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Paramount Picture on Tonight!





Supper’s over, the day’s work is done, and just ahead is

a pleasant evening. A postman left the picture theatre

program and there’s a Paramount Picture on tonight.

That settled it.





The relaxation and the change that come with good

entertainment are worth more to any family than twice

the time spent any other way—including sleepl.





Out to the car, then down the road to the theatre that

has the good judgment to show Paramount Pictures and

the good sense to send out the news with programs.





Pictures like “The Covered Wagon,” “Behind the

Front,” “The Pony Express,” “ The Runaway,”

“Desert Gold” have proved the quality of Paramount

Pictures to farm people, over and over again.





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You Never Know Women

The Grand Duchess

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TWO hundred thousand pine and



spruce trees were planted in Mus-

kegon county this spring. The plant-

ing was a continuation of the forestry

project laid out for the county. Ster-

eopticon slides of the progress of the

work have been made by Carl Knopf,

county agricultural agent.





 





A. C. Lytle, county agricultural agent

in Crawford county, is assisting farm-

ers and local creameries in that coun-

ty in a campaign to improve the

grade of cream delivered to the cream-

eries. A churning demonstration,

which was well attended, showed that

high-grade butter can be made only

from high-grade cream. The higher

prices which the creameries will get

for better butter will be distributed to

the farmers in a premium over mar-

ket price for all high-grade cream de-

livered.





 





The Iron county board of supervis-

ors voted funds to pay for the trans-

portation of club members the Club .

Camp held at Chatham. premium

list for boys’ and girls’ club exhibits

has been provided this year in Iron





4 county for the first time.





 





Two hundred people attended a Jer-

sey breeders’ picnic held at Ellsworth, I

the seventeen members of the County

Jersey Breeders’ Association were at

the picnic, and nine of these men ex-

hibited cattle. H. E. Dennison, field

man for the American Jersey Cattle

Club, says that this was One of the

most successful of the group meetings

held in the state this year. County

Agricultural Agents Jewell and Mel-

lencamp gave talks at the meeting.

Business men of Ellsworth furnished

trucks to transport cattle for exhibi-

tion at the picnic and back to the

farms.





 





C. P. Milham, county agricultural

agent in Ottawa county, is making ar-

rangements to hold a school this win-

ter to demonstrate fire blight control.

Several farmers who have found the

disease in their orchards, are helping

to arouse interest in the work. The

method of cutting out infected wood

will be shown in the diseased or-

chards.





 





.Dr. Pieters, from the Bureau of

Plant Industry, and R. F. Kroodsma,





 





 





 





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The Man Who.





N the old days, a solid, con-



servative citizen might sniff

and tell you he didn’t read ad—

vertising.



He didn’t think so much of

the horseless carriage, either.





educated. His point of view has

been made broader and more

modern. He has been civilized

—by the automobile, the tele-

phone, radio, advertising.





Every single one has opened





The telephone was newfangled,

and an insult to the United

States mails. ..



As for radio, aeroplanes, wire-

less photography—if they had

been born then, he probably

iwould have thought them a bit

immoral.



But he’s changed. He’s been





 





up new paths for him, taught

him new things. Advertising,

especially. Advertising tells

him the newest things to wear,

the best things to eat. Adver-

tising tells his wife how to

make a home up to date and

attractive. Advertising tells him

the prices to pay for things he





Advertirz'ng i: the key to modernity





Thought 4 Buggy War Good Enough





buys, saves him from the old-

fashioned ways of doing busi-

ness—helps him live well, keeps

him modern.





Advertising can help you. The

advertisements in this magazine

are here to tell you many things

that make life more comfort-

able, more interesting, happier.

Read them faithfully. They’ll





I keep you abreast of the times.





They’ll prevent you from becom-

ing the type of old fogy who—

snitfi—doesn’t read advertising.





 





 





 





forestry specialist at Michigan State

iCollege, recently inspected the nine-

,year-old forestry plantings in Ottawa

icounty. During the nine years, west-

ern yellow pine has made a growth

of from eight to ten feet; Scotch pine,

Norway spruce, two feet;

white pine, four feet; yellow willow,

thirty feet; and Carolina poplar, forty

ifeet. On sand blow areas where some

of these plantings had been made,

there were drifts of sand from ten tc

fifteen feet high behind the trees.





 





Hugo T. Swanson, Delta county clut

agent, reports that a successful clul:

tour was held in the county. Stops

were made to inspect one field where

hay was being cured by the Danish

method and to examine an area where

the Canadian thistles were heavily in-

fested with thistle worms. Judging

and demonstration contests for the

club members filled the remaining

time in a busy day.





 





Demonstrations to show methods 01

controlling pear blight are giving fine

results in Allegan county.





 





Plans have been completed, and

some work done toward testing for

tuberculosis all the hogs and poultry

in one Hillsdale county township.





 





A thirty per cent infestation of corn

borer is reported in some Mam}:

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VOLUME CLXVII





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 





 

 





   

 





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A Practical Journal for the Rural Family





MICHIGAN SECTION THE CAPPER FARM PRESS





 





 





QUALITY

RELIABILITY

[SERVICE





NUMBER XIV





 





 





 





 





 





Importance of Pullet selection





If C at: Profit: to Feed Non-producers Tnmagn lne sz’nler





AN you pick out your profitable



producers before or about the



time the pullets start laying?

We used to think it couldn’t be done,

but now we have come to the conclu-

sion that it can be done. In one case,

a poultryman had 400 pullets out of

which eighty were selected as being

unprofitable. He wanted to 'be con-

vinced, so kept them separate, but the

next July when they were culled, sev-

enty—five out of the eighty culls came

from the eighty that had been culled

out as pullets.



However, one will ask, “How do you

select pullets? You cannot tell any-

thing about the number of eggs they

will lay before they start, can you?”



The interesting part of it all is, that

you cantell. In the first place, the





birds should reach physical maturity,





before they start to lay, and the best

time to. select the‘pullets is just when

they are coming to come into produc-

tion. By physical maturity is meant

their size. Leghorn pullets should

weigh three and one~half pounds;

Rocks, six pounds; R. I. Reds and

Wyandottes, five and one-half pounds;

Orpingtons, seven pounds. In other

words, if your Plymouth Rocks com-

mence to lay when they weigh about

four pounds, they haven’t reached

their physical maturity—hue to forc-

ing too much with high protein foods,

or due to the strain that you have.

Such birds will very seldom reach

standard weights, and may break

down under high production.





Next to consider is sexual maturity

in other words, when the pullet come

mences to lay. We hear numerous in-

stances now of Leghorns commencing

to lay from four months old up, and

one Plymouth Rock at Michigan State





HE characters in the following



conversation are an inspector, a



dealer by the name of Mr. John-

son, and a. farmer whom we will call

Mr. Jones.





Mr. Johnson—“Holy smoke, there

comes that potato inspector. Say,

George, brush the dirt off those scales

and watch those frosted and fork-cut

potatoes. He is as particular as the

Old Harry. He made us regrade al-

most a whole car the last time he Was

here, and I don’t want anything more

of that. I was mad, but I guess he

saved us a rejection at the other end,

at that, for the market went off just

after we shipped that car. Say, George,





' look and see if those scales balance





all right. I hope he doesn’t find those

sacks out of Pete Smith's load. The

rest are good, but—~”





. Inspector, entering—“Good morning;

Mr. Johnson. HOW is everything go-

ing this morning? How did that car

go through the other day? 0. K.?





, That’s fine. .The market broke consid-

' Bram” On know, and I just wondered.





 

 





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. Wilma trauma from Lansing come





By James P. Hoekzema





College started to lay at three months

and twelve days, but she didn’t have

the size to stand up under production,

so died before she was a year old.

Ordinarily, pullets should commence

to lay between the ages of five and

six months. It is not advisable to

keep birds that do not lay until after

they are seven months old. If Leg-

horns, or any breed in the American

class, do not lay by the time they are

210 days old, they seldom will pay for

themselves. It would be better to sell

and obtain the money for meat, rather

than pay their board bill for another

year or so.





The third thing to consider is con-

stitutional vigor. In other words, the

birds must be strong and healthy,





 





have lots of vitality, must be free from

disease or parasites, and should be

very active. At the present time, when

we are confining our birds so closely,

when we force them with high pro—

tein feeds, and many times with lights,

when we often breed from the pullets,

the birds need a lot of constitutional

vigor to stand up under a year’s pro-

duction, and. in some flocks one often

sees many birds that either die, break

down, or become diseased from too

much egg produciton—due to lack of

constitutional vigor.





Closely associated with constitution-

al vigor is body conformation. The





back should be broad back of the

shoulders, because this

with a large heart.





is correlated

The width should





 





 





 





Careful Selection is a Great Factor in Profitable Poultry Production.





A ' Potato Conversation





When Give: Me Inspector’s Viewpoint ofrne Importance of Grade Standard;

By 0. K. White





sacks in it, an unscrupulous receiver is

not nearly so apt to ’kick it over,’ and

if he does try it, you have a much

‘better chance to sell it to someone

else, or to re~consign it to some other

market and let that fellow ‘reject’ it

if he wants to.”



“Say, Mr. Jones, hold up a little, do

not empty those sacks onto the grader'

so fast. This stock runs so coarse and

dark, and there are a lot of fork cuts

and sunburn in it. These fellows can’t

get them out as they should, if they

are going to put up U. S. 'No. 1 grade.

Can’t you realize that you are making

Mr. Johnson get potatoes into those

sacks that ought not to be there? You

can force him to violate the law by

hurrying him so.”



Mr. Jones—“What! You say those

potatoes are not good, and ought to

come out? Man aliVe, those potatoes

are good enough for anybody. You

can pare that stuff off and the rest of

them are as good as any. Say, did

yOu e‘ver raise potatoes? You white-





around here and try to tell us farmers

what to do. We will have to grow

these potatoes in molds and sandpaper

them before you get through with us.

We have to take home a third of our

loads now. I hope these city people

will get good and hungry some of

these days. I’ve a notion to cut out

raising potatoes, altogether. " Those

guys down there that passed that law

ought to get kicked out next ’lection

and somebody go down there that

knows their business.” .

Inspector—“No, my dear man, I do

not raise many potatoes. I haven’t

since I- was a boy at home, but I have

learned a lot about raising and grad-

ing potatoes during the last few years,

and if you will just lay that sack of

potatoes down and come over, here a

few minutes, I’ll show you some

things you hadn’t thought of before.

“I’ll just cut a. slice out of this po-

tato. Do you see that dark ring just

inside of the skin—about an eighth to

a. third of an inch thick? That part





of the potato contains the protein, min-





 





be carried well back, and the quarters

should be long and wide, as this

means more capacity. The back should

be free from a layer of fat. The ribs

should be long, deep, and open. They

should not be rounding, as then the

bird is apt to be beefy, but they

should be carried back more like the

ribs of a good dairy cow—which is

very different from the ribs of a good

beef animal. The breast bone, or keel

bone, should be long and slightly arch-

ed upward. The pelvic bones should

not be covered with fat—neither

should they be too thin, as paper.

thick pelvic bones are often associat—

ed with lack of vigor or strength. A

good thing to remember about body

conformation is that the broader the

back and the deeper the body, the

quicker the hen can produce an egg.





Another very important factor in

selecting pullets is the head classifica-

tion. There are six different kinds of

heads, namely, crowheaded, overly re-

fined, rcfined, beefy, lacking charac-

ter, and masculine. The crowheaded

bird is rather shallow through the

head, with a long and narrow skull

and a sunken eye. All crowheaded

birds are not equally poor producers,

but usually they have low vitality and

are among the first to become diSeas-

ed, are slow maturing, have a low

winter egg production, and a low an-

nual production, and often have de-

formed wings or feathers that are long

and narrow.





The next type is the overly—refined.

These birds usually have rather small

heads, and also small bodies. The-

head is well formed, with an outstand-

ing eye, but it is too small. These

birds usually are the first to develop



(Continued on page 331).





eral salts, some carbohydrates, etc.,

the most valuable part of the potato

—While the light central portion is

mostly starch and water and does not

have nearly as much food value. You

see, if potatoes are rough or badly

misshapen, or affected with deep scab,

growth cracks, fork cuts, grub eaten

holes and the like, the housewife has

to pare so deeply that she throws

away in the parings most, if not all,

of that real .food value. Sometimes it

is necessary to pare away a third to

a half of the potatoes. That is Why

the consumer is learning to ask for

smooth, medium- sized potatoes, and

why it is real economy to buy good

potatoes and either bake them or boil

them with their jackets on. In that

way all of the best part of the pota-

to is saved and eaten.



“Such potatoes as those you were

arguing about are not No. 1 potatoes,

and we cannot let them go into sacks

tagged or branded U. S. No. 1.



“We do not say they cannot be sold

or shipped. ' It is simply this—that no

potatoes which have defects or shape

which necessitates more than an ap-



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VOLUME CLXVIl NUMBER FOURTEEN





DETROIT, OCT. 2, 1926





CURRENT COMMENT

TOUR of the corn





 





 





tad in borer infested

Sh by 8 areas of Ohio, Michi-

t e or" gan and Ontario has

Borer just been completed.





Over 200 men, includ-

ing deans, agronomists, entomolo-

gists, and farm mechanics from col-

leges and departments of agriculture

from Nebraska to New Jersey, those

concerned with the enforcement of

regulations and other interested per-

sons besides the news and agricultur-

al press, traveled in this caravan.





Dean Curtis, of Iowa, declared to

this group at Chatham, Ontario, that

he considered the corn borer present-

ed to us the greatest problem that

American agriculture has ever faced.

Certainly the damage now being

wrought in the scattering fields of Es-

sex county, Ontario, is most discour-

aging.



The men were greatly impressed

and depressed with the rapid spread

of the insect, as well as the ability of

the borer to so completely destroy a

corn crop. In Ohio the borer has

shoved its habitat to the south and

westward. Four counties in Indiana

are now in the infested zone. The

season has added seven counties in

Michigan to the infested area.





No very definite progress has been

made in developing satisfactory con-

trol methods. While work in parasitic

breeding is advancing, entomologists

hold out no hope for relief from this

source for years to come. The en-

gineers are working hard on ma-

chines that Will destroy the borer

when the crop is grown, but these ma-

chines are only in their experimental

stage.





Low-cutting of the stubble, the en-





\THE MICHIGA\





siloing or shredding of the‘ crop, the

cleaning up of all crop remnants and

destroying by burning before the bor-

ers pupate in the spring, these seem

still to be the favored means of con-

trolling this pest.



To many of those present, it seemed

that in the future it will be necessary

to practice cleaner farming than we

have been following. Should the corn

borer force us in self-defense to clean

up the premises thoroughly after each

crop year, the results may not be so

disastrous as we may think. Many

benefits in the way of controlling oth-

er pests and crop diseases, as well as

in the reduction of weeds, would like-

ly result from such procedure. Pos-

sibly clean farming may prove to be

the most economical farming. This

possibility, we hope, might be realized,

and if such is the case, then the corn

borer may be a blessing under heavy

mourning.





LEVEN Michigan





Master farmers graduat-



ed into Master-farm-

Farmer ership on September

Movement 22, because they pass-





ed the rigid qualifica-

tions necessary to attain that honor.

Thus they became the first in this

state to gain what might be termed

the M. F. degree in the school of ex-

perience.



Why shouldn’t there be degrees and

honors available outside of academic

lines? Life itself is a school in which

we all learn, but some learn more

readily than others. And to those who

can learn and apply what they have

learned, the rewards should go.



The success of these Master Farmer

“graduating exercises” was even

greater than those closely connected

with the event thought possible. Many

men, prominent in public life, came to

the banquet with a. vague idea of what

the thing was all about. All went

away enthusiastic over the possibili-

ties‘ of the Master Farmer movement.



Nothing was more convincing as to

What this movement might mean than

the “graduates” themselves. A look

at this group of men easily convinced

one that they were masters in wrest-

ing success from the soil, and from

life itself. Their modest and pointed

responses upon the receipt of the hon-

or were the events of the evening.





These Master Farmers have already

organized so that they may work col-

lectively in behalf of the advancement

of farming in Michigan. The spirit in

which they have taken this honor, and

the inspiration they have received

from it assures one that the Master

Farmer movement will be, as Presi-

dent Butterfield has said, a new chap-

ter in Michigan agriculture.





UNITED front for





Physically child health is

Fit at one of America’s fore-

most necds, in the



Ten opinion of one of our

noted health special-



ists. But, that we have a. job on our





hands to accomplish this, was brought

to light in a recent health survey in

one of our neighboring states.

“Small children can get along. If

they are not well, they are either

lazy or they need castor oil,” is the

attitude of the many parents on pre-

ventive medicine, the report says.

Children under ten years of age re-

ceived less medical care than those

of any other group. There were also

more individuals, in the communities

surveyed, less than ten years old than

in any other ten-year-age group. Only

twenty-one per cent of these children

had medical attention of any kind.

Of the young people ten to nineteen

years of age in the areas surveyed,

thirty-nine per cent received medical,

dental, - or optical attention; from

twenty to twenty-nine years, fifty-six

per cent; and thirty to thirty-nine





years, fifty-eight per cent had care. In

these age groups, boys under nineteen

received more medical attention than

girls. Over nineteen, the girls were

most often attended medically.



’According to this survey, the child

up to ten years old is left conspicu-

ously in the background, as regards

medical attention. But if we are to

raise our standard of national health,

we must begin with our children—our

ten-year—olds. In their plastic age, if

we give them careful medical atten:

tion, inspire them with the ideal and

vision of health, establish health hab-

its which reinforce that vision, we

have given such momentum that the





stream of health is most likely to flow.





on through life.





T is pleasing to



Farmers, note from our

Bank Washington news re-



_ ports that farmers



Owners are becoming owners



of the Federal Land



Bank stock. In eight of the ten land





banks, the farm borrowers have

bought all of the stock the federal

treasury held. These farm borrowers

become part owners of the bank be-

cause they are allowed to acquire

stock equal to five per cent of their

borrowings. It is evident that this

will give the farmers a voice in the

control of the banks from which they

can borrow.



It is a healthy sign that farmers

throughout the Country are in a posi-

tion at this time to acquire bank

stock. It is a certain indication that

farming is rapidly recovering. In gen-

eral, this is just another Sign along

the road that farming is coming into

its own.





URING the past





Michigan few weeks Ches-

Farmers on ter Gray, Washington



. . representative of the

Legtstlalon American Farm Bu-





reau, held meetings in

various parts of our state to get some

idea of the thoughts of farmers on

national issues. He found out that

we Michigan folks are unitedly in

favor of legislation on truth-in-fabrics,

the use of Muscle Shoals for public

benefit, a standard container bill, and

similar measures. But in regard to

farm relief measures, we are still seek-

ing more light, although we think

some farm relief measure might be

beneficial.



It is a healthy sign for Michigan

agriculture that our farmers are in-

terested in those measures which will

be constructive in their effects, but

are somewhat hazy in their ideas re-

garding those which might be termed

by some to be “charity measures.”





HAT expression





Carrying refers to the folly

Coals to of taking something

to a. place where



New Ca8tle there is already an





abundance of it. The

expression is old; the practice is old

also. In these days of efficiency we

would think that the practice would be

obsolete, but it is not.



The other day we had a. conversa-

tion with Verne, Church, the state

statistician. He told of going to res-

taurants in the fruit district at the

height of the fruit harvest, and order-

ing fruit, then getting nothing but or-

anges. Peaches and melons were

plentiful at the roadside stands sur-

rounding the town, but a search of

the grocery stores revealed some

green shipped-in peaches and no mel-

ons. \



When people tour through a section

which produces such eatable things as

peaches and melons, the sight of them

creates an appetite for them. Then

to go to a. restaurant or a store in

town and not find any is disappoint-

ing. Such a condition is really detri-





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mental to the country in which it ex-

ists, for strangers will long remember

that they could not appease their ap-

petites when there Was an abundance





- around.





One might think that the roadside

stand competition might be a factor

in this condition. But that is not en‘

tirely so, as this condition existed be

fore we had roadside stands.





In this country the spread between

the price the producer gets and that

Which the consumer pays is nearly

double that in Enrope. We are not

going to lessen this spread as long as

our merchants continue to do such

things as selling imported apples for

two dollars a bushel, when our Duch‘

esses are selling for forty cents on the

local market. The handling of our

food products will become more effi-

cient after we have stopped the prac«

tice of carrying coals to New Castle.





Bed





Y friend, Mr. Webster, what wrote



the Book 0’ Words, says a bed is

a articul 0’ furniture what is used ta

sleep ‘or rest on or in. He says, too,

it maybe is a straw mattress or some-

thin’ soft ta lay, or lie, in, I don’t

know which. It’s always hard for me

ta tell when ta lay or ta lie. I know

hens lay in soft nests, so I guess it

must be lay. Anyhow, there’s one

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time when I’m not lyin’,

when I’m in bed sleepin’.



Anyhow, a. bed is a important thing"

in life,





’cause the bed is where we

,spend about one‘

third 0’ our lives.

Sometimes I feel

like I’d like ta

spend about half

0’ my life in bed,

and sometimes I

don’t care if I

never go ta bed.

I think bed is nic-

er than workin’,

but not nicer than havin’ fun. .





There’s a funny thing about beds.

It’s awful hard fer me ta go ta bed,

spechully after I’ve had my evenin’

nap. But after I get inta it, it’s awful

hard fer me ta. get up. In the evenin’

I’m either readin’ a nice story when

Sofie tells me ta. blow out the light, or

I’m anxious ta hear what’s next on

the radio. Them radios is the great-

ust enemies beds ever had.~



But in the mornin’ it takes all 0’

the what you call will-power I got, and

Sofie’s got, too, ta get me out o’ bed.

My won’t power seems ta. work better

than anythin’ else.





I can’t say I enjoy bed very much,

’cause 'I’m sleepin’, and when I’m

sleepin’ I ain’t enjoyin’ nothin’, not

even them pleasunt dreams folkses

talk about. And I ain’t around doin’

nothin’ with nightmares and such like.

But Sofie says when it comes ta night~

ingales, I’m right there. She says I’m

a. nightingale with a base voice, and

if she don’t get ta sleep ahead 0’ me

she’s got ta. listen ta 3. all-night’s con-

cert what sounds worse ’en some 0'

that classicul music some unclassicul

folkses play. Sofie ain’t never in doubt

about me bein’ alive while I’m sleepin’.

And she says she’d never be abul ta.

die .While I’m takin’ vocul lessons,

’cause I’d wake the dead.





But anyhow, a bed is ta sleep in and

when I’m singin’ base solos, it shows

I’m happy. There’s no fun in layin’,

or lyin’, in bed and not sleepin’. It

seems ta. me these folkses what can’t

sleep ’d hate 3. bed. Anyhow, they

must have some internul disturb-

unces or they could sleep. They say

when you’re a kid you should sleep

ten hours. Well, I’m a kid yet, so I

like ta. sleep ten hours, ’cept when

there’e somethin’ goin’ on, then I’m not:

sleepy. When you sleep goOd you

ain’t wearin’ out very fast, and I ain’t:

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N September 22, eleven men,

0 tried and true farmers of the



dirt type, were officially made

charter members of the Master Farm-

er Club of Michigan. These men

through the merit they have shown in

farming, home life and community

life, were selected by a committee of

judges as those who should be en-

titled to the honor this year.



The banquet, held in the Union

Building at Michigan State College,

under the auspices of the Michigan

Farmer, was an auspicious event.

Nearly 175 men prominent in agricul-

ture, industry and business in Michi-

gan, were present "to witness the

awarding of the medals.



Many of our readers have already





I had a verbatim report of the banquet





over the radio,'as for three hours it





 





 





Senator Arthur Capper.





I was broadcasted over WKAR. So they





will know‘ much more of the event

than we can tell in these pages.

The toastmaster of the evening was





' I. R. Waterbury, manager of the Mich-





igan Farmer. In his introductory re-





‘ marks, he said he could well suit an





expression from Edgar Guest to the

qualifications necessary to become a





1 Master Farmer, “It takes a heap of

- living to make a Master Farmer.”





. Farmer.





An explanation of the Master Farm-

er movement was made by Mr. Burt

Wermuth, editor of the Michigan

He said that he learned re«

cently that the idea is not new. I. H.

Butterfield, father of President Butter-

field, of Michigan State College, had

told him that the Michigan Agricul—

tural Society offered awards to effi-

cient farmers in 1854, and that four

qualified that year.



Mr. VVermuth’s hope was that from

the start made last year in Illinois by

Clifford Gregory, editor of the Prairie

Farmer, the 'Master Farmer movement

would become useful in promoting

sound agriculture and would continue

to grow in usefulness.



Imitation was of value for the

young, said Mr. Wermuth, and to give

due recognition, to those who had done

worthy work would set them up as

examples for the younger generations

to imitate. It was also Mr. Wermuth’s

thought . that farming in Michigan

ought to have an objective, and he

hoped that the Master Farmer Club





' would help formulate some de nite





policy in that respect; and also that

the wives of the Master Farmers

would organize to formulate a' home

policy for rural Michigan.



one of'the purposes of the Master





: Farmer movement was to cooperate

gwiithfihe college,-_.to show the value of,

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the fruits of its effort to greater use-

fulness. .



President Kenyon L. Butterfield, of

Michigan State College, in an im-

promptu speech, left no doubt in the

minds of the. listeners of his enthusi-

asm regarding this movement. He said

that he felt a bit envious that the

Michigan Farmer should get the start

of the college on a movement ‘of this

sort. He said the thoroughness with

which this plan has been worked out

assures one that those who receive

the Master Farmer honor truly merit

it. The president felt that this move-

ment was the start'of a new chapter

in Michigan agriculture.



Just the sentiment in such a recog-

nition of fine work is an inspiration,

said Congressman J. C. Ketcham. De-

spite the fact that many think cold

facts should dominate in modern

world activities, he believed that love

of someone or of something was what

spurred us on to better things. The

congressman was glad to report that

the coming congress was favorable to

those things which would put farming

on an equitable basis with industry.



The speaker of the evening was Sen-

ator Arthur Capper, of Kansas, who is

known throughout the country for his

sincere efforts in Washington in behalf

of agriculture. His modesty, his sin-

cerity and his ability to work has so

impressed the people of: his state that

he was twice their governor, and is

now serving the second term as Unit-

ed States Senator.



He stated that he had to be careful

about praising Michigan agriculture

because it might get back home; but

he could say that the eleven Master

Farmers at his table looked very much

like good Kansas farmers. He con—

gratulated the Master Farmers in win-

ning recognition in a state where ag-

riculture had made universal progress.

He felt that the Master Farmer move-





 





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ment would help greatly in advertising

Michigan agriculture.



In' his reference to congress the sen-

ator said the farm bloc, or any other

organization, could not legislate dol-

lars into the farmers’ pockets, but leg-

islation could help to give the farmer

a fairer chance. He believes in tariff

but he wanted to see the tariff fair to

every class, including the farmer. All

the presidents since Roosevelt have

urged congress to formulate a sound

national farm policy, said the senator.



Farming has not taken advantage of

organization and cooperation as other

lines have, but the movement is grow-

ing fast, he said, and at present there

are 13,000 cooperative organizations

in the nation which handles two and

one-half billion dollars worth of pro-

duce. The total farm value of farm

products is about ten billion dollars,

but the consumer has to pay about

thirty billion for it. The cost of dis-

tribution is too great here. In Europe

conditions in this regard are more

favorable. In Denmark, for instance,

the farmers get seventy-two per cent

of the consumer’s dollar, while here

we get‘about thirty—five cents.



The senator did not think that there

would be any strife between the in-

dustrial east and the agricultural west,

as big business men were realizing

more and more that a profitable agri-

culture was necessary for the national

welfare. Mr. Capper mentioned the

great benefits we have gained from

the auto and the radio. He felt sure

that the farmer was getting more out

of these two modern wonders than

anyone else, for they put him in touch

with things outside his local commu-

nity. '



Of all the public jobs he has had,

Mr. Capper liked best that as regent

of the University. He has always been

interested in agricultural college ac—

tivities and is especially interested in

boys’ and girls’ club work. At present

he is in partnership with about one

thousand boys in hog raising. In all





 





 





 





 





 





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the time he has been interested in

this club feature, he has advanced

$200,000 and has had losses to the neg-

ligible amount of $300.



Mr. Wermuth, who has been respon-

sible for the introduction of the Mas-

ter Farmer movement in this state,

awarded the medals. With very ap—

propriate remarks, he introduced those

honored, telling of their farms and

their activities. They were introduced

in alphabetical order. The outstand-

ing feature of the responses of most of

the men honored was modesty.



Ralph Arbogast, of Union City, in

his acceptance of the medal felt there

was some mistake, but he knew that

this honor would give him inspiration

and would urge him on to gain the

goal he is seeking.



Floyd M. Barden, of South Haven,

said that there must be some other

Floyd M. Barden who was entitled to

the honor. But if he was due it all, it

was, first, because of his lifetime as-

sociation with his father; second, the

benefits of a four-year course at M.

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Michigan Farmer.



Paul C. Clement, of Britton, said

that whatever success he has had in

his special line of growing seed corn,

and his other farming activities was

due to a great extent to the coopera-

tion the college has given him.



A. B. Cook, of Owosso, in accepting

the medal, told of the old farmer on a

side road who had not been to the

main road for several years. When

he came to the highway with his ox

team he saw the sign, “Speed Limit

Fifteen Miles Per Hour.” Then he

said to his team, “Giddap Buck, Gid-

dap Brindle, we’ll have to try to meet

the requirements.” Mr. Cook said that

watching‘ for a favorable time to mar-

ket with reference to prices was a

great factor in his success.



Garfield Farley, of Albion, said that

they have made a go of farming be-

cause of their love of the work. He

and his brother were constantly dis-

cussing ways and means of getting

better results. 1





M. E. Farley, brother of Garfield,





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said that his wife and ’brother did all

the talking, and that' his wife had

been kidding him about listening to

his speech of acceptance over the

radio. But ,he said this was one time

when she would have to listen and

could not talk back.



Frank Kinch, of Grindstone City,

was sure that the judges had made a

mistake. He had come from a former

lumbering country and was left on his

own resources at twelve years of age.

Whatever he has accomplished was

due to hard work, and especially to

the inspiration and help his wife has

given him.



C. S. Langdon, from Hubbardston,

felt. that the greatest benefits that

would accrue from these honors would

be to those who received them, in that

the hon-or would spur them on to real-

ize even higher ideals.





C. R. Oviatt, of Bay City, said that

he understood that a melon obtained

in an illegitimate and undeserved way

was as fully appreciated, if not more

so, than one justly obtained. He was

sure, therefore, that he would appre-





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ciate the honors conferred upon him

just as much as if he had deserved





them. He said that he was one who





rode on the wave of the success of his

father. He classified himself as a dirt

farmer, and generally a very dirty one.



M. E. Parmelee, who farms at Hil-

liards, was afraid that he could not

get used to the term, Master Farmer.

After thirty-five years of farming, he

found that he was just beginning to

learn to farm. He had no college ed-

ucation, but has made good use of

what the college brought to him. He

felt that the Master Farmers had a.

great responsibility placed upon them,

as they now had to live up to the rep‘

utation they had gained.



H. F. Probert, of Jackson, appreci-

ated the honor, but felt that he was

not entirely worthy of it. For twenty-

five years he has put his shoulder to

the wheel to unselfishly help farming,

he said.



This banquet, which many who at«

tended said was a memorable event in

Michigan agriculture, closed with the

singing of one stanza of America.





 





 





 





LATE AGRICULTURAL NEWS





 





 





 





 





 





RADIO SCHOOL POPULAR.





 





NIB-HALF million applications for



membership in the United. States

radio farm school, which the depart—

ment of agriculture is organizing to

begin operations October 4, have been

received up to date. Classes will be

held weekly. and will include experi-

ence talks and imaginary inspection

tours. Bureau chiefs and specialists

in various agricultural subjects will

give lectures. The class programs

will broadcasted from 100 broadcast-

ing stations.

LONG RANGE WEATHER FORE-



CASTING.





 





HE theory that changes in the



sun’s heat produce decided chang—

es in the weather, is backed by ap-

parently conclusive evidence in a

statement made public by the Smith—

sonian Institution. A second year of

long range forecasting of actual tem-

1..+ratures for the city of New York,

based on solar radiation data, has

been completed, with gratifying re—

sults. The forecasts were made daily

five days in advance.

on the average, 188 days predicted

normal weather, were so within one-

half of one degree. It is claimed that

no one else has ever ventured to pre-

dict the exact temperature of a defi-

nite spot for a definite day, five days

in advance, and submitted forecasts

four days before they came, to an

outside world for verification.





 





AGRICULTU RAL EXPORTS

INCREASING.





EWSPAPE’RS and public speakers



are deploring the dwindling for-

eign demand for American agricultur-

al products. Nevertheless, there has

been a marked increase lately in the

foreign demand for American cereals.

During the period from July 1, 1926,

there were exported 2,548,000 bushels

of corn and 58,087,000 bushels of

wheat, compared with 1,963,000 bush-

els of corn and 19,459,000 bushels of

wheat exported during the same pe-

riod last year.





 





 





NEVVmFARM RELIEF.





 





HE new farm relief plan which



Secretary of Agriculture Jardine

is reported to have worked out since

his return from his western trip, has

failed to arouse any thrilling excite-

ment among the farmer leaders in

Washington. It contemplates the pool—

ing of agricultural products to main.-

tain prices, which is said to be “a new

(199,111 this ,country”-—-—especially with





They show that‘





farm organizations. Even with the

liberal interpretation of the Capper-

Volstead act, the department of jus-

tice might find somewhere in the anti—

trust laws, a legal objection to such a

proposal.



The pools would be financed by the

government. Commodity cooperatives

would unite in a pool of their par-

ticular farm product, withholding it

from the market if prices were not

satisfactory. It would combine the

grouping of commodity cooperatives

with a system of financing which

would be the extension of the agri-

cultural credit corporation system.





GLASSIE GOES ON TARIFF

COMMISSION.





 





NOTWITHSTANDING considerable

opposition from members of his

own party, Henry H. Glassie of Mary-

land, has been reappointed. as a mem-

ber of the United States Tariff Com-

mission by President Coolidge. It

has been charged by» the minority

party that while the law requires that

the members shall be appointed





equally from each of the two political

parties, the appointments have gone

to men who hold the same views on

the tariff question as those held by

the administration, regardless of

party. Mr. Glassie, however, declares

that he will be actuated by the belief

that the tariff act should be carried

out in accordance with the views of

Congress and not by any theory of

politics.





News of the Week





J. J. Tunney, commonly known as

lene, won the heavyweight champion-

ship from Jack Dempsey at Philadel-

phia, September 23. The bout lasted

the limit of ten rounds, but in nearly

every round Tunney had the advan-

tage. Tunney learned boxing while

in the Marines during the war.



Three hundred who were arrested

in Rome in connection with the recent

attempt ’to bomb the Italian Premier,

Mussolini, have been freed.





The personal campaign expenses of

the candidates for governor, Groes-

beck and Green, were nearly equal.

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There is a growing sentiment in

Poland against the semi—dictatorship

of Minister of War Pilsudski.



The ownership and registration of

autos has increased 10.8 per cent in

the past year. The per cent of in-

crease in Michigan was 24.3, which is

only exceeded by that of Florida,

which had a 76.2 per cent increase.





There is a report that along the

Paris boulevards, there is a revolt

against bobbed hair, and that flowing

locks are again the style.





“Punch,” England’s famous humor-

ous magazine, has decided to banish

whiskey advertisements from its col-

umns.





Mrs. Wm. Mattila, of Calumet,

Michigan, recently gave birth to twins.

Just two years ago she had triplets.





A hurricane which started in the

West Indies, ‘hit southeastern Florida,

mainly at Miami, on September 20,

and nearly wiped out many of the

towns there. Approximately 2,000

were killed and about $150,000,000

worth of damage done to property. All

but the very strongest buildings in

Miami have been damaged. This is

one of the worst storms experienced

in America. Four million dollars have

been asked for relief purposes.





The giant Sikorsky airplane which

was to have been used for a New York

to Paris non-stop flight, was wrecked

when it attempted to start on its trip

September 20. In its attempt to rise,

it tipped and crashed to the ground.

Two were killed.





When the new diamond fields of Jo-

hannesburg, South Africa, were open-

ed, aspirants for the property were

kept a certain distance from the fields.

At the word they ran and staked out

their favorite spots. It has been

learned that expert runners were hir-

ed by some companies to get favorite

spots. Fifteen thousand took part in

the run.





Mark N. and Frank H. Williams,

brothers, have been selected by Sen-

ator Couzens, of Detroit, to run his

1,000-acre farm, near Orchard Lake,

on a rent-free and tax-free basis.





Michigan State College started its

school year on September 21 with an

enrollment of nearly 2,300.





Earl Brennan, United States vice-

consul in Rome, was beaten by black

shirt Fascist militia, and left uncon-

scious in the streets of Rome. Amer—

ica’s immigration policy is supposed

to be the cause of the feeling.





The world’s largest dirigible, Its-1,

visited Detroit and Selfridge Field on

September 18. ‘





Norman Derham swam the English

Channel in thirteen hours and fifty-six

minutes, and won the $5,000 prize of-

fered by Lord Riddell to the British

citizen who could beat the time made

by Gertrude Ederle.





A Mohammedan funeral was‘given

Jacob Islamoff, aviation mechanic who





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plane crashed and, burned up at Roose-





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as well be yours?.



And at Ward’s a Saving in price is a real

saving. Because at Ward’s, Quality is Main-



_ tained. We do not sell “job lots,” “seconds,”

and “bankrupt stocks.” We never sacrifice

quality to make a low price. We guarantee

everything we sell to be fresh, new merchan-

dise of reliable quality.



(You have a copy of this book, or a neighbor

has. Use it. Take full advantage of all the sav-

ings that may just as well be yours. See for

yourself what millions of our customers find—

that your real savings are bigger, and that it is

more satisfactory to send all your orders to

Ward’s.





   

 

 

 





Your orders are shipped

within 24 hours





Your orders will be shipped within

24 hours. That saves time. Be-

sides, one of our seven big houses

is near to you. Therefore, your

letter reaches us quicker. Your

goods go to you quicker. It is

quicker and cheaper, and more

satisfactory to send all your orders

to Ward’s.





ESTABLISHED 1872





Montgomeinard 8C0





The Oldest Mail. Order House is Today 'the’Most Progressive





Chicago Kansas City St. Paul ' Baltimore Portland, Ore. Oakland, Calit. Fort Worth





 

 





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Blue Ribbon Boots





are made of high-quality

rubber—flexible, long-wear-

ing. They have sturdy gray

soles, uppers red or black—in

knee to hip lengths





OU can stretch a strip of rubber cut from the



upper of any “ U.S.” Blue Ribbon boot 5 times

its own length! That means fine rubber—and longer

'wear on the farm.





Only the finest sole could match these uppers. .

The gray sole of the “US.” Blue Ribbon boot is

oversize—tough as a tire tread.





And in every “US.” Blue Ribbon boot, at every vital

point, from 4 to 11 separate layers of tough rubber and

fabric reinforcements are built in. On any job, this boot

stands up! “US.” Blue Ribbon boots and

overshoes fit better, look better, wear better.

Get a pair—and notice the difference.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





United States Rubber Company





The “ U.S.”

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slips on right over your shoes.

Its smooth rubber surface





washes clean like a boo t. Ei-

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TESTING FUSES.





 





HE difference between a normal

fuse and one that has blown is

readily evident, for the break is usu-

ally very obvious. If the fuse has not

blown and still appears to be defec-

tive, it can be tested with a test lamp.

This consists of a small six—volt lamp

such as is used in the lighting sys-

tem, having a socket and two wires.

Hold the fuse in one hand with one

test light wire on one metal cap of

the fuse, and with, the same hand

touch the other metal cap to one bat-

tery terminal or source of current.

If the other test lamp Wire is touched

to the other battery terminal or

source 'of current, the lamp will light

if the fuse is not defective.





SUBSTANTIAL JACK.

Y following the directions given on

the accompanying cut, it will be

possible for anyone who has a knack

with the saw and hammer, to have a

serviceable jack for the wagon or the





 





 

 





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automobile. This jack is always ready

and has the advantage of not being

easily tipped over when under a load.





LOOSE WOODEN WH EELS.





 





HE usual remedy for loose wooden

wheels is to soak them in water,

but this is often only a temporary

remedy. When a wheel is loose it

needs paint, and if it is swollen with





not adhere to the damp wood. A bet-

ter method is first to see that the

wood is thoroughly dry. Then. give it

a bath of hot linseed oil. This will

swell the wheel. Then paint it and

the paint will stick.





WHEN THE PISTON SIEZES.





 





IN case the engine overheats and the

piston seizes, the best substance to

loosen it is kerosene. Gasoline is

more penetrating, but it cuts the oil

and leaves the cylinder dry. If oil is

used afterward, it should be used spar-

ingly, as it carbonizes readily when

placed in the combustion chamber.





PLASTERING HOUSE FOR

PERMANENCE.





 





Please let me know what you con-

sider the best mixture for plastering

a log building made of tamarack logs

laid lengthwise with cedar chinking,

for inside and outside. plastering.

Some masons advise to use a portion

of pulp plaster and sand on the out-

side, while some advise not to use

pulp plaster outside on account of

weather affecting it._——R. R.





The proper mixture to use would

seem to depend entirely on how much

permanence you wish to use. A mix-

ture of sand and pulp plaster outside

will give considerable service in spite

of the weather, but will probably let

water into the logs, rotting the logs

and causing the" plaster to scale off.

If you want a permanent job, it seems

tome that it would be advisable to

chink all crevices and hollows with

clay or with pulp plaster, then tack

on galvanized wire fencing, and cover

with waterproof cement stucco. This

will make practically a permanent

job and will keep the logs sound for

a lifetime, and the cost will be very

little more than for a cheap job that





 





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water and then painted, the paint will’





   

 





 

 





will not be satisfactory. Directions

for stucco work can be secured from

the Portland Cement Association, Chi-

cago, 111., or from any, of the leading

cement firms. The inside can be fin«

ished with ordinary plaster or with

any of the standard inside finishes——

Dickerson.





RIGHT WAY TO STAPLE FENCE

WIRES.





 





Y watching a fence put up or by

B examining fences already built,



one finds that many farmers (10

not know how to staple fence wires.

properly. And yet this is a point of

value in the service of the fence.



Contrary to a very common belief

the wire should not be stapled tight

to the post. I remember when as a

boy I had the job of driving the

staples, I thought I was doing it just

right by driving each staple down so

tight that the wires were crushed into-

the wood, but I know now that this

method was just the wrong thing to

do. What are some of the bad re‘

sults? ‘



For one thing, the wire is badly

injured just under the staple, a point

where it needs the greatest strength.

Driving the staple down tight upon it

kinks the wire short, putting a severe

strain on the side next to the post and

often cracking or scaling the galvan-

izing. This opens up a place‘for cor-

rosion to attack the metal, increased

by the facts that moisture is held in

the crushed wood fibers under tire

wire for a considerable time after the

wire and the surface of the post dries

off, and also that many wooden posts

at least have weak acids that injuri-

ously affect the wire in the presence

of moisture.



Also having the wire stapled down

tightly localizes the damage of flexing

or bending the wire as the fence vi.

brates back and forth through wind

pressure. We all know how destruc«

tive this flexing is to wires, especially

if the steel contains too high a per

centage of carbon or is otherwise im-

pure. If the wires are loosely held,

this very short flexing is changed to

more of a wave motion running into

the next panel, which has little or no

destructive bending effect.



The idea I had in tightening down

the staples at each post was to make

each post and panel of the fence take

care of its own stresses and strains;

but this idea is wrong, even if it

would work out. The proper plan,

when a horse or a bull charges the

fence, is not to localize the strain on

that particular panel and posts but to

spread it over at least a dozen panels.



This allows each one to give

slightly and the impact is absorbed

Without damage, whereas, if localized

to one panel, the fence would probably

be broken. /Fortunately, however, the

wire will slip to some extent no mat-

ter how tightly stapled, and being

tight simply prevents it from acting

so freely as it should.



No, the proper method of stapling

wire for any type of fence is to drive

the staples in just far enough to pre-

vent side motion, but still allow the

wire to slip through the staple easily.

The line posts are intended only to

hold the wires at the proper height

and to resist side thrust. All tension

or end pull must be taken care of by

means of heavy end posts securely

anchored against heaving and pro-

tected against giving by proper brac-

ing against one or more other posts.

At least every 80'rods and preferably

every 40 rods a heavy tension post

should be put in and the wires

wrapped around this in such a. way

that this 80 or_4(}rod part will set as

a unit to withstand any ishocks which

may come against iL—W, D. .
,, Ill/[MI]; .1;

““$ ”xi”;

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on can make Radiola .‘ZO

ay for itself 1n better crops





OT HER progressive farmers are do-

ing it—some who bought Radi-

ola 20 primarily to please the women





folk.





Mother and daughter thought it

would liven things up a bit. Clean-

ing,cooking,dishwashing,housework

——same routine every day. Yes, they





needed a little cheer and music and





sermons, too,. from nearby and dis-

tant cities.





And then the men began to find that

there was something else coming over

the Radiola 20, something mighty in-

teresting, and instructive and profit-

able. Something which, if it had been

available when Abraham Lincoln was

a struggling youth, would have been

eagerly drained, day and night, until





@ RCA—“Radiola





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his thirst for knowledge had been

quenched.





How to nurse the soil, and make it

yield its gifts more generously. Prices

of grain, livestock and dairy prod-

uCts, checked day by day, so that in-

dividual farmers may know the time

when it is advantageous to sell, or

better to wait. Radiola 20——pre—emi-





 





Radiola 20, with five Radiotrons, $115

RCA Loudspeaker 100, $35





nently the farm set—not just some-

thing new, but tried, tested and per-

fected by RCA. Representing the best

laboratory experience of General Elec-

tric and Westinghouse as well—this

set brings all the wealth of expert

agricultural knowledge into the farm

homes, clearly, naturally, as though

the head of the agricultural college

had dropped in for a chat with you

personally.





Dry batteries, single tuning control,

a power Radiotron in the last stage,

Radiola 20 is the last word in clarity

and dependability. When you buy

Radiola 20 you are not buying an

experiment but a proved result. It

will pay for itself in profitable knowl-

edge and increased happiness.





thori ed

Dealer )





   





 





MADE BY THE MAKERS OF THE RADIOTRON





 





Buy w_it/J confidence

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER





 





 





OCT. 2. 1926.





 





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Tl IICR progressive farmers are do-

ing it some who hought' Rndi~

01:1 20 primarily to please the women





folk.





Mother and daughter thought it

would liven things up a hit. (Ilean-

ing,cooking,dishwashing,housework

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PUBLIC SCALES.





 





Can anyone with a public service

scales refuse to weigh for anyone at

whom he gets disgruntled? Is there

any recourse whereby a. refusal occa-

sions a. loss?—H. E. B.





We are not aware of any statute re-

quiring license from a person charg-

ing for the use of scales by the pub-

lic. It is not a natural monopoly and

we are not aware of any obligation of

the owner of such instruments to serve

all comers, like persons holding them-

selves out as hotel keepers or common

carriers—Rood.





 





LIABLE FOR CARE OF WIFE.





 





My sister has tuberculbsis and has

been unable to work for over ayear.

When she was first taken sick her hus-

band refused to get a. doctor until she

compelled him to. I took care of her

for over a year. Now that she is at

her home, her husband refuses to get

her any of the foods she needs. He

expects her to go to work when she

isn’t able to do it. They have forty

acres of land on which there is a

small mortgage, but they have no per-

sonal property. They also have some

chickens. They have a joint deed.

There are no children. Can her hus-

band be compelled to take proper care

of her, or give her money with which

she could get proper medical atten-

tion?——R. W.



The husband is liable for the main-

tenance and medical care of the wife;

but about all the means of compelling

it are by furnishing the necessities and

taking the chance of proving in suit

against the husband that they were

necessary and he refused to provide

them.——Rood.





 





POLL CLOSING TIME.





 





What kind of time does the law

mean when they say, “Polls to close

at five o’clock?” I have been told it

was sun tlme, or six o’clock central

standard time. We went to the polls

at 5:10 fast time, and they would not

permit us to vote. Were they right in

this matter? What can be done' in

this case—O. M. S.



Session Laws 1919 No. 392, Page

691, enacts that central standard time

shall be legal time in Michigan.—

Rood.





‘MUST LIVE HERE TWO YEARS.





 





 





How long must a Canadian live in

thls country before he or she can ob-

tain a divorce?—O. T.





Suit for divorce cannot be main-

tained in the courts of Michigan until

the plaintiff has resided in the state

two years—Rood.





 





WOOD FROM STATE LAND.





 





Has a man the right to gather wood,

dead trees, and such material that has

been cut down and is wasting, from

state land? Has anyone the right to

take from the bottom of lakes, logs

that have been there for at least fif—

teen years? These lakes are govern-

ment waters—J. L. H.





This property can be taken only by

permit from the state. Write public





domain commission, Lansing—Rood.





REPAIR OF ROAD.





 





There is a public highway leading

to our place from the main road. It

is in such bad condition that in wet

weather it is impossible for cars to

go through, and at all times it is very

hard to drive on it, as it is full of

ruts. We notified the road commis-

sioner several times that the road was

in need of repairs. He examined it

one night last fall and said the road

was too wet to do anything with it,

but that he would look after it this

year. Nothing has been done. Can

we compel this work to be done?

Could we (neighbors and myself) re-

pair the work and send the bill to the

township?—W. E. H. ,



The spending of road repair money





is entirely under the direction of the





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It: Ihl;I‘r‘l:fl':l Soto-[hob]

town board and highway commission-

er. No claim could be recovered

against the town for work voluntarily

done by individuals—Rood.





POST OFFICE HOLIDAYS.





 





Have post offices a. right to close on

any holiday except a national one, I

mean Just a state holiday?—J. E. B.





The operation of the post office is

entirely under the direction‘of the

post office department at Washington:

and the post master is accountable

only to that department—Rood.





PROPERTY CONDEMNATION FOR

ROAD MATERIAL.





Has a highway commissioner the

right to condemn a gravel pit in a

man’s field and compel the man to sell

it to the town? Would it make any

difference if the owner had offered any

for sale?—W. L.





Public Acts 1925 No. 352 provides

for condemnation of property for high-

ways, and also road material. It is

believed the particular method of con-

demnation here provided is not con-

stitutional. Several suits are now on

the way to the supreme court to test

the law—Rood.





JOINT DEED.





 





If a husband and wife hold a joint

deed and the husband dies, does the

widow hold his share, or is it divided

among the heirs?—D. C.





The survivor takes the whole, and

no administration is required—Rood.





DEED DELIVERED AFTER DEATH

VOID.





 





If a deed is made to a son, Who is

of age, but it is not ‘to be delivered

until after the death of parent, would

the deed be of value?——J. J. W.





A deed not delivered during the life

of the maker is void. What consti-

tutes delivery is often a matter of dis-

pute. It may be to a third person for

the grantee—Rood.





STANDARD MICHIGAN WORK DAY.





 





What is the standard working day

in Michigan, outside of the unions?

What is the standard working month?





.What are the state laws regarding





these questions? —-—W. O’B.



Compiled Laws 1915 Sec. 5587,

enacts that in factories and workshops

and places used for mercantile and

manufacturing purposes, ten hours

shall be a day’s work, and establishes

pro rata liability for overtime. Aside

from this, and the provision for hours

on railroads, we find no statutes on

the point.~—Rood.





BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU SIGN.





 





A lady selling pictures came to my

house. She persuaded my friend and

myself to draw some sealed envelopes

containing a blank and certificate. I

drew a valued certificate which the

lady declared was worth $47 in trade.

by having two of my pictures enlarged

by her firm. When they arrived I was

to pay $15 more. Are the pictures

worth the sum? Am I compelled to

take them? My husband refuses to

give me money for them, and I haven’t

any of my own. There was no com—

pany name on the certificate. When

I drew the certificate I signed a sllp

of paper to the effect that I would pay

$15 on delivery of pictures.‘ What can

I do in this case?——-J. H.



A married woman may make a valid

contract for property to be sold and

delivered to her; and we see nothing

in this arrangement that is Exception-

al in that regard. The value of the

pictures is merely a. personal estimate

depending upon the worth the indi-

vidual puts upon them. They would

be of no commercial value to anyone

else. Manifestly the husband is not





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HIO proved itself a royal host



when the Vegetable Growers’ As-



sociation of America; met in

Cleveland recently. This nineteen-

year—old organization received a new

impetus from this splendid meeting.



This association, representing the

production of products valued at one

and a third billions of dollars, is am-

bitious to expand. For many years it

has advocated legislation of particular

interest to vegetable growers, such as

standardizatiOn of containers, seed

names, etc., but this year is the first

time an expression was made on gen-

eral farm legislation.



The convention condemned any farm

relief legislation involving subsidies,

on the grounds that it would increase

the farm surplus, increase the cost of

food used by farmers» involve costly

governmental farm machinery, and be





impossible in its application to the

smaller group of agricultural pro-

ducers.





A New Relief Suggestion.



Renick W. Dunlap, assistant secre-

tary of agriculture, who addressed the

gardeners, has a farm relief sugges—

tion of his own. Stating that this was

the open season for suggestion of farm

relief proposals, he suggested that con-

gress apply the one, two or three hun-

dreds of millions, which all the farm

relief bills carried, on the purchase of

unprofitable and marginal farming

land and retire it from production un-

til such time as production caught up

with consumption in this country. Mr.

Dunlap said that there was no dis-

agreement among the members of con-

gress about the amount of money that

would be spent by the government in

assisting agriculture, but that the dis-

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rowers ‘Meet

of T /zez'r Industry





ing it. Such land purchases, according

to Mr. Dunlap, could be returned to

forestry or grazing and that the gov-

ernment’s investment would be recov-

ered when this land was later brought

back to agricultural use.



Mr. Dunlap also gave figures from

the department of agriculture showing

the importance of the vegetable grow-

ing industry. The total value of pro-

ducts produced by,_ this industry is

$1,300,000,000, and is exceeded only by

dairy products and corn in value. In

1925, there were 556,647 carlots of the

more important vegetables, including

potatoes, that moved to market.



Other recommendations made by the

convention of gardeners include stan-

dardization of vegetable variety names

by seedsmen, a careful study of the

tariff on vegetables with a view of

protecting American growers of on-

ions, cannery tomatoes, etc.



From the standpoint of marketing

perhaps the most interesting feature

of the convention was the visit of the

delegates to the Cleveland Growers’

Marketing Company. This organiza-

tion handles a large share of the 10-

cally grown produce for the Cleveland

market. It has over 300 gardener

stockholders, owns a commission

house as well as an entire city block

in the heart of the city where such

of its members as desire may stand

and sell their own products.



This organization sponsored an ex-

tensive exhibit of vegetables at the

convention, which showed the type of

products grown by its members, and

the packages in which they are sold.

It was as fine an exhibit as we have

ever seen anywhere, of products of

this kind.



Advertising Vegetables.



Another market feature of interest

to convention visitors was the organ-

;ization of Cleveland greenhouse grow-

ers for the purpose of advertising

their products. There are over 160

acres under glass in the country sur-

rounding Cleveland producing vegeta-

bles, exceeding any county in the Unit-

ed States, and the growers have

banded together and raised a fund to

sell the healthfulness of their prod-

ucts to Cleveland housewives. The

posters and advertising, circulars and

newspaper advertising done by this as-

sociation are now a familiar picture in

Cleveland. This year the fund for ad-

vertising purposes exceeds $10,000.



The displays at the convention were

the finest ever held, and presented sev-

eral new features. Boys and girls took

a. prominent part for the first time in

history, and Cuyahoga county won

first in the county displays of vegeta-

bles, with Lake county second, Hamil-

ton county third, and Knox county





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Canada won both the cauliflower

and celery championship of the world

in the contests staged at the conven-

tion. K. de Jong, of Winnipeg, Man-

itoba, was adjudged the cauliflower

champion, and James Little, of St.

Catherines, Ontario, was proclaimed

celery king.



lValter Marion, of, Circleville, Ohio,

was re—elected president; W. R. Beat-

tie, of Washington, D. C., was promot-

ed from secretary to the vice—presi-

dency; Frank Held, of Columbus, was

chosen Secretary, and H. J. Cheney, of





ed treasurer.——Walter LlOyd.





GETS LARGE BULB ORDER.





 





CONCERN at Onekama, Michigan,

has recently received an order

for 1,000 bulbs, and sixty-seven bush-





;els of bulblets from the National Bulb

iFarm at National Gardens, Florida.





The Onekama nursery received the or-

der after bulbs grown in various parts

of the country were inspected. The

Michigan company, the 'Burmiester-





 





Hartung Nursery 00., have made a na‘

tional reputation for themselves in

growing bulbs. '





 





LARGE PEACH CROP.





 





ERN E. CHURCH, state agricul-



tural statistician, estimates the

state peach crop to be almost three

times as large as that of 1925. He has

placed the crop at 1,513,000 bushels,

which will make it the largest since

1916.





APPLE OU‘TLOO K.





 





FROM a long time viewpoint apple



growers appear to have turned the

corner, even though the present price

situation is not particularly satisfac«

tory. With the decrease in bearing

trees as shown by the last census fig-

ures, growers can expect marketing

conditions to be reasonably satisfac-

tory during the next ten or fifteen

years. In 'the eastern and central

states, it appears that if the commer-

cial producing acreage is held at the

present level reasonably Satisfactory

returns may be expected over a period

of years. In the northwest, where

trees reach bearing age more quickly.

there seems to be little reason for

increasing the bearing acreage at pres-

ent, though apples probably will con-

tinue to be profitable in most sections

now yielding adequate returns.





In considering the present situation.

it should be remembered that profits

from apples since 1913 have not been

sufficiently great to stimulate plant-

ings. The number of bearing trees is

steadily decreasing, the eighteen lead

ing apple producing states showing a

decrease, of 6,500,000 trees, or approxi.

mately eight per cent, during the past

five years, according to preliminary

census figures. In eastern and central

states, most of the decrease has been

in scattered orchards that are either

outside of the main commercial sec-

tions or are too small or too unpro-

ductive to justify the use of efficient

spraying equipment. Some unproduc-

tive orchards also have been aban-

doned in the boxed apple states, and

the. tendency has been to replace the

poorer varieties in the older orchards.

For the country as a whole, the num<

ber of trees not yet bearing is about

the same as five years ago, and is not

sufficient to maintain the present num-

ber in bearing.





So far as commercial production is

concerned, the decrease in the num-

ber of bearing trees in the scattered

farm orchards has been more than

offset by increased production in the

commercial sections. The rate of in-

crease in the commercial sections

seems, however, to be slowmg up, and

in the boxed apple states, the point of

maximum production seems to have

been nearly reached.



Looking ahead, it seems that the

yearly increase in population will be

sufficient to take care of such increase

in production of commercial apples as

is to be expected from the present or-

chards.





GOOD PRICES FOR AMERICAN

APPLES IN ENGLAND.





 





EXCEPTIONALLY high prices have

been received recently for Ameri-

can apples at the Liverpool auction

market. Jonathan, York Imperials

and Wealthys were available and the

demand was brisk. Virginia King

Davids brought as high as $10.46 a.

barrel and boxed Oregon Gravensteins

topped the market at $4.50. Edwin A.

Smith, the Department of Agricul-

ture’s fruit specialist in Europe, says

that these sales should not mislead

growers to expect continued high

prices with larger supplies, since they

are the result of a scarcity of good

fruit in England, rather than an indi-

cation of an enlarged demand.





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shown by the dynamometer.





This

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I wood, by a teamI owned by Henry

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over 3,000 pounds, and made a hauling

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: sion Department, in charge of the dy—

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; higher record than any made in the

‘ United States last season in the same

class, excepting by the world’s record

Iowa team. The Gogebic record was

exceeded up-to-date only by an Ionia

county team with its pull of 3,100





pounds at East Lansing.





CLUB WORK ACTIVITIES.





 





IN Escanaba 178 pupils finished the

, garden club work that they started

last spring. Careful records are kept

of the work done by club members.

“Quality not quantity” has been the





motto this season.

In Ontonagon county





some 400 or





{500 boys and girls attended the first

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at Neuman’s Grove.





Demonstrations,





games, stock—judging, exhibits, music





featured the day.





COUNTY T. B. SANITARIUMS.





 





HE board of supervisors of Mar-

quette County has under consid-

eration a proposal to double the ca-

pacity of the Morgan Heights Sani-

tarium for tuberculous patients which

the county maintains between Negau-





nee and Marquette.





It is proposed to





(expend about $175,000 on the improve-

,ment and to increase the capacity to





fifty beds.





With fifty beds installed





the sanitarium will qualify to receive

the one dollar per day per patient

which the state allows to counties





maintaining such ' sanitaria for

care of indigent patients.





the





The Mar—





quette County Sanitarium is open to

Ithe rural as well as city patients of





the county.





LARGEST T. B. FREE AREA IN





I COUNTRY.





 





, HIS season bovine tuberculosis

eradication work is in progress in



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inson.





Ontonagon, Marquette, Gogebic





and Schoolcraft counties are modified





accredited areas at present.





Accord-





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5 work in the Upper Peninsula, a larger

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i REPRESENTATIVE of the State

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been in the Upper Peninsula making





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become accredited, the Upper





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preCiable waste in paring, can be sack-

ed, or shipped, or sold as No. 1.’s.

They can go as No. 2.’s or culls, or

U. S. No. 1 Small, if they conform to

those grades. But if anyone puts a

No. 1 tag on the container, he guaran-

tees, on his honor, that they contain

that quality and size of potatoes, and

nothing else.



“I realize it is no easy job to grade

potatoes right, it is a real man’s job,

and he has got to pay strict attention

to business every minute.”



Mr. Johnson—“But, Mr.

isn’t there an allowance? Some of

those bad ones will get by, I don’t care





.how careful we are to getthem all





out. How much do you allow?”





Inspector—“Yes, there is a tolerance

of six per cent, or nine pounds to a

sack of two and a half bushels, but

just keep this in your mind, that tol-

erance is not an intentional allowance,

it is a permissible error that is allow-

ed with the intention to protect the

person who puts them up, against re-

jection of his car, or against prosecu-

tion when he has done his best to do

a good job. Why, my dear man, do

you realize that if you put the whole

limit of tolerance in a car it would

have thirty-nine bushels of No. 2.’s or

culls in it? Besides, we find some

defects hardly noticeable at sacking

time which increase in transit, and a

lot of potatoes that just barely passes

grade at sacking time, may exceed the

grade limits at destination. It is by

all means desirable to have potatoes





rejection at the market, and the heavy

loss that nearly always comes in such

cases.”



Mr. Johnson~—“That may be all

right, Mr. Inspector, but how does

that fellow over there get by? Farm-

ers say he has been taking practically

everything, that when they go there

they only bet back two or three bush-

els, but when they come here they get

ten or twelve bushels. I don’t like it,

(it makes mighty hard competition.

lWe do our best to‘grade them right,

and haven’t had a rejection yet, but

I don’t see, for the life of me, how he

gets by.”



Inspector——“Tl1ank you very much

for the tip, Mr. Johnson. When I get

over there, I’ll look him over care-

fully. He has been 0. K. nearly every

time I have been there—once he had

to——well, you know what happens,

yourself. It did him a lot of good, too.

You do not always know What hap-

pens to the other fellow. Leave that

to us.”





Mr. Johnson—“But say, Mr. Inspec-

or, some of my friends in Detroit and

Flint say they cannot get good pota-

toes. What becomes of all the graded

[potatoes that are shipped there from

around here? It is a dirty deal, that

is all there is to it.”



Inspectorfi‘WVell, sir, that has been

more or less true until lately. You

see, it is this way: There is a pro-

vision in the law that permits the

farmer to sell his ‘own grown’ pota-

toes ungraded, to a consumer, or to a

grocery man direct. Most of those bad

potatoes were trucked in and sold in

that way. It makes bad competition

for you fellows who are obliged to

ship, and consequently must grade

your potatoes. They say the consum—

er sees what he is getting and it is

his own fault if he buys poor potatoes,

but it is not entirely so, for very often

the grocer has them done up in peck

or half—peck sacks, and the customer

doesn’t know they (are bad until he

gets home. All back stock shipped

into Detroit has to be reconditioned

now, you know.



“But, say, Mr. Jones, I am wonder-

ing what kind of seed you planted

last spring, and how far apart did you

plant the hills? Your load runs so

llarge and rough, "and is so dark- and





 





 





Inspector, ,





conform absolutely to grade to avoid,





 





 





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Potato ConverSatiOn '





(Continued from page 309).





has so many hollow ones. in it. Most

all you fellows in this vicinity have

stock like that this year, and I’ll tell

you just What I think you all will have

to do if you want to grow good pota-

toes that will grade up more U. S. No.

1.’s and bring better profits.



First, buy some good certified seed

of a variety better suited to your,

heavy dark soil, treat it to keep down

scab and black scurf, and plant earlier

than you have been, so you1 mop will

be sure to mature. Prepare your land

well, by plowing down alfalfa or clo—

ver. Use plenty of good barnyard ma-

nure and fertilizer if necessary, and

instead of plantin so far apart~

thirty by thirty inches, or thirty—six

by thirty-six inches, as you do—~plant

fifteen to eighteen inches by thirty—six

inches, or thereabouts. And now it

isn’t going to do any good to get sore

about this grading proposition. I know

growing potatoes is hard work from

start to finish, but don’t cut out rais~

ing them altogether—plant about the

same number of acres as you did last

year—get better quality, and grade

them up strictly No. I. Then we won’t

get those big surplus crops, and prices

would average high enough to give

you a nice profit.



“Well, I must be going, Mr. John-

son. Remember to make them good

now, yéu are fine and dandy today——

average only two and one-half per cent

below grade. Keep that kind of work

up and you won’t have any trouble

with us fellows, and you shouldn’t

have any rejections at the other end.



“Good—bye. I’ll see you again some

other day. Watch out for those fork

and digger cuts, sunburn and under





size when the stock runs small. Good-

bye.”

Mr. Jones—“Mr. Johnson, do you





know, that fellow isn’t so bad after

all. He isn’t half as bad as I heard

he was. I believe he is right about

this grading and seed business. I

think I’ll plant White Rurals this

spring. The Petoskeys get so dark

in my ground, and I won’t get so many

of those hollow ones. I’ll bet you next

fall, I won’t take home ten or twelve

bushels out of a load. I am going to

help this proposition along all I can,

and I hope that legislature, that I was

cussing out a while ago, will fix that

law so that everyone has to grade

their potatoes. It’s all right, by George,

it’s all right. I’m for it. There has

got to be something done about this

rejection of .cars, too. Put such fel-

lows out of business unless they have

a real good reason to do it.



“Say, Johnson, get that machine go-

ing. I must get this load off and go

home and milk the cows. It’s late

now, and I’ll be late for supper.” ‘





CROPS ARE WEEDY.





 





T is doubtful if cultivated crops



have ever been more weedy than

they are this year. This is, however,

not the result of any avoidable neg—

lect. Through the part of the year

given over to crop cultivation, the

ground was filled With ungerminated

weed seed, laying dormant probably

because the ground was so dry and

cold that germination could not take

place. But when the cultivation sea-

son had passed and the farmer was

unalterably occupied in the harvesting

of his grain, a period 'of intense

warmth and heavy rainfall made its

appearance. The millions of weed

seeds sprang immediately into ener-

getic life, and almost in a night and

a day, it seemed, corn, bean and other

cultivated fields were transposed into

a dense, swampy, labrinth of weedy,

stalk and foliage. ——E. Greeley.





An umbrella which folds. into a‘pacig-

age ten inches long and two inches in

diameter has been invenfid. ,
“H EILPING. TH E FARM ER.”





ELPING the Farmer” does not





seem to be the important question ‘





with Congress. One U._ S. SenatOr

says “we have put the industries. on

stilts, and now we must give the farm-

ers stilts as well.” But Congress

seems to be out of stilt timber and is

trying to fix some crutches for “lame

ducks.”

lar just now, and enforcing them,

more so. Laws that provide stilts are

especially under ban because they

tax the fellows 0n the ground to put

other fellows up in the air. Finding

fault is useless, and suggesting reme-

dies worse than useless, unless the

people are ready and willing to take

the medicine. Laws are not medicine.

They are merely prescriptions (by

mighty poor doctors) and people who

mind their own business, respect the

rights of others, and are not unjustly

. taxed, have no use for these prescrip-

tions. What we ought to do volun-

atrily, we should do cheerfully even

when the law says we must. We

have pure food laws, butveat lots of

dirt. Our shoddy, net weight and

honest pack rules don’t encourage

fraud among “honest farmers.” Give

the farmers a square deal and they

will not care a snap for the laws

which provide stilts, or crutches. They

are tired of paying for stilts for “prof-

iteers,” and crutches for “lame

ducks.” They like to stand on their

. own feet.





SUPPLY AND DEMAND.





I T is so generally believed that “Sup—

" ply and Demand” should govern

prices, that we do not give it enough

serious thought, as if there is no other

way possible to regulate prices. Our

demand does not change. We eat

three times a day, buy clothing, med-

icine, etc., each year nearly alike, if

we get what we need, and there is no

way of regulating the supply.



If there were more regulation in

prices, farmers would not change from

one crop to another as they do. Also,

they Would about know that they

could depend upon, so it would be safe

to hire help at fair wages. As it has

been for years, the “Storage” man or

W‘Food Speculator” sets a low price

ywhen plenty to buy, and hoards it up

* to sell at a high price. When a crop

is poor they cry “Scarcity.” These

same men set a, high price when there

is a poor crop, and the farmer has but

little to sell, and they know there is

no surplus for them to buy, so now

they sell at a high price. They have

played the same trick for years, and

yet it works as good as ever. Let a

committee that does not profit by it,

set prices. Food speculators will make

a hard fight against any system of

“fixed” prices which would stop their

low price when buying of the farmer,

and the high price from storage to the

city laborer. Fixed prices have "been

tried out for years, and it does work.

. Making a high price when anything

IS scarce, is unfair and wrong. It is

only taking it from the poor because

they have not the money with which

to buy, and letting the rich have

plenty while the poor suffer. If a.

town needs ten car loads of coal for

the winter and can get only five or

six, is it right to raise the price three

or four times higher and let the rich

buy plenty, while the poor, worthy

laboring people, with their wives and

little children, suffer from cold, or

even die from cold or hunger because

of high prices. Is this system right

for a Christian nation? Let the price

be right, and all share equally.



I may have gotten a little away from

my “text,” but have tried to make it

plain. Was raised on a farm, worked

for farmersrand farmed in several cit-





183,310 I see the condition of the farm-





 





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appeared into the timber. He under-



stoodwO’Grady had tricked him,

as he had tricked him in other ways.

He had a second canoe waiting, for

him at the end of the portage, and

perhaps others farther on. It was un-

fair. He could still hear O’Grady’s

taunting laughter as it had rung out

in Porcupine City, and the mystery of

it was solved. His blood grew hot—

so hot that his eyes burned, and his

breath seemed to parch his lips. In

that short space in which he stood

paralyzed and unable to act his brain

blazed like a volcano. Who was help-

ing O’Grady by having a canoe ready

for him at the other Side of the port-

age? He knew that no man had gone

north from Porcupine City during

those tense days of waiting. The ‘code

which all ,understood had prohibited

that. Who then could it be—? who

but Marie herself? In some way

O’Grady had got word to her, and it

was the Cummins’ canoe that was

waiting for him.



With a strange cry Jan lifted the

bow of the canoe to his shoulder and

led Jackpine in a run. His strength

had returned. He. did not feel the

whiplike string of boughs that struck

him across the face. He scarcely

looked at the little cabin of logs

when they passeddt. Deep down in

his heart he called upon the Virgin

to curse those two—Marie Cummins

and Clarry O’Grady, the man and the

girl who had cheated him out of love,

out of home, out of everything he had

possessed, and who were beating him

now through perfidy and trickery.



His face and his hands were

scratched and bleeding when they

came to the narrow waterway, half

lake and half river, which led into

the Blind Loon. Another minute and

they were racing again through the

water. From the mouth of the chan-

nel, he saw O’Grady and the Chippe-

waian a quarter 01' a mile ahead. Five

miles beyond them was the fourth

portage. it was hidden now by a

thick pall of smoke rising slowly into

the clear sky. Neither Jan nor the

Indian had caught the pungent odors

of burning forests in the air, and they

knew that it was a fresh fire. Never

in the years that Jan could remember

had that portage been afire, and he

wondered if this was another trick of

O’Grady’s. The fire spread rapidly as

they advanced. 1t burst forth in a

dozen places along the shore of the

lake, sending up huge volumes of

black smoke riven by lurid tongues of

flame. O’Grady and his canoe became

less and less distinct. Finally they

disappeared entirely in the lowering

clouds of the conflageration. Jan’s

eyes searched the water as they ap-

proached shore, and at last he saw

what he had expected to find—

O’Grady’s empty canoe drifting slowly

away from the beach. O’Grady and

the Chippewaian were gone.





Over that half—mile portage, Jan

staggered with his eyes half closed

and his breath coming in gasps. The





smoke blinded him, and at times the

heat of the fire scorched his face. In

several places, it had crossed the trail.

and the hot embers burned through

their moccasins. Once Jackpine ut—

tered a cry of pain. But Jan’s lips

were set. Then, above the roar of the

flames sweeping down upon the right

of them, he caught the low thunder

of Dead Man’s \Vhirlpool and the cat-

aract that had made the portage

necessary. From the heated earth

their feet came to a narrow ledge of

rock, worn smooth by the furred and

mnoccasined tread of centuries, with

the chasm on one side of them and a

wall of rock on the other. Along the

crest of that wall, a hundred feet

above them, the fire swept in a torn-

ado of flame and smoke. A tree

crashed behind them, a dozen seconds

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sloped down into the dip that ended

the portage. For an instant Jan

paused to get his beating, and behind

him Jackpine shouted a warning.



Up out of the smoldering oven

where O’Grady should have found his

canoe, two men were rushing toward

them. They were O’Grady and the

Chippewaian. He caught the gleam

of a knife in the Indian’s hand. In

O’Grady’s there was something larger

and darker—a club, and Jan dropped

his end of the canoe with a glad cry,

and drew one of the knives from his

belt. Jackjine came to his side, with

his hunting knife in his hand, measur-





ing with glittering eyes the oncoming





foe of his race—the Chippewaian.





And Jan laughed softly to himself,

and his teeth gleamed again, for at

last fate was playing his game.

fire had burned O’Grady’s canoe, and

it was to rob him of his own canoe





that O’Grady was coming to fight.





canoe!

fire





whirlpool





He laughed again, while the

roared over his head and the

thundered

O’Grady would fight for a canoe—for

gold—while he—he would fight for

something else, for the vengeance of‘

a man whose soul and honor had been

sold. He cared nothing for the canoe.





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To evolve a dependably workable plan

For teaching folks how to forget.





It won’t be by keeping your troubles in mind,

And holding them up to the light,



And petting them daily, and letting them wind

Through your lone meditations at night.



You learned long ago that the way to resume





Is to do it.





It’s just as true yet;





So I’m soundly convinged of my right to assume

That the way to forget is—FORGET.





There’s that rankling remembrance of Snobbington’s snub;)

You can’t seem to lose it from view;

Nor the undisguised insult which Crossley (the cub!)

Handed out cavalicrly to you.

You say you don’t care, but that’s only a boast;

Still, you must want to give them your best,

For you’re doing just what would delight them the most

When you let them demolish your rest.





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Resolutely and firmly away.



Crowd it out with bright thoughts of enjoyable things;

And be sure that you do‘it TODAY;



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That, if I’m any sort of a





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To-day’s the most suitable day of the year

To forget an old grievance or grudge.





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That vex more than you can describe.

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The very last one of their





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Is a matter for you to decide.





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Will add to your strength day by day;



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Will result in the very same way.



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And your future existence





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"Hey cared nothing for the gold: ‘ He





told himself in this one tense moment

of waiting, that he cared no longer for

Marie. It was the fulfillment of the

code. '



He was still smiling when O’Grady

was so near that he could see the red

glare in his eyes.



There was no word, no shout, no



sound of fury or defiance as the two

men stood for an instant just out of

striking distance. Jan heard the com-

ing together of Jackpine and the Chip-

pewaian. He heard them struggling.

but not for the flicker of an eyelash

did his gaze leave O’Grad ’5 face.

Both men understood. This fime had

to come. Both had expected it, even

from that day of the fight in the

woods when fortune had favored Jan.

The burned canoe had only hastened

the hour a little. Suddenly Jan’s free

hand reached behind him to his belt.

He drew forth the second knife and

tossed it at O’Grady’s feet.

. O’Grady made a movement to pick

it up, and then, while Jan was partly

off his guard, came at him with a

pOWerful swing of the club. It was

his catlike quickness, the quickness

almost of the great northern loon that

evades a rifle ball, that had won for

Jan in the forest fight. It saved him

now. The club cut through the- air

over 1118 head, and, carried by the

momentum of his own blow, O’Grady

lurched against him with the full

force of his two hundred pounds of

muscle and bone. Jan’s knife swept

in an upward flash and plunged to

the hilt through the flesh of his

enemy’s forearm. With a cry of pain

O’Grady 'dropped his club, and the

two crashed to the stone floor of the

trail



In this instant, so quick that he

could-scarcely have taken a breath in

the time, his eyes took in the other

struggle between Jackpine and the

Chippewaian. The two Indians had

looked themselves in a deadly em-

brace. All thought of masters, of life

or death, were forgotten in the roused

up fires of old generations of battle

and race hatred that fired them now

1n their desire to kill. They had

drawn close to the edge of the chasm.

Under them the thunderng roar of

the whirlpool was unheard, their ears

caught no sound of the moaning surge

of the flames far over their heads.

Even as Jan stared horror-stricken in

that one moment, they rocked at the

edge of the chasm. Above the tumult

of the flood below and the fire above

there rose a wild yell, and the two

plunged down into the abyss, locked

and fighting even as they fell in a

thsting, formless shape to the death

below.



It happened in an instant—like the

flash of a quick picture on a screen——

and even as Jan caught the last of

Jackpine’s terrible face, his hand

drove eight inches of steel toward

O’Grady’s body. The blade struck

something that was neither bone or

flesh, and he drew back again to

strike. He had struck the steel buckle

on O’Grady’s belt. This time—



A sudden hissing roar filled the air.

Jan knew that he did not strikehbut

he scarcely knew more than that in

the‘ first shock of the fiery avalanche

that had dropped upon them from the

rock wall of' the mountain. He was

conscxous of fighting desperately to

drag himself from under a weight that

was not O’Grady’s—a weight that

stifled the breath in his lungs, that

crackled in his ears, that scorched

his face and his hands, and was burn-

ing out his eyes. A shriek rang in his

ears unlike any other cry of man he

had ever heard, and he knew that it

was O’Grady’s. He pulled himself

out, foot by foot, until fresher air

struck his nostrils, and dragged him-

self nearer and nearer to the edge of

the chasm. He could not rise. His

limbs were paralyzed. His knife arm

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» smoldering ruin of a great tree, and





standing out of the ruin of that tree,

half naked, his hands tearing wildly

at his face, was O’Grady. Jan’s fin-

gers clutched at a small rock. He

called out, but there was no meaning

to the Sound he made. Clarry O’Grady

threw out» his great arms.





“Jan—Jan Larose—” he cried. “My

God, don’t strike now! I’m blind—

blind—”





He staggered back, as if expecting

blow.

“Don’t strike!” he almost shrieked.





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“Mother of Heaven—my eyes are

burned outwl’m blind—blind—”

He hacked to the wall, his huge





form crouched; his hands reaching out

as if to ward off the deathblow.



Jan tried to move, and the effort

brought a groan of agony to his lips.

A second crash filled his ears as a

second avalanche of fiery debris

plunged down upon the trail farther

back. He stared straight up through

the stifling smoke. Lurid tongues of

flame were leaping over the wall of

the mountain where the edge of the

forest was enveloped in a sea of

twisting and seething fire. It was

only a matter of minuteswperhaps

seconds. Death had them both in its

grip.



He looked again at O’Grady, and

there was no longer the desire for

the other’s life in his heart. He could

see that the giant was unharmed, ex-

cept for his eyes.



“Listen, O’Grady,” he cried. “My

legs are broken, I guess, and I can’t

move. It’s sure death to stay here

another minute. You can get away.

Follow the wall—to your right. The

slope is still free of fire, and—andw”



O’Grady began to move, guiding

himself slowly along the wall. Then,

suddenly, he stopped.



“Jan Larose—you

move?” he shouted.



“Yes.”



Slowly O’Grady turned and came

gropingly toward the sound of Jan’s

voice. Jan held tight to the rock that

he had gripped in his left hand. Was

it possible that O’Grady would kill

him now, stricken as he was? He

tried to drag himself to a new posi-

tion, but his effort was futile.



“Jan—Jan Larose!” called O’Grady,

stopping to listen.



Jan held his breath. Then the truth

seemed to dawn upon O’Grady. He

laughed, indifferently than he had

laughed before, and stretched out his

arms.



“My God, Jan,” he cried, “you don’t





say you can’t





think I’d hurt you—now! You don’t

think I’m clean beast, do you? The

fight’s over, man, an’ I guess God





A’mighty brought this on us to show



what fools we was. Where are y’, Jan



Larose? I’m goin’ to carry you out!”

“I’m here!” called Jan.





He could see truth and fearlessness

in O’Grady’s sightless face, and he

guided him without fear. Their hands

met. Then O’Grady lowered himself

and hoisted Jan to his shoulders as

easily as he would have lifted a boy.

He straightened himself and drew a

deep breath, broken by a sobbing

throb of pain. '



“I’m blind an’ I won’t see any

more,” he said, “an’ mebbe you won’t

never walk any more. But if we ever

git to that gold I kin do the work and





you kin show me how. Now—p’int

out the way, Jan Larose!”



\Vith his arms clasped about

O’Grady’s naked shoulders, Jan’s





smarting eyes searched through the

thickening smother of fire and smoke

for a road that the other’s feet might

tread. He shouted “left”——“right”—

“right”—.—“right”—“left” into his blind

companlon’s ears until they touched

the wall. As the heat smote them

more fiercely, O’Grady bowed his

great head upon his chest and obeyed

mutely the signals that rang in his

ears. The bottom of his moccasins

were burned from his feet, live em-

bers ate at his flesh, his broad chest

was a fiery blister, and yet he strode

on straight into the face of still

greater heat and greater torture, ut—

tering no sound that could be heard

above the steady roar of the flames.

And Jan, limp and helpless on his

back, felt. then the throb and pulse of

a giant llfe under him, the straining

of thick neck, .of massive shoulders

and the grlp of pewerful arms whose

strength told him that at last he had

found the comrade and the man in

Clarry O’Grady. “Right”—-“left”——

“left”—~“right” ,he shouted, and then

he called for O’Grady to stop in a

voice that was shrill with warning.

“There’s fire ahead,” he yelled. “We

can’t follow the wall any longer.

There’s an open space close to the

chasm. We can make that, but

there’s only a yard to spare. Take

short stepsuone step each time I tell

you. Now—left—left—left—left—”

Like a soldier on drill, O’Grady

kept time with his scorched feet until





, Jan turned him again to face the

vistofirm‘, of fire, while one of his own

broken legs dangled over the abyss





 





 





into which Jackpine and the Chippe-

waian had plunged to their death.

Behind them, almost where they had

fought, there crashed down a third

avalanche from the edge of. the moun-

tain. Not a shiver ran through

O’Grady’s great body. Steadily and

unflinchingly—step——step —- step —— he

went ahead, while the last threads of

his moccasins smoked and burned.

Jan could no longer see half a dozen

yards in advance. A wall of black

smoke rose in their faces, and" he

pulled O’Grady three paces away from

the chasm.



Then he shouted, with

close to O’Grady’s ear:



“We’ve got just one chance, Clarry.

I can’t see any more. Keep straight

ahead—and run for it, and may the

good God help us now!”



And Clary O’Grady, drawing one

great breath that was half fire into

his lungs, ran straight into the face of

what looked like death to Jan Larose.

In that one moment Jan closed his

eyes and waited for the plunge over

the cliff. But in place of death a

sweep of air that seemed almost cold

struCk his face, and he opened his

eyes to find the clear and uncharred

slope leading before them down to the

edge of the lake. He shouted the

news into O’Grady’s ears, and then

there arose from O’Grady’s chest a

great sobbing cry, partly of joy,

partly of pain, and more than all else

of that terrible grief which came of

the knowledge that back in the pit of

death from which he had escaped, he

had left forever the vision of life it-

self. He dropped Jan in the edge of

the water, and, plunging in to his

waist, he threw handful after handful

of water into his own swollen face,

and then stared upward, as though

this last experiment was also his last

hope.



“My God, I’m blind—stone blind!”



Jan was staring hard into O’Grady’s

face. He called him nearer, took the

swollen and blackened face between

his two hands, and his voice was

trembling with joy when he spoke.





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“You’re not blind—not for good——

Q’Grady,” he said. “I’ve seen men

like you before—twice. You—you’ll

get well. O’Grady—Clarry O’Grady—

let’s shake! I’m a brother to you

from this day on. And I’m glad—glad

—that Marie loves a man like you!”



O’Grady had gripped his hand, but

he dropped it now as though it had

been one of the live brands that had

hurtled down upon them from the top

of the mountain. '



“Marie—man—why—she hates me!”

he cried. “It’s you—you—Jan Larose,

that she loves! I went there with a

broken leg, an’ I fell in love with her.

But she wouldn’t so much as let me

touch her hand, an’ she talked of you

—always——always——until I had learned

to hate you before you came. I dunno

why she did it~that other thing—«un-

less it was to make you jealous. I

‘guess it was all f’r fun, Jan. She

didn’t know. The day you went away

she sent me after you. But I hated

you—hated you worse’n she hated me.

It’s you—youw”



He clutched his hands at his sight-

less face again. and suddenly Jan

gave a wild shout. Creeping around

the edge of a smoking headland, he

had caught sight of a man and a

canoe.





“There’s a man in a canoe!” he

cried. “He sees us! O’Grady—J’

He tried to lift himself, but fell





back with a groan. Then he laughed,

and, in spite of his agony, there was

a quiverng of happiness in his voice.



“He’s coming, O’Grady. And it

looks—it looks like a canoe we both

know. VVe’ll go back to her cabin to-

gether, O’Grady. And when we’re on

our legs again—well, .I never wanted

the gold. That’s yours—all of it.”



A determined look had settled in

O’Grady’s face. He groped his way

to Jan’s side, and their hands met in

a clasp that told more than either

could have expressed of the brother—

hood and strength of men.



“You can’t throw me off like that,

Jan Larose,” he said. “We‘re pard—

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Osage Indian, tried to ride a high-wheeler. miles in 17 minutes.





 





 





 





 





 





 





The latest in water sport apparatus is this 14-foot, inflated ball.

The ball is half red and half green, and the object of the com-

peting teams is to keep their color above water.





Mary Schmitz, 13 years old, swam

the Niagara river making two





 





 





Jay C. Bruce, state lion killer of California,

has killed 275 lions, twenty-five of them dur-

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Our Weekly Sermon—By N. A. McClure





HE exact day and month are



given, when the huge encamp-



ment again got under way. Who

got them started? Undoubtedly our

old friend Moses. Plenty of them no

doubt would have remained there, in-

definitely. It is so much easier to

stay than to go. That is what hap-

pened to the people crossing the south-

ern mountains, long ago. Their des-

cendants are now the southern moun-

taineers, who have fallen a hundred

years behind.



Before they set out afresh, Moses

felt that they should have expert guid-

ance. They Were in a strange coun-

try. It is bad enough for one tender-

foot to get lost in the mountains, but

you do not want

two millions to get

lost. Moses had

had some experi-

ence with mob

psychology, when

hundreds of thou-

sands had become

crazed with fear.



A while ago we

spoke of Moses’

wise old father-in-

law. We now come upon the old gen-

tleman again. We cannot get away

from him, and, we judge, Moses and

his associates did not want to get

away from him. The difference in

names is confusing, but it appears

that Hobab is the same person as

Jethro. He knew the country and

could guide the vast caravan.



The motive that moved Hobab-Jeth-

ro to accompany the marching thou-

sands is interesting. His son-in~1aw

told him that they would do him good,

if he went with them. Just what he





 





meant we did not know. Perhaps he





meant that the Hebrews knew more

about God than his father-in—law did,

and could teach him. But the old man

is not at all impressed. He had seen

the Hebrews in one of their periodic

fear-spasms, and he did not think any

too highly of their profession of re-

ligion. It has a slightly modern sound.

He replies promptly that he will go

back to his own country. But then

Moses makes another appeal. “Father,

we simply must have you. You know

the country, we don’t. Come and be

our official guide. You mark out the

route we are to follow. We cannot

get on without you.” “That sounds

like business,” says Hobab-Jethro. “I

will go.”



A guide is a necessity, for others as

well as Moses and Company. Last

year, a snow storm took place in the

Rockies about nine miles from where

I am staying at present. A man and

his wife lost the trail and perished

within a mile of a mountain inn. And

’this was in August. Another party

was crossing a glacier. One of their

number stepped into a crevasse and

dropped from sight. When he was

pulled up, some hours later, he was

dead.





IN the moral world, many need a.

guide today who do not seem to

have one. Somehow they have gotten

away from the old guide, and have

found no new one. Many of the news-

paper accounts of crime and tragedy

might be captioned, “Unguided Man

Goes to His Death.” The wise man is

not ashamed to employ a guide. Said

John Henry Newman, in one of the

great hymns of the church,





Lead, kindly light, amid the encirc-

ling gloom, lead thou me on;



The night is dark, and I am far from

home, lead thou me on.





It must have been a happy day for

our great hero when his grizzled, sun-

kissed father-in—law agreed to go with

the great expedition.



They went on. Has it ever occurred

to you, that we must £111- go on? We





cannot stop. We can ‘stop in getting

new ideas, of course.

negrow. re





In which case

turely old, and. our





 





 

 





brain-joints become stiff. We can stop

growing religiously, whereupon we be-

‘gin to think of our age as the most

wicked in history, and we lose touch

with the world of actuality.



If we are going on anyway, let us

go forward to some purpose. There is

always a big task awaiting somebody.

A problem remains unsolved, a truth

has never been put into general prac-

tice, a community waits for the fear

of God to be put into it. Go on! For-

ward!





Forward, forward, let us range.

Let the great world spin forever, down

the ringing grooves of change.





Moses and his associates were pil—

grims. Many of the greatest souls

have been pilgrims. The Pilgrim

Fathers, the Puritans, the Scotch-Irish

who fled from persecution, the Quak-

ers and Germans who came over. And

we are all pilgrims. We are all mov-

ing on. Tomorrow will not find us

here. While we are pilgrims, let us

pilgrim to a good purpose. The road—

side and the countryside ought to

bloom more pleasantly after we have

passed.





\‘Ve ourselves must pilgrims be,



Launch our Mayflower, and

boldly



Thru the desperate winter sea,



Nor attempt the future’s portal,



With the past’s blood rusted key.





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* Bulletins le’l/ ‘Prooe 4 741214516 Source of Information

., By Doris W. McCray





F your community has decided to



have hot lunches at school, you are



taking a big step toward better

health for all the students. There is

no longer any doubt that children work

better, enjoy school better and make

better grades, if fed properly. The

hot lunch helps attendance, too, for

coughs and colds do not happen so

often if the children are well nourish-

ed, if they are receiving more fruits

and vegetables.



The “Why” is Explained.



The “why” of the school lunch is ex-

plained in “Diet for the School Child,”

an excellent bulletin telling how to

plan children’s meals, with sample

menus. This can be obtained from

the Superintendent of Documents,

Government Printing Office, VVashing—

ton, D. C., for five cents.



Other bulletins in this “Health Ed—

ucation Seiies,” at the same price

(though a feu cents less for several

copies) are: “Summer Health and

Play School,” “Class-room Weight

Record,” “Teaching Health,” “Child

Health Program for Parent-Teacher

Associations,” “Further Steps in Teach—

ing Health,” and “The Lunch Hour at

School.” This last is a very complete

guide for you, if you are conducting

a school lunch in your rural school.

Even though you are serving but one

hot dish each day, as hot milk, potato

soup or cocoa, this booklet by Kath-

erine A. Fisher will help you. She

has included much information as to

cost of equipment, planning the work,

financing the undertaking, with menus

and recipes. She gathered her infor—

. mation from all over the country

where the school lunch is being serv—

ed. Her last pages include a list of

twenty—four bulletins, and books for

further information. One is our own

Michigan Agricultural College Exten~

sion bulletin, “Hot School Lunch Pro—

ject,” which is written for boys and

girls in club work, and includes twen-

ty-portion recipes.



More Milk—More Health.



When 7,738 grade school children

were asked if they drank whole milk,

only half of them answered “yes.” Les-

sons on why to use milk, with actual

class—room discussion, and posters, and

a long list of books and free bulletins

on milk, are included in “Milk and Our

School Children.” This is one of the

Health Education series too, and par—

ticularly valuable because of its list

of references.



Milk is our best weapon for combat-

ting under-nutrition. But how can we

know children are undernourished, un-

less we weigh and measure them? A





 





 





YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW.





 





Bury with Yesterday

All that with Yesterday did cease

to live,

Turn you unto Today

And do your best with what it has

to give.





Live you with Yesterday

Today and Tomorrow will bring but

et

Another Yesterday

For you to muse upon with vain

regret.





Live only in Today,

’Tis enough, give yesterday its sor-

row

And then Today will be

An inspiring Yesterday Tomorrow.

——-yB C. A. Brunais.





table of average weight and height

measurements at various "ages is in-

cluded in the free bulletin, “The

School Lunch,” obtainable from State

College of Washington, .Pullman,

Washington. In this is given a list of

free publications which will help you

learn more about correct feeding of

school children. There are recipes

and menus, too. But What will help

mothers and teachers most are the

suggestions about how to manage the

lunch, bringing supplies and making

plans. “Sandwiches” is a leaflet from





ing, if you address your requests to,

the U. S. Department of Agriculture,‘





Washington, D. C.





BETTER PACK DAHLIAS IN SAND.





 





ALWAYS pack the dahlia bulbs in



sandy soil. They will live in a.

cool dark cellar without, but exposure

to light and air causes the tubers to

wither, and lowers their vitality.

Where a few large clumps are stored

with all the moist soil on the roots,

just as dug, they can be set in a cor-





 





Nutrition Lessons Can be Made Impressive by Means of School Lunches.





this same college, which answers

mother’s questions about how to make

sandwiches that will be different, in-

teresting and attractive, when little

folks tire of them day after day.

“School Lunches,” Farmers’ Bulletin

712, is free, from the U. S. Department

of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

Though you have packed lunches for

years, and planned hot dishes, you

need this for your library, and for its

suggestions. Other publications of this

department are listed in it, such as





the series on “How to Select Foods”,





Others worthy of mention are, “The

Hot Lunch in Rural Schools,” from the

University of Wisconsin, Madison,

Wisconsin; “Hot Lunches at School,”

from Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa,

and “Diet for the School Child,” and

“The School Lunch,” from University

of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. There are

many others, but a few will give you

the necessary help.



The attention of health and nutri-

tion experts is turned toward school

children’s meals. Every child has a

right to be‘ as healthy as present

knowledge can make him. Proper

feeding is one of the chief factors of

health.





YOURS FOR THE ASKING.





 





OME laundering nowadays is not





just a matter of getting clothes ~





snow white and smoothly ironed. The

modern homemaker wants to know

how to take the drudgery out of home

laundering and what methods to use

so that her fabrics will give long and

useful service. Farmers’ Bulletin No.

1497-F,

Home Laundering,” applies the latest

findings of science to the home laun-

dry problem. It is yours for the ask»





"Methods and Equipment for





ner of the cellar and be practically as

secure as packed clumps, but, if one

has many, they need to be packed

closely. I always prefer a large shal-





low box. Labels are wired to the

clumps with long wires so they may

be kept above the sand. The sand or

soil should be slightly moist, but not

wet.





In digging, some tubers may be de-

tached. There is no need to pack

these for they will not grow. Tubers

with slender necks should be handled

carefully to prevent breaking or twist-

ing these necks. The clumps can be

divided before packing to save space,

always leaving a piece of the stem

attached to each tuber, but it is safer

to leave in the clump until spring.

——A. H.





WATCH YOUR STEP«WITH ELEC-

TRIC WASHER.





 





FTER using the electric washer,



be sure to pull out the. electric

plug when leaving the machine be-

tween wash days, and coil the con«

necting cord where it will not coilect

the moisture and dirt. Do not lubri-

cate or adjust any part of the washer

while the cord is connected to the cur-

rent source. Proper insulation of all

wiring, cords, and electrical devices is

especially important in the laundry,

where the worker often touches them

with wet hands, and where the floors

and walls are damp—J. W. D.





History Teacher—“Can anyone tell

me the earliest reference in history to

the theater?”





Young Johnny—“I can, teacher. We

read in the Bible that Joseph was tak-

en from the family circle and put into

the pit.”





What I’ve Made





URS is an old-fashioned house

built in the early fifties, with

large airy rooms, but none of

the bedrooms have adjoining clothes





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closets. Determined to have my

clothes hanging neatly on hangers, I

used a board (from an old organ)

forty inches by twenty inches by

three—quarters—inch, 'to serve for the

top as illustrated. Then I sawed out

two three—cornered pieces to fit in as

a bracket for each end.



Next I found an old mop handle

long enough to connect the two end

brackets, and fitted"~ this into the brack-

ets by boring two holes. Then the

shelf was carefully fastened to the

wall by means of the brackets and the

whole covered with unbleached muslin

curtains, on which I appliqued some

gay hollyhocks. ,





hangers Completed my clothes press, without





—-Mrs. A E. Nelson W993 acuity





   





Step-saving Refrigerator.



When I say I made a window box it

sounds like flowers, but mine subs for

a dumb waiter. My pantry Window is

under a porch shaded by a grape vine

and this forms the setting for my win-

dow refrigerator.



First, I took two brackets and a

board, six inches wide, and long

enough to fit the window sill on the

outside. To this shelf I nailed alarge

wooden box close up to the window so





that the Window would serve as a.





glass door in winter, and in summer I

used an extension window screen. I

lined the box with white oil cloth and

painted the outside.



It makes an ideal place to keep fresh

meat and butter in winter, or to cool
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No. 291—«Junior Frock for Class-

room Wear. Cut in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12

and 14 years. Size 8 requires 214 yards

of 36—inch material with 1 yard of 27-

inch contrasting.



No. 574~Junior Bolero Frock. Cut

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

8 requires 21/8 yards of 40-inch mate—

rial for the bolero and plaited skirt

and 34 yard of 36—inch material for

the collar, cuffs and waist.



No. 366—Boyish Junior Frock. Cut

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

8 requires 2% yards of 36-inch mate—

rial With 1/4 yard of 32-inch contrast-

ing.

No. 413—Boys’ Suit. Cut in sizes 6,

8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 requires

21/4 yards of 36-inch material.



No. SOB—Cunning Bloomer Dress.

Cut in sizes 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. Size

4 requires 2% yards of 40 or 42-inch

material with 3/3 yard of 36~inch con-

trasmg.



No. 364—Cuiining School Frock. Cut

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

8 requires 214 yards of 40-inch mate-

rial With % yard of 32-inch contrast-

ing.



No. 191—Boys’ Suit. Cut in sizes 2,

4 and 6 years. Size 4 requires 2%

yards of 36-inch material for long

sleeves, with 3/8 yard of 36-inch con-

trasting.



N0. 356——Junior Dress. Cut in sizes

6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 re-

quires 2 yards of 36-inch material with

1%, yard of 27—inch contrasting.



These patterns can be obtained

through the Michigan Farmer Pattern

Department, Detroit, Michigan, for 130

each. Enclose 130 extra 'when you Or-

der your pattern, and a copy of our

large Pattern Catalogue will be sent.





FARM WOMEN HAVE PART IN

DAIRY SHOW.





 





«ORKING on the theory that far-m

women must participate in an

i agricultural gathering in order ‘for it





 





to be a success, Mrs. Edith M. Wagar,

in charge of the Farm VVomen’s Di-

vision, National Dairy Exposition, has

announced details concerning the pro-

gram to be offered during the Exposi-





tion at the Michigan State Fair

grounds, October 6-13.

Exhibits portray vividly the part





played by profitable dairy herds 'in

making possible the purchase of mod-

ern appliances and conveniences for

the home. One display shows the time

needed for the average cow, which

produces about 3,800 pounds of milk,

to make enough profit to purchase

some appliance, while another display

depicts the time necessary for a cow

producing 10,000 pounds of milk to

make the same purchase possible.



Trained women are in charge of a

home appliance exhibit, and will dem-

onstrate the practicability of these

conveniences. A health food show

under the personal supervision of Dr.

E. V. McCollum, will stress the im-

portance of dairy products in the na-

tional diet.



‘Each day during the Exposition, a

program consisting of lectures, dem-

onstrations, and entertainment fea-

tures will be given. '



Among the prominent speakers who

will appear on the program during the

weekare Kenyon L. Butterfield, presi—

dent Michigan State College; Dr. E. V.





- McCollum, Johns Hopkins University;





Mrs. Miles Oper, president, of the

United Farm Women of Ontario; L.

Whitney Watkins, Michigan Commis-

sioner of Agriculture; Dr. W. W.

Diehl, of Charlotte; and Miss Lucia.

Johnson, or Columbus, Ohio.





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the house would face, the number and

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how each would be furnished, what

particular labor~saving devices she

would install, and so on.



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ly only a picture, for a woman, whose

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to look forward to in the way of furth-

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back and looking at it after it is fin-

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who is in raptures over her kitchen,

which has been done over. For sev-

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me to come and see it. The walls and

ceilings have been painted white, and

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To make plum jelly, crush the plums

with a masher or wooden spoon and

add enough water to prevent burning,

and heat slowly over a fire, when boil-

ing hot pour into a jelly bag and let

drip. A second extraction of juice

may be made by returning the pulp

from the jelly bag to the sauce pan,

adding more water and again re-heat-

ing. After the juice is extracted, add

heated sugar in the proportion of

three-fourths cup of sugar to one cup

of juice and boil rapidly until drops

will “sheet” from the spoon. Pour into

sterilized glasses and pour on paraffin

when jelly is set. This same rule can

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has been treated to a coat of glossy

white paint.

replaced the pld one of ugly looking

zinc'. Fresh, brightly colored curtains

drape the windows. There is new lin-

oleum on the floor.





The whole atmosphere of the kitch-.-





en has been completely changed. In-

stead of the dull, dreary appearance

it formerly possessed, it is now bright

and cheerful. But the greatest change

was in the woman herself. Previously‘

she had no enthusiasm about her work

in the kitchen, and other work natur-

ally suffered as well. Now she is just

flowing over with enthusiasm, is plan-

ning new culinary surprises for her

family, and is looking forward eagerly

to a few new utensils and some extra

kitchen cutlery. In a. word, her kitch-

en now fascinates her, and much to

”her surprise it "seems easier to keep

clean than preViously.



I have had many similar experiences

myself. Last year the whole family’s

outlook on life was changed by the in-

stallation of carbide gas lighting. No

one who has not had the daily grind

of trimming wicks, cleaning and re-

filling lamps, and carrying them about,

can realize what freedom from this

work has meant to me. But the real

boon came in the more cheerful atmos—

phere of the house; the new-found

pleasure of our evenings at home. And

I confess to a certain pride in inviting

neighbors to visit us.



Each year we plan some new im-

provement in the house, and each one

arouses me to fresh pleasure in my

home. Two years ago we installed a

new water system and modern bath—

room. At the moment I am looking

forward to a furnace and heating in-

stallation, and perhaps a radio at

Christmas. A more carefully planned

garden looms ahead next spring.



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of which will come about in time, and

each one tending to make home more

enjoyable. I want another good-look—

ing floor lamp in the living room, a.

built—in china closet, additional shelv—

ing in the pantry, a gas hot plate for

emergency cooking, new rugs in a year

:or two, and certainly an enclosed

porch. If my home were already per-

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All vegetables contain vitamins.

Vitamin A is found abundantly in all

green leaf vegetables as well as in

whole milk, butter, and liver. It is es-

sential to growth and normal resist-

ance to disease. It is not affected by

short cooking processes.





Vitamin B is necessary for growth

and especially necessary in directly

increasing the appetite. It is found

in most raw food materials except the

highly refined cereals, white. sugar,

and table oils. This vitamin dissolves

in hot water and may be lost unless

great care is taken in the cooking

process.





Vitamin C is found in raw fruits and

vegetables. It is destroyed by cook-

ing processes, but its destruction is at

a slower rate when the product is dis-

tinctly acid, as in tomatoes. It is of

great value in preventing scurvy, and

is especially valuable in the diet of

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terested in seeing that both men

and women eat plenty of bread. This

may explain why Doctor H. E. Barn-

ard, who is the general manager of

the Institute, has given to the press

an interview in which he declaims

against the present day fad of wOmen

of all types, classes and stations in

life to cut out all of nature's curves

and reduce the body to slim, skinny

lines, the chief purpose being to allow

modern dress proper and graceful

draping. Whether Doctor Barnard is

influenced by his business or not, I

am very much inclined to agree with

him that reduction of weight below

proper standards is going to result in

degeneration in the physique of this

nation, if it is persisted in. It is true

that some thin people have just as good

health, or even better than ,their

brothers and sisters who are fat, but

if we become a nation of thin people

the chances are that we shall also be

a nation of weaklings.



This does not alter the fact that

that those really overweight are tak-

ing on a personal hazard that will not

only shorten life, but will make it less

happy while it is lived. It is easy

enough to find what the standard

weight is for your height and age, and

well worth while for you to know if

you are carrying thirty or forty

pounds above that to which you are

entitled. I do not advise persons of

middle age, or older, who feel com-

fortable and are in reasonably good

health, to attempt weight reduction

unless the excess is quite marked.

The best period of life to regulate





weight is between the ages of twenty

and fifty. Even then you should not

attempt a sudden drop, for it is unwise

and unsafe to lose the fat of your body

without substituting more solid tissue

to take its place.



The safe way is to restrict the diet

for a period of about a month sufii-

ciently to make a reduction of three

to ten pounds, according to your

strength, spend the next month barely

maintaining the loss, and then proceed

with reduction. All dietary systems

for weight reduction are based on two

principles of feeding. One is to restrict

quantity of both solids and fluids. The

other is the substitution of protein

foods for those rich in carbohydrates

and fats.





TO KEEP STOUT.





 





Please send me some information

about keeping stout. Tell me what

kind of exercises to take. I want to

develop my arms and legs and body.





This letter is evidently written by

a boy who wants to grow up to be a

strong man. There is a rather gen-

eral opinion that good food, sleep and

work will supply the need. This is

correct in a general way, yet the boy

is right in asking special advice. To

make him strong and well proportion-

ed, his work must be the kind that

gives all-round development, and

should be well sprinkled with play.

The farm boy develops strength, but

is often of poor proportions. He

should work, by all means, but he

should not carry loads to the point of

strain, and in addition to the milking

and chopping and plowing and pitch-

ing of farm work, he should enter into

sports like base ball and tennis that

make for grace and speed.





 





 





 





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Adventures of Tilly and Billy





T Ize Sewmg Bartel" .r Party





her eighth birthday her Uncle

Henry had given her a pretty

. little sewing basket with two

dainty tassels hanging from the COV‘

er. Fluff, her kitten, liked to play

with these very much, but was per-

mitted to only on state occasions.

_This cover on Tilly’s sewing basket

hld a little thimble that just fitted

Tilly’s thimble finger, a tiny pair of

sc1ssors, a needle book with big and

little needles, and several tiny spools

of thread in every color of the rain-





T ILLY was learning to. sew. On





 





The Spool of Thread Unwound.





bow Another thing in her sewing

basket that Tilly liked very much was

a little box of buttons, allu bright and

shiny and in many colors,



As soon as Tilly saw them, she de-

cided that to sew on buttons was the

very first thing she wanted to learn.

But today, before her second lesson

was finished, along came Billy and

some other of her playmates.



“Please, Mamma, may I go out and

play?’ asked Tilly. When her mother

consented, Tilly ran out to play with

her little friends, never stopping to

put her sewing things back into her





sewing basket.





Now, when the Spool is not put

back into place, he is sure to become

a mischief-maker, and this time he

got into mischief right away.



“Come, come, let’s play ‘ring around

the rosy’,” he called.

Thimble, the Scissors and all the

Pins and Needles.





“All rightie, all rightie,” answered

the Buttons, and they began to roll

around. As they played the Spool un-

wound the thread, yards and yards of

it. It twisted here and it twisted

there, here a snarl and there a knot

until the Spool had no more thread

left on it at all.





Just as the last bit was unwound,

“Sh, sh!” said the Scissors to the

Thimble who was making a lot of

noise. “I think I hear our Mistress

coming.”



They all listened.



“I see her, I see her, even with my

one eye,” said the Needle. “Hurry,

hurry. into your places.”





Everyone hurried back to their plac-

es, right where Tilly had left them,

all but the thread on the spool. It

was in a hopeless snarl and could not

get out of it.



“Oh, me, oh, my,” scolded Tilly, as

she came near to her sewing basket.

“Fluff has been into my sewing bas-

ket. Look at my pretty threadl”.



“Fluff hasn’t been in the house all

day," said Tilly’s mother.





Tilly asked questions of everyone

but no one seemed to know what or

who had disturbed her sewin basket.

Of course, neither the Spool, he Scis-

sors, the Thimble,, nor the Needles

and Pins could tell her about the.

party they had had while she was

playing, and so she never knew how it

all happened. But after that Tilly

always put everything back in her

sewing basket and fastened the cover

securely before she went out to play.





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Mr. Joe Clark, at Hugo, Colorado, cures his

home butchered meat with Old Hickory Smoked

Salt. He says, “Old Hickory Smoked Salt is a

time saver. There is no shrinkage; the meat does

not dry out; and as for flavor, it can't be beat.

Comparing the smoked meat you buy in town

and the Old Hickory Smoked meat, the Old Hick-

ory is the best. I wouldn’t think of going back to





the old smoke-house method.”





Of course, Old Hickory is a time saver

and a meat saver. It smokes the meat

while it is in the dry cure. All the

time and labor and fire risk of the

smoke-house are eliminated. You

save the meat that is melted out by

the heat of the smoke-house to drip

into the fire. And flavor! Sprinkle a

few grains of Old Hickory Smoked

Salt in your hand; smell it; taste it.

Use it in place of ordinary white salt





in your kitchen and on your dining

table. That’s the test! Pure table

salt with genuine hickory wood smoke

put on it by the Edwards process.

Try it yourself and you, too, will

never think of going back to the old

smoke-house method.





At your dealers in air-tight, trade-

marked, ten pound drums. Write for

free sample and book.





THE SMOKED SALT COMPANY, INC., Cincinnati, Ohio





   





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of suggestions for better methods of curing and cooking.





 





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A scale will set you right





Giving too much and getting too

little—are easy ways to lose money.

In the course of a year these “little”

errors that result from guessing at

weights or from using unreliable

scales would more than pay for a

good portable scale.



You can increase your profits-—

stop losses—by weighing on a F air-

banks Portable Scale. Rations can

be balanced ; fertilizers proportioned

for maximum yield; every market

transaction can be checked.



See your nearest dealer about a

Fairbanks Portable Scale. You will

be surprised what a good, accurate;

finely built scale you can get for a

small amount of money. There are

other Fairbanks Scales for wagon,

auto truck and practically every

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or mail the coupon.





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Some Letter: From #16 C/zz'ldrm’: H orpz'ta/





HIS ‘is to let you know that the



radio you sent us is here. We



all enjoy it, and thank the M.

C.’s very much for it. Every day at

meal time we hear music, and at

evening from six to seven o’clock we

hear the Detroit News and the Detroit

Free Press orchestras. The boys, at

three o’clock, that is, after school,

come to hear the base ball scores, and

we will be able to hear the World Ser-

ies from our radio. We have put our

radio in the dining room. We all love

you and the Merry Circlers, not be-

cause you gave us this radio, but be-





 





' Eunic. ‘Irueger at Right, with Play-

mate and Pets.



cause you are so good to so many



crippled children—From your loving



friend, Edward Czerwinski.





 





I am writing you a few lines to let

you know that I enjoy hearing the

radio. We thank the M. C.’s for get—

ting the radio. We shall have a good

time tonight listening to it.—From

your little friend, Irval Moore.





 





I am writing you a few lines to let

you know that we all enjoy the radio.

Some of us boys and some of the girls

were down stairs to listen to the rad-

io last night, and it was a nice pro-

gram and I enjoyed it. We all thank

the M. C.’s for sending the radio. The

doctor said that I could leave as soon



‘as I get braces. I have infantile par-

alysis in both legs, and I had it in

both arms, but my arms are all right

and I am glad they are.~—-Your little

friend, Arthur Meayers.





 





Just a few lines to let you know

that we enjoy our radio very much.

We hear it often, and thank you for

it very much. We have lots of fun at

night when we hear the radio play.—

Your little friend, Mary Murrin.





 





We received the radio you sent us.

We all like it. It was very nice of the





M. C.’s to get it for us. We hear the

radio very often. We had a party

Sunday afternoon. We had a good

time. We each got a one-pound box of

kisses. Then we had Sunday School.

»—Your friend, Luella Rinehart.





 





We all wish to thank you so much

for the radio. It has been put-up in

the dining room, as that is where the

most children are at one time. The

Merry Circlers were very kind to get

it for us, and we certainly appreciate

it. Everyone enjoys it, including the

grown—ups. The evening program is

looked forward to with much delight.

You know, last year we wrote letters

to the Howell Tuberculosis Institute

and they told us that you also got

them a radio. I only hope that they

enjoy theirs as much as we do ours.

I will close now expressing my thanks

again—Your friend, Wilber Cameron.





 





I thank you very much for the radio

and for being so kind. We all enjoy

the radio very much. One night we

stayed up till nine o’clock listening to

the radio. We hear it during the day,

too. Well, goodbye—Your friend,

Terrence Hancock.





 





Just a few lines to let you know

that we received our lovely radio.

We hear it every day and enjoy it.

We all thank you and the Merry Circ—

lers for getting us the radio. Miss

Buchanan is our home-room teacher,

and Miss Taylor is our art teacher.

I have osteomylitis in my right leg. I

have had three operations in one year.

Hoping to hear from you and the M.

C.’s soonq—Your loving friend, An-

nette Jacobson.





 





This is the first time I have heard

a radio. I have heard about one lots

of times and always wanted to hear

one. We thank you and the Merry

Circlers very much for sending us a

radio—From your little friend, Nina

Fischer.





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Just a few lines to let you know

that we are so happy that we don’t

seem to know ourselves. It made us

so glad that we jumped in bed. We

all thank you and the Merry Circlers

with millions of thanks. We have

such a good time now. I thank all of

you with lots of thanks for the radio.

From. your friend, Louis Robol.





 





I am writing just a few lines to let

you know that we received the radio

and we all like it very much. We all

thank you and the Merry Circlers very





Find Truth and Stick to it

Ir fld‘vz'ce of Senator- Glam ‘





IF you will search for the truth in every problem with which





you are required to deal and,





having found it, stick to it re





gardless of all things else, you will so train your mind and

establish your character as to insure the integrity of both. Add

to this sobriety and diligence, reverence and unselfishness; with

these ,qualities well cultivated you will not only win success, but

may achieve great distinction.—~CARTER GLASS.





Hon. Carter Glass, United States Senator from Virginia, and

formerly a member of Woodrow Wilson’s cabinet, is noted for his





forethought, frankness, and candor.

things he doesn’t believe, in order to be popular.





He doesn’t pussyfoot or say

He sends just





the sort of message our boys might have expected, and one that





all may well give heed to.





(Standard Farm Paper Editorial Service. Copyright 1926, by Clarence Poe.)





much. In the morning we hear exer-

cises, and the man says one, two,

three, four. I shall have to sign off,

like our radio does. I’ll sign off, leav-

ing loads of thanks for the radio to

Uncle Frank and M. C.’s.—-—Your little

friend, Edith Mikendo.





 





I like our new radio very much. We

all enjoy it very much. We stayed up

late last night listening to the radio.

~——Your friend, Terrence.





 





We received the radio, and was very

glad to get it; Every day the boys

and girls listen to it. I am going

home soon, so I will not be able to

hear the radio much more. I am here

for my ankle. I had infantile paralysis.

—From your loving friend, Ellen K.

Nitz.





 





Just a line to thank; you for the

radio.’ We are having a good time out

here since we got the radio. We all

thank the M. C.’s for getting the mon-

ey to buy us a radio. My left arm is

paralyzed. Well, I will close with

many thanks for the radio—Your lov-

ing friend, Wilfred Storm.





 





Just a line to let you know that we

received the radio you sent us. We

hear it every night. We get WWJ

most every night—Your friend for

ever, Walter Pivorski.





 





Just a few lines to thank you for

the radio, and we all thank you very

much for saving up the money. All

the children go down in the dining

room to hear the radio. I have tuber-

culosis in my ankle and I have a cast





 





77247255 to M C’s"





Enclosed you will find a num-

ber of letters Written by some

of our oldest girls and boys.



We all want the children. of

the Merry Circle to know that

they have been the cause of

much happiness among our chil-

,dren.



It is quite a treat to our boys

and girls who are allowed to

stay up an hour or two later at

(night to listen to the radio.

Their motto is, "it pays to be

good,” and they are good.



Our hope is that the members

of the Merry Circle will receive

great blessing through the beau-

tiful work they are doing, “for



.. others.” We know that they

will.

Gratefully yours,

Children of the Children’s Hos-

pital of Michigan.

Johanne M. Andersen,

Assistant Superintendent.





 





 





 





on my’footr—Your loving friend, Anna

Carlson. ' '





 





We received the radio for which we

give you and the Merry Circlers many

thanks. We are having a fine time

here. The apples and nuts are just

beginning to ripen. We also have

choke cherries and grapes. I believe

I will have to be signing oft—Mildred

Sofranko.





 





 





 





 





 





Hurray! Cousins, I have a new

Uncle! It’s one I am very fond of,

although I have never seen him. Who

is it? Uncle Frank, of course. I re-

ceived my pin and membership card,

and many thanks.





Uncle Frank, I wonder how many

of your nieces like to wash, bake and

keep house. I like to wash, bake and

and I can keep house. Mercy, well

be getting grey hair if we keep on

discussing the same thing. Why ”not

discuss the “Value of Club Work? I

like club work, for in a sewmg club

you learn to make different garments,

and take pride in your work. In a

poultry or calf club you learn the care

of animals, to keep record of the feed

you buy, and the money that is

brought in. While you are learning a





few of these useful things, you aren't'





running around in someone’s automo-

bile, or doing other things to get into

trouble. Trouble is easyr enough to

find without looking for it.



I will have to close now. My little

niece, two years old, fell and_broke

her leg. She will have to. be in bed

from four to six weeks With her leg

straight in the air with_ a. weight on

it.——Your friend and cousm, Marguerite

Vincent, Durant, Mich. .



A sensible letter, I say. There IS

much to say about the value of club

work. If it did' nothing but to keep

one out of trouble, it would be worth

while, but it does much more than





that. I feel sorry for your niece.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



Just a few lines to let-you know

that I’m not yet a “was M. C.” I agree

with “Wolverine” in regard to choos-

ing your occupation. I do not think

a child, with unmatured mind, should

choose and work towards an occupa-

tion. I do think, though, they should

concentrate their thoughts on this oc-

casionally. One thing I, think posi-





tively unfair, is for the parents or any





 





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one else to choose occupations for

their children or friends. They do not

always know what the younger gener-

ation is fit for. A person who chooses

his own occupation will likely take

what he likes best. A person will nat-

iiiallywork harder for something they

1 e.



Another reason for not choosing

your occupation while too young is,





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Arthur Landon’s Conception of a

Sporty Uncle.





as time passes, the world continually

changes. Science is a big factor to

day. Perhaps an occupation you

choose while young will be of no

earthly good in later years. .



I think most of the talks for farm

boys on ‘fpur Page” are fine. We can

secure great help from them, if we

will. Just a friend, George Nichols.





Some good thoughts on a good sub-

ject, and a welcome change from

knickers, rouge and such like. Come

again, George.





Hello, Everybody: _

Don’t mind if I horn in a little while,



do you? Say,. by that story Guilford



Rothfuss wrote, you’d think the “Hers





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cine” was going} intota vault instead '
' perhaps,





of a hen’s nest, wouldn’t you? It.made





me think «of skulls and crossbones,

and so forth. And Alice Chapman's

story is true to life. . Girls do cheer

the boys up “something awful” some-

times. Of course, the boys wouldn’t

admit it, but I know. When I was

young—(no, I haven’t any grandchil-

dren).



Why don’t we ever hear from Har-

old Coles any more? I liked his let-

ters. As for bobbed hair, palnt, pow-

der, knickers and “coffin nails,” well,

I think people use their own heads in

regard to such matters, and all we say

won’t be of any use or value one way

or the other. .



I saw Jim and Louise Sulhvan do

the Ballroom and the. Eccentric

Charleston last Sunday night, and 1t

was sure worth going to see. They

sure can step some, and I don’tmean

either.—-Good-night, Signing

off, Tom Evans, Butternut, Mich.



Guilford’s story had the essentials of





‘ a good short story, the element of sur-





prise. What you say about girls cheer-

ing up is right. I think we should say

something against “coffin nails’: any-

way, because they are injurious to the

health.





 





Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins: . .



I don’t just recall the letter—1f .11;

was a letter—wherein “E. E.” said

that she couldn’t say that any of us

are perfect. I, too, believe that none

of us are perfect. It is our imperfect

points that make a contrast With our

good ones. If we were all alike, all

perfect, we’d be bored stiff with each

other—or maybe in the first place we

wouldn’t be here at all. I don’t advo-

cate, of course, that we should prac—

tice imperfection. No, rather that we

always think before we act, or say

things that might hurt another. I

agree with Uncle Frank, that it is a

funny girl who cannot find some good

quality in a boy.



“Buddy,” don’t you think that Al-

phonso LaVaul will find that men

choose more than merely a pretty face

for a wife? Anyone admires a pretty

face, but that’s not entirely agreelng

with Alphonso. It’s not always beauty

but expression that one loves to find.

A pretty girl is never sure whether a

man cares for her, in reality, or not.

Probably she thinks he is merely in-

fatuated with her “looks.”



You see, I’m a pretty girl. A some—

what homely girl has the greater ad-

vantage over us when it comes (as

often is the case) to the real thing.

But I am quiet and reserved and hope

that some day in the far future some-

one will love me for myself and not

for the so-called charm. With love to

all of you, “Brunette.”





What you say about beauty is right.

Beauty that has nothing to back it up

in the way of character cannot make

a lasting impression. Girls who ridic-

ulously make up their faces have a

wrong idea of attractiveness. A per-

son cannot help but look at them, but





in nine cases out of ten, the on-looker

is thinking, “what a‘ fool.”





DRAWING CONTEST.





 





HE other day I was looking over



some of the old pages of our depart-

ment and noticed some of the nice

drawings we got through the drawing

contests. We have not had one of

these contests for a long time and I

am in need of some good M. C. draw-

ings to use on our page, so we shall

make this a drawing contest.



You can draw on any subject you

wish, and either with pen or pencil.

We will give ten prizes in this con—

test. The first two prize winners will

be given these modern large-barreled

fountain pens; the next three, fully

equipped school pencil boxes, and the

next five, up-to—date clutch pencils.



This contest closes October 8, so be

sure to send your drawings to Uncle

Frank, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,

Michigan, in plenty of time.





CROSS-WORD WINNERS.





 





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to like to work cross-word puzzles

better than some of the others.



The winners in this contest are as

follows:





Base Balls.



Thomas Evans, Butternut, Mich.

Albert Peterson, Isabella, Mich.

Maynard Secore, Eaton Rapids.



Beads. -'

Genevieve Greek, \Valdron, Mich.

Helen Beattie, Howell, Mich.

Lois VValdron, Weston, Mich.

Inez Witri, Ravenna, Mich.

Virdie Baer, Remus, Mich.

Jean Lehnen, Munising, Mich.

Florence Rothfuss, Norvell, Mich.





Poultry Association Meets





And Reviews #26





URING the week of September

D 13-18, the hatchery men were



students at a week’s school un-

der supervision of the college men

at East Lansing. This is the first

school of its kind ever held in the

country, and is probably the forerun-

ner of many of its kind, as it proved

its value.



Following the school, the Michigan

Poultry Improvement Association held

its second annual convention, Friday

and Saturday, September 17-18. One

had but to attend this convention to

be assured of the permanency of this

association.





Opening the program President But-

terfield, of the college, asked the poul-

try men what was needed to help their

industry. Dr. Heasley, president of

the association, in his response gave

some information which would con-

Vince one that the poultry department

of the college should be enlarged.





As a state industry, according to the

1920 census, poultry showed a value

of $47,000,000, while fruit~growing pro-

duced crops annually averaging $25,-

000,000, and the dairy business produc—

ed annually, from all sources, about

371.000.000. In 1926, it is estimated

that the sixteen million hens on the.





farmsvlof Michigan produced over $54,.





First Year’s W ark





000,000 worth of eggs. The 150,000,000

chicks sold during this year at thir-

teen cents each, were worth $72,500,-

000. The hens themselves had a value

of $16,000,000. The total Value of poul—





try and poultry products this year is body, for nearly always the heavy lay:





estimated at about $145,000,000.



Losses by disease, such as bacillary

diarrhea, chicken pox, coccidiosis, ty-

phoid, cholera, blackhead, worms, etc.,

amount to over $2,500,000.





These figures show the importance

of the poultry industry to the state,

and the need of some expert work to

find means of cutting down the losses.

There is very little spent for experi-

mental work at the college, according

to Dr. Heasley, and there is need for

much better equipment than the poul-

try department now possesses.





A review of the season’s work in

connection with the Poultry Improve—

ment Association was given by J. A.

Hannah, secretary of the association.

Mr. Hannah said that there were mis-

takes made during the first year chief-

ly because there was much more work

involved in the accreditation work

than was expected. \For instance, in-





inated. Thevaccrediting work was as-

sured for the coming year because of

the large number who have already





signified their intention to have the i





work done.



During the afternoon’s program,

Prof. H. A. Bittenbender, of Ames,

Iowa, told of the poultry industry in

the middle west. He said that there

was a big demand for the heavier

breeds for marketing purposes, espe-

cially from the poultry dealers, but

that the Leghorn was increasing in

numbers. The egg production per hen

was low as compared with the more

intensive egg producing sections,

chiefly because of the lack of sanita-

tion among the middle west poultry

plants.



Prof. John \Villard, the new director

of continuing education, told of the

plans for correspondence courses,

group meetings and lectures which

would make available education to

those who cannot attend college.



Prof. H. J. Stafseth gave a very good

talk on bacillary white diarrhea, which

is transmitted through the egg. Blood

tests for this disease is the only way

available to determine if the disease

is present. Some hens which seem to

be healthy, transmit the disease, while

other less healthy hens may not.





PULLET SELECTION.

(Continued from page 309).

sexually, but have small eggs and a

low hatchability. They may have a



partial molt during fall or winter.



The third type is the refined, and

this is the best of all. They usually

are between the overly—refined and the

beefy. They should have a good, out-

standing, expressive eye. The widest

part of the skull should be back of

the eye, and the face should be free

from wrinkles—in other words, they

should have a lean, smooth face.

These birds are up to standard weight,

have good—sized eggs, good hatchabil-

ity, and they hold up on their produc—

tion, and make the best records.



The fourth type is the beefy. These

birds have a short, heavy beak, a

thick, round skull, heavy thick skin,

wrinkled around the eyes, and usually

a throaty condition. They go broody

often, and make rather poor layers.

They are also slow developing.



The fifth class is lacking character.

They have a dull, expressionless eye,

are mentally deficient, slow develop-

ing, and low production.



The sixth type is masculine—which

is very seldom found—especially in

pullets, but caused by diseased ovar-

ies, and comb and wattles enlarge and

become fiery red. They seldom or

never lay, and often they become mas-

culine.



Another factor that enters into pul-

let selection is quality. The shanks

should be clean and flat through the

center, and have a waxy feeling. The

feathers should be laid close to the





ers are closely feathered.



Then one should be careful to select

birds that are heavy in proportion to

their size, and also they should be free

from disease.



In summing up pullet selection, one

should select pullets that are physical-

ly and sexually mature; constitution-

ally) vigorous, that have good body

conformation, a refined head, good

quality, closely feathered, heavy in

proportion to size, and free from dis-

ease.





 





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AVING just finished the usual



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GERMANY MAKES AGRICULTURAL

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E’RMANY is in a. better economic



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farmers have passed through the in-

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protected as are other continental Eu-

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BUTTER PRODUCTION CHANGES.





 





LDER members of the present

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New York state was a leader in butter

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pounds

July.





producing only 2,515,000

of creamery butter during

Pennsylvania, once an import-





 





Daisy Aagie Ormsby 3d, of Lakeside Farms, Clarkston, Michigan, has

In seven days she produced 45.85 lbs.

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3,218 lbs. milk. These are all state records and the thirty-day productmn

is an American record. Also the combination milk and butter record for





ant butter producing state, reported

1,078,586 pounds for the same month.

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duction with 9,466,310 pounds for the

former and 8,336, 351 pounds for the

latter state during July.



Wisconsin only a few years ago led

in creamery butter production, but has

fallen far behind in second place with

17,568,749 pounds compared with 27,-

893,538 pounds the July production in.

Minnesota. Iowa is a close third with

17,481,849 pounds.





CHOICE OF SILO.





 





Do you consider a tile silo. better

than a cement stave silo? Will the

cement used to put the blocks together

with disintegrate? Is it necessary to

plaster the silo on the inside with

cement?——W. F.





Most authorities consider that there

is little practical difference between

these two types of silos if they are

made of good material and the mate-

rials are properly laid up with first

class cement mortar. Good cement.

mortar will become as hard as the

staves themselves and should last a

long time. Occasionally we see cases

Where the silage juices have had some

slight effect on the cement mortar in

the joints, but this is usually very

slight whe1e the mortar was good and

the joints properly filled. In laying

up the concrete staves, they should

be wet before being laid up, so that

they do not absorb water too rapidly

from the concrete." mortar.



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the vertical ones, are carefully filled

and pointed up, plastering the inside

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CASS cOW TESTING 'AssoclATION

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HE annual meeting of the Cass

County Cow Testing Association





recently held, was well attended and.





cemprised business, educational, and

social features.



The report of the tester, Mr. Ralph

Oxender, revealed improvements over

plevious years along the lines of av-

stage production per cow, and return

for each dollar expended for feed.



The silver loving cups for high herd

and high cow, given respectively by

the Cassopolis National Bank, and the

'G. W. Jones Bank of Marcellus, were

both won by Howard Hutton, a Jersey

breeder from Jones. His herd aver-

age was 440.9 pounds of fat, as com-

pared with 441.8, the mark reached

last year by Jones & Alldredge. His

high cow raised the former record of

566 pounds held by the same firm, to

696, an increase of 130 pounds. This

cow is a pure- -bred Jersey and made

the record in her four—year—old form.



The report of the secretary- treasui-





.er, P. H. Savage, showed a nice bal-





ance in the association strong-box.

For his faithful and painstaking work

in caring for the business, Mr. Savage

was unanimously voted the sum of

twenty-five dollars.



R. H. Addy, of the college dairy

staff, was present and gave an in

structive address. The complete de

struction of five gallons of ice cream

and several large cakes concluded the

event.





 





COMPLETE SUCCESSFUL YEAR.





 





T IIF Isabella-Mt. Pleasant Cow

Testing Association has complet-

ed its first year of testing work. El-

don Davidson, the cow tester, reports

that more than 300 cows averaged

8,868 pounds of milk and 336.6 pounds

of butter—fat. Bert Bozer, owner of a

herd of grade Holsteins and Jerseys,

had the highest herd average in both

milk and butter-fat production. Boz-

e1’s herd of nine cows averaged 11,791

pounds of milk and 437.8 pounds of

butter—fat.



The highest butter—fat producing

cow owned by the members belonged

to Emery Brothers. This cow, a grade

Holstein, six years old, produced 15,-

909 pounds of milk and 607.3 pounds

of fat. Ona Beltinck had a cow which

made more milk than the Emery cow.

The Beltinck cow produced 16,432





Blue-bloods





pounds of milk and 509.6 pounds of





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fat.



Isabella county can justly feel proud

of the remarkable production made

by many of the cows in the testing

work during the first year. Not all

of the cows did as well as the two

listed here; for example, the associa-

tion records show that some of the

poorest cows produced less than 200

pounds of butter-fat, one of them dur-

ing eleven months in milk making

only 169 pounds of fat, and 5,124

pounds of milk.



A small percentage of the cows in

the membership qualified for the Mich-

igan Record of Performance. In the

two-year-old class, where the butter-

fat production requirement is more

than 280 pounds of fat, there were

about twelve entries, while a similar

number of entrieswere listed in the

three-year—old age class with a fat pro-

duction of 310 pounds. There were a

larger number of entries in the four-

year—old and mature classes.



Cow testing records alone are valu-

able when carried on from year to

year. Isabella county dairymen are

planning to continue their testing as-





MICHIGAN FARMER,





 





sociation. The need is felt that con-

tinued records over several





the pioduction of cows and the breed-

ing quality of siles used. Then also,

the item of feeding is important be-

cause it 1elates so closely to the met-

its returned by the dairy herd. More

dairy information is needed and want-

ed all over to guide dairy herd own-

ers in the making of greater dairy

profits.





BREEDERS HAVE PICNIC.





ERSEY day at the Allegan County



Park brought out a fine crowd of

people interested in the breed and the

dairy industry of the country. Judg-

ing contests for men and women pro-

vided entertainment for the spectators

and instruction to those participating.

H. E. Dennison, field man for the Na-

tional Jersey Association, and Robert

Addy, dairy specialist at state college.

assisted in judging cattle, and also in

determining the placing of awards for

ability shown in the amateur judging

contest. Prizes were furnished by 10-

cal banks. The bankers of the state

are aiding movements in many coun-

ties to foster interest in dairying. This

Jersey breeders’ picnic is one of a ser-

ies that have been held in the state.





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make up the 1,104 pure-bred dairy cattle to compete at the “court of

last resort” when the National Dairy Exposition opens at the Michigan

State Fair grounds October 613, according to I. E. Burnett, superintendent

of cattle exhibits. Counting in the grade entries, a total of 1,500 of the

world’s leading dairy cattle will be 011 hand.



Michigan, with 160 head registered, is exceeded only by New York with

164 head entered. Other leaders are Wisconsin with 114 head; Iowa, 96;

Ohio, 83; Massachusetts, 68; Ontario, 63; Minnesota, 62; Pennsylvania, 50;

Illinois, 47; Quebec, 45; New Jersey, 40; Connecticut, 32; Missouri, 25;

Washington, 19; Kansas, 14; California, 13; and Indiana, 6.



Louisiana, North Dakota, and West Virginia each have one head enter-

ed. This may be viewed in the light of an accomplishment, as it is only

very recently that dairying has been taken up in these states.





Three hundred Holstein-Friesian cattle lead in the number of head en-

tered, followed by Ayrshires with 262 head: Jerseys, 212; Guernseys, 203;

and Brown Sw1ss, 127. There are 165 exhibitors of pure—bred dairy cattle.





It is evident that competition is keen, to say the least, in this year’s

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tional fairs held throughout the country. Names famous in the dairy in-

dustry stand OUt prominently among the entrants. Quality is the dominant

factor making Up the greatest gathering of dairy cattle ever assembled in

America.





Particular interest is centered in the Ayrshire classes, due to the for-

midable array presented. Among the famous cattle of the breed entered

_ are Strathglass Reamer, grand champion bull at the 1924 and 1925 Dairy

EXpositions, owned by James E. Davidson, Balmoral Farms, Ithaca, and re-

cently declared grand champion at the Sesqui—Centennial Exposition at Phil-

adelphia; Nellie Osborne of Elmshade 16th, new world’s record pure-bred

Ayrshire cow, having produced 23,223 pounds of milk, and 1,003 pounds of

butter-fat, owned byW. C. Wylie, of Howick, Quebec; and the famous grade

jAyrshire cow, “Brownie,” with a world’s record of 20,120 pounds of milk, and





 





 





 





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valuable in the United States, he says,

ranking even ahead of the Canadian

beaver north of us. Their skins should

be worth $35 to $50 apiece, but a live

beaver from this district is worth

twice that for breeding purposes.



Beavers produce at least four off-

spring each year and may yield six.

They can be depended on to double

their numbers annually. They are,

therefore, a new form of live stock

that might very well interest farmers.

They thrive on the aspen—worthless

for most other purposes, but of which

we have enormous quantities. This

they store up for winter use in the

water adjacent to their houses and

swim out under the ice to fetch it in

to consume the bark, the wood being

thrown out until it is used for dam-

construction in the spring. They breed

in the winter, apparently in January

or February, and produce their young

in May. In the summer they consume

vegetation along the banks of the

ponds or streams where they live.



They seldom go more than ten rods

from the water. When the aspen, pin-

cherry, birch, and other trees on which

they live, are destroyed close to their

homes, the beaver-farmer will find it

advantageous to cut them down and

deliver them to the beaver colony. The

beaver themselves waste considerable

timber, because it frequently does not

fall in a position where they can han-

dle it. They require human aid to

get it where they can use it.



Beaver are most gentle and quiet

pets after they learn that they are not

to be injured. By quiet stroking and

talking, one can in a few minutes after

one is trapped, easily allay his fears

and tame him. The beaver mentioned

above was removed from Pine Lake

only two days previous, yet was per-

fectly quiet and was readily stroked

by the men present. Mr. Bailey has

devised a trap which captures the

beaver without harming him. This

beaver had some time before lost a

front paw—more properly “hand”—in

a. steel trap evidently, but such trap—

ping is unnecessary.



Where beaver-farming is undertak-





 





en, it should be located on a stream

or pond, dead water doing quite as

well as running water. It is fenced

with a. light fence like poultry netting.

The fence is bottomed at the surface

of the ground. Beavers do not burrow

under a fence so placed. They burrow

only in the. bank under water. If the

stream is fenced, they will not trans-

cent the bounds of the farm. Mr. Bail-

ey is trying an experiment here in

constructing artificial beaver-houses

which should work very well.



There are two beaver farms in the

Lower Peninsula, one near Boyne City

and the other some sixty miles north

of Grand Rapids, both established un-

der the auspices of Mr. Bailey and the

Department of Agriculture, Biological

Survey. At present several projects

are on foot in the Upper Peninsula,

but none fully carried out as yet. The

state of Pennsylvania is the only state

to undertake beaver-farming extensive-

ly. About 1,000 men are now raising

beaver, and the number is rapidly in—

creasing. Beaver—farming-can be car-

ried on in connection with muskrat-

farming, the two kinds of animals liv—

ing together in the same dwelling, ap-

parently on amicable terms. The

muskrat, however, never becomes as

friendly and tame as the beaver. In-

deed, he remains quite vicious.



The state department of conserva-

tion in Michigan is interested in beav-

er—farming and issues licenses to beav-

er-farmers to fence off beaver colonies

and enjoy the profits from this indus-

try. This is said to be a more liberal

policy toward farmers than is pursued

by other states. It must be shown in

Michigan, however, that the beaver-

farmer has a bona fide intention of

engaging in the business and isnot

seeking merely to grab off an existing

colony for commercial gain.





GUERNSEY BREEDERS LISTEN TO

PROGRAM.





NE hundred Berrien county Guern-



sey breeders attended the picnic

held at the farm of Fred Gleason, in

Sodus township. The speakers were

Professor 0. E. Reed, Michigan State

College, and Mr. Burrington, field man

for the Michigan Guernseymen Asso-

ciation. .





JUVENILES STRONG AT ONTONA-

GON FAIR.





EVEN hundred and fifty attended a

Boys’ and Girls’ Club Fair, held in

Ontonagon county. The fair was plan-

ned by Mary B. Thompson, county club

agent, and W. N. Clark, agricultural

agent. Exhibits of canning, poultry,





handicraft, sewing, hot lunch, and calf

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Wallinwood Guernseys

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FOR SALE—Two young Guernsey bulls, one born



March 25. 1925: has A. R. dam. One born Octo-



ber 26. 1925. FRANK E. ROBSON. Room 303. M.



C. R. R. Depot Building, Detroit. Mich.



FOR practically pure—bred GUERNSEY or HOL-

BTEIN calves. from heavy. rich milken.



writs EDGEWOOD DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater. Wit.





Dairy Heifer Calves. practically

Guernsey pure bred $25.00 each. We ship

C. 0. D. Write L. Terwilliger, Wauwatosa, Wis.





 





 





10 Registered Guernsey Bulls. almost

For sale ready for service. May Rose breeding.

Cheap. Write JOHN EBELS, R. 2, Holland. Mich.





 





P RACTICALLYpurerbx-ed Guernsey heifer solved—

the heavy milking kind~eight weeks old, $20 each.

NORMAN B. MEYER, Maple Plain, Minn.





 





 





’A Colantha Homestead Sire





A nicely marked calf, thme—fmn'ths white.

born December 12, 1925.





His sire is a. 35-11). son of Dutchlsnd Cream-

elle Colombo. Lad. a show bull and the

sire of two world's record cows and two

with records above 33,000 lbs. milk in a

year.





His dam. is a 31.6-lb. daughter of a. 3li.5—lb.

cow With a. 3li5—day record 0? 1,231.75 lbs.

butter and 20,053 lbs. milk.





Send for pedigree of Tag No. 184.

"MICHIGAN STATE BERDg."





 





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Dept. C





Lansing, Michigan





HEREFORD STEERS





22 Wt. around 1100 lbs. 69 Wt. around 1000 lbs.

74 Wt. around 725 lbs.

45 Wt. around 550 lbs.

Good quality, dark reds. dehomed. well marital

Hereford Steers. Good grass flesh. The bed

are usually market toppers when finished. Will Idl

your choice of one car load from any bunch. Can

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EN purebredGuernseys, the pick

of Cass county’s many good herds,





'_ ‘are now exhibiting on a five-fair cir-

'cuit.





The project is sponsored by the

Cass County Guernsey Breders’ Asso-

ciation, and includes animals from the

following herds: Jones & Alldredge,

of Cassopolis; Frank & Avery, of

Jones; Sunnyside Farm of Dowagiac;

Murray & Everett, of Decatur; and

LeVoy Pemberton, of Cassopolis.



The fairs visited are West Michi-

gan at Grand Rapids; Barry County

at Hastings; Kalamazoo County at

Kalamazoo; St. Joseph County at Cen-

terville; and Van Buren County at

Hartford.



George Frank, of Jones, is the care-

taker in charge of the herd.





 





MANTON FESTIVAL.





ANTON, Wexford county, had a



big Festival Day on September

6. Thirty three head of cattle were

shown, and about $110 was given out

as prizes. There was some keen com-

petition in the Jerseys.



H. McCane got second place on

pure-bred Holstein cows, first place on

Holstein bull, first place on Holstein

heifer, first and second on Holstein

bull calves.



W. Fewloss got third place on Jer-

sey calves; N. Slick, second place on

Jersey heifers. The rest of the prizes

went to men not in the association.



Mr. Atwater, agricultural agent for

Traverse county, was the judge.



Eugene Hafer, cow tester, was sup-

erintendent of the cattle department.





BIG DAIRY DINNER.





HE program for the big dairy din-

ner to be given at the National

Dairy Exposition at Detroit, under

the auspices of the American Dairy

Federation on the evening of Satur-

day, October 9, at the Book-Cadillac

Hotel, has been arranged as follows:

Presiding oflicer, E. M. Bailey, of

Pittsburgh, president of the American

Dairy Federation.

Toastmaster——James Schermerhorn,

of Detroit.

Entertainment program in charge

1" Eddie, McGrath, of the Detroit

Creamery Company—Music by F‘inzel’s

Society Orchestra; J. L. Hudson Com-

pany Vocal Octette, Isabel Hunt Ful-

ler, Martha Cook, Carmen Morlock,

Bertha Bright Knapp, Harry E. Park-

er, Joseph J. Kendrick, Kenyon Cong-

don, and H. Dean Yocom; Harrison

Burch, accompanist; Edgar Guest, De-

tr01t’s best known poet-humorist;

Theo._J. Smith’s dancers; Muriel Kyle,

Detrott’s favorite soprano; Dick Lynch,

famous Irish story teller ;Captain

Wade Booth, well-known baritone;

Eddie McGrath (himself) and Harry





A. McDonald, in dairy duets. Special

feature number by Detroit Dairy

Councu.



Banquet speakers——Hon. Louis J.





Taber, of Columbus, Ohio, Master of

The National Grange, and James A.

Emery, of Washington, D. C., chief of

the law department and legislative

counsel of the National Association of

Manufacturers.





Entertainment committee——W. J.

Kennedy, of the Detroit Creamery

Company; D. J. Kauffman, of Detroit





‘ Dairy Council, and B. F. Beach, of the





Michigan Milk Producers’ Federation.

Reception committee—N. P. Hull,

chairman, President Michigan .Milk

Producers’ Federation; John W. Ladd,

of Detr01t; N. J. Dessert, President

Detroit Creamery Company; D. D. Ait—

ken, former president Holstein-Fries-

ian Association of America; H. A. Mc-

Donald, President Arctic Ice Cream

Company, of Detroit; George V.

Branch, President Detroit Dairy and

Food Council, and O. E. Reed, Profes-

sor of Dairy Husbandry. State College

of Agriculture, East Lansing, Mich.

The advance sale of tickets, in

charge of the Secretary of American

Dairy Federation, A. M. Loomis, Wash-

ington, D._C., shows unusual interest.

One Michigan county agent has al-

ready reserved twenty tickets. Ac-

ceptance from Governor Groesbeck,

Mayor Smith, several members of the

legislature, and a number of Michigan

congressmen, have already been re—

ceived. ’

The premium lists of the Interna-

tional Live Stock Show are now ready

for distribution and may be had by

addressing, the International Live

Stock Yards, Chicago. Illinois. The





 





 





 

 





 





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ers. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms of

each case and give. name and address of the writer. initial-

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

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Fail to Breed.——My cows freshened

three or four months ago. They car-

ried their calves full time. These cows

now come in heat irregularly and have

been bred twice but fail to conceive.

They are fed ensilage, clover hay,

cornstalks, ground oats, and corn oil

meal. Do they lack mineral? What

can I do for them? D. G. E.—This is

usually due to some abnormal condi-

tion of the ovaries. It would be ad-

visable to have these examined by

your veterinarian. Such ovaries usu-

ally contain cysts, or so-called “yel—

low bodies.” This he could determine

and give such treatment as he found





necessary. It would be advisable to

feed them some minerals. Mix equal

parts of finely ground limestone,





steamed bone meal and common salt.

Give one tablespoonful in each feed.





Umbilical Hernia—I have a colt

coming two years old that has a small

rupture at navel since birth. Veter-

inarian says it will grow shut in time,

but it is very slow. Is there anything

to do for this besides an operation?

Local veterinarian does not like to op—

erate. I feed the colt very little rough

feed; and. keep him fat. F. S.'—Small

ruptures do frequently close them-

selves as the animal gets older. Good

results are obtained by the use of a

wide girth, to which a piece of tin is

attached at the point covering the

hernia. It is necessary to leave this

in place at least six weeks. Blisters

frequently give good results.





Teat Fistula—I have a two—year—old

heifer that brought her first calf six

weeks ago. About four weeks before

freshening her bag caked badly. I used

hot lard as a rub. When she freshen-

ed the cake left her bag, but there

was a hole in her front teat about an

inch from the bottom. Sometimes the

milk comes out of it. Is there any-

thing to do for it? C. R.—These fis-

tulas are curable. They require an

operation which should be done while

the cow is dry. It is an operation

which requires considerable skill, and

should only be done by a qualified vet-

erinarian.



Warts on Teats.——I have a. cow that

has growths of warts on all teats.

What can I do to remove them? R.

S.—-»’l‘hose wtih narrow necks can be

snipped off with scissors, and the

wound painted with iodine. To the

others, apply a mixture made by dis-

solving one dram of salicylic acid in

seven drams of collodion. This should

be painted on quickly and allowed to

dry. On the third day, the scab is

pulled off in order to allow the med-

icine to act more quickly.





Sore Teats.——What can I do for a

cow that has little sores all over her

teats? I have tried several kinds of

salves. Unless I keep them soft with

some kind of grease, they get hard

and crack and bleed. R. S. Paint the

sores several times daily with a mix-

ture of one part compound tincture

benzoin and three parts glycerine. Af—

ter the scabs are removed and the

sores look clean andI healthy, finish

healing by holding the teat in a tum-

bler filled with a warm one to 1,000

chinosol solution after each milking.

Extreme care should be observed dur-

ing milking so as not to irritate the

sores more than necessary. Always

milk these cows last.



Lump on Jaw.—-My bull has a very

large hard lump on right side of his

lower jaw. This lump is sore and

makes his jaw stiff. He has had it

for three weeks now, and during this

time he has been almost unable to

eat. He eats his grain slowly and has

a very hard time eating his hay. He

is getting very thin. ,At times he

foams at the mouth. Our veterinarian

advised rubbing the lump with iodine,

and also gave me a white powder to

dissolve in his drinking water. This

has done no good. This bull is a valu-

able one and is registered. What is

this disease, and is there a cure? H.

O.—This may be a case of actinomy-

cosis (lump jaw), or it may be the

result of a broken or decayed tooth.

Before commencing any treatment, it

would be advisable to cast the animal,

place a speculum in his mouth and

examine the teeth carefully, so as to

eliminate that possibility. If the teeth

are sound, then give the treatment for

lump jaw. Paint the swelling once

daily with tincture of iodine. Also

take two ounces of potassium iodide,

dissolve in a pint of water and give

one ounce three times daily. This

should be continued until the swelling





 





 





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Registered HpIsteins





Sixteen Head oféCows and

Heifers at Auction





4 miles north and 4 miles west of Hud-

son, 10 miles east of Hillsdale, on

the Bacon St. Road, on





Tuesday, October 5, at 1 O’CIock





12 daughters of Prairie Maid I‘rilly Lad 2941332

(whose dam made 1.220 lbs. butter in 1 year), two

and three years old. Will freshen this fall and win—

ter. These heifers are from ('OWs with good cow

testing ussm'iation rex-ords. The older cows have row

test rounds from 400 lbs. of fat at two years. to

520 at full age. (Tow up to 1.500 lbs. weight. Some

will freshen about sale time None over six years

old. 5 months’ time on bankable notes.





WM. McCULLY, P ittsford, Michigan





 





 





Registered Holstein Bull For Sale

We offer for sale the bull. Red Rock Dairy Maid

King. He is a 30—lb. bull and a tried Sire. Plenty

of heifers to show, and guaranteed in every way.

Just ’1‘. B. tested. WHITNEY BROS,

Onondaga, Mich.





For Sale





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Registered Hereford Heifers





and young bulls and cows with calves at side. at rea-

sonable prices. Also large. smooth type yearling

Merino rams with splendid fleet-cs. $25 at farm. $30

crated. L. WHITNEY WATKINS, Manchester, Mich.





JERSEY FEMALES





Having bought the entire well-known herd of H. B.





Price $150.





 





Registered Holstein cows, heifers

and young bulls. fully accred-

PARENT, Holton, Mich.





 





 





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 W.





JAYNE. Fenton. Mich.





BUTTER BRED JE‘F‘SHEAI'H’LLS

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek, Allegan County, Michigan





ready for service. and





Choice Jersey Bulls





 





bull calves. for sale



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

PARKER, Howell. Mich.



Bulls from B. of M. Cows. Chance to





Cows. 4

15 select from herd of 10. Some fresh, others bred

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





Stocker and Feeders





50 Smoker heifers, mostly Shorthom.

00 stock calves, good colors.

60 Guernsey & JerSey heifers.

30 springer cows.



300 grade Shorthom stocker and fender steers weigh-

Would prefer to sell thorn





 





some springing.





ing from 500 to 800 lbs.

for October delivery.





Gray’s Ranch, Merritt, Mich.





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

Three bred heifers to





Milking Shorlhorns For Sale mm... m 5.9.6,“...

and. November. One Roan. eight months old hull calf,

one five year old, grandson of Glenside Dairy King,

kind and gentle. Inquiries solicited. Visitors wel-

come. Prices reasonable. BELAND 8.. BELAND,

Tecumseh, Mich.





 





 





Best of quality and breeding. Bulls,

Shorthorns cows and heifers for sale. BIDWELL.

sTOCK FARM. Box D. Tecumseh. Mleh.





HORTHORN BULLS. milking strain. Shropshire

lamb and yearling rams. For particulars and.

photo, write JOE MORIARTY, Hudson. Mich.





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Milking Shodhorns Heuwshe'iferg.1iiownsion 5 it”

milked. W. E. Thompson, R. No. 4. Ludington. Mich.





 





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Write your wants. Irvin Dean 3. Sons, Crotwell, Mich.

Write





 





for sale.





D UROC JERSEYS. Fall and Spring Bosrs from

large prolific strains. Write or come and see





them. JESSE BLISS a. SON, Henderson. Mich.





 





FOR SALE Spring boars and gills from Mich-

igan pioneer herd of big typo P.

C. hogs. Some of the best. prosper-ts among them I

ovm‘ bred. sired by “Tho Wolverine" and “The

Grand Model.” the best two-year»old boar I ever

owned. A boar or sow from this herd adds prestige

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





BIG TYPE CHESTER WHITES





pious. bred from Champions.





 





Stack of all ages for

sale. Sired by Cham-

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FARM, Rt. 2. Cal! City, Mich

Chester While Boars $511503;de 0%“$_b“;$‘_1‘",‘.‘;





BENTLEY. R. I. Mich.





' ' ‘th quality. We have th

Big Type Poland China: ‘" - “m'

Write us on t . . .

CLARK, Breckenridge, Mich. y r wsns E A

Poland (‘hina spring boars and gllts.





Blg Type Leading blmdlinvs. 12th year. Prices

reasonable. F. L. MIARS, Berrien Center, Mid").





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AM PSHIRE boar pigs of spring and summer far-

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

lSNYDER. R. 4. St. Johns. Mich.





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1000 CHOICE EWES





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

owes for less money. \Vrite for description and Drlcw.

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Telegraph: ltor-kwood, Post Office, So. Rockwood

Mich. ALMOND B. CHAPMAN a. son. 80. Rock:

wood, Mich.





 





Shropshires —Oxfords





Yearling and ram lambs. Also a few Mc-

Kerrow bred Oxford ewes for sale.





Lakefield Farms, CIarkston, Mich.

THE MAPLES SHROPSHIRES





For Sale: 25 yearling rams of right type and quality.

stock rams and a few ewes.

C. R' LELAND R. 2, Ann Arbor M' hi

' Phone 734 F 13 ' 'c “n





WesiMarion Stock Farm {firm ”0““ “ 5M3“





rams and ewe lambs





 





 





 





for sale. WM. VAN SICKLE, Deckerville, Mich.

- for wool and mutton, 15 year-

Shropshu‘es lings. 40 mm lambs. 10 m.





DAN BOOHER, Evart. Mic-h.. Route No. 4





For Shropshire Rams ‘(ffufif





the farm or write

Needham, Saline,





 





 





Mich. Also a. few hmeding ewes.



' Two—yoar—old stock .

ShroPShlres yearlings. a few rammlrzilmbsz.

H. H. GERBERICH. R. l. Marion. Mich.

Breeding Ewes for sale. 200 each month. Shrop-





shire, Hampshire grades and cross-





breds. All yearlings.





V. B. Furniu, Nashville. Midi.



SHROI'SIIIRES~«0f‘l’ering choice yearling rams and



Alldafl;cw eaves: Athight prices. Sired by Buttar,

s. an .recn ams. D. L.



80. Rockwood. Mich. Chapman 8‘ Son.





For Shropshire Yearling Rams Tiff °"

ARMSTRONG BROS, R. No. 3, Fowlerville. Mini);l





DELAINE RAMS





good us grow. Photos free.

40. Wakeman, Ohio.





225 Young Delaine Breeding Ewes





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





HEEP all recorded, sent on approval: Cots

. Leicesters, Tunis. Lincolns. Karakulcs and Hwa‘irlndrii

Shires. L. R. Kuney. 648 Madison so. Adrian, Mich.





ELAINE—Merino Rams, both Polled and Horned.

for sale. Good ones. Come and make your own

HOUSEMAN BROS.. Albion. Mich.





The wool and

mutton kind. As





F. H. RUSSELL. Box





selection.





 





 





 





 





Brown Swiss Bulls mm. mm" 3’ '°‘

A. A. FELDKAMP, Manchester. Mich.

WANTED—Registered Cows or Bred Heifers

LESTER KETNER, Fenwick, Mich.



HOGS





 





bDUROCS





Boars and Gilts





 





 





Lakefield Fanns, Clarkston, Mich.





FOR SALE~—Oxford Rams and Ewes. bred from

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

Palms. Mich. Tel. Deokerville, 78-3.





' Hampshire Yearling Rams. Call or

Registered write Clark Haire Ranch, Charles

Post. Mgr.. West Branch, Mich.





pure bred Rambouillot

For sale ewes. E. M. Moore.





Farm 11/, miles south of Okemos.



choice breeding ewes. one to

Three Hundred three years old. Three hundred

choice feeding lambs. E. E. EVERETT, Hale, Mich.





A few choice rams with the t

OXfOl'ds type. quality and bmedlns. mumdiiin





rams





and.

Mason, Mich.





 





price. OTTO WIRTI‘I. Evert. Mich.
"F:f:r.:_-firgg;g _-

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Tuesday, September 28.





Wheat.

Detroit—No. 2 white $1.37; No. 2

red $1.36; No. 2 mixed $1.34.





Chicago—Sept. at $1.347/8; Dec. at-





. $1.387/3; May $1.437/3.

Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red $135176

@1361/2.





/





Corn.



Detroit—No. 2 yellow at 85c; No. 3

yellow 83c.



Chicago—Sept. at 73340; Dec.

80c; May at 87140.



~ Oats.



Detroit—No. 2 Michigan, old, 500;

new 480; No. 3 old 480; new 46c.



Chicago—Sept. 411/3c; Dec. 43%c;

May 473.10.



‘ Rye.



Detroit—No. 2, 970.



Chicago—Sept 95%0; Dec. $10014;

May $1.06%.



Toledo—Rye 97c.





Beans.





at





Detroit—Immediate and prompt

shipment $4.50.

Chicago—Spot Navy, Mich. fancy





hand-picked at $4.90 per cwt; red kid-

neys $8.65.



New York—Pea domestic at $4.75@

5.25; red kidney $8.25@9.



Barley.



Malting 73c; feeding 60c.



Seeds.



Detroit. Cash red clover at $21.50;

September alsike at $18.50; timothy,

old $2.70; new $2.90.



Hay



Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $206521;

standard at $19@20; No. 1 light clo-

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

$17@18; No. 1 clover $17@18; wheat

and oat straw $12@13; rye straw at

$13@14.





 





Feeds





Detroit—VVinter wheat bran at $31;

spring wheat bran at $30; standard

, middlings at $32; fancy middlings at

$37; cracked corn $36; coarse corn-

meal $35; chop $33 per ton in carlots.





WHEAT





After gradually working higher

since early September, wheat prices

had a moderate setback in the last

few days. Canadian weather has been

unfavorable much of the time, and the

European crop reports have indicated

the need for large imports during the

season. Speculative buying has been

more aggressive and offset the pres-

sure from the increasing domestic vis-

ible supply and the expanding move-

ment of Canadian wheat.





It is not certain that prices will con-

tinue this advance, or fail to drop

back to new low levels for the season.

The brunt of the Canadian movement

is-still to be met and foreign buyers

display no anxiety over future sup-

plies. Broomhall estimates the Euro-

pean wheat crop at 224,000,000 bush-

els less than last year. This is a larg-

er decrease than hitherto supposed,

and is augmented by a decrease of

100,000,000 bushels or more in the Eu-

ropean rye crop, as well as a small

potato crop. Broomhall also reports

much low grade and damp grain in

the native crops of the United King—

dom, Germany and France, necessitat-

ing imports of high grade, dry grain

for mixing. These conditions indicate

that importing countries will need_ to

absorb a good deal of wheat during

the crop year.





RYE





Rye imports have increased in the

last month, and close to two million

bushels have been cleared. .Price

changes largely follow the action of





wheat.

CORN





Corn prices broke sharply early in

the past week, followed by a strong

rally, then another decline. Some dam-

age has been done by frost, but a

large percentage of the crop had

reached the safety zone in the states

where lowest temperatures were re—

ported. Each day without frost in oth-

er sections adds to the amount of ma-

ture corn and, at lowest, feed supplies

will not be extremely scanty. Grow-

ers have been selling old corn more

freely in the last week than at any

time in a long while. Commercial de

mand has been slow. Cash corn is

about 10 cents above the low point of

the year, reached last May and June.

The main ‘trend of the market prob-

' ably is up, but a declining market fre





quently occurs at this season of the

year when growers clean up old corn

and the new crop movement looms up

on the market horizon.





OATS





Market receipts of new oats have

been extremely light thus far in the

new crop year because of interference

with threshing by wet weather. The

visible supply has been increasing,

however, due to the narrow demand.

Because of speculative support, oats

prices were relatively firmer than corn

in the past week and probably have

passed their low points for the season.





BEANS





Bad weather caused an advance in

the bean market with as high as $4.65

per 100 pounds, f. o. b. Michigan points

quoted for C. H. P. whites for first

half October shipment. An easier

tone developed at the close of the

week because of a more favorable

weather map. How severe the loss of

beans and damage to quality are, re-

mains to be seen. The crop has bare-

ly started to move, and prices are not

likely to maintain this level, if the

weather permits free deliveries and

crop losses cease. But, if damage con-

tinues, a strong market is to be ex-





pected.

SEEDS





Clover and timothy seed prices are

slightly lower than a week ago. The

demand is especially active and sell-

ing new crop seed by producers is un-

der way. Weather conditions have

been highly unfavorable for harvest-

ing clover seed.





FEEDS





Feed markets are quiet, with wheat

feed prices barely steady at central

western points, where offerings exceed

the demand. Cottonseed meal is low~

er because of increasing pressure from

supplies. Linseed meal prices are prac-

tically unchanged. Demand from con-

suming sections is slow. The sluggish

tone in feed grain markets has a rath-

er depressing effect on all by—product





feeds.

HAY





The hay market has been a listless





affair recently, with fairly liberal re-

ceipts and only a moderate demand.

Timothy markets, in particular, have

been draggY. as a result of lack of in-

quiry. Alfalfa hay prices have been

practically steady, and, in some mar-

kets, light advances were noted. Re-

ceipts at Kansas City have been mod-

erate recently, and alfalfa meal mills

were active buyers as they are begin-

ning operations. In the far west, dair-

ies have been stocking up for their

fall and winter requirements.





EGGS





Fresh egg prices failed to make

much progress last week in their up-

ward march. Receipts at leading mar-

kets are gradually decreasing, but ar-

rivals in the week ending September

18 were the largest for the corres-

ponding period on record with one ex-

ception. In addition, dealers are push-

ing storage eggs on the market at a

more rapid rate than usual at this

time of the year. This has some ef-

fect on the demand for lower grades

of’fresh eggs. Receipts of dressed

poultry at leading markets are not

much heavier than they were in the

last half of August, but they continue

to surpass all previous records for the

corresponding time of the year, and

storage stocks are gradually increas-

ing. Prices hold up remarkably in

view of the volume of supplies.



Chicago—Eggs, fresh firsts 36%@

380; extras 381/2@39%C; ordinary

firsts at 29@33c; miscellaneous 360;

dirties 20@27c; checks 206i)26c. Live

poultry, hens 25c; springers 221,60;

roosters 180; ducks 24c; geese 190;,

turkeys 34c. ‘



Detroit.——Live poultry, heavy spring-

ers 2663300; light springers 21@23c;

heavy hens 290; light hens 20@28c;

ducks 25@260.





BUTTER





The advance in butter prices contin-

ued until the last few days, when a

slightly easier tone developed. Re-

ceipts increased instead of continuing

to decrease gradually, and the recent

advance probably checked the move-

ment into distributive channels, which

has been unusually active during the

last two or three weeks. The weaker

turn in prices is only a natural reac-





 





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tion following the previous rapid ad- ’





vance, and

ward trend

Dealers are





a resumption of the' up-

may occur at any time.

not inclined to push prio-





 





MARKETS av ' RADIO.





 





AiLY market reports and

Weather forecasts may be

obtained each week .day from

the following Michigan stations:

WKAR—Michlgan State Col-

lege, 12:00 noon.

WCX—Detroit Free Press. at

4:00 P. M.

WWJ—Detrolt News, 10:25 A.

M., 12:00 noon, 3:00 P. M.

WGHP—Geo. Harrison Phelps,

7:00 P. M.





 





 





 





es .up _too rapidly, as they wish to

maintain consumption at a high rate,

at least until the stocks in storage are

brought down more nearly to average

Size _for this season of the year. It is

poss1ble, also, that receipts in the

next month or two will be more near-

ly equal to those of the corresponding

period in the-last year or two than

they have been recently. Production

reports in the past two weeks show

an increase over last year.



Chl'frices 2:1 92§core creamery Were:



icago .c; ew Yor 1 '



troit 38%@420. k 45 ’éc’ De-





WOOL





Wool prices are showing an 11 ward

tendency. Mills buying has belen of

larger volume recently, and prompt

shipments are asked for, revealing the

diminutive size of mill stocks. But,

they follow reluctantly the advances

asked for by dealers, claiming that

prices quoted for cloth at recent open-

ings Will not permit much rise in cost

of raw material. Foreign markets al-

so are higher, with advances in Aus-

tralia and London firmly held, and

the South African season opening

strong: Domestic prices are below the

importing level, so that the strength

abroad has been due to Continental,

British and Japanese buying. Boston

quotes good combing territory quarter-

blood wool at 80 cents, clean basis,‘

three-eighths at 90 cents, and half-

blood at $1@1.04. Fine French comb-

ing brings up to $1.05 and, in some

cases, more. Ohio delaine is quoted

at 44 to 45 cents, grease basis, with





Tuesday, September 28..





CHICAGO





Hogs.



Receipts 20,000. Market is mostly

15@250 lower. All average weight un-

der 240 lbs. comparably same with

Monday’s price; tops off on 180-200-1b.

weight; light lights and pigs are in

improved demand; heavy butchers and

packing sows steady to a shade low-

er: 10@15c off; tops $13.65; bulk 180-

240-lb. average $13.25@13.60; 250-3004

lb. butchers $13@13.45; good packing

sows $11@12; most slaughter pigs at

$11.25@12.





Cattle.

.teceipts 9,000. Market is slightly

improved. Yearling and medium





weight, best steers, steady; practical-

ly nothing done with the in-between

grade; a few loads of yearlings $12;

some held higher; many loads year-

lings and light weight steers at $9.85-

@11.60; fat cows, slow, steady; all

cutters strong; few under $4; bulls

steady; vealers held at 500 higher to

packers; $15.50 and above to outsid-

ers; packers, feeders, steady at $6.50

@7.85.





Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 31,000. Very little done on

better grade fat lambs, about steady;

2.50 lower on in-between- and lower

grade; no westerners sold; few offer-

ings $13@13.25; some loads around

39((11950; sheep steady; fat ewes $6@

6.503;1(§eeding lambs 50c lower $12.75





@1

DETROIT





Cattle.

lReceipts 147. Market is steady to

s ow.

Good to choice yearlings

d fed ............... $10.00@10.75





Best heavy steers, dry-fed 9.00@ 9.75

Handy weight butchers . . 8.006;) 8 75

Mixed steers and heifers 6.00@ 725

Handy light butchers 6.00@ 7.00

Light butchers . . . . . . . 5.00.@ 5.75





Bést cows 0 O I O O I O O O O I V I 0 5025@ 6000

Butcher cows . . . . . . . . . . . 4.50@ 5.00

Cutters ...... 3.75@ 4.25

Canners ......... . . . . . 3.00@ 3.50

Choice light bulls . . . . . . . 6.00@ 6.50

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

Stock bulls ......... . . 5.00@ 5.25

Feeders ................. 6.00@ 7.00

Stockers ................ 5.25@ 6.00

Milkers and springers. . . $55.0 @ 90.00;





Calves.

Receipts 325. Market steady.

Best





Others 5.50@16.00





Sheep and Lambs.





oooooooooooooooooo





Receipts 1,622. Market lower.

Best grades . . . . . . ...... $14.00@14.25!

Fair to good 4.75@13.25

Fair lambs ............. 8.00@13.25

Light to common lambs . . 9.00@10.75

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

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





Hogs.





Receipts 1,548. Mixed 250 lower;

others steady.





Mixed .......... . . . . . . . .$ 13.50

Roughs “ 10.50

Heavies 11.50@12.50





BUFFALO

\ Hogs.



Receipts 2,200. Market is , mostly

steady; on medium weight 15c high-

er; tops $14.25; bulk 200-250 lbs. at

$13.85@14.10; 250-300 lbs at $13.25@

1.4; 180-200 lbs. largely $13.85@13.90;

160 lbs. $13@13.50; pigs $12.50; pack-

ing sows $10.50@11.



Cattle.

Receipts 50. Few stock heifers;





steady; heavy steers lower; others

steady. ~ " F "" ' '





 





. Calves. $1.50 bu‘ ”tom t '

Receiptssi‘oo. Top: :16;bmedium $13. ions g5°@$1’ bzfegotikagjgl 33’ fit};



eep an am s. u: ‘ T I V

.Receipts 200. Market steady. Top ‘ eans $4 cwt, wheat. .31..





 

 





lambs $14.75; fat 011118.311; sheep are "

scarce. .. ., ,. f j,, , ,r .





 





 





 





..................... $16.50@17.00a $1 b





rye 75c bu; chickens—1* ‘

:;@24c.:a Its-'18 2g; ”5





half-blood at 44 cents, three—ei h

at 38 to 39 cents, and quarter 351313

to 40 cents. Ohio wools of clothing

length bring two to four cents less in

each case.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Apples 750@$2 bu; crabapples 1



bu; wax beans $1@1.75 bu; gfegi

beans $1631.75 bu; beets 7«50@$1 bu'

cauliflower $1.50@5 bu; cabbage 75;:

@1 bu; red $1@1.25 bu; chard 40@

50c bu; local celery 25@750 dozen-

carrots $1@1.25 bu; leaf lettuce 750@’

_ u; mustard 40@500 bu; green

ions 50@75c dozen bunches; root pars-

ley 40@500 dozen bunches; curly pars-

ley 35@400 dozen bunches; potatoes

$1@1.75 bu; pea s $3@3.50 bu; round

radishes 40@50c dozen bunches;

radishes 60@850 dozen bunches; spin-

ach 75c@$1 bu; summer squash 60@

75c bu; turnips $2.50 bu; turnip tops

40@500 bu; peaches $1.50@5 a bli' .

plums $1.50@2.50, bu; pears $1.50@é

bu; grapes $1.75@2 bu; lima ’ eans

60@700 quart; Hubbard squash $1@

1.25 bu; eggs, retail 50@60c; hens, re-

tain at 28@35c; springers, retail 35@

38c; Leghorn springers, retail 28@ '

35c; ducks, retail 35c; dressed hens

40c; springers 42@45c; ducks 45@500.





GRAND RAPIDS





The peak point in the movemen

Elberta peaches was reached this!

week and prices became more stable

on the Grand Rapids market. Quota-

tionsgwere: Peaches, Elbertas $1@'

1.50 bu; Engles, Kalamazoos, Craws

fords, Prolifics $1.25@1.50;

$1.75@2; Hales $3@3.50 bu;



$1 bu; pears $1@1.50 bu; apples,





Strawberry $1.25@2' bu; Wealth

Wolf River 75c bu; various .othgr 8::

rieties 50@75c bu; cantal





 





   





oupes 65c@





   

 





 

   





 





 





   





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PLOWING CONTEST. .





 





HE third annual plowing contest



and tracto‘r demonstration of the

Thumb District Will be held October

5, near Port Huron, seven miles out

Pine Grove avenue, near North Street

station. The contest will be held on

the Eugene Atkins farm.



All the plowing will be done in sod

and there will be three classes in the

contest; one for professionals which

is open to all; another for men of the

Thumb District only, one for boys, an

open tractor class, boys’ tractor class,

and an open tractor class. There will

also be a ladies’ tractor contest. Be-

sides, there will be a. sweepstakes

prize for the Thumb District only, and

a. prize for the best team and equip-

ment from the Thumb District. If it

rains, the contests will be held on

October 6.





 





MICHIGAN WHEAT GROWER

TAKES CHAMPIONSHIP.





 





I HE pace for mid-west wheat grow-

ers was set by G. P. Phillips, who

farms at Bellevue, Michigan, at the

Central States Exposition held at

Aurora, Illinois, by winning the Wheat

championship of the show. His cham-

pionship entry was one-half bushel of

Berkeley Rock, certified by the Mich-

igan Crop Improvement Association,

1nd preliminary to being awarded hon-

ors as the best wheat in the show, it

was first in the class for certified seed

wheat.



Berkeley Rock is a semi-hard red

winter wheat bred by the Michigan

State College. It is unusually winter-

hardy and of excellent quality for

bread flour purposes. Its outstanding

productive feature is its apparent im-

munity to both the loose and stinking

smut of wheat.



In addition to his wheat honors, Mr.

Phillips won second on single ear of

corn, fourth on ten ears, and fourth

on shelled corn, with entries of Dun-

can, and fifth on soy beans with an

entry of the Manchu variety.





FARMERS ARE LAND BANK OWN-

ERS.





'ARMER borrowers of the Federal





Land Banks have purchased all.





the stock held by the federal treasury

in eight of the twelve banks through-

out the country. Purchase of stock

of the St. Louis bank having just been

completed. It is explained by Farm

Loan Commissioner Williams that

farmers acquire the stock in blocks

equal in value to five per cent of their

borrowings. The treasury now owns

a little more than one million dollars

in stock in the other four banks, com-

pared with the nine million dollars in-

vested when the banks were organized

several years ago.





AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK.





MERICAN Education Week will



be observed from November 7 to

13: This year it will be under the

auspices of the National Education As-

sociation and the American Legion,

while heretofore it has been sponsor-

ed by the bureau of education. Dr.

John J. Tigert, commissioner of edu-

cation, says he believes that the ob-

servance of American Education Week

has produced large results by way of

interesting the American people in

school needs. The following program

is suggested for the week: Sunday,

for God and country day; Monday,

Constitutional rights day; , Tuesday,

patriotic day; Saturday: community

day. ‘ .1





 





ADVANTAGES OF GRADES.





 





The advantages of standard grades

are not enjoyed by all parties that be—

lieve in them. The dependability of

'the- product can be guaranteed only by

‘a competent, hard-working corps of in-

spectors. :‘Gradie. quality, condition,





 





.40. or 00pm fun: part payment.





 





size, loading, practices and packing

methOds are controversial subjects. As

long as everything is pleasant, and

business is geing well; no upsets in

the market, and goods carrying in per-

fect condition, it makes no difference

who does. the inspection- But when

the market is on the toboggan, with

buyers burning money on the wires

asking for allowances for technical

reasons or none at all, and the goods

are rotting in the terminals, it is dif-

ferent. In such times it not only

makes a great difference as to how





the produce left the point of origin'





and how it arrived at destination, but

it also makes a big difference as to‘

who says so.





 





GERMAN NITRATE SUPPLIES





HILE little progress apparently

is being made in America in

air nitrates production, Ger-

many has increased her nitrate pro-

duction to such an extent that the

BritiSh-Chilean nitrate interests have

been obliged to reduce production and

cut the price of Chilean nitrate. E. A.

Foley, American agricultural commis-





sioner at London, reports that world.





consumption of Chilean nitrate for the

year ended June 30, 1926, totaled

2,077,000 long tons against 2,350,000

long tons for the preceding year. As

a result of the slow sales stocks in

Chile on July 1, were estimated at

1,227,000 long tons against 856,000

long tons on the same date last'year.

Lower prices for the synthetic n1trate

product in Germany forced a June cut

of 24 cents per quintal on Ch1lean

nitrate.





COUNTY CROP NEWS.





Allegan Co.——Corn is fair; but _feW

potatoes in a hill; dairy cows high;

hogs scarce; fruit, all kinds, plentiful.

Wheat 20 bushels per acre; oats 35

bushels; rye 15 bushels—R. W.



St. Clair Co.——Farm work has been

delayed by the wet weather for two

weeks; 60 per cent of all wheat yet

to sow, proposed acreage about the

same as last year; threshing is well

along; wheat about 20 bushels to the

acre, and quality good; barley and

oats fair; corn and potatoes promise

better than an average crop, but need

two weeks of good weather to 'mature.

Milk and eggs appear to be the chief

reliance of farmers in this country.—~

J. L. .



Oceana Co.—~—Farmers are making

good progress with fall work; bean

pulling, apple picking and potato dig-

ging soon to begin; some corn is being

cut; corn is generally a poor crop;

wheat yielded 20 bushels per acre;

oats 40 bushels; rye 15 bushels; no

barley raised; meadow conditions are

fine, and about the same amount of

fall grain being sown as last year;

late potatoes bid fair to be a good

crop; condition of live stock is fine;

dairying and hog situation is fair. No

sheep are raised around here. Lots

of plums and peaches, and quite a few

apples; cherry crop was short—J.





Shiawassee Co.—Wheat sowing is

well along, full average of acreage be-

ing sown; little rye as yet sown;

some corn already cut and is a fair

crop; wheat yield is good; oats aver-

age yield; rye and barley good, but

little acreage; meadows are in good

condition, due to frequent rains. P0-

tatoes are promising a good crop;





 





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hogs are not coming into market, ow-

ing-to light crop; no wool moving;

all varieties of fruit plentiful; bean

harvest quite well along, but is being

retarded by the rains.—-C. E. G.





Lenawee Co.——Farmers are prepar-

ing the ground for wheat. In some

parts the oats are net all threshed;

the outlook for corn is good, but need

about two more Weeks to mature; po-

tatoes have a good growth of vines

but are not yielding heavily. There

is an abundance of all kinds of fruits.

Have had most too much rain during

the past month. Butter 400; eggs 31

@340; wheat $1.17; oats 290.-—J. C.





Newaygo Co.———Wheat and rye above

average yield; oats were not so good;

no barley here; condition of all fall

grain sown is good; owing to frost

keeping off, think corn will be a fair

crop; potatoes are good; beans will

be a partial failure; blight in Neway—

go county never was so bad as it has

been this season; it will cut crops

about one-half. It has been a good

pickle year and farmers have made

from $200 to $250 per acre. Pasture

is good; usual amount of dairy cows;

hogs are very scarce; plenty of fruit

of all kinds, and of good quality. Are

beginning to fill silos now. Help not

too plentiful; no frost to speak of as

yet—S. A



Ontonagon Co.—~We have had about

three weeks of rain; most of the grain

will be only good for feed; no fall

seeding has been done. The fruit crop

is about 60 per cent; meadows 100 per

cent. Dairy conditions good; most all

the grain was cut and shocked in the

field when the rain came. Not much

seeding has been done on account of

the rain.





 





 





 

 

 





 





 





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DAV TRIAL





Handsome free catalog. Tells all. about this

world famous Separator. Liberal trial offer and

attractiveterms. Prices as low as $24.95. Month-

ly payments as low as $2.20. Write today.

American Separator 60.. Box 24-A Balnbrldge.

NJ. or Dept. 24.A . 1929W. 43d Si..Chlcago. Ill.

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THE GRINDER

WI'IZHTHE HAMMERS





Grinds grain. alfalfa, fodder. etc..

separately or togEther. any fineness.

No extra attachments. Trouble proof;

the grinder Without burrs or loose

Working parts. Make Your Own

Mixed Feed. Grinds oats, etc.,

for pigs' slop. Four sizes; elevator

or blower: g‘imken bearin s. 12

years’ success ul service. rite for -



folder and ground feed samples. 2 T$|50





The W-W Feed Grinder 00., Wichita. Kansas.

_ WM. 030 a 00.. Inc

Highland Park, Mich.,





   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 





 

   

   

 





 

 





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C. N. REG. SILVER

BLACK FOXES





Ins'...t on buying Silver Black Foxes. Registered in

the Canadian National Live StOck Records. This is

your protection as to quality. All of our foxes are

registered and from prize winning stmzk at Royal

Winter Fair. Our prices are reasonable. Write today

and get our prices and any information on the in—

dustry that you want.





Karstedt Bros., Priceville, Ont.





 





 





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This classified advertising department is established for the convenience of Mi hi arm

Small advertisements brim best results under classified headings. c m r em.





using. miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange.





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

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



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



display type or Illustrations admitted. Remittances must accompany order.



Live stock advertising has a neonate deneflment and is not accepted an olaulfled.





Try it for want ads and for adver-

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REAL ESTATE





THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY after years of study of

the South will send free information and booklets to

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

cellent locations where good soil, mild climate. pure

water. paying markets, low priced laud. good schools.

churches. and pleasant neighbors offer opportunitim

where farming pays and living conditions are pleasant.

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

PRICE. General Immigration gent. Room 003 South-

ern Railway System. Wash 11. D. C.





FOR SALE—210 acres 4% miles north of St. Johns,

1 mile from .\l»14. Building basement barn, 30x70,

nearly completed. Large house, splendid pasture with

running Wuicl‘. chi H. Sibley, DeWitt, Mich.





 





FOR RICN'I‘~—March lst, 100 acres near Ann Arbor.

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

lights. Address Michigan Farmer. Box 873.





WONDERFUL OPPOR’I'I NITIES, Southern Georgia

farm lands. Write for complete information. Cham-

ber Commerce, Quitman, Georgia.





 





 





 

 

   

 





 

 

 





   





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£8012 SAEETLargeusiize base burner. Peninsular No.

, excel en con t on. price low. Val. Ludwl .

504:! Van Dyke. Detroit. Mich. ' 8'





PET STOCK





 





FERRETS—Over thirty years' experience. Yearling

females, the mother ferret special rat catcher, $5.00

each. Young stock for Sept. Females $4.50, males

$4.00. one pair $8.25, three pair $21. Will ship 0..

0. D. Instruction book free. Levi Famsworth, New

London, Ohio.





 





COON. SKUNK, RABBIT and Combination Hounds

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

Lakeland Fur Exchange, Salem, Michigan.





 





COON, SKUNK. POSSUM. RABBIT IIOUNDS—flfd

tccn days' trial. Cheap. C. 0. D Ginger Ken:—

ncls, Hcri'lck, Ill.





 





THOROUGHBRED COLLIE

driving parents.

Park, Mich.





PUPPIES from heck

Dunnewlnd. 1t. 1. Comku





FLEMISII GIANT BUCKSe—Stocl gray and black.

5 and 6 months old. Quality you will appreciate;

Priced right. G. E. Sparks. Carson City. Mich.





 





SCOTCH (‘OLLIES 12 champions in pedigree. Also





photos. Cloverleaf Farms. Tiffln. Ohio.





 





FOR SALE—Black and Tan Rat Terrier Pups. four

months old. M. D. Yoder, R. 2, Shipshewan‘a, Ind.





 





 





SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK





PEACII TREES $5.00 PER 100 AND UP.

tree-s $7.50 per 100 and up.

direct to plants-rs by freight, parcel post. express.

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

vmcs. Ornamental trons. vines and shrubs. Free cat-

alog in colors. Tennessee Nursery Co., Box 125.

('lci'clund, ’l‘cnn.





 





Apple

In large or small lots.





 





WHITE BLOSSOM SWEET CLOVER SEED. 99%

pure. Have grown 510 bushels this year. Price $6.00

iu-r bushcl. Order at oncc. Sample free. Mayer

Plant Nursery. Merrill, Michigan.





 





FREE—«New Catalog hardy fruit trees. shrubs. roses.

bulbs. St’i‘lIS. America’s largmst departmental nursery.-

Establishcd 72 yours. Stoors & Harrison 00.,



103. Painas‘ville, Ohio.





 





SEED WHEAT—Fonz,

testing above 00 pounds.

Indiana.





Michigan Amber, Red Rudy.

Jean Farms. Crawfordsville.





 





FOR SATISFACTION INSURANCE buy seed oats.

beans. of A. . Cook. Owosso. Mich.





 





 





TOBACCO

(‘IGAR SMOKIGIISrRuy direct. Postpaid. ”N0

Namcs," Long Fillcr, $3.00 hundred. $1.75 fifty.

“Hoffman House lionquct,” Long Filler. genuine





Sumatra wrapper and handed, $4.00 hundred. $2.25

titty. Trial order fli‘ty earl], $3.50. Double value or

moncy refunded. Kamey—Graham 00.. Paducah,

Kcntucky.





 





CIIAIIADI'I'ICI‘II) IIOMICSI’UN TOBACI‘O—CIIUWIIIE 0!

smoking, 5 lbs, $1.25; tcn. $2: cigars $2 per 50.-

l’ipc free. pay whcn received. Farmers’ Union. Max-I

on Mills, Kcntucky.





 





lIOMIISl’lIN TOBACCO GUARANTEED—Chewing.

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

l’ipo l‘rcc. pay when received. United Farmers. Bardd

wcll, Kentucky.





 





SPECIAL SALE—Homcspun tobacco. smoking or

chewing. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.

four lbs. $1: twelie $2.25. Pipe free. United Farm~

ers of Kentucky, Paducah, Ky.





 





 





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POULTRY





0000 PULLETS now ready for shipment. nicely mad

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 LEGIIORN HENS AND MALES now half

price. Thousands of laying Pullcts. Big discount on

spring Chicks and Eggs. Trziiinested. pedigreed foun~

dation stock. egg brcd 26 ycars. Winncrs at 16 egg





contests. Catalog and special price bulletin free. I

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

Ferris, 934 Union. Grand Rapids. Michigan.





 





“'HlTE LEGIIORN ITENS—I-l'car—Old. extra good

quality. Flock average for 10% months. 175 can!

each, laying good at Burns.

Millingmn, lilii'h.





present time. Harry





 





FINE LARGE (‘OI‘KERELS Rocks and Reds. $2.25

cach. S. C. White I.cghorns $1.75 each. Lots of five.

25c lcss each. Mcrrill Hatchery, Merrill, Mich.





 





I’AIIKS BRED TO LAY Barri-(l Plymouth Rock Cock-

r-rcls from pcdigrcvd stock, $3.00 and $5.00 88.011.

(‘linton Fai'mim, Fremont. Michigan.





 





JERSEY GIANT,

(‘omb Ancona. (lockcrols and l’ullcts.

Hartford, Mich.





I‘nrtridgo anndotte, and Rose

W. A. Palmer.





 





\VHI'I‘IC \VYAIN'DO'I‘TI‘TSWri'lioico husky quality breeds

ing ('(x-kcrcls now ready for shipment. Fred Berlin.

Allen, Mich.





 





FOR SALE—Awe hundred high

Pullots, 4 months old, $1.75

R. No. 2, Zceland. Mich.





grade Barred Rock

each. Edw. VanEck.





 





 





ANCONA COCKICRELS—puro breed fro

ing strain. George Nciman, R. No. 3.





heavy lay.

ayne, Mich.-





 





 





HELP WANTED





DRIVER SALESMAN—23 to 35 years age. Perma-

nent employment; good future. Write us if inter-

;sueg. Belle Isle Creamery. 3600 Forest 111.. Detroit,

I c .





 





 





WANTED—I'Iousekmper on farm. Good home to

right party. Box 307, Michigan Farmer.





 





WANTED FAR VIS





 





 





AGENTS WANTED





 





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

fall delivery. 0. Hawley, Baldwin, Wis.





 





 





MISCELLANEOUS





 





WOOLENS FOR SALE—~Your annual. opportunity.

For quick disposal, we offer salesmen's samples of

woolen goods. underwear, hosiery, blankets. sheep-

lined coats. mackinaws, leather vests, etc” at third

to half less than regular prices. Our catalog of sam-

ple goods now ready. Send for it today. Associated

Textiles. Inc, (Cooperative) Successors to Mlnneapdlis

Woolen Mills 00., 612-0 lst Ava. No.. Minneapolis.





 





FOR SALE BY OWNER—158 acres. one mile from

Jonesville, Hillsdale 00., 16 mile off Detroit-Chicago

cement pike. Good soil. good buildings. large frame

house. tenant‘house. two large basement barns. silo.

ample outbuildings. apple orchard, gravel pit, 46-

acres wheat. Part cash. balance..5% Will consider

Would sell 136

with main buildings. Box 10. Ionesvllle. Mich.





 





 





START A REAL PRODUCTIVE BUSINESS by buy-

ing a pair or two of Joerln Bros. Registered Black

Foxes. Easy to raise. Prices reasonable Write for

literature. Milford. Mich.





ALL W001. YARN for sale from manufacturer at

bureau. Samples free. H. A. Bartlett. Harmony.





 





Mains.





SALESMEN ATTENTIONwMany of our salesmen are

receiving weekly commission checks from $50.00 in

$125.00 selling our high grade Nursery Stock. We

still have room for a number of real 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., Sales 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 3nd St. Falrfleld.

Iowa.





 





EARN $5 .DAY gathering (evergreens. roots. herbs.

Booklet. free. Botanical 12, New Haven. Conn.





 





SITUATIONS WANTED





POSITION FOR MARRIED COUPLE—age 40. llml

lived on farm. Carl Hanson. 2055 Lake Shore D8110.

Muskegon. Mich.
MACKINAW CITY





 





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24 llour

Shipments





24 hours after your

order is received

your Kalamazoo will

be on its way to you by

fast freight. We know

people want their order

- in a hurry and we are or-

ganized to give it to them

without losing a minute.





Through Cars

Our business is so extensive,

particularly in Michigan, In-

diana and Ohio, that each day

we load whole cars. These

are routed by the railroads

direct to distribution centers

in these states. This means

direct shipment to a point

near your home.





Fast Service

The result of this through

shipment is that your Kala-

mazoo com es to you in record

time. Usually a day or two,

or three at the outside, are

sufficient to bring a Kalama-

zoo from the factory door to

your freight station.





Seven railroads run through

Kalamazoo and are connect-

ed direct with the tracks of

our factory. These railroads

cover the nearby states with

a network of lines which in-

sures the fastest through

service.





Low Freight

One of the biggest advan-

tages of buying at Kalama-

zoo is that its central location

makes freight rates almost

negligible. In the lower right

hand comer is altable which

shows just how cheap freight

is to some point near your

home.



Low freight and quick ser-

vice are yours when you buy

from Kalamazoo.





 





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Kalamazoo





Facts

24- Hour Shipments

30 Days Trial

600,000 Customers

26 Years in Business

Satisfaction or Money

Back

Cash or Easy Payments

360 Days Approval

Test





Safe Delivery Guar-

antee





Above All Else—Quality





 





Mail This Coupon Today





Kalamazoo Stove Company, Manufacturers





122 Rochester Ave., Kalamazoo, Mich.





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Gentlemen: Please send me your new FREE cata-

log. I am interested in ranges D heating stoves 1:]

gas stoves D combination gas and coal ranges [:1 fur-

naces (:1. (Check article in which you are interested.)





Name ________________________________





 





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Send for this New Book Today

Buy from theFactory at Factory Prices





When you buy from Kalamazoo you actually

buy direct from the factory. We are the larg-

est manufacturers of stoves, ranges and fur-

naces in the world selling exclusively from

the factory direct to the consumer. You save

all the cost and all the profit of salesmen and

dealers. No middleman gets a penny of your

money. All you pay is the factory price which

is always the lowest.





Save V3 to V. by Buying

from this Book





When you buy from Kalamazoo you make

these four savings: 1. You save on the first

cost by getting the factory price without pay-

ing a profit to the middleman. 2. You save

the cost of installation of either furnace or

range because every Kalamazoo is sent ready

to set up and with complete, simple instruc-

tions for doing your own installing. 3. You save on

fuel every day you use your Kalamazoo because





every one is designed to give economy. 4. You save

on freight by buying so near home.





Five Year Guarantee





With any Kalamazoo stove, range or furnace you

buy you get a written guarantee bond. This is our

promise: that if any parts mentionedin guaran-

tee become defective within five years we will re-

place them FREE of charge. This is the strongest

guarantee of quality ever given by any manufac-

turer ofstoves, ranges and furnaces. We can give it

to you becausethematerialandworkmanshipwhich

go into everyKalarnazoo product are ofthe verybest.





Kalamazoo Stove

Company, Mfrs.

Kalamazoo, Michigan





“The Em ror Range is the most excellent

baker. e wouldn’t part with it for any—

thingin the world. It bakes biscuits cakes

and pies and everything so smoothly. i thank

you for the prom t manner in which Kim

shipped the stove.” . J.D., Columbus, 0 o.

‘ Nam of this customer and thousand: nf

other: who have written it: Jimilar la.

tar: fumirhcd on mum.





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'l‘l'éld-E Mark D. Y 9,9

Registers-1i lrect to 011 ..





Book Today

Fill in the





Write For This New Big Catalog Today





Buy at Factory Prices from a Factory

at Your Door and Save 1/, to 5’;





Look at this map. See how centrally Kalamazoo is located to serve you. Seven great rail-

roads run to our factory door. One or more of them runs direct to your city. Kalamazoo is

literally only a few hours from you. That is why people in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana have

found they can get such fast service on mMg they order from us. It will pay you to order

from Kalamazoo. Not only do you get the advantage of prompt shipment and quick deliv-

ery but you get the big saving in freight charges which comes of buying near home.





so Day Trial-360 nay

Approval Test





You can try any Kalamazoo for 30 days in your

home. This gives you a chance to test it out thor-

oughly under working conditions. Then, if you

wish to return it we will refund your money to-

gether with the transportation charges. Even after

that you have a 360 day approval test during which

time you are free to return your Kalamazoo ifthere

is any fault due to materials or workmanship and

be reimbursed for whatever you have paid no for

it plus any freight charges you have‘paid. This

ofier is our regular guarantee and backed up by a

$100,000 old bond, deposited with the First National

Bank 0 Kalamazoo, and by the entire resources

of our company. »





Act Now!





lfyou need a new range, furnace or heating stove

today is the day to set about it. Clip out the cou-

pon below and send it to us. It will bring you our

beautiful new big catalog which is absolutely free

to you. '



In it you will find page after page of tremendous

values. Over 200 models and sizes of heating stoves,

ranges,gasstoves, combination coal andgas ranges,

pipe and one register furnaces and household

goods. See the new beautiful porcelain enamel heat-

ing stoves, combination coal and gas ranges and

coal ranges. Then make your choice and send us





your order.

\ Easy Terms





You need pay only a few dollars down to get the

great advantage of these wonderful values. Small

monthly payments will soon pay for your Kala-

‘ mazoo without your ever noticing the payments.

Nowfill out the coupon and send

it to us before you forget.





 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





Here are the actual costs of shipping the biz

Kalamazoo Emperor Range weighing nearly

600 lbs. to various cities in Michigan, Indiana

and Ohio. Your home is probably near one of

these cities. Since freight rates are b on miles

on can be sure that the frei ht to our home Will

' fie about the same as the very 0w re 5 shown here.

lDetrolt Mich. - - - 82.42

ow . 3rand Rapids, Mich. - - - 1.86

.mdingmn, Mich. _ - - - 2.92

_.., _ . .daclrinaw 013, Mich. - - - 8.20

aw Mi . - - 2.73

2.98

8.40

T ‘ He té imi. 5'33

one an - .

sues“ iii

ron - - .

umlma Ohio ‘ 2.91

8%.... duo » .- 12.93