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These shoats look pretty sorry, don’t they? But better times are iThese'shoats are in better shape. They're going to get capsules—

Coming. They’re gaing to have Dr. Hess Improved Stock Tonic just to see which is better for hogs—Dr. Hess Improved Stock
added to their feed. See What a difference it makes! Look at Tonic or capsnling! The pictures and the figures tell the story.
the picture below. ‘ . ‘

These six scrawny shoats weighed 406 pounds. These six shoats weighed 423 pounds on the
on the first day of October. first day of October.

These shoats received Dr. Hess Improved These shoats were treated with capsules, @-
Stock Tonic regularly for 95 days. ' - treatment employed to expel worms;

.These shoats consumed: ‘ These shoats consumed:

, 118 pounds tankage 43 1/7 bushels of com 103 pounds tankage 39% bushels of com
'1112 pounds middlings Cost of Tonic, $2.35 984 pounds middlings Cost of capsules, $1.50,
Total cost, $45.59 Total cost, $39.90
These shoats gained 1017 pounds in 95 days. These'shoats gained 857 pounds in 95 days.

These six scrawny shoats that received rDr. The records of these two pens show what Dr.
Hess Improved Stock Tonic regularly, made a Hess Improved Stock Tonic is .worth to every

gain of 26 2/3 pounds more per hog than the hog-raiser. It made a difference of 160 pounds
shoats that were capsuled. The cost of Tonic of pork here! A profit of $9.20 for the Tonic
for each hog during the entire period was 39c. pen over and above the capsuled pen!

Dr. Hess Improved Stock Toni

Appetizer—Worm Expeller and Mineral Balance
—-all combined in one product '

It supplies Tonics—to keep the appetite on edge. and Costs little to use. The first extra pound of pork 3‘
promote thrift. , ‘ hog gains each month pays for the Tonic.

It supplies Vermifuges—to expel the worms and con— Remember—When you buy Dr. Hess Improved Stock
trol reinfestation. Tonic, our responsibility does not end until you are

It supplies minerals—calcium carbonate, calcium phos— satisfied that your investment is a profitable one. Other~
phate, potassium iodide and others, to build bone and ‘ wise, return the empty container to your dealer and get
body tissue, to promote more vigorous growth, and to your money. back. A . '
meet the mineral deficiency in the ordinary ration. ' We reimburse the dealer without questioning. ~

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'Ninety-five days have made a big difference, haven’t they? iny And here are the capsuled hogs! They didn’t fare so wei], in
Dr. Hess Improved Stock Tonic did it! These pigs have gained spite of their start. The shoats that got Dr. Hess Improved
.1017 pounds since the other picture above was taken. They are Stock Tonic beat them by'160 good pounds. 0: by about $19.20!
thrifty and fat. ' ‘The day of capsulmg is over! _
[With Tonic these hogs gained 1017 pounds With capsuies these hogs gained 857 pounds

PRIéES: 25-11). pail, $3.00; 100-“). drum, $10.00; .500 lbs. at 9%c; 1000“». at 9c; ton lots at. 8%}: per lb.

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_Bccf Production in Michigan

T flere May Be a Larger Place for téz'r Bream of Agnew/titre in Oar State
By H . R. Smith

EHERE are two recent develop-

ments that should stimulate in-

terest in the production of beef
in Michigan.

In my article which appeared in a
previous issue of this paper on the
labor situation, attention was called
to the high wages on farms as a re-
sult of factory competition more pro-
nounced in a state like Michigan
which has made tremendous strides
in manufacturing during recent years.
The solution of the high wage prob-
lem on the farm is the more extended
use "of live stock particularly beef

’cattle for grazing and feeding pur-

poses. Not that beef cattle are better
than sheep for this purpose, but many
farms are not properly equipped with
suitable fences for sheep. Two strands
of barbed wire will hold cattle if there
is sufficient feed Within. The other
factor of recent development is the
high market price of beef cattle.

In the presentation of facts bearing
on beef production in Michigan, it is
not intended to minimize the import-
ance of dairying in any way. Un-

 

questionably our farm crops can be
converted into more cash revenue
through the medium of milk and other
dairy products than through Beef, but
the labor requirements in dairying are
so great that this industry has its
limitations.
may be possible to convert practically
all of the feed grown into dairy prod-

On the smaller farms it.

ucts. On large farms if there is a,
good sized family of children this can
be done, but if help must be hired
there is often a place for some beef
cattle.

When a boy on a southern Michigan
farm we kept high grade milking

shorthorns for the production of both
milk and beef.

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These Angus Steers Were On Full Feed 189 Days, Making Average Daily
Gains of 2.15 Pounds and an Average Weight of 891 Pounds. They Dressed
60 Percent and Sold at Chicago for $12.25 Per th.

 

 

‘,The Pure-bred Holstein Steers Were Fed 189 Days,
Gain of 2.26 Pounds and Attained an Average
They Dressed 58.2 Per Cent and Sold in Chicago

Made an Average Daily
Weight of 929 Pounds.
at $9.50.

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One of Me Big Prue/ems“ Before Farmers in Meir E firm“ to Fzgéz‘ Mir Pest

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_periment Station.

MICHIGAN leads in the percent-
age of corn infestation by the

' European corn borer. At least,
that is the report of the federal scout-
ing men. We are not bragging about
the distinction. But we are in the
lime-light, for farmers over the coun-
try are watching to see how well
Michigan farmers will measure up to
the responsibility they have in check!
ingithe increase of the unwelcome
pest. ' ’ '

Michigan farmers, in turn, are
watching intently the research work
of state agencies, particularly the
State College men and the staff in
charge of the Monroe Corn Borer Ex-'
_ What are these
men doing to help the farmers in
meeting a national as well as a local.
responsibility? “

They are, for one thing, continuing
work with parasites. ‘This ultimately
must be a major means of controlling
the corn borer. If we do not secure
the aid of paraSites, the job of‘ keep-

ing down this corn enemy will be dif-
'_{ficult, if not impossible.

The entomol-
ogists have learned' that one of the
promising parasites ‘(lkeristes robar-
ator) can stand Michigan Winters.

This: gives promise that the species '
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Other spe- .

cies are being studied as to their
adaptability to‘our climate. The para-
sites were imported from Europe.
These men 'also discovered that
under necessity the corn borer moth
will deposit its eggs upon many of
the common weeds, and that the lar-
vae hatch and fed freely upon a num-
ber of these plants. The favorite of
these is the common ragweed. Eggs
were also laid; on the Canada thistle,
,but the young larvae did not feed

most part did the same. At that time
dairying was of minor importance.
Today instead of seeing reds and
roans on Michigan farms we see black
and whites, and the yellow Jerseys ,
and Guernseys to a large extent. This
has been a natural adjustment to local
conditions and to a general increase
in the consumption of milk products.

Until recently beef could be pro-
duced in western states,at a much
lower cost than in Michigan. That is
less true now because more of What
was formerly western grazing land is
devoted to the production of wheat.
By the use of tractors for plowing
and combines for harvesting and
threshing, wheat can be produced on
these lands of broad expanse at low
cost and With correspondingly higher
profits. This increases the value of
grazing land remaining because of the
limit in the supply in proportion to
requirements. It is true that these
grazing lands could support more
cattle than are at present available be-
cause of the existing scarcity due to

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The Angus-Holstein Crossbred Steers Were 0n Full Feed 189 Days, Made

Average Daily Gains of 1.97 Pounds,

and Had an Average Weight of

918 Pounds. They Dressed 60.9 Percent and Sold in Chicago for $11.50.

with Com Borers

upon this plant; although adult
borers thrived upon and completely
destroyed it. It was observed, how-
ever, that when com is available the
moths choose it as a host plant.

A test was made to learn if other
crops would be attached when corn is
present. They found that buckwheat
and hog 'millet were slightly infested;
while emmer, flax, German millet,
Hungarian millet, sugar beets and red
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Borers Seem to, Dislike Certain Types of Com, the Plant
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The station men have confirmed pre-
vious experiences that late planted
corn is less infested by the borer. For
instance, a random count taken at the
Monroe Station shows that on corn
planted April 27 the infestation was
61.2 per cent; that planted on May 11
showed a 70.1 per cent infestation;
that planted on May 25 showed 39.2
per cent of the stalks with borers;
while only nine out of every hundred
stalks were attacked when the corn
was planted on June 8. These figures
were more or less generally corrobor-
ated by counts on other plots.

Does the. spacing of corn in plant-
ing have any effect upon the percent-
age of infestation? So far no very
definite conclusions have been ob—‘
tained on this point. The result of
last year’s work was that regular
planting practices can be followed as‘
to spacing.

What promises to be of more than
ordinary moment in this fight is the
observation that corn borer moths
seem to prefer certain types of corn
in laying their eggs. The station had
planted thousands of hybreds and ar-
tificially pollenized corns. In these
plots it,was observable that certain f
types were more or less avoided by‘ V
the borers. while other seemed to be:

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NUMBER FIFTEEN

VOLUME CLXIX '!
DETROIT, OCT.8, 1927 °

CURRENT COMMENT
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Grange is strong

Just in its contention that
Watch the Interstate Com-
This m e r c e Commission

has no constitutional
authority over traffic on the highways
of the country, as is assumed in the
drive to be made this winter in Con-
gress to place motor vehicle lines
under the jurisdiction of that federal
body. ,

Perhaps the Grange is correct in
bringing this subject to the attention
of the public. To take the control of
motor traffic from the states and to
place it with a federal body that dic-
tates to our other transportation sys-
tems, may be an issue of vital impor-
tance to the public. The matter
should have the very close study of
our statesmen and economists and the
attention of every citizen.

OSSES running

Reduce into the hundreds
. of millions of dollars

the Fire each year result from
Waste the burnin of farm
buildings. Statistics

of insurance companies Show an av—
erage of ninety-six insured farm build-
ings being destroyed by fire in this
country every day. A little care would
prevent a large percentage of these
losses.

The‘farmer seldom escapes loss
even though his buildings are insured,
since after a. fire the insurance ad-
juster figures the old buildings at a.
depreciated value, whereas its re-
placement will require the purchase of
labor and new materials at present
high prices.

Other difficulties come from the
heavy losses of farm property by fire.
Many insurance companies decline to
renew their policies On farm property.
Some have even gone so far as to
j cancel policies before they have ma-
tured. Further, this fire insurance
. Situation is giving rural finance'insti-

    

tiltibns serious the

fire insurance icompan'i 1.5 when the; An

sure against fire, then the farmer ”may
find it difficult to secure money when

needed. At least, the interest rate is
likely to be higher where uninsured

farm buildings are included as 'a. part
of the security.

It is sound business for farmers,
individually and collectively, to give
the fire hazard careful study to the
end of .making their property more
secure and ultimately reducing the
cost of carrying adequate insurance.
A large percentage of these fire losses
is preventable. The use of proper
building materials and more care in
building, in handling farm. property,
and in providing simple fire—fighting
equipment, these precautions would do
much to reduce the farmers’ loss from
this source.

0 make a real

Farm- success at farm-
M. d d ing and to get the
"1 e greatest enjoyment
Man from it, one should

be farm minded, just
as he should be mechanically minded
to make a success at mechanics. A
farm-minded man will have a, real
interest and gain a. real enjoyment in
the activities of farm life.

It is not necessary to live in rural
sections to be farm minded. Thou-
sands who are doing what'seems to
be their daily drudgery in offices or
stores may be farm minded. Other
thousands who have left the city and
made successes on the farm prove
that sometimes farm-minded folks
come from out of the turmoil of city
life.

Recently there has come to our at-
tention a notable case. Mason Garfield,
a son of President Harry A. Garfield,
of the Williams College, and a grand-
son of former President James A.
Garfield, has become a real dirt farm-
er after graduating from college and
receiving a master‘sdegree in litera-
ture. He first tried business and
found it irksome. Now, he has a one
hundred Jersey cow dairy farm which
started with one cow about ten years
ago. At first he did all the Work him-
self but now his trucks carry certified
milk to the surrounding cities. This
college—bred farmer gained much of his
desire for farming from his grand-
father’s farm.

Farming will never be reduced to
the level of peasantry here as there
are too many men of ability who are
farm minded and are farmers either
by proxy or in reality.

SERIES of Trav-

our elogue Articles
are being prepared

Travelf’gue for Michigan Farmer
Series readers. The annouce-

ment is made else-
where in this isshe. They will start
in a very early number. The“ men
engaged to gather the material and
write the stories are Francis Flood
and Jim Wilson, well-known travelers
and writers, who are now on a trip
around the world.

These men left the United States
early in the summer for the wilds of
Africa. They limited their baggage to
necessities. They have no schedule
to maintain. Time and space is theirs
to use as they see fit while they move
from place to place. The interest of
these writers will be largely in people.
They have a prodigious curiosity to
know how folks live, lam, and love
in other lands. Their observations
will be reported from week to week to
the farm folks of Michigan through
the columns of the Michigan Farmer.

No type of reading grips the imagin-
ation like stories of the habits and
peculiarities of strange people. Fur-
ther, no branch" of information deVel-
ops a higher degree of satisfaction
with one’s lot than that which gives
a chance to compare on‘e’s habits and
opportunities of life with those of less

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‘ 1.93,; again is is if; .
5 ,_ j w ing .Df otherwofiia

ultimately hope for the establishment V

of. .a sound and lasting peace 5 with
them.- ' _ _ ’ '

The series will provide the rural
schools of the state excellent material
for special reading. That the maxi-
mum of pleasure and satisfaction may
be garnered from these stories we
urge a. wide reading of the first'in—
stall‘ment which will appear in an
early October issue.

T is not to be

.The doubted that home-
5 f keeping is the biggest
a eat and oldest job in the
Bet world, the one em-

' , ploying more people
than any other, the one more funda-

mental and ancient than any other,

and the one most necessary to the
upbuilding of humanity. It is the base
upon which other industries rest, for
manufacturing and commerce exist in
order to support the home.

But even though homemaking is the
oldest job in the world, it is among
those that have been slow to progress.
Whether bonds of tradition or custom
have been responsible for this, is a
much mooted question. But surveys
of our modern homes show that we
lack much in the_way of equipment
for doing an effective job of home-
keeping.

In one of the more recent surveys
of rural home equipment, it was dis—
covered that the monotony relievers
far out-numbered the drudgery killers
and the germ destroyers. In other
words there were far more phono-
graplis, pianos, radios, and autos, than
there were washing machines, sewing
machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigera~
tors, sinks and laundry and bath tubs.

This may be another argument that
we are becoming a nation of pleasure
seekers, but after all, the safest and
best bet will always be to put a sub-
stantial share of one’s money into
working equipment to aid in one’s
business, Whether that business be
cooking a. meal or turning a. furrow.

AIRYMEN a. n (1

National thousands of
' D e 0 D 1 8 who in
Dalry one way or another

ExpOSition have an interest in

dairy products will
attend the National Dairy ShOW at
Memphis, Tennessee, October 15-22.
Year after year greater efficiency is
seen in this, the largest branch of
agriculture. While the number'of
cows in the United States has steadily
decreased during the past ten years,
an increase of twenty-seven per cent
in the consumption of dairy products
per person has been recorded. Better
dairy cows, cleaner dairy products,
improved methods of handling and
processing are all phases in the ad-
vancement of the industry. The Mom-
phis show will portray these changes.

T this time educa-

The tionis in the air
A. literally as well as
tr figuratively, for the
School farm radio schools

started their sessions
October third. Eighty-three radio sta-
tions in thirty-four states are broad-
casting one or more of the eleven
farm radio courses planned by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
These “air” courses will give valu—
able information on how to get more
out of the ground. Money-making and
labor-saving methods of farming will
be available in our homes for the mere
turning of the switch and tuning in
some nearby station, The farmer’s wife
will get suggestions .for' tomorrow’s
dinner and how to lighten the burden
of housekeeping. Young folks will
have programs to interest them,

weather information will 5 be given,
nature studies, financial reviews and
even farm playlets are. 99313.01. the ,. _

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Michigan is "
stations which . will take part in: these
plans. Household chats, radio", farm

school, and-special features will be f

broadcasted from Statibn WASH, at“
The radio farm school
will also be put on the air by WGHP,
of Detroit. Housekeepers’ chat, noon;
farm flashes, weather man chats, farm
news digest, and a digest of the agri«.
cultural situation will be given by
WKAR, East Lansing. Noon farm.
flashes will be sent out dail - by WWJ.
Perhaps some of the old-time, rural
social activities of the winter will be
supplanted by radio parties, thus mak«
ing the purpose of getting together
educational as well as social.

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Igmz‘zon

GNITION is the act of ignitin’, and

lgnitin’ is to set afire and to set afire
is to start the combustion of igneous
material. Combustion is one of the
great things of life ’cause it is the
union of things with oxygen. Some-
times combustion is slow and some--
times it’s fast. It’s fast in explosions
and slow in the rusting of iron. Even
our food combusts as it unites in us
with oxygen and helps us live. It
must be the spark of life in us that
starts the combustion. Anyhow, when
the spark of life is gone, our oxydizin’
apparatus ain’t
no more and the
whole apparatus,
our body, begins
to oxydize or rot.

Well, now you
wonder how I
come‘ to know
about this. Well,
you don’t think
much about igni~
tion until it don’t ignite. You see my
1923 model gasoline surrey acted
ignobly and idiotic by not igniting
the igneous material therein due to
ignition trouble in the ignition box
and it therefore remained idle. After
that I had to instill into my ignorance
considerable ignition information and
couple it with my imagination to find
the illusive idleness.

Well, I kin tell you there’s one thing
about horses that’s good. Their spark«
ing apparatus don’t get out of order
when they get wet. But automobiles
like the rain so well they sometimes
refuse to move.

Anyhow, I’ve found even if your
Sunday clothes get wet and shrink. and
even your spirit is damp, it don’t pay
to argue, plead or demand when 3:
auto wants to stay where it is. Even:
if the language is hot enough to start
mostanything, the old bus stays cool
and innocent while you stand there
hot and ignorant.

Well, I had to walk home three
miles in the rain in my deacon’s meet--
ing clothes, get home two hours late
fer supper, take a hot mustard foot:
bath, put a wet sock around my neck
and drink a hot lemonade, just ’cause
the ignition wouldn’t ignite. But I.
tell you I was pretty well ignited and
running with the throttle out that
evening. The darn old tin cans, they
ain’t worth the powder to blow them
up.

Well, the next day I drove Nellie
error and the old bus was settin’ there
just as innocent as ever. I stepped
on the starter and the battery was
down. I hitched Nellie to the front
and had Sammie drive her. In a.
little while the ‘ old boat started
coughin’ and spittin’ and going on her.
own._ I- let Sammie drive Neilie home
and the last mile 1‘ was goin’ forty.
miles an hour. She sure was going
fine, there’s nothing like it.

Ain’t , it funny" what exasperatin’
things autoee .is when they don’tauto-
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N engineer; oeén'r.’ .minesiwho
'- has made a study of depreciation,

writing Lap. cement, Hilland‘Quarry.

states that under‘_ ordinagy’go‘nditions
many buildingf11-.ni‘at‘e‘iials' jin‘ common

use will last forlcenturijggfi. ,. ~ .

,gufii‘rame’ and”'ti1cCo,”-he says; .“are '
perishable building“ ,
EADERS interested either in in-

? thought .of’ as
»;;materials, yet Ann Hathaway’s cot-
ltage at' , Stratford-oniAvon,‘ made of
‘ ‘these j two materials, is in good condi-
' tion today. We talk as if a brick
building would do well to last a cen-
tury. My own boyhood was spent in
an old priory near the country home
of WolSey, the great cardinal. The
brick cellars were old when Wolsey
.was born. Wolsey has been dead 400
years and the cellars are as good
today. as when they were built.

“Few persons would credit a tile
roof with as much as ,.half a century
of life. Yet— the tile roofs of Oxford
University are 500 years old. The
whole study of Assyriology comes
down to us in the form of writing on
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' -' [you ought not to have any— further
trouble.
taste so strong of chloride of lime that
ymtf'cannut > drink it— for a few days, "

in the pump and make it tight,and

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sooK ON BURGLAR ALARMS ANb
ELECTftIC BELLS.

 

stalling or selling burglar alarms
will find a lot of simple but usable
information on burglar alarms in the
little book “Electric Bells” by Sleeper
and published at 75 cents and can be or-
dered through the Editorial Dept. of
the Michigan Farmer. This little book-
let takes the following: tools and mate-
rials for bell work; how and why bells
work; batteries for small installations;
making bells and push-buttons; wiring
bell systems; construction of annun—
ciators and signals; burglar alarms
and auxiliary apparatus, such as string
switches, Window switches, door swit-
ches, tim e switches, temperature
switches, etc.; mere elaborate bell
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Home-Made Fertilizer Distributor, Built by John Harrison, Manton, Mich.
Uses It to Broadcast Fertilizer, for potatoes.

with a knife, as clear and sharp today
as if they had been done yesterday.
Our knowledge of civilization dating
back 7,000 years rests firmly on the
extraordinary endurance of common
tile.” . ‘

CLEANING CONTAMINATED WELL. '

 

Some time ago We pumped up bits
of skin and gray hair, indicating that
a rat had fallen into our well, the
platform of which is very poor. We
wish to put on a new platform, but
do not know how to remove the rat
and make the water fit touse again.
Is there any way to do this except to
pump the well dry? It is .a bored well
about 30 feet. deep and almost full of
water.———Subscriber. '

As this is entirely too common an
occurance, perhaps other of our read-
ers will be interested in the proper
treatment of such a well.
the water in the well Lwith chloride of

‘ lime te-kill any disease germs which
might be present. As you do not give
the size of the well, I would suggest
that you secure about three pounds of
fresh chloride of lime and mixvit up
in a tub full of water, and pour this
into the well, stirringjt up carefully.

Let this stand a dayor so, then pump'

out the well as completely as you
can, remove the pump and wash down
the casing with a brush wet with a
strong chloride of'lime solution, and
also wash of! the pump pipe.

Then, before putting back the pump.
you ought to ’ clean out the bottom
thoroughly by using. a sand bucket,

which is a. heavy bucket which just ..

. p - slips, down the well easily and has a
- loose, bottom tow let, the -.wat’er.and mud

"then closes whenjyg‘u lift it up.

  

M:- rut

   

First, treat '

‘ about 150 sq. ft.

.a “313i coverif

them. As burglar alarms] and door
bells are about the same thing, prac-
tically all of the material in the book
will be helpful in working out prac-
tical burglar alarms—D.

 

CHARGE FOR SHELTERING
SEPARATOR.

 

Five farmers have bought a 22—36
grain separator, and have asked me
to shelter it in my new bank barn, 34
by 68 feet. With it in my drive way
I am not able to drive in with -a load
of hay or anything I wish to pull in
with my team. What shoul I charge
my four partners for shelt'ringxthis
for one year? Also four of us are
partners on an ensilage cutter and
they wish me to shelter it also. What
would be a fair charge for housing
this machine?——-F. A. _

A fair charge to both parties for
sheltering a machine is about five
cents per year for each square, foot of
floor space occupied. This covers in-
terest and other overhead charges on
the building and the labor of putting
in and taking out. A 22-36 separator
has a length of about 25 feet and a
Width of about 6 feet or an area. of
This would make the
charge $7.50 per year, of which you
and each of the other four partners
should stand $1.50. »

An ensilage cutter will require a
space about 8 feet by 5 feet or 40
square feet, which at 5 cents would
amount to $2.00, of which each part-
ner should pay one-fourth or 50 cents
per year—I. W.

Theilatest thing is an aromatic fer-
tilizer. It is made from the by-pro-

{ducts in the manufacture of cocOa and
a freshly

chocolate: and smells like
opened can of, eccoa. ‘ '.

 

  

 

 

   

   

 
 
 
  
  
   
 
  
   

The famous Goodyear Pathfinder.

' Car owners have already bought
nearly 5,000,000 of. these lowerc :
priced, standard quality Goodyear: 3

Right in Your Home Town

No one in the world enjoys a better tire
proposition than is available to you right
in your home town.

This proposition is offered you by your .
local Goodyear dealer. '

He sells the world’s finest tires at a range
of prices to fit any pocketbook, and he
services those tires after you buy.

He recommends the right size and type of
Goodyear Tire for your car. He puts it on
the rim for you, fills it With air. He helps
you give it the care it should have to de-
liver maximum results.

When you buy from your Goodyear dealer,
therefore, you get a superior tire which you
mu see beforeyou luy, backed up by a handy in-
telligent service that Will save you money.

This service is an important part of the Good-.
year policy: to build the grouteit possible value
into Goodyear products, and to provide fucilitie:
so tbuz‘ user: com get ull this iuluilt vulue out.

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Goodyear makes a tire to suit you—whether you
g want the incom arable All-Weather Tread Good-
: year, the most amous tire in the world, or the
E lower-priced standard quality Goodyear Pathfinder“;

 

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It was 38 years ago ~ back in 1889-
that August Rosemhal, then afannev
com Ieted the first successful com

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is first machine, shown,

, climaxed seven years of intensive
experimentation and deuelo ment.

Rosenthal machines today r
work of these very specialistsw
ed the com husker industry.

Husk and Shred 500 to
.700 Bushels in One Day

A Few “Steel 4”
Features:
. Allvsteel construction.

2.Ca ecity 500 to 700
has:

els a day.

3. Power: Fordson or tractor

of equal power.

4. Clean husking guaranteed

with stalks wet, dry or

frozen.

5. Enclosed gears run in

grease.
6. Combination husking and

snapping rollers.

7. Natural Self-Feeder.

 

     
       
     
     
       
        
   
    
   
   
   
    

 
 
 

 

Remove the Menace
of the Corn Borer
Now!

The menace of the Euro-
pean Corn Borer is
spreading rapidly in this
country. To check this
dangerous crop destroy—
er, government and uni-
versity agricultural au-
thorities recommend the
shredding of all corn.

 

 

 

    
   
  
   
     
   
 
   
   
 
   
  
  
  
    
  
  
   
   
  
   
   

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N the time it takes to husk a sin le
ear by hand, the popular Rosen
“Steel 4” handles an entire bundle

-— elevating ears to the wagon and

putting the fodder in the mow.

Think of it\—- 500 to 700 bushels per day
with a Fordson or any other tractor of equal
power. And we guarantee clean, fast husking
with stalks dry, wet or frozen hard. No wor-
riee about taking care of your own and neigh-
borhood crops in time, regardless of weather
conditions. Just keep gettin the bundles
coming and the Rosenthal oes the rest.

Try any Rosenthal at our risk, with money-
and-settlement-back guarantee. 0 erate it
yourself, with our own corn. why
“Rosenthal” ist e biggest name in the corn

husker business. Any Rosenthel agent willbe.
glad to arrange this for you, or we will if

there is no local agent near you.

W it orcatalogs describingfivesizes,§to 20H.P_.,
an; filling ho-w hikers have done their huskmg m
spare time as 'well as make money in custom work.
Useful Souvenir FREE. State H. P. of your engine.

ROSENTHAL CORN HUSKER CO.
13on - Milwaukee. Wis. ’

 
 

 

 

ICHIGAN

Classified Liners get re-

Try one.

Heevee,
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Two

  

FARMER

Gounhe. cor-gluon-
e. Most tor colt.
cans satisfactory to:

Heaven 01' money back. 51.2.
pet can. Dealers or by mail.

The Newton Remedy 00.

Toledo. Ohio.

 

‘SHIPPING POLICY PENDING.

 

DEFINITE shipping policy will

be provided by 'the passage of
legislatibn during the coming session
of Congress' This is the unanimous
opinion of congressional leaders, but
there‘is a marked differenoge of opin-
ion as to what this policy should be.
One influential group in Congress in-
sists that the government should sell
all its Shipping Board lines to private
interests; while another group favors
continued and aggressive government-
al operation of the merchant marine.

BARS NOT WANTED.

HAT prohibition is an advantage

and not a. disadvantage in the
operation of passenger lines of the
United States Shipping Board, is the
settled conviction of General Dalton.
On his return to Washington from a
trip of inspection of American ship-
ping facilities, he said: “Prohibition
has had no efiect on the passenger
, bookings of American vessels despite
statements to the contrary. Person-
ally I would not approve restoring
bars to American passenger vessels
even if bars were authorized by law.
It is my honest conviction that prohi-
bition has not been detrimental and
there are no longer scenes of drunk-
ness abroad these vessels. Young
couples now patronize the dance floors
on American ships, whereas when
bars existed young men were prone to
spend their time in them. Foreign
passengers are patronizing Shipping
Board vessels in preference to their
own country’s ships.”

DAIRY RESEARCH NEEDED.

 

QUESTIONNAIRE was sent out

recently by A. M. Loomis of the
American Dairy Federation, to 300
leaders of the dairy industry, includ-
ing business men, breeders, officials
of dairy organizations and agricultural
college dairy departments, as to what
kind of research is needed in. the
dairy industry. Answers were re-
ceived from more than 150 persons. A
large number of subjects were sug-
gested, but every answer emphasized
contagious abortion research as need-
ing the most attention.

While the primary purpose of this
move for larger appropriations for re-
search was to develop new uses for
farm products on a commercial scale,
this was considered .of secondary im-
portance by representatives of the
dairy industry. Agricultural college
professors, ‘ dairy organization leaders
and others interested in dairying
seem unable to get away from the
old idea that the most urgent need of
the industry is larger production
rather than larger outlets for the pro:
ducts of the dairy industry.

PARCEL POST BY AIR.

 

HE proposition to open the air
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parcel post rates is under considera-
tion by the Post Office Department.
The air mail contractors are now
carrying parcels at firstclass rates,
but it is thought that the lower rates
would encourage a larger volume of
business by the‘airplane. The carry-
ing of parcels by airplanes is said to
have developed large proportions in
Europe.

STUDY FARM COSTS. ' .

 

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THE preliminary work on. agricul‘
.‘ tum ‘cost investigations :by the

 

 

United States Taritt Commission is .
”abOut completed and thefindings will; '

early date, according to an announce-
ment made at the first fall meeting of
‘the Commission; The investigations
in Which} farmers have special inter-
est jcove'r." "pumps, 1 flaxseed, cherries,
eggsyegg‘tproducts, fresh and canned
tomatoes, milk, and“'cream, peanuts,
soy beans, Cottonseed and corn,
. maple} sugar and maple syrup.

TO FEDERALIZE MOTOR TRAFFIC.

HAT a powerful effort win he
made when the 70th Congress

be reported to the President at an‘

meets to secure legislation placing

the regulation of motor vehicle lines

under the jurisdiction of the Inter~§
state Commerce Commission is indi<'

cated by propaganda that is being cir«
culated and speeches that are being
made by representatives of interested
parties in favor of such Federal regu~
lation. The Interstate Commerce
Commission has completed its investi.
gations of motor transportation, and
its report will be presented to Con-
gress early this coming winter.

News of the Week

A tornado struck St. Louis, Sept.
29th and wrecked 5,000 residences, the
loss amounting to $75,000,000. There
are about“ 100 dead and 575 injured.

Fred Palm was given a life sentence
for possessing a. pint of gin. He was
sentenced under the new Michigan
law which makes necessary stifi sen—
tences to repeaters.

In the nineteen years of its exis-

 

 

 

 

tence, the workers of the Ford Motor»

Company have received more than
$7,000,000,000. ‘

Senator George C. DeSaulles, of the
Canadian Parliament, was one hundred
years old last week. He was appointed
at the age of seventy-nine, at which
time Enemy complained that he was
oo 01 .

' Bennett J. Doty, an American who
enlisted in the French Foreign Legion
and then deserted in Syria, has been
pardoned by the French government;
after being court martialed.

President Mustapha Kemal Pasha,
of Turkey, has prepared a. 400,000
word speech telling of the accomp~
lishments of his term of office, which
will be broadcasted, taking four days
to do the job.

Signora. Mussolini, wife of the Ita1«
ian Premier, gave birth to a son. He.
is the first son but the fourth child.
Mussolini says he is “the first of a.
new series.”

An aircraft gun which is automatic-
ally trained on an airplane has been
tried successfully at the government
proving grounds near Baltimore.

The students at the University of
Michigan have asked that the ruling
prohibiting students from using auto-
mobiles be modified.

Helen Gardener, noted lecturer, who
claimed that woman’s brain was equal
to man’s, willed her brain to the Uni--
versity of Cornell for investigation
after death.‘ The results show that
her claim is right. .

Fisherman at Vancouver, B. 0., are
making money fishing for silk packets
which were lost when a silk train of
five cars Went into the river. The
railroad is paying five dollars per
bundle. One man has one hundred
bundles to his credit. ,
,September 27th and 128th were
Jewish New Years days which the
race devoted to solemn rites. They
welcomed the year 5688.

A flood swept the world’s smallest
principality in the world, Leichstein,
near Switzerland last week. Thou-
sands of cattle have been lost and
many people are thought to have been.
killed. . ~

Bananas have been forbidden to
Russian citizens by the Soviet govern—
ment, The only ones in Russia to re—
ceive bananas. are two apes in
Muscow. . g .

Deaths from automobile accidents

in Dthit; showed ajthirty per cent ‘

gain While-the ; nation showed 9.5.67
reduction; W ' ‘hsswthe' hi ‘

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HARD-EARNED FEED?

.Will you cash
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TIME, money, and potential profit are tied up‘
in your full hay mows, the corn in your silo,‘
the home-grown grain in your bins. Your hope is to
get back what you have put in, and make a profit.'.

      
 

Fed, straight, to your cows, your home-grown-
feeds will not return what they cost. you, even with,
milk at a high price. Fed with the right purchase'dz‘ -
concentrates you can make money not only on:
your investment in purchased feed, but—what is:
even 'more important—on your home-grown stufi.i§

  
    
    
      
   

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grown feeds all the qualities which you must have!
to maintain your cows in good flesh and get the)-
.last ounce of production from them on a profitable:
basis. What you require is a mixture of feeds whichu
when fed with your home-grown stuff, will use it to:
advantage and still give your cows a ration that i8\
palatable, highly digestible, balanced as to protein)
and carbohydrates, and economical enough to}
make you some money.

  
    
   
   
 
    
   
     
 

Amco Feed Mixing Service furnishes three such?
mixed feeds which will enable you to take fullest,
advantage of the value in your home-grown stuff! .
and still feed your. cows according to the highest.
standards. These three feeds, AMCO 32 % SUPPLE-r
MENT DAIRY, AMCO 24% DAIRY, and AMCO 20%"
DAIRY, are simply mixtures ofthe most economic-'
ally priced feed ingredients on the market, put to-’ ‘
gether in proportions approved by the colleges of.’ .
agriculture. Study your home—grown feed inventory -
and then select the Amco mixture which will feed'é

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    
   

 

 

 

 

To Feed with Glover and Alfalfa Hay

AMQO 20% DAIR Y, when fed with home-grown alfalfa and clover
hay. utilizes without waste the high protein content of these roughages.
It furnishes the safest amount of protein to feed with legume hay.

To Feed with Low Quality Roughage

_AM CO 24 % DAIR Yis made to feed with low-grade roughage. It can-
tams several lngredien ts', is very palatable, carries the needed mineral con—
tent, fund is digestible enough to feed a cow completely and well when the
roughage she gets islow in protein, high in fiber, and of low digestibility.

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AMCO 32% SUPPLEMENT DAIR Y, when cambined with a home-
grown grain like ground barley, or oats, or corn in the proper proportion,

adds to the home-grown feed all ofthe qualities of the best prepared dairy
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used on American farms for 81 years.
That fact alone may not be positive proof of
quality, but it must be admitted that any manu-
facturing plant that has produced wagons for
more than four score years must be making
good ones. Further, you can rest assured that
the Weber name has become known to a good
many farmers in that length of time. Practically
every community is the home of dozens of
Webers, and every one in service is a testimonial
to Weber quality. These facts combine with the
Patented Fifth Wheel and the Patented Swivel
Reach coupling to make the McCormick- Deering
Weber the logical wagon choice. See the local
McCormick- Deering dealer’s display of these
good wagons.

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Get This Extra Feed

A corn crop which, fed as shelled
corn lasts 5 months, would last 5/
months if fed as com and cob meal.
But—the same crop would last 7% months
ground up with stalks. stems. leaves and
all. 50. 000 owners say that Letz Mixed Feed
Halters will:

1. Saves 25% to 60% of present feed crops.

2. Release up to 80% of your present acre-

age for additional cash crops.

  

 
  
  
   

  
   

  
   
  

3. Increase milk and meat production up ~ mm My for
to 30% through better feeding!m free copy of It.

4. Save up to 25% of labor in dling “Let: System00
feedc II o In e c to II

5. Improve health and condition of all MW"
farm animals.

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,WITH THE FLOWERS IN OCTOBER.

 

OCTOBER is a. busy month for the
flower gardener. Between clean-
ing up the frost withered annuals,
preparing for and planting the spring-
flowering bulbs and dividing the over-
grown clumps of perennials, the time
is pretty well occupied. ‘

If your seedsman hasvany of the

new Mendel tulips, by all_means try
'a few of them. A cross between the

Early Flowering and Darwin types,

they have retained the early flowering
'habit of the one parent and the long

stems of the other. They are now

available in nearly all of the colors

found in tulips.

The Cannas, Dahlias, Gladioli, and
other tender bulbs and tubers should
be lifted before freezing weather and
put away Where frost will not reach

them. If you are successful with your
present method of storing Cannas,

'stick to it; if you are not, try placing
jthe roots in a shallow box and storing
‘in a fairly dry place in the cellar.
Keep a sharp eye on the roots during
the winter. If they start to rot, move
ithem closer to the furnace and if they
{commence to shrivel, try a little more
moisture. Dahlias may be stored in
boxes of .sand with the stems down.
Gladiolus bulbs are not so particular
“in their storage requirements. Cut
'the tops off close to the bulb as they
are dug, air cure them for a few days
and store in a frost-proof place. If
fonly a few bulbs are to be taken care
_,of they may be stored in paper bags
suspended from the ceiling of the cel-
lar but if the quantity is large,‘ shal-
low trays are best.

I often wonder why more flower
lovers do 'not grow Chironodoxas or,
as they are popularly known, Glory of
the Snow. They are perfectly hardy,
of the easiest culture, and, produce
charming blue flowers in dense clus-
ters on the first warm days of spring.
Plant groups of a half a dozen or more
bulbs about two inches apart and
about the same in depth in any well
drained position in the garden and I
am sure you will be charmed with
them as other gardeners have been.

If garden slugs bother the delphin-
'iums, try putting coal ashes around
the plants this fall and do the same
again in the spring.

To be sure of getting the sweet peas
planted early in the spring, it will be
well to prepare the place this fall.
Quite often success will follow late
fall planting but the seed is not al-
ways available at that time. In any
case dig a trench about a foot and a
half deep where the peas are to be
planted and fill to within a few inches
of the top with very rich soil. If the
place is not naturally well drained, put
two or three inches of Cinders in the
bottom of the trench.

Hardy roses of the class of General
Jacqueminot and Paul Neyron may be
successfully planted this fall if they

the first winter. This work should be
done as early as possible. so as to give
the plants plenty of time to get
settled before winter. _

October is a good time to go over

ing the whole yard a good top dres-
sing of manure—C. W. Wood.

KEEPING GARDEN SOIL CLEAN.

 

GARDEN soil that is foul with
weed seed increases the cost of
raising the crops. In such soils the
weeds in masses fight to strangle out
the delicate young plants. It keeps
the gardener very busy in a rainy
spring to save the rows of vegetables.
During the fall it pays to prevent
the weeds from going to seed in the
garden and along the fence rows bes

 

  

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side. the garden.

are given adequate protection during

the lawn, seeding bare spots and giv-«

 

Although the de-

struction of such weeds does not in-
crease the size of this. year’s crop, it
helps in raising a better crop next
year

If poultry are given scratch grain

‘on the garden soil after the harvest

of the crops, it does not pay to throw
screenings in such a. place. The
screenings may be full of weed seed
which the hens will neglect to pick
up. And that often means a liberal
seeding of the garden soil with weeds.
Sometimes weeds which have previ-
ously caused no trouble in a. garden
soil will be introduced through screen-
ings fed to the chickens on the soil
where the garden is to be planted
next year. ~

Weedy clover chaff used for bedding
or poultry nest boxes is sometimes
dumped on the vegetable garden soil
before rotting has destroyed the vital-
ity of the weed seed. Manure that is
full of weed seed often helps in mak-
ing a garden soil very fowl with
weeds.

Watch for the stray Weed in the
rows of vegetables. It maynot be a.
thrifty appearing weed but it may pro-
duce enough seed to make successful
gardening more difficult next year.

GETTING 'ACQUAINTED WITH
CORN BORERS.

 

(Continued from page 321.)
favored. Some kinds had three times
as many borers as others, although
they were planted at the same time
and in adjoining rows. In making a.
study of these corns, one of the sta-
tion men discovered that corns show—
ing a high acid test had few borers,
while plants low in acid and high in
sugar were badly infested. Maize
amargo, a bitter corn from Italy, had
practically no infestation at all. Pop
corn is also on the bad list of the
borer. Dent corn is in the middle
group; while the flint and sweet kinds
bring smiles to the faces of these in-
vading foreigners. These observations
lead to the-conclusion that the plant
breeder will be an important factor
in the war on the pest.

Tests were also made to see how
many borers would turn to moths in
infested corn stalks that were prop:
erly plowed down. Cages were placed
over a total of 1,800 square feet of
plowed ground on three different
farms. These were watched contin~
uously during the period when the
corn borer moths were emerging and
not a single specimen was observed
as coming from this area where in-
fested stalks had been plowed under.
This would seem to justify the value
of good plowing as a means of control.

Also it was thought that the detas~
seling of the corn after the eggs of
the larvae had been hatched may give
a. clue to some additional control meas-
ure. Plots were detasseled at var~
ious heights, but thus far nothing
particularly encouraging has been
learned from this source.

Further the machinery men are

seeking ways and means of using
common farm implements and tools to
do field work and to handle the corn
crop so the borer cannot continue to
multiply. This, includes work with
plows, binders, harvesters, silo shred-
ders,,burner-s, etc.

These are a few of the studies being
made at the corn borer experiment
station at Monroe and by our State
College men Some of the lines of
effort will require years before any
conclusions can be drawn. Largely
from the research work done at this
station and others we will have in

time a tested program by which our '
corn crop can be protected against. .

commercial damage from this pest.

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ACH fall and spring a great
many farmers hold their largest
sales—they auction off nearly ev-
erything that they Own,the amount of

each sale usually running into the.
, thOusands.
" ance of such sales to the owners, it

Considering the import-

is desirable that they have as large
an. attendance of bidders as is possible

’ and‘in order to get the attendance the

" pare an attractive poster.
an auction poster effective, it is neces— ‘_

sale must be well advertised.

I, First of all, it is necessary to pre:
To make

. sary that the owner list all of the

. using a large poster.

things for sale that he possibly‘ can,
Most farmers
read the auction bills to see if there
is anything listed that they need. If
the owner simply lists his live stock,
large farm tools, and-the more import-
ant articles for sale, and then bunches
a great number of smaller articles un-

der, “Many more articles too numerous.

to mention,” the chances are that when

_ the bill is readmany farmers will not

find the things listed that they want

- to buy“ and will not attend the sale,

, tersely give specific

‘ animals for sale.

While the owner may have the very
articles that they want included under
the ambiguous caption mentioned
above: Remember, that a man may
come to a sale with the intention of
buying only a post-hold, digger, and
when he sees what you have for sale,
and the prices the things are geing

' for, he may buy a team, or make some
‘ other large purchase.
cles that it is possible to list by name.‘

List all the arti-

Not only name the articles, but
information re-
garding the more important things and
Don’t list your live

stock like this: “One Red Cow,” “One

, Black Cow,” etc., as is sometimes done.

. Give the pertinent

. er.
:“One Grade Jersey Cow, six years old,
.-fresh March 15th,” etc.

information that
you would want if you were the buy-
List live stock more like this:

Many more

. buyers will be drawn if they know

exactly what you have for sale. Many
farmers do not care to attend sales

.unless they know that you have some

thing to sell that they want to buy.
They can’t guess at what you have

3 and take a chance on your having it

in these days of scarce labor. Tell

.. them exactly What you have for sale,

.

? cal newspaper.

and the important facts. about each

. principal commodity.

‘ After you have prepared the poster

'1 your next concern is to get a copy to

all possible buyers in the vicinity. Two

'methods of doing this are usually
available:
conspicuous places in the usual way, .

by tacking up the bills in

and by inserting the poster in the 10-
To get the best at-
tendance it is necessary that the pro-
prietor of the sale use bothkmediums.
Many farmers will stop and read the

* posters that are put upon road cor-

‘take this trouble,
.weather.

11ers, bridges and buildings, and other
conspicuous places, but others will not
especially in bad

This latter class can be

1 reached best by the newspaper, which
- can be read in the home in comfort.

- neighborhood, it may be profitable to
.have your advertisement in both pa-
- .pers a few times.

  

'your auction bill.

In‘effect, it is almost like mailing ev-
ery farmer in" the county a copy of
If there is more
than one paper circulating in your

It‘ is well to use large type for the
listing of the most._important animals
- and articles for sale, but don’t let the
“ printer get it so large that he Will be
compelled to list everything else in
- , “very fine print, in order to get it on"

"f,'...'the bill.

, the nearest

By'c H. ”smuh

'-week also.

Be sure that you give the ,
"location of your . farm very clearly—4

 

of your farm, if it is known by and

special name, the hour of the sale, the

datejeglving the day of the month, and
And don’t forget to add
the terms of the sale, and mention
lunch at noon, if furnished.

Insert your advertisement in the pa-
per, and post your bills at least two
weeks before the date of the sale.
Have the newspaper advertisement re-
peated a number of times, the last
time a day before the sale. When put-
ting up your bills-use inch-sduare pieces
of cardboard or roofing-tins, with
large tacks to fasten the bills so that
they will be placed securely and not
be ‘torn off by the wind. Post them
near and far, tacking them up in the

vmost conspicuous places where they

can be easily read.

Having done this, you need only to
pray for a favorable turn of the weath‘
er on the day of your sale.

BURNING THE WEEDS.

 

T is apparent that: large numbers of

our farmers have decided that burn-
ing is one of the best methods of
keeping down weed and insect pests.
During the past three weeks the
writer has been in every county of
the state ~ quarantined against the
European corn borer. Never before
has he seen so many famerwut burn—
ing the weeds along their fence rows
to destroy the harboring places of this
and other pests.

A good plan is to mow the weeds
close to the ground when still green
and then rake them in small piles be-
fore the seeds scatter. These small
piles will dry out quickly and burn
easily and completely. It is well to
rake any bits of unburned material to
the center of the flame. Careful at-
tention each season to the destruction
of weeds after this manner will not
only make easier the control of weeds
in the seasons to come, but it will add
to the efficiency of our efforts in con-
trolling the corn borer. In fact, we
feel that the cleaning of fence rows
and neglected corners will ultimately
become a necessary part of corn
borer control work—B. W.

 

THREE HORSES VS. TWO HORSES.

 

UR agricultural economists find

that three. horses to' a plow will
do more work than two horses, but
the cost of plowing each acre with
three\horses is greater.

 

MILK WAR AT 800.

 

DUE to the refusal of the members

of the Chippewa County Milk Pro-
ducers association to sell their milk
for less than an increase of eighty
cents a hundred, there is a milk war
on. The Sault Creamery Co., the larg-
est distributor, is getting enough milk
to supply their needs and threaten to
cut consumer prices if the association
continues its attitude.

 

.SHEEP PAY BEST.

 

THE record kept at the Piedmont

government experiment station
shows that in twelve years sheep pay
better than other farm animals. The
increase in the flock and the income
from the wool brought better returns
than any other live stock venture at
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The litter of pigs owned by. Geo.
Klingenberg, Allegan county, qualified
in the ton litter contest,
3 .188 lbs.

  

It consisted of 14 pigs and

.,.;the remarkable thing is that they were , ’

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"Comments on 5P easants
By Two Readers I

WHY KNOCK THE PHEASANT?

T was with very much interest that

I read in the September 3 issue Mr.
KirbY’s article entitled “The Farmer
and the Pheasant.” Where I live,
pheasants are quite numerous. They
have been “eating all that their appe-
tites demanded,” as- Mr. Kirby says,
but up to date, the damage they have
done to my crops is very slight. Last
year the damage to thirty acres of
corn, I believe, would not ex ceed five
dollars. '

It is a well known fact that these
birds will live on weed seeds in win—
ter, and apparently thrive in places
where no corn or other grain is avail-
able, and I believe that they also eat
a large number of insects in summer.

I am not worrying about losing very
much corn just because pheasants are
around, and would much rather have
them than corn borers for several
reasons. It costs money to get men
to pick up stalks and burn them to
kill corn borers, while it costs noth-
ing to get men to kill pheasants. In
fact I believe you could get enough
men on the job to reduce the pheasant
population dangerously near the .point
of becoming extinct in one season, and
the majority of these men would be
willing to pay for the privilege. Here
is a possible source of revenue which
I believe Mr. Kirby has overlooked.
However, I am not advising anybody
to follow out this method of proceed-
ure and as far as it pertains to my
farm will say, let the pheasants in-
crease. A few of my friends, my hired
help, and myself, can reduce their
numbers enough during the hunting
season to suit me, and if there are a
few of them left, their presence and
what little damage they do to my
crops, will serve as a reminder 9f good
times I have had in the past and more
in store for me in the future, for I
like to hunt these birds and I enjoy
eating them.

I am glad that I can raise a little
game on my own farm for it saves
me both gas and shoe leather, and
after a hard summer’s work a few
days of sport and recreation for my
hired man and myself during the last
weeks in October, will be appreciated.
If we are lucky enough to secure a.
few of these birds for the table, they
will be relished by our families, and
at the end of the season, I am sure
you will not be able to find anybody
around my place who has any grudge
against the pheasants, or who will say
that they ought not to be protected.—
W. H. Every.

WHY THE PH EASANT?

N your issue of September 3 some

fine things are said by R. G. Kirby
about the farmer and the pheasant.
But why} stop there? Why not con-
sider other things that are very injur¥
ious to farmers and others and yet
they are protected by law?

Since we have begun on birds let
us consider‘ other birds. Cranes,
herons, ikingfishers, fishhawks, and
even eagles are very destructive birds.
True the first live mainly on small
fish and frogs, but the small fish
would many of them make large fish
and others make food ‘for fine fish to
grow on and both the little fish and
frogs live largely on the insect pests
that hatch in the water or fall in it,
hence they should be protected the
same as the birds are that are insect
eaters and they are to some extent
from men, but the law protects these
other‘enemies of fish and frogs that
are far more destructive to them than

7we are.

/
One trapper told me that one half
of the muskrat skins that. he took

"were those. that his dog found where

 

the mink had killed them and a pear

neighbor had nearly all of his head
killed one night by a mink. The mis-
chief they do far outweigh their
value. But these are ,not'the only
pests that the state protects, several
of which attack the farmer’s chickens
and also destroy a lot of our song
birds and insect-eating birds so that
they are rapidly disappearing and the
damage to crops by insects is greatly
increasing.

The weasel is not as bad as the
mink but he often raids our chick-
eries and will attack grown hens it
little chickens are not handy and there
can be no reasonable doubt that he
kills many birds.

Skunks do the same and other kinds
of damage besides. _A skunk will de-
stroy bee hives and since the state has
been protecting them, bumble bees
have been almost entirely destroyed
and since they are our main depend-
ance for po-llenizers of red I clover,
there has been a. great decrease in the
yield of clover seed and therefore less
of it is sown. Besides, the skunk will
dig up and eat buried carcasses that
are diseased and no doubt often car—
ries diseases from one farm to another
as he travels around a. lot.

The fox is another animal-with re}?
bad habits. But he is so wild and
smart that he had rather catch wild
things than risk coming near our
houses so his destructive habits are
not so noticeable as those of some of
the bolder, less shrewd animals. But
there can be no doubt that he makes
havoc among our bird friends. Squir-
rels are enemies of farmers as they
are very destructive to his grain crops
and gnaw bad holes in his buildings
and they like to destroy bird nests
that are in trees out of reach of other
animals.

Rabbits are not generally as bad as
some other animals but they often de~
stroy young fruit trees and injure
berry plants and hinder the reforest-
ing of waste lands. ,

It is one of the fundamental prin-
ciples of all just governments that the
state shall not take the property of its
citizens without paying for it and with-
out their consentIexcept in case of
public necessity. Yet this is what the
state is doing to he farmers by her
game laws and there is no real need
of it and were the state to pay all
the damages done by the animals she
protects, the game laws would be
found very unprofitable.

It is time we farmers got together
and had the game laws so reformed“
that we will not continue to be the
goats in a very unprofitable business
so as to make it profitable to the
state.~Francis G. Smith.

Bumper crops of celery are being
shipped from the Decatur, Muskegon
and Kalamazoo regions.

Barton Elloit, of Grand Haven, who
a. few years ago bought some dahlias
for his garden has become prominent
in the dahlia raising circles in this
state. He exhibited some (dahlias
measuring 15 inches across. He. is
vice-president of the new State‘Dahlia
Raisers association.

American people are buying goods. on.
time at the rate of five billion dollars
a year.

BR'OTH ER SOUGHT.

RUSSELL A. TUCKER, 35 years
old, is being sought by his sister,

Mrs. S. J. Mann, 5323 Moran St,
Detroit. He has been missing from:
his home since May 20 when he was
supposed to have gone to New Hudson
to find Work. He was interested in.
farming. He is a war veteran, and
has worked in a. Pontiac brick factory. ,
He is described as being 5 feet 9»
inches tall, weighs 155 and has brown. .
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, WHAT Doss THE MOLTING TIMI-i
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,. HE‘control of g the melting period
.fOr‘ hens and, «pullets has always

been of ”great interest to poultrymen. _

Trapnesting and'observation in many
flocks developed the general rule that
the.late melting hens were the best
layers. Farmers who sold .off the
' ragged appearing hens in the fall and
- retained the hens with the smooth
sleek new plumage, soon found that
their egg yield gradually became
smaller.

'When the late melting hens were
retained and carefully fed through the
melting period, theywere found to rev
tain their vigor in spite of the long
period of egg production. Such hens
molt quickly when the process starts
and they are —‘ soon ready to resume
egg production. The following spring
they have proven to be the type of
birds that are apt to produce more
good layers which also molt late in
the” season.

However in the farm flock there are
‘many exceptions to the rule. Some-
-times flocks on free range .are not

given a balanced dry mash containing
meat scrap during the summer al-
' though their rations have been com-
plete throughout the period in the
winter quarters.

The sudden change in a ration after
the hens are more or less weakened
by the strain of long egg production
is bound to reduce their weight still
further and encourage an early molt.
Hens take care of their own bodily
requirements first and do not lay eggs
unless they have a surplus of feed and
energy to manufacture the eggs.

So it is very difficult to cull a farm
flock on the basis of the melt if the
birds are on a range where insects
and worms are scarce and there is
no dry mash in the hoppers. Hens
that. have been brooding chicks can
hardly be culled according to the melt-

ing time. Such hens lose in weight

while confined to breed coops. They
'have usually been through a trying
three weeks’ period on the nest while
incubating eggs. After the chicks age
weaned the hen is apt to melt al-
~though she might have been a heavy
summer and fall producer if not al-
lowed to hatch and breed chicks.

A farm flock‘ in which the average
melting time is rather late is a great
.help in maintaining the egg income

until the pullets reach the age of pro-~

duction. If a flock melts early and
rests all through the late summer and
early fall there is a long period when
the return from eggs is very small.
. In such flocks there is often the ne-
cessity [of marketing a large part of
the hens during the summer and going
. without much income from eggs until
the pullets are old enough to lay.

The question of whether the pullets
melt or not depends on the hatching
date and the method of feeding. When
Leghorns are hatched before the mid-
dle of March and lay at four or five
months of age it is quite “difficult to
prevent _. a melt. If ,Leg'horns, are
hatched from April first to May fif-
teenth a‘ndigiven plenty of grain to
increase their bodily weight, 'it is usu-
ally possible to prevent the first year
melt. '

When a heavy breed like the Barred
Rock is hatched earlier than March
first and lays during the summer there
. is danger of .a fall- molt. Rocks

‘ - hatched in March and April can usu-

ally be developed into fall layers

‘Withfiu't the melting danger although
much, depends on. the individuality of_

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quality during the following spring.
The value of the summer eggs plus
the hatchability of the spring eggs

- makes up for the loss during' the melt-

ing ‘period. ,

Feeding- plenty of scratch grain to
pullets helps to develop heavy meaty
bodies and this tends to prevent early
melting. Pullets that have constant
aCcess to dry mash hoppers and
plenty‘ of sour milk to drink and an
insufficient- supply of hard grain are
in great danger of laying too early.
This results in the production of small
eggs followed by a loss of weight and
the birds are quite apt to rest and
melt and not produce many eggs dur-
ing the period of high prices.

, In a flock of 1,000 birds there is a
great variation in quality and laying
ability and some birds may melt in
spite of the best of management. In
such cases it is the average condition
that counts. It is better for a few
pullets to melt' than to retard the en-
tire flock by underfeeding in order to
prevent the melt. The melting time.
of pullets cannot be used as a means
of judging laying ability. An early
melting pullet might have the most
natural ability as a producer. Pullets
that molt late in the fall cannot be
classed as exceptionally good just
because they have melted late. It is
more a matter of the hatching date
and feeding method than a sign of the
bird’s ability as a layer. Melting as
an aid in culling is only of much value
in the case of birds that have been
through their first year of production.
Even then it must be used With due
consideration to other factors which
may have influenced the melting peri-
od. If you have hens that have melted
late in spite of changes in the ration
or lack of mash in the summer, such
hens are apt to be good layers. They
may be worth banding and using in
a special breeding pen during the
coming year.

CLOVER SOD POULTRY RANGE.

WE have always been told that a

sandy light soil which drains eas-
ily makes the best poultry range. A
soil of that type is not quickly contam-
inated by droppings. The sand and
gravel furnishes grit for the poultry.
But the light sandy soil is not the
easiest kind of range on which to pro-
vide an abundance of tender green
feed.

This year the month of August was
very dry in many sections of Michi-
gan. And the heavy clay loam soils
are the last to dry out and furnish
moisture and fertility to stimulate
green grass long after the green feed
is dead on a light sandy soil.

Pullets on free range seem to devel-
op the heaviest bodies when they have
an abundance of tender green feed in
the ration. The soil that is a little
heavy requires only a small amount of
rain 'to continually develop the tender
shoots. It is the fresh, newly sprouted

bit of. grass which'is tender and appe?

tizing to a pullet. Dry, tough grass
does the range stock little good, and
is the-most apt to mat in the crop
and cause a bird to be crop-bound.

A soil that is well drained and heavy
enough to produce a continuous‘ supply
of green feed, makes a very good poul-
try range. ‘It is also more apt‘to at-
tract insect life than the light sandy
soil. More angleworms will appear on
the range if the soil is fairly rich and
a little heavy. As a meat food for
birds, there is nothing superior to the
angleworm. ‘ _. " -

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each year to turn under the contain?
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' July 9, 1927
QUAKER OATS CO., Chicago, Ill.
Dear Sir:

Enclosed you will find a report of the test I made
at this farm with home mixed rations versus Ful-O-
Pep Feed.

The test was run from Dec. lst, 1926, to July 1st,
1927, on two-year old hens and proved that Ful-O-
Pep Egg Mash is superior to home mixed feed in
every way. .

During my twenty-five years’ experience with poul-
try this is the first time that I have been convinced
that your commercial feed is the real feed for raising
growing and laying stock.

We are making arrangements to put our whole flock
of layers on Ful-O-Pep Feeds as the result of our test.

Our growing pullets (about 5000) are now on Ful-
O-Pep Growing Mash and they look the best of any
pullets I ever saw.

I wish to thank you for past favors to us during the
test and remain. '

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IN a poultry feeding test conducted by Hillside
. Farm, 508 yearling hens were started on F ul-
O-Pep Egg Mash. .

At the same time 985 yearling hens were started on
a home-mixed ration, sprouted oats, and semi-solid
buttermilk.

The Ful-O-Pep flock averaged 82 eggs per bird
during the test.

The home-mixture flock averaged 74 eggs per bird
during the test.

10% more eggs per bird from the Ful-O-Pep flock.
The Ful-O-Pep birds ate less mash. The cost of
feeding the home-mixture flock was higher.

The labor necessary for feeding the Ful-O-Pep
flock was less, owing to the elimination of a morn-
ing feeding of grain and other extras and the fact
that Ful-O-Pep Egg Mash is ready for use, just as
it comes from the sack. ,
Eggs from the Ful-O-Pep flock averaged 78% hatch
against 62% for the “home mixture” flock.

25% increase in hatch from F ul-O-Pep eggs.

Isn’t' such evidence as this enough? Aren’t you
ready, now, to give up old-fashioned and unprofit-
able feeding methods? Do it now! Put your hens
on F ul-O-Pep Egg Mash—the scientific ration that
contains just the things a hen must have to make
eggs—minerals,pr0teins,and other substances. And
remember—this is the feed that contains COD
LIVER MEAL to make all ingredients do faster

. and better work. See the Quaker Dealer near you.

Look for the blue-and-white striped sack.

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other things I have encountered
in life—tough, but possible, and

In great joke when it’s allover.

A few years ago every farmer

lwished his boys and girls to attend

high; school and receive the training
Which he, himself, in many cases was
denied; but today, not only are the
majority of the farm boys and girls
attending high school, but a. large
number of them are asking and plan-
ning about a college course, either
pertaining to agriculture or some

“other profession. The farmers’ pro-

fession seems to be offering an oppor-
tunity today equal to that of any other
profession, and the boys and girls
from the farm seeing the challenge,
are seeking their training in the agri-“
cultural colleges. .

I graduated from the Michigan Agri-
cultural College in 1924, and have been
teaching agriculture in high school
since that time. .Each year at com-
mencement time in our high school a
large number of seniors ask, “Can I
work my way through College?” Par-
ents ask the same question concern-
ing. their children. I usually inform
them that it is possible, and then gen-
erally relate some of the experiences
I had from working my way through
college.

Well do I recall the first day I
stepped on the campus of my old
Alma Mater with only $300 in my
pocket, and an eagerness to tackle the
four years of training that every farm
boy and girl is beginning to look for-
ward to.

I secured a room at the home of
one of the professors of the college,
and my roommate was a stranger like
myself just beginning college. He
studied engineering and is a contract-
or now. We often talk about the first
night together at the college. Neither
of us could sleep, so we spent the
night getting acquainted and planning
for the future. In the morning we
registered, bought our frosh caps and
started as regular college students.

After we paid our fees, and bought
our books, our small fortunes. were
very much reduced, and we began to
look for a job. The first job I se-

cured was peeling potatoes and wash—'

ing dishes at a boarding club. The
job consisted of working three hours
each day, from four to seven every
morning, and for these three hours of
specialized labor, I received in return
all the food I could eat which was
plenty. Boys leaving the farm for
college generally take their appetites
with them. Now some young men
might not fancy the idea of getting up
at 3:45 each morning and going to
work. If not, then let me say to
begin with that you probably cannot
work your way through college. Get—
ting up at 3:45 and getting to work
at four o’clock may look like an im-
possibility, but it can be done. On
Saturdays employment can usually be
secured on the college farm by the
farm boys because they are exper-
ienced in farm work.

There are many odd jobs around a
college farm, and for this reason I
believe there are opportunities given
in working your way through an Agri-
cultural College that are not found in
other colleges.

'I worked in the kitchen six months,
when I was promoted to a janitor's
job. On this job I worked three hours
in the evening instead of the morning,
which was more satisfactory. From
all the jobs I worked at in college, ‘I
learned something, too. The other
day the janitor came into my office to
sweep. I took his broom and showed
him a trick or two about sweeping
under a radiator that he did not know.
He could see that I had handled a.
broom before. I can still handle one
too, and it doesn’t tickle my hands
either. I, also, claim from my exper-

   
 

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dome in the kitchen at college‘that I

can, peel potatoes or wash dishes as
well as any maid in our town. _
They say the, first year is always.

the hardest, and I am sure that this.

is true of college in more ways than
one. When the first year was over I
had $25 of my former $300. Due to
my training during the year, I was
able to secure a. position in an agri-
cultural laboratory during the summer
months. Contrary to the labor union’s
philosophy, I secured a job clerking

in a drug store in the evenings, and

this brought in some extra money. I
have always worked more than eight
hours per day, and I would not advise
any young man to try working his way
through college on an eight hour~ day,
or even going to college on an eight
hour day as it cannot be done.

At the beginning of my Sophomore
year, fro the‘ income- of both the
janitor an clerking jobs, I was able
to pay my board and room and have a

 
  
  

and entertainment on account of finan-
cial embarrassment. The banquets
are usually quite expensive, but-I gen-
erally managed to secure a job wait-
ing on table at most of them. In this
manner I always had as much or more
to eat. than the guests and: heard the
afterdinner speeches too.

During the latter part of the first
term of my prhomore year, my room-
mate and myself took inventory and
found that our supply of cash on hand
was very low. We could see that we
either had to make more money or
quit school. ‘We would not quit, so- we
began to think of plans to make more
money. The different plans discussed
would fill a book, or would make John
D. Rockefeller or Henry Ford dizzy,
but we finally decided on the follow-
ing: The people where we roomed had
a very large apiary which produced
several tons of very fine honey that
fall. We decided to buy some of it at
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ascinating about What folks are
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For some time the Michigan Farmer has thought that its readers
would appreciate reading about the home and community life and
some of the unusual characteristics of these far-away folks.

To bring these interesting facts and pictures to you, we have
joined with the Standard Farm Press to engage two well-known
writers, Francis Flood and Jim Wilson to take‘ a trip around the
world. A few years ago these same two writers made a trip to
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little money left over. However, Sat-
urday work was not so plentiful that
fall, and I saw my small amount of
money disappearing before the term
was over. In the face of this pre-
dicament a new suit and overcoat was
needed for the Sophomore Prom. This
social function could have been missed,
but our class was the first class to
hold a Sophomore Prom, and this was
the first party I ever attended which
was a strictly full dress affair, and I
Ijulstdhad to go if it took the last cent
a .

The party was a swell affair, and I
can tell you the Prince of Wales didn’t
have anything on me with my new
dress suit and fair co-ed. In spite of
the fact that fellow works his way
through college, and spends many
hours in labor and studying, there are
many social functions which he can
attend and enjoy at a very nominal
cost. I mention this because I believe
the social side of college life is a very
important one. It can be easily over=
done, while on the other hand it can
be neglected, and a student working
his way through college is liable to
neglect this part of college life. There
are always Liberal Art Courses, enter-
tainments and good lectures at every
big college which cost very little. The
Union Parties, Mass Meetings, and
athletic games are free or are included
in the fees,- therefore a student is
never lacking good clean. recreation

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bottles, pails and fancy labels, put it
up in attractive packages and sell it
out from house to house. We could
bottle the honey in the basement at
odd hours. and‘ be our own bosses.
Each of us wrote up a sale talk and
practiced it. We could tell you at
that time how many calories and what
vitamins honey contained as well as
all its wonderful uses. This may sound
strange to you, but it was a serious
matter with us. We tried it and it
worked. The first day out we each
made $9.00 and this was a small for-
tune to us. Every Saturday, rain or
shine, we borrowed an old flivver,
packed it full of honey and sold from
house to house. From this extra
money I was able to finish my Sopho-
more year in college. '

That summer I hired out to a com-
pany to sell brushes and made very
good money, averaging about $12.00
per' day. My two years of college
training, and my experience in the
honey business aided me in this work.»
I would advise every boy going to col-
lege to take a trial at salesmanship,
if .he has any sales ability at all, and
I want to say right here that about
90 per cent of sales ability comes from
good hard work. I not only made good
money in this work, but I learned to
meet and/ handle people, and I made
acquaintances and friends which I
shall remember as long as I live. I
believe it was my sales experience

allege _ M mam ma 0

, sales work as. 2. aid

as the varsity sense“ ens
t 7 in mm mm:- year.’ 'i -
'AJ-thmlflth im at present teaching
school. and fitting other young/men
and women for cello j , I am stilt in
‘ he, and it pays
me very well. 'Salesmanship is .one
of the most interesting and highest
paid professions today, and It recom-
mend it to the college man as strongly
as Red Grange recommends carrying
ice. I also believe that sal manship
is a big, factor in profitabe present
day agriculture, and one of the
sciences that the agriculturist ”must
give more attention in the future. .
During my Junior and Senior years
in college I had very little difficulty
with finances as ,;I made very good
money selling brushes, and hiring and
training other vmen to sell brushes.
The college man today working his
way through school might not sell
brushes, but there are many other
useful articles. coming in vogue which
the public want and will buy. Some
people have said to me, “You have
paid your way by selling, but I am not
a salesman.” It is true that I paid
my last two years’ expenses by selling.
and when I graduated I had about

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‘$300 in the bank. However, I paid my

way the first two years by doing odd
jobs, and I believe I could have done
so the last two years. I also believe
that a man’s first two years in college
ought to fit him so that he could
demand a larger salary the last two
years, as that is one of ,the objects of
going to college.

I do not wish. any one to entertain
the idea that I ‘did‘ not work hard the
last two years simply because I was
in sales work. I spent many hours
and sacrificed many evenings in order
to interview prospective salesmen and
teach regular classes in salesman-
ship. It was all hard work, I can as-
sure you that.

Some parents have said to me, I do-
not want my boy to work'in college

‘ as he needs all his time for his stud-

ies. It is true that he does, but never—
theless the facts-”of the cases are
that the fellows who work seem to
secure just as good or better marks
than the fellows who do not work.
Other parents. have told me that they
want their boys to spend their extra
time in college activities. That too
is a splendid idea, but I have observed
that the fellows who work have time
for activities also. Harry Kipke told
me he earned his: entire way through
college and Red Grange did the same
thing. They found time for college
activities.

Of course- I am not foolish enough to
recommend that every boy work his
way through college because it can’t
be done: The fellow Who does must
be better than the average for he is
tackling two jobs instead of one-
earning a living and acquiring an edu«
cation. He’must plan his work, stud-
ies, and recreation in order to secure
the most efficient results, and must be
willing to make some sacrifices. .He
must have plenty of ambition, must be
a good student, and be able to adapt
himself to different conditions. If he
possesses these qualities, which I have
found many of the farm boys do pos-
sess, and has a little money to start
with, he can do it, and when it’s all
over he will- say over and over again,
“Those sure rwere‘the happy days."

A REGULAR BEAT-U P.

 

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about Bill beating Jack up yesterday
morning?”

Guy' Wise:“‘No, how did it happen?”

Alex Smart: “Well, Jack got out of
bed at 7——”‘

Guy Wise: “Yes, yes—~and ?”

Alex Smart: “Bill got up about six."

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S I sit here this eyening listen-
ing to’ a steady downpour of
rain that ‘has fallen [almost
continuously for the last forty hours
and comes down' so easily that it
is hard to prophesy when it will
break away, I am taking a lot of
somewhat selfish satisfaction in the
thought that silo ‘ filling here at
Ingleside Farm is over for this year.
Our outfit has one, more silo-to fill if
the weather ever gets suitable, but
there isn’t so much responsibility at-
tached to doing the job away from
the home farm.

This rain is saturating the soil to
such an extent that a little wind
would tangle the corn so that it would
be difficult if not impossible to cut it
with a binder. We still have several
acres of our best corn standing. We
hope that it will mature sufficiently
for some seed and ear corn. .

Silo filling here went along quite
smoothly from a mechanical point of
view. The binder, ensilage cutter and
tractor each did its part creditably.
I was thankful for that, as there are
few things more distracting and nerve-
racking than to have a dozen or more
men standing around waiting for some
balky machinery to be coaxed back
into service.

One day it was pretty tough on the
teamsters and men in the field as it
had rained in the night and itrwas a.
gray day with intermittent showers
often enough to keep us sopping wet
most of the time. The bundles were
anything but pleasant to handle.

We kept the ensilage well packed
and put all we could in the silo,
rounding it up for good measure. After
it had settled a day we put in two
more big loads. This morning we wet
the ensilage with an uncounted num-
‘ber of pailfulls of water and sowed
about twenty quarts of cats on the
surface. When these sprout and grow
they will form a dense r_nat which will
considerably lessen the amount of
spoiled ensilage to be thrown away
when the silo is opened for feeding

purposes a few weeks hence.

What Ingleside Means.

Perhaps some of you may have won-
dered What the word Ingleside means.
This time of year we think more fre—
queutly than common of the signific-
ance of this homestead name. I It is
an old Scotch term for fireplace or
hearthstone. These damp and chilly
autumn days we have had a fire blaz-
ing in the grate here at Ingleside a
good deal of the time. It lends wel-
come warmth and a sort of mystic
cheer and contentment to the family
circle and postpones the evil day
when the care of the furnace will be
added to our long list of chores.

Then, too, there is another reason
why I like our open fire. It gives me
a good chance to get rid of some stub-7
born chunks of wood that had resisted
my most strenuous efforts to split
them. Right now I am taking a lot
of satisfaction sitting here toasting
my" feet within a yard of the fireplace
and watching a couple gnarled and
knotty blocks yield to the flames and

being reduced to golden red embers.

Disappointment and death have
been unwelcome intruders into our
midst here at Ingleside recently. Lux-
uriant alfalfa pastures and a super-
abundance of moisture have caused
bloat to take heavy toll among our
sheep flocks. Last Sunday we couldn’t
help feeling a little. blue because we
had to bury'three pure-bred
shire rams that were victims of their
own gluttony. It seems that'sheep
are almost human in their inability to
know when to stop eating as long as

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come back and find another one dead.
Our loss Sunday was eSpecially hard "

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work in record breaking time. We
would look at the sheep and perhaps
find one 'dead and the rest apparently
In a little while we would

to take because listed among the three
fatalities were a pair of twins that

were orphans and had been raised on '

the bottle, which, ,as many of you
know, means a lot of work.

It has been noteworthy that most of
the bloating has been among the
rams. The barn where they drank
and lay around. v'Vas separated from
the alfalfa by a lane abount seventy
rods long. This seems to be a bad
arrangement. The rams would loaf
around the barn until late in the after-
noon and then work slowly down the
lane. Probably they would arrive at
the alfalfa about the time that the
dew was beginning to fall. Then they
would be so hungry that they would
overload themselves and dangerous
bffiating Would often result. The
humidity and dew-fall seem to be im-
portant factors in determining whether
serious bloating occurs or not.

, How to Prevent Bloat.

After having been associated with
sheep raising all my life, I have
reached the conclusion that sheep will
usually do considerably better if they
stay on the pasture all the time in-

‘stead of coming up a lane and lying

around a barn half the, time. When
sheep are right on a pasture all the
time, they will eat leisurely and mod—
erately. As soon as they become the
least bit hungry, they can satisfy their
appetites within a few feet, if the was
ture is reasonably good. This is the
best insurance against bloating. When
the sheep go out ‘to abundant pasture
with their stomachs empty, they will
always bear watching.

Just to illustrate that this is not all
theory and that it actually works out
in practice, I might mention that our
ewe lambs have been on a luxuriant
alfalfa pasture twenty-four hours a
day and have suffered no ill effects.
The only trouble with this arrange
ment is that we have to carry water
to them, but this rainy weather the
sheep drink little, if at all.

If a person finds a bloated sheep,
while he is yet alive, there are a num—E
ber of simple remedies which may be

administered. In times past we have
used 'pine tar with satisfaction. Tur-
pentine is another common "remedy.
This fall we have been using ordinary
baking soda and ginger. We mix a
tablespoonful of soda and one level
teaspoonful of ginger with a cup and
a half of water and give it as a drench
to each bloated sheep.

Farm Problems‘Build Character.

From my experience I would say
that it is far safer to administer a
drench while a sheep is standing on
his feet then to pour it down him
while he is sitting on his haunches.
When a drench is properly given,
there is little danger'of stranglation.
Thus far we have not lost any sheep
that we reached while they were yet
alive.

I should hate to say that we farmers
have more than our just share of grief
and disappointment, but certainly we
have enough. Blighting droughts, too
long continued rains, insects, diseases
among our crops and live stock, fire,
hail, unseasonable frosts, labor short-
ages, high cost of farm supplies, low
prices for our products, inequitable
and excessive' taxes—all these con-

.front us and have their sobering influ-

ences upon our lives. Fortunate is he
who takes each as it comes and con-
quers it, while each obstacle and
difficulty yields its bit toward char—
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FOR the first six months of

insix mo

this year the sales of Kelly-

Springfield tires Were 57% ahead of the figures for the
corresponding months of last year’.

There can be only one explanation fer this astonishing
showing. That explanation lies in the quality and the value
that are being built into the Kelly product.

Car—owners have grown tire—wise. No tire company could
show such a tremendous increase in business unless it had
been able to demonstrate to tire buyers that it had some-
thing out of the ordinary to offer.

Kellys cost no more than a great many other makes of tires.

“Kelly dealers everywhere——
there must be one in your town?

KELLY—SPRINGFIELD TIRE CO.

GENERAL MOTORS ELDG.

NEW YORK, N. Y.

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LIJAH must have been tired out.

The nerves which had been hard-

ened to endure alm‘ost'anything
had given .away. Nervous prostra-
tion had not been invented then, at
least not by that name. But Elijah
would have been a good candidate for
it. He had been through the hell fire
of strain and stress. He had expected
a sweeping reformation. The people,
he thought, would be. different after
the land had been purged of this hor-
rible baal worship, and the false
prophets had been sent to their own
place. Things would be different for-
evermore. Morals would be easier,
life would be sweeter. It would be
God’s country, in more than a phrase.
The dream of a. holy people serving a
holy God in aIVholy land would be
nearer than it had ever been before.

But what happened? Not what
Elijah had expected. The venomous
threat of a wo-
man swept all
these hopes away.
From victor, Eli-
jah became fugi-
tive, in twenty-
four hours. He
could stand be-
fore hundreds of
lying prophets
and order them
to their death, but he could not stand
before a furious woman. From the
heights of triumph he plunged into the
valley of defeat and despair. He was
done, whipped, beaten, and running
for his life. Was there ever such an
anticlimax? Taking a trusted servant
they walked, ran, for a hundred
miles, going off into the desert at
Beersheba. To do that they had to
travel the whole length of Judah and
Israel. To make escape certain the
prophet left his servant after they had
travelled ’ a day’s journey into the
desert, while he went on alone. He
was a beaten man. The terrific strain
of days and months had drunk up the
best vitality of his nerves and soul,
and he could do no more.

God knew it. That is a bewitch-
ingly tender picture that I Kings gives
us, where the angel comes down :and
builds a little fire, bakes cakes on it,
fills the water bag with water, and
then wakes up the weary trembling
man, and then does it a second time.
The journey, says the angel, is too
great for him. Just so. The journey
of life is too great for a whole lot of

 

'people, and they do not seem to know

what’ the trouble is. They fly to
everything for relief; patent, medi-
cines, quacks of all shades and de-
grees, i‘everism activity, and suicide.
They go to every one but God, and
sample everything but religious faith.
They are broken, beaten, exhausted,
shrunken. A news item announces
the opening of a clinic in an eastern
city to care for the victims of the
jazz age". ‘

But Elijah was better off than that.
He knew God, though at present their
relations Were not close, owing to the
prophet’s physical condition. But he
felt that if he could get to Mount
Horeb, the sacred mountain where
Moses had received the ten command-
ments, he would be on holy ground.
He went. Horeb was a long way off,
requiring something “like a month’s
journey. ,

But such a leonine frame as Elijah’s
recup‘erates rapidly. Soon he is ready
for actiOn. Living a hermit life is not
all ,it is cracked up, to be. One day
he hears ,a. voice, “What are you

doing here, Elijah?” The voice spoke

more than once, and at last it came
so still and sWeetly he could resist no
longer. . . , ' ‘

But He has as full of alibis and ex-
planations as a barn loft is of hay.

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work, he tells God. Everybody else is
worshipping, false deities, breaking
down the sacred altars, and I am the
only one left in the world who be-
lieves in the good old-time religion.
And because of that they are seeking
my life this very moment. Never did

there live a man who did as much, or '

was as little appreciated. Alone I
have fought God’s battles, and this is
my reward. .

When anyone talks that way there
is something the matter with him.
Church folk get that way sometimes.
Nobody is as good as they are, only
a very few are going to be saved, and,
in fact, it is doubtful whether anybody
will be saved except three Or four,
and maybe only me, myself. When
that mood overtakes a human, ‘he is
a hard one to deal with. He has
wrapped up his common sense in a
paper napkin and put on the top
shelf, or maybe it is his religion that
has been put up there. At any rate
something fundamental is lacking.
Maybe it’s overwork, worry, a plain
case of nerves. If so rest ought to
straighten things out._ In other cases
work will do it. Go to work, and stop
your fussing and whining, and your
gabble about not being appreciated!

That was the medicine thatJehovah
prescribed for Elijah. “Go, return on
thy way!” That sounds like business,
doesn’t it? Get to work! Go back
the way you came, right into the thick
of the fight, and don’t be afraid of
anybody! And the old man, sound
and genuine at heart, goes. But
things were not as bad as he im-
agined. They never are. His influ-
ence had been greater than he
thought. God tells” him of seven thous-
and good folk who have never bowed
the knee to baal, and that is a great

 

many in a small nation. The years
of teaching and preaching hadbrought
forth a large harvest. Seven thou-
sand heroic men and women who had
braved death, torture, the loss of]

home, than to give up the faith! Eli-l 5

jah, you are a bigger man than you
thought. Besides that long, long after
you are dead, pe0ple Will be talking
about you, drawing lessons from your
life.

 

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR
- OCTOBER 9.

 

SUBJECT:——E1ijah Hears God’s Voice.
I Kings, 19, 9-18.

GOLDEN TEXT:—-Psa.. 27, 14.

 

 

RURAL HEALTH
LL By Dr. C. H. Lerrz'go

 

 

 

TREATM ENT FOR PILES.

Am having trouble with my spine
down at the end of backbone. When
I stoop or bend over I can hardly
get up. I have piles; do vou think
this could be the cause? Is there any
danger of paralysis or becoming an
invalid? Am thirty years 7 of age.
Please state what it could be, also
best kind of treatment for trouble——
Mrs. K

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OW can we socially ostracize a
food of the distinguished lineage
possessed by beans, a food
which graced the feasts of wealthy
Egyptians, stalwart Romans and cul-
tured Greeks, to say nothing of being
a staple, in the diet of our own
worthy ancestors, the early white
settlers of this continent?

The soy bean, now used in this
country as fodder, likewise recog-
nized as one of the greatest of our
vegetable foods, has been for centur-
ies commonly appreciated in the
Orient, where it holds sway as a meat
substitute, a relish (soy bean sauce),
a'source of soup stock, cheese, and
even a basis of a fermented drink.

In America, we are familiar with
the bush bean plants, which first bear
lilac-colored blossoms, then long green
or yellow pods. The housewife must
needs know the table preparation of
the tender succulent pods, rich in
mineral salts and vitamins; likewise
the more thoughtful consideration of
the seeds or dried beans which have
been allowed to mature on the vines
before being separated from the pods
or shells. It is these nitrogenous
dried beans, whether of the navy, kid-
ney, lima, or soy bean variety, that
claim precedence as very economical
sources of building material for our
body tissue, and also of calcium and
iron, equally essential to our well-
being.

Spanish-Sandwiches.

Mash one half cupful of baked beans
and add just enough chili sauce to
make the mixture a spreading con-
sistency. Spread filling on a slice of
buttered bread and place on it a thin
slice of Bermuda onion. Top with an-
other slice of buttered bread, and you
have a balanced Sunday night lunch.

Baked Beans.

Scald and look over one pound bf
navy beans. Soak them over night in
ltwo quarts of cold water. Parboil
until tender, then drain. Put the beans
into a baking-dish; add one~half
pOund of diced salt pork, two tea-
spoonfuls of salt, and one teaspoonful
of mustard. Bury one peeled onion
in the beans and cover all with fresh
water. Put lid on baking dish and
bake the beans in oven slowly for six
or eight hours. Water must be added

 

 

 

 

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For Nutriment, Con31der Beans
Property Coated, T/zey Mate Tempting Dzr/z‘er

By Floris Culver Thompson

several times during the baking. Dur-
ing the last hour, remove cover so
that the beans may brown. The na-
tural flavor of the beans is enjoyed
when molasses or sugar is omitted.

This recipe was developed by a
State-of-Maine cook, who conscien-
tiously serves baked beans every Sat-
urday night, ”to the joy of her family.

Variety Bean Salad.

When one is pressed for time, this
nutritious salad may be quickly pre-
pared by first setting aside in refrig—
erator or cool place, a can. each of
tiny string beans,_ baby Lima beans,
and small peas, and also a cupful of
French dressing. For the French
dressing use one-third lemon juice to
-two—thirds salad oil, one tablespoon-
ful of paprika and one-half table-
spoonful of salt.

Drain the chilled vegetables as thor-
oughly .as possible. Add a little diced
onion to the vegetables. Mix vege-
tables in bowl with French dressing,
tossing them lightly with a fork.

Arrange crisp lettuce leaves in salad
bowl, and add the vegetables and
dressing Garnish top with strips of
pimento, or sliced stuffed olives.

Succotash.

String bean succotaslr is growing in
popularity. Simmer one-fourth pound
of diced salt pork in one cupful of
water with one pint of string beans,
(if fresh), until both are tender. Add

'one pint of shoe-peg corn and two

tablespoonfuls of butter. Serve hot in

heated vegetable dishes.

POSSIBILITIES OF THE BASKET
HARVEST.

 

URING the fall of the year
there’s many a basket or wood

en box that comes into the
house which might be useful. From
vegetable and fruit market, come

bushel baskets/and crates that are
strong and serviceable. They seem too
nice to throw away and their shape
and size suggest a variety of practical
uses about the home, but wehesitate
on account of their ugly appearance

in their rough raw wood condition.-

To make these baskets useful in a.
colorful ornamental Way is only a.
matter of paint and brush. Take an
ordinary orange crate and! paint it a
sage green on the outside, with dull
tan inside. Then place a gay cretone
curtain on one side that can be drawn
across to cover the front. This may
be used to holdA books or magazines
or even more personal belongings in
your own room. Or else in a corner
of the porch this cupboard may hold
your fancy work and newspapers.

A. bushel basket painted some dull
color with a few bright flowers sten-
ciled on the front is a very satisfac-
tory and attractive waste basket. The
larger, two bushel size, when painted
in two colors in alternation, following
the spokes of the basket lengthways
makes a very good looking laundry
hamper. Or one may use these gay
large size baskets on the lawn to hold
leaves and rubbish that collects about
the place.

A beautiful flower basket can be
made from a fig basket painted bright
red. This makes a lovely center piece
for the table. A flat dish stands in
the basket to hold \cut flowers.

The low flat cherry box of two com-_

partments makes an excellent tray.
Paint it Chinese blue with a strip of
orange or black running around the
tray. And one may use a few decora-
tive flowers stenciled here or there
for an added touch. The brass handle
can be purchased and attached.

The stenciled designs in various
patterns can be had at most any
paint stores—Mrs. L. H. Funk.

HOMESPUN HINTS.

 

If paper sticks fast to (any polished
furniture, put a few drops of oil on it
and rub gently with a soft cloth. The
paper will soon rub off and-the finish
will be unharmed.

To keep the kitchen sink fresh from
the odor of the waste pipes, sprinkle
a tablespoon of baking soda over the

drain grate and rinse down with hot'

water. Repeat this operation about
twice a. week.

Enamel Ranges Prove Popular

HE old-fashioned, dingy, black

[range that Mother used to slave

over is gradually passing out of
existence. It is passing out with the
other relics of the “gay 90’s”———the old
surrey with its fringed canopy, the
long, trailing black silk dresses, and
the tin bath tubs.

There are few of them left.
of them have been or are being rap-
idly replaced by bright, cheerful,
porcelain enamel ranges. Replacing
the old black range with a. beautiful,
shining porcelain enamel range is like
bringing sunlight into a room that was
formerly dark as’night. It changes
the Whole appearance of the kitchen——
brightens it up like the dawn of a new
day. One manufacturer ‘has stated
that his porcelain enamel range sales
are increasing at the tremendous rate
of over 300% every year—«that indi-
cates the growing popularity of these
ranges.

A porcelain enamel range is
easy to clean as 3. china. dish.”

“as
All

[that is necessary- is to go over it with

a damp cloth and in less than no

time at all the range gleamslike new. ‘hognny at
’If you select a porcelain enamel range
Lot good quality from .a highly its '

Most;

able concern, there is no danger of it
ever chipping or cracking.

The popular colors are now delft
blue and soft pearl gray. These are
colors which will harmonize well with
any kitchen decOration and are always
pleasing.

There-are many .good makes of por-
celain enamel heating stoves and the
stove manufacturers are now build-

ing them in such great quantities that

they can be had at practically the
same price that was formerly asked
for the black range. And, of course,
all of the new porcelain enamel
ranges have many new features which
assist in making cooking a pleasure
instead of a toil. ”"

The insistence on the part of wo-
men for better equipment is one of
the things that has resulted in the
astounding increase in porcelain ena-
mel range sales.- This is true not only

of porcelain enamel ranges but it is -
' namel heating /

    

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ms. a: deep aspect: to big or
little boys and giris about .3 cookie
crock that never seems to have a
bottom. Even the most helpless mon-
in the kitchen, just naturally finds his
way to the cookie crack and many a.
glass of milk has disappeared uncom-
plainingly when accompanied by a
cookie. .
Cookies can always fill in as a
dessert and a. cup. of tea. or glass of
lemonade seems twice as sociable if
a plate of cookies is on the tea table.
However I never liked to spend
hours in a hot kitchen, rolling. and
cutting and baking so here are some
recipes for over night and drop
cookies that are favorites.
Drop Nut Cookies.
3‘ teaspoon salt
1 cup finely chopped nuts
2. 2-3' cups pastry flour

2 teaspoons baking
powder.

 

1% cups light brown

sugar .
1% cup butter
2 egos
reassess

' Cream, butter and sugar. Beat eggs
until light. Add With. cream to first
mixtu‘re. Stir in nuts and- vanilla.
Mix and sift flour, salt and baking,
powder and stir into mixture. Drop
from teaspoon onto oiled and floured
cookie sheet and bake 15 minutes in
a hot oven.

Butterscotch Cookies.

1 cup butter 1 teaspoon soda.

4 cups light brown sugar 7 cups of flour .

4 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla

1' teaspoon of cream of 1 teaspoon! salt
tartar

Cream, butter and sugar. Add eggs
beaten until light. Mix and sift flour,
salt, cream of tartar and soda. Add-
with vanilla to first mixture. Mix
well and form into roll. Chill over-
night and cut in thin slices. Bake
eight minutes in a hot oven.

Chopped nuts can be sprinkled over
caramel or butterscotch cookies before
baking. When nuts are added to the
dough it’s not quite as easy to slice.

 

REMOVING PRTNTlNG FROM
SACKS.

 

ACCORDING to the Colorado Agri-
cultural College, one of the large
bag. companies recommends for remov-
ing the printing on flour and sugar

be used; ‘ '

water, rubbing-the printed surface on,
a scrubbing board. Rinse and then.

boil the sack in strong suds for half '
Then rinse and wring out. r

an hour.
If traces of the ink still remain, dip
the sack in Javelle water and without
rinsing, hang it in the air for 30- min-
utes. Then rinse thoroughly to- re-
move all traces of_the Javelle water.
Javelle water can be made by boiling
two tablespoonsful of sal soda in a
quart of water for 10 minutes then add
two tablespoonsful of chloride of
lime. Strain the solution before dip-
ping sacks in it. If followed carefully
this method should put the bags in
good condition for use in. articles of
clothing or other purposes.

THE OLD FASHIONED PUMPKIN
BUTTER.

 

URING the last year several
housewives asked" me if I knew
where they could procure a good
recipe for the old fashioned pumpkin

butter. When I was a little girl, liv-
ing on our Nebraska homestead,
mother made great quantities of

pumpkin butter every fall.

The following is her tried and true
recipe. To» a gallon of stewed pump-
kin, cooked very dry, add two quarts
of boiling hot sorghum syrup. Cook
rap-idly until it has boiled down to
about half the original amount. It
must be stirred very frequently to pre-
vent b-urning. Then it is ready for
the flavoring. Flavor to suit the indi-
vidual taste, with ground cloves (very
little), allspice and cinnamon. Empty
into a stone jar and allow to cool
before tying a cloth over the top.
Brown sugar may be used instead of
the sorghum if desired, using about
three pints to a gallon of pumpkin.
—-—Mrs. N. P: D.

If you happen to buy a new brand
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Dari)! and Joan ‘ .

ARBY and Joan lived under the
D cucumber vine in the garden.

They had not spoken a cross

word-to each other since the
day when they, the tWo handsomest
toads in the garden, were wed.

Now, however, times were very
hard. There weren’t nearly as many
flies and bugs to catch in their gar-
den as there used to be. Even the
gardner seemed to want to get rid
of all the bugs, for he would come
around just at sunset and sprinkle the
plants with a queer smelling mixture
and the bugs got fewer and fewer.

There had been a long spell of
weather .Without any rain and Joan’s

 

A Blun‘dering. Fly Had Eanded Right
on the ‘nlp of Darby’s Nose.

jacket hung quite loose on her while
Darby was beginning to look gaunt
and faded. He had not had anything
to eat some a, blundering fly had
landed right on the top of his nose
,» two days. before and Darby had caught
him with his Jung sword-like tongue.
_- .‘I Yarn hunngf mid Joan one morn-
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now-a—days that I am growing quite
discouraged. Whatever shall we do?”

Darby had never heard his good
wife speak this way before so he
urged cheerfully, “My dear, you stay
in the shade and rest. I’ll see what
I can find. Ladies are rarely good
hunters you know."

So he went hippity-hop, hippity-hop,
hip-pity-hop, up one path and down
the other but he couldn’t find a bug at
all. He had grown very weary when
he spied a boy coming down the path
carrying a string of fish.

“Oh, if I just had one of those fish,”
thou ht Darby to himself. But how
was e to get it? He knew the boy
could not understand toad language
even if he tried to talk to him, and
besides Darby didn’t know whether he
was a naughty boy who threw stones
at toads or Whether he was one who
was ,kind to them. But he thought
how hungry Joan was and decided to
be brave. He hopped right out in the
path where the boy could see him.

“You poor little toad,” said the boy
when he spied him. “You look so
hungry and I haven’t a thing but a
fish for you. I don’t think toads like
fish butvit is all I have.” Then the
boy put one of his biggest fish right
dOWn beside Darby and went whistling
on his way. ,

With double hops Darby hastened
back to tell Joan of their good fortune.
Then both came back to guard their
treasure. On the second day they
were rewarded for, in the warm sun-
shine, the fish had begun to decay and
the flies from here and there and
everywhere came to have a taste.
Darby and Joan sat in the cool shade
of a leaf and caught them with their,
lung, sticky tongues and soon they
grew to be sleek, plump toads once
again. ' .

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LEASE don’t forget that this

is home-coming time and

that all who have been away
from our Circle activities should
write “home.” Especially do we
Want a word from those who
have been prominent in our
work during the past. I could
name quite a few who will dis-
appoint me and the Circlers if
they do not write. Please write
your letter immediately as we
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do not agree with Horst Beyer. We
have had many cats and would not be
without one. I suppose Horst would
rather have rats and mice rimming
over the butter he eats than to have
a cat around. Our cat will sit in a.
corner and catch every mouse that
comes near. Our cat would not get
upon the table when your back is
turned either. I don’t believe it is
Horst’s cat that is causing the
trouble—I believe it is its master.
Don’t you, Unkie? If you had not
taught it to get up on the table when
it was a kitten, “likely it would not
do it now, Horst.

Don’t you think us gals have got
Mr. Beyer beat, Uncle Frank? Don’t
feel bad, Horst, because you may be
all right, but we’re just trying to 'beat
you on this cat idea. Maybe we’re
wrong but we believe we’re right,
don’t we, Lucille Jones ?-—Miss “Mose-
ley.”

 

After reading what Horst Beyer said
about cats, crows, hawks, and pheas-
ants, I thought I would express my-
self on the subject. First, I cannot
agree with him about cats. There are
good cats and bad cats. The cats
that have no. home of any kind, and
are “kicked around” will kill birds and
young chickens.

But the cats that have homes and
are treated nice won’t do any harm
at all. If they do anything they will
probably catch a few mice, rats or
gophers. Now as to what he said
about birds. He said a pheasant does
more harm in a cornfield than a crow
does. I do not agree with him here
because a pheasant only eats the
loose kernels of corn on top of the
ground. A crow will deliberately pull
the young corn out by the roots. A
person can shoot a pheasant and eat
it, also he can shoot a crow and bury
it.

I would like to know what good a
hawk does. The only thing I ever
saw a hawk do, was to sail down on
a young chicken and fly away with
it.—-Harold Snyder.

 

I really didn’t think I’d be “clawed”
and “bitten” so much when I
“knocked” cats. Just about every-
body opposed me. However, you
notice they were all grils. A girl
will just naturally oppose anybody to
get a chance to argue. Therefore, I
won’t say any more about cats. That

was some ' cat fight as long as it
lasted, though.
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More AboutCats

By #2: Cat Defender:

.that you see blooming all

comWarnong the tribesof the east.»

 
  

ing contest soon? Those were some
pictures of you. Did any of them look
like you? Let’s have something else
to .argue about soon—something new.
-—Horst Beyer.

 

I do not agree with Horst Beyer.
We have one cat and four kittens.
Our cat never eats eggs, and never
gets on the table. She and the kit-
tens very seldom get into the house.

, I think cats are useful if taught to be

so. We used to have a cat that would
go out and find a bird mint and then
take it to some member of the family
and allow the head to be removed.
Then she would eat the body or give
it to her kitten. As we could get
bounty on rat and sparrow heads, the
cat proved very useful.

As usual my sister and, I helped dad
put hay and grain in the barn this
summer, but for what. good? On Aug-
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Our Letter Box,

Dear Uncle Frank:

Here is your little Canadian niece
again. I received my lovely pin a
long time ago and I don’t now why
I didn’t write long ago an thank you
unless it was because I am careless.
Well,.I do thank you very much,
Uncle Frank, very, very much.

 

 

I received some lovely letters
through the club which I must get.
to work and answer especially one...
.who is the same age as myself (17
years). I remain- your loving niece
and cousin. *Annie MacGennis, South-
port, Prince Edward Island, -.Canada

It is nice that. you have received
letters from other M. C.’s. Please
answer them as I am sure others will
'be waiting to hear from you HOpe
you will continue your M. C. interest.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

You couldn’t have made me a bit
happier if you would have sent me
a prize than when I got that card and
pin. I sure appreciate it and wish to
thank you a lot. Say, cousins, isn’t
it a grand and glorious feeling?

Speaking of hobbies, mine is cook-
ing. I just love to try new recipes.
I have a cook book in which I put
good recipes. I also have made a.
scrap book. However, my hobby many
times becomes work when I make
meals when my mother has other
work to do.

I live in the country and always

have. I like it all, but the work/in
3e field. I rather do housekeeping
en.

A quite a while ago a poem was
published called “The Outcast.” I felt
sorry and pity— a girl like her. I am
not saying it was the cause of her
fall, but let me tell you girls, beware
of the dance, which, with drink, is
causing the fall of so many of our
young girls, and sends them on the
downward path. And unless saved by
Christ and His word, many commit
suicide. '

I agree with you, Uncle, when you
say that the clean, modest young men
of today are the best liked. Oh, that
all young boys should strive to reach

that height with the help and guid‘

ance of the One Great Helper. That
is what would make our country
strong, although they all cannot reach
the height of honor that was Lind-
bergh’ s but they all can be clean, mod-
est, robust, healthy young men.
—Dorothy Weiss.

You have a womanly hobby. The
"Outcast” created a lot of. attention
and I think contained a valuable les-
son. There is dancing and dancing—-
some is alright but one must use care.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

I am writing to thank you for the
Merry Circle button and card’ I am
very proud of the membership and
also I would like to know how to be
come a Golden Circler.

. It was a very bright person who
1nvented “Our Page” and also the
Merry and Golden, Circles. I think
these two clubs are helping children

Little Nature Studies

Yellow Water Lzly .

F you were lost on a desert island
and could find a big bed of yellow

water lilies, you would not need to

starve. Despite the fact that it is not
as handsome, the yellow water lily
summer
long in stagnant water is of more real
usefulness than its lovely cousin, the
white water lily.’

The seeds of the water lilies ripen
under water in a fleshy pod. When
the flower is mature'it is drawn under
the surface'bythe bending or curling
of the long flexible stem, and the
seed pod develops, burstsopen and
scatters the seed.

At first they float, supported by a.
buoyant aril ' or See which aids in
scattering themabout on the water.
This is finally dissolved, allowing the
seed to ‘sink. .

Indians gathered the ripe seeds in
small seives or nets, dried them and
ate them parched, or ground them
into a. meal from which cakes were
baked. Among the Klamath Indians
the seed of the western water lily was

a staple article of diet, largely taking

the place held by .the maize 'or Indian

Even today South American Indian
tribes living near the headwaters of
the Amazon river visit the vast lily
beds in the swamps of that region to

 

 

 

The Yellow Water Lily Seeds Arc
Edible.

harvest the seeds that form on im-
portant item- of their menu.

Moose and deer also feed on the
water lily, being very fond of the
buds, the leaves or pods and the roots.
The yellow water lily is often known
as the cow my, perhaps from its lack

of beauty, perhaps becausedt is eager-

ly sought after by cow moosar in the

  

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Astwas reading oyer what it, said
on the membership card, I noticed
that it said thatvthe-Merry Circlers
' should s read “happiness, maintain
' good heath,.and gain knowledge in
order to become a useful citizen of
this country. ' ' ,

I think if every member would do
this in a few years there would be
many useful citizens in this country.—
Marian R.. Johnson.

The Golden Circle is a special
honor given occasionally to those who
> , do especially good work. I, too, think

1 if members followed membership
\rules, they would become good citi-

ZGDS.

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Dear Uncle and Cousins:

I am not a Merry Circler although
I’ve answered two contests. I have
not given up hope. ’ .

We just had a lively discussxon or
“heated argument” about prohibition.
I think that prohibition is doing our
country a great deal of good and _I
certainly agree with some of the arti-
cles that have been written by M. C.’s
about prohibition.

I have not seen anything on the
M. C. page about women in politics.
I thought all people knew or agreed
that women could be in politics and be
just as good and even better than
women who do not take any interest
in politics. .

I like to discuss politics and I’d like
to have some of the M. C.’s views on
this subject—M. S. J. ' .

We have occasionally mentioned

politics, but have not worked up any,

real enthusiasm for it. If the interest
is in evidence, I will give space to it.

Hello Uncle Frank and M. C.’s:

I’ve written a. few letters and forgot
to thank you for the Golden Circle pin.
So. thanks a lot. M. C.’s, you adore
your M. C. pins, but try and win a
Golden Circle pin and then you'll ‘see
what’s worth working for. Ask the
other Golden Circlersuthey'll all
agree.

Religion is a hard problem to solve.
The best thing is not to discuss it.
M. C.’s may belong to' different
churches and naturally they’d believe
in different ways. I know because
I've had an argument about it and
once it gets started on Our Page, fea-
thers will fly in all directions.

It would be nice to have contests
about the Bible. It would hurt no
one. Because it is no longer taught
in school—Tom Marshall.

I’m glad you like the G C. button.
It seems we,have not had many qual‘
ity for the G. C. honor lately. Bible
contests would be good.

SECRET CODE CONTEST.

ERE is a message in secret code

. that I am sending to you. If you
straighten out the words you will find
out what it is. When you send it in
don’tforget to put your name and ad-
dress in the upper left hand corner of
your paper and don’t forget M. C.
after your name if you are a Merry
Circler.

Ten correct papers will be picked
from. the pile of prizes which will be
fountain pens, loose leaf note books
_and knives. All correct papers sent
in by those who are not M. C.’s will
entitle them to an M. C. membership
card and button.

This contest closes October 14th.
Send your papers to Uncle Frank,
Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.

Here is the code mesage:

Remry celcir dunf endes rome
yomen in roder to yub het dario rof
the pirclepd dichrelns alpitsoh.

CARTOON CONTEST WINNERS

UR artists took advantage of our

contest and’ sent in some pretty
good cartoons. While some were‘good
there were not many good ones and
.it seemed to me' that some of our
artists did not take part or the artistic
ability of thé M. C.’s is getting less.
You will find names that you will rec-
ognize as M. C. artists in the list of
prize winners.

Fountain Pens.

Re e h . . -
villepllligh‘lb ‘nson, R No 1, Hermans
. . Wayne Burke, R. No. 4, Lansing,
Michigan... . . ,

L'oogesLeaf Note 306 o.
t. Beyer), R. No. ‘ 5, _ aw Paw.

. Rabid :Snyder, ;R. No. 1,1Kalamaz-oo,:
Wilhelminai-Zuehlke,-R._ No. 7, Ai-.
bion, Mich._ ' , .-
Two Mlohlgan Farmer Pencils.
Leona Ayers, R. No. 5, Alma, Mich.j
Violet Carson, R. No. 1, Ish‘pemlngp
Mic . J‘ '
Thelma Clayton, Hermansville.
Sherwin V. Hungerink, R. No. 4,
Zeelawd, Mich. ‘
' Ariel Denton, Saranac, Mich.

CLUB WORK' NETS HER $168.57.

AST year club work returned a

profit of $168.57 to Doris Gilbert.

Doris has been a member of a
canning club in Muskegon County,
Michigan, for the last four years, and
was the president of the Sunshine
canning club last year. - She canned
479%, quarts of fruits, 143 quarts of
vegetables and soups, 67 quarts of
jellies and jams, 35 quarts of pickles,
and 64% quarts of meats. The total
cost of products canned was $320.18
and the value was $488.75. This left
her a profit of $168.57.—Y. P. Bhosale.

Laverne Zerlatt, of Fremont, and a
member of the Boys and Girls Calf
Club in Newaygo county, is a happy
boy. His pure-bred Holstein heifer
won the junior championship in the
open classes at the West Michigan
State Fair. In thus winning, he de-
feated some of the best breeders in
the state.

CLOVER soo POULTRY RANGE

(Continued from page 329.)

to the surface, it makes a very satis-
factory poultry range. If the poultry
man-has enough land so that the birds
can be changed from one range to an-
other, there is little danger of the soil
becoming badly contaminate-d. When
the pullets can be grown on a range
that is only used for poultry once in
three or four years, the conditions are
almost ideal and the birds have a reli-
able source of green feed, with very
little danger of worms and disease, due
to badly infested soil.

In selecting a site for poultry rais-
ing, the light sandy soil produces good

results, but the poultryman should not '

forget the value of a good supply of
summer green feed. This is most of-
ten found throughout the summer on
the land that is heavy enough to hold
moisture and contain plenty of fertil-
ity to feed the grass roots—R. G.

NORTHERN MICHIGAN POULTRY

HOUSE.

Which is the best type of henhouse
for the northern part of the state?
Would 12x20 feet be large enough for
a hundred hens?~—G. S.

Write to the Michigan State College
Experiment Station, East Lansing,
Michigan, for Extension Bulletin No.
48. This thoroughly describes the
Michigan shed-type poultry house,
which will be all right for Northern
Michigan conditions if properly insu-
lated. '

This house ,is planned with windows
in front and a system of ventilation
making it possible to keep out the
snow and wind, and still supply plenty
of fresh air for the hens.

A house 12x20 feet is hardly large
enough for 100 hens. A house 20x20
will contain 400 square feet of floor
space and be large enough for 100
hens of any breed. As a general rule,
the heavy breeds require four square
feet of floOr space per bird. In. large
houses the Leghorns seem to do very
well with only three square feet of
floor space per bird.

In order to obtain better winter egg

production from the pullets, the ten

dency is to use insulated houses with
a ventilating system, rather than the
old type open front house in which
the temperature is seldom very much
warmer than the outside air.

CAN YOU BEAT IT?

_I have a Barred Rock pullet hatched
April 10, 1927, that laid its first egg

. on August 13, 1927, and on .the next

two days laid two more. Can anyone
beat that record ?——Henry Ackerman.

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care. Agricultural college agents everywhere will
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for the market.

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rest of your flock and you will know that the

maximum number of eggs will be produced.

Pilot Brand gives them the extra Calcium Cari
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w. F. YOUNGJncl 468 Lyman Si..$pr ngiiel

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I, - ,3 Dependable
thigh“ VI” A
“‘1‘“! It‘ll; .
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duction, regular in calving,
noted for size and vi or, consist-
ent in profits returne -Holsteins
are known as the most dependable
of all dairy cows.
. Write for literature
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CATTLE
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sire for sale, prize-winning bull, 3 yrs. old.
ggiii's record 634 lbs. fat, class EE. Also heifer for
sale. 12 mos. old, and five hull calves from 1 to 12
months old, three from A. it. dams. All carry
the blood of world champions. M. HOM_PE. Forest
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Wallinwood Guernseys

Sons of BROOKMEAD'S SECRET KINGIor sale.
F. W. WALLIN, JENISON. MICH

GUERNSEYS

I have for sale a number of well- bred young bulls
ranging fiom calves in serviieable age. Any one of
these should exe1t an improving influence on most pure-
bred herds JOHN ENDICOTT Birmingham, Mich.

Superior breeding. Two cows
Rengleled GUEIHSBIS to freshen soon, one bull 18

months. one six months. Come and see them.
G. A. WI GENT, Watervliet. Mich.

 

practically pure-bred GUERNSEY or HOL-
FOR STE N calves from heavy. rich milkerl.
write EDGEWOOD DAIRY FARMS, Whitewater. Win.

GUERNSEYS

 

blood lines. cows.
serviceable bulls and

popular
heifers

 

 

calves. T. V. HICKS, Battle Creek, Mich. R. I.
Dairy Heifer Calves. practically
Guernsey pure bred :25 00 each. Weshlp
C. 0. D. Write L. Terwilliger, Wauwatoas, Wis.
for sale. One scriice-
Registered Guernseys able bull. LOCKSHORE

FARM, L. O. MYRKLE, Mun, Creuey. Mich.

Registered Guernsey Bull Calves
For sale. THORNWOOD FARMS, Ada, Michigan.

FOR SAL

KAH LER Jones,

Four Registered Guernseys.
W. D.

heifers and one cow.
Michigan.

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SERVICEABLE AGE-

_ REGISTERED HOLSTEIN
Bull Calves at prices the owner ofa
small herd can afford to pay. The
sire ofmany of these calves is a Son ,..
of the highest rec'ord (30Ib.) two-
yearold daughter of Creator. His
sire is King Segis Alcartra Prilly, an
undefeated Show hull with 70 A. R.
daughters. Others sired by a 5 times '
1200 lb. Champion Bull. the famous
K. P. O. P. breeding.

Bred cows and heifers served by
these sires are available for founda-
tion stock.

RED ROSE FARMS DAIRY

Norghlville, Michigan
Reference. Norzifv'illzngdnmnvinn Bank

3 Iii‘gifigb Grade Holstein Cows and Heifers

. inurload lots. at remnablop ces.from TUB tested
, ,3.county. Gurus:- l. Brlnuold. l"West: Concord. lion.

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I bunches dehorned,

 

FLYING" FOX JERSEYS

We have four hulls of serviceable age. and four bull
calves. Is a few good cows and heifers. B. W.
RUHSTORFER, Kawkawlin, Mich.

 

' for service. and
Ch01ce Jersey Bulls mf’cum, .0, «.1.
from B. of M. dams accredited herd. SMITH ls
PARKER, Howell. Mich.

 

Blonds Golden Oxford
br ceding. of M. and
NOTTEN FARM, Grass Lake. Mich.

Jersey Bulls For Sale

C. T. A. dams.

Iii Ll ld.
Registered Jersey Bull,,,,’:,;‘:3 ’§,§ed-
ing. ALVIN BALDEN, Almont, Mich.

 

Stockers, Feeders
and Dairy Cattle

120 Guernsey and Jersey Heifers,
some springing.

60 Holstein Heifers,some Springing.

20 Springer Cows.

50 Stocker Heifers Grade Short-
horns.

250 Grade Shorthorn Steers, 500
to 800 lbs.

Would prefer to contract steers for
October delivery.

GRAY’S RANCH,

8 miles west of Houghton Lake on M-55

Stockers & Feeders

Calves. Year'l Twos: Hereford Steers &. Heifers.

T,ype dark reds, good grass flesh, most all
each bunch even in size and
show good breeding. Choice Hereftirds are usually
market toppers when finished. Few bunches T. B.
tested. Will sell sour choice from any bunch. State
number and Weight you prefer 450 to 1000 lbs.

Van D. Baldwin, Eldon ,Wapello Co., Iowa.

Belt of quality“: brqdinz. Bulls
cows and 1mm for. sale. BIDWELL

 

Shorthorns

STOCK FARM. Box I). Tecumseh. Mi ch.

 

Feeding Cattle 5° 3°“ ”“3”“ "33‘"
weight 700 lgbs. EARL SHIVELINE, IchslIn." “Idl-
One car aloud steel-I.

FOR SALE , t ““3"
f. Good
color. A L. DAVIS Ewesghl. ‘Mmllllgi.

 

 

FOR SALEM 3 W 333%

r. 11. loses, a. 1. «mom Lod'u. 11.3“. ”ms.

  

OATS VS._CORN FOR LAM‘BS.

 

'XPERIMENTS carried on by the

corn. The results show that satis-
factory results are obtained when cot-
tonseed meal is added to the ration of
oats. Lambs fed oats and cottonseed
meal gained 1.2 pounds more in‘ 84
days than those fed corn and cotton-
seed meal. Clover hay was fed in
addition. Legume hay is necessary in
feeding lambs in a dry lot, even
though the amount fed may be. small.
One can keep the lambs in good con-
dition by giving them two feeds of
clover hay every 5 days. When a. lot
fed a limited amount of clover hay
was compared with one that received
it daily, it was found that the lot re-

 

ceiving a limited amount made cheap-
er gains and finished just as well.
Another interesting point that should
be considered is that the lot fed oats
required less‘hay than the one receiv-
ing corn—Y. P. B.

DAIRY HONOR ROLL GROWS.

 

HE National Herd Honor Roll,
created by the National Dairy
Association, to stimulate interest in
increased milk and butter fat produc-
tion and the keeping of better herds is
greater by nearly a. thousand herds
than ever before. Herds of five or
more cows which have produced at
least 300 pounds of butter fat per cow
per year “make” the Honor Roll which
now includes more than 6,000 herds.
Wisconsin again leads the nation
this year with approximately ' 1,400
herds, an increase of more than 175

herds. Michigan is second with 1,078
herds. Minnesota had 538 herds in
1926. This year the state has 659.

Ohio jumped from 191 herds last year
to 258 this year. Washington did not
have a herd listed last year. This
year the Apple state has registered 88
herds. Pennsylvania jumped from 335
to 426 herds. Idaho gained 38 herds.
Massachusetts lists 70 herds this year
against 9 in 1926. ~

 

BEEF PRODUCTION IN MICHIGAN.

 

(Continued from page 321.)

post war liquidatibn. Rains have also
been abundant this year Which has
given more grass than usual.

It is a fact however that these
western grazing lands are no langer
of sufficient extent to supply the needs

The increased needs of the filters

to:- grass than for crops under pres-
ent high priced, labor conditions

 

 

scarcity of bee: cattle 111i iproporfl sci as.

Purdue Experiment Station s'hOW»
that "cats are a better lamb feed than,

'WOuld also be profitable on-

of a. pepulou‘s nation for feeding cattle.

  

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jour- present needs is indicated by the, . ,
. These 5 "- '

high ‘~ aprices which prevail. '
prices will of course stimulate produc-

tion and the present high level is not ‘3"
expected to continue, but there can- “
not be a serious decline unless the tar- *5"

1113 is removed and beef from South;
America enters in large quantity. This
is not likely to happen.

The very choicest. cattle have. re-
cently been selling. in Chicago for
$14.50 per hundred. ‘A large number
of __ consignments have been Selling
above $13.00. Until recently heavy
cattle have been selling at a. premium
above lighter weights because of a
temporary scarcity of the former class.
A well finished bunch of yearlings will
not command a price per hundred
quite as high as heavy cattle of the
same quality. That is a. condition

 

Grand Champion Jersey Bull at State Fair Was Exhibited by The Oaklands,
' Ann Arbor.

favbrable to the Michigan farmer be
cause under his conditions he can pro-
duce finished yearlings at a. much
lower cost than older cattle.

Through the northern portion of
Michigan, particularly in the cut-over
districts where farms are large and
have a relatively low value per acre,
the conditions are favorable at this
time for keeping a. good class of beef-
breeding cows using good pure-bred
sires to produce a superior quality of
beef calves that can be finished by
grain feeding in the southern portion
of the state. On these northern farms‘
it is only necessary to produce suf-
ficient hay to carry these breeding
cows through the winter as dry cows.
The keeping of cows of the beef type
large
farms in southern Michigan if much
of the land is too rolling or too infer
tile to be profitable for crop growing.

On the average southern Michigan
farm, dairying should be a. major in-
dustry limited necessarily by labor
conditions.’ “Beef production on such
a. farm should .be supplimentary to
permit" an expense in live stock with-
out increasing the labor materially...

Under these conditions the. crossing'

of a beef sire on high grade milk
cows is an entirely practical proposi~
tion. We folloWed this plan for a
number of years in southern Michigan
using purebred Angus sires to get the:

yearly maturity and quick flashing ‘qual-
ities in the offspring. A good Hereford 3 ‘
sire would be just as satiéfa‘ctory‘ ex- ' "

,. cept that the horns on. the offspring ,
Shorts '
horn bulls of the lowest early matur-
111

would be a little objectionable.

ing type are also satisfactory
other words the sire in order to offset 1

the dairy type of co" :1. ‘m bei'ot ‘3
must he met by the more extendedg ' bee
use of eastern lands better adapted“: .

 
 
   

   

  
  
    
   
   
  
  
   
   

 
 
  
   
 
 
   

   
   

  
  
 

 
 
  
 
 
  

  
   

      
    
  

   
  

     
    
  

   
    
    

       
    
   
     
     
   

 

   


       
 
  

 
   
 
  

 
   
   

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cattle ,cdupled‘, with the high priced
.. labor situation, wouldvjustify' again the

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' ‘Nokw',the high pdde‘Of beef
production of some beef calves under
the crossing method by getting them
on the market under 16 months of
age. ' ‘

Beef Bulls in Daliry Herds.

In order to secure experimental data
on the value of cross-bred Angus—Hol-
stein steer calves as compared with
pure-bred Angus. and pure-bred Hol-
steins, Professor Fuller of the W'is—
consin experiment station conducted 'a
test during the winter of 1926 and
1927 in which be fed these three types.
The initial average weight of the
cross-breds was 545 lbs., the pure-bred
Holsteins 501 lbs., and the pure-bred
Angus 473 lbs. Before the experiment
started the cross-breds had been given
a little more grain than the others
which gave them slightly more flesh
at the beginning of the experiment
and in consequence a somewhat small-
er daily gain with a corresponding in—
crease in cost of production. This on
the other hand was a bit in their favor
when sold at the close of the test.
From the standpoint of profits the
comparison was a fair one. At the
end of the feeding period of six
months the cross-breds showed an
average daily gain of two pounds, the
pure-bred Angus 2.1 lbs., and the H01-
steins 2.2 lbs. No doubt the thinner
flesh of the Holsteins at the beginning
gave them the slight advantage in
daily? gains. In our experience we
have found very little difference in
gaining capacity, the Holstein steers
gaining in weight fully as rapidly as
steers of the beef type. The big dif-
ference at the close of the feeding
period is the thickness of flesh giving
a higher dressing percentage and a
better quality of product in the beef
cattle. In the Wisconsin experiment
the Holstein steer calves when
slaughtered dressed 58.2%, the pure—
bred Angus 60.0%> and the cross—breds
60.9%. The selling price at Chicago
May 25, 1927, was $12.25 per hundred
on the purebred Angus, $11.50 per
hundred on the cross-bred Angus-Hol-
steins, and $9.50 per hundred‘ on the
The margin was
therefore $0.75 per hundred between
the pure-bred Angus and the cross-
breds and $2.75 per hundred in faVOr
of the cross-breds as compared with
the Holsteins. It is significant ac-
cording to Professor Fuller’s deduc-
tions that on the basis of equal prof-
its on all groups and at $10.00 per
hundred as the value of the pure-bred
Angus calves, at the beginning of the
experiment, the cross-breds were then
worth $7.52 per hundred as compared
with $4.34 per hundred for the Ho].
Steins. The results of this test go to
show that the use of the pure-bred
Angus sire on Holstein cows added
$3.18 per hundred to the beef feeding
value of the offspring as compared
with the use of a Holstein sire on the
same class of cows.

In the practice of crossing pure-bred
sires of the extreme early maturing
beef type on grade dairy cows for the
purpose of producing a class of cattle
suitable for beef production to sup-
plement dairying on the farms without
sacrificing on the milk flow, it should
be definitely understood that all of
these cross-bred calves, heifers as well
as steers should be sold for beef pur-
poses. While some of these cross-
bred heifers might be capable of giv-
ing a fairly satisfactory quantity of
milk at maturity, it is to be expected
that the use of a beef . sire while in-
creasing the beef tendencies in the off-
spring will at the same time diminish

the flow of milk in such offspring.

This brings up the problem of how
to make replacements in the dairy
pherdlas older cows are disposed of. If
the farm is large enough to maintain

”two sires, one of the dairy type to use
,. on the best. milking cows in the herd
calves .Ior, future-

  

  
   

   

   

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one neighborhbod own together one

choice dairy sire and another choice ,

beef sire. Some farmers who ‘have
produced their own feeding cattle
under this method have followed the
practice of using a beef sire on the
entire dairy herd for aperiod of two
or three years then changing to a
dairy sire for one or two years to
produce dairy heifers. If the owner
of a large farm who wishes to sell
beef as well as dairy products is situ—
ated in a well developed dairy district
he can buy from his neighbors good
dairy heifers or young cows at con-
siderably lower prices than he can
get for his own cross-bred yearlings
finished into beef. At present well
fattened cross-bred short yearlings
weighing from eight to nine hundred
pounds will easily bring $100.00 where-
as a good class of grade Holstein
yearling heifers can be bought for
$50.00 each. To be sure more grain
has been used in the production of
the beef yearling but not enough more
to any where near make up this dif—
ference in price. The practibility of
the crossing plan is based wholly on
the proposition that western feeding
cattle are scarce and high in price,
that less than half of the offsprings of
the dairy cows of the county; are
needed for the maintenance of the
dairy herds, and that some of these
cows by the use of pure-bred sires can
be used advantageously for the‘pro-
duction of cross-bred beef-dairy calves
that will compare favorably as beef
makers with the average class of
cattle used for that purpose.

Beef is so high now that many
Michigan farmers on large farms
where cross breeding as outlined
above is less practical would be en-
tirely justified in keeping high grade
beef cows adapted for the production
of calves that can be finished for beef
at 10 to 14 months of age the heifers
at the earlier age because of their
earlier maturing qualities. With the
possibilities of sweet clover pasture
for a low maintenance cost during the
summer months and the use of alfalfa
hay, corn silage, and shredded stover
for reducing the cost of wintering
such cows, beef calves can be pro-
duced at a very satisfactory profit un-
der present conditions. The method
of feeding these calves will be de-
scribed in another article.

VETERINARIANS QUESTION T. B.
cuss

u

N View of the extensive publicity

that has been given the cattle-test

experiments of the Dr. George Kirk-
patrick’s so-call‘ed tuberculosis cure,
the Willamette Valley Veterinary
Medical Association feels that the pub—
lic should be advised that in the opin-
ion of the membership of this organ-
ization, many of whom witnessed the
autopsies of these animals in Port-
land, August 8, 9 and 10, 1927, thus
far there has been no visible evidence
indicating that this course of treat-
ment has actually affected a cure of
any of these test cattle.

It is a frequent observation when
cattle are tested yearly that only small
lesions or evidence of disease is
found, occasionally no unaided eye-
evidence of the disease is observable.
It is a known fact that rest, discon-
tinuance of milk secretion, good food
and proper ventilation all have a ten-
dency to build up a strong economy

capable of resisting this disease, bo- _

vine tuberculosis.

The” lesions that were observed in
these test animals were comparable
to similar lesions thatwould be found
in untreated tuberculosis cattle, and
no evidence has thus far been pro-
duced to prove this treatment is a;
remedy for tuberculosis in cattle.

The laboratory and animal-inocula~
tion test experiments that are to be
made will determine whether the
lesions that were found are still ac-
tive and cdntain live bacilli capable
of reproducing the disease. Accord-
ingly, no opinion should be formed as
to the-efficacy of the’remedy until
these data are available. - ,

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FOURTEENTH

ANNUAL SALE

Howell Sales Company of Livingston County
OCTOBER 20th, 1927, 12:00 O’clock Noon

Sales Pavilion, Fair Grounds, Howell, Michigan
50 Head Registered Holstein Cattle 50

6 young bulls, several from dams with good C. T. A. records, one from a
37 lb. cow with 875 lbs. butter and 22,089 lbs. milk in 305 days.
44 females, 24 cows that will be fresh at sale time or will freshen soon

after.

Included in the sale is a consignment of 10 yearling heifers and two young
bulls from the Well-known Herd at Traverse City, Mich. They are sired by
their best Herd Sires and several of the heifers are bred to their famous
Herd Sire, Sir Bess Ormsby Fobes 50th.

Auctioneer, J5-E" MACK.
HOGS

Berkshire Gilt-s

English type. Prices reasonable. Address TALCOA
FARM, R. 7, Lansing, Michigan.

' ' Sn'in' boars ready for scr-
Berkshlres ‘ t

vice. Also choice Jr. year-
ling show boar.

W. H. EVERY. Manchester, Mich.
D S ' P'
Either sex. pairs or t-rios unrelated. Bred sows and
service boars. All are registered. cholera immune
and tyny

LAKEEIELD FARMS,

Buy a gilt now and grow
a pure—bred sow. Large

 

Glarkslon, Mich.

 

DUROC JERSEY spring and. fall boars of popular
blood lines. Write or come and see them. Jesse

Bliss &. Son, Henderson, Mich.

REGISTERED DUROC JERSEY PIGS for sale.
July farrow. Either sex. $10 each, F. 0._B.
Millersburg. DEWEY HARTLEY, Millersburg. Mlch.

‘h, ' March hours and guts of
Chester hlte large type with quality.
R. J. CAMPBELL, Fairgrove, Mich.

0. LG HOGS on lime ass;

Originators and most extensive breeders.
THE L. B. SILVER 00., Box l96, Salem, Ohio

For Sale--Reg. 0. l. C. April & May Pigs

heat of b ding. Shipped on approval. FRED W.
KENNED &. SONS. R. l. Chelsea, Mich.

0 l C, good last {all gilts to fan-ow in Aug.
° ' 3' and Sept. Also spring pigs: .% mile
west of depot. Otto Schulze &. Sons. Naahwlle. MlCh.

! March. April and June pigs,
Reg. 0- [-C 3- either sex. Milo H. Peter-
009 In Son. “Swiss View Farm.” lonia. Mlch., R. 2.

Large Typep C Brad gilts all sold. Thank

you. Watch and wait for
date of my public hog sale. W. E. LIVINGSTONE.
Parma. Mich.

POLAND-C INAS' E33: in“; egg

 

 

pause c. ‘TAYLO. Baldlpo. men.

JAY B.

 

TOOLEY, Secretary, Howell, Michigan.
C HOICE POLAND CHINA boars and gilts of DOD-

ular blood lines. Come and see them or write.
E. A. CLARK. Breckenridge, Mich.

Registered Poland China Boar Pigs
For sale. THORNWOOD FARMS, Ada. Michigan.
A F good Hampshire spring hours at a

ew_ bargain. Place your order for bred
gins. JOHN w. SNYDER, St. Johns. Mich..

 

 

 

Bred sows and Hilts.
Best of Breeding.
Mich.

Registered Tamworths
DONALDSON FARMS. Orion,

SHEEP

Shropshire and Oxford Rams

Lambs. ystarlings and two year olds. They are a
typy well grown lot. Some have won at good fairs.
We guarantee satisfaction. LAKEFIELD FARMS.
Clarkston, Mich.

900 BREEDING EWES

400 good sized Dclaines. 500 choice large black
faces. All good altos. yearlings to solid mouths.
ALMOND B. CHAPMAN & SONS. SO.‘ Rockwood.
MICIL. Telegraph Rockwood.

 

 

 

 

   

   

“PAYS TO BUY PURE BRED SHEEP 0F

PARSONS “new“...
I an and ship everywhere on

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Moo. W to f lnbofl' ballot
Oxfords. Showgirl-:- nnd'i’ro 33-31mm...

' PABSONS.GrandLedge.Mich. a:

Delalne RAMS yearlings and 2.ym-
olds. Big. husky fellows from good shearing stock.
Write for prices or call and see them. FRED J.
HOUSEMAN, R. 4. Albion, Mich.

 

 

 

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Delaine and Rambouillet Rams E

Michigan Premier flock at. the State Fair. Tim-15y
head to select from. Come and see them. CAL‘
HOON BROS... Bronson. Mich" Branch County.

If You Want Ito Karakul sheep, write F.
PERRY. Davlson. Mlch.. Sect’y Natlonal Karikul
Fur Sheen Bmderl' Registry. Association. ’ ,.

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CATTLE

 

FOREST HILLS GUERNSEYS ’m‘ R

prize- ~winning b11ll,3 yrs. old.

1" a1
Herd sire or S e Also heifer for

Dam“ s record 634 lbs. fat. (lass I‘ll.
38.18.12 mos. old and five bull calves from 1 to 12

onths old, three irom A. ll. dams. All carry
xthe blood of world champions. M. HOM_PE, Forest
Hills Farm. R. No. 5, Grand Rapids. Mich.

 

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Wallinwood Guernseys

Sons of BROOKMEAD’S SECRET KINGfor sale.
F. W. WALLIN, JENISON, MICH

GUERNSEYS

I have for sale a number of well- bred young bulls
ranging from calves to serviceable age. Any one of
these should exert an improving influence on most pure—
bred herds. JOHN ENDICOTT, Birmingham. Mich.

Superior breeding. Two cows
IiegISIBIGII Guernsels to freshen soon. one bull 18
months. one six months. Come and see them.
6. A. WI GENT. Waterviiet. Mich.

FORS practically pure—bred GUERNSEY or HOL-

TEIN calves. from heavy. rich milken,
write EDGESWOOD DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater. Wis.

1 . .
GUERNSEYS 32$:in sgdyiggabldnetfullsc‘hvhsd

calves; T. V. HICKS, Battle Creek, Mich” R. I.

 

 

D Hedi r 011111 I. practically
Guernsey piggybred €26.00 eich. Wis-hip

C. 0. D. Write L. Terwillizer: Wauwatoaa. Wis.

 

Registered Guernseys $35., 513.1% fgéxéiindifi
FARM. L. 0. MYRKLE, Man. Cressey. Mich.

Registered Guernsey Bull Calves
For sale. THORNWOOD mums, Ada, Michigan.

F0 R S A L Four Registered Guervrllseyg'

11 if rs nd
KAHLER. Jones. Michlqah. 6, a one °°w

.SERVICEABLE AGE-

. REGISTERED HOLSTEIN

, Bull Calves at prices the owner ofa
small herd can afford to pay. The
sire of many of these calves is a Son .c.
of the highest record (30Ib.) two-
year-old daughter of Creator. His
sire is King Segis Alcartra Prilly. an
undefeated Show bull with 70 A. R.
daughters. Others sired by a 5 times '
1200 lb. Champion Bull, the famous
K. P. O. P. breeding.

Bred cows and heifers served by
these sires are available for founda-
tion stock.

RED ROSE FARMS DAIRY
Northvi‘lle, Michigan

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Righ Grade Holstein Cows and Heifers

carioadlots. at reasonable fran1.'.l‘B. tested
Olarner a Brinuoid. West Concord. Ilsa.

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FLYING FOX JERSEYS

We have four hulls of serviceable age. and four bull
calms. Also a. few good cows and boilers. B. W.
RUHSTORFER. Kawkawiin, Mich.

 

ready for service. and
bull calves. for sale
d hard. SMITH E

Choice Jersey Bulls
ams accredits

. of M. d
PARKER, Howell. Mich.

 

Jersey Bulls For Sale Eflfifig, $3”? $21.23
C. T. A. dams. NOTTEN FARM, Grass Lake, MICIL

 

Registered Jersey Bull ,{gajgz’y’mgggg
ing. ALVIN BALDEN, AImont. Mich.

 

Stockers, Feeders
and Dairy Cattle

120 Guernsey and Jersey Heifers,
some springing.

60 Holstein Heifers,some springing.

20 Springer Cows.

SO Stocker Heifers Grade Short-
horns.

250 Grade Shorthorn Steers, 500
to 800 lbs.

Would prefer to contract steers for
October delivery.

GRAY’S RANCH,

8 miles west of Houghton Lake on M-55

Stockers & Feeders

Calves. Year’l & Twos; Hereford Steers & Heifers.
Beef Type. dark reds. good grass flesh. most all
bunches dehorned each bunch even in size and
show good breeding Choire Herefbrds are usually
market toppers when finished. Few bunches T.

tested. Will sell your choice from any bunch. Stage
number and weight you prefer 450 to 1000 lbs.

Van D. Baldwin, EIdon,WapeIIo C0,, Iowa.

Best 0! quality and buffing. Bulls
cows and 1mm forsale. BIDWELL

 

Shorthorns

STOCK FARM. Box D. Temnldl. Mich.

 

Feeding Cattle 22 “if" gDmf‘mm 9""
weight 700 lbs. EARL SHIVELINE. McBaln. “MIMI.

 

FOR SALE “new” about 7511 lbs

color. A. L. DAVIS 0. 80M. Merritt. Mich

FOR SALE $5....

r. 11. muss. a. 1. ems mug.

  

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' XPERIMENTs carriedxon “by the

that cats are a betterrlamb :feed than.
corn. The results show that satis‘
factory results are obtained when cot-
tonseed meal is added to' the ration of
oats. Lambs fed oats and cottonseed

days than those fed corn and cotton-
seed meal. Clover hay was fed in
addition. Legume hay is necessary in
feeding lambs in a dry lot, even
though the amount fed may be. small.
One can keep the lambs in good con-
dition by giving them two feeds of
clover hay every 5 days. When a. lot
fed a limited amount of clover hay
was compared with one that received
it daily, it was found that the lot re-

OATS VS.OORN 150R LAMBS. .,
‘ ~ ‘.high «prices which prevail.
prices will of course stimulate produc-

Purdue Experiment Station show. con and the present high level is not i"

meal gained 1.2 pounds more in 84 .

above $13.00.

  
     
     
  
   
 

our present needs is indicated by #1195”,- .
These

expected to continue, but there can-
not be a" serious decline unless the tar-
iff is removed and beef from Scuth/
Amer-lea. enters in large quantity. This
is not likely to happen.

The very choicest. cattle have re-
cently been, selling in Chicago for
$14.50 per hundred. A large mimber
of ,. consignments have been selling
Until recently heavy
cattle have been sellingat a premium
above ; lighter weights because of a
temporary scarcity of the former olaSs.
A well finished bunch of yearlings will
not command a price per hundred
quite as high as heavy cattle of the
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ceiving a limited amount made cheap-
er gains and finished just as well.
Another interesting point that should
be considered is that the lot fed oats
required less hay than the one receiv-
ing corn—Y. P. B.

' DAIRY HONOR ROLL GROWS.

 

HE National Herd Honor Roll,
created by the National Dairy
Association, to stimulate interest in
increased milk and butter fat produc~
tion and the keeping of better herds is
greater by nearly a. thousand herds
than ever before. Herds of five or
more cows which have produced at
least 300 pounds of butter fat per cow
per year “make” the Honor Roll which
now includes more than 6,000 herds.
Wisconsin again leads the nation
this year with approximately 1,400
herds, an increase of more than 175

herds. Michigan is second with 1,078
herds. Minnesota had 538 herds in
1926. This year the state has 659.

Ohio jumped from 191 herds last year
to 258 this year. Washington did not
have a herd listed last year. This
year the Apple state has registered 88
herds. Pennsylvania jumped from 335
to 426 herds. Idaho gained 38 herds.
Massachusetts lists 70 herds this year
against 9 in 1926.

BEEF PRODUCTION IN MICHIGAN.

 

(Continued from page 321.)
post war liquidatidn. Rains have also
been abundant this year which has
given more. grass than usual;

It is a. fact however that these.
western grazing lands are -no longer
of sumcient extent lidsupply the needs
ota populous nation for feeding cattle.

 

The increased needs of the future.-
must be met by the more extended
use oi! eastern lands better adb ted“ thi
gror- "grass than for cropsunde »
M3. bored Show jg

V the dairy type

 

' Grand Champion Jersey Bull at State Fair Was Exhibited by The Oaklands,
' Ann Arbor.

favorable to the Michigan farmer be-
cause under his conditions he can pro-
duce finished yearlings at a much
lower cost than older cattle.

'I'hrough the northern portion of
Michigan, particularly in the cut-over
districts where farms are large and
have a. relatively low value per acre,
the conditions are favorable at this
time for keeping a. good class of beef-
breeding cows using good pure-bred
sires to produce a superior quality of
beef calves that can be finished by
grain feeding in the southern portion
of the state. On these northern farms
it is only necessary to produce suf-
ficient hay to carry these breeding

,. cows through the winter as dry cows.

The keeping of cows of the beef type
Would also be profitable on large
farms in southern Michigan it much
of the land is too rolling or too infer-
tile to be profitable for crop growing.

On the average southern Michigan
farm, dairying should be a. major in-
dustry limited necessarily by labor
conditions. "Beef “production on such
a. farm should be supplimentary to
permit an expanse in live stock with-
out increasing the» labor materially.

Under these conditions the crossing'

of a. beef sire on high grade milk
cows is an entirely practical proposi~
tion.‘ We followed this plan for a
nuinber of years in southern Michigan
using pure- -bred Angus sires to get the'
early maturity and quick fleshin’g ‘qual—i
flies in the offspring. A good Hereford
sir-e wOuld be just as satiSfactory ex-

. cept that the horns on the od'dpring _'
would be a little objectionable. .Short- ’ ~
horn bulls of the low—set early ma’tur-

lug type are also satisfactory. In
other words the sire in order to“ offset

    

   

    
    
      

 

 

 

 

 

 

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-. pure—bred Hol s teins.

production ‘of some beef calves under
the crossing method by getting them
on the market under 16 months of
age. ‘ ’

Beef Bulls. in Dairy Herds.

In order to secure experimental data
on the value of cross-bred Angus-Hol-
stein steer calves as compared with
pure-bred Angus and pure-bred Hol-
steins, Professor Fuller of the W'is-
consin experiment station conducted ‘a
test during the winter of 1926 and
1927 in which he fed these three types.
The initial average weight of the
cross-breds was 545 lbs., the pure-bred
Holsteins 501 lbs., and the pure-bred
Angus 473 lbs. Before the experiment
started the cross-breds had been given
a little more grain than the others
which gave them slightly more flesh
at the beginning of the experiment
and in consequence a. somewhat small-
er daily gain with a corresponding in-
crease in cost of production. This on
the other hand was a bit in their favor
when sold at the close of the test.
From the standpoint of profits the
comparison was a fair one. At the
end of the feeding period of six
months the cross-breds showed an

average daily gain of two pounds. the

pure-bred Angus 2.1 lbs., and the Ho]—
steins 2.2 lbs. No doubt the thinner
flesh of the Holsteins at the beginning
gave them the‘ slight advantage in
daily, gains. In our experience we
have‘ found very little difference in
gaining capacity, the Holstein steers
gaining in weight fully as rapidly as
steers of the beef type. The big dif-
ference at the close of the feeding
period is the thickness of flesh giving
a higher dressing percentage'and a
better quality of product in the beef
cattle. In the Wisconsin experiment
the Holstein steer calves when
slaughtered dressed 58.2%, the pure—
bred Angus 60.0% and the cross—breds
60.9%. The selling price at Chicago
May 25, 1927, was $12.25 per hundred
on the purebred Angus, $11.50 per
hundred on the cross-bred Angus—Hol—
steins, and $9.50 per hundred‘ on the
The margin was
therefore $0.75 per hundred between
the pure-bred Angus and the cross-
breds and $2.75 per hundred in favor
of the cross—breds as compared with
the Holsteins. It is significant ac-
cording to Professor Fuller’s deduc-
tions that on the basis of equal p‘rof-
its on all groups and at $10.00 per
hundred as the value of the pure—bred
Angus calves, at the beginning of the
experiment, the cross-breds were then
worth $7.52 per hundred as compared
with $4.34 per hundred for the Hol-
steins. The results of this test go to
show that the use of the pure-bred
Angus sire on Holstein cows added
$3.18 per hundred to the beef feeding
value of the offspring as compared
with the use of a Holstein sire on the
same class of cows.

In the practice of crossing pure-bred
sires of the extreme early maturing
beef type on grade dairy cows for the
purpose of producing a class of cattle
suitable for beef production to sup-
plement dairying on the farms without
sacrificing on the milk flow, it should
be definitely understood that all of
these cross-bred calves, heifers as well
as steers should be sold for beef pur-
poses. While some of these cross-
bred heifers might be capable of giv-
ing a fairly satisfactory quantity of
milk at maturity, it is to be expected
that the use of a beef, sire while in-
creasing the beef tendencies in the off-
spring will at the same time diminish

the flow of milk in such offspring.

This brings up the problem of how
to make replacements in the dairy
herd’as older cowsare disposed of. If
the farm is large enough to maintain
two sires, one of the dairy type to use

_ on the best milking cows in the herd

739$ “finale?! calves .;.t_or- future

.l ..

I accomplished:under," the ‘ coéOpera/tlve
‘plan, whereby ,a group of farmers: in

comic ”is simple " as: can-3am 'be

one neighborhbod own together one

choibe dairysire and another choice ,

beef sire. Some farmers who ‘have
produced their own feeding cattle
under this method have followed the
practice of using a beef sire on the
entire dairy herd for aperiod of two
or three years then changing to a
dairy sire for one or two years to
produce dairy heifers. If the owner
of a large farm who wishes to sell
beef as well as dairy products is situ-
ated in a well developed dairy district
he can buy from his neighbors good
dairy heifers or young cows at con—
siderably lower prices than he can
get for his own cross-bred yearlings
finished into beef. At present well
fattened cross-bred short yearlings
weighing from eight to nine hundred
pounds will easily bring $100.00 where—
as a good class of grade Holstein
yearling heifers can be bought for
$50.00 each. To be sure more grain
has been used in the production of
the beef yearling but not enough more
to any Where near make up this dif-
ference in price. The practibility of
the crossing plan is based wholly on
the proposition that western feeding
cattle are scarce and high in price,
that less than half of the offspring-s of
the dairy cows of the county; are
needed for the maintenance of the
dairy herds, and that some of these
cows by the use of pure-bred sires can
be used advantageously for the'pro-
duction of cross-bred beef-dairy calves
that will compare favorably as beef
makers with the average class of
cattle used for that purpose.

Beef is so high now that many
Michigan farmers on large farms
where cross breeding as outlined
above is less practical would be en—
tirely justified in keeping high grade
beef cows adapted for the production
of calves that can be finished for beef
at 1.0 to 14 months of age the heifers
at the earlier age because of their
earlier maturing qualities. With the
possibilities of sweet clover pasture
for a low maintenance cost during the
summer months and the use of alfalfa
hay, corn silage, and shredded stover
for reducing the cost of wintering
such cows, beef calves can be pro-
duced at a very satisfactory profit un-
der present conditions. The method
of feeding these calves will be de-
scribed in another article.

VETERINARIANS QUESTION T. B.
cum-z.

N view of the extensive publicity

that has been given the cattle-test

experiments of the Dr. George Kirk
patrick’s so-call‘ed tuberculosis cure,
the Willamette Valley Veterinary
Medical Association feels that the pub-
lic should be advised that in the opin-
ion of the membership of this organ—
ization, many of whom witnessed the
autopsies of these animals in Port-
land, August 8, 9 and 10, 1927, thus
far there has been no visible evidence
indicating that this course of treat-
ment has actually affected a cure of
any of these test cattle.

It is a frequent observation when
cattle are tested yearly that only small
lesions or evidence of disease is
found, occasionally no unaided eye—
evidence of the disease is observable.
It is a known fact that rest, discon-
tinuance of milk secretion, good food
and proper ventilation all have a ten-
dency to build up a‘strong economy
capable of resisting this disease, b0—
vine tuberculosis.

The, lesions that were observed in
these test animals were comparable
to similar lesions thatwould be found
in untreated tuberculosis cattle, and
no evidence has thus far been pro-
duced to prove this treatment is a
remedy for tuberculosis in cattle.

The laboratory and animal-inocula-
tion test experiments that are to be
made will determine whether the
lesions that were found are still ac-
tive and contain live bacilli capable
of reproducing the disease. Accord-
ingly, no opinion should be formed as
to the~'eflicacy of the‘remedy until
these data are available. , -

  
 

  
 
 
 
  

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REGISTERED DUROC JERSEY PIGS for sale,
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ANNUAL SALE

Howell Sales Company of Livingston County
OCTOBER 20th, 1927, 12:00 O’clock Noon

Sales Pavilion, Fair Grounds, Howell, Michigan
50 Head Registered Holstein Cattle 50

6 young bulls, several from dams with good C. T. A. records, one from a
37 lb. cow with 875 lbs. butter and 22,089 lbs. milk in 305 days.
44 females, 24 cows that will be fresh at sale time or will freshen soon

Included in the sale is a consignment of 10 yearling heifers and two young
bulls from the Well-known Herd at Traverse City, Mich. They are sired by
their best Herd Sires and several of the heifers are bred to their famous
Herd Sire, Sir Bess Ormsby Fobes 50th.

JAY B. TOOLEY, Secretary, Howell, Michigan.

C HOICE POLAND CHINA boars and slits of poor
ular blood lines. Come and see them or Write.
E. A. CLARK, Breckenridge, Mich.

Registered Poland China Boar Pigs

 

 

For sale. THORNWOOD FARMS, Ada, Michigan.
A F good Hampshire spring boars at 8
CW bargain. Place your order for bred

gills. JOHN W. SNYDER. 8t. Johnl. Mich" R. 4.

 

Registered Tamworths £333 “if?“ “13986333;

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Clarkston. Mich.

900 BREEDING EWES

400 good sized Delaines, 500 choice large black
faces. All good ages. yearlings to solid mouths.
AtMOND B. CHAPMAN &. SONS, So. Rockwood.
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Michigan Premier flock at; the State Fair. Thirty
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GRAIN QUOTATIONS.
« Tuesday, October 4.

7 Detroit.~—No. 2 red at $1.36; No. 2
white $1.35; No. 2'mixed $1.34.
Chicago—December at $1.31; March

$1.34%; May $1.365/8.

Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red at $1.36

@137. C

orn.
Detroit—No. 2 yellow $1.00; No. 3
yellow 980; No. 4 yellow 960.
Chicago—December 93'7/8c; March
96340; May 99%0.

Oats. '
Detroit—No. 2 Michigan 550; No. 3
White 530.

Chicago.——December 4854c; March
50%,c; May 511,40.
Rye.
Detroit—N0. 2, $1.04.
Chicago—December 96%0; March
993/80; May $1.01.
Toledo—$1.05.
Beans.
Detroit—Immediate and prompt

shipment $5.45 f. o. b. shipping points.

New York—Pea domestic at $6.00@
6.50; red kidneys -$6.75@7.50 to the
wholesalers.

Chicago—Spot navy beans, Michigan
choice, hand-picked, in sacks at $6.30;
dark red kidneys $6.50.

Barley.

Detroit—Making 810; feeding 700.

Seeds.

Detroit—Cash imported clover seed
$14; October $15.60; December import-
ed $14; December domestic at $15.75;
March $15.95; cash alsike $14.80; De-
cember alsike $14.90; January alsike
$15.05; timothy $1.65; December at
$1.70; March $1.90.

Hay.

Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $15.00@
16.00; standard $14@14.50; No. 1 light
clover, mixed $14@15; No. 2 timothy
$13@14; No. 1 clover at $13@14; oat
straw at $11@12; lye straw $12@13;
alfalfa hay, No. 2, at Chicago $15@23.

Feeds.

Detroit.~Winter wheat bran at $34;
spring wheat bran at $33; standard
middlings at $37; fancy middlings at
$41; cracked corn at $45; coarse corn
meal $43; chops $40 per ton in carlots.

WHEAT.

Wheat prices averaged slightly high—
er in the last week. Unfavorable
weather in Canada, and broader spec-
ulative support were strengthening in-
fluences. While present indications
point) to an ample world supply of
wheat, any over-abundance is largely
represented in the price level which
is. already comparatively low. The
fact that in summarizing the world
supply, it is necessary to include the
crops in the southern hemisphere
which are still two or three months
from harvest, emphasizes this view-
point. If the moderate weakness in
the world situation is fully discounted
in current prices, then the market will
give due response to any strengthen-
ing factors that may‘ appear. This
might consist of continuation of bad
weather over North America and Eu-
rope, or unfavorable growing condi-
tions in the southern hemisphere. Both
, Argentina and Australia have had good
rains recently and crop prospects have
been improved.

RYE.

For several weeks, rye prices have
shown relatively more strength than
wheat. The crop is passing rapidly
into consumption and the total supply
remaining'is not much greater than a
year ago when the yield was much
smaller. Excluding Russia, the crop
in the northern hemisphere is estimat-
ed at about 100,000,000 bushels more
than last year, but Europe reports
much damaged rye fit only for feed.

CORN.

Failure of general frost damage to
occur caused another weak period in
corn prices. The percentage of the
crop that is safe becomes larger every
day. ‘Over half of the acreage is al-
ready beyond danger in some of the
important corn belt states. Of course,
the crop will be a moderate one, at
, best. Receipts of corn have been run-
ning larger than IaSt year and the vis-
ible supply has been built up moder-
ately. In fact, the present visible
supply is the largest on record at this
Won. While it probably will dimin-
ish in the next month or two, it is evi-
mdent that there is no danger of com-
,nie'rcial shortage for a while.
1 mining Winter movement of . corn
: ” roves to be small, as a result of the
. “fight crop ‘in the sections which usu-
y furnish most of the commercial
’ . mpgiypthen it is possible that enough
commercial scarcity will develop some

  

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time next year to cause a considerable

upswing in prices. The market has
nearly a year in which to work out
that situation. ~

OATS. .

Oats prices have fluctuated mostly
in sympathy with other grains. Basic
conditions are fairly strong, owing to
the moderate crop and carryover, and
light visible supply. This is already
reflected in prices in a considerable
degree as they are five to six cents
higher than last year. Primary re-
ceipts have been medorate recently
and cash demand is active.

SEEDS.

Business in the seed markets is gen-
erally slow. Prices quoted to produc-
ers for red clover seed are too low to
attract much selling, so that receipts
thus far have not been very large.
Most reports on the domestic crop are
favorable. .Timothy seed is still in a
rut, with demand negligible in spite
of the low prices. Prices offered to
growers for sweet clover seed are low-
er than at any time in the past six

years.
FEEDS.

The feed market has stiffened again
as strength in feed grains succeeded
in checking the decline in both wheat
and corn feeds. Frost as far south as
central Missouri and Kansas has af-
fected the late forage crops in many
sections. Demand for by-product feeds
for both prompt and deferred ship-
ment has improved as indoor feeding
approaches.

Chicago—Bran $28.75; standard
middlings $29.50; hominy $37.50; glu-
ten feed $35.20; old process oil meal
$48; tankage $70.

E GS.

The egg market is burdened with
poor quality eggs showing the effects
of the recent erratic weather, but the
fancy grades are scarce, and firmly
held. Short held storage eggs are in
demand, and the movement from ware-
houses is considerably larger than at
the corresponding period in 1926. Val-

ues \have appreciated nearly 50 per

cent since the first of August, when
prices started On their usual fall up-

swing. Last year, from October 1 to *

December 1, prices on fresh firsts at
Chicago advanced 17 cents a dozen
from a level a few cents higher than
at present. ‘

_Chicago.-——Eggs, fresh firsts 32@35c;
extras 42@43c; ordinary firsts 425@
31c; dirties 25@30c‘; checks 20@211;§c.
Live poultry, hens 24%0; springers
24c; roosters 15c; ducks 21c; geese
14c; turkeys 250.

Detroit—Eggs, fresh candled and
graded 33@37c. Live poultry, broilers
27c; heavy hens 26c; light hens 16c;
geese 18c; ducks 21c.

BUTTER.

Continued light production of butter,
particularly of fancy grades, succeeded
in holding the market firm at new
high prices last week. With cooler
weather and a'.little heavier feeding
policy, production should be nearly
maintained on the present scale. Trade
is rapidly shifting from fresh to stor-
age butter as dealers are taking ad—
vantage of the opportunity to market
the butter stored last summer at a
profit. The “surplus” in stocks is be-
lieved to be shrinking rapidly. No evi-
dence of any curtailment in trade de-
mand as a result of the higher prices
is apparent as yet, and dealers gener-
ally are confident of a continued firm
market.

Prices on 92-score creamery were:
Chicago 461/20; New York 490; Detroit
41@45c in tubs.

POTATOES.

The potato market was unsettled
last week by rapidly increasing sup-
plies as all the main crop states are
now shipping. Prices generally aver-
age a little lower than last year, both
at shipping points and in the large
distributing markets. The market has
developed a rather firm undertone re-
cently, however, and with an average-
sized crop in view, it is highly prob-
able that prices will compare favorably
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Tuesday,

CHICAGO.
Hogs.

Receipts 20,000. Market is uneven;
better grade hogs 200—250 lbs. 10@25c
lower; good butchers and packing
sows steady to 150 lower; average
weights 200 lbs. around 250 lower; pigs
25@50c off; hogs $11.90; bulk of good
and choice 160-200 lbs. $11.25@11.75;
210-230-lb. butchers at $11.50@11.80;
few 250-300-lb. butchers at $11@12.50;~
most packing sows $9.90@10.25; light
weights $10.40 and better; best pigs
$9@9.75; few best strong weights $10
@1050.

Cattle.-

Receipts 12,000. Market is steady;
better grade fed steers and western
grassers steady, others slow; weak
killing quality plain; grainvfed very
scarce; she stock weak to 25c lower;
bulls steady, 15c off; vealers weak;
good market on packers and feeders
particularly; better grade offerings be-
ginning to sell at $9.25 up; best steers
$16.10; several loads at $15.50@16.25;
several loads of western grass steers
to' killers $12@12.50; feeders up to $11.

Sheep and Lambs.

‘Receipts 22,000. Fat lambs fairly
active; strong on natives, 15@250
higher, quality considered; bulkaof na-
tives at $13.50@13.75; shippers $11@
11.40; buck lambs $11@12; culls at
$11.50; bulk of good lambs $13.25@14,
asking around $14.35 for choice; sheep
strong 250 higher; fat ewes $5.756.)
6.50; tops $6.75; feeding lambs strong;
bulk $13@13.50, choice above; heav-
ies $12.60 and below.

DETROIT.
Cattle.
Receipts 123. Market steady. ‘
Good to choice yearlings
dry-fed ........ a . . ... . .$10.50@12.75

      
 
 

          
 

Best heavy steers, dry-fed 10.25 12.25
Handy we ght butchers. . . $8.25 19.25
Mixed steers and heifers . 8.90 9.75
Handy light butchers, . . . . 7.26

Light butchers. . . . . .f. . . . .00@ 7.75
Best COWSeoeu-Iaeooaoce- 600@ 8.00
ButCher WW5 . o 0's l n' o a e o I 25 ' 6060
Cutters neoconseoeecooooo‘ .50 5'00
Canners CO‘IOOQllpI‘Bc‘l“... 14‘90 .

memes

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. e75 , 935. pistes“ $5626.50

g'plr‘iVCStock‘Market Service I

October 4.
Choice light bulls . . . . . . . 6.00@ 7.75
Bologna bulls ......... .. 6.00@ 7.50
Stock bulls ......... . . . . . 5.00@ 6.50
Feeders . . .» . . . ... . ....... 6.25@ 8.25
Stockers ............ -. . .. 6.50@ 8.00
Milkers and springers. . .v$65.00@125.00

- Calves. ‘

Receipts 213. Market steady. .
Best ..... ..........$17.50@18.00
Others . . ..... . . ........ 8.00@17.00

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 2,330. Market steady.
Best lambs .............. $13.75@14.00
Fair lambs ........ . ..... 11.00@12;50
Light to common lambs.. 6.50 9.75
Fair to good sheep ...... 5.50 6.50
Buck lambs . . . .\ ......... 7.00@~12.00
Culls and common ...... 2.00@ 3.00
Yearlings . . . . . ...... . . 8.00@10.50

Hogs.

Receipts 1,960. Market is steady to
10c lower. ‘

Mixed ...... . ......... . .$ 12.00
Roughs ................. 9.40
Light lights . . ; . . . . ..... . 10.75
Light yorkers ........... 10.50@11.00
Good yorkers ........... 11.75

.gs ............ 11.00
Lights . . . .' .............. 11.00@11.25
Heavy yorkers ...... . . . . 11.00@12.00
Stags . . . . ........... . . 7.
Extreme heavies . . . . . 10.00@11.00

BUFFALO.
Hogs.

Receipts 1,400. Holdover 3,087. Mar-
ket steady; bulk 180-220 lbs. at $12@
12.10; few 240 lbs. $12.15; unfinished
170-190 lbs. $11.75; few pigs at $11.25;

acking sows $9.50@10.50; heavy

utchers scarce.
, Cattle.

Receipts 100. Market slow; cutters
and cutter-cows steady $4@4.50.

. , Calves. . ~
Receipts 200. Market steady; top . ., .
#West ~_M1.ch1§isn m was - Andy,

r years old purebred -Jerseyi b'

vealers $17.50; culls'and commonlat,

    
  

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whites, U. S. No. 1, are ducted at _$,1.'70‘-i 4*
1.80 ,per 100 pounds, sacked, in the -'
hicago carlot market. ‘ ‘ '.
.' APPLES ‘ ’
‘ Apple prices have remained Im- ‘
changed in spite ofL fairly liberal sup-

-plies and «light demand. Shipments

from Washington have doubled in the
past week, although the eastern-states ,
are sending lighter supplies. Idaho ‘ ‘
.flxtflaifancy all}? fancy Jémathans, 2%.-

0 ,--~ are se- ng a ' .65 2.75 er
bushel at Chicago: $ @ p

GRAND RAPIDS.

Potatoes $1.15@1.25 bu; onions 60@
75c bu; cabbage, white 85c@$1 bu;
red $1.25; celery 10@50c dozen; car-
rots, beets, turnips, rutabagas $1 bu;
parsnips $1.50 'bu; spinach 75c bu;‘
tomatoes $1.75@2.50 bu; peppers,
green $1 bu; red $2; apples, McIntosh ,
$2.50@3 bu; Wolf Rivers $1.25@1.75
bu; Wealthys $1.25@2 bu; Hubbards-
tons $1.50@2.25 bu; Snows $1.50@2
bu; Jonathans and Greenings $1.25@'
1.50 bu; 'various other varieties $1@ ~
1.50 bu; pears, various varieties $1.25 ,
@250 bu; grapes, bushels, Concorde /
$1.75@2; Niagara $2.50@3; Delaware ,
$3.50@4; peaches, Gold -Drop, Ban-
ners and Elbertas $2@3 bu;‘beans at
$4.90 cwt; wheat $1.13; rye 78c bu;
pork 13@14c; beef 6@14c; veal 18@’
20c; lamb 25c; mutton 12@130; chick-
ens 14@23c; hens 15@22c; ducks 180;.
eggs 37@40c; butter-fat 48c.

WOOL.

.Wool prices continue strong every-
where, w1th most advances reported
from time to time. Boston reports
sales of half-blood, three-eighths and
quarter-blood, strictly combing, at 45
cents, grease basis, with Ohio delaines
up to 461/2 cents. The woolen goods - ‘
trade is not booming, but mills are
operating at a higher level than a
year ago and are taking a fair volume
of wool out of dealers’ hands right
along. They are not buying much be-
yond their nearby requirements, how-
ever. The advances reported recently
at London and in Australia have been
fully maintained. Considering the mod-
erate stocks in this country, the fact
that prices are not on a full import
level, and the strength in foreign mar-
kets, it IS logiCal to expect that the
domestic markets will maintain their
upward tendency.

LIVE STOCK NOTES.

RECEIPTS of cattle continue abnor-
mally small for this season of the

year. , rrivals in the last three
weeks were the lightest at the cor-
responding time since 1914, which was
during the preceding period of beef
shortage. Receipts of rangers at Chi-
cago are about 40 percent behind
those to the same date last year. The
number of cattle slaughtered for the
first eight months of 1927, reached
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available supply of thin cattle at high-
er prices recently. Demand for meaty
weighty steers suitable for short feed-
ing has been quite brisk recently.
Hog Receipts Continue Moderate.
Hog receipts remain unusually small
and arrivals for .the current week
probably will register a neW'low level
for the season. Arrivals for the entire
month of September will be the smal-
lest for the corresponding period since
1920. Apparently, the fall run of hogs
is not getting away to a premature
start. Some increase in the numbei
of light hogs and pigs has been noted
recently, but heavier weights have be-
come more scarce. Prices of heavy
hogs are holding close to the high'
point of the season, but light weights
have been losing ground. -

COMING LIVESTOCK SALES

Dispersal Sale.

November 1-2—Loeb Farm, of Charle-
voix, Mich, at Grand Rapids, Mich.
150 pure-bred Holsteins and 16 pure-
bred Belgians. - ’ ’

, Holstelne.

Oct. 20—-Howell Sales 00., of living-
ston county, Howell, Mich.

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Mommas. average. . acreage
11.; About 25%..of corn. will. ma-
. Beans harvested in fine shape,
but yield will be small. Alfalfa is
iscarce ‘here' and no \sweet ' clover
, raised. Pastures toodry for farmers
' to buy cattle or sheep for fall feed-v
ing. Nothing being, marketed at this
time. Not much beingdone against
corn borer. No new buildings being
built but, lots of repair work being
done.——J. W. - 4
.Kailsaska Caunty.—--Com' crop light;
beans are fair; potato crop is light
‘ and” potatoes are bringing from 60@
750 a bushel; no sugar beets; fruit
crop very light; alfalfa “and sweet
clover are on the gain. Live stock
are in good-condition. No building—-

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Jackson County.—W h e a t seeding
mostly-done; acreage less than usual
as many did not try to plow an ac-
count of drouth. Some are plowmg to
put in rye later. Recent rains are
starting grass again and will make
fall pasture; will also help corn and
potatoes; bean crop is light, only
small part of it is pulled. Good acre-
age hasbeen sown to alfalfa, but
some acreage that would have been
sown in August to alfalfa was sown
to wheat on account of the drouth.
Some sweet clover has been sown for
pasture. Apple, crop is light.——G. L. K.

Lake County—Crops nearly all
gathered. Alfalfa compares favorably
with other years. Farmers are follow-
ing advice regarding cleaning up corn-
fields. Building and repairing about
same as usual—«C. B.

Leelanau "county.—Corn just being
cut and will run about 50%. Potato
acreage large but stand acreage about
60%. Apple crop a failure; orchards
in poor condition. Acreage of alfalfa
and sweet clover is increasing. Live
stock healthy, rather thin.on account
of drough. No building except resort
cottages—J. W.

Lapeer County.—-—Farmers through
sowing wheat. Beans mostly harvested.
Silos being filled and potatoes dug.
Beans that had been threshed aver-
aged 10@15 bushels per acre. Pota-
toes are going 100 bushels per acre.
Alfalfa and sweet clover acreage on

' increase.
per cwt; potatoes $1.00 per bushel,
Wheat $1.15; live stock in good con-
dition; about average amount of
building and repair workr—A. D.

Missaukee County.——Wheat nearly
all sown with ground in good condi-
tion for germination. There is plenty
of rain. No ripe corn here as frost
got most of it. Farmers with silos
are lucky. Cattle and hogs are
pretty well picked up .at fair prices.
Potatoes ready to dig and price is
$1.25 per cwt. Not over 40%- of a.-
gop. Butter-fat 44c; ' eggs. 260.—

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Montmorenci County. ——-Crops are
poor this year.
failure on account of frost injury.
Frost also got the beans. Cattle and
lambs are selling good but there is a
dull sale on pigs. Fruit was hurt by
frost in spring. Fowls are plentiful
with little demand for them. Peas-are
selling at $2.00 and barley at $1.50
cwt.—J. B. L.

LAMB MARKET IN SETBACK.

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ECEIPTS of lambs increased in

the last 10 days and are the heavi-

est of the year. They are fully a
fourth' smallerxthan a. year ago, how-
ever, and the smallest at this season
in over a dozen years, with the excep—
tion of. 1922. Prices fell back under
the increased run recently, but failed
to reach a new low level for the sea-
son and are beginning to rally once
more. Usually, the peak movement of
lambs is reached by the end of Sep-
tember or early October, but receipts
have been so much below expectancy,
based on the estimated size of the
crop, that it is a question whether
supplies will not become larger during
t e next two or three weeks. After
t at time, gradual strengthening of

prices would not be surprising.

         

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CONDUC ”ED BY DR. S. URROWS

 

Fails to Breed—My Holstein cow
was bred in January. Thirteen weeks
after, she came in heat, at which time
I called a veterinary who took care
of her, and claimed she would be all
right. In three weeks she was bred
again, went eight weeks, then came in
heat. again. This cow has not abor-
tion.‘ What can be done? Is there at
medicine that i can give her, or is’
there something lacking in the feed?

cases.
condition of the ovaries ‘an
Your feed’ could not be responsible for
the condition. The cause of the goiter
in your calves, is due to lack of iodine
in the cow’s ration.
cows the following mineral mixture
should overcome this condition. Eighty
pounds each of finely ground limestone
and steamed bone meal, forty pounds
of common salt, and half ounce of po-
Give tablespoonful in

and eyes ?

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tassium iodide.
feed twice daily.

Distemp-er.—What can I do for my
little kittens, about three months old,
that seem to have cold in their heads
They were nice and heal-
thy until they came in co tact with
some kittens that seemed
same as these are now. They sneeze,
and a thick discharge comes from
The eyes also discharge
They are getting very thin.
B. P. C.--Your> kittens are suffering
from distemper, which is highly con-
tagious and infectious, from cat to cat.
It would,be advisable to confine the
cats in a large box.
nostrils should be kept free from the
discharge by washing with a four per
Give quar-
ter grain of quinine two or three times
daily. They should be given nourish-
ing food, as fish, raw meat or cooked
liver, to keep up their strength. Their
cage should afterward be burned to
destroy the infection, or washed with

their nose.
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did not have that'etrouble. C. L.—-—‘Fai‘l-.
ing to ‘breed 'is usually due to some
abnormal condition of the generative
organs. Your veterinarian is cyldently
giving these organs the necessary
treatment, though it is not possible to
give any form of treatment and. have
the cow conceive immediately, 111 all
This depends entirely on the
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{anon of Butter Bibby and Minion. Vreoland stock
farm. Ypsilanti, Mich" R. 5. Phone 7l24. F l2.

FOR SALE “WW Oxford Yearling

and Lamb Rams. also one
nice 3-yr.-old. all from good stock. HENRY ‘8.

HACKER. Ubly. Mich.

. including the first prlzo lamb
For Shropshlfe Rams at Michigan State Fair and
five other Fairs. write or call ARMSTRONG BROS.
Fowlorvillo, Mich.

25 lst red Shropshire field
F0 R S AL E “mfg algo 3 stock rams. all

sired by McKcrron. Wax-Well and Broughion runs.
E. F. GOODFELLOW. Ovid, Mich" Phone 48-5.

sired by McKerson‘s 5487
OXfOl‘d Downs and 3713. ewes and rams.
“'rito Wm. VanSIcho,

Deckorvllle, Mich.. n. 2.
FOR SALE

Oxford nuns and ewes. ‘Satlllm‘
BOTT. Palms, Mich.

tion guarantoed.' GEO. T. A8-
Tolephone Deckcrvllle 78-3.
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yearling rams. Also
leon I. Ruuell.

from imported founda-
Oxford Ram Lambs and 0. l. C. Boats

R. 3. Howell, Mlch.

 

For Sale. H. W. MANN. Danwille. Mich.
REGISTERED SHROPSHIRE yearling rams... Also
yearling ewes. Have given satisfaction in 30

states since 1890. C. LEMEN & SONS. Dexter, Midi.

 

 

FOR S ALE Sheep. Cotswolds. Lincolns. Kar-
akules and Tunls. rams and
ewes. Recorded. L. R. KUNEY, Adrian. Mich.
' A few choice rams for show
ShrOPShlres and field use. Call on DAN
BOOHER. R. 4. Evart. Mich.

 

REEDING EWES FOR SALE—Hampshire. Shrop-
shire grades as cross—breeds. All yearlings. Car
V. B. FURNISS. Nashville, Mich.

' a few choice loads 'of Delaino
NOW Offering breeding ewcs. Also feeding
lambs and wethers. F. M. Bahan. Woodstock, Ohm.

REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE YEARLING RAMS.
Call or write CLARK HAIRE’S RANCH. West
Branch, Mich. Charles Post. Mgr.

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lots.

 

APLES SHROPSHIRES” For Sale—2 stock
yearling and ram lambs. Few ewes.
Ann Arbor, Mich.

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and lambs.
prices. LOOK-
Creuey, Mich.

yearlings

Reg.‘ Shropshire Rams Farm...-

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close.

TIONAL PAPER COMPANY
New York. September 28. 1927.

The Board of Directors have declared a quarterly
dividend of Sixty Cents (UOc)
mon Stock of this Company.
1927. to Common Stockholders of record at the close
of business November lst. 1927.

Checks will be mailed. Transfer books will not

OWEN SHEPHERD. Vice-President as Treasurer.

a share on the Com-v
payable November 15.

F lalnc Merino rams and ewes. .I. H. HAYNER,
Stockbridge, Mich.. R. W. Hayner, Webberville. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—Two Reg. Shropshire rams, also run
lambs. at reasonable prices. Write for prices. or
call and see them. ROY HOBART, Damville. Mich.

 

EGISTEIKED OXFORD DOWNS. A lot of very
good yearling rams, also ram lambs and ewes.
HUGH HODGINS, Yale. Mich.. Phone 20 l 5. ‘
FOR SALE Oxford and Tunis rams, Red
Poll Cattle and Yorkshire

Pigs. E. S. CARR. Homer. Michigan.

FOR SAL

few Delaine rams.

For Sale

Come and see.

 

 

Von Homoyer Rambouillets. rams
and ewes. Choice stack. Also a
E. M. MOORE, Mason, Mich.

Shropshire rams or ewos. Absolute
satisfaction guaranteed on mail order.
G. W. NEEDHAM. Saline. Mich.

 

Improved Delaine Ewe Lambs

 

 

cattle.
F. E. BERRY c

CATTLE

A large selection at all times of smoker and feeding
Special attention given .to filling orders. writs

0MPANY. South st. Paul. Minn.

 

For sale. JOHN HEACHAM. Mullnuton, Mich.
HORSES
Belgium Stallion gggwmglfesegggmggog

_,. .~-;gsucsp.' .f -
l 1 ‘ , moan... rams or eiceuent‘ monorail: BARGAINS. Used.. rebuilt. Gum-f
:F OR 8A L E quality from imported foun'w need. Shipped o approval. Catalog free. Flay

 

Clymer. 816 Bro way. Denver. Colo. .

 

PET srocrc

FERRETS—October prices. Yearling females. special

rat, catchers. $5.00 each. Young stock. Females-
8450, males $4.00. Will ship 0. 0. D. Instruction
book free. Levi Famsworth. New London. Ohio.

FOR. SALE—«Hunting dogs. My dogs will run any
fur-bearing animals. open trailers and stay.
Donald Anderson, Huntsville. Michigan. RFD No. 3

SEND TEN CENTS for individual description of
fifty hunting hounds. photo group. fur price list.
Lakeland Fur Hound lllxchangc. Salem, Mich.

ENGLISH sn'nrmrnp PUPS—from real heel work—
ing stock. Cheap for quality. Albert 'Herrmann.
Nor-wood. Minn.

COONHOUNDS. Combination Hunters.
Champion llabbithounds. Catalogue.
ctrial. L. J. Adams. Ramsey. Illinois.

 

 

 

 

Foxhounds.
photos free,

 

RABBITS—Make Big Profits with Chinchilla Rabbits.
Real money makers. Write for facts. 892 Conrad's
Ranch, Denver, Coloradon

 

 

 

OLD FASHIONED black tan Blueticks. Redbono.
Coonr Skunk. Opossum, rabbit hounds. Cheap. Trial.
C. 0. D. Roy Ginger, Herrick, 11.1..

FOR SALE—Drum. one of Kentucky's Brag Coon<
hounds. Good freer and water worker. Money back
guarantee. Trial. Chas. Hicks. Mayflcld, Ky.. B13.
RAT TERRIERS. Fox Terriers. Police, Rabbit
Hounds. Lists. 10c. Pete Slater. Box i. F..
l’ana Ill.

 

FOR SALE—Registered Silver Black Fox. also ranch
bred mink. real dark. Hall's Fur Farm. Burt. Mich.

HUNDRED HUNTING HOU’NDS. Dog supplies.
Catalogue. Kaskaskezmels. S. W. 107 Herrick. Ill.

 

 

REGISTERED COLLIE PUPS—natural heelers. 036‘
maw Kennel, Prescott. Mich.

 

REGISTERED COLLIE PUPS. bred for brains and.
beauty. J. R. McIntosh. Millersburg. Mich.

AMATTRESSES

MA’l'l'RESSES made any 5119. low factor! W106.
Catalog flee. Peoria Bedding Company. Pads, Ill.

 

 

 

FRUIT TREES AND NURSERY STOCK

PEACH TREES. $5 per 100 and up.
$7.50 per 100 and up.

 

Apple Trees.
In large or small lots direct
to planters, by freight, parcel post. express. Plums.
pears. cherries. grapes. nuts. berries, pecans. lines:
ornamental trocs. vines and shrubs. Free catalog in
crolors. Tennessee Nursery Co., Box 15 Cleveland.
enn. ~

 

SEEDS

CHOICE ADAPTED SMALL GRAIN AND BEANfl
—~Improved American Banner wheat. Wolverine om.
lmprotu‘l Robust beans. A. B. Cook. Owosso, Mich.

 

 

 

TOBACCO

SPECIAL OFFER—Leaf Chewing or Smokinz 5 lbs..
$1; $1.75. Cigars. $1.95 for 50. Money re-
funded if not satisfactory. Pay when received.
Kentucky Tobacco Company. West Paducah. Ky.

GUARANTEED IIOMESI’UN TOBACCO—Chewing. 5
pounds. $1.25: 10. $2. Smoking. 10, $1.50. PIN
Free! Pay postman. United Farmers. Bardwell.
Kentucky.

HOMESI'UN TOBACCO: Smoking or chewing. 4 lbs..
$1; 12. $2.25. Send no money. Pay postmaster
on arrival. Pipe free for ten names of tobacco
users. United Farmers of Kentucky. Paducah. Ken-
ucry.

 

POULTRY

 

 

Resistored.
Mich.. R. I.

DAN McINTYRE.
Box 54.

lbs. A good one.
Sault Ste. Marie.

 

 

 

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Small ndvertlmentn brine best
advertising miscellaneous articles for solo or exchange.
pertinent at, clnasliied nice. or in display columns at commercial rates.

ion. on orders for less than four insertions;
Count on I word each abbreviation.

Rate 8 cent. a word, each '
consecutive insertions 6 cents a w .
display type or illustrations admitted. Remittance. must accompany

Live stock advertising has a separate department and
charge 10 words.

~ ”CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

This classified advertising department in Utablished for the convenience of Michigan formula.
mulls under classified headings.

Try it for want ads and for
Poultry advertising will be run in this do-

for four armors

initial or number. No

er.
It not accepted an classified. Minlmum

 

MUST SELL IMMEDIATELY 1000 hens. mums.
occkercls bred from special pens and originally in-
tended for my own breeding flock. Large type pure
Hollywood strain direct. Sircd by high production
pedigree males. closely related to high on record
ancestry. Am; quantity but. prefer to sell in large
units and contract. for hatching eggs for next spring.
Write for prices and. description. . Honour.
Imlay City, Mich.

 

VVIIITE LEGHORN eggs and chicks—big discount if

ordered now for spring shipment. Sired by 200 to
293 egg males. Egg brcd 28 years. Winners 20
egg contests. Shipped C. 0. D. Catalog. special
price bulletin free. Thousands of pullets. hens.
cockerels at low prices. George B. Ferris. 934
Umon, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

tillable.

Kresge Bldg. Detroit.

100 ein level creek bottom; spring and creek
watered pasture. wire and hog wire fencing; mixed

Mich.

 

Ono Four Four TIMBER LAND. 120 acres for sale. on Saints
time. times times Marys River. 95 mile from Auto Road. Surrounded
0. ....... $0.80 $2.40 $6.24 by hundreds of acres of timber lands. Plenty of
. .88 2.64 6.48 dccr. wolves, fox. mink. muskrats and fish. Dan
. .96 2.88 6.72 McIntyre, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
1.04 3.12 6.96 +- —~
{12: 3:3 ”2 our 20 ACRES selected land for $500., Antrim Co..
1.28 3.84 ‘ 7:88 growmg seed potatoes will make you independently
1.36 4.08 7.93 wealthy in a few years. Will Take Crops for
1.44 4.32 8.16 payment. and buy all you raise. Groste. 511 Dime
1_52 4.56 8.40 Bank BRIE. DELl‘OII.
. 1.60 4.80 8.64
l ........ 1.68 5.04 8.88 Bil-«ACRE DAIRY AND GRAIN FAR)! in central
1.76 5.28 9.12 lilchigan. Good buildings. Desirable location. Pros-
23... ..... 1.84 5.52 9.36 Ellcrous community. Productive clay loam soil. For
4 ........ 1.92 5.76 9.60 i immcdiate sale lit $55 per acre. Easy terms. Write
5........ 2.00 6.00 9.84‘i‘. L. linsc. Evart, Mil-h.
‘ FOR SALE—indium; farm. 154 acres in Kosciusko
REAL ESTATE (30., first class condition. good buildings. two miles
from railroad and grain elevator. $125.00. Easy
328 ACRES. LEVEL BOTTOM, teams. 27 cattle. terms. Mrs. A. Nafzigcr. Benton Harbor. Michigan.
equipment” Money-maker and pleasant home spot;
mu” “we “‘1 high 80mm- handy markets- 25" 3”“ GROW WITH SOUTHERN GEORGIA—Good lands.

Low prices still available. Write Chamber of Co

merce, Quitmnn, Ga.

m-

 

 

ENGLISH “'HITE LEGHORN PULLETS—All from
free range l'oultry Farms. 10 wks. old. 85c; 121.0
14 wks.. $1.00: laying pullets. $1.25: yearling hens.
90c. A fine male bird free with every order of 160
pullclts. Village View Poultry Farm. R. No. 3.
Zceland._ Mich.

 

TURKEYS. GEESE. DUCKS—Finely bred Bronze
Turkeys, White l’ekin Ducks, Geese. Write for de—,
scriptlve circular and price. State Farms Associa-
tion. Kalamazoo. Michigan.

 

WHITI‘AKI'IR'S MICHIGAN CERTIFIED REDS—-

 

Both Combs. Cocks. Hens. Cockarels and Pullou.
Michigan’s Greatest Color and Egg Strain. erto
for Price List. lnteriakes Farm. Box 9. Lawrencfi.
Mich. ’7
FOR SALE-400 White Leghorn Pullets from Burns’
best stock. eighty cents each. White Perkin ducks.
young. one dollar and a half each. E. J. Comma.

Cornwall Farm. (.‘larc. Mich.

 

WHITE WYANDUI‘TES—Choice husky early hatched
CAolllkeI-elif now ready for shipmenh Fred Berlin.
en, mi.

 

W'HITE LICGIIORN I’ULLETS.
Accredited. $1.15 each. H.
Mich” R. No. 1.

5 months old. State
Knoll. Jr.. Holland.

 

orchard. shaded 6-room house. tenant houses and

farm buildings. Price Gilly $0000 with 2 teams. ISO-ACRE FARRI C E ) ‘

more. 15 good cows, 12 \young stouk, 10 hogs. 20 State Bank, Homer, gfifig' hbeml terms. Calhoun
goals. poultry. machinery and vehicles. ~10t corn. '

fodder. vegetables, etc. all thrown in for quick . -‘ , _ _

sale; part cash. Details page 20. illustrated fall l§02§s 5‘};in HORSibg‘yzN'f) c 31153 “fish fem near St-
bargain catalog. Free. Strout Agency. 1105-BC ‘ ' ' ' '

S.
log.

C. BROWN and White Leghorns 332-9335.

0' -
Harlem Fulton, Gallipolis. Ohio. at”

 

 

WANTED FARMS

 

double the price.

FIRST-CLASS FARM—200 acres. 100 cultivated. clay

W. Thomas, Rogers City. Mich.

BLACK JERSEY GIANTS and Rose Comb Anemia
Cooker-e15. W. A. Palmer, Hartford. Mich.

 

 

 

loam soil. 40 acres timber: large 35 by (30. two 30 WANTED—«Hear from owner, good form for sale.
by 55 barns.~ Fourteen-room house. bath. furnace: Cash price. particulars. D. F. Bush. Minneapolis.
24 cattle, 15 sheep; five horses; new International in.
tractor zitb 1:111:33?sinddiscg.l 331mm sdigger,118)lantl13r. ,
sprayer. ayloa u 0 er. chool - mie,

miles. county seat 8 miles. Worth MSCELLA NEOUS

 

FISTULA REMEDY—Physicians prescription. not a.

 

IMPROVED FARM. one mils from Olarltston. Mich..
on good gravel road, practically all under cultiva.
buildings. orchard. .
party on monthly rental basis with understanding that
rent will be refunded at end of year in exchange
for improvements made on farm.
:Company. 2340 Buhl Bldg. Detroit. Cadillac 7541.

etc. Will rent to

tion,
'hl ..

PlayI’aJr Realty

patent medicine. Used successfully 45 years. 32 per
box postpaid. Satisfaction guaranteed or money ro-
funded. Fillmore 00.. Westminster. Md.

 

FOR SALE—Small threshing outfit.
with kerosene tractor. 12-20 H.
«Onckama. Mich.

fully equipped
P. Showalter Broa.

 

smaller place.
other buildings

 

7’)

.‘V;,At'_‘present, thi cow is getting‘grassv

J

   

Vi:

  
   

m was or mommy’s best farm land, so
acre Eaton County Farm.

reasonable price. Inquire Bo; 987. Kalamazoo. Mich.

VIRGIN WOOL YARN for sale by manufacturer at
bargain. Samples free. H. A. Bartlett. Harmony.

 

for sale or trade for Maine.
Large bank barn, silo, brick house. . .
all good condition. Sound value. FISTULA HORSES Cured 85. For when well. Chem-

 

ist, Barnes. M. '

TURKEN COCKERELS—finc st0ck, over four pounds.
Price $5.00. Merrill Hatchery. Merrill. Mica.

SITUATIONS WANTED

FARM OPERATOR—Aggressive. scientifically abreast.
fully experienced. Qualified for profit farming or
successful estate management. College graduate. Ad-
dress Box 118. Michigan Farmer, Detroit.

POSITION WANTED as
dairy or general farm.
117. Michigan Farmer.

manager or foreman
Can give references.
Detroit.

on
Box

 

=3:
AGENTS WANTED

ACTIVE MAN TO BOOK ORDERS. hire sub-18mm
and super-intend this territory for long.eetablishod
firm. No investment or sales experience necessary.,
Money making opportunity for right party. Pay,
weekly Knight a Bostwick. Newark, New- York

 

 

   
   

  


E. V. Agler had wonderful results with GLASS CLOTH last winter. He writes:
“When we moved here there was no poultry house. The owner let us use the barn
and garag . By taking ofi' a few boards and replacing With GLASS CLOTH rt
made a fin place to handle the hens. In October we at 3826 eggs which sold for

128.55. In November, 3863 eggs, cash, $151.00. ecember,‘3001 eg
101.55. That makes a total in three months of $3§1.19 which is not ba
lgilens. EILASS CLOTH works wonders. I am not in favor of ordinary

ass at .”

Put Ultra-Violet Rays to Work for You -

You can get big egg yields all winter just as easy as these folks did. Just give your
hens ultra-violet light through GLASS CLOTH windows. Window glass stops these ‘
rays. Science has discovered hens will not lay without them. Put up GLASS
CLOTH and the hens become active. Egg paralysis disappears. Egg glands function
like it was June. High winter egg prices bring big profits. It is not uncommon for
FRED TURNER 400 hens to lay $1000 worth of eggs in the cold months. GLASS CLOTH is cheap.

l “Sim“ “Glass 01°“ You can afford to use plenty of it. That is what hens need—plenty of real sunlight
and exercise—plenty of ultra-violet rays. You are going to feed your hens anyway. Why not get a

     

 

 

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’ $5.00 roll of GLASS CLOTH and make them pay you profits? It is easy to put up. Just fasten it on
'home made frames. Half a million poultry raisers have taken the glass from their poultry house
' windoxfis and put up GLASS CLOTH. It is the new way. The modern way. The profitable way.

“CASH IN HAND ”
R. G. Hughes made this poultry house out of a
corn crib. The big GLASS CLOTH windows
saved. him $60 over sash and 'glass and brought

 

NEW SUPER-STRENGTH MATERIAL m

? A new cloth of tremendous ,

strength is being used in
j GLASS CLOTH this year.
9 It is the strongest material
{of its kind. No ordinary
Saccident will tear it. It is
} “tough as boot leather.”
This has been done with-
!out one cent increase in
{price. In fact, to introduce
Ithis new material to you,
iwe ‘make this amazing
3 SPECIAL TRIAL OFFER'
,’ .Go to your dealer, or, if
{he does not have GLASS
i CLOTH yet, mail the cou-
‘ipo'n With $5.00 and we will
isend you, postpaid, a big
iroll of the new GLASS
CIQQTH, 45 ft. long and
one yard wide—135 sq. ft.

 

! TURNER BROS., DEPT. 4 8

/ rolls of G ASS CLOTH, prepaid
v If not satisfied after ten days’ use I
it and you will refund my money.

Name

Use This

COUPON

 

2 .
BLADEN, NEBR. or WELLINGTON, OHIO

I enclose .......... for which send me ........
parcel post.
may return

ON OUR

 

Strength!

Nine people, total weight 1062
lbs., standing on a frame of the
new, super-strength GLASS

CLOTH. Such strength means
extra life and durability. Extra
value for your money. GLASS

CLOTH can repay its cost many
times in a single year. It is a
very profitable investment.

more to DEALERS

The demand for GLASS CLOTH is
so great we have been forced to
fill orders direct from the fac-
tory inl ocalities where we have
no dealer representative. Many
excellent territories are still
open. GLASS CLOTH is the
kind of product you can take
pride in selling. It makes a
profit for you and a I profit for
your customer. Our new ma-
terial is by far the finest of its
kind. Write today for trial
dealer roll and our attractive
dealer proposition, or order
from your hardware jobber.

 

Address

 

Town .............................. State. ......

 

 

COPYRIGHT. 192?. BY TURNER BROS.

 

 
 

 

Guaranteed

Use this material for poul-
try house windows, storm
doors, storm windows, and
barn or hog house windows.
If, after ten days’ use you
do not find it more satisfac-
tory than gla'ss or any sub-
stitute, return it and we
will refund your money.

0

Quality -
GLASS, CLOTH is now of
such high quality you should be
satisfied with nothing short of
the genuine.
with thousands of dealers, all of
whom now make you this Special
Trial Offer. If there is not a
GLASS CLOTH dealer in' your
town yet, order on the coupon.
Under average conditions
GLASS CLOTH lasts from one
to four seasons. Yet it pays
such profits it would be a good

investment if'you had to change

it much oftener.

For your protection we have
placed the name “GLASS
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your guarantee of Super-strength,
extra quality material.
any material not bearing the
name.
Special Trial Offer today.

41mins]: nnos. mt??- (mit'éé’é-

Winter-Tight Home

We have placed it.

Airoid 7'

Take advantage of our ‘

him more winter eggs than‘he ever thought pos-
sible. He says before he used GLASS CLOTH
eggs were scarce on his farm “as snowballs in
Africa.” Almost at once his 100 hens “started
on a laying spree” and he says, “Since then]
have bought all our groceries and feed for the
cows and chickens and much of our clothing from ‘
the sale of eggs. I also bought my potato seed
and garden fertilizer and my wife has bought
many articles for‘the house-~all from egg money.”

A $5.00 roll of ' GLASS CLOTH brought Mr.
Hughes all this new prosperity. , .

house warm.

 

 
     

 

, o , _ ‘ ‘ ‘
Brings Comfort
“Glass Cloth is great ‘stufi' ," writes J. Austin. Last fa! ‘
I made storm windows for our house by tacking it over
the window screens and I put it over the screen door to
make a storm door. I closed up' the porch with it too. K,
It was a cold winterrbut, our house Was warmer than it L
ever was before. It cost me $6.70. The same job done '
with glass would of cost $115. When! took the Glam
Cloth down this spring it‘was almost good as new. 1
figure we saved on both' fuel and doctor bills. We ‘

 

hardly had a cold all wm' ter.” . _ .
ot , s , 11 Winter
. g , . GLASS CLOTH two - . v,
V years I we d not trade one frame
of it fora dozen frames of ordinary ' .' ~
lass. Last winter I had only 35 . ‘
ens, but many days I g as hifl ' . ‘
as 33 eggs.” --,-W. . Houst‘ j , ‘ ‘
Think of the winter egg in 7 "‘i 5 V
he would-have madeif he meg: .
360 hensinstead of 'ust 36. No-
thatyoucanhaveG ASSCLOTR . .~
It paystojkeieg' be!“ over the win-e , '
, ter. They.-pay bagger profits th-..

. in summertime. no to high win-
ter egg prices. '

. “After usinug

 

. Every poultry raiser should sg '. ‘

:OithAeflgets wager ea s tram .' '
er. - can use ewy '

GLASS CLOTH on the sunny saith .

, ‘ of the hen house. Order today.