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Whole No. 4755
“meter amino-ease or.sfi,ooo,.0'oo in"





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

   





 

 





Many farm women, too.

now have electric bunches.





 





Rural electrification





- afacf on more Man 260,000]?!sz





use of all the benefits of electric

service, and with the develop

ment of new equipment, rural

electrification will open a new

era on the farm.





S the result of cooperative

investigation carried on



in twenty states, electric light

and power companies are now

building rural lines as fast as





circumstances will permit. Rural lines cannot be built





everywhere at once, but the

light and power companies are

ready to extend service to

groups of farmers, which to

gether, can use sufficient power

to justify the building and '

maintaining of rural lines.





On 260,000 farms rural elece

tric service is in successful

operation today.





The same force which has

done so much for industry

will soon be available to an

increasing number of farms.

The resources and experience

of more than forty years of

successful city service are back

of this movement to bring the

farmer the greatest practical





help he has ever had.

. With the desire to make full





The Committee on Relation 3 Electricity to Agriculture is composed ofeconomists and

engineers representing the . S. De artmenzs of Agriculture, Commerce and the

Interior, American Farm Bureau Fe eration, National Grange, American Society of

Wicultural Engineers, Individual Plant Manufacturers, General Federation of



men's Clubs, American Home Economics Association, National Association of

Farm Equipment Manufacturers, and the National Electhc Light Association.





, NATIONAL ELECTRIC

LIGHT ASSOCIATION





29 WEST 39"“ STREET° NEW YORK,N.Y.





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Rural electrification can come

quickly—where farmers and

the light and power companies

work together for the same

good end. Ask your power

company for information and

cooperation.





 





 





WANTED --- Four Men





With Cars who can devote *full time to saleswork. Salary

and expenses paid weekly to full time men. For complete

information address





- The Michigan Farmer, Desk C, Detroit, Michigan





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 





Tie Your Bunch Stuff Automatically!





What a money-saver, profit-maker





 





 

 

 

 

   

   

 





 





 





Celery Asparagus the FELINS Tying Machine is for



Kohlrabi Beets market gardeners, nurserymen, flor-



Carrots Onions isms—every grower ‘ who bunches



Turnips Parsley hip produce. Adjusts itself automI-r



Rhubarb Radish ticelly to size of bundles. Many



Cabbage Flowers other FELINS features. Guam-

Phat. EtCe





 





' among more» " ,.

States" last year is he 1:.





the value of exports of tresh fruit from

this country over the 1925 crop ex-

ports. The value of 'bozxed apple ex-

ports in 1926 was, $15,431,357,_as com

:pared with. $12,78Ff,49’5\in 1925, while

’"shipments of‘ apples’in barrels increas-

ed to $15,041.669‘fr0m the\_1925 total





‘ of $8,275,589. ' The exports of all fresh





fruits from” the United States during

1926 amounted to $53,000,000, compar-

ed wimszcooaooo in 1922..





SAY coCOA CAKEHARMFUL T0

STOCK.





 





RECENT bulletin from the U. S.

‘ Department of Agriculture reports

that tests on the feeding of cocoa; cake

show that it depresses the milk flow

of dairy cattle. Caution should be ob-

served in feeding cocoa product to an-

imals, especially to non‘ruminants.

The alkaloids of\the shells are said to

have been responsible for the death

of a number of animals fed on this

product





INCREASE LABOR ALLOWANCE ON

SWEET CORN.





 





N the preliminary arrangement gov-



erning the distribution of the ten

million dollars in the corn borer clean-

up, one dollar per acre was allowed in

the clean-up of the fields where sweet

corn had been grown. This amount

has been since raised to two dollars

per acre, the same as for field corn.





 





According to one student of agricul—

tural history, it has taken 3,000 years

to develop our present idea of crop

rotation. Now what shall we do next?





 





Uncle Pete reflects, and then re

marks, what a 'blow this international

clean-up program must be to the per-

sonal liberty of the corn borer.





 





SUGAR CROP INCREASES.





 





AN increase in acreage of world

sugar crops in 1927-28, is indicated

by reports to the bureau of agricul-

tural economics.“ Estimates for the

1926—27 crop indiCate a production of

26,234,000 short tons, which is consid-

erably larger than the crops a. few

years back, but below the record crop

of 27,715,000 short tons last year and

26,755,000 tons in 1924-25.



World trade in sugar has nearly

doubled since the war, and consump-

tion of sugar in Europe and America

is keeping pace with the largely in-

creased production.



The European sugar beet acreage

this year is expected to show an in-

crease of about ten per cent over that

of last year. All European countries

excepting Rumania and Poland are

planning for larger beet sugar produc-

tion than last year.





MISQUOTED ON BOVINE ruaER‘cu.





LOSI'S WORK.





 





FALSE and misleading propaganda

is being broadcasted in the middle

westagalnst the government’s bovine

tuberculosis eradication campaign, ac-

cording to Dr. John R. Mohler, chief

of the bureau of animal industry.





One statement is being made to the





effect that Dr. Mohler has said that





tuberculosis is spreading faster than

ever before. , This. Doctor Mohler de-

nies, as tuberculosis has declined .in

the United States in the last few years

from more than four per cent to about

.28 per cent. ,, ’ - * *

“Dr. Mahler Says- that .- .

ment credited to him, asserting, that





 





 

 





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SAVE amass WAGES,





 





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ermine we? met Screw?“





   





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another stat meat ins





shed





new .. {Ilsayé-Dr. Moll r pub-





hc sléntfmentb*'towsrd' the eradication I.





of tuberculrisls in recent margin-ids





' been most favorable. The press. ratio“





stations, and public speakers, with fair

exceptions, have warmly supported-

;that important branch of public ser-

vice, which is. a factor in public health

as well as, a.- benefit to the

industry."





 





 





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The West Virginia house of dele-

gates recently passed a bill making

the daily reading of the Bible compul-

sory in the public schools of the state.





Twenty-one foreign battle ships are

near Hankow, the Chinese nationalist

capitol, as recently the Chinese au-

thorities violated their treaty by

segrchmg private-owned Russian prop-

er y.





A group of men in the laboratories,





of the Bell Telephone Company in

New York, saw and heard Secretary

Hoover make a speech in Washington

through the new television equipment.





Leigh J. Young, the newly appointed

head of the state conservation depart-

ment, said that all his appointments

will be made on the basis of civil ser-

vice examinations.





The big egg-freezing plants in Han-

koy and Nanking have been closed by

the Chinese agricultural commissioner,

because of the Chinese civil war.



“Big Bill” Thompson, former mayor

of Chicago, was elected to that office

again by a large majority over the

present mayor, William Dever, demo-

crat. Thompson is anti-prohibitionist.





Due to the threatened boycott by the

retail merchants of Detroit and other

places, the Ford Motor Company will

close its retail stores to the general

pubhc after April 18. These stores

were selling groceries, drugs, shoes,

notions, meats, paints, lumber, etc.



Investors in United States securities

are careless, for they have failed to

collect $35,000,000 of interest due them

on Liberty Bonds.





Although the executive mansion is

closed, President and ‘Mrs. Coolidge

will be hosts to the Washington chil-

dren at the ’annual Easter egg rolling

on the White» House lawn. Last year

40,000 people attended the event.



The Sapiro-Ford case continues to

make slow progress in the Detroit

court. Sapiro has been cross-examined

and Ford is due to be soon.



The national assembly in Norway

abolished prohibition when it passed

a bill removing restrictions on the sale

of liquor. » ‘



Rabid coyotes, dogs and other farm

animals have terrorized farmers in

Bear Valley, Oregon, who have asked

government help to exterminate rabid

animals. . .



The U. S. good-will fliers have left

the main land of South America to vis-

it the island of Trinidad.



The export of American automobiles

is steadily. impressing. In February

there was a 7.2 per cent increase over

the same month last year.





Forty-six years ago, Wm. English,





News of» the Week





live stock I





of Wichita, Kansas, scratched his in-_





itials on a half dollar. It recently

came back’to him in Watertown, New

York, in change at a gas filling station.



Mussolini, the Italian premier, has

issued strict regulations regarding

dancing, and has virtually declared

war on night clubs. ,





In 1908 JohnKrubsack, a Wisconsin

farmer, planted‘ twenty-eight box eld-

ers, according to\a definite plan. By

careful training and grafting he grew

these into a usable chair, which he

now values at $4,000, and- which is be-





ing exhibited throughout the country. .





Since the? University of Illinois has

denied the students he privilege pf

using autos, the students have taken

to roller skates. Recently a roller

skating derby was held there.



The United States entered the World

War on April 5, ten years ago.



Leningrad, Russia, is believed to





have shattered all records for drunken- .





ness, suicides and murders. Five thou-

sand one hundred twenty-tour persons

were arrested for drunkenness in one





week, and there are seldom fewerthm .





three murders a day, The waiting list

o: , those; seeking» a cure- :for drunken-

ness ,audsygdrug habits at:

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IVE years ago, just before the

dairy farmers of Minnesota had

federated their cooperative cream-





,' eries to market and merchandise their





own fine butter under their own brand,

well known Minne-

sota; dairyman- and cooperator, was

called to New Jersey to talk coopera-

tlve marketing to a group of farmers

explaining

the opportunities of cooperatives to





’ merchandise the farmer’s prducts, Mr.

’ Schilling asked: .





“Will you farmers (there were two

thousand of them in the audience) who

have eaten Minnesota butter raise

your hands ?”



Not a hand went up.



“Will you who have heard of or eat-

en Luella brand butter, please raise

your hands?”



Hundreds of hands went up.



“Where was it made?"





~headquarters in Philadelphia.





 

 





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A Practical Journal for the Rural Family

MICHIGAN SECTION THE CAPPER FARM rnsss





By Berry H. Akcrs





Standard Farm Paper Editorial Service





“In Philadelphia,” was the reply.

The fact was that Luella butter was





. made in the cOoperative creameries of





Minnesota, and was put up under that

brand for one of the chain stores with

Not a

pound of it—and that chain store was

then taking the entire output of over

seventy-five Minnesota creameries——

could be identified by the consumer as

having come from Minnesota. The

farmers had been content to milk the

cows and make the butter, leaving the

merchandising with all its advantages

of prestigeand price, to the buyer.

Now it is different, as the bulk of

Minnesota’s fine butter' is finding its

way to the consumer’s table under the

farmer's own brand. Land O’ Lakes

sweet cream butter is now known in





most of the principal consuming cent-

ers of America, and even in far off

Australia and Peru. It is made and

packed by Land O’ Lakes Creameries,

Inc., this organization being a federa-

tion of 402 cooperative creameries in

Minnesota, and several in Wisconsin,

Michigan and North Dakota. It was

known when organized in 1921, as the

Minnesota Cooperative Creameries’ As-

sociation, but the name was changed

last year to obliterate geographical

lines, and thereby make it possible

for the cooperative creameries of Wis-

consin, Iowa and adjoining states to

join in its ambitious cooperative pro-

gram.





Started five years ago without a dol-

lar and without a member, it stands

today as an outstanding success in co-





QUALITY , _

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NUMBER XVI





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operative marketing. Its asset and

working capital now exceed $900,000.; ‘

It represents approximately 84,000

dairy farmers. Theodore Macklin, or: ;;

Wisconsin, cooperative marketing au—

thority, who has studied the dairy co-

operatives of Denmark and New zea-





land at first hand, makes the state-l 3f





ment that the Land O’ Lakes organia

zation ranks next to the California

Fruit Growers’ Exchange, and predicts ‘

that within a few years, when it con-





trols a somewhat larger percentage of _ . '





the .fine butter made in America, it

will absolutely dominate the fine but-

ter market. It is already a reckoning

factor in that market and as such has

helped every dairy farmer in America.



Last year the Land O’ Lakes organ-

ization marketed 80,622,796 pounds of

butter, and did a total business of $39,-

851,655. The average monthly gross

price paid member creameries for but-



(Continued on page 527).





Fighting Corn BOrcrs With Plows





How Me Farmers C2272 Go Over! Me Top 272 T 52': International Conflict

By H. H. Mussclman'





HE national government approp-

firiation for corn borer control

work is intended to reimburse

farmers in these areas for the addi-





tional cost to which they are put in _





carrying out a program of thorough

clean-up of all cornstalks, stubble, and

waste. By reason of this payment for





extra work for clean-up tojhold back

* the corn borer, Michigan farmers owe





it to the national government and the





. sister 'states to see that the job is thor-





oughly and effectively done. Michigan

and adjoining states are the shock

troops depended upon to hold the en-

emy’s line, and I. am confident that so

far as Michigan farmers have instruc-

tion, they will carry out the order to‘

the letter.





Are you in the quarantine area?

Some farmers are overlooking this im-

portant point. The quarantine area in

Michigan includes twenty- three coup-

ties of eastern Michigan, including

Bay, Saginaw, Shiawassee, Ingham,





. Jackson, Calhoun, Kalamazoo and St.





 





 





 





 





Doing a Good Job with the Team and Ordinary Plow Properly Adjusted.





Joseph, as well as all counties east of trouble ‘30 d0 the job completely can





theSe.





If you are in the quarantine area,

action is necessary to dispose of all

cornstalks, stubble, and rubbish by

plowing under completely, or by burn-

ing. No arbitrary rule is made as to

the methods by which this is to be

done, but it should be done thoroughly.



Plowing promises to be one of the

most effective methods of control,

since it offers, when properly done, a





simple and inexpensive way of stalk





and stubble disposal. There is great





opportunity to improve plowing on

' ., Michigan farms, and good plowing will

_ reward the farmer in yields and satis-

:--;;_racuon, -asl well as reducing the rav-

‘~‘",’ages of the com borer





 





‘rning the rash. However, the depth should





be afforded.



What is the best way to turn the

stalks and stubble under? There are

a number of good ways, some of which

I will describe, but every farmer

should consider that soil, size of corn,





whetherstanding stalks or stubble,





clean or foul with weeds, will all have

a. bearing on the problem. It should

also be remembered that the work

must be done so well that no stalks,

stubble or trash’will come to the sur-

face with subsequent tillage.

There'are four things to consider in

good‘ plowing depth, width, plow hitch

and adjustment, and attachments.

As a. rule, as deep plowing as is con-

Sistent with good practice should be

followed. This is espeCia'lly true of

the usual width plow, as more soil is

turned over in deep plowm'g to cover





 





It can also be stated that the wider

plows will do the more effective work,

because the furrow slice is turned

over better, and the wider plows will

turn better at a greater depth. Plows

will be used this spring up to eighteen

inches in width for a. single bottom.

For heavy standing stalks, it is doubt-

ful whether they can bevturned under

completely with less than sixteen or

eighteen-inch bottoms.



In plow adjustments, the share

should be sharp andhave sufiicient

vertical suction (point of share tip-

ping downward) to pull the plow into

the ground. This is especially import-

ant where the gage wheel rolling over

stubble tends to. raise the point out of

the ground. The amount of vertical

suction shbuld be one-fourth to three

eighth inch. Horizontal suction (lean-





ing pdint toward the land) will make,





the plow run more steady. . Horizontal





suction should be one-fourth inch. The

’- ' ‘ ‘: ‘Wldth of plan” will beg, be the first in your neigh 





V91 05906ti when





equipped with wire or chain attach-

ment. or both. These attachments will

be described later. The fourteen-inch

plow is useful, since three furrow

width of the plow is exactly the usual

width of corn rows. With careful

work, the plow can be made to turn

each stubble row in the same way.

The most useful attachment will be

the rolling coulter and jointer. Since

the rolling coulter cannot be used on

some walking plows, the jointer will

be more generally used. It should be

set one and one-half to two inches»

deep, one-half inch to land from the

land side, and with the point the low-

est part.



A No. 9 wire attached to the coulter

shank or beam, with the loose end al-'

lowed to drag for four feet under the

furrow slice which is being turned, .

will be found effective. If you have-

not used this, try it. The best adjust-

ment can be found in a few minutes.



A one-half or five-eighth-inch chain.





with one end attached to the jointer . ~ ‘





shank and the other to the evener,‘

and with a length of loop just escap

ing the furrow slice as it is turned i

over, will be effective in wiping both

stalks, stubble and trash into the bot—1,,

tom of the furrow To keep the chain'

tight, a knot is sometimes tied in. it

which will drag in the bottom 01' the",

fu1r.ow A second short piece of chain

attached to the first and allowed it!

drag under the furrow will keep the





filst chain tight and make it more a ”If“





effective. .



These suggestions apply principally

to walking plows. For riding and:

tract-or plows, both rolling coulter and

jointel, as well as one or more wt

for each share, should be used.

plowing under standing stalks W1





 

   

   





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VOLUME CLXVHI NUMBER SIXTEEN





' IDE’I‘ROIT, Aggie, 1927





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CURRENT COMMENT





HE apple growers





 





(e of the country are



7;" APP , not in the happiest

rowers state of mind, because

Dilemma their operations dur-





ing the past year

were not profitable. In fact, for a pe-

riod of several years their financial re-

turns have not been sufficient to ena-

ble one to call them good automobile

prospects.



Over-production seems to be com-

mon cause of the conditions confront-

ing the apple grower. although we be—

lieve that over-production is not the

fundamental cause. The encroach-

ments of other fruits upon the apple

market has made that market more

limited at a time when it should be

expanding. The growers of other fruits

have been able to widen their markets

through acquainting the consuming

public with the value of their fruit.

‘I—Iighly intensive advertising cam-

paigns have been the weapons used.



The status Of these fruit growers

was worse than that of the apple grow-

ers. They either had to fight or give

up. The apple growers are now com-





ting to that same realization and the





advertising campaign now ’being plan-

ned should effectively place the apple

in its proper position in the consum~

ing market. We are pleased to note

that Michigan ranks second in the





'“ , membership in this national advertis-





' ,Ting mOvement.





   

   

 

 

 

   

 

   





T is very difficult .to

tell the way we are





Better

going, but by every-





Days thing that is good, it



Ahead seems certain we are

on our way to some-

:.thlng,that has the appearance of be-





an improvement over present ways.

iglne’rntioned below ever come to





‘ . St:o;different states experi:





 





 





RA Wt, that is true if some of the "





conduCted by export-





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the,





on the farm. Anton





in which this mysterious power is be-





on trial is' its adaptability





and dishes; grinding feed; running,

cream separator; milking cows; dry-

ing, baling and hoisting hay; mixing

feed; cleaning poultry houses'with the

vacuum cleaner: operating ventilators,

running water, refrigerator, cooking

and lighting systems; controlling in-f-

sects; sprouting seeds, etc.



This is only a partial list of‘the

scores of experiments that are being

carried on by “these electrical engi-

neers. Some of the operations tried will

provohelpfulc and in their success

many" more uses will suggest, or pre-

sent themselves, to the end that a

great field of usefulness. reaching far

beyond the present conception of its

value to the farmer, will ultimately be»

realized.





HE’ anti-trespass

“er 1. Parent?“-

3’ e lo gan

UR the State Senate is now

Fight in the hands of the





Committee of Conserfi

vation in the House of Representatives,

of which Frederick R. Ming, of Che-

boygan, is chairman.



As indicated last week, this bill was

so amended by the Senate‘as to great-

ly destroy its usefulness to the farm-

ers as a measure for correcting the

evils of unrestrained trespassing by

hunters and fishermen upon the prop-

erty of farmcrs. The only hope Of se-

curing satisfactory legislation on this

subject during the present session, is

for readers to write Chairman Ming

urging his committee to restore Sec-

tion Four of the original bill which

provides the necessary machinery for

enforcing the penalties for violating

the provisions of the measure. We,

therefore, urge our readers to immedi-

ately correspond with the chairman

of this committee, addressing their

letters to him at the House of Repre-

sentatives, Lansing, Michigan. It will

be necessary also, to send letters to

your representative asking him to sup-





in rdraiiiire. Once thep-w’

tered, community Organization‘s ,





throughout the year. - _

This year Music. Week is announced

for May 1-7, and rural organizations





will; benefit by giving special attention .prices continue to decline,





to a program_ that will supply this

fourth great material want to the folks

in their community. .

Through the National Music Week

committee, plans may be secured for





Music Vi'eek programs in rural com-_





munities. Address thiscommittee at

45 West 45th Street, New York City.

Pamphlets of information on music in

the home, family and group singing,

and music appreciation through the

radio and phonograph may also be

Obtained. V



Music is the “universal language of

mankind,” and if we are to live closer

to, and understand our neighbors, we

should endeavor to better understand

our universal language.





N Tuesday of this



Week the Michi-

gan State Farm Bu-

reau arranged a hear-

ing before agricultural

and judiciary commit-

tees Of the state Senate on the need

for legislation giving relief to farmers

from chicken thieves. Since we pub-

lished a broadside on this subject

many months ago, much has been said

by and for the farmer on the matter.

The farmer is certainly justified in

asking for relief along this line.



Two bills have been passed by the

House which promises to help. House

Bill No. 19 requires all firms purchas-

ing poultry to make a record of the

name of the seller, his residence,

weight, business occupation, kind of

poultry purchased, etc. This record

is to be open at all times to sheriffs

and police officers. This bill is now

before the senate agricultural com-

mittee. House Bill NO. 167, a com-

panion bill to the above, provides a.

heavy penalty for chicken stealing.





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sidered in the contest this year,





be forwarded so the scoring can

closing the nominations is May 1





 





Master Farmer Nominations





E are highly pleased with the nominations received to date.

for the 1927 class of Michigan Master Farmers. The stand-





that established in 1926. “Several farmers in the state deserve to

be named for this honor, but their nominations have not as yet

been reported. Since only persons who are nominated will be con-

it‘is important that the names of

such men be forwarded promptly by their friends.

are not available, send in the names at once and score cards will





. It is important, therefore, to

forward nominations immediately. Address all communications to

the Editor, Michigan Farmer, Detroit.





have been sent in is well up to





If score cards





be done later. The date set for





 





 





port this measure when it comes to

the floor of the House for the consid-

eration of that body.



Legislators are inclined to do what

their constituents desire, providing

wants are sufficiently emphasized by

voters. This is our reason for contin-

uing to urge this measure. The meth-

ods employed by the widow .of long.

ago, who persistently made her ap-

peals from day to day to the unjust

judge, should win out in this instance,

as it did then. Do not wait until next

fall, when hunters are thick and you

are beside yourself to know what to

do to protect your property, and pre-

serve your piece of mind. Prompt ac-

tion now may give you relief then.





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material, Want of our nnture,





This bill is now in the hands of the

judiciary committee of the Senate.

The purpose of the hearing called

by the farm bureau is to urge the com-

mittees to report out these measures.

You may not have attended this hear-

ing; but you can aid in the good work

by writing your senator and the chair-

man of each of these committee urg-

ing the enactment of these measures.





ERE is no doubt"





The , but that the re-



\ markable increase in



Egg .Cf’m' efficient methods of

petition handling poultry has»





. put the business one.

more competitive basis: As in dairyi

ing, one nowcan tell definitely wheth-

er a hen is paying her Way, or is fill-

ing the position of star boarder. This,

With the selection used; by the hatch:





 

 

 





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‘ Year. but that ordinarily a yearly pm. ‘





duction of. 160 eggs is needed to mama

tain a flock at a good profit. I .,

an even

higher egg average will be necessary

to maintain a good margin of profit. ‘

Like the automobile business, the

chicken raising industry is approach?

ing a period of competition. in which





undoubtedly will have to quit. Those

who realize this period of "competition

is coming, and will prepare for litby

making their business mOre efficient.

will profit thereby. It is doubtful if

the chickenbusiness will ever be’uu‘

profitable if carried on efficiently.





 





\ Swings .



WAS just looking fer a ball of

string and couldn’t find it and, it’s

funny, that made. be think of strings.

You know, I think strings is one of

the most useful instruments 0’ civili-

zation. In fact, I think civilization

would come apart if‘it’ wasn’t fer

strings. It’s the strings we attach to

each other that makes living together

possible. One of the greatest strings

is the marriage string, and that gets

into such a hard not,, or knot I should

say, that it’s sometimes hard to untic.

But if you got money enough you kin

. get a expert to

untie it fer you,

but there’s some

folkses I know

that think they’re

tied up fer life

with a rope a foot



‘ thick.

J'S‘N/ There’s some

others what are

‘l.‘ '9‘” ' tied up with the

strings of the heart, and they are hap-

py because nobody ties any nicer knot

than Cupid, ’cause there’s no greater

happiness than when the heart strings

are tied. The reason so many ain't

happy, though married, is ’cause the



heart ain’t in the tieup.





 





 

       





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Every little baby that comes is also-





a string that ties us tighter. Every-

thing we do in kindness is also a tie

in love and affection, and every wrong

thing we do is one more that ties us

to evil. Sometimes these ties get so

strong that it is hard fer us to cut our~

selves loose. 3‘





We can’t live without being tied to





something, so we’ve got to be awful

careful what we get tied to, ’cause the

strings 0' habit are so strong that

often they don’t get untied until the

strings 0’ life are cut, and then the

undertaker ties a few knots in the

family.



If we didn’t have strings we wouldn’t

be able to wrap anything up. Ain’t it

awful, how bad we feel when we bust

a shoe string. It’s caused Some folks

to bustthe strings on their temper and

to have a hard job getting it tied up

again. “roman, and some men, too,

couldn’t have their shapes made to or

der if it wasn’t for corset strings, and

if it wasn’t for strings, We’d have “to

wear 'fig leaves, like Eve did in» the

afternoon, because ' our clOthés is

strings woven closely together. '



They say the latch string is out for

hospitality, and a fellow is stringing

'em when he is making folkses believe

something that ain’t so. Some folkses





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maybe think I’m stringing this outtOo '





long, so I guess I’ll tie my knot «and

quit. But, before I do I wants, say

thero~ain’t nothing "nicer than“, the

cords of love!" and adjection; and I

wouldn’t . mind being ‘ tied‘ ‘ifhéadz Land

13°91; .. With them; ' They. heir. *to "make

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MALi. gimme “hunting ‘ and fishing,

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fort they could have the hearty sup-

"pdrt‘and Cooperation of the‘great bulk

of the farmers who control this terri-

tory; which would mean increase in

game, because the question of taxation

is the only questiongwhich exceeds the

question of game laws in- interest and

irritation with the average farmer;

3 . Take the question of increase of

muskrats, for example. They have in-

creaSed Wonderfully since the closed

season. It opened this winter. Farm-

ers who have fed and protected these

rats in their pond holes and creek bot-

toms for the past few years, some of

them more or less unwillingly.‘ were

obliged to submit to have itinerant

poachers clean out the crop in a few

nights, their only protection being’ an

=appeal to the civil trespass laws which

are~hopeless. The same situation is

-'equally true of the rabbit, partridge

and pheasant. Farmers feed and pro-

tect these small game more or less un-

willingly at the expense of depreda-

tions on their crops during the season.

When the game season opens in the

fall, -' generally at their busiest time,

«they are obliged to stand by and watch

hordes of foreign hunters, equipped

with complete killing paraphernalia,

wander over their fields and clean up

the game in a fortnight.





There has been a great falling off in

' the local nesting and breeding of the

wild ducks of the various kinds who

used to breed naturally~in Michigan.

'Farmers could be induced to protect

and encourage the breeding of these

ducks, which would mean nothing but

'judicious feeding, if they received co-

operation and protection from the con-

servation department. If I understand

the situation correctly today, the only

time the conservation department will

cooperate in protecting the farmer is

gwhen he makes a farm a game pre-

serve, which prevents him from hunt-

'ing entirely, and profits his neighbor

only. .

** There is another phase of the mat-

ter which requires a better under-

standing. Skunks and weasels partic-

ularly, and-to a considerable extent.

mink, destroy a great deal of domestic

pOultry and eggs during every season,

as well as large amounts of small

game; The weasel is a killer for the

fun of killing, sometimes destroying

forty or fifty fowls in a night. A neigh-

borhood infested with these animals

should have the assistance of expert

game protectors of the state.

The problem of the skunk is more





. difficult, as he is a valuable fur-bear-





ing animal. I have known several in-

'stances of the local authorities threat-

ening and punishing those who kill

skunk who were nesting under their





'/ , . Judge Third Judidtl District. Michigan





,residences'fiarid living as well ”off their





poultry. Every-cemmunity'is damag- '





ed to the extent of thousands of dol?

lars by the depredations of sheep-kill-

ing 'dogs. Some statistics of - the

amount; of money which some of these

counties pay out'"for sheep killed by

dogswould be interesting, and the

county, of course, cannot recompense

farmers more than fifty per cent of

' actual damage which he suffers. These

dogs also worry and destroy much

small game. Their destruction would





test the skill of some of the experi- "





enced wolf wardens. It would be a

service in the interests of conserva-

tion and would pay for itself many

times over -in the savings of taxes.

Why would it‘not be a good idea to

turn all of the dog license fees into

the conservation department fund and

make them responsible for the destruc-

tion of Unlicensed dogs? Then to

place one game warden on full time

in each of the counties of the lower

part of the Lower Peninsula where

these problems are acute? 'Acquaint-

ance would lead to confidence. And

the conservation department, by op-

portunity for service, would secure the

cooperation and support of the farmer.





 





PLANTING MANGEL SEED.





 





MANGEL seed seem to germinate



very» slowly, and for that reason

the weeds often ‘make a good start

before the mangels are large enough

to cultivate. For the last two years I

have placed my mangel beet seed in

large dishes and poured warm water

over them. Then I have placed the

seed in the sun and allowed them to

remain until small sprouts started.





Then the sprouted mangel seed have

been planted in rows by placing about

three seed every font. As soon as the

plants were about an inch high they

were thinned to one plant every foot.

This has seemed to insure one heal-

thy mangel beet for every foot, and as

the germination of mangel seed is

sometimes rather low, I have found

this method better than sowing dry

seed in drills and doing a lot of thin-

ning to keep the beets far enough

apart. By sowing in drills I some-

times found vacant spaces in the rows.



I have tried to transplant mangels

to fill in vacant spaces in the rows,

but-always found that the transplant-

ing gave the young plants a severe

setback and they seldom developed the

size of the plants which did not have

to be disturbed. By the hill method

there was a good chance of finding

at least one good beet for every foot

of the row. The above method is used

in planting mangels in a large garden

for use as poultry feed, and might not

be as good where a large acreage is

raised under field conditions the same‘

as sugar beets.-——R. G. Kirby.





 





 

   





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





   





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deficit at the beginning of this period.

of $1, 05_8, 575. Thus our total inherited

deficit in the general fund as of June

30,1927,wiliamount to 35, 282,162. _



“In addition to the deficit shown in

the foregoing report, legiSlative build-

ing and improvement appropriations

aggregating $3, 415, 469, were passed

on to this administration without any

political gesture, and manifestly can-

not be financed.”



In concluding his message,

nor Green said:



“The bills now before your commit-

tees ask for appropriations of more

than $96,000,000 for the next two

years. The estimated revenue that

will be aVaiIable for this period at the

present tax rate will be about $63,-

500,000.

lions of this must be used to cover the

existing deficit. .Approximate'ly $58,-

250,000 of current revenue will be



available for departmental and institu-

tional appropriations.



“To maintain our present tax rate;

therefore, drastic reductions are im-

perative in the appropriations asked

of this Legislature, and now before

your committees for consideration.

With the same tax rate, there will be

additional revenue from the normal

increase in assessed valuations, but it

will still be necessary to cut approxi-

mately $38,000,000 from these requests.

This is manifestly not a time when

you, as individual legislators, can hope

that the bills in which you are person-

ally interested will go through with-

out cuts. Reductions must be made all

the way down the line; My appeal is

to make every sacrifice necessary to

bring the financial condition of Michi-

gan back to a sound basis, without

placing added burdens upon the tax-

payers. We must apply economy and

business principles to the affairs of

our state government. We must gnot

punish the people with an increase .in

the tax rate because of the wanton

extravagance of those who have been

in power.”





Gover-





at: *



The firstgesture toward winding up-

the work of the present session of the

Legislature was the introduction of a

resdrution by Senator A. H. Gansser,

of Bay ‘City, which would provide for

concluding the law-making on April 30.

No definite action has been taken on

this resolution, but it is encouraging

in that it shows that at least one mem-

ber doesn’t expect the present session

to be endless.





*





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Highway finance is holding its place

as one of the most important and most

controversial questions before the state

legislature. Senator George Leland,

of Fennville, has introduced a bill pro-

viding for a three cent gas tax, and

the return of enough of the gas tax

revenue to the counties so that, taken

with the $6,000,000 which they now re-

ceive from the weight tax, the total

amount to be returned to the counties

would be a‘ full fifty per cent of the

weight tax receipts.



A considerable element in both the

Senate and the House are not favor-

ably disposed toward this proposal,

and are busily at work in an attempt

to perfect a compromise which would

provide for a four cent gas tax, per-

manent licanses for passenger cars,

and an annual weight tax on trucks

and buses. Instead of the flat $5.00

permanent license first proposed for

passenger cars, it is now suggested

that the cost of such permanent

licenses be fifty cents per hundred

pounds of the weight of the vehicle.

The rates for light trucks Would prob-

ably we considerably less than those

now in effect.



The secretary of state’s office is

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Angered by the delay on the peril





of the Senate in regard to capital pun

ishment, the House amended two Sen-

ate bills relative to the punishment at

bank, safe and yault robbery, and





breaking and’ entering while armed, by-





giving the judge discretionary power,

to impose the added penalty of ten to

twenty strokes of the lash “on the!

bare back, well laid on,” at the end:

of each six months’ imprisonment. The

total number of strokes per prisoner.

could not exceed' 300. Representative

Charles Culver, ~of Det1‘01t,who spon-

sored this whippingxpost amendment,

has been trying to get legislation of

this character enacted for a great

many years.



The amended bills were one by Sen«

ator Joseph E. Watson, of Bronson,

which would make the punishment for

bank, safe and vault robbery frezrw.

twenty years to life imprisonment, a 111

one by Senator Herbert J. Rushton, of

Escanaba, to provide life inipiison-

ment for breaking and entering while

armed. Both bills as amended were;

given immediate effect by the House.

The Senate has refused to accept the

House amendments, so the question as

to whether or not Michigan is to re-

e'stablish-the whipping post is as yet

undetermined.



Amendments to the workmen’s com-

pensation law increasing the maximum

weekly allowance from $14 to $18, and

embodying other features desired by

organized labor, were approved by the

House when it passed by a vote of

eighty-three to twelve, a bill by Repre-

sentative Frank Wade, of Flint. Rep.

resentative Wade is president of the





Michigan Federation of Labor.

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An expense allowance of $5.00 per

day for the members of the Legisla-

ture has finally been approved by both

the House and the Senate. It remains

to be seen whether or not the gover<

nor will sign the bill and, if so, wheth.

er the courts will uphold the act.



The compensation of the law-makers

is specified by the constitution as $8001

per two-year term, and there are those

who hold that the action of the-salons

in voting themselves an expense ah

lowance is an obvious attempt to nula'

lify this constitutional provision.



No member_

$5.00 expense refund except fer days

actually in attendance at’ a session oi?

the Legislature.





 





STRAWBERRY PRODUCING AREA

" SHIFTS.





LARGE strawberry crop is foreh



casted by the crop specialists of

the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.

All the important strawberry states

show increases of one-fifth to one-

fourth compared with 1926. The straw«

berry belt is continually shifting. Sew

eral years ago the Delmarvia Penin‘

sula, including Delaware and the east«

ern, shore of Maryland, was the lead-

ing strawberry producing district.I





Then Tennessee became the leading'





strawberry state. Later came Louis

iana and the Ozark region in Missouri

and Arkansas, but last year the center.

of the strawberry belt swung back td

Maryland, which led the. states with

34,000,000 quarts.





SOIL EXPERTS TO'COME TO





WASHINGTON.

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HE forthcoming international Com

gross of soil Science, ‘to be held





in Washinan on/ June 13-22, prom-.





tees to be the largest gathering of soil:

scientists ever held in the world. An-





thorities on soils from all parts 0: the





world have mooted invitations to at“:





would be allowed the,





 

   





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* you’ll go a long way before you H VQLiNE





'- find a better oil than Havoline ”





 





Havoline’s power twin is Indian

Gas. Made in the same refinery.

Same superlative quality. A

peppy, quick-starting, anti-

knock POWER GASOLINE.



“Anti-knock ” is a magic ad-

jective when applied to gaso-

line. It describesfuel that won’t

cause your engine to knock or

“ping” under load. It means

full power when you need full

power most. ’





~ “Anti-knock” describes In-

dian gas, scientifically blended

to give fullest anti-knock quali-





ties. Yet Indian is sold at the





regular prices—no premiums.





 





“ Yessir,” continued the storekeeper, while

his newest customer stowed away the

drum of Havoline in his truck, “you’ll

never regret the day you tried Havoline.





“ I don’t pretend to be an oil engineer or

anything like that. But I’ve been handling

Havoline for a good many years. It’s made

right here in this part of the country—

all from the same grade of crude—and by

the same men for the last twenty years.

Some of my trade have been using Havoline

almost that long.





“ About ten years ago, one of these steady

Havoline-users told me he figured that he

\got more power when he had Havoline in

his truck and tractor. Well, I didn’t pay

much attention to that. Then another man

told me the same thing. I got to asking

them about it when they came for their

oil, and pretty near every one had the same

hunch—that Havoline was a power oil.





“Then, a couple of years ago, along

comes a new invention called the Wasson

Motor Check which scientifically proved

that all those hunches were dead right.





' 60,000 cars were tested. With a full crank-





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case of Havoline, the big majority of ’61!)

were able to run up power gains of from

10% to 307.



“You’ll notice the difference when you

get that oil working in your tractor. Let

me know how it pans out. And remember

we’ve got the other grades of Havoline

you’ll be needing for the rest of your equip-

ment. And Havoline greases, too.”





Thirty per cent more power means some-

thing on a farm. On the one hand, you can

take it to mean more work—-or the same '

work finished in less time. On the other,

you can think of it in terms of economy—

less gas and oil and less wear and tear on

your equipment. Havoline is the power oil,

but it costs no more than any of the wellr

known oils. '





Order your Havoline today—in S-gallon

cans, 30- or 50-gallon drums—from any

Havoline dealer or the nearest Indian sta-

tion. Consult the Oil Power Guide and the

Truck and Tractor Guide to determine the

correct grade of Havoline for each of your

engines. Copies of these “Guides” will be

mailed upon request. Or ask your dealer.





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“More Milk with More Cow

Left at the End of the Year ”





Milkmaker, a Public Formula Ration.

Build: for the Future





HE important part that lVlilkmaker plays

in Michigan dairying is probably best set





forth 111 the claims made by hundreds of Mich-

_ igan 's leading dairymen who have used Milk-

maker contmuously for one or more _.yc.'ars





These dairymen tell us that they have secured





the following results by the use of Milkmaker,

viz:





l. Cows have kept up in better flesh and





better physical condition.





2. Cows hare maintained a larger and more





even flow of milk.





3. Calves better developed and stronger at





birth.





4. Freedom from trouble with cows at





calving time; no retained afterbirth and no udder trouble.

The strongest advocates of course are those dairymen who have used Milkmaker con-

tinuously since it came on the market 1n 1922.

Buying a Better Herd

These men have realized that 1n buying and using Milkmakcr they are assuring themselves

of a better herd of cows two or three years hence.

iln buying a bag of dairy feed you do not buy the feed for the feed itself, bur for the

ultimate results obtained. The results to be obtained are not necessarily determined by

the price of the feed. The real value of the feed is determined by the per cent of digestible

protein and digestible nutrients, both of which determine results. .

A common lphrase among users of Milkmaker is “More milk with more cow

» tor. In cause“ the concrete of the tank-

was made of a. mixture having too .. , .





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TRACTOR.





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0 those who Wish to use three

disks behind a. tractor we would

suggest the following methods, which

have been worked by some of our

readers and found practical. The first

method illustrated, seems to be the

most satisfactory of the two, since

the load is closer to the tractor and

there is less chance of the two rear

disks fouling each other in turning.

Since nearly everyone prefers to lap

the disks half, and double disk at one

operation, both hitches are shown for

that kind of work. However, the disks

can be spread out more with the long-

er spreader.

At first thought, it might seem simp-





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ler to bolt 3. heavy timber across the

rear of the tractor, and hitch the disk

at each end, and the third disk at the

middle; but this does out seem to

work but very satisfactorily, since the

front wheels of the tractor slip badly

in turning. With the hitches as shown,

this does not bother. If any reader

has a hitch for three disks which he

is sure is as satisfactory as these, we

should be glad to have a sketch and

description of same, with dimensions

of parts.———I. W. D.





ASPHALT COATING FOR CISTERN.





 





I have a cement cistern that leaks.

It has been gone over repeatedly with

a cement wash that seems to stop it

for a. time, but has the bad effectof

making the water hard for a while.

Would it be advisable to paint this

cistern with some of the asphalt roof

paints that are on the market, and

would there be any bad effects on the

water for laundry and bath purposes?

Any advice you can give me to stop

this leak will be appreciated. —A. I





Washing with cement is usually only

of temporary help. I would suggest

that you give the inside a half-inch

coat of plaster, of a mixture of one

bag of cement, one-sixth bag of hy-

drated lime, and one and one-half

cubic feet of clean sand. Then, to pre-

vent hard watei, and to help against

leakage from haii cracks, coat the

surface with hot~ paraffin or hot

asphalt, or two coats of either'dissolv—

ed in gasoline. Roof paints and ce-

ments are likely to contain materials

which will discolor thewater or give

it a bad odor.—I. W.





MENDING A CEMENT TANK;





What can-I do to keep a. cement wa-

ter tank from leaking? The water

seeps through the cement. There is,

also, a. little crack in the tank. The

tank leaks very badly. —‘—F. S.



. The tank should be thoroughly wash-

ed with water and then‘ be washed

with a ten per cent. solution of muri.’

etic acid, then rinsed with water.‘ To

this clean surface apply a. cement plasé





small an amount of cement, or of m-





 





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to build a. new tank. ——F. E Fogle.





\ CHIMNEY CONSTRUCTION.





Could a. good- sized Chimney, forty

feet high, take the smoke from a. fur-

nace and fireplace, up through one flue

if it had separate lines up a few feet

above fireplace opening?—~Subscriber.





It would not be desirable to have};

fireplace and furnace connected to one

fine, but rather there should be two

flues The cross sectional ar’ea of fire-

place lines should be one— —tenth to one—

eighth of the area of. the fireplace op-

ening. The size of flue for a furnace

would depend upon the size of a fur-

nace. An 8xl.2~inch flue is large enough

for an average house furnace. I sug-

gest that you get Farmers’ Bulletin





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from the United States Department of

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TILE CLOGS UP FROM SOAP.





 





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The tile from my kitchen sink joins

the tile from the basement at about

half the distance to the outlet, or sev-

enty—five feet. The sink is used mostly

for washing hands and faces, no dish

water being poured into it. During

the winter the water from the roof is

run into ,the cistern, but in summer,

through this same tile into the outlet.

The soap and dirt forms a sort of

tough—like substance thatisometimes

completely clogs the tile. Do you

know of anything that will completely

remove this obstruction without dig-

ging down to it? The line is not

straight, so it cannot be punched loose.

—J. B.



There are a number of preparations

sold through plumbing shops and hard—

ware stores called pipe solvents, which

are very satisfactory for cutting ac-

cumulations of grease out of pipes,

and these would probably remove the

collections of soapy materials, but I

imagine it would take several cans to

reach the trouble, away down in the

middle of your ’drain. I think the

cheapest and most effective way would

be to rent one of the heavy sewer

cleaning steel tapes. These are flexi-

ble, and about a hundred feet long.

with a punching and cutting head, and

I think you would have no trouble

working it up from the outlet far

enough to reach the obstruction. \You

might also work it in from the upper

end of the drain from the basement...



Probably the best arrangement





would be to build a basin of cement or"





of brick, laid in Cementwhere the twO

drains come together, so serve as a

sort of grease and soap trap. The

laundry and sink waste could then,

come into this basin, while the outgo-

ing water would be taken from near

the bottom of the basin, leaving the

grease and soap scum to collect on

the top, Where it could be removed. .ev-'-

ery few menth's. .—'—-D. . . . . ,
. _ "ion of southern Genésée‘;,and north-

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V‘Li'vingston, counties, have found,

during the past .months’l- of February





and March, that pottions of their”





farms that hadformerly been consid-





ered waste lands...are capable of bring»





ing them as great monetary rewards,

for the time and labor expended, as

any other part of their farm.



A number of farmers with a stretch





of river frontage, open ditches“ and '





undrained pond holes, have found

themselves better off by between $300

and $400 on March 31, than they were





‘on February 1, or the opening of the» '





, trapping season."





, In normal years lakes in this local-

ity are frozen tightly until well along

towards April, or the close of our pres-

ent trapping season. For that reason

they are not near as good trapping

ground as that of rivers where open

water is secured in all but extremely

cold weather. Even during the pres-

ent year, when the lakes cleared of

ice exceptionally early, trappers found

the lakes inferior trapping ground un-

. til along in March.

Large open drains are favorite run-

Ways for muskrats on account of their

extended pilgrin‘iages in search of food.

They are non-carnivbrous, with the ex-

ception of a fondness for fresh water

clams. The raccoon, however, wan~

ders up and down the woodland

streams and ditchesin search of frogs

and land crabs—G. E.





 





WOMEN WANT LAWS ENFORCED.





HE women of the nation'are be



coming thoroughly aroused over

‘the laxity of law enforcement and the

need of public officials who are in sym-

pathy with the law. A women’s con-

ference on law enforcement is called

to be held in Washington, May 6-7.

The leaders issuing the call say the

women of the United States will not

favor the nomination or election of

any candidate 'for any office who is

not loyal to the Constitution of the

United States.





 





 





USE MORE COMMERCIAL FER-

' TILIZERS. 4"





FARMERS are using more commer-



cial fertilizers than formerly, ac-

cording to figures given out by the

department of commerce. The bien-

nial census of manufacturers taken in

1926 shows a total output of fertil-

izers valued at $206,722,904, compared

with $167,347,351 for 1923, the last pre-

ceding census year. Of this amount

$137,074,176 went for complete fertil-

izers, indicating that the home-mixing

of fertilizers is far from becoming a

common practice on the farms of this

country.





 





WIND INJURY OF CROPS ON.

MUCK LAND.





 





IN a majority of muck areas of the



state, farmers need to protect this

land from wind injury. Four methods

are advised by Paul M. Harmer, spe-

cialist in soils at the Michigan State

College. They are the maintenance of

moisture in the soil, compaction of ‘the

soil by heavy rolling, the addition of

organic matter, and the'use of wind-

breaks. In a good system of muck

crop , farming all of these methods

should be used. He further states that

a windbreak of trees should be grown

every forty rods on the west and ‘





 

 





 

 





tired and one other jobs to be done,





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





used under similar conditions.



Any buyer who 'will show that Banne

failed to ire this service, 'will be suppli

without clay.





 

 

 

 





Banner Steel Posts are not affected by

- frost. Your fence is grounded wherever

a steel post is used and danger to your

stock from lightning is greatly reduced.

With Banner Steel Posts the fence line

can be burned oil every year, thus getting

rid of weeds, insects and rubbish. The





 

 

 

 

 

 





 





. s‘outh sides of the areas. Further, by

growing strips of winter rye or other,

grain crops at regular intervals gives

" protection to such small crops as on-

ions when grown in large fields. _ In

small fields board fences or, over-head

irrigation outfits are-recommended for-

fl‘special crops. ‘ This: whole matter is

‘ u in‘detall in Circular Bulletin





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SPRING is the time to clean

up and disinfect.





Time to get busy with the

sprinkling can charged with

a solution of Dr. Hess Dip

and Disinfectant. .





Sprinkle it in the poultry-

house—in the nests, roosts,

floors. Spray it in the cracks

and crevices to kill the mites.



Sprinkle it in the cow

barns, in the pig- pens, sinks,

drains and closets—wherever

there is filth or a foul odor.

It kills the disease germs,

keeps everything, everywhere,

healthful and clean-smelling.





DR. HESS & CLARK, Inc.

Achlnnd, Ohio





DRJ-IESS DIP

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usual amount of seed cem' Better're

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EARNlN-GS. FOR A TRACTOR.





 





Please advise me as to what a fair

earning of an oil tractor ou ht to be

per day or hour on belt wor for fill-

ing silos, and on a saw mill The

tractor is a 15- 30. —S.





Fair earnings for a tractor of a 15130

horsepower rating should be from $1.50

to $2.00 per hour. Belt operations,

such as filling silos and sawing wood,

in which the power is intermittently

applied, should bring about $1.50 per

hour. The heavy drawbar operations

including plowing and disking, should





bring to the owner about $2.00 per.





hour.——E. C. Sauve.





HOW TO BUILD JUG CISTERN.





 





Would you please give me instruc-

tions for building a jug cistern and a

filter for a cistern?——H. M.





One method of making a jug cistern

which can be used in hard ground, is

to dig a bottle-shaped hole in the

ground and plaster cement mortar di-

rectly onto the earth. It is usually

not necessary to put on more than a

couple of inches of concrete.



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The 28x46 Thresher leads the Red River Special Line

because of performance. It has proved the most profitable

thresher in most localities.





For 1927 it is greatly improved.





Now it is a 5 shaker machine—a 25% increasein shaker

capacity. It's the right size for use on larger farms; it has

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men and farmer companies.

Red River Only a moderate sized gang is needed to thresh with it.

. H att Roller Bearings~Alemite-Zerk Lubrication at eve

S I Y ry

{9cm main bearing point make power requirements very low.

we

. — This thresher, like all others of the Red River Special Line,

7717851161“! is built with Armco Ingot Iron, the great rust resisting

22 x 36 metal. Like every other Red River Special it is equipped

28 x 45 with the famous 4 Threshermen, the most efficient combi-

30 x 52 nation of machinery ever devised for getting the grain from

32 x 56 the straw, and the N. 8 S. Hart Special Tilting Feeder, that

36 x 60 makes good feeding sure and the cylin-

Tractors der quickly get-at-able.

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outdoor cistern is .1 to. dig. " a. circular

trench the thickness of a concrete wall.





which would be about. six :or .eight'





inches. The trench may be dug with

a post hole digger, a1tile spade, or a

tiling spoon. The trench is then filled

with concrete up to the point where

the sides begin to slope in to form the

neck of the cistern. The earth around

the neck is then scooped away to form

the proper slope for supporting the

concrete neck. Concrete is then plas-

tered onto this earth form about five

inches thick. After the concrete has

sufficiently set, the earth core is taken

out through the top and a concrete

bottom put in, and the inside plastered

with cement. This method for build-

ing a cistern is to be recommended

only where the ground is mellow, and

yet firm enough to stand as a wall

when-a trench is dug.



A third method is to dig a hole of

the desired size, and by use of a cir-

cular form of steel, form the wall. In

this case, the earth is used as the out-

side form and the steel as the inside

form. The concrete is mixed only to

a dry mixture and thoroughly tamped.

The form is then lifted and another

eight or ten inches of solid Wall built

entirely around the circle. ' The proc-

ess of filling the form, tamping it

down, lifting the form and refilling it

——continue until the cistern is up to

the height where it should be sloped

in to form the neck, a‘boardwform is

sometimes used, and the neck of the

cistern formed. Concrete blocks and

bricks are also used for outside cis-

terns.



One of the' simplest methods of mak-

ing a cistern filter is to build a wall

across one corner of one end of the

oistern with porous brick, or build two

brick walls of porous brick and fill

the space between with sand and grav-

el or charcoal. The water in the main

part of the cistern filters through the

walls into the portion of the cistern

that is walled off—F. E. Fogle, M. S. C.





VIABILITY OF CLOVER SEED.





 





I have some clever seed which is

several years old, but stored in a good

place. How long can iSt be kept and

still grow good?———E. J.





The length of time thSat clover seed

can be held over and still be of value

for seeding purposes,edepends some-

‘What upon the original viability of the

seed, and the conditions under which

the seed is stored.



Assuming that the seed was of high

viability to start with, and stored un-

der favorable conditions, seed should

be of value for at least three or four

years—C. R. Megee.





 





FERTILIZER-,n—AMOUNT OF COW

PEAS AND SOY BEANS

~ TO SOW.





 





What kind of fertilizer would be best

to plant with corn? How many cow-

peas and soy beans should be planted

per acre?——-





The best kind of fertilizer to apply

with corn depends somewhat upon the

kind of fertilizer< that has been applied

in the past years, and also upon the

nature of the soil.



On heavy land. where legumes have

been grown in the rotation, I- would

suggest the “use of a high-grade acid

phosphate fertilizer, applied at the rate

of from 150 to 3-00 pounds per acre”



.On sandy sells, where manure has.

been used, or _where legumes have





been grown'in rotation to some extent; '

a high-grade acid phosphate fertilizor,





Would be desirable. .





 





_ results





‘- bination 111mm; is used—that is, the

1 "ordinary’i cornfiplanter with the pen

-If“ only a small acreage

is" to be planted.s:the corn and soy -





attachment





beans ca’nbe = mixed together 1 in the

hopper. Only a. small amount should

be put in atone time, since the beans

are, somewhat round and smooth, and

will”tend to work to the bottom of the

hopper, resulting in a very .un-uniform

stand. A few farmers have been suc-

cessful in planting the corn first, and

then immediately planting the beans

by means of a second operationH—C

R. Megee.





RED TOP ‘AND ALSIKE FOR Low

MUCK LAND.





 





What kind of grass seed can I plant

on low muck ground and cut the hay

this year? I have a great deal of low

ground, and want to make some good

use of it.

do well, and could I cut it this season?

When should I plant it? Will alsike

clover do well on low ground? Would"

it 8e Agood for more than one season?





Red top will not produce a crop of

hay this season if grown on muck land

this spring. Both red top and alsike

clover are well adapted to low muck

land, but a crop of hay is not secured

until the second season. Both are per-

ennial crops and last several years,



Hungarian millet makes one of the

best annual or emergency hay- crops

for muck land. It should be sown

about the first of June at the rate of

thirty pounds of seed per acre. It

should be harvested for hay before the

seed matures, preferably in the late

milk stage—C. R. Megee.





ENSILAGE FROM SWEET CLOVER.





 





Will sweet clover, cut the latter part

of June, make ensilage to feed during

August, September and October? We

have eight acres of sweet clover and

would like to know whether it would

be better to put it in the Silo to feed

during the dry season, or if it would

be m01e profitable to feed it as hay?

I havgB all the alfalfa hay I can feed.





a It is possible to make a good quality

of ensilage out of sweet clover; how~

ever, greater precautions must be ex—

ercised than in making ensilage from

corn. When sweet clover is cut at

the beginning of the blossom stage, or

just before, the plants should be al-

lowed to lie in the field from three to

six hours or longer, if the weather is

unfavorable, in order that some of the

excess moisture may be given OK.



If the sweet clover plants are put

in the silo immediately after cutting.

the ensilage is likely to be juicy, not

very palatable, and will not keep so

well. 1*



In case you have a silo and the ma-

chinery to handle the sweet clover,

and have all the alfalfa hay you need,

it would not be a bad idea to put the

“sweet clover in the silo. On the other

hand, it is not usually advisable to

grow sweetlclover for ensilage when

it is possible to grow corn. Further-

more, you would eliminate a lot of

work’if you allowed your cows to pas-

ture down this sweet clover field.





BOOK on TEA ROSES.





 





Where can I puichase a book for

amateurs that treats on the raising

and budding of hybrid tea and other

varieties of roses?——E. L. P.



I would recommend the following

book, "Roses for all American Cli-

mates,” by Captain George C. Thomas,





Jr., published by the Macmillan On, X





New York.





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Eleven c'arloads of lime for immedi—





~ 011 sandy sons where manure has

not been used. or legumes here not‘

. been «m to any extent- 4





Would red top grass seed—





T;
but,





metrom serving it _





. , one; This land contains



, u" ask gra's . “I intend to plant it so

corn after plowing it about seven inch-



' es deep,” and check row it sh I can





I cultivate it both ways, or I ‘will sum-

‘ pier-fallow it and sew it to wheat, and .





seed it to a permanent pasture. Please

advise as to the best and easiest meth-





1w ad to use in this case. Can wheat, ,





treated for smut, be safely fed to the

chickens after being put through a

fanning mill?——-A. T. B.





. It is likely that plowing, followed

byJ-a summer fallow, Will be more .suc-‘

cesstul.in_eradicating the quack grass

. than by planting corn. Persistent clean

cultivation is the best method to erads

n-icate'qua’ck grass.



Wheat treated with the formalde-

hyde treatment may be safely fed to

chickens. There is some risk if the

wheat has been treated by the new

copper carbonate method—5C. R. Me-

gee.





‘SEEDING ALFALFA AND SWEET

CORN.





'I





Can alfalfa be sown on wheat



ground in the spring of the year? If

so, how much seed should be sown to

the acre? When and how is sweet clo-

ver sown? How much seed is sown

to the acre? Can a field be prepared

and sown in the spring by itself? Can

it be Scut the first year sown by itself?

——J.

‘ Many excellent seedings of alfalfa

are secured when_wheat is used as a

nurse crop. I would suggest. seeding

as early in the spring as the seed can

' be-covered with a spike tooth harrow.

. It is customary to sow alfalfa at the

rate of ten pounds of seed per acre

when dependable varieties, such as

Grimm and Ontario Variegated are

Used.



Sweet clover may be sown in wheat



by the same method; Fifteen pounds

of scarified seed per acre is the cus-

tomary amount. A field can be seeded

in the spring by using sweet clover

aldne; however, except on very sandy

soils just as good results are usually

secured when the seeding is made with

a small grain crop.

' It is usually necessary to clip the

field. two'or three times when the seed-

ing is made alone, due to the fact that

weeds make considerable growth. On

very fertile soils, well supplied with

lime, a crop of'hay is usually secured

the first year. ,On average upland and

Sandy soils, the growth is not usually

large enough to warrant cutting for

hay.———C. R. Megee...





SELLING srnAw FROM RENTED

' FARM.





.





I rented a farm with the agreement

that the straw was to stay on the place

while I was there. I moved, and the

other party soldthe straw. Am I en-

titled to half or goth—L. H.





Straw can be classed the same as

grain, and the tenant has a right to

‘ do as he sees fit with his share, un-

less otherwise agreed upon.



Many farm contracts state that the

straw shall remain on the farm for

the sole purpose of keeping up soil

fertility and furnishing sufficient bad-

ding. for stock.



(If.your landlord signed a con-tract

to the effect of keeping thevstraw on

the farm, and with. the intent of dis-





posing oj it as soon as lease terminat- '





ed, you have cause for complaint. On

the other hand, the amount of straw





on the» place at the beginning of lease '





must be taken into consideration—F.

T. Riddell. 1“ . . /





The best results are usually secured '





when the sweet clover is sown at a

fiine When it can be covered with a

spike tooth‘harrow. When all condi-

tions are favorable, early spring seed.

ings made when the groimd is freezing

and thawing, are sometimes success-





 





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places is now but vaguely re-





that inform us of each progres

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PLAN . WORLD AGRICULTURAL

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HE countries of the world so far



visited, are indicating a willing-

ness to cooperate with the Internation-

al Institute of Agriculture at Rome in

the work of taking the world census

of agriculture in 1930, according to, L.

M. Estabrook, director of the world

census, who has been conferring with

the department of agriculture at Wash-

ington in regard to the part that the

United States is to take in this

project.





IMPORTAN—T RAILROAD DECISION.





 





HE decision of the interstate com-



merce commission that the value

of the property of a railroad for rate-

making purposes shall be based‘ on the

reasonable and necessary investment,

and not on the cost of reproduction,

under the recapture clause of the act

of 1920, is held to be of vast import-

ance, not only to the railroads, but to

the farming interests and the public

generally.





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USE NEW DENATU RANT.





 





BEGINNING April 1 the government

requires that all industrial alcohol

be denatured with “adlehol,” a new

denaturant that is said to smell like

burning oil, and tastes like badly flav-

ored varnish, and there is no way of

removing the taste or the smell from

the liquor. It is believed that this will

limit the bootleggers’ supply of intoxi-

cants to the vile, death-dealing product

of the illicit still.



SECRETARY FAVORS ARGENTINE



ALFALFA SEED.





 





HEN the seed dyeing bill was un-



der discussion in Congress, it

was distinctly understood that all im-

ported alfalfa seed not suitable for

general purposes must be stained red.

Secretary Jardine, however, has just

announced his determination that, al-

though alfalfa seed grown in Argen-

tina is not adapted for agricultural use





north of the" Tennessee and North Car-

olina lines, it willhbe permitted to come

into this-country if at least ten per

cent' is stained an orange-red color. It

is believed by those who have, investi-

gated the matter, that this. decision

will be confusing to the farmers of the

northeastern section of the: country.

They have been told by the dealers

that all alfalfa seed, except that stain-

ed~red, is suitable for seeding. This

orange-red stain may lead to deception

which will bring serious losses in al-

falfa seeding. .





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FARM LOAN‘SYSTEM UNDER FIRE.





 





THE proposed reorganization of the

federal farm loan system is fast

. developing into a certainty. It has

started with the resignation of Elmer

S. Landes. Former Commissioner Rob-

ert A. Cooper and Edward E. Jones are

also slated to go. This will leave Com-

missioner Albert C. Williams, John H.

Guill and Lewis H. Pettijohn remain-

ing members of the board.

There are four different groups work-

ing toward this reorganization plan.

President Coolidge believes that the





intermediate credit banks, with their





loaning capacity of $900,000,000, should

be utilized in such a way as to meet

the needs of the farmers for relief

'from their present depressed situation.

It is understood that the farm loan

board as at present constituted, fails

to see how this is: to be accomplished.



The treasury group wants a firmer

control of the farm loan system. They

want to make it a unit in the treasury

department, directly under the control

of Mr. Mellon. Failing in their attempt

to legislate the functions of the farm

loan board over into the treasury, they

are now proposing to do by adminis-

tration what they were not permitted

to do by legislation. This will be ac-

complished by a changein personnel

of the board.



The third group is seeking to put

the joint stock land banks out of bus-

iness by getting men on the farm loan

board who are unfriendly to these

banks. This group, composed of the





 





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GET SOFT THRU

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in all the states east of. Nebraska and.





\farm loan board as now constituted,

and be administered by men who are

familiar with the needs of agriculture,

not by VMr. Mellon and his treasury

department officials.



The American Farm Bureau Feder—

ation, National Grange and other farm

organizations, admit that the pnesent

farm loan board is not functioning per-

fectly, and that there isvsome disagree-

ment among the members, as is the

ease with the interstate com'merce





./cOmmission and other administrative





boards, but they want the reform

made by strengthening the board, ~not

destroying it, or making {it a rubber

stamp adjunct to the treasury. They

are resisthig the removal of any of

its functions to the treasury, and ev-

ery move that is being made to weak-

en or destroy the joint stock land

banks. \_



' Under its present management, the

federal farm loan board has maintain-

ed a high standing in the credit mar-

ket. Its securities are readily pur—

chased by conservative investors.

Claims of treasury officials that larger

control by the treasury over the farm

loan system to maintain confidence of

the investing public in the farm loan

bonds are not well founded.





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ARMY RATIONs FOR HORSES

CHANGED. _





 





HREE years of experimental work



in feeding has led the army to

prescribe a new ration for horses. For-

merly there was one ration for garri-

son and field. But the investigators

found out what every practical farmer

well knows, that horses require more

food when in active work, than when





farmers who want the farm ‘loan sysa - 5

tern to function more efficiently, ’but '

who insist that it shall remain in the,





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confined in comparative idleness in the ,





stable.





The grain ration for the draft horse

is to be reduced from fourteen to

twelve and one-half pounds in garri~

son, but will be left undisturbed when

he takes the field. His hay allowanCe

will be cut from seventeen pounds to

fifteen for garrison duty, but he will

be given sixteen pounds when on the

march. The three and one-third pounds

allowance of straw to bed down the

draft horse at the garrison, will be in

creased to five pounds.



It was the conclusion of army ex-

perimenters that by keeping the horse

comfortable in his stall at all times,

and warm in Winter, much of his en-

ergy can be conserved, so he does not

need so much grain.





PROTECTS AME.RICAN CROPS.





 





HE quarantine and health regula—

tions are proving to be as effecs

tive agencies for the protection of

American farm products in the domes-

tic market against foreign"‘competi-

.tion as the tariff. Much Canadian milk

and cream has been shut out on ac

count of the presence of typhoid in

Montreal.

Importations of shelled corn from

Canada is prohibited unless the. in-

voice is accompanied by original cer-

tificate stating that the corn has been

thoroughly inspected by the proper of-

ficial, and was found to be free from

' infection with the European corn bor~

er and other insect pests and plant

diseases. Importations of shelled Corn

from Mexico _is prohibited on account





of the frequent presencewof cottonseed





in shelled corn from\that country, and





the attendant risk of .such Seed carry— '





ing the pink boll weevil. _





 





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' 42.74 cents fo-rChicago Extras. Fifty-

eight per cent of the butter handled

- Scored 93 or better in 1926,. compared

with 38 per cent in 1925, and there-

fore carried the Land ’0 Lakes brand.

_ Less than one per cent was ripened,

the balance being sweet cream butter.





In February of this year, the per— .





centage of 93-score had risen t0*71

'per cent compared with 62 per cent

last February. .



Now, it takes quality cream to pro-

duce 93-score butter. It takes sweet

cream containing less than one-fourth

of one per cent acidity to make Land

O’ Lakes sweet cream butter. Before

this organization was formed, the

creamery which consistently turned

out 92-score butter was perfectly satis-'

fied. But it isn’t good enough now;

‘93 or better is the goal, and 281 of the

Land O’ Lakes creameries are now in

the certified class, as over fifty per



'cent of their output scores 93 or

better.



Ninety-eight per cent of the cream-

eries are what is known as “haul-in”

creameries; that, is the farmer hauls

in his own cream, sometimes every

day, never less frequently than three

times a Week. Very little trucking is

done by these creameries. All cream,

is graded at the local creamery, and

paid for on the basis of quality. This



' grading was opposed at first but isé

generally done now and has come}

about by the premium for quality.

The prevailing prices for butter-fat

paid patrons of these creameries av-il

eraged around forty-eight to fifty cents !



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per pound last year; some paid up to

fifty-two cents; very few under forty-

seven cents. This average Was for

cream of all grades. Now compare

that with prices paid in other locali-

ties, and the value of this quality and

merchandising program is quickly ap-

parent. In many centralizer districts,



, fat prices were fifteen to eighteen cents

under Minnesota cooperative prices.

The butter is all assembled by'the

central organization at its central

plant in the Twin Cities, in Duluth

or Chicago. There it is inspected by

government and state inspectors,

scored and graded, packed in cartons

if to be shipped direct to the retail-

ers; in tubs if to jobbers or wholesal-

ers. Chain stores and milk companies

are the big outlet for printed butter,

and ice cream manufacturers who have

aIWays used centralized butter are now



‘ buying Land O’ Lakes quality. The

association is cutting out every mid-

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nels.





Expert fieldmen in each of the eight-

een districts into which the local

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' standardization as to fat content, col-

or, moisture, and salt. These men

promote the quality program ' the

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the assembling points. An adequately

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mane tests every shipment of butter Please Mention The Michigan Farmer When Writing to Advertisers '

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The creamery operator who is having __._.





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help and information.



This work of assisting member

creameries to properly control com-

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.about one and one-half pounds of fat

for each 100’ pounds of butter sold.

' This appears a small item to the in-

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WHILE a high school education

should be the heritage of every

boy and girl, practice has not revealed

the consolidated school plan as an eco-

nomical means of their attaining it.

In one consolidated school district the

cost of operating during the year re-

quired a tax levy of $17.35. A man

does not have to be possessed of any

great amount of wealth to have an

assessed valuation of $5, 000. Usually

an upto- date 100- acre farm will be as-

sessed near that figure. With the

normal income from a farm of this





. size, a school tax of $86. 75 is certainly





burdensome, as it comes in addition to

a lobust highway ta‘x, tOgether with

other taxes that net a staggering total.

Possibly that in some sections wide-

ly separated from neighboring high

schools, the consolidated school plan

may best meet the problem of higher

education for the rural districts But

its benefits in other districts where the





questionable. For example, one town-

ship was so situated that there was a.





.high school within one and one-half





miles of the southwestern border, an-

other within a half mile of the north

west corner, while on the east, a third

was no more than two miles away.

Not a prospective high school student

in the township was more than five

miles from a high school. A few years

ago’, however, two of the neighboring

high schools became consolidated dis-

tricts, and each of these districts in-

cluded a liberal portion of the west

side of the aforesaid township. The

result was that taxpayers of this town-

ship had heretofore enjoyed excellent

educational priviliges at a tax rate

ranging between $2.00 and $3.00 found

themselves facing a school tax levy of

$18 per thousand. For what? Their

little children who had flocked to the

different district schools in bands of

twenty or less, a number efficiently

supervised by the district school teach-

er, were now massed in a huge throng

at one building absolutely inadequate

in capacity to properly house and in-

struct so large a number. Robust

youngsters of fifteen or thereabouts,

to whom a. two-mile walk would be a

benefit physically, now enjoyed the

luxury of being taxied to and from the

schoolhouse.



One of the chief items of expense in

the consolidated plan is the transpor-

tation of the children to and from the

schoolhouse. The old district schools

were so placed as to be in compara-

tively easy walking distance for each

child in the township. The teachers

of these district schools were fully as

competent to train and instruct the

child as the average primary teacher

of the high school or consolidated

schools. And with usually no more

than twenty, frequently less, students

under her instruction, it would seem

that the teacher of the district school

would come in closer , contact with

each individual student, and for that





school for thevprimary scholar pos-

sessed equal, if not superior, advan-

tages for them.



In the old horse and buggy days,

or perhaps the horse and cutter days,

describes it for fully, for considerable

of the school year belonged to' the

winter months, the graduate of the dis-

trict school found that negotiating the

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N your issue of March 19, I was-





much interested in Christine Zeck’s

article on “Prohibition.” She says

“she loves to debate.” Too bad she

did not also have an equal love for the

truth. She says, “prohibition can nev—

er be fully executed.” What criminal

law is fully enforced? Her first state-

ment is, “conditions in the states are

worse now than in 1914.” I have lived

.in Michigan since 1855, and know from

observation that conditions are muc

better where I have been. For the

last seven years I have been here in

the D. U. R. station most of the time,

have met hundreds of people, and have

seen only six drunks in that time. Be—

fore the Volstead Act, it would have

been a. dull time that you did not see

that many in one day One 'man was





system has been established, is highly/ frozen to death here on the street one





night previous to 1914.

I spent the month of August, in 1925,

traveling; mingling'with hundreds of





people, and never saw a sign of drunk"





ennes‘s. Is it any wonder we have law

violations when we think of the thou-

sands of liquor dealers we had, more

than half of them blind pig runners?

For there were more blind pigs than

there are now.



When we try to dam a stream, then

we realize its force. Quoting Hard<

ing’s speech at Denver, “It is signifi-

cant that somc of the states are en~

forcing prohibition with less vigor af«

ter the Eightenth Amendment was

passed.” Significant of what? That

they were following the lead of the

government at Washington.



“Drinking before prohibition was

largely done indoors.” Yes, and ninety

per cent more outdoors than now. I

have driven an_ auto since 1914 and

have met only one drunken driver in

ten years, while in the good old days

I have had to leave the road more

than once for drunken drivers run-

ning their horses.



"Drinking among high school schol-

ars? I haven’t personally known any

such case, but have known, in the

good old days, of boys being sent home

from school for drunkenness, one who

died of tremens before he was twenty-

five years old.



Anyone who was in the temperance

work before Volstead days and now

know the conditions are at least nine-

ty per cent better now.



I would ask people like C. Z., what

do you recommend? A return of the

saloon, or lie down and say can’t,

cant? I say, never surrender to the

whiskeyc crowd.

a strangle hold on them, so resort to

every subterfuge.



Light wine and beer is only an ex-

cuse to sell everything, as was once

done, when we had only beer license.

Everything was sold under that. True,

we have had many dishonest officials.

Wehave gotten rid of many, too. If

we will use the samevenergy to get rid

of the booze that was used to stamp

out the cattle plague, (and this is

much worse), or





we will soon have a generation free

from intoxication. ,



Our enemies say, "give us govern-

ment control That is just what we

are giving them, and it is what makers

them squeal.

back alleys, low dives, and fashionable

immoral dean of vice.





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stnno OF JUNE CLOVER.





I plowed under a crop of June clover

seven inches deep one year ago last

fall. I put it to wheat. If I plow it

this spring again about seven inches,

and put it to cats, would I get a catch

cf clover? VWill it seed itself ?—-S.





In case the June clover crop which

you plowed under is fairly well set

with mature seed, you would stand a

good show of securing a seeding by

plowing again at the same depth. ‘ If

there was not considerable seed plow-

ed under, you would not stand very

much of a show. Usually it is better

to sow l'some seed unless you are quite

certain that an abundance of seed is

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'I have a field of sweet clover that

went to seed last fall and was not cut.

The seeds have all fallen off and are

thick on top of ground. Some of them

are starting to break open, but others

haVen’t, and are still in the hull. Will

they take root in time to‘" make hay

this year? I am on a rented farm and

want to get the best results possible

'from entire farm. I have been think-



— ing of plowing shallow and sowing oats

this way. I would like to get a crop,

.and good seeding also. Please advise

as to what would be most profitable in

this case—D. J. S. >



Only under favorable conditions is

it possible to secure a crop of hay from

‘ sweet clover the same season that the

sweet clover is seeded.



It is quite likely that you will secure

a good seeding of sweet clover under

the conditions you mention; however,

' yourprospects would have been some-

what better had you covered the seed

with a spike tooth barrow.



In case you are desirous of a crop

or hay this season, I would Suggest

'soy beans or a mixture of oats and

peas. Soy beans should be sown the

last of May or the first of June, in

twenty-eight-inch roWs at- the rate of

thirty-five pounds of seed per acre.

The Manchu, Ito San, and Black Eye-

brow varieties are well adapted to

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Soy beans are ready to cut for hay

about the first of September, while

the cats and peas are ready to out for

hay during mid-summer.—C. R. Megee,

Associate Professor of Farm Crops. ‘





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HE culture of ginseng should be



taken up with some caution, as

there are several difficulties to be met

with. The condition for growth must

be about like that in its native habitat

-——the forest. The soil should be one

which. nearly approaches leaf-mold of

the forest for best results, though good

crops have been raised in fairly sandy

soil containing the proper amount of

humus. The soil should be well-drain-

ed. It is usually planted in beds, these

being covered by an overhead lattice

work formed by nailing laths to scant

ling supported by posts. The bed

should be securely enclosed by a wire

fence. The plants may be started from

seed, or young plants may be bought

and set out. \Vrite t0 the “Ginseng

Journal,” Arrowsmith, Illinois, for a

sample copy in which appears notices

of parties 'Who can supply the seed,

etc. Seed requires a resting period of

eighteen months before it will grow.

They are usually stratified in clean

sand. The seeds may be broadCast in

the beds and raked in, preferably in

the fall. The Reds should thus be

mul‘ched during the winter. Roots are

dug when they are five or six years

old; profits from the business are,

therefore, slow in coming. When one

bed is harvested, young roots are put

in to replace those taken out.





There are certain diseases affecting

ginseng plants. especially a blight. It

is necessary to be on the watch-out

for this, as it may take the plants

very quickly.



There is money in the business for

those who are willing to give it the

necessary time and attention. Anyone

interested in the culture of ginseng

should get Government Bulletin No.

551, entitled, “Cultivation of American

Ginseng,” ffom Washington, D. C.-—H.

T. Darlington.





CURRANTS AND GOOSEBERRIES

FOR THE HOME GARDEN.





HESE two fruits, favorites with

commercial growers in many parts

of Michigan, are quite often absent

from the home garden. This should

not be the case. Considering their

ease of culture, and the bountiful yield

from a few well-Eared-for bushes, they

should be found in every home garden

in this state. Who does not like cur-

rant jelly, and who can turn away

from gooseberry pie? Certainly, they

are more desirable fresh from one’s

own garden—«so resolve now that you

will not let this planting season pass

without planting at least enough cur-

rants and gooseberries in your garden

to supply the family table.





These two small fruits are quite

similar in their growing requirements.

The ideal condition for both of them

is a cool, moist, rich. soil, but the ab-

sence of such surroundings should not

deter anyone from planting enough for

home use. As they do well in partial

shade, they may be planted among the

fruit trees 6r along the grape row.

Along the garden fence is another

good place for them, but wherever

they are planted, arrange it so the

bushes may be cultivated. It is pos-

sible to grow good crops of these f.ruits

without cultivation but, in that case,

the bushes should be mulched quite

heavily throughout the growing season.

Mulching induces formation of feeding

roots near the surface of the soil so





the plants are very apt to suffer from.

' want of moisture during prolonged dry -





periods if artificial watering is. not





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governing all planting operations, but



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tent'in the home garden if about twen4

ty -or twenty-five square feet is allow;

ed for each currant or gooseberry



plant. Pruning is not an exacting task



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all the pruning necessary. About the



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ly to encounter in growing these fruits,



is leaf-eating worms and cane borers.



The former may be controlled by



spraying or dusting the plants with



arsenate‘ of lead. , The only way to"

reach the cane borer is to cut out and



burn all infected canes. .





In the home garden, quality should

be the main consideration in choosing

varieties to plant. In gooseberries, Or-

egon Champion, a cross between the

English and American types, is a fav-

orite sort. Downing and Houghton, or‘

true American type, are more depend-

able in our climate and, for that rea-

son, they are our most popular varie

ties. \Vhite currants never have been

popular in this country, but where

folks have acquired the taste for fresh

currants, the variety called 'White/

Grape is a favorite in home gardens.

Wilder, London Market and Perfec-

tion are favorite red varieties for the

home garden—C. \V. \Vood.





INJURY BY MICE.





Is there anything that can be done

for apple trees that have been girdled

by mice?——B. R. .



It is generally possible to save trees

which have been girdled, by what is

known as bridge grafting, but this can-

not be done until the latter part of

April or early May, when the sap has

started.



For bridge-grafting, the cions. should

be well ripened, and if suitable cions

of last year’s growth that are suffi-

ciently long for the purpose cannot be

secured, it is possible to use-some of

the two-year-old wood, provided the

bark is succulent. The edges of the

bark should be cut back to where it

is in union with the wood, and cions

should be inserted every two or three

inches around the trunk.





The cions should be made about two

and one-half inches longer than the.

distance between the edges of the

bark, and the ends should be cut

wedge-shaped, the side which is to be

against the trunk being slightly longer“

than the other. The bark should then

be slit so as to form flaps about as

wide as a cion, and the wedge-shaped

ends of the cions should be slipped

underneath. They should be held in

place by means ,of‘ brads driven

through the bark and cion, into the

trunkm The cion, itself, will form a

slight curve, and will usually be at the.

center, a half-inch or more away from

the wood. ‘



Before inserting the cion, it is ad-

visable to have the girdled portion

painted with» linseed oil and lead paint,

avoiding any of the so-called “barn" '

paints, which usually contain petrol-

eum. When the cions have been firmly

tacked into place, the points where the

grafts have_been inserted, should be

covered with grafting wax. It will

also be advisable to. bank earth around

the lower portions of the clone, and

if the girdle is not too wide; it may be .

well to extend it to cover ail‘of the _





girdled portion. . ..

While the, grafting. should be, as,

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'way' when plowing the other garden,

but must. be handy. It [must contain

all the: special crops and the herbs



. 'thatwnl be of use, for His to be per-

manent and we Want it as useful as

is can be made. For the horseradish

and sfich crops as salsify and parsnips,

which are hardy," and We Want often

to keep in the garden over winter, but

which we plant nestaeach year, we



‘ ‘t’élect‘a place that .can beplowed‘ with-

out bothering the rhubarb, asparagus,

and-the other permanent plantings, yet

will not interfere with plowing the oth-

er garden, which we often want to do

in late fall, or perhaps in early fall,



_ and sow to buckwheat or rye. Then,

' as these crops are to occupy the same

spot for years, we work the ground

just as deep as possible and enrich it

,Well. For asparagus and rhubarb we

make the soil especially rich, for they

are heavy feeders.—-—L. H. Cobb.





. GOLDEN SEAL.





 





OLDEN SEAL (Hydrastis canaden—



sis) is a native plant growingnat-

urally in moist Woods, in about the

same situation as ginseng. Botanical-

ly, the plant belongs to the Buttercup

family. Since about 1900, this plant

has been cultivated more or less for

its roots, which are used in medicine.

It requires about the same condition

of shade as ginseng. In fact, a gin-

seng bed may be used for/ growing

golden seal. The soil should be six

to eight inches deep, loose and rich in

humus. Itshould be renewed annu-

ally by the application of a mulch and

should have thorough drainage. The

beds may be constructed about four

feet wide, with eighteen-inch walks be-

tween. Propagation is by seeds or cut-

tings of the rootstock. It is probably

best for a beginner, however, to buy

young plants. Anyone interested in

procuring these should write to the

"Ginseng Journal,” Arrowsmith, Illi-

nois, for a sample copy, giving names

of growers. If seeds are used for

propagation, they are stratified in sand

and leaf mold, as for ginseng. The

roots should be gathered in the au-

tumn after the'plant has gone to seed.

These are yellow, but turn to a yel-

lowish-green on drying, becoming

crooked and wrinkly, losing about two

thirds of their weight and becoming

brittle. Production is at the rate of

almost 1,500 pounds of dry roots per

acre. After gathering, the roots should

be carefully cleaned. The drying

should be done very carefully. They

should be spread out in a thin layer

on a drying frame, and turned several

times daily. When theroughly dry they

may be packed in dry sacks for ship-

ment. For more detailed information,

the prospective grower should consult

Plant Industry Circular 6, U. S. D. A.,

1908.-—H. T. Darlington.





TOPPED CEDAR TREES.





 





 





- I have two cedar trees measuring

five feet high. About two and a half

feet has been cut off the tops of these

trees. Canethese tops be grafted on

the trees?——W. R. C.





I do not think it would be practical

to try to graft cedar trees which have

been topped. It is possible to graft

this variety of tree, but the chances

are rather small-unless it is ‘properly

done, and unless the cuts are fresh.



If you would like to attempt this, I

would suggest using the Cleft or Sad.

the graft, as you would in grafting ap-

ple. stock. Bind the graft together

-with rafiia.‘ I think, however. that if

», you will trim your treesback to the

nearest side branch, that you will be

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SASSAF'RAS FENCE Peers. .





Sassafras is a ‘good fence post wood.

Although it is not to be compared to

black locust, os'age, orange or c’atalpa,

it is better than most other woods

found in the farm woodlot. Sassafras

posts last nine' or ten years, at least.

Their lasting quality depends, to a

certain extent, upon the size of the

post. The durability part of any wood

is the heart wood-The largest amount

of heart wood. of 'course, is to. be

found in the older and larger size of





trees—R. F. Kroodsma. ,

BELLADONNA SEED.





What. is the best way to harvest bel-

ladonna seed, and how can one dispose

of it‘?-—C. M. C. '

The berries of the belladonna plant

are picked when fully mature, and al-

lowed to dry so that the dry pulp may

be sepdrated from the seeds. One can

get a good bulletin on the handling of

belladonna by writing to the IT. S. De.—

pa'rtment of Agriculture, Washington,

D. C., and ask for Farmers’ Bulletin

No. 663.



in regard to disposing of it, we are

not quite certain What is meant. If

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readers can get, without charge,

information on any subject al—

lied to agriculture and rural life.

" All service questions are an-

swered by mail. Therefore, 'we

cannot give service to questions

when no name and address is

given. Neither can we promise

publication, as we print only a.

very small number of the ques-

tions received.





 





 





 





would probably be advisable to write

to such a firm as Parke, Davis & Com-

pany, of Detroit, or the Lilly Drug

Company, of Indianapolis, Indiana. You

might also write to the Crude Drug

Company, IVIu'skegon,~Michigan. Pos

sibly they might handle the seeds.

Since the war there has not been so

much of a demand for the seeds of

this plant. At present we do not know

what the seed is quoted per ounce.

During the war it went up to as much

as $5.00 per ounce—H. T. Darlington.





FORECLOSURE, OF MORTGAGE.





B. wishes to rent a. farm from, A.

C. holds a mortgage on the farm. Can





forecloses before the lease which E.

holds expires? Does C. have a legal

right to rental money, instead of A.?

Neslizthir 1118‘}. nor B. will live 0n the farm.





A mortgagor cannot give a lease

which shall be valid and extend be-

yond his own title. The mortgagor is

entitled to the rent and possession dur-

ing the entire period of the equity of

redemption, and his tenant is protect-

ed during that periOd. After the equity

of reds ption. has expired, the 'pur-

chaser at the foreclosure sale may

mist the- mortgagor and his tenant by

writ of possession—Rood. 1





A RENTAL ARRANGEMENT.





1an a farm of 300 acres or more, on

shares or partnership with owner, cf

the land? ow, or on what conditions.-

llmd smock infertile: .to get 4

the ficome? ' owner is

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About how long Will they last?—~—J. M.-





C. take the crops from B., in case he.





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owner. invest in implemgnt;





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half of the running expenses and fur-

nish half, of the .stockland implements.

thegowner paying for clover seed, and.

each one paying half of other grain

seed, also,_the owner paying for work





done on buildin’ s and fences,‘in fact,

running the

own ?~B;'A. F. ,





. far as if‘ it were his





» The One-half “share lease should be

satisfactory. Unde‘this method 79?





rental each party receives one-half inf

the revenue drom the products pro-

duced on the farm. '

is kept, the landlord furnishes thezland

and one-half of the productive live

stock. ' '-





VVben live stock





The tenant furnishes the labor, the

horses, and. all, or part, of the tools.

and one-half of the productive live

stock. Expenses, such as feed, seed.

twine, fertilizer and machine hire, are

borne equally by both parties. When

a complete crew goes With the thresh-

ing machine, or other machine hire, it

is becoming a common practice [for

the landlord to bear his share of such

expense. Each party bears the taxes

and insurance on his own property;

F. T. Riddell.





CRIMINAL LIABiLlTY OF'MINons.





What is the law in regard to arrest—

ing a minor for trapping fur-bearing

animals before the season is opeu‘.’



T.





An infant or an adult without sufi‘r

cient brain development to know right

from wrong, is not liable criminally

for his acts. In an ancient case, a. girl

of thirteen years killed her mistress,

and because "she hid the body the

court held that she had the 'sense of

wrong, and was therefore liable crim-

inally. In another case, a child of nine

years killed another and hid himself,

and excused the blood on his clothes

by saying he had nose bleed, and the

court held this way sufficient manife;

tation of guilt to convict him. More]

recent cases have established a more

lenient doctrine. By the statutes of

this state, (Compiled Laws»1915 Sec-

tion 2011, as amended by Public'Aci-z

1921 No. 16), persons under the age of

seventeen years who violate any laws

of the state, are declared delinquent

children, and jurisdiction against them

is given to the probate court—Rood.-





REGULAR RENTAL eLAN.





What are the regular rates on rent

ing farms in Michigan? A man wants

to rent his farm to me. He dG‘Clal'Gx‘

it is the rule for the renter to furnish

a. third of everything and receive just

a third. He also declared that it was

not the rule for the renter to have a

separate garden. I do not believeit

1s the rule for therenter to furnish

one-third of the feed until the creps

are grown, but he declares it is.—

J. "M... M. , .



The type of lease you refer to is

called the landlord’s two-third share

lease, which provides that the landlord

furnishes the land, all personal prop-

erty, and the tenant’furnisheS-the-la-

bor. Expenses .sucb' 'as feed, seed,

twine, fertilizer, and machine hire, are

often‘borne in.the same proportion as

the income, that is, the tenant bears

one-third of such expense and the land-

lord two—thirds;_ 1 . I .



It is the general practice for the to ‘





ant to have a garden, and what milk

and eggs he needs for , family use,





SOmetimes he ; receives 4-pr0duc‘t‘s, such





as timber for "fuel; in a..limite‘d=way§. ,





Relative to the feed requirements,

it. is Wmor‘e satisfactory: fourths; renter

to furnish his share of feed from Ethe





outset. ,_;Arrangements can ‘ be made ‘ 1





between, landlord and tenant to. care

for this in. different I ways.“ 1 V

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Joan Zockton, one of England’s

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Secretary of Agriculture Jardine awarded the

Calvin Coolidge medal to John Sheepers for

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K » day historical societY, sponsors

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The two American “good will” flyers: Captain Woolsey and Lieut.

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(What do you want?" Jim growled.

.- Fitzhugh was polite. "I called at the

" Streaming house and learned that Miss

1131an had left, so I hurried here. I

"must have a word with her alone."

. “Do you want to be left alone with

.him?” Jim asked.



“5140, no, never!”

Jim.



“That settles it, then,” He faced

about and looked into a big blue is

volver.



~“Tzhis settles it," .Fitzhugh said grim-

ly. “I mean business and I have no

'time to waste. I know why you came

to this town, Mae, and I know you are

{leaving because you have found it. I

want it—quick.”



Miss Dirkin slipped in front of Jim.

“Go away, Jim,” she said, “I will talk

to him alone."



Jim caught her by the shoulders and

spun her around behind the big coal

stove and in the same motion he duck-

ed :behind the stove himself. The re

volver went off a sixteenth of a second

too late and the bullet plunked into

the wall exactly in line with Where

Jim had been standing. Fitzhugh leap-

ed forward and stopped with his back

toward us about six feet from our win—

dow, pausing to make sure of the next

shot, for I don’t think he wanted to hit

Miss Dirkin. There was a second of

dead silence, not more than a second,

but it was enough for me to realize

that he was planning to murder Jim

before our very eyes.





I was too scared to speak, much

less to make a motion of any kind.

Then, “Here it is,” Miss Dirkin’s voice

cried out behind the stove, and a little

bag fell with a thud in front of Fitz-

hugh. The necklace! He was going

to get away with it after all. That was

almost as bad as murder.





But once again I had reckoned with-

out Bill. As Fitzhugh stooped to pick

up the bag there was a crash so near

my head that I knew> lavas shot dead.

You see, the station was built of brick

and Bill had found a loose one and

heaved it through the window. He is

a good shot,_the distance was only a

few feet, and the brick struck Fitz-

hugh square in the small of the back.

He was just starting to bend over and

Bill’s little surprise helped him along,

so much so that he landed on his head,

tried to save himself, dropped the re-

volver and sprawled on the floor. In

less time than it takes a. cat to sneeze

Jim was on top of him. In the same

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hind the stove, snatch up the little bag'





and, whirling around in search of a

safe place for it, drop it into the urn

on top of the stove.



I saw that much and then I hipered

around into the waiting room to give

Jim a hand if necessary. Bill was

ahead of me and had already picked

up the revolver and put it in his pock-

et. Boy! that was a fight. Jim was

heavier, but he was slower, and there

were times when it looked as though

Fitzhugh was the better man. Still,





 





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after the first minute. I saw that Jim

was get-ting in some, good satisfying

punches. Cline-bed, they rolled- over

and over, pulled apart clinched again.

Back and forth, round and round, so

fast and furious that Miss Dirkin

climbed upon a seat and Bill, and I

dodged about the stove. The old sta-

tion fairly rocked.





UDDENLY they wrenched' apart

and stood up, blowing like whales.

Fitzhugh glanced around, saw that





both the revolver and necklace were

gone, and baring his teeth like a wild

animal he snatched up a chai1, the

only one in the room, and rushed at

Jim. A hardwood chair in the hands

Jim





of such a man is bad medicine.





aboard That Was 0119 parting where

no tears were shed. _

Quite a Bit of excitement. Oh, yes.

We hipered back into the station and

lit a lamp, f01 there were two there.

though only one had been burning.

Miss Dirkin was on her knees beside





Jim who was gasping like a fish out'





of w ater.



“Jimmy darling!" she cried. “Jimmy

darling!"



“Sa_v——it—-again."



“Jim darling."



He rolled his eyes and tried to grin,

but it was hard work, for the wind

was all but knocked out of him. “I—

wish—he—had hit me —sooner,” he

panted.



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fell back. caught up the stove poker

and sidestepping gave thhugh a slash—

ing uppercut across the knuckles of

one hand I wouldn’t wonder if it

broke his fingers. He let go the chaix

with that hand, but swinging it in the

other heaved it at Jim. There was no

chance to dodge it. It struck Jim in

the belt and he went over back and

down. The poker flew galley-west and

smashed the only lighted lamp in the

room.



He had fallen almost at Miss Dir-

kin's feet and the next second I heard

Bill yell in' the darkness from that di-

rection, “Keep back, Fitz. old boy, or

I’ll shoot you dead. Guess I'll try a

shot anyway. The revolver roared like

thunder in that small bare room. And

it roared again. He said later that he

got a peach of a thrill standing there

over Jim and shooting at the ceiling.



About then I happened to stumble

over the brick and picking it up heav-

ed it with all my might at the place

where I thought Fitzhugh was. It

missed him but hit the stove with a





terrific bang just as Bill shot again."





It was too much for the nerve of Fitzy.

who probably thought the brick was a

bullet and that Bill was shooting to

kill, so he opened the door and legged

it. “After him!” Bill yelled, and rush-

ing out he fired the rest of the shots

at the moon.



I followed as fast as I could and all

but ran over the southbound train that

had come down the track unnoticed in

the rumpus. As there were no pas-

sengers to get off or on it slow ed only

enough to throw out the mail sacks

and was away again, but from the op-

posite side of the track -we saw Fitz-

hugh catch the last car and swing





friend Fitzhugh had gone, Jim was

able to stand up. “We had better be

going back, hadn’t we?” he said.

“There won ’t be another train tonight.”



Miss Dirkin w alked over. and put he1

hand in the urn on the stove. “My

God!" she cried. “It’s gone!”



“What is gone?" Jim asked.



“The diamond necklace!" ‘



“Diamond necklace!”



“Yes. That was what he wanted to

take away from me. I tossed it to him

so he wouldn’t shoot you. but before

he could pick it up the fight began. I

recovered it and put it in the urn so





that, if he killed us both, he might

not find it after all. He must have

seen me. He must have grabbed it





when the light went out, and taken it

with him. ” She didn’t cry, just stood

there staring at us.



“But what were you doing with a

diamond necklace?" Jim asked.



She looked at the floor. “I can’t tell

you now, Jim. I Can ’t explain now. It

wasn't mine. It was Mrs. Gale’s I

was taking it back to her. Oh, Jim.

I'm ruined! Why wasn’t I killed!"



“Just a minute,” Bill said, taking a

hand. “Do you know that Mrs. Gale is

at Deacon Brown’s?”



“What Mrs. Gale?”



“Mrs Addie Gale of Boston.”



“What! In this town—now.”



“She ‘pulled in last night.“



“If I had known it half an hour

ago!" Miss Dirkin almost reeled.



“We were on our way to tell’you.”



“You? What do you know about

it?“ She gave him a look.





ILL threw his chest almost outthe

window. “You see, us detectives

have been working on your case for





Actzruztzes of A! Acres—Al Say That 21‘ Mm! Have Came From t/ze Orlzer Side of the T rack





. Gale knows you are‘here, m -





seen you on the street, and to 911111— .. '





ning to have a. talk with you in the :1

mm. She viii let you on easy if. ;

you. mye her a chance. As things have

turned out, you better go and see her

now u



“I never can face her without the

necklace."



“It’s your only chance .eSh ’11 have

you arrested in the morning if you

dont."



“She will. anyway now, ” Miss Dirkin

said in a pitiful little voice “I may

as well go.‘ “



“That’s the ticket” Bill told her

cheerfully. “You ride with me in ‘Fitz-

hugh’s sleigh and Speck will go along

with Jim and explain a few things to

him.”



So in a sort of daze Jim threw in

the mail sacks and Miss Dirkin’s suit

cases and we started back up-the hill.

I told Jim what I knew and he said

hardly a word. We left both teams

at the store and walked ove1 to the

deaconfis where the lighted windows

showed that Cousin .Addie was still

holding forth. Bill led the way in with-

out knocking. and when the others saw

Miss Dirkin they nearly fell out of

their chairs.



“Mae.” Cousin Addie said in a cool

voice, standing up, “this is unex-

pected.” '



“Yes, Mrs. Gale."

like a ghost.



“Did you come to see me



“Yes, Mrs. Gale.”



Cousin Addie gave her a long loo-k.

“I can guess the reason," she said.

“As these people know what has hap-

pened, you may speak before them."

She raised her eyebrows in Jim's di.

rection.



“Oh, allow me,“ the deacon hurried

up. “Mr. Bell, this is Mrs. Gale.” They

bowed solemn astwo owls.



“I especially want him to stay,” Miss

Dirkin said, and Jim moved closer to

her.



It was as quiet in that room as mid.

night in a graveyard. Then Miss Di-r‘

kin said, “Mrs. Gale, I took your neck-

lace.” There was a little gasp here

and there. “But I did- not steal it,”

she added.



“Please explain the

Cousin Addie said rcooly.



“I will try to. :I thought I was in

love with Claude. He preténded to be

greatly interested in jewels, he said

they were his passion, and in some

way, I don’t know how, he persuaded

me to open the safe and show him

your, necklace. It was unwise for you

to trust me with the combination.”



“Extremely, ‘ " said Cousin Addie.



“He asked to see the necklace for

only a minute. Girls are foolish when

they think they are in love. While he

was looking at it we heard someone

coming. I was frightened for I was

doing wrong. He was nearest the door

and I told him to put the necklace in

the safe and close the safe door. I

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“Oh, was it?” Her voice was twenty

below zero with a north wind.



“Yes, ma’am, and it Still is.” '



“Let me finish, Jim,”. Miss Dirkin

said, flushing. “I have been searching

for that piano leg ever since. Claude,

who has been hanging‘around here for



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and took the necklace out of the piano

leg.” Everybody caught their breath

and held it. “I started to take it to

you in the city, as I did not know you

were here, but Claude overtook me at

the depot and held me up with a re—

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he was gone we found that in the dark

—the light had been smashed in the

fight—he had found and taken the

necklace.” She stopped, then went on,

“Phat is the truth. Now arrest me.”



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Cousin Addie.



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she snapped.



“Telegraph ahead and nab the but-

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his name?”



Cousin Addie didn’t seem to hear.

Sl1e.was looking at Miss Dirkin and

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she said, “if you had trusted me and

come to me at first how gladly I would



' have forgiven you. But now!”



“I don’t expect you to,” Miss Dirkin

said quietly.



“It would be' so easy if you had

brought me the necklace.”



“Is that a'whiz?” Bill suddenly piped

up from a corner.



“A what?” Cousin Addie looked) at

him. >



“Would everything be all right if

you had your necklace back again?”



“Yes. Certainly.”



Bill swaggered into the light, scowl—

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that gun?”--Ma asked.



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The. Lone Oak





’OU see that, after all, we

shouldn’t give too much credit

to Boggs & Thurman, the real

estate agents. They probably wouldn’t

have said anything about a mystery

at the House of the Lone Oak in their

advertising, for mysteries don’t usually

make sales. But old Captain Petti-

bone had put it in his will that if the

heirs sold the place whoever bought

must know just what might be ex-

pected. -



All this the Brown family found out

after they got to know Boggs & Thur-

man, but none of that was told in the

letter sent to Beth. It had said,

you are afraid of pirates you will not

be interested in buying the House of

the Lone Oak. But if you are not

afraid and wish to seek the treasure

chest which goes with the farm, read

on.” So there were Father and Moth-

er Brown and Hal and Beth all clus-

tered together as Beth read the letter.

Mary and Little Joe hadn’t begun to

be interested then. But they soon

were.



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Captain Pettibone, who lived on the

farm, and who once followed the séa,

insisted that he had driven a pirate

off and that he and others may come

back. Personally, we don’t believe

there is anything to this pirate theory.

And, being honest, we might as well

tell you that we doubt if there is any

chest of gold.



“Captain Pettibone’s heirs certainly

don’t think there is gold on the farm

or they wouldn’t want to sell. But

the will says there is a chest ofgold

and we will put into the deed that

whoever buys the farm and the House

of the Lone Oak gets whatever is

found in the house or on the land.

Now the place is cheap at three thou-

sand dollars and would have been sold

long ago if folks weren’t afraid of the

mystery. "The 'land isgood. There’s

hunting and fishing, there’s good

We invite you to come

and see for yourself.” _

Now, of course, that very same let-





ter had been Written to a. lot of people





but none had thrilled to it like Beth

Brown. Hal, too, began to claim that





' he’d wanted to write all the time. But

it was Father Brown who decided

. what would be done.

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Now wasn’t that proof that Henry

BroWn is impractical? Going off 111m. ‘

dreds of miles into another part of

the state to a. farm that he’d never

seen, and one With a mystery at that. ‘

But Mother Brown didn’t say anything.

Maybe it was the desire for a. heme.

mystery or mystery. 9 Maybe she want-

ed Father Brown to inveetthe money

before he bought another race horse.

Perhaps it was the girlish desire for

adventure. Anyway. the money was

sent. ' .



And nobody was more surprised

when they got the check than was

Boggs & Thurman. They’d ,figured

it would take a. day’s showing and

palavering to sell anyone. And here

was the cash in hand. The Pettibono

heirs were pleased, too, I reckon. And

in the beginning the Brown’s Were

pleased, so everyone was happy. That

is, unless it was the ghost of old

Captain Pettibone.



It didn’t take so very long for the

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Off on the Road .to Adventure But Old Mall is Left Behind. Father Brown

Bids Her Goodbye.





into the family fli-vver and headed

south. Moll, the old race mare that

was the proud mother of Flying Fox,

would follow in due time, for a. home

couldn’t be a home without old Moll.

Shipped by express, the goods should

be waiting for ’em, and so it proved.



With the weather pleasant, the trip

was enjoyable, but their curiosity

whetted, the Brown’s traveled “in

high.” The new place was, to be a

home, a home of their very own.

Mother Brown tingled with the antici-

pation of ownership. Their journey

almost ended, the Brown’s stopped to

inquire the way. “The House of the

Lone Oak, you say?” inquired the

man, “Friend, there’s something sin."

ister even about that old tree that

stands guard over a. house of mystery.

And you are going there tonight?

Stay here and I will tell you all I

know. You will not dare to stay there

if you go.” Now wasn’t-that a fine

prospect .for home owners who had





paid their money down? ~





(Continued next week).





MODERN POISONING.





 





Modernist-“Ha you heard 9: they 5 :
T HEwomen voters of the state have

more power With the primary sys-

tem of electi0n, than they could ever

hope to have by the old convention

system. If we revert to the 0111 con-

’ vention system, the women would play



the part of the “parsley ’round the



ham.” This is the statement made by



Prof. James K..Pollock, Jr., of the

University of Michigan before the

three-day school of: citizenship spon-

sored by the Michigan League of Wom-

en Voters and the Michigan State Col-



. lege in East Lansing last week. The

‘ primary system has not cured all of

. 1' the old election ills, but Professor Pol-

. 7? . - lock believes we should retain it and

7 perfect and improve it. The primary

' ’ f has tended to weaken the lesser party,

has not eliminated boss control, but it

gives the voters an opportunity to ex-

ercise their power at the most import-



ant point in election. ._



To perfect the primary, Professor

Pollockwould, through a pro-primary

convention. or conference, develop a



1 shorter ballot and would also adopt

the use of the voting machine.



Cost, convenience, and the elimina-

tion for chance for fraud in registra—



" tion was discussed by Professor J. C.

Caswell, of the Michigan State Col-

lege. He strongly advocated a perma-

nent system of registration. '



Why is it that our courts are in a

bad way today? Because the judges

of our courts are elected instead of

appointed, was the answer Mr. Wil—

liam Lovett, secretary of-the Detroit

Citize’ns’ League game to this ques-

tion, in his speech On “The Overwork-



. ed Voter.” Mr. Lovett recommended

that the judges be appointed for life,

or elected for a long term. In accord

with Professor Pollock’s views, Mr.

Lovett strongly recommended the short

ballot to produce a more intelligent

and representative vote of the people.



On Friday, Mrs. Frank Kinch, a mas-

ter home-maker from “Huron county,

discussed, “Some Lessons Learned,”

before the School. Mrs. Kinch is the

vice-president of the Michigan League

: of lVomen Voters, and has done active

' civic work in her community. She will

have charge of the Citizenship Day

program of the Farm \‘Vomen’s insti-

tute, to be held at the college the last

of July in connection with the Ameri-

can Country Life Conference. '





 





 





GUERNSEY

lN NEWAYGO.





 





HE Newaygo County Guernsey

Breeders’ Association was organ-

ized March“ .2, when the following offi-

ce1s were (elected: President, E. E.

Price, of Fremont; vice—president, Ford

‘ Goyings, of \Vhite Cloud; secretary-

treasurer, Harry Stroyen, of Fremont;

directors, W. T. Evoy, of White Cloud;



H. W. Frye, of Sand Lake.





*1 - The newly, organized association has

‘ undertaken a number of worth while

projects for the year, which include

1 the cooperative-use and ownership of

better, sires, the use of the cow testing

, association as a basis for their breed-

~ 1' ing operations and herd improvement,

and encouraging boys and girls to join

calf clubs.





; 1' Newaygo county is a new Guernsey

community, but old in dairying. It

was in Newaygo county that the first

cow testing association in the United

states was organized in 1905. Mr.

Stroven, secretary of the local breed-

ers’ association, has had his herd of

grade and purebred Guernseys in cow

testing association work for more than



‘ ten years. W. D. Burrington, state



field secretary, attended the meeting.





 





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to another in the same

building. The first advance

in telephony made possible

conversations from one point

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the founders of the Bell Tele-

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that through it, all the sepa-

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day be interconnected to form

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by telephone has now become

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fostered by a large, old-fashioned

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tionized industry in the last fifteen

years, while we homemakers have

been slow, slow to save ourselves

through centuries of wasted time and

effort.



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Why do we spend three-fourths of

our working hours in that one room?

The answer takes the shape of one

thousand meals a year, of three in:

evitable meals a day. Not only the

preparation of food takes place in the

kitchen, but also the clearing away af—

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pertaining to preparation of meals is

one step ahead. Another leap to leis-

is to arrange conveniently the

equipment used in clearance of dining





lroom and kitchen. For instance, sup-





plies are fetched from cupboard or ice-

box, prepared at the sink or nearby

table, cooked at the stove, dished up

at the stove or nearby table, and car-

ried to the dining room to be served.

Clearly, this would indicate that we

should arrange from left to right, (so

far as is"possible), the refrigerator,

cupboard or pantry or cabinet,“ sink

with drain boards, or table, and stove.





The Second Process is Reversed.





The second process—~clearing away

and dish washing—a right to left op-

eration, calls for putting food away,





for scraping and stacking soiled dishes '





on right-hand drain board of sink,

washing of dishes in sink, drying or

draining of dishes on left-hand drain

board, and the final putting away of

dishes into the cupboard.





Obviously, the distance from dining ‘

Jroom table to sink and cupboard





should not be greater t-han is absolute—





ly necessary. In fact, the walking area "





of the kitchen should not be large—ea.

big kitchen is a total- loss in every

respect.

also allows space for operations other





than the sanitary preparation and





clearing away of meals. However,





or can convenient arrange her oom-

pa‘Ct working (cents

far corner or two i





 





 





Another Leap to Leisure

' By Flam Culver T hampron





when we would like to Yipes an,

inconvenient old kitchen into the





It makes ‘efitra. work. and '

work are given in our book, “Complete 7 _ ‘

‘CourSe in Embroidery ” price twenty- ‘- g z

. five cent-s. Address your orders to the *

even in a large kitchen, the housekeep: , ‘ .





e regatdéiis of a“





 





whole pantry and fetch it to the table

near the sink!

you could-,at least keep in neatjars.

smaller amounts of “the supplies used

daily, such as flour; sugar, Salt. soda,

tea, cofiee,on

table or on the table.





Call Kitchen Table to Your rRescue. *





Let your kitchen table help solve





your rearrangement problem. You -





might make a double-decker of the ta-

ble itself and put a shelf ”below the

top to accommodate the sugar, flour,





a bdwi, .or two, and so forth Further- ' '





more, the table on casters or small

wheels is a great step saver, ‘incarry.

ing supplies and dishes, and in serv-

ing dinner. While we’re improving

our kitchen table, let’s have it a con-

venient height (even if we have to

raise it).

‘people five feet three inches or mere

in height should be thirty-five inches

from the floor. Near the" preparation

center should be hung in easy- reach,

the small equipment used daily—egg

beater, potato masher, strainer, a.

sauce pan or two, and even asmall





aluminum mixingbowl and spoon. It ‘

requires less initiative‘to stir'up a-





quick cake if a reach\ of the hand

brings part of the equipment toyou.





Of course, towels, dish cloths and dish ‘





mop, soaps, and scouring agents,

should be Within instant touch. Nor

must we forget the children’s drinking

cups, placed low for their convenienCe.

Good organization, too, to keep one

drawer or shelf for only the paper

napkins, oiled paper, cord, scissors,

and other small efiects pertaining to

the school lunch.





Casually enough, we have taken.





sinks for granted, although we know

to our sorrow that scarcely one-third





of our women have thatcOnvenience.





Running water intake and a drain out-

let, at least, are a housekeeper’s right-

ful heritage and she shall have them

ere long. For our progressive Ameri-

can husbands are not like the French

Canadian who, all winter long, daily

chopped a hole in the ice on the lake

in order to get water foi' hisbig fain-

ily. Unfortunately, the lake was half

a mile from" the farm house. When





rasked why on earth he didn’t put‘in a





pump into the kitchen, he waved his

arm toward the lake.

“Out there,” he said, “is a well that

never runs dry!”

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WOULD you like to know how to



make over fifty difierent em-

broidery stitches? The Mexican stitch,

single and dou-

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. the ship ladder

stitch, the Bul-

garian stitch, the

Queen Ann 6





lin _ stitch,

many, many

more. If so the

instructions for

making them,

and also the di-

» motions for mak-

; ing punch work

and Wallachian





 





 





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on‘ari open shelf over the -::





All working surfaces for .





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chap" ' ‘when used'ih-the usual way.-

I‘havelound’ a way. of making it last,

much longer. Instead of putting the

’- polish directly onto a soft cloth, try



opreparing a number of them aty,once,

\ my way. Cut enough pieCes of cheeSe-





cloth of the desired size—I prefer’





eighteen inches square to fill a two-

rquart fruit jar when folded closely.

Then pour enough polish in the jar to

fill it to the depth of half an inch.





'Roll the jar on its sides so as to get '





the inside weii,.coated with the polish.

Then pack the cloths in, put on the

lid,- and leave it a few days before

using the cloths. When ready to use

you will find the dust cloths well sat-

urated with the polish, and when treat-

ed this way, one cloth will last a long

time, and the others will be just as

goOd as the ’first, when you bring them

out, even though they have been left

in the closed jar for months.—-—Mrs. P.





 





THE CURRENT.





If. so my life must



Be like unto a river,



And flow within unyielding banks



0f customs Time has fused into con-

ventions,



Grant, then, at least these waters may

be clear,



And cool, and to the passers-by, re-

freshing;



Carrying in unclouded depths



N0 dregs of hatred, scorn—-



No treacherous rocks



To rend the fragile shell of Friend-

ship’s bark; ‘



Yet purposeful of current, ‘



Not slow meandering, nor lazily con-

tent, ‘



No stagnant bayous, winding channels



Leading blindly on and on;



Not yet rushing forward in a heedless

torrent;



But of some constant service unto

they who dwell



Upon the grassy slope and call me

friend.





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» fimgmma ramiturekush Wm





. oughly. This treatment will leave your





,use, and after one pan seems to be





”minus, , 1w; .. totally _.





THE temptation to use harsh soaps

and pumices in an effort to keepi

the hands clean is one to which the

busy housewife often yields. I find

corn meal the best and most harmless

scourer for the hands. Dip your toilet

soap into water, then into the meal.

“'et your hands and lather well with

the mealy scap, rubbing hard before

washing off. \l'ith soap and meal on

your nail-brush, scrub the nails thor-





hands smooth as satin and perfectly

grimeless. Thoroughly dry them, then

rub well with your favorite hand 10‘

tion. Simply glycerine and rose-water,

half and half, answers «best for me.

Not all skins are alike in the degree

of oiliness possessed. A little experi-

menting will enable one to find the

most soothing lotion for her individual

use—J. E. T.





 





GIVE CHIVES A CHANCE.





LANT a package of chives this



spring if you haven’t already start

ed these tasty bits. I use them (just

cut the tops off) chopped fine with sal-

ad dressing for sandwiches.



Also chopped fine for salads and

soups, and notice how pleasing the

onion flavor is without the strong,

stomach-upsetting qualities of onion.



Toward fall you can take up a couple

of pans of the chive roots and have

them growing in the house all Winter.

They can be cut repeatedly for winter





getting run-out. you just put it down

in the cellar and use the other one.

Theyitake up no more room than a





 





   

 





 





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HERE’S sure to be Company for

Easter. But Mother need not

stay home from church if she

has the meal well-planned the day

before. The suggested-menu below

would save much . of .the last1’min'ute

preparation. The vegetables could all

be prepared on Saturday, and the cel~

ery, chicken en casserole, and parsnips

cooked on Sunday morning, Thé

cheese balls for the salad could be

made in advance and the dessert pre-

pared up to ‘the point of adding the

eggs. While the potatoes and dessert

are baking, the rest of the meal could

be prepared for the' table,

Cream of Celery Soup

Chicken on Casserole

’ Baked Potatoes au Gratin





Panfried Parsnips Rolls

Easter Salad Apple Delight

Pond Lily Cake ' Ooflee ‘





Cream of Celery Soup





1 bunch celery 2 tb. butter

3 cups milk 2 tb. flour

1 tb. grated onion Salt. pepper





Dice stalks and leaves of celery and

cook in very little water until soft.

Mix fat and flour in a sauce pan over

a low fire, add half the milk and cook

slowly until thick. Add the other half

of the milk to the celery pulpfthat has

been pressed through a, sieve, together

with grated onion and seasoning. Cook

for ten minutes and add the cream

sauce mixture and cook for ten min-

utes longer.



Baked Potatoes au- Gratin.



If the potatoes are brushed with fat

before baking, the skins will be more

tender. As they Come from the oven,

out quickly across the trip; squeeze

gently in the hand; add a teaspoonful

of grated cheese, and a, dash of pap-

rika. Serve at once.



Chicken en Casserole.



Prepare the fowl as for roasting. It

may or may not be stuffed. After

sprinkling with salt and pepper, r011





Plan Menu :22 Advance and Have Hm: do 1ng Yo"





ln flour and panrfry until brown. Place . ,«

in casserole together with half cm”

rice; two medium onions sliced; two.

one cup green beans. , ,

cave:- .

and cook until the bird is tender. If-jt. f





 





small carrots; _

Add one or two cups of water.





necessary, add more water.

Panfried Parsnlps‘. ,





Partially cook the parsnips; roll in.





beatenegg, and then in bread crumbs.





‘ Brown 3in butter.





_ Easter. Salad.





Individual salads are more attrac-l





tive. On each salad plate, arrange

shredded lettuce in a ‘fiest.

cup of grated cheeSe,‘ add. two ~table~





spoonsful‘ of minced olives, and one.





tablespoonful of broken nut meats.

Blend with mayonnaise and form into

tiny eggs about _an inch in diameter.

Place three or four Of these in the

center of each lettuce nest, sprinkle





with a teaspoonful of minced pimento‘





or a dash of paprika, dot with may-

onnaise.

Apple Delight.





2 cups rich apple sauce 4 tb. powdered sugar

ls cup jelly or jam cup nut meets

3 eggs, beaten separately 1 cup whipped cream





" Spread the applesauce, together with

the jam, over the bottom of a. greased

baking dish. Beat egg yolks with three

tablespoonsful of sugar. Fold in the

whites. Spread over the fruit ‘and

dust with the rest of the sugar. Bake

in a slow oven for thirty’minutes, and

serve with the whipped cream or ma;

pie dessert sauce.

Pond Lily Cake.



6 tb. shortening 2-8 cup milk



1 cup sugar 3 egg whites. beaten



2 cups flour Salt. flavoring



3 tsp. baking powder' '



Cream shortening. Add sugar slow-

ly. Sift dry ingredients. Add dry in-

gredients and milk to first mixture

alternately. Fold in the beaten egg

whites and bake in layers or in a

Turk’s head pan. A moderate oven for

forty minutes.





 





 





 





 





Peep,





tle white house. “Oh, dearie me,

will I ever get out of here?”



All was silent for awhile.

“pick, pick, ” louder than ever, and the

Easter Chick poked his little yellow

bill through the tiny hole that he had

made in the side of his house.



“Oh, hum, hi, ho, hum, ” yawned the

Easter Chick, then he stretched him-

self But he stretched too far, for he

broke his white house right in two.



“Peep, peep,” said the Easter Chick,

as he stepped forth into the sunshine





   





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The Easter Bunny and Easter Chick

Trotted Off In Search of their Easter

Basket.





He was very hungry, so he started to

scratch for a worm in the pile of sand

nearby.





“Good morning, and who are you?”

said the Bunny to. the Chick.





the ?’(,}hlck’.

“Howdy do, Easter Chick ” answered



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Soon Bunny came hopping that way.





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EEP, peep! Pick, pick!

peep,” came from within the lit-





“To find an Easter basket ” answer-

ed the Easter Bunny. “Won’ I: you come

along "”



“Thanks to you, I’ll come ” replied





the Easter Chick. So of! they started.





in search of an Easter basket. how,

the Easter Bunny hopped much faster

than the Easter Chick’s short legs

could carry him. But when the Easter

Chick grew tired, Bunny carried him

on his back. Together they searched

all the afternoon but no Easter basket

could they find. At last the sun went

to sleep behind the hills and it grew

dark. The Easter Bunny and the East-

er Chick were very tired and sleepy.

“We’ll make a bed in this pile of





' leaves and perhaps we can find a. as-





ket in the morning " suggested te

Easter Bunny. The Easter Chick

agreed and they were soon off to

Slumberland.

brightly when they awoke.



“Peep, peep,” yawned the “Easter





“Happy Easter ” greeted the Easter





’ . Chic.





' Bunny, “but come, we must be on our





way to find our basket. ” He stretched

himself rubbed his sleepy eyes, and

looked about.



“Hip, hooray,” he abouted, for he

had just discovered that he and the

Easter Chick had gone to sleep in a.

pretty Easter Basket the night before

and didn’t know it.



“Sh, sh!” whispered the Easter Bun-

ny to the Easter Chick. “Don’t move.

we’ve found our Easter Basket: And

I hear someone comlhgl Listenl” 5'



Was it you, my little madam that

the Easter Bunny heard? Bidiou





Bunny in your Easter Basket





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E:"tss‘u'iks- shouldnot‘be'placed where the ,

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‘ , V InOMVMER'ClAIL’ poultry feeds differ





' them, says the chemist'at the Experi-





   





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am!“ a e " 3131'???” " " “believed to behest suited to gain «the

desired results for which the feed was-

sold'. The cost of the different feeds

depended largely on“ the cost of these

ingredients. .

“Laying mashes usually contain‘

Wheat bran. wheat middlings. linseed

oil meal, corn glutenfeed. corn meal,

ground oats, alfalfa meal. meat scrap,

fish meal, and dried buttermilk feed.





and reach dOWn for the water. Often

they slip into the water and soon

drewn: Do not place broodmoops‘on

soil where sudden rain storms may

drain into the coops,’ forming puddles

in which the hen-brooded chicks are

soaked and chilled. Beard floors in all

brood coops will usually prevent such

losses.



Never build flimsy shelters for the

chicks during good weather. At the

first severe wind and rain storm, the

chicks may gather in such shelters. If

they blow'down it means a lot of

crushed and drowned chicks. It is

better to have the flocks accustomed

to" seeking shelter in strongly built

colony houses that are safe in most

wind and rain storms.



Be careful about placing brood coops

or colony houses near wheat or oat‘

fields. Early in the morning the

chicks may wander into the deep

growth and’ become lost, wet and chill:

ed. [Such chicks may never have

strength enough to return to the pro—

tection of the mother— hen or the brood-

er stove.



Dense growths of grass or grain may ,

harbor weasels. If poultry range near

such places, it pays best to beat

through the field occasionally with a

dog and gun and see if any dead chicks

are found which show the marks of a

weasel. A well-trained dog on a range

is of great help inlscaring away such

pests.



Small chicks should not be permit-

ted to go under colony houses. They

may gather in heaps under the houses

and become chilled by cold Winds—«R.

G. Kirby.





but various combinations of these ma-

terials." says the station chemist. Such





and average about $62 per ton.

“Chick growing mashes





ing mashes, except that oatmeal or

rolled oat- greats are often used in

place of ground oats. Also. they usu-

ally contain bone meal or lime in the

form of calcium carbonate, or both.

The laying mashes contain the most

protein. fat, and fiber of ‘any of the

poultry feeds, while the growing mash-

es contain somewhat smaller amounts

of these nutrients, and the chick start-

ers still less.



“A typical formula for a chick start-

er is dried buttermilk feed, oatmeal,

wheat middlings, corn meal, wheat

meal. and bone meal. Buttermilk feed

and meat scrap are the two ingredi-

ents of poultry feeds that add most to

the cost of the mixtures.”





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My hens have difficulty breathing.

They open their mouths and squawk,

and cannot get their breath. «They

live only about two hours after they

get this way.——F. M.





gape and struggle for breath. The

entrance to the windpipe may be filled

with yellow, cheesy canker which

shuts off the breath. This can often

be removed with a bit‘of sharp stick

or a knife blade. Birds breathe hard

because of bronchitis and pneumonia.

This is usually caused by exposure to

cold, Windy or" rainy weather. or a lack

of ventilation in the poultry house.

Sometimes bits of foreign material,

like straw, potato peelings. or other

objects may become lodged in a bird’s

throat.





 





MITES DECREASE EGG PRODUC-

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THIS is a gobd time to destroy

the mites. Too often the farmer

neglects the controlling of the mites

in the winter. A great deal of blood.

and vitality is taken by mites, and this

decreases the vigor of the hen. If the

hen is not healthy and contented, she

cannot be expected to lay very many

eggs. . ,



The mites may be successfully con‘

trolled: in winter or summer by spray-

ing the cracks and crevices of the

poultry house with kerosene. This

seems to dry quickly and is highly de~

sirable during the cold weather. The

mites'are easily killed by coming in

contact with the strong, penetrating

kerosene. If one does not wish to use

kerosene, he may apply any two or

three per cent solution of ordinary

stock dip.





‘After the poultry house has been

thoroughly cleaned and sprayed, the

roosts and dropping boards should be

painted with a wood preservative, such

as ordinary crank case oil, which

tends to prevent the reappearance of

the mites. ‘



It is a good idea to destroy the lice

while fighting the mites. This job is

successfully done by sprinkling the

hen With sodium fluoride. A pinch

may be put-on the head, under both

wings, and rubbed around the vent.

It readily destroys the lice and does

not injure the hen—H. Q. Holt.





SYM pron/'15 OF TUBERCULOSIS.





 





How’ can I tell if fowls have tuber-

culosis? Is there any test besides the

symptoms T—S. V.



The general symptoms of avian tu-

berculosis are great loss of weight and

wasting of the muscles, combined with

lameness and swelling of the joints.

The yellowish or whitish tubercles

may be found on the liver, intestines

or spleen. A laboratory examination

is considered necessary to definitely

determine avian tuberculosis.





The infected and non~infected birds

may be located by means of a tuber-

culin test. If tuberculosis is suspected

in a valuable flock of poultry, it pays

to consult a veterinarian and have him

carry out the tuberculin test, or make





apparent physical

flock.





condition of the





 





FERTILITY OF DUCK EGGS.





 





How long would it be that duck

eggs would be fertile after having a

drake with the ducks? We had a

drake from last fall, and late; found

out it would not mate. so we bought

another drake, and in three days no-

ticed he was all right. I heard it was

two weeks. Is this so?——N. 0.





It will be safest to wait ten days to

five weeks before saving the eggs for

hatching, in order to insure a fair per

cent of fertile eggs, or eliminate the

effect of previous matings. There is

ho definite period that will apply. in

all cases.

the loss of many infertile eggs by mat--





 





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OULTRYMEN who wish to capon-



ize cockerels should remember



that the best market for capons

is from January 15 to March 1. This

reduces the competition from other

kinds of poultry meat. The old hens

have been marketed and the early

broilers have not yet reached the mar-

ket. The capons should be of good

weight, and between nine months and

a year old when they are marketed.



Large cities like Detroit, Cleveland

and Chicago furnish the best market

for capons. But in smaller cities, like

Lansing, there is an increasing demand

for capon meat for banquets, and many

diners who learn to appreciate capons

at a good banquet, later desire such

a. bird for special occasions on the

home table.



Caponize Goo-d‘ Birds.



Another home market for capons

which has scarcely been touched, is

the farm home. Many farmers who

do not expect to market capons will

receive an increased pleasure in their

business if they caponize a few cock-

erels for home use next winter. They

will help out with the winter meat bill

and prove a pleasant change from oth-

er kinds of poultry.



When the cockerels are sold for

broilers, there may be a. few culls not

good enough to Sell or ship. Do not

caponize them in an effort to improve

their quality. Good capons cannot be

developed from cull chicks. The capon

needs a. long growing season, and the

best of the vigorous young cockerels

are the type of birds which will use

their feed to the best advantage over

that long period of development.



Use Large Breeds.



Leghorn cockerels lack the frame to

make nice capons. The American, Asi~

atic and English breeds are all suit-

able for caponizing. The Barred Ply-

mouth Rock is a very popular breed

for caponizing, because the sexes can

be separated at an early age. The

single mated Barred Rocks soon Show

that the light plumage denotes cock~

erels, while the dark feathers indicate

pullets. If you have ever tried to sep-

arate the sexes in a flock of White

Wyandottes or Reds, before the mas-

culine and feminine heads are appar-

ent, you realize the difficulty of guess-

ing right every’time. And the best

time for caponizing is when the cock-

erels are only six to ten weeks old,

and weigh from a pound and a half to

two pounds.



Some poultrymen report very good

results from crossing Cornish Game

males with Barred Rock females. The

Cornish carry a. large meaty breast,

and have plenty of vigor, while the

Barred Rock ranks high for meat pro—

duction.



How to Start.



Before attempting to caponize large

numbers of cockerels, it is well to re-

member that they requires. long grow-

ing season, plenty of feed, and good





special market is necessary to dispose

of many capons at high prices. Most

local markets have their largest de-

mand for plump hens, and the buyers

have not been educated’jto order oar

pone at high prices. _



But it you wish to enjoy some fine

poultry meat, and not risk much mon-

ey or feed, try caponizing a. few for.

home‘use. It the. business proves sat-

isfactory, it can later be developed.





 





 





Moving the colony houses “’





- April Peultry Notes





By R. G. Kzréy





housing during the fall and winter. A .





, or not.





Possibly some of the egg customers

can be induced to buy. canons. Some,

times local dealers are glad to chain"

.11. source of supply to fill bane of.





 





have beenmw





 





soil is a great help in reducing the

danger-of disease among the chicks.





.Some poultrymen, state that chicks





should be raised‘on the same soil only

once in four years. This is- undoubt-

edly true, if you wish to raise chicks

under ideal conditions. But few poul-

trymen have the land to move. their

colony houses 'so that the chicks will

not touch the different locations more

than once in four years.



On most poultry or general farms

there is only about so much. acreage

near enough to the farm and poultry





buildings to enable the birds to receive ‘

the proper protection of the owner.‘





You cannot place colony houses eighty

rods or more from the house and barn

without risking great. losses from

thieves, stray dogs, weasels, skunks

and hawks. You cannot give the

brooder fires proper attention during

storms, if they are located a. long dis-

tance from the house.

Rotate Ranges.



Many poultrymen find that ten or

twenty acres is all they can buy or

look after when poultry is their spe-

cialty, and much money is needed for

buildings and equipment. It is obvious

that the young stock cannot be moved

beyond the limits of the land a. man

owns.



So it is my opinion that raising

chicks on the same ground only once

in four years, is ideal, but, under prac-

tical farm conditions most of us Can-

not do it. The land can be kept in a

clover sod, or plowed and limed and

planted to other crops. .Part of the

range can be plowed and planted, in

com. This turns up clean soil and

11101175 under a lot of the old soil. .. It

provides a. Shady range for the chicks.



Other Measures.



Every efiort can be made to keep

old stock from ranging on the same

.3011 the chicks use. Poultry manure

can be scattered as far as possible

from the poultry buildings, and used

on garden soil which. is fenced aWay

from the poultry. Most of us will have





to depend on zero weather in. winter, -/





and sunshine and plowing to help in

keeping the soil as clean as possible

for the chicks. I do not think it nec-

essary to become discouraged if

enough new soil is not available, to

permit raising chicks on the same

ground only once in four years. I ad-

mit‘that would be an ideal arrange-

ment. Moving the colony houses Once

or twice a year, and owning about 'two

large chick ranges, is about 'all that

seems possible for most poultrymen.





 





HENS EAT PAPER.





Please tell me Why chickens eat par

per. The inside of the roosting pen

is lined with heavy building paper and

the chickens keep picking at it. Does

the paper harm the chickens ?—-O. E.





Hens have a tendency‘m peck holes





-in wall-board, building paper; or any





kind of .paper composition-used on the





   





walls of poultry houses where it can .





be reached by the birds. The mate-

rial seems to contain mineral elements





which they crave. _ Part. of the pecking ,





and tearing is probable due to the cur-

iosity of the hens to try out any ma-

terlal which they can break loose,





whether they have an appetite for it p





The habit is 1101; due to any great





deficiency in the ration,” 3911‘s





which receive ‘e’eiything they. need
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In few hours, disease is stopped and

sick chicks full of pep.





It’s easy to stop chicks dying from

white diarrhea. All you need

drop an- Avicol tablet in the drinking





water. Thousands of poultry raisers,

year after year. raise nesly every chick by

this sim l‘e precaution. Mrs. E. Franks,

Remodel, Tex., writes: “I was losing 10 to

day before I received the Avicol.

I haven’t lost one since.



A free test of Avicol will show how easily

white diarrhesis prevented and stopped. The

way it makes sick chicks lively and healtlh.

11st a few hours, is pos tively amazing. . you

» ve never tried Avicol, write for a free Bssxnfille,

or send 50c for a full-sized package, toB



Pootel Stat! on 3163.,





In nipolis. Ind. ' It costs nothing to try

the 501: package. because Avicol is sranteed

to do the work or money refunds. But if





you prefer. try the free sample first.





More Egg Money





Make $10.0- yeer from 800 hens like

others are doing. Poultry Tribunee owe

hornexplsinsbr oodinzmullinmfee

management: monthly. 80-160 poses





M nths’ Trial



3. go OCOnis a Year 1 0C

Colored or: chicken pictures suitable

for framing 1" every other issue.

Send stomps or coin today at our risk.





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5. 000 Available

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Accredited. Keep 1700 on our own farm. Hatch

our own eggs and from 3 neighbors. All our own

stock. Use 200 to 326 (egg) Pedigreed moles only.

Blood— tested for 3 successive years. Quality

chicks. Prices 1ight. Descriptive circular before

buying.





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. the loss of the material: is the crop-



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pack their crops with paper or any

' other indigestible material.





POISONING FROM BLUE OINT-

MENT. ,





After using blue ointment for chick-

en lice, would fowls be good to eat, as

the ointment is very poisonous ?—C. A.





The blue ointment used for lice is

usually mixed with equal parts of

vaseline, and a piece about the size of

a pea is placed beneath the vent, while

a small smear is placed under each

wing. I have no record of any person

being poisoned by eating poultry which

has been treated with blue ointment.

but the material is very poisonous and

I would not wish to use it on birds

nthat were to be marketed, or used for

meat Within a. few days.



The fact that the bird receives only

a. small quantity of blue ointment, and

the skin is carefully washed before

the bird is cooked, probably safe-

guards consumers of the meat. We

only treat the birds that are to be re

tained for at least a few weeks. A

hen is small in weight compared with

a person, and if much of the poison

affected the bird internally, it would

doubtless be a very unsafe means of

combatting lice. ‘





 





KEEP THE PULLETS GROWING.





PULLET will not necessarily make

a good hen, even though she has

the best 'of ancestry behind her. A

Whole lot depends upon the manner of

development. In order to make good

layers, we should aim to develop heavy

appetites in the growing birds. The

heavy-laying hen is always the one

able to eat and assimilate a large

amount of food. While this trait is

partly inherited, it is largely develop-

ed. The way to do it is by developing

large crop capacity in the growing pul-

lets. This is done by forcing them to

eat bulky food during the stages of

development. Free range, with plenty

of shade and green grass, are essen-

tial conditions in the development of

the future layer. May and June. are

important months with the early—hatch

ed birds. Make them consume large

quantities of mash, and feed the hard





 





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Incubators have s. capacity of 25, 000 healthy baby

chicks per week. Our flocks are culled. leg- handed

and final inspected by state men only. Prices reason-

able. 100% live delivery.





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Blood Tested for the Past Three Years

Krueper Holterrnan Barred Rocks $15.00.

Selected Barred Rocks $13.00. R. I. Reds

$15. 00. White Leghorn: $10.00. Mixed

Chicks $9. 00.





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last her twenty-four. The reason hens

often fail to lay during the short days

is because they cannot consume sulfi-

cient food during the short hours of

daylight. Develop the appetite and the

stamina now. and you will be well re-

paid later—C. H. Chesley.





ASHES FOR HENS.





Would it be harmful to my chickens

if I let them have coal ashes to dust

in? Would the ashes from wood be

harmfu1?——J. G.



We empty our hard coal ashes into

a metal bushel basket to cool, and lat-

er place them in the dust boxes in the





 





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laying houses. The hens seem to find

bits of mineral matter in the ashes,

[and eat quite a lot of the material, as

lwell as dusting in it. It seems to

cause no trouble, and helps out in pro-

viding minerals for the flocks. When

lthe bones from the table scraps are





 





”Slim [thrown into the stove, that must also

‘ add some bone-building material to the





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lye, and there are cases where hens

have developed a bad crop condition

from eating damp wood ashes. Of

course, charcoal is fine for the birds,

but I would not Wish to give them ac-

cess to a lot of wood ashes while con-

fined in winter quarters.





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Mr. Pike brings out in his letter

several points of interest to those

who keep poultry for profit: ,





l. Exceptionally low mono ‘

tality.



2. Rapid growth.



3. Unusual health and vigor.



4. Simple to feed—less labor.



5. Best results in nine years.





This is only one of the hun-

dreds of letters that are now

cOming in from poultrymen

who have already tested Dick-

inson’ s Globe “All- Mash” Ra-

tions. However, you don’t have

to take anyone’s word for it.

Try Globe “All-Mash” Rations . '

yourself and judge by your '

own results. A Booklet on

Chick Raising free on request.





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IPO Qi‘i‘l’d

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bl‘1)ll(’l'S huvc not yI-l l’1’210111'1l tho mar-

lwl. The, cnpons should b1», ()1 good

might, and l)1‘l\\'(“‘ll lllllt’ Inonihs and

11 your old IleIIII thoy 2111 lllill‘lU‘lCd.

‘ Largo ('I'livs lilII: 11111011, (‘lIIvolund

{Ind (1111’I1L1) 1111111511 1111' host market

1101‘ (Inpons. 11111 in >11;;IllI-II likI»

11411111311121.”11101.91!“ l111'l'IiFlllLf1li‘lllilllil

l'or :zIpon IIIIIIIt 1'01" llllll1§lii‘l>‘,:lll(l llllllly

dinvrn who l1’1ll'll ‘Io {1111:16'1'12111‘ (‘zipons

211 :1 good bzIIIquI-l, 1:1111‘ dI-Izirc such

:I. bird 101' special occasions on 1110

1101111: tabla

Caponize Gc-(d Birds.



AIIIIIhIII' 1101110 III;IIIl<I1 101- cnponz:

which :=I';I1'I'(:ly lii‘i'll touchIId, is

the: i'I'II‘In MIIII)‘ lill'llli‘l‘t; who

do 1101 i‘Xlll‘i‘l 10 111011;»! ('Hpons \\'lll





 





(‘1711‘S.





tha‘





11111111“.





I'I~cIIi\.'(I IIII 1111‘1'111141'11 lililxhlll't‘ in 1111-11‘

businvss 11' tin-y HIpIIninI :1 1111' (‘111'11-

III'IIls 1'01'1101111-11:<I- lll‘Vl \‘K'lllli'i'. ’l'hvy





LIIIIIlIIr InI-I'Il hill

from 0111





will 111‘11111111. with 111w

and proxo :1 plII.’I.<.I1111

(Ir lillHlti 01 poultry.

\l'hvn th (‘1)(‘l11‘1'1‘lF

bl‘()lli’l‘:<, 11111": III:I_\' in :1

(1110111111 10 91 ll 01'

(‘IillillllZH IthII in

1111111' quality,

(lV‘H‘lUIII'Ii I‘IIIIIII





(IlIIIIzyI:





101‘

1101

1101

lllllll'UVI‘





Fold

I'lllh:





111‘1‘

11w

ship.





guml ll”





I'III (1102‘! 11)

(11111101 in:

'l'hi-

:IIIIl





(lIIIIIi HIIIIIIIEI

I‘llll I11





:II'IIu 111:.“ ."1 :1!





(lI.i". (‘I‘Illllll





110011511 1011'; 1hr





1111.





host of llIII 1'11101'01154 )0: lil“ IIIIIIlI'I-III-h:

:‘II'II 1110 I'yIIII 01‘ lIiI'Ik \‘xlll1‘ll \\111 111%:

.111011' l‘HId 10 1111- lIo-I‘I. :Iduinlni'e- OVl‘l‘





,1th1: 10.111; pIII'iIIIl 01' de \". llllllll<'lll.

{ Use Large Breeds.

. 1121410111 (‘111111‘1‘1'lFI l;II 1/. 1111- 1101111: lo

l ('zipoiw. 'l‘iw :‘icnn, Asti-

lI‘IIIglisli lJl'1‘1'11} III'II :Ill Silll-

able- for ('zipoiiizcinz. 'i‘hI- 11:111-le l’ly—

111012111 lioI-ls is :1 ‘I'IIII; IIIIIIIIlI-II' lII‘MId

for (Inponizinu. bIII;III.~I 111w c011

bx" Ht-purnlvd :11 early 01:0. Tho

:ingz‘lI: lllzll<‘(l 13:11‘1'111 1101115 110011 show

11:11, 1110 lii’hl. [lllllllili‘i' (lIIIIIIlIIs: 0001(—

1'1'1‘15‘. 1111110 1110 dI'IIlI 11‘211111‘1'5‘ indicati-

11111111.“. 11’ you 1111,11; 1‘\'1‘1" 11‘iI-Il 10 I...”





11121116 IIiI'I- finn-





:Ilic (Ind





SWAPS





21.11





:IIIIII‘I- 1111: :wws‘ in :I 110011 01' \'\'11111-

‘1\'_\;IIIdolI_I-s‘. or BMW, lli‘llll'U 1111: 1112153-

(‘1111110 and 1'0111i1111w 111‘I‘lilb ill‘i‘ nppur-

«I111. you rvnlizo 111.. (liliiiully 01' gut-1:5;-

111;: right (II'IIIIy'iiiIII: find 1110 host,

111m: 1'01 caponizim. is \\'ll<ll 1111: cool;-

crIIls {11'1‘ only six to 11h chIks old,





and \I‘IIig‘h from 8, pound and :I 111111 10

two pounds.

801110 poultrynion Import \‘1‘1'5' good





rosulis from crossing Cornish 11111110

Innlvs with llnrrcd llocl: 1'IIIII;IlII.<. 'l‘ho

(‘III-nish curry I'I. 1:11p: Inmly lIIIIIIIsl,

21nd 11:11'0 pivniy Of \IiI'or, whilo tho

llIll‘H‘d 11011; rI'InlIIII 111 11 lor 1111111 p10

duction.





How to Start.

liII1'oro :IltI-InpliIIi’. Io czlponim~ largo:

numbors of C(lClU‘l‘Q‘lS, it. is wcll to 1'0-





:IIIIIIIIbIII' 111111 1111-y I‘IIIguiI'I- (l 1011;: grow-

1111;r SI-Iison, lili'llly 01‘ l‘I-(Id, and good





1101151111; (111111;; 111(- full and winter. A

>7]N'(‘l£11 Inurhvi is. IIIIIII-Ixsnry lo disposo

01' 1112111] ('Iipons :11, high prions. Mosl.

101111 lillll‘lit‘lS llZlVi‘ 1111:11' lzIrgIIst dc—

Inund for plump 1101154, 111111 1110 buyers

illELVE‘ not bQ‘i‘ll (Iducatcd to order ca-





Sand :1 I10 am we will 1|th 0 o. D. 'pons at high prices.

('110100 0‘ three profitable 1





But if you “1311 to enjoy some fine

, and not risk much mon-

try caponizing a. few for

If the busincs Is I)10\( s sat-

bc dmoloped.

Possibly 501111‘ of the (g1; customers

1 ..In be induced to buy capons. Some-

;tinics local dealers are glad to obtain

lei source of supply to fill banquet





'(IV or food,

1101110 use.





Moving the colony houses to clean





 





APRIL 16, 1927.





 





 





 





soil is a "root 111111 in reducing lllt.‘

(inngor 01' (11101151: (1.1110111: tho 1’llll ks.

Sonic DOlllll‘\lll(‘ll 5210111 111111 chicks





Should be Iziisvd on 1110 ." 2.11110 soil only

01100 in iour yours. '11115 is undoubr

cdly iruc, 11' you wish 10 ".1130 chi-”118

undvr idoul condiiions. But few poul-

tranIIn have 1110 land to mow 111011:

colony housvs so 11121.1 11m chicks will

1101 1011011 lho differcnl locations mow

1112111 oncc in four years.



(in most. poultry or gonoral forms:

1111‘1‘1’. is only about so much aciIeIII-w

llt'ill' 01101.11;11 1.0 1110 farm and pouliiy

buildings 10 (Inablc 1110 birds to l‘t‘1"“lV¢‘

111.: [ll'illli'l‘ proioclim‘. 01' the ownwr.

You cannot plow: colony lIousvs 01.2111}:

rods or 11101'1‘ 11-0111 1110 house and burn.





\I'ilhoui risking grunt losses from

1111017115, sirziy dogs. III'III'IIIols, SlillllliS

and hunks. You cannot give :‘hi:





broodIIr firm propm' 111101111011 during

51.011118, 11' they arc located a. 1011;: Us-

IIIIIQII from 1110 1101151,;



Rotate Ranges.



.i;IIIy pouliranIn 11111} 1.11111. hr. or

imply now»; is £111 111va can buy or

101111 III'IIII' \‘I'lli‘ll poullry is ilwir spo-

IIIIIy. I'Ind much money it; DIIIIle for





buildings and I-quipi li‘ill ii. is 011110113





111:I1 1110 young 510le cannot hr Ill1)\'1‘(l

l)1‘)'()ll(l 1110 1111111.: 01 the izznd :1, 1mm

owns:



So it is my opinion 11ml. 1112:1111:

chicks; on 1111: szI'IIIII around only 011110

in tour years, is iIiIIIIIl. bill, 'IIIIdI-I' p100

111111 1111111 (4011111110111. 100121. 01‘ 11.x“ (Inn-

1101 do 11. The land (on ho 10 p1 in :I

(‘l(l\’1‘l‘ sod, or plon-I-Il 11.1111 11111011 and

plI'IIIiIId 10 (Illl1’l‘ (:I'opu. Port, of 111.”

1111va ('IIII bi: plowcd IIIId plnnicd in

(‘Ul’lL This lurns up (:lcon soil and





plows undwr {l 101 01 1.110 old soil It

proridvs :L :alindy 1:111:10 for 11121: (11 11c

Other- Measures.

(Il'l'ori ("1111 [III 11111111: 10 kHIp

old 510111 110111 11111;; 1nd 011 1.110

soil lll1‘ chicks UII'1‘. l‘oullry IIIIIIIIIIII-

1)“ 5m: Mr :1»: pow: IiblII

111111 llII- buildings, 111111 I1.-:IId

on ,I.I;:II'dIIn 11.111111 1:; 1'oncvd nuny

iron) 1111: poultry. Mont 0111811111 lIIIIII,

10 (li‘lll‘llfl 0,11 VII-1‘0 \w-IIJhIIII in \I‘IIIlIIII,





lI‘IVIII'y





$211111?





IIIII'Hl

lNHllll')’

.9011





ill?





(‘1111

1

I





and 511115111110 and plowing: 10 help in

li“"lllll" 1110 {soil as Cll‘Zill {Is p1‘m.:ib10

101-1110 chick. I do not. think it noc-

('irw’il')’ lo bI'II‘onIo discouraged if

IIIIIIug'h now 5011 is 1:01, :Iwuilziblo 10

lwl'lllll. raising: chicks on the same

ground only once in four years ud-





11111. 111211; would b0 on 1110le arr-ungo-

InIenl. Moving: 1110 colony housos once





(11‘ lwicc :L your, and owning: about. 1wo

LII-go chick rungvs, is about :Ill 111111

Sl’i'lllS possible 101' 1110.91, pouiiranI-n.





HENS EAT PAPER.



Mon“: 11:11 1111‘ why (41110110111; col

pI-i'. 'l‘hII insido 01' 1111‘ 100511111;

1:: linI-d W111] l11‘21.V_V building panII‘ 11nd

1111: ('hiI'lII-ns lI'I-IIp picking; at, it. 1100.;

1110 Illlllé‘l‘ lllll‘lll tho (illiIIlI’c-IISCL-L). 1C.



lions how: 11 11‘11111‘111'3/ to puck 11011‘8

in \I'IIll—bonrd, building pIIpoi 01‘ any

kind of szpIIr composition urn-(l on the

“11115 01‘ poullry housvs whore it can

bI- 1‘1‘110111’11 by the birds The matc-

ri;Il acorns to contain mincrul elements

which lllt‘y crave. Part. 01' the pvcking

and touring is probablc duo to the cur-

iosity 01' the hens to try out any ma-

terial which they can break loose,

whether they have an appetite for it

or not.



The habit is not due to any great

deficiency in the ration, as hens

which receive everything they need,

have boon known to tear up wall-board

linings in poultry houses. Painting the

material with lime-sulphur, asphalt

paint, or any maten'al with a. bad

taste, may help in preventing the do





pu-

pwn
APRIL 16, 1925’.





 





 





 





 





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In few hours, disease is stopped and

sick chicks full of pep.





It’s easy to stop chicks dying from

white diarrhea. All you need do is

drop an Avicol tablet in the drinking





water. Thousands of poultry raisers.

year after year. raise nealy every chick by

this simple precaution. Mrs. Franks.

Ramsdell, Tex., writes: “I was losing 10 to

15 chicks in day before I received the Avicol.

I haven’t lost one since.



A free test of Avicol will show how easily

white diarrhea is prevented and stopped. The

way it makes sick chicks lively and healthy, in

just a few hours, is positively amazing. If you

have never tried Avicol. write for a free sample.

or send 50c for a full-sized package. to Burr-ell-

Dugger Co., 843 Postal Station Bldg.,

Indianapolis. Ind. ' It costs nothing to try

the 50c package. because Avicol is guaranteed

to do the work or money refunded. But if

you prefer, try the free sample first.





More Egg Money





Make $1000: yeerfrom 300 hens, like

others are doing. Poultry Trihunouliows

how ; explains brooding, culling. feeding

rnanug‘omont; monthly, 80400 pages





3 Months’ Trial 10C

0 50 Cents a Year

Colored art chicken pictures suitable

for framing Flll‘ll‘l every other issue.

Send stomps or coin today in our risk.





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‘ Wilt. 9““‘Nl‘ca HICHIGAN STATE ACCREDITED



TELL ' "

I ‘i 'tlli’ next VVinter'o Egg Production depends on the

I iul ity of the (‘l hm )ou order \()\‘.’i





i Our 1927 Free Catalog tells how.





 

   





 





Write for a copy.

PULLETS





\‘Ve are now takmg ortlrrq tor April and

May llilli'lll'vl l’xilleu

5.000 Available

WOLVERINE HATCHERY & FARMS





H, P. VV'icrAtiia, Owner and Breeder

Dept. 4, Zcelami. Mich.





Baby Chix and Pullets





S. C. White Leghorns, 'I‘ancred strain. Michigan

Accredited. Keep 1700 on our own farm. Hatch

our own eggs and from 3 neighbors. All our own

stock. Use 200 to 326 iegg Pedigreed males only,

Blood—tested for 3 successive years. Quality

chicks. Prices right. Descriptive circular before

buying.





. HOLLAND.

Simon Harkema & Son, Mic“,





Fairview Profit Producing Strains

Michigan Accredited

Slx Leading Varietieu to choose from.

Yrannelted Leghorn! under R. 0. P. Work.





 





 





 





Erin‘tls show 137 to 71 opus lnnl pvr hcn ill iii! day.

is l' Heavy Typc \\'hitc l.o-,:hu1n< \Vhit» and

Barred Rocks.

1 Ant'onas, S.('.lll10(lt‘l\lllilfl Reds.





Brown Loghorns. “'o Guru-anion Satisfat-Llon.

Write for our Live and Let Live Prices.

FAIRVIEW HATCHERY Gr POULTRY FARMS.





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Box M. Zeeland. Mich.

(let your fluffy little "Money Makers" from the





lM‘Rth hatchery in Livingston bounty. Our twoSmlth

incubators have a (‘alllt‘liy of 25,000 healthy baby

hicks per wank. Our flocks am t-ullctl, 1m: handed

and final inspected by state men only, i’rlwxs muon-

ghl,‘ 1009;; live (lulivory.





Livingston Chick Hatchery





203 E. Sibley St, Dept. M, Howell, Mich.





Michigan Accredited CHICKS





Blood Tested for the Past Three Years

Krueper Holterman Barred Rocks $15.00.

Selected Barred Rocks $13.00. R. l. Reds

$15.00. White Leghorns $10.00. Mixed

Chicks $9.00.





Kruepcr Poultry Farm & Hatchery,

R. No. 3,_Milan. l‘dichigan





MICHIGAN ACCREDITED CLASS A CHICKS

from well developed. strong. healthy lay-

ers. S. (3. Eng. \Vhilc and Brown Loa-

horns; Sheppard's Antonin: it. i. Rods

and Assortud ('hlcks. No inonrv down

Pay a. Wt‘t'k bct‘ora chicks; are ~-hippod.

100% iivotleiiu-rr. Postpaid. t‘atnioguo

tree. THE 808 HATCHERY. R. 2-M,

ZEELAND. MICH.





SEND N0 MONEi’ci'kl‘e'KlllCliS





Jug me“ your order. We shi C. i). I). and guarantee prepaid

100 per cent live delivery of star 1, pure bred chicks from bcnlthy

bred to In, Rocket Wh. Br, and Buff Leghorns llic; Eng. Wh. lion.

He; Trnpnoeted Win. Leghorna 16:: Bd. anti Wh. Ruck-i,

Ancunne I‘c; Hufl Rocks, BUR Orpingtonn; While Wynndotlea lilo;

81k. Minore-I 15c; miXud 10c; ell henvics 12c. Orders for 50 CllleH

to more, 2!) chickl 2: more.



Silver Lake Egg Farm Ben M





 





 





 





 





Silver Lake, Ind.





[benign Bred QualitYC

Pay for chicks when you get





them. Write for big, illustrated

catalog. Fine pure-bred stock.





 





   

     

 

 





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l. W. Dosage Hatchery. Box 2i . Ottawa. 0.

LARGER WHITE iEGHOHllS WWEMQEO?





ably priced profit-makers for the t‘urnn-r and cm; rm)»

dlicnr. Now free illustrated t'n'ul'ig fully describe!

them and will help you succeed. Sand for it. A.

W. WAUCHEK. Gables. Mich.





THE MICHIGAN





The only great harm that

from the habit, aside from

lillel‘i‘lltl, is the crop-

(Jilil‘illllill that results if hens

their with paper or any

indicwstiblo material.





strucr‘nn.

nuu'conw

tho lo::< tr-t'

bound

pack

Otht‘ r





iii“





crop s





 





BLUE OINT-





POlSONiNG FROM

MENT.

After using blue ointment for chick-

en lico, would fowis bc good to eat, as

the OllltlllPlli is wry poisonous?~«C. A.

The blue ointmcnt, used for lice is

usually mixed with equal parts of

vaselino, and a piece about the size of

a pen is placed beneath the root, while

a. small Sliil‘ili' is plnt‘ml under each

wing. l hnw no l’t‘t‘tii‘tl ol‘ :my person

being [)OlSOIlt‘il by outing: poultry which

has been trentotl with blue ointment,

but the material is wry poisonous and

I would not. wish to usc it on birds

that were to be, marketed, or used for

meat within n few days.

The fact that the bird rc-ooives only

a small quantity of blue ointment, and





 





‘grnin





R. l. Reds, .





the skin is carefully washed before

the bird is Cooked, probably safe-

.guartis consumers of the meat. “’9





£01in treat the birds that are to be re-

tained tor at least a few A

then is small in woight compared with

;a person, and it much 01' the poison

~inl‘l't-t‘tml the bird internally, it. would

l‘doubtloss be a very unsafe means of

icombnttintz lice.





wovks.





! KEEP THE PULLETS GROWING.

1





, PU LLICT will not necessarily make‘





I at good lit'll, even though slit? has

ltho bout ol' ititt'csti‘y bwhintl her. A





‘wholo lot tlvantls upon the) liitllllil‘l‘ 0f.





tilwct‘iopnh‘ni. in ordor to make good





_lll}’t‘l‘.\‘. no should aim to tlcyolop hoary





zippwtiivs in the growing birds. The

ht‘myrioyinu hon is :tlwnys the one

ubh- to out illlll assimilate {l largo};

inmount ol' t‘ootl. \\'hih- this trail is





:partly inhoi'itvtl, it is izit‘gvly develop-

lotl. ’l‘in- way to do it is by developing

ilni'uc t-rop capacity in tho growing pul-

‘lots. This is donc by forcingr them to

«at bulky food during tho stages of

tlm'olopmt-nt, lt‘rvc rnngc, with plenty

Tot‘ shad» und grown grass, nro osson-

itiul Conditions in tho (itwolopmont of

ithe i'utut‘w lnyr-r. May and Juno are

timportnnt months, with thtw'ut'ly—hzilcli—

it'd birds. llnitc them COIiSllillt' largo

iauzmtitics oi‘ mush, and iii“ the hard

sparingly. This (listcnds the

which condition will be l'ound

um-lul noxt wintor whon it is

notwssnr} that, tho hon consume

lt-nouuh limit in about eight. hours to

lust hoi‘ tu't-ntyt'tuu'. The reason hens





crop.

.mix‘hty





ol‘tHn tail to lay during tho short days





.is bt-czimw tiny cannot t'onsumo sulli»

(‘lt‘lll t'ood tlurinLr the short hours. ot

daylight. lw‘n'iop llil‘ (illlil‘llll‘ null illt‘

‘slzuninn now. and you will ho woll ro~

paid lnli‘l'rri‘. ll. (‘lhn-loy

.





i ASHES FOR HENS.





ll bu lumnl'ul to my chickens

lhwin burp t'oztl :lSlit‘S to dust

Would 1hr ushws from wood be

ii.





i “'oultl

if i ll'l

in‘?

lini'mlul'.’ .l.

\\'w cmpt) our hurtl l‘tiill

:1 mwlzll bushwl to cool. and int-

wr plum- thvm in the (lust boxes in tho

i .

‘liiyinu housws.





llSlit‘h‘





bushel





bits or lilllll‘l'Zil mnttcr in tho tih‘lit‘b‘,‘

and out quilc :1 lot ol' tho niuicrinl, 215.

Will tlS (lustingr in it. it st-cins to





con» no trouble, nntl hclps out in pro-

yidinu mint‘rnis t'oi‘ tho llocks. ‘\\"hon

flipx liollws trotn tho tobh‘ scraps are

lthrowu into tho stow, that, must. also

ladd some bonc-buiitiing mutcrinl to the

ashes.



Wood ashes contain quite a lot. of

‘lyv. and there ttl‘t.‘ cases where, lions

{have (liW't‘lOiH‘tl n, bud Crop condition

[from ‘ll,llllg (lump wood ashes. ()l‘

gcourse, charcoal is fine for the birds.

lbut 1 would not wish to give them ac-

Ccss t0 :1 lot ot‘ wood ashes while con-

fined in wintcr qunrtcrs.





 





L -

l T111121 fish caught. in Japan weigh as





[much as 730 pounds.





FARMER





 





into





'l‘hc lit‘lih swim to find.





several points of





~‘T’VanW“ ?





 





 





Mr. Pike brings out in his letter





interest to those





who keep poultry for profit:





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

 

 

 

 





R .

RAT 19 N

“woman?”





or . ~

0v

DiCKiNSO“ C





 

 





 





l. Exceptionally low mor-

tality.



2. Rapid growth. ’



3. Unusual hczilth and vigor.



4. Simple to twain—loss labor.



5. Best results in nine years.





This is only one of the. hun-

dreds of letters that (“'0 now

coming); in from poultrymcn

who huvc air ‘21th tcstcd Dick-

inson's (il()i‘nt.‘ “All-Blush" Ru—

tions.l'lowcycr,yott don‘t have

to tillie unyonc‘s xx art! for it.

TI‘yGlo‘oc“All-.‘Vlusli" Rntions

yourself and judge by your

own results. A Booklct, on

Chick Raising in”: on request.





The Albert Dickinson Co.





Box 788-M Box ZlZ-Nl

Chicago lvlinticdpoit»;





Look for the dculcr who

displays the (ilolw Sign





 





 





 





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. Buy Blood-lostud ('llll'kN,





 





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tin-y cost no more.

Wo guarantor; 100% strong, llihillJL)

Two big moncyrnmking bl'm‘dx.





Barred Plymouth Rocks and S. C. White Leghorn:





Write for free catalog and prices.





SILER HACTHERY, BOX A





ALI lugs vaultrymen 4.3mm them-

hnksi tit‘iivorod at your door.

pm to live. lay and our.





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day.

said one 'of the twelve. Medern men

are answering the question in the

same way. If anyone-is disposed to

doubt this, I submltvthe following list

of books about Christ, on sale by one

book firm—not the entire list, as we

must“ have room for something else,

this week, but enough toglve an idea

of what modems are thinking about

this Galilean Teacher: (“The Five

Portraits of J esus,” “The Spiritual Pil-

grimage of Jesus,” “The Creative Work.

of Jesus,” “Jesus, Man of Genius,"

"The Anthology of Jesus,” “The Un-





Jesus of History, " “The 10rd of

Thought,” “The Practice of the Prin-

ciples‘ of Jesus ”

“Our “Lo rd’ s

Earthly Life,”

“Jesus, Lover of

men.” Each of the

authors of these

studies is saying,

“Thou art the

Christ."



The confession

of Christ has a

singularly cleansing effect on the mind.

It seems to wash the soul, as the rain

washes the air. One day, a friend of

mine, then a lad of eighteen, went to

his work in the morning, in- a factory.

His foreman was the most profane and

obscene man in the company’s employ.

He vomited his filth on every employs

who did not measure up to his desires.

As the young man entered the shop

the old rake met him and said, “How’s

everything this morning, my boy?”

The young man had been to church

the night before, and he could not

think of anything but the sermon just

then. Said he, “I know that Jesus

Christ came into the world to save

sinners.” The boss sat down and be-

gan to cry. Simple confession has an

effect that nothing else has. No doubt

Peter felt more a. man that day, when

he had expressed the deepest feeling

of his soul.





Literature is full of the confessions

of men and wOmen to Christ. Some of

theSe men paid Him tributes with their

lips and not with their lives, but many

backed the words with deeds. Said

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, “The de-

spised Jew, being the mightiest among

the lowly, and the lowliest among the

mighty, and having with His pierced

hands’lifted the gates of empires off

their hinges, and turned the current of

history into a. new channel, still gov-

erns the ages.”,Said Byron, “If ever

God was man, or man was God, Jesus

Christ was both.” Said Charles Lamb,

“If Shakespeare should come in that

door, we would all rise, but if Jesus

came in, we would all kneel.” Said

Phillips Brooks, “He was the only sin-

less man of history and that alone

makes Him the most saving fact-the

world has ever seen.” Said our own

Whittier,



“O Lord and Master of us all,



What e’ er our name or sign,





We own thy sway, we hear thy. Call,

We test our lives by thine.”





Now, confession is different from

controversy. Men have debated over

religion for many centuries, and have

generated mare heat than light. Scots

and schisms have been the children

of controversy, but confession is» the

child of experience. It is across be

tween experience and love; Confes-

sion does not mean that; you must





 





you are lost (though people have some-

times taught that). but it means that

my experience fits my nature as your

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H0 do men say that the Son of,

Man Is?” asked the Savior one.

“Thou art, the Christ ”'





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Jesus,” “The Christ of Faith and the.





 

 





given yourself away.”





other a Stately ganten of





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same spirit, and there are differences“,





of administrations, but the same Lord.”





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your experience is different from . "





mine, is what helps me. If it Were





exactly the same as mine, it would not," 2





help me so much. “To every man is





given the manifestation of the spirit ' "





to profit withal. ”

But Peter thought that the terrific





ordeal to which his Friend and Teach- '





er said He was to undergo at Jerusar

lem was unthinkable, and he said so,

emphatically. But the Teacher was

more emphatic than he. “Get out of

my sight, you Satan!”

way the Master“ of temptation over-

came temptation. When He was cer-

tain as to the right course, He shut.

out all other possibilities. Once de—

cided, it was decided. He closed His

mind, and it is the sign of a. powerful

mind to be able to do this.





degree, with persistent practice. Lin—

coln is a good example. He set out to-

save the Union. He would yield this

and that, to attain the main end. As

he said, he would free all the slaves

if necessary, or part of the slaves, or

none. But the one great objective

was to save the Union. On that his

mind was Closed. When to close the

mind? When to make an irrevocable

decision? “The way of man is not in

himself. It is not in man that walketh

to direct his steps.” How did Christ

know when to make an unyielding de-

cision? What about those nights

spent alone with God? What of those

getting up at daybreak, to pray? If

He required the frequent connecting

up with the Divine batteries, needing

recharging, so to speak, much more do

we. “More things are wrought by

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SUBJECT: -—Peter’ 5 Great Confession.-





Matthew 16:13 to 24.

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Miss Teachem, wishing to arouse the

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ture of- his own. To me, nowadays,

Lthegwila'ard is a white-gawned, white-

capped doctor who skillfully operates

an instrument" known as a broncho—

scope, which goes right down’ into the

‘myst'erious recesses of your bronchial

tubes and Shows just what is there.

The instrument was invented as an

aid to vision, as the “scope” in its

name, indicates, but the skillful user

makes it serve many purposes.



I think the leader in this work is

Doctor Chevalier Jackson, of . Philadel-

phia. I have just been looking at pic-

- tures showing some of his miracles. A



girl of four had been'ill for a year and

a half. According to her numerous

doctors, she had asthma, asthmatic

bronchitis, tuberculosis, and several

other things. The doctor inserted his

bronchoscope, pulled out an iron staple

that came within range of his vision,

and the child got well in a few weeks.

A boy of eleven who had his tonsils

removed, failed to get well. Cough,

fever, and general ill health followed.

X—Ray examination showed a tooth

deep in the right bronchus, evidently

inhaled while unconscious from the

anesthetic The bronchoscope was put

in place, out came the tooth, and re-

covery followed at once In the bron-

choscope clinics operated by Doctor

Jackson, over two hundred cases of

serious lung trouble, previously diag-

nosed as asthma, bronchitis or tuber-

culosis have been found to be due to

foreign bodies which the patient (usu-

. ally a child) has in some manner suck-

ed into the bronchial tubes Most of

the objects ‘are metallic In several

cases in which trouble has followed a

tonsil operation, it (has been found that

some small section of the operating

gear, or perhaps a loose topth, has

slipped out of sight into the depths

below. Whenthe X-Ray shows their

relative position some wizard of the

bronchoscope can locate and remove

them through his magic tube

, If a child‘ who develops asthma or

an abscess or 'the lungs, without any

known cause, (and still more if it fol-

lows closely upon a throat operation),

I should not be satisfied with the diag-

nosis until, careful search has been

And if they

showed suspicious shadows I should

manage in some way to get the child

to one of the few doctors trained in

operating the bronchoscope.





CHRONIC CONSTIPATION.





 





Will you please tell me what is the

best treatment'for chronic constipa-

tion,-in the shape of foods and bend-

ing, exercises,aor any .treatment you

think advisable? ‘Am sixty years old

and have been troubled more or less

most of my life. -—-D. F. S.





Foods that have in them a certain

amount of “roughage” are good to cure

constipation. The leafy vegetables,

such as spinach, chard, lettuce and

cauliflower, are good examples: Bran

is good, and may be eaten like a break-

fast food, or cooked, into bran biscuits,

using equal parts. of bran and flour.

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HAS FLOATING. KIDNEY.





 





I haVe floating kidney on my left

side, palpitation of heart, diseased ov-

aries, and granular womb. 1 am ner-

vans and irritable: I live on a farm

and have lots to doH—G R.



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not really so formidable as they seem.





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demand a surgical operation,’ but it is

worth while to try the rest cure first.

It has disposed of many such troubles.





NOSE BLEEDS.





 





'My nose bleeds very easily. I have

hemorrhages on the slightest provoca-

tion and feel weak and tired, with ir-

regular pulse. What do you think is

the cause?—L. S.





I think you haveD an ulcerated place

in the nose, probably in the membrane

of the septum. . If the nasal hemorr-

hages are frequent they would account

for your tired, weak feeling, and .also

for the irregular pulse..- Go to a good

nose specialist for treatment. ,





HAIR IS FALLING OUT.





 





Please tell me what is good‘ for itch-

ing scalp, scaly scalp, and falling hair.

A doctor told me to rub vaseline on

my scalp every night, and have my

hair cut .short: This I did for about

six weeks, but had no cure. When

rubbing with comb the scales come

out in large number. ‘I have had this

trouble for at least ten years. I am

thirty-two years old. —A. L





No, I don’t think much of the vase-

line treatment. Doctors do not feel

very much encouraged to make careful

prescriptions in such cases, because

they know that the prescribing should

be done ten years before the trouble

comes. When you get to the stage

you are in, there isn’t much, if any,

life at the roots, and it is almost too

late to expect anything. Massage, vig-

orous brushing, and the use of a mild

antiseptic offer most hope.





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I would like to nurse my eight-month

baby through next summer, but I am

afraid that I am pregnant again. Ought

l to wean the baby?——B. S.





Although it' is well for a mother to

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that possibility. For the sake of your-

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FTER readingChristine Zack’s

letter, I could nothelp writing.

So she thinks prohibition has

failed and, as a result, the Volstead

Act should be repealed? Then, why

not repeal all laws concerning crimi-

nals, as there is more crime now than

ten years ago? Kill or imprison our

murderers and robbers, yes. Yet let

that deadly foe, alcohol, go uncurbed!

It alone has wrecked more homes,

killed or maimed more people,“ and

robbed them, than all our murderers

and robbers put together. -



You say that it has not improved

conditions. Before prohibition went

into effect, we lived ina small village

of perhaps 350 population, in which

there were more saloons than grocery





 





 





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Edward, Fer-n, Roy and Ray Hagadorn,





Four Names, Three Persons, and

One Cat.

stores. Saturday nights it was unsafe





for a. woman to venture on the main

streets alone, because one would meet

a half dozen drunken men on every

block. And the wife and children of

these men were home, hungry. cold,

deprived in soul and mind, just be-

cause these men were not masters of

themselves. Now, one- rarely sees a.

drunken man. That place is a. pleas-

ant little summer resort 110w, not the

tough town it used to be. Yet, you

say, prohibition has failed.



Drinking is more prevalent among

the younger generation, you say. But,

putting a "Saloon on every corner is not

going to stop them drinking. A saloon

keeper knowS if “he has the boy, he

has the man,” so would supply a boy

under age. .



One drunken man and an auto can

work havoc. If that isn’t enough,

think of the poor children of drunk-

ards. What chance have they in the

world, weakened in mind, body, and

spirit by the alcohol their father had

drunk?





 





 





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By repealing prohibition, will it bet-

ter conditions? Will it help anyone?

Prohibition has not been a flying suc-

cess, but it has not failed And noth-





ing will be gained by repealing it.—





F. C. C. . .





Am answering Christine Zoo]: and

iher talk on prohibition. Christine. if





you, and others like you, would ,spend .





smore of your time helping to enforce

this law, there would be less need of

considering a chance of the Volstead





lAct





How do you know conditions are

worse now than When the Volstead Act

was not a law? You know what temp-

tations saloons Were before the" Vol-

stead Act. It Certainly Was no enlight-





_ ening situation for. a man aiming from

. work with his pay check burning his

wingers. and a patient“ Wife and ohil- , be t

‘iafjdrien who needed clothing. at he '

'. awaiting him. to encounterihese 1'1-





 





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Aboutf‘Prohibition





Answering C/mm'n‘e Zeaé’ .r Argument: _ ‘ :15 7





 





for the person who is weak morally

It is absolutel a fact that drunken-

ness increases - 1th good times, and





decreases with bad. People never used





to notice men who were; intoxicated: T

now they are arrested 33nd written

about in the newspapers. Thusypeos :

ple think there are. more cases of?

drunkenness ” than before. ,. There are','

more happy homes and cemmunitles.

today as ‘a result 01." prohibition. Chil-~‘

dren are going to School and being





educated. My own community shows





that.



You say that after prohibition

drinking has been done on the road

from a flask. What about the horse

and buggy that used to go past on-

the road, the inhabitants drinking, or.

Prohibition wasn’t a

law then, but people did not notice

these things. We have several dance

halls around here, and it is not a reg:

ular custom for the people who attend-

them to be under the influence of

liquor. No one of these places allows,

a person in this condition on the floor,-

We have barn dances, but no evi-

dences of drink, such as those of

which you spoke.



The Volstead Act has not failed ut—-

terly to do what it intended to do, to

promote temperance and sobriety. It!

has been stated legally that the coun-

try is financially better off, and in sev-

eral states, with the increase of popu—

lation there is a. decrease of intoxica-

tion—Farm Kate.





 





 





Our Letter Box.





 





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I will start a new subject for dis-

cussion. This time it will be, “Should

the state of Michigan have capital pun-

ishment?” “



On this subject I say yes, because I

believe there would be fewer crimi-

nals if we did have capital punish-

ment. Giving criminals life sentences

makes a lot of expense, because- it.

costs money to feed these prisoners

who are serving life terms. By hang-

ing a criminal who has killed some-

body it cuts the expense in half, be-

cause it does not cost any money to

keep up the galloWs. We should have

capital punishment, as it cuts the ex!

penses in half. Let’s keep the ball

smiling-cousins, and give our opin-

ions on this subject.——Harold Snyder.





You give a rather hard-hearted argu4

ment, but I don’t think you are as hard

as your arguments would lead one to





 





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worrying", and when you’re Worrying





k’ ‘ you’rejnot planning, that’s my opinion





about worry. How do you agree about’

this, Uncle Frank?——Gertrude. -





I agree with you. You said it in a





inutshell, ‘fWhen you are planning, you





are not worrying,” etc.





Dear Uncle Frank: .



" I don’t see what girls haVe- against

boys. I have. five brothers, and I can

find something to like in all of them.

Three of them are married and away

fnpm home; but I like them just the

same. ‘So I think that girls who don’t

like boys‘have something wrong Wlth

their heads. . It just isn’t natural, so

there now! Do you like to play check-

ers, Undle? I do, and I beat dad four

games out of-“seven this afternoon.

That wasn’t so bad, now, was it? I

sure would like to know how Windy

milks a kicking cow without her kick-

ing, because I might have to milk next

summon—Chatterbox.



I’ll». agree that it isn’t natural for

girls not to like boys. If I’d play

checkers with you, I’m sure of one

thing—I’d lose. I haven’t played since





sincegrandpop was a pup.





Dear Uncle and Cousins: . .



Here I am again. My Imagination

does not work very well this morning.

but as I look out over a ‘sullen be-

CIouded landscape, and listen to the

slight stir of the first spring breeze, I

can .see beauty everywhere. But fancy

cannot lead me. I hear the noisy‘hens

waiting for food. The cows want con-

sideration, too. And then along comes

the housework, which there is never

too little. These farm chores look

small to the spectator, but they would

not be so small if the onlookers tried

theirghands at it. I guess not. The

result would be: backaches, lameness,

and ruffled dispositions.



Esther Larson certainly gets my ap-

proval. The weather here is not even

a “reflection” of paradise. It is fine to

walk over snowless sidewalks, but

when you have to shovel your own

path, then that is where the blah be-

gins.—Dimples.



There is wisdom in your letter.

Vl'hen ou have wisdom, imagination

is not‘an absolute necessity. I think

we all would like some more of your

unimaginable letters.



.____,_._.._____.—__

IMAGINATION CONTEST.





HAVE about run out of artists’ con-

ceptions ofwhat I look like, so I

have nothing to refer to when I want

to find out: Also, our artistshave not

been very'busy lately, so this contest





The Golden Circle Corner





“FORE/£1" ,



, HREE rousing whoops for Uncle

Frank and the Golden Circle re-

union! ’1 think it’s the best Idea we

have struck yet for Our Page. It gives

me a great pain to announce that the

ensuing attempt on our special pro-

gram will be a discourse on a certain

Scotch habit. And I don’t mean kilts!





Three years ago this coming sum-

mer," a distant cousin of mine [from

Toledo sold me the heretofore-un-

thjp'ught—of idea that golf was as she

is played. by Bobby .Jones & Co., was’

a hewman’s game.



It? has been estimated by reliable

statisticians that‘th'e American public

spends,‘ a’ billion dollars annually on

golf. It has also" been estimated by

somebody who was obviously 3. dub

golfer, and therefore was in a posi-

tion to know, th’at since the advent of

the ancient ' and honorable Scottish

pasttime in America, there have been

approximately 363,984,507 new words,

phrases; and expressions added to the

Englishvaslangjuageu‘. And believe me.

after, halving Stopped, “slice’d, hooked,

“and ’lost ball‘éfmified two-foot putts.-





- andgommitted every other indiscre-





Mbmwntogoli in, the last three

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five prizes for each." . The two best:

édrawlngsvfrom girls, and thetwo from

boys, Will be awarded fountain pens.

The next three best drawings from

girls will be awarded unique little

clutch pencils, and thenext three from

boys, pocket knives. These drawings

should be in by April»22, as the con-

test ends then. Send them to Uncle

Frank, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.

Please remember that all who send in

good drawings will be given M. C. but-

tons and membership cards if not new

members. »





 





GRAMMAR WINNERS.





E had many amusing answers to

the Grammar Contest. Apparent-

ly quite a few did not know what a

coach and six is. It is not a six-Cylin-

der auto, but an old-type coach drawn





 





 





Percy White Thinks I’m a Horse

‘ Trader.

by six horses. We did not count as;

incorrect those replies which had the

sentences slightly different than ours, . ,

but so arranged as to make the same '





sense. The fortunate ones in this con-

test are: .'

Fountain Pens. ' ‘



Chester May, R. 1, Edmore, Mich. ‘



Bernard A. Herold, R. 4. Dowagiac.



Combination Pencil and Sharpener.



Paul E. Hepworth, Pentwater, Mich!



John A. O‘Leksy, P. O. Box 717, Nor-

way, Mich.



Clyde Bowman, Hersey, Mich.



Stationery. - '



Evelyn Phillips, Gen. Del.. Niles. -



Mildred Burt. R. 6, Eaton Rapids. 3



Pocketbook Clutch Pencils. '



Pauline Martinus. R. 3, Birch Run.



Marie Buck, Morrice, Mich.



BerniCe Sting, Gagetown. Mich.



The Correct Answers.



1. He was driving away in a coach

and six from the church where he had

been married.



2. He blew out his brains with a.

gun, after bidding his wife good-bye.



3. ‘We have two rooms, one above

another, sufficiently large to accom-

modate two hundred pupils.





ensuing decade. As -a result it merely

counted as one strike.





“Who do you think you are, Babe

Ruth?” inquired my cousin sarcasti-

cally. “Take it easy at first until you

get used to it.”





Following his advice, the next time

I swung more carefully, and somehow

managed to connect with it squarely.

The ball took a joy-ride straight down

the fairway toward the green, and an-

other golf—fiend was born. In the next

two years, during which I probably

lost as many balls, missed as many

putts, and dug up as much turf as the

ordinary beginner, 1 improved little by

little, until now I flatter myself that

I am an “average" golfer.





Last year I put in two more holes

and discovered that two and two made

the surprising total of nine! I found

that by playing the course forward and

backward, and in between, I could end

up where I started from, with nine

holes played and have a different. drive

on every hole. Ain‘t science and na-

ture grand?





One thing I have never yet been,

’able- to (1018 to {make a hole in one,

They say it 'only‘happens once in ten

thousand times. The chances are that

I .may"1never “do it, but, as Captain

Kin remarked .wheu'he carved; cut the





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POOR CREAM SEPARATING

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OW many pounds of butter~fat per





hog troughs or feeding in other ways?

None, you say?

usual exception, because most farmers

do waste considerable butter-fat which

could easily be prevented. If fed to

hogs, it is not entirely wasted, but but-

ter-fat at fifty cents per pound makes

rather expensive hog feed. .



A large dairy products concern made

a. systematic canvas of the cream sep-

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rather surprising conditions, some be-

ing almost unbelievable. Space will

not permit of going into details, but





St. Austell Daffodil,





and 3522. 72 Pounds of Fat in FIVe





out of the first thirty separators test-

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g'allons of milk per day, and butter-fat

at an average price of forty cents, and

several were wasting over $100 per

year, and hand-skimming over $700 per

year on the same basis.





There are many causes for loss of

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speed, temperature of the milk, rate

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smoothness of running, wrong adjust-

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so on. While the age of the machine

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one of the worst cases was a machine

which had been in use only/ one month.



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Will a harness last longer if soaked





in oil drained from a car? I have a

three-year-old colt which I was able

to harness once, but the second time

she began kicking, and I have not

tried to harness her since. How could

I break her?—





Mineral oil is not good for leather.

It hardens it and makes it crack. An-





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used on leather, and animal oil is

much more preferable. '





A colt usually kicks because he is

afraid. Kicking is his natural means

of defense. He thinks he is goingto

get hurt. VA little careful handling, a

little kindness in showing him that he

willpnot be hurt, ordinarily is all that

is necessary. The man who under-

stands colts, a natural master or them,

can‘nearly always get their confidence

in a short time and have no trouble.





But there are colts that haven’t intel- "





ligence enough hardly to be handled

in this way, at least by the ordinary

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on, when the colt will find .that.,he_ is

not injured. CautiOusly dangle the hat-

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In a. case where no contract is made,

and you rent an equipped farm, the

renter furnishing the labor and re-

ceiv’ing'one-third, is the renter to pay

the whole cost of sheep shearing, or

just his one-third?—G._W. B. .



,As ,to. [who bears the expense of

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the. flock somewhat. If experienced

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Is flour (sweepings from big baker-

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refuse of any Kind—A. A. M.



If this flour doesn’t contain too

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is not suitable food for both pigs and

chickens. "If it is half dirt, which has

no food value, you wouldn’t want to

pay much for it, neither would you

want to feed all this dirt.



1. Flour, when fed alone, is quite sticky

and bothers in feeding, but if mixed

with other food for a dry mash, or

even a wet mash, no difficulty would

be experienced. For hogs it would be

Ifine if made into a slop with corn meal

or barley.





‘MILK HAS BAD docs. '





 





I have a very good registered cow

whose milk tests eight per cent or bet-

ter,'.but her milk‘ has a bad odor, and

the butter a poor flavor. What can I

do in this case? I would like to keep

the cow.——W. L. W. .



Quite often cows that are owned as

a private family cow will give milk

that has a bad odor and flavor. It is

sometimes characterized as a bitter

flavor. -However, this condition is usu-

ally present in the milk from cows

that are almost dry, and due to fresh-

en soon. There is more trouble, gen-

erally speaking, with family cows

where there is only one cow in the

barn, because of the fact that they are

usually ov‘e’r-fed in the owner’s attempt

to keep up their milk flow when they

are naturally declining in, milk. “ In

their efforts to get all the milk that

is possible, the usual practice is to

feed the cow quite heavily on grain,

and this is where the trouble begins.

Cows under this condition are usually

quite fat. About the only remedy for

clearing up the situation is to give

the cow, a good physic, such as a pound

of epsom or Glauber’s salts, and cut

down the, food to the point of almost

taking all the grain away from them,

and then gradually bring the grain up

to the normal amount, which should be

in proportion to the milk produced,

usually ,one pound of grain to each

three pounds of milk produced daily.—

0; E. Reed.





'cosr'OF KEEPING A PONY.





 





How muhh should it be worth to

care for a pony weighing about 400

pounds, dior six months? I am unable

to ,makev-anyguse of it.fE. J. B. . *

, .‘ It is._.p_o§sible that there might be

no market. for, timothy hay. and one

had it insuch abundance that he could

. afford to. winter a. pony on hay alone,

butordinarlly it is not economical to

h alone, In a maintenance ra-



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“quires alittte -.ove‘r one pound'otj digesw

tibia protein , per ' 1,000 pounds ' of 9 live

weight, to neither gain nor lose -‘ in

live weight. Therefore, it'wmild take

about forty pounds of hay per day to

furnish a home a maintenance ration.

The pony weighs only about one-half

as much, hence would require about

twenty pounds.



In six months of the winter it would

require ,1.8qtons at $10 per ten, the

usual price figured for timothy in the

barn, this would amount to $18. Then

it would'take about a ton of'straw for

bedding, worth at least $5.00, or a

total of $23. To this must be added

the cost of labor for care, which can

hardly be estimated by anyone who

does not actually do the work. ‘*



If, instead of feeding an all hay ra-

tion, two pounds of oats is fed, then

it will require only ten pounds of hay

per day to furnish the required pro—

téin, and the cost would then be:



Two pounds of oats per day for six

months equals $5.00; ten pounds of

hay per day for six months equals

$9.00, and straw, $5.00; or a total

of $19.. '



Of course, if clover hay was fed in-

stead of timothy, the ration would fig—

ure differently. But even then. a ra-

tion entirely of bulky feed is not the

best, especially for a horse—l...





HAY FOR BULL—COST OF KEEP-

lNG.





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How much alfalfa hay should one

feed a four'year-old Guernsey bull per

day when nothing else isfed‘? What

does it cost to keep a bull per year?





A. z.



A bull should not be fed entirely on

alfalfa. It’s too rich in protein. It

would be very extravagant, and'be-

sides, it would be detrimental to the

health of the bull.



A bull usually has very li tle exer-

cise, not enough to keep him in good

health, and requires but little more

than a maintenance ration, certainly

no more than an animal at light work,

and should be fed accordingly. One

and one-fourth pounds of protein per

day per 1,000 pounds live weight is all

that is necessary, and all that is best.

'If fed on alfalfa alone, twelve pounds

would furnish this amount. but it would

be necessary to feed more because the

twelve pounds of alfalfa would not

furnish sufficient carbohydrates. In

other words, alfalfa does not contain

the food nutrients ing‘ight proportion

to be fed alone as an entire ration.

For an animal kept under the condi-

tions a bull is usually kept, the nutri-

tive ratio, that is, the proportion of

.the‘protein to the carbohydrate, should

be about 127.7, that is, one pound of

protein to every 7.7 pounds of carbohy-

drates; but alfalfa has a nutritive ra-

tio of about 1:3.6.



A ration of eight pounds of alfalfa,

ten pounds of silage or cornstalks or

straw, and three pounds of ground oats

will supply the necessary amount of

protein, and also the necessary amount

of carbohydrates. In other words, fur-

nish a balanced ration which would be





cheaper, and much better for the

health of the bull.

Many bulls are over-fed. Some are





fed as much as one would feed an ox

in the yoke doing heavy work. They

get.too fat, and many become useless

as sires when they should be in their

prime. And all because of much feed

and little exercise. If the bull could

be worked every day, the case would

be different. The rationproposed above

would cost $50.73 for one year. This

is figured on a basis of 1,000 pounds .of

live weight. If the bull weighs less he

would require less , feed, and if he

weighed more he should be fed more.



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such work ‘ is ‘ ping . possible i‘where'

creamer-lea have. federatedinto one

big organization. The creamefles in





sweet ._ buttermilk: drying plant in

America, and, it 'is extraCting enough

fat from the buttermilk to pay all the.

operating expenses of the plhnt,‘leav7'





ing .the dried product, worth ten to '





twelve cents a pound, all profit. These,

creamer'ies are applying packer effi-

ciency to their business. The paCker

wastes only the squeal of the hog;

they lose only the water evaporated

in drying the buttermilk.



This sweet buttermilk powder is.

being used ‘for candy making, ice

cream mixes, in cake flours and for

general baking. Used with pure milk

fat it makes fine ice cream. 'These

two products give the association the

most concentrated milk products

known, and great. savings in freight

and express costs are possible.



Sweet cream is another important

product. Last year 288 cars of fresh,

and eighty~nine cars of frozen cream

were shipped, some as far away as

Florida, where it was served absolute-

ly sweet a week after shipment.

Cheese is also being handled, this

product coming from the Minnesota

and Wisconsin factories that are mem-

bers of the Wisconsin Cheese Produc-

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it markets eggs for the Lake Region

Cooperative Egg and Poultry Ex-

change.



The association also huys supplies

for its member creameries. Last year

supply sales reached $1,750,000. The

patronage refund to creameries on this

business last year reached $123,166.





Thus far, the assembling, grading

and merchandising of the butter rep-

resents the greatest advancement over

method’used prior to the federation

of these creameries.

cooperative creameries was a competi-

tor of each other. Since the first

creameries were built back in the early

nineties, they had all sold the bulk of

their fine butter in New York and

Philadelphia, shipping in less than car-

lots. They were always at the mercy

of the buyers who discriminated some-

what in prices, but who treated them

well, as there was seldom enough fine

butter to supply the market.





Had the 3,508 cars of butte}; shipped

by the association last year gone un-

der the old less than carlot rates, the

freight bill would have been $355,083

greater than it was under the plan of

assembling and shipping in carlots.

The money saved by creameries on

this one item alone greatly exceeds the

entire cost of the organization.



Then, as all dairy farmers know,

New York sets the price of butter.

When that market is‘ flooded, prices





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to the township. When joining they

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by eighteen farmers, one from each

district association, but it is Operating

like any big private, business firm.

Only about two-thirds» of Minnesota’s

creameries have joined. 'The‘se “hold-

outs” still prefer the old methods, and

are being teased to follow them by the

private butter buyers who even tempt

them with premiums. Supply sales-

men also spread plenty of "poison, gen-

erally unsupported by facts, but de-

spite this bitter opposition the associa—

tion continues to grow and show mark-

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more and more toward greater affilia-

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Iowa are now interested. When the

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join those already federated, Land O’

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higher premiums will be paid

quality. ‘ _ \

Any discussion of the dairy cooper-

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City Milk Producers’ Association. It

was organized in 1916 to supply fluid

milk to the Twin Cities, and it has

rescued the dairy farmers in ’a. forty:

mile zone of those cities'from a do;

plorable condition. It now has 6,908

members, and its operation has been

studied by delegations from all parts

of America, and even foreign coun-

It is the modél copied by nu-

merous other fluid milk associations;





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every pound of the farmers’ milk ev-

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drop. For thirty years the creameries with distributors for six or seven years.

of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin Its surplus is turned” into butter, ‘

WhiCh SUpply that market With the cheese, ice cream and'condensed milk,

bulk of‘ its fine butter, saw prices and it makes a full line of milk pow-

fluctuate without adequate reason. It ders and casein. Nearly 300,000,000—

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crying for fine butter, the' price went of which only 49.7 per cent was 'sold

down if New York was over-supplied. as market milk. This organization has

Here is where Land 0' Lakes helps done fine work in improving quality.

every dairyman. It is developing new and has been able ‘to handle. always

markets for fine butter. Instead of the increasing production due to Sat:

being dependent upon four or five iSfaCtOI‘Y market conditiong. The 103'-

markets, principally New York land ‘alty or its membership 18 indicated by

Philadelphia, it is building up “out- the fact that only three exercised the

side” markets through advertising. yearly option last year towithdraw.

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protein content of the ration, as it con

tains about twenty per cent protein,

but the question that puzzles‘one in

miking the right amount of the differ-

ent feeds to make a balanced ration,

is what proportion of vetch to rye in

the mixture. Does vétch form one-

fourth or one-third of the mixture?

The writer is assuming that it is one-

third, but if less or more, it would

make some difierence in the propor-

tion of the different feeding stuffs.

The same question comes up in the

question of hay. What per cent of it

is clover? In this we are assuming

that it is fifty per cent clover. With

this understanding, we suggest:



Fifteen pounds of mixed hay would

contain .73 pounds of protein; six

pounds of rye and vetch would contain

.77 pounds of protein; two pounds of

cottonseed meal, (or of cottonseed and

linseed meal mixed), would contain .75

pounds of protein. This would make a

total of 2.25 'pounds'of protein.



This is sufficient protein in the ra-

tion for cows giving a goOd,liberal flow

of milk. Cows should not be given

cottonseed meal for the first two

weeks after freshening. then begin

with a. half pound, and gradually in-

crease to the full amount in two

weeks' time.



Minerals are very essential as part

of the food for all kinds of animals.

They cannot live for long without

them. But ordinarily, food grown on

good land contains these minerals in

sufficient quantity so we do not have

to pay any attention to them. Leg-

umes like clover and alfalfa, contain

sufficient lime and phosphorus, also

grains—corn, oats and ryeéhave plen-

ty of the mineral elements. But in

some instances on sand land, and oth-

er land deficient in lime. the crops

grown may be deficient in minerals.

And if they are, then it is highly es-

sential that minerals in the form of

bone meal, wood ashes, etc., be sup-

plied the animals.





Pigs watered in the ordinary way

took 111 days to increase in weight

from fifty-six to 225 pounds: While an-

other group fed exactly in the same

manner, but had access to an auto-

matic waterer, reached the 225-pound





forty-four pounds less feed.





VETERINARY.





Bitter Cream.——The cream from our

Jersey cow becomes bitter when it

stands eight or ten hours. What caus-

es this, and what can be done? C. B.

G.—.The bitterness is ’produced by bac-

teria, which may be present in the

milk when drawn from the cow, or it

might become contaminated afterward.

Feeding mouldy or spoiled feed, moul~

dy, decomposed bedding, a. damp, dirty

barn, or letting the milk stand where

it is dusty, are some of the causes of

bitter cream. Take four small drink-

ing, or wine glasses, milk an equal

quantity of milk from each quarter

into a separate glass. See if the four

samples all have a. uniform color. If

you find one or two a little off color,

it would indicate that one or more

quarters were not healthy. If the milk

passes this color test, has a good odor

and taste, I think it would be safe

to use.



Swamp Fever.—~I have had two of

my horses die. First, they dragged

their front toes; then, Whatever ailed

them moved to their bodies and hind

l gs. They hop from one leg to the

0 her for two or three days. The third





eat and drink well. When they lie

down they seem to rest a. little better.

They. stagger when they try to walk.

H. C.——Your horses are no doubt. suf-

fering from swamp fever. It would be

advisable to have your local veterinar-

ian treat them for you. The medicme

that has given the best results, is an

arsenical preparation, called atoxyl.

This is given in doses from five to

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Reg. Guernsey Bull and Cow SHORTHORNS 5.2.3 ’33:.”fi3





 





FOR 6A_LE. STEVE STAMPFLER. Flis Lake. Mich.





PRODUCTION





Production is the watchword with the Mich-

igan State Herds. ‘

Established in 1889'tlley have been improved

and developed by a. careful policy of selection

and records of production.





During the past year 882 cows and heifers

or all ages in Michigan State Herds averaged

10.571 lbs. of milk. more than two and a

half times the average for Michigan oows.

Improve your herds by using a sire bred by

Michigan State Hords.





 





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Animal Industry

Dept. C

Lansing, Michigan





 





 





 





calves at foot. and bred again.

on sired by Muwalton Mock or Edglink Victor. two

of the good bulls of the breed. Will make vary at—

trsctive prices on all of these cattle. GOTFREDBON





FARMS. YMiIanti. Mich.



SHOIIIIIOII" milk or beef breed. 20 bulls. 40 fe-

males. all ages. at “more prices.



CENTRAL MICHIGAN SHORTHORN BREEDERO‘



ASS'N. Writs [or New list. Oscar Skinner. Bus...



Bowen. Mich.





R EG. SHORTHORN COW—good individual. 11an





milking strain. calves at side. some yearling

bulls. Writs JOE MORIARTY. Hudson. Mich.





For Sale





Harrisville. Michigan.





 





 





 





Brown Swiss Bulls

MAPLE LANE FARM.





HOGS

Bred sows.





 





 





 





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REGISTERED HOLSTEIN



Bull Calves at prices the owner ofa

small herd can afford to pay. The

sire of many of these calves is a Son

of the highest record (30 lb.) two—

year-old daughter of Creator. His

sire is King Segis Alcartra Prilly, an

undefeated Show bull with 70 A. R.

daughters. Others sired by a 5 times

1200 lb. Champion B’ull, the famous

K. P. O. P. breeding.



Bred cows and heifers served by

these sires are available for founda-

tion stock.





RED ROSE FARMS DAIRY

Northville, Michigan





Telephone: 344

Reference: Northville State Savings Bank





IOUIIG REG. HOLSTEIII BUL





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priced to sell.

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D MAPLEHURST DAIRY FARM. Onondaga, Mich.





HEREFORD STEERS





CALVES. YRL'S &. TWO'S. .Woll marked. beef

type. showing splendid breeding. Dark reds. Most

all bunches dehomod. Good stocker order. Can show

low bunches around 46 to 90 head. Each bunch even

in size. Also a few bunches Shorthorn steers. Will

sell your choice of one car load from any bunch.

Write. stating number and weight you prefer, 450

lbs. to 800 lbs.





Van D. Baldwin, EIdon,WapeIIo Co., Iowa.





ready for service. and





bull.





Choice Jersey Bulls





 





bull calves, for sals

from R. of M. dams accredited had. SMITH l.

PARKER. Howell. Mloh.

BUTTER BIRED “Eigi’élfémw





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan





FOR SALE. my entire herd of Jersey cattle. 80

cm including seven 2-yr.-sld heifers. 5 yearling

heifers and 7 heifer calves. Also Son-old had bull

OOLON 0. LILLIE. Coopertvlilo. Mich.





. hat of quality and

., . cows‘and'heilers for sale.

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Cholera imam, popular blood lines, typy.

LAKEFIELD FARMS, flarkslon. Mich.

Dunno JERSEY FALL Bouts at a very reason-

able price. (lholera immuned and guaranteed sat-

isfactory. JESSE BLISS a. SON. Henderson. Mich.

O.I.C. P1655335”: M‘s’éoéi"‘}'.'.;m Eligible to





some 0!

Michigan's best herds. Reasonably priced. Ship on

approval. WALTER L. DIETZ. R. l. Chief.





Mich.



FOR SALE Reg. 0. I. C. boars and sows.



Ready for breeding and service.



All stock shipped on approval. No deposit "KIM

FRED W. KENNEDY. R. No. I. Chelsea. Mich.





ARGE TYPE P. C. Fall boars ready for servlod

good ones. Sired by great boars and out or

large prolific

them. W. E.





dams. Prices reasonable. Como and see

LIVINGSTON. Farms. Mich

B.T.P.C. FALL PIG

G. W. NEEOHAM. Saline. Mich.





either sex. and

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size and breeding

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to sell. JAMES G. TAYLOR. Balding. Mich.



A F good Hampshire spring boars at 3

CW bargain. Place your order for bra!



slits. JOHN w. SNYDER. St. Johns. Misha R. s.

- ready for service. Best of bran!-



Hampshlre BUIBS ing, wm. us your wants. I.



P. SPITLER d. SON. Henderson. MIch.. R. I.





 





 





SHEEP





OR SALE—10.000 Black—raced and White-laced

Yearling Ewes. FOR SALE—10,000 F '

Lambs. September and October delivery. Wool

ors' Commission 00.. U. s. Yards. Chicago,





HORSES





FOR SALE Pair grey Percheron mares. reg—



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Weight 3.800; and two Guernsey bull calves. OR.

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS.





Tuesday, April 12.

Wheat.

Detroit—No. 2 red at $1.31; No. 2

White $1.32; No. 2 mixed $1.30.

Chicago—May $1.32%; July $1.27%;

September $1.261/4.





 

 





 





Toledo—VVheat No. 2 red $13114

(01.32%.

-. Corn.

Detroit—No. 2 yellow 78c; No. 3





yellow 76c; No. 4 yellow 7%; No. 5

yellow 68c. ‘



Chicago—May at 70%0; July 76c;

September 791,90. -

Oats.



Detroit—No. 2 Michigan 5055c; No.

3, 471/2c.

July 43%c;





Chicago—May 43%c;

September 427/80. 5





Rye.

Detroit.—No. 2, $1.08.

Chicago—May $10114;

September 9414c.

Toledo—Rye $1.05.

Beans.

Detroit—Immediate and

shipment at $4.40 f. o. b.

points. ,

New York—Pea domestic at $4.75@

$5.25; red kidneys $6.75@7.25 to the

wholesalers.

Chicago—Spot May beans, Michigan

choice hand-picked, in sacks, at $4.50;

dark red kidney $5.25.





July 98%0;





prompt

shipping





Barley.

Detroit.——-Malting 86c; feeding 75c.

Seeds.



Detroit.—Cash red clover at $27;

cash alsike at $24; timothy, old $2.40;

new $2.65.

. Hay.



Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $17@18;

standard $16.50@17.50; No. 1 light clo-

ver mixed $16.50@17.50; No. 2 timothy

at $15@16; No. 1 clover $16@17; oat

straw $126913; rye straw $13@14.



Feeds.



Detroit.~VVinter wheat bran at $36;

spring'wheat bran at $35; standard

middlings at $36; fancy middlings at

$41; cracked corn at $34; coarse corn

meal $32; chop $33 per ton in carlots.





WHEAT.





Wheat prices made but little pro-

gress in the past week. The market

features remain much the same. Ex-

port demand is fair, receipts at pri-

mary markets are light, and foreign

markets are still absorbing large

amounts of wheat. On the other hand,

the new crop outlook is highly favor-

able. Apparently, values are well ad-

justed to the supply and demand situ-

ation and some change in basic condi-

tions is being awaited. New crop pros-

pects in the northern hemisphere point

to a larger crop than last year. The

acreage, as far as it has been reported,

is about 3.4 per cent larger than last

year, and the crop in both the United

States and Europehas come through

the winter in better condition than last

year. The incentive for any import-

ant move in wheat prices probably

will have to come from the new crop

outlook. Comparative stability may

continue until the ultimate outcome of

the crop is more certain. ‘





RYE.



Rye has been stronger than other

grains. The visible supply is large,

but enough of it is sold for spring ship-

ment to prevent pressure. Reports

from Germany still show a big need

for this grain before another crop can

be grown. The condition of the new

crop on April 1 was 86.4 per cent of

normal, compared with 80.2 last year

and aten-year average of 85.8.





CORN.



Corn prices have strengthened re-

cently. Receipts have ,been light and

the visible supply has begun to de-

crease in spite of moderate demand.

The chances are that stocks at termi-

nals have reached their peak, and that

decreases from week to~week will be

the usual order from this time on.

Stability in other grains has helped

the corn market, and speculative sup-

port has been more aggressive.



While a moderate rise in corn prices

is to be expected during the spring or

early summer, no big move IS prob-





able unless weather conditions become‘





unfavorable for planting the new crop.

Some important corn sections are com-

plaining of excess moisture.





. OATS. _

. , The cats market has been relatively

stable, but the visible supply is de-

creasing each week, and wet weather





, hastilelayed seeding operations in some, C

than to respond! if other grains have.





The- oats market is in post-

‘isn advance at our" consequence, but





 





 





they are not likely

ently. . ‘

SEEDS.



Demand for seeds from the northern

states is becoming more active as con-

ditions favor planting.- Rains would

check sales, but dealers generally are

expecting a good trade from this sec-

tion. Large sales of alfalfa and sweet

clover are expected in Kansas and Ne-

braska. ‘Prices generally are steady.





to move indemnd-





The feed market is'quiet with the

demand limited. Cooler weather dur-

ing the past week has held back pas-





ture growth in northern sections, butz'





with the season farther advanced than

is usual at this date, there is little in-

centive to buy ahead of actual needs.

Feed for deferred shipment is quoted

at substantial discounts under-prompt

shipment. Corn industries have an-

nounced their “grass prices” for glu-

ten feed.





AY.



The hay market holds steady at un-

changed prices in spite of a slow

trade. Slightly less hay remains to be

marketed than a year ago, but dealers

generally expect a quiet spring trade,

so that supplies should be equal to the

demand. Consumers are buying on a

hand—to—mouth basis, as is usual prior

to the opening of the pasture season.

Demand for leafy alfalfa hay for dair-

ies particularly has fallen off.





The egg market was marked a little

lower last week, as supplies continued

to increase. As yet, no indication of

any falling off in country collections

can be seen, but it is believed that the

peak'of production is close at hand.

Storage holdings are being built up

rapidly and the surplus of 400,000 cas-

es in holdings in the four leading dis-

tributing markets, and a proportionate

gain at interior storing points on April

1, as compared with a year ago, is





‘growing. Prices are not expected to





work much lower, although they would

have difficulty in holding any. material

advance so long as supplies remain so

large. Broilers are more plentiful than

usual this early in the season, and

prices are on the down grade. The

high point usually is not reached until

late in April.



Chicago.——-Eggs, fresh firsts at 23@

231/20; extras, packed in white wood

cases 31@32c; ordinary firsts 22%c;

miscellaneous 23c; dirties at 21%0;





x .

checks 21 c. Live, poultry, hens 28¢;

springers 2c; roosters .180; ducks‘at

34c; geese 18c; turkeys 300.



, Detroitre-Eggs, fresh firsts at 23%@

24c. Live poultry, light springers 30c;

broilers 48@53c; heavy hens at 310;

light hens 32c; roosters 200; geese at

22c; ducks 35@380; capons 35c.





BUTTER.





The butter market has declined

again after regaining the losses Of. a

week ago. Trading has been on a.

hand-tomouth basis as dealers believ-

ed prices were too high, and that a

change to lower values was close at

hand. More liberal supplies ,have been

received at leading distributing mar-

kets, exceeding the quiet trade and

causing some accumulation on deal-

ers’ floors. Some progressive increase

in production of butter is to be ex-

pected as the season advances, and

values are likely to sag. ' .



Prices on 92-score creamery were:

Chicago 48%,c; New York 501260? De-

troit, fresh creamery in tubs 481/213.-





POTATOES.





Prices on old potatoes moved into

higher ground last week, although new

stock declined. Idaho, Colorado and

Washington.are reported to be run-

ning short of potatoes, with stocks on

April 1' only about half as large as on

the same date a year ago, The mar-

ket is expected to hold its stronger po-

sition at least until competition from

new stock increases. Northern round

whites, U. S. No. 1, are quoted at $2@

2.20 per 100 pounds, sacked, in the

Chicago carlot market.





APPLES.



Apple prices continue steady in spite

of the dull trade. Supplies of high-

grade stock are dwindling as the sea-

son advances. Michigan and New

York A-2%-inch Rhode Island Green-

ings are quoted at $4.75 per barrel at





Chicago.

BEANS.



New York reports that the market

is absolutely dead and that all varie-

ties are without new features or price

changes. In Chicago moderate prices

prevail, with trade very quiet.



CHEESE.



The cheese market is steady; with

twins and young Americas scarce and

slightly higher. Buyers are purchas-

ing in small amounts for actual needs,





 





 





 





 





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Tuesday, April 12.





CHICAGO. '

Hogs. -

Receipts 21,000. Market slow, 250

lower'on better grade hogs, compared

with Monday’s best prices; packing

sows around 100 lower; general mar-

ket steady with Monday’s close, bid-

ding 10@15c lower than on Monday;

tops $11.50; choice light hogs $11100?

11.40; most 210—240-lb. butchers $10.85

@1125; bulk 250-300-lb. butchers at

$10.50@10.75; packing sows at $7.50@

7.75 mostly; better grade pigs $10.75

@1125; good packers inactive.





§





Cattle.



Receipts 11,000. Market slow; weak

on practically all classes; killing qual-

ity fat steers plain; heavy kind very

scarce; best heavies $13.15; bulk $9.75

@1175; packers and feeders slow and

steady, mostly $8@9; most bulls $7@

7.25; top Holsteins around $7.35.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 10,000. Marketis slow; no

early sales; weak to 25c lower; fat

wool lambs on steady prices; sheep

steady. "





DETROIT.

Cattle.





Receipts 238. Market opening steady.

but. very slow.

Good to choice yearlings ‘



dry-fed ............. $10.00 10.75

Best heavy steers, dry-fed 9.25 10.50

Hand; weight butchers .. 7.75 .. .

Mixe steers and heifers . ‘

Handy light butchers . . . .





 





 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 





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Feeders ................. 6.25@ 8.25

Stockers ’5.50@ 6.25

Milkers and springers. . .$55.00@100.10

. Calves. L“ .

Receipts 775. Market steady.

Best .... . .- .............. 16.00

Others .................. 8.00@16.50





- Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts 2,077. Market steady.

250 higher on lambs; sheep steady.

Best lambs .............. $15.00@15.25

Fair lambs .............. 11.50@13.25

Light to common lambs. . 9.00@11.25

Fair to good sheep... . . .. 6.00@ 9.50





Bulk wool lambs .......... 16.25

Culls and common ...... 3.00@ 4.50

Best clipped lambs ...... 13.00@13.50

Hogs.

Receipts 2,054. Roughs 100 higher;

others 15@25c lower.

Mixed .................. $ 11.50

Roughs ....... . ......... 9.35

Pigs, lights and yorkers. . 11.50

Stags ................... - 7.50

Heavies ................. 12.00

Extreme heavies. . . . . . . . . 10.00@ 10.25

BUFFALO. ,

Hogs. ~





‘ Receipts'960. Market around steady;

pigs normally $12.50 down; 160-180 lbs.

$12.25; 190-210 lbs},_$~12; 225-240 lbs.

. 11.25;

311 lbs.'$10.75; packing sows a ” 9.50

@9.75. ‘ . $ _

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so that trade is not large. "

erase several cents :a noun

than at. this time a year“ ago." . ,

_ Ghica§0.——.Twin322s% @2224: Sins!

daisies 2355:723th doublerdalsies’ -'



‘ onghorns 22% @22940.‘ .





   





22.1 @230;

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241,“; Longhorns 24%@24%c. ; %@ " , . - “





The wool tradeishfiuiet for the most ,.

part, with occasion spurfsgofbrisk s

buying of small lots to cover. it‘nmedi—

ate needs of mills. Activit Janet gen-'

eral, however- Sales! of g noign- wool. ‘1‘ i-"I-

held in bond for reeexportfrom; Boston-5

have attracted attention, 88 .theyishow‘" ‘

clearly that Boston is. belowitha. world

.parlty, Mills are keeping production?"-

of goods in check in an effortto} widé ~

en their manufacturing mar us. While

this creates a healthier motion" in

the goods market, it.' reduces. ithez‘“

amount of raw wool required. - FOreign '1' <

markets remain. strong. The London .

sale closed after selling 78,000 bales

to the Continent, 43.000 to British bily- . V

ers, and 4,000 bales to the American "1 ‘

trade. Sales in the west are scattered ~

With prices one to two cents below the

peak of severalweeks ago. Some old A ' ‘

clips in Ohio and Pennsylvania have»

been bought at 39 cents at country





points.

GRAND RAPIDS.





Potatoes $1 bu; leaf lettuce 15 16c.

1b; radishes 60@75c dozen bungles;

parsnips 65c bu; green onions 12%@

15c bunch (36 onions); vegetable oys-

ters 50c dozen bunches; parsley 40c

dozen bunches; apples, Spies '$1.75@

2.50 bu; Starks and Suttons $1; Rus-

sets $1@1.25; Baldwins 500@$1 bu;

Ben Davis and Gano 50@75c bu: var-

ious other varieties 50c@$1; beans,

wh1te $3.85 cwt; red $5 cwt; wheat

$1.13 bu; rye 77c bu; hens 24@280 lb;

£31k) 12351,é@14ct;tvea11115c; beef 6 100;



c; mu on c; e ‘

butter-fat 52c lb. “8 21 220'





DETROIT CITY MARKET.

Apples 500@$3.50 bu; beets 75ca, 1

bu; cabbgfe $1@1.,25 bu; Bayoy 223b-

bage $1. @2 bu; carrots 80c@$1 a

bu; dry onions $1.50@1.7.5 bu; green

onions 50@60c dazen bunches; root

parsley 75c@$1.25 bu; potatoes 600

$1.40 bu; turnips $1.50@2 .bu;;‘lee s

75c@$1~dozen bunches; parsnips $1.50

@225 bu; vegetable oysters 75c@$1

dozen bunches; horseradish $2.50@4

bu; root celery $1.50Q250 bu; eggs,

retail 30@35c; hens, wholesale 30@

33c; retail 33@35c; springers,"whole

sale 28@.31c; retail 32@34c; Leghorn .

springers, hens, wholesale 27@29c;

veal 19@210; dressed hogs 17@19c; """ '

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CATTLE Princes HIGHEST LF'T.

, YEAR. « 0. .HF‘





 





 





LL‘killing classes of cattfé have '

reached new high prices for the

season. The Chicago top for heavy .

steers stands at $13.75, with fat year- ' , .. ,

tings at $12.50. Most of the weighty

steers are selling at $12.50 to $13, and '

yearllngs at: $9.50 to $11.50. Fat cows .

are quotable bove $9.25, but the bulk ~_ . ~

ogsalllesfrun- 6.50 tiosti.25t,hwhile'year- ’ >

1 g e1 ers are gon o e abs 7

at $9 to $10.25. g. “Fables ..

Small receipts and anticipated im- ‘ii ‘

provement in meat trade with the end» ’ ~

ing of Lent were the basis for the

strength. Steer prices have advanced“

since the first of the year with only.





 





brought heavy runs, which is a con: '

vmcing sym tom that numbersof mar-' ~. A“

ketable cat le in the country are mod; -

crate. Supplies of heavy cattle are 5'

extremely light. but receipts of lower .

grades of light cattle are about all the -.

market "‘will stand. . These have ad»

vanced but little in‘~.the:-:past~m0nth in

spite/of. the fact that liquidation of. “

siliortrfeds began .to abate.;.about that

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nations ’07 hold sessions it the Mich-

igan State College. A camp is being

‘ arranged so visitors can bring their

' £5nlllies and their camping outfits. and

at little cost spend the week enjoying

, the varic’lus programs.





 





“ LAMB PRICES REACT.

'——‘C'



LAMB prices advanced to a Chicagd



'top of $16. 85 for fat Colorados, but



a setback occurred in the last few

days. Shorn lambs sold as high as.

$15. 75, and native springers designed

for Easter trade at $22. Receipts at

leading markets remain moderate, and

-'ar1'iv’als of California spring lambs on

eastern dressed meat markets have ex-

. erted no depressing effect, but prob-

ably helped to halt the advancing ten-

den’oy.

' gentine lamb carcasses are being of-

- fared in the east. In the feedlots of

‘ northern Colorado and western Ne-

braska, which have most of the re-

maining supply of fed lambs, there

were estimated to be 442, 000 head still

on feed on March 26.. compared with

560,000 a'year ago and 685,000 two

years" ago.





 





HOG MARKET ONéLIPPERY FOOT-

H 0G prices have been extremely er-



ratic in the last three weeks. The



market has had two fair rallies,

but these did not hold and, at present,

values are the lowest of the season.

Since the first of the year, the num-

bers available for slaughter have been





   





mood a um erofalled organ»





Some frozen native and Ar- ‘





1, against gain



pounds a; year ago.- gPrices of hogs in

Germany, and of Wiltshire sides in

Liverpool are about 25 per cent lower

than laSt year. This is more of a de-

cline than has occurred in our prices,

helnce the difficulty of making export

as es.





Little change in the market con-

ditions for killing cattle is probable

in the next month or two. By that

time, grass cattle will begin toappear

on the scene. Some of the southern

cattle at Kansas City already show

signs of a grass diet, but the early

supply of grassers from Texas will be

moderate. South Texans sold at Kan-

sas City recently at $8.60, the highest

since August, 1920.. The veal calf mar-

ket strengthened undeT' pre-Easter de-

mand for choice vealers, but further

weak spells are probable in the next

thirty days.





Stockek and feeder cattle prices keep

edging upward. Demand is fairly per-

sistent in spite of the high price level

and supplies reaching the principal

markets aregscanty. The total num-

bers purchased recently have been

nearly as large as last year, but con-

siderably smaller than two years ago.





 





Demand for Veal is Good

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«mm d-C scon'Wskeflsld. Succession. Flat

Dutch and Golden Aoro‘. Prices. by' express in quan-

tities $1. 00. per 1000. By mail. postpsid, 500 fo or

$1.85: ' . 82.26 Tomato plants leading vsr

rictles. by mail. midfield: 500 for $1. 50: 1000 for

$2 10.00 0 and. over. $1.50 per 1000.





am moss to assure safe or-

rilval. Prompt shipments. satisfaction mmnteed. P.

D. Fulwood. Tuton. Ga.





 

 

 

 





 





 





 

 

   





 





 





 





TIFTON‘B RELIABLE PLANTS. Frost Proof Cab—

bage. Bermuda. onion plants. Varieties: Copenhagen

Market. Early Jersey and Charleston Wakefield. Flat

Dutch. and Succession. Tomato plants. Varieties:

Greater Baltimore. Bonnie Best. Earlisna. and Living-

stone Globe. Prices: Postpaid. 250, $100: 500. $150.

1000. $2. 50. Pimp onllcct. $1..50 1000: 10. 000 and

over $1. 25 1000. We guarantee to



you References: Bradstreet, Bank

Postmaster. Tifton Plant 00.. Tifton. Ga._





 





MASTOD DNO ~the marvelous mevsrbeorins ltrawba'ry.

100 plants $3. has



81. 100 Eldorado lockbol'rypes

fruit. shade. Everything to'

100 Washington asparagus roots 75c.

Gardeners Hubbard squash seed $1 po.und

beans. sweet corn. 1000 strawberry plants $3.

Prestcge Nursery. Allegsn. Mich.





Seed pots

1000 2 yr.

W

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REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED SEED CORN,—

Clement' 3 white cap yellow dent, flre- dried on rocks.

oar tested and germklstion guaranteed. Also Worthy

seed oats. Good Seed is scarce. order yours earl!

Paul Clement, Britten. Michigan, Member of the

Mich. Crop Improvement Assooiation. _





SEED CORN—Fire Dried. Certified Polar Yellow

Dent (frost resistant) $7.00 per bu. Duncan Yellow

Dent (good for ensilsge or grain crop) $0.00 per bu...

90-day eight-rowed Yellow Flint $5.00 per bu.

corn is shelled and graded. 56 lbs. to the bu. Bags

free. Arthur W. Jewett. Jr.. Mason, Mich.





 





COPENHAGEN and Wakefield Cabbage plants. $1.00

1000. Col rd $1.00: tomato $1.00; Bell Pepper $1.50:

onion $1. : Porto Rico Potato $2. Large. open

field grown. Carefully packed. Quitman Plant 00..

Quitman. Georgia.





RINGLE'I‘ BARRED ROCK EGGS—$6





 





 





Formica-W thmsand twelve weeks old Leghorn

pallets for sale} Fob. hsu‘hed. July and August lay

{ H. L. French. Pomeroy. Ohio. 0,

8. C. RUFF LEGHORN CHICKS—Michigan





stats

Accredited. Band for circular. J. W. Web“

Son. Bath. Mich. , ‘





nosncon’n RHODE ISLAND

Ess‘s 31.25 for 15. $7.00

Albert Harwood. n. 4.





 





L‘harlevoix. Midi.





 





per hundred. .

Blood tested and Michigan Accredited flock. ROM.-

Martin. Woodland. Mihc.





 





BARRED ROCK EGGS—Heavy layers. Blood tested.‘

State accredited. Write for prices. W. 11'. Alexander.

Owosso. Mich. '





 





PURE TOULOUBE EGGS.

Southworth, Allen. Mich





$4.50 per 10. LON





 





WHITE LEGOI-IRN PULLETS and Cockmls. M

stock, lowest prices. John Welding. Holland. was.





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TURKEY'S





WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS, toms and hens. Tou-

louse sanders; White Pekin ducks. dukes. Aldus

Whitcomb. Byron Center.\1ich.





 





 





TURKEY EGGS—Thousands of them. All breeds.

Supfcisbhliirices. Eastern Ohio Poultry Farm. Beans-

v e, o.





BABY CHICKS





ICLAGER’S “PURE-BRED" CHICKS are from hen!-

tily parent flocks culled for egg production. Will grow

into profits for you. Most quality per dollar. Cert-

O-Cuid Chicks. Five leading breeds. White Becks.

Barred Rocks. Rhode Island Reds. White Leghorns.

White Wyandottes. Get information about our chicks

before placing your order for the season. Order now

——chicks delivered when you want them. 100% live

delivery. Postage prepaid. Descriptive circular free.

Klager's Hatchery, Bridgeflater. Michigan.





 





 





PURE SEEDS of high germination Certified Pickett

Yellow Dent corn $7 per bu. Certified Wisconsin

Pedigree barley. grown from head-selected seed stock.

$1.50 per bu. Certified! Robust beans $4.50 per bu.

Fritz Manley, Fairgroye. Mich.





 





GUARANTEED GRAPE PLANTS from highest pro-

ducing vineyard in Michigan. Lowest prices over

quoted. Garden collection Concorde, Niagarss. Dela-

wsres. six each. dollar prepaid. Local agents wanted.

Root & Son, Paw Paw. Mich.





MICHIGAN ACCREDITED CHICKS—Buy your chick!

from heavy laying flocks that are officially accredlm

by inspectors supervised by Michigan State College.

and of prize winners at the Holland Poultry Show.

White and Brown Lezhoms. Anconss, Barred Rocks.

8. C. R. I. Rods. 100% live delivery postpaid. Band

at once for free catalogue. Chicks. 8 cents and up.

Full particular: and detailed prices. Hillview Hatch-

ery. C. Boveu. Prop. Holland. Mich. R. 12. Box B.





WHITE LEGHORN sired by pedigreed





 





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‘ males. records 200 to 293 eggs. Low prepaid prices.



;. , - sllghly largelgi than last year and Ellie DETROIT BEEF COMPANY FROST-PROOF CABBAGE—onions. also tomatoes. Shipped anywhere c. o. D. and guaranteed. Hatch-



’ Stocks 0f DI'O net 11 Storage are r3 ‘ . , . strong hardy plants. Leading varieties. 100, 400: in; eggs. cockerels. Bullets. hens, egg-bred 27 years.

2’ er burdensome in the face of the con- 1903 Adelaide 51:. Delta“, Mich. 300, 85c: 500. $1.10: 1,000. $2.00. Pepper. 100. 50c: Winners at 17 egg contests. Write for free catalog

3‘ tinned narrow export demand . _ . 1.000, 32.75. Everything postpald and guaranteed. and special price bulletin. Geo. B. Ferris. 934

1c . . '. Oldest and M03: Relgable Commission East Texas Plant 00.. Ponta, Texas. Union. Grand Rapids. Michigan.



. Stocks of hog meats at Chicago in- H . D t 't

'27 . . creased 46,000,000 pounds since Janu- T d °'"‘ "' ‘ '°' £701.17“;th gyms 53011;!)l OUtTImg'l'l-ggedpermhunu 35:30:ng ollmr olmumlr 'il‘om Barron Englidl

° _ eons. a on 0 pure. c. oce s cc . . - orn arge type over ay ng combs with eg



3: ary 1: compared With an Increase 0f ‘2. m Quotations ‘nd New Ship dred. frelsht prepaid. America Banner Wheat. A— lsyins qualities, Non setters Barred Rocks troll:

,, » only 13,000,000 pounds last year. In Guide Free on Application. 3. Cook. Owosso, Mich. M s. 0. stock. 1927 fimks headed wlul corkerels

i’- , whose dams have ofllcial trap nest records. 203- 233

3 ‘ 1 FROST-PROOF CABBAGE and onion plants: largo M. S. C. egg laying contest Free cricular explaining



’ rooted. quality plants. All varieties. Quick ship- all. Hillside Hatchery, Holland, Mich.

Lt ment. Postpaid. 500. $1.00. Expressed 75c thou-

.; sand. Hollywood Farms. Pave. G0. REDUCED PRICES 0N BABY CHICKS for May.

1- ’ ‘ 100% live delivery. Guaranteed pure—bred. Lfithorns

‘3 . G FROST- PROOF PLANTS—Bermuda Ohio on. large 10c; Rocks and Beds 120: Wynndottes and Owing-



: type. eally Wakefield Cabbage. 500 75c: 1,000. $1. 25. tons 13c. Disoount on large orders. Semi for free





 





. is inclined advctis department is established for ch align In" "In 5,,000 $5. 00. Now shipping. Satisfaction guaranteed. catalog and prices, Model Hatchery, Box 9_ Monroe.

_ m? “'21-me Mooring inst tsundpr classified headings. . don‘t fort-.3: .53ch to: adv: Other plants. Catalog. valuable information free Indlana. es; .

using. miscellaneous articles for solo or exchange. Poultry advertising will be run in this isdsparumm Progress Plant 00.. Ashbum. __ rein. ”





 





GOOD STOCK—Michigan Accredited, blood-tested for

four seasons. and eleven years' experience operating

incubators. enable us to produce big, fluffy chicks

ready to live and grow. chcn breeds hatching each

week. Catalog. Pierce Hatchery. Jerome. Michigan.





BABY CHICKS—Healthy chicks from carefully culled

flan-ks of the following breeds: “'. W.

Wyandotics. Barred Ilovks. S. (1. R. I. Reds. High.

quality and reasonable prices. Jones Chick Hatchery.

00 S. Monroe St., Goldwater. Mich.





“7 at strain: reign. or ind dung, incalumns at germinal-after! Incas.

as concave.“ rtlon.on on sssthaniourinuti more

oonnoutivo insertions 6 cents a word. Count as l word each abbreviations. hazel '3':- $.11...

displsv type or illustrations admitted. Bunittlncss must accompany ordm

Live stash ‘advertising In a mic tsunami and is not smut-d u Moulded.





.. ,,.- ohm. i0 words.

dlunmnmu orders





- » Special Natic ....... ,,..,,

I, , undid fir flu. Clam‘fiad Doom-Inf MM rush this firs Ian

.1. lg: in advent: 0"!!!me m dab.





ASPARAGUS ROOTS—finality and price are rid“.

Price list and culture directions free. J. C. Dunhsm.

Lawton. Mich.





 





 





FOR SALE—Northern grown Certified Golden LGlow

seed corn and Certified Robust Seed Beans. L. G.

Van Liew. Bollaire. Michigan.





WAN WASHINGTON ASPARAGUS ROOTS—one year old.

TED FARMS 31.50 per hundred. delivered. H. G. Bliss. Albion.

1:)" Hiram owner of farm or unimproved Mich.



"1°” BMW" W“ STRAWBIRRIES $3 00 to $3 50 1. 000; raspberries.





 





 





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land for We MICHIGAN ACCREDITED blood tested Chicks back-





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town. in Michigan's best. dairy and sheep section. "





F. Umphmy.





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FOR SALE—410 acres. with milk route. dairy herd.

Complete equipment. Income last year, four thousand.

Immediate possession. immediate income. W.

Sticlde. Owner. Three Oaks. M.ich





Price $8.00 per acre; Write W.

Elohim





 





FOR SALE CHEAP—60 acres. stock. grain and fruit

farm Good buildinss and s oiL Well fenced. Ono

mils Onawsy County Normal. H. .Gillesple. Ons-



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way. Mich.





 





 





BIGGER CREAM CHECKS depend upon correct

weight and tests. and price received for butter by the

firm to whom you ship your cream. We are l



in the Fruit Belt and tourist section where the high-

est prices for butter prevail. We guarantee satis-

faction and protect you from any loss. We mail

check the same day cream is received. ‘For informa.

tion and shipping tags, write The Hartford

cry. Hartford Mich





Cream-





 





 





PET STOCK

FOR SALE—English Shepherd puppies. seven weeks





 





 





 





 





; erel Circular.

' Mich.





 





Barred and White Rocks. Reds. Leghorns. If you

want a. flock of laying. hens for this fall and winter.

we want you to read the description and see the

price of these birds. Send for our Pullet and Cook-

State Farms Association, Kalamazoo,





 





GEESE EGGS THAT HATCHi—Fourth successful

season as shippers of Mammoth Toulouse eggs. Price

500 each postpaid. Sold under guarantee of fertility.

Goslings $1 each. Order from this ad today. Halt-

horna Hui Farm. Mlddlcville. Michi 1m.





WEI l'lHAKER S MICHIGAN CERTIFIED REDE—

BOTH COMBS—Jl‘rspnsstsd. Bloodtostsd. Michim'l





 





 





L l‘zzlackbelriersl, yagmesM Wholesale prices. Cloverleaf live prices}. 1011;? gervlcc.100i% live delivery.

’ llrsery lree lo a square ea g lscount on srge orders. Catalog

0 l' Olll Blur MISCELLANEOUS lllieeh Carl Poultry Farms. Dept. A. Montgomery.

'l'::::::::'°:'“ '12:: '°::::::::":'l" ‘22:: VICE-Those mm... in a... Pacific Coast send .5.2“sf01‘fiasittlmw‘inflambpltfii’. 323.2? ”23“.. ‘

........ .l I. ........ ll 6." c for three months trial subscription to the Dairy [Manley Bangor Mich. BABY CHICKS‘MW’ Leghorns. 31" 90"5100 WM“!

ll........ 1.“ 3.1! slum... a.” .0! 1°“JW'1033 Chamber of Commerce Bloc. Portland 1* ' Rocks. R I. Reds and Barred Plymouth. Rocks :13

- - ........‘ l“ ........ .4: :1: Oregon. ECHOICE SEED SPEL’I‘Z and Certified mm 113‘erm100‘ HPltreKaid b1: pgrfi'drdd“ ill SnpmeLPoglm

........ I.” I." I ........ J . H’- 8-0 erY. . . l ev e, .‘ .. . sn—

........ J. 5.“ ........ u 1.68 FOR SALE—20 hives of bees, frames. excluders. comb: lgfggsrfighsix- row barley. $1. 50 bu Harry Box, Lan— svme' 130p.

us 4.0. a.“ 7.91 2111552.]. 335891. BequipgnentD No disease. Thomas J. BABY H _

p:::::::: til 3:3 :::::::: 2" it?» an... 2”“ $311 sag—11925 gaging yggwggelgtgs «germ p... loo.“ {30583332265 Stalinist”? $3....” .

~ .00 us :3 (1:33 sAIaliEr—Afnmules Stump Machine in good or- “W ‘" 9’“ ° '1 ' ' “5' ° ' gigs 48d elliiiwi‘vintilme Waterway s Hatchery. a.

E. ‘ 31...”... fl :2: 'n “‘1 1" ° M" Lew“ Mk" I‘m Mich. 00 LARGE GLADIOLI 31. None alike. 12 Dahlias. ' ' ' C ‘

‘ 22:22:22 2:: ”a £13 SPECIMENS WANTED—Meteorite or natural meud- “25‘ camlogue' A' Sh Chimp” “113' Mm' SHICKSVFPuuetS' Bum" s 1”” Emma" WM” m"

........ . . - 11c iron. Stuart Pea-l- , A _ orns ’3 import direct from England. Breed E

e 4 00 0.00 p,“ | Y drlan. Mich. TOBACCO lEIsh Leiglm'niiu (may! hi‘amlos free Willackc'r Pmuntf'y

~ , .. CHOICE EXTRAsd'ED HONEY—5 lbs. $1.00 post- "m 0‘ “5 "18‘0“ 01110

a '- “7" ' ' REM- ESTATE ”“1 Hm" mini“! mum Mich- SEND us 5 NAMES of tobacco users with order (or QUEEN QUALITY ACCREDITED smoke—Irony

y -. _. 4 lbs. (1))! our htobacco 1;on31, find get anA elxtil-s.u lb. wood and Tailored S. (1‘ White Leghorns 311 m;

r. . . ay w on recev . armers’ ssoc a on.

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. " about six miles West of Chelsea. 20 'miles West of FOR E O ‘

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HE correct grade: of Gargoyle Mobiloil

for engine lubrication of prominent pas-

oenger cars are specified below.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Thegrada of Gargoyle Mobiloil, indicatedl

below, are Mobiloil “ E,” Mobiloil Arctic

(‘Arc '), Mobiloil ‘A,“ Mobiloil‘ ‘BB,” and

*Mobiloil “3."





‘Follow winter recommendations when rem-‘1

.penrures from 31° F (freezing) to o’ F (zero).

lprevail. Below zero use Gargoyle Mobiloil

1Arciic (except Ford Cars, use Gargoyle Mo.)

biloil' ‘E' ).



If your car is not listed below see any Mobiloil?





dealer for the com lete Chart. It recommends the

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Cadillac ........ BB Arc BB Arc. A Arc. A Arc

ChandlerSp6 A A

“ other mod: A ' Arc. A Arc. A Arc. A Arc

Chevrolet ....... Arc. Arc , Arc. Arc. Arc. Arc. Arc. Arc

Chrysler-1.. A Arc A Are. A Arc

‘.‘ olhlr modi. A A A A A A A A

06d Brothers. . A Are. A Arc A Arc. A Arc

For ........... E E E E E E E E

Franklin ..... .. BB BB BB BB BB BB BB BB

Hupmobile ...... A Arc. A Arc. A Are. A Arc

ewett .......... A Arc. A Art. A Are A Arc

ordan 6 ........ ,. . . . . . . .Aic. Arc. Arc. Arc

“ ......... A Are A Arc. A Arc. .. . . .

Lincoln ........ A A A A A 'A A A

Moon .......... A Arc. A Arc. Arc. Arc. Arc; Arc

Nash ........... A Arc . A Arc. A Arc. Arc. Are

Oakland... .3. . . . A Arc. A Arc. A Arc. A Arc

Oldsmobile ...... A Arc. A Arc. A Arc. A Arc

Overland ........ A Are. A Are. A Art. A An:

Packard 6 ....... A Are. A Arc. A Are. A A

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In 313 tests during the past nine years, a Pennsylvania

experiment station has compared the yield of;prayed and





,ufisprayed potatoes. The sprayed vines have produced an





average of 67 bushels of potatoes more per acre than those

not sprayed.





In North Carolina Io-year tests show an average in-v - ,

crease from spraying of 53. 3 bushels per acre. Ohio dem- 9.5;; . ,

onstrations during the past 3 years have averaged an 533 :,

crease of 70 bushels per7 acre for the sprayed vines. i





 





 





Buying low-priced oil is like trying to save money by not .



spraying potatoes. To be sure, you pay a few cents extra ’



for Gargoyle Mobiloil. But you get an engineering mar-



gin of safety in lubrication which is worth many dollars



in a year’s running. v.

In tractors, Mobiloil users frequently report that



Mobiloil lasts twice as long as ordinary oil. And the



costly delays from overheating and breakdowns are



materially cut. In cars and trucks Mobiloil' s economy



is equally striking.





 





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50% of all engine troubles are directly caused by faulty f ;

lubrication. The oil you pour into the crankcase today '

determines the size of tomorrow’ s repair bills. The added

margin of safety 1n Mobiloil is important, both in post-





engines





When necessary, many farmers find that Mobiloil is

well worth a spec1al’trip to town. Let the nearby dealer

supply you with a season’ s supply of Mobiloil, now. In

barrel and half—barrel 10ts Mobiloil can be purchased at a

substantial saving.





Be sure to secure the right grade of Mobiloil to use in

your tractor, truck and car. For Mobiloil 18 recommended

with scientific accuracy for all engines. The 42. Mobiloil

engineers have painstakingly studied each make and

model of engine that you drive. The recommendations are .

in the complete Chart at all dealers." : "





Start using Mobiloil today Before the year is out you

will find that the extra margin of safety in MObiloil has

substantially reduced the cost of operation of your cat, -

truck or tractor.