced food and feed crop pro- duction appear to offer encouraging evidence for the agricultural outcome this year, says the department of ag- riculture in its September 1 report on the farm situation. The report points out, however, that the recent general turn of pr1ces has ' been against the farmer. the index of purchasing power of farm products, in terms of non-agricultural c_ommod1t1_es, having dropped 'two paints during July, and standing at 85 per oentof pre—war parity. This means that the purchasing power of farm products is 15 per cent less than the average for the five-year pro-war penod 1909-13. . The weather, which always domi- nates the crop situation, has been re- markably “perverse” this season. Two months ago when the, crops were get- ting started and rain was badly need- ed, most of the country was unduly dry. During the past three weeks, with haying and early harvest going forward. and sunshine essential, there has been rain most of the time over much of the country. . Considerable hay and some gram have spoiled in the fields, and the bar- vest has been under a discouragmg handicap. Cotton prospects have fallen off and insect enemies have flourished. The rains have helped corn. and pota- toes and, in some areas, spring wheat. Discussing the crop situation in detail, the department’s report says: The winter wheat crop is made, and no small part of it already marketed. In the Wheat belt proper it is a fine crop. The country-wide average. yield was 17.1 bushels per acre, the hlghest since 1914, and the grain is of splendid weight and quality. The winter wheat belt is blessed with what it appears to regard as a season of prospemty. Spring wheat, on the other hand,_1s a spotted and generally disappomting crop, due to the earlier drought. . “Corn prospects have improved With the recent rains, but will hardy make an average crop, even though frost holds off until late. Hay is a short crop, as a whole, and old stocks are light. Oats are about an average crop, but stocks of old oats on farms are unusually large. Fruit is a heavy crop. Cotton conditions deteriorated during last month; the lateness of the spring, the recent rainy weather, and insect ravages have all worked against the crop, though the forecasts are still for 15,000,000 bales or more. “The land is being fitted now, and seeding begun for another crop of win- ter wheat. The reported intention of farmers is to sow 14 per cent more acreage to wheat than last fall. If these intentions are carried out it will mean about 45,000,000 acres in winter wheat, which would exceed the annu average during the war, or post-war period. The contemplated increases in certain leading wheat states are: Texas 15 per cent larger than last fall; Oklahoma 12 per cent; Kansas four per cent; Nebraska eight per cent; Missouri 60 per cent; Illinois 34 per cent; Washington 45 per cent. If the sowings are increased as intended, and average abandonment should oc- cur this winter, it would leave for har- vest about‘ seven per cent larger acre- age than was harvested this summer.” The movement of the crops, the re- port adds, has begun to stimulate rail- way activity and trade in some direc- tions, the movement of new wheat dur— ing July having been the heaviest in years. Market receipts of hogs were slightly above July last year; cattle and butter slightly below last year; and the receipts of sheep and lambs relatively heavy. Dairy products moved into storage in volume during July and stocks are heavier than average. Eggs also mov- ed into storage at a slightly faster rate than average, but stocks are still some— what below last year’s. Pork products increased slightly in storage, contrary to the usual seasonal tendency, and are not far from last year’s volume. However, the stock of meat in storage remains considerably below average. C'OU NTY CROP NEWS. Genesee Co.—There is very little grain left in the fields; most of it has been threshed, but several farmers have drawn their crops in stacks or barns. Several acres of plowing has been done, but the ground is now too hard. Rain is much needed. Late po- tatoes are looking good, and promise a good yield. Beans will be ready to harvest ina week or ten days. The Annual Pioneer Picnic, held at Long Lake last Thursday, was attended by over ten thousand people—R. H. S. on Gm-‘Farmers fall plow- _ KW _ '- ing; threshing is'at a standstill on ac- countant _‘ra1n;-. lots of pats out, very >»- / ¢ quality; few farmers stacked. Pasture in good ' shape,- and plenty of it; beans good if frost stays away for a while. Pota- toes are a good crop and bring $1.25 per bushel; eggs 35c.—T. S.- Cass Co.——Threshing is about done; wheat is above the average; rye good; oats a short crop, running about twen- ty to thirty—five bushels per acre. More wheat will be sown than usual; plow- ing about one-third done; sowing will “be very late; corn three weeks behind and pro ably will get hit with frost; very litt e dented. Farmers are hard up; $300,000 worth of pasture gone to waste—F. E. G. Ottawa it'd—Plowing for wheat and rye about finished; no extra help can be secured; wheat between thirty and forty bushels per acre; oats thirty to forty-eight bushels; rye was poor, av- eraging fifteen bushels per acre. Lat-e potatoes look good but need rain; meadows about dried up; hay was a medium crop; corn has need of rain and warm weather; hogs are scarce; no late apples; plenty of peaches. Benzie Co.——Beans will be a good crop if the frost holds off, since the season is about two weeks late; corn is'backward; oats were a good crop; more than the usual amount of hay was secured this year; pasture good; hogs and pigs are scarce and high in price; all live stock is in good condi- tion. Because of the good crops of fruit, it is not expected that high pric- es will prevail; cherry orchards, how- ever, produced a good paying crop; the usual amount of fall grain will be sown.——W. A. M. Clinton -Co.——Threshing is nearly all done. The average yield of wheat was around twenty-two bushels; oats, thir- ty-five bushels; rye, fifteen bushels. The outlook for beans is not good, the pods being poorly filled. Sugar beets are looking fair; corn is somewhat be- low normal; meadows are good ;. there will be about the same amount of rye and wheat sown this year as went in a year ago; hogs are scarce; live stock is looking fine; plums are good crop; the dairy business is good, but produc— ers are complaining on prices. Milk brings $1.90 per hundred; butter 350; oats 260; wheat $1.14.——A. I-I. Sanilac Co.—Everybody is busy get- ting their wheat ground ready. Not much grain threshed yet. Those hav- ing alfalfa are busy with it; weather has not been favorable for curing hay; beans will be ready to pull in a week; they were damaged by the recent rains. The dairy business is flourish- ing. There are plenty of fall apples, but the winter crop is scarce; some sugar beets are looking good, While other fields are less promising. There is no extra help.—-J. N. Berry Co.—The farmers are mostly through plowing for wheat; not so much wheat will be sown this fall as in 1925. In the northern part of the county, beans are being harvested and the outlook is good. Meadows are looking fairly good; cats are of poor wheat is an average crop; there are fewer pigs this fall than us- ual—C. V. Gladwin Co.—Threshing is about all done; oats generally went forty bush- els per acre, and barley thirty—five; the elevator is paying 30 cents for oats, and $1.20 per hundred for barley. Corn and beans will need several days without frost .to mature; beans are worth $3.65 per hundred. Hillsdale Co.—Field threshing is all done; some of the oats were damaged by wet weather; fall pasture is good; corn is doing well; three weeks will ripen it up in good shape; potatoes are good ; there will be very little clo— ver seed. Plowing for wheat is under way and it looks as though the acre- age would be increase-d; apples are plentiful; there is a brisk demand for poultry and dairy products—E. R. G. Bay Co.—Threshing is about one- third done; cats were very good; the 1" ..THEM’ICHSIGAN / FA R M E R" 333—281 ' corn crop is also promisin ; the beans Imam roe cam-Wisconsin yuan 00. mm. 45 look good but will requ some time pects for a heavy crop of sugar beets; : the lateness of the fall crops will pre-: vent the sowing of many of the fields to wheat and rye; dairying is increas- ing; hogs are scarce and high; live stock looks good; there is very little; {356% in sight; fruit is a fair crop.‘ Ingham Co.——Corn is late; oats are a poor crop; beans are blighted some. what and the fields are grassy, due to' so much rain; dairy cows are high; \buttermilk and other dairy products are bringing a good price—R. E. W. soon mowers INSPECTION SERVICE. HE United States Department of Agriculture, and the Michigan De« partment of Agrculture cooperat- ing, have opened inspection service. headquarters at Benton Harbor, Mich- igan. Wm. H. Esslinger and James A. Marks are the supervisors in charge of this service. This service is open to all financially interested parties, and is rendered as nearly as practicable on a cost bas1s. The fee this season will be not more than $5.00 per car. . In order to be assured of this 5,91", vice it is necessary that application be made at once so that the necessary preliminary plans and arrangements can be made. - The following are a few reasons for, and advantages of the Shipping Pomt Inspection Service: 1. Promotes grading and standard— ng- . . . . 2. Secures uniform application in different sections. 3. Enables shippers to correct er- rors in grading and packing at their source, rather than at destination. 4. Assists in making F. O. B. sales by giving the distant buyer an impar- tial report on quality and condition of product he is purchasing. 5. Assists in forcing of acceptance of products which are up to grade. 6. Assists in adjustment of claims. 7. In case of litigation gives the shipper prima facie evidence of the quality and condition of his product in the courts of the United States, and of many states in which the certificates are issued. 8. Assists managers of large ship— ping organizations to deal fairly with members who are pooling their ship- ments. Fleece Wool Wanted Traugott Schmidt 85 Son, 508, Monroe, Detroit, Mich., are paying the following prices, delivered in Detroit for Michigan wool: Medium and fine 40¢, rejection 30c. SHEEP write or For Shropshire Yearling Rams can on ARMSTRONG sacs, a. No. 3. Fowlerville, Mich. DELAINE RAM good as grow. Photos free. 40, Wakeman. Ohio. The wool and mutton kind. As F. H. RUSSELL. Box HEEP all recorded. sent on approval: Cotswolds. Lchcstcrs. Tunis. Lincolns. Karukulcs and Hamp— shircs. L. R. Kuney, 648 Madison St, Adrian, Mich. DELAINIC—Mcrino Rams. both Pollcd and Horned. for sale. Good onus. (Tome and make your own selection. HOUSEMAN BROS., Albion, Mich. ‘ clear. yet to fully mature; there are pros- . m1“ S Reynolds. Gladwin, Mich. Good for Boathouse on lake. Bram. Mich. $5 mile frat: depot. his golf links. and dairy farm, H. C. Marni-zen R. 1. F08 SALE—Gladwin County, Michigan. farm land, stock. ranches. lake and resort property. 13. G. WANTED FARMS i WANTICD~T0 hear from owner or land {or sale. {or fall delivery. 0. Hawlcy. Baldwin. Wis. MISCELLANEOUS ALL .WOOL YARN for .sale from manufacturer at: bargain. Samples free H A. Bartlett. Harmony. Mame. PET STOCK ‘ FERRE’I‘S—Orer thirty years’ experience Year-ll females. the mother ferret special rat catcher. 85.33 each. Young stack for Sept. Females $4.00. males $3.50. one pair $7.25. three pair $18. Will ship C. 0. D. Instruction book fr- ‘ rth. London. Ohio. [8. Levi Famswo New HUNDRED HUNTING HOUNDS CIII‘AP G ' ‘ . u — ame Ctr tors. Ilur finders. Money makers. Big money raising 52:11:51: houndsH Hunting horns. Feeds. Medicines ' s. cc. unters' supply catan s. K . kennels. FW 59. Herrick. Illinois. cu askaskla COON. SKUNK RABBIT and Combina' . tron Hou for sale. None better. Trial given. Sold on “:3: Lnkeland Fur Exchange. Salem. Michigan. COON. SKUNK. POSSUM RABBIT HOUNDS—fif been days' trial. Chen . ' . ‘ _ nels. Herrick, 111. p C 0' Ginger Ken'- . PURE-BEE!) GERMAN POLICE PUPPIES (m1 Im- ported Sire. price $18 and $20 Farm, Howard City, Mich. Hm CORN HARVESTER RICH MAN'S CORN HARVESTFR poor In ' ' . . .. . ans —only $25 With bundle—tying attachment. We $103 Harvesters by express. Free catalog showing pictunw of harxester. Box 528. Saline. Kansas. SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK PEACH TREES $5.00 PER 100 AND UP. tire-es $7.50 per 100 and up. In largc or small lots. inert. to planters _by freight. parcel post. (mums. Plums. pears. (‘IIBI‘TICS. grams. nuts. berries. pecans. Vines. . Ornamental trees. vincs and shrubs Free rat.— aloa in colors. . B 125 Cleveland. Tenn. ox ’ Apple Tcnncssce Nursery 00.. I 1 II L I ‘1 I11 88 “IRES W In . at [KIWI national GT in I1 . D F mkbemex (‘DEI ‘1 ( B S 0W3 C. . » I SEED W'HEATaFultz. Michigan Amber. Red Rudy. _twting above 00 pounds. Jean F ‘ ‘ ' .Indiana. arms. Lrawfordsvxllc. FOR SATISFACTION INSURA CE beans. or A. B. Cook. Owosso, Agch, buy seed oats. TOBACCO GUARANTEED IIOMESPUN TOBACCO—chewing or gushing. 5f lbs, l$1.25; ton, $2.00. Cigars $9 00 for . ’mo roe. ’a wh~n ' ‘ ' 'H- ’ Muxon Mills. Ky. y L IULtlltd. Banners Union. SPECIAL SALI'IMIIomcspun tobacco ' ..- ‘ .. _ . smokm (Inning. Satisfaction guarantm‘d or money rcfuidedr loux lbs; 31; twelve $2.25. I’ipa free. United Farm: ers ot hentucliy. I’aducah, Ky. HOMESPUN TOBACCO GUARANTE ‘ ' , . . luI)——C ' Elgepttfigds. $16313“ ten, $2.50. Smoking. tonnefllgs' . pay on rec' d. ‘ . ‘ ' ' well. Kcutucky. eivc Umtcd Banners. Bald- POULTRY 6000 PULLETS now ready for shi msnt. '. - turcd. 10 weeks old. for $1.00 eachr.J 12 trailyweneis old. tor $1.25 earth. All our bullets are from 2 year old State Accredited Hens. Big English Type. Please order from this ad...» No discount on large orders nuou's Hatchery. Holland, Mich. ' WHITE LEGHORN HENS AND MALE price. Thousands of laying Pullets. Big 5111;311:3115 spring (hicks and Eggs. Trapnested. pedigreed foun- dation stock. egg bred 26 years. Winners at 16 egg contests. Catalog and special price bulletin free. I stunt. O. D. and guarantee satisfaction. George B toms. 934 Union, Grand Rapids. Michigan. ' S. C. BROWN AND WHITE LFGHORNS—33 eg ‘ . l 2- g pullcts. cockcrcls. C '. ‘ lipolis, Ohio. atalog Harlcn II ulton. Gal- BABY CHICKS WE WILL HAVE BABY CHICK. . ’ through September. Barred Rocks asildfcII. illuirzlgy other breeds if ordcrcd in advance. All from' blood: tcstml..St:1tu inspcctctl stock. Will be profitable sold as brmlers. or as masters. which roach height of price built ycurlings from ram shearing thirty pounds. Priced right. H. W. HART, R. 2. Greenville, Mich. - Hampshire Yearling Rams. Call or RegIStered write Clark Haire Ranch. Charles Post, Man, West Branch, Mich. OR SALE-VVVOXI'm‘d Rams and Ewes. brcd from in midwinfcr. Have also Whit L I F the best rams We could buy. GEO. T. ABBOTT, fnr shipmcnt. Write for particulg‘xz‘;oml’liglrggtsflxzfitgjz Palm. Mich. m. Dcclwrville, 78-3. err. Jeromu. Mich. ' ' AMBOUILLET RAMSAAItegistered. Large. well— HELP WANTED a WANTED elixpcricnced man and wife. Without chil- rcn, man for farm work and milking. wife to help WlIh housework. Steady. all your job. for neat. clean, expcricnccd couple. Everything modem. 0 Nielsen, .Icrscy Farm. Il‘armington. Mich. . using. miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange. commutlve insertions 6 cents a ward. charge I0 words. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING \This classified advertising department in established for the convenience of Mi Small sdvertisunmta bring best results under classified headings. 0111M farmers. at. classified rates. or in display columns at commercial rates. Rate: 8 cent: a word. each insertion. on orders for 1658 than four insertions; for (mu- or more Count as a word each abbreviations. initial or number No display type or illustrations admitted. Remittances must accompany order, ' Live stock advortlllnl has a comic «Want and I- not accented u olanifled. Try It for want ads and f - Poultry advertising will be run in this 43%;: Minimum 9 our , 0’" 3°}; :6 ........ “of," a“ gNUSUALLY FLRTILE, low—priced Sumter County. 1.84 ar........ 1.16 8.43 “mm 1m“- 12 months' growing season. county .9 us 23.... .. a.“ an mermaimks *0 We” consolidated School. paved 1. 3.1. .J. roads. friendly nelghbors‘: railroad facilities put coun— . a.“ 1.20 W Wlthln few hours expressage of six million people. . g.” 1.“ Fine for general. farming. especially trucking. dairy- . I.“ 1.08 mg, poultry 111181112. Open grazing all year. Average 1. {.08 1.91 temperature 65.5 desires. annual rainfall 48.57 inches. . , ‘33 a,“ Americus and Sumter County Chamber of Commerce, . 1_ g.“ I.“ 208 Chamber of Commerce Building. Amerlcus. .. . 1. A.” 86......” 1.88 8.“ Gunman ll ...... .. igg :g‘. 5......" {a :3 ' 33. ... .. . . ........ . 160 ACRES NEAR ‘ 38.... 1.84 II.“ 30...”... 8.11 l.” on gravel road, nix-$30153 tggrfiagheMIfdiukefloggg Il........ 1.92 5.16 ........ I) 9.00 bum. bearing fruit, trees. smegma water. 40 “1.“: 5. ..--.. 2.00 5.00 ‘1........ 3.” D.“ elm myd DIC, m poplar timber, owner II“ . in distant state. 87.00 per acre It. 2. Box 186, REAL ESTATE M Ark- WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITIEkSouthem Georgia. FOR RENT—March 1st. 160 acres near Ann Arbor. farm lands. Write for complete information Cham- All good. tillable. level land. Good buildings, electric be: Commerce. Quitmm. Georgia. " lights. Address Michigan Farmer. Box 873. DRIVER SALESMAN—ZB to 35 years a e Perm nent employment; good future. Write 53' 1! int; fitcg. Belle Isle Creamery. 3600 Forest E.. Detroit C . . AGENTS WANTED AGENTSjOur New Household Cleaning Device wash- es and dries windows. sweeps. cleans walls. scrubs mops. Costs less than brooms. Over half prom: :Vnte Harper Brush Works, 173 3rd St.. Fairfield. owa. SITUATIONS WANTED POSITION FOR MARRIED COUPLE—age 40. always IlVPd on farm. Carl Hanson. 2055 Lake Shore Drive Muskegon, Mich. ' Advertising That Pays SELL your poultry, baby chicks, hatching eggs and real estate through a Mich- igan Farmer classified adver- tisemcnt. The Michigan Farmer, Detroit "~ _—.-._....—,../_~—.-——-- m,-____. _... ' Make a Triple Saving on i 1. You‘ make a . furnaces themselves in a few hours time. 17.80an Pres. Gas Stoves $2 73. Beautiful Porcelain Enamel Ranges You will admire the sparkling beauty of the new colorful Kala- mazoo Porcelain Enamel ranges and heating stoves-~as easy to clean as a china dish. Everywhere these attractive ranges and ma- hogany heating stoves are taking the place of the old plain black stoves and ranges. You will never know how charming your kitchen can be until you brighten it with a Kalamazoo Porcelain Enamel range. Kalamazoo leads all others in the quality and beauty of these ranges.0ur business on these ranges increased over 300% last year. The long lasting enamel is baked on in our oWn enameling plant. 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