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the engines you have on your farm probably require different grades of

Mobiloil. One grade for your car, another for your tractor, possibly an

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QUALITY

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NUMBER XIII





 





 





 





 





 





The Genesis of Cow-testing in America

' Too Story of Mo Orgooi'zoz‘i'oii of Me First Association of Fremont, Mick

By Helmar Rabild and Colon C. Lillie





N August 10, 1905, which hap-

O pened to be my birthday, Mr.

Colon C. Lillie, deputy dairy and

food commissioner, and I'were sitting

on the veranda of a little hotel in the

town of Omar, Mich. It was just after





 





M ic/zig‘oiz Comriozites





HE idea of testing cows co-



‘operatively is another sig-

nificant contribution to the ag-

riculture advancement of Amer-

,ica made by the State of Michi-

gan. Her other outstanding

agricultural gift was the idea of

establishing a college for dis-

covering and teaching the laws

of science and art as applied to

practical agriculture.





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breakfast and we were waiting for

someone to take us to a nearby town

where we were scheduled to speak at

a dairy meeting. '



I was at the time a dairy and food

inspector and gave most of my time

to assisting creameries that had dif-

ficulties with the quality of their but-

ter, yield, losses and other operating

difficulties. Occasionally, however, I

was required to speak at a meeting.

We were discussing the profits in

dairying and what might be done to

“foster and encourage” the dairy in-

dustry, a duty which the new law laid

upon the Dairy and Food Department.



My contention was that the elimina-

tion of the unprofitable cow, better

feeding, systematic breeding and a

study in an organized way of the

various factors that effected profit,

would do more to foster and encour-

age the dairy business than anything

else that could be done and I outlined

the idea of a cow-testing association.

Mr. Lillie finally agreed, as a birth-

day present, to give me not to exceed





N this enlightened day and age

there are few people who will

question the value of an abundant



and varied supply of vegetables in the

daily diet. During the summer months

a well planned garden may be drawn

upon to furnish the daily needs of the

farmer and his family, but as winter

draws near, the problem becomes more

difficult, unless some care and labor is

devoted to the securing and storage



‘of a sufficient- supply.



' The city dweller is fortunate in that

’he is able to have delivered at. his

door each day, not Only the local

grown vegetables/ from storage, but

also the fresh vegetables as they are

shipped in from the'south. The farm-

er, living at a distance from the ~mar—

ket is forced to depend upon his own

resources. ,



' It is unfortunately true that on many

farms the conveniences for proper





.istorag'e are few, _ and mostly tempor-





 





 





 





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3 weeks in which to try, if it were

possible, to organize such an associa-

tion in a territory of my own choice.



It was not until the second week in

September that I found the time to

spare. I elected to make the try at

Fremont, Newaygo County for two

reasons: first, I had worked as butter-

maker in the creamery there and was

personally acquainted with more

farmers there than anywhere else,

and secondly, the farmers around Fre—

mont were mostly Hollanders and I

knew, that while they were cautious

and might be a little difiicult to get

started, they were the type that would

stick and see the thing through, once

it was started.



At Fremont I got in touch with

Henry Rozema, one of the most pro-

gressive farmers there and a leader,

and laid the proposition before him.





He saw the value of it and offered to

help in any way he could. The re-

sult was that he hitched up an old

white horse he had and for several

days he drove me to the farmers of





the community and helped in every .





way to encourage the proposition. As

I recall it, he did not get a penny for

the time he spent with me nor for the

use of his rig, and his old white horse.

In the course of a week or 10 days

we had secured enough pledges so that

we felt an association could be ef-

fected if a rallying meeting could be

held. I had a number of hand bills

printed and distributed announcing a

meeting at the Grang Hall at Fre-

mont, Sept. 26. In the meantime I

had drawn up a contract and consti-

tution and by-laws. At the meeting

these were presented and adopted, the

contract was signed by .18 of the





 





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A Breed Meeting Where the Cow-Testing Idea is Now Being Promoted.





Storing Vegetables at Home





Some of IéoFootors Moossory for Soccer:

By George Starr





1y to be high, and it may become nec-

essary to partition off a room which

can be ventilated and maintained at a

low temperature.





The storage requirements of differ-

ent vegetables may vary greatly. Root

crops and cabbage keep best in a fair-

ly moist atmosphere, while onions,

squashes and pumpkins require a dry

atmosphere. It is not possible to store

these two groups of vegetables in the

same. room with good results, yet they

are often placed together in a damp,

ur'perhaps a very dry cellar for win-

ter use.



Temperatures for vegetable storage





‘are all relatively low, with a few ex-





ceptions. A few degrees above freez-

ing is best. The squash, sweet potato,

and pumpkin will keep» longest in‘a

Warm,” dry place and very often the

furnace room will furnish ideal con-

ditions. , Onions may best be kept in

_ dry, unheated attic room Where the





temperature may be held right around

the freezing point.



There have been few improvements

in methods of vegetable storage on

the farm, since the days of our fore—

fathers, the old methods, while crude,

are fairly satisfactory. There are a

number of important considerations to

bear in mind, first of which is protec-

tion from frost; the second, proper

moisture conditions, and third, that of

ventilation.





The underground pit is the simplest

and oldest method of storing vegeta-

bles. This should preferably be locat-

ed on a high, sandy, well drained spot.

If the drainage conditions are ideal

the pit may be from one to two feet

déep, three feet wide, and as long as

may be necessary to contain the veg-

etables," but if the drainage is rather

poor the pit should be entirely “above

ground. The vegetables, such as root





‘crops, and potatoes; are placed in the .





 





farmers and the association was a

fact. I was so elated that I sent a.

telegram the same night to the deputy

commissioner which he received just

as he addressed a dairy meeting in a.





 





14 item! Dairy Show





HOSE‘ who read these two



stories of the beginning of

cow-testing work in Michigan

twenty years ago this fall

should attend the National Dairy

Show at Detroit, October 6 to 13,

to witness the wonderful devel—

opment and influence of the

cow-testing movement in the

United States. This will also

be the occasion of the twentieth

birthday of the Dairy Exposition.





 





 





 





town in the thumb. He read the tele-

gram at the meeting.



The members for the first year

were: Henry Rozema, Henry Oester—

huis, Ed. Oesterhuis, Ben Brookhuis,

Geo. Dobbin, Jan Brookhuis, J. Mee—

wenberg, U. Bronzema, J. Dobben,

Chris Wills, Joe Purcel, Robt. O’Sulli~

van, M. O’Sullivan, Hugh Cattlenach,

E. Doud, G. Tubergen, G. Stroven, Joe

Rozema, Dirk Kolk, W. C. Stuart, .L

Waters, David Powers, Severt Swen-

son, Carl Swenson, W111.“ Swenson,

Robt. Kopf, Arthur Demars, James~

Walsworth, A. Walsworth, Chas. L.

Emens, H. W. Crawford.



There were 31 members, of which

18 signed up at the meeting, the re

maining later. They owned only 230

cows and as they pledged themselves

to pay only $1.00 per cow, a problem

of finance was apparent from the

start, but I counted on solving that

later. The important thing was that

an organization had been effected and

the other problems could be solved

as we came to them.



(Continued to page 292)





pit and heaped up so that the top of

the pile is above ground. A layer of

straw six inches thick is then placed

over the vegetables and the whole

thing is then covered with earth. It

will be necessary to insert a tile or

a wooden flue at the top of the pit,

and opening into the air, that proper

ventilation may be secured. As the

weather becomes colder it will be nec-

essary to further cover the pit With a.

thick layer of strawy manure.





When it becomes necessary to re-

move some of the vegetables from the

pit, a hole one foot square may be

chopped through one side near the

base over which the covering may be

replaced aftera sufficient supply of

vegetables are obtained.



The outdoor, or sod cellar, is much

in use in many localities. This fur-

nishes a convenient, and more or less

permanent method of storage. A pit,

of sufficient size and depth is first dug. '

This is roofed over roughly with poles ,,

101' boards, the whole thing is then



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CURRENT COMMENT





HE statistical re-





Crops lation of crops

and prices is always



and of interest to pro-

Prices ducers, though sel-

‘ dom an infallible





guide to future market trends. Mar-

ket influences are so complex as to be

impossible of accurate predictions,

but the old law of supply and demand

ever remains the ruling factor in the

ultimate adjustment of price levels.





But prior to such adjustment, rather

wide price fluctuations are bound to

occur as a result of local reports re-

lating to supply, fluctuations in sea-

sonal demand or over-crowding the

market during or immediately after

the harvest season for any given crop.

Then, too, final crop yields are not

always in line with earlier estimates,

while consumer demand may be ad-

versely affected by unexpected condi-

tions. But in the long run, the

farmer" who is well informed regard—

ing the statistical position of the

products which he has for sale will

sell them to the best advantage.





Generally speaking, statistics seem

to favor improved market conditions

for farmers during the marketing sea-

son for 1926-1927. Industrial condi-

tions are generally good with no pros-

pect of an immediate or early slump,

which seems to assure a normal' do-

mestic demand for food stuffs. Sup-

plies in most lines of production also

promise to be below, rather than

above, normal. It has not been a.

bumper crop year at home or abroad.

All reports agree on the prevalence‘

of generally unseasonable weather in

Europe, and there are no statistical

indications that we shall have a large

surplus in any line of production,





which is a. favorable situation. ‘ ‘





The relation of farm prices to gen-

eral commodity prices is also a factor

' to be taken into consideration. Gen-





   





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eral commodity prices have been sag-

ging while farm prices have been ad-

vancing since the deflation period, but

they have not yet reached a. parity.

General commodity prices have

dropped to a point which is around

seventy-four per cent above pro-war

level, as compared with a. farm price

level of about forty per cent above

the pro-war average. ,



Undoubtedly the general tendency

will be toward a. further narrowing of

these percentages and the statistical

position of crops is such that an ad-

vancing market may be reasonably

expected, once normal price levels

have been found.



This then, would seem to be a year

in which “orderly” marketing should

prove most advantageous to producers.

Such a course, generally followed,

should result in the maintenance of

remunerative prices throughout the

marketing season for .the great bulk

of the products of Michigan farms.

The withholding of crops from the

market on sharp declines should have

a‘ more marked steadying influence

than is usually the case and the grad-

ual or “orderly” marketing of the sea-

son’s crop should stabilize prices at a.

remunerative point more readily than

is the casein bumper crop years.





T is difficult t 0



Electricity think of our pres-

ent civilization with-



and. out intimately associ—

Farming ating mechnical





power with our prog-

ress, since power, during the past cen-

tury, has been a most important fac-

tor in our advancement. In the past

few decades, the wide expansion in

the use of electrical power in manu-

facturing has given America industrial

supremacy and added untold wealth

to her coffers.



But will the same benefits come to

that portion of our civilization which

to date has not enjoyed the full bene-

fits that electricity can bring? In

other words, will agriculture be

brought to the same high level of ef-

ficiency through the application of

electrical power to its work?





Recently an expert of one of our

large electrical companies gave pub-

lic expression to his views along this

line. He believes that super-power

and the automobile promise to greatly

aid in improving the economic condi-

tions of the country by

the prosperity of the average family

and by bringing agriculture back in

step with other industries.





He .not only believes this, but he

also holds that the more liberal use

of electrical energy will check the

growth of our large cities, build up the

smaller cities and towns, bring agricul-

ture in closer touch with industry

which in the past has been so advan-

tageous to the farmer, and place liv-

ing conditions in the country on a par

with those in the cities.





If this industrial prophet sees

clearly, agricultural America can look

forward with hope. Undoubtedly his

prophecy, to be fully realized, will re-

quire the cooperation of those who

would be benefited through the

change. This means that the farmer

and his family must become more

familiar with this mysterious energy,

which, since the days "of Franklin, has

baffled the minds of men.





HE time will come





Down when every case

. . of diptheria will be

With D 1p I" an indictment against

therta the intelligence of the





parents,” said a man

of wide experience in public health

work; and he added, “nor will it be

many years before every death from

diphtheria will be referred to a coron‘

er’s jury for investigatiOn to fix crim-

inal responsibility.”

On first reading these statements

seem radical. But given reasonable

and thoughtful consideration, they

may be interpreted to mean that, in





increasing .





‘ that country.





; Another argument should also be





     





view} 01? the fact that'there now is a.





‘ definite and certain meansbf prevent-





ing diphtheria. within reach of every

parent in this country, it is nothing

short of criminal neglect for parents

to fail to make use of these. simple

means to protect their children from

this malignant disease.





Health authorities give us every

hope that diphtheria can be eradicated,

if the 'now known scientific methods.

of immunization can be uniformly car-

ried out. But they need the active

cooperation of every parent. ' It is up

to the fathers and mothers to give

serious consideration to the import-

ance of not delaying the work of im-

munizating all school and pre-school

children. If the swath that this malig-

nant disease is cutting in our schools

is to be reduced, every parent must

do his or her part to help in reducing

it.





T has been demon-





The strated by Mr. and

”P It Mrs. Biddy that con-

01! ry tinually pecking away

"Industry at one’s work with





self-assurance a n d

contentment brings results. _



From a woman’s pin money propo-

sition, looked upon with disdain by

man, the chicken business has made

the farmer sit up and take notice.

Mr. Farmer is now quite willing to

give‘consideration to the chickens and

to do those things which will help the

poultry department of the farm to

bring results.



This is due to the fact that the hen

has shown that she is a worthy pro-

ducer of wealth. Statistics prove her

case. The U. S. government reports

show that the value of America’s

poultry crop annually is greater than

the value of her cattle, exceeds the

value of her wheat by $300,000,000, is

five times the value of the apple crop,

twice that of potatoes, and is seven

times the value of her sheep.



But the poultry business is still in

the stage of development, and as our

population grows denser, it will play

even a greater part in our agriculture.

Mr. and Mrs. Biddy probably knew all

the time about what they were boast-

ing. The cackle and the crow will

undoubtedly bring others to the real-

ization of poultry’s importance, for

such advertising backed by results is

sure to be effective.





T is understood



Tariff _ that negotiations

are under way to



on change our treaties

Sugar with Cuba. This





change looks toward

a reduction of the tariff duty on sugar

imported into the United States from

The eastern seaboard

refineries and bankers who control

the Cuban sugar output, are said to be

behind this movement.





One of the considerations held out

in favor of this proposed change in

our tariff law, is to increase the pur-

chase of American products by the

Cubans. This, however, raises a di-

lema, according to A. M. Loomis of

the National Grange. He points out

that, if they distribute the benefits of

the lower tariff to the Cubans, they

cannot sell sugar any cheaper than

they do now in the United States,

which would be in opposition to the

claim that the American housewife is

now being robbed by the sugar tariff.



On the other hand, if the refiners

reduce the price of sugar in the

United States, they cannot increase

the purchasing power of Cuba. This

would, however, reduce the income of

the American producers of beets and

sugar cane and thus cut down the pur—.

chasing power of these farmers in the

United States. It would appear, said

Mr. Loomis, that American agriculture





and manufacturing interests will be





best‘ served in the direction of main-

taining full tariff duties’on sugar im-

ported from the island.





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kept. in, the» mm. or which. as ' "

well as producers of this pro duo t, ,





Owing to "the low cost‘of production

in Cuba, the removal of the tariff

would undoubtedly end‘ the commer-

cial production of both cane and beet

sugar in this country. Such an act

would place the sugar business in full

control of the Cuban sugar interests.

These interests, with a. monopoly,

would probably , juggle prices suffi-

ciently to discourage home production

but, having the power to force prices

upward, would naturally exercise it to

the disadvantage of the consumer.

The best interest of America. would be

served, in the opinion of many who

have carefully considered the subject,

by keeping the sugar markets on a;

competitive basis which apparently is





being done to some degree, at least,





by our present tariff arrangement. ,





Sfloér





E blame Adam fer most 0’ our



failin’s, so we gotta. blame him

for shoes. You see ever since Adam

got reckless and ate a. appul, man’s

been tryin' ta. save his sole, so he's

wearin’ shoes.





If Adam hadn’t been thrown out o’

paradise, we wouldn’t had ta wear

shoes, ’cause there wouldn’t been no

stones and sticks and etc. ta hurt our

feet. But he was thrown out ’cause he

listened ta Eve and ever since the

shoe business ’5 been good.





The rest 0' the animule kingdom

didn’t have no Adam so they don’t

have ta wear no shoes, etc. But us

humans is soft,

so we gotta pro-

t e c t ourselves

from the earth.

Our feet ’s in con.

tact with the

earth more’n any





take the tougher

hide 0’ other ani—

. mules ta. protect

us. We’re fraid our feet‘d wear out

if we didn’t protect ’em.





Shoes ain’t a blessin’ o’ civilizashun;

they’re one o’ the necessary evils.

We're born with bare feet but we’re





 





ashame 0’ them and cover ’em up

soon. \Ve don’t find no comfort in

shoes; we just get so we kin stand





’em. When it comes ta. bein’ tender-

foots, we’re all them nowadays.



Men wear shoes for protectshun, but

ladies must have tougher soles, ’cause

they wear dainty shoes what’s got

more looks than usefulness. Shoes is

one o’ the implements o’ torture

womin use ta. look nice. But it seems

ta. me even womin is beginin’ ta real-

ize that feet is ta walk on instead 0’

ta look at. Even the Chinese womin

is gettin’ sensibul that way.





This is a hard, hard world and it’s

gettin"harder every day. Cement side-

walks and concrete roads ain’t built

for bare feet. We simply gotta wear

shoes nowdays ta. keep our? under-

standing good, and ta keep our stand-

in’ good. No banker likes ta loan





money ta one what can’t buy shoes. '





To be well shod is a indicashunof

what you call finanshul affluence.





You kin tell by a fellow’s shoes what

he is. I always kinda look out for

them patent leather shoe fellows and

them what has loud shoes on. I like

the man what’s got a good substan-

shul, common sense shoe on, and the

woman what uses judgemunt on what

she puts on her tootsies. Too many’s

been tryin’ ta get their feet ta the size

so,they kin wear Cinderella’s slipper.



Breakin’ in shoes ain’t no sport, but

wearin’ squeeky ones is a. good way ta.

advertise yourself.

ain’t right in society but its mighty

comfortabul. I like to. say “How do

Do” ta. my feet once in a. while but I

ain’t anxious ta. do the same ta the

feet 0’ others. I-LY SYCKLE.





 





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The year‘192613. the ‘fiftieth‘gfim. "

telephone-g, j.» . _
) METHOD OF war-rune SILAGE.





Noticed the inquiry in a recent issue

where a subscriber asked about the





" practicability of wetting his silage by.





introducing the. water into 'the pipe

above the blower. I have never tried

”this, but hardly think it would work

unless’the‘ water supply were at a





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on account of the pressure in the

blower pipe.



My method of wetting silage while

cutting is to draw a wagon tank to

within a few feet-._of the pulley end

of cutter, then connect a three-quarter

inch hose to the bottom of the’ tank.

Fasten the other end” alongside the

cutter so that the water will run out

directly in front of the air inlet to-the

fan. The suction will draw the water

in and the fan will do a very effec-

tive job of mixing the water with the

silage. Have used this plan repeat-

edly and find' that the water is a great

help to the proper keeping of- the

silage, especially in the last few hours



_. of filling the silo—H. C.





This. seems to be a very common

and satisfactory method of adding





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furnace heat is regulated so as ,to

keep the temperature around 68 de-

grees, I doubt whether any/additional

ventilation is required. It would al-

most be necessary, however, to put a

large register in or near the ceiling

or an opening supplied with a large

‘ ventilating electric fan, with an easily

controlled arrangement for increasing

or decreasing the amount of air re-

moved. This would be opened to let

out some of the heated air when the

room began to feel stuffy—I. W. D.





CUT CORN STUBBLE,LOW.





HE European corn borer is a ser-

ious menace. It is particularly

hard to destroy the insect because of

its feeding habits. Poisons and other

Ordinary means of killing plant pests

are ineffective because the corn borer

feeds within the corn plant.

One of the most effective means

thus far discovered of controlling the





 





Combination





A Tractor-Cultipack

! Quickly and





water to silage. While the flow of

water is not entirely automatic, it

would not be at all difficult to arrange

a light spring valve which would be

opened when the suction Came on and

would close and shut off the water

when the suction stopped. A large

ring covered with cloth and set near

the air intake would be moved by the

suction and still not keep the air from

entering. Have any of our readers

worked out a better method of adding

water?





CHURCH VENTILATION.





We have a church here 30 by 50

feet, which‘gives us trouble to ventil-

ate. Heretofore, we have lowered the

windows from the top, but now we

must put in new windows, and the

modern windows are all one piece

with transom at the bottom, and this

does not ventilate the upper part of

the church. Could you suggest a

_meth-od of ventilation that would not

be too expensive for a small church?

A window or transom in ceiling would

waste a lot of heat. The church is

heated by means of a hot air furnace

in the basement, with one large hot

air and one large cold air register.

Any sgggestions will be appreciated.





 





Not a great deal of ventilation is re-

quired for a. church of this size if the

church is thoroughly aired out after

the congregation is dismissed, pro-

vided the ,temperature and humidity

is properly adjusted for the general

comfort. If the window transoms at

“the bottom are so fitted as to deflect



incoming ""cold ,.,air upward towards

’the ceiling: so saute mix it with the

W thuSIin'ieventa draft



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. a low-cut attachment for the different





mm" fibre“. 1 “Mafia“; 0th“ 1300518:





Which Fits the Ground for Seed

Thoroughly.





spread of the corn borer is to destroy

the cornstalks and those of other

plants in which the borers hibernate

before emerging in the spring as

moths. It is very necessary, however}

to cut the stalks as close to the

ground as possible, for it has been

determined that, as cool fall weather

sets in the borers travel downward in

the stalk. It is necessary also, to cut

the stalks as early as possible in order

to capture most of the borers in the

cut stalks and then kill them by en-

siloing, shredding the ears and stalks,

or burning the stalks. Tests show that

when com is out three inches above

the ground on September 10,'only 2.9

per cent of corn borers are left be-

hind; with the same height this figure

increases to four per cent when out

October 1, and to ten per cent when

out November 3.



In order to enable farmers to cut

their corn close to the ground, ma-

chinery manufacturers have developed





types of corn binders. A stubble pul-





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   





 





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‘lee Efficiency of

your Set





determines the value

Qfma'z'o to you





OU wouldn’t buy a “sprung” horse



or a tractor with burned-out bear-

ings. Apply the same sound judgment

in selecting your radio set.





 

 





 





Your distance from worth-while stations re-

quires that your set have the qualities which

bring in distant stations with volume and

clearness; to select any station and then be

free from the interference of others. Grebe

Binocular Coils assure you of this. The

Grebe Colortone gives you complete con-

trol over the loud speaker, so that you can

always maintain the natural tone and clear-

ness of voice or music.





Colortone

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Binocular Coils

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and

Low-Wave Extension





Circa,“ It is these and other exclusive Grebe develop-





ments, together with sound construction, that

make ‘ the Synchrophase so eflicient. The

name Grebe has been in the forefront of

radio for nearly twenty years. When you

buy a Synchrophase you may be sure that

you are making a real investment.





Sand for Booklet MF which

fully explains the [eatures

that make Grebe reception

so unusually superior. Then

haveyout dealer demonstra to.





A. H. Grebe 87. Co., Inc. , 109 W. 57th St., New York





Factory: Richmond Hill, N. Y.

Western Branch: 443 So. San Pedro St., Los Angeles, Cal.





 

 





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This Company owns and operates

stations WA HG and W B O Q





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H E G. U.S. PAT. O FF.





 





All Grebe appa.

ram: is covered

by patent: grants

_ ed and pending.





 





verizer for destroying borers remain-





 





ing in the stubble after the corn is

cut, and to demolish every possible

hibernating place for the pests, has

also been designed.





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The" importance of using the clean-

est of vesselsto hold milk is shown

by the fact that eighty per cent of the

bacteria in market milk come from

utensils.





 





Medieval accounts of blood occur-

ring in- bread really refer to a harm-

less bright red fungus which grows in

dark places and occasionally discolors





   





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Detroit Electric Co., 113-115 E. Jeflerson Ave., Detroit

Brno/irked I883 -

Grand Rapids, 234 Ottawa Ave., N. W. Saginaw, 212 So. Washington Ave.





Lansing, 206 So. Grand Ave. Kalamazoo, l 19 No. Rose St-





   





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You pay once only for any

Concrete F arm Improvement





 





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NoIother improvement

around the house will

please your wife more

than a concrete walk

and pavement at the

back door.





It will save hours of

hard labor by keeping

floors and rugs—in fact,

the entire house. clean.

And you only have to

build a concrete walk

once.



Complete informa-

tion about building

concrete walks and

floors as well as many

other farm improve-

ments of concrete is con-

tained in our illustrated

booklet, “Concrete

Around the Home."

Write for free copy

today.





PORTLAND CEMENT

ASSOCIATION

Dime Bank Building

DETROIT. MICH.

A National Organization

to Improve and Extend

the Uses of Concrete





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l' Roll Type or Shingles





being tufi‘er

and stronger

just naturally

wear longer.





"So good that only the

best lumber dealers sell it. ”





The Lehon

Company





Manufacturer.





44th St. to 45th St. '

on Oakley Avenue‘





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AIR NITRATES PRODUCTION

INCREASES.





 





EFORE the war Germany imported



her supplies of nitrogen from

Chile. Now with her vast air nitrate

plants developed during and since the

war, she is producing her own nitro-

gen supplies, and in addition is ex-

porting as much nitrates as she im-

ported before the war. If it were not

for a combination of world nitrate in-

terests, it is probable that the Chilean

nitrate producers would soon be out

of business.





NEW TYPES OF SOYBEANS.





 





EVERAL new varieties of Soybeans



brought into this country from

northern Manchuria last year, were

planted at the Corvalis, Oregon, Ur-

bana, 111., and Ridgeville, Ohio, experi-

mental stations, with the result that

they are making greater growth and a

larger yield of seed than are obtained

from soybeans now commonly grown

in the northern United States.





 





A dew BUSH FRUIT.





 





HE Manchu Cherry, 3. bush fruit



resembling a plum, may be sub-

stituted for the gooseberry and cuiu

rant, now being eradicated in certain

regions to prevent the spread of the

white pine blister rust, according to a

specialist in the Bureau of Plant In-

dustry. This fruit was introduced in—

to America many years ago, and ex-

periments have shown it to be very

hardy in New York and generally

suited to the region Where the cur-

rants and gooseberries are being

eradicated.





GRAIN DUST AS MOTOR FUEL.





 





RAIN dust may be used as motor

It is among the future pos-





fuel.

sibilities. In experiments being car-

ried on in the Bureau of Chemistry,

Department of Agriculture, an internal

combustion engine was operated suc-

cessfully with grain dust.

It is said that hundreds of tons of

grain dust are carted from elevators

to dumps or used as a cheap stock





feed, for which it has little value. It

is now thought that when the present

experiments are tried out on a. prac-

tical basis, accumulations of dust may

be utilized for stationary engines,

with the possibility that grain dust

might be used as an automobile fuel.

It is estimated that six pounds of

grain dust is equal to one gallon of

gasoline. The present difficulty just

now, it seems, is a satisfactmy method

of feeding the dust into the machine.





INSECT PROMOTERS.





 





- HE automobile and the one-crop



farmer are assisting in the spread

and multiplication of insects, accord-

ing to Dr. Austin H. Clark of the

Smithsonian Institution. The automo-

bile provides a rapid means of trans-

portation and the farm of t e one-

crop farmer is an insect paradise,

where bugs find an unlimited supply

of the right kind of food on a given

acreage.





COOPERATIVE BUSINESS





 





F the success of cooperation can be

measured by the gain in amount of



business handled, substantial progress

is being made in cooperative market-

ing. The 824 cooperative associations

reporting to the Department of Agri—

culture in 1913 did a business of

$81,647,000. The-same associations in

1925 report business transacted to the

amount of $164,284,000.



Specialists in the Division of Co-

operative Marketing say this increase

is due in part to increased member-

ship per association, to increased busi-

ness per member, and to a higher

price level in such commodities in

.1925 than in 1913. The average

amount of business per association in-

creased from $99,086 in 1913 to $199,-

373 in 1925.





COLOR ol= IMPORTED ALFALFA





 





HE Bureau of Plant Industry has

prepared a set of six samples of

stained alfalfa and red clover seed.

One per cent of each package of red

clover or alfalfa seed imported from

Canada will be stained violet, while





 





 





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all other imported alfalfa and red,

cloverseed adaptable for‘planting in

this country will be stained 1 per cent

green. This violet staining of Cana-

dian seed is not only to establish its

“adaptability, but to enable American

farmers who prefer Canadian seed to

distinguish it from other imported

seed and to know what they are buy-

ing. All imported red clover and a1«

falfa. seed not adapted to planting in

this country will be stained 10’ per

cent red. A knowledge of these stains

will enable any farmer to distinguish

the adaptable and unadaptable seed.



The samples will be sent out to

seed dealers, county agents and seed

improvement organizations. Chester

Gray, Washington 1ep1esentative of

the American Farm Bureau Federa-

tion, is having sets of the stained





samples sent to all state Farm Bu— .





1‘ cans.





STORING VEGETABLES AT HOME. ‘





 





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covered with earth and sod of suffi-





cient depth to prevent freezing. A.





door frame with door is provided at

southern or eastern side away from

the prevailing winds. This type of

storage is cheap, easy to construct.

and frost-proof. It may be used to

store root crops, cabbages and pota-

toes.





In addition to the vegetables placed





in outside storage, there should be a

supply for early winter use stored in

a cold room in the cellar. If the at«

m-osphere is dry it may be necessary

to pack the‘roots and cabbage in box-

es or barrels of sand.



While parsnips, salsify and horse‘

radish may be left in the ground over

winter without injury, it is well to dig

and store a portion of the crop for

midwinter use. These may be packed

in moist sand and stored in pit, or

cool cellar.



Celery for home use should be dug

with the roots on and planted in

moist earth. The plants may be placed

closely together in a box which should

be placed in a cool, dark corner of the

cellar. The roots must be kept moist

through frequent waterlngs, but care

must; be taken to avoid getting the

leaves damp. A short length of three-

quarter-inch hose, with a funnel in«

serted in one end, will aid in water-

ing.





We do not usually consider rhubarb '





as a winter vegetable, but when prop-

erly stored it will furnish an abundant

supply of pie material, over a long

period. Audozen clumps will furnish

the needs of a large family. The

clumps should be dug in late fall in

blocks a foot square, taking pains that

the soil adheres to the roots.



These clumps are allowed to freeze

solid before being placed in storage,

this freezing being necessary for suc—

cessful forcing.



As winter comes on, these clumps

are placed closely together in a warm

corner of the cellar. A temporary

partition should be built around them

to totally exclude the light. In a very

short time the leaves will begin. to

grow, after which there will be a con

tinuous supply over several weeks. If

only a portion of the frozen clumps

are brought into the cellar at one

time the remainder can be used later

and the forcing period is thus doubled.



It is to be feared that the untimely

freezes of the past few weeks have in

many cases injured or destroyed the

vegetables on the farm which were

intended for storing, but there must

have been a number of forehanded

gardeners and farmers who were we

pared, for there has been a cheap and

abundant supply of the, common vege-

tables on our markets. Cabbages,

roots and squashes have been, and are

yet, plentiful, and reasonable in price

so that if the crops of our own gar,-

dens show serious injury, it will be





an ample supply froin the nearby man

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A STOVE DEAL.





 





I went to the hardware store to buy

an oil stove. The man in, charge there

insisted that I buy an oak stove in-

stead. I declined and left the store.

Two days later he came to our house

bringing with him a round oak stove

which he tried to get us to buy. In

order to get rid of him we were

obliged to consent to take the stove

on trial and if it did not prove satis-

factory to send it back. I do not care

for the stove. The man refuses to

take it back saying that just because

we had made a payment of $15, ob.

tained from turning in two old stoves

of ours. on the new stove that we were

obliged to keep it. Is this true?

What can we do in this case? Please

advise—A. C



It is a question of fact whether a

contract has been made for the pur-

chase of the new stove or merely a

sale of the two old stoves for credit

on a new stove later to be selected.

If there is a completed contract for

the purchase of the round oak stove

the purchaser is liable for the unpaid

balance—Rood.





OWNER OF CATTLE LIABLE.





 





Our township voted four or five

years ago to let cattle pasture the

highways. Since then it has taken no

action on the subject. Please tell me

if people can still let their cattle run.

Also, what proCedure is necessary if

cattle enter one’s gates or through

openings in fences and do damage.

Please advise—C. W. C.





The owner of the cattle is liable if

they stray from the highway on to

private property, the extent of the

power of the township is to permit

animals to. run in the highway. There

is no duty of the owner of the land to

fence the highway so that cattle can-

not run in the road.———Rood.





LEAVING PROPERTY TO WIFE.





 





If a man wishes to leave money

deposited in a bank to his wife in

case he should die first, how would

he do it? Would deposits which are

“payable to John Doe or wife or other

survivor” be payable to the wife or

would other heirs share in this?

Would money left in this way go to

an administrator? How can a man

fix his property so that the wife shall

be cared for after his death, in case

the children are spendthrifts, without

this property going into court? What

percent does administrator receive for

services? Please advise—E. E. H.





The deposit in the bank as sug-

gested will accomplish the purpose

and may be withdrawn by either the

husband or the wife during their lives,

or by the survivor afterwards and

would not be included in the estate

handled by the administrator. The

title to the real property could be

conveyed to another person and re-

conveyed to the husband and wife to





would have it without any neceSsity

for administration. The administra-

tor’s fees in this state are 5% on the

first $1000.00, 2% on the next $5000.00,

and 1% of the remainder of the funds

handled by him.—-Rood.





ANYONE CAN BE SUED.





 





A had a farm in Mich. B had prop-

erty in Ind. B came to see A’s prop-

erty with intentions of trading prop-

erties. B asked for time to think over

proposition, and on returning to his

home wrote back to A telling him that

he would not consider a trade. A out

three trees on his farm and B in a few

days made a. new proposition which

A accepted. A failed to say anything

about the cutting of the trees until

after deal was completed, then A told

B about the trees ’and B made no ob-

jections and accepted part of the

wood. Three months later B tells A

that he will have to pay him $75 dam-

ages or he wiil sue him Can B sue

A for cutting of trees?-——G. T.





Suit may be brought in good faith





 





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be held by them as tenants by Ven-_

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person. There is no way in which a

person may guarantee against being

sued, and when sued, he must defend

himself at his own expense, with pos-

sibility of recovering some of his cost '

if successful in his defense. From

the statement it would seem that if B

had any ground for complaint he

waived it by ratifying the proceeding

after knowledge of it. In any event

there is no criminal liability accord-

ing to the statement—Rood.





GAINING RIGHT BY POSSESSION.





 





Can a person gain a residence in a

number of years by living on another

party’s property and not paying rent?



Residence is a matter of intention

and may be acquired in a moment of

time by a mere determination of the

person to take up his residence at a

particular place with the intention of

remaining there. The form of the

question causes us to surmise that

perhaps the point is, as to whether

some right in the property would be

obtained by residence upon it. In

answer to this question it may be said

that whenever any person enters upon





the property of another by his con-





sent continued possession would be

presumed to be by virtue of such con—

sent until the contrary was shown;

and in order to acquire title to the

property by adverse possession the

person entering must hold open, no-

torious, adverse, exclusive, and con-4

tinuous possession of the property

under claim right for a period of 15

years or more—Rood. '





TOWNSHIP OFFICE’S RIGHT.





 





Has the township highway commis-

sioner any right to lend the township

tools such as the’grader, etc? Has

a person, not being a taxpayer, any

right to hold township offices ?—H.R.B.



The Township highway commis-

sioner has custody of the tools and

we are not aware of any way to call

to account for loaning them. The

qualifications of officers of townships

are, they shall be citizens of the

United States and a qualified voter of

the township—Rood.





REGARDING SCHOOL ATTEND-

ANCE.





 





I have been attending a. school in

the country. When school begins

again I want to get a transfer and at-

tend the town school. To whom must

I apply for my transfer? If I finish

school at the age of 14 do I have to

go until I am 17? Also, do I have to

go to high school?—B. J.





By Public Acts 1919, Act No. 132,

Section 1, parents and guardians or

other persons in charge of children

between the ages of 7 and 16 are re-

quired to send them to school pro-

vided with necessary books. An ex-

ception is made of. children who have

received a. diploma from the eighth‘

grade from the public school, and of

children above the age of 14 years

who have completed the work of the

sixth grade in the public School and

whose services are necessary for their

parents support. No transfer is neces-

sary unless it is desired that the

school district pay the tuition for

students in the other school. If the

board of education does not maintain

a high School in the district, ‘the dis-

trict may be required to pay tuition

of a resident of the district in some

high school, provided the student

holds an eighth-grade diploma granted

by the county board of examiners;

and that written notice is given to the

board of education of the district

where the child resides on or before

the 4th Monday'of June. that it is de-

sired to send the child to the school '

during the ensuing year ~Pubiic [Acts

1921, Page .1' " ’ ' ‘





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State Farm -_News





’ SEED ALFALFA IN AUGUST.





 





 





 





COMPARATIVELY small acreage



'of alfalfa seeding in St. Joseph



county this spring has been more than



balanced by the acreage sown during



August. Cultures for the inoculation



' of 550 bushels of alfalfa seed were dis-

tributed by one agency.





SHEEP ARE POISONED.





 





F ORAGE poisoning of sheep has oc-

, curred in some counties in the

state. L. R. Binding, county "agricul-

tural agent in St. Joseph county, re-

ports that one farmer lost twenty-one

sheep out of a flock of forty. The only

poisonous plant found in the field graz-

.ed by this flock was the Kentucky

coffee berry, which was the subject

1 of a warning sent out by the Michigan

State. College recently. In another

field where eleven sheep had been

poisoned, water hemlock, which had

been‘ grazed by the sheep, was found.-





TEST EVERY FARM IN COUNTY

FOR AC-IDITY.





 





HE soil on every farm in Crawford



county is being tested for line re-

quirements. It has been found that

bad weather and'roads in the spring

are responsible for the reluctance of

many farmers to correct soil acidity

by liming. County Agent, R. D. Bailey,

has recommended the sowing'of lime

in the- fall on corn or potato ground

which has been kept free of weeds,

and which is to be sown to some nurse

crop and seeded the following spring.

The lime is disced into the ground af-

ter it is applied.





MAKE IVIARL SURVEYS.





 





HERE has been a thorough survey

of ‘the marl deposits in several

Michigan counties this summer, and

preparations are under way to make

the deposits discovered available to

the farmers in these counties. Barry





county was found to have workable,





marl beds in several localities. A lay-

er of marl ten feet in thickness was

uncovered in Grand Traverse county.

Manistee has an outfit in full opera-

tion digging “white gold.” Kalamazoo

and Allegan counties have been pion-

eers in werking marl beds. Machin-

ery is in operation in these counties

which demonstrate various types of

-hoists and buckets. One Allegan com-

pany accepts orders only for 500-yard

jobs or larger, and they are kept busy.

In some cases, cooperative companies

are organized and _get out the marl

needed in the neighborhood.





Coops HOLD PICNIC.





 





BREE hundred and fifty attended



a joint picnic of the cooperative



associations of Allegan county, and



those of South Haven and Holland.



James Nicol, former president of the



State Farm Bureau, was chairman of

1 the program.





 





WAR ON PEACH DISEASES.





 





F IFTY inspectors are at work in



Berrien county ina campaign to

eradicate peach yellows and little

peach. These diseases are causing the

peach growers of the county consider-

able trouble. Many of the local grow—

ers are organized in township units to

locate infected orchards and to check

. up on the eradication work.





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PRIZES TO BOYS AND GIRLS AT

- CAMP SHAW.





 





A. T the (lamp Shaw boys' and girls’

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.. “B E s 'r B Y T E s 'r

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‘ Detroit ........... Charles Stokes 35 ------------ r0 . 1mm-



Much ofCaloric Detroit ......................... Owendale .‘Owendalc HdWe 00.



Leadership is Grosso Points Sheet Metal l'ctoskcy. McCabe'Hdwe. Co.

due to the skill Work 3 1'1) mouth JcWe11»BIalcll-McArdle

and experience Essexville.. Jake P. Rosenstreter Pontiac ........... W. J. Taylor



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organization Frankfort, The Wm Upton Hdwe' Riga. ............. W. G. Stebner

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ton’I—Ierbenar won the pen of Barred

Rocks given to the first events in both

dairy and poultry team, demonstration

work; and the county club. members

won first inthe singing contest, and

second place in the instrumentai con-

test. Genevieve Hoppe and Marjorie

Olson, two Delta county girls, won

first place in clothing team demonstra-

tion work.





Only time and use will proVe the real merit of any machine.



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

, whether or not it is reliable and durable.



The Auto-Oiled Aermotor has been thru the testing



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Auto-Oiled means that the gears run in oil

and every part subject to friction lS constantly

flooded With oil. The gear case IS filled With .011

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perfectly oiled for a year or more.

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

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community interest in the breed. 1' . time you are taking a long chance. But you do not have to

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a county grange meeting in M aniste 8 demonstrated its merits wherever windmills are used.





county. Members of this community CHICAGO AERMOTOR C0. DALLAS





are already buying foundation StOCk- KANSAS CITY mas mounts OAKLAND summons





 





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Box '

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I was authorized by the meeting to

take the necessary steps to get the





2 association in action. That meant get-





ting a cowtester and devising it sys-

tem of‘records in suitable form, plan—

ning a testing outfit and a. multitude

of otht r duties in connection with the

starting of this new work. The State

Dairy and Food Department author-

ized me to have the necessary books

printed at the expense of the Depart-

ment and also paid for the testing

outfit, which had to be made-t0 order.





But Where could I find a cowtester?

It was important that he should be a

man who had experience in the work,

for the first association would have

to be a success, if others were to fol-





. low. I finally resorted to advertising





and ran an ad in Hoards’ Dairyman

sometime during that fall. The only

applicant I had was employed in a

jewelry store in Connecticut, but he

was a Dane and had had experience

in a cow-testing association in Den-

mark, and was much interested in the

work. The result was that I hired

him and thus Jens Mogensen became

the first cowtester in this country. A

picture of him appears in Dairy and

Food bulletin 137, issued January,

1907. He started to work in Decem-

ber, 1905, and finished a year’s work

and part of a second. The books were

accurately and neatly kept and-the

records included lactometer readings.

The members wanted him to continue

the next year but he felt the pay was

too small. Even though I contributed

personally from my own salary of

$1000.00 a year, his pay was not over

$1.00 a day. I Continued my contri-

bution the second year but after that

the association was self sustaining.

The next tester was M. Jensen, who





 





later operated a creamery north of





".’.





§ The Genesis ' of Cow-testing





(Continued frbm page 285)





Saginaw. He also did fine work.



While the cowtesters did their work

conscientiously and well, many prob—

lems presented themselves during

these first years that would have been

very difficult of solution, except for

the unfailing and cheerful cooperation

of each individual member, and as- I

look back, I can not help but feel that

the choice of community‘in which to

try the work, was a happy one. The

records were not very complete, only

few analyses and tabulations could

be made and a dollar was quite a

large coin, but the members did no

grumbling. They had put their hand

to the plow and never thought of tum-

ing back until the furrow had been

carried through to the end.



On the strength of the success of

the work at Fremont I succeeded in

organizing four more associations in

1906, namely at Coopersville, Bay

City, Caro and Lapeer. At each

place I had the assistance of a pro-

gressive local dairyman—H. Rabild.





 





0 Michigan belongs the distinc-



tion of having the first coopera-



tive cow-testing association on



this side of the Atlantic, and to Mr.



Helmer Rabild must be given the

credit for its organization.



At the time Mr. Rabild was an in-



spector of the Dairy and Food De-





partment of Michigan. A native of.





Denmark, he had been reared in the

atmosphere of progressive dairying

that had placed his native country in

the fore front. His enthusiasm and

knowledge of the subject convinced

the department of the importance of

this feature of dairy work and, more

than any other one thing, caused the

department to become sufficiently in-

terested in the subject to make it an





 





 

 

 

 

 

 





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that so simple and compact a plant

furnishes all the electric light for the

farm home and abundant power for

pumping, running belt and motor-driven

machines and doing all sorts of chores.

But remember, this is a new plant—the

type of home electric power plant that was

bound to come. It represents a new idea

in compactness, completeness, simplicity





320 home eleflric plant





That means complete combustion—more

perfect burning of fuel due to the Ricardo

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our own design and other special features

—hence greater economy. See the simple

selective electric control, that makes it

easy for anybody to operate the plant.



Investigate this new type of home elec-

tric pla‘nt. Watch a demonstration. Run

the plant yourself. Your Fairbanks-Morse

dealer is now or will soon be demonstrating

the New Fairbanks-Morse Home Electric

Power Plant. Plan to call on him.





Mail the coupon for free booklet.





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D Stool Eclipse Windmill.



D Home Light and Power Plant-

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on this subject. - -.



He selected Fremont, Newaygo

county as the logical place to form

the first association, because here he

had gone when he first came to this

country to work in a. creamery.



However,‘ even here among his

friends in an advanced dairy com;

munity, pioneer work had to be done."

Each dairyman had to be visited per-

sonally, many of them several times,

and the practical working and bene-

fits of an association explained. The

idea. of keeping a debit and credit ac-

count with each individual cow in the:

herd, charging each with the food con-

sumed and giving each creditfor the

milk and butter-fat produced was

novel and time had to be given to

allow the idea to make proper devel-

opment.



It was a proud man who wired the

Dairy and Food Department on the





Will iii





Your presence islsollcited at a. meeting to

be held in the Grange hall this





uesday. Sepiii.





at 7:30 p: m., for the purpose ofdiscussing the

posibilities of organizing the dairyman of this

community into an association for mutual

benefit. A special order of business will be

the organizing of a testing association. Many

progressive farmers of this community have

assured us of‘their favor of the project. W3

want you to be present and to bring as many

dairymen as possible. Mr. ‘H. Rabild of the

state dairy and foOd department will be pres-

ent and address the meeting.





 





 





 

 





COMMITTEE. ‘





 





 





Handbiil of 1905 announcing meeting

which resulted in organization of first



. association.

morning of Oct. 27th, 1906 after the

meeting where the articles of associa-

tion had been duly signed, that:



“The firstACooperative Cow Testing

Association in America has been

formed.”



But, with the association formed, it

must be properly supervised. An ex-

perienced cow tester must be ob-

tained, one who would gain and hold

the confidence of the members or all

this work would be for naught. Ra-

bild did not propose to have the work

fail after his earnest effort\ and be-

sides the success of this first; associa-

tion meant so much for the uture of

the dairy interests of this country.



Therefore he secured an experi-

enced cow tester, to take charge of

the association. Thus this first asso—

ciation was started right. It was

properly organized by a trained ex-

pert and was operated by a man of

not only the proper technical knowl-

edge but by one who had a broad gen

eral knowledge of dairying and who

could explain to the members the

principles of feeding and breeding-in.

a logical and convincing way.



Subsequent work proved conclu-

sively that the cow tester is an im-

portant factor in the work of a. test—

ing association and no doubt the good

work and good counsel of this first

tester has had much to do with the

success of the Fremont association.





Under the direction of Mr. Rabild.

the Dairy Flood Department published

proper blanks for the records and re

ports of the associatidn with the idea

of preserving all records for future

use in the subsequent work of the de-

partment. And the careful work of

the Fremont association has “enabled

not only this state but others ,to ob;





‘tain statistics and informatio. , of, ,

great value in creating the. pr f t





interest is” this portend are!





mpbmfi‘ibtésmm’ oi its work.“ mt ..., ,-

Rabild was practically given free rein . ‘ ‘
Ernest Vierkoette-r, husky German

baker, lowered Gertrude Ederle’s

Channel swim by 1 hr. 56. min.





.Paulphabes, famous French artist,

painter of “September Morn,”

has electricity as a hobby.





 





 





 





 





Buddist rites were performed to

commemorate anniversary of the

Japanese earthquake.





 





 





 





 





 





A peculiar mushroom growing in

France explodes when the sun’s

rays strikes its skin.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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A rattle snake and a black snake ready for battle. At the end of

the encounter both were exhausted. The black snake usually

wins in a battle of this kind. These snakes are old enemies.





 





 





 





 





 





“Landskiff” is a hand-propelled machine, weighing forty pounds and

capable of attaining a speed of thirty-five miles an hour. It was

invented by Dr. Manfred Curry, of New York.





 





 





 





 





 





 





General Lincoln 0. Andrews, prohibition chief

of United States, in conference with Major \

Mills, prohibition administrator of New York.





 





A close-up of Helen Wills, Ameri-

ca’s tennis queen, who recently

returned from Europe.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





A hand-engraved, enameled tray inscribed with

a quotation from the Koran. Two men and a

boy worked on it continuously three years.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





King George, in kilties, recently inspected the Guardof Honor of

the famous Black. Watch Regiment at Ballater Station in Scot-

land. Major Chalmer accompanied him. \





 





 





 





 





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A group of citizens is often found in front of the Parisian Money

Exchange watchlng with intense interest in the rise and fall in

the value of the “franc.” -





   

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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HERE was the scent of battle in

the air. The whole of Porcu-

pine City knew that it was com-

ing, and every man and woman



in its two hundred population held

their breath in anticipation of the

struggle between two men, for a for-

tune—and a girl. For in some myste-

rious manner rumor of the girl had

got abroad, passing from lip to lip,

until even the children knew that

there was some other thing than gold

that would play a part in the fight be-

tween Clarry O’Grady and Jan Larose.

On the surface it was not scheduled

to be a fight with fists or guns. But

in Porcupine City there were a. few

who knew the “inner .story”——-the story

of the girl, as well as the gold, and

those among them who feared the law

would have arbitrated in a different

manner for the two men if it had been

in their power. But law was law, and

the code was the code. There was no

alternative.



It was unusual situation, and yet

apparently simple of solution. Eighty

miles north, as the canoe was ‘driven,

young Jan Larose had one day staked

out a rich “find” at the headwaters

of Pelican Creek. The same day, but

later, Clarry O’Grady had driven his

stakes beside Jan’s. It had been a

race to the mining recorder’s office,

and they had come in neck and neck.

Popular sentiment favored Larose, the





. slim, quiet, dark—eyed half Frenchman.





But there was the law, which had no

sentiment. The recorder had sent an

agent north to investigate. If there

were two sets of stakes there could

be but one verdict. Both claims

would be thrown out, and then-—



All knew what would happen, or

thought that they knew. It would be

a magnificient race to see who could

set out fresh stakes and return to the

recorder’s office ahead of the other.

It would be a fight of brawn and brain,

unless—and those few who knew the

“inner story” spoke softly among

themselves.



An ox in strength, gigantic in build,

with a face that for days had worn a

sneering smile of triumph, O’Grady

was already picked as a ten-toone

winner. He was a! magnificient

canoeman, no man in Porcupine City





‘7 could equal him for endurance, and





for his bow paddle he had the best

Indian in the whole Reindeer Lake

country. He stalked up and down.

the one street of Porcupine City,

treating to drinks, cracking rough

jokes, and offering wagers, while Jan

Larose and his long-armed Cree sat

quietly in the shade of the recorder’s

office waiting for the final moment to

come.



There were a few of those who

knew the “inner story” who saw

something besides resignation and

despair in Jan’s quiet aloofness, and

in the disconsolate droop of his head.

His face turned a shade whiter when

O’Grady passed near, dropping insult

and taunt, and looking sidewise at

him in a way that only he could un-

derstand. But he made no retort,

though his dark eyes glowed with a

fire that never quite died—unless it

was when, alone and unobserved, he

took from his pocket 3. bit of buckskin

in which was a silken tress of curling

brown hair. Then his eyes shone with

a light that was soft and luminous,

and one seeing him then would have

known that it was not a dream of

gold that filled his heart, but of a

brown-haired girl who had broken it.



On this day, the forenoon of the

sixth since the agent had departed

into the north, the end of the tense

period of waiting was expected. Por-

cupine City had almost ceased to

carry on the daily monotony of its

business. The two saloons were filled

with idle men. A score were loung-

ing about the recorder’s ofiice. Women

looked forth at frequent intervals

through the open doors of the “city’s”

cabins, or gathered in twos and threes

to discuss this biggest sporting event





Actz'vztze: of A! Acres—172m Mal T 00% an Extra Day and Made #26 Boy: War/z E‘verjy Dir/2.





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I The Strength of Men





By fame: Oliver Garwood





A Short Story Complete in Two Issues /





 





 





known in the history of the town.

Not a minute but scores of anxious

eyes were turned searchingly up the

river down which the returning

agent’s canoe would first appear. With

the dawn of this day, O’Grady had

refused to drink. He was stripped to

His laugh was louder.

Hatred as well as triumph glittered

in his eyes, for today Jan Larose

looked him cooly and squarely in the

face, and nodded whenever he passed.

It was almost noon when Jan spoke a

few low words to his watchful Indian

and walked to the top of the cedar-

capped ridge that sheltered Porcupine

City from the north winds.



From this ridge' he could look

straight into the north—the north

where he was bdrn. Only the Cree

knew that for five nights he had slept,





years in the great city. The Govern-

ment sent for him each autumn after

that. Deep into the wilderness he led

the men who made the red and black

lined maps. It was he who blazed

out the northern limit of Banksian

pine, and his name was in Govern-

ment reports—down in black and

white—so that Marie and all the

world could read.



One day he came back—and he

found Clarry O’Grady at the Cummins’

cabin. He had been there for a month‘

with .a broken leg. Perhaps it was

the dangerous knowledge of the power

‘of her beautys—the woman’s instinct

in herto tease with ‘her prettiness,

that led to Marie’s flirtation with

O’Grady. But Jan could not under-

stand, and she played with fire—the

fire of two hearts instead of one. The





 





 





BE TTER SER VICE

By James Edward Hungerford





It's wisdom to save up your nickels and dimes,

And stow them away in the bank,





For thriftiness guards against





demon “hard times,"





And wards off the wolf, lean and lank!



Economy's good, and we profit by it,



And sidestep old worry and strife,



But he who “splits pennies," and shreds ev’ry “jit,”





Is cutting the joy out of life!

He spends all his days in old





And squeezes each dime he can





And leans all his weight on a

And lives like a miserly crab





penury’s clutch,

grab,

“catch-penny" crutch,





He pares life’s necessities down to the quick;



His money corrodes from misuse;



His business from “skimping” and “pinching” grows sick...

And “gives up the ghost," from abuse!





If he would but think of the work he is in,

And give it the best of his thought,

With better production, the high goal to win—





What wonderful things would





be wrought!





Instead of witholding, if he would but strive

To serve and produce and to give,





His bank-roll would bulge, a





nd his business would thrive—





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or sat awake, on the top of this ridge,

with his face turned toward the polar

star, and his heart breaking with

loneliness and grief. Up there, far

beyond where the green-topped forests

and the sky seemed to meet, he could

see a little cabin nestling under the

stars——and Marie. Always his mind

traveled back to the beginnings of

things, no matter how hard he tried

to forget—even to the old days of

years and years ago when he toted

the little Marie around on his back,

and had“crumpled her brown curls,

and had revealed to her one by one

the marvelous mysteries of the wilder:

ness, with never a thought of the

wonderful love that was to come. A

half frozen little outcast brought in

from the deep snows one day by

Marie’s father, he became first her

playmate and brother—and after that

lived in a few swift years of paradise

and dreams. For Marie he had made

of himself what he was. He had gone

to Montreal. He had learned to read

and write, he worked for the Com-

pany, he came to know the outside

world, and at last the Government

employed him. This was a triumph.

He could still see the glow of pride

and love in Marie’s beautiful eyes

when he came home after those two





world went to pieces under Jan after

that. There came the day when, in

fair fight, he choked the taunting

sneer from O’Grady’s face back in the





woods. He fought like a tiger, a mad

demon. Nd one ever knew of that

fight. And with the demon still rag-





ing in his breast, he faced the girl. He

could never quite remember what he

had said. But it was terrible—and

came straight from his soul. Then he

went out, leaving Marie standing there

white and silent.’ He did not go back.

He had sworn never to do that, and

during the weeks that followed it

spread about that Marie Cummins had

turned down Jan Larose, and that

Clarry O’Grady was now the lucky

man. It was one of the unexplainable,

tricks of fate that had brought them

together, and had set their discovery

stakes side by side on Pelican Creek.



Today, in spite of his smiling cool-

ness, Jan’s heart rankled with a bitter-

ness that seemed to be concentrated

of all the dregs that had ever entered

into his life. It poisoned him, heart

and soul. He was not a coward. He

was not afraid of O’Grady. And yet

he knew that fate had already played

the cards against him. He would lose.

He was almost confidant of that, even

while he nerved himself to fight.





 





 

 

   





 





. There WES the, drop of salvage super-'9 ‘,

stition in} him, and he told himself '

that something would happento beat





him out. O’Grady had one into the

home that was almost s own and

had robbed him of Marie. In that

fight in. the forest, he should have

killed him. That would. have been

justice, as he knew it- But this time

there would be no relenting.



rI-Ie had come alone to the top of the

ridge to settle the last doubts With

himself. Whoever won out, there

would be a fight. It would be a mag-

nificent fight, like that which his

grandfather had fought and won for

the honor of a woman years and years

ago. He was even glad. that O’Grady

was trying to rob him of what he had

searched for and found. There would

be twice the justice inkilling him





now. And it would be done fairly, as \





his grandfather had done it



Suddenly there came a piercing

shout from the direction of the river,

followed by a wild call for him

through Jackpine’s moose-horn. He

answered the Cree’s signal with a yell

and tore down through the low bush.

When he reached the foot of the

ridge ‘at the edge of the clearing, he

saw the men, women and children of

Porcupine City running to the river.

In front of the recorder’s ofi‘lce stood

Jackpine, bellowing through his horn.

O’Grady and his Indian were already

shoving their canoe out into the

stream, and even as he looked there

came a break in the line of excited

spectators, and through it hurried the

agent toward the recorder’s cabin.



Side by side, Jan and his Indian

ran to their canoe. Jackpine was

stripped to the waist, like O’Grady

and his Chippewaian. Jan threw off

only his caribou—skin coat. His dark

woolen shirt was sleeveless, and his

long slim arms, as hard as ribbed

steel, were free. Half the crowd fol-

lowed him. He smiled, and waved his

hand, the: dark pupils of his eyes shin—

ing .big and black. Their canoe shot

out until it was within a dozen yards

of the other, and those ashore saw

him laugh into O’Grady’s sullen, set

face. He was cool. Between smiling

lips his white teeth gleamed, and the

women stared with brighter eyes and

flushed cheeks, wondering how Marie

Cummins could have given up this

man for the giant hulk and drink-

reddened face of his rival. Those

among the men who had wagered

heavily against him felt a misgiving.

There was something in Jan’s smile

that was more than coolness, and it

was not bravado. Even as he smiled

ashore, and spoke in low Cree to Jack-

pine, he felt at the belt that had been.

hidden under the caribou-skin coat.

There were two sheaths there, and

two knives, exactly alike. It was thus

that his grandfather had set forth one

summer day to avenge a. wrong,

nearly seventy years before.



The agent had entered the cabin,

and now he, reappeared, wiping his

sweating face with a big red handker-

chief. The recorder followed. He

paused at the edge of the stream and

made a megaphone of his hands.



“Gentlemen,” he cried raucously,

“both claims have been thrown out!"



A wild yell came from O’Grady. In

a single fiash four paddles struck the

water, and the two canoes shot bow

and bow up the stream toward the

lake above the bend. The crowd ran

even with them until the low swamp

at the lake’s edge stopped them. In

that distance neither had gained a

yard advantage. But there was a

curious change of sentiment among

those who returned to Porcupine City.

That night betting was no longer two

and three to one on O’Grady. It was

even money.



For the last thing that the men of

Porcupine City had seen was that

cold, quiet smile of Jan Larose, the

gleam of his teeth, the something in

his eyes that is more to be feared

among men than bluster and brute





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As the canoe entered the lake, the

smile left Jan’s face. His lips tight-

ened until they were almost a straight

line. His eyes grew darker, his

breath came more quickly. For a little

while O’Grady’s canoe drew steadily

ahead of them, and when Jackpine’s

strokes went deeper and more power-

ful, Jan spoke to him in Cree and

guided the canoe so. that it cut

stmiglit as an arrow in O’Grady’s

wake. There ‘was an advantage in

that. It was small, but Jan counted

on the Cumulative results of good gen-

eralship.



His eyes never for an instant left

O’Grady’s huge, naked back. Between

his knees lay his .303 rifle. He had

figured on the fraction of time it

would take him to drop his paddle,

pick up the gun, and fire. Th1s was

his second point in generalshipwget—

ting the drop on O’Grady.



Once or twice in the first half~hour,

O’Grady glanced back over his \shoul-

der, and it was Jan who now laughed

tauntingly at the other. There was

something in that laugh that sent a

chill through O’Grady. It was as hard

as steel, a sort of madman’s laugh.





It was seven miles to the first port-

age, and there were nine in the eighty-

mile stretch. O’Grady and his Chippe-

waian were a hundred yards ahead

when the prow of their canoe touched

shore. They were a hundred and fifty

ahead when both canoes were once

more in the water on the other side of

the portage, and O’Grady sent back a

hoarse shout of triumph. Jan hunched

himself a little’lower. He spoke to

Jackpine—and the race began. Swifter

and swifter the canoes cut through

the water. From five miles an hour

to six, from six to six and a half——

sevenflseven and a quarter, and then

the strain told. A paddle snapped in

O’Grady’s hands with a sound like a

pistol shot. A dozen seconds were lost

while he snatched up a new paddle

and caught the Chippewaian’s stroke,

and Jan swung close into their wake

again. At the end of the fifteenth

mile, where the second portage began,

O’Grady was two hundred yards in

the lead. He gained another twenty

on the portage, and with a breath that

wascoming now in sobbing swiftness,

Jan put every ounce of his strength

behind the thrust of his paddle.

Slowly they gained. Foot by foot,

yard by yard, until for a third time

they cut into O’Grady’s wake. A dull

pain crept into Jan’s back. He felt it

slowly creeping into his shoulders and

to his arms. He looked at Jackpine

and saw that he was swinging his

\body more and more with the motion

of his»arms. And then he saw that

the terrific pace set by O’Grady was

beginning to tell on the occupants of

the canoe ahead. The speed fell back

from seven to six, from six to five and

a half—and then to five. The gap be-

tween the two canoes grew less and

less, until it was no more than seventy

yards. In spite of the pains that were

eating at his strength like swimmer’s

cramp, Jan could not restrain a low

cry of exultation. O’Grady had

planned to beat him out in that first

twentY-Imle spurt. And he had failed!

His heart leaped with new hope even

wlule his strokes were growing

weaker.





Ahead of them, at the far end of

the lake, there loomed up the black

spruce timber which marked the be-

ginmng of the third portage, thirty

m1les from Porcupine City. Jan knew

that he .Would win there—that he

would .gam an eighth of a mile in the

half-mile carry. He knew of a shorter

out than that of the regular trail. He

had cleared it himself, for he had

spent. a whole winter on that portage

trapping lynx. Marie lived only twelve

miles beyond. More than once Marie

had gone With him over the old trap

line. She had helped him to plan the

little log cabin he had built for him-

self on the edge of the‘ big swamp,

hidden away from all but themselves.

It was she who had put the red paper

curtains over the windows, and who,

one day, had written on the corner of

one of them: “My beloved Jan.” He

forgot O’Grady as he thought of Marie

and those old days of happiness and

' It was Jackpine who recalled

him at last to what was happening.

In amazement he saw that O’Grady

and his Chippewaian had ceased pad-

dling. They passed a dozen yards

abreast of them. O’Grady’s great

ar 3 and .shoulders. were glistening

with perspiration. His face was pur-

plish. In his eyes and on his lips was

the old taunting sneer. He was pant-

ing like a Wind-broken animal. As





. Jan passed he uttered no word.





An eighth of a mile, ahead was the

point where the regular portage began,

, y ‘ this into a

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and‘ his Indian were paddling in a

leisurely manner toward the head of

the point. For a moment it looked

as though they had given up the race,

and Jan’s heart leaped exuitantly.

O’Grady saw him and waved his hand.

Then he jumped out‘to his knees in

the water and the Chippewaian fol-

lowed him. He shouted to Jan, and

pointed down at the canoe. The next

instant, with a powerful shove, he

sent the empty birchbark speeding

far out into the open water.



Jan caught his breath. He heard

Jackpine’s low cry of amazement be-

hind him. Then he saw the two men

start on a swift run over the portage

trail, and with a fierce, terrible cry





he sprung toward his rifle, which he.





had leaned against a sapling.

(Concluded next week)





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folks. He says some of them don’t

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vantages of buying potatoes, cabbages

and apples in the fall. He says a bul-

letin ought to rectify all of this gross

mismanagement so that city folks

would know how to run their homes

and make the young folks happy and

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Proper Cooking and Variety iii Serving PVi/l Keep T flis Vegetaé/e Pope/or





OSSIBLY you may not be expect-

P ing the king to drop in for lunch,



but if you want a dish quite de-

licious enough to set before him, try

one of the following.



A good many people have the idea

that they cannot eat cabbage because

it causes indigestion or is distasteful

to them. In the great majority of in-

stances, this is due to wrong cooking.

The old idea was that cabbage must

be boiled for about three hours with

salt pork or corned beef, and usually

by that time it had become a sodden,

greasy, indigestible dish.



VThe modern way insures the cab-

bage coming to the table in a delicate

appetizing form, which can be eaten

with pleasure and safety by many who

have never thought it possible for

them to eat cabbage at all before.



Cabbage to be at its best should be

firm and crisp. From twenty to

twenty-five minutes is quite long

enough to cook it, if it is plunged

into boiling salted water. The vege—

table will retain its flavor and will be

cooked quite enough. Try it. Cook





 





 





 





 





. Black crepe made on the flat side and

trimmed with the satin side of the

material makes this chic frock for fall

wear. The collar and cuffs are

stitched with blue and white.





 





 





uncovered, and there wil‘ be no odor

in the house.

Buttered Cabbage.



Cut a head of cabbage in two. Wash

in cold water. Plunge into boiling,

salted water. Cook twenty minutes

and drain thoroughly. Dress with a

little melted butter, and season with

salt and pepper. Place on a hot plat—

ter or in a nappy, and cut out each

serving neatly with a spoon. It may

be eaten this way, or if you prefer,

with the addition of a little vinegar.



Creamed Cabbage.



Chop the cabbage rather coarsely,

salt, cover with boiling: water, and

cook twenty minutes. Drain. Have

ready at medium thick white sauce,

made by taking one pint of milk, two

L' tablespoonfuls of butter and tWO heap—

ing tablespoonfuls of flour. Melt the

butter. Stir in the flour gradually.

Have the milk hot, and add slowly,

stirring constantly until the whole is

a white, smooth, creamy mass.

'son with onion salt. Stir in the

drained cabbage. There should be

1- from a pint and a half to two pints

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By Emma Gary Wallace





pepper. Put into a hot nappy, and





finish with a sprinkling of powdered‘





pimento.

The seasonings indicated make all





[the difference between a flat, tasteless





dish, and one which is pleasingly de-

licious. The cream sauce made as in-

dicated, has a much richer flavor, than

when the flour is mixed to a paste

and stirred into the hot milk, and the

whole seasoned at the last minute

with a piece of butter.





Forefather’s Cabbage.



Cut one cupful of mixed fat and

lean salt pork into small dice. Fry

in a spider with two tablespoonfuls of

minced onion (or the onion may be

omitted). Put a head of cabbage, cut

in two, into boiling, salted water suf-

ficient to cover, at the same time add-

ing the diced fried pork and minced

onion, but reserving the fat. At the

end of twenty minutes, drain. Re-

move the cabbage and tender, deli-

cious bits of pork to a hot platter.

Dress with the remaining liquid pork

fat. Sprinkle with white pepper and

a dash of paprika. Garnish the platter

with a border of thin slices of boiled

beets.



Jellied Cabbage.



Take one package of unsweetened

and unflavored granulated gelatin

sufficient to jelly a pint of liquid and

soak in one-half cup cold water for

twenty minutes. Strain the juice of

one lemon. Add one tablespoonful of

sugar and two cups of boiling water,

add the hot lemon solution to gelatin

stirring until the gelatin is dissolved.

This will give a pint and a half of

liquid.



In a separate bowl, we will have a

cup and a half of shredded cabbage,

half a cup of finely diced, canned and

drained pineapple, and a half a cup

of fresh, thin cucumber slices. To

this add the gelatin solution, stirring

thoroughly until blended. Into the

bottom of each individual cup, drop a

piece of sweet pimento. Fill with the

gelatin cabbage mixture, and set aside

to harden. Unmold upon a lettuce

leaf and serve with a little mayon-

naise on the side.



Corned Beef and Cabbage.



This dish is popular with “Father.”

Select a choice piece of corned beef

which is well-marbled with fat and

lean. Cook until tender. If very salt,





change the water once. When the

corned beef is done, drain saving the

liquid. Set the corned ‘beef where it

will keep warm. Heat the liquid boil-

ing hot and plunge ina cabbage, cut

in quarters. Cook twenty minutes and

remove the liquid. Serve the corned

beef in the center of a hot platter

with the four quarters of cabbage

about it. . . -»





If a boiled dinner is desired, onions,

turnip slices, carrots, and potatoes

may be dropped in with the corned~

beef while it is cooking. The turnip

will want to be put in first, or about

ohe hour before mealtime; the onions,

dependnig on size, from forty to thirty

minutes before the meal is served, and

carrots and potatoes about twenty—five

minutes ahead of time. The carrots

should be cut lengthwise.



The corned beef is served in the

center or at one end of the platter,

with an artistic arrangement of the

vegetables, so as to get the best

effect of the colors of the foods. One

cook of my acquaintance removes the

potatoes from the water when

nearly done. Then they are dropped

into a wire basket and given a final,

quick frying in hot, deep fat—just

enough to brown them delicately.





PAINTED FLOOR MATS.





 





Y kitchen and dining room



floors are covered with a

printed linoleum which in spite

of the annual coat of varnish shows

wear near the doors. To cover up





these worn spots, I tried painting





mats. Around each worn spot I drew

a rectangle about 30x15 inches, ex-

tending from the wooden sill. To





this I applied three coats of grey floor

paint. I did this on three successive

nights to avoid tracking. As a finish-

ing touch {painted a haif-inch band

of black around the edge and stenciled

a small figure in each corner. These

painted mats are most satisfactory

for they are never out of place and

dirt cannot get "nder them.—Miss

A. S.





TRAINING IN THE WAY THEY

SHOULD GO.





 





CHILDREN can be of great help

to us if they are trained cor-

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Edna Smith DeRan





It fell upon my floor like soft and sifted snow



That falls upon the earth the while the great sun sleeps

And with the morning-break has formed a carpet white.



It fell the while I could not see, or know wherefrom



It had its birth, or on what silent wings it came.



I only know that when I looked my feet had bruised



Its fleecy atoms that when crushed gave out no moan, '

But helpless clung, like bruised hearts, to that which hurt.

And where I trod were imprints of the feet that marred



Its grayish mossy mass so like an olden show



Grown weary with its age, yet helpless lies each day.



And yet this listless thing that lay upon my floor



Was agile in its age, for with the slightest breath ,



It danced defiantly away, eluding all



My weapons with which I had sought to capture it



And hear from out my room the gray expansive thing



That could be crushed within the hollow of my hand.





This thousand-lived thing that, captured /once and crushed,



Will send its second life, and third, and 'multiples, , ' ' '

To stare at me with half-closed, grayish, impish eyes

Until, defiant-and indignant, I must rise »- . . _

any-duet up from. my bedroom floor.”





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spare time that they may have time

for work and play, and for their les-

sons besides.



I keeQa sort of a f‘merit” sheet on

the kitchen wall and every day I mark

the children according to their work,

behavior and obedience and every

time we get a cream' check, I save the

odd pennies on it for the children’s

fund. It generally amounts toabout

thirty cents a month and this is divi-

ded up according to their marks. The

idea is not to pay. them for their work,

but to teach them the value of money

and thrift and is a lot of fun besides.

Even our little "‘Buddy” who is still

too small to do much, is anxious to

bring daddy’s slippers and his news-

paper, just to be in on the game.

The children can save these pennies

or spend them for their school needs

or other things, but never anything

unnecessary.



I think every child has a vocation

or something he or she likes to do

best. If we study them carefully, we

can usually determine their special

interest. So why not pick out their

vocation and develop it by keeping

t em busy in that line of work? My

boy is only nine years old, but we

often find him puttering around in

dad’s work shop. He has become quite

a help in repairing farm machinery.

He knows the names of all the tools

and can even do a little light anvil

work or soldering job.—-Mr's. C. S.





CARE FOR CANNA BULBS

CAREFULLY.





 





N the Gulf states canna bulbs win-



ter over outside, and m’list be di-

vided up frequently to keep them

from overcrowding, but in the north

they are not as easily kept as most

other bulbs. If the soil is removed,

the air dries them up, and if frosted





they decay. They rot in moist dark‘





cellars or if buried in pits. A par-

tially lighted basement is ideal, and

they should be dug with as much

soil as convenient on the roots, and

the clumps bunched closely on the

floOr or packed in a box. The soil

should be a little moist all winter for

best keeping, and in the spring it does

no harm if they start to grow where

stored. I have often divided up

clumps where the tops were long and

soft and had them grow on without

check, __though the soft leaves usually

drooped’ and died, while strong new

leaves appeared in their place. Dry

bulbs planted at the same time were

much slower in making good clumps.





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WHAT l’VE TRIED.





HEN roasting or boiling beef,

often the gravy will not brown.

If you will fry some ham until very

brown so that there will be a dark

bottom gravy, and add this to the beef

liquid, it will brown quick] and taste

deliciOus.

When making apple jelly, add a few

drops of almond extract and it will

taste like'cherry.—Mrs. B. n J. ' ‘





 





No practical woman wastes time be-

ing peeved'by the pin pricksmof life;

she in t hunts around andfljmids the,
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N every woman’s heart the home

I feeling is strong, and when she is



making plans or actually con-

structing something to improve her

home, and make it more convenient,

she is supremely happy.



So many of the letters received in

our latest contest mention the happi-

ness the writer had gotten out of

planning and constructing simple prac-

tical improvements for her home.



I want to thank every reader who

so graciously contributed their ideas

in this contest.‘ Many of the ideas

that did not get in on the list of prize

winners, will be published later.—

Martha Cole.



Three of the winners of the com-

plete recipe files follow, the others will

appear next week:



Special Shelf For Glasses.



In my kitchen I have a deep cup-

board. It always bothered me to get

out my best glasses because I had to

reach behind so many other dishes.

To solve this problem I put a narrow

shelf halfway between the two deep





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No Bother to Get Glasses Now.





shelves and just a little wider than

the width of the glasses. Now my

glasses set in a neat row clear across

the cupboard with nothing in front

to hinder getting them out quickly.



I also used this same idea in

another cupboard where I keep spices

and extracts. Now I can readily find

just the spices or seasonings that I

want—Mrs. A. Allen, Ingham County.



Attractive Popcorn Sets.



I have just made some very pretty

popcorn sets. I used one four-quart

tin milk pan and four small one pint





 





Make a Set at Christmas Time.





tin pans, the larger one costing ten.

cents and the smaller ones five cents

each, and also one ten cent sugar

scoop.



I painted the outside of the pans

and the- scoop with blue lacquer and

the insides with white lacquer. When

dry, I painted a design in contrasting

colors with tube paints, using a small

camel hair brush. These sets make

inexpensive Christmas gifts and also

sell well at church bazaars—Mrs. C.

Lea, Genessee County.



Old Commodes Come to Life.



These days the old-fashioned com-

mode (small.bureau) has no place in

the home only in adark corner in the





 





, EVery Housewife Needs. a Desk.

y' attics We had two the. had not been ’

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work one is now a pretty flat top

writing desk, the other a kitchen cab-

inet. The black walnut commode had

a narrow drawer at the top, and three

drawers at the right, a cupboard, with

one door, at the left. By removing

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the cupboard it left just the right

knee space. I also removed the

boards on the back of the cupboard,

to have the knee space open. The

small back on the top had a towel

rack, this I sawed off, leaving the

back just as it was. This prevented

books and papers from falling off.

Two coats of varnish made it a much

admired piece of furniture.





The "other commode had two draw—

ers at the top‘and a cupboard, with

two doors below. The drawers are





handy for towels, kitchen linens.

aprons, etc. The cupboard is just the

place for pots and pans. On each





door there is a rack, for pie pans,

covers, etc. To widen the top, I cov-

ered the whole top with boards from

an old box. The board nearest the

front, I let extend over the top about

six inches, making a wider working

space. I covered the top with a piece

of zinc. I made a nice cupboard for

the top, same height as the commode.

For this I used boards from an old

cupboard, never used in the cellar. I

used three coats of white paint and

one coat of white enamel for the in-

side of the cabinet, and three coats

of apple green paint and one coat of

enamel for the outside. I colored the

white enamel with the green paint for

the outside.





With a saw and hammer, some nails

and a few screws any woman will be

able to make these pieces of furniture

without even “Handy Andy’s” help.—

Mrs. L. J. Joslin, Wayne County.





 





 





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CAN YOUR OWN PIMENTOS.





 





I would like very much to know how





Pimentos or sweet/peppers should

first be baked about eight minutes in

a hot oven. The tough outside skin

will then slip off readily. Then pack





the pimentos in a sterilized jar, add a l L





teaspoon of salt to each pint jar, fill

with boiling water and process in a

hot water bath for one hour or in a

steam pressure cooker for thirty min—

utes at five pounds pressure.





 





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I would like a recipe for sulphured

apples. They are prepared as for pie

and sulphur smoked. In some way

they make their own liquid to cover.

—Mrs. F. F'.





Can anyone tell me how to make

mustard pickles that you pack down

in an open crock and will keep well?

—-—Mrs. H. S. F,



If the Clothes makes the man then

it must be the absence of them that

makes the woman.





 





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efficiency is to be upheld it is necessary

to have the best in kitchen equipment,

especially in ranges.



The Alcazar Oil Duplex is the best farm

range in appearance and cooking quali—

ties. It cooks quicker and uses less fuel

than the old—fashioned and cumbersome

kitchen stove.





See your Alcazar dealer today about the

Alcazar Oil Duplex equipped with the

patented burner for farm use; also the

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These statements are proved by the fact

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using these ranges and would use no other.



They are arranged to burn kerosene

and wood or coal, singly or together.

Change from fuel to fuel in an instant

and get just the degree of heatyou want.

Burn kerosene in the summer, and coal

or wood during cold weather to keep the

kitchen warm.





Let the Alcazar Dealer Explain the Alcazar Oil Duplex Range to‘You





For town use there is an Alcazar Duplex

which burns gas and coal or wood.

Write us now for free booklet describing

these ranges.





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In Gulden’s the lively little mus-

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No. 619—Scho-ol Frock. Cuts in

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

8 requires 1% yards of‘ 40-inch mate-

rial with 14 yard of 27-inch contrast-

mg.



No. 250-—Sleeping Garment. Cuts

in sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years.

Size 8 requires 21/; yards of 36-inch

material for long sleeves.



No. 426~—School Dress. Cuts in sizes

8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 re-

quires 214 yards of 32 or 36-inch ma-

terial with % yard of 36-inch con-

trasting.



No.7 489—Box-P1aits. Cuts in sizes

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

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Our Weekly Sermon—By N. A. McCune





main

They





“ REAT leaders is the

thought for this Week.





have been reading about.

are God’s best gift to a nation. Read

the list: Moses, Joseph, Jacob, Jethro.

A long list more, later on.



Great leaders are associated with

great events. Without one the other

Would be impossible. If there had

been no Civil War, something else

would have absorbed the soul of Lin-

coln, and made him great. Three

years before the first gun was fired,

on Fort "Sumter,

Lincoln had come

before the nation

as thinker and

prophet, when he

debated with

Douglas. Think

on the events

that went with

these Bible men

of size. Moses is

aSSociated with the Red Sea crossing

and the announcing of the Ten Com—

mandments. He bulks as big as the

highway that led through the sea,

and is as tall as Sinai. He is bigger

than them both. N-o Moses, no Red

Sea crossing, no voices and thunder-

ings on Sinai. The big man makes

the big event. The biggest men are

those inspired and greatened by God

Almighty. ’





 





time. If you had gone up to Moses

and said to him, “Sir, you are a great

man,” he would have asked you how

you got that way. About the time the

people were stampeding, calling Moses

all the convenient names they could

think of, and organizing a movement

to go back to Egypt, Moses probably

did not think of himself as particu-

larly great. It is with these noble

souls as it is with us commoner ones,

one day at a time, one problem at a

time, though the disappointments and

heartaches may come in battalions.



And who is great! You, the reader

of this, may be. I am in the west at

present, in a diminutive cabin on the

shore of a mountain lake. Across the

lake rise the huge forms of mountain

peaks. In these mountains are all

forms of animal and plant life. But

the most interesting forms are not al-

ways the largest. As one approaches

the higher altitudes, ‘covered with

snow much of the year, he hears the

Whistling marmots, animals about the

size of woodchucks, and interesting

little brutes they are, though incon-

spicuous and retiring. Great souls are

are hard to find, sometimes, as are

these animals. Reality, genuineness,

character, are not always synony-

mous with newspaper headlines.



Look at Joseph. A good way to

teach this lesson to younger pupils,

older ones too, would be to read the

story of Joseph right straight through,

without comment. Few people have

ever done it.



To do this begin with Genesis 37

and read right through to 50, leaving

out chapters 38 and 49, which are di-

gressions. It will take the class hour

to do this, and perhaps a little more.

It is a perfect story, rising to a climax

in the middle, and with a gripping

plot. When I say story, I do not

mean necessarily that it is not true,

but it is written in story form. It is

one day after another, with,Joseph.

Some days had more in them than he

desired. Too full for comfort. This

however stands out on every page.

Joseph never lost his grip on God.

Consequently he never lost his grit.

He was always the smiling one, which

won him his friends. Potiphar liked

him, the poor fellows in jail liked him,

the jailor liked him, and finally the

king liked him. It was popularity, not

based on ‘professional hand shaking,

“pep and personality" mongering, but





 





 





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within which sustained hlm... He was

a great Joseph. .

I like Jethro, too. He had sense.





will pass him» by for the present. ,



Leaders. ’America has been blest

with them. To go back only a'few

years, there is Roosevelt.

easier to be honest in politics and

business. Then, Wilson. He will

grow on the people as the years pass.-

He had a lofty idealism for which the

world was not ready. Charles E.

Hughes is another. He was elected

governor of New York because of his

record as a prosecutor, in putting fear

of, God into big business. Senator

Borah is another. He lifts a warning

voice today, unpopular as it may be,

against the nullifiers of law, big and

little. In education we have ,been

blest above any other people. In the

newspaper world we have had editors

who thought of the moral influence

of the press.





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

SEPTEMBER 26.





 





REVIEW:—Early leaders of Israel.

GOLDEN TEXT:——Hebrews 12:1-2.





 





 





 





“By the Way”





Mr. Smilly——-Her niece

good-looking.



Mr. Seeitall—Don’t say knees is, say

knees are.





 





 





 





is rather





 





Ardent Lover—Do you think your

father will object to my suit?



She—l don’t think so for he wears

one almost as bad.





 





Teacher to seven-year old—“So you





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on a lolfifion”





He made it .





 





Teacher—“Can anyone t

a stovepipe is made?”



Johnny—“First you take a. big long

hole, and then you wrap "some tin

around it."





ell me how.





 





“Use the word coral in a sentence,”





asked the new teacher.



“Me and Johnny had a coral and

Johnny hit me,” was Tommy’s imme-

dite reply.



Purchaser—“What is the charge for

this battery?” ,



Garageman—“One





a n d one-half

volts.” .





 





Mother—“Betty, you musn’t scratch

your head with your spoon.”





 





Betty—“Oh, I forgot, I should

scratch it with my fork.”

“I’ll have some pork chops with





fried potatoes and I’ll have the chops

lean,” ordered the late diner.



“Yes, sir, which way?” asked the

waiter.





 





SCIENCE NEWS.





 





British medical authorities are wor-

ried by the persistent increase in

sleeping sickness among school chil-

dren, and by its serious .after-effects,





particularly on conduct and character.





 





Because an effective poison for wire-

worms is expensive if scattered over

a field, a scientist proposes gathering

the pests to a banquet of their favor-

ite foods in one corner and then ad-

ding ‘the costly poison. ‘





 





If scientists knew how to make the

phosphorescence produced by lum-

inous fish, it might be possible to use

fats and oils for illumination on a re-

markably cheap basis. ‘





 





At the current rate of increase, the

world’s population in 250 years would

mount to 14,800,000,000, which is more

than the earth can carry, according to

some economists.





 





 





 





 





Adventures of Tilly and Billy-





T /1( W cod/and Alarm





ILLY, Oh; Billy,” called his mother

from the foot of the stairs. “It’s

time to get up.”



.“Oh, hum, hum, hum,” yawned

Billy. “All right, mother, I’ll get

right up,” he called back to her. But

Billy was still very sleepy and before

he knew it he was off to Slumberland

again.



“Oh, boy! Oh, my stars,” said Billy

to himself in a very low whisper. Of

course if he had thought, he would

not have said "Oh boy" for that was a

slang word that was on the list that





 





 





 





 





 





 





“Oh, Boy! Oh My Stars!" said Billy

in His Dream.





mother had tacked up on the back of





the kitchen door. But this time Billy

was dreaming and so he did not think

of mother’s slang list. . ,

~Now what do you suppose it was

that surprised Billy in his dream? It

was none other than a little gray

squirrel” who had scampered right

upon Billy’s bed. g.

“Good morning, sleepy head,”

greeted Glady Gray Squirrel. “Al-

ready I’ve gathered my breakfast of

nuts ' from the topmost branches of





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friends,

, ,eltheaa





Then Frisker, the fox, put his big

fore paw right on Billy’s pillow.

“Good morning, you lazy fellow. I’ve

been clear to the spring for water‘so

early this morning,” he said.



With his big paws Bruin began to‘

pull at the quilts. “Wake up, lazy fel-

low,” he shouted in his grufiest voice.

“Your porridge will all be cold.”





Next came Hopper, the rabbit, the

very one that Tilly and Billy had

rescued from the pitfall. He hopped

right into. the middle of Billy’s bed.

“Wake up, sleepy head, or Tilly will

beat you to school.”





“Come, come, get up, get up,” called

Connie Coon from under the bed. “I’ve

washed my face already and had my

breakfast.”





Right then Sammy Muekrat poked

his head from under the foot of the

bed. “Get up, lazy bones, and have a.

swim. I’ve had mine an hour ago.”



“Whoo-—Whooo—whoooo -— ooooo —

oo,” hooted the Wise Owl from the

head of Billy’s bed. “Lazy boys never

Wln. anything.”



Billy sat up in bed and rubbed his

sleepy eyes.





“Why, why, today is our ball game.

and the Wise Owl said that I wouldn’t-

wm because I was lazy.” Billy looked

around to ask the Wise Owl a ques-

tion but he and all .the other animal

folks had disappeared.





. Then Billy hopped out of bed and

into his clothes as fast as hemould

and after he - had breakfast, mother

hurried him off to school. But he was

late. All the other pupils were busy

at their studies when he arrived. So

that noon when} .all the other boys

went out to play ball, Billy had to fin-

ish his lessons and could not go out to





“‘choose up sides” with hisball;.,team. ~





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By J. P. Hoekzema





VEN in this day and age there

Eare some "people who do not know



what a Capon' is. One person

thought it was a new breed of chick-

ens, another that it was a kind of

duck, and another had heard how good

Capons were, but thought they were

some new kind of vegetable and won-

dered what they looked like.



A Capon is an unsexed cockerel, a

male bird that has had his reproduc-

tive organs removed at an early age.

This operation changes the entire

physical development of the bird.



Many times the question is aSked,

"Why Caponize? What are.the ad-

vantages anyway ?”



Why ye Caponize.



The advantages are many. In the

first place the meatwis of a much finer

texture and quality. It is sweeter,

for usually with a rooster a year old

there is a. strong taste, and one has

to cook it for hours before it is at all

tender enough to eat.

Capon it is usually roasted, but if

cooked half as long as one should

cook a rooster of the same age. the

meat would fall off the bones. The

quality is very superior, and it seems

to retain about the texture of the

flesh at the time the operation was

performed.



Secondly—the Capons are larger

and heavier; as a rule the Capons will

weigh one to two or more pounds

more than cockerels of the same age.

One can feel fairly confident that with

proper birds under proper care, they

should gain about a pound per month.

In other words May hatched birds

should weigh about ten pounds by

Easter. As a rule when one gets the

Capons up to 8-10 pounds, it is ad-

visable to sell them for some people

do not like them when they become

too fat. One lady had some Jersey

Blood Giant Capons but after they

reached the 10 pound mark about

Christmas, the owner thought they

were too fat, and didn’t like them

very well.





Don’t take the runts to Caponize .





though, for they will not make 8- 10 lb.

Capons and that is what the Detroit

market demands.



A third advantage is—a much

higher selling price. The best time

to market Capons is from January to

April—as during that period there are

very, very few broilers and few hens.

The best price is usually around, Eas-

ter and last year the price for Capons

on the Detroit market started in Jan-

uary at 35c, going up to 400. and

around Easter reaching 450 for Capons

weighing over 8 1b. If you figure that

a 10 lb. Capon at 450 equals $4.50

while a 7% 1b. rooster at 300 equals

$2.25, there is a profit of $2.25 for the

Capon. Not all will do quite that

well but as a rule they will. Try it

and see~—only have enough so that

you can ship at least one crate—with

a few left over for yourself—for slips

etc., but do not rely on local mar-

kets—for in those you’ll have to cre-

ate the demand and that is rather

slow business. Better have enough so

you will be able to ship.



Feed Costs Are Less.



Besides the higher price there is a

lower cost due to the ease of fatten-

ing. More of the food is converted

into flesh and less of it is used up by

the cockerel. Capons of the same age,

same feed, same conditions all around

will gain one pound or more—usually

more in eight months and after that

the Capon gains much more rapidly.



Still another advantage is a more

docile disposition. It is almost im-

possible to keep a dozen reosters to-

gether in the same pen unless one has

a couple of the roosters that are al-

most killed, but Capons can be con-

lined. with little fighting—once in a,

great While they will do some. but





 





With the '





that is the exception—not the rule,

and then it is not serious like in the

case of the roosters.



Some poultrymen use Capons to





brood young chicks, but one has to‘

use care to do that, for some of the:





Capons will refuse to accept baby

chicks and besides the market is not

so good for Capons during the sum-

mer as it is earlier, so one wouldn't

receive such high price for his Capons



Use Any General Purpose Breed.



Some of the factors involved are

breed, age, instruments, feeding, etc.

In regard to breed—any of the general

purpose or meat breeds are good.

Plymouth Rocks are very fine. This

breed especially with the Barred, the

cockerels of which can be picked out

very early, make wonderful Capons.

White Rocks have no black pin fea-

thers and have the same body con-

formation. With some strains of

Barred Rocks which have been bred

for egg production rather continuously,

they often are rather small, while the

White Rocks haven’t been bred quite

so much and many are larger. It is

the individual as much as the breed.

The writer knows of a case of Wyan-

dottes—jwhere there was a difference

of four pounds—both birds being un-

der identical conditions. They were

in a pen with Barred Rocks, Black

Langshans, and R. 1. Beds and had

the highest and the lowest weights.

Therefore pick out good beefy birds

of a good heavy breed. The Poultry

Dept. at M. S. C. crossed White Rocks

with Cornish and obtained some fine

specimens, but that would not pay the

average grower who just caponizes

his surplus cockerels.



Then the proper age—as a rule be-

tween the ages of 8-12 weeks when

the breeds weigh 11/2——-2 lbs. This is





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Advantages of Capons





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not fixed as it varies with many fac-

tors, namely—breed, strain, size, de-

velopment, feed, etc. If birds have

been forced and are of an early de

veloping strain, 12 weeks may be too

long. The birds should be just com—5'

mencing to develop comb and wattles .

when they are operated on. If one,

waits until comb and wattles are too?

large, the bird will be too well devel—i

oped to operate on and the operation‘

will not be very successful. ‘



Birds should be starved for 24 36‘

hours before the operation so that the ,

intestines are emptied out. When!i

starving do not feed any water orl

greens either. '





Give the birds nothing, ;

but keep them in a cool place.



In performing the operation, many

county agents or vocational agricul-

ture teachers will show one how, or

one can follow directions of the oper—

ating set.



After operation the birds should be

fed soft feed for three or four days

and one should be careful to open the

wind puffs and after that no extra

care is necessary until a fattening

ration is fed one to two weeks before

being sold.





HEN HOUSE FLEAS.





 





I WANT to come to the rescue of

E. M. R. and tell her how to get

rid of fleas in the hen house. I guess

if the Michigan Farmer man had them

get on him and bite the way they do,

he would never tell E. M. R. they

were mites. We, who raise chickens

know all about mites. They don’t bite,

just crawl all over us. These things

are black, larger than a mite, and as

quick as lightning.



We got rid of them by cleaning out

the'nest boxes and hen house; then

sprinkling lime all around and in the

nests. We never had to do it but once.

Never saw one after doing that. We

never could go in the hen house with-

out getting a lot of them on us, and





 

 

 

 

 





 





oh! how they would bite—A. J.





 





   





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Some Funny Letters





Sem‘ I 72 5y Merry Ciro/err





Yes, it’s From Guilford.

Dear Unk:



Do you, by any possible chance,

remembering, by the way, that any-

thing you say will be used against

you, golf? ‘



If you do, you can sympathize with

another, pardon me, dub. I think golf

is the greatest sport there is, with the

possible exceptions of boxing, wrestl-

ing, polo, football, soccer, tennis, base-

ball, swimming the channel, track,

basketball, crap—shooting, horse-racing,

checkers, bronco—busting, pinochle, or

what have you?



A couple of years ago, I got ambi-

tious (imagine!) and carefully in-

serted a coupla hunks of nothing into

old mamma earth, about 5,400 inches





 





Annual H ome— Coming





T this time last year We

announced our first Home-

Coming which was such a

success. It seemed real good to

get news from those who had

passed the active M. C. age——





just like hearing from old

friends. This year we hope to

make the Home—Coming even





greater—we want to ‘hear from

even more retired M. C.’s than

we did last year. So, please

sharpen your pencils and sit

down to write us all about your-

self, plus anything that might

be of interest to the present

members of our Circle. Please

sendyour letters early and at

least so that we will receive

them by Oct. 11th. I am look-

.ing forward to hearing from a

lot of old M. C. friends—Uncle

Frank.





 





 





 





' apart—if you don’t believe that’s 150





 





yards, count ’eml—oiled up “Ole

Trusty,” the lawnmower, gave the im—

megit wicinity of the depressions a

shave and a haircut, and presto,

change (keep the change) a twohole

golf course (which has since grown to

four) had “evoluted.”



Then, firmly grasping my mashie-

niblick (no Emmeline, you can’t eat a

mashie—niblic) I proceeded to dig up

approximately six square miles of turf,

according. to oflicial estimate, in a

vain attempt to “massage the marble”

on the button. A passing neighbor

casually remarked that it was pretty

early to begin plowing for corn. Noth—





’ ing daunted, and calling to mind the





ancient adage that “he laughs last is

usually the dumbest,” as Napoleon

said, (or was it Mussolini?) I contin-

ued the assault on the poor defense-

less pill until now I am fully as clever

with the bunker, the stance, the cad-

die and all the other clubs as the

average dub.



Which reminds me. A man was





holing out on the eighteenth green

and a friend asked how many he had





gone around in? “sixty-nine,” says he.

“Sixty-nine strokes?” queried the





‘ friend.





1”





"No, you dumbell, balls! ! !





_.Guilford Rothfuss.





 





 





Who is Cousin" Ruth?





 





‘ Deer Cuzin Ruth:





Rec’d yore must welcume ledder a





 

 





fue days ago, and was veri glad two

git it. Did you git dat ledder in witch

I asked you if you was ded yet? Are

you still lifing or not? Let me know.



Don’t right two me befoh you re-

ceive dis ledder cause we don't lif

where we used two. We lif where we

moofed. Mother was going down the

stares into the seller one day. She

fell rite up and broke her nee right

near her ankle. She was taken two

the huspitale the saime day. Pa and

we kids cried until the tears caime

into are eyes" \



I’ll have to hang my clothes all on

this line or I mite wash too meny.——

Yours truly “Pearl”._~_



P. S.»Don’t read this ledder before

you open it.





 





June Not Merry in September.

Dear Uncle Frank:



I thought I would try this contest

although I feel anything but funny as

this is my first day of school, and

nothing goes right. However, instead





of trying to compose a laugh provok-

ing 'epistle, I am going to discuss

those would be humorists who fill

their letters With the exclamation

‘ha—ha.’ The person who invented

that way of expressing a laugh; in

print certainly must be somewhat

lacking in the “upper story.” The

only way to express a laugh in writ-

ing is to make your statements so one

cannot restrain his mirth. I can read

a considerable amount of poor gram-

mar or misspelled words, and feel

sorry for their ignorant writers, but

when I read a poor joke followed by

that distasteful phrase ‘ha—ha,’ I am

absolutely disgusted. The writers of

this phrase would do well to remem-

ber that ‘Only fools laugh at their

own jokes and the world can endure

an ignoramus, but not a fool.’ I don't

intend this criticism for anyone in

particular as I can’t remember the

names of any of the guilty ones.



This letter is a discussion of humor

instead of a humorous discussion, but

it is the nearest I can come to being

funny and if everyone feels as

grouchy as I do there will be no prize

winners this time. —Your niece, June

Nelson. ‘





 





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Dear Uncle Frank:



May I pop my head in “Our Page?”

I sure think Peter is a good drawer.

When I opened the Michigan Farmer,

I was amazed at the wonderful head-

ing



Uncle Frank, why is the old heading

used instead of Peter’s? Harold Sny-

der sure has his pick for hobbies. I

approve of wearing knickers, only I

know someone else (mother) who

doesn’t.



Herbert Estes is a regular dear. I

agree with everything he says. Herb-





ert, keep 11, and stick for your own

rights. 1 be ready to help you. I

don’t like the Charleston one bit.





Those who do the Charleston do it to

show off. ~—Dot.



Peter sent in the idea in the rough,

and our artist fixed it up. The old

head was used to make a change,

which I think is a good thing once in

a while.



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Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins:





 





I received my membership card and;





pin some time ago and I thank you

very much for them. We take several

papers and I read the Boys’ and Girls’

Page in four of them, but I think the

Boys’ and Girls’ Page in the Michigan

Farmer is by far the best, and I am

proud to be a member of the Merry

Circle.



1 think the new heading, “Our Page,”





is wonderful, and I wish to congratu:





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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late Peter for her good work. I cer-

tainly hope that Harold Kampen has

had an opportunity to sweat by now.

I think that if he had used his mus-

cles a little he would have-sweat many

times this summer.



80 Guilford Rothfuss is very good-

looking. Well, that’s something new.

I would like to see him, as he would

be the first good-looking boy I have

ever seen, and I have seen a great

many boys.





Well, I guess I had better ring off.—.





Pansy, Bear Lake.



I am glad you like our department

so well. Hope‘you will continue to

like it as well, or even better. I be-

lieve you are kidding when you say

you have never seen a good—looking

boy. That’s hard to believe.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



This letter is hard on my writing

paper supply as I have used four

sheets already and haven’t written it

yet. I believe the reason only a few

boys write is because they waste

nearly a tablet trying to get a start

and get disgusted and leave it till the

next time.



I have changed my mind about the

bob hair, cosmetics and tobacco ques-

tions. I think it does a lot of good to

cosmetic and tobacco users to. ex-

change ideas on ’em with anti-cos—

meltic and tobacco M. C. boys and

gir s





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





many general]





What is the idea 0f nearly every

letter having a pen name. It looks

as though they ar ashamed of the let-

ters they write. ‘Eh, ain’t it so"! I

Wish they would use their own names.

I’ll close so the M. C.’ s Won’t call me

a girl for writing so long letters. So-

long.—-Cha.rlie.





Why didn’t you use your name?

Lot’s of girls use boy’s names, so

maybe you are a girl. I believe it is

good to discuss cosmetics and. to-

bacco, so some of those users can

learn what others think of them. No

need of wasting paper, just sit down

and write. Hope you’ll write again.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



Well Herbert, it is almost time for

you to write again, isn’t it? I enjoy

reading your letters very much. If

you are a farmer, I suppose you are





 





Love Your WM





I consider love of one’s chosen

profession the most important

quality. It is that that breeds

interest and zeal to do the neces-

sary hard work that is needed

to make any kind of success in

life.



._\ ZANE CREY.



Zane ‘\ y, who sends this

brief but \ oughtful message to

farm boys is one of the most

popular and delightful present-

day novelists.





(Stands 111 Farm Pa aver Editorial Service;

Copyright 1926 by Clarence Poo.)





 





 





 





working real hard, and .don’t have

much time to write.



Well, Uncle Frank, I suppose you

are still thinking of your vacation

trip. Why don’t you print some of

your vacation pictures, so we can all

get a real good look at you once.

Let’s all look for a real sporty looking

picture in the next issue of the Michi-

gan Farmer. ——Peggy, Fairgrove, Mich.



Yes, it is time to hear from Her-

bert again. I didn’t take a camera this

time and no one else thought I was

good looking enough to use a film on.

Even if I had a picture, it would not

be sporty-looking because I’m not that

kind.





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Dear Uncle Frank.





Here is one of your lost sheep who

has great expectations of being wel-

comed, including the honorable Mr.

Waste Basket. We have not been

hearing of “White Amaranth” lately.

I am sure that most of us would like

to hear from her again.



I love to read. My favorite authors

are: George Eliot, Dickens, H. Wal-

pole, and Edna Ferber. I also like

music and play the piano very well,

according to my teacher’s opinion.

Music is very inspiring and beautiful

when rendered correctly.



What do the M. C. s think of our

lack of voters? In our community not

half the people go out to vote so dif-

ferent parties are busy telephoning

people to be sure to vote.





I think the heading on our page is

a wonderful improvement. ‘ Uncle

Frank, how many members has the

M. C. now? Honk— honk! Well, a

friend of mine is waiting for me to go

“buggy riding,” so ta ta. ——-Nelly Quak-

kelaar.



I miss “White Amaranth’s” letters

as much as anybody. Your list of

authors is a good one. Music is what _

you say it is. People ought to get out

and vote, but be sure they know their

candidates before they vote.





 





Dear Uncle Frank.

I have been a silent member of the

C. so. far although the Waste

Basket Club has heard from me sev-

eral times. How many members has

the M. C. ? How many letters on an

average do you receives w k2]
I will! be a sepia in the Munith High

School next year. '_ I’m crazy about

mathematics and science. Let’s hear

what some other people like. I have a





new- ’kodak and perhaps .I will send

you one or two pictures of my dog.—





A farm girl, Bill.

I think we have about 13,000 mem-





bers now. The number of letters I

get vary, but I think the average will

be about 250 a week, that includes the

contest.’ The kind of contest makes a.

lot of difference: in the number of re-





plies.





 





Dear Uncle Frank: _

I am taking the liberty of writing

this letter to you to thank you for the

dictionary I received a few weeks ago.

When I scribbled that almost forgot-

ten experience, I expected the waste

basket to be its destination. It’s sur-

prising what tricks fate plays some-

times, isn’t it? -



I don’t agree at all with Herbert

Estes’ idea of rural life. Of the few

weeks, I have been staying in the

country, I can say I will be glad when

it is over. That may seem fictitious

to the people who have always been

rural inhabitants, but I knowut .lS

quite true. There isn’t much kick in

country life after a few weeks, if you

have lived in a large city all your life.



Uncle Frank may I join your band

of M. C.’s discussions? But oh, kids

what's the‘ idea of wasting all.the

words on the powder-rouge question?

That’s all bosh in my estimation.

Girls won’t stop using cosmetics be—

cause so few disapprove. .I don’t

think it is any one else’s affairs what

some people put on their faces. They

most usually apply it to be more at—

tractive, and what harm is there in

that?—Pat, a want-to-be M. C.



I admit there is no kick in rural life,

but kicks are not nice and should be

eliminated. Undoubtedly, girls use

cosmetics to be more attractive, but

clowns also paint their faces to at-

tract attention. Judging from appear-

ances, many girls lack judgment when





it comes to cosmetics.





 





CONTEST ANSWERS.





 





ERE are the complete sentences



of the contest used in our issue



. of Sept. 11th, also the pages on

which they were found:



1—A most satisfactory laundry bag





 





   





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- THE





(293.1811): made from a yard of cretonne.—

2~There is really no need of being

built like a giraffe in these days of

conveniences.—5-229.

\ 3———The small combine at first glance

seems a simple device compared to

the complicated binder, to say noth-

ing of the thresher itself.——3-227.





THIS WEEK’S CONTEST.





 





HERE is any easy one, of the kind

of contests most of you like to

work. The line below is regarding

something you know of. We will give

prizes to the ten whose correct papers

will be picked from a pile by disin-

terested persons. The first five will

be given pencil boxes and the next

five fountain pens. This contest

closes Oct. 1st. Send your papers to

Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer, De-

troit, Mich.



This is the line: Dilchesrn sopalhit

fo gicmihan, Voncelsancet hemo, mine

gartfon, chim.





PRIZE WINNERS.





 





The following are the winners of the

Missing Word Contest:

Base Balls.





Raymond Truah, Hopkins, Mich.

Theodore Waisanen, Aura, Mich.

Arnold Merkin, Nunica, Mich.

Justin Langdon, St. Ignace, Mich.





Beads.





Carolyn Smett, Metamora, Mich.



Lucille Henn, Brown City, Mich.



Marjom' Manley, Charlevoix, Mich.



Amanda Matchinske, Engadine,

Mich.



Jennie Johnson, Ewen, Mich.



Irene Kimppainen, Pelkie, Mich.-



Esther Saari, Ironwood, Mich.



Alice Bellgraph, Hopkins, Mich.



Alice Riggs, Ithaca, Mich.



Virginia Derkammer, Kalamazoo,

Mich.



Gertrude Lanpherd, Midland, Mich.



Kate Suheski, Crystal Falls, Mich.



Selma Alatalo, Baraga, Mich.



Mae Murray, .Reading, Mich.



Ella Brindley, Allegan, Mich.



Ruth Blasen, Ionia, Mich.





 





Sea water freezes at twenty-eight

degrees Fahrenheit.





 





 





 





CLEAN-U P.





 





HE one activity that does most

for health and long life, is clean-

ing, and keeping clean. It means

more than looking clean, of course.

Thorough cleanliness of a village,

town, or single house and outbuildings

demands not only the proper care of

manure and stable waste, the removal

of debris and trash, but also regular

garbage disposal, screened houses and

privies, painting of all buildings, pro

tection- of drinking water, and even

clean streets and alleys. '

What happens when this is done?

The first thing you think about is

typhoid. I You know, that thorough

cleanliness will see it go down and

out; and a clean-up campaign always

pays from that standpoint alone. But

typhoid will not be the only disease

to drop. There will be less trouble

with the babies about bowel com-

plaints, less dysentery and other intes—

tinal disorders. You won’t hear so

much about ptomaine poisoning,

which is a crude name applied to a

lot of different digestive upsets. There

will be fewer old people dying, too,

and the strong and young will not

have to take as many days off from

work because of “not feeling good.” /

The fact of the matter is' that any

community will profit by an annual

clean-up campaign. It is best to or?

ganize it and work up sentiment for

it; set a. definite. week, and everybody

go to it at once. If you don’t have

this power'of public sentiment back





“file "was F ' people ,WM. m1





.~ . of the inevement, the chancesare that





to realize that their premises are an

eye-sore to the community will never

get started. And the diseases bred on

their places may spread to yours in

spite of your own care.



I am always glad to see a commu-

nity organize a clean-up week, and if

it is backed most heartily by the deal-

er in paints and kalsomine, that

doesn’t hurt my feelings. The effect

will be “health,” no matter who pro-

motes it.





URIC ACID AND BRIGHT’S

DISEASE.





 





All of my family are troubled with

an excess of acid in the urine. Does

this prove one has Bright’s disease?

Is there any permanent cure?— Sub-

scriber.



How do you know that it is uric

acid? A few years ago almost all the

troubles of the human body, especially

if rheumatic, were ascribed to uric

acid. Nowadays it is agreed that

urates are a normal part of the urine

and that uric acid in excess is not

very common. It never was supposed

to lead to Bright’s disease, in any

event. Let me suggest that you drink

plenty of fresh water, eat less meat

and more green vegetables and see if

the trouble disappears.





BLOATS AFTER MEALS.





 





I am troubled with bloating after

meals. Will you please give me a

recipe for same? Is there any pill to

take for the same after meals? What

would prevent the bloating?—K. B.



The cure for this .trouble does not





lie in taking apill, but in thoroughly





 

 





steam” Fit-Russi'





 





 





masticatlngand digesting your food.

We are a lazy people. We prefer to

keep our bad habits and take pills to

do the work our teeth and stomachs

should do. The only remedy for this

is to eat carefully a properly selected

and prepared diet. Our friend K. B.

should make sure that his teeth are

sound, that he eats slowly, that he

masticates thoroughly, that he avoids

excess in starches and fats, and eats

a well-balanced ration, and that he

takes plenty of time for his meals.





WHOOPING COUGH’.





 





. I am writing you in regard to whoop-

ing cough. I have been told that one

may take it as often as exposed to it,

and my children all had it last winter.

Now it is all around this neighborhood

and I have been wondering if there is

any danger of them taking it again. I

Certainly don’t care to have another

siege of it.—C. W. E.



I do not know of any disease that

never has a recurrence, but I consider

whooping cough as one of the least

likely to do so. In my twenty-six years

of practice I have never known any-

one to take whooping cough for the

second time. I think you may feel

quite safe about your family. It should

be remembered that a child who has

had whooping cough recently and

takes cold will have a cough that

sounds very much like the real thing.

But it will lack the who-op and the

germs. So it is safe enough.





The planets might conceivably exert

an influence on our weather conditions

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THE HORSE SHOW.





 





This year brought out the biggest

and best Draft horse show ever seen





_at the Michigan State Fair.





Belgians.



The Belgians made the outstanding

show of the Draft breeds. The num-

bers shown in most classes were

larger than in previous years and the

quality generally was superior to any

previous show held here.



In the 5 year old stallion class,

Louis De Maeter made his usual grand

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culinity than did George Henry, that

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Martin 2nd. This horse is one of the

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spring of rib. His massiveness gave

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Maeter who was made Reserve Senior

and Reserve Grand Champion. The

drafty type, strong top and true

snappy action of Joe Henry gave his

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nac. The latter horse showed good

action but was a little off in condition.

The winner in the yearling class,





style and quality.



The big drafty good moving Marie

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was later made Senior Champion.

Belgian Rose standing 2nd is an ex-

cellent mare, but had hardly as much

size. Easter Lily of Wildwood topped

the 4 year olds with her low down

real drafty type and good action. In

the 3 year old class, Irvindale Freda,

winner of many championships at

leading shows last year was brought

out in great bloom and easily topped

the class.





The 2 year olds made the strongest

class of the show. Marietta de Rubis,

half sister to the great Prevenche,

won first on her great quality. Miss

Myra Demaeter stood second. Sheds

a. big drafty roan with a great top,

but lacked the bone of the winner.

Marietta de Rubis repeated her per-

formance at Ohio the previous week

and was made Grand Champion.



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was won by the Gr. Champion stallion

Martin 2nd and three high class

mares. They made a real show. Best

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the Gr. Champion mare Marietta de

Rubis and Naome de Rubis all daugh-

ters of Rubis. This group also won

the Get of Sire.



Percherons.



The 3 year old stallions made a

good showing. This class was headed

by Wolfington Jr. showing more style

and better action than the drafty well

balanced Victor that was placed sec-

WOIfington Jr. was later made

Senior and Grand Champion his style

and balance winning over CorVisal,

the Junior Champion. An excellent

showing was made by the 1 year old

stallion. Corvisal a. beautiful colt of

great size and quality went to the top

over Double Cornot a younger colt

that looks like a comer. CorVISal was

junior and Reserve Grand Champion.

In the Stallion foal class, Hemtation

Again by the great horse Hesitation, a

high class foal won quite easily. The

5 year old class brought out a num-

Although Dunhams

Marie is a little better at the ground,

the great scale, better top and true

action of Carfait won the latter the

top position. Third place was taken

by Jean an excellent mare but handi-

capped on account of nursing a foal.





. .Carfait went on and won Senior, and





Grand Championships from Utelum.

The black upstanding good movmg

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She showed more style and better

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was later made Reserve Senior and

Reserve Grand Champion. The nice

quality filly Camella was placed first

in the 2 \year class winning over ‘

Marian. The yearling fillies was a. ‘

very strong class. Quenale won on

her quality and snappy action. Helena

won 2nd showing better quality than

Daisy Hill Mona which was placed

3rd. The high class well developed

Levendale Helen, showing great

bone and action and great promise

won lst from her stable'mate Leven-

dale Louise in the Filly foal 'cla'ss.

The Grand Champion Wolfenton Jr.

and three great daughters of Carnot

topped the Stallion and three mares

class. Second place was put on the

group headed by the Junior and Re-

serve Grand Champion Corvisal. Get

of Sire was won by the three Carnot

mares referred to before. Second

place went to the get of Trevisco.





 





THE CATTLE SHOW.





 





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Shorthorns.



This year brought out the strongest

Shorthorn Show ever seen here.

Twelve herds of well fitted cattle

made the competition in all the

classes very keen.



Exhibitors: C. H. Prescott & Sons,





Tawas City, Mich.; McLachlan Bros,

Evart, Mich.; Chas. S. Stewart &

Sons, Caro, Mich.; Michigan State

College, East Lansing’, Mich.; Gotfred-

son Land 00., Ypsilanti, Mich.; Rose-

wood Farms, Howell, Mich.; E. D.

Logsdon, Indianapolis, Ind.; Buckland

Hall Farm, Nokesville, Va..; Clover-

leaf Farm Tifiin, Ohio; J. R. Thomp-

son, Fithian, 111.; MacMillan & Mac-





Millan, Lodi, Wis. ; C. B. Teegar-

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Judge: Prof. E A. Trowbridge,





Columbia, Mo.



C. H. Prescott & Sons won all the

championships in females, Golden

Missie calved between June 1 and

Dec. 31, 1924, was brought outgin fine

bloom, won first in a very strong class

and was made Senior Champion and

Grand Champion. Golden Ring Au-

gusta owned by the same breeders is

an exceptionally low-down, thick,

blocky heifer. She had no great diffi-

culty in winning her class and later

the Junior Championship.



The June 1, ’23—May 31, ’25 cow

class made a. very fine showing. Sev-

eral of the entries would have made

good tops at any strong show.



In the aged bull class, Clover-

leaf, l’ride 7th a very deep, thick bull

showmg in fine bloom won firét from

Maxwalton. Matador, placing second

‘place. The former was made Senior

and Grand Champion and the latter

Reserve Grand Champion. In the

June 1—Sept. 30, ’25 class the com-

petition was keen between Maxwalton

Actor and Clansmans Rodney. The

ringside talent favored the latter bull

for first .place but the Judge placed

him second. The after Oct. 1, ’25 class

brought out the Junior Champion

bull Maxwalton Referee.



Aberdeen Augus.



The Aberdeen Angus show was

very much stronger in both numbers

and quality than ever seen before at

this show. Seven well fitted herds

were brought out. The competition

was keen in nearly all classes and

the tail enders were in most cases

very creditable animals.



Five good bulls were lined up in the

three year old class. Quality Marshall

placmg‘ first was a little deeper,

thicker and more massive than Billy

of Woodcote, although the latter ap-

peared to be a trifle smoother and-

showed great character. Quality

Marshall was made Senior Champion

and later a, popular Grand Champion

With the ringside. In the June 1, 1923.

and May 31, 1924 class Escort Mar-

shall winning first was a. little

smoother, lower set, more type bull

than his stable mate Baden Marshall,

Benedict” of Woodcote was an easy

winner in the June 1, Dec. 31, 1924'

class. The Jan. 1 to May 31, 1925

class brought out the Junior Cham-

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Bar Marshall 2nd. This bull Was the

thickest, and smoothest in the ring. '



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Equity of- Woodcote placing second,

although the latter pushed the winner

hard. Third place was won by Bar-

bara Me 36th, last year’s International

Grand Champion. his great cow

was showing at a disa ntage having

calf by side so did not show her usual

bloom. Blackcap of Glenrock was

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pion female. The June 1, 1923, May

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Herefords.



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but four herds being out, and the

quality was not as good as that

of recent shows here. The aged bull

class was won by VVoodburn 29th a

deeper thicker fleshed and more mas-

sive bull than Vernet Comfort that

stood in 2nd place. In the June 1,

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was keen between Fairfax, Lad and

Quaker, the former won 1st having

considerable advantage in age and

was shown in much higher condition.



The after Oct. 1, 1925 class brought

out the Junior champion in Former

Lad. Woodburn 29th had little diffi-

culty in winning the Grand champion-

ship. The Senior and Grand cham-

pion cow was found in the aged class,

She is an outstanding individual and

won her honors easily.



Polled Shorthorns.



There was a small number of this

breed shown, only three herds being

out, but the quality as a rule was





good.



In the aged bull class Royal Count

Jr. Won first over Dales Guard on his

shortness of leg trueness to type and

good handling qualities. This bull was

also Senior and Grand Champion and

sired the Junior Champion Oakwood

Baron, winner in the June 1, 1923,

Dec. 31, 1924 class.



The Senior and Grand Champion

female Oakwood Welcome was found

in the aged cow class. The .2 year

old heifers made the strongest show.

of the breed. The heifers calved after

Oct. 1, 1925 produced the Junior Cham-

pion female in Oakwood Butterfly.



Milking Shorthorns.



-Milking Shorthorns made the big-

gest and best show of the breed ever

seen at this Fair. Eight full herds

were exhibited. There were seven

bulls shown in the aged class. The

battle was chiefly between Flintstone

Model and Count Tickford, both many

times champions. The former won

first showing more scale and charac-

ter and went on to Senior and Grand

Champion. ‘



The competition in the class for

cows in milk calved before Aug. 1,

1921 was keen. Queenston Bonnie, a

real Milking Shorthorn cow won the

blue ribbon in this class and the

Senior and Grand Champion, although

she was given a hard run for Senior

champion by Lady Bonnie that won

lst in class Aug. 1, 1921, July 31, 1923.



The Aug. 1, 1924, Dec. 31, 1924 class

presented a fine ring. Duchess won

first place and was Junior champion,

she showed better milking prospects

than did the more blocky, Heros But-

tercup winner of second in this class.





THE 'DAIRY BREEDS.





The Dairy Cattle breeders of Michi-

gan may be justly proud of the splen-

did showing made by their cattle this

year. The Show was a. decided suc—

cess both from the standpoint of num—

bers and quality. There was an in-

crease of more than 100 head shown

compared with 1925 and the keen

competition of quality animals dis-

tributed the ribbons over many herds

in most classes.





Holsteins.



There were 169 Holsteins shown in

the open classes. The blue ribbon

winners in the 2 year old bull class

and the year heifer class deserve spe~

cial mention due to the keen compe—

tition in these two classes. There

were 92 head on display from State

Institution herds. These cattle did

not compete in the open classes, but

were the object of many favorable

Three counties Tuscola,

Washtenaw and Macomb brought out

very, creditable county herds.





Guernseys.



There were 95 Guernseys competing

in the open classes. The competition

in most of the classes was not as keen

as usual, the Emmaline herd carrying

off the majority of the blue ribbons.

Competition was keenest in the heifer

calf, bull“ calf, aged cow, Jr. yearling

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First Semi-Annual





College Livestock Pavilion.





9 Cows—Six with A. R. records up to 602 lbs. fat.

8 Bred Heifers—Two due day of sale.





5 bulls around a. year Old.





HEREFORDS also bred cows and heif—





ers. Repeaters and Woodford breeding ‘at farmer's

prices. ALLEN BROTHERS, IIB Burdlck Arcade,

Kalamazoo, Mich-





JERSEY. FEMALES





Having bought the entire well-known herd of II, B. I





 





Wattles. Rochester. Jerseys, I have some surplus

cows and heifers. bred and open. to sell. Also clos-

ing out 0 Shorthom cows and heifers. IRA





JAYNE, Fenion, Mich.





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Chorce Jersey Bulls mugging: :32





from R. of M. dams accredited herd. SMITH ls



PARKER, Howell. Mich.



15 Cows. 4 Bulls from R. of M. Cows. Chance to

select from herd of 70. Some fresh. others bred



for fall freshenins. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersville. Mich.





 





 





Jersey heifer calves sired by

cousin to world Champion

Rockford, Michigan.





FOR SALE‘Six

’lforono's Butter Lad,





two~ycar old. Ronwick,





Stacker and Feeders





50 Stocker heifers, mostly Shorthorn.

(30 stock calves, good colors,

(30 Guernsey & Jersey heifers,

30 springer cows.



300 grade Shorthom stocker and feeder steers Weigh-

ing from 500 to 800 lbs. Would prefer to sell them

for October delivery.





Gray’s Ranch, Merritt, Mich.





On M-55, 8 Miles West of Houghton Lake.

Milking Shorlhorns For Sale “”0 “red "9”“ ‘°





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 reasonable. BELAND &. BELAND.

Tecumseh, Mich.





some springing.





 





 





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with calf week old. I. F. Maher. 337 S. Burdick St..

Kalamazoo. Mich., Phone 642i.





Best 0" quality and breeding. Bulls,

Shorthoms cows and heifers for sale. BIDWELL.





STOOK FAR". BOX D. TOOIIIIIIOII. High,

mlkin‘ Shodhoms bulls 6 to 14 months, .130





few heifers. cows hand

milked. W. E. Thompson, 8. No. 4. Ludlnston. Mich.





Brown Swiss. Bulk '°" “‘9 WW or 10-





 





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Consignment Sale





Michigan Guernsey Breeders Association

East Lansrng, Michigan,





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





HOGS





DUROCS





Bred gilts, spring and fall boars.

Michigan’s Premier Duroc Herd.





Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich.





D UROC JERSEYS. Fall and Spring

largo prolific strains. “Hire or come

them. JESSE BLISS 8:. SON, Henderson,





FOR SALE





0. hogs.





 





 





Boars from

and sec

Mich .





 





Spring: hours and gills from Miclh

igun pionocr herd of big type 1‘.

Some of the bust pmrspccts among mom I

evm‘ bred, sired by “The “’olvcrinu" and “The

Grand Model," the best two-yoarmld boar I ever

owned. A hour or sow from this herd adds prestige

to your own. W. E. LIVINGSTON, Parma, Mich.





Bhesier While Boars





blood lines. Will ship

free. JOHN C. WILK,





 





bred gilts and pigs from



the host prize winning

C. O. D. and record them

St. Louis. Mich.





BIG TYPE CHESTER WHITES





pions. bred from Champions.

FARM. Rt. 2. Can City.





 





Stock of all ages for



sale. Sir-ed by Cham-

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Mich.





Large Type Poland Chinas





Big ones. best strains. Jar. G. Taylor, Beldinu. Mich.





 





BigType Poland Chinas €39“ “““H‘F- .We We "16""-

CLARK, Breckenridge, Might? us your wants. E. A.





 





HAMPSHIRE boar pigs of spring and summer far~

row for sale. 13th year in business. JOHN W.

SNYDER. R. 4. St. Johns, Mich.





 





SHEEP





THE JMAPLES SHROPSHIRES





For Sale: 25 yearling rams of ri t t .



2 stock rams and a. few ewes. 8h we and quality



C. R. LELAND, R. 2, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Phone 734 F l3»





 





sHROPSHIREs—Choioe yearling rams and ram

lambs. SII‘B. Imported Buttar ram—Dams. Minton

Buttar & Bibby bred. Prices very reasonable. 0.

E. VREELAND, R. F. D. 5. Ypsilanti. Mich.





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GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Tuesday, September ‘21.





Wheat.

Detroit—No. 2 white $1.35; NO. 2

red $1.36; NO. 2 mixed $1.33.

Chicago—Sept. at $13614; Dec. at

$1.39; May $1.44.

Toledo—Wheat, NO. 2 red at $1.35

@136.

Corn. ’





Detroit—No. 2 yellow at 84c; No. 3

yellow 83c. . .



Chicago—Sept. 73%c; Dec. 79940;

May 86%0.



Oats.



Detroit—NO. 2 Michigan, old, 490;

new 450; No. 3 old 47c; new 43c.



Chicago—Sept. at 400; Dec. 42%c;

May 47%0.





Rye.

Detroit—NO. 2, 960.

Chicago—Sept. 951,50;

May $1.05%.

Toledo—Rye 96c.





Beans.





Dec. 99%0;





Detroit—Immediate and prompt

shipment $4.20@4.25.

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 $8.25@9.

Barley.

Malting 73c; feeding 600.

Seeds.

Detroit—Cash red clover at $20;

September alsike at $18.75; timothy at

$2.70.





I





Hay -



Detroit—NO. ] timothy $20.50@21;

standard $19.5001220; No. 1 light ClI0~

ver, mixed $19@20; NO. 2 timothy at

$18@19; NO. 1 clover $18@19; wheat

and oat straw $12@13; rye straw at

$13@14.



, Feeds



Detroit—Spring wheat bran at $31;

standard middlings at $32; fancy mid—





dlings $37; cracked corn $36; coarse

cornmeal $35; chop $33 per ton in

carlots.





WHEAT





Continued wet weather, particularly

over western Canada, was the princi-

pal news factor back Of the upswing

in wheat prices in the past week. Cash

markets developed no new elements

Of strength, but speculative interests

appeared more willing to assume the

ownership Of wheat, and help carry

the hedging load. Bad weather has

interfered with the movement Of the

domestic spring wheat crop, but re-

ceipts have been large enough to bring

further substantial additions to stocks

at terminals. Export business is not

very large, as Canadian and Russian

offerings are cheaper. Flour sales have

declined, although mills are still book-

ing orders in excess of their rate of

current output, and accumulating'a

back log of unfilled orders that Will

sustain domestic demand for cash

wheat later in the season. Importing

countries have been taking wheat at a

higher weekly rate than at this time





last year.

RYE





Rye prices have strengthened along

with wheat. A million bushels were

exported in the last two weeks, and





domestic demand has been fairly ac- ,





tive, presumably reflecting a larger

trade in rye flour than usual.





CORN





Corn prices were strong during most

of the past week, but had a sharp

break at the close. Rains have kept

the foliage green and sappy, but the

grain is making some progress toward

maturity right along. Frost may ar-

rive at any time, and the situation is

such as to create great uncertainty.

Primary receipts have shown some in-

crease, but stocks at terminals are

still being reduced from week to week.

Consumer demand still lacks breadth.

Sections which are short of corn have

not begun to buy in an extensive way,

export sales are few and far between,

and corn industries are taking only

moderate amounts.





OATS





The oats crop also is being seriously

damaged by continued rains, as a large

fraction of the crop is unthreshed. In

some states, it is reported that ten

'per cent or more of the crop Will be

abandoned because of mold and rot.

With threshing operations practically

. at a standstill, primary receipts have

.been small.





 





POTATOES





The September estimate of the

white potato crop was 352,000,000 bush-

els, or about 6,000,000 bushels more

than a month previous. It is from

30,000,000 to 35,000,000 bushels, or ten

per cent, less than normal require-

ments, and suggests that growers will

receive good prices throughout the sea;

son, although the shortage is only

about one—half that Of last year. The

next few weeks constitute a very crit:

ical period, however, as the crop is

late and needs three to four weeks

more without frost in order to reach

maturity. Last year, early freezes

caused heavy loss Of bushelage and

were responsible for the sky-rocketing

behavior of prices.





WOOL





Wool prices are firm to slightly

higher, with a noticeable broadening

in demand from mills, who are ex‘pe—

riencing a more active demand for

goods. Most Of the mills desire prompt

delivery, suggesting that their re—

serves are low and that the rate Of

mill activity is rather high. Night

shifts are reported in some cases. The

foreign markets show a strong tone,

with a rising tendency at the present

London sale, as..well as in Australia,

where selling the new clip is just get-

ting started. European mills are ac-

tive and are taking substantial quan-

tities of wool from world markets. 0p-

erating margins of domestic manufac-





turers are narrow, so that dealers find,





it difficult to advance prices without

checking sales. A runaway market is

improbable, but a further gradual rise





is not.

BEANS





Bean prices have strengthened in

the past week, C. H. P. whites ‘f. o. b.

Michigan shipping points being quoted

at $4.40(fi)4.45 per 100 pounds. Crop

conditions were chiefly responsible for

the strength as demand is slow. The

general feeling seems to be that the

last ofl‘icial estimate which showed a

reduction Of 1,700,000 bushels in the

crop, as compared with a month pre-:

vious, and 2,200,000 bushels as com-_

pared with last year, was still tOO Op—'

timistic. Also, the continued Septem-

ber rains have been a bullish influ-

ence. ‘





BUTTER



Butter prices continued their season-

al rise last week. In spite of the im-

provement in pasture conditions, re<

ceipts at the leading markets continue

to run lighter than at the cOrrespond-

ing time a year ago and two years

ago, just as they have been doing for

nearly two months. Storage withdraw-

als are somewhat larger than usual at

this season of the year, so that the

excess in stocks is gradually being

reduced. Total holdings on Septem-

ber 1 were 138,169,000 pounds, or

about 10,000,000 pounds more than a

year previous, and 20,000,000 pounds

above the five-year average. Moreover,





prices are still about two cents lower





than‘ at this time a year ago, so that

there is still room for a further ad-

vance. In 1925, prices advanced three

to five cents from the ,middle of Sep-

tember to the high'point of the sea-

son, which -was reached late in No-

vember.



Prices on 92-score creamery were:

Chicago 44c; New York 460. In De-

troit fresh creamery in tubs sells for

39@42c a pound.





EGGS





The seasonal rise in fresh egg prices





was continued in the past week. Re-

ceipts Of fresh eggs’ are bound to di-

minish rapidly during the next two

months, and will probably be less than

half as large as at present by the

time the low point of supplies is reach-

ed late in November and early Decem-

ber. Until then, advances in price are

likely to be quite regular from week

to week. More dressed poultry was

received at the four leading markets,

including New York, Chicago, Boston

and Philadelphia, in the last two

months and a half than in the cor-

responding period of any previous

year. Consumptive demand has been

excellent, but supplies have been so

large that stocks began to accumulate

in storage early in August. Last year

the low point Of storage holdings of

poultry was not reaChed until October.



Chicago—Eggs, fresh firsts 36%@

371/2c; extra firsts 38@390; ordinary

firsts 29@33c; miscellaneous 3635c;

dirties 20@27c; checks 20@260. Live

poultry, hens at 25c; springers 241/20;

roosters 18c; ducks 260; geese 17c;

turkeys 34c.





 





 





five Stock Market Service -





 





Tuesday, September 21.





CHICAGO





Hogs.



Receipts 25,000. ’Light hogs in lib-

eral supply, mostly 25c lower; a few

sales on light lights, 25@50c lower;

no early market on pigs; desirable

good and packing sows weak to 15c

lower; early tops $13.55; bulk of good

180-260 weight at $13((Dv13.40; heavy

butchers $12@13; 230 lbs. at inside

price; bulk desirable lights and me-

dium weight pigs at $11@11.75; most

heavies at $10.25@10.75.



Cattle.





Receipts 16,000. Market generally

steady on all classes; choice yearlings





firm; tops, strong; best heavies at

$11.65; liberal supply of in-between

grade; best steers offered; lower





grade vealers ofi; choice kind holding

strong; market vealers $13.50@14.50

to packers; outsiders $15.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 28,000. Market very slow;

better grade of fat lambs indications

steady; in-between and lower grade,

weak to unevenly lower; mixed na-

tives around $13.25; no westerners

sold; sheep steady.





DETROIT





Cattle.





Receipts 104. Market steady.

Good to choice yearlings ‘





dry~fed ................ $10.00@11.00

Best heavy steers, dry-fed 9.00@10.00

Handy weight butchers .. 8 0061) 9.00

Mixed steers and heifers 7 25@ 7.75

Handy light butchers . . . .' 6 50@ 7.25

Light butchers . . . . . . . . . . 5 00@ 6.00

Best cows ............... 5 (016.25

Butcher cows 4 @525

Cutters ....... 4 @ .

Canners ........... . . . . . 3. @

Choice light b 6. @





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$10 and up. _ .





5.50@ 6.50

5.00@ 5.50





Bologna bulls

Stock bulls . .





Feeders ...... . . . . . . . 6.00@ 7.25

Stockers ................ 5.25@ 6.25

Milkers and springers. . .$55.00@ 90.00





Calves.

Receipts 256. Market steady.

Best .................... $16.00@17.00

Others ................... 5.00@15.50





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 1,953. Market 250 lower.





Best grades ............. $13.75@14.00

Fair to good ............ 12.50@12.75

Best lambs ............. 8.00@13.00'

Fair lambs .............. 12.75@13.00

Light to common lambs.. 9.00@10.95

Fair to good sheep ...... 6.00@ 6.50

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





Hogs.





Receipts 1,550. Mixed 300 lower;

roughs 25c lower; heavies steady.





Mixed ...... .............. ..... $12.75

Roughs ..... ..............10.00

Yearlings I O U l C C O I II. ... I Q 0 O D I O O I 13-70

Stags 0...... OIIDOIUOCIOOIOCCOC 8'50





BUFFALO



Hogs.

Receipts 24,000. Market 25c lower;

hogs $13.85; pigs at $13@13.25; light

lights $13.25@13.50; 170-200 lbs. most-

ly $13.75; 250-380 lbs. $13@13.75; 300

83.11% $12.50@13; packing sows $10.50





Cattle.





graded , 34‘@38c.





Detroit—Eggs, fresh» candled' and .

, Live poultry, heavy

springers at 31c; light springers,24c;' '

heavy hens 28@29c; light hens 20c;

ducks 22@26c. .





DETROIT CITY MARKET



Apples 75c@$2 bu; crabapples $1@2

bu; Wax beans $1@2 bu; green beans

$1.25@1.75 bu; beets 40@50c dozen

bunches; cauliflower $2@4 bu; sweet

corn'8@190 dozen; cabbage 75c@$1





 





MARKETS BY ‘RADIO.





 





AILY market reports and

weather ’fgrecasts may be

obtalned each week ‘day from

the followlng Mlehigan statlons:

WKAR—Mlchlgan State Col-

lege, 12:00 noon. ' I

WCX—Detrolt Free Press, at

2:15 P. M.

WWJ—Detrolt News, 10:25 A.

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

WGHP—Geo. Harrlson Phelps,

7:00 P: M.





 





 





 





bu; red $1.25@1.50 bu; chard 40



bu; local celery 40@50c dozen;@c5a)IE

rots 25@350 dozen; cucumbers 40@

75c bu; dills $1@2 bu; gherkins $3@

5 bu; endive 50c@$2 bu; huckleberries

25c qt; leaf lettuce 75c@$1 bu; green

onions 50@75c dozen bunches; root

parsley 40@50c dozen bunches; curly

parsley 40@500 dozen bunches; pota~

toes $1.25@1.85 bu; peas $3@3.50 bu;

hot peppers, green $1.25@2 bu; red

$56136 bu; round radishes 40@5OC per

dozen bunches; long 60@85c dozen

bunches; spinach 75c@$1.25 bu; sum-

mer squash 50@600 bu; Italian squash

50c@$3 bu; turnip tops 40@5OC bu;

tomatoes 50@650 per 14-1b. .basket;.

yellow 750@$1.25 bu; cantaloupes $1.25

@2 bu; egg plant, round 75c@$1.25

bu; long $1.25@2 bu; peaches $1@3

bu: plums 75c@$2 bu; watermelons

$1.25@1.50 bu; elderberries $1.25@2

b_u; grapes $2@3 bu; prunes $2@3 bu;

lima beans 50@65c qt; parsnips $1

per dozen bunches; eggs, retail 45@





55c; hens, retail 32@35c; springers

retail 350; L'eghorn springers, retail

30@320; ducks, retail 300; dressed





poultry; hens 40c; sprin ers 38 45 '

ducks 500 pound. g @ c,





GRAND RAPIDS





Peach prices were sharply lower un-

der liberal supplies in Grand Rapids

this week. Prolifics, Barnards, South

Havens $1@1.50 bu; Elbertas ,$1@2 a.

bu; Crawfords $1.50@2 bu; Hales $3

@4 bu; other varieties $1@2 bu; pears,

Bartletts $1631.50 bu; other varieties

$1@1.25 bu; plums 50@75c bu; few at

$1; apples, Strawberry $1.25@2 a bu'

other varieties 50@75c bu; grapes $2

bu; cantaloupes '750@$1.25 bu;~ water-

:melons $2@4 dozen; tomatoes $1 bu;

potatoes $1.25@1.40 bu; onions 75@90c

bu; leaf lettuce $1.50 bu; head lettuce

pea beans $3.60 cwt; wheat $1.15 bu;

3314150; leg? 38(113962 6butter-fat 450



; 0 1c ens c; hens

24c; ducks 20@25c. ' , 18@'





 





COUNTY CROP REPORTS.





 





_ Huron County—Farmers. are -

ing rather slow progress with harass]:-

ing. Wheat and oats have been dam—

aged quite a little because of long ex-

posure to wet. Wheat is yielding well,

but cats are light. Corn is late. Beans

show some blight. There will be an.

increased acreage Of fall crops—A. C.



loma County.—Thi_s is fine weather

for fall seeding but too wet for har-

vesting the bean crop. About the aver-

age amount Of wheat will be sown.

Beans are a fair crop. Corn is good

but it Will take some time to fully

ripen. Oats were light. Wheat

yielded 30 bushels and. barley 50.





» _Meadows are good for this time of the





' year. Cattle are bein o

Receipts 400. Market is steady to and winter feeding frgmb$71§ll0tg I$7fl510

weak, very light steers $11.50; re- per hundredweight delivered. Wheat

actor cows. $3@4.25. , brings $1.10; beans $3.50 per hundred-

33mg, - - butter-fat 43c; eggs 30c. '

Receipts 400. Market is 500 lower;’“. ' I " L





tops $16; medium $13.50@14.50.





50c lower; bulk of natives $14; culls





Sheep and Lambs. ' .

-Receipts 1,800. Better lazinbs mostly I.





 





COMING LIVE {STOCK SAL-Es.-





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(Continued from page 303)

' Ayrshires.

The Ayrshire show totalled 60 ani-

mals -with the majority of the blue





I. 'ribbons’ going to Balmoral Farms.





The 3 yr. .old bull Strathglass Roamer

was the outstanding animal of the Ayr-

shire show and was again made

Grand Champion bull of the show. In

several of the- classes the ringside

talent differed somewhat with the way

the ribbons were placed.



- Jerseys.



The Jersey show while not as large

as that made by the Holsteins, com-

pared well in quality. . The 127 Jer-

seys shown were adl exhibited by

Michigan breeders who deserve to be

complimented on the quality of the

animals shown. The competition was

keenest in the aged cow, 3 yr. old cow,

heifer calf, bull calf, and get of sire

classes.



Brown Swiss.



Quite small in numbers the 32 ani-

mals exhibited made a very creditable

showing. as far as quality is con-

cerned. Most of the blue ribbon and

all the championships went to Hull

Bros., Painesville, Ohio.





- THE SWINE SHOW.



The swine barn was well filled and

presented a very Well balanced show.

No breed brought out a particularly

large entry but nearly all classes

were well filled. The Duroc Jerseys

were the strongest in numbers and

showed the best quality throughout.

The Poland Chinas offered close com-

petition in most of the classes and

several fine animals, especially the

Junior yearling Grand Champion boar

were driven out. The Chester Whites

and Berkshires- were all shown by

Michigan breeders, each breed putting

up a good show. In two or three of

the other breeds, while very accept—

able animals were found for the top

positions, in several classes some of





, the premiums were taken by animals





somewhat below State Fair calibre.





THE SHEEP SHOW.‘



The sheep barns were filled to over-

flowing. The medium and Fine wool

breeds made the largest and finest

showing of these types ever seen at

the Michigan State Fair.



Shropshires made the best show

both in numbers and quality. E. E.

Guthery, Maryville, Ohio showed an

exceptionally typy and ~well fitted

flock and won most of the blue rib-

bons and both Championships. Hamp-

shires made a fair showing. J. G. S.

Hubbard, Monroe, Ore. had the out-

standing flock of this breed. The Ox-

fords presented the strongest showing

ever seen here, competition being very

keen between several well fitted typy

flocks. Southdowns were also out in

force. Although J. G. S. Hubbard won

most of the firsts and Championships,

the other exhibitors were crowding

him in practically every class. The

Cheviot classes were all keenly cen-

tested and a much better showing was

made by this breed than usual.



The Fine Wools were out in large

numbers and offered strong competi-

tion in practically all classes. Partic-

ular mention should be made of the

aged ewe class in the B type Merinos.

Any one of the first five ewes would

have made a very acceptable Cham-

plOIl ewe.





BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB SHOW.





A very creditable live stock show

was ‘made by the boys’ and girls’

Clubs. In most of the classes the en-

tries were large and the quality was

demonstrated by the fact that in many

cases club entries won high honors in

the open classes. '



Shorthorns, Herefords and Aber-

deen Angus were represented in both

breeding and fat classes. Jas. Mulli-

gan, Cass City had Champion steer

on an Aberdeen Angus. The clubs

showed 120 head of Dairy cattle the

quality of which was much above that

of last year. The hog show was some—

what smaller than last year, but the

quality of the entries was considerably

better. The boys made a good Sheep

show 125 head being brought out.

The strongest competition was in the

American Delaine and Shropshire

classes. ‘





 





 





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.COCNDUTED BY DR. S. BURROWS.





Advice throuzh this column is given tree to our subscrib-

ers. Lettersshould state Myths historyaad symptoms!

.ch case and give. name and address of the writer. Initial-

eely are published. When a reply by mail is requested the

mice becomes private practice and 81 must be enclosed,





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Cow Chews Boned—I have a cow

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. her ration?

feed, ,and' fresh-1 water. furnished.



A. A.-—-Cows have a habit of chewing

on foreign bodies, still no doubt much

of this is due to their searching for

something which their systems re-

quire. Try feeding the following min-

eral mixture: Take equal parts of

ground limestone, steamed bone meal

and common salt. This can be added

to the grain ration in the proportion

of six pounds to 200 pounds of feed.





Rheumatism.—-—We have a bunch

of pigs which at eight or ten weeks

were doing fine. They are not doing

well now. We put them in the barn

on a cement floor where we thought

they would be warmer. We have been

feeding swill from the house, some oat

chop, and some corn on the cob. All

but one of the pigs. have gotten stiff

in their legs. They hump up and try

to get all four feet in one track. Ev-

ery time they move, or we try to get

them to, they squeal as though we

were killing them. What is wrong

with them? What should we do to

get them to thrive again? S. H.—Pro-

vide good dry quarters, free from all

draughts. Cement floors are cold and

should be well covered with bedding,

or boards laid over the cement. Add

one dram of salicylate of soda to the

slop for each three pigs twice daily,

or twenty grains for each pig. See

that they are able to get plenty of

sunshine. Keep finely ground lime

stone where they can have access to

it at all times.





PJCWG ofthc VVcck





- A Detroit aviator, a former army

flier, was arrested for smuggling two

aliens over the border in his plane.





Pestilence and famine have followed

floods in the Kansas flood district,

especially around Burlington. The

heavy rains recently have brought the

Illinois river two and one half feet

above flood stage.





Income taxes in the Detroit district

amounted to $18,000,000, according

the Fred Woodworth, collector of in-

ternal revenue.





Herbert Janorin Browne, of Wash-

ington, long distance weather fore—

caster, says that we will have an

early Winter and a cold summer. He

predicts that 1927 will be a. recurrence

of 1816, “the year without a summer.”





The farmers of Illinois, Missouri

and Arkansas, through their National

Farm Loan association, have acquired

all the stock of the Federal Land

Bank of St. Louis.





Fifteen women throughout the state

are seeking political ofl‘ices. Most of

them want to be registers of deeds.





Plans for a huge irrigation project,

involving 277,000 acres in the Sacre-

mento Valley, has been endorsed by

Engineer W. R. Young of the U. S.’

Interior Department.





U. S. experts on economics have in-

vestigated Poland’s financial condi-

tion and have reported it sound.





Princess Astrid, of Sweden, is offi-

cially bethrothed to Crown Prince

Leopold of Belgium. At one time the

Prince of Wales was reported to be

engaged to her.





Fred W. Green, of Ionia, won the

republican nomination for governor

by a. large majority over Gov. Alex

Groesbeck.





Captain Rene Fonck, the French

aviator, is waiting for favorable wea-

ther to make a non—stop flight from

New York to Paris.





A two way rum pact with the Cana—

dian government will end Canadian

rum running, it is thought.





 





 





 





 





.IIShe hasiplenty of salt. master of 'the German imperial army





during the war, married Frau Dr.

Mathilde van Kemnitz, a nerve spe-

cial‘ist.





A seller of forged American birth

certificates has been found in Havana

through the detection of several

Polish women who tried to get into

this country on forged certificates.





Mackenzie' King and the Liberal

party won a decisive victory in the

recent election in Canada. Premier

Meighen and five Cabinet ofl‘icers went

down in defeat.





Michigan entries in the Sesqui-Cen-

tennial stock show won two prizes.

The grand champion bull of the Ayr-

shire breed was Strathglass Reamer,

exhibited by James E. Davidson, of

Ithaca. The Chester white grand

championship was won by a sow

owned by Albert Newman, of Mariette.





Bud Reynolds, of Columbus, Ohio,

established a new piano playing en-





durance record. He played the plane;





105 hours continuously.

. The U. S. Dept. of Agriculture has

been puzzled over the popularity of

the 1904 year book until it was_ re-

vealed that the book contained recrpes

for making clarets, and other wines.

The longest under ground railway

in the world was opened recently in

London. It is twenty miles long.





 





 





SHEEP





1000 CHOICE EWES





For sale in lots of 50 or more. We do sell better

ewes for less money. \Vrite for description and prices,

or telegraph when you can come to inspect them.

Telegraph: Rookwood. Post Office. So. Rockwood.

Mich. ALMOND B. CHAPMAN &. SON, 80. Rock-

wood. Mich.





Shropshires —Oxfords





Yearling and ram lambs. Also a few Mc-

Kerrow bred Oxford ewes for sale.





Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich.





' Oxford Downs a special—

WESI MENU" SlOCk Farm ty, rams and ewe lanxbs

for sale. WM. VAN SICKLE. Deckervilie. Mich.





 





 





 





 





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' n it ed 0 r a n . bred

FOR SALE frggns good $021k. praiTcii low.

JAMES J. HACKER, Ubly. Mich. s.





 





' for wool and mutton, 15 year-

ShrOPShlreS lings. 40 ram lambs, 10 ewes.





DAN BOOHER, Evart. Mich" Route No. 4.





 





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For Shropshire Rams and} LSfiZfifgamfif

Mich. Also a few breeding ewes.





 





' for sale. 200 each month. Shrop-

Bmedmg Ewes shire. Hampshire grades and cross-





 





SHROI’SIHRES—Oflering choice yearling rams and



a few ewes. At right. prices. Sired by Buttar,

AndreWs and Green Rams. D. L. Chapman 6. Son,

80. Rockwood. Mich.





 





For Shropshire Yearling Rams '23? 3’;

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

The wool and





D ELAINE RAM mutton kind. As





good as grow. Photos free. F. H. RUSSELL. Box

40, Wakcman, Ohio.





225 Young Delaine Breeding Ewes





for sale. CAL. B. STONER. Clinton, Michigan.





 





sHEEP all recorded. sent on approval: Cotswolds.

. Lcicesters. Tunis, Lincolns. Karakulcs and Hamp-

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





DELAINE-Mcrino Rams. both I’olled and IIomed,

for sale. Good ones. Come and make your own

selection. HOUSEMAN BRO$.. Albion, Mich.





 





FDR SALE—Oxford Rams and Ewes. bred from

the host rams we could buy. GEO. T. ABBOTT.

Palms. Mich. Tel. Deckerville. 78-3.





RAMBOUlLLET RAMS—Registered. Large, well-

built yearlings from ram shearins thirty pounds.

Priced right. H. W. HART, R. 2. Greenville, Mich.





 





- Hampshire Yearling Rams. Call or

Registered write Clark Haire Ranch, Charles

Post, Mgr.. West Branch. Mich.





 





pure brcd Rambouillet rams and

For sale ewes. E. M. Moore, Mason, Mich.





 





General Erich Ludendorff, quarter





Farm "/2 miles south of Okemos.





 





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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING





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Small advertisemults bring best results under classified headings. Try it for want alli‘s’cfngnfoigfindl:

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

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



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REAL ESTATE





 





.' Southern





THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY after ears of stu



the South will send free int'ormatiorII and booklgtss of)

those who wish to know this country. There are ex—

cellent locations where good soil. mild climate. pure

water. paying markets. low priced land. gbod schools.

churches. and pleasant neighbors offer opportunities

where farnnng pays and living conditions are pleasant.

Learn about the South before you start. Write W. E.

PRICE. General Immigration Agent. Room 603 South-

ern Railway System. Washington. D. C.





FOB RENT—March lst. 100 acres near Ann Arbor.

All good. tillable. level land. Good buildings. electric

lights. Address Michigan Farmer. Box 873. ,





FOR SALE—Gladwin County. Michigan. farm land,

stock. ranches. "lake and resort property. U. G.

Reynolds. Gladwin. Mich.

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WANTED FARMS





 





WONDERFUL momma-ms

farm lands. Write for complete information Cham-

ber Commerce. Quitman. Georaia.





 





0!}. , and chew a

all she can find one. Is this

fly the tech- ofwsoniethins in





 





WANTED—To hear from owner of land for sale. for





 





breds. All yearlings. V. 8. Furniss, Nashville. Mich. .





 





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MISCELLANEOUS





START A REAL PRODUCTIVE BUSINESS by buy‘

his apair or two of Joerin Bros. Registered Black

Foxes. Easy to raise. Prices reasonable Write for

literature. Milford, Mich.





 





MUSIC LOVERS-New. popular and standard Classic

music, 100 per copy. Over 500 selections. -Catalos'

free. Weasner Music Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.





 





ALL‘ WOOL YARN for sfile from manufacturer at





bargain. Samples free. A. Bartlett. Harmony.

Maine.





FARM MACHINERY 3





FOR SALE—My complete threshing outfit. grain

thresher. hcnn thresher. clover huller and McCormick

Deanna 1530 II. 1'. tractor. Priced to 'sell. Ad—

dress S. J. Buck, Edmore. Rv2. <





WHY IS_ THE FERGUSON I’LOW attached to tho

liordson instead of being trailed behind it on wheels?

Ask your nearest Ford dealer for the answer.





PET STOCK





FERRETS—Over thirty Years' experience. Yearling



females, the mother ferret special rat catcher, $5.00



each. Young~ stock for Sept. Females $4.00. males



$3.510), Ollie pair $7.2b5. three pair $18. Will ship C.

. nstruction ook free. Le" ‘ .'



Lbndon. Ohio. u Parmworth. New





 





HUNDRED HUNTING HOUNDS CHEAP—Game get—

tcrs. Bur finders. Money makers. Big money raising

{ruiilting hounds.H Hunting horns. Feeds. Medicines.

.0 ars. etc. unters' supply catalo 8. K3. k



kennels. FW 59. Herrick. Illinois. gu s askia.





COON. SKIINK, RABBIT and Combination Hounds

for sale. None better. Trial given. Sold on time.

Lakeland Fur Exchange. Salem. Michigan.





 





COON. SKUNK. POSSUM. RABBIT HOUNDS—flf-

tecn days‘ trial. Cheap. C. 0. D. Ginger Ken-

nels, IIcrrick. III.





PEDIGREED POLICE PUPPIES. from 8. pure Silver

95 lb. Imported Sire. $15. and $20. each. 8- North.

Butternut, Mich. ‘





SCOTCH COLLIES. 12 champions in pedigree. Also

photos. Cloverleaf Farms. Tiffln. Ohio.





RAT TERRIERS. fox terriers. Illustrated lists 100.

Pete Slater Box L. P. C. Pena. Ill.





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SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK





PEACH TREES $5.00 PER 100 AND UP. Apple

trees $7.50 per 100 and up. in large or small lots.

direct to planters by freight, parcel post. express.

Plums. pears. cherries. grapes. nuts. berries. pecans.

VlnPS. . Ornamental trees, vines and shrubs. Free cat-

alog in colors. Tennessee Nursery Co.. Box 12".

Cleve-land, Tenn. ‘





 





WIIITI‘I BLOSSOM SWEET CLOVER SEED. 99%

purc. Have grown 510 bushels this ycur. Price $0.00

per I)ll>llt‘l. Order at once. Sample free. Mayer

Plant Nursery. Merrill, Midligan.





SEED WHEAT—Fultz. Michigan Amber. Red Rudy.

testing above 60 pounds. Jean Farms, Crawfordsvillc,

11 ans.





FOR SATISFACTION INSURANCE bu seed oats.

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





TOBACCO





HOMESPUN TOBACCO GUARANTEED~Chewima

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

Pipe free, pay when received. United Farmers. Bard.

well. Kentucky.





 





SPECIAL SALE—IIomcspun tobacco. smoking or

chewing. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.

four lbs. $1; tWCIH! $2.25. l‘ipe free. United Farm-

ers of Kentucky. Paducah. Ky.





 





POULTRY





0000 PULLETS now ready for shipment. nicely ma-

tured, 10 weeks old. for $1.00 each. 12 to 14 weeks

old. for $1.25 each. All our pullets are from 2 year

old State Accredited Hens. Big English Type. Please

order from this ad. No discount on large orders.

Knoll’s Hatchery. Holland. Mich.





 





 





WHITE LEGHORN HENS AND MALES new half

price. Thousands of laying Pullets. Big discount on

spring Chicks and Eggs. Trapnested, pedigreed foun-

dation stock. egg bred 26 years. Winners at 16 egg

contests. Catalog and special price bulletin free. I

ship C. 0. D. and guarantee satisfaction. George B.

Ferris. 934 Union. Grand Rapids. Michigan.





 





S. C. BROWN AND WHITE I.EGHORNS~332-eag

pullcts. cockereis. Catalog. Harlen Fulton, Gal-

lipolis. Ohio.





 





FINE LARGE COOKERELS. Rocks and “ads. $2.25

each. S. C, White Leghorns $1.75 each. Lots of five.

250 less each. Merrill Hatchery. Merrill. Mich.





 





PARKS BRED TO LAY Barred Plymouth Rock Cock—

crcls from pedigreed stock, $3.00 and $5.00 each.

Clinton Famam. Fremont, Michigan.





HELP WANTED





WANTED—Experienced man and wife. without chil-

dren. man for farm work and milking. wife to help

with housework. Steady. all your job. for neat.

clean. expcricnccd couple. Everything modern. C.

Nielsen. Jersey Farm. Farmington. Mich.





 





 





DRIVER SALESMAN~23 to 35 years age. Penna-



nent employment: good future. Write us if inter-



iztieg. Belle Isle Creamery. 3600 Forat F... Detroit.

C .





WANTED SINGLE MAN by month. Apply Balmoral

Farms. Ithaca. Mich.





 





AGENTS WANTED





SALESMEN ATTENTION—Many of our salesmen are

receiving weekly commission checks from $50.00 to

$125.00 selling our high grade Nursery Stock. We

still have room for a. number of rcal salesmen in

Michigan territory. If you are a hustler and inter-

ested in developing a paying business, write at once

for our liberal proposition. The Monroe Nursery.

Monroe. Mich.. Salt-s Dept.





AGENTS—Our New Household Cleaning Device wash-

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

mops. Costs less than brooms. Over half profit.

Write Harper Brush Works. 173 3rd St.. Fairileld.

Iowa.





EARN $5 DAY gathering evergreens. roots. herbs.

Booklet free. Botanical 12. New Haven. Conn





 





 





SITUATIONS WANTED





POSITION WANTED as farm foreman. Married.

Experienced in stock. fruit and general farming.

Box 41. Milford. Mich.





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POSITION FOR MARRIED COUPLFr—age 40. aims

lived on farm. Carl Hanson. 2055 Lake Shore Drive.

_Muskegon. Mich. ’ _





 





 





fall delivery. 0. Henley. Baldwin. Wis.





Try a Michigan Farmer Liner.
50% of the Farmers Who

Expect to Get Separators.

and Milkers lntend to

Buy De Lavals





NFORMATION recently published in a

I report of an investigation among the



250,000 subscribers of THE ”DAIRY

FARMER, owned by E. T. Meredith, of Des

Moines, Iowa, former Secretary of the'U. S.

Department of Agriculture, gives an in-

teresting idea as to the present and future

use of cream separators and milking ma-

chines.





Of the DAIRY FARMER subscribers

using cream separators and milkers





41.98 % own De Laval Separators .

16.51% own De Laval Milkers





Of those expecting to buy new cream

separators or milking machines, as reported

in this DAIRY FARMER investigation,





 

   

 





52.08% expect to buy De Laval Separators

- expect to buy De Laval Milkers





 

   





Think of it!’ As many of these people

expect to buy De Laval Separators and

Milkers as all other makes put together.

Why? Because they must think De Lavals

are the best. »





If there. is any doubt about the kind of

separator or milker you , should. buy, see

your De Laval Agent or write the nearest

office below, so that we may point out to

you the advantages of owning a De Laval.





 

   

   

   

   

   

 

   

 





 

 

 





The De Laval Separator Company





NEW YORK CHICAGO ; ' __ SAN FRANCISCO

165 Broadway 600 Jackson Blvd.“ ' 61 Beale Street





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