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ample Number 4738





DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, NOVEMBERo, 1926





 





ONE YEAR 81.00

FIVE YEARS 83.00





 





The Danes Peint the Way





To a System tfldt Give: Agriculture It: Rzgétfu/ Place in the Natzwm/ Economy

By Frank O. Lowden‘





IKE everyone who is interested

L in agriculture, I had heard much

and read much of the Danish

farmers, and I was curious td see

what they had accomplished For that

purpose I recently spent some time in

Denmark. I there visited small farms,

middle sized farms, and large farms.

Iltalked with farmers in their homes.

I inspected cooperative creameries and

cooperative packing houses. I visited

the Royal Agricultural College at Cop-

enhagen and the Dalum Agricultural

Sfchool, one of the numerous agricul-

tural schoOls scattered over the coun-

try. I also visited two of their famous

“Folk High Schools.” 1 motored over

the. Kingdom from one end to the

other.

In this and two succeeding articles

Ishall attempt to give the impressions

lireceived which seem to me to have





a; bearing upon our own agricultural





problems. Of course, I shall not at-

tempt to give in detail the story of

Denmark’s agricultural progress. This

has been done better by others than I

can do it. My purpose is simply to

tell those things which I have seen

with my own eyes, from which we

may profit if we will.



‘_ In all ages and in all countries the

agricultural problem has been an im-

portant one. The history of civiliza-

tion seems to run something like this:

an agriculture more or less primitive,

oilt of which towns and cities arise to

serve the needs of the rural popula-

tion;

grow, commerce with other nations.

Manufacturing follows. Finally urban

life becomes so attractive and so prof-

itable as to imperil agriculture.

There usually has developed an uncon-

scious struggle between the dwellers

in the towns and cities on the one

hand, and those who live in the coun-

try on the other, as to which shall sur-

vive. In the long story of agriculture,





 





‘Da'nish Farming Centers Around Good





Cows.





rural civilization has gone down

before the growing strength'of the ur-

ban forces.~



Denmark is chiefly interesting tome

because it is the most notable excep-

tion to this general rule of which I

kn0w.' As late as 1788, or about the





.time our Constitutional Convention





 





was in se s’ion in Philadelphia, those

I” tilled th . and Were largely serfs.

on was abolished





later as the, towns and cities





The majority of the farmers of Den-

mark today are descendants of those

serfs. And yet they have reached a

higher degree of economic independ—

ence and are better educated as a

whole, than any other farmers in the

world. It is the most inspiring chap-

ter of which I know in the history of

agriculture. And that is why I am

telling you of some of the things

which I think have been responsible

for bringing this about. .



The soil in Denmark as compared

with our own is very ordinary indeed.

They have no lands

naturally as rich as

the great body of

land now being

farmed in the Unit-

ed States. This

land has been cul-

tivated for centur-

ies. In 1864 they

lost the provinces

of Schleswig and

Holstein to Ger-

many. Those prov- "

inces contained

some of their best

land. In addition,

Germany, which

had been Den-

mark’s best market

for her agricultural

products, practical-

ly closed that mar-

ket by high tariff

duties and embar-

goes. It was a dark,

hour indeed for Denmark. Out of the

despair of her people grew the determ—

ination to repair her losses by a unit-

ed effort of her people to make the

best, use possible of her remaining

acres. She could not act unitedly or

effectively, she found, except through

organizaiton of her producers.





‘This conviction was the real begin—

ning of the cooperative movement in

Denmark. It was not, however, until

1882, that the first cooperative cream-

ery was there established. A few

years before, the cream separator had

been invented, following which. cream-

eries operated by private capital had

been set up. Most of these, however,

had failed. It then occurred to the

farmers about Hjedding to take into

their own hands the manufacture and

marketing of their butter. The Hjed—

ding Cooperative Dairy at once real-

ized a good price for its butter. It

created a sensation; many farmers

came to see it.



The organization of other coopera-

tive creameries in Denmark rapidly

followed. Before the establishment of

the cooperatives, farmers generally re-

ceived for their butter twenty—five per

cent less than the price obtained by

the Ownersof the large estates. It

was not long after the establishment





 





Governor Lowden Addresses Mich-

igan Farmers.





of the first cooperative, however, until

the butter made by the cooperatives

brought even a better price than the

large estates received. In other words,

the cooperatives cancelled this differ-

ence of twenty-five per cent and ad-

ded something besides. The lesson

the small and middle sized farmers

learned from this was that through

union they became more powerful

than even the owners of princely es-

tates. Indeed, so successful were the

cooperative dairies that many of the

owners of large estates closed their

private dairies and

became a part of

t h e cooperative

movement.



I had been told

all this before my

visit to Denmark,

and I wanted to

know just how this

result had come

about. And so I

visited a typical co-

operative cream-

ery. It was a most

interesting experi:

ence. Each mem-

ber has one vote,

no matter how

many cows he has.

The members elect

a committee and

they appoint a

manager. The man-

ager in this case

was A. Larsen, who

had been such for twentysfive years.

I found generally that changes in the

management of cooperatives occur no

more frequently than in private indus-

try. This is significant, for it shows

that the “one man one vote” principle

is as efficient in securing competent

management as the principle employ—

ed in corporate enterprises.



The dairy itself is a substantial

brick building which has been paid

for out of earnings and is now owned

by the members. The equipment of

the dairy is modern and complete and

everything about it is perfectly clean

and in order. The milk is collected

daily. It is first examined as to clean-

liness and a bacterial count is made,

much the same as we do in this coun-

try for certified milk. It is also tested

or butter-fat and is paid for accord-

ing to both butter-fat and purity. After

inspecting this plant it was easy to

understand why the cooperatives had

greatly increased the price of butter.

For they had improved its quality.

They have a modern plant. They have

efficient and expert management and

they make it to the interest of the

farmer to produce clean, wholesome

milk.





In the Danish cooperative creamer-

ies they determine from time to time





the value of the skim-milk. Any mem-

ber may take as much or as little of

this as he pleases, at the price de-

termined upon, provided there is

enough to supply all demands. This

skim-milk is consumed largely in feed—

ing their hogs. If all the skim-milk

is not taken from any cooperative, the

balance is made into cheese. There is

thus no waste in the creamery. Skim“

milk is an important item of feed in

their pork production. Therefore, as

the cooperatives grew in number and

in volume of milk handled, the pork

industry also grew.



Some of the cooperatives sell their

butter directly to the dealer, some to

private wholesalers, but an increasing

number of the cooperatives are selling

their butter through what they call

butter export associations, which are

federations of cooperative creameries.

These export associations are in turn

federated into what is called the Fed~

erated Danish Cooperative Butter EX- .

port Association. This association now

handles about forty per cent of all the

butter manufactured by the coopera-

tives. At this point it might be well

to state that the cooperatives manu-

facture ninety per cent of all the but-

ter made in Denmark, and well over

eighty per cent of the pork products.



The method by which the price is

reached is an interesting one. There

is a committee of the producers and

another of the merchants, who are ap-

pointed for the purpose of determin—

ing a fair price for butter during the

ensuing week. This is known as the

Copenhagen Quotation. While the fair

price is determined upon the joint ac—

tion of the producers and the mer-

chants, it was diflicult in practice to

maintain this price until the federated

export association was formed. Since





 





 





The Hog Also Brings in a Large Share

of the Income.





then, however, the price thus deter-

mined upon has been maintained.



It seems to me that this is the cor~

rect method for determining the price

of any farm product. If the farmers

were generally organized, it would be

possible for them to employ this meth-

od and we would then have genuine

collective bargaining in place of the'

method which obtains today. As it is, .

no one consults the producer about his



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QUIRMING corn borers were hunt-

‘ed to their lairs by five hundred

,Mi'chigan farmers, who recently

gathered at the sub-station at Monroe

to learn more about the pest. Armed

with knives, the farmers

marched tdl the cornfields and cut

stalks asunder to see how this “worm”

worked, and what he looked like.





. They were able to see, for the borers





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were present in great numbers. One

field inspected had been completely

destroyed by the pest.



This “corn borer day” was staged by

Michigan. State College, the experi«

ment station, and the State Depart-

ment of Agriculture, to give the visit-

ors a better understanding of the corn

borer situation. A short program was

arrangedby Professor Cox, of Michi-

gan State College. Practically every

speaker urged that the borer be de-

stroyed by either fermentation or me’

chanical means.



The corn borer may be brought un-

der control by putting the corn into

the silo. Here fermentation destroys

him, For this 9 reason, farmers are

having less trouble with this insect in

dairy districts where silos are found

on most of the farms, than in sections

having few or none.



Shredding also serves to keep down

this pest. Here the borer is destroyed

by mechanical means, the farmers

were told. In cutting and mutilating

the stalks, over ninety per cent of the

borers are killed, where the shredding

is properly done.



The fermentation of the corn refuse





briskly _





 





 





While Burning the Stubble is an Effective Method of Destroying Borers,





 





it





is Expensive and Requires Special Equipment.





in manure piles about the barn gives

results when well done. Farmers

were warned, however, of the need for

care in handling the stalk by this

method. It is necessary that they be

thoroughly covered and kept sufficient-

ly moist to bring about proper fer-

mentation, or no good will" result.

Stalks allowed to dry out by laying on

or about the edges of the manure pile

make ideal winter homes for the pest.





Another means, and a most effi-

cient, but often difficult one when

properly done, is the burning of the

corn refuse. None of the borers will

escape this treatment when care is

taken in giving it. Burning should be

done, according to a representative of

the department of agriculture, not lat-

er than May 25. It is wise to plan





on burning the stalks much earlier

than this date, since there are chances

that inclement weather may interfere

and prevent the work being done suc-

cessfully before the borers change to

moths.





These are the more important con-

trol methods used in handling the

cornstalks. There still remains the

corn stubble or uncut fields, where a

considerable number of borers will

winter. These fields may be plowed

late in the fall. In doing this, a wide-

bottom plow with a chain or wire to

aid in burying all of the stalks, gives

best results. A clean job must be

done, and the cornstalks should be

kept down during the after-cultivation.

This is a most essential matter, since

the borers come to the surface of the





ground, after the stalks in which they

lived had been covered in plowing.

They die, however,‘ by not being able '





to find vegetable material in which to

tunnel. Being exposed, they succumb

to birds, beetles, ants, parasites, or to

the elements. It has been determined

that as high as ninetyseven per cent





of the borers may be killed in this

manner.

Another means of destroying the





borers, remaining in the corn stubble,

is by using the stubble >‘natterer. This

is a new machine just brought out by

farm machinery manufacturers. A set

of knives revolving on an axle at a

speed of 1,800 revolutions per minute

is carried over each row of stubbles.

These knives, which are not damaged

by stones, completely shatter the stub-

ble so that practically every borer livm

ing therein is destroyed. This ma

chine, which may be used during fall,

winter or spring, leatv-s the ground in

excellent condition for plowing or disc—

ing. Farmers remarked that it would

be most useful for this purpose alone.



These were the practical plans of-

fered to this gathering oi farmers for

the control of the corn borer. The

hope was expressed that farmers gen-

erally would immediately adopt these

practices on their farms. When the

borer becomes more plentiful in our

state, as it is certain to be, then com-

pulsory methods of cleaning up the

cornfields will be neceesary. Until

then, much good will come from farm-

ers diligently following methods that

tend to destroy the pest.





Two Blades of Grass Better Than One





, Another Angle of Me Soil Forli/z'ly Proo/em

By I. R. Waterbury





N considering the trite and well-

I worn proverb that “The man who



makes two blades of grass grow

where but one grew before is a public

benefactor,” I am reminded of a re-

mark made by a thoughtful friend last

year, when the conversation turned on

the much mooted question of evolu-

tion. This remark was to the effect

that if Darwin had, in the exploitation

of his theory, dwelt on the ascent of

man, rather than the descent of man,

the public would have taken to it more-

kindly. '



Be that as it may, there was psy-

chology in his point of View which

applies to the question under discus-

sion. This is a selfish world, and few

of us are anxious to become public

benefactors at great cost to ourselves.

Let us,»then, consider the question

from a selfish, rather than a public

standpoint, and see what answer we

get.



I will assume, for the purpose of

this analysis, that the reader is con-

vinced that my argument for the lib-

eral use of leguminous crops for green

manure as a means of increasing the

fertility of Michigan soils is sound,

but questions the wisdom of the gen-

eral adoption of the plan because of

the danger of over—production and a

lowering of prices which would leave

us no better off than we now are. This

is a legitimate point of ,view, since it

is a well known fact that a crop which

greatly exceeds normal consumption

demands, often brings the growers

less than a much smaller crop.



Unfortunately, perhaps, we have no

adequate method of controlling the

acreage planted to any crop, and no

influence at' all in controlling the

weather conditions, which are such a

vital factor in determining total" crop

yields. Also, we must consider the

fact that, the individual farmer, or





even Michigan farmers in the aggre-

gate, must ever remain a small factor

in total crop acreage or yield in any

given season. We are in competition

with the whole of this big country in

all lines of production, and with the

world in many lines. In other words,

our business is a highly competitive

one, and any worth-while success in

it must be based on efficiency in pro-

duction which is above, rather than

below, the general economic average.





Production vs. Marketing.



Of late we have been devoting an

increased degree of attention to great-

er efficiency in marketing. This is a

long step in the right direction, the

greatest benefit of which to date has

been to emphasize the importance of

quality in our products, if we are to

extend our profitable market for them





in competition with other producers.

No little progress has been made along

this line, yet we are still far from the

goal of established supremacy for our

products in any line. But here again

we get right back to the “Two blades

of grass.” Quality is a production

problem, and in the last analysis a

soil fertility problem as well.





Let us take a specific example. Po-

tatoes will perhaps best serve the pur-

pose of this discussion for several rea-

sons. The potato cropis an important

cash crop in this state. For the most

part it is grown on our lighter soils

which, as a class, are sorely in need

of rejuvenation, which can be practi-

cally accomplished only by the green

manure route. Michigan is normally

third or fourth among the states in

production of potatoes, but in normal





 





 





 





 





 





Before Eliminating Corn From Our Crop Rotation, we Learned that Our

improved Soil Would Produce Bumper Corn Crops.





seasons her production of around 35,-

000,000 bushels is only seven or eight

per cent of the country's total crop.



Let us take a look a: our competi-

tion in the production of this crop.

In terms of five-year averages every

one of the half-dozen other potato-pro-

ducing states in or above the 20,000,-

000-bushel class are above us in per

acre yield of this crop, one of them

with more than double our average

yield. This happens to be the state

of Maine, where green manuring has

been largely practiced and where more

than one-third of the improved land

is occupied by clover and other leg-

umes, which is several times the per-

centage in Michigan.



Let us put this comparison in terms

of acres and bushels, taking 1924,

when Michigan had a record average

potato yield. In that year Michigan

had 292,000 acres of potatoes, with a

total yield of 38,252,000 bushels, while.

Maine had 135,000 acres, with a total

yield of 41,175,000 bushels. Reduced

to terms of acre income, this compar-

ison is even more startling than it is

in terms of comparative yield. Fig-

ured at the estimated farm value on

December 1, as given in the year book

of the U. S. Department of Agricul-

ture, the aggregate for the potato

growers of Maine was $17,705,000, or

a littm more than $l3l per acre, while

the aggregate for Michigan was $13,—

388,000, or a little less than $46 per

acre. What is true of Maine is true,

in less degree, of all the other import-

ant potato-producing states in or above

the 20,000,000-bushel class, including

one southern state in which produc-

tion is confined entirely to early varie-

ties. Nor is that the whole story. In

a recent five-year average, Michigan

was thirtieth among all the states in

per acre yield.



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VOLUME CLXVH NUMBER NINETIEN





DETROIT, NOEV. 76,77,1926 ‘

CURRENT COMMENT





HE discussion of

The the general agri-

cultural situation and

Farm the various proposals

Program for farm relief legis-

lation has had the

very natural result of putting the ques-

tion of the individual farm program

in the background. There. is a-rather

general assumption that the business

of farming is about as efficiently con-

ducted as any other line of business,

and that general relief through some

form of government action is essen-

tial to the maintenance of a profitable

agriculture. There are rather wide dif-

ferences of opinion among agricultural

leaders as to the particular remedy

which should be appliedfbut there is

no such handicap inthccstablishmcnt

of an individual farm program.



Great as may be the need of a na-

tional agricultural policy, the estab-

lishment of such a. policy along any of

the lines proposed would not solve all

of the individual farmer’s economic

problems. Then, as now. farm pros—

perity would be a relative term, evi—

dent in varying degrees on the farms

of any and every community. Then,

as now, economic production would be

the equation by which the relative

prosperity of the farmers of any com-

munity would be lileasurcd.



The individual farm prografi is an

even more important consideration to

the average Michigan farmer than is

the national farm policy. It is some--

thing for which he does not need to

wait, which he can figure out and in-

augurate for himself. First of all, that

program should provide for the im-

mediate needs of the farm family to

the fullest possible extent. Next, it

should provide for an increased store

of fertility in the land itself to be

drawn upon for still more economic

production in future years. This can,

in most cases, be economically accom-





 





 





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plished only by making legumlnbus

crops, such as red clover, alfalfa and





. sweet clover a larger factor in the pro-





duction program; and by their liberal

uSe as green manure crops.



Other factors being equal, the farm-

er who has a definite program, which

includes increased fertility of his soil,

will be more prosperous than his

neighbors who have no such definite





program, since this is the greatest

single factor in economic production.

RECENT report



Need from the interior

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For Con- woman in Brockwater

sistency county, Montana, who





during a recent earth—

quake, laid down her baby, which she

had been holding, and picked up a cat

as she made her way to the open. '

That was a most ridiculous thing to

do. But many of us do things that are

ridiculous. Last summer we saw a

man applying fertilizer to soil that

contained only a trace of humus. An-

other neighbor was using fertilizer on

soil that had neither artificial nor nat-

ural drainage. We saw a fine stone

arch in front of a farm home where

the grass was unkept, weeds had filled

every corner, and rubbish of every de-

scription was scattered about. On an

other occasion, a farmer was seen

sowing inferior seed on a field where

a great deal of care had been exercis-

ed in fitting the soil. Just the other

day a. man was trying to locate a qual—

ity market for some very ordinary p0-

tatoes.

it would not be difficult to extend

the list of inconsistencies. Now, in

the farming business, one big element

that leads to succcss is to be consist-

ent. Growing crops and feeding live

stock require that. we give proper at-

tention to every detail. Overlooking

a single important factor is pretty cer-

tain to take away all the profit.





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Pains to which we should

expose ourselves free-

ly. Undoubtedly the best way to be-

come exposed is to buy or borrow a

good book and read it—read it from

“kivcr to kiver.” The resulting intel-

lectual growing pains will prove to be

a splendid reactionary treatment

against that out-of—tunc feeling, and

approaching old age, with its possibil‘

itics of lonesomeness and rheumatism.

A good book is. far better as a precair

tion against blues than any number of

salt: baths.



There was a time in this country

when a man scarcely dared to admit:

that in» liked books. Men were not

supposed to be intellectual. That was

left to the women. But: thanks to the

evolution of education, all that has

been changed changed to the extent

that, certain educational officials and

agencies, cooperating together, have

announced a National Education

\Yeek, November 7-13.





 





The week affords a most excellent

opportunity to buy or borrow a good

book and expose ourselves to those

intellectual growing pains. If possi«

ble, the whole family might be expos-

ed, and if other good books are chosen

regularly. the ailment might become

so deepseated that there would be no

cure for it, but other new books, pro-

cured regularly, would afford tempor-

ary relief.





HERE has been





A Fun- considerable ado



about grain trading,

damerrtal as carried on at the

Solution Board of Trade in





Chicago, and «other

similar markets. Especially has the

trading in futures been the subject of

attack.



Due to these attacks, the Federal

Trade Commission made a thorough

investigation of this system of trading





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and found that while future, trading





cost between twenty and twenty-five

million dollars a year in commissions,





.it performed a service in stimulating





competition among buyers which was

fully commensurate with its cost.



It found also, that speculation'in

grains affected no stabilization in

grain prices, nor did it make grain

prices less stable. It believed, with

proper supervision, this system of mar

keting was not detrimental to the

farmer.



When things are not going right, we

are prone to lay it to some outside

cause. That is a human tendency not

confined to farmers alone. But the

handicaps of agriculture have been

blamed on the middleman and every-

body outside of farming. '



In the past generation, coOperative

marketing was propounded as the

cure-all of the farmers’ ills, but we

have cooperation now in varying de-

grees of success, and still we have

problems. Various farmer-movements,

extensive and intensive, have as yet

failed to bring full relief.





Because of all these experiences,

thinking farmers are coming to the

realization that the ,p‘ factor inflthe

solution of thefii’h‘i 'pro‘blem islljon

the farm itself, chiefly through eco-

nomic produc‘ion.‘ Leg’slation, cooper-

ation aid-ems: outside aids, may at-

ford some help, u't these will be only

contributary in placing the farm on

its proper level.





HE deliberate un-

Danger to der-feeding which

the girls and young

Future women of today are

Generations practicing for the pur‘

pose of acquiring the

longed-for slender and boyish figure,

is becoming a menace, not. only to the

present, but also to future genera-

tions,” according to Dr. W'oods Hutch-

inson, in one of the widely-read mag—

azines.





It is a. recognized fact that girls and

young women always have a keen in-

stinct to follow style. When spike-

heels are in vogue, comfort is cast to

the winds, and spike heels are worn.

If they must be slender to be stylish

they cut nourishing food to a minimum

in order to lose a few pounds of avoir-

dupois. Vi'e might, then, put the ques-

tion, how are we to avoid this men-

ace to health?



if someone would come along with

a well-rounded program for selling nu-

trition to the younger generation, it

would be most timely.





The General Federation of \N’omen’s

Clubs has recently gone on record in

opposition to unwise dieting and the

dangers of reducing weight by self-

prescribed dieting. Its three million

members are bound to have a wide—

spread influence on this health ques-

tion.





'lut there is a chance here for

granges, community clubs, parent;-





teacher associations, and rural recrea-

tion clubs when planning their winter

programs, to do some good work to-

ward a. worthy cause.





Y the constant ef«





Become forts of public-

minded people, we



Tree- have, to a great ex-

Mlnded tent, come to the re-





alization that much of

our land, unfit for farming, should be

put back into trees. Certainly, in our

state, we are becoming, and have great

opportunities to ' become, forestry-

minded.





There is little excuse fo.r any land

not being put to a useful purpose, and

a. drive about the state convinces one

that there is much land which once

grew trees. well, that should grow

them again, because it can grow them

better than it can anything else.



Perhaps all of us can visualize that

the great public domains in this state

will be covered with forests in the fu-

ture, but we still lack evidence of ,local





public” effort in the use of trees for





beauty, as well as for utility.





Many a country schoolhouse stands

in bleak desolation that in time could

be made a beauty spot through the ef«

forts of some public-spirited teacher,

or local citizen. A dozen or so stu-

dents would be glad to take a day or

two to‘plant trees about the school

grounds, and to follow up under compe~

tent direction, with the necessary

care during the early life of the trees.





There may be some excuse for the

bleak conditions of the p airie sections

of, our country, but certainly there is

no excuse for anything of that kind in

Michigan, where trees grow so easily.



Shenstone has well said, “The works

of a person that builds begin immedi-

ately to decay, while those of him who

plants begin directly to improve. In

this, planting promises a more lasting

pleasure than building; which, were it

to remain in equal perfection, would

at least begin to moulder and want

repairs in imagination. Now, trees

have a circumstance that suits our

taste, and that is annual variety.”





During the coming winter months

when community meetings are likely

to prevail, we hope that Rees will 9

given due consideration when the im-

provement of the community is being

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goin’ ta talk pollyticks. You see,

if I talked pollyticks before electshun.

you’d think I was runnin’ for office.“

but feeling like I do now days

I wouldn’t run fer nobody nor nothin’.

If I can’t get a offuce without runnin’

fer it, I don't want it.



Pollyticks is a man’s game. It’s (lit--

ferunt from checkers, ’cause the more

men you kin get on your side, the

more you’re likely ta win. There ain't

no rules to. the

game, and truth

ain’t. necessary ta.

win. The one

what wins is lots

0’ times the one,

what. knows the

best how ta cover

up the truth.



The game is

changed some

sinCe the old days. In them days the

man what won was .lots 0’ times the

one what could treat the most. The

saloon keepers was the best ones ta.

get acquainted with. But now, since

womin is got into this man’s game,

you gotta know all about tea. parties,

etc., and you gotta make ’em believe

you’re a family man. If you kin tell

some womin how ta cure the baby's

colic, or how ta get a rich husband,

you kin win some votes.



Now, pollyticks itself is alright, but.

the folkses what’s in it, lots 0’ times

ain’t. The whole trobul is, the game

ain’t supervised, like football, etc, is.

If they’d only have some decent, rules

in go by, like in prize fightin’, hittin’

below the belt like. some pollytichuns

do, wouldn’t be fair.





 





What we need in pollyticks is refer-

ees ta make the decishun, while the.

public sets by the side lines and does

the shoutin’. That’s all the public is

doin’ anyhow, but the game ain’t

square.



Pollyticks should be a grand profes-

shun, ’cause the folks what is in it

should be in the service 0’ the coun-

try instead 0’ the ,country in the, ser-

vice 0’ them. And there’s a few folk-

ses in pollyticks fer the good they kin

do, but they’re so few they ain’t got

much chance when the rest don’t play

square.





I’m tellin’ you all about pollyticks,

so you kin know how if you want ta.

run fer offuce next time. Runnin’ is

good exercise anyhow, and ta run fer

offuce you need lots 0’ wind, but not

much 0’ an‘ythin’ else ta speak of.



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in the agricultural sections have known all about radio

for some time.





‘ Where they have experimented with radio, they‘have

been pleased with it, but wondered when it would be

available in a form that would live up to the specifi-

cations “;tried, tested and perfected.”





' Radiola 20 is an established and specracular sales suc-

cess because it represents radio in the form the public

expected when the laboratories of RCA, General Elec-

tric and Westinghouse cleared away the underbrush

of pioneering research. It is the highest expression of





the new art and reasonably priced so as to be within

reach of any farm home.





Many farmers have learned to raise bigger, better paying

crops by listening to broadcasting lectures. And the

dairy farmer learns more about herding, breeding, feed-

ing. Every word of the lecture is as clear and natural

with a Radiola 20 as though the expert were sitting right

in the room talking it over with you. Radiola 20 is the

set that you thought would be coming along some day.





Music from the cities—song and jazz for the boys and

girls—when the chores are done. Fashion talks for

mother and daughter. And sermons Sunday morning

—great sermons by famous preachers. Distant stations

brought in clearly. Radiola 20 is operated on dry bat-

teries and has only a single control, so that anybody

can tune in.





Be sure that you are getting this particular set—Radiola

ZO—edesigned especially for the farm. Listen to other

sets first, then listen to Radiola 20, and you will say at

once: “Here is real radio at last.”





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ful, and the émmarr offarming more profitable. Families

in the agricultural sections have known all about radio

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\Vhere they have experimented with radio, they have

been pleased with it, but wondered when it would be

available in a form that would live up to the specifi-

cations “tried, tested and perfected.”





Radiola 20 is an established and spectacular sales suc—

cess because it represents radio iii the form the public

expected when the laboratories of RCA, General lilec—

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SHIPPING BUSINESS IS NEARLY

SELF-SUSTAINING.





 





HE expenditures of the Shipping



Board and Fleet Corporation have

declined since 1922. For the fiscal

year ended June 30, 1923, congress ap-

propriated $50,000,000, and for the

present fiscal year $14,500,000. The

government shipping business has

been getting nearer and nearer to a

self-sustaining basis.



Some of the farm organization rep-

resentatives feel that the money ap-

propriated for the use of the Shipping

Board in maintaining a merchant mar-

ine has been well expended. They es

timate that the use of Shipping Board

vessels in carrying this year’s wheat

crop to European markets has been

worth millions of dollars to American

farmers.





AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE.





 





HE National Chamber of Com-



merce announces that a regional

agricultural conference will be held in

Indianapolis, November 15-16. The ter~

ritory to be covered includes Ohio,

Michigan, Indiana and Illinois. Agri-

cultural problems will be considered

by agricultural interests representing

production, marketing, transportation,

banking and federal and state agen-

cies. The first day will be devoted to

production problems—credit, taxes,

cost of labor, methods of reducing pro-

duction costs, diversification, surpluses

and legislation. The second day will

be devoted to marketing problems~

credits, transportation and the tariff.





FOREIGN APPLE MARKETS GOOD.





 





RAY of encouragement for Ameri-



can apple growers is seen in the

European apple situation. Reports to

the department of agriculture show

that the supply of apples in European

surplus producing areas is not as large

as last year. Great Britain reports a

light crop, from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000

bushels under normal. The Canadian

crop of 2,732,000 barrels is four per

cent “below normal. German home-

grown apples are scarce and high-

priced, and only fair in quality. The

domestic apple crop is short in Den-

mark. Edwin Smith, the department’s

fruit specialist in Europe, says that in

general the prospects are favorable for

considerable importations of American

apples into European markets, but

lower prices are likely to be realized.

film the United States the commercial

crop, even with close grading, is ex-

pected to reach 38,508,000 barrels, an

increase over last year «of sixteen per

cent.





AIR MAIL SERVICE DEVELOPING.





 





HE development of the air mail



service is remarkable. After fif-

teen years of agitation, an air com-

merce act was passed and signed by

the President last May. This resulted

in the appointment of Wm. P. Mc-

Cracken, J1‘., assistant seeietary of

commerce, to have charge of air trans-

portation.



There exists today in the United

States a great air mail system, the

nucleus of a near future air transpor-

tation system covering the entire coun-

try. This is the'Transcontinental Air-

way, and the New York to Chicago

night route, both operated for the gov-

ernment by the postmaster-general.

Fifteen other routes are in active op-

eration by private enterprises under

contract with the post office depart-

ment to carry the mails.



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the 9,475 miles of airways now in op~

eration or proposed, 2,041 miles of the

Transcontinental are lighted. This

year it is proposed to light 1,287 miles

of the remaining 7,434 miles of .un—

lighted airways.





 





SECRECY DETRIMENTAL.





 





HE secrecy program of the Fed-



eral Trade Commission has result-

ed in big business running rampant to

the detriment of the country. This is

the parting declaration of Huston

Thompson, who is retiring from the

commission. He declares that because

of the installment scheme, which is

encouraged by big business combines,

the people have stopped buying, as

their wages cannot catch up with their

installment debts. The Federal T-rarlgi

Commission was created, he asserts,

to check unfair practices used in bus-

mess, but under the secrecy rule many

cases have been dismissed without any

public acknowledgement of them.





 





 





News of the Week





General John Pershing has accepted

the post of honorary national com-

mander of the American Legion.





. Emil Gorchow, eighty-five years old,

a res1dent of Goodland township, La-

peer county, saw his first street car

upon his recent visit to Detroit.





The British naval sloop Valerian

was Sunk during a. hurricane south of

the Bermuda Islands, causing the

death of eighty. Nineteen were res-

cued.



Earthquakes in Armenia have caus-

ed the death of 400, and have made

100,000 homeless.





Old Bill Maxwell, eighty-eight years

old, is starting his fifty-fifth year of a.

life sentence for murder. He is im-

prisoned at VVaupun, \Visconsin, and

is the oldest man in any penintentiary.



The residents of twenty-eight vil-

lages on the three branches of the De-

tr01t & Mackinac road, are fighting the,

abandonment of those branches, as

such action would cut the villages

from rail transportation.



An unfavorable report on the pro-

posed all-American canal across New

York from Lake Erie to the Hudson,

has_been issued by the army board of

engineers.



Dr. Mansfield Robinson, a prominent

English lawyer, says that communica-

tion with Mars is possible, as he now

holds communication with Oomaruru,

a woman in Mars. Dr. Robinson is a

telapathist.





.State troops have been sent to Her«



rin county, Illinois, to stop warfare

between two bootlegging factions.

This county has had several serious

riots during the past few years.





A committee of Cuban sugar grow-

ers have recommended to President

Machado that the coming sugar crop

be limited to about 4,500,000 tons.

They also suggested that a world sug-

ar conference be called to prevent ov-

er-production.





Judge “'m. H. Hargest, of Dauphin

county, Pa., ruled that Sunday base

ball playing in Philadelphia was il-

legal.



M-23, the new Detroit-Chicago high-

way was completed when President A.

E. Dudley, of Hillsdale village, poured

the last basketful of cement.





Harry Houdini, the famous magician,

was takenseriously ill in Detroit with

appendlcms. He has been famous for

freeing himself from shackles.





The drive launched by President

Coolidge and Secretary Hoover

against the British rubber monopoly

is effective, as there is a plentiful sup-

ply of rubber in this country, and

prices are lower. “





Thirty-two business executives in

the country have issued a symposium

that the fiveday week as instituted by

the Ford Motor Company, is detrxfi

mental to public welfare.





 





 





Deaths due to automobile accidents.





as. recorded by seventy-eight large cit-

185, were 656 in the four weeks ending





October 9._ This is.the largest number. *

of auto deaths” on record for that "





length of" time. r.
. HE open season for turkeys is

under way. Thanksgiving and

Christmas are the next holidays



on the calendar, bringing the usual de-

mand for-the big feast bird. For many

weeks, buyers have been scouting

through the country’ sizing up the

prospective crop and making tentative

offers for shipments. On November

1, however, the season oflicially op-

ened. Turkeys are already arriving at

warehouses, feathers are flying in the

dressing plants or on farms where

shipments are made direct, railroads

have commandeered freight cars so

that shipments can be rushed to the

large distribuitng markets where the





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VComparison of Trends of Farm Prices

of Turkeys From October to Janu-





ary in Each of the Past Ten Years.





wholesalers and retailers will com~

plete the job of supplying the holiday

tables with turkey.



A census of the turkey population

is not easily taken, so that an accu-

rate idea of how liberally the market

will be supplied is‘ scarcely possible.

Turkey flocks are too small, on the

average, and scattered over too wide

a territory to permit any very com-

prehensive count being made. The tur-

key crop raised a year ago was short

and prices were high, so it was gen-

erally believed that flocks would be

increased this year. A survey of the

situation, however, seems to indicate

that the crop is not as large as last

year or two years ago. In Texas,

which is the big early state, the crop

is believed to exceed last year, when

many of the young poults were lost

during the hot, dry summer. Okla-

homa, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas,

Iowa, and Ohio are expected to have

fewer turkeys for market this season,

and the other states report flocks of

about the same size as last year.





The cool weather this fall has been

favorable “turkey weather.” So long

as the days and nights are compara-

tively warm, turkeys continue to roam

the country and fail to put on flesh.

When the temperature falls, they are

content to cease wandering off, and

settle down to grain feeding which

rapidly adds pounds of turkey meat.

The crop generally is further advanced

than at this time in several years, and

reports from the country consistently

tell of the high quality of the turkeys.

Dealers believe that the turkeys avail-

able for the Thanksgiving trade will

be better even than those marketed

for the later holiday last year, when

the high prices which prevailed early

in the season brought the best of the

young turkeys in before Thanksgiving

and the late offerings, in many cases,

were not up to the usual standard of

excellence. ~



In addition to the turkeys being

ready for market earlier than usual,

farmers, particularly in the south, are

anxious to sell their flocks early. With

cotton prices the lowest in five years,

the turkey money will be welcome,

and a larger percentage than usual of

the crop will be disposed of early.



Another year of high turkey prices

seems highly probable. PriCes at the

opening of the turkey deal are approx-

imately the same as a year ago. Coun-

try prices for live birds advanced rap-

idly last November, until the upward

trend was. checked'hy the failure of

pans to; thee—finish product to keep





 





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A General .Survey of Market Conditions





 

 





   





along. Average prices received by the

producers on November 15, 1925, were

estimated-by the Department of Agri-

culture at 28.3 cents, the highest on

record, with two exceptions. On De-

cember 15, prices had advanced to 31.1

cents a pound. Dealers in the Chicago

Wholesale market are predicting forty-

five to forty-eight cents a pound for

this year’s Thanksgiving turkey, which

includes the cost of picking, dressing,

express and commission, but “still

leave a relatively high return to the

producer.





Although prices for turkeys sold for

Thanksgiving are expected to average

as high as a year ago, outside prices

will be paid only for good quality

birds of fairly heavy weight. Produc—

ers should hold back small, thin-fleshed

birds for the Christmas market. On

the average, December prices are

higher than a month earlier, and with

a short crop this year, and producers

inclined to cash in on their turkeys, it

is highly probable thatofferings for

Christmas will not be large, and that

prices will show an advance over a

month previous.





Stocks of turkeys in storage are less

than half as large as at this time a

year ago, and forty per cent below the

five-year average. Reserves of frozen

turkeys, therefore, will be less of a

market factor this season than last.

Holdings of chickens and fowls are

5,000,000 pounds larger than a year

ago, and 10,000,000 pounds larger than

the five—year average, however, offset-

ting to some degree, the decline in

turkeys.



Aside from turkeys, there seems to

have been a big crop of poultry raised





 





Her Thanksgiving Turkey.





throughout the country. Receipts of

dressed poultry at the four leading

markets since June 1 have been by far

the largest on record, but the supply

yet back on farms is believed to fully

equal, if not exceed, a year ago.





 





TOBACCO DUST FOR WORMS.





 





Our chickens have worms in the in-

testines, that are from four to five

inches-long, and about as thick as a

darning needle. Please tell us what

to do for them.~—A. H.





Placing two per cent of tobacco dust

in the mash is a common remedy for

removing worms from poultry. Then

once each week give epsom salts to

the flock at the rate of a pound per

hundred birds. The salts can be given

in the' drinking water or in the amount

of wet mash that the flock will eat

quickly, allowing as even a distribu-

tion of the medicine as possible.



Some poultrymen are using the com-

mercial worm capsules with good suc-

cess, as it insures every bird receiving

the proper share. Keep the droppings

removed from the houses, and distrib-

ute them as far as possible from the

poultry. houses and range. This helps





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STEPFATH ER’S ESTATE.





 





A widow with one child marries a

widower Without children, who has

about $6.000 in real estate and same

amount in personal property. They

live together about one and one-half

years and then separate on account

of husband’s disposition. In less than

two years, what amount of his prop-

erty would she be likely to obtain in

case of a settlement, or waiting until

two years for decree? In case of the

wife’s death, what share, if any, does

the child inherit from his stepfather?

———Mrs. E. K.





The wife’s children would inherit

nothing from the stepfather, and what

share of his property would be given

to her by the court upon granting a

divorce, depends too much upon the

personal views of the court, and cir-

cumstances of the case, to hazard a

guess—Rood.





THE WIFE’S SHARE.





 





Can my husband will all the proper

ty that is in his name, including mou-

ey that is in the bank, and money that

he has loaned, to the children? I

have been a dutiful wife. If I should

leave him on account of extreme

cruelty, would I get any of his prop-

erty? We have lived on his father’s

farm for ten years, and cared for him.

~—A. D.





By Session Laws (1923) Page 469,

the widow may elect to take under the

will of her husband or to take dower,

or to take the same share of his real

estate as is now provided by law for

her out of personal estate in case she

waived provisions of will; and by Com-

piled Laws (1915) Section 13,805, she

is entitled to personal property against

the will to the same amount as if the

testator had left no will up to the

sum of $5,000, and of the residue one-

half as much as she would have taken

if he had left no will—Rood.





DOCTOR’S LIABILITY.





 





Some time ago, during the winter,

I fell on the ice and broke my wrist,

and also dislocated it. At the time I

did not know the wrist was dislocated.

I went to a doctor who is reputed to

be good when not under the influenCe

of drink. l'naware of his drinking

habits at the time, I had him set my

wrist, but did not put the dislocated

place back in place. After I. had tak—

en the plaster off when he instructed.

I found my wrist very crooked and

disfigured, and altogether helpless.

Other doctors informed me that the

wrist was never set right in the first

place. IVhen I went to the doctor who

had set it, he refused to help me, and

told me. I could use my hand all right

if I wanted to. Can I make him pay

me for damages?—H. P.





A person who holds himself out as

a physician and surgeon is not bound

to have the greatest knowledge and





:skill possessed by the profession, but





is bound to use ordinary care, and

possess that skill and knowledge

which is ordinarily possessed by the

members of that profession. In any

suit against a doctor, no headway can

be made without a thoroughly compe-

tent physician and surgeon who will

work persistently to the end, and can

stand up under cross-examination. A

good lawyer may obtain a settlement

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without suit. Every case involves pe—

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estimate could be made without inti-

thc circum—

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of the parties.——Rood.





TWO BLADES OF GRASS BETTER.





THAN ONE.





 





(Continued from page 459).

Under these conditions it is easy to

see who will have the least fat in the

lean years in the potato businessand





 





for whom the margin Of profit will be

first eliminated. “But,” the reader

may say, “Maine is not a fair example

—that the climatic conditions there

are more favorable for the crop,” etc.

In reply I point to record potato yields

in this state, which have, every year

for a decade or more, been from thirty

per cent to 100 per cent larger than

the average yield in Maine, to say

nothing of the other important potato

producing states, all of which are

ahead of us in average yield, which,

generally speaking, also means aver—

age qulaity.



Economic Production and Profits.



“'ith these facts in mind, it seems

to me that the most intensely selfish

point of View should induce us to

strive for more economic production

of this crop, and more economic pro-

duction can only come by increased

yields, due to a higher state of soil

fertility in the land devoted to this

cash crop. Figure for yourself the dif-

ference between a loo-bushel and ‘d.

200‘bushel crop this year, particularly

if you are in the former class of pro«

ducers. If the operations of produc-

tion have been economically conduct-

ed, I would be willing to wager that

the net profit on the ZOO—bushel crop

would be not only many times larger

than on the “avera as” crop, but almost

equal to the total income on the small-

er crop.



It is evident that no increased effi‘

ciency in marketing, or any other fav-

orable factor, can make up this differ-

ence in net returns.“ As long as potato

production continues to be the highly

competitive business which it now is,

to which condition we can see no end,

we should look the facts fairly in the

face and realize that the least efficient

producers will reap the smallest prof-

its and be the first to go bankrupt in

the business, and this fact applies in.

large degree to ever yother line of

production. There is room only at the,

top in this, as in every other com-

petitive business. It is not a good

record for a farmer or a state to be

at the bottom in the scale of efficient

production.





Then is there no grave danger of

Michigan farmers breaking the mar-

ket for stable products by adopting a

program of increasing soil fertility by

green manuring, even ultimately, and

certainly not presently? Unfortunately,

the adoption of a. new and better sys-

tem of handling the soil is bound to

be slow, even where demonstrated be

yond the point of any reasonable

doubt. The problem of an increased

surplus from this course is not one

likely to confront the present genera-

tion. But the present—day farmer who

makes two blades of grass (legumes)

grow where but one grew before, and

returns one, or better yet, both of

them to the soil to increase its fertil-

ity, will not only increase his own

profits and bank account, but will as

well be a public benefactor through

the object lesson he will present to

his neighbors. And when increased

production creates a surplus which is

reflected in unprofitable prices, there

will be an automatic reduction in acre-

age, and efficient producers will profit

through the abandonment of the crop

by inefficient growers.



There are also other, and not less

tangible benefits to be derived from

this procedure. which will be mention-

ed iu a future article.





The Holland Poultry Show, to be

held in December, will have free ad-

mission for the first time in the twen-

ty-six years of its existence. This was

made possible because of the approp-

riation of $300 by the Ottawa county

supervisors. '
STUDY RASPBERRY BUSINESS. ~ ~- ’





 





MANISTEE county has quite an .





area devoted to the production of

raspberries, and the growers of this





small fruit were much interested in '





tWo raspberry rogueing demonstra-

tions held recently in the county. Don

Hootman, specialist in horticulture,

found that the local growers were

much interested in learning how to de-

tect diseased plants so that they could

be removed from the fields.





 





FARMERS INTERESTED IN TEST-

ING SOILS.





 





MR. C. P. MILHAM, county agricul-

tural agent in Ottawa county,

found that the farmers ofthe county

were glad to take advantage of a

soil’s testing booth established at the

Berlin fair. Soils were tested for acid-

ity and recommendations made for the

proper fertilizers to be used on the

samples examined. Similar facilities

for testing will be provided next year

at both the Holland and Berlin fairs.





 





POTATO SEED GROWERS HOLD

BANQUET.





 





ROWERS of certified seed pota-





toes, and local bankers, held a

banquet at the Cushman Hotel in Pe-

toskey. . The potato growers of north-

ern Michigan are much encouraged by

the results of last year’s crop and the

prospects of a fair crop and a fair

price this year.





TROUBLE WITH PREMIUM ON THE

SALE OF CLEAN HOGS.





 





OME difficulty has been experienc-



ed by live stock men in St. Joseph

in obtaining the ten cents per hun-

dred weight premium on hogs sold

from a tuberculin—free area. No trou-

ble was encountered when packers

bought the hogs, but when the hogs

were sold to buyers for resale, some-

times the premium was not paid. L.

R. Binding, county agricultural agent,

took the matter up with commission

men on the Buffalo market, and it is

believed that the matter has been ad-





justed so there will be no more trou- ,





ble obtaining the ten cent premium.





FIELD AGENT FOR POTATO

EXCHANGE.





 





R. C. E. ATXVATER,,formerly



county agricultural agent in

Grand Traverse county, has been ap-

pointed field man ibr the Michigan

Potato Growers’ Exchange. Mr. At-

water has had a great deal of experi-

ence in organization work and this,

together with his thorough, acquaint-

ance with northern Michigan, should

make him a valuable man for the ex-

change.





 





EXTEND LIFE OF FENCE POSTS.





 





DEMONSTRATION to show the



recommended manner of treating

fence posts for their preservation, was

held on the farm of F. D. MacVean, at

Plainwell. Michigan farmers use thou-

sands of dollars worth of posts each

year, and a successful method of pro-

longing their period of usefulness

saves a lot of money, and also time

spent in replacing decayed posts. Rail-

road and telephone companies are now

treating all ties and posts used by

them.





 





Groups of women in thirty-two Van

Buren county communities will take

extension courses in clothing work this

year. It is expected that the work

will 'be taken by 750 women.





 





A carload of pyrotol was distributed

in Manistee county this fall. This ex-

plosive is said to be the last of the





_ government supply ‘01 war timel ex-





 





 





 





 





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If you are attracted by the Chrysler

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your choice, in any event, must be

made among five cars. Only four four-

cylinder cars other than

‘ \71’3 17s the Chrysler “50” are now

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’ ' You will be rushed to a

decision by the startling

character of the contrast. The mere

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the acceleration of the Chrysler “50”

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money is buying the utmost as in con-

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This Dutch Boy trademark

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paint of the highest quality.

Other products made under

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lead, solder, babbi’tt metals.





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used for practically every kind of

painting job about the farm.





More details in new





“Decorating the Home” is a new

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NOW GOOD TIME TO FILL THE

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GULLIES may be. filled in and re-



claimed by building soil-saving

dams across them. These may be

made of a variety of materials, includ-

ing stakes, brush, straw. logs. loose

rock, or woven wire, while permanent

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Hl‘] five dollars for this week’s

jingle goes to Miss Selma Alatalo,



f Baraga county. She completed the

jingle thusly:



The airship cleaves the air above,



As light of wing as any (love;



Though it. may weigh a ton 01‘ more



And leaves the ground with mighty

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Just yesterday it was the thing .



That wonder to our minds did bring:



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Have come our ears and minds to fill.



We know that. wonders never cease,



In time of war or time of‘peace,



But “common sense” Will guide

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If we just turn the dial a mite.



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Another Jingle.



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ito do so. To inhale this carbon mon-

ixide gas is very deadly. Conditions

(01‘ this sort, should be avoided in the

mall unventilaled garage.



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FOR STORING MACHINERY.





 





 





About how much would it be worth

or storing a full—sized threshing sep-

arator?—»D. B.



Most farmers and machinery own

rs do ndt understand how to estimate

he cost of storing farm machinery,

nd. in fact, this cost is more often

mitted altogether in figuring machin-

ry costs. While it usually can be

hown that it is cheaper to shelter at

lachine than to let it stand out, still

here is a definite cost which every

armer should know how to estimate

losely.



The, main factors which make up

his storage cost are interest on the

uilding investment, building depreci-

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paint and window lights, and so on,

taxes, and insurance; and in addition

the labor of putting the’machinery in

and taking it out. These will vary to

a' considerable extent, on how elabor-

ate the building is, ranging from three

to eight cents per year per square

foot, but as a general rule, about five

cents per year per square. foot of floor

space occupied will coverthe cost of

building and labor for putting in and

taking out. Thus, a separator with

feeder, occupying a space of eight feet

wide by twenty-five feet long, or 200

square feet, would cost approximater

$10 per year for storage. The space.

must allow for getting by the‘ ma-

chine. The light equipment which can

be hung on the wall or put overhead,

such as drag harrows and walking

plows, do not cost much for storage.





REMOVING A STUBBORN VALVE

PLUNGER.





 





T sometimes happens that a tire



valve plunger will stick below the

end of the valve stem, just out of

reach of the pliers. \K’hen this diffi-

culty is encountered, bend the ends of

a cotter pin slightly towards each 0th

or and slip the pin through a small

washer. Grasp the end of the plunger

between the ends of the cotter pin

and push down the washer. which will

clamp the plunger securely. Then.

with the pliers or a piece of wire, pull

up sharply on the cotter pin and the

plunger is removed.





CUTTING TUBING.





AHACK-SAW‘ used for cutting brass



or copper tubing, or. thin, hard

brass sheets, soon loses its usefulness

and its teeth. Two hack-saw blades,

set side. by side in the frame with

their teeth pointing in opposite direc-

tions, will usually overcome this diffi—

culty and give a cleaner, though a

wider cut.





RADIO BRIEFS.





EPORTS are current that some of



the broadcasting stations with

long wave lengths, will probably go

into court this winter to try to obtain

injunctions against those stations that

have “jumped” their assigned wave

lengths.





 





According to the bureau of stand:

radio signals

influenced by disturbances“





ards, the intensity of

may be

ninety-three million miles distant from

the earth, and radio transmission may

be affected by sun spots, which are

known to be connected with magnetic

disturbances on the earth.



The, U. S. Farm Radio School, organ-

ized by the U. S. Department of Agri-

culture, is put on the air in Detroit

by station VVG-HP, at 6:40 o’clock, east-

ern standard time, every night exc‘ept

Saturday and Sunday.





 





The forty-seventh anniversary of the

invention of the incandescent electric

light by Thomas A. Edison was Cele-

brated world-wide on electric night.

October 21. when fifty radio broadcast-

ing stations scattered throughout the

world, joined in programs fitting this

epochal invention.





 





Herbert Hoover. secretary of com-

merce, has recently expressed the

opinion that he is opposed to both the





White and Dill radio bills that clashed.





in the Senate and House last spring.

He now believes that the pioneer

broadcasters should have some protec-

tion for their investments, Which are

cdnservatively estimated to exceed

twelve milliOn dollars.





 





 





 





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THE first Michigan exhibitors to en— '.

ter samples -of their crops in the”





International Grain and Hay "Show,

which will be held at Chicago, Novem-





ber 27-December 4, were the wells





known farmers, Georgec. and L. G.

Hutzler, of South Manitou, who at sev-

eral former Internationals, have won

the WOrld’s championship on pure-

bred grains produced on South Mani-

tou Island in Lake Michigan. This

year they will exhibit samples of Ros-

en rye and Robust beans. Farmers

may make entries in this show with-

out charge up to November 10, through





Secretary—Manager B. H. Heide, Union





Stock Yards, Chicago.



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PROGRAMS AT THUMB POTATO

SHOW.





 





 





iFOLLOVv’ING the custom started





last year, programs will be held

during each afternoon of the Thumb

of Michigan Potato Show at Mayville

on November 9-10-11. Those in charge

of' the program have endeavored to

get speakers who are well acquainted

with the subject which they are going

to discuss, and which would be of in-

terest to those [in attendance at the

show.





TWO 0TH ER EXAMPLES.





 





HE view of Professor Pettit about'





raising corn right along is in line

with two other staple products that

right now are groaning under “bumper

crops,” viz., apples and cotton.



When the San Jose scale came

along, large numbers of _farmers

“threw up the sponge” and accepted

the inevitable assumption that the

days of the apple in our land were

numbered—yet here we are twenty-

five years later, with one of the heav-

iest crops ever known!



When the boil weevil started across

the south, the prophet of diversifica-

tion began to ask: “What will you

do when the boll weevil gets you?”





'However, right now the boll-weevil





south is groaning under the burden of

sixteen million bales, and a good deal

of left-over cotton.





This is not minimizing corn borer

gravity; but the question is about the

same as with apples and with cotton!

If we don’t raise these three staples,

who in the world will raise them?

Who is more competent to raise them

than American farmers ?———Wm. Payne.





SHIPPING POINT INSPECTION.





 





HE Michigan Bureau of Foods will



cooperate with the Federal Bureau

of Agricultural Economics in the in-

spection of fruits and vegetables at

shipping points during the present

season. This renews the agreement

in force in previous years, but which

was not operative during the last

season.





 





WOMEN STUDY NUTRITION.





 





EVENTEEN or. eighteen local



groups of farm women in Ionia.

county will study nutrition work

under the direction of specialists from

Michigan State College. In this work

special attention is paid to a. study of

the diet required by children and in-

valids. This study course is very pop-

ular. Groups of women containing

eight or ten individuals are organized

under a local leader from their neigh-

borhood to take this course of study

which continues through the winter

months. '





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Harold C. Stinson, county agricultur-





al agent of NeWaygo, reports that the

: testing of. the :cattle in the county for '

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WINTER CLEANING-UP PAYS.‘





 





E are all likely to let the orchard



and berry patches take care of

themselves in late summer and fall,

even if we cultivate early in the sea-

son. The result is a lot of weeds and

trash that, if left over winter, will pro-

tect insect enemies and furnish a har-

bor for mice, and perhaps rabbits. A

good cleaning will help to get rid of

the insects, and also much of the weed

seeds. _



If the old berry canes have not been

removed after fruiting, they should be

removed now, and the berries given a

good mulch of stable manure. In many

localities, it will pay to use bone meal

or other commercial fertilizer, for the





 

   

   

   

   





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of fruit.

1' Plowing the orchard will make the

Isoil hold moisture in store from fall

and winter rains, which dry winters

éoften carry away. It also brings up

the dormant insects that go down into

‘the soil to winter, and there are many

deaf-eating insects that do this. Also

the destruction of winter surface har-

bors will expose and destroy many

that would otherwise winter over.

\Vinter spraying with lime-sulphur is

a safeguard against San Jose scale,

fungous diseases, and many bark hib-

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NUMBER of years ago my girl,

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pronounce some words one evening,

as there was to be a contest with the

same grade in another school, and she

wanted to prepare for the contest. I

pronounced words from the first page

.of her book, and she missed six or

eight words. 'Suddenly she grasped

the book and said:

“Why, papa, that’s third grade

words. We never had that. Give me

seventh grade,” and she turned over

to the back of the book.

I could not help but think that we

send our children to school. to learn

to spell, and yet, through the ennui

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mission of officials to the school book

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school teachers in Michigan increased

from/1880 to 1920, 1,500 per cent, while

the number of teachersincreased only

150 per cent.‘ '



I am glad teachers get good wages.

They ought to, yet we are disgusted

with statements in the press repeated-

ly about poorly paid teachers. Why,

in 1876 female teachers got $2.00 a

week and board around in'summer,

and male ,teachers received $25 a

month and board around. And we had

pretty good schools. I know boys of

twelve who were in Robinson’s Uni-

versity arithmetic, Robinson’s Univer-

sity algebra, who had read repeatedly

and partly memorized the Constitution

of the United States, who could give

essays and compositions on American

History, and outlines of hygiene and

alcoholic dangers. And they could re-

peat “Thanatopsis,” “The Psalm of

Life,” “The Closing Year,” “The Ten

Commandments,” and the “Beati-

tudes.” They enjoyed school “Anti-

Anti Over,” “One or Two 0r Three

Old Cat,” “Long Ball,” and “I Spy.”

They were not brought up foolishly,

but learned to work, had to work, did

work enough to go to sleep nights.





At a summer Bible School three

years ago, Elder Schleicher told me

that out of seventy-six scholars from

five to fifteen years old, only one little

boy of five years, of all of them, could

repeat the “Ten Commandments” and

the “Beatitudes.” I visited eighteen

schools in Livingston and Ingham

counties in 1924, and in only three of

them could any pupil recite “The Gol-

den Rule.” .,



Years ago they had in schools a

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The blackboard had daily mottoes

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spark of celestial fire called Con-

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T will help to get at the kernel of

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these columns before, and probably

will again. He is one of the great liv-

ing authorities on the Old' Testament.

He says of Jericho, “That her walls

fell down at-the sound of Joshua’s

trumpets is no exaggeration, but the

soberest summary of all.her history.

Judea could never keep her. She fell

to Northern Israel. She fell to Bac-

chides and the Syrians. She fell with-

out a blow to Pompey, and at the ap-

proach of; Herod

and again of Ves-

pasian, her people

deserted her.” He

says th at Jeri-

cho’s weakness

was due to two

causes. An open

pass, in which a

hostile army

could cut off food

and water, and, to the weakness of

her inhabitants. “Enervated by the

great heat, which degrades all the in-

habitants of the Ghor, and unable to

endure on their bodies aught but lin-

en. it was impossible that they could

be warriors, or anything but irrigators,

paddlers in water and soft earth. We

forget how near neighbors thcy had

been to Sodom and Gomorrah. No

great man was born in Jericho; no

heroic deed was ever done in her. She

never stood a siege, and her inhabit-

ants were always 1'unning away.”



\Vhat an indictment! What a de—

scription of a city! “No heroic deed

lever done in her! No great man born

there! 'Inhabitants always running

away!” Would we like to dwell in

such a place? It is like the final words

concerning one of the kings of Judah

—“and he reigned in Jerusalem eight,

years, and departed without being de-

sired.”



So ‘Jericho fell, after this peculiar

and dramatic siege. Note that it was

a siege that seemed completely crazy.

No city was ever attacked in like man-

ner, of which we know. And yet it

did the business. “God does many

foolish things—in our sight. But then,

we do many foolish things in His

sight.” It has been well said that “it





 





. is not our place to criticize the plans





of God, but to execute them.” A young

missionary was going to the Orient#

India, I think, and he fell into conver-

sation with the Duke of Wellington,

the hero of Waterloo. The poor young

fellow, as the ship got farther and

farther from home, began to have

qualms as to whether his errand as a

missionary was worth while, after all.

So many millions of people over there,

and only a handful of missionaries.





He expressed himself to the Iron

Duke, and the old warrior replied,

“\Vhat are your marching orders?”





The men under Joshua’s command had

gotten their marching orders, and they

proceeded to execute them.





BSERVE that there had to be a

vast self-restraint. No one was to

make any sound except the trumpet-

ers. The men bearing arms went be-

fore, but they were not to use them.

While the inhabitants of Jericho re-





keep still, and not wield a spea1 or a

war club. That is discipline! It is

when we are disciplined that we g10w,

mentally and spiritually.



Silence. How much we need to learn

the value of it. Speech is silver, said

Carlyle, but silence is golden. You

will recollect that a few yeals ago,

when King Oscar died, the two king-

doms of Sweden and Norway separated

into separate countries. The Norweg-

ian writer, Bjornsen, had long been a

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The Fall of Jericho





- Our Weekly Sermon—By IV. A. Mchme





arating the two countries. He did not

like the idea of Norway being united

with Sweden. When the negotiations

were going on, he telegraphed his





government, “What can I do to help

the cause of separation?” The answer

came back promptly, “Keep your





mouth shut.” Says some one. “Pro‘

gress is kept back by shouting men.

The whole kingdom of heaven is hin-

de1ed in some instances because peo-

ple will not hold thei1 tongues Thele

me people who see a little palt of a.

case and rush out into the war as if

they were fully equipped soldiers; they

are excitable, vehement, quick; they

call themselves sensitive, but they are

extremely disagreeable and hinder-

some. Silence in the midst of great

crises is invaluable.”



They took six days to get ready.

That is a long time. It requires time

to get ready for big events. Moses

was forty years getting ready for his

great work. Education is slow. Plato

advocated that no man should hold

office in a democracy until he had

been trained to the age of fifty, i11-

cluding the most severe and strict

kind of discipline.



When they were ready—they were

ready. “Every man went straight be-

fore him.”



It is not a bad idea to remember

that the Jerichos always fall, if we

believe in God, and are sure our cause

is right. No great reform is too diffi-

cult to‘ be undertaken. We are sure-

to win, if we go straight before us.





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

NOVEMBER 7.





 





SUBJECTz—The Fall of Jericho. Josh-

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ENLARGED GALL BLADDER.





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heavy egg production and low prices

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from a lighted pen or 200 yearling assistant:tatt:.“1.°:11ts.raii:s.‘izisias?

White Leghorn hens was approximate— figrgggggggfieggggg-Iggagggethefins high Priced

ly $15 higher per month than a sim— .



ilar pen unlighted, while the combined

cost for lighting power, and for the

increased feed used by the lighted pen

was not more than $4.00 per month.

A lighted pen of .115 early maturing

pullets showed as high as $25 increase

in egg value in November and Decem— . .. . p, . .

her. but not so great an increase dur- We receive hundreds of letters like these: "1 bought 40

his the remaining winter months. A S’Sr'é't’cri’itfe'a,§1'133‘1‘¢vs1ei1 3:211:3‘1‘3i‘t‘1ii21 1121291315

lighted pen of 1.15 late maturing pul— registrars:areasairs-reinstating

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w nth “Brother‘ 3 e s jurn d from 5 to! 5m a week

- crease Of $15 orth 0f eggs per mo w1t11 front rg pou1t1-pye house closed with FLEX- o-

from November to February over a GLA Ass. ——Mrs. G. Slpple of Pa.





similar unlighted pen, here again the AS if It Were a Day ill June

total cost of lighting p0wer and in- . . Hereswhat this {mum ex.

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t: gets so cold that the

month. In. all cases the unlighted corner [Ike balls of feath-





. era. Since I put tFLEX-O- the smaller chicks did not, both are the same 10 yds. at 35c. [33. 50]; 25 yds. at 32c 88.0 0 ll:

pens Inade 3' greatel egg value than GLAS S on my poultI'Y- age. This is almost beyond belief butit' 1s true. yds. or more at 30c per yard, [$30.00]: Add gene.

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_ , Junie. on do not claim too much for its value to Authorities. _ _

and the unllghted pens Wthh had goult ryeek eepera. Wishing you every success for your Mr Crurn of Iowa State CollcchLA statsesj $33113; 3.1315315113521111?!” 35 with. wigetrailalldrog

been on a vacation durin the winte LEX'O'GLASg that ’bflngi‘lSo joy to thacgénanu- “1 believe your product [FLEX covers a scratch sh h9xedpl ft. [size for 100 hens] or use

, g 1' (acturersithe “1813—1 5°“ta‘e- t1 anada. far superior to common glass for enclosinseJ for enclosing screened polrches,stormdoom.hotbedu

months came back strong “mummed by man: filgicken houses for the winter and for brooder- colIdJrames. re flfiinglgagn. poultr ti yggdhofigggf)?

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(Continued on page 475). MW' Laying
‘ T one minute the prairie :ha-d

;- been empty and 'white under a

‘ ‘ low gray sky. At the next min-



, nte the air was filled with fine,

pelting snow which drove with fury

and whirled in a biting wind.





On the main road, acress the Lewis- '





ton Open, a man came riding. He was

galloping with the wind, yet in all his

haste, he stopped at every one of the

few scattered houses on the plain and

pounded on the door. The women,

already busy at supper, answered the

summons wondering, as the men came

running from stables and cow-sheds,

and to these the horsemen cried his

message and was off before the gaping

folk could stay him with questions:



“Stephen Mine’s little girl’s lost. She



has been gone an hour. ’Nother

searchin’ party starts as soon’s

enough get to Stephen’s. Take your

lanterns and some rope.”

‘ With that he was off—Jake Mullet,

on his way to Pillsbury’s store in Lew-

iston to ring for the bucket brigade

and to telephone to the few in the

neighborhood who had telephones.



“Hannah Mine’s girl,” said the wom-

en. “Which one? Oh, not the. baby.

It can’t be the baby!”



It went up like one cry, all over the

Open, while the men made ready to

leave, and brought rope, and the wom-

en filled the lanterns. More than one

woman girt her skirts about her and

set forth with her man, certain that

Hannah Mine needed comforting and,

it might be, serving, and unable to

wait at home in any case. But when

they reached Mine’s little house, they

found that Hannah had gone with the

first Searching party, and their glances

sweeping the three children huddled

by the fire told the truth. The lost

child was Hannah Mine’s baby. Some-

where out in that storm, already for

more than an hour, was Stephen and

Hannah Mine’s baby, three-year-old

Lissa.



Meanwhile Jake Mullet was riding.

And when he. had done what he could

in Lewiston, he took the lower road

back, and now he was facing the

storm, and its fury was growing with

the darkness. “'hen the first farm-

house light showed through the thick

white, Jake groaned. She was so little

—if night came, or if in two hours

they had not found her, who could

hope that they would be in time?



He continued to call at the little

houses and to shout his message to

any whom he met lumbering through

the snow. But when he came to one

house, on the, forty adjoining Steph-

en’s forty, he did not stop.



“No use wastin’ breath 011 \Valdo

Rowan,” he thought, and galloped on.

He crossed the cut—a queer, ragged

gap in the plain, shallow and rock-fill-

ed—and saw a figure fighting its way

on foot.



“Turn back to Mine’s!” Jake shout-

ed. “His little girl’s lost. She’s—~”



Then he stopped. Here was Waldo

Rowan himself, who had not spoken

to Stephen and Hannah for ten years,

as all the Open knew.



“They wouldn’t have my help!” VVal-

do flung back.



Jake pounded on, carrying coils of

rope for the searchers who were now

to spread in a great circle, threading

the rope, and so come drawing in. He

gave not another thought to the only

one on the Open who had failed to an-

swer his appeal. Everybody was used

to this feud between Mine and Waldo.

Stephen would have done the same if

itihad been \Valdo whose child was





lost. But \Valdo had no children to

lose. In the days when he and Steph—

en were friends, they had loved the





same woman, and Stephen had won

her, Waldo said, through a lie. She

and Stephen had raised their family

and seemed happy. \Valdo married

a girl of the village who had died,

with their two-year-old baby, only a

year ago. Since then he lived alone,

and he was dead to Stephen, as Steplr

en was to him.





The Night'of ”a; stem 4





By Zona Gale





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At his own line fence, Waldo Rowan

left the road and plunged into a grove

of dwarf’oak and on into a denser

stretch of wood. ~It was evident that

this storm was to continue for at least

twenty-four hours, and he wanted a

look at his traps. He found some

empty, one dragged away, and in one

something pitiful and struggling help

lessly, and moaning, which he dlS-

patched and dropped in his bag. And

as he did so he thought, as he had





‘thought before:





“Blowed if I wouldn’t druther live

on corn—bread than do it. Blowed if



never set another trap.” .



He plunged down into the cut, which

was the short way to his cabin. There

was another reason for haste besides

the weather. He had been out all day

and creeping in his veins came the

giddiness and tremor which precede a

chill; and with it, too, that curious

iiglitness of head, of body, which pre-

sage a possible illness. He must get

indoors, build a great fire, heat his

kettle of soup, wrap up warmly and

sleep it off.



“I’d ought to had the doctor give

me something when I met him this

noon,” Waldo thought. “What was ’t

he said? He was going sixteen .mile

north. He won’t be back tonight. I

guess I can mope it out—”





The snow was of a deceiving soft-

less and piled on the rocks of the cut

as if billows of foam had rolled in,

lapped, and now lay quiet. Here the

wind roared through from the north—

east, catching the tops of the white

pines and making a furious singing.

And on that wind, “'aldo heard a cry.



He heard it for a little before he

knew that he heard it—with that

strange inner ear which catches sound

too light to be less delicately measur-

ed. An animal, or a way of the wind,

he might have called it, and thought

no more; but when he was deep in

the cut, and before he began the rough

ascent, abruptly this cry rose on a

single. piercing note, and fell again

to its quiet pulsing. He listened—-



Still uncertain what he had heard,

he turned north and kept along the

cut, at‘ every few steps stopping to

turn his head to the wind. He was

ready to face back, and then it came

again. There was no mistaking now,

and he broke into a run.



For all his running. he made slow

progress. for there was no trail up the

bottom of the cut, and the rocks were

rough and huddled. He would have

climbed the side and followed the trail

on the west of the rim. but he had an

instinct that whatever he sought cried

from the bottom of the cut. He dare

not halloo for fear if this were, say,

a child. he should frighten it. His im-

pulse was to run back to the road and

wait for the next passer to help him,

but he dare not do that lest the faint

cry be swallowed in a ruck of snow

and darkness. He kept on, stumbling,

scrambling over rocks waist‘high.

Once the faint voice ceased for so long

that he told himself that he.had imag-

ined the whole thing. Then it came

again, there was now no mistaking

what it was. Then it was silent until

he heard it as a deep, sobbing breath

behind him, and he had passed it.



He turned. sought on his hands and

knees, called-softly, whistled, as might

be to a little dog. A faint, wailing

cry came from the slope just above

him. He clambered toward it, his

arms sweeping an arc: his hands

brushed something yielding, and he

was rewarded by a little scream of





 





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terror.

arms.



She was very little and light. As

soon as she felt herself on his breast,

she yielded to him and snuggled weak-

ly, like a spent puppy. This was an

attitude that she knew, and she lay

quiet, occasionally drawing a long, sob-

bing breath. She was cloaked and

hooded, but Waldo, feeling for her

hands, found them ice-cold, and one

was bare. He unwound the scarf from

his neck and wrapped her. All the

time, the fact that it was Stephen

Mine’s child was barely in his con-

sciousness. It was merely a. child, ter-

ribly near freezing. terribly near

death.



To retrace his steps over the rocks

with her in his arms was another

thing from forcing his own progress.

Now he must move slowly and feel

each step; he must go round the rock

piles now, and not over them. He

must get back to the point where the

trail crossed the cut, and ascended to

his cabin. And now the darkness had

almost fallen; the wind had its way

with him, his neck was bared to the

blowing snow; he was cutting his

shoes on jagged points and edges of

the rocks. Vl'hen at last he found the

up-trail, made the ascentof the side

and traversed the distance to his cab-

in, he was shivering and chattering,

and hardly able to stand.



The cabin was cold, but he had left

the fire ready to light. He laid the

child on a quilt before the leaping

blaze, untied her hood and chafed her

little hands. She was terribly cold

and in a perilous drowsiness. \Valdo

brought in his kettle of soup, hung it

on the crane, dipped a little in a tin

cup and held it in the blaze. When he

had forced the warmed liquid between

her lips, he undressed her feet and

rubbed them with snow. Her cheeks

and fingers were rosy, but he feared

for the small white feet.



“How’ll I get word to Stephen?” he

thought, and in that area in which his

sick brain was working, there was no

thought of anything wrong between

Stephen and him. All that had drop—

ped away.



“Hannah’s little girl,” he thought

once, and touched her hair wondering-

ly. He had never seen any of Han<

nah’s children. Sitting there beside

the child, hearing her soft breathing,

talking to her a little in awkward rep-

etitions, nothing was in his mind save

deep thankfulness that he had found

her. Occasionally, he would rouse her

and she would give her sleepy smile

and close her eyes again. Once or

twice she yawned, and he was en-

chanted by the little tasting curl of

her lips before she finally closed them.



His chill had now settled upon the

man so that he was shaking. He drank

a cupful of the soup, and said that it

would have to be he who would go to

tell Stephen that he had found her.

But he could not leave her there alone,

and he saw that when she was thor-

oughly warmed, he must wrap her up

and take her home. That half mile

would not matter to him now only

he must make it soon, soon, before he

grew worse. When the baby was warm

and rested, they would go.





 





E sat down in his chair before the



hot fire, the strong soup ran in



his blood, his weariness preyed

upon him, his head sank to his breast.

He was awakened by a sound which

at first he thought came from with-

out: A calling and a trampling. Ab<

ruptly this impression changed, and





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throat, and in a meme t Waldo knew.

His two years of fatherhood were

there to serve him, and he sprang up

.in .that terror which all watchers upon

chi-idren know.



In the same instant, the noise which

he had fancied without was sharpened

and defined. It was as he thought——

a trampling of feet. He did not see

the face outside the cabin window, but

there was a leap of feet onto his

threshold and Jake Mullet was there,

looking like a snow man. And he

Whirled and shouted:



“Stephen! Herehshe’s here!”



There was a rush of cold air across

the floor, and Waldo sprang before the

child, and lifted the quilt to cover her.

At the_same instant, Stephen Mine

leaped into the room.



“Here!” he cried out in a terrible

vome. “Here!”



He strode forward, tore. the quilt

from Stephen’s hand and looked. The

door filled with faces, with figures

crusted with snow, and the cruel night

air swept 1n and possessed the cabin.

\Valdo turned to the throng at the

door and shook both fists in the air.



“Get in or get out!” he shouted.

“Don’t leave the door open on her.

She’s sick!” .



. They crowded in the room, stamp~

mg and breathing loudly, and they

made way for a woman who came

staggering in and threw herself beside

the child. It was Hannah Mine, and

she dared not touch the body with her

own stiff hands and in her wet gar—

ments. She only crouched beside her,

and. burst into terrible dry sobs. The

cabin door was sharply shut, and then

the thirty or more men and women

who had crowded into the room, be-

came conscrous of its fearful tension.



Stephen Mine stood with his child

at 1118 feet, and he lifted his head and

looked at Waldo. Stephen was a huge

man, black and thick. Waldo, small.

and shaken by his chill, began to tell

how all "this had come about.



“In the cut, Stephen,” he said, “about

aquarter mile down the cut, toward

Rightseys’. I’d been to look at my

traps, and I heard her cry. She was

in the bottom of the cut~I found her.

I ve rubbed snow on her feet—~but I’m

afraid—4’



Stephen Mine came close to Waldo

and looked down at him.



“You expect I‘m goin’

that?” he said.



The silence in the room was instant

and terrifying.



Waldo lifted his face. The matted

hair was low on his forehead—he

brushed it aside and his clear eyes

met Stephen’s; but his shaking hands

and his shaking voice gave doubt to

his hearers.



“Stephen, I swear—J he began, and

Stephen laughed.



“I seen you sneaking past my place

tw1ce today,” he said. “I know you.

You found a way to get even at last,

and you took it, you dog.”



He stooped to the woman.



“Wrap her up, Hannah,” he said.



Waldo put out his trembling hands.



_“Stephen,” he cried. “The child’s

Sick—she’s done. You mustn’t take her

out. Stay here—~you’re all more than

welcome—and keep care of her—I’ve

got what she needs. Don’t take her

out into this.”



“How do I know,” said Stephen

Mine, “what it is you mean to give

her? Hannah, wrap her up.”



The woman. still breathing heavily,

put her hand on her husband’s knee.



“No, no, Stephen,” she said. “He’s

right. Can’t you hear her breathe?

Let her stay here—”



“So you and him can take care of

her while I go for the doctor—is that

it?” he sneered.



She seemed not to hear him.



“It’s croup, Stephen,” she said. “You

can’t take her out——” Stephen shook

her off impatiently.





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“Wrap her up!” said Stephen Mine.



Two or three of the neighbor women

came forward now, protesting, and

Jake Mullet cried out:



_“Look here, Mine. This ain’t no

time to remember old scores. You got

the kid to think of——” , _



“VVrapAher up!” said Stephen Mine.



“Well, wait till one of us gets some-

where’s for a team,” cried one of the





men.



“Stephen—leave her here! I can

wring out the hot cloths till the doctor

comes-—”



“I’ve—I’ve got the stuff here, that

was my baby’s,” Waldo chattered, but

now they could hardly understand him.



“Wrap her up,” said Stephen Mine,

and strode to the door.



The others gave way before him,

and began to file out. Heavily Han-

nah Mine began drawing on the child’s

wraps, the sobs breaking through

again. Some of the women gave of

their own wraps, and seeing that one

little mitten was missing, they put two

or three pairs on the still inert hands.



“You carry her,” said Jake Mullet

to Stephen, “and I’ll go to Lewiston

for the doctor.”



“I’ll carry her—Yes,” said Stephen

Mine, “and then I’ll go up yonder and

telephone for the doctor. I’ll not trou-

ble any of you that’d have me leave

her here.”



He took the child from the mother,

and went out the door.



“He’s beside himself,” they whis-

pered, and they understood that it was

the disease of anger, or he would nev-

er have let them go away from their

task of that night, without so much as

a word of thanks. Some lingered for

a word with Waldo and would have

heard more of his adventure, but all

that he could say was “In the cut,”

and again and again, “In the cut—all

alone.” They saw that he was a sick

man, and they left him with kindly

words of advice, and even—though

these folk are chary of expression—~

an outstretched hand or two. But there

were some who went out muttering a

{1.3” acceptance of Stephen’s implica-



ion.



Alone, W'aldo began moving about

the cabin, mechanically folding the

quilt on which the child had lain,

sweeping away the snow where the

trampling feet had been, carrying the

kettle back to its place on the lean-to.

He felt sore. and ill and weak. He felt

stunned, as if he had been flung

against some great impalpable thing

which had struck back at him with

living hands. He could no longer save

a child from death and be believed.

He had turned to evil in Stephen’s

eyes, so that what he did that was

good seemed of evil.» The black wall

of the hate which he and Stephen had

builded was around them, and beyond

lay now more hate and evil, born of

this night.



Waldo began to think—“If the child

should die, it would serve Stephen

right”—but he could not finish that

thought. The weight of the warm lit-

tle body was in his arms, the lovely

curl of the child’s lips as she lay be-

fore him and yawned. And Hannah—-

why, the child must not die. She must

not die.



He pictured that slow fight through

the snow, the child’s breathing in the

thick.‘col_d air, the heart of the moth-

er tollowmg—the neighbors falling off

one. by one at their own doors and

their waiting firesides. Then Stephen

would leave the child with the mother

while he went to the upper road for

the doctor. Would he be in time?

\i'hat if the doctor were out—and ab-

ruptly, through the blur of images in

his mind came the cheery face of the

doctor whom he had met on the road

that 110011, “driving sixteen miles

north.” When Waldo thought of that,

it was as if his heart were a sword

and smote him.



He'ran to a little chest on a shelf

and tumbled among its bottles. There

it was, tightly corked, just as they had

used it once when their baby had had

such an illness; and they were alone

Wlth th‘. and had pulled her through.

Vlhat 1f Hannah happened to have

nothing.



He stood staring at the bottle. Then

he began drawnig on his mittens and

his cap. His coat he had not had off

the whole time. His scarf had been

bundled up and carried away with the

child. He let himself out into the

storm. 11



His chi was passin and was sue-

seeded by the light-headgedness and the

imperfect correlation of the first stag-

es of fever. To his fancy, wavering

out and seizing upon any figment, it

was as If, back of the inevitable drive

of the snow, there were a glow of



,pale light.‘ Now right, now left it

shone, as if at the back of his eyes;

and he turned his head from side to

Side to find it. But there were only

the Cutting volleys of the snow in his

face; and everywhere the siege of the

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FALL CARE OF PULLETS.





 





THE proper care of pullets at this

period of the. year helps to pro-

duce a profitable flock of winter lay-

ers. Improper care at this period of

the year, foretells a winter of low pro-

duction, and no profit.



Pullets" should be placed in the lay-

ing house at once, even though they

are not fully ,mature’d, as at this pe‘

riod of the year, pullets will do better

housed in a good laying house, and

properly cared for, than they will on

This does

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confined to' the houses and not alr

lowed to run out of doors, as it is al-

ways desirable to provide a satisfac-

tory poultry house but to allow the

birds to run outside just as much as

is» possible.



\Vhen handling the pullets, prepar-

atory to placing them in the laying

houses, all undersized, small, thin,

white—legged birds should be rejected

and marketed.



If the pullets are a little late and

backward, and have not yet started to

lay, a wet mash fed at noon at the

rate of about three to five pounds,

weighed dry, per hundred birds, will

hurry them up considerably. This

mash should be the regular laying

mash, moistened with either milk or

water, and care should be taken to

see to it that the amount fed is clean-

ed up promptly and not allowed to

stand around for more than one-half

to three-quarters of an hour.



Dry mash should be provided and

be before the birds at all times, and

there should be sufficient feeding

space, so that at least one-quarter 9f

the flock can eat from the mash hop-

pers at one time. Certainly not less

than eight to ten feet feeding space

per hundred birds. Any simple home-





, made hopper that will allow the birds





to eat freely, and at the same time,

does not allow waste, and that is con-

structed so that filth and refuse can-

not get into the hopper, is satisfac-

tory.



The mash fed may be either a good

commercial laying mash- or may be

mixed at home. Commercial laying

mashes as put out by the larger feed

companies are standard in make-up,

and give satisfactory results. Howev-

er, if grain has been grown on the

farm, or is easily obtainable, a laying

ration may be mixed at home that will

give satisfactory results. A simply

satisfactory laying mash consists of

'equal parts by weight of bran, mid-

dlings, corn meal, ground oats, and

meat scrap, to which may be added

two per cent of bone meal, two per

cent ground limestone or marl, and

one per cent of common table salt. In

addition to the mash, the birds should

be fed a scratch grain which may be

either a commercial scratch grain or

may be home—mixed, and composed of

equal parts by weight of cracked corn

and wheat, or equal parts of cracked

corn, wheat and barley.



\Vhere milk is fed, available at all

times. the amount of meat scrap in the

mash may be reduced one-half, with

satisfactory results.——A. H. Hannah.





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to reduce the losses and promote a

rapid. vigorous growth. The direct

rays of the sun are beneficial to both

old hens and growing chicks. The sun

must not be filtered through glass.

Poultry need pure, raw sunshine. A

commercial laying mash for the hens,

or a commercial chick starter for the

chicks may be of great help in keep-

ing the stock healthy. A good home-

made laying mash can be made of

equal parts of ground corn, ground

oats, middlings, bran, and meat scrap.

Add three pounds of fine table salt to

500 pounds of the laying mash. A ra-

tion consisting of corn on the cob and

barley, with sour milk at intervals,

would not produce the best results.





MARKETING TURKEYS.





 





(Continued from page 471).



a turkey he wants a good one, and as

the price is high, he scrutinizes the

one he buys very closely, and it must

be nearly a perfect bird to suit him.



Many raisers of turkeys are disap-

pointed in their returns when they

ship them to market, their idea being

that a turkey is a turkey, and that. all

their turkeys are number one stock".



All turkeys coming to the hands of

the jobbers in the big marketing cen-

ters have to be very carefully graded

or the jobber will suffer a loss before

he cleans up the poor grades which





are always mixed in with the betteri





ones. .

A number one turkey is a bird"

weighing, dressed, eight pounds or





more or, if alive, ten pounds or more.

It must have no bruises and must be

plump and carry some fat. Any blem—

ishes will count against it. Many, oth-

erwise fine turkeys, have a crooked

breast and this causes it to grade as

a number two. Thin turkeys grade

from number two down to culls, de-

pending, of course, on how thin they

are. Some fancy seven-pound birds

will sometimes sell as number ones,

but generally they also grade as num-

ber twos. Most birds weighing under

seven pounds will not bring more than

the price of chickens. and they will

not bring even that price if they are

not plump.



In dressing turkeys by the scalding

method at home, great care must be

taken that the water is boiling all the

time that the dressing is taking place.

When the water is not hot enough

you will have a short scalded turkey,

and it will be spotted and will have

to sell as a number two. Birds should

be immersed in the boiling water fif-

teen seconds, and after they are picked

clean of feathers, they should be (lip-

ped in the boiling water again for five

seconds to “plump” them.



If turkeys are shipped alive, care

should be taken that the coops are

tall enough so that the birds are not

bruised on the back and wings, as such

bruises are a serious drawback when

they come to be sold.





In the opinion of the writer, the





best way to market turkeys is to pick=





out all of the desirable ones at Thanks-

giving and dress them at home and





ship them on Friday, Saturday or Mon- .





day before the holiday. This gives





 





the dealer ample time to display them *





and get the best price. Shipments ar-’

riving' the day before the holiday, are

likely to be bid on only by bargain

hunters, as the other dealers have al-

ready got their supplies and are out

of the market.



The part of the flock remaining

should be fed until Christmas, when

all that are fit for market should be

sent in, unless a few are kept. for

New Year’s day. The price generally

drops from five to ten cents per pound

immediately after the New Year.——J.

H. Cutcheon.





 





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That is why you will find so many

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small, you are interested in ways of

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able of the talents, to our home

entertaining? Yes, there are always

faithful helpers who honestly do the

best they can, but do we not some

times virtually “ride the willing horse

to death” while neglecting to seek out:

the happy ideas hidden in the brain

of the quiet retiring stranger who cer-

tainly never would v'oluntarily adver-

tise them?





In our town I don’t believe that field

is so overlooked as in many places,

though, no doubt, we, too, fail to “dis-

cover” many of the hidden qualities

of our own neighbors, worth discover-

ing. In most communities of any size,

there are some newcomers, and it is

highly probable that at their former

places of residence, things were not

done just as we do them; especially if

the newcomer is from a long distance

and of a diflerent class or nation.





-A Novel Aid Idea.





Oncé this spring an Aid dinner was

left' to the discretion of a; dear, sweet

little woman who was brought up in

Porto Rico.





ner, and it was so advertised. The

new idea brought a crowd and the

affair was a big success, with the total

expenditure of $3.16. Obviously, the

profits were much greater than com-

mon. Some people, who didn’t attend,

said, “Didn’t you know better than to

go to that dinner? You ought to have

known you wouldn’t like Spanish

things.” But, bless their dear souls,

it was because it was Spanish that we

did go and, as a matter of fact, enough

of the foods to make a square meal

were delicious and one doesn’t; expect

to like everything at dinner. Even if

the dinner itself had not been good,

we got our “money’s worth” in educa-





 





OAST, the breakfast requisite,



has now slipped over onto the



luncheon menu, and also occu-

pies a place of honor for the Sunday

night lunch.\ Many a charming host-

ess, instead of serving cakes, has serv-

ed hot toastivitches on a chill after-

noon, to the delight of her friends.

If you do not have an electric toast-

er, a bed of glowing coals in the kitch-

en range can be depended on to turn

out toast for the entire family in a

surprisingly short time.

wich bread makes excellent toast-

wiches, and some of the other breads,

such as bran, whole wheat, and nut

bread, if properly made, give a. delight-

ful variety, but in most cases plenty

of variety can be introduced by the

fillings and garnishes.



Jam Toastwiches.



Most everyone will like these, and

they are easy to make. Mix equal

parts of jam and grated cheese.

Spread this on slices of buttered

toast, preferably brown bread.



Savory Toastwiches.

Chop three hard boiled eggs rather

fine, add. one cup of cooked tomatoes

that have been drained, 3. tablespoon

of butter, and seasoning. Cook in a

frying pan until any moisture that

would make the filling sloppy, is cook—

ed away. Serve while hot on buttered

toast.



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tion, and we had a delightful time.

Know Your Newcomers.



_ If one is fortunate enough to have a.

southern woman in the community, it

would be a. splendid plan to let her

prepare the Aid dinner according to

her home ways, of ecurse, soliciting

all the help she needs from other

members. She probably knows some

nice ways of entertaining that we

don’t know, too, and if she happens to

be musical, I’ll gua1antee she knows

-some pretty music that would be new

to us.



A real New England woman or a

Western woman may prove equally

valuable and if one could secure the



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HAT woman is there that,



some time in her life, has

not made a quilt! And, too,

nearly everyone of us has one

or more of those beautifully

pieced treasures that have been

handed down to us from grand-

mother’s day.



Home-made quilts are coming

into their own again, so for a

contest this week, send in a copy

of your favorite quilt block pat-

tern. If DOSS-lule, send in a cloth

block that you have made, and

tell how the blocks are arranged.

Otherwise, send in a. drawing of

the pattern.



. For the three most attractive.

quilt patterns, we will give

handy oak recipe files; with-~a

complete set of filing cards for

all of your recipes.



Send your patterns to Martha

Cole, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,

Michigan. The contest closes .

November 12.





Tempting TOastWiches





Try T lzem and Surpnlre t/re Folk:





other slice of buttered toast, spread

with minced hard boiled egg which

has been blended with mayonnaise,

and cover with another thin slice of

buttered toast. This makes a splendid

Sunday night lunch.





Toastwiches a la Chicken.





Mince left-over chicken, and, to each

cup add one cup of minced celery, one

tablespoon of pimento and blend with

mayonnaise. Serve on warm buttered

toast.





Plain sand— ‘





Ham and Egg Dandy.





On a thin slice of buttered toast, ar-

range a thin slice of fried ham, dot

with bits of mustard dressing and cov-

er with another slice of buttered toast.

Place a poached or fried egg on each

sandwich and serve hot for supper or

breakfast. '





Here are some other suggestions

that will utilize left-overs in an appe-

tizing way:





Mash bananas to a. pulp and to each

banana add one-quarter cup of chopped

peanuts.



Mince celery and combine with sear-

soned cottage cheese. ‘



Grind cooked ham with sweet pick-

les and moisten with salad dressing.



Flake salmon, add a few chopped

pickles, and moisten with salad dresfi‘

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as it is today is one

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farm. The G-E

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No. 304—One-piece Frock. Cut in

sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 .inches

bust measure. The 36-inch Size re-

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2% yards of ribbon. _



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requires 4% yards of 40-inch material

with % yard of 18-inch contrasting.



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TO CLEAN FUR.





 





I would like to restore the original

gloss on my browu fur collar.—-Miss

M. 0.





To clean any dark fur, put some

new bran into a pan on the stove and

heat very hot, stirring so as not to

burn. Rub this thoroughly into" the

fur several times. Then shake and

brush the fur until it is free from dust.





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I want to paint a table, but it has

grease spots on it which soap and

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can I use to remove the grease so as

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Whitewash grease spots at night,

wash off in the morning and let dry

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Please tell me how to make hom-

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Dissolve four tablespoonfuls of lye

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to use on my piano.—-Mrs. B



Of course, there are‘many commer-

cial polishes on the market that are

very good, but you can make this one

at home. Mix equal parts of vinegar,

turpentine and linseed oil. Saturate

a‘flannel with this solution and rub

the piano well. Polish with a Chamois

skin.





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help of a genuine foreign woman it

would be a treasure indeed. Yes, I

hear someone say, “She’s ignorant of

our ways and wouldn’t know how to

help.” Maybe she is, but a. good many

of them surprise us when they have

a chance. They prove quicker to grasp

a new idea, and a college‘education

isn’t absolutely essential in the prep-

aration of a dinner, playing a game,

or singing a song.



About the most capable woman I





know, and certainly one of the best,





cooks, lived in Denmark till she was

eighteen years old; and a. delightful

little woman who used to live beside

my mother-in—law spent most of her

life in Italy. If you want something

honestly new and worth—while and ed-

ucational, hunt up some of these un-

discovered treasures—we can’t all ex-

pect to find Porto Rican college grad-

uates (like ours) but anyone from an

appreciable distance will have novel

ideas worth using—Mrs. A. M. E.





 





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making the Jack O’ Lantern for

Hallowe’en when they went to

call on the Little Old Lady that

they wanted to go to her house real

often. So the very next Saturday af-

ternoon, when their chores were done,

they were off to the Little Old Lady’s

house again.

“Good afternoon, we have brought

you some chestnuts,” greeted Tilly and

Billy as the Little Old Lady opened





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They Waited Patiently for Several

Minutes.





the door in answer to their knock.



“Thank you, my dears,” said the

surprised Little Old Lady. “Do come

right in.” '





A warm fire was blaz'ng on the”

hearth. The day Was cod and they.





gathered about it, rubbing their hands

to a warm glow. “I Wonder if some

of those chestnuts are not Wishing

Chestnuts,” said the Little Old Lady.

“Wishing Chestnuts?” asked Tilly.

“What are they?”

“Do tell us,” urged Bill .





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said the Little Old Lady, as she took

three of the nuts from the sack and

placed them on the fireshovel. “Now

we will each choose one for our own.”



“I’ll take the one with the longest

tail,” said Billy.



“I’ll take the one that is all flat on

one side for mine,” said Tilly .



“That leaves the big round fat one

for you,” said Billy to the Little Old

LadY.



“Thanks,” answered the Little Old

Lady. “Now we will each make a.

wish on our chestnuts, but we must

not tell each other what we wish until

our wish comes true.”





So Billy wished for a new bobsled .





for Christmas, and Tilly wished for a.

new pair of skates. The Little Old

Lady wished that the children might

always be as happy as they were right‘

then. . ,



Then Tilly held the shovel with the

chestnuts on it, over the fire. “Now

the first one whose chestnut pops open

will get their wish,” said the Little

Old Lady.





‘They waited patiently for several

minutes. Then the chestnut with the

longest tail quivered and, rolled over;

“Oh, oh!” said Billy. “Look! it’s get

mg to pop.” .



But it didn’t.



“Mine’s moving, too,” said Tilly.

“Watch out!”



And right then something went

“pop” but it wasn’t neither Billy’s nor.

Tilly’s chestnuts.

one on which the Little Old Lady had

madeher wish. * ,





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the Little Old Lady had, gotten her





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Wind. Then as he fared on in the

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and he set his teeth and charged at

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pride shrivel before the terrible fact

that the baby might. pay the price—“If

she dies,” he had heard Jake Mullet.

say, “VVe’ll all know who killed her.”

“Oh. God, Oh, God!” Stephen Mine

said.



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he seemed to feel a lull, a silence. He

went on.



it, was before his gate that, he stum-

bled over something, yielding and

mounded in the road. He stooped,

touched the man, and with that which

now at last is no decision, but merely

the second nature of the race. he got

him into. his arms and to his own

door.



At. the sound Hannah flung the door

open, and from the dark and wind and

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threshold with “’aldo in his arms.

Stephen looked down at him as he

would have looked at any other man.

“How is she?" was all that his lips

formed.



“Alive.” said Hannah Mine. .



\V'aldo opened his eyes, and his

snow-crusted mitten tried to find its,

Way to his pocket. 1

‘fl brought something,” he said. “We I

had it left, give it to her~—” . I

At midnight when, the message hav— .

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ing. But there’s a man here a friend

of ours-sick and done for. VVe’ve got,

him into bed. Come and have a look

at him.”



Up some measureless corridor \Val-

do at last struggled. when many days

had passed. And at. its far end it

seemed to him that Stephen’s face was

waiting. That was queer, because it

had been years since Stephen had wait,-

ed for him. Yet, there he was. only

back of him was still that dead wall.

which neither of them could pass, and

beyond it lay that old hatred and bit-

terness, accumulated through the

years. And then there was the child—

he must find the child.



One day he opened his eyes on that

corridor and saw it, clear. A homely

room, now his own, about; which Steph—

en and Hannah were moving, and a

neighbor in homely talk beside the

stove.



“——honestly, you’ll have to move out

to make room for the truck they’ve

brought him. The whole Open has

lugged somethin’ here.”



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“Well. I’ll always be proud it was

my husband found Lissa‘s little red

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Then a child came to hang in the

doorway, and to stare at the bed where

Waldo was lying: and when she saw

his eyes looking at her, she smiled

and ran away Stephen’s child, safe

and well and smiling.



Waldo lay still. But in his heart,

there was a certain singing. And it

was as if he had stood close to that

dead wall of hatred which he had

feared, but‘ its door had swung open,

and, 10, there was nothing there.





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I WASN’T going to write again right‘

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“stuff” is a slow poison, and nearly

everyone knows it. .



So Herbert dared to bet money that

everyone has taken a glass of home-

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I do not use it and have never drunk

t. Just because I have used none, I

0 not consider that I have missed

anything great—An M. 0., George

Nichols.





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As we glance down the news items

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sider, we will, without doubt, know

different.



I do not believe that these miserable

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an awful extent they lower themselves

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would certainly choose a more highly

respected position in life.



The United States is usually consid-

ered a Christian nation, but does it

hold true to that high standard?

There are numerous reasons why it

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drunkenness! We see the effects of

it everywhere; we hear of a fatal

wreck. We investigate; what do we

find?——drunkenness! It is sweeping

our country down to destruction at a

miraculous rate.



This may be painting a shadowy pic-

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tain under such lowering circum:

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These men (?) should be dealt with

very severely to warn others of the

same class, what is hanging over them

if they are so Weak as to follow their

unlawful brother.



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liquor, it would be absolutely unsafe

for us to travel about in our cars.

Herbert, you certainly could not have





- at. Herbert





M. C’r. Dzlrpuz‘e Hz} Pro/ziéiz‘z'mz View:





weighed this problem carefully. Think

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years of the saloon, were wont to lie

dead drunk in some ditch or fence cor-

ner. Let us follow these men now; a





very small per cent of them use alco-'





hol now; still it is far too many. As

I write I have in mind/a father and

his son, both users of that deadly stuff

which will soon make them into hated

old men, shunned by everyone.



Now, Herbert, you seem to favor

saloons. Will you please go with me

through this which I am about to

write? Have you a sweetheart? if

you hav‘e not, let us imagine you have.

She thinks the world of you, and you

seem to return her regard, but can

you really do so if you drink that

death—dealing liquor? Think of her

putting her sweet trust in you, and

you half drunk. YVould you not be

ashamed of yourself?



I have much more to write, but will

close with a Bleeding Heart.





 





 





From the Home—comers





 





 





Finds Teaching interesting;

Dear Uncle Frank:



Ever since I became interested in

school, I have wondered what it would

be like to teach. I am occupied in the

discovery now, and find it very inter-

esting.



I am still waiting to hear from" oth—

ers of the Circle, but I am almost giv-

ing up hope.

niece, Wilma Fry, Vestabury, Mich.



If your teaching is as good as the

letters and poems you have sent to

our page, I know that your plipils will

be fortunate in having such a good

teacher. .





Work Together, M. C.’s.





Another year has passed and it is

Home-coming \Veek again for the Mer-

ry Circlers. And just to think, there

are 13,000 M. C.’s now. Isn’t that grand?

If they are all spreading happiness

and “Working to win,” I’m sure there

are lots of industrious fellows in this

nook of the United States. '



I always read the Boys’ and Girls’

page, and it is interesting to read the

letters from all parts of the state. I

am at home assisting mama in giving

my little twin brothers their early ed-

ucation, which I enjoy most of all.

Yes, and I’m helping gather in the

crops and getting everything ready for

winter, probably just like all the rest

of you folks are doing. I like to see

the crops harvested, and eat the nice

juicy fruit, and, too, I’d miss winter

if it didn’t come, but really, I do, like

summer best.



Now, boys and girls, justkeep on

writing letters, we all enjoy them, and

Uncle Frank, you’re at the helm of our

Merry Circle doing good work, so keep





right on. Whether you are tall, short,





fat or slim, pretty or ugly, you are





Uncle Frank, and that you’ll be right.





to the end of the chapter. So, with





best wishes to all, I remain, an older





M. C., Fern. M. Funderburg, Mesick,

Mich., R. No. 2.





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things worth while. .





M. C. Friendships Valuable.

If the Merry Circle did nothing else

than to create new friends, it would

be of value. Not only does it function,





thus, but is a source of weekly inter-





est, spurs one to friendly, zealous com-



fietition, and, sets some fine ideals of

uinan nature and every-day life.

Just a word now, about the friends





. I found via the Merry Circle. The first





was the young man. I first heard from

him years ago. Since then, many let-

ters and snapshots have been exchang-

ed, yarns swapped, ‘and accounts of

the everyday life each is living. This

is especially interesting, Since I live

in lower Michigan and he lives in the

Upper Peninsula, both locations being

somewhat dissimilar as to~tempera-

ture, vegetation and geographical con-

struction.



The second, and none the less a

friend, is of much shorter duration.

About nine months, I believe. The

young lady lives in a southern por-

tion of the Lower Peninsula, and here,

too, letters and snapshots were ex-

changed, experiences and various hap-

penings. All very interesting indeed.



The recent discussion taking place

in our departments have been lively

and interested me a great deal. I have

been tempted to write an opinion oc-

casionally, but it might crowd out the

regular members. How about it?



Perhaps you, and the Merry Circ-

lers, too, would like to know what I

am doing now.



Yes, still on the farm. A great deal

of the housework falls on me since

my mother has been crippled with

rheumatism for years. I can scarcely

remember when she. could walk. I am

twenty-one now. You fellows who

cringe under such duties, it won’t hurt

you, and the knowledge thus gained

surely won’t come amiss.



I have an unusually fine three-tube

reflex regenerative radio ,set which I

built myself over two years ago. It

is a modified Roberts circuit and does

more than many five-tube sets, I know.

I also do auto repairing. Mostly for





, my own folks. Enough, however, since





we have a seven-passenger touring

car for family use, and recently my

brother acquired a coupe to drive to

school. He is getting ready to teach.

I have a seventeen roadster. We have

a tractor and a stationary engine. We

change about so I get to work outside

part of the time.





Well, Uncle Frank, if you see any-

thing in this you may print it. At any

rate, I am still your nephew, John O.

Roberts, Breckenridge, Mich.



I believe all will admire you for

your busy-ness, even though it in-

cludes much hard work. There is as

much to housework as there is to out-

door work. I know, for I have done

both.





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THE GOLDEN CIRCLE.





T has been some time since we gave



Golden Circle buttons. The other

day I went over the pages from Our

Page from mid-summer to the resent

time, and have picked the fo lowng

as those having done creditable things

worthy of the Golden Circle honors:



“Ginger” for comments on the “Out-

cast;” Toni Marshall, for his several

interesting letters; Betty Ann, for sug—

gesting clubs for older ones; Ada Car-

penter, Bronson, Mich., for comments

on sweethearts; I. E. K., for the poem,

“One August Eve;” Fred Bessler, of

Engadine, Mich., for his efforts in mak-

ing up school; Christine Zeck, Algo-

nac, Mich., for her good letter of July

.24; June Nelson, Filicn, Mich., for her

several good letters; George Nichols,

for his several good letters; “Wolver-

ine, for discussion on fitting ourselves

for life; Florence Litkowski, Saginaw,

Mich., f.or her letter in September 11

issue, on Gardening; “Freckles,” for

her poem letter of August 28; “Bru-

nette,” for her sensible letter of Oc-

tober 2; Aggie, for her letter on school

activities in October 16 issue; “Bleed-

ing Heart,” for her letter on prohibi-

iton.



The Golden Circle button and card

will .be sent to those mentioned above

whose addresses we have. We would

like the address of Tern Marshall, and

names and addresses of Ginger, Betty





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Ann,” I. E. K., Wolverine, Freckles, cfly under the water.





Brunette, Aggie, and Bleeding Heart.

Please send them to Uncle Frank, and

put Golden Circle on the outside of

your envelope.





READ-AND-WIN.





OME of you may not remember the



Read-and-Win contests, as it has

been so long since we have had any.

They are one of the first kind of con-

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your contest paper, write your name

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Merry Circler, put M. C. after your

name. Then put the answers down in

as short form as possible and give the

number of the page on which you

found the answer. It is not necessary

to repeat the question, but number

each answer the same as the question.



The prizes will be given for the

neatest correct papers. This time we

will give five prizes for girls and five

for boys. The first prize for the best

girl’s paper will be. beads and a handy

clutch pencil, the next four will be

dandy beads. To‘ the boy sending in

the best paper we will givel a fine

clutch pencil and cuff links, the next

four will receive cuff links. Boys, here

is a chance for boys to compete

against boys, not against girls, and a

good chance to win a prize.



This contest closes November 12, so

be sure to send your contest papers to

Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer, De-

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Here are the questions:





1. Where does fermentation destroy

the corn borer?



2. _How much epsom salts should

be given as a dose to poultry?



'3. How much have lamb receipts

diminished since September?



4. How much has cow testing in-

creased the value of cows in Newaygo

county? '



5. In 1876 how much did women

teachers get?



6. How much did a Spanish dinner

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Dear Uncle Frank:



\Vhat under the broad blue sky is

all of this jangling about concerning

our page head? I think the old one

was all right, and I also think the

idea of changing it was all right. The

design by Peter, I call very good.



This is only a suggestion, but I be-

lieve it would be 0. K. to use this

one for a‘ year, then have another con-

test for a new page head. A change

now and then ought to keep the

grouch away from our Merry Circlers

and keep their spirits high. “’hat do

you think about it, Uncle Frank?—An

M. C. boy writer, George Nichols,

Thompsonville, Mich.



Thanks for your suggestion. A

change once in a while is welcome,





even if the present thing is very good.





Hi, There: ‘



I have written several times, but

my letters don’t seem to escape the

fate of a violent death. I think the

cussin’s and discussin’s are dandy.

Sure, I think powder and a little

rouge. are all right. Shiny noses aren’t

espeCially interesting I like knickers

for sports and outdoor work, too, and

wha’s the matter with reasonably

short dresses, and rolled stockings, if

your knees are. clean?



However, I hate to see boys—yes,

and girls do too—smoke, or drink, and

swearing IS worse yet. It’s just a lot

of bad habits and does no good. and

a great deal of harm.——Love to all the

cous1ns, “Joe.”



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than the job some girls do to their

faces. Discretion should be used in

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I say “amen” to-your expression re-

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N 'October 8, the Ottawa-Coopers-

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This is a reorganization of the old

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in America. This association contin-

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of fat. This, compared with a year

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pounds of milk and 273.0 pounds of

fat, is one of the largest steps in

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The leading cow is owned by Jacob

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horn, produced at eleven years of age,

16,039 pounds of milk and 633.0 pounds

of fat. This is a new county record

for all breeds. The high herd, also

owned by Jacob Kishman, produced an

average of 11,121 pounds of milk, con-

taining 456.84 pounds of fat. This also

established a new county record.



There is another cow in.the associ-

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one, deserves honorable mention, at

least. This is “Dandelion,” a. twenty-

year-old grade Jersey, owned by Ed.

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of milk, containing 413.2 pounds of fat,

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LAMB RECEIPTS ARE SMALLER.





ECE’IPTS of lambs ht. the seven



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cently advanced to the highest point

since early in September, but soon

lost a large share of the gains. Re-

ceipts of range lambs have diminished

more than natives, and the supply of

thin lambs suitable for feedlots has

been reduced accord"igly. Prices for

highly finished lambs are likely to

strengthen further, but intermediate

kinds may be rather plentiful in the

next two months, while lambs now

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CATTLE FEEDING 0N DECREASE.





- ‘SHRINKAGE in cattle feeding in



the corn belt during the coming

winter is indicated by reports to the

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in July, August and September were

less than at any time since. 1921, and

prices indicate a shortage of stocker

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On the other hand, increased feed-

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months period from July to October,

were 30,000 head, or nearly thirty-five

per cent larger than last year. Direct

shipments to feeders not going through

markets are also reported as much

larger than last year.





Two carloads of grade cows from

Allegan county herds were sold at the

National Dairy Show. These cows all

had records in cow tesdng associa-

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THE drop in the death rate brought

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treating tuberculosis and improved

sanitary conditions in the home has

resulted in a saving at the present

time ofrnore than 120,000 lives annu-

ally, said Dr. L. R. Williams at the

annual meeting of the National Tuber-

culosis Association in Washington. A

reduction in the death rate from tu-

berculosis in the United States from

200.6 per 100,000 inhabitants in 1904,

to ninety per cent in 1925 has been

effected.



It is believed that the campaign of

bovine tuberculosis eradication con-

ducted by the bureau of animal indus-

try in cooperation with the farmers,

has had much to do with the decrease.

in cases of human tuberculosis. The

bureau reports that for the country as

a whole, the per cent of tuberculous

cattle declined from 3.3 per cent in

1924, to 2.8 per cent in 1926.





CATTLE PRICES FLUCTUATE.





 





ATTLE runs recently have been

highly uneven from week to week

and prices have been erratic in con-

sequence. At present, the market is

in the process of recovering from an-

other temporary glut, during which

,Chicago had the largest run for one

lday in more than three. years. Prices

‘rally quickly from breaks, revealing a

healthy situation in the dressed beef

trade. .

Further erratic moves in cattle pric-

es, with various classes taking oppo-

site trends, are probable in the next

three or four months. Receipts in the

last ten days have averaged lighter

than in the preceding month. suggest-

ing that the peak of receipts for the

season has been passed. The shrink-

age will be'chiefly in grass fat cattle

and stocks-rs and feeders, however. A

little later on, supplies of short-feds

and warmed—up kinds will increase.

Some gain in prices of lower grades

of beef steers is probable in the next

two months, while intermediate kinds

are likely to swing over a rather wide

range, with no well defined trend.

Prices of long-fed cattle are likely to

show relative strength until close to

the end of the year, after which some

decline is probable.





 





Beef cows and heifers are close to

the low point of the year. The sum-

mer period of low prices in this divis-

ion has been on a leyel $1.00 to $1.50

higher than in either of the past three

years, and $2.00 higher than four years

ago. This market may continue rather

iweak for another month, but a rising

ltrend is not far ahead. The same

lholds true of bulls and canners and

cutters. Veal calf prices held on a

lofty pinnacle for. two months, but

have started downward at last. The

market is already down $3.00 from the

high point, and a further decline of

$2.00 is probable before the bottom is

reached.



Lighter winter cattle feeding in the

corn belt is forecast in a report by the

United States Department of Agricul-

ture, which has taken into account the

numbers shipped into these states up

to October 1, supplies of cattle produc-

ed locally, the size of the corn crop,

and the probable effects of returns

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months. Owing to .the smaller corn

crop, numbers fed in Nebraska and

Kansas are not likely to reach such

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Thus far, feeders have shown a decid-

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the hog fed too heavy and one-sided a

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150 acres will be sold.





C. P. Rowe, Adm..





' Howard Nichols, Prop.

N. A. Morrish, Auctioneer





 





two miles East of

For Salt by-Templalon Farms Dexter, in Solo Town-

ship. fourteen pure-bred Holstein heifers from one to

three years old. Very reasonable prices.





 





HEREFORD STEERS





' 00 1h. (‘9 Wt. around 1000 lbs.

22 fit. around 11 q , “25 lbs.





74 “’t. around 725 lbs. 81 Wt. around



45 Wt. around 550 lbs. 50 Wt. around 500 lbs.

Good quality. dark reds, dehorned. well marked

Hereford Steers. Good grass fleSh. The beet type





are usually market toppers when finished. Will sell

your choice of one car load from any bunch. Cu:

also show you Shorthorn Steers. yrls or 2 yr old.





. Van D. Baldwin, Eldon,Wapello C0,, Iowa.





HEREFORDS 5 bulls around a year old.

‘ also bred rows and heif-

ers. Repeaters and Woodfnrd breeding at farmer’s

prices. ALLEN BROTHERS, ll8 Burdlck Arcade.

Kalamazoo. Mich-





' read for service: and



Chmce Jersey Bulls bullycalvea. for m.



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



PARKER. Howell. Mich.



15 Com. 4 Bulls from B. of M. Cows. Chance to

select from hard of 70. Some froth. other: bred



for {all freshening. Colon C. Lillie. Cooperavulc. Mich.





. - t-h Id. I

Majesty Strain Jersey ,Bull :0 1333,." 3...”?

dam, $00. CLARENCE COBB. R. 6. Ionic. Mloh.





Additional Stock Ads. on Page: 484 and p485





 

 

 

 





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idea as to price. Take the very item

of butter which we have been discus-

sing. A number of gentlemen in New

York, as I am informed, meet daily

and issue a proclamation which fixes

the price of butter for the day. This

is telegraphed all over the United

States. Since the price of butter very

largely determines the price of other

dairy products, the action of these

gentlemen in New York practically de-





termines what the dairy farmers all





over the United States shall receive





[for their product.





Of necessity as commerce grows, or—

ganized, and therefore centralized, buy-

ing grows. Buyers naturally are inter-





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ested in a low price. Now, if the pro—

ducers are unorganized they can have

no voice as to what the price shall be.

They are not permitted even to sug-

gest a price which they think is fair.





 





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BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY





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Twelve Davs before date of publication.





 





 





 





 





     





 





   





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WILD WOOD FARMS





ORION. MICHIGAN

W. E.SORIPPS.Prop. SIDNEY SMITH. Sup.





It costs the same

per pound to ship

average beef ani»

mals to market as

it does prime beef

animals, yet the

latter dress 10%

more.





 





 





 





 





' ‘11]! by side. A150

Registered Guernsey Cow imam-ea Guernsey

bull, Grand Champion Oakland (‘ounty Fair, D1322;



Ill.





son of Grand Champion State Fair, 1020-21.

Advanced Registry record 11,710.20 milk, 574.48 but-

ter-fat as 2-yr.-old. FRANK LOCKHART, R. No.

I, Birmingham, Mich. Telephone 7000 R-2 Redford.





0R SALE—Two young Guernsey bulls, one born

FMarch 25. 1925; has A. R. damn. One born Octo-

ber 26. 1925. FRANK E. ROB$ON.~Room 303. M.

c. R. R. Depot Building, Detroit, Mich.





Registered GuernScy females.

bull calves. 415 lbs. butter—

JOHN SHOEMAKER.

(Phone Jamestown Ex.)





FOR SALE





{at herd average in C. T. A.

No. 2. Hudsonville. Mich.





F - practically pure—bred GUERNS’EY or HOL-

OR STEIN calves. from heavy, rich million.





write EDGEWOOD DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater. Wll.





Dairy Heifer Calves. practically

Guernsey pure bred $25.00 each. We ship

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



10 Registered Guernsey Bulls. almost

For sale ready for service. May Rose breeding.

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





0N EY M A K E RS—Two Guernsey females to

freshen soon. One bull calf. six months old.

G. A. WIGENT, Watervliot, Mich.





'71:" THE TOP





A Colantha. cow from our herd'was high butter-fat

cow in Cow Testing Assooistion work in MiFhigan in

1925.: This herd of cows averaged 11.988 lbs. milk

and 588 lbs. butter in'1925.



Type? Colanths. Bulls from cows standing high

in Official and Cow Testing work insure, unusual

production. Ask us about them.





MePHERSON FARM 00.,

’ Howell, Michigan





 





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‘A price is arrived at in some mysteri—

ious way in the commercial. centers

land that price is flashed over the coun-

try. The producer, of course, has the

option of refusing the price. But of

what avail is this? \Vhat he needs is

power somewhere to be exercised in

his interest to at least suggest a price

as a basis for negotiations, and this

power can not come into being until

the producers are organized.





It is interesting to note how one

form of farm organization in Den-

mark has led to another. Before the

fieoperative—creamery was established,

‘leach farmer was inclined to be satis-

lfied with his own cows. He had no

means of comparing their production

with that of other cows. He inherited

them from his father and was quite

content. When, however, the farmers

-of a neighborhood joined together and

iestablished a cooperative creamery, it

‘was unavoidable that everyone should

know what his neighbors’ cows were

doing. He soon learned that some of

them whose cows did not appear to be

any better than his own, were receiv-

ing much larger milk checks than he

received. This naturally stimulated

his interest in improving the quality

of his herd. Better herds increased

the volume of business of the cooper-

ative and therefore the management

of the cooperative was likewise inter-

ested. Out of this grew what they

call their control associations, which

are similar to our cow testing assoica-

tions. And now, for the first time, was

the Danish farmer able to distinguish

between his profitable and his unprof-

itable COWS. He may have found that

his unprofitable cows were due to the

use of an unsatisfactory bull. If he

were a small farmer, of course, he

could not afford to own a high-priced

bull himself. And so another form of

organization arose, working along side

by side with these two others. That

organization was composed of small





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Them... ’ Point the“





(Continued from first page).





 





Swedish Folk Dancing in Rural Com munities.





farmers living in the Same vicinity~

who joined together to purchase and.





 





own in common a. first-class bull. In

this way the smallest farmer was put

on terms of equality with the largest

farmer, so far as the use of a. hull

was concerned. Through the cow test-

ing associations unprofitable cows

were eliminated. Through the bull

clubs, the quality of the cows remain-

ing was greatly improved.



The result of all these cooperative .

efforts is instructive. The annual yield

of milk per cow in 1881\Was 3,306

pounds and the yield of butter-fat was

106 pounds. These figures have been

increased, until in 1923, the last year

for which there are any figures avail-

able, the average production of milk





 





per cow was 6,590 pounds, and of but-

ter-fat 240 pounds. It will thus be

seen that through the methods above

described, there has not only been an

increase of about 100 per cent in the

production of milk per cow, but a still

larger per cent of butter-fat content in

the milk.



There are no better-individual cows

in Denmark than in the United States.

In fact, I saw no cows while there that

I think are the equal of our best cows

here. In Denmark, though, there are

few poor cows, while in America they

predominate. And so our average pro-

duction per cow in America is about

4,000 pounds—almost forty per cent

less than in Denmark. They attribute

this vast improvement in production

almost altogether to the organized ef-

forts of the farmers of Denmark in

the ways I have pointed out.



In the early stages of the coopera-

tive creamery, it was difficult to get

the farmers to take the skim—milk for5

fear that some ‘of the milk at the

creamery was from tubercular cows.

The use of this milk would, of course,

injure the hogs. To meet this objec—

tion, a law was enacted by which it

was made compulsory upon all of the

creameries of the country to heat the

skim-milk to a‘ temperature which

would destroy all tuberculosis germs.



After the cooperatives had improved

the qhality of their butter so that they

were receiving the highest prices in

the London market, they adopted a

trade-mark called “Lur.” “Lur” is the

name of a kind of horn which the

primitive Danes had used in assemb-

ling their people to battle. This trade—

mark had become of great value. In

1906 Parliament enacted a law by

which no exports of butter could be

made that did not bear this brand.

Government inspection was establish-

ed and the brand could not be used

unless the product was of the high

quality that the cooperatives has es-

tablished. The use of the “Lur” brand,

however, was not dimited to‘ the co-

operatives. Any \one whose product

met the reduirements as to quality

could employ it. In view. of the fact,

though, that the brand and-its value





 





 





had been created by the cop ti e





 

   





 





 





 





 





 





 





EVEN cows out of ten sufler from



_ lo , laz digestion and assimila-



tion w en ta en from the pasture and

put on heavy, ‘hard—to-digest feeds.





It is a danger signal—the cow needs

outside help if she is to milk at a profit

and avoid disorders. Kow-Kare brings

surprising milk gains to cows on win-

ter feed because this concentrated

tonic actively strengthens the diges

tion and milk-assimilation. It make.

the feed consumed turn into milk,

without loss. - .





Each year thousands more cows are

being fed Kow—Kare with their feed.

Their owners find it more than pays its

slight cost—and cow disorders are 8.1.

most unknown where Kow—Kare is

used. To insure the maximum milk .

flow— and especially for its tonic effect

when cows are freshening there are

genuine added profits from feeding

Kow—Kare.





In treating diseases such as Barren.

ness, Retained Afterbirthn—Abortion,

Bunches, Scours, Lost Appetite, etc,

Kow—Kare has a 30-year reputation

known to almost every da . an. It

is the‘ country’s biggest-so ling .cow

medicine and conditioner. Full direc-

tions for use on each can.



Feed dealers, general stores, druggists

have Kow-Kare—$l.25 and 650 sizes,

(six large cans, $6.26). Full directions on

the can. Mail orders sent postpaid if

your dealer is not supplied.



1;

Dairy Assn. Co., Inc., Lyndonville, Vt.





Mum of Kim-Kim. Bu Bahia. Gram Germ

Romady, A guru-u limo Tonic. no.





KOW-KARE

fimous Condzfioner

9' Milclz Co we





   

     

 





 





 





Combine Type and Production





in your herd by using a son of College Butter

Boy. We are using one of his sons from a

39-lb. cow in the Pontiac State Hospital

herd. College Butter Boy moments a strong

combination of Hengerveld DeKol and Pon-

tiac Butter Boy breeding and his calves are

excellent individuals - . .

We have one of his sons from a. 21-lb. 3—yr.—

old whose dam has a 365~day record. of 977

lbs. butter.





Send for pedigrm o! 215.

“MICHIGAN STATE HERBS."





fl . Bureau of

m...” Animal Industry

Dept. c -





 





 





Lansing, Michigan





 





 





mi registered Guernsey Bulls.

9 mos. mu mold. out





FOR. SALE





of demo with g





 

   





 

 





ERNEST minus. cocoon“. gig.





 





00d Cow rampant-i" mop Records. ‘

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‘ Orion Kim: breeding. . coed tyne and size. Will





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Drinking Cups Pay

For Themselves



IN 90 '

DAYS





87% of Milk is Water





Unless a cow has from 15 to 20

gallons of water a day, she can-

not give her maximum supply of

milk. When winter comes, cows

that have to go outside and stand

in the cold biting winds for wat-

er will (not drink enough and

milk production will fall 011'.

J amesway Drinking Cups enable

your cows to drink all the pure, fresh water they Sta] s

want when they want it—day or night.





11 us

Don’t go through this winter without J amesway Cu 3

Drinking Cups—they’ll more than pay for them: {32;}; rs

selves in 90 days. Put them in your barn and genf'aunfi

0 3’8 ems,

Pay for Them Out of Extra Profits etc. etc.





Test. :ecc..tly made on 28 herds proved that Janiesway

Drinking Cups increased the profits more than $29 a

year on each cow. Every 90 days you put off ordering

Jamesway Drinking Cups you are paying for them inlosti

profits and not getting them.





Write for Free Catalog





Get the facts about Jamesway Drinking Cups—why

they are the best cups made—how they pay for them-

selves. Our catalog tells the whole story. .Also describes

the complete Jamesway line of Barn Equipment, Stalls,



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Write today to office nearest you.





JAMES MAN’F’G (30., Dept. 1410





FLAtldnsonJVis. Elmira, N.Y. Minneapolis, Minn.





Last Call!! Fifth State Sale!





Michigan Holstein—Friesian Association

State College, .East Lansing, Mich. ,





Wednesday, November 10, 1926





Sale Starts at 12 (noon) Eastern Standard Time





44 Young cows fresh or due soon; 15 with good C. T. A. records, eight out of C. T. A.

dams. Seven day records up to over 33 lbs.





9 Good serviceable bulls from good blood lines, good record dams.





J. G. HAYS, Sale Mgr., East Lansing, Michigan





JERSEY FEMALEshHaring bought the entire herd D UROC JERSEYS, Fall and Spring Bears from

H. B. Wattles. llodxester. Jerseys. have some large prolific strains. Write or come and see

surplus cows and heifers to sell. Also closing out 6 them. JESSE BLISS & SON, Henderson. Mich.

Shortly-)1“: cows and heifers. IRA W. .lAYNE. Fen- -

ton. to .





DAVISON MICH. . ‘ q r‘t f~ I\ "h-

Breeders of Shorl'thlolr‘gngttlh and Dul‘OC Jersey Swine. FOR SALE ?£;%n?)i::§$3,. ‘fl‘gfiffifsbi‘g’nt‘yIHp,

' hav severe if ' > ' " . ,. . .

lhiing bills priced. to sell, (hisS wilsgrcfillihrtfXdllgstfiiclll C; hogs. Some of bthe .9122: Dwigééfianfl5110251degill;

l‘tmm. Also. a. few spring gills and boars. extra. good mer bred. sued S ' , ‘





" "' Grand Model," the best two~year~old boar I ever

and priced light. ALEX BRUCE' Herdsman. owned. A boar or sow from this herd adds prestige





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

F 1 - ]1_ C . '. l t .

SHOR HORNS 01 5a t “WWI itflh





good cows . .

calves at foot. and bred again. Also bulls and hcif— Roars for fall breeding With

or» sired by Maxwalton Mot-k or lidglink Victor. two Duroc Jerseys H‘IH‘ “."d quality. j

of” tin; good. bulls Oll the breed. Will make \cri‘ DRODT. R- ”0- '1 Monroe. M‘Oh'



a rac we prices on-a of these cattle. GOTFRED-

SON FARMS, Ypsilanti. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Also other





UROCS——Supcr Co'l. boars and gilts.

FARM.





Well-bred boars. SHAFLEY STOCK

HAROLD SHAFLEY. St. Johns. Mich.





 





 





 





D Buy your llcrd Boar out of Michi-

UI‘OCS gun’s (il'fllld l‘hnmpinn—a real boar





' ' [if t .' . . . No. Adams. Mich.



Milking Shorlhorns For Sale figggnbvg gfipfgfnbe‘; W’- ’ M W'LL'AMS



and November. One Roan. eight months old bull calf. - Big type Mart-h



one five year old, grandson of Glenside Dairy King, Pleasant VleW DUROCS 13031.3, double im.



kind and gentle. Inquiries solicited. Visitors wel— mimcd. C. R. BURLINGAME, Marshall, Mich.



game. finale? reasonable. BELAND & BELAND.



_ocum.le ' ' - of good type and breeding.

B t t m d heed, Bum ChGSlel While Boats Will ship (3. 0. D. w. H.



Shorthorns es 0 qua. .37 an 1' BIL . BENTLEY. R. I. Lenox. Much.





cows and heifers for sale. BIDWELL.

I . .

0.I.C- HOG-S on lime Echo‘s;





STOCK FARM. Box D. Tecumseh. Mich.

Originator: and most extensive breeders.





SHORTHORNS for beef and milk. A few heifers



and cows for sale. Rodney's Model in service. ‘



W- 5- MORR'SH- 3- 5. Flint Mlch- THE L. B. SILVER 00., Box l96, Salem, Ohio



Brown SWlSS Bulls “.53; “ah“isitxsritewfiod: O. I. C’s. 5 Choice Young Boars



A. A. FELDKAMP. Manchester. Mich. CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe. Mich.



HOGS o.



a . - - - THOMPSON. Rockford. Mich.



Ever-ya Berkshires Always reliable.





priced reasonable. Spring boars. B. T. P. C. BOAR PIGS





W. H. Every. Manchester. Mich.

sired by Mich. State Fair Grand (‘hampion We raised





DUR him last. year. Our herd is highest winner in Michigan

this year. Our pigs weigh pounds. not all. legs. Also

~' fall pigs by the great “Wolverine" priced for No-

. Vember delivery. Call at the farm or write G. W.

Boars and GlltS NEEDHAM. Saline. Mich.

l ' ' for 20 vcars I know that

i . ‘ Breedln POlafld Bhlnas I pnn 1319359 you, Boar's

Lakefield Farms, ClaTkSton, MlCll. for saleg ROBT. MARTIN. Woodland. Mich.

. ' ' . ring boars and gilts.

Duroc Spring Boars Big Type Poland chinas 32. 1...... of mm... and

Col. breeding, April fmow. Write for description individuals you will like. GEORGE F. ALDRICH.

find pricess k F R. No. 6. lonia. Mich.

ties toc .

'0 ‘rm" 0R SALE—LARGE TYPE Poland China. sorting





. ' ‘ gilts and one spring boar. Also fall mm.

For Sale ”m“ "m” .911“ and 30m 0‘ CLAIR 1. BROWN. 3. No. to. Kalamazoo. Mich.





 





 





9 A few choice boars of April

I' C S. and May furrow. .I





 





 





 





 





 





Casnovia, Mich.





 





 





 





mam slamm-





. iacres to 10,000 acres in one year, most





 





this legislation gave the cooperatives

a preferential position in the foreign

markets.



lf~ New York City could pass an

ordinance requiring that all butter of-

fered for sale in the New York market.

should have the qualities of “Land O’

Lakes” butter, and that butter com-

plying with these requirements should

be stamped “Land O’ Lakes,” there

can be no question but that the genu~

ine “Land O’ Lakes” butter now called

by that name would have a decided

advantage in the New York market.





Editor’s Note: In his next article,

Mr. Lowden will discuss the organiza-

'tion and history of the cooperative

packing plant in Denmark.





DAIRY-ALFALFA WORK CON-

TINUES.





LANS are completed for continuing



the dairy-alfalfa campaign which

has covered fifty-six counties of Mich-

igan. Work will begin in Muskegon

county on November 5, and will cover

Missaukce, St. Clair and Midland

counties in order. It is planned to

hold fifteen field meetings in each

county. These meetings are held at

farms in communities which are inter-

ested in the work.





The census of 1919 shows that 74,-

000 acres in Michigan were devoted

to the production of alfalfa. Crop es-

timates show that 500,000 acres of a1-

falfa were grown in Michigan in 1926.

Alfalfa produces an average of two

and one-half tons of hay from two cut-

tings each year. The average produc-

tion from meadows of mixed hay is

one and one-half tons per acre. This

increase of a ton an acre from alfalfa

is worth $10,000,000 each year to Mich-

igan farmers, according to figures pre-

pared by the Farm Crops Department

of Michigan State College.



. The high protein content of alfalfa

,makos it the best roughage available

for dairy cattle, and reduces the,

amount of high-priced concentrates!

which have to be purchased each year





 

 





 





The Joke





—-—-on Him——





“The best butter I ever



tasted,” he said-“and his ‘



wife had made it from cream



a De Laval had separated

from his skim-milk.





 





 





“I had been trying for ten years to

interest this man in a new De Laval

Separator,” said one of our local

,agents in relating this incident. I

lfelt certain he needed a. new separator

and that he was paying for a new

De Laval every year and not gettingit.

But I couldn’t make a ‘dent’ in him.

Finally one day I took a new separator

out to his place. He was away, but

with the assistance of his wife I ran

their skim-milk through the De Laval.”





I That Convinced Him I





“We recovered a goodly amount of

cream, which the thrifty wife later

churned into butter. This was served

at supper the next night and my friend

said it was the best butter he ever

tasted. Then his wife broke the

news. He admitted the joke was

on him, and of course the De Laval





 





   





x





 

 

 

 





stayed and his

old In no 11 i n e

was traded in

as part

ment on it.

Later

same man told

me that he





 





 





by the dairymen of Michigan. Each

ton of alfalfa hay contains forty—seven

pounds of nitrogen taken by the plant:

from the air. This plant food costsi

eighteen cents a pound when purchas-

ed in commercial fertilizer. The soil.

building power of alfalfa can be read-i

ily understood when these figures are

considered. Each farmer who growsl

alfalfa is the owner of a miniature:

Muscle Shoals nitrate plant. 1

The meadows of Michigan cover 3;:

000,000 acres, so the amount of landi

devoted to alfalfa. in the state is only}

sixteen per cent of the. acreage devot-l

ed to producing hay. The greatest in-l

crease in alfalfa acreage has been in}

the counties which comprise the cen-

tral portion of the Lowar Peninsula.

In one. of these counties where the

iacreage of alfalfa increased from 6,000





 





iof the material used to correct soil

Pacidity "as marl dug from beds in

3the community where the alfalfa. was

seeded. I





The campaign in Missaukee county

will be preceded by a banquet held at

Lake City where. the fifteen farmers

upon whose farms field meetings will

be held, will be guests of business men

of the county. The bankers of the;

county will provide prizes which will;

be given to farmers at whose places

the largest crowd attends the meet-l

ings. Business men ‘





 





are convinced:

that their prosperity is dependent up-l

on the success of agriculture in their{

communities and they believe that al-

falfa and dairy cows are the fore-run-

ners of local porsperity.



County agricultural agents of the

counties holding campaigns will be as-

sisted at the meetings by George Girr-

bach, James Hayes, and Robert Addy,

dairy specialists, and by Larry Kurtz

and Paul Miller, farm crops specialists

from Michigan State College.





 





Two poultry demonstration farms

have been established in Kent county.





 





ADDITIONAL STOCK ADS. ON PAGE 487 l





 





 





would 11 a v e '\ ~ \\ \‘

been $1000 x,“ \\

ahead if h e \\\\\ ,\

hadn’t waited \. s ‘





so long. That was no joke.”

It doesn’t take most people ten

years to learn of the greater profit





laud satisfaction in using a De Laval,





yet it is a fact that butter-fat waste

still exists on many farms.





 





i 255] of Separators Waste





According to cow testers’ reports,

at least 25% of all the cream sepa—

rators in use today are wasting

butter-fat. That means about one

million people are losing money and

don't know it. It’s easy to find out

whether you are one. of them. Ask

your De Laval Agent to bring out a.

new De Laval and show you its many

new features and improvements. Be

sure to see the “floating” bowl—the

greatest separator improvement in 25

years. This eliminates vibration and

resulting wear. Then run your skim-

milk through it. If your old separator

is wasting cream, the new Dc Laval

shims so clean it will be recovered.





 





I Prices, Terms, Catalogs, Etc. l





A De Laval doesn’t cost any more





than some other machines and but

littleunorc than the poorest. It will

certamly soon pay for itself. One can





be bought on most any terms you

dosn‘e, so that you can use it while

it pays for itself. See your De Laval

Agent or send coupon belOw to near-

est. lie Laval ofiice for catalogs and

complete information.





De Laval





Cream Separators

and Milkers





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GRAIN QUOTATIONS”





Monday, November 1.

Wheat.

Detroit—No. 2 red at $1.42; No. 2

white $1.43; No. 2 mixed $1.41.

Chicago—December at $1.35%; May

351.44%; July $137533.





Toledo—\Vheat, No. 2 red at $1.43

@144.

Corn. '

Detroit.——No. 2 yellow at 750; No. 3

yellow 78c.

Chicago—December at 72540; May





at Sic: July 83140.

Oats.





Detroit—No. 2 Michigan 520; No.

3, 50c.

Chicage—December at 42%0; May





at 471/gc; July 461/20.

Rye.

Detroit—No. 2, 96c.

Chicago—December 971,50; May at

$1.041/.,. '

Toledo—Rye 960.

Beans.

Detroit—Immediate

shipment $5.25@5.30.

Chicago—Spot Navy Michigan fancy

hand—picked at $5.75@5.85 per cwt;

red kidneys $9@9.50.

New York.-—Pea domestic at $5.75@

6.50; red kidney $8.25@9.

Barley.

Malting 760; feeding 620.

Seeds.





Detroit—Cash red clover $22.50;

Cash alsike $18.25; timothy, old $2.65;

new $2.80. H



a





Y

Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $19.50@

20.50; standard $18.50@19.50; No.1

light clover mixed $18.50@19.50; No.

2 timothy $16.50@17.50; No. 1 clover

$16.50@17.50; wheat and cat straw at



$12@13; rye straw $14@15.



Feeds

Detroit—“Winter wheat bran at $31;

spring wheat bran at $30; standard

middlings at $32; fancy middlings at

$37; cracked corn $35; coarse corn-

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





and prompt





Wheat prices averaged lower in the

past week. The Liverpool market de-

clined sharply and the possibility of

a settlement of the coal strike raised

the question of the effect on domestic

prices of further easiness in foreign

markets as ocean freight rates are

reduced. In the long run, settlement

of the strike would be favorable, as

foreigners will be likely to buy more

wheat when freight rates are lower.

But, at first, when Liverpool prices

are declining, it may cause weakness

in North American markets. The sit-

uation remains quite uncertain.

Whether the strike is over soon or

not, an unsettled market is probable

for a while, unless some strong new

factor appears, such as enough crop

damage in the Argentine to cause a

continuation of the upward trend.



Domestic market conditions remain

quite healthy, but producers are still

holding a good deal of wheat, and this

might be counted as an \adverse factor,

because of the possibility of free sell-

ing on a further advance.





RYE





The rye market follows wheat most

of the time. Exports are disappoint-

ing, and make a much less favorable

showing than in wheat. In spite of

the small crop, stocks at terminals

are still increasing. The market needs

an increase in actual demand if rye

prices are to narrow their discount





under Wheat.

OATS





The oats market has been rather

firm. Primary receipts continue ex-

tremely light for this season of .the

year, and a small decrease in terminal

stocks has occurred at a time when

they usually are increasing. Demand

is rather slow, and an important rise

.in prices probably will not occur until

consuming speculative demand broad-





ens’ CORN





Corn prices strengthened early in

the last week, but declined again at

the close, with the December and May

deliveries selling at new lows for the

year. Primary receipts are heavy, but

producers are not offering so much

new corn, and the movement of new

‘ grain will be small for the next SIX

weeks. Cash demand has broadened,

with some of the feeding sections of

Nebraska, Where the crop was short,

buying at terminal markets. Pacific

Coast demand remains active. A ship-





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ment of Argentine corn arriving at San

Francisco was unsatisfactory, thus aid-

ing the demand for domestic grain.

The change in merchandising condi-

tions is hardly sufficient to advance

prices materially. because of the bur-

den of the visible supply of 18,500,000

bushels, so that the extent of any up-

turn will hinge largely on the specu-

lative attitude. ’





SEEDS





Large offerings of sweet clover seed

have depressed the market during the

past week and prices to growers in

the northwest are reported to be a

dollar per 100 pounds less than a week

ago. Red clover seed remains firm,





although buying orders are not large.-





Foreign markets have advanced fol-

lowing the decline during the first half

of October, but prices are still. at a

sharp discount under domestic seed.

Demand for alsike seed is dull and

prices are unsettled. Very little prime

quality seed is available, however, and

the market could easily advance if de-

mand were to improve.





FEEDS





Feed markets are still generously

supplied, but buying has been stimu-

lated to some extent by colder weath-

er, aiid prices for wheat feeds are

steadying. Export demand for cotton-

seed meal is small, and stocks are ac-

cumulating at mills.





HAY





The hay market has strengthened

as a result of the combination of mod-

erate receipts and active demand. In-

door feeding will become general dur-

ing the next month. and prices for hay

should advance. Alfalfa hay suitable

for dairy purposes has been in demand

and commands a premium of from $3

@$5 a ton in some markets. Harvest-

ing of the last cutting of alfalfa hay

in Kansas is now under way. -





EGGS





Strictly fresh eggs are finally selling

as high as at the corresponding time





‘Anusrnenoni





a year ago. The acute scarcity of fine

quality stock has been the chief factor

in the advance of nearly four cents

a dozen in less than two weeks. Dur-

ing November, 1925, the egg market

advanced rapidly to the high point of

62c a dozen in the Chicago carlot mar-

ket just before Thanksgiving. With

a larger crop of pullets on farms than

a year ago, the winter egg production

is likely to exceed last season, so that

the high prices of 1925 may not be

equalled. Prices haVe not yet reached

the high point for the season, how-

ever, so that the advancing trend is

not over.





Chicago—Eggs, fresh firsts 42@45c;

extras 45%@460; ordinary firsts 37@

400; miscellaneous 42c; dirties 28@

31c; checks 27@30c. Live poultry,

hens 23c; springers 220; roosters 180;

ducks 2234c; geese 180; turkeys 34c.





Detroit—Eggs, fresh candled and

graded 42@45c; storage 321/2@36%c.

Live poultry, heavy springers at 24c;

light springers 21c; heavy hens 250;

light hens 23c; roosters 180; geese at

200; ducks 24@250; turkeys 36@380.





BUTTER





The butter market advanced last

week to the highest pgices for the sea-

son to date. Receipts are more than

10 per cent smaller than a year ago,

and reports from creameries do not

indipate any increase in supplies for

the immediate future at least. Stor-

age butter is being drawn upon in larg-

er quantities to supplement the short

supply of fresh stock. Withdrawals

from the four leading markets so far

in October have been 3,000,000 pounds

larger than in the corresponding pe-

riod a year ago, and the surplus over

a year ago in holdings for the entire

country has been lessened during the

month. Production is expected to hold

on a par with last season during the

next few months, but so long as con-

sumption is maintained on the present

scale, the market will continue strong.





Prices on 92-score creamery were:

Chicago 470; New York 471/20; Boston





 





 





fivenStock Market Service I





Tuesday, November 2.





CHICAGO





Hogs.



Receipts 30,000. Market generally

steady to 100 lower; light lights and

pigs slow, minimum market; hogs at

$13.25; bulk desirable 210-280-lb. butch-

ers $13@13.15; most 160-200-lb. aver-

age $12.50@12.90; light weight slaugh-

ter pigs upward to $12.50; bulk pack-

ing sows $10.35@11.40; few light

$11.50@11.75; odd lot of heavies down

to $12 and below.



Cattle.



Receipts 12,000. Market on year-

lings scarce, active to strong; practi-

cally nothing done on heavies; $12.20

paid for 1,100-lb. yearlings; she stock

,steady to strong; bulls steady to weak,

lower on light weight; vealers unev-

en, 50c higher to outsiders at $12@

12.50; market to packers about steady.



Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts 12,000. Market fairly ac-

tive; fat lambs 25d higher; no fat

westerners sold :top natives to city

butchers $14; bulk at $13.50@13.75;

culls strong to 250 higher at $8.506D9

mostly; few at $9.50; sheep steady,

bulk fat ewes at $5.50@6.50; feeding

lambs mostly unchanged at $12.75@





13.50

DETROIT





Cattle.





Receipts 313. Market is steady but





slow.

Good to choice yearlings .



dry-fed . . . . . . . . . .$10.00@11.50

Best heavy steers, dry-fed 9.50@10.00

Handy weight butchers . . 8.00@ 8.50

Mixed steers and heifers 6.50@ 7.00

Handy light butchers 6.00@ 6.50.

Light butchers ......... . 4.50

Best cows ............... 5.25@ 6.00

Butcher cows ........... 4.25@ 4.50

Cutters ... ............ . 3.25@ 4.25

Canners ................ 2.75@ 3.25

Choice light bulls ..... . . 500(0) 6.50

Bologna bulls . . . . . .V 6.00@ 6.50





>$5.50@6 50





Stock bulls ..... . . . . . 5.00@ 6.50-

Feeders ................. 5.00@ 6.25

Stockers ................. 6.00@ 7.00





Milkers and springers. . .$55.00@ 90.00 .





Calves. .



Receipts 530. Market is 50c lower,

steady.



Best .................... 14.0



Others .................. 5.50@13.00





Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts 3,529. Market 250 higher.

Best grades ............. $ 14 00





Fair lambs .............. 12.00@13.50

Light to common lambs.. 7.00@10.00

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

Grassers ................ 3.0063 5.50

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

Culls and common ...... 2.00@ 3.00





Hogs.

Receipts 2,413. Market 150 lower

on roughs; others steady.





Mixed ................... $ 13.35

Roughs ................. 10.50

Heavy yorkers .......... 13.75

Pigs .................... ~. 12.50

Lights .................. 13.20

Heavies ................. 12.00@13.25

Stags ................... ‘ 8.50

Good grassers . . . . . . . . 13.00@15.00

BUFFALO

Hogs.





Receipts 800. Pigs and light lights

normally steady at $13.50 down, oth-

ers mostly 15c lower;'bulk 170-240 lbs.

$13.35; packing sows mostly at $10.50





@ 1

Cattle.





Receipts 300. Mostly reactor cows,

s@te3aéi5y; bulk low cutter kind at $2.50





Calves. ,

Receipts 100. Market is 250 lower;

tops $13.75; culls to medium $6.50.

Sheep and Lambs.

‘ Receipts 100. Fat lambs are strong

to 25c higher; top lambs $14.25;. culls

mostly $9.50@10; fat ewes largely at





 





: Non. 233—1)“





470; Philadelphia 485“. In Detroit

fresh creamery in tubs sells at 4032617

430 per: pound. '.





_ WOOL





Activity in the wool market has

been spotted in the past week. Mills

appear to be in an easier position so

far as nearby _needs are concerned,

and are showmg more resistance to

advances in price. Ohio fleece wools

appear to be. showing more strength

than other kinds, Boston reporting a





 





MARKETS BY RADIO.





 





AILY market reports and

weather forecasts may be

obtalned each week day from

‘ths following Mlchlqan stations:

WKAR—Mlohlgan State Col-

lege, 12:00 noon. ,

WCX—Detroit Free Press, at

4:00 P. M.

WWJ—Detrolt News, 10:25 A.

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

WGHP—Geo. Harrison Phelps,

7:00 P. M.





 





 





 





sale of three—eighth blood combing at

461/20. Foreign markets are slightly

irregular. Latest sales at Melbourne

were reported 5 to 7% per cent cheap-

er than on October 12, and the British

market is easier. Offerings of Aus—

tralian wool are larger than at the

opening of the season on the new clip,

and the slack buying by both the Unit-

ed States and England probably is be-

ing felt. In spite of these develop—

ments, another spurt in domestic pric-

es may be seen, as stocks are low,

imports of combing and clothing wools

have been small for five months, man-

ufagturing atétilvity hlas increased, and

a es are e ow t e forei

level, tariff considered. gn world





POTATOES





The potato market continues on its

upward trend despite the fact that sup-

plies are increasing. Buying for stor-

age from dealers in smaller cities and

towns 18 taking a good share of the

current market supplies. Quality is

highlv variable and there is a wide

range in prices. Northern round

whites, U. S. No. 1, are held at $2.45

@260 per 100 pounds, sacked, and in

the Chicago carlot market.





' APPLES





The apple market is havin di -

ty in getting under way. Pg-ice;Ii 3133

depressed by the heavy supplies which

are far in excess of the dull demand.

The wholesale price of bushel baskets

is generally within a range of 75c@

$1.50, and the range for barrelled fruit

is from $2.75@4.25. New York A—21,é—

inch Rhode Island Greenings are quot-

ed at $3.50@3.75, with Michigan stock

higher at $4@4.25 per barrel at Chi-





cago.

BEANS

The bean market advanced '

last week and C. H. P. whites areagiaclilig





quoted at $5.55@5.60 per hundred?





pounds, sacked, f. o. b. Michi an shi -

ping .points. The market is inga stronpg

position, With the crop reduced and

£1138 supply 3f thIlOimIi quality far below



rma , an e a vancin '

expected to continue. g trend ls





CHEESE





Cheese prices have remaine -

changed‘ from a week ago, altliiouugIIi

trading is slow and some concessions

are reported to have been made in or-

der to move stocks. Production, as

%egggggtiin by refieipts, particularly at



. ware ouses, i

belliind a. year ago. 9 still lagging

rices for No. 1 Americ

Necrleias follows: an cheese

. cage—Twins 231/; @233“; sin 19

dais1es 23%@24c; double daisies 23g1/g

@233éc; longhorns 24@24’/4c. .





 





COMING LIVE STOCK SALES.





Nov 9 H 'Hglstfiins. . ,

. — owar ' '

Mich ,- ichols, Flushing,





Nov. 10—Michigan Holstein-Fri

Assn, M. S. 0.,4Lansinngichegian

,_»Giiern«ys. ' ‘-

wastes:





   

 





 

   





 

 





 





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H CO prices held up inla remarkable

way as the fall runs Were ex-

tremely slow to appear on the market

stage, but recently they began to crum-

ble. Besides small receipts, .average

weights have been lighter than a. year

ago, reducing the supply of pork and

lard still further,- and permitting a

more rapid cleanup of stocks in stor-

age than seemed possible a month ago.

The platter is not yet bare, by any

means, but there was little, if any,

more product than usual carried over

when the new hog packing year began

on November 1. Notwithstanding these

developments in the storage situation,

prices for hogs through the next three

or four months undoubtedly will av-

erage considerably lower than those

now prevailing.



Some modification of hog market

calculations has been made necessary

by recent Widespread losses from chol-

era. Lack of serum, and unfavorable

weather have prevented heading off

the outbreaks and further .losses will

occur until the disease is checked. One

guess is as good as another as to how

much the hog crop 'has been, or will

be, reduced. This factor may be cov-

ered in the official survey of the pig

crop in December. Meanwhile, the hog

trade will be forming opinions based

on scattered reports and observations

and on the actual market receipts of

hogs.—Gusler.





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COUNTY CROP REPORTS.





Lapeer Co.——We have had rain near-

ly every day for the past few weeks,

about two days of good weather, then

rain. Farmers are trying to harvest

beans and potatoes, and cut corn. The

potatoes are yielding good. Beans are

being pulled and drawn right in. Most

of the corn is cut. It is a good crop

in general. Most of the wheat is up

nicely. Meadows are good. There are

lots of fall apples, but .very few win-

ter ones. Other fruit seems plentiful

this year.——B.



Kent Co.—Farming is handicapped

in this vicinity by too much rain. The

heavy land is so wet that no wheat

has been sown; beans are spoiling,

and ~many potatoes are rotting. Not

much produce marketed as yet. But-

ter-fat is 50c per pound; eggs 44c; live

poultry 15@22c; hay $15 per ton; pc-





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Though this does not- necessarily

mean that the cows will all abort. It

is possible for a cow to give ’birth to

a full-time calf, and yet a test of her

blood would show

abortion bacillus. The nature of con-

tagious abortion, and the manner in

which it is spread, makes sanitary

measures one of the best methods of

control that we have at the present

time. The barns should be cleaned

and sprayed with a five per cent cre-

sol solution. Dead calves and placenta

should be burned. The barnyards

should be cleaned up, and no manure

stored near the barns—it should be

removed to the fields directly from the

barns. Cows that have aborted should

be kept in a separate barn for at least

four weeks, or longer if there is any

vaginal discharge. When convenient,

it is better to have these taken care

of by someone not working with the

regular herd. It is a good idea to

scrub and disinfect the floors of the

dairy barn at frequent intervals, in ad-

dition to the disinfecting of the whole

barn.



Sudden Dropping Off in Milk—Have

a cow that suddenly went wrong in

her milking. We got the usual amount

of milk in the morning, but at night

got only about two cups full. She has

been out on pasture. Would frozen

grass be the cause of this? She seems

all right in other ways, and eats well.

What shall we do to bring back the

milk flow? T. B.——The frozen grass,

especially if mixed with clover, might

have been the cause. Anything that

would disturb digestion would cause a

sudden drop in milk secretion. Keep

the cow in the barn, take away the

grain ration, and give one pound of

epsom salts. When she begins to im-

prove, increase the feed gradually

from day to day.





A full-sized violin has recently been

made out of 10,000 matches.





 





 





Demand for Veal is Good

Ship Your





DRESSED CALVES

and LIVE POULTRY





- TO

DETROIT BEEF COMPANY





1903 Adelaide St. Detroit, Mich.





Oldest and Most Reliable Commission

House in Detroit





Tags and Quotations and New Ship-

Guide Free on Application.





 





 





tatoes are $1.25 a bushel. No market

for winter apples as yet. No Spiesw

here this year.——C. B.



Kent Co.——Wheat averages 22 bush-I

els per acre; corn mostly green; sil-i

age corn is good. Most silos are filled.

Oats 28 bushels per acre; no barleyl

here; meadows in good condition; av-i

erage fall grain sown; too much rain

for beans; fair crop of potatoes, and

some are rotting; dairy conditions are

good; no hogs—H. S.



Giadwin Co.—VVheat yielding ten

bushels; oats 30 and rye 12. Corn is

about half a crop, and mostly soft.i

Beans badly hurt by the wet and cold I

weather; they did not ripen and many

fields will not be pulled. Hogs scarce.

prices good, around 150 paid last week. l

Potatoes fair and are selling at a dol-l

lai‘ a bushel. New meadows are fine!

but old meadows are about all in..

Cream is 43c per pound. Eggs are 35c 3

a dozen—F. P. l



Sanilac Co.—Early frost hurried silo‘

filling. About two-thirds of the bean,

crop will be worthless except for feed.

Sugar beet growers have trouble get-{





 





ting their beets to the weighing sta-

tion. The dairy business is the only

paying one now, and farmers are tak-

ing interest in their herds, both as

to care and- selection of cows. Milk

brings about a $1.96 clear, or 3.5 test.

Fall DIOWing difficult and ground too

soft—J. M. '





 





EONDUCTED BY DR. S. BURROWS.





Contagious Abortion—I have eight

cows which have all calved, but three

of the cows dropped their calves from

three weeks to two months early. The

cows seem to be in good health other-1

wise. The dropped calves are alive

when born. If this is abortion, would

the rest of my cows get it? Can it

be :entirely cured? H. B.——You will,

no doubtghavesome of the other cows

aborhasas the diseaseis infections. It





is peacefully shpoesible. to -=a?frect' a





 





 





HOGS





 





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Mlch'gan Premler ofl'cripg lie/Ms and gills of

spring.r furrow. also full pigs at reasonable prices.

DORUS ROVER. Akronu'Mich.





 





' ' "Hi It. W 11 lb .

Big Type Poland Ghmas 36....”‘i.1‘.%... wind” Eel/1x1.

CLARK, Breckenridge, Mich.





 





spring hours. 200 to

300 pounds cinch. J.





Large Type P. C.





G. TAYLOR, Balding. Mich.

l'olund (‘liiiiai Hours of March and





For Sale April furrow. Immuned for cholera

and registered free. WESLEY HILE, Ionia, Mich.





 





 





JHAMPSHIRE boar pigs of spring and summer for ;

JOHN W. 5,





row for sale. 13th year in business.

SNYDER, R. 4, St. Johnl, Mich.





 

 

   





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the presence of"





(‘liampion Poland (,‘hina Herd. ‘





   





SHEEP





.1000 CHOICE EWES





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

ewes for less money. Write for description and prices.

or telegraph when you can come to inspect them.

Telegraph: Rockwood. Post Office. So. Rockwood.

Mich. ALMOND B. CHAPMAN 8:. SON. 80. Book-

wood, Mich.





Shropshires —-Oxfords





Yearling and ram lambs. Also a few Mc-

Kerrow bred Oxford ewes for sale.





Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich.





Registered Hampshire Rams

w. w. CASLER. Ovid, Mich.





 





 





 





HEEP all recorded. sent on approval: (‘otswolds.

Leiiosters. Tunis. Lincolns. Karakules and Hamp-





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

Delalne rams from the Premier





T we n tY. Delaine floek of Michigan. Pm-

es reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. (_‘ome and

see them. CALHOON BROS., Bronson. MICh.





Delaine Breeding Ewes





shear 10 lbs. highest price Wool in the world. Bred

to mutton rams. produce highest price MUTTON

LAMBS in America. 1000 choice ewes to offer $8.50

to $10 head. ch extra selected, some higher. Cars

all yearlings, cars all 2-yeur«olds. Will much more

than pay cost and keep with first crop wool and

lambs. Wire collect date you will inspect.





Geo. M. Wilber, OAKLANDS, Marysville, Ohio





 





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DELAI NE RAM iliiiiimiimigind. As

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

40, Wakcman. Ohio.





ELAINE—Merino Rams. both l’olled and Horned.

for sale. Good ones. Come and make. your own

selection. HOUSEMAN BROS., Albion, Mlch.





' Oxford Downs a special-

Wesi Manon Slack Farm .y, mm, m 0..., mm,

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





 





 





0R SALE—Oxford Rams and Ewes. bred from

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

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





 





' Wnrdwell two~year ram. yearling

Shropshires rams. rum lambs. and 10 year—





ling ewes. C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford, Mich.





THE MAPLES SIIROPSHIRES





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



2 stock rams and a few ewes.



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

, Phone 734 F i3





 





 





10 Registered Shropshire Yearling Ewes





also rain lambs. C. LEMEN & SONS. Dexter. Midl-





 





FAIR VIEW SHROPSHIRES FOR SALEAIO Field

Rams. Good. Type and Breeding. 2 stook rams.

()nu 2-yrpold Wnrdwcll Ram. Also 15 bred ewes.

E. F. GOODFELLOW. Ovid, Mich.





 





Shropshire Ram Lambs





Write or call at the farm. NIXON & RUSSELL,

R. No. 7. Howell. Mich.





 





' of the wooly type. ewes and

For ShrOPSh‘res rum lambs. call on DAN





BOOHER, R. 4. Evart. Mich.



- for sale. 200 each month. Shrop-

Erecdmg Ewes shire. Hampshire grades and cross-

brcds. All yearlings. V. B. Furnin, Nashville. Mich.





 





 





0R SALE 21 choir-c young Dclainc cwcs. Also

young rams. Sim-k rum shears 30 pounds. Oldest

, and best bred flock in Ohio. Write S. H. SANDERS.

{R. No. 2, Ashtabula, Ohio.





 





~ One iricd stud ram. yearling rams

iShl‘OpSherS and 15 choice young ewes. Flock

iwon consisicntly nf Michigan's lcadine‘ Fairs. D.

'CHAPMAN 8.. Roekwood. Mich.





SON. So.





1 For Sale: Yearling Hampshire Rams

registered. Erwin E. McMillen. R. l,,Farwell, Mich.





COATS

. MilCh Goat Bucks for service. 'l‘oginmburg





. ‘ Y ._ goats. pure-lircd. sircdby

Accs lulmzil No.1 IEJIR. dum Queen less No. 1101::

‘as i'ccori l‘( \yiti .- incricnn Milk Goat Record Ass’n.

IPAUL WESTERLIND, R. 6. Box 53. Muskegon, Mich.





 





 





CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING





This classified advertising department in one





small advertisements bring best results under classified headings.





using, miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange.





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

Rates 8 cents a word. each insertion. on orders for less than four insertions:





consecutive insertions 6 cents a word.

display type or Illustrations admitted. Remittane





Live stock adverllllnu has a leper-to department and i: not accepted at olauined.





eharue l0 word I.





Count as a word each abbreviations. initial or number. No





bliehed for the convenience of Michigan farmers.





Try it for want ads and f -

Poultry advertising will be run in this dgdnrltgigllit





for four or more

es must accompany order.

Minimum





 





 





One Four Four



10 ........ 60.80 82.40 86.24

11 ..... . . . .88 2.64 6.48

12 ....... . .96 2.58 6.72

18........ 1.04 5.11 0.05

14 . 8.56 7.10

4 5.60 1.44



5.54 1.68



4.05 7.02



4.81 8.16



4.56 8.40



4.50 8.64



5.04 8.88



5.28 9.12



5.51 9.86



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REAL ESTATE





THOUSANDS OF FARMERS are going south this

winter. Why not. learn about the country before you

start. and save time and money? There are excellent

locations where good soil, mild climate. high-priced

markets. and pleasant living conditions assure suc-

cess. Reliable information. free." Write W. E. Price.

General Immigration Agent, Room 603. Southern

Railway System, Washington. D. C.





A FARM THAT WILL PAY YOU BIG—Greatest

farming advantages in America. Concrete roads have

opened great Peninsula Chesapeake Bay and

Ocean to intensive cultivation. Splitting up large

farms. Fine hind at low prices. Low taxes. Mar-

keting Issaciations. Astonishing crop profits. Ad-





 





 





 





cure when a. cow has become Infected.





 





dress Room 144. Del-Mar-Yn Building. Salisbury. Md.





I‘IRUSUAHJ' FER’i‘lLE, low-priced Sumter County.

Georgia. lands. 12 months’ growing season. county

operatci‘lurucks to evcry consolidated school. paved

roads, friendly neighbors; railroad facilities put coun-

ty Within few hours express-ago of six million people.

lune. for general farming. especially trucking. dairy-

uig, poultry raising. open grazing all year. Ami-aim

temperature 655 degrees. annual rainfall 4.9.57 inches.

Americus and Sumter (‘ounty (‘hambcr of I‘ommerce

202 1'h.’lIIlI)(‘l‘ of (‘ommerce Building Americus'

Georgia. I l '





 





WONDERFUL Ol'I’OR’l‘UNI'I‘iES. Southern Georgia.

farm Vlands. Write for complete. information. ('liam-

bcr (ommerc‘e. Quitman,- Georgia.





 





WANTED FAR VIS





WANTEDwFarm on

References f u mi shed.

Ohio.



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

fall delivery. 0. Howley. 'Baldwin. Wis.





shares. evverythim.r furnished.

Ernest Hoi'r, R. 3, Marion.





 





 





MISCELLANEOUS





WE PAY YOU CASH for gold bridges. crowns. false

teeth. old plates. diamonds. discarded jewelry. spec-

tacle rims. Whiting Gold Refining (70.. 96 Fifth Ave-

nue. New York. Send goods now. References: Chat-

ham-l'henix Bank, New York.





 





LARGE OREGON PHONES $8 Der hundred. 25 lbs.

express paid $3.75. Kingwood Orchards. Salem. 101'-

08011- .





 





FOR SALE (‘HEAI‘~—(‘andee Incubators—3.000 capac-

ity—like new. Two Buckeye Broodem. Grace Mil'

liken. Femon. Mich.





 





ALL WOOL YARN for sale from manufacturer at:

bargain. Samples free. 11 A. Bartlett. Harmony,

Maine.





 





 





STOLEN





 





OUR FEED SERVICE OFFICE. through which we

handch the feeding of the National Dairy Exposition

at Detroit. was broken into shortly after the close of

tho Exposition and a number of valuable records

were stolen. A suitable reward has been offered

twiih no questions asked. but it is doubtful whediee'i“

'anything will be recovered. Among the records tak



.wem the names and addresses of a large number of

'dairymen an herd owners who had requested they

ibe sent regular quotations on Michigan State Rntions.

lAll visitors, at the National Dairy Exposition who

1want quotations on Michigan State nations should

’therefore mail in their names and addresses to us

.at once. A. K. Zinn & (‘0., Battle (.‘ieek. Michigan.





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[FERRETS 0v-r thirty yoai-s' (\XI)£‘I’IOI1('8.

lfemales. the iother ferret siH-ial rat catcher. $5.00

lam-h. Young sior~k for Sept. Females $5.00, males

$4.50. one pair $0.50, three pair $24. Will ship 0.

O. I). Instruction book free. Levi Famswortli. New

London. Ohio.





Yearling





 





('OONIIOI’NIm.~~i'iy(-r-b0tt01n trained. Rcdbones. black

and fans. Rlueticks, (‘ombination Hunters. Champion

rabbit hounds. reasonable prices. Trial. Catalogue.

photos free. ‘Rivertiew Kennels. L. J. Adams. Mgr..

Ramsey. Ill.





 





FOR SAI.E——English Shepherd Puppies. seven weeks

old. males $6.00, females $4.00. Strictly heel driv—

ers Safe arrival and satisfaction mmranteed. Earl

White. 'Live Stock Dealer, Arcade. N. Y.





 





COON. SKUNK. RABBIT and Combination Hound!

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

Lakeland Fur Exchange. Salem, Michigan.





 





FOR SALE—Pedigreed German Police pups. VVhelped

August. 5th. females $20. males $25. Homestead

Kennels. Saranac. Mich.





 





(‘OON. SKUNK, fox. wolf and halibit hounds. Trained

dogs sent on 10 days trial. Rabbit hounds cheap.

"Oco" Kenncls, 0conee. Ill.





 





(‘HINI‘HILLA FUR RABBITSVchoroughbrcd quality





 





stOl'k. Pairs. trios and extras. D. Hale Brake.

Stanton. Mich.

BEAUTIFUL HARTZ MOUNTAIN CANARIES—





males, inmrantmi. $7.00. pair $8.00.





Cora Myers.

Lawton. Mich.





 





S(‘OT('H (‘OI.I.IES. 12 champions in pedigree. Also

photos. Cloverleaf Farms. Tiffln. Ohio.





 





 





HUNTING HOUNDS (‘HEAI’ ~Trial. C. 0. D.

Ginger [{cllncls. Herrick, ill. ‘

ENGLISIT SHEPHERD I’Ul’Sflnartural healers.





Males $10.





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William Leeman. Box 34. Sagola. Mich.





 





 





SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK





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

bulbs, seeds. America‘s largest departmental nurseiy.

Established 72 years. Stoors & Harrison Co.. Box

103, l’ainesville, Ohio.





 





 





STRAWBERRY PLANTS Vac each. Mastodon. the

largest ei’crbearing strawbcriy. Catalog Free. George

Simmer. Box 14, New Buffalo. Michigan.





 





FOR SATISFACTION INSURANCE buy seed oats.

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





 





 





 





TOBACCO

it'lGAit SMOKERS] 7Buy direct. Postpaid. “No

‘Nanirs.” Long Filler. $3.00 hundred. $1.75 fifty.

"Hoffman House Bouquet," Loni." Filler, genuine





iSumatiu wrapper and bandml. $4.00 hundred. $2.25

Ififty. Trial ordcr tiny each. $3.50. Double value or

moncy refunded. Carney-Graham (‘o., Paducah. Ken-

tilcky.





 





IIOMESI’ITN ’I‘OEAH‘O: Smoking or chewing. 4

lbs, $1; 12. $2.25. Send no money. Pay postmaster

on arrival. l’ipc frce. United Farmers of Kentucky.

l’aducali, Ky.



,GUARAN'l‘l-IEI) IIOMESI'UN 'I‘OBAI‘(‘O——(,‘hevvini.r or

lsmokiniz. 5 lhs.. $1.25; icn. $2: cigars $2 per 50.

i ’ipe free. pay when rcceiicd. l"armers' Association.

ilizixon Mills. Kentucky.





1

IIOKIESI’I'N ’I‘()IiAl‘(‘0 (l1'ARANTI‘IEDv—(‘hcwiilm

i’i‘f“ pounds, $1.50: tcn. $2 5”. Smoking. ten. $1.50.

li'uw free, pay when I‘ttt'l'llr'i'il. l'nircd Farmers. Bard—

Well, Kentucky.





;.'I‘OBA(‘('0: KENTUCKY SW'EI'I’I‘ LEAF.

il‘Ol‘. Smoking, 15 lbs.. $1.50.

when m-eivcd.





 





Fine fla-

Chewing. $2.25. Pay

Ernest (‘hoa-tci. Wingo, Kentucky.





POULTRY





HYIIITE LEGIIORN EGGS AND l‘IIll‘KS; >big dis~

icount if ordcrcd now for spring shipment. Sired by

|2nn m 25i3i»egu‘ mules. l‘lggvbrml 20 years. Winners

16 cm: contests. Shipped (‘. O. I). Catalog. special

price bulletin, frcc. Thousands of pullcts, hens ('0ck<

lcrels at low pricc. George B. Ferris. 934 Union,

lGrand Rapids. Michigan.

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MAMMOTH 'I‘OIII.OI.'SI‘1 GEESE egocse $3.50. gan—

alps] $4.50 each. )1]“‘. Antonie Linderer. Newaygo.

i lt'l.





 





TURKEYS





NAIKVILANGANSI‘J'I'I‘ '1‘I7IlI\'I‘IYS'~lli‘YlS $7. toms $10.

until Thanksgiiing, $8 and $12 later. Mrs. Wm.

Nowell. Ousted. Mich.





 





iNARRAGANSl‘ITT TURKEYS~nice st.0c.k. Hens $7,

toms $10, until Thanksgiving; $8 and $12 later.

Mrs. Grace. Ikle. Adrian. Mich.





HELP WANTED





DRIVER SALESMAN—23 to 35 Years ago.

nent employment: good future. Write us i! inher-





:Slfig. Belle Isle Creamery. 3600 Forest 12.. Detroit,

. [C .





AGENTS WANTED





AGENTS—Our New Household Cleaning Device wash-

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

mops. Costs less than brooms. Over half profit.

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

owa. '





$500 MONTHLY selling Guaranteed Trees. Roses. Etc.

Low prices: experience unnecessary; free outfit. Kw-

stozw Nurseries. New Galilee. Pa.





SITUATIONS WANTED





EXPERIENCED FARMER~Mufied Wants charge

:Ififtilmn. Stanley Zodanskl. R. 2. Box 83. Mom ’

C .
HE Maytag __ is» a woman’s The Maytag is built to suit a

washer through and through. woman’s ideas. It cleans collars,

No belts to line up, no cumber- cuffs and wristbands, even grimy





   

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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some engine to adjust and start. work-clothes and overalls, without

The in-built Maytag Gasoline Multi- hand-rubbing——does it quickly—a





 





 





 





   





 





 





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worth of gasoline is required to do a washer tubs and cleans itself in

big farm washing. For homes with thirty seconds after the washing is

electricity, the Maytag is supplied done; empties itself when you sim~

E with an electric motor. ’1 ply lower the drain hose.





*' ~ FREE TRIAL {322.3333





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z : 3; The Maytag has sold itself into world leadership—the fastest selling washer. Simply



_2 ; ' write or phone a Maytag dealer and he will gladly set a Maytag in your home for a free



5 g tria.I washing. No obligation whatever. All by yourself, test it on your biggest washing.



‘0 Experience for yourself the convenience of its many exclusive features. If it doesn't sell



3 For homes with electricity g D f d itself. don’t keep It.



the Maytag is available P5513“ . ‘

with electric motor 4 You’ll THE MAYTAG COMPANY: Newton, 10w.“ ,5

: 1;?" INDIANAPOLIS BRANCH: 923 North Capital Av... lNDlANAPOLlS. IND. . , §

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Call one of the authorized Maytag dealers listed below: \





Town Michigan Dealer

Adrian Wilcox Hdwe. Co.

Alabaster ......... D. E. Christenson

Albion ........... Albion Maytag Co.

Allegan .......... Vos Electric CO.

Aigonac. .................... C. F. Bertrand

Alma. ...... .. ........... Alma. Maytag Co.

Almont ................ Pollard Hdwe. Co.

Alpena ....................... J. A. Smith

Ann Arbor ........ Ann Arbor Maytag Store

Armada ............... Russell J. Lawrence

Bad Axe ...................... Slack Bros.

Bangor ................ J. G. Miller & Son

Battle Creek ............ Walton—Morse Shop

Bay City .......... Walton-Morse Shop

Boaverton ............... A. T. Brown. Jr.

Balding ................... Brown-Hall Co.

Bellevillo ...................... John E. Bloc

Bcllerue ..................... Will C. Dyer

Benton Harbor .......... Cutler 8: Downing

Bervillo .............. Parkerflardware Co.

Bessemer ............... Maytag Sales Co.

Big Rapids .......... J. R. Bennett & Son

Birmingham ........ Hawthorne Electric Co.

Blanchard ........ . .......... N. C. Mason

Brighton ............. Geo. B. Ratz & Son

Britten .................. Alexander Gibson

Brown City .................... Lorn Koyl

Buchanan ........... Hamilton & Anderson

Burnips .................... John Hoeksm

Cadillac .............. Webber—Ashworth Co.

Caledonia. ............. Wagner & Clemens

Calumet ................... Carpenter’s Store

Capac ...................... John W. Bower

Carleton .................... E. W. Hartsis

Caro ....................... Fred J. Purdy

Carson City .......... . ........ M. Harden

Cassopolis ......... ...Hamilton & Anderson

Cedar Springs ................ John Buocus

Centerline ....,_ .......... Rinks Hdwe. Co.

Centervilie ...... . ...... Forbes Maytag Co.

Charlotte ............ Charlotte Maytag Co.

C'heboygan . ..... Michigan Public Service Co.

Chelsea ..... Chelsea Hardware Co.

Chesaning Chesaning Electric Co.

Clare ....... Clare Hdwe. a; Implt. Co.

Goldwater ...........G W. Harding & Son

Coloma ........ . ....... Coloma Hdwe. Co.

Columbiaville R C. Osborne

Covert E C. Vanderboegh





Coopersville ............Durham Hdwe. Co.

Croswell . .C. W. Lindks





Crystal Falls ...... L. A. Henry

Doarborn . . . . . . . . . . . . Neuendorf Hdwe. CO.

Decatur ..... . . . . . . ..... H. C. Waters & Co.

Deckerville .......... Stoutenburg & Wilson

Detroit ...... . . . . . ..... Detroit Maytag Co.

Dowagiac ...... . . . . . Hamilton & Anderson

Dray ton Plains .......... > Noble N. Phelps

Dundee .................. Cauchie & Gray

Durand ...... Hub. Elec. Heat 6: P1bg.Co.





Eaton Rapids Bromeling & Pettit

Edmo re Edmore H. kl. Co.

Elsie ..................... M. E. Williams

lumba Escanaba Maytag





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Town Michigan Dale,- Town Michigan Dealer Town Michigan Dealer

Ewart .. W B. Orr Jackson Jackson Marta: Co. -Owosso.........Tha Owosso Morten Company

Fairchild . . .......... Fairchild Gen. store Kalamazoo. . - - . - .Kalamazoo Mum-z Company Oxford . . . . ....... . . . . . Johnson Hdwe. Co.

Farmington.... ______ N. J. Eisenlord a, Son Lake Linden ...........Pearce H. a. F. Co. PumaGeo W. Hunn

Fenton ....... ‘ _ _ . _______ 1 . E. A. Lockwood Lakeviow ........... . . ......... G. E. Wood Paw Paw . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. C. Waters & Co.

Flat Beck......... .......... M. F. Keenan L'Anse .......... Baraga County Hdwo. Co. Perry Benn & Hart

Flint .......... . ..... The Flint Maytag Co. Lansing Lansing Maytag Co. PerringtonE H. Lucas

Flushing ...... . . . ......... James B. French iapeer ..... . . . . . . ....... Lapeer Hdwe. Co. Petersburg . . . ....... A. C. Gradolph & Son

_ , . . awrence ........ . . . . J. Thompson and Son Petoskey . . . ....... A. Fochtman Dept. Store .

:vallzg‘liflle """ "“""“'“'7iuD‘Sc:‘£:lon&B;: Leland . ..... ...... Otto Schwan Pigeon......................E. Paul & Son

Frankenmutn ‘ """"" A Nuechterlein Leonard .................. Frank Hdwe. Co. Plymouth. . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Conner Hardware 00.

Fraser ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ‘ ' ' ‘ Arthur IH Schneider Linden ............... Johnson Hardware Co. Pontiac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pontiac Maytag 00.

Fremont Henry vanTatenhove Linwood ........... . ............ '1‘. J. Wright Port Hope....................EngleanSmith.

Gaylord .................. John M. Bro die Ludington ............ Palm Furniture Co. Port Huron ...... . . Port Huron Maytag ()0.

Gladstone .................. Buckeye Store Mancelona ........ Schrocder Furniture CO. Port’ Huron . . . . . . . .W. P. Smith Bdwe. Co. ' ' 'L

Goodeus ......... L W McCue Manchester ......... .. . .. ..... Fred G. Houch Potterville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B. .J. Fouls l

' """""" ' ‘ Manistee ........ . ....... Warren A. Graves Prairieville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F. J. Bushes 7

Grand Haven. . . . Grand Hay en Maytag Co. Marine' City A J Rochon Redford C K. Km 1 C

3mg: :idge. """ Grand 1:11;; Hanging; Mariette. . . . ................ A. R. échlichter Reed City . ”...; . .. lam T. aIt'll-11130:: I ‘

6:.an 1111:2128.- ' .Grand 'hhpids 'Maytag Co. Marquette ................ Kelly Hdwe. Co. Remus . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . E. A. Wild: :

Grayling ........ '. :IGrayling Electric Company Marshall ........ The Albion Maytag Company Richmond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C. W. Ede!

Greenville IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Brown-Hall Co. Maybee ...... . ......... C. k G. Hechradel Riverdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .R. E. Moblo

Hale ....................... Nunn's Hdwe. Merrill ..... . . ...... . . . . . . . Alex. McDonald Rochester. . . . . . . . . . .The Geo. Burr Hardware

Hamilton ................ Harry J. Lampen Midland ........ H. C. Eastman Bomeo.......................W. 000. Smith

Hancock. Pearce Hdwe. & Furn. Co. Ltd. Midland ..... .Maytag Multi- Motor Sales Co. Rothbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. F .Newman 3

Hmom ..................... 3mm mom" Middleton ..... .. .. Middleton Hardware Co. Royal Oak. . . . . . .Lawson Lumber 4. Coal Co. :—

Harbor Beach .............. William Glass Minn """ ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ' """ Goad“ & Nmm” St” enmes' ' ' ' ’ ' ' ' ' ' ' 'Thor‘by “mm" C“ 3

Hart. ...... ....... R. J. Wietzke Milford .. ..... ....... Reid Hdwe. Co. St. Clair ....... E. 8. Hart '5

Hartford .......... . . J. w. Walker Hdwe. Minimum ° ' ' " """ Fm: 3‘ Win” 8‘ C°‘ S" mm“ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 9" mm“ Elmm" an”

Hum“ - ' . . . _ . _ _ _ . . . Mm" Furniture Co. Minden City . .. ........... Frank E. Mahon Saginaw ........ . . . . . . . .Walton-Momo Shoo

Hemlock ..... J. E. Fuller M10 .............. Orvin Kurtz Saginaw ..................Smit.h Hdwe. Co. i

Hermansville Wandt & Bartl Monroe ................Monroe Maytag Co. Saginaw .M W. Tennis- Co. 5

Hespcria ...... Husbands Anderson Mom“"""""""""""W‘ F' SChmid" swanky 0““ Ha" 09' A

Hillsdale Hillsdale Maytag Co Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . ..J. F. Myers Sault Salute Mm! . - - . - - Cowell J: Burns ,

Holland DeVries & Dornbos Mt. Clemens........Mt. Clemens Maytag Co. Sebewalng J. C. Liken a Go. ' 3"

Homer . . . . . . . . Albion maflag Store Mt. Pleasant. Mt. Pleasant H. a; F. C0. Shelby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. J. Rm ‘ l

----- Munising Munlslng Hdwe. Co, flhepherd .................... L. H. Barnes l

HODMN - - - - - - - - - - - . - ~ .Vern A- Washburn Muskegon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .N. G. Vanderlinde 8. Haydn . .Mursous Fun. 8:. Music Store

Boughton. . .Pmce Hdwe. a Film. Co. Ltd. Nahma . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘ . . . ' Bay Denoquot Co. 8 Rockwood ‘* ‘ ' r '

Howell Charles H. Sutton Nashville ----------------- Fred K- Bullis ‘ JohnBtrong Co.

Hudson H. T. Dillon a Co. gigs BMUmON -- ----- Ifiounfiatin ElecAtrlc Co. ' Sf“? J' 0' Ballard & Cor h _,

_ .......... . ..... null 11 ¢--0'-o‘---n-o- coo

Egg”.- . . . N. .A. waliperltu and 50115 North Branch ............ Dan’l Orr Emails; 5:: 'on *- . ‘ . I Glm W

' ' ""'" 0 3' “Vt“ 00- Olivet ............ . ....... M. D. Burkhead " 818W......... Forbm Hume“

Iron Mountain .......... Northern Sales Co. Ousted . . . . . . . ......... Chas. 11 ll ll Tswas City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fr L

Iron River ...... Iron Range Lt. 5; Pr. Co. Ontonagon .Peerc Hd & F n er ed uedtko

Ironwood .......... . . . . . . Maytag Sales Co. Otisvllle . . Z I 55:. . . . . .? “lift. new? 8:. Tecumseh.. ' . ‘ ' . ° ' ' ' ' .Baldwin BMW". 00'

isuhmmmg William Leininzer Otsego The Jones Hdwe. Temperance """ """ B W Brunt .

m c. c. 0319/ Ovid Marshall 5 Olson Three Rivers ...-.........Forbes Mama Co. .

' Traverse City . . . . . . . . Wilson Furniture 00. ‘

Trenton ...... . . . . . . . . .Trenton Hardware Co.

Trutant ........... ...... ...... A. G. Miller

Unionvllle ............. J. H. Kemp a. 00.

Utica' ........... ... .. .L .. E. W. Hahn





 

 





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Motor is as compact and simple as big tubful in three to seven minutes. ., i

an electric motor. It is a part of It washes twice as fast as'ordinary- L

the washer and makes the Maytag washers, yet carefully as by hand.

suitable for homes without elec- The Cast- Aluminum Tub is roomy



: ._ -._, tncity. -——-machinery free and it \keeps the



E " A turn of the foot lever starts water hot throughout a big washing.



‘ the Multi-Motor and but a few cents Holds four gallons more than other