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Furnaces. 200 styles 3 , DOrcelain * enamel ranges and combination , - gas and coal ranges in soft grey and delft blue. Mahogany porce- ' lain enamel heating stoves.Cash or easyterms—as lowas $3down, 83 monthly. 24 hr. shpts, 80 day {mu érial.380 day an rgsval meg: ac OI! aran . .111 “u a: ted in Yin)" Michigan Red .1 Strand “Galvannealcd” g Square Deal Fence will help do this for you, too. It is a copper-bearing, heav1er Zinc coated fence that Will far outlast the old-fashioned kind. It is hog-tight, bull-proof, good-look— ing. With it you can hog down; save fallen gain; missed corn- rotate crops, etc., at agood N. D., says: "Diversified farming and good crop failures as well as in good years. . You know (haselhings: But just to refresh your mem _ . send for booklet that tells how, to fence for wire; and a catalog that these (1 Red Strand fence prices—or write to us. keystone suede: wn-e our can more! so. , » Farmer When Writing to Advertisers profit. Carl ‘ fences will, give an mcome during Good Fence did flak Cut corn feed from 11 to 8V2 bu. per 1001b. of pork for C. R. Pinkney, Fairmout, N. D than 0 :ie year r HykeJiowman. D.Br of orkonalOacre fie d after 600 bu. of corn had been hushed out for Dr. sbury. Mo. hultz, Russell, grant; another that shows ow to test fence s owe all kinds of fence. Ask your dealer for . Made $3100.00 on sheep and goats in less to J. N. Simpson. Eden, Tex. ' Made: 40.00 per acre extra refit on hogs and lambs or Ralph Rl creased rent $250.00 per quarter for Joseph - ought 1800in » chards. airbank, Ia. In- G. W. Hawkins. 1 f p for the p “i Red Strand :1 (top wire) r Thirteen million dollars are being asked by the treasury department for “ use in enforcing prohibition during the coming fiscal year. Secretary Mellon is sure that prohibition is slowly ‘win— ~ hing. u The freshman coeds. at Michigan State College must be in their dorma- tories at 8:45 p. m. instead of 9:15.. The Catholics in Mexico are prepar- ing to launch a country-wide call for demonstrations to force the Mexican congress to grant reconsideration of Eggof‘lgrgy’s petition for constitutional _ On September 27, President Cool- idge shook hands with two hundred undertakers, but he does not know it, as the secret service man in charge {gogght that “mortic’ians” means brick- A nineteen-months-old baby in Mon- treal, ate the paint from he ’ 1“ died from lead poisoning. :- or b and pH 'is estimated that approximatel 11,000 will attend the U i y Michigan this year. 11 versity 0f Darius Abner Alden, who was “T Thumb” .in circus sideshows for to??? years, died at the age of eighty-four in Los Angeles. His wife, eighty-two years old, survives him. Both were forty-two inches tall. Dean Inge, of St. Pauls, London, said that the early passing of the British . mpire as a. world power was certain. Canadian government figure show that $24,690,470 worth of liqusor has been shipped, to the United States during the past year. Race rioting broke out in the Miami devastated district. Two marines and several negroes were injure . ' The U. of M. arctic expedition, led by Prof. W. H. Hobbs, has been very successful. The exploring party re- turned recently. Charles E. Hughes, ex-secretary of state, was appointed by President Coolidge as the United States mem- ber of the permanent court of arbitra- tion at the Hague. The country’s manufacturing output (luring August was the highest on rec- ord. Automobile manufacture showed the greatest increase of all lines. The students of Hanover College went on strike because of the ruling that women students should remain in their residence after six p. m. The coal miners’ strike in England which has lasted five months, is being broken and the miners are returning to work on the employer’s terms. Forty-three miners who were on- tombed. in the Pabst: mine at Iron~ wood, Michigan, were rescued on Sep- tember 29, after five and one-half days had elapsed. A severe storm at Vera Cruz, Mex- ico, September 29, caused considerable damage and some loss of life. The body of Luis Rodriguez Delarn, a Spaniard, who attempted to swim the English Channel unaccompanied, was found recently. John Stevenson left his son letters, one to be opened at each of his birth- days. John Stevenson, Jr., six years old, opened the first one September 30. It was a letter of advice. Capt. George Littlehales, a. hydro- graphlc engineer of San Francisco, claims that the earth is lopSided, and flat at both ends. The Ford auto which Henry Ford gave to the man who posed as Baron grugp, has been reclaimed by Mr. or . The newspapers owned by the late Frank Munsey, which include the New York Sun and the New York Tele- gram, and his properties at Mohican, were sold for $13,000,000. The Canada will ultimately join the United States, is the opinion of the editor of the Truth, a. well—kno’Wn Lon- don, England, paper. A huge golden eagle Was brought down by a government mail plane at Elko, Nevada, by colliding with it. The eagle measured eight feet from tip to tip. The state utilities commission has put the rural charges of the Michigan Bell Telephone Company on a. uniform basis. This will mean higher rates for some localities, and lower for others. ‘ J. R. Mills, a wealthy rancher, liv‘ ing in San Francisco, is serving a jail sentence because he refuses to let his children go to high school. He he- lieves that the modern American high schools are not safe institutions for adolescent children to attend. _ . - r * The/«Mich; a mine a. . ' t’ 7", " mmf. , ,_ w”‘ W. Wax/5.». ‘W i: " r‘f V ‘ v '1 anew-'5':- GOE'45 MICHIGAN : voLuME CLXVII ‘ .4 i T HE billions of European corn 'borers now in ‘the corn fields of this ecuntry make up an in- vincible army. Before their silent march, man seems helpless. Their depredations are certain to be extend- ed to all sections of our great corn belt, and no one can foretell how much farther the pest might go. Such, at least, was the conviction of the two hundred men who recently " made: a tour of the infested areas of Ohio, Michigan, and Ontario. These two.-hun‘dred men included directors of experiment stations from Nebras- ka to New Jersey, deans of agricul- tural colleges, entomologists, agrono- mists, agricultural engineers, and oth— ers interested in the control and eco- nomic influence of the pest. Men See Devastated Fields. The corn borer appears even more menacing than it did a year ago. Dur- ing the present season, it has infested a larger area of new territory than usual, and the damage in the older in- fested areas is more extensive and severe. As a result, gloom took pos- session of the men on this tour as they looked upon the devastated fields of Ontario. Dean Curtisfof Iowa, declar- ed the European corn borer to be the most formidable pest that the Ameri- _can farmer has yet faced. The borer is now becoming estab- lished over a larger area in the Unit- ed States than it occupies in Ontario. For 800 miles, along a solid front, from the northeast corner of Indiana to the New— York-Vermont line, the in sect is steadily marching into new territory. This year federal scouts have _located the borer for the first . time in 111 townships in New York; 100 townships in Pennsylvania; 147 townships in Ohio; ninety-four town- ships in" Michigan, and thirty-seven townships in Indiana. This year the borer population is also more dense in the older areas. On a number of farms, where the pests before had been scarcely noticed, ev- » - PUBLIS JQ JHED [843. “ A Practical Journal for the Rural Family MICHIGAN SECTION THE CAPPER FARM PRESS Corny. Borers Baffle Selenoe .Mdr/y 200 Scz'm Z‘ZJZ‘J Came. to Michigan to Study Thy Dz’ytrucz‘z've P65! By B. Wermufh ery cornstalk is now infested. One Ontario farmer last" year grew eighty- five baskets of good corn in a field adjoining one which this year has ninety per cent of the stalks, and six— ty-five per cent of the ears infested. The corn fields in the township of Brownetown, Wayne county, Michi- gan, which is particularly exposd to infestation from Ontario, has, accord- ing to_ a recent federal survey, an av- erage of'176 borers per 100 stalks, while the township of Jerusalem, Otta- wa county, Ohio,‘ has an average of 174 borers for each 100 stalks. On an average, the percentage of infestation in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania is about three times as great as it was a year ago. Weather Conditions Are Favorable. The rapid and extensive spread of the pest this year is attributed largely to favorable weather. During July when the moths fly most freely, from forty to forty-five per cent of the wind mileage at Monroe, Michigan, was from the northeast, and from eight o’clock in the afternoon until four o’clock in the morning, that portion of the day when moths are most active, over fifty per cent of the wind-mile- age for July was from the northeast. Showers also aid the propagation of borers and this year these were abundant at the time most helpful to the insects. The borers were also fav- ored with high night temperatures. The prevailing northeast winds men- tioned above, aided the flights of the moths from the old infested areas in Michigan and Ohio, to the southwest. As a result, the borers can now be found within fifty miles of Lake Mich— igan, and in four counties in the north- eastern part of Indiana. It is now re- called that during July of 1920, when the pestis thought to have migrated from Ontario to this side of Lake Erie, northeast winds also prevailed. A further danger of infestation faces the farmers of the south and central we'st in that the territory around the head waters of the Ohio River is infested. This makes it possible for cornstalks, 13? Every Ear and Stalk of Com in this Seven- acre Field in Essex County, Ontario, is Infested with Borers. QUALITY RELIABILITY - SERVICE NUMBER XV carrying borers, to float down the riv- er to uninfested territory. Instances are known where stalks have floated down stream from 100 to 200 miles. It has also been observed that corn bor- er moths in flight are able to light upon the surface of the water and then, after resting,’ fly again. Two Types of Corn Borer. In this country, we have two types of the European corn borer. The one in Massachusetts and in Eastern New York produces two broods each year, while the borers in the Lake Erie reg- ion produces a single brood each year. It has been observed, however, both in this country and abroad, that the single brood type does far greater commercial damage than does the other. In the sections of the country where the pest is now found in abundance, farmers are reducing their acreage of corn. The planting of corn about Chatham, Ontario, in 1925, was reduc- ed about 10,000 acres, and this year an additional 10,000 acres was devoted to other cropswprincipally to alfalfa, sugar beets, beans, tobacco, and grapes. The corn—fed hog is now ex- tinct in that district, notwithstanding that a few years ago bumper crops of corn were grown and the major farm operations were the feeding of hogs and cattle. Cannot Expect Much Help From Parasites. Entomologists made a special re— quest of the press in connection with the value of parasites in minimizing the danger of the corn borer. It will be many years, they say, before help of any consequence in fighting the [corn borer can be realized from this source. In fact, the parasites now be- ing propagated may never develop to commercial importance in America. Although millions of these parasites already have been released in our fields, they are not at the present time destroying as much as one per cent of the borers. Breeding them, how- (Continued on page 351). Utilizing All the Apple Crop Hmls 172 Making [/56 of Unmanéez‘aé/e Fruzt By C. H. Smith N most orchards there are a num- ber of trees—usually planted by an early poineer, or which found their way in the grove through ignorance” of the variety on the part of the plant- er—which produce apples which are unsuitable for marketing or for home use. These apples may be lacking in ~ flavor, size, color or keeping qualities, or for same other reason are not de- , sirable for human consumption except, possibly, in very limited quantities. f Again, a “good apple year” comes along when there is likely to be, a sur- plus of this crop for which there is _. ‘ little demand. Especially is this true with the general farmer who is con-' ’ ' rincipally with obtaining ap—L use and 1who does not. crop regardless of whether it consists of undesirable apples, or whether it is of a quantity of good, sound apples that are unmarketable. The first method which has been successful on the farm consists of gathering the sound clean apples and running them through, a home cider- mill-—or taking them to a custom mill -——and making a barrel of good cider vinegar; The apples can be gathered in a pile and tWO people can run fif- teen or twenty bushels of them through in' a few hours of spare time, One man turning the crankwf the cid- er-mill and the other person feeding the apples into the hopper. The=- vin- barrel can be filled Without re- made from good, clean, sound apples and is, therefore, the best cider-vine- gar obtainable. With the home cider- mill the family may also have a keg of sweet cider now and then. A fifty-gallon barrel of vinegar at the usual prevailing price is worth about $15 or more, and by making use with a minimum of effort Without re- moving the vinegar-barrel from the blocks in the cellar. The barrel is easily filled by emptying the pails of cider into it in the cellar. The second use for surplus apples is to utilize them as green feed for the laying flobk during the winter, us- ing the poorer keepers first. On farms where the surplus apple crop has been ' disposed of in this way, it has been Pious ‘ that the flock will respond with increased egg production when fed a.1 liberal portion of apples once a day. The apples can be chopped up with a spade in a pail and fed in the coop after the ground is covered with Show and the hens are shut up in the coop. The daily pail of sliced apples disap— pears in record time—skins, seeds, cores and all. ‘As a source of green feed for the hens, the surplus apple crop is very good. So this fall, instead of allowing the undesirable- apples to rot on the ground, why not try utilizing them to supply the family with a barrel of vinegar, some sweet cider, the re- e mainder, if any, to be stored in the“{ root cellar er the home cellar as green. feed for the hens when eggs begin to soar in price. repay anyone for the slight amount 01 ' extra labor expended in caring for the apples. Both uses will amply‘.‘ " Published Weekly Established 1843 *cop'yfiim 9 The Lawrence Publishing Co. Editors and Proprietors ’ 1632 Lnfayette Boulevard Detroit. Michigan ' Telephone Randolph 1530 . NEW YORK OFFICE. 120 W 42nd St. CHICAGO OFFICE. 608 South Denrborn St. CLEVELAND OFFICE, 1011- 1013 Oregon Ave.. N. E PHILADELPHIA OFFICE, 261— 263 South Third St. ARTHUR CAPPER ....................... Presldmt MARCO MORROW .......... Vice-President PAUL LAWRENCE .................. Vice- President I". 'H. NANCE ............................ Secretory I. R. WATERBURY .................... . 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No objectionable advertisements inserted at any price. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Detroit, Michigan. Under the Act of March 3. 1879. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. Free Service to Subscribers GENERAL:——Aid in the adjustment of unsat- isfnrtory business transactions. VETERINARY:-~~Pmmm adiicc veterinarian. from expert LEGALzreVOpininns on all points. from I prominent lawyer. HEALTH.v~—l’ra¢-tiral personal advice from In (-xpvi'it‘nx'wi (lm-tm‘. FARMzkAnswei-s to all kinds of farm ques- tions, by competent specialists. HOME—Aid in the solution of all kinds of home problems. VOLUME CLXVII NUMBER FIFTEEN DETROIT, OCT. 9, 1926 CURRENT COMMENT HE loss of lives Keep and property on . the farms in this Down Flre country was the sub- Losses ject of consideration at a meeting in Washington last week of the agricul- tural committee of the National Fire Waste Council. Statistics were presented to this committee showing that during the past year in farm house fires in this country, at least 3,500 lives were lost. On account of the very incomplete records, it was impossible to make a 'satisfactory estimate of the property loss. Records of farm fires are far less complete than are those of fires in urban communities. This is partic- ularly true where there is no insur- ance. A large percentage of losses by fire on our farms is due to two main causes. Inflammable roofs and defec- tive flues. With some companies now operating in Michigan, and the plan is being extended rapidly, property . owners are being given an advantage in lower insurance rates where farm buildings have been provided with proper flues or chimneys and safe roofs. According to the standard set by this council, :1 four-inch brick chimney ' without a terra cotta. flue lining does not meet up with the requirements. The general observance of fire pre- vention week was urged by this coun- cil as the best way of arousing the in- terest of the farmer in the great waste occasioned by fire. The. object of this 1 special meeting was to devise ways . and means of arousing the attention of farmers and their‘families to the hazards and losses by fire, and to awaken interest in preventive meas- ".‘ures. " The organization of a lural fire fighting company, a. few of which are ready giving satisfaction here in This ed use of electric current in farm buildings. The electric people were asked at this meeting to make an ex- lhaustive' study 'of methods for elim- inating expenses now demanded for thoroughly fire-proofing electric instal- lation. The National Grange is planning to make this subject one of the topics for discussion in subordinate granges this coming winter. We wish to com. mend the grange- on this enterprise, but hope that the discussion may be extended to all other farm ’organiza- tions to the end that fire losses on farms may be reduced to a minimum. URING the past Recogni— few years agréat . change in farming ac- tlon.of tivities has resulted Merit through the recogni- o tion of merit. This recognition of quality, production, or ability has done much to take farm- ing out of the doldrums. It was just a few years ago that the recognition of good work done by boys and girls led the young folks to take an active interest in agricultural pur- suits. Competition for rewards of merit made possible some wonderful records by those in their teens. Fur- thermore. . what these young folks learned of modern farming was im- parted to their elders in a most ef- fective way. Recognition of merit in milk produc- tion, egg production, beef and hog pro- duction, brought to light what well- bred and well-fed animals can do. It gave a mark toward which other farm- ‘ers could strive. Cow testing associa- tions have put community milk pro- duction on a competitive basis, egg- laying contests have interested poul- try men in watching their egg score, and ton litter contests have shown up the possibilities of hog production. In crop production also, has the recog- nition of merit had a good influence. This week at Detroit, over four hun- dred boys and girls, winners in their respective states, have come together to vie with each other for national honors. Hundreds of cows of high pro. ducing ability have also been brought to the National Dairy Show in the en- deavor to get even higher honors than they have already won. The Master Farmer movement, and the new Michigan'Record of Perform- ance Association for the official keep- ing of egg records are more recent moves toward the recognition of mer- it, while the International Live Stock Show is a time-tried institution of world-wide reputation which rewards good work. It is such recognition that starts competition, and competition awakens latent ability and creates interest. It is this wide-spread modern idea of recognizing merit that has helped to bring farming out of a state of de- pression and is putting it on its toes so that it may compete favorably with other occupations. ARMERS are be- Seed ing urged by the crops department of cor" F" the Michigan State 1927 College at once to se- lect some of their best corn for next year’s seed supply, and to see that these ears are prop- erly cured before freezing weather comes. We join in this recommenda- tion. ' Each spring following a season of late maturing corn, there is a scram- ble, says one of our correspondents, to secure seed corn that will germi- nate, This man, from a farming ex- perience extending over sixty years, has found that there is no excuse for a corn grower not having seed that will grow. ions states of an adequate building "code for farming communities. seems more desirable with theincrease In an that time, says he, . were he: not been Hessian seen the ' freezing,- would fail to germ _ . real trOuble, is "not so man with the corn as with the farmer, himself. In this connection there is another matter that ought to have, the consid- eration of a large number of our farm- ers. There is a. general belief among farmers, for instance, that it p ys to use good animals ‘in breedi g live stock. They have also observed in the case of potatoes, that it pays to purchase well selected tubers instead of the ordinary stock for seed.“\-The3r have noted that almost invariably the yields are sufiiciently increased to make the investment in good seed a most profitable one. 'Would not a similar investment in highly bred seed corn be worth while? It is true that there are altogether too few good seed corn growers to supply the quantities of seed required by all our farmers. However, there ought to be a bigger demand for all the pedi- greed seed corn now available. ' UE, no doubt,’ to Lehrning the complexities of our civilization, we t? are likely to forget Lwe fundamentals. Super- ficial things seem to occupy much of our thoughts, so that, unawares perhaps, we forget thecon- sideration of what constitutes good living. The crowded condition of our public health institutions indicate that there is much that many of us can learn about life. Some years ago the thought was general that ill-health and ill-thoughts were inflicted upon us by some super— natural power. That, was true, for heredity, a mysterious power,-often brings upon innocent ones the curse of disease. But the predominating thought now is that there is a definite cause for our con- ditions, and in that thought is our salvation. We now seek to find the cause and eliminate it. It has often been said that it takes a lifetime to learn how to live a life. Thought along this line, however, re- veals that it has taken generations to learn how to live, and yet we have much to learn. Fortunate, however, are the ones who take the attitude toward life that they are learning to live, and are liv- ing to learn. The suggestion, “seek and ye shall find,” has more in it than a casual thought of it would reveal. As Edison has said, a. wholesome in- quisitiveness is not a negative factor in an interesting living. Althdugh we can not hope/to reach the ultimate, in this age at least, such an attitude toward life adds as much to a. whole- some intere9t in life as any other factor. 0 N another page of Shall this issue, is a . report of the tour of W? Quit scientists and agricul- ‘Lorn? tural leaders into the corn borer infested areas of Ohio, Michigan and Ontario. These men observed that the practical answer which the Canadian farmers are making to the problem of meeting this pest, is to eliminate corn from their rotation. Will the farmers in Michigan and the states of the corn belt be forced to meet this problem in the same way? In European countries where corn has been subject to attack by this in— sect over a long period of time, corn is still grown successfullylwhere cer- tain restrictions are carefully met by all the farmers of a community. Be- fore the war, the Austrian government enforced the necessary regulations very strictly. During the war, and immediately following, however, it was impossible to adhere to a. strict program and the borer did extensive damage. Recently, however, the gov- ernment has again adopted a rigid pol- icy .and the damage from the insect ,sree‘tl wed ' of this pest. to an extent,~ I Agriculture, require that all cornstalks. remnants of stalks and cobs of each year’s crop in fields, buildings, stacks or elsewhere, if not fed, made into 811- :‘ age, or shredded, shall be destroyed by burning or by completely plowing under before May 1 of the following year. In order that this work may be done most effectively, it is urged that the stubble be cut low to remove from the fields the highest percentage of borers, and that hogging down corn, allowing the stalks to remain in the field over winter, be condemned, in that it makes impossible the necessary complete plowing under of the stalks. The full value of these relatively simple regulations can be realized only when practiced by every farmer. No doubt the majority of farmers can be prevailed upon to practice them. The work, however, would be largely brought to naught if a few indolent ‘or contrary men leave their fields to become breeding places for infesting the entire community. It would seem, therefore, that we shall be called upon to reduce our acreage of corn to a. relatively small amounts unless some plan be devised for compelling all who grow this crop to comply with the necessary regulations. Ecumem’c Educar/zzm ELL, this week it’s gotta. be‘ somethin’ else, and I’m goin’ to. talk about ecumenic educashun, ’cause don’t know nothin’ more about it than anyone else. Now, educashun is what we old folk- ses got differunt than the kids get now. We used ta get forceful educa- shun, and I kin say the birch rod is one of the most impressive implu— ments 0’ educashun I ever saw. ‘Dan Webster says educashun is the systu- matic trainin’ o’ on’e’s faculties. Well, the way we got the birch rod I guess it was sys- tumatic all right. But I didn’t know my faculties is where I sit down. Anyhow, that’s where they made liberal applica- shuns o’ the sys- - tum. Nowadays educashun is gettin’ more consolidated thanever, and we farm- ers’ figure consolidated educashun costs more than the old school mas‘ ter, but maybe it’s worth it. Anyhow, some 0’ these young folkses think they are pretty smart. I know they know lots more’n I did when I was their age, but lots 0’ it they shouldn’t know. The M. D. ain ’t never told me where my faculties was located, but I guess I got some, ’cause I ain’t never been operated on. Educashun is exercise fer the brain, Where I guess them fac- ulties is supposed ta be. We gotta», learn \to think, just like we gotta. learn to walk, etc. Some 0’ us' think we know how ta think, but some 0' those What think so, don’t. We all got brains, like we all ’s got hands and feet, and we gotta. learn how to use them brains. E‘ducashun ain ’t memorizin’ all you learn in books, etc., but bein’ abul ta. figure out what’s what the next time it comes around. // 3/"’////////////////////////////// " ‘\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\x x . Nyfl //////fl/////// //.. In helpin’ my kidWith school/ les-l sons, it makes me think lessons is like workin’ out pu’zzles. After you learn how ta work ’em, others like them is easy. Now, just ta. show you I know some‘ thin, I’ll tell you ecumenic educashun‘ means general educaéhun. And I guess . that means _ _. regulations go e , ing hthe'snppresisionj These regulations as . called hr by our State Department of VFW‘ n-r—WFF‘ r-hl- awn-swin- A w H A . A)" .2,“ uxut—r“wwu.\‘1 ,rwnn'" -~.-.—v- rr -. cle Shoals poWer‘ dam and huge nitrogen fixation plants so, as to secure the production of cheaper fer- ‘ tilizers without further delaynwas the most important subject under discus- . sionduring the quarterly meeting here of the board of directors of the Amer- ican‘Farm Bureau Federation on Sep— tember 23—24. ' ' ‘ ' Muscle Shoals has to be seen to be appreciated, and a good many farm heads inwarious states who have here- ' tofore been -— talking about Muscle Shoals and cheap fertilizers in,general terms, will henceforth talk aboutit in terms of a hundred-foot, Imile-long dam, power generators six—ty feet high, each creating from 25,000 to 36,000 horsepower, ‘and each of the eight costing around half a million dollars. They will speak knowingly of the huge cyanamid nitrogen plant, cost- ing under war-time. conditions, $67,- 000,000, and having a present actual value as a fertilizer producer of $15,- 000,000 to $20,000,000. Even the arc process nitrogen plant, costing the ' ._ f Study Pofliéi/z'tiey oftée Greet Pow OW best to" utilize the. great Mus: government $13,00,000, and the nearby ’form, and by the process now used in Waco limestone quarry, took on the aspect of real and tangible assets in the farmers’ plans for cheap fertilizer. While the directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation finally decid-—~ ed to let final action on the pending Muscle Shoals offer go over to the December meeting, it was apparent that the feeling was strong for en- dorsement of the offer of the Ameri- can Cyanamid Company. One evidence of this is the fact that the boardfldecided that the huge cy- anamid plant should be put into oper- ation at once. The power companies’ offer proposes to discard this cyana- mid plant, and contemplates the erec- tion of new plants ”employing processs which are regarded as more or less experimental. The farm leaders could not see any reason for discarding a plant worth $10,000,000 to $20,000,000, when that plant is completely equip— ped to turn out air nitrates in the increasing amount each year by near- ly every important producing country in the world except the United States. Practically all the directors from fertilizer-using states were ready to endorse the Cyanamid Company’s of- fer at once,- but some of the more western members felt that their pres— ent information on the subject was insufficient to enable them to make an intelligent decision as between defi- nite and specific offers. They asked to let the matter rest over until the annual meeting at Chicago on Decem- ber 6-7-8. Then, too, there was some hesitancy on the part of one or two midwestern members who disliked to take action in such pointed opposition to the recommendations of the ma- jority report of the joint congressional Muscl’e Shoals committee of which Senator Charles Deneen, of Illinois, is chairman. During the course of the discussions er and Nitrogen Idem/27°07; Flam: By 0. M. Kile 02113 and study of fertilizer production at Muscle Shoals, and the utilization of hydro-electric power, two or three im-- portant principles made a deep 1111-. pression on many of the directors. First, the fact that the amountrof ’ , nitrogen capable of being produced in the present plant No. 2 at Muscle Shoals is sufficient to supply approxi- . mately onethird of all the nitrogen used in fertilizers in the United States today, and with the “eight per cent profit on cost” limitation, this plant would be the controlling factor in set- ting nitrogenous fertilizer prices throughout the United States. Second, there can be no doubt that it was the government’s intention to establish a nitrogen-producing devel- opment rather than a power develop- ment at Muscle Shoals, since approx- imately $80,000,000 were expended for the nitrogen and explosive plants, whereas only $55,000,000 were expend- ed for the dam and power installa- tions. Third, it was clearly shown that the (Continued on page 350). Comment on Master F armor Idea Letter; Express View: 072 its Pomz’éz'lz'tz'es of letters have reached our desk ' D BRING the past few days scores in which the writers have ex- pressed themselves on the Michigan Master Farmers’ Club. That our read- ers may have a broader understand- ing of this newly established institu- tion, a number of these voluntary let- ters are here published: Dear Mr. Wermuth: I must congratulate'you on the or- ganization of the Master Farmers’ Club, and what a fine meeting of farm- Massachusetts situation. You also have reason to feel much gratified by the attitude of both recip- ients and the guests last night.— John D. Willard, Director of Continu- ing Education, M. S. C. Dear Mr. Wermuth: I am in receipt of your very courte- ous invitation to attend a compliment- ,ary banquet to thecharter members of the Michigan Master Farmers’ Club at the Michigan State College. This act of yours may help create an impression which we surely need, How the Camera Looked ’ ers and representative men that was. When I was at the State Fair last year, I observed the fitter families con- test, and I suggested a pedigree regis- tration, with an “Advanced Registry” for human beings. Now, I think you might open :an Advanced Registry for Master Farmers, admitting allswho can make the required. record. I fancythat you did not catch ,all of them this year.———I. H. Butter-field. Dear Mr. Wermuth: _ " I wish again to thank you hea tily for the prlvilege of 'attending/r the Michigan Master Farmers' banquet last night, and to express cordial ap- proval of the movment. It seems to me that you have done'a significant thing for Michigan agriculture, and in the future this group of master farm- ers may become a very constructive force and factor. I was particularly interested in this thought of continuity. The Massachu- setts, Department of Agriculture has been giving medals for-distinguished agricultural service for a number of years, but So far as I, know, has done nothing beyond the giving of, the med- als; has made no permanent ‘organiza- . , {tion, and“ has dOne nothing to suggest ~ ' a fill-i ,, usefulness of , 'thefmen, wom- - 'wg’m the med- Upon the Banqueters. that farming and agriculture, crop im- provement and animal industry are really worth while, and that there are great opportunities in it, not only for living and accumulation, but in re- membrance and honor among the peo- ple of the state. And I want to con- gratulate you on the interest you have taken. I think it will be of more mo- ment than you have any idea—D. D. Aitken. My Dear Mr. Wermuth: I feel like writing to express my appreciation of the privilege of attend- ing the banquet last Wednesday night. The whole affair had an air of pro- gress and genuineness about it which deserves the highest commendation. It was a pleasure to hear the entire program fromfirst to last. One could not but be struck with the modest and sincere way in which man after man of those selected as Master Farmers acknowledged the honor which you conferred upon him.———W. W. Johnston, Head Department of English, M. S C Dear Mr. Wermuth : , I-want to express my appreciation to you and your. staff for your hospi- tality at the Master Farmer banquet and; toico‘ngratulate you upon the splendid. program which. was given. I '(iironsider this an epoch-making event our state. and believe that great xvi’ilk ‘i be. There was much interest in -the event on the part of all with whom I talked. It was something unique, and certainly very significant—Eben Mum- ford, Professor of Sociology, M. S. C. My Dear Mr. \Vermuth: I want to thank you most sincerely for your invitation to the Master Farmers’ banquet the other evening. I enjoyed most thoroughly, both the banquet and the speeches afterward, and want to congratulate you on your public spirited interest_ in promoting effective agriculture. I am particular— ly interested in your efforts to make the country community a place which is good to live in, not only from the standpoint of the earning power of the farmer, but also with regard to the educational, social and religious fac— tors of rural life. These latter are quite as important as the economic factors of country life—H. R. Hunt, Head of Department of Zoology and Geology, M. S. C. Dear Mr. Wermuth: I would like at this time to register to you my appreciation of being a guest at the first “Master Farmers” banquet in Michigan, held last even- ing in the Banquet Hall of the Union Memorial Building on our Michigan State College Campus. It truly was a great event, and only paralleled by visions of what the continuation of this movement may mean in the fu- ture to Michigan agriculture. My sin- cerity may prhaps be somewhat ap- preciated when I say that I personally deeply regret that I myself am not a truly dirt farmer, in order that in the Michigan’s First Class of Master Farmers, Arbogast, Paul C. Clement,-H. R. ’ l!!! IVl- Bar. w“; #1111, " , Probert, Garfield Farle, ._ , den, M. E. FarleyglM. E. Parmelee, (f3. aviation, future I might at least strive for some such Similar recognition—B. O. Hag- erman, Agricultural Agent, Pennsyl- vania Railroad. My Dear Mr. Wermuth: Please accept my congratulations on the splendid success of the Master Farmers’ Banquet. It certainly was a: master stroke on the part of your organization to put this on in Michi- gan, and I hope for its success. I en- joyed every minute of the program.— H. H. Halladay, Secretary M. S. C. My Dear Mr. Wermuth: Following the close of the program last night, I did not find an opportu- nity to see you personally, and to thank you for the very pleasant time which I had at the banquet that you staged. Permit me again to express my appreciation of your courtesy in inviting me. I believe your organiza- ‘ tion has started something which is very much worth while.~V. R. Gard- ner, Head of Department of Horticul- ture, M. S. C. Dear Mr. Wermuth: I want to thank you for the invita- tion to the banquet given in honor of the charter members of the Michigan Master Farmers’ Club last Wednesday evening. You and your associates are most surely to 'be congratulated in inaugurating this club in Michigan, and there is no doubt but that it will be a great'stimulant to the thinking farmers of Michigan—L. A. Thomas, Manager Purchasing Department, Michigan State Farm Bureau. Left’t'o Right the 'Are‘ ,«nam " rank'ZVK 4»... .- . .1 , Obstructions Easily Handled The Ferguson line of draft—an en- tirely new principle in power farming —takes care of obstructions of any kind and size. 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Ienoeinetructlona finch cmcfohfmm" ‘W'fihf MI. 4233 WANT CHANGES IN FARM LOAN SYSTEM. MPORTANT changes in tne 121w, or the rules governing the farm loan system, are being advocated by men interested in that system. The charge is made that the treasury‘and big bankihg interests, unfamiliar with, and unsympathetic with the needs of‘ agriculture, are greatly hampering the system by insisting on rigid rules ap- plicable only to commercial credit. One change advocated has to do with state laws which will permit money advanced definitely for crop produc- tion, to become a prior lien to the land mortgage, and changes in the farm loan rules to permit this to be done. The theory is that the land can repay a-m01‘tgage only when inten- sively operated, and that special cap- ital is required for this operation. An- other change asked for is the priv- ilege of increasing loans, to care for emergencies. Still another has to do with the extension of time and joint arrangements between the lender and borrower to continue operation over emergency peiiods. DR. ATKESON ON LEGISLATION. HOMAS CLARK ATKESON, the Washington representative of the National Grange, is back at his post in Washington. He has been spend- ing a vacation on his West Virginia farm. “We need not look for much agricultural legislation, nor industrial legislation in this congress,” predicts Dr. Aikeson. “There may be some railroad legislation, but even that is doubtful. I don’t think they will tackle either taxes nor tariff. There is no reason, however, why congress should not pass the pure fab— ric law, we have been asking for for several years. That is in the interest of all of the public, and is not special legislation. Tlré same is to be said of a standard basket bill now pending, also of a standard feed labeling law which is likely to come up. Then we should have the mails opened to fun— gicides and insecticides, and we should have parcel post rates put back where they were before the government un- . postal employes. dertook to make farmers pay most of the increased cost of higher wages for The MuscleShoaJs ownership ought to be settled. There should be a. firm stop put to further spending of government money for reclamation.” WANT TARIFF INVESTIGATIONS. HE United States Tariff Commis- sion is swamped with agricultural investigations, according to a member of its staff. After four years of oper— ation, they say, the farmers are just beginning to wake up to the real func- tion of the commission, which is to present the facts as to cost of produc— tion, to the President, and the public, and establish tariff rates on the basis of giving American producers cost of production. Investigations are now -asked for, -or started, as to eggs, on- ions, tomatoes, maple sugar products, clover and timothy seed, Swiss Cheese, milk and cream, peanuts, soya beans, cotton seed, flax seed, and the four oils derived from these seeds. There are sixteen of these investigations now on. hand. The full agricultural staff of the commission is not sulfi— cient to handle any three of them simultaneously. COMMEND DAIRY WORK. COMMITTEE representing all branches of the American Dairy Federation met here this week, to study the work of the bureau of dairy industry, and plan for its future use- fulness to the industry. They met Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, and Director General Lord of the budget bureau. E. M. Bailey, of Pittsburgh, president of the American Dairy Fed- eration, stated after these interviews, that they had given a complete 0. K., and approVal of the work of Dr. C. W. Larson, and his staff of research and extension workers, and had asked that a number of problems, not now under investigation, be included in their work for the next year. “In discovering that the simple ex- pedient of sprouting oats and adding it to the feed of dairy animals, great losses in lack of vitality, and lack of T/ze Tail of a Snaée 14 [ways Dz'ey Last hundreds Or minimal or drillers in de- 1 classes stroyi'ng bulls and cows hetere they needed to be killed,” he said. “There are larger losses in the dairy industry which we believe to be preventable. than there are in —-any other great American industry. We want to know how to prevent these losses. Every dollar spent, in this research will re turn hundredfold value in taxable wealth and national income.” COLD WAVE PREDICTED OCTOBER ‘ 9 To 12. ERBERT JANVARIN BROWN, the long distance weather fore- caster, commented thls week on the fulfillment of~his forecast of the cold wave of September 23 to 27. The tent perature, he says, Was twenty degrees colder in upper’ Mississippi valley points than ever before recorded at this early date. He states that there will be another and worse cold Wave October 9 to 12. He expected the last wave to sweep eastward, but instead. it passed down the Missippi valley. The next one, he predicts, is likely to do severe damage to late fruit in' the east and nOrtheast. WINS AT AGE OF EIGHTY-ONE. L UTHER HALL, well- known among the horticulturists of the state for his success with a Northern Spy or- chard, near Ionia, won the nomination for state representative for his dis- trict by a large majority. His margin over his opponent, a Belding editor, was 4,000. Next to Fred W. Green, candidate for governor, he polled a larger vote than any other candidate. Even though Mr. Hall is eighty-one years old, he conducted a. whirlwind campaign. Radio Briefs TATION WLS organized its part of the nation—Wide radio school the first of the month. One hundred broadcasting stations were cooperat- ing with the U. S. Department of Ag. riculture in the ether wave school work. Lectures will be prepared by the nation’s most prominent farm ex- perts. It is estimated that more than one million farmers will attend the beside the loud speakers throughout the country. Live stock, poultry and dairying will be featured in the first term. Diplomas will take the form of certificates signed by the secretary'of agriculture and .the var- ious department heads under whose auspices these courses are conducted. In a recent report of the U. S. Bureau of Standards on radio fading, some in- teresting correlations were brought out._ It has been found that about an hour before sunset there usually oc- curs a rise in the average intensity of radio signals, then a drop at sunset, and a rise to the maximum about an hour after sunset. The sunrise effect is similar to the sunset effect, but re- versed. Radio apparatus for communicating ' between engine and caboose of freight trains, and between one train and an- other, is being experimented with‘in view of avoiding Wrecks. Radio de- vices, and other devices emplOying electromagnetic waves to, detect flaws in iron and steel rails have yet to be perfected. ' ' \ America’s claim to the position of the leading radio nation of the world is bolstered by figures recently issued by the department cf commerce that, as a. nation; we operate sixts’e‘fivew _ cent of the radio boo ' ‘ ' A. _ M,\/ \. ~ _ M,\’ _ and twciiiahe‘rd sires i; of this: same ~y-breed‘ :have been purchased re- cently by farmers of 'Ogemaw. county. Ocunty Agricultural Agent W. E. Mc- ’ Carthy, says that plans are about com- pleted for the purchase and delivery within the' county of ' a carload of v grade cows; ; These animals will be placed by a condensary company. Five [thousand people attended the annual picnic held by the farm organj izations of St. Clair county. Information from Genesee county intimates that the Winter wheat acre- age has been increased ten per cent over the amount sown in the county last year. ‘- Eight of the canning clubs in Jack- son county showed some of their cui- inary ability at a picnic. E'ach- club had a team entered in a demonstra- tion contest. 'The entrants were judg- » ed by Miss Ruth Featherly, assistant state club leader. Reports from Genesee county state that rain prevented many farmers from cutting their last crop of alfalfa. An inspection was made to find if there were any prospects of a seed ~» crop. The inspection showed very few seed pods set, which is confirma- tion or the theory that alfalfa needs hot dry weather to produce a profit- able seed crop in this state. Midland county farmers have devel- oped an attachment‘to be used on a binder when cutting sweet clover for seed. This attachment saves a large percentage of the seed which is shat- tered in cutting. Any blacksmith or tinsinith can make one of these sheet metal pans and fit it to be attached under the binder. The farm organizations of Midland county were hosts at a picnic held in \Vaynes’ Grove. Business men of the county had invitations, and as a con- sequen‘cegmost of the stores in the county were closed for half a day. Speakers on the program were Stan- ley Powell, of the Michigan State Farm Bureau; Roy 0. Woodrui‘f, con- gressman from the fourth district, and "Chester A. Gray, Washington repre- sentative of the National Farm ‘Bu- reau. A committee of three is already engaged upon plans for a similar pic- nic to be held next year. At a meeting held at Smith’s Creek by the St. Clair County Cow Testing Associations, a member of one asso- ciation exhibited a cow that produced more milk in the-eighth month of her lactation period than she did the first month. The owner of the cow gave the credit for the maihtenance and in- crease in milk flow, to correct feeding advice given by the tester for the testing association of which. he .was . a member The new methods for the control of internal parasites in poultry by the use of iodine preparations has had a successful field trial in St. Clair coun- ty. County Agricultural Agent C. L. Nash says that the remedy "was used on some valuable birds which are to ‘ be used in breeding pens. Two carloads“ of lime Yr have been “ordered in Hillsdale‘county for deliv- ery this fall. These orders were made after. a; series of soil, tests shouted a IVE "fiureibredf‘ZGuernsey females What c HRYS L E R Standardized Quality ~ . ‘ Memes By]. E. Fields The Chrysler plan of Quality Standardization differs from, and is superior to, ordinary 'manu- facturing praCtice and methods. 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The National Refining Company. 70413. National Building, cleveiand, 0. I enclose 4c in stamps to cover postage and packing. Send Bn—ar'co Auto Game FREE. M5 Name is Street or a F. D. No > . , State EXECUTOR AND GUARDIANSHIP. I was appointed executor of a will. The deceased person leaves very lit~ tle. If the amount left will hardly pay for the funeral expenses in this case, rwill it be necessary and advisable to have the will probated? Having an incompetent aunt living in my house, would it be possible to draw some pay to cover expenses, like board, etc., without having a‘guardian for her? Where would I apply, at county or township ?———Reader. If there is no real estate involved, as to which it will be necessary to make record title, the risk of a cred- itor later seeking administration might be taken and all administration omitted. Anyone taking property of the incompetent would be accountable to administrator or guardian later ap- pointed. Application for these is made to the probate court of the county.— Rood. WHEAT ACREAGE ON RENTED PLACE. A person has aplace rented with five acres of wheat on it. rented it there was no bargain made out leaving wheat on the place w en we left it. Would we be com- pelled to leave some acreage of wheat, at expiration of term of years, as was when we rented it?——Wm. G. B. , If the lease contract made no pro- vision for leaving seeding and winter Wheat on the ground at the end of the term, there is no obligation to do so. ——Rood. DOWER INTEREST IN LAND CON- TRACT. Husband bought a farm. The deal is in his name. Wife wants a joint deed as husband is sick and all work falls on her other boy by former mar- riage. There is a mortgage on the farm, but interest and taxes have all been paid on time every year. Hus- band says there is no need of joint deed, for as soon as anything happens to him, the mortgage will take every- thing. That doesn’t look right to me, as we have two small children and no debts beside the mortgage. Please ad- vise me as to What to do in this mat- ter.—L. B. D. The wife would. take no dower in- terest in the property held under the land contract, but it would descend to his heir, and as heir she would inherit one-third interest in his equity. It would seem as if the husband might make a will providing for disposition of his property in such manner as he might desire for the protection of his wife and children—Rood. SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER’S WIFE TEACHING. _ Is there a law to prevent the wife of a member of the school board teach- ing school in the district in which her husband ofiiciates? Can the state or county authorities compel a rural school district to install inside chem‘ ical toilets?——R. C. We are not ”aware of any statute covering either of these points—Rood. HIGH SCHOOL TUITION. Our son has received his eighth grade diploma. We want to send him to a city high school. Should the dis- trict pay all the tuition?! Does the law require this?——S. M. . Public Acts 1921 No. 79 provides: the board of education of a, school dis- trict not maintaining a high school are required 'to pay tuition in a high school approved by the superintendent of public construction, of any child of school age resident of the district, not exceeding the cost per capital per - year for the preceding year in the high schnol where the child ' attends, unless more is voted bythe school . _ Print-at the annu I, e as. II am 3...; r “‘9' ‘mSeetxd-bmot zuccnn ‘0 “deified pttero When we, who have completed‘the eighth grade, ‘ ‘ and in no case toexceed $.60 pe'r‘vpupil ’ m- 4‘; 4 - iéwwN cries-o cial meeting called for the purpose.- The district is not liable unless notice is served upon the school board on or before the fourth Monday in June pre- ceding; unless there is suificient mon- ey in the general funds of the school to pay -the tuition—Rood. \ LIABILITY \FOR PASSENGER. My two children drive to school in an automobile. A neighbor boy rides With my children and pays them just like he pays on the bus. If they should have an accident and get hurt, can they hold me for damages ?-—Sub— scriber. Liability would depend on proof of negligence of the driver, and absence of negligence by the person injured, It would be well to get Written agree- ment exonerating from liability for negligence of driver.TRood. INFRINGEMENT‘ ON PATENT. Under what conditions are people considered to have infringed on a pat- ent?‘ Cane person make for their own personal use anything they wish in any way that they wish, even though they may copy exactly or oth- erwrse. from an article which they know IS patented? Can a person sell, trade or give anything so made, to anyone W cm they Wish to trade or give it to without laying themselves lli‘abll? fior infringement of patents?~ The ‘patent includes the right to duplicate the patented article and is not confined to selling rights. Any person duplicating the article is vio— lating the patent and liable for in- fringement.——Rood. SETTLING FENCE DISPUTE. 9 Are there any laws or regulations to go by Without going to court in re- gard to a line fence dispute?—L. O. The parties may agree upon the fence; and whatever agreement, if properly 'executed, it will determine their rights. If they cannot agree, either party may call in the township highway commissioner, who will sum- mon two justices of the peace of the township, and the three, as the fence viewers of the township, will determ- ine upon the division of the fence and whether any part requires repair, and order the making of the repairs. If these repairs are not made according to the order, the opposite party’ may make them and have them assessed the following year by the supervisor as a \tax against the land chargeable therewith, to be collected with the other taxes—Rood. _MORTGAGE WAIVER OF EXEMP- TIONS. Having mortgaged my farm and failed to make good, the mortgage was foreclosed. I am a widow, and it is myonl'y support. I will lose it in the spring. Could I hold my support but of the property, if so, what steps would B. I have to take to get it?—J. The mortgage is a waiver of all ex- emptions. ed.——Rood. EVE‘R TRY JINGLING? 'IN this issue of the Michigan Farmer we announce a prize of $5.00 for the best closing line ‘ in a jingle contest. Look up the ‘ offer and compete. ‘All it will c'ost‘you is a stamp or postal, " and you‘r‘maylwin the $5.00.. If, No support could be claim- . ; < .4 “mid“ ‘w . ”514w w, J ( \J =. '19.. .4 ...mfi5* . ‘ ’l t. 4:. v I .wa “ "we ,3 ' twentyrnine years old. item, and the five toot eight inches of ‘ H HERE 1s one outstanding feature T abOu-t fat men, We. have found, and “that is modesty.'1’h'ere Were fewer responses to this contest than to any others. One told how heavy he was, but did not send in his picture. Could it have been that he thought it would be too much for the camera to handle? ' The contest editor, being light, wOuld have to use considerable imag- ination —to know how a fat person would feel. About the only thing he knows is that fat folks are usually congenial and jovial, and must have an efficient digestion to be able to get so much out of \the food they eat. It seems that fat farmers would be good for packing down silage or in mowing away hay, provided, of course, that they can stand the work. ' The contest editor and his brother had in their school days a schoolmate who weighed asmuch as the two of ‘ Six Feet High and 310 Pounds Weight l Are Specifications of W. J. Rittgers. l them. He was center on their football team, which had a clean record of not winning a game. Of course, that was because the center was a stationary one. The opposing team could not move him back, nor would he move forward. Most of us know that being stationary in football is not desirable. But speaking of farming, the fattest farmer in this contest is also the old- est one. He says that he is a boy of 310 pounds, who was raised on the farm, and is still farming. He is six- ty-four years old and is six feet high. He is in fairly good health, and does Harry PiersonlyLooks Well-fed with ' His‘251 Pounds. all kinds of farm work. His name is ‘ W J. Rittgers, and he lives in Gen- essee county. , . The» next heaviest farmer is only He lives in Oceans.- county, on an eighty-acre prize winner in this gontest resides. He weighs 235 pounds and is five feet nine inches tall His bust measure- ment is fortydnine and one-half inches, waist forty-nine inches, and his reach is six ‘ieet four inches. This man is George Shoges, who is fifty-three years old and can eat three squares a day without a tonic. Mr. Shoges says that Here's Fat and Happy George Shoges. There’s Nothing Feeble About that Grin. he has worked hard ever since he was a small boy, but, at that, he expects to live fifty-three years more. He works eighty-five acres alone, and has for the past seventen years. He does all thechores, including milking by ’hand, and makes a special effort to keep obnoxious weeds down. His pic- ture indicates that George is a happy individual. THIN FARM ER’S CHANCE. THAT poem on this page, which, by the way, is by a lady, gives us a sort of Schedule to go by. According to What ’the poetess says, it’s the thin THE M. F. CONTESTS. First came the old men 0f some four score years or more, FolloWed by the tall men Standing higher than a door. fl Strutting, came the short men, Pretty flat, but hale, To be followed by the fat men Waddling down the trail. What about the thin men, Will they be in this story? And sure the homeliest men Deserve to have some glory. When the men get thru parading, ' Give the women, then, a page, To show off her. perfections, ~ Except to‘tell her—age. ' W. —|- _.‘ fl farmer’s turn now. So, here’s a chance for a thin farmer to get a fat prize. In this contest we will consider height in relation to weight. A man, for instance, four and one-half" feet high, weighing 120..pounds,, would not be as thin as one six feet tall who tips the scales at the same mark. , Please send picture and tell all about the con- Vtestant. IThe first prize .will be $5.00; the second, $3.00, and the third, $2.00. The contest-closes October 25. Please send the pictures and information to the Contest Editor, Michigan Farmer,- De- troit, Michigan The great Hooker Oak, in Califor- can shelter 8,000 persons under Colorlono Rec. U. 5. Pat. OR- Binocular Coll- Rcw. 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Try a Michigan Farmer Liner “left-overs” really tasty GULnENs Mustard You will like the mellow, apetite-arousing flavor of ul’den 5 better than a 137 mustard you ever taste New recipe book, "Seasoning Secrets.” sent free on request Charlies Guide Inc, De t. 32 4s gibberish N’ew rpm Holmes,Sluwe Co.,2429 Riopelle St. Commission Merchants. Dressed Beef. Hogs. calves; poultry. Live & Dressed. Provisions. etc. Correspond- ence Solicited. Rel. Wayne County a Home Savings Bank. Bradstreet. Detroit, Mich. Cherry 7654. WITTE ENGINE 150, 000 WITTE Engines in daily use. ,Sold all over the world, but to the honest American farmer I sell at Wholesale, DIRECT Factorfix Price, Special Easy Terms and No terest. Develops more than rated power from almost ANY FUEL. THROTTLING GOVERNOR enables use of cheap distiilate. Valve-in-head motor. Semi-steel construction. Fewer parts. from usual engine trouble. LIFETIME GUARANTEE .\Many NEW REFINEMEN'I’S and LOWER PRICES. Get my NEW COMBINATION OFFERS ON SAWING and PUMPING OUTFITS. Big illustrated Catalog just out shows rlatest Im- rovements. New PAYMENTS. werpro blemn.‘ ORG TER Solves all term cal experience; ohm—Io ml -Ie ' *‘ A HANDY COMPRESSION TESTER. 0 test‘ on an automobile engine tells more quickly or definitely what'the condition of the valves and piston rings than the compression test. This can be done in a rough way by turning over the engine by hand and telling by the feel which cylinders have strong and which weak compression, but this test is- rather crude and doesn’t give a very good idea of the relative compression, or of slight changes caused by using heav- ier or light oils, and so on. A very satisfactory compression tester can be easily and quickly ar- ranged from an old separable spark D in hot weather, and if long drives are taken with a fully charged battery, the lights should be burned enough to , practically absorb the full output of the generator. So far as I know, there is no prac- tical way for a farmer to repair a hard. rubber battery jar, or box. A leaky jar, which is usually indicated by one cell persistently requiring more water than the others, should have the plates taken .out by a battery man and put into a new, or good used Jar, cracked box or case might perhaps be repaired by forcing battery compound or stiff roofingcement into the cracks as much as possible with the point of a small trowel, and then putting a. wire or band around it which can be ‘ tightened up quite tight—Dickinson. 77/? fiat/ye. ‘kflg 5,5270% P/uy. 0259/. W Cbmlo/rjj/‘m 72.52%. plug and an ordinary tire gauge, as shown in the description ‘and diagram. The joint between gauge and spark plug shell can be ground in, or by careful cutting a gasket can be fitted to make an airtight joint when the, upper part of spark plug is screwed down.——I. W. LIGHTNING TROUBLE WITH LIGHT WIRES. My barn has been struck by light- ning twice in the last two years where the wires from my lighting plant en- ter the barn, each time doing some damage to barn 11d lighting plant. l‘he barn is rodde with copper rods and seems to be in good condition on examination. The ground rods are in the northwest and southeast corners and the light wires enter the south- west corner about ten feet from the ground. While each time the light- ning did quite a bit of damage to the barn, it caused no fire, even though the last time the hay and straw were piled up against the post and board that were damaged. It seems to me that the wires attract the lightning, and I should like to know if there is 31/}in way to prevent this trouble.— This is a rather unusual case, since lighting wires usually not as lightning preventive rather than as a hazard, if they are properly put up. I would suggest that a good tall pole be put about half way between house and barn, and when setting this put a reg- ular lightning rod point at the top. extending say five feet above the wires. Then, if lightning arresters and g1ounds are plaCed at both the house and barn ends of the wires, I believe you can rest assured that your trou- bles will be over. These lightning ar- resters can be purchased through the firm handling your plant.—-—I. W. D. STORAGE BATTERY QU ESTION. Will an auto battery wear out soon- er if kept only half charged, or less, than it kept fully charged, if given the same use and’ care otherwise? How can a crack. or leak in cover or side of hard rubber‘ battery box he repaired?—-M. L. Yes, a battery kept only half charg 8 "our Shipping Sew womb]; “*3 ed, or less, will wear out more quickly than if kept up in a" fully charged ‘3’?“ ., ~ dition. On the other hand. over ins quicmygmins‘ a b tel?! 28 CARING FOR THE SIDE CURTAINS. ANY car owners do not‘seem to have any idea of the proper way of caring for the side curtains when not in use and give them treatment such that their service is only a half or a. third of what it should be. The three things to be guarded against are sunlight, bending, and dust rubbing. Sunlight has a profound influence on celluloid, which forms the trans- parent part of nearly all side curtains, turning it yellow and making it brittle. So that the first requirement for proper care is to keep the _ curtains out of direct sunlight when they are not in use, folded up neatly and stored in the pockets provided‘Tor that purpose. Bending of the celluloid is also to be avoided, especially when putting the curtains away, since if bent for some considerable tiine the celluloid takes a permanent set and is quite likely to crack when it is straightened out again. And how many curtains are spoiled because they are not protected from dust while in their casings. Not only does the dust take the new off the curtains themselves, but worse, the dust gets between the celluloid sur- faces and grinding between them quickly takes ofi the smooth surface and makes them rough and difficult to see through. This dust trouble can largely be prevented by shaking and brushing off all loose dust before fold~ ing, then laying. some thicknesses of clean newspaper between the celluo loid surfaces before finally folding them up and putting them away. Such treatment will keep the surface bright and transparent much longer than the ordinary method of putting them away. The very worst treatment of all is to let the curtains lie around on the rear seat and in the bottom of the car under foot, as I have seen done more times than one would think pos- sible. Once a. celluloid window has cracked or has become badly scuffed, little if anything can be done to remedy the matter and a new celluloid is usually the cheapest and most satisfactory remedy. Ether, chloroform, amyl acetate and various other materials will soften the edges of the breaks and allow strips to be pressed on, but such repairs take time and do not look or last well, and it is usually a‘Waste of time trying to repair them, espe- cially as they are usually yellow and brittle anyway. ——D. CLUTCH THRUST BEARING. A little oil on the clutch thrust bearing will facilitate gear shifting, and it surely will prolong the life of , " that important member and the old jar discarded. A, , ,a-y‘ q: .« .u we . , ,a-y‘ q: .« .1 V4 . I 1" two White wings now docupied by the _ natural barrier that will afford greater . Central building. Other buildings will .. be erected near by. which will enable I which including the Economics Build- ' spite of the efforts of the government ' to hold it within bounds. . J apa‘nese ing or destroying land by erosion. , “ save the new $7, 750, 000 buLtding project for the Department of Agriculture; The ,Bureaus of Plant Industry and of Dairying will be joined by a, large the department to centralize its many activities in a well planned group of huge structures. Congress has au- thorized expenditures of $1, 600, 000 dur- ing this fiscal year on the project, ing recently purchased at a cost of $300,000, will total an expenditure in the. next five years of more than $8,009,00 1 JAPANESE BEETLES coves Mom-z \ TERRITORY. HE Japanese beetle continues to spread out into new territory in The beetle has been discovered on Long Island, along the Hudson from New York city to Albany and in southern Connecti- cut, and at Easton, Allentown, Read- ing, Harrisburg, and other new terri- tories in Pennsylvania. Dr. A. L. Quaintance, acting chief of the Bureau of Entomology, is quoted as saying that there is con- sidered to be little possibility of the beetle being completely stopped at the present lines and ul- timately it is thought probable that the infestation will extend to the Alle- gany mountains, which will afford a opportunities of halting the advance of the beetle, until methods of control are worked out: A NEW CLUB HOME. illsdale county boys’ and girls’ members, who won $1,600 in pre- mium money at the State Fair, have a new home on their local county fair grounds. The building was obtained largely through the‘1 initiative and work of the club members themselves, according to a statement of L. H. Mathias, club agent. The club build- ing has a dining hall, kitchen, exhibit hall, auditorium, and girls’ dormitory. A banquet served by the club girls and their mothers, earned $80 for the building fund. ‘ URGE FARMERS TO PLANT FOR- ‘ EST TREES. N urging the planting of forest trees, forestry experts in the department of agriculture say that the farm wood- land can usually be located on land unsuited for cultivation, such as gul- lied or rocky- land, swamps, steep slopes and barren soils. The chief economic reason for timber growing on the farm is to utilize the land for the crop that will bring the largest net profit to the owner, but trees im- prove the soil. The leaves, small twigs, and other tree litter decdmpose and form a layer 61‘ dark-colored veg- etable mold, by means of which soil meisture is stored up, and the binding of the soil by the roots, and the re- sistance of the trunks to the rapid flow of water tend to hold back the water and prevent floods from gully- WH'EAT YIELDS OVER' SIXTY BUSHELS. YIELD of 252 bushels of wheat "from-four measured acres, is the high mark this season in Missaukee county, where big wheat yields are the usual thing, according to H. L. Barnum“ county agricultural agent. 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Sent ex- press collect. am» for Leaflet 5. . ‘ AMERICAN CYANAMID SALES COMPANY, INC. You not on] get all the qnsck and other noxiouslnodl out of the field. but our soil is well worked for planting. KOVAR worked and is ideally suited for bonus Ind been. Now is the time to prepare your soil tor winter wheat and rye. Got solder. W. J. HARDY, Docket-ville. Mich. Representativ- Owstonns Minn- ’ ‘5', , i. - an e :\ of Perfect- 1: su rash Ave. , New York, N.Y. ' titled seed exhibit; Sielscts ‘ A ,, For t/te VER féur thousand dollars Will , be awarded for prize winning potatoes in the four big potato shows to be held in Michigan this fall and winter. Someof the classes on which liberal premiumsare awarded are: The thirty-two tuber, or peck, exhibit of the various varieties; coun- ty exhibits consisting of twelve sam— ples of thirty-two potatoes each; cer- boys’ and girls’ club exhibits; Michigan State Depart- ment of Agriculture standard grading exhibits, and a special class for those growers who are exhibiting potatoes for the first time. The object of potato shows is to educate the grower in methods of pro- duction that will enable him to grow better quality potatoes and to grow them at a lower cost per bushel. It is impossible for a grower to select potatoes for a show and make a study of the various samples on exhibit at the show Without learning many points that will be of vital importance to him. It is believed that potato shows, along with the educational ex- hibits and the meetings that are held in connection with them, have been an important factor in bettering the po- tato crop of Michigan. The careful selection of show pota- toes is important ,if the best quality of samples are to be secured. While there have been a few men who have selected prize winning samples” out of the bin, they are exceptions. In prac- tically all cases, the samples that have been in the prize winning class have been carefully hand-selected at dig- ging time. Therefore, those growers who are planning to exhibit potatoes this fall or winter should dig a num- ber of hills by hani and select the most desirable potatoes for exhibit. If possible, do the work on a clear, cool day when the soil is comparatively dry. Use care in digging to avoid bruising the skin of the tubers. Let the potatoes lie exposed on tof) of the soil for several hours until they are dry and the skin hardens. This hard- ening or toughening of the skin will save the potatoes from bruising injury. Tubers that are Without tough skins bruise very easily in the ordinary process of handling. ‘ Uniformity in Size, Shape and Color Essential. Select from two to three times as many potatoes as are actually requir- ed for the exhibit. Uniformity in size, shape and color is very essential. For late varieties potatoes weighing from eight to ten ounces are the size de sired. Early potatoes should average from seven to nine ounces. Save only those potatoes that are typical of the variety, that are smooth and free from blemish. Potatoes that are affected with black scurf, scab, wireworm in- jury, fork punctures and other me- chanical blemishes, should not be sav- ed for exhibit purposes. When the potatoes have been se- lected, wrap each potato in newspaper before they are placed in the crate. This is important, since potatoes bruise very easily when piled loosely in ‘a crate or other container. Exhibit potatoes should be stored in a cool, frost—proof cellar Where they will not be exposed to light Just previous to sending the pota- toes to the show it is necessary to ,make the final selection. At this time the potatoes should be selected in a room that is well lighted so that small blemishes may be detected. A set of postal scales should be used so that the potatoes can be intelligently se- lected for uniformity in size. All show potatoes should _be carefully brushed .with a soft 'bristled brush to remove the dirt. After brushing them, use a soft woolen clothwhich will givedus- / -. Bert Sucre}: select 8/25va Potato“ "at . By H. C. ‘M’oore, -mste are fast swimme tie to the skin. .1)? not wash thepo-fi‘v ' tatoes for exhibit. Every year several entries are disqualified at exhibits be- cause they have been washed. When the final selection has been‘ made, wrap eachpotato in .paper and 'pack the exhibit in a stout wooden box that has been well lined with pa per. Enough waste paper should be used to fill the box so that the pota- toes will not have a chance toljoggle around and get bruised. , Before making the selection a grow- er should obtain premium lists and other information from the shows where he expects to exhibit. Write to the following for infbrmation on pota< to shows: ' ' Western Michigan Potato Show, 0c- tober 28-29-30, B. J. Dobben, secretary, Greenville. Top 0’ Michigan Potato Show, No- vember 3-4-5, Gaylord, A. C. Lytle, sec- retary. I , Thumb of Michigan Potato Show. November 9-10-11, Mayville, Ernest Haas, secretary. Michigan State Potato Show, Feb— ruary, 1927, East Lansing, H. C. Moore, extension specialist. NEW SCHOOLS. ‘ ONDS for the new school buildings, or additions to present ones, have been issued this year in many places throughout the state. Among them are Pontiac, where a new $195,000 grade school is now being erected, to replace the Bagley School; Holly, Where $63,- 000 has been voted for a new senior high school, and $4500 for enlarging the present school site; Berkley, $140,- 000 for an addition to the main school building for the use of the high school. FARMERS MEET AT MUSCLE SHOALs ' (Continued from page 343). chief interest of power producing com- panies is not to furnish electric cur- rent from Muscle Shoals or any other plant, as cheaply as possible, but to maintain a general level of power prices high enough to pay for the higher costs of their least efficient power units. In other words, that turning the best water power sites over to the power “trust” practically , bars the rapid development of an elec— tro-chemical industry in the United States. Fourth, the point was made, too, that power frOm the best sites can be distributed to the advantage of the entire country in the form of cheaper manufactured articles made at the power site and shipped everywhere. Cheap aluminum made by electricity on the Little Tennessee River» was cited as one of the best present exam- ples of the application of this princi« ple of power distribution. . Another thing the farm leaders had impressed upon them at this southern meeting was the intense earnestness of the southern people in their desire to have Muscle Shoals so utilized as to produce cheap fertilizer. They saw that fertilizer is the very life blood of southern agriculture. Muscle Shoals is to them fully as big and vital an \issue as the McNary-I—Iaugen bill is to the midwest and west. ‘ It is- the writer’s belief that this southern meeting of farm heads has been very effective in bringing a_bet- ter, realization of the necessity of close cooperation between the south and the rest of the country in their efforts to solve not only their'joint problems, but their respective sectional problems as g well. ., Penguins, ,. birds .« 0.1—. ”the assume nggzhgTz'me‘ .: , . it M»; . M‘M _ M.“ . Mnfiw»wvm 'factory results are realized, every ef- fort will have been made to secure the maximum of benefit at the .earliest possible data, Special Machinery For Combatting Borer. The line bf control Work giving the most promise is the development of machinery for handling corn econom- ically and in such a way as to destroy a high percentage of the borers. At Monroe the tourists saw an exhibition of machinery specially designed for this purpose. Among these machines '. were com binders with well-designed attachments for cutting corn stubble close to the ground. By removing practically the entire stalk from the field to the silo or to the shredder, or for burning, it is possible to destroy a very‘high percentage of the larvae , found therein. Another implement demonstrated (Continued from page 341). - H ever, will continue and new stock is . being imported With the hope that, - while years may elapse before satis? tier line. The idea met with much favorable comment, and the matter was placed in the hands of a com- _mittee for development. Provide Substitute Crops. Another matter needing the immedi- ate attention of the government ex- perimenters is the developing of sys- tems of agriculture where corn is not a factor. Doctor Spillman observed that Gebrgia has lost 34.7 per cent of her crop area, largely because of her failure to provide crops which could be substituted for cotton when the boil weevil was on its way. The New England states have decreased their agricultural capacity by fifty per cent for a similar reason when commercial dairying developed in the lake states. Since corn is such a large factor in .our present agricultural program; new crop rotations and new crops should be provided to keep our agricultural land and machinery busy in the event that our corn acreage must be reduced ‘through the ravages of the corn borer. Scientists Observing the Work of the European Corn Borer in a Field near St. Joachim,“0ntaric. If ' was a combine which cut, husked and shredded the fodder in a single opera- tion. This machine is drawn by a tractor and operated by a stationary gas engine. Although designed dur- ing the past few months, the machine appears to be doing very excellent work. The husking was clean and the shredding fully up to standard. This combine may prove less suited to conditions in the dairy states than to those of the corn belt. A third machine in this demonstra- tion was a corn stubble shatterer. This implement has swiftly revolving knives, which, when drawn over a row of stubbles, shreds them, killing any borer that might be present. It is drawn by a tractor and the knives are 1 operated by takeoff power. Tests so far indicate that this machine is ef- fectiveV in destroying borers and is suited to farming conditions in the dairy states. In all, the machinery men are to be , complimented for the progressive at- titude they have taken in designing mechanical equipment for combatting the corn borer, and also for the fine way they have cooperated with the college engineers in working out new ._ideas. The Conference. At the conference of these profes- sional men held in Detroit, the activ- ities in connection withcorn borer work for the past year were reviewed and suggestions advanced for further study and guidance. The work thus far done was commended, but with added information and experience at hand, it was realized that more drastic meas- ures must be promulgated if we are to delay the onward march of this pest. To this end a number of suggestions Ewere made. " - ‘ One of these, advanced by Professor Reed, of Ohio State University, who has been responsible for many of the , mechanical ideas now being used to combatfthe corn borer, was to estab- '7 I ‘clean” zone about fifty miles .6 salon: th line so; the in-” Already Canadian farmers are substi-‘ tuting alfalfa, beans, tobacco, sugar beets and grapes. Give Cornstalks a Commercial Value. The better utilization of the corn plants, particularly the stalk, was sug- gested as a. possible means of econom- ically combatting the corn borer. Scientific data on the proper compost— ing of cornstalks for fertilizer purpos- es and the effect of these processes on the borers should be at hand. The fertilizing elements in a ton of dry fodder have been valued at six dol- lars per ton for the 8.8 pounds of nitrogen, nine pounds of phosphoric acid, and twenty-five pounds of potash. Then, too, the feeding value of corn- stalks needs emphasis. Through the proper fermentation of the stalks their value as stock feed could, it was stat- ed on the floor of the conference, be materially- increased. Data is needed showing effect upon the borer of completely plowing under the cornstalks. Conflicting data have gone out along this line. It is gener— ally known, however, that—a large per- centage of borers in stalks which are completely buried by the plow in the fall or early in the spring, are de- stroyed. But there are many import- ant questions as to the best time, the proper depth, and the manner of do- ing this plowing. Entomologists and Agronomists Report. A joint committee of entomologists and agronomists reported to the con ference a number of recommendations. They urgedthat the state experiment stations and the departments of agri~ culture cboperate to the fullest extent ‘with the United States Department of Agriculture in working out ways and means of controlling the borer. They suggested that it may be advisable to limit scouting work to areas that are exposed to infestations. They recom- mended a study of types and varieties of corn that may be resistant to some degree to borer-attack and also of the ’proper time to plant to reduce damage to a minimum. States not in the in- , tested area were advised to start ex- perimeut‘al and educational work be- the pest arrives, and also to dis- cf' etc 177 20122221” Idea/her HAINS on your tires—mud on your rims—you can’t be bothered with old tires in winter time. But Silvertowns will see you through-— new, live sturdy Silvertowns to start the winter. Silvertowns last so long that it doesn’t make much difference when you start ’ 2‘ them on the car. But when winter makes ruts deep and roads soft — it makes a whale of a difference to you! Silvertown prices are down—adjusted to 1924 levels. Enjoy your car this winter, by seeing a Goodrich dealer now. THE B. F. GOODMCH RUBBER COMPANY Established 1870 Akron, Ohio Go 0 Chi Ch Best 112 the Long Bun" ’ 1‘ Octo or means MOREHEGGS WIIlte 1’ This Month Brings Opportunity to Insure More Eggs, Better Eggs, ' and _ Stronger Chicks Right now is the time for you to adopt Ful- O- -Pep Egg Mash and thereby' increase the “production and general value of your poul- try by a single move. For not only will you win good increases in laying throughout the winter, but you will be certain of better chicks next spring. Eggs produced from Ful-O-Pep Egg Mash hatch into strong, lively chicks. And you can raise those chicks into the finest market fowls or egg producers imaginable! Take this Step Today- Go to the Ful-O-Pep Dealer in your neigh-= borhood. He has a fresh, new stock of this good mash. You’ll know it by the name on? the blue-and-white striped sack.‘ Ask him to show you how pure, clean, and really fresh this mash is. You get all feed for every ounce you buy. Bear in mind that Ful-O-Pep Egg Mash is the egg-producing ration that contains— Cod Liver Meal! And remember that this valuable ingredient is thoroughly mixed into the good oatmeal, hominy feed, alfalfa meal, meat scrap, and other clean, fresh materials so that at every mouthful the hen is getting exactly the things she must have to make eggs—plus the cod liver meal which helps these mate- rials to do faster and more thorough work. 1 The Quaker Oats Company CHICAGO, U. s. A. THE QUAKER OATS COMPANY 1600 Railway Exchange Building, Dept. 105, Chicago, 111. Send me, without charge, postpaid, a copy of your Ful-O—Pep Poultry Book. 1 Name Address Town o rt ht feed in ., the house. _ light and snap it on and off quickly as . I the groups of birds are located on the ROM at least four different experi- ment stations come fine reports of the value of alfalfa hay in the winter ration of laying hens. Hay has often been considered too bulky for the small-sized digestive system of the hen, but. lately it has. proven of value in keeping up the vigor of the flock and increasing the hatchability of the late Winter eggs.‘ An experiment in hatch twenty per cent when alfalfa was used in the ration. ~ This has been a good year for al- falfa, and many poultrymen who do not produce such a crop should buy it this fall from neighbors. Dairymen who feed alfalfa to the cows can often gather several b’ushels of the chaff to place in the hen houses. ~Poultrymen with a limited storage space can often buy baled alfalfa for only a little more than the price of loose hay. Then they can store a lot of valuable green feed for the hens in a small space. Alfalfa meal is sometimes used for ten percent of a laying mash, replac- ing ten per cent of bran, but this is the most expensive way of buying the alfalfa. Under farm conditions, it leafy alfalfa or red clover into a wire rack on the side wall of each laying house. Red clover and alfalfa seem about equal for hen feed, according to my experience, but any hay fed to hens should be properly cured so it will contain an abundance of the leaves. In feeding alfalfa ’to my hens, I have noticed they prefer the leaves which have held their green color. When hens are given hay, it is prob- ably best to cut down on the mangels, cabbages, and sprouted oats. Winter egg production is encouraged by the grains and meat scrap in the laying mash, and the hen has only a limited capacity for bulky feed. McVing the Pullets. When the first eggs are found around the colony houses and the birds seem properly matured, it pays to have the laying quarters ready and to reduce the confusion, and do not turn them out too‘soon. Many birds will return to an old range after sev- eral weeks in a new house. This is particularly true of Leghorns. Many poultrymen save themselves a lot of worry by confining the pullet flocks and keeping them under control after they are moved to the Winter houses. It prevents the birds from going outside on cold, windy and rainy days, and then humping up in the pro- tection of some building where they are chilled and made more subject to colds and roup. Exposure in bad weather also tends to reduce egg pro- duction at a time when eggs are bring- ing good prices. Do not be tempted to turn out a pullet flock on a sunny day if you doubt their ability to return to the house at sundown. Such an experi- ment has gotten resulted in trees and fences being covered with pullets at night, and sometimes - sudden wind, rain or snow storms complicate the problem and give the birds‘ 3. had set- back. \ When catching and carrying pullets, it is best to handle them carefully. Wait until the flocks in the colony houses have quieted down for the night. Do not take a lantern too near Use a small pocket flash- roosts. Carry them in crates on a wagon or wheelbarrow, and do not try ‘* . to handle large bunches of pallets by the legs. Remove them from the Detail: W/ngcIi W 211‘ Help W mter Egg Product‘zon By R. G. Kirby ‘ . - Kansas is said to have increased the~ saves money to place a forkful of' move the flock. Move them at night- {can Society of Agricultural Engineers crates and set them an the roosts as ' .3 quietly as possible. '1‘ = few minutes in the‘poultry houses at' sundown to 'keep‘the birds frOm roost- ing on .the nests or clustering in heaps under the. dropping boards. ’ Break \up the groups, and the pullets will soon learn they are not disturbed when on the roasts overgthe dropping boards. A few nights of this instruction and the pullets will all ,be found on the roosts. This is a great help in keep- ing the poultry house clean, especially the nests and the eggs. ' Light Pullets Need Range. If pullets are late hatched and lack- ing in weight, there is little object in confining them before the weather is bad. Such birds need the chance of absorbing a lot of sunshine and fresh green feed on the range. They need a lot of yellow corn to pad their.bod~ ies’vvith fat and to help them to en- dure _continued production when the winter weather arrives and they must be Confined every day. When the pullets are moved, the flock should be culled and birds of poor type removed. Many farm flocks contain some fine high-producing indi- viduals and yet make poor records because the flock average is pulled down by late-hatched, under-fed, light- weight, cull pullets which cannot de- velop enough size and energy to lay before spring. Sometimes these pul- lets are retained in an effort to fill the houses so one can tell folks how many hundred hens he owns. But it pays better to get rid of the culls and spend the money for good pullets if you need more birds. g But do not judge pullets entirely on the hatching date. The weight and appearance of the birds is most im- portant. I would rather have well-fed, early June pullets than half-fed'late April pullets. The months r'un rap. idly into each other, and cla‘ssing pul- lets according to the month in which they are hatched is sometimes an in definite way of describing them. With the aid of the auto it is often pos- sible for a poultryman to take his Own crates, drive as much as one hun- dred miles and back in a day and bring back the kind of pullets he wants, or keep his money. CORN BORERS“ BAFFLE SCIENCE.‘ (Continued from page 351). These men advised further study of the borer in its native habitat and a more careful examination of the habits of parasites and their adaptation to American conditions. Tests on the best system of destroying corn crop remnants, on the wider use of machin- ery and on the possible introduction of'insecticides in control work were also suggested. Further recommendations of this committee were that substitute crops for corn be tried out; that commercial use of corn residues be brought to the attention of chemists; that more care be exercised by farmers in keeping down weeds; that every opportunity be used to inform the grower of the habits of the European corn borer and the best known methods of control; that literature ‘be thoroughly distrib« uted, and that legislation be sponsored looking toward the inspection of ve« hicles moving out of infested areas, and the regulation of compulsory clean-up methods. The conference voted to provide a committee on public relations and leg« islati‘on. Dean Christie, of Indiana, was made chairman of this commit: too. It also voted to ask the Ameri- _ to solect five of their moniker ‘ with the Joint and H; i. ,r .. ~ Harold Williams, four-year-old In- dian baby, won first prize in the Indian papoose contest. After the French steamer Cassard collided with the S. S. Kurdis- tan in the English Channel, she became stranded on a sand bar with her stern high in the air. When mother was away, “Baldo,” a police dog, proved himself useful as well as ornament- al, by servmg refreshments to youngsters. NOt satisfied W.it.h the ordinary sparring partners, Raymond John- stone, a DUglllst, DU? 011 the gloves with “Mustang,” and had to dodge, 110?; only flying boots, but also his opponent’s teeth. American born Lady Astor, mem- ber of English Parliament, is visiting in this country. “Miss Tulsa,” from Oklahoma, was crowned “Miss America” at the Atlantic City pageant. The now celebrated Corson family, dining in the new home which friends furnished after Mrs. Corson attained fame by swim— ming the English Channel. Lee Shaw, said to be World’s champion kite builder, constructed this ski-foot dragon kite which Can be. easily carried under one’s arm. iake’dlhavoc, in Southeastern . Kansas recently, _ Torrential rains w; ‘ demoralizing t streets d l! “0;; racking poles and _V,wires, and flooding the Leonard W. Bonney, of New York, after two years of studying: flying sea gulls, has designed this novel type of plane, embody- ing the principles he observed. \ Capri-mi; by Underwood, l: Underwood- New York. V ‘ - _ _ ‘ IN PICTURES asmagessr‘ascqsmamm a . . ;.; ‘77.," g * j The-:“*Yc“ll*0W‘*“D0‘gvs?* . s - ' By LOWELL OTUS REESE. A Short Story Complete in Two Installments had been raging: across the Mo- ‘vah‘ave Desert; a steady blast of hot } N'wiml driving before it a constant fury ‘of. ' stinging sand and burning alkali 1 ' dust. The one main street of Mesa Caliente was a channel, down which drove the berserk storm, and not even on. a ’scrap of sun-yellowed paper stayed” for the night operator to come on to litter the thoroughfare. Old’ tin cans, long buried in the loose sand, ‘ ‘ were dug from their graves and sent ‘rolling and leaping along the street, ,to vanish at last across the open space which encircled the town, end- ing finally in the greasewood brush ' beyond. At the worn old desk, far'baek in the rear of his store, Ben Camp shut his books with a bang, threw‘ them into the safe, locked the safe and made for the door. It was still too early to close the store, but on an evening like this he knew there would be no business. congregated in Ike Naylor’s place, drinking near-things and waiting for the.- storm to pass. Ike Naylor’s place had been a saloon and dance hall once upon a time. That was long ago, be— fore society took the over-confident .John Barleycorn by surprise and slip- ped him such a jolt that his mourning seconds are working over him yet. But Ike Naylor did not go down with Johnny Barleycorn. He stayed, fea- turing card tables and a place for gregarious desert men to congregate The old bar stayed too, and behind it old Ike stood as of yore and dealt cool near—drinks to the thirsty citizens who now came to use the place as a civic center. Ben Camp clung to the knob while- locking the street door behind him. When he straightened up, he looked across the street to where a yellow light glowed in the Window of the tele- graph oflice. Above the low railroad station the telegraph wires hummed in the gale. Leaning and tacking against the in- credible wind, his eyes held half shut against the stinging sand, Camp won across the street and went into the station. A girl looked up from the telegraph key and nodded, smiling: “Hello, Ben!” “Hello, Carlin! Gee, what a day!" “Gee is right, Ben!” “No. 3 late again?” inquired the young man. “Two hours,” answered the girl. “Been bucking sand drifts and wind ever since she came up over the rim of the desert.” “Where's the -night operator? He ought to be here.” ‘ “Night operator’s late, too. know what’s delaying him.” “You’ll miss your supper, Carlin.” “Supper’s full of sand anyway, Ben. I don’t care.” “I’ll tell you,” 'said the young man with a sudden inspiration, “I’ll run over to Ike Naylor’s place and get a can of salmon and some iced milk and crackers. Then you and I will have our supper here while you’re waiting I don’t Everybody would be . the job.” . , “Loud applause!” »- Once more the young man battle across the street. When he came back , he had miserable news. “You poor kid!” he said. “I saw Doc Siglei’over in Ike’s, and he says the night oper- ator has been taken suddenly sick. l’tomaine or something. .He won’tbe able to work tonight.” Carlin Travis accepted the matter with resignation. "It’s up to me, then,” she said. “But, after all, who could sleep on a night like this? Did you say something about iced milk, Ben- jamine?” Camp spread a newspaper upon the desk and unwrapped his purchases. ”Never mind, Carlin,” he said. “About another year of this and our little old . i it ~ to“ Main» sponsibl‘e ' person to meet the train and take charge of the money, in case the Dexter wagon isn’t here yet.” “Must be an epidemic,” sun Camp. “First the night 690th now it's‘ the Price & Overton'messenger! Hard luck always comes in a flock! Say, I didn’t see anything of the Dex- ter wagon. Storm’s probably laid it out too.” “You thigk you can take care of the money until morning, Ben?” . “Sure can. Six thousand dollars! Say, Carlin, if you and I had six thou- sand dollars we could make all our dreams come true, couldn’t we? Well, never mind. When our mine starts producing, why, sis: thousand dollars will look like sixteen pennies in baby‘s bank!” “Ben.” Carlin was worried. “I don't. The Home Cook By Al. I look with pity on the guy Who’s not as fortunate as I. Although he may be blest with health, And have‘far more than me of wealth, And spends his time with dressed-up swells Who eat the menus of hotels; Still, he’s an out-cast—-doomed to roam— Who has no cook within his home. The servant problem is a fright; It’s hard to keep ’em over night, Much more to bank your faith upon A breakfast that is over-done. The problem never bothers he— The lucky guy, like you and me— Who has a wife that knows the ropes From codfish-stew to cantaloupes. Rice I pass delicatessen shops That’s run by European “wops,” Who gladly shake the heel and toe, Wherever Yankee dollars flow. If they depended on the trade, In pastry goods and lemonade, Of he who has a cook like ours, They'd never see fair it’ly’s bowers. I’m sorry for the grandly great Who have a walking fashion-plate, Who, though a perfect thirty-six, Has never learned the cookin’ tricks. No wife outgrows her pinafores 'Depending on the pastry stores. $0, bless the stars in Freedom's dome That placed a cook within your home. A mine up on the butte will be on its feet. Then we’ll be married folks. And we’ll kiss the grim 01d desert good-by and go down into the Sonoma. Valley and buy a ranch. H-op vines over the kitchen door; red roses in the yard; oranges and lemons all over the place, and chickens cackling their fool heads- off! A cool spring in the- back yard and a flivver in the garage. About one more year, little teller!” “Don’t, Ben! I want to give three cheers and there’s so much dust in my throat I can’t! Wait—” She turned to her key. When she resumed her place at the table her face was serious. “It was from Price & Overton’s messenger,” she explained. “He’s coming up on No. 3 with six thousand dollars in currency for the Dexter mines. He has been taken suddenly sick and wants me to have some res like to put this. you—J, “Aw, say! It’s too hot to sleep. You said so yourself. Besides. I’m away behind with my posting; so I'll just chuck that wad of lettuce" in the safe1 and get busy. When morning comes I’ll be caught up with my books. Héllo—-—there’s No. 3’s whistle, Carlin.” . It' was the middle of the night, but the secial gathering in Ike Naylor’s place continued to surge about the card tables, for it was too hot and stifling to think of sleep. The phe- nomenal storm still roared across the desert. Above the thunder of its rag- ing, and half-drowning the noise of flying gravel, which stippled the up- ' roar with staccato patterings against the windows, arose the constant vocif- eration of tongues. Glasses jingled upon the bar where Ike and his'unden responsibility on Actz‘vztze; of 17/ Acne—141’: flpp/er W are Handpicked, But Off Ground . flitan-tforyfli _ 33m an "as? . 1 sappOInted, but, always scandalous. 'jfi‘he speech of the desert _ is! not. polished. ‘ » Hanoi g lean cheek resting upon a card .table. 01d Topango "Jake Shinn slept heavily. He was very tired, for late in the evening he had come in from Table Butte, fighting the storm all the way.- Tonango lake was. in the way, cor? ta-inly. but no one disturbed him. It was not considered good form to stir: up a desert man unnecessarily, how« ever old and insignificant he may up The player at the old man’s right went broke and erase with an outrag- ~ ed observation which need not be re‘ peated here. Another eager" adven‘ turer took his place; just as the deal came to his turn: As the new arrival dealt, he leaned slightly to his lift. His. coat and vest were unbuttoned: something dangling from a half-hid- den inside apocket of the vest tickled the sleeper’s nose. ' . Topango roused and found his face within six inches of a man’s chest. The thing that tickled his nose was a worn rabbit’s foot, dangling at the end of a thin chain, and it wiggled gro« tesquely as the dealer sent the cards rippling above the old man’s head and flowing round the table in a lisping stream. . Still half asleep, Topango studied the rabbit’s foot. There was a broken place in the chain, and two links had been tied together with thread. The threads had worn almost in two, and l the rabbit’s foot dangled precariously. This much Topango saw and then he drifted back to sleep. But as he did so, he heard above the roar of the storm and the clamor of the crowd the voice of old Jefl Plummer shout- ing: “What time is it, Ike?” And then Ike Naylor’s answering yell; “Twelve-ten, Jeff, The mid- night passenger has just gone through.” Then old Topango Jake was gone once more into' peaceful oblivion. About daybreak the storm went sud- denly by and a deep stillness succeed- ed it. Carlin Travis rose wearily from her chair and looked out of the back. window toward Camp’s store. A dim light still glowed from the window, but there was no sign of life. “Strange!” thought the little oper~ ator. “Ben ought to be Whistling and sweeping out the store. I never knew him so quiet so early in the morn- mg.” She went back to her key, but a vague feeling of uneasiness persisted. t last she left the oflice and went across the street to Camp’s store. A moment later she stumbled from the place and ran screaming down the street to Ike Naylor’s. Old Ike rolled off the bar and rubbed the sleep from his eyes as the girl burst into the room. / I'M. Y°U CAN EAT'EM. AL’I seer PICKEDA CRATE 0F YER APPLE? AN’I 69w 'gM To AGUY IN AN AUTOMOBILE! SAY, You‘ve GOT YOUR NERVE, . YOUNG FELLOW, SAYIN' “You CAN EAT THE$E APPLES N THE DARK‘ Loom WHAT I FOUND IN Tue FIRST ONE— ! BIT - INTO l * 'e-‘Aus NEW‘APPLE LAQE /‘ . “What’s the matter, Carlin?” he asked. . Frank R. Leet on ,msrs ALL R IGHT, MI‘JTEB You GOTTA WAIT TIUJ DARK To EAT ’EMl (Awe ’gforWard in his chair, his I . ~‘il‘y‘opa'ngo Jake next ~awoke, 'the Storm had been succeeded by a strange quiet. The vocal tumult was too stilled. He had slept very, very heavily, for he had heard nothing of the excitement, and even the cessa- tion of the roaring outside had not wakened him. The ‘terrific heat con- tinued, and the 31r was thick with an impalpable dust which had been left behind by the storm and which afflict- ed the nostrils. ‘» As he stirred, the old prospector became aware of excited conversation over the bar, where half a dozen men were grouped, talking with Ike Naylor. _ “What time did ’she happen?” To- pango heard Jeff Plummer ask. ‘ “Hard to tell,” replied Naylor. “Must have happened early in the night, though, for there ain’t any doubt the robber got away on the midnight passenger.” “But wasn’t the night operator there when the train went through?" de- manded Plummer. “Night operator was layin’ off,” said Naylor. “Sick. Carlin Travis took the night trick.” There was a short silence. hurt bad?” inquired a voice. “Doc says he’ll be all right in a few days,” said Naylor. “Shocked a heap and lost a lot of blood, but he’ll pull through, doc says. Little Carlin’s over at the hotel takin’ care of him.” Old Topango got stiflly out of his chair and walked over to the bar. "What’s the matter?” he asked. “Ben Camp was sittin’ up in his store last night,” Naylor told him, “guardin’ six thousand dollars belong- in’ to the Dexter mines. This mornin’ they found Ben layin’ on the floor be- hind his desk, unconscious. He’d been Walloped on the head with a pick han- dle, and the safe was busted open and the money. gone.” This was black news. Old Topango had lived many years in this little ~ village before going to Table Butte, where he now had large mining in- terests. Ben Camp had been a great favorite with him since the boy was a child; and Carlin’s father and old Topango had been almost like brothers in the old days. He went straight to the hotel and up to the little room where Carlin sat beside the bed. Ben was unconscious. Carlin looked up as her old friend entered. There was terror in her eyes, and a great hopelessness. She did not wait to greet Topango. "The sheriff has just been here,” she said. “He’s going to arrest Ben as soon as he regains consciousness.” “What for?” demanded Topango, amazed. _ “He says it’s—~a—plant!” wailed Carlin. “He says Ben stole the men- ey~—and that I——-I helped!” “You?” Topango sat down weakly ina chair. “Is he drunk?” “I don’t know!” The young man on the bed moaned, and Carlin forgot everything else. Doc Sigler came in. “Say!” were Doc’s ‘ first words. “Maybe that sheriff’s a detective—— 'but I'll ,be cussed if. I can see how Ben Camp could have hit himself such a welt over the back of his own head with a pickhandlel” .. Topango said no more. He got up and went over to the store. Here he found the sheriff sitting upon Camp’s desk, a big .black cigar clamped in his hairy jaWs. “You got any clue, sheriff?” asked Topango. The sheriff regarded the‘ miner with a sarcastic grin and winked at— the bank messenger, who had recovered on hearing the news, and who now sat on the counter opposite, silent and , moody. “We ain’t foolin’ with clues,” said “We got the robber. ” l1; . “Is he pretty soon. and then I’ll see that he comes across" “But, see here,” argued Topango. “I’ve knowed Ben Camp ever since he .was a yearlin'. Ben never done” that. He couldn' t. ” . “I’ve seen a lot of that kind!”r torted the sheriff. people to. pull this kind of thing. Sure! “Wasn’t he hard up? needin’ money to develop a mine he’s got upon- the butte? Wasn’t him and that sharp little telegraph girl plan- nin’ to get married‘ and shake the desert for good? “I got all the dope, ole-timer. What was easier than for him and this Travis girl to frame the thing togeth- er? Nobody but them two knew the messenger was sick. The st01m kept everybody away from the station and the store. Even the Travis girl says nobody left'on the midnight passen- ger. They had everything in their favor. It was a cinch. But one thing they didn’t count on—me bein’ an old bird at this game!” “You got it right, sheriff,” applaud- ed the messenger. He was a fat man (Continued, on page 361). "Just the sort of" Wasn’t he i BEST BY TEST- Only time and use will prove the real merit of any machine. = Actual test under all kinds of conditions, for a long time, will Show whether or not it is reliable and durable. ., The Auto—Oiled Aermotor has been thru the testing ' - period in every part of the world. For 12 years it has béen giving the most reliable service to ~ hundreds of thousands Of owners. g“; Auto-Oiled means that the gears run in oil and every part subject to friction lS constantly flooded with oil. The gear case is filled with oil and holds a supply sufficient to keep every bearing , perfectly oiled for a year or more. 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Try a Michigan Farmer Liner ‘ ~v- . “ WW4, I (MINA! a“ .-.a m Aw \ r ’ ' We“ travel from the ground up Keeping ”your feet warm, dry and comfortable is the best way in the world to prevent colds. , Wear'this Firestonev“Rancher” and insure good health, through the complete protection it affords. Money cannot buy better values in safety, comfort and long wear. In this Overshoe Firestone makes a real contribution to “better farming.” The Rancher is built for the hardest kind of service in the worst weather. Firestone designers were particular to reinforce it at the points of strain where rubber overshoes so often crack. By welding the parts together under pressure in live steam, they have pro- duced a shoe that stays watertight. Ask your dealer for the “Rancher”—lookfor the Mark of Quality and the name Firestone. \ FIRESTONE FOOTWEAR COMPANY . Chicago ‘HUDSON, MASS. Boston ‘rcsto he {AMERICANS SHOULD PRODUCE THEIR owN RUBBER. HEN g1eat grandmother was a ”‘1 young woman, st1uggling with rearing her children in a little pioneer home with none of the mod- ern conveniences to ease life, no doubt she got little credit for her hard work. It is the way of the world, to wait until years have passed, to make the discovery that men and women de- serve praise for brave, heroic lives. The vaes and mothers of the pres- ent will get their reward after they are dead, rather than now, for human nature is much the same in all ages. But the fact remains that great grand- mother’s great granddaughter is a re- markable woman, even though we may not be willing to say she is as noted as her heroic ancestor. Could Grandmother Beat It? How about this for a day’s work? A young woman rose early and put out a big washing, she cooked dinner for a dozen people, and cleaned up afterward, helped with a farm enter- tainment in the afternoon, made a clever talk at a social meeting in the ”--M. -4..._ _ _. ._ The Modern Woman May be Awkward at Spinning, But She is Accomplish- ed in Modern Things. evening after the work of cooking, taking care of chickens and necessary tasks required by the children were disposed of, and rose at three next morning to start on a day’s vacation trip, with the whole family in clean garments, fed and comfortable for the journey. Could great grandmother beat that? For, be it remembered, great ‘grandmother, with all her bur- dens, had absolutely no public duties to attend to. And, besides, her social demands were not so numerous as at the present age. More than that, she could always get the daughter of a neighbor to help out in emergencies, if her girls were all boys. The Limitless List. As a matter of fact, the one woman alone in the big farm house with a dozen times as many windows to wash and curtains to keep clean, company dropping in constantly almost all the year since good roads have become so common, flowers and lawns de- manding attention, social life increas- ing each year, public duties multiply- ' ing and the things to be done for the children far in excess of what the pioneer ladiesever dreamed of, must be a remarkable being, and she is. Somehow she must be trim and neat, ' read-y night or day to receive friends - ' vino ‘dash up to stay a few hours ‘or ‘ days, able to make a costume out of "lei-elm paper for a school entertain- -ment, capable of getting a picnic unoh ready at an hour’s notice, open- higher home to this and that meeting Grandmothcr’ s Grand- daug t7. Cantrastmg Me Modem Homemaker WM tée O72e 0f Ye Olden Days By Hilda Richmond , —the list is limitless A woman on the jury said she could hardly sit still for thinking of the cherries in the refrigerator, the little chicks unprotected from the rain, the strawberries perishing in the garden, the speech she was to make at the Sunday school class meeting, the chil- dren’s practice for the .grange play, and all the everyday things of three meals and mending and cleaning. But she was called and she came. ' Whither Goes Womanhood? True, many farm women have pow- er machinery and labor-saving devices that the women of other days never knew. They have better houses and more helps in the way of prepared food, but they also have more de- mands upon their time. They do club work, school work, civic and commu- nity work, political work, pin money work, Red Cross work, g‘range work, and church work, as well as the reg- ular home tasks, and above and be- yond, they have time to be intelligent educate‘d, refined, talented and heal- thy. As a class, they do not “enjoy poor health,” but are up and coming. Of course, there are slackers and weak sisters just as there Were in great grandmother’s day, but let us at least recognize the fact that enough of them are the right kind to win some approval from the world before they go hence. Great grandmother was a remarkable woman, and so are her descendants ,of the same sex. If anyone is inclined to doubt this, let him follow a progressive, efficient farm woman around for a few days and see her various activities. She is her own best argument for the theory that womankind is not on the down grade. , THE SOURCE OF THE SUNDAE. HE name ice cream “sundae,” so deserving in its popularity, is of- ten 3, subject for speculation. The iso-and—so had on Sunday.” story of its origin goes, that on a Sunday evening a customer entered a little confectioner’s shop in a Connec~ ticut town and ordered the usual ice cream soda of the period. The clerk was embarrassed to find he had no soda water, and timidly filled the glass with ice cream and put the syrup over it, extending the dishto his customer. To the clerk’s surprise, the customer liked the delicacy and advertised it so widely in the town that the little shop was flooded with requests for “what Someone with artistic feeling changed the word to sundae, and so it is used today many times over whefi folks order luncheons..or bites in between meals which they desire to be filling, health in], and tasteful. CAPTIVATING CABBAGE COMBI- NATIONS. ABBAGE is one of the most valu- able winter vegetables and can be kept all winter if properly stored. It is rich in mineral matter and vita- mins and furnishes valuable bulk in the diet. Food specialists advise us- to generally eat it raw because part of the vitamin content is lost by cook- ing it. Here are some raw cabbage salad combinations. Perhaps you wall find a few “difierent” ones among them that you will like. _ Shredded cabbage, grated pineapple, and whipped cream flavored with vanilla. Shredded cabbage, shredded coacoa— nut, and whipped cream with sugar and vanilla. Shredded or chopped cabbage with sweet cream dressing made from sweet cream, vinegar, sugar and salt to taste- Chopped cabbage, vinegar, water, sugar, salt, pepper, and grated onion to taste. ‘ Shredded cabbage, grated raw car— An Adventure in Eggs PRACTICAL housewife who has A experimented with many differ- ent methods of egg preservation, has finally reached the conclusion that the lime and salt treatment is the most satisfactory of any with which she has experimented. The process is simple, but calls for a slight amount of advance prepara- tion. Purchase a can of “stone lime” such as is used for white-washing, if no other source of lime is available. Open the can and crumble the mass into flakes or smaller pieces. Spread out on a newspaper in the air in a dry place. Stir and turn the lime every day. , This makes what is called air-slaked lime, and the mass gradually becomes floury and dry. At the end of a week, it will be found to be easily broken up into a powdery mass. I-leat as much water as you will ‘re- quire to cover the eggs you expect to preserve. After the water begins to bubble, boil vigorously for tenor fif— teen minutes to sterilize thorbughly. Set aside and cool. When cold, allow one cupful of the air-slaked lime and two cupfuls of coarse salt to each gal- lon of boiled, cooled water. The wa- ter should stand until it is cold—not merely lukewarm. Mix the solution and pour into a stone jar over the eggs. Do not put too many in a jar as the under ones will be cracked by the weight, and, of courSe, do not put down an egg with a fractured shell. Cover with a plate and weight so that all eggs will be under water. Put the cover of the jar on to prevent evaporation. Use as needed, but do not take out of the lime solution_until wanted. A woman who. used this formula, kept a. jar of eggs for two years and then used some of‘them to make an» angel cake,,which being of delicate texture, cannot be successfully made with eggs which are the least bit was tery. Her cake was perfect of its kind. In fact, this is one of the ad- vantages of this method of egg pres— (rvation. The yolks stand up and the whites eat and fry practically like fresh laid eggs. The solution- does not _. - _ grow unpleasantiy thick, , but moral! minke—Mrs. n G. w rot, grated onion (small proportion) with cooked or mayonnaise salad dressing. Sh1edded cabbage, diced celery, dic- ed apple, chOpped nuts and whipped cream flavored with sugar and vanilla. , Thousand Island dressing on shred- ded cabbage. To make Thousand Is- land dressing, add chow chow, chili sauce, catsup, chopped sour cucumber pickles, or chopped pickles and olives and grated onion to either cooked or mayonnaise dressing. , French dressing on shredded cab- bage. To make French dressing beat together salad oil, one—third as much yinegar as oil, and salt, pepper, sugar, and grated onion to taste. Paprika‘is a desirable addition. . - Shredded cabbage, diced beet . pickles, canned string beans, and cooked or mayonnaise salad dressing. , Shre'dded cabbage, chopped cucum- ber pickles, diced celery, diced hard- cooked egg and dressing. WHAT READERS HAVE TESTED. Baked Cabbage and Cheese Sauce. Remove the heart and outer leaves from a small cabbage. Cook until ten- der in boiling salted water. Drain. Fill center with cheese sauce. Sprinkle with buttered bread crumbs and brown in oven. Cheese Sauce. l4 tsp. pepper 1 cup milk 2 tsp. flour 1 cup grated cheese % tsp. salt. Cook milk and flour‘in double boiler until smooth and slightly thick. Sea- son and just before servinfl‘ add the cheese and cook until the cheese is melted. This sauce may be served on fish or vegetables, toasted crackers or bread. ——Mrs. T. G. Baked Cabbage and Tomatoes. 3 cups boiled cabbage , 1 cup ground cheese 1% cups well seasoned 2 tb. butter stewed tomatoes Salt and "pepper to taste 1 cup bread crumbs Butter 3. baking dish, put in a. layer of tomato, and then one of cabbage. Sprinkle with cheese and lastly with bread crumbs. Continue this way until all has/been used, making the last layer bread crumbs. Dot top with bits of butter and bake in a slow oven for about thirty minutes—Mrs. P. R. Hurry-up Pickles. 2 dozen good-sized cu- 2 tsp. casein. buds cumbers 2 dozen pickling onions 1 qt. white vinegar 2 cups white sugar 2 tsp. celery seed 2 tsp. black pepper 2 tsp. salt 2 tsp. mustard 2 tsp. turneric Slice cucumbers and onions fine. Sprinkle well with salt. Let stand for One hour. Drain and add to dressing, which should be boiling, and let boil five minutes. Can—Mrs. L. M. / Bran Gin'gercako. ’34 cup shortening 1 tsp. soda. 1% cup sugar 1 tsp ginger 1688 2 tsp. cinnamon 1 cup 2111- bran’ 1%; cups flour 34; tsp. salt ,Cream shortening oan gether. Add the egg; bea well., it cup sour milk 35 cup molasses Add the Wall-bran. Mix 'and sift the dry in-. gredients and add them to the cream- ed _,mixture alternately with the sour milk and molasses. Bake in a moder- ate oven from thirty to forty minutes. ——Mrs. B B. Caller, comes after her 9" sugar to-' a young man—J So Miss; . " Gladys is your older sister Who ' ,:~_.,Mv-- 'w“ ._;._<— ‘\ at {inst try putting a": o r » owns run riot in the new glass- ware, pottery. and porcelain this season. As» a rule, this new col- or-ware is. expensive ton/even though one or two pieces may entail only a small outlay in dollars and cents, we soon tire of such a gay. display of col- ors. To solve this‘ problem, the clever housewife may resort to paint and make her own at very- small expense. Unusual and beautiful effects can be obtained by the use of some of our new paints in decorating vases, bowls, glass lamp bases, and similar articles by simply pouring the finish on them. The result is to make them look like 'pieces of Sevres pottery. The article is first placed in, or sus- pended over, a drip pan. One color of the paint is then poured over the arti- cle-just enough of it so that streaks run down thesides and drip off. A teaspoon is a handy- tool from which to allow the paint to drip. While the colors are still wet, another color is poured on and successively any other colors desired, until the article is com- pletely coated. In drying, the colors will |blend slightly, producing wonder- fully variegated patterns made up of minute spots of color as they show through each other. ‘ . Another distinctive efl’ectvcan be ob- tained by allowing the first pouring of ’ Five Dollars to the - Winner ROM an advertisement in this issue we have taken these words, “There’s a reason,” which appear also in quotation in the last printed line below. Give the name of the advertiser, complete the jingle and send it ’ to Contest Editor, 1632 Lafay- , ette B1vd., Detroit, Michigan. The winner will be awarded ‘ ,$5.00 for the best line. The prize will be duplicated in case of a tie. Replies must be in by Oc- tober 15. A’ lady oft may change her mind Without a reason well defined, And With oblivion to applause The reason given is just be- cause. But in each case, if we but ‘ new, .At least exceptions would be _ few, For every action “there’s a reason,” A paint to become tacky before putting on the succeeding colors. By this way there will not be so great a blending of colors and the finished result will be contrasting streaked effects or de- signs. Artistic effects can also be obtained by pouring one or two colors as de-~ scribed, and then, with an artist’s brush, working in patterns or streaks of harmonizing or contrasting colors. The brush should be dipped into the paint and the designs applied While colors previously poured over the arti- cle are still wet. Since the paint that drips off into the pan can be used over and‘ over again to finish other articles, this “pour finish” is not wasteful and many home-makers can use it effectively on odd shaped bottles, vases, and bowls .to add pleasing touches \of color to the color schemes of their homes—M. C. CLIPPED FROM LETTERS. . OMEN often tell me, fimy folks * «Hasn't care for elderben-ies,” but we a, mew .m- a cupful inyonr next . in ‘the; \ wn Pea-ea .; I By T Izz'r Mean: You Can'Mdée Inexpensive szt: For Fn'mdr I use for pie timber, in the proportion" of one quart of apples to three quarts of elderberries, land sugar to taste-'— Mrs. N. L. ‘ - ‘ ~ My .family is particularly fond of this green tomato preserve. 6 lbs. green tomatoes 4 lemons 5 lbs. white sugar ’75 lb. raisins Cook slowly on the back of the stove to the Consistency desired, and seal in small jars. This makes four and one- half pints—Mrs. M. D. -—/ Instead ‘of frying sausage on the top of- the stove as is usually done, I pre- fer to bake it in the oven. This meth- od does not require careful watching, and prevents spattering. To be sure that the sausage is thor- oughly cooked when I serve sausage- stuffed potatoes, I partly cook the sau- sages before putting them into the po- tatoes—Mrs. L. R. .I put pockets on the bloomers of my little girl’s play dresses. Then when I need a patch, I have a piece of ma- terial that has been washed as much as the dress, and consequently match- es.~—Mrs. F. H. Your local dealer can. Pmmrtly set from a nearby _. ORAN E branch any , C R ‘A N E ' VALVES ' FITTINGS plumbing fixtures.water system, or softeners. J'ee him When Writing to Advertisers Please Mention The Michigan Farmer, V» 2.: $4, ..._ ”eff-T} “Pay Day” Overalls Union Made t The Union Label on every Overall and Jacket. Of 2.20 de- nim, extra strong stitching thru- out; cut extra full.‘I‘he Overall has Suspender or regular Over- all back—two hip, two side, watch and rule pockets—tacked to prevent ripping. Jackets, with engineers’ cuffs. All sizes, in- cluding extra sizes. Our big Coast-to-Coast Value. -» $1.15 Boys’ _ “Pay Day” Overalls ’ Strong. serviceable, well made. out full: durable 2.20 denim. High back. two~seam legs. large front and back mkcts— . 3 to 9 yrs. IO/to 17 yrs; _ 89c 98c 1' symbols ~ Jfl enney Go. DEPARTMEN sroaa's A NATlON-WIDE INSTITUTION - 0:743 DEPARTMENT sroass ‘ " 9 Progress 00D roads and the automobile have brought the farmer within easy distance of the town and its facilities. While inventor and road-builder have been increasing the personal comfort and earning power of the farmer, the Department Stores of the J. C. Penney Company have been providing him and his family with shopping advantages unsurpassed even by the big city Store. The immense stocks of merchandise distributed through our 745 stores are bought and sold exclusively on a cash basis. This means a saving for our customers, aggregating millions of dollars annually. Your nearest J. C. Penney Company Store is managed and part-owned by a man who has studied and knows your shopping needs. Standard quality merchandise at low prices, a Wide assortment of goods to choose . from, and personal inspection—are some of the advantages that await , you there. Make an engagement ‘with yourself and family now to visit our store nearest you during‘our Farm Home Week—getober 18th to 23rd. / . A NA TION-WIDE INS TI TU TION ' enneyQo. 1 DEPARTMENT srons's . ' Alcazar Kerosene Gas Range Range Farm Cooking Can Be Improved The Alcazar Oil Duplex Kitchen Range will improve it by eliminating the untidy appearance of the old—fashioned farm range, and by regulating the degree of heat. The Alcazar Oil Duplex will give, your kitchen the luxury formerly possible Only to the city home—and with much less cost Let Your Dealer Explain Your local Alcazar dealer will tell you about this wonderful range, its many fea— ' tures not found in other ranges and its time and fuel—saving qualities, or write for illustrated booklet showing styles and sizes Alcazar Range 87. Heater Co., 417 Oil Duplex ' 7" Elli , Alcazar Combination T; Kerosene Gas Ra e and !: Builvin Kitchen eater g Every Type, Style and Price for Every Fuel in time and fuel, for it 'burns kerosene and wood or coal—together or singly—can be regulated to any degree of heat instantly. Why be satisfied with the old way of cooking when the Alcazar Oil Duplex offers you so much for so little—and saves you hours of kitchen drudgery? These Wonderful Ranges of the Alcazar Oil Duplex and the Alcazar Kerosene Gas Cook. For the town house there is an Alcazar Duplex which burns gas and coal or wood. Ask us to send this free booklet. Cleveland Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. Michigan Farmer Patterns Fall Far/22'0” Cal/r“ For Plait: No. 590—Attractive Design. Cut in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. .Size 36 requires 33/3 yards of 36~inch contrasting. ’ No. 479—Distinguished Sports Frock. , Cut in sizes 16 years,,36, 38, 40, .42 and, _ , 44 inches bust measure. The 36-inch ~ size requires two yards of 54-inch ma- terial (bordered). - > _ .. These patterns can be obtained .‘ ‘gérough the Michigan Farther Pattern -. Z" partment, Detroit, Michigan, for 130 each. Enclose 13c extra when you_..or- as your pattern, and a copy of our . and. Winter Fashion Cats: new, Fall ,. 1 e. ,' hummer new mentor was en torsion.- Gift Blankets and Auto Robes of Your Extra Wool! HAT better use could you put it to? Send us your wool and we will make it up for you into handsome, valuable Christmas gift blankets for a nominal charge. We do this only as an accommoda-y, tion to wool growers. Satisfaction guar- anteed or money and wool refunded. Write for booklet explaining plan to Dept. "-10 CHATHAM MFG; co. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. ‘ 1. . New Lamp" ‘ i300 clandlej’owar .. ., - .; isoft, whiz light, restful to me. hum: 96% fits: w ' f drain andeoVermi n1 pinch of alum‘ah’dj .. g'; melon ' is Maharent; _. Whengold add " ' cup ed ‘ “7HAT little girl, or even little boy, is not captivated by a new do -- These dollies have a very~Special appeal to the kiddies at the When finished in the .simple but most appropriate lie ? Christmas season. embroidery designs with which they are stamped, they are most attractive to the little folks. All are sixteen inches in length, and when finished, make an indestructible dollie that will outlast and give greater joy to the children than a most expensive doll of any kind. They are beautifully tinted in "natural colors on White suiting. The price is only thirty cents each, postpaid. Be sure to state the number of. the doll desired when ordering. Detroit, Michigan. > “e '5‘ Use this department to help solve your ' household ‘ problems. Address your letters to Martha .Cole, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan. THE REASON FOR HOLLOW PICKLES. Please tell 'me why my pickles are usually hollow?—Mrs. K. D. ’ Hellow pickles sometimes occur during the process of curing. It'may be due to faulty development of the cucumber. Too long a time between gathering and brining may ‘be the cause in some cases. ' Pickles should not stand more than eight hours. The hollow pickles usually float and they can then be removed and used for mixed pickles. ' MAKE CHRISTMAS CAKE curnou NOW. Cananyone tell me how .to‘mak‘e candied citron-— like you buy in the store?-—-A. X.‘Z. g . , Peel small citron [melons- and slice - into one-inch piec'es._- Let- sang, in. Week Address your, orders to the Needlecraft Department, Michigan Farmer, his” SE RVI 1; ‘\ ter in the sunshine and let dry. When thoroughly dry, pack in boxes be- tween layers of sugar. OPEN-CROCK MUSTARD PICKLES: Two readers, Mrs. E. C. S. and Mrs. G. F., sent this recipe in answer to the request of Mrs. H. S. F. for mus- tard pickles that will keep in an 'open crock. Wash the pickles and pack in a crock. Mix'one cup:ot salt, one cup of ground mustard, 'two cups of sugar, and 'one gallon of vinegar. Do not heat the vinegar. ,Pour this over. the pickles, cover them with a. cup of grat- ed horseradish, and weight down with a plate. . »_ Another reader sends in this recipe calling for two quarts of green toma- toes, four quarts ofsmall cucumbers, two quarts'ot small onions, two quarts of chopped'j cabbage» and 'twoflma‘rts, of Cauliflower: salt "water. over night. Inithe morning , ' ' . ,th the 9. 101,19 {in fresh Water.Add «-——-u—-—-.W~N. “- ‘ J—W-‘wvm..a . ‘ THE other day an acduaintan‘ce came in 'to‘,chata while. ‘ After a. ,bit, she’used my telephone, and a—few minutes later I answered a call,, myself.» The following‘day I was ill with a severe sore throat, and I learned a day or two afterward that my caller had been suffering with a cold for several days. ‘ ’ Colds are not only painful and dis- agreeable, but distinctly dangerous, as well, the germs spreading many times to ears, lungs, heart and kidneys—at- tacking, in fact, all parts of the body with varying, and often disastrous re- sults. Avoid getting one, if possible; but if you happen to do so, do not, in the interest of humanity,..pass it pro- miscuously around. There is not only a possibility, but probability, of any one with a well defined cold transmit- ting it to anybody with whom they come in contact, although some people are more susceptible than others. When so afflicted do notuse your neighbor’s or your chum’s telephone, or even your own family telephone, thus filling the mouthpiece with germs for others to breathe in.- Let someone else transmit your ‘message. Bear the Golden Rule in mind, and isolate your- self as muclf as possible from friends and neighbors. If friends call, be con- siderate enough to tell them you have a cold. Cover your nose and mouth when you sneeze or cough. Do not leave wet or soiled handkerchiefs about. If possible, use old cloths or gauze for the nasal discharge, and burn them as soon as they become soiled. If handkerchiefs are used they should be thrown at once into water when dis- carded, that germs may not be scat- tered about, and they should be thor- oughly boiled. Never dry and use them the 'second time, as some people are in the habit of doing. You can reinfect even yourself, let alone scat- tering the germs. ' In time of epidemics, it is wise to keep away from crowds; to avoid kiss- ing; not to sit or stand near a person who is coughing or sneezing, and nev- er to use the same towel, drinking cup, or other eating utensil of one so afflicted. The diet should be properly balanced, with no over-supply of sweet arid no over-eating. Physicians have been striving for several years, now, to educate us up to the fact that colds areboth danger- ous and contagious, yet many people persist in regarding them carelessly, and think nothing of going about free ly among their friends and acquaint- ances, even when‘suffering from one, apparently heedless of the fact that they may be scattering broadcast seeds of suffering, expense and even death. Every year unnumbered cases of colds, influenza and pneumonia oc- cur that there is not the slightest need of if only a larger measure of geod- sense and "do-as-you-would-be-done- by” spirit prevailed. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Why not. individually, put our shoulders to the wheel and do our own especial part to bring about a reformation in this respect.”—L. S. “Why does a cat whine?” “If you had as many fiddle strings in you as a cat has, wouldn’t you whine, too?” First Radio Fan—“How’s your radio progressing?” Second Radio Fan—“Fine, last night I got a quartette down in New York and tuned out the second tenor.” ' 'lill .. a". .3 -. as \ Adventures of Tilly and Billy . How Bro'wiiz'e Escaped ACK FROST had visited the woods dled around him to see. In his hand J and fields one dark night, and painted them with sparkling silver. ‘ But when the sun woke up in the morning and showed its big round face over the hill, its warm rays melt- ed the sparkling silver and it ran down to the earth in tiny drops and disappeared. Soon afterward the dresses of.near- ly every green thing in the great out- of—doors changed to beautiful browns and. reds. It was then that Tilly and Billy knew that the nuts would come tumbllng down to the ground from their high places on the branches so that they could gather them. So one bright Saturday m rning, Out Jumped a Little Brownie. with a basket on each arm and three of" their little friends With them, they started off in search of nuts. “Let’s go to the big hickory tree at the end of the lane,” suggested Tilly. “It usually has some’nuts for us.” So they went skipping down the lane to the big hickory, tree, but not a nut did they find. Over in the‘back pas- ‘ ture field, though, the walnut tree had , . fientvheaps-pfbrowrn nuts tumbling to "the . round. acidhere they. filled their 3 . 0' , . {aim ,” said, he held a great big brown nut, nearly twice as large as any others they had gathered. “My, it’s a Whopper,” commented lBruce, Billy’s little playfellow. “Where ' did you find it” . “Right down by the hollow of the tree, there,” replied Billy, pointing with much excitement to the place. “It looks like a double yolked one,” said Betty, Tilly’s little playmate. “Listen. Betty, only eggs ' have yolks,” informed Tilly in a big sisterly manner. “Nuts have meats.” “My papa calls them kernels,” said Frankie. “Well, anyway, let’s see what’s in it,” said Bruce, for his curiosity was getting the best of him. So Billy placed the big brown nut on a large rock and with a smaller rock in his handg'he came down crash! upon the big nut. It was then that every one of them received a sur- prise that almosii made them think they were dreaming. No sooner had the big brown nut broken apart than out jumped a little Brownie. “Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,” said each one in turn, and they rubbed their eyes to make sure that they were not asleep. “Oh, Mr. Brownie, I am so sorry that I smashed your little house,” said Billy when he had partly recovered from his surprise. “I never knew that Brownies lived in nut shells.” "‘Please don’t be sorry, for I am very happy to get out of my prison,” smiled the Brownie, and he drewa deep breath of fresh air and stretched himself. “I have been locked up in that horrid nut shell for a whole week, don’t you see, and it is wonderful to _ be free again.” .“But whoever locked you‘up ?” asked Til y. “Mother Fairy did it,” replied Brownie, and he stretched himself again. together. , (Next , week _._we will hear why ell) p FALL days are tricky. 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Address Dept. 75 THE COLEMAN LAMP CO. aim? 0%.- Wichita, Kansas vBranches: Philadelphia. Chicago. Los Angcles. Canadian Factory: Toronto. Ontario. _CUL_LS FORTY-NINE HENS, GETS SAME NUMBER OF EGGS. Y taking the poultry culling cours- es given cooperatively by Michi- gan State College and Michigan Farm Bureau, Van Buren county farmers have found it pays to know how to cull their flocks. The student cullers now are doing very efficient work. In one flock of 161 hensculled by a student, the egg production for the ten days previous to culling was 589; forty-nine birds were culled, out and the remaining 112 birds produced 574 eggs in the next ten days. Another flock of ninety—five birds, which aver— aged twenty—five eggs per day, was culled to seventy-two birds, with an average of twenty-three eggs per day. ———J_. C. M. POULTRY ASSOCIATION OFFI- CERS. THE Michigan State Poultry Im- provement Association elected Dr. L. F. Heasley, of Grand Rapids, pres— ident; W. A. Downs, of Washington, Michigan, vice-president, and J. A. Hannah, of East Lansing, "secretary— treasurer. The board of directors for the coming year is composed of C. P. Milham, of Grand Haven; Prof. C. G. Card, East Lansing; \V. A. Downs, of Washington; L. Van Appeldorn, of Holland; J. D. Martin, of Sandusky; W. R. Brett, of Charlotte; L. E. Heas- ley, of Grand Rapids, and C._N. Whit- taker, of Lawrence.‘ The association is in favor of invit- ing the International Baby Chick As- sociation to hold its 1927 meeting in Grand Rapids. Good facilities for en— tertaining the convention, and the close proximity to many large hatch- eries, is considered favorable for this POTATO CRATES Standard bushel crates ready for use. ‘Saved $22.50 011150111ch GET ITFROM THE ' 0.02.11. 313.75.100 for Lan 1111.375 nor do on, 60 1 e says W. J. Heft Wyan- 826.8215. M? H Hunt 2. Son, 5% No. Cedar so. 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DB. L. D. “GEAR MEDICINE C0.. ST. LOUIS. M!88DUB!- Official Maid—304 Eggs Few breedershaveequaled Mr. Kerlin’s success in poultry raising. Kerlin- Quality Leghorns have KITSELMAN F ENCE . 103211;;ng place for the next national The poultrymen believe that the col— lege needs a good commercial plant so that visitors can visit the institution and see how things should be done in a modern way. A new administration building and a research laboratory for poultry diseases, are also needed. Res- olutions were passed asking for a $15,— 000 appropriation for a. free laboratory for testing white diarrhea under the State’Department of Agriculture. Con- necticut is new spending $12,000 per year for free white diarrhea testing. It is not the function of a. college to engage in wholesale testing, but it must come under state control. It is also suggested that a poultry disease farm of fifteen or twenty acres should be available for research work. If a. new poultry department farm across the river is planned in the future, not less than forty acres are recommend- ed as the land needed for the hens and proper ranging of the young stock—R. G. Kirby. EGG MARKETING POINTERS. M R. J. E. CHANDLER, sales di— rector for the Wausseon—Co—op, told the Michigan State‘ Association members that many buyers eat eggs in April and May and disregard them the remainder of the year. He sold eggs in the nineties when they were six and seven Cents per dozen on the farm, and ten cents in New York City. Standardization of eggs is necessary and it should be done on the farm, as then the results of standardization are enjoyed by the producer. When eggs are brought to the consumer through several hands, it makes it almost im- possible to deliver new-laid" eggs. Only the producer can sell new-laid eggs. ; aging as good as Ohio eggs, Michigan eggs have not been even i because, “ in Michigan there has been more gen-; eral farming and less specialization. Light colored yolks bring the highest prices. Mr. Chandler advises the pro- ducers of brown eggs to continue pro- ducing brown eggs, as a good brown egg section is needed. Hotels must serve eggs with uniform- yolks. The poorest Russian Jews will pay the highest market price for eggs, and they may be responsible for the demand. for eggs 'with light yolks. It is difficult to produce eggs with light yolks in Michigan, "where the hens eat grass and alfalfa which tend to produce a light yellow yolk. They do it in California by feeding kale for green feed as this does not discolor the, yolk. Eggs produced for hatching purpoSes should have rich. yellow yolks, as such eggs produce the best chicks. Infertile egg production dur- ‘ ing hot weather is very important in sections where there'are so many hot days—R. COUNTY AGENTS AND THE POUL- TRY INDUSTRY. OUNTY AGENT J. V. SHEAP, of Hillsdale county, told the poultry- men that the value of poultry prod- ucts in Michigan for this year is $72,- 000,000, while two years ago it was considered only $50,000,000. The in- crease in the farm output is respon- sible for the greater valuation. Ex— tension work and cooperation with the county agent have been a great help in the stimulation in poultry and egg production. Mr. Sheap advises poultrymen to de- mand vigor and production in their poultry, and adhere to one strain. He says there is a lot to learn about poul- try diseases. About eighteen or nine- teen per cent of the hogs in Hillsdale county were found infected with tu- berculosis after the cattle had been tested. About sixty to seventy per cent of the number of poultry flocks were found to contain some infected birds. That means sixty to seventy per cent of the total flocks in the county, not sixty to seventy per cent of the number of birds in the flocks. Hogs picked up the avian type of tu- berculosis easier than the bovine type. The tuberculin test on poultry proved ninety-nine per cent accurate. Plans are now being made for testing a township. The county agent is' of great help in this line of work as it is difficult for the college to carry on such investigations without the aid of an agent familiar with local condi~ tions.—G. « o TH E ALL-MASH M ETHOD. HERE is a demand from' some poultrymen for an. all-mash meth- ~od of growing poultry on the range. It saves time and reduces the amount of regular attention required by'the flock. A't Purdue University they have been raising fine quality chicks with a mash formula composed of 300 lbs. ground yellow corn, 100 lbs. wheat bran, 100 lbs. wheat middlings, 100 lbs. meat scrap, 40 lbs. dried butter- ‘ milk, 20 lbs. fine alfalfa meal, 12 lbs. bone meal, and 7 lbs. salt. With the coming of fall rains be sure that the mash hoppers on the range are protected with rain proof covers. A wet mash in a small hop- per can be scraped out and fed to "the flock within a few hours after the rain. But a large hopper of wet mash, may become sour and mouldy and such feed is unfit {or poultry and apt to cause serious losses. ——K. colored .. w v.’ ”‘14-, appoint a committee. ’ mittee report, and we will see.” That T is quite apparent that Moses Wanted to enter Canaan at once. But his advisers said, “No, let’s Let the com- is the best way known to kill a. propo- sition, namely, appoint a committee. So twelve men were sent off to recon- vnoitre. It was quite evident that they were rather afraid to enter the new land, to which they had been journey- ing for months. On the other hand, a committee of investigation was not a bad idea—providing they had the right men on the committee! The ‘men make their report. It is a. most encouraging report, too. It is a most productive . land, they say. Exceptionally so, and they bring " samples of the products. But to tell the obsta- cles that lie b e f o r e t h e m. W a l l e d cities, giants. It is fairly evident that the ten spies dwelt more on the walled cities and the giants than they did on the beauties of the land, for it was the difficulties that made the greatest impression on the people. All that Caleb and Joshua said could not put out the forest fire of fear that raged in the breasts of the supersti- tious people. A stampede was ‘nar- rowly averted. A mental stampede was not averted. “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt!” they wail- ed. “Were it not better for us to re- turn to Egypt?” And they said one to another, “Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt,” (Num. 14:2,4). Giants! There are always giants to be overcome. What worthy object was ever attained, that did not come by the slaying of giants? Very likely the Israelites expected reception commit- tees to meet them at every city, with a spokesman, saying that the new- comers were to come right in and make themselves at home, while they, the Canaanites, would obligingly go outside of town and leap. off a thou- sand-foot cliff. OT long ago I saw the statue of John F. Stevens, at the Marias Pass, near the continental divide, Mon- tana. Stevens discovered this pass alone, his Indian guide having desert- ed him. It was the middle of Decem- ber, 1889, and intensely cold. All night the civil engineer walked to and fro to keep from freezing. A dozen trains a day now pass the bleak site where Stevens paced that night. He had met the giant and. overcome it. At every turn it is so. Giants must. be slain. But we will never do it, if we feel like grasshoppers, and imagine other peo- ple look on us as grasshoppers. What was the " difference between Caleb, Joshua, and the other ten? Why did only two report favorably? Why 1 our Weekly Sermon—By N. A. McCurze they also go on‘ six hundred thousand seaSOned, out- door men, the backing of Jehovah, who had led them, through the most diflicult conditions, and His promises to be with them. Nothing of all this is mentioned. They forgot! Fifteen hundred years after this, there was another scene in Canaan, of men who forgot. “Are your minds so dull? Do you— not remember how many baskets of pieces you picked up 'iwhen I broke the five loaves in pieces for those five -~ thousand men. 9” They said to him, “Twelve.” “When I broke the seven baskets in pieces for four thousand, how many basketS‘of pieces did you pick up?” They said to him, “Seven?” He .said to them, “Do yOu not un- derstand yet?” ‘ SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR OCTOBER 10. SUBJECTz—The Reports of the Spies. Numbers 13:23-33. GOLDEN TEXT : —Numbers 13:20. THE YELLOW DOG’S BONE. (Continued from page 355). with close-clipped mustache and a steely, unfriendly eye. “You sure got it right. 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Same time, I got something left inside of me that never yet saw an innocent party gettin’ a raw deal and laid down without makin’ some sort of a play. Now—” The sheriff did not know Topango Jake Shinn. He merely saw a stooped, gaunt old man, inoffensive and tire- some. He slid from’ the desk, for he had seen Carlin Travis hurry up the street and enter the telegraph office. “I reckon he’s ready to spill the big news by this time,” he said, ignoring Tepango and starting for the door. “I’ll just travel over to the hotel and get him while he’s ripe. And on‘my way I’m goin’ to drop into the station and throw a. scare into that Travis gir1__u He stopped. 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The 1 man- «or faith will go where the others will not go. smiling, “I won’t bet you twenty thou- sand this time, but I’ll tell you what grasshopper’s hind laig that you don’t worry Carlin Travis none—4not till you’ve found Ben Camp guilty!” He waited. One gnarled old hand hovered close to his belt, the trigger finger twitching. There was a dead silence in the house. The sheriff hesitated. He,' too, knew that you never can tell. “Oh, all right,” he said presently. “It don’t matter. :If she’s such a great friend of yours——” _ “She is," said Topango briefly. "And « * don’t you forget is!” (Concluded next week). sponsihle harness dealer who guarantees and stands back of Everowear harness. l Joshua were young men and hence I’ll d - ’ ' a ' p was, WW an as us an 1 1 o. I I] bet . Wmounhes %. 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Such is our first impression of Ethel Smith, or Ethyl Smythe, as she now spelled her name. * But Ethyl was not sleeping so peace~ fully as anhbserver might believe, for the magician, sleep, had suddenly thrust her several years into the fu- ture. She had married a man for his shieky appearance, but to her sorrow discovered that “beauty is only skin deep.” She was the mother of two « _»"~“2‘7§‘5 Hum-- . ~.« ».. . a - we, .,_,_....,.. MN,“ ,3” . o Jack Mathews Wants to Milk the Calf when His Father Milks the Cow. children who had become rude and quarrelsome because of home influ- ence. They were poorly dressed and underfed, because their mother had never taken time to learn to cook and sew. Just now she had left the table in anger because of a petty quarrel with her husband, and as she fled she shud- dered at the untidy appearance, of the room. At the head of the stairs she caught a glimpse of herself in the mir— ror. Surely that creature could not‘ be Ethyl. Why, she looked like a cir- cus clown since her tears had washed narrow ravines through the powder and paint. Her skin was coarse and wrinkled, and her once lustrous hair was now dry and thin from constant use of hot curlers. Then she awoke, crying, “Oh, this just can’t be me.” When she became wide awake, she realized that the only way to prevent this dream from com- ing true was to reform at once. From that time on she spelled her name as Ethel Smith, and lived as Ethel Smith—June Nelson. The House of Gold. In a little village not far from where I write this story, lived a man, his wife and little child. The house was White, and stood on top of a high hill. A rose garden in front helped make ,the grounds beautiful. , A short distance away stood anoth- , iraer house down in the valley, where a " man and his two daughters lived and, Ialthough possessed of a moderate in- come these people were never content ' ', “, and often sighed and‘wished to be in ithehouse at the top of the hill. On '2 bright} sunshiny days, they would ‘7‘ ' (land look at this house and 'call ' palace of gold. 7 ' . The windows would glisten,~and gol— den rays seemed to pass from them, making it almost ethereal beauty. The old man was grieved to think he could not please his children, and would of- ten lecture them on being discontent. Yet at the same time he was always wishing that some day he might ob- tain this for his own home and move into it.‘ So, like the children, he be- came more anxious, and so one day he said to them, "We will go up to the house of gold and see if‘~we cannot in some way obtain this for our ,own.“ They took a’large sum of money and , the three started out to see what made ~ the difference between it and other ' houses. When they reached it the sun was shining brightly, and they turned to look back, and much to their surprise, their own home had the same golden Windows and looked just as beautiful as the one they sought. The windows were not golden af- ter all, but only looked that way be- cause of the sun shining on them. Without waiting to explain, they went back and lived contented and happy ever after.—Mae F. Adamson. Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins: I am sure you will be surprised to hear from me again, as I am an old M. C. from a little town in Michigan which most everyone would forget, but I have not forgotten Freesoil, and nev- er shall. ‘ We moved to Florida two years ago, but I like Michigan best and hope our future home will be there. Our home is on the Dixie Highway, but one and one-half miles south of town. As we 'own a dairy, we have forty—five cows and four pretty calves, which my brothers like to‘ hitch up. I will have to close, as everybody gets tired of long letters.——Marguerite Stephens, Boynton, Florida. I am glad that you’re sticking for “dear old Michigan,” and I hope that you will be back some time. -I hope, also, that the storm in Florida did not affect you. Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins: Guess you will be greatly surprised to hear from “Dixie” again. When I was in “Dear Old Mich.” three years ago, I became interested in the Boys’ and Girls’ Department. I received quite a number‘of letters when I re- turned home. ‘ I think your department is just won- derful. I still receive a number of let- ters from girls and boys up there, and I think it is awfully interesting. A girl friend and I decided we would write to you all this beautiful “Florida ‘Evening.” Just wish you could be down here. We are having wonderful weather. We enjoy fishing and hunting and horseback riding, especially with a good pal. We haven’t quite decided what our real talent is—we can sing, play the piano, speak, and our dad- dies’ say we are some cooks. _ We are having a party tomorrow night, sent out 100 invitations, wish you were all here. We would go with lard in our hair and our ears pinned back. Guess we had better not wear out our welcome this time, so will close. Bye—bye, with lots of love from Alyce Stokes and Grace Coleman, Coleman, Florida. I am glad that you are still an ac- tive member, although a long-distance one, and I hope you will get other M. C. correspondents. I would like to hear you sing, see you play, and taste your cooking. D'ear Uncle Frank: May I enter, your Merry Circle? I have been a slient reader for some time, and the Merry Circlers are so joyful that I. thought I’d enter. Now, “Farm Kate,” as you call your- self, don’t get stuck.on Herbert. You should not go with one beau and write to another. You might think I am jealous, but Kate, don't forget. « Now, Mr. W. B., keep. your big mout shut, because if you don’t you might ruin my future life. I will close with heaps 01’ love to, you. Uncle Frank, and cousins.—'———A reader and writer, Dalton Puterbaugh. - ‘ I ani‘ glad you'lwant to. become an * M. 0. But why shouldn’t “Farm Kate”_ write to Herbert if she wants to? I’ll miss my guess if you do not want. her to .write to you. Dear Gang: ’ I said that I wasn’t going to say any more about evolution, but, I heard something the other day which makes me think that it may be all right after fl Contrz'éutor SEE the crippled children’s radio fund is coming in slow, so I thought I would send in a check to help out. I am a little - too old to belong to the Merry Circle, as I am seventy-three years old, but thought I would help.. I‘ hope others will send in help and get the children a good radio. Luck to them.— J. H. We certainly appreciate this donation, and the interest you take in our circle. L all. It gave me an entirely new view- point on the subject. . In the first place, 'a true evolution- ist doesn’t believe that man sprang from-monkey, (ape, gorilla, chimpan- zees, Mexican hairless, or what have you?) He believes that man and mon- key, etc., all came from the same or- igin. Which, if you ask me, is some- thing different again. And the. origin is God. And the Bible teaches us that God is the Origin of all life. Isn’t that fairly good reasoning? Then what the deuce are we arguing about? ', By the way, I just heard the world’s 7 worst joke. A man' went into a drug - store one Sunday morning and said to the clerk: . ‘ “ , “Gimme change for a nickel.” "Yes, sir,” says the clerk, “and I hope you enjoy the sermon.” Regards to Tomboy, Helen the Pip- er, and the “UnknoWn” from Brooklyn. I Roy and Russel Kroll Are Proud of their Brown Swiss Calf. Tell her for me that about one more outburst like that and I’ll be carrying both arms in a slingl—So long, Guil- ford. Guilford, I thought you were too sensible to have anything to do with monkey business. Your joke is equal to any‘Scotch joke I ever heard. Dear Uncle Frank: Isn’t it grand to live in the country? 1isn’t it grand to work sixteen hours out of every twenty-four, and can't at least get three square meals a day? Isn’t it grand when you can’t eat fresh vegetables because you must sell them in order to get clothes far the family? But what do you think ofthe birds, flowers and trees? Why,-they simply are-incomparable, but when has the farmer time to enjoy them? If the farmer takes his family ut. for a ride, he can’t enjoy it bec use- the tin-lizzie complains loudly of a. heavy mortgage, and constantly re- minds him of his debts. Oh, farming would be all right if the farmer had a lot of money and a nice car to drive around, and could just keep his farm as a sleeping place during’ the night, and let it. go to the quack—grass. Talk about a good living and ten. per cent, I say it’s impossible, when farming conditions are as bad as they are today. When you listen to some of the county agents talk you’d think. the farm was” a Haven of Rest. ' Here’s your chance fer discussion, all you “farm cousins.” I am for bet-- ter farm life.——Lappa-Tossie. I believe you are over the M. 0. age. Yes, farming would be 0. K. if 'the farmer had lots of money and a car without a mortgage on it. But so- woukl all other lines of work. You. must remember that he farmer is not. Success Means Hard Work .. Trazhzhg and Self—Sacnfirr Reyuzred, Says Walter folzmon I CONSIDER ,common sense and hard’work to be the best formula I know for success. You seldom see any man who has made a success of his. life, no matter in what line, unless he has had these qualifications. Real success is not won overnight. It’s nearly always the result of years of" training and much self-sacrifice to gain your ‘end. ‘ ens. I was born and raised on a farm, and I will always be a farmer at heart. I- am in the country, and I love‘dogs, cows and chick-- I owe my long life in base ball to the fact that I have never spent winters in' the cities, but always.~ where I could be outdoors most of the time.7iun‘tin’g,i~ ' . or doing farm work. The best way. to keep in cpndi» ’ tion is'never to get out of conditionr-eWalterJohnson. ' Every farm boy,:knows the {story of ,Walter John-- . son, the “Big Train" .of baseball, ' _ stand the physical strain of big 16 , even ten years, but after twenty years of it Walterjohnsonepitched during, ""the innings which won the World Series] for his team,,: year before __ ‘ I am never as happy as .when. “Never get out or condition”; he says, and much othis ‘ 7 pa been due, to' the factthat-he has consistentlgpmo , this mess e tern‘ur .bioys. fits-hi . made thmaiiine at "the. {best lured an "American sports. = , A . Few Buyers, can. £8113 baseball for-v , Dear Uncle. Frank: ‘ publicity given to the. possibilities of i :imo’w many followed the county agent’s advice. _ "Down with rouge.” Yes’ m, it would not be a bad. idea, that is, if the other girls would quit, too. One puts it on because all the rest do. I saw this in a book once: “He told the shy maid of his love, The color left her cheeks, " But on the shoulder of his cost It showed for several weeks.” In my last letter, I spoke of” our dog. I had both “he" and “she for the same One. Well, it's this way. She is a. female dog with a- male name-— Uncus. If M. C.’ s should not discuss the things you think we should not be- cause we are just children what should we talk about? As for farm life, that was discussed long ago.— Helen Piper. That’s just one reason for not using powder—it’s a giveaway and is em- barrassing to the young man. I no- ticed your mixed use of he and she, and I am glad you explained, because now I am sure you know better. I have not put any limit on the subjects we discuss. But I think we should give consideration to sensible ones once in a while. Even if you are chil- dren, I know you can talk sense. Goon ROADS CONT'EST. BELIEVE that your opinions on good roads would be interesting. We all have had experience with good roads, so know something about them. [For the two best papers of 250 words ,1 pens, pencils, and most everything a made a success beeause they have. , three papers selected will win for‘ give dandy pencil boxes, containing pencil box should have. The next their writers, one of these dandy, mod— ern, large-barrelled clutch pencils. The next five winners Will get unique and handy pocket knives. The subject of this contest will be, “How Good Roads Help the Farmer.” The contest will close October 15.‘ Be sure to put your name and address on your papers, and put M. C. after your name .if you are a Merry Circler. Send the papers to Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer, De- troit, Michigan. CONTEST WINNERS. GREAT many got the mixed-word contest. The letters, when they were straightened out, read, “Chil- dren’s Hospital of Michigan Convales- cent Home, Farmington, Michigan.” Merry Circle buttons will be given to all who got the contest correct, if they are not members. The prize win- ners are: Pencil Boxes. John Vlock, R 2, Carleton, Mich. Cora Bartlett, Northport, Mich. Clare W. Fox, R. 1, Orion, Mich. Elmer Erickson, R. 1, Alto, Mich, William W. Johnson, R. 2, Bellaire, Mich. Fountain Pens. Elmer Nara, Bruces Crossing, Mich. Elwood F. Holland, R. 3, Quincy, Mich. Reva Covert, R. 5, Ionia, Mich. MiHIelen Merchant, Grindstone City, 0 'Alllidrey Fennick, R. 3, Vicksburg, 1c . IMPROVING HUMAN STOCK. EREDITY! Some of us don’t be- H lieve in it at all, and others not only believe all that is true, but a lot that isn’t. A few years ago a little group of people interested in heredity or, to to usé another term, “Eugenics ” de— cided that if live stock exhibitions were a good thing to improve the strain and breeding of cattle, they should be extended to cover human stock. They started an exhibit at the State Fair at Topeka, Kansas, calling it “The Fitter Families’ Competition.” Now this has extended to several oth- er states, and last year such a compe- tition was held at the Michigan State Fair at Detroit. The Fitter Families’ Competition is an educational feature designed to in‘ terest people in the laws of inherit- ance and health. For some unknown reason we have imagined that While the domestic animals which.man has developed'to such perfection are sub- ’ ject to these laws, man himself is not affected by them. We have kept elab- orate pedigrees for our animals, but have seldom troubled to compile‘ gen- ealogies for ourselves, and when we have kept genealogies they have been mere lists of names, with no descrip- tion of the individuals. Now science has shown us that names are not as important as characteristics, and this new consciousness has been embodied in a human pedigree blank which is of real value—The Record of\ Family Traits. I do not know just how much this effortwill accomplish. I do not sup- pose that young people will ever de- liberately choose their mates with a view to excellence in breeding. On the other hand, I am positive that the transmission .of desirable, or undeEir-' elite ._ , . is ' stand on, thus making them rattle- when one whose personality may be attractive, but'transmissible traits un- profitable is being weighed in the bal- ance. I think this propaganda will in- crease in power, and it is right that it should. The health examinations given at the Fitter Families’ Competi- tion are well worth while and, al- though free of charge, are given with the utmost care. They may show hid- den weaknesses that can be correct- ed. They’ serve to guide the future course of family life. They not only make for a longer span of years, but for a Wiser, brighter and happier dur- ation. s It is required that all those who en- ter the examinations of the Fitter Families’ Competition, make entry in advance. Therefore, if you are inter- ested, write to the manager of the State Fair at Detroit, Michigan, and make inquiries about: the entries in “Human Stock ” NERVOUS AND DESPON DENT. I am thirty- -nine, and in good flesh. Weigh 166 pounds and gaining. But I am very nervous and blue. Have head noises, can count my heart beats from throbbing in head.- Am getting distrustful of my best friends. Life hardly seems worth living. Doctors give me tonics but do only temporary good—Jane D. I think you have allowed the head noises to get the bettervof you. I am not surprised that doctors do no good. It is up to you to tell yourself that life is worth living, and so steadfastly set yourself to ignore the noises that trouble you. After you have followed this plan a while you will be surprised to notice thatvthe noises are less and that you are better in every way. Yoli might have your blood pressure tested - and the blood examined as to quality, but I doubt if you have anything that medicine will help. Shock absorbers for typewriters to 8 1 ” "who live in the country, we will _ - ANISH the pill box and teaspoon! Take Nature’s tonic “Sleep.” Get your proper rest at night. Sleep on a bed- spring that supports your spine * in all of its natural curves. Sleep on a bedspring that fits your body—and takes the strain from your nerves and muscles. Get yourself a FOSTER IDEAL SPRING—give yourself an op- portunity for proper relaxation, rest and recuperation. The FOSTER IDEAL will help Nature to help you because ‘It’s a Better Bedspring SOLD BY ALL DEALERS FOSTER BROS. MFG. CONIPANY; UTICA, N. Y. Western Factory St. Louis, Mo. The Hit of Two State Fairs At both the Ohio and Michigan Fairs the Sani-Tabl- Tub was given an enthu- siastic reception. More people flocked to this display than to any other. Crowds waited in line for a demonstration. A Bathtub in Every Home Dimensions 48” x27”x32”. Fin- ished in (main DUCO-E NAM- EL am? all": tomb in enamel. Tub dram tiara bottom. Nofim maind. The Sani-Tabl-Tub offers the health and lux- ury of a real man-size bath at a price all can aflord to pay and no cost for installation. Sturdy, full size, strongly built, yetlight. When not in use as a. bath or laundry tub, it is easily turned on its side and you then have a useful table with a fine porcelain top—a handsome piece of furniture. . rite for full information THE SANI’TABL-TUB COMPANY Guarantee Title Bids. CLEVELAND. OHIO You pay once only for any Concrete F arm Improvement \ How Much Mud Do You Track 111? I No other improvement around the house will please your wife more than a concrete walk and pavement at the back door. It will save hours of hard labor by keeping floors and rugs—in fact, the entire house, clean. And you only have to build a concrete walk once. Complete informa- tion about building concrete walks and floors as well as many other farm improve- ments of concrete is con- tained in our illustrated booklet, “Concrete , l Around the Home.” Write for free copy today. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION Dime Bank Building DETROIT. MICH. A National Organization to Improve and Extend the Uses of Concrete Offices in 31 Cities ’ from. ’ HE disquieting fact that we are face to face with a. serious na- tional shortage of anti-hog chol- era serum and virus, should be broad- cast to swine growers far and near. Not many serious outbreaks have oc- curred in Michigan for two or three years, but right now would be an aus- picious time (from the germ’s stand- point) for the cholera bug to get busy. Because of the relative scarcity of hog cholera during late years, vacci- nation as a preventative measure fell to low levels. In the face of this shortened demand, serum producing plants were not inclined to pile up stocks, especially as they were forced to use high-priced hogs to produce Hence supplies in storage be- er. Worms. Henves or money back. $1. 2! fi'er can. Dealers or by mail. The Newton Remedy Geo Toledo. Ohio. “ Lost 1 1 Calves from Contagious Abortion Used B-K—No More Losses Before he realized what was wrong. Peter Shallow * had lost 11 beautiful Guernsey calves from contagious '.on Then he began usin B- K on other cows of the herd due to calve' 1n abouthO ays. All came out healthy. Wonderful for Removing Retained Aiterhirtli Mr. Shallow also says: “I also found B-K the greatest thin out for cows that donot clean resdll after calving. Thisbs I I always had to do by hand, at now I use B-Kb y injecting about a. allon of water and B—K so utlon, at the rate of 1 oz. to 6 quarts of water, and have never kn nown it to fell in bebringing ”ri’ghtbe tore the fourth 0n thonsaxids 0! Farms B-K is kerton hand constantly for’ rota nod stterhirth,s aboro. tion. es" scours, dairy sterilixl disinfection for pool ry similar uses. It is non- poisonous, clean, and leaves no odor. De endnble and cheap. W to for valuable book about the use of B- K for live stock. The information it fives has saved farmers many cascade of dollars. Address «on. i mom? "DIVOITCOUOIII. Commie.- : Most for cost. ‘, Two cons satisfactory for ‘ i l I Hog ChOlcra Scrum Shortage Unusual Precautzom Necerrary to Prevent Serzou: Lorre: nizing rings” around outbreaks by fur- , nishing serum and virus free of charge _‘ to diseased herds and those on adjoin- - While this is doubtless a: ing farms; fine practice, the policy is of no avail if the serum is not obtainable. Thus the prevention of outbreaks seems to rest largely in the hands of the hog growers themselves. A word to the wise has been said to be sufficient. ' T0 STAN DARDIZE COW-TESTING WORK. AIRYMEN of the United States are constantly placing more faith in the value of cow testing association records. According to the United This Cow, Dutchland Creamelle Ascaion Lady, Owned by Lakefield Farms, Holds the Michigan Butter Record in the 365- day Division for Junior Two year-olds, producing 896 Pounds in that Time. came unusually low, and the occur— 1ence this summer of several widely spread outbreaks in the corn belt has caused an acute shortage. Delay is invariably experienced in getting or- ders filled, as distribution is on a hand-to-mouth basis. Such being the case, extra caution will have to be exercised by hog men if serious losses are to be avoided. War should be declared on pigeons, sparroWs, and frows that fly from farm to farm. Dogs and cats given to "- imuch visiting should be destroyed or confined. Unnecessary trips into the neighbors’ hog lots should be guarded against. At the first appearance of conditions that might indicate cholera, a competent veterinarian should be called, and if cholera is found the sur- rounding territory should be appraised of the fact. The feeding of garbage is always fraught with danger from infection~ bearing meatscraps, and the material should never be fed to unvaccinated hogs. In' fact, Michigan has a law compelling the vaccination of garbage— fed swine. If violations of this law are discovered, no time should be lost in reporting the offender, as he is a grave menace to any swine-raising community. The present time of year, when silo filling, bean threshing, and other jobs call for considerable “changing work,” is a season especially conducive to disseminating the disease. The virus can easily be carried from farm to farm on shoes, horses’ hoofs, wagon wheels, etc. Hogs seem to be unusu- ally susceptible to cholera during the fall, possibly because of the digestive disturbances incident to going on a. full feed of new corn. . Several Michigan counties have ' adopted. the policy of making “imnm-~ "'stoppage of these losses. States Department of Agriculture; there are now 844 of these associa- tions operating in the United States, testing the herds of twenty thousand dairymen each month. More than 325,- 000 cows are regularly under test in these associations. The cow testing committee of the American Dairy Science Association, meeting in Detroit October 8, has completed a set of uniform methods to be used in the conduct of these or- ganizations. The uniform rules now in use in al- most all states conducting cow testing association work have aided material- ly in improving the work of the cow tester. Cow testers are dairy cow book- keepers who are employed by groups of dairymen to give them more information about their cow business. It is the cow tester’s business to stop losses through poor cows. He also helps improve the rations fed cows, and makes a careful study of the breeding value of dairy bulls used by his members. Great losses in time, effort, and mom ey have been incurred in all dairy sec- tions when no records of production are kept. The coming of the cow test- er to the dairy farmer results in the According to A. C. Baltzer, Dairy Department, Michigan State College, chairman of the committee, even greater profitable results are expected throughout the dairy sections of the country thnough the continued application of cow test- ing methods. Much favorable com- ment has originated from many dairy localities- _ Free—Pt chffia‘ii‘it. regarding the improved ' ‘ A Some onOur Old Neighbors HAVE MOVED 50112:? Aw from the snow. nose of northern winters. 1i brie maindhmzfl in 0 6 VB 8 13b 6 I let and‘t‘asnd, served bythisfisfirpoad. If you we will send you comp lets so that you may havep time to d consider advantages store next win- ter comes 011. mm No cost or obliga- tion for this service, this Railroad having no land for sale an ply serving in an advisory capacity, out go. 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No manufacturers of ell-Eel o 51’..st hummus pings? m%"m'°3q \ 9m ~ , _ ' ~ Easv to o crate Tmub methods recommended by this com-‘ . mittee. -, The personnel a; the committe asbiollows‘ ‘ 8, \ . . growers of wool. . remarkable when it is known that ‘ sweet clover ‘ Kansas State College, Manhattan, Kan- _«sas; and J. B. Parker. Dairy Bureau, II? S. Department of Agriculture. ' BELtEVES SHEEP WOULD HELP THESE FARMERS. WHILE going through our north- ern tier of counties, one is struck ‘ ”with the fact that only one out of ten farmers are oWners of sheep and This is all the more sheep will do well on our cut-over ‘lainds, which often are too poor to graze cattle or horses. When I asked our representative at g Rapids, Mr. Hardy, why he pur- chased no wool, in the large sections which‘formerly grew much wool, that the farmers had been offered big pric- es for them, and being in need of mon- ey had sold them. This is probably the history of other sections. These lands will support many ~ sheep and we know now that sheep are “the best paying thing on the farm.” These lands are especially adapted to the Coarser wools, such as Shropshires, Oxford, Cottswold, Hamp- shire Downs and Cheviot. These very useful wools can be grown in large quantity and there is always a great and. insistent demand for the lambs from these grades, for there are none better, and the east calls loudly for them. The lamb eaters are getting more numerous and the lamb raisers seamen—Albert Fecht. Sweet Clover for Pasture By Geo. A. Brown Prof. yAnimal Industry, M. S. C. as a pasture crop is relatively new to most of us, my experi- ence of two years with it leads me to give it unqualified endorsement as a. pasture for both cattle and sheep. During the dry weather of this sum- mer a white blossom sweet clover pas- ture carried a large part of the beef herd on the college farm, and all of the breeding ewes and their lambs. Had it not been for this sweet clover pasture, it would have been necessary to bring the sheep and cattle to the barn and feed them, inasmuch as our other pastures were all dried up. Ow- ing to the lateness of the spring we were not able to turn on to this pas- ture until the last of May. In the low places in the field the had winter- killed and there was considerable June grass. In one end of the field there was three or four acres of June grass sod. We naturally expected that both the cat- tle and sheep would eat .the June grass to the ground before they would touch the sweet clover, but, much to our surprise, they began eating sweet clover immediately, and while they would seem to prefer the June grass WHILE the use of sweet clover ‘ for the first couple of days they have since then eaten the sweet clover just as readily as they would the grass. As the stock could not keep this field down, part of it was mowed rath- er high and put in the barn for hay. The sheep have pastured' quite largely on the sections of the field which were mowed where the fine growth came up. The cattle, however, grazed to a large extent on the higher sweet clo- ver which was not ‘clipped, and have kept it down so that on August 16 the entire field was covered with a very fine growth of feed. We think enough of it so that we have another field ' seeded to sweet clover for use next year. I do not think that there is any crop that can be used for a pasture , which has the carrying capacity per acre that does sweet clover, nor is there any crop that will stand the dry weather and give plenty of succulent feed during mid-summer as sweet clo- ver will. As yet we have never pas- tured horses on the sweet clover, nor have we used it for hog pasture. As a hay crop I would not recom- mend either white blossom or yellow blossom sweet clover, as quite a num- ber of losses have been caused by the feeding of sweet clover hay. This is supposed to be due to a fungus which _ develops within the large hollow stalk of the sweet clover and causes a non- “ coagulability of the animal’s blood. . While these losses have not been gen- "ey have occurred in several tho , icate tuberculosis, ‘ i ‘ . higher standards. can be produced, the seed should be sown especially thick so that the stems will be as fine as possible, and not pithy or hollow, although anyone who can grow any other leguminous hay should’do so in preference to the sweet clover. DEMAND FOR MICHIGAN COWS INCREASES. HE districts supplying milk to the large hard hit in the tuberculosis eradica~ tion campaign and have been com- pelled to look elsewhere for healthy replacement animals. The fine show- ing made in Michigan with less than two per cent infection found in more than 850,000 cattle tested during the last two years, has resulted in a very active export business, particularly during 1925 and 1926. Cattle exported' for the year ended June 30, 1923, was 3178; 1924 was 4, 801; 1925 was 7, 693; 1926 was 14, 222 Thus, during the two~year period end- . ed June, 1924, cattle exports totaled 7,979 head, as compared to 21,915 head during the past two years, an increase of nearly 175 per cent in two years’ time. o The increased demand for Michigan cows for export offers a wonderful opportunity for improving the average quality of our dairy herds and we hope that Michigan farmers and dairy- men are not selling their very best animals. Not that we would advocate selling the culls, as such a practice could only‘result in destroying the market. There is only one place where such worthless dairy animals should go, and that is direct to the block and, when the herd owners real- ize this fact, dairy cattle improvement will be greatly speeded up. On the other hand, the best animals should be retained in the herds for breeding purposes. An offer of $125 or $150 for a grade cow is a strong temptation, but We hope the dairymen of Michigan will appreciate the fact that this mar- ket for good cows for eastern ship- ment is just beginning and will keep their best cows to breed more good ones for future use. The eastern dairy states are just nicely started in the ’campaign to erad- thousands and thousands of cows to replace the diseased animals. igan dairymen should avail themselves of the two best methods of improving their herds, the pure-bred sire and the cow testing association, and begin raising more good cattle for eastern shipment. eastern cities have been. and it will take. years to complete the program, and, Mich-- Under this plan they will , _ be able to hold a good market for- ' . their surplus and at the same time be V Continually building their herds up to = We can sell the automobiles in the world and 1' . . Naif “ \ME lenient /-. c0 ”a- k [CA ML.LlNG ,,///4_ What you need to make your farmn grown feeds pay Farm-grown feeds (oats, barley, corn) carry only 12 to 15 percent protein; they lack minerals, palatability, and digestibility. Therefore, to make milk profitably with them, these qualities must be added. Amco 32% Supplement furnishes you, in one bag, all that your farm-grown grains lack. It is the ideal supplement for them. The formula, given below, is the best proof of this. Feeding Directions For use with .good clover hay and alfalfa hay, mii 1100 lbs. Amco 32% Supplement 500 lbs. Cottonseed Meal 1 M of farm-grown corn and any égg u gfiaerflg‘al cal ‘ ’ le ’ 280 “ Linseed Meal combination _Of oats, bar y 100 “ Corn Distillers Grains and peas With 900 lbs. of 260 “ St. tha Bran 100 “ Hominy- Amco 32% Supplement. For 100 u Molasses use with poorer hay, mix 800 20 “ Steam Bone Meal . 20 “ Ground Limestone lbs. of farm-grown grams and 20 u Salt 1200 lbs. of Amco 32% 1505 lbs. Total Digestible Supplement: Nutrients in 1 Ton MCO American Milling Company. Peoria, Ill. Amco Feed Mixing Service purchases and mixes, ac- cording to Conference Board formulas, «feeds which will enable farmers to feed farm animals profitably. Great , inills, trained buyers, a tremendous volume of business ' make the prices of “Amco Mixed” feeds unusually low» quality considered: 37 .Years of Safety} and Any money you have on hand now can be invested so as to earn 5% and 6% with perfect safety. It can be invested in such a manner as to make it a very easy and simple matter for you to draw all or part of your money whenever you want it. In order ' to earn the 5% rate your money need only remain with the company 90 days, at which time it earns for each day—from date of investment to date of withdrawal. The 6% rate is paid if the account is in force on the dividend dates—Jan. lst and July 1st. Any sum divisible by $20.00 can be invested or with- drawn. A check is mailed each six months for the earnings, or they can be compounded. Ask for booklet. ' Established 1889 Resources Over $1 1 ,000,000 llllllll|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll’i” EQ/thifinal mean 88 flnurntmcnt (Ilnmpmm. 1248 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich. Detroit's Oldest and Largest Savings and Loan Association Under State Supervision _llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Thirteenth Annual Public Sale Howell Sales Company of Livingston County, Howell, Michigan Thursday, October 21,1926 65 REGISTERED HOLSTEIN CATTLE 65 4 Young bulls from high record dams, also with large yearly records. 1 F l s, onl 3 over 6 yrs. old. 56 will either be fresh at sale time or soon fifteremasgveral 3lirom high record dams, one from the highest record cow in Livingston County, 36 84 lbs The Show Cow, Martha Segis Pontiac 686725 is included in the sale. ( Whole County an Accredited List) For Catalogs, address GUY WAKEFIELD, Secretary, Fowlerville, Michigan BREEBERS’ BIRECTORY Registered Holstein Bull For Sale We 01711 for sale the bull, Red Rack Dairy Maid King. He is a 30—lb. bull and a tried sire. ryPlenty Change of Copy or Cancellations must. each us Twelve Davs before date of Dublica ion “AlllllllllllIllllIll|llIIIlllllllllllllllllllllll|III|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllll||lllll|lll|I|||llllllllllllllll|llllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ”‘5 Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll 5‘1"! of heifers to show. and guaranteed in Just '1‘. B. tested. Priic $150. WHITNEY ryBROS, Onondaga, Mich. 0R SALE~—Two young Guernsey bulls, one born Registered Holstein cows, heifers FMarch 25 1925; has A. R. dam One born ocw- For Sale and young bulls, fully “crew ber 26.1925. FRANK E. ROBSON, Room 303, M. ital. N_ J. PARENT, Holton, Mich. 0.11. R. Depot Building, Detroit, Mich. tically pure— —bred GUERNSEY or HOL- FOR pang." calves.1rom heavy, rich milkers. write EDGEWODD DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater, Wis. HEREFORD STEERS 22 Wt. around 1100 lbs. 69 Wt. around 1000 lbs. 74 Wt. around 725 lbs. 81 Wt. around 625 lbs. 45 Wt. around 550 lbs. 50 Wt. around 600 lbs. Good quality, dark reds, dehorned, w marked Hereford Steers. Good Brass flesh. The type are usually market toppers when finished W1 sell your choice of one car load from any bugch. Clair) yr 0 ' Dairy Heifer Calves, practically Guernsey pure bred $25 00 each, Weshlp C. 0. D. Write L. Terwilliger, Wauwatosa, Wis. also show you Shorthorn Steers. yrls or For Sale 10 gtegistered_Guer{1Isey Iglulls‘.) alér‘wst . . 1 cs rec ng. . Cheap. Write ibeini $213083. 29110115111. Mich. VanD. Baldwm, Eldon ,Wapello Co.,lowa. RACTICALLY pu 0-!) ed Guernsey heifer calvoo- R d H f H f P the heaxy milkingrkind—eight weeks old $20 each. egiSIere ere 011] el ers NORMAN 3- MEYER. Maple Plain. Minn-11nd young bulls and cows with calves at side, at rea- sonable 111113.95 Also large. smooth type yearling Merino rams With splendid fleeces, $25 at farm, $30 crated. .WHITNEY WATKINS, Manchester, Mic". HEREFORDS 5 bulls around a year old, also bred com: and heif- ers. Repeaters and Woodford breeding at farmer's prices. ALLEN BROTHERS. ll8 Burdick Arcade. Kalamazoo. Mich- JERSEY FEMALES Having bought. the entire well- known herd of IL. B. Wattles, Rochester, Jerseys I have some surplus cows and heifers, bred and-open, to sell. Also clos- ing out. 6 Shorthorn cows and heifers. IRA W. JAYNE, Fenton. Mich. A Colaniha Homestead Sire" A nicely marked calf, three-fourths white. born December 12. 1925. His sire is a. 35—lb. son of Dutchland Cream- elle Colantha Lad. a show bull and the sire of two world's record cows and two with records above 33,000 lbs. milk in I year. . His dam is a 31.6-lb. daughter of a 30.5—lb. cow with a. 365—day record of 1,231.75 lbs. butter and 20,053 lbs. milk. Send for pedigree of Tag No. 184. “MICHIGAN STATE BERDfl." Choice “Jersey Bulls mm m... m - dams modified herd. SMITH“ d Lansing, Michigan ' - 111mm 311111111111: For Sale an.“ “7““ and Novemher. "0no Roan, eight months old‘ hall one are year old. grand-one! Glenda Dd!” kind and sends.“ conlo‘. Price eI munch. “Dunba- ’ . e comma P11111133, Mich. ready for service. and m Bureau of PAnxsh. 1111111311. 11111111. "m ' C 4 Bull: tromll. came co "m. Ammag. Industry 1 1331...... m o! '1..o . mocha“ . @351? Pt- c for 21111 fruhenlna. Colon c.1411», osmium; ‘ as: ~ Mzc/lzgan Show: N histbry have more than 1, 000 herds been listed for awards of diploma for efficient herd production by the National Dairy Association. Eleven hundred and Sixty—three herds have been {"30 listed this year and each will. be awarded the Herd Diploma by the National Dairy Asso-' ciation at the time of the Dairy Show at Detroit, October 6-13. This great number of BOO-pound but- ter-fat producing herds excels in num- bers those recorded from other states except Wisconsin, which has—'1,206 herds listed. More important than that is, that it represents mere than forty per cent of all herds under test in Michigan, these having reached the coveted butter-fat production mark of 300 pounds. Just one state exceeds the number of herds listed by the Dairy Department of Michigan State College, in this 300-pound butter-fat class, according to W. E. Skinner, manager of the National Dairy Associ- ation. However, Mr. Skinner further stated that Michigan dairy herds are far ahead of‘ oth'e’r states when based on a percentage basis, with nearly half of all Michigan herds under test ex- ceeding the 300-pound mark in but- ter-fat production. The Michigan dairy herds entered in this national 300-p0und butter-fat club includes ten herds which have aver- aged more than 500 pounds of butter fat production. Heading the list of 500 pound herd owners is Arthur Reek, of Imlay City, Michigan, member of the Lapeer County Cow Testing Associa- tion. Mr. Reek’s herd produced 577.6 pounds of butter-fat and is believed to be highest in the United States. The Reek herd of pure-bred Holsteins have been under test in cow testing association work for six years. Other leading herds are as follows: 0 date. all of the eastern states, except Rhode Island and New Jersey have agreed to accept cattle from accredited herds, and ac- credited counties without retest, if the instructions given below arqprop- rly complied with. It is quite prob- able that if this new plan proves a success at the Buffalo market, it will be inaugurated at Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee and other markets. _ As stated in a previous article, the Buffalo Stock Yards Company has granted use of one end of the sheep a committee of federal and state offi- cials interested inthe plan. These accredited cattle Will therefore be en- tirely segregated from the Other cattle in the yards. The breeders of dairy cattle for eastern shipment will be greatly benefited by this new system of marketing tuberculosis-free accred- ited cattle because it will reduce the Cost of the transfer from the producer' to the consumer, which in this case- is the eastern dairyman, who converts practically all of his feed into liquid milk. , Under the present system, which EVER before in Michigans dairy barn, which location was selected by > has become a very c'pmmo‘n practice, ,-: agents for the eastern dealers go to , some considerable expense in driving; V about the country, purchasing 8 , Further proof that continued . pays the herd owner in mater" profits can be found when a he 300115111111 herds of 1925 and _ compared th these or 1926. There were 386 herds above the 300vpoun'd ' butter-fat productiOn reqmrement in.» :' 1924, and 817. herds during 1925, while there were 1,166 herds during 19;26 " - In summarizing the list this year it is found that ninety herds have made the 300—pound butter-fat production for three years, and 276 herds have quali- fied for tWo years. . The dariy industryjn Michigan will be properly enhanced thrbugh the continued efficient production of Mich- igan dairy herds. The time is not for distant when all Michigan dairymen will desire to, and strive for, nothing less than 300- pound herds in order to get greater profits. Continued testing through cow testing associations, and more widespread use‘of this organiza- tion by all dairymen will lend a last- ing effect in profits earned by Michi- gan dairy cows. COOPERSVILLE FARMER HAs LIV- ING TWIN COLTS. ALIFORNIA likes to boast it has the first in everything, but in the matter of living twin colts, ‘P. Cala- han, Coopersville, Michigan,’ farmer, living on Route No. 1, rises to dispute its claim-to the “first and only living twin colts in the world.” Calahan boasts the ownership of twin mares. They were born twelve years ago, indicating Michigan has beaten California to the twin colt lion- , ors by a dozen years. The twins are Percherons and make a, well-matched team—J. C. M. ‘ r- If all bird “life were destroyed, in- sects would dominate the earth. Name and Address. Breed. Milk. Test. Fat. '0. R; Mosier, Allegan . . . . . . . . . . . .PB & Gr J 10,447 5.02 523.9 Earl Bayes, St. Louis . . . . . . . . .v . . .1. .PB & Gr J 9,686 5.33 517.0 Reilben Bittle, Flint ..... o o o 6 o o o o n u o o oPB & Gr H 12,368 4.10 515-8 Frank Jewell, Rockford. . . . . . . . . . . .PB H 14,396 3.60 514.6 J. C. Coleman, Bannister. . . . . . . . . . . ..PB H 14,417 3.58 512.6 Ora Wedge, Big Rapids. . . . . . . . . . . . . .PB H 13,406 3.77 504.6 Delbert Conley, St. Louis. . . . . . . . . .PB & Gr H 13,830 3.64 504.1 Glen Clarkson, Brown City. . . . . . . . . ..PB & Gr H 12, 837 3.89 500.2 N cw Market for Dairy COWS How T uéercu/orzr—Free Accredited Catt/e 1222/! Move T [troug/z t/ze Bufa/o Market to Eastern State: 4"» / kind (1f cows they want at some cen- . tral market, the cost of picking up the cattle in the coimtry will be sav- ed, which will add to the price paid the producer, $5.00 to $10 per head. There are a number of shipping as: sociations in these accredited counties that can furnish one car of such cows per week. These will not be bought inthe country, but each farmer will deliver to. his shipping association, cows satisfactory to the eastern trade, which he may wish to sell. Where there‘ is no such shipping association, the local dealer will assemble a car- load of such cattle at certain intervals and consign same to his commission firm, with the expectation of receiving sati§factory prices. * . FARM ELECTRICITY EQUIPMENT. N an eight-mile line between Dans- ville and Mason.-.farmers are, pay- ing $3.00 a month, and three to five" cents per kilowatt hour for the elec~ tricity they use. «This its-an experi- mental line of 5, 000 volts to determine the value oLelectricity to the farmer. The agricultural engine ring, depart- ‘ I ‘ merit of Michigan State college 1- v 7. 3-. 38 NHE‘?J‘6§”3‘=Fi-m' [MIT l; ‘80". Na _ ‘ .' » J I Full. five years old. exception- lFor Sale 3"” bred. registered $75. 7 FRED 8. DONALD. OX'OI‘ILJ MINI. . -- Stocker and Feeders ' 58 Stocliter {aeifersbogiostily Shorthom. . 6 stoc ca vac r; coors. . 60 Guernsey 82’ Jersey heifers. some springing. 30 8 till cows. 300 gradgflShor-thom stocker and feeder steers weigh- ing from 500 to 800 lbs. Would prefer to sell them ’ for October delivery. Gray’s Ranch, Merritt, Mich. On M55, 8 Miles West of Houghton Lake. Shorthoms calves by side. Bates and Scotch for» breeding. '1‘. B. tested. WM. 0. McMULLEN, R. No. 1. Adrian. Mich. n tummy and breeding. Bulls. Shorthoms 3-39 ‘2... heifers for sale. BIDWELL. STOCK FARM. Box D. Tecumseh. mm. A ORN for beef and milk. A few heifers sfingTclgws fosr sale. Rodney’s Model in service. w. E. MORRIS“. R. 5. Flint. Mich. BULLS. milking strain. Shropshire S'lggtlflfuh" year 1 s For particulars and it 3 ram . photo, writ/a JOE MORIARTY. Hudson. Mich. Some younl cows with heifer . - blls 6 to 14 months, also Milking Shorlhorns :é’w heifers. saw .11 mm milked. W. E. Thompson, R. No. 4. Ludincton. Mich. - for sole. Write or see Brown Swiss Bulls them. Visitors welcome. A. A. FELDKAMP, Manchester. Mich. HOGS ~ DUROCS , Boars and Gilts Lakefield Farms, Clarhston, Mich. unoc Jasssvs. mu and Spring Boers from D large prolific strains. W te or come and see them. JESSE BLISS & SON. Henderson. Much. Spring boats and gilts from Mich- FOR SALE igan pioneer herd of big type P. C. hogs. Some of the best prospects among then: I ever bred. sired. by “The Wolverine" and The Grand Model." the best two—yearold boar I ever owned. A boar or sow from this herd adds prestige to your own. W. E. LIVINGSTON. Parma, Mich. BIG TYPE BHESTER WHITES EkaM‘iy‘fifi MAPL ions. bred from Champions. E HILL STOCK gARM» Rt. 2. Cass City. Mich. I f d t and breeding. Bhesler While Boars wifimghip yd)? o. D. w. H. BENTLEY. R. i. Lenox. Mich. Ir RES. fall b an. spring FOR SALE 353%? 92.5.1. .m. and .53....“ m... I. P. SPITLER & SON. R. l. Henderson, Mich. . . ‘t.h slit . W have them. Blaine Poland Chmas $...“‘3.. .l... .5... . . CLARK. Breckenridge. Mich. ' Poland China spring boats and Ellis. Big Type Leading bloodlines. 12th year. Prices reasonable. F. L. MIARS, Berricn Center. Mich; AMPSHIRE boar pigs of spring and summer far- Hmw for sale. 13th year in busincss. JOHN W. SNYDER, R. 4. St. Johns. Mich. SHEEP 1000 CHOICE EWES For sale in lots of 50 or more. We do sell better owes for less money. Write for description and prices, telegra h when you can come to inspect them. or p Rockweod. #__ Tl nph: Rockweod. Post Office, 80. hfitglir ALMOND B. CHAPMAN a SON. So. Rock- wood. Mich. Shropshires -——Oxfords Yearling and ram lambs. Also a few Mc— Kerrow bred Oxford ewes for sale. Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich. THE MAPLES SHROPSHIRES For Sale: 25 yearling rams of right type and quality. 2 stock rams and s. few ewes. . _ . C. R' LELAND. R. 2, Ann Arbor, Michigan Phone 734 F l3 ' Oxford Downs a special- WesiManon Stock Farm .y, mm, ,9. 9..., lambs for sale. WM. VAN SICKLE. Dcckerwlle, Much. r wool and mutton, 15 year- ' f ShI'OPShll‘CS 13133. 40 rum lambs. 10 ewes. .. DAN BOOHER. Evart. Mich.. Route "0. O. ‘- - r . to For Shropshire Rams $11.3? figwfifif am... Mich. Also a. few breeding ewes. - ' Two—year-old stock ram. 2 Shropshires yearlinzs. a few ram Lambs. l. Marion. Mich, H. H. GERBERICH. R. ' for sale. 200 each month. Binding Ewes shire. Hampshire grades and cross- breds. All yearlinss. V. B. Furnlss. Nashville. Much. SHROPSHIRES—Offering choice yearling rams and a few ewes. At right prices. Sired by Buttar, Andrews and Green Rams. D. L. Chapman 8:. Son, So. Rockweod. Mich. write or For Shropshire Yearling Rams c on anmsrnonc anus- a. No. 3. Fowlervllle. Mich. The wool and DELAINE RAM mum-.md, A. good as grew. Photos free. F. H. RUSSELL. Box 40, w‘ake’man. Ohio- , ZZSVYoung Del ' B‘ ‘ I ’ for sue. on. a. 31-32:. clfifi‘ll'fiugm‘fi? Karakuiek and Hamp- BEEP all, recorded. sent on approval: Cotswolds. jun «a Madison 8L. Mm. Midi. Wilt HM L . ~—_—-i'n—-§ testing of infected Cattle? Can farm- ers ask for a re-test before being oom- pelled to‘ dispose of their cattle? Are farmers allowed to kill their animals and bury them, and then receive com- pensation from the state government? Can infected animals be shipped out of the state? Would an overdose of this T. B. test fluid injected into the animals show signs of. reactors if they were not in the first place infected animals?—-E. E. ' If reference is had to the tuberculin test of cattle which have reacted to a. properly conducted test, the inquirer is advised that permission for such tests, or re-tests, are never given. The tuberculin testing of millions of cattle has demonstrated that the test used, if properly applied and interpretedis accurate, and, therefore, an animal that reacts is considered tuberculous and must be disposed of as such. A cattle owner may not kill and bury a reactor if he ‘desires to obtain the state or federal indemnity. In or- der that indemnity be secured, react- ing animals must be shipped_to. the slaughtering center indicated, or ar- ranged for, and disposed of in accord- ance with instructions. Tuberculous cattle may be moved interstate for immediate slaughter, if consigned to an establishment under federal supervision and covered by proper certificates, if branded and marked in accordance with the regu- lations. Tuberculin, the material used in con- ducting tuberculin tests, does‘ not, as prepared, contain any germ, either liv- ing or dead, and it is further protected by the addition of an antiseptic. The material is incapable of producing any disease, injuring any animal, or caus- ing an animal to exhibit a reaction if tuberculosis is not present—B. J. Kill- ham, State Veterinarian. Veterinary. l ‘I- :.i'« “ := ; 'lillll“WWW”Hilllilllllllllllllflllflllllllllllllllllifi UCTED BY DR. S. BURROWS. ; llflflliflilflllllllll? 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Don’t buy equipment of any kind until you get this free book and see for yourself the many superior qualities of Jamesway Equipment—equipment that costs less in the long run because it lasts longer, increases production and cuts down labor and feed costs. Write to office nearest you. - James Manufacturing 00., Dept. 149 Elmira, N. Y.‘ Ft. Atkinson, Wis. Minneapolis, Minn. Systems, etc. ‘- . '\\\\\\\\m\\\\\\\hum mmur—l ‘ B.E.-9 Registered Hampshire Rams w. w. CASLER. Ovid, Mich. P0“. Mgr-- Registered Hampshire Yearling Rama. Call or write Clark Haire Ranch. Charleu West Branch. Mich. &. F. PARMENTER, R. No. I, Durand. Mich. and two years old. Also 15 yearling owes. ' rogistered. Rambomllet Rams yourlings. vigorous and heal— th), from large. heavy shearing ram. priced right. DR SALE~~25 Registered Rambouillt Rams. one ' , F e A. For Sale pum brod er‘S. Rambouillct rams and . Moore. Mason, Mich. Farm “/2 miles south oi Okemos. large Well-built W. HART. R. 2, Greenville, Mich. choice breeding ewes. Three Hundred . choice feeding lambs. one to“ hrec years old. Three hundned E. E. EVERETT. Hale, Mich. Palms, Mich. Tel. Deckerville, 78-3. ‘ x FOR SALE—Oxford Rams and Ewes. bled from Oxfords the best rams we could buy. GEO. T. ABBOTT. price. A few type. (1 choice rams with the right uality and breeding. reasonable OTTO WIRTH. Evarf. Mich. en. Letters should state fully the history and a, , of each case and give, name and address of the writer. initial. , only are published. When a reply by mail is requested the “nice becomes private practice and 51 must be enclosed. A Sore on Hind Quarter.—I' have a seven-year-old horse which was hurt on its hind quarter. The sore has been getting worse right along. It heals up for a day or so, and then it will open up, and matter comes out. They say it is proud flesh. How can I get it to heal? J. M.—There must be some dead tissue at the bottom of the wound. Enlarge the opening, so that it can be thoroughly cleaned out, by injecting a. solution of cresol or lysol twice daily—one tablespoonful to a pint of warm water. The wound must be healed from the bottom. ‘Fails to Breed.-—-I have a cow that has been served three times without results. Some tell me that feeding cooked cull beans is to blame. The bull is a sure one. Does feeding bone meal help correct this condition? I also have a cow that will not come in heat as she should. Would bone meal help this condition? E. W.—This is usually due to some abnormal condi- tion of the genital organs. A high pro- tein feed, such as the beans,.is fre- quently blamed for having something to do in bringing about this condition. The feeding of a mineral mixture, such as equal parts of ground lime- stone, steamed bone meal and common salt, over a. long period of time would be beneficial, but would not recom- mend commencing its use now, and expect immediate results. Unthrifty Bull.——I have a. bull which will be two years old in the spring. He don’t seem to eat well. There seems to be nothing wrong with his teeth. He is very thin. The chop is made of cats and wheat, five bushels of oats and one bushel of'whea‘t. A. K.———It would be advisable to have the bull tuberculin tested, as frequently the condition you describe is caused by tuberculosis. Try feeding a. mix- ture of ground oats, corn meal, bran and a little-oil meal. Take fluid ex- tract nux vomica, two ounces; extract ginger, one ounce, and water to make 3. int- Give, one ounce three times, daily. ‘ . - * ~ ~ i _ fluid . l I l I It’s easy to use Long Distance Vice is NOT a luxury. during the day. 4330 a. m. \ Detroit for 70 Cents And Long Distance Telephone ser- For instance, you can call Cleveland from your home or office, here in if you place an -“Anyone” ‘ call Rates are still lower after 7 p. m., with further reduction between 8:30 p. m. and GRAIN QUOTATIONS T/uesday, October 5. Wheat. Detroit—No. 2 white $1.37; red $1.36; No. 2 mixed $1.35. Chicago.—December $1.383/3; $1.43%. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red at $1.36 @137. ~ Corn. Detroit—No. 2 yellow at 870; No. 3 yellow 850. Chicago—December 80%0; May at 87%0. No. 2 May Oats. Detroit—No. 2 Michigan, old 520; new 490; No. 3 old 500; new 470. Chicago—December 437/80; May at 487/8c. Rye. Detroit—No. 2, 970. Chicago—December at 98%0; May $1.047/8. Toledo—Rye 960. Beans. Detroit—Immediate and prompt shipment $5. Chicago—Spot Navy, Mich. fancy hand;picked at $4.90 per cwt; red kid- neys $8.65. New York—Pea domestic at $5.25@ 6; red kidney $8.25@8.75. Barley. Malting 75c; feeding 610. Seeds. Cash red clover at $21.05; Detroit. timothy, old $2.70; Cash alsike $18; new $2.90. Hay Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $19.50@ 20.50; standard $18.50@19.50; No.1 light clover mixed $18.50@19.50; N0. 2 timothy $16.50@17.50; No. 1 clover $16.50@17.50; wheat and oat straw at $12@13; rye straw $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 Wheat prices made further small gains in the past week, and are about 10 cents above the low point early in September. ,VVeather damage and de- layed marketing in Canada and, to a lesser extent, in the United States, dry weather in Argentina, "higher pric- es in the Liverpool market, absence of pressure from cash wheat in domestic markets, and increased speculative support have been the influences back of the rise. Altogether, wheat outlook for higher prices is much stronger than a month or six weeks ago. RYE In spite of a small crop, light re- ceipts, and fair exports in the last three or four weeks, the visible supply of rye has gained about as much since the start of the new crop year as in the same period of the past three years. Export clearances have fallen off in the last ten days, but prices have been rather firm along With wheat. OATS The oats market is slowly develop- ing strength as rains continue to de- lay the completion of threshing and increase the amount of field damage. Because of the delay in threshing, as well as because of the small crop, pri- mary receipts since August 1, when the new crop year started, have been only about half as large as in the same period last year or two years ' ago. Demand is narrow,‘ however, and, in spite of the small movement, stocks -at terminals have increased. CORN After showing numerous bursts of strength in the last montlror SIX weeks because of the possrbility that part of the crop would be caught by frost, the corn market became a de- cidedly tame affair when the frosts and freezing weather actually arrived. Some observers believe that the grain ' had made better progress towards ma- ~turity than the foliage indicated. In addition, growers sold old corn freely . for a week or ten days, so that the distribution of warehouse accumula- tions at terminals was slowed down. 0‘ 3 / Consuming demand remains listless. The corn situation undoubtedly holds ’ the possibility of a moderate degree '~« .0; shortage before another crop can , o n ' ‘ - ‘ {5‘7 .’ . be grown, but the market is.not in- clined to anticipate it at present. In- stead, the large stocks of old corn still on farms and in commercial channels, the slow demand and the possibility of a decrease in the number of hogs due to cholera have been emphasized. However, the market is in position for a. sharp rise which may start at any ime. ~ SEEDS - Demand for forage crop seeds is light, due to the prolonged wet‘weath- er and recent low temperatures which have delayed planting. Sweet clover is selling for more than a year‘ago, and in view of the reduction of 15 per cent in the crop, as compared with 1925, the small carry-over following the heavy spring sales, and the prob- able demand due to the increased pop- ularity of sweet clover, it is reason- able to expect an advancing trend during the Winter. FEEDS The feed market is generally quiet, with prices for both wheat and corn feeds about steady. The recent cold wet weather- may stimulate a more active demand. Prospects for a large output of cottonseed meal are depres- sing prices on that commodity. HAY The hay market continues in about the same fashion as a :week ago. ”De- mand is slow and amply provided for by current receipts. Country takings of hay have been curtailed by the im- — provement in pastures, and the recent rains have increased the yield of some late hay crops. On the Pacific Coast, where pastures are in good condition, orders for alfalfa hay are small, and prices have declined during the past fortnight. EGGS Fresh egg prices are steady at the highest prices for the season, although supplies are larger than at this time a year ago, and withdrawals of stor- age eggs during the past Week or more have not equaled last year. Strictly fresh eggs are scarce, how- ever, and prices on fancy stock are easily maintained. Eggs which have been held back in the countr, too long are sharply discriminated gainst in price. Production is still considerably Chicago—Eggs, fresh firsts 36%@ 38c; extras. _38%@39%c; ordinary iirntzs0 9@33c; miscellaneous 36c‘;‘dirt- we try, hens 25%c; springers 23c; roost- ers 19c; ducks 23c; geese 19c; tur- keys 34c. - Detroit—Eggs, fresh candied and graded 37@41c; storage at 32%@360. Live poultry, springers at 28c; light springers 31c; heavy hens 29c; light hens 200; ducks 23@24c.“ The butter market has been rather _ firmly pegged during the past week, with prices slightly higher at the close. Receipts which had been run- ning in excess of a year ago fell off, although conditions remained favor- able to a heavy fall make. Fresh but- ter was plentiful, however,~ and with- drawals of storage butter'during the past ten days have not been as large as at the corresponding time a year ago. Consumption continues on a sat- isfactory scale, however, fresh pro- duction will diminish as the season progresses, storage holdings of_butter are no longer considered burdensome, and an advancing trend can be- ex- pected in The market during the next two or three months. Prices on 92-score creamery were: Chicago 45c; New York 460. In De— troit 40%@42%c. POTATOES The potato market recovered some- what from the decline of a week ago, due chiefly to the scarcity of good stock. The movement to distributing markets has fallen behind preceding weeks and the corresponding period a year ago, following the cold,‘ wet weather and declining prices which kept producers from digging. Last season, the first big advance on the crop began in October, carrying pric- es at Chicago to $4.50 a bushel by the end of the month. While higher prica es than the current level are expected this year, the advance may not come until a little later in the season when supplies normally are on the decline and buying is more active. Northern v rive Stock Market Service I Tuesday, CHICAGO Hogs. Receipts 18,000. Market on average weight about 210 lbs. generally steady and comparatively slow; lights 10@ 15c lower; tops 250 off; tops at $14.10 paid for 220-240 lbs; average bulk of 160 lbs. $12.10; $13.20@13.95 in bulk; 220-260-lb. butchers $13.60@14; bulk 270-325 lbs. $13.25; 185-lb. packing at $11@11.60; 1,240—lb. slaughter pigs at $12.55@12.75. - Cattle. Receipts 16,000. Good choice year- lings fairly active; strongto 250 high- er; heavy and low grade steers weak; bulk lower; western grassers and steer feeders, top yearlings at $12.75, highest of the season; many loads at $12.50@12.60; she stock slow; cutters and vealers steady; bulls steady. ' Sheep and Lambs. Receipts 20,000. Market fairly ac- tive; fat lambs slow, 250 up. No west- erners sold; active at $14.25; bulk of good early sales of natives $13.50; best native culls $13; best lambs $12 @1250; culls 25c up at $9.50@11.50; most sheep steady; ewes at $5.50@ 6.75; feeding lambs down 250; early sales $13@13.25. DETROIT Cattle. Receipts 164. Market steady. Good to choice yearlings dry-fed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .»$10.00@11.00 Best heavy steers, dry-fed 9.00@ 9.75 Handy weight butchers . . 8.00@ 8.75 Mixed steers and heifers 6.50 7.25 Handy light butchers . . . 6.00 7.00 Light butchers I e o e I o e e o SgOO@ 5475 Best COWS .........o.‘u.‘ ..2& 6.00 Butcher cows . I U . .L. 0 . . .,. Cutters 0 o o e l o .53.... no is. I" * Receipts 300. 0|, 3.75@ 4.25 Gamers oeueloefeoeooeloo‘oo'. $u09®3fls at October 5. Choice light bulls . . . . ... . 6.006) 6.50 BOIOgIlB. bulls e o l n o o o O o 0’. 5-26@ 6.00 Stock bulls 5.00@ 5.25 Feeders nooooeoo-Io-ooooo 6-00@ 7‘00 Stockers 5.50@ 6.75 Milkers and springers. . .$55.00@ 90.00 Calves. Receipts 281. Market steady. Best ..... ....$16.50@17.00 Others . . . . . . . . . 5.50@16.00 'Sheep and Lambs. Receipts 2,063. Market steady. Best grades Fairlambs..... ...... Light to common lambs . . Best lambs Fair to good sheep . . . . . . Culls and common . . . . . . . Hogs. _ Receipts 1,218. Mixed and roughs higher; others steady.- / M ed OOOOIOOOOCOOOOIIIOOOIOIOOOs 4-50 Roughs ... 11.00 Light yorkers ........-.......... 13.25 Pigs IIO.I......'.'.......'.'..O 12.25 Heafies .0...OIOIIOIOOQOOIOAOQCOO 13-25 8.50 eels... 9.00@11.25 8506731325 6.00@ 7.00 2.00@4.00 uuuuuu Stags .... , BUFFALO Hafis. " Receipts 8,000. arket 10c higher; ‘tops $14.35; bulk 180-210 lbs. $14.25; 160-180 lbs._ $14@14.15; light lights at $13.75 down; pigs at $12.50; packing sows at $10.75@11.25; heavy weight butchers scarce at $13 and up. ' "- » 1‘ Cattle. ’ p Receipts 200. Market steady. Sheep and Lambs. .3: Calves. .151 27c; checks 20@26c. Live poul—~ Market steady, with g fine at $14.75; culls- $11@11‘.50; ewes harm Nahum “ a ._ round whites Ufs. No.'1, are aim: ' at $2.10@2.35’ sacked, in the ' market. ’ _ Chicago _ wholesale w oil r1 ““‘WSQOL I ‘ 0 D cess cwa distinct risi " tendency. The goods market is bug}? ant and mills appear,~to be expecting to advance goods prices, hence are buying wool more freely and, in some cases; are anticipating ‘their ,"future needs, although they were slightly less active last week. Hereto one. bu?- ing has been of a hand—to-mo tlr char- acter. Foreign markets also are strong. Boston prices, clean basis, are about 10 cents below the foreign ‘MARKETS a? union}. ’ DAILY market reports and. weather forecasts may be obtained each week day from the followlng Mlchlg’an stations: WKAR—Mlehlaan State Col- lege, 12:00 noon. WCX—Detrolt Free Press, at WWJ-‘r—Det‘rolt News, 10:25 A. M., 12:00 noon, 3:00 P. M. WGHP—Geo. Harrison Phelps, 7:00 P. M. level, tariff considered, and imports have been light in the last four months. ‘Some of the foreign wools held in bond at the seaboard may be re-shipped abroad. Ohio delaines at Boston are quoted at 46 cents, grease 133518, with fine clothing at 41 cents. Half-blood combing is quoted at 45 gents, tantll quartter-blood iat 44 cents. ne 5 ap e erri ory woo s are sellin at $1.10@1.12 clean basis. g APPLES Apple markets generally are dull, With. the movement to market rapidly gaining and demand continuing on a limited scale. Shipments recently have exceeded a thousand cars each day. .The movement of western ap- ples is not equalirw a year ago, al- though eastern apples are coming in larger quantities than at this time last Sialson. lIllinois A-Ztyééinch Grimes Gol- app es are quo e at . 0 barrel at Chicago. $35 @4 per DETROIT CITY MARKET Apples 75c@$2.50 bu; craba les @3 bu; wax beans at $1.50@2).I50 his: .. green beans $1.50 275 bu; beets 65,!) @351 bu; cauliflower at $1.50 4 b ‘ sweet corn 13@25c dozen; gbbalgle 50@900 bu; chard 50@60c bu; local celery 25@500 dozen; carrots 750@$1 bu; cucumbers, slicers 750@$1.50 bu; dills $2@2.50 bu; gherkins $3@6 bu; leaf lettuce 90c@$1.25 bu; dry onions $1.25 “1.50, bu; green onions 60@85c dozen bunches; root parsley 40@50c dozen bunches; curly parsley 25@400 dozen bunches; pickling onions $4@6 bu; potatoes $1@1.60 bu; sweet pep- pers, green $1@1.25 bu; red $2@3 bu; round radishes 60@8.0c dozen bunch- es; long 80c@$1 dozen bunches; spin- ach 750((D$1.25 bu; turnips $1.50@2.50 bu; Hubbard squash 75c@$1.25 bu; Italian squash $1@2.50 bu; tomatoes $1.50@2.5O bu; cantaloupes $1.25@2.50 bu; egg plant, round 75c@$1 bu; long $1.25@2 bu; peaches $1@3 bu; pears $1.50@3 bu; watermelons 75c@$1.25 bu; grapes $1.50@2.25 bu; lima beans 50@700 quart; elderberries $1.25@1.75 bu; leeks 750@$1 dozen bunches; pars- nips $1.50@2.25 bu; butter 65c; pump- kins- 75c@$1 bu; eggs, retail 60@650; hens, retail 33@35c; springers. retail 33@35c; Leghorn springers. wholesale 25c; retail 28@300;\ ducks, wholesale 250; retail 300; dressed hens 35@40c; springers 40@460; ducks 45@500. ' ,, “COMING'LIVE erecK SALES. "2' : Poland (China he a: "euro “i 0" Hampshire and sough’dowu flea" rams and ewes, Holstein bulls. : _ “00mm 21~1 :30: 51...». ' _ 2 ‘per' hundred pounds, '7 . 4:00 P. M. «.- 1' I ‘HE east no longer is the leading ‘ I producer of ‘oniOns in the United, States, this honor having gradually shifted to middle weStern and western states, the federal bureau‘ of markets reports. -’ ‘ Indiana, with a 3,190,000-bushe1 crop nosed out New York for first place this year, the latter’ 5 crop being placed at 2,574,000 ' bushels. Other states in order of importance are: California with 1,900 000 bush- els; Massachusetts with 1, 666, 000 busheIS' Ohio with 1,590,000 bushels; Colorado and Michigan with 1,000 000 bushels each. The total crop in fifteen important onion growing states is es- timated at 16, 000, 000 bushels, or nine per cent more than last season. PAPER FROM CORNSTALKS. ‘ l T the Iowa State College tests are being! made in the use of corn- stalks for the making of paper. The experimenters have succeeded in mak- ing all grades of paper, from the coarse kind to the finest of writing papers, and within a year they hope to have the process perfected so that com paper can be made on a commer- cial basis. The use of cornstalks for this purpose. may help to banish the borer. "c MENNONITES START WHEAT IN KANSAS. N September 23 the Mennonite pioneers in Kansas were honored for the part they played in starting wheat growing in that state. Fifty years ago Kansas was trying to get started in wheat growing. Seed from Michigan and Ohio was tried, without success. Then came the Mennonites, German-Russian settlers who brought seed wheat with them which was pro- duced in southern Russia. This seed proved successful. A FRUIT MARKET OPEN TO MICH- IGAN GROWERS. LOWER Peninsula farmers who have fruit to sell might very well give attention to the Upper Peninsula market. This section does not meet its own fruit requirements, and im- ports much fruit from points outside the state. Late in September, Yakima Valley apples were retailing in Mar- quette at $3.00 per box, while Arkan- sas grapes were retailing at thirty—one cents per basket. These western ap- ples are neatly packed in boxes, each apple being carefully wrapped in tis- sue paper, but the apples themselves are not the equal of good Michigan fruit in eating qualities. Apparently large quantities are shipped here each season. The great majority of the people of the Upper Peninsula live in villages and cities, and hence there is a good market for farm products, such as fruit—L. A. C. wANT MICHIGAN-GROWN POTATO ‘ SEED. A MEETING of Michigan State Col- lege Extension Department men and county agricultural agents from the southern counties of the Upper Peninsula was held at Escanaba re- cently for the purpose of discussing a proposition that Upper Peninsula farmers be interested in raising certi- fied seed potatoes for the,southern growers. The subject was raised by a visit to the district of a member of the faculty of Louisiana State Univer- sity who wished to look over- the sit- uation as regards a new source for seed, potatoes for his section. The out- look is reported to have been encour- 'agins. “Bliss Triumph" is the variety wanted The “Bliss Triumph" potato has ‘ been 1ayored here, and it will be free from disease than those grown in Montana and- hence that a g‘oOd southern market will be insured. Time Will tell. —-C. A new alfalfa seeding in Jackson county showed several areas which wereapparently badly diseased, while the rest of the field had a fine healthy growth. Investigation showed that the damage on the. bad spots had been done by white grubs feeding on the roots of the young plants. Before the alfalfa seeding, the field was a timo- thy sod which was plowed in the spring before seeding to alfalfa. The owner of the farm said that fall plow- ing would have'saved a large part of the damage done by the grubs. Sixteen field meetings were held in Eaton county during a soils improve- ment campaign. 'Two hundred and four farmers attended the meetings and tests were made of 346 samples of ”’soil. On these campaigns, an at- tempt is made to interest farmers in using fertilizers .which have an analy- sis that is especially adapted to the special crops or soil types upon the farms owned by them. Sentiment in favor of a county-wide tuberculosis eradication campaign is developing rapidly in St. Clair county. This county sends $1,500,000 worth of whole milk to Detroit each year. COUNTY CROP REPORTS. Osceola Co.——Weather conditions for this county and this season have been above the average year. Hay crop was very good; rye and wheat above the average. Oats on good land was very good, some fields as high as 70 bushels per acre. Pasture is in best of condition. All kinds of stock in finest shape. A big per cent of corn ready to be cut, with a; very good yield; late potatoes are very promis- ing. It is a little too wet for beans and too cold for them‘to ripen. Buck- wheat is doing fine and will be a big drop. Fall apples are plentiful, but no winter apples. There is a big crop of plums, pears and-grapes. About the average acreage of fall grain will be sown. Most farmers satisfied with conditions at this time—A. Z. H Shiawassce Co.—-Farmers are busy harvesting beans. The crop is a little below average yield. Wheat seeding is practically finished. A large acre- age is being seeded than usual. Live stock is in fine condition. Many are cutting their last crop of alfalfa. Farm- ers are holding wheat for higher pric- es. Apples are a good crop—D. M. St. Joseph Co.—The continued wet weather is keeping farmers back with fall work; wheat and rye seeding are about half done; corn cutting is just getting started; silo filling not started yet. Wheat yields 18 bushels; oats he. rye 14 ush sis per; acre; ameadows very green at this time; The aoreage of wheat and rye is 100 per cent of usual fall seeding. Corn not matured, needs dry Weather; potatoes an average crop; dairy business very good. There is some hog cholera. All kinds of stock looking fine. All kinds of fruit very plentiful—H. C. S. Missaukee Co.—Seeding is practical- ly done and about the same acreage is going in as last year. The ground is in good condition for the crop. Thresh- ing is nearly completed. Corn does not mature very rapidly on account of too muchrain. Pastures are excel- lent and hogs are scarce and high. Outsidebuyers have picked up all sur- plus cattle. Dairy cows are especially in demand. Fall apples are plentiful. Dairy cows are especially in demand. Fall apples are plentiful but the win- ter varieties are scarce. Berrien Co.—-—Plowing is completed but seeding has been delayed by wet weather. This year’s crop of wheat about 40 bushels per acre. Meadows are very fine. Corn is maturing a lit- tle later than usual. Potatoes are an average crop. The cold wet weather is keeping grapes and peaches from ripening. Dairying is in a very good condition. The poultry business is also promising—C. C. Oharlevoix Co.—-The condition of fruit and potatoes is good. It is a. little too wet for buckwheat. Mead— ows are good. Corn has been frosted in some places. All live stock is in good conditiwon The acreage of fall grains is about normal. Farmers in general seem pretty well satisfied with the season. Help is a little scarce. The production of small fruits, dairy products, truck crops, poultry and eggs is the general aim of our farmers. —F. Ottawa 'Co.——Seeding is practically done except where farmers are put- ting fall grains in fields after beans. Potatoes promise a good crop. Silo filling has been delayed on account of the late maturing corn crop. Wheat yields in this section we1e not high this year. At present, meadows are in excellent shape, due to the recent rains. Milk prices have advanced a little. Creameries seem to be hard pressed to fill orders for butter. Hogs are scarce and prices satisfactory for those who sell. We have a heavy peach and pear crop. Plums are rot- ting on trees for lack of demand.— F. C H. St. Clair Co.———Seeding is practically completed, and the present order of the day is harvesting the corn crop and filling the silo. Beans are late. Meadows are in excellent condition. The amount of wheat sown is fully up to normal. Corn is a fair crop. Po- tatoes are promising. This far, wet weather has not affected the crops in this locality. .Most of the milk pro‘ duced here is sold in Detroit. 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There are ex- cellent looations where good soil, mild climate. pure water. paying markets, low priced land. good schools churches. and pleasant neighbors offer oppommitim where farming my: and living conditions are pleasant. Learn about the South before you start. Write PRICE. General Immigration Agent. Room 603 South~ ern Railway System. Washington. D. . I FOR SALE BY OWNER—158 acres one mile from Jonesville Hillsdalc 00.. 35 mile oil" Benoit-Chloe“ cement pike Good :01]. good ‘ .‘lcrce fume notion. tenant m 11 mo. mole 011W . orchard, gravel pit, 46- as. .r...‘ rare. ”W." Mat-grass In men. , 7 . . h . 30:40. Ions UNUSUALLY FERTILE, low- priced Sumter County, Georgia, lands. 12 months' growing season, county operated trucks to may consolidated School. paved roads, friendly neighbors; railroad facilities put coun- ty within few homs cxprcssage of six million peeple. Fine for general farming. especially trucking, dairy- ing'. poultry raising. open grazing all year. Average temperature 65. 5 degrees, annual rainfall 48. 57 inches. Americus and Sumter County Chamber of Commerce, 2;); Chambcr of Commerce Building,Ame1-icus, rgia. ‘ flu?- TllllllDlG—io: acrls thing-10 near Johannesburg, Mich” sma mea mar e lures cleared, soil, heavy clay subsoil. good sandy ' Good 4- ~room hous, and other buddings. all nearly new. Value. egg)? $33) cash required. Louis Huber, Johannesburg. FOR SALE—210 acres 4% miles north of St. Job 1 mile from M- 14. Building basement barn, 361%: nearly completed. Large house. splendid pasture with running water. Levi H. Sibley, DeWitt, Mich. GENUINE FARM BARGAINS—~80 acres near Chas~ gglléooMicehléy 32c cleared0 1.11:2 501:) house, barns. Only rms er ar sins. i - man. Hancock, Mich. g chr Bur WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITIES. Southern Georgia farm lands. Write for complete information. Cham- ber Commerce. Quitman. Georgia. ‘" ' WANTED FARVIS [ARMS WANTED—Have number of buyers for Michigan Wisconsin farms. Also those that want to trade eir city buildings for farms. Just send us your and address. Puma: Heudrlcksou. . 1818 Loyola Ave. Chicago. Ill... ’ Die goods now ready ( Monroe. Mich" Wanton—mo 11m from owners! land mm. 1.11 delivai'y. o.naw1ey. Baldwin. wilt 1V. NISCELLANEOUS WOOLENS FOR SALE—Your annual opportunity. For quick disposal. we offer aalesmen' 3 samples of woolen goods. underwear hosiery. blankets. sheep— lined coats. macklnaws, leather vests. etc. at third to half less than regular prices. Our catalog of sum- Scnd for it today. Associated Textiles. Inc. (Cooperative) Successors to Minneapolis ' Woolen Mills 00.. 612-0 lst Ave.. No.. Minneapolis. Minn. . ALL WOOL YARN for sale from manufacture} ‘ at gin-13am. Samples free. H. A. Bartlett. ane. A FARM MACHINERY "s WHY IS THE FERGUSON PLOW attached to the Fordson with two hardened steel pins? Ask your nearest Ford dealer for the answer. PET STOC K FEItRETS—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 C. 0. D. Instruction book free. Levi Farnsworth. New London. Ohio. COONHOUNDS—river—bottom trained, Rcdbones. blaclr and tans, Bluetlcks, Combination Hunters, Champion rabbit hounds. reasonable prices. Trial. Catalogue. photos free. Riverview Kennels, L. J. Adams, Men, Ramsey. IlL COON. SKUN’K, RABBIT and Combination Hounds for sale. None better. Trial given. Sold on time. Lakeland Fur Exchange, Salem, Michigan. FLEMISH GIANT BUCKS—Steel gray and black, 5 and 6 months old. Quality you will appreciate. Priced right. G. E. Sparks, Carson City, Mich. COON, SKUNK, MINK, Opossum. Fox and Rabbit finnds. Ten day trial. Moocasin Kennels. Moecasln. 111015. REGISTERED COLLIE l’UPS—natural heclers. males $10. Silvercrest Kennels, Gladwin, Mich. FOR SALE—White Collie Puppies, farm .bred. at farmer‘s prices. Joe Hegner, Reed City. Mich. SCOTCH COLLIES, 12 champions in pedigree. photos. Cloverleaf Farms. Tiffln, Ohio. RAT TERRIERS. fox terriers. Pete Slater Box L. P. C. Also Illustrated lists 10c. Pana, Ill. SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK PEACH TREES $5.00 PER 100 AND UP. trees $7.50 per 100 and up. direct to planters by freight. parcel post. exprms. Plums, pears, cherries, grapes. nuts. berries. pecans. vmes. Ornamental trees, vines and shrubs. Free cat- alog in colors. Tennessee Nursery 00.. Box 25. (lowland, Tenn. Apple In large or small lots. EXCELLENT HARDY PERENNIAL Price, 12 11lics-of—thc—vallcr, $1.50; 100 garden straw— berry. $1.50; 100 Cuthbert Red Raspberry, 2-yr. plants. $4.50: Blower or Eldorado Blackberry, 250 each. Money with order. William H. Shiek. De- troit, Mich. PLANTS Half FREE—New Catalog hardy fruit trees. shrubs. roses. bulbs, seeds. America's largest departmental nursery. Established 72 years. Stoors & Harrison 00.. Box 103. l’ainesville, Ohio. FOR SATISFACTION INSURANCE buy seed oats. beans. of A. B. Cook. Owosao. Mich. TOBACCO GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing or smoking, 5 lbs, $1. 25: ten, $2; cigars $2 p. 50. Pipe free, pay when received. Farmers’ Union. Max- on Mills. Kentucky. SPECIAL SALE—Homespun tobacco. smoking or chewing. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. four lbs. $1; twelve $2.25. Pipe free. United Farm- ers of Kentucky. Paducah. Ky. HO\IESI’UN TOBACCO GUARANTEED—Chewing. five pounds. $1. 50; ten, $2. 50. Smoking. ten, $1. 50. Pipe free. pay when received. United Farmers‘ Bard- Well. Kentucky. POULTRY 6000 PULLETS now ready for shipment. whicely ma- tured. 10 weeks old, for $1 00 each. 12m 14 weeks old. for $1.25 each. All our pullets are from 2 year old State Accredited Hem. Big English Type. Please order from this ad. No discount on large orders. Knoll's Hatchciy, Holland. Mich. WHITE LEGHORN HENS AND MALES now half price. Thousands of laying Pullcts. Big discount on spring Chicks and Eggs. Trapnested. pedigreed foun- dation Stork. egg bred 26 years. Winners at 16 em: contests. Catalog and special price bulletin free. I ship C. O. D. and guarantee satisfaction. George B. Ferris, 934 Union. Grand Rapids, Michigan. TURKEYS. GEESE. DU(‘l\'S~-Lnrgo bcautiful Bronze Turkeys, White Embdcn Geese, heavy long and deep body White Pckin ducks. White Rock Cockarels. Exceptionally fine stock. and satisfaction guaranteed. State Farms Association, Knlamazog Mich. PARKS BRED TO LAY Barred Plymouth Rock Cock- srels from pedigreed strxk, $3 00 and $5. 00 each. Clinton Famam. Fremont, Michigan. WHITE VVYAN'DOTTES~Choice husky quality breed ing corkerels now ready for shipment. Fred Berlin, Allen, Mich IANCONA COCKERELB—pure breed from heavy luy< ing strain. George Neiman. R. No. 3. Wayne. Mich. BRIGHT ANCONA COCKERELSr—Shepard Strait: $2.00 each. L. E. Magruder. Coleman. Mich. HELP WANTED ' DRIVER SALESMAN—23 to 35 years us. nem employment: good future. Write us if inm~ gang. Belle Isle Creamery. 3600 Forest 13.. Detroit. c . AGENTS WANTED SALESMEN A'l‘l‘ENTION——Many of our salesmen are receiving weekly commission checks from $50.00 to $125.00 sellixmgour 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 Nutm. Sales Dept. AGENTS—Our New Household Cleaning Device m as and dries windows. sweeps. cleans walls. mops. Costa lBeu than Ovu- half . wt. {VI-lie Harper-B ruahWorkc. 173 am Std swoon. ows. . W851) DAT mm "m. .Botgulocl 18. New haven."01° JBooklcfreet Harmony, O :le ,. .9 ‘ e HERE’S a reason for the peculiar, yet pleas- ing shape of the Maytag cast-aluminum tub. It was scientifically planned so that, in combination with the gym- tator it would create a highly _ turbulent water action in .every inch of the tub all the time. There is never any lazy water nor idle suds in the Maytag Tub and that is one reason that it washes . faster, cleaner and easier. The Maytag is the only ' washer with a cast-aluminum ,tub. The Maytag tub keeps ithe water hot for an entire washing, and it is all washing space —— holds four gallons ( more than other washers. This cast-aluminum tub will not rust, rot, warp, split, crack, swell, shrink nor cor- rode. It cleans itself in thirty seconds after the washing is done. Deferred Payments You’ It Never Miss Hmmm K , KWQJK—é/ learmm”imminent For homes with electricity, the Maytag is available with electric motor Maui-Motor For homes without electricity,‘ the Maytag 1s equipped/with the Maytag Multi-Motor—a sim-' ple, powerful, smooth- -running little gasoline engine that starts with a thrust of the foot lever and does a big washing on a few cents worth of gasoline. For homes with electricity, the Maytag is equipped with standard electric motor. Learn the Facts by a FREE TRIAL The Maytag must sell itself to you by the way it performs in your own home. That is the Way Maytag washers are bought and one out of three machines bought today IS a Maytag. Phone or Write any dealer listed below. Get a Maytag for a week’s washing without obligation. Try it on your most difficult Washing. If it doesn’t sell itself. don’t keep ' it. \‘THE MAYTAG COMPANY, Newton. Iowa INDIANAPOLIS BRANCH; 923 North Capital Ave., INDIANAPOLIS. IND. Call one of the authorized Maytag dealers listed below: .10-20 Town (Michigan Dealer Adrian Wilcox Hdwe. Co. Alabaster ......... D. E. Christensen Albion .......... .. ....... Albion Maytag 00. Allogan ........ . .......... Vos Electric Co. Algonzw .................... C. F. Bertrand Alma. ............ .. ..... Alma Maytag Co. Almont ................ Pollard Hdwe. Co. Alpena ......... J. A. Smith Ann Arbor .......... Ann Arbor Maytag Co. Armada ............... Russell J. Lawrence Bad Axe ...................... Slack Bros. Bangor ................ J. G. Miller & Son Battle Creek ...... Battle Crrek Maytag Co. Bay City ....... ...... Bay City Maytag Co. Beaverton A. '1‘. Brown. Jr. Belding ...... ......... Brown—Hall Co. Belleyillo ...... . ............... John E. Rice Bcllevuo .......Z..... ........ Will C. Dyer Benton Harbor . ......... Cutler & Down" a Bessemer Maytag Sales Co. Big Rapids .......... J. R. Bennett & Son Birmingham ........ Hawthorne Electric Co. Blanchard ................... N. C. Mason Brighton n...” ...... Goo. B. Ralz & Son Bfitton .................. Alexander Gibson Bronson ........ . ............ Warner Brothers Brown City .................... Lorn Koyl Buchanan ........... Hamilton & Anderson Burnips ................. John Hoeksema Cadillac ..............Webbe-r-Ashworlh Co. Caledonia ...... . ...... Werner & Clemens Calumet ................... (‘ arpcntor' s Store (‘apan ............. ..... Capao Maytag Co. Carleton .................... E. W. Hartsig Caro ....................... Fred J. Purdy ('arson City ........ Community Power -Co. ,(‘assopolis ............ Hamilton & Anderson (‘edar Springs ................ John Buecus (‘enterline ............... Rinke Hdwe. Co. (‘enterville ............. Forbes Maytag Co. Charlotte .............. Mate Furniture Co. (‘harlolte ............ Charlotte Maytag Co. Cheboygan ...... Michigan Public Service Co. (‘hclsca ............. Chelsea. Hardware Co. ('llCSltnlllL‘,’ .......... Chesaning Electric Co. Clare ............ Clare Hdwe. & Ilet. Co. i‘oldwator .......... G. W. Harding & Son Coloma ......... . ...... Coloma. Hdwe Co. Covert, ................... E. C Vanderboegh (‘oopersville ............ Durham Hdwe. Co. Croswcll ...................... C W. Lindke Dearborn ....IIIIIIIZ'iéédér’rdbr—r' Hdwe Co. Decatur ................ H. C. Waters & Co Declacrv'llle .......... Stoutenburg Jo Wilson Detroit ................ Detroit Maytag Co. Dowagiac ........... Hamilton & Anderson Drayton Plains .......... Noble N. Phelps Dundee .................... Cauchie & Gray Durand ...... Huh. Elec. Heat 8: Plbg. Co. Eaton Rapids .......... Bromeling & Pettit Edmore ............... Edmore H. &. I. Co. ................. Elkton Hdwe. Co. ale ..................... M. E. Williams Escmba ....... ... Escanaba Maytag Store ~ IF IT DOESN’T SELL Town Michigan Dealer Town Michigan Dealer Evert .......... ......... W. B. Orr Kalamazoo ..... "Kalamazoo Maytag Company Fairchild ............ Fairchild Gen. Store Lake Linden mum-“Pearce H. 1: F- 00- Farmington .......... N. J_ Elsenlord 8; 501! Lakeview .._..... ............... G. E. Wood Fenton ........... E. A. Lockwood L'Anse 3933884 County Hdwe. 00. Flat Rock ............ ' ........ M. F. Keenan Lanai“ ~ ----- Lansing Mum“ ’C°° Flint ................ The Flint Maytag Co. “We" Lam Hdwe- C°' Flushing . ................. James B. French 3mm“ """""" J' Thompson “d Son Fennvillo .............. Dickinson Bros. I “L'antm Schwm Fowlerville ............ Will Sidell & Son icon“ """ """ m Hdwa 00' Frankcnmuth .............. A. Nuechterlein Llnden “"""""""""' M' W‘ JOhnsm Fraser ............... Arthur H. Schneider Linwood ...... ....... T. J. Wright Fremont .............. Henry VanTatenhove L in _____ .. ..... ’ Gaylord ........ Michigan Public Service 00. 1.95.531; ........ Somali; Bflfiflg ((33% Gladstone ................... Enckeye Store ‘ Manchester ...... ..... Fred G Houcli Grand Haven.... Grand Hater} Maytag 00- Manistee ........ ..... . Win-ran A: Graves Grand Lodge ...... Grand Ledge Maytag Co Marine City ........ ..'..'.... A. J. Rochon Grand Marais... ........... R E. Schneider Marlette ....... ..... A. R. Schlichter Grand Rapids . Grand Rapids Maytaz Co Marquette ............ Kelly Hdwe. Co. Grayling .......... Grsyllns Electric Company Marshall ........ The Albion Maytag Company Greenville ................. Brown-Hall Co. Maybee ,, ,,,,,,,,,, c, & a, Hochradel Hale ........................ Nunn's Hdwe. Memll ,,,,,,, Alex MlDonald Hamilton ................. Harry J. Lampen Midland ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, H C Eastman Ham-,Ock Pearce Hdwe. a; Furn. Co. Ltd. Midland. Maytag Multi- Motor Sales Co. Hanmer ..................... Butters Brothers Milan ........ God 5 & Norcross Harbor Beach .............. William Glass Milford . ,. ,,,,,,, Reid Hdwe. Co. Hart ....................... R. J. Wietzke Minington , Fred B. Wills 5; Co. Hartford ............ J. W. Walker Hdwo. Mlnden City , ...... Frank E. Manon Hastings ............. Miller Furniture Co. Mio ,,,,,,,, 'Orvin Kurtz Hemlock ........... . ......... J. E. Fuller Monroe ,Mom Maytag Co Hermansville .............. Wmdt & Bartl Monroe.. ...... _ 11‘, Schmidt Hespcria ............. Husband & Anderson , Monme .................. J 1r, Myers Hillsdale .............. Hillsdsle Maytag Co. Mt. Clemens ,,,,,,,, Mt. Clemens LIaytag Co Holland .............. DeVries & Domboe Mt. Pleasant, Mt. Pleasant H. & 1“. Co. Homer .............. Albion Maytag Store Munising ,__ , Munising Hdwe, Co_ Hopkins ................. Vern A. Washburn Muskegon .. .N. G Vandal-Linda Houshton...Pe—a.rce Hdwe. & Furn. Co. Ltd. Nahma Bay Denoquot Co Howell .................. Charles H. Sutton Nashville . red K, Bullis Hudson ...... .. ...... H. T. Dillon & Co. Niles ........ Hamilton & Anderson Ida. ....... . ...... N. A. Welpert and Sons North Branch ..Dan'l On- & Sons lmlay City ................... R. N. Courier Olivet ....... .. M. D. Burkhead lonia ............ .. ........ Ionia. Maytag Co. Ousted ..... Clancy Brosp Iron Mountain .......... Northern Sales Co. Ontonagon . ..Poarce Hdwe. a Film. '00. Iron River ...... Iron Range Lt. & Pr. Co. Otisville Parker Hdwe. Co. Ironwood ................ Maytag Sales Co. Otsego . . The Jones Hdwe lshpeming .............. William Leininsu' Ovid Marshall a Olson Ithaca ........................ C. 0. Oslo Owosso ......... The Owosso Maytag 00'!an Jackson ................ Jackson Maytag Co. Oxford .............. Johnson Hdwe. Co. fllummum Washer Town Michigan Dealer ParmaGeo W. Hunn Paw Paw .............- H. C. Waters & Co. Perry .... Rann & Hart Perrington.................... ..E. 11. Lucas Petersburg ......... .A. C. Gradolph & Son Petoskey ..........A. Focbtman Dept. Store Pigeon.............,........ J). Paul a Son -Plyrnouth...............Conner Hardware Co." Pontiac ................ Pontiac Maytag Cb.‘ Port Hope............... ..... Eagle & Smith ,. Port Huron ........ Port Huron Maytag Co. Port Huron ....... .W. P. Smith Hdwe Co. Potter-vine B J. Fowler Pralrieville .................. F. J. Hughes Redford ................ C. K. Krugler Co. Reed City Barn '1'. Johnson~ ‘ Remus .................. ...... E. A. Walsh Richmond .0 W. Baler Riverdale.......................R. E. Moblo Rochester...........'.l‘he Geo. Burr Hardware Romeo............ ....... ....W. Geo. Smith Rothbury ............ H. 1?.wa Royal .0ak.......Lawson Lumber & Coal Co. .St. Charles............Thorsby Furniture Co. St. Clair .............. E. S. Hart. St. Johns .. ...... St. Johns Electric Shop St. Louis ..... ............. Ray .1. Corey Saginaw Saginaw Maytag Co. Sandusky ............. Otis Hdwe. Co. Sault Sainte Marie . ..... (30on 3; Burns Sebewalnz ...... ........ J. C. Liken a Ca Shelby ...................... A J. Rankin Shepherd ................... H. Barnes 8. Haven ..Merso us Furn. a Music Store 8. Rookwood .. . .. .......... John Strong Co. Sparta. ........ .. ...... J. C. Ballard a Co. Stanton ..... . . ..... . ......... Glen Gardner Sturgis ........... . . . .. . Forbes Marisa Co. Tawas City ............... Fred Luedtko Tecumseh .............Baldwln Hardware Co. Temperance .......... .......... R W. Brunt Three Rivers . .Forbes Maytag Co. Traverse City Wilson Furniture 00. Trento Trentongardam Co. ..... er -.....----.n. choc-Io anoIIIouonololo Waldenburg . ...... Wal aldron ...... alooololooo-oll , . J. Walled Lake .. ............ Frank S. Nook Waltz ..... ....................Krsyazke Brno- Wm” ...... ..... . Fred Lats w—a :i ~ .,,.,, ""f."f‘m"v"I-“"'