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In these flights ‘his engine usually ran with wide-

open throttle under a heavy load, much as your tractor

engine operates. But the load was many times greater

than your tractor ever carries.





And on his famous New York to Paris flight his

engine ran without stopping for 33% hours, where your

tractor seldom runs continuously more than 6 or abouts.



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nation—wide tour of this country, the Wright Aero-

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Col. Lindbergh uses our. regular stock Mobiloil "B”

__ the same oil that is recommended for many farm

tractors. The grade recomtnended for the Fordson and

many others is Mobiloil "BB” which (is made from

the same stocks but is somewhat. lighter in body.

nearby Mobiloil dealer has these oils. His Mobiloil

Chart will tell you exactly which grade of Mobiloil to

use in each of your engines.



The best way to buy Mobiloil is in 30- and SS-gallon

Steel drums with faucets. Your dealer will give you

a subsrantial discount on these quantity purchases.





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MICHIGAN SECTION 'i‘Hn CAPPER FARM mass





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NUMBER XVI





 





 





 





 





HE Canadian Wheat Pool is now





the largest producers’ ,coo'pera- ’





tlve marketing association in the

world. It is the central selling organ-

ization for the three provincial pools

in Manitoba, saskatchewan, and Al-





berta, and last year it handled 187,361,- *





244 bushels, a fraction over fifty-three

per cent of the wheat shipments of

the 1925 crop from the three provinces,





besides about 30,000,000 bushels ’of-





oats, barley, flax and rye." It now con-

trols over sixty per cent of the total





Wheat acreage of the prairie mow





inces.



This bit. of “information may be

familiar to many of our readers, as

stories of the operations of the Ca-





nadian Wheat Pool have had very -‘





general circulation in the United

States during recent months. These

stories have caused many of our

farmers to wonder whether all they

hear is actually true, and have

aroused their curiosity as to how the

Canadians have been able to do some-

thing in four years that wheat farm-

ers in the United States, who origi-

nated the pooling idea, have not been

able to do in double that length of

time.



In‘August, I went to Canada for

the Michigan Farmer and other Stand-

ard Farm Papers with this purpose in

mind: to checkup the reports of the

success of the Pool in merchandising

grain for its members; to determine

if there are any fundamental condi-

tions in the United States which may

have made it easier for the wheat pro-





ducers of Canada to organize, andflto





study the relatiooship of this market-





ing movement to the improved finan- .





cial and social status of the farmers

in the three prairie provinces.



. Pool Sentiment Favorable.



I talked with pool officials, non-

pool as well asgpool farmerstusiness





‘men and bankers, and representa-

tives of the old established grain

trade. I found business men and

bankers friendly, pool farmers gener-

‘ally satisfied, non-pool farmers be-

coming more and ,. more interested,

and the 'government sympathetic.

Naturally, it is thoroughly disliked by

the grain trade. ‘



The change that has taken place

in the marketing of wheat in West-

ern Canada since the compulsory

wheat pool of the Canada Wheat

Board, (a governmental agency or-

ganized in 1919), was‘abandoned in

1920, base-been nothing short of phe-

nomenal. The Wheat Board, organ-

ized as a post-war emergency, paid

an initial payment to the farmer on

delivery and gave him a realization

certificate which he realized on when





/ of the pooli'ng movement.





Tthoolmg Of Wheat in Canada





Prazrze‘ Farmer; [Vaw Sell C aapemtzva/y More T firm Half the Crap

By Berry H. Akers





the grain was sold. Prices received

under this system were so satisfac-

tory that farmers asked that the

Board continue to function in peace

times, but the emergency was over

and the government refused that re-

quest.



That experience sowed the seeds

If a gov-

ernment-operated compulsory pool

would work, why not a voluntary

pool? Prices in the intervening

years of 1920-1922 were so unsatisfac—

tory to the farmers that they began

to leave the land and conditions were

growing desperate when, in 1923, the

present pooling movement started in

Alberta, aided by the evangelistic ut-

terances of Aaron Sapiro. Almost over

night the pooling idea took hold and

began to spread like wildfire.





 





The Governing Board of the Canadian Wheat Pool, and D. L. Smith, General

Sales Manager.





 





Alberta was organizing when the

1923 crop was threshed, and it handled

twenty-six per cent of the wheat ship-

ped out of that province that year.

Saskatchewan and Manitoba effected

their organizations the following

summer, using the five-year binding

contract as a basis. This contract

was adapted from that used in the

state of Oregon, where the wheat

pooling movement on this continent

really originated. In August, 1924, the

three provincial pools joined to sell

their grain through the central sales

agency, known officially as the Canadi-

an Co—operative Wheat Producers,

Limited, but better known as the Ca-

nadian Wheat Pool. It handled nearly

thirty-nine per cent of the grain ship—

ments of the 1924 crop from the

three provinces, fifty-three per cent of

the total shipments of the 1925 crop,

and about the same percentage of the

1926 crop.



The three pools now have about

140,000 farmers under contract, grow-

ing more than 15,000,000 acres of

wheat. Saskatchewan, the largest

wheat producer of the three prov-

inces, has the largest membership

and about seventy—five per cent of the

wheat acreage under contract. Alberta

has about sixty per cent of its acreage

under contract, and Manitoba about

fifty-two per cent. Since the five-year

contracts will expire next year in the

three provinces, resign-up membership

campaigns are now in progress, with

every indication of an increased mem-

bership and an increased acreage. In

Saskatchewan the necessary fifty per

cent for the new contract was secured

several months ago.



These provincial pools are all non-

profit organizations and without cap-

ital stock, except for the $1 per

share capital required by the provin-



(Continued on page 363).





Fall Plowing WOrrics Corn Borer





It Give; Me Farm” Many Otéer Warm Wat/e Advantage:





HE fall plowing of corn stubble

will give the European corn bor-





er one of his worst jolts, will.





pay for itself in theadded yield it

encourages in crops planted on corn

ground, and will leave the Michigan

farmer who practices Tit-in better hu-

mor the next ’spring than most any





[other corn borer control measure he





may practice.

The simple operation of plowing





”doesn’t kill corn borers, according to





entomOloglsts; it ‘merely buries them.

Many of them come up again, and





. when they find a perfectly clean sur-

face, the weather, birds and predators

Pro- .





continue the Job of destruction.

fessor R. H. Pettit, Michlgan State

College Entomologist believes that the





9 next ~June, is a ‘Whole hit more

“out Of luck’.’ than the one who has

,_ shuffle for it fer just a, Iew warm





 





 





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ByHHC





of Agriculture, who has been battling

borers, one way or another for several

years, also states that fall plowing is

a big help in checking the corn borer.

A paragraph from his bulletin, The

European Corn Borer and its Control,

readsz~ _-



“It has been determined that, by





thoroughly, plowing under infested ma-'





terial during the fall, a large propor-

‘tio-n’of the borers contained in such





, material are destroyed. This measure





alone will probably prove ineffective

In order that it may be rendered even

partly efiective, practically all of the





infested material in infested fields

Imust be plowed down to adepth of at

r.least",s1x inches in soils ,of ordinary





texture. ' Deepe'r’plowing increases the





effectiveness of this operation and

should be adopted when practicable,

7whenever the character of the soil will

permit; Breaking down the cornstalks,





stubble or other standing plant mate-





‘ ,"rial with. a. heavy roller, or by drag-

sing with a heavy pgle or iron rod.





Rather





before plowing them under, greatly in-

creases the effectiveness of the work.

Disc harrowing immediately, after

plowing Serves to break up large clods

of soil and aids in burying the plant

material where the soil is in a condi-

tion that will allow this treatment.

“The practice of plowing down in~

fested material in the fall must be re-

garded as only an aid, or ‘finishing

touch,’ to other repressive or clean-up

measures. In ordinary farm plowing

operations, considerable quantities of

plant remnants are left on the surface

of the soil, or. are only partially bur-

ied. It is possible, however, tinder fav-





orable conditions, by exercising proper

care,





to cover the infested material

sufficiently toscause the destruction of

many of the contained borers. Any

lease plant material left on the surface

of the soil should be raked intg piles

and burned.” . \



Any operation which will kill corn

borers at not too great a cost, is Well





warranted in !evei~y county in which _





the borer has been found. If that op

eration is desilable because of the

good it does, regardless of the corn

borer, all the more reason for putting

it into practice.





Fall plowing is just such a job. It

is a piece of work that pays for itself

on the great majority of Michigan

soils, and always has.



On the credit side of fall plowing,

We list these benefits:



1. It conserves moisture.



2. It distributes labor, lessening the

spring load of work just prior to plant-

ing time -



3. It kills many weeds.





4. Freezing and thawing of fall, .-





plowed land leaves it in better tilth.





All of these advantages make for

bigger and more profitable crops. In

1920, land on which the corn stubble

was fall plowed at the Michigan Ex-

periment Station gave five bushels

more oats per acre than land which

was merely disced. The spring was





wet and the full advantage of better'.

moisture conditions in. the plowed land, , 3





(Continued on page 357);
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VOLUME CLXIX





DETROIT, OCT. 15, 1927

CURRENT COMMENT





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NUMBER SIXTEEN





’ leading article

Canada 8 this issue, it is not

Wheat our purpose to sell the

P001 methods employed by





the wheat farmers of

the Canadian provinces to any person

01 group of persons. The volume of

business being done by these wheat

growers has attracted world—wide at-

tention. It was to acquaint Michigan

-Farmer readers, and the subscribers

~01? other Standard Farm Papers with

*the work done, that a. representative

‘of this group of publications was sent

to Canada to make a careful study of

the whole program and report. This

article is the first on the Canadian

wheat pool movement. More will be

run at some later date.





The readers of the Michigan Farmer





should know of this movement, and'





the circumstances under which it has

succeeded. While the system of pool-

ing described may work well in Can-

ada with her heavy export trade, it

may not be suited to conditions in the

United States. We do not know.





Last summer a. Dane, well versed in

agricultural activities in his own coun-

try, made the statement that, while

the Danes had been successful in sell-

ing dairy and pork products to the

export trade, they had failed miser-

ably in their attempt to sell fruit and

vegetables cooperatively to their own





people.





' 0RD has just

Sale be 911 received



. ' from the secretary of

Called the Michigan Hol-

Off stein-Friesian Breed-





_ ers’ Association stat-

. ,ing that the annual sale planned for

October has been called off, for the





«very simple reason that a suitable?

‘ ' ,,;"bunch of cattle could not be rounded





up for the event. That does not mean

thgt Michigan dairymen are not pro-

. duets: good stock or this breed, but

~11t does mean the demand is so great





 





Copyright 1921 '





. tuberculin test.





- dairy and beer circled Good beet- pricJ





(as have enabled many dairymen to" sell

the poor end of their dairy herds to

the butcher. One man is reported to





‘ have sold an old cow for beef for $110





This is doing much to place our whole

dairy business on a more efficient

basis, and is bound to, increase the

interest in the production of better

beef animals. .

A factor in improving the pure-bred



cattle business in this state is the pro-

gress made in tuberculin teSting.

Whether all men in the state believe

in this work or not, the fact remains

that outsiders do, and they are willing ,

to come here and pay us good money

for animals that do not react to, the

If, through the TB

clean-up work, we can protect the

health of our own people. and, at the

same time, create such a demand for

cattle as to encourage increased pro-

duction, we are indeed short-sighted





'not to go the limit in carrying out that





sanitary work.



This also helps our whole agricul-

turalprogram. If more farmers be-

come interested in producing good cat-

tle, more roughage and grain will be

needed, and the pressure on other

lines of farming will be reduced, which

is the very thing politicians have been

crating about.



The fact that *there is no better

place in the world to grow quality cat-

tle than here in Michigan, gives added

reason for farmers showing a united

front in pushing the cattle business.





NE of the most





on effective informa-

Editorial tion gathering institu-

, tions in America is

Comment the Federal Council of





- Churches, which en-

deavors to gather actual facts on any-

thing which may affect our social and

religious life. Naturally, rural life and

thought have been given their share of

attention.



The research department of this

Council recently made an analysis of

the contents of the editorial pages of

some twenty-five farm papers. This

investigation showed that in 1926 these

papers carried 272 editorials on legis-

lation and government, out of a total

of 1,146. Editorials on production

problems numbered 235, while econom-

ic conditions received attention in 162

editorials. Community life was con

sidered in ninety-six editorials; eco-

nomic cooperation in seventy-one; ed-

ucation in fifty-six; international is-

sues in forty~eight; distribution ~(not

cooperative) in forty; home' life in

thirty-six; and transportation in twen-

ty-seven.



The large number of editorials on

legislation undoubtedly is due to the

agitation for farm relief. 'When this

is settled, or settles down, productidn

probably will hold first place. In the

Michigan Farmer, the figures put pro-

duction comments in first place, be—

cause farm relief has not been taken

as seriously in this state as in some,

and because we believe that produc-

tion problems are the basic ones in

agricultural success. Our observation

with the Master Farmer movement





[substantiates this belief.





Perhaps, from the reader’s stand.

point, we have given too much space

editorially to certain subjects. If you

think the editorial rations we are feed-

ing the public are'not well balanced,

please let us know. .





'





HE answer to this





Are the question will in-

! , - dicate your success in

Pulgets poultry this year. The

Lag/mg? pallet that is not lay-





in; now will probably

be a “star boarderW spring.

Successful poultrfmeua deem it es-





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continues into spring, when every old

hen is laying her clutch of eggs. . . p

All pullets are not new laying. If

they were, much lower prices would

prevail. One may contend that, if all

poultrymen adopt this idea. of fall lay--

ing, the profit will be cut.‘ One might

as well argue that if all were rich it‘

Would. be hard to get someone teldig

ditches. ~ The fact remains' that all do





not become wealthy, nor will all pu1-'





lets start laying" in September.



It is only the progressive poultry-

man who will condition'his'poultry to

have \the pullets in prime condition-

when eggs bring the“ most money.

There. will always be an assured in-





‘come in the poultry business for those





who use judgment in their pursuit of it.





I C H I G A N ap-

pears to be some-

what laching in the

enforcement of some

0 f ou r necessary

health regulations, es-

pecially with regard to the control of

our most dreaded contagious diseases.

From a recent” report of the American





Michigan ’8

Health





Position





Association of Medical Progress, cov-'





ering a. period of five years, we gather

thatstates requiring the vaccination

of school children are better protected

against smallpox than those which

place restrictions on the operation of

compulsory vaccination regulations.





The group of states in which com-

pulsory vaccination is held to be legal

for at least a portion of the population,

comprises thirty-one per cent of the

total population of the country. Yet,

only seven per cent of all the small-

pox cases are found within these

states, and five per cent of all the

deaths from the disease.





‘In contrast to this is the record of

the group of states in which compul-

sory vaccination is in some way re-

stricted. The states include temper

cent of the total population, but have

twenty—four per cent of the smallpox

cases and thirty per cent of the deaths.

For every 100,000 people there are

fifty-seven cases of smallpox in the





first group, and 614 in the second. ‘





Michigan belongs to the‘group of

thirteen states which have compulsory

vaccination only when smallpox is

present. Of that group we had more

cases and deaths from smallpox than

any state except one. This position

is not an'enviable one; but it can be

changed through the active coopera-

tion of every individual, and especially

of parents of school children, by prac-

ticing the proverbial ounce of preven-

tion. .





/

W ATERWAY ‘ for





- The the middle west

Water has been a subject of



discussion for several

.Lone years and *will prob-





, ably be one for some

years to' come for

prejudices and obstacles to overcome.



From a. strictly economic stand-

point there is no reason why a con-

venient waterway should not be es-

tablished for it virtually will make

ocean ports of prominent cities of the

great middle \west. Such a. water

freight way will be of great benefit to

the grain growing sections of the

United States and Canada, perhaps the

greatest food producing areas in the

world, for it will reduce considerably

the freight rates to the consuming





centers of the east and to foreign»





countries, and would give the farmer

more of the consumer’s dollar.

Objections to the waterway come

from the industrial centers and ports

of the east, both in Canada and the

United States, and from the railroads.





Emmially in Quebec and Montreal is".

there fear that the waterway, will trike-





from them their importance all 0681111





 





there are many





Recently the Gammon nil- -_ ’4





 

 





 





would , take ’ from the railroads the

business of carrying- wheat to ea‘sterngi

ports." 1. .

Such broad-minded men as Herbert

H o o v er, Secretary of Commerce,

strongly fever waterway development.





He visions the Mississippi with its -'

tributaries and supplementary canals.





his with the.

e St. Law-





as great freight lanes.

vast water roadway on





rence to the ocean would be worth ..





untold millions to the midwest agricul-

ture and industry and the tax burden





on the public would haldly be notice- .





able, he says.





An appreciation of the economic‘vad-

vantages of these water lanes would

develop a public sentiment that would

persist until the water highway sys«

tem becomes an actuality.





T/ze M r.

Mr. Editor:





I wish to inform you that Mr. Hiram

Syckle is obviously‘occupied with one

of the non-essentials of life, so he can

not, at this time, fulfill his obligation

to -make some remarks for you this

week.





He has seriously involved his in«

terest in what he calls the world’s ser-

ies of this so~called base ball game.

All he talks about is strikes, home

runs, two-baggers, flies and liners, and

he tunes in on the radio a half hour

ahead of time to be sure that he

does’t miss anything. Sometimes he

cheers, and sometimes he yells “throw





 





him out.” After

one game he said

that, “if they’d





only thrun him

out earlier, they

wdulda won.”

Why do people,

especially men

a n d unlady-like

women, become

so interested in

these professional sports, where peo—

ple are paid many times more than

what we, who are doing something

useful, get for our work? A little game

in which one'takes part is healthful

enjoyment, but when men are paid to

amuse a. crowd of people by playing





 





because the people themselves are too _





lazy to play; it is going to extremes.



It seems that in these days people

are really lazy. They want everything

by proxy. They want to get their

thrills sitting in a theater seat, or pay

forty dollars to see a. prize fight to



et their brute force, or fighting in-



s,inct stimulated.





Hy agrees to all this regarding com-

mercialized sport, but he simply can't

keep away from the radio when there

are sporting events on. He says that

“the trouble with you womin iswyou

like to set around in sewing circles,

getting the thrill of your lives ex—

pounding gossip. A interest in sport

is wholesome, and while you swear at

the umpire, it don"t hurt, ’cause he’s

used to it. But, if you swear at your

neighbors you are hurting the commu-

nity spirit, even if you got “God Bless

Our Home” on the wall and “‘Wel—

come” on the door mat.



Of. course, I can’t agree with su

biased ’viewpoints of a. radical b

proxy sport.

not perfect, and some may gossip too

much. But the trouble is, that people

are lazy—a—even the gossiping women

are, for they could do much more good





if they tried to help those they gossip.





about But, in the meantime, Mr. Edi:





.tor, don'bexpect anything from Hy , .-

while this-so—called world. series is on, _. ‘





and the radio in working order. it





Would be toohad to put it out at Order 9





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Naturally, women are 7
Of ‘ 447i Expmenced Poultry Keeper-

'1 By R G. Kirby





APER sacks make good contain-

1 ers in which to sell poultry live

weight Use sacks a little larger

’,,than_ the birds to be sold. Tear a

' hole in the bottom cf the sack, a little

larger than a silver dollar, and tie the

feetkof the bird securely Then place

.the‘ bird in the sack with its head

stiCking .out the hole. Use a second

string to tie the opening of the sack

around the bird’s feet. In this man-





ner a live broiler Can be carried com-4





fortably under the arm of the buyer

without soiling the clothes, and it can

be placed in the bottom of the motor

car without danger from dirt». This

method of selling broilers in clean pa-

per sacks is a help in disposing of

poultry live weight.

Fire Risk.



Recently a visitor to the farm drop-



ped a lighted «cigarette about twenty





One Thousand Chickens and 275





119.1, New York City had a Jewish pop-

ulation of 400, 000 in 1900; 975, 000 in

1910; 1,643,000 in 1920; and 1, 750, 000

in 1925. ,‘ Itis also estimated that this

Jewish population consumes eighty-

five per cent of the live poultry sent

to New York City -

Considering the rate of increase in

population, it is evident that the mar-

ket for poultry will undoubtedly in-

crease in that ‘city. Such items are

encouraging to the commercial poul-

tryman, as they are evidence of the

fact that increased population will

,surely help to take care of a lot of the

increased poultry production.





Poultrymen of the north are also

benefited bythe large number of con-

sumers from the south which move

into our northern industrial cities.

They are natural lovers of poultry

meat, and that is a point favorable to





Ducks Are Kept on a Providence,





R. L, Hotel Roof “Farm," Four Hundred Feet from the Ground.





feet from the barn. The grass has

been very dry, and I make a specialty





of watching visitors with cigarettes





_ around my buildings. A watchful Leg-

. horn pullet picked it from the ground

and ran directly toward the large open

doors at the middle of the barn. She

was chased by another pullet, and the

. barn was covered with chaff and straw

which the pullets used as a scratch-

ing place.

By moving much faster than usual

I headed off the pullet and she drop-

ped the burning paper and tobacco,

and it was crushed into the dust and

extinguished. About ten years ago I

saw a pullet pick up adiscarded cig-

arette butt which was still burning,

and carry it to the edge of a straw

stack, where it was dropped. This

might have caused a serious fire if the

acthad gone unnoticed. It is a well-

known fact that poultry are attracted

'to any article flying through the air,

and will often grab and run with such

an object until they have time to test

its value as food. If a bird which is

carrying a strange article is chased

by other members of the flock, it will

run and retain the object if possible,

until the other birds stop chasing it.

I wonder if any mysterious barn fires

_ have ever resulted from the fact that

lighted cigarettes .have beep picked up

by poultry and carried near inflam-

,mable‘ material, though the smoker

thought he had dropped the fire in a

' safe place.

The practical remedy is to watch all

visitors that carelessly smoke on poul-

.try ranges, and be sure that all butts

are stepped upon and ground into the

dust and extinguished before they are

left In many sections of Michigan.

-‘ .‘ at this date, September 6 the poultry

5 ”.irangee' grill burn like celluloid hecaus‘é

. V he “and grass: Poultry buildings

6 211991"? covemd with straw





’ ” L110w yoiks in the eggs.





the poultry business in a state like

Michigan.

Glass Eyes.



According to L. P. Doyle, of the Pur-

due Station Veterinary Department,

the “glass eyes” sometimes found in

mature hens may be due to the pres-

ence of range paralysis ,in the flock.

In this peculiar type of blindness the

colored part of the eye turns nearly

white and the pupil grows smaller.

Range paralysis is a nerve disease,

and a poultry trouble that breeders

have not thoroughly understood.



Blindness in hens has sometimes

been blamed on intestinal parasites,

and worm medicine has been used in

such flocks without any great improve-

ment resulting. The range paralysis

may have been to blame, rather than

the worms. This disease may strike

Other parts of the body. An attack

on the nerve of the wing will cause

the wing to droop. The leg may be—

come useless when the nerve of the

leg is attacked by the range paralysis.



Fortunately, the common methods

of raising and feeding poultry seem

to give them__suflicient vigor to fight

and avoid many kinds of disease. A

poultry farm is a “chicken village,”

and sanitary precautions and careful

feeding methods keep most of the in-

mates in a fair state of health in the

same manner that the health officer,

backed by the/law, keeps the people

in a town in a fair state of health

and contentment.



_ Value of Carrots.



Experiments at the California Sta?

tlon haVe proven that carrots are equal

to other forms of green feed as a

means of supplying vitamins to poul»

try. They also’found that white tur-

nips and the mangels with white flesh

had little value. as a substitute for





{green feed. The writer has fedfiquite

ma. few carrots to hens, and believes _,

. {that they help in- producing rich yeig y' ,

Eggs of the , ” ‘





 





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"I get four times as much wear out of

Mishko shoes as I ever got out of any

other shoes I ever wore," says Francis P.

Chaifee, milk wagon driver for Bryant 85‘

Chapman DairyCo., Hartford ,Connecticut.



“They are the first shoes lever wore that

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“I am harder on footwear,” says G. L

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farm was bigger, because truck farming

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I’ve found Ball- Band rubber footwear

equal to anything.



“I get two years wear out of a pair of

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“ change the underwear often ”





IT IS a scientific fact that the

oftener underwear is changed,

especially in winter, the better

chance a person has of avoiding

colds and sickness.





The reason for changing un—

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say, is because clean underwear

is highly absorbent. It takes up

body moisture. It keeps the skin

warm and dry. It prevents sud~

den chilling.





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THE effect of the new French tariff

, law is now being ,studied.~by the

United States Tariff Commission. It

is indicated in Washington official cir-

cles that President Coolidge may find

it necessary to" place an embargo

against French exports to the United

States, which amount to upwards of

$100,000,000 annually. American man-

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MAY Boosr 1923 ONION PRICES.





HE United States Tariif Commis-



sion is planning to complete its

investigations covering the production

costs of onions in this country and

abroad, and submit a report to the

President some time next February.

This may not help producers in dispos-

ing of the 1927 onion crop, but if the

tariff is increased fifty per cent as a.

result of this investigation, it should

be of considerable help to the.onion

growers in marketing their next year’s

crop.





 





 





VEGETABLE. PRODUCTION JUMPS.





HE heavy drop in prices of vege-



tables is largely due to the vast

increase in vegetable production over

demand in recent years. The depart-

ment of agriculture market specialists

say that production of vegetables has

been increasing from three to four

times as fast as the growth of popu-

lation. This is particularly evident in

statistics of carload-lot shipments of

vegetables which increased from 345,-

572 in 1920, to 494,691 in 1924.” Let-

tuce is an extreme case, with a. five-

year increase for the same period from

13,788 carloads to 41,960 carloads. Cal-

ifornia alone shipped about twice as

many cars in 1926 as were shipped in

the entire country in 1920.





 





WOOL CONSUMPTION INCREASES.-





HE announcement that the con-

sumption of wool is increasing will

be encouraging news to the wool pro-

ducers. The total amount of wool con-

sumed by manufacturers in the United

States in August, according to the de-

partment of commerce, was 46,503,784

pounds, as compared with 39,832,925

pounds for July, and 40,858,854 pounds

during August, 1926. _

Reports coming from England say

that prices of English wool on the

Bradford market are too high for the

local trade, and the tendency is

against the buyer. ‘ .

Plans for the collection of interna-

tional wool statistics have been unani-





wool trade, at conferences between

members of the trade, and George T.

Willingmyre, wool standardization ex-

pert of' the departinentof agriculture;

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NeWs of the’Week.





The Jugoslavs have sent an ulti_~

matum to Bulgaria on account of. the

assassination of General'Kovachevitch.

Martial law has been declared in the

districts next to. Bulgaria.





The five-state coal strike, involving-

Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Okla<

home, and Texas, was ended by an:

agreement by the" workers and mine

operators. _



The main bodies of the north and

south armies in China are within 150

miles of Pekin, with the Nationalists

endeavoring to capture the city.





Mrs. M. B. McPherson has been ap«

pointed supervisor of Vergennes towns

ship, Kent county, to succeed her hus-

band, who recently Was appointed as

a. member of the state tax commission

by Governor Green. She is the first

woman supervisor on the Kent county

board. » ‘



France has decided to renew‘ her

provisional war debt agreements with

the United States and Great Britain,

instead of endeavoring to open new

negotiations.





Sir John Bland-Sutton, famous Eng-

lish surgeon, says that birth control

is gaining in England because of the

disastrous unemployment situation.



President Coolidge will defy the tra—

ditional objections to a President leav-

ing this country during his term, when





 





 





he goes to Cuba. for the Pan-American '





Congress at Havana.



The United States will open its first

international air mail route October

19, from Key West, Florida, to Cuba.



School boys found 122 pounds of dy—

namite in the part of the Bath, Mich.





igan, school building which was not,





blown down last spring.





The joint Canadian-American water—

way »engineering board disclosed that

it would take seven years to complete

the project after the work had actu«

ally been started.





President Green, of the American

Federation of Labor, said at the an-

nual convention at Los Angeles last

week, that unions are beginning an

era of cooperation with industry, in«

stead of centering upon strikes and

strife. - - '



The Junker plane D-1230, which start‘

ed from Berlin to fly to New York,

crashed in the ocean off Cape Roca.

north of Lisbon.

pilot, and Lilli Dillenz, a German

actress, was the passenger. Theywere

rescued.





The value of the automobile exports

from this country has increased one-

fourthlforthe first eight months this

year ascompared with last year.





Revolt is reported in ten Mexican

states, and President Calles is using

drastic measures to 'subdue it. Gen-

eral Serrano and thirteen of his back—

ers were executed and their bodies

exhibited as a warning. The execution;

of General Gomez, a rebel leader, is

also reported. .





Leigh J. Young, director of conser<

.vation in this state, has resigned to

return as professor of forestry at the

University of Michigan.



Mrs. Caren Hartwick, of Ann Arbor,

has donated to the state a tract of

8,236 acres of wooded land .near Gray-

mg.

acres of virgin white pine. the only

acreage left in the Loiver Peninsula.



Eight thousand carpenters are on





strike in Toronto, Canada, to obtain ’ i

‘ control of the ‘union. ' ,«





‘Ten‘men‘ have beenpicked as oili;





cial drinkers by the dry forces in New.

York - to get liquor ' evidence. _.





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MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE REACHES

MICHIGAN.





 





HE 01d nursery song, “Ladybug,



ladybug fly away home,” will have

the approval of Michigan farmers as

they become better acquainted with

the latest member of the ladybug fam-

ily that has found a home in this state.

The Mexican bean beetle, one of the

two black sheep in the ladybug family,





'has been found in Monroe, Oakland,





and Macomb counties.



The first specimen found in Michi-

gan was identified by R. H., Pettit,

professor of entomology at Michigan

State College, and later by a member





: of the entomology section in the Unit-





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ed States Department of Agriculture.

Following the identification, scouts

found the beetles in the three counties

mentioned.



The infestation is not at all severe,

and no commercial damage to Michi-

gan's bean crop is to be expected in

the near future. It is hoped that cli-

matic conditions in Michigan will not

permit the rapid spread of the pest.



The Mexican bean beetle resembles

the ordinary. ladybug in size and





shape, but this beetle is a dead grass.





color and the wing covers are decor-

ated with round black dots. The dots

may vary in number, but usually there

are sixteen or seventeen dots on the

two wing covers.



The beetle winters over as an adult

in the ground or under trash, and lays

its eggs on bean plants the next

spring. The larvae of the insect bear

some resemblance to the larvae of the

Colorado potato beetle. Most of the

damage is done by the larvae, which

eat the fleshy portions of the plants





and leave a skeleton of the ribs and





veins of the leaves.





 





INCREASED NUMBER OF POTATO

SEED GROWERS.





 





HE number of farmers in Mich-



igan devoting their attention to

the production of certified potato seed,

is on the increase. According to the

report from the college, the potato

fields of 345 farmers have been in-

spected this year, as compared to 325

such farms ,a year ago. _The produc-

tion of seed from this large number

of farms is not likely to exceed that

from the smaller number last year,

due to the less favorable crop condi-

tions.





 





Four fields of corn and two of beans

raised by club boys in Eaton county

in their club work, were so excellent

that they will be used as sources of

seed for next year.





 





NEED BETTER POTATO SEED.





 





IELD meetings held in Tuscola



county showed that the potato

growers there would have to use a

better grade of seed, and more thor-

ough spraying methods before they

can expect to compete with northern

growers of certified seed potatoes.

Leaf hopper injury was very prevalent

.and the knowledge of proper spray





practices to control the insects were.





not understood by many farmers. Two





' machine sprayers were purchased by





 

 





farmers after the series of meetings.





 

 





DEALERS CONFER ON FERTILIZER

PROGRAM.





WENTY-TWO dealers and repre-'





sentatives of fertilizer companies





'- attended the meeting in Macomb coun-

" ity at which an attempt was made to

{agree upon grades and analyses of fer-

,tilizers that would return Macomb

scanty flamers the largest profit from





 





   





their use. The dealers believe that the

day is past for selling any” fertilizer





- that happens to be in stock,'to a farm-





er, regardless of whether the available

analysis is suitable or not. The new:

attitude will result in a wider use of

commercial fertilizers and a minimum

of unprofitable applications.





 





IT GROWS AND GROWS.





 





HE Top 0’ Michigan Potato and



Apple Show, which, as usual, will

be held at Gaylord, November 2 to 4,

is attaining large proportions each sea-

son. In 1922, when the show started,

a half dozen tables held the displays

of inferior potato stock. Last year

there were 350 entries of the finest

potatoes and apples. This year the

outlook demands, for the first time,

that a superintendent preside over

each department. Mr. A. C. Lytle, the

efficient secretary, who is very opti-

mistlc over the response this year, pre-

dicts former attendance and entry rec-

ords will be broken if weather condi-

tions are normal. '



This is an outstanding example of

what a good show can do for an in-

dustry. Five years ago the farmers of

the eight tip counties of Michigan had

no common ideas on what a good po-

tato should be. Now, after four suc-

cessful shows, it will be difficult to find

in the country a group of/potato grow-

ers distributed over eight counties,

who have so thoroughly standardized

their potato ideals on so high a level

as have the farmers of this territory.

It has been largely through the agency

of this show that this imprbvement

has been brought to pass.



Eight counties contribute to the

show. They are: Emmet, Cheboygan,

Presque Isle, Charlevoix, Antrim, Ot-

sego, Montmoregicy, and Alpena. .Oth-

er contributing agencies are. the State

Department of Agriculture, the Mich

igan State College, and the Michigan

Central Railroad. The premium list

this year will be over $1,300.





 





Preliminary comparison of the test

plots of fertilizers used on sugar beets

in Tuscola county indicate that nitrate

fertilizers are a source of profit on

this type of soil.





through Saginaw county enabled twen-





1 iXfifBI-TS shoWn on the home can

1 “venience truck“ . as. it . passed





ty—one furthers to increase the attrac-





'tivenféss of their homes, or to install,





conveniences that lightened household

tasks; The improvements installed in-

cluded spetic tanks, \water systems,

and the rearrangements of kitchen

equipment. County Agricultural Agent

A. B. Love expects that further im-

provements will follow the visit of the

truck.





 





ARRANGE SEED CORN DRIER FOR

FARMERS.





 





ACILITIES for preparing born for



' use as seed next spring, are al-



ready in operation in Saginaw county.



- The county‘agricultural agent has as-

sisted in the building 'of an up—to—date



seed corn drier that has a capacity of



3,000 ears every twenty-four hours.





   





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The annual grange ‘mlly “and farni- -





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‘3de Of 1,500 people};~ , . ~ .





 





. 'Fifty:thrf rural women spent the " L

entire wee

encampment in Washtena'w , »county.:





at their annual summer





The youngest person at the camp was

twenty years'old and a mere y0ung-

ster oi: eighty summers took the hon-

ers for seniority. '





O. I. Gregg, specialist in landscape

gardening, completed the demonstra-

tion plantings at the Lovejoy school

in Ingham county. ' ‘





While the weather conditions have}

been very bad, the fields of Hardigan

alfalfa in Bay county are. expected to





produce a fair yield of seed. ' I





 





 





REMOVING euckHoBN FROM

CLOVERSEED.‘





 





What kind of material is used to re-



émovebuckhorn from clov‘erseed?——— C.

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The most effective way of removing

buckhorn from cloverseed is at a seed

elevator equipped with buckhorn clean-

ing machinery.



[t is possible to remove buckhorn

from small lots of seed by mixing the

seed with wet sawdust. The mucil-

aginous coat of buckhorn 'Would adhere

to a, greater extent than the clover-

seed coats. When the seed and saw-

dust mixture is run through a fanning

mill with scalping screens, nearly all

of the buckhorn will be removed, but

also a considerable amount of good

cloverseed.



A fair separation can also be secur-

ed with salt solution, pouring the buck-

horn and cloverseed mixture into a

twenty per cent solution and adding

salt‘ or water to the point where the

cloverseed sinks. and the buckhorn

floats. The buckhorn can then be

skimmed off. There is not a wide

range between the specific gravities of





 





 





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BALING STRAW DIRECT FROM

THRESHER.





 





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NE of the newest ideas for saving



labor costs and speeding up thresh-

ing operations is a new straw baling

device which takes the straw direct

from the separator and bales it ready

for storage or market, requiring only

one man to tie and pile the bales.





The blower is romoved when the

baler is used, the straw being carried

to it by an extension shaker. ”The

baler is driven by a belt operated from

the same pulley that would operate

the blower if it were used. The pres-

ent machines are made for use with

the smaller sizes of separators.





Years ago straw could hardly be

sold at any price, but with its more

extensive use for bedding, poultry

house litter, packing for dishes and

crockery,- strawboard and paper, insu‘

lating board, and so on, straw has

rapidly increased in price until now

it is sometimes worth more than hay.

Besides this, many farmers claim that

they can [handle and store baled straw

enough cheaper than when loose that

they easily save the small baling cost.

Also, by baling direct from the thresh-

er there is no loss from deterioration

through rainy weather.





MILK HOUSE DRA'IN'CHOKES UP.





 





We are having trouble with the

drain from'our milk house. This is

a threebarrel arrangement and gets

plugged up quite frequently. Would

you recommend the septic tank for

such a” drain, or have you some other

plan for taking care of a milk house

drain?——I. D.



In general, the use of a septic tank

will take care nicely of wastes ,from





washing milk bottles, utensils, tanks,

‘ floors and so on. I





The tank should be

of fairly good size, but built in, the

same manner as recommended for

household use. In fact, thesame tank

can be used for both if of good size.

The sludge formed has a tendency to

get rather solid, and it may be neCes~'

'sary to remove some sludge every

year or so. Apparently a reasonable





use of washing powders does not 595,. -





iously interfere With the action of the





milk, .Whey, or'l’buttermilk‘w‘ill "so i'u’





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of once a week to shop. During the week of

October 24th, it is expected that this num-

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be Farm Home Week in all our many

Stores. It will be the BIG WEEK of the

year for hundreds of thousands of our friends

in the country.



It will be theweek when the farmer and

the members of his household will renew

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Dresses in the latest styles,

most-wanted materials and





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ho‘me needs at prices made possible only by

our extensive co-operative buying resources.





This is our suggestion: Take advantage of

the good roads while they are good and visit

our Store nearest you during Farm Home

Week. Come prepared to take time to look

around the Store, inspect our goods, make

comparisons of quality and price, and then,

if you are pleased, make such selections as

you and your family think advisable. It



will be a pleasure

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when you call.





 





Millinery $1.98 and up.





Men’s Worsted Suits

in medium and fancy dark

stripes; three button semi-

conservative

model. Sizes 36-46 $19.75





ExtraTrousersto match $4.98





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Keeping ahead





of the wood—box





(C HEN is it most convenient to



cut wood?” Never, you may say.

But you are thinking of the days of the

old bucksaw, when the wood-box always

seemed empty. On the electrified farm a

motor belted to a saw cuts the winter’s

supply of wood in a few hours.





The same motor can be used for grinding

feed and hoisting hay. Other motors run

the milking machines, the cooler, and

the water pump, and yet the cost is but

a few dollars a month.





“Back-work” disappears when electric

power comes to the farm.





If you are on an electric line or hope to

be soon, ask your electric power company

for a copy of the G-E Farm Book which

explains many uses for electricity on the





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article on Time? If not, I sug-



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of the most interesting subjects in the

world. ‘Time is both just and relent-

less.

son, each have just as much time 38

Calvin Coolidge or Henry Ford. To

say “we haven't time” for this or that

may or may not be true. One of the

great secrets of a successful life is to

learn “to put first things first,” and

make time our servant and partner,





rather than our master.





It is surprising how fast seven days

roll around.

trip to‘ the editor, and in an unbeliev-

ably short time another installment is

due. The day for sending in my copy

for this column rolls heartlessly on.

whether anything of importance has

happened here at Ingleside or not, and

regardless of whether or not I have

seen or thought of anything of interest

to pass on to you



Belated rains that are as slow in

stopping as they were in starting, have

recently been upon us. For a week or

so there was almost no field work done

in our community. Yesterday it re-

frained from raining during the day-

light hours, and I made good use of

this welcome day of decent weather.

Up at four-thirty, I was in the field

and at work at a. quarter to seven, and

stayed there until ten minutes to sev-

en at night, with only forty-five min-





 





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5 for me and for my four-horse team.



, Theoretically, I don’t believe in such

“long hours under any condition, but

possibly there are circumstances that

make them excusable. A farmer who

labored in the field from sunup ’til

sundowu, and did chores by lantern

light before breakfast and after sup-

per, and kept it up day after day,

would be a poor citizen of his com-

munity, and a liability rather than an

asset to agriculture and rural life.



Rainy-day Jobs.



5 There’s no rest for the wicked, in-

1cluding the boss and the hired man,

here at Inb leside, even though it rains

by the week. I never knew of such a





we completed all the jobs that we

could do in spite of the rain or snow

or drought, or whatever “it was that

was keeping us from the more import-

ant farm operations. Furthermore, I

never knew a spell of good weather to

come and find us so well set for the

work "at hand that we didn’t'have to

take some time in a day or so to do

something that we might just as well

have done before, no matter what the

weather.



I have a growing conviction that the

right use of days when the weather is

unfavorable is one of the most import-

ant steps that can be taken toward

the solution of the farm labor problem.



One of the recent rainy days we

tackled a job that has been hanging

over us for some time.

where we keep our horses was built

probably thirty-five years ago. It con-

tains wonderful hardwood "timber,

planks and boards, but time and usage

bring the need of repairs to even the

most substantial of construction.





mangers were the worse for wear.

Gnawing teeth of horses and mice had

brought about costly leaks.





a row of grain boxes that were in the

condition of those here at Ingleside

can sympathise “with our difficulties.

Some had to have new bottoms, others

new sides, and still others required a

moulding in the corners. When the

Job was done there was no little satis~





. factiox‘i in throwing in a measlur‘e of}

grain and knowtng/ that no portion off:





 





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long spell of undesirable weather that





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For'

instance, the grain boxes in the horhe‘





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it was trimming down a ’crack‘ .or





mouse hol ' Stopping the leaks, big

and little, is one form of “Farm

Relief.” ~ ~~'-'





’ ~ So‘ms Interesting Arithmetic.



While fixing these boxes I fell to

wondering how many meals had been

served in them. 'f‘hey have been in

almost constant use since the barn

was built, and usually our horses'are

grained three. times a day. ‘ Three

times 365 would be 1,095 feeds a year.

Let us be conservative and say a thou

sand feeds of grain paSS through one

of those boxes per year. For thirty-

five years that would total 35, 000 feeds

of grain per box.



Now, our usual feed of grain is four

quarts of oats. At this rate one bush-

el of oats would make eight feeds of

grain for one horse. But again let us

be conservative. Suppose each bushel

of cats were stretched out to make ten

feed Then, to find the number of

bushels of grain that had passed

through each grain box in the last

thirty—five years, we would divide the

35,000 feeds by the ten feeds per bush-

el. This would give us the staggering

result of13,500 bushels of cats that

have gone in and out of each of these

grain boxes.





Figuring one hundred bushels to the

load, it would take a fleet or caravan

of thirty-five wagons or trucks to haul

at one time the quantity of cats that

has passed through each one of these

little grain boxes. Again we see what

an interesting thing Time is, and how

silently persistent and relentless it is.



So much for statistics. It is said

that figures can’t lie, but that liars

can figure. A little diversion with the

lead pencil is all right now and then,





but it is a habit in which one should '





indulge with moderation.





Conquering a Swamp.



Two forenoons when it was not so-

tually raining,

ordinary field operations, We hauled

sand from a nearby hill into a swarm

hole that we have plowed this sum-

mer for the first time. We have spent

an unbelievable amount of time on this

little spot, cutting the swamp grass

and-bushes with a brush hook, gather-

ln‘g roots, stumps and all sorts of

debris and burning them, plowing (flee

ing, e.tc The plowing was Certainly a.

tedious job. A walking plow was used.

Every few feet it would be necessary

to stop and remove the accumulated

roots and sods. Besides many smaller

things, two large logs, one eighteen

feet in length, were removed in the

course of the plowing.





But I started out to tell how we



hauled sand into this hole.

a two~wheel dump scraper—«a relic'of

the memorable year that father and

two neighbors took the contract and

built five and a. half miles of Covert

Act road ‘by Ingleside. These scrapers

move a lot of dirt, but are hard On

man and beast.

We were anxious to subdue this

swamp, not that we wanted more

acres to farm, but because itwas out

in the middle of the field and was a.

nuisance, no matter whether we were

working nOrth and south or east and

west. A field having a spot which

must be dodged with every tool is far

more difficult and unpleasant to farm

than one Of the same size in width

you can go straight through i from

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FALL canogu-Remm‘oaas. ‘





 





F parsnip roots are allowed to dig:



out, they soon shrivel and are of

little value Storing them“ in moist

sand in a cool cellar, helps to keep

them in conditioa. The flavor is im-

proved if they are frozen before being

lifted.





The parsnip is a valuable vegetable





for spring use when other root crops

are gone, or poor in quality. So leave

a part of the parsnips in‘the garden

rows to be dug next spring when the

ground starts to thaw. Mark the re-

maining rows with stakes and they

a1e easier to locate the following

spring.



Garden crops, such as lettuce, peas,

radishes and spinach, can be planted

in the fall, and with good luck this

may produce vegetables for the home

table two weeks earlier than usual

next spring. The seed must not be

planted until along in November when

the ground is cold enough to prevent

sprouting. If the seed are planted too

early, sunshine'and warm rains may

cause them to sprout and the early

spring garden will not appear.





" Rhubarb roots can be lifted after

a freeze and placed in the cellar in a

bushel basket full of earth. If the cel-

lar is above freezing and the basket

is watered enough to keep the ‘soil

moist, the stalks will grow and pro-

duce an appetizing sauce. In the

spring the same roots can be trans-

planted back into the garden.





Many farmers live in sections where

almost everybody has a garden in the

summer, and the market for truck is

limited. But often the vegetables from

an early garden in the spring, as well

as the late crops in the fall, have so

little competition that the local mar-

ket will take them at a profitable

price. It takes considerable care and

planning to produce crops out of their

normal season.





Don’t watch the young fruit trees

all winter to see if the mice and rab-

bits are going to injure them. Some

day there will be a heavy snow storm

and you will pass up the orchard in-

spection for a. few days. Then the

mice and rabbits will girdle the trees,

and that’s the end of the young or-

chard. Better protect the trees now

with cylinders of fine mesh hardware

cloth. Work them an inch into the

ground so they will not blow against

the tree and scratch the bark.





Barnyard manure often adds a great

collection of weed seed to the garden

soil. This can be prevented by spread-

ing manure from the poultry house

dropping boards over the garden soil.

Occasionally clean wheat straw can be

added to the garden soil to increase

the humus. The straw litter from a

poultry house floor is usually quite

free from weed seed, due to the for-

aging of the hens, and such litter

makes a useful fertilizer for the gar-

den.





Winter squash will keep the best if

they are removed from the vines with

short stems. This should be done be-

fore the arrival of severe frosts and

freezes.





degrees, they will keep better than in

cool, moist cellars, which are conducive

to the molding of the sq'uashes.





scunds very nice in the poem, but 'We

have found that pumpkins keep better

when they are stored before being nip-

ped, by hard fnosts, or partially frozen.

They will last a long nine-1'11 a. dry





air that is from fifty to sixty degrees,

‘ but often go down rapidly in a cool 3"





damp HpumPKinsa‘rotobe





i _, stoned for winter use, it is best to

.harvesg them with the Stems attached. ‘





before die vines are iriued by frost. _





 





If they are stored on racks

where the temperature is above fifty‘





When the asparagus topsihavs been





burned. Then theyiare not in- the way

to hinder the growth or the crop in

the spring, and the burning dostroys

rust spores, and also the seed, thus





helping to keep seedling plant‘s out.





of the puma—.11. G. Kirby.





 





How To. ROOT ounces. _.





 





Please tell me how to rpo%spifi.ea ~





and bridal wreath. “Mrs.



Spiraea or bridal wreath may be

propagated .by hardwood cuttings in-

serted in a mixture of two-thirds sand

and one- third soil. They strike root

better under glass where a slight bot

tom heat can be given. The soil

should not be kept too wet or the cut-

tings will decay. The bushes can also

be propagated by. dividing them so

that the mass of roots is cut into a





number of pieces with stems attached. _.





——H L. R. Chapman.





 





LOOSE BARK.





 





Please tell me what causes the bark"





around the base of the tree to come

Siege Cand what shall I do for it?~—«

\c





The loosening of the bark on your

trees near the ground may be due to

several causes but most likely the





trouble was caused by winter injury:





to' the crown of the tree.



Perhaps the soil is moist and the?

cold weather caused

cambium layer. which caused the loos-

ening of the bark. The only thing we

can suggest is that you take off all

the bark that is loose. If it has com-

pletely girdled the trees, you might

bridge graft to save the trees if they

are valuable ones. After you have

taken off all of the loose and dead

bark and cleaned the wounds thor-

oughly, paint the wounds with pure

white lead and oil.





jury to the trees.





A TERRACE AROUND THE House—s;





 





I Wish to terrace around my house,





but do not understand how to hold the

bank in place until the sod is placed

Which is the best way to sod? Can I

turn the sod upside down and plant

seed on it?—-—J. S.





It is best not to make a terrace

about a home, especially a farm home,

unless it is absolutely necessary, for

there are but few types of house

architecture that look especially well

with a terrace.





If this is necessary, however, due to

the contour-of the land, then bring it

out almost on a level so that it will

not wash, then slant it at an angle of





about thirty ’to forty-five degrees. If 1





only one is necessary, it is often bet‘

ter, instead of making abrupt drops,

to make a rounding curve at the point

of terrace, with a reverse curve at the

bottom of terrace that will join the

edge of a driveway or roadway. In.

this instance it would be better to

have a gradual slope from within ten

feet of the-house, rather than have so

abrupt a drop making a bank. How-

ever. the gradual slope generally

means much more labor and expense.

With either the terrace or the bank

it/is far better to sod the abrupt slope,





even though his sod does not seem to 'i





be very‘good, using at least a foot of





~. yery'good top dirt beneath tli’e sod in

“When the frost ison the pumpkin,"





order to insure its rapid growth, and

so that it will! not be as apt to dry





out during drouth such as is prevalent .





this year.





If the sea now present 111.1101 very

good, and it is necessary to bring in





outside sod, or to seed the slope, turn-





over the and now and put manure be:





nests. which 11111 make a; 3;me ,

.seed. M’ :‘8 m0. g 1

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killed by. mast-1w should be cut £1111





injury to the





Do not use 01'“,

dinary paint as that might cause in.
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about 24 inches in diameter. The local

blacksmith put a four-foot axle in one





 





_ eight inches in diameter and nineteen





“ along each side under the ends of the





drinking glass.





'back or their heads (according to





of the rooms instantly;





"and will give Mexico world communi-1





‘ a man operates in the station of WJZ.





made by getting four iron wheels





pair of wheels and a six-foot axle in .

the other. Two white ash trees about

fliet long were placed backs upand

the small ends about four and one-

half .feet apart, while « the, butt

ends were cut to fit together in a

nice thin V-joint. Bolts held them to-

gether. A one~inch'- hole for kingbolt

was'bored about six inches? back from

thin end of V. A kingbolt long enough

to go through axle and this hole holds

V-joint under front exle where it is

secured by .a large washer and nut.

This completed the front end. The

long axle was laid across the wide

end of the timbers and the timbers

were hung under it with half-inch U-

bolts. Good one inch boards 8 feet

long were nailed across the bed tim-

bers. ’

Now you have a wagon that will

carry one or two tons of hay, grain

bundles, or anything else. A 14—year

old boy can load it as easy as a man

can a high wagon. There are a great

many worn out manure spreaders with

good wheels and axles that can be

made into this kind of a wagon at

very‘ little expense. A two by four





CI‘OSS boards to keep them from spring-

ing or breaking when a man steps on

the end with a'heavy load is advisable.

We hope other readers will send in

any suggestions they may have for

laborsaving equipment—G. B.





RADIO BRIEFS.





‘WO simple methods for determin—



ing battery or power supply poliar—

ity, the difference between rpositive

and negative poles, are recommended

by radio engineers. These tests are

designated as the Irish potato test and

the salt water test .



For the Irish potato test, slice an

ordinary Irish potato in half and in—

sert two bare wires about half an inch

into the raw potato about an inch

apart. The negative wire will dis-

color the potato but the positive wire

will not.





For the salt water test, make a sat-

urated solution of salt water in a

Insert in the fluid the

bare ends of the two wires about an

inch apart. The current flowing be-

tween the -two wires will set up an

action known as electrolysis and hub-

bles will rise from the negative wire.





 





Some teachers have eyes in the

their pupils) but down at the Central

Junior High School in Marion, Ohio,

the principal has a voice in every

room in the school simultaneously.

Through a specially devised micro-

phone he can communicate with any





 





TWO powerful radio broadcasting

stations have been completed at Cha-

pultepec, Mexico, by the government





cation.





 





VA radio tube large. encugh to hold





It weighs one hundred pounds, is

seven and one- -half feet high and has

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EVERY RADIO salesman,” a

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the best. I want the best, but can-

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am inclined to buy an Atwater

nK'ent on its reputation. Can you





give me any facts to prove it is

the best?”





To this friend and the many

other rural families who are ready

to invest in radio, let us say just

this: -



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as of any farm or household im-

plement, is the way it works and the

way it stands up under continued

use. So the method of manufac-

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Every receiver has to pass 159

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so often hear: “Atwater Kent Ra-

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Tone 15 another test. Upon clear,

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J. S. Caldwell, Vinton. Iowa. let the hogs follow

the plow to clean up the grub worms in a well-

fenced lO-acre clover pasture when he broke it

up for corn. His crop ran 60 bushels to the acre

at $1 .10, a total of $660.00. On his other ten his

fence was poor. Grubs got all but 150 bushels—

a total loss of 45 bushels per acre thatco



have been saved with a hog—tight fence. "You

can borrow $1,000 at 7% , putit into fence and

make money". says Mr. Caldwell. We claim





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is the best investment any farmer can make. A

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rom experience, that hoggingOdown, astunng



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RED BRAND FENCE in from 1 to years.



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THE FIRST COMBINE.





 





HE. stery about the combined



harvester and thresher in the



September issue of the Michi-

gan Farmer was very interesting to

me, especially as the very first com-

bine in history was invented, built and

operated, in my own farm neighbor-

hood, near Climax, Michigan. I wrote

the first story about it a third of'a.

century ago, and it was published in

the Michigan Farmer at‘the time.



It hardly seems possible in these

days of wonderful inventions and ac-

complishments, that a combine was

built and operated in 1838; that it cut,

elevated, threshed, cleaned and sack-

ed, thirty acres of dead ripe wheat

that yielded almost thirty-seven bush-

els per acre; and that the job was ac-

complished in a. single day’s work.

That was eighty-nine years ago last

July.



We often hear the old saying,

“There’s nothing new'under the sun.”

But it was something new that Sun-

day in July, 1838, on the Hiram Moore

farm, one mile north of Climax and

ten miles southwest of Battle Creek.

Battle Creek had been in existence but

seven years, and Climax Corners was

but a cross road with a "Farmers’

Exchange” grocery and general store,

and a few houses.



Hiram Moore was a good farmer for

those days, and he was a better in-

ventor. He had a level farm of rich

and black prairie soil, and a. thirty-

acre field on the east side of the road

leading from the pioneer Methodist





 





Church to the Corners. He had a thick





 





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with the efficiency of a

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closed, ALLEN’S resem-

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period furniture. When

the doors swing open, you

have the cheer and rest-

fulness of the old-fash-

ioned fireside.





life to the furnace.

capacity with positive fuel economy.





 





Large double doors and oval firepot permit

the use of wood. All other fuels may be burned

With economy.



ALLEN’S heats the whole house with circulating, moist,





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M zcfizgan 7am yolk:

and heavy growth of-whitewheat that

was called the Diehl. The straw was

short and the grain had begun to shell

so badly that it could not be cradled

and bound by hand. .





A strange Sunday program was the

appearance of a great and clumsy ma.—

chine of wood and some cast iron, at

the edge of the field about the time

that the pioneer farmers and their

families were gathering at the'church

nearby. There -were twenty horses

hitched to the machine, and it cut a.

swath fifteen feet wide. Before sun-

'down the entire field of thirty acres

was cut, and 1,100 bushels of clean

wheat had been carried to the big log

granary. After the preacher had de-

livered a short sermon, the entire au-

dience started for the wheat field

nearby. Those pioneer Methodists fol-

lowed that first combine round the

field hour after hour and wondered

how the big machine held together

and "did everything under the sun that

everybody declared couldn’t be done,

nohow!" Hiram Moore was called a

wonderful man, and far ahead of the

times by some. Others said he was

in league with the devil, and breaking

the Sabbath, besides.





Hiram Moore invented the first com-

bine, and it cut, elevated and thresh-

ed, cleaned and put into sacks, almost

as much wheat in one day, abqut

ninety years ago, as the latest com-

bine does today. Moore had seven

different devices that he originated

and tested out repeatedly before this

big day’s work was started. He orig~

inated the finger guard, with ledger

plate and serrated sections to the

sickle, after trying out a dozen other

schemes to cut off the heads and gath-

er them onto the elevator apron. The

reel and grain divider, threshing cyl-

inder, screens and cleaning devices,

were all his invention.





Moore applied for a patent on the

combined machine, and Senator Lucius

Lyon, of Michigan territory, in Con-

gress at the time, was his attorney.

He should have applied for a patent

on ‘each separate device. Another in-

ventor secured the patents for the

same devices and Hiram Moore lost

out entirely. The Hiram Moore com-

bine was ’t‘aken apart, shipped to New

York, then by boat around Cape Horn,

and up the Pacific Coast to b‘an Fran-

cisco. It was set up there and be-

came the progenitor of the big har-

vesters of the Western country's—J. H.

Brown.





EARLY COMBINE EFFORTS.





 





' ,

R. WATERBUR‘Y’S' vivid descrip-

tion of the combine harvester and



thresher found on Michigan.farms is



very enlightening, and stimulates rec-

ollections of other days in 1893 when,

as a laborer, your correspondent work-

ed for an Oregon wheat ranch whose

neighbor, the Rutledge ranch, had a

28-horse-drawn combine. "

The cutting bar on_ the ‘Rutledge

combine was sixteen" feet 'long and





wide, run direct under the tbothed





and presser fed the cylinder, the can-





below. The grain was sewed in a

,sack at tail of' sieve and dropped to





than a' font, was dropped in bundles





wide, luggod,and heavy, made ‘bf wood





and-iris true .fiif'Ch wow- so tame, ’

assume-eight horses were in

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the table canvas was twenty inches.

cylinder and concave where a picker.

vas still ascending to carry thrashed ’

stuff to the separating rattles and lids "

.dles, with a fan blast. coming from

the ground, $110 straw never longer

from a set offingers operated by gmv-





ity,‘fl, the immune was very compa‘if

omit the, master wheel, gwhtcli‘ was





 

 





Weredr’gcoj “to "evade~ pa merit, o .

to waste" of grain id bporation.





 





On- another ranch we «looked over 3

an 'Australian harvester. This: ’was as ' ‘

small I'a'ffalr,’ pushed by two large





horse's. ‘ It: operated ’ on the principle





of’ the} oldmno clover stripper. The. ‘ A





gram being. beat out of the beads while





being. drawn through the long, narrow.

oombslots, “with ,9. fan to blow the ‘~





chad out. The grain Was carried on a

short" apron back to a . box holding

about teul~busheis, /with a door for a.

scoop.to be‘dlpped into bags by hand.





= It was modular-gov of wood, was not





heavy, and. out but the width of a

team._ about four, eight flaring a little

in front. It was not a success, but-.no

onewent bankrupt over it p .

One, Joseph Enright, of San Jose,

California, boasted of making a com-

bine a success away back in 1867. He

was a maker of engines and it sounds





like California first in everythingl—d -.





E. Richardson.





FARMER COMMENTS ON caoes

rauo Pmcss.





 





HE ideas and conclusions reached





by the writer were formed only.





after a.’ tour at over twelve hun-

dred miles of Michigan, Indiana and

Ohio. The greater part of this trip

was in Michigan, therefore, I believe

that something can be given here of

interest to our cash crop farmers,

those growing beans, potatoes and pos-

SIbly those growing. pork also.

Taking conditions from the Son to

the Indiana line as regards the potato

crop I will say this, in my opinion the

average for Michigan ,is below normal

and the yield per acre from the early

digging is very low and the farmer

estimate from those whom I have

talked with, regard the U. S. Depart-

ment of Agriculture's estimate as fully

fifty per cent too high. Those same

conditions prevail in our own potato

field and the writer believes that he

will receive at least two dollars per

bushel for. his. spuds and possibly

more before spring. So when the

smooth tongued potato buyer comes

around offering you seventy cents per

bushel for your potatoes, as is being,

done, just showr him the road.





The beancr’op average per acreis

DOnsiderably below normal this season

and the writer believes that the farm-

ers who can hold their crop until

spring will realize a price figured on

a six dollar per hundred basis. Many

farmers to whom I have. talked have

reported a yield of only two or three

bushels per acre and this on some of

the best soil in Michigan. One seo

tion had this strange story/To tell,

that their beans were planted,

grown and harvested Without ever re-

ceiving a drop of rain upon them. In

some, sections a. yield of twelve or fif«

teen bushels per acre will be had in-

stead of a. normal yield of twenty-or,

twenty-five bushels. Also in some sec-

.tions of the state some damage was

done by ‘the'frost and it hit the potav





toes and corn also.



The average corn is exceptionally

poor. in Michigan. Some fields had

very short and uneven corn. In

Southern Michigan the crop is much.

better yet the yield there will be be-

low normal. Taking these facts into





consideration we should receive a ’





better price for our hogs than that

predicted by the government men in

July and August. Corn will be higher

in price than usual, there will be only

a fewcull beans available, and the

rye crop was only about normal

throughout‘the state. So all in all

good pigs should bring hog prices. ,

The clover seed crop seems to be

above ‘normal this year and it now

looks as if the price would be a little

below normal, but still wet weather

may damage it considerably before it

is hulled.

I should not be in any hurry to part

with it, not at prevailing prices any-

,way.‘—S. Hage'rrhan, Montcalm Co.





 





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TO TELL FARMERS OF SOIL.





 





WELVE years of experimentation



has given the Michigan State Col

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of Michigan soils. This knowledge will

be given to the farmers during the

coming winter months. A tour has

already bee-n announced, which will





start in Alcona county in November, '





and will end in Newaygo county in

March. The schedule is as follows:

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Dec. 2; Branch, Dec. 5 to 9; Allegan,

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Ingham, Jan. 26; Kalamazoo, Jan. 9

'to 13; Saginaw, Jan. 16 to 21; Macomb,

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‘ LAYING RECORD BROKEN.





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HEN, named Babe Ruth, belong-

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Neb., and entered in the American

Egg-laying Association contest, laid her

15lst egg recently in as many consec-

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The, previous record Was 149 :eggs,





 





DAIRY SHOW D‘ATE CHANGED.





 





HE Reed City Dair’y Show, which

was scheduled to start September





28, did not open until October 12, as _





all the cows entered in the show had

to be tested for TB. The show was

for_ the benefit of the dairymen around

Reed City, but any dairyman could

enter. -





 





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entirely realized. A few years earlier,

a similar trial gavea nine‘bushel-per-

acre advantage to fall plowing over

discing. _

drier.



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thefarmer’s worst insect enemy.

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profitable, which also make the going

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Silage makes cheaper milk and more

economical gains on live stock.

Shredding or grinding stalks makes

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pr cutting adds a little to~the ton-

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HAB, the king, had a neighbor

A named Naboth. Naboth owned



a bit of vineyard, which had

. been in the family for generations.

Maybe a hardy ancestor wrested it

from the Philistines, at the time of

the invasion of J0shua. The king

wanted that bit of vineyard, because

it would just top off the palace yard.

The royal grounds were not quite com-

plete Without the addition of that five

acres, or whatever it was. But, of

course, Naboth would not sell. That

would be almost sacrilege. Had not

the land belonged to his father? Had

it not been given by the Lord? To

part with it for money would be like

selling one’s son. It was not to be

thought of. But the king could not

sleep. He was five acres short, and. it

made him miserable. Poor little man,

he was in hard shape, and was in a.

fair way to nervous prostration.





But Ahab had a wife~whose con—

science was not the biggest part of

her. She arranged a plot to get Na-



. _both. Certain po-

lite. liars were to

swear that they

had heard Naboth

speak against God

and the king.

Whereupon t h e y

carried him out

and stoned him to

, .W- death. The whole

family was involved in the ruin, and

probably the sons were stoned with

the father. Their remains were eaten

by the pariah dogs that infest eastern

cities. It was all over. The owner,

who was in the way of the royal pleas.

ure, had been neatly gotten out of the

way, and all that remained was for

his majesty to ride out and take‘pos-

session.





 





All that remained? No. There is

a lot more to it. The story is only

beginning, as a matter of fact. The

next morning, bright and early, the

king, with his mounted body guard,

goes to take formal pessession of his

newly acquired land. He must have

felt good over it. Only three or four

murders as the price, together with a

few lies. But as he nears the place,

he sees a figure that troubles him.

Looking ahead, he sees the clear out-

line of a man, straight and vigorous,

though not young. The king begins

to imagine things. Coming nearer his

worst suspicions are confirmed. It is

the man who has spoiled his fun for

these years. It is Elijah. Where he

had come from they could not guess.

Few and short are his words. “‘Hast

thou killed and taken possession?

Thus saith the Lord, in the place

where dogs licked the blood of Na-

both shall dogs lick thy blood, even

thine.” Such words must have fallen“

like thunderbolts on the royallcom—

pany. And they were never’forgotten.

They were repeated in whispers from





Activitzk’r of A! flcreré—Looé





N aboth’ s! Vlneyard J





Our W eat/y Sermon—3}! N. A. Me Came





mouth to mouth among the people,

once they had leaked. out. ‘



Three years pass, and the first part

of the curse falls. If you would get

the dramatic story, read Chapter 22 of

First Kings. TWO kings, Ahab and the

king of Judah, go out to battle with

Syria. The enemy had Ahab’s number.

They were out to get him. “Fight

neither with small or great,” was the

Syrian king’s order, “save only with

the king of Israel.” And by nightfall

he had gone to talk things over with

Naboth. That night the royal chariot

was washed, for it had flowed with

the king’s blood all‘day. “The by

standers remembered thatthe blood,

shed as it had been on the “distant

battle-field, streamed into the same

waters which had been polluted by the

blood of Naboth and his sons, and was

lapped up by the same dogs and swine,

still prowling around the spot; and

when the abandoned outcasts of the

city came, according to their shame-

less usage, for their morning bath in

the pool, they found it red with the

blood of the first apostate king of Is-

rael,” says Stanley.



This was, of course, only the first

part of the curse which was to fall on

the house of Ahab. Jezebel, the queen,

lived for a number of years afterward,

as proud and vengeful .as she had

been all her life. Then comes the new

king, Jehu, and Jezebel meets a death

bloody and horrible. Still more fol-

lowed.





It takes us back to the house of

Hapsburg, the ruling family of Aus-

tria-Hungary for several centuries.

When eighteen, the young emperor,

Francis Joseph, was called on to deal





Son of a countess, Karelyi, who pro” ‘

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fantile” is rather misleading, anyway,





tice of executing her son and others. 1, for it often numbers adults among its





She did a good job of cursing. and it

began to look as though what she said





victims, though the great majority Of

those stricken are children. Remem-





might have something to do with the/Mr, that the majority of the patients





tragedies that, one after. another, as

the years went by, overtook the house

of Hapsburg. The emperor’s wife was

assassinated. The crown prince com-

mitted suicide or was shot while hunt-1





_ing. Another member of the family





was burned to death in Paris. The

emperor’s brother, Maximilian, was

shot by a firing squad in Mexico.

His Wife lost her reason, and for thirty

years was in an asylum. A duke fell

from his horse and died. Another

duke resigned his title and was lost

at sea. King Ludwig, the emperor’s

cousin, committed suicide, and so _on

through- one death after another.

Then came the crowning blow of all,

the break—up of the empire which has'

been divided among the nations, and

what is left is suffering from the most

dire economic distress.



Ahab had a bad dose of covetous-

uses, which the Bible is so emphatic

in warning us against. “Thou shalt

not covet,” is one of. the command-

ments. “Get place and wealth, if pos-

sible with grace; if not, by any means

get wealth and place,” says Pope. And

here is another: “Old age brings this

vice—that we/are all more eager than

we should be about acquiring prop-

erty." ‘





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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON’FOR

OCTOBER 16.





 





 





SUBJECT:—Elijah in Naboth’s Vine-

I Kings 21-5 to 10, and 16





to 2 .

GOLDEN TEXT :——Numbers 32-23.





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NO VACCINE AGAINST INFANTILE

PARALYSIS.





 





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DREAD this infantile paralysis,

doctor. You have vaccine against

typhoid fever and diphtheria. Isn’t



there some protection of that kind you



can give my little ones to immunize

them against infantile paralysis?”





I am sorry that I must answer in the

negative. Perhaps it will come later

on, but, sofar, vaccines are impossi-

ble because the germ that is at the

bottom of the disease has not yielded

up its mysteries. All that you can do

is to watch your children and guard

them against the obvious danger of

mixing with promiscuous crowds at

times when the disease is epidemic,

and at all times keep them away from

sick people. Remember that grown

folks may be “carriers.” Never allow





Out For the Backfire, Slim ,





strangers to kiss and fondle your chil.

dren. This is a good rule on general

principles, though one that really

ought to be unnecessary. Let the chil-

dren go to school, but not visit around

at homes where there is illness.





Without being nervous about it, or

worrying the children, 'keep your eye

on them. Be on the lookout for in-

testinal and gastric trouble, either vom-

iting, diarrhea, or unusual constipa~

tion. Indications for keeping the child

in bed and sending for the doctor are:



1. Any elevation of temperature. 2.

Diarrhea or obstinate constipation. 3.

Nervous excitement of unusual charac-

ter. 4. Child dull, drowsy, apathetic.

5. Severe headache, especially if any

stiffness or rigidity of nape of neck.

6... Any sign of paralysis. 7. Even sore

throat and running nose should have

particular attention when infantile par-





get well. It is only in the very severe





cases thatrparaiysis becomes perma—





nont. and wonderful cures have been

made by proper treatment in appar-

ently hopeless cases.





 





CHILBLAINS.





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I am bothered with chilblains year

after year. I would like to know how

to protect myself against them—Sub-

scriber.





I’A chilblain means damaged and de-

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ing on there is much itching and burn-





 





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When coming‘into a warm room after

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tention to an attempt to build up the

body by special 'diet, the drinking of

milk, and addition of butter, cream and

fats in larger amounts, more hours of

sleep, and every measure possible to

build up the strength of the tissues.





TONIC FOR UNDER-WEIGHT BOY.





 





What would you recbmmend as a

tonic for an under-weight, thirteen-

year-old boy? Of course, I know that

he should have fresh air and good

food—Aunt Mary.





Plenty’of sleep in the fresh air,

watc'hfulnessihat his play is not ex-

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prone to overdo in this respect. Plenty

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rots, and apples are very good. No

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'Is HEART DISEASE INHERITED?

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Is heart disease likely to be inherit-

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rather badly?—-G. M. C





They will not inheirt, and it is not

even likely that they will acquire it,

for we are learning many things about

personal health in the present day that

will give the coming generation immu-

nity from many of the ancient ills.





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*for organization, which amount has

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expenses. and $1 membership fee as

capital’- stock. The function of; these





tion work, get the contracts sigood





, see that the contracts are lived up to,





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ties. and distribute to their members





. the net returns from grain sold. In





short, the provincial pools supply the

grain; the central sellingagency sells

and finances it.



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advantage the pools began two years

ago to acquire elevators. They will

have about 900 local elevators for

the handling of the 1927 crop. They

are, in conjunction with the central

pool, operating six terminal eleva-

tors at Pert Arthur and Fort William,

a transfer elevator of 2,000, 000 bushels

at Buffalo, and two terminal elevators

on the Pacific Coast, giving the Pool

a terminal elevator capacity exceeding

22,000,000 bushels.



With this brief review 0f the devel-

opment of the pools, the natural ques-

tion is, what have they done for their

members?



What the Farmers Received.



For the 1924 crop, members in

Alberta received not payment of $1.63

per bushel, basis No. 1 Northern ‘at

terminal, with adjustments for. lower

or higher grades, those in Manitoba,

$1.621/3, and in Saskatchewan $1.611/2.

For the 1925 crop, the net payment in

Alberta was $14215, in Manitoba, $1.43.

in Saskatchewan, $1.41. Final payment

has not yet been made for the 1926

crop, but to date $1.30 has been paid

for No. 1 Northern. The difference

in not received by the farmers in the

difierent provinces was due principally

to the variations in the amount de-

ducted for elevator and commercial

reserve, as the pools havenot always

deducted the full ‘amount allowed for

by the contract, and, to the varying

cost of operating the provincial pools.





These payments were made in'four

installments as the grain was sold.

The initial payment at time of deliv-

ery for all crop years has been $1.00

per bushel, basis of No. 1 'Northern

at the terminal, which means that

the farmer paid the freight and ele-

vator handling costs out of this pay-

ment. The first interim payment

was in \March; another in July, and

the final payment ianeptember. From

the final payment was deducted the

cost of operating the pools; two cents

per bushel for an elevator reserve with

which to build or buy elevators, and

not over one per cent cf the gross

sellingprice of the grain for a com-

mercial reserve which can be used for

any purpose, but which is used mainly

to finance the sterage of grain pend-

ing sale.



Freight averages about twelve to

thirteen cents per bushel in Manitoba,

and about seventeen cents in Alberta

and Saskatchewan. Elevator charges

are flat, two and one-half cents‘on car-

load wheat and five and six cents on

wagon-load wheat, except in Manitoba,





where it is two and one-half cents for‘

,all wheat handled through pool ele-





vators. Since these costs came out of

the initial payment a member with

carload wheat in Manitoba got an in-

itial payment of about eighty-five cents

if he had No.1 Northern, less if he

had Wheat of lower grade, and more if

he had wheat of a higher grade. As

the initial payment included his hand—

ling costs to the terminal, his next

three pgyments were all “velvet” ex-

cept the pool operating expenses and

reserve deductions. The same proced-





’ we is being followed this fall, with





initial payments of $100 per bushel,





basis of No. 1 Northern at the term-





8 1927 crop.-





cos it cost to operate





the pools? It. must be enormous, the.

reader may surmise. But it isn’t, eel

volume ”is the controlling factor, and

the pools have such volume that per

bushel costs are fractions of a cent.

The total cost’ of. operating the

central agency for the 1924 crop was

.33 cents, or less than one-third cent

per, bushel, and .20 cents, or one-fifth

cent for the 1925 crop. The total

cost of the Alberta pool for the 1924

crop was .634 cents per bushel, for

Saskatchewan .52 cents, 'for Manitoba,

.597 cents.” For the 1925 crop the

costs Were .418 cents in Alberta, .35

cents in Saskatchewan, .61_ cents in

Manitoba. Including the central agen-

cy casts, the highest total cost in any

of the provinces was .08 cents, or four-

fifths of a cent per bushel. This figure

covers cost of administration,’ pub-

licity and education, field service,

statistic bureaus, selling expense, grad-

ing and inspection service etc., but

does not include freight or local ole

vator expenses. \





Whether the pool farmer in the

years cited might have done better

through the regular trade channels is

open to argument. Pool service is

service at actual cost, and prices are

the average for which all wheat was

sold during the year, less the actual

cost of operation. The-re were no

profits for anyone in handling and

selling it. The farmer took all the

risk, took the profits or losses that

otherwise might have gone to some-

one else, and waited a year for his

final settlement.



Some non-pool farmers received

more for their wheat in those years

than pool farmers. Pool officials

admit it, but certainly there were

many non-pool farmers who did not

get the average price. But pool mem-

bers do know this much: that they

are no longer forced to dump their

wheat in the fall, that they are as-

sured of the average price over the

entire crop year, and if the initial

payment in the fall won’t take care of

their needs they can use their certifi-

cates showing delivery, as collateral

with the banks and mortgage. com-

panies. They have quit watching the

market. They have hired experts to

sell their wheat, and they are trusting

to their judgement.





All comparisons of prices between

what the pool and non-pool farmers

receive depend somewhat on who

prepares the figures. The Northwest

Grain Dealers! Association represent-

ing the grain trade, can prove that

the open market “average” prices are

higher than the Pool’s pool price.

This “average” is the closing quota-

tion in Winnipeg each day, divided

by the number of trading days, re-

gardless of whether a million bushels

or five thousand bushels were sold

at that closing quotation. Pool officials

say such an _“average” is absurd, as

it assumes that the non-pool farmers

sold an equal amount of wheat at the

market eachrday, which, of course,

they did not do. A fair comparison

could be secured by dividing the total

amount of money paid by all grian

companies to farmers by the bushels

bought, but such figures are not avail-

able to the Pool, and if the Trade has

them it has not‘used them.



There are men friendly to the Pool

who doubt whether it has increased

prices materially over what the farmer

would have received in the ordinary

channels. But they are convinced that

the Pool is a check on the Trade, that

it has a wonderful psychological ef-

fect. It has given the grain farmer

something to which he can hold with

the utmost confidence and in times

of unrest that is probably as import-

ant as prices. .



Orderly Financing.



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ODAY, Jim Wilcoxi and I sat on



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Wilson and Flood Starting on their

Globe Trot, with the Gasoline Can

and Banjo as Chief Stock in Trade.





mood to wonder, "Why this ‘wander-

jahr’ of mine?”



A swarthy Maori, the ship’s cook,

walked past in an aroma of onions and

chilled fish, enroute from the cooler

to his galley on the deck above. We

had found that this tobacco-colored

giant was a friendly purveyor of a

picturesque bush philosophy along with

his pies and puddings, and also that

he was responsive to patronage.



“How come that Gulf sea weed and

those little birds away out here in the

middle of the Atlantic Ocean?” Jim

asked the cook. The Maori’s ability

to answer questions was limited only

by his vocabulary and not his knowl-

edge—or patience—as was the case

with the second mate for instance.



I let the question that had been

bothering me go unexpressed.



Four big diamonds set in the Maori’s

front teeth flashed in his answering

smile. “Why not ask me Why I left

the Australian bush for this? Those

lovely birds”——I liked to hear that mys-

tic-miened brown giant say “lovely”

———“they can find plenty of food back

on land if they want to, and I can

make my living in the bush. But there

is something more than a. living. There

is Life. What is that word? Ro-

mance! Yes, that’s partly it.” This

time he flashed his diamond studded

smile in my direction, and somehow

I believe the old soothsayer had been

talking to me all the time instead of

simply answering Jim’s spoken ques-

tion.



That thought in the mind of the

Maori cook which he lacked thewords

to express, would reveal the reason for

my year’s trip around the world, show

why I had left the land of the Great

Dipper and the Northern Star to sail

the seas of the Southern Cross. To

those of you who do not already un-

derstand, my reasons. are forever a





mystery; but- those of you who have:





felt the spell of the vanishiag'horizons,





simply “for to admire 1111' for tosee,

for to behold this world so wide”-—-you

need no further explanation.





freighter





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By Francis Flood





ago, I

while Mrs. Flood went to church. I

don’t know5what the minister talked

but my Wife came





popped into the house.

“I’ve got .it all figured out for a





year’s trip around the world for you.





Get a. leave of absence and then just





_wander around, anywhere, everywhere,

:‘for a year, and—”





“Fine,” I responded. “I could wan-

der to the moon; make a short detour

through heaven, spend New Year’s eve





[at the North Pole, and drop quietly





back to Nebraska for the fall and Win-

ter rush season. , Did‘ the ministearead

you a travelogue this morning?”



But the dear girl was actually seri-

ous. At first I just laughed, and her

mother cried. Then she went into de-

tails, her mother went into hysterics,

and I went into the other room. My





. wife immediately sat down and wrote





a letter to my old buckarooing part-

ner, Jim Wilson, and told him that I

was planning to start about August

first on a year’s trip around the world,

provided he could go along.



Jim is a natural born Nomad. A

travel suggestion to him is like 3. din-

ner invitation to a poor relation. He

had recently disappeared in Seattle en-

route to Alaska and the Yukon coun-

try which he and I had visited five

years before. Whether or not he could

go would depend, I knew, entirely upon

whether or not he would receive the

letter.



Eloquently Mrs. Flood explained to

Jim that I was fast settling down as

an ordinary tired business man, that

I no longer played the pipes of Pan

and kicked up my heels and dashed off

on picnics without a raincoat. In

short, I no longer showed the inter-

esting lack of intelligence that she had

married me for in the first place. It

seemed, from her letter, that I was

getting old and she was offering this

drastic measure to keep me young, to

renew.my interest in Romance that

had gone out when Rotary came in.





RS. FLOOD’S own part in this re-

romancing of a. young-man-afraid-

of-his-oats is simply to stay in Ne-





braska and keep the home fires burn-’





ing. There’s martyrdom, whether there

is a cause or not!

of the wandering, hsoboesque, adven-

turesome trip that she herself planned

would bar her from participation. She

couldn’t get a job on a tramp steamer,

hobo along the highways, trek through





the African jungles, and do the many _





other things that her prescription for

me demanded. But even though this

story is supposed to be about Jim and

me and our trip, the real heroine is

my wife, and such she will 'remain

through the entire series. _



Fortunately—or perhaps unfortun-

ately, since I don’t know yet how this

“wanderjahr” will finally work out——

Jim received the letter, and he wired

right back from Seattle: “When do

we start? Keep Pop alive until I

arrive. Letter receiVed thirty minutes

ago, but couldn’t getato telegraph of-

fice sooner. Jim.”



That settled it. *I’d go.



The company agreed, a little too

gladly it seemed to me, to give me a

year’s leave of absence, and then we

were ready. We had no plans or

preparations to make beceusé it wasn’t

that klnd- of a, trip. we had only: to





'_po.ck up a. suitcase, grab Jim’s banjo," ~

and fellow the Gypsy trail.

.cbliah‘ conducted tour. this. '





way known to map. The woman,,,.u-





~ tempted me.





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One Sunday morning Tia few"xaonths





stayed at home to Work!





The very nature





 

 





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passenger liner, and I’ve traveled both ' ‘ V





,ways enough to know. » ..--.





CAME the middle of July. August



first had been set as the beginning

of our year of ronrance and we still

didn’t know whether We’d trail the

sunset out of the Golden Gate of San

Francisco or make our adieuxs to Lady,

Liberty in New York Harbor. I’d been

investigating cargo boats and finally I

learned from the U. '8. Shipping Board

that their freighter ..S S. "West Hum-

haw” would leave New York August

10, bound for the west ceast of Africa

and that there was room 011 the boat

for a. half-dozen passengers. The

“West Humhaw!” Was there ever a.

jollier name for a. gypsy craft? :And

Africa! Already visions lured me—of

alligator infested swamps, of dim, mys-

terious jungles; of cannibals with their

teeth filed to knife-sharp points.





“I’m wiring for reservations tonight,”

I told my boss. “I’d ride anywhere on

a. ship with a name like that.”





“Why, you don’t know anything

about it,” he cautioned. "What will it

cost? How long will it take? Where

will you be when you get there?” The

‘west'coast of Africa.’ is about as def—

inite a destination as the west coast

of America. Besides, you have never

planned on Africa. at all.”



But we didn’t care how long it would

take, nor where we were ”going. We

could travel more cheaply by freight

than on a passenger liner—but Why

worry about details the way my boss

does, anyhow? The subtle wine of

Adventure—Adventure with a capital

“A”——was already in our veins. This

rollicking name, the “West Humhaw, ”

was enough.



I wired for reservations that night,

and for the next two weeks when my

friends asked their perennial ques-

tions‘, “When are you leaving? Where

do you go first?” I could briskly reply,

“We’re sailing on the ,West Humhaw





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The Diamond-studded Smile of the

Maori Cook of the West Humhaw.





dram New York on August 10 for





Africa! "





In order to 53.11 from New York one '





must first get to New York.





T we should leave home August first}





as We had planned, there would be

ten days to make the boat. Finel





That would allow one for us to hitch- 7 y 1 ,.

hike along the highWay from Lincoln; ‘ 1





Nebraska, to New Yorkr " ‘

"' ,0. nice; bright L

d- , ..
' . histhY...-sw€i:ging’ oilr gsscan. .

, passing-notoriet. seeing us'would say

to]him§‘elf,*"Well, there’s some poor

devil out of gas. r11 give him a 1m.

to; the next filling station.” As soon

as he, stopped we would at once hon-

estly explain our stunt, show him the

inside of our can-suitcase and, a few

neWSpa-per clippings and letters of in-

troduction to subStantiate our story,

and he would. probably be glad to

carry us as long as we could keep him

entertained.



The story of our highway hoboing

expedition and of our embarkation on

the “West Humhaw” will be told next

week.





 





 





 





 





LICE ON PLAN‘Ts.





 

   





What is the best way to get rid of

lice on cabbage plants, also black lice

on cucumber p1ants.—G._,B. V



The best way to get rid of the lice

which are attacking your cabbage

plants is. to spray the plants thor-

oughly with nicotine sulphate, com-

monly known as Black Leaf 40. One

part of this concentrated nicotine sul-



. phate to 800 parts of water with the

addition of two or three pounds of

soap makes an effective spray.



The difficulty is that the spray will

not likely reach all of the lice. Thor-

ough spraying is necessary if lice are

attacking your cucumbers, the same

spray would be effective on them. But

it the insect is a small yellow and

black striped bettle called the cucum-

ber beetle, a dust made of one pound

of calcium arsenate with ._ twenty

pounds of burned gypsum is effective.





 





SECOND WIFE'S SHARE.





 





My father and mother owned eighty

acres of land on which they had a

joint deed. Mother died and father

married again. The deed was never

changed. Father has two children by

his first wife. What share of the

property does the widow hold?-—-O. H.





Upon the death of the mother the

title passed to the father by survivor-

ship, or more accurately speaking it

was held by the entirety of husband

and wife and upon the death of the

wife his estate became sole. The prop-

erty being his, it is of no consequence

whether he had children by the first

wife or not. It is the same as if he

had acquired the property in any other

way. The sec’ond Wife surviving him

would inherit onethird as his heir or

he could dispose of the property en-

tirely by her joining with him in the

conveyance—Rodd. , , ' I

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WEEDSJN LAWN.





 





Please a'dvise as to how to destroy

weeds and grass on a large lawn. We

have seeded it in timothy and Ger-

man white flower. clover a year ago

this spring. The first year it: was

nice, but this year it is full of buck-

horn, dandelions, etc. Is there some

way in which grass weeds can be

destroyed? What time of the year is

best to'seed a. lawn and what kind

oEf Iseed mixture should one sow?—





A good lawn mixture usually con— ..





sists of about threef‘ourths ‘Kentucky

Blue Grass and one-fourth Red Top.

Frequently a small amount of white

clover seed is added to this mixture.

’I‘ii’nothy is not considered at all do

sirablein a lawn. '

Since yen have very little grabs and

Considerable ‘weeds, I would suggest

thatyou plow the lawn, work the seed

bed for a few weeks to allow the

weed seed to germinate and the weeds

to be” killed off, and reseed to a. typical

lawn grass nnxtnre. . *

Seedingmay be mad either this fall

duringthe latter but of “September





 

 





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IF you think all-farm electric plants

are much alike,_ see this new

achievement ofDelcOoLi In and

General Motors. Here is a P t that

wins alike the enthusiastic acclaim of

scientists, engineers, electrical experts

and laymen.





Small Load: from Battery



”“ch this new type plant you can

use up to 7 or 8 electric lamps and

draw the necessary current right from

the battery. Thus the engine runs

unfrcquendy. Leas fuel is used. But

throwonahmicr loadandthe

engine starts—instantly and unbound»

cal y—generates enough current to

carry the heavier load, plus a surplus

supply to recharge the battery! Thus

only a small battery is needed. And

even this lasts longer. .





Science Marvels





Even engineers who are in daily cone,

tact with the newest trends of electrical





FARM‘ ..





Flint Sales Branch,

Corner Smith & Water, Sta,

Flint, Michigan.





See this +

New Scientific Marvel





New Type Delco—Light Plant Does ‘

Everything but Think! See this new Delco—Light plant that... A





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all! the adanta‘ges

of an automatic of a storage batten?

Dclco-hght Dclco-Light.





science marvel at this Delco—Light

achievemen For it’ 3 almost human

in its action. An automatic throttle

speeds or slows the engine to synchrm

nize with load demands. An auto—

matic choke makes "starting quick and

certain—even in cold weather. Auto—





_matic pilot balls—another patented





feature—show at a glance the condition

of your battery. Easy to tell about.





, But 15 years were devoted to intensive





research before this scientific marvel

was perfected. Even then it was not

approved by General Motors until 7

years of grueling field tests proved it

worthy.



Yet, you pay no premium for all





. these new and revolutionary features.





The entire plant—complete with 16

cell battery—45 ofiered at a price so

low that it’s well within the means

of all who want it.





DELCO—LIGHT





E L E C T R I C .

There is’aDclco‘Lightdcalcrincucrycommunib.’ The nearest wholesale distributonarcliued below.





F‘. C. Matthews 8; (10.,

111 Pearl St, N. W.,

Grand Rapids, Michigan.





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is now being discussed so widely.

Write or phone the nearest Deleo-

Light distributor. And remember—if

this new plant doesn’t exactlyfill your

needs, there are many other models

to choose from—priced as low as $225!





Mail Coupon for Free Books



In the meantime, read an interesting

illustrated book now offered free—“A

Day and a Night with Delco—Light”.

To those who answer promptly, we’ll.

include “The Miracle of More Eggs“—

a valuable book for poultry raiscrs,

large or mall. Don’t wait. Read

the facts and weigh the evidence.





DBLCO—LIGHT COMPANY

Subsidiary of General Motors Corporation

Dept. T-49 Dayton, Ohio





 





 





DELCO-LIGHT COMPANY.

, Dept. T49 Dayton, Ohio.

Please send the Free Books an oflcrcd.’





Name ................................





Address ..............................





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The E. H. Walker Co.

212 N. Erie St.,

Toledo, Ohio.





 





 





 





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{TIMES Around the World will: our OILING





100,000 Miles Without Stopping for Oil





An inventor who could develop an airplane which

would perform. such a feat would be consrdered a

wonder.. But such IS the record of regular

W accomplishment by the Auto-Oiled Aermotor

' New in pumping water.

- '5” Did you ever stop to think how many reVOlutions the

‘ . wheel of a Windmill makes? If the wheel of an Aermotor should

" roll along the surface of the ground at the same speed thatst ‘

. .: _ makes when pumpmg water it would encircle the world'm 90days,

or would go four tunes around in a year. It would travel on an

average 275 miles per day or about 30 miles per. hour for 9 hours

ay. Au automobile which keeps up that pace, day after day

’ needs a thorough oiling at. least once a week. Isn’t it marvelous,

then, that a windmill’has been made which will go 50.tnnes as long as the best

autombile with oneoiling and keep it up for'25 or 30 years?

The Auto-oiled km after many years of service. in every. partof the

world has proven its ability to run and give the most reliable semce with one

ruling a year. The double: gears. and all mom





parts, are cntirelyenclo‘sed and

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Mate Plum for Rejuvenating Yam Pictures During National Pz’ctzzre‘. Welt





HE American Art Bureau is



again sponsoring national obser-



vation of a week in which clubs,

schools, and stores are asked to em-

phasize the importance of good pic-

tures in the home. The date set for

this National Picture Week is Octo-

ber 10 to 20.



The picture problem in every home

is an important one, and at this sea-

son of the year, when the first lull

has come in the rush of a busy sum-

mer, it is an opportune time for us to

consider the pictures on our walls.

After housecleaning, how often they

go back upon the wall precisely as

they were last year and the year be-

fore and the year before that; just be-

cause, in the general hurly-burly there

is not time to make the to-be-desired

changes. Some day when we have

leisure we will buy that new picture,

do the reframing of the old ones, and

rearrange the hanging. But the cov-

eted day tarries, and eventually the

picture affair is “passed up” for an-

other year.



Some pictures will need nothing

more than a careful dusting, and a

polishing of the glass. Filligree frame-

work is unsatisfactory on account of

the dust it collects. Dust here is hard

to get rid of. A small bellows serves

best to remove it. Then wipe with

an oiled duster.



Often shabby frames may be made

to look new by neatly retouching with

a small brush and paint. Many a good

picture is relegated to the attic on

account of an old-fashioned setting,

when, in a new frame, it would still

be beautiful.



While we cling to certain pictures

we enjoy, and do not wish to discard,

yet it is well to make a .measure of

change in each room. We need the

inspiration of new scenes now and

then, even though the pictures be but

inexpensive ones. Good prints, un-

framed, may be bought for a trifle in

the art stores.



Plan definitely the arrangement of

pictures for each room, just which

ones are to be used, and where they

are to hang. Provide picture-hooks

-enough for all purposes, and avoid as

much as possible, nails and push-tacks

in the wall to make disfiguring holes.

If your picture-rail is close to the ceil-

ing—the present prevailing style—you

will need long wires to bring the pic-

ture down to a level with the eye.

Small pictures are especially unsatis-

factory, if hung too high.



For the most part, the largest and

finest pictures will have place in

the parlor. The living-room must be

smade bright with cheery and helpful

scenes. Reserve the framed sentiinent



' 'mottoes now so much in vogue, for the

. library, the den, and bedroom. Family

portraits and marriage certificates

,should not be displayed in the parlor.

Keep them for individual bedrooms.

"Art calendars may find a place in the

library, or where there is a writing-

} desk, but they are out of place in the





h .. drawing-room.





The children’s rooms must come in

" 1m- “their share of attention. Quaint

,pictures of sunbonnet babies and Moth-

Goose charaCters, prints of animal

islands, gay cut-outs, child-life illus-

one full of color and activity—

"gate easily obtainable, and mean

in the child’s enjoyment.





 

 





 





By Josephine Toal





For the older boys’ and girls’ rooms

select pictures that appeal to their in-

dividual tastes. It is not fair to Ray

and Ruth to fill up their walls with

discards from downstairs. Along with

outing and college and historical

scenes, put in some good copies of the

old masters. They can be had very

cheaply. But addat least one_new

picture when the rdoms are freshened.





It is worth while to give consider-

able thought to arrangement, in all

rooms, making as much of a change in

each as possible. The way the light

falls on a picture has everything to

do with effect. The direct light from

an opposite window produces upon





glass a glaring reflection disastrous to

the merits of the picture behind it.

All picture renovation may be plan-





ned, the new pictures selected, ,the_





plan of arrangement for each room

jotted down, during National Picture

Week. Then, during the first leisure

winter afternoons the plan should be

scheduled for execution.





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PREFERS BONFIRE PICNICS IN

AUTUMN.





 





W HEN the frost is on the pumpkin



an’ the fodder’s in the shock,”

is the best time for a picnic, at least

that is the opinion of our club. We





Make Colonial History Quil





 





INTO hand-made quilts are pieced

the traditions of centuries, and

quilt blocks in various designs have

stitched into them family traditions

covering many generations. But in the

colonial history quilt, the activities 5f

our forefathers are so graphically illus-





trated that the younger generation '





need not puzzle over it to get the

story cémplete.



Above, the colonial history quilt is

illustrated in miniature. In actual size,





each block is eight inches square, and;





the twenty set together in “sashwor. ”

as shown, make a quilt just the right

size for a crib bed. If You want it for

a larger bed, set them" together with





alternate plain color blocks in check- ‘





erboar'd fashion. j * - —





 





transfer patterns, all enclosed in one

package, with instructions for making,

and ready to be stamped on squares

of white muslin. Then each character

is easily embroidered in outline stitch

and the blocks set together to make

the most quaint quilt imaginable.



The colonial history quilt will af-





ford pleasant pick-up séWing for girls

of eight years up, as well as to their





mothers and grandmOthers. The quilts;





make up into delightful gifts for any

of the youngsters. “'





. The twenty hot-iron transfer pat-





terns, With complete instructions, will:





be mailed“ 'ostpaid on receipt of





 





Twenty blocks are on hot-iron . f .





 





have sixteen girls and when the leaves





start to turn brown, we pull on our.





sweaters and hike out to make ”a

camp fire





The dish for such. a picnic that is -





our favorite is squaw stew. To make

it we fry slices of bacon in a heavy

iron skillet over our campfire, then

empty in two cans of corn. Stir oc-

casionally, as it browns around the

edges, season with salt—sand pepper,

and add four to six eggs that have

been beaten. ,, We usually break, the

eggs into a pint jar before we leave

home, and they are usually beaten by

the time we get located on our camp»

ground. We ~serve this with sliced

tomato or cheese sandwiches.





We also like baked potatoes stuffed

with sausages. We remove the center

of the potatoes with an apple corer

before we leave home. When the fire

has burned‘ down to good coals, we

fill the cavities with small sausages,

place the potatoes in an iron skillet

that we use just for this purpose, and

bake them over the fire.





We are always looking for other

suggestions for our bonfire picnics, and

would like to hear about what other

groups of girls have tried—Miss F. I.



———'—__—_I__. '

NOVEL DISHES FOR HALLOWE’EN

PARTIES WILL PLEASE

GUESTS.





 





HATEVER entertainment is



planned for Hallowe’en parties,

serving attractive food is one of the

ways the hostess can be most sure of

making her party successful. A par-

ticularly appetizing luncheon which

can be served either at the supper

hour or in the midst of the evening

entertainment, is suggested by Ada L.

Lockhart, of National Dairy Council.

Either the rarebit or salad can be

served as a main course preceding the

dessert.





Hallowefen Baked Rarebit.



Cut one pound of soft mild cheese

in thin slices, roll two and one-half

cups of stale bread crumbs,,sprinkle a

layer of bread crumbs in a buttered

baking dish, cover with one- -thlrd cup

of cheese, and season with salt and

paprika. Repeat twice, making three

separate layers.

one and oneéhalf cups of milk and

pour over the mixture. Dot with two





tablespoons of butter, bake in,a. mod-





erate even about _one-half hour, and

serve at once'wtth toasted crackers or





buttered toast cut in triangle shapes.





Magic Ring Salad.

Place lettuce leaves on individual

salad plates and make a. circle of





dates which have been stoned and dot-* ’





ted with mayonnaise. Place a salad

combination of cottage cheese and

chopped nuts in the center of a. pine-





apple. ring inside 0f the #date circle. W





Hill: buttered rolls may be served with

thiaa ‘ ‘





’Pujmpkin Ice Cream .





A clever dessert for a Hallows} en ,

party is made by placing halves of _,

' :fslice of brick ice f/





yellow peaches in





   





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No. MTG—Flattering Lines. De-

signed in sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40,

42 and 44 inches bust. measure. Size

36 requires 2% yards of 40-inch mate-

rial with 1% yard of contrasting.





No. 899—Graceful Lines. Designed

in size 16, 18,’ and 20 years, 36, 38, 40,

42 and 44 inches bust measure. 1, Size

36 requires 27/3 yards of 40-inch mate-

rial with 7/3 yard of contrasting.



The price of each pattern is thirteen

cents. Just enclose 13 cents extra





 





My Best Time-Saver





MB is a premium with every

homekeeper, and the one

who uses it wisely has a few

leisure hours for recreation and

companionship with her family.

Modern inventions are doing

much to shorten the time re

quired for actual housekeeping,

but it is often a problem to se-

lect the pieces of equipment

that will save the most time,

and yet keep the expenditure

Within range of our pocketbooks.

I believe our readers would be

glad to know something about

the time-saving equipment you

have selected for your home,

and your reasons for selecting

it. By letter, I would like to

have you describe your three

choice pieces of time-saving

equipment." The five best letters

will be awarded small kitchen

time-savers.

Address your letters to Martha

Cole, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,

Michigan, before October 21.





 





 





 





when you order your pattern and a

copy of our New Fall and Winter

Fashion Book will be sent to you. Ad-

dress your orders to the Pattern De-

partment, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,

Michigan.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





a boulevard ,. .. ..





Bumpy, rutt‘y, uneven highways ride

like boulevards in a Buick for 1928.

Important improvements impart a

matchless riding ease—-a smoothness

over any road in any weather—which

assure you a comfortable trip, no mat.

ter how far you may drive in a day.





Hydraulic Shock Absorbers





In addition to Buick’s famous Cantilever

Springs, Buick for 1928 has Hydraulic

Shock Absorbers, front and rear. These

have been made an integral part of the

Buick chassis, and are standard equip.

men: on all models.





The Low-swung Body





Bodies swung smartly low by means of

the exclusive Buick double-drop frame

provide greatly increased roadability

due to their lowered center of





gravity.

—and Matchless Beauty, too





Long, low, flowing lines—surpassingly





beautiful color harmonies, inside and





out — and restful form-fitting tailored

seat cushions— all combine to make

every ride in a Buick for 1928 the most

pleasing you have ever known.





BUICK MOTOR COMPANY, FLINT, MICHIGAN





Division of General M otors Corporation

Canadian Factories: MCLAUGHLIN-BUICK, Oshawa, Omano





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fifiifi‘ “BETTER AUTOMOBILES Aas‘ BUILT. “BUICK WILL BUILD THEM





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Your Butter . MENT. CIRCBLATION.





State of Michigan,

County of Wayne. 53‘





STATEMENT or THE OWNERSHIP.

£10..

THE ACT or cousazss or AUGUST 24. 19:2. ‘





0f THE MICHIGAN FARMER. published weekly at

Detroit. Michigan. for October 1.





Before me. a Notary Public. in and for the State

and County aforesaid. personally appeared I. B.





MANAGE-

REQUIRED BY





Nell Laing. 201 South Third Street.

l'cxuisyh‘ania.





Michigan.

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1927. Rogers. Cleveland. Ohio.





The Union Trust Compm. Administrator estate of





Lillian Cotton. Cleveland, Ohio.





3. That the known bondholders. Wales. and

other security holders ovum; or holding one per cent





Philadelphia. . l

n. Waterbury, 1632 Lafayette Riva. Detroit-





The Union Trust Company. Administrator estate or





 

   

 





 

   





 





   

   

 

   





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or more of total amount. of bonds. muses. or

other securities are: (if there are none. lo state).





Dime Savings Bank. Detroit. Mich.





4. That the two paragraphs next sham min: the

names of the owners. stockholders, and security hold-

crs. it any. contain not only the list of stoolholders

and security holders as they appear upon the books of ,





Waterbury. who. having been duly sworn according to

law. deposes and says that he is the Managerpt

THE MICHIGAN FARMER. and that the followmg

is. to the best of his knowledge and belief. a true

statement of the ownership, management (and if .a

daily paper. the circulation). etc.. of the aforesaid

publication for the date shown in the abate caption.





   

   

 





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the name of the person or corporatim for whom such

trustee is acting. is given: sign that the said two more

agrapns contain statements embracing M‘s lull-

knowledge and bend as to the circumstances and

conditions under which holder: at! mufltz'

holdersvhodonoe appear momma um

commasmmhold mocks-dwelhl

camnomermumuorsmmm;md

this amen: huno reason to believe that an o‘er

person. assoeiation. or corporation has an intact.

direct or indirect in the said stock. bonds. ‘or other f

securities than as so stated by him.





5. That. the .3ng number 0! copies 0!





1. That the names and addresses of the publisher.

editor. managing editor. and business managers are:

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troit. Michigan. '



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Prisoners will need Wings or

parachutes to escape from

this new jail in Miami, Fla.





Swedish peasant maids still cling to brightly hued old-fashioned

costumés of long ago. These Dalescarlain maids are fishing in‘

Siljan Lake, near Stolkholm, Sweden.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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shore of Flathead Lake with the snow- -capped mountains of 7.

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Edtiie Stinsdn‘ will pilot his~ Own

plane, a Stinson—Detroiter, in the

Spokane Air Derby.





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Los Angeles sorority girls

sponsor new “Lindy Lids”

as ofiicial head gears ~





Charles Dickinson, 69 years

old, has been flying for

seventeen years.





 





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National Park in the state of Washington.

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Oil filter and air cleaner. Venti—

lated crankcase. Impuhe neuo

,tralizer and rubber engine

mountings. New cellularty tyfi:

radiator. 4—wheel hydrau

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IT is said that it takes one and one-



‘ fourth billion hatching eggs to pro«

duce 568,000,000 chicks raised in the

country every year. These hatching

eggs are the product of 30, 000, 000



. hens. About half of the chicks hatch-

ed each year are produced in commer-

cial hatcherles



There are over 10, 000 hatcherles in

the United States, with an estimated

capacity of 100,000,000 eggs. Through

careful selection of. the flocks from

which they secure eggs, the better

hatcheries have been 'able to bring

about a great increase in egg produc-

tion on American farms.





USES FOR STALE EGGS.





HE large hatcheries have the in-



fertile eggs taken from the incu-

bators as one of their problems. It is

not advisable to feed them back to the‘

chickens on account 'of disease, but

feeding them to the hogs has proven

successful.



Stale eggs are also used in dressing

leather, especially in giving it a dark

brown color, so leather dressing plants

and hatcheries ought to get together

to dispose of this hatchery by-product.



It is said that some of the finest

face powders in the world are made

from egg shells. Some of the best for-_

eign cosmetic makers use egg shells

extensively; A salad dressing maker

said that after getting all 0 fthe whites





1 $725 to $875 $1095 to $1295 $1495 to $1745 $2495 to $3595





(All prices f. o. b. Detroit, subject to current Federal excise tax)





4 Great Cars in4Great Markets





and yolks out of the eggs, he pressed

them and sold them to face powder

manufacturers.





CANADIAN Racono OF PERFORM.

ANCE.





ERHAPS the biggest breeding pro-

ject in the world is the Record of





Performance and registration work as

it is being carried on in various states.





of the Union and Canada. In Canada

the egg-laying contest, of which there

are thirteen under supervision of the

Dominion Government, is the backbone

of the Record of Performance work.

In these contests all birds which pro-

duce more than 200 eggs per year are

registered in the Canadian National

Poultry Record maintained by the gov-

ernment.

stock registry associations of the Unit-

ed States, only in Canada the records





This is similar to thé live-





HRYSLER cars are de—



signed and built for

people who want that extra

something which makes all

the difference between per—

formance and value that are

merely satisfactory and per»





‘formance and value that are





truly distinctive.





Pick-up, power and speed

that amaze as much as they

exhilarate— instant respono

Siveness to steering Wheel—-

brakes that positively insure

safety—most unusual riding





comfort -— marked freedom

from mechanical cares-—

alluring smartness of line

and color.





There are four great lines to

meet the four great divisions

of the market—“5 2,” “62,”

“72” and the Imperial “80.”

See them. Among them you

are bound to find the car

that exactly fits your needs

—the car that actually pro—

vides that “extra something”

at a price unbelievably low.





are kept by the government for all

forms of live stock.

When the second generation of pul-





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produced 200 eggs, they are registered

Last of May Hatched Pullets





and their sons can be registered also.

Thus a male bird with two genera.

tions of 200~egg hens in his pedigree affix; iai’éfixmixgéaslimwfiuisdiu m" “3&5

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of the newness of the work, registered -

- parents are required on only one side

of the pedigree, but eventually will be

required on both sides, with the egg-

laying contest as the means of main-

taining production, much as oflicial

' testing in dairy circles maintains the

advanced registry in dairy animals.





 





 





 





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,q , ities, to the eggs.

ltrymen who fear there are not

ongh codfish in the" ocean to keep

up with the hen' s demand for cod liver

oil, will be interested in some more

California work. They have found that

salmon oil will tomb]: vitamins for

poultry, and has about as much value

in the lion’s ration as cod liver oil.

‘If continued experimental work along

this line proves the value of the Sal-

, mon oil. it may be very useful to the

. poultry industry. and also start other

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More On Evolution ~





One Letter i: 4 Farewell





HAVE been an ex-M. C..’for several

weeks, and as it seems to be cus-

tomary on such an occasion to

write a farewell letter, I will now send

in my reluctant resignation.

The inspiration for this was furnish-

ed‘by a letter, signed “Uncas” in a

*' recent issue, on the subject of evolu-





 





 





 





Ber’cha and Beulah Eduinger and the

Family Cow.





tion. I considered this explanation of

the evolution of man very satisfactory,

although I must admit that I am not

familiar with those encyclopedic

terms. There is only one question I

have in regard to that theory: If we

are descended from the lower animals,

such as irogs and fish, why do these

animals still exist? Or will the des-

cendents of the frogs that inhabit our

swamps constitute the human race of

a future era? And if we assume this

to be correct, when, during the proc-

ess of evolution from frog to man, did

the soul come into existence?





As for the earth, Uncas didn’t pos-

sibly see 110w it developed from a tiny

bit of matter out in the space, but

said instead, that it was created by

God, yet she willingly admits that man

comes from a 'tiny bit of matter in the

ocean, and was he, too, not God’s cre-

ation? Surely, the planning of the hu-

man mind, the masterpiece of God, in-

volved more thinking and complica-

tion by the Master mind than did the

development of a mass of lifeless clay.



I see no reason why a bit of matter

out in the great open space could not

have joined numerous other particles

of matter to form a large mass, for,

according to the law of gravitation, all

bodies in the universe have a certain

attraction for each other. After sev-

eral gradual changes wrought by the

forces of nature or, in other words, of

God, this earth probably became fav-

orable for the existence of life.



Now, if this isn’t creation, I don’t

know what it is, and the fadt that it

was done by way of evolution shows





greater evidence of the Master mind.





A fool can press a switch and flood a

room with light, but it took a genius

“to discover and apply electricity to

' practical use.

This letter also says that God create

,cd man in his own likeness, but like-





» ”mess does not necessarily mean physi-





cal similarity. In my opinion, man is

_ supposed to be spiritually like his

, aMaker. By this I don’t mean that we

humans are divinely perfect, but rath-

Her that the result of God’s creation,

.’.\when finished, will equal Him in per-

2, faction.

We cannot doubt the fact that the

creation of man is as yet unfinished,

em; cyclution is creation by a slow

" case, and that the evolution of the





human race is still taking place, is

evident by the progress which we have

made in the last century



Well, I have written a lot without

saying much, for I don’t pretend to

know a great deal about the subject.

However, although the theory of evo-





lution, as it is often explained, may ..





sound acceptable, it seems very dis-

concerting to think that, to greet ev-

ery jelly fish properly we should say,

“Hello, great-great, (etc), granddad:

dy.” And when it comes to fishing, I

think we might use more consideration

in dealing with our ancestors, don’t

you?——June Nelson.





 





I have been a silent reader of your

club page in the Michigan Farmer for

a good many years. Have enjoyed

reading and studying it very much.

You might ask the question, “study-

ing?” and I would answer, yes, study-

ing. I am a literary student and cer-

tainly have found some splendid ma-

terial to ponder over in your page.



One of your most interesting topics

to me is, evolution. I have spent much

time studying it. When most people

hear the word evolution, they at once





 





 





 





 





 





The Beach Boys in the Good Old

Winter Time.



think of monkeys, and gather the idea

that man evolved from them. Must

that simple word evolution stir up ar-

guments, cause quarrels, and even

hatred? Evolution has been going on

for ages and ages! Forever! Evolu-

tion means progress, development of

forms of life, not necessarily monkeys,

but all forms of life. I shall leave Dar-

win’s theories alone. God made man

in His likeness and image. God made

monkeys. God made everythingl The

average individual does not know just

what evolution is.



Be I narrow or broad-minded,\my

faith in divine creation shall not be

shaken by wise man or fool.

in it firmly.



I would hate terribly to have my

great grandparents see what a poor

monkey, I am, lacking most .of the

characteristics—M. E. Pauls.





 





Evolution seems to be the talk of

our page. Why do they want to teach

such horrible things as this in col-

leges, for God Himself made man Of

His image? I know of a little girl Who

believed she sprung from a monkey,

but when she saw one she changed

her mind quite suddenly; The Bible

says everything came from the same

source; and I‘would rather believe I

was made from a piece of mud than a

baboon. I’ have often heard a joke

that I think quite

evangelist was preaching against evo-





lution, and near the close at his sen».

men a college student rose up and





 





I believe





int‘ereéting. An"





said, “Do you believe you come from"





evolution?” The evangelist said,.“N.o.,,

do you?” “Of course,” the young

man replied. The evangelist Said,

“Step up here, please}: The young

man did so. The evangelist took his

candle and looked himwover. Soon he

said, “Friends, I believe this man (1 '



Well, I’ll close, giving my best‘re-





‘ gards to the M. G’s—Bunny.





 





 





Our Letter Box





Dear Uncle Frank:



I was sure tickled to see my letter

printed on Our Page. Uncle Frank,

what does’G. C. mean?



Christine Zech wrote a very inter-

esting letter about nature. I bet she’d

be an interesting person to talk with.

She has such good ideas about nature.

Uncle Frank, do you look like Andy

Gump? Someone told me you did.—

Hazel Bradway. ,



G. C. means Golden Circle, which is

a special honor I give for extra good

work. Yes, I look exactly like Andy

Gump. We both look with our eyes.

Christine must be some girl.





 





 





 





Dear Uncle, Cousins and especially

that Blessed “Comma:’



Since there have been two replies to

my questions, I will venture to ask

another one. Why is the Merry Circle

page in the Michigan Farmer so much

more interesting that similar pages in

other papers? Is it because of the

sensible editor of the page, or because

of the intelligent young folks who

write to him? I would like to see

comments on this. I began, to be

more especially interested in Our Page

about two years ago, when parents’

letters were asked for, and then the





young people were asked to comments





on the letters of the parents. They

were fine.



Then Uncle Frank had the happy

thought of the Golden Circle. Bless

the man. May I whisper, or is that

bad manners? Well, I just wanted to

know whether “Comma” is a Golden

Circler. If not, won’t you please make

her one right away? That letter of

her’s surely deserves it.





Will “Comma” please write me 'a.’





personal letter, in care of Uncle Frank,

who has my address? I want to know

more about her junior missionary

work. If she would rather write to

Our Page about it, all right, but I

would dearly love to receive a per-

sonal letter.





« in ’the letters from M. C.’ s,





 





:‘I like Slim Jim’s remarks about ~

"Study in vacation, time, and Uncle.

Frank’ s comment on the “like it or '

lump it” question. I cannot improve.

Ijust‘ keep-





on “Com .6" remarks.

thinking, “ less the girl,” to myself.

I love her so. ——Ermine Cote, Benzonia,

Mich" R. 2.





The success of the "Merry Circle is

due 'to the intelligence offthose who

write letters. I often marvel at them

myself, and wonder if I could do as

well if I tried. The only credit I am





’ due is in knowing a good thing when





I see it.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:

My motto will not be unfamiliar to

you, as you have seen it many times

“If you

don’t succeed, try, try again.” We

should start a club having that name.

Let all girls and boys who cling un-





ceasingly to that motto join with the





promise that it will always be their

watchword. Just think, Uncle Frank,

what a wonderful world this would be

if each individual always succeeded in

doing what they started out to do,

providing they were all working for

the best in life, and not the quickest

way to success.



I have been a member of the M. C.

Club for several years. I have tried

several times to win prizes, but never

succeeded. I was never so proud as

when I received my M. C. pin and

card—Olga Poggensee, Irons, Mich.



Your watchword is a“necessity in

life. What a world this would be if

all our goodrintentions worked out. I

am proud of the membership we have

in the Circle.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



This is the first time I have written,

because it is the first time I have

seen the Michigan Farmer, but it won’t.

be the last.



When I see something that attracts

my attention, I always either hate or

like it. The M. C. corner attracted

my attention with more than the usual

amount of interest, and you may be

very sure that I like it a great deal.



I’ m not exactly a farmer’s daughter,

though I was almost born on a farm,

but even if I had been born, raised,

and lived on a farm all my life, I

couldn’t like it better.





I am quite a nature lover, but i.





haven’t had any time to explore na-

ture’s treasures here. When I see an

innocent animal dead, a funny lump

always rises in my throat.

‘I could almost. swear at a person who

would kill a bird or animal in cold





Little Nature Studies





T lie Pz'tblzer Plant





LL of us know that many animals

feed on plants, but we seldom

trace nature’s mysterious processes

back far enough to realize that plants,

in turn,4feed on the remains of ani-

mals.

[,Here, however, is a plant that has





turned the tables on the animal king— ‘





dom in deadly earnest. The pitcher

plant, known, too, as the huntsman’s

cup, does not wait for the living crea—-

tures to die and become part of the

earth before it adds them to its diet,

but catches them as live prey and ac-

tually feeds upon them as a lion de-

vours the zebra it has slain.



This curious'plant is a marsh dwel-

ler, found only in wet, inaccessible

bogs. Its leaves are the traps by

which it catchesits insect quarry.



These leaves lie in aiflat rosette on





prevent them from escaping, and fin-

ally they fall back intothe water, ex—

hausted. Once drowned they are die—





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





the marsh ground, all growingout- -





ward from the center.

ed like pitchers with an ”open lid, and





on the inside of this lid grow short, ,.

stiff hairs, all pointing down The.





leaves are half nIl‘ed with Water, mix-





ed with a sweet sap Which the plant;





pours out to attract insects. ,_ -

Flies, ants, spiders and other crew,



tures ’crawi down into the leaf ‘r thin?



feast The: hair!





 





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.‘Weare‘ glad the M. C. has attracted,

you, andp-I‘hop‘e you will soon become





a _Circler.- Try spme of the contests,

as through the contests is the” only

way in which'yon can become one.





 





. Dear Uncle and Cousins: \





Uncas has quite an idea about evo-

lution. It I’gives” you something to

think about. Let’s \ discuss, for a

change, the value of Sunday School in

girls’ or/boys’ early training. I would

like to read some of the M. C.’s opin-

ions of it.



My hobby is reading. My favorite

authors are Louisa M. lAJcott, Mrs. L.

T. Mead and Gene Stratton Porter.—

.V era Dewell. "





That would be a. good subject to dis-

cuss. Let’s have some opinions on it.





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Dear Uncle and...Cousins:



It is Saturday evening and I just

finished reading the Michigan Farmer,

a paper I couldn’t get along .without.

I have been an M. C. for I don’t know





» hovg long, but have never written a





letter yet.. I have answered quite a

few centests, but I have never won.

I guess I’ll have to learn patience. ,



The first thing I do when I get.to

Our Page is to look at the names

who wrote the letters,- before I even

read them, to see if Guilford, a swell

writer, has written, for I have to read

his first. He must have gone to China,

as I don’t see any more letters from

him, or is he past the age line?—

Billie.



I think you are learning patience.

I too, miss Guilford’s letters. I don’t

know if he is past the age limit or

not. I hope he, at least, comes in on

the Home-coming.





 





THE SCRAMBLE CONTEST.





 





HERE is no doubt about this con-

test being a flop. We did not get

enough replies to qualify for all the

prizes. I know M. C.’s are interested

in scrambles, but ’ perhaps many





 





 

 

 

 





at all.» 2,,

nary pleasant experiences .one: may

have had from" these scrambles, also

the unpleasant ones, if any.





 





1‘7-‘iweranted was the ordi-





I know"

fromthe general correspondence, that

such experiences exist. The prize win-

ners this time are: ,

, fountain Pens.



Elsa HermanR. 2, Caledonia, Mich.



Christine Zech, Algonac, Mich.



, Lease-leaf_‘Note Books.



Avis Smith, R. 2, Blanchard, Mich.



Mary Brablc, R. 5, Ithaca, N. Y.



Mary Girard, Masonville, Mich.





Two Michigan ‘ Farmer Pencils.

Mildred Luusua, Chassell, Mich.

Amber May Gilbert, Reese, Mich.





CORRESPONDENCE SCRAM'BLE.





 





VEN though the scramble contest



was not very successful, I know

that the scrambles themselves are.

We have not had one for some time,

so it is time for one now. To take

part in this scramble you should write

a letter to “Dear Friend,” or “Dear

Merry Circler,” address an envelope

to yourself, and put a stamp on it;

then address 'an envelope to Uncle

Frank, Michigan ' Farmer, Detroit,

Michigan. Put both the letter and

the envelope addressed to you, in the

latter envelope. If you are below thir-

teen years of age, put the letter A in

the left-hand corner of the envelope

addressed to me; it above thirteen,

use the letter B. This scramble will

close October 21, at which time your

letter will be put into another envelope

and one in yours, and sent out. Be

sure you follow directions, as that is

necessary in order to scramble your

letter.





In some European cities there are

police who speak the international

language, Esperanto, and who wear

badges showing that they are Esper-

anto interpreters.





 





   

 

 





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Stories From Bugville

T he T ale of Dilly Dal/y





ILLY was a grasshopper who

.lived down in the meadow. ‘Dur-

mg the warm summer days, he

played among the fragrant clo-

ver blossoms. He nibbled here and

there at the fresh clover leaves, and

hIS long legs grew longer and strong-

er. He could hop farther‘ than any of

the other grasshoppers. .

But Dilly had a very~bad habit.

Whenever he was sent on an errand





~ he would play by the way. When Dilly





should have been gathering a winter’s

supply of food into his storehouse, he

dalhed among the cloverxblossoms.



“I’ll gather some food tomorrow,”

he promised himself several times.

But always when that tomorrow came

it found him playing among the clover

blossoms. as 'usual,

bad habit, Dilly’s bug friends called

him Dilly Dally. ‘



Finally the warm. summer days be~

gan to grow, cold, and one night Jack

Frost t1 _toed ‘over the meadow when

all‘the ittle,‘ bugs were asleep. He

breathed a chilly breath to the right

and to the left, and then tip—toed on

hisway again. ' ,



In the» __mornlng when Dilly Dally

awoke, he found the crisp, green clo.

ver leaves brown and withered.



“Qh, dear me,” complained Dilly Dal-

ly, I what will I have for breakfast?”

‘ legs that were

stiff from the .cold night, and limped

along through the: withered clover

plants until 6 came to the Meadow

Mouse’shouse‘.



‘fTunk, Tunk,” Dilly Dal knocked

atvthe Meadow Mouse’s d . r. *In an-

swer, the “ Meadow ,Mouse poked her





head out of her cosy nest.





. “May I come in?” asked Dilly Dally.

“I want some breakfast.”

“No, you lazy fellow, foryeu dilly





g’dallied all summer. in the sunshine,

*while I worked to gathergmy food for





. "Andc‘withV-thqt’ the. Meadow

Med" , .r door ’ tad, yrvgurléd ”up





Because of this-





wFros-t tiptoed over the me





farther it began to rain, so he climbed ,





up in a Jack—in-the-Pulpit that had

been sheltered from Jack Frost’s chilly

breath the night before. He pulled

the umbrella part down around him,

all snug and warm“. Then the merry

winds blew and rocked him to sleep.

When Dilly Dally awoke the sun was

shining, but he was more hungry than

ever.



Hopping out of his snug little bed

he hurried on to the ant’s house. » In





 

 





Dilly Da

Down, All Snug and Warm.





answer to his knock, a, big, black ant '





opened the door.



“May I come in?” asked Dilly Dally.

“I am hungry and I have no‘ warm

house like yours.” ' ,



“No, sires, sir,” replied the Big Black

Ant. You dilly dallied all. summer,

Mr. Grasshopper, while we workeddto

gather food for the winter. Now you

can pay the fiddler for your fun.” And

he closed the door of his cosy little





‘ hill house.





With a sorrowful face, Dilly Dally

hopped on his way. That 'ght Jack

' 0W, again

and some of the bugs say that he car‘-





'1'in Dilly Dally away with~him, for m

not one‘of them ever saw him again.





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much now— and more later





FARMER’ wants new



equipment. His own may



be “pretty fair,” but a practical



sense shows him how much



more could be done with bet’



ter. He wants it; but he first

wants to make sure.





Users of farm'electrical equip!

ment today are reporting good

results. But the development

of electrical machinery for the

farm has just begun. Electrical

manufacturers, aided by farm

organizations and agricultural

schools, will continue to make

better machinery, improve the

old and work out and test new

uses for electricity. What dis;

coveries in farm economy may





lie ahead!

The electrical industry is bring!





ing all the weight of its in-

dustrial experience to the 881".

vice of the farmer. With its

vast system of interconnecting

lines, it was never better pre'

pared to serve. The farmer

wants not only light but every

form of power that will make

life on the farm as comfortable

and convenient as in the city.

A rural civilization will arise,

worthy in every way of the

farmer’s dream.





Groups of farmers who can

assure their local power com-

pany of a sufficient demand

for current to make a new

line sclf’supporting will find.

the company glad to cooper

ate. Ask your power company

for information.





The Committee on Relation 0 {Electricity to Agriculture is composed of economists and

engineers representing the U. 8. Departments of A ncultme, Commerce and the





Interior, American Farm Bureau Federation,





Nationa Grange, American Secret)! of





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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 moat pure-

bred herds. JOHN ENDICOTT, Birmingham, Mich.





 





- Superior breeding. Two cows

Registered Guernseys to freshen soon. one bull 18

months. one six months. Come and see them.

G. A. WIGENT, Watervliet, Mich.





FOR practically pure-bred IUERNSEY or HOL-

STEIN calves. from heavy. rich milkers,

write EDBEWOOD DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater, VIII.

GUERNSEYS popular blood lines. cows.



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n‘gmeml Guernsels able bull. Loc KSH o R E

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"For sale. THORNWOOD FARMS. Ada, Michigan.

Four Registered Guernseys.





F0 R S A L heifers and one cow. W. D.





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REGISTERED HOLSTEIN



Bull Calves at prices the owner of.

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undefeated Show bull with 70 A. R.

daughters. Others sired by a 5 times

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How To Tumult DOG.





 





IT requires patience t0° train a. dog





or any other animal. There must





be good knowledge of what the dog

ought to be able to learn. Dogs have

their limitations. .But they can, at

least some dogs can, be taught to drive

cattle and other stock, and do it well,

and they can be taught to guard or

watch and do it faithfully. They can

be taught to retrieve or go get things.

And'they can be taught various tricks.

but the trick dog is liable to get the

idea. that the tricks are of more im-





portance than the useful things. So'





be careful about that.



The first thing to teach a dog is to

mind fou in the very simple things.

The first thing is “come here!” You

want a. leash to do this. When you

say, “come here!” pull him-to you and

reward him by a. pat and a. kind word,

and a bit of choice food. Don’t be

rough, don’t be brutal, and never





 





you 'where“ he should for protection





and; encouragement. ‘3“.With the leash, 54‘ A





17°11; caniéfif'train' him from going too





fast. You "can have the, leash fifty or '





sixty feet long} Keep at this faithfully

until he’ anWs just what you want

him to do. - 'Aft‘eraiime, try him with—

"out the ."leas'h, and "ifhe gets too am:-

ious and eXCited ‘put the leash back

on again and icorrect him. He’ll soon

learn what you mean, when you say,

“steady! steady-2”» or “careful! care-

ful!” and when ‘he is old enough, if





"hisrlessons. are .well learned, you can.





send him alone after the cattle and

he will drive them in thisway.



A dog reflects his. master very much.

If the master is nervous and excitable

the (dog is apt to. be. If the master

always has se-lfepossession, and is quiet

and calm, the dog is much more? apt

to be so. Don’t talk too much. Use





few words, then he can understand~





you. Come, go,“get, careful or steady,

hurry and slow are about all the foun-





 





 





’ Gholera Can’t





strike a, dog. It is unnecessary. Any-

thing but a crin'ging dog that does

things because he has to. He should

be taught to do things because it

pleases you—then he’s faithful."



Use the same word for the same

thing every time. Don’t use one word

one day and a different word the next.

The dog will not understand. . You

can’t teach them a very large vocabu-

lary.



Only give one lesson at a time.

Teach him to “come here!” first and

thoroughly. Don’t go too fast. Let

him do a. lot of things, and don't 'no-

tice them at all, but when you say

“come here!” mean it, and see that he

does it. Reward him every time.



After you teach the meaning of the

word come, then take the word “go!"

These are the two great words for a

dog to understand. Throw a. piece of

food where he can see it, and then

tell him to “go get!”





It is best not to let other people in-

terfere much in these early lessons.

Too many masters spoil _a dog. If a

lot of people are around to attract his

attention, don’t train. Go away by





yourself so‘you can keep the dog’s]





attention. If he plays with children

and other, people, don’t pay any atten-

tion to him at that times if you can

avoid it. Let him play, but if it be-

comes necessary for you, to call him

to you, see that he minds, if you have

to go and get him. __If it becomes nec-

essary‘t'o send him away, see that he

ioes, if you have to carry mm, but





. on’t abuse. him. He’ll soon do as yOu





tell him, willingly It‘ will take acme

time to teach these two words, >“come'j





 





Work on this

'until he thoroughly understands.





 

 





and, s“»goffxsc_;flhe thoroughly understand -~ 5

them“; Taken .





 





Touch These. L





dation words you have to teach a dog.



When you want. to teach him to

“guard” or “watch,” a. good way is to

leave the barn door open and a. basket

of grain close by to tempt an animal.

When they come for it you must drive-

them away first, to have the dog un-

derstand. Then, he will, do it alone,





and finally you can teach him to lie'





down by it. It becomes his job, and

by careful, ~patient training he will

.stay there until you tell him to come

away.‘Don’.t let‘other people interfere,

and keep patiently at it.—-C. ,L.





 





MISSAUKEE ADDS ANOTH ER

TESTING ASSOCIATION.





 





NEW »D’airy Herd Improvement

Association was organized in Mis-

saukee county, named Missaukee-Osce—

013. D. H. I. A. The board of directors

are: Arie :Smits, of McBain, presi-

dent; John E.:Sikkema, of Marion, sec—

retary~treasurer; Auke Bourna, of Mo

(Baln, director; Wm. Koster, of Mc-

Bain, vice-president; Wm. Van de Pal,

of McBain, director. Leland Van Dyke,

of Beaverton, was selected as COW test-

er at the meeting September 26; ‘

County , Agricultural Agent, H. L'.

Barnum, of Lake City, says that Ralph

Moorhéid, the tester for the Missou-

‘keechBain Association, helped .sign‘

the” majority of the new members of

this association.





"societions at Michigan State College,

talkedxabout the things to be gained

by belongingto one of these,” organiza-

tions. Five ,dsiry herd. improvement

associations are operating in Miser“:-

,ke'e, county, one of the leading‘coiinties





A; 0., ‘Baltzer, in‘ v

.._charge of dairy ~herd— impmyenlent as- '
11101926 this





   

   





 

 





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WINNING funior champion, bull,

7” and. sliding three-cows. into sec-;,

and, third, and fourth pesitions in ma-

ture‘classes, gives Michiganders right

to be proud or Holsteins representing

the Wolverine state .at the Annual





, Dairy Congress, Wa.ter100,; Iowa,





The junior champ was Do Cream:

00. Calamity Posch, shown by the De-

troit Creamery Farms, of Mt. Clemens.

He has been going good all season,

being junior champion at- Ohio State

and Michigan State Fairs. ,

‘ The cow that stood second in ma-

ture cow class provided a sensation.

for'the ringside. ‘She had never been

shown, except in small fairs in Michi-

gan this season, then to step out in a

show claimed by many to be the dairy

classic of America, was most unusual.

Tulip Beauty, ten-year—old matron own-

ed by the Michigan Reformatory of

Ionia, is the cow that won this honor.

Next to her was the‘famous Bell Farm

Hattie, owned by Detroit Creamery

Farms, and next in linecame Bess

Ormsby Korndyke Jewel, owned by A.

H. Buhl, of Oxford. ‘



Out of sixteen animals shown, thir-

teen got into the money. Buhl’s two-

year-old bull landed fourth. The three-

year-old bull sent by J. B. Jones, of

Romeo, alsb took a fourth prize. De-

troit Creamery’s two-year-old heifer

grabbed off sixth. Other animals

shown by those mentioned, and by E.

M. Bayne, of Romeo, lit in seventh,

eighth or ninth positions.



The Michigan Holstein‘herd is going

on to the National Dairy Show at

Memphis—J. G. Hays.





 





SOME OF MICHIGAN’S LEADING

JERSEY HERDS.





 





MICHIGAN Jerseys under test in

dairy herd improvement associa-

tions are showing their ability at the

pail in a striking manner. A summary

of- the leading herds discloses that the

ten highest butter-fat producing herds

lists five pure-bred Jersey herds

among the leading ten.



There are 2,780 herds of all breeds

under test in the 106 Michigan dairy

herd improvement associations. Ap-

proximately 30,000 cows are tested

each month in these organizations, so

that the honors won by‘these herds in—

dicate their worth as efficient butter-

fat producers. The first five herds

listed in the following group table

ranked among the leading ten herds

in .Michigan’s associations. In addi-

tion there are five other Jersey herds

listed, which would compose the group

01' ten leading Jersey herds under test

in Michigan during 1926 and 1927:



First. H. M. Atwater, of Bravo

Michigan, member in the West Allegan

Association, is the” owner of the high-

est-producing Jersey herd. His small

herd of pure-bred Jerseys averaged

519 poundsof butter-fat and 10,132

pounds of milk testing 5.12 per cent.

This herd has been tested for five

years in the West Allegan'Association.

The record was made on twice-a—day

milking. In 1926 the AtWater herd

ranked twelfth high for all breeds i-n

herd production for the state“ '



.Second. Henry Meyers, of Roth-

bury, possesses a herd of six pure-bred

Jerseys which has exCelled in'Michi-

gan dairy herd improvement associa-

tions for a. long number of years. Mr.

Meyers has been a member of the

Oceans. D. H. I. A. for five years. In

1924 this herd of pure-bred Jerseys

was second high in butter~fat produc-

tion for all herds under test. In that

year the herd produced 488.8 pounds

of butter-fat and 9,198 pounds of milk.





' -~ In 1925 the six pure-bred- Jerseys in





this herd averaged 493.3 pounds of but-

“tar-fat. and 9,155 pounds of milk rank~

ing arm ‘highifor. an herdsmnder test.

. ‘ shard averaged..499.0

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team; and 10,‘2"‘451‘pominsror milk test-





ing 4.98“ per .cent. Retestsf’wére con- . “





ducted in this herd.\ The remarkable

production during the years listed in-

dicates that this herd is one of the

really outstanding herds ofthe state.



Third. D. J. Dinsen & Son, mem-

bers in the Kent-Alto Association, are

the owners of a herd of seven pure-

bred Jerseys averaging 490.6 pounds

of butter-fat, and 8,961 pounds of milk

testing 5.48 per cent. This herd has

been in the testing association for two

years. .



Fourth. L. C.» Morse, member in the

West Allegan Association, is the own-

er of five pure—bred Jerseys, which av-

eraged 8,967 pounds of milk and 476.2

pounds of butter-fat, test 5.3 per cent.



Fifth. Edward Coupar, member of

the Sanilac No. 2 Association for three

years, has a herd which averaged

469.8 pounds of butter-fat, and 8,563

pounds of milk. This herd of pure-

bred Jerseys tested 5.48 per cent.



Sixth. R. D. Bancroft, member in

the Kent-Alto Association for four

years, is the owner of a purebred and

grade herd of Jerseys, which produced

8,593 pounds of milk, and 467.1 pounds

of butter-fat. This herd of 9.5 cows

tested 5.44 per cent.



Seventh. G. N. Carman, member in

the Allegan-West Association, is the

owner of a pure-bred herd of» Jerseys

which averaged 8,500 pounds of milk,

and 465.6 pounds of butter-fat. This

herd has been tested for two years in

the West Allegan Association.



Eighth. Wayne Kelley, member in





owner of six cows which averaged

8,361 pounds of milk, and 457.8 pounds

of butter-fat, test 5.47 per cent.



Ninth. John K. Worthington, mem-

ber in the Ingham—Lansing Association

for three years, owns the ninth highest

producing Jersey herd. This herd of

5.7 pure-bred Jersey cows produced

8,002 pounds of milk, and 455.4 pounds

of butter-fat, test 5.69 per cent.



Tenth. F. R. Mosier is the owner

of the tenth highest'producing Jersey

herd and belongs to the Allegan-West

Association. This herd averaged 4551

pounds of butter-fat, and 8,928 pounds

of milk testing 5.12 per cent.



Continuous herd production over a

period of years has reSulted in bring-

ing to these herds, not alone high av-

erages in butter-fat production, but

also greater profits through increased

yields over cost of feed.





GRADES VS. PU RE—BREDS.





 





ANY times dairymen compare



notes regarding how good grade

cows are when compared with pure-

bred cows. Facts gathered through

Michigan herd improvement associa-

tions throw light on the question of

how profitable pure—breds are compar-

ed with grade cows, considering only

milk and butter-fat production.



Occasional individual pure-bred

cows have not produced as much but-

ter-fat as the best grade cows. A to

tal of 4,836 pure-bred cows on test

for twelve months, show that they pro-

duced an average of 8,637 pounds of

milk testing 3.8 per cent,-and 332

‘pounds of butter-fat. For the same

period of 1926 and 1927, and under

similar conditions, 6,956 grade cows

show that they averaged 7,722 pounds

of milk testing 4.1 per cent, and 315

pounds of butter-fat.



There isno question but what grade

cowsnare culled out mere closely and

severely‘ than pure—bred cows. Thus

these figures are more nearly a. com-,

parison of the very best grades

against the pure-breds, retained on

Michigan farms. The same methods

of "culling out low-producing pure-breds-

are needed in improving Michigan

dairy cattle as are now in vogue in

culling but 'low5prodiiCing grade ', cowsé





‘~ ' v.52pure-bred19r

’ says :liasaveraged.jgliggfipundg of but- -‘





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CAUTION





gets results!





70% of the accidents at grade crossings last year oc-





curred in daylight.





63% occurred where there was no obstruction to a





clear view of the crossing.





In a large majority of the accidents the automobile





drivers were familiar with





the crossings.





And 20% of the accidents were caused by the auto-

mobile running into the train.





These are the outstanding ‘facts

about grade crossing accidents——the

growing number of which has be-

come a national problem.





The railroads were the prime movers

in the inauguration of organized

safety. And for years they have un-

dertaken every measure within their

ability to promote it.





Passenger fatalities have been re-





NewYork Central Lines _





Boston & Albany—Michigan Central—Big Four—Pittsburgh & Lake Erie

and the New YOrk Central and Subsidiary Lines '





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than a third of what they wcrctwenty

years ago.





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Grade crossing accidents can be rc-

duced tremendously if caution will





be exercised by the individual, en- ’





couraged by the authorities and en-

forced by public opinion.





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La Salle St. Station, Chicago, Ill.

465 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y.





Michigan Central Station, Detroit, Mich.

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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.





after.

Included in the sale is a consignment





bulls from the Well-known Herd at Traverse City, Mich.





“44 females, 24 cows that will be fresh at sale time or will freshen soon





of 10 yearling heifers and two young

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, J. E. MACK. JAY B.





TOOLEY, Secretary, Howell, Michigan. .





 





Stockers, -Feeders

and Dairy Cattle





120'Guernsey and Jersey Heifers,

some Springmg.



60 Holstein Heifers,somc springing.



20 Springer Cows. /



50 Stocker Heifers Grade Short—

homs. ‘ , . ‘



250 Grade Shorthorn Steers, 500

to .800 lbs.





Would prefer to contract steers for

‘ October delivery.





GRAY’S RANCH,





 





Choice Jersey Bulls W

dams mm m





for service.

calves. for sale

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$300.00 BUYS 3V3- high grade Holstein



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months old, one registered, and one registered bi‘lll

six 2:11ng olfd not o(faint: to heifers. All nicely

"Wt tom 8 d. cing dams .

REAVEY‘. Akron. men. m u ' 8' 3'





REGISTERED JERSEY BULL '





dropped April 11th. 1926. Dam's B. O. M. M

5.763 lbs. milk. 315 lbs. fat, age 1 yr. 7 mos}. mice

5100. H. C. WHIPPLE. Augusta, Mich. - '





 





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. CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM

Sliver Creek. Allegan County, Michigan





S IX Bred Heifers. registered Jerseys. herd Fedml

Accredited: choice individuals. $150 each. Iravw.

Jayne, County 81:19., Detroit. Farm at Benton, Mich.





 





 





 





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Calves. Year’l & Twos; Here/ford Steers a Harem.”





Beef Type. .. dark reds.

augshes ’ omed, _ 9001(1)“ bunch even in



s breedm ' . oioe Herdords are usually

market toppers when finished. Few winches '1‘? B

tested. Will sell your choice from

number and welsht’ you, refer





sood gratis 'flesh. most all





my bunch.

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shipping tags and quotations.

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a hay producing center. With

this market declining, the farmers in

that county are turning to other farm

practices chief of which is dairying.



A little north of Rudyard is a group

of farmers of Holland descent, who are

leaders in the dairy movement. These

fellows are natural dairymen and, of

course, all keep a. herd of Holstein-

Friesian cattle.



Art Talsma is one of the leading

farmers in this group. He is building

a fine herd of real milk producers, and

more than that, he is building for per-

manence by interesting his boys in the

farm through club Work. He has three

sons in calf club work, each building

a. herd of his own. Egbert Talsma,

age sixteen, has been in club work





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HIPPEWA county has been fag

mous for a great many years as





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tober‘ and November. These cows pro-





duced $4.00 above the "average of 511





cows, and as much as $9. 00 more than





those cows freshening during the





spring and summer months. ~

-~ The largest amount of butter-fat is





also produced by cows in this season.‘





The next most profitable'season prov-

ed to be the winter months of Decem-

ber, January and February.



The fall group of freshening cows

averaged 8, 248 pounds of milk and 3-34

pounds of butter- fat, while those fresh-

ening during the winter averaged 8,108

pounds of milk and 321 pounds of but-

ter-fat. Cows freshening during the





spring and summer months averaged '





only 7,650 pounds of milk and 303.5

pounds of butter-fat.



These results are the findings on

nearly 12,000 cowsunder test in Mich-





 





 





 





The Talsma Boys Are Getting a Good Start in Club Work.





John, age twelve, three

one





four, years;

years, and Raymond, age nine,

year.



Egbert started in club work in 1924

and placed on the first dairy judging





team at Chatham, which took him on.





a free trip to the State Fair. He won

another trip to Detroit in 1926, also

some sheep that were put up as a

prize for sheep judging at Camp Shaw

in 1926. Not content with these hon-

ors, in 1927 he made the highest in-

dividual score in general live stock

judging that was made at Camp Shaw.



This year he organized his own club,

consisting of twenty-two boys in his

own community, ahd acts in the ca-

pacity of leader for this group This

.group holds their own meetings with-

out the assistance of the county agent

and carries on a very successful pro-

gram.





John, his brother, won a trip to De





troit this year and is another live wire

that will go far in his chosen line.





i The boys own six head of pure-breds





now—Egbert, three; John, two, and

Raymond one.



Egbert is going to Michigan» State

College this winter to study dairy pro-

duction. All three boys are greatly

interested ‘ in dairying, and with the

encouragement they get from “dad”

will make some real leaders in their

community.



The Talsma family has been a mem-

ber of the cow testing association

since its inception in Chippewa, and

usually have a few cows right near

the top each month. Art Talsma is a.

real individual himself, and would

place high were farmers in the Upper

Peninsula scored.





FALL FRESHENING COWS PAY

BEST.





 





HE season of freshening of Mich-



igan dairy cows plays an import-

ant part in the profitableness of Mich-

igan cows.

the .Bureau of Dairying, Washington,

D. C., and sent to the Dairy Depart

ment, Michigan State College, show

that all cows on test for twelve months

in 1926 and 1927 in Michigan dairy

herd improvement association make





the‘ most money ‘when’ they freshen ],

4 during the months at September. 09:





 





 





Records tabulated through ~





igan, and based from results obtained

from cows freshening during the asso-

ciation year.





 





HOGGING OFF CORN.





 





N order to ascertain if it is advis-



able, When hogging off corn, to pur-

chase the protein needed, in the form

of tankage, or grow it in the form of

rape or sow beans, a series of experi-

ments is being conducted at the Micha

igan Station.



Three lots of corn of one acre each

were planted, with eight and two-

thirds pounds of Post’s yellow dent

corn per acre. Lot one was sown .with

Dwarf Essex rape at the rate of eight

pounds per acre immediately after the

last cultivation of the corn. Lot two

was .-planted with Manchu soy" beans

at the rate of nine and one-half pounds

per acre, immediately after the corn

was sown. No other feed except min-

erals was given the pigs placed in

these two lots. The pigs in Lot three

had access to sixty per cent tankage

in a self-feeder, as well as to the min-

eral mixture. .



The mineral mixture used consisted

of forty-five pounds of steamed bone

meal, twenty pounds of pulverized

limestone, and thirty pounds of com-

mon salt placed in self-feeders. Water

was available at all times in an auto-

matic waterer placed in each lot. .



When the pigs were turned in, the

corn on each lot. was mature enough

to keep if out and shocked. There

was an abundance of rape in Lot 0119

throughout the entire experiment. The

soy beans in Lot two were well filled

and most of them were ripe enough to

pull, although there were many green

leaves on them in several parts of the

lot, when the pigs, were turned in.





Practically no leaves. but considerable .

soy bean grain was left at the close. *





of the experiment.





Each group of pigs was given a shel-y





ter. with strawfor bedding.

The following





in charge. _. ,

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madam .‘pi





 





’7 fed 161: returned a slightly lower value





conclusions were»

drama by .the men having this work,





i 8 Althoughthetsnkage-l





per bushel bt earn consumed, these





9135 53.1an more rapidly .than did the -





others; especially\ those in the soy

bean lot, and were therefore ~firiisl1‘ed

for market earlier





4 The values returned by the hogs ~





for the cerh consumed, as shown in "





this experiment, indicates that hog—

ging down corn is a rapid and eco

nomical method of converting this crop

into pork. ' '





 





INTERNATIONAL ENTRIES CLOSE

NOVEMBER 1.





ENTRIES in the individual classes

of the International Live Stock

Exposition, which will be held at the





 





Chicago Union Stock Yards, November ’





26 to December 3, close on November

1, and in the carlOad division on No-

vember 19, according to Secretary-

Manager B. H. Heide. Grain and Hay

Show entries may be made up to No-

vember 10.





The premium list which Mr. Heide

is distributing among prospective ex-

hibitors, offers nearly $110,000 in cash

prizes, as well as many valuable troph-

ies, medals, and other coveted awards.

Over forty distinct breeds of beef cat-

tle, hor'ses,‘sheep and swine, as well

as numerous grades and cross-breds,

and twenty-two different crops will

compete in nearly 1,050 classes. Rough-

ly, $45,000 will be distributed among

the winners in the cattle classes, $28,-

000 in the horse division, $10,000 each

in the sheep and swine departments,

and $15,0007in miscellaneous contests;





 





SUNLIGHT, AND FEED FOR UN-

WEANED PIGS.





 





HE first few weeks of a pig’s life



determine, to a great extent, its

usefulness. A thrifty pig overcomes

obstacles, while a weak one becomes '

susceptible to disease. Sunlight and

feed are the, factors that determine,

to a great extent, the, thrift of the

pigs. Sunlight is a. disinfectant, as





well as a natural tonic. The pigs that”





are fed \during the winter months

where there is an abundance of sun-

shine, are usually thrifty, healthy, and

money-makers.





Pigs‘often lose considerable weight

when weaned, and two or three weeks

are required to bring them to a profit-

able gain. This conditibn is due to

the fact that the pigs have not re

ceived sufiibient grain before and up

to the time of weaning. A “pig fence”

where the spigs may readily have a’

feeder and be able to eat good ground

cats at their pleasure, is an assurance

against a setback at weaning time.

The "pig fence” permits the small pigs

to enter while the old sows are kept

out. Some'farmers also slop the pigs,

which gives them a double feed—since

they can eat with old sows and also in

the‘ feed lot. A self-feeder filled with

ground oats and corn, and a liberal

amount of tankage in the pig lot, is a.

double assurance of profit from the

future hog sale.





If the suckling pigs have access to





a self-feeder of ground oats and corn





and tankage or skim-milk, they will

not lose weight, or become stunted

when weaned. --—H. Holt.





 





DAIRY BARN WALLS.





 





TAR paper applied to etudding is





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For Home Use, Too





Relieves pain. Soothes and '

heals. An oldctime family

remedy. Keep it always

handy for lumbagor-back-

ache—sore and aching

muscles—cuts—sprains—

bmises—-andburns.Atyour

druggist, $2.00 a bottle.





The Lawrence-Williams Co.

Cleveland, Ohio





 

   





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CORN Is MONEY





Thousands of bushels of corn are de-

stroyed each year by fire, rats, mice and

mold. This year you cannot afi'ord this

loss. (1 Put a Dickelman Crib on your

farm and save every car of corn. It will

pay for itself because every cause of

waste is eliminated. (I There' is a style

and size that will exactly meet .

your requirements.





“Overrsmoo in use and every user a booster”





[DICKELMAN MANUFACTURING CO.

618 Main Shed. Forest, Ohio *





vantage”; the peel farm I'





 





 





 





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FOR SAISE immune”..-





stems. Shorthorns

Herefords and Angus. also 825 choice twding lambs.

Address A..M. WELCH. lonla, Mi.oh





 





 





0 1 d teed steers.

FOR SALE street. .5. a G...

color. A. L. DAVIS 8c SON. Merritt. Mich. .





 





FOR SALE Waterman}. “i:

BROWN. R. No. I0. Kalamazoo. Mich.

FOR SALEB 3 “uReslstered BSIJOIIththn





F. I. JONES. R. I. GrandB ladye. Mich.





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HOGS

' ’ Buy a gilt now and grow

Berkshire Gilts ,, puwbmd sow. Lam,

English pe. Prices reasonable. Address TALCOA

FARM. . 7. Lansing. Michigan. .~





 





. Spring boars ready for ser-

Berkshires vice Also choice Jr year~





ling show boar. W. H. EVERY. Manchester. Mich.





DurOc Spring Pigs





Either sax. pairs or tries unrelated. Bred sows and

:ervice pboan. All are registered. cholera immune





LAKEYFIELD FARMS, lilarksion, Mich.





UROO JERSEY so a and fall bears of 111 r

D blood lines. Writewrlir come and see themmfiesie

Bites 6. Son. Henderson. Mich.



Write for





6... c. HQGS on time HogBook





Origina ore and most extensive breeders.

THE L. I. S LVER OO., 80x196.3a|om. Ohio





For Sale--Reg. O. I. C. April& May Pigs





 





 





beetot needing 8111 oped on approval. FRED

KENNEDYG. &SON3. R. I, Chelsea. Mleh.

o I C’s. Good last. spring pigs. not akin





pigs. recorded free.

OTTO SCHULZE Ii SONS. Nashville. Mich.





POLAND CHINAS





Our 9th Annual Sale. mm Nov. 3. 1927.1‘wen-



ty—alx tilts and fifteenboers mun. Choice individuals.

choice breeding your choice at. your, price. We like

good Pelan lands—hac'd do you: Write now for co

and to sale at falm. WESLEY NILE:

lenla. Mich.





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sold.w

you. Watch no

date of Widths has, on. W. E. LIVINGWSTONE.





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Canada. leIOW that they are receiving





. more money for their crop than they





received before and immediawa fol-

lowing the war. Admittedly, not all





I, this improvement is due' to the Pool,





as Canada has had three~gOOd wheat

(traps in succession, and wheat prices





have been better than just before or





after the war. However, some of the

improved financial status of the pool

farmers is without question due to the

Pool’s method of paying for the grain

sold by it. »



Orderly financing is what the busi-

ness men and bankers of the prairie

provinces term the Pool’s methods of

payments. Paying for the wheat in

four installments has removed the

necessity of running a line of credit

to the extent farmers once ran.

Wheat is the one great cash crop of

the prairie provinces, and will remain

so for many years to come, and

naturally, when the farmer sold all

his wheat in the fall he received the

bulk of his year’s income in those

months. ,



The old practice was to sell the

wheat after threshing, pay the banks

and stores what they had coming,

and if there was anything left the





farmer naturally felt flush and had‘

' a tendency to “blow" himself.





Then

in the spring he started borrowing

again, at eight per cent or more, and

by fall he had to sell his wheat again

to meet his obligations. Under that

practice the farmer financed this

year’s crop from What he expected to

get for it; Now the pool farmer

finances this year’s crop on the basis

of what he got for last year’s crop.





.The initial payment in the fall or on

delivery, usually takes care of obliga-

tions then coming due; the spring pay-

ment carries him through threshing;

then he still has the final payment

coming in September. This distribu-

tion of the wheat money has certainly

made pool farmers wiser spenders. It

has placed them on the same basis

as the salaried man, who, if he re-

ceived his year’s wages annually,

would probably spend freely for a.

month or two and then be hard up for

the rest‘ of the year.





Reduce Bank Borrowings.



This system of payments has cut

down some of the borrowings at the

banks, as the pool farmers are ad-

justin their operations to this new

syste This is indicated by the ex-

perience of one farmer who had gone

to town last July to borrow $500 to

buy some harvesting equipment. Be-

fore going to the bank he went to

the post office, and there was his

pool check for over $600, representing

his third payment. Naturally, he didn’t

borrow any money. The bank lost

that loan, but the bankers feel that

what they lose directly has been more

than made up by the increased pros-

perity of their customers.





 





WANT MICHIGAN MILK.“





 





HE Northwestern Cooperative



Sales Company, of Wauseon, 'Ohio,

recently held a series of meetings in

Monroe county to find if that territory

would supply whole milk for the To-

ledo market. The Ohio company cor-

responds in territory to the Michigan

Milk Producers’ Association in Mich-

igan.





Recent purchases of pure-bred cattle

by farmers of Ogemaw county, include

five Holsteins bought by Earl Steph-

ens from Frank Withe'y, and a bull





obtained by Jim Shepherd from the

Traverse City herd.





 





The president of the County Jersey





unfi’ Breeders’ Association, and Clair Tay-

{161), county agricultural agent of Alle-





gan county, recently went to Kentucky





- and purchased a. oarload of grade Jer-

seys. for minors or Alleged county.





 





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NO ONE person owns

as much as 1% Of

the capital stock of

the American Telephone

and Telegraph Company.

’ The company is owned

by more than 420,000

people, with stockholders

in every section of the

United States. It, in turn,

owns 91% Of the common

stock of the Operating

companies of the Bell

System which give tele-

phone service in every

state in the Union, mak.

ing a national service

nationally owned.



The men and women

owners of the American

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Company are the

largest single body

of stockholders in the

world and they rcprc-

sent every Vital activity

in the nation’s life, from

laborer and unskilled

worker to wealthy and

influential executive.

Although the telephone

was one Of the greatest

inventions of an age of

large fortunes, no one ever

made a great fortune from

it—in fact, there are not

any “telephone fortunes.”

The Bell Telephone Sys.

tem is owned by the Amer-

ican people. It is Operated

in the interest of the tele-

phone users.





 





The Miller Jersey Farms





Eaton Rapids, Mich.





Fourth Public Sale, Monday, Oct. 24th

so HEAD OF REGISTERED CATTLE





The blood of Sybil’s Gamboge, Oxford Sultan of Oaklands, Jersey

Volunteer, Folra’s Queen's Raleigh and Golden Tycoon. The first time

that Jerseys of this breeding have been offered at public sale in Mich-





igan.

J. EJRUPPERT, Auct.

Perry, Mich.





Sale under cover, rain or shine.





Catalogs on request to





CHESTER FOLCK, Sales Mgr.

Springfield, Ohio





DAVID B. MILLER & SONS, Owners





Eaton Rapids, Michigan





EC HOICE POLAND CHINA boars and gills of pop-

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.

Bred sows and gilts.





Best of Breeding.

M ic-h.





Registered Tamworth:





DONALDSDN FARMS. Orion,





 





A FEW good Hampshire spring boars at a.

barn 15in. Place your order for bred

guts. JOHN W. SNYDER. st. Johns. MicIL. R. 4.





 





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Shropshire and Oxford Rams





Lambs. yearlings and two year olds. They are a

any well grown lot Some have won at aim

We guarantee satisfaction. LAKEFIELDg FARMS.

Clarkston. Mich.





900 BREEDING EWES





400 good sized Delalnes. 500 choice large black

All ages. yearlinus to solid mouths.

ahthNO 8.3 CHAPMAN a. SONS. So. Rockweod.





 





 





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Breeding Ewes





Car lots. 8'V. B. FURNISS. 'NM‘IVIIIO. Mich.





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SH E E P Can 5111)va you in anything you

want in sheep at the right price.

Breeding ewes and feeders on hand at all

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iabury. Ohio, or Woodstock. Ohio. l5 mile: east of

Urbana. Champaiyn 00.. Lincoln 3. Bradley.





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your mas and 2 year-

Big, husky fellows from good shearing stock.

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Delaine and Rambouillet Rams



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to select from. Come and see them. CAL‘



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SHROPSHIRES





Offering an extra. good heavy— boned lot

and 2 ~yr. -old rams. Priced right. D.

(1. SON. So. Rockwood. Mich.





SHROPSHIRE RAMS





Quality rams at farmer prices. also tw

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(Eaton Co)

reliable information in regard .

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS.

Tuesday, October 11:





Wheat.





Detroit—No. 2 red at $1.36; No. 2

white $1.35; No. 2 mixed $1.34.



Chicago.—December $1.30%; March

$13314; May 351.35%. '



Toledo.—-Wheat, No. 2 red at $1.37

@1.38. c '





orn.

Detroit—No. 2 yellow $1.01; No. 3

yellow 99c; No. 4 yellow 97c.

Chicago—December 90%c; March

9314c; May 95%0.

Oats.

Detroit—No. 2 Michigan 550; No. 3

white 530.

Chicago—«December 471/4c; March

491/40; May 505/30.





Rye.



Detroit—No. 2, $1.05.



Chicago.—-December 961,50;

$10014; May $10114.



Toledo.——$1.06.



Beans.



Detroit—Immediate and prompt

shipment $5.50 f. o. b. shipping points.



New York—Pea domestic at $6.006!)

6.50; red kidneys $6.75@7.5O to the

wholesalers.



,Chicago.—Spot navy beans, Michigan

choice, hand-picked, in sacks at $6.30;

dark red kidneys $6.50.



Barley.

Detroit—Making 81c; feeding 70c.

Seeds.



Detroit—Cash imported clover seed

14; October $16.20; December import-

ed $14; December domestic $16.20;

March $16.35; cash alsike $14.80; De-

cember alsike at $15; January alsike

$15.20; February $15.40; timothy at

$1.65; December $1.70; March $1.90.





Hay.



Detroit.-No. 1 timothy at $14.50@

15.50; standard $13.50@14; No. 1 light

clover, mixed $13.50@14.50; No. 2 tim-

othy $12.50@13.50; No. 1 clover $12.50

@1350; oat straw $10.50@11.50; rye

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 have been moving

sidewise for the last three weeks at

around the lowest level of the season.

Wet weather in Canada, reports of

much damaged grain in Europe, and

larger clearances from the United

States have stimulated some increase

in specuative support, which has offset

the growing load of hedging sales. On

the basis of available estimates of

world production, the wheat situation

looks easy and does not justify mate-

rially higher prices. The forecasted

yields in thirty-two countries of the

northern hemisphere total 2,980,000,000

bushels, compared with 2,793,000,000

bushels last year, or an increase of 6.7

per cent. Besides this gain of 187,000,-

000 bushels, the world carry-over at

the start of the crop year was about

50,000,000 bushels greater than a year





previous.

RYE.





Rye continues to show more

strength than wheat. New export buy-

ing has been less active recently, but

clearances are large, with nearly 6,-

000,000 bushels shipped in the last

four weeks. This liberal export move-

ment has absorbed the new crop move-

ment so that the accumulation at the

terminals thus far has been quite mod-





erate.

OATS.





Oats prices have been relatively sta-

ble for the last five weeks. Receipts

have been moderate recently and the

last two weekly visible supply reports

showed moderate decreases. Usually,





March





stocks continue to pile up until much.

' later in the crop year.





Of course, the

smali- decreases may have been purely

incidental. Private reports point to a

further downward revision in the oats

crop estimate.





CORN. ,





‘The decline in corn prices has been





V - checked for the time 'being. Private

* estimates on the crop average about





; 560,000,000 bushels, compared with





5.‘ 347,000,000 bushels last year, and an

' j "average of 2,767,000,000 bushels a year





ago. 'The area damaged by frost is





 





and

there is still a goodly acreage subject

to injury. Early husking returns have



an rather disap cinting in some cas-

es. owing to unit ed ears. The total





 





 





'Best cows

Butcher cows





yield will be larger than seemed pos-

sible two months, ago, but will still be

a small one. Primary receipts of corn

have declined recently and probably

will be small until new corn begins to





, move toward the end of the year. The





visible supply is large, however, so

that no commercial scarcity can oc-

cur. Stocks of old corn on farms as

of October 1 were estimated unofficial-

ly at 160,000,000 bushels, against 270,-

000,000 bushels last year.





HAY.





Although the marketable surplus of

hay this year is larger than usual, re-

ceipts at the principal markets since

the beginning of the crop year have

been about 20 per cent less than last

season, explaining part the steady pri-

es this fall in the face of a record

crop. Rains have interfered with the

movement from the country, and af-

fected adversely the quality of the





crop.

BUTTER.





The butter market has been firmly

pegged at the high prices of the sea-

son, save for a brief flurry last week.

Buyers are more conservative as con-

sumptive demand is at last beginning

to show the effects of the advanced

prices. Production is believed to have

reached the low point for the present

in the principal sections, and some in-

crease is expected where herds are

being fed. Receipts are still relatively

small, however, and a large amount of

storage butter will have to be used to

supplement the supply of fresh.



Prices on 92-score creamery were:

Chicago, 44%0; New York 490; De-

troit 41@431/20 in tubs.





EGGS.





The scarcity of strictly fresh eggs

in the principal markets continues to

be the prominent factor of strength in

maintaining prices. Medium and un-

dergrades move very slowly, as deal-

ers prefer to use storage eggs which

are of equal, or better, and more uni—

form quality. Some accumulation of

these lower grade eggs has been re-

ported, but so far the market has

shown no effect of pressure to reduce





 





 





 





 





values. Receipts generally are below.





the average at this season of the year. "





Some pullet eggs are, already coming.

to market, and receipts can be expect-

ed to show some increase during the

next month. " ,

Chicago_.——Eggs, fresh firsts 35@380;

extras at 45@46c; ordinaryflrsts 25@

32c; dirties 20@25c; checks 20@22c.‘

Live poultry, hens 20%c; springers at

221/2c; roosters 15c; ducks 23c; geese

14c; turkeys 25c.\

Detroit—Eggs, fresh candied and

graded 250. Live poultry, broilers at

260; heavy hens 25c; roosters 16c;

geese 18c; ducks 220. - '





, WOOL. ‘ -

Wool prices remain strong, although

buying has slackened slightly as a re-

sult of the moderate advances scored

in the last month. The goods situation

appears quite healthy, but mills com-

plain of some difficulty in advancing

cloth prices to cover the higher cost

of raw wool. Consumption of wool by

domestic mills in August reached 46,-

500,000 pounds, grease equivalent

weight, largest for that month since

1923. In the first eight months of the

year, 230,000,000 pounds of wool, ex-

clusive of carpet wools, were used

against 200,000,000 pounds last year.

The Argentine and New Zealand clips

are expected to be slightly larger than

last year, but the increase will make

up for only a small part of the loss in

the Australian clip. Boston reports

sales of quarter and three-eighths

blood wools at 45c, grease basis, with

most dealers now holding for 460. For

choice delaines, the asking price is

now 470. Quarter-blood territory is

quoted at a range of 80 to 85c, and

three-eighths at 90 to 930, scoured

basis, depending on quality.





POTATOES.



Potato values continue to be de-

termined largely by market supplies

as demand remains on a moderate

scale. Rains in southeastern Idaho

and Colorado hindered harvesting op-

erations, resulting in some increase in

prices. Shipments are increasing rap-

idly, particularly from Maine and Min-

nesota. The government estimate for





fiVe Stock Market Service I





 





Tuesday, October 11.





CHICAGO.





- Hogs.



Receipts 20,000. Market fairly ac-

tive, generally steady to strong; a

shade higher on heavy butchers and

packing smvs; tops, $11.85; bulk good

160-200 lbs. at $11@11.75; 210-240-lb.

Weight $11.65@11.85; 250-300 lbs. at

$11.50@11.80; few butchers 325-350 lbs.

$11@11.25; packing sows $10@10.35;

numerous sales largely .-$10.50@10.60;

most pigs $9.75@10.25; strong weights

$10.50@10.65. '



Cattle.





Receipts 8,000. Most beef steers and

fat she stock strong; cutter cows and

weighty sausage bulls strong to shade

higher; packers and feeders steady;

vealers 25@50c higher; strictly grain-

fed steers predominating in run; best

steers $16; yearlings $15@15.50; bulk

of fat steers $12@14, about $12; heavy

western grassers in run; bulk vealers

to big packers $13.50@14.50, mostly at

$14@14.50; outsiders to $15.



Sheep and Lambs. -



Receipts 17,000. Fat lambs fairly ac-

tive, around 150 higher; asking 25c up

on stock; early sales native lambs at

$13.35@13.65; best bid $13.75; few 110-

130-lb. bucks $11@11.50; culls at $10@

10.50; quality of rangers improved;

bulk good $13.50@ 3.75; "asking up. to

$14 for choice shee _ weighty fat ewes

$5.50@6.25; feeding‘lambs. are strong;

bulk $13@13.75; best medium weights

bid $14.





DETROIT.

Cattle.



Receipts 260. Market is steady but



3 ow.

Good to choice

dry-fe _

Best heavy‘steers, dry-fed 10.25 12.25

Handy weight butchers. . . 8.25 10.00

MiXed steers and heifers. 8.00 ’

Handylight butchers . . . . F 7.25

Light butchers . . . . . . . . . . ”6.00





one». :





\yearlings





 





, E25

cutters ens-acooano-é'pOcé ‘, 5300





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d ............ . . . .$1.0.00@13.00.





 

 

 





Canners ................. 4.00@ 4.75

Choice light bulls ....... 6.00@ 7.50

Bologna bulls ........... 6.00@ 7.50

Stock bulls .............. 5.00@ 6.25

Feeders ................. 6.50@ 8.50

Stockers ............ “r. .. 6.25@ 8.



Milkers and springers. . .$65.00@125.00





Calves.

Receipts 322. Market steady;



Best . . . . . .............. $17.50@18.00

Others ...... ’ . . . .. ..... ; 8.00@17.00

Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 2,441. Market steady.





Best lambs .............. $13.50@13.75

Fair lambs .............. 11.00@12.00

Light to common lambs.. 6.50@ 9.50

Fair to good sheep ...... 5.50@ 6.50

Buck lambs ............. 7.00@11.50

Culls and common ...... 2.00@ 3.00

Yearlings ..... . . . . . . . ... . 8.00@10.50





Hogs.

Receipts 2,380. Market steady and

mixed lights a trifle lower. .





 

 





I Catcher :18 395,000,000 bushels.“ are-‘1 ,





ductionpof 5,000,000 from the previous

Northern round Whites, .13





month,





carlot market. , , _



Apple prices "have been firmly held

as supplies continued scarce. Every

state, except New Mexico, is lagging

behind in shipments as compared with

a year ago. At the beginning ofOc-

tober, eastern states, were-lagging be

hind last year by'6,000 cars, and west-

ern states had failed to equal-the cor-

responding period in 1926 by nearly

7,000 cars. The apple crop this year

will be the smallest in twenty years,





with the exception of 1921, if present





prospects are fulfilled. Prices should -

average considerably higher than last

year when markets were depressed

with heavy offerings. Illinois A-21/2~

inch Jonathans are quoted at $7.50 to

8 per barrel at Chicago.





DETROIT CITY MARKET?





Apples 80c@$3.50 bu; bagas $1@1.5G

bu; wax’beans $1.25@3 bu; beets 750

@$1.25 bu; 35@500 dozen bunches;

cabbage 50@75c bu; carrots 60c@$1

bu; 35@5OC dozen bunches; cauliflow-

er $1@2 bu; celery Kalamazoo .35@

600 dozen; local 40@700 dozen; cu-

cumbers$2@4 bu; pickles $4.50@9

bu; eggs, wholesale, white, 45@500;

brown 42@45c; retail 50@600; .head

lettuce 50c@$1 bu; leaf lettuce 40@:

60c bu; green onions 50@75c dozen

bunches; dry $1@1.25 bu; pickling on-

ions $2@5 bu; parsley, root 50@750

dozen bunches; curly 35@50c dozen

bunches; parsnips $1.50@2 bu; pota-

toes 5Qc@$1.50 per bu; poultry, h‘ens,

wholesale 22@27c; retail 28@30c lb;

broilers, wholesale, Leghorns 25@28c;

Rocks 26@30c; retail 3c; ducks 286;)

30c; geese 25c; dressed poultry 32@

35c; ducks 45c; radishes 75c@$1.25

bu;‘ horseradish $5.50@6 bu; squash,

Italian $1@3 bu; summer squash 50@

75c bu; Hubbard squash 75c@$1 bu;

turnips 900@$1.25 bu; 50@75c dozen

bunches; green tomatoes 500 per bu;

grapes $1.75@2.25 bu; lima beans 30@

50c quart, $2.50 bu; butter 65c; Swiss

chard 50@75c bu; honey $2.40 dozen

case; elderberries $1@1.25 bu; leeks

5.0?750 doz bunches; crabapples $1.50

@ bu, celery cabbage $1@1.25 bu;

pumpkins 75c@$1 buy-maple syrup at





$3.25 ~gallon.





GRAND RAPIDS.





. Potatoes $1@1.10 bu; onions 60@75c

bu; celery 10@50c dozen; spinach 75c

@$1 bu; cabbage, white 65@750 bu;

red $1@1’.25 bu; wax-beans $3@4 bu;

peppers $16112 bu; cauliflower 50@850

flat; turnips, beets, rutabagas and car-

rots $1 bu; tomatoes $2@3 bu; apples

$1@3 bu; peaches $2@3 bu; grapes

$1@1.50 bu; pears $1@2 bu; canta-

lou‘pes $1.50@2 bu; pork 12@14c lb;

beef 6@14c; veal 15@18c;‘ lamb 17@

22c; mutton 12@14c; chickens 18@

22c; hens 12@22c; ducks 180; butter-

fat 480; eggs 40@43c dozen. ,





 





CATTLE? PRICES lN SETBACK.





 





RIME long-fed specialties in the

steer trade have moved to new

high. leVels, with $16.90 paid for

' heavy weights, and $16.45 for fat year-

lings at Chicago. Kinds Selling under

$15.50 have-acted rather top-heavy re-

cently, however, losing 50 to 75 cents

.in the last week, and a similar decline

hIasdtaken place-kin the cow and heifer

a e





Mixed ................. ’;$ 12.00 Feeder-cattle buyers are partial to

Roughs ........ ' ......... 9.25 fleshy steers suitable for a short'turn

Light lights ............. 10.75, on corn, and light steers with quality

Light yorkers ....... 10.50@11.00 suitable for IOng feeds. As usual at

Good yorkers ............ 11.50“this season, plain stockers andeeeders

Pigs and lights . . . ....... 10:75 are neglected. Average prices are‘now

Lights, .................. 11.00@11.25 higher than last spring, and about $2

Heavy yorkers .......... 11.60 _‘ highenth‘an .a‘year ago.“ The incite-

Stags .............. . . .. . " 7.00 .ment to the country from the principal

Extreme heavies . . . . . . 10.00@11.00 markets is - considerably below , last

‘ .. year. ‘

B HEgAaLO COMING LIVESTOQK SALES,





‘ Receipts 1,000.; Market is steady;

bulk 170-200 lbs.“--‘$12@12.15; 23mm,





lbs. $12.25; pigs scares, arbund $11.25





@1150; _ packing sows $9.75@10.50;' ‘ 1» _





. - = ..... cattle. ‘ .,

Receipts 100. Market steady. '- ‘





. . Calves. ~‘

Renaulpts 250.“?~ "Market steady; top

$18; c is andcofiimonflhfiogxi gs. .





 





 

 





* I ' Sheep a‘hd-‘Laoihs:

' "Receipts .609. ,, Market. steady





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; gangs, ’73 50"“ mils ’ QiQefifi





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November 1'-2-—-Lo_ b-Farm‘, of .Charle- .

voix, Mich, - at "rand Rapids, “Mich.



bred Belgians. \ ,



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gNofil, pref-Quoted at$1.50.to $1.60 per

100 pounds; ‘ sacked, in- the Chicago





 





 





150ipur'e-bred Holstein: and-16 pure- }: 7,
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: f . l 9;.--

their bignpmucing seem as





use 3'13; ’

. frbmfhe

,. .r Thusthis isa remarkable

m to“ the pure-bled, sire, and

shops theiyalue' clearly 7in improving

. the“.¢nality amalgamwry cattle.

_ Pure-bred dairy, 4cattle breeders in

Michigan. to’ the extent of thirty-five

per cent of the owners of pure-bred

cattle. have been testing put the {pro-

duction' of men- cattle in Michigan

dairy herd improvement associations.

These men are the poineers in, devel-





 





 





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‘opi'ng a higher quality or 'pure-breds.





in3—Michigan. . .. >



Results ‘are’bound to come when this

great number of pure-breds are under

test, and the figures for 1927 indicate

that the purebreds are (widening the

gap in butter-fat production when

compared with thegrades, and when

compared with the figures for 1926.





 





LOWER H’oc. PRICES DUE soon.





 





0G rices are still- close to the

H sumlmer peak, but the. looting is

somewhat slippery and a moder-

ate increase in reCeipts which is in-

evitable in the next few weeks prob-

ably will result in a dollar break.

Thus far, the fall movement 18 not

premature? Average weights compare

favorably with a year ago, so that

light hogs and pigs are not being sac-

rificed. This means a moderate sup-

ply now_but will add toionnage later

on. Domestic demand 1.5 broad, and

export demand is maintained on about

the same basis as for several weeks“

The extremely light run of hogs .111

September gave another opportunity

to reduce stocks of product in storage.

Holdings of hog meats at Seven prin-

cipal packing points declined 59,000,000

pounds during the month, against-41,-

000,000 pounds last year, and an av-

erage reduction of 52,000,000 pounds.

Lard stocks decreased 39,000,000

pounds, against 33,000,000 pounds

last year, and an average Septem-

ber shrinkage of 31,000,000 pounds.

Remaining holdings are larger than

last year, but a fairly complete clean-

up is probable before the new accum-

ulation season starts. .





 





LAMB RECEIPTS MAY HAVE

BEACHED PEAK.





 





OMBINED receipts of lambs and

sheep





3.489.000 head, against 3,899,000 head

last year, and 3,458,000_head two years

ago. These figures indlcate that about

the usual percentage of the lamb crop

has been marketed and that. receipts

are likely to begin to diminish soon.

After a few weeks, a. stronger market

is probable.

well-defined trend, although the ‘pres-

ent market is weaker than it has been

recently. Choice range lambs ~. are

still selling up to $14 at Chicago. The

movement 'ot feeder lambs from prin-

cipal markets into the chief feeding

states up to September 24, was about

25 per Centrless than a. year ago. This

means a. lighter supply of fat lambs in

late .fall and early winter than a year

previous, when the market was de-

pressed by heavy receipts from the

06m belt. . \





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COUNTY one? REPORTS.





 





Huron Coun‘ty.—-Most of the corn in

this locality is being put in 5110s. No

beans have been threshed as yet, as

most of them are still in the fields.

Some damage from wet weather is

expected. Potatoes and sugar beets

are growing fine, and look like fair

crops. Fall wheat seeding was late

and is now coming up. Fruit is scarce.

— .~/ . .



Osceola County.——About -65 per cent

of our corn rwill mature. Ears are

small on account, of prolonged dry

weather” The bean crop’will be of

good quality, but the yield will not go

above. ten or twelve bushels per acre.

Potatoes, will be light, due to the dry

weather. The late planted fields will

be benefited by recent rains and. con-





tinued warm weather, with no killing





heats up to the first of October. Fall





sowing of grain in about two weeks ‘





later. than usual. but the fields are do-

. _-well_ now. Silo filling is in full

s ng; ‘Pota‘to digging will start in

about another:week.-A-. C.-



_-Maeon Couniyr-‘Jlost - all. corn will





field: about halts. cri'i'p.~ They are,

rilégweverfiwell mature. Potatoes will

‘ ‘ rain fiare causing some



Applesm- some.





new W9“ 1“?





111W am

" 1'“ , ' It 25991‘





at seven principal markets.

in July, August, September were





Prides are showing no.





"mtore....,in.-Mosoni county. Beans will '





shephgssiyentreflgre;per cent of a;





(1&6





n ‘ , _.



‘ b brings '1 @ tentat‘flc

:eggs 3543'. some rep

donevin this'locality.,-—~G. T ,

~~ WexfOrd. County—Most“!!! the corn

is being placed in silos. " Late potatoes

will make a 75 per cent crop- More

rye is being 'sown this year than usual.

It brings 80c per bushel; ' uttervfat

471:; eggs 300; not much 1) ilding is

being done—G. E. ‘



Charlevoix County—Beans are of

good quality, and about 80 per cent of

an average yield. Potatoes will be a

fair crop of ayerage quality. Rye and

wheat look good. A small amount of

(Fe‘arIlIy potatoes are being marketed.—





:





Tuecola County.—=—Farmers are busy

cutting corn and filling silos. Fully

50 per cent of the corn crop is mature.

Fall seeding is completed. On account

of the dry weather, plowing was late.

The bean crop is of good quality, but

the quantity is small. There are some

good pieces of potatoes. Recent rains

have benefited the crops. Rye 700;

potatoes $1; butter-fat 430; eggs 30c.

A small amount of building and re-

pairing is being done. Many farmers

are planning to fall-plow corn stub-

bles. Recent heavy“ rains have im-

proved pasture.———J. B.



Marquette County.——The potato crop

here is good, and farmers are selling

at 90c@$1 per bushel. Live stock is

in fine condition arid pastures are un-





usually good—W.





 





 





 





Stop Your Baby Chic Losses

Raise 2- und broilers in 8 Weeks—buy or hatch

you-r ch. cks earlier and get higher prices. You

can if you have a Martin.





Monroevllle (0.) Haa-hery writes—"Rois!!- 97

Percent."

A. J. Swineford writes—“Had. 2 lb. broilers





in 8 .



Mrs. W. Lealer writer—"Expect to buy an-

other Martln in the spring,"



Brooding chicks in a Martin is safer. easier.

surer. FIRE-PROOF. rat and weazcl proof. san-

itary. dry. warm—even in zero weather, stove in

center. no corners—prevents crowding.



“Coho-Glass” Windows

let in the Violet Rays of the sun. Ideally venti-

lated—no drafts. Sizes. 500 chick and up. Ship-

ped necked down—easy to put up. Last 9. life»

time. Write for masts-area folder and price.

MARTIN CORN CRIBS

save all the corn. Protect against rats. mice,

tire and mid. Write for low prices.

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Wrife for tunnel “urination. ' ,

Referencesny bunk inCleveland.



‘ Established 1916.



CHARM" STATE SAVINGS & LOAN C0.

Euclid“ 17.. 1056: St. Cleveland, Ohio

C A T T L E

A has selection at all times .of stocker nndfeedins





cattle; Special attention given to filling orders. Wflu

F. E. BERRY COMPANY, South at. Paul. Minn.





 





 





SHEEP





' including the first prizolamb

For Shropshire Rams .. Michigan as... Fair and

five other Fairs. write or call ARMSTRONG 8808..

Fowlcrville. Mich.





 





 





25 to 1m Shropshire fldd

FOR SALE ramsfslsoii stock rams, all

sired ’ by n. WarWell and I





 





McKerro Brougham ram

E. F. GOODFELLOW. Ovid. Mi .. Phone 48-5.

sired by McKerson's 5487





OXfOl'd Downs and 3713. ewes and nuns.

Write Wm. VanSicklo. Deckorville. Mich.. ll. 2..





FOR SAL





BOTT. Palms.

i

' Shropshire yearling rams. Also

Registered ram lambs from imported founda-

tion stack. Nixon a. Ruucll. B. 3. Howell. Mich.





Oxford Ram Lambs and O. I. C. Boar:





For Sale. H. W. MANN. Dansville. Mich.





 





Oxford rams an! was. Satidw

tion guaranteed. GEO. T.’ A8-

Mich. Telephone Deck-nine 78-3.





 





 





 





REGISTERED SHBOPSHIRE yearling rams. Also

yearling ewes. are given satisfaction in 30

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





 





A few choice rams for show

and field use. Call on DAN

Ewart. Mich.





Shropshire:





BOOH ER. R. 4.





‘ a few choice loads of Delaine

Now 053"“: breeding ewes. Also feeding

lambs and wethers. F. M. Bahan, Woodstock. Ohio.





 





“THE MAPLES SHROPSHIRES" For Sale—Zetock

rams. yearling and ram lambs. Few ewes. c.

R. LELAND. R. 2. Ann Arbor. Mich.





 





' yearlings ' and lambs.

3%- SIWDPSIWB RIM3 Famers’ Drives. LOC K -

SH RE FARM. L. 0. Myrkle. Mgr" Cressey. Mich.





 





F OR SALE—Registered impmvcd Black Top Do-

laine Merino rams and ewes. J. H. HAYNER.

Stockbridge. Mich“ R. W. Hayner, Webbefville. Mich.





 





R SALE—Two Reg. Shropshire rams. also ram

lambs. at. reasonable prices. Write for prices. or

can and see them. ROY HOBART, Danwille, Mich.





A lot of very

also ram lambs and ewes.

Mich., Phone 20 l 5.





Rnoisrrznsp OXFORD DOWNS.

good yearling rams.

HUGH Hooams. Yale.





 





 





 





FOR SA Oxford and Tunis rams, Red

Poll Cattle and Yorkshire



Pigs. E. 8i. CARR, Hm. Michigan.

FOR S ALE Veg HomeyeéhRambomllets. rams

an ewes. oice stock. Also a

few Delaine nms. E. M. MOORE. Mason. Mich.

For Sale Shropshire rams or mes. Absolute





satisfaction guaranteed on mail order.

Come and see. 0. W. NEEOHAM, Saline. Mich.

Improved Delaine Ewe Lambs

For sale. JOHN MEACHKM. Milllnoton. Mich.





 





 





J“- 509 each. w '

pulsar .90.» Win shine. 0. D.

free. Levi Emmi. New London... Ohio. .



FOB SALE—Pime—bred Milli Shepard m; '

Weeks old. from strictly heel-driving parents. like

88. females 85.

spiced. Earl White.- Live Stock Dede. Arcade. N. Y.





iron SALE—Hunting om.

fur-bearing animals. Good one: trailers

Donald Anderson. Emirvllle. Michigan.





 





and





 





SEND . CENTS for individual description of-

fifty hunting hounds. photo group. fur price. list.

Lakeland Fur Hound Exchange. Salem. Mich. -





ENGLISH SHEPHERD PUPS—from_ real 11.69! M‘





 





 





 





C. O. D. Roy Ginger, Herrick. 111.





FOR. SALE—Registered Silver Black Fox. also ranch

bred mink. real dark. Hall’s Fur Farm. Burt. m.





HUNDRED HUNTING HOUNDS. Dog

Catalogue. Kaskaskcnnels. S. W. 107 Herrick. Ill.

MATTRESSES





namnssns made any size. low factory mm.

Cataloz in». Peoria Bedding Company. M. 11!.





 





 





 





FRUIT TREES AND NURSERY STOCK





PEACH TREES. $5 per 100 and up. Apple Trees.

$7.50 per 100 and up. In large or small lots dimt

to planters. by freight, parcel post, express. Plums.

pears, cherries. grapes. nuts. berries. pecans. vines:

ornamental trees. vines and shrubs. Free catalog in

a‘olors. Teunemee Nursery 00., Box 125. Cleveland.

arm. I





 





SEEDS

cnorcn wanna) sMAnL GRAIN AND ms





 





 





———Improved American Banner wheat. Wolverine and.

improved Robust beans. . 8. Cook. Owosso. Mich.

TOBACCO





 





SPECIAL OFFER—Leaf Chewing or Smoking 5 lbs.





$1: ten. $1.75. Cigars. $1.95 for 50. Money m—

fundcd if not satisfactory. Pay when received.

Kentucky Tobacco Company. West I’aducnh. Ky.





 





GUARANTEED IIOMESI’UN TOBACCO—Chewing. 5





 





pounds, 91.25; 10. 32. Smoking. 10. $1.50. Pipe

Free! I’ay postman. United Farmers. Bardwell.

Kentucky.



HOMESI’UN TOBACCO: Smoking or chewing. 4 lbs.

5.1; 12. $2.25. Send no money. Pay postmaster

on arrival. Pipe free for ten names of tobacco





users. United Farmers of Kentucky. Paducah. Kerr





tucks.





HOMESPUN TOBACCO—4‘liewins. 5 lbs. $1: ,

$1.75. Smoking. 5 lbs. 75c. l‘ay when received

l'ipe free. Farmers' Union. A5. l’aducali. Ky.





TOBACCO: KENTUCKY SWEETLEAF'AMoz-l'low. Mal.

Smoking. 15 pounds. $1.05. (,‘hewing, $2.25. Pay

when received. Ernest Choate, Wingo, Kentucky.





 





m.





 





PO ULTRY





MUST SELL IMMEDIATELY 1000 hens. bullets.

cockcrels bred from special pens and originally ln~

tended for my own breeding flock. Large type pure

Hollvwood strain direct. Sircd by high productmn

pedigree males. closely related to high egg record

ancestry. Any quantity but prefer to sell in lane

units and contract for hatching eggs for next spring.

Write for prices and description. J. B. Dem.

Imlay City. Mich.





 





WIIl'l'FI LEGHORN eggs and chicks—411g discount if

ordered now for spring shipment. Sired by 2’00 to

293 cm: males. Egg bred 28 years. Winners 20

egg contests. Shipped C. 0. D. Catalog. mini

price bulletin free. Thousands of pullets, hats.

cor-keruls at low prices. George B. Ferris. 934

Union, Grand Rapids. Michigan.





 





Kate 8 cents a





insular type or inn-trumps

Live stock Martini“ has a

charge I6 words.





 





CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING





This classified advertising department is established for the convenience of Michigan rumors.

Small advertisements bring best results under classified headings.

advertising miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange.

psrtmmt at classified rates. or in display coitus at commercialrates.



. each insertion. on orders for less than four insertions: for four or more



consecutive insertions 6 cents a. word. Omnibus word such abbreviation. initial or number.

' admitted. Remittances must accompany and .



separate 1109mm and





Try it for want ads and for

Poultry advertising will be run in this de-





,No

or

iv final accepted to clsulflod. Minimum





 





 





6.

O. 0 III “Mill ‘0

Special N lice .............. ....



. or (hang: of a!) b-

m fir flu Clarified Doom mun math thi: qfiu an

‘dm in “our: nipu‘ldw um due.





 





 





REAL ESTATE





 





I

SP’LENDID FRUIT CROP YOURS—and 78-acre

Equipped Fund. In lovely southern Michigan. on

state road near village and busy market center; 76

anres tillable. practically level; 900 apple, peach.

pear. plum. cherry trees. 6 acres grapes. 5 acres berv

rice for early profits next year; 2 houses of 7 and

5- rooms. good roomy barn. etc. insured $5.000. Sac-

rificing account other business and will leave all

cmps, including fruit. rye. oats. com. potatoes. hay.

also turn. com. poultry. farm equipment. etc. only

99000 complete. third cash. Clare H. Warren. Strout

Agency. Shepard St. Hartford. Mich.





 





132 ACRES LIVINGSTON CO.——Fully Equipped—A



gain. So near Detroit. top markets always as-

sured. 90 acres fertile cropping land“. spring watered

mums and woodlot: heavy bearing fruit trees. on

cellent set hides. 8-room house. large cement base—

ment barn. mod. etc. income last year better than

83.200. pod neighboring values 9125 acre; this sec-

I‘iflced ' tie over 395 acre. with 3 horses; csuue. sow

,and. pigs, hens. milking machine; eqmpment and

.vdlici‘es. 812.600 complete, part cash. Donald .H.

‘Maycock. snout Agency. Howell. ch.





.120 LC



gum. 30:50. slim, wen. windmill.



chard. - close to town j @001 .953

$4.5m. arm“ m we is VW. r. ,

wean. . .





 





   

 





 





M486: ”‘5’”





 





 





One Four Ops Four

W time.‘ times. Words. time. times.

10 ........ $0.80 $2.40 26 ........ 82. 8 $6.24

1 ........ .88 2.94 27 ........ 2.16 6.48

12 ........ .96 2.88 28 ........ 2.24 8.72

13 ........ 1.04 3.12 29 ........ 2.32 6.96

........ 1.12 3.36 30........ 2.40 1.30

15 ........ 1.20 3.60 31 ........ 2.48 1.40

1 ........ 1.28 3.84 ........ 2.g6 7.68

........ 1.86 4.68 33........ 2. 4 7.92

8 ........ 1.44 4.32 34 ........ 2.72 8.16

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

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

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

22 ...... . 1.76 5.28 38 ........ 3.04 9.13

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

24 ........ 1.92 5.76} 46 ........ 3.20 9.60

25 ........ 2.00. 06 41........ 3.28 9.84





ans—7m cm loam soil. lever. wen—unima-

six—morn house. or- v





GROW WITH SOUTHERN GEORGIA—Good lands.

Low prices still available. Write Chamber of Com-

merce. Qultman._ Ga.





FOR SALE—Farms taken on mortgage. easy terms.

Citizen! State Bank. Clare. Mich.





BUY 20 ACRES selected land for $500.. Antrlm Co.,

growing seed potatoes will make you independently

wealthy in a. few years. Will Take (‘rops for

mavment. and buy all you raise. Groste. 511 Dime

IIBank Bldg" Detroit.





[ISO—ACRE FARM CHEAP, liberal terms.

State Bank. Homer, Mich.





Calhoun





 





FOR SALE OR RENT—2IO—am'e farm near .St.

Johns. Levi H. Sibley. Dewitt. Mich.





WANTED FARMS





WANTED—To hear from owner of land for sale for

fall delivery. 0. Hawley. \Baldwin. Wis.





 





 





MSCELLA NEOUS





300 FULL SIZE. unduled Letter Heads and Bounced.

white Envelopes. all neatly printed with name. ad-

dress and business. Two Dollars. postpaid. Suitable

for Farmer. Business Men and all others. Money

back quick if wanted. Shipping Tans. Statements.

Cards, etc.. equally low prices. The . Free-

port, Herald. Freeport. Mich.





AUTO PARTS—Radiators. Heads. Blocks,

missions. Drive Shafts. Rear Ends. Wheels.

inss. good as new. half price or less.

mini-antacid or money, refunded. '

12215 E.





 





Trans-

Bear-

Satisfaction

Roeks Auto Parts.

Jefferson Ave. Detroit. Mich.





 





Elm REMEDY—Physicians prescription. not a

patent medicine. Used successfully 45 years. 82 per

box postpaid. Satisfaction guaranteed or money re-

funded. Fillmore Coi. Westminster. Md.





 





m ’8ALE~Bmall misusing outfit. may equipped-

‘with kerosene motor. 12-20 E P. Shownlter Bros”

Onekama. Mich.





 





by manufacturer at





IRGIN WOOL YARN for sale

‘ hamlet free. H. A, Bartlett. Harmony.





, mam nonsEs Cured sax?» when well. cutan-

; dill. Barnes. Kansas. . F V. _





 





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Il‘GIrlSII “'HI'I‘E LEGIIORN I’ULLETSaAII from

free range Poultry Farm<. 10 wks. old. 850: 12 to

14 Wks.. $1.00;

909. A fine male bird free with every order

puilets. Village View Poultry Farm. B.





of so

0. 3.

Zeeland. Mich.





 





TURKEYS. GEESE. DUCKS—Finely

Turkeys, White Pekin Ducks. Geese.

scriptive circular and price.

tion, Kalamazoo. Michigan.





bred Drone

Vi’rlta for de-





 





WHI'I'I‘AKER'S MICHIGAN CERTIFIED REDS—-

Both Combs. Cocks. Hens. Cockenls and Pallets.

Michigan's Greatest Color and Egg Strain.

I? hPrlce List. Inter-lakes Farm. Box 9.

lL‘ .





 





MORE PULLETS than we can winter. Soon‘lay.

same lines as our winners. Heavy laying attains

\Vhile Rocks. S. ('. Red l’llllets. $18 dozen. Faraway

Farms. Silver Lake. Ind.





 





WHITE \VYAND OTTE Se—Ciloll‘o husky early hatched

corkerels now for .shipment. Fred Balm.

Allen. Mich.





WHITE LEGHORN Pmmrrrs. 5 months old. State

Accredited.





Mich. R. No. 1





 





S. C. BROWN and White Leghorns 332-6388.

log. Harlan Fulton. Gallipolis. Ohio.





TURKEN COCKERELS—flne stock. over four pounds.

Price $5.00. Merrill Hatchery. Merrill. Mich. '

TURKEYS





PURE-BRED Bourbon Red Toms $6.00, also White

Rock Pullets. Eva. Myers. Ionia. Mlch.. Stat Rt.





Cata—





HELP WANTED

WANTED—Experienced man with small family for





stand machinery and crops. Everything modern. Lo-

cated near Ann Arbor. Willing to board men. with

pay for same. Permanent place and good wages for

right man. No manager or herdsman finial.

Albert Betky. R. No. 5. Ypsilanti. Mich. ..





AGENTS WANTED





and supeflntend this territory for long established

firm. No investment or sales experience poem.

Money mucking opportunity for right party. Pay

weekly. Knight &





'smiom SALARY—$35.00 per week and mm.





Mm or woman with rig to introduce Egg- PW

Eureka. Mfg. 00.. East St. Louis. 1'11. 'r'





. Classified Liners get 1’3? '





 





 





Suits. Try-one. '. ,





Safe arrival and satisfacflm .m-Q





Write ‘





nstm' elicit





My dog-win mgr,"

Miami





in: stock. one” for quality. Albert Hm.

Norwood. Minn.



COONHOUNDS. Combination Hunters. Foxhounds.

Champion Rabbifhmmds. CataJOQ'Ue. photos 4m.

trial. L. J. Adams. Ramsey. Illinois.



OLD FASHIONED black tan Bluetlcks. Ream.

Coon. Skunk. Opossum. rabbit hounds. Cheap. Trial.





supplies.





laying pullets, $1.25: yearling beau.





State Farms Assocla-I





$1.15 each. 11. Knoll. Jr.. Hound.





general farming. Must be good milker and under-





Acrrvn MAN T0 noon onnnas. hire woman; 5 \





Bostwick. Newark. New’ Yum?





'CHIGAN FARMER
Ht





PAT PEND.--T.M. REG.





The OWorld’s





‘ Greatest

Authorities

Tested and





Recommend

Genuine





Flex - O - Glass





When Flex-O—Glass was

first introduced, le‘adin



authorities on poultry

husbandry and plant

culture wondered

whether or not the

strong claims made for

t h i 5 amazing material

They tested





 





Were true.





The large chick Was raised , _ _ _

under FLEX-O-GLASS. Flex 0 Glass tho?

The small chick was raised ouglily—they found it





:31: {massaggthhghégksaanrg ful l y as wonderful as

were fed the same. claimed, 11 n,d . th ey



recommended 1 t t 0

you. Read what their scientific tests revealed.





The American Medical





Association Test





The American Medical Association tested Flex-O—

Glass for months and found it raised more chicks

than any other material. They put 11 chicks un-

der glass and 16 under Flex-O-Ulass. 'After Six

weeks half those under glass died. Thirteen un-

der Flex—O—Glass were alive and each wei lied

one-third more than those under glass. his

means that with Flex-O-Class you can raise tWice

as many chicks with a third more Weight per

chick at no more feed cost.

The' American Medical Association also found

that Flex-O-Glass was not affected by months of

exposure to wind, sleet, snow and rain. The re

sult of their test with chicks under Flex-O-Glass

is the reason why this great scientific authority

.told 92,500 doctors (members) to recommend our

rodu-ct, not only for poultry house use but for





ealth rooms—enclosed porches, etc. You are

safe in accepting the recommendation of the

American Medical Assomation. Order genuine





Flex-O-Glassiior your whole farm Now.





.The British Illuminating

Society Test





The British Illuminating Society divided a flock



of hens for 16 weeks and fed both groups the, .4

same. The group that received Ultra—Violet rays

laid 497 eggs. The other group laid only 124

eggs. This proves the Ultra—Violet rays alone,

which Flex - O - Glass 3. d m i t s _ from the sun,

brought 373 eggs. “God moves in a mysterious

way, His wonders to perform.”





Kansas State Experiment

Station Says-





“Some excellent results have been reported by

practical poultrymen who have used glass substi-

tutes, which will allow the passage of the health

giving portion of sunshine to a conSiderable

greater extent than glass.”





Famous Chemist Says—





Dr. Morse, for 45 years Consulting Chemist of

Connecticut, says: “Congratulations are due you.

Your statements I heartin corroborate. FLEX-

O—GLASS makes hens lay, because the Ultra-





Violet rays which penetrate. it make hens health-

ful, chemically active and increases oxygenating

power of the blood.”





Wonderful For

Children





"Enclosed please find apic-

ture of our children taking

a sunbatli. Showing one

most important way we are

using the F'LEX-O-GLASS

besides using {or our

little chicks.“——Mrs. 0. '1‘.

THOMPSON. Poskin, Wine.





Only One

_ F LEX-O-GLASS

Guaranteed Most Durable





A]! glass substitutes are not Flex-O-Glass. The

genuine is ma e on special cloth base having a

scientifically calculated mesh that admits the

most Ultra-Violet rays and at the same time is

doubly strong and durable to resist wind, rain,

ice and snow for many seasons. Users find Flex—

O-Glass stays bright and new much longer.

There is only one Flex—O-Glass and every yard is

marked for your protection. Get the enuine and

avoid dissatisfaction. Used all over t e world.





(Progressive Dealers Wanted)





 

 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





   





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A. EX-O-GLASS MANUFACTURI

1451 Velcrth ..fQicferof‘1venue g ,.





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WEATHERPROOF— UNBREAKABLE

The tremendous success of Flex—O-Glass and the universal‘cndorsement the farm

and poultry world has accorded it, has led other manufacturers. toéclaim the same





lasting qualities for their products.





l

i





Hence, to protect you, we want to remind y’ouu





that Flex-O-Glass is made by an exclusive secret process on"w__h,ich there is a U. S.





patent pending, and that this process results

in a glass substitute of .a,.fhr more durable‘

nature. Flex-'O-Gl’ass" . S‘ ”waterproof .and





 





 





unbreakable. It' DOES withstand wind.

rain, sleet and'snow. It STAYS bright,





fresh and new-looking many seasons. e

sure to use only genuine Flex-O-Glass.





 





 





The Greatest Help

Ever Offered the Farmer





_Beyond all doubt, Flex—O-Glass has done more to

increase the profit in produce and poultry farming

than anything else ever offered the agricultural and

poultry world. Flex-O-Glass is not just an in-

expensive substitute for glass—it is not merely a

handy, cheap repair for glass windows. It is a

profit earner—it is the practical means of putting

the sun to work for you. It





Does What Glass Can’t—

Admits Ultra-Violet Rays





You have read about Ultra-Violet rays; how they

make hens lay in winter; how they make chicks,

pigs and plants row faster and stronger: now they

keep _children liealthy and disease free. Great

seientisfs through their writings in the leading

farm magazines urge you to put these Wonder

rays to work for you. What they mean is—FLEX-

O-GLASS your whole farm!





Enclose Your PORCHE





Don't let your porch be

a cold. bleak, useless

snow trap this winter.

Tack a few yards of

Flex-O-Glass over the

screening or on 1x2

inch wood strips easily.

Save fuel, avoid drafts ‘ V

and enjoy a warm, suiilit room floo'ded With Ultra-

Violet rays. Use for Work, reading, rest or health

room. Also makes a healthful children’s playhouse

as the Ultra-Violet rays overcome child’s aching

legs (rickets). The American Medical Association

recommends Flex—O-Glass for health rooms. Take.

their advice. Enclose YOUR porch NOW.





Just Nail Flex-O-Glass On



Wh

Screen Doors and monye, ‘23ij?

Window Screens





pensive glass



. storm doors



and Windows? Tack Flex—O-Glas -—only 31/2c a

square foot—right over screens. W rid-proof, water-

tight, won’t break, looks neat. And your rooms will





 





be brighter than with glass storm windows and

doors.





Replace Broken]

W in do w s Qu‘c‘m'





cheaper.

better than glass for garage,

barn, factory and school-house

Windows.

do better behind Flex-O-Glass;

men work better in rooms with Flex-O-Glass

windows—children do better in school rooms win-

dowed with Flex-O-Glass. Remember! No mill

work needed. Just cut with shears and tack on.

Stays bright and fresh many. seasons.





Makes HOG HOUSES.

iJcHTER





Hog houses must be light.

Flex—O-Glass win (1 o w 3

make interior much lighter

than glass because sunshine

is diffused and sent to every inside Corner. Little

pigs grow much fasten—ready for market earlier——,

when given Ultra-Violet rays through Flex-O-Glass.





. Use in Spring

u I ll





BROODER HOUSE





Put chicks in a Flex-O-Glass brooderhouse. The

Ultra-Violet rays will keep them free from rickets.

You’ll get broilers for market and layin pullets

a third earlier. Use 15 yards of Flex-O-Glas‘s for

300 chicks. Read in left column- how American





 





 





 





 





 

 

     





 





Medical Association proved the value of Flex-Ow





.





Glass to anyone raismg chicks.





HOT \ BEDS





4 Plants grow faster unde‘r

Flex-O-Glass, and they,.

don’t die when ~trans- . '



planted. Flex-O - Glass doesn’t chill like glass

does and it holds heat longer. Sashes are lighter

and easier to handle, too. Use Flex-016.1333 on

your hotbeds, cold frames and greenhouses. ,





 





 

   





 





Poultry and animals '





 





There’s a cold storage





h Ultra-Violet rays





the limit in this cozy,





it THI year.

all ou need for 100 hens.

she, 9x15 ft.

spring for baby chicks.

and won’t et rickets.





 





your farm.

and nail on.





 





Flex-O-Glass

and best.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





back Without question.

O-Glass so unconditionally





how it permits you to use





irig value as a





on our Special Offer.





PRICES





All Postage





Prepaid

Per yd. 33 1h. wide:

y (1- ~ t .50





   

 

 





 

 

 

 





5 yards at

- .00





 

 





100 yds.. or more

at 30¢ per yard.

_ $30.09 -





 

 





 





/"f‘—"‘. ’ ”

This Year Gather Eggs





" All Winter i" Like inf Summer





now. Egg prices WILL BE HIGH

again THIS winter. Will you have

eggs to sell at a big PROFIT, or

will you feed your hens for nothing?

Invest 5c per lien—the winter mar-

ket price of just one egg—in FLEX—

O—GLASS. Put it on a scratch shed,

or on your poultry house front, and

on windows in place of glass. The

tliis

material admits will keep your hens

healthy and active and they’ll lay to





room—even in zero weather.

hens, under Flex-O—GlaSs, will pay\

back the cost of this material in a

few days—then they’ll pile up a golden

harvest of egg profit all through the cold

months. Thousands and thousands of poul<

trymen groved this last year. YOU





Use same 15 yards in the

They'll grow faster



See Our '

Guarantee 0 er on this exact amount below.





Just Cut

’ i, With "





 

 

 





[l ‘ _ .‘i‘i‘rand Tack On





You don't need any special

—~———--—— . . mill work

frames, no specml tools to make a Flex—0‘ .

Glass scratch shed or to replace your glass

{gultry house Windows with this wonderful



tra-Violet ray admitting material. It’s

very essy to Flex-O-Glass ever

Just cut Flex-O-

Wind can’t téar it 03.» Rain,

snow and sleet does not affect“ it.





Be Sure to Use-‘z- Only

Genuine Flex-O-Glass





is guaranteed most durable

It is guaranteed to admit the

most Ultra-Violet rays from sunshine.

does not make good—we will.

not perfectly satisfied, you get your money

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it is just as warm as if I had a stove

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waited until the end of that moon to

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