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larger production per acre. They know they

must produce a certain amount on each acre

to pay the cost of production. Beyond that,

in the extra yield, is their profit.





To help farmers bring through a larger

extra yield this year Swift & Company rec—

ommends the 4—point plan outlined above.

This is the plan successful farmers will follow

because they know—





1. They can get this extra yield by using

fertilizer of the right kind and quality.





2. They can save on costs of bagging, labor

and freight—get their plantfood for less

money—by using high analysis fertilizer.





3. They can obtain larger yields with less

labor and at lower cost by fertilizing lib-

erally the acres they plant.





Follow the practice of these successful

farmers. Plan now for a larger profit—making





extra yield. Use the Sfivift 4—point plan. It

is your best assurance of success.





. Take no chances with the quality of fer-

tilizer you use. The kind and quality of

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They know that the Swift name on any prod—

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meant that for 50 years.





Talk over this plan with the A. S. A.

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advice. Look‘for his sign. It marks the place

to get “the fertilizer the best farmers use.”





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Success As Tenant F armcr - 





Sam Langdon, Master Farmer, Pay; Land/0rd Good Dime/end;





ANDLORDS ,of late have been

long-faced. During the recent

agricultural depression, their in-





,comes have been, reduced as much as

have the incomes of their tenants.





Complaints have been so general that

it is refreshing to find a tenant who

has not only secured a satisfactory in-





come, but also one who has paid the,





landlord a good return on his invest-

ment.



Such an example is furnished by

Sam Langdon, of Clinton county, who

owns forty acres and rents an addi-

tional 240 acres. We inspected the

books showing all the farm transac-

tions for nearly a decade, and from

them found that for the preceding five-

year period, the net rentals paid to the

owner of this 240 acres exceeded six

per cent interest on a valuation of $100

per acre.



The lease under which these results

were obtained, provides that one—third

of the income goes to the landlord and

the rest to the tenant. One-third of

the seed is furnished by the landlord,

who also pays the taxes and insur-

ance, and stands one-third of all per-

manent repairs. The tenant meets all

threshing expenses and provides most





: of the new machinery and repairs.





The books for 1925, the last full sea-





' son’s figures available at the time of





the writer’s visit, showed that after

making deductions for repairs, insur-

ance, taxes and seeds, a net total of

$1,684, or a little more than seven per





,centon a valuation of $24,000, was





turnedover to the owner of this land

at the end of the year. When present-

ed to the committee of judges in the

Michigan Master Farmer contest last

September, these figures were quite

largely responsible for including Mr.

Langdon as one or the men in the





By B. Wermuth





first class of Master Farmers in this

state.



The type of farming practiced by

Mr. Langdon is typical of central Mich-

igan agriculture. College professors

call it general live stock farming. “The

only criticism of this kind of farming,”

states Mr. Langdon, “is that it re-

quires a lot of hard work.” But, he





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months. From 250 to 400 gallons of

high quality maple syrup is sold each

spring at prices ranging up to $2.50

per gallon. Clover seed usually brings

in an acceptable return, although the

seed crop was a failure in 1926. The

wheat and bean crops also aid in keep-

ing the exchequer supplied. A twelve

ton sugar beet crop was harvested this





 





 





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The New Home of the Langdons’ Contains Practically Every Convenience

for which the Good Wife Might Wish.





further reflected, “a fellow can expect

a full year’s pay only when he has put

in a full season’s work.”



This farm provides many sources of

income. Each year two carloads of

finished cattle are turned off. The

cream from seven cows is sold to a

local creamery, and two or three pure-

bred cows are bought each year by

neighbors. From $1,500 to $2,000 worth

of hogs are shipped every twelve





year, while in 1925 the yield was fif-

teen tons'per acre. An old orchard

still yields fine fruit. A car-load of

lambs is being turned off this winter.

These, in the main, are the sources

of revenue on this Clinton county

farm.



The soil is variable. Much of it is

clay loam, but there is also a fair

acreage of gravel and sandy loam.

These soils are friable and filled with





humus. They have been well farmed.

The good crops are the best evidence

of this.



Four- and five-year rotations are fol-

lowed. Clover sod is plowed for corn

and beans. If the beans can be re

moved in time, the land is sowed to

wheat. The remainder of the bean

ground and the corn fields are seeded

to cats the following spring, and then

’to wheat in the fall. All wheat ground

is seeded to clover.



In these rotations fertilizer is added

to the corn, wheat and bean crops.

About 200 pounds of acid phosphate

per acre is used on wheat; from 125

to 150 pounds per acre goes on the ,

corn and bean fields, and about 350

pounds per acre is sown with the sug-

ar beets.



“Fertilizer,” says Mr. Langdon, “is

the best investment a farmer can make.

It costs practically nothing to apply

after the fertilizer is delivered at the

farm. You sow it when the seed is

put in. This year oats receiving 200

pounds of acid phosphate yielded twen-

ty bushels more per‘acre than did un-

treated fields.”





A good supply of manure is made '

on this farm. There is sufficient to

cover from forty to fifty acres each

year. In addition, much straw, not

worked up into manure, is hauled to

the field to increase soil humus, and

usually there is also an abundance of

clover chaff to be used in the same

way. When clover is not cut for seed,

it is plowed under. There are four-

teen acres of alfalfa on the farm; this

and~ the other roughage produced, to-

gether with all grains except wheat

and beans, are fed on the farm. Be-

sides, a large amount of concentrates

is purchased for feeding, thereby ad-



(Continued on page 69).





Plan to Beautify the Farm Home





Once P/mmea’ tee Wore Can ée Sprea’ Over 0 Period of Year:





NE has said that a house is a

0 place in which one can exist, a.

home is a place in which to live.

Even though it may lack paint, al-





-though the roof may leak and the





rooms be small, it is still home. The

same place may be 'a home to one

person, but to'another simply a house.

A house then, to become a home, de-

pends upon the people who live in it.



Home folks make happy homes.

One need not be rich to be happy, but

improvements about or in the home

may make one live with greater satis-

faction. Satisfaction in life is what

we are all striving for. Flowers, plants,

shrubs, and trees are means of adding

satisfaction to one’s life through nat-

ural beauty. Many farm homes, over

fifty per cent, in fact, are devoid of

shrubs or plants “to help make them

more pleasant” places to live. ,





' Every. person has within them a





' sense of pleasure on seeing a thing of

. ubeauty Most people take pleasure in

m for plants. either in the home



“ hillside. If shrubs and flowers have.





   

   





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Gregg





Specialist in Landscape Gardening





of lack of time or fear of planting

them out in a place unsuited for them,

or not knowing the right thing for the

right place.





A home includes not only the build-

ing itself, but a properly planted yard

about it and the other outbuildings.

This'area may vary widly. It is bet-

ter to have a well care'd for place than

a poorly kept large one. However,

considering the extent of the surround-

ing fields, the farm home yard would

look pinched if no larger than the city

lot. One hundred twenty-five to 250

feet make a very satisfactory area for

frontage. Too large a place means an

increase in the unproductive acreage

of the farm, as well as too much time

to properly care for it, .time that

should be used for .more productive

work. '



The house, with its surroundings,

should make a pleasing picture, with

the house thevcenter of attention.





Plant shrubs about the foundation so

as to tie the house with the lawn.

This is called foundation planting.

The height of the shrubbery used

should vary with the height of foun-

dation and the house itself. The strong-

est plantings should be placed at the

corners. All plantings should be at

least two feet from the foundation,

giving plenty of room for each indi-

vidual, varying the distance with the

size of shrub when mature.





Choose kinds of shrubs with care.

Have a variety, yet do not mix them.

Have a background, say of spirea, with

barberry in front. Shrubs should not

be used individually about the lawn,

as this lessens the seeming size and

gives a museum effect to the place

Shrubs, other than foundation plant-

ings, are best used in masses about

the borders to make the frame or mar-

gin of your picture. They are used





~also,yto separate different parts of the





grounds, as well as to screen unsightly

objects, such as outbuildings, wood-

piles, and fences.



Trees must be used with caution, as

it is easyito have too many, and yet,

a few are very essential. Trees are

used for shade and to frame the house

and give distinction to the whole.

Trees, as well as shrubs, should not be

planted in straight lines or equal dis-‘

tances from each other. Trees planted _

in groups give the effect of being

planted naturally. This should be the

aim of all plantings as' the formal

method is not adapted to country

homes. .





It is not necessary to do all of the

planting about the home at one time,

although this is desirable. In any case,

a planting plan is the first essential.

Know from the beginning just where

you are going to put the trees and

shrubs. Locating these on a sheet of

paper is a very good way. Have the'

plan laid out to scales. Then, although '

one may be five years in completing .

the plantings, the whole will look lik‘

a finished picture in the end. ’
.be kept actively in mind.





servatidn endgame lavvs ’have been





repeatedly revised in recent years

without adequate protection of the in-





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VOLUME CLXVIII NUMBER THREE





DETROIT, JAN. 15, 1927





 





CURRENT COMMENT





HE first message





The of Governor Green



, to the legislature was

Governor s a statesman-like docu-

Message ment, touching on the





various problems of

state government in a business-like

manner which will go far

seat in the public mind a full measure

of the confidence expressed in him at

the polls. His appreciation of the im-

portance of a square deal for agricul-

ture was expressed in the following

paragraph:



One of the great issues in the Unit-

ed States today is the situation in

which the farmer, the producer of the

necessities of life, finds himself. For

a state administration to promise re-

lief for all that harasses and perplexes

the farmer would be folly, but. in ev-

ery department of state government

the needs, the rights and the hardships

of this section of our population must

Those in

charge of our finances, of our institu—

tions of science and learning, our law-

making, and of every other branch of

state administration, must do every—

thing, at all times, to safeguard and

promote the farmer’s interests, and to

cooperate with the national agencies

in the improvement of conditions that

are at the very foundation of our eco-

nomic system.



In discussing the important matter

of conservation, the governor allied.

himself solidly with the farmers of the

state in the following forceful lam

guage: .



The farmer, whose rights and inter-

ests have been to a large extent disre-

garded in the conservation movement

throughout the country, is vitally con-

cerned. The state should proceed to

give him full control of his own prop—

erty by the strengthening of our tres-

pass laws. These laws must be tied

up closely with our game laws, as has

been successfully done in other states.

It should be necessary for the hunter

to get the farmer’s permission to hunt

upon cultivated land rather than for

the farmer to be obliged to post warn-

ing signs ,



This is exactly in line with the cam-

paign started by the Michigan Farmer

last June, and will be most gratifying

to the farmers of the state. Our con-





to firmly *





in recent litigation conservation ofl‘i-

cials were apparently concerned in es-

tablishing the rights of sportsmen as

Opposed to those of farmers. It is in-

deed refreshing to note the very dif-

ferent attitude of Governor Green on

this point, as expressed in his first

message.‘





ALF the battle of



life is economy,

and our wise econ-

omists vouch that it

is not as difiicult to

earn money as it is

to spend well that which we have earn-

ed. Recognizing this, some ten years

ago the Young Men’s Christian Asso-

ciation sponsored National Thrift

Week, January 17-23. Since that time

this thrift movement has been endors-

ed every year by a growing number of

organizations.



Their program is based on a ten-

point success creed: work and earn;

make a budget; record expenditures;

have a bank account; carry life insur—

ance; own your own home; make a

will; invest in safe securities;‘. pay

bills promptly; share with others.



Important as each of these points

are, it would seem that after we have

fortified our earning power with good

health and plenty of determination, the

next important thing is to budget our

income. Setting down our possible ex-

penditures for the coming year defines

for us our standard of living. It indi-

cates what, we can and what we can-

not afford. As Kipling put it, a future

spending plan develops “a certain

strictness—let us call it a decent and

wary economy—in domestic matters,

which teaches us to look at both sides

of the family shilling.”



It is the first month of the new

year, and resolutions are still in order.

What. better one could home managers

make during Thrift Week than to re—

solve to establish a family budget,

hold to it for the coming year, and

plan so that the family reserve fund

will grow a little larger next year?





How About

Your

Budget?





HE present indus-





Indu‘trial trial prosperity

. which has prevailed

Prosperity for a number of

Goad months, will continue





throughout 1927, ac-

cording to a number of our foremost

financial and business observers. Prac-

tically every person whose business

forecast is worth publishing, takes this

attitude.



The public buying power is greater

than it has ever been before. The

present condition of the railroads in

this country is the best since the war.

Building operations set a new record

in 1926 by totaling nearly seven bil-

lion dollars, and it is predicted that

these operations for 1927 will equal

the volume of last year.





The director-general of the Uniter'

States Bureau of Employment, states

that conditions are healthy through-

out the country; optimism and confi-

dence prevail; capital and labor gen-

erally have a. better understanding and

no dark spots appear on the industrial

horizon, with the probable volume of

employment as large, or larger, for

1927 than for 1926.





The highest total production and

consumption of any year in the his-

tory of the United States was the rec-

ord of 1926, according to Secretary

Hoover. This prosperity, he contends,

is to continue during 1927. Defining

economic progress in the terms of the

individual, We have. more and better

homes, more electric lights and pow-

er, more transportation, moreproads,

more substantial buildings, more rad-

ios and automobiles, more savings,

more life insurance and more of a

long. list of things than ever“ before.

The disappearance of much of chronic

poverty should make us more sensi-





 





Vble, the seeretary’thinksi to the rem





edy of individual misfortune, and the

high recovery of industry and com-

merce from the lesses of the war also





should make us more sensible of the 4





needs of agriculture.



In the face of all this, the past year

proved disappointing to a number of

groups of farmers by reason of





droughts, floods, epidemics, and over-'





production. Particularly were the cot-

ton, grain, and some of the fruit farm-

ers discouraged. On the other hand,

producers of potatoes, winter wheat,

sheep, and dairy products, fared-much

better.



It is the position of business and

government prognosticators that the

farmers can look toward the new year

with reasonable confidence. But farm-

ers generally should read their lesson

from the book of 1926. For example,

take the cotton growers. In 1921 these

growers produced thirty million acres

of cotton. This acreage increased to

forty-seven mililon acres in 1926. It

is little wonder that the marketing of

this crop got in an extremely bad way.

Conservative planting in the spring of

1927 will go far toward making this

year satisfactory to the farmers.”





HE year 1921 was





For the a bad one for

Farm farmers, but even so,



. . farmers, as a class,

antitrust were wealthier during





that year than any

other group of citizens. That is the

finding of W. I. King, of the National

Bureau of Economic Research.



In speaking recently in Detroit on

“The Wealth of the Continentaf United

States, on December 31, 1921,” Mr

King said that the average wealth of

the farmer was $8,144, as compared to

the average of $6,638 for the rest of

the citizens. But while the farmer had

more wealth accumulated at that time,

his income for that year averaged only

$701, as compared to $1,600 for the

rest of the citizenry.





We hope that Mr. King will be able

to give us more recent figures in the

near future, but venture that if he

does the farmers’ wealth will compare

favorably to that of others, because

the farmer puts much of his income

into his farm, his manufacturing plant,

while others are likely to spend theirs

on more perishable products.





Observation assures one that the

person who drives the best automo-

bile and wears the best clothes, is not

always the richest, although he may

give that impression. The assets of

-the farmer do not stimulate in him the

desire to keep up with the Joneses,

but neveitheless they are sound and

substantial assets.





I N about one-quarter





The of the counties of

Bean our state, about three—



_ . quarters of the white

Situation beans of the United





States are grown.

This season has been so unfavorable

to the bean growers. that nearly a

quarter of the crop has not been har-

vested, and about twenty per cent of

those harvested are not marketable. '



This is a heavy blow to the farmers

of the bean growing section, but we

hear no lo-ud complaints, no calls for

federal aid in price fixing, or other

forms of government support.



This situation demonstrates the sub-

stantiability of a diversified agricul-

ture. It shows the wiseness, in agri-

culture at least, of putting your eggs

in more than one basket. Most bean

growers have had a decidedly unpleas:

ant year, but their‘diversified farming

will enable them to weather the storm

and to come back soon.



There is no state in the Union which





demonstrates so well that diversity is '





agriculture’s safeguard. It survived

the post-war slump much better than

most states, and it survives with very

little unpleasantness, almost complete

failures 01' any one of its multitude of

crops The south and the west, where





the-crop states abound are taking the

”lessons Michigan is teaching. .





HE financial side”





of the farming

business has most al-





TheFarm.

er and the

Banker





 





cap, because the farm-

er has not been able

to get financial accommodations as

easily and as favorably as those in"

other lines of endeavor. But gradue

ally the banker and the farmer are

trying to understand each other better

and/this should result in more favor-

able relations in the future.



One of the steps in advance in this

respect, is the action taken by the

Michigan Bankers’ Association._ In

each county the agriéultural commit-

tee of the association will appoint a.

county key banker to keep in touch

with the agricultural conditions of his

county, especially with reference to

the relations between bankers and the:

farmers. This arrangement will ffir-

nish the bankers more “at-hand” infor-

mation than they have been able to

obtain before, and with this they will

have a better understanding of the

farmer and his financial requirements.

This should stimulate a business

friendship between the farmer and the

banker which should prove mutually

beneficial.





 





Getting Sta rtea’ flgaz'n





AS I was saying ~last week, I’m be-



ginning to commence another year

and, like all good farmers ’re doin’,

I’m plannin’ already for the coming

season. That’s what everybody should

do, because no man ever built a houso

or did anything else worth while, with-

out having plans.



For inst, I’m going to see our bank-

er and act awful nice to him so he

will let me buy a tractor. You see,

with a tractor I kin get my plowing

done early and get the ground fitted

up, and then I’ll

have time to go

fishin’. Well, then

after I'get my

corn and potatoes

in I can go fishing

again, and when

they ain't biting I

can come home

and cultivate a

little, and then go





 





back fishing again.



And then there comes haying. Well,

I’m going to arrange it so it’s all done

before the Fourth of July, so we kin

really celebrate. There ain’t no fun

celebrating if you know that you’ve

got lots of work to do after you get

thrbugh celebrating.





We’ re going to get the neighbors to

milk the cows and feed the chickens,

and then we’ll celebrate the Fourth for

four days, One day ain’t enough to

celebrate such a important day—the

anniversary 0’ our liberty. And I’m

going to celebrate it just like we real-

ly got our liberty—by doing like we

darn please. What good is liberty if

you can’t use it—that’s what I want

to know.



Of course, there’s corn to cultivate

and potato bugs to fight, but I’ll get

them in between fishings. Then, too,

we want to go camping this summer,

to make use of some of them state

parks we’re paying taxes for. There’s

nothing like getting your money’s

worth, ’specially if the getting is pleas-

ant. And camping is pleasant because

it makes you think of the time people

lived when there was no work. Them

was the good old days when you could

camp and hunt and fish. But now, all

you kin do is camp and look out for

game warden, and work the rest of

the time.



Now, this is just part of my plans.

But from what I’ve given, you kin. see

I’m ambitious. Most farmers would

just plow, cultivate, chase potato. bugs

and such like, while I’m working in:

fishing and etc. Don’t that show I’m

industrious2 HY 'iSYCKLE.





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drove him he could only strike a three-

thirty gait. Would he be classed as





. a two-ten or a three-thirty horse, and





would his inability to strike his aver-

age gait when driven by another be

his fault?



Now, if one grower can make a suc-

cess growing everbearing strawberries

when another cannot, is the everbear-

ing strawberry to be considered as





worthless, unprofitable, and a failure?‘





" Ever since the everbearing straw-

berry was introduced in 1902, there

has been varying results from this





' class, of berries, due to variety char-





acteristics, soil and weather condi-

tions. . The first variety of this class

of strawberries to attract much atten-

tion was the Progressive, introduced

in 1912. It was the result of a cross

between the Pan-American, the orig-

inal everbearing variety, and the Sen-





A Factor T [mt Make: it Portia/e

By a SucceSSful GroWer





ator Dunlap. Although the Superb, a

well- known variety, was introduced a

year previous to the Progressive, it

never gained in popularity to equal

that of the Progressive, for it was not

so sure a cropper—fruiting very spar-

ingly some summers and falls, if at all.

Since the advent of the Superb and

Progressive, many everbearing varie-

ties have been introduced with vary-

ing possibilities, but none of them

have met with much favor and suc-

cess, because of their inability to pro

duce many quarts of berries during

the everbearing season, and because

the berries wouldn’t hold up in size

until theend of the fruiting period.

Nine years ago in north central In-

diana, then originated an everbearer

called the Mastodon, It was a result

of a cross‘of theSuperb with a late-

ripening spring, or common strawber-

ry. The originator found he had some-

thing worth while, and kept the vari-

ety to himself, but the secret leaked

(Continued on page 71).





 





A Patch of Everbearers will Bring Both Pleasure and Profit.





Why They Won





T lzere Mm ’Made T Izez'r Program: Effective





S recently announced in these



columns, C. L. Nash, agricultural



agent of St. Clair county, and

A. C. Lytle, agricultural agent in Ot-

sego county, were recently selected

by the three state leaders of county

agricultural agents as winners of the

cups for the best work done by such

agents in this state the past year. Mr.

Nash has been county agricultural

agent in Branch, Cass, and St. Clair

counties during the ten years which

he has spent in this work. Mr. Lytle

has been in Otsego county all of the

eight years which he has devoted to

agricultural extension activities.



The selection of cup winners each

year is determined by the pro-gram of

work which the agent builds up for

his county, the manner in which the

program is carried out, and the effi-

ciency which the agent shows in work—

ing with local people in carrying out

the year’s program. This yearly out-

line must be planned to aid local peo

ple in; solving immediate problems and

at the same time each year’s work

must be. used as a stepping stone on

the Way‘to a continuous effort to aid





' _; agriculture.





When Mr. Lytle took up his duties





" in Otsego county, the farmers of that

, section were buying 200 carloads of





hay each year. After three years of





Q effort in getting farmers to use poison

' baits to destroy grasshoppers, and to

grow legumes in place of timothy, Ot-





sego farmers were growing all the hay

needed in the ecun-ty. The Top 0’





' Michigan Potato snow held at Gaylord





much influence upon the quality of

potatoes produced in that section.



The marketing agencies for potatoes

in Otsego county were persuaded to

grade potatoes over a two and a quar-

ter inch screen, thus producing the

well-known King Spud brand. Last

year the growers were able to se-

cure $1.07 a sack more for the King





'Spuds‘than theysecured for the U.





S. No. 1’s, which aregraded over a

one and seven-eighths inch screen.

This increase of $1.07 a sack was ob-

tained on sixty cars of_potatoes.



The agricultural activities in St.

Clair county are varied and any pro-

gram of work in that county must be

planned to aid farmers who are en-

gaged in all branches of farming.

Dairying is one of the major lines of

farm work in St. Clair county, and Mr.

Nash spent much of the past year in

helping the dairy farmers in solving

problems. An appropriation of $9,000

was secured to be spent in a tubercu-

losts eradication campaign. A Holstein

breeders’ association was organized

and a dairy tour conducted. Two cow

testing associations, one bull. associa-

tion, and three calf clubs were also

organized. These agencies all aid in

the development of more economical

methods of milk production.





The county agricultural agent in St.

Clair county is also working with fer-

tilizer dealers in the county in an at-

tempt to have the dealers carry- in

stock only such analyses of fertilizer

as are of especial value in that coun-

ty. Low-gradeif'ertilizers contain many

pounds of filler, and this filler costs





‘33 much a Found to ship as actual fen

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January isxa good time to start feeding your

hens Ful-O-Pep Egg Mash. For if you resolve

to do it this month you may be sure that you

have a profitable New Year ahead.





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Ful-O-Pep Egg Mash is the excellent produc-

ing ration that contains Cod Liver Meal! This

substance helps the rich oatmeal, minerals and

other egg-making ingredients of the mash to

do faster and more thorough work. Despite

short daylight, and chill weather, or the absence

of green-stuffs, the hens lay more regularly.





You get more eggs—and better eggs—eggs

that are large, more uniform in size, and strong-

shelled. Ful-O-Pep eggs are very desirable

for their high food value and good flavor.





And eggs produced with Ful-O-Pep Egg Mash

hatch into strong, lively chicks. The Cod Liver

Meal adds greatly to the fertility of eggs, and

the baby chicks are sturdy, husky little birds

that can be developed into profitable market

poultry, or layers.





Ful-O-Pep Egg Mash is easy to buy and easy

to use. Near you is a dealer who has it—also,

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ITH a new governor at the helm



and a new legislature studying



the charts and sailing rules,

Michigan’s Ship of State was launched

upon another two-year voyage at Lan-

sing last week. Not in many years

has the prospect of cooperation be-

tween the executive and legislative

branches of Michigan’s state govern-

ment been as bright as they are to-

day. Governor Fred W. Green seems

to have the confidence and. good-will

of the lawmakers and of the public





generally.

I! It all





portance in the House of Representa-

tives was the selection :of a speaker.

This is done by the members from

among their own number. Represent-

ative Lynn C. Gardner, of Stockbridge,

Livingston county farmer, was the

choice for this important position. The

speaker pro term will be Representa-

tive Milton R. Palmer, of Detroit.

* I|< it:



The \governor delivered his inaug-

ural address in person to the senators

and representatives at a joint conven-

tion of the two Houses, on Thursday

afternoon, January 6. His recom-

mendation covered a broad field of

state problems, but emphasized espe—

cially the state’s financial policies, the

condition of various state institutions,

and problems relating to agriculture,





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   





taxation, conservation, and the preven-

ition and punishment of crime. He

‘urged the law-makers to be npted for

,the quality, rather than the quantity,

:of their enactments.





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i Commenting upon the problems of

tMichigan farmers, Governor Green de-

‘clared in his inaugural address, “One

5of the great issues in the United

States today is the situation in which

the farmer, the producer of the neces-

Ssities of life, finds himself. For a state

administration to promise relief for all

that harasses and perplexes the farm-

er would be folly, but in every depart—

ment of state government the needs,

the rights, and the hardships of this

section of our population must be kept

actively in mind. Those in charge of

our finances, of our institutions of

science and learning, of our law—mak-

ing, and of every other branch of the

state administration, must do every-

thing, at all times, to safeguard and

promote the farmer’s interests, and to

cooperate with the national agencies

in the improvement of conditions that

are at the very foundation of our eco-

nomic system. ‘





“The tax problem is bound up with

the whole unfortunate condition of the

state’s finances. Lightening the bur-

den of the direct property tax must

be the first purpose of every change

in our system of taxation, and we must

not create any new sources of revenue

unless this money is to be used to

reduce the property tax. We must ex-

haust every method of reducing ex-

penditures. Michigan ”has not kept her

faith with the farmer on one hand, nor

with business interests on the other,

in the matter of taxation.”



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Prospects seem very favorable for

legislation to protect the farmer; from

trespass by hunters. There is every

indication that the legislature will con-

sider favorably a bill along the lines

suggested by the Michigan Farmer

during the past few weeks. Speaking

of this situation, Governor Green in

his message declared, “The farmer,

whose rights and interests have been,

to a large extent, disregarded in the

conservation movement throughout the

country, is vitally concerned. The

state should proceed to give him full

control of his own property by the

strengthening of our trespass laws.

These laws must be tied up c10sely





 





 





with our game laws, as has been done





state Capitol News '





By Our Lamz'ng Correspondent





The first development of major im- '





in other states. It should be neces-'

sary for the hunter to get the farmer’s

permission to hunt "upon cultivated

land rather than for the farmer to be

obliged to post warning signs.”



It is understood that a bill to carry

out these ideas is being prepared and

will be introduced during the forepartr

of the session.



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No bills were introduced in the

House of Representatives during the

first week, but in the Senate six new

proposals were dropped ‘lnto the hop-

per. One relates to drains, twot to

banking, two to the election laws and,

last but not least, a capital punish

ment proposal sponsored by Senatbr

Vincent A. Martin, of Fruitport. This

bill defines first degree murder‘ and

allows the jury to recommend as the

penalty, either life imprisonment or

death. Capital punishment proposals

have been offered for the last several

sessions and have always provoked a.

great deal of publicity, lobbying and

debate, but each year they have been

defeated by narrow margins. How-

ever, this year some of the death pen-

alty opponents are said to feel differ-

ently about this proposition, and it is

reported that there is quite a chance

that some legislation along this line





may be enacted at this session.

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The Legislature took a recess from

Thursday, January 6, until Wednesday,

January 12, in order that the new

speaker of the House might make his

committee appointments, and that the

legislative mill might be tuned up to

begin operations in earnest.





 





 





News of the Week





 





 





During the past year there were left

on the street cars of Detroit, 19,466

parcels of various kinds and value by

passengers.





Reuben C. Bland, of Martin county,

_. C., is considered the champion

father of this country. He has thirty-

four children to his credit. He was

presented to President Coolidge and

Congress last week.



Mussolini, the Italian Premier, has

ordered restrictions to be placed on

night clubs and cabarets in Rome in

order that the coming year will be

one of more work and less useless

play for the Italians. '



The Newark, N. J., building trades

union Will try out the five~day week

during the coming summer.



Twice as many suicides were com—

mitted in Budapest during the past





‘ year than the year before.





On January 6, the Rochester, N. Y.,

Philharmonic Orchestra concert was

broadcast by VVGY and stations in

England, in an effort to send music

around the world.





The department of physics of the

Mercer University, Macon, Ga., has

announced the perfection of a battery-

less and tubeless radio receiver.





A fight over which, one pulled a

skunk out of a hole, resulted in Ed-

ward Grim getting a broken nose,‘ and

Ernest Grim, a cousin, being sued for

$5,000. The jury in Chicago awarded

Edward $350 for his nose. The dis-

posal of the skunk was not mentioned.





Four hundred more marines and six

more ships have been sent to Nicar<

agua. _ to protect American interests.

Fighting between Liberal and Conser-

vative parties is the cause ,of the trou-

ble there, with President Diaz, of» the

Conservatives in control. - ‘





Since October nine people have died

in Detroit from monoxide gas, result-

ing from running their motor cars in

garages while the doors were closed.





Thousands.‘ of Chinese coolies in

Hankow mobbed the British council

offices and the British police oflices

last week, but later the Chinese troops

gained control and kept the coolies in

subjection. The Chinese want to break

from British rule. .



There was such a. clamor to use the

trans—Atlantic radiophone from Lon-

don to New York, by the British on:

the day of its opening. Friday, Janu<





ary 7, that the, British poetmastersgem ,.

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favored genes; _ 9 ' ‘ .
\ JAMES E. KANE

Roaie 6, Dnbaqae, Iowa





 





well, and all the boys and girls are like



me in this,so when it comes to such things



' as rubbers, we buy the best. We always



_ _ _’ ask for Ba‘lleBand and it’s easy to tell that



R. KANE is well known in his part we are getting it, on account of the Red



of the country‘for his strawberries Ball trade mark. I have worn Ball-Band as



and grapes. Honey’and chickens are other long as I can remember, and I like it be-



profitable products of his twenty acres. cause I get good fit. I wear the four-



He has afine big family of four boys and buckle rubber arctic most of the time,



three girls, and this is what he says about with Ball-Band wool socks. The girls and‘



the footwear they have for bad weather: Mrs. Kane wear cloth arctics and regular

‘ “If I don’tkeep my feet dryI can’t keep rubbers—all Ball-Band.”





utdoors in bad weather. . .





ut they keep their feet





warm and dry '





" Read how they do it and what these farm-

' ers say about how to get more days wear

in boots, arctics and’all kinds of rubbers





EN — and women —— like

those whose pictures are

shown here, can go about



their work in all sorts of bad weather,

‘with perfect foot comfort. Their feet

are always warm and dry, no matter

how wet or cold it is under foot.

That is because they wear Ball-Band

boots, rubbers and arctics.





They enjoy foot comfort not only





- because Ball-Band foot-





wear keeps out the wet

and cold, but because their

footwear fits. Every article

with the Red Ball trade

mark is shaped to -fit the

human foot.





 

 





 





Look for the

RED BALL

trade mark .





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RUBBER 3 WOOLEN FOOTWEAR





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And good fit results in more

days wear. When your boots and

rubbers last longer you spend less

for footwear. Look for the Red

Ball and be sure of getting more

days wear for yOur money.





Whatever you need in rubber and

woolen footwear, you can get it in

the Ball-Band line. The stores where

you trade no doubt have a wide

variety of styles and sizes.

If not, write for booklet and

name of a nearby dealer

who can supply you.

Mishawaka Rubber 8c

Woolen Mfg. Co., 328Water

St., Mishawaka, Indiana.





 





O. S. BUNDY

Proprietor Sugar Loaf View

Farm, Winona, Minnesota





R.BUNDYdevotes hisZSO



acres principally to straw-

berries and red raspberries. At

the height of the season he em~

ploys 125 workers, with an av-

erage of15 men throughout the

summer. He also plants 1 5 acres

of asparagus of a quality that

finds aready market. Mr. Bundy

is a Director oftheWinonaMilk

Cor ation. The whole Bundy

fami y are wearers of Ball-Band

footwear. The son has on Ball-

Band leather top rubbers, his

wife and his father are wearing

Ball-Band boots. “I remember,”





THEO E. MYERS

Manager Hayden Farm

Route 8, Ft. Wayne, Indiana





HE Hayden Farm is conspic-



uous amongthefarms around

Fort Wayne for its many attrac-

tive buildings. Mr. Myers is a

graduate of the Agricultural Col-

lege of Purdue University, class

of 1917. He didn’t go to farm-

ing immediately after gradua-

tion, for Uncle Sam had a job

for him until 1919. Since then,

however, he has demonstrated

how productive a farm can be

made when brains are applied

to it. He cultivates 160 acres and

raises corn and oats for feeding





 





 

 

 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 





 





said Russell Bundy, "the first

pair of boots I ever had. I was

eight years old and that little

Red Ball on the shiny. rubbers

was a beautiful thing in my

mind.” His father interrupted:

“Ball-Band in our family goes

back to nearly twice your age,”

he said. "Your mother and I

have not only bought Ball-Band

rubber and woolen footwear for

ourselves and children ever since

we came to Winona forty years

ago, butwe have bought it from

the same Ball-Band dealer. He

Wouldn’t think of offering us

anything else and we wouldn’t

think ofbuying any kind ofrub-

bers that didn’t have the Red

Ball trade mark.”





some 60 hogs and around 650

head ofsheep (Western feeders).

“One of the things I learned at

college,” says Mr. Myers, “was

the wearing qualities of Ball-

Band footwear. Wheneverthere

was rough work to do in bad

weather everybody seemed to

blossom forth with boots with

the Red Ball tiade mark. Here'

on the farm I wear the four-

buckle rubber arctic mostly,

with heavy dull sandals for go-

ing to town,and Ball-Band short

boots for real wet weather and

wet fields. I often marvel how

any manufacturer can produce

such a large line of rubber foot-

wear of such remarkably uni-,,

form high quality.” '
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slush, you will find Good-

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its extra service and longer life.





Millions of feet are enjoying

that snug, dry comfort which

this footwear can bring to you.





And 65,000 dealers make it

easy for you to get this pro-





tection.

Ask them for Goodrich “Hi—

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every purpose and every memo

ber of the family.





THE B. F. GOODRICH

RUBBER COMPANY

Established 1870 Akron, Ohio





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WOOD WITVH» MANY USES.





 





like putty, and which hardens into

wood, has lately come onto the mar-

ket. It can be moulded with the fini

gers, pushed'into cracks and holes,

and will stick to wooden surfaces,

glass, cloth, tile, or metal. When hard-

ened it can be sandpapered, planed,

carved, or turned on the lathe. It also

takes paint, varnish, 'or stain equally

as well‘ as does wood. Nails and screws

may be used as in a. board. It is some-

times called plastic wood and should

prove very useful to farmers.





BLUING GUN BARREL.





 





Please give me a recipe for bluing a

gun barrel—R. J. H.





The only reliable and lasting method

of bluing a gun barrel is that used by

the manufacturer when the gun is

made. The following chemical meth-

ods recommended in the Scientific

American Cyclopedia of Formulas, are

given for what they may be worth, as

we have had no experience with them:



To stain a gun barrel without heat-

ing, dissolve four and one-half ounces

of hyposulphite of soda in one quart

of water, also one and one-half ounces

of acetate of lead in one quart of wa-

ter. Mix the two solutions and bring

to a boil in a procelain dish or stone

pot. Clean the gun barrel free from

grease, oil or varnish, warm the bar-

rel, and smear with the hot solution,

using a piece of sponge tied to a stick.

When color develops, wash, and wipe

dry; finish with boiled linseed oil.



Another method is to clean every

part carefully, and apply nitric acid,

one part, diluted with ten parts of

water, until a blue film is produced on

the surface. Then wash with warm

water, dry, and wipe with linseed oil.





 





 





PREVENTS AUTO WINDOWS FROM

FREEZING.





 





Is there anything to use to keep the

windows and Windshields of coupes

and sedans from frosting in cold

weather when a heater is used and

the windows kept closed ?—C. C. B.





Glycerine and alcohol seem to be

about the most satisfactory material

for this purpose. The usual instruc-

tions are to dissolve one-half ounce

(one level tablespoonful) of glycerine

in one~half pint (one teacupful) of de~

natured alcohol. Put a few drops of

this on a soft rag and wipe the win-

dows and windshield inside and out.

This will not only prevent frosting, but

will keep the glass clearer of rain and

snow. Glycerine is sometimes used

alone, but this attracts dust rather

badly. Care must be taken not to get

this solution on the car finish, as it

will be likely to cause spots.



Another material sometimes used is

to take about half a pint of thin

soap solution, about a teaspoouful of

glycerine, and the same amount of tur-

pentine, shake together, and apply a

few drops with a soft rag. The other

solution is the more commonly used.





SALT WATER AS AN ANTI-FREEZE.





 





What are the objections to using salt

brine as an anti-freeze solution for

auto radiators?—-H. H.



A strong salt solution is, of course,

quite effective in preventing freezing,

but is not effective as an anti—freeze

for auto radiators. In the first place,

it has a very strong corrosive action,

especially when hot. You have no

doubt noticed how quickly and how

deeply a piece of iron rusts when laid

in brine. It also has a. tendency to

corrode brass and other metal parts.

A second serious objection is for a





 





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NEW product that can be handled.





strong solution to crystalize out, form-





ing heavy crystals, and even cakes,

.where it stands a good while. These

are likely to clog up the coolingpas—

sages—D. - ' ‘





 





LIME AND CEMENT WHITE

WASHES. '





 





,ANY of our readers will no doubt.

be interested in the following

lime and cement whitewash recipes,

recommended by the Illinois AgricuL

tural Experiment Station authorities:

“A whitewash formula that is rec-

ommended as being very satisfactory

for new surfaces is as follows: Two

and one~half gallons of finishing lime,

two gallons of white Atlas cement, two

and one-half pounds of sal soda, two

pounds of table salt, and three pounds

of pewdered alum. These should be

mixed dry, and then enough cold wa-

ter added to make five gallons of the

wash.





“For old surfaces a good mixture

can be made from two and onehalf

gallons of finishing lime, two and one-

half gallons of white Atlas cement, one

pound of sal soda, one pound of table'

salt, and three pounds of powdered

alum. As in the case of the other

formula, these ingredients should be

mixed dry and then enough water ad~

ded to make five gallons of the wash.

This wash should be applied in the

usual way after the loose particles and

scales have been cleaned off.



The caution that should be kept in

mind in whitewashing, is to be sure

that the surface on which the wash is

applied is entirely clean before the

application is made.”—D.





GETTING HEAT DOWN TO FLOOR.





Will you kindly tell me how to get

the heat from the ceiling down to

the floor in my brick b‘ank building,

which is 24x36x12 feet high, and heat-

ed with a hard coal burner?—-J. H. K.





About the only remedy for a trouble

of this kind is to increase the rapidity

of the air circulation. The best way

to do this is to put a sheet iron jacket:

entirely around the heater, reaching

about a foot of the floor to above the

top of the heater, and spaced about

two feet away from the heater. A door

in the side will permit of attending to

the fire. This sort of a jacket is now

used on most schoolhouse stoves.





If this does “not give enough circu-

lation, an electric fan could be putat

the top of the heater to blow the hot

air upwards and this could be turned

on in very cold weather.





A layer of insulation on the under

side of your floor joists, especially

under the parts farthest from the heat.

er, so as to make the spaces between

the joists air tight, would help a lot

about cold floors. Putting a half-inch

thickness of good insulation on top of

your present floor, and then laying a.

floor on top of that, would also help

some.-——D.





 





USES GERMAN PLOW.





 





A farmer near Oscoda, Carl E.

Schmidt, uses a plow imported from

Breslau, Germany. It has two batter-

ies of plowshares of five shares each,

arranged opposite each other. They

are mounted on a V—shaped steel bar,

the crux of which is mounted on an.

axle. At opposite ends of the field

are two steam engines which are con-

nected to the plows by three-quarter-

inch steel cables. Only one battery

of plows works at a time, 'while the

other is suspended in the air. Mr.

Schmidt can plow thirty acres in a‘





day with this outfit at acost of eighty- .





three cents per acre, While tractor.

plowing costs, $1.74 per acre.





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of 211,150 trees. were planted in 1926.

This figure includes plantings of both





‘ “seedlings and transplants. White pine

fled the list in the plantings, as 128,900





seedlings and 100 transplants were

placed in Muskegon county. Fifty-one





thousand three ‘ hundred Norway

spruce were also planted.

____,__.____.__._

CLUB’BOYS GET LABORATORY

ADVANTAGES.





 





‘ I 'HE superintendent of the high

school at St. Louis has made it





possible for the rural boys and girls .





of the vicinity to use the manual train-

ing laboratories of the school each Sat-

urday morning, and some of the in-

structors in the school have offered to

help members of the local boys’ and

girls’ clubs who use the laboratories.

Mr. Wilk, the instructor in agriculture

at the St. Louis school, has been very

active in helping to organize the clubs.

Through the cooperation of these

school ofi‘icials, it has been possible to

organize clothing clubs in the county

for the first time.





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WOMEN LEADERS CONTINUE

WORK.





 





ARRIE C- WILLIAMS, clothing



specialist at Michigan State Col-

lege, makes'the following report of the

interest shown by Van Buren county

women in the study of clothing prob-

lems: “Of thirty-three leaders in the

clothing project in Van Buren county,

sixteen are acting as leaders for the

third year, nine for_ the second year,

and eight are starting their first year

as leaders. When twenty—five out of

thirty-five leaders are interested

enough in the type of work that they

are able to carry back to their com-

munities so that they will devote their

time, effort, and often times their per-

sonal resources to the work for two

and three years, then it looks as





. though the problem of securing local





leadership ceases to be a serious prob

lem.”





MORE FROM THE GARDEN. ‘





 





T will be possible to secure a great-



er income, or satisfaction, from the

farm garden this year if the discovery

of western farmers is generally adopt-

ed. These farmers plant the seed di-

rectly in the field and then cover each

hill with a specially prepared reinforc—

ed wax paper cone to protect the

plants from frost. Soil is hanked

around the edges of the cone to hold

it down firmly. This acts like a hot-

house. When the plants begin to grow

a hole is made in the cone for ventila-

tion. Rains do not injure the effect-

iveness in any way. One man can

place as many as 3,500 per day. Sev-‘

eral million of these were used last

year in thirty-eight different states.





 





COUNTY NEWSPAPERS COOPER-

.ATE. . '





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C OUNTY weekly newspapers are, in



' many instances, leading a helping

hand in the propaganda for cow test-

ing, by printing the reports of the test-

ers of the various ass’ociations. The

Genesee county board" of supervisors

endorsed the tuberculin test plan two

years ago, and it is working out splen-

didly—R. H.





 





 





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Schimmelpfcnig, Marshfield,Wis.





“We fed the right feed 5597621)!”





And MLSChimmelpfcnig's profit

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with, small amounts of concentrates. “Stump”

pasture both years. _





HEN W. J. Schimmelpfenig got a new



manager for his dairy farm at Marshr

field, Wis, last March, his herd of 19 Holsteins

got a new ration.





Thirty/nine per cent more milk in 1926; 43% .- 7'

more profit! For this record, certified by the

official tester of the association, Mr. Schimmel'

pfenig was awarded first prize of‘$1,ooo in the

contest conducted by the Associated Corn Prod'

ucts Manufacturers to encourage better feeding.





Peter Bushman, the new manager, talked en’

thusiastically about Corn Gluten Feed. He had

fed it for 16 years. So, the next day after he

came, a load of it arrived at the Schimmelpfenig

barn. '



The records of the Marshfield Cow Testing GOOd feed’ gOOd feeding .

Association take up the story here. From April “We fed the right {Cad liberally,” says Mr-

I to October I, 1926, six high cows produced Bushman.

53,732 pounds, of milk. They ate a grain ration

of which 39% was Corn Gluten Feed (see ration).





There is much meaning in those words. This

herd was not superior in productive capacity to

thousands of others. It

was fed Corn Gluten ,

Feed liberally — before

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of the same cows were Oats. . . . . . . . ; .......... I70lb8. In the great dairy sec' (

in the herd. A sixth, the ggrgeal ---------------- 113: 11*;- tionsofthe United States

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0f mllk. Th-ey ate home Apt—Oct. Apt—Oct. Increase 111.3701“. herd. Your deal-

grown grains largely, Milk 38,638 lbs. 53.732 lbs. 15,094 lbs. er can supply you.



25:22:? i 3524-23 $751.36 43%





   





 





 





 





 





 





 





   





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ASSOCIATED CORN PRODUCTS» MANUFACTURERS

* t a 208 ‘So. LaSalle St., Chicago, 111. .
' . The most Outstanding i

industrial decomplishment

since the war





 





Thus does Hon. Herbert C. Hoover characterize the

achievements of the American railways since 1920

in the Annual Report of the Department of Com-

merce for 1926. In this report he says: I





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





“Probably the most outstanding single indus-

trial accomplishment since the war has been

the reorganization of our American railways.





“Our transportation . . . . had suffered from

Chronic car shortages and insufficient service

not only after the war but for many years before.





“The annual loss from this periodic strangulation

in transportation was estimated in the depart-

ment’s annual report of 1925 to amount to

hundreds of millions a year.





“The insufficiency of transportation interfered

with steady industrial operations, created inter-

mittent employment, increased the costs of

production and, through periodic strangulation,

caused high prices to the consumer.





“Manufacturers and distributors were compelled

to carry excessive inventories as a protective

measure, thus not only increasing the amount

of capital required in the business, but multi-

plying the danger of loss by price fluctuation.





“The railways, during the past five years, not

' only have built up adequate service and given

' a complete correction to these ills, but they

have, by great ability of their managers, greatly

reduced transportation costs and thus made rate

reductions possible which would not have been

otherwise the case."





NewYork Central Llns





Boston & Albany—Michigan Centraleig Four—Pittsburgh & Lake Erie

and the New York Central and Subsidiary Lines





Agricultural Relations Department Oflices





New York Central Station, Rochester, N. Y.

La Salle St. Station, Chicago, Ill. Michigan Central Station, Detroit, Mich.

466 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. 68 East Gay St., Columbus, Ohio





 





 





 

 

 





When Writing to Advertisers Please Mention

The Michigan Farmer





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSISTI





Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets you are

not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe

by millions and prescribed by physicians for 25 years.





1 | DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART |

Handy “Bayer” boxes ’of 12 tablets





Also bottles of 24 and loo—Druggists.





Aspirin is the tradeimark’ of Bayer Manufacture of Monomatlcacldester or Sallcyllcacld





 





 





 





 





 





 





Accept only “Bayer” package

which contains proven directions.





 





 





 





 





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WITHOUT secouo HUSBAND’S

CONSENT.





 





I have some property left me by my

first husband. I have a chance to sell

this property at a profit, and my sec-

ond husband is trying to persuade me

to give it to him. Can he hold any of

my property?—-E. N.



The property may be sold without

the signature or consent of the hus-

band—Rood.





‘NOT PROBATE JDDGE’S FAULT.





 





Eight years ago I gave probate judge

heirship property to put through court.

As yet, he has not done anything

about it, and now the property is up

for sale for back taxes. Can a judge

hold property so long without settling?

What about the taxes ?—A. D.





The probate judge is under no obli-

gation to put any property through

the court. His duty is fully performed

when he passes upon questions

brought before him by persons insti-

tuting the proceedings and following

them up according to law. If the tax-

e‘s are not paid according to law, the

land is sold for the taxes. This has

nothing to do with the probate pro~

ceeding.——Rood.





AN INHERITANCE PROBLEM.





 





If a widower and widow, each with

property and children by a first mar-

riage, are married, what dower rights

does the husband have in the wife’s

estate in case of her death? What

dower rights does the wife have in the

husband’s property? Would a mutual

agreement, previous to marriage, to

walve all dower rights, secure the chil—

dren of both husband and wife by

their first marriage, the right to have

them (the children) inherit the prop-

erty?——S. R



So far as the real property is con—

cerned, the wife would inherit one-

third from the husband. The husband

would inherit nothing from the wife.

So far as the personal property is con-

cerned, the wife would take one-third

of the husband’s and the husband one-

third of the wife’s. In order to bar

dower by agreement, it must be in

writing made-before the marriage, and

secure to the wife at least a life es-

tate in real property—Rood.





EXEMPTIONS UNDER GARNISH-

MENT.





 





.May I hold goods, or may I gar-

nishee wages to satisfy the amount of

house rent due? What would be the

cost and the necessary steps? There

was only a verbal agreement to pay a

small sum per month. I renewed the

note to a person living at a distance.

The party never returned the first

note, claiming it is lost. Could I ask

for a writing which would clear me of

the responsibility of the first note?

How would such a writing have to be

worded to be effective?—E. R. G.



Sixty per Cent of the wages of the

householder are exempt to the extent

of $30. Household goods are exempt

to the extent of $250, tools of the

trade to the same amount, one team,

two cows, five hogs, and ten sheep are

also exempt, most other property is

liable to execution. Suit may be

brought in justice court for the rent

and the wages taken by garnishment.

—Rood.





LOCATION OF ROADSIDE STAND.





 





I have a roadside stand in the form

of a table 4x8 feet in size, thirty inch-

es high, located in front of my house

on the farm. I have it placed on a

line with the roadside trees and tele—

phone poles. A man. from the high-

way department notified me by word





ty-three feet from the center of the

road, or about eight feetback on the

line of trees. This would make my

stand about fifty per cent as good as

it is. There is «plenty, of parking space

off of the road for cars stopping at my

stand. The highway department,,man

also Said . the same thing Would have





 





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both directions reading, “Fruit 300

Feet.” This road is straight for two

miles in one direction and one mile in

the other at this point. Can they com-

pel me to move?—A. H. W.





It is not believed that, under the cir-

cumstances, the highway commissions

er can compel removal of the stand.

The owner of the abutting land has

the right to use the highway for every '

purpose that will not interfere with

public travel, and what is an interfer~

ence is a question of fact to be de-

termined in each particular case. In

Clark vs. Lake St. Clair and County,

24 Mich. 508, the highway commission-

er tore down an ice house encroaching

into the highway; he was sued by the *

owner, judgment recovered for dam-

ages done, and the judgment affirmed

on appeal; because the highwaycom—

missioner failed to show that the ice

house interfered with public travel.

In Beecher vs. People, 38 Mich. 289,

complaint was made against Beecher

for building an elevated passageway

across a public alley. He owned the

land on both sides; the passageway

was about fifteen feet above the

ground. Conviction was quashed, be

cause, in the language of the court?

“In the present case the court did not

find in fact that there was an obstruc-

tion, but decided it as a question of

law—Which it is not in most cases, if

at all.”—Rood.





   





RIGHTS AT TERMINATION OF

LEASE.





 





I rented a farm for three years,

which time expired last fall. I, think-

ing I could hold the farm for another

year, put out some fall crops last fall.

May I hold my share of the crop, or

can owner claim all, or more than his

share? What rights have I? What

rights has the owner?——G. W. G.





A tenant has no right to the crops

not harvested before the end of his.

term. It is his own folly if he plants

crops he cannot harvest.





 





 





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Radio Briefs





 





 





HE report of the National Radio



Coordinating Committee has been

referred to Congress to help straighten

out the radio muddle which now de-

mands immediate remedy. Among oth-

er things, the report recommends du- .

plex control, recognition of stations’

priority and service rights, and not

less than five-year licenses, providing

that the licensee is operating his sta-

tion regularly and properly





 





The opening program of the Victor

Talking Machine Company on January

1, inaugurated a new chain of the Na‘

tional Broadcasting Company, with

WJZ as the “key” station. The chain

is known as the “Blue Network” and

will allow simultaneous broadcasting

from VVJZ through WBZ, KDKA, and

KYW.





 





Engineers who have gone out to

eliminate interference between sta-

tions WGES and WGN report: “In

nine cases out of ten we find the air-

tenna system is at fault. Most anten— ‘

nas are entirely too long. We find

aerials up to 175 feet in length in use.

We suggest about thirty feet, including

the lead-in, and very seldom more than

fifty feet. We recommend the use of

two antennas with a switch, one long

one and one short one; the short aerial

for selectivity and the long 'one for

distance. A set using a circuit sim-





ilar‘ to the Bremer Tully, with a valflva '7





iable,antenna coupling can be made: X





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.St. Clair and Capac.





‘ leader was ill and was in the hospital.

Two. .hundred thirty-nine. women are 7‘

,enrolled in the project in this county.





FARMERS and business men of

northwestern Michigan are becom-

ing much interested in the profit Which

‘_can be derived from planting mixed

stands of pine and spruce on land

which is now idle, according to the

statement of W. C. Cribbs, special ex-

tension representative. The trees are





planted in mixed stands and the spruce '





is harvested in from seven to ten

years. The returns from the sale of

the spruce, which are sold for Christ-

mas trees, gives the land owner a profit

and’ there is a stand of pine leftyon the

ground.



Mr. Bacon, a banker at Lake City,

will set several thousand trees on a

ten-acre tract south of Lake City.

Thomas Buell, of Elmira, will plant

8,000 pine and spruce next spring, and

-he may increase this planting to 110,-

000 trees. These blocks of trees will

be set along trunkline highways and

the men who are planting the pine and

spruce believe that the growth of the

trees will add much to the scenic

beauty of Michigan.



This state is called upon to supply

Christmas trees to the trade in Indi-

ana, Ohio, parts of Illinois, and there

is an immense demand for the trees

in our own state. One company in

Grand Rapids sold 150,009 baby Christ-

mas trees last year, and this year they

could not secure trees enough to meet

the demand. The company now in-

tends to secure land and plant spruce-

to insure themselves of enough trees

to supply their trade.



One attraction of this method of

putting idle land to work is the fact

that the labor cost of growing this

crop is very low. After the trees are

set, very little attention is needed un-

til the trees are ready to harvest. The

crop does not spoil if the weather is

bad, nor does it have to be harvested

in any one year.





TOWNSHIPS PICK COMMITTEES.





 





IGHTEfEN farm bureau members

of Newfield township, Oceana coun-

ty, met recently at the home of Mr.

Archie Himebaugh, north of Hesperia,

and elected a township farmbureau

committee of two men and two women

to work with their local minuteman,

Mr. Frank Darlington. Those elected

were R. W. Robotham, William En

derle, Mrs. Archie Himebaugh and

Mrs. Robert Jones. Mr. Darlington is

chairman of this committee.

One purpose of the township com-





mittee will be to acquaint farm bu— ,





reau members with the various busi-

ness, legislative, and traffic services

which the organization offers. New-

field is one of the more sparsely set-

tled agricultural townships of the

county. The function of the township

committee in solving local school,

church, road, and other community

problems was discussed by County Ag-

ricultural Agent Carl Hemstreet.





 





239 WOMEN ENROLLED IN ST.

CLAIR COUNTY.





 





HAT the farm women of St. Clair



county are interested in the cloth-

ing project as outlined by State Col-

lege specialists, is indicated by the fol-

lowing report' of Miss Carrie C. Wil-

liams, clothing specialist. Interest in

the clothing project in St. Clair coun-

ty has increased sufficiently this year

to justify the spending of twé days of

the specialist’s time in the county each

month. Training meetings are held at

Sixteen and four-

teen leaders are enrolled at the two





centers mentioned. Attendance lacked ‘





one of being 100 per cent. The absent





 





f Two hundred seventy-five farmers

tended the meetings held during the.





 





 

 

 





 





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. The Manger Knot

excellent for tying a halter to

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Tying and untying cattle,

hoisting, hauling—these little

jobs, repeated day-in, day-

out, in all kinds of weather,





prove the real

your rope.





Such jobs wear out an ordi-

nary rope too soon, making

it an expensive “economy.”

But a really good, depend-





able rope saves

dollars in the end.





Here’s a sure way to know

good rope, before you buy 1' t:

Untwist the strands. If

you see a thin- blue thread

marker, the “Blue Heart,”





running in the





tween the strands, you may





quality of





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What the “Blue Heart”





signifies





center be- pure,





 





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purposes, and





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H.8A.“Star Brand” Binder





evenly spun from the best

fibres —— has full yardage,

ample strength for binding

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The “Blue Heart” marker

means that the rope is genuine

H. 85A. “Blue Heart” Manila

Rope, spun from high grade,

selected manila fibre

by rope makers with over

half a century’s accumulated





It also means that in any





 





size, on any job, the rope will

wear longer and deliver with-

out fail the strength you have

a right to eXpect. For the se-

lected fibres of H. 85 A. “Blue

Heart” are drawn, spun, laid,

and properly lubricated so as

to insure the smooth working

of every fibre, yarn, and

strand.



Before you buy rope, un-

twist the strands and look for

the “Blue Heart”—our regis-

tered trade mark. It assures

you of dependable rope value

not only on the first pur-

chase, but whenever you.

need more of the same kind.

The Hooven 8:. Allison Company





“Spinners of fine cordage since 1869”

Xenia, Ohio





 





For sisal rope





For other jobs where high-

grade sisal rope is wanted,

use H. 85 A. “Red Heart”

Sisal Rope—spun from se—

lected sisal fibre by the

same skilled rope makers.





 





 





 





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ERY ~few new cherry varieties

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back to the same plant and the same:

1leaf With a true homing instinct. Its

flight is short and erratic. This habit

30f returning to its former feeding

Splace, after being frightened, serves

gas a means of its undoing. If the

jplant can be sprayed with some insec-

iticide which adheres to the surface for

1a short time after application, the

iadult will become entangled in the

,droplets left on the surface, and die.

i One of the most successful sprays

lfor white-fly control has been a com-

imercial preparation known as Lemon

Oil. This is a synthetic preparation

pand does not contain oil of lemon, as

$would naturally be supposed, but is

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nicotine spray is effective, providing

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volatile nicotine, to six gallons of wa-

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makes an excellent spray. This will

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At the time of our last visit, forty-





hay. They were making good gains.





ing born. In the barn they are. fed

silage, clover and alfalfa hay, and a

grain ration of corn, oats, and cotton-

seed meal. The oats are ground on»

the farm by wind .power and the corn

is crushed, cob and all. The steers

are fed from four to six months.





While the feeder cattle are purchas- ,





ed from outside the farm, the pigs are

all raised, six broodpsows being kept.

These are pure-bred Poland Chinas. A

pure-bred boar is also kept. The ra-

tion hr the hogs is cempounded from

corn, oats, barley, cooked beans and





ture, Mr. Langdon is able to secure

satisfactory growth and a good finish

when the time comes for the stock to

move to market.



The dairy herd consists'of about a.

dozen head of pure-bred Holsteins. Of

these, seven are milch cows and the

remainder young stock. The feed for

the cows comes from the farm. Silage

and legume hay furnish the roughage,

while the grain mixture is made up of

oats and corn, with a little concen-

trate added to increase the protein.





About eight years ago, Mr. Langdon

planted two acres of waste land lying

in a corner beyond a creek, to pine

trees. These .trees were placed seven

feet each way and scarcely one failed

to grow. They developed fairly uni-

formly, although those on the better

soil show substantially larger growth.

Many of these trees are now fifteen

feet high and measure four inches in

diameter at the butt. The soil here is

sandy and gravelly loam. In the opin:





ed on this land will pay out a reason-

able rent.



On this farm the winters are pro-

ductively employed. Much of the time

is devoted to the live stock. Cutting

wood for both the tenant and the own-

er requires a good many days. Wood

for the sugar bush is also needed. In

the late winter and early spring, the

sugar trees take a deal of time.



The construction of crates, grading

and testing seed corn, preparing seeds

needed for the 'spring planting, repair-

ing tools and buildings, these are oth-

er duties which keep this tenant _on

the job.



Mr. Langdon says that weeds cause

one of the big losses on the average





be growing crops. They interfere with

cultivation and require time for fight-

ing. Every effort, he believes, should

be made by the farmer to keep them

down. He has on his premises a small

patch of bindweed. It is most persist-

ent. In spite of being dug up root and

branch, the plant continues to live on.





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wanted to listen.





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—just what I was waiting for”





" WAS minded to buy a radio set,

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to fuss over a thing that looked like the



dashboard of an automobile. We didn’t

want work—we get plenty of that. We





“Well, a couple of weeks ago, over

at a neighbor’s, we found what we were

looking for. It was one of those Atwater

Kent sets, with only ONE Dial. It looked





to shift the ONE Dial.





was waiting for. ’.’





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simple, and was simple.





“When I got my fingers on that ONE

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test and a band concert in the first ten

seconds—just by turning that ONE Dial.





thought Radio was complicated-ftry your

fingers on an Atwater Kent ONE Dial.





EVERY SUNDAY EVENING. -'l‘hc Atwatcr Kent Radio

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ing machine.‘



The Langdon’s have a fine home. It

is modern. Thisrhome is built on forty

acres recently purchased. In it is found

practically every modern convenience.

Running water is provided by an auto-

matic pump operated by electrical pow-

er from a farm plant. This plant also

furnishes light and other electrical

service about the heme. The house is

heated with a furnace, and the sewage

is disposed of through a septic tank.

The porches are of good size and are

screened in. The sleeping quarters

are up stairs. A bath room adds to

the comforts; As will .be observed

from the illustration, this home pre-

sents an attractive appearance.‘ It is

well located as to, elevation. Shrub-

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. ‘veloped, add beauty to the excellent





lines of the house.



In the living room is a radio and



Mo. The radio furnishes an abnndv

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The band concert suited both families,

so I let go the dial and stayed with it until





“Then we rounded out the evening

by getting the latest news from Omaha,

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(In the first article Samuel Peck

proposed to Mary Slocum at Pilot-

Knob, and was accepted on condition

that they build their house at that

point. After much and perplexing

search, he discovered, as he supposed,

the owner of the property, purchased

it, and started to build; whereupon

claim to the property was made by

Ole Hanson, who had purchased of





one having no title, andrhad not re-





corded his conveyance, but had actu-

ally entered and held possession for a

number of years).





HE upshot of it was that the



next day an injunction was serv-



ed on Peck and his contractor,

forbidding further trespass or waste

on the premises till a determination

of the rights of the parties.



The young man had invesitgated

Ole’s statement and learned from re-

liable witnesses that he occupied the

place longerthan the period of, the

statute of limitations under a claim





, of ownership; that his possession was





of , such a character as our supreme

court has held will ripen into title by

adverse possession; and he knew from

the same decisions that in the absence

of statute requiring it, as is the case

in Michigan, color of title is not nec-

essary to mature title by adverse pos-

session; and that even Where the stat-

utes require color of title to make

title by adverse possession, the courts

agree that the instrument giving the

color need not be recorded nor record-

able. He also found from the decis-

ions of the courts that a title thus ac-

quired by adverse possession cannot

be lost or divested by abandonment

any more than a title acquired in any-

other manner.



He was therefore convinced that

Ole’s title was perfect, although the

premises had been vacant and unclaim-

ed by him for many years, and al-

though Peck had purchased for value





 





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without notice of >01e’s title, relying on

a record and abstract which gave no

suggestion of any such claim. And

attorneys, when confronted

with the authorities, were compelled

to admit it.



At first it was thought that his title

insurance policy afforded him some

protection; but on investigation it was

found that it was limited to the con-

sideration paid by Peck for the con-

veyance to him, which was much less

than the value of the property; al-

lowed nothing for money spent in im-

provements; insured only against evic-

tion by any paramount title of record,

so that there was no cause of action

on the policy till he had been evicted,

which would not include any voluntary

surrender by him to the adverse claim-

ant; and in this case would not give

’him any action, even in case of evic-‘

tion by Hanson, for it was admitted

that Hanson’s title was not of record.



But Peck put an end to all thisdis-

cussion by the simple remark that this

was not a matter of dollars and cents,

but a matter of getting clear title of

that particular land, and no payment

in money of any sum, however great,

would compensate at all.



In this connection Peck was very

forcibly reminded of the difference in

his predicament in his case, from that

occupied by him in another instance

in which adverse title had been set

up against property on which a Tor-

rens title certificate had been issued

to him. Upon the original registration

of the Torrens title the person obtain-

ing the registration was required to

pay as an insurance fee into the state

treasury, a sum equal to one-tenth of

one per cent of the assessed value of

the property at the assessment last

preceding the registration, a. sum

equivalent to about one-twentieth of

the annual tax on the property. .



When the adverse claimant of this

Torrens property appeared it gave

Peck neither‘inte‘l'est nor. concern. The,





 





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interest in the property by the regis-

tration; and when he presented his

claim it was not against Peck, the

title holder, but against the insurance

fund in the hands of the state treas-

ury.



The claimant filed his claim, and if

he succeeded in establishing it, was

awarded out of the state treasury

whatever the jury said was the "value

of the estate he had lost by the regis-

tration; but the title of the registry

holder was unaffected. This is what

made Peck reflect upon the former oc-

casion- If he had had a. Torrens title

there would be no ‘occasion tD worry

or delay, either the building or the

wedding; Whereas, with the title in-‘

surance policy all Peck had was a

suit for money against the Guardian

Title & Trust Company; and not even





that, until he had been ousted from .





the property. The insurance did not

even cover his losses. The property

was gone, and with it all that Peck

had expended in his building opera:

tions. All that he could recover was

the purchase price.



There seemed no recourse left but

to pay the price demanded for Han-

son’s title; and that was done, and due

conveyance made to Peck, who then;

proceeded to finish the house.



About the time the job was complet—

ed and the day set for the wedding, a

stranger appeared 'in town. It was

none other than Jerdy Sanford, Jr.

Deborha had a brother Charlie who

volunteered when Lincoln called for

the first 75,000, was reported killed in

the battle of Shiloh, April 7, 1862, and

had never been heard of afterwards;

and Jerdy Sanford, Jr., was his son.

and only heir. ‘



(Continuednext week).





NEW TYPES OF SWEET CLOVER.





 





HE county agricultural agent of





Missaukee county has collected





samples of seed from unusual plants,

of sweet clover found in that county.

The second growth of this sweet clo-

ver plant starts from the crown of the

plant instead of from buds on' the

stalks. The Seed which was collected

has been sent to E. E. Down, plant

breeder at Michigan State College.





SUCCESS AS TENANT FARMER.





 





(Continued from page 69).

ports. on the reading table were mag-





azines, farm journals, and daily press.





In the library of many scores of vol-

umes, we observed a number of good

stories, several historical and scientific

treatises and a good encyclopedia.



In this successful farming enterprise

Mrs. Langdon has had a real part. Be?

sides her duties as a mother and home-

maker, she has been a valuable helper

and adviser to her husband. She keeps

the books, which are in a very under-

standable form. A system of book-

keeping suggested in the columns of

this journal many years ago has been

adopted. By it a single entry serves

every purpose.



Two fine girls have come to grace

the Langdon home. One is eleven and

the other eight. ' Both are well ad-

vanced in their school work and, un-

like so many boys and girls to be found

today, particularly in our cities, these

girls usually were seen busying them-

selves at some of the many chores'to

be found about the farm home.





An analysis of marl secured on the

farm of George Harrison, of Portage

township, Kalamazoo county, showed

that the sample contained eighty-seven

per cent of calcium Carbonate.





 





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' years ago and has been growing the





variety under garden and commercial

culture since. The first two years,

the new variety was grown alongside

of five other leading overbearing vari-

eties and each year it proved so supe-

rior in the production of more quarts

and larger berries, that the other vari-

eties were discontinued in last spring’s

plantings.



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plants were set in the garden in a dou-

ble row. The rows were spaced eight-

een inches apart, and the plants set

alternately in the rows so they did not

come Opposite each other in the dou-

ble rows, goose-track fashion, so to

speak. To give them a good start,





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hoed into the soil. These 100 plants

were given good care and all blossoms

kept picked off for about sixty days





‘ after they were set in the ground, in

order to let them get well established '





in the soil, and become strong and

thrifty before they began to produce

their big berries.



It takes about thirty days from blos-

som t0‘ ripe berry, so the first ripe

berries were picked about the middle

of July. By the first of August the 100

plants were' producing about three

quarts a wee-k of the biggest, best ber-

ries imaginable, and by the first week

in September the yield was double and

we had plenty of fresh strawberries

for our table all during that month.

‘The cold, cloudy days of October

;checked the yields, but ripe berries





’Day. The heavy foliage was a great

protection against frosts, and only se-

vere freezing “got” the berries.



This summer and fall crop was not

the end of the berries from these 100

MastOdon everbearing plants. This



spring they bore a good crop of fine



‘large berries. As high as four quarts

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ing, supplying our family of five with

all the berries we wanted for table use

during the spring strawberry season.





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.other application of sulphate of am-

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teaspoon of acid phosphate per plant.

; They seemed to take about a six-week

Frest and then began to send out an-

? other set of blossoms which developed

‘into ripe berries the first of Septem-

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as those of the former two crops, but

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crops of strawberries from one plant-

ing within, eighteen months after the

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inches apart in double rows eighteen

inches apart in a reasonably rich gar-

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ly in the girl’s eyes. "Then—-



you don’t know,” she whispered,



"‘No one has told you?"

“Told me"” Shane. repeated bewil-

« deredly, “What was there to be tellin'

me? I’ve come for you, that’s all. To

take you away, home with me, before

the storm breaks that’s brewin’ here.”

. The girl’s head drooped suddenly,



and she broke into tears.



“Oh, Shane,” she sobbed, “God pity

us! I can never go home with you,

never! There is between us a barrier

too dreadful to name!”



Shane came close and would have

taken her in his arms again, but she

put him away, holding back the sobs

that choked her. .



“You must not,” she whispered, “and

you must be brave—for Dennis Mc-

Craggen’s sake!” She breathed the

name again, softly, tenderly. “Dennis

McCraggen. Sons of the crags of Don-

egal.” Then after a time she said

softly, “Go home Shaneg Ask Dennis

who Neal Harris was. You know him

as Brand Carter, but that is not his

name. And Shane—be brave, for Den-

nis will tell you things about your

mother that may rock the soul of even

a strong man!”



Shane stood, too mystified to speak,

and then pride blazed again in Bar-

bara’s eyes and she raised her head

and looked levelly at him. “Tomorrow

is my wedding day,” she said quietly.

“I am marrying Blair Carter. At least

he prefers me to a squaw. You need

not come for me, even if Dennis wants

me, for you will be too late!”



She turned before Shane could speak

and was gone, running away from him

down the path toward St. James.

Shane stretched out his arms after

her and called to her in the darkness,

but there was no answer and he was

too stunned by what the girl had told

him to think of following her just then.



Neither of them had seen the ill-

shaped boy that stood beside Barbara,

flinch at her words as at a blow.

Neither saw the fury blazing redly in

his eyes as he went away down the

hill after the running girl.



It was a strange scene enacted be-

tween Shane and Denny in the pale

light of dawn that morning. Shane,

still uncertain and confused by all that

had transpired, and weary from the

long hard journey and sleepless night,

put his question without preface.



“Denny,” he asked, “Who was Neal

Harris?”



The color drained from the older

man’s face, leaving it a gray mask in

Evhich the eyes burned like living em-



ers.



His withered old body shook sud-

denly as if with palsy and he turned

slowly away from Shane, his clenched

hands uplifted. Then there poured

forth from his ashen lips a terrible

slow sequence of livid curses.



When he turned finally to face

Shane, his first words fulfilled Bar-

bara’s prophecy.



“Shane,” he said slowly, in a vnice

dreadfully low and calm, “In the lan-

guage of the people along the Galway





coast there is no sicond word for

adultery. Your mither was guilty

of it.”





Shane r‘ecoiled as from a blow, but

Dennis went mercilessly on. ......



“Whin a man is havin’ to say that

about the mither of his son, he’s not

forgivin’ her—miver! But there’s an-

other 1 hate more than her. Where is

this Neal Harris you’re askin’ me of?

Do you know that, Shane?”



Shane nodded. “He’s in St. James,”

he said.



“Then we’ll be goin’ to St James

this night,” Dennis said in the same

low, terrible voice. “I’ve an errand

there that’s waited a score 0’ years!”



He dragged his crippled legs across

to the window and stood silent for a.

long, time, staring out beyond the

white sand of the beach, across the

water, rose—tinted in the light of early





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morning, to where the low blue line

of Beaver Island lay on the bright

breast of the lake, hazy with distance.



“Islands,” he said at last, not speak-

ing to Shane. “They’re the loneliest

places on the earth. Layin’ out there

on the water an’ b‘eckonin’ to a man.

It’s hard to get to, they are, an’ it’s

harder to leave. No place for a man

to be runnin’ to, an’ no place for him

to be hidin’. It’s fair I should he find-

in’ Neal Harris there! Life’s been

none too aisy these years, but I’ll not

be cheated this time!”



He turned slowly to Shane, standing

motionless beside the table.



“It’s not so long a story, Shane,”

Dennis s id quietly. “I’d sooner be

turnin’ a nife in my own flesh than

to be speakin’ of it, but you’ve to know

some day, an’ I’d as well be tellin’ you

now.” He motioned the boy to a chair,





hj‘lDienny,” he said, “She bore you the



c 1 .”



h.Dennis turned doubting eyes up to

1m.



“It’s her we saw on the deck of the

Kathleen Briggs the mornin’ of the gale

last spring,” Shane went on. "It’s her

I’ve loved and asked to be my wife.

.And she’s knowin’ too,” his voice

broke, “for she sent me here to ask

you who Neal Harris was!”





He turned aWay, and silence, heavy

and oppressive, fell between the two

men again.





CHAPTER X.

Avenging Spirits.

HE sun sank in a strange cloud

of ominous black on the night of

Barbara’s wedding, as though loath

to cast his benediction upon a day





 





dropped down wearily himself upon a

bench that ran along the wall.



“It was twenty-three years ago,

Shane,” he began. “Mid-winter whin

this man Harris came to our house.

You were two then. A missionary from

the Mormons he said he was. My old

mither was first to be comin’ under

his spell. He cut a hole through the

ice on a little lake behind the barn,

and he called it baptizin’ her. I beg-

ged and pleaded with her, but it seem-

ed like she couldn’t listen.” He paus-

ed, turned to the window again. “She

died of pneumonia next wake,” he said

after a pause.



“That was in Oakland county,” he

went on slowly. “I was lavin’ right

after that for a spell in the lumber

camps. VVhin I got back this Harris

had left——” torture lined the old man’s

face at the memory—“and so had your

mither! She left me no word. You

were at a neighbor’s, an’ they told me

she had gone with him.”



Dennis McCraggen had slumped for-

ward in his seat as he finished, and

silence fell upon the room. Shane

broke it finally in a low voice filled

with pity. “So that was my mither,”

he said. “What was she like, Denny?”



The old man looked at him, his lips

working silently for a long minute be-

fore the words came. “There’s no

words for her Shane,” he whispered at

last. “Lauretta O’Heare her name

was, an’ there was North 0’ Ireland on

her tongue an’ in her eyes! An’ her

hair lad—~"l‘was like new copper in the

sun!”



He put his head down upon his

hands and a groan was wrenched from

between his drawn lips.



“She’d have borne me a child when

spring come Shane,” he whispered.

“That’s why I’ve been hatin’ her so all

these years!” He raised his head sud-

denly. “But if I’ve been hatin’ her,”

he cried, “how much more I’ve hated

Neal Harris! An’ now the hour has

come whin it’s my turn, like it was his

that ither time! lVe’ll be sailin’ to

St. James tonight, Shane. I’ve an er-

rand that’s waitin’ there,” he repeated.



Shane arose, crossed to his father

and laid a hand on his shoulder.





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whose ending ushered in so unnatural

an event.



Quietly without evidence of emo-

tion, Barbara had told the man she

hated that she would marry him. With

the same dreadful lassitude she had

gone swiftly about the affairs of that

last day she would spend as Barbara

Loar. Only once had she shown spirit.

That was when Samantha, delighted

at and reveling in all the bustle of

preparation, all the distinciton it af-

forded her, had exclaimed to the girl

in a profusion of affection,



“Oh, Barbara, I’m so glad you have

decided to marry Blair at last!”



Barbara had turned on her with

quiet scorn. “Why do you care?” she

asked coldly. “I am nothing of yours.

t is no flesh of your flesh, spirit of

your spirit I am giving him!” ~



Despite the preparations, despite the

plans of king and. sheriff and bride-

groom and the qmet acquiescence of

the bride, there was no wedding in

,St. James that night, for Lake Mich-

igan raised a mighty and thundering

hand to stay the bans!





It was as though some hidden God-

dess of wind and water Were in cosmic

sympathy with the seething tumult in

Barbara Loar’s heart, had vowed sec-

retly to prevent the sacrifice the girl

could no longer save herself from.





The ceremony was to be held in the

temple. All was finally in readiness

and the great bell overhead sent its

first peal rolling out over the silent

reaches of lake and forest. In that

instant there came from out the north-

east a low menacing roar. The clouds

banked there, already fearsomely black

and high, took on a pallid yellow cast

as from hidden source of evil light,

and as the great bell sounded its third

summoning appeal, the storm struck.

A single vivid flash of blue light spread

over sky and earth together, stabbing

through the deepening dusk, there

came a rolling crash of thunder, and

then the furies of water and wind!



In the tabernacle the final prepara-

tions for Barbara’s wedding went for-

ward silently. There was none pres-

ent but had been hushed to silence by

the savagery of the gale. ‘



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nacle where the gala seemed crying

out its savage protest at this wedding.



Sam Loar stood watching the girl

who was not his daughter, and sud-

denly, bargain or no bargain, he would

have saved her if hehad known 'a.

way. , -

“Blair is wrong to crowd her this

way, ’ he told Samantha. “No good

can come from a wedding on a night

like this, when the girl is marryin’ a

man she hates!” _



Meanwhile, outside there crouched

beneath a window of the tabernacle a.

bent, distorted figure. Vainly the rain

drove at it. Unavailing 'the storm

whipped the branches of spruce and

cedar overhead. This was mayhap the

spirlt of the storm itself, for it minded

not a whit the storm’s bitter fury!



An avenging 'spirit, too, one would

have said, for across the knees of the

crouching figure lay a long-barreled

rifle, and from time to time the figure

lifted a thin, rage-blanched face and

peered through the window. Rain

sluiced in sheets down the panes, but

the face was pressed against the glass

for clear vision, and fierce hungry

eyes watched all that transpired

within.



A dozen feet from this window hung

the bower of cedar branches under

which Blair Carter would stand with

his pale bride. A dozen feet—the long-

barreled rifle could not fail at such a

range as that!



Between Orphan Danny’s feet Black

Bonnie huddled, shivering with wet

and cold, whining softly up at her

silent master. For once he gave no

heed, did not seem to know that she

was there. /



Meanwhile Aleck MacCray paced

back and forth in his cabin on Garden

Island, listening to the thunder of rain

and wind and water, drinking heavily

from his jug on the table, cursing Bob-

b1e_Burns, and mumbling invections

against the thief who had that day

stolen his rifle from its hooks above

the fireplace.



. There would have been no wedding

in St. James that night even had Lake

Michigan not intervened.



Nor was Danny Dawson the only

avenging spirit abroad in the gale. On

the west shore of Beaver Island, Shane

and Denny lay in the lee of their

Mackinaw boat, beached high on the

sand, waiting for the storm to blow

itself out, for the sullen black seas to

run down.



Halfway between Garden and Beav-

er, midway of the Narrows, had the

gale struck them. In all those waters

there was no stretch more treacherous

than that in such a storm, no spot

where the wind struck with more sav-

age violence, where the broken seas

heaped higher or more choppy. It was

from this same sullen lane of fury-

lashed water that the Bellarion had

emerged that cold spring morning

when Barbara Loar first sighted her

from the reeling deck of the Kathleen

Briggs. But the snow-laden storm that

had whipped the lake that morning

was no match for the savage blast that

flattened the white crests of the waves

this night!



The sails of the Bellarion ripped

out like paper as the gale struck, and

the rent canvas whipped about the

masts in tattered streamers as Shane

and Denny laid their oars in the tholes

and struggled through the dusk toward

the murky line of the shore. The seas

had not made yet under the lashing

of the wind, else they had never reach-

ed the beach. As it was, the boat

was half swamped, an oar broken, and

even the bare masts bent and strain-

ing before the wind when the keel

grated on the sand and stopped.



The tattered remnants of the sail

were down now, stretched tarpaulin





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"ffiéhion‘ ere: the ifs the "of , the! _ boatggto

_gl_ve what shelter * they might .fromv :.

rain and wind. Within this shelter

the two men huddled, grave-faced and

silent. 'The errand they had come to

do, the call they would pay, at St. -

;James,, must wait. For them toy'go

to the village now was.toflay"them- y

selves open to certain capture, and

defeat their own plan as well. There

was no hepe of their leaving the island

while the storm lasted, and to let their

presence be known before a clear av-

enue of escape lay before them, could

have but one result. ' .

Even this could not have restrained

Shane, had it not been for Denny’s





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counsel. - , , , .

“It’s her wedding night, Denny,” the

boy had urged. “She married Neal

Harris’ son tonight at dusk. She told -

me so herself, and warned me I’d be

l” He put his head , _, y





comin’ too late _

down upon his hands. “She was nght,”





he said slowly, “I am too late, even

now.” ' _ '

“Shane,” the older man said, “we .

may be too late for this night, but

we’ll not be too late when we come

to St. James, this‘ night or any ither, - '

for the thing I’ve been waitin’ a score

of years to (10. We’ve more to think '

of than her, though that would be

plenty by itself. Remember lad, she’s ,





gildneltoo'. No matter what heerfiLtlIIer

. , ’ 'e, .me. 5 ou. u ’m

nbt SS 3&5?th cslmnfizaatiNealti-lIarris, .

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215 1111133, taéglsalteloroafn Ithltfie‘: ’slé’fl still more firmly established Vacuum‘Cleaned Crankcase

ing out over the storm-harrassed Nar— . . ' o o ' 0

rows. When he spoke again it was in In public favor. and Thermost atic Circulation

af low tortie,,st1'anlgeilyfi subduled. “Ari; ‘ C t 1 t , l 1

1 1 s cos in '011 a , re ow muc . . o .

more it’s costar me!”guHe turned to Old friends remain, new friends on to are ypica examp es

(Shalne a facegthat burilieéi wllliite ini the b h. f t

a~n “.u o , ,” esa1,1 . ‘

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”me With him You have not the Brilliant achievement is the basis so moderate a price, if the world





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itll, she’s not at St. James whin I go



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“She’ll not be, Denny,” Shane prom- tlonless beyond belief, the century’s were not continually poured back

ised him. “She’s not there or I’d be -





havin’ “’0“? of it” . , finest contribution to the pleasure into BUICk quality.

tafi‘Jl-nleeii 3i {figdgrggzofigalltgg 35 f — °



orite of the king’s priests. came for— O mOLOI'lng. LOOk to leadership for value.

ward and took his place before the . .

low hung bows of cedar branches. And a score Of other CXClUSlVC fea. Only a very satlsfactory motor car





“Cedar,” Barbara had said, with a





little quiet smile, when she saw it tures testify to the never—ceasing could have held first place for





hanging there. “A tree that itself

weeps.” 0 ° ‘

Blair Carter moved forward aWk- search by Buick for the new and nine consecutive years!





wardly toward the place where he

would await his bride. White now as BUICK MOTOR COMPANY, FLINT: MICHIGAN

the ghost-flowers of the northern wil- ~ -~ c [M ~ 0 at‘on



del'i‘iess that bloomed beside the tem- Dwmon of encra otots orpor l



pie walls, Barbara threw back her head

Wiéh a gesture of defiance, glanced

once at the throng of curious people ' 'I , ‘7



that filled the tabernacle, and smiled I HE“ GREAI ES I BUICK ER UI

ironically at the ridiculous dress of

the women. This step she took tonight

would make her a Mormon tOO, she WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT r r v BUICK WILL BUILD THEM

realized, subject as were those others @‘F‘V/§ E i



to the whim and command of the king. ' .W A ‘ ‘

Then she started slowly toward the "/ ‘

place where her groom awaited her .

coming, walking unshaken beside the

man she had known as a father.



Outside in the storm the crouching

figure. at the temple window stirred

uneasfly, the long barreled rifle moved

With the slow precision of a clock

hand, upward, the muzzle cut a slow

unwavering arc and came to rest,

shoulder high, almost against the rain-

blurred glass.



Then the door of the tabernacle was

thrown _open 1and an excited figure

rue let in, sea tering the crowd, pant-

ing- out 111-? message in incoherent M“ " . '1 . Salesmen Wanted “Lfifi'g‘”

WOZ'dS. Blali' Carter sprang with the > “ . . 1. . , , Experience in Farm Machine Selling Preferred.

others, toward this newcomer, and the . , ' «S‘ - . . . ._ Large wholesaler of motor driven washing machine

rifle against the window pane outside 2. " " _ < " ‘- ’i~ " - fillmfrlymt‘oalign-#3131}; filming? (giftinmd‘lelalgm 93:15

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The ' ' d a b l ,k f. d Dressed, $1i.()t)~ltound [’ickcrol, $7.50; Dressed Pick- . . -. , .

t9“ 1 MOIIDOEI Who had burSt Into the $35n§$5ufi$fixogfi$ihigln33mm???éifi'lgnfé'liig‘liigfi‘ll orcl $9.50; Round Perch $6.50; Skinned, ready—fly Till“ Emmi.“ 1:01:36 1Will be treated confidenmqlly. ‘

nip 9 scram ed through the surpns- Watch by mmlposcnmd forONLV $1.65 (safedehveryzuunn- $1250; Rmmd “he $12; Dressed pike $1450; Halibut is 3 one o e argest concerns of its kind.

ed throng until he stood before Kin mating;”'3°§§F€f逑§$§§$%§?ififiemf’““:3:§’,§§§3'°,3§°g $20; Salmon $13.50, m-mn with order. Package AM" ”A ODCG- “YD MOTOR & MANUFAC—

Stl-qng himself g yeara.Send'thls advertisementtouswith$1.‘gnnd watchwlllbo charge 30c per hundred pounds. We charge l/_;c per TUR'NG co-r 483l mm 817., at Grand Rlver Avenue.

L - sent ntonce bymBll post paid, or send$3.00 andwewillsqutwo ‘ 18 j tn 100.1] lots. Send. f 1' tom- ‘

Ull‘lleresl two Gentiles landed on the watches. Said-faction guaranteed or money refunded. Addte“ llll‘tenll)l:t 119107851: 5211;101de Salted Fish 0 L

cchoo wa-rcn AND nlAuoNn co. ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ’ ' ‘ o |





west shore ” he gasped out “Their 4131 B d' T

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sails was blowed away and they rowed '0. way “so. .CONSUMERS F [S H co" I ' o '

in. I watched ’em come to land.” Green Bay, WIS- 7‘ . .

.“Are you sure of this?” Strang asked . a I

him in a stern veice. “You know the cHARMiNG,an- Ifyou prefermurhandsomelydm}

penalty for babblers in this holy Let U s Prot ct Y - - '- - mmfgfggfjgw meduabnhlfivkme

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“ , . . e mail 1nSISt- Round $3.00; Plckerel, Headless, Dressed $10.00;Yel- Vegetablesnd,’ (or Rose Pattern Set!

ecfl. I~saw em plaln. There’s two . S '1 m. , I . Em Pikien$13.(lg:o€‘lounders $9.00é11Whiting $6503 Flower Seeds‘ ‘ orbthcrsne‘gimamr .

0 ’em, a 011 . " h“ V ' ; arse . u ets ti. ; St‘ k Cod ; Market ‘0 , .

are liidin’yunrdgrrltfin’ifinbd an Old’ ”They ‘a' e u ROdded Fl“ 9 or Haddock $9.00; Sunni): $18.50. Package charge ' :o-plaréixrbureamlozfl

. 61 oat now. __, Insurance CO. Of mICh. 35c extra net 100 lbs. or less. Less than 100-1b. lots ' “-5“ sto‘dayi‘

(Continued next week). -‘ ‘ 1/30 per 11). higher. Write for complete price list. :98 wallow





non: annex-mm. men. . .

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Mrs. Charlotte Schoemmel, of, New in Michigan Choice latest catches. Silver round

York, swam across the Delaware river . . F's 32:12” Hggingmsfli sgeggrghsggg

at the place Where Washington and " A'Bhnket Paley Covering ‘1 m1 8 . “1°.35‘00‘ sucms 333§°"P1

his troops crossed it 150 years ago. Fm. Pawn“ ”warty- 313.5081'g21'tedmgzt this"hmli’t‘t‘éihmiltfiuaaflt’t‘i?

She, swam against a ten mile current, W. T. LEWIS, Sec'y Smoked fat Blueflns. ten~pound box $1.00; Trout





.' . $2.20: Salmon $2.20; Whitefish $1.80. Orders for lean

._ and With. Cakes 1“ ice floating about 710-713 EH. 31.13;: Bldg", ggnpgltlomlgsibilllled at. same prices. Package charge

. ' ' INDEPENDENT FISH 00.. Deptd. ‘ .44





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If on want unusual success with your '



gagglsnthis year raise them under thsAtiS Idea! 501' .93.



lif 'v:n ultra-violet ene re s of the



aural. gll’llagn lass stops them Sc¥ence has H or BED 8



stop ed. Ultra-violet rays enter the body ' beds. Costs a fraction as much as glass and 'ves far bet-



“Ppeymg V ‘ ta- to:- results. Vegetables and flowers mature geeks earlier



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" Brings Amazing Success

d” ov ed t esera s revent rickets, soft-

pisses l2; Weaknessyarlid many other chick Much Cheaper-Than Glass

mm" D ““59 98d” and roduce bigger yields because GLASS CLOTH admits

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and layers, put GLAS .CLOTH , Patented—Ac t No Imitation-



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scratch shed where the chicks can run and exercise in real 131-05,, under exclusive atents. No other concern can copy

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toll 0 GLASS CLOTHde ll few scraps of lumber. Mll‘ mula. Avoidimitetions. Real GLASS CLOTH is a strong

lions of yards in use tOGBY- Success everywhere. EXPERTS fabric special] treated to make it trans arent water-

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' ‘ l 5 led while all under ter ten days' use, you do not _

7. ‘~ .I. ‘ filtAsSg CLOTH lived a n d it bettebthan glass or any substitute, return it and we Will

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shows the difierencein two finicks that h, d the same start ft. roll, or :26 for-18 f’t’roll. Common sense instructions,

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Feeding





HIS is the time of the year when



every poultry keeper is trying



to force his hens to fill the old

egg basket. The fact of the matter is,

there is too much forcing done. A

great many people think that quantity

of feed is the only/thing a hen needs

in order to make her lay.



We have always succeeded in feed-

ing hens in heavy laying time, at

thirty cents per. hen per month, and

we were buying every grain they ate.

Figure out your feed. costs at market

prices, and if it’s higher than that

there is something wrong.



A hen will produce more eggs in

eating one pound of grain that she

has had to scratch for, than she will

with two pounds fed on a bare floor

or in a dish. A scratch feed composed

of half wheat and half good, full oats,

with twenty-five per cent of corn ad-





 





 





DOG MINUS CHICKENS.





‘Any chickens to sell, sir?” ,

The man shook his head.

“I sell ’em myself, sir,

T’ the Co-op,” he said.





“Have you got very many?”

“ ’Bout two hundred hens,

Besides forty-fifty

"In the fattenin’ pens.”





“Is that a good watch dog?”

“You bet he is that.



If you want some rare rouble

Just run agin’ Pat.”





“How will you sell him?

I need one that’s gritty,

For watching my truck

When I park in the city.”





“Ten dollars will buy him”

The truck driver “bit.”



And with no dog around,

The poor farmer was hit.





For the very next morning

When he would feed his chickens,





He found in the night

They had gone to the dickens.





The henhouse was empty,

Completely—but that,



In the fattening pen

They had shut poor old Pat.





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ded in winter, will produce results if

fed in six inches of good dry litter.



The mash hopper should be open at

all times and filled with the best mash

you can buy. It is false economy to

buy the cheapest mash, because there

is- no food value in oat hulls.





Two very important items in the

poultry food menu that are frequently

overlooked are green food and water.

For the‘ green food there is nothing

that will take the place of sprouted

oats, but it takes considerable time

and care to produce them. In lieu of

these, sugar beets are the next best,

and the handiest way to feed them is

to split the beet in half and :hang the

flesh side out on a. spike on the wall.

This will give the hens lots of exer-

cise if placed just high enough so that

they have to jump for it.





The water question in winter is one

that requires considerable attention

unless you have one of those handy

little coal oil water heaters; without

one of these, the water should be

changed every few hours. ’Do not use

hot water, as it will freeze quicker

than cold, and the hens will drink just

as much of the cold. Sufficient water

in Winter enables the hens to eat more

mash, and theywill soon refuse to eat

mash if there is no water to quench

their thirst.





Here is a stunt that will bear telling

again. Dry bread, if fed right, is an





must be fed right. .Dry' the bread so '

that it is brittle, and” put in a pail or

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cover with hot water; let it stand for

about one minute; pour off all the wa-

ter and add sufficient: dry mash to

make it. crumbly- The hens relish it

and it is a. means of- reduéing feed

costs. ~ ' j: _



When feeding meat to hens, it is

best to chop it up and mix it with the

wet mash, especially meat that has

been cooked, for, if »\the hens find a

piece that has been laying around for

three or four days it will poison them,

resulting in limber necks. ' ’ '



If you see a hen going around in. a

circle. with her head twisted back

over her body, you may rest assured

that she has found a piece of stale

cooked meat. Raw meat will not do

this. but the eating of raw meat gone

bad soon asserts itself when the eggs

are used. '



Don’t feed the hens anything you

would not‘eat yourself, on a. good stiff

bet. Don’t feed too much——a good

handful of grain twice a day per hen

is sufficient. Keep the litter good and

dry, and make them work for every

mouthful of grain they get.





 





COCK BIRDS OR COCKERELS.





We have a Leghorn rooster that

was a year old in July, and we have

been told that it is not good to have

the same rooster for more than one

year with the hens. We have forty

hens—J. O.





Poultrymen generally find that vig-

orous matured, cockerels are apt to

produce the highest per cent of fertil-

ity in the hatching eggs. However, if

a male bird has been tested and found

to produce fine quality chicks, it might

be a first-class breeder during the sec-

ond year, and better than a. cockerel

of unknown value. There is nodefi-

nite ratio of mating males to females

in free range flocks of poultry, but as

a general rule, forty hens are too many

for one Leghorn cock bird, and two

or three male birds with the flock will

give better results.





 





WINGS DROOP.





 





What is the trouble with chickens

that let their wings droop? The sides





bloat, sometimes on one side and some '0





times on the other. When they are

dying, they open and shut their'

mouths constantly. Please advise me

What is best to do.—Mrs. H. S. S.





The symptoms might indicate a com-

bination of troubles for which it is dif-

ficult to give a definite remedy. The‘

gasping for breath might be caused by

bronchitis, pneumonia, or canker

around’the windpipe, which is slowly

suffocating the bird. Perform a. post-

mortem on the birds that die, and note

the condition _of the internal organs.

This may give some clue to the cause

of the trouble. I _ ,



The drooping of the wings is often

present when a bird is extremely weak

from any disease. In the early fall

many losses occur, due to digestive

disorders caused by eating too much

soft corn. Work the new com into

the ration gradually. And continue

supplying plenty of growing mash or

laying mash so the birds will not need

too much of the new corn .to satisfy

their appetites. Also inspect the range

and look under the colony houses to

be sure that the poultry are not find-

ing spoiled meat, such as a. dead bird

or other decaying animal material.





 





FEEDING FOR EGGS.





I have about 100 spring chickens

that I am going to keep during the

winter, and would like to know what ‘

to feed them and how much. , ,

geh all mid émeaét agape éhot »I_ want, '



n any~ n .0 ‘gr II. anDOtaitoes

be worked in a. rationlj-II‘.‘ G. g '1 ‘

‘ _ goodhom'weasle ”inf



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I can.
*1 = by adding two pet-Scent ground lime-

‘ : ,. stone, tyrop‘per cent bane meal and one



‘ per cent fine table salt. A good winter

scratch grain mixture can be made of



two parts corn and one part wheat.



Equal partsof corn,»wheat and barley



will also give good results.



Keep the dry mash before the hens

in hoppers at all times. Feed one~third

of the grain ration in the morning and

twothirds at night. This encourages

mash consumption during the day, and



. \ sends the hens to roost at night with



. ‘ full crops. _



i ‘ Green feed should be supplied each



\ day in the form of sprouted oats, cab~

bages, alfalfa or clover hay, 0r trim-

mings like celery tops, When they are

available. Mangels are a good succu-

lent feed for hens, but can hardly be

classed as green feed.



Cull potatoes are sometimes boiled

and mixed with the dry mash and fed

to hens in limited quantities. The po-

tatoes are rather fattening and are

really not a very useful poultry feed

eXCept in seasons when other feeds



" are scarce and potatoes very cheap.

The potato does not rank very high as

egg-producing feed, and most poultry-

men do not use it in the ration.





BARRED ROCK WEIGHTS.





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





Could you tell me what a Barred

Rock hen should weigh when mature?

Can. you_set eggs from hens the first

year. Could you tell me the name of

a breed of chickens that would grow

large quickly, as my trade for broilers

is fine ?—Mrs. G. IS.



According to the Standard, the Ply«

mouth Rocks of all colors have a

weight of seven and one-half pounds

for hens, and six pounds for pullets.

Some hens of a laying strain may

weigh less than the Standard, and still

be very good hens, both for meat and

eggs. As a general rule, the eggs from

old hens produce the largest and most

vigorous chicks, but very good chicks

can often be produced from pullets.





Pullets that have laid a few eggs in

the late summer and fall, and then

moulted, usually produce about as good

chicks the following spring as the

year-old and two-year—old hens. Early

in the spring there seems to be more

difference in the eggs from hens and

pullets than later in the hatching sea-

son. As the pullets become more ma-

ture they seem to produce eggs of very

good hatchability, and the chicks are

vigorous if other conditions are right.



If you are now raising Barred Rocks

for broilers it will hardly pay to

change to another breed. Barred Rock

chicks mature quickly for broilers, the

sexes can be told at an‘early age, and



, they bring top prices on the market.





REASONS FOR LEG WEAKNESS.





 





Our young pullets become lame, and

some even lose power to hold up their

wings. Some lie over on their sides.

Most of them eat fairly when it is put

near them.——E. K.





The reason for pullets having leg





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weakness or paralysis, is not thor-

oughly understood. It may be caused

by intestinal worms, weakness in the

breeding stock, the lack of a balanced

ration, or a general lack of vitality,

that originated during incubation andi

brooding. .

The only way of preventing this

trouble is to give the flock the best

possible management, which includesd

mash, scratch grain, green feed, and

, plenty of range for exercise. Two per

#5” cent cod liver oil in. the mash is a

help in preventing leg weakness. Some

times a pullet about ready to lay

shows signs of 1eg.weakness, due to





 





 





this trouble are varied and the remedy

not definite. It is responsible for many

losses which we may learn to avoid in

the future. ' .





 





Discovery of a swarm of bees which

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sealing of. the walls of an old Flint

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TheU. {5. Immigration Department is HOW carrying its war against

alien invaders into the air. Planes like this one patrol the 1nter—

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Monumental super-sky scraper of

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The





YEAR ago, a copy of the Bible

A sold in New York for $106,000



cash. One can think of‘ some

peoplein New York who might profit-

ably read the Bible for their own good,

who would not be obliged to pay that

much for a copy. The one that





A brought so much was a copy of the





Gutenberg Bible, the first to be print-

ed in movable type, and is one of forty-

five copies known to be in existence.

Somebody seems to want the Bible.

Let’s look at it from two sides.



Thomas L. Masson, humorist writer,

says that he read the Bible because it

is a great time-saver, and makes so

many other books\ superfluous. He

mentions, among present-day notables

who make (or made) a practice of

reading the Book, Roosevelt, Franklin

Lane, Lord Balfour, John Wanamaker,

Lorimer, editor of the,,Saturday Even-

ing Post (he reads the New Testa-

ment in Greek, as well as English).

and President Wilson, who read a

chapter each night before retiring.

William Lyon Phelps say that, to know

Who reads the Bi-

ble a m o n g the

leaders of the

world, copy down

all the names in

the English Who’s

Who, and then

copy all t h el

names in Who’s

Who in America,

omitting only the

clergy. But I have

known quite a few clergymen who read

the Bible. Japan’s millionaire phila-

thropist says, “I am a Confucianist.

There are a lot of things about Chris-

tianity that I do not understand. But!

there are two things in your program}

that are outstanding and appeal to me.

One is your Bible. One was given me

years ago, and I have read some of

it nearly every day since. It is the

greatest book ever written. I wish

there were a copy in every home in

Japan. The other thing is the Sunday

School where young and old gather to

study this book.”





But, there is the other side that we

agreed to look‘ at. This is not so

pleasant. A Missouri professor got re-

ports from two thousand high school

and normal students of that state, with

the following grievous results: Six-

teen per cent did not know where

Jesus was born, nor the name of His

mother. Seventy per cent did not





 





Mount. Sixty per cent did not know

what Christ said about loving one’s

neighbor. Twelve per cent did not

know the first clauSL of the Lord’s

prayer.



It is comforting to learn that

the high school pupils that had attend-

ed Sunday School regularly got an av-

erage grade of eighty-four in this ex-

amination, while those who had not,

received an average of thirty-five.



At the University of North Dakota

the results were similar. Eight and

one-half per cent could not name a

single book in the New Testament, and





could name the ten books of the New

Testament. The New York Herald

comments on this bit of amazing ig-

norance and says that youth will sure-

ly find‘ the Bible again, adding that

“the realism of the Bible is one of its

sources of strength.



A lot of us are not descendants of

those who came across in the May-

flower, and it is too late to remedy

that defect in our ancestry. But we

admire the Puritans, and what Puritan





the Vitality of the Bible that made

themistrong. I have wandered up and

down the cemeteries of old New Eng-

land, as very likely some of you have,

and read the quaint epitaphs. Here is

a comrade one: ‘ ‘





1d Book





i . Our Wée/é/y‘Serma'n—sBy N. A. Mc'cm





 





ago henemy trim, and cast an





As you are now, so once was I;

As I am now, so you will be;

Prepare for death, and follow me.”



It was a bit gloomy, the religion

they had, but it was resolute and it

stood every kind of weather. Nathan-

ael Mather mourns in late life that he

whittled one Sunday. Sewell wrote in

his diary that it was so cold that the

sacramental bread froze on the plates,

yet he adds, “It was a very comfort—

able meeting. Laus Dec!”



How are we to reproduce in our own

modern way, and for our modern day,

this same loyalty to principle? Well,

for one thing, do what Tom Masson

does—read the Bible. Read it. Read

it regularly. Read it prayerfully. Pray-

ers clear the mind, and gets it ready

for the message of the printed page.

Think about what you have read. Stop

and think about some verse, and let it

soak in. -





 





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

JANUARY 16.





 





SUBJECT:—-The Christian’s use of the

Bible. Deut. 6:4 to 9, and II Tim-

othy 3:14 to 17.



GOLDEN TEXT:——Psalms 1192105.





Cheated myself





‘bought only on price—thought I s»...

I was saving money . ' '





BY A MASTER FARMER





I know now—I fooled myself for years on binder





twine.





Last Spring I wondered if my cheap twine was

really worth the grief it gave me. So, at harvesting

time I tested out, under. identical conditions, my

cheap twine and (according to my dealer) the best

twine on the market—Plymouth. -



Had a crop of 104 acres to cut. We bound 52 acres

with my cheap twine and 52 acres with Plymouth.

It took 19 balls of my old twine and only 16% balls

of Plymouth to harvest exactly the same number of





acres.





More length in each ball of Plymouth





The answer dawned on me! Although both twines

averaged 8 pounds per ball and were tagged 500 ft.

per pound—the Plymouth Twine lived up to its

guaranteed length* and the cheaper twine ran 13%

short. Plymouth’s guaranteed length was actually

saving me money by giving me several hundred feet





more twine in every ball.





\





. Another difference surprised me! My old twine

was knotty wandifull of thick and thin spots—broke

and tangled as usual. Plymouth was free of knots,

snarls and unevenness and didn’t break once.





I decided then and there I’d quit cheating myself





on poor twine. Plymouth twine for me— it’s depend'

able! I can always count on its evenness, strength





and guaranteed length.*





*Plymouth Twine is spun 500, 550, 600 and 650 feet

to the pound. Look for guaranteed length on tag.





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Raising " ‘ , .

Two-Ton Litte s \ I\





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“You have read in leading papers of our World’s Record

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produced on our farms and fed on Letz-Dixie mixed feed.

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Will release 25% to

50% more acreage

for cash crops.





 





 





 

 





Plymouth—more economical:





1. It’s longer—_full length to the pound

as guaranteed on the tag;





lt's stronger—less breaking, less wasted time.

less wasted grain;





It's cvenrno thick or thin SpotsWno ugrief”;





It’s insect—repelling—you can tell by its smell;





 





2.

3.

4. It's better wound—no tangling;

5.

6.





It's mistake—proof—printed ball——

and instruction slip in every bale. . l





 





 





This milk can test has been made fre-

quently. You can easily duplicate it—test

Plymouth’s strength against any other

binder twine on the market.



Plymouth is last to break. Swings the

greatest weight—the most quarts of water.

PlymOuth wins because it’s stronger.





I
HE old can be made new—old,



worn-out woolen, suits, trousers,



and coats can be changed into

the new old—fashioned rugs with but

little work. And the coming long win-

ter evenings afford a splendid opportu-

nity for this sort of homemaker’s job.

The work is really fascinating, and

once started, you won’t stop until the

attic is empty of all castaways..





Braided Rugs Easy to Make.



For all rugs, the material should

first be washed thoroughly, pressed,

and then cut into strips from one and

one»half to two inches wide, depending

upon the thickness of the cloth. The

strips may be sewed by hand or ma—

chine, and one may either sew the

rags of one color and wind into a ball

before braiding, or sew the strips to-

gether as the rug is being made. One

reader says that she prefers this meth-

od because it gives more variety while

working. The strips are then braided

firmly, turning in one-quarter of an

inch at first, and then folding the

edges together so no frayed threads

show.



“My braided rugs always bulged in

the center,” says Mrs. F. M., of Gen-

essee county, ”until I laid them on the

table wrong side up, while they were

being made.”



When sewing the braids together,

it is best to take each stitch at right

angles to the braid and pointing the

needle toward the center. Pull the

thread firmly each time.



In choosing colors for any rug, con-

sider the room where the ing is to be

used. A brown room could use a dark

rug with a touch of blue or orange.

An old red flannel petticoat or middie

might be the means of brightening up

an otherwise somber room. For bed—

rooms, rugs of cotton in lighter shades

are good. It is best to get the darkest

color on the outside border. Have a

touch of the same shade in the center

and you will then have a rug of good

design.



Work Basket, Crochet .Rug.



Cut strips of light cotton material,

dye and crochet into squares, accord-

ing to some pattern previously decided

upon. These squares can be from five

to twelve inches. When finished sew

them together, checkerboard fashion.

Crochet rugs made this way are less

clumsy than when the entire rug must

be worked upon.





Hooked Rugs Still Favored.



Secure a piece of burlap somewhat

larger than the rug and. mark on it,

or stamp the design which you wish

to follow. Out of strips of light wood

make a framework to fit the piece of

burlap you have selected. Turn under

the edges of the burlap and tack it se-

curely to the frame. Cut silk, wool,

or cotton goods in narrow strips not

over a half-inch wide. These do not

need to be sewed together, but each

color should be kept in a separate box

or paper sack.



When starting to make the body of

the rug, hold the strip of cloth under

the burlap, (it is well to rest the frame

on the backs of two chairs), reach

through the threads in the burlap with

a medium-sized crochet hook and pull

‘adoop through to the upper side. This





loop should be about one-quarter of an





; inch .in height. Reach through and





_‘ repeat until the entire surface of the





your another loop the same height’and ,





burlap is covered with loops in the

desired color.



The loops may be cut or uncut. If

to be left uncut, the loops may be a

trifle shorter. If the loops are cut, all

the uneven ends should be evenly

clipped.



How to Dye-



In coloring only a small amount of

material, it is advisable to use the

commercial dyes. When dyeing a large

quantity of "material, Mrs. W. G., of

Saginaw county, follows this method

for coloring brown: To ten pounds of

rags take one pound of catechu and

four ounces of blue vitrol. Dissolve

these in water sufficient to cover the

rugs, and boil for two hours. Let

stand over night, heat again in the

morning to boiling point, lift the rags

and let drain. Then boil the rags for

fifteen minutes in a solution using four





The Old Can be Made New»





By Careful Planning Castaways 04” 56 Made 17220 Mw O/d-Faséz'omd Rug:





gone through the yellow process until

the right shade appears. -



For blue: For six pounds of rags

use four ounces of Prussian blue; two

ounces oxalic acid. Make this all in

one dye and heat as warm as the hands

will bear, and then rub the rags in this

until the right shade is obtained.



For green: Use the_yellow process

of coloring followed by the blue proc-

ess. These formulas are good for eith-

er cotton or woolen material.





 





HANDY THINGS DISCOVERED BY

READERS. ’ .





 





A LIMBER spatula is indispensable

in my kitchen for scraping cake





'batter from the mixing bowl and re-





moving cooked food from any contain-

er. I never knew how valuable a round

seamless enameled bowl was until I





 





These Hand-made Hooked Rugs Are Over Seventy-five Years Old.





ounces of bichromate of potash and

three gallons of water. Rinse in cold

water.





For yellow: Dissolve one-half pound

of sugar-of—lead, and one-quarter pound

bichromate of potash, each in separate

kettles of cold water. Heat until hot

and dip six pounds of rags from one

to the other until the right color is

obtained. ‘





For orange: Use the same process

as for yellow, then dissolve one and

one-half pounds of fresh lime in two

gallons of water, let settle and then

pour off. Dip the rags which have





invested in one this summer. It has

been in constant use every day since.

~Mrs. L. A.





 





Nothing ever saved me more steps

and backache than having water piped

to a sink that was the proper height,

and a high stool on which I could sit

and prepare vegetables at the work

table—Mrs. L. C.





 





I thought a dish drainer was all sil-

liness until I tried one, but now I know

that it is silliness to go without one,

for they are so inexpensive. They not

only save time in drying dishes, but





Resolved by One Homemaker ~





HIS letter came a bit late, but

even resolutions are better late

than never, so I pass them on.

If the writer succeeds in following

these resolutions through to December,

1927, she will undoubtedly be a better

mother, manage a better home, and be

healthier and happier.

For the new year of 1927 I re-

solve to: '

Have a window cut in the west end

of my kitchen (even if I have to do

it myself) to give better ventilation

and more light.

Have my work table raised three

inches higher to forestall the round

shoulders that are becoming evident.





Take more time for reading and

community activities that I‘may be a

better companion for my'two girls.



' Remembering‘ that ayerwork re.-

quires double time to recuperate. I will

planter daily rest and recreation, for





a disgruntled mother often makes a.

disgruntled family.



Dress attractively every day, even

in the morning, and be mistress of

myself as well as my household.



Plan the meals a week in advance,

thus saving myself worry, and provid-

ing my family with a. more balanced

diet. ,



Plan my housework at least a week

in advance to be able to accomplish





' more with less work and worry.





Keep a reminder pad handy to jot

down needed supplies and things to

attend to, and not tax my memory

withpthese items.



Put home-keeping ahead of house-

keeping. My family needs a cheerful

spirit, guidance, and interest ‘ more

than they need perfect cleanlinessvand

fancy cooking. I will take daily rest

and recreation, andsomeh’ow find time

to read, and keep up» with theworld.

+Mrs. B. E, Kent County. ' ’ . ‘





 





 





 





 

 





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save washing so many dish towels as

well.———Mrs. R. A. B. .





 





I would not part with a handy little

contrivance that I paid forty-five cents

for fifteen years ago. I call it a vege-

table slicer. It is a flat piece of wood





' not much larger than my hand. It‘





has a handle, but the working part is

covered with a corrugated piece of

metal. ,, On this I slice all kinds of

cooked" or raw vegetables and fruits,

such as cabbage, potatoes, beets, cu-

cumbers, apples, etc. It works Quickly

and is easy to keep clean—Mrs. E. H.





 





 





 





fiousehold _ Service





Use this department to help solve

your household problems. Address

your letters to Martha Cole, Michigan

Farmer, Detroit, Michigan. ‘





 





 





 





APPLE CAKE WITH COFFEE.





 





I would like a recipe for apple sauce

cake, using coffee for the liquid—‘—





~ Mrs. P. W.





The following recipe makes a very

good flavored cake:



1 cup apple sauce 1 tsp. cinnamon



1 cup coffee . 1 tsp. cloves



1 cup sugar (either kind) 2 tsp. soda



% cup shortening 1 tsp. baking powder



$5 cup molasses 1 cup seedless raisins





Cook chopped apples with a little

sugar sprinkled over. Don’t stew to

pieces. One cup of apples is sufficient,

or. one cup of sweetened apple sauce.

Bake one-half hour in moderate oven.

This makes a ,large, moist loaf Tcake.





 





ANOTHER EGGLESS ONE.





 





This eggless cake can be made in

either a layer or a loaf. ~





t5; cup sugar 2 cups flour

V3 cup cream 1 tsp. cinnamon

95 cup molasses 1A. tsp. cloves





14 cup buttermilk .

1 tsp. soda. 1 tsp. lemon flavoring





Dissolve soda in water before ad-

ding to the buttermilk—Mrs. M. E. R.





CAN .YOU HELP?





 





I wonder if some reader can help

me find the poem, “Nick Van Starr,”

which used to be in school readers

forty years ago. I also remember my

mother reciting a poem, “Miss Jones—

a Spinster and a Burglar,” but I can-

no remember it.——Mrs. E. B. 0.



would like a copy of the poem,

“Your Mission,” by S. M. Grannis. It

was Lincoln’s favorite poem and was,

sung in Washington in 1864.———A. G.



Has any reader the complete words

of these poems, or can you tell Where

they may be found? If so, please send

a. card to this department—Martha

Cole.





VEGETABLE CHOWDER.





 





Please tell me how to make vege-

table chowder. 'The kind that I ate

had tomatoes in it.——-Mrs. L. K.





There are many combinations for

vegetables in making chowder, but this

one is a. general favorite. -





2 carrots 3 shoes salt pork or



2 potatoes bacon



2 onions ' 6 smokers



1 pt. tomftoes gating. hot water ,

com 1:. pepper to taste



1 sprig parsley





wash and prepare all vegetables.

cutting small.





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an. the rat, to"; the vegetable Qn‘nxt





rackets. or one





Cook slowly in, boiling, ,1 p ' ’

water with the seasonings until well" a ’

Pantry the baconor pork for. .

five minutes’“'i . and/add? am he; with: ,
. BIRTHDAX party proved to be

. ’- one of the inost successful stunts

I ' both financially and socially, that

our Ladies’ Aid Society has put on

for some time. It was held in the

church parlor on Washington’s birth-





day last year. ,



The following verse was printed on

cards, and to each card a pretty silk

bag was attached. The bags were

made by the members of the Aid





Society.

“At the church we’re told

Refreshments and stunts for young

. and old; ,,

. There’ll be a grand march and a birth-

_ day cake, .

We’ll drop in these bags to help it

' bake. _

A penny a year till yours reaches fifty.

After that use discretion—we speak to

the thrifty;

If you’re past ninety-nine, or out of

the city,

Send the bag by a friend—but, oh,

‘what a pity!

February 22, when the clock stands at

eight

Count up your pennies and don’t he

ate.”





 





'Tliese cards and bags were mailed

to friends all over the country, as well

as to the people of our own town, and

those who failed to respond were few.

I received nearly eight dollars for the

cards I. mailed.



A Table for Each Month.



We had twelve tables in the dining

hall, each table being decorated to

represent one of the months of the

year.





WomenFillCOmmunityPurse





A committee was appointed to dec-’

oraté and serve at each table. Our

guests sat at the table decorated to

represent the month of their birth,

and the search. for their tables was

the cause of much merriment.



The committee for each month was

responsible for one number on the pro-

gram. January effectively ‘broke the

ice” with their number, which con-

sisted of all the folks who ate at the

January table. Each one carried a

newspaper or magazine, and our pop-

ular bass singer carried a piece of

cardboard with “Glass, Handle with

Care,” printed in red letters on the

back. This group, with their pianist,

solemnly marched up to the front and

silently played a well-known hymn. At

the end of the hymn, the pianist struck

the Amen, which the chorus sang, but

oh, what a discord it was! This stunt

was just what was needed to start a

very sociable evening. After the pro-

gram, a grand march was played and

each one dropped their little silk bags

into a' pretty basket that had been ar-

ranged to receive them.



This party was such a success that

now that Washington's birthday is

drawing nigh, we are being asked to

try it again—Mrs. C. I. M., of Dickin-

son County.





 





 





 





(This is but one of the prize—winning

letters on how readers have worked

out clever stunts to finance commu-

nity activities. Other prize winners

will appear later).——Martha Cole.





 





   

 





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HOO-OOO-OO-O,” hooted Blink-

ey. Now, Blinkey was none oth-

lived in the hollow hickory tree



and when he hooted like that, it meant

that he was hungry—yes, very hungry.

Ever since the sun had gone to sleep

behind the hills, Blinkey had been

watching for a stray mouse to come

his way, but none had come.



Suddenly Blinkey cocked his head

to one side to listen more carefully.

Yes, someone was coming. He sat



" very quietly, but rolled his big black



eyes from the right to the left.

Through the trees he could see Skip-

per, the little red squirrel, hurrying as

fast as he could to reach home before

dark. Already it was getting late.





   





“Whoof, Whoof,” Howled Frisky.





Blinkey sharpened his long claws on

the hickory limb. ,



“What a fine supper he’ll make!”



~ . , thought Blinkey, and he spread his big



‘ 3 wings. ready to swoop down on Skip-



9.4 per as he came near. But from behind



it; . a bush nearby someone was watching



* all that was happening. It was Frisky,



_, the fox. Frisky saw Blinkey sharpen



his long claws, ready to fly down and



grasp Skipper in them and carry



him off. ’



“Oh, dearie me, what can I do?”

thought Frisky to himself as he saw‘

what was going to happen. “I know

what I’ll do, I’ll just surprise Mr.

Blinkey.”



Blinkey. smacked his crooked. bills

together at the thought of the fine

supper he would have, and swooped

down on Skipper. '



= As~ Skipper came near the hickory

3 tree, he spied Blinkey. “Oh, dearie

me”, he said, and took to his heels as

fast as he could go. But Blinkey could



,- .aflyrfasterith'an"Skipper could run.

,sigustas Blinkey was about to grab





 

   

   

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

   

 

 





 





   

   





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jumped out from behind the bush;





where he had been hiding.



“Whoot’, whool’,” he howled, right in

front of Mr. Blinkey. Blinkey was both

surprised and frightened. He forgot

all about the fine supper he had plan-

ned. Frisky was so big he didn’t dare

to attack him, so he just flew back up

in the hickory tree. His big black

eyes told how ugly and fierce he was.



At a safe distance Skipper thanked

Frisky for saving his life and promised

he would not be so late home again,

and then they both hurried home as

fast as they could go.





 





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SUNDAY AFTERNOON CHAT FOR!





LITTLE FOLKS.





 





YOU have probably heard that in

the banks of Japan there are



many Chinese in places of respon-

sibility, as they trust the Chinese more

than their own countrymen.



The Jewish people must have been

similarly trusted during their history

for we hear of a young Jew who was

a captive of the great Persian King,

yet who was trusted to taste the food

and wine before the King partook of

it. He therefore took his life in his

hands many times a day, for these

oriental monarchs were bitterly hated

and plotted against.



This young Jew—we always think of

him as young because he was so en-

thusiastic-—had many adventures and

he has written about them in a fasci-

nating book of the Bible. He heard

from travelers of the sad fate of his

country, and how the walls were brok—

en down and the city was the prey of

the surrounding tribes. His King

granted him permission to go back,

with authority to build the walls.



He was a very wise and efficient

young man, and his methods were

like our approved modern ones. He

first investigated the situation thor-

oughly and also secretly. Then he

made his plan. The building of the

walls was made a real community un-

dertaking, each family being respon-

sible for a section. Like the Pilgrims

of our own country, they worked with

a weapon near at hand. The enemies

tried treachery and proposed a confen

ence in a neighboring village. This

was the answer they received: “I am

doing a great work and I can not

come.” In fifty-two days the walls

were completed, “for the people had

a mind to work.” .



Who was this magnetic leader?

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I HAVE been thinking very deeply of

a few things thatconcern this lit-

tle old world very much, and I think

you would be greatly interested.

Having read the Bible over and over,

I am not a sophisticated fool, and I

believe that all who may read this will

have the same opinion.



Everyone knows, or should know,

that in the child there is the making

of this country. May the child have a

few hardships and sorrows in order to

know and appreciate love as God

meant it, for otherwise it will come

to nothing.





the world looks. Let these be very

clean. And please remember that God

“Blessed are the poor in spirit,

for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they that mourn, for they

shall be comforted. Blessed are the

meek for they sh‘all inherit the earth.

Blessed are they which do thirst and

hunger for righteOUSness, for they

shall be filled. Blessed are the merci-

ful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they

shall see God. Blessed are the peace

makers, for they shall be called the

children of God. Blessed are they

which are persecuted for righteous

ness sake, for their’s is the kingdom

of heaven.





“Blessed are you when men shall

persecute you and revile you for my

sake Rejoice and be exceedingly glad

for great is the reward in heaven, for

you are the salt of the earth and the





‘light of the world, and do not hide it.





Let it shine before men, that they

may see your good works, and always

glorify your Father which is in

heavenf’



May 1 practice what I preach, for I

am a. Golden Circle member, but not

for long now, as I will be eighteen

very soon.



I would be very happy to know that

I was of some use in the Circle of

boys and girls to which I belong, but

will soon leave.





May you remember me as Dolores,

G. C. ‘





 





HIS is my farewell letter to you,



for next month I will be past the

age limit. This really is my first let-

ter to you. Although I have not taken

an active part in letter writing, I have

entered several contests and won one

prize. .



I think it would be a good plan to

have the Golden Circlers organized in

some way, but still be Merry Circlers,

if only to have the page a few times a.

year, as the Home-comers do.



My best wishes are for Uncle Frank





 





We are the windows through which





 

 





Two Farewell Letters

. From M C’s. Who Will S0072 éaEZZg/ztem





and the Merry Circle. Uncle Frank

has done a lot to make the page inter-

esting to us. Besides, we make many

jokes at his expense, but. my opinion

is that he enjoys them as'much as we

do. However, don’t be too hard on

your poor uncle.



Like graduates do, in leaving their

will, I shall also. .Mine will be mostly.

wishes and advice. I wish that boy—I





.can’t remember who he is just now—





[the one that has we. thirteen prizes? :’ '





should win thirteen more if he has «the

stuff in him. His example should spur

us on to greater efforts, for yvhat one

has done we all have enhance to do.

When you take part in a contest, put

all your ”best en'ort and energy in it;

make it hard for Uncle Frank to

choose the winners' I hope theIMerry

Circle will continue to grow 'in size

and in ideals, that it may last as long,

as we do.



This is getting to be a. rather long

farewell letter, so I will close with

good luck to all.——Your cousin, Frances

Cosand, White Cloud, Mich. -l.





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Dear Uncle:



I am in the sixth grade, and eleven

years old. I have gone to school for

fifteen weeks and have not beentardy

or absent. .



In the morning I get tip about 6:45

and make my bed. Then I set the

table, clear up the table and wash the

dishes. After breakfast I go to school.

I get all my lessons and come home.

I play until 5:30, then set the table,





 





 





 





 





 





George Bachman Looks as if he was

All Dressed up for Sunday.





eat supper, and clear up the table and

wash the dishes again. Then it is

about 7:30, so I do anything I wish

until 8:30, when I go to bed and sleep.





We have only four in the family.





We have a Nash sedan, light plant,

truck, and radio, too. We have,ten

rooms in our house. I, go one mile

west to school. I go about 8:30 and

get there in plenty of time—Your

niece, Cereta DeVries, St. Johns, Mich.



You have done well to tell so much

about yourself in a. few words. You

have a sensible daily program.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:





I was one of the boys who attended

that banquet you spoke at. I enjoyed

your talk very much.



I live three miles out of Bangor, and

walk back and forth every day. I am

a freshman and like high school very

well. I have one brother and one sis-

ter Who have graduated, and one broth-

er a year ahead of me, and four sisters

and one brother behind me, nine in all



I was one of the boys who had d

foster father at that father and son





 





 





Five Ways





Earnestness.

Steadfastness.





mew»?





vice of men—JOHN R. MOTT.





toour farm, boy readers.





The wisest use of leisure time.

The determination to preserve the power of growth. .

. The undiscourageable resolution to follow Jesus Christ in the ser-





to Success





Dr. I. R. M oz‘z‘ Give: Suggertz'om Everyone Should Rememéer





WOULD emphasize the following among the qualities which I believe, in

the light of my observation along the pathway of world-wide journeys,

will help you win the largest success:





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One of the great men of America is John R. Mott, who sends greetings

Student Secretary 9f the International Y. M. C.





A. Committee, 1888-1915, foreign secretary since 1898, and general secret





 





' all aspiring__boys. .





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‘ tary since 1915, he has studied the problems .of boys and young men the.

whole world over, and his live rules for success should be memorifldbxfi”





banquet—Your nephew, Francis Hay,

Lawrence, Mich.





I am glad you liked my talk. .I bet

I enjoyed that banquet as much as

you did. You have quite a. few broth-

ers and sisters ahead and behind you.





 





Dear Uncle Frank: ’



Shouldn’t we M. C.’s have some sign

by which to recognize our cousins?

One would find them in so many un-





' expected places if they just knew. I





even saw you strolling around the

girls’ club rooms at the State Fair

grounds once, and didn’t know it was

you until after you had gone. I have

always regretted that. Let’s discuss it

anyway—Your niece, Bernice M. Ball,

Charlotte, Mich. ~



It would be fine to have some way

to make oneself known as an ~M- 0.,

but on cannot be making signs all the

time. Let’s discuss this Merry Circle

sign matter, as Bernice suggests.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I agree with “Bleeding Heart,” what

he, or she, says about drunkenness,

but nowadays, it is so common that

one can hardly avoid it. 'I have more

to write, but will close with a poem.—

Ida. Partola, Eben Junction.





Eben is a town, situated among the I





woods;

Go to two stores for your best— goods.

It is west of Chatham, and Rumely is



near;

There his one public school situated"



ere. -



Eben is a busy town and full of good



“workers;

All doing their duty, and not any



shirkers. .



Eben has two nice stores and one gar-





age;

Where there’s room for your Ford,

. Dort and Dodge. ,



Go to the Finn Hall for your best seat;

And” to Co-op and Salmi’s for yOur

meat.



Go to the school





books, »



And t? the beauty shop for your good

. 00 s.



At the public school educate your





library for your





brain;



At the depot catch the sixty-mile an

hour train. ,



G0 to Victor Hayry and the stores for

your clothes;





And'to the Finn Hall to see all your





, shows.

0f Eben’s stores these are just a. few;

There are many more just as import-

ant and new. ,

To this town of Eben, I make up this





poem, .

So the people may remember it wher-





ever they may roam. ,

I am printing your letter and poem

because we are "going to have a. con-

test On town poems, and I want‘the





I





Yours is good.





M. C.’s to see what they are like.‘





 





Dear Uncle Frank: l

I thought I wouldn’t say anythin

this week, but on reading of ‘ noth





not agree with Herbert ,H'ouck, not'v‘a





tion I just couldn’t keep quiet. I do! -





 





 





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drinking.; their families were going

without food and clothing. 7

It' was cemmon to pick up a news-

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act of drunkenness. One of our teach-

ers told the hygiene class about a. man

who was in a car alone when another

car was coming ahead of him, and he

ran into the other car, killed the. wom-

an and injured the man. Just because

he was drunk.

Men who drink, don't respect them-

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hibition is enforced, but some people

bréak it. Some people right around

here are making moonshine, but are

very quiet about it. Now, something

about smoking.

Some boys think it smart to smoke,

but they are not .smart at all. I don’t

think grown men look so bad smoking

cigars 01" cigarettes, but I don't like

to see them smoke a pipe. Any of

them are bad enough, and I hope my

new uncle doesn’t drink nor smoke.

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I say “Amen” to your drinking and

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Dear Uncle Frank:

Did you ever feel blue? .Well, I do.

I joined this circle eighteen months

ago, and I’ll be whipped if I didn’t an-

swer at least a dozen contests, and all

in vain. But I says to myself, “well,

old kid, you might just as well cheer

up a bit and see if Uncle Frank doesn’t

soften his heart a bit.”

Say, Uncle Frank, I’m fifteen, and

I passed the eighth grade examination

on a high per cent. But I am not go-

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ERE’S another correspondence

scramble. They are always pop-

ular, and are one of the best ways

for Merry Circlers to get started cor—:

responding with other M. C.’s. .

It is easy to take part in a scramble. ,

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then address an envelope to yourself

and put a stamp on it. Also address

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above thirteen years of age, put the

letter “B” in the lower left-hand cor-

ner of this envelope; il‘ below thirteen

years of age, use the letter “A.” Put

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yourself, and your letter in the envel-

ope addressed to me. Mail it so that

it will get here before January 22, as

the letters will be scrambled at that

time. Your letter will be put in some

one else’s envelope and someone’s let-

ter in yours, and mailed. Thus you

will get two chances to get a corres-

pondent.





BEAUTY CONTEST WINNERS.





WAS much pleased with the results



of the beauty contest. They show-

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sense of beauty, and are good observ—

ers of it. The most beautiful thing

seen included pet dogs, funerals, scen-

ery, sunsets, work of Jack Frost, and

mother’s face.





The prize winners, whose papers will

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Fountain Pens.

Guilford Rothfuss, Norvell, Mich.

Carl D'enslow, R. 2, Box 99-A, Bar-

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Zola Marsh, R. 2, Box 21, Kingsley,

Mich.

June Nelson, Filion, Mich.

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Bobby Seaman, R. 1, Evart, Mich.

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Harold Snyder, R. 1, Kalamazoo,



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Lillian M. Barry, R. 6, Albion, Mich.





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HIS young farmer started with a



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upon scoring the points that he is

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as president, and two lawyers as sec-

retary and assistant secretary, respec-

tively. On the day of the sheep-judg-

ing at the fair, the superintendent of

the sheep department was, figuratively,

tearing his hair, owing to his inability

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were exhibitors and therefore disQual-

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This Flock of Sheep was Developed for Ordinary Stock with Pure-bred

Rams to Provide Ideal Meat for a Restaurateur.





he has employed Hampshire rams now

and then.



The Southdown gives his lambs the

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pretty well up to three-eighths and

clear whiteness; the Hampshire pro-

motes rapid growth, stretchy frame,

and carries more wool. If he were

not also a free feeder, he could not





score near the weights he is making;

his best figure on a lamb last June





was fifty-six pounds, dressed weight,

at thirty cents a pound, with the pelt

at home to pay him for the butcher-

ing. The writer bought his wool clip

and the best fleece in the lot weighed

a shade under thirteen pounds—Wil-

liam Payne.





DOES NOT TRAMP SILAGE.





 





N the last edition of the Michigan

Farmer, I noticed an article which

suggested the idea. of not tamping sil-

age. I have helped fill silos for the

past twenty-five years. When we be

gan filling we used two or three men

in a silo. But in late years help has

been so scarce that we have found it

impractical .to use so many men. We

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We use all the water we can give it.

The labor saved is considerable. I

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tried this plan—J. S. Dart, Concord,

Michigan.





 





THEY TOOK THE JOB.





 





R'OM way back forty years ago

comes a. yarn of as unusual a sheep

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told for some time. .

Up in Genesee county the fair assoe





clhthn had named as some or its 0113-,





 





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judging Merino sheep with considera-



ble trepidation. '

“We don’t know the first thing about



judging sheep,” they protested.



‘“Oh, that’s all right,” the desperate

superintendent assured them. “That’s

a point in your favor. The fellows who

win the prizes will be entirely satisfied

and the ones who don’t will console

themselves by saying that you didn’t

know a darned thing about sheep

anyhow.”



The officers took the job—R. A.





COOKED BARLEY AND BEANS FOR

COWS.





 





Does cooked barley and beans make

good feed for cows? What amount

should be fed at one feeding?—B. C.





Barley and beans make a good com-

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Beans are comparatively rich in pro-

tein, and barley

grain. Equal parts by weight would

make a good combination.





The amount to be fed depends on

many conditions. What roughage is

to be fed with them? If alfalfa is

used as the sole roughage food, one-

third beans and two—thirds barley will

furnish plenty of protein if you feed a.

pound of this grain for every four

pounds of three per cent milk, or '8.





'pound for every three pounds of five





per cent milk.





But if the roughage consists of corn.

silage and mixed hay, then the mix-

ture ought to be two-thirds beans and

onethlrd barley.





Where it takes two-thirds beans to

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to supply a portion of the protein with

oil meal or cottonseed meal, rather

than “to feed so much beans.





In the amount of beans and barley

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be in a dry state- After being cooked

they contain much moisture, and this

should not be considered in‘amount

fed.





 





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had shelled corn and tankage until

they were 180 days old. Our pigs were

weighed each week, and the gain was

nine to thirteen pounds a week, or an

average of eleven pounds per week on

oat middlings, tankage, etc. I didn’t

weigh them any more after they had

reached 150 pounds, as they were dif-

ficult to handle. All had the run of

sweet clover and alfalfa pasture.





I think the most interesting part is

the cost per pound, as I purchased

every pound of feed, ineral, salt,

milk, and slack coal gcluded; and

they cost just 5.1 Cents per pound and

sold for thirteen cents. This does not

include pasture, or care, just feed con-

sumed.





 





BY DAVID THOMPSON.





I CONSIDER the most essential thing,



is to have the right kind of pigs

to feed. These which made an aver-

age of 273 pounds in 180 days were

from a Registered Duroc sow, which

weighs about 650 pounds. The sire is

a. Registered Hampshire.





ear corn, and in the spring ground

oats and corn—two to one mixture.

Her trough was far enough from her

sleeping quarters to make her exercise

before and after every meal.





The pigs were farrowed on the thir-

teenth of May and weaned when eight

weeks old. Then they were fed ground

oats and corn until after harvest. They

had skim-milk to drink once or twice

a day during the summer, and were

running in a lot seeded to alfalfa.

When about four and one-half months

old, they were shut in a pen and fed

ground corn, two parts; barley, one

part; and wheat, one part, in self-feed

er, and what whole ear corn they

would eat.





Last spring my wheat was not very

good, so I sowed barley on the field,

which resulted in a crop of about equal

quantities of wheat and barley. That

was the'sole reason why these pigs

had wheat in their ration.



Regular feeding and dry, comfort-

able sleeping pens help pigs to make

a. better growth. , '

(Mr. Thompson and Mr. Elliott were

two of the successful ton litter con-





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BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY





ELM ROW GUERNSEY

FARM SOLD





Must sell my ’10 Reg. females before March 1st.

Eight are bred to son of Langwatkr Africandcr.

Among them Elm Row Fairy. first prize yearling.

1925. at Jackson. Adrian and Hillsdalc; now has A.

'11. Record 460.6 lbs. butter-fat (‘lnss G. Two dams

and one granddaughter of a. 510-11). Class A.A. cow.

Two prize winning bred yearlings. Two 3—yr.—olds to

freshen in January. one has an A. R. record of 311

lbs. in 305 days. G. G. G. class. One fine 0 mos.

old show heifer from Africandcr. All 3 yrs. old or

under except 1 old A. R. cow. Elm Row also offers

4 choice bull calves from A. R. dams. two of them

over 500-lb. records. Allrecords made on twice per

day milking. ,Come and make‘ me an. offer.





G. W. RAY, Alblon, Mlch.





REGISTERED

, GUERNSEYS





for sale. Entire herd on Michigan

farm, 14 females, oldest cow 8 years.

Bull 27 ‘months, bull calves, A. R.

dams. Excellent .breeding, T. B. test-

ed. Free from abortion. Terms to re-

sponsible party. Further particulars

from ,

J. K._BLATCHFORD,



1403 Auditorium Tower, Chicago, Ill.

F R practically puts-bred GUERNSEY or ROL-





0 STEIN calves. rem heavy. rich milkers.

was EDREWOOD DAIRY ARMS. Whitewater. WII.





Dairy none: practically

pure bred 825. We ship

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AGRICULTURE.





HAT the gentleman farmer, so-call‘

ed, is rendering a real service to

the perennial husbandman of the state,

is being more conclusively proved

daily. The majority of these men are

not lily-fingered office men, products

of the big city, but are chaps who

spent a good share of their youth on

the farm, and who feel the back-to-

the—farm urge in their later years.

Such a one is D. D. Aitken, promi-

nent attorney and civic leader in Flint.

Mr. Aitken was raised on a farm west

of Flint and devotes all the time he

can spare to the operation of the old

family homestead. In the years that

have passed since he left the farm to

go to the city, he has kept in close

touch with affairs agricultural, and is

one of the outstanding Holstein own-

ers and breeders in the state—A.





WH‘O GETS THE MARGIN?





HETHER the development of the

cold storage business is one of

the main underlying causes of the dif-

ference between the price that the

consumer pays for farm products at

retail stores, and the price that the

farmer gets for those products, offers

an opportunity for an interesting dis-

cussion. An official of a well-known

Detroit packing house recently admit-

ted his inability to figure it out.

“Naturally, with the wide margin

between the price of the meats deliv—

ered to Detroit homes and the price

paid to the farmer, gives us reason to

believe that the packer’s profit should

be considerable,” he declared. “On the

other hand, when the books are footed

at the end of the month, we inevitably

find that our margin of profit is sur-

prisingly small. We are as interested

in discovering an explanation of the

phenomenon as anyone else.”-——A.





DAIRY BUSINESS GROWS IN

HURON.





EMBE‘RS of the Huron County

' Holstein Friesian Association

agreed upon a major project at their

recent annual meeting, held at Bad

Axe. This project is the fostering of

a county-wide sentiment for the erad-

ication of bovine tuberculosis Within

the county. Huron is the only county

in the Thumb district not lined up

on this project. County Agent David

Woodman quoted statistics to show

that the number of beef cattle in the

county had decreased forty per cent

since 1920,’whi1e dairy cattle are fast

decreasing in number. Calf club work

was also heartily endorsed. Eight

boys successfully completed last year’s

work; five of these were present at

the meeting. J. G. Hays, secretary of

the State Holstein Association, urged

the local organization to confine their

efforts to a single major project and

then put it across. Officers for 1927

include: Omar Buschlen, president;

Thomas Amos, secretary.





 





VETERINARY.





Udder Trouble—My cow came fresh

last July and after calving, the. milk

on the right front teat was bloody and

the cow was sick with fever. I sent

for a. veterinarian. After using his treat~

ment the cow was all right in a week.

About a month ago she began milking

blood in the left rear teat. I have

been trying to cure it myself. She has

stopped milking blood, but the milk is

yellow and lumpy at the start, and she

only milks about a quarter of what

she should on that teat. The cow is

in good health otherwise. E. J. A.——In

cases of udder trouble such as you

describe, it is adways advisable to take

away the grain and giveione pound of

epsom salts. Keep in the barn and

milk the affected quarter every two

hours, at the same time bathing with

hot water. In the evening massage

with camphorated oil. Give one-half

ounce of formaldehyde in a quartFolf



o ..

lowing this treatment, it is often ad-





visable to give one ounce of fluid ex-

. tract of poke root three ,times daily.





 





3" fe'edjany mol yer spoiled feed.





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run the, skim-milk from our old

separator through it. he new

De Laval skims so clean that if you





how much a new De Laval wi I

save for you. Trade allowances made

on old separators of any age or make.





 





 

 





 





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If some one scraped the butter left over from your table into the garbage can

after each meal you certainly would put a lamp to it immediately.



Left-over butter must be saved for another meal, but how about. the “left-over”

butter-fat which your present separator leaves in the skim-milk? It isn’t at all

unusual for a. new De Laval to increase the yield of butter-fat from the milk of

just a few cows by a quarter— ound to a. pound

or more a day. Think what 1'. is would mean to

you in the course of a. year.



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cream recovered 'in this manner Infant’s It has .the floating bOWl Whmh

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His sire has two daughters with 30 and 37.8

lbs.. and two abovc 1,000 lbs.

His (lam. “Fobcs 0th." is a 38.5~lb. cow

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Marathon Bess Burke 32d combines the

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A Colantha ‘cow from our herd was high butter-fat

cow in Cow Testing Association work in Michigan in

1925. This herd of cows averaged 11,988 lbs. milk

and 588 lbs. butter in 1925. . '



Typey Colantha Bulls from cows standing high

in Official and Cow Testing work insure unusual

production. Ask us about them.





McPHERSON FARM 00.,

" Howell. Michigan





HOLSTEI N BULLS





Sired by a Grand Champion and out of tested

dams. Accredited herd. Also a few good

bred heifers.





Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich.

SELLING at AUCTION





. JANUARY I8. at l P. M. sharp. Entire

Eggsgfiy'l‘ B. tested for last 6 years. Never a. re-

actor in herd. All fresh since October 1. . L. 'W.

BAUMGARTNER. 15 Mile 8:. Van Dyke. Detrmt. Mlch.





 





IGII CLASS registered Holstein cows and heifers

Hpriced very reasonable-L. Some fresh, others to

freshen soon. About twenty listed to Select from. Tue—





 





cola. (‘0. Holstein Association. 8. B. Reavey. Sales

Manager, Akron. Mlch.



LE some real good m-gisterod

F O R S A Holstein cows. all young and





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E. A. ROHLFS. Akron. Mich. Phone No. 48-3-3

FOR SALE , at farmer's prices. Missaukee

. Guernsey bull calves from A.





R ancestry, carrying blood lines of Norman’s Mis-

saukee Red Rose. 900 lbs. butter-fat. and May Rose.

ARTHUR M. SMITH. Lake City. Mich.





HEREFORD STEERS





22 Wt. around 1100 lbs.‘ 89 Wt. aroundlooo lbs.

74 Wt. around 725 lbs. 81 Wt. around 626 lbs.

45 Wt. around 550 lbs. I50 Wt. around 500 lbs.

Good duality. dark reds. dehorned. well marked

Hereford Steers. Good grass flesh. The best type

are umlly mar-hat «toppers when finished Will sell

your choice of one car load from any bunch. Can

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Choxce Jersey Bulls thiiycfiifiwrfi‘.’ .11.





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

PARKER. Howell. Mich.





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CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Allegan County, Michigan





 





 





l Cows. 4 Bulls from B. of M. Cows. Chance to

select from herd of 70. Some fresh. others bred

fa- i'sll freshenins. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersvills. Mich.





 





INANCIAL KING JERSEY BULLS for sale. from

ll. of M. cows. Type and production.

WATER JERSEY FARM. Goldwater. Mich.





 





THE STANLEY I. GARDNER HERD. Croswell. Mich.





“‘MlLKlNG SHORTHORNS”





Why buy without milk records? We don’t keep our

cows, they keep us. If you want a real bull calf

that will breed more milk into your herd and still

retain your good flashing qualities. call on us. Also

females. Circulars and photos on request.





Registered Bed Pulled Cattle





 





for sale. Calves both

sex. one young bull,





your old. and two heifers. My herd bull for sale

next spring. Prices reasonable. GEO. L. HEIM.

BECKER. R. 3, Morley. Mich.





 





MILKING SHORTHORNS. White Bull 12 months

old, from R. of M. Darn. also younger red ones.

ROBT. DOUGLAS, Croswell. Mich.





 





Best of quality and breeding. Bulls.

SIIOI'IIIOI'I'IS cows and heifers for sale. BIDWELL.

STOCK FARM. Box D. Tssumuh. Mish.





 





M ILKING SHORTHORNS—cither sex at farmers?

prices. (‘entral Michigan Shorthorn Breedci‘s’ _As-

soo. Write for list to Oscar Skinner, Secy.. Gowen, Mlch.





 





ILKING SHORTHORNS. 8 mos. Son of top U.

S. Butter-fat Cow. Mo. March. 1924. Also fe-

males. IRVIN DOAN & SONS. Croswsll. Mich.





HOGS

Duroc Service Boars--Bred





Gilts--Fall Pigs





Everything immunized. We

to please you.





Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich.





Duroc Jersey Gilts bred for April



For Sale Farrow. Colonel and Orion King



breeding. Good type and size. Will send C. 0. D.

on approval. W. E. BARTLEY. Alma, Mlch.



Gilts bred for March





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' Chicago—May $13814; July $12914; . Beans

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- Chicago—Spot Navy Michigan fancy

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R, 1. Reds ................. 15.00 72.00 $145.00



8.0. White Leghorns 13.00 62.50 125.00 .

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alsike $21.75; timothy, 01d $2.65; new

$2.85. .. ' '





Hay. »

Detroit No. 1 timothy at $19@20;

standard $18.50@19.50; No. 1 light clo-

ver mixed $18.50@19.»50; No. 2 timothy

$15@18; No. 1 clover $17@18; Wheat

and cat straw $13.50@14.50; rye straw

$14@15 .

Feeds.





Detroit—Winterwheat bran at $39;

spring wheat bran at $34; standard

middlings at $35; fancy middlings at

$39; cracked corn at $34; coarse corn

meal $32; chop $31 per ton in carlots.





WHEAT.





After following a. downward trend

for two weeks, reaching the lowest

point of the crop year on several mar-

kets, wheat prices had a fair rally in

the last few days. While the world

situation looks rather weak, and com-

petition from Argentine and Australian

wheat is becoming more of a factor in

world markets, the domestic situation

continues healthy, so that breaks do

not carry down far. .





CORN.





After dropping back'practically to

the lowest points reached in the past

year, corn prices are showing a. ten-

dency to rally. Demand for corn at

central markets is slow and stocks are

increasing. In spite of the probability,

of some future scarcity, prices for dis-

tant delivery are so far above the price

of cash corn that they discourage spec-

ulative buying.





OATS.





The oats —market is under the influ-

ence of extremely light primary re-

ceipts and a gradually decreasing vis-

ible supply. The latter is down to

45,000,000 bushels, compared with 63,-

000,000 bushels a year ago, and 72,000,-

000 bushels two Years ago.





EGGS.





The egg market has broken sharply

from the high point of the season, as

supplies of fresh stock increased. Re-

ceipts at the leading distributing mar-

kets are the largest on record for this

season of the year, bearing out predic-

tions made earlier in the season .of a

heavy Winter lay. '



Chicago—Eggs, fresh firsts 38@39c;

ordinary firsts 35@37c; miscellaneous





issc; dirties 28@‘300'6‘0hecks zeozsc.





 





Live poultry, hens @725 Kc; spring-





. ers25c; roosters"180‘;,ducks 30c; geese





220;, turkeys 300. , ,



Detroit—Eggs, fresh 'candled and

graded 40@41c; storage 28@,84c. Live

poultry, heavy springers at 30c; light

springers 22c;._ heavy hens 300; light

hens 22c; geese 25c; ducks 35c; tur-





keys 40c. , 7 .

BUTTER. .

The butter market has declined to

the lowest rices in six weeks. Pro~

duction is efinitely on the increase





and receipts at the leading markets





are 10 per cent larger than a. week ..





ago. While prices .will undoubtedly

continue to work lower, the decline

has been checked temporarily and the

losses should be more gradual from

now on. The excellent consumptive

demand will be a check on any drastic

break. .



Prices on 92-score ores/mery were:

Chicago 480; New York~50%c; Detroit,

fresh creamery in tube 46@47 %c.



' BEA ,





Trade continues very light in all

kinds of beans, and there has been

practically no change in prices, in New

York. In Chicago the market is quite

firm, with the demand good.





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The market continues steady, with

the eastern market improving. Prices





are trending upward. The staple lines '





are showing the greatest activity.





DETROIT CITY MARKET.

Apples 50c@$2.50 bu; bagas 75c@$1





bu; cabbage 650@$1 bu; red cabbage:





$1.25@1.50 bu; local celery 25@50c a

dozen; carrots 900@$1.25 bu; kale 75

@85c bu; dry onions. $1@1.50 bu; po-

tatoes $1@1.60 bu; turnips $1@1.50

bu; Hubbard squash $1.25@1.50 bu;

pears 75c@$1‘.25 bu; leeks 75091 doz.

bunches; parsnips at $1.25? . 5 bu;

pumpkins 75c@$1 bu; veg’e able oys-

ters 75c@$1 dozen bunches; root cel-

ery $1.50@2 bu; celery cabbage $1@2

dozen; eggs, retail at 55@650; hens,

wholesale 28@30c; retail at 30@520;

springers, wholesale 28@300; retail 30

@320; Leghorn springers, wholesale

22@25c; ducks, wholesale at 35@3Sc;

retail 38@40c; geese, Wholesale .27@

28c; veal 18@20c; dressed hogs 17@

19c; dressed poultry, hens 35@380;

springers 35@38c; ducks 45c. .





 





 





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CHICAGO.

Hogs. , .



Receipts 42,000. Market generally

steady to slow at Monday’s best pric-

es, more active than early; early tops

$10.50, paid for the choice 140-170-lb.

weights; selected light lights held

higher; bulk desirable 140-200-lb. aver-

age 12@12.10; 220-280-lb. butchers at

$11.90@12; bulk good slaughter pigs

826171210; most packing sows $10.65

@11.10; light weights $11.25@11.40.



Cattle.



Receipts 13,000. Market on fat steer

trade less active, bulls steady, lower

grade predominating; choice weight

steers early at $11.40; bulk at $8.75@

10.50; feeders very scarce; bulk- $76)

8, with meaty qualified kind at $8.50;

most medium bulls $6.65@6.90; vealers

$10.50@12.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 17,000. Market fairly ac-

tive; fat lambs strong to 150 higher;

early bulk of feeding lambs $12.25@

13, asking around $13.35 for choice;

heavy wool tops at $12.25@13, asking

$13.35 for best handy weights; heavy

lambs at $12.25@12.50;' most extreme

weights $11.25@11.50; wool culls $9@

10 and better; sheep unchanged; fat

ewes $5.50@7,7 holding choice handy

weight ewes around $7.25; feeding

lambs strong; bulk comeback feeders

$12.75; choice held around $13.





DETROIT.



- Cattle.~

Receipts 1,077. Market strong.

Good to choice yearlings

dry-fed .......

Best heav steers, dry-fed

Handy we ght butchers . .

Mixed «steers and heifers





 





 





 





 





 

 

 





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Cutters IOIOIOCOOOQOOODI. 5

Canners ...............4.. 3

Bologna bulls ..........- 3.

stockbullsICUOIIOIIOC’... 60

Feeders IOOOCIIOOOIOOOII.C 5



5



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Stockers





Receipts 549. Market steady.

Best I O O I I U I 0 l I O O I C O O O O O O» 1%.00

Others I C O t D D O O O C C O I C I 0 l O 3050@ 1 .00





, Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 2,410. Market steady.

1





Bestgradesz............$ 2.50

Fair lambs . . . . . . . . . . 10.50@11.25

Light to common lambs. . 6.00@ 9.25

Best‘lambs .. 12.75

Fair to good sheep . . . . .. 5.00@ 6.25

Culls and common . ... . 3.00@ 3.50





Hogs.





Receipts 1,941. Market active, mixi’





ed held higher, others steady to strong.





Mixed.,... ...... 12.25

\Roughs eeeee cocoocrooacc {10,50

. Yorkers ..... 10.35@10.50

Pigsandlights.......... » "12.35,

Stags................... 8.50

Heavies ........ . . . . . 11.00

Extreme heavies . . . ..... 11.00

' BUFFALO.

‘ Hogs.





Receipts 1,000.! Market fairly active ;

few medium and heavy weights $12.25





@1250; 170-180 lbs. mostly at $12.75; ,

pigs. and lights at $12.75@13; packing.





sows $10.85@11. . ,

Cattle. 1





_ Receipts 300. [Market Muffin." a

. _tive,=steady; .big cows. 53.35G43‘50. .- .





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.ing barnyard . man recoil putti- - p

buzz, wood. The usual amountol! cat-

tle,, sheep and hogs are being'fe‘d, with

f plenty of feed and roughage to winter

through. Some, hay is selling at about

$15 per ton;





 





beans $4.35 cwt; oats 40c

bu. Most hogs and cattle not ready

for market—A. A. R. .



lngham County.-—There is plenty of

feed on hand, with possibly ‘a little

grain being required to finish the

stock. Many hundreds of western

lambs are being fed in' this locality.

Hogs are scarce, and milk brings 82.50

per cwt. Most farmers are getting up

wood—R. E. .



Miseaukee County.—Farmer.s are

getting out wood and hauling gravel.

About the usualamount of live stock

is being wintered. Grain is scarce.

Very few farm products are bein sold

at present. Hay is bringing $1 per

ton—R. H. .



Marquette County.——-lee stock is in

good condition. Farmers have gener-

‘ally, plenty of feed. Loggers are buy-

ing hay at $22 to $25 per ton. Pota-

toes are selling locally at $1.50; cream

50c; eggs 55c; oats 60c. Very little.





fall plowing done. Snow is about two "





and one-half feet decaf-J. C. F.

Berrien County.—Winter arrived

early, and very little fall plowing has

been done. Farmers are busy shred-

ding corn, trimming grape woes and

friiit trees; stock in good condition.

Wheat $1.20; potatoes $1.25; hay $18;

straw $17.——J. B. . .



Sanilac Countyx—Lave stock is in

good condition. Most farmers havean

ample supply of feed. Not much being

marketed at present. Butter 50c; eggs.

500; hay.$10-@12; oats 400; potatoes

$1.50. Not much fall plowing done.

—B.- R.



St. Joseph County.-—Live stock is in

good condition. ‘ In our township about

800 sheep are on feed. There is plenty

of grain and roughage for feeding pur-

poses. Farmers are holding rye, beans

and wheat. Rye 76c; Wheat $1.23;

beans $4.50; potatoes $1.05@1.08; eggs

450; butter-fat 520. .



Kent County.—Farmers are getting

up wood, doing‘chores, and draWing

manure. Quite a large number of

lambs are being fed, but not many cat-

tle. Hogs are not very plentiful here.

There is plenty of roughage, With the

possible exception of hay—C. B.





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with large white meaty grains weighing 44-40 lbs. per

measured bushel of the highest quality. Seed fumlshed

I8 low as 05c per bushel in quantities. You should by

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Chester Whites fig”: $3.3,- m

true. F. W. ALEXANDER. Vassar. Mich.





WE I'PE P. C. bred slits. good ones. bred to



best young boar in Michigan. Also

fall pigs. pairs and trlos, not skin. the big easy feed-

ing kind. sired by ”L‘s Redeemer“ and ”The Grand





Model.“ Come and see them and be convincal. Ex-





 





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Poland China hours of March

FOR SALE find April fan-ow. Also some

choice bred gilts. due to fsrrow in March and April.

Every (inn? hinimuncd for cholera. WESLEY MILE.

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aprlng pigs. either sex. mod ones. Cholera human.

Also Brown Swiss bulls. A. A. FELDKAMP. Man-





 





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b using Aborno the pioneer guaranteed remedyfor

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LOlely Quilt Pieces '°’ ”‘9' Percale- Kins-





hams for two quilts.

$1 Dootpaid. MRS. GEO. MORGAN. Vicksburg. Mich.





 





choslor. Mich.

size and large





lIHEE TYPE POUIll BHIIIS mm on, m.





clalty. 1A8. G. TAYLOR. Boldlna. Mich.





A Few good Hampshire spring boars

bargain. Place your order for brad

gills. JOHN W. SNYDER. St. Johns. Mlcli.. R. 6.





AMPSHIRE GILTS. bred for March and April

far-row. Also boars. fall pigs. 1. P. SPITLEB





8. SON. B. l. Henderson. Mich.



Boar pigs all sold. 'flisnks to

Thank You all customers that have made

possible our enormous fall trade on boar pigs. Write

us about our 'gilts, litter mates to the boars. GEO.

W. NEEDHAM. Saline, Mich.





 





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700 Choice Ewes»





for sale in car lots, 1 to 4 years old. all in good con-

dition. Bred to strictly choice Shrop. rams to lamb

Also 200 choice large Dclaine ewes. AL-

MOND B. CHAPMAN 6. SON. So. Rockwood. Mich.

26 miles south of Detroit. Mich. Telegraph address:

Rsokwood. Mich. ~





 





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Registered Shropshires

We are omring 40 head bred ewes. 1 to 3 years.

sired by noted rains. and due to lamb in March. by

champion rams. E. F. GOODFELLOW, Ovid. Mich.





 





- Shropshire grades. also Lin-

Breedmg EWBSForsale coln Rambouillet cross breeds.

in lots of 50 or more. ,Bl'ed to lamb_ in April and

May. V. B. FURNISS. Nashville, Mich.





 





Registered Delaine Ewes

fine ones, bred. F. H. RUSSELL. Wakeman. Ohio.

' VVestom Short, Yearling owes.

SIX Hundred to registered Hampshire rams,

May lst. JOHN HICKEY, Reese. Mich.





 





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For Sale Percheron Stallions

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penises paid if not as represented. VI. E. LIVING-





 





sing-him? mucosa." mm Modem”?

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Nursery. Box 14. Nowjfiuflslo. Mich. .‘ f.





 





Alfalfa seed. grown from. Grimm's certified seed. 326'!





per bushel. ‘John Inglis, Millersburg. Mich.





GARDEN SEEDS—grown from select stock. none bet-

ter. We sell at wholesale prices. Write for 'pflce

list. Fowler Seed Co.. Waynotomi, Ind.





 





 





 





TOBACCO I





GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Clieth or

smoking. 5 lbs.. $1.25: ten. 82: cigars 82 1301239.

l'ipe free, pay when received. Farmers’ Association.

Maxon Mills. Kentucky. '





 





 





HOMESPUN TOBACCO—6 lbs $1.25: ten 82. ertn

for prices on other ,gradm and cigars. Satisfaction

nntecd. Pipe free. Pay post/inaster. Farmm'





gun

Union. Paducah. Ky.





 





100K! Five pounds good mellow making tobacco.

81.00. Five pounds chewing. $1.25. Quality and. “be

lsfactlon guaranteed. Farmers' Club. 110. Hazel.

Kentucky.





 





LEAF TOBACCO—Selected chewing. 5 pounds 81.50}

tan $2.50. Best smoking, 5 pounds $1.25: ten :2;

Satisfaction guaranteed. Pipe free. pay on arrival.

Cigars 50 for $1.80. Cooperative Growers, Elva. Ky.





HOMESPUN TOBACCO GUARANTEED—Chewing.

five pounds. 81.50: ten. $2 50. Smoking, ten. $1.50.

Pipe free. pay when received. United Farma‘s. Bard-n

well, Kentucky.





HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Smoking or Chewing, 4 lbs;

$1: 12. $2.25. Send me money. Pay postmaster on

arrival. Pipe free for ten names of tobacco users.

United Farmers of Kentucky. I’aducah. Ky.





 





MELLOW Old Red Chewing or Smoking. 5 lbs. $1.00.

filelrieii I82.00. Pipe free. Tobacco Growers. 89¢

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POULTRY





POULTRY—~Dark. White Cornish, Buli' Cochins. Pal'd

tridge Racks. Speckled Sussex. Also other varieties.

Ducks. geese. turkeys, guineas. Arthur Jarvis. Wave—

land, Indiana.





 





“WORLD‘S WONDER" ANCONAS, greatest layers.-

Singlo comb cookerels, $5.00; bullets. $2.50. Beauti-

ful bronze tom turkeys, $12. H. Cecil Smith. Rapid

City. Mich.





"TANGIHGD" WHITE

Bufl' Orpingtons.

right.





 





LEGHORNS——Barred Rocks.

Rhode Island Ixeds. Stook. Prices

Write. Former Bailey. Ray, Indiana.





 





WHIT'I‘AKER'S RED COCKERELS. pedigreed from

high-producing hens. Both Combs. Write for priced.

Interlakes Farm. Box 9, Lawrence, Mich.





WHITE WYANDOTTES—some nice Cookerels for sale

at reasonable prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fred

Berlin, Allen. Mich.





 





"RINGLET" Barred Rock breeding cockerels. 6 to 8





 





 





 





 





"18., nicely barred. Satisfaction guaranteed. Earl

Murphy. Britten. Mich.



CHOICE “'HITE ROCK COCIiEIU'lLS from prize

winning stock. R. C. Smith, Oxford. Mir-h.

SUPERIOR RINGLICT Barred Rock Cockerels. extra

line large fellows. L. Wyndham. Tifl‘ln, Ohio.

SILVER LACED Golden and White Wyandotte Cock-

erels. C. W. Browning, Portland. Mich.



CHOICE WIIITE ROCK COCKERELS from prize





winning stock. R. C. Smith, Oxford. Mich.





 





 





using. miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange.





charge .I 0 words.





CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING





This classified advsrtlslng department is established for the convenience of Michigan farmers

Small advertisements bring best results under classified headings.





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



Rates 8 cont: a word. each Insertion. on orders for less than four insertion: for four or more

consecutive insertions 6 cents s word. Count as s word each abbreviations. inltlsl or number.

display type or illustrations admitted. Remittances must accompany order.



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Try

Poultry advertising





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Ono Four Ono Four

10........60.80 83.40 36 ........ 82.08 66.34

.88 3.64 31. . . . . . 3.18 6.48

.86 3.68 38 ........ 3.34 6.73

1.04 8.13 30 ........ 3.83 6.66

1.13 3.86 80. . . ..... 3.40 1.30

1.36 8.60 81 ........ 3.48 7.44

1.38 8.64 83 ........ 3.66 7.68



. 1.86 4.68 . . . ..... 3.04 7.91

1.44 4.83 84 . . ...... 2.13 8.16



. 1.63 4.66 ........ 2.80 8.40

. 1.60 4.86 36........ 3.88 8.64

1.68 6.04 87. .. . . 3.86 8.88



. 1.78 6.38 88 ........ 8.04 8.13

. 1.84 6.63 86........ 8.12 8.86

. 1.03 6.16 40 ........ 8.30 9.60

. 3.00 6.00 41 ........ 8.38 8. 84





 





 





REAL ESTATE





. JOA UIN VALLEY of California.

lymllnfgnvis $.33: s pay?ng business, feeding millions of

people in towns. Dairying. hogs. poultry and fruit

should yield a good income. A small one-family

form, with little hired labor, insures success. You

can work outdoors all the year. Best crops to plant

are well proved. Selling is done co-oneramvcly in

mtablished markets. Newcomers welcome. The Santa

Fe Railway has no land to sell. but offers a free

service in helping you get right location. Write for

illustrated San Joaquin folder and get The Earth

free for six months. C. L. Sea-graves. General Col-

onization Agent, Santa Fe Railway. 912 Railway

Exchange. Chicago.





COME TO CALIFORNIA—settle in Stanislaus County

—an Empire of Natural Wealth. where the l owns

the water and power. Abundance of water for irri—

gation and cheap electricity right on your farm—ml)

year crops: diversified farming; close to good mar-

kets: wonderful climate: paved roads: good schools;

land priced low. Write for Free Booklet. Dept. B.

Stanislaus County Development Board, (County Cham-

ber of Commerce). Modesto. Calif.





 





lilo-ACRE FARM FOR RENT—mnefourth mile from

High School, three-fourths mile from Michigan State

Callous. on steel! share basis. Only tenant with

equipment need apply. Write Box 945, East Lansing.

Mich. Phone 27110 Evenings.





 





FOR SALE on RENT—2004mm stock and grain. or

sugar beet farm. Good buildings. Also house and.

lot. B. 1. Box 6-A. Mt. Pleasant. Mich





 





WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITIES. Southern Georgia

writs for 60331606 information. Chun-





 





 





WANTED FARMS





 





ANTED—rm hear from owner of farm or unimproved





 





, W ,

land for sale.





0. Hawloy. Baldwin. Mich





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‘ FROST





~250 bu. Grimm's

free





 





MISCELLANEOUS





 





A FEW ”SUCCESSFUL" DEMONSTRATOR INCU-

BATORS for quick sale at great reduction. 60 to

300 eggs capacity. Good as new. Des Molnes In-

cubator (30.. Box 734. Des Molnes. Iowa.





 





ALI. WOOI. YARN for sale from manufacturer at

bin-gain. Samples free. H A Bartlett, Harmony,

A 3,1118.





 





WANTED—Dairy hay. clover. clover mixed and al-





runnnnnn TOUI.0USE GANDERS. $5. geese $4.

Dan Mt-Avoy. Lningshurg, Mich. _





 





JERSEY BLACK G IANTSc-Snlcndid





Cockerds. $5 to

$8 each. Elmvale Farm. ‘





Turner, Mich.





 





 





TURKEYS





PURE-BRED MAMMOTH BRONZE

Champion Strain. Earl 8; Merle

Mich. R. 7.





 





TURKEY S—

Plielps. Dowagiae.





 





TURK EYS—All breeds.





_ strictly pure-bred. Special

prices.





Eastern Ohio Poultry Farm. Beallsville. Ohio.





 





MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS-Gold Bank Strain.

Unrelated stock. Mrs. Perry Stebbins, Sat-mac. Mich.





 





PURE-BRED BOURBON RED TOMS. $10 and. 312.

Mrs. John Miller. New Lothrop, Mich.





 





NAIIRAGANSE’I‘T TU‘RKEYs—large hardy birds from

ch01ce stook. Ernest Clement. Ionia, Mich.





TURKEYS~Bourbon Reds. hens $8. toms $12.





 





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islfa. Write Harry D. Gates Company. Jackson. Mich. J' Chapman. Northville, Mich.

MATTRESSES ' BABY CHICKS

MATTRESSES made any size, low factory prices. WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS sired by pedigreed





Catalog free. Peoria Bedding Company. Poona, Ill.





 





PET STOCK





 





HUNDRED FOX AND WOLF HOUNDS. cheap. Cat-





 





 





 





 





alogue. Kaskaskennels. Herrick. Ill.



POLICE PUPPIES from imported stock $15. Oak-

wood Kennels, Jackson Street. Muskegon, Mich.



SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK



PEACH TREES $5.00 PER 100 AND UP. Apple

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

direct to planters by freight. parcel post, express.

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

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

alog in colors. Tennessee Nursery 00.. Box 126.





Cleveland. Tenn.





 





PROOF CABBAGE and Bermuda Onion

Plants. Varieties: Copenhagen Market. Early Jersey

and Charleston IVakefield. Flat Dutch and Succee-

sion. Prices. parcel post paid. 250. $1.00; 500, $1.50:

1.000, $2.50; express gcollect. $1.50 per thousand.

Nothing too small shipped. We guarantee to ship

size to please you. Agents wanted. Tifton Plant

Co.. Tifton. Ga.





 





BUY YOUR GRIMM ALFALFA SEED direct. from

the Introduced". and know that your foundation stock

is pure. pedigreed seed. bred from the original Grimm

strain. Accllmated .to severe northwest temperatures

since 1857. A. Lyman. Introducer. Excelsior.

Minn. The Home of Grimm Alfalfa.





 





CERTIFIED WOLVERINE OATS. one dollar per

bushel. Improved Robust Beans. choice stock. seven

dollars per hundred. Bags are free. Freight prepaid

on over twenty dollar orders in Michigan. A. B.

. . Mich.



FREE OFFER—Fifty Bermuda Onion Plants or

Froctproof Cabbage Plants for few minutes your time.

girlte .for proposition. Bell Plant. Conway. Cotulla.

8188.





 





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CLOVER SEED FOR SALE—180 bu. white clover.

Alfalfa soodpbsgs free; Samples

gem-y _F9W- R. ’5. Mt. Pleasant. ‘ inch.





males. records 200 to 203 eggs.





. Low prepaid prices.

Shipped anywhere C. 0. I).





and guaranteed. Hatch-





ing eggs. cockerels, piillcts. hens, egg-bred 27 years.

winners lit 1? egg contests. Write for free catalog

and special price bulletin. Geo. B. Ferris. 934-





Union. Grand Rapids, Michigan.





 





STOUFFER CHICKS have a reputation. Parent Stock

has been State Inspected and Accredited for the past

three years. 'lhvelve Varieties. Poultry Manual Free:





 





 





explains the Accredited l’lan. contains up-to-date in-

formation about raising chicks and pictures, of chick

ens in natural colors. Stoufl’cr Egg Faring. R-26.

Mount Morris. Illinois.





 





BABY CHICKS~Insured for 30 days. 100% live dad

livery guaranteed. Barred and White Rocks. R. .

Reds. Wyandottes, Anconas, Black Mined-as. White

Leghorns—separate breeding—4mm both Tailored and

Hollywood foundation stock. Hatches every week.

Write for free catalog. State Farms Association. Kill-i

amazoo. Mich.





LARGE TYPE, Eng. W. Leghorn Chix from our

M. A. C. Demonstration Farm flock. Mated to extra

éigiéesotype, 1383 psdigree males. Low prices. only



. per . ircular free. Model P .

Zecland, Mlch.. 4. out”, Fm





 





BETTER. CHICKS—Purebred stock of high produc-

tion quality. Eleven breeds rigidly culled. Write for

iiiitggogue and prices. Litchfleld Hatchery. Litchi‘leld.





 





SITUATIONS WANTED





MARRIED MAN wants position on farm. 1!. L.

Kent. Tustjn. Mich. "





 





 





EXPERIENCED married man wants work on ism G

dairy farm by year. Stanleyflstes. Homer. Milena





 





AGENTS WANTED

AGENTS—Our New Household Cleaning Davies '0‘"





 





on and dries windows. sweeps. cleans walls. .llzfllhfl. . ;

mops. Costs less than brooms. Over WM , ~

Yritc Harper Brush Works. 118 8rd 86.. I old.»

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FOR SALE-Hardy 'I’Trcsque Isle County Michigan- '
can SAVE a lot of

0 Money this Year





if you will send for my new big CUT PRICE CATALOG. Don’t buy a rod of fence, 5

barb wire, gates, posts, roofing and paint until you get this money-saving book. ‘

I’VE CUT PRICES to the bone on my 150 styles of DOUBLE GALVANIZED

Farm, Poultry and Lawn Fences — Farm, Drive and Walk Gates; on Corner Posts, Steel

Fence Posts, and Gate Posts—Barb Wire, Smooth Wire, Grape Wire—Roofing and Paints.

Catalog shows a bigger variety than you’ll find in a dozen stores and at prices that save you

fully one-third or more. Send for this catalog today —— compare my quality and NEW

CUT PRICES with what you have to pay elSewhere. You’ll SAVE big MONEY.





Jim Brown PAYS the Freight,





The new low prices in my catalog are delivered prices. I pay the freight right to your freight

station. You know when you look in my catalog exactly what your goods are going to cost

laid down at your freight station. You’ve no extras to pay. You’ll find a big difference in

price and a tremendous difference in quality — for instance — my fence is made of Basic

Open Hearth Steel Wire and all double galvanized by the famous Brown process which

puts on twice the usual amount of galvanizing. That’s why it don’t rust out—why it lasts’

two or three times longer than ordinary fence. My Gates have Carbon Steel one piece

frames—last a lifetime. My Steel Posts are bigger, heavier and much stronger; my Barb

Wire and Smooth Wire is the best ever; my Roofing is asphalt Roofing with wool felt

base—not coal tar and paper; my WEARBESTpaint with its big percentage of Pure

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seven years ago i as nice and bright to- tion. I feel that I saved at least $1.00 on have ever used. It covers bet-

day, with no sign of rust on it. I put up each roll by ordering from you and if I ter and it goes farther. And

another make of fence about the same ever need any more roofing I sure will mi neighbors say it is the

time I did yours. and it is very nearly send you my order for I know I would an itest paint they oversaw.

ruined by rust. The Brown Fence is b get the worth of my money. I certainly You saved me $1.30u (al-

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lots to gain when you buy from Brown. I ship promptly from my 3 big factories at Cleveland,

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