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VOLUME CLXIX





DETROITJDEC. 31, 1927

CURRENT COMMENT





HE extension of



credit to the com-

mon people has been

one of the marvels of

recent years. One

can buy almost any-

thing on credit now, including many

things which ought not be bought

until one has the money. However,

this free use of credit is one of the

greatest indications of the general

faith in the common honesty of- man.





But credit costs. There are many

instances where the cost of credit is

warranted, but one should always

figure if that is the case. The legal

rate of interest is in most cases 6%,

but the cost of credit is higher. In

building operatiOns it often runs up

to'20 and 25%. In other cases, fifteen

and twenty per cent are common.





A recent survey in a New York

dairy district showed that 17% of the

farmers paid cash for their dairy feed.

The others paid at the rate 'of four-

teen per cent interest. This is quite

high and would make quite a differ-

ence in a profit and loss statement.

But a dairyman might be foolish not

to pay it for 1-esult7producing feed in-

stead of using feeds which would cut

down the milk flow. In other words

efficient care and feeding of the cows

may enable one to better stand 'the

fourteen per cent bonus on feeding

costs than the losswhich would result

from a decreased milk flvow caused by

haphazard feeding.



The efficient use of credit often





NUMBER TWENTY~SEVEN





The

' Cost of

Credit





improvement





only vines it will bring results which





are greater than its cost.





W0 bills have



_ been recently



introduced in the



United States Senate,



touching upon the

‘ matter of highway

in the United States.

One of these bills provides for a. sur-;

vey of routes which would be as di?

root as practicable between the At-

lantic and“ Pacific coasts and cross

highways from the Canadian line to

the Gulf of Mexico.



The other bill would authorize the

expenditure of a hundred million dOI-.

lars for the construction of rural post

roads over which rural carriers travel

in serving their routes. This appro-

priation would be 'eXclusive of those

now included in the federal aid high-





Federal

Highway

Program





way system. The money would go to -





each state according to the mileage‘

of rural routes, provided that the stgte





, appropriate at similar amount.





Two different ideas are here voiced

in regard to federal aid highway con-

struction. One asks that appropria-

tions be used for providing pleasure

tourist routes across the country. The

other'urges federal aid in the con-

struction of highways that will not

only serve in the matter of making

mail deliveries to farmers, but will

also provide farm-to-market highways.



This last idea appeals to us strong-

ly. If such a measure becamem law,

it would quite completely overcome

the isolation of the farmer. He then

could not only communicate with the

outside world over his telephone, re-

ceive his mail regularly, and hear the

best of music, entertainment, and lec~

tures over his radio, but he could also

take his provisions to market, secure

needed merchandise, or meet social

engagements regardless of weather

conditions. IVe have a firm conviction

that such a measure would meet popu-

lar approval and make. a real contri-

bution to our rural life. ‘





OM E remarkable



results have been

obtained in child feed-

ing experiments in

Great Britain. It was

found that butter

added to the 'diet provided in a chil~

dren’s institution, produced marked im'

provement in the health, weight, and

height of the inmates. This confirms

the results of experiments and gen-

eral observations in this country with

butter vitamins.



Despite a knowledge of the general

benefits of butter in the human diet,

a persistent campaign is being waged

to rob innocents of the advantage of

the vitamins provided by this product.

For instance, there now appears on

the markets, products known as

“cooking fats” colored like butter,

salted and packed in packages similar

to that used in retailing butter and

oleomargerine. The internal revenue

bureau after extended consideration

has decided that these fats come

under the oleomargerine law and a1.-

thorized the collection of the ten cents

a pound tax thereon. However, an in-

junction against the government has

been secured and made permanent, so

it can be expected that a flood of this

material will be upon our markets to

tempt the uninformed to use it as a

substitute for butter.





Protecting

the

Children





~Advertising





.milk supply of the city.





their products.





However, published .





reports or the internal revenue as





can does not show a single pound of





vitamin-bearing oil purchased by the





licensed manufacturers.

While education on the value of the

vitamins in , butter and the lack of





these vitamins in butter substitutes ,

will aid in protecting the health ‘of '*

our children, adequate legislation is -





also needed.





BOUT t w e n t y



years ago Cali-

fornia produced crops

of oranges that flOOd',

ed the market but

since then the sales

have increased from $12,000,000 to

$72,000,000 per year. Advertising has

accomplished this for it has made mil-

lions of people want orange juice each

morning for health’s sake.



Twenty years ago the apple out sold

the orange, but now it has been rele-

gated to the background as people

have the idea. that oranges with their

health-giving vitamins are better to

keep the doctor away than apples.

This has made an unhealthy market

for apples and has caused many apple

growers to wonder if the citrus fruits

would crowd the apple ofi the boards.





However, the apple growers and

handlers are realizing what advertis-

ing has accomplished for the 'citrus

fruit growers, and-are now organized

to *let it do the same for them. One

million dollars a year will be spent

to inform the consuming public of

the superior value of apples. S0, in

the future, the one who eats for

health’s sake, as well as for the pleas-

ure of the palate, will have to weigh





The

Value of





‘the eVidence presented before decid~





ing whether it will be an apple or an

orange for breakfast. ..



At least we feel, with some assur-

ance, that we can predict the market

situation fo1 the apple grower will be

improved. His p1oblen1 will be to

produce the high quality fruit for

Wthh~ this adveitising campaign will

create a demand. It offers a real op-

portunity for Michigan apple growers.

But they must take advantage of it

by producing better fruit or be left

behind by their western brothers. . ’





OMETIME ago an



ordinance was

adopted in Detroit re-

quiring that .after

January 1, only milk

from tuberculin tested

herds should be allowed to enter the

city for human consumption. This ac-

tion is to be commended. It is a. step

looking towards the protection of the

Consumers

and producers generally, we believe,

favor the idea. It will mean a larger

use of milk which will benefit the

producer as well as the final con-

sumer.



But a situation has developed which

is unfortunate.

which are now supplying milk toithe

city, the state has not done the test-

ing. The local governments have pm-





An Un-

fortunate '

Situation





vided funds and made all the neces-.





sary arrangements to go ahead with

this work' in time .to have it com:

pleted' by January 1.. If this ordin-

ance is strictly enforced, it will oblige





groups of farmers to temporarily seek





other markets for their dairy products,





In certain districts ,





‘1 liar/’11..





extraction of dinette snow thoafit





these beauties.





~ * New. "Years!





NEW YEARS comes out this is...» ’





what you call- logically. . You see,





V.New Years everybody is supposed to





turnl over a new leaf and start out

with a clean sheet, if they get {finm

Well, this year the year ends on





Saturday night, so you see its Q5; K. =to ‘

start out clean. You’ve got your State .





urday night bath took end the ,sheets





on the beds is

there ain’t no reason fer not having

a clean start. .. That’s- ,physically





‘speakln’.





Socially speakin’, I’m clean out of— it





’cause I ain’t attemptin’ to keep up,





with the social





manifestation, _ I ‘





guess you callit,

of the Jones‘and

etc. Financially

speakin’, I’ll need

some red ink. 'I

Won°t be able to

start clean, [but

I’m goin’ to start





cleaned-out, so to ‘





Speak financially. Santa. Claus brought

'me some‘ red ink to start with.





Spiritually speakin’, New Years isa. .





great time to stock up with spirits

but ’cause I’m dry and can’t afford it,

I ain’t goin’ ta be able to do likewise.

But I’m full of the‘spirit of livin’ and





as long as there’s so many interestin’i





things in life to see and hear fer al-

most nothin’, I ain’t

second harp in St. Gabriel’s orchestra.



I guess this is the time of the year

when we farmers kinda quit figurin’





our results and begin ta think o"pros-_





pects. We’ve got the palst year behind

us and can’t do no more with it. But

we’ve gotta figure on what we’re goin’

to do with the next, or if we don’t do





goin’ ta. do with us. Seems ta methe

farmers what make a success don’t

do the guessi‘n’, they do the plannin’.

Just to show there’s different kinds.»

folkses, old Penny Smith spends New

Years figurin’ the value of what he

got for Christmas and the value of

what he give. If what he give come

ta more’n' than what he got,” he cuts

down a little the next year. Christmas

ain’t no succeSS fer Pen‘ny if it ain't

been. a. financial One. ’

Well, I’m hopin’ that you’ll get just

as much out of livin' this coming year

as you kin. :Anyhow, it won’t cost





.much_ to try, and ,seein’ as all there





is in life is the livin’ of it, we’ re plain

fools if We don’t live it so’ 8 to get the

most fun out of it;



Judgin’ from the pictures I see of

New Years, we all have got ta. Work

ta get that baby some clothes But

maybe its just had a. bath which re-

minds me to remind you not to forget





to take a. bath Saturday night for.





sure. H—Y SYCKLE



A man without mirth is like a.

wagon without springs, in which one

is caused disagreeably to jolt-by every





pebble over Which it runs. wit-Entry,





Ward Beecher.





ready to play ~





been changed... ._;So* I?





that, guess on What the next year is .
ELPING to judge a farm home is

an enjoyable, 1liuminating, and

inspiring experience. A great

of needs, of tastes, and of





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





.’ farm family. No one plan is

in itself, but to be outstanding;





 

 

 





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Mime. In all our judging of farm

hous‘es, We assume that one woman

“Will be called upon to do most of the

work. Without going into detail re-

‘garding' the scoring system by which

,, ' this Michigan approved farm house

plan- was selected, let it suffice to

“ ,' :say: to be approved a farm house

Imustucome up to certain general tests

,asrwell as pass requirements on group-

ing of rooms and inspection of the

1 various rooms, and be generally pleas-

ing as to architecture.



Some of the general tests are here

enumerated. Is the floor plan as a

whole such that the regular ~routine of

preparing food, clearing away dishes

and utensils, and the general house-



'work done under plefbant conditions

with the least amount of fatigue? Is

it conveniently arranged to care for}

children? Is it adequate for all the



, uses that it may be" called upon to

’ serve on Saturday night? Is it of a

size to accommodate the extra help

in the'house andythe threshing crew

on threshing day? Can social gather-

ings be cared for satisfactorily? Is

the social life of the family provided

.for? 'How many changes would be

necessary in the plan to make it a

good. plan to fit its requirements? '



, . The farm house illustrated on this

ipage is that of Mr. and Mrs. A L.





 

 

 

 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 





 





N areas where the borer has only

one generation, considerable ins

. . festation may be evaded by prop-

, ,- er adjustment of the time of planting.





 





; in heavy commercial damage,

C ,‘JJ, ' f possible that the loss in yield due to

‘ ' ~ late planting would be more than that

caused by the corn borer. Presum-

ably the maximum yield can be ob-

tained with an

optimum variety

Whose period of

development oc-

cupies the full

growing season.

However, before

corn is abandoned

as a crop because

of damage by the

corn borer, a va-

riety may be

, available which

. . ' can be planted

fH' Larrimer late, mature a

fair yield, and yet evade borer dam-

age to a large extent

‘ While such a variety would make





 

 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 





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be included in almost any farm -





Unless the infestation should result.

it is.





By F E. FOglc





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Ionia on M743. This house stands on





a gentle rise of ground about 150 feet





back from the highway in the corner

of a beautiful oak grove of about 15

acres. While Mr. and Mrs. Snyder

have not done a great deal in the way

of making. plantings and intend 'to

make improvements along this line,'in





selecting this beautiful site which na-





ture had set up, they accomplished

more than they could have by going

to a considerable expense and several

years of painstaking work in land-

scaping some less desirable spot.



The exterior is of modified Dutch

Colonial type. The architect so de-

signed this house that it has the ap-

pearance of being much larger than

it really is. As originally planned, the

kitchen and the garage were one story

with a flat deck roof. After the house





Snyder, who live one mile north of-





e





was well under construction, to im-

prove the appearance, a gambrel roof





was put over the kitchen and that





part of the garage opposite it. The

back part of thegarage is ’one story

with a flat deck roof. Changing the

roof not only greatly improved the ap-

pearance but gave storage space which

may well be considered an essential,

since there is no attic in this house.



The grouping of rooms in this floor

plan is on the whole very good. Com-

ing through the garage and the door

at the stair landing, the basement,

dining room, and the rest of the house

may be reached without going through

the house. The grouping of the rooms

around a central hall and stairway

usually makes for convenience if the

hall and stairway are readilygacces-

sible from kitchen and rear entrance.



The bathroom is readily accessible





 





 





Mr. Snyder Selected a Home Site That Nature Had Already Beautifully

Landscaped





Larrimcr





Senior Entomologirt, U. S. D. A.





Regardless of what may be devel-

oped in the future to control the corn

borer, there is no question that the

most effective repressive ,measures

now in operation 'consist of some

adaptation of mechanical means. It

has long been known that the insect

usually‘passes seVeral months of its

life in a more or less" useless portion

of its host plant. By the destruction

of such material, it seemed reasonable

to expect a degree of control in pro—

portion to the thoroughness of the

operation.



Mechanical Control



Therefore, this problem resolved

itself into the proper disposal of the

corn plant so as to render it unfit to

harbor living corn borers before the

adult moths emerge. Burning natur-

ally proved to be very effective. It

was also learned that what few borers

escaped destruction in passing through

the ordinary ensilage cutter were

later destroyed by the fermentation

process in the silo. Husker-Shredders,

feed-grinders, and feed-cutters, which

cut ,to one-half inch lengths or less,





‘ were found to be good corn- -borer kill-





ers. Feedingrto live stock effectively





[disposes of all portions "of the corn





plant actually eaten. ,

Corn stubble continued to be a se-





~ ,rious problem because of the decided

, movement of the borers to lower parts

"PpL the plant as the; season advances.

are sfibblbpuiverizer and low~cuttirig





   

   

   

 





apparatus for Corn harvesters are

distinctively corn-borer developments

designedto solve the stubble prob-

lem. Both are successful when used

as intended.



Flaws of a special type have been

designed and attachments devised ‘for

ordinary plows so that cleaner plow-

ing is now being done than was ever

previously thought possible. Clean

plowing under of all remnants net

otherwise disposed of serves well to

complete other control operations.





- Control Methods Proved Successful





The gradual development of this





general idea of clean farm practices





to control the corn borer culminated

in the tremendous effort, unprece-

dented in the history of plant pest

control, and usually referred to as the

ten million dollar corn borer clean- -up

campaign. The results of this cam-

paign, are now well known and as

stated by the executive committee of

the International Corn Borer Organ-

ization‘, “The campaign has been suc-

cessful and has accomplished, as far

as humanly possible, the object set

out to accomplish. ”



A11 insect may be said to be con-

trolled when it is rendered unable to

increase-' in abundance. That such





has been accomplished in the case of





corn borer is evidenced in Lucas

County, tho, the most heavily in-

tested county in the United States in

1926, and a habitat most favorable to





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to all bedrooms. Since there are no.

small children in the Snyder home,

the bath and first floor bedroom need

not be located near the kitchen.



The garage wall is constructed in'_

the same manner as the house wall,

making it possible to heat the garage.

A laundry is provided for. in the base:

ment but to avoid carrying clothes

upstairs, Mrs. Snyder uses the space

in the garage adjacent to the sink as

a laundry. Hot and cold soft water

and cold hard water are on tap at

the sink which is provided with a

drain. The cream separator is also

located in this part of the garage, and

a portable motor operated by a small

private light plant is used for the pur-

pose of operating the washing ma-

chine, the churn, and cream separator.



The kitchen has plenty of built-in

cupboards making a pantry unneces-

sary. A pantry usually increases

steps. A combination porcelain sink

and drain board located under the

east windows is so placed that the

process of dishwashing takes place in

a right to left order. Mixing and

preparing for baking is done at the

table under the somh window so that

these processes take place in a left

to right manner which is correct.

This table is covered with zinc. The

working areas and the sink top are

311/2 inches high. This conforms close—

ly to the rule that the height of the

working surfaces should be one-half

the worker’s height, since Mrs. Sny-

der is 5 feet 3 inches or 63 inches tall.

The pine woodwork, finished natural,

with waterproof varnish is very appro-

priate. A composition material is

used on the floor and gives very good

satisfaction. In this particular kitchen

the sink is at the opposite end of the

kitchen from the stove. Usually 3.



(Continued on page 630) ‘





COm Borer Control Methods





Additional Wayr of Reprerrmg Activities of T flu Menacmg Pelt

By W. H.





the insect. Under adverse conditions

and in a season very favorable to corn

borer development, an actual reduc-

tion of the number of this pest in this

entire county was accomplished as a.

result of the 1927 clean- -up campaign.

With control requirements known and

understood at the time the corn crop

is planted, the necessary clean-up can

be accomplished at a very reasOnable

cost during a normal season.

The Outlook



Assisted and supplemented by the

development of tolerant and upstand-

ing varieties of corn, by the possible

manipulation of the crop so as to

escape heavy infestation, by natural

control parasites and unfavorable

weather conditions, the solution of the

corn-borer problem in the Corn Belt

may well rest in the correct use of

the proper types of cultural and har-

vesting machinery now available.



The biggest task yet to be accom-

plished is to secure the realization by

farmers of the danger which threat-

ens, and the. adoption of control

measures in time to prevent the enor-

mous losses which this insect is so

well able to inflict. -



It may well be repeated that this

problem .is of vital interest and re-

quires the hearty cooperation not only ’

of the entomologist, the chemist, the

agricultural engineer, the agronomist,

the economist, and other scientists, ,

but the continuation of the splendid 4"?

efforts of educational workers, the

regulatory people, the farmers them-7





selves, and of everyone interested in'

the agriculture of the Corn Belt.
lntsat *





. Sour/26m M ic/zigmz Potato Tram Szlccérifirfl





HE horse that runs one good

heat, then quits, gets no Where o'r '



» nothing except possibly a tired

feeling. It :is the reliable old nag that

takes a good clip, then keeps-it up to

the end that finishes, if not first, at

least whom he knows that the best

possible race has been run. And so

it is with extension work. Sometimes

it flares up, makes a big noise, and

then dies out without even a sputter,

leaving mobbing behind except a head-

ache.



Last spring, the potato people at

the College, the Cadillac Potato Grow-

ers’ Exchange, the New York Central

Lines, and several local agenciesr in-

cluding county agents, county farm

bureaus, and chambers of commerce

planned out a definite course of exten-

sion tor systematic potato imp-pove-

ment in southern Michigan. They

reasoned: This territory has the soil,

it has the climate, it has the markets.

All it lacks is the grower with knowl-

edge of potato requirements.





Starting the campaign, a train was

run through these counties last spring

in which good seed—~certified seed—-

was stressed. From that train at its

various stops, 3,400 bushels of certi-

fied seed were handed out to 594

farmers and vocational students, no

one getting more than 121/2 bushels.

During the summer, follow-up potato

tours were put on in several of these

counties. On these, spraying was em-

phasized as well as applications of

fertilizer and good farm fertility prac-

, tice. The two cars which have re-

cently made the same rounds again,

parading as a “Potato Special” have

written the final chapter in this better

potato education. There were many

points brought out on this train that

may well also be brought to the at-

tention of farmers in the specialized

potato producing areas of the state.





One of them was the home econom-

ics exhibit which invariably caught

the eyes of the women visitors. Al-

most every magazine now that is

edited for the so—called petite woman

caters to her desire to have a wasp-

like waistline. Many of the dieting

stories counsel women readers to get

away from potatoes and keep away.

However, this exhibit showed what

science has revealed as a fact that

what potatoes do to the waistline is

quite a matter of how they are pre-_

pared and that for their bulk, they

add no more avoirdupois than a ma-

jority of the foods that are commonly

eaten. These are things that every

potato grower ought to know because,

in the long run, consumption is the

big stimulus to potato prices.



The 3,400 bushels of potatoes given

out last spring increased to 26,000

bushels during the summer. A feature

of the potato cars was photographs

showing better potato practices. Grow.

ers in each county exhibited and com-

peted against each other for prizes

and many surprises were rung down

on this feature. The vocational boys

judged potato samples . and anyone,

who wanted, entered the grading con-

tests—all these being features calcu-

lated to raise the quality of spuds

that travel outside the state to repre-

sent the commonwealth in the mar-

kets of the world. If they “pan out,"

consumers think well of Michigan

spuds; if they are scabby, hollow, or

diseased, the housewife says to her

'husband, “George, don’t bring home

any more of those Michigan. potatoes.

Buy some from Idaho or Maine."





, The winning exhibits from each

. county were carried on to the next





county. and speaking'oi' surprises; one ,





for the biggest was the exhibit of





Frank C. VReum of Berrien county, ~ 3m;

which was easily atop over all comers )7 _

-, in that.nuunty-—and several others,- 2

, By‘





'wm make





money, this exhibit





someone step lively at the State Po- .

tato Show. . A. ‘ ~ . "



Reum never ’planted any certified

seed before and'never made a potato

exhibit before but he {must have had

the Russet Rural type well fixed in

his mind. In more detail, Ream

planted 31'? ,acre and a quarter that

had been sowed to alfalfa seven years

ago but was largely run out to blue-

grass. This got Six loads of barnyard

manure, was plowed early, and at

planting time 500 pounds’of a 3-12-4

fertilizer was broadcasted over the

field with a lime sower. Reum dug

from this acreage 275 bushels of mar-

ketable potatoes grown from 17%

bushels of seed. “



Speaking in the lecture car, C. 'M.

McCrary, potato specialist from the

College said, “During the last year,

we actually weighted up plots planted

with certified and home grown seed

and we found that on the average, the

certified seed outyielded‘ the other by

about 40 bushels per acre. The certi-

fied seed averaged 132.2 bushels per

acre while the uncertified seed yielded

93.9 bushels per acre.”



Potato growers were advised that

they could avoid hollow heart, one of

the biggest ~hlack eyes now marked

against Michigan potatoes, by planting

them closer ,in the row—not more

than 18 inches apart was the recom-

mendation. In one case, potatoes

planted 36 inches by 18 in’ches y‘elded

100 bushels more per acre than where

planted 26 inches by 36 inches.

Around 12 inches apart is the distance

that makes for- highest acre yields,

better quality, more uniform size, and

freedom from hollow heart. '



The potato is a gross feeder on

plant food and potato growers are

finding that the best results follow a

combination of plowing under legumes

and manure and the addition of com-

mercial plant food besides. To deter-

mine what formulas and amounts per

acre are most profitable, McCrary re-

ported on a number of field trials that

have been carried on by the College





‘ pounds 2 of ,' acid.





upfioaphwte: pod





an increaée of "lime bushels per; am i L do h

Using 300 pounds of 342-4 Where a" no





legume was not plowed down'and 500

pounds of. 2-}.2-6 (two per cent nitro-

gen, 12 per cent phosphoric aciG and

six per cent potash)- wherc an almfa.

sod was plowed under, We got an in-

crease for fertilizer of 1'? bushels per

acre. But where we used from 100

to 200 pounds more of “the Same fer-

tilizer, say 700 pounds per acre, we

found an increase of 35"bushels of

potatoes or double that secured with

500 pounds. More than 700 pounds

did not increase the yield on account





of dry weather and the fertilizer being"





applied in the row.”





TON LITTER STARTS 0N.

ALFALFA





NE of the ton,litters produced in





Washtenaw County this year was.‘F





on clover and alfalfa pasture during





,. - us is on the goodwill





the first three months of the feeding.





period. This litter was produced by

a strain of Chester Whites that has

had three generations of winners in

ton litter contests. '





CERTIFIED SEED ADDS GD

BUSHELS





\





THE agricultural teacher at Onaway

1n-

demonstration of the value of certified

seed potatoes in competition‘with the

home grown seed of a farmer living in

the vicinity. ' A check of the yields

showed the certified seed outyielded

its competitor by 60 bushels an acre.





PYRAT-OL SOON EXH AU STELD





, N order for 16,000 pound of Pyra-



tol for Oceana County is reported

by county agricultural agent, Carl

Hemstreet. Officials of the govern-

ment in chargeof the distribution of

war salvage explosives state that the

supply will be exhausted within a few

months. '





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From INGLESIDE FARM—By Stan/éy Powell





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HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all!



As we write these old familiar

words, we cannot. help being im-

pressed with the fact that they





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embody the underlying purpose of





these articles—that is to make life

on the farms of our readers a little

happier because of the entertainment,

instruction and, we hope now and

then, the inspiration provided by these

homely little leaves from our own ex-

perience, observation, and meditation.

My hired man butchered Saturday

and his wife tells him that he made

one serious mistake. He butchered

in the wrong time of the moon, she

says. According to her theory, pork

killed when the visable part of the

moon is small will shrink heavily,

while that slaughtered, when the

moon is full will shrink very little-

Now I’ve already boasted. in pre-

vious articles that I have no supersti-

tions and would “inst as soon do a

job. on one date as another, irrespec-

tive of the calendar or the smile or

froWn of the man in the moon. \

, 'Ho-wever, I think that the custom of

making resolutions on New Year’s Day

bS'a meritorious one which all of us





would do' well to follow. There are





none of us so near perfect but that

we might be a lot better, as farmers,

as citizens. and as members of the

family circle. It, is not for me to sug-

gest what resolutions you Should

make, and anyway they wouldn’t

amount to much unless you really

thought them ,out and purposed them

in your own hoart._‘- ' -‘





encounter-"lactate laying}!!!

m :- :Even the details

‘ worked outgas fan:





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ers are judged. See where you and

your farm fall short of this high

standard and think what you can do

during the coming year to rate a little

higher.

Enlist the Family’s Interest '



Though resolutions are somewhat

of a personal matter, those of the type

which we are suggesting cannot be

realized without the oo-operation of

the other members of the family.

Therefore, it seems as though it would

be a splendid idea ‘to discuss these

things in the family circle and thus





get the ideas of the other members





and enlist their support.



This much is certain. By next New

Year’s Day your farm, you yourself,

and your standing in your community

will not be the same as it is today.

During the coming year, youand your

farm will go forward or backward.

its progress or decline will be dober-

mined to aconsiderable degree by your

ideals, your plans, and your hopes as

to what you want to ..do'and be.



If you have kept careful farm ac-

counts during the past year, this is

a good time to summarize them and

to draw such conclusions as you can

therefrom. ‘

just what have been the principal

sources of income and which items .of





expense have made the most serious ‘





inroads upon our pocketbooksu All

these and other fleets may help «us to

lay plans for a more successful year

during 1-928. * "

.. A general,

commander, would not,wait until-”he

launched-am attack orcngoged 111.311





in firmness

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Simon

am_





It is interesting to note,





or- other ‘ responsible? m





.7 plans for. .

would ;





impossible. to, yet who:

‘much‘d‘onc as one would exp ct.



A few of us spent a day and a,»

wanting up at the orange Eon

Week and plan onputtlng in m ,

day or. so yet this week. Wears



thorium buggy





tearing down part of

sheds and using some“ M‘thc material -.

to bundnew toilets “and "a: shed ‘

house anew electric light was ‘

we have mist purchasedgfl. W

plan to_make quite slew;

ments in the arrangement of

“($3151.77 . . I ’9‘ .

mellow I get quite a thrill out I

these .“hees” for promoting comma“

' prOJects. They teach us undelfishnofié

and illustrate how dependent wallets "

, and teamwork 5 ‘

of ,the other members of the bag" '-f

borhood. ' ~h

Last week Thursday, our county

arm Bureau staged a banquet that

was rather unusual. It was Win

the diningroom of the local - ' 3'”

Temple and was attended by about" '00

men and women from the farm homes

of the county. The occasion was

' financed by the sale of tickets at 31.00

each. For once the women didn’t

have to worry about the supper. It

was provided by a local caterer and .

served by the boys in the Agricul- ,

turn] class of the High School. "As

the crowd marched‘ into the hall’and

during the inmost, they were enter-

tained Withixhnsic. by the Brody Fam-

ily Dronestma’of, housing. This group

of musicians“; unique in that it is

composed of the wife and six children

of C. L. Brody, Secretary-Manager of





' the "State Farm Bureau. /





~ The speaking program was of high.

calibre, consisting of an address by a.

. man and one by a lady. Their speechd

es were crammed with interesting

facts, challenging statements and ,in-

sparing ideals. The program» was

rounded- out by a few musical sol-ec-

tions 'by real artists who would have

pleased the most discriminating city

audience- 2 *



_The success of this evening‘mno

tron well illustrates the fact that 1farm

people can provide their Own enter-’

tainment and good times and that it

IS not necessary f0r them to look to

the city and commercial amusement

for the best of their pleasures.





’Ncws of the, W66k _





To date 671.5117 war veterans have

failed to apply for their bonus. Ap-

plications must _,be filed by January

first. ' » - . >

The Chinese Nationalist govern~

ment issued a statement that docu-

ments have been found proving that

Russian Soviet influences were re-2

sponsible' for the recent Canton, rup-

rising. . ' “ ‘ -



A prominent insurance company

has predicted that in 1928 23,900

people ,will die of traffic accidents in

this country, ,



Sarah Warner, the oldest resident

of Oakland County, died at Clown, ‘

Nfcilch” last week. She was 112 years

0 . .. _, ,



The Saga U. 8.. submarine, was

rammed bye coast guard cutter in





 





 





 





 





the Provincetown, Mass" has-tor on ‘ '





Dec. 18th and sunk in mellowed

feet of water. About forty men were

aboard. Divers have gotten answers

to their signals that six ‘wem alive.

Air connections havebeen madewith

the hope of saving the ‘six. ' , ' = ' - ‘-





~ Mrs. Evangeline anaemia, Detroit ‘

school teacher and mother of 01ml!

Limibergh, new to Mexico City; in a.

trimotoredr Ford plane to spend;

Christmas there with her son. '





The Methodist church ’gatnea mint»,

' * its;





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members in this country (hiring

according to a recent report. i

A cold spell which swept

Europe last 37on caused £3.16 '

Hammer 2. '

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very interesting work on te





_ mature and ventilation of poultry



ms is iii progress at Purdue Uni.

verd:ty, Lafayette, .Ind. Tests so far

mide indicate that in unheated poultry

houses. the average winter tempera-

tmifi remain from 1 to 3 degrees F.

. have the outside temperature, with

"Ska. lfig of about an hour However,

when the outside temperature dropped

suddenly to zero or lower, the inside

temperature averaged from 3 to 15

degrees higher. The use of brooder





fective trees on the acre plot, which -





'had a roadside value of $200. Care-

ful record was kept of the time re-

quired to. cut, haul, and pile this wood,

and it was found that the cost of de-

livering it to the roadside was ap»

proximately $100, leaving a clear

profit of $100 per acre to be credited

to the woodlot. The main crop trees

of straight ash, basswood, hard maple,

etc., had not been touched and cutting

out the weed trees left the remaining

trees room to expand and grow that

much more rapidly, and still leave

plenty of light and plant food for the

small seedings to come along rapidly.





 





 





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stoves reduced the variation in inside

~temperature approximately 10 degrees, find that most of the farm woodlots

"and in” extremely cold weather main- and windbreaks need just such atten-

" tained a temperature 20 degrees tion as this. Cleaning up down logs





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higher than the outside temperature.

The relative humidity varied rather

. uniformly in inverse ratio to the tem-

perature. When the curtains were

down in partially open front houses,



the air changed once a minute or

oftener depending on the wind. At-

mospheric conditions outside the.~

house caused the ventilators to func-

tion with great irregularity, sometimes

. reversing the direction of air move-

ment, and thus demonstrating the in~

effectiveness of poultry house ventila-



..tors commonly designed for partially

, Open front houses.





This question of poultry house ven-

' tilation ‘is one which up to the last

three or four years has been sadly

neglected both by agricultural col-

uleges and by practical poultrymen.

r-Several celleges are now carrying on

extensive experimental work on the

. subject, and we may hope to see some

~~:=deflni_te results before long. Indica-

: tions at the present time are that the

importance of air change has been

exaggerated, and that reasonably good

control of humidity and temperature

is the thing to strive for. The straw

«101:1 methOd of controlling these so

far has giVen excellent results.





CAREFUL CUTTING IMPROVES

’ ‘ WOODLOT





interesting demonstratiOn was



_ recently made to the possibilities

’ cutting a considerable amount of

'7 strees: into fuel and at the





An





ully mew





defective trees,





and branches, cutting out crooked and

and removing varie-

ties worthless for posts or lumber not

only will bring considerable revenue

in the shape of posts and. fuel, but

will greatly reduce the danger of fire

and leave‘the good trees in condition

to make much more rapid growth.—

I. W. Dickerson.





CHANGES NAME TO SUPERPHOS-

PHATE





CCORDING to an announcement



by the National Fertilizer Asso-

ciation, the term “Acid Phosphate,”

which has become so common in this

country in the description of fertiliz-

ers, will be changed to “Superphos-

phate” which is a world-wide term

and more correctly describes the fer-

tilizer ingredient referred to. The

name “Acid Phosphate” has met with

opposition from farmers who natur-

ally have thought that its application

to the soil would increase the acid

content, which is not true.





GOOD CROP OF GRIMM





E threshed sixty bushels of fine



certified Grimm alfalfa here in

Cheboygan County this fall. One ma-

chine- -run sample analyzed 999 per

cent. Two fields containing eight and

a half acres (measured) produced

fifty~one bushels





Strawberries were a poor crop with I





us this year, but for next year we





hope to have ’em on the menu three ,





times a day, again—"—and raspberries





This season will also teach us to) i

We:





appreciate our apples hereafter. 1

‘re reminded that the orchard has





 





 





 





 





J. S. Caldwell. Vinton. Iowa. let the huge follow

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

fenced 10- ~ac1'e clover pasture when he broke it:

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

at 31.10.21 totalof $660.0 0.011 hisothcr ten his

fence was poor. Grubs got. all but 150busl1els~—-

a total loss of 45 bushels per acre that could

have been saved with a hog-tight fence. “You

can borrow $1. 000 at 7‘77 0, put it into fence and

make money' . says Mr. Cal dlwcll. We claim





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yields/are at best only approximate





since the vegetables secured from the

row will depend on soil fertility,

proper preparation, fertilization, cul-

tivation and general care as well as

temperature and moisture conditions.



From hundred icot'rows the follow-

ing amounts of.: vegetables should be





.harvested with a single planting:





asparagus, 15-18 bunches; bush snap

beans, 1-3 bushels; pole snap beans,

1—3 bushels; bush limos, 10 quarts,





beets, carrots, parsnips, and 'salsify,

3-5 bushels; Brussels sprouts 30-45

quarts; early cabbage, 65 heads; late

cabbage, 50 heads; cauliflower, 45

sweet corn,

8-13 dozen ears; cucumbers, 10 dozen;

eggplants, 150 eggs; endive, 90 heads;

Kohl rabi, 50-60 bunches (3 each);

head lettuce, 150 heads; lea-f lettuce,

50 pounds; muskmelons, 50-80;_.okra,

1,000 pods; mature onions, 2 bushels;

green onions; 75‘bamch-es; pets, 3-6

peeks; peppers, 75 down; Irish and

sweet potatoes, 12 bushels: pumpkins,

BO; radish, 75 bunches; rhubarb, 100

bunches; spinach, 3 peeks: summer

squash, 275; winter squash, 4-0; toma-

toes, 5-8 bushels; turnips, 4-6 bushels;

watermelons, 50.



From the above list the amount of

each vegetable needed can be esti-

mated for families of any size. Plan

next year’s garden in such propor-

tions as the needs of the family and

the source of disposal made profitable

this past season. Every garden should

be profitable not only in enjoyment





" but in financial returns as well.——E. R. o





Lancashire.





 





CARE OF LILIES





 





I have had Lemon Lilies for six





1 years and they do not blossom. They





me planted in black loam. They send

out lots of leaves eve1y year. Will

a Chinese 1in bulb be any good after

in the house , in

water?—~Mrs. A. G. Me.



I can only reply in general con-

cerning the culture of Amaryllis, for

this is the nearest that I can come

to guessing what the name “Lemon

Lily” refers to. The use of colloquial

names is very misleading.





Strong loam is necessary for

growth, free of decayed vegetable

matter. A season of rapid growth





should be followed by one of perfect

rest. This is done by laying the pot

on its side and giving no water for

a period of six weeks 01' so. Upon





starting it is not necessary to repot





into fresh soil. Upon frequent re-

potting hinges the matter of bloom~





'ing. In order to bloom the plant





must 'be quite. pot bound, in fact the

more cramped the roots are the bet-

ter will the bloom be. Good drain-

age, some sweet soil and plenty of

good clean roots will secure bloom.



Chinese lilies will not be of any use

the second season' after having

bloomed in water. However they may

be planted outdoors,

over winte1, grown through the sp1ing.

and summer and after being taken up

in the [all may be forced over again.—

Alex Laurie.





 





F.LOWER GARDEN WORK





H OUSE plaids should be watched

closely at this time. Red spid-





‘ers, plant lice and 11111115 will. if un- 2

, checked, soon play havoc with the fin- \





An occasional spray'





protected well '





the foliage clean.





I wonder new many Michigan Farms” ‘

or flower growers have tried charcoal ’

as a growing-medium for winter bulb.





forcing. If you have not used this





plan, I should like to see you try it on, . .

a bulb or two this winter. A deep ‘





glass tumbler will do nicely _, tori-"a;

single narcissus or‘hyaclnth.’ 'Do not

attempt to grow them in- a. container.

too shallow for proper root growth.

For best results, there should be at





least 2% inches between the feet ring , ‘

,of the bulb and the bottom of 1.7113.

Fill the glass almost full of»:





glass.

charcoal and nest the bulb about half

its depth in the charcoal. Fill with





water to the base of the bulb and Set . '





away out of direct light until the bulb

has made good root growth. Never

keep water above the bottom or the

bulb nor allow we charcoal to become

dry. It will be “well to keep the water.





level up around the bottomjof use sum





until the roots have reached dme





into the growing-medium. After :tho:





roots have made good growth, 5i;he

glass may be taken to the plant Win-

dow where the flower spike should

quickly develop. I believe 111111.111. the

case of narcissi and hyacint-hs at least,

this . plan will be found better than

pebbles and other growing-mediums

usually employed.



Window boxes need not be the eye

sores they usually are if a little time

is taken to fill them with evergreen

branches. The branches may be cut

so they look like miniature trees when

they are inserted in the soil of the

boxes. ,A few Black Alder branches

with their bright red berries protrud-

ing up through the evergreen adds a.

delightful touch of color.





If you want to increase your hardy

shrubs such as Deutzias, Snowberries,

Weigelias, and Forsythias, this is a.

good time to make the cuttings. Take

at least two buds to each cutting but

three is better, tie them in bunches

according to variety and bury in sand

or moss and keep in the cellar. If





cuttings are made now, they should .be .





nicely calloused by spring when they

should be planted in any convenient

place where it will be handy to keep

them watered. —C. W. Wood.





 





PLENTY SUGAR 1N GRAPES)





 





THE 1927 grape crop of Michigan



contains five more per cent of

grape sugar than average, according

to tests made by State Department of

Agriculture officials. In fact, the sugar

content this year is so high that grape





juice factories have not found it nec-~





essary to add sugar, in order to” raise

the strength up to their standard.

The high sugar content is explained

as being due to the dry weather and





also to the fact that the season of ,

1927 has had many more hours of sun- .

shine than average, thus making pus-3“ ‘

sible the formation of more starches =

and sugars within the grape berry.7-—a





IHJM.





vogue. roses-rem DD WELL

,,



HE Evanstoanoy scouts planted-



‘ 18,000 spruce. treesin Muskegon-





 





County last spring. Carl Knopf, county,

says that more: 1'.

than 90 per cent of the trees planted





agricultural agent





were thrifty at the beginning or





_ winter.





 





Some winter injury to snipe





nearly always follow 11017





times, but the extent of the





sprays wfll'k‘eep downtho pests while ,

Spraying With Warm Water will “keep" (. .
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0U boys can’t go ashore here,”

Captain Phillips ordered Jim and

me when the “West Humhaw”



. dropped anchor a- half-mile off

the surf-ridden beach at Winnebah,

on the west African Gold Coast. There

is no harbor ‘at Winnebah. Our two

hundred tons of cargo .for that port

were to be landed in rearing, plung-

ing surf boats manned by native boatv

men from ashore.



“In the first place, you’d probably

dmwn trying to get ashore through

that surf,” explained the captain to

pacify us, rebellious at being kept on

“And you’d be even more

likely to drown trying to come back to

the ship. One out of every three

boats that have tried to get through.

this morning has capsized. Look!

There goes one now.” ,



Halfway to the beach a loaded surf

heat was _swept' to the foamy crest

of a galloping wall of water that had

concealed it entirely a moment or two

before. _For an instant the boat ca-

reened drunkenly on the face of the

racing comber and then rolled over





. on its side, the crew of yelling black





men jumping in every direction. The

cargo of crated gasoline and the boat

itself would eventually drift ashore

somewhere along the broad and shal-

Jow beach. The crew of a dozen

blacks, practically naked and as much

at home in the water as in their boat,

struck out in the rolling surf for

shore.



“Hardly ever any casualties among

those black boys,” explained the cap-

tain. “They’ve been through it too

often. Once in a while a shark gets

one of ’em, or the boat hits ’em on

the head before they can jump clear,

but that’s about all. Of course,” he

continued, “maybe you boys can swim

a full quarter of a. mile, with your

clothes on and in surf like that with

the undertow threatening to bury you

in the sand. But, you’d lose your sun

helmet and if you held your head out

of water long enough to swim ashore

the sun would get you.



“They’re liable to quit working the

boats almost any time, too. If the

surf gets much worse their headman

will pound upon the sand with some

sticks. Then if his ju~ju tells him that

his god be angry, there’ll be no more

surf boats coming out to the ship

for cargo today. And if you’re on

shore there you’ll stay until the boat-

boys’ god quits being angry even if

you have to wait till morning. There’s

no hotel either, and of course you

can’t sleep in the bush or you’d get

yellow fever, malaria, ticks, typhoid

fever, and everything else—except

food and water. No. You’ll have to

stay on board here.”



While the captain was describing

the penalty and I was trying to

imagine just how one would feel if all

those calamaties should strike him at

once, boat No. 14 completed its load-

ings and pulled away for shore.





HE net result of the captain’s con-

vincing warnings was that, the

minute he disappeared into his

room, Jim and I strapped our cameras

about our shoulders, climbed onto a

sling full of gasoline cases and or-

dered the Winch operator to lower us

over the side into the next surf boat

bound for shore. It had all sounded

too good to be true, and if the cap-

tain was mistaken we felt that some-

one should _make the demonstration.

That‘was a wild ride! At first, well

out from the beach, there was only

the slow rise and ‘fall of the boat from

«the rolling. crests to the deep, deep





. valleys in between when the ship, the





 





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f Cdgwa 1.4.1,. swam _





_By Francis Flood; ‘





shore, and all except the moving hills

of waterebove and all about us were

shut off tram view. Up and down,

like a small boy in an elevator, and

with much the same sensation in the

stomach. ‘



. Jim and I huddled well up in the

bow and faced the crew, six swarthy

blacks on either side, all practically

naked, swinging into the short, quick

stroke of their paddles with 'a vicious

rhythm as majestic as it was effeb—

tive. The headman, perched high in

the stern of our twenty-five foot boat,

wielded his huge steering car with

the precision and confidence of a “bull

fiddler” handling his bow.



He was clad only in a scanty—bth

vivid-loin cloth, and a gold ring on“





 





at the bottom of the mounting waves

or perched precariously on the very

top of one, the thirteen blacks strain-





ing at their paddles and their voices-





with equal determination. ' -

Then we came to the surfl—an

found that the early part of the trip

had been nothing. Ahead of us raged

the. White-capped combers, each a

mountain of water rolling toWard the

beach and piling up on itself until .it

became a perpendicular wall. Then,

from sheer‘ topheaviness, the great





wave would fall forward with a roar,‘





crashing down like a" wall of water

from a broken dam.‘ Wave after wave,

rank upon rank, sea. upon sea, chased

each other past our; tossing boat—and

eventually we were floundering in the





 





 





 





 





Lunch Time Aboard the “West Humhaw” While in Part





one wet toe. Beneath his black skin.

dripping wet and glistening in the sun.

the muscles of his magnificent shoul-

ders, arms, and even his black barrel

of a chest, rippled and swelled like

the waves they ruled. Now, an heroic

giant in jet, he poised scowling in an

instant’ls study of the next big wave.

Done in ebony as he. crouched there in

the spray of the stern thwart of the

boat, bending over his one long oar.

he would have been“ a p‘ece of noblest.

art indeed. Done, instead, simply in

human clay, he was an obscure boat,-

man battling for his daily bowl of

rice and fish.



\Vith each sharp stroke of their

paddles there came, from somewhere

down in the insides of our black

crew, a meaty hiss, as biliant sort of

grunt, so exactly timed that i thought

at first it was made by the paddles

themselves as they slashed into the

water, jerked. and then flashed out

again like so many cams upon a shaft.

We learned later that the boat. boys

make this popping hiss in imitation

of a motor boat and believe it brings

more power to ‘their paddles.



S paddler, a grinning blackamoor



with filed teeth and a nose like a

chocolatebon bon mashed and melted

in the sun, began a rhythmic chant.

He sang two lines in a swmging pas-

sionata, and on the final note the

whole Crew buried their paddles in

the water and lent a mighty tug. Then

the crew'chimed in on a one-line

chorus, punctuated by another vigor—

ous jerk on the paddles. Two more

lines by the stroke singenand again

the chorus and the pull. Altogether

it was a weird setting for those eerie

surf-spirituals, wallowing down there





UDDENLY the stroke starboard





Act‘z‘vzifz'er of 14/ flcr€J—~ 1V6 Hope T fiat t/ze Cam CHE Stand:





midst of it all. Behind us charged

a great comber, ahead lay three or

four big rooks, now showing several

feet into the air, now covered as far

beneath the pounding Waves.



“I hope those rocks move a little

to one side,” Jim chattered, for we

were racing straight for the pile, rid-





ing the downhill of a big wave like a .





tumbleweed before the Wind.



“I hope we miss most of ’em,” I'im-

plored, gripping the gunwale like grim

death and looking for a place to jump.





OUR‘headman may' have been ex-

pecting it all the time, but at any

rate the next big wave tossed us

over to one side of the rocks, and

then sluiced us down toward the beach

like a mill race on a drunk—’— and we

were. saved for some other death in

the future. .

The boat just ahead of us was not

quite so fortunate. A whitecap had

caught it a little too much on the

side and as it reared to the top of the

wave, the boat reeled over and spewed

cargo and crew into the striding Wa-

ters. The blacks struck out deliber.

ately-«for shore leaving the boat and

cased gasoline to drift up on the beach

when it would. As we bounced past

the upturned derelict I caught,

through the foam, its number. It was

No. 14! The captain’s speech had de~

layed us just enough so that we had

missed it and his warning had saved

us after all. Good old captain!

Another toss and another rush and

our bow slid into‘the sand on the be

labored beach. Our singing “stroke”

leaped out, up to his _waist in water,

and held out his arms to me likea

mother to a babe. I perched on his

shoulder, my heels gouging into his





flu? Strain





"ship, and we didn’t





 





ribs, and he ’carried file are»... hi

and, dry. Jim followed aggregate"





 

 

     





neck of another ,burly black—dang! {5’2er .





 

 





had arrived .at Winnebah...‘ f 'I‘di

care if we never went back-4 .

get back" that

night either. ' -

Our experience in Winnebah will be

described next week. ' '





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By Dr. c. H. Lena





 





 





 





 





 





1'. B. m GLAND‘S'J





 





I have seen several doctors who tell 1"

me that some lumps on my neck indi-' *

cate tuberculosis of the. glands; and-1‘

I am run down,





should be cut out.

weak, and nervous, have some sweats





and spit some blood. Do you advise .





an operation?——S. T.





Under "the circumstances I advise:





the very least operating neceSsary;





If the glands are full of pus, they‘

must be drained, but that. is as tarry,





as I would care to go with a patient





.in your condition. Tuberculous glands ,





respond to the same form of treatment

as other types of tuberculosis; rest in

the open air, good food, and freedom

from all care ‘and worry._ Sun treat-

ment is proving especially helpful’in

.the treatment of gland tuberculosis.





TROUBLE'WITH FEET





About last July my feet started to

ache, the heels. A doctor advised me

to get arch supporters but they do

not help. I have used hot applications

with no result.——M. L. G.





I do not believe arch supporters

will relieve all cases of weak arches.

I advise against their use because

they weaken the muscles. A doctor

who has made a. study of the feet

will be able to apply a bandage of

adhesive tape that will give you much

help. Another important thing is

your weight. If you are a heaVy per-

son you will have to get your weight

down to normal ‘before you get relief.





REMOVAL OF FIG WART





Our boy six years of age has a fig."





wart on his nose close to his eye.

The doctor cut it off once and it. came

back again. We have used every-

thing trying to remove it. Please pub-

lish in Michigan Farmer how we can

remove it.——R. '.





RURAL HEALTH





 

 

 

 





 





 

   

 

 





 

 

 





 





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Such a growth is not an ordinary'





wart and is not one that may safely

be treated by unskilled persons. , I





believe the best method of removal'





to be electrolysis, but your boy should

be examined by, a skin specialist for

a decision. The exact nature of the

growth has much to do With the deci-

sion as to method of removal.





O‘those who are bothered 7 with

chilblains, boil a mess of potatoes

with the jackets on and soak‘the feet





 





in the liquor as hot as you can bear ,





it. Try_it‘.—.I. M. EdSon. .

.~ Frank R. Le t.





 





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metro Do I?»

CARRYITBACK
, ‘Dear Unk:

_ ,"' , Ireceived my

, ,:- ; 7a. .1 long time‘ ago,

- a: .» -. bashful (perhaps

' . and ,1 thankfyou for it. before.





M C. pin and card

but I’ve been too

too ritzy) to wriste

o





 





 





. , -"thanks a million times for them. The



.4 L" - Upm’s a‘beauty. As for the card, I put



' that up where everybody that comes

». in can see it; .



My hobby is reading. It doesn’t



‘ matter if I’m cuddled up 'in a big





»_ ,1 somewhere, I’m‘coti'tented just as long

as I’ve. got a good book to read and

a" couple of good, juicy sweet apples-



wto gnaw aL—TYour niece, Jack.

_' . I’m glad you like the pin and card.

Reading is a good hobby, but too





IN THE'G-OOD ,oto

SUMMER TIME





 





.is not good for the health.





 





hat the Mail Man





* Q . Same Intererting M. C. Letters





,chair or sitting perched up in a: tree »





'there, we received first place whiCh





much reading and too little exercise





 





beth Rowley; her letter too, reflected

the mind that wrote it. I live to read

such letters from our youngpeople,

and can say an Amen to, their senti-

ments. ,



There are some others whose let-

ters I do not like so well—the views

that they take in regard to some of

the moral questions before us. My

View of such things is to abstain from

gall appearance of evil and live and

prf'actice only a clean and honorable

1 e.



You may forward Dorothy’s drawing

to her and compliment her very

highly on the‘way she has written

and the beautiful thoughts she has

expressed in her letters to “Our

Page,.”—Herbert E. Root. .





Brought





some of the M. C.’s have their pic-

tures on “Our Page.” It is so real and

my parents like it' too. My mother

looks for “Our Page” the very first

thing.



But why argue about cosmetics so

often? Everybody powders their nose

and even ‘men and boys. These do

not hurt the health a bit but drinking

and smoking do. Just think, some

girls not only use make-up but smoke.

Isn’t it anul for girls to smoke? ‘Why

not chew? Yes, chew tobacco, so they

could keep their mouths going. Best

wishes to all at all times.—-E-1izabeth

Olajos.



I’m glad your parents like our de-

partment: Why should be acquire





such useless habits as smoking?





 





You probably are wondering how

near Lam to the age‘ limit. I think

I have read some comment on that

in one of the columns on Our Page.

To tell the truth my eighteenth birth-

day will come in April, so if I can find

the time to write, I still have plenty

of chances to enter contests.



I surely do enjoy reading the Home-

, Coming letters that are being printed.

Some of them seem just like a letter

from home. Believe me, I’m going to

participate every year if I possibly

can—A Still Active M. C., Guilford

H. Rothfuss.





“AN M. C.’s FANCY”





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I am going to tell you what I think

of the 4-H club work. I think that it

is a very fine organization. I belong

to the potato club. This year, my

brother and myself entered the potato

demonstration. we received first

place at Gaylord which gave us a

free trip to the State Fair. Down





 





 





gave us a free trip to Chicago to the

National Boys’ and Girls’ Conference.

'I' think that we were very lucky,





By Ruby Simons, M. C., Muskegon

Just the other night I went to sleep

(thich I most always do);





don’t you? -



Well, must close, hoping that Mr. I dreamed that I was “someone,”

W. B. has all that he can eat—LYour And you were—only you.

nephew, Austen Manning, Spratt,



Mich: Oh! many heroic deeds I did;





7 I held a real nice job,

Did typing and the like

_For “our” ln'ncle Frank.





I am glad that your interest in club

work has helped you get these fine

trips to Detroit and Chicago. I wish

every boy and girl could be a club

member.





Alas! I awoke and found. that you

Had passed me by—far by; ‘



A “Golden Circler” you had become,

While I was only I.





 





 





COMMENTS ON HOME comsss





 





SOME NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS

Was pleased to see White Amar- —~———

anth’s letter and picture. She cer-.

tainly has a nice style of writing and

I always admired her writings and

wished I could write like that. Her

picture was beautiful—Lilly Tervo.





Y choice for a New Year’s Reso

lution is the Golden Rule: “Do



unto others as ye wish others

would do unto you.”—Grace Lummen.

Resolved: That whatever I try to do



I will try to have enough Will-power





 





I am not an M. C., but I sometimes

hope to be. I like Guilford’s letter

and also White Amaranth’s. I also

like to read Harold Cole’s, although

we do not hear from him very often

any more.



Good night cousins and Uncle Frank.

——Flapper Fannie.





Dear Uncle Frank:



° I tried the contest of things often

seen on the farm. I looked in the

Michigan Farmer and found it was

light but I did not get anything. You

said many lost out because they did

not put their names on the contest

papers, but I had it on mine and I

should have received an M. C. button

but didn’t. So please, 'Uncle Frank,

.send me one. I am almost seventeen.



‘ Do you think I am too old to join the

Merry Circle?—Joe Sibo, Route No. 1,

Prescott, Mich. -



.l - I You are not too old to join. If you

‘ i, . ‘ ' had the contest right, you will get a

" button in time. It takes us a little



while to send the buttons out, espe-





to stick to it ,until it is done—“ladle.

Holler.



Come what mayhl won’t “kick.”—

Beata Kaarlela. ’



I will be loyal to my God and coun-

try—Erma Gibson.



Do the best I can.—~Vera Earl.





RESOLUTl—ON cow—TEST WINNERS





DON’T think many M. C.’s like to



make resolutions. At least if they



do, they don’t like to send them in.



However, we received some good ones



out of the few that came. The follow-



ing were picked as prize winners: ’

Fountain Pens





 





 





 





I did not imagine White Amaranth

looked as“ she does. She certainly

looks like a healthy girl. Her literary

discussions are interesting—Elizabeth



\ Fennerma.





 





The M. C. page has been very inter-

esting of late, especially the Home-

Coming letters and pictures. I’m





mighty glad that GilllfOI'd ROIthSS is Grace G. Lummen R 3 Holland





 





 





cially if we are busy at the office. stillhwith us as .in my cistinllation he Mich

' , is t e eading writer ,0 tie entire 7' -

DearUncle Frank: M. C. representing the masculine Mi‘éhadla Holler, 2 Elm St" Fremont,

fa, What say if we start talking about gender. ' Loose Leaf Note Book

illiteracy? The other day in Prob- Christine Zech has had some very Beata Kaarlcla Keweenafv B

, ,w lerr‘lis bot Demtocraicy Ehais’thwerfrg gsfid leiters ot' Illate, and the letter of Mich ’ ay,

, 0 your eaCier a e nie I ite marant was one of genuine .' - -

\ States is the most illiterat country interest for me. “Seventeen Sum- magi: fiégfion’ 409 Clifford St"

ln‘the world. I believe this condition mers” makes reference to a Washing- Véra Earl P' 1 Doster Mich

; IS brought about by imigration to this ton trip, that probably being the one ’ hpémi's ’ '

1% country from other countries. Has we took. I sadly assure her we ne— Ella Salzwell Oakley Mich

anybody. else any idea of the cause for glected to take any pictures on the Albert Faber R 3’ Hudsonvill

; this illiteracy among us? If so, give way. Mich , . ’ e,





However, I wish all my M. C. cous-





ins a Merry Christmas with all re- my C Bell, R' 3’ Ion1a,M1ch.





your opinion on it. So long;-—— “Char-

Raymond Lonsbury, Hastings, Mich.





lie” Carl Patterson, Marquette.





 





if. if » w j ‘ There is plenty of illiteracy in this turns of the day, and the most pros— H 1e - .

.. . ’ . country but it is disappearing fast. perous New Year that has ever heel} e n BWISOD, Mmh'

2» .‘ ' , Th ' th ’. d th their lot—David S. Johnsqn, Box 36,

’ ' a-.. a 80.“ em mountains an e Wiley City, Washington. A LATE HOME-COMER





, negro sections of the south have had

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I am too old to be in the class of

Merry Circlers-I am now 62 years

old. I have read the Michigan Farm-

er nearly all my life—don"t know when

I began reading it.. And, I read the

page called “Our Page” regularly

with akeen interest. I like to ‘see our

young people write in this way and





 





’ . Dear Uncle Frank: , . «”

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" * V 3911 881d about my cartoon, that I

’ .,"’$fi6u8bt youhked to show your teeth.

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Ever since GuilfOrd Rothfuss began

writing you I have been interested in

his letters, and hoped some day to

meet him. So you can imagine how

surprised I was when I learned from

his last letter that he was attending

Michigan State College and even his

that I am a





(loyalistake your teeth out? ,

“don’t even have them in every give expression to their thoughts. Freshman here at_State also and so I

" and some are afraid When I read Dorothy Shoemaker’s decrded to look him up. However, I





haven’t gotten around to it yet but

will have to soon .Ior I’m anxious to

You might say “I’m hot

on the trail” though, for one morn-





"ct:,.fthgz_,you' don't _ well that I said, “‘I will draw a'prlnt g

m , if, .153 that I for her and onewtor yourself.” That is ing when I went into my English

. .. , . , _ _ the reason why I printed' the drawings class room I noticed on the blackboard





an exercise under which was the name

“Rothtuss.” And the other day I was





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leaving the gym when I noticed. a list ~ 4

of the Freshmen basketball men. “

was looking over the list merely out.

of curiosity when I came to the name

“Rothfuss.” Perhaps I have .seen him .

many times but will look him up as '

soon as possible. »



Lhad almost decided to make this

a Home-Coming letter, Uncle Frank, .

when I changed my mind. First I

found that it would be too late. and

then I suddenly realized that I was

still an active “Merry Circler” and

would be for some time. Love to all

the cousins,—J. Norman Hurd, 918

University Drive, E. Lansing.



Why , not ‘ a Home-Coming letter—e

you have been away from “home" for .

some time and have come back. Am ‘ -

glad that you are attending M._ S. C..





 





FUND CONTRIBUTORS





 





The following have contributed to.

our Funld since we published the last

list; Dorothy Dodds; 'Elsie Cobb; Lu-

cile Spitzer; Chrystal Culp; Bernard

Culp; “Fishie”; Bethlel Bradley; Ella

\Vayrynen; Myrtle, Borck; Roy Tay-

lor; Robert Taylor; An M. C.”; Mlza-

beth Rowley, \Arthur Fleischaner;

Louise Haddrill; Elnora Fay; Dorothy-

Beach; Marguerite Turner; Marie .

Drummond; Merle Gabel; Stephanie

Szygielski; Margaret McLellan; Viola

Yaroch; Phylis Mills; Edwin Oppen-

1ander; Cecil Raymond; Mary Holtz;

Stella Wrona; Thelma Tran; Herbert





Estes; Mrs. Helen Ackley; \Villard

McNamara; Ida Mills; Mildred Rob-

erts; Phyllis Abey; Eugene Roelop;





Alice Chapman; The Clover Leaf fl

Club of Berlin Township; Mrs. M. E.‘

Tinkler; Wendell Brown; Beth Amos;

Zona Amos; Mrs. Frank Dorman;

Esther Haapt; Huldah Loukinen;

Beatrice Hiebeck, and Rosina Martens.





Our Little Felks‘





STATE SECRETS

W'hoever named it “Granite State”

I tell you never fibbed!

Of all rock-ribbed New England,

This is the rockiest-ribbed!

Here’s another puzzle for you to





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 





 





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Just cut out

carefully and fit them together. .

will form a state and the little black





work out.





star represents the capitol. Can you”:

name the state and its capitol and tell

something about it? . _~



'The answer to last week’s puzzle."

was Indiana and its capitol Indianap~

olis. . a ’ ,



Our space is limited this Week“ ‘

now I’ll wish you one and all a Ham:

New Year and I hope Santa bro-.4:i

you the things you wanted to f

ChristmasE—Aunt Martha.
0 one ever regarded the first of

January with indifference, and

particularly the homemaker. It



is the time of year when we make

stacks of personal resolutions (which

somehow we just can’t seem to find

time and determination to carry out),

turn over a new leaf, and make defin-

ite plans to start the New Year right.



But, as long as the average home-

maker continues to control the spend-

ing of about eighty-seven per cent of

the family’s yearly income,- it is im-





portant that she turn over a new leaf‘





of her account book this year if she

has not already done so, and keep a

careful record of the family’s expendi-

tures. In her “business corner,”

which may. be a desk or equally well,

a shelf in the kitchen where she

spends so much of her time, she will

need a bill book to hold the sales

slips as they are taken from grocery

and other packages until they are

checked up in a more permanent form

on her budget book. She will also





 





HAPPY NEW YEAR





 





NEW YEAR is upon us with

new duties, new trials, and

new opportunities. My wish for

you is that you meet them all

successfully and that you receive

in abundant measure, health and





 





happiness in 1928.—Martha Cole. I





 





 





need a similar file in which to file the

bills after they are paid, for future

reference. “At first a home account-

ing and- budgeting system seemed to

be just one thing more to tax my

already crowded time,” writes Mrs.

J. F. of Monroe County, “but in the

long run, it has showed me where I

could afford conveniences that I would

have otherwise have thought I would

have had to do without.”



“In the beginning, mine was not a

New Year’s resolution,” writes Mrs.

F. F of Oakland County, “but I began

it in January and I am resolving this

‘ year to make it more complete. Three

years ago, a friend gave me an oak

recipe cabinet. I put it up on the top

shelf in my cupboard, waiting for a

rainy day to come that I might find





time to collect my scattered recipes.‘





About the middle of January last

year; such a day did come and I col

lected my scattered clippings from

nearly every drawer in the house and

filed them in my cabinet. Now I keep

a small tube of paste in the cabinet,

and each time I clip and test any

recipe I paste it on a filing card.”

.“I am resolving to extend my filing

system this year to include booklet

and instruction cards of the devices

and equipment used throughout the

house. Perhaps, then, I’ll know just

where to find the card telling about

the different knives of the meat

chopper, or the direction for oiling

the sewing machine.”



Turn Old Clothes Into Furniture



“After a careful accounting of our

precious year’s income and of -our

cash on hand,” says Mrs. C. M. of

Arenac County, ‘_‘I resolved last year





to attempt some means of earning





the extra money we needed for some

new chairs in our living room. I first

“selected three simple patterns for

j;;.-; hooked rugs and during the late win~'

> »w.¢menthsigl converted [alt the suit-





liming OVcr a





[Vew Year Rem/111mm Mat Homemaéers Haw Carried Out





able ols'clothing into colorful hooked

rugs. My mother and two or three

friends became interested in my reso-

lution and supplied me with more old

clothes to make rugs. Before time

to start spring housecleanin‘g, I had

finished nine of these rugs. This

summer I advertised them to the touré

ist trade by means of a poster in the

front yard and sold every one. From

the proceeds I now have two comfort-

able reading chairs to match my

library table. This winter I am plan-

ning to make rugs and perhaps next

winter we can enjoy a radio.”



To make this year a more useful

and happy one let us exchange more

of our good resolutions, both those

that have materialized, and the new

ones we make for the coming year.

For each one that is published, we

will award one of those handy oak

recipe files such as Mrs. F. F. of

Oakland County told about. Send in

your letters early—Martha Cole.





 





TAKES PLACE OF BUILT-lN

CLOSET





 





I KNOW many farm homes that do



not have a built- in closet anywhere

in them, and very few have enough.

My grandfather had one built for a.

bedroom that makes an admirable sub-

stitute for a real built-in closet and

is convenient and handy



Such a closet may be built by the

handy man of the place, or many

women would not hesitate to under-

take it, as it really requires but little

sawing or nailing. A crate just as

high as will go through an ordinary

door, two feet deep and the desired





length is built of four-inch battens.

It is handier if casters are put under

it.



After the framework has been fin-

ished and has dried, it is ready to be

lined. . Individual taste may also be

followed in the lining. Flowered cre~

tonne is suitable, or if desired, a build-





ing paper may be used. This is not





very practical though, especially

where there are children, as the walls

are apt to soon be broken through.

The lining must be done from the

inside, and if cretonne is’ used, don’t

forget to use the right side of the

goods for the outside of the closet.

Carpet tacks may hold the cretonne

in place. If care and taste is used

in selecting both the cretonne and the

enamel, the outside result will be a

very pretty paneled effect.





A pole is arranged across the back,

from which clothes hangers are sus-

pended. A shelf above the pole is

usedfor hats, shelves at the sides for

miscellaneous boxes and hooks under

these side shelves for either clothes

or umbrellas. Low shelves ’at the

sides hold the shoes. A curtain is

hung at the fi‘0nt.—;Mrs. N. P. D. ,





 





FOR THE HOMEMAKERe BOOK

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Meal Planning and Table Service by

N. Beth Bailey, published by Manual

Arts Press, Peoria, 111,. price $2.00.

Homemakers will enjoy this book for

the author has put charm and art into

the work of planning and serving

meals. It is designed particularly to

help the woman who must cook and

serve herown meals and contains a





An Approved Farm Home





(Continued from page 623)





more convenient kitchen will result in

having the stove and sink with its

cleaning up area. on opposite sides of

the rectangular kitchen. This, of

course, brings them closer together.





‘However, in this kitchen the table





where mixing and preparing for bak-

ing is done, is close to the stove, this

compensates considerable for the

stove and sink being farther apart. -



To some the dining room may ap—

pear too small for the farm home. To

make more room available for the

dining table, it may be extended into

the sunporch.



The living room being long with

one end exposed may seem to be dark,

but since this whole exposed end is

windows and the French doors, when





 





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thrown open, make the sunporch a

part of the living room, this is not

noticeable. The sun porch, which

also serves as a front hall, looking





'out over the front yard and grave, is





indeed a restful place.



The space under the rear porch is

excavated and is really a part of the

basement. The well is located in this

space. A large brass plug makes it

possible to take the pump rods up

through the concrete platform. The





pump is operated by an electric motor. ’





and supplies .a pneumatic pressure





tank of about 400 gallons capacity. An .





automatic eleCtric system is also used

for soft water. A hot air furnace of





ample capacity is used for- heating the .





house.

Mrs Snyder stated that their con-v





' veniences cost approximately the same

as a medium priced automobile. and" " ,





she prizes them equally high in con-

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Wealth of material and

the woman who entertai





Mechanical Devices in the limit. by; A





 





Edith Allen, published by

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Every woman who manages





 





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would be well to imitate every?

where. On the first of the New.

.Yeafivwhatever may have ‘ been .

the quarrels or estrangements be- .

tween friends and relatives, ml}-

tual Visits are interchanged, kind-





we would make this coming yea-r



a“Happy New Year to All,” let,

us practice this cdstom in our

everyday life.





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all is forgotten and forgiven. It "





 





 





 





ing fixtures, making small remit-510" T »'





save plumbing bills, and the construe





tion and care of the mechanical equip- - ‘





ment in and about the home.

Household Carpentry by L. M.

Roehl, published by the MacMillian





THERE exists a very beautiful .. g j V~

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00., New York, -price‘$1.5o. To reduce: ,I A





the cost of repair and to give‘direo-

tions for the construction of simple

devices and conveniences about the

house, this book is most valuable to





the woman who can use a hammeror , ,





the man who attempts simple car-

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FOR MISSES AND MATRoN‘s‘“ ‘
A aniel ;.Webster:‘ “Men hang

Jon their-"signs indibative of their

respective trade 3. Shoemakers

1 ' but a gigantic shoe; jewelers .

”an- mmehse' watch; even the dentist

' ‘ ' _ out a gold tooth. But’ up in

the *Franconia 'j Mountains God 'Al-

' ~‘ 7” mum has hung out a sign to show

, . ‘ that in New England He, makes men.”

V: He‘was, or course, referring to the

" ’ Great, Stone ,Face, in his native New

,. ~ Hematlire. w England is a small

'- sectional t ,ef'country, and hasgiven

" _, ‘ ' ., to; the nationmany large souls. Pal-

. pry-Chains also is small, and has given

more-antigreater men than New Eng-

“ “ land: One of these was John the

Banist- .

“The reason why h'e‘made such a. stir

. , was two-fold. He looked and acted

-’ ‘ like one of the old prophets, prin-

cipally like Elijah; and he spoke with.

"the authority of a mighty personal

‘ conviction. It is no wonder that

people went out by the hundreds to

hear him, and no wonder that they

.. asked him, until he no doubt was tired

or being asked, whether he was Elijah.

The Jews always believed that Elijah

" would comeback. I like the Jews for

‘ that. You can judge a man by the

l" a . * . sort of people he admires. To make

' ' ‘ . a national hero out of a man whose

only "capital was his fearless soul,

, speaks well for his fellow countrymen.





The heroes of Scripture are all re-

ligious men. And, if you think of it,

most of the heroes in any nation’s

history who stand the acid test of

time, were men of character, and most

of them. openly religious men. J‘ust

now there is a phobia for muck-raking

great men and idolizing knaves. One



. biographer tries to pull Washington

down off his , pedestal, and another

makes Jesse James out to he a mis-



'_ g understood hero,.and a' fund is being



‘ "gathered to build him a monument.



These writers are having fun, because



they are doing something different.



The high school senior loves to shock



Aunt Jane. This rebuilding of saw



dust dolls into great men will have



its day and pass on. Life insurance



men say you can’t beat the mortality



tables. Arid you can’t fool all the



people all the time. Exit the de-



bunkers. Great souls will continue to



be recognized, at least after they are



dead, and bandits will go to their own

place.



3 ' , Why did our hero live as he did?



" ' VVhy-the odd clothes, and the abode



in the desert? Was he lookin for at-



tention 2;. Was he like Walt itman,



who woreva flannel shirt,-open at the



neck, and a wide-brimmed hat? Or



like the fellow who sat on top of a



flagpole for two weeks last summer?



01' was this manner of life an ex-



pression of his character? The last



. is the answer. John believed—and



. , lived—something that we find almost



- a strange language. He believed in



self—discipline, for the good of his soul.

Nor that alone, but he felt. that only

by living a life of simplicity and



« severe self~discipline cduld he attain



that communion with God which he



. craved. I say, this is almost“ like a

. 5 foreign language, now-a‘days. We con-

stantly use the word, “enjoy” in con-

nection with religion. We do not en-

joy the sermon, or we enjoy the an-

them or the church paper., That is

well enough. But enjoyment steps

where discipline, duty, go on. “Our

work does not consist in enjoyment,

but in work, in suffering and in love,”



. says St. Teresa. “He who would see

i , the face of that most powerful Wrest-

ler, our boundless God, must first

wrestle with himself,” says Orozco.



“Endure hardness,” says St, Paul.

JOhn the Baptist was willing to en-

dure anything that he might see the

face of God. ,



__ Signs are not wanting that, we are



_ returning to this view. The soul tires

. of an easy faith; as it does .of a Santa

Claus God. Farm homes Continue to



" produce many preachers, and one rea-

fson is, that they have been accustomed

to hard‘work. Education has meant

.. denial and self~discipline, and the

ministry naturally does not look like



. ‘a career of impossibledifliculties. '





1 "The beginning of the good news of



. Jesus Christ, the Son of God." We

1 .gl‘e‘ flooded with news. News jumps

ates from the front page of the daily

papery mg rains upon us from the,

$11.53;. .76; rive ’to town, and the bill

«boards ‘shout news at us. But much

fiddle not; news. At a. murder

8;.yearago, the amountot news

d .mceminggit in three .weeks-

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yet the “freshest. and most joyous

news that ever fell on human ear. Be-

lieved in, it is transforming. Lived, it

is transfiguring. And no substitute

has ever been invented. Not all the

rotogravure supplements in a year of

Sundays can take its place. Itis dif-

ferent news. The Good NeWs of the

Son of God. ’



When JeSus was baptized, he iden-

tified himself with his people. Bap-

tism wasfor sinners, and all men are

sinners. He wasnot a sinner, but he

became as one, that he might be on

the same level with those he came to

teach. - , _



Then, the voice, the dove. Appar-

ently no one heard the voice but him-

self. He was open to the Infinite.

He was ready, as the sensitive plate

of the camera is ready, to receive im-

pressions. His whole self was open

toward“God. He could see, hear, what

the dulled souls of other could not.





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

JANUARY 1 1928





SUBJECTt—John Heralds the Mighty

'One. Mark 1:1-13.

GOLDEN TEXTz—John 3:30.





 





 





A HAPPY NEW YEAR!





 





By James Edward Hungerford

New YearI—swiftly times goes slip-





. ping

Down the Trail of Yesterday;

cDays and weeks and months go skip-

plng— ‘

Trials and troubles fade away!

-Time to turn the.old page over——

Not another hour to wait!





- Now’s the time to sit “in clover”——— -





New Year—Nineteen TwentyEight!





Last year “Lindy” hopped to Paris;

Go'ebel made a. record, too;



That is finished—and now there is

Lots of other work to do!

Young swum Catalina Channel;

Babe Ruth score’d some



f‘swats;” ‘-

Now it’s time to close the annal,

And to hit some “higher spots!”

0





record





We are now the greatest nation

In the world, and “going strong

Finest land in all creation——





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Getting finer right along!



Bus’ness speeding up, and “booming,”

And we’re “sitting pretty” here,

With some better prospects looming,

Down the path of this New Year!





Time to get our “wits” in action,

And not overlook a “bet;”

Though we’re filled With satisfaction,

There are fields to conquer yet!

Big‘ word is “cooperation”—

More of love, and less of hate,

And we’ll build a greater nation—~

In the year of twenty-eight!





 





 





Readers’ Opinions





 





THE TRESPASSER'





B have the Farmer of December



3 in which you tell us of the



“Dear” names you have been

called by a certain number of people

who have been hindered from taking

the liberty, times without number, of

trespassing on our lands for years and

who are now trying to have the law

repealed which helps us to be able to

keep them off our land if we wish

to do so.



By the means. we have had the

last open season we have put in a

“visible” protest by having several

arrested and fined for illegal hunting

without first getting our consent to

hunt with guns. Now as we are try-

ing to care for our interests here,

may we ask you to keep at our side

and prevent the present law from

being repealed in any shape to put our

lands from being “confiscated” by the

so-called “sportsmen” who care for

neither the state’s rights nor that of

the owners of the lands, who bought

the lands on which the state made

no reserVations of the rights when

the land was originally sold.



Michigan was so anxious to get

farmers and tradesmen to settle here

that it was glad to sell at almost any

price to get the lands opened up and

cleared and roads built whichyou can

see we have done many times and

much expense-in money and lives.



My great.> grhdfather bought sev-

eral hundred acres here and 'my

father bought this farm of him with

no claim of’the state on it and never

did aptax lapse. ,

‘ years.,We are to build a county gravel

1’13“ 8





5.





a few years

on your time, and thank you.~—Geo.

Bogie and Wife, R. 4, Milford, Mich.





Now, ~’atter all these.





y andfthrough our_farm,,and’ are . .

* {theorem lake‘s.





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as well fixed as Bert Funk,witb all

the good things of life and big

money right from the start. Do

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pon today. '





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THE J. R. WATKINS COMPANY

Winona, Minnesota





13 Liberty St.,





 





 





Many of the farms about here were





covered with swamps and marshes

which were hard to conquer.

old age, we should have a more tran-

quil life.

am past seventy-eight years and have

borne much of the hard clearing of

this tract. '





Now, in





I, as one of father’s sons,





Now please help us to live in peace

more. Pardon for this





THE MASTER FARMERS





 





W‘ISH to congratulate you on the



'choice of the Master Farmers, es-



pecially for Montcalm County. They

sure deserved recognition for their

service to the farmers of Michigan.

If more farmers would follow some

special branch of farming instead of

haphazard farming, there would be

less kicking and no need for legisla-

tion to aid the farmer.—James G.

Taylor.





RADIO BRIEFS





That the United States does not

have full sway of the decisions of the

International Radio conference in

Washington is indicated by the deci-

sion of that body to establish a per-

manent International Radio Com-

mittee. The plan was opposed by

both Canada and the United States.

The committee is to act in a purely

consultative capacity.





A natiOnal broadcasting circuit

reaching from the Atlantic to the Pa-

cific, sponsored by the Metro-Goldwyn-

Mayer motion picture corporation, it

is reported, will soon be organized.

J‘ L. Baird, the Scotch inventor of

television, on his recent visit to this

country stated that the ultimate aim

of the super motion picture companies

gloom. be to project motion pictures on



e air. '





 





 





The United States has more radio

beacons in service along its coasts

than all other countries combined.

Four of these new beacons which

automatically send bearings from

shore to the radio compasses on Ves—

sels have recently been placed in

operation on Lake Michigan by the

federal government, making a total of

fifteen radio beacons in service on





 





round Herring $5.50:

$7.50; head—





Net—~Frozen large





100 lbs.

dressed Herring, $0.50: round pickercl.

less picker-e1, $0.50; yellow pike. $12.50. Remit with

order. I’m-Rage marge 300 per 100 lbs. We charge

Mic per lb. more in less than 100 1b. lots. Send for

complete prim» list of all varieties fish.



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First Offering Choiceot

Frozen FISH





Order direct from fills ad or send for complete list.

Parked 100 lb. not weight. no package charge. Her-

ring dressed $0.85; Pivkcrcl round $8.35: Pickerel

dressed headless $9.85: Yellow Film $12.85: 'I’ullbca

W'h'tcfish $12.85; Halibut dressed headless $17.35:

Sal on. dressed headless $15.35: Suckers skinnal

dressed headless $8.35; (Yam $5.35: Mackerel $10.35:

Huddka Fillmls parchment wrapped. meat no

bones. per 15 ll). box $2.25; Pickerel Fillets. no

bones. pvr 2-) lb. box $3.00. SMOKED FISH 10 lb.

boxes, Bluefim $1.20; 'l‘ulibee Whitefish $2.00; Salmon

Chunks $2.20; Fut Lake (Iliubs $2.50. Salted Holland

Herring, small kegs, Mixed 900; Milkers $1.00. Remit

with order. Our reference Mi-(‘artnoy National Bank.



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Dept. No. 3. Green» Bay. Wiwomin



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More than 25 years of honest dealings insures your



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room has a Servidor. :3 ’





Garage in connection. Car: railed

for and ole/iiwred witlzout Mary.





I





3
Saved Thousands of

Dollars Last Year





In 1927 fanners throughout. the United States

uved thousands of dollm on binder twine became

they bought better twine at, better prices. '



The twine that. has made smaller twine bills poe-

lible has been appropriately named FIDELITY.



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where 85% of the world's supply or llenncuuen Sisal

is grown.



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and other charges on raw material and the savings

are passed on to the American farmer in the form

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no mixture 0! any other fibres are ever used.





Twine experts say that twine which is spun of





100% pure Hennmuen Sisal can be absolutely micr-

nntoed against destruction by crickets and other

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They also say that twine which is 100% pure

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Two cons satisfactory lot

Hooves or money back. $1.2.

per can. Dealers or by m-il.

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BREEDER





An impact»; any 0' cpl-Mid worth while

artich- you'd pay many time. the ptkaw

buy dim I



Dr. L. E. . Nulonnlly known

Brudu Ind prominent figur- ln Poultry AI-

hlu (or many youth, will continue hie dmo~





ild try Hausa, by

PM. J. A. Davidson, Mich. 81-1. College.

An Important .niclc on Fudln‘, by C. M.

Fm”. Prof. mm sm- Comp end

My. cl 1h. Intern-(lurid E" Laying Gm-

Im .1 Eur Lancing.

Mich. Poultry Improvement Ann. Bulletin

PI‘I ouch momh. Mony on." imporun

Poultry Puluno. “only”; hr l2 highs-u

MODERN POULTRY" BIEEDEI, MIC!!-





Box]





WOLVERINE S. C. WHITE LEGHORN

BLOOD SAFEO ARRIVAL BABY CHICKS





WILL GUARANTEED MICHIGAN -





m WINTER-EGG PRODUCERS





Get Our Large Leghdms, the birds with large com :

that produce the Large Chalk White Eggs





Send for Our 1928 Catalog





Tells all about our chicks and breeding stock

EGG BREED SINCE 1910

For 18 years we have speclnlized in the production 02.8 C. White

horns. and breed no other art and

selmtlnx and mating has been





TELL





 

 

 





or very derinbl a stock.





American. Farmer!





 





”0% LIVE ARRIVAL GUARAIIIEED





__w0LvE’R1m-: HAWHERY AND p231. W





11.9. mess”. 01»me





F the barn and poultry houses are

made sparrow proof dufipg the

winter it will discourage thepests

from remaining on the farm and may

make them less plentiful in the spring

when. the chicks are fed on the range.

Recently, R. P. Tittsler of, Pennsyl-

vania State College examined 21 Eng-

lish sparrows which were caught at

the College poultry plant. He found

that 17 of these birds were carrying

the germs of coccidiosis. Sparrows

have always been considered a men-

ace to the health of poultry flocks but

it is not often that accurate scientific

evidence is presented to prove them

guilty.

Potato Sprouts Poisonous



Some reports from Indiana poultry-

men ”indicate that the feeding of green

potato sprouts to hens may prove

poisonous. The white potato plant

contains a. poison called solanin which

is largely found in the parings and

green sprouts. While we have no re

ports of losses in Michigan which can

be definitely blamed on the potato, it

will probably be best not to feed

greenish potato skins to hens. When

potato sprouts are removed, it will be





wOrk At the Purdue Station, or

chickens were given the " “1





example,

leaves of white snakeroot. A few

hours later the heads drooped, the





eyes closed and the neck feathers —





ruffled and, it took three, four and five





days for the different birds to are he





pending on the amount“ of snakeroot

leaves which they» were given. ”For-

tunately for Michigan the white snake-





root is not as common as in the wood-f





land pasthres of Indiana where it has

occasionally caused live stock men

severe losses ever since the state was

settled. .’

Winter Egg Production



Poultrymen who lack experience in

the business often compute their prof-

its based on early winter eggprices

and only fail to make a. huge success

because the feed bills are just as large

as expected while the ”production is

not so good. The fact that we have

high egg prices in November and

December is due to the scaracity of

fine fresh eggs and when heavy ‘egg

production is easy to attain at that

season, I do not believe the prices will

be high any longer.



There is a time in November dud





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HIS pen of Barred Rocks, owned

by Cedar Brook Farms, made the

world’s record for the breed at

the Puyallup Washington Experiment

Station Egg Laying Contest. The pen

laid 2,807 eggs in 365 days, which is

also the 1927 record of all breeds in

all contests. Four of the ten birds

laid over 300 eggs each. Eighty per





. . .

cent of all the eggs laid by this pen

weighed over 23 ounces to the dozen.

This record shows that the heavy

type of bird is developing as an egg

layer, and when its egg production is

sufficiently developed, it makes an

ideal dual purpose bird, as it brings

a good price after it has finished its

purpose as a, layer.





 





 





best not to feed them to the hens as

a. substitute for green feed.



Thesolanin is also found in the

black nightshade and the green ber-

ries are especially dangerous if eaten

by chickens or ducks. Milkweed

sprouts, lily-of-the—valley leaves and

cocklebur sprouts are also under sus-

picion of being poisonous to poultry.



Probably the greatest danger of

poultry being poisoned by these

plants will occur when the birds are

on a. limited range where green feed’

is scarce and their selection of plants

is limited. Then they will eat leaves

which would not appeal to their appe-

tites under other circumstances.





Possibly a lot of poultry losses may

be due to the eating of poisonous

plants when diseases of various types

have been blamed for the trouble.

This problem of dangerous plants on

the poultry range has usually received

littleyconsideration from poultry in-

vestigators and there have been very

limited funds or no funds for such





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mums. mount.

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December when the old hens have





about ceased production and unless





the pullets have been early ha'tched

and properly fed and housed they will

not be laying heavily. This condition

lasts until about '- January first and

soon after that date many of the

farm hatched pullets begin production

and the old hens return to laying and

the price of eggs begins to work down—

ward. This is always an annual shock

to the poultry owners who would pre-





‘fer high prices and plenty of eggs.





But there are two other conditions

that actually exist. One is high prices

and low production. The other situa-

tion is high production and low prices.



The poultrymen who expect to make

money from eggs during November

and December cannot slip up any-

where. Even Babe Ruth, who is con-

sidered a. very good batter, is not ex-

pected to bat 1000. But the poultry-

man who obtains, heavy egg produc-

tion during the last two months of the

old year must have birds of good

breeding. He must feed- them right

and give them the proper kind of

housing. They must be hatched at the

right time so they will mature in time

to lay high priced eggs. Every day of

the summer they must be fed and

cared for in such a. manner that no

setbacks will hamper them. '



Even then the penitryman may not

obtain as many eggs as expected be-





. cause there is no set rule which can





be followed which. guarantees suc-

The practical





breeding in mating flocks of turkeys.





ration in the summer or. mum to





“agent scrap. 5.0 lbsialtalm” l,





 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





Would it be alright to a} " '

Turkey for next year’s br'e‘: .

is from the old flock,- and

keep the old hens tow-«Mrs. (if;





It is considered safest to ”our Ills,





and it is a. general rule to use unre-

fated stock in an effort to pmduco‘

poults with as much natural vigor and

resistance to disease as possible:

However, mating a, vigorous“ young

turkey tom back to the old hens mdgh'b

produce poults of good qucliby. Of

course, he would only be (3105er re-

lated to one of the beds in the flock.

The amount of inbreeding that can be

carried on safely can only be deter-

mined by the breeder himself as he

knows the pedigree and the vigbr of

the flock. ‘





 





SPOTS ON. LIVER' ‘—





 





Our hens and chickens have yellow-

ish spots fdrm on their livers ~

seem, when worse, to be the Same-

the intestines also. About 011841113114

ter, or less, of whole number have

died. The year old are the ones must

affected. The affected ones become

thinner and thinner but eat well up

to the last. —W. E. W





The rapid emaciation and spots on'

the liver are an indication of avian

tuberculosis although scientists telI'us '

that laboratory examination'ls nécésé

sary to definitely determine this dis-

ease; When a poultryman has a yalu- . \

able flock and suspccts the presence , ’-

of tuberculosis, it pays to have a. vet"

erinarian inspect the birds and mm

recommendations. ”





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LEG‘HORN PULLETS NOT LAYING





I have about 200 Barred RockPul-

lets about 9 months old. Also have 7

about 50 White Leghorns and none-of ‘

them are laying as yet. I am feed.

ing cooked oats and potatOes with 3

tablespoons of poultry tonic. They

have this feed morning and night.

Sometimes I feed one-halfF pull of

chopped corn at night. ——M. R.





Leghorns of good breedingF areasup-

posed tosbe ready to lay 'When- "they ‘

are about six months. old if they have

had proper rations throughout the

'summer. In actual practice, . it is

found that a great many" Leghorns do ,

not lay when they are Six monthsof

age and many of them will be close

to eight months of age when produce

tion starts.



This may be due to lack of a. proper





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





place the birds in laying quarters

when they are about five months of .

age Or to late maturity in the breed-

ing stock. The cooked outs 91111110129.-

toes and cracklings will hardly be a.

good substitute fbr either a co ' .,

cial Or home- made laying, Mb” I

would "advise you to unite

igan State College for ‘ m.

Bulletin No. 51 entitled “Weeding

Eggs.” .

.A mash recommended It "

than consists of 15*

meal, 100 lbs. fine ground



lbs. bran, 1011 lbs. would“ in»:





   

 

 





 





   

 

 

 





 

 





   

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 





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f the river a he gets along
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wood Guernseys

BROOK" EAD’B REGRET Kl NB for sole.

> JINISON. ”0“





either sex. whose sires' dams





GUERNSEYS have 909 [69.55 iii.





778.80 fat. 19. 460. 50 milk.

1096.0 I'liukiis. 3am Crook. Ill-oh R





 





 





 





D airy Heifer Coins. prunes-ll!



Gus pure mo :15 no such. w. m

G. G D. Wi'zA L. Terwlillscr. mem Wk.



.auernsey cows and o few bull



For 8‘13 cellist; sire by lmp. Coro Honor.



101m EIELS. Roland. Mlch.. R 2. A

than; pnI-e-m “ERNSEYM ROI.-

P0 broom calven. bred heavy. rich milken.





Iflu EDIEWOODC DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater. Wis.





 





SERVICEABLE AGE ,





REGISTERED “OFTEN {3

Eve. at prices t e owner 0 ,



‘ sar‘riltillciierd can afi‘ord to pay. The

H sire of many of these calves is 1 Son

of the highest record (30 lb.) two—

. yenr-oid daughter of Creator. His

sire is King Segio Alcartra Prilly. on

undefeated Show bull with 70 A. R.

daughters. Others sired by a 5 times

1200 lb. Champion Bull the famous



‘ K. P. O. P. breeding.

' Bred cows and heifers served by

these sires are available {or found--





uni; 'izwoss FARMS DAIRY





Nortlwille. Michigan

Referenced! Norethnmzngute Strings Bank

1: Be Hol—

F 0 R 5 A L E 53.3.?” i:ii.§“hro .3.” will





resh ' other four are youn grit: sro sired

{1y (:3 869,0?!» bull. E. A. ROHLFS. Akron. Midi.





HEREFORDS





REED SCHULTZ. Homer. Mich.





10 mo.





Reg. bulls.

bred.





old, Disturbc'r -





 





' Choice Jersey Bulls. grmdwns of

For Sale sinus Gambos'e or woman.

SMITH &. PARKER. Howell. men. R. No. 4.





 





y' Jersev heifers bred to freshen

TWO Registered in March tuberculin free,

choio individuals. $150 each IRA W. JAYNE.

County Building. Detroit: farm at Fenton. Michigan.





For Sale Registered Jersey Bull





Iii months old. Albert Aintworth. Cnrsonvllls. Mich.





lYearlingm from dam with (‘TA

61?. lbs. (at. Also





Jersey Bul

recordHOREL Charlotte. Mich.





.\ bungee bulls. J. H.





Stockers & Feeders





Canes. “Year! & ‘l‘wos; Hereford Steers & Heifers.



dork reds. good grass flesh. most all

hunches adsorbed each bunch even in size and

show good Choice Herefords are usually

market toppers when finished. Few bunches '1'. B.

tested. Will sen your choice from sny bunch. sum

number and weight you prefer 450 to 1000 lbs.





Von D. Baldwin, FJdon,Wapello Co., lows.

“Clararlale Milking Shorlhoms”





Young bulls and bred heifers. Drlced for quick sole.

Dollies: breeding high milk and test records. Herd

under state and Federal supenision. Sixty daIs

I-tevte~ allowed. Your success is our success. F. W

JOHNSON &. SONS. Box 26. Custer. Mich.





 





l' [AL prices on Sher-thorn bulls, cows end

she ECe-rs These will please the most curdul buyers.

GOTFREDSON FARMS. Ypsilanti. Mich.





HOGS _

Strrice boars. bred sows and gilts, fall pigs Premier





ll hi breed 1' st State Fair.

iiiK‘EnI-‘IELB FARMS, Glarkslon. Mich.





D U R o C 5 Spring boars. Open and





bred gills. Full Wigs.

Quality of the best.





Priced to sell. Vi'rite NORRIS

STOCK FARM. Calnovia, Mich.





011 SALE—*Duro‘ Gills of type and quality, brcd

Fm High Orion. \‘0. 205227 Also a. few sprimz

at rich! priies. Shipped C. 0. D on oh—





how

5 E. BARTLEY. Alma. Mich.





proval. W.





Duroc Jersey boars, sills and fall

pigs, both ‘ sex. A8.





GRAY. Danums. (Ingram 00.). Mich.





DUROGW JERSEY Spring sod fall been of popular

Write or come snd\see insinuate

Blissm l Son.





1malicmlerson. Mich.





. 0- |- 6‘- HOG-Somme 33.6.53;





_ Originntors and most extensive breeders.

Till I.. L. SllVER 60.. Box 196. Salem. Ohio





For Salt-Reg. E'0. l C. April & May Pigs





prod on approval. FRED W.

KENNEDY 8i. swam R. l. Chelsea. Mich.





 





be“Registered O. l. C. Fall Pigs

from prolific sows. Shipped on





zpsstm il- 1.1111880“. R. 2. Romulus. Mich.

Good lust. sprint pin. not don

also fell pics, recorded





 





Choice Poland China Boar:





silty. Today's breeding Reedy

cholera inununsd.

open. WESLEY HILE. Innis.





 





 





 





 





 





 





_honor





AlsO‘ $127. 50.





By a M rc/Itgmz





ONFORMING to the best of the

traditions that center about

their agric’ultural heritage the

farmer boys of Michigan, by the very

earnestness of their endeavors, are

commanding and receiving attention

in other fields. .



Take the ease of James Milligan of

Cass City. James, who is sixteen

years oldund a student at Cass City

High School, was the only Michigan

youth to exhibit at the Junior Live

Stock Show at Cleveland in Novem-

ber of 1927. His ‘steer, the Grand

Champion of the Michigan State Fair, ,

was not among those awardedfirst

honbrs at Cleveland, but if “Wild-

wood’s Choice,” as young Milligan’s

calf was named, went unrecognized

as a. champion, James directed atten-

tion to an embryonic talent in him-

self for interesting narrative.



James’ story, “How I Raised My

Steer,” took first prize in thecontest

conducted by the Cleveland Live

Stock News, and While the financial

consideration was but nominal, the

won by Milllgan was no mean

one, as may be gathered from the

statement that one hundred and eighty

boys and girls from five states, and

ranging in age from twelve to twenty-

one years, were entered in the contest.

James’ story follows:



“Having 'an interest in pure-bred

stock and being eager to gain more

experience in that direction, I elected

to go into club work. Lastlyear I had

an Aberdeen Angus steer. In feeding

and caring for it, I learned much about

the Angus Breed. This year I de-

cided on another Angus steer, and my

purchase was made from the Wild-

wood-Farms at'Orion, Michigan. The

men at, WildwoOd seemed eager for

me to have a good one, and so gladly

gave me the choice of their young

steere. My selection was Wildwood’s

Choice, sired by Perfection Marshall

and calved October 5, 1926. My re-

cords date from March 1,1927,When

the calf was five months old and

weighed 525 pounds.



“I started the feeding period by giv-

ing him twice daily three pounds of

ground oats, corn, linseed meal, and

bran. He was also given a nurse cow

to which he took very readily. At

this writing he still retains his food-

ness for milk.



“During the. mdnth of June, when

cooked barley was added to his noon

rations, I increased the amount of lin-

seed to two pounds daily. Wildwood

became very fond of cooked barley,

and seemed always to look forward to

it. I have always fed him at a regu-

lar time, and have had fresh water

before him constantly. He has been

fed for a total of 260 days, eats about

18 pounds daily, and at present

weighs 1,100” pounds. This

figure represents a gain of 575 pounds,

or about 2.2 pounds per day.



“At least one hour of my time is

spent every day in currying, brush-

ing and leading him about.

learned to lead very easily. I have

shown him at the T. H. and S. Dis-

trict Fair and at the Michigan State

Fair. At the former, five steers were

shown, and I was pleased when the

judge awarded Wildwood first prize.

At the state fair, in a much larger

class, he again took first prize.



“I have thoroughly enjoyed club

work, for it has been the means to me

of acquiring a great deal of knowledge

about raising: beef cattle. In the.

lively discuss one at the'club meetings,

one has opportunity to learn very

much about calves, and I can now

more ably judge different breeds of

live stock Next year I am going to

havb another steer, and I hope I shall

have as much success with it as I

have had with VVildwood’s Choice.”



The total cost to the young Mich-

igan cattlem’an of growing Wildwood’s

Choice was $143.00. Initial cost Was

350.000; the item of feed amounted to

$91.11, and the difference was con-

sumed in small, miscellaneous charges.

Up to the time of the Cleveland show

Wildwood had taken in prize money

This amount added to the

proceeds .of his sale at Cleveland at





cent value of James’ experience in





' , mining a state chaplpion is yet to be,

-.I,-. .

computed.





 





latter '





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u_eXhibition prices netted. young Milli"

gan close to $200. 00. The dollar and.





{telling all they know—of others. ,.





Prize Winner i. E271".





. Among other things WildwoOd ate

1,050 pounds of Com, 1,050 pounds of

oats, 263 poundsof barley, 401 pounds

of oil meal,'and 274 pounds of bran.





MORE FUNDS NEEDED FOR TB

WORK





0





HE heavy drain being made on



the indemnity fund from present

indications will slow down work very

materially after the first of January

unless additional funds are provided

to take care of the emergency. The

per cent of reactors 'since July lst,

the beginning of the present fiscal

year, has not been heavy but the

large number of cattle tested- has re-

'sulted in a heavy total of condemnae

tions.



During the first three ”months of the

fiscal year, July, August, and Septem-

ber, 148,686 cattle were tested in the

regular area work and 2,438 reactors

were found, an average of 1.64% in-

fection. It is interesting to note that

nearly as many cattle were tested in

these three months as were tested

during the entire year ended June 30,

1 23. During that 12 months period

the total number tested in the state

was 159,487. Of that number, how-

ever, 4,659 or over 3.5% were reac-

tors. It is extremely fortunate that

the percentage so far this year has

been only 1.64, else the indemnity fund

for the present year would already be

practically wiped out.



The heavy losses in Macomb at the

close of the last fiscal year may be

charged with a part of this run on

the indemnity fund as many of the

reactors were not sent in for 'Slaugh-

ter until after July lst.



The indemnity appropriation, as

passed by the legislature, provided for

$250,000 annually, but the Governor

reduced this amount to $215,000 for

each year. This reduction, in tale

face of increased demands on accoubt

of the Detroit Milk Ordinance which

becomes effective January lst, makes

it extremely difficult to take care of

the work during the present year. In-

demnities paid during the first three

months total $86,259.37 and the month

of October will exceed $35,000, making

a total for the first four

the year of better than $121,000 or

considerably more than one-half the

available appropriation. These figures

Show very clearly that, unless emer-

gency funds are made available, the

work of testing cattle in Michigan

will soon have to slow down.





LIVE STOCK NOTES





T the Pennsylvania station over a

period of three years, lots of pigs

receiving tankage an fish meal



”did better than those fed wheat mid—

dlings and palmo middlings. In all

cases the pigs receiving minerals did

better than those not having these

elements added to the rations:





 





Two cows almost identical in out-

ward appearance showed a difference

of three pounds in the total weight of





a





months of -





 





 

   

 

 

   





Much easier to milk cows with

,perfect udders and teats— soft.

silky. pliable. No nervous twitch-

ing. no kicking or holdi back of

the milk. Thousands of airymen

use Bag Balm regularly as their

Erotector of the udder and teats.

or quickly healing sores, chaps.

cute. Inflammation. caked bag. ‘

bunches, cow-pox. etc. it has no

equal. Even with the most stub-

born hurts. first. application starts

quick relief.



Bag Balm is sanitary, pleasant

to use. and moot taint the milk.

Big Io-ounce can of this wonderful



netrating ointment, only (me at

in (1 dealers. dgeneml stores. drug—



gists. Maile

obtain locally.





Daley Association

c... Inc.

Lyndonvillo. Vermont





 

 





 





 





   

 





 

 

 

 





 





postpaid if hard to





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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Littleig a£1353!) big lgigs fat. Save all the pigs



t of cod. five out worms by using

Hog Fat. To prove it, I will send you 2—31.00

packages of Ho; FM for“ .00. Pay postman.and if not

satisfied I will return money. 01! ac man bou ht 1500





[licensee—Dept. In; E. B. Mitchell 03., M ilws es. Wis.





REDUCE PUFFED ANKLES





Absorbino reduces strained. puffy

ankles. lymphangitis. poll evil, fistula.

boils. swellings. Stops luneness and

alloys pain. Heals sores. cuts. bruises.

boot chutes. Does not blister or re—

move hair. Horse can be worked while

treated. At druggists. or $2.50 post-

paid. Describe your case for special

instructions. Horse book 5.3 free.



Grateful user writes: “Have tried every-

thing. After 3 applications of Absorbine,

found swelling gone. fl‘hsnky you for the





wonderful results obtained. ‘1 will recom-

endAbsor Absorbine to my neighbors” .





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lungs. The cow with the largest

lungs gave more than twice the milk

produced by the other animal.





Prof. S. I. Bechdel has found that

calves fed milk powder in the dry,

Iather than in the liQuld form, after

they were thirty-four days old made





average daily gains of 1.36 pounds upi





to six months of age and were 95.7

per cent normal in size. These calves

consumed-on an average 105 pounds

of the powder in addition to 120

pounds of whole milk. The results

from thisexperiment suggests chang-

ing of the calves to the dry powder

after they are six weeks old. The dry

mixture at first should contain not





more than forty-five percent of the”





powder and preferably forty per cent.

The percentage should be reduced as

the calves grow older.





 





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Extra, largo spring boars

lPoland Chmas and slits. Also, weanhnz'

JAMES G. TAYLOR. Balding. Mich.



A FEW good Hampshire spring boon st a.

bargain. Place your order for bred

l silts.10HN W. SNYDER. at Johns. Mich.. R. 4.





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500 BRED EWES





For sale—300 choice large block faced ewes. your-

lines 25, 35, and 4 year olds mixed 200 choice

large Michigan Delaine ewes yesrlings to solid mouths

mix ixed Prices msonnble. Write or wire us for

further information. ALMOND B. CHAPMAN 3.

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0
GRAIN QUOTATIONS.

Tuesday, December 27 w





Wheat. ,

Detroit—N0. 2 red at 31:37; No. 2

White $1.34%; No. 2 mixed at $1.34%.’

Chicago~December $1.25%; March

$12715); May $1.287/3; July $1.24%.

Toledo——-W'heat, No. 2 red at $1.37-1,é

@$1.381,§.





Corn.





Detroit—No. ,2 yellow 94c; No. 3

yellow 920; No. 4 yellow 900.

Chicago—December 81%c; March





85%0; May 887/8c; July 9196c.

Oats.

Detroit—No. 2 Michigan 590; No. 3

White 57 1&0.





Chicago—December 51c; March

51%c; May 54640; July 521/10.

' Rye.

Detroit—N0. 2 $1.13.

Chicago—December $1.05; March

$107140; May $1.07%; July $1.03.





Toledo—$1.13.





Beans.

Detroit—Immediate and prompt

shipment $5.40 f. o. b. shipping points.

New York.——~Pea domestic at $6.00@

$6.50;- red kidneys $7.25@8.00 to the

wholesalers.

Chicago—Spot navy beans, Michigan

choice, hand-picked, in sacks at $6.00;

dark red kidneys $7.60.





- Barley.

Detroit—Malting 920; feeding 880.

Seeds.



Detroit domestic seedsz—Cash clo-

ver $18.25; February $18.40; March

$18.30; cash alsike $16.00; January

alsike $16.25; February $16.45; March

$16.40; timoth! a}: $2.00; March $2.15.





ay.

Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $13.00@





$14.00; standard $12.50@'13.50; No. 2

timothy $10.00@1l.00; N0. 1 light

clover, mixed $13.00; No. 1 clover

$11.50@12.50; wheat and oat straw





$10.00(d)11.00; rye straw $11.00@12.00



alfalfa hay, No. 2 to choice at Chicago,



$24@26. 1

Feeds.





Detroit—Winter wheat bran at $39”,

spring wheat bran at $38; standard‘

middling at $39; fancy middling. at;

$42; cracked corn at $43; coarse corn

meal $41; chop $40 per ton in carlotsl





WHEAT.





A record movement of wheat through

the St. Mary’s locks is reported. The

influence of the holiday season and the

liquidation in corn has depressed

wheat values the past week. The ex"

port call for North American wheat‘

now appears to be virtually at a stand-‘;

still. However, advices from abroad

state that stocks at Liverpool had de—'

creased and this may slow down the

attacks of the bears upon the market.



Bearish crop reports have further

tended to'weaken wheat prices in the

last few days. The final estimate of

the domestic wheat drop was 40 mil-

lion bushels o-ver last year, or 6 mil-

. lion bushels more than the preliminary

estimate had indicated. Expectation

that the revised figures would reduce

Elbe (gain in the 1927 crop was not ful-



e .





The report on winter wheat showed

47,897,000 acres planted, or 10 per cent

more than last year, and the largest

acreage on record with the exception

of 1919 and 1922. The condition on

December 1 was 86 per cent of normal

compared with 81.8 a year ago and a

ten-year average of 84.





CORN .





Favorable weather has encouraged

the movement of corn from farms and

local elevators and terminal markets

report heavy arrivals. As a result

holders. are liquidating their stocks

‘ and prices have weakened, particular-

ly on futures. Primary receipts last

Friday were 1,674,000 bushels as com-

pared with 1,292,000 bushels a week

ago and 1,063,000 bushels on the cor-

. responding day a year ago. However,

* some corn at present levels is going

abroad which will have its effect upon

the market as trading continues. Also

the government pig survey indicates

eleven per cent more pigs than a year

ago. '



The final corn crop estimate was a

surprise, showing a yield of 2,786,000,-

000 bushels compared with 2,692,000,-

000 bushels in 1926 and an average

crop of 2, 776,000,000 bushels in the

last five years. Counting new crop





and carryover, the total supply, is »





2,920,000,000 bushels compared .with

2,895,000,000 bushels last- year.



If the government's report is, cor-

, ct, current» prices for corn may be





 





high enough, but there is much skep-





 





ticism as to its accuracy. Prices have

lost three-fourths of their autumn up-

turn. Primary receipts are increasing.

They are larger than a. yearago but

only. about equal to thewaverage . at

this season in the last five years. Al-

though the current demand from in-





dustries and feeders is fairly good, -_





stocks are accumulating. Inquiries for





export are ‘frequent, but the volume





actually sold is not large: Argentina

is still a. rather free shipper. and there

is a large stock of corn on ocean pas-

sage, but Broomhall estimates that

about.68 million bushels Will be need-

ed from the United States up to next

summer. Clearance of this quantity

would ~keep the winter accumulation

at terminals doWn to moderate size.





OATS. '





This grain has followed the other

markets to an. easier position. De-

mand is somewhat slow. Futures

have suffered more in the price decline

than have cash deals. _





RYE.





Weakness has also developed in this

deal. The causes are largely the same

as those noted above. Some rye is

going abroad.





BARLEY.





An unusually heavy consumption of

barley has prevented any consider-

able increase in stocks. _

also been large as compared with a

year ago. Feeders have taken hold of

this market in an, unusually active





manner.

' BEANS.





According to reports from country

places farmers hesitate to sell beans

under $5.00 per cwt. mark. Elevator

men report that offerings fall off rapid-

ly when the price drops below this

level. The demand should improve

after the holidays are over, especially

with any advance in general employ-





ment. .

.. SEEDS.





Producers of timothy seed have not

sold their holdings as freely as a year

ago. This is due to the lower range

of values prevailing this year. Sweet

clover seed is also on a. lower basis

and growers are reluctant to let go





[the demand in some quarters.





Exports have »





of their. crop. In thered cloves-deal

partment there is also'siownesSpbuti





here- prices are holding» about ..steedy;jspringz





It is expectedthat the general-level

of prices . now"prev_ailing' Will not

change a great deal "until the demand

for planting is in. evidence. ,





FEEDS.





Recent fine-weather has been a. do: ‘





pressing factor in the feed market.

The weakness of the corn‘de’al is an?

other- bearish feature.

paying double the price for cotton}

seed meal that they paid a year; ago.



owever, wheat and corn feeds show

signs of weakness. 2





Now that livek‘stock generally over





' the northern states has been brought

'in from the pasture lots the consump-





tion of bay has materially increased.

Recent weather, however. has favored

the use of corn fodder and eased'off

Alfalfa.

seems to be fairly active. ~~Loadings

at country places are somewhat re-

duced and the demand shows improve





ment.

' APPLES.





Trade is generally firm and supplies‘thu.S preparing the grOund'tor the‘con- ..





are not plentiful. At Detroit. No. 1

apples generally bring from $2.00@

$2.50 while Michigan stock in Chicago

is quoted at $7@8 per barrel for the

average commercial varieties. Kings

command $8.00 and $9.00; Northern

Spies $8.00@9.00; McIntosh $9.00@10.





EGGS. :





While the December deal in eggs

has been somewhat irregular, the mar-

ket shows a tendency toward steadi-

ness. Receipts at Chicago this past

week totaled 19,873 cases compared

with 18,003 cases a week earlier and

25,753 cases a year ago. WithAthe

holiday business largely out of the

way, crating naturally is qufit. How-

ever, the position of the market is

not unfavorable and quality eggs are





'being held for good values.





Poultry is running about steady due

to a decline in receipes. This is par-

.ticularly true of live poultry. In some

markets dressed stock brought about

sharp declines in prices.



Chicago eggs—Fresh firsts 41@420;





 





 





hive Stock MarketService





 





.—





Tuesday, December 27





DETROIT.





Cattle.

Receipts 351. Market on bulls

steady; all others 25c higher.

Good to choice yearlings. ‘

dry-fed

Best heavy steers, dry-fed 10.25@13.00





Handy weight butchers. . 9.00@10.75

Mixed steers and heifers. 9.00@ 9.75

Handy light butchers . . 7.50@ 9.25

Light butchers ......... ,. ‘ 6.006% 8.25

Best cows . . . . . . . . . ..... 6.50@ 9.00

Butcher cows . . . . . . . . . . . 5.50@ 6.25

Cutters 5.00@ 5.25

Canners ....... . 4.00@ 5.00

Choice light bulls . . . . . . . 6.00@ 8.50

Bologna bulls . . . . . . . . . .” . 6.50@ 8.00

Stock bulls 6.00@ 6.75

Feeders 00@ 825

Stockers ............. . . . 5.50@ 7.00

Milkers and springers. . .$65.00@110.00

Calves.



Receipts 517. Market 50c higher. .

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

Others ........ . ..... . . . 8.00@16.00





Sheep and Lambs. ’

Receipts 1,302. Market 500 higher.

Best lambs .............$ " 14.00





Fair lambs .............. 12.25



Light to common lambs . . 6.00@ 9.75



Fair to good sheep . . . . . . 6.00@ 7.00



Buck lambs ........ . . . . . 7.50@12.25



Culls and common . . . . 2.00@ 3.00

Hogs.



Receipts 2,379. Market 25c higher.

Pigs oooooo teo_c-ee_oooeeoe$' 8.00

Mixed hogs ...,...‘....... 9.00

Lightlights............. 8.2

Rpllg‘hs oeeeooOIOvOOOOOOO. 7.2

Good yorkers ........... 8.8

Stags QQOIIIIOOIOOIODOOCI - . I 6-0

Extreme heavies . . . . . . . . '7.75@ 8.2..



CHICAGO. -

.Hogs . ‘ '





   





{Receipts 50,000.. Mark-Qt" '05 II . .





 





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best time; lighter .weights.active;fibp



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............... $10.50@13.75 ~-





weighta macaw-1.50; medium'heifers, d _ ,

I . $10.25@19.9o; sis ,,

. commas to medium . .COWS. ‘ 33-00@8r-00





.. .. _ . fs»‘-*,>=gcalves "

, f .‘.$;17_~00;2%eulla and: common -»





tive; tops $8.85; bulk good 210-300-lb.

average $8.45@8.80; 160-200~lb. $8.25@

$8.55; 130-150-lb. $7.50@8.25; most

pigs $7.50@7.75; selected lots up to‘

$8.00; bulk paclgngl sows $7.00@7.75-

att e



Receipts 13,000. Fed steers steady.

to strong; weighty kind 10@15c high-

er; supply of weighty offerings very

scarce; she stock strong; bulls 15@

259 higher; bulk vealers 50c higher,

stockers and feeders scarce; best fat





_ steers early $16.75, some held higher;





shippers $13.00 up; going slow on

common to medium light steers and

yearlings; most low cutters around-

$5.35; strong weights up to $6.00 and

better; vealers to packers .$11.00@

12.00; few $12.50; shippers and small

killers _$13.00@15.00. «





Sheep and Lambs

Receipts 17,000. Low demand for

choice bred and handy weight lambs;

broad supply: larger than late last

’week; opening sales good; medi

weights $13.00@13.50; asking 15@2 c

higher; about. $13.85 ,forehandy,

weights ;,_sheep strong; fat ewes $6.00

@$6.75; most feeding lambs firm; bulk

$12.00@12.75; tops $13.25. .f‘





BUFFA‘ID. ,g ‘ - v”





. Ho :th ~ * ’ .

Receipts 9,500. -%did over 1,200;

market 25@35c higher; pigs up more;

bulk 180-240-lb. $.9.60;.,,few 250-11). up

$9.65@9.75;; pigs andf-flEht-‘lights $9.00

@$9.50; pmkingfispwsg$7.50@8.00.





- ~ Battle - .. _

Receipts 650. "Market steQdY: few.

yearlings $13.50.; ’bulk fat medium-





$8.50@9.75_; . " few good





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Farmers are ..





Decline in, email/lai-





trams

28c. .2... ~‘





 

 





350; anorexia; _



Detroltzeg‘ese- ._ ,.

live ~pouit—ry, were

-16@25c; mast ersfn

26c: Lduelrs awe?





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about at ,.

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quality commandszfiu j

Cleveland market, is... “flung . ,,





 





igan offerings are bought: at





$31.00» per 150-lb. satiks. AV. . ‘~;





j BUTT ER ; .~:: ..

Stocks or butter lathe tour-516ml“:

markets of the country. showrg'n in- "

crease of about 5,000,000 peunds“pver' ’

the holdings of-a‘year‘ago. : The mar.-





gin of increase, however has nalrrdwed

somewhat during the past wee‘k.f-‘=The‘

market showed, a fairly.”good clear-

ance prior to the Christmas holiday





tinuation. of a steady business. Geod





creamery stock is unchanged and fine. ‘~

tuations in other departments Meson} ‘





parativ‘ely small-





At Chicago 92-score creamery extras "

are quoted at 49%c and atDetroit the ;

trade is firm at 421,§@4Tc for-.- tubs 1.; '





scoring 88@90.





 





LIVE srocK, MARTKET NOTES“





 





Producers promptly.- shut oi! the





supply on the mid-December break/in

cattle prices and .induced a. strong

rally. Arrivals of finished steers be-

came quite scarce and from $1 to $1:50

of the preceding $1.50 to $2.00 break

was restored. Mature steers were as

high as at any time this season.:Light,

half-finished cattleawere more plenti-

ful, owing partly to stale offerings





carried over from the slump. On these. ., ,





the recovery was less pronounced;

She stock and bull prices rallied also,

but the veal

weak.





Since the number-of cattle on teed. ‘





for the winter market is below the

average of the lastjflve years, prices





should remain on a fairly mgr: levél .





The general average of native E'beet





steer prices at Chicago in,1927 from; '

Januaryto May, inclusive, was $10.65.. .~ .. . ;

Current prices are- about $3'9highe'r.





If they maintain that premium,-»it will

be a good performance. In November,

the average price Was $14 against

$9.85 a year previous, but

of cattle and calves





from 1926?





.StI‘Q-bg“ Rally '"HoaMarket :43,

.After dfopping to the $3.1‘evel' hag , .n

rally ass. rot “





 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





prices have had a‘ good

sult of a. decided dro

feiptg' ih 1 i



n er ere wt sh pments,‘ t is 013»

sible that the ‘ p '

sustained until early in January.





in market is.





creased supplies at that timeare..likely

down _ Telesat‘o the "De- "

camber low point again. Atf‘this 898." ~ ‘ ’

son of the“ year, receipts of ho“ pare - 2,.

.umn-

b30811- 5?:-





to put prices





considerably .above current? co ,

ion, sothat the price level'is so

tially dependent on the strength”

mend ,for storage. If that re .

suave shows .a stronglteii'den ' t“

cu



siderably. higher prices. skin; £19.28 :

cause the market ,toistiifen W 7

1y. If it does not-show

curtail, prices, -~are» : likely “

the prevailing; layer for a

or two. “ 7’52»





 





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calf, market. continued,





the number .

. slaughtered ,

showed a decreasetofionlyofi per cent





Since the ho idays also will .

gain may bemtairly.wiell ‘
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creased 361.3

. tistics

N‘sul‘eau.

. $1,655,4912913.





‘ acme states





' importance.





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" sew reduced, ‘ thé'





 

 





 





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so.

conti has to pile on "taxes" sneas

cossive rate. Revenues for $0 states





in 1926 increased 11.5 per. ; ent.;0ver-





1915 to”. 192 Ether" m4 =

1‘ cent, according to

. ,» chief statistician. Sta-



ot States and Cities, Census.



.The total amount of reven-



ues collected by the states in .1926 was





1:925, *and‘ from‘





Even with \.,these vast revenues,

did not have sufficient

revenues to meet their payments and

the deficiency was made up from the

issuance. of bonds Or other debt obla-

‘gations. The net debt, that is the

funded or fixed debt less sinking fund

assets, of the state governments in-

creased from $368,516,340 in 1.915 to





»' ' 513275149122 in 1926, or from $3.75

' 'per capita





to $11.40 per capita.





 





N,T FEDERAL CONTROL OF

’ MOTOR BUS. LINES





WA

IN urging the necessity of Federal



legislation giving the Interstate



Commerce Commission control of

the motor bus and truck lines, the

commission says the rapidly lucreas-

ing use of motor vehicles makes the

absence of any regulatory control over

those engaged in interstate commerce

.a= problem of constantly increasing

During the past year

laws were enacted in four states pro-

viding for the regulation or control

over common-carrier motor vehicles,

42 states and the District of Columbia

now having such laws. It is indicated

that Congress will be asked to enact

a motor vehicle control law.





 





LOOKING TOWARD WORLD CON-

TROL OF PRODUCTION





HE President is authorized to call



‘ a 11 international conference 0

representatives of agricultural and

farmers’ organizations of every nation,

to be held in Washington, on or before

llecember 1, 1928, to consider whether

it is feasible to seek an adjustment





of the world acreage 0f staple farm Farm organizations quiet as present.





products which enter into interna-

tional commerce to the probable effec-

tive consumptive demand thereof, at

a price profitable to the producers

therof. and if so, by What me



such adjustment may be attained.





PRODUCTION OF NITROGEN

, INCREASES





EBMANY produced 580,000 metric,

ions of fixed nitrogen in the fer-

.tiiizeryear ended June 30, 1327,;

according to reports received by the

United.- States Department of ‘Com-.

meme. Of this amount there were

350,000 tons ‘of ammonium sulphate,





£0,000 tons- of bay-product ammonium 2





sulphate, and 70,000 tons of cahcaum



cyanamid-e. Germany exported that



year 90,000 tons of fixed nitrogen.

British interests are making new





extension to their nirtogen fixation.

plants..Which will increase their out-3

put 100,000 tons of nitrates a year;



In Bavaria and Norm vast hydro— :1





electric Water powers are being ale-I





veloped to produce air nitrates by the 15'

cyanamide process, which is the one”





it is proposed to use at Muscle Shoals





 





eovsa N u an r .Loosss case?

mamas:- 01.50 PEOPLE '





HE government has lost its case“



in District Supreme Court against



the butter substitutes poop-1e, a:

decree having been filed in the Nu-ine'

case. making. the injunction perman-

ent restraining the Secretary of the

Treasury and the Collector of internal

Revenue from enlioming the clamor-

'garine tax lay against Nu-‘lne. Al-

though an appeal was taken immedi-

ately, to the District Court of pra18.

on;,.the way to the United States

Supreme Court, the temporary injmic-

fiion» remains in force, and momm-

ment"s hands are tied as to any taxing,

supervision, inspection or control of

this new :group'o‘f fat products, “mad

to look and acztltilae butter. but being

sold under the name of “cooking com-

pounds.” ~ -





MORE H035 SLAUGHTERE’D

ORE than 2,200,000 hogs were





M slaughtered under Federal in-



specti-on last your (than the pro:

seeding year. _The total \federally in-

:sp'ected'?hog slaughter last year ex-

«389de 42,500,000 out of a total of 70,





000.000.1966: animals, according to the





 





:Buréau of Animallndustrlf. This 0mm? .





posSessin‘g only; 6;»‘per cent

”Tha's contained:





ry. though

i the; r . .

* res-sent .0313





 

 





road 53.,





 

 





 





 





~’_ ' .,





. ». CHEMIC . .

‘ than‘2200» samples showed, pure



J _. pork ”sausage to. have exc n~

,ally hi h food value. furnishing more

than! 2. 00 calories‘per pound; which

is twice the number of calories ordin-

am consumed by the average person

atonemeal. ' .





 





condemn consensncs j.

l





The 1928 research program for the,

control of the corn borer will be deter-

mined at a conference to be held inf

Washington January 3. Repremta-,

tives from the corn belt states and

others interested in the corn borer.

will attend. -





 





COUNTY cacpasponrs ' l

‘ I





Lake Beauty—Farmers getting the

winter supply of wood. Dairy

poultry businesses are showmg signs





 





of further development. Farmers have1 ,





plenty of “roughage but grain isl

scarce.

tion. Wheat brin ‘ $1.13; oats 50c,

beans $4.50 to $6110, potatoes $1.10,

butter-fat $53, eggs £50 and up.—-—M. S.



Houghton County—The farmers here

are working in the mines until spring.

"The poultry business is picking up.

Eggs 50@'700, hay $12.00, milk,10@12c,

cream 300 a pint—F. C.



lionia County—About the usual num-

ber of cattle are being fed. Plenty

of feed of all kinds except corn. Wheat

went into Winter in fine shape. Not

much gain in the dairy or poultry busi-‘

ness. . The grange is the only farm

organization in this section. Wheat

and beans are the commodities sold

in this community.

beans $5.00, oats 50c, eggs 400, cream

53-0, potatoes $1.00, turkeys 350,

chickens 200.——-J. M.



Kalkaska Cou nty—Farmers are

drawing in, wood. Dairy business is

improving and poultry about as usual.

Plenty of roughage, but grain is

scarce. 'Live stock is in fair condi-

tion. Potatoes bring 600, beans $5.00,

butter-fat 420, eggs 500, hay 18@20c.





Benz‘le County—~More than usual

amount of plowing done this fall. Live

stock is in good condition, roughage

is plentiful. Poultry is about the only





and.»





Live stock is in good condi-j;

*1 The DSN. P. Batches-00., South Mind.





Wheat $1.23,“





tall plowing

and: boom





AL“.oxamination of more Pig. crop abou

five- per court ;

still in farmers’ hands.

31.25, oats 45c, barley 700 per cwt,



700 a bushel, apples $1.25 and

beans'$4.50, butter-fat 49c, eggs





pct

35%, poultry





 

   

 





 





his.





-.‘..-“a¢a





Such!" or





{nowsnnn

Feed Mills





Rapidly crush ear com (with or with-

out husk) and grind all the small grams:

mammtekormifld—mlxedm they are!»-

ing ground—not beforeoratter.

Thissaves time and labor





Use the famous Cone-Shape

burrs. Light Draft. Large

Capacity. Solidly Built. Long

Em. 10mm tons bumpenhonr.

,Hanflto mun.

Wagon Box Elevator furnished.





 





:~ fi

Wheat





22c.-J. E. r.





 





 

 





Circular Free





W .

; vev;-stock

.d‘ue to late pasture.

t 6.0 per cent. Seventy-

of grain and. roughage





f

ohm“





ring-





 





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ai men Feed





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For Profit.

Adz Your Dealer or Write





Michigan Sugar Company

Detroit, Michigan





 





WE PAY 5% ON SAVINGS

--6% ON TIME DEPOSITS--





Write for further information.

Radon-once any bank in Cleveland.

Estabfiahed 1916.





“IRAN" STATE SAVINGS & LOAN C0.

Euclid at E. 105th St.





Cleveland, Ollio‘





 





Largest





 





active thing marketed. Moat $1.35,





FRESH FISH





Shippers on Great Lakes





It will pay you to send for our list, of fresh. frozen,

smoked. salt. and canned fish.

BADGER FISH 60.. Dept: E. Green Bay. Win.





Season





now open.





 





 





 





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' CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

This charmed advortla‘lnl dam in “wished for the convenience of Michigan farms-s

Bull Manna thud)”: puma under classified heuiinu. Try it t '

manning unseen-neon: article tor solo or call-nae. or want ads and for

minim: at classified «in. m h display autumn: 1t com-resell! rates.

Rate 8 cents a ward. each insertion. on muons roadie“ ilk“ four insertions: for tour or more

. u a w oac abbrevl ti . '



W type or mutations admitted. Rendthnces must meow :mdoelrlr. initial or number. No

”a, .“vm' no ha. a separate doom-om and 1: not accepted :- claim!“ ad. Minimum





Poultry advertisina mu he run in this (Ir





 





 





   





N 3 fl aim cw

' ' W Man

. ‘lrflmnzl (I up bl-

undd for flu Clarified anmnml mun nah Ilu'ufiu an

.444 in 14mm: {pulling tun dug.





' '~_ mncco: KENTUCKY swamnms.

Crush .

Grind

Mix





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LOOK! 100.000





 

 

 

 





 





 





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. , ;_ .2 :_ 10....32.‘ i’Smoki-n. 19..~.=8i.50. .

.. I lay postman. ._ tilted Farmers; Budwell,

Kentucky» _ ‘ ' . " '





 





SPECIAL' OFFER—Chainsr or am 6 lbs. 81:

10, $1.75: (bars '50 {or 81.95: m' en received.

many {Handed if not satisfactory. Farmers Asso-

ciation. Most I’aducah. Kentuc . '





 





HOMESPUN morocco. CIGARS. rmrs; Chevw





Inc 5 lbs.. 51 Smoking 5 lbs.. 75c. Pay when

remind. free. Farmers Union, A5. Paduoah.

Kentucky.





 





Hollow.

Iced. Smoking :5 pounds 61.05. Chewing $2.25.

Pay when received. Ernest Choate, Winn. Kentucky.





 





. rm romooo’: Goad. Sweet. chewing. 3 lbs. 75o:

' 5-51.00:





ill—$1.75. Smoking, 3 lbs. 50c: 545:: 10-

31.25. United Farmers. anfleld. Kentucky. ~





lbs. 31.50.





 





HOMESPUN TOBACCO: (”bowing 10





 





 





Smoking 10 lbs. $1. United Farmers. Paducah. KY-

POULTRY



W'KITI'J‘AKICR'S MICHIGAN CERTIFIED REDS



Both Combs. 01 P. Tmmiestod. Michigan‘s



greatest color and egg strain. Cockerels. chicks. eggs.



%Illllflg free. Interlakes Farm. 1 9. Lawrence.



‘. (‘1.





 





"’3 VARIETIES Record of Performance Male Matlnm.





{greening cookerels. bullets. and chicks. Free catalog

zmng big early order discounts. Beckman Hatchery.

Box 57. Grand Rapids. Mich.





 





RROILERS—Big profits raising our pure-bred Bared

Rock chicks for early markets. Write for free

catalogue folder. Arrowhead Poultry Farms. Mont—

rose and Birch Run. Mich.





 





SUPERIOR RINGTJCT BARRI‘ZD ROCK (‘or'ks and

arms-ole. large ringy reams L. Wyndham. Turin.

IIO.





 





IZAItRED ROCK COCKERELS. Official records of

hens. 180 to 287. A “Lady Mary" man cookerel.

W. F'. Alexander. Owosso. Mich.





PURE TANt‘RED ('(WKERELS with Datum. five

dollars and up. Smiley Farms. R. 5. Jackson. Mich.





 





BABY CHICKS





TOWNLINE CHICKS. eggS. breeding stock in four

leading varieties have made a record of profit per

formance for thousands of poultrymm that points the

way surcesswnrd for you. Don't fall to get our New

1928 Catalog .TPIIS how to raise chicks and why

our egg blood lInt‘F make profits easy. Copy free.

I‘rowgrlme Poultry Farm. Route 1. Box 107. Zeeland.

. 1v man.





 





 





\VIII'I‘E LEGIIOIIN eggs and chicks—big discount if





 





ordered now for spring shipment. Sired by 200 to

293 egg males. Egg bred 28 years. Winners 20

egg contests. Shipped-C. 0. D. Catalog. special

.pnro bulletin free. Thousands of pullets. hens.

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

Union. Grand Rapids. Michigan.



BABY CHICKS. The Village View large tyne.





rigorous. healthy chicks.



farm and hair-boxy to you.

catalogue Whlt'h tells all about our hatching and

breeding establiShment. Prir-e reasonable if orders

booked now. Village View Poultry Farm. Zea

land, Mich, ‘3.





Direct from our poultry

Ask for our large free





 





BABY CHICKS—You can buy your early hatched

Michigan Accredited chicks rltht here at home.

First batch January 16. Also booking omen now

for spring delivery at special discount. Semi for





catalog and prices. Bmmmor-F‘redrlckson Poultry

Faun, Box 28. Holland. Michigan.





 





Chicks 9c up. 20 varieties. Usm‘:

many 200 to 312 on record bred ROP cookerels.

Send for tree catalog giving his early order dIS-





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Real money mak

Ranch. Denver.





Word 009 .m Four i

3. than. ~Mm. -.

'10. . ...... 30.10 3230 86.14 WANTED

fl ........ .3: :33 gg



........ , . ' WANTED—Tanning. taxidermy and fur work. Rook

1 ------ -’ t“ 3-13 “6 .botum prices. Fred Stevenson. 125 Burnside SL.

14 ........ 1.1: m 1 Caro. ML

15 ........ 1.39 no 7.“ k;

12 ........ '1.” 1:: . ;.::

.182“ '2 ' 4:3! .szm :51 MM

19.. 4.53 a.» ‘ .

20.. 4:80 8.64 1‘“KEEPS—0l'er thirty years experience. white or

21. u 138 brown. females $5.50 each. mules $4.75 «on. Will

.22. G.” 9.1: SIlII' C. 0. D. Instruction book free. Levi Furna—

.23., 3.52 9.36. worth. New London, bin.

34.... ‘1. u ’50

I“ w 11......" 3-" .0.“ RABBITS—Make Big Profits with Chinchilla Rabbits.





ers. Write for facts. 892





Colorado.





Conrad's





 





HUNTING

Kaskaskcnnels.





HOITNDS~all kinds.

“'. D.





23. Herrick, Illinois.





Catalonia





(roe.





 





v mesons





1N THEE EAN JOAQUIN Vflm of California

numeral taming is a. paying bushim. needing millions

of people in towns and .citles. Allelic combined with

dabyiua. hugs and poultry. yields a, mood income. .A

small one-family film. with Qittlo mired labor. in-

sures success. You can work outdoors all the year.

Newcomers 'welrmne. .The Santa. Fe Railway has 110

and to sell. but oflers a. hoe service in helping you

get right lecation. We éfor illustrated San Joaquin

Valley fdlder and get our farm naper—‘The Earth"

tree for six months. _

.izltion Agent. Santa. Fe Railway. 912 Railway Ex-

change. Chicago.





_—-—_——O——-—-—





leaf Farms.





. ENGIJfiH Slll‘jl’lfl‘IBD

best beefing stock. Albert Hermann. Norwooda‘Mbm.





SCOTCH COLLIES.

Tiffin. 01110.





PU I’S .





from the best drivers.





(instants. from





Clover-





 





I'IGEONS: All

Wm. 8. Rue. 1‘0





kinds cheap. Illustrated





rt Huron. Mich.





list free. '





 





MATTRESBES





 





 





MATTRESS ES made any





size,





low factory





.Drlces.





 





 





 





: counts. Inwrenoe Hatchery. Grand Rapids. Mir-h.

TURKEYS

TURKEYS. ail breeds. fitrlctly ,nure—im'edfi Unre~

lated pairs and tries. reasonable prices. Eastern

()hm Poultry Farm. Beallsvllle. Ohio.

P'UIlIi—‘BREI? NARRAGANSETT TURKEYS. the

11311de that give satisfaction. Ernest Clement. Ionia.

(- . _

MIf‘HIGAN’S BEST Giant Bronze turkeys, largo.





utility and, fancy.





. The birds that always give satis—

faction. N.





Evalyn Ramsdell. Ionia. Mich.





 





l’UIlEJBRED BRONZE TURKEY'S.

leadmg shows. Breeding stack.

Turkey Farm. Six Lakes. Mich.





Prizes from

Write .Idinson





 





. EDGEW’OOD GIANT BRONZE—large hardy northern





turkeys. sired by





son of 192:; AlisAm‘urlean grand

champion. I





Mrs. Edgar Case, Benzonia. Mich.





 





FOR S.\I.E——“'hire Holland tom turkeys. weight from

}{6—20 I'Iirs. Price $10.00. D. 1‘). Dean. Holly. ’Mlch..

oute ..





 





M'ANIM'O'I‘II. BRONZE TURKEY'S. champion strain.

first: and Vigorous. unrelated. lda Davey, Ellsworth.

. LP .





 





 





MAMMOTH fironro Turkeys. May batched. Vcrv

good ones. Mrs. Eugene Ramsdeu. Hanover. Midi.

PURE-DRIED BOURBON TURKEYS. hens $8. toms

$12 . Mrs. H. 0. Buggies. Milford. Mich.





 





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' J--m:._—‘__w

AGENTS “(ANTED :





MAN TO WORK his local territory. booking Orders

for shrubs. roses. perennials. ornamental M fruit

Full or spare time.

No investment or ”elem-0

Real opportunity. Knight.





 





 





 





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wmrao rm





 





WANTED~T0 hear from comer-of farm or

‘mrod laid for sale. 0. Huntley Baldwin





 





mm». moms





 





5 MONTM’OR‘E‘NCY $1 mstpaid.





3 larger (‘lierrv





 





. . trees some. Free year. host Fruit Magazine with .31

'300 men gLE'I'l‘EB HEADS and 300 good rm; may... Sm, 0,1de number mad)“ Gem“

envdltmes. all neatly printed as wanted for Two Nurseries, Gables. Mich.

' Dollars; 'mstpaid. Money back it wanted. Cards.

Shibnlnz tags. statements. etc” equally low prices. ,

The .‘Bmytuna. Mort.~-Michiun. SEEDS





 





 





vmom woor. YARN for sale by manufacturer at

bargain. Sampled Iran. H. A. Bartlett. Harmony.





Mlm- , , «





EMPTY 40 GAL. «tomb Cola. .barrels~$2.00 ouch.

.Iilnrblnf'Cmdy' '00.. ‘3895 'Iroquols ‘Aveu Detroit.





r3 n shat-4mm 1!). MI .31 _W¢‘ tempt,





 





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mination perfect,





Chocks





WOLVERINE OATS absolutely pure. color and ger-



Weight tbhtyneigbt pounds '

dollar bushel. bags free. Freight prepaid, Michigan.

on over twenty bushel orders received before Mamb.’

cashed early

Satisfaction amarantmd. A. B. Cook. Owosso. Mich.





March when seed





.0116‘





shipped.





 





 





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SCIENCE AND PRACTICE demonstrate Imm'Oved

America-n Banner wheat. ‘Wplverlne fonts,

Robust beans best





for... Michigan: A»





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Improve!

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and all





C. L. Seam-nos. Gang”; Colon- Catalog free. Peoria Bedding Coxnpam. Peoria. 111. trees. etc. Also hire agents.

Five your replacement.

. necessary. Outfit tree.

FRUIT TREES AND NURSERY STOCK & Bostwir-k. Newark, New York State.

PEACH TREES. $5 per 100 and up. Apnle 'l‘rees. .

37.60 per 100 and up. In lame or small lots direct HELP WANTED

unim- to planters. by freight. parcel post, express. Plums. , _ , , - /

’Wis. pears. memes, grapes. mm; ;M”. paw; «mes: WAN’I'ED~—WORI\1NG MA)- (married mam launch“

' ' ornamental trees. vines and shrubs. Free catalog in “"31 farm _W0l'k~ MW: understand “Flo's

colors. Tennessee Nursery 00.. Box 125' Cleveland. farm machinery and be able to handle men. Address

Tomi Box 130. Mohlgnn Farmer, Detroit.





 





MILK Room SALESMAN WANTED~$20000 rush

bond required. Steady employment. good wages and.

chance for ;advancement. Write for (urtber panic-

ulars. Freeman Dairy Company. Flint. Mich.





SELL yam poultry, baby-

chicks, hatching eggs and ‘

real‘estate through a Mich- .

igan Farmer Mod adverg,





 





 





tisement.
it“?





May the coming

-NeW Year bring

to you a greater

measure of health,

wealth and con—

tentment than

you have ever

known before .





Note—We are plan-

ning a bigger and bet-

ter service for you for

1928. Watch for our

announcement in this

paper each week.





 





Your “Farm Service”

Hardware Men





 





- black streaks and spots all the way





 





“INTERNAL SBROWN seer"





 





to Petoskeys. I treated the seed with

the corrosive sublimate solution, and

kept the vines sprayed. I had nice

vines and a yield of about 100 bush-

els per acre of smooth nice looking

potatoes, but the potatoes on the

sandy ground, when cut open, have





through. The other part of the field

was all right. Is this a disease? Are

they all right for seed? Why is it

that the potatoes on the sand were

this way and those on the balance of

the field were all right?——J. W. W.





This season on account of extreme

drought in many sections of the state

there was considerable injury from

potatoes affected with “internal brown

spot." It is not believed that this

condition will seriously injure potatoes

for seed purposes. It is recommended,

however, that several weeks prior to

planting that the seed so affected be

placed in a light room and be sprout-

ed. If the potatoes develop strong,

stubby sprouts they will be satisfac-

tory for seed. If, however, the sprouts

are few and very wiry the potatoes

should not be planted for seed.





serious injury from internal brown

spotting because there is a greater

lack of moisture on the light sand

than on the heavier soils—H. C.

Moore.





REMOVAL OF DEAD





 





Over 35 years ago, a child was

buried in a lot’ in a very new ceme-

tery. The lot was not paid for and

after years they do not know what to

do about it.~E. A. ‘





It has been held in a number of

cases that the land in which the dead

has been buried cannot be sold on

execution, nor foreclosure, nor by

executors under a power in the will.

We know of no decision on this ques-

tion in this state, and believe there is

none. After the dead is buried thebody

may not be removed without a permit





 





from the health department—Rood.





CHATTEL MORTGAGE_ PAST DUE





 





If a man is holding a chattel mort-

gage and he does not get it when it

is due, is it Just as good as before?

Can he collect it after it is long past'

due? There has been some paid on

g. EDoves that make any difference?———





.A chattel mortgage has to be re-

filed each year to make it good

against other creditors. But between

the parties themselves, the mortgage

is valid for six years after it is due

without any new registration, and may

be enforced at any time—Rood.





SUBSCRIPTION TO PAPER





A weekly newspaper has been com-

ing‘lto my address for two years after

my subscription date has expired. I

have never ordered it stopped. Is

that necessary, or under the postal

laws, are they supposed to stop send-

ing it when my time has expired?

Must Ipay the subscription price for

these two years they have been send-

ing it?~—E. S.



The publisher is supposed to stop

sending the paper when the subscrip-

tion expires; but if he does not do so

the paper should be returned to avoid

an implied promise to pay for further

subscription—Rood.





 





While the dairyman is constantly

reminded to make sure that the dairy

ration he is feeding is supplied With'

the necessary protein, the idea should

not be established that this element is

the only important one in a good dairy

feed. ,





 





 





 





- time she is giving a: full flaw of mill?”





I‘had‘a nice field of potatoes planted‘





Potatoes on sandy soil showed more '





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1.0.392...‘Y.‘...3 ;

Helpfulness .1 and Safety '





November 9th inaugurated our» 39th year in

business. Looking back, we feel we have con-

tributed worthily to the financial progress and

welfare of the communities we serve. . i.





In expressing our appreciation to members and

friends for their good will and co-operation, we

cordially, invite you to join the thousands of

, investors who. are profitably using our thrift



facilities. . ,





new... Over $12,500,000





 

 

 

   

   

   

 

   

   

   





Established 1889





5% and 6%

0n Savings L

@113 fiatinna An &

, juncatmrnt multiparty

, 1148iGriswold St., Detroit, Mich.





Detroit’s Oldest and largest Savings and Loan Association

Under State Supervision





   

   

   

   

 





 





 





 





 

 





DON’T WEAR

A TRUSS .





MICI-ilCIAN





 





 





 





A cow of the average size and capa- -

city should receive at 'least twoj:

pounds of protein each day during the ~.





 

 





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STAV E



tword spot-manna silo. Write for

flim- «immaanma-a

processes.





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momenta suo c‘o., humus». men-1m = .





 

 

 





   

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





BE COMFORTKBLE— "





Wear the Brooks Appliance, the

modem , scientific invention which

(is: rupture suil'erers immediate

re .





 





     





 

 

 

 





 





. salves or plasters; " ' ' ‘ -

Durable. Cheap. sent on trial to" prove its worm.= .

Beware of imitations. Never sold in storm nor by -, =

agents. Every appliance made to special order and >' . .

sent direct from Marshall. Full marmation and ~ \'

booklet sent free in plain. sealed enVelone. Brooks

Appliance 00.. 307 A State St. Marshall, Mich. '





. ' -Ability to con-

sume large quantifies of rough—





 





   





 





. mama.

WWW Inn’s your. ,

Mesa rlsld m 90.. flat-‘93: unless». Ill.





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