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Captain Nu'ngesser, the French pilot

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venturing into farming,” says Mrs.

Kate L. Reinsch, of Mason county.



Last year Mrs. ReinSch raised

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Glow seed corn to plant 1,200 acres.

«It was grown under the direction of

the Michigan Crop Improvement Asso-

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third year she has raised seed corn.



When Mrs. Reinsch’s first husband

died nearly twenty years ago, leaving

her with two small boys to bring up,

she began to ponder on the best way

to'do this. Her \husband had been a

grain elevator m'an, and one of the

prosperous men of a small Michigan

town.



Nineteen years ago, Mrs. Reinsch,

then Mrs. Kate L. Haufstater, bought

forty acres in Freesoil township, Ma-

son county. The farm was badly run

down, much of-it light soil. With no

experience in farming, she began to

learn the business, literally, “from the

ground up”——and down.





'Much of the work she did herself.

She put in a small acreage of corn

and garden produce, and carefully

tended the small peach and apple cr-

chard. The next year she learned to

prune and spray, each year doing a

little more with the orchards. She be-

gan to set out more fruit trees and



- berries. One of the first ventures in

building up the soil was to sow vetch

in the orchards and to turn-it under

for fertilizer. . Although she believed





- in cows for keeping up the fertility of





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MICHIGAN sEo'rIONTHE CAPPER FARM passs





By G.





place is one, of the wonders of the

community.



Sixteen years ago Mrs. Reinsch

bought eighty acres adjoining land,

which had a fine orchard of 150 apple

trees of good varieties. This was tend-

ed carefully, and in one year preduc-

ed a crop which sold for $3,500. Later

on she bought another adjoining farm

with an apple orchard. Besides these

three apple orchards, the 160 acres

has nearly all been set out to peach,

cherry and plum trees.



When she remarried, sixteen years

ago, her husband, Max Reinsch, soon

became so interested in fruit, that he

is now getting just as profitable re-

turn from the orchard. on the forty

acres which he bought of his wife, as

she does.



Fruit trees are not “just trees” to





. a living,





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Mrs. Rezmcé is Damg a Real 105 in Mayo” Cozmzfy





HE raising of seed corn has prov- _





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Mrs. Reinsch, but each little tree is

breathing, understanding

thing bringing solace to its owner, in

her momentsof worry: She talks to

them while pruning and spraying, un-

til' the spectator wonders if the tree

does not respond from actual sympa-

thy of understanding her care.



Three years ago, Mr. and Mrs.

Reinsch each set out a new orchard

of cherry, peach and apple trees.

These orchards cover two hills and

valleys‘which are spread out in such

a. way that each tree is plainly visible

from the highway. This is a pictur-

esque sight.



Mrs. Reinsch has grown certified

Wolverine oats, certified potatoes and

beans. Three years ago, she grew

enough Golden Glow corn seed for

planting 1,500 acres. That year she





 





 





 





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won a blue ribbon in a state-wide con-

test given at the Michigan State Col-

lege, for her corn. Her last two or-





ders for seed, which brought $6. 00 per _ * ‘





bushel for certified, and $8. 00 for reg-

istered, that year, went to British Col-

umbia and to Texas.



This year, owing to a better corn

seed house, Mrs. Reinsch was able to

dry ”her crop in but two weeks time.

This seed house consists of three stor-

ies; a basement containing four heat-





ers, and three upper floors, from which.





the corn is hung in wire racks. The

cold air is let in below and being heat-

ed, rises, drying the corn, ,passing out

through ventilators in the ceiling. .



The crop passed the requirements

of the Michigan Crop Improvement As-

sociation, showing a ninety-six per

cent germination, and twelve per cent

moisture test.



Mrs. Reinsch has taken several

short courses at the Michigan State

College, in horticulture, soils, poultry,

etc. She is forty-eight years old, small

and wiry, and lays her excellent health

to her busy outdoor life.



In khaki suit and high-topped shoes,

she is here, there and everywhere at

once, does most of her own spraying

and pruning.



She never keeps hired help whom

she must board, as she does her own

housework and cooking for self and

Does all her own canning

of fruit and vegetables, and most‘ of

this work is done at night after the

field work is done.



When buyers do! not come to the

orchards, she starts out to the most

likely cities and finds a market. When

she began farming, she took in, on a

debt owed her husband, by a black-

smith, a well-made one-horse wagon.

This was shipped to Freesoil and used



(Continued on page 747).





Rainfall and Potato Scab





Some Cinematic”: 072 Mt: Dzsease 53/ a Practzca/ Farmer





EN years of investigational work



on the causes of potato scab,



conducted in the vicinity of East

Lansing, on fields where a four-year

rotation was- followed, should be of

interest to potato growers. .



It seems to be a general belief in

all states where potatoes are grown,

that lime in a soil is the big factor

causing scabby potatoes. It has been

my experience that lime in the soil is





.only a minor factor which may aggra-





vate scab. I ani convinced that pre-

cipitatidn has more to do with potato

scab than all other factors combined.

Next comes the amount of organic

matter in the soil. I consider all oth-





I have noticed that soils low in fer-





9 tillty .androrganic matter, and testing‘





strongly acid, did not produce scabby

potatoes, but these same soils when





. J, Med, fertilized, and plenty of organ-





to matter supplied, would produce very

scabby potatoes some cars. and some





tattoos were treated with was

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'Wfl wabove normal; August was somewhat?





By S. A.





potatoes were sometimes growing in

strongly acid soil. It was noticed that

some years, where early potatoes were

planted in the same field with late

potatoes, that the early potatoes

would be scabby and the late potatoes

would not. It. was also noticed that

some years both the early and late

potatoes would have some scab, but

more often the early planted potatoes

would have the most scab.





By checking up on the weather re-

ports at East Lansing Weather Bu-

reau, and comparing them with my





, diary, it was discovered that when the





precipitation was very much below

normal at the time the potatoes were

setting (for early potatoes, June and

July, and for late, potatoes pretty well

throughout the season), there ’was

scab on the potatoes; and the lower

the precipitation below normal, the

more: seals there Worth} 156. , Seed so!

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potato scab on fertile soils where.

there is lime and organic matter pres-

ent, why is it that when the precipi-

tat’ion is very much above normal, that

there is no scab? For the benefit of

those interested in this question, a re-

port on scab conditions as noticed, is

given below.





In 1922, when the precipitation was

far below normal for May, June, July

and August, while for September it

was a little above normal, the pota-

toes were very scabby.



The 1923 precipitation was a little

below normal for May, June, July and

August, but September was again

above normal. The potatoes Were a

little scabby. ' L





The 1924 precipitation was above

normal for May and June, but July,

August and September was a little

below normal. The potatoes were not

scabby at all.



The 1925 precipitation was very low

for May.- and July'w’sls a little





,3 per cent, and yet their soils are new:

'.-~tral or somewhat alkaline.





below normal, and September was far

above normal. Early potatOes planted

May 2 were very scabby; those plant-

ed May 10 were not so scabby, and

those planted June 16 were not scabby

at all. They were all in the same

field.



The 1926 precipitation was much

below normal for May, June and July;





while that during August was above





normal, and September was again.

above normal. Early potatoes were

very scabby, while late potatoes were

not so bad. Both early and late po-

tatoes were in the same 'field, side

by side.



In corresponding with the University

of California, College of Agriculture,





Division of Truck Crops, I find that, ,





in the state they have but very *little

potato scab. The average loss in Cal-

ifornia from potato scab for the years

1922 and 1923, estimated by D. G. Mil-I

brath, of the State Department of Ag-

riculture, was only three-tenths of one





In a la.

etin on Potato Growm‘g in Co ,

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VOLUME CLXVHI NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR





DETROIT, jUNE 11, 1927

CURRENT COMMENT





HE farmers have

been accused of

being inefficient and

N at wasteful in their prac-

Wasteful tices and methods.

But investigations are

divulging the fact that industry is far

more wasteful than agriculture.



The department of commerce has

found that in the annual production of

manufactured commodities valued at

$60.000,000,000, the average waste has

been forty-nine per cent. In six stand-

ard industries there was a waste of

fifty per cent in materials, labor, pow-

er, and human energy.



According to an investigation made

by the statisticians of the department

of agriculture, the per capita produc-

tion of industrial workers in the Unit-

ed States has been increased sixty-six

per cent. During the same period the

per capita production of farm workers

has increased 100 per cent.



These figures and the farm surplus

may suggest that the farmer is too

efficient for his own good. This would

be a good conclusion but for the fact

that decreased efficiency would in-

crease the cost of production. The

logical solution of the agricultural

problem is to produce more efficiently

a limited quantity of those agricultur-

al products which suffer from sur-

pluses. ’





 





Agriculture





S time goes on,

agriculture un‘

doubtedly will find it

expedient to adopt to

a far greater extent

than it has, the sound

2 business methods found useful in the

In checking up on

"the“ ethods employed by Master

Farmers, it seems quite certain that

the use of established business cus-

. toms and practices, will soon find a

fil’der usefulness on our farms.

Today, business depends upon care-





A Little

Less

Guessing





My; gathered information ‘more [gene 4





in better





s.

siderable number of the twenty thou-“9





sand and more business failures re-

ported in 1926 could have been avoid-

ed had the managers made fuller use

of available information on’ which to

base their business decisions. The im-

provement of means of gathering re-

liable information for the guidance of

business is one of the outstanding

characteristics of recent developments

in the commercial world.



But as a matter of fact, the farmer

is in greater need of dependable infor-

mation regarding his work. He should

know when it is time to expand or to

cut any line of production. It farmers

were fully possessed of adequate, sta-

tistical data on the production and

consumption of the various products

they produce, then they would be in

a. position to put the farming business

economic order, and this

without the necessity of depending too

much upon special legislation or other

outside helps,





UCH‘ interest is



shown by Mich-

igan farmers in the

combined harvesters

and, threshers which

heretofore have been

used only by grain growers of the far

west. It is now predicted that the

small combine is destined to revolu-

tionize agriculture in the corn belt,

the east, and the south.



The department of agriculture at

Washington has just completed a

study of the probable influences: of

this new equipment upon our agricul-

ture. It has been learned that the

combine materially reduces the cost

of harvesting and threshing grain,

greatly lessens the amount of labor

required, and considerably shortens

the harvesting and threshing period.

In these studies, it was found that a

ten-foot combine should harvest about

three hundred seventy-five acres in a

fifteen-day harvesting season to make

the equipment a profitable investment.

The fifteen-foot combine should har-

vest five hundred acres in the same

length of time.



Where farms are small, it is now

anticipated that custom work with

these machines will become common.

Returns from work done for neigh-

bors will enable a farmer with a, rela-

tively small acreage of his own to do

a profitable business on the capital

put into a combine, although his own

acreage would not warrant such an

investment.



The economics resulting from this

change in methods of production may





Will the

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PROTECTION AGAINST

PH EASANTS.





ANY complaints are being



made by farmers that

pheasants are even worse than

crows in pulling corn.. Have

any readers found a method

whereby corn can be protected

against these birds without kill-

ing? If so, the editors would ap-

preciate receiving such sugges-

tions. ’





 





 





 





further tend to readjust our urban and

rural populations and make the farm

owner or manager less dependent up-

on the ‘day laborer who too frequently

lacks in efficiency. '





INCE the consum-

ing public seems

to prefer new pota-

toes, the production

of this crop shows a





' Potato .

Production

Shifts





general tendency to .





shift. In other words, a change is tak-





his place which permits the continu-

ous consumption of potatoes without

the 11139 of much old- stock. To‘2 dates,

this change has probably favored thew

although a portion .





southern growers,"





Generally speaking, the

south of the Mason and Dixon Line





now furnish the bulk of the potatoes





consumed in our industrial centers

during the spring months. Not many

years back, these markets depended

almost entirely on the old crop of the

north until about the last of June.

But in these days of improved trans-

portation, southern stock starts mov-

ing north during the early months of

the year, attaining a maximum in May

and June.





However, northern growers are rap-p





idly taking advantage of the better

prices prevailing in August and Sep

tember by planting at least a portion

of their acreage early in May to have

a crop ready for late summer. and

early fall. Generally speaking, efforts

of Michigan farmers along this line

have proven successful, particularly





'with growers who have taken neces-





sary cultural precautions.



The thing Michigan farmers should

keep in mind is to make persistent

effort to satisfy consumer demand. If

Michigan potato growers can better

please the consumers by planting a

portion of their crop earlier, they un-

doubtedly will be the gainers in mak-

ing this readjustment.





ONSUMPTION- of

fruits and vege-

tables by the Ameri-

can people is now

nearly twice as much

' vas it was ten years

ago, according to a report of rail ship-

ments covering the past decade. Back

in 1917 to 1919, the annual average

shipments of the sixteen principal

fruits and vegetables amounted to

748,540 carioads. For the years 1924

to 1926, the annual average was 848,099

carioads. In contrast with this doub-

ling of consumption, the total popula—

tion during this period has increased

only twelve per cent. _



In general, the greatest increases

took place in those fruits and vegeta-

bles which, because of ,their highly

perishable nature, had heretofore been

regarded largely as luxuries, but now

have become items of common con-

sumption. Among the commoner sta-

ples, white potatoes shOWed an in-

crease of forty-six per cent; apples,

seventy-three percent; cabbage, sixty-

three per cent; onions, fifty-four per

cent; and tomatoes, eighty-three per

cent. On the other hand, perishable

products showed striking increases,

lettuce, for instance, 440 per cent;

grapes, 216 per cent; and celery 188

per cent.



Easier and more rapid methods of

transportation have greatly aided the

distribution of these health-giving

foods at prices withinthe reach of the

general public, and thus increased

their consumption. The untiring ef-





Road to

Better

Health





forts of our physicians and health and ‘





nutrition specialists have also im-

pressed us with the importance of in-

corporating fruits and vegetables reg—

ularly in our diet.



Before very long farm gardens will

be producing these health foods in

abundance and, if we are to keep on

the road to better health, we would

do well to keep in mind the import-

ance of these health, foods. Now is

the economical time to prepare for the

long closed season, when they are

available only from the south and

west, by canning and preserving an

ample share of this year's garden

surplus.





HE original pur-

pose of the Hochsé ‘

Smith resolution,





The Freight





Rate . presented to Gen-

Situation grass, was to aid the

farmers by lowering





freight rates on farm products When-

.ever found practicable in times of ag ,





gro ' " were.





depressed condition of agricult





several instances. They have proven'

that agricultural products bear an un-l’

just share of the general transpOrta- 5

tion vcosts. 'Nevertheless, the Inter-

state Commerce Commission has turn- 3

ed a deaf ear to their requests. ‘





But when the Pennsylvania. coal op-’

erators asked for relief in the form of / i

an increased differential to Lake Erie

ports on ,coal intended for through





7shipment to the northwest, as com-,





pared with the rate allowed to-produc-:

ers of the southern coal fields, the- re-

questwas granted on the grounds that

the coal industry in Pennsylvania was

depressed. It is evident that another

law designed especially to helpthe

farmers, will be used to help everyone}

else except the farmer.





Cu/tzbarzhg





HE other day the ground got dry

enough for me to cultivate a little”



and while I Was gee-hawin’ the horses,'

taking my stroll up and down the'

field, I was thinking about cultivating.

You know, a ‘fellow is got time to:

think when he is out in the field, with;

nobody but his horses, and maybe thel

dog,‘and the birds a twittering around!

and somehowhe kinda feels it. I kin.

bet there’s thoughts been thunk be-'

bind the plow and the cultivator, that;

would put some:



‘ of the master '.



pieces of litera-‘1



ture to shame if



they was reveal-



ed to the public



on: the, printed



page. The whole;



trouble is, it’s}



kinda hard to put .'



t h e m thoughts



down so they look like what you!

thought. ‘





Well, as I was thinking about culti-

vating, I figured it was one of the

activities of life, one of its struggles,l

to help the good and to down the bad. :

Cultivating is to make conditions sol

good for the good there ain’t no room;

for‘the bad. And the way a fellow:

cultivates is what makes him a good?

or poor farmer. \You can’t grow weeds ‘,

and good crops in the‘same place.



Now, most of us, I guess, never

think of cultivating in connection With

our lives.

weeds to fight, and so we are likely to

let ourselves grow up to rubbish. ' But

the man what tends his own little

garden of life like a good farmer

tends his fields, is going to get better‘

as he gets older.





I guess most of us’d like .to' stay;

young, but we’ve got to get old, like,

everything in life. But if we culti--

vate right, getting old won’t be so dis-i

agreeable to ourselves or others

around us. There ain’t an age in life .

but what is got its compensations, and

old age is the same, unless we’ve got

careless about cultivating. An old life

full of weeds and disease ain’t no

comfort to no one. A life full of Can-

ada thistles, dock, quack grass, and

such slike, ain’t no fun, but if we start:

cultivating the right habits early in

life, them weeds can’t get in, and a

little cultivating at the right time will ,

keep us free from them.





But a real weedy life needs plowing,

a complete turning over and a fresh;

start. ~ That’s a hard job. because the -

weeds want to come up» through, .but

if we just keep on cutting them off





when they show up, they’ll quit show-





ing up after a while.

Maybe you think I’ m kinda preach-

erish, but, you know, when Im alone ,





that way I kinda get to feel inspired,

unless I' m too perspired, and than I





think of hammocks and cold lemon-





fade. or something like that Anyhow, I . ‘





 





We don’t think we’ve got ‘
,.' just





‘ uctsfi‘ I; sell all mine locally, and When-

" vei- I hav9 any, the butcher always,

h - ',¢Ocit,erels.





 





AVING heard a— gmat- deal about

what wonderful success Mrs.

nan Ludwig, who lives about





. four miles east of Three Rivers, was





having with her babychicks, I decid-

. ed to call on»her,"and if possible find

, out What reasons for her success were.





‘ ,My first question then‘was, “To what





.do‘ you consider most of your success





. with chickens due?” ,





Mrs. Ludwig, smilingly replied,





.-;',“Well, I live with them for the first

. ,few weeks, and I find if they get a





. good start, that is the prime, essen-





Womnm Her Poultry Earn More than Husband

' By James Heckzema





about a quart of codnliver oil per hun-

dred pounds: of mash, and alsoisome

animal yeast foam. As a result, I have





vigorous chicks and I didn’t: lose a





bird all last winter. ,



I have a 1,000-egg incubator which

I set about February 1. This year my

first hatch came off on February 25.

I usually set about 250.eggs at a time,

but next year, I’m going to have 2,500-

egg capacity and set just twice. I- run

my incubator differently from ’most

folks. For the first week I set it at

103 degrees. From the fourteenth day





 





 





 





 





 





Elisha Morgan,.Breeder of the Morgan Tancred Strain, with His Seven-year-





old Hen which Netted Him





tial.” From what she told me after-

ward, I know she is right. She then

. showed me her brooder houses, equip-

: ment, and the chicks. She had, the

middle of April, about 1,000 baby

chicks, in five groups, ranging from

‘five days to six weeks old. Luck? No.

Success?- Yes. With her first 300

chicks, Mrs. Ludwig never lost a one,

and out of the 1,000 so far she has

. lost only twenty-five, and every chick

as healthy and chipper as

‘ could be. ,

.. ‘Mrs. Ludwig ,is a very interesting

italker, and has some very—original

: ideas. She told me that I might not





‘ i believe some of the things she told





me, but I informed her that she was

getting results, and that was what

, most of us were interested in.

. I’ll try to give you the story in Mrs.

" Ludwig’s own words as near as possi-

ble. She started by saying, “You see,

; I have raised chickens for thirty-eight

years, and never until this year has

‘ my husband ever fed a chicken, but

‘ last winter I was making more from

‘ my chickens, $8.00 to $9.00 a day, than

ihe made at the, shop, so he helped

me.

“I feed my hens so that they are vig-

forous. ‘I give them very little range,





j; because sometimes, they'get so busy





’running all over that they forget, or

‘don’t have time, to lay. I select my

' heaviest and best pullets for breeders,

and my breed is Buff Orpingtons. A

: few years ago I was a White Leghorn

fan, but I like my OrpingtOns best, be-

.cause they are more vigorous, sell

well, the broilers have breasts on them

like quails, and when I sell my hens

I realize a very fancy price for them”.



I sandwiched in a question there.

“Many markets prefer a yellow-skin-

ned bird. Do you have any trouble

that way?”



Mrs. Ludwig replied in her charac-

teristic, straight-forward manner, “If

you have high quality product—broil-

"ers in. good condition, fat and plump;





, jhens, heavy and juicy, you Won’t have





any trouble disposing of- your prod-





 





$35,000 Through its Eggs.





on I sprinkle the eggs with warm wa-

ter. Most folks tell me that I should

not do that, but I get vigorous chicks

that live and grow rapidly.



“After the chicks are hatched, I put

them in baskets—twenty-five in a has-

ket, with a woolen cloth in the bot-

tom, and another one over them. I

leave them in the baskets until the

chicks are about seventy-two hours

old, when I take them to the broader.

I use oil-burning brooders—the wick-

less kind—nothing to clean, fill the oil

tank once a day, and that is about

all.”



I couldn’t help asking another ques-

tion, for I didn’t see any thermometer

of any kind anywhere around, so I

said, “How do you regulate your tem-

perature? I don’t see any thermom-

eter.”



Mrs. Ludwig replied at once, “The

chick is the best thermometer in the

world. All you have to do is to see

that it is warm enough, and if he gets

too warm, he’ll move away.” (And it

works).-



“In regard to feeding,” Mrs. Ludwig

said, “I mix twenty-five pounds of com-

mercial chick starter, ten pounds pow-

dered skim-milk, one pound of animal

yeast foam, six quarts of pulverized

charcoal for a blood purifier, and one

pint of cod liver oil. I then give them

a little chick scratch and a little or

the mash five times a day at first—

afterwards I gradually lengthen the

time to four times a day, and then to

three, but I start with five times. I

boil the water and give them boiled

water until they are seven days old,

when I feed buttermilk. I get the

semi-solid and dilute it. The chicks

have no water from the time they are

seven days old until about the time

they reach the broiler stage. I feed

a. lot of sprouted oats, too. For the

young chicks—over a week old, I cut

up the tops, but the six weeks’ old

ones get all of the oats.





“Then I sell all my hens at this ,





time.” "Sell your laying hens now!”

I exclaimed. ‘





“Yes ,’{ she replied, “for I need the I.





room to separate my pullets from my





over forty, but she did tell me that





(continued on page 754).





 





 

 





Agriculture is rapidly adopting

the power that has helped build





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_ The electrical industry brings

forty years’ experience to the farm





Only through cooperation be

tween the producers and the

consumers—light and power ,

companies and the farmers—

can rural electrification be





0 LONGER is rural clcc'



trifica’cion only “a possi'

bility." The building of rural

lines is inactive progress; and

the policy of electric light and

power companies is to extend

rural service as fast as circum’

stances will permit.





The electrical industry is ape

plying the experience of fbrty

years of service to cities and

industry to the problem of de’

livering electric service to

farms. Where the demand is

sufficient to justify the building

oflinesonabusincssbasisfarm’

ers are having no trouble gctv

, ting service. For, to derive the

full benefit of rural clectrifir

cation, the varied use of power

as well as light must be applied.





brought about. The farmer

should take advantage of the

great variety of things electric,

ity can do. The industry,

meanwhile, is working with

representatives of farmers in

twenty states to devise new -

equipment and improve that

now in use.





The benefits of electricity

which are now enjoyed on

260,000 farms will be extended

to hundreds of thousands of

progressive farms within the

next few years. Ask your

power company for inform

tion and cooperation.





‘I'he Committee on Relation of Electricity to Agriculture is composed of economists and





engineers representing the





U. S. Departments of Agriculture, Commerce and the





Interim, American Farm Bureau Federation, National Grange, American Society of

Agricultural Engineers, Individual Plant Manufacturers, General Federation of

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

Farm Equipment Manufacturers. and the National Electric Light Association.-





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for that matter. You can stack

salt fencerhigh—but making

them eat it, that’s quite .an'

other thing. .

Where salt is impure, it is

bitter and strong and, try as

you will, the stock will not

partake sufficiently to, meet

their physical needs.



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There is a Diamond Crys’

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'PRIVATE TOLL BRIDGES.





 





RIVATELY owned highway bridges

. are the subject of attack by the

National Automobile Chamber of Com-

merce and the Federal Bureau of

Roads. There were hundreds of bills

introduced in the sixty-ninth Congress

granting permits to private corpora-

tions to construct toll bridges across

streams connecting federal-aid high-

ways. There is apparently an effort

on the part of an organized group of

corporations to get these permits that

will enable private corporations to levy

a tax on the traveling public on every

available stream before an aroused

public sentiment demands that the

public highways built by the federal

and state governments, should not be

blocked by toll bridges.



It is the contention of the highway

authorities and the automobile organ-

ization that all bridge construction

and operation should be under the

control of the state highway authori-

ties; that the toll bridge should have

no more part in our highway system

than the toll road.





THE FLOOD RELIEF FUND.





 





HE entire nation is asked by Sec-

. retary of Commerce, Herbert

Hoover, to aid in the task of provid-

ing relief for the 600,000 victims of

the Mississippi Valley flood. He says

that 600,000 of the 700,000 homeless

are destitute and need immediate aid.

Present rehabilitation means giving

the people seed, clothing, a stock of

food and feed, shelter and household

goods, and sufficient animals and im-

plements to enable them to produce

crops this season.



More than 340,000 persons have

been taken into the refuge camps, and

more than 250,000 more have received

rations outside the camps, or close to

600,000 dependent upon public help.





 





TO SOLVE TAX PROBLEMS.





 





HE efforts of the taxpayers to

unite their forces in a movement

to secure more equitable tax laws and

reduce the necessity for oppressive

taxation in the various states and

counties is bearing fruit. Agricultural





and industrial organizations in thirty

states are cooperating in a plan to

solve local and state tax problems.

The movement, which is known as

the “Better Understanding Between

Industry and Agriculture,” according





to Henry Harrison Lewis, of Washing-.

ton, executive director, is an effort to.

find some common ground on which -





infra-state groups can work in har-

monious cooperation in such matters

as state and local administrative meth-

ods and taxation. .-





State and local taxes in the seven-

year period of 1919-1926 have increased

from $29.24 to $45.18 per capita, says

James A. Emery, general counsel of

the Association of Manufacturers, who

adds that the farmers form a group

that are losing most heavily from this

increased tax burden. Cooperative ef-

fort of all groups of taxpayers, and

the budget system for local, county

and state governments, with the or-

ganized taxpayers of every taxing dis-

trict seeing to it that all unnecessary

expenditures are‘ omitted from bud-

gets, is suggested as an effective rem-

edy for a condition that in recent

years has become almost unbearable.





 





THE CRIME WAVE. .





 





HAT to do with the crime wave



has_, become a great national

question. Its solutidn is receiving the

attention of the leading thinkers of

the country. The NationalUrime Com-

mission, an organization formed to

study the causes of crime and its pre-

vention, has invited representatives of

fifty-four state, county and city crime

commissions to meet in conference in

Washington in September. The con-

ference will be held in order that meth-

ods of cooperation between officials

of the various states and the nation

can be worked out and a uniform prac-

tice followed. ‘



In twenty-four states there are or-

ganizations devoting their time to a

study of crimes and attempting to

formulate methods of control. One

move is the securing of laws in sev-

eral states putting rigid restrictions

on the sale and transportation of fire-

arms. An influential law enforcement

organization of citizens is being form-

ed in Washington which will cooper-





 





 





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Farm ' Tragedies N0. 2

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and only seventy-five settled.





Yeliqyggtone at,

tel to





organizations will be formed in many'p "

cities and counties. ‘ s ,, \

. AND STILL THERE Is A FARM 5



‘ SURPLUS. ‘ V





 





 





E appropriationsfor reclamation



for 1927' includes six new projects

which will cost $50,000,000, and will‘

irrigate 435,000 acres. Several older

projects are being enlarged Or coma!

pleted. . . '

The present outstanding need of the ,'

irrigation projects, according to Dr.

Elwood Mead, commissioner of the

bureau of reclamation, is new settlers.

0n the Yuma Mesa project there are

water facilities for five times as many.

acres as are now under cultivation.

On an Oregon irrigation project there

are 140 farms ready for occupancy,

With

all the aid and coddling of the gem ~-

ernment, and the efforts of the rail-|

roads and local chambers of commerce

to locate people on the irrigated!

lands, there appears to be a serious;

shortage of available farmers.





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NEW PROHIBITION COMMIS-

SIONER.





 





R. JAMES F. DORAN, the newly,' ,



appointed prohibition commission-J,

er succeeding Roy A. Haines, has been'

identified with the bureau of internali

revenue since 1911, and with the pro:

hibition bureau since it was organiza

ed. He is the son‘ of a Methodist min« :

ister. Seymour Lowman, of New York,;

who succeeds Lincoln C. Andrews,

was formerly lieutenantégovernor of ,

New York state, and has been identi‘

fied with the prohibition movement in

that state. Both Dr. Doran and Mn.

Lowman are in favor of strict enforce-

ment of the prohibition law, and have

the well wishes of many millions of .

Americans who are equally insistent,

upon an honest and consistent enforce- ‘

ment of the Volstead Act.





MUSCLE SHOALS' CONTROVERSY.





 





NEW angle has arisen in the con- ' ' 117-"?



troversy over the disposal of the ~ ' g “ 7.

nitrate and power plants at Muscle . ,

Shoals. At a conferencevheld between

officials of the department of war and J,-

justice, and a commission represent—

ing the state of Alabama, the latter ,

contended that the United States has ' . is?

no constitutional right to manufacture

and sell for commercial purposes, elec-

trical power generated at Muscle

Shoals. It was admitted that the gov-

ernment of the United States can gen-

erate electrical power for its own use

and sell enough of it to pay for the

upkeep of the project, and to return

to the government a sufficient amount

‘to pay for the original cost of the

project, but if there should be sold

electrical energy in excess of the fore- ‘

going requirements and necessities, ‘5"’

that the state of Alabama has an. 0’

equitable interest in such exCess sold.



The representatives of "Alabama



claim that the Tennessee river om " ..

which is located the Muscle Shoals"

project, is a navigable stream, and

that Alabama holds in trust the title

to the bed of the river at Muscle

Shoals for the people of the state.

They maintain that the power could!

be used by the federal government in

the production of nitrates and other

fertilizers, and munitions of war. '





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 





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Tests at the Ohio Experiment Stall"

tion' show that hens fed alfalfa hay?

with their regular hay and grain ra-f

tion, produced thirty-four per cenfi‘l”

more eggs in November to February‘i

inclusive, than those. which received }

no,‘alfal_fa,. ' . ~ . "





 

 

 

 





 





 





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- ; ,HEfiNew zeal .

‘ prices on "butter .



markets has evidently failed. By the

middle of March, 1927, theV'New Zea-

land Dairy Produce Export Control





 

 

   

 





'Board had accumulated so much but- , -'





ter and cheese in London that it

found it. necessary to change its pol-

icy or holding butter at a. fixed price,





to that of selling weekly a definite





quantity of butter at whatever prices

the market will pay.





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ISAGINAWBUJSINESS MEN ENTER- -





TAIN CLUB MEMBERS.





 





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. OUNTY club champions in Sagi-

naw county were entertained on

Achievement Day by the Saginaw

Chamber of Commerce, and A. R. Trea-

nor, editor of the Saginaw News-Cour-

ier. Five hundred boys and girls reg-

istered at the Chamber of Commerce

building. . From'this group, 175 local

club champions were selected by Miss

Morgan, county nurse; Miss Harriet

Wilder and Nevels Pearson, assistant

state club leaders.





After the group had registered if





the morning, a‘parade headed by the

motorcycle police, and participated in

by the Saginaw safety patrols, preced-

ed .aoshow at which the club members

were the guests of the Northern Mich-

igan Automobile Clubs. Lunch was

served in the Central High School

cafeteria.



A'banquet for the champions was

given at the Bancroft Hotel. in the

evening. The program was handled

by the club members. One girl at the

banquet told a club leader that she

had driven forty-five miles to attend

Achievement Day. Clare A. Rood,

county club leader, believes that the

entertainment provided by the civic

organization, and the newspaper fur-

nished the youngsters with a fine in-

spiration for future club work.





PIONEER COOPERATORS.





 





ARMERS’ associations engaged in



marketing fruits and vegetables

have been'pioneers in American agri-

cultural cooperation, ‘ according to

Porter R. Taylor, of ,Harrisburg, Pa.,

state market director of Pennsylvania,

who hasbeen selected to lead the dis-

cussions of that week. One such as—

sociation was formed as long ago as

1878. Some idea of the scale on which

the cooperative 'marketing of fruits

and vegetables is now practiced, can

be gained from the fact that twenty

two active federated organizations

have nearly 60,000 members. In 1925

fruit and vegetable cooperatives did

$280,000,000 worth of business, or

thirty-nine per cent more than in 1915.





INLAND' WATERWAY TRANSPOR-

_‘TATION. .





 





HE Inland Waterways Corporation,



. operating barge lines on the Mis-

sissippi and Warrior rivers, showed an

operating profit in 1926 of $219,511

with a total revenue of $5,179,274.

These figures are given by Major-Gen-

eralT. Q. Ashburn, chairman of the

corporation board. Tonnage carried

by the corporation’s boats on the Mis-

sissippi and Warrior rivers last year

totaled 1,341,578, as against 1,142,219

in .1925. General Ashburn estimates

that- the direct saving to shippers

alone on the two rivers aggregated

more than $2,000,000 yearly.





 





’Qakland county farmers had to pun

chase early seed potatoes from Can-

adian growers after unsuccessful at-





tempts to. find Michigan-grown stock. -





 





Eleven. boys at} Milford, under the





'i'lcadership oi.“ B J. {'Wardlow, have





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of. Firestone Gum-Dipped Balloon

«nth single cord untwisted into



from smaller cords, composed of

many little fibers, all thoroughly

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woven construction of the fabric bein impossible to insulate with rubber.

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cross-threads—permitting much greater insulation of the cords, one from another.

This materially reduced friction and more than doubled tire mileage. But the small

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not overcome. After much research Firestone chemists found a method of insu-

lating every fiber of every cord with rubber—and called it “Gum-Dipping.” By this

process the cords of the carcass are dipped in a rubber solution which penetrates

to the innermost fibers. Gum—Dipping made the Balloon Tire practical and estab-

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BOUT the first mushroom to make

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the “mica ink-cap,” which so often ap-

pears in lawns and about the stumps

'of trees. This species generally

shows up around the first of May, it

is said.



‘ A description .of the “mica ink-cap,”

and much useful information about its

use for food, has been assembled in

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State Experiment Station at Geneva,





 





 





     





rooms,~and is now' available free of

charge to anyone interested in these

valuable plants.



Also, of particular interest to mush-

room lovers, "is another little pamph-

let put out by Mr. Stewart, on “How

to know the Mushrooms and Toad-

stools.” This may also be had free

upon request to the station authori-

ties. Among other things, Mr. Stew-

art tells the right and wrong way to

test mushrooms for edibility, how to

distinguish the truly poisonous kinds,

and describes briefly the twelve most

important edible mushrooms found in

New York..



“The right way to proceed with





the different kinds of edible and poi-

sonous mushrooms at sight, in the

same way that one recognizes other

plants, such as peas, beans, poison

‘ivy, etc,” says Mr. Stewart. “One

must learn to recognize at sight each

kind of mushroom that he eats, and

never eat anything that he does not

know, otherwise he will be taking a

risk.





“None of the popular mushroom

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there are many mushroom eaters who

claim to know signs and tests for de-

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and a vast amount of dangerous mis-

information is given out Why people

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GROWING.





 





IR is as necessary below the sur-

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Shallowness of soil, hardpan close to

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drainage check vegetative growth, re-

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Tree roots fail to penetrate such

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of air in such soils. A soft, poorly

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An open, porous subsoil, one with

good air as well as water drainage,

favors root growth, and therefore tree

growth. .





PLAN THE GARDEN AHEAD.





 





 





WE have always laid plans for the

garden well in advance of the

planting season. No garden was ever

as valuable when planted without

planning. No matter‘ if we have been

growing gardens for years, we will

make more or less .of a. mess of it if

We depend on buying seeds and plant-

ing them just as the notion takes us

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summer ascend" for .storing'd’or‘ win-f

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ter of following the '_ scheme: We ,





know we have provided for everything

and will not haveour beans gone two

or three weeks: before the nextplant-

ing is due.' We will have the early

small-cared corn, folloived by the 'me-





dium, for table use in summer, and it





these by the big late Country Gentle-

men or Evergreen for canning or dry-

ing.‘ When the cool fall days come——





,just ideal canning Weather—we will;





have a crop of green beans, small: ta-

ble beets, and mustard, spinach and

other greens, all ready. :

When planning, keep in mind, that

successions of the same crop will. be

surer to give good results if planted

away from where the previous plant-

ing was grown. Plant there sbme~

thing so different that any disease or

insect of the first will not be likely to

harm it, and if this cannot be done,

have a little surplus ground prepared

for the successive plantings. It is not

a bad plan to follow lettuce and other

early crops bothered by aphis'(-plant

lice or green bugs) by a row or rape,

as this will draw the pests and save

their emigrating, but it should be

sown before the other crop is "gone,

so it will be ready for them.before

they are forced to move.

ily done by cutting out a foot or two





of the old crop and replacing with the ,,





rape, and continue this at intervals,

later, when the rape is growing, re—

move the remaining spots and sow

rape there, too. Rape is a quick

grower and makes most excellent food

for the hens or pigs—L. H. C.





GARDEN NOTES.





 





DID you plant any sweet corn for

late summer and fall use? Try

a planting of Golden _Bantam now. It

should mature ears large enough for

table use before killing frosts occur.

Remember that the straWberry is a

shallow rooted, plant. .For this reason

cultivation should not be too deep. A

good dirt mulch an inch or two in

depth is sufficient. ,





It is often easier to prevent “garden

troubles” than, to “cure" them after

they appear. Keep the plants vigorous

and healthy by

and proper fertilizing,

spraying—R. E. Loree.





thinning and





ALFALFA IN ORCHARD.





 





,I have a small four-year~old orchard

of apple trees, with peach as fillers.

The orchard is in front of my house,

and I would like to sow something in it





that would keep green during the sum- ‘





mer and that would not hurt the trees.

Is there anything that I can sow, or

must I keep on cultivating it?——J. P. V;





Alfalfa WOuld' be one of the most

satisfactory crops to grow'in such an

orchard. It, of course, will remain

green throughout the summer’and will

add considerable to the appearance of

the orchard, sinCe it is located in front

of your house. I would suggest that

you remove only the first cutting for



ay and that you use the second and





This is eas- ,





frequent cultivation .





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third cuttings as a mulch about the,





young trees. This mulch should ex-

tend five or six feet from the trunks

of trees of the age of yours.—-Roy E.

Marshall. -





Allie Jones keeps a. little sugar beet

hoe and a three-cornered file near the

back door that leads toward the gar-

den. Whenever he has a few minutes





to spare he gives the hue a few licks ‘





with the file and gets out and thins

.the vegetable rows.

prising what a nice lot of vegetables





with that beet has during the spring.





 





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you can dig up in, the fall if you bend .

right over and clean out the rows.





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POULTRY THIEVES.





 





Would like your opinion of my idea

for giving poultry thieves a warm re-

, ception. 'We” expect to put .up a new





' , poultry 'house, this summer and it is to





be located in clear view ofmy sleep-

ingquarters. I expect. to fix up a





‘I-closed- circuit burglar alarm on the





doors and/Windows, so that opening

either, or cutting a wire will sound an

‘2 alarm in my bedroom. Also, I expect





: 1 to Connect up an automobile spotlight





"l on the house somewhere, connected to

8 our radio A—‘battery, with a sw1tch by

which it can be flashed on from my

l bedroom. With this trained on the





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A vihen house door, and a double shot





:gun and repeating rifle all ready to

jshoot, I can hold them by command,

lor shoot if the command to halt is

snot heeded. What do you think of

l the plan?—C. F. L.



Certainly looks as though you mean

;business, and probably would be an

luncomfortable half-minute for the

*thief when the light flashed on, as

; you would be under cover and in the

: dark, and have the drop on, the thief

1 before he knew you were aroused. A

{good percentage of such installations

I would certainly make chicken stealing

‘ an unhealthful business—I.





HANDY TIE STRAP.





 





l I AM sending you diagram of a quick

and easy way to hitch horses for

‘plowing, or where more than two

. horses are worked abreastu Instead

of using tie straps or hitch reins to





 





 





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go from bit to bit, a short strap with

a snap on each end is more conven-

ient. It does away with hard knots

and saves time. ,



I know by experience that this is

a very convenient device. We should

be glad to hear from other readers

as to time and labor-saving devices.





 





MORTAR~~FOR CHIMNEY.





 





. ‘ Please let me know how to make





 

 

 

 





good mortar for making a small brick

chimney.—G. J. ‘





Mortar used for chimney construc-

tion should be made cf one bag of

Portland , cement ’ and twenty-five

pounds (one-half bag) of hydrated

lime, thoroughly mixed dry, to which

.should be added three times its vol-

ume (about four cubic feet) of clean

sand, with just enough water to make

Eit work easily under the trowel. If

.dry hydrated lime is not available,

5 one-half cubic foot of well slaked lime

gputty may be substituted for it.





 





RQOFING FOR BARNS.





 





. Please advise as to the best roofing

*for barns. If wood shingles are used,

with what can they be treated to in-

»sure their wearing longer?——P. A. K





It is impossible for me to say which

is the best type of roofing for a barn.

.Wood shingles, asphalt shingles, gal-

-vanized iron, stripped asphalt shin-



gles and rolled roofing have all been

found to be satisfactory, and if you

buy a standard product, you will be.

verylikely to getservice commensur-

ate with the amount of money that you

Linvest. » '



The life of wood shingles is greatly





increased when treated with creosote





oil. There are on the market creosote

treated shingles in the natural color

and various stained-colors:





the present. time is the asphalt shin-

jgl‘e. 8131'.er This type of menus

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‘ than rolled mating, but. is not so ex-





. ' . Probably I

thho mostmcrular Styne of roofing at.





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pensive as the oreosote treated wood





shingle, and is fire resitant.——F. E. F.





CLEANING SEDIMENT OUT OF

BATTERIES. ‘





 





I have a 32-volt farm lighting plant

and some of my batteries are filled

with sediment up to the bottom of the

plates, ' although the plates seem to

.be in good condition otherwise. Can

this sediment be cleaned out, and if

so, how? Can you tell me how to

charge storage B-batteries from my

32-volt plant?——A. H. ._





I know of no very practical way of

cleaning out this sediment except to

remove the plates, pour out the elec-

trolyte, and then flush out the sedi-

ment. It would be well for you to

get a service man to help you with

this, because he should at the same

time examine the positive plates and

separators carefully and see if any of

them need replacing. Usually by the

time the sediment reaches the bottom

of the plates, the positive plates be

gin to need replacing and often the

separators as well, and this is the

proper time to look after them—D.





WOMAN SUCCEEDS AT FARMING.





 





(Continued from page 741).

to‘make trips to Manistee, to sell her

produce.



When crops and fruit outgrew the

one-horse wagon, she bought a touring

car. She now has both a touring car

and truck, which she drives herself.



She keeps posted on the latest farm

methods by reading and short courses.

She sent her two boys through high

school and later to the university.



Last season 1,500 Cuthbert raspber-

ries were set out, and this season 500

Montmorency cherries have been ad—

ded, and 500 pear trees.



Busy as Mrs. Reinsch is, she finds

time to take an active part in social

affairs and the Parent-Teacher Asso-

ciation of the Darr school district

where she lives.





 





RAINFALL AND POTATO SCAB.





 





(Continued from page 741).

ado, I find that po ato scab is very

prevalent and destructive there; their

soils are alkaline, fertile, and produce

large yields. The only way they fer-

tilize is by plowing under alfalfa and

using barnyard manure. Nitrogen is

usually over-abundant in their soils,

and sometimes their crops’ are serious-

ly affected by too much nitrogen.

With this excessive amount of nitro-





gen, we are led to believe that they '





have a large amount of organic mat-

ter in thein soils. They also claim

that in some parts of the state the

late potatoes are seriously affected by





the high temperature and that they 4





are changing with good results from

raising late potatoes to the early,

which would be ready to harvest ,be-

fore the real hot weather.





Here in Michigan our so-calledlime-

stone soils, which are commonly called

clay loams, are very rich in organic

matter.- These soils retain their or-

ganic matter a great deal better than

the light sands do; therefore, the or-

ganic matter in these soils supply a

constant home for the potato scab or-

ganism. On the light sand soils the

organic matter is soon gone, and then

the potato scab organism perish. I

have noticed when plowing, that the

plow would run two inches shallower

in this hard compact clay soil than in

sand. vWe know that the potatoes are

shallower on‘the heavier soil, for we .





have more green. potatoemhere than -‘





on " the. sand, and if: they are nearer: '





 





   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





   

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 





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By R. H.





HIS spring the five-acre corn.



growing contest will begin its



fifth year. This contest is car-

ried on through the cooperation of the

Michigan Crop Improvement Associa-

tion and the Farm Crops Department

of the Michigan State College. Its ob-

ject is to interest the state’s growers

in better and more adapted varieties,

and to bring out the valuable and suc-

cessful cultural practices employed by

our best growers.

Each contestant must be a member

of the Michigan Crop Improvement

Association, ‘this membership costing

one dollar per year. An entry for five

aores of corn must be made, however,

this may be a five-acre field or any

five adjoining acres of a larger field.

Contestants are to keep an accurate

record for the seed, fertilizer and ma-

nure used, as well as the labor spent

in the production of the crop. At har-

vest time each field is sampled by rep-

resentatives of the farm crops depart-

ment, and the yield per acre in the

terms of bushels of shelled corn on a.

basis of a fourteen per cent moisture

content is determined.

Final placings are based and the

awards are made on the greatest mar-

gin above the cultural cost of produc-

tion. The contest last year proved

that the yield grown by the average

farmer can be produced on a much

smaller acreage, and at the same time

decreasing the costs of production and

increasing this margin above cultural

costs.



In 1926 the average yield of corn

per acre in Michigan, was thirty-four

bushels. Mr. Paul C. Clement, last

year’s corn king, obtained a yield of

ninety bushels per acre, with 3. mar-

gin above cultural costs, of $55.67.

Valued at seventy-three cents per

bushel, his five-acre field of corn was

worth $327.20.



The winners of prizes in the 1926

contest were, first, Paul C. Clement,

of Britton; second, George Bruce, of

Britton; third, Ernest Gilbert, of Wlal-

dron; fourth, Otto Wegner, of Riga.



This year the state has been divided

in three districts in which the cli-

matic conditions are somewhat differ—

ent, and where certain varieties are

better adapted than others. Practical

prizes will be awarded in each of the

three districts. A sweepstakes prize

will be given to the best corn grower

in the contest.



The Michigan Crop Improvement

Association will, as usual, offer gold

medals to all contestants obtaining a

yield of one hundred bushels of shelled

corn per acre; silver medals to all

those having from eighty—five to one

hundred bushels and bronze medals to

all raising from seventy-five to eighty-

five bushels per acre. In 1926 two sil-

ver and three bronze medals were

awarded. ,



A large number of entries are al-

ready in, and many new recruits are

expected. The entries close on‘July

1. All desiring applications for enroll-

ment and further details concerning

this contest, should write to your

county agricultural agent, or to the

Farm Crops Department, Michigan

State College, East Lansing, Michigan.





 





 





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MORTGAGOR’S TENANT. /





 





I rented a. farm on shares. -The





mortgage on the farmjs to foreclose

g in July. Can I harvest and hold my





share of the crops this fall? Also,

Can .I hold possession until my time

expires?——Subscriber. , .



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possession is taken bythe purchaser

at the foreclosure sale, he loses his

right to remove them. In foreclosure

by advertisementvthe purchaser at the

sale has no right to possession until

one year after the sale. In foreclosure

by bill in Chancery his right of pos-

session accrues six months after the.

sale.





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Can a woman, who has a good home, ,

leave it without a just cause andfgo

to live with her .family ‘ or other

friends? Could she bring suit for di-

vorce, or other charges, in Detroit

against a man? What can a man do

about it?—Reader.



“Neither slavery no involuntary

servitude, except as a punishment for

crime, whereof the party shall be duly

convicted, shall exist within the Unit-





ed States or any place subject to his ,





jurisdiction.” United States Constitu-

tion, Amendment 13. Any person may

bring suit for cause or without cause.

Maintaining it is a. matter of allega~

tion and proof. If people cannot

smooth their domestic troubles out of

court, there is not much hope of ’doing

so by court proceedings—Rood.





DAMAGE FOR BREACH OF WAR- I

RANTY. ‘





 





I bought a load of sheep with the

understanding that they were healthy

and without defects, to start lambing

the last of April. They lambed in

January, February and March and the

lambs died. The sheep were full of

parasites and in poor health in every

respect. More than half of the sheep

died. Can I claim damages? I bought

the sheep in Ohio—A. G.



The remedy of the purchaser is in

an action for damages, and. of neces~

sity it must be brought where the sel-

ler can be found and personally serv-

ed. The measure of the damages is

the difference between the value of

the articles delivered and what their

value would have ben had tney been

as represented.——Rood. .





 





 





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SOLUTION OF LEGISLATIVE CON.

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OUR article in the May 14 issue,

‘ calling upon your readers for a.

solution of the legislative conundrum,

is in accord with the progressive pol-

icy of the farmer.





We have a solution. Our plan is

to eliminate the legislature, the ap

pointive power of the governor, and

substitute a board of control, consist-

ing of nine members, elected by‘ the

people at a general election. ,:



Each senatorial distriCt will elect,

at a. regular primary, [one candidate

of each political party. These names

will be submitted to the people on a.

separate ballot to be voted at av'gen:

eral election, the nine receivingé the

highest number of votes will serve as

a permanent board. The three receiv~

ing the next highest will be alien

nates. , ' .



After the board is thusestablished,

vacancies caused by death, resigna-

tion, ouster, or other causes—when-

but one alternate remains unassigned

——will be by , appointment by]. the

board, approved by‘ the people at a.

general election. Six candidates will

be appointed to chooseirom, the three

receiving the greater number of votes

will serve in the order of» their votes.



.A board composed at 'good {men

.W’Ould give every interest in‘ the , tats





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ture, and not desiring to giva

his parents additional cause for

”worry, Hal Brown had confided only

' .- to Beth what he had found in the

"secret passageway leading from the

Lone Oak home basement. In Beth’s

hand lay a golden coin, tarnished with

age, stamped with a seal unknown to

either girl or boy. “It’s a Spanish

, coin,” whispered Beth, “hundreds of

years old! Who knows, Hal, the old



Captain’s treasure may be hidden



right here in this house?”



“Yes, or this coin may only be a

pocket piece someone has dropped!”

answered Hal. “But something was

carried through that tunnel and if any-

thing was left‘ in this house they’ll be

back after it. I’m going to build up

that basement wall and put a strong

padlock on the inside door. Maybe

Black Neb still is in the neighborhood.

I’ll bet Jack Miller could tell us a lot

if he would.”



“He’ll tell us before he’d let any

harm come to us,” replied Beth with

conviction. “But there’s no time now

to be hunting treasure. I’m sure the





 





rooms above haven’t been cleaned for ,





ages. The old Captain certainly must

have been fond of dirt. Keep the coin

safe, Hal, and we’ll ask Juanita some-

thing about its history. She’s Span-

ish, you know.”



“Not on you life!” said Ha] em-

phatically. “Someway, Sis, I’ve a hunch

that these foreign folks are mixed up

in the deal. Just a ‘hunch’ but let’s

hoe our own row and tell nobody.

Mum’s the word. And now let’s get

after that cleaning job.”





Dust covered floors and loosened

paper hanging from walls and ceil-

ings made Mother Brown exclaim bit-

terly over neglect of the former in

habitants. But the rooms were spa-

cious, the view of distant mountains

beautiful. Soap, water and new paper-

ing soon would bring transformation.

As Mother Brown and Beth worked

busily, Hal set about removing steel

bars from windows. “Looks like a

prison,” observed Mary as she watch-

ed Hal at work. “S’pose anyone ever

was shut in here, Mom?”





Mother Brown had come outdoors to

note effect with the bars removed.

Soon the old home would be an ordi-

nary big farm house. “I don’t think

so, dear,” she replied to Mary's ques-

tion. “Anyway, we have no reason to

shut anyone in or bar anyone out. But

there’s a locked door leading to a lit-

tle room, Hal, that we want to clean.

Please ceme and open it for us.”



“Comin’, Mom,” answered Hal cheer-

ily, and soon he was at work'on the

locked door. When finally it swung

open a strange spectacle was present-

ed, which brought a yell from Hal’s

‘ lips. Soon all the family was gathered

to peer curiously at an inner steel-

barred door and peering through the

bars it could be seen that the walls

were steel lined, and back in one cor-

ner, its door swung open, was an im~

mense safe built into the wall. “More





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The Mysterious Barred Room





mystery, dad,” cried. Hal. “Here's a

place where Sis can keep her dia-

monds, Mom the family plate, and you

old Moll’s prize colt. Now, how are

we going to open this blamed steel





door? No key in the lot that will fit

this lock. ”



“No hurry, son,” advised Father

Brown. “We don’t need °the room





and I’ll find out from Mr. Boggs if he

knew anything about it.or had any

key. After all, it’s no more to be won-

dered at than barred windows, a tree

watch tower or a mysterious conceal-

ed tunnel. Let’s go on with the work.”



The children clamored that the bar-





red. door he opened, but Mother Brown





 





stood silently, an unknown fear grip-K





ping her heart. Did something sinis-

ter and dangerous still menace this

strange house of mystery? Or, as their

Spanish neighbor had suggested, had

the old Captain been merely an insane

man driven to madness by recollection

of some tragedy in his life? Were

they to be happy Occupants of the

House of the Lone Oak, or would that

shadowy something which had made

it a place accursed and shunned, wreck

their lives? Only the future held the

answer. A cloud passing over the sun

left the room in shadow and Hal hast-

ened outdoors to resume his interrupt-

ed work. (Continued next week).





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More Mystery in the Offing. What is the Significance of the Strange Span-

ish Coin Hal Showed Beth?





How Do They Get Back?





O/a’ M ooley Goe: Back Home





BOUT three and a half miles

A north and west from a little



Michigan village is the farm

home of Mr. H Not quite so far

to the east, and south of the village

is the old home of Mrs. H On

this latter farm; among other cows,

was a nice spotted mooley that had

been there probably a year or more,

when One day in early May she was

led to the other farm.



Here she remained until a time late

in the fall, when the cows on the old

home farm were not giving sufficient

milk for the family needs, and “Old

Mooley” was taken back home.



Cows on this farm on mild, pleasant

days, went to a spring not far distant

for water, but on stormy days were





 





 





gimme..- of A! Aver—Slim Sayx: “W here i: the Gate?”





kept in the barn and turned out twice

daily to drink at the well in the yard.



One stormy day in winter, the cows

were turned out for their evening

drink and the «attendant went ,about

the other chores.



Later, when he came back to put

in the cows, “Old Mooley” was gone.



Thinking she had gone to the spring

and would be’back soon, the attendant

lost a few minutes of daylight before

looking for her,‘ and darkness came

without his finding her or any tracks.



At the home of Mr. H . supper

was over, the chores finished, every-

thing comfortable at the barn for the

night, and Mr. H—-— lay, half asleep,

on the couch.



Night had brought no change in the





 





, the storm. Unbalieving, but still; us!-

- tening, he lay still, till in a few min- ‘ "





utes he thought he heard it again—ea





faint .bawl, then again louder; and





from the direction of the barn.' Oh, .





well! maybe the wind had blown: a

door Open and some of the youngcat-

tle were out. Anyway, he’d have to

go and see. ' 7





So, getting his cap and §

coat and lantern, he went to the barn. ?

Entering through the nearest deor_he ?

walked down the alley in front of the





cows. Nothing wrong here, everything 1





was just as he had left it an hour ago. .





But he noted that, while invariably

at this time of night every animal

would be lying down, each one was

on its feet, awake; not frightened, but

seemingly expectant. Trying to think

of a reason for this, he stood watch-

ing them, when from one of the cows

came an indignant bawl, probably. a

protest against his stupidity, followed

immediately 'by another from outside





'the barn: He opened the door~to “Old





Mooley;" a tired “Old Mooley,” SOl

covered with ice and snow he hardly

knew her.



No stanchion for “Old Mooley” this

night. The air of the stable soon

loosened the ice and snow on her coat

so it could be brushéd off, and knee

deep in clean straw in the warm sta-

ble, after her supper, she dropped

down to rest, and next .morning seem.

ed none the worse for her trip.



And now the reason for my story.

Search of the road revealed no cow

tracks, but back of” the barn they

came upon them and followed her

track; followed it till they came to

the creek, at that place deep, and

some four or five rods wide. That

she swam the creek was plain, and

somehow across unknown fields,





through or around the village, andA





back to the other farm, she found her

way. Evidently when she started she





‘ took a “bee line,” diagonally; wheth‘





er she kept to. this, or eventually,

when reaching the road, she followed

it, we cannot know,



Never a cow that bothered fences,

she must have found many in her path

that night; six miles through all that

storm and bitter cold. '



I have no explanation of howshe

did it, or why; .or why she chose the

night of the blizzard, and an across-

lots route.





Did she think the storm and dark‘ ,

her movementsf





ness would hide

True, her calf was there, but as the

calf was more than six months old,

that could .hardly account for her de—





sire to go back. Had she made the-





trip by -way of the road, over which

she had twice passed, it might not

have been worthy of mention, but go—

ing as she must have gone, as indi-

cated by her tracks for the first half

mile, it would seem she had a definite

sense of direction, and she knew that

“a straight line is the shortest dis-

tance between two points."—Mrs. AL

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. week. Aid'it is a real one. I

do not know that I envy him for

having it. Why do some folks enjoy

‘ adventures, and’others not? ,Why is

.the religiousexperience of one man

punctuated by events worth relating,

-while another man never has anything

happen in his church life? Is it that

the one man invites experienceswhile

the other does not? Is it that the one

‘man goes where the. adventures are,

while the other keeps clear of them?

Last summer I was in the mountains

of Glacier National Park.

fun, now and again, mountain climb-

ing, fishing, hiking over glaciers,

tramping through the forests. (Think

of going for miles through timber that

no axe has touched and none will

touch! It’s almost too good to be





true. Give the

3 government 'cred—

1 it for that). But

there were folk





staying at a hotel

hard by who had

never seen a gla-

cier, had never

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blistered feet. They

routine of coffee, corn flakes and pan

cakes for breakfast, just as they do





at home. Lolled about during the

day, danced at night to unspeakable

jazz. Never got any smoke in their

eyes from a camp fire, nor any sand

in their store teeth from fish fried out

0’ doors. If things went rather slowly,

they had themselves to blame. If they

went home and reported GlaCier Park

a. dull place,‘ it was they who were

dull. ,



Very different was the experience

of a party of women college teachers.

They walked through the park, going

something like an average of twenty

miles a day over rough trails. The

first night they well nigh froze, having

taken the wrong trail, and having to

sleep on the ground on a cold night.

They remembered that. They had

' ‘something to tell when they got back,

‘ and sunburn to prove it.





Is religion slow and stale? Don’t

you believe it. It is you who are slow

. and stale. Some farmers make old

‘plugs out of standard-bred horses, in

six months. They do not know how

to treat them.





“The angels keep their ancient places

Turn but a stone and start a wing.

'Tis ye, ’tis your estranged faces,

That miss the many-splendored

thing,”





says Francis Thompson, and he is

right. We get all the adventure we

deserve, and all the experiences, all

the excitement. If Peter seemed to

have a good deal, it was because he

was in line for it.





He got into jail, and the church

folks began to pray for him. That

seemed foolish, and was not. ’They

did not have any friends among the

politicians, or among the court hang-

ers-on. They had no soldiers at com-

mand, and but little money. Said

they, “Let us pray.” Prayer, at least,

does this much: It makes us think

about those for whom we pray, and

how we may help them, and that in

itself may constitute an answer to, our

prayer. But it does more. When we

can do nothing more, it opens the way



' for God to act. “Stand still and see

the salvation of the Lord.” Bishop

Slattery says, “God dependson pray-

er.” God must have the wills of men





cooperating with His will, if things.





are to come to pass.

An angel stood by Him that night,





‘ ,and told Him to get up. That seems





too good to be true. Peter was fav-



_ Cored above other folks? ‘ Not neces-



jksarily. How-many times do you sup-



pose an. angel has stood by "you, or



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We are always close to Wonders. The

miraculous is' never far away.

thousands of years men had water and

fire, but noone thought of making

steam a slave. ’ . , ‘



Sometimes we have a feeling, a

“hunch,” that we ought to do' this or

that. When we follow that feeling it

leads us somewhere and we are sur-

prised. It may not, because we may

have mistaken the call. But it often‘

does, and we are delighted. That is

the way some of the great saints who

have moved mountains of difficulty,

wrought righteousness, achievd the im-

possible, have done it. They had no

more brains than we have, no more

opportunities, but they made use of

what they had. At the other end of

that feeling you have of some duty,

there may be an angel. In fact, it

may be an angel at this end, urging

you on.





Peter had to get past two gates. The

first one opened of itself. Can you

not hear the clumsy hinges creak, as

it opens? When we cannot do some

great difficulty, God often opens the

way for us. That is where prayer

comes in. But the second gate, or

door, He had to open for Himself. He

knocked and knocked. The divine as-

sistance had led Him that far, and

now seemed to say, “From this point

you can go on.” God likes to have us

use 0711' own powers to the uttermost.





When we have enjoyed some extra-

ordinary deliverance are we better for

it? Was Peter a better man after

this? A man was very ill. He also

had lost most of his money. During

his illness the minister came fre-

quently. The man said, “If I ever get

out of this, and make some more mon-

ey, I will write a handsome check for

my church.” One day, several years

after, he handed his pastor a check

for ten thousand dollars, for the

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SUBJECTz—Peter Delivered

Prison. Acts 12-5 to 17.

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RURAL HEALTH

By Dr. C. H. Lenin





 





 





 





 





 





 





ECZEMA ON HANDS.





 





I have eczema on my hands and

would like you to give me some ad-

vice as to how to get rid of it. Started

about five months ago. I am forty-five

years old—H. S. F. ‘





Eczema at this time of life very of-

ten comes from (a) some external

irritant; (b) something in the diet

of an irritant character. The problem

is to find out what it is and remove

it. Grocers, for example, may get a

sugar eczema fro'm handling of sugar,

8. laundress may get an eczema from

a certain kind of soap. Don’t try med-

icines, but spend your energy in find-

ing and removing the cause.





STIFF NECK.





 





I have had a stiff neck since last

October. Cannot turn my head either

way, or lift my chin up without great

pain in the back of my neck. There

is pain upon pressure at the base of

the skull. Have tried all kinds of

dope, internal and external, but noth-

ing helps—L. C. F.



This ailment, the medical name for

which is Torticollis,‘ is very stubborn

to treatment. It may come from an

injury to head or neck, but sometimes

it simply follows exposure to cold, de-

veloping the “rheumatic type.” If

thereis any probability that it is due

to injury, the first thing. to do is to

get an. X—Ray picture. If not likelyto

be injury, I’ should see what an oste-

opathic physician could do;





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fimptz’ng Sal/ads Pave





ALADS and vitamins—ea fine com-.





bination, the former taste.de1ic-

ious, the latter are essential to

good health. So isn’t it fortunate that

practically all salads contain some of

the subtle food elements, called vita-

mins which everyone needs in their

meals?

Uncooked vegetables and fruits have

a place on the daily menu, for some

of the vitamins are destroyed in cook-

ing. Salads fashioned from raw foods,

or garnished with them, are not only

pleasing to the eye and the palate, but

are promoters of health. The follow-

ing recipes contain ingredients which

are available at this season.





Cheese Salad.





Soak one and one~half tablespoons

of granulated gelatin in one-fourth

.cup of cold water. When softened,

add one-half cup boiling water. Stir

until dissolved and let cool. When

just beginning to get firm, add one-

fourth teaspoon of mustard, half cup

grated cheese, one-fourth cup chopped

pimentoes, half teaspoon of salt. Whip

half cup of cream until stiff, and fold





 





Can All You Can





T’S not a bit too early to think



about canning. Undoubtedly

there are already a few jars of

rhubarb, and some pineapple

guarding the vacant shelves in

your canning cupboard.



But the big part of the can-

ning job is preserving vegeta-

bles. Recently there has been

worked out a new method of

canning that saves much time

in processing both fruits and

vegetables. The steps in this

new method, which is very sim-

ple, are fully explained in our

revised bulletin, “Canning Fruits

and Vegetables in the Home.”

This bulletin also tells how to

avoid certain canning troubles

and gives a complete time table

for processing fruits and vege-

tables.



Get your copy early, and have

it when the first fresh vegeta-

bles are ready to can. Send

five cents to cover cost of mail-

ing, to Desk M, Michigan Farm-

er, Detroit, Michigan.





 





 





 





carefully into the gelatin mixture.



Pour into a mold and chill. When



firm, turn out and slice and serve on



beds of lettuce with mayonnaise dress-



ins. garnished with bits of pimento.

Onion Toast.



Cut green onions into one-half—inch

I'Jieces,~ using the tops as well as the

_ roots. Cook in a little water until

they are tender Do not cover the

saucepan during the cooking. Drain

and add salt, pepper, and butter to

taste. Serve on hot buttered toast

and garnish with chopped hard-boiled

eggs.



‘ Green Aneu.



Use about two pounds of greens.



Cook until tender and then chop fine.





i' LAdd salt, pepper and butter to taste.





prlece two cups of these greens in an

oiled baking dish and cover with a.

onehalf-inch layer of stuffing. Cover

with another two cups of greens, mak-

,m certain that the stuffing is covered

thoroughly Cut four thin slices or





 





bacon in small pieces and spread on



top of the greens. Bake in a moderate



oven from fifteen to twenty minutes.

Stuffing. -



Mix the following ingredients thor-

oughly and use in making green aneu.

One cup of bread crumbs, half cup of

cold ham, cooked and chopped; one

tablespoon butter, one tablespoon on-

ions, (chopped), one teaspoon prepar-

ed horseradish, canned tomato” to

moisten, teaspoon salt, onefourth tea-

spoon pepper.



‘Salmon Salad.



Make a sour lemon jelly with gela-

tin, and mold in a square mold. Turn

out and cut in squares. When thor-

oughly cold and stiff scoop out some





What Women





 





itamin‘s





Road to Better Héa/tfl





of the center with a hot spoon. Fill

the cavities with canned salmon that

has been flaked with salad dressing.

Serve on lettuce leaves and garnish

with slices of pickle. This salad lends

zest to a meal, the tart lemon in the

gelatin bringing out the salmon flavor.

Gold and Black ’Salad.



Chop one pound of cabbage with

two apples from which the cores have

been removed, and mix with four ta-

blespoons of raisins. Mash two banan-

as until smooth ‘and add the pulp to

one—half cup orange juice. Pour over

the salad and serve on lettuce or cab-

bage leaves. Garnish with sections of

orange from which the membrane has

been removed—Mary Richards.





Have Achieved





Four Counties H old Succerdu/ flc/zz'epemmt Day Progrfmr





 





 





 





 





 





These. Kent County Local Leaders, with their Home Agent and Specialists,

Have Spread Gospel of Better Clothing and Better Homes.





HAT over 1,700 rural Michigan



women assembled the last week



in May for Annual Achievement

Days of‘ home demonstration projects,

is strong evidence of the state-wide

interest that is being taken in this

work. Over in Kent county, 500 wom-

en took part in their third annual

Achievement Day program held at the

First Methodist Church, Grand Rapids.





Much time and energy had been

spent in arranging the exhibits to tell

the story of the two main projects of

the year, clothing and home furnish-

ing. One of ,the principal features of

the home furnishing exhibit was the

two contrasting booths illustrated be-

low, one showing good arrangement

according to the principles of color

and design, and the other, poor ar-

rangement. The Kent county women

have studied color and designs, and

the report of Marion Hoffman, home

furnishing specialist of Michigan State

College, showed that many applica-





tions of the principles learned have’





been made in various homes.



The clothing exhibit was equally

interesting. Posters, emphasizing

health as a basis for the well-dressed

family, was the first part of the ex-

hibit to invite attention. Next follow-

ed suitable types of under garments,





points to be considered in choosing a

commercial pattern; fitting problems

as worked out from the muslin model;

designs suitable for types of figures,

and finally the finished garments.



A striking feature of the clothing

exhibit was a review of dresses wOrn

by the women who made them.





In the morning program, Julia. E.

Brekke, assistant state leader, stressed

effective leadership as a basis for the

progress in all lines of endeavor,

whether it be home-making, commu-

nity work or the directing of a nation.





At twelve o’clock the delegation pro-

ceeded to the banquet room~ where

the women of the- church did honors

to the occasion. K. K. Vining, county

agricultural agent, toastmaster, intro-

duced Mr. Elvis Swarthout, mayor of

Grand Rapids, who welcomed the rural

women to the city. Mrs. Edith Wagar,

of Monroe county, talked on commu-

nity organization. .



The main feature of the afternoon

program was the story of “The Home

Beautiful,”. as told 'by O. I. Gregg,

landscape architecture specialist of

Michigan State College. Reports of

work accomplished Were given by Ag-

nes Sorenson, home demonstration





agent, and Marion Hoff-man, home fur? "





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 





nishing specialist From these reports

it was shown that Kent county has





had seventy lecal leaders representing .





thirty-six local groups, with 478 local

group members enrolled.



“I never made a dress that really

fitted until I joined one of the cloth-

ing groups,” said one woman. ..



“Rearrangement of furnishings and

the making of lamp, shades has been

my accomplishment,”. said" Mrs- BL,

Houseman, of the. Ada group.





Barry County Active.



True to form, Barry county celebrat-

ed its second annual Achievement

Day at the M. E. Church at Hastings.

with 400 people in» attendance and an

effervescence of enthusiasm.



County Chairman, Mrs. Nellie

Brumm, of Nashville, called a short

business session in the morning, after

which the women enjoyed a dinner

served by the; women of. the church.



The program began in earnest at

1:30 p. 'm., with Mrs. Cheeseman pre

siding. Mr. Perry Burton, mayor of

Hastings, welcomed the delegation,

and Mrs. Brumm responded. Mr. B.

J. Baldwin, director of extension,

spoke on the diversified industries of

Michigan and the many problems

which were encountered by the col.

lege in trying to‘ serve the many pea»

ple who are engaged in these indus

tries. Miss Ruth Guenther, clothing

specialist from M. S. 0., gave the re-

port of the past year’s accomplish

ments





A special feature on the program. '





was a local talent play, “Dame Fash-



ion,” which reviewed the fashions

from the past hundred‘ years.

Ottawa Achieves Also.



When Ottawa county held its sec-



ond annual achievement day at Grand



Haven at the armory the last week in





May, 400 women and'a sprinkling of





men attended. Mrs. C. Lillie, of Coop-

ersville, county chairman, presided,

and, after a rousing community sing

led by Julia E. Brekke, of Michigan

State College, Mrs. Ruth Moreley gave

the reporter work accomplished. Mrs.



(Continued on opposite page).





KITCHEN «KlNKS.





 





TOY potato masher is the quick—



est and easiest way to mix lard

and flour for pie crust, that I have

ever found. '



Very small pieces of orange rind,

added When making whole wheat or

graham bread, make a very" delicious

change in flavor.



To remove discoloration from a.

glass vase, let slices of lemon and

rinds stand in the vase of water.—

Mrs. A. S.





 





 





 





IN our new Summer Fashion Maga-

zine there is a three-page article





, called the Beauty Shoppe, containing “





very good advice regarding the care

of the complexion, the hands, etc

Of ecurse, the book1 also Shows all





the styles being worn- by the smartly

" dressed women of- hi





 





1





'York. It’s a
...: {at ,4 cor-"FEE CAKE .WITH FRUIT.

’ ’ ' I would like a recipe for coffee cake

* ~ that contains spices, raisins, and our-

s? “ rants. —-Mrs. G. Y.





r ‘ I ’ With this recipe most any fruits can.





7‘1““? A V be added. Candied pineapple or cher-

* »‘ ries are good. To make it use:

- % cup shortening 1 cup raisins

'1 cup sugar I » 1 cup cur-rants

1 cup molasseqC It tsp. salt

1 cup strong ee 2 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. cloves





 





Cream shortening, add sugar and

the liquid. Measure flour after brown-

ing, and sift with dry ingredients, and

add to the first mixture. Add fruit

that has” been dredged in flour, and

bake in a moderate oven for one hour.





 





- . TO KEEP WHITE HOSE WHITE.





 





I would like to know how to wash

white hose so that they will not turn

yellow. —.~Miss V. D.



White silk hose and, in fact, all

white silk, shOuld be washed in luke-

warm water with very little mild soap

and then dried in the dark: It is the

eflect of light and warm air on the

wet silk that makes it turn yellow.

Sometimes the silk can be partially

bleached after it has turned yellow, by

soaking in a quart of cold water to

which a tablespoon of hydrogen per-

oxide has been added.





 





KEEP COLORS FROM RUNNING

AWAY. -





HIS is the time of the year that



so many of us are doing our sum-

mer sewing. It really is a tedious task

and we do so want our clothes to stay

“new” for a long, long time. By

shrinking and setting colors before

actual Sewing begins, one need not be

afraid that their newest dress won’t

be large enough, or that the colors

will run. By using one tablespoon of

powdered alum to each gallon of cold

water for black, or black and white

pink or green, we can be reasonably

sure that the colors are fast.



One-half cupful of strong vinegar to

each gallon of cold water will set

most blue, lavender, purple and helio-

trope. Sun—faded lilac and lavender

can be restored by using one table-

spoon of vinegar to every quart rinse

water. This must be repeated at ev—

ery washing.



Most colors that have been set with

strong salt solution require setting be-

fore each washing—so you see, alum

is quite the best. Four hours is sufl‘i-.

cient setting peri'od for any of the

2* colors mentioned.——Mrs. A. S.





 





NEW USES FOR THE PLATE

SCRAPER.





NE of the best labor-savers I know



of is a plate scraper, a half circle



of rubber with a little wooden handle.

While it’ is. fine for its original use,

that of cleaning off the plates when

, clearing the table, it is also useful to

x: scrape the mixing bowl when making

" cakes or any soft fillings, for cleaning

out lard jars, for getting every bit of

jelly or peanut butter out of the con-

tainers, and many other things of- a‘

Similar nature. These useful little

scrapers can be obtained most any-

-where for ten cents—Mary Richards.





 





 





WHAT WOMEN "HAVE ACHIEVED._





 





(Continued from opposite page).

Moreley’s report showed progress in

2. » ' all projects in clothing and home man-

a‘gement DrOJ'ect work,





,. ‘ groups of girls in 4 H club work, with

' ‘ a total enrollment of over 700 for the





 





last year.

bring about





and _ twelve





' work.





gram, the clothing, home management

and nutrition projects were explained,

the majority of votes being cast for

another year’s work in clothing.



A pot luck dinner was served at

noon. Mr. C. P. Milham, county agri-

cultural agent, and toastmaster for

the occasion, introduced John D. Wil-

lard, director of continued education,

from Michigan State College, as the

main speaker of the afternoon. Mr.

Willard spoke of the many economic

problems confronting the rural peo-

ple. He also stressed what science

was doing to make life more worth

living. “In a few more years typhoid,

diphtheria, tuberculosis and other dis-

eases will be a thing of the past,”

said Mr. Willard. “A greater satis-

faction in life is gained if we appre-

ciate thethings about us. As a foun—

dation for the solving of problems, and

in order to gain an appreciation of the

world about us, continued knowledge

is necessary”. Mr. Willard explained

the reading and correspondence cours-

es offered by Michigan State College.





The local groups at Coopersville

presented a play written by Mrs. Irish,

who is a member of the group. The

play told the story of the home man-

agement and clothing projects.



This was the largest meeting of

rural women ever held in Ottawa coun-

ty. Local leaders, group members,

and visitors went away feeling that

the day had been well spent.



Clothing Popular in Monroe.



More than 450 women, from prac-

tically every township in Monroe coun-

ty, and from neighboring counties, at-





 





HAPPY home is the single



spot of rest which a man

has upon this earth for the cul-

tivation of his noblest sensibili-

ties—F. W. Robertson.





 





 





tended the third annual Achievement

Day of the Monroe county clothing

extension classes.



Mrs. Fred Rehberg, county chair-

man of the extension work, supervis—

ed the meeting. Miss E’dna Gleason,

extension specialist from the Michigan

State College, who has been conduct-

ing the clothing classes, outlined the

purpose of the work. ”Miss Gleason

stated that there were three aims: a

chance to get together; an opportunity

for results, and a chance to check the

results with aims. She reported fifteen

groups and twenty-five local leaders,

with 239 women enrolled; eighty-two

completed costumes were made; sixty-





For 17 years we have culled our flocks for egg production and quality. We know

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These Prices for May Shipment and Later. On Orders of 500 or More, Odds and

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SALE OF MAY CHICKS





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I 000





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Anconas -



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Barred Plymouth Racks. Add THREE CENTS PER CHICK in any quantit'. For a' shi men



of less than 100 chicks add 25c per order to these prices. y ny p ts

Also WhIte Leghorn Pullets, 10 weeks old. in lots of 25 or over. at the low price of 90 centsetwh.

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Postpaid prices 50 100 . 500



S. C. White Leghorns. . . . . . . . $4.25 ’ $ 8.00 $37.50

Barred Plymouth Rocks. . . . 5.25 10.00 47.50

S. C. Rhode Island Reds. . . . . . 5.25 10.00 47.50

Mixed Chicks, all heavies. . . .. 4.75 9.00 42.50

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15 Pure- bred varieties of Boned. Bun. White Rocks. Single

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Heavy mixed. llc. Anconas. 100. Light Mixed 8c. Brown on

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six used color designs; eighty-three

made changes in accessories; and that

1,334 women were reached."



Miss Fern Howard, county nurse

told of a clinic near Temperance

where children of preschool age were

examined and checked for defects,

which their parents were advised to

have corrected before the beginning

of the new school year; also the clinic

advised the vaccination and treatment

with toxin-anti-toxin.



According to Mrs. Louise Campbell,

home economics extension director,

there are four directors and eleven

teachers who have trained 1,500 leads

ers in the state, and these leaders

have taught 21,498 women during the.

‘ ' SOme of their aims are to

community co‘Operation

and to encourage acQuaintanceship,

Mrs. Campbell said



The county’ committee, Miss Edna

Gleason, extension specialist, and R





,W. Kidder, Monroe County agricultury





a1 agent, assisted in organizing thel





 





 

 





 





 





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100

....... $5.00 $19.00 9420

smmd' 0' wrinciimlfizhoinamds """"" ' 0. 00 1.00 52.50

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State 0011000. ' ‘

100 500 1000“

MICHIGAN s. c. White Leghorn: ......... s 9.00 $42.50 9 80.00

ACCRED [TED Anconas .......................... 9. 00 42. 50 80. 00

CHICKS Barred Rocks ................ II. 00 52. 50 100. 00





Mixed Chicks $7 Per 100. i m “at

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SPRING HOUSECLEANING TIME IN

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ABOUT this time the women have



cleaned everything—except their

husbands—who often have to do some

of the cleaning, and after it is all

over, everyone is happy.





Sometimes one may wonder why all

the commotion, etc., and yet, back of

rlt all is a. hygienic principle that can

be applied not only to our homes, but

to the chicken houses as well.



Two of the worst foes, and the ones

that breed very much faster in warm

weather, are the body louse and the

red mite—the latter'is gray before he

is full of blood.



A great deal of confusion still ex'-

ists relative to these two pests, so

they will be discussed separately. The

little mite is a. blood sucker and is

found on the hen only at night. Dur-

ing the day, the mites hide under the

perches, in cracks, crevices, .etc.,

around the poultry house. Sometimes

they become so bad a. little later in

the summer that one.can see a. wrig-

gling red mass and can almost scrape

them off with a hoe. Now is the time

to clean them up before they start to

reproduce so rapidly. They must be





. killed by what is called a. “contact”





spray. A poison would do no good, as

they suck the blood so, during the

day one should spray the roosts. Crude

oil or kerosene is good. A mixture

of kerosene and crank case oil is also

good. Carbolineum is very good, for

it holds its strength for a. long time.

With any of these sprays they should

preferably be both painted on and

sprayed with considerable pressure so

as to get in all cracks and crevices.

Lice are a. different proposition.

They eat or bite the skin and the base

of the feathers,” and live on the birds

all the time. Inasmuch as they are

on the bodies of the birds all the time,





. the spray will not affect them.





Blue ointment is easily applied and

very effective. A piece about the size

of a. pea should be applied beneath

the vent, and rubbed two or three

times so that no large pieces will re-

main on the feathers. Do the same

under each wing.



Sodium fluoride is another very effi-

cient louse killer. It may be applied

as a dust if the one used is in the talc

form, or if one uses the commercial

form the pinch method._App1y a. pinch

held between thumb and forefinger to

the vent, heart, thighs, back, neck and

head. Still another method is to dis-

solve one ounce in a gallon of water

and put the chicken in the solution

fcn' fifteen or twenty seconds. Duck

the head a couple of times. This

amount will treat fifteen to twenty

birds. This method should” be used

on a. warm morning so the chickens

will dry before night. Use. it only on

adult chickens. The wet method may

kill young chicks.



Spraying the roasts will not kill

lice, neither will treating the chickens

kill mites, so treat your birds, if in-

fected with lice, and treat your Coop

if infected with mites, andwatch your

egg production increase—J. P. Hoek-

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when‘it should not.

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inside of the fence. Sharpen these.

wires slightly. The wires will spread

when the hen comes towards the in-

side, and will let her through, but will

not bend when she wants to get out,

as the hole Will not be large encugh

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(Continued from page 743). .

she was over that), and so I want to

get most of the work out of the way \

as early in the spring as I can. “Then

the chicks are about six weeks old, I

put them on to growing mash and a.

size larger of the scratch feed. I sep-

arate the sexes as soon as I can tell

them apart, and I usually have my -

broilers off at twelve weeks. Last '

year I got ninety cents apiece for

some, and some that I held a little

longer I received $1.25 apiece for.

That means that by June all my broil-

ers are gone, all‘I have to look after

is my pullets, and with those on self-

feeders that isn’t so much work.



“A good many times,” Mrs. Ludwig

continued, “I have pullets start to lay

when I’m still feeding growing mash,

but they are well-grown and it doesn’t

hurt them to lay at five or six months.

You see, my pullets lay from August

on, and it is during September, Octo-

ber, November and December, that I_

get my high-priced eggs—fifty cents a.

dozen or more, and when I sell my f

hens now, eggs are cheap and hens

are high. Some of mine brought me

as high as $2.25 apiece for meat. Next

year, though, I eXpect to have another

coop so that I’ll have more room, and

.won’t have to sell my laying hens

until later, but I don’t think it pays to

keep hens-r around the second year, be- '

cause when they lay, they. start up in

January or February and lay when

eggs are the cheapest, and with my

pullets, they lay when eggs are the

highest, and by selecting pullets that

are large, without being coarse, I don’t

have any trouble getting good hatch—

ability. ”





“What about roosters?” I asked:



“Oh, I select my best cockerels ev—

ery other year, and alternate, years I

buy some good eggs and hatch them

myself,” was her reply. "In this way,”

she continued, “I get no diseases in-

troduced in my flock, but oftentimes

it is hard to get eggs from better

flocks than my own.”





"What about movable colony hous-

es?” was my next question, for all of

her chicks were bein'g’brooded in ‘a

long house, and another shed root

house that~couldn’t be moved.



Mrs. Ludwig’s reply was as follows:

“We plow up around the houses every

fall, and disinfect our coops at least

twice a year, have no mites or lice,

chicks have a. great deal, of vitality,

and no diseases, so I don’t have much

to worry about in that respect." Then

she added humorously, “that maynot g

be the way that is being recommend _. ’

ed; but it gets results.” After seeing ‘ ”

her flock of young chicks—one lot 0!

over three hundred in which she“ had

not lost a chick, and only losing abOut

twenty-five out of a thousand, I had .1

to agree with her that she is suCCeed-‘

his, and after all. that is what we are T “

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are none because they can’t see them

.We passed a poultry plant a few

days ago and noticed several of the

. ’ « « young pullets with drooping wings,

. and not being able to see a thing like



' that go ,on/we drove in and informed

_ . the owner that he should get rid of

' . ’4' , - the mites, or he Would ,soon be out of

._ business. His answer was, “yes, we

. ‘have no mites.” Being from Missouri,

1, , . we asked to be shown; we went to

. - .1115 poultryhouse and with a wave of

~ - ’ his hand said find a mite if you can.

The first thing we did was to pry one

. 1 of the reosts loose—there wasn’t a

' . single mite there—~the-y were all mar-

‘ lied and had big families. Every crack

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It will pay every poultry keeper to

pry up the roosts and get rid of these

;pests by pouring boiling water’ on

them. They can be kept, off the

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POULTS DIE ‘IN SHELL





I set twenty- four turkey eggs and

not one hatched, although all had tur-

keys in them. Had same trouble last

year. ‘——.—Mrs. N.



Whenf turkey eggs fail to hatch it

may be due to lack of vigor in breed-

ing stock. The poult may die. in the ‘

shell. at any time during the period

of incubation, or live up to the last

day and not have strength enough to

emerge from the shell. If the mother

turkey is frightened from the nest, or

remains aWay for a long period, it

might cause chilling of the eggs and

death of the poults.



Now that the weather is warmer

and the eggs are placed under both

chickens and «turkey hens, the results

in hatching maybe better. If the

poults still die in the shell in spite of

the best of care.during incubation, it'

may be best to obtain a different tom

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Capital . Punishment





Pro and C072 View: by “M. C’:





HAVE a friend who has visited



[flactically every famous prison



abroad and in the United States.

He has made a close study of prisons

and prisoners. He has talked with

many prisoners just before they were

led to the gallows or to the electric

chair. And he says that he honestly

believes that capital punishment will

be necessary before crime will be re-

duced.



One man, whom he interviewed, had

been captured for a serious crime

through finger prints. When asked if

he had learned his lesson, he prompt

1y replied, “Yes, I’ll wear gloves next





 





 





 





against capital punishment, but to kill

a man so you won’t have to feed him,

won’t and can’t go. I’m neither talk-

ing for it or against it, but against

killing to save money.—Fiddle.





 





Harold, I believe you suggested a

very good subject, although I cannot

agree with you on the question of cap-





ital punishment. First, the Bible says,





“Thou shalt not kill.” Second, the





laws of our state, unless amended,





prohibit hanging. Third, if the pres-

ent laws were enforced, there would

be fewer crimes committed today.



No human being should be asked to





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V. 0. Braun and the Smith-Hughes High School Team from Owosso' that

Won the French Trophy.





time.” The next day after he was

placed in jail, he was making plans

for what he would do when he escap-

ed. Now, don’t you think in some

cases capital punishment would be

right? Would like to hear other cous-

‘ ins’ ideas, too.~Sweet Sixteen.





 





I’ve concluded that those convicted

of first degree murder ought to re-

ceive capital punishment. It might

seem all murders should be treated

the same, but it must be remembered

that some kill in defense of them—

selves or others, and for other rea-

. sons. But, what is the reason of con—

fining a first degree murderer to a

cell for life? If it is to punish him or

to try to reform him, I do not believe

life imprisonment does either. I think

it can be shown that prison breaks

are usually made by “liters” and since

they acknowledge their own lives are

worth little, they usually think the

same of anyone else’s.



From the Bible we learn that when

one person intentionally killed anoth-

er,:the people usually stoned that per-

son. Reciting the verse: “He that

smitheth man that he die shall surely

be put to death.” Makes it seem that

‘byiinstituting capital punishment, we

w0uld not be transgressing God’s Will.

—Michigan Boy.





 





letter Harold Snyder

punishment and I

don’t agree with him. If we have cap-

ital punishment, they haven’t any

chance to repent. Oh, you may say

they deserve it, but let’s give them

~ another chance and try 'to save them

. if we can. ‘ Harold, please think this





I. saw the

Wrote on capital





‘ ‘~ over—Blue Eyes.





 





,Idon’t know if we should have cap-

' ital punishment or not, but I certainly





think that Harold Snyder would be





’ ashamed of that argument he present»

' ’ The idea of killing a criminal so

, .won’t have to feed him. Harold,

they are human beings, not dogs.

“There are many points both for and





assume the responsibility of holding

in the palm of his hand the life of an-

other. Illinois has capital punishment

but yet Loeb and Leopold escaped the

gallows by being sons of millionaires,

while a poor boy goes to the gallows.



You speak of the expense to feed

and keep these prisoners who are

serving life terms. Why not havelabor

for those who are capable of working?

Let them work for their food, shelter,

and clothing, and see that they devel—

op their minds for right 1iving.—~

Peggy.





 





As I read over the letters written

by the G. C.’s, my eyes filled with hor-

ror as they fell on “Criminal Wave,”

but realized as I read on. I have just

this much to say: It is all well and

true that one man may take the life

of others, but why not let him suffer

the wrath of God than to be hung,

and two men be held as slayers. May-

be he didn’t kill, but they would: take

his life just the same. Perhaps later

this same man may be proven inno-

cent, but if his life has been taken,

one can’t replace it.——Mac.





 





' I used to be a. Merry Circler, but

lost track of my cousins when our

paper ran out. Now we get it again.



I really was astounded at all the

“wisdom” and deep thinking the let-

ters of the circlers displayed. Natur-

ally, after absorbing such weighty





'ideas, I am bubbling over with opin-





ions of my own. Wait a moment while

I step over beside Harold Snyder to

help him defend the affirmative in the

debate. Most emphatically, confessed

murderers should receive capital pun-

ishment. Clear, logical arguments are

set forth by famous politicians and by

the Bible.



Statistics show that the criminal





sentenced to life imprisonment serves ,





only about fifteen years of his sen-

tence.

routine of crime again. Thus, after





merciless murderer,_ set free to





enough to try to win contests





Then he is free to' begin histr





fifteen years, we have a hardenedAt night when





 





slaughter more innocent" victims." If

capital punishment was enforced, no





one w0uld have to fear the day. of his--





early release.





God has said that if anyone takes.





the life of another, they must give





'their life in restitution. ’If Divine Jus-





tice requires it, Why does our senate

quarrel over such trifling things, as

form, ‘amendments and the like?

a preventative of crime—murder—and





as the punishment of confessed mur-.





ders, we Should have capital punish-

ment in the state of Michigan—Irish.





THE BATH DISASTER.





 





Many children were gathered together,

And were under their teacher’ s care,

When the schoolhouse at Bath ex-





As.





ploded





This awful disaster occhrred, -

About the tenth hour in the mom-





. n8

Many- were snatched out into eternity,





Without one minute’ s warning.





They say Kehoe didn’t like it, -

When the school at first Was built,





'And various other reasons,





,Account for the people he killed.





We cannot guess the sorrow,

We cannot guess the pain,



That is in the hearts of the people,

To whom, so few children remain.





God help our men and boys,

To be not like Kehoe,

But to return good for evil,

To even their fiercest foe.

» ——Leona Hoffer.





 





@DUR LETTER Box





 





 





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



My first words for you will be a

thousand thanks for the Merry Circle

card and pin. I have been a silent

reader of Our Page for several

months. I have enjoyed it as much as

I think the other members have. Judg-

ing by my “nom de plume” I think

you will know Who I am. With love

to all, “Little French Girl.”





I cannot guess who you are, but I,





am glad just the same that you have

enjoyed Our Page. Why not make

yourself known by using your real

name?





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



Eta Weaver may be right in regard

to a girl’s right to smoke and drink,

but it is the general opinion of lots of

folks that girls should be the sweet,

motherly kind, that can think of much

better things to do. For myself, I





think that if girls smoke and drink





while young, they will do it after they

are married. Then think of the influ-

ence on the innocent children and their

bringing up. Thank goodness, I was

never under a smoke and drink influ-

ence. My two brothers do not smoke

or drink, and' they said that if they

ever caught me with a cigarette in my

mouth they would do something disas-

trous. I don’t think they need to fear.



I must add a few words of praise

regarding my brother Guilford. Be-

sides being so popular that letters roll

in every day, he is the sweetest and

nicest brother that a girl could wish

for. He does tease me dreadfully

sometimes, but when he is sweet and

loving I can forget that. He said that

mother was the most beautiful thing

in the world. She is to me, too, and

jwe appreciate it while she is still liv-

ng





There is one thing we haven’t dis- >





cussed yet, Uncle Frank, and that is

the church. Although phrases have

been quoted from the Bible, no real

discussion has been made This might

not be popular among some of the

cousins because some people like to

forget such things, but because of my

late Christian experiences I would find

it a most interesting thing to talk

about. Let’s change for a while from

the harsh things like liquor, to some-

thirtrg sweet like this. It would be a

res



I am putting in my small contribu-

tion towards the radio. Regards to

all —Florence Rothfuss. ‘





Your smoking sentiments are 0. K.

We are glad to hear from you that

Guilford is as good as he seems. He

may. even get more letters now. I

think your suggestion to discuss some-

thing constructive and wholesome is a

good one.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I received the card and batten and

sure was glad to get it. Many thanks

for it. I tried four contests and I

never got anything from them, 80 I

told my mother that I wasn’t old



was





 





going to give up, but my mother to;

me, “if at first you don’t sueoee try





again "

“When I got the pinflg'c





 





or he asked— melfihbza "

card were _; .4 , ,





 





a];





were worth fifty dollars to me. ——'Maf'y

Girard, Masonville, Mich.





It is good that you found it pays to .

keep on trying. The efforts you put

forth added value to. your pin and

card. Endeavor, I think, adds value

to what one has or gets, so keep on

trying.





 





Dear Uncle Frank.



I certainly was surprised to find in

our box, a fountain pen. A prize I

have alWays wished to win. I have

taken part in several contests, but it

seemed as though my work was in

vain. Considering the small expense,





 





 





 





How Paul Schoenhals Pictures YOur

. -“Hon9rable Uncle.”





I “worked to Win,” and now I have

succeeded.

Thanking you very much for the





 

     





Killing forty assembled their; *





 





greatly appreciated gift, I remain,,





Chester Lattin.



Another instance showing that it

pays to work ,to win. Repeated efforts

are sure to bring results. < ~ -





 





Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins‘ - ~



I received my pin a few days ago,

and wantto

Was surprised; beca, ,s I

ten that I had .. t

comes





, Wei-1;..I ' '





 





tothank. you for it new. I ,

had ”i '
*cousgns? 0:; we send dr .ngs,‘in,

even if there’laren’t contests for them,

and would f you print them if, they are

good enou‘ b? You don’t have very

many drawing contests, do you? And

could we send our pictures and have.

‘ on print ,them? You see, Uncle

rank, what you get yourself into

when you let me join the M. C.'s. ~

If there isn’t any snow or hills

around your home, you could slide

down these lines, couldn’t you?-—Your

loving cousin and niece, Cuddles.





Yes, I believe that the G. C.’s de-





 





- serve the honor they have received.





You can send drawings and pictures

in af'any‘ time, but I' ban’t promise to

use them. ,I. still'have a large number

cf pictures from our Photo Contest

which have not been used.





 





Dear. Uncle Frank: I .



I am going to suggest a topic for

discussion. Should girls help With the

work in the fields?- I supposd the

boys will all second the motion that

they should. Anyway, let’s get some

opinions. '



I have lived both in town and .on

the farm, but I can’t say that I like

one better than the other. They both

have their advantages. Love to Uncle

Frank and the cousins—A Farm Lass.



You suggest a subject which might

be debated. But really, I don’t see

any reason why anybody should not

do any kind of work, as long as he is

physically and mentally able to do it.

It is not .wise to do work which harms





one.





 





Dear Uncle and Merry Circlers:



Will" you let a new M. C. in the

great family? I received my certifi-

cateand button last spring, but. have

been too bashful to write. Uncle, I

thank you ever so much for it, and

can you ever forgive me for not writ-

ing before?



Say, cousins, what’s your hobby?

Mine is reading, I guess. I like to

take a book and sit down in a quet

spot and read. The stories in the

Michigan Farmer, I think, are dandy.

“The Michigan Mystery” and “The

Kingdom of St. James" were the best

for a long time. “The Piano Leg Com-

plex" was good, too. Another thing I

like to do is study birds and nature.

I think birds are the most interesting,

though. .



How many, I wonder, have scrap

books of poems? I am saying all I

can get that are good. I have quite

a large book of them. Your friend and

niece, Jen. ‘





When you-get your button and card

you become a member of the family.

Why should you ‘be, bashful about

writing? Sure, I will forgive you.

Your hobby is a good one. Glad you

like our stories.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



You should have seen the eyes I

made when I saw I was One of the

lucky winners of the beautiful foun-

tain pens. It sure comes in handy,

and many thanks for it.



I agree with “Topsy” on speaking

of the country and city life. But ’I

don’t agree with “Hank,” that Guilford

Rothfuss is the only one that ever

writes who‘knows anything, as I think

they all are interesting letters—Your

niece, Dorothy Rasner.



I am glad the prize was so good

that it caused you to make eyes. Yes,

others also write interesting letters,

and I believe quite a few M. C.’s know

“something." '





Dear Uncle Frank:





Seeing as I have not written you

for quite a while you will have to

blame our team. My father and I





were working for the county. We -





were patching after a large lot of

snow hadmelted and washed out the

road. Father was filling one while I

went and fixed another. I got mine

filled. I took‘hold of the reins and

started to climb up on the wagon, and

I slipped and fell behind one horse.

She kicked me‘in the face and knock—

ed me out. Then they started to run

away, dragging me along the gravel

road. My skull was stripped of most

of the skin. I spent two weeks in the

hospital. Lam getting along fine now.

——-Alvm Van 'Luven, Sault Ste. Marie.





You certainly had some serious ac-





covered by this time.





 





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’cidént. 1. hope that you have fully" re- ‘





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an »»M'.::. C. vsry long and I





   





I bet you block sweet. me your’cou-

sin, Beatrice Severens. ; -- .

‘ You are right, it is not fair to have

other help in a contest. 'One may win

a prize in doing so, but the real prize

is the practice and increased ability

one gets from working a contest. I

might'look sweet if I were covered

with sugar, but ordinarily I look con-

siderably like a human being. Some

day I may surprise you with a picture.





JUMBLED WORD WINNERS.





 





. handy clutch pencils;





THERE was a real response to this

contest, and most of the contest-

ants had their answers right. The

chief errors were in the use of the

letter s. It was either left out or added





 





W01" pm"





Must be a Girl Evangelist.





when not necessary. The winners

were selected by mixing all the cor-

rect papers. and pulling out ten. The

lucky ten are as follows:





Fountain Pens.

James E. Curtis, R. 4, Box 141, St.

Clair, Mich.

Rozetta Ryan, R. 2, Kent City, Mich.

Clutch Pencils.

Gertrude Lummen, R. 6, Box 30,

Fremont, Mich.

John A. Miles, R. 1, Pellston, Mich.

Anna Vanden Heuvel, R. 1, Zeeland,

Lead Pencils.

Louise Burnham, Amadore, Mich.

Hazel Kime, R. 1, Sherwood, Mich.

Lillian Jensan, R. 3, Box 58, Fenn-

ville, Mich.

Fern E. Robison, R. 3, Big Rapids.





-" desks; seats, :33 we chalk, ’bookéf





in ‘-‘Our~"_tage?"r-I have: bench, pictures, waste basket, paper,‘





pencils, dinner pails, cups, soap, wash





"would like. to see what :you look like." basin, ink wells, pupils, teacher, clock.





' library, black board.





WORK CONTEST.





 





FEW years ago we had a Work



contest from which we got some

very interesting letters or essays. I

would like to read some more such

letters on “The Work I Like, and

Why.”



‘We will give the usual ten prizes in

this contest. The first .two prizes will

be‘fountain pens; the next three

and the next

five, handy pocket knives._



The contest closes June 17. Please

don’t forget your name on the upper

left-hand corner of your paper, and

M. C. after your name if you are a

Merry Circler. Do not make your es-

says more than 250 words in length.

Send them to Uncle Frank, Michigan

Farmer, Detroit, Michigan. All who

send good papers will get M. C. but-

tons and cards, if not now members.





THE M. C. FUND.





 





HE money for the M. C. Fund,



from which we will buy a radio

for the Children’s Hospital of Michi-

gan’in Detroit, at which crippled chil-

dren from all parts of the state are

treated, is growing slowly but surely.

It takes a lot of nickels and dimes to

make a few dollars. So please keep

them coming.



At present we have $50.33 in the

fund. About $24 of that was left over

from the other fund. We will need

about $100. Don't forget to put a

nickel or dime in the envelopes when

you write.



Below is a list of recent contrib-

utors:



Roberta Brace, Doreen Hier, Jame-

lia Abraham, Daredevil Jack, Agnes

Arthur, Ruth Kramer, Olga Trump,

Phyllis Abey, Clyde Bowman, Gladys

Maine, Virdie Baer, Leon Dusa, John

Strange, Martin Grayvold, R. H. .,

Reuben Johnson, Win. H. Klea, Ray-

mond Spitzer, Lucile Spitzer, Phyllis

Mills, Kathryn Morgan, Thelma Nor-

een, Lillian Jensen, Leona Ayers, Ger-

trude Morris, Walter Flaga, Audrey

Lewis, Martha Werner, Eva Renard,

'Frances Schnipke, Alice Bellegraph,

Marion Christiansen, Junior Christian-

sen, Evelyn Smith, Mildred Coffman.





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BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY





Chance Copy or Cancellations must reach us

Twelve Davs before date of publication.





F CATTLE

F O R S A L E Registered Guernsey mm,





heifer and bull calves. Also

bull ready for light service. EXCel entz breeding. T.

B. teem G. WI GENT. Watervliet. Mich.

FOR practically pure—bred GUERNSEY or HOL-

STEIN calves. from heavy. rich milken,

write EDGEWOOD DAIRY FARMS, Whitewater. WII.





 





 





 





Dairy Heifer on el. and»

Guernsey pure bred $25.00 gun. "We chip





C. 0. D. Write L. Terwilliger. Wauwatose, Wis.





 





Special term-Ind

Dricee on A. B.

M. WILLIAMS. No. Adam. Mich.





Guernsey Bull For Service





0. Stock. 1.

Registered Guernsey bull calf,





F0 R SA L E May Rese breeding. WAL-





'NUT HILL FARM, Milford, Mich.





 





 





for sale. 2 young roaster-ed

Guernseys cows. good breeding. Fresh this

fall. ALBERT BIELBY, Lake City, Mich.





 





ECHO SYLVIA KING MODEL,

266177





A son 0! Echo Sylvia, King Model will in-



crease production in your herd.



84 daughters of this great young sire have

R. 0. records 7 from 30 to 33 67 lbs.



and 22 oitliegs aboxe 25 lbs.



6 was on 1111; sire of Honor i -

tors 1925-1920". LSt Daugh

”His sons are widely distributed throughout

the country and are developing into excel-

lent sires of quality and production.



We are still offering his sons from heavy

producing dams at reasonable prices.

Send for pedigrees.





"THE MICHIGAN STATE HERDQ."

Bureau of





Animal Industry

Dept. C

Lansing, Michigan





 





 





 





 





 





SERVICEABLE AGE





REGISTERED HOLSTEIN



Bull Calveo at prices the owner of.

email herd can efiord to pay. The

tire of many of these calves is a Son

of the highest record (30 lb.) two-

yelr- -old daughter of Creator. Hie

sire is King Segie Alcartra Prilly on

undefeated Show bull with 70 A. R.

daughters. Others sired by e 5 time.

1200111. Champion Bull, the famou-

K. P. O. P. breeding.



Bred cows and heifer. Ierved by

thee: eiree are available for founda-

tion stock.





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Northville, lgMichigIm





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VER since he organized the Farm-

E ers’ & Merchants’ State Bank of



Carson City, Mr. E. B. Stebbins,

one of the leading bankers of Mont-

calm county, has followed the plan of

doing all he could in the interests of

the town and the surrounding country.

Realizing that the prosperity of the

farmers in any agricultural section is

the basis of prosperity for all conneCt-

ed with such a section, he has lent

his best efforts in the promotion of

several enterprises that have been a





This Banker Helps Farmers; '

Organize: Cooperative Creamery 22722? T lze72 Aid: Fewer: ‘





272 Securing Good 0010: ‘7 . _»

By M. E. George ' w





PASTURE NOT NEEDED.





 





NE of the argunmnts often advanc~

ed for keeping‘the milking herd

on pasture'is to the. effect that cows

fed dry feed only, and kept confined,





will not impart those properties to .





their milk which are necessary in the

nutrition of the baby and the adult.

This has always been a serious ques-

tion among producers of certified and

other fine brands of milk, who, be—

cause of the managerial problems in-





 





 





 





 





great boon to his section of the state.



Largely through the efforts‘of Mr.

Stebbins, the Dairyland Cooperative

Creamery was organized and began to

make butter about eighteen months

ago. Today it is making better than

a ton of butter daily. Knowing that

the better the grade of cows kept, the

greater will be the success of such an

enterprise, Mr. Stebbins financed the

purchasing and shipping of a carload

of thirty high-grade two-year—old

Guernsey heifers, due to calve during

the summer and fall, and sold them at

actual cost on May 20 to the patrons

of the creamery.





In this effort he was ably aided by

Mr. Burrington, the state representa-

tive of the Guernsey Breeders’ Asso

ciation, who, after spending several

days trying to locate a carload of

cows and heifers in Michigan without

success, went to Wisconsin where he

succeeded in locating some very fine,

high-grade heifers which were purchas-

ed and shipped to Carson City. They

were kept on display for about two

weeks before being sold, during which

time they got rested up from the trip,

and were put in fair condition.





On the afternoon of May 20, after

talks on the dairy business by Mr.

Burrington and others, the heifers

were sold as stated above, at actual





‘ cost, the sale being managed by Mr.





Burrington. The plan of selling being

rather an unique one, being of a. card

drawing plan. The heifers had all

been tagged as to cost of each, and

the ’person drawing the lucky card ’had

his choice of the thirty heifers at the

price stated on the heifer’s card. The

heifers were all purchased by patrons

of the Dairyland Creamery, living

from one to thirty miles from Carson

City. These new owners expect to





on make the heifers so purchased, the





basis of their future hard;



It is not "probable that the good

work so begun will stop at this stage,

as Mr. Stebbins Will undoubtedly pur-

chase more of these fine heifers at a





later date for distribution. There also.

has been considerable interest: manl- .1 ,

tested in the idea of formin’ ‘se

bull associations by not ‘





 





1- Dairylend Coupe





 





 





These Guernsey Heifers were Recently Purchased and Brought Into the Car-

son City District to Aid the Farmers in Building up Better. Herds.





volved, cannot often utilize pastures

for summer grazing.



Experiments carried on by the Uni-

versity of Wisconsin, show that cows

which have been confined for seven

years, still produce a milk which con-





tains sufficient anti-scurvy properties





to protect the'consumers. The uni-

versity is of the opinion that cows are

independent of the scurvy vitamin in

the ration—W. A. Freehoff.





COWS DOUBLE MICHIGAN AVER-

AGE.





 





HE Ionia-Belding Cow Testing As; .





sociation has completed three

years of testing activities. The cow

tester, Jens Hansen, who has served

this association for the greater share

of the three years, reports that the

389 0011175 averaged 8,991 pounds of

milk and 351 pounds of butter-fat.

The feature of this year’s testing is

the remarkable production record es-

tablished by the pure-bred Holstein

herd owned by the Michigan Reform-

atory. The cows ‘01? this herd aver-

aged 15,023 pounds of milk and 501.4

pounds of butter-fat.





During 1926 all members fed grain

with pasture except two. The tester

reports that the grain rations were

balanced during the year according to

the roughages on hand and the pro-

duction of the cows.





All members except two have silos.

Six of the members have drinking

cups, and three members made their

first seedlngs of alfalfa this year. Ev-





ery member either owns or uses a





pure-bred sire. During the testing

year fifty-four cows were sold as unde-

sirable and unprofitable coWs. There

were fifty-one cows sold forbreeding

purposes. Sixteen new pore-bred cows

were purchased by the' members, t0-

gether with thirty-seven other grade

cows.



Twenty out of the twenty-nine herds

averaged over 300 pounds of butter-

fat.

amount for three years.





 





They are as





Nine herdo averaged over this "





 

 

 

 

 





 





 





«
é '

‘I'a'nd ~Henry Welsh.





,more .of butter-fat:





- Bros,





 





 





- Detroit, Daily Press;





 





'Merican Meat Packers,

‘ 'a reed that





ohn McKexiiiry, Charles Higbee,

{During the year

just ended the members whOse' herds

averaged this amount for the first

time are: Wm. L. Cook, Clarence

Cobb, G. A. Sprague,‘ L. G. Longfleld,

Snyder & Leach, Milo Peterson, and

Eugene Snell.





SEVENTEEN ISABELLA HERDS

AVERAGE 300 POUNDS FAT.





 





HE Isabella-Mt. Pleasant Cow



Testing Association, at the end of

the first year, reports that the follow-

ing herds averaged 300 pounds or

Bert Bozer, Joe

Gruss,.McNamara Bros, Ona Beltinck,

R. V. Hoyle, Emery Bros., Johnson

Ned, Rountree, Paul Mosshold-

er, Lewis Coon, S. C. Forney, P. C.





'Hills, W. C. Getchell, Ottis Tripp, Alva





Smith, Preston Johnson, and C. W.





.Hunter & Son.





A GOOD HERD.





 





E have before us the records of



the cows in the Hinchey Broth‘

ers' herd of Holsteins. During the

past year these cows milked on an

average of a little better than ten

months. The total milk production

was 93,515 pounds, or an average of

9,351 pounds for each cow. The heav-

iest producer made a total of 13,357

pounds within the year, while the

lightest gave 7,447 pounds, .or twice

the amount the average cow in Mich-

igan yields. One of these ten cows

was a two-year-old. We want to con-

gratulate Hinchey Brothers, who live

in Livingston county, for building up

this good herd. Michigan would be

richer in more ways than we can

think, if her farmers possessed such

cows generally.





LIVE STOCK LOSS PREVENTION

ASSOCIATION MEETS.





 





HE Michigan Live Stock Loss

Prevention Association is still in



. its infancy. The first annual meet-

ing was held at Detroit on May 25-26.





Over seventy—five delegates and in-

terested visitors, representing twelve

agricultural organizations of the state,

were present at the first annual meet-

ing to discuss and hear the accom-

plishments of the association and to

plan for greater activity in preventing

live stock losses and waste.





President J. H. O’Mealey, of Hud-

son, presided at the annual banquet

and business meeting. The following

directors were elected or .re-elected:

J. H. O’Mealey, of Hudson, represent-

ing the Michigan Live Stock Exchange;

R. M. Granger, of Charlotte, Live Stock

Producers; W. H. Hill, of Buffalo,

Stock Yards Companies; L. Whitney

Watkins, of Manchester, Detroit Pack-

ers; J. C._Napp. of Toledo, Railroads;

H. W. Norton, Jr., of Lansing, State

Depaitment of Agriculture, C. L

Brody, of Lansing, Michigan Farm Bu-

reau; George Roxbury, of Reed City,

State Grange; Burt Wermuth, of De-

troit, Farm Press; Fred Henshaw, of

and O. B. Price,

of Detroit, director at large.





It was disclosed in the course of





,the meeting that during the past year





8,500 educational charts, hot weathe1

posters, and bulletins on handling of

live stock, and “A Guide for the hop-

er Loading and Shipping of Live

Stock}? were distributed to county ag-





‘ricultui‘al agents, live stock shipping

~ managers, freight agents, schools and





farm bureau agents in an attempt to

show how to avoid some of the enor<

m'ous losses that now exist.



On Thursday morning, the itinerary

included trips to the Eastern Market,





9 the Detroit Stock Yards, the Detroit

. Packing

. Street Produce Market.





Company, and the Twelfth





At neon a luncheon was held at

which I. R. Waterbury, of the Michi-

gan .,Farmer presided as toastmaster.



The how and why of live stock loss

prevention was the general topic for

discussion. Prof. G. A. Brown, of the





Michigan State College, G. F. Wheel-_

er, of the Michigan Central Railroad,





and A. R. Davison, of the Institute of

heartily

loss prevention was a

srictly cooperative proposition. The

tumor. who selects his type of stock



,1: reed-s it, the buyer, the man who



“ ' ad that hauls





   





9.111%)?“ __a11 .





 





‘owned by Will Kline, has resulted in





siege, left6 the message t at w





té‘C

anyone who helps prevent waste is





just as big a factor in our economic





produCtion as the man who produces.

tThis applies to all phases of agricul-

ure



Dr Embree, of the western Weigh-

ing and Inspection Bureau of Chicago,

concluded the program with a few re-

marks on what has been accomplished

in livestock loss prevention in the

west. He showed that the losses were

growing less, but sltll amounted to

millions each year and left the ques-

tion open as to—who pays?





GU ERNSEYS SELL HIGH.





 





NTHUSIASM; spirited bidding, and

good prices. characterized the

Third Annual Consignment Sale

of the Michigan Guernsey Breeders’

Association, held at East Lansing,

Michigan, on May 26, when a new high

average, and record prices for both

males and females were established.

Fifty-five head, including forty- eight

females and seven males,

total of $19 015, an average of $345. 72

per head. The forty -eight females av-

eraged $363.86 and the seven males

averaged $221.43. Among the females

were thirteen cows, sixteen bred heif-

ers and eighteen open heifers. Only

two of the seven bulls were of service-

able age.





Lambert’s Daisy Babe 210478, a

beautifully turned fourteen-months-old

heifer, moved to be the sensation of

the sale. Starting in at $300 the bids

iapidly increased until the thousand

dollar n1a1k was 1eached. She was

finally struck off to John M. Greissell,

of Flint, for $1,400, establishing a new

high price for a consignment to the

Michigan Guernsey Breeders’ Associa-

tion sales. This heifer is a grand-

daughter of Imp. Itchen May King

25174 A. R. She was bred by C. E.

Lambert & Sons, of Linwood, and was

consigned by John Endicott, Detroit.



Three other females fetched $1,000

or more. Abba of Old Cross Road

Farm 177275, a very typey spring

heifer, went to Noyes Avery, of Grand

Rapids, for $1,050. She was bred by

J. C. Ranney, of DeWitt, and was con-

signed by the Hemmeter Investment

Company, of. Saginaw. Mr. Avery also

took Wil-Holm Estelle 178647, an out-

standing three-year—old heifer for

$1,000. R. A. Holmes, of Grand Rap-

ids, was her breeder and consignor.

Another Endicott consignment, Brook-

wood Winifred 212074, a senior calf

sired by Coventry Rameses 76829 and

out of Beechwood Woodbine 119154 A

R. went to John M. G1 elssell of Flint,

for an even $1, 000.





The top bull of the sale was Brook-

wood Milkman 127333, an excellent

six-months-old son of Coventry Ram-

eses 76829 and Margo of Linwood 113-

520A. R., who went to R. F. Gier, of

Lansing, for $525. This establishes a

new record price to be received at

these sales for a bull. The bull was

bred and consigned by John Endicott.



John M. Greissell, of Flint, a new

breeder, Was the heaviest buyer, tak-

ing ten females for $5,950. Noyes Av-

ery, of Grand Rapids, a new breeder

who figured prominently in the recent

National and Coventry Dunwalke

Sales, was the next heaviest buyer,

taking five head for $3, 600. R. F. Gier,

of Lansing, also a beginner took five

head of good ones for $1, 625.



J. F Beikheimer, of Detroit, made

an initial start with Guernseys by his

pu1chase of thiee head, including a

beautiful cow, Champion Governess

86739 A. R., and two good heifers in

Knolly-nook Ultra Easter Lily 206470

3:51? Sunny Side Cherry Blossom 197-





At no time did the bids d1ag. Bid.

ding was highly spi1ited on the out-

standing offerings, fiequently advanc-

ing by hundreds of dollars.





Of especialinterest is the fact that

every one of the fifty-five 'head cat-

alogued was present .and was sold

through the ring.



The fifty-five head were consigned

by twenty-six different breeders, and

with few possible exceptions were

very well fitted. The type throughout

was very uniform for a consignment

sale.





During the latter part of April of

this year, Dot, the thirty-nine-year-old

horse belonging to S. W. Custer, near

Ionia, died from a fall which resulted

in breaking her neck.





The county agricultural agent in

Manistee county states that the top-

working demonstration in,the orchard





several other orchardists top- working

undesirable varieties of apples over to

some more profitable variety. * .





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fetched a;.





’FOR SALE





 





 





 





 





THE simpleJL design of the De

Laval Milker makes it ex-

tremely easy to wash and to keep

clean. With a brush, some hot

water and a few minutes’ time, the

entire machine can be thoroughly

washed. The few parts requiring

any washing at all are illustrated

above. There are no seams in

which ' can accumulate, or

crevices to harbor and provide

breeding. places .for bacteria.



Hundreds of producers of Grade

A and Certified Milk in every sec-

tion of the country declare the

De Laval Milker an invaluable aid

in the production of clean milk,

and an assurance of regular pre-

mium money.



This is but one of the advantages

to be had with a De Laval for it

soon saves enough time to pay for

itself and will milk your cows better.





 





 





a e n.» tavaimnker is ‘ "

Easy to? Wash ”and Clean





 





 





Facts about the » '

De Laval Milken- “





. 650,090 cows now milked

the De Laval Way.



- De Laval Milkers now in

their eleventh year of use.





03.37% of the users re-

port average saving of 2

hrs., 12 mins. per day.*

97.13% of the users say

it agrees with their cows.*

99.4% of the users say

they get as much or more

milk as by hand milkingfi"





9.49% average increase

in production per cow

reported by those who

have records.*





94.80% of users say their

De Laval is easy to keep

in .a clean and sanitary

condition.*



Average bacteria count of

all reporting, 14,541—

61% report counts of

10,000 and less.*

96-45% of De Laval users

say their milker is “the

best,” “one of the best,"

or a “good” investment.*





 





*Based on reports from 1844

De Laval Milker users in all

parts of the U. S. and Canada.





De Laval Milken





 





 





 





See your De Laval Agent or write nearest office below for full information.





The De Laval Separator Company,





NEW YORK

165 Broadway





CHICAGO

600 Jackson Blvd.





SAN FRANCISCO

61 Beale Street





 





 





 





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Q Tells how to figure actual capacity

‘ \\ of any en51 age cutter—how to



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\ judge exactly what Blizzard

will do at low speed or high.

on small power or large.





figfi Blizzard





[3 Years

Ahead' 1n





Features





 

 

 

 

 





HEREFORD STEERS





CALVES. YRL'S I. TWO'B. .Woll marked. best

type. showing splendid breeding. Dark reds. Most

all bunches dehomed. Good smoker order. Can show

low bunches around 45 to 90 head. Each bunch even

in sise. 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, Eldon,Wapello C0,, Iowa.





The Stanley] . Gardner Herd. Cmswell, Mich





“MILKING SHORTHORNS"





FOR SALE—Burlington Record. a. 6— —mos. -old grand-

son of Darlington 11mins 2d. Mich. 4-yr. -old Milk

and. Butter—fat Champion. She gave over 13.000 lbs.

milk last year. Also other choice bulls up to 10

mos. old sired b1 Tipperary Clyde wt. 1,800 lbs.

at 2 yrs. Write your wants.





 





 





 





 





 





 





Best of quality and breeding. Bulls

Gun Ramon Shorthorns cows and heifers for sale. BIDWELL

STOCK FARM, Box D. Tecumseh. Mich.

_.psm . . .

Reinstered Brown Smss 51m.

on F0 R SALE three‘years old. LAURENCE

, E. KILPATRICK, Ovid, Mich.

Pauli-sis

entirely HOGS V

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Compare specifica- 2:,



tions. features, power ,2, (3311 the Catalog Get

needed ca acity ‘5 the facts about this

secured, qua aXfity of wonderful Cutter.

work.





The JOS. DICK MFG. co., p.91. 53, Canton.0.





FOR SALE 13 Jersey Cows and 4 heifers



bred to fieshen next fall. '1‘. B

tested. Well bred. Good foundation stock. COLON

C. LlLLIE, Coopersville, Mich





 





 





- . ' r 1 .

Chmce Jersey Bulls mfcfiief'fi :3}





from R. of M. dams accredited herd. SMITH l1.

PARKER. Howell. Mloh.





 





Regina‘s?! RJarsign/11311115. 14

mo. 0 am.

MARK B. CUBDY. Howell. Mich. ,





BUTTER BRED "eggs 15’3"“!





OR RYSTAL 8 KING 8T0

Silver Creek. illegals-001mg]: {Quilts}





   





a beauty.





 





 





 





A F W good Hampshire spring boars at a

e bargain. Place your order for bred

cuts. JOHN, W. SNYDER. St. Johns, Mloh.. R. 4.





BRED SOWS

1% AND mus

SERVICE BOARS





Cholera immune, popular blood lines, typy.

LAKEFIELD FARMS, Glarkslon, Mich.





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

Ready for breeding and Service.



All stock shipped on approva. No deposit requimd.



FRED W. KENNEDY. R. o. 1. Chelsea. Mioh.





FOR SALE Registered 0. I. 0. Choice





boars and gilts. Two months

old. OPHOLT BROS., Iceland, Mich. ~-

Big T1 be with quality. Few





CheSter Whites March pigs. either sex. Can





fiuni h group for club wmk 01 show. Prices reason-

able. NEWMAN'S STOCK FARM. Marlette. Mich.





Chester White March Pigs 0" be“ type.





(111 slit and

breeding Express paid F. W. Alexander, Vassar): Mich.





LARGE TYpEP. I}. 1”“ ”Om all 601d Guts bred





boars in the t. t for flail (arrow. bred to two best

5 a 0.1117... 1. Bi Wonder b mOOthe

Wonder and Big Strntton by Re?! yS





some

W. E. LlVlNGSTON.Pa1-ma. Mich.





llHGE TYPE POLAND CHINAS 23:11. “vir‘gambm'iedxl'g

to sell. JAMES G. TAYLOR, Belding. Mich. '

SHEEP

250 Choice young Delaine owes,





Breedlnnges With large lambs at their .sido.

priced right. Telcglaph Rorkwood. D. L. CHAP- .





MAN 8:. SON, S. Rockwood, Midi.

S H E E. P Breeding ewes De-lalnes and

Western. Ewes with lambs h!





side. Lincoln 4. Bradley, North Lewisburu. Ohio.





Shropshires fifimmiiémififi 4’3”“"M‘ m;





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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~ crease in the visible supply.

,- be that some corn :will





GRAIN UOTATIONS.

Tues ay, June 7.

Wheat. -

‘ Detroit—No. 2 red at $1.44; No. 2

white $1.45; No. 2 mixed $1.43.

Chicago—July $14514; September

at $14014.

Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red at $1.45

@146.





Corn.

Detroit—No. 2 yellow $1.05; No. 3

yellow $1.03; No. 4 yellow $1.01.

Chicago—July $1.03%; September





Oats.

Detroit—No. 2 Michigan 57c; No.





' at $1.05.





, 54c.

48Chicago—July 49%,c; September at

CI \





Rye.

Detroit—No. 2, $1.17.

1(2)hicago.——— July $15134; September





. 4%.

Toledo—Rye $1.18.

Beans.



Detroit.—Immediate and

shipment at $5.75 f. o. b.

points.



New York—Pea domestic at $5.50@

5.75; red kidneys at $6.75@7 to the

wholesalers.





prompt

shipping





Barley.

Detroit.——Malting 990; feeding 900.





Seeds.



Detroit.—Cash imported clover seed

$13; October $16.50; domestic De-

cember $16.65; timothy, old at $2.50;

new $2.60.





r. Hay.

Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $17@18;





standard $16@17; No. 1 light clover

mixed $15@16; No. 2 timothy $15@

16; No. 1 clover $15@16; oat straw

$126513; rye straw $13@14.

Feeds.



Detroit—Winter wheat bran at $39;

spring wheat bran at $38; standard

middlings at $39; fancy middlings at

$42; cracked corn at $42; coarse corn

meal $39; chop $33 per ton in carlots.





WHEAT.





The advance in wheat prices which

started in mid-April carried values up

20@25c from the low point of the sea-

son. The rise was checked in the last

few days, however, as a result of bet-

ter weather over Canada, rains in the

dry area in the southwest and in Ar-

gentina, and dullness in export sales.

The surpluses in exporting countries

are being whittled down rapidly, so

that the supply carried over to com-

pete with the new crop will be down





. to normal or below by the end of the





present crop year. Since the recent

strength in wheat prices was largely

due to weather conditions, the future

course of the market will depend chief-

ly on weather developments. If warm

_weather arrives, the crop probably

would shoot ahead rapidly and the

late start might be largely overcome,

although the reduced acreage will be

a permanent factor.





, RYE.





Rye prices have advanced more

sharply than wheat. The visible sup-

ply is now down to 4,891,000 bushels,

compared with a four-year average of

14,000,000 bushels on this date. Ex-

port trade is quiet, but clearances re-

main fairly large and supplies prom-

ise to become extremely scarce before





harvest.

CORN.





The sensational advance in corn

prices in the last thirty days has car-

ried the market up to 30@35c. Since

prices had been declining for over

two years, it is unlikely that a bull

market of one‘ month has fully dis-

counted the changed situation. Still

higher prices are probable eventually,

although the market may not make

much further progress for a while.

The crop probably is farther behind

than in 1924, with much plowing, as

well as planting still to be done. With

more rains forecast over the corn

belt, there is no indication of any re-

lief. Primary receipts have increased

recently and a fair June run is prob-

able‘in spite of the small farm re~

serves. Iowa points are shipping corn

to Chicago for the first time in several

months. Consuming demand is only

fair, but the last report showed a de-

It may

accumulate

while the June run is on, but this pos-

sibility is greatly overshadowed as a

price-making factor by the unfavos,



" crop outlook. On the extreme“

vance, prices were high enough to

" t purchase of some Argentine





potential announts, tocmada.’ ‘ ..





Best heavy steers: dry-fed 9.5! 0:7





corn for import, and that'pountry spld.





Ratchet. cows . . 4.2.4. . r,





. OATS. .



The cats market has been strong

along with other grains recently, with

a. sharp setback in the last few days.

Small primary receipts, a decreasing

visible supply, fair clearances for ex-

port, some unfavorable crop news, and

small reserves .on farms are strength-

ening factors in this market.



I-IAY.



Demand for hay is slow as is to be

expected with pastures rapidly getting

into condition. Timothy prices have

recovered somewhat from the decline

which set in early in March, but are

still about $4 a ton lower than at this

time last year. Alfalfa hay is moving

downward to a new crop basis as the

moVement from Kansas and other

southwestern districts is under way.

The decline in prairie hay which was

occasioned by the heavy movement

from the southwest early in May has

been halted and the market is steady.

The usual summer weakness is to be

expected in hay markets during the

next few months.





SEEDS.





Trade in early seeds, such as clo-

vers, is practically over for the season

and prices are nominal. Demand for

the late-sown seeds was more active,

particularly in the districts where the

flood waters had receded and field

work was resumed.





FEEDS.





The market for by-product feeds

continues to advance as a result of

the backward season which has neces-

sitated barn feeding later in the year

than usual, and the high grain mar-

ket. Prices for bran are about $5 a

ton higher than at this time in 1926.

Current production of wheat feeds is

larger than one or two years ago, but

dealers’ stocks had run low and buy-_

ing for actual needs has been’ so ex-

tensive that mills are behind on or-

ders. The advances in the corn mar-

ket have resulted in substantially

higher prices in coarse feeds.





POTATOES.





The potato market remains steady

at the highest prices of the season on





 





old stock-and dealers confidently pre-

dict that the firmness will continue-

States such as Louisiana and Alabama

are dropping'out of the list of import-

ant shippers, and prospects fer the

mid-season supply of potatoes are not

as favorable as even a=month ago. The

Kaw Valley expects 70 per cent 'of a

normal crop, Oklahoma reports a sim-

ilar cut, and Arkansas may have only

about 'half a crop. Rain and cold

weather have taken a substantial toll

from the probable production in the

mid-season sections. Northern round

whites, U. S. No. 1, are quoted at $4.25

@450, and southern Irish Cobblers

and Bliss Triumphs, U. S. No. 1, are

$6.25@6.50 per 100 pounds, sacked, in

the Chicago carlot market. '





EGGS.





The egg market has slumped again

and new low prices established. Re-

ceipts continue so heavy that a liberal

surplus must be directed to storage

warehouses, and dealers refusedto

store except at lower prices. High

quality eggs are still scarce, with the

majority of receipts grading only me-

dium or lower. Supplies of poultry

show a steady increase and prices are

on the down grade. Fowls are plenti:

ful, with light birds commanding a

premium over heavy stock. Prices for

poultry this summer are likely to av-

erage considerably lower than last

year. Dealers are expecting a heavy

run of fowls once the laying season is

over, and a big crop of spring chick-

ens is reperted throughout the coun-

try. In addition, there is still a large

supply of frozen poultry to be cleaned

up during the next two or three

months. '



Chicago—Eggs, fresh firsts 191,4@

20c; extras 20%@21c; ordinary firsts





18@18%c; dirties 171m; checks at

1799c. Live poultry, hens 22@231/éc;

broilers 22@23c; roosters 131/90;





ducks 25c; geese 15c; turkeys 23c. .

Detroit—Eggs, fresh candied and

graded 20@21c. Live poultry, broil-





ers 400; heavy hens 26c; light hens

21c; roosters 15c; geese 16c; ducks

30c pound.



BUTTER.





The butter market advanced last'





 





 





 





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Tuesday, June 7.





CHICAGO.





Hogs.



Receipts 40,000. Market is generally

15@25c lower than Monday’s average,

mostly 25c lower. Bulk 150-2004b. av-

erage $8.90@9; few sorted 180-200 lbs.

$9.05@10; most 210@250-lb. hogs $8.70

@885; bulk 200-350-lb. butchers $8.35

@865; packing sows very dull; few

better kind $7.50@7.75; heavy mughs,

sorted, down to 250 and below; slaugh-

ter pigs very scarce; very good kind

around $8.50.



Cattle.





Receipts 10,000. Market mostly on

killing classes, small packers consid-

ered; better grade scarce, active on

common and medium largely; year-

lings, stockers and feeders, and fat

cows and heifers very scarce; bulls

strong; vealers 50@750 higher; best

heavy steers $13.50; few loads at $13

@1325; yearlings $12; most steers

yearlings $9.75@12; heavy medium

bulls $7.25@7.50; vealers largely at

$11.50@13 to all interests. , ' ~





Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 5,000. Fat lambs active,

mostly 50c higher than Monday’s

close; bulk of good native lambs at

$17.25@17.75; best, natives to packers

$18; 400 medium killers sorted from

eight double deck Californias $15.50;

cull lambs $13.50@14.50; yearlings 25

@50c higher; bulk medium and good

yearlings $14.50@15.50; sheep strong

to 15c higher; small supply of better

grade ewes at $5.75@6.50; no feeding





alambs sold; indications strong to 250





higher.





DETROIT.

Cattle. .





Receipts 164. Market opening slow.’ @





Good to choice yearlings





dry-fed . . . . . 0 00011.50





 





Handy weight butchers . . 8.00/7 ;, .

Mixed steers and heifers 8.0 "2")

Handy lightL butchers . , . . .

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Cutters . ., .......... . . . . . 4.25@ 5.00

Canners ........ . ...... . . 3.75 4.50

Choice light bulls ........ 6.50 7.25

Bologna bulls ........... 5.5061) 7.50

Stock bulls ....... . ..... 500@ 6.50

Feeders ................. 6 25@ 8.25

Stock'ers ........... . . . . . 550(0) 7.75

Milkers and springers. .$65.00@130.00





. Calves. -

Receipts 809. Market strong to 500

higher. » '

Best .................... $13.00@13.50

Others .................. 5.50@12.00





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 409. - Market steady.





Best lambs .............. $14.50@15.00

Fair lambs ............. 12.00@12.50

Light to common lambs. . 6.00@10.00

Spring lambs ........... 17.00

Fair to good sheep . . . . 6.00@ 7.00

Culls and common ....... 2.006;), 4.00

Hogs. '

Receipts 2,077. Market is 30@ 40c

lower. . .

Mixed ....... .........$ 9.15@ 9.20,

Roughs ........ . . . . .- . . . . 7.60

Pigs and lights . . . . . . . . 9.15@ 9.20

Stags a-->..-.oe ooooo .0 00 6'50

Extreme heavies _. . . . . . . 8.00@ 8.75‘

BUFFALO.

Hogs. "





Receipts 1,600.. Market is 25@400

lower; light weights off, most packing

and light lights $9.50@9.60' bulk ‘190-

220 lbs. $9.35@9.45; few £25249 lbs.

$3.25;@§00 lbs. $8.75; packing sows at





$ .50 . ..



, Cattle. . .«

Receipts 100. Market steady. Fe

lowzgutters and cutter cows at $4 25'

, . calves. . . . ’1



Receipts 500. .._,Market steady.

$13.50; culls $10.50Q11. '1 .





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week inith‘e "face of the largest‘re'v ’5"

ceipts of ,the season, the largest on

record for :the' corresponding week.-in1

fact... Pastures are reported tofibe in a,

better condition, the milk flow is in???

creasing. rapidly, and the ice cream;

trade is not taking 'as large a share

of the milk supply. as it the weather. 1

were more. seasonablfie.

deal got under way earner: than usual



this year, and , accumulations during . .

May established a'newlhigh redord.’ e.

Dealers, as a rule; made money on ..

their storage operations "last season ’

and are ready to take hold a;

year. Consumptive demand as been

aided by the lower-retail pricesand

is a prominent factor in the steady

market. -





Prices on 92-score creamery were:

Chicago 40%c; New York 43c; Detroit,

in tubs‘38@'401;§c. . ‘





CHEESE.

Cheese trade. continues on a" hand- »

to-mouth basis, with sales made at '





prices fairly close to cost. More full

grass suitable for storage is available,

but little speculative interest is exhib-

ited, as prices generally are consid—

ered too high to be attractive. Pro-

duction is on the increase and with

pastures in good condition, and warm-

er weather at hand, receipts are ex-

pected to continue to gain.





WOOL.





Wool prices have strengthened re-

cently, although seaboard markets

have not followed fully the advance

in the western states. Manufacturers

report better goods trade, but are buy-

ing wool only as they need it, and am

stoutly opposing any advance in prie-

es, claiming that their manufacturing

margins are. too narrow. Conditions

are shaping more and more in favor

of some rise in prices, however. While

goods production since January 1 has

been about 20 per cent greater than

a year ago, stocks have not accumu-

lated. Mill holdings of raw material

are so small that manufacturers are

obliged to purchase constantly, even

though on a moderate scale. Sales in

Wyoming are reported at 32@33c, in

Nevada at 28@.32c, and in Oregon at

28@30c.‘ In the fleece wool states.

dealers are now paying 33@35c.





DETROIT CITY MARKET.





Apples 50c@$1.75 bu; asparagus at

$1.50@2.25 dozen bunches; new beets

$1 dozen bunches; carrots $1@2 bu;

new carrots $1 dozen bunches; celery

45c@$1.25 dozen. bunches; eggs, whole-

sale 27@28c; retail 30@35c; escarole

$1.75@2.25 bu; lettuce $1@1.50 per 6»

lb. basket; root parsley $1.50@2 bu; ,/~\

curly parsley 50@75c, dozen bunches‘;"

green onions 50@75c dozen bunches;

parsnips $1.25@2 bu; potatoes $2.40

@250 bu; poultry, hens, retail 28@

32c; broilers, Leghorns 26®28c; retail

35c; Rocks 38@40c; radishes, white

_60@750 dozen bunches; outdoor {500@

$1 dozen bunches; rhubarb 40@60c

dozen bunches; sorrel ”@125 bu;

spinach 750@$1.25 bu; .ulive pigs $8-

-each; watercress $1.25 dozen bunches;

veal 19@200; pansies $1@-1.50 per 15

boxes; mustard $2@2.50 bu; leeks 50

@90c dozen; tomato plants 75c@$1

per 8-dozen fiat; cabbage plants $1@

1.25 per 8-dozen; turnip greens 75c@

$1.25 bu; butter 60c.





GRAND RAPIDS.





Potatoes $2.75 bu;_apples 750@$3

bu; spinach 35@60c bu; rhubarb 75c

bu; radishes 10@15c dozen bunches;

onions 12@17c dozen bunches; leaf

lettuce 15@18c lb; tomatoes $1.50@2

per 7-lb. basket; cucumbers $1@1.4o :;

dozen; beans $5.10 cwt; Wheat $1.25 -.

bu; rye‘90c bu; strawberries $4@4.25 '

per 1641i. case; old hens 18@220 lb; '

chickens 16%),25c; eggs 20@210; but— '

ter-rat 46c] . ‘ ' ,





 





FVE‘WER LAMBS ARRIVE.





Total receipts at leading markets

in the two weeks ending May ‘28 were





 





 





the largest at this season in over a _. .,

dozen years, supplies have decreased - ,

sharply' in. the past 'few days. and ' . «



prices, barre strengthened temporarily.

Choice swingers are bringing $16.50

at Chicago.~ Arrivals of California T

lambs ‘fell off suddenly and it is ex? “ ~



pected that most f0!“ thei— remaining .





 

   

   

 





 

 

 

   





 





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’ ed finishing operations.





- €211





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Some ejy to be p d. y .Vejry

little corn has been planted up to date.

Wheat is fair} some fields did .1101:

winter well. Meadows and pastures

are looking fine. Good outlook for

fruit. Live stock in fine condition

Dairy and poultry business is eXpand-

ing rapidly, especially the poultry.

Farmers are not selling much hay or

grain. Eggs 18c; butter-fat 40c; po-

tatoes $1. 50; wool 3302—8.



losco County. ——Weather conditions

in general have not been favorable

for sowing and planting. At this date,

sowing; of oats and barley has not

been completed. The heavy rain of

May 23- 24 kept farmers from doing any

sowing until the twenty-sixth. Much

of the. land is yet very wet. Every

line of products is progressing slowly.

Wheat and rye held up very good.

iHay .is spotted Fruit is promising,

unless the recent frost damaged it.

Very little corn and potatoes have

been planted as yet. Pastures are fair.

Live stock has been well cleaned up.

Hay $10@13. Dairy farming is hold-

ing its own. Poultry raising is on the

increase. There is not much to sell,





except some butter potatoes, cr am

and eggs. Butter 40c; cream 00;

eggs 200; hens, dressed 25@3OC; po-





tatoes $1. 50 a bushel. It appears as

if more attention is paid to farming

this year. . Some farms have changed

hands at reduced prices, but there is

room for more. Crops in general are

about the same as last season. Much

of the new seeding is very spotted.

——G. C. A.



St. Joseph County. ——Winter grains

are good. Pasture and meadows good.

All crops have made normal growth.

Farmers planting corn now. Weather

continues cold and wet. Farmers are

selling hogs at $9.15@9.25 per cwt;

butter-fat 420; eggs 200; veal calves

18c, dressedydressed pork 15c; rye

94c bushel; wheat $1.25 bushel; corn

72c bushel; oats 45c bushel.——O. J. B.





Shiawassee County. ~On account of

excessive rainfall, nbt able to get onto

corn or bean ground, only very small

per cent of corn planted. Most old

corn fields ready for inspection. Win-

ter grains, meadows and pasture are

above the average, other crops back-

ward. Condition of live stock good.

Dairy and poultry business not expand-

ing. Wheat $1.25; oats 420. Only a

small per cent of crops in farmers’

hands. The morale of the farmers is

on a par with other days. But they

have disadvantages of bad weather to

contend with, that manufacturers do

not have—C. S. C.





CATTLE MARKET SLOWS DOWN.





OMBINED arrivals of cattle at-

seven leading markets in each of

the last three weeks were slightly

larger than a year ago. The number





of choice and prime steers reaching

~Chicago is fully twice as large as a





month back, hence the slowing down

of the advance in prices of fed grades.

An increasing percentage of low-grade

steers, heifers, cows and bulls shows

signs of a grass diet, and prices on





.these grades are undergoing seasonal





downward revision. Even stocker and

feeder prices have weakened. The

fact that average prices of steers have

made virtually no net advance for

nearly two months is astrong hint

that the rise of $1.60 over prices pre-

vailing a year ago has discounted most

of the strong features in the situa-

Ion.





Mild liquidation is under way as a

result of the rise in corn. It is also

possible that the increase in receipts





‘ 1ecently is due to the fact that attrac-





tive prices in recent months stimulat-

Whatever the

cause 525,000 head arrived at seven

principal markets in the three weeks

ending May 28, against 499, 000 a year

previous. Choice and prime steers to

the number of 12, 357 head arrived at

Chicago in theSe three weeks, against

6,048 a year previous, when average

prices on these grades were $2. 25 low-

er) than at present, and top prices

were $3. 75 lower. The heavy runs of

southwestern grass cattle will not get

under way for six or eight weeks yet,

but supplies are due to increase grad-

ually and prices are likely to yield

under this pressure. Dry weather is

forcing some cattle to market from

Texas and Oklahoma.





Butcher cows and heifers, as well

as canners and cutters, lost ground

and are 25 to 75 cents under thé high

point of the season two weeks ago.

Dry-fed grades may hold up fairly well

while intermediate and low grades are

working lower. Veal calves are likely

to work higher; although grassy and

vy kinds will not share in the

stn‘ength 10f choice grades;



rise ' 9m flees has dampen-

of St Wand





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groundta’elgst

' a’d rt-ller " ’ lnesgm gre prob-

The average cost of f

Chicago in the past month has been

around 39, which means that finished

cattle prices must remain high if cat-

tle feeders are to get out whole on‘

their purchases.

the likelihood of obtaining satisfactory

margins has been greatly reduced.





STRONG RALLY DUE IN HOG

M-ARKE





‘ ~





THE hog market has shown some

allying tendency in the past ten



days and 'a good upturn appears

overdue. Considering the duration

and extent of the decline from the

mid-winter peak, it seems probable

that a rise of $1.50 will occur. This

would carry the Chicago average

above $10. 50, and choice light hogs to

$11. 25 once more.



While recefipts have been heavy re—

cently, it Is oteworthy that packers

have been ready buyers around the

$9. 25 level, and they report that man-

ufacturmg margins are the most sat-

isfactory in several months. Lower

prices have spurred fresh pork trade,

and warm weather is helping distribu-

tion of smoked meats Lard prices

show signs of starting an upward

trend, although stocks increased con-

siderably at Chicago during May. E1:

port business, particularly in lard,

better than for several months. Holg

prices in Germany have advanced

low point several





$1.50 from' the

weeks ago.





 

   





Veterinary. g

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CONDUCTED BY DR. S. BURROWS





 





Mastitis.——Our cow came fresh two

months ago. About ten days ago we

noticed her bag was caked .on one

side and one teat has something hard

in it. She lies On a cement floor but

is well bedded. L. G.—A fresh cow

lying on cement, is more likely to be

injured, on account of the highly con<

gested condition of the udder. Take

away all feed except hay. Give one

pound of epsom salts, also half ounce

of formaldehyde in a quart of water,

twice daily for four or five days. Milk

out the affected quarters and bathe

with hot water every two hours. In

the evening, massage with warm cam-

phorated oil.



Large Swelling. —70ur Holstein cow,

five years old, freshened two weeks

ago. She feels all right but has a

lump on her chest between her front





eders at





 





With higher corn, ‘





, as efe

group n'd oats; alfalfa;t he; and? corn-

stalks, also tsv'venty quarts of skim-

milk. 0. V. S.~—-It is difilcult to tell

what may have caused such a large

swelling, but it is very likely due to

an injury. Bathe with hot water sev-

eral times daily and give one table-

spoonful of saltpeter in a little water,

twice daily. It might be well to dis-

continue feeding the twen').r quarts of

milk. If she does not improve, it

would be advisable to consult your 10-

cal veterinarian, since the swelling

may have to be opened.





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INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY. -

New York. N. Y.. May 25th. 1927.



The Board of Directors have declared a regular

quarterly dividend of one and three-quarters per cent

(l-%%) in the Cumulative 7% Preferred Stock of

this Company. and a regular quarterly dividend of

one and one- half per cent (1- 1,42%) on the Cumulative

6% Preferied Sto<k of this Company for the (uncut

quarter. payable July 15th, 1927. to holders of letord

at the close of business July 151., 1927. Checks will

be mailed. Transfer books will not close.



OWEN SHEPHERD. Vice-President & Treasurer.





Holmes, Stuwe Co.,2429 Riopelle St.





Commission, Merchants. Dressed Beet. Hogs. calves.

poultry. Live & Dressed. Provisions, etc. Correspond-

cnce Solicited. Ref. Wayne County & Home Savings





 





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15 ........ 1.20 3.60 31 ........ 2.48 7.44

16 ........ 1.28 3.84 32 ........ 2.56 7.68

17 ........ 1.36 4.08 3 ........ 2.64 7.92

18 ........ 1.44 4.32 34 ........ 2.72 8.16

19 ........ 1.52 4.56 35 ........ 2.80 8.40

20 ........ 1.60 4.80 - 36 ........ 2.88 8.64

21 ........ 1.68 5.04 37 ........ 2.96 8.88

22 ........ .76 5.28 38 ....... 3.04 9.12

23 ........ 1.84 5.52 ~39 ........ 3.12 9.36

24 ........ 1.92 5.76 40 ........ 3.20 9.60

25 ........ 2. 00 6.00 41 ........ 3.28 9.84





All admblu up

Sp ceiaI otice discontinuance "do"



or change of a); In-

untlpad for the Claulfiad Dtpartmmt mun mad: 1111: Ma up

day: in advent: afpubh’m tion dart.





 





REAL ESTATE





 





FARMERS—If you are tired of the hard winters and

want a. longer growing season with caper land and

a. more productive soil. Come to Okla oma. the state

that is first in oil, first in zinc. first in broomcorn.

second in winter wheat, second in grain sorghums

and second in cotton. Prosper as a. fruit. grower.

a dairyman, a truck farmer. supplying our growing

markets. For free booklet. “Oklahoma's Opportuni-

ties.” write to Oklahomans. Inc.. (Stale Chamber of

Emmerce). Medical Arts Building. Oklahoma City.





CANADIAN FARMS much below 1alue. Buy now.

Join in Canada' 5 coming prosperity. Write Fertile

Belt Land 00.. Spy Hill. Sask. Canada.





 





IMPROVED llO-ACRE FARM—sell or take house in

village. or small acreage as first payment, with or

without crops. Charles Sherman, Dansville, Mich.





155051.111 NEOUS





 





UTOPARTS—eRadfators. Heads. Blocks.

missions, Drive 5511a. Rear Ends. Wheels. Beau-r

fun. «good as new. half price or less. Satisfaction



guaranteed or money refunded. Rocks Auto' Paris.

12818 _E. Jedc1750n 'Ava. Detroit. Mich





Trans—





 





 





Do-

6157 Maxwell.





HENRY FORD'S “My Life and Work ” $1. 00.

scription free. Hawkins Book Sales.

Detroit, Mich.





 





WANTED FARMS





WANTED~Hear from owner good farm for sale

gash price. particulars. D. F. Bush, Minneapolis,

llul.





 





\VANTED—To hear





from owner of farm or unim-

proved land for sale.





0. Iiawley. Baldwin, Wis.





 





 





MATTRESSES





 





MA’I‘I'RESSES made any





size, low factory prices.

Catalog free.





Peoria. Bedding Company, Peoria, Ill.





'SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK «





30 MILLION Fine Field Grown “Frostproot‘” Cab-

bage Plants. Early Jersey. Charleston. Copenhagen.

Succession. Flat Dutch, Danish Bullhead. 500. $1.50:

1000, $2.50 prepaid. Expressed. 10.000. $15. To-

mato Plants same price. Sweet Potato, $3 thousand





 





l‘mc‘y‘ourr





_ TURKEY EGGS—Thousands of them.

[Special prices.





.WHI'I'E LEGHORN CHICKS





vllcds.





(lento. ‘15:;1irlm’t he. want!

on: on the farm. macaw Geranium Com 011mm V

ll.el.d Illinois.





 





FROST-PROOF CABBAGE—onions. also w ,

strong hardy plants. Loading varieties; 100 f

300. 85c: 500. $1.10: 1.000. $2. 00 Former. 100.



1. 000. $2. 75. Everything postpaid and guarantee!





East Texas Plant CO. .. Ponta. Texas.





 





 





Yellow Jersey. Red Jersey. Southern Queen:

plants $1. 00: 500, $1 90: 1000. $3 50. Postpaid.

ert Bennett. Grand View, Indiana.





 





—Improved American Banner wheat. Wolverine 0m.

improved Robust beans. A. B.





so LARGE GLADIOLI. $1.

$1.25. Catalogue. A.





 





None alike.





 





 





 





 





TOBACCO

GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOBACCO: Chewlm.

5 lbs. $1.00: 10. $1.75. Smoking. 10. $1.80. Pipe.

Free! Pay when received. United Farmers. Bud:

well. Kentucky. >

BETTER TOBACCO—Fragrant, mellow! Five 1:01de

of smok1ng.75l.'. Four pounds chewing. $1.00.

Farmers Club, 110 Hazel. Kentucky.



POULTRY





 





Barred and White Rocks. Rods. Leghorns. If



want a. flock of laying hens for this fall and winta‘.



we want you to read the description and see the



price of these birds. Sand for our Pellet and Cooke



1(gethircular. State Farms Assoelation. KalamazOO.

IC .





 





FOR SALE—White Leghorn Pullets.

March 1le hatched, $1.00 each.

to select from. Order at once.

Hastings. Mich.





English strain.

Sure to please. 1.500

Sutton’s Hatchery.





 





IMPERIAL WHITE PEKIN DUCK EGGS. $1. 50 per

11. Pestpaid. Chas. Stutz. Saranac. Mich.





 





 





TURKEY'S





 





All breeds.

Eastern Ohio Poultry Farm. Beans—

vllle. Ohlo.





 





PURE‘BRED WHITE HOLLAND TURKEY EGGS—-

506 each pOst-Daid. C. Galbreath, Hartford, Mich.





 





 





BABY CHICKS





MICHIGAN ACCREDITED CHICKS—an’v your chlfi

from heavy laying flocks that are officially aooredlm

by inspectors supervised by Michigan State 0011*.

and of prize winners at the Holland Poultry Show.

White and Brown Leghorns, Anconas. Be Rock).

S. C. R. I. Reds. 100% 1116 delivery postpaid. Band

at once for free catalogue. Chicks. 6 cents and up.

Full particulars and detailed prices. Hillview Help!»

ery. C. Bovon. Prop. Holland, Mlch..«‘R. 12. Box B.





 





 





sired by pedigreed

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

Shipped anywhere C. 0. D. and guaranteed. Hatch—

ing eggs. cockerels. puilets. hens. egg-bred 27 years.

I" men: at 17 egg contests. Write for free catalog

r 1 special price bulletin. Geo. B. Ferris. 934

Union. Grand Rapids, Michigan.





 





BABY CHICKS—Pure- bred TancredS. C. White Leg-

horn chicks, $9. 00; Barred or White Rocks. R. I.

White Wyandottes, $11. 00 per hundred. Mlxa)

heavies and lights. $8.50. Big reductions on large

quantities. 8;and lO-weeks-old pullets. Arrowhead

Poultry Farm and Hatchery. Birch Run. or Mon~

trosc. Mich.





BABY CHICKS-—Barred and White Rockaos. C.

and R. C. Reds. $13.00 per 100. White Leghorm

and Black Minorcas. $11.00.

$10.00. Heavy Mix. $10.00.

are Michigan Accredited.

stock.





Light Mix. $9.00.

and also

Pierce Hatchery, Jerome. Mich.





We

blood-test all





 





MICHIGAN ACCREDITED blood tested Chicks ‘back-



ed by real bred-to-lay breeding and at live and let



live prices. Quick service. 100% live delivery. and



a square deal. Big discount on large orders. Catalog



£21151] rl Poultry Farms. Dept. A, Montgomery,

l .





QUEEN QUALITY ACCREDITED CHICKS. Holly-

wood and Tancred. S. C. White Leghorns. $10.00 per

hundred. Barred Rocks. $13.00: Rose C. Reds and.

S. C. Reds. $12. June one cent per chick 1655.

Queen Hatchery. Zeeland. Mich.





 





 





CAPI’ER SHIPS C. O. D.——V\'hlbe, Brown. Leghoms.

Heavy Mixed. 100. $8: English White, Buff Leghoms.

Ancenas, $8.50; Reds. Barred. White Rocks. Block

Minorcas. $9; Bufl‘ Owingtons. White Wyandotm.

$10; Assorted, $7.50.





 





BULLETS—6 to 10 weeks old. Chicks 01' I8 varie—

ties. Can ship at once. Some blood tested; 178 to

312-9111: breeding. Free Circular. Beckman Hatch~

ery, Grand Rapids. Mich.





 





CHICKS~Tancred, Barron, IIollywoods. White, Brown

Leghorns. 100, $8.00: 500, $37.50; broilers, 100. $6.00

mixed. Immediate prepaid 100% live delivery. 01'-

der from ad. B. 'Van Ry, Holland. Mich.





 





WHITTAKER'S REDS.

Trapnestcd. Both

reduced prices.

for prices.





Michigan Certified. R. 0. P.

Combs. June chicks and. eggs at

Cooks, hens, cockcrcls. pullets. Write

Interlukcs Farm, Box 9. Lawrence. Mich;





 





DHCHIGAN ACCREDITED CHICI{S--—Blood- tested for

the past 3 years. Barred Rocks R. I. Reds, $12.

White Leghoms, $10 Mixed. $9.

Farm & Hatchery. M'ilan. IIIich.





BETTER CHICI{S——Extremcly low prices for balance

of season 80% of our chm-ks go to old customers.

Write. .Litchfleld Hatchery. Litchfleld, Mi.ch





CHICK PRICES REDUCED FOR MAY—~White Lee.

85; lots of 500. 7179c. Barred Rocks. 100. Hillside

Hatthery. Holland, Mich.





 





 





100. 700: 1000. $3.75. Critically assorted, moss pack-

ed. Guaranteed. W. J. Myers. R. 2, Masslllpn. Ohio.





7

50 ACRES Field Grown Cabbage and Tomato Plants.

Some of finest we ever grew. Special $1 thousand.

Sweet Potato Plants $2. Prom t shipments. entire

satii‘action guarmteed or money back._ Old Domin-

ion Plant Co. .. Franklin. Va.





comv HARVESTER





RICH MAN'S Corn um. poor man's price—-

only $25 00 with bundle tying attachment. Em oat.-

uog showing pictures of harvester. Process 00..

Selina, Kans.





PLANTS FOR SALHopenhogen and Wakefield cab-

bage plants. $1. 00, 1,000: Collard. $1. 00: Tomato.

3190:1361! Pepper. $1. 50: 011.1011. 81 85; Porto Rico





 





   





 





 





 





   





 





WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS 7c; 8- Week pallets 800.

Ed. Kroodsma, Zeeland, Mich.





 





SITUATIONS WANTED





 





WANTED—Position as working manager of dairycr

fillet?! “fax-1311mm D. Loren Hershberger. Woodlam

c . .





HELP WANTED





COLLEGE STUDENT OB TEACHER of high?

Ilgeuce. with tact in meeting people, can be

(or summit months or during vacation. W



caters‘ Association. General Necessities Bldg" Detroit;





 





 





Potato, $2.00. Large openfleld

Qultnmn Plant 00.. animals





Try a-Michigan Farmer





SWEET POTATO PLANTS—Nancy Hall Porto maria,

.\ I ‘





CHOICE ADAPTED SMALL .GRAIN AND BEANS“.

Cook. Owasso. Mick,





12 11511an

Sherman. Chlcopee Falls. M585";





Brown Leghoms. .





Cappcr Hatcheries, Elgin, Iowa...





 

   

 

 





 





PULLETS. COCKERELS—A bargain in eight-weeks '





prepaid. Expressed. 10.000, $20. Prompt shipments.



good plants. satisfaction absolutely guaranteed or S. C. BU‘FF LEGHORN CHICKS from Michigan

money refunded. 15 years' satisfactory service. .1. P. Accredited stock. Write for prices. J. W. Webster.

(‘cuncill (10.. Franklin, Va. Bath. Mich.



PLANTS. 5 Acres. June. July delivery, Copenhagen BABY CHlX—Michigan Accredited and Blood Tm-

Market. Flat Dutch. Danish Ballhcad Cabbage. Pro- 0d S. C. Reds. $12. 00 per 100. They live. Jasper -

paid. 100, 45c; 30", $1.00: 500, $1.25; 1000. $2.25; Wishbone Hat hen, St. Louis, Mich. 1‘

express. 5000, $7.50. Cauliflower, prepaid. 50. 50c:





- m
ROM 1920 to 1925 the dairy cattle in



the United States decreased 10 per

cent. This indicates better prices for

milk, and for cows. It will pay you to

keep your own herd in condition to take

advantage of this situation.





   





Grain feeding on pasture will help. Tests . 1 l . ' _ I l ' . 3' i ‘

.at Cornell University show that a herd fed 0 Make COWS prOduce more

grain on pasture gives 25 per cent more milk -

for the year; it not only milks better during





fl, b . . milk from a like amount

e summer ut gives more milk on the same





amount of feed in the fall and winter.





The practice of feeding a single ingredient, or of fe e d n e X t W i n t e I. -‘ ‘_

a mixture of two or three, when the cows are on . ; = ‘ i ‘

pasture, will not give these results because two of » ' ' - -»- ,

the chief needs of the cows—variety and min- " A

erals—are neglected-in this kind of-feeding.





*1 2. M m r d A

Amco 20% Dairy not only furnishes the right ake the p O uce

amount of protein to go with pasture grass, but it , '

contains a sufficient number of ingredients to give , more milk thls summer.

the cow the variety she requires in her feed, and the





minerals which she must store in the summer for _ ‘ ' - ' 7 V ' .

fall and winter needs.





 





The formula of Amco 20% Dairy was checked and





”PM by the (3...... Feed Conference Board‘(feed- v 3- Keep them from 103-

in ex erts of nineteen state colle es) and meets

g p 8 ing fleSh on pasture.





-,‘ _ . ,.

4...,” .. —M us mum...





v





. their specifications.





Your Amco Agent can supply you.





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. ‘ 4""

r ,' i ‘ ii;

; 1' . , 2 3_ 3,:

i ' Eck‘les of Minnesota ~ . .

recommends this daily schedule for grain feeding 0n pasture it

For Jerseys or For Holstein: or ‘ ‘1 i '

. : Guernseys producing Ayrshires producing Tl ,

' 20 lbs. milk -— 3 lbs. grain 25 lbs. milk — 3 lbs. grain ' V FEED M'X'NG same , - 'g' , V. j

. 25 lbs. “ -— 4 lbs. “ 30 lbs. 9‘ — 4 lbs. ” V ‘ _ ; , "1‘

* gr 3. m. ._ 5% “,8... 35 M .. ~ __ 51/21:». .. g . A ‘ AMERICAN MILLING COMPANY . ,.

. . 351bs. '“ -— 7 lbs. “ ' 401m. " —— 7 lbs. ,“ '. . , . ; IExecutive Offices—Peoria In . _ ~ .

. 66 u.- . .0 . .6 __ 91b . ‘0 > , :[i‘ ,._ 3“ ,

4“ "’3 8 'b‘ 5° “’3 . 8 ~ ~ 4 ' ». Plants a; PEORM, ILLWOMAHA, NEDA owmfisnone, tar. me -~ 3

’ ’ '5 . ‘ " ; 'Ai/atfa Exam a1.- roWELL. GARLAND and WORLAND wvo. ‘* ' ‘ ‘