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VOLUME CLXIX

DETROIT, JULY 23, 1927
CURRENT COMMENT

HE farmers, who
own all the stock

 

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Fight F in the Federal Farm
Farmer Loan -.banks, should
Control have m. larger degree

of control over them.
Instead, at the instigation of Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon, they have
been turned over to Wall Street, says
Carl Vrooman, president of the Na-
tional Association of Federal Farm
Loan Borrowers, who is On his way to
Europe to study the rural credit sys-
tems of several European countries.
The federal farm loan act. has been
the means 'of reducing the interest
rate to farmers all along the line, and
has saved them many millions of dol-
lars. It is an act of injustice at this
time when the farmers have a right
to expect larger representation on the
farm loan board, to turn down all their
representatives on the board, and put
in their places representatives of the
financial interests.

HE pet farm re-

The lief panacea of

. , the chambers of com-
Relief er 8 meme, the banker-
Hobby farmers, and the city-

bred farm reliefer
who has acquired a superficial under-
standing of the farm problem, is di-
versificatimi.

It is probable that Congress would
readily appropriate many millions of
dollars to aid the farmers to diversify,
and thereby many members would
honestly think that they were doing
a great service to the folks on the
farms. -

The movement to extend the dairy
‘business into the Dakotas has received
much financial backing. A similar ef-

,‘ “tort is being made to build up a dairy

Industry in the cotton states. But it

would be just as sensible to undertake
,- to induce the Michigan farmers to take
up the culture of bananas or cotton

no {means of crop diversification.
"h e'em‘irts to‘artincially-build up a

 

 

W. as as» a.»
f is; n’ot‘ampted to tummy, iii. Pt»?

. invariably end in failure.

      

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Professor G. 1‘“. Warren, «cornea
University, appears to have touched
the heart of the diversification problem
when he says “the whole history of,
American agriculture shows increas-
ing specialization on those products
best adapted to the region. The agri-
cultural depression is eliminating the
regions that are not bestfor the prod-
uct, and is increasing Specialization;
High handling charges favor the pro-
duction of home food supplies, but
commercial production is rapidly be-
ing specialized. Many well-meaning
persons think that the trouble with,
agriculture is lack of diversity. They
do not know the agricultural history
of the past century.”

Does not experience in Michigan
show Dr. Warren to be about right on
this general subject?

ROM time imme-

The morial music has
Reco nition been recognized as
g . one of the elemental
OfMUSlC needs of human life.

0 It has been thus rec-
ognized because it is the chief means
of expressing the emotional,'spiritual
and aesthetical side of life.

In the city schools music is an im-
portant part of the‘course of study,
but in the rural sections it is often
neglected. It seems odd that many
who can hear best the singing of the
birds, the hum of wild life, and the
music of the winds, should be listen-
ers only, incapable of expressing in a.
harmonious way, their emotional im~
pulses. .\

In some of the European countries
farmers make organized efforts in de-
veloping their musical talents, and
have produced wonderful results in
their culture and general outlook upon
life.

This country is just awakening to
the need of some effort to make music
more universally available to rural
sections. This is indicated by the res-
olution recently passed by the Depart-

lege, East Lansing.

College. .

camping facilities.

other information.

‘ day the best in the Mastery of

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ment of Superintendence of the Na-
tional Educational Association when
in convention at Dallas, Texas, last
February. The reference to rural mu-
sic is as follows:

“WE favor an immediate extension
of music study to all rural schools in
the belief that no single development
will so greatly increase the effective-
ness of their work and so greatly les-
sen the extreme differences now ex-
isting between rural and urban edu-
cation.”

An interview With the music lead-
ers who are interested in rural music
education in this state -revealed that
there is great need for better music
appreciation, In some sections the
lack of proper musical expression, or
enjoyment through listening. Vaud-
most pitiahle.‘ ,» ,v . -. __ ’

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‘ full ’eamm‘ " I' out 6S iii“ , _
been part of his education: '

Plan to Attend Country Life Week

OR years Michigan people will not again have the opportunity
to enjoy the- discussions on problems relating to rural life that
they will have the first week of August at Michigan State Col-
The American Country Life Association and
the International Rural Life Commission will gather there as the
guests of the Michigan Country Life Association and the State

Preparations have been made to entertain visitors at the Col-
lege for a full week. The idea in planning the affair was to en-
courage farm families to come and stay through the entire time.
There will be hotel accommodations, rooms in private homes, and
Those wishing to attend should write President
Kenyon L. Butterfield, East Lansing, Michigan, for a program and

During this week the annual Farmers’ Day at the College will
also occur. It lathe hope of the College committee to make the

Among other worth-while things,
nity for the farmers of the state to learn what experimental work
is being carried on by the College peeple.
whole program will be given next week.

  

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Sim (if in research labOra‘tor‘ -
SS" ‘I I log, there are men
.1): Working night and
Thmgs day, not all On the

. same problem, yet‘ all
attempting to accomplish the same
end. For instance, they are endeav-
oring to simplify the use of electricity,
gas, and other sources of power, to
simplify methods of communication,
manufacturing and merchandising. In
their labors they have found that one
of the hardest jobs in the world is to
do the simple things simply. The
simplification of telegraphy made Sam-
uel S. B. Morse a great. benefactor,
and utilizing electricity' for practical
purposes has made Thomas A. Edison
famous.

But it would seem that, in the home
life of this country the reverse of this
is true. A few decades ago the home
life of rural people, particularly, was
a simple plan of living that gave to
the members of the family time to en-
joy the companionship of one another,
and gave to neighbors opportunity to
develop that community spirit which
we are anxiously striving to bring back
today and to enjoy the beauties of
nature and their environment.

But during the last half of the cen-
tury, life has [been growing increasing-
ly complicated. We hear complaints
that neighbors do not have time for
neighboring, that the younger genera-
tion is seldom at home for an evening
with the family, that the demands of
modern housekeeping are such that
the women folk have little or no time
for recreation and companionship of
their families.

It would seem, then, that the solu-
tion of this problem, like all other
great problems, is simplification. There
are not many of us who would like to
revert to the methods of living of for-
mer days, yet if someone could devel-

such events at East Lansing.
the day will afford an opportu-

Further details of the

 

op a plan whereby we can simplify
our complicated living problem of to-
day, he would bring happiness and
contentment to thousands of homes.

FEW days ago an

The» Oakland county
' Corn farmer went to his
, cornfield to begin cul-
Crop tivating. A little later

he was seen with the

tractor and the barrow, digging up the
crop with the idea of. preparing the
field for a legume. Undoubtedly many
farmers will be better olf'by treating
the sparse stands of corn in a similar
manner. ' ' . ‘
But on theflother hand, With that)?!“
crop considerably. below normal
”at, thojcountryr,‘1.it be ‘ ‘
' " tans“;

   
  

   
 

half».

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all‘f"

_ fibrfiu:.=~stah¢iji‘mif;' finals?
their. owners. so; much; or mar-6.2mm-
ug cm,d_ogin normal-years.- 3‘1We,‘

therefore, miss timers, not to be , too

much W (with {ha- 111in .
11,1119 and. thoguneven. mwth’b'ut {to 7

give the cmp'their boat attentioanith "‘

the honour maxing something through ‘
the. advanacrln prices. . ' ’

Then there is another phase to thi
matter, and that is substitute feeds.
Cats and barley can, be fed to the,
work horses and canbe made toé‘go a
long way in keeping stock animals fit
for their duties. , Furthermore,1nltho
winter season the horses can be gob
ten through without corn, and. in fact,
very little of coucentrates is required
for them when not working. They are
even better for being given coarser
rations. .»

To insure against loss, from early
frosts, the silo should bomde ready
for use, or a. new one erected to take
care of an immature Crop. Corn not
well matured, makes an inferior silage,
but this is better .than’to lose the en-
tire crop. ' 1 -

 

Cowpre/zemz'é/e

0U know, I like to study words—-

it’s lots more fun to study words
than work. Well, here’s a word I
never knew what it was until I found
how comprehensible it is. Now that
you kin comprehend what comprehen»
sible_is, I am going to talk on some
comprehensible things.

Maybe you think that’s funny, but
it ain’t. There’s lots of folks what
talk on things that ain't comprehen-
sible. When such is the case, they
don’t know what they are talking
about, and likewise their listeners.

There’s one thing I kin comprehend,
and that’s thesweather. I kin compre-
hend it, but I can’t apprehend it, be-

“ cause I kno w
what it is but
can’t tell what it’s
going to be. Even
when I see clouds
I ain’t sure it’s
going to rain.
The weather just
shows that the
Almighty believes
that variety is
the spice of life.

Other comprehensible things is that
the sun sets and rises, but that some
folkses seball the time. Just like
hens, they ain't the kind we want. We
want'nomsetters for people, especially
as when folks set they don’t even
hatch anything. . .

Taxes is another comprehensible
thing; we are sure they are coming.
But what’s incomprehensible is‘ why
they get so high. I wish the politi-
cians earned their living on the' farm,
and then they’d be a little more eco-
nomical, ’cause they’d learn how to
live on nothing lots of times. .~

I kin 'cOmprehend, too, than some ‘7’
day the undertaker is going to get us, .
but what .I can’t comprehend is that,
just because the cost of living is so,
high, why the cost of dying should be
the same. I know several Scotch folks
who are living a good long life ‘just
because they hate .to see the S‘u’nder—
taker get so much. ' /

There’s another thing I' kno'W, and
that is that two and two is four, but
ltvcan’t comprehend how lots of folkses
make two and two live, I know you "
can’t do it in farming. Most likely in
farming, two and two is three. . .

I know, (I‘m alive, but I’ve heard
there’s some folks so dumb they don't
know they-fro living. Even fit" I_ m
alive, I don’t know what -uge‘;1s,.‘fwhy~
it; is; or how itis. midst use? _ :
life is in'oomprchehsiblg,-.iots ofthlngs
connected ‘With‘iizis'th'eg‘samc '"
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a‘ village church that (limits for its
3 f ' congregation from the surround-
ing country, but it is a rather unusual
thing to see a country chin-ch.- that
: draws on the nearby towns for its eon-
gr‘egation- and membership. So few

 

 

 

The Little Church at Gilmore.

communities have such a. church that
it may be worth while to see how one
was established.

In the spring of 1880 an union Sun-
day school was established at the
Schofield school house, Isabella coun-
ty. Almost the whole community,
(which consisted of settlements here
and there in the woods), turned out.
Afterwards this Sunday school proved
the event of the week to the young
folks, who usually walked through the
woods to attend. Sometimes some-
one would hitch onto the wagon and
.take the whole bunch for miles
around.

The winter of 18382, a Mr. Gates, of

Forest Hill, held a meeting in the
FTEN, after showing certain
farmers, beyond a doubt, that

r they should, and could, use bet-
ter farm practices, I, as county agent,
met with- this answer: “Yes, your
plans look all right, and sound all
right, but I am too poor to follow
them ”

The answer is generally intended to
1 excuse the farmer who gives it, for
all the poor management that he‘lis
then indulging in, as well as to excuse
him for making manly and intelligent
cfi'ort in the future.
The writer believes that the answer,
'- “too poor” is a mere excuse given by
the one'who gives it, to let him off
from making decent effort The ans
swer, “too poor” is used so much,
and stands so big in the path of pro-
.gressythat we feel that it is a big
hindrance to getting many things done

that inspection shows plainly should .

be done, and could be done, on the

farms of any county. - 3
' As long as such an answer is often
* used and glibly used, one county
agent, or ten agents together, will not
be able to do much with the farmers
who have settled back into a deep rut
from which they don’t care‘ whether

3 3 they escape or not.

The answer, 3“-too poor, ” so com-»
pletely paralyzes initiative and effort
t: those farmers, who delude them-

 

  

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‘3 it’ylin their m

’3'called “The Chapel ”

eromzfry (Marco Someoow Attracts People

'I' is a3. fairly common thing to see .

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schoolhouse. During this _meeting a
church Was organized, with thirteen
members. Several more were added
soon after. Five of the original num-
ber still attend. 3 3 3

‘ They went alc‘mg with a meeting oc-
. casionally, and attending the union
Sunday school, until 1889, when they

" left the schoolhouse. and held meet-

ings in an empty house, which was
A little later
they moved to an old unused Church,
and in a few years they built a church
_3of their own. Members donated work
and money. freely, so that, at the ded-

3 icatio'n twenty-five years ago, the bal-
. ance was easily raised. A stone par-

sonage has since been built.

Many times during these years the
church has been without a pastor, but
the Sunday school was kept up. This
church is a community center, as a
rural church should be. .Class parties,
aid meetings, and socials are held in
the roomy basement, which was fin-
ished about five years ago.

This church is not entirely run by
the older men and women of the com~
munity, as is so often the case. The
Sunday school has a larger attendance
than many Village Sunday schools—-
the average being about sixty to sev-
enty-five, although it is not at all un-
common to have an attendance of
ninety or more. The young people’s
class and the young married folks’
class are rivals for the largest attend-
ance banner. As the older members
drop away the young men take their
places. Whether or not it is the
church and its influence that holds
them, the fact remains, that a large
percentage of the young folks stay on
the farms, either settling on the old
homestead or on one of the nearby

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farms, where they become progressive
farmers.

Now, whether the church makes the
people what they are, or whether the
people make the church what it is, is
a mystery. At any rate, the influence
of this little country church is bound
to be widely spread. Quite a number
drive from Farwell to attend, and of-
ten many come from Mt. Pleasant to
the services. Sometimes old residents
who have since moved to Weidman
drive out to the church services.

The band, which was organized
about ten years ago, has its weekly
practice, which has developed into a
social event. Many of the players, be-
ing married, take their families, who
visit and enjoy the music. Recently
the band broadcast a noonday concert
from Bay City, and many compliments
were heard on the performance.

The boys’ and girls’ clubs, which
have been recently organized, also
promise much for the future.

crent
fiom Surrounding VII/age;
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During the years, there have
some misunderstandings among -
members, as there are bound to be.
any group of humans, but these ha 394.
so far been smoothed out peaceably
and afterward, the church members “
have been more closely united. . .

A very interesting’ thing, whiCh a?"
stranger is bound to notice, is the
number of babies present. Often
mothers say, “I send the older chil-
dren to Sunday school, but, of course,'
I can’t go with the baby ” No one
seems to reason along that line in Gil-
more, for often there are eight or ten '
babies present. They soon become ao- ’
customed to it, and are usually very.
good during service. ~

After the Sunday services are over,"
the weekly levee is held in the aisle, w
all important subjects of the day aref‘ ' Z
discussed, and all the new babies ad-
mired. Perhaps this thing of taking
the children to Sunday school is the '
thing that gets results, for you can
talk to young folks till you are blue in 3
the face, but it is the example that:
gets results.

  
 
  
   
  
   
  
 
   
   
   
   
  
   
    
 
   
  
  
  
  
  
   
 
    
   
   
 
   
    

 

 

 

   
   
  
  
   
   
  
   
  
    
    
  

 

A Few of those who Attended this Church on June 26.

“Too Poor” to Makc'Good

Toe Door of Hope I; [Vol C/oyeo’ to Hzm Woo Ml/ Try

By R. D. Bailey

bled as much with rundown land, poor
health, debt and lack of equipment, as
any farmer can show. However, he
was filled full of a determination not
to stay that way. 3

If there ever was a county agent
who had a. practical, and not a vision-
ary, nature, and who could sympathize
with farmers i their troubles, it
seems as if it w uld be the writer of
this article.

Farming at Gaylord, in a climate

 

“There is that scattereth, and
yet increaseth; and there is that
withholdeth morethan is meet,
but it tendeth to poverty.”—
Proverbs, 11th chapter, 24th
verse.

 

certainly no more favorable to farm-
ing than the climate of any county,
right at the time when he was trying
to get I started, and needed things in
his favor, he went through years of
dry weather, failure of hay cropsitb
“catch” or mature, grasshoppers, and,
particularly, low prices of potatoes,
then our only cash _.crop The writer
knows what it is, while trying to get
started, to sell the whole potato crop

fiat six cents a bushel, delivered, and
' severely scrted. He kno‘Ws what it is

  

is deplorable in far too many cases.
The farmer has taken and taken from
the land, year after year, and has put
back little. Crops, taken from forty
acres ’are concentrated into a manure
pile that will not cover ten acres The
3 ' farmer uses no green manure crop to,
.3: me" en, and another at help the land that he cannot manure-

twenty-one cents for a whole bushel.

These things are stated simply to
show that this agent knows what hard
experiences are, and that he has a
fellow-feeling for others who may have
the same troubles, and that when he
urges farmers, who may be “hard up”
to do some of the things that make
for improvement and progress, he is
setting before them a reasonable goal,
and one that any farmer with manly
spunk and gumption may hope to at-
tain.

This agent claims to be intensely
practical, and to advocate methods
that will work and prove helpful, and
that can be employed, not by a few,
but by those down at the bottom of
the ladder.

The thing to make sure of is: Is a
farmer “too poor” in pocketbook only,
or "too poor” in spirit and in lack of
spunk, gumption, ideals or ambition?

Let’s name a few things that would
be for the good of many farms, and
that even the "poorest” can do, if
they have the ideals, grit and ambi-
tion to do so. The list will not be

complete, but would help a whole lot
on, many farms, within any county.

1. The condition of the soil. This

pasture, at a cost of less than fifty

.an dollars _.each

  
  
  
   
  
  
 
  
    
   
  
 
     
 
  
  
   
  
   
   
  
  
 
    
 
  
 
  
 
  
  
  

The farm begins to slip back. The
farm may be in such a condition that
clover will no longer “catch,” and he -
may be “too poor” to buy lime to
make it “catch;” but if he is not "too'
poor” in mind he can farm by a short
rotation and get green manure to plovv’

in by sowing rye or vetch and rye in
the corn just before the last cultivar
tion. This will be large enough to

do the soil great good when plowed
under about the end of the following
May, for bill corn, fodder corn, or-
potatoes.

We are not going to admit that
there is a farmer in any county “too
poor” to do the above for his soil.

2. Several pounds of root seed -.
(rutabagas, Purple Top, Yellow Aber- I
deen turnips), could be sowed with
the grass seed, and hundreds of bush-
els of valuable roots secured for win-
ter feed, without the trouble of even-
hoeing the [roots once. But it is done
by only a few.

3. A man may be “too poor” to buy.

a silo, but not too poor to raise and
give good care to an acre of cultivat—
ed roots, which would make-a differ. 3
ence of several hundred dollars'in-the
winter’s return from the cows. Yet
we see almost no roots raised. '

4. No farmer is “too poor” to sow’
an acre of Dwarf Essex rape for bug

  
    
   
   

     
   
  
  
  

 
 
 

cents for seed for the whole acre. .
5. No farmer is “too poor” to put
a fender around the sides of the to”
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6. No farmer is “too poor” thinness
of! a night 101,111- which the;

  
    
  


   

,shallj wynaéaamsa forf‘féns m
erg: putting the manure where. it can

Ibefiised next year for a pi9ce of rbets

or fodder corn. No, brother, it is not}

because you are “too poor” that you

have not done these easy and sensible
things. There is a far different rea-

,f- son.

"7. There may be a difference of

opinion as to whether a farmer can
' afferd to buy grain to feed his’ cows
' on pasture;

but no farmer is “too
poor” to have an acre of fodder corn

' growing handy near the barn, perhaps

_'in last year’s,night lot’, to cut green

' for the cows, day by day, to help call

‘ _ them home, and to keep up the flow

: . of milk.

8. It is' not poverty that keeps

‘ farmers from treating seed oats with
.‘ formaldehyde to prevent smut.

9. It is not poverty, of the pocket-
book anyway, that keeps farmers from

‘ hill-selecting the best potatoes from

the best yielding hills at digging time
for next year’s seed. It may be pov-
erty of ambition or of ideals, but not

' of the “too poor” kind.

10. It is not because he “is “too

' poor” that a farmer breeds his hogs

and cows to scrub sires, and gets

A; scrub offspring.

11. We may differ as to Whether

’ you can afford to buy commercial fer-

tilizer; but no farmer is “so poor”
that he needs to let tons of liquid ma-
nure run through barn floors, and be
lost in barnyards that he will never
crop. It is lack of good management.

12. No farmer is “too poor" to thor-
oughly summer fallow a field, to' rid it
of weeds.

  

poor" to grade and grass over his door-

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act as it they thought that they» dare ' '

fence rows, barnyard, dooryard, until
they “get well off;” No farmer is “100

yard, and to set trees and clumps of
beautiful wild shrubs that he can find
free in the weeds. Each season the
writer notices many choice wild
shrubs that would beautify any farm
yard.

14. No farmer is “too poor” to cull

.his poultry, so that he will not waste
feed on hens that have passed their”

day of usefulness.

15. No farmer is “too poor” to al-.

low the county agent to test the milk
of his cows for butter-fat. Yet, the
agent often has difficulty in securing
the permission of the owner to make
the free test.

16. No farmer is “too poor” to
weigh the milk of his cows, to aid in
finding those that do not pay. Some
seem to dread to know the weight and
test.

Let us,
“too poor” talk.

farmer friends, drop this
The worst kind of

' poverty is that of the mind and ambi-

tion. Let us study to become good
managers; to become good farmers,
good homemakers, so that the appear-
ance of the farm is a comfort to the
family and a credit to the neighbor-v
hood.

The door of hope and of accomp-
lishment is not closed against any man
who will stop trying to convince him-
self that he is “too poor.”

 

 

 

SOIL NEEDS LIME.

 

IELDS in Lenawee county upon

which seedings of alfalfa were
made this spring without any applica-
tion of lime, in many instances show
a fine crop of sorrel and no alfalfa
Tests with a soiltex outfit show a high
degree of soil acidity

 

SOY BEANS DIFFICULT TO
HARVEST.

 

ANY Lenawee county farmers

planted soy beans this spring in
place of the corn which they usually
grow. Soy beans as a crop have been
slow in developing due to lack of
facilities for harvesting the crop.
Trials with the use of a header in har-
vesting soys, were made in Indiana
and Illinois last year.

 

EATON WOMEN ACTIVE IN EXTEN-
SION WORK.

 

ORE than 600 women were pres-

ent at the Achievement Day held
in Eaton county. Seven hundred and
twenty-three women were enrolled in
the home economics extension work
in the county for the winter courses.
A majority of the groups held local
exhibits of their work before Achieve-
‘ment Day at Charlotte. The work will
be continued next winter.

 

INTERESTED IN MILLING RED
ROCK WHEAT.

 

HE Huron Milling Company is in-
terested in the producing and mill-

5_ing quality of Red Rock wheat and

   
   
  

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has secured the cooperation of three
Harbor Beach farmers to try out this

variety in competition with the wheat

they usually plant. The trials will be
,s'pade with wheat planted this fall.
{farms were selected so that each trial
’ 1:111 be on a different soil type.

, County Agricultural Agent David
m believes that at least 100

Huron county farmers treated seed. po-
tatoes for scab, black scurf, and black-

.leg for the first time this year.

 

St. Clair county farmers purchased
a number of pure-bred Holsteins last
month. Most of the animals were
bought from Michigan breeders, but
four cows were purchased in Canada.

Genesee county farmers are prepar-
ing to seed a considerable acreage of
sweet clover and alfalfa in August.

 

FARMERS' DAY, AUGUST 4.

 

ICHIGAN farmers should

not forget the annual Farm-
ers’ Day, to be held at the Mich-
igan State Collegeat East Lan-
sing, Thursday, August 4. Among
the interesting features of this
year’s events will be a plowing
contest. Any farmers in the state
is privileged to participate in
this affair. There will be con-
tests for single teams with walk

ing plows, big teams pulling
gangplows, and for tractor
plows. President Pugsley, of

the South Dakota Agricultural
College, and former assistant
secretary of agriculture, will ad-
dress the farmers.‘ Music will
be furnished by the Rec Band.

  

 

 

 

Three marl beds in the county are

. used to furnish soil acidity remedies.

ALFALFA RESPONDED TO FER<
TILIZER. ~

 

FERTILIZER demonstration to .‘

show the effects of the use of
acid phosphate on alfalfa in my coun-
ty, gave a ton to the acre increase

of hay over 'an equal area that receiv-7

ed no fertiliser? The alfalfa was on
soil which is regularly planted to sug-

not do a thing for the looks of the "

WOMEN TO MEET AT CAMP NEWi-
KIRK.

 

ARM women ofWashtenaw county '*

will hold, their annual summer
camp at Camp Newkirk, near Dexter,
Michigan. This summer vacation for
rural mothers is a very popular one,
and could be held in other counties
with a large measure of success.» In
addition to'the rest derived 'from the
change of routine, the members at the
camp have an opportunity to listen to
the discussion of problems in which
they are vitally interested. The camp
is scheduled for the. week of August 15.

PLAN ALFALFA DEMONSTRA-
TIONS.

 

HE board of directors of the North-

eastern rMichigan Development
Bureau made an appropriation this
spring to finance several demonstra-
tion plantings of alfalfa on light soil.
The farmer upon whose place the
trials are to be made, agree to do all
the work'necessary to give the seed-
ing a fair trial; and the expense of
liming, fertilization, inoculation, and
seeding is partially borne by the De—
velopment Bureau.

Seeding trials will be made on light
soil types on the farms of Mr. Ho-
garth and Mr. Milroy, near Atlanta.
Additional fields will be sown under
this-plan in Arenac, Clare, Roscom—
mon, Alcona, and Montmorency coun-
ties.

FARMERS CONVINCED OF TEST
FOR TB.

 

HE highest percentage of cattle

infected with tuberculosis found
in any St. Clair township so far, has
been 3.3 per cent. The testing is pro-
ceeding rapidly. A party of St. Clair
county farmers visited Detroit and
watched some of the condemned ani-
mals from their county slaughtered
and the carcasses inspected. The vis-
itors returned home convinced that
the test for tuberculosis can be relied
upon.

PROMPT action by veterinarians
appears to have brought an out-
break of hog cholera under control in
adjoining townships of Ogemaw, los—
co, and Arenac counties.

ASK ME ANOTHER.

 

1. What are the by-products of the
salt industry in Michigan?

2. Where and when was cement
first manufactured in Michigan?

3. How far back does the mining in-
dustry of Michigan date?

4. How do the coast lines of the
Upper and Lower Peninsulas
compare in miles?

5. What is the mean average tem-
perature in Michigan?

6. Who first attempted copper min-
ing in the Upper Peninsula?

7. Name some inedible use to Which
blood from slaughtered animals
at packing houses are used.

8. What per cent of the world’s out.
put of automobiles is produced
in Michigan?

When was land first surveyed in
Michigan?

, 10. To whom is credited the breeding

of Rosen rye, 'Red Rock -wheat
and Robust beans?
The answers to these questions can

‘be found on another page of this issue. .

 

ANNUAL HORT. ToUR. \‘

 

HE tour this year will start from
the Graham Experiment Station,
July 26. Inspection of the grounds,
and a free dinner willbe the morning

       

* will be shown.

will be inspected

ville, where efects of peach thinni

 

pies on the Wadsworth Farm. trim/be
the next sight.

crop will occur on the way to. ,_
James Nicol Farm, where the results
of interesting pear pollination work.
In the afternoon.
the Friday Brothers’ Farm, at Coloma, I
will be visited. Verne Wormens or-g
chard, ranked as a typical Michigan?
orchard, will come next, then the Carli
Lindemann Farm near, Millburg, where |
good work with melons will be shown.’

On July 28 the J. J. Gard forty aeres
of pears, the H. F. Bartz 800 acres of.
grapes, and peaches, and the Warsco
Farm, near Berrien Springs, willhave

things of interest to fruit growers.

The first afternoon stop Will be at the
famous Ballard mulch orchards near
Niles, and the last stop at Keith Bros!

place near Sawyer, for a taste andi
inspection of the famous Mastadon'
strawberry.

For further information of this tour
write to H. D. Hootman, Secretary,
East Lansing, Michigan. Everyone in—
terested in fruit growing should~ plani
to attend. '

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News of the Week;

R. Rex Rennee,a World War ace.
plans to fly from New York to Paris
and return in twenty-four hours. He
clalms to have a special fuel which
w1ll enable him to maintain a speed of
over 300 miles an hour.’

Kevin O’Higgins, known as the
strong man of the Irish Free State,
was assassinated in Dublin, July 10.,
He was successor of Michael Collins,§
who was also assassinated. '

A French naval engineer, Jean P. I
Michel, has designed an ocean liner
which is half ship and half airplane..
It will be propelled as airplanes are,_
and will skim over the water at sixty;
miles an hour. One now being con-
Structed will have capacity for thirty
people-

Henry Ford publicly apologized laSti‘,
week for his attacks on the Jews;
through his publication, the Dearborni
Independent. He said if he had been '

 

 

aware of the nature of the attacks he

would not have allowed them. It is
presumed. that the Sapiro suit against
him will be settled out of court

Due to the Mexicanoil laws, oil pro—
duction-is being curtailed and an eco-
nomic crisis looms in that country.

Colonel Charles Lindberg will be in ‘
Detroit on August 11, as part of his
trip around the United States in the
interests of aviation.

A fifteen million dollar contract was
let to Stuart, James & Cook, engin—

eers, of New York, for the rehabilita— .

tion and development of the coal mines
in the Donetz and Moscow regions of
Soviet Russia.

Ten thousand Montana. voters have
asked Frank O. Lowden to run for
president.

Eddie Stinson won the National Air
Tour, which ended at the Ford Air-
port, July 12

An earthquake in Jerusalem, Pales-
tine, caused the death of about 1,000
people. \

Fire destroyed the town of West
Blockton, Alabama, because the water
pressure was too low to enable them
to cope with the fire.

Mrs.' Margaret Thickfoot, of the Sal-
teaux Indian Reservation, was consid-
ered Canada’s oldest inhabitant. She
died at the age of 112.

Seven thousand union construction
Workers in Baltimore went on strike,
tying up all building operations there.

The Tuskegee Institute, of Alabama,
the college for colored people, shows
that lynchings are on the decrease.
There were nine during the first half
of 1927, While thirty-six occurred dur-
ing the corresponding months in- 1921.

. The storm of July 11 blew down _ ,
many of the tents at the Camp Custer

Citizen's Military Camp.

in. Henryflord has been igvit”

The fine crop of an».

A ride through the "
vBarden Farm to see the good peach '

 

 

 

    

 

  

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'1‘ will soon be time for the hen-y
‘iolk's to gather in the camps again,

t6 harvest that crop Which old-

Mother Nature has so wonderfully pro-
vided far he? éh‘ildrene—the blueberry.
" And surely some years it is an
abundant harvest. When you can fill

s”ixteen cases 01! of a patch thirty feet -

square or less, surely the harvest is
plentiful
dreds of cases of berries are shipped

“ into the cities, the price depending

:‘ upon the quality and quantity of the

' crop. The main thing in picking them
is to keep them dry, for if they are

‘ moist when they reach their destina-
tion, they do not bring so good a price.

Last year, owing to our son’ 5 health,

’ we spent several weeks in the nerth,
camping, and as we happened to he

' in the berry country at the time they

‘ Were ripe, we decided to take a hand
at the berry game. This was an en-
tirely new and novel. experience, as
we used pickers and shipped our own
berries, and then, best of all, was the
life in the great out-of—doors, nature’s
playground for her children. ,

We camped on the plains at Rex-
i'ord among the jackpine, where there
were already quite a. number gathered,
and spent about two weeks in the
woods.

To get up early in the morning, re-
fleshed by a. good night’s sleep in the
open and with appetites that could

i easily handle pancakes, sausages and
black coffee without a grumble To
load our crates; a light lunch for noon,
together with ourselves into the au-

” tomobile and be off for a day in the
woods and swamps, happy and care-

- free, was fun, pure and simple. ,

Then home at night with enormous

”appetites, and crates full and ready
to be shipped out on the evening train,
which stopped only when flagged, then
supper, with the evening’ 5 visit around
a huge campfire, then bed and sweet
dreams.

7 To some. who can only find enjoy-
ment in hotels and fashionable resorts,
I 'would say, “You stay at home where
joy the forests and streams find our
deepest happiness in living close'vto
nature, for we can find pleasure even

‘ in picking blueberries.”

' For always, after a day spent in the
woods, I feel refreshed spiritually, and
better able to meet the petty trials
and difliculties that make up life, in
general.

Last year was an extremely poor

' year fer berries, yet we made more
than enough to pay for the gasoline
we used during our vacation, and we
didn’t work hard either.

There is one pest you have to con-

' tend with, andthat is thelblack fly.”

The pickers don’t usually work after
,four. O’clock, because aboutlthat time
this little insect becomes too active,
for ordinary folks. We couldn’t be—
‘iieve what we had heard about the
black fly, so we stayed later one af-
ternoon. All at once a voice rang
” out, saying, x "Come on, let’s go home
or these blankety blank bloodthirsty
devils will drive me crazy,”
As soon as I could open my mouth
to ansWer, Without Swallowing a hand-
ful, I replied. f‘l’m ready any time

But. say, what do you think of the .,

tales told of the black fly, now?"
received no au 16 reply, only low
muttering throng tightly closed lips
So I leave you to draw your own con-
cluelons.

In the swamps which were dry un-
dor root, the homes grew on bushes

‘ ' h

I

During a geod season him-e

jful, set the dish on the ant- -hill, and

“'1':th used atam unless the user is will-
“rang to prevent accident .
on days of exposure of this poisoned . ~

saw a deer, but I was not so fertun‘ater
In one swamp where we were, Old

Bmin had enjoyed a feast, of blueber- ’

ries a short time beforewe arrived. ,

There is one thing I must-speak 'of, »

and that is the destruction and deso-
lation following forest fires. We were
in places Where acres and acres of
dead timber stood the blackened
stumps mute evidenCe of someone’ s
carelessness, no doubt. And it surely

impressed -me as nothing else could, ,

to be' more careful with campfires and
matches in a country who's beauty
and attractiveness. lies in its pine for-
ests and streams. ,

This was one of the worst places to
get .10st in and tell directions I ever
saw. If you turned around a few
times you could scarcely tell up. from
dewn, as all the points of the com-
pass looked exactly alike.

And now that our vacation time is
nearing again, I look forward'to a
few days at least, on the plains at
Rexford, also another ride across the
Thousand Acres, a place that looks as
though men had sometime cleared the
land for farming, but the people who
live there say it has always looked
like that. I hope to see it again, for
country of northern Michigan that
there is something about the pine
is forever calling to we who enjoy the
trail, and the campfire’s glow.

GETTING RID OF ANTS.

 

What would be a good remedy to
kill ants that are destroying our lawn
by covering it with ant hills?—-—A. E.

We have been very successful in
controlling ants in lawns and dwell-
ings with a mixture of extracted hon-
ey and tartar emetic. Use one part
of ‘the tartar emetic to twenty of ex-
tracted honey. The honey should be
as thick as possible. Sometimes we
thicken it still more by the addition
of powdered sugar, in order to prevent
the tartar emetic from settling out.

This works very satisfactorily on
the common, mediumsized brown ants
that make the ant hills and which
come from these hills into the house
and attack foods. .It 'does not apply
to the tiny ants that love grease, nor
does it work very well on the large
carpenter ants, the big black follow
that ' tunnels in wood, although it
sometimes does work, even when used
against these large carpenter ants.

The proportions given are just, about
right, and no other poison should be
substituted for the tartar emetic. If
the poison is made too strong the ants
will be killed before they have time
to tear up their nests and thus de-
stroy the coming generation: If it is
made too weak the ants will not be
killed at all, and failure will result,
and the substitution of any other poi-
son upsets the whole scheme There-
fore, one should insist that the drug-
gist prepare the poison exactly ac—
cording to directions.

One must remember that this poison
is extremely dangerous to man, and
all sorts of animals, as well as to
ants. It should never be exposed
where children can get” to it, and it
should be safeguarded in every way
to prevent accident.

When used on lawns, I like to place
“a little in a tin, perhaps a teaspoon-

over it invert an empty wooden box,

like a soap box,“ so that nothing will '

be apt to gain ceases to thexpoison
except the ants, which will find their
way under the edge of the box.

I would advise that the poison be

A week or

should new results and often-_

43W“
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The No. 210 is cfiectivo in combating

thoE uropeon Corn rer. Special corn
borer equipment consists of 16-inch
bottom, moldboard winfinoxtonoion,
18-inch rolling coultor, dependent

jointor and trash wire.

syn-acme is :11;sz of”
Longer Life ‘

, time in hard, sandy or gravelly soil; they pull lighter and do 21;. 3”

Light Draft Sulky

      
       
 

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You can plow more acres in . ., . 1 L;
a day with the John Deere- . “ '
Syracuse N o. 2 1 0 Sulky because,
the rolling landside makes it
the lightest draft plow of its
type.

‘Can be used with either steel
or chilled bottom—s u i t a b l e
for any kind of soil.

Cuts furrows of uniform ’ *.
depth and width even when
turning square corners. Auto-
matically governed by front ,
furrow wheel. '

 

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cuse line of walking plows. For ex-

tremely severe conditions.

Remember, one genuine Syracuse
Chilled share will outlast two similar
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HE correct designing of Hood
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This flat tread on Hood Balloons
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LIGHT THE ROADSIDE STAND.

 

HOSE of our readers close to a

good-sized town who are trying to
sell vegetables and dairy products
from a roadside stand will do well to
try out lighting it up well during the
early evening. While the majority of
tourists do not drive much after dusk,
the best chancefor such sales is from
city people who are coming back from
a spin in the country. Electric light
is the most convenient, if available,
but a good gasoline or acetylene lan-
tern will do very nicely, as these both
give bright, white lights which Show
off the stands to advantage. A pro‘s-
pective customer is not so likely to
overlook the stand when lighted up at
night as he is during the day. Many
farmers have found this a quick and
profitable way of disposing of surplus
dairy and vegetable products.

IN POULTRY RAIS-
ING.

ELECTRICITY

 

XPERIMENTAL work with elec-
tricity in poultry raising on the
experimental electric projects at var-
ious agricultural colleges, show that
the use of electric lights in laying
houses during the short winter days
has been found to result consistently
in increased egg production. The cost
of power for lights and extra feed con-
sumed, is relatively small, compared
with the increased returns, the cost
of installing the lights being the more
important item of expense. Electric
brooders have been found satisfactory
if properly operated. Electricity for
brooding usually costs more than oil,
but eliminates much of the labor and
most of the hazard.
Now is a good time to wire the poul—
try house for lights to increase laying
as soon as the days begin to shorten.

FARMS MAY GET CITY GAS.

 

GAS distribution system having

1,700 miles of mains is to be con-
structed in Germany to carry gas from
the Ruhr district to various parts of
the country. The longest single main
will be that to Berlin, a distance of
285 miles. Gas will be distributed
through this system, not only to the
larger cities, but to small villages and
eventually to many farms.

American gas producers are watch-
ing this experiment with much inter-
est. Already in northern Illinois one
firm is supplying gas at high pressure
from two large central plants to a
number of small towns and villages,
where it is reduced down to the nor-
mal working pressure. Eventually we
may findgas generated in huge plants
in the big fields through high pressure
pipes to every city and village within
a radius of 300 miles or more. In such
a case, it will be a simple matter to

v. extend the distribution out into the

more thickly settled rural districts.

 

LIGHTNING PROTECTION FOR
MASONRY HOUSES.

 

Have just read an article in which
it states that brick and cement are
non-conductors of lightning. Does this
mean that lightr'ng will not strike
Is a brick
. htning, or should
' s?—~H. O.

The statement probably ,was, or
should have been, that brick and ce
ment are hen-conductors of electricity,
just as wooden buildings are; but the
pressure behind the lightning flash is
so terrific that any material will* con<
duct the flash to the ground, metals
better than most other materials.

A. brick or cement house is no more

    

 

  

Immune to being struck by 11th l!- S}
than awoodcn one. althoush the dam- 7

age and dangerof fire-might not be'so
great.
be protected just the same as a wood-
en building. .

‘ Such a house, however, should

Chief Justice arm
that
time. However. in this opinion it is

well to note that Justice Grant states
that. should there be mistakes made

in the test, that the owner of the cat-
tic might get redress from the one
who tested the cattle, by sueing {for

damages in such cases.
' I have written the Michigan State

' Farm Bureau and have Offered Eto

 

 

Readers’

SCULLY PROTESTS TB TEST.

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HE question of bovine tuberculosis.

has becomes. very interesting one

to the- -many farmers throughout
the state of Michigan, whose herds
have been subjected to the tuberculin
test.

The justness or unjustness of the
test in question is a matter which is
being debated very seriously by the
farmers throughout the state. It would
be a great deal of satisfaction to the"
many farmers if they were satisfied
regarding the correctneSs of this test,
and no wonder that we, as farmers,
are somewhat skeptical regarding the
correctness of the test when we find
that in many instances the veterinar-
ians who are sent to make the test,
come on to one’s farm, request the
cattle to be herded in the barn, and
subjected to the test, branding any re-
actors that there might be in the herd,
and ordering them slaughtered at
once. These orders, all coming from
strangers to the farmer, or men un-
known to them, it can readily be seen
that the farmer might doubt the qual-
ifications of the tester.

The writer traveled through Mc-
Comb county, and there discovered
that a large percentage of the cattle
of the herds tested were claimed to be
reactors. The farmers themselves es-
timating the loss to be about sixty per
cent of the entire herds. While infor-
mation at hand seems to show that
in Lapeer county there has only been
twenty-nine reactors out of 2,150 head
tested.

The writer has been unable to ob-
tain any authority that bovine tuber-
culosis is communicable to the human
being. He also understands that there
are many cattle which might show re-
action, which are not carriers .of the
disease to the other cattle, and might
be classified as non-carriers. He also
was given to understand that an ani-

.- mal might have the disease so badly

that they would not show reaction,
therefore, would be left in the herds
of the accredited cattle, and without
a doubt' would be carriers of the dis-
ease.

Having questioned the merits of the
test, I have consulted a lawyer in De.
troit who finds, upon diligent search

.derstood

place 8-100 in the State Bank or Na.-
tional Bank, together with ninety-nine
other farmers who will show interest

enough to deposit $100 each in a state

or national bank, such bank being des-

_, ignated by a committee from the
group contributing to said fund which

will raise an amount of $10, 000 to be
used for the purpose of testing out
law relative to the tuberculin. test a" (I
the authority of the department of an-
imal husbandry under the department
of the agricultural commission of the
state of Michigan.

I further understand that the board
of health of the city of Detroit have
passed a resolution that all milk on-
tering that city on and after January
1, 1928. must come from tuberculin
tested herds.

It is my belief that if this law were“
tested through the supreme court, and
if a decision of the supreme court was
held against the test, that the city Of
Detroit would withdraw their resolu—
tion, as all milk going into the city of
Detroit is pasteurized, and it is un-
that such pasteurization
makes the milk ninety-eight per cent

pure, as far as germ- carrying diseases

are concerned.

_ en we consider that farmers have
worked their lifetime tograde up their
herds of cattle under the direction of
the Michigan State College, by the use
of pure- -bted sires, at a large expense
of money, time and effort, and then
we find irresponsible and uninterested
in ownership of cattle, men coming to
us to test our herds, destroying in
large numbers, and in many instances
entire herds of Cattle, taking aWay
from these farmers their possible milk
checks, which. is the real basis of
their livin, it seems to me that it is
time for t e farmers to rise and act
on such questions.

Governor Green said in an address
before the Safety Conference held at
Ann Arbor recently, that the chief
function of a state was the making of
happy homes. Can those interested in
the destruction of these cattle, which
are in most instances the best cattle
of the herd, consider that that is one
way of making happy homes through-
out the state of Michigan?

To my fellow farmers, I wish to say
that if you are interested, I will be
very glad to hear from myou, addressing
me at Almont, Mich gan, at least, I
am anxihus to get comments pro and
con on this subject through the col-
umns of this paper. —Charles B. Scully,
Almont, Michigan.

 

 

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FINDS STAR FISH IN SWAMP.

 

We live on a piece of muck land
which has been a swamp as long as
people‘can remember, and was most
likely a lake years ago. When ditch-
ing last spring I dug up a star-fish.
By nature the star-fish belongs in the
sea.
how in the world the thing got in this
muck so far inland. —J. B.

The star-fish is a salt water organ-
ism and therefore could not live in
our inland lakes at, the present time.
It is quite possible that the object
found was a fossil-of some sort. Salt
water fossils are not uncommon in
Michigan. It is .well~known that
throughout most of geologic time Mich-
igan Was covered by large bodies of
salt water organisms, the hard parts
of which We find new as fossils'in the
various rocks.-—-W. 1. Robinson.

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. What price per foot should he charg-
ed for filling twelve mild, fourteenofoot
silos? ofurnis‘he‘s the kerosene?
What price0 should be oh
filler, one man and :1 ben,‘
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cated near Lansing, it hascost fifty

.cents per foot for a silo cutter, engine

and belt to fill ten-foot silos. The own-
er of the outfit furnishes the kerosene
in most cases, and the owner of the
silo furnishes extra help at current
prices. For a. part of the equipment
only, the proportionate cost of filler
and belt,‘as compared with the price
of the engine, might be used with the
fifty cents per foot as a basis for
computation. —R. S. Hudson.

 

SHARE OF HAY.

 

What share must owner give to
party if he has his hay put up, said
party furnishes all work and tools?-
Subscriber.

Where second party only harvests
the crop (as hay) his share will de-

,pend entitely On the crop yield per.

a.cre It requires from five to eight

' hours of man labor, and ten to sixteen
hours of horse labor per acre to “bar.-
‘vest hay. This amount of time, fig-
would about =
canal one-half the value of, an aver- '
aE‘g crop ’Aiheavier crop would” ~

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ing ceremony.

The American delegation representing the United States in Gen-
eva’s Naval Limitation Conference, initiated by Pmsident Cocl—
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Lieutenant St. Clair, Major Lamphier, Orville Wright, Major Cur-
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> When pumping water took too much time, this
. ' Cape Cod farmer rigged up a bicycle and a .
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Capt. Campbell, of U. S Marines
in Cal, plans non- stop flight from
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Even the girls of the younger generation are taking to the air.
Dicky Heath, shown here, has flown over 300 hours, in this tiny
parasol plane with a wing spread of only twenty-one feet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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shoe soles are being made by R. C. Bowker,
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Adventures of. the Brown

Family—By fo/m Francs} Care _ 1,

Little Joe’s Great Adventure

FTER being missing from Lone

Oak Farm for a night and a day,

Little Joe Brown’s discovery had
been announced by Jack Miller who
had insisted on taking up the hunt
alone. Hal, who had headed one
searching party, had started at head-
long speed with his sister Beth to
reach the place from whence the
gunfire signal came. There still was
no certainty that the child was alive
and well.

Heedless of briers that scratched
her face and hands, Beth kept close
to .Hal’s side. “I want to see right
where Jack found him,” panted Hal.
“It’s mighty queer, Beth, that Jack
wouldn’t even take dad or me along.
You’ll never convince me that he
doesn’t know Something he's keeping
from us.’

“Boom! Boom!” Again the signal.
“He’s making for the road,” cried Beth
as they sped on, “We’ll head him off
and ride home.”

“Evidently he isn't going to let us see
the place Where he found Little Joe,"
muttered Hal as he fired two shots in
quick succession. “Anyway, we'll soon
know if the kid’s safe.”

Around the bend of the road swept
the Miller touring car. Perched on
the seat beside the driver was Little
Joe, safe and sound. Even stalwart
Hal wept in happy relief as Beth
clasped her small brother close and,
unashamed, sent up a prayer of
thanksgiving. Then Jack Miller "was
besieged with questions. “How did you
find him 1’,” demanded Hal. “And where?
There’s a lot of funny business about
this, Jack, and I want the truth.”

“Little Joe can talk for himself,”
answered Jack brusquely. “I didn’t
find him, he came to me. Get in the
car and we'll take him home.”

“You mean you won’t talk?” flashed
Hal, “We’ll see about that!” Seizing
Jack by the arm Hal jerked him from

the car. “New, curse you, explain why
you wouldn’t let me go along.”

“Hal! Hal! !” cried Beth, as Jack put
up his arm to ward off a blow. “Shame
on you! Explanations can wait. Let’s
get Little Joe home to mother. Jack,
I trust you. I know you are our
friend."

With only a grateful glance, with no
word of explanation, Jack Miller climb-

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ed back in the car and took the wheel.
Beth held Little Joe close as if afraid
he might vanish from her sight. At
intervals Hal fired signal shots to re-
call thesearching parties. Soon they
were at the House of the Lone Oak
and Mother Brown was mingling her
happy tears with those of Little Joe’s,
but when she looked up to thank his
rescuer, Jack Miller had disappeared.

‘ In the center of an interested group,
Little Joe began his strange story. He
had wandered down the stream, hunt-
ing for pretty pebbles, until suddenly
he discovered that darkness had fallen

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and that he was far from home.
Frightened, he had‘ turned to retrace
his steps, when who should appear but
Sam Jacks whom he had known back
in the old home in Clark county.

“He said he would take me home by
a ‘short cut.’ " went on little Joe.
’Course, I didn’t like him but I was
scared. We went a long way ,an’ I
kept gettin’ scareder and began to cry.
Then he slapped me and swore at me
somethin’ awful." Little Joe wept
anew at the memory and a boyish
oath came from Hal’s grim lips.

“I broke away from him," continued
Little Joe, “an ran olf in the dark an’
hid.

I was more afeard of him than

     
  
   

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Little Joe Began His Strange Story.

the dark. He hunted a long time an’
then went on! an’ I ran some more. It
was big woods an’ the rocks was aw-
ful. The , wolves ’howled." Mother
Brown shuddered and for a little while
Joe hid his head on her breast and
wept.

“I kept a callin’ and a callin’,” Little
Joe again took up the story, “an’ "a
cryin’. Finally I seen a tiny little light
an' I ran that way, but there wasn’t
any house. I kept on callin’ and pret-
ty soon I heard someone say, “Who’s
dar, who's dar?"

Now all members of the searching

   

party held returned and‘ faces, were

tense with interest as Little Joe pane- _

ed. “Go on, sonny,” cried Jud Burns.
“let's get the straight of this and then
that teller Jacks is a goin' to stretch
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me, Little Joe Brown. I’m lost and
I’m hurled. An’ I cried some more. [I
guess. Little way off a door opened
right out of the side of the hill an’
an old Nigger man come out with a
lantern. Gee, he looked bootiful to
me!" Tenseness relaxed as the crowd
laughed at the lad’s naive declaration.

“He was an old man an' he took
me into a big room under ground,”
continued Little Joe, “and washed my
face an’ got me somethin’ to eat. He
kept a sayin’ Two little fellér, pore
little teller. Neb’ll look out fer him.’
Pretty soon, back in one corner of the
room I saw there Was another man
asleep. He was an old white man with
long whiskers an'he snored somethin'
awful”

“Black Neb and the old Captain, ”
shrilied Mrs. Fernandez. “Jose, may.
be we get our money yet.”

(Continued next week).

 

 

 

4,,“ “By the,Way”

USING TACK TAGT.

 

 

One night as a couple was getting
ready for bed, the husband cried, “0w!
0w! I stepped on a tack.” -

His wife said, “Oh, I am so glad
you found it dear, for I do hate to
have tacks lying around on the floor.” ,

HELEN'S COMMERCIAL MIND.

 

“So you asked Helen to marry you?”

asked a. man of the other.

“Yes, but .I didn’t have any luck,"
replied his friend. “She asked me if
I had any prospects."

“Why didn't you tell her of your;
rich uncle?"

“I did. Helen is my aunt now."

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PRINCE ALBERT couldn’t have suited
me better if I had made the blueprints
myself, and superintended the entire job
from soup to nuts! It fitted my smoke-
taste perfectly the first time I tried it. I
started right —- with P. A. —— and I’ve
stayed with it.

I wanted fragrance. I got it . . . both
from the tobacco in the tidy red tin and
in the smoke itself. Fragrance that re-
minded me of woodland trails just after
a soft, spring rain. I wanted mildness—
mildness that would let me smoke from
morning till midnight.

P. A. was

made-to-measure .
for me

But mildness alone was not enough.
I demanded a full, rich tobacco body
that would satisfy my pipe-hankering on
every fire-up. There again Prince Albert
had my measure, right to the tick of the
tape. Cool, long-burning, free from bite
and patch—P. A. was all of these.

You suspect by this time that I am sat-
isfied with P. A. I’ll tell the world I am!
And I want to get it over to you that, if
you don’t know P. A. by personal expe-
rience, you’ve got something coming to
you . . . something mighty good. Try
P. A., on the word of a friend!

P. A. is sold everywhere in tidy red
tins, pound and hall-pound tin humi-
dors, and pound crystal-glass humidor:
with sponge-moistener top. And
always with every bit of bite and parch
removed by the Prince Albert process.

PRINCE ALBERT

—no other tobacco is like it!

1927, R. . Rfyuolds Tobacco
ompany, veins on-Salem. N. C.

 

 


Clearing the jungle
for a United States
Rubber Company
Plantation.

e Greatest Large-Scale Farmer

Picture 3 group of farms totaling 136,000
acres with 20,000 hands to work them.
Consider that these farms had to be cleared
from virgin jungle, drained, fertilized, pre-
pared. That 10,000,000 trees have been
grown from seed, set out, grafted. Consider,
also, that these farms have whole villages
within their borders, schools and hospitals.
Docks of their own. 80 miles of railroad
and 355 miles of motor roads. Picture this
and you begin to get an idea of the greatest
agricultural enterprise in the world—the Far
Eastern rubber plantations of the United
States Rubber Company.

This huge development has but one object
—to make certain of an ever—increasing sup—
ply of the finest rubber that can be grown
for United States Tires. And so to guarantee
the users of United States Tires quality
right through from the place where quality
must start—the rubber from which the tires
are built.

"2&2me

HE longer wear of United States Royal Cord Balloons begins
with rubber grown for quality. But plantation ownership is only
one of the important steps in producing these better tires.

To obtain tire cord of the quality its specifications demand, the
United States Rubber Company operates its own Cotton Mills in the
heart of the cotton fields.

And every Royal Cord Balloon incorporates three of the greatest
forward steps ever made in tire building:

Sprayed Rubber—the purest, strongest and most uniform crude
rubber known; Web Cord—the framework of the tire structure in
which the cotton cords are bonded together with pure rubber latex
without friction generating cross—tie threads; and the Flat Band
Method—which assures a tire equally strong at every point.

Companyvowned plantations and mills, new and better materials
and methods—all mean greater mileage for tires. That is what you
are interested in. Get more for your money—go to the dealer who
sells United States Tires.

United States ® Rubber Company

Trade Mark

UNITED STATES

ROYAL C 0 RD

BALLOON

in theWorld......

Bud-grafting young
stock. Each budded
tree must be pro-
tected with a shield
of leaves.

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On Educatmn

Andi/1e? Mather Answer: “A Mother” x~‘ 1 "

I-HAVE just re-read the letter on

the Boys’ and Girls' Page by the
mother whose sons are successful

i .threshers, because they hate only a
(sixth grade education By the Way, ,
‘ is success to be measured only in dol-

lars and cents, or in the posseSsion of
threshing rigs and tractors? To my
mind, this is a very small part of a
successful life.

I, too, have two sons. Their ages
are eight and three. I want to see

' them both graduate from (the college

of their choice, but if they do not care

 

 

Horst Beyer Shows me Baldheaded.
He’ll Make me so if he Keeps on.

for college I shall only insist on their
finishing high school. I would as soon
think of amputating one of their feet
to save washing them, as to remove
them from school with only a sixth
grade education. \

My education cost my parents quite
a sun of money, and many a long cold
ride behind old Dobbin, taking me to
and from my boarding place in town,
eight miles from home. My father did
not leave me a big fortune, but the
education which he helped me to ob-
tain is of far greater value to me than

'1 the wealth of Rockefeller or Ford, in

the richer, fuller life which it enables
me to enjoy.

Now, what have I gained, and what
do I expect my sons to gain from the
seven to ten years spent in school be-
yond the sixth grade? Here are ten
things:

First, there 'are the friendships form-
ed during those impressionable years,
friendships with the finest 'of young
men and women, with years of work
and play together as a foundation.

Second, there are the memories
which enable one to relive those hap-
py carefree years.
light rides, weiner roasts, victories
over difl‘icult problems, humorous sit-

uations, debates, plays,vand so 011.

Third, there is the actual knowledge
gained. To be' in possession of that
knewledge is like having immense re-
serve funds; but while banks may fail
or thieves might steal one’s gold, no
one" can deprive one of his storehouse
of knowledge.

Fourth is' the broadening of one’s
outlook on life. Without education
one is. apt to be like the peas in the
pod. Their pod was green, 30-. they
said to each other, “The world is
green.” Education takes one 1 away

from his own little circle and gives

him a bird’s eye glimpse of the uni-
verse; and he sees himself, not as the
individual for whom the earth was
created, but as a very small part of
God’s great family.

Fifth, education brings one closer to
First, thrOugh na-
ture study. bird study,
science and botany. one dolves into

JIM!“ «semis and sets a.- new so.-
its .

Memories of moon- ,

agriculture, 3

understanding and need not be depend-
ent upon Weiss to~tell him its
meaning, but, can think it out for
himself.

Sixth,» there is the love‘afor good
books. While some develop the habit
of reading good books without going
to school, most people do not. The stu-
dent is compelled to read a certain
number of books each year, and with
the fine libraries at his hand he can
read as many more as he desires.

Seventh, is theability to express
one’s self both verbally and on paper.
College, especially, trains one to think
while on his feet; and later in life,
when he may be called upon to speak
at a public gathering he Will not feel
like the babes in the wood when he
sees all eyes turned toward him, but
will be master of himself and his

'thoughts.

Eighth, is the development of one’s
judgment. There are times when de-
cisions must be made quickly, and'the
training one receives in high school
and college comes to the front to help
at these times. No one cares to be
like the girl who spent an hour trying
to decide which dress to wear to the
picnic.

Ninth, is contentment. Most grumb-

lers . are uneducated people. They
blame the government or their neigh-
bors. fortheimr failures; never them

selves. .But when..onevis big enough

to look at the world as a whole, he
can“ say, with the poet:
‘.‘There’s ever» and ever. the blue, blue

8 ,
And ever and ever the green, green

3 .
And ever and ever between the two,
Blow the wonderful winds of God.”

Tenth, is the increase in one’s earn-
ing poWer. Statistics have proven
that a child’s time in school is worth
ten dollars each day in cold cash. It
is a great satisfaction to me to know
that should circumstances compel me
to be the family wage earner I could
do so successfully. _

I could give you probably ten more
reasons why I value my education
more than money, and why I want my
boys to go through high school and
college. I only wish it had been pos-
sible for me to_go to school longer
than I did, and I have heard many,
many people say the same thing.

I wish to say to the Michigan Farm-
er boys and girls, get all the education
you can, and get it in your “teens,"
for later the responsibilities of life
may deprive you of the opportunity.
While now and then you may see an
“educated fool,” don’t blame educa-
tion any more than you blame the
automobile industry for the get-away
of a bank robber.——Another Mother.

 

 

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Dear Uncle Frank:

I've got to hand it to Christine Zech.
Her argument for prehibition certainly
affected me more than her argument
against it. There are always two
sides to an argument, and when one
begins to look at both, it makes him
feel rather helpless. . But I believe
firmly in prohibition, and therefore
only gave it good points. Just like a
man who is selling a good-looking,

. good milch cowwhowever, if the cow

has other qualities, such as being an
awful kicker and fencebreaker, etc.,
the man keeps that-to himself.

I wish someone who knows some-
thing about evolution would write
about it. I think it’s rather silly-—
though, of course, such great men as
Darwin wouldn’t have spent their
whole lives on the theory for nothing.
Nevertheless, if all the socalled great
men of the universe were to say it
was so, it wouldn’t shake my faith in
divine creation—Farm Kate.

I, too, thought Christine’s dry argu-
ments were better than her wet ones.
Evolution has been cussed and dis-
cussed in these columns, but we can
continue if anything new along the
line is sent in. I would like your
name and address in order to answer
the rest of your letter.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

There are so many things I’d like
to say, and I hardly know where to
begin. At times it is hard for me to
say what I mean, and at other mo-
ments, expression is the easiest .thing
in the world, and I become a fluent
conversationalist. But, I have learned
that if I put my best into all I do or
say, I get out that which I have given.
And I’m going to be candid, and con-
fess that I Occasionally indulge in the
most contemptibie fault of self—pity,
and sigh for what might have been;
for, most or my life I have beena
sick child anda dreamer. I think I
am of a nervous, energetic type that

-wastes all its fuel in' one day, and

urns out like an 'unrcplenished fire.
And I cannot understand the great
universe, and am not content because
ofthls. Theo'nly wart-can
disordered self is in roost ticn of

Henry Van Dyke's "m; Path to
.Peaoe”-— “To be and of life because
it gives us the'ohhnco'to work and

uiet my .

logo and look spat the stars," This"

line is so extremely beautiful that I
forget myself in it.

One more word. There is no such
disparity in people as we lead one an-
other to believe. I am no saint, and
I possess a faulty temperament in
which I don’t always live up to my
motto to make others happy.

On reading this over I.find that a
great many I’s appear—or seem to.
I’m sorry, for it sounds crude and un-
learned. This isn’t intended for a ser-
mon, and I’m almost sorry I wrote it,
for'this is one of my nights when my
thoughts are clouded and dense, and
my hand refuses to write. Pray, don’t
think me. extravagant and sentimental.
—-“Dreambird:”

Your mind was not dense, but rest-
less, when you wrote this. You speak
what many of us feel. We all have
longings and discouragements—some
more than others. Those who have
the greatest discouragement have of-
ten left the world ‘the most. Who
does understand the universe? It is
a problem to all.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

The girls will probably resent what
I have to say, but nevertheless, I will
take the risk. I read a while ago that
someone said that he or she shudders
when he hears someone swear. That
set me thinking. ‘I wonder if that per-
son really does shudder under such
circumstances. If so, it would be a
curiosity to see that person. Of course,
that sounded like the person was a
Sunday school child. Yet to me,,it
sounded like there was something be
hind it. You (girls) will think me a
fanatic, for you listen to the sound of
the letters, not thinking them out;

Many persons sign fake ,. names—I
sign mine in big bold letters—M.
Grayvold.

' I think the one was sincere in the
reference to shuddering. Profanity is
the weeds of language, and is more
objectionable to some than others. Do-
Sirable thoughts cannot be expressed

through swearing, therefore it is use:

less.

 

‘mfiw Uzicie mfifl: out
so
feel y chest and

pin! 3.15%?” makes me happy is

have an H. C...

the fact that I am a Merry Ciroier. ,
I wish I could pat John 0.. ROM r‘
on the back. There are not man .
young men, 1 m sorry to say, whocculd
at this modern age take such a. vita
subject and disouss it so thoroughl
as John has done. Much less could
they quote such characteristic phrases"-

from the Bible to interpret the mean-7'“

ings for a subject as he did. I know '
this is true, because in the past few
years at our Sunday school the boys'
classes am very small for those even
sixteen and seventeen years of age.
It’s terrible. I hope this is not so all
over the world.

I would like to say more, but I don’t
want to invite W. B. to my party--
he's not ente1taining. —-Kay.

So, Kay, you think John is O. K. I

say amen to what you say about him. .-

 

HOW THE M. C. HAS HELPED ME.‘

 

TWO very good contest suggestions-
came in this morning's mail.’
Anna Westers suggested this subject
for one. Please tell, in about 250
words, or less, how you have been
benefited by the Merry Circle activi«
ties. The two best letters will win

fountain pens for prizes; the next
three, clutch pencils; and the next
five, handy pocket knives. The con-

test closes July 29. Send your letters
to Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer,
Detroit, Michigan, but before you send
it be sure your name and address is in
the upper left-hand corner and M. C.
is after your name, if you are a Merry
Circler.

THE READ-AND-WINNERS.

 

KNOW now that the M. C.’s do not

always work the contests for the
sake of the prizes awarded. This time -
I announced the contest but did not
promise to give any prizes. In fact,
I did not mention prizes, still we got"
in a nice lot of replies. We are giv-
ing prizes anyhow, and the lucky ones
to get them are:

Fountain Pens.
Ariel Denton, Saranac, Mich.
Ola Esther Funderburg, R. 2, Me-
sick, Mich. °
Clutch Pencils.
Ruth Esther Kerr, R. 2, Shelby.
Carson Nelson, Filion, Mich.

sees
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my,
W'o Henna

Merrzf ’
G 1 volelr'

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W ‘0 9" A «1‘ “
Do Net Dream, Little Girl, But Work
Contests and Become an M. C. .'

Theodore Waisanen, Box 62, Aura.
Knives.
Ellen Ewing, Marquette, Mich.
Gertrude Rathbun, Fowlerville.
Winifred Abele, R. 1, Buchanan.
Francis Morse, Marcellus, Mich.
Emelia Brabic, R.
York.

 

 

cowresr ANSWERS. . '/ 2

Here are the correct answers to ”$0
Read-and- Win Contest which closed on
July 15.

1. Will Kline~3- 23.

2. 1157-3-23.

3~ 2.22 inchesrrss-lli. ,_

4. Law is like a sign post. 07‘ ,1
you an undesirable mods—8114.

5. gages without syrup—.181-

are and Cora—~5- 25.

      
  
       

 
 

    
 

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Vegetable Diet IS Summer loony:

If Coated \Praper/y, Mart of Me Vitamins Are Conserved
By Martha King ‘

HANGE of temperature enforces

an immediate change of wearing

apparel upon the average indi-
vidual, but a great many people fail
to take the next logical step and alter
their diet. What is good for the hu—
man system during cold weather is
not the best summer food. Habit has
made meat the basis of the American
meal, winter and summer, yet from
the standpoint of health and comfort,
leaving economy out of the question,
we are better off if we confine our-
selves to lighter foods during the hot
summer months.

Milk and eggs, of course, are the
best of foods at all times. While sup-
plying maximum nourishment they do
not heat the blood. Vegetables, and
particularly greens, are likewise good
at all times, but nature has especially
ordained them for summer eating. Now
that we have devised many new ways
of preparing them, they are taking
their logical place as the staple sum-
mer dinner food on the average Amer-
ican table.

Vegetable Dinner with Vitamins.

An ideal vegetable dinner may con-
sist of the following: Creamed pota-
toes, green peas, asparagus, young car.

_rots, spinach, and a poached egg. It
may be preceded by cantaloupe, or
berries and cream, and followed by a.
light tomato and lettuce salad. A bit
of cream cheese completes a very
tasty and nutritious meal, with either
iced or hot tea to follow, and of the
two the hot tea is really the more
cooling.

Green vegetables should not be boil-
ed for long periods. They should be
immersed in rapidly boiling water,
whose‘ boiling point has been raised
by the addition of salt, a tablespoenful
to‘ the quart, and cooked only until
tender and edible. If boiled slowly
and too long, they will lose color and
flavor, as well as valuable vitamins.

In preparing the vegetable dinner
suggested, the potatoes from a former
meal may be used. They should be
cut in cubes, covered with cream
sauce, and heated over a slow fire for
fifteen minutes. The peas, or beans,
if preferred, should be cooked in wa-
ter adequate to cover them, and to
which salt has been added, for ten or
fifteen minutes, then drained, and
drenched with butter, pepper, salt and
paprika. The butter and seasoning
make or mar peas or beans,- and, of
course, they should not be overcooked.

Cook to Save the Vitamins.

Spinach should be cooked in as lit-
tle water as possible for ten minutes.
Drain thoroughly, chop fine, and add
butter, pepper and salt, and a ilittle
vinegar. The dish may be further im-
proved if sprinkled with the yolk of a
hard-boiled egg. Scrape the carrots
andslice them lengthwise and across,

‘ then place them over the fire with 'just .»

ienough Water to prevent burning. Af—
'.ter ten‘ minutes the water will have
(been absorbed, then add butter gener-
ously, and season Well, especially with
’iimprlka. . '
s: - Asparagus should be cooked quickly
V 7113 a. small quantity of water, then
‘ seed with butter, pepper and salt,
and a little lemon juice. Only about
" tnree inchesof the stalk should be
used, and the balance reserved for as-
pd‘nmis cream soup. which is one of

 
 

the most delicious ameng all liquid
foods.

When the vegetables are about
ready, poach enough eggs for the fam-
ily, and arrange 011 pieces of thin
toast, buttered. T’lace the eggs in the
center of a large platter, and group
the vegetables around them. Sprinkle
the whole with salt, pepper and pap-
rika, and garnish it with a. few radish-

inches from the border, and a heavy
orange twine drawn in to make a bor-
der. ———Mrs. L. K.

OVLD INNER TUBES DO SERVIC‘E
lN PANTRY.

 

UBBE‘R hands out from an old in-
ner tube come very handy in 'my
pantry. I cut them in varying widths

 

 

 

Meet the Meade Ladies’ Extension Clothing Club, of Huron county, in

their good- luck aprons.

Nine of the members never missed a meeting all

the year, even though the roads were so bad at the time of the March
meeting, that some of the members had to ride nine miles in a lumber

wagon.

 

 

es or young onions. Then listen to
the- “yum yum’s” of the family as
they gather ’round.

BEAUTY IN BURLAP.‘

 

HAVE my screened porch all dress-
I ed up for summer, and friend husé
band says it looks very comfortable.
I dyed a number of burlap sacks dark
green. These I made'into a'scarf for
the magazine table (large enough to
serve a meal on on hot days), covers
for three chairs, and a‘spread for the
lounge. The edges were fringed and
then stitched with a zig—zag stitch on
the machine to prevent them fraying
farther. Threads were

drawn two .

and tie the ends together to make a
ring to fit the crooks or kettles that I
most often use. By placing-aVcloth
over the top of the crock or kettle,
and snapping it in place with the'rube
ber ring, the cloth is held firmly, and

the, cottage cheese, jelly pulp, mixed

pickles, or sliced tomato pickles,‘ or
anything, can be left to! drain while

.I go about my work; The helpfulness

of- the, elastic is that it is easilyfad-
justable to any size of container.—
Mrs. M. R.

 

Save the rinds of “your orange, lem-
on and grapefruit. Grate them and
put in a paper sack to .dry. Then pack

in?!” tight jars and you ”will have a

Canning Klnks i .

HEN Canning by the cold packfi
method, and the cooking is done.

in a wash boiler, jars are often broken
as a result 'of them touching While the
water is boiling. This danger is great-
ly lessened if two rubber hands, out
from. an .old. inner tube, ‘are slipped

around each jar, one close to the bet
tom and the other one right at tnev

shoulders.
The danger of fruit juices and jellies

boiling over may be lessened by but;

tering the rim of the kettle.

hard-boiled eggs may be pickled with

   
 
    
  
 

school lunches. . .. , __
The iron rimgs oi! from old

   

try Wing a Whisk broemé ‘
the silks
the beets, and this winter you can
enjoy pickled eggs. They. are just as...
good as though freshly pickled. and}
are fine for basket dinners, Sunday;
night supper, and for the klddielsti

stove under the preserving kettles af-

ter the contents have reached the boil-
ing stage,

to prevent Sticking and
scorching. .

Instead of making great quantities
of jelly during the summer canning

season we have found it better to can i ' I
the fruit jufces plain, and make the , '
'rjelly during the wintér. ~ I
,sary heat will be better endured dur-‘
lug cold weather, the time can be

The neces-

more easily spared then. .and sugar

,_ ‘ is usual! lower 9‘ - -
When putting up beet pickles, if the ~‘y in pixie .d’g til,“ time

vinegar solution is not extremely sour,»

   

 

7 0:} removing
{’6 «new mompllshes an
otherwise tedious task is .

 

delicious flavoring for desserts and
puddings.

—.——d

The famous Endecott pear tree in
Danvers, Mass, is producing a. crop
at 296 years of age.

STICKING WALL PAPER T0
ENAMELED WALLS. '

 

Please tell me how to makewall
paper stick'to walls that have been
white enameled.
what to use.——Mrs. J. S.

As painted walls are so much better
and lasting than paper, it would seem
rather a shame to paper such a wall.
If tired of the white enamel, it would
be an easy matter to rub it down with
sandpaper andthen paint“it any de-_
sired color of flat paint. If solid color
is not desired, the final coat should
be stippled, or even pastelled.

However, if nothing but paper will
do, the enameled surface must‘ be

. . sandpapered, sized with glue "and mo
- lasSes, then papered in the usual way.
This size is made by soaking half

a pound of flake glue in Water After
about two hours the glue will have
absorbedenough water to become soft.
It is then lifted out, placed in the glue
kettle" and boiled over “a slow fire,
being stirred to , prevent burning.
When boiled there are no lumps, and
it has the consistency of thick molas-
ses, it should then be poured into
about a gallon of hot water, and stir-
red very thoroughly. This makes the

. ordinary glue size, being thinned to

the point desired for the surface on
which it is to be used. For the ena-

Imeled wall, the glue size is first mix.

ed with about its. own Volume of old-
fashioned molasses, this being thinned
with ,hot water—I. W. Dickerson.

FROGKS-‘THAT MAKE THE STOUT;
LOOK SLENDERe

 

   
  
  
 
  
  
   
   
  
 
 
  
 
  
  
   
  
   
 
 
 
 
   
  
  
 
 

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AYieBhad been prepared for this

D contest With Goliath. He was

", ' 1161; a tenderfoot He had not
‘lived in the opening for nothing, all,
- those years The hills of Palestine
' were the habitation of many wild ani-
mals. .‘At times lions came to molest
the flocks. Sometimes pits were dug
to catch them, and at other times the
shepherds organized bands to keep
them off. Sometimes a single shep-
herd would pursue the lion with a
spear and would tear away from him
. "morsels of- the lost lamb, two legs, or
the piece of an ,ear. (Amos 3-12).
Amos had been a shepherd, and knew
what he was talking about. David
tells us that he had engaged in such
exploits. He had an encounter with a
she-bear onone occasion, and with a
lion at another time. He was able to
kill the lion.

Such a man was not to be bluffed
out by a braggart David’s heart prob-
ably went pit—a~pat, but he could not
endure it to see the armies of Israel
scared out of countenance. The chal-
longer would come out and shout at
the Israelites, tell-
ing the to they.
were cowards,
and the like, and

to come out and
fight. A dry riv-

Ithe two armies.
No one stirs. King
' Saul sits in his
tent in moody.silence. He, of course,
would not fight with the fellow, and
he has no soldier who dares. Jona-
than/it appears, is absent. Had he
been present, the story might have
been different, and David’s career
.might have been different, too.
' ' The contest between the boy and the
giant was a contest between the flesh
and the spirit. David was small in the
physical, big in the spirit. Goliath
Was huge in the physical, small in
spirit. David did not depend on him-
self, thOugh he was self-trained to the
highest degree. '"The Lord ” he says
to the king. “The Lord that delivered
the out of the paw of the lion, and out
of the paw of the bear, He will deliver
-me out of the hand of this Philistine. ”
That was not the attitude of the Phil-
istine, however. He looked no further
than his own huge, clumsy self for
victory. “Am I a dog,” he cries, “that
thou comest unto me with staves?
Come, and I will give my flesh to the
fowls of, the air, and to the beasts of
the? field.’,’. As the country boy runs
toward the giant he nerves himself
once more, and shouts, “Thou comest
to me with a sword, and a spear and
a shield; but loome to thee in the
name of the Lord of hosts, the God of
thearmies of Israel, whom thou hast
defied.” 'It was spirit against matter.
Dependence on physical" might is
never safe. Not that we should be
as strong and well developed as we
can be. But if that is all, we are cer-
tain to; come to grief sooner or later.
Look at the immense creatures that
once lived on the earth, the dinosaurs
for instance. Some were sixty feet in
length. But they had small brains,
and they-_ cOuld not, withstand the
’changes in conditions that took place
. on the earth. Smaller animals surviv-
ed. The giants or B-ible times disap<
peared. Even when they flourished
they were alW‘ays subject to the tribes
of ordinary-sized. men with whom they
lived Bigness is not a guamntee of
quality._ We Americans love bigness,
,‘b‘ig states, big buildings, big universi-
, ties, big ;:ayar ships, big fortunes, big

 

. , . automobims. But it is a onestion worth
asking wheth rZWe might not be bet-

,e qualities of Dairid,

W is”:

' mind.

daring any man "

or bed separated,

 

Saul’s army scared to death: except
this country boy? How was be able
to overcome the hostile fear-atmoss
phere; andz» make his historic attack?
When everybody else is afraid, it is
hard toovercome the. same attitude of
The Bible is full of teaching
on this line. Over and over we are
enjoined not, to fear, not to be afraid,
to trust in God and go ahead. Now,
if this feeling of, trust is strong
enough, it will overcome the fear-feel?
ing. One can, as it were, envelop him-
self in a, blanket of trust in God, so
that he is ready to undertake his duty
at any cost. “The Lord is my light
and my salvation, whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the strength’of my life,
of whom shall I be afraid ?’_' “Wait on
the Lord, be of courage, and He shall
strengthen thy heart.” Scores of such-
like passages might be quoted. And
they are exactly in line with the teach-
ings of modern psychology. If we cul-
tivate the presence of the Divine, we
shall not fear the presence of the ene
mies of the soul. This, is the useful-

' . 3: and courage. Such an attitude comes

"gs the soul face to... ‘ ~ _
"tending article

1th God, and armors it with faith

to be a. habit, by and by. It is not:
surprising that praying men have been
conquering men. They lived in the
very air of trust, courage, the positive,
not .in the- air . of distrust, timidity,
and the negative. Nothing is up-to—date
if the Bible is not It is the bulwark
of the soul. \

David was like other young men
who have seized the opportunity of
the hour for a quick and strategic
stroke. “There is a tide in the‘affairs
of men, which, taken at the flood, leads
on to fortune.” David’s life was never
the. same again. He was a marked
man, and rose rapidly to place and
power.
that is another story. It was easier,
he found, to attack the giant than to
resist some subtle, secret temptations.

 

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR
JULY 24.

 

SUBJECT:—David and Goliath. I Sam-
uel 17:31 to 37, 40 to 42, and 48
to 51.

GOLDEN TEXT : ——Psalm 27:1.

 

 

 

WHAT ABOUT THE MOSQUITO?

 

HILE the mosquito is once more

sharpening up his hateful pro-
boscis it is well to consider what the
experts say about putting an end to
him. Obviously the most important
thing is to cut off his generation by
eliminating his breeding places. Since
these places are commonly stagnant-
pools and other collections of water,
drainage and filling are first to be con-

sidered. ~Earth, Cinders, or rubbish
may bemused to. fill, but the filling
must be thoroughly done; nothing is

gained by turning a pond into a col-
lection of puddles. If the pond' or
marsh cannot be filled, the possibility
of draining it should be considered.

One must remember that mosquitoes
breed just as well in artificial water
supplies. Cisterns, barrels, tubs, and
even empty cans or flower-pots that
are located right under your windows
may be' their point of origin. Don’t
forget, too’, that cesspools and privy
vaults are breeding places. If nothing
else can be done for such places, the
breeding may be eliminated by treat-
ing them with oil.

For your own home there is nothing
quite so efficient as screening, when
it is done well. The screen must be
of good quality, and fine enough to
keep all, kinds of mosquitoes from get-
ting through its mesh. It should in—
clude both doors and windows in ev-
ery part of the house. In spite of
your diligence, some. insects will get
by if your placezis heavily infested.

In such a place mosquito bars must '

be placed over the beds.

When mosquitoes have already in-
vaded a house, they may be destroyed
by the fumes of pyrethrum powder,
formaldehyde, or camphophenique. Of
course, you have to leave the room
while the insectcide is in operation,
but these things are not so dangerous
that you cannot stay in an adjoining
room.

In a house comparatively free of
mosquitoes, save for an occasional in-
vader, it helps to, have a few drops
of oil of ,citronella‘ on a toWel hanging
over the head of the bed, or even to
rub a few drops on hands and face.

Mosquito bites often poison young
children badly and cause painful in-

poultice, but I think better of any

loft Poultice in not you can incor- '

porate a good quantity of bicarbonate

of soda, so as to get its alkaline effect.

ECZEMK.

 

I have had eczema for sixteen years
and am Very miserable. What will
help?~Mrs. J. T. C.

Eczema depends upon so many dif-

ferent things that it would be hope-

less to try to tell how to cure any
case without the most thorough exam-
ination. Lately it has been found that
certain foods, chiefly of the protein
class, are responsible for many cases.
A sufferer of such long standing should
consult a specialist in internal medi.

. years. cidz.

It spoiled him, for a time, but

  

 

HA3 sapggfwess'w snearH’. ,

 

zPlease tell me the cause and» remedy
for shortness of breath. I am seventy
. Fine-health, except this ,
shortness of breath on any strenuous
exertion-J.

I met a man, the other day who said

that he, would neVer be well again";

because he had the “seventies." In,

addition to this: I think you will and
if you submit yourself to a good pity-l .

sician, that you have a valvular leak f

0f the heart. A This may not make any. "

serious trouble for you, so long as
you live without strenuous exertion,
but I apprehend that your days will
have to be spent on a level, without
undertaking sudden strain or heavy
lifting.

HERNIA.

 

About a month ago I discovered I
had a small hernia on the lower part
of the right side of my abdomen. I
do not know what caused it, and— it
might have been there some time be—
fore I discovered it. I first ‘discov-
ered it soon after an attack of the
flu; had not been seriously ill, but had
been troubled with coughing in the flu
attack quite continuously for several
days. Can it be cured by a"truss, or
is surgery better?——S. A. N.

The. degree of danger in a rupture
is not measured by its size. As a mat-
ter of fact, a small hernia may be
more dangerous than a large one, be—
cause a loop of the bowel may slip
through this small opening, yet be im~
possible of return, whereas a large
rupture always admits of _replacement.
Sometimes a truss gives excellent sat—
isfaction, but it is always a nuisance.
I think that one under seventy, in
good health, will choose wisely in
having a rupture repaired by surgery.
It is safe and sure if done by a compe~
tent man.

Sergeant Michael Tierney, World-

War veteran, died at Fort Sheridan on:
the Fourth of July. His dog, Jimmy,~
found in a shell hole during the war,
and suffering from the effects of gas,
was chloroformed in accordance with
the veteran's wishes.

 

 

 

 

, Stories From’iB'ugVillc
T be Sparrow and Me Spider

H, dearie me!” chirped the Spar-
row, “I’m hungry. Wonder
where I can find my dinner.”
Right then a big fat Spider
paused under the little bush where
the Sparrow was teetering on one of
the twigs. Spying the Sparrow, he
called up to him, “Please, Mr. Spar-
row, can you, tell me the way to Spid—
erville? I am lost and cannot find the
way home.”
The Sparrow looked about surpris-

 

The Spider was Dangling From the
End of a Silken Thread Down Among
the Grasses.

ed, for he could see no one. “Where
are you?” he asked.
"Dorm here among the grasses " an-

lowered the Spider.
destination. The Old remedy is a mud» ‘

"Perhaps if you would come a bit

g r, I might tell you the way to-

rySpsrrow

lie," said the hungry d to h
:9, r e

The spider was very

.94.

had crawled a long way in and out
among the grasses trying to find his
way home. But he was very glad to
find someone to tell him the way home
so he crawled part way up to where
the Sparrow was perched on a twig,
and again he asked, “Which way to
Spiderville?”

“Come just a bit closer ”
the Sparrow.

The Spider sighed and crawled up
to the next branch. Then he pausod
again, “Which way to Spiderville. ‘W he
asked for the third time

begged

“If you will come just a bit closer, = , ’

I will Show you ” coaxed the hungry ‘
Sparrow.

So heaving another sigh, the Spider
crawled up to the branch where the
Sparrow sat teetering. Half way out -
on the branch, he paused and asked,
“Please, Mr. Sparrow, which way t6
Spiderville?”

“Well, let me see " said the hungry
Sparrow. “If you will—” But the .
Sparrow said no more, instead he hop- *
ped a few steps closer to the spider,
and opened his bill ready to gobble
him up for his dinner. But when he ,
reached, :.no Spider was there.

Instead, he was dangling from a
silken thread down among the grasses.
He had span the thread himself in a‘
wink of time, just as Mother Spider
had taught him to do when in danger. -«

“Ha, he, he!" chuckled the Spider
when he was safe under a leaf. “8 So?
near and yet so far, Mr. Sparrow."
hungry Sparrow never an
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V on summer Feeding

I. Feeding the Dry Cow .
.. 2. Feeding the Dairy Heifer, and
3. FEEDING THE MILKIN’G
HERD. l

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ration in summer” is
the slogan today in the leading dairy
districts. And almost invariably these
summer rations include Linseed Meal.

   
    
       
        
         
     
       
   
       
    
      

$44“ the Why are'.these prosperous farmers no
“”0" longer satisfied with pasture alone, in

for This . .
Free summer? Because a richer rauon ——
Booklet. with Linseed Meal — ays immediate

profits and gives a ouble return
, through buildin up the vitality of cows
for high milk production in all and winter.‘
Now is the time that counts! This free booklet shows
you how summer feeding affects your whole year’s
profits. Includes practical summer rations to fit in
with other feeds used in your district.

Send For It Today.

LINSEED MEAL EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE
' Fine Arts Bldg., Milwaukee, Wis.

Send your booklet 0-7 on Summer Feeding.

Name .................................... ,.---a.-.

Address

 

 

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(COPPER'CONTENT- - ~6ALVAN|ZEDl

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ing and economical lundling of crop. Large
and rapid circulation of air; strong conve-
nient port-holes in sides and roof; rigid
' construction. Easily
erected. Special in-
ducementst’or orders
now. Write toda .
ROSS CUTTE 8c
SILO C0.

13 Warder St.

Springfield, Ohio

7719 DE RFECT
CORN HARVESTER

SeldDz‘rect $21.75 “Newsweek

ntSILO CUTTING

 

 

      
   
      
       
       
     
   
 
 

  
  
  

Kill rats
wholesale

Get rid of them safely. Here's a new sure
wa . K-R-O. a fine, non. pousonous _ der.
kill; 'em off in a hurry. Made from sqm bulbs.
the new safe way urged by government experts.

) Safe for poultry and pets
Actual tests proved that it killed rats and
mice every time, but other animals and pan];
were not injured by the largest doses. Th:
what that means to farmers and merchants.

Not a poison

Use K-R-O freely. Place it around our home.

ur barn, your granary or iarmyar . Contains
no arsenic, phosphorus or barium-carbonate. A:
ur druggist, 75c. Lar e suze,(4 times as much)
£3.00. Or sent direct rom us postpaid if he
cannot supply you. sum action guaranteed.
IGR-O Compan 1. Sn Ohio.

   

 

 
  

Works in any kind of

8011. Cuts stalks. doesn’t D1111 them.
ABSOLUTELY NO DANGER. Cute 4 to 7 acres a
day with one man and horse Great labor saver;
Sold direct to farmers. Get your catalog NOW—Bo
prepared. Write: -

lOVE MANUFACTURING 80., Bull. I30, Lincoln. Ill-

RUNNING WATER WITHOUT WORK

With a good Well and a good Windmill you can have all the water
you want without work, worry or expense. Water 'from a well

, costs you nothing. The Cost of an Auto-Oiled
Aermotor is moderate. The expense for mamtenance
.. is so small that it need never be given a thought.
An Aermotor runs in the lightest breeze. It will also
' ‘ . work safely and steadily in the heavy winds.

_ The Auto - Oiled Aermotor is completely
‘7‘" self-oiling. The double gears run in oil in a
tightly enclosed gear case which holds a year’s
supply of oil. When the mill is running thepil
circulates through every bearing. Every, movmg
_ part is constantly and completely Oiled. Fnctlon
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HOW CAN we CONTROL Hoe
‘ " CHOLERA'? '

 

LTHOUGH the vaccination of hogs

against hog cholera is a necessary
measure for the control of this dis-
ease, it is not practiced generally. In
the average year, only fifteen per cent
of the hogs on farms 'in the corn belt
are vaccinated. About sixty per cent
of the vaccination is done about the
time the pigs are weaned, “and forty
per cent as a. result of ‘a cholera.
“scare,” and inolder hogs. These es-
timates show that the economic im-
portance of protecting the pig crop
against cholera. is not appreciated by
the average swine grower.

Two general outbreaks of hog chol-
era have occurred during the past five
years. It is only ‘in years when the
disease becomes epizootic, and the
death loss runs into the millions of
hogs, and hundreds of thousands are
marketed before they are finished, that
swine growersconsider the disease of
great economic importance.

We should not lose sight of the fact
that cholera is responsible for a. heavy
annual death rate in hogs. Herd out-
breaks of cholera occur every year in
communities where there is a dense
hog population. ItJis not uncommon
for the disease to spread in late sum-

death rate in neighboring herds, and
seriously interfering with swine pro-
duction in that community or section
of the state.

The vaccination of pigs about wean-
ing time will solve the problem ofvhog
cholera control. Late summer and fall
outbreaks of the disease cannot occur
if the spring pig crop is protected by
vaccinafion. This is the only general
disease control measure that can be
recommended—R. A. Craig, M. V. S.

PASTEURIZING SOMETIMES AN
EVIL.

 

ASTEURIZATION has been consid-
ered as a great boon to the milk
trade, especially to the milk consumer.

and calves that drink creamery skim-
milk, but in many instances it is bad
for the babies and invalids who get
city mills.

Milk is pasteurized for the purpose
of killing the germs, the bacteria, that
causes milk to sour, that causes milk
to be dangerous because laden with
tuberculosis or other disease germs.
Proper and thorough pasteurization
will accomplish this very thing, but is
it always properly and thoroughly
done? I

The writer has devoted nearly twen—‘

ty years in creameries and milk ship-
ping plants, and in practice and obser-
vation has found that in very many
instances the milk is not heated to a.
~sufficient degree lOng enough to kill
the tubercle bacilli. Hence, some milk
advertised as pasteurized is just as
dangerous as any that has not been
treated, but it is a. good advertising
stunt, and thus the harm. Further-
more, there is a positive danger in
pasteurized milk when left too lung in
hot weather. If it~was dirty before

comes liable to contain ptomalne
(poisonous dead bodies of bacteria),
and because the milk will not sour it
is supposed to be good. , ..

Filth. in milk is notfremoved by pas-
teurlzing. There is -' only one way to

havoclean, safe mlllfirnever _._allow~. it

to becomsdirty. The cows mun be
in perfect health and all surroundings
tarykconditién. whehmil ’
Mommy teasers , m ,,

   

 

 

,no need of pasteurization,in factithozw

mer and in the fall, causing a. heavy »

It may be a good thing for the pigs '

treatment, the heating has killed the’
. milk-souring bacteria and the milk be-'

milk is better Without'padtenflsingi‘ for ' .
in this heating process, somepl- the . g.
most valuable elements are removed. *

The great problem has been to get .

dairymen to be cleanly in their -hand-_
ling of ’mllk and its prOduet‘s. » The'

writer has “seen, ,enough‘coarse litter
caught in a. strainer at the creamery
in one morning to make 3. birds’ nest. . ’ ,.

And the dissolyod flit/h that; 4119' strafin-
er can catch,'is'hard to estimate. No
method can remove the dissolved fer-

“tilizer' that gets into the ,milk.’ It is

foolishness to talk- about» busteurizing
as a. remedy for filthy mum—v. M. C.

 

WILL INSPECT WORLD’S.‘l.ARGEST .
HOLSTEIN HERD.

 

ICHIGANowns the largest pure-

bred Holstein herd- in the world;
made up of herd-units maintained at
thirteen state institutions. The public
is to have an opportunity to inspect
five of these units in connection with
meetings being arranged by the Dairy
Department - of the Michigan" State
College, the State Department of Agri-
culture and the State Holstein Asso«
ciation.

The program arranged for each day
is as follows: . _
10:00 A. M.—.———Dairy judging demon; ‘
' stration, ProfeSsor- J. E. Burnett,

Michigan State College. ,
Inspection of institution herd.
Nooanasket picnic—rinse ice cream

and lemonade. -

1:30 P. M.-——Short talks by~ R. S. Shaw,
~Dean of Agriculture, M. S. 0.; O. E.
Reed, Head of Dairy Department, M.
S. C.; E. J. Cooper, Holstein-Fries-'
ian Association of America; D. D
Aitken, ex-president Holstein-Fries-
ian Association of America.
Schedule of Meetings.
Tue'stdlw' July 26—Pontiac State
p1 ,a. . ~
Wednesday, July 27—Kalamazoo State

Hospital. ' . _ ‘
Thursday, July 28—Mornmg, Mlchigan

Reformatory, Ionia. Afternoon, Ionia

State Hospital. _

Friday, July 29—Traverse City. State

Hospital.

All interested are urged to attend
one or more of these meetings and to

bring the whole family.

'Hos-

 

WATCH THE HORSE’S FEEDa'

 

~ HE horse is like other animals, in

that he needs a ration reasonably
balanced ‘ in regard to protein, carbo-
hydrates, fats. oils and fiber. A horse
on heavy'work requires tWice as ’much1
protein as the same horse when on
light work.

The stomach of a horse has a. capaé
city of nineteen quarts, whilethe stom-
ach of a 00w may hold 267 'quarts, so
it is evident that a horse at‘vhard Work
cannot well derive most. 'of its nour-
ishment from roughage. Since-the rap
tion must not have ah’undue amount
of roughage, this nece’Ssitates a large

proportion of concentrates high in en-' H

orgy. content. ,When horses are se-
verely worked, the roughage'vration is ‘
cut down and the concentrates in-
creased. l 1- .

The" standard ratiOn of concentrates
for the- American horse consists of .
two-thirds oats and one-third ear corn -'
by weight. Every Saturday night,
wheat bran is substituted for" the oats.

of salt a day, but this -_i's never mixed .‘

with the feed. p , ,.
Oats is the most'keenlyrelished of

all the concentrates by all classes and .
“waterborne; . It? {some standard or -_-
[excellence- with which father. conceit-- ‘ '
.-trate‘s"’are f‘codip’" ' "
fastest of; all.

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Comfortable cows give more milk.
That'is why thousands of farmers
increase production by using
- Cow-.Ease. Used twice aday, at milking
.tlme. it keeps flies oil. Applied with a
a yer, it won't injure t e cow's skin.
Ilepellent to cattle ticks, grabs. lice and
mites. Use on horses or in hen houses,
Get the can with the blue Cow-Ease
» la . One gallon sprays cows. If
your dealer does not have it send his
name and address and $1.50 ($1.75 west
of Missouri River) to Carpenter-Morton
00., Boston, Mass., and we will deliver
one gallon prepaid.
Sprayer 60c extra.
Satisfaction
guaranteed.

     
   

 

 

It Pays to Keep »
A Bottle Handy

A bottle of Gombault’s—
the oldatime horse remedy.
Have it on hand for use
i when you need it—keep
- your horses working. Used
for 48 years for abscess, cuts,
spavin, capped hock, curb,
fistula, quittor and other
ailments. Leaves no scars—
uo blemish. At your drugo
gist, $2.00 a bottle.

The Lawrence-Williams Co.
Cleveland, Ohio

Gooo‘ron HUMANS. TOO

 

 

world inproduction of butter-fat
th largest factor in dairy profit.

1

Eigh . cent of the cows which
havetgmuced '1000 lbs. or more
of butterfiat in a year are Holsteins.
. Write for literature '
Hetsremesrmesuu
LAssociation g Aussies

insurance.“ manna.

 

 

 

BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

Chan copy or Cancellations must reach us
' Take Davl before date oi publication.

CATTLE.

, 8 Reclaimed heifers. Guernsey‘s.
FOR SALE 7 to :2 mos. old. all by A. R.
dams oi attractive breeding. Federal accredited herd.

GEO. VI. CARDWELL It SON. Inlay City. Mich.
4 " ’m good 00c. 15
ll MW-03393flimfaigovba ”(Baas-eh. mm
reading . ome. m.

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tag. .MUEMRJA. suns. . ”‘6?!” man.

. windy and rainy days.

a. tan: types of tuberculosis.

alone is fed as acoucentrate to horses,
it must be supplemented with some

A ration of corn and timothy is defl-
cient in protein, and the ration can
be \improved by substituting legume
hay‘instead of timothy, but when oats
is fed, timothy hay is very satisfac-
tory—G. S. Weaver.

 

 

Poultry

 

 

INCUBATOR CHICKS WITH HENS.

T sometimes happens that bad luck
with early hatching and brooding
has redheed the number of good pul-
lets in a farm flock, as well as the
number of fryers for fall use on the
farm. It may be too late to hatch un-
der hens and 1038 another three
weeks. But three weeks can be gained
by purchasing the chicks from hatch-
eries, which are now sold at such low
prices. And the poultryman without
brooders who keeps hens of the heavy
breeds can brood the incubator-hatch-
ed chicks with hens.

The hens should ~be allowed to set
for several days. Keep them in cov-
ered nests in a building where they
can be confined when out for exercise
and feed. Place the chicks under the
hens at night and Visit them at sun-
rise the next morning. Every hen
that clucks and sings at the chicks is
apt to be a good mother. She has
probably adopted them. Beware of
the hen which rests quietly on the
nest and does not give any chicken
talk to the chicks she is supposed to
adopt. Possibly she will strike vicious-
ly at every chick that shows its head
and she may kill and injure most of
the brood.

If many incubator chicks are bought
to brood under hens, it pays to have
a few hens in reserve to allow for any
that may prove unsuitable mothers.
Do‘ not give too many chicks to a. hen,
or it will result in too much crowding
and trampling. Some poultrymen have
tried placing as many as fifty chicks
with a. hen in warm weather, but it is
safer to confine the brood from twen-
ty to twenty-five chicks per hen. Even
that number cannot crowd under the
hen after they are a week or two old.
The brood coop should be tight on
three sides to prevent draughts. Place
a. burlap sack over the front on cold,
When a. large
number of chicks are placed with one
hen, most of the. chicks have to obtain
their warinth by sitting beside the hen
rather than, hiding- beneath her feath-
ers. Chilling is just as disastrous for
chicks on a cool summer night as at
any other season.

When several brood coops are plac-
ed side by side, it pays to try and sep-
arate them with boards or wire for a
few days. This will prevent the chicks
from gathering in one brood coop
while the others become nearly empty.
Often some mother hens are more pop-
ular than, others, and overcrowding
causes losses—Kirby.

 

LEG WEAKNESS A SYMPTOM.

.Can you tell me what is the matter
With my hens? Their combs seem red
and nice, but they seem as if their
legs were paralyzed. Have lost six.
I fed some moldy corn, but that was
over a. month ago. Now I am feeding
good wheat . and oats bran, with a
poultry tonic—A. W. '

Leg weakness, or paralysis, is no
considered a. disease, but may be a
symptom of coccidiosis, fowl cholera,
malnutrition, worm infestation, or car-9'
Performing
ax'post-mortem* on birds .that- die, and
examining: the internal organs may

 

kind of hay that is high in protein.

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“More Milk with More Cows .
Left at the End of the Year"
Milkmaker, a Public Formula Radon ‘
Build: for the Furtu'e .' g
THE im rtant part that Milkmaker plays wt;
~. in Mic igan dan‘ying is probably best.sct ' '
‘ forth in the claims made by hundreds of Mich-
’ igan’s leading dairymcn who have used Milk-
. maker continuously for one or more years. _
. These dairymen tell us that they have secured
.5 the following results by the use of Milkmaker,
a VIZ: , .
l. Cows have kept up in better flesh and
better hysical condition.

2. Cows have maintained a. larger and more
even flow of milk. ' ' '

3. Calves better developed and stronger at
birth. '
- -. 4. Freedom
calving time; no retained afterbirth and no udder trouble.

The strongest advocates of course are those daurymen w
tinuously since it came on the market in 1922.

Buying a Better Herd . '

These men have realized that in li‘uying and lasing Milkmaker they are assuring themselves ‘
0 better herd of cows two or t ree years ence. .

{1: buying a bag of dairy feed you do not buy the feed for the feed itself, butler the
ultimate results obtained. The rc5ults to be obtained are not necessarily determined by

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

totem and digestible nutrients both of which determine-results.
p A common phrase amon ’ users of Milkmaker 18 “More milk with more cow

left at the end of the year.’
Ask for booklet on “How to

Michigan Farm Bureau Supply Service
Lansing, Michigan

 
  
 
 
 

  
   

  
 
   
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
 
     

from trouble with cows at

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ho have used Milkmaker con-

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Feed for Economical Milk Production.”

 
    

@fsSpecial Summer Prices

6 /
LE ED5 Make money this summer raising B a F chicks. Lats broilers bring good
[8, price and the pullsts will be laying in an to six months. You have your
R~ ' choice of mm. breeds—all are profitable.
PRICES EFFECTIVE NOW
I ' 345050 3 Ismile 33570050 33,000
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fiche links: 0 Roll. "Reds .............................. ;. ...... .... _50 . . 47.50 95.00
33.00 per 100: $40.00 per 500. Broilers, M-xed. $6.00 per l00, moo an 500.

Broilers. all heavios.

Will Ship. C. O. D. 100% Live Delivery'Guaranteed.
Pay your postman when you get your chicks. Just write or win your ordsr. We have lugs
hatches each week during July. Aug. and Sept... and can an large ordu's promptly. Write for free “may

Box 20, Holland, Michigan

that deScribes our special matings.

Brummer & Fredrickson Poultry Farm,

   
 
 
 

 

NEW PRICES FOR JULY

an Accredited Official records up to 252 eggs
25, Every breeder inspected and passed ,
Smith Hatched.

50 100 500 1000
$4.75 $9.00 $45.00 $90.00
and 50 lots

or from this all at the prices.

Lakevlew Chicks are Milgzltlg 24
at Michigan egg contest , ,
by inspectors supervised by Mich. State College.

25
........... $2.50
Add 250 for 25
0rd
unwed.

Brd. Rocks .7. S. C. Reds
Heavy broilers. $7.00 per 100.

ILL SHIP C. 0. D.
Lakeview Poultry Farm, R.
Golden—Valley Chick
Prices Slashed

As good as money can buy.

100% live
Mamba Iota-national Baby Chick Assn

R. 8, Box 6, Holland, Mich.

delivery unar-

 

A Wonderful Opportunity

To visit the State Institutions and 11159301:
the Michigan State Herds.

100 500 1000 Ex all t 4 BIG DzélltliiY 1%"8 k
C en nrosrsm— a one known ..
White Leghorns. Heavy Aswrted ...... $7.00 $35 $70 ers. EDGE
Barred Rocks. 8. C. R. I. Reds ...... 8.00 40 75 BASKET LUNCH AT NOON.
Bull Orpingtons, White Wyandottes.. 9.00 45 85

Plan to attend at least one day and. bring
the family. .
REMEMBER THE DATES.
Pontiac. July 26th; Kalamazoo. July 27th:
Ioma. July 28th; Traverse City. July 29th.

C. 0. D. if 'desired. 100% live delivery.

GOLDEN VALLEY HATCHERY,

Box 202. CLINTON. MO.

 

‘ EVERYBODY INVITED.
SEND “o muflymmm Anialafleli:d::try

u mail our order. WI ship C. 0. D. and guarantee prepaid loo
Jcream llvo deli" of sturdy, pure-bred chicks from healthy
grad-today flocks; 3h. and BL, Leghorns. 7c; Bud Leghorn. 8c;
Barred, and Wb. Rocks, 3. I. Beds, cones, Blk. Minutes-d 9c:
Bud ‘ , White Wyn-lattes. Bufl' Rock- 109; Mine 7c;
heavy mixed, Be. Orders for 50 chicks is per chick more, 86

chime a: .chick more.
Silver Lapkue I.“ farm Box M Sliver Lake. Ind.

PULLETS—REDUCED PRICES

. . E . White Lerhoms. Brown Leghorns and
8 C “Even-sized, healthy. and well developed.

Department C,
Lansing, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

SERVICEABLE AGE

REGISTERED HOLSTEIN

Bull Calves at prices the owner of:

A3 wk: 75c: 10 wks.. 85c: 12 wks.. 95c. Also 12 small herd can afford to pay. The
wks. old White Rocks 81.00. , sire of many of these calves Is a Son
308 HATGHERY. mz-M. Zoehnd- Mwh- of the highest record (30 lb.) two—

 

yearcold daughter of Creator. 'Hla
sire Is King Segis Alcartra Prilly. an
undefeated Show hull with 70 A. R.
daughters. Others sired by a 5 times
[200 lb. Champion Bull, the famous

8 to 10 Weeks Old Pullets,
S. C. W. Leghorns at 75c.

 

 

 

to f 3—year blood tested

313180811 83“: :glgieetzlk grilles r33]. SIMON HARK- K, P. O. P. breeding.

EMA. Holland. Mich. Bred cows and heifers served by
these sires are available for founda-
tion stock. ’ *

ATTLE - .
C RED ROSE FARMS DAIRY ,
pncu urn-bred ausnussv or uoL- Northville Michigan
FOR BTEIN.ucyai:ea. from heavy. rich milkerl. Telephdno: 3“
write ED'EV’WD DAIflY FARM; Whitewater. Wls. Reference: Northv-ille State Savings Bank

 

Choice Jersey Bulls $3,313: slid
asst-Iliad

sale
he. I of It. dams bud. Ill"! 5
PARKER. Howell. Ilia. 1 . , .

BUTTER snap new»
ORYSTAL SPRING 1‘00! 1%
Silver, Creek. Alloun ounty. i,

1) Keller Calves. practically
Guernsey vii-"ma um each. w. ship
0. 0. 1). Write L. W. Wauwatosa. Wis.

F o R s A L E remnants

NUT HILL FARM. Mllford. mos.

FOR SALE 3 round has.

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS.
Tuesday, July 19. .

Wheat. '
Detroit—No. 2 red at $1.36; No. 2
.white $1.37; No. 2 mixed $1.35.

Chicago—July 31.41%; September
31.37%; December $1.41%.
Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red at $13515
@13635.
Corn.

Detroit—No. 2 yellow $1.08; No. 3
yellow $1.06; No. 4 yellow $1.04.

Chicago—July at 9734c; September
$1.027/8; December $10594.

Oats.

lglletroit.-—No. 2 Michigan 53c; No.
, c.

‘Chicago.-——July at 44340; September
43%c; December 46%c.

Rye.
Detroit—No. 2, $1.06. ‘
Chicago—July $1.03%; September
94c; December 970.
Toledo—$1.04.

Beans.

Detroit—Immediate and prompt
shipment $5.85 f. o. b. shipping pomts.

New York.—-Pea domestic at $6@
6.50; red kidneys $6.75@7.50 to the
wholesalers. '

Chicago—Spot navy beans, Michigan
choice hand-picked, in sacks, at $6.25
@635; dark red kidneys $6.

Barley.
Detroit—Making 95c; feeding 870.
Seeds.

Detroit—Cash imported clover seed
$13.90; October $16.65; domestic De-
cember $16.60; August alsike $13.75;
timothy, new $2.45; December $2.40.

Hay.

Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $15.50@
16.50; standard $14@15; No. 1 light
clover, mixed $14.50@15.50; No. 2 tim-
othy $13.50@14.50; No. 1 clover $14.50
@1550; oat straw $12@13; rye straw
$13@14.

Feeds.

Detroit—Winter wheat bran at $35;
spring wheat bran at $34; standard
middlings at $38;
$45; cracked corn at $42; coarse corn
meal $39; chop $35 per ton in earlots.

WHEAT.

An unexpectedly high forecast of the
domestic wheat crop, and failure of
rust damage to appear in spring wheat
in the United States or Canada caused
a. sharp break in wheat prices in the
last few days. Sluggish export de-
mand in the face of the new crop
movement was a contributing factor.
The official forecast showed 579,000,-
000 bushels of winter wheat and 274,-
000,000 bushels of spring wheat, or a
total of 854,000,000 bushels, compared
with 832,000,000 bushels harvested last
year, and a five-year average yield of
8080,000,000 bushels. A few weeks ago,
the indications were that the crop
would be 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 bush-
els less than last year. Buyers are in-
clined to wait in the hope of lower
prices later as a result of the large
domestic crop now in prospect. For-
eigners take a similar attitude. But
latent domestic and foreign demand
for wheat probably will expand as the
primary movement increases, and pre-
vent any drastic decline in prices until
the size of the world crop can be de-
termined with greater certainty. It
must be recognized, however, that, as
matters now stand, the situation does
not look as strong as it did a short

time ago.
CORN.

The ofiicial forecast on the corn.

crop was 2,274,000,000 bushels, which
would .be the smallest yield since 1903.
It is 371,000,000 bushels under last
year’s harvest, and 492,000,000 bushels
below the five-year average. The prin-
cipal decreases were in the corn belt
proper, with the exception of Nebras-
ka, Kansas and South Dakota, which
promise to have larger crops than last
year. Since the official returns were
. made, the weather has been more fav-
orable for corn, and the present out-
look is for a better crop than the gov-
_ern nt’s forecast. Iowa is an excep-
tion, that state is experiencing a
. mild drouth at present, and rain would
Q be beneficial ov r most states west
, of the Mississip i.

. The cash corn situation has
" ‘Itrengthened to some extent. Primary
moi ts are smaller than a month ago
_ ' mend is sufficient to bsorb the
vals and mks small r notions In
2 visible 3 y- in addition. More
_' his was, or has caused spews
so , and 8.8
‘ , lastl'two weeks.

 

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fancy middlings at ‘

have lost, - _
Ulti- Choice light bulls

  

mately, higher prices are probable,
but they may not occur until some
new crop damage appears, or until
they are forced by a greater: degree of
commercial scarcity. As the visible
supply contains 34,000,000 bushels at
present, there is no early danger of

shortage. _

The cats crops forecast was 1,349,-
000,000 bushels: against 1,254,000,000‘
bushels last year, and an average yield
of 1,353,000,000 bushels. With such a
crop in prospect, and the new crop
movement due soon, there is no rea-
son to anticipate higher prices for
cats. At present, however, the de-
mand is greater than the arrivals at
primary" markets, so that the visible
supply is being steadily reduced.

RYE.

The official forecast on the rye crop
was 61,800,000 bushels, or 15 to 20
per cent above expectancy. Prices de-
clined. along with wheat. The new
crop movement will not get under way

 
 

for several weeks yet, so that there is ~1

no great pressure from cash grain.
Export demand is negligible.

BUTTER.

The butter market advanced early
last week. but eased off again as sup-
plies continued liberal. Good pastures
and favorable weather assure a heavy
summer butter “make.” The shortage
in storage holdings as compared with
a year ago has been wiped out; and
additions are still on a liberal scale,
but the market is fairly steady. The
decline from the high point in produc-
tion which has already been passed, is
expected to be slow. Storage holdings
of butter on July 1 for the entire
country totaled 90,116,000 pounds, as
compared with 86,897,000 pounds on
July 1, 1926, and a five-year average
of 70,989,000 pounds.

Prices on 92~score creamery were:
Chicago 400; New York 42c; Detroit
38@40c pound in tubs.

POTATOES.

The potato market has weakened
again as a result of the abundant sup-
plies. Yields in Virginia, which will
be a heavy shipper for another month,
are twice as large as a year ago. The
main potato crop for the entire coun-
try is estimated at 393,000,000 bushels,

years.

 

or 37,000,000 bushels more than were“

harvested last year, and practically

equal to the average for the past five
Kansas Irish Cobblers, U; S.
No. 1 are quoted at $2.10@2.25 per 100
pounds, sacked in the Chicago carl'ot
market. Virginia Irish Cobblers, U.
S. No. 1, are quoted at $4.40@4._55 per
barrel in the same market.

EGGS.

The summer decline in egg produc-
tion has been accentuated by extreme-'
ly high temperatures through the mid-
dle west. Receipts at leading max;-
kets are smaller than at the corres-
ponding time in any recent year. Pric-
es have advanced as supplies of fine:

 

eggs diminished and dealers haVe been
.using late stored eggs, which are of

excellent quality and average cheaper
than current prices on fresh. Accum-
ulations of eggs during June were not
aslarge as in the, same month a year

ago, so that ,the surplus in storage,

stocks has been reduced. Holdings
on July 1 were 10,554,000 cases, com-
pgzrgd with 9,133,000 cases. on July 1,

Chicago—Eggs, fresh firsts at 23@
23940; extras 24%c; ordinary firsts 21
@22c; dirties 20c; checks 20@20%c.
Live poultry, hens 22c; springers at
27%0; roosters 15%0; ducks at 17c;
geeseg150; turkeys 20c.

Detroit—Eggs, fresh candled’ and
graded 23%@25c. Live poultry, broil-
ers 34@35c; heavy hens 260;-light
hens 19c; roosters 15c; geese at 18c;

ducks 22c.
WOOL.

Wool trade has broadened further
in the last week or ten days with the
manufacturers buying generally and
showing, more confidence in wool pric-
es than at any time in a long while.
The tendency of prices is upward, al-
though the advance has been too small
to show distinctly in the price list.
Buyers are actively cleaning up the
new clip in the bright wool states, as
well as in the west. Dealers have
bought delaine wools in Ohio at 40
cents, with 35 to 36 cents the com-
mon price level on cross-bred wools.
The wool situation looks strong for
the immediate future and higher pric-
es probably will be seen. Foreign

markets are strong, with the London

 

 

 

five Stock Market Service]

Tuesday, July 19.

CHICAGO.
- Hogs.

Receipts 25.000. \Market generally
strong, and 5@10c higher on lighter
weight hogs and finished medium
weight butchers, tops $10.65; bulk 160-
200 lbs. $10.40@10.65; bulk 220-260 lbs.
$9.35@10.35; 270:320—lb. butchers $9@
9.45; most packing sows at $8@8.40;
lgig9h§5weight $8.50; bulk pigs at $8.85

Cattle.

Receipts 11,000. General trade slow,
draggy; steer and she stock steady to
25c lower; bulls weak to 25c lower;
vealers steady; most fat steers and
yearlings at $11@12.75; best medium
weight early $13.50; grassers largely
$10 down; stockers steady at $7.25@
8.50; little doing on feeder steers;
vealers $12.50@13 to big packers.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts. 14,000. Fatlambs are fairly
active, steady to 250 lower than on
Monday; bulk of good natives $13.25
@1350; few to outsiders at $13.75;
bulk of range lambs sorted $14; Wash-
ington lambs held around $14@15;
few early sales of culls at $9@9.50;
sheep steady; fat ewes $6@7; no feed-
ing lambs sold; indications unchang-
ed; bulk feeding lambs $13.50. -

DETROIT.

Cattle. -
Receipts‘«202. Market strong. 7
Good to choice yearlings ' ‘ ' ,
$10.00@-12.00

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Bologna bulls . . . .' . . . . . . 6.00@ 7.50
Stock bulls 5.0061) 6.50
Feeders 6.25 ' 8.25
Stockers . . 5.50% 7.50
Milkers and springers . . $65.00@ 100.00
a ves.
Receipts 372. Market steady.
Best . . . . . . . . . . ,. . . . . ..$15.50@16.00

Others ~ 6.00@15.00

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 263. Market is steady to
250 lower. .
Best lambs . . . . . . . . . . . . .$14.00@14.25
Fair lambs . . . . . . . . . . . 10.50@11.25
Light to common lambs . .
Fair to good sheep . . . . . .
Culls and common . . . .
Yearlings

Hogs.

Receipts 503. Roughs 25c higher;
others, except heavies, 10c higher.

5.00@ 6.00
2.00@ 4.00
8.00@10.50

Mixed nee-peeeecr-loolo'e 10385
Roughs,................. 7.75
Yorkers .OI'IOOO'OOOOOOOO 10-75
Pigs, lights CIICI‘IOIOOCOI>OO 10.“
Stags 6.25 6.50
Extreme heavies 8.00 “9.00

BUFFALO.
Hogs. , . '

Receipts 400. Market is steady to
15c higherplightenweight at advance;

bulk 190 lbs. down, including-pigs at

$11.10@11.15; few, 220, lbs. $10.85; 270
lbs. $9.75; few 850 lbs. $9; packing
sows $7.75@8.25.g ‘

 

 
 

     

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kw'ool by mills is sustain, ,1;
high rate.’ Stocks 0: ’foi'e

6.00@ 9.75'

. market, prices have declined

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“bond are steadily decree ,_ . .
ings of combing and clothing wool's‘aflt
Boston in 'bond on July 1 totaled 29,-.
00,000 ”9908,01" 60 per cent-less
than onthe same date a’ year ago. , ' '
, ‘ - '.~APPI.ES. " I - -
The smallest apple cropin twenatz
years, with one exception; is estim ~
ed for 1927., The northeastern and ‘
north-central states generally" have.
from one-third to one-half ,as many
apples as a year, ago, and. f0r.tho‘ ,

country as a. whole,.,.the crop isfi'ssu- ”

mated to be nearly 50 per cent smaller 5
than [Was harvested in 1926. ~~
DETROIT CITY MARKET. '- _,
, Apples, TranSparent $3@3.50 bu; as-
paragus, $1.‘25@1.60 'dozen bunches;

bagas $1.25@1.50 bu; wax beans $1.75 .. 'z

@350 bu;-green beans $3@3.75..bu;
new beets 535@50_c dozen bunches;
beets 75c@$1:25 bu;,cabbage 40@60e
bu; new carrots 35,@500 dozenbunch—
es; cauliflower $1.50@3.50 bu; celery
25@75c dozen bunches; eggs, whole-
sale at 28@30c; retail 35@40c; white
eggs, wholesale 30@32c; lettuce 25@:
500 bu; heady lettuce $1@1.50 ‘bu;
curly parsley 5'0 750 dozen bunches;l
root parsley ’60 ,75c: dozen bunches:
peas $1@-1.5‘0 bu; onions 40@60 dozen
bunches; potatoes $1.60@1.75 per bu;
poultry, hens, wholesale 25@28c; re-
tail 28@30c; broilers, Rocks 32@35c;'
Leghorns 24@26c; retail 32@350 lb;
Rocks 35@38c; radishes, long, white
50@75c dozen bunches; round $1@j
1.25 bu; rhubarb 40@600 dozen bunch-
es; spinach 75c@$2 bu; turnips 50@
60c dozen bunches; $1@1.50 bu; goose-
berries $4.50@5 per 24—qt. case; cher-
ries, fancy $4.50@4.75, sour, No. 1,
$3.50@4; sweet $5@6 per 24~qt. case;
red raspberries $7@8 per 24-qt. case:
black $4@5; red currants $3.50@3.75
per 24-qt. case; live pigs $8 each;
veal 18@20c;' Swiss chard 750 bu;
beet greens 75@900 bu; butter 60c:
hothouse tomatoes $3.25@4 per 14-lb.
basketyoutdoor tomatOes $2.75@3 per

basket. .
GRAND RAPIDS.
Potatoes $1.50@1.75 bu; spinach 75c .
bu; cabbage 50@75c bu; tomatoes at '
$1.25@1.40 per 7-Ib. basket; cucumbers

$1.35@1.50 dozen; celery 20@60c p‘er . -

dozen; carrots 150 dozen; beets 200
dozen; turni s at 30@40c dozen; red
raspberries 3.50@4.50 per 16-qt. case; ‘
black raspberries $250603 case; dew-
berries $3.50 case; sour cherries $2.75
@325 case; sweet cherries '$2@3.50
case; ‘huckleberries $4.50 case; cur-
rants $1.50@2 case; gooseber'ries $1.75

2 case; 'wheat_$1.19 bu; beans $5.25
cwt;,pork > 12c; beef 16c; veal 14
@16c; lamb _, 30c; mutton 12c1b;
§3é°kens It; ,10;@ 1:113“ 18@22%; ducks

;.rooszr c; e s 4 26c;
butteisfat 440. _ gg @

LIVE STOCK NOTES. ’

' Cattle prices had a further advance
as a result of the extremely light run
since mid-June. Choice heavy steers
at Chicago reached new to of $14.50,
with long yearlings at $13. , and light
yearlings at $13.25. Choice grain-fed
cows and heifers and sausage bulls re-
turned to the year’s high. point. Even
grassy cattle recovered most .of. the»
Jugs brfiak. f h i ‘ ‘ :

carc y o c oce light hogs "has
udhed top prices on the Chicagomar-
at to $10r65, the highest since early
in May. This compares with $9 on
the low day in June. Ayerage prices
have not gained proportionate , owing
to the face that the average quality of- -

arrivals is considerably poorer than a
month or two ago. The upturn is the

 

dargest that has occurred since the

downward trend set in last winter.
“After a dollar advance in the lamb
result 0f incre ‘d i ts again as
see re . . < res-
ent, the Chicago cen ' p'
stands at $14.70,, with
$14.25 and the bulk of

ing at $~13.50@ 14.

 

   

the .nsfl
Since res pts are

due to increase materiall gin theynex't.
two months, and since 13’ cos. are com- ’ ’

 
  
  
   

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dry-fed . - Cattle. ' -‘year t' 15 lg altos _.. j
Best heavy steers,‘ dry-fed 9.75%1115 Receipts 25. Cowsjsteady. i will wogtrlcne3% $9.? 130, '
Handy weight butchers... 8.00 9.75 , ._ 7 ’ ,Calves. . . -: ' k .lvtheiarrlta ‘ ms 3
Mixed steers and heifers 8.00@59.25j . Receipts 400. wMarket weak;«‘-goe¢ t es" ‘ ‘ ’ ' hm
Handy light butchers ,_.,~ 7.7561) 8.35 to choice $15@15.50; culls mam ’ "
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shipper 1?: agriculture,
('18. for..38,468,000 y ‘ elsot corn
’ >1, '_ 000 hotel, Which is the low-
‘ Since 1906. .

 

Ajafinersivrere also unable to carry
. outtheir intentions to plant oats, and
the acreage is 1,539,000 this year, or
‘ .tWo’ per cent. below last year. How—
ever, the condition of 82 per cent
shows that cats progressed-better dur-
ing June with "more seasonable weath-
er, and the outlook now is for a har-
“TB‘St .iof 132,372,000 bushels, compared
3“"-'-‘w‘ith 1926 crop of 51,810,000 bushels.
" ' With the winter wheat harvest close
at hand, the out-turn is expected to
be larger than last year, and above
average. Latest» information places

the acreage for harvest at 920,000

acres, with a condition of 88 per cent,
which forecasts a total production of
18,378,000 bushels. Since the Intended
acreage-of winter wheat could not be
sown last fall, the spring wheat acre-
3 e was increased from 5,000 acres 1.11
1 26, to 9,000 acres this year. This
acreage indicates 140,000 bushels of
spring wheat as Michigan’s crop this
year. .,

The barley acreage in Michigan this
year is 190,000 acres, or 57,000 acres
above last year, and the condition is
two per cent above average, so that
with average weather conditions until
harvest time, a crop of 4,817,000 bush
els will be realized.

Tame hay acreage in Michigan is
one per cent larger than a year ago
and is now nearly up to the large
acreages of a few years ago. The in-
crease came from larger plantings of
alfalfa. sweet clover, legumes and
smaller classes, rather than from clo—
ver and timothy Which showed an
acreage lower than in 1926. The fore-
cast from 4,097,000 acres of tame hay
is 4,372,000 tons, or 275,000 tons more
than out last year.

The disastrous ‘weather conditions
last fall caused such heavy losses to
bean growers that some have reduced
their acreage this'year, and only 662,-
000 acres was planted, compared with
726,000 acres planted in 1926. How-
ever, the heavy abandonment last fall
reduced the harvested acreage to 552,-
000, acres from which 6,624,000 bush-
els of beans were harvested, the ssh
able portion of which was approxi-
mately 5,300,000 bushels. The condi-

. tion on July 1 was 11 per cent below
average at 75, and this condition tore-
' ' casts a crop of 6,206,000 bushels.
I .A‘ sugar best condition of 81 per
cent forecasts 778,000 tons of beets
affrom an ~‘acreage of 117,000. Last
”year’s production was 793,000 tons.

Michigan ‘ growers increased their

potato acreage 12per cent this year

. and planted 279,000 acres Although
a marked increase, this acreageis still
considerably under the 10-year aver.
age. The July 1 condition was 85 per
dent of normal, which is three per
cent below the 10-year average, and
forecasts a production of 29,644,000
bushels; however, July 1 is too early
to give accurate indications of the
final crop.

The Outlook for the apple crop de—
' clined heavily during June, due to the
cold and cloudy weather which inter-
, fered with pollenization, and much
fruitf either failed ‘ to set or dropped
~ shortly ”after setting. Scab is prev-
alent. The condition is only 48 per
‘, Cent now, ‘which forecasts a short
' crop of 6,743,000 bushels, of which
1,128,000 bushels is rated as commer-
'- i‘cial.“‘_This is 2,302,000 bushels short
jof last’year’s to al crop, and‘ 361,000
‘ barrels short of t e commercial crop.
-_ The peach crop will be light and is
largely confined to orchards ,close to
' Lake Michigan and. other select ex-
: posures in southwestern counties. The
forecast is less than half the 1926
crop 817607.000 bushels on a condition
of. 35 per cent. Elberta,- the leading
commercialvariety, is reported to have

a veryth setting.
The pear crop outlook is also dis-
, couraging, following a. heavy drop and
remaining scab infected fruit. From
,a condition of 43 per cent a crop of
7 580,000.. bushels is expected, compared
L..~...;Wiit.h last year’s crop of 889,000 bush-

‘1 e B.

- b The sou:I cherry 3.31703; was 111:6 hit
~ . yasprlng cues, e crop very
in important sections, withless
than Mail a crop everywhere in
The sweet varieties are

   

te'ly. by Herbert E.
agricultural ‘

:35ij per cent, at. a crop.
gripe ~

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{I ‘ , _‘ _ 7,. '.;_1 - “‘1:_.-l-T-.

imitations}; , téscorn crop will» be
the shortest :1 ce 1908,.and the pros:
pects are iorja very short crop of
fruits: Ire rts on other _- crops were
more is ble. , _

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NEW system of accounting for
, the post office department is be-
ing advocated by Representativexclly,
of Pennsylvania, a member of the
House Committee on Post Ofl‘lces, who
insists that such free services as
franked mail matter, distribution of
newspapers in county of publication,
and special rates for religious, scien-
tific and fraternal publications, and
losses in the parcel post system should
be charged against the treasury as
public welfare. payments and not
against the postal service revenues.

Rural free delivery should be class-
ed with such public welfare projects
as the department of agriculture and
other departments of government. ac-
cording to Congressman Kelly. It was
fully understood by Congress when it
was established thirty years ago, that
it would never pay for itself, but that
its benefits would be of value to all
the people. Last year the appropri-
ations were $105,000,000 for rural free
delivery. All the revenues from mail
originating and delivered on all rural
routes amounted to less than $30,000,-
000, leaving a deficit of $75,000,000.
“No one desires to see any of these
services abolished, or even curtailed,”
he says. “All of them serve the com-
mon good obAmerica.”

TB TEST REQUIREM ENTS.

SURVEY is to be made by the

state and local agents of the bu-
reau of animal industry and the state
and local health officials, designed to
secure complete information by Sep-
tember as to the number of cities in
the United States now requiring the
tuberculin test as a condition of sup-

plying milk, also the percentage of 10

public milk supply now coming from
tuberculin tested and non-tuberculin
tested cattle.

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THE ANSWERS.

These are the answers to the “Ask
Me Another" questions found on a
forward page of this issue.

1. Bromine, calcium chloride and

bleaching caustic soda.

.2. In Kalamazoo in the early sev-
enties.

To 1845.

The Upper Peninsula has 810
miles of coast line and the Low.
or Peninsula has 905' miles.

5. Forty-four degrees.

6. Alexander Henry.

7 Blood flour and meal for poultry
and stock food, albumen for fix—
ing color in cloth, finishing of
leather, and it is also a. valu-
‘able source of nitrogen in com-
mercial fertilizer,

8. Approximately sixty-five per cent.

9. In 1826-. ‘ _

10. To F. A. Spragg, of Michigan

State College during period of
1910-1920. -

LEG WEAKNESS A SYMPTOM.

(Continued from page 75).
give some clue to the cause of the
trouble. . ' ‘

Coccidiosis is generally considered
a disease of growing chicks, but ac-
cording to Dr. StafSeth, of Michigan
State College, it may appear when the
birds are from four to fourteen months
of age. . Possibly some at the losses
due to leg Weakness have been «used
by coccidiosla developing slowly and

. gradually weakening old birds after

the pollltrym'an has considered them
safe from such~a disease.- --
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CATTLE

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FOR SALE , T, a.
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KENNEDY ll sons. II. I. Chelsea. Mich. lune ewesmzws. each with a big lamb at side,
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Duroc Spring Pigs S H E E P ........' sis _.... as...“
Either sex. pairs or tries MM Brad lows and “8' “Mu" ‘ 3"“93- MW Lemur!- Ohio.
mvpboars. All are resistor“. cholera immune FINE LOT figinfiir ewes from registered
. B .,
LAKEFIELD FARMS, clam, M. Feeder lambs. CLARA Klara 3203"."332 um“:
- -0-I.C-b°-rsof Shae andlbs. will -
A F E W cAhtnciafRer ’ shl pod ‘ FOR SAI‘E i: am or ex
.1. ctzuwooo was $123M. 11:12:13? Sign? RAY JENKS. Eatonmch’l-"Zlhfobylgf'sfi’iihfm cattle.

 

 

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$2.40 26 ........ $2.08 $6.24
2.64 27. . .. 2.16 6.48
2.88 28 ........ 224 6.72
3.12 29 ........ 2.32 6.96
3.36 30 ........ 2.40 7.20
3.60 3 ........ 2.48 7.44
3.84 ........ 2.66 7.68
4.08 3 ........ 2.64 7 .92
4.32 34 ........ 2.72 8.16
4.56 35 ........ 2.80 8.40
4.80 36 ........ 2.88 8.64
5.04 37 ........ 2.96 8.88
5.28 3 ........ 3.04 9.12
5.52 ........ 3.12 9.36
5.16 ........ 3.20 9.60
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REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE—One hundred twenty acres high land
located on good road. three miles from East Jordan.
Good solL ninety-five acres cultivated. remainder
woods. pasture with running water year round. 01'-
chard of one hundred trees. Fine large barn and
silo. Serenamom house in good repair. Windmill
supplies excellent water to house and ban. Ideal
place and equipment for cattle feeding. Mrs. Ger-
trude Waterman. East Jordan. Mich.

 

 

l'lS'l'ULA IEM’EDY—Physknam prescription. not a
potent medicine. Used sucressfully 45 years. $2 per
box postpaid. Satisfaction mmranteed or money re-

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MA'I'I'RESSEB made any size. low (a t Mm.
Catalog free. Pearls Bedding Company. 393.1... m.-

PET STOCK

[0R SALE—One of the brag coon bounds of
heuuoly. Trial. C. Hicks, Sedans. Kentucky. m

  
  
  
      
   
    
   
 
  
   
   
  
  

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SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK 1'

DO NOT HESITATE to plant a field of Grimm
Alisha. m mid-summer! Bears 3 and 4 crops in I
season. Leaner, higher in feeding value. . -
igrt-ed seed—guaranteed genuine Grimm. All lad
scsdned. 40c lb.——less in club lots. A. B. Lyman.
Grimm Alfalfa Introducer, Excelsior. Minn.

SEED’ WHEAT—Certified improved American Banner
until August fifteenth. three dollars pa- hundred.
freight prepaid on six hundred or over. Bags free.
A. B. Cook. Owosso Mil-h.

CHOICE ADAPTED SMALL GRAIN AND BEAN
~lmproved American Banner wheat. Wolverine was.
improved Robust Mac. A. B. Cool. Owosso. Inn.
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TOBACCO
GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOBACCO: . Ch“.
5 lbs. $1.00: 10. 3175. Smoking. 10, 81.50. m

Free! Pay on rescued. United Farm . 30.!-
well. Kentucky. on

BETTER TOBACCO-Fragrant. mellow! live ME

 

rooms. unreuient to Normal college. Cash or terms.
or will exchange for good {arm in southern Michi-
gan. Owner. 956 W.‘ Cross St... Ypsilanti. Mich.

 

GROW WlTl-l SOUTHERN GEORGIA—Good lands.
Low prices still available. Write Chamber of Com-
mence, Gunman. Ga.

 

_ u of smoking. 75c. Four pounds charm . ‘.
funded. Fillmore (70., Westminst-r, Md. Farma‘s' Club, 110 Hazel, K a“. 2 800.
NEW BRICK VENEER HOME—7 1am beautiful POULTRY

   
 
  
   
  
   
  
  
  
 

 

 

WHITE LEGHORN KENS AND MALES now but
price. Thousands of eight—week—old Pallets. Aha
Baby Chicks and Eggs. ’I‘rapnested. pedigreed Imm-
datlon stork. egg-bred 27 years. Winners at 20 m
contests. Catalog and special price bulletin file.
I ship _c. 0. D. and guarantee satisfaction -
B. Fans. 934 .Union. Grand Rapids. Michigan.

PULIJ‘JTS—«Rhodo island Rods: Berra! Rocks: “in

 

 

WANTED MISCELLANEOUS

SPECIMEN'S wmrmnmm or natural metal—
lie iron. Pom. Adrian. Mist.

 

 

WANTED FARMS

WANTED. FARMS—Farm stock and tools in ex:-
clmnge for Detroit city property. 11: e Haas.»
8330 Ellsworth. Detroit.

 

 

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MSCELLANEOUS fiocksw‘ito Leghorns; pullets in all these brads

. . at lay in 90 day.. -Al<o 8 ' Panda.

PER ROLL, Six High Gloss prints. Trial 5:? Exceptionally low price jugst now. 56:31:31- destin—

enlargemcm. '100. In folder 20c. Gloss Studio. tion and price on these birds. State Parms‘ m4
Cherryvale. Inn. clation. Kalamazoo. Mirhinan. ,

WHITTAKER'S MICHIGAN CERTIFIED RED?!—

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Both Combs. Cooks. Hens. Cookorels and .
Michigan’s Greatest Color and Egg Strain. W

Price list. Interlak F ,
Mich. . as am Box 9. Lawrence.

FOR Milk—White Leghorn kaerels. Munch hitch—
«1.1mm our own special breeding flock «1 extra;
Tapered hens. backed by high egg records. 10m
Poultry Farms. Munith. Mich.

MARCH HATCHED White Leghorn Dunc". mm

from Ohio Accredited Chicks. Better Poultgy M-
W. Tuscanwss Co.. Ohio.

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Town Michigan Dealer
Adrian ............ Wilcox Hdwe. Co
Alabaster .............. D. E. Christensen
Albion ................ Albion Maytag Co.
Algonnc .................. C. F. Bertrand
Allegan ................. Vos Electric Co.
Alma ................... Alina. Maytag Co.
Almont: ........ Lancer County Maytag Co.
Amelia. ................ Alpena Maytag Co.
Ann Arbor ...... Ann Arbor Maytag Store
Armada .............. Russell J. Lawrmce
Atlanta ................... Claude L. Blamer
Bad Axe ..................... Slack Bros.
Bangor ................ J. G. Miller 8; Don
Battle Creek ........ Battle Creek Maytag Co.
Bay City ............. Walton—Morse Shop
Beaverton ........ . ...... A. T. Brown. Jr.
Balding .. ....... . ........ Brown-Hall Co.
Bellgwille ................... John E. Rice
Benton Harbor ......... Cutler & Downing
Berville ............. Parker Hardware Co.
Big Rapids .......... Bennett Electric Co.
Bimingham ........ Hawthorne Electric Co.
Blanchard ................... N. C. Mason
Brant ........................ A. J. Locke
Britton .................. Alexander Gibson
Bronson ............... Forbes Maytag Co.
Brown City .................... Lorn Koyl
Buchanan .......... Hamilton & Anderson
Blirllills ................... John Hoeksema.
Cadillac ........ Kryger 81: Currier Fum Co.
Caledonia ............. Wagner & Clehlens
Capac ............ c ......... John A. Bower
Carleton ................... E. W. Hdl‘tsig
Caro ...................... Fred J. Purdy
Cass City .................. Earl Chisholm
Cassopolis .......... Hamilton & Anderson
Cedar Springs ............... John Buecus
Centerline ............... Rinks Hdwe. CO.
Charlotte ............. Charlotte Maytag Co.
Chelsea ............ Chelsea Hardware Co.
Chesaning ........ Chmaning Electric Co.
Clue .......... Clare Hdwe. & lmplt. Co.
Goldwater .............. Forbes Maytag 00.
Colomzt ................ Coloma' Hdwe. Co.
Columbialille ............... R. C. Osborne
Coopersville ........... Durham Hdwo. Co.
Covert .................. E. C. Vanderboefli

Davisburg ................. Clyde A. Nolaey
Dearborn ........... . Nwondori' Hdwe. 00.
Decatur H. 0. Waters 8 Co.

......... Swutenburg a. -Wllson '

Duroit<..........._.... Detroit Mum Co.

.......... Hamilton. & Anderson
Dayton Plains ........... Noble N. 2?th!
Dundee .................... Couch!!! & Gray

‘, Edlllore ........ Edmore Hdwe. a lmnlt. Go.

 
 

For home: with electric-
ity, the Maytag is avail-
able with electric motor

Trial
You can have
a Maytag for
your next
'washing with-
out cost or ob-
ligation. If it
doesn’t sell it-
self, don’t keep
it. Phone or

write before
next washday.

 

 

NE hourwwith the Mdytdg magnum ‘
Washer disposes of 50 pounds of clothes,
dry weight—an average family washing.

The Maytag washes so thoroughly
clean that no hand-rubbing' 1s necessary, H .
even on collars, cuffs, wristbands or grimy ‘ , .
overalls. Think of the time and effort . .
you will save each week—in a month, in
a year—time that you can use to advan-1
tage.

Powered with Genuine
or Electricity

Whether you have electricity or not, you can
enjoy this marvelous washday convenience. The
Maytag, for homes without electricity, is
equipped with thegMaytag Multi-Mo‘tor, a com-
pact, in-built gasoline engine as reliable and
simple as an electric motor, powerful enough to
operate washer _and wringcl; sit the msamc time.

 
     
 

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one Of the authorized Maytag dealers listed below:

it just your height; the all- metal wringer sets
close to the water line, and automatically adjusts the
tension for a thin handkerchief or a heavy blanket.

THE MAYTAG COMPANY, Newton, Iowa

INDIANAPOLIS BRANCH, 923 North Capitol Ave.
INDIANAPOLXS, IND.

Deferred Payments You ’11 Never Miss

 

 

 

 

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Elkbon ...... ..... George Wilson & Son Lapeer .. ........ Lapeer County Maytag Co. . ' Petersburs .......‘..:.A. C. Gradolvh & Eon

Elmira. ........ S. J. Burdo, General.store Lawrence , .......... ..J. Thompson and Son ' Potosksy ........ ..A Fochtman Dept. Store

Elsie ..................... M. E.‘ Williams' Leonard Frank Hdwe. Co. Pewamo .............. Pewamo Hdwe. 00.

Evert. ....... . ........ Bregenzer Hdwe.’ Co. ’ Linden ......... ..... ...... M. W. Johnson ‘ Pigeon ... ”...”... ‘_‘.,,.,—, E run a; Son

Farmingmn ........ N. J. Eisenlord & Son .Linwood ..................... T..J. Wright. , Plymouth .......... .Conner Hardware Co

Fennville ................. Dickinson ‘Bros. Ludlngton .......... ..Palm Furniture Co. . ’ Pontiac ...-......" u. ”Pontiac Maytag 00.

Fenton ................... E. A. 'Lo'clc'w'ood " " Mancelona. ......... Schroeder Furniture Co. Port Hope '

Flat. Rock ......... M. 'F. Keenan , Manchester ----- . --------- Fred G. Hooch ‘ Port Huron. .'

Flint ............... The Flint Maytag Co. ’Manisteo Warren A. ‘Graves- PM Hdmn...... ._..W.,P.~;Smm Hdwe. 0°.

Fowlcrville ............. Will Sideu & Son Mmm City A- 3- 30011011 ~ Pralrieville 1r 1. nachos

Frankenmuth .............. 'A. Neurllterldn _ Marion ......... Marion Hdwe."Co. . ' . Reed City . .c. R. Ringlea-

Fraser ................ Arthur H. Schneider Mal-latte ------------ A- R; -Schlichter - Riverdale ..’....’. B. E. Mohlo

Freeland ....... Bench & Burnett Marshall .......... Albion Maytag Company, « luminary}; ";,_;,,,:~aw; mm- Hardm

Fremont Henry Van'l‘atacnhove ‘ Maybee ------ C. '95 0- HOChl'ldel ' Romeo . ‘ ..W. Geo. Smith

Gaylord ....... ...... John M. Brodie 'Memnhis Knight's Hdwe- mm 1.11" 11' Nownun

Goodells ..... ‘ ........... ' Lewis w. McCue , . Mmfil ---------- Alex McDonald new 0.1; Peters Washer 00.

Grand Haven ...... Grand Haven Maytag Co; M011 ------- - ------- . Philip Mick gum.» Walton- Morse filmy

Grand Ledge ...... Grand Ledge Maytag Co. lflddlemn -------- Middleton 15‘1me Co- _ Saginaw Smith ndwe. Co.

Grand Rapids ..... Grand Rapids Maytag Co. Midland - - H- 0 3mm samnllw M. w. Tanner Co. ;

Hale ....................... Nunn's Hdwe. . Midland ------ Mums Multi- Motor Sales Co . St Charles 'Thorsby Furniture ca.

Hamilton ............... Harry J. Lampen Milan ------------- Geddifi & Norcmss St. Clair ..... . ...... 13.8.1111“ ,

Harbor Beach ........ William Glass Milford ----------------- Md Hdwe 00" , st. Johns . ......... st. Johns Electric shop ,

Hm ............ , ....... R. J. _Wietzko Milnnston ............ Fred B Wills & Co Sandusky Otis Hdwe. co. ,

Hartford .............. 1. 3w. Walker Hdwe.. - Minded City ..... ' ...... Frank E Manon 3m ..JL......... Willdnson Hdm. Co.

Hastings} ............... H'astings Maytag Co. . MiG .. - . Orrin KW . fiwgaumk ..............."Koning Hardware [1“

Hemlock“ .......... . ............ .1.‘ E. Fuller . , Monroe ........... Monroe Maytag 00 . Sebgwdng ..1. 0. Likes) 1.- Co. ‘I a

Hespem ............. Husband 1. Anderson Mt. Clemens ...... Mt. Clemens 111ml: Co. ‘- Shelby ..., . A 1. mm: 4

Holland ................ DeVries & Dombes Mt. Pleasant..;...1ilt. Pleasant Mayta's Co. . 91min“ .. ‘ A. L. Stebblnl

Homel- ............... Albion Maytag Stole Muir ............. Brunysn Hdwe..Co. .4 s fined”; 1215:;an 1mm 5‘ Music am 1.

Hopkins ................. Vern A Washburn Muskogon ........ Muskegon Moytasflm, i a. nock‘mod John some 00.

Howell .................. Charles 11. Sutton New Baltimore ........ Fountain 121me Co. . _ 5m J c. Bum-d a 0d. ' :

Hudson ............... H. T. Dillon & Co. Niles ............... Hamilton at Anderson ‘ Standlllh ........ Gwlsdala. Implement Co. "

Ida ............... N. A. Weipert and Sons North Branch ------- wDaniel Orr & Sons stallion ............... Glen Guam .

Imlay City ...... Lapeer County Maytag 00. Nortbvillo ................. J. N. VanDyne Bmgbmg . J. F. n”.- .

Ionia ........ . ..... Ionla. Maytag 00. ‘Onsted ..... . ....... . ...... Glancy BI'OS- V~sfi1rgis-'............,’... Forbes Maytag 00. '

Jackson ........... Jackson Maytag Co. Otsego .............. The Jones Haws. ’ Tm,“ (my ,,,,, Fred Luau;

Jonesville ......... . .......... Olin M. Beebe Olid .......... . ......... Marshall & Olson Tecumseh ‘...........Ba.ldwin My." 0|.

Lake Odessa. ............ LaDue 8; Snyder Owosso ............... Owosso Maytag Co. Temperance ..... R. w, 3m

Lakeview ......... Wood Hardware Oxford Johnson Hdwe. Co. , Three Rivers .............Forbea MW 0,,

Lamb ........... ....... L. H. Fitz Patina ............ ..Geo‘W. Elinn uptown”... ...... ......Conlin a; chroni-

Lansing ......... Fleming Maytag Co. 'Paw Paw ............. H. C. Waters 8: Co. ' Traverse“ City Traverse City May!“ Co. . ,

Lansing ...... Lansing Maytag Co. Pemngtxm E. H. Lucas Trenton ,,,,,, Trenton Hardwm (b. ’ 2 . , A:
‘ Trufant ...... A. (1.1m-

  
   
   
     
  

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Waltz . Kiwanis 3m
Warren ........................ Fred Int!
Wamliot ............... H. Pierce & Ann
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