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HE vast development of cane sugar

Tproduction in the Philippines is



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sugar that can be imported. from the

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Exports of sugar from the Islands

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tons annually to over 700,000 tons.

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oriental labor and with vast areas of

fertile land available to cane sugar

production and with capital planning

the exploitation of the Philippine

sugar Industry, the possibilities of fur--

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Prior to 1913 a limit of 300,000 tons

was placed on the amount of Philip-

pine sugar . admitted Without duty.





Since the enactment of the Underwood





tariff act of that year, however, Philip—

pine sugar up to any quantity has

been admitted free of duty. The beet

sugar producers are urging the restor-

ation of the original 300,000-ton limit

on Philippine sugar as a. means of

protectmg the American sugar indus-

try. They say that a large percentage

of the 23 companies manufacturing

beet sugar in the United States is

los1ng money.





News of the Week





 





 





 





 





A Congressional medal of honor

was given Robert A. Ried, of Potters-

v1lle, Pa., last week, sixty-three years

after it was awarded to him for brav-

ery in the Civil War.



Thousands of lobsters and perhaps

millions of star fish were washed

ashore 'on the British coast by the

recent storm which swept the English

Channel.



The claim of the Muscle- Shoals

property by the state of Alabama is

without foundation, the Attorney-Gren-

eral stating that the U. S. Government

has full title to the Wilson dam, the

nitrate plant, and other government

structures there.





Charles Schwab, steel magnate, re-

ceived two dozen pairs of garters for

Christmas because a picture of him

playing golf showed his socks hang-

ing down.



Col. Charles Lindbergh arrived 3

Guatemala City from Mexico City on

Dec. 28th. This is his first stop on his

Central America air tour.



The Mexican senate unanimously

approved the Calles bill which re-

formed the articles 14 and 15 of th’

oil laws which caused so much frac-

tion between the United States am

Mexico.



The strikers in the I. W. W. Col

orado coal mine strike attempted to

poison the water used by the miners

in the Columbine mine. One hundred

I. W. W. members are held.



All efforts to find “Dawn,” Mrs.

Grayson’s airplane, off the coast of

Newfoundland, have failed, and it is

believed that Mrs. Grayson and her

three flying companions are dead as

a. result of their attempt to fly to Eng-

land. "



The consolidation of the Wayne

County and Home Savings Bank and

the Peoples State Bank, both of De

troit, will make it one of the largest

banks in the country.



John Pier-point Morgan, interna:

tional banker, has been made chair-

man of the board of directors of the

U. S. Steel Corporation to succeed the

late Judge Gary.



Application have been made to the

American Red Cross for famine relief

for 4,000,000 people in the provmces

of Shantung and Chili, China. .



Violent earthquakes shook Rome,

Italy, Dec. 26th. . '





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Jan. 3-Mar 2—Short courses in

Dairy Production, Horticulture, Gem

eral Agriculture, Poultry, Agricultural

Engineering, Home Economics, M. S.

0., East Lansing, Mich. 0



Jan. 9-14—Short course in ‘o’mmen

cial Horticulture, Michigan State Col-

lege, East Lansing, Mich. ‘



Jan. 30-Feb. 3—Farmers’ Week, M.

S. 0., East Lansing, Michigan. >



n. 30—‘FebT4—State Potato = Show.

Millafiigan State College, EastIasnSing.

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‘ 00D morning, Dick. 'How’s

G everything?" I remarked as I





walked into the oflice of one of

my county agent friends recently.



“Fine! Glad to see you. How are

things at the College?”



“Oh, we’Ve been having big doings

up there celebrating the selection of

the second group of Michigan’s Master

Farmers. I suppose you read about

it in the papers.”



“Yes, I saw the paper reports and

l-stened in over the radio to the

speeches. It’s a great movement, this

Master Farmer idea.”



“You know there was something in-

tensely interesting to me about the

farming system of these men and the

reasons given for their selection as





' Master Farmers.”





“That so, what was it?”





“Each man ascribed his success in

farming to the soil management sys-

tem he followed. Every one of them

holds that unless a man paid particu-

lar attention to keeping his soil fer-

tile he might as well quit farming.”



“The same thing holds true in‘this





-- county. The farmers who suffer least

. when the lean years come are the

~ ones who pay most attention to their





soils problems. ”

Our conversation was interrupted at





this point by- the entrance of Mr.





Am! a .Wsit to Mr. Hawaii ’5 Farm

By C. E. Millar





Hansen, a farmer of the county. After

the usual introduction and prelimin-

ary remarks about the weather, the

county agent asked Mr. Hansen if

there was anything in particular he

could do for him.



“Well, nothing special. I just came

in to talk things over a bit,” replied

Hansen. “I'm not satisfied with the





yields of crops I am getting. We

work just as hard aseever and take

good care of our crops too, but they

don’t seem to do as well as they used

to. My wheat, for instance, only went

thirty bushels. This was a good wheat

year and we used good seed and fitted

the ground carefully. Then there is

my clover seeding; when I was a boy,





 





 





 





 





 





Where the Alfalfa Was Small and Thin, the Soil Was Found to be Sour,

But Where the Growth Was Thick and Rank the Soil Was Sweet





all on the County Agent





Dad used to grow clover so thick it

would almost choke the mover and

now I have trouble in getting half a.

stand. It seems to winter kill so

much, I don’t think we have as much

snow as we used to. Guess the cli-

mate is changing.” ‘



“How did your corn do? I was by

there when you were planting and you

had the soil in fine shape.”



“Yes, we put lots of work on that

corn ground and kept the crop well

cultivated, but it didn’t yield so well.

It didn’t seem to grow fast enough in

the spring and then this fall it

wouldn’t ripen up. We will have to

buy seed next spring.”



“That’s too bad. Did your other

crops make a favorable showing?”



“Just so, so. About as well as a lot

of the neighbors, I guess, but now-a-

days a fellow has to get considerably

above the average yield of crops if

he is to make anything farming, ac-

cording to my notion.”



“I tell you what, Mr. Hansen, sup-

pose I come out and go over your farm

with you this afternoon and see if we

can find the trouble. From what you

say I think your soil needs bracing

up a. bit.”



“That will suit me fine, Dick. I’d

like mighty well to have you go over



(Continued to page 13)





Relations of Farmer and Sportsman





”/5176 State 0am: Game Conference Recognizes ngél‘ of Farmer

to Choose H15 010720116513





HE fact should be emphasized



that there is a difference between



sportsmen and mere shooters;

that the sportsman and the farmer

should be allies; that their interests

are identical and that the fellow who

is merely a shooter and not a sports-

man is responsible‘for the annoyance

to the farmer which casts odium on

the sportsman.



Recognizing that the game belongs

to the state and that its habitat be-

longs to the land owner the latter has

the right to select his guests and he

naturally will recognize those who co-

operate with him and are not ofien-

sive.



The true sportsman will be and is

anxious to help the land owner re-

strain the irresponsible, to assist in

patrolling his premises and furnishing

him protection. He will join with the

owner in the expense of planting food

for game and placing hedge rows

along the fences and'in the control of





vermin which is destructive to game





and domestic'poultry. In other words

the land owner and the sportsman can

legitimately and profitably cooperate





, to the fullest extent, to he end that





both, .will' receive-many ,neflts. The

owner will be relieved from_ vandal-

ism and be protected frOm marauders.

The game, which is an asset to his





“property, will be conserved and in—fl-

"‘ -‘ 6d, insectivorous birds, which are‘

* essential, to crops, will be preserved,





 

 





 





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To this end owners of cultivated

lands should be encouraged to form

groups and lease to the state their

shooting privileges, the same to be

administered by the state in such

manner as to insure the owners ade

quate protection against vandalism,





 





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HE report published herewith



was presented by a committee

of which W. B. Mershon of Sa-

ginaw is chairman, to the recent

National Game Cdnference in

New York. This report is on the

relations of the hunters to the

land owners and has special signifi-

cance in Michigan because of the

situation resulting from the enact-

ment of the anti-trespass measure.





 





 





 





similar to the Connecticut plan for

state-leased streams and ponds.



The title to all forms of protected

wild life is vested in the several

states, provinces" and the federal

government for the purposes of regu-

lating, the time, manner, and extent

ofxtaking the same by the individual,

equipped under statute and authorized

to hunt, pursue, or kill such game

birds or animals. ,



_,A license issued to the gunner by

any duly constituted authority is a

privilege granted, under the statute to





the hunter to kill game in the politiu»

. cal division Or subdivision set out in

' the race of the licenbe.





 





When a government or its agent

grants such a privilege to a hunter in

the form of a license, it conveys no

waiver of the rights of the property

owner or landlord in the protection of

his prOperty, both personal and real,

against undue trespass on the part of

the licensed hunter.



Posted lands are not conducive to

the protection of game so long as we

have hunters who are not sportsmen.

A true sportsman seeing a poster,

“No Hunting Allowed,” will not enter

the premises, but the fellow who does

not care to respect the rules of sports-

manship, upon seeing the forbidden

sign, will be tempted because little or

no hunting has been done on the

premises, will disregard the notice

and shoot on the posted property to

the disgust and annoyance of the

owners.



The several states and provinces,

the federal governments of the United

States and Canada and the orgafiized

sportsmen should join in organizing

an educational campaign and carry it

to both the hunter and land owner,

teaching the hunter the necessity for

the protection of hunting areas from





fire and for the care and protection





of fences and live stock on the farms,

and informing the farmer that but for

the revenue which the hunters con-

tribute annually through the purchase

of hunting licenses there could be no

protection given by his government to

the game on his premises and no pro-

pagating and planting of game to re-

idepleted covers.





raising, must be applied.





 





It must not be lost sight of in ad-

ministering the game laws that not

only is the game which is shot by the

hunter protected but the insectivorous

and seed-eating birds, without which

agriculture would be impossible, also

are protected. The revenue derived

from the hunters’ license pays for all

this as well as the re—stocking and

care of game. The protection from

forest and other fires is also contri-

buted from the same source.



It is of the greatest importance to

the sportsmen individually and col-

lectively to furnish grain and other

crops to property owners and to co-





pperate with the state in planting and





cultivating food for game birds and

quadrupeds. Food bearing plants and

shrubs should be generally planted in

game covers and brood 'stock of game

species should be fui‘l’lished by indi-

vidual sportsmen and “‘lubs as well as

the state to assist the land owner in

restocking his cover.



All who go afield must recognize

the fact that good sport can no longer





be had for nothing. Like the automo-





bile or other desirable means of

pleasure and recreation it has to be

paid for. It is a. form of recreation

which can no longer be obtained free.

Recklessness in destroying wild life

without any care for the future should

be universally and most severely

condemned and all sportsmen should

recognize the fact that effective meth-

ods of maintaining the supply, such as

are employed in agriculture and stock-
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VOLUME CXLVX NUMBER ONE





DETROIT, JAN. 7, 1928





CURRENT COMMENT





REPORT j u S t





Farm issued by the

. bureau of agricultural

Pnces economics at Wash-

ington shows the gen .





Maintained



’ eral level of farm

prices on December 15 to have held

at the same point as reported on

November 15. This general level was

137 per cent of the prewar prices.

During the month indicated, there

were some advances and some de—

clines in prices, but the general aver-

age was maintained.



The fall decline in farm prices us-

ually takes place between September

and December. Last year this decline

amounted to 6.8 per cent for all farm

prices. This year the decline amount-

ed to only 3.8 per cent. From this

it would appear that prices for farm

products generally are occupying a

somewhat stronger position, especially

when it is observed that the level for

December 15 is ten points above that

of a year ago.





ONSIGNMENTS



Want of beans have re-

M. h. cently been shipped

lc rgan frOm Michigan and

Beans New York state to





the U nit e (1 States

Navy. This is the first of our beans

taken by the Navy since 1925. The

reason is that heavy losses were sus-

tained by the Navy on the purchase

of beans from the two states in 1925

due to the excess of moisture in the

crop. As a result of this experience

the Commissary department of the

Navy refused to buy Michigan and

New York beans. The 1927 crop,

however, is of normal quality and

fully up to the Navy standard.



This experience would seem to sug-

gest to Michigan bean interests the

need of thoroughly standardizing the

bean product. It is a mistake to allow

one grade of beans to go out one year

and then. because of weather condi-

tions. permit another standard to hold ,





 





alone in holding the opinion that

government standards should be made

compulsory in the marketing of this

crop. We further . believe that the

bean market will be on a. more stable

basis when artificial drying of the

psoduct in wet seasons is generally

practiced.





LSEWHE'RE . in





The TB. this issue is an

. article covering the

Testing tuberculin t e s t i n g

.Work situation in Michigan.





Insufficient. funds

have lead Governor Green to order

the, discontinuance cf testing work

until July 1, 1928. We wish to com-

mend the Governor upon his effort to

keep down the cost of running state

affairs. There are a few things that

require more thoughtful attention

from our statesmen than keeping pub-

lic expenses within reasonable limita-

tions.





We are wondering, however, if in

the tuberculin testing work that it is

real economy to delay this public

health campaign. As noted elsewhere

in this issue, the percentage of tuber-

cular patients suffering from the bo—

vine type is placed at around seventy

per cent in Scotland; whereas, in

Michigan it amounts to not over ten

per cent, due to the clean-up work

that has been going on in this state

for a number of years.



These further considerations—that

this work will cost less if prosecuted

vigorously, that the marketing plans

of farmers in certain sections will not

be disturbed due to recent action of

the Detroit Hoard of Health, that farm

communities and our cities will be

provided with their full quota of clean

milk at an earlier date, and that the

forces doing the testing work will not

be completely disorganized—all these

lead us to believe that it would be

economy from the standpoint of 'the

state to immediately provide for the

financing of this work.



. E have just re-

A ceived a. cepy of

the report of the pig





60"" survey taken Decem-

Record her 1 under' the au-

thority of the United



States Department of Agriculture.





This report shows that there were

eleven per cent more pigs saved this

past fall than during the fall of 1926.



An interesting feature is the aver~

age number of pigs saved per litter

in the twelve north central states.

In this territory pigs saved averaged

5.80 per litter this past fall, for the

spring of 1926 it was 5.65, and for

the spring of 1927 it was 5.55. Mich-

igan led all the states in this group

in the average number of pigs saved

per litter. Her record for the above

surveys was respectively 6.6, 6.3, and

6.6.



Since it'has been frequently demon-

strated that profits in the swine busi-

ness depends very largely upon the

number of pigs raised from each lifter,

it, would seem from the above record

that Michigan ought to be a good





place to raise hogs.





G A I N Congress





- will be called

. Light upon to consider the

on_ much discussed truth-

‘Fabrlcs in—fabrics bills. These





bills were introduced

in the House by Senator French of

Idaho and in the Senate by Senator

Capper of Kansas. The purpose is to

make it mandatory to mark plainly

any woven or knitted fabrics contain-

ing substitutes for virgin wool.



In the past, farm people and farm

organizations have given these bills

their fullest support. .There has not

been, however, the united backing of

the organized sheep industry. This





these bills are to be, reported Out by





the committees to which" they; ”3??





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been referred , f o r consideration.





There is 'little likelihood that; the

Clothiers will ever, of their own voli-

tion, mark clothing so the untrained

person may purchase woolen fabrics

with a full knowledge of what he is

getting, without the aid of such a

measure as is here proposed. We

cleaned house in the field of drugs,





why not perform a. similar task in the '





merchandising of clothes?





F the 8,500,000

women gainfully



. employed in the

f" United States, 261,719

Agriculture are engaged in agrh

cultural pursuits, sta-



tistics show. In other words one out

of every thirty-two working girls and

women. make a living from the soil.



The emancipation of women during

the last decade has permitted them

to enter fields formerly held only by

men. Women doctors and lawyers

have become a matter of course and

it is no longer uncommon to hear of

women engineers, architects, survey-

ors, and dentists. But in no field

which in the past was restricted to

men, does there appear a greater en-

rollment of women than in agriculture.



According to a most recent survey

there are 187,686 women in this coun-

try who are actual farm owners; 73,-

081 who are farm tenants, nad 770

who are farm managers. This. in-

creasing number of feminine poultry

raisers, apiarists, dairy farmers, stock

raisers, fruit growers, truck gardeners,

and dirt farmers who would indicate

a strong feminine back-to~the-fa.rm

movement.



The reason for this sudden popular-

ity of the farm among women is un-

doubtedly due primarily to two fac—

tors—the revolution of transportation

and the improved rural living condi-

tion. What the automobile has not

done to popularizethe bucolic life by

bringing the city within easy reach of

the farm, has been“accomplished by

the introduction of labor saving de-

vices and home comforts into the farm

homestead.





Women





N reading between





Tale, the lines of auc-'

From tion sale announce-



ments, one occasion-

Sales ally gets an interest-





ing insight in the his-

tory of individual farming operations.

Recently we saw in a local Michigan

papér an interesting contrast in this

respect.



One announcement of a complete

dispersal started with the statement

that, “Having tried farming for thirty

years without success, I have decided

to retire.” This man’s sale list in-

cluded haying and general farming

equipment, but no live stock, except

two old mares.





The other advertisement in the

same paper announced the sale of

some choice grade and pure-bred

Guernseys. The farm was apparently

well stocked and the farmer was hold-

ing the sale to get rid of surplus ani-

mals. This announcement made no

reference to an intention of quitting

farming, nor that the farmer had been

a failure. ’



The first farmer failed apparently to

make any efforts at adjustment.

Thirty years of failing at farming

is not credible. Long before that time

had expired he ought to have found a

way out or quit farming. We feel sure

that if this farmer had, several years

previous, bought some good stock

from his neighbor and thoughtfully

fed what he grew on the farm, he

would have had little need to adver-

tise his inefficiency.



This matter of adjustment is impor-

tant. The way to success is an ever-

changing route. New problems con-

stantly arise. They must be met with

intelligence and determination. We

know of a farmer who for sometime





     





had every discouraging time trying

.to specialize in fruit, but lbs-came to





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now going ahead hopefully.





ERE is a. sugges-





Cbmpulsory tion on how a

_ Farm , better understanding

7- ’, _ between country and

Trammg city might be brought





about. .Dr. Browne,

chief of the United States Bureau of

Chemistry, put forth~the idea of com-

pulsory service on farms. Require,

says the doctor,

spend two years of his life upon a.

farm. This would furnish a far

greater assurance of the welfare of

the country than twoyears of com-

pulsory military training, it would give

the needed dicipline in economy and

thrift, and a first hand understanding

of the basic elements of our national

prosperity.



Of course, Mr. BrOWne does not or

pect that his suggestion will ever be

tried out, but he used the illustration

to emphasize the importance of agri-

culture in any preparedness program.





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[ypewrgtz‘en

S you will see this is wrotten on

a. typewriter and Im donic it 'be-

cuase the editor of the mIchigan

FArMer says lots of farmres are

writin thier eletters on typewrotters

becuase ti is more business liek. I’m

glad ofthis cuase ti shows thefarmers

is gettin more porgressvie and upto

dat e than thay was. ’





Thereaint on reason why farmers

shuoldn’t have tyepwriters as wellas

business men, even ifthey can’t have

them stenograppers with sikl stock~

ins and fér coots liek business men

have. - Thais good cuase faerms ain’t

got time tofusswith slikstockins and

such thinks. And

another thing

your typewrotter

wont siton your

lap unless you

want it tooo? and

fi you like to set

it on your lap ltil

staythere, that’s

somthing all sten-

ogrphers won’t

doo? sosomebusiness men tell me.



Nowyou kin seeby waht i’M doin

that typewritten is easie, ‘cause if you

got four figners on tow hands you cin

do it. If you use your eyes and figars

you can pikc and hunt your lettres

and getthe rigth onse****soemtimes.



Theysay the right wya to work one

of these things si not to look where

youre strickni) but Ialways lick to

see what I-M doin? One of they

greatset plaesures I get out oflife is

what iget thruogh my eyes. Butlthey

say you got to learn the sence of

tuoc,h only? butmaybce they aer taki-

in* about stenogarphres: type

wrotters. Soem 0? them stenograpcrs

Si suer got the sense 0? touch all-

rright. YOu kin tell ti bythier looks?

and its wise fur a fellow to keep is

hadns in his pcokets when has

aruond thme- *cause fi he don ?t he 81

goni to bee tooched?



bUt bissuness si'busniess everytime,

and its businessliek to haev a type-

rotten le‘ttre adn there aint on raeson

why a faremr can’t haev a tyepwrot-

ten lettre lick thoes fellows that sit

ni hootel lobbees soeokin cigars, etc

watchin the damse goni byy) bE'Sides

the stuff soem farmers wreit can’t be

reed no btter than nohtin. So? fi

they ain’t got a. Wife who kin wriet

thier lettres fer them or theydont

wnat thier wifes toknow what theyre

writtin? they bettter get a. tyewriotter

lick me and then they suer kin keep





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The Agricultural Outlook





' . What Can be Seen 072 the Horzzoh #1928

2" By Gilbert Gusler





HE outlook for 1928 appears

favorable.- Agricultural income

should continue the recovery

which started in 1922. Unless there

should be some windfall, however,





,such as good crops in this country





increase will .be a modest one.





with poor crops in other countries, the

It





would take a bold man, indeed, to





_ forecast an agricultural boom in the





 





early future, or a return to the condi-





tions of 1917 to 1919 without another

great war to bring it about. While it

is probable that the next few years

will see gradual increase in farm in-

come, the changes from year to year

are likely to fall under 5 per cent.



Belief that 1928 will see agriculture

3. little farther along in its recovery





of the live stock outlook must leave

room for fluctuations 'in output due to

weather.



While the weather is a big factor,

acreage in the long run is the most

important influence in deciding the

yield of farm crops. Perhaps the

statement that farmers will not plant

an excessive area in 1928 was too

hopefully expressed. Last spring, for

example, the planting intentions ‘re-

port indicated that farmers were pre-

paring to seed the largest area of the

twelve principal spring sown crops

since ‘1918. They had increased win-

ter wheat acreage 5 per cent in the

preceding fall. Counting cotton, there

was a prospect of practically the

largest acreage on record in these





 





 





 





 





 





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to complete health is based on, these

indications :

1. That farmers will not plant an

excessive acreage in the leading crops.

2. That domestic demand for foods





“and for cotton and woolen goods will





be well sustained. 4

3. That there will'be no marked

loss in our foreign markets compared





. . With 1927.





It is not extremely difficult to deter-

mine that volume of output of vari-





,> ous farm products would be desirable

, .in ‘order to place prices on a profitable





basis. Predictions as to what the pro-

duction actually will be, however, must

be given censiderable latitude. This

is chiefly because of the caprices of

the weather. Frequently, the out-

standing market developments of the

year are due' to climatic events which

could not possibly have been foreseen

on January 1. Corn belt weather this

year was a shining example of its

yagaries. With a countrywide obser-

vation staff, a wealth of apparatus

.and much experience, fairly reliable

weather forecasts can be made for a

few hours ahead. Long distance

weather forecasts, and, particularly,





.the influence of the kind of weather

‘indicated on agricultural production,





have not been much more reliable

than attempts to predict when a blow-

out would occur.



Weather has less influence on ani-

mal production than on crops, but it

may cause more change than all other

factors combined. In 1927, for example,

the mild weather of last winter flood-

ed the egg market. The severe storm





. in April on the range caused an 8





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.. ,‘try crop down to smallsize.

Jing hogs and shotes were rushed to





per cent decrease in the lamb crop,

in spite of an increase of 600,000

ewes. The cold spring kept the poul-

'Breed—





market when delayed planting indi-





crops, which represented about 90 per

cent of the total area in all crops. Bad

weather during the planting season

did the good service of preventing

many of, the intended increases in

acreage from being made.



Certainly, there was no economic

justification for such expansion. What

the industry needed and still needs is

pinching down of acreage in order to

eliminate or reduce troublesome sur-

pluses. The practice of farmers is

still dominated by the .thought that

abundance of crops is a blessing, as

it was in the old days of the self-

sufficient farm. Thanksgiving Day

was established under that regime.

Today it is hard to show why farm-

ers should give thanks for a surplus,

although it is a good thing for con-

sumers.



The inferences are plain enough.

There should be no general expansion

of acreage in 1928. Winter wheat

acreage undoubtedly was increased

last fall. The rise in cottOn prices

probably is a reliable barometer of

a gain in cotton acreage. These

changes will not be so bad, if other

crops are reduced correspondingly.

But, if the tendency is to expand all

along the line and, if nature does not

neutralize the folly, then there will be

chastisement in the form of low prices

next summer and fall. In this respect,

nature is an unreliable guardian. She

may augment any tendency to over-

planting by providing an unusually

favorable season.



Fluctuations in demand exercise

much less influence on price levels for

farm products and farm income than

do variations in supply. Nevertheless,

neither domestic nor foreign demand

is entirely uniform. Virtually all of

the leading business forecasters and





bankers indicate that general business





willimprove in 1928. A moderate re-





cession occuredain 1927, but it is be- , .

lieved to‘be near the lowest point and . .



the tendencywill betoward' increased: . -

_activity, more complete employment ' ' '

and bigger induattial payrolls.

-- conditions appear healthy. .





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By JOHN FRANCIS CASE

Author of “Tom of Peace Valley"

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CHAPTER 1





RAY clouds scudded over a wind-

G swept sky. Although it was the

first day of March and farms of

the corn belt should have been hum-

ming with the activity of spring work,

fields were a morass of mud. Mud so

sticky that it adhered to the wheels

of a slow-moving flivver, impeded the

progress of a bony teani which drew

a creaking wagon and kept at home

all but those farmers compelled to be

about. With an army of other ten-

ants who annually obey the mandate

to “move on,” Bradley Barton and his

family were enroute to a new home.

It was the fourth day of their journey

and the tired horses stood with droop-

ing heads. The flivver had stopped

that the wagon might draw abreast,

and a tall, well-built, lad stood upon

the running-board.

“Hi, dad,” called the boy. pointing

down the road toward a dilapidated





 





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a farmer as well as an author.

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member should read. Tense mo-

ments, action, the test of courage

and honor all play their part in

the web of incidents that weave

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house, “you don’t suppose that shack

is the Jones place, do you?”



Bradley Barton removed an ever-

present pipe from between his teeth

and gestured toward a home nearby.

“Don’t look much like the place de-

scribed to us, Bob,” he called back,

“but, according to the directions given

we should be about there. Suppose

you run in, son, and ask these folks.

If it is the right place, they’ll be our

neighbors, you know.”



Down into the mud stepped the fliv-

ver’s driver, and curious eyes, watch-

ing from behind a curtained window,

noted that the stranger paused to

scrape his shoes as he approached the

door. At the knock, a girl with long

curling hair and merry blue eyes stood

framed in the opened doorway. Off

came the stranger’s cap. “May I

trouble you for a little information?”

queried the visitor. “We are strang-

ers, looking for a place known as the

Jones farm. From our directions we

should be about there, but we are not

sure.”



“It’s the next farm down the road,”

answered the girl. 9

place. had been rented. I suppose you

folks are to ”be our new neighbors.”



“Thank you very much,” replied the

boy. “Yes, we rented the place from

an agent and never have seen it. It





is hard to rent land where we came,





from. I’ll say this,” and a twinkle ap-

peared in- the boy’s brown eyes, “we

are taking a lot of good dirt on the

farm with us. You folks certainly

have the muddiest mud we’ve found

on the whole trip. If corn will grow

'like this mud ,sticks, you should be

world heaters.”



- “It is muddy,” admitted the girl, and

her \smile matched the boy’s grin,

“but you’ll get used to it.

neighbors, my name is Katherine

O’Neal.‘





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“We heard the.





And this

soil does grow corn. As we are to be _





 





Father and mother are away,

. but I, know they will be glad-to do.

' anything they can for your folks. "The J

H «Jones place has been vacant for sonic





time and we are glad to have neigh-

bors.”





“I’m Robert Barton,” announced the .





visitor, “but nobody ever calls me any-

thing but ‘Bob.’ I know mother and

dad will appreciate your offer. ‘We

had good neighbors where we lived;

it was hard for us to leave.”



“Of course, I’m ‘Katie’ to all my

friends,”‘answered the girl as Bob Bar-

ton turned away. “I hope you like

your new home. Good luck.”





“That’s the place, dad,” announced

Bob as he rejoined the family. “Looks

as if we’ve been ‘stung’ again, but

reckon we’ll have to make the best of

it. Goin’ to have good neighbors, any-

way. That’s a lot. Giddap, Lizzie.”

The flivver’s engine broke into a chat-

tering roar; the little caravan started

on and soon turned in where a gate

sagged on rusted hinges. Bradley

Barton climbed stiffly down and joined

the other members of his family. A

man of middle age, stoop-shouldered,

poorly clad, he seemed ill-fitted to

battle against adverse circumstance.

Old and dilapidated, the house was

most uninviting; no living thing about

the place enlivened its unkempt, de-

serted appearance. There were tears

in the eyes of Mother Barton as, with

her two small daughters huddling

close, she surveyed the farm which





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“Oh, Brad,” broke out Mrs. Barton,

“this is the worst in all the years.

Why did you take the word of that

rascally agent? This is no such farm

as you were promised, and you’ve paid

half the rent money in advance. What

will we‘ do?”



“Make the best of it, mother,” an- -

swered Father Barton. “It does look

tough for a fact. But we are here—

and that’s something after all these

miles of mud. ‘Every dark cloud has





 





a silver lining’,” concluded Barton, ut- i' ‘





tering his philosophy of life, “and it‘

might be worse. , See, there’s a big

chimney which means a fireplace. Get

out the axe, Bob, and cut some wood.

We’ll all feel more cheerful with a

fire, and we can’t haul our goods from

the station until tomorrow. Lucky I

had the key sent. Now, let’s have a

look inside.” So into the new home

tr00ped the wanderers. 4



Old, indeed, and showing the rav-

ages of innumerable and careless ten-

ants, the interior of the old home at

one time had been a thing of beauty.

A great living-room, an immense fire

place reminiscent of bygone days, a

winding stairway which invited ex-

ploration of rooms above. Built be-

fore the Civil War, when labor and

lumber cost little in comparison with

modern times, the Jones home had

been a show place in its time. The

house would quarter a small army. As

Mother Barton. and the girls exclaimed,

over its vastness and Bob, withTthe

true instinct of boyhood, raced up the

stairway for exploration above, Brad-

ley Barton stood gazing dreamily at

charred embers of what once had been

leaping flame. Softly his foot began

pat, patting, and the lilting notes of;

a bird in song isSued from his lips.

“A big fire,” murmured Bradley Bar-

ton, “and an easy chair; The old pipe

and the violin. ‘I’ll call ’em back





 





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Tanning horse and cow hides.

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., Ladies’ Pony Fur

' Coats $35.00

You furnish the raw

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and make up cost.

If you have extra fur

for collar and cufl's.

no extra. char? made



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20 Years of Service and Not

a Disk Cracked or Chipped





“Do you make} plow especially for use in plow-

ing new ground where there are lots of roots

and stumps. if so, I would be very glad to get

your price on same. in something l-can use with

a team. ‘ .

"I am a user of one of your single Cutaway disk

barrows. six on a side, purchased-from you

some twenty years ago. It has done lots of

good work. on quite a lot in stony gro md. but

never once. have any of the disks cracked or

chipped. So you see it is still good for scvrrol

years work yet." —Ruuel I. Suttleq. Connors-v, .

ville. 1nd,, R. R. l. .





 





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) CHAPTER II_

Dreamers «and. Doors





- ‘ LL his life Bradley Barton ad»-





been a dreamer of . dreams.

Warm-hearted, lovable, but im-

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Merely buying in quantity could not

by itself make Ward’s low prices

worth while to you.



Of course, the vast purchases we

make are important. We invest sixty

million dollars or more in a season’s

stock. We buy for cash. We get the

lowest possible prices. 'We assemble

assortments that offer you a variety of

choice not found in ordinary stores.



But we do more than buy in quan’

tity. First of all, we make sure of

what is back of the price. We de’

mand that quality be right.



We never sacrifice quality to make

a low price.



That means that our customers

virill be satisfied. We do not lose cus’

tomers by disappointing them. We

“are interested in having your regular

continued“ patronage. So we guaran’

tee everything, just as we have done

for 56 years. We hold your patronage.

This keeps costs down and prices





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Oil and Coal Ranges

$5.45 to $92.85





Here in America‘s largest stove store you can choose

your range from the world‘s greatest assortment of

stoves at savings of from 25% to 50%. Quality and

workmanship of the finest. Ranges are sold on easy

payments or for cash.





 





 





Melophonic Phonographs

$26.90 to $130.50





The celebrated Melophonic Phonograph is designed to

reproduce music and voice perfectly. Our imported

violins ranging in price from $4.95 to $67.50 are equal

to instruments costing twice as much. All of our better

musical instruments are sold on easy monthly payments.





lower than you will find elsewhere.



There are other facts that make our

prices possible. We have expert buya

ers everywhere. They know how and

when to buy in cities all over the

world. We have plenty of cash capi’

tal to buy for six months or a year

ahead. We have warehouses located

at many convenient points to give

you better Service. .



We keep our stock moving. Orders

are shipped within twenty/four hours

after they are received.



All of these things, together with

careful management and a never end»

ing study of markets and of ways to

serve you, keep costs down, and make

our low prices possible. -



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Consult it for everything for the

farm, the home and the family.





 





Cord and Balloon Tires

$4.45 to $24.45





Riverside Tires are guaranteed for 12,000 miles and out

spring prices are the lowest in 16 years. Riverside Tires

will save you $5 to $15 per tire.





 





Incubators $7.95 to $77.45





Our incubators are approved by the Fire Underwriters.

They are made of Red Cedar, have copper heating sys’

tems and represent 30% to 50% savings under usual

retail prices. Incubators are sold on easy monthly





payments.





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PREVENT Fllllll FIRES





Show your ntighbors this amazing new discovery

that obi-r6: fire. as a sponge absorbs water. The

amazing new liquid that puts out fire in one

thirdthe time required by any other known ex-

tinguisher and operates at 40 degrees below zero!





" Be My Expert in Your Locality I





.1 must appoint a man in your local-

ity at once to act as Farm Fire Pro-

vention Expert. Inspect hams.





FEW weeks ago we “had a lot

A of trouble with our furnace. It



is an old style hot water heating

device having five small flue. doors

above the fuel door. These flue doors

had become warped and wouldn’t stay

quite shut and the old furnace per—

sisted in belching forth soot-laden and





 

 





houses, building, and recommend ill-smelling smoke through these

equipment needed for Fire Protec- v - . . - r

“m MWWM mm. [show cracks. To remedy this situation we

you how—1 TRAIN YOU FREE. ' ordered new flue doors. For some

I C. Hahn ' , - .9, . i‘ ‘

61“!“ “in Year ’Round Income unaccountable reason. y... .. is soon

Manager Make this big money,“ as we placed this orur-r ahH furnace





SPARE TIME every month in the

year. ViIcB. Wisconsin did $25,000

in 2 years;Gill. Louisiana. averages

$600 a month!

I must appoint one man in your

locality and I must do it at once.

50 write today for my generous

plans for Farm Fire Prevention

Experts. Write to

RAY C. HAHN

FYR-FYTER CO.

56-A Fthyter .Bldg”

Dayton. Ohio





stopped smoking.



You know we are always braggmg

that we are not superstitious, but. last

summer we had another strange ex-

perience. The rubber ball in the float

device which controls the water level

in the tank from which our cattle and

horses drink had been sticking fre-

quently so that the water would not

come in when the level went. down.

We purchased a new ball and straight-

way the old one began to function

perfectly and we have not had any

more trouble With it since.



Conveniences Pro and Con

t When I was talking to our local

" furnace dealer about my troubles, he

tried to sell me an oil heater. Accord-

ing to his story, this would have kept

our home constantly at practically

any degree of temperature we might

have set it with almost no attention

on our part. An oil company would

have seen that there was always fuel

in the tank and there would have

been no ashes to carry, no smoke, and

no dust. The only fly in the ointment

was that this little device would have

separated me from about enough to

buy a new model four—cylinder car.

Farm life would hardly seem na-





 

   

 

   





 





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- Ew STRAWBERRY





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n‘es. 90 (lays after

planting, all sum-

mer,all fall,and next

summer and fall. .

Enormous yields—s

576 qts. (SZOOworthg

1 day's picking.



acre. Order now—-

orders filled in rota-





tion. Big catalog,

small fruits—free.





KEITH





BROS. NURSERY

Bu 7], Sawyer. Mich.





   

 

 

 





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.. This fine Rifle given for ullinwnly 12 bottle.

liquid Perfume at 15 cents 1 bottle. rite today.



(Bambi. Nov. 00., Dept. T463, Eant Boston, Mans.





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Larger Yields Per Acre Mean

MORE MONEY for YOU!





Fertilizer Makes Earlier—Bigger Crops





Your cost per acre for land, taxes, seed and even labor is about

the same for growing a twenty bushel crop as for forty, but

the cost of growing per bushel is lessfor the big crop and as

a result you make extra profit.



In Darling’s Animal Base Fertilizers part of the nitrogen

is available at once and feeds the plant during early

growth. The remainder of the nitrogen is sup-

plied gradually and feeds the plant through-

out the season. This gives the plant a

quick start and a





steady,

sturdy

growth





   





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

   





Superphosphate

[Formerly Add Phosphate]



is made by special process. Super-



phosphate made this wayis better



because it contains less free acid



and less moisture.



This gives our Fertilizer mixtures

better handling qualities and they

do not clog in the drill. Our new

million dollar plant is the only one

in the middle west using this spe-

cial process.





Write today {or literature on Darling’s Fertilifor

and information about our agency propontron





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tural or genuine without some of the

old accustomed chores. I know city

'people whose principal chores consist

of turning valves and paying a whole

flock of bills the first of every month.

They have ‘no worry about furnaces,

pumps, wells, pressure tanks, gas en-

gines, electric motors, ashes, coal bins,

or wood piles Their gas. is metered,

their electricity is metered, their

water is metered and their city heat

is metered.





Possibly one of the reasons why

farm homes have produced more than

their proportionate share of American

leadership is because of the manifold

chores which have provided respon-

sibilities for every member of the

family and thus have inculcated hab-

its of industry and diligence.





Electricity on the Farm



'1' have already referred to .our

electric motors and probably some of

you are wondering where we get our

current. We re fortunate in being

located Withi less than a' mile from

a rural power plant which harnesses

a small stream and has an auxiliary

gasoline engine for furnishing _light

and power to a village and several

farms. This provides us with 110

volt current. Besides the. motor for

pumping the well water when the

wind is lazy, we have another motor

which automatically keeps a certain

pressure incur soft water system.

We have lights in our home and one

barn and use an electric washing ma-

chine, iron and sweeper and smaller

appliances.





I was interested in reading in the

Quarterly Bulletin issued by the Agri-

cultural Experiment Station at M. S.

C. that they have been conducting ex-

periments as to the feasibility of oper-

ating the ensilage cutter with an

electric motor instead of a tractor or

other, engine. As a result of these

experiments, the College investigators

concluded that this was a very econ-

omical method. However, the tables

accompanying the article show that

they figured the current at three cents

per kilowatt hour. This may be the

rate for patrons of the Mason-Dans-

ville Experimental Line where the

tests Were made, but we have to pay

more than that here at Ingleside.





In commenting on the decrease in

horseshoeing, I remarked in a previ-

ous article that I was letting our bays

g0 barefoot behind for the first time

since they were broken a half dozen

years ago. As the doctor said, “The

operation was successful, but the pa-

tient died.” We go along all right for

a month or so and then Charlie began

to go lame in one of his hind feet

and by the end of six weeks I had the

team back to the shop once more get-

ting them shod all around. The next

time that I want to try weaning them

to barefoot habits, I’ll do it in the

spring when the ground is soft and

moist and not in the early winter when

the ground is hard and rough.



Why Groom Horses?



Speaking of horses, I am reminded

of a remark that a good friend and

neighbor made the other day. He said

that his horses hadn’t been cleaned

off since fall. I couldn’t help but

think of how much time I have put

in on that job during the same period.

Among the two hours of chores that

I do every morning to develop an

appetite for breakfastthere are about

twenty minutes devoted to the use of

the brush and curry comb on our

horses. They all get the same atten—





not. _

How can this help but make my pro-

duction costs higher than those of





 





 





 





some farmers who spends those





' our dairy cows.





tion whether they are to be used or'





twenty minutes a day at some more fwithr.’ Mr





 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 





 





profitable employment? But, anyway,

I’m‘ not contemplating changing my

daily schedule..



.1 sometimes think-that it might be

a good thing if some'of us would take





a little of the time we spend curryinsr





horses. and devote; it to cleaning. 011’

I would like to see

SOme figures as to the percentage of

Michigan horses and Michigan dairy

coWs which are groomed regularly.

I suppose that it is natural for most

of us to devote more time to the ap-

pearance of our horses because we

spend more hours in their company

and have them with us when we are

out in public. However, from the

standpoint of the health of our

families and‘that of the general pub-

lic, there can be no question but that

the grooming of our dairy cows is of

far more importance.





MICHIGAN STATE POTATO SHOW





 





HE next big event for Michigan



potato enthusiasts is the State Po-

tato Show to be held Farmers’ Week,

January 30th to February 4th at the

Michigan State College.



It is believed that the 1928 Potato

Show will surpass previous State

Shows both in quality of exhibits and

number of entries.‘ The six district

potato shows held in Michigan during

November qualified an unusual num-

ber of entries for the State Show.

The quality of the potatoes exhibited

at the district shows was exceptionally

good. The champions of the district

shows will compete for the State

championship at the State Show.



Approximately $600.00 will be

awarded in cash prizes and several

manufacturing concerns of potato ma-

chinery, fertilizer, spray materials,

etc., will 'offer their products as pre-

miums. The premium list will include:



1. Individual Exhibits of 32 pota-

toes of Russet Rural; White Rural;

Green Mountain; Irish Cobbler and

any other variety of merit.



2. County Exhibits which will in-

clude 10 samples of 32 potatoes each.



3. Beginners’ S pec i al Class for

growers who have never won a prize

at any district or State Potato Show.



4. Best Potato Exhibit. Premiums

will be offered growers who select

the most ideal type of one of the fol-

lowing varieties: Russet Rural; White

Rural; Irish Cobbler; Green Moun-

tain; Bliss Triumph; Early Ohio and

Russet Burbank.



5. Boys’ and Girls’ Club Exhibits.

For the clubs showing the five best

samples of 32 potatoes each.



6. Smith-HughesAgricultural

School Exhibits. ‘



7.- Best Bushel of Baking Potatoes.



8. Standard Grading Exhibit. Prizes

will be awarded those who can best

interpret the U. S. Standard Potato

Grades.



Premium lists and other information

on the State Potato Show may be ob-

tained from the Farm Crops Depart-

ment, Michigan State College, East

Lansing, Michigan.





SOIL PROGRESS





High





IN VAN BUREN





 





COUNTY

AN BUREN county farmers are

getting down to bedrock in a





study of the soil problems of their

respective farms. During the past

year, a series of four studies were

made which encompassed drainage,

liming, green manures and organic

matter, and commercial fertilizers.

Lectures on these subjects were given

by members of the college staff to

representative farmers and these in

turn, gave the information to groups

of neighbors in their home communi-

ties. Each member of these classes

kept a notebook of the most important

points brought up.



Pursuing the same line of proced-

ure in six different projects, last year

Van Buren county had 92 local lead-

ers ' with 1,262 ’members in their

classes, according‘to Wm. F. Johnson,

county agriCultural agent of Van

Buren county. ‘ t



This year advanced work in soils

will be'given. The work has already,

been mapped out by._John W. Sims,

soils extenéion specialist cooperating-7

Johnston. .
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Even children know that at the first

sign of throat irritation, the use of

Listerine as a gargle will often ward off

colds—or worse.





Sore throat is a natural warning that

should always be heeded. It is Nature’s

way of telling you that disease germs

are fighting for the upper hand, and

that prompt measures are necessary.





   





THE M'I-CHIGIAN‘ FARMER





Listerine, as you know, has been the

standard family first aid in these matters

for more than a half century.





Being antiseptic, it immediately at'

tacks the countless disease/producing

bacteria that lodge in the oral cavity.

Time and time again, it has nipped a

serious complication in the bud.





Honestly, now,isn’t it worth while to





 





ilz‘rterz'ne, madam, ~quickly”





take this pleasant morning/andrnight

precaution every day during the cold

weather, when so many people are laid

up? Lambert Pharmacal Company,

St. Louis, Mo., U. S. A.





Never neglect

a sore throat





 





 





ITS

NAME ALONE





The name Listerine

Tooth Paste is a

guarantee that it is

the best paste that

scientific knowledge



could achieve.





Large tube—25c





 





 





In the THROAT

and nose more than





50 diseases





have their beginning or development.~

Some, of mild character. ield to an

antiseptic. Others more serious,do not.

At the first Sign ofP an irritated throat.

gargle frequently with Listerine, and if

no improvement is shown, consult a

physician.





Watch your throat!





 





 





 





 





 





 





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10—10 ‘





 





To break a cold harmlessly and in a

liar/fr try a Bayer Aspirin tablet. And for

headache. The action of Aspirin is very

efficient, too, in cases of neuralgia, neuritis,

even rheumatism and luinbago! And

there’s no after effect; doctors give Aspirin

to children— often infants. Whenever

there’s pain, think of Aspirin. The gen—

uine Bayer Aspirin has Bayer on the box

and on every tablet. All druggists, with

proven directions.





Physicians prescribe Bayer Aspirin;

it does NOT affect the heart





Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture

of llionoaec-tit-aeidester of Salicylicacid





THE MICHIGAN ”FARMER





 





 





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PROTECTING PIPES AT FLOORS

AND WALLS





 





NE of the greatest dangers to



pipes freezing is where they come

through a concrete or other masonry

floor or wall. Often a pipe will freeze

clear inside a reasonably warm stable

where it comes through a concrete

floor, since the floor may carry the

freezing temperature two or three feet

when in contact with a foundation

wall that is several degrees below

zero. In the first place, the floor

should never be directly in contact

with the foundation wall, but should

be separated by at least a half-inch

joint filled with asphalt, creosoted

wood, pitch-coated insulation, or other

non—conducting material. Second, the

pipe should never be set directly into

the concrete floor, but the opening in

the floor should be considerably larg-

er than the pipe and the space be-





tween filled with hot asphalt, stiff

roofing cement, or a strip or pitch-

coated insulation bent around the





pipe and forced down around it. The

same general treatment should be

used where a pipe comes through a

wall which may carry the frost from

an outside wall—I. D.





WATER POWER FOR ELECTRICITY





 





I have a constantly flowing stream

about 40 rods from the house. Would

it be practical to try and produce an

electric current by the power of it?

Is there such a thing as a small water

turbin that could be used by damming

this stream? This stream is not large

(about 3 feet across and 11/2 feet deep

on average) but it has a rapid fall

over the most of its length. It is fed

by spring holes covering about 2 acres

and the flow is very nearly uniform

the year around and it never freezes.

I am wondering if there is a device

011 the market such as a turbin and





 





 





 





round Herring $5.50;





. . .

100 lbs. thv-li‘mvcn large



dressul Herring, $1150 round l)l('l(01‘('l.$7.50; head-

less pickcrel, $5). 50; yellow pike. $12. 50. Remit With





We charlie

Send for





order Package (barge 30c per 100 lbs.

1/zc her 1b. more in less than 100 lb. lots





complete price list of all varieties fish.





CONSUMERS FISH CO. ., Green Bay, Wls.





TIMOTHY AND$ _Q

CLOVER





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BedCIover and Timothy mixed—Stand ard Grasses, unsur-

passed for hay or gestural Contains 10 to 15 per cent clover

~resdy to sow. hlorouzh recleaned, arunteed and

sold subject to your test an dam-oval. real Bargain.

83m Io. Fro. of clownnmla Sweet Clover Timothyn

all s and special low prices with cat

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, .' lectYourEngz'ne.”

. Avoid mistakes

and disa intments by getting



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experience is yours for the asking.





WIT‘I‘E

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50 new features now place the

WITTE Engine head and shoulders

above all others. Alloy steel con-

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uses chea fuels. All parts inter-

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Center fire Magneto.

Send name at once. ED. H.WITTE, Pres.

WI’I'I'E ENGINE WORKS-M.



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generatm that would give a constant

flow of current making batteries un—

necessary, thus making it more eco~

nomical in the long run. —M. . A.





A st1eam, as given in the inquiry,

three feet across and 11/2 feet deep

flowing 100 feet per minute with a

10 foot fall would give a flow of 450

cubic feet per minute, which with a

fall of 10 feet wouldibe equal to about

81/2 horse power. Assuming that fifty

per cent of this would be lost in the

turbin and generator, there would still

be available for use more than 4 H. P.,

which would be a practical amount.

However, if a 2 foot fall could be ob-

tained in the stream only about 2

H. P. would be available and if fifty

per cent of this or more is lost in

the generating equipment, it would be

questionable whether it would be pos-

sible to transmit this a distance of 40

rods, as given in the letter, and make

it of any relative value.



A certain per cent of loss will also

occur in transmitting the current over

the distance of 40 rods; if a 110 volt

system were used, it would perhaps





 





 





alumna. ‘ Pittsburgh.“

_ KEROSENE GASOLINE

, on... D:ST11.1.-ATE;

()1? GAIS





LL tuberculosis eradication work

A in Michigan is to be discontin-



ued immediately unless Gover-

nor Green authorizes the use of an

emergency fund or calls a special ses-

sion of the legislature to provide an

appropriation of $150,000 to carry on

the work until the next fiscal year,

July lst, 1928. It is a regrettable

situation. Michigan up to this time

has been a leader in the eradication

of tuberculosis from its cattle herds.





the eighty-three counties in the state

have been tuberculin tested, the re-

actors slaughtered, and the premises





 





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All of the cattle in forty-nine out of.





disinfected. These counties are now .





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I have heard it said that using an

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wire for an antenna uses more flow

of current from the B-batteries than

with a long aerial. We are using an





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wearing

What





t1oub1e with the B-batteries

out sooner than they should.

are the facts?—H.





No and yes. TheD short aerial does

not directly increase the B-battery cur-

rent, and still indirectly it does to a

considerable extent. The amount of

B~battery current depends largely on

the amount of ions given off by the

hot filament. \Vith a long aerial we

get a strong signal and do not need

to burn the filaments very hot to get

the proper loud speaker volume. With

a short antenna we get a compara-

tively weak signal and to get loud

speaker volume must burn the file.-

ments hotter, which throw more ions

and these in tum carry more B-bat<

tery current.



You do not tell us anything about

your set, but if you could use a C-

battery and are not, this would ac-

count for part of your B-battery run-

ning down. Write to the manufac-

turen of your set or see the local

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Please explain how I can cu1Ve oak

flooring boards 1 13-16ths inches Wide

by about one- -fourth inch thick enough

to form the front end of a taboggan.

No doubt this will be of interest to

other readers, since there are many

places in making and repairing rustic

furniture, making sleds, and so on,

where fanners could use such knowl-

edge. —~P.



About the only satisfactory method

of bending wood so that it will hold

its shape afterwards is to give the

wood a thorough steaming with steam

considerably hotter than boiling

water. You will have to get a boiler

or something by which you can get

the steam under pressure so as to in-

crease its temperature. After the

piece is thoroughly steamed it should

then be bent into the desired shape

and clamped there, then allowed to

dry thoroughly. With this kind of

treatment the wood is not-likely to

crack and will hold its shape pretty

well. Of course, anything bent in this

way should be given a protective coat

of shellac 01: aint or varnish to pre-

vent water “farm soaking into it.

Where the pieces are light and of

wood that naturally bends easily,

simply a good soaking in hot water

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practically free from tuberculosis, and

are designated by the State and Fed-

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and there is very little tuberculosis

in North Carolina, some counties

showing no reactors whatever.



Only four counties in the, entire

state of Michigan have failed as yet

to provide funds with which to co-

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tuberculosis. The Federal fund and

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dit‘y'“ prices _;are low, inventOries are

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try. The railroads have been: holding

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the quantity taken will not be enough

to seriously disturb credit conditions,

but there is rather wide divergence of

opinion as to how, much could be

spared before disturbance would occur.



Changes in demand for American

farm products is harder to discern

than the fluctuations at home. Both

our competitors, such as other export-

ers of wheat, and importers must be

considered. The economic tendency

is toward decreasing dependence on

the United States through expanding

production in both importing and

other exporting countries. The change

in any one year usually is not very

large and .the normal tendencies may

be overshadowed by variations in pro-

duction caused by the weather.



Some comment on individual farm

products is pertinent. Beef cattle

prices are likely to stay on a rather

lofty plane through the year, although

the full upturn in the latter part of

1927 may not be maintained. Export

demand for hog products probably will

broaden by summer and hog prices

are likely to recover somewhat from

the low point reached late in 1927,

especially if the pig survey shows a

tendency to curtail production. The

1928 wool clip should bring more than

the last one, but the lamb crop may

sell for less.



. Wheat prices in the last three years

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1928. Poultry and eggs are starting

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farmer from necessity, not from

chOice. A round peg in a square hole,

Barton farmed because he had been

bred to it, while in his heart he be-

lieved that had opportunity been at-

forded his name would have been

blazoned as one of the great musi-

cians. But there had been no money

for training in boyhood, and Barton

the man had done well to feed and

clothe himself and those he'loved. Yet

when he sat before an open fire and

drew bow across strings there was

strength and virility in face and fin-

gers. Barton was always composing

something new. Now it was a mili-

tant march which presaged victory,

now a crooning lullaby which soothed

one to restful slumber. But the com-

position never reached the stage 'of

paper and ink. Barton’s violin was a

call to new adventure, to new fields

of musical eXploration. The sordid

business of getting a living from the

soil was mere necessity, the job one

repugnant from planting to harvest

time.



Grace Barton, younger by ten years

than her husband, was his direct oppo

site. Not that she could not thrill to

the violin, which, as much as its

owner, had wooed him, for it was a





part of her home

Barton faced the





but Mother





life,

stern reality of

hungry mouths, of needed comforts,

of an education for those dear to her

if they were to prosper beyond the





achievements of their own kin. More-

over, she loved the soil with an abid-

ing affection which was her heritage

from land-owning ancestors. The great

grief of Grace Barton’s life was that

in the twenty years she had borne

that name no roof had covered her

which she could call “my own.” De-

spite her energy and industry the

years had been hard indeed until

Robert, the eldest child, had grown

into sturdy, willing helpfulness. Yet

young Bob was a. strange mixture of

paternal and maternal blood. There

were days when he, too, seemed a

carefree idler, content to adopt his

father’s scheme of life; days when he

was a dynamo of energy doing far

more than allotted tasks. Shy and

sweet, Bob’s little sisters were the joy

of their father, their mother’s com-

fort. Stamped upon the entire family

was that intangible something which

betokens good breeding. Except for

their poverty, the Barton family was

not. as other roving tenants who make

annual pilgrimage.



I m p r a c tical and unbusinesslike,

Bradley Barton always had asserted

himself as the héad of the house and

Mother Barton never had rebelled.

When, in answer to an advertisement,

Father! Barton had entered into cor-

respondence With an agent and finally

had paid half of the five hundred dol-

lars rental demanded in advance, she

had not protested. Vivid had been

the portrayal of the great house with

its attractive surroundings, the hun-

dred acres of rich land which would

yield large crops of corn. Now they

were here to find the house old and

forsaken, the fields unfenced, the barn

at flimsy structure which swayed in





Jthe March wind. Little wonder that





bitterness crept into the heart of

Grace' Barton and that she wept for

the comfortable though unpretentious

home and the good neighbors they had

left. “If ever you have any dealings

with an agent of any kind again,

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.she finished, wiping her eyes, “but it.





will be something bad. This isn’t a

house, it’s just an old rookery.”



“Hi, mother,” called Bob from the

rooms above. “Come on up! There’s

a cute little room for Ruth and Bess,

a dandy big one for you and dad, and

the room I’ve always wanted and

never had. All this old shack needs

is a roof and some paint and she won’t

be so bad. Look around while I start

a fire. Who knows, it may not be

so bad after all?” Whistling, Bob de-

scended the stairway and soon a blaz-

ing fire illuminated 'the dark rooms.

Father Barton had discovered some

old chairs tucked away in the base-

ment, and Mother Barton sank into

one with a sigh of relief. “Bob,’f we

announced, “you and the girls can do

all the exploring you want, but I’m

going to rest. It is more cheerful with

the fire. We may be happy herd and,

thank God, we are all together and all

well.”



An hour later when Bob and his

small sisters came in, muddy but en-

thusiastic, the strains “of “Home,

Sweet Home” floated out on the dark-

ening air. ‘ The wagon and car had

been unloaded and Mother Barton was

preparing supper over the open fire.





 





With eyes closed, Bradley Barton cud-

dled his violin, and now the room

seemed peopled with swift and mov-

ing shapes. “ ‘Dance of the Blacks’,”

he answered at Bob’s query. “I’ll bet

the old master has had many a. pick-

aninny dance before this fireplace.

Especially on feast days. Now when

I get around to it, I’m going to write

down‘ the tune.” All

smiled as with a final flourish the

tune ended. “What did you find, son?”

Father Barton inquired as he put the

violin away. “Think there’s any

chance of making that five hundred

dollars rent and some besides?”



“There’s some great land on this

place, dad,” Bob replied, “better than

any we’ve ever farmed. But a lot of

it is creek bottom, which may over-

flow. Ther‘e's a fine blue—grass pas-

ture, although it has no fences to

speak of, and the wheat which seems

just as described to us is showing up

fine. Twenty acres of that, I reckon.

Back in the far corner of one field

there seems to be some mighty rough

land with heavy‘timber. We’ll see Mr.

Jones and get permission to cut posts

and firewood there. How’s your mus-

cle, dad?” concluded Bob with twink-

ling eyes. l



“011, all right, I reckon,”‘was Father

Barton’s reply. “But you know, son,

I never was much of a hand with an

axe. It will take a. lot of choring

around home here until we get fixed

up. Suspect you’ll have to get up the

wood.” There was an amused giggle

from Ruth, and Bob chuckled toler—

antly. No, father never had been

“much of a hand with an axe” or with

any other implement calling for hard

labor since his stalwart son had ap-

proached manhood. Soon the evening

meal had been disposed of and again

the Barton family sat before a leap-

ing fire while the violin sang songs

of olden days, for this was the mood

in which Bdrton found himself. The

girls were nodding sleepily when a.

knock came and Mother Barton threw

wide the door.



“How dry, neighbors; I’m John

O’Neal. And this is Mrs. O'Neal and

Kate.

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soil. It used to produce some of the

‘best crops in thercounty.”



“Yes, your farm has a. good reputa-

tion, but soils get tired and sortpf

run down at the heel like the rest of

us. We’ll be out right after dinner.”



“All right, good-bye.”



Shortly after dinner I was on the

way with my friend to visit the Han-





sen farm, for I was anxious to see





what an examination of the place

would reveal. We found Mr.‘Hansen

waiting for us and as we passed

through the barn lot I noticed some

. attractive cows and commented on

their good quality. .

“Yes, sir, we are real proud of our

cows. We have the papers for two

of them and the rest are good grades.





We plan to gradually work the herd

over into all pure-breds.”



”About how much milk are you get-

ting?” I inquired. '



“Not so much as we ought to. We

buy considerable mixed feed and give

the cows a liberal amount of silage

and all the hay they will eat too.”





As we entered the barn Dick pulled

a handful of hay from the mow.

“Timothy!” he exclaimed. “You don’t

expect your cows to give milk on

that”



“Yes, we feed mixed hay. ' I. would

like to have all clover or alfalfa, but

the clover catches so poorly that we

have to mix in considerable timothy

in order to be sure of a catch, and

we can’t afford to buy alfalfa.”





“Let’s have a loo-k at that hay field

of yours. In my. opinion the place

to start in the dairy business is to get

the soil into condition for growing

alfalfa or clover. Better bring along

a sharp spade, the ground is frozen

a little even though the surface has

thawed, and we want to see what kind

of a foundation your soil .has.”



In the hay field Dick produced a



, small testing outfit from his pocket

'and scraping up a little soil from the

surface placed it on a strip of waxed

paper folded into a trough. On the

soil at one end of the trough he

dropped a green liquid from a Soiltex

tube until the soil was saturated.

After waiting a. minute he touched the

liquid at the edge of the soil with the

point of hisknif'e blade and drew out

onthe paper a ‘bright yellow drop.

“Sour.” He commented and explained

that if the soil contained sufficient

lime the liquid would be blue.



“‘I imagine thechief trouble with

your clover catches is soil acidity.

Fred AnderSon,‘ west of town, had the

same trouble With his clover. ,A test

showed his soil to be acid like yours



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The Agent Examines a Pile of Marl Secured from a Nearby Lake to Correct

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in the state are using it to find out

if their soil needs lime. The main

point is to have the stuff go through

the soil and not over it or around it.

And don’t get impatient and stir the

soil or you will get muddy soup which

hides the color. Now let’s see you

make a test here.”



“Don’t put in too much soil; you

liquid. That’s the idea, now tilt the

paper a little and touch the edge of

the liquid with the point of your knife

where it has soaked through the soil

and you can -. pull it right out. See

how simple it is? You can test as

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depth of five or six inches. I always

like to test the surface and near the





 





bottom of the plow soil too. And

while we are at it suppose we dig

down a couple of feet and find out if

the soil is sour down there.”



“What’s the big idea? I seed clover

in the surface soil, not two feet down.”



“Well, you see if there is lime down

there you do not need to supply so

much to the surface even if it is

pretty acid, because as soon as the

roots get down into the lime rich

layer they get all the lime they need.

This is especially true of alfalfa and

sweet clover. By the way, since you

are getting into the dairy business

you can’t afford to get along without

alfalfa. When you‘ get a stand of

that, you are going to have some hay

every year regardless of the season.”



“This high ground in the field seems

to be all acid, both the top soil and

the subsoil. We have made a dozen

or more tests and-it runs pretty uni-

form. Now let’s see what we find in

this low strip.” '



“Well, if this high ground is sour

that down there ought to be more so

for it is a lot wetter. It’s funny though

clovervseems to catch there better

than any place in the field, just look

how thick it is.”



“Now test it carefully,

we’ll see what it is like.”





Chris, and





“By George! Look at that, it’s as

blue as indigo. I don’t understand

that at all. Give me the “low down’





on this liming business. How do, soils

get acid? Where do you get lime?

How much do you put on and when?l

How much does it cost and is there

more than one kind?”



“One at a time there and I’ll tell

you. But let’s walk over. toward this

wheat field as we talk.”





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Last summer the Michigan Farm-

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URING the past season we got



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matings of this hatchery, as we be-

lieve that well-bred chicks are the

most profitable. Of the number re-

ceived, 232 lived, 17 died of diarrhea,

one was drowned, and another was

trampled to death.



The chicks were received in the

afternoon, and after examining the

shipment for dead chicks we replaced

the covers of the boxes. After dark

the boxes were carried out to the

brooder, which was of the coal stove

type and of 300 chick capacity. The

chicks were placed under the hover

and as it was dark the chicks re-

mained there and thus found the

source of warmth.



Previous to placing the chicks in

the brooder house, it was thoroughly

cleaned and disinfected for lice. An

inch layer of coarse sand was spread

on the floor. Then the breeder stove,

which had been thoroughly gone over





in place. Two days before the chicks

were expected, a fire was started in

the stove and the thermostat adjusted.

Fine mesh chicken wire was placed

around the stove about eighten inches

out from the edge of the hover. This

was to keep the chicks from straying

far from the hover and still give them

plenty of chance to get far away

enough from the hover to cool off if

they wished.



The chicks were three days old

before they were given their first feed.

Also, previous to the first feeding, we

gave them plenty of sour milk just

as it begins to thicken.



The sour milk was really the first

feeding on the third day. After that

we gave them a home-made mash,

consisting of two handsful rolled oats,

one handful bran, one raw fresh egg,

one tablespoonful cod liver oil. This

was fed five times a day for the first

three days of feeding in amounts that

the chicks would clean-up in a few

minutes. On the ~fourth day the mash

was given twice a day and a scratch

grain three times a. day. When the

chicks were ten days old they were





changed from oats and bran to a com-





mercial chick starter mash. '





Water and sour milk were kept be-

fore’ the chicks at all times and a

disinfectant tablet and crude catechu

was used in the water for sanitary

purposes. Fine clean straw was used

on the floor for litter, and grit and

sand were always available. .



During the third week, the mash

was put into feed hoppers and the





ship scratch grain was fed three times a





day as usual. When the chicks were





commercial growing‘mash“to which I





added one part of bran and one part .





middlings to two parts of the mash

by measure I have had very good





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With reference to sanitary methods,





{wintering of the chloks presented.

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and given necessary repairs, was'set‘





eight weeks old, we put them on a





job. So I bought a. three gallon

thermo-drink. In this the water was

always clean and cool and the foun-

tain seldom empty. he sour milk

was put in a wooden trough with slats

across the top to prevent the chicks

getting their feet in. The coop was

disinfected with a. creosote prepara-

tion and the chick run covered with

ashes.



About the only disease we had to

contend with was diarrhea. which ap-

peared when the chicks were about two

weeks old. The affected ones would

stand around with.» wings almost

touching the floor 3% cries of distress

accompanied the pa age of droppings

which were streaked with blood. ‘At

first I used some tablets but without

results. After consulting my poultry

book, I gave them three doses: of

crude catechu powder. I do not know

whether that helped or not but I lost





' only three chicks after that, I always





kept the coop clean and as soon as

a chick showed a sign of disease it

was caught, killed, and buried. I be-

lieve that this helped greatly in keep-

ing the disease in check.



As soon as the sexes could be dis-

tinguished, I separated them. When

the roosters weighed one and one-

quarter pounds, they were penned“in

a fattening crate and fed a wet mash

consisting of one part bran, one part

middlings mixed sloppy with sour





milk. In ten days or two weeks they‘





were ready for the market. So far I

have sold than all to the local hotel

as dressed poultry, as I find that I can

make more from selling them that.

way them by shipping through ' the

regular channels of trade.





AVIAN TUBERCULOSIS





 





I discovered an ailing six month

old cockerel in my coop and killed

him and discovered that the liver was

spotted and large enough to com--

pletely fill the interior. It weighed

one pound. Is that an unusually large

liver for a TB chicken as I believe

that to be the cause. Although the

cockerel showed no sickness whatso-

ever twenty-four hours before, I

killed him—H. W





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necessary by scientists to definitely

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would undoubtedly have brought on

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of tuberculosis, it pays to have a vet-

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STUDENTS' POULTRY FLOCK





 





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fore the hens at all times Now, this

is very good advice for summers,





when they get lots Of sunshine, but in,





winter it is hardly enough.



A few years ago when we were just

learning how to get lots of winter

eggs, we put 2% of ground limestone

in the mash and fed an the oyster-

shell the hens would eat. We could

get the eggs all right, but the hens

soon began to look the worse for

wear. There always seemed to be

something lacking in the ration but

we did not know what it was. In

spite of all this lime, before spring

they would begin laying soft-shelled

eggs and many of them would acquire

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up 'in her system into the ,eggs and

then the trouble begins.



We’ now use bone meal instead of

ground limestone in the mashxand

feed a good grade of poultry cod

liver ’oil, 'a pint to each hundred hens,

which we feed twice a week. A good

way is to give this in semi-solid but-

termilk. We stir the oil in a little

sour milk and then mix in enough of

the laying. mash to make it crumbly

and feed as a wet mash. The hens

are crazy for the mixture and it is

some- task to scatter it along the

troughs with all of them under foot at

once. In about five minutes, the last

of it-is entirely cleaned up and we

put away the troughs again. The hens

not only lay more eggs but the shells

are hard and smooth and we have no

more trouble with leg weakness or

with hens eating eggs. But this is

not all the benefit.



Our Eggs Hatch



We formerly got about 50% hatches

(sometimes not even that), now the

eggs hatch good and chicks have lots

of vitality. A few years ago, no one

expected pullets to lay Well in win-

ter and their eggs to hatch well in

spring. The reason for this is that

after laying heavily all winter, she

had not enough vitamins left to put

in the egg for the young chick.





What she needs all winter is lots of





yellow corn, sprouted oats. and cod





liver oil. These will/give her the

needed vitamins. ‘She :will then

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needing a spring tonic and the eggs





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T is not unusual for the careless

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the winter and from scrub hens than

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has been upheld by the farmer as a

cause for the lack of faith in the

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:the supposed experienced breeder is

more ignorant of poultry management

than the careless farmer.



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care make a practice of feeding their

hens at noon. Nothing is more in-

jurious or more harmful to good 1ay~

ing than giving three meals a day.

It is simply a forced feeding process

that sooner or later brings in its

train every ill that can befall the

flock. For a while the hens will lay

a greater number of eggs. Their

combs will be bright and they will

enjoy excellent health, but the forced

feeding causes the hens to store fat

on their bodies faster than the pro-

duction of eggs can take up the sup-

ply



Two feedings a day with a light

breakfast in the morning and a liberal

feeding before going on the roost at

night, with plenty of warm drinking

water during the day, is sufficient.

Give a plentiful supply of grit, such as

oyster shell, also charcoal siftings

with meat scrap a couple times a

week in proportion of ten pounds of

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There seems to be‘something wron

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most impossible for them to get on

their feet—then they die. I feed corn

in the morning; about 3:30 I give





them oats and wheat and always-





have before them a. laying mash and

plenty of water. They get rather

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The symptoms described might in-

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POULTRY





 





S a feed for poultry, oats prob-

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per bushel and in quality. The propor-

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fiber shell is objectionable. The oat

grain possesses a. higher proportion

of protein than is found in corn, While

the fat content is greater than that

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found in corn. Oatmeal is ‘a commer-

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sprouting period. Only the best’grdde .





of plump heavy feed oats should be

used, and handled in such a. manner

that they will reach maximum growth-

quickly. Six quarts of clean cats are

placed in a ten quart galvanized pail,





which is then filled with water at a 7.

temperature of not'dver 100 degrees »





F., to which are added ten drops of

formalin to prevent mold. The oats

are allowed to soak in this in a. warm

room for forty-eight hours. Next they





are poured on a tray of the sprouting ‘





rack to a thickness of one inch. The

sprouting rack used can be home

made. It is built“ seven feet high and

two feet square, with seven trays each

being about two feet square. The'rack

is kept in a room Where the tempera-

ture is not less than sixty degrees F..

and the sprouting cats are thoroughly

sprinkled with water twice daily.



In from seven to ten days, depend-

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the sprouts reach their best develop-

ment which is from four to six inches.

After this if they are not fed quickly,

they go backward, owing to lack of

nourishment in the seed.

on the seventh day, with the tempera,-

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in the best condition to feed, having

taken up during the sprouting period

three and two-thirds their original

weight of water. The best way to

feed them is in open, flat troughs,

placing as much of the green feed in

the troughs as the birds Will clean

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scratched out or wasted. Under aver-A

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sick birds which would not eat grain,

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I want to build a brooder house to

accommodate 500 chicks. I have 3

dimensions in which I wish to choose.

One is 12 by 14 feet; another 10 by

12 feet, and the other 8 by 14. Which

would you choose? Is it better to set

the brooder in the center of building

or in one end? Canopy on brooder is

52 inches. ——H. S.





It is a \general rule in planning

colony houses for brooding baby

chicks ‘to allow one-third of a square

foot of floor space per chick. Most

portable colony'- houses are 8 by 10 or

10 by 10 as they are easily moved

although not large enough to properly

care for 500 chicks.





Your 12 by 14 house Will contain

168 square feet of floor space and a1—

lowing 3 chicks to a square foot, the

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as soon as they reach broiler age, the

house can be entirely filled with roosts

and should give the pullets ample

roosting space until they are ready for

removal to the laying house.





In a. house as large as 12 by 14 it

willprobably be best to place the

brooder a little to one side toward the

rear of the house. Then the front

and other side of the house will be

a little cool and serve for an exercise

place. Confine the chicks near the

brooder for a few days until they

learn the source of-the heat. This

can be done by placing a rollof fine

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there. It also keeps do'vn.weeds and

conserves moisture, thus taking the

place of cultivation, and helps to keep

the fruit clean duringthe fruiting sea.-

son. Serving all these purposes, mulch-

ing thoroughly justifies itself as -a

strawberry producing practice, in the

opinion of the specialists.



Wheat or rye straw, clean, are per-

haps the most satisfactory materials

for mulching. Oat straw packs tightly

and sometimes contains unthreshed

grains. Manure, mixed with straw,

while sometimes used, is likely to

harbor weed seeds and insect pests,

and is not always good for the soil

upon whcih the strawberries are

grown. In small home beds, rakings

from the lawn will serve.



The mulch may be applied either be-

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since its. purpose is to prevent freer}-

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ULCHING the ~ strawberry bed.





 





THE BALDWIN APPLE UN-

CHANGED BY ENVIRONMENT





 





HE Baldwin apple is probably



more generally distributed through-



out the United States than is any



. other one variety of apple, and it has



been grown for a great number of



years under a wide range of soil and

climatic conditions.



Many fruit growers contend that

when Baldwin is grown for long pe-

riods of time under different condi-

tions new strains of this variety are

developed.



In 1911, horticulturists at the E32:-

periment Station at Geneva decided to

test this theory. Eighty-four Baldwin

apples trees were purchased from

forty difierent locations in the United

States and were set out on the Station

grounds at Geneva to determine

whether distinct strains of this variety

had developed under widely difierent

environments. ‘



The trees are now in full bearing,

and all eighty-four produce fruit

similar in size, color, season, and qual-

ity, say the Station fruit specialists in

a report on the progress of this ex-

periment. ,



“\Vhile there may be strains of thb

Baldwin apple in different part of the

United States,” says the report, “it

seems fairly certain from this experi-

ment that. they have not originated

necessarily because of differences in

environment.”





 





no PRUNING BEFORE SPRING.





 





UMB fingers, tingling ears, and

cold feet are unavoidable features

of the job of pruning fruit trees‘ in

winter. But the orchardist who goes

ahead with the job anyhow will reap

his reward in increased yield of bet-.

ter fruit next year. Horticultural spe-

cialists recommend that the pruning

begin as soon as apples are har-

vested, and continue until the job is

done. But if it’ has been interrupted

or postponed,-it should be done in the

winter and not put off until the milder

weather of spring. Before the or-

chardist realizes it, time for the dorm-

ant spray wiil arrive, and the prun-

ing will be abandoned for that.

Pruning is necessary on several





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cannot be well sprayed; production is

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is recommended that the ”grower of

grapes and peaches wait until after

the severe portion of the winter has

passed, before beginning on them.

Damage to the trees may occur if they

are pruned during very cold weather.



The main idea, in any case, is to

get the pruning done before spring

work interferes and leaves the orchard

shaggy, unkempt, inconvenient and

with lowered production. \.





 





MANURE GARDEN SOIL NOW





 





DARK colored soil is generally



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The black or brown color should be

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Best results in a. garden are ob-

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growing season.



All garden soils may not possess

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five or six years will usually more

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The decayed particles of manures

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The small particles of organic matter

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HICH of Jesus’ activities called

‘1» out the loudest exclamations of

surprise? \Vhen He taught,

“They were astonished at His teach-

ing: for He taught them as having

authority.” When He healed, “They

Were all amazed, insomuch that they

. questioned among themselves, saying,

‘ ‘What-is this’?” 'When He put forth

His power on, the forces of nature,

men exclaimed, “What manner of man

is this? For He commandeth even

. the winds and the sea, and they obey

Him!”

His teaching was, according to His





own thinking, the most vital portion

' of His work. Peo-

ple needed new

ideas, a new view

of life, new faith

and love. When

He gets through

in one locality,

He says, “Let us

go elsewhere into

the next towns,

that I may preach

there also.”



The power of teaching is greater

than we imagine. Looking back, is

there not a teacher somewhere along

the road, who has meant everything

to‘ you? When she kept you after

school or shook you up, you were not

consumed with affection for her. But

you see it differently now. She got

you to thinking, opened new paths in

your not overcrowded mind, which

have made life different. Not long

ago, a professor of mine died. I felt

as though something vital had gone

out of life. Of course it had not, as



‘ the impression which he had made on

me was mine. But he himself was

gone, and the world seemed a bit



3; ‘ lonely. Scotch, he was, and tall, with

i", shoulders like a blacksmith. The Inc-





   





 





as though a big electric battery had



, . been brought in. He began lecturing



'. the moment he opened the door, and



to the end of the hour the words



pouredout. The class was aghast as



he‘read off a long list of poems to be-



mem‘orized before the end of the



semester, saying as he did so, “I want



you to make this paror-t and p—a-r-racel



of your mental equipment.” And he-



» did. We didn’t dare do otherwise. He



was electric, this man. He drew stu-



dents to him as a lamp draws moths.



Would not Jesus do the same, only



' in far greater degree? Do we wonder



that people were amazed? Of a great



- English schoolmaster it was said by



one of his old students, “It was not so



' much admiration for his genius or



learning which stirred us———it was a



' sympathetic thrill, caught from a



' spirit that was earnestly at work in



the world.” “A sympathetic thrill”—



' that was Jesus, multiplied a thousand

fold.





He healed a demeniac there that

day. We may as well admit we do

not know what demon possession is,

or was. Muchof it was probably in-

sanity or' epilepsy, but perhaps not

all. . The idea of the ancients was

that a demon—perhaps many demons

—-might enter a person and affect him



‘ in distressing ways. Jesus apparently

shared this view. Modern missionar-

ies have had similar experiences, now

and then. When the late' Bishop

Charles H. Fowler was in China in

1886, he found many instances of

what seemed to be demon possession.

He spent two days examining the na—

tive preachers ‘ concerning . these



_, strange phenomena. Here. is one case,



. as described by Bishop Fowler. A

.whman,rwhose husband was an earn-



est Christian, camewith him into the

chin has a seeker. Her mother- died,





 





 

 

 





 





 

 

 





 





   





 





Our [Vere/y Sermon—~By N. A. Mchme





‘ wholesome.





ment, he entered the classroom it was ,





' went out to a solitary place and





. g muted a. heathen funeral. ’

‘ med; '9. Christian fun-'

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the Sick





ed up the furniture. The man sent

for a cousin of his wife. This cousin

was a professional wrestler. a man of

huge size and strength. She said to

her husband: “I know what you have

done! you have sent for my cousin;

I can see him, coming over the moun-

tain. You will see what I will do to

him.” She was small, not weighing

over ninety pounds; the wrestler was

a giant and trained in rough-and-

tumble wrestling. When he came in,

she seized him and doubled him up,

threw him out of the house and over

the wall. The pastor came and'brought

some of the official members with

him, and they prayed over her, order-

ing the evil spirit out of her, in the

name of Jesus. She was quiet from

that hour. The bishop’s description of

the little woman’s strength reminds

us of the demoniac who lived in the

tombs, “when no man could bind, no,

not with a chain.” .



The New Testament speaks of

Jesus making people whole. That is

precisely what He did, Salvation is

Holiness is wholesome.

A man of strong body but with a vile





 





I

UNDER THE 4~H FLAG ‘





OVE or die!” wasn’t a nice



threat for a fellow to find

written in blood on his barn

door. But that wasn’t the worst——

there were bullets and bear tracks

where no bear had been seen for

years.



But Bob Barton wasn't the boy

to be driven away by threats

even though his parents were wil-

ling to go for the sake of safety.

With Stonewall Jackson to be

raised into a prize pig and his

own position as first baseman on

the 4-H team to be secured, he

had too much at stake. Besides

there was Katie O'Neal and to

really know her you must not

miss an installment of “Under the

4—H Flag” by John Case that be-

gins in this issue. ’





 





 





 





mind is not a whole man, but a. crip-

ple. Jesus taught the minds of men,

healed their bodies, and aroused their

souls to faith. That is salvation. Sal-

vation is all-around wholeness. The

church is engaged in the biggest busi-

ness in the world, that of making

people whole. If our teaching of

religion is one-sided, we ought to ask

forgiveness, then ask for minds that

are alert to get the truth. To be

saved means more than many good

folks think it does. It means more

than a through ticket to heaven, as

valuable as that is.





Early in the morning, "the Teacher





prayed. He did not pray for forgive

ness, because He had not sinned. He

must have gone for the purpose of

taking on new power and energy for

the exhausting program that lay

ahead.’ He knew how to tap the great

Source of Supply. Prayer to Him was

net 3. form. It was a way to energy.

Says England’s foremost authority on

diseases of the nervous system, “The

way to power is not to harbor our

resources and store up our strength

by inactivity, but to find a way to tap

the resources of power at our disposal,

so that they may flood our life and

fill us with energy.” “They that wait

‘upon. the Lord shall. renew their

strength.”





 





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR,

JANUARY 3.





 





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W flare a Good Young W fe Cort: Five to Fifiem Pound:

By Francis Flood





HE poor captain will worry him-



self sea sick about us if we’re



not back on ~ board the ‘West

Humhaw’ by six o’clock this evening,”

I cautioned Jim. “The last surf boat

leaves for the ship about five and we

can’t possibly walk clear out to the

river and up to the waterworks and

back by that time. You know he

warned us there’s no place here in

Wtinnebah to stay all night, except in





i the bush, and that ‘we’d die there.”





But Jim has been worrying people

all his life so that meant nothing to

him. He was advocating an eight or

ten mile bike back into the bush. This

in the heat of the day in the African

tropics, and we’d had nothing to eat

since breakfast.



“Where in the world can we stay to-

night if we don’t get back to the

ship?” I pursued. “And when do we

eat?” \Ve had been warned that the

English are an ofiish lot andwould





shaded a sandy beach a few yards

below the path a black matron in a

yellow skirt and earings was stirring

a pot of slippery-looking yellow chop

stenching over a fire. Beside her on

the beach two or three more wives of

this wealthy old polygamist were

washing clothes. A little farther out,

up to their knees in water and clad

only in the sunshine‘of that Septem-

ber morn, two of the older girls were

bathing in the river. Sleek little

pickins,” as the African babies are

called, stared out from over the folds

of the sweaty girdles that held them

straddle of their mothers’ backs as

these madonnas of the bush labored

for their lord and master. And they

were all laboring.





A good young wife costs a west

coast negro from five to fifteen pounds





 





 





 





This Old Patriarch Is Monarch of All He Surveys





not Welcome us or extend any hos-

pitality.



With all the worry he causes other

people, my curly-headed partner never

worries himself. “Oh, we’ll find some

place.” And we started out.



It was hot that day, the fierce trop-

ical sun shooting down ultra violet and

all other ultra rays by the helmet full,

and what little breeze there may have

been almost entirely shut off by the

solid walls of jungle which the Afri-

coasters call the “bush.” We plodded

along a surfaced highway for a mile

or two until we found another road,

little more than a trail, leading off

into a land of modified bush. We fol-

lowed that and toiled through two

straggling native villages stretched

out along the road and sound asleep,

even to the dogs, goats, and chickens,

as haphazard and purposeless in ap-

pearance as the bare, mud villages

themselves.



Then we passed some huge white

ant hills, towering ten to fifteen feet

into the air, each a substantial and

complete community. in itself.

ci’ded that the industry and thrift of

these big ants, their systematized

manner of living, the definite organ-

ization of their personnel into work-

ers, soldiers,-homemakers, and lead—

ers. their punishment of the lazy, and

the precision with which they accom-

plish their prescribed purpose in life

could well be an object lesson for the

native villages and the careless,

happy-go—lucky attitude of the interior

blacks.





N and on we walked in that

muggy, sultry heat until our path

finally dipped down through the bush

and ended at a river’s edge. There





, was no bridge and no ferry, only a





grand old colored patriarch with his





L company. of wives, andzhis regiment of

ad fireside the stream. ,

that '





We de-.





and so she has to work hard most-of

her life for her husband in order to

make the investment a paying propo

sition for him. A negro’s wealth de—

pends principally on the number of

wives he owns, since each wife repre-

sents earning power, just like acres of

land in America. If a man can only

get a “start” and buy three or four

good hardworking wives early in life

his future is assured. His women will

easily earn him enough money so that

he can add to his holdings every year

or so and finally fill his compound

with wives—and children. The first

few wives are the hardest to get.





ers” and "sisters” not only to her

children by the second husband but to

all the 'children of all her second hus-

band’s other wives as well.





A missionary told me of the person-

nel of one family which he knew well.

There was the husband, and the wife,

and their children, and his children,

and her children, by former marriages.

Then there were the children 'of her

former husband by a former wife who

had run away. And there were also

’the children of the husband's former

wife by a former husband who had

died. Altogether there were about

fifteen of these mongrel children in

the compound, many of whom bore no

actual blood relationship to each other

or their “parents” at all, and yet they

all called themselves “brothers” and

“sisters” and children of the same

“father” and “mother.”.





So common is this practice of poly-

gamy that it is sometimes. difficult for

the natives to understand why the

white man with all his wealth and

power has only one wife. [Three lady

missionaries arrived on a ship from

England and landed in a west coast

port. The local bishop took them in

his automobile to the school, a few

miles inland, where they were to

teach. He left the ladies at the home

of the principal of the school and then

drove back to his own home on the

coast. That evening the principal

heard his native cook. explaining it

all to the native gardener: “The white

mastah bishop he be rich man. He

bring- three wives, dash ’em all to our

mastah, and den he go back for more

for himself. He be rich man.”





We snapped some pictures, there on

the river bank, of the wealthy old

herd sire, monarch of all his tribe,

and then began our weary~trek back

to Winnebah. There were miles of

bush and millions of rays of sun and

finally we came, on what we thought

was a short cut back to town, to the

foot of a long, long hill with a wooden

semaphore beckOning like a cross,

mounted on the very top. Years

passed. We toiled and boiled up that

heartless hill and just as we gained

the crest, a friendly old fiivver driven

by an astonished white man met us

and sputtered to a stop. Two over-

flowing water tanks “and a long house

with a wide, shady verandah an a





 





 





 





Dalgleish Has This “Bush House” to





The girls are usually contracted for

early in life and frequently never

know the man they are to marry until

they’re bought and paid for. Then if

the wife proves unfaithful or runs

away and the husband can prove the

fault was with the wife he may go to

her father and demand his money

back. (And try and get it).





probably marry another man and





 





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F the husband dies, the wife ‘will ., , W ~ , ,





Himself with a Couple of House Boys





neat garden in the background graced

the top of the hill.



“Who in the blankety-blank are you

and what are you doing on foot: away

out here in the sun?” greeted} per-

sonification of John Bull himSelf, done

in shorts and sun helmet. He jumped

off the auto and held out his hand-L

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My name’s Dalgleish—in charge of the

waterworks here. Where've you been

walking from anyway? The town’s

over there on the other side.”~ We

had already walked about ten miles,

according to our host’s reckoning, and

that is a very respectable achieve

ment for a white man in the heat of

a tropical day in Africa.





UR hospitable, English friend fed



and refreshed us and then took

us down to his pumping station where

he was compaigning against a. croc,

odile as diligently as he used to spend

his time “Turking” in Transjordania

during the war. He had caught a croco

odile there a week or so before but





its mate had proved too wary so far.





We baited a. tremendous hook with a

wickedly fashioned barb, anchored it

to a tree and went away confident. “I:





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





The Bearded Blacks Are

Mohammedans





we catch him tonight, I’ll dash you

his hide,” said Dalglelsh. .



To make a long story' short, and to

discredit the false stories of English

oflishness, we were offered, more beds

in VVinnebah than we could possibly

sleep in and more chop than we could

eat. Dalgleish invited us back for a.

crocodile skinning and lunch next day.

We left him and, in town that night,





. attended an “open house” festivity so





common among the English Africoast-

ers. There was much drinking and

jollying, too much for teetotalers like

Jim and me, but our host explained

it in this way: “Whenever a dozen

or so of us get together this way here

on the west coast we know that one,

or maybe» more, will be gone next

So we make merry while we

may ” ‘

The next day when we thanked our

host for his splendid hospitality he

modestly waved it. aside and said

“Well, boys, you came here to see

something of the west coast of Africa

and how we live, and if we’ve been

able to show you anything representa-

tive of our life here, why—just try

to forget it. That’s what we do”





Our experience in a negro police.





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E would like to ask the farmers



who write about the pheasants

and other game being so destructive

“Why they don’t want the city sports-

man to hunt this destructive game?”

If they let every city sportsman hunt

on their farms and get the amount of

game the law allows them, it certainly

would decrease the amount of birds

and other game. ,



It looks to us that it is the people

who have no regard for [the game

laws and shoot game all seasons of

the year that is putting up the biggest

howl in this section of the country.



We want to say that we have a

farm, and pheasants and other game

are plentiful on and aroundxit and we

all hunt considerably.



We each got our limit of pheasants

and through careful inspection of their

crops this year found their food con-

sisted'of more than half of rag weed

seeds and the remainder of grass-

hoppers and other bugs, but we found

no corn at all.



But perhaps they do eat a little

corn and other grain when the ground

is covered with snow, but we are will—

ing to feed that waste corn and other

grain to them in order to have a few

days’ sport, which the law allows us,

to hunt them.



We sincerely hope that the game law

department at Lansing will continue

its protection of the game.



But we do think that everybody

ought to have the right to hunt and

not be ordered off of any farms as





.long as they have a hunting license





and they are respectable and fair

hunters.



We have the first time as yet to

order any hunters off of our farm or

to post signs on it. But we can say

we certainly do hate the dishonest





hunter.-—Gachter Bros.





THE TAX SITUATION

HE tax situation is an increasing

topic of conversation in every

gathering of farmers, be it a social, or

a business gathering. An eight hun-

dred per cent increase in taxes is

agriculture’s penalty for growing mod-

ern in this section of the state. This

is revealed in a comparison of taxes

paid on the farm of Thomas and

Edward Cahill in years running from

1878 to 1926. In 1878 the taxes

amounted to $9.75; in 1881, 12.60; in

1891 to $13.06; in 1895, $14.03; in

1900, $18.75; in 1915, $48.35; and in

1926 the amount has climbed to

$79.00.



Of course, in 1878 there were no

gravel roads; now we have the gra-

velled township road and the state

highway pavements. Rural delivery

came in about twenty-five years ago

and in 1926, the electric lights. Last

year farm valuations were raised. On

one 120-acre farm the valuation was

increased $500; on another forty acre

farm $500. On a 130-acre farm where

no improvements Were made the in-

crease in valuation amounted to $1,600,

despite the fact that the buildings had

noticeably depreciated.



Farmers need the improvements in

roads; they need electric lights and

telephones, but their incomes do not

keep pace to provide the necessary

funds for these improvements. So far

the farmer has been unable to govern

the price of'what he sells; when he

buys he must pay the price set, which

in comparison is almost double. His





 





life’s earnings are tied up in equip_





mentand land. A new coat of paint

on his buildings, a better foundation

for his house, or barn ,means “a con-





sequent raise invaluation. Farmers,





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(are human beings and like the nice-





ties of life as well as the city dwell-

ers, but for all his hard work his

expenses will over—run his income

despite frugal ways of living, because

taxes, insurance, etc., mount whether

the crop is a success or a failure.

The only way out is crop insurance,

which on account of its cost is pro-

hibitive—G. Pearl Darr. '





ON PROHIBITION





 





N the current issue of M. F., I no



tice an editorial on prohibition. It

is splendid, but not long enough, so I

am offering my bit along the same

line.



I have never seen a “dope fiend” to

recognize him, but I have helped to

keep “Milwaukee famous” and have

left St. Louis, several times, with a

belly full of souvenirs, and claim to

be posted in accordance with a more

than speaking acquaintance with John

Barleycorn.



The Volstead Act suits me all right,

but what does not suit me is the dry

element half confessing that prohibi—

tion does not work. Where

record of any change, small or simple

as it may be. ever happening in the

twinkling of an eye, so to speak?

Why are any of us so foolish as to

expect the 18th amendment to'func—

tion 100%, for at least three genera-

tions. Witness the opposition to the

whiskey tax. At that time, no one

was forbidden the use of it, but What

an awful howl because Uncle Sam

decided he ought to have a rake-off.

Moonshine was invented then, and a





good many revenue collectors sacrificed





their lives, not in trying to keep men

from drinking whiskey, but just be-

cause a certain element thought e

tax on whiskey unfair, and it too just

about three generations to make

whiskey tax 100% effective. Now, if

it takes three generations to accom-

plish just that much, why are we

alarmed, when We fail to stop even

the drinking of whiskey, in one day?

Borah said give it 25 years, but that

is not long enough. It will take 75.

We are bullheaded set, as a whole,

and it takes a long time to turn our

heads even a little bit, be it for our

benefit, or not.



Witness the opposition to our dog

laws and the new Horton law. No

fair minded person can deny the fair—

ness of either law, but to make every-

one conform to it, is another thing.



Personally, I believe fines and jail

sentences, only add coals to a fire. I

am in favor of more primitive punish—

ment. Don’t you believe that if a

man was drunk and menacing the

public, with an automobile, it would

be more effective if his car was con-

fiscated and the offender placed in

stocks, in a public place, with an ap-

propriate sign, telling what he had

done? Fear of publicity is our inher-

ent nature, and publicity is a great

barrier.——O. D. Ritter.





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ants through a hook up based on radio





principles. It is so arranged that

there is no visible source of music,

not even a phonograph or radio re-

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The prospect of, the production of

records for phonographs which will

give visual reproduction of the per-

formers as well as audible is held out

by J. L. Baird, inventor of television.





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1TH butter, cream, and cheese,



you may keep away disease.”



Thus do the sturdy Swiss herds-

men whose life in the remote upper

reaches of the Alps forces them to

subsist almost entirely on these

simple foods, paraphrase our Anglo-

Saxon “apple a day.” Cheese is their

principal food and quite naturally

they thrive on it, since it is rich in

Vitamin A and contains twice as much

protein as eggs. Only nuts, oil, and

very fat meats are richer in calory

content.





Yet despite its high nutritional value

and piquant flavor, it has been a much

neglected food in this country until

recently. The American per capita

consumption is still only just above

four pounds a year as compared with

eleven pounds in England and 27

pounds in Switzerland. It now is

being used very largely in combina-

tion with other foods, invariably with

resulting improvement in their savori-

ness, but it is still overlooked as a

main dish, or as a natural part of the

sweet or fruit dessert just before

coffee.



Zealous housewives anxious to ex-

periment with their menus without

sacrifice of either economy or nutri-

tional value may find inspiration in

the following suggestions for cheese

dishes:



Pigs in Blankets





Cut cheese in strips one-fourth inch

square and two inches long. Brush

lightly with mustard and wrap each

in a wafer thin slice of bacon. Place

on a hot griddle or under the broiler

and grill until the bacon is crisp.

Serve on strips of freshly made toast,

garnishing each strip with a sprig of

watercress.



Cheese Stuffed Peppers





Select six green peppers or pimen-

toes of regular size. Clip the tops

from them and remove all seeds and

fibers. Place in boiling water to

which a pinch of soda has been added.

’For the filling melt 1% tablespoons-

ful butter, add 2 tablespooni‘uls of

flour, stir to a paste, then add one-

half cupful milk and cook to a thick

sauce. Fold in 1/2 cupful of cheese

cut in small pieces, one well beaten

egg, and one cupful of soft bread

crumbs. Season with salt and pap-

rika, drain the peppers and fill. Top

with dry bread crumbs and a wafer





thin slice of cheese. Place in a drip-

ping pan, pour one-half cupful of water

or tomato juice about the peppers and

bake one-half hour. Serve at once.

Switzerland Toastwich



Toast three slices of bread, butter

two slices on both sides. Lay crisp

lettuce leaves on one slice of toast

and cover with stiff mayonnaise. Ar-

range crisply cooked bacon on the let-'

tuce with slices of cheese over the

bacon. Cover with a second piece of

toast. Repeat and t0p with the last

piece of toast buttered side down.

Garnish with quartered tomatoes and

sliced dill pickles. ‘



Southern Gingerbread



Mix together one-half cupful of

sugar and one cupful of molasses.

Add half a cupful of softened butter

or lard and mix well. Then add one

teaspoonful each of cinnamon and

ginger, a teaspoonful of soda dis-

solved in half a cupful of hot water,

half a cupful of sour milk or cream,

and two and one-half cupfuls of sifted

flour. Beat all hard, then add tw0 well

beaten eggs. Bake in a moderate oven

and cut in squares. Serve warm with

cheese.





Stuffed Eggs.





twenty minutes.

cold water. When cool, remove the

shells. Halve the eggs lengthwise,

and remove yolks. Mash these well,

adding a little melted butter, salt and

paprika. Then for each egg add a

teaspoonful of grated Swiss cheese

and enough mayonnaise to moisten;

add also a few shreds of green pepper

or parsley. Fill the eggs with the

mixture and put the halves together.





Impromptu Salad

Quarter large dill pickles length—

wise, and cut strips of genuine cheese

to correspond. Arrange on watercress

or lettuce leaves and garnish with

strips of canned pimento. Serve with

French dressing.





Swiss Puffs -

Roll pie pastry thin and cut in

circles with cooky cutter. Place a

round of cheese on each and bake

until nicely browned. Garnish with

a preserved or Maraschino cherry on

top. '

Cheese Fingers

Roll biscuit dough 14 inch thick.

Cut in. finger lengths and place a thin

strip of cheese between two layers of

biscuit dough, sandwich fashion. Bake





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. . utes quilting at odd times.

B011 the requlred number of eggs





Then drop them into-





in quick oven, serve with plum mar-

malade.



Date, Nut, and Cheese Sandwich



Make a filling of ground dates and

nut meats, moistened with lemon

juice. Place this filling on a slice of

whole wheat bread. Over the dark

bread, place a slice of cheese and top

with a slice of buttered White bread.

Serve in triangular shapes.



Manchester Sandwich



On buttered slices of rye bread,

place layers of tongue, genuine cheese

and slice of tomato. Finish with may-

onnaise and a slice of rye bread but-

tered side down.





 





MAKES PARLOR PAY





 





Y old-fashioned parlor had for



years had been a bugbear to me.

With our large living. room we did not

need it so it was closed up every win-

ter to catch dust and make more work

at housecleaning time. But last win-

ter two of my friends asked me to

quilt them some quilts and it was then

that I began to really use the parlor.

I set up the quilt frames in that room

and could run in and do a few min-

Since then

I have left the quilt frames up all of

the time. A small liner in our home

paper has kept me busy quilting all

of my spare time and I am realizing

a neat profit from it.—Mrs. S. H:, Ne-

waygo County. '





 





SICK KIDDIES LIKE DRINKS FROM

TEAPOT . ‘





 





ICK children who need to drink hot

milk or hot broth can often be

induced to take this needed nourish-

ment when it is served in a small

individual teapot. In drinking from





the spout of a teapot there is less

danger of spilling the liquid than when

it takes its perilous journey in a.

spoon.



An added advantage of teapot serv-





ing is that the little invalid does not.





need to sit up in bed to eat but can

take his “teapot drink” with this head

propped up with an additional pillow.

Cold milk, chocolate, or orange ade,

as well as broths and hot milk, may

be served in this way.——Mrs. B. F.





BEST NOT TO CORRECT LEFT-

HANDED CHILDREN





 





TTEMPTS to correct left-handed-

ness in children may result trag-

ically, is the warning of child spe-

cialists. Among the results of such

attempts, one of the most common and

most difiicult to overcome is stut—

tering.

A certain degree of equally free use





of the left and right hands is not une.





common among children and it is quite

safe in such cases to induce the child

to use the right hand.’ With writing

and the handling of table implements,

this is particularly desirable. How—

ever, if attempts to use the'right hand

produce fatigue, irritability, or nerv-

ousness, they should be discontinued

at once. -





FROM A HOUSEWIFE'S BAG OF

TRICKS





 





HEN baking an everyday cake,



try baking it in a loaf and just

before it goes in the oven spread a.

mixture made of half a teaspoon cin-

namon, one-third cup sugar, and two

tablespoons cream, over it: This

makes a nice frosting with much less

work than usual.





Art of Quilting , Revchd





LONG with the revival of interest

in things old-fashioned, the art of

quilting is receiving its just share of

attention. Those who are not fortun-

ate enough to possess a treasured

heirloom in the form of one of these





pieces of patchwork art, are spending

hours, as did our grandmothers, to

make a quilt, spread, or pillow after

the new patterns to which this old-

fashioned art is adapted.





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The quilt blocks illustrated here

are suited either for a quilt or spread

or the individual blocks can be used

for pillows. The blocks are eighteen

inches square and come stamped on

either Indian head at twenty cents per

block or on white embroidery material

at twelve cents per block. In order-

ing, be sure to state the number of

the block you desire. Address your

orders to the Stamped Goods Depart-

ment, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.





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No. 917—Striking Contrast. De-

signed in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38,

40, and 42 inches bust measure. Size

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

rial with 11,4; yards of 18-inch plain

material and 3/9, yard of 54—inch figured

material. ‘



No. 911—Tailored Lines. Designed

in sizes 8, 10, 12, and 14 years. Size

8 requires 17/3 yards of 40-inch mate-

rial with 3,§ yard of 40-inch contrast-

ing.



No. 691~Coat Dress. Designed in

sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, and 46 inches

bust measure. Size 36 requires 3%

yards of 40-inch material with 1/z

yard of 32-inch contrasting.



No. 919—Fashionable Uneven Hem-

line. Designed in sizes 16, 18, 20

years, 36, 38, 40, 42, and 44 inches bust

measure. Size 36 requires 27/8 yards

of 40-inch material with % yard of

27-inch contrasting and 1% yards of

27—inch lining.



No. 845—Ultra~New. Designed in

sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40, and

42 inches bust measure. .Size 36 re-

quires 3 yards of 36-inch material.



No. SSS—Company Apron. Designed

in sizes small, medium, and large. The





'medium size requires 13/8 yards of 40-





inch material with 61,4 yards of binding.



No. 613——One-Piece Dress. Designed

in sizes 2, 4, and 6 years. Size 4

requires 2 yards of 40~inch material

with % yard of 32-inch Contrasting.



Send 13 cents for each pattern to

the Pattern Department, Michigan

Farmer, Detroit, Michigan.





FARM WOMEN SELL WARES BY

ROADSIDE





 





_ UCCESS, crowning (a cooperative

, ~ marketing project by firm women

1’ Lunar—County, Ohio, ,is \likely 'to

the wave for, duplication of



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highway leading into Toledo, and

seven or eight miles from that city.

a group of 16 farm women found, dur-

ing the past summer, a ready and

profitable market for their products.

which rewarded them with ready cash

in the sum of more than $40 each.



The women, led and assisted by

their home demonstration agent, bor-

rowed $75 from the county farm bu—

reau to pay for the erection of a road-

side market stand which they tended

in turn. There they sold fresh vege-

tables and fruits, fruit drinks, milk,

home-baked bread, cookies and cakes,

and sandwiches. Their customers

were workmen, residents of nearby

villages, citizens of Toledo, and tour-

ists.



At the end of the season the pro-

ceeds, more than $900, were counted

up, 15 per cent set aside for overhead,

and the remainder divided among the

women in proportion to the value of

the wares they had offered for sale.



One is buying a piano with her

profits, another is taking music les-

sons. All have enrolled to repeat the

scheme next year, and other groups

in the same territory will do the same

thing.





ABC’s OF NUTRITION EASY TO

I REMEMBER





 





ANY houseWive's find it difficult



to keep up with .the constant re-

search in new vitamins. To some

women the array seems as bewilder-

ing as if every one of the twentysix

letters in the alphabet represented a

vitamin.



Mary Swartz Rose, the well-known

authority on nutrition says that the

ABC’s of nutrition are made quite

‘simple by knowing that milk stands

first among food requirements. “There

is no way,” says Mrs. Rose, “ofisolv-

ing our nutritional problems so‘ well

as tolbuildaour dietaroynd milk. With





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the addition of two «or three vege-‘l

tables, No or three fruits, being care-

ful to select those vegetables and

fruits that are high in vitamin C, you

have a diet around which you can add

other things for heat and energy. You

may depend upon it—your wear de—

pends upon your nutritional care.”

Five vitamins are now recognized

by science, as essential in a diet for

proper body maintenance. Vitamin A,

commonly known as fat-soluable A, is

essential for growth and health. Vita-

min B was the first to be discovered,

its absence causing beri-beri. It is





indispensable for growth and the

maintenance of the body’s “pep.”

Vitamin C prevents scurvy. It is





found abundantly in citrus fruits and

leafy vegetables. The absence of

vitamin D causes rickets, hence chil-

dren need to have an abundance of

dairy products, since butter-fat con-

tains considerable amount of this

growth-promoting substance. Recent

studies have developed that vitamin

E is necessary for reproduction. With

this convenient system of naming, the

ABC’s of nutrition are quite easy to

remember.





FROM MY KITCHEN TO YOURS





Salmon Mousse



Drain a pound can of salmon and

flake with a fork. Then mix one and

one-half tablespoons sugar, one-half

tablespoon salt, one teaspoon mustard

and gradually add three-fourths cup of

hot; milk. Cook in a double boiler

for five minutes and add one and

one—half tablespoons melted butter, two

beaten egg yolks with two tablespoons

cold water, and one-quarter cup of

hot vinegar. Cook a few minutes and

add three-quarters tablespoons gela-

tine dissolved in two tablespoons of

cold water. Mix thoroughly and add

the salmon, and turn into a mould to

harden.



Banana Cake



Banana cake is a general favorite at

our house, and this is the way I

make it:



Cream one cup sugar with one-half





 





cup butter. Add two eggs beaten, one

cup mashed banana, four tablespoons

sweet milk, one teaspoon soda in

enough water to dissolve, one and one-

half cups flour, vanilla and salt. Mix

well and bake in an angel cake pan.

——Mrs. E. B.

Chocolate Fudge





4 cups white sugar 3 tablespoons butter

2 cups (Team 3 squares checolate

l’inch salt

Cook sugar, milk, and chocolate to-

gether stirring just enough to prevent





burning. Cook until a soft ball forms





when mixture is tested in cold water. '





Remove from fire. Let stand until





cold, and beat hard until it becomes .

Spread on a platter in a sheet 31!!





thick.

one inch thick. Nuts may be added

when mixture begins to thicken. Never

cook nuts with syrup—Mrs. W. A.





Peanut Snaps



Cream together one-half cupful

shortening, three—fourths cupful brown

sugar, and one-half teaspoonful salt.

Add one cupful sweet milk, one tea-

spoonful baking powder, one cupful

ground peanuts, and flour to make of

consistency of pie crust. Roll thin

and bake in a quick oven—Mrs. I. L.





FIFTY RECIPES TO KEEP LOWLY

SPUD POPULAR





UST because the men folks and the

kiddies think they must'have pota-

toes served at least twice a day, if

not three times, is no excuse for the

home cook to boil or fry them in the

same old way every day. This health-

giving, energy-producing vegetable is

adaptable to a variety of recipes. They

are really quite simple, too. About

fifty such recipes are contained in our

new bulletin, “Tested Recipes for

, Michigan Potatoes.” For a copy of it,

send five cents in stamps or coin to





cover cost of mailing to Martha Cole, ,





 





 





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Desk M, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,

,Michigan. ' 1
Indecision



It is the next thing to a tragedy

to follow a purposeless course in life.

The reward encourages, inspires, and

exalts that man who knows he can

gain it by his faithfulness and integ-

rity. Opportunity comes to him who

waits, not with folded hands and a

dreamy expression in those languid





 





 





 





Harold Mahler, No Doubt, Is a Very

‘ POpular Boy



eyes, but to him with a fixed goal to

lead him on.



Oh, the blessedness that comes to

the one who knows what he will re-

ceive for his labors. There is no

hesitation, no faltering, no discourag-

ing thoughts to torment his brain at

the time when delays are costly and

hesitation may mean missing the

right thing. ,.



But not all of us are so inclined.

To get started in the right track is

the first thing to do, the quicker, the

better. When you discover what your

ambition is, there will be a sparkle

in your eye, vitality in your system



‘ and determination in your movements.



Determination to win, combined with

the great help of God’s word, will

bring its just reward—Earl Bowen,

M. C.





 





Hope



Many of us wish that we might

be given insight so that we might be

able to see what tomorrow holds for

us. But when it comes right down

to brass-tacks, we wouldn’t want to

be able to discern what the future

holds. We want the adventures of

tomorrow yet “to come holding what

it may—happiness or sorrow. We want

to be able to look forward to tomor-

row, always having the adventure of

the unknown tomorrow before us. For

in that way we shall always, even in

the darkest hours, have hope and

faith. A mother hopes for her baby.

She pictures it as a great statesman

or president. Even the murderer, sen-

tenced to death by the electric chair,

.. hopes. He‘has a faint hope that he

smay be pardoned. Even when he is

being conveyed to the chair, he hopes.

For is there not a possibility that

there may be a defect in the electric

wiring or that even at that late mo-

ment he may be pardoned? So re-

member, all of you, that even though

today. is not as it should be, tomor-

row may bring happiness and joy.—

GraCe Cramer, Comstock, Mich:; Box 2.





 





Education ~

Education“ is what the people of

America need today. It is a known

fact that a large amount of the

crimes today are committed by the

, uneducated. In a certain penitentiary

’ in the United States there are seven





hundred young men under the age of‘





xwmymye years. Out of these seven





   

 

 





 





' Some Sensible Subjects

Discuum’ 5}! M any Circler:





, om man. Sen-r of them have,





had a college education, nineteen a

high school education, and the remain-

ing six hundred and seventy-seven

never finished high school. Do we

need education? I would say, “yes.”



Below is an article I copied out .of

our Sunday School paper about educa-

tion. It was written for young men

but is good advice to young women.

The title of the article is:





Ain’t It So?



“Harken. 0 young man, and I will

speak for you the parable of the fish

hooks. For when the lazy days of

summer draw nigh, then thou gayest,

‘Behold, I go fishing.’ And perad-

venture thou takest with thee» but a

very small hook and a tender line unto

it. Then it cometh to pass that as

thou sittest in the bow of the boat

that the cork bobbeth a little and thou

pullest it out, even a tiny fish, the

size of thy finger. -



“And so doest thou, likewise, sev-

eral times ’till thou art all disgusted

with the smallness of them all. But





by and by, when thou art almost nod-

ding, thou wakest with a yank, the

cork bobbeth with a great bob; and

goeth clear under. The line spinneth,

the reel hummeth,

:ph, joy, for now I have hooked a

regular” fish!’ And then thou reel-

est it in, very carefully, ’till the head

and tail appear, even a jim dandy, as

long as thine arm. But just when it

cometh. nigh unto thee, oh, horrors!

The tail floppeth, the line snappeth,

the fish goeth, and all those has left is

a ‘fish tale’ that no one believeth, for

thy line was too weak and they hook

too small.



“Even so is every one that fisheth

in the ocean of life, with a pin hock

education and a twine string prepara-

tion, for if he, by chance, catcheth an

honest-to-goodness job, he cannot hold

it down, for his line is too small and

all the days of his life shall he dig

but get nowhere.



“Yea, verily, in the days of thy

youth, then make strong thy tackle

With a good education; first the high

school and then the college of, your

denomination, where character also is

a member of.the faculty. Then it

shall come to pass that if thou even

hook a whale, the whale will know

that thou art there present also at

the hooking.”





Ain’t it so?—~Paula, M. C.





 





 





 





DUR LETTER Box





   

   





 





 





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



We have three dogs and five cats.

I’ve had many different pets besides

cats that I like just as well; a coon,

(not a black one), baby woodchucks,

wild rabbits, crows, red squirrels, and

once my brother and I nearly had

snakes for pets. Daddy plowed up

six snake eggs and brought them up

for us to see. Of course, we put them

in the sun thinking no more of them.

In a day or two we noticed the eggs





Hello Everybody:



I’m fifteen years old. I’ve just three

years to be a Merry Circler. I go to

school nearly every day. I just love

to go to school and to become a real.

person with some sense, not to be a

bum like some girls. I’m against

fiappers that smoke, drink, run out at

night, and go to the worst places on

the earth. These things don’t belong

to girls. This stuff belongs to people

who have no sense, pride nor shame.





 





Page.





able, from the grown-ups.





 





Annual Parents ’ Parley





E have just finished with our Home-Coming letters which I

believe interested everybody. Another feature which always

has made interesting reading has .

devoted to comments from grown folks on the activities of Our

During the next few weeks we want to hold our Annual

Parents’ Parley, so urge some comments,

Even though you may not be .a parent

we will welcome your expression of opinion on any subject dis-

cussed in our columns or your criticism of our work. . .

Merry Circlers, if your parents have not read this, call it to

their attention and urge them to “say something” for Our Page

or about it. Ask them to do it soon, please—Uncle Frank.





been the special issues





favorable or unfavor-





 





 





had started to “peek,” as chickens .do.

We broke them open and found tiny

snakes curled up in them, which we

killed.



I wish some other cousins would

write about different pets too, I think

it is interesting.——“Susan.”



You certainly have had an inter-

esting variety of pets. Why did you

not keep the snakes and try to train

them? Then you would have had





some novel pets.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



.In the bygone days, the women

didn’t drink in saloons» probably a.

few did but they weren’t considered

as real people, but young men and

women didn’t drink in the saloons.

Now the drinks are made at home and

then they go out driving with cars

even when intoxicated, and injure

themselves and others. Anyway on

this read, many' of the accidents are

caused by the drivers having some

other liquid besides gasoline and, as a

rule, moonshine and gasoline don’t go

well together. -



I suppose I shouldn’t write like this

as the clean part should always be

on top and the dirt and filth covered

and not anything said or written about

it. 'Of‘course, none of us are perfect

and if we were, wewouldn’t be here.

——Lily of the Valley.



The only proper place, for alcohol





in automobiling is in the radiator.. I





don’t think the Old, saloon days fend v.

the. present popularity, of; the auto;





 

 

 





would work together very well.



I don’t want to hear my mether cry-

ing about me for being such a person

so I would rather stay out. Wouldn’t

you, uncle? Some mothers Weep from

morning ’till night about their chil-

dren being out with the world’s bums.

So all girls and boys that belong to

the Merry Circle, don’t make your

mother’s heart unhappy. Keep it

happy. She kept it happy for us when

we were young. So long, everybody.—

Mary.



I’m glad that you think of the suf-

fering caused others when we stray

from the straight path. In our

thoughts of those whom we think have

done wrong, we must remember that

there is good in everybody.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:





There seems to be many views and

opinions in regard to the habits of

our boys and girls. Because one does

something another does not care to

do or does not believe to be right,

does not make that one a bad person.

The world is made up of different

individuals, each with "his or her

habits. In each of .. them there is

something good andlikeable. Our own

habits may not please everybody, yet

we are not bed. All of us leave our

footprints on the “sands of time” so

let \‘us be sure that. those footprints-

are worth looking at by. those who

must come behind us in life’s journey.

—-Ei!a M. ,Somers. '





 





titties: .





and thou ' sayest, -





.Yourietterbnngsto mind flint)“. is





“In men whom men condemn as ill

I find so much of goodness still,

That I hesitate to draw the line

Where God has not.”



But there is one thing to remem-

ber, there are good habits and bad

ones to which one can make no ex-

ception. Bad/habits can do no one

any good.





 





THE CHRISTMAS CHEST





OUR first Christmas Chest proved a

success, especially for a starter.



_,The packages came a little late,

perhaps because of the rush in the

mail and the somewhat late announce-

ment we gave the Chest. But pack-

ages .w1th a rather flne assortment of

clothing came from the following:

Shirley Palmer, Vera Diffell, Vinnie

and Virdie Baer, Virgil Low, Mrs.

Bert Faber, Lynn Golden, Ruby and

Clara French, Zona Amos, Rena Pater,

Alma and Albert Peterson, Mrs. Alfred

Wilson, Mrs. Emil Klopfen tein, Eliza~

beth Olthouse, Ethel Sun in.



Money for the Chest was received

from Dorothy Shoemaker, Mrs. John

A. Smith, Carl Ahlin, Virginia Skinner,

Doris Francis, Elsie Mae Farmer,

Milton Shoultz, Alice Buist, Naomi

Comfort, and Mr. Herman Lipstraw.

The amount of money sent was $7.76

of which Mr. Lipstraw sent $5.00.



The following are some of the arti-

cles sent: boys’ waists, 3 pr. boys’

trousers, 4 boys’ coats, 2 vests, one

woman’s coat, 5 ladies’ dresses, 1 ap-

ron, 1 pr. ladies’ shoes, 3 pr. slippers,

1 ladies’ suit coat, 1 ladies’ skirt, 2

girls’ coats, 7 girls’ dresses, 3 girls’

dresses and bloomers, 6 slips, 1 knit-

ted cap, 1 muffler, 1 baby’s dress, 2

pr. baby’s stockings, 1 nightie, 5 pr.

rompers, 2 girls’ skirts, 2 skirts and

jackets, 1 bonnet, 1 cap, 2 large pieces

flannelet, 1 wool petticoat, 1 piece

gingham, 1 piece print for apron, 2

reefers, 2 suit coats, 3 ladies' hats, 2

pr. boys’ shoes, games, toys, beads,

can of dried corn and can of jam.



This was received up to Christmas

and was delivered to the Childrens’

Hospital of Michigan Social Service

Department which will distribute ac-

cording to the needs of the cases that

department has personal knowledge

0





We will have more about this Christ-

mas Chest later on.—-Uncle Frank.





A SMALL BUT TASTY TIDBIT





 





 





T seems strange to think that nuts

but little larger than a kernel of

buckwheat should form a staple and



favorite article of diet for an animal

as large as a bear. Beechnuts are

just such small morsels, however, and

brain is inveterately fond of them.

The beech tree which bears these

tasty tidbits is a common tree in

many sections of this country, well-

known for its smooth, gray bark. It

reaches a height of 75 feet or more,

growing tall and slender in the forest,

and spreading out to form a broad

rounded crown if growing in the





 





 





 





 





 





 





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open. It is said to live as long as 250

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The nuts are triangular, borne three

in a prickly burr after the fashion of

chestnuts. Bears are not the only

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these tasty morsels. Deer,” grouse,

wild turkeys, squirrels, and, other

wilderness‘dwellers regularly feed on

them, and they were an important and.

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and had to be on the job at

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way through the yard to the

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remarkable water-resisting properties,

for which reason it is commonly used

in France in the making

wooden shoes.“





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OR two weeks we have not had

contests because of the holidays.

So, we will start the year with one

of the old time Read and Win Con-

tests. .



You will find the answers to the

questions below in the pages of this

issue. Do not rewrite the questions

but number your answers the same as

the questions. Please make your an—

swers as short as possible. Write

neatly and put your name and, ad-

dress in the upper left hand corner

of your paper. If you are a Merry

Circler, put M. C. after your name.

The prizes will be fountain pens,

loose-leaf note books, and pocket

knives. There will be ten prizes in

all. All who have correct papers and

C. pins

and cards.



The questions are:



1. Who thinks it a waste to use

bedding freely? '



2. How much decrease did the

storm in April cause to the lamb crop?

3. How many members are there

in the Ottawa Egg and Poultry Asso-

ciation?



4. What feeds in the winter help

furnish hens with needed vitamins?

5. When should heaviest feeding

be given hens?



Emil





6. What did Mrs. Klopfen-





contribute





How many pounds of cheese do

year per capita?

This contest will close January 13th.

Please send your contest papers to

Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmers, De-

troit, before that time.





Rural Health #





SPRING TONICS NOT NEEDED IF»

DIET IS WELL BALANCED





 





 





 





 





EW'ER spring tonics will be needed

and fewer cases of spring fever

noted if plenty of fruits and green

leafy vegetables are eaten throughout

the winter and early spring months,”

said Miss Flora Miller, of the Purdue

home economics extension staff. “Meat

dishes are always popular during the

winter months,” continued Miss Mil-

ler, “but most of us will agree that

'heavy meat dishes are served too

much for good health, and that they

should be accompanied by a large

amount of green vegetables and fresh

or canned fruits.



' “A good substitute for the heavy

meat dishes would be the so-called

one dish meal type, such as tamili pie,

scalloped ham and eggs, Spanish rice,

and shepards pie. These dishes in-

clude a large portion of other foods

along with the meat and provide a.

meat diet that is more easily digested

than the commonly used fried ham,

pork, and pork sausages. .



“The winter months are the best

time for using cheaper cuts of meat

since they require longer cooking.

The meat bills which are usually

larger during the' winter months can

be materially reduced by using the

cheaper cuts, when the housewife

need not mind the longer cooking

periods required. Some favorite dish-

es from the cheaper cuts are rolled

flank steak, stuffed meat loaf, swiss

steak, Spanish steak, pot roast, and

the like. ’



“F a r m housewives particularly

should not overlook the school lunch

in planning their winter meals. At

the present time the school child

leaves home early and in many cases

has not had time to eat an adequate

breakfast. Dullness on the part of

the child in the afternoon may usually

be traced to cold food at noon. The

hot dish at noon is not a‘ luxury but

a. necessity for the average school

child. Patrons, teachers, township

trustees, and other school officials

should cooperate to establish a hot

dish at the noon hour in every school.”





 





T. B. OF THE BONES





 





 





, ' ” habit. is. .





‘ I have in immune that my





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find "trouble was lung trouble?——'

- Anxious. ‘





doctor says may be tuberculosis. Does

the-treatment by rest and open air do





go” in such case just the same als'if‘





Exactly the same. Tuberculosis of

the bone may often be cured, if taken,

in the early stages, without other

treatment than rest, fresh. air, and

plenty of nourishing food. Sometimes

the bony part can only be placed at

rest by the application of a plaster

case or a. brace, but the principal is

just the same and the results are very

encouraging. Of late years, it has

been demonstrated that sun treatment '

(heliotherapy) greatly hastens the

cure of bone tuberculosis. Such treat-

ment is applied to the whole body, not

merely to the affected bone.





Our Little Folks





STATE SECR ETS





 





 





 





This state is like little Jack Horner,

It’s situated clear in the corner;



You’ll guess when I tell you its name

And our Capitol (D. C.’s) the same.





 





when cor—





The pieces of this puzzle

rectly put together, make a map of

the state which this verse describes.





The star indicates the capitol. Can

you guess the state when you have

the parts pasted together? The small

black star represents the capitol.

Name it too, and tell all you can about

the state and the city.





 





The answer to last week’s secret was

Vermont and its capitol is Montpelier.





 





BLACKBOARD SOLDIERS





 





If Santa was reminded to bring you a

little blackboard for Christmas or per-

haps a new slate, here is a game you

can play. It is called Blackboard

Soldiers. First each player draws a

line of ten soldiers with chalk on op—

posite sides of the board or slate.

The soldiers should be about an inch

long and half an inch apart.



Each player .then places his piece

of chalk on one of his own soldiers,

closes his eyes and attempts with one

quickly drawn stroke to cut through

the middle of some soldier or soldiers

on the opposite side of the board. A

mark that bisects a. soldier is sup-

posed to be fatal and that soldier can

no longer be counted. The players

“take turns and the one who first.suc-

ceeds in crossing off each of the enemy

soldiers wins the games The strokes

must be made rapidly and the player

cannot open his eyes until after he

has taken his crayon from the board.





 





-'-’-Aunt Martha.





 





 





 





 





You can save a lot of time and

energy in the job of getting in

the winter wood supply if you

have a few good tools of the





right kind to use. In order

to be sure you get the right

kind go to your local “Farm

Service” Hardware Store

where you will find a selection

of saws, axes and other things

that will exactly suit your

needs. Go there for extra

buck saw blades, cross cut saw

handles, filing clamps, Vises,

the different kinds of files that

are especially made for saw

sharpening and extra ax and

maul handles.





If you have heavy timber or

knotty wood, get a couple of

good steel wedges —— they

save lots of backbreaking

splitting.



It is an easy matter to rig up

a power saw and drive it from

your tractor or a gasoline

engine. You can get a

circular saw and a mandrel

at a “tag” store and with

them construct your own

frame or buy one ready to

run, if yOu want to.





It is important to find the

“tag” store because you Can

absolutely depend upon the

quality of merchandise offered

you. You will find the price





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this winter and you will never

go back to the old way.





Freshening Cows Need

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At calving, no feed, be it ever so

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BEARS DAMAGE STOCK





 





BLACK bears have become an agri-



cultural problem in Presque Isle

County, according to reports by Jack

Browu, county agricultural agent. Mr.

Brown, after investigating reports of

damages done to live stock owned in

the county, estimates that the ’bears

have cost farmers six or seven thou-





BLACK LEG IN ANTRIM





 





FARMERS of Antrim County are



combating an outbreak of black

leg in cattle by vaccinating their

cattle. The disease has apparently





sand dollars during the present year.





sleep, Comfort. for all animals or

poultry always means profit.





There is great improvement in the





care of dairy stock over the conditions

of fifteen or twenty years ago, and

why? Because the board of health in

the large cities. compelled the dairy

farmers and milk-shippers to fix up

and clean up the barns and stables

and put them in a sanitary condition,

and in doing this the stock was made

more comfortable.



There is improvement all along the

line in handling live stock, but cruelty

is still practiced in many instances.

The automobile has been a great boon

to horse flesh, hogs and sheep are

better sheltered and cared for on most





 





been brought under control. This is

the second appearance of the disease

within the county recently.





ONE MAN DRENCHES SHEEP





 





EMONSTRATIONS of methods of



drenching sheep for the control

of worms drew an attendance of 100

farmers in \Vashtenaw Connty. The

meetings were arranged by the county

agricultural agent, and Verne Free-

man, live stock specialist, showed how

one man can administer a dreneh.

Mr. Freeman says that internal para-

sites of sheep are the most important

factor that influences the profits ob-

tained from Michigan flocks.





CRUELTY AMONG LIVE STOCK





 





EING kind to animals is an act

that every fanner and others who

come in contact and handle live stock,

both large and small, should give care-

ful consideration. Our agricultural

papers, as a rule, do not touch on

this subject or make as much impor-

tance of it as they should. When we

think and know of the cruelty im-

posed upon our domestic animals, it

causes one to feel the importance of

saying and doing something to lessen

the hardship of them.



Animals suffer ‘cruelty from owners

andcaretakers in many ways, some by

not having proper shelter, and by not

providing farm stock with the neces-

sary amount of bedding to keep them

comfortable in severe cold weather.

Cows, especially, not only suffer for

the want of bedding to .keep them

comfortable and warm, but a floor

without plenty of straw or other mate

rial is a. poor place for a cow to lie

during the night, particularly so for a

cow confined in a stanchion. Some

farmers seem to think it a waste “to

use bedding freely, but I always, felt

that I got a. profit from it, surely I

had the satisfaction of knowing that

my cows and hogs"'were comfortable





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Belgian Colts on the Farm of 'Alfred lngersoll of Gratiot County





farms than they Were a few years ago.





-But poultry, except where special at-





tention is given to the work, still

comes in for more than its share of

rough treatment.





Owners of stock seem to forget that

a hen, horse, or cow is confinéd and

helpless to choose a warm and com-

fortable place to stand or, lie during

a severe cold night, and the same‘is

true in extreme hot weather during

summer. Place yourself in this posi-

tion if you don’t believe it. Go out

to the poultry house or other build-

ings where hogs, hens, or cows are

kept and stand around for an hour

or so on a severe cold night and see

how you like it.





Any farm animal, dog, cat, or

poultry is what you make it, the same

in a way as with a child. If you

handle them in a rough and cruel

manner they will be wild and nervous

and never as profitable as when cared

for in a gentle ma.nner.—V. M. C.





UHOLSTEIN BULL COMMITS

SUICIDE





 





YEARLING Holstein bull, owned



by F. B. McKibbin of Lansing,

checked out of the bovine world by

electrocuting himself. He was found

dead in his stall by J. H. Chamberlain,

who manages the farm. Indications

were that the bull Stood with his front

feet on a cement stall partition and

tore down tWOvelectric lighting wires

with his tongue. The deadly current

carried such a “gallop that the" copper

ring in the bull’s nose was melted!

Certainly it could not have been

shame of ancestors that led the bull

to commit suicide. His. sire is an

unusually well-bred bull in: service in

the Traverse City State Hospital herd.





_,His dam is a. daughter of ‘ Traverse





Colantha. Walker, the cow that holds





the lifetime butter-fat, record‘for the; ,

4 could the g' -‘





Holstein breed. ’ Neither »





bull have been disgusted with
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‘ work along until the regular appro-

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. among children in particular.





‘ which the germs have not been killed





 





(Continued from page 10)

are exhausted. If adequate funds had

been provided by the last Michigan

legislature, the entire state would be

practically free from this disease by

1930. ‘ ,



During the past few years Michigan

has been spending $250,000 a year out

of the state funds on this” project.

Legislative hearings attended by farm-

ers and others from all parts of the

state were held in Lansing last winter

to show how $100,000 per year addi-

tional would be needed this biennium

because of the demands from Detroit

and other cities for pure milk, from

herds tested for tuberculosis and

known to be free. Governor Green

not only refused the additional $100,-

000 per year, but he cut the regular

appropriation $37,500.



Heretofore when the regular appro-

priationwas used- up in the payment

of indemnities and other necessary

expenses incident to the application

of theatuberculin .test in the various

counties, the predecessors of Governor

Green have authorized the use of a

limited amount of money from so-

called emergency funds to carry the





Appar-

ently Governor Green refused to do

this. Unless the‘situation is met, all

the Federal and State men engaged

in‘ tuberculosis eradication will be

withdrawn from the State of Mich-

igan. This is a calamitous situation

to the live stock owners of the state,

because up to this time Michigan has

been in a position to supply the

eastern states with clean cattle at

very satisfactory prices to the farm-

ers of the state. This stopping of the

work is not only a blow to the farm-

ers but it is a misfortune to every con-

sumer of milk in the state.





Medical investigations show that

milk from tuberculous cows is an im-

portant factor in causing the disease

On this

subject Dr. C. H. Mayo of the Mayo

Brothers Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota,

writes under date of October 24th,

1927, as follows:





“Tuberculosis in cattle spreads to

humans, usually by means of milk in





by proper pasteurization. How fre-

quently this occurs is a question;_

but a conservative estimate is that»

25% of tuberculosis among children

and 5% of all tuberculosis is from

bovine sources. Owing to the frailties

of human nature and the limitations

of pasteurizing machinery, safety can-





not always be guaranteed by pasteuri- .





Profits of Tonic and non-Tonic Cows Compared

’ Research Farm, Dr. Hess & Clark, Inc., Ashland, Ohio





 





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Here’s an ordinary grade cow that freshened in August."

She got just ordinary dairy feed—ground oats and com,

She made, in September, a

profit of $18.47. This being the first month after freshen-

By all rules she should

‘ The average cow

' loses about 10% each month afler freshening. But Dr.



Hess Improved Stock Tonic was added to her ration



beginning October Ist. The effect appears in her record.





THESE two cows, equally good milkers and

on equal conditions, were placed in a com-

petitive‘profit test for ten months.

cow received Dr. Hess Stock Tonic during

September, and for that month the second





bran with oil meal added.





ing, should be her peak month.

'f'all ofl" steadily each "month thereafter.





cow gave a little more milk.





month after freshening.





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The effect of Dr. Hess Improved Stock Tonic in the

ration is almost startlingly apparent.

regular falling off in thg Tonic cow, as is the usual course.

Her record is one of sustained production. Compare with

the non-Tonic cow month by month in the graph.



In the 4th, 5th, and 9th months the‘ Tonic cow’s

profits were the same or above the first or usual peak





The total profits of the Tonic cow over and above feed





Dr. Hess Improved Stock TOnic





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This cow also freshened in August. She is in the same

condition and gets the same feed and care as the cow

at left. She's a little better milker though, for in Septem-

ber, the first month after freshening, she made a profit of

$19.29, or 82 cents more than the other cow.





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But note her profitsfhe next month—and each month





afterward. Her record is steadily downward. She did

not receive Dr. Hess Improved Stock Tonic at any time.





The use of Stock Tonic in the ration of the

first cow was begun October 1st and contin-

ued to the end of the test. Stock Tonic cen- 3;-

sumed cost only 50c per month. The profit , i

records of both cows are shown in the graph ‘ *

below.





NON-TONIC cow nomo LINE mm

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Neither





 





cost were $166.07——an average of $16.60 per month.

Profits of non-Tonic cow, $82.87, or an average of

$8.28 per month.



Total milk production for the Tonic cow was 11,695

pounds; average per month, 1,170 pounds. Average but-

ter-fat test, 3.37%. .



Total milk production for non-Tonic cow 8607 pounds;

average per month, 860 pounds. Average butter-fat test;

2.95%.





There was no





 





 





zation. The tubercular cow should be

removed from the milk supply. Re-

moval from the herd of all reactors

is necessary otherwise tuberculosis

will surely continue to spread to other

animals Expense, should not be the

determining consideration. In fact

money spent for such things is not

expense, it is an investment which will

return dividends.”



Dr. Hugh Cabot, Dean of the Medi-





cal Department of the University of

Michigan says: )





“There are tWo sources of tubercu-

losis in human beings. In one group





> the infection comes from other human





beings, and in the other group from

cattle. In the latter type the infection

is almost exclusively transmitted by

milk, and those exposed are, therefore,

more commonly\children and young

people than adults.



“This source of infection can be con-

trolled only -by careful .inspection of

cattle constituting the milk supply.

In states or countries Where such in-

spection is lax or absent very striking

results appear. For instance, in the

hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, one

sees an enormous amount of the type

of tuberculosis produced by the bo-

vine tubercle bacilli. In the clinic of

Sir Hamid Stiles at Royal Infirmary

the incidence is said to be as high as

seventy per’ cent.’ This should be con-

trastedwith the present condition in

the State of Michigan‘in, which in-





spection, has been satisfactorily car—





pmp‘cia‘te money to compensate the.

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lected at the University Hospital, has

convinced me that the bovine type of

tuberculosis constitutes with us not

more than ten per cent. This shows,

I think satisfactorily, that inspection

and slaughtering of cattle can be ex-

pected to reduce the incidence from

the very high level seen, for instance,

in Scotland of seventy per cent to the

low level of less than ten per cent.



“It is, therefore, of first importance

that we impress continuously upon the

thinking pertion of the community

the essential importance of inspection

and slaughtering of tuberculous

cattle.”



What better authorities could be

quoted on the subject? No problem

confronting Michigan or any other

state is of greater importance from

an economic as well as public health

standpoint as the eradication of tuber~

culosis from cattle. Governor Blaine

of Wisconsin recognized this a year

ago last April when he called a spe-\

cial session of the Wisconsin legisla-

ture at the time when the tuberculosis

eradication fund became exhausted.

The Wisconsin legislature was in ses-

sion just one day and it was called

for no other purpose ‘but‘ to appro-

priate,an emergency fund of $450,000

to carry the work in that state until





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Chance Copy or Cancellations must reach us





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SHORT COURSE MAN MAKES

GOOD





INNING ton litter honors one’s



self, is one thing,

breeding and selling of stock that will

win similar honors for the buyer, is

quite, another. This, however, was

very successfully accomplished the

past year by Sidney Phillips, Char-

lotte, President of the. State Short

Course Club and President of the

State Duroc Jersey Breeders’ Associa-

tion.



Sidney sold a. gilt to his grandfather,

Walter Phillips, who is a seventy-five

year old farmer. This gilt produced

a. litter that weighed 2,420 lbs. at six

months. Another gilt sold to Laban

Williams, Eaton Rapids, produced a

litter that weighed 2,340 lbs. at the

end of the 180 day period. Sidney also

qualified for ton litter honors with a

litter (raised with some thirty other





Shotes under ordinary herd condi-

tions) which reached the 2,049 lb.

mark.





Mr. Phillips’ Duroc Jersey experi-

ence dates back to 1918 when he

joined the Brookfleld Duroc Jersey

Pig Club. He has steadfastly clung

to his early plans, continuing to devel-

op his breeding program through his

Club work, through his Agricultural

High School work, and through his

Short Course work at the College. He

now stands out as one of the progres—

sive Duroc Breeders of the state, and

an agricultural leader in his commun-





ity, county and state, as may be

gleaned from the fact that, while he

is yet a. young man in his early

twenties, he has been elected as





President of two State Associations.

Mr. Phillips is a strong backer of the

College Short Courses and feels that

young men interested in agriculture

should receive the inspiration and

training the College has to offer

through these courses.





CORN OR OATS FOR PIGS





What should be fed to young pigs,

corn or ground oats '.’—-—A. S.





Oat meal containing more protein

than corn is a better feed for grow-

ing pigs than corn, but oat meal does

not furnish sufficient protein to make

a balanced ration for rigs. A good

mixture for young growing pigs is:

100 lbs. yellow corn men]; 100 lbs.

wheat middlings; 50 lbs. digested

tankage. This can be fed as a thick

slop or dry in a self feeder, in which

case the pigs should have free access

to water and salt, and hard wood

ashes should be placed where the pigs

can eat what they want.



If it is desired, '100 lbs. of oil meal

can be substituted for the 50 lbs. of

tankage. Ground oats are a better

feed for cows and horses than for

pigs because the pigs will not eat the





oat hulls; but if it is desired to feed

oats add 100 lbs. to the above mix-

ture.





GROUND PEAS FbR PIGS AND

coWs





Is ground peas as good and as

economical a feed for pigs as barley,

pound for pound? I believe peas con-

tains much protein. Is it, therefore,

good for cows and chickens? Will it

take the place of wheat in the chick-

en ration?-—F. P.





Peas and barley are supplemental

foods; that is, they give better results

when fed together than when fed sep-

arately. The reason is that peas are

1:00 rich in protein and barley too rich

in carbohydrates to give economical

results when fed alone, but if mixed

then there will be more economical

digestion and assimilation. Besides'a.

variety of foods is usually more appe-

tising.

, Pea. meal is a. good food for any

kind of live stock. ,

to feed it alone, because there is as

waste of protein. If cows were fed

alfalfa bay for roughage» ; ,

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then pea. meal would, be just the kind





economical ration.



A pound of pea meal will furnish

twice as much protein as a pound of

wheat, so if your ration is already

balanced it would not be the proper

thing to substitute pea; meal for wheat

in the chicken ration.





 





ALLEGAN BREEDERS MEET





WENTY-ONE breeders of Holstein



cattle met at the Court House,

Allegan, on Dec. 23rd to talk over the

new Holstein Herd Test. J. G. Hays,

secretary of the Michigan Holstein-

Friesian Assn, was on deck to explain

rules and regulations that will govern

this test.



Interest in the plan steamed up the

breeders so that they decided to or-

ganize a. County Holstein Assn. A

steering committee of .four, men—

Richard Brower and Willis Paimelee,

of Hopkins; ,Henry R. Scholten, of

Holland, and B. F. Foster, of Allegan—-

was elected to lay plans for a, meet-

ing in the near future at which a

formal organization will be affected.





COD LIVER OIL FOR PIGS





T the Ames’ experiment station it



was found that the feeding of

steam—rendered cod liver oil to pigs

proved a profitable investment. The

average amount of food consumed

daily by each pig receiving this oil

was 5.4 pounds, consisting of 4.62

pounds of corn, .74 pounds of tankage,





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Cod Liver Oil Helped This Pig

.023 pounds of cod liver oil, and .015





pounds of minerals. The lot of pigs

fed this ration made a. hundred pounds

gain-upon 354 pounds of feed' as com-

pared with 384 pounds required by the

check lot fed a similar .ration but

without the cod liver oil. The margin

of returns for each pig over the feed

costs was $7.29 in\case of these fed

the steam-rendered cod liver oi1.and

$6.75 for the check pigs. In other

words, cod liver oil, which costs $1.60

per gallon Was actually worth $2.93

per gallon according to the results of

this experiment.





 





HIGH PRICES MAY ATTRACT

FOREIGN SUPPLIES





SIDE from the protest of con-



sumers against the rise in.retail

prices for beef and the tendency to

turn to pork, high cattle prices may

also increase the difficulty of exclud-

ing Argentina beef. ' Argentina could

ship to this country profitabl'y’at pres-

ent prices in spite of the tariff if the

quarantine law against countries with

foot and mouth disease did not'pre—

vent. With Argentina. cleaning up and

with our prices high, efforts to have

the quarantine relaxed may beCome

strenuous.





 





In experiments to study the rates

of gain, costs, and general results

from pigs pastured en rape, alfalf

and sudan grass, the results woul

warrant the recommending ‘of these“

pastures for bogs in the order men:





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We are now in position to offer bulls of the

popular Ormsby-Bess' Burke—Folios na-

tion of blood lines.

These calves are sired by Marathon Ben

Burke 32nd, a. son of the famous cow Wis-

consin Fobes 6th. or Sir Bess Ormtby Folios

50th. a son of her illustrious full brother.

Sir Besg Ormsby Fobes

These two young sires service in mills

Traverse City State Hospitalin herd smith

calves show excellent quality.

MICHIGAN STATE HERBS-

Bred for Production





Bureau of .

Animal Industry

Department C,

Lansing, Michigan





 





 





 





 





 





SERVICEABLE AGE -





REGISTERED HOLSTEIN



Bull Calves at prices the owner of.

small herd can afford to pay. The

site of many of these calves is a Son

of the highest record (30lb.) two—

year-old daughter of Creator. His

sire Is King Segis Alcartrs Prilly, an

undefeated Show bull with 70 A. R.

daughters. Others sired by s 5 times

1200 lb. Champion Bull, the famous-

K. P. O. P. breeding.



Bre cows and heifers served by

these sires are available for founda-

tion stock.





'RED ROSE FARMS DAIR¥

Northville, Michigan





Telephone: 344

Reference: Northville State Savings Bank





 





F OR. SALF Two Reg Holstein Bulls. rich in



Ormsby s ensatlon breeding. from very high record

dams. Also a. yr. old cow and her yearling

heifer. WHITNEY BROS" Onondaga, Mich.





BUTTER BRED massage“

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM

Silver Creek. Allegun County, Michigan

Choice Jersey Bulls. grandsons of





For Sale Sybil's embolism wmaunu.

SMITH enemas. Howell. MIcII. R. No. 4.





 





 





 





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For Sale Registered Jersey Bull





16 months old. Albert Aimworth. Carsonvllle. Mlch.





Slackers & Feeders





Calves. Year’l was: Hereford Steers & Heifers.

Beef Type. dark reds. good grass flesh, most all

bunches deborned. each bunch even in size and

show good breeding. . Choice Herefords are usually

market. toppers when finished. Few bunches T. B.

tested. Will sell your choice from any bunch. Stats

number and weight. you prefer 450 to 1000 lbs.





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

“Claradale Milking ShorthomS"





Young bulls “‘1‘ bred heifers. priced for quick sale.»-

Duchess breeding. high milk andtest testreoords.

under lstate and Federal supervision. Sixty a3"

Your success is our success. F. w.

JOHNSON G. SONS, Box 26. Custer. MIIII.





f 2.1 of

Milking Shorthoms 335;“ 31“.... a“ “s ”i

extra fine bred Y8. Best Clay breeding. "issl"

DOA" 5. sons. ecmwellt Mich.





SPECIAL“ Prices on mShoI-tthlornm

GDTFREDSON “FAK‘MS.” Ynelisntl.





no’cs





DUROCS





Service boars. bred saw and tilts. fall pics. Premier

Michisan breeder at State F-.air

LAKEFIELD FARMS, Glarkston, lloh.





FOR}; SALE—Duran Gilts of21type and quality. bred



High Orton No. 26522 Also a. few spring

boars at risht prices. Shipped. 0. D. on up—

nroval. W. E. BARTLEY. Alma. CMIch.





 





 





 





bulls. cows and

careful buyers.

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THE 1. I. SILVER 00.. ‘





cm. 0. HOGS on time m m





not Book

Originators and most extensive breeders.

box DOB, $0M Ollie
. . f 5" 4r » - . ’ .

Yet they could‘ghardlyv‘accept this uns

, ' ’ ., expected hospitality. ’Courteously she ,



’ ' ’ WHEN you drenchj a sheep or explained that tlieyi. had brought bed- ~

)‘ lamb, ten to one‘ you are think- ding along and had ample for their

‘ f ing entirely of that particular animal needs until they could get fixed up

between your knees, but that should properly. Warmly she thanked Mrs.

' , not be the case. Inside of him doubt- O’Neal, assuring her that the thought

i ‘ . less are worms by the hundreds or meant more than the deed to them. .

by the thousands; and worms by the “But you must make us a little visit,”





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{2 . Them you have bun—the snappy, disappearing, and the tenants Were at the local_creamery or cream station, The new De Lavals are the best

‘ WHggllng sinner along Wlth as hlgh forced to leave. Some other mighty and variedmvalue fromafew cents to separators ever made—they skim

as 1,000 more like hlm in a hit 0f strange things happened, too. That’s overa (1011813 . cleaner, run easier, are more canven-

manure not a half inch in diameter! why Jones hasn’t been able to rent the The average results from all the ient to operate and last longer than any

Once he gets out he goes to whipping farm to anyone who knew conditions :ests sheave: Ighaiathe‘seplitiratoé: othersm’l‘hey havetmanantfwaflea“ dl

h - u th t - . . - rent 1!! e e va s 3 run: you w apprecia e. 1 er .ia e

3202331.:1: :gufieeimng‘etgl slide]: 1'1:- and why he had Sims advertise It thesltlm-mllkwereloslng butter- allowances on old separators of any

9 y . p and demand half ca?h 1” advanf’e' tat at the rate of $78.00 a year. age or make made on new De Lavals,

pared to meet Old Man Wlnter face Sure, It’s good land,’ O’Neal replied More than 50,000 people attended which are also sold on easy terms or

to face and come out best the next in response to a query, “but nobody these demonstrations and many of installments. See yourlDe LavalAgent

spring, able to whip up the first wet will pay $500 a year for the land them were amazed at the separating or send coupon for full information. ‘

grass-blades Of Spring and get into alone. Nothing happens unless some- losses revealed and asked for tests to MAIL COUPON

your sheep. one is 'living on the place. The rent- be made on their own separators. : I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I.

From this it may be seen that ters before have been just «poor white I: View of the faCt'tharliilll: efffort was :THEDE LAVALSEPARATOR C0.,Dept.2022. .

d h“ kills the worm that is suck. .7 m8. 8 to secure Sklm- tom 8 165 Broadway. New York _ I

_renc mg. . . _ trash, as the darkeys say, and they poorest separator in each co unity, : 600 Jackson Blvd., Chicago . :

- mg h100d IBSIde 0f your sheep, It also didn’t have the nerve to try and run I m 61 Beale St..San Francisco

. , . . 7 . and that the tests were conducted I . I

‘; kills the worm that is laylng hosts 0f down the trouble. Of course, as it’s - I obfiéifiggengufieoxglhggt {181251122er .

5'- eggs every day to plaster the farm been three years, nothing may happen : lion on check which:

. from fence to fence, soon to hatch and now, but I wanted you to know. This e ava I I

3 then SUCK to the grass a WhOle year lad,” and O’Neal smiled at Bob, “looks. - :Name :

Waiting for your spring lambs! Two as if he could take care of himself. Cream Separators :Town :

: 01' three months 0f drenching may i111 Well, play us a tune, Mr. Barton, and ’ d Milk I St t . R F D N Co I

f prove a flock of sheep or lambs lm- we’ll go home.” an ers '..‘.‘..‘:";';';“;'...'.'...'".‘.".'.". 3.3:]:

. mensely If they have not been wormy The violin sang to the rapt atten-

- 50 long that they are filll 0f POISOD tion and applause of a new audience, i- . . .

I begldtes :tucked shortuof blood. th f but Bob Bart-on was not listening to Milyfifiafi’et [W111 condition a Horse

_' n a er W0 01‘ ree 111011 S 0 its seductive strains. That part of . -

efficient drenching there is likely still him which was his father thrilled to liil‘llilofi'l’é'hil’mflinmlfll°iiil 01' COW ”1 twelve days

. . without closing. Alleropsratlng, when Put flesh on its bones. Give it his and vigor. Can

; to be a generous sprinkle of hopeful the thought of a mystery I'lght there ‘°" °’ °g",“°“,°.“- "3’ ”MN” ““d' add 50 per cent m‘looks and value. Satisfaction

worm cysts scattered 0V9!“ the farm“ on their own land. A mystery ready §?n3l lloaslllll: hili..l'."’i$.l3".£l°.ii “WWW“ 0' “0 "35’- Send ”05”“ for “0" 0m“

'i worms that have not yet had the good fer the solving which had driven alzzuszmégm. lost quarters, unpro- P.M.P:AUST,BRYN MAWR,PA.

3 111011 to be cropped III) by the animals. others away. And that part which Package sent FREE

1- Write us dealer's name and we will mil lie-V". coughslfi condition-





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   





 





hundreds and by the thousands lay Mother Barton insisted, “so that we

eggs'by the millions and by the bil- can get really acquainted. Take these

lions, so you should be drenching the chairs.

animal to stop the accursed scattering the floor.” .





of eggs on the pasture to the damage





or death of whatever sheep or lamb wonderfully,”

‘ sprawled his awkward length on the



When a sheep is drenched once a floor and John O’Neal, with another

month none of the worms inside of booming. .laugh, sank down beside the

him should ever get much age or have fire. “Was it you, Mr. Barton?

time to lay more than just a few you play again?”





takes a bite of grass!





hundreds or a few thousands of eggs.





To be sure, the general aim of drench— ton, “let’s visit , now.

ing is to kill the worms“ before they O’Neal?” Barton held out his pouch

suck much blood; but to clean 111) the and soon the elders were chatting as

farm and make nextyear a whole 101: if they’d been friends for years. Bess

blg result the and Ruth were quickly won by Katie’s

systematic drencher is bOUDd to get friendly advances and snuggled close

when he goes to Slaying worms regu- to her as she, too, sat on ’the floor

before the fire.





safer for sheep is a





larly.



We have all heardoof killing the

goose that laid the golden egg. Well,

With stomach worms, it is a case of

killing the rascal worms that lay the

accursed eggs. Stomach worm eggs

from sheep are rapid hatchers——round

worm eggs from hogs can’t touch

stomach worm eggs from sheep when

it comes to cracking the shell and

getting out.





They may lie as still as a grain of

sand for long spells of dry weather,

but the first drop of rain will limber

them up and they go to whipping

about as lively as a chicken with its

head out off.



A few worms on the farm may not

visibly affect sheep health, but it

takes more than two or three months

of drenching to reduce the pests to

this happy minority.~G. P. Williams.





 





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(Continued from page 12)

welcome and see if there’s anything

we can do. No, keep your seats,” as





Father'Barton acknowledged the in- father chuckled at the joke. But Bob, A FEW “0"“ ““35“” S“””“.d"°’§’ “6...?

troduction and presented the members as he lay before the fire, dreamed gilts. JOHN wl‘kélltnosltlagl. filth? llllc‘hfrfl. 4.





of his family. “We didn’t aim to stay

but a minute, but neighbors have been

so scarce in late yearsthat we wanted

to know ’em ”before they could get

away.” O’Neal’s hearty laugh boomed

.through the vacant rooms. Big and

bluff, he overshadowed" his cheery.





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pleasantdmfe. We want you to comg boys in the county dried 250 baskets Elfin?”afoxampmmdg‘ymifdffi of Detroit. Mich.. on motor but and car lines.

over an‘ spend the night with us. of excellent corn whichthey grew as nemaetc. obligation. _ Young Moms

churned in Mrs. 0 Neal. “for we know a club project. mm r m Milling Co. 1314MBgrgeddmgdEw‘t‘ast mot Whom.“

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that your things still are at the sta- ”was” m5" “i‘l- ' film: He: melt: llllrELeéSlDEnl-PAlglMs. I: g‘i’mcmil, '

a Son, Icnia. Mich.





tion. Saw them there to-day. We’d

love to have you come.” -

' ' L' her'Bartorn’s thoughts flash-

wma-o manger and yo

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Bob and the girls can‘sit on





“We heard someone playing a violin

said Katie as Bob





Won’t





“Before you go,” smiled Bradley Bar-

Smoke, Mr.





With the shyness of

big boyhood Bob kept in the back-

ground, to prick up his ears at John

O’Neal’s emphatic declaration which

stopped the children’s chatter and the

confidences between the two mothers.



“1 don’t want to frighten you,”

O’Neal was saying, “but there’s some-

thing inysterious about this place. No—

body has lived here for three years.

It’s been five years since stock began





was Bob’s mother, holding fast with

grim tenacity until a task was accom-

plished, whispered “Send ’em on. We’ll

show ’em if they can drive us away.”

Bob’s “good night” was a very per-

functory affair, and he whirled on his

father with a “Do you suppose it’s

true, dad?” as the door closed behind

the visitors.



“True? Of course, O’Neal’s telling

the truth about what happened three

years ago,” Father Barton replied,

“but that’s no Sign anything will hap-

pen now. Anyway, we haven’t any

stock to steal. If they take ,Prince

and Dick, they’ll be out of luck when

they pay the feed bill,” and Bob’s





dreams of fierce encounters and hard-

won victory. ,

(Continued next week)





 





Washtenaw county farmers pre-

pared for next year’s corn crop by

drying, their seed corn. Two club





 





-When the village person’s daughter

sloped in her father’s clothes, the

Times-came out next morning with

an account 1 of the elopement'headed,





 

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





in Arkansas.





Separators





much money is Ibeing lost {by poor



separators De Laval Agents in 17

states during the past year held

hundreds of public tests, in which the

skim-milk from some separator in each

community was run through a new

De Laval and separated again.



In all these tests De Laval Sep-

arators never failed to recover

butter-Eat from such skim-milk.

The butter-fat recovered in this way

was immediately weighed and tested





IN ORDER to show exactly how





 

 

 

   





. ,' onerous so]: 9 free. At dealers 25c.

DI LATOR own: 5 men 1.00 ' or mailed poetpaid.

sen-rep Moore Broa, Dept. H. Albany, N._Y.





 





Illustration above shows a group of peo le attending a

De Laval and Dairy Day arranged by a lg





the skim-milk" demonstration. Hundreds of similar meetings

were held by De Laval Agents during the past year. '





Tests Prove Many Old

Valuable Butter-Fat





 





 





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feeds





The final test. in the kind of feeds you use.

is the balance on your bank Arcady and

Wonder feeds have given greater profits to

feeders for years. Ask your dealer—if he can-





 

   

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 





 





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. 9 Laval Agent

One feature of this meeting was a “skimming





Are Losing ' -





under the observation of disinterested

people entirely in the open and above

board, they reveal a general condition.





It has been conservatively estl~

mated that 25% of all separators

in use today are wasting large

amounts of butter-fat—enough to

pay for a new De Laval in a short

time. Is your separator in this class?

To make sure it isn’t, try a new

De Laval.



Trade In Your Old Separator on

A New De Laval





 





 





 





 





or. Worms. as: for cost.

‘_. . .- , ‘ Two cans satisfactory for

’ .F’ Heaves or money back. $1.25

“533 per can. Deniers or by msiL



The Newton Remedy co-





Toledo. OhIo.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





HOGS





Registered 0.1.C. Gills XE? ffigfipfil’d"

MANN. Dansviilc, Mich.





either sex for 51118. Also Brown Swiss Bulls.





L ARGE TYPE POLAND CHINAS Spring Pigs.

A No. 2. Manchester. Mich.





. A. Feldkamp, R.





L. '1‘. 1’1 (1 Ch' b .

F O R S A L and bred (gills. alsomfaall gig:





CLAIR I. BROWN. Kalamazoo. Mich.. B. No. l0.

Extra large spring boars .





Poland Chinas d m Also mm,“

pigs. JAMES c. TAYLon.Ml13elu“ilng,‘ Mich.w i





 





 





 





 





, SHEEP '





500 BRED EWES





For sale—300 choice large black faced ewes._yaar—

limrs, 25. 3s, and 4 year olds mixed. 200 choice

largo Michigan Dclaine ewes yearlings to solid mouths

mixed. Prices reasonable. Write or wire us for

further information. ALMOND B. CHAPMAN ll,

SONS. So. Rockwood. Mich. Only 25 miles south '





 





 

 

   





 

 

   

   





 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

   

 





 





   

 

 

 





 





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Write-or ball on Am
Tuesday, January 3, 1928

Wheat.

Detroit—No. 2 red at $1.41; No. 2

, white $1.381,§; No. 2 mixed at $13855.

ChicagouMarch

July $1.277/8.

$J'Egledo_Wheat, No. 2 red at $1.41@





Corn. .

Detroit—No. 2 yellow 93c; No. 3

yellow 91c; No. 4 yellow 89c.





Chicago—March 86%c; May 8994c;

July 92%c.

Oats.

Detroit—No. 2 Michigan 590; No. 3

white 57 35c.

Chicago—March 521/30; May 55%c;

July 53 17g. -

Rye.

Detroit—No. 2 $1.15.

Chicago——March $1.08%; May $1.09.

Toledo—$1.15.

Beans. ‘

Detroit—Immediate and prompt





shipment $5.60 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 900;



Seeds.



Detroit domestic seeds:—Cash clo-

ver $18.65; February $18.80; March

$18.75; cash alsike $16.20; February

$16.45; March $16.60; timothy at

$2.00; March $2.15. "





feeding 860.





Hay.



Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $13.00@

$14.00; standard $12.50@13.50; i\'o. 2

timothy $10.00@11.00; N0. 1 iight

clover, mixed $13@14; No. 1 clover

$11.50@12.50; wheat and oat straw

$10.00@11.00; rye straw $11.00@12.00

alfalfa hay, No. 2 to choice at Chicago,



‘ $14.00@25.00.

Feeds.





Detroit—Winter wheat bran at $39;

spring wheat bran at $38; standard

amiddling at $39; fancy middling at

$42; cracked corn at $43; coarse corn

meal $41; chop $40 per ton in carlots.





WHEAT.



Absorption of import wheat, partic-

ularly by European countries, contin-

‘ ties at a high rate and may prove to

be a match for the full‘supply that

will be available from exporting coun-

tries during the next month or two.

From August 1 to December 24, the

apparent world disappearance of

wheat has been about 22,000,000 bush-

els larger than in the same period a

year ago. The total for the last crop

year was the largest on record. The

steady tone at Liverpool recently in-

dicates that no pressure from cash

wheat has developed as a result of



the large arrivals to date.





RYE.





Exports of rye have been moderate

in the last few weeks and the visible

supply has increased slightly, but it

is still only 3,115,000 bushels, or one-

fourth as large as a year ago and one-

fifth of the five-year average.





CORN.





Corn prices dropped to the lowest

point of the season in the last few

days. The winter movement has

gained headway and the visible sup-

ply has increased for three consecu-

tive weeks. A year ago, it increased

over 16 million bushels from this time

up to the high point of March. A

similar gain may take place this year

if the official estimate of the crop is

correct. It shows a larger yield than





 

 





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son still several months, ahead, except

in the south, dealers arenot in any

hurry to build up supplies. Pricesxfor

clover seed have eased 011'- although

some dealers. believe an actual short-

age of seed may develop during the

spring demand. \Alsike and timothy

seed have held fairly ‘steady under

the influence of light receipts.

BANS, about 10 per

A more active year-end trade than corresponding period a. fig

dealers had expected resulted in a.

higher market for beans last week

with C. H. P. white quoted-at $5.75 to

$5.80 per 100 pounds, sacked, f. 0. b.

Michigan shipping points. Farmers

were not making heavy deliveries'and-

shippers were unwilling to let go Of

their supplies on hand except at the

higher price. . ‘

FEEDS.





Wheat feeds declined again last

week although hominy and gluten

feeds were marked a little higher.

Feeding requirements have been in-

creased by the colder weather, but

dealers have been reducing their

stocks before the year-end inventory

and supplies on the market have been





last weekfwheniprices held





more liberal.





unsatisfactory, for





prices for their birds.





their stocks.

Chicago—Eggs:





fresh firsts,

42c ;





extras, 49 @ 50c;





250.

ons, 28@29c;_





plentjiiful. Tragic should improvefiafter 132%;818305i3 ducks, 23c; geese, 23°; tur-

the rst of t e year when a rmer ’ - '_ . .

market, particularly on wheat by-pro- DetrOit Eggs. Fresh firsts, 35@





ducts, would result. Cottonseed meal 460; storage, 28@32c.





advanced again last week as demand

was sufficiently large to absorb the

offeringsfrom crushers.



Chicago~B r a n, $32.25; standard

mi’ddlings, $31; hominy feed, $38.50;

gluten feed, $36.20; old process oil

meal, $49; tankage, $75; cottonseed

meal, 43%, $48.25.





ers, _25@26c;

hens, 24@25c; roosters, 160;

23c; ducks, 27c; turkeys, 40c.





BUTTER.





Hay is selling at unchanged prices

in a firm market. Demand is only

fair but receipts are moderate so that

there is little accumulation in dealers’

hands. Green and leafy alfalfa hay is

wanted and good grades command a

premium. Colder weather would stim—

ulate the trade in hay, but with such

ample supplies still back in the coun-

try, prices are not likely to apprecihte





much.

EGGS.

An active demand during the holi-

days was chiefly responsible for the

steady tone in the fresh egg market





gain during the next month.





reduced during December.





Prices on 92 score creamery

42@471,§c per lb.





five Stock Market Service]





Tuesday, January 3, 1928





 





 





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DETROIT.





lb. average $8.85@8.95; 150-200-lb.

$8.60@8.90; pigs $8.25@8.50; bulk

Cattle. packing sows $7.85@8.10.

Receipts 185. Market strong; fat Cattle





handy butchers 250 higher.

Good to choice yearlings



drnyed ............... $11.00@13.75

Best heavy steers, dry-fed 10.25@12.00





on better

lings ;





, suitable for shipping; unevenly hi h-

H‘emdy weight butchers” 9-00@10-75 er; highest at season; medium gragde

Mixed steers and heifers. 9.00@ 9.75 light cows slow but steady; she stock

Handy light butchers . 7.50@ 9.50 and bulls strong; vealers 25@50c

nght butchers .......... 6.006;” 8.25 higher; $1825 paid for weighty bull-

Best cows .............. 6.50 8.75 ocks on shipper account; seVeral loads

Butcher COWS ........... 5.50 6.25 $17.50@]7.65; le S S deSirable kind

Cutters ................. 2.0069 g3?) $16.00@17.20; Warming up on light Of-

Canners' """" l """""" ' 88(1) '50 ferings $11.006D1250; light heifers up

ChOice light] bul s '° ' ' ' 900%) ,2; to $13.00; most weighty sausage "bulls

Bologna flu S """""" ' 0:: -75 $8.50@8.75; shippers and vealers

StOCk bu S ............. 6.0 ((17 7.75 $1600; packers $1350 dOWD.



Feeders 7.00@ 8.50 Sh L .

Stockers . ............... 5.50@ 669 and ambs





Receipts 22,000. Market fat lam

opening slow, around 250 lower than

Monday; early bulk good and choice

handy weights to shippers $13.50;

lambs 85-lb. down $12.75@13.25; good

to choice 93-98-lb. $12.00@12.50; light





7.00

Milkers and springers. . .$65.00@ 110.00





Calves.

Receipts 440. Market steady.

Best IODOIIIIOOOOIICOOOOI$16960@17-00

Others 8.00@16.00





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L 4 . Sheep and Lambs. natives $10.50@11.50; choice weighty

v \ in 1926 and prices are higher, 30 that Receipts 1,931. Market steady. bulk fat ewes $6.00@6.75: feeding

" "~ the movement out Of firSt hands Best lambs . ....... $ 13.75 lambs unchanged; good 63-70-lb.



should ‘98 “geral- do“ the Oflger gand’ Fair lambs ............. 11.00@12.00 $11.75@1.2.75.

» consuming eman seems o e a .. 6 00 9.50

little more active than it was a year isg'glhiictoggggiisnhogeéambs“ 6.00%) 7.00 BUFFALO.

38° fidbthere i351?) be“? ngstpefi 01’ Buck lambs ............. 7.50@12.25 Hogs

ex 0 usiness an a a ime. ' .

Olgarances for export have increased Culls and common """ 2306) 3 00 k Reefipss 3&200i0H0L‘1‘31V9121'3312E “11%"

slightly in the last few weeks, but 093- e 8 ea y 0 0 1g er, ‘-

they remain quite small compared Receipts 2,171. Market steady. 260—“)- $9-65@9.75, few 160:1b. $9.60.

with movement out of 'first hands. Pigs .................... $ 8.50 150-lb- down mostly $9.00. racking

Mixed hogs ............ ' ‘. 9.35 BOWB $7-25@8.00. 0 . g _

OATS' Light lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ 8.25 , Cattle _ ,

Weakness in corn prices has given Roughg , , , , , .. , , , , , , , 7.25 Receipts 100. Market on cowsmost- .

oats a downwardh trentd. Bahsic con- Yorkers W 9.25@ :35) 1y stead . Calves ‘

ditionsapear rat ersrong, ownever, Stag,,,,,,,,,__,,.,,,,. , . p

as the nibvement from first hands is Extgreme heavies 7.75@ 8.50 Receipts 250. Market on choice 50c

'light and the visible supply, which is . .y ‘0 higher at $17. 0; culls and common

, already small, is decreasing a little CHICAG - steady at $12.50. ,_ .. - ,

more rapidly than usual at this season , Hogs , g R , 3' £131.53; ’oandu"??? t1, ‘ ‘ to,

0‘ the Year- ecei ts 35,000. Market generally . .ece p g‘ . . - at e. s rpng ,

V . SEEDS- - 10%15cphigher than Monday's ever 250 higher; 309% 63mg “$14.12!; [culls .

Seed markets continueto mark time age; big packs :inactiwa; packing and 7 166:} ® . , cw,

the Topening of the. spring. to s .





 





 





unchanged.



First evidence of an- increased lay in'

the central and southwestern states is



showing up .in receipts at the larger."

distributing markets. Shipments 5from

the Pacific Coast continue good sized.

Supplies at the four leading markets

are gradually gaining from week to

week although receipts are, running

cent smaller than at the

Jar ago.

Prices are expected to resume, their

downward trend as supplies become





The Christmas turkey market was

dealers although

farmers, in most cases, received good

Supplies at the

large markets prior to the holiday

were in excess of consumptive demand

and prices fell rapidly, even below

actual cost at country points in some

instances, as dealers tried to move





41@

ordinary firsts,

30@37c; dirties, 22@280; checks, 20@

Live poultry: Hens, 23%c; cap;

springers, 2735c roost-





Live poultry:

Heavy springers, 27@280; light spring-

heavy hens, 26c; light

geese,





Production of butter has been cur-

tailed by storms and wintry weather-

which delayed the delivery of cream

in many important dairy sections. The

make is holding fairly, steady from

week to week and should begin3 to



on-

sumptive demand is broad and butter

is moving freely out of warehouses.

The surplus over a year ago has been

Prices dur-

ing the past fortnight have. been flrm~

ly held, on the average, and,not much

change is likely until the make defin-

itely begins to increase. The possi-

bility of large imports of foreign but-

ter acts as a check on domestic prices.

were:

Chicago, 50c; New York, 520; Detroit,





Receipts 7,000. Market fairly active

grade fed steers and year-

very active on weighty steers





States, than the number that farrowed





qusual losses of the if

-increase in the.,..supp





‘ indicated- increase" 311. "11438 '





 





 





POTATOES... " ..

The potato mmt ‘is having diffi-

culty in manit‘aining prices around

‘ $71.50 to $1.65 per 100 pounds, sacked,

for northern round whites and Idaho

Russet Burbanks, U. S. No. -1, in the

Chicago carlot market. Dealers are

still well stocked up with supplies,

bought during the recent cold spell

which-they have not been able to

move. Growers, on the, average, are

still optimistic about market pros-

pects and are willingto hold on to

their supplies a while longer. A"pro- .

longed period of wintry weather would .

undoubtedly give the market reneWed ‘





strength,

_ APPLES. t



Prices for good apples are firm al-

though supplies generally are liberal

and demand has slowed down. A good

holiday trade cleared dealers’ floors of

all fancy apples. Washington extra

fancy Jonathans, best stock, medium

to small size, bring $3.25 to $3.50 a

box and Michigan A-2% inch Jona-

thans are selling at $8 to $9 a. barrel





at Chicago.

WOOL.





Mills have been buying wool more

actively in the last ten days. Appar-

ently, they have held back until their

stocks of wool have become depleted,

and the continued premium of foreign

wools over domestic prices, tariff con:

sidered, has made them anxioustoin—

crease their supplies. The heavy weight

selling season opens in another month

and some mills wish to cover part of

their requirements in order to quote

cloth as low as possible. Small ad-

vances in cloth prices have been made

by a number of mills in the last two

weeks, indicating a healthy status in

the cloth trade. ,



Contracting is still going ahead in ‘

the west. The Jericho, Utah, pool

was contracted on the sheep’s back

at 36 cents compared with 3014 cents

for the 1926 clip. Sales are reported

in Montana as high as 38% cents; in

Idaho at 36 cents, and in California at

35 cents. In Nevada, the range is

mostly from 31 to 32% cents. These

prices are considered to be fully‘up

to a parity with the Boston market

and, in some cases, above it,





 





 





 





PIG CROP INCREASES,“ PER

CENT .





 





An increase of 11 per cent in the fall

pig crop of 1927 over the fall crop

of 1926 for the. eleven Corn Belt

States and also for the United States

as a whole, is shown by the Decem-

ber 1, 1927, Pig-Survey Report issued

by the Department of ‘Agricnlture.

The survey, covering ap‘prOximately

150,000 farms, was made in coopera-

tion with the Post Office Department

through the rural mail carriers. The ,

number of sows that farrowed this

fall increased only 9 per cent for the

Corn Belt and 10-per cent for the

United States. but there was a small

increase in the average size of litters

saved this fall.





The number of sows bred or to be

bred for farrowing next spring as re- .

ported is 1 per cent larger for the .

Corn Belt and 6 per ‘cent larger for .1

the United States than the number

that actually farrowed last spring. ,

These figures, indicate that the num-

ber of sows that will farrqw next

spring will be from 6 to 8 per cent

less for the Corn Belt States and 3

to 5 per cent less for the United





 





 





last spring, allowancebeing made for

the average decline between breeding

intentions reported in December and

actual farrowings, reported the fol-

lowing June, as shown by past sur-

veys.





Increases of about 5 per cent for ‘

the Corn Belt ,States and 6 per cent (‘5





.for the United States in total pigs





saved, both spring and fall, this year

compared taglast, is shown by this

year’s survey.‘ These increases, are

equivalent «to between 2% and 3.11111-

lion pigs in the Corn Belt and about

million for the United States. Since“

cholera losses in the Corn Belt-States ,

this fall. were below the reported un-





 

 

 





 

   





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, . Y” 01'». ' 83‘. for

slaughter from thesefnfifates _-_B. . ,rob—





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saved. Thedacreasesizi

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4, SMALL RECEIPTS-SUSTAIN

. , CATTLE PRICES





 





MALLER ocuntry loadings due to



the mid- ember break in cattle



prices, and holiday interference

with shipments have resulted in light

receipts in the last ten days. Finish

considered, medium and heavy weight

steers are selling as high as, and in

some cases higher, than any previous

time this season. Light [weights are

more numerous and they are selling

substantially below their 1927 peak.

Fat cows and heifers advanced in the

last week, but they are 25 to 50 cents

below the high point of three weeks

a o.

gJanuary will probably usher in a

little more liberal movement, since

cattlemen appear disposed to let go

after 60 to 90-day feeds. At the same

time, they may continue the habit of

cutting down the supply on sharp

breaks as this policy has been success-

ful in causing quick recoveries during

the last six weeks. It will take some

time to mature another crop of

weighty steers, so that price for that

description are likely to remain on a

high level. Cows and heifers usually

take an upward trend during the

winter and early spring. While they

are already on a comparatively high

level and may not make much pro—

gress for another month, this seasonal

tendency will manifest itself sooner

or later. -



Veal calf prices dropped to a new

low point for the season a week ago.

This probably marks the bottom of the

autumn decline and an upward trend

until February or early March is

likely.





 





THE FEEDER TRADE





 





~FIRMNESS in fat cattle prices

caused a slight recovery in prices

of 'stocker and feeder steers in the

last week. The holidays tended to

limit the number of buyers but the

available supply remains small. In

the three weeks ending December 17,

the total number of stocker and feed—

er cattle shipped from twelve principal

markets was about ten per cent larger

than a year previous and somewhat

about the average for the correspond-

ing season.





 





MORE FALL PIG-S RAISED IN 1927





 





THE number of fall pigs raised in

1927 was 11 per cent larger than in

1926, according to the United

States Department of Agriculture. The

combined increase in the spring and

fall of 1927 was about 2,500,000 to 3,-

000,000 pigs in the corn belt and 5,000,-

000 pigs in the entire United States.

The gains were 5 per cent in the corn

belt and 6 per cent in the entire

United States. This indicates a sub-

stantial increase in the market supply

up to next October over the corres-

ponding period of 1927. The increase

may be made even larger by the fact

that cholera losses in 1927 were small.

In the fall of 1926, losses from this

cause were from 1,250,000 to 1,500,000

head greater than usual.



he report on breeding intentions

p0 nts to a decrease of 6 to 8 per cent

in the number of sows that will far-

row next spring in the corn belt and

a decrease of 3 to 5 per cent in the

entire United States. If these inten-

tions are adhered to, market receipts

in the fall of 1928 will begin to re-

flect curtailment of production and

hog prices will start on the upward

phase of another price cycle.



The hog market has had a half-

dollar rally in the last two weeks as

a result of moderate supplies. Re-

ceipts undoubtedly will increase again

in January and the market is likely

to sag. It may or may not make a

new low point for the season. After

January, a moderate upward trend is

probable. The probable increase in

receipts over a year previous will be

partly counterbalanced by fewer

cattle. HOg prices are already con-

siderably below the average level

from January to October 1927, so that

some gain in supply has been dis-

counted. -





 





TOP LAMBS REACH $14 AGAIN





 





THE upturn in lamb prices due to

extremely light receipts in the

latter part. of December carried the

Chicago ‘top to $14 once more, from





which point a small setback occurred. ~





Weighty lambs are too numerous and

enjoyed only a small part of the ad-

vance on light and handy weights.

It, is probable that current prices al-

ready discount the probable'incr-ease

in the supply in the next five months

c ' red with the. same period in

1927 but “selling conditions are likely

, to remain unfavorable because of the

lat; e percentage of overweight lambs.-





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.this community.———J. W





COUNTY one? REPORTS





Lenanaw County—Farmers are

doing chores and getting ,up wood.

Dairy and poultry are increasing in

interest. There is plenty of roughage

and feed and the stock is doing well.

Very little is being marketed. There

are no apples for sale or home use in





 





Ingham County—Farmers are just

doing their chores. All are buying

coal. Most farmers are milking a few

cows. There is plenty of hay but

grain is high. Milk brings $2.20 per

cwt. at cheese factory and eggs 500

per ~dozen,——-A. .



Jackson County—Farmers in this

locality are now cleaning barnyards,

cutting wood. Have plenty of rough-

age of stock, grain scarce. Live stock

is in good condition. Apples bring

$1.25@2.00 per bushel, potatoes $1.25.

No grain or beans being marketed.

DrWsed pork 12c, butter-fat 50c.—





Osceola County—Cutting firewood

and feeding live stock is the principal

work of farmers. Stock looks fine.

Very easy winter so far. Dairying is

on increase. There is plenty of

roughage but not much grain. Pota-

toes are 600 a bushel, rye 80c, beans

$3.00, hay $8@10.00 per ton, poultry

16c.——P. . R.



Berrien County—Farmers are kept

busy doing chores, trimming grape and

fruit trees. About the usual amount

of dairy and poultry. There is plenty

of roughage for stock, but not very

much grain. About one-third of grain

in farmers’ hands. Wheat brings





 





about $1.21 per bushel, oats 500, pota-

toes $1.00, eggs 50c per dozen.-—J. B.





Rate 8 cents a word. each

consecutive insertions 6 cents

display type or illustrations





charge I0 words.





adin _

Live stock advertising has a separate department and is





   





Don’t Feed Milk ,

If you want “323 money i?!





37' -[ SHED IN 000 Special





Calf Meal Factory





Single Calls





Trial Bag





Offer!

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Less than 5c worth

saves a gallon of milk 4- ..

Easy to prove itl Feed this original





milk substitute to just one calf-then



compare results—see what you save. 100 lb. Bag

This special factory cash trial bag $4.



offer is good onl if your dealer can't These





supply you. Or er today or write for .

{21.1 Envolgplo. Snags?!- and Expert Faces $.01».



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Dealer Distribution Wm: ’ °" ’





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WHEELS





Trucks—Wagons

Steel or Wood Wheels to fit

any wagon. Old wagons are

made new with “Electric"

steel or wood wheels that

fit any running gear. fl



Catalog describes Wheels. Farm

Trucks. Wagons and Trailers.



Write for this catalog today.



ELECTRIC WHEEL CO.

85 Elm St. Quincy, Ill-





 





CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING





This classified advertising department is atablished for the convenience of Michigan farmers.

Small advertisements bring best results under classified headings.

advertising miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange.





artment t lassifled rates. or in display columns at commercial rates.

p a c insertion. on orders for less than four insertions: for four or more





a word. Count u a word each abbreviation. initial or number. No

itted. Remittances must accompany





Try it for want ads and for

Poultry advertising will be run in this (led





order.

not accepted as classified. Minimum





 





 





 





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$1.40 26. . . . . 82.08 86.24



2.64 27 . 2.1 6.45



2.88 28. 9.2 6.73



3.12 29..... . 2.32 6.96



3 36 30. . . . . . 2.40 7.10



3 60 31.... .. 2.48 1.44



3 84 32.... . . 2.56 7.68



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43: 34. 2.72 8.16



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. . . . . . 5.04 81. . . ..... 2.96 8.08

22........ 1.16 5.25 38........ 3.04 9.1:

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24........ 1.01 5.75 40......” 3.20 9.60

35...”... 3.00 0.00 41......” 8.18. 0.“





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‘ or change of up) In-

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homa at prices that will enable the general farmer

to show a net profit on his farming Operations for

the season. Prices of Oklahoma lands considering

the prodigious. production are exceptionally low.

Plenty of uncultivated land still available for gen-

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house. barn and out buildings. fine-location. Good

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FOR. RENT—Ideally watered 1.350 acre stock farm.

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A FEW “SUCCESSFUL” DEMONSTRATOR INCU-

BATORS for quick sale at great reduction. 60 to 300

eggs capacity. Good as new. Des Moines Incubator

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' WATCHES. DIAMONDS CHEAP. Write for price





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Smoking 10 lbs. $1. United Famers. Paducah. Ky.





 





POULTRY





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IBoth 'Combs. R. O. P. Trapncstcd. Michigan’s

greatest color and egg strain. ('1mrkarels. chicks. eggs.

fatallog free. Interlakes Farm, Box 9. Lawrence.

v c .





18 VARIETIES Record of Performance Male Matinss.

Breeding cockerels. bullets. and chicks. Free catalog

giving his early order discounts. Beckman Hatchery.

Box 67. Grand Rapids. Mich.





PULLIC'I‘S. hatching eggs and

Circular. Hill-





BUFF‘ LEGIIORN

baby chicks that live and grow.

crest Poultry Farm. Bath. Mich.





 





PURE TANCRED COCKICRELS With pedigrees. five

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





 





S. 0. BROWN AND WHITE LICGIIORNS. 332 cm.

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BABY CHICKS





WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS from big white eggs.

Shipped anywhere c. o. d. Guarantccd to live. Low

foundation





 





prepaid prices. Trapnestcd. 11(‘(1IIII‘tX’d

stock. Egg contest records to 314 eggs. Hundreds of

cockerels. pullots. hens. Bargain prices. Big 28th





George B. Ferris. 934 Union.





Grand Rapids. liliehigan.





DOWNS LEGHORNS LEAD STATE CONTEST—-

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chicks now! Free circular and prices on request.

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BABY CHICKS—You can buy your early hatched

Michigan Accredited chicks right here at home.

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Farm. Box 28, Holland. Michigan.





 





 





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Chicks, eggs. and brooding stock. Flock under State

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FOR SALW~Triple Unit Nickle Bean Picker. new.

Waste. Huber. Gladwin. Mich.





 





PET STOCK





FERRE’l‘fi—Over thirty years experience. White or

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MATTRESSES





 





MATTRESSES made any size, low factory prices.

Catalog free. Peoria Bedding Company. Peoria. Ill.





 





 





FRUIT TREES AND NURSERY STOCK





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

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

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ernn





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Bears July to December. 18 flll quart. 2 year Con-

cord grape plants less than 20 each. Beautiful cata—

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SEEDS





WOLVERINE OATS absolutely pure, color and ger-

mination perfect. Weight thirty-eight pounds. one

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on over twenty bushel orders received before March.

Checks cashed early March when seed shipped.

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SCIENCE AND PRACTICE demonstrate Improved

American Banner wheat, Wolverine oats. Improved

Robust beans best for Michigan. A. B. Cook.





HELM’S \VINTER IIAYERSwInFum bifl'flel‘ poultry

profits~~$875 up. Frcc “Poultry Lessons." Illinois

Hatchery. Metropolis, Ill.





TURKEYS





\VIII'I‘E HOLLAND TURKEY'S and White Pekin

Ducks. pure-brmi heal-thy stock. Addressed stamped

envelope for reply. Aldon Whitcomb. Byron Center.





 





 





Mi ch.

TURKEYS. all breeds. Strictly pure—bred. Unrec

lewd pairs and tries, reasonable prices. Eastern





Ohio Poultry Farm. Beallsville. Ohio.





 





PURE—FRIED BRONZE BREEDING STOCK. unre<

latcd pairs, Vigorous. good quality. Mrs. Chas.

Boone. Traverse City, Mich. . R. 5.





 





MICHIGAN‘S BEST Giant Bronze turkeys. large.

utility and fancy. The birds that always give satis-

faction. N. Evab‘n Ramsdcll, Ionia. Mich.





FOR SALE——\Vhitc Holland tom turkeys. weight from

1‘5-2t0 1;)8. Price $10.00. D. E. Dean. Holly. Mlch..

one .





 





I’URE‘BRED limirbon’s toms, twelve; hens ten. F.

J. Chapman. Northvillo. Mich.





 





I’ITRIC—BRED BOURBON TURKEYS. hens $8. toms

$12 . Mrs. H. O. Buggies. Ilrfilford. Mich.





 





BOURBON RED TURKEY'S, Axtell strain. Chas.

Bcatty. Milford, Mich.





 





AGENTS WANTED





MAN TO WORK his local territory, booking orders

for shrubs. roses. perennials. ornamental and fruit





trees, etc. Also hire agents. Full or spare time.

Five year replacement. No investment or expel-lance

necessary. Outfit free. Real opportunity. Knidit





& Bostwick, Newark. New York State.





 





NEW HOUSEHOLD DEVICE Washes-«Irish windows.

sweeps. cleans walls. scrubs. mops. Costs loss th' 11

brooms. Over half profit. Harper's. 173 Third S

Pairflcld. Iowa.





 





WE PAY $48 A WEEK. furnish auto and expenses

to introduce our Soap and Washing Powder. Buss—

Bcach 00.. Dept. A-103. Chippewa. Falls. Wis.





 





.WE PAY $160 MONTHLY salary and expenses to

introduce guaranteed poultry and stock powders.

lligler Co., J-123, Springfield, Ill.





 





Owosso. Mich. .



SWEET CLOVER SEED. white blossom. crown north-

ern Michigan. Reclcaned. scarifled. Scaled bags.

Delivered your statim‘ $0.00 bushel. Thos. Buell.





Elmira. Mich.





 





TOBACCO





SPECIAL OFFER—Chewingor smoking 5 lbs. $1:

10, $1.75: Claus 50 (or $1.95: pay when received.

money refunded if not satisfactory. Farmers Asso-

ciation. West Paducah. Kentucky.





GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing. 5

pounds. 51.25,: 10. 82. Smoking. 10. $1.50. Pipe

Free! vPay postman. United Farmers. Bardwell.

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WANTED—WORKING MAN (married man) for gen-

eral farm work. Must understand tractors and all

farm machinery and be able to handle men. dress

Box 130. Michigan Farmer. Detroit.





MILK ROUTE SALESMAN WANTED—$200.00 cash

bond required. Steady employment. good wages and.

chance for advancement. Write for further partly:

ulars. Freeman Dairy Company. Flint. Mich. I,





DRIVER SALESMAN—QB so so you-a age. amp ‘

neat employment: good future. Write us «run a

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