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REPORTS made to the secretary of

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men, that I have practically gone out

of the business. When complaint is

sent to the sheriff, we are told who

they are and that the deputies will get

them, and there it stops. Last season,

we had a cottage that had all the win-

dows shot out.



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NE of the most noticeable devel-



opments during the past year is



the more general realization of

the importance which larger power

units and power equipment have in

solving the farmer's problem of cheap-

er production. The agricultural en-

gineers have made this one of the

chief phases of their work, and many

of the agricultural economists are be—

ginning to fall in line.

"The horse people have helped the

cause by putting on a greaq many

large team demonstrations all over

showing how one man

may operate six, eight, or even twelve

horses to many of the farm imple-

ments. (Such a demonstration will be

made at the college during Farmers’





. Week). Farmers have shown their be- .





lief in increased farm power by more

liberal buying of both tractors and

larger field machinery. In fact, 1926

was probably the greatest year of the

tractor industry.



Few changes have taken place in

tractor design or equipment during the

year, the vast bulk of the farm sales

being of the standard type of four-

wheeled kerosene burning tractors put

out by some Seven or eight firms. This

is certainly some comedOwn from the

250 or more tractor firms of about six

or Seven years ago; but from the farm-

er’s standpoint it makes for cheaper,

more reliable, and longer-lived trac-

tors, and for better repair and expert

service. The tractors of 1926 will last

at least one-third, and probably one-

half more actual days use than the

average of those five or six ”years. ago.

which augurs well for the stability‘of

the industry. -



One new tractor development of the

year was the advent of the general-

purpos‘e tractor put out by One of the

leading tractor firms. This has been

in process of development and testing





By I. W.





for several years, and great things are

expected of it by its friends.

tended largely for’general field work,

such as cultivating, mowing, raking,

harvesting, corn picking; but also has

power for pulling two plows, and plen-

ty of power for silo filling, corn shell-

ing, and all the ordinary belt jobs on

the farm. It is fitted with a. power

take-off and the two-row cultivator,

mower, and other attachments in many

cases Will be comparatively cheap at-





It is in- ‘





, Dickerson





tions in the humid sections, especially

for harvesting soy beans. Two or

three of these were tried out in Illinois

two years ago, and were found very

satisfactory, not only for soy beans,

but for wheat and other small grains;

the next year they were put into

neighboring states and all made good;

and last year many were given thor-

ough tryouts in most of the‘grain and

corn producing states.

ers believe it will solve the harvesting





 





The Efficient Use of Machinery and Equipment Has Been One of the Fac-

tors in J. P. Munson’s Success in Fruit Growing.





tachments to be put on and taken .off

in a short time.



In harvesting machinery the rapid

spread of the combined harvester-

thresher (commonly called the com-

bine) is the outstanding development

of 1926. The larger sizes of the com-

bine have been used in the semi-arid

west for a good many "years, it being

considered out of the question to use

them for the more humid regions

farther east. Manufacturers who had

brought out smaller sizes of combines

were comiinced that these could be

used to advantage under some condi-





problem, and grain growers who have

tried them out find they are more sav-

ing, and considerably cheaper than the

usual. methods.



The use of the cornbine brings up at

once the problem of drying the grain

as it comes to the granary. The U. S.

Department of Agriculture has devised

a very satisfactory ventilating system

of cross-air ducts for farm granaries,

and several agricultural experiment

stations are working on forced draft

drying projects which give promise of

being entirely practical, even with

small quantities of grain. At least





Soy bean raise





regress 1n Machinery and Equipment





SO777e of Me Development: Noted Dur772g tfie Past Year





one firm has put on the market a large

coal-heated grain-drying and condition-

ing machine for the use of large pro-

ducers and country elevators. So this

problem seems about solved.



The idea is rapidly gaining ground

of operating tractor—drawn machinery

through power taken from the tractor

by a power take-off, instead of relying

on’the bull‘ wheel. While developed

originally for the grain binder, it is

now being used for mowers, corn pick--

ers, corn snappers, combines, rice har-

vesters, corn binders, field ensilage

cutters, and so on. The great advan-

tages are that it makes these ma-

chines all practically independent of

bad footing conditions and allows of

going right through ponds of water if

necessary; allows of taking care of

extra heavy conditions by slowing up

the travel and still letting the machin-

ery run at normal speed; and allows

of lighter construction for the ma—

chines. Several different tractors now

Offer a power takeoff. One modifica—

tion of this idea was noticed at the/

state fairs in the shape of a single-

row corn picker attached and carried

at one side, and also a two—row corn.

snapper attached and carried on both

sides of a light tractor. In both cases

the machinery is operated from the

tractor.



Never before has there been such a

demand for information on putting en-

gines on horse~drawn harvesting equip-

ment. The usual plan is to take an

old auto engine in fairly good condi-

tion and mount it, either on top .or at

the side of the harvester, preferably

the latter, and drive the mechanism

either by belt, chain or gear wheel.

Several firms are putting on the mar—

ket at small cost, complete attach-

ments for doing this with the neces-

sary driving parts, while farmers all



(Continued on page 128).





The Poultry Market Ontlook





0072222220725 Late/y to 0072222222e Favoraé/e D227272g Me Com272g Year

By Marilla Adams





HE year ahead promises to be a

favorable one for poultry pro-

ducers, but there is no clear rea-





. son to expect that it will be an im-

. provement over the last two years.





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b "in consumer demand, is not probable.





 





 

 

 





The attractive—prices which have pre-





‘vailed in that period are likely to call





forth some increase in‘ production 'in

1927. Sines business activity seems

more likely to fall behind the pace set

by 1926 than to exceed it, an increase





If these probabilities are verified by

actual development during the year, it





7 _ would not be wise to anticipate that





prices of poultry products will average





‘ higher. Feed costs, on the other hand,





are likeiy to show some upward ten-

dency.





At worst, there is no danger that the





"j changes will be so pronounced as to

:Wipe Out the margin of profit for em-

elem-t producers.





 





Those who endeavor





 

 





Production of eggs thus far this win-

ter indicates that producing capacity

is greater than a year ago. From No-

vember 1 to the middle of January,

receipts at the four leading distribut-

ing markets have been more than fif«





teen per cent larger than a year pre-





vious, and the largest on record for





- the corresponding season of the year.





The year has started with a record

stock of 144,000,000 pounds of frozen

poultry in storage, compared with a

five-year average on that date of 109,-

000,000 pounds; In addition, the spring

hatch is likely to be heavy, since the

last thcr-ops of market poultry have

sold at attractive prices. Spring weath-

er will affect, the number raised, of

course. Whilenothin‘g of that kind is

anticipated, if egg prices should prove

to be disappointing, closer culling of





V'fiocks during the summer will add to

4‘ ”market supplies of poultry. Supplies

,. and prices of beef and pork may be

.. . i B .





slight degree of corn shortage.





iganpplies than in 1925. or not. is open





Feed costs are likely to show a mod-

erate rising trend because of the small

crops of corn and oats produced in

1926, and because of the likelihood

that hog production will expand in the

next year or two until it creates a

But,

unless crop yields in 1927 are unusu-

ally low, as a result of unfavorable

weather, prices of feed grains should

not become excessive within the next

twelve months.



Prices paid by consumers for eggs

in fifty-one leading cities during the

first eleven months of 1926 averaged

four cents a dozen lower than in the

corresponding period of 1925. This

may mean that, irrespective of any

slump in business, it will be difficult

to market any sizeable increase in sup-

plies of ’eggs‘in’ 1927, at higher prices

than prevailed in the past season.



‘Whethermis decline in retail prices

in 1926 shotfldébe attributed to larger





to question. Receipts of eggs at the

four leading distributing markets dur-

ing 1926 were practically the same as

in 1925. Production probably was larg-

er than these figures would indicate, ,

however. In the first place, the pub-

lished market receipts of eggs are not

as accurate a measuring stick for pro-

duction as a few years ago. Eggs

brought into the markets by truck,

which have undoubtedly increased

considerably, are not included in the

official records. Direct-to—consumer

shipments, and sales at roadside mar-

kets, which also are steadily increas-

ing, are not included in these records.

Furthermore,~the tendency during fe-

cent years appears to have been to

merchandise a larger percentage of

the eggs produced in other than the





four leading markets.





The 19264927 egg storage deal Was

fairly satisfactory. Fewer eggs were

stored during the season of accumuv‘

lation than in 1925, and this “short-if





age” was a strengthening teeter. in the»





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VOLUME CLXVIII NUMBER FIVE





ETROIT, JANjE, 1927





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CURRENT COMMENT





 





 





N a recent address,





Fix Mr. C. F. Kettering,

What president of the Gen-

eral Motors Research



is Wrong Corporation, s t a t c d





that their method of

approaching a problem is to “simply

start in to find out what is wrong with

something and then fix it.” This meth-

od is as applicable to farming as it is

to the manufacture of motor vehicles.

One of the things wrong with agri-

culture is the tremendous waste which

could be eliminated. Too often, in

reflecting on farm waste, we think

only of the small potatoes left in the

field, the decayed apples in the or-

chard. But such things constitute but

a small portion of farm waste.





The waste of labor on farms is large

and expensive. Take the matter of

performing the daily Chores in build-

ings improperly arranged and lacking

labor-saving conveniences. Here from

a few minutes to hours are lost every

day, which aggregates many days by

the end of the year. Then, too, crop

rotations are frequently at fault since

they often bunch the demands upon

both man and horse labor, thereby re

stricting the output of the farm.





Another waste comes in farming

scrub acres. Sometimes these acres

should never be cultivated. Again, it

is possible that underdrainage, liming,

green manuring, or other treatment,

would make the labor bestowed upon

such land profitable.



Insects and diseases occasion tre-

mendous waste to the farmer. Much

of this may be eliminated through

facts and practices already known in

agricultural circles. .



«To get an understanding of the waste

problem, and other problems of‘ the

. farmer, should be the ambition of ev-

ery tiller of the soil. And, understand-

‘ing these problems, like the research

. fispec’ialist, he should proceed to “fix”

"“rhsi'iswrons- . . , ‘





7‘ ’. C HERE has,

A ..

Liberal

Education the meaning of,a. lib-

. eral education'.‘ He

points out that we are in the midst of

a twentieth century revival of learn-

ifig. Colleges and other institutions

of learning are being forced to raise

their requirements to keep the rising

flood of students from simply swamp-

ing their facilities.



The author points out that “an ed-

ucated man is not merely one who

can do something, whether it is giving

a lecture on Horace, running a. train,

trying a law suit, or repairing the

plumbing. He is also one who knows

the significance of what he does. He

has acquired a set of values. He has

2: ‘yes’ and a ‘no’ and they are his

own”.



He also points out that the educator

and the propaga‘ndist have nothing in

common. “They use contrary meth—

ods and strive for opposite goals. The

propagandist is interested in what peo-

ple think; the educator in how they

hink.” The propagandist would that

people would “close their minds and

act; but the educator strives for the

open nind. He is willing to recon—

sider, to be experimental, to hold his

conclusions 'entatively.”



In a time like the present, when so

many are seeking intellectual wares

from so many sources, it is well to un-





derstand that they who perform tasks ‘





unthinkingly are not contributing as

much to progrss as they otherwise

might; and that the educators and they

propagandists should be separated as

the sheep from the goats, and each

class treated as the good book advises.





HERE is consider-





Frankunt‘ able discussmn at

U . present between the

"“7": lime and gypsum peo

Stunt plc because, in the





publication of a refer—

ence to Franklin and his interest in

agriculture, it was stated that he

sowed lime on his clover field in such

a way that the words, “This field has

been plastered,” stood out in great

white letters.



A writer of a Franklin biography

said that this was done to impress up-

on the farmers the value of using lime.

Now the gypsum people ‘ say that

Franklin used land plaster and formed

the words, “Land Plaster Used Here—

Ben Franklin.” .



Both lime and land plaster are good,

so it is not of any very great conse-

quence, to the public, at least, which





'was used. But this great statesman,





of “Poor Richard” fame, showed keen

thought in using this method of advis-

ing the neighboring farmers of the

value of doing something of this sort

for clover. It showed that Franklin

had a real understanding of the‘fund-

amcntals of agriculture.



One marvels when he‘thinks of

Franklin’s versatility—his diplomatic

accomplishments, his scientific discov—

eries. his literary efforts and his ac-

tivities in farming. The doors of his

mind were always opened, and he

sought the knowledge of fundamentals

wherever he could find it, and from

all evidences we have, he must have

enjoyed it all. He lived a full and

useful life and thus attained a promi-

nent and permanent place in history.





0 provide for the





To further develop-

ment of agricultural



Extenfl extension projects, a

Extenszon bill has been introduc-





ed into Congress by

Congressman John C. Ketcham, of

Michigan, and Senator Arthur Capper,

of Kansas, appropriating $480,000 for

each year, to pay the expenses of co-

operative extension workers in agricul-

ture and home economics. Ten thou;





sand dollars of,~ this amount will be





paid annually to each state which, ,by

legislative action. Will assent to‘ the





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a. voluine by, E. 1)..

Martin. dealing with





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lowing that; in Which4th‘e- foregoing ‘ an»:





propriation "first- liecomes :avy'rtilable,





sum appropriated for each preceding

year.- For each year thereafter there

is permanently a sum of $6,000,000 in

addition to the $430,000 previously pro-

vided. At least eighty per cent of

these appropriations shall be used to

pay salaries _of resident extension

agents in counties. Any money not so

utilized will be available for main:

connection with demonstration work

by means of agricultural trains.



, Through the earnest effort of our

college and resident extension .work-

ers, the extension movement has

shown great progress since its birth

in 1914. In women’s projects alone, a





late report shows that there are 9,280





women definitely enrolled. Club work

with boys and girls, and the agricul-

tural agents’ projects have been equal-

ly successful. But -to carry on, this

movement needs the financial support

provided in this bill.





ERHAPS nowhere





'Man is the man-boy

partnership as preva-



(""13”, lent as in medium

Partnership sized cities and the





‘ surrounding country.

A partnership between the city man

and the city boy is not a‘ common

thing, but city men have often formed

relations with country boys in an ef-

fort to stimulate the boy’s~interest in

better farming, and to make him, and

his father through him, better farmers.

In most places, where there are-

Rotary, Kiwanis and similar organiza-

tions, such cooperation is in evidence.

The rural press makes frequent men-

tion of such relation, and official pub-

lications of these commercial organi-

zations also devote much of their val-

uable space to them. The recent an-

niversary number of the Kiwanis Club,

a special number, referred to many

man-boy farm enterprises.





These activities are supplementary

to the boys’ and girls’ club work, and

are usually in connection with it. They

not only benefit the boy from a club

work standpoint by enabling the boy

to get a calf, seed, or pigs for his

project, but they furnish an added in—

centive to the boy in having a success-

ful business man back him up. He

gains courage in his contact with the

man, and puts in extra effort to make

good his obligation to the man. It

widens his horizon to have this con-

tact with someone outside of his par-

ticular sphere of living.



The relationship also is of benefit to

the man. In most cases it will remind

him of his days back on the farm, and

the contact with the boy helps to keep

alive the human element which the

cares of life are sometimes likely to

take away. »





N extensive sur-





Work vey of American

For Less homes to determine

urban and farm home



Work equipment is being





conducted by the Gen-

eral Federation of VVomen’s Clubs. Pre—

liminary returns indicate great possi-

bilities‘ for improvement. of housekeep~

ing equipment by the use of electric-

ity, gas and water, particularly in the

rural and small town homes. This

survey, which is indorsed by President

Coolidge, and is conducted by the

women themselves, involves eight mil-

lion American homes in forty-eight

states. ‘ p '

Commenting on this work, Secretary

of the Interior Hubert Work said that

such a vast- undertaking exemplifies

the constructive thought of the mod-

ern woman, and the, result of this

work should be of lasting‘and substan-





 





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state governments in bringing a

closer» “Minna!“ .6! a. in .





and 5 each year thereafter ‘fdr‘ eleven .

years a Sum exceeding ‘by $500,000'the‘





. men “n . he 6.1mm?» 7 ’

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Secretary ,Wo’rk, “depends’ largely. 'up-'

on the preservation of the [Spirit ‘of’

our women. .If that spirit is subdued

by exhausted mental and physical'en-

ergy, resulting in failing health; then

the very fiber of‘,_ourlna.tiona.l life is

jeopardized. The 1 electric light has

realized oneof the dreams of. house-

wives, but I learn that in” small towns

and cities more homes are wired for

light and telephone than have connec-

tions of running water. If the women

of the country can help to correct

these conditions and transform these

homes with these conveniences, they

will have added unmeasurably to the

sum of human happiness.”





Late reports would indicate that the

completed survey will acquaint us with

even more surprising facts, both pro

and con, regarding the status of our

American homes. If we would have

our Michigan homes measure up well

with those of her sister states, let us

give careful consideration to the indi- ,

vidual needs of our own home. '





 





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' Dentists





I’VE been to one of them, so I know?





somethin’ about what dentists is.’ -





They’re one of the necessary evils, and

one of the most efficient pain produc-

ers in the world. Dentistry is one of

the most down-in-the—mouth profes-

sions I ever saw, and dentists is pro-

fessional fixers of the front door of a

fellow’s stomach.





Dentists is different than they was

in the old days. Then the old horse

dr., or somebody like him, would take

an old pair of pliers and jump on your

chest, and ma little while you’d be

spittin’ blood and the,old dr. would

be holding the old

molar up and

saying, “My, ain’t

that got a beaut

of a root?” And

you’d say— well,

this paper don’t

print them kind

0’ words,

guess you know

. the rest.



Our kids don’t know nothing about

tyinga tooth on one end of a. string

and a door knob on the other, and

then lettin’ them have a. tug 0’ war,

with the door winning every time. You

know what war is; well, that kind of .

a. tug of war is .the'same thing. Many

of us kids have found that their par-

ents was lying When they said, “It ain’t

going to hurt a bit.”





 





But nowadays they make torture

more pleasant. When you go into see

the dr. there’s a smiling lady showin’

her nice~ teeth, saying, “How do” to

you. You try to smile, but it’s hard,

’cause you don’t feel like it. Well, all

she takes is your name, and tells you

the instrument 0’ torture is being





cleaned up after the last victum, and ‘





will be ready in a little while. I know

how felloWs feel what is waiting to be

hung. Only they got the advantage,

’cause there ain’t no torture to it. But.

the dentist makes you sit and take it.





A dentist chair is one of the best ’





places to practice what you call relax-

ation. I want to see the fellow who

kin repose in a dentist chair; he must

have, the‘ wires of his nervous system

crossed, or a fuse blown out some-

where. « '





But after it’s all over, you ain’t noth?

ing but relaxed. And that young lady





out and future; generations,“ continiles.





but I‘





flux





Whojust took. your name, now takes "





your pocket book, and what’s in it, and -





smiles again when she says, "Good. F





bye, come Again.” ‘ That’s hitting “a.

fellow in a. sore spot. but “that all

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’ V 5F you are'One of the thousands who

I each year - attend the Michigan

'State college Farmers’ ‘ Week, you



will want to plan in advance just how

” you are"’to spend your one day Or tWO

7 days, or three days, at Michigan’s

greatest winter agricultural exposition.

-First of all, you-must plan to come.

The college and East Lansing have

~made all plans for your keeping and

entertainment, and Michigan railroads

have offered special rates. Everything

has been provided for—even babies-—

for a special day nursery is to be main-

tained by the home economics depart-

ment to care for these troublesome

but necessary impediments. Rooms

about town are offered at one dollar





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programs are left to the individual

groups with special interests, and a

choice must be made from the pro-

grams given out at registration Mon-

day,-January 31. . ‘ '

The exhibits must be seen to be ap:

preciated,“ but this year we have it

on good authority that you will see

everything that you have seen at any

other Farmers’ Week, and a lot more.

When you are planning how you will

spend your time, it would be wise to

remember that there will be six main

exhibits in addition to the competitive

Shows. . ‘

' The agricultural engineering depart-

ment always has its interesting dis-

play of farm conveniences, gas engines





Corn Borer





 





 





L AST week the lower house of Congress passed the ten million dollar

appropriation bill to provide funds for fighting the European corn borer.

At the same time it wasvannounced that the borer had been found. in

the state of Illinois. The picture here shows a stubble shredder operating

in winter time to destroy borer-infested, stubble. _





 





 





per person a, night, and meals are

available at reasonable rates at a. score

or more places.‘ '



There are four main features to ev-

ery Farmers’ Week. First, the general

program, of interest to everyone; then

the general exhibits, always interest-

ing and entertaining; the various com-

petitive shows, potato, crops, egg, and

flowers; and finally, the daily meetings

of the thirty special farm associations



‘that have chosen this time,for their'

annual sessions.



Now for the program. There will be

speeches and speeches, but as usual



,with such meetings, the program sim-

»mers down into two divisions. First,

[the speakers we want to see because

we have heard so much about them,

and second, the speeches we want to

hear because Of the facts that are

contained in them. Both divisions are

especially pretentious this year. Pres-

ident C. 0. Little, of state college’s big

brother institution, the University of

Michigan, speaks Tuesday evening;

W. A. Conchel, editor of the Kansas

Star, > appears Tuesday afternoon; L.

J. Young, newly appointed director of

conservation, Will address the assem-

bly Thursday afternoon. Finally, as

the last speaker on the last program

of the week, we find Senator Royal S.

‘Copeland, of New York, a leader in

farm legislation, who is also known to

millions of readers of the newspapers

through his syndicated talks.

‘Almost every problem of interest to

-. Michigan, farm folk is discussed by an

eouts'tanding. expert during the week.

In the list'we find, “The future'trend

of, the poultry industry ;” “Modern

trends in live stock, production;”

, , “When the farmer comes to court;”



_’ “The corn borer situation.;” "What the



community, owes the child;” “Soils





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c, fiationr’ and “ Ferestry conser- '





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and machinery on the basement floor

of the agricultural building. No new

features are planned.



The only other major exhibit in the

agricultural building is a new one—a

display by the Michigan Press Associa-

tion of the 300 weekly newspapers pub-

lished_ by the members, and some in-

teresting aspects of job printing—ail

of which should be a welcome diver-

sion, even though somewhat out of our

farm folks’ own conventional field.



Farmers of a mechanical turn of

mind will find much to interest, amuse,

and befuddle them at the engineering

department’s shOW» in the Olds’ Hall

of Engineering. No farm-raised per-

son can describe it, and if he asks for

an explanation he will like as not find

himself all tangled up in a maze of

technical terms, that may or may not

be found in the dictionary. The best

method is to look over all the contrap-

tions thoughtfully and then go down

and watch the toy train do its stuff

over the miniature track,



While you are in an electrical frame

of mind don’t miss ~exhibit number

four, the college radio station, WKAR‘.

The actual station, with the ~sending

apparatus, is located on the second

floor of the power house building and

will be open during, the day. The





Economics Building, at the entrance

of the campus, and it is possible that

visitors may be permitted ,to see a.

program broadcast.



The dairy department’s exhibit will

be along ‘the order of those of former

years, with some new dairying appar-

atus on display. As the college dairy

division prides itSelf on keeping up

to the minute on all -new equipment

and improved practices, every dairy-

man will gain valuable pointers from

viewing the display. Incidentally, the

feature of the dairy exhibit which

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Exhibit number six will be found in

V the Armory——all over it. It will in-

clude the crops display, demonstra-

tions of the corn borer and its disas-

trous work, and bulletins/and litera-

ture being given out by the college.





The best that Michigan is able to

produce in potatoes, apples, small

grains, eggs, and (would you believe

it) flowers, will be on exhibition dur—

ing the week at the various competi-

tive shows. .



The potato show is the climax of

earlier potato shows held during the

fall at Gaylord, Greenville, and'May-

ville, and the prize winners from each

of these shows-will be competing for

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new feature of this year’s State P'o-

tato Show, and one which should be

given careful attention by the visitor,

is a standard grading exhibit which is

to be explained and demonstrate-d.

The grain show, also housed in the

armory, will be the sixteenth held at

Michigan State College, yet reports

say it will be the best. The show

boasts a new contest feature this year,

the awarding of a silver shield to the

county agricultural agent who repre-

sents his county with the largest num-

ber of winning exhibits. For the first ,

time in several years, the corn classes





   

 





 





will be open for all farmers of the

state, and visitors are advised to

watch this'division of the show closely.-



The college’s ’magnificent horticul-

tural building, now about to celebrate

its second birthday, will be the scene

of two more shows, the horticultural

and floricultural expositions, with

whole tables of apples, all~prize wim

ners, and whole greenhouses full of

perfect flowers. It has been said, and

truthfully, that an inspection of the

Michigan State College apple show in-

volves the supreme test of honesty on

the part of the visitor. Actually, how—

ever, it is all serious business, for

those plates of Michigan’s best fruit

are in competition for hundreds of dol-

lars of prize money.



If you have attended previous Farm-

ers’ Weeks, you no doubt are a mem-

ber'of one of the thirty-odd associa-

tions and organizations which hold

their annual meetings during the morn-

ings of the week. The Michigan Farm

Bureau is the largest among these,/

and it will hold its annual two-day ses-

sion, February 3-4. The Michigan

Crop Improvement Association, the

Michigan Press Association, and the

Michigan Live Stock Breeders’ and

Feeders’ Association, with its dozen or

more special breed groups, conclude

the list. ' '





State Capitol News





By Our Lansing C077‘6’5fl07ld6’7ll‘





N military terms we might say that

the lawmakers have temporarily

abandoned the idea of a “mass at-



tack” on the weighty problems of

state, and have “deployed as skirmish-

ers" to the many state institutions

scattered all over Michigan to investi-

gate first-hand regarding their financial

needs.



Decision of the Legislature to recess

from Thursday, January 20, until VVed-

nesday, February 2, followed the re;

ceipt of the tentative statebudget for

the next. two fiscal years from Henry

(‘roll, Jr., budget director. These fig—

ures showed that, while the state ex—

penditures for the fiscal year 1924-25

were $30,751,390.51, and for the fiscal

year 1925—26, $29,694,747.32, the budget

requests for the next two years are

considerably higher, amounting to $40,-

226.59802 for 1927-28, and $38,475,427.—



‘ 03 for 1929-29.



Members feel that before they can

pass intelligently upon these huge re-

quests, they should visit the various

state institutions and obtain first—hand

information regarding their condition

and needs.



* *



The wide-spread agitation for some

law to discourage chicken thieves has

already resulted in the introduction of

one bill in the House. It is sponsored

by Representative Luther E. Hall, of

Ionia, and requires poultry buyers to

keep a record regarding the details of

all poultry purchased. They would put

down this information upon blanks fur—

nished by the secretary of state, which

would cover the following points 2‘



.Date of purchase, name of seller, his

or her residenCe, color, color of hair,

eyes, height, weight, business occupa-

tion, kind of poultry purchased, the

number thereof, whether such poultry

was raised by such seller or purchased

from others, then the name or names

of the person from Whom the seller

made the purchase, and the date there'-

of. If the poultry were delivered in

a motor vehicle, then the number of

the auto license should be entered on

the record by the purchaser. Any vio-

lation of this law would be made pun-

' ,ishable by a. fine of not to exceed $100,

or ninety days in jail.



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The concurrent resolution petition-

ing-"Congress to pass an act prohibit-

. ,. ingfthe shipment of pistols and ammu-



.« nition in the mails was reported fav-

, _ new. by the rules and resolutions

" ”committeesifi the House, with a minor





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amendment: and adopted by the House



without opposition. The resolution



was sent to the Senate, where it was



referred to the committee on judiciary.

a: alt a:



Now that theMcNary—Haugen bill is

commanding so much attention in Con-

gress, a large number of Michigan

farmers are becoming increasingly in-

terested in a resolution introduced in

the State Senate by Senator Peter Len—

non, of Genesee county, urging Con-

gress to support this farm relief meas-

ure. Senator Lennon’s resolution de-

'clares in part:



“Whereas, there is a bill now before

the Congress of the United States

which seeks to give the American farm-

er a square deal by giving him the ma-

chinery by which he can control, to a

reasonable extent, the surplus products

of the farm, and thus tend to stabilize

the farming industry and restore it to

a plane of prosperity: be it



“Resolved by the Senate (the House

of Representatives concurring), that

we respectfully request and urge our

senators and representatives from

Michigan in the United States Con-

gress to give their energetic support

to the ‘Surplus Control Bill,’ known

as the McNary Haugen bill, and be it

further



“Resolved, that a copy of this reso-

lution be mailed by the secretary of

the Senate to Michigan senators and

representatives in Congress.”



1% * *



There is the usual talk that this is

going to be a short session, of the

Legislature. However, there are no

end of bills being proposed, and as

usual it seems to be taking a lot of





time to get the legislative machinery.





geared up for action. For instance,

the Legislature recessed from Thurs—

day, January 13, until Tuesday, Janu-

ary 18, at 4:00 o’clock in the after—

noon. ,





 





PROGRESS IN MACHINERY AND

EQUIPMENT.





 





(Continued from page 125).





over the country, with the help of their

blacksmiths have worked out the in-





stallation of such an engine.





Somewhat similar to this has been

an unusual call, for information on how

to use discarded automobile engines .

for belt power purposes. in_. sawing .

wood, grinding feed, hoisting hay, silo

filling, corn shelling, pulveriz'ing lime-

stone, and even for running a spray- '





   





 





 





   

 

 





 





 

 

 





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when a car dies“ the. engine lives (in gydevei‘opmen the: ant (

andon‘. With a .little'care'in'inétailing; :farm buildingneiae r ; ' *c‘annbt closer





and the insect one of the several sat-

isfactory governors on the market,

such belt power outfits give very sat-

isfactory results. '



One other thing which might be

mentioned is the development of a

tank heater burning used crank case

oil, which is claimed to give very sat-

isfactory results. If it proves entirely

successful, it offers another use for

this refuse material, which becomes





,how’ever, without mentioning the ‘re

markable progress made in applying; 1





 

 

 





electric power to farm purposes, chief-

'ly-through the use of central station

or high line power; No other means

offers so much toward lightening farm

drudgery and making the farm a better ‘

place to live; and nothing is more

certain than that the farmer and the

power interests are beginning to un-

derstand and appreciate ' each' others





somewhat of a problem where cars,

trucks, and tractors are all used on

the same farm.





problems, and ,that we may expect

even more rapid increase in farm elec-

trification in the future.





 





 





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BUILDING OVERLAPS PROPERTY.





 





I own a village Ilot. My building ex-

tends over the line onto my neighbor’s

lot about four feet. My predecessor

and myself have had peaceful posses-

sion for twenty-five years. May my

neighbor now force me to move my

building?——L. J. S.



Whether title by adverse possession

has been obtained depends on many

considerations. The possession may

have been by license or without inten.

tion to claim more than was actually

owned, in neither of which cases would

adverse possession ripen. It would be

desirable to adjust the matter by

agreement if possible, as line fence

disputes are always expensive to both

parties—Rood. ‘





 





A ROAD QUESTION.





 





A county road is under construction

on a certain road in Berrien county.

Can the road be set over. at will of the

county commissioners, or does it have

to be put on the line? Two parties on

north side of road claim road is being

set over on them to favor parties on

south side by not cutting their yard

so much, and taking some shade trees.

B. F. McL. "



A county road cannot be laid out

over private property without condem-

nation, any more than any other road.

It is first necessary to determine the

necessity for taking the property, its

value, and to make tender of the

amount of the verdict to the owner

before entering upon the property——

Rood.





 





SECOND WIFE’S SHARE.





 





I am a second wife to a man-with

four married children. In case of his

death, what share do I get? Do I get

a third of personal property, or only

the estate?——A. J. S. _



In case of death of the husband the





wife inherits one-third of the real es-‘





tate, and receives one-third of the per-

sonal property after payment of debts

and cost of administration, and the

rest goes to his children.





 





PARKING CARS.





 





Is it unlawful to park cars or tie

horses in the highway one~half mile

from any buildings where there are





no crops? That is, if the owner of

the horses or cars do not own‘the

land?—S. S.





The parking of cars and tying» of

horses in the highway is‘a necessary

incident to travel; as in most cases it





is impossible for the person to com»





plete his business of the journey with-

out leaving the vehicle. This right is

subject to police regulations. In park-

ing cars and tying horses, it is neces-

sary to park or tie them outside of

the traveled portion of the highway,

and "the law” requires lights on cars

I if the parking is after dark.





 





PAYMENT OF_ BACK TAXES.





 





   

 





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to be clear and stated to that effect.



Now I find that there are taxes from



last year that were not paid. Also, tel-.

ephone lacks payments. Can I collect

my money, or can the agent who sold

me the farm be forced to pay back

gayfinents before I pay any more?—~.





The purchaser has the right to pay

the tax which the seller agreed to

pay, and charge them to the seller, as

money paid to him on the. contract.

The telephone bill» has nothing totlo

with the matter. If the seller did not:





-pay his bill his telephone may be re«





moved and one put in by the purchas- _

er. There is no privity between them

in this matter.—Rood.





 





 





News of the Week





Adecline of three per cent in the

retail prices of food during 1926 oc-

curred 1n Detroit, according to gov-

ernment figures.



_ Michigan ranks fifth among states

in exports to foreign countries.



Statistics compiled by‘ a New York

financial journal indicates that the

poultry business is equal, financially,

to that of the wheat crop.



The U. S. Bureau of Census made

an_ analysis of the 1,219,019 deaths in

this country in 1925. It showed that





 





 





heart diseases cause more deaths than -





any other disease. Heart diseases,

kidney diseases and cancer showed

gains 1n the number of deaths they

caused, as compared to 1924.





John Kelsey, president of the Kel-





sey Wheel Company, makers of auto -





wheels, died in Detroit last week.





The Detroit branch of the secretary

of state, issued 23,000 auto licenses in

one day last week.





Thomas J. Dickson, retired army

chaplain, claims that the histories in

the schools of the country do not give

true accounts of the World War, the

ch1ef fault being to emphasize this

country’s part in it too much.





Before the State Association of Fair

Secretaries’ Convention, at Detroit re—

cently, Governor Green promised a big

state fair this year. *





George Young, a seventeen—year—old

boy, of Toronto, Canada, won the $25,-

000 offered 'by William Wrigley, the

gum man, to the one who swam the

channel between Catalina Island and

the California shore. He swam about

thirty miles and took a little over fif-

teen hours to do it. Some of the best

long distance swimmers in the country

were in the competition, but Young

was the only one to reach the desti-

nation.





An uprising of coolies ‘in the Foo-

chow distxjct of China, caused two

hundred United States citizens to flee,

and resulted in the death of one Amer-

ican missionary. The Chinese admiral

ordered the execution of the looters,

but the situation was out of control.





The Krupp Company, famous gun"

and industrial concern of Germany,

sustained a loss of 2,100,000 marks dur-,

ing the last fiscal year, due mainly to

the lack of orders. ‘ l '





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A hermit, who lived in a

twelve years. and su’bsisted on rats

and cats he caught,. Was found in a»





quarry near, West ConShohocken, Pa.

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ROFESSOR R. E. LOREE, spe-

P cialist in small fruits of the Mich-



igan State College, published an

article in the Country Gentleman for

which he says, “as grown in Michigan

and in certain other sections where

the, McIntosh can be succesSfully

grown, 'it is disappointing” and that

“it may be questioned if its quality

can be considered much better than a

slightly improved Ben Davis.” This

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May I assure the fruit growers who

have planted Cortland in Michigan in

any part of the state where McIntosh

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It is true that I have not seen the

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certainty that the soils and climates

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those of New York in which the Cort—

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enables me to give a positive assur-

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Well Tested Out.



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of the Geneva, New York, EXperiment

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was fruited there ten years before the

trees were offered for sale. During

this period of probation, it was seen

and tasted and compared with McIn-

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growers, who pronounced it equal, or





 





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superior, in quality and appearance to

ithat variety. Meanwhile, it was being

ltested in the apple regions of the

‘whole country, and was then distribut-

led by the New York State Fruit Test-

ing Association to 1,100 members in

every apple growing section in the

United States, in most of which it is

'now‘ in bearing, and no member of this

association has reported unfavorably

on I this variety. Nurserymen have

sold thousands of trees and the re-

ports from those to whom they have

sold, so far as the trees have come in

hearing, are uniformly favorable.





Awarded Wilder Medal.



Cortland was awarded the Wilder

Medal three years ago by the Ameri-

can Pomological Society as the best

new apple, an awardlmade by judges

Who must have t’aken‘quality into con-

sideration. At the last meeting of this

society in Grand Rapids, just a month

ago, Cortland was one of the collec-

tion of new fruits from this station to

Win another Wilder medal. At this

meeting in Grand Rapids, Cortland

was sampled by a score or more fruit

growers from several states, and spec-

imens grown in Michigan and New

York were pronounced “better in qual-

ity,” or “as good,” or “nearly as good,”

as the McIntosh, opinions differing

with the tastes of individuals. Those

who like a mild apple preferred the

McIntosh; those who like refreshing

tartness, the Cortland. Both have the

delectable aromatic taste found in, ap-

ples of the McIntosh type. Growers

in New York who have begun to mar-





season it sells as well as McIntosh,





 





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Cortland is aspl'endid apple in fruit

and tree, and will be grown commer-

cially in every apple region in America

where McIntosh succeeds. It, of all

apples, promises to'best fill the place

of Baldwin, Spy, and other winter ap-

ples, the popularity, of which, as com-

mercial sorts, as shown by market re-

ports, is on the wane. The tree is

equal to that of ,McIntosh in every

character; the fruits are as attractive

and as high in quality as those of the

McIntosh; but Cortland is a' better

commercial variety than McIntosh, be-,

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with all they could use, and some for

the neighbors, for which we were

thankful. It was about the finest 'rhu-

barb we had ever used. He had cut

barrels in two in the middle and set

each half barrel over a hill after re-

moving the head. He filled in manure

that was rotted a couple of inches

deep the first year, he said, but after

that he let the old mulch decay in the

half barrels, and after the first stalks

had pushed up be filled in around them

with manure old enough that it would

not heat, but around the barrels he

would pile fresher manure for what

he wanted to make an early start. In

a sunny place, protected from the

north winds, that rhubarb fairly jump-

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THE rhubarb growers in Macomb

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which they find in the marketing of

their crop. The growing of rhubarb

is not a matter of interest to many

farmers, but in Macomb county this

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barnyard manures by use of commer-

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crops, liming, how to obtain quality

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treatment, management of muck soil,

control of insects and diseases, spray-

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bin’ the mails.” \_ .



Again silence fell, while Shane wait-

ed patiently for the old Scotchman to

come round to the real point of his

visit.



When finally he did so, it was with-

out preliminaries.



“Denny,” he said slowly, “I hae news

for ye that I wouldna bring if I could

help it, but there’s nae ither way.

Ye’ve come too late. Her that ye’re

seekin’ has gone.”





“Gone?” Shane cried out, and Den-

nis echoed the single word in a dull

vorce.



“Ay,” Aleck said slowly. “Gang in

the night, wi’ the sheriff’s son."



Denny’s head sank slowly upon his

hands. “They’re all alike,” he said

hoarsely. “Traitors to their own prom-

ises.” He looked toward Shane pity-

ingly. -“She was black at the heart

lad,” he finished unflinchingly. “Like

her mither before her. They look you

in the eyes, an’ lie to you!”



Aleck flung up a hand. “Nay, Den-

ny,” he said. “She dinna go that way.

He stole her awa last night an’ took

her south in his fishin’ boat by force.”



For a long minute neither Shane nor

Denny found answer to this. Shane

sprang swiftly to his feet, stood star-

1ng at Aleck while the surprise in his

face gave way to wrath. Denny only

turned to stare out over the lake south—

ward, where Neal Harris’ son had tak—

en his daughter. This blow had fallen

upon a scar twenty years old, and had

found the flesh numb. Even so it was

Denny who spoke first.



“W'e’ll be followin’ them,” hesaid

quietly. “Across the lake an’ back if

it’s needed. Neal Harris can wait now-

Ill‘is'his son must be payin’ first for



us.”



“Do you know their course Aleck?”

Shane asked.



The old man shook his head rueful-

ly. “I danna,” he said. “I spent four

useless hours tryin’ to find that out.

There’s nane knows that will tell.

This Sam Loar will talk, ye ken, but

he’s beside himsel’ wi’ grief an’ anx-

iety, an’ he dinna ken where they went

ayther.” "



“We’ll be findin’ them lad,” Denny

said with quiet conviction. “This lake’s

not so big.” He swept the blue wa-

ters with his weatherwise old eyes.

"Time runs on forever,” he went. on.

“I learned that years ago. This Blair

Carter may be hidin’ away for a while,

but we’ll be findin’ him at last—”



_“Look yon,” Aleck broke in upon

him, pointing shoreward. “They hae

taken him! They’re comin’ aboard Wi’

him!” '



Along the narrow street that led

down from St. James to the dock

where the Michigan was made fast

two men were walking. One was in

the uniform of a naval officer. The

other was the Mormon king, striding

beside him, arrogant and defiant, his

slight frame erect, his shoulders

thrown proudly back, his red beard

bright aglint in the sunshine.



He walked boldly down to the gang

plank of the Michigan, going unhesi—

tatingly aboard at the request of her

captain, still with unshaken confidence

in the ability of his power and author-

ity to free him from arrest, still be—

lieving that not even the federal gov-

ernment would dare to take him or

attempt to detain him by force here

among the horde of his own people

where he was priest, prophet and king.



Meanwhile there hung over him a

shadow even more sinister than that

cast by the enmity of the United

States government.





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The way down to the‘dock lay be-

tween two tiers of cordwood piled

there to await loading onto steamers

that should call within the harbor for

fuel. Behind one of these there crouch-

ed two white-faced,“ grim men, each

with a horse pistol draWn from its

holster. They followed the -..haughty

passage of King Strang with steady

eyes that burned like the eyes of ani-

milvsilcrouching beside a game trail for

a 1 . .



One of these was Thomas Bedford,

who four nights before had writhed in

pain in this same king’s prison, and

who had sworn vengeance in those

hours of torture. With him waited

Alexander W‘entworth, whose griev-

ance against the king, though of older





then for a time chaos reigned.



There was no hope of recovery, the

surgeon of the Michigan gravely in-

formed the group allowed about the

bedside. Three wounds, two in the

head and one in the body, any one of

them sufficient to cause-death. The

miracle was 'that he had not died at

once. Yet a greater miracle was to

come, however, for the strong-willed,

tyrannic king lived long enough to ‘call

his chosen circle of priests about his

bedside and instruct them fully in the

future affairs of the kingdom he had

founded. He was still dreaming, even

with the cold hand of death clutching





‘at his heart, his wild dream of empire;





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standing, was of like nature, still at-

tested to by white ridges of scars

across his shoulders.



The king passed between them,

came near to the end of the dock.

Then behind him the two men stood

up, pointing twin lines of flame that

spurted unnoticed in the sunlight”



No one cried out or raised a hand.

No one so much as spoke a word of

warning, for there was no time. Only,

at the dual crash, the red-haired, red-

bearded man who had ruled the Beav-

er lslands all those years with a hand

of iron, turned slowly, a surprised look

in his eyes, showing no trace of: fear,

while a darker stain of red spread

from one temple and discolored his

thick beard.



Then ~ the horse pistols cracked

sharply again, one after the other, and

the king pitched forward, falling upon

his side, turning his head even as he

fell to make sure of the identity of his

assassins.



With that last pistol shot, the

strange spell of quiet that had over-

hung the scene of the killing was

swiftly dispersed. ’



Thus far it had been as though care-

ful and strangely silent actors moved

through the swift routine of a care»

fully rehearsed drama. Now they

seemed suddenly freed from their

parts, and like an exploding shell the

play flew to bits upon the stage.



First to move were the two men

whose vengeance was complete at last.

They sprang past the fallen body of

the king and up the gangplank of the

Michigan, even as the first of the pill,“

suing horde of Mormons raced down

from the Village to take them. In the

same instant the steward of the steam-

er, he who had escorted Strang upon

that last fatal walk, wheeled and bent

to raise the still form of the king from

the ground.



Then the Mormons were around

him, a milling crowd, lamenting and

shrieking for vengeance. Strang was

lifted and carried to a house above the

dock. The ship’s surgeon and the cap-

tain hastened down to attend him, and





for even while he gave out to the chos-

en priesthood those last instructions,

a fishing boat was speeding eastward

toward Mackinaw, her sails bellying to

a stiff breeze, her lee rail awash as

she took every advantage of wind.





She bore the greatest news that had

spread along that coast since the days

of the fur trade and the Indian wars,

and she was bound that none other

should deliver it ahead of her. From

Mackinaw that word was to spread

swiftly, down to Pine River, on to the

settlements along the shores of Grand

Traverse Bay, westward to Green Bay,

and from each settlement the mob

would be recruited. Before the first

order of the dying king could be put

into force, there would be sweeping

down upon St. James as strange a fleet

as ever went forth from a harbor to

fight and plunder. The crash of the

two horse pistols were to know ech-

«oes without number, e’er the’King of

St. James were finally dead.





Not that he would know of it, how-

ever. When he had finished with the

affairs of state, he requested that he

be taken back to Voree, the City of

Refuge he had founded in Wisconsin

before he dreamed this more ambiJ

tious dream of an island empire in the

sanctuary of Lake Michigan. At Voree

he wished to die, since die he must

before the dream was fulfilled.





The request was granted, and before

the first boat of the avenging fleet had

entered the harbor of St. James, King

Strang. as strange a figure as ever

trod the stage of empire, had sailed

out of the harbor, on his final journey

to the City of Refuge. Behind he left

four wives, each of whom was to hear

him a child following his death.

Awaiting him was a fifth wife, she

whom he had taken before he received

what he termed divine revelation, com-

manding him to plural marriage.





The demand for the 'surrender of the

men who had shot him tha day was

instant. The Mormons sw rmed the

dock and shouted demands and threats

together. On the decks of the Michi-





 





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against the" Mermon civil officers Who

came to take them by complying with

the formality of an arrest. When next

day the {Michigan cleared from‘rSt.‘ ,

James she carried with her the two

men whose shots had sounded r‘ the

knell of the Mormon kingdom of Beav-

er Island. At Mackinaw she delivered

them over to the civil “authorities, but

so great was ,public hatred for the

slain king that neither of them ever

faced trial.



Shane and, Denny and Aleck had

seen from the\Bellarion all that had

transpired. Tonight would be no night

for the boat of a Gentile in he harbor

of St. James, they knew. ven now;

here under the guns of the Michigan,

they were by no means safe. At any

instant there might come from the

angry mob that milled and shouted

along he beach, the thin crack‘of a

frontier rifle. ' _ , _,



Besides, their work lay now some-

where to the‘south, along ‘the chain

of islands that stretched in a broken

chainfor nearly, a hundred miles. It

was unlikely that Blair Carter had fled

farther from the Mormon colony than

the last of these islands. SomeWhere

in that wilderness, in trapper’s shaék.

or in lonely fishermen’s homes they

would come upon him. Aleck shook

hands with them gravely.



“I’ll go wi’ ye if ye say the word,”

he told them. ’



“There’s no' made,” Denny said.



“There’s naught you could be doin’

that we cannot, and you’ll be naded

here. No cabin will be safe this night,

and you’d best be guardin’ yours.” '

. It was out of the question to go

ashore now, in hope of meeting Sam'

Loar and learning more of the flight

or goal of the sheriff’s son.



Aleck climbed overboard into his

canoe, and as the sails of the Bellarion

filled and she came about, pointing out

of the harbor, Shane and Denny saw

him take a long drink out of the flat

black bottle. - .



“He’s makin’ ready for the night,”

Shane said with a smile. The Bellar~

ion heeled to the wind then, cleared

the harbor’s entrance and pointed

southward. '



Far off to the east a single tiny sail

hung on the horizon, low and white.

The fishing boat that carried the news

,to Mackinaw was making good time.





CHAPTER XII.

The Exodus.





FIVE days later the Bellarion return<

ed. Behind her lay the hundred



mile chain of islands, carefully

searched for word of Blair Carter and

Barbara.





Shane and Denny had stopped at the

Mormon settlements on the Fox Is-

lands, themselves. bearing tiding of the

shooting of the king, seeking in return

news of the passage or' landing of Car-

ter’s boat. They had called at the iso-

lated cabins of fishermen, had pushed

south "as far as South Manitou, the

southernmost of the long chain, in-

quiring as they went, but to no avail.

There was, they, knew, no need to

search along the mainland shore, for

Carter would not have dared to flee in

that direction with his unwilling prls~

oner. '



Disheartened and beaten they had

turned finally north. The Bellarion

came abreast of the southern end of

Beaver Island at midnight and altered

her course, swinging toward St. James.



For a half hour now, a strange red

light had glowed over the northern

end of Beaver, lighting the sky with

its ruddy radiance.



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was an orphan no longer.



“He’s been missin’ since this morn-

ing,” Sam Loar recalled, but there was

no time now to search, and no chance

of finding him in that confused crowd

along the beach, even had they looked.



“I’ll bide here, laduan’ look out for

them,” Aleck told Shane, nodding to-

ward the Loars. “She’ll want them

when you bring her back, even if the

woman does talk tae much. I’ll take

’em to my house, an’ take care 0’

them." '



In the gray dawn the Bellarion came

to anchor off Whiskey Island, and be-





tain of the years seemed rolled sud»

denly back for him. In that instant he

saw Dennis clearly, not as the man

who, goaded by a thirst for vengeance

had trained him undyingly for years,

but as the man he had known before

he wronged him. -



“Hello, McCraggen,” he

cheerily. .



Dennis’ face paled. The veins stood

out in purple knots above his temples,

and deep, tired lines drew suddenly

about his mouth.



Harris, watching, seemed suddenly

to understand. His eyes clouded, and

he reached up a weak hand to beckon

Denny closer.



' .“I’m glad you’ve come,” he whisper-





night, and there’s none there to re-,

strain a man of,them.” ,

So they- sailed up the shore of Beav-





ing- steadily . brighter. They entered

the barber’s mouth” at St. James fin-

ally, in a red radiance bright as sun-

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gFires burned in a score of places in

St. James. The waves of the harbor

rippled red in the unnatural light.

Three schooners and a fleet of smaller-

craft lay along the docks, looming

black against the.flames, casting om-

inous black shadows on the reddened

water- -



Along the beach, dozens of lesser

fires burned and winked-like low-hung





gasped





ashore the last of the strange drama

was played out before their eyes.





shore, abandoned by fishermen years

before. A thin blue column‘of smoke

ascended from the chimney, mixing

with the gray morning mists that ov-

erhung the woods.



The door opened and a man came

out. He busied himself before the

cabin, and in’that instant Shane and

Denny saw a second figure. A figure

that crept on all fours along the shore,

dodging behind rocks. hiding in the

fringe of the timber, working stealth-

ily, slowly toward the cabin and the

other man. There Was no mistaking

that furtive approach. It was one man

stalking another, and had there been

doubt remaining it must have been dis-

pelled by the long rifle the hunter

dragged behind him.



He came near the cabin.





ternoon.” He paused for breath. ,



“You’ve "believed a lie all these years,

VMcCraggen,” he went on, panting be

tween his words, "I’m blacker than

you think I am. I let you believe it.

She ain’t so black!”



He put out a fumbling hand. “Where

is that d——d old Scotchman? Give me

a drink.” . .



Aleck held the flat black flask to his

ashen lips.



Denny was on his knees beside the

sheriff now. Even Samantha Loar had

ceased her rocking and moaning to

listen. So, lying on a blood soaked

quilt on the beach, while the burning

village of St. James cast a ruddy, un-

real light upon the faces of them all,

Neal Harris told his story.



“She didn’t run off with me,” he be-





bags of such of their possessions as

they had been afforded chance and

time to save.



A steady stream of people poured

like ants upvthe gangplank of each of

the three schooners. The exodus from

St. James was under way. Leaderles's

and defeated in battle, the Mormons

went unresisting, herded like. cattle

aboard the waiting schooners, that

were to set them off finally on the

docks of Chicago, and other cities,

homeless and penniless, with poverty

for their reward for their venture in

religious empire.



The great tabernacle was a twisting

tOWer of flame that mounted a hun-





dred feet into the sky. Even as the So near





Bellarion rounded into the harbor, the gan.v “Not like you thought. I coaxed that it seemed his victim must see or

roof of the building crashed in, and her. Lied to her. Told her you was hear him, must fairly feel his pres-

in falling the great hell that had rung sick. That you’d sent me. That ence, sense the cold stare of eyes upon





his back. Then the hunter paused be-

hind a tree bole in the edge of the

timber, and for a long suspended min-

ute, like actors who have forgotten

their lines, the two men were motion-

less. The man by the cabin had turn-

ed his head, as though at some sound

from within—~and then the crouching

figure behind the tree stood swiftly

erect, stepped out from his hiding

place, and trailing clearly across the

still water there came a single shrill

scream, as of an animal that has made

a kill. '



The man by the cabin had put his

hand upon the door, as though to re-

enter. He looked back across his

shoulder, toward the creature that had

screamed, and fell forward as though

his knees had given way beneath him.





Shane and Denny saw the blue puff

of smoke spurt out from the long rifle,

drift slowly up, and it seemed a long

time before they heard the thin crack.



They found Barbara all but in hys-

terics, huddled on the. floor of the

cabin, Danny standing guard over her.



She lay quite still for a. long time in

Shane’s arms, sobbing quietly when he

had gathered her up. She looked up

at him, finally.



“This was to have been the day,”

she whispered shudderingly. “He had

given me until today. Last night he

gave me my choice. The» priest is

down with the Indians on Squaw Is-

land. He was to take me there this

noon and I could marry him or not, as

I pleased.”



Danny stood to one side, unsmiling.

“She’s my folks,” he said suddenly.

“She don’t remember, but I do now.

played with her—when I was little.”

He pointed a vague hand, “Up in the

woods somewhere.” He nodded toward

the door. “He was there, too,” he said,

referring to the man who lay, face

down, just outside the cabin.



But when, Shane and Denny had told

the strange lad, whose brain Neal Har-

ris had maimed, of his relationship to

them, of his new folks, of the circum-

stances about that community up in

the woods where he had played with

Barbara as a child, he shook his head.



“I’ll live with Aleck,” he said, seem-

ing not to understand or believe.

“She’s my folks. You ain’t. She come

on the boat.”



Barbara, however, was less obdur-

ate, more ready to accept the evidence

at hand. She cried at the story of the

father and mother she would never

know, but it was with a grief from

which the sharpness was taken by

love and a great contentment.



Destruction - had spread a gray

mantle over St. James, that even the

warm midday sun of a July day could

not dispel. .



The Bellarion sailed into the harbor

shortly before, noon. This was the day

of the great exodus. Two .of the

.schooners that had begun their load-

ing the night before, had already

cleared with their cargo of sorrowful

exiles.



The third lay at the dock, finishing

her sorry task. St. James was in ash-

es, and thin pillars of smoke still as-

cended from the ruins here and there,





brought her. She left the boy. Drove

away at night in a cutter.



“When morning come I told her I’d

lied. She couldn’t go back then.” He

smiled grimly. “I guess it’ll do you

some good—40 know—how she hated

me———till she died. Never lived with

me. Stayed with a neighbor. She was

all right, McCraggen. All right!”



Dennis McCraggen’s voice was om-

inously 10w. “When did she die?” he

asked.



“That summer. Forest fire north in

Wisconsin. Took a settlement. Three

families.” Harris motioned silently for

the black flask again, and Aleck held

it for him.



“And the girl then,” Dennis said

slowly, as if to himself, “is ours. Hers

and mine,” his voice sunk lower. “Lau-

retta, Lauretta,” he whispered broken-

ly. “Forgive me, oh, forgive me!”



Harris was shaking his head weakly.



“She ain’t yours,” he gasped. “I lied

about that, too. Always knew you’d——

come up with me—sometime. Wanted

something to hold over you. She be<

longed to one of the families—in the

fire. Orphan Danny’s your boy—” he

paused. “I might as well take all the

blame, I’m goin’ anyway. I made him

foolish. Hit him on the head. Never

claimed him—but he always trailed me

around.” -



Dennis McCraggen’s and Neal Har-

ris’ eyes had met and locked, a terrible

long look of hatred and triumph, in

which after a time mercy and remorse

for an instant‘gleamed. ‘



Neither of them saw the swift look

of dismay that passed between Sam

and Samantha Loar, nor the wild joy

that flooded Shane’s face as the full

import of the dying man’s words sank '

slowly home to him.





A film was coming now, over the

eyes of the man whose story was so

nearly finished. He gnoped weakly to-

ward Aleck, found the old man’s hand

and guided the flask of liquor fumb-

lingly to his own mouth.



“I’ll pay you—~as best I can,” he went

on haltingly. “Your boy wants the

girl. Blair didn’t take her south.

You’ll find them—hidin’ away—on

Whiskey Island. Blair can pay—for

what he’s done—«same as I’ve paid!”



He put out a groping hand toward

Aleck and the whiskey flask again, but

the hand‘ fell suddenly limp, and the

slow pulsing of the quilt that covered

Harris ceased. .



Aleck stood up stiffly, leaning on his

long barreled rifle.



Denny stood silent, staring down at

the white uncovered face. His lips

moved but none heard the words, and

after a minute he turned to stare away

across the fire illumined harbor. Aleck

stepped across and plucked at his

sleeve. “Come awa’, Denny,” he said.

“ ’Tis past now. Young blood is faster

than old, and Shane’ll be wantin’ to

sail for Whiskey Island.”



In the firelight a black shadow trot-

ted slowly np- the beach, turned hes-

‘itantlytoward the little group. A score

of feet away it paused, unnoticed, lift-

ed its head toward the bright. distant

stars, and the weird death howl of a



‘ dog, rang out over the beach where lit-





out its summons for Barbara’s wed-

ding, sounded one deep—toned peal, like

a single knell for the burning Village

of St. James’.



A pillar of flame likewise leaped up

from the king’s printing office, whence

for years he had issued his newspaper,

“The Northern Islander.” This fire

was burning down now. Would soon

sink to a red heap of embers.





Standing strangely unharmed in the

midst of this orgy of destruction,

Strang’s home—his palace he had

termed it-~—reared its frame walls as

staunchly as before the first craft of

the avenging fishermen’s fleet landed

in the Narrows, before the first rifle

shot had been fired in the battle be-

tween Mormons and Gentiles. More

than a half century later this building,

mysteriously spared when all St.

James was given to theax and torch,

was likewise to know the destroying

touch of fire, set no man knew how,

burning one morning while the fish-

ing craft sailed out of the harbor for

the day’s work with the nets.





Shane ran the. Bellarion in along-

side the dock, and with Denny drag-

ging himself slowly along they-made

their way across the beach, up the for-

bidden streets of St. James, open at

last to Gentile passage.





The Mormons were gathered in pa-

thetic groups about their beach fires.

The men wandered uncertainly about,

or sat with their heads sunken upon

their hands. Children slept, out-

stretched on quilts spread on the

sand.’ There were women who slept,

there were others whose eyes were too

full of the things they had seen, who

sat beside their men about the fires

and_sobbed quietly. lHousehold pos-

sess1ons lay strewn abdut in far great—

er quantity than could be taken

aboard the waiting schooners. _ Many

articles, already abandoned, lay in

scattered heaps on the ground. And

meanwhile, above the beach the burn-

ing houses of St. James sent a weird

light flickering over the dazed camp.





At the far end of the beach a wom-

an’s wailing attracted the. two men. A

little group of four were gathered

there about a tiny brisk fire: ’



One that seemed to be the central

figure, lay outstretched on a quilt be-

side the blaze, a second quilt spread

over him. Two men sat at his head,

one on either side, and at his feet the

stout woman whose crying they'had

heard, sat rocking to and fro.





So Shane and Denny found the Loars

and Aleck MacCray, and so when

Denny dragged his \way to the fire

and peered down into the face of the

prostrate man beside it,‘did his quest

for Neal Harris come to an end.



. The man’s face was bloodless and

white. Dennis’ first terrible minute of

*wrath was past before he _~saw the

slow uncertain heaving of the quilt

that marked the man’s breathing, that

told ”he still lived. _ In that minute

,Denny’s lips had moved, his ‘voice no

more than a deep sigh; , \

'L-"Too. late," he whispered. "A score

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profit. But, in most cases, you can

make it pay bigger returns by adding

potash, and sometimes. nitrogen.





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Potash is especially useful on

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such as root rot. Recent tests show

that many fields in the Corn Belt do

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Its use in the form of a high analysis

fertilizer pomts the way to get more

profitable returns from corn and

other crops in your rotation.



Sometimes the need for potash

shows up in the form of small white

spots on your alfalfa or yellowish

brown ones on your clover.



But don’t wait for those spots to

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HERE is nothing the matter with



ourselves, it is what we do‘to



ourselves that makes us wrong-

looking.” This statement, made by an

Ames University teacher at the Home

and Community Conference recently

held in Chicago, so upset me that I

must depend on my memory for the

high spots of the discussion. My pen-

cil remained suspended in mid-air and

my pad lay forgotten on my knee.





Now, I am sure that others beside

myself have long blamed our Maker

for ‘the likeness presented when we

venture a peep in the mirror. After

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mind, but rather, just rearrange our

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Goosey Gander Lost Some of His Fine

Feathers when these Artificial Roses

were Made to Exhibit at the New

York Poultry Show.





the face tissue; so women must neces—

sarily devote more time to the care of

the face.



Above all things be clean.

water alone will not do this; a good

cleaning cream must be used. We

were urged not to submit to the oper-

ation called face lifting or having dou-

ble chins removed. Our faces were an

index of our lives; an open book

where all might read. A woman of

fifty, with a face of sixteen has not

drank deeply of life. Our great joys

and sorrows leave their imprint on our

faces and; it is fitting that it should

be so. Love leaves mellow lines, hate

hard lines.





The Three Types of Women.



All women are divided into three

classes, the cottage type, the colonial

...type, and the Italian palace type. The

, cottage type woman is the woman

who seldom leaves her home, who

looks and feels best in a house dress.

"The colonial type is the woman who

flrecognizes that her community has a

Claimon her and administers her

"home affairs in such an efiicient man-

ner that she has time to devote to

, * community betterment To this type

belong club women, grange and farm

Wash women. The Italian palace

pg. woman has a multitude of ser-





Soap and





vants, but no time for outside inter-

ests. Her whole time is taken up with

dress an’d care of herself.



I wonder if every woman who reads

this has not at some time said of some

woman, “She looks like a little brown

wren.” We were told if born a brown

wren to be a brown-wren.



, Jewelry Or No?



Speaking of the inexpensive jewelry,

beads, bracelets, etc., of today, the

specialist said that it is a part of the‘

dress trimming and should be so con—

sidered; that it is better to have sev-

eral inexpensive pieces in harmony

with different gowns, than one expen-

sive piece out of harmony with all.

She spoke of a woman short and rath-

er stout, a friend of hers, who wore a

onepiece, plain black satin dress. With

it she wore a long string of unusual

beads, a bracelet,.black hose and black

slippers with steel buckles. The whole

made a stunning costume. Notice I

said a long string of heads, the eye

looking at them traveled lengthwise of

her person. Short strings of beads,

round necks in gowns, especially for

fleshy folk with round faces, are de-

cidedly bad.



‘ If an ornament is used on the dress

let it be well below the waist line, as

again the eye.will travel down. As

to sleeves, the full sleeve with all the

trimming wanted may be worn by slim

folk, but the tight sleeve is more suit-

ed for her stout sister.



To Choose Colors.



Speaking of colors which could be

worn by different persons, she gave a

safe rule and one easily followed. By

taking a piece of cloth the color of

our eyes and using it in choosing our

hats, coats, dresses, we would never

be a “sight for sore eyes.” She spoke





of brown eyes apd the many colors on

a pheasant wing blending so prettily

with brown. As I sat there I wonder-

ed about my own green eyes. A neigh-

bor sitting back of me, evidently was

not so sensitive about “cats’ eyes,” as





she asked color combinations for them. _





We were told that there was no such

thing as green eyes. That yellow and

blue, reVOlving rapidly, produced green

and any colors complimentary to yel-

low and blue could be worn. We were

warned 'as to yellow being a trying

color and one to be used with discre-

tion.



Summing it all up, we were advised

not to go down town looking as if you

had said, “Come on clothes, I’m going

down tOWn. Hang on if you want to

come along.” Rather dress that all

clothing will lend charm to the face.

Let our whole hearing be upright. The

willowy figure is out of date.





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N autograph quilt is not new, but

our autograph spread was original

in its way.



We bought three yards of unbleach-

ed sheeting, two and onehalf yards

wide, enough for spread and bolster.



Tearing off five inches on either side

for a border, the remainder was torn

into blocks fourteen inches square and

marked diagonally both ways with a

four-inch circle in the center of each.





Each lady of the society was asked,





to take a block and secure not less

than twenty names, and as many more

as possible, at ten cents each, and

etch them on the block, putting her

own name in the center. Several

blocks brought in over $5.00 each.

Over $100 was cleared on the spread,





The Baby’s Bill of Rights





HE baby’s bill of rights, accord-

ing to G. W. Graves in Hygeia,

is in part as follows:





The Baby’s Rights.





The baby is entitled to breast milk

unless his mother has tuberculgsis.





During his first fortnight a baby is

entitled to lose and regain eleven per

cent of his birth weight, to sleep dur-

ing the day, and to cry at night, to

have more or less indigestion and to

be accused of colic when he is only

hungry. According to civil law, these

rights have precedence over those of

adult neighbors.



The baby is entitled to‘sunshine that

does not traverse window glass or, if

the sunlight is not available, to cod

liver oil throughout his first two years.

If he cannot have fruit juice, he is en-

titled to develop scurvy.





It is his right to be vaccinated

against smallpox in his early months

and to be immunized against diph-

theria in the last quarter of his first

year.





When he begins to walk his teeth





have rights“





The Mother’s Rights.

She is entitled to an adequate stay





in bed following the arrival or the

baby. Later she is entitled to a medi—





cal examination when she has back-

ache.





She is entitle-d to bo spared the

nursing woman’s diet and to eat like

other human beings.



The Doctor’s Rights.



A doctor‘is entitled to legal tender

in amount commensurate with the

standard of living in his community.

Contrary to popular belief, his fee-is





due when his services are rendered,





When he renders actual service. by tel-

ephone, he is entitled to remuneration.



The doctor is entitled to see his oWn

family at intervals, to three irregular

meals daily, and to sleep some place

other than over the operating table or

the windshield.



The Father's Rights. p



The father is entitled toesupport his

family and to talk about the baby.

With reference to the care of the baby,

the father may have rights, but they

are never considered.





The fatheris entitled to two meals ‘





and a lunch daily, but no sleep.





. The Nurse's Rights.

The nurse is entitled to be moder~





ately, but on no account exceptionally, '





good~looking. _

She is entitled to optimism, charity,





past experience, reticence of the pres-





idential type and brains





s.





with no expense except the price of





b the sheeting, and the mercerized cot-





ton to work it.



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bled Blackie from a swaying



branch of the hazel bush. It was



‘ late in the afternoon and Blackie

Crow had had no dinner. Beside him

Spinner, the Spider, was making his

web.



“Good afternoon, Spinner,” greeted

Blackie.



Spinner was so busy that he only

replied, “Good afternoon,” and kept on

spinning.



“I have an idea,” said Blackie. “You

know the bigger web you spin, the

more bugs and beetles you will catch.”



“I never thought of that,” answered

Spinner, “but it is much more work to

spin a big web.”



“Yes, I know,” replied Blackie, “but

I’m hungry and you’re hungry, I’ll

help you spin a big web and then we

will catch more bugs and beetles and

we will both have a fine dinner.”



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a. good one and so he agreed. Togeth-

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wanted to make a long cross. thread

to another bra‘nch, he would crawl up-

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Spinner right to the spot.where he

wanted to go. And so it wasn’t long

before the giant‘ web was sphn.



“And now we will fly over to the

juniper bush and wait for an hour,”

said Blackie. ‘_‘By that time‘ our trap

will be full of bugs and beetles and

what a fine dinner we will have!”





Again Spinner agreed, ,forf'he was

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In a wink Blackie was at the web

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From the top of the tallest oak in

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T was not till after this series of

incidents was closed that the Con-

solidated Electric Company‘>sitart-



ed preparations for the erection of a

dam just below the horse-shoe bend,

which, when filled would leave Peck"

new house on an island in the middle

of the pond.



Investigation disclosed that in 1833

Sanford’s grantor, Mike Conley, owned

the land later platted as the “Sanford

Addition,” and also a forty-acre tract,

mostly on the opposite side of the riv-

er, but one corner of it extending to

the village side. That year he deeded

that forty-acre tract to George Jen-

nings and his heirs, describing it as

“the mill property known as the south-

east quarter of the southeast of sec-

tion ten, etc, together with the ap-





purtenances thereto belonging, or in ,





any wise appertaining.”



At the time of the transfer there

was a dam across the river just below

the horse-shoe bend, at the site of the

proposed dam; and the power was

used to operate a saw-mill and-grist

mill situated on the farther side of the

river. .



These mills burned in 1842, and

were never rebuilt; and in a few years

the dam rotted away and was forgot-

ten by the general public, and there

Was nothing in existence on the land

or of record at the time of Peck’s pur-

chase to put him on his guard nor

give him notice of any right of flow-

age. But his attorneys found upon in-

vestigation that he was bound by the

right of flowage as used at the time

of the conveyance to Jennings to which

the Consolidated Electric Company

had succeeded. They found that a

grant of a mill carried with it the right

of flowage exercised by the grantor

over his retained lands at the time of

the conveyance without any mention

in the grant of any such easement.



This last misfortune has a bright

side. There is something exclusive in.

living on an island in the edge of the

city, apart from the madding crowd.



Not so with the next discovery. Ii:

was the discovery of oil. Back in 1820

traces of gold were found in the river,





- and a patent was obtained from the





United States government of all the

mineral rights in the quarter section

on which Peck’s house was built, but

it was soon found to amount to noth-

ing, and the patent was never record-

ed; and by some accident the land

office officials failed to make any note





‘of the grant, and later issued an un-





qualified patent of the same land to

Mike Conley. When the oil excite-

ment arose, this old patent was brought

to light, and the successors of the pat-

entee began drilling for oil in the val-

ley in front of Peck’s house. His at-

torneys found, on investigation, that

government patents do not have to be





‘ recorded, and that the first patent is-

sued prevails over all subsequent pat— ,





ents, even in the hands of persons who

paid full value without any notice of

the prior grant.



And in this case the statute of limi-

tations affords no sort of protection.

No adverse possession of the surface,

even for a hundred years, would bar

the claim to the mineral rights with—





' out an actual trespass on, and posses-





sion of, the minerals themselves. There

was nothing for Peck to do but to

submit as gracefully as possible to the

prospecting for oil, and the better the

prospects, the worse for him.



A little later a discovery was made

that relieved him of his worries con-

cerning the house at Pilot-Knob, and

incidentally, explained some things

that up to this time had seemer some

what mysterious. It explained .why

PilotrKnob had always been. the gen-

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had 'never been fenced nor used for

any private purpose. Parties gather-

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discovered that at a. general celebra—

tion held at Pilot-Knob Point, July 4,

1847, one of the addresses, of the oc-

casion was delivered by Jerdy San-

ford, who then declared'to the assem-

bled crowd that he thereby dedicated

the whole flats and Point as far as

the highway, for a town park; that he

was followed by the supervisor, who

accepted the gift in behalf of the town;

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In your mind’s eye picture Peck”;

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Temptation

Our Weekly Sermon—By N. A. Mchme





T is well to remember that in the

story of the temptation, we have a

sure bit of autobiography. Jesus



was alone, when He faced temptation,

hence He must have told someone all

that we have in the temptation narra-

tives, in Matthew and Luke.



1. He went off by Himself to think

it out. Think what out? Think out

110w He should use His great abilities,

the powers that He felt were in Him.

He must have known, could not help

knowing, that He was blest with great-

er force for accomplishing things, than

are most men. How should He invest

these abilities? Selfishly? To attain

fame, money, power, praise? Should

He be a leader who would crush ev-

ery enemy of the Jewish people, and

restore them to their ancient place?

Remember, that Judea. and Galilee

were under the Romans, with a com-

pany of soldiers

or more in every

principal town,

and the Jews did

not like this any

(more than w e

Americans would

enjoy being under

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diers everywhere, eating up our taxes,

insulting us and cowing us into sub-

mission. Should He organize a vast

army and expel these hateful invad-

ers? That is what the Jews hoped.

So they told their children. Messiah

would come, and He would make ev-

erything right. He would restore the

nation, as it had been in the days of

SolomOn and David. *And Jesus knew

that He could do something big. He

felt/vast powers within Him. He knew

that He could lead men, could make

them do His will to the last drop of

blood.





But was this the best way? Was

this the way His father would ap-

prove? He must go aside and think,

think intensely, think long, with noth—

ing to distract His attention. The

place He chose was—and is—a wild,

untilled tract, about thirty-five miles

by fifteen, where little life is to be

seen, except an occasional reptile or

goat. Here Amos had come, eight

hundred years before, and here John

the Baptist had spent some time. It is

so barren as to seem almost‘God-for-

gotten, but here He talked with God.



You have seen the'well-known paint-

ing by Hoffman. The devil stands,

with hoof and tail, whispering in the

ear of Christ. There is another paint-

ing that I like better, because to me

it is more real. It is by W. Dyce, R.

A. Christ sits in a. lonely place on a.

large boulder, hands clasped, head

bowed, thinking.





And here, as He thought, he must

have seen what possibly lay ahead.

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showed His miraculous powers there.

suddenly! What a. staunpede to Him

there would be! You could not hold

the people back: And beyond Jerussr

lem were the cities of Asia Minor—'—

T’arsus, Antioch, Ephesus, Philippi,

Smyrna, Thessalonica, Athens, Rome!v

He sees them all.



2. But not that way.

way of military leaders of all ages, and;

they come to grief. The sword kills-

the one that wields it. Alexander,

Philip of Macedon, Hannibal, Caesar,

(He must have known about these





World power is His. ..

That was the-





men, though they are not mentioned.





in the New Testament), had come and

gone. Their way was not His. His

Kingdom was to rest on something:

beside force. He would found an ever-

lasting emplre, based on love, forgive

ness, knowledge, goodness, peace and!

joy. The most difficult kingdom to es-v

tablish, in all the world. But also the

one most worth establishing.



All this He thought out, in the wil-

derness, with the wild beasts. Andi

from the decision He reached He nev-

er swerved. At the end He said. “My

kingdom is not of this world. If my

kingdom were of this world, then

would my servants figh ”



3. This Christ of ours has been

through the mill He understands men

and women. He knows how hot the

fires of temptation can get. He knows

that the most desperate battles fought

are fought within the souls of men.





And Hecan help them, because He





does understand. He can show a way

out, or He can give strength to meet

the fierce drive of temptation. “There

hath no temptation taken you, but

such as is common to man, but God

is faithful, and will not suffer you to

be tempted above that ye are able.



(1 Cor. 10: 13). By faith in God He

came through to complete conquest,

and from that time He knew the

course He should take.



4. What about temptations now!

Are there any as. fierce as in times

past? I' do not suppose any of us will

be tempted as Christ was. But ingen-

eral the temptations of today are more

besieging, more desperate in many

ways, than those of the past. And this

for the very simple reason that we

have more to be tempted with. We

have more power at our command. We

can be more destructive than in any

past age. Dr. E. E. Sleeson, inhis re-

cent _,book “Sermons of a Chemist,"

says that if steam and electric and

other ponier were distributed evenly,

each of us would have the equal of

twenty slaves to wall; upon us night

and day The temptation to use such

deadly weapons will be strong, at

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HAVE been a subscriber to your

paper for several years, and like it

fine, but I just had to laugh when I

read, “Feeding for Eggs,” by R. A. Hill.

1 agree with Mr. Hill until he says, a

hen will produce more eggs 'on one

poimd of grain if she has to scratch

for it, than she would with two pounds

fed on the bare floor.

Please tell him to write to the Ohio





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him how they raise chickens and feed

them entirely on \mash all through

their laying period.



My fifty-four pullets averaged twen-

ty.one and a half eggs each during

December, and thirty-one and three-

fifths the first fifteen days of January.

My grain is ground cOarse and mixed

with meat scraps and bone meal and

fed in a hopper, and the green feed is

put in a trough. 'I have straw on the-

floor for comfort, and a place fixed for

a dust bath, which they use freely,

and plenty of milk and water.



If Mr. Hill was to come to my place

and see the cows’ feed fixed so the

cows would have to jump to reach‘ it,

as Mr. Hill fixes his beets, he would

think it funny. But not only Mr. Hill,

but many others hang cabbage so the

hens have to jump to get it.



He also says hot water freezes quiCk—

er than cold. That’s news. And,

“don’t feed your hens anything you

wouldn’t eat yourself.” Well, I would

hate to eat anything I feed \the hens.

Tell him to put glue on the walls of

his poultry house and stick the grain

to it, then they will get more exercise

and my, how they will lay.



Our hens’ feed bill is a trifle less

than $2.50 a week, about twothirds of

a cent per bird per day, against Mr.

Hill’s one‘cent.—H. C. Williamson.





M. S. C. EGG SHOW.





HE Third Annual Michigan Egg



Show will be held at the Michigan

State College, January 31 to February

4, in conjunction with Farmers’ Week.

There are many classes in which eggs

can'be entered, and worth while prizes,

including several silver cups, will be

given.



NO entry fee will be charged/but

the eggs will become the property of

the show, and will be sold to help de-

fray expense-s. Anyone may enter

eggs in the contests.



These contests have done much to

stimulate an interest in quality in eggs

and are educational to all who are

striving to produce something other

than “just eggs.”



Further information regarding this

show may be obtained from Clarence

M. Ferguson, Manager, M. S. C. Egg

Show, Poultry Department, Eiast Lan-

sing, Michigan.





POULTRY MARKET OUTLOOK.





 





(Continued from page 125).

market on fresh stock. Holdings at

the present time are smaller than the

amount usually moved into consump-

tion during the balance of the storage

season.



Dealers have already begun to ex-

press their convictions as to the prob—

able l'ével of egg' prices next spring

through purchases and sales of con—

tracts for storage packed eggs for de-

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at about twenty-eight and three—quar-

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With the rapid growth in the poul-r

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methods in ethe direction of greater

specialization. The number of com-

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England states adjacent to the large

eastern consuming markets and in the

Pacific Coast states where the climate

is exceptionally favorable to egg pro—

duction. According to the 1925 farm

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England states had increased forty per

cent as compared with 1920, and in

the Pacific Coast states, thirty per

cent, whereas the average increase for

the entire country was only*fOurteen

per cent.



The bulk of the market eggs are still

produced on the general farms of the

middlewest, however. 0f the 410,000,-

000 chickens on farms on January 1,

fifty per cent were in the states, such

as Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Mis-

souri and Kansas, comprising the north

central section. Practically sixty per

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What is Beautiful?





Context W z'mzer: Tell Mort Beautiful I mpreuz'om





NE autumn afternoon late in the



month of September, I stood up-



on the ridge on my father’s farm

which forms a border between the

hardwood forest and the pine plains.

' I was viewing the glistening poplars

on the wide plain to the north, and on

the steep southern slope, the valley,

and the rippling stream gushing under

huge logs that had fallen across its

path, and continuing on its downward

course toward the river.



Further on to the north is the iron

bridge, from which a pathway leads to

the nearby farms, and to the autum-

nal harvest fields tossing in the breeze.



The forest have changed from a sin-

gle green to various shades of orange,

purple and scarlet. The sounds of the

cow bell and the bark of the dog from

the valley below, echoed upon the hill-





side while the farmers in the distant





fields returning home from their labor,

and the setting sun in the distant hor-

izon foretold the coming of evening.



As I stood gazing upon this beauti-

ful autumn scene, I could see the cat-

tle and horses grazing on the slopes

to the north, south, andwest. I could

hear the ripple of the stream and the

calling of the birds gathering together

in preparation 'for their southward

flight.





A cool, refreshing breeze ruffled my





 





 





Bernice Ball,

Admirer of Flowers.





Eaton County, is an





hair. The setting sun in the distant

horizon inspired me with awe at the

beauty of such a scene.





Suddenly I thought of the lessons

nature teaches us. As inhabitants of

this earthly domain, we should live

lives that will measure up to purity of

our glorious world. Ah! how rich a

man may feel living in the very heart

of nature’s beauties, which are so

\often observed in this glorious place

which has been rightfully named

North Paradise. Zola Marsh, M. C.





 





 





Beauty is an intangible, fleeting

thing. A sort of a will-o’-thewisp that

leads us on and on,' until finally we

lose it and return home like Bo-peep’s

woolies, wagging our tails behind us.

Anyway-as Susie Lenglen once re-

marked, “Beauty is only skin deep.”

And she certainly ought to know.



In the sixteen years since I have

graced (or disgraced) the earth by my

presence, I have seen hundreds of

scenes and objects which I would

classify as really beautiful. The first

one was probably daylight, although

I .don’t remember that. I have seen

the 'sun rise and set in all its glory,

time after time, at every season of the

‘ye'ajr. I have seen the pale moonlight





.. ; shimmering over the placid waters of

, , Wampler's Lake on a calm summer





.1 3, evening.

‘ "I have risen on a winter morning to

‘ {jibe whole world around me a



' scene of beauty, due to an.





 





ice storm during the night. I have

watched the graceful arc of a. squarely

hit golf-ball as it sped straight down

the fairWay. I have seen flowers and

birds and trees so beautiful that it

fairly took my breath away to look at

them.



I have seen all these things, and

many more, and I have been duly im~

pressed by'them. But to me they are

as nothing, because in all the world

there is nothing so beautiful to me as

my own Mother.—-—Guilford Rothfuss.





 





I think that of all the beauties of

nature, flowers rank first. Or I might

include butterflies in this class, for

when I let fancy rule reason I imagine

that butterflies are the gay flowers who





' humanity,





resisted captivity until they flew away

from the stems to scatter happiness





through the world. And that is What,





flowers are for—to bring happiness to

the troubled, weary and sick.





Strangely, the flower I chose as the

most beautiful, is usually present at

the time of greatest sorrow—the calla

lily, which is often present when the

dead are laid to rest. The beauty of

this flower lies not merely in the fact

that it consists of a. single, snowy petal

inclosing a heart of purest gold, but

because it is, as all lilies are, a sym-

bol of purity. Its snowy whiteness is

emphasized by the background of dark

leaves, and seems to be Symbolic of

the leaves representing

earthly life, and the flower the stain-

less purity of the human soul. With

this significance, in addition to its

material loveliness, I think it is wor-

thy to be called the most beautiful of

flowers—June Nelson.





 





 





,‘DUR LETTER-BOX





 





 





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



Really, sometimes it pays to look

over discarded things. Just the other

day I found an envelope inside of

which I found some heads. I wondered

where I had gotten them. Well, after

some time I remembered that they

had been given to me as a prize.'What

I can’t remember is, have I thanked

you for them? If I haven’t, then it’s

about time I do. Thank you, Uncle

Frank. I do like them a great deal,

especially since their color matches

my graduation dress.



Say, Uncle, did you ever hear that

ski-riding was a means to drive away

the blues? I think it is, ’cause if you

don’t pay attention to the skiis, and

the road ahead, you are liable to get

a fall. Also, the nipping air, if one is

going down a steep hill, will clear out

all the blues that ever were invented

or found.



Well, I must leave space for others,

or W. B. may have another morsel for

his everlasting meal.—Sally.





I believe ski-riding would be a good

cure for the blues. As I do not have

that cure available, I do not have the

blues any more. So I really don’t need

a cure, but‘what an appetite ski-rid-

ing would give. A fellow would cer-

tainly have to do something for an ap-

petite it would develop.





 





Dear League:



Aw, forget the powder, knicker and

smoking question, as it’s getting stale.

Just thought I’d say a few things about

farming.



Farming is not all sunshine and

flowers, as some people may think. It

is work, work and more work, sum-

mer and winter, morning and night. A

farmer cannot sit beside the warm

stove smoking his pipe peacefully, as

some may suppose. Aw, no, for don’t

the cows need water, hay, and need

to be milked? Don’t the horses, pigs

and chickens need food? Don’t a de-

cent farmer see to it that his animals

have clean, warm quarters? They do!

Anyone will have to admit that. A

farmer has to hitch up a shivering

pair of horses to a frozen sleigh in the

early morning, when the temperature

is below zero, _and drive ”to town,

which is a number of miles off, to get

food for his family. Those mentioned

are some he cannot shirk. How many

cousins agree with me?——Esther M.

Larson, Bruce Crossing, Mich.





Perhaps things are a bit colder at

Bruce Crossing than down here, but

we may feel the cold more. Undoubt-

edly, you don’t like the cold. Some

people do. Nothing in life is all sun-

shine and flowers, even farming.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



May I suggest a few, oh, a. very few

of the great many books now on the

market? The following would, I think,

be suitable for any member of the

Merry Circle.





. Anne or Green Gables series, 111115,;

N‘s-iv _





Rainboat Valley- and .Iihiiiiy or





could find better chums.





 





Moon, all by L. M. Montgomery. Bent

Twig and Brimming Cup, by Dorothy

Canfield; also Her Son’s Wife, by the

same author. Mother, by Kathleen

Norris; So Big and Show Boat, by Ed-

na Ferber. The Clansman, by Thomas

Dixon, and the Witness, by Grace Hill

Lutz. Gene Stratton Porter’s, James

Oliver Curwood’s, and Ralph Connor’s

books are always good. I like the lat-

ter’s books because they are sensa-

tional Without being too exciting. I

cannot read mystery and detective

stories, and I don’t like ’em. Connor’s

books have the homey atmosphere and

leave a clean, good taste in one’s

mouth. They are refreshing and al-

ways hold a definite charm for me. A

Man from Glengarry, and Glengarry

School Days, I can read over and over.



I found something very good in an

old copy of St. Nciholas, and I’m using

it to excellent advantage. I keep four

or five books going all the time; one

of biography, one of fiction, and then

one book dealing with scientific sub-

jects and. nature, and then I read

sketches written on various lands. For

non-fiction, I am reading Bruce Bar-

ton’s book, “The Man Nobody Knows.”

I consider it good.—“Dreambird.”





You Certainly have a. full schedule

of reading. How do you find time to

do it? Your book suggestions are very

good, and I hope others will make use

of them.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I have just finished reading the let-

ters on Our Page about country vs.

city, and thought they were very good.

While this topic of diSCussion is going

on, I will start a new subject for dis-

cussion. That is, “Using Profanity.”

I do not use it, and I hate to hear oth—

er people use it. Swearing is about

the worst habit there is, and people

who do it are of unsound mind, or else

they would not use it. Isn’t that what

you think, Uncle Frank?——Harold Sny-

der, Kalamazoo, Mich.



Swearing is a profane and very bad

habit, but other habits are worse. One

who swears is hardly of unsound mind,

but lacks good judgment. There is

absolutely no need of swearing. Al—

though I think “Profanity” is not a

discussable subject because there is

no excuse for it, some M. C.’s might

have something to say about it.





 





Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins:





It seems great to be able to say I

am a. member of the Merry Circle. I

will, and am, trying to spread happi-

ness with all my heart.





I do not agree with anyone that says





they cannot say nice things about boys,





because I have two brothers, (ydunger.





than myself), and I don’t think you

I Will close,

flanking you again, Uncle Frank—1





‘pin.

every day.

I am glad that you enjoy being an I .119-

”M 0., and that you will act as be-y





 





comes a Merry Cirelér by endeatmrlngj . _

It is fine that _ .





to spread happiness.

you and your brothers are such good

chums.





 





Hello Unk and Cousins:



I received my membership card and

button yesterday. Say,

you can imagine how surprised I was.

I never expected to get one. I thank

you very much for it.



I have won many dear friends by

writing to M. C.’s, and hope to win

many more. .



Here’ s hoping W. B. has indigestion.

All letters welcome. —Pea.l Laine, Sun-

dell, Mich.





I am glad that-you have won many

wholesome friends through the Merry

Circle. "





 





Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins:



We would like very much to become

M. C.’s. We have been reading this

page for a long time.



My sister Windy has a way of milk-

ing our kickin cow without having

her kick, and I et you can’t guess how

it is.——-Windy and Wild Fire, Dunning-

ville, Mich.





Let’s hear about Windy’s way of

kickless milking. I wonder if your





.nicknames are descriptive of you.





 





Dear Uncle Fran



I’ll bet you’ re thinking all sorts of

things of me for not writing to thank

you for the dollar. You would surely

forgive me though, if you saw me try-

ing to drum reading into six third

graders. This practice teaching is real-

ly harder on the poor “kids” than it is

on us. You can be thankful that you





 





 





 





Grace Tieum Must be Taking Her Pet

Cat 'Out for an Airing.





are not going to school in a training

room.



Thanks for the dollar.—Bernice M.

Ball, Charlotte, Mich.





I am certain that you will makea

good teacher, because you take into

consideration the effects of the teach-

er on the pupils, as well as vice versa.

You are welcome _to the dollar—you

won it.





 





Hello, Friends:



Pleased to meet you all. I am al-

most ready to be old, only one more

year. I’ve been amusing myself in the

M. C. page. It sounded interesting so

I had to write.





HOW many of you are ready to quit

arguing on prohibition and start some-

thing amusing? I- wrote five letters

besides this to tell those that are for





'the wet side, that I don’t drink any





hard drinks—J. J.

Mich.





Why isn’t the liquor question amus-

ing? Some find liquor amusing, judg-

ing by the way they go at "it. You’ll

have’to keep busy this year to get all





Pleker, Fountain,





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Dear Uncle Frank:





I must take time to say that I thank .





you very much for the go den circle

I have been F9041“ 1“





   





 





Uncle Frank, . i





g it nearly ‘5 '
‘hibition several Weeks





 





 





ate about pro-

0? ‘ Well, the

nextfday after wegot e paperwith

that letter in, I had to debate aga st

prohibition, but nevertheless it *dl n’t

change my Opinions on theyquestionr—

George, Nichols.



I wonder if you won your debate. If

you did, you're good, because about

all the good arguments are .~ on the

dry side. » »





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a boy who said the Read-and-Win

contests were the best because it

made one read the paper, and by read-

ing he learned a lot. I say “Amen”

to that, and am, therefore, having a

Read-and-Win this week.



After finding the answers to the

questions below, make your answers

as short as possible, and number them

the same as the questions. Do not

write out the questions. -Please make

your paper as neat as possible and put

your name and address in the upper

left—hand corner, and M. C. after your

name if you are a Merry Circler.



Five prizes will be given to the boys

and five to the girls. The two neat'est

and most correct papers from boys

and girls will win fountain pens for

their writers. The next three boys’

papers will win a combination pencil

and pencil sharpener, a dandy combi-

nation. The next three best girls ‘pa—

pers will win handy little clutch pen—

cils. The contest closes February 4,

so be sure to send your papers to

Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer, De-

troit, Michigan, in plenty of time.



Here are the questions:



1. What is the largest number of

cows under test in any Michigan Cow

Testing Association?



2. What is the best advertising Hir-

am Patrick ever invested in? .



3. Whose fiction is sensational

without being too exciting? ,



4. What were artificial roses ex-

hibited at New York Poultry Show

made of? .



5. What is the outstanding develop-

ment in‘, harvesting machinery in 1926?



6. How did‘prices for eggs in 1926

in fifty-one leading cities compare

with 1925? - _ .



7. How many main exhibits Will

there be at the college during Farm-

ers’ Week? ,



8. When did Jerdy Sanford dedi-

cate the flats and Pilot-Knob for a

town park?





 





 





RURAL, HEALTH

Bvar. C. H. Lén‘z'gn





 





NERVOUS CHILL FOLLOWED

SCARE.





 





Over a year ago I had a terrible

scare. It caused me to have a ner-

vous chill, and almost unbearable pain

in chest and also in abdomen. I have

not been well since. Was not well at

the time. Have had so much pain in

chpest'and between shoulders. My tem-

perature is up and down most all the

time. Down of mornings and up in

the afternoon. Please give me some

advice. I am thirty-nine years old.—

L.- J. B.



I doubt if the scare did any more

than push you over the brink. No

doubt you were abnormal before, and

this added the final touch. I could

only guess at the trouble, so I am sure

the first necessity in your case is a

thorough examination from head to

foot by a competent doctor.





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HAS MANY BOILS. ~





 





Please tell me a remedy for boils.

My brother has boils o'n his neck and

as soon, or even before one crops goes





. away some others already appear.—





,.W. W.

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well as plen y of rest.





 





LETTER ON CONSTIPATION.





 





Sometime ago I saw something in

the paper about a special letter for

constipation. I need such adviCe very

badly now, and wonder if it is too late

to get one of the letters—Michigan

Mother.



This is a two-page letter, called

“Hints to Cure Constipation,” which I

prepared especially for our readers. I

still have some copies and will send

one if you will send me a stamped and

self-addressed envelope. ‘





,HAs GRAY HAIR AT FOURTEEN.





 





I am a girl only fourteen years old,

but already I show signs of gray hair.

Did you ever hear of such a thing?—

Fannie.



In some families there runs a ten—

dency to gray hair, so that very young

adults become gray. I have not seen

such a case as young as fourteen, and

am inclined to think there must be

some disease of the skin. Better be

examined by a doctor who specializes

in skin diseases.





THE KINGDOM OF ST. JAMES.





 





(Continued from page 135).





hung in a gray pall above the harbor ,





and forest.



Confusion still reigned among the

knot of Mormons that remained. Dur-

ing the afternoon the knot grew stead-

ily less and less, and an hour before

sundown the last of the three schoon-

ers cleared the harbor.



The Mormons were gone, to the last

man, Woman and child, save for a few

whose presence were marked by low

fresh mounds of earth behind the

beach. They had not given up their





empire in the Wilderness without a“





struggle. It was no precept of their

church to turn the other cheek, where

the Gentiles were concerned.



The sun sank across the narrows

that night in a scarlet blaze of splen-

dor, and with his setting died the hope

of Mormon empire in the east.



As the colors faded from the west-

ern sky, weary pilgrims on the down-

bound schooners watched tearfully.

Gone was their dream, faded and life—

less their hopes. They had come this

way in boats like this, in a pageant of

triumph, pioneers seeking homes in

the wilderness that was already a land

of promise. They were leaving in de-

feat and disillusionment, too broken in

spirit to ever seek again a colony of

their own. Their trials had been less

than those of their brethren who had

followed Brigham Young on the long,

heart-breaking journey into the west.

So also had their reward been less.





Shane sat with Barbara that night

before Aleck’s log cabin on‘ Garden

Island. Within, Denny and Aleck and

Sam Loar smoked and talked, and

Bobbie Burns smoked without talking.

Danny sat near the men, with Black

Bonnie beside him, and Samantha had

overcome her righteous resentment to-

ward Aleck’s pagan Wife sufficiently

to sit beside her and maintain a run-

ning fire of conversation that went all

unanswered.



The low hum of their voices drifted

out to Shane'and Barbara, like a faint

accompaniment to the harmony of the

night noises. \



The starsrwere low above the lake.

From the woods across the Narrows,

the untended cattle of the Mormons

lowed about the deserted barns. Back

in the forest a gray wolf voiced finally

the lineliness of the northern wilder-

ness in a long pulsating wail.



Barbara turned to Shane.



“Oh, Shane,” she whispered, “I am

sorry for them. Fer all of them. Sor-

ry even, for the king, wherever he is.”

She raised her lips to his. “But if I

am sorry for them, I am gladder, a

thousand times for us!”



Shane kissedoher, holding her close.

The low hum of voices still reached

them. The. gray wolf howled again.





On the evening air there came the





faint smell of smoke from some ruins





that still sfnouldered, in the village of ~





St.'James.-,_ ~ .





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- *A. has two brood sows that are bred.

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boxes, wire, or trash piles. Injury in

such case is really not an accident at

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ing horses. Horses with rear shoes

should not be tulned loose, except

alone.





Turn horses in a paddock with a

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sure to charge the boar at sight.





If you would like to see a horse

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falling flat when the turn was made

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ONE HERD FILLS THE cow TEST-

ING ASSOCIATION.





HE Detroit Creamery Company

herd of almost 600 pure-bred and

grade Holsteins at Mt. Clemens, Mich-

igan, have placed their dairy cattle

under test 1114. cow testing associa-

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The Front Horse Broke His Neck Because of Running Headlong into a Wire

Care Must be Used in Selecting a Place for Horses to Exercise.





brood sows. So much depends upon

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sows when taken by B., and also on

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the sow and litter, and without know-

ing the weight of the two pigs fat-

tened for A. one could not say What

share B. should be entitled to. The

share should depend entirely upon the

agreement between A. and B.—V. A.

Freeman.





BREEDER HELPS BOYS.





HILLSDALE county



Shropshire sheep, Hiram Patrick,

recently sold members of sheep clubs

in that county, seven ewes. These

sheep were sold to the club boys at a

very reasonable price because Mr. Pat-

rick is interested in their work. He

visits the boys who buy sheep of him,

and if the boys grow out their ram

lambs in good shape, Mr. Patrick will

trade them a’ewe lamb, take the ewes

to his farm in the fall, and breed

them to the good rams in his flock. A

nominal service fee is charged the

boys. When L. H. Matthias, county

club'agent, asked Mr. Patrick how he

could afford to do this, ‘Mr. Patrick re-

plied, “Satisfied ,boys and girls as club

members are the best advertising I

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CONDITION AT CALVING INFLU-

ENCES PRODUCTION.





EXPERIMENTS show that by hav-

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calving time she. will start the milk

flow heavier, and maintain it better,

than if she is in poor flesha This in-

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is sufficient to pay for'the additional





cost, and the gradual increase results .





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Two Guernsey

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Three nearest dams,





Average 607 and 592 lbs.

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‘ Yearlings and Ready For

Service.





Priced at $150.00





BED HOSE FARMS DAIRY





Northville, Michigan





 





FOR SALE Four thoroughbred Guernsey heif-

ers and three Guernsey gresad



cumin two years old. A choice lot. BRYCE



till—R 3. Romeo. Mich. Phone 43- F-I-2.





FOR; prTsctlcelly pure-bred GUERNSEY or HOL-

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write EDGESWOOD DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater. Wll.





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prices on A.

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LEESDALE FARM





DISPERSAL

Thursday, February 10, I927





12 miles south of Lapeenon M-36

30 Head of Registered Holstein Cattle

W. H. ROSSMAN, Prop.





Farm implements and horses to be sold at 9 A. M..

cattle at 1 P. It. Herd fully accredited. A res!

dairy herd strongly bred in the blood lines of show

ring families: in fact, the Junior Champion yearling





”heifer of the State of California this year 13‘ the





daughter of one of the offering.



In C. T. A Work there is a number of 2— —y.-r -olds

that have records from 10.000 lbs. to very near 13, 000

lbs. on two milkimzs a. day. one of them

highest two— —yea1- -old in Lancer County last year. This

herd is strongly bred in the blood lines of such

sires as Count Yeoman Seals Piebe Flint Henserveld

Lad and other great show an; bulls in china.

For further information and catalogs, write





Guy E. Dodge. Mgr” Clio. Mich.





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A Son of Fobes 6th

A cell or excellent Quality emigre dgth

ofbody. Born February 28. 193 .

thirds white. . 6 $1311

His slog; 91:60. son 13:1!me famous "Fohes 66%“

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murmur-soothe!“ 841.





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ltfkanam FARMS, Melon, Michigan





stored Holstein. cows and

WILL SELL $3.3? eiglll. milking or n...

sprinters. C. '1'. A. records. . . testedmt:llmsiol'i‘nd.

all young. ARTHUR CLARK ll. SON. . c .





HEREFORD“ W§TEERS





so Wl.’ aroun'g“ 500 .325

Good ' k reds. dehorned. mo

quamy' .“hooa grass flesh. The bot! typo

are usually market toppers when finished. grill (:3

your choice of one car load from any huge yr on





also show you Shorthorn gloss-s. yrls or





Von D. Baldwin, Eldon,WapeIIo Co., Iowa.





- d for servlco. and

Ch01ce Jersey Bulls {,ifilycmu, ,0, m,

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

PARKER. Howell, Mich. .





‘FOR SALE. my entire herd of Jersey cattle. 80





in luding ‘seven 2-yr.-old heifers. 5 Yearling

heifgriwind 0'! heifer calves. Also 2-yr.-old hes-d bull.

COLON C. LILLIE. Coopermlle. Mich.





Jersey Bull ready for service.

F OR SALE Majesty—You’ll Do breeding.

. wlnn , Michigan State Fair.

Pri7e E. weerARTIN, R. 3, Ann Arbor. Mich.





JERSEY BULLS for sale. from

Flllmgl'c'AL KING and production. COLD-





. M. cows. Type

WATER JERSEY FARM. Goldwater. Mich.

THE STANLEY .l. GARDNER HERD. Croswell. Mich.





“MILKING SHORTHORNS”





Why‘ thmit milk records? We don't keep our

cows. bt‘lfisywlzeep 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.





DIVISOII ESTATE FIRMS, DAWSON, MICHIGAN





Pure-bred Shorthoru Cattle and Duroc Jersey Swine

We have a few extra nice heifers With calves at foot

and rebred to grandsons of the famous “Rodney:

also. one dark roan bull twenty months old: Eight

very good spring gills bred to furrow early in May.





All priced to sell.



for sale. Calves both

negISIer'd Red POIIed came 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.





M lLKING SHORTHORNS. 8 mos. Son of top U.

s. Butter-fat Cow. Mo. March. 1924. Also fe‘

males. IRVIN DOAN a. SONS. Grosvvell. Mich.





ILKING SRORTHORNS. White Bull 12 months

M old. from R. of M. Dam. also younger red ones.

RDBT. DOUGLAS, Croswell. Mich.





Bot of quality and breeding. Bulls

Shorlhoms c055 and heifers for sale. BIDWELL

STOCK FARM. Box 0. Tecumseh. Mich.





FOR S AL Dual purpose Shorthorns.



bulls 4 mos. old, sired by

Laddie Boy. by Roan Archer. DICK L. DeKLEINE.

Zeeland, Mich., R. 3. '





 





MILKING SHORTHORNS—either sex at farlners'

prices. Central Michigan Shot-thorn Breeders As-

soc. Write for list to Oscar Skinner, Socy., Gowen. Mich.





 





For: SALE—registered Polled Shorthorns. bulls and

heifer- calves. one horned bull calf._ Accredited

herd. PAUL OVUACK. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.





HOGS





DUROC BRED SOWS





AND GILTS

SERVICE BOARS



Cholera immune, popular blood lines, typy.



LAKEFIELD FARMS, tclal‘kslon, Mich.





DUROC JERSEY gigs ”film’fifi?





NORRIS STOCK FARMS. Calnovin, M'Ich.





A 'r FARMERS' PRICES—bis Dunc bred tilts.

also Super Col. boars for service. SHAFLEY

srocK FARM. st. Johns, Mich.





BIG TYPE OHESTER VIIIITE SWINE

_of quality from prize winning State Fair stock. Eith-

er scx. Fail pigs only now. Can ship pairs not akin.

Satisfaction guaranteed. Prices right. Inqlure



CHARLES McCALLA. Route 6. Ann Arbor, Mich.





' bred sows and fall Dim.

Chester Whites Quality of the best. Reg,

free. F. W. ALEXANDER. Vassar. Mich.





0-'-°- "0‘55 on lime £33581:

Originators and most extensive breeders.

TIIE L. 8.,SlLVEIl 00., Box I96, Salem, Ohio





lAIIGE '"PE P. C. bred gilts. good ones. bred to

, best young boar in Michigan. Also

(all DISH. Datrs and tries. not' akin. the big easy feed—

ing kind. sired by "L's Redeemer” and "The Grand

Model." Come and, see them and be convinced. Ex-

penses paidif not as represented. W. E. LIVING-





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





‘STON. Farms. Mich.





 





FOR SALE Poland China boars of'Merch





, and April furrow. Also some

choice bred tilt-s. due to (arrow in March and April:

Every one immuned /for cholera. WESLEY HILE.

lonia. Mich. ' ‘



L. T. P. C. SWINE FDR SALE

ans-lug pills. either sex. flood ones. Cholera. immune.

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

chester, Mich. , ' *





B.’I.P.G.'BIIEII GILIS Evefimna else sold .5

able. G.'W. NEEDI-IAM, Kielfit'mclhflcid mm





 





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157 .

there results a. greater weakening.

The strain is so great that she never-

fully’ recuperates.



If.,one desires a. healthy calf, then.

it is important that the cow ‘lbe in

good flesh at calving. If a liberal-

amount of feed is "given before calving,

than less will ‘be required to maintain

the cow and calf after freshenlng.———

H. Holt.





DOES IT PAY.TO DRESS HOG-S?





HETHE’R it pays to dress hogs



or not, depends on many things.

First, of course, is the difference in

price. Sometimes a city- market of-

fers prices for dressed hogs that are

out of proportion to the price the

local drover will pay. Local drovers

many times try to make too large a.

profit. That is the cause of so many

cooperative shipping associations. If

you can use a cooperative shipping as-

' sociation, where the actual expense of

shipping only is deduced, there is lit-

tle call for the farmer to do his own

slaughtering. If you only have one

or two hogs it might pay to‘ slaughter

them, from the cost of marketing

standpoint. If they are slaughtered

they can be taken‘ to market in the

auto—on the running board, for in—

stance—when one goes on other busi-

ness, while, if marketed alive, a spe-

If one. has

the service of a, shipping association,

or a fair local shipper and has a num-

ber of hogs to market, it is difficult

to figure out a profit from home

slaughtering—C. L.





 





CANADIAN PRESIDENT TO SPEAK

TO HOLSTEINERS.





HE president of the Holstein-Fries-



ian Association of Canada, Chris



Houck, of Ontario. will appear at

eleven o’clock, Tuesday, February 1,

on the program at the twenty-seventh

annual meeting of the MichiganAsso-

ciati-on, at the State College, East Lan-

sing. “Selective Registration” will be

{his topic. The Canadian association

lhas completed two years’ work along

this line, having found the “scrub

pure-bred” the greatest menace to the

pure-bred business.





 





 





VETERINARY.





Losing Hair.—Heifer that has just

freshened is losing her hair. She has

.3. good appetite, but is failing. I am

{feeding her ground grain and good

lhay. I. B.—Reduce amount of grain,

and add one tablespoonful of equal

parts of dried sodium sulphate, sodium

bicarbonate and common salt to the

feed twice daily. Also give one table-

spoonful of saltpeter once daily for

several days.





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Tuesday, January 25. e

Wheat.

Detroit—No. 2 red at $1.41; No. 2

White $1.42; No. 2 mixed 1.40. ‘

Chicago—May $1.42; Juy $13254;

September $1.29%. ..

Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red at $1.40

@1.41.

‘ Corn. ,.

Detroit—No. 2 yellow at 820; No. 3

yellow 79c; No. 4 yellow 74c.

Chicago—May at 81950; July 847/80;

September 867/80.o

ats.





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8, 4854c.

Chicago—May at 49c; July 48%0;





September 46%c.

Rye.

Detroit—No. 2, $1.07.





Chicago—May $10814; July $1.03;

September 99140.

Toledo—Rye, $1.06.

Beans.

Detroit—Immediate and prompt





shipment $4.80 f. o. b. shipping points.

Chicago—Spot Navy Michigan fancy

hand-picked, in sacks $5.10; dark red

kidneys $6.

New Y‘ork.—~Pea domestic at $5@

5.75; red kidneys $8@8.50.





Barley.



Malting 820; feeding 680.



Seeds.



Detroit—Cash red clover $23; cash

alsike $22; timothy, old $2.60; new

at $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

$17@18; No. 1 clover $19@20; wheat

and oat straw at $13@14; rye straw

$14©15.



Feeds.





Detroit—Winter wheat bran at $37;

spring wheat bran at $36; standard

middlings at $37; fancy middlings at

$41; cracked corn at $34; coarse corn

meal $32; chop $35 per ton in carlots.



WHEAT.





Wheat prices are still in the narrow

groove where they have held for two

months. The bullish features in the

domestic situation have been counter-

balanced thus far by the bearish tinge

in world conditions. The total supply

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discounted in current prices, which

are considerably lower than last year.

On the whole, wheat prices appear to

have been well adjusted to current

conditions of supply and demand. They

may remain in this narrow roeve for

some time yet, until a new actor ap-

pears on the market horizon. If Eu-

rope absorbs the big shipments from

the southern hemisphere without diffi-

culty, this may prove to be the new

influence, since views as to what wheat

is worth would change in the direction

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RYE.





Rye prices have held most of their

recent gains. Export buying is being

reported right along, and the weekly

clearances are holding up, although

they remain below the average amount

required to dispose of our theoretical

surplus. Now that export business has

developed, it is likely to be rather per-

sistent throughout the rest of the crop

year. Rye production in 27 counties

totalled 807,000,000 bushels, as against

1,004,000,000 bushels last year, a. de-

crease of 197,000,000 bushels.





CORN.





Cash prices for corn have strength-

ened in the last ten days. Bidding by

industries has been more prominent,

and reports that country prices .in

some of the surplus sections were

tightening up had some effect on the

terminal markets, since country prices

in many cases were already above a

shipping parity. While primary re-

ceipts are light, arrivals are heavy

enough to result in additions to term-

inal stocks, and the rise in prices has

already gone far enough to result in

increased offerings from’ the country.





OATS.





The oats market has changed but

little recently. Primary receipts are

light, but demand is quiet except for

high grades which are scarce, and pro-

gress in merchandising the large stock

of low grades at terminals is slow.





SEEDS.



The spring seed season will open

with prices on white clover, timothy,

red-top, cowpeas. soy beans and most

grasses, with the exception of meadow

fescue, lower than a year ago, and red

clover, alsike and alfalfa averaging





higher than last season. Although the”





spring demand for seeds has not actu~

ally appeared as yet, dealers are an-

ticipating a good trade which-‘should

be under way by the first of February.

Inquiry for red and sweet 'clover and

alfalfa seeds is active, due to the rela-

tively small supplies available. ‘





FEEDS. .



The advance incottonseed meal has

featured the feed market recently. Do-

mestic buying has been curtailed at

the higher prices, but foreigners are

still/taking good—sized orders. Wheat

feeds have strengthened, with demand

good,'as a result of colder weather,

and output moderate.





EGGS.



The interruption to the downward

trend in ,. prices as a result of the cold

weather and snows throughout the en-

tire country recently was no longer-

lived than the cold wave which caused

it. Production is steadily increasing,

receipts at the leading markets con-

tinue to exceed a year ago, and deal-

ers are anxious to keep prices on a

level where all eggs can be moved

into distributing channels as fast as

they are received. Carload shipments

of fresh eggs from the middlewestern





states have been received at the large ,





distributing markets, which'is unusual

for so early in the season.

Chicago—Eggs, fresh firsts at 37@

371/2c; ordinary firsts 35@360; miscel-

laneous 36%0; dirties 2860300; checks

26@28c. Live poultry, hens 22@27c;

springe-rs 24c; roosters 190; ducks at

310; geese 21c; turkeys 30c.

Detroit..—Eggs, fresh candled and

graded 38%@39c. Live poultry, heavy

springers at 260; light springers 220;

heavy hens 280; light hens 220; roost;





ers 18@190; geese 25c; ducks~33c;

turkeys 440. .2

BUTTER.

Butter~prices weakened toward the





close last week, although, statistically,

the market had not changed color. Pro-

duction is reported to be steadily in—

creasing, but receipts at leading mar-

kets during the week have fallen be—

hind the previous week this year and

the same week a year ago. While this

is largely due to unfavorable Weather,

the belief is spreading that the output

of butter during the next few months

will not show much, if any, gain over

last season. Reserve stocks of butter





 





 





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CHICAGO.





Hogs.





Receipts 43,000. Market is active,

steady to 50 lower than Monday’s av-





at $12.50; medium and strong weight



butchers $12.10; packing sows $11-25;



bulk desirable slaughter pigs $11.75@



11.90; few strong weights. up to $12.

Cattle.



Receipts 12,000. Fat steers strong to

15c higher; mostly 10@15c up on bet-

ter grades of active and well-condi-

tioned steers, she stock and heifers in

big demand; medium weight $12.50;

bulls steady to easy; vealers are 25c

higher.



Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts $17,000..

active; fat lambs around 25c higher;

early bulk wool lambs $12.20@12.25;

best held around $13; heavy lambs

$12.50@12.75; extreme weights around

$11.75; fat lambs around $10.50; sheep

strong; top fat ewes $8; bulk of 675«

725-lb. feeding lambs at $12.50@13;

best held higher; medium kin’d $12.25,





DETROIT.

Cattle.

Receipts 299. ‘Market steady.

Good to choice ,yearlings

dry-fed .......... $10.25@10.75

Best heavy steers, dry-fed 8.50 9.50





 

 

   

 





 





 

 





 





Handy weight butchers . . 7.50@ 8.25

Mixed steers and heifers 6.00@ 7.25

Handy light butchers . . . . 5.50@ 6.50

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

Best COWS ee'eeeeeeeeeee-e 5.76@ 7.00

Butcher cows . . . . . . . . . . . 4.50@ 5.50

Common cows . . . . . . 3.756? 4.50.

Gunners 3.00@ 4.00

Choice light bulls . . . . . . . 6.000, 6.50

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Tuesday, January 25.





8110011813 ee'eeeeeeeleldoeee 6-50@ 6.00



Packers ........... . ..... . ' 5.50@ 6.25



Milkers and springers. . .855.00@ 90.00

Calves. ’





Receipts 486. Market steady. .

es .....................$16.00@16.50

Others .... ..... 3.50@15.50





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 2,297. Lambs 250 higher;





sheep steady.

Best grades . . . . . $12.75@13.00





Fair lambs . .......... . .111.00@12.00

Light to common lambs. . 6.00@ 9.50

Best lambs ....... . . . . . . . 10.25@10.50





Fair to good sheep . . . . . . 5.00@ 6.50

Culls and common . .. . 2.50@. 3.75





Hogs.

Receipts 1,477. Market steady.

ecu-OeODOIUOIIOOOIO $1260

Roughs .o-acooeeeeeeeeeb_ 10.75

Yorkers oo-eeee'eeee-Ieeee 12055

Pigs and lights . . . . . . . . . . 12.50

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

Heavies ................ 11.50

Extreme heavies . . . . . . . . 11.0001150

BUFFALO. ' ‘

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Receipts,16,000. Market is o ening

steady 'on lighter weights, clos-ng 10





@15c higher, with very few heavy





and light





at 312.755.)





butchers sold; few pig

lights $12.25; 170210 l, .





12.85; few at $13; packing soWs at“





$10.50@11.





Cattle.



”Receipts 150. Market is active and

steady; few vealers steady? medium

steers $8.50; others_,$7. ~.. - .



, Calves.

Recei





E1217; c Is and common 312.50. .





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rate than .a year, gandtliecsrry:

over into the new ite‘r‘year should

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time last season, so that these favor-





able statistics .may already be fully

dislsounted. 92 . _ '



mess on score, creame were:

Chicago 47c; New York 47%cfyDetroit,

fresh creamery in tubsr45@47c





. POTATOES.





Cold weather has reduced trading in

the potato markets, and prices were

irregular last week. Some frozen stock

arrived at seVeral distributing mar-

kets. Total shipments were less than

at the corresponding period a year ago

for the first 'time in many weeks.

Northern round whites, U. S. No._, 1,

are quoted at $2.10@2.25 per 100 lbs.,

sacked, 1n the Chicago carlot market.





BEANs‘





In the east the market is slow and

draggy for all kinds- and prices, for

the best have eased off arlittle. The

Chicago demand is just fair, with con-

ditions remaining unchanged.





APPLES.





Apple prices are practically un-

changed from a week ago. Supplies

are liberal and in excess of demand.

Foreign markets are holding up fairly

well, and exports continue larger than

last year. For the season to date, ex-

ports from the United States and Can-

ada have been more than 50 per cent

heav1er than in the corresponding pe-

riod a year ago. New York and Mich-

igan A-21;§-inch Kings and Baldwins

are quoted at $1@1.10 per bushel at

Chicago, with A-Zl/g-ih’ch Rhode Island





‘ Greenings selling at»$4@4.50 a bushel.





DETROIT CITY MARKET.





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

bu; beets 75c@$1 bu; cabbage 65c@$1

bu; red cabbage $1.25@1.50 bu; Savoy

cabbage 75c@$1 bu; local celery 25@

600 dozen; carrots 90c@$1 bu; hot-

house lettuce $1 per 6-lb. basket; hot-

house rhubarb 9OC@$1 per 5-lb. box;

dry 01110118 $1.25@1.50 bu; French en-

dive $1.25@1.50 per,5-lb. box; root

parsley 75c@$1.25 .bu; potatoes $1@

1.60 bu; turnips $1@1.50 bu; Hubbard

squash $1.50@2 bu; pears 750@$1.75

bu; leeks 75c@$1 per dozen bunches;

parsnips at $1.25 1.75 bu; vegetable

oysters 75c@$1 lozen bunches; root

celery $1.50@2 bu; eggs, retail. 50@

60c; hens, wholesale 28@300; retail,

30@3Zc; sp ers, wholesale 28@30c;

retail at 30@ 2c; Leghorn springers,

wholesale 23@25c; veal 18@20c; hogs,

19c; liens, dressed 35c;

springers 3 c; ducks 45c. e





GRAND RAPIDS.





The potato market was weak in

Grand Rapids this week. Potatoes at

$1.15@1.20 bu; onions at $1@1.25 bue;

parsnips $1.25 511; carrots 75c@$1 ‘bu;

cabbage, _white $1@1.10 bu; red $1.75

bu; turnips 75c bu; apples, Spys, A-

grade $2@3 bu; B-grade $1.75; various

other varieties 75c@$1.25 bu; beans

$4.40 pe cwt; wheat $1.20 bu; rye 74c

bu; buc wheat $1.50 cwt; hens,~light

20@22c; rheavy 24@2‘7c; stage 20c

lb; eggs 36@38c; butter-fat 51c lb. ’





. WOOL.





While the mills are buying in a spar-

ing way the undertone or the do—

mestic markets is firm. Strength

in foreign markets, with a tendency

to, advance prices in Australia”, New

Zealand and South America, has been

a factor. American buyers are report-

ed to have purchased only a. third as

up to

January, as last year, so that the evi-

dence of greater activity on their part

Zigintly has been considered signifi-





 





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Feb..10-—W. H. Rosman, Oxford, (Di

persal), Guy E. Dodge. Mgr. . '

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Mich, (Diapersal). Guy E. Dod

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for their income. Most of .

t is handled through two, ex:

changes, all of which put up, a good ,

pack ‘and‘ are usually able to sell at

fair prices.“ Farmers who. sell indi-g

vidually found it diflicult this year'to





growing





Midland .County.-——-Not much is being

done on the farms at present. Some

corn, is being shredded. Hogs and

sheep are scarce in this locality. Some

cattle are being fed. ‘Roughage plenti-

ful. Taxes, as usual, are high—G. W.



GladWin County.——Farmers are hul-

ling clover and alfalfa seed. Crop is

not turning out very good. Our beans

are heavy pickers, many of them are

being fed to. live stock. Stock is in

good shape, with plenty of roughage

on hand. Hay brings-from $10 to $15;

cream 550; eggs 45c.——-T. C.



Huron County.—-—Farmers are looking

after their stock. Many farmers are

feeding their live stock both cull beans

and in some cases the unpicked sup-

plies from the thresher./ There is

plenty of roughage on hand. Milk and-

live stock bring fairly good prices, and

they are the main sources of income

at present—A. C.



Berry Countyr—Some‘roads are not

open to autos on account of the snow.

Farmers are busy cutting wood and

doing chores. Not much produce mov-

ing to market at present. Eggs are

scarce and quite high. Entertainment

in this locality is mostly ’provided by

the grunge—J. E.



Shiawassee County.——‘—Farmers are

getting up wood and looking after the

stock. Most farmers have plenty of

feed for their feeding operations.

Wheat is being held, but beans are go~

ing to market quite freely at $4.25 per

cwt. Wheat $1.20; oats 40c; cream

50c; eggs 45c; veal calves up to $15.

Not much fall plowing was done.





 





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A TRUSS





BE COMFORTABLE.—

Wear the Brooks Appliance. the

modern scientific invention which

gives rupture sufferers lmmedlste

relief. It has no obnoxious springs

or pads. Automatic Air Cushions

bind snddraw together the broken

parts. No solves or plasters. Brno

Durable. Cheap. Sent on trial to '



Look for

trade-mark bearing portrait and signature of C. E.

Brooks which appears on every Appliance. None other

genuine. Full information and booklet sent. free In

plain. sealed envelope.





   





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Brooks Appliance '00.. 307 state 88.. Marshall. Mich.

szgm/Bodccme/ada

Better work .— better service

direct to you at sgenos’ prices.

----" Tommizié‘ia ié’"§i.?“‘iiif§.‘2 iii”:

W R” I T E sands of “othersparo shipping

FORFREE and save 255. Write for prices_ \

Badger Robe and Tanning Oe..

CATALOG Stevens Point. I.





White Blossom—Northern Grown.

8““ NW" Seed: 99.50% purity. Write for price-

list. Holmes-Letherman 00., Box 6. Canton, 0.





1927





A D A , o H IO

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

May lat. Also 200 choice large Delaino ewes. AL-

|§0ND B. CHAPMAN 8. SON. So. Rockwood. Mich.

2 miles south of Detroit, Mich. Telegraph address:

nockwood. Mien.





 





Registered Shropshires





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

sired by noted rains, and due to lambiin March._ by

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





- ‘ Shropshire grades. also Lin—

Bmdeg EWOSFOI’salB coln Rambouillet cross brwds,

in lots of 50 or more Bred to lamb in April and

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





 





 





 





' will sell a. limited number of our

HngShlres ’best breeding ewes to lamb in

April and May. 3 age ewes in good condition





WANTED—— .

.houseonihfreeandclesninornsarstown the

Lowcr Peninsula. in exchange for in

Detroit real estate.

Bank Bldg. Detroit. Mich.





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;, in WANTEEFW - Eh?" King!“ Hague» free. Tgbsoco «.31 Be-

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A one or moment-sot with'emgood





 





WANTED—to hear from owner of farm or unimproved

land for sale. 0. Hawley. Baldwin. Wisconsin.





 





FARMS FOR RENT





00d equities m SCRAP SMOKING—mild or' strong. 20 in. $1.02:

W. 51mm. 1683 Firm: National Lube Beadlese Sedan“. KY-





BOTH (.‘OMBS——-Trspnestcd. 131

L Greatest Color and Egg Strain.

erels. Catalog Free.

renco. Mich.





 





POULTRY





WHIT’I‘AKER'S MICHIGAN CERTIFIED BEDD—





oodtesoed. Michlgsn's

Chick‘s. E388. Gecko

Interlakes Farm. Boat 9. Low-





 





FOR RENT—One hundred twenty acres with good ,

buildings. one and one-half miles from Michigan

State College. This is your opportunity to educate





/

MISCELLANEOUS





 





TORS for quick sale at great reduction. 60 to

300 eggs capacity.- Good as new.





cubstor 00., Box 784. Des Moines. Iowa.





 





ALL WOOL YARN for sale from manufacturer at

bargain. Samples free. I! A. Bartlett. Harmony.





 





 





 





 





WANTED MISCELLANEOUS





prices.

liable outlet for raw furs write to Bobt.

Random Lake. Wis.





J. Paulus.





fslfs. Write Hurry D. Gates Company. Jackson. Mich.





 





 





 





EDUCATIONAL





 





Government. pasitions. $30465 week. borne instruction.

Write. Mr. Ozment. 107. St. Louis. Mo.





 





MATTRESSES





MATTRESSES made any size, low rum“ prices.

Catalog free. Peoria Bedding Company. Peoria. Ill.





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PET STOCK





 





ivnw znALAND IiEDS—Pmligrecd rabbits of breed-

ing age at reasonable prices. Dark No in-

breeding. Write for description and prices to H. H.

Mack. Rochester. Mich.





 





RABBITSv—pure—brcd Flemish Giant. 3 months bucks

weigh 51/. lbs., $2.00. Write today. Lenoard Norton.

Three Rivers. Mich, R. .





POLICE PUPPIES from imported stock $15. Oak-

wood Kennels. Jackson Street, Muskegon. Mich.





 





 





SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK





 





REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED SEED CORN<~

Clement's White (lap Yellow Dent and Duncan's Yol-

low 'Dent. Fire-dried on. racks. ear tested and germ—

ination guaranteed. Also Certified Worthy oats. Good

seed is scarce, order yours early. Paul Clement.

Britton, Mich. Member of the Michigan Crop Im-

provement Association.





 





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 125.

Cleveland. Tenn.





 





FOR BEST ALFALFA RESUI/I‘S buy Hardy Western

Dakota’s Genuine Grimm. (‘cssack and No 12. true

to variety. Direct from localin where grown. Ra

cleaned. graded over gravity process assuring highest

quality. purity and germination. Write for samples

and prices. Ed Ziltz, Lcmmon, S. D.





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FREE OFFER—Fifty Bcr'muda Onion Plants or

Frostproof Cabbage Plants for few minutes your time.

'lr’Vrlte for proposition. Bell Plant Company. Cotulla,



exas. _





'WORLD’S WONDER" ANCONAB. greatest 1W; '





Single comb cockerols, $5.00: pullets: $250





.. ful bronze tom turkeys. $12.

the family. Last Lansing Realty 00.. East Lansing.

Mich. CltY. Mich.





n. Cecil smith. Reno





 





BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK Eggs and Chicks. 825-

egg average Michigan egg laying contest. Leading in

Plymouth Rock section.

BA FEW "SUCCESSFUL" DEMONSTRATOR INCU- real-108t-





Present contest prices on

F. E. Fogle. Okemos. Mich.





Des Momee III- WHITE WYANDOTTES—some nice Cockerels fol' sale

at resemble prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fred

Berlin. Allen. Mich. »' ,





 





"RINGLE’I‘" Barred Bock breeding Mercia. 6 to 8





 





 





Msine. ' lbs. nicely barred. Satisfaction guaranteed. Em

L Murphy. Britten. Mich.



FOR SALE—One 20—40 Ilumlcy Tractor. one 23-481 '



Ruml ' S arato , one 8-Roll H k _ “0 Brown. ‘S. C. BUFF LEGHORN CHICKS,—Mlchlgm sum



Wayni). nigh. r “3 er 0 iAccredited. Semi for circular. I. w. Webster a.

Son. Bath. Mich.



CHOICE EXTRACTED HONEY—5 lbs. $1.00 DOIt- .



paid. Homer Buzzard. Fenton. Mich. HAWLEY‘S RED COCKERELS—eixcellent strain Sin-

gle Comb Rhode Island Beds. $3 to $5 each. Web



—~fi Iey S. Hawley. R. 3. Ludington. Mich.





 





, TANCRED WHITE LEGHORN COCKERELS. from

RAW FURS WANTED on your own grading and Michigan certified flock. 250 to 280 record hens. $3

Trappers and country buyers desiring a re- ‘0 $5





COCICEREI.S——Holteu1nan’s Strain of

mouth

WANTED—Dairy hay. clover. clover mixed and al- Arnold, SETW- M1011-





V. Shocks. Central Lake. Mich.





Barred P1574





ROcks. strong. healthy birds. $4. Mrs. Glenn





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JERSEY BLACK GIANTS—several fine, large birds

WANTED—~meteorite or specimen of metallic iron from choice New Jersey stock.





Cookerels $5. 00. hens





 





found in Michigan. swim Perry, Adrian. Mich. 3350- Cecil Ri'nbmndt. Dom Mich-

: SUPERIOR RINGLET Barred Rock Cooker-sis. extra





this large fellows. L. Wyndham. Timn. Ohio.





 





ALL MEN-WOMEN. 18—56. wanting to county toi- {Egg}? BLACK GIANTS—“mend“ ”cm“ ‘5 t"





Elmvale Farm. Turner. Mich.





 





PEAFOWIF—Pheasants. Bantams. Pigeons. free cir-

cular. John Haas. Bettendorf. Iowa.





PURE-BRED WHITE CHINA GEESE. $4. either set.

Samuel Wilson. Harbor Beach. Mich.. R. 4.





 





 





TURKEYS





PURE-BRED MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS—

Champion Strain. Earl & Merle Phelps, Dowaglao.

Mich.. i. 7.





 





 





PURE-BRED WHITE HOLLAND TOMS $10—Hen5

related. $0.00 and $7.50. Eggs in. season. C. Gal-

breath. Hartford. Mich.





 





WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS. toms and liens. Tou-





 





louse grinders; Vl'hitc I’ekin (hicks. drakos. Alden

VVhitL-oml), Byron Punter. Mich.

TURKEYS—All breeds. strictly pure-bred. Special





prices. Eastern Ohio Poultry Farm, Beallsville. Ohio.





 





MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS‘WGold Bank Strain.

Unrelated stork. Mrs. I’crry Stabbins. Saramm. Mich.





 





NARRAGANSETT TU'RKEYS-«largc hardy birds from

choice Stork. Ernest (.‘lcment, Ionia. Mich.





TURKEYS~Bourhon Reds. hens $8, toms 812. F.

J. Chapman, Northville. Mich.





 





 





BOURBON RED TOMS AND KENS—vigorous. large

boned. Archie Ives. Rockford. Mich. -





 





BOURBON RED TURKEYS—Axtel Evans strain.

Chas. Beatty, Milford. Mich.





 





 





BABY CHICKS





STOUFFER CHICKS have a. reputation. Parent Stock

has bur-n Statc Inspected and Accredited for the past

three years. Twelve Varieties. Poultry Manual Free:





 





.cxpliiins tho Accredited Plan, contains up-to-date in-





formation about raising chicks and pictures of chick-

cns in natural colors. Stoufi‘cr Egg Farms. 11—26.

Mount Morris. Illinois.





 





WHITE LI'IGIIOIIN (“HICKS sired by MIWd

malt-s. records 200 to 293 eggs. Low prepaid pricm.

Shipped aILVWIlI'I'l‘ (‘. 0. D. and guaranteed. Hatch-





ing eggs. cor-kercls, pullcts. hens. egg-bred 27 years.





 





 





 





 





250 bu. Grimm's Alfalfa seed. bags free. Samples

free. Henry Foley. R. 5. Mt. Pleasant, Mich.





 





CERTIFIED “'OIA'ERINE





OATS. one dollar er

bushel. D





Improved Robust Beans, choice stock, abso-





 





 





 





(1

cheap. .l. B. WELCH. lonia. Mich.





 





free. . Freight prepaid on orders of twenty dollars or

‘over in Michigan. A. B. (look. Owosso. Mich.





 





lutely pure, seven dollars per hundred. Bags are iHollywood foundation stook.





Winners at 17 cm: contests. Write for free catalog

and special price bulletin. Gco. B. Ferris. 934





CLOVER SEED FOR SALFr—ISO bu. Willie CIOVCI‘,1Union, Grand Rapids, Michigan.





 





1BABY (‘IIIl‘KS —If1.siii'i‘d for 30 days. 100% live d0-





liiery gunrunnwd. Barred and White Rocks. R. I.

leds. Wynniiottcs, Ancoiins. Blur-k Minorcas. Mlle

LeghornsAscparnto brccding~—~from both Tancred and

Hatches every week.

iWritc for free catalog. State Farms Association, Kal-

lamazoo. Mich.



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using. miscellaneous articles for Sale on exchange.





charge in words.





 





CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING





This classified advertising department In established for the convenience of Mi hi farm

Small advertisements bring best results under classified headings. Try c m as.





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

Rates 8 cents a word. each insertion. on orders for lees thsn four insertions: for four or more

consecutive insertions 6 cents s word. Count u s. word each abbreviations, lnltisl or number. No

displsy type, or illustrations admitted. Remittances must sceonipsny order. '

Live stool sdvertlelns hss s usmte department and is not accepted so classified.





it for want ads and for adver-

Poultry advertising will be run in this department





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peel ot‘c (Warrant: orders



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bndtd for the Clarified Department mun not}: thin qfiu IQ

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COME TO CALIFORNIA—settle in Stanislaus County

-an Empire of Natural Wealth, where the land owns

the water and. power. Abundance of water for irri—

gation and cheap electricity right on your farm—nil

year crops: diversified farming; close to good mar-

kets; wonderful climaterpaved roads: good Schools;

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

Stsnlslaus County Development Board. (County Cham—

ber ct Commerce). Modesto. Calif.





 





GLADWIN COUNTY. MICHIGAN—JmprOVed farms

as low as $25 per acre. Cut-over "lands for pasture

as low as 85.00 per acre. Write me your needs. I

have some of the best bargains in Gladwin County.

Mich. U. G. Reynolds, Gladwin. Mich.





FOR SALE—Improved nil-acre farm in good loca-

tion. Would omnider small place in country or vil-

ll‘diggh in exchange. Charles Sherman. Dansville.





 





wonpnnimi. OPPORTUNITIES—Southern Geo-731a

firm lands. 'erts for complete. information (mam-

‘pon was a... stack, ...n and mi



Good buildings forests. G. A. Borne. Blooming:





 





 





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1GRIA‘IM ALFALFA SEEDsgrown from Black Foot.

lBrziiid. yicldcd 0 bu. per acre last. season. N0 buck-

ihom. carrot. or meet clover in it. Sand for free

isamplc. Edw. Gunden, Pigeon, Mich.



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iGAI’tDEN SEPIDSA—crown from select stock. none bet-

iter. We sell at wholesale prices. Write for price

list. Fowler Spud (‘o., \Vayiieiown. Ind.





 





MASTODON lCVICRBEARING—Jcss than 20. each.

Why pay more? (‘iuimiiion Originator.

free. E. Libkc. Ncw Buffalo. Michigan.





 





i

TREES, plants. gi‘apcvincs, shrubs. perennials. Cat-

alog free. Laiida Nursery 00.. St. Joseph. Mich.





TOBACCO





HOMESI‘UN TOBACCO—mellow. sweet. aged in bulk.

Smoking. 15 lbs. $1.50; chewing. 15 lbs. $2.25. Sat-

isfaction guaranteed. Pay whcn received. Farmers'

Union. Mayfleld. Ky.





 





 





GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing or

smoking. 5 lbs.. $1.25: ten. $2: cigars $2 per 50.

Pipe frcc. pay when received. Farmers' Association.

Manon Mills. Kentucky.





HOMESI’UN TOBACCO—5 lbs $1.25: ton $2. Write

for prices on other grades and cigars. Satisfaction

guarantwd. Pipe free. Pay postmaster. Farmers’

Union; Paducah, Ky. .





 





LEAF TOBACCO——Selected chewing. 5 pounds $1.50:

ten $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—~Chowing.

five pounds. 31.50; ten. $2 50. Smoking. ten. 81.50.

Pipe free.‘. pay when received. United Farmers. Bud-

weli. Kentucky.



sensation Tweedy—Smoking oi- Chewing. 4 lbs.

31: :12: $3.25. Send no money. Psy postmaster on

may ~Plpe one for ten names of tobacco users

[United Mn of Kentucky. Ky. _





 





 





"I.ARGE TYPE. Eng. W. Leghorn Chix from our

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

:larnc typo, iii-n pedigree males. Lowprices. only

“£107.50 per 1000. Circular free. Model Poultry Farm.

‘chland, BIIi'lI” R. .

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.BLOOD TESTED. bred to lay, Barred Rocks ant!

Ascltipc-llanson Strain. White Iierhoms. pedigreed

males used. Satisfaction guaranteed. You‘re the

.judgc. Catalogue free. Ase tine Poultry Farm. Bur-





 





 





 





Catalogue llinganie Station. Grand Rapids, Mich.





Eleven breeds rigidly culled. Write for

Litchileld Hatchery. Llhohfleld.





lion quality.

catalogue and prices.

Mich.





BE QUI(3I{——A1nazlngly low chick and. SEE prlcds.

Rocks, Reds. Leghorns. pure—bred. Prompt. deliveny.

Explanation free, quick. Merrill Hatchery, Merrill,

Mich.





 





HELP WANTED





WAN'l‘ED~—Expericnced dairy farmer to work farm

of 200 acres; good buildings} silo, two houses. fine

market. for Jersey milk. Look Box No. 26. Orton-

villc, Mich. -— s





 





 





RELIABLE, experienced. single man for general farm

work and small dairy farm. Address“ Charles Mo-

Calla. Ann Arbor. Michigan. Route 6.





srruxrious WANTED "‘





 





 





risnce. Box 11. Michigan Farmer. in Mid!-





 





AGEN‘I‘.3.WAN'I'BD _

’Aan're—Our New Humanoid cram Device

and dries windows. sweep» cleans: s. reap;





fl ‘

mops. Costs less than. brooms. .0ver half:

:Vrlte Home! Brush Works. 1” 31d 5“,.





Try a ~Micl'ii-‘gan Farmer





 





BETTER CHICKS—I’ure-bred stock of high produce





POSITION WANTED—work on farm. @01wa 13:00" :~~ *
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F. E. BEATTY

“The

Strawberry King”





OST of you Michigan Farmer

readers are farmers and



I am a farmer and so th1s 1s gomg

to be a farmer-to-farmer chat.



I was born and raised upon a farm and

am still living and working on 'my 400-

acre farm. Have done everything from

plowing to harvesting; carried sheaves

and shocked grain bare-footed, hauled

manure, built rail fence, chopped wood,

“biled” apple butter, grew corn, fat-

tened hogs and butchered, and “raised

cane” and made sorghum molasses.

Now, I am growing berries and making

money instead of making molasses.





This Book GivesYou My





30 Years’ of Experience





I began growing berries in Indiana thirty-one

years ago, didn’t make much money because I



didn’t know the trick. R. M. Kellogg of Michlgan

, was a berry expert and was making a lot of mon-

ey; he knew how to produce heavy fruiting plants

and how to make them produce big crops. He

was getting old and so he gave me the secret of

his big crops and big profits. It didn’t take me

long to learn that the biggest part of Kellogg’s

secret of big crops was in the fruitfulness of 1118

plants. I had been using the wrong kind of plants.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





This is the Barn that Bill Built with Strawberry Profits





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any additional cost to you.





 

 

 

 





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“ Please se'nd’me your new Berry Book, which fully describes the

Kellogg Way’ of groWIng strawberries, raspberries, blackberries,

and grapes for profit and tells how to make $500 to $1,200,per acre.





so.sslssosssssssssssso-IIasses-sass-rosss‘oovsssssy





R. M. KELLOGG co. BOX 3645, THREE RIVERS, MICE“ I 4





St. orRIFODIOCO'I.III.IIS‘IIIDC.'O.I’lfilCOOUIOOICOICUOIO\OO





State..................2 I





to Every Michigan Farmer F dmily





Get this book and read about Kellogg's Brand New

BEAUTY, the most beautiful and best keeping straw-

berry on record. Send for rny book and learn how you

can get some of these new plants for testing without





F. E. BEATTY. President





‘ R. M. KELLOGG CO.

‘ Box 3645, Three Rivers, Mich.





KELLOGG Thorobred





 





fourths of an acre.





from only one-half acre.

plenty more in the book.





The Kellogg secret of big crops'and big profits is

no longer a secret; it’s too good for one man to

keep all to himself; there’s room in the berry bus—

iness for all of us; you can have it if you want it.

Get my book and see for yourself how easy and

simple it is to grow big crops and make big

profits the “Kellogg Way.”





200,000 Books Already Mailed

The big demand for these books proves that

farmers are looking for bigger money-making

crops. 200,000 books have al-





 





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Tells You How To Make

$500 to $1200Per Acre





Send me that coupon and I'll mail you my book which gives the secret

of Kellogg’s big money-making crops. $500 to $1,200 per acre comes

easy when you know how. -



Geo. Beaudette, of Bessemer, Mich., got my book several years ago-

and one acre of strawberries made him $1,800.



Herbert L. Mulford of New York State made a net profit of $468.02

from less than one-third acre. . -



J. H. Embler of North Carolina sold’ $1,200 worth from only three-





Jacob S. Rodgers of Pennsylvania sold 8,500 quarts from his acre

which made him $1,700, and H. A. Wysong of Indiana made $1,213.95

No room for more profit reports here, but





These are the proof from other farmers. Get my book and prove it

yourself on one of your own acres.





$4,000 Home Built With Straw-

berry Profits





The profits‘ from only two acres of strawberries

grown the ‘Kellogg Way” paid for this $4,000

home. Here’s a letter from the, man who did it:

n. M. Kellogg 00.,

Three Rivers, Mich.





Gentlemen: I started growing Kellogg Strawberries only

a few years ago, with no experience





Lansing, Mich.





 





ready been mailed and we’re

still mailing them out fast, but

there are plenty more left.





Every Michigan Farmer reader

should have one of these books.

Send the coupon and you will be

sure to get your copy right

away. It’s by all odds the most

practical and best book on berry

growing, ever written. It’s just

A, B, C, common sense. It will

convince you beyond all doubt

that one acre of berries grown

the “Kellogg Way” is better than

forty acres of general farm crops.

One farmer wrote me and said,

“I am making more clear profit

from my acre of berries grown

the “Kellogg Way” than I am

making from all the rest of my

one hundred acre farm.”





 





 





and very little capital. In a short

time the profits from only two acres

of Kellogg Thorobred plants had

fully palm for my $4,000 home. I

have founcu‘Kellogg Thorobred plants

exceedingly productive and profit-

able. (Signed) '



E. D. ANDREWS.

, Mr. Andrews’ big profit did not

come. through luck, there is no

luck about the “Kellogg Way.”





Get My Book and





See For Yourself





Your name and address on the

coupon,“ or a postal card will

bring this book to you. I don’t

claim this to be a great big book,

it doesn’t need to be big. It’s

just a nice size book of thirty-

two pages, which tells you how

to grow big crops of strawber-





 





 





Hundreds Making These Profits





Yes, hundreds of farmers are now making big

profits growing strawberries the “Kellogg Way;”

you can grow berries right on your own farm and

make money. It doesn’t require much more time

to grow: an acre of strawberries the “Kellogg

Way” than it does to grow an acre of corn or po-

tatoes, and look at the big difference in the prof-

its. Mr. Hileman, a Michigan farmer, began grow-

ing berries the “Kellogg Way” a few years ago.

He needed a new barn and he got it from just a

little more than an acre of strawberries. Look at

the barn and then read his letter, here it is:



Cassopolis, Mich.

1!. M. Kellogg (10.,

Three Rivers, Mich.



Gentlemen: I enclose a picture of my

new barn built this summer, a product

of Kellogg Stra'wberries. Will be glad

if I can do anything for on.

I owe my success to Kc] ogg

Plants and your directions,

which I have always followed.



WM. HILEMAN.





ries, raspberries, blackberries,

grapes, fruit trees and shrubbery the “Kellogg

Way,” and it tells you right. ~



You will profit by reading this book. It will give

you confidence in your own ability to grow ber-

ries; you will enjoy the beautiful pictures made

from photographs; eight pages in natural colors;

five ready-made berry gardens at low prices, and

quarter~acre, half-acre, and acre selections. Pic-

tures and describes the biggest mone making

standard and overbearing varieties. T 113 every-

thing from start to, finish. Get the book'and then

use your own judgment.