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operate with—the county agricultural

agents in these’counties in a series of

meetings during the weeks of Novem-

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An Ohio potato grower, A. C. R'am-

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eraged 350 bushels to the acre.





News of the Week





Daily airplane service will be estab—

lished November 1st between Detroit

and Cleveland by the Stout Air Serv-

ices, a subsidiary of the Ford Motor

Co. It will take ninety minutes to

make the trip.





I

Mrs. Alice Weed, widow of Beverly

Weed, the inventor of the Weed anti-

skid chains, died penniless in Jackson,

last week.





Mustapha Kemal Pasha, president of

Turkey, in the course of his eight-day

speech said that Islamism would soon

disappear as a state religion in Tur-

key.



Bandit outrages at the American

mines in the state of Nayarit, Mexico,

resulted in the death of the nine

guards and the holding of the mine

manager for ransom.





George A. Prescott, 65 ,years old,

former state senator, secretary of

state and federal food administrator

for Michigan during the world war,

died suddenly at his home in Tawas

City, October.18th. His cattle ranch

of 22,000 acres at Prescott, in Oge-

maw county, has been one of the show

places of northern Michigan.





Seven cats were left $20,000 through

the will of Mrs. Lewis Presho, of

Lindley, N. Y. The Presho relatives

are contesting the will. ‘





Storms, the most destructive in 30

years, have visited the coast of the

Gulf of Mexico. Several towns have

been flooded. ~





Twin babies of Mrs. Albert Spring-

er, Spokane, Wash, were born five

days apart. Both were girls.





. According to figures made public re-

cently by the postmaster, Detroit

spends a million dollars a month for

postage.





The drinking of beer is growing less

in Germany. In 1913 the annual per

capita consumption was 27 gallons.

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athletics, the dry movement, and eco-

nomic necessity are said to be respon-

sible for the decrease.





George Hossfield, of Paterson, N. J.,

successfully defended his typewriting

speed championship by breaking his

former record when he Wrote 133

words a minute.





The state of Maine decided by a.

popular vote to continue primary elec-

tions instead of returning to the old

convention system of nominating can-

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M1ner Becomes Leading Farmer





lizgn Honor: zn Nortnern Montgon County are Awarded to Valentino Mankowski





GOOD law abiding citizen, 3.

good officer in public serVice,





one of‘the best bodsters for‘





\ everything that. means good farming;

good roads, good schools, churches,

and everything that spells progress”—

these are the words of a neighbor

who knows intimately the, progress

made in farming, and the influence in-

the community by Valentine Mankow-

ski, of Otsego county. This neighbor

further states that Mr. MankoW-ski

has a model farm and a‘fine herd of

cows, for which he was awarded re-

cently the honors of Champion Farmer

of his county.



Mr. Mankowski came to Pennsyl-

vania from! Poland when twenty-five

. years of age where for twelve years

he was a miner. He then moved to

his present location in northern Mich-

igan twenty~four years ago. Both he

and his wife received a common

> school education in Poland. They have

seven children, the youngest of which

is twenty.



The farm consists Of 302 acres of

sandyloam soil of which 108 acres

' are under cultivation and the balance

in permanent pasture and woodlot.

The land has been cultivated for a.

period of about forty years. On this

farm, Mr. Mankowski maintains dairy

cows, seven other cattle, four horses.

eleven hogs, and some fifty head of

poultry. He hires one man by the

year and four or five additional hands

during the potato digging season.

Four horses are used for the farm

work.



He has given special attention to

his soil. The farm manure is spread

directly on the field during the sum-

mer.1n winter time, it is piled and

then hauled as early in the spring as

weather conditions permit. Some

thirty acres of legumes are grown in





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» Livingston





NEW use for incubators, other

than "that of hatching chicks,

. was discovered by H. W. Sten;

sell of Howell, Michigan, when he put

his to work drying seed corn. This

discovery makes available in practi-

cally every county/ of the southern

half of the lower Peninsula at least

one. large capacity incubator that can

be put into use for drying seed corn

during the fall months. ,

Many farmers who wish to save

seed, for their. own use as well as

those with perhapsa. little surplus to

sell, are handicapped by not having

proper equipment so that their corn

with its high moisture content in the

fall can be dried satisfactorily before

cold weather sets in. These large size

incubators which are often conven-

viently located furnish a practical dry-





. .. ing equipment for these men.





This means of drying seed corn was





' ,fflrst’ called to Mr Stensellis attention .





b mes Catrell of firegoryeupon sug-

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of the Ex— flrculatio.

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his rotation. About ten acres of al-

falfa is plowed under each year for his

potato crop. He also uses fertilizers.

On grain he adds 250 pounds of‘8—12-4

per acre. His, potatoes get 500 pounds

of 2-16-8. Lime at the rate of one ton

per acre is added to the land when

needed. The soil is drained naturally.



He raises a variety'of crops of

which oats, barley, corn, potatoes, hay,

and apples are the most important

ones. ,Potatoes are his chief cash





used in harvesting. and the crop is

stored in the local warehouse. Last

year’s crop yielded 298 bushels per

acre and the average for the past five

years has been 250 bushels. He pro-

duces certified seed and markets this

either through the local co-operative

association or direct to users.

Another major crop is alfalfa of





which he grows about 20 or more

acres. Grimm and Ontario varigated

varieties are used.





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The Production of Quality-Potatoes Is One of the Major Branches of This

’ ‘ Man’s Farming Business





crop. This past year he grew ten

acres. This crop usually follows

sweet clover or alfalfa in his rotation.

The field is spring plowed and disced.

The crop is fertilized with manure and

commercial fertilizer. About June 1

he plants certified Russet Rural seed.

treated for scab, sourf, and other

diseases. The crop is cultivated four

or more times and given at least six

spray treatments of Bordeaux and

arsenate of Irlead. A potato digger is





sown in May after the potato or corn-

field has been fitted by discing, har-

rowing, and rolling and treated with

lime where needed and commercial

fertilizer. Hay is made with the side

delivery rake and loader. It is fed on

the farm. Alfalfa fields are pastured

in the fall only. The stands remain

for three or more years before plow-

ing. His yields have averaged for the

past five years about two and a half

tons per acre.





The small grains are produced. in.

the usual way. Wolverine oats follow '

cultivated crops. His yield has been

forty-five bushels for the past five

years. The crop is fed to the live

stock and the straw is used for bed

ding. Wisconsin pedigreed barley fol.-

lows in the same rotation. This is

harvested with the binder. Last year’s

crop yielded fifty bushels. This grain

is also fed on the farm. Corn follows

alfalfa or sweet clover. The crop is

cultivated about five times and is put

into the silo.



Mr. Mankowski takes an active part

in community and public affairs. He

has been a supervisor for eleven

years school officer for fifteen years

and a highway commissioner for two

years. He is a director in the local

creamery and co-operative association

and is active in the cow testing asso-

ciation.





His herd of Holstein cattle are T. B.

tested, two of these are pure—bred

cows and eleven are grades. 'He also

keeps a pure-Bred sire. His dairy

stables have cement floors and steel

stanchions. He has a manure carrier,

milking machine, water fountains, and

a cream separator. The milk is

handled in a milk room in the house.

Cream and milk are sold in the sum-

mer to resort trade.



In conducting the Champion Farmer

Contest in which Mr. Mankowski was

selected, the local weekly took an

active part. The Otsego Fair" Asso-

ciation, local business men and the

agricultural agent of the Michigan

Central Railroad co operated in carry-

ing on this event. Mr. Mankowski

gives much credit for his success to

the county agricultural agent, Mr.

Lytle, and to the help he has re-

ceived f1 om reading bulletins and our

rent agricultural literature.





Incubator to Dry Corn

County Farmers“ are Being Screed by Local Hatcnory

By L. D. Kurtz





that had passed field inspection of the

Michigan. Crop Improvement Associa-

tion. When picking time came he dis—

covered that he had no satisfactory

place to dry this amount of seed corn.

and with the incubator idle at Howell,

made arrangements with Stensell to

dry his seed corn.





This incubator is a Smith, type

4047, that has a 47,000 egg capacity

and will hold about one hundred bas-

kets of corn. It contains two hundred

eighty-eight trays which pare one by

three feet with a screen bottom. Each

tray will hold twenty ears weighing





eight or ten ounces laid side by side





when they contain from forty to forty-

five per cent moisture. No ears were

piled on top of each other because of

the danger of mold. 1

There are several factors to com

side: when one dries seed corn. Heat,

and ventilation are the

mole: ones to consider, if 11119.13

6 use seed that will germinate

ninety per hent or better at corn





down to 14%.





 





planting time. These principles are

well taken care of in the construction

of this incubator.



The heat is supplied by a small

steam plant which aided by a thermo-

stat keeps the heat at whatever tem-

perature is desired The first lot of

one hundred bushels had a tempera-

ture of ninety degrees given it during

the eleven days required to dry the

corn from forty per cent to thirteen

per cent moisture. Mr. M. E. Walker,

the manager of the plant, plans to

start the next lot off at ninety degrees

foresee, couple of days and then run the

heat up to one hundred degrees. With

this temperature it is expected that

the dam will dry in a week’s time

College experiments

show that a temperature of one-bun;

dred- twelve degrees will kill germina-

tion if corn contains a large amount





' or moisture.





The circulation is created by four





- large- fans that are placed in the cen-

tér of the incubator at the top. This, .





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keeps the hot air moving downward

as well as distributing the fresh air

as it enters the incubator. It is nec-

essary to keep the fans going the en-

tire twenty- four hours of the day as

they are the only means of distribut-

ing the air evenly through the corn

and at the same time keeping the





_m0isture laden air moving so that it





will not condense on the com. A hole

in each of the four corners allows this

moist air outlet to escape outside 01"

the incubator, any condensation of

moisture on the corn causing mold

which is always dangerous to germin~

ation.

The operating cost of these fans is

the most expensive part of the whole

drying operation, as the electricity

charge was about $2.00 per day. Some

idea of the effectiveness of the work

done, however, by these fans in dis-

tributing the heat through the corn

can be gained through moisture sam— '

pies taken of the corn in the tap and

bottom‘ trays which showed very

little variation in the mainline con





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VOLUME CLX 1X





DETROIT, OCT. 29, 1927

CURRENT COMMENT





HE chief entomol-





° ogist of the fed-



A Life eral department of

Of agriculture, Dr. 0. L.

Service Howard, retires from





active administrative

duties after fifty years of service in

that branch of the government. Al-

though he has passed his seventieth

birthday he will continue to devote

his energies to the field of entomol—

igical research in which he has long

been recognized as one of the world’s

most distinguished investigators.



Two campaigns in which Dr. How-

ard took a leading part have prob-

ably brought benefits to the nation

that will never be fully appreciated.

’One of these was his crusade against

moSquitos, certain species of which

were found to be disease carriers, and

the other an anti-housefly crusade

started by Dr. Howard in 1896.





It is in the services of such men as

Dr. Howard that life is made more

worth while and that civilization itself

is able to advance. His devotion to

duty should be an inspiration to a gen-

eration of younger men anxious to

render service to humanity.





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LTHOUGH ‘milk





is our best food,



PfizeCt its consumption is at-

f e tended with danger.

Children Unless the supply of





milk is carefully pro-

" tected, those who consume it may be

exposed to serious communicable di-

/ senses.



This is particularly true of tubercu-

losis. According to Dr. Park of New





‘ j York City, the bovine type of tubers.





‘ culosis was found in sixty-one per

cent of tubercular children-under five





.years of age. or abdominal tuberous





losis fifty-seven per cent of the cases

Were due ‘to the bovine baccillus. An

Edinburgh physican declares that

ninety per cent of tubercular gland

disease in that community is due. to

bovine type. In England seventy





 





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culosis from cattle. ‘ ‘ " ’



Fundamentally the protection of

children against the possibilities of.





contracting this wasting disease is the '





chief reason why our cows should be

healthy and kept under sanitary con-

ditions. This protection can be, given





by using clean milk, by pastu‘rizing:

* that 'which may be contaminated, and





by eliminating the tubercular cow

from production. As a state, we have

chosen to use the latter method to

give increased insurance against the

spread of bovine tuberculosis among

humans.





CHANGE of sen-





Probable timent apparent-

T 'ff 1y hasxtaken place in

art recent y e a r s among

Changes farmers in respect to





the tariff. Indications

now are that changes will be in the

direction of higher tariff rates on

farm products, rather than any down-

ward revision. There is, of course,

quite a general opinion that substan-

tial reductions in duties should be

made on some commodities which

farmers buy. However, there likely

is to be little urging in this direction

since farmers and farm organization

leaders do not Wish to risk losing the

tariff on farm products for the’ sake

of obtaining reduction in tariff rates

on other commodities. On this sub-

ject, it is interesting to observe that,

contrary to long-existing opinion, rep-

resentatives of a large group of

southern farmers are asking for in-

creases in tariff rates on a number of

crops they produce.





0 one will dis-





Know pute the state-

Your ment that our schools



are the first and big-

Schoolm gest enterprise in the





nation, state, county

or city. The school aids the child to

adapt himself to the difficult life of

our time. To teach children how to

learn, to think, to develop vision, to

weigh, and to judge—these are the

great problems of our educational

forces today. The solution of these

problems requires an intelligent and

appreciative public support in spirit

as well as in fact.



To stimulate this spirit, the week

of November 7-13 is set aside as

American Education Week. It should

be the aim of every parent to visit the

local school at least once during this

week, for the American home and the

American school must work together

to develop a finer and richer human

life. That school is best where all

teachers take an honest pride in serv-

ing the community and building up

its home life: That community is best

when parents appreciate the teachers

and the work of the schools.





HERE has b e e n





The considerable news



. . . regarding t h e w e t

Pr‘flublfw" and dry matter

Situation brought to public at-





tention recently

which shows the tendency of the

times generally rather than relating

to the specific influence of the much

discussed and cussed Volstead act.



A report comes from Germany, the

home of beer, that the annual per

capita consumption of that beverage

has decreased seven gallons since

1913, or about one- fourth.



From Canada comes an oflicial’s re-

port that the American tourist brings

more money to that country than even

its wheat crop, but he spends very

little for booze. An unusually small peiL

centage get permits to buy liguor and

even less use the permits to any ex-

tent. The American tourist is a tem-

perate law abiding individual, this

.omcial says.





The U: S. Departinent of Justice has "





just announced that its records show





a notable decrease in the Criminal ‘

business for the ,year ending June ,





 





 





 





dency‘ to} dryness. In‘ the Federal





.,prisons only 31% were dry in 1919',





while .in 1927,, 44%. were nonédrinkers.

' In view of these facts it looks as if

the wets would have to “dry up” for

eventually they will have nothing to

talk about, despite their unfounded

statements that the dry law produces

hypOcrits and law violators.





ICHI‘dAN h a. s'





More been fortunate in

_ the men directing her

and Better crop i m p r o v ement

Seeds work. T hi 8 leader-





ship has placed her



in the front rank in the production, of



commercial quantities of farm grains

and seeds.



Yet, despite this progress, there re-



mains much room for ’expansion.





Relatively, but a small percentage ,of'





our crops are grown from these qual-

ity seeds. More good seed growers

are needed. Not all. farmers are qual-

ified‘b-y training and temperament to

successfully take up this line, of farms

ing. But there are many who could

do it if they but understood the re-

quirements.



A book, noticed elsewhere in this

issue, which has just come from the

press, promises help along this line.

The well-illustrated volume entitled

“Seed Production And Marketing,” by

Professor J. F. Cox, head of the farm

crops section of the Michigan State

College, and george E. Starr, research

extension specialist in horticulture, of

the same institution, gives the best

practices of growers in the production,

harvesting, curing, and storing of

more than a score of important farm

seeds.



Pioneer seed growers made many

mistakes, but, after years of exper-

ience, these have been largely elim-

inated. This book describes the accum:

ulated experiences of hundreds of suc-

cessful growers operating under wide-

ly different conditions. The farmer

who expects to expand his seed pro-

duction business or who plans to start

this kind of agricultural program, will

find a storehouse of valuable informa-

tion in these twenty and more chap-

ters.





CAREFUL study





When has. been In a d e

Oats of the costs of pro



ducing oats. Accord-

Pay ing to our rural econ-





V





omists the average

farmer must produce 37\bushels per

acre before making a profit. ‘The ave-

rage cost is $15.50 per acre, with the

range from $12.32 to $24.20 an acre.

It costs some farmers twice as much

as others to produce an acre of oats.

For the average, however, it will re-

quire 37 bushels of oats at forty-two

cents a. bushel to pay production ex-

penses. On twenty farms the yield

varied from 26 to 68 bushels per acre.

Some of these farmers lost money

while others had margins of profit as

high as 30 bushels per acre. ‘





N the parlance of





Know slang-land, “She

' knows her groceries”

“3"". is“ an indication that

Varieties .-the lady in question





is Wise. However,

even in slang we do not hear “she

knows her apples."



There is more truth than poetry in

this, for women will go to the store

and buy Certain brands of disguised

cereals for the breakfast, salt for the

seasoning, soaps for the washing,

canned vegetables for the vitamins,

and jams and jellies for the SWeet

tooth.- But when it comes to apples,

potatoes,’ or onions, she just bays

apples, potatoes or onions. . L. ‘



The average city housewife would





 





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ma: ficlntosh was a rain coat, Jena;





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Cobbler is mentioned and G_

Mountain is something to clinib.





An investigation by like U. S. De- j’

partment of Agriculture in New York f

shows that out- of 3, 000 Women only "

750, or one fourth, bought apples by '

The others know little of van‘





name.

ieties It is to the credit of the Jew-

lsh‘ people to have this survey reveal

that 58% of them bought apples by

variety name, the preference being

the McIntosh.



Fraud is often, attempted on. city

people: because of their ignorance of

varieties. Wealthies have often been

sold as McIntosh, and Ben Davis have

bought higher prices as ~.Jonathans.

And it is common for any, yellow

sweet corn to be sold as Golden Ban.

tam. g —



It really is too bad that the great





’consuming public does not know more





about the food they eat. Advertise-

ment makes commercial products

knoWn but there is no financial reason

to advertise varieties, for farmers

grow all the "kinds. However, if con-

sumers “knew better their varieties,"

it would encourage the growing of

quality products. Consumer education

is apparently one of the problems of

agriculture.





Exzt



HIS word means the way out and

that’s why I’m usingit this week

—-’cause its shown me the way out for

something to talk about this week.

You know, lots of times I gotta

think and think of something to say.

That’s what I get fer being a man.

Now if I could go to some of these

women’s meetings, I sure would have

something to talk about. At those

places they don't run out of subjects

but out of time to talk about them.

The wo'min even get home late fer

supper and the men is gotta set

around to wait or start the fire, get

the water to

cooking and set

’the table, etc.

Settin’ tables

don’t hatch noth<

jn’ fer me. I like

settin’ at them



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W e l l , e xi t

means to pass

out. When y o 11





exit you ain’t present no more—you’re

somewhere else. Some folkses’ "exits

is liked better than their entrances,

and there is others whose entrances

bring cheers and exits ,tears. I think

the latter’s mostly when you’re just

to be 'married‘or just was. But after

you’re married a generation or so,

your goings and comings ain’t noticed

so much. It’s a good thing, too, ’cause.

its alawful Strain to love all the time

with the love that loves love.





Now, they ,say our Words come

from some root‘ word. or something

like that. Well, exit is made up of

“Ex” means “was," so

the word exit means .“Wasit.” There’s

times inall Our’liyes when we are it

tosomebody and when we feel like

we’re “it” with a big I. But the time

comes .when all of us get to be ex—its.

We kinda pass out of our bein’ of im-

portance to somebody 'else._ 'E’ven

famous men get to be ex-its. The

man what said “Every dog has his

day” wasn’t thinkin’ of dogs stall.



I kin look back to my emotion days

when some girls was very much “it”

with me. I just kinda felt like I





,couldn’t live without them But they’ re.

all. ex-its now. But when Sofie come

in, she just kinda locked the exit.





door and stayed. I guess I was some





“it" with her once but I don’t mind





tellin’. you I’m sure I ain’t as big a.





"‘it" with her now. as I used to be. I . .

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the freighter,

bound for the Azores, Canary

' Islands and tropical Africa. We had





V ' gpent the afternoon in New York City





V getting advice, and from the warnings

V given us by peeple who had recently,

returned from Africa,t this is the be-

ginning of the story of my death and

-will probably be published posthu-



,mously. ~

“Instead of just starting on the first

leg of our year’s trip around the world

we must be On our very last legs right

, now, from what they’ve told us

today,” mourned Jim as we" shuddered

over 'the terrors of the tropics that

evening in our hotel room. “We’d bet-

ter write our ’will and quit worrying

about writing articles. Instead of

planning our ’round-the-world itinerary

from Africa. on, we’d better figure out

how to get our bodies back from

there. ”





Now I had spent two years in Wyo-

ming fighting scorpions, rattlesnakes,

nose flies and fellow homesteaders, to

sayvnothing of blizzards, poverty, and

Mormons, and I lived through it, but

those things apparently are nothing

compared to west Africa.



Only one faint ray of hope filtered



. through all the stories of instant and

-lingering death that lurks on 'every

hand in the African jungle and that

was the fact that we saw people in the

flesh, who had returned, living proof

that it is possible—even if not prob-

able—that one can visit equatorial

Africa and live to tell the tale. I’m

not taking any chances however; I’m

starting the story before I get there.

I’m in the middle of the ocean now,

on my way. '





“You have to wear a cork sun hel-

met every minute or the deadly rays

of the tropical sun will kill you,” Jim



' reminded me. “If you even sit under



~ an awning without your helmet on, the

fatal rays will come right through the

canvas and get you. And yet the

blacks run around in the sun all day,

bareheaded. ”





“But you are an Occidental, and

7, you ve got a different kind of a skull

——-or at least I have,” I told him. “You





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‘Flood Plays Captain While Wilson

Strums His Banjo.





can't even take off your helmet to

_ scratch your head, or fix? your hat to

a lady down there without getting sun-





stroke.”

0 NE must take at least five grains

of quinine every morning in the

tropics to ward off the fever which,

if hot fatal,- will sometimes stay in

one’s system for years. And if one

does not have the quinine in his sys-

tem before taking the fever it will

3 “turn into the black Water fever-hand

’ that’s; certainadeath.

‘ shave? to get some mosquito

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IM and I were to sail next day on f

“West Humhaw” _





 





072 Board t/ze W’est Hum/law V'tfie Mystenous Lady Payrenger 21' °De720umed





By. Francis Flood





from those that,carry the fatal yellow

fever and the bubonic plague. Boots

are some protection also against the

many poisonous snakes,,but if a snake

bites through the boot, we are sup-

posed to slash the bite with a knife

and then pour into the wound some

potassium permanganate which we

must always carry with us.”



“If we do that just right we may

live, I understand,” Jim” rejoined op-

timistically. “We must remember to

take these boots off," in the jungles,

once or twice arday and wash our feet

and look for that tiny little borer that

gets under the toe nails. If he once

gets a foothold—”



“You mean a toehold, don’t you” try-

ing to be gay.



“-—He slowly eats your toes away, just

like leprosy.”





She was longer than I’d expected,

425 feet as I afterward learned when

I lost a bet on the question, but lying

so low in the water that only the

white superstructure amidships in-

spired confidence in her as a deep sea

sailor. The Phillipino crew was al-





‘ready battening down the two forward

in





hatches and lashing the booms

place, but astern, the winches and

stevedores alike were still sputtering

and puffing, stowing away the last of

the cargo of American-milled flour,

American gasoline, and American auto-

mobiles to be bartered for the raw

resources of the dark continent.





BRISTLIN G l i t t l e giant-killer

with the down of youth on his lip

and a “Steward” sign on his cap

smiled at us out of one corner of his

mouth and growled curses out of the

other, threatening a. sailor twice his





 





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A Four-Master Sailing by the





“Yes, and clear up to your ears, too.

And by the ‘way, they told us to be





careful about drying between our toes





when we wash our feet or we'll get

those sand cracks that are not only

painful, but sometimes result in fatal

1nfection ” “





Then Jim recalled that we had been

told never to drink water unless it had

been boiled and never to eat fresh veg-

etables or we will get a dysentery.

which, if we 'pull through, will bother

us as long as welive—which probably

won’t be long. We must never stop

in the rest houses along the way be-

cause they are usually infested with

the tsetse fly that causes the fatal

sleeping sickness. Our advisers had

also described in a quaintly interest-

ing manner a variety of parasite

which specializes in white men walk-

ing through the mangrove jungle and

eats the meat off their legs. We must

get heavy, doublebacked shirts as a

protection against the sun, a flannel

band to wrap about our waist when

sleeping to guard against dysentery—

and a tuxedo!



All this was vitally interesting to us

because for the next three months at

least—if we lived—we would be in the

tropics, on both sides of the equator,

from Cancer to Capricorn, and on both

coasts as wellnas in the interior of

Africa, the dark continent.





WE had each packed one suitcase?

at home,'shipped it to New York,

and considered that ample baggage

for our year's trip. But it was very

patent now that more equipment Was

needed, for our information was re

liable and we appreciated the serious;

ness of the undertaking. We would be

prepared andtake everything that was

absolutely necessary. And so we each

bought 200 grains of quinine and a

pair of two dollar cotton pants and

are ready to face the tropics. We have

everything. Not top much, but enough.

That afternoon We rode the subway

der the East River to Brook-





 





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on qPio hinoin our. one suitcase apiece



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West Humhaw in Midooean





size with all manner of personal mis-

fortune if he didn’t stow our suitcase

into stateroom-No. 1 at once.



“Has the lady passenger come

aboard yet?” Jim asked the steward

even before I could ask him when we

would eat.



“Yes, sir, she’s forward, sir.”



“That’s the way I like ’em,” Jim

grinned.



“We had to put her in the third

mate's Cabin,” continued the steward.

and then he added as an afterthought,

“He’ll bunk with the second mate un-

til the lady get’s off at the Canary

Islands.” '





“How old is she? What’s she like?”

The ladies fever Jim.



“I’d judge she’s about forty-five or

fifty, sir—a. missionary going to Ten-

eriffe. ”





Poor Jim’s sun had set. “A prim

old maid of~a missionary and the only

woman on board,” he mourned. “T’rop~

ical Africa, where is thy sting?”



A few minutes later the steward an-

nounced that supper was served and

the boat would sail in about two

hours. He led us into the trig little

dining saloon forward and sat me in

the big arm chair at the head of the

single long table, set for ten places.



A fleeting odor cf baking bread

drifted through a row of brass-bound

portholes along one side of the room.

On the other side, a clear-toned cab-

inet phonograph was playing an organ

overture so softly that one could hear

the ‘ship’s clock ticking away in its

brass case above the oak buffet.





HE four other men passengers and

the first mate were seated at the

table when --Jim and I arrived, but

through the whole salad course, the

seven of us sat there in stony silence





like so many British gentlemen, no





one willing to trade his self-conscious-





hose for an icebreaking introduction.





All were loWering at the vacant chair

beside Jim, reserved for the. deadly

lady miSsionary. If this stifling, stiff-

necked dignity on beard ship Was the





rule, the tropics held no terrors for.





me.

(Continued On page 415)





   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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FARMERS who are increasing

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A sweet, fine'flavored meat

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Use it this fall and see the dlfe

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There is a. Diamond Crystal)

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BUSINESS CONDITIONS

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USINESS conditions, including



farming and industrial, are im-

proving, according to advisers of the

President. This is indicated by a

larger volume “of buying, the mail

order houses showing increased sales

over last year. Secretary of Com-

merce Hoover reports that our ex-

ports and imports are larger than last

year, and general trade conditions

are good. I





SCHOOLS AID IN SPUD HARVEST





 





HE second week in October in



Missaukee county was generally

observed by town and rural schools

alike as “potato digging vacation.”

The lowly spud is so important as a

source of revenue in this northern

county that, when digging time begins,

young and old pitch in to help save

the crop. The potato acreage in the

county this year is well over 5,000,

and the quality of the crop is unusu-

ally good. Dry weather cut the yield

to some extent in the case of early

plantings, but late planting will pro-

duce nearly a normal crap. The Aug-

ust frost did some damage to the crop

on low ground, but it has been esti-

mated that ten per cent would cover

the frost damage over the whole

county. The first real killing frost

occured on Ocotber 9, and it was wel-

comed as a blessing by growers, who

could not begin the potato harvest

earlier on account of green vines.





SOME CORN BORER MONEY LEFT





 





R. A. F. WOODS, director of sci-

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J. E. Rush, Bonilla, S. D., says: “I have.160 acres cross fenced into 5‘

fields. Turnin stock from field to field, as crops are taken off, saves

more feed eac year than the original cost of the fence." A. B. Reif,

.f Arkansas,writes: “It was a good fence that sold my eighty

in Langdale County, Wisconsin, at a good '

/ almost impossible to sell any farm."





RED BRAND FENCE





, “Galvannealed”—coppor Bearing

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extra profits alone. Can't help. but last for many

' heavy “Galvannealed”_ zinc coating keeps rust out.

long life m. Full length stays, wavy line urea and the

. cal can’t-slip knot help make the trim 1001:1135; hog-

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accomplishment by the Auto-oiled Aermotor

jg; in pumping water. '



" 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 that it





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’ or would go four times around in a eat. It would travel on an

avera e 275 miles per day or about 3 miles per hour £0119 hours

each day. An automobile which keeps up that pace

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000 remains of the $10,000,000 appro-

priated for’the 1927 corn borer con-

trol campaign, andnno estimates have

been made «for proposed expenditures

for continuing the corn borer control

campaign next season. It is expected

that these estimates will be prepared

when all data on the results of this

year’s campaign have been receiVed

and studied, and presented to Con-





Agriculture. '



It is stated in the complaint that

the rates changed from California to

the same destinations ., are relatively

lawyer than those contemporaneously

charged on shipments .of grapes in.

.carloads from points in the Lake Erie

grape belt.





Commerce act. .

The grape growers also, assert that





gress in time for action during the/a depression .now ,exists and has





coming session.





GRAPE GROWERS COMPLAIN





 





RGANIZATIONS of grape grow-



ers in the Lake Erie grape belt

have filed a complaint with the Inter-

state Commerce Commission, asking

for a reduction in freight rates on

grapes from producing points in New

York and Pennsylvania to the various

consuming markets. The complaint





was filed by the Chautauqua and Erie





Grape Growers’ Cooperative Associa-

tion, the South Shore Cooperative

Association and Keystone Coopera-





‘existed for a period of years in the

grape, producing industry of 'New York:

and Pennsylvania, and that the pres--





ent rates prev pt the free movement.





of the crop.





OBJECT TO INCREASED TARIFF}

ON HAY.





 





BJECTIONS to the tarifi increase



on hay are said to be the result

of propaganda by dealers in cities who

find it easier to make a profit selling

cheap Canadian hay than in handling

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SELLING MILK AT ROADSIDE

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I have been told anyone selling milk

is required to have everything up to

date. Is this true? Is it necessary

for one to have a license to sell milk?

Does one have to meet all require-

ments of law the same as a licensed

milk man delivering milk from house

to house? I believe there are no re-

strictions on a farmer selling a gallon

of milk or a pound of butter to any-

one who comes to the door and asks

for same. Am I right or not? Please

advise—A. Farmer.





Compiled Laws 1915 Section 6,376

provides, any person, persons, or cor-

poration who shall sell milk or cream

from a wagon or other conveyance,

depot or store, or 'who shall sell or

deliver milk or cream to a hotel, res-

taurant, boarding house or any public

place, shall be considered a milk

dealer; and every milk dealer who

shall sell milk or cream from a wagon

or other conveyance, depot or store,

or who shall sell or deliver milk or

cream to a hotel, restaurant, boarding

house or other public place, in any

city, town or village of this state,

must first obtain a license from the

Dairy & Food Commissioner, to sell

such milk or cream. ,License might

be required by city ordinance. Other-

wise no further license is required.

f—ROOd.





THE WIFE’S SHARE





 





A husband and wife live together

on a farm but have no joint deed and

no children. What part of the prop-

erty can the wife hold after the death

of her husband? Has she a right to

will her share to whomever she wants

or does it go back to her husband’s

people when she is through with it?

Please advise.———-H. H



If the wife survives the husband she

would inherit one-half interest in his

property, there being no children,

and could dispose of it to whom she

pleases. If she does not survive him





her rights in his property wOuld ter-





minate upon her death.





IMMATURE POTATO" SEED





 





Would potatoes, which were frosted

when in rullr bloom. be as good for

seed as any? Are small potatoes as

good as larger ones for seed?—-L. H.



Potatoes Which are; frosted") when





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of seed corn can be as practically a’c- ’





have shown that for seed purposes

immature potatoes are as good, if not-

better than fully matured potatoes. If

the potatoes are stored properly there

is no reason Why they should not be

used as seed next year.



Small potatoes, as a rule, are. not

as good as larger ones for seed for

the reason that they are more likely

to be from poor hills in the field. The

small potato in a good hill’is as 'good

for seed as the large potato in the

same hill provided it has equal

chances when planted.



Do not make it a practice of plant-

ing small potatoes year in and year

out. If you have a very good strain of

late potatoes, the small potatoes may 4

be used once in three years as a.

source of seed with fair results. How-

ever, as a general rule, it is advisable

not to use small potatoes for seed.

The price of seed potatoes and the

scarcity of the seed will, of course,

influence the use of these small pota«

toes—C. ~E. Cormany.





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tent of ,the corn in these two locations. .





The only adjustments necessary to

change the incubator over from hatch-

ing chicks to drying seed corn was

that of shutting off the steam injector

or,- humidifier. All ‘inchbators have

s ome means of supplying mois-

ture to the airrso that the eggs do not

become too dry to hatch well. This





moisture supply of course must be? '





eliminated.‘



At this 0season of the year when

farmers are selecting and storing their

seed corn the incubator offers a means

of safely drying their seed before

there can be any damage from frosts

or” freezing weather. Custom drying





complished‘as with hatching eggs.





 





Southern producers of phosphate





.rock are asking fora tariff on their





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. product, and have-also asked the gays





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law to the impertatlon 'of phosphate '





rock: from Morocco," which is -,being;-,





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is also declared to be unjust and ind”

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A PRACTICAL MACHINE SHED

» PLAN . . ~





HE accompanying plan of machine



shed, adapted from the Minnesota

College of Agriculture, has one end

partitioned q‘rr into a garage and shop

with concrete floor; while the main

.floor is shown of tamped earth. Hav-

ing at least six inches elevation above

the surrounding surface Will keep the

floor reasonably dry.





The length of the garage is 18 feet .





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The Ground Floor Plan of a Well-Arranged Farm Tool Shed





which is sufficient for almost any car

or tractor, and the repair shop is





large enough for working on practii





gcally any farm machine, except large

Separator or traEtor. The total length

shown is 60 feet, giving a space 24 by

42 (approximately 1,000 square feet)

for implement storage, about right for

the average farm. By having part of

the doors slide on the inside of the

posts, the Whole of one side is made

available. _



The roof has a one-fourth pitch, al-



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The rafters are two feet apart on cen-

ters, every other rafter being trussed.

Because of the rather wide doors, it

is necessary to make the plates extra

strong, and three 2 by 10’s are there-

fore specified. Roof and rafters and

plates should be tied together as thor-

oughly as possibleand doors should

not be left open unnecessarily to give

strong Winds a chance to whip under

the roof.



The long narrow type of shed is

most convenient about moving ma-

chines in and out. Square sheds waste

space, especially if a driveway must

be kept open. Round sheds are even



.7 less desirable. Long narrow sheds

can be started small and added to as

needed.



Size of Shed Needed -

, This will depend on number and

size of implements which will require

the space given below. These figures





‘ . are from a Minnesota Bulletin:





Automobile 7x10

inder 8x15

Buggy -

Corn binder .~r............ 7x10

corn cultivator (one row). 5x 6

Corn cultivator (two row) . . . . . .

Corn planter..................

,Disk barrow ouncr-ouencao-ueno

Gangplowoo-or‘cooJOotooon...

Grain drill ....o.c.£.'.;.-......

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Hay loader ...................10112r





ManureSpreaders..unu..... 7X12

-_Mow'er

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WHAT MATERIADFQR woRK

» TABLE TOP?





Is there ‘a galvanized materi fbr

work table tops that will not. urn

dark? . 01; do you know of something

else for this use that is better, but

not very much more expensive? I be-

lieve I have read somewhere of gal-

vanized iron or zinc which does not

turn dark. ——E. C.





A number of satisfactory materials

are available for tops of working ta-

bles. Probably the best is porcelain





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enamel, similar to that of bathtubs

and sinks, but on lighter weight metal.

These come in different standard sizes

and the tables will either have to be

bought with the top already on, or be

made to fit the top. They are easily

kept clean, not affected by foods, and

will give long service, but are some-

what expensive in first cost. These

can be secured through furniture and

hardware dealers.



Probably the next best is heavy

sheet zinc, put on'and fastened tightly,

and with the corners cut and bent and

soldered so there are no sharp edges

to cut or scratch. Zinc is affected to

some extent by acids, and care should

be taken, with lemons and rhubarb

especially, to wipe any stains off

promptly. Care will have to be used

in cutting or chopping on zinc, as it is

rather soft and will dent and cut eas-

ily. Smooth hardwood, or a layer of

heavy sheet iron directly under it will

save many dents. Zinc is not so very

expensive. , ‘





u Lighter enameled sheet .iron is also

used, much the same as galvanized

iron, but with a different type of coat-

ing that is "not so easily affected by

Linoleum also gives

pretty good service, and is easily kept

clean, and not expensive to replace.

—I. D.





MlSSAUKEE FARMERS PICK SEED

CORN EARLY





N account of the scarcity of good

northern grown seed corn last

spring, and in View of another season

of high seed prices, Missaukee county

farmers, in larger numbers than ever





early and drying them by the fire.

Ripe corn was plentiful last fall, but

wet and freezingweather spoiled most

of it for seed purposes. Not to be

caught again without home grown

seed, Missaukee corn growers, at the

suggestion of County Agent H. L.

Barnum, are making'corn drying de-

vices of various sorts and installing

them in the farm house kitchens, or

in attics, near a source of heat. To

encourage the saving cf home grown

seed, the Falmouth marketing associa-

tion has agreed not to bring in seed

cornnext spring if the corn growing

members will pick, cure and safely

store a sufficient supply for local

needs—~13





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“ cdntrasted with





T is little short of a tragedy if any



of us have failed to drink deeply



of the beauty of the autumn land-

scape which has been spread so won-

derously and so lavishly all about us

during the past few days. Fabulous

fortunes could not purchase any pic-

tures to compare with the scenery

amid which we Michigan farmers have

labored at ourrdaily tasks



This forenoon, while picking up un-

dersized potatoes from muddy ground,

I might have been in an ugly mood

had it not been for the panorama of

gorgeous coloring presented by our

woods a quarter of a mile to the east

Golden and scarlet and russet and yel-

low and amber and brown blended and

every conceivable

shade of green to form a picture

of inspiring and intoxicating love-

liness. Often I looked up from the

muddy spuds and gazed away toward

where the sky seemed to meet the

multi-colored woodland. I thought es-

pecially of the second of Alice Free-

man Palmer’s three rules for a happy

life which are:



1. Commit to memory, each day,

some worthy thought that another has

written .



2. Look for, find/and observe care-

fully, each day, one thing that is

beautiful.



3. Every day, do one thing, no mat-

ter how small, that will benefit some-

body.



By the time this appears in print,

I suppose these now peaceful woods

toward which I gaze with such soul-

satisfying pleasure Will be resounding

to the haying of hounds, the crack of

rifles and the boom of guns. "



Hunter Respects Property Rights



That the provisions of the new hunt-

ing law are not unknown to those who

pursue the feathered and four-footed

inhabitants of our woodlots was illus-

trated today when a hunter from our

county seat made a special trip out

from town to ask my permission to

hunt in our woods as soon as the sea-

son opens. I had quite a talk with

him and after assuring myself that he

was a reasonable and dependable.

sportsman, I granted him permission





’to hunt with the understanding that





he was to come to the house and let

us know each time before he went

into the woods.



Today’s mail brought the twenty





‘ posters referred to in rmy last week’s





article. They are headed “No Hunt‘

ing Without Permission. Read The

Law.” Then in smaller type is given

the full text of the new anti-trespass

law enacted by the 1927 legislature

largely as a result of the insistent de-

mand of this paper that Michigan

farmers should be granted decent pro-

tection from irresponsible and unwel—

come trespassers.



Of course under this law it is not





ing it in storage.





necessary for me or any other Mich-

igan farmer to post our property in

order to make it legally necessary for

the hunter to secure our permission

before invading, our premises. How-

ever, these posters will acquaint the

hunters with the new statute and will

show them that we know what the





law is and expect it to be taken in





earnest:

Rent'Orchard to Specialist ,



The apple pickers came to Ingleside

yesterday and are busy with: ladders

and -sorting tables. A small fleet of

trucks is hauling the fruit and plac-

Strange as it may

seem, all the activity in our orchards

means no added responsibility or

extra work for the wife and me.



The explanation of this rather un-

usual situation is that our orchards

are rented on a share basis to a man

who specializes in‘ this sort of busi-

ness. He prunes the trees, keeps them

properly sprayed, picks the fruit;

grades it and tends to its storage and

sale. Perhaps when our orchards are

older we may reassume' the actual





. CI'OD.





Proper handling of

velves not only special technical

training and experience, but expensive

equipment ”and. a lot of labor. In the

old days we tried spraying .with *a

small outflt of our own. This was

tedious work at best and the trees

soon outgrew it.





ist. . The chiefdrawbacks to this ar-

rangement were that ‘he probably





.wanted to use the sprayer at the same





time we did and we usually had hay

to make, potatoes to Spray or corn

to cultivate at the same time, so some-

thing was likely to' be neglected.‘





The man who is now renting our;





orchards has charge ofseveral'others.





Some he cares for by the hour and ‘





some he operates for a share‘ of the

He has adequate equipment,

buys spray material. in, large quantities

and throughout the sprayi'ng season

spends a large portion of 'his time

going around the circuit from farm

to farm. I have no idea how often

be sprayed our apple trees this past

summer, but it seems as though I saw

his outfit here every few days. In the

fall he gets a crew of pickers, graders

and truckers together and goes from

orchard to orchard harvesting the

fruit.





 





Our Readers’ Corner





74m and Opinion; 5y M z'cfizzgan farm 701a





 





SELLING FRUIT PRODUCTS





 





VERY excellent article in a re-

cent number of the Michigan

Farmer regarding the cherry and

Duchess apple situation in the Tra-

verse City and Old Mission regions

contains some suggestions on the mar

ketingproposition that need emphasiz-

ing. An estimated production of

cherries amounting to 20 million

pounds can be readily marketed at

profitable prices, while a much small-

er apple crop cannot besold’at a prof-

it and Duchess apple trees are being

chopped down.

There are ten canning factories to

take the immense cherry crop, but no

such provision for disposing of the





apples. There are three noteworthy

features obtaining in selling the

cherries: they are canned or frozen





so that they are preserved and can

be held until the market calls for

them; they are held by’business con-

cerns who are too keen to indulge in

ruinous cempetition and who will

practically agree on prices, the same

as business concerns in any other line

of production; and they are marketed

by men of experience who are skilled

in selling the goods.



On the other hand, no provision

exists for preserving the apples, but

they must all be disposed of in a short

time regardless of the demand that

might exist for them throughout the





flchmz'tz‘es of A! Acres—Notfizlzg Lite Preparednem





year provided they areavailable, and

there is always the sharpest competi-

tion in the market. for them. For al-

though there may be co-operative ex-

changes in the several apple-growing

districts, yet there areenough grow~

ers belongingto no organization to

supply buyers and commission houses

so that these men fix prices and the

exchanges cannot go much above the

figures they make.





If there weresome strong financial

concerns to take the Duchess apples

and can or dry them andhold them

for a time, and the public were edu-

cated to their

they might be sold at remunerative

prices. For they certainly have





merits when preserved in either of





these ways equal to those of cherries.

To my taste there is no more deli-

cious fruit for sauce in spring than

dried Duchess apples and I much pre-

fer a pie made of them than of cher-

lies. ,





But the public is not educated to





the merits of p1eserved Duchess ap-

ples, "so it is futile to argue this point,

more than to call attention to the fact

that the large cherry crop is mar-

keted through a strong and efficient

organization and the apples are not.

And this makes all the difference in

the world. Fortunately for those





cherry growers there are men operat- j





ing those canning factories who are





willing to pay them remuneratiye‘





Later we rented a»

spray rig from a neighboring orchard-i-





'hands





gown the country selling goods.





value in these farms .





’prOSpect.





‘ /And this is only an instance of suc- . ,

cessful marketing where competitionw

“is eliminated and the sale of the goods 2

is under" nbrganized control.

iconsiderable proportion of those cher-





Were a





Pies consigned to commission mer-

chants or Sold to indiscriminate buy-

ers,. as is déhe with fruits and other

farm products generally, those can-





mug factories would have the fixing





of prices taken entirely out of their

and no such remunerative

prices Would be possible. ‘



Three things we learn from this

situation, then. first, the necessity of

the control of the entire output; sec—

ond, putting, it in such' shape that it

can be held and marketed. gradually

as consumption demands, and, third.

selling by men who are experienced

and skilled in marketing.



Selling goods is an art and requires

specialqualification, which most farm~

ers lack, and the sooner farmers come

to ”a realization of their limitations

the sooner the marketing problem will





be solved. This country is filled with





tens of thousands of salesmen whose

sole occupation is traveling up and

The

large business concerns could not run

a. weekiwithout them. The proprietor

seldom goes on the road selling his

wares, nor the superintendent nor the

foreman nor engineer, much less the

roustabout, but- the farmer has to be

all of these and salesman besides. No

man is sufficiently versatile to be suc-

cessful in all of these lines.



The sooner farmers come to a com-

prehension of these facts and quit put-

ting their produce ’up in competitibn





with their neighbors’ the more rapid -





will p1 egress be made towards a solu.

tion of the marketing problem. ——Ed‘

ward Hutchins.





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KEEPING ONION SETS





 





Please tell me how to keep Bermuda

onion sets over the winter.—J~. C



EssentTals of successful storage of

onion sets are: .



Thorough ventilation, uniform com-

paratively low temperatures, dry at-

mospheres and actual protection from

freezing. ‘



Ventilation is provided by openings

in the top and bottom of the storage

room and by separating the contain—

ers used. .



A temperature of 32 degiees F. is

considered ideal. Since it is impos-

sible to maintain this temperature

during a period of warm weather, ven~

tilators should be opened during the

coolest part of the day. ‘



To maintain a low degree of humid-

ity the onions should be stored in a

place above the ground. The venti-

lator ’should be closed during periods





--df cloudy and rainy weather.—-—J. B.





Edmond.

.

Frank R. Leer.





 





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the cherry outlook would be as flat

“and hopeless as the Duchess apple
‘The pilot escaped by parachute Admiral. Williams of the U. S. Navy Was relieved as Commander— A centenarian and still going

from this balloon explosion at -1n-Ch1ef. of the U. S. Asiatichleet guarding the coast of China strong is Mrs. Miller of Tona-

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department of industrial Journalism at Kansas State Agrlcultural ‘ plane from which wings and pontoons can be detached from

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EW of us realize the variety of



delicious dishes that can be made



with cranberries. They afford

both a delicious and appetizing dish.

They havb become very popular on

winter menus though now they can be

procured most of the year round. It

pays the resourceful cook to get bet-

ter acquainted with this delicious fruit

and the many ways of serving it. The

following recipes offer a few novelties.

Try them and see if you don’t find

them delicious and appetizing.



Deep Dish Cranberry Pie



2 cupfuls cranberries $6 cupi’ul prune juice



chopped fine 1A cupful walnut meats

l cupful sugar 2-3 cupful apples sliced





2-3 cupful soaked prunes thin

1 tablespoon lemon juice 2 tablespoons butter





Chop the cranberries fine and add

the soaked and pitted prunes, cut in

pieces. Add the lemon juice. Put in

a deep pie plate in alternate layers

with the very thinly sliced apples.

sprinkling each layer with the walnut

meats and sugar. Pour the prune

juice over all. Dot with bits of butter

and cover with pie crust. Make sev-

eral slits in top for the steam to es-

cape. Bake in a moderately hot oven

about thirty minutes.



Cranberry Surprise

2 cups cranberries 55 teaspoon gelatin

'15 «mini water 3 tablespoons cold water





34, cupfui sugar 1 tablespoon lemon juice

2 egg whites





Put the cranberries and water into.





a saucepan and cook until the cran-

berries are tender. Strain and add

the sugar. Bring to a boil and when

the sugar is melted add the gelatin

softened in the cold water. Stir in the

lemon juice and when it begins to

cool, slightly fold in the egg whites

beaten stiff. Pour into molds and





chill. Serve with any desired sauce.

Cranberry Roly-Poly

3% cupful cold cranberry V1 teaspoon salt

sauce sweetened 4 teaspoons baking

2 cupfuls flour powder





it cupful milk 2 mph-spoons butter

cupful sugar Grated nutmeg





_Mix and sift the flour, baking pow—

der and salt together. Cut the butter

into this and add the? milk gradually.

Roll out onto a floured board in ob-

long shape. Spread with the cran-

berry sauce and sprinkle with the

sugar, and nutmeg. Then roll like a

jelly roll and press edges together and

put in buttered pan. Bake in a mod-

erately hot oven. Make a syrup of 1/2

cup of brown sugar and 2-3 cupful

water. Pour in the pan and baste

with the syrup several times during

the baking. When done cut in slices

and serve, hot with the syrup.



Cranberry Muffins

2-3 cup cranberry sauce 1% cups flour

1 tenspoonsful bakina 1A2. (up milk

powder 1,‘zteaspoonful salt

Kenn sugar 2 tablespoons butter



Cream the butter and sugar and



add the egg well beaten.

, sift the dry ingredients. Add the milk

and flour alternately to the above

‘ mixture. Then stir in lightly the cran-

berries. Bake about fifteen minutes

in a» moderate oven.



Cranberry Tart Pie





3 cups cranberries 1 cup water

1% cups mar





Boil all“ together ten minutes. Cool.

Line a pie tin with pastry and pro-

ceed to bake the same as any other

pie, baking in a hot oven about





, _; twenty minutes.





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' ERALDED as the world’s biggest

an apple pie weighing more than

was recently baked out in Wash-

» 1;: took four bakers weiiding





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Mix and ’





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By Mrs. L.





rolling pins fifteen feet long to roll

the crust and a specially constructed

oven for baking

For those who favor apple pie to

get a chance at such a pie as that

would be like “seventh heaven.” But

if you favor friend husband with an

“open face” apple pie made like this,

it will chase all grouches away.

Apple Pie A La Open Face

Stew ten tart apples in a very little

water until tender. Press through a

solve and add one and one-quarter cups

sugar, one teaspoon cinnamon, four

beaten egg yolks, one and one-half





ranberries to Add Zest





Served m Novel Way Téey Mate Um; rug/1y YEmptmg Dessertr





‘, .cup Cracker crumbs to two cups apple

_ {-7. sauce: . This is unusually good.





H. Funk





cups cream and one teaspoon vanilla.

Pour into two pastry shells and bake

in a hot oven for ten minutes and then

reduce the heat for twenty minutes.

Cover with meringue made from the

four egg whites beaten with eight

tablespoons sugar, and brown in a

moderate oven.



Two tablespoons of cold tea makes

an unusual variation for the regular-

recipe for apple pie.



When making apple pie with apple

sauce, add one beaten egg, three

tablespoons of lemon quice, two tea-

spoons grated'lemon rind and one-half





Fun for the Hallowc’en Frolic





By Clara





OME people tell us that the lighted



Jack-O-Lantern, with c a n d l e s



gleaming through slitted eyes and

grinning mouth, was first invented as

a bOgie man to frighten away evil

spirits from the parties; others aver

that ‘it was intended to portray the

jolly occasion of Hallowe’en, combin-

ing with it a touch (if the harvest

season. Whichever it was, there will

always be Jack-O-Lanterns at every

Hallowe’en party; there will always

be pyramids of fruit; there will al-

ways be shining chestnuts, ripe snow

apples and autumn leaves in the love-

ly soft colors of gold and scarlet. But

above all there will always be trick

and fortune games galore.



It doesn’t make any difference how

old or young the people who attend

the party are, Hallowe’en games are

always interesting because they are

jolly. To keep up the interest in the





party make the games short and have





lots of different stunts.

Snatch Your Fate



“Snatching fate” is an interesting

stunt. Spread across a doorway six

stout cords, to which are fastened

an apple, an orange, a lemon, a bunch

of grapes, a piece of candy and a cake

or soap. Blindfold the players, turn

them around three times, and tell

them to reach for their fate.

grab a lemon it signifies bachelor-

hood‘; grapes mean gaiety; apple,

health; orange, wealth; the cake of

soap, hard work, while candy. means

a life of ease.

Welcome Guests Through a Spider



Web .-



If you wish to give the guests a

real thrill as they ar1ive, then make

a spider’s web in the doorway which

they enter. There will be fun from

the very start. To make the web, hang

some tree branches abovethe door

frame and from these festoon finely

cut stripes of yellow and black tissue

paper. Make the web of string and

the spider of black paper and ’wire.

Suspend the spider by a long pieCe of

elastic. Or, this stunt may be played

in the middle of the evening, if it is

possible to have the doorway off to

one side, by inviting the guests to

pass through it, as they go to the re-

freshment tabler



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of interest. In the tub place at least

a dozen red apples. In four of these

conceal a ring, a thimble, a button

and a coin. The ring means marriage





within a year, but the thimble brings '





no such luck. The one getting it will

enjoy single blessedness. The coin

means wealth and the button means

that fame comes after hard work.



Another unique trick is to blindfold

the guests, one after another, whirl

them around three or four times, and

ask them to walk some ten feet to

a table and blow out the candle. The

number of puffs it takes to extinguish

the candle tells the number of years

of Waiting for marriage.

forts of the guests to do this trick will

make much funwwhile the number of

years they must wait, because of their

failure to quickly blow .out the light,

makes even more fun.



To carve letters on a pumpkin is

great fun. Set a pumpkin on the

table, blindfold a guest, give him a

hat pin and lead him to the pumpkin.

The letter in which he .(or 'she) sticks

the hat pin will be the initial of his

future wife (or her future husband).

Carve the letters of the alphabet

around the pumpkin before starting.



Midnight Mysteries



No game is too ridiculous and

childish for the Hallowe’en party. In

fact, anything savoringof dignity is

out of place on this fun-making occa—

sion.

for a party either young or old is

“Midnight Mysteries.” One person,

dressed as a witch, sits in a darkened

room awaiting the arrival ‘of the

guests. They enter the room in

silence. When all are seated, the witch

tells them, in weird tones, that she

has six insoluble mySteries for them

to solve.

his left hand behind his back and to

pass with his right hand the object

given him. .The objects are started

from the head of the line.





A piece of uncooked sausage in the-

skins, a huge grapeifmit, 'a stocking

stuffed, a wet kid glove stuffed with ‘





cotton—in short any object that will

have a queer “feel” shOuld be passed.

Afterward, in the lighted room, after

the objects passed have been removed





out of sight, the guests write down-





the names of the things in the order





passed. The one having the greatest 7





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MA‘K’E NEW DRESSES Fon voun

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HERE’S always a bit of a thrill



in dressing up our windows with

new curtains, but we should give

especial attention to our individual

drapery problems, if we would have

our windows look their best.



Glass curtains first of all .may be

scrim, marquisette, dress voile, or

other thin material of which gauze is

perhaps the newest. They may be in

white or color, and some decorators

are using two thickness€s of material

of different hues through which light

filters with a delightful effect.



When cutting figured material, make

certain to have the pattern in the

material come exactly in the same

place. Remember that machine stitch-

ing will pu‘cker the hems and that the





 





 





 





 





best draperies are made by hand.



In planning your draperies do not

allow them to give a “bobbed off” ap-

pearance to your windows. The nar-

row val is apt to do this. If you

wish to have a bit of color around

your windows and yet allow plenty of

sunshine to creep in, the curtain de-

sign illustrated above is very effective.

With material more than forty inches

xwide, you will need but the length of

your windows, for the material may

be split. Make a. double heading of

the contrasting material and slip the

rod through the center-of this. The

side drapes are'attached to this, at





each end. A hem of the contrasting . “





material should finish the bottom.



Usually a selvago.»~ edge is finish

enough for the outer edge of curtains,

depending of course on‘the Sheerness

of the material.





CUNNING COLONIAL QUILT





 





HILDREN know and love the char-



acters shown on this quilt, for

they tell the story of our country.

Each block is 8 inches square, and



comes on a hot-

. iron transfer pat-

tern by which

you can 5 tamp

the design on a

square of white

muslin. Th e

blocks are then

embroidered in

outline stiéh, and

the. 20 set together with plain color

make a complete quilt. ‘





The 20 hot-iron transfer patterns in





 





 





 





 





 





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tinns for making will be mailed post-

paid upon recelp't of 50 gent-.5; .

Send orders to The? Quilt Pattern
' am two faucets .

which I turn a number of times

each day. , ' one faucet sends rain



water into my reservoir... while the

other fills the tea-kettle with hard

water. The latt'er is especially handy

in winter when we wish to heat a

boiler of water for out-of—door use;

We did the installing, ourselves, the

pipe costing about $2.50. I have a

short. piece of hose'Which I attach .to

the hot soft water and hard water to

fill my washing machine and tubs. I

also attach this hose to myemachine





after washing to drain off the water.'





, Wefound a second hand piece of hose

‘ for this purpose at a-cost of fifty

cents. .



Combination- Stool and Step Ladder



I can turn my kitchen stool upside

down and instantly I have a strong

step ladder. There are no.hooks or

adjustments to make and it does not

have to lean against anything for sup-

port. It is light in weight, takes up

very little room, and saves time in

hunting 'up a suitable chair and a

paper to put on it. The cost of this

stool was ninety-five cents.



I have found my steam pressure

cooker invaluable in speeding up cook-

ing. I can cook a four-year old chick-

en in two hours so tender that it falls

apart. It is very easy to keep clean,

and saves many minutes of dish sh-

ing. I have the twenty-five quart size

. since I use it in canning and jelly

making, but 'if one wished to use it

for meats and ordinary cooking only,

-I should recommend a smaller size.

This cooker works better on a gas,

gasoline, or kerosene stove, but I use

it to good advantage on my coal range.

——Mrs. L. H. M.





 





When we were first married, we

started light housekeeping—and it

Was light. For cupboard space, I had

four eighteen-inch shelves for food,

dishes, and all cooking utensils.



So my first investment was a

kitchen cabinet. When I saw a sales-

man of 180 pounds stand on the bot-

tom of the draws and they didn’t give,

,I knew my troubles with warped





on my range.





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new, With all parts in fine working





Order. ,- ,

.My second important investment

was a power washing‘machine which

runs fwith a gasoline engine. I have

used it three years now and it works

fine. My washing machine came first

before dining room or living room

furniture. We purchased 'an engine

large enough to run washer, wringer,

churn, separator, and pump water at

a cost of $110.00 complete.





With my ten quart waterless cooker

’I have prepared better meals with less





work, and nothing ever burns which

is a blessing to a new bride. I have

cold packed all kinds of fruit and

vegetables with it and find it is far

ahead of a boiler method.



It has more than paid for itself in

the oil'it has saved for I have cooked

as many as five different foods in it

at once.——~Mrs. M. M.





 





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Sleep with the Windows Wide Open ,

, ‘ By CHARLES H. LERRIGO, M. D.





.- WHEN the cool crisp winds of autumn sweep along you need



But don’t shut tight your windows!

remember the old way of our grandmothers.

windows every morning to “air the room” from that bedroom

At night they closed them tight.

rooms fresh all night and shut our windows in the morning. One

of the reasons why we now average fifty-six years of life instead

of the forty-five that folks averaged in Grandma’s day is because

we are learning to (like fresh air, the most vitalizing influence in

When winter comes have a good warm mattress beneath

you, and dress in warm night clothes rather than pile on a great

'mass of heavy bedding to tire you out with its weight.

want to keep well and defy “colds” don’t shut out God’s greatest





.Fresh air does not necessarily mean cold air, yet it is very

hard to make your skin‘believe thatmsuper-heated air is fresh.

It cries “I want to throw off some of' this

surplus heat that my body is making. How can I do it with an

indoor temperature in the eighties?"



Really fresh air‘is outdoor air.

when this is much too cold for the health of! those not actively

at‘work. .Then we must use artificial heat to bring it up to 68

degrees and perhaps for older people as high as 72 degrees. Even

when heating is a necessity it is wise to let a considerable volume.

of outside air come in because it replenishes the moisture.

thermore, its ingress keeps air in motion and this is .a great help

in carrying away from our bodies the ’invisible'blanket of stale

air which will make us uncomfortable and heavy if allowed to





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I have Ia motto on "my dresser iby

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and philosopher, that reads, “It is not





doinglthe things we like to do, but

liking the'things we have to do, that

makes life blessed.”





Women in Monroe county whovha‘ve

taken extension courses in clothing for





the past three years have decided to ’

' study problems of nutrition this year.





Specialists from Michigan State Col-

lege will work _with the study groups.





 





 





Fer Our Little Folks





Stories From B ug‘vi/le





 





 





THE TIGER BEETLES’ TRICK

AR had been declared among



vv the beetles. It was all on ac.

count of the big June Bugs, for



they had boasted that they





were the biggest and strongest of all -





the beetles. The rest of the beetles

agreed that perhaps they were the

biggest and strongest, but they did

not propose to let the June Bugs rule

them for that reason alone. So they

had decided to have a war. The beets

1e family who was successful in this

war would be their ruler.



First came the Carrion Beetles.

They were just medium-sized with

dull, yellowish bodies, and black Wings.

They always hunted around until they

found a dead bird or a mouse and

made that their favorite feeding

ground. ,



The Rose. Beetles were there, too,

in their brownish, yellow coats and

with their reddish, prickley legs. They

have a more delicate appetite than all

the rest of the beetles for they choose

the petals of a rose for their break-

fast.



Then along came the Potato Beetles,

with their shining Black and yellow

striped Wings. They outnumbered all

the rest, for each mother Potato





 





All Were Assembled, the





Fracus Began





Beetle lays from five hundred to one

thousand eggs, two to four times a

year. They had just finished their

breakfast of potato plant leaves.



The Lady Bugs came next with

their sleek, orange wings dotted here

and there with black. They were

smaller than all the other beetles but

very brave.



The Click Beetles were there, too,

with their brownish, black coat-of-

arms. Each had two make—believe

eyes on the back of their heads. Click

Beetles are very fond of tricks and

their favorite one, when someone

comes near to. them, is to lie very

still as if dead. Then, if you turn

them on their backs, they will give a

click, spring up in the air several

inches, land on their feet and run

away before you can catch them.



And last of all to arrive were the

Tiger Beetles all dressed up in their

glistening blue-green coat of mail.

They were small. too, much smaller

than the June bugs.



When all were assembled the

fracas began, but it wasn’t long be-

fore the Tiger Beetles began to dis-

appear one by one.



(“The Tiger Beetles are frightened

away,” laughed the June Bugs. '



But this was not so, for they were

pulling their favorite trick. Each little

Tiger Beetle had burrowed into little

holes in the ground and crawled into

it backwards, leaving only their heads

sticking out. Here they waited until

the unsuspecting beetles came near.

Then they grabbed them in their jaws

and forced them into the hole behind

Soon the Tiger Beetles had

this way. Thus tl‘lve Tiger Beetles

were declared the

all the other beetles ever after.





 





 





Our school houses are our republi-

can lines of fortification—H. Mann-





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. 0U will be proud to

wear these silk and If

silk-and-wool Wigwam .2

stockings -- full of good

looks, fashioned, with '

lots of stretch. Always fit

snugly. They last so long ;

it’s economy to wear "

them all the time, due to 1

the special re-enforcing

Wigwam provides at the L

four points of - wear.

Look up the Wigwam

store next time you’re in

town and try a couple pair.





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From the Home- Comets

Menage: from Old Favonz‘e:





NOTICED the announcement of“

H ome-Coming in the Michigan.

Farmer a week ago, but I didn’t

find time to write last week. To those

of my cousins who may wonder at my

whereabouts, I am teaching in a rural

7school7at Eaton County. I have twenty

fine pupils and I enjoy my work im-

mensely. ‘

The other day I noticed a list of

capacities which a teacher must fill

and I shall pass them on to you at

this time. She must be advis0r,

council, judge, jury, prosecuting-attor-





 





Reva McComb, to the Left, Is An Ac-

tive M. C. Arlah Hale Is Her Friend





ney, doctor, and a nurse. I find that

the list is fairly complete but two or

three others might be added. As the

days go by I find myself feeling more

and more responsible for the things I

do. I wonder if we are not more or

less responsible for the behavior of

children. All, or perhaps I should say,

most of our psychologists claim that

children learn by imitation. If this is

true, are we not doing them a great

injustice if we set a poor example be-

fore them? This is one of the two

big lessons I hope to teach this year.

The other is learning to think.



I think this letter fully sounds the

“school ma’am” so let’s change to a

lighter vein. I do wish M. C.’s would

stop drawing such rediculous cartoons

of Uncle Frank. He’s neither old nor

young, nor fat or slim, but just our

Uncle’Frank. It is certainly a shame

that so few of us have ever called

upon him. He told me about two



. months ago that only five M. C.’s had

ever come to see him.





Oh, happy, merry friend of mine

Please do not dub me “preacher”





77 For where I live and where I work





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717 7 Fowlerville. It is a. weekly newspaper





I’ m only called the teacher.

Adieu till twelve-months more—Ber-





nice M. Ball.





You take the responsibilities of a

teacher in the proper spirit, I think.

Therefore, you will be successful in it.

I was glad of your visit and will be

glad to have others come. But, I do

not feel badly because they do not, for

I do not want to spoil the mental pic-

ture they may have of Uncle Frank. I





, really like the cartoons.





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Seeing in the Michigan Farmer that





 





7Home-Coming Week rwas again ap-





proaching, I’ll venture to write a. few

lines. ,Well, anyway, I never joined

the nursing squad, and probably never

will now. I have a good job as a lino-

type operator in the Review office at





‘ “‘7,.and We send one to ‘the Michigan





Farmer every week. Now, Uncle





Frank, you want to locate one some

week and see how many mistakes you





 





11 find in the reading matter as I set

‘up nearly all of that. Enough about

was!!! ‘ -





 





I 'have three girl correspondents

now, although Frances Hollewinske, of

Gaylord, Michigan, and Mary Brable,

of Ithaac, N. Y., will think I have for-

gotten them, but such is not the case.

I have been corresponding with these

girls for a year and with Anna Milko-

vich, of Gagetown for three years. I

certainly enjoy the letters of all three.





The fountain pen I won three years-





ago in a contest is still working and

is being used to write this.



I believe I had better close and

leave room for someone else. Good





‘luck to each and all of you and to.





the Merry Circle—Joycie E. Purdy,

Fowlerville, Mich.



So, you are an operator. I suppose

you feel fine when you get a splash,

when the metal pot “freezes” or when

you get feathers on the slugs. That

fountain pen is better than I thought

it would be.





 





It doesn’t. seem that another year

had passed since the last Home-Com-

ing, but nevertheless it must be true.

I hardly know what to say that Will

be different from last year. I will

make an effort though for the benefit

of Uncle Frank and my old friends

that stood on my side of “No Man’s

Land.” (1 don’t suppose there are

many flappers who care where I am.)



Well, anyway, I am still sane and

alright, not much difference between

me at present and myself last year.

I am reminded often of the “old days”





when I suddenly get a scent of powder,





on the breeze, but on looking around

I find that it’s being blown from the

face of some sweet young flapper on

the other side of the street.



As to my present occupation there

isn’t much change. I’m still spending

the most of my time on the farm. My

art career has not grown much in the

past year, but because I haven’t had

the chance to work at it. I’ve tried

to get city work this summer where I





' would have a better chance, but it has





been impossible.





Although I’m through with school

work I am not through with learning

for someday I hope to be able to

climb the remaining steps to success.

It takes time for any of us to reach

it, but it can be done. Rome was

built but not in a day.



I will close until another year

passes by,‘wishing you all happiness

and successv—Harold Coles, Mont-

gomery, Michigan.





I am glad that you keep the remain-

ing steps of the success ladder in

mind. So many forget them too

easily. Apparently those bobbed pow-

der-scented flappers won’t let, you

forget them.





 





Am I late for Home-Coming Week?

I hadn’t noticed any announcements

of it and just the past week I looked

up the last few papers, and in the

October 1st paper I saw something

about Home- -Coming Week, so I con-

cluded I had better hurry.



Is it possible that another year has

gone this quickly? Last year I was

in Cleveland at the Bible Institute

when I wrote, and expected to be

again this year but am not going back

till second semester. I did so enjoy

my work there and had a wonderful

time except for my health being so

poor. In‘March I had" to come home

for an appendicitus operation. I re.

covered in a short time so that three

weeks from the day I was- operated

on I started out in evangelistic work





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which~i am to assist begins October"

30 and after that I think I will have

a good rest. I can hardly wait until"





time to return to school.



I have, had_such a busysummer

that I haven’t kept in very close touch

with our Merry Circle page.

pose most ofthose who used to be so

active will, l1ke, myself come backfor

the Home-Comings I began to wen—

der if Uncle Frank wasn’t planning

for it this year and was about ready





to write him- a letter to remind him,





it must be time and here it is myself

that’s forgetting to keep watch.



' I hope we have a large crowd again

this year. There must be new ones

joining us every year, isn’t there? But

I suppose others are dropping out.



I will close for this time, hoping to

write from Cleveland next year. Most

sincerely-Ferns A. Bishop.





I hope your health will remain good

from now on so that you may carry

on the good work you are starting.

If you go through Detroit on the way

to school, come and see me.





 





 





Our Letter-» Box





Dear Uncle Frank. .-



You’il know we like your paper very

much, as I’m the fourth generation

reading (the Michigan Farmer. My

great grandfather subscribed for it

long before there were any mail routes

through here, or such a thing was

thought of. -



Uncle Frank, how many Merry Cir-

clers are there? Say, Uncle Frank, why

don’ t you have your picture put. in the

paper sometime? I am sure we would

all like to see it very much.



I like the Read- and Win Contests,

because you have to hunt for the an-

swers, and that is a lot of fun. ——Just

a Merry Circler.



That is a fine record for Michigan

Farmer reading. There are over 15, 000

M. C.’ s now. I have used up all the

suitable pictures of myself, therefore,





have no printable ones.





 





 





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Dear Merry Circlers:



I surely enjoy the discussions on

drinking, smoking, rouge, etc. I abhor

drinking. Smoking isn’t so bad for

adults. Rouge and powder are all right

if used in moderation.





My hobby is reading. I like any-

thing, frdm novels to Mother Goose

stories.

Americanization of Edward Bok” I

am enjoying it very much.





has Jersey :heifer; ,,

her sister at the fair laist fall, and am





I Sup-W $01113.“ to take this one to the fair 'this





Papple, Rama Gray,

At present I am reading “The,





reports. I was 011.7





I enjoy all outdo? t bali last; year

00





our first team in





also on first team in basket bah last





ter

I belong tea





w

calf club and have a

I won a prize on.





all.‘——- Stogey



Wh.y £1th a wholesome and arm 7

bitious boy like you take the name

“Stagey?” Why didn’t you take a.

name which referred to healthful ac-

tivities? You have :1 ngod hobby, and





gare reading a good book.





77-73;. 4. .

Dear Uncle Frank: ‘



I get a free trip to Detroit and Chiv—

cago for- demonstrating the best in"

poultry so I’m going to tell you and

the cousins about it: I stayed at the

fair ground in the Boys' and Girls’

Club Department Building. I saw the

best cattfe, sheep, horses, swine, and

poultry there that Ihad even seen.

There was a duck about three and a

half feet high. I saw some very little

people. Some are nineteen inches

high and thirty-seven years old. I

went to theatres in both Chicago and

Detroit. At Lincoln Park in Chicago



saw every different kind of

stuffed animals and birds and Indian

pottery and dresses, and everything

you could think of.



I guess I’ll close to leave room for

pmeone else—Anna Anesi.





‘You had fine trips to Detroit and

Chicago. You missed one curiosity in

Detroit and that was 7me. I congratu-

late you\ on winning these trips.





THE MERRY CIRCLE FUND





 





HE secret code contest stimulated



contributions to the fund, so that



recently money has been coming

in a little better. I want to thank all

who have sent in money, and wish to

give extra thanks to those who sent

in more than the usual five or ten

cents. A few have been constant con-

tributors, sending in quite regularly

moderate amounts. I appreciate their

unselfishness and I am sure that simi-

lar appreciation will come ten fold

from the crippled children who will

listen in by means of the M. C. radio.





Some of the contributors are:



Elizabeth Rawley, Violet French,

Ermina Cote, Jamelio Abraham, Rob—

ert Mann, Helen Morse, Beatrice Mc-

Gillioray, Edith Kingdon, John Vloch,

Lily Hansen, Lucille Green, Marion

Schirner, Tehersa Ulrich, Reuben

Johnson, Etta Crick, Maxine Moon,

Martha Kaarlela, Onalee Stoerck,

Mary Vloch, Adrian DeVisser, Eyelyn

Grace Binding,

Spencer Vanderveen Dora Ramsdill,

Leona Ayers, Catherine Strumberger,

Mary Crandell, Eva Simmons.





Little ”Nature Studies





7716 Black Tam ‘ “





7 NE could hardly say that this is





the nest of the black tern, for"





there doesn’t seem to be any nest in

the picture. Yet it is as’much of‘a

nest as the black tern eyer builds, and

here she lays her blue eggs, splotched





with black or brown, usually two to 7





 





The Egg of I11. Biacfi Tm





7 .shores .of small. inland hilt.

..pa,ir~or,'3w§r 9!? these bi





 





material at. hand. Many of her cousins

build no more of a nest than she, but

they have an excuse for they nest on

bare rocks or gravel beaches, where

there are no reeds or rushes with

which to build a real bird home.



The black tern, however, nests on.

sandy bars, just above the water, ,

where" there is a thick growth“ of

green rushes-and always enough dead

material lying around to make a nest.

Frequently this ‘tern will seek out a





. “lhggreat raft or window of rushes, heaped

up on the bar the previous autumn or





spring, and lay her eggs there. That

is what the mother bird whose nest





is shown here has done:





The black tern is the only member .





. of the tern family that reguiarly





deserts the ocean and the largest of

the fresh Water seas to heat '





tour In number, and does hex-patient , ,7





s.





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Ioo mimic. uncut:

PAOIFICOS

ONLY $1s 95





The regular retail price is 5 cents straight.

Don't judge the quality by the price. Test

them with an openrn ind-at our expense.





WI" TlllS AMZIIIE OFFER:-





We are the sole American distributors for

certain brands of one of the largest Manila

cigar factories. We have contracted to sell

several millions a year. To do this we realize

we must first interest individual smokers before

we can expect dealer co— operation. Therefore.





h “I present. we will sell to smokers direct.





loo Pacificos'





FOR





$1.95





is a true bargain. It's

less 'than jobbers have

'to pay for like quality.

Smoke 5 or 6 with a

desire to be pleased. If

you are not perfectly

satisfied return the oth-

ers and we will cheer-

fully refund your money.





MORE FACTS

ABOUT





PACI FICO 5





Mighty few Ameri-

cans realize that the

Philippines are produc-

ing grades of cigar to-

bacco second to none.

in mildness, fine tex-

ture.pleasing flavor and

appearance.



Many of our custom-

ers claim that they

prefer PACIFICOS to

the 5 to 10 cent Do-

mestic cigars. If Paci-

ficos were made of only

50% Cuban tobacco-

’ _ which is no better—‘the

duty alone would be

$3. 60 per 100.



Acquire the taste for

Pacificos and you will

be among our hundreds

' of customers saving

‘ 60% on their smoking

expenses. If you will

smoke the first 100 you

will appreciate t h e i r

enticing flavor.





—-as this advertisement

will not appear again,

unless t h e responses

justify the expense of

another insertion. Fill

in attached coupon and

A ’ mall at once.





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Send me 100 Paclflco Cigars. I will pay postman





 





' $1 95. plus postage. It is agreed that if the first 5





or 6 cigars are not satisfactory I can return the

others and get. back my money



NOTE—If you will send choc 2001' M. 0. with sour

order. it will save delays and C. 0. D. charges.

If you are East of Pittsburgh 53nd $2 20 ($1. 95 plus

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Lowest prices now on bullets of all ages. 10.0

available. All birds shipped C. 0. D. on \avprovnf

Write for special prices



- BAIRVIEW HATCHEZRY & FARM



BOX M E,ELAND MICHIGAN





Were is NO CRIB





 





 





 





Features which

make Dickelman

Cribs superior to



any other on the

market are: heavier metal s‘ides

heavier rOofs, patented “down nail

out’ weather proof perforations,--

than size wartgcanOf and sag proof

doors,paten beadedstormproof

roofs, corru ated over-lapping

' traction. ickelman exclusive

Ea conesnts built into the Dickelman



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lightning, rats, mice and mold.

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N practically all or themantests we"

. have had, the use of a pen or pen-I

cil wasnecesary, but this time. the

sclSsors‘ will be the tools with which

the contest will be won. The best





the prizes, I know that-many boys

and girls are quite handy in folding

over paper and then making cut-out

designs. Write your name and ad-

dress on the design somewhere; if

you‘ are a Merry Circler put M. C.

after your name. Don't be afraid to

try this new contest as you may be

a. Winner. All who send good designs





The Late J.





ERE‘ we come again to our old



friend Prohibition. I am» refer-



ring to J. Barleycorn as the late

J. Barleycorn because I believe this

title, jf not wholly justified now, will

be, in time. Old John is still with us,

but he will not continue to be forever.

Of that I am sure. The federal ad-

ministrator of prohibition said the

other day that if in fifty years we

could bring about a, really dry Amer-

ica. we would be doing good business,

and I think he is right. When the

profits are as vast as they are in

booze, and while the fools are as nu-

merous as they seem to be, the fight

will be slow. But

if we keep 011

fighting, we must

win in time. We

have made a

magnificent start,

failures thou gh

there be. We are

the only large

nation on earth

that has had the

social vision, the courage, the nerve

to step out and try it. When you read

about drunkenness and law violation

don’t forget that. When your neigh-

bor comes home and beats up his

wife, take a good look at him next

time you see him. You are looking

at a species that is becoming extinct,

and will be extinct within the life of

your children, as extinct as the great

auk or the dinosaur.



Think of slavery. The negroes were

emancipated in 1863. But as a. matter

of fact thousands of them are still

slaves to ignorance, superstition, indol-

ence. It takes time, time, and still

more time to bring about a. great





 





emancipated some time. It is easier

to take people out of slavery than it

is to take slavery out of people. It

is easier to legislate liquor out of the

law than it is to remove the appetite

forit from people’s throats.





Any good law has to be continually

watched and guarded, else it will be

violated or gradually over run and

ignored. Murder seems to be almost

an industry in the United States now.

But I have heard of no one who is

agitating for the repeal ‘of the laws

forbidding murder.



Herewifh I want to reproduce one

or two letters of prominent people, as

to the way in which they regard pro-

hibition. The Anti-Saloon League of

New York made public the following

of Mr. E; S. Ryder, president of the

Harder Refrigerator Corporation, of

Coblesville, N. Y. He has been closely

observing the influence of alcohol and

itsprohibition on business for many

years. This letter-is a. reply to a

representative of the “wets” of New.

York, who asked him for funds. The

date is March 29th. 192?; - The letter





. follows:





Dear Sir:



I have your fairor of recent date re-

questing contributions toward pay of"

officers of the Association Against the

Prohibition Amendment. ' In answer

to" your meatloaf—yes, I'm‘ satféfied





 





=w1th‘ prohibition, but not with its on-





Cut-out designs frOm paper will win “





reform. The negroes will be indeed.





will- 51 on C



jlf not now: member's.

loose- loaf ‘nOte bobks, and knives will

be the prizes given lac/the ten best





scissor users. This contest will close. _





November 4th. Send your designs to

Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer, De-

troit, Mich, before November 4th.





 





Other Fund Contnibutors: Laurene

Thelen, Meta Lick, Ronald Auble, Lena

Vanderjagt, Gertrude Morris, Made--

line Witt, Mary Selka, Norma Pickett,

Enid Walker, Geraldine Glupper, Her-

man Gieseler, Doreen Hier, Barbara

Vloch, Beatrice Shaw, Harriet Graic—

ken, Lottie Caldwell, John Strange,

fiery Bajo, Erma Hildner, Florence



fly





Barleycorn





Our Weekly Sermon—By N. A. .Mchze





forcement. Had as much time, wind

and money been spent in enforcing

the law as there has been in trying to

defeat it, it would by this time have

been accepted as one of the most bene~

ficient statutes in any country.



I have only to call your attention to

the savings deposits in seven years

from eleven to twenty-five Billions,—

big B. In our own little village of

2,600, two banks have nearly five mil-

lions of assets, an enormous gain in

seven years. A savings and loan asso-

ciation of which I am president has

loaned in six years to people of mod-

erate means $200,000, largely to home

builders in this village.





Your'idea seems to be to go back

to old conditions, have a large part of

these savings drawn from these sav~

ings accounts and be “spilled” over

the bar of the beer and wine stores.

No, thank you! Business is too good

to monkey with at this time.



Thus reads Mr. Ryder’s letter, and

it talks as though he knew his facts

and figures.



Here are extracts from an interview

with a New York society woman, Mrs.

Gordon Norrie, which was first printed

in the Hostess Magazine, February,

1927, and was afterward printed as a

leaflet and widely scattered. “I was

born and brought up in New York. My

people were known as one of New

York’s 01d, conservative families. At

our home in Washington Square,

which my family occupied for fifty

years, considerable entertaining was

done. At our table cocktails and high-

balls were served, during dinner there

was wine, two or three kinds, perhaps.

In the drawing room afterwards a

liqueur was served, and later brandy

and sodas for those who wanted them.

I thought nothing about it because I

was accustomed to it. Then prohibi-

tion became a much mooted question.

Finally it was borne, in upon my con-

sciousness that themajority of young

men I had grown up with were

wrecks, or fast becoming so, from too

much drink. It was not a pleasant

awakening.



“Since prohibition we hear it fre-

quently said that trying to keep drink

from people makes drunkards of them

-——that if they were allowed to drink

if they wanted to they would not care

nearly so much about it. My early

experience taught me that this is not

true.” She» then speaks of the num-

bers who became drunkards in the old

days, and goes on, “We fought 100

years for prohibition. We obtained it.

Now its enforcement is the great prob

lem. Instead of rallying to its sup-

port, thousands of people, hitherto

law-abiding citizens, are daily break-

ing a law that was made for the good

of the. people—all of them. I believe

that America can be made dry,” etc.

How do the “wets” like talk of this

kind? '





 





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

OCTOBER 30





 





SUBJECT: "Amos Denounces Sin—-

World’s Temperance Sunday. Amos

2. 4 to 12.



GOLDEN TEXT: Amos 5:14.





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All these excellent qualities are embodied in

this wonder breech because it is made of a ten

ounce double filled duck, and Is lined with a 20

ounce OD all wool worsted serge material. They

are strongly sewed. and bartacked at all strain

points for extia strength. F01 the hunter, or out—

door workman they cannot be surpassed. Were

they to be made today they would sell for at least

$8. 00 a pair. They were made for the Army and

have passed their rigid inspection.





Sizes 30 to 42. State size. $2. 98PM t

03 age





No. 1220 Price ........... ,

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‘ $2.00 Value





Made of pure 0.

I). wool cloth in-

side, with water-

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same materials as

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SEND NO MONEY D... ...... .

penny in ad-

vance. Just your Oldl’i‘ by letter or postal. We' ll

send at once by pz‘m Cl. post ON APPROVAL.

Pay postm .n only PIicc marked and a few cents

postage. If you (1011' t say it' s the biggest. best

bargain in breeches and cap you ever saw, we

will send eveiy penny back at once. The supply

is limited. so order quick. .





u. s. MAIL ORDER co.,





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MODERN SHOEING

FOR HARD ROADS





No matter how cold the morning or how

icy the road, your horses can work with

steady regularity if shod with Diamond

Frost-Proof Calks and Shoes. \



Diamond DRIVE Cslks cannot twist or

some loose. although they are inserted or

removed with a single light blow. Wear



but cost no more. Bowls"!

odsptod for heavy loads.



Block Diamond SCREW Calla have s-

eats-a hard tool steel center. Many (118*.

out patterns for all kinds of service.





Askyour Blacksmith or Dealer for

DIAMOND SHOES and CALKS.,

If he cannot supply you





Wuujor 1W Cdshfls ‘

blamond CaIII horseshoe _

(:0 saw ' - .





ems Grand AI}...
. ‘ that Leta Mixed Feed Makers will: 7” . -





 





 

 





 

 

   

   

   





   





SAFELYErSU RELY





No danger to children, stock or poultry

Use K-R-O freely in the home. ham or poultry

house with absolute safet . _Severe tests, ave

proved that it kills rats an mice every time ut

other animals and poultry are not in-ured by





, largest doses.



. Not a poison ‘



K-R-O is made of powdered squill—the new safe

way urged by Government Experts. Does not con-

tain arsenic, phosphorus. barium carbonate or any

other deadly poison. At our druggist, 75c. Large

size (4 times as much) $500. 0r sent direct from

us postpaid if he cannot supply gnu. Satisfaction

guaranteed. K-R-O Company, pringfield, Ohio.





. KER-O





KILLS-RATS-ON LY





 





'A Baby Chicks"

' In an ordinary Breeder lam.

, . Wonderful ventilating

l ' system arantees bet-

' ter resu ice—sweating or

condensation unknown.

Backed

eriencs. grow

. grater. Don't fail to In-

"1 O vestig‘ate. Gal scrim-rui-

Iu Infill-ill but ml prices.





“a “lama: I Armstrong 60., Dept. ls tendon. Ohio

Buckeye Corn Cribs — COPPER-IZED Metal Silos





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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Stop Your aby Chick Losses

Raise 2—pound broilers in 8 weeks-buy or hatch

your chicks earlier and get higher prices. You

can if you have a Martin.



Monroeville (0.) Hatchery writes—"Raised 97

percent."



A. J. Swineford writes—"Had 2 1b. broilers

in 8 Weeks."



Mrs. W. Leli‘ler writes—"Expect to buy an-

other Martin in the spring." ‘



Brooding chicks in a. Martin is safer, easier.

sures, FIRE-PROOF. rat and Weazel proof. san-

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

center. no corners—prevents crowding.



“Cel-O-Glass” Windows.

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

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

ped knocked down—easy to put up. Last 9. life-

time. Write for illustrated folder and price.

‘MARTIN CORN CRIBS



save all the corn. Protect against rats.

fire and mould. Write for low prices.





 





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The Martin Steel Products 00.. Dani. 218. Mansfield. Ohio





 





 





 





THE SCRATCH GRAIN RATION





 





HE Purdue Station advises feeding



the light breeds 9-10 lbs. of grain

per 100 birds per day. The heavy

breeds require 1012 lbs. per: 100 binds

per day. At the Michigan Station

they have a general rule of feeding 3

to 4 lbs. of scratch grain per 100 birds

in the morning and 8 to 9 lbs. in the

evening. The light grain feeding in

the morning encourages mash con-

sumption during the day.



Some poultrymen are having good

success in hopper feeding the grain

ration. ‘It keeps the scratch grain

from becoming contaminated With





spread of disease. It takes less time

than broadcasting the grain over the

range and insures a. supply before the

birds at all times.



When the scratch grain is fed by

hand I think it gives the poultryman a.

good chance to observe the general

condition of the flock both morning

and evening and any lack of appetite

or sluggishness can be promptly de-

tected. The quantity of grain re-

quired can often be estimated from

studying the birds‘ as well as the

scales. Nothing is gained by scatter-

ing more grain over a poultry range

than the birds will eat in a short

time. It attracts sparrows and may

become sour and mouldy in rainy

weather.——K.





TRANSFERRING BEES.





 





I have five colonies of bees, four of

which are cross-combed. The inspect-

or has been here and inspected the

one which was free from disease, and

said he would be back in ten days. He

informed me that I would have to

have the other four removed in new

hives or he would destroy them. Have

I got to move them? Can he destroy

them if I don’t do as he tells me?



The inspector is entirelywithin the

laW in requiring that the bees be

transferred tomovable frame hives. In

fact, the law permits the inspector at

his discretion, to destroy them when

found, without giving the owner time

for transfer. Send to your congress-

man for a. government bulletin on

transferring bees. This is free and is

issued by the U. S. Department of Ag-

riculture, Washington, D. C.—B. F.

Kindig. '





WINTER GRIT SUPPLY





 





FARM poultry flock needs plenty

of grit during the winter and if

the caretaker does not wish to buy

lcommercial grit, fine gravel makes an





 





 





 

 

   

   

   

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Producing





Fully 50,000 farm owners have

ositively proved that you can

ower the cost of producmg

anilk, beef, pork or mutton _





with the Letz System of Home Crop I g; '15.)!





Feeding. They ave actually proved





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

. by utilizing waste.

a. fielease unfit; 80 t

. creasem an mes r

. Save up to 25 q, of laboxPin handlin feed

3. Improve health and condition of





   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





’ narration and ideas that ev

leaders in ev state in the





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Milk





resen feed cro acreage for cash crops. . .

of yourodiictio: up to so; through better feed preparation.





cro .

farm angels.





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There is a

cost line run-

ning through

every animal

' on your farm.





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dropping and helps to prevent the





 





excellent substitute and it- is the bird’s

natural source of grit. On many‘farms

there’is a lack of fine graveland a,

farmer with a car can often haul four

or five hundred pounds of fine gravel

from a neighbor’s pit. The gravel can

be loaded into old feedsacks holding

about 100 pounds per sack and hauled

in the back of a. touring car;



This should be dune before the gra-

vel is soaked with the fall rains. It

must be fairly dry when placed in

the hoppers. Wet gravel soon freezes

into a solid block which can hardly

be peeked apart by the hens. If the

gravel supply is neglected until snow .

time, it is almost necessary to buy:

commercial grit. While hens may sur-

vive for many weeks Without grit, it

is especially needed to grind the whole

corn usually included in the farm

hen’s ration and flocks without grit do

not have a fair chance to use their

feed to the best advantage.





BEANS FOR HENS





 





Are beans good for chickens, the

beans being cooked with potatoes or

beets? How much should be fed to

fifty chickens?——Mrs. C. C. H. .,





Beans do not seem to rank very

high as a poultry feed. Some poultry-

men use boiled cull beans as a sup-

plement to the regular ration but not

as a. substitute for the laying mash

or scratch grain. Potatoes are not a

very desirable poultry feed especially

Wherrxthey are high in price. Cull po-

tatoes are sometimes boiled and mixed

with a little bran and fed to the hens

to supplement the regular ration. I

think the best way to use cull brans

and potatoes is to feed at noon the

amount that will be readily eaten by

the hens. Keep the laying mash be‘

fore them so they will eat plenty of

egg making material. Feed the regu-

lar scratch grain ration morning and

night. The use of the beans and pota-

toes will reduce the amount of mash

the hens will eat but will not cut

down mash consumption enough to

seriously curtail egg production.





SELLING TURKEY BREEDING

STOCK





 





When should turkeys be sold that

are kept for breeding stock, old hens

and toms? We have Bourbon Reds

that are fine birdsg—Mrs. W. R.





Turkeys that are to/‘be sold for

breeding stock should be advertised

during the fall before the Thanksgiv-

ing and Christmas market. ,At that

time the best of the birds can be

picked out for breeders and the re-

mainder of the surplus sold formeat.

When the best and largest of the tun

keys are marketed ‘ for meat at

Thanksgiving and the breeding stock

selected from‘ the remainder there

will be a tendency to reduce the vigor





‘of. the flock.





If, for any reason, the market for

turkey breeding’stock is limited, the.

breeder who advertises early, can

still sell his surplus stock on the holi-

day market and save the expense 0

wintering them. \ “





 





POULTS MAY HAVE BLACKHEAD.’





 





Am trying to raise some - turkeYs





, this year. My early ones all died, and





now my later ones are acting the» same

way. They droop around a few days, '

wings hang, don’t _ eat much toward

the last. Their droppings are yellow





7'





and watery—C. H. , . .

The feet that the early hatched tur-z





‘ keys all died, and now theiate hatch»





es show symptoms; of *dmopin‘g, and,





 





1“from. use





is _ increased. Raising the new; «in . ,_

clean soil, and feeding pl’entyof "sear.

milk seems to help inpreVenting 'in- 7





faction. . .





 





- “snort-i ER EARLY'L'AYER





 





[I haveaBarred Rock Pullét hatched I





Apruisth that ,laid her first egg Aug- .,





ust 26th and :has laid; nearly every day .





since—Ruby 3., Hudson.





W h

REMEDIES 50R, LICE '





 





Can you tell me what to doio

rid of chicken lice. I have big yang)?

lice on my chickens. I dusted them

twice with louse killer andf‘dipped

them in a. disinfectant. They are not

in the house; just on chickens—O. S.





A good louse remedy can be made

of equal parts blue ointment and low

grade vaseiine. The blue. ointment is

the same as mercurial ointment and

can be' purchased of local druggists.

Place a bit of the mixture about the

size of a pea under each wing and

beneath the vent. It should be rubbed '

thoroughly into the skin. This will

usually keep a hen free from body

lice for about six’ months.



Sodium fluoride can be purchased

from druggists or mail order houses

and is probably the most generally

recommended powder for removing

lice from ,hens._ It is distributed

through the feathers by the pinch

method. Place a pinch under each

wing, at the base of the nail, in the

feathers around the breast and at the

back of the neck.





 





”DRY CONCRETE FLOORS





 





How should a damp proof concrete

poultry house floor he made‘?—A. W.





The latest way to make a. concrete

poultry house’ floor dry is to cover

the floor with asphalt paint. This

paint makes a smooth floor that is-

easy to sweep clean or wash with dis-

infectant. Building the floor up on a.

foot of sand or Einders helps to keep

it dry. Heaps of field stone from

fence corners can often be used in

making thefill. Then level the sur-

face by filling in with loose sand fol-

lowed by the concrete floor which is

later painted with‘the asphalt paint.



The old method of making floors dry

consisted in laying roofing paper .be-

tween two layers of cement. The

seams of the. paper were sealed and





this served "to keepfldown the soil

The asphalt paint is a .,





moisture. "





cheaper. method and probably just as

good. \ "





 





CHICK CONTEST WINNERS . -.

The baby chick contest relating to »





 





methods of raising chicks, which was

announced last July, has been con-

cluded and the Winners selected. The

w1nners are as follows:



SMJS. Ivan. Shantz, R. 1, Mio, Mich,





$31358. R. L. Beckwith, Ovid, Mich,

Mrs. Lenore ’ Wau h, Clov

Mich., $2.00. g erdale’

The interesting baby chick method?»

re_c?1ved as the result of this contest,

Wil be related in these columns dur-

ing the winter, starting in December.





see coop—REXBY





 





THE Ottawa Poultry and Eggs assoé

ciation, which has been formed to

.‘ handle poultry and eggs for the

farmers in southern OttaWa and nor-

thern Allegan counties, is (ready for

business. More than 400 farmers have

signedthree 'ye‘ar contracts to: sell all

their poultry and eggs through the ‘

association. . Their .flocks total (about

120,000 hens. As stock is sold in the

assocmtion for twenty cents a. hen, the

association is assured of: a $24,000.





working capital to start With...





 





 

   

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 





. Zsennd ~- will be,“ heating; are" “to; _

4 ~ " ‘d fiia c I:





an; .





 

 





 





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5/ ,
CAREFUL FEEDING MEANS .

’ LARGER DAIRY, PRODUCTS!‘





 





FTER one of the longest and



severest dry periods in the his-



tory of‘ this county, it rains and

rains, and now and then we have a

day that—reminds us that 'we are in

the middle of October, and that snow

may fall at any time.



If cows are to do their best in the

winter, they should freshen in the

fall. However, cows have ways, of

their own and‘ here and there their

ways run contrary to'ours. So far, the

writer has never been able to make

every cow come to his schedule. Probe

ably many who chance to read this.

are having the same experience. We

have learned to simply do our best to

have the cows freshen at the right

time, and then keep on doing our best

when they refuse to do so.



If the cows are ready for winter, it

is possible to make them pay at least

a small profit even if they come fresh

,in the following spring. Any good cow

will produce profitably up to three

months before she drops her calf, and





-. 5many cows will do better than this.





-What they do, depends largely upon

how they are fed. In a protracted

period of storms, serious losses will

‘ often occur if the herd is not shel-

tered from the rain.



In this part of the state there are

few pastures that will furnish suffi-

cient feed after August first, to supply





, enough roughage. in the ration. Grain





is as important as roughage, but it

will not take its place. I fear many

of us have thought too much about

grain, and too little of the need of

plenty of good roughage. A good

sweet clover pasture will fit the cows

for winter. The writer has no sweet

clover- pasture this fall and is feeling

the loss of it. Without it, some sub-

stitute feed must be found to add flesh

to the cows while they give milk, if

we expect them to keep on giving a

large flow of milk during the winter.





Alfalfa hay is the very best hay

the writer knows of, but one can get

along with any sort of hay the cows

like, if he makes the grain ration fit

the needs of the herd. The thought is.

we must make the grain ration sup-

plement the roughage ration. In fall

and winter alike, our grain should be

chosen with reference to the available

roughage. To illustrate further, if

protein is lacking in roughage it

should be made up in the grain, and

if plenty in the roughage, as in the

case of alfalfa and sweet clover, less

of it is required in the grain. Often

we hear somebne say, “This feed is

all right. You do not have to do a

thing to it. Just feed it, and you will

get the milk. It is a balanced ration.”

All such talk is‘misleading. It is al-

ways dangerous to let others do our

thinking altogether, and it is as bad

a practice for the dairyman as for any

one else. There are "good prepared

feeds on we market, but they should

be fed wisely...



If our herd enters 'the winter in

300d fleSh, and ifswe are giving suffi-

cient attention to our business so that

W8 know why the herd is in such

condition, we may expect profitable

production right along through the

cold weather.\ _



Often we will discover a cow in the

herd that does not respond to our

feeding. Sometimes we, fail to find

the cause. The writer has a heifer





 





 





that freshened last February for the





' before that time.“





first time. She was but two‘years old,

and‘she has already given around five

thousand pounds of milk. She will

freshen next February, and she is

likely to give another thousand pounds

Now she has not

always had enough to’ eat. We make

the mistakes of which We 'write some-

times and frankly confess it. How-

ever, this heifer is now getting all the

feed she Will handle without digestive

troubles, and will continue to get it;

She is coming up now, and if we can

keep her coming, there is no guess

about the wisdom of feeding her liber-

ally. The man who feeds at a loss

is usually the one who feeds only

enough to .keep the animals alive, and

little on which to make a profit. ’





Our last thought is, that the great

need of the. hour in the business of

dairying, is for men who will think

while they work. This is.‘a.n age when

men are so ready to let others do

their thinking for them. It is easier,

but it does not pay. We should strive

to know why we feed what we feed,

in kind, or quality, or amount. The

dairyman who keeps right on working

and thinking is pretty sure of success.

—W. F. Taylor.





 





HEAVY Losses IN MARKETING

HoGs





 





RECORDS show that from eighty-

five thousand to a hundred and

five thousand hogs die annually in

transit from loading points to terminal

markets in this country and the num-

ber of hogs crippled approximates

140.000 to 170,000 head annually. Loses

from these two sources average

around $5.00 for every carload of sev-

enty hogs shipped to markets, when

figuring dead hogs at $25.00 per head

and cripples at six dollars. This would

give a total annual loss on the coun-

try’s hog crop of about 3,500,000.





ROUND WORM‘S GREATEST

CAUSES OF RUNTY PIGS





 





HERE no precautions are made



against the infection of round

worms, the per cent of wormy, runted

pigs will be from 30 to 60. However,

in cases where modern methods are

used, the per cent of runts is negli-

gible. Poor breeding and inadequate

feed cause runts, but the per cent

from this source is small.





The ease of having the ydung pigs

free from worms .I'emoves all excuses

for having wormy pigs. Just before

the pigs are due, one should place the

sows on clean ground in a geod dis-

infected hog house. The udders should

be washed with warm Water to which

has been added any of the standard

disinfectants. After the pigs are far-

rowed, they should be kept on ground

that has not been contaminated. If

the lot has not been ”used for hog

pasture the past six months, there is

little danger of the land being infested.





If conditions are such that it is im-

possible to provide fresh pasture for

the growing pigs, then when the pigs

are four or five weeks old} have the

veterinary to worm them. This prac-

tice is. dene by keeping the pigs from

feed a few hours and then giving them

the worm tablets. After treating put

the pigs in a lot away from other





hogs for ten days, then remove to .





clean quarters—H. H.





 

 

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Wm. Price, Milford” Michi-

gan, found «that his ten cows,



- when fed on Cow Chow made an

extra net profit of $38.10 per





month, over the old ration.





Echo Lodge Farm, at.Watcr- _ _

vliet, Michigan, gets 32.48 back _ ' ‘ _

in milk produced, for every $1.00

spent on alfalfa hay, cnsilage,





Bulky-Las and Cow Chow.





Mule Piper, Alamo, Michigan,





realized an extra net profit

$57.25 in one month on his n





cows, after he put them on Cow





ow. tion. .. .

These men are saying a feed -

which lowers the cost of pro- Thousands

duction cannot be too high. of

They say the feed which pays .

the most profit is the cheap- dalrymen

est you can buy. All ofthem __

are feeding Purina today. say



PURINA MILLS





Let Bulky-Las

work with Cow





Chow inincrcas— . _

log your milk Wnte us for a Purina

production. Cow Booklet—free





Don’t fool yourself! Purina ' 7‘

is not too high. 'When men

like these-hyour neighbors .

under ordinary farm con—

ditions—can make more





855Gratiot St., St. Louis,Mo.

Elgbt Bur} Mill: Lemur! for Smrics





 

 





money by feeding Cow

Cho’W, you can too. ,-.





.Thornwood Farm, at Ada, I -

Michigan, ’breed some real =. ‘l

Guernsey: and they take no V 74

chances on the feed. Cow Chow '

and Bulky-Las have been the

ration here for some time.





Carl Hansen, of Carbondale, ’ ' N»:

Michigan, made $890.00 extra ' '

profit on the same cows last year

on Cow Chow over what he made

of the previous year on home mix,

according to the Menominee





ine

County Cow Testing Associa-





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





   

 





' ' ”soun- ' .

{humans I

I.‘ I I s I





 





 





WANTED --- Two Men





With Cars who can devote full time to saleswork.

and expenses. paid weekly to full time men.

information address





The Michigan. Farmer,





 

 

 

 

 





Salary

For complete





Desk C, Detroit, Michigan





 





 





 





9 tons Burnt Lime containing





   

   

 

 

 

 

 





”’1 Get the most





limestone





Here‘s how-——When you buy lime

you are really buying lime oxide (its

active chemical property), and this is what you get:



0





For $125.00 you can buy, on an average, delivered to your station, . '

25 tons Solvay Pnlverized Limestm containing 12 % tons of lime oxide, or





10 tons Hydrated Lime counting 7 X (on line oxide.

You obtain 66% more actual lime" for {your money who

you buy Solvay Pulverized Limestone]



Spread Solvay this year—note the bumper crops—~and

you’ll spread Solvay every year!

Write for booklet.





SOLVAY SALES CORPORATION

DETROIT, MICH.





   

   

   

 





fir your

dollar





 

 

   

   

   

   

   





1‘4 tons line oxide, or





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 





Sold by *





_LOCAL\DEALERS
M ICH IGAN ’S

GREATEST

DISPERSAL





130 FEMALES ’

——MANY COWS AND HEIFERS

with records from 800 to 1, 278 lbs.





butter in a year and 36 daughters

of cows with records ove1 800 lbs.





——OVER 100 DAUGHTERS; of the

three famous herd sires, Sir

P. O. M. 40th, Sir Ormsby Karen

and Carnation Mutual Matador.





—-—ALL AGES REPRESENTED.

Included are fresh cows, spring-

ers, bred heifers and heifer calves.





igan shows.

brood mares.





 





 

 

 





Every member of the famous Loeb Farms Holstein Herd and Belgian

Stud will be sold without reserve or protection of any scrt.

represents an opportunity that has seldom been equalled anywhere.





I 50 PURE-BBED HOLSTEINS





. or Matador Segis Walker.





14' PURE-BRED BELGIANS





A very choice offering including stallions, _

Headed by Russel 7575, a blue ribbon w1nner at most of the Mich-

A real opportunity if you need a. stall1o-n or ch01ce





IF YOU NEED HOLSTEINS OR BELGIANS—THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY.





NOV. 1-2, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN





At West Michigan Fair Grounds, 10 A. M. each day.





H olst‘lems





 





Belgians





The sale





20 BULLS v

——A WONDERFUL OFFERING of

high record bulls. All grandsons

of Sir P, O. M., Sir P. 01 M. 37th





~—FIVE BULLS FROM 1,000 to

1,278 lb. cows and several others

from 800 to 1,-000 lb cows Two

of them from the 35, 000 lb milk

producer.



—INCLUDED ARE BULLS to

meet every requirement from a

grade hcrd to the choicest pure—

bred herd.





mares and a few colts.





 





 





 





 





WESLEY HILE’S POLANDS





/ SELL





Ninth Annual Sale, Thursday, November 3rd





40 Head of BIG TYPE POLANDS





Outstanding individuals representing the greatest blood lines in the breed





N ht Hawk, World’s Grand Champion 1927:

A litter by 1g Stewart boar that weighted 1,130 pounds as Grand

A Senior Pig litter of 2 boars,





Redeemer, the Dr.

Champion of Nebraska.





A litter by The

2 gilts by The





Robber, sire of Miss Robber, the dam of the 13 Night Hawks selling for





$3, 775. 00.

noted herd boars.





Outstanding litters by Emancipation 2nd, and Achievement, our

Catalog gives details.





Write now for it. Sale at farm





8% miles due north of Lake Odessa, at 1 o’clock.





WESLEY HILE,

' BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY





Ch 11 e Copy or Cancellations must reach us

“Tvlielve Davs before date of publication.





CATTLE

GUERNSEYS





ls

have for sale a. number of well bred Young bul



railiglng from valves to serviceable age. Any one of

those should exert on improving influence on most pure—

bred herds. JOHN ENDICOTT. Birmingham, Mich.





. S ério breeding. Two cows

Registered Guam-leis nimtresii'en soon. one bull 18

d see them.





the, one six months. Come an

EODA. WIGENT. Waterviiet, Mich. *





ti 1 uro—bred GUERNSEY or "Ob-

FOR Drag”? Shires. from heavy. rich milks".

write EDGEWOOD DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater. Wis.





D Heifer Calves. practically

Guernsey affixed 325.00 m. w. ship

C. 0. D. Write L. Miller. Wsuwotou. Wis.





Registered Guernsoys





(or sale. One service-

able bull. LOOKSHORE





L. 0. MYRKLE. Mon. Granny. Mich.





Registered Guernsey Bull Calves





For sale.





10 Reg’ter’d Guernsey Cows and Heifers





- soon to freshen.





Stockers & Feeders





THORNWOOD FARMS. Ado. Mid’llum.





E.‘ A. BLACK. Howard City. Mich.





 





Ives. Year‘l Two”; Hereford Steers & Heifers.

Typo. dork reds, good grass flesh. most all

bunches dehorned each bunch even in also and

mood breeding Choice Homicide are nanny

“M05 toppers when finished. Few bunches '1'. 3.

Wed. Will sell your choice from any





bunch. Bate

who! and weisht you prefer an to 1000 lbs.-





Wand) Mm, Eldon Wspolio Co, lone"!





 





 





*1 QfiigT FAR“. “QM





Ionia, Michigan





' . HEN the ode Guernsey herd. : 7 1' " 'yi' 1

VW gr in Michigan Dairy prequo is 1c





of Sam Hagadorn, Johannesburg,





the OtSego County Cow Test Associa-

flon, many felks began to figure. on





. who should have the credit for this





outstanding performance. Some said





Starting six years ago with the “bet-

ter Guernsey” idea, he has stuck to

it through thick and thin, enduring

the daily grind and the seasonal re-

verses with quiet determination.





But folks who know the familyvsoo‘n

began to talk about Mrs. Hagadorn

and what she means to this success

in dairying, and well we may wonder

Whose herd would have topped the

Association if she had not been on

hand with her inspiration, assistanco

and keen understanding of the dairy





Michigan, placed first for the year in;





 





it was Sam Who did it all and surely

he does deserve a great deal oi credit; -1





 

 

 





tute one of two major sources of town

income in MisSaukee county The

other is potatOes:





imately $500, 000. ——B.





 





CLEAN MILK REQUIRES GARE





 





A 8 our cities become larger and





more numerous, their milk supply

must of necessity be transported from

greater distances and handled in

larger volume. To withstand this

treatment, milk must be produced

with a. great deal of care. Certain

precautions need to be observed in in-

suring clean milk. These include a

herd of healthy cows housed in stables

made of materials that can be kept





Last season each: .,

brought in a cash income or approx-"”—





clean and properly ventilated. Clean .





 





 





business. Even .her son, ten years old,

when he learned that his older sister

had placed first in a dairy judging

contest, was inclined to give all the

credit to the mother’s ability along

those lines.





Then there are some‘ who main-

tained that Sam and his wife would

not be very far along if it were not

for his good cows and that it surely

true. ~When a herd of ten cows, seVen





 





 





 





 





A YEARLlNC snow

BULL





Light colored and well grown. A bull or

real quality and excellent breeding. Born

May 20 1926.





His sire is by a, 7- lb. grandson of King



the Pontiacs an out of a. 33— lb. cow.

His dam is a 20- lb. Jr. 2— —y-ear old daughter

of a 3l— lb. cow with 1.018 lbs. butter in

365 days.





Send for pedigree of Ban Tag No.

“The Michigan state Nerds"





Bureau of

Animal Industry

\ Department C.





Lansing, Michigan





468. ' -





 





 





 





 





 





.SERVICEABLE AGE





REGISTERED HOLSTEIN

Bull Calves at prices the owner of.

small herd can oflord to pay. Th:

sire of many of then. calves is c son

of the highest record (30 lb) two-_

year-old daughter of Creator. His

sire is King Seals Alcartra Priily. an

undefeated Show ball with 70 A. R.

daughters. Others sired by a 5 times

1200 lb. Champion Bull. the famous

K.P .0. P. breeding.

Bred cows and heifers served by

-shesc sires are oyailable for found.-

11011 stock.





RED ROSE FARmfu DAIRY





Nonhvfllin

Tdophonox 344 *

gnomes» Hedi-ville 3.!“ Sasha's Back





—)





 





its...

we





'1' Win

roe: snags,





of which are heifers, will produce an

average of 393 pounds of fat in one

year under very ordinary conditions,

it should be given due credit. "‘Yes,

but,” someone objects,—“Those cows

are not responsible for that—it was

the sire of those cows which made it

possible for them to be such good pro-

ducers.” And it is true that seven of

the nine cows were sired by a pure-

bred Guernsey bull, Brookwood En-

chanter, which the Michigan Central

Railroad Company leased, free of

charge, to Mr. Hagadorn and~ his

neighbors five years ago. All of these

heifers are far superior to their dams.





Now, we have traced the credit back

as far as a railroad company—the

Michigan Central Railroad, which

should be far enough, but still some

folks are not satisfied but insist that

Sam and his herd would not have been

heard from but for County Agent

Lytle. He, it was, they maintain, who

encouraged Mr. Hagadorn in his

“breeding” idea; he it was who inter-

ested the railroad in leasing pure-bred

sires to worthy farmers, and he it was

who kept Sam supplied with the pro»





——L.





 





HAS HIGH PERCENTAGE OF

FARMERS IN C. T. A WORK





 





ton, has been hired as tester for

the new MissaukeeOSCeola cow test-

ing association which began opera-

tions on OCtober 1. The members of





between Missoukee and Oscedla. ooun4





vicinity '





 





per information} and the inspiration;





LELAND VAN DYKE or Beaver-l





this association are evenly diyided'





 





'i‘his Herd of Guernseys Was Developed on an- Otsego Farm Through the

Influence of a Superior Sire





milkers should wipe the udders of





animals with a damp cloth to remove.





the dust and draw milk in pails that

keep out dirt. The milk should be

removed from thestables and cooled

quickly.





 





CLEAN LiVE STOCK OF Lice





 





LICE on horses, cattle, and other



farm animals are generally most'

troublesome in winter. But effective

treatment during cold months is diffi-

cult to give. Treatment for lice before

cold weather ,sets in is therefore, very

important. Treat all of the animals

in the‘herd even though some may ap-

pear not to be infested. Even a few

lice on an unexpected animal may re-

infest the entire herd. For cattle and

horses, government specialists recom-

mend arsenical dips, cold tar crosoie

dips, or nicotine solutions. For dip-

ping hogs, crude petroleum and cold

tar creosote dips are effective.





 





SMOKELMEAT THOROUG’HLY





 





THE object in smoking meat is to

improve the flavor and to deposit





. certain perservatives contained in the





smoke on the meat. A low smolder-

ing fire should be maintained at all

times. Hickory is the best wood, with

maple and oak ranking next- Corn

cobs are also excellent. The meat

should be smoked at least 30 to 35

hours or until it gets a good straw

color. Much time may be saved

through the use of special commercial

preparations. ‘

-———___.__.__,__ ,.

noes HAVE coon SENSE





 





IN experiments conducted in Indiana

during the past summer, it Was





., found that hogs could balance their





rations better than man can do. In

every case, they made faster- and

cheaper gains when the grains and

tankage were ted free choice than





where ground and mixed together





ties. This is the second testing asso- L~ 1

,ciatiOn creamed this season in th ‘

W‘!





./
I. d breeding. fl:

fiNNEDY l. SONS. R. I.





' (late of my public hog sale.

Parma.





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,‘Choi‘ce. ‘ creey Bulls m‘mfi‘fitafl





'7 Berkshires 5.22““





' ‘ boarsh Open sills-

swilling;:i’lmlhsfinmot.‘ state‘

' LAKEFIELD FARMS:





Bliu a. Son. Henderson. Mich.





‘ o.i.c. HOGS on time





3400 good





a ‘son. on.





‘ Quality rams at fin-me





T FOR SALE ggi’rgumw me.





. SOTT, Politic.- Michn Telephone Dockeraiiifilg; 78:3

. ' Registered We!!!”

’flon ‘ p Nix Malian





 

 





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u, 1'0 L SILL

'guvgr reek.





flirts, "film“;

, / . HQGS . p ,

TALCOK FARM BERKSHIRES





«1

and glltx._ Buy a, pair or trio an

'gz‘rltngaboifisbnd herd. write, TALOOA FARM,

a. lie. 6. Box 49; Lamina. Mich. ,.



boars ready "for ser-

Also choice Jr. your





line show boar. W. H. EVERY. Ma'nohoator. Mich.





DUROCS





ran.

M Iliarksion. Iloh





i Pi also their

FOR SALE growlisgrerngmst? to , Grand





f Mizhigan. Cholera. immune. smooth and

$?MEB%ON(BROSU Fowler-Ville. Mich ~

spring and fall boats of popular





Y

Dims: 1:155:8EWrito or come and see them. Jone





DUROCS ”z.':‘.’:;“’si‘.sas..f¥





b .

and Cole. 8. V. PHILLIPS a SON. Charlotte. Mich.

uroc Jersey breeding stock,

D CHAS.





FOR SALE all ages, both sex.





A. BRAY. Dancviflo. Mich.





Write for

Hog Book

Originators and most extensivebreeders.

THE L. I. SILVER 00., Box [96. Salem, Ohio





M‘s-leg- 9;.1; E; W “hills.

Choices. Mich.





Good last; sprint; piss. not akin

0- 1- C,3- also fall pigs. recorded free.

OTTO SCHULZE &. SONS, Nalhwlvle. Mich.





POLAND CHINAS —





nmul tidal. Nov. 3. 1927. Twen-

31532113 and 15% {33" sell. Choice individuals.

choice breeding. your choice at your price. VWe like

good Polands—so do you! Write now for 89.18.128

and plan to attend. '3an at farm. WESLEY HIL ,

Ionia, Mich.





Large Type P. C.





Brod gilts all said. Thank

you. Watch and wait for

W. E. LIVINGSTONE.





Mich.





E POLAND CHINA boars and Eilts of pop-

h'lgfcbiood lines. Come and see them or write.

. A. CLARK, Breckenridge, Mich.





Extra large spring bolus

and gilts. Also weanling

Balding, Mich.





Poland Chinas





pigs. JAMES G. TAYLOR.





Registered Poland China Boar Pigs





For sale. THORNWOOD FARMS. Ada, Michigan.





ARGE TYPE POLAND CHINAS Spring Pigs.

L either cox for sale. Also Brown Swiss Bulls.

A. A. Feldkamp, R. No. 2, Manchester. Mich.



‘ Bred sows and gilts.

Registered Tamworths Best 0, Bmdm





DONALDSON FARMS. Orion, Mich.





 





 





‘ A FEW good Hampshire spring boars at a



bargain. Place your order; for bred



Ellts. JOHN W. SNYDER. St. Johns. Mich.. R. 4.

SHEEP





 





- Shropshire and Oxford Rams





yearlings and two year oids. They are. 9.

Some have won at good fairs.

LAKEFIELD FARMS.





Lambs.

Why Well grown lot.

We guarantee satisfaction.

Clarktton. Mich.





900 BREEDING EWES '





sized Deliunes. 500 choice large black

good ages. yesrlings to solid mouths.

SO’NS. So. Rockwood,





faces. All

ALMOND B. CHAPMAN do

Mioh., Telegraph Rockwpod.





 





 

 

 





IT PAYS TO BUY PURE“.



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Can. supply you in anything you

want in sheep at the right price.

Breeding ewes and feeders on hand at all times.





Write, wire or come and see the sheep. Lew-

isburp. Ohio. or Woodutock. Ohio. I5 miles east of

Urbana. Champaign 60., Lincoln 3.. Bradley. '





 





Delaine and Rambouillet Rams

Michigan Premier. flack at the State Fair.

h to select from. Come and see then.



HO0N,,BROS.. Bronson, Mich., Branch County.





SHROPSHIRES





Offering an extra. good heavy-boned lot of yearling

and 2-yr.‘old rams. Priced right. D. L. CHAPMAN

Hockwood. Mich.





 





 





SHROPSHIR‘E RAMS





1‘ prices, also two tried sires.

H D. WOODWORTH 8. SONS. Potterville. Mich..





(Eaton Go)

reliable information in regard

If You Want to Kmimi sheep. ‘Write F.





PERRY. Oavison, Mich.. Saet’y National

Fifl' Sheep Brecders' Registry Association.

280 choice two year old Do—





FOR SALE mine breeding ewes. 10 fine





wool run lambs. See Honr Whid , O , ' IL,

or write Glenn Whidby. Mia, Miclti’.y on” me





HEEP FOR SALE—Several hundred hem choice

S breeding ewes. Will give time where references

no good. CORNVELL RANCH. Glare. Mich.





 





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. . (Chntinued’fro , page 403) 2,

"Then, PreStb! ‘~En rs the lady‘mis-

sionary. With a. sparkling- invasion

that wo‘n‘he'r'the field she breezed into

her chair beside Jim and apologized:

“Sorry I’m late, boys, but that last act

was too good to miss, especially since

I won’t haVe Va. chance to see another

Follies matinee until my next fur-

lough in 1929.” And this female Friar





. Tuck launched into a fanfare of ani-





mated~ chatter that cleared the saloon

at once of all that painful reserve that

“was as aslnine‘as it was masculine.





Then, “By the way, Mr. Armchair,”

said the diplomat of the supper

table to me, “if you want to introduce

me to your friends you can tell them

I’m Miss Field—and I’m a missionary,

going to Teneriffe in the Canary

Islands.” >



_I had secretly gloried in my ex-

alted position at the head of 3. Steam-

ship table and yet had done nothing

to justify the steward’s choice. The

missionary had risen from the ranks

and the ice was broken.



“My name is Bradshaw,” said the

young man. on my left, a bouncing

boy with a. pretty moustache and :1

giggle. “Mr. Stump here,” jogging his

wrist watch toward 2i silent statue in

clothes who sat next to him, “and I

are going down for‘Firestone on his

rubber plantation in Liberia. I’m a

medical man, and Stump is an ac

countant.”





“My name is Thomas," responded a

little gray—haired 'man next to the

Sphinx. He claimed to be a machinist

enroute to Secondee to Operate a. fleet

of caterpillar tractors for an Ameri

can mahogany logging company, but

we made him a professor because he

proved to be a perfect dynamo of in-

formation who could discuss almost

any subject, with great willingness

and sometimes with intelligence.



“Gubernick is my name and I’m go-

ing to Nigeria. for an American com-

pany.” The topography of his probosr

cis betrayed that he was a buyer for

an importing company, probably in

'New York.



“That’s all of us now, except the

captain,” said the lady missionary.

“Where’s he?”



“I’ve got his chair and he’s afraid

to come in,” I boasted. “I’m at the

head of the table and I’ll stay here

even if he comes.”





IM kicked my shin, in the same old



place, too.~ I looked around and

there stood the Captain, blue coat,

brass buttons; gold stripes and.all.



The captain st'fode to the other end

of the table, seated himself in another

arm chair, that was a little bigger

than mine, and said, with a twinkle in

his voice,‘“Now, you’re at the foot of

the table!” And I felt like it, too.

Then the Captain laughed to reassure

the other passengers and scowled to

frighten me, and his masterstroke was

made. We knew that he “belonged.”

He and the lady missionary had won

us all, and I was steeped in disgrace.



An hour later, the whistle snorted,

the “West Humhaw” shuddered down

deep inside, the pier began to move

away from our bow and we were off—

for the tropics of Africa.



Our visit in the Azores Islands will

be described next week.





 





CROP PROSPECTS IMPROVE.





THE crop prospects in the United

States imprdved nearly two per

'cent during September, the im—

provement being due chiefly to the

great improvement in the corn crop,

which resulted from the unusually hot

weather during the first three weeks

of September. When all crops are

combined the average condition and

yield estimates is only~.2 of one per

cent below the October average during

the last ten years. This represents a.

marked change from the very unprom-

ising crop prospects of the early sum-

-mer. ' . '

‘- .Corn.——-The'-corn crop" is estimated





 





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from October 1 condition, at 2,603,437,-





2,64'6~,853,000 bushels





. records.





 





, and the five-year

aferage- production 2,767,000,000 bush-

e s. .



Wheat.——-The total wheat crop of

the United States is now estimated at

867,000,000 bushels, as compared with

last year’s crop of_,833,000,000 bushels,

and a five-year average of 808,000,000

bushels. . , '



Oats—The production ‘of oats isves-

timated at 1,205,639,000 bushels, a. de-

crease of about three and one-half per

cent from last year’s production, and

eleven per cent lower than the five-

year average. The outlook improved

somewhat during September, due

quite largely to favorable weather con-

ditions for harvesting and threshing

in the north central. group of states.

Quality of oats is reported at 80.3 per

cent. During the past ten years the

quality of the crop on October 1 has

averaged 87.9 per cent. ,





Barley—Barley is reported to yield

on the average, twenty-eight bushels





per acre, which is .4 bushels higher -





than was estimated from condition on

September 1. This yield on the pre-

liminary estimate of acreage would

produce a total of approximately 265,-

000,000 bushels, exceeding all previous

There has been a tendency

to increase barleyIacreage in recent

years, and in 1927 the increase was

material.



Potatoes—The potato crop is now

estimated at 395,000,000 bushels, a re-

duction of 5,000,000 bushels from the

forecast of a month ago. Yields are

running substantially below expecta-

tions in New York and New England,

but decreases there are partially offset

by small increases in other states.



For the country as a whole, the po-

tato crop is about the same as the

average production during the last five

years, but the crop is substantially be-

low the five-year average in the North

Central and Northeastern States, and

far above the five-year average in

nearly all of the western stmes.



This year blight and rot have caused

losses from Pennsylvania to Maine,

but in some sections dry weather dur-

ing September checked growth. In

Michigan and Wisconsin the crop has

been reduced by dry weather, the rains

of September being too late to help

many fields.



In.Washington prospects have been

improved by the September rains and

there has been some improvement in

the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Colorado,

but frost has reduced prospects in Ida-

ho, and dry weather has hurt the late

potato crop in the south.



Beans—Bean prospects improved

during September in New York, Mich-

igan, and Montana, but declined in

Idaho and California. A production of

18,434,000 bushels is indicated by re-

ported yields on October 1. This is

about 1,300,000 bushels more than pro-

duced in 1926, and about 2,000,000

above the five-year average. The crop

was only partly harvested on October

1, and is still subject to possible late

field damage, which often cuts the pro-

duction very seriously.



Hay—The tame hay crop of 1927 ex—

ceeded 100,000,000 tons for the first

time in history. Generally good yields

of last cuttings of alfalfa and of sudan.

millet, and other late hay crops in-

creased the outturn by 2,000,000 tons

above the September 1 forecast. The

preliminary estimate of 103,773,000

tons is about 13,000,000 tons above the

five-year average production. Alfalfa,

clover, timothy, and legume hays all

made good yields this year, due large-

ly to cool weather and timely rainfall

during the early summer growing sea—

son. No new estimate of wild hay is

made as of October 1, but the prelim-

inary estimate of yield per acre indi—

c'iited a, very large crop of this bay

3 so.



Cloverseed.—Cloverseed yields per

acre will be uneven in the main sec-

tions, with reports indicating a larger

croD than last year. A condition of

78.9 per cent is shown, being slightly

higher than the condition on Septem-

ber 1, and 6.5 points higher than the

ten-year average. The average con-

dition is above last year, and the acre-

age is materially larger. Ohio, Mich~

igan, and Wisconsin report larger acre-

ages and better conditions than last

year. Wet weather has interfered with

the crop in parts of Michigan.



Apples—Prospects for apples have

changed but little since last month.

The crop is estimated at 123,115,000

bushels, or almost .exactly half of the

very large crop of last year. The com-

merelal apple crop for the United

States is. estimated from the October

1 condition reports at 24,330,000 bar4

rels, which compares with 39,411,000

barrels for last year.

‘ Forecasts for other

45,963,000 bushels of

000bushels of pears, 2,552,000 tons of

grapes. The peach forecast has been

increased .in California, sodium. in





fruit crops are

peaches, 17,831,-





”some northern states where rains have

helped to increase the size of theft-nit.





 





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On thousands of farms where

real milk profits are being made

during the winter months the





old order of depending solely on “





the food ration for milking re‘

sults has passed. Besides prOo

vfding good feed dairymen now give

equal thought to what happens to t eir

expensive feed after it is consumed.



The systematic conditioning of the

dairy herd to keep assimilation at top

notch is the new way of realizing raga

ular, uniform profits. Kow—Kare is a

highly concentrated regulator and con.

ditioner of the milk—making organs.

It enables cows to stand unusual forc-

ing strains without breakdowns or

milking slumps.



The regular use of Kow-Kare costs

only a few cents a month per cow. A

tablespoonful in the feed one to two

weeks each month is all the average

cow needs to keep her healthy, vigor.

ous, productive.





Freshening Cows need

Row-Kare





To insure a healthy, vigorous cow and





calf—and freedom from disorders that /





sap your profits, feed Kow—Kare for two

or three weeks before and after fresh—

ening. It costs little—pays big.

Kow.Kare is your reliable home aid

in such cow troubles as Bari-entices,

Retained Afterbirth, Abortion, Scouts,

Bunches, Milk Fever. Never be with—

out it. Feed dealers, druggists and gen.

eral.stores have Kow—Kare. Large size

$1.25, six cans $6.25. Small size 65c.

We mail, postpaid, if your dealei' is not

supplied. Write us for our valuable





free book, “More Milk from the Cows 1





you Have.”

DAIRY ASSOCIATION co., hie.

lyndonviue, Vermont





 

 

 





 





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' a. few choice loads of Deiaino

NOW Ofiermg breeding ewes. Also feeding

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





Reg. Shropshire Hams $3325 .33; {3'3}?





SHORE FARM. L. O. Myrkie. Mun. Creuey. Mich.





FOR SALE 3,23





 





 





Ilomoyer Rambouillets. runs





 





. ewes. Choice stock. Also a

few Delsine rams. E. M. MOORE. Mason. Mich.

For Sale Shropshire rams or was. Absolute





satisfaction guaranteed on mail

Come and see. G. W.





Improved Delaine Ewe Lambs

For sale. JOHN MEACHAM. Millington, Mich.





Registered Shropshire Ram





Midland, Mich.. R.





order.

NEEDHAM, Saline. Mich.





for sole. .W

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Price right. E. E. NYE J. SON. .Ionesvillo, Mich.





 





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i
GRAIN QUOTATIONS.

Tuesday, October 25





- Wheat.

Detroit—LNO. 2 red at $1.35%; No. 2

,white $1.34; No. 2 mixed $1.33.

Chicago—December $1.24%; March

$1.27%; May $12994.

Toledo.—-—Wheat, No. 2 red at $1.35

@$1.36.





com- ‘

Detroit—No. 2 yellow 91c; No. 3

yellow 890; No. 4 yellow 87c.

Chicago—December 83%(3; March

877/30; May 90%c.





Oats.

Detroit—No. 2 Michigan 53%c; No.

3 White 51550.

Chicago—December 46%; March

48%c; May 49%c.





Rye.

Detroit.———No. 2, $1.08.

Chicago—December 98%c;

$1.00%; May $10154.

Toledo—$1.08 $5.





Beans.



Detroit—Immediate and prompt

shipment $5.10 f. o. b. shipping points.



New York—Pea domestic at $6.00@

$6.60; red kidneys $6.75@7.50 to the

wholesalers.



Chicago—Spot navy beans, Michigan

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

dark red kidneys $6.50.





March





Barley.

Detroit.—-Malting 83c; feeding 74c.

Seeds.



Detroit domestic seedsz—October

$17.25; December $17.35; March

$17.25; cash alsike $14.25; December

alsike at $15.10; January alsike

$15.30; February $15.50; timothy at

$1.90; December $1.95; March $2.10.





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; cat straw $10.50@11.50; rye

straw $12@13; alfalfa hay, N0. 2, at

Chicago, $16@27. '



Feeds.



Detroit—Winter wheat bran at $34;

spring wheat bran at $33; standard

middlings at $36; fancy middling at

$41 ; cracked corn at $42; coarse corn

meal $41; chops $39 per ton in carlots.





WHEAT.





After moving sidewise for a month,

fresh weakness appeared in the wheat

market in the last few days and prices

dropped to a new low point for the

crop year. Improvement in Canadian

weather and listless export demand

were the chief weakening factors.

Liverpool has held up better than

American markets, suggesting the

possibility that European buying will

become more energetic at this level.



In view of the large surplus in

~North America, it seems probable

that anxiety of exporters to sell will

be fully as great as the willingness of

importers to purchase and that no

special strength in prices can be ex-

pected for a while. If weather should

turn unfavorable in Canada again,

however, preventing the Canadian

wheat from reaching the seaboard or

lake ports and causing extensive field

damage, firmness. is likely to rule.





RYE.





Rye has had the benefit of liberal

exports for two months and a substan-

tial part of the exportable surplus has

already been placed. In spite of the

fact that the main crop moving sea-

son has been in progress, the visible

supply has declined, owing to the

large exports. The course of prices

will depend [on whether the large ex-

ports continue. It is possible that na-

tive supplies in Europe will be larger

from this time on and that the Amer-



; loan rye market will run into a period

of dullness.





CORN.





. ~~Corn prices have been declining for

nearly two and one-half months, but

“there are signs that a turning point

is near at hand. Prices have dropped

about 35 cents. and most of the ad-

vance in the bull market of last

spring and summer has been wiped

‘ out. Counting the new crop and the

carryover, the corn supply will be

smaller than last year, so that a some-

what higher price level than last year

,seems justified. ~Values are down to

an export basis, whereas during the

summer, small imports occurred. The





fact that the Argentine surplus is be- _

ng depleted rapidly and that the new





i



grep, will not be ready for harvest for

four or five months may favor exports

of corn from the United States. Do-





 





 





mestic prices are back to a. profitable

eeding level once more. Finally, re-

ceipts are likely to be moderate in the

nextmonth or two, owing to the late-

ness of the crop in the sections which

furnish the bulk of the crop entering





commerce.

OATS. -_

Demand for cats is slow, but is a

'match for the receipts, with the result

that the visi le supply has changed

but little in the last five weeks. With

one exception, the visible supply is

the smallest at this season in seven

years. The basic situation looks

strong, but prices already are some

what higher than last year, so that

any further gains may be delayed

until considerably later in the season.





" SEEDS.





Harvesting of the sweet clover seed

crop which began later than last year

has been further delayed by rain, par:

ticularly in Kansas and South Dakota.

Prices are lower than at this time last

season and seed is being sold less

freely. Only 20 to 25 per cent of the

crop had left the hands of growers by

October '4, according to the Depart-





ment of Agriculture, compared with,





45 per cent last year.



Red clover seed was marked a little

higher last week as farmers continue

to hold on to their supplies. Reports

from abroad indicate that the surplus

of foreign clover seed will not be as

large as in recent years.





FEEDS.



The feed market eased off last

week. Offerings on the whole were

modera e, but fully equal to current

needs. Lower feed grain prices were

reflected in the weaker market. Cot-

tonseed meal was firmly held although

trade is slow. Stocks are not large

an holders are not sufficiently anx-

ious to make sales to offer any con-

cession;





Chicago—Bran, $28.25; standard

middlings, $29.25; h o m in y feed,

$33.50; gluten feed, $35.20; old pro





cess oil meal, $fii; tankage, $65.





Strength in the hay market is still

confined to top qualities which were

marked a little higher last week. The

scarcity of this good bay has widened

the outlet for the abundant offerings

of undergrades which have accumu~

lated during recent weeks. Country





DETROIT.

Cattle.





Receipts 196. Market steady.

Good to choice yearlings





dry-fed ..... . ......... $10.00 12.75

Best heavy steers, dry-fed 10.25 12.00

Handy weight butchers . . 8.25@ 9.75

Mixed steers and heifers . 8.00@ 9.25

Handy light butchers . . . . 7.25@ 7.75

Light butchers . . . ....... 6.00@ 7.25

Best cows .00@ 8.00

Butcher cows . . . . . . . . . . . 6.00@ 6.25

Cutters 0-OODIIOOOOOUOOOC 4-50@ 5.00

Canners 4.00@ 4.50

Choice light bulls . . . . . . . 6.0061) 7.75

Bologna bulls 6.00@ 7.25

Stock bulls 5.00@ 6.25

Feeders 6.50@ 8.25

Stockers . . . . . . . ...... . . 6.25@ 7.75

Milkers and springers. . .$65.00@125.00



Calves.



Recei ts 389. Market steady. ,



Best ..p............ ..... $16.50@17.00

Others 8.00@16.00





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 4,401. Market steady.

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

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





Li ht to common lambs. . 6.00@ 9.75

Fafir to good sheep. . . . . . 5.50@ 6.50

Buck lambs ..... . . . . . . . . 7.00@12.00

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

Yearungs autumnal-coo... 8.00@10050





Hogs.

Receipts 3,583. Market very dull;

25@35c lower.





Mixed hogs . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10.65@10.75

Pigs ....‘........‘o....ac. _ 9.50

Light Lights oooooooooooo 9.76

Roughs 9.





CHICAGO.





general market about lower"B ht





lights, pigs and melting: SW8 2





 





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lower than Monday’s._._average; .tops





 





 





loading

been I g

were readily. taken last week. Paso

tures still furnishing a fair amount

of .feed in Some sections, but indoor

feeding is general. The record hay

crop harvested this year will prevent

any. marked improvement from pres-





ent prices.

A _ EGGS. '

Continued light receipts “of fresh

eggs and the steady decline‘in storage

stocks made possible by the main-

tained consumptive demand have suc-

ceeded in pushing prices higher. Some

increas'e in the lay has been noticed

in the northern Pacific Coast states

and, a larger proportion of pullet eggs

is found in shipments, but advices

from the country still indicate light





collections of fresh eggs in most seca .





tions of the central west. So far,,-the

market has responded favorably to in-

creased costs and prices are likely to

climb some higher during the next

month.



Chicago—Eggs: fresh firsts, 35@

43c; extras, 50@5lc; ordinary firsts,

28@32c; dirties 20@26c; checks, 20@

24c. Live poultry: Hens 22%0;

springers 23c; roosters, 17c; ducks





210; turkeys 30c.



Detroit—Eggs: Fresh candled and

graded, 35@43c. Live poultry, broil-

ers, 24c; heavy hens, 25c; light hens,





14@15c; roosters, 160; geese, 200;





ducks, 23c.

BUTTER.





Following a brief spell of unsettled

prices, the butter market turned about

and advanced to a new high level for

the season. Production conditions





generally are reported to have im-'





proved, but receipts at the leading dis-

tributing markets failed to equal those

of the preceding week. Consumptive

demand has continued good in spite

of the higher prices and the scarcity

of fresh butter permitted a continued

free use of storage stock. Foreign

markets are firm and there is little

chance of any large amount of foreign

butter coming our way this winter.

So far, there is no indication that the

market is top-heavy and the trade

generally anticipates higher prices be-

fore any big reaction sets in



Prices on 92 score creamery were:

Chicago, 46%c; New York 4394c; De-

troit, in tubs, 411/2@441;§c per lb.





[five StocklMarket Service]





Tuesday, October 25





$11.40; limited supply above $11.25;

bulk 250-300-lb. average $10.90@11.25;

170-200-lb. $10.00@10.75;. most pack-

ing sows $8.00@9.25.; pigs and light

weights up to $9.40 or better; most

pigs $8.50@9.00; few strong weights

up to $9.50.

Cattle





Receipts 10,000. Market on all kill-

ing classes strong; grain fed steers

scarce; best fed yearlings $17.35; few

loads $17.25; corn fed steers $16.50@

$17.00; fairly active on she stock;

bulls scarce $6.75@7.50; largely $13.50

on active grassers to packers; out-

siders $14.00@14.50.



Sheep and Lambs



Receipts 12,000. Market fat lambs

fairly active ~15@25c higher than Mon-

day; most natives $13.75; several





\loads down to $13.50; 14.00 received





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Receipts 31.00%.” Market un ven: '





 





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1! $10.:





for sorted offerings; few buck lambs

100-130-lb. $11.50; culls $10.25@10.75;

few good comebacks around $13.50:

choice rangers held above $14.25; fat

ewes $5.75@6.50; feeding lambs very





active, 250 higher; bulk $14.00@14.50'





$14.75 refused forbest.

' , BUFFALO. '





Hogs f

[Receipts 1,600.. Hold over 4,981;

market 250 lower; weights above 220.





lb. not sold; bulk 180-210-1b. $11.00@,





$11.10; pigs and light lights largely

$10.50; packing sows ‘$9.75@10.25.

‘ Cattle





Receipts 160. -Market on m





steady. slow; Canners and cutters

$3.50@5.oo. . '

, Calves _ , _ ,‘ ’

Receipts .200. Market. at ‘ W "

1145.30 culls and , common, ‘ '1, @’ 7,





., , sloop Add Lasso -. ‘.



gemstone. , _ _ .,

good and. cooloo rod-logo

‘ "Inlet; - ‘





 

 

 

 





 





   

 





 

 

 

 





 

 





s of timothy, particularly,‘have

ht and all clasSes of sound hay 1‘ ‘





 





. Mugs; steady“





 





, corneas. ‘ '*

.. 4Thef__apota'to market ‘ has -—d,e_veloped-}

moralistrength and prices; have ad-if~

vsncedragaini although Supplies com ;,

us ing}: The crop in the'19 im-- i





jp‘orta'n‘t late'vshipping. states WhiCh

r, was reduced about 7 million bushels ' ‘

during September is only 17 million : , .





bushels olarger, thanlast year's yield,

and is below; the average production :

for these states. Cal-lot shipments



from this section ”have been increas- ‘

ing and are now onlYa thousand cars



below the corresponding period a. year.



ago. Northern round ' whites, "U. S.



No. 1, are quoted at $1.55 to $1.80 per

100 pounds, sacked, in the Chicago

carlot;market. Idaho Russets, U. St

No. 1, bring $1.40 to $2. . ‘





7 » » .APPLES.





The apple market has continued to

advance, particularly for the best

basket stock. Much of- themorthwest-

.' ern fruit is smaller ,in size than usual.



Michi an, Illinois and Kansas were ac-



tive s ppers along with the Virginias,



Pennsylvania and New York. All



classes of apples in storage on Octo-



b_er 1 were lighter than usual at this

time of year, adding to the firmness,

of the market. Holdings of barrels

were 10 per cent and boxes 52 per

cent smaller than on the same date a

year ago, although stocks of apples in





bushel baskets were 80 per cent

larger. Washington extra fancy Jonao

thans, medium to very large size, are»





quoted at $3 to $3.25 per box at cm-

. cago. '

WOOL.





g, Prices for raw wool continue firm,

although demand appears to be less

active as a result of the advance in

prices asked by dealers. Also, the

failure of severe weather to appear

has not given the market fer heavy-

weight goods the stimulus which it

usually receives at this season.

eign markets continue strong, with

the Continent and Japan doing most

of the buying in Australian auctions.

All grades of Ohio and similar wools

are on a 46 cent level, grease basis,

with quarter-blood and delaine wools

held- at 47 cents. Territory quarter

blood wool, scoured; basis, is quoted

at 85 cents for best Montana clips,

with ,three-eighths at 90 to 93 cents,

half blood at $1 to $1.05, and fine

staple held at,$1.15.





DETROIT ‘crrv MARKET;





Apples, 80c@$4.00 bu; b'agas, $1.00

($1.50 bu; wax beans, $1.25@3.00 bu;

beets, 75c@$1.25 bu; cabbage, 50@65c

bu; red, 60@90c bu; cantaloupes, 75c

@$2.50 bu; carrots; 600@$1.00 bu;

cauliflower,“ $1.00@$2.00 bu; celery,

Kalamazoo, 35@60c doz; local, 40(51)

70c doz; cucumbers,‘$1.50@2.50 bu;

pickles, $4.50@9~.00 bu; eggs, whole-

sale, white, 45@50c doz; brown, 42@

45c doz; . retail, 50@60c doz; green

corn, 75c@_$1.25 5.4102; head lettuce,

50c@$1~.00 bu; leaf lettuce, 50@75c

bu; green onions,“ 50@75c doz. bchs;

dry onions, $1.00@1;50 bu; 'root par-

sley, 50@75c doz. bchs; curly, 35@

500 doz. bchs; parsnips, $1.50@2.00





For-





bu; peppers, 50@75c bu; hot $1.00@

$1.50 bu;'red. $1.00 ,.2 bu; Data-

toes, 50c@$1.35 bu; poultry, hens,





retail 28@30c

leghorns, 22@

lb; retail, 35c

geese, 25c lb;

lb; ducks, 45c





wholesale, 22@27c lb;

1b; broilers, wholesale,

260 lb; rocks, 26@30c

lb; ducks, 28@300 lb;

dressed poultry. 35@40c

lb; radishes, 75c@$1.25 bu; long, 50@

75c doabchs; horseradish, $5.50@6.00

bu; spinach, 75c@$1.25 bu; squash,

Italian, $1.00@3.00 bu; Hubbard, 75c@'

$1.00 bu; turnips 90c@$1.25 bu; .to-

matoes, pinks, $2.00@3.00 bu; green,

tomatoes, 500 bu; grapes, $1.75@2.25

bu; lima beans, 500 qt; $2.50 bu;.

butter, 65c lb; honey, $2.40 doz. case;-

watermelons, $1.00@1.25 bu; turnip

Easel oon%a50@759 bu; pumpkins, 75c@,





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comma LIVESTOCK SALES





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' , Dispersal salo.~



. November lt-Z—LoebLF'a

you,'=Mi'oh.’, at. Grand %m¢s, Mich.

_ lmapuregbredrfiolsteinsand 16

bra sodomy -: -‘ v 4.





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- prices





' , werk.

~ $2 30‘





- " ‘b'e‘r progressed, forcipg topgpricer-at

Chicago to is; new high-point- for, the

year at $17.35 for fat .. yearlings with

best weighty steers at $17.25.. All

grain-fed steers shared in this fresh

burst of prosperity and' prices of

grassers have held steady in spite of

an increase in arrivals of rangers to

the largest. volume of the season.

Good feeder steers suitable ,for

quick turn ~’sold at the year’s best

during the past week, but

lower grades declined25 to 50 cents.

With corn prices back toga profitable

feeding level, demand for weighty

feeders has increased. indicating the

probability of a liberal supply of

short—feds before many weeks. Cur-

rent" "prices of feeders are about $2

higher than last year, and the fat

c'attle market must be on a high level

next winter and spring if long-feed-

ing‘operations are to prove profitable.

Doubt as to the outcome at that time

stiumulates demand for feeders which

can make use of corn and get back

to market before fat cattle prices have

changed materially. -





MILD BREAK IN HOG PRICES





 





0G prices dropped 35 to 50 cents



‘below the early October peak,



. but are showing stability again.

Receipts have increased moderately,

but are below last year’s volume at

the corresponding season. 'Shipping

demand at midwestern points has fal-

len off, indicating that eastern mar-

kets are bettersupplied locally. Re-

ceipts contain an increasmg percent-

age of light hogs.



Storage stocks of hog products have

been sharply reduced in the

month. Receipts of hogs are likely to

increase rapidly from this time on

until they are large enough to take

care of consumptive requirements and

exports and supply a surplus for stor-

age. Only mild rallies in prices can

be expected from time_ to time until

a winter basis is reached. In the last





five years, this autumn decline in

prices has averaged nearly $2 per

hundred pounds. ~

WESTERN LAMB FEEDING

INCREASED

MATERIAL decrease in lamb





feeding in the corn belt states and



a decided increase in the western

states this fall and winter compared

with a year ago is indicated by a sur-

vey made by the United States De—

partment of Agriculture. It is not yet

clear whether the increase in the west

will offset the decrease in the corn

belt. Shipments of feeder lambs from

central markets into the corn belt

from July to September inclusive were

the smallest since 1922 and about 30

per cent less than last year.

ments direct from the range to corn

belt feed lots, not passing through

central markets, also are reported to

be somewhat smaller than last year

with the exception of some western

Nebraska feeding districts Where oper-

ations will be on a much larger scale

than in 1926. The principal gai . in

western lamb feeding will be in _ ol-

orado where 'an increase of 500,000 to

600,000 head is indicated. Some in-

crease in Wyoming, Montana and

Texas also is in prospect, with de—

creases in nearly all states West of

the continental divide. .‘





 





BOOK NOTICE





“Seed Production and Marketing,"

by Professor J. F. Cox and George E.

Starr, both of Michigan State College.

The twenty-three chapters in this well-

illustrated book deal with a subject

of highest importance to our agricule

ture._ These chapters describe the

breeding .and cultural practices of

growers in improving varieties of

corn, small grains, clovers, alfalfa,

grass seeds, potatoes, beans, and other

legumes, curcurbits, cabbage and

other crucifers, tomatoes, beets, car-

rots, and a host of other garden crops.

The book contains 450 pages, is pub-

dished as one of the Wiley farm series

by the John Wiley & Sons, Inc., at

$4.00 per volume. Orders may be sent

to the Editorial Department of Mich-

igan Farmer, Detroit.



> .-_-——-———..—

COUNTY CROP REPORTS





San'ilac County——Most of the corn

here .was put into silos. The bean

crop IS. fair and of ' ' quality. Po-

tatoes vary, some, elds being good

and some poor. Wheat and rye fields

sown early miopidng one. Farmers.

are ' and doing





 





 





 

 

 

 

 





some 1'!!le work. Farmers are also

cd—operalivzlifig





 





in, the corn borer, control

is selling at the. farm at,





one:





 





. 3“





 

 

 





last ,





Ship:





e

" outs :to

fill than





the corn





COMING

Nov. 1,

N ov.‘





Nov.

Stock Ex





per .. . ,

particularly _

Farmers. are making arrange. .





many corn borers are-found in this

locality yet.





harvesting. Potatoes are not a big

crop and are being troubled with-

grubs.-——L.\R.





Show, Greenville, Mich.



Nov. 10412—Greenville Potato Show,

Greenviile, Mich.

15-19—Third Annual Live

Stock Show and Agricultural EXposi-

tion, Cleveland, Ohio.

26-Dec.





Whoa, ,. ins" .. .

the. early sown





clean up more comflelds‘this

‘ they did a year ago. Not





Recent rains knocked

down, making a hard job of





 





~AGRIC.ULTURAL EVENTS

2, 3—Top Q’Michigan Potato





3~International Live





 





V .





at:- mgmztgaj sang $50ta$125





on o R

eluding Railroad

Ge





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 





0 GP

_ ~ and Board, and hoe

natal Electrical Training.

HcSween Auto, Tractor and Electrical

Schools,’ opt. 31-k—1, Cincinnati, Ohio. Cinch-l, Ohio.





   

 





 

 





 





Pay $35 to $70 weekly. Men. Women.1

18-55.. Home or elsewhere. Big List

and “How to Qualify" mailed: Free.





o-cni'o Instruction Banal, 373 St.LoIic,Mo.





CATTLE





A large selection at all times of atocker and feeding,

cattle. Special attention given to filling orders. Write

F. E. BERRY COMPANY. South st. Paul. Minn.





Three Cars of FEEDER CATTLE





cars average 800 lbs.. one car 600 lbs.





 





position, Chicago, 111.





Two

SCOTT CAMPBELL. Merritt. Mich.





Iiixpcrt





GOV’T. JOBS





 





 





L'mfimfio imm‘im,mwommi'i'gg





non .sALn—Besistma one; Blackpm' 2‘ duo ‘

br'ed'mink. real dark. Hall's Fur pom. Burt. fl "'0





HUNTING HOUNDS. Dog on lies.

Kukaakenneli. S. W. 107 Hand? Ill.





non SALE—one finished coon hound prepaid to ’m‘

on trial. Fred Harmon. Box. 264-D, Cancun. Go.~





HUNDRED

Catalogue.





 





MATTRESSES





MA'l'l'RESSES made any size. low foam lion.

Catalog free. Pm Bedding Company. Ponds. m.





J





FRUIT TREES .AND NURSERY srocx 4





PEACH TREES. :5 Der 100 and up. _

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

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

nears. cherries. grapes, nuts. berries. poem vines:

ornamental trees. vines and shrubs. Free catalog in ~

golors. Tennessee Nursery 00.. Box 125. Cleveland.

enn. ’ '





Apple Trees. "





 





SEEDS





CHOICE ADAPTED SMALL GRAIN AND B

-—Improved American Banner wheat. Wolverine





onto

improved Robust beans. A. B. Cook. Owosso, Mich:





 





 





 





 





I wish to dispose of—my

have been building for si





Farm—thhinglon, Mich.





TESTED DAIRYHERD FOR SALE





Dairy Herd 'of twelve registered Holsteins which I

x years, consisting of two

old and one three-year old. These six have shown on two milkings a day

over'a two year period

Cow Testing Association of 12,080 pounds

fat which they will beat in 1928.





In addition there are two' two-year-old heifers fresh in February, 1928,

and four heifer calves whose sire is a son of the Great Count Veeman Segis

Peebe, Grand Champion of the Michigan





This is ‘a wonderful opportunity for someone

These cows are free





(1926 and 1927)





from tuberculosis and abortion.





H. J. SEWELL





Office, 6468 Gratiot Ave, Detroit, Michigan.





aged cows, three five-year





an average record per cow in Macomb

of milk and 420 pounds of butter-





State Fair, 1923.





to start or add to his herd.

Prices reasonable.





 





 





Rate





Live





consecutive insertions 6 cents a word. Conn



display type or illustrations admitted? Remittances must accompany order

stock advertising in: a separate donmont and In

charge IO wordu.





CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING





This classified. advertising department ll “1:113th for the

Small advertisements bring best results under classified headings.

advertising miscdlaneous articles for sale or coinage. Poultry advertising will be run in this do-

partment at classified rates. or in display columns at commercial rates.



11. on order for less than four insertions: for four or more

t use word each abbreviation. initial or number.





8 cent: a word. each





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TOBACCO





SPECIAL OFFER—Leaf Chewing or Smoking 5 lbs..

81: ten. $1.75. Cigars. $1.95 for 50. Money ro-

funded if not satisfactory. Pay when received.

Kentucky Tobacco Company. West Paducah. Ky.





GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing. 5

pounds. 31.25: 10. 82. Smoking. .10. $1.50. Pipe





 





 





 





Free! Pay postman. , United Farmers. Bardwell.

Kentucky.



HOMESI’UN TOBACCO—Guaranteed good flavor.

Chewing. 5 pounds --$1100: 10. $1.75. Smoking 5

pounds 75c: 10, $1.25. Pay when received. Farmers

Union. Mayflcld. Ky.





 





HOMESPUN TOBACCO—~Chewing. 5 lbs. $1: ten.

$1.75. Smoking. 5 lbs. 750. I’ay when received.

Pipe free. Farmer-3' Union. A5. I’aducah. Ky.





TOBACCO USERS: Write for free sample and,

prices. Answer this ad. it means something to you.

Troutt 6: Son, Dept. P-4, Hickory, Ky. .





 





 





 





TOBACCO": KENTUCKY SWEE'I‘LEAF—Mcllow. aged.

Smoking. 15 pounds, $1.05. Chewing, $2.25. Pay

when received. Ernest Choate, Wingo. Kentucky.





POULTRY

WHITE LICGIIORN eggs and chicksesbig discount if





 





convenience of Michigan farmers.

Try it for want ads





No





not accepted as classified. Minimum





 





feudal fin- flu





One Four One Four

Words. time. times. Words time times.

10 ........ $0.80 $2.40 26. . . .. . . .8208 $6.24

11 ........ .88 2.64 21 ........ 2.16 6.48

12 ........ .96 2.88 28 ........ 2.24 6.72

13 ........ 1.04 3.12 2 ........ 2.32 6.96

14 ........ 1.12 3.36 30........ 2.40 1.20

15 ........ 1.20 3.60 3 ........ 2.48 1.44

6 ........ 1.28 3.84 322 , ...... 2.56 7.68

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

18 ........ 1.44 4.32 34 ........ 2.12 8.16

9 ........ 1.52 4.56 35 ........ 2. 8.40

........ 1.60 4.80 36. . . . . . . . 2.88 864

2 ........ 1.68 5.04 37 ........ 2.96 8.8;

22 ........ 1.76 5.28 3 ........ 3.04 9.1

3 ........ 1.84 5.52 39 ........ 3.12 9.36

24 ........ 1.92 5.76 40 \. ..... _ 3.20 9.60

25 ........ 2.00 6 0 41 ........ 8.28 9.84





Special





_ day: in advanc





IF INTERESTED in standing timber or well drained

muck soil. write Charley Voss. Otscgo, Mich.





FOR SALE OR RENT 210 acre farm near St.





Johns.

Levi H. Sibley. Detht, Mich.





 





ordered now for spring shipment. Sired by 200 to





293 egg males. Egg bred 28 years. Winners 20

egg contests. Shipped C. 0. D. ("atnlog. special

price bulletin free. Thousands of pullers. hens,

cooker-e13 at low prices. George B. Ferris. 934

Union. Grand Rapids. Michigan.





 





ENGLISH WHITE LEGIIOIIN I’ULI.ETS~~AII from

free range Poultry Farms, 10 wks. old, 850; 12 to

14 wks.. $1.00; laying pullets. $1.25; yearling hens.

90c. A fine male bird free with every order of 50

bullets. Village View Poultry Farm. R. No. 3.

Zeeland, Mich.





 





WHITI‘AKER'S REDS FOR FLOFK IMPROVE-

MENT. Both Combs. Michigan's greatest color and

egg strain. Trapncstcd under record of performance

rules. Cookers] priv-c list free. Inturlakes Farm.

Ilox 0, Lawrence. Michigan.





 





 





IIUNDERMAN'S yearling hens and pullets.

comb White Lughorns and Brown Leghorns. Some

pullers will soon be ready to lay. Write us for

price. We are Michigan Accredited. Hunderman

Bros. Zeoland, Michigan.





single





 





 





 





 





.0 '

. . All «1W»: my

Nance dimmflnuanu "do"



or (hang: of a!) bl-

Clauificd .quarmunl mun ranch thil (fink-n

a cfpublfm non dale.





 





REAL ESTATE





 





Truck.





and interest

eluded; 1%

river:





barn.





$9.000 takes

fall bargain





HIGH GRADE MID-WEST FARM—160 Acres. Auto

3 Horses.

harnesses. wagons,

manure spreader.





excellent crop land.

wood and fruit ; prettily situated 8-room house, large

60 foot machine

insured. for $6,000.





1105-130 Kresge Bldg. Detroit. Mich.





3 calves. bull. poultry.

binder, hay loader.

potato digger, full line implements

in other costly/machinery, crops in-

miles R R town and top markets. clusc

good pastursge. plenty





8 cows.

grain drill.





shed. 10x30 granary. etc”

Unable handle longer, low price.

all. part cash. Details page 23 illus.

Catalog. Copy free. Strout Agency.





 





$500 GETS





dren carried

kets

great corn.

alfalfa. soil:





fodder.

$500

Agency.





cash





chinery, Crops.

and town advantages; ’45 acres level tillage.

cow barn. milk

included—horses.

straw. hay. wheat,

Mason. Mich.





BUMPER (‘ROP FARM—Stock. Ma-

50 acres on state reward road, (‘Illl-

grade and high schools, convenient mar-





cahbage. potato.

big main barn.





oats. wheat, beans,



excellent 8-room house.

and poultry houses. Everything

cows. Ipoultry,' machinery. corn.

etc. Only $4.200 with





needed. Mason E. Reynolds Strout





 





ALL YEAR





of water for

good markets

schools:





Dept. F.

(County 0119.





California where the land owns the water and, power.

(‘heap electricity right on





land priced low.

describing this Empire of Natural Wealth.

Stanislaus





cnors in Sunny‘Stanislaus County.





your farm. Abundance

irrigation: diversified farming; close to

: wonderful climate: paved roads; good

Write for new booklet

Address

County Development Board

mber Commerce). Modesto. California.





 





Frree. lights.





a real saving

931 Kansan. .





T0 ,SATISFY MORTGAGE—6 room house. 78'North





taken to satisfy a mortgage and can be bought at





7





water and gas. This property was

5. Communicate with L. T. West. Sec.





Topeka. Kansas.





 





ings: electric

cellent stock

Rowe, Evert,





FOR SALE—208 acre farm. clay loam: this build-





plant ; 20 acres maple timber. An ex—

farm. $50 per acre. Terms. Dr. G. D.

lIich. '-





 





growing seed

payment. and





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

wealthy in a. few years.

Bank Bldg. Detroit.





potatoes will make you independently

Will Take Crops for

buy all. you raise. Groste. 511 Dime





 





FOR SALE—359 acres 'good land, good buildings.

stock and tools.

gain price $10.000.

Pine St.. Muskegon. Mich. __ x





Must be sold to settle estate. Bar-

Tenns. Write A. Miller, 1373





 





 





WANTED FARMS

WANTED—To hear from owner of land for sale for

fall delivery. 0. Hawley. Baldwin. Wis.

. FARMS FOR RENT

_ WANTED~share renter for good 160—acre dairy

farm: owner will furnish all the cows. For full

particulars write Box 119. Michigan Farmer. Detroit.





 





 





WANTED





WANT TO BUY several bushels of wild Wintergreen

from woods. Leaves. stems and berries. no roots.

Write giving price per bu. A. Wile, Box 60. R. 2.

St. Joseph.» Mich. '





WANTED—To get in touch with Toggenburg breeders





 





 





 





near Grand Rapids. Mrs. L. D. Glenn. II. No. 11.

c-o C. J. Iiuughey, Grand Rapids. Mich.



FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE

DETROIThz-flnt payment $50., rents $70., balance

$5.950. Will trade $6.000 equity for farm equipped

or vacant. Dun Jayne, Belleville, Mich.





TURKEYS. GEESE. DUCKS—Finely

Tut-1m”. White Pekin Ducks. Geese.

scriptive circular and price.

tion. Kalamazoo, Michigan.





bred Bronze

Write for de-

State Farms Associa-





 





WHITE WYANDO'I‘T'ES—Choice husky early hatched





corkerels now ready for shipment. Fred Berlin.

Allen. Mich.





WHITE LEGHORN PULLE'I‘S. 5 months old. State

Accredited. $1.15 each. II. Knoll, Jr.. Holland.

Mich. R. No. 1.





BREEDING COCKERELS and bullets.





six varieties.

Order Baby Chicks now and got big





discounts. Free





 





 





 





catalog. Berkman Hatchery. Grand Rapids. Mich.

S. C. BROIVN and White Leghorns 332-cggs. Cata-

log. Harlan Fulton. Gallipolis. Ohio.



TURKEYS

PUREBRED May hatchet! White Holland toms. $10

:llld DIII'PTber 15. also pullets. C. Galbreath. Hart-

or, [01.





 





 





 





MSCELLA NEOUS





300 FULL SIZE. unruled Letter Heads and 300 good

white Envelopes. all neatly printed with name. ad-

dress and business. Two Dollars. mstpaid. Suitable

for Farmer. Business Men and all others. Money

back qllll'k if wanted. Shipping Tags. Statements,

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

port "Herald. Freeport. Mich.





MICHIGAN'S BEST Giant Bronze

utility and fancy.

isfaction.





~ Turkeys. Both.

The birds that always give set-

N. Evalyn Ramsdell. Ionia. Mich.





May hatch.

2. Standish.





FOR SALE—Mammoth Bronze Turkeys.

I13ml $8. hens $6. Mrs. A. H. Sivier. R.

. 1m.





BOURBON RED TOMS. 6. W. G. R d . .

Mich. R. 2. 3 0 gets Lowell





 





AUTO PARTS—Radiators. Heads, Blocks, Trans-

mlssions, Drive’Shafts, Rear Ends. “Illicls. Bear-

ings. good as new, half price or less. Satisfaction

guaranteed or money refunded. Rocks Auto Parts,

12215 E. JciYerson Axe. Detroit. Mich. ‘





 





sale by manufacturer at





VIRGIN WOOL YARN for

H A. Bartlett. Harmony.





bargain. Samples free.

Maine.





 





FISTULA HORSES Cured $5. Pay when well. Chem-

ist. Barnes. Kansas.





PURE HONEY, 5 lb. pail. $1.





postpaid.

Buzzard. Fcnton, Mich.





Homer





 





EARN 35 DAY





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