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more clearance than if the wheels were placed on the tooth

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News of the Week





Reports show that the Nicaraguan

rebels continue with their activity.

General Sandino, the rebel chief, is

not dead as reported last week;





The Detroit Automobile Show had a.

record attendance and also made a

record 1n the number of orders taken.





. Over one hundred people are claim-

ing to be relatives of the late James

Duke“ the multi-millionaire tobacco

king, 1n an efiort to get a share of his

estate.



Orders have been issued to the Bel-

glan trolley company in Constantin-

ople that conductors must eject pas-

sengers who have been eating onions.

Thls order is effective until weather

1s warm enough to open the windows.



The new Ford flivver, with the new

Ford two-cylinder engine in it, was

forced down at Emma, N. 0., because

of ice on the wings. The pilot, Harry

Brooks, was attempting a non-stop

filght to Miami from Detroit.



_Sears Roebuck and Company has

p1cked a second site for a store in

Detroit. One on the west side on

Grand River and Oakman Blvd, and

the other on the east side on Gratiot

and Van Dyke. The purpose is to run

retail stores.





At the annual winter fur auction in



New York a choice half silver fox fur

brought $685, the highest price since

the war.

. German auto dealers are endeavor-

lng to establish a heavy tariff on

American autos. It is part of a gen-

eral move on the part of Europe to

stop the invasion of American-made

au 05.





.Lindbergh took his first submarine

ride on January 23 when at the naval

base, Coco Solo, Panama Canal.



One thousand marin ‘ have started

on an eight-day hike i Nicaragua to

get to the stronghold of the rebels.



The Central and South American

countries objected to the United

States’ plan to ban foreign aviators

flying over the Panama Canal, When

it was proposed at the Pan-American

conference at Havana.



Admiral Chas. P. Plunkett, com-

mandant o~f the Brooklyn navy yards,

predicted that war between the

United States and its commercial com-

petitors was not far distant.





In the Bell Telephone com-

pany’s laboratories at Hoboken, N. Y.,

a loud speaker has been perfected

that will carry the human voice one

m1 (3.





Ted Mosley, who left Daytona

Beach, Florida, in his plane for New

York with films of the Coolidge re-

ception at Havana, has not been found.





Secretary Hughes denied at the Pan-

American conference that the United

States wanted to rule Latin-America.

Peace, he said, is the sole aim of this

country.



Eddie Stinson, Detroit aviator, was

the first to complete a non-stop flight

from Chicago to Tampa, Florida.



Major-General Geo. W. Goethals,

who directed the construction of the

Panama Canal, died in New York last





 





 





{week at the age of seventy.





,The Ford Motor Company has

moved its offices from Highland Park

to Fordson.



Forty-eight

were executed

Canton, China.



The cost of living has decreased in

Detroit more than in any other large

city in the country since June, 1920.

The decrease is 24% while Washing.

ton, D. 0., showed the next greatest

decrease, 197,.



The new Ford flivver plane flew

seventy miles in thirty-five minutes in

a trip from Ashevillc, N. C., to Spar-

tanburg, S. C.



The Society of Automotive Engi-

neers is considering means of decreas-





suspected communists

by the authorities in





ing automobile upkeep by standardiz- '





ing tire sizes and lubricating oils.

There are 36 different the sizes at

present.



Lindbergh has resumed his diploma-

tic flights after spending several days

fishing and hunting in the Panama.

zone. He started for Columbia, Jan-

uary 25th. ‘



The U. S. Navy department has or-

dered one hundred nine—cylinder air

cooled engines for use in giant air-

planes.



The British Columbia legislature

will demand the Canadian govern-

ment to open again the Alaskan boun-

dry dispute with the United States.



The Mississippi senate voted down

a. bill which would tax unmarried men

and Widowers withoutdependents ten





dollars each. The bill was to apply to ,





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The Farm Flower Garden





fl Practical Way of Adding Beauty to Me Farm Home





HAVE been asked so many times

I if there is no way that a busy



woman living on a farm can have

a pretty flower garden. The idea

seems to be prevalent that a pretty

flower garden‘ takes “oceans of time”

and, of course, the farm women—gen-

erally speaking—do not have an

“ocean of time” to put on things they

call unessentials. I have lived on a.

farm myself so I know something

about the million and one duties which

every day keep the farmer’s wife going

No matter how

many the modern conveniences in the

house, there is always plenty more

that should be done ‘and so those

things which are not absolutely nec-

essary go Without doing. Not that

flowers are not important, but that





. they are not as important as some





other things and the consequence is

that most farm gardens boast of many

vegetables but lack the lovely blooms

which gladden every person’s heart.



I am not so sure that this condition

is the least bit necessary. We usually

find ways of doing the things We want





most to do and if we go about it right»





I think we may help the woman who

wants to have flowers in plenty. I

am sure the big business men are

right when they say that their clerks

work with more efficiency when they

have a little flower on their desks and

doctors always have said flowers were

often as good as pills in helping a

patient recover. Is it too much to say





~ that flowers on the dinner table make





vegetables taste a lot better? We

know that their effect on the human

being is remarkable! They represent

beauty. .And this age, if no other,

recognizes beauty as an essential ele—

ment of life. What automobile manu-





By E. Genevieve Gillette





facturer does not know that his car

has to be “good looking” to sell?





Well! The farm woman must have

flowers. She needs flowers and wants

flowers. And she has so little time to





grow them. Are we going on forever

making excuses for our inability to

use our heads? Perhaps I am wrong,

but I really and truly think I can add

a little which may help towards the

solution of this problem. Why grow

flowers which take so much time?

There are plenty of things good gar-

deners are raising with ever so little

trouble; in fair soil where vegetables

would do well they would produce a

mass of bloom. I think the sad part

of it is that we have wasted our good

winter evenings reading story books

and then have wailed next) summer

when the dahlias needed so much





water. Had we studied a little before

the cheery fireside, we would have

knOWn that even with excellent condi-

tions, dahlias need a lot of attention,

and then are often cut by frost before

they throw half their flowers. There

could have been other things sub-

stituted for dahlias—which are just as

pretty and which year after year will

survive the varying changes in the

seasons. It is my purpose in this ar-

ticle to discuss briefly a few of these

substitutes for the flowers the farm

women are trying to grow.



For very early spring flowering

there is no substitute, of course, for

the bulbs such as jonquils, daffodils,

narcissus, and tulips. You plant these

bulbs in late October or early Novem-

ber, before the ground freezes, in a

place where they may remain for at





 





 





 





The Beauty of Summer Bloom Should Be Enjoyed'on Every Farm





least three years without disturbance.

This place should not be close up to

the house foundation lest no water

reaches them, except in an unusually

hard rain. They will just dry up and

harden in such a place. It wants to

be a well drained place with medium

heavy soil and a southernly exposure

if possible. The warm spring sun will

strike them then and they will bloom,

early. After two or three years the

bulbs will have multiplied and you ‘will

want to take up the bulbs, pull off the

little bulblets, and plant everything

back again in more spacious quarters.

There are many varieties of these

bulbs. The early yellow Easter flowers

of our grandmother’s are the trumpet

and double daffodils; the white ones

with the orange “eye” are the poet’s

narcissus. And narcissus, is by the way,

the recognized scientific name for daf-

fodils—and jonquils as well. The two

latter names are common ones and,

in different localities, apply to differ-

ent flowers so are hopelessly con-

fusing.



The tulips come in many varieties.

Very early cottage types in gay

colors: Breeder tulips in deep hues a.

little later; and most graceful and

gorgeous of them all the Darwins late.

in May. The Darwins are two or three

feet tall and beautifully shaded. All

these bulbs can be purchased from

any reputable seedsman for as little as

fifty cents or as much as two dollars

a dozen. The very special Darwins

are the highest in price. You can

make a fine collection for two or three

dollars to start with and let these

multiply. That may seem like con-

siderable money for a farmer to spend

but when you consider the length of



(Continued one page 151)





America’s First Agricultural Scientist





Benjamin Frame/in Help; flgrica/tare as Well at Otne‘r Industries

By I. J. Mathews





HE civilized world today owes



more of its material progress to



Benjamin Franklin than to any

other one man.



No matter in what light his activi-

ties are viewed, he stands out as the

greatest combination of profound

thinker and vigorous doer of all time.

One cannot mention a phase of

science, philosophy, diplomacy, states-

manship, or literature to which Frank-

lin was not a very substantial, perhaps

indirect, contributor. And quite con-

trary to the mine run of those who

have a. great wealth of ideas, Frank-

lin was also very practical.



It is fitting that at this late date

plans are being worked out in his

home city, Philadelphia, for a $10,000,-

000 memorial that will be utilitarian in

purpose thus accentuating his most

outstanding characteristic.





While Franklin was the greatest





. scientist of America, ranking / even





now ahead of our own revere/d and

much appreciated Edison, he did not

die a rich man. At the age of eighty-

four years, he passed out leaving an





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three thousand acres in Georgia. He

never lived on a farm nor' were his

efforts ever put forth exclusively in

the field of agriculture but, in my

humble judgment, he did what Was

more important, through his electrical

experiments and their consequent and

future application to the field of agri-

culture.



W'ith all the ideas that he worked

out, he never took out a‘patent and

never contested one that' somebody

else had filched from him as was fre—

quently done. Speaking of inventions,

he voiced sentiment which has since

become a Well known but little applied

axiom of economics when he said,

“That, as we enjoy great advantages

from the inventions of others, we

should be glad of an opportunity to

serve others by an invention of ours;

and this we should do freely and gen-

erously.”



That is certainly different from the

philosophy now being applied. It

seems that present day thinking al-

ways tries to keep down the output so

it will be higher priced and more ex-

elusive.





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Lab'bi- is aways trying to re»





duce its hours which means decreased

products and capital is always trying

to increase its profits. In an Utopian

world, every man would bustle into his

job turning out all the product he

could and thus we all would have

plenty of everything since comforts

are merely trading one man’s product

for that of another. I feel that very

great fortunes are usually built up at

the expense of either those who buy

the product or those who ‘make it.

Every city that has a “gold coast” in-

variably has its slums.



If I Were to name theone thing that

more than any other has unlocked the

shackles of the American farmer, I

should say it was mechanical power

applied to farm jobs. Power applied

in the household has made it unnec-

essary in this day and age for a farm-

er to have two wives in order to raise

his family. And of all the forms of

power, the most convenient, cleanest,

mest adaptable is electricity. This

power has unleashed the farmer’s ac-

tual muscular energy for other more

important work and during the next

few years, we shall see it applied to





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those treadmill jobs with which farms

even now are quite replete.



Looking over the last ten years and

anticipating the future, I do not ex-

pect to have many more gray hairs

nor see the bald etchings on either

temple reaching farther back towards

my obstreperous cowlick before power

lines are threading the country roads

and thereby offering to farmers that

willing “blue giant” that has so gal-

lantly shouldered the burdens of other

industries. Michigan has rivers ga-

lore and so long as water flows down

hill, the rivers of Michigan can easily

supply enough power to mechanize

every farm and home in the state.

Motors will even be “malting” the slop

for the pigs a few years hence.





Even today, a thumbnail survey

showsthat this giant, capable of death

on the one hand and deliverance on

the other, has been the greatest of all

farm benefactors. The tractor, the

motor car, the truck—in fact, all of

the internal combustion engines get

very sluggish when their electric ap-

paratus takes a holiday. The itele-





_, phone emits only a disagreeable'buzz





when its batteries don’t come to but.

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CURRENT COMMENT





OO often, many

Northern farmers in Mich-

igan think of winter

Weather weather in the south

Healthful as full of sunshine

and health while cold

winds and snow in the north are noth-

ing but causes of sickness. There are

advantages in our northern climate

that are good for both the farm fam-

ily and the live stock of the farm. The

cold weather is naturally conducive to

the development of vigor and ambi-

Lion.





NUMBER FIVE





“Then a man is feeling good there is

a thrill to battlingn winter storm. The

fact that storms are coming in winter

is a. constant threat to keep man busy

during the remainder 'of the year. And

the preparation for winter produces

a real sense of satisfaction when the

winds howl and the snow blows and

we realize we have filled the hay

mow, the silo, and the farm cellar as

a protection against our wants.



Zero weather and the occasional

sunshine of winter help to control

contaminated soil on a poultry range,

and to reduce the insect pests and

fuugous diseases in the orchard and

garden. Many a farm poultry flock

would be suffering from disease if it

were not for the six months from N0-

vembcr first to May first when the

birds seldom use the soil of the range,

which‘ is partly renovated through the

processes of nature.



People of the northern peninsula of

Michigan find little fault with’ the cold

in that section. One may have thought

of northern Michigan as a. place to

which the Eskimos come down to do

theirvfall trading, but the people of

that land like the climate. The cold

air gives them vigor and stimulates

their circulation. They learn how to

protect their families and their live

stock from the severe storms of win-

ter and they do not usually suffer

from the cold. V



We are learning the value of fresh

air and a'liealthful diet as an aid to





   





.THE.MI€HIG





fighting winter ills. Sleeping with the

window open and eating vegetables

and fruit help to keep up vigor and

prevent colds. Too many pancakes

and too much pork and too little fresh

air and fruit do more to cause colds

than working outdoors in wintry

weather. “'8 all appreciate sunshine

and look forward to spring. but there

is real joy in a Michigan winter, and

the tingling of a near zero day may

carry more pop and vigor than the

mellow sunshine of a lazy day in the

south.





VERY farmer is



AMichigan interostedin

. soils. ‘On them de-



Sail pends his entire busi-

Program ncss. Unless t h e y





are productive, it. is

impossible to succeed at farming.



But for nearly a decade. an under-

current of feeling against soil im-

provement has existed. This feeling

has been predicated on the need for

reducing the total production of farm

products to keep up prices. The re-

sult has been disastrous. Poor soils

give low yields. Low yields make high

unit costs. High costs mean unsatis-

factory returns.



We farmers must get a new view-

point. VVe must keep down total pro-

duction and also costs. A reasonable

supply of any product will aid in hold-

ing prices for that product on a. safe

level and low prOduction costs will

enable the farmer to enjoy profits

from these prices.



These two ends are not incompat-

ible. Both can be secured on one and

the same farm. It can be done with

better soils. Producing the same out-

put on fewer acres will keep produc-

tion and costs down. Growing three

thousand bushels of potatoes on ten

acres has profitable possibilities when

the crop is selling at seventy-five cents

per bushel; whereas, if that amount

is grown on thirty acres, losses are

inevitable. Furthermore, the larger

yielding crop will show higher quality,

thus widening the advantages through

higher grading of the product.



Soil improvement is, therefore, fun-

damental in the present agricultural

situation. Michigan farmers need,

above everything else, a thorough-

going soil program. During these next

five years every available means of

promoting a better understanding and

appreciation of soils as a factor in

successful farming should be used.





EEDS bother





Fight in o s t farmers

Weeds only when crops are

growing. Their minds



Now are not troubled with





these enemies of

crops, when snow is on the ground.

But winter offers real opportunities to

fight them.



Many fields are woody partly be-

cause the owner’s hands put the weed

seeds in the soil. He did not use

clean grain, grass, or legume seeds

when putting in his crops. If tares

can be separated from good plants

one time better than another, that

time is before the seeds have been put

in the ground.



Seed cleaning and grading should

not be done in a hurry. The farmer

should work carefully at the job. .So

winter is an ideal time for this task.

All those little precautions that give

the maximum of results can best be

done when one is not rushed; the

mill can be put in shape and carefully

adjusted; the seed need not be

crowded through So rapidly; if nec-

essary, the supply can be taken to\

commercial graders and cleaners.



Also, one not only has the advan-

tage of doing this work better, but he

gets it out of the way before the

spring rush is on. Not infrequently,

where one has planned to clean his

seed, the pressure of time, at the last

minute persuades him to forego the

trouble. So the crop suffers.



Then, too. about the» ham weed-





ANSFARMERa





seeds can, in part, be prevented from

getting into the manure piles. In

cleaning the mangers, in feeding hay,

and in other ways, the vigilent farm-

er will ceaselessly wage war against

weeds. This militancy will have a

cumulative influence, as the years go

on, toward better farming.





BULLETIN h a s





The Value just been issued



f G d giving the results of

o °_° what is known as

Farming “Marrow Plots” at





the Illinois Experi-

ment Station. Three different crop-

ping systems are practiced on these

plots. One plot has grown corn every

year over a period of fifty-two years.

Another plot has growu corn and oats

alternately during the same time;

while a third plot, with some varia-

tions, has been growing a rotation of

corn, oats, and red clover.





The results are interesting. Where

corn was, grown continuously without

soil treatment, the returns during the

last. twenty—two years from 1904 to

1926 lacked $6.33 per acre of meeting

expenses. Even with soil treatment

there was a. loss of $1.95 per acre.



With the corn and oat rotation the

net annual loss was $2.89 per acre

with no soil treatment, but a net. re-

turn of $3.81 per acre each year when

the land was treated with manure,

limestone, and phosphate.





In the case of the corn, oats, and

clover rotation, there was an annual

net return of $2.09 for each acre

without soil treatment and with soil

treatment a return of $6.40 net per

acre. .



A valuation also has been placed on

the land in these different plots. It

has been carefully calculated that the

continuous corn land is worth $73.00

'per acre with no soil treatment and





$161.00 per acre where manure, lime-‘





stone, and phosphate have been ap-

plied. The corn-oats land is worth

$142.00 per acre where untreated and

$276.00 a acre where treated. While

the corn-oats-clover land is valued at

$242.00 and $328.00 respectively for

the untreated and treated areas.





These figures suggest the financial

advantages of good husbandry. They

impress the importance of a carefully

planned soil program, and it is our

hope that Michigan farmers will

think seriously of the results of these

long-time experiments.





T does not seem





Fi htin reasonable to

F g]! 1% those who know the

art er . 9' present agricultural

clamatlon situation that the gov-





ernment should en-

gage in any extensive reclamation

work at this time. However, there are

’several big projects under considera-

tion, one in the Columbia river basin,

involving thr- expcnditure of three

hundred and fifteen million dollars.



The opening of new lands at this

time will delay progreSS in agricul-

tural adjustment toward a profitable

basis. Further, those who take up the

reclaimed land will find it difficult to

succeed because they will be bringing

forth new production at a time of

surpluses.



The best interests of rural Amer-

ica can not be served by the addi-

tion of more agricultural land. Our

present acreage can produce consid-

erably more under more efficient meth-

ods of farming, and there is also the

thirteen million acres of land which

have been abandoned during the past

few years, much of which can be

brought to profitable production when

conditions warrant.



It is perfectly proper that the gov-

ernment should have a reclamation

department, but its activities should,

at this time, be limited to surveys of

the land situation and to plans for

opening new land when consumption

begins to crowd production. While





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organizations are active 'in the fight

against further reclamation of land

suitable for agricultural purposes, the

fact remains that our present Congress

in all probability will, in spite of the:

agricultural dilemma, provide funds

for new reclamation projects.





ESPITE protests





Having that there is no

corn borer, that he



Eyes They has been with us a

See Not century, and that he

is no worse than



other insect. the menacing fact is





that human quibblings will not pre-

vent the billions of corn borers now

in our country from eating.



Last week a. Canadian farmer asked.

“Do the people of this side still listen

to the man who says there is no corn

borer. On the other side, that would

now prove his insanity. May the good.

Lord help us,” he continued, “from

those who have eyes and see not."





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HE other day I went to town and



was gone all afternoon as I gor.

chattin’ with Oscar Smith on public

questions like relief for rheumatism.

the Saturday night bath, cure fer car-

bunklcs and word “obey” in the mar-

riage ceremony. And when I got.

home Sofie wanted me to explain what

she called my prolonged absence from

the field of duty. She says when

there’s work around I should ’help get

it out of the way. Well, there ain‘t





nothing I like better than to dispense





with work.



“fell, seeing as Sofie insisted on me

elucidatiu’ on my afternoon off, I says

me and 0 sea r

was determinin"

important que s~

tions. Oscar says.

for inst, we

should leave the

Word “obey" in

the marriage:

ceremony and I

agreed with him.

but it took two

hours tryin’ to convince each other

just where in the ceremony it should

be put. Oscar says it should be left

where it was and I say it should "be

what the man says “Yes” to.



You see where it is now it makeg

the womin tell lies and it ain’t good

to have womin tell lies right at the.

start. They learn how soon enough.

You see if you get a woman to swear

she’ll obey, she ain’t going to do ir.

But if the man would agree to obey

he’d only bé tellin’ the truth, ’causee

that’s what he does anyhow.



But the marriage ceremony is just a

fooler fer man. When he stands there

and has “sweet sugar” say she is

goin’ to obey, it makes him feel like

a cave-man and think she’s his’n.

That ain’t so. She don’t say it out

loud, but she knows she’s got him.



Of course, if it was in the ceremony

that man should say “I obey” there

wouldn’t be so many ceremonies

’cause then man’d know what he’s get-

tin’ into, but the way it’s now, just

only married men knows that the one

he used to call sweet sugar is boss.

The poor young fellows what commit

matrimony don’t know what they are

committing.





Oscar says he’s boss in his family

but he’s foolin’ himself, and if he is.

I feel sorry fer his family. But, I

don’t know why married men is got.-

to have the worries and responsibili-

ties we do. The males in the rest cf

the animule kingdom don’t. But I sup—

pose fer the good of the world as it

is and will be, we men is gotta be

silent sufferers and every time we

take a. afternoon off we gotta explain.

elucidate, and interpret what we did

with our present, past, and future

when we was gone. HY SYCKLE.





 





 





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filing system is most appreciated dur-



l ing the busy months from' April. to



November, but I believe that a farm-



er who has cared enough to store up



for himself a collection of agricultural



literature will alWays appreciate hav-



ing every bit of that information avail-

able ‘at a moment’s notice.





The writer has planned and devel-

'oped his own filing system over a

period of at least a dozen years, first

as a student, then as an agricultural

teacher, and finally as a farmer. I like





I. A T this season of the year we





} my system and believe in it, hence-





the offer to the readers of the Mich-

‘r igan Farmer.



There is a system more or less com-

mon and that is to arrange bulletins,

etc. in classes such as dairying, or

farm crops and usually provide some

sort of container for each class, but

I have failed to find this system flex-

ible, or enough of a time saver to

:warrant the time and expense in-

volved.



' A set of alphabetical index cards

size three by five inches and perhaps

two hundred blank cards of the same

size costing in all not over fifty cents

will last a long time. First, I set to

work to index my set of Michigan

Board of Agriculture reports. Each

of these books contains all bulletins,

circulars, etc., except extension and

quarterly bulletins, put out by the col-

lege and experiment station for that

year, in bound form. Suppose we

make out a card for the bulletin——





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Potatoes

Michigan Potato Diseases

Mich. Special Bul. No. 125

State Board of Agr. 1924

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Place card in index set under “P”



in some sort of box, even a good shoe



'box will last a long time if you have



nothing more elaborate. These books



have a far greater value when we



know that we can find any information



7, within their covers in a few moments.



, Our collection goes back to 1908 and



l a few years ago the lady who bosses



* ' in our house sometimes was inclined



to look with disfavor upon that row

of black books in my bookcase.



One summer morning she asked about



a certain weed that had appeared in



, our garden and instead of saying



i there is a weed bulletin somewhere,



she was handed a card from the index



which read “Weeds, Michigan Weeds,



Mich Bd. of Agr. 1912, Page 269.” She



read and re—read parts of that bulletin



many times that summer, and similar





 





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This Progressive Farmer Has W orhed Out a Practical Method

By J. M.





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incidents have occurred many times

since. .



Unbound bulletins especially Farm-

ers’ Bulletins from Washington, D.'C..

I index them much the same way

as the others except to place a num-

ber, beginning with No. 1, on the up-

per right corner of the card and the

same number on the upper left corner

(bound edge) of the bulletin. They

may be placed upon a cupboard shelf,

though a deep drawer in a desk or

filing cabinet would be very con-

venient.



Sometimes it is difficult to select a

key word from the title and two or

more cards may be made out, i. e., a

bulletin dealing with “small fruit” and

containing a good article on straw-

berries, which interests me, may need

two cards: one for “fruit” and another

for “strawberries.”





The quarterly bulletins from our ex-

periment station contain many short

timely articles and experimental re-

sults not important enough for a bulle~

tin alone. They are my favorites for

they are always short and snappy. I

make out a card for each article that

seems of interest to me.





Each card should show the full title,

name (bulletin or circular, etc.), num-

ber, and date. The station publish-

ing should be given except “Farmers’

bulletins” which are always from

Washington. The title, name, and

number help in replacing a valuable

bulletin should it be lost. The date

aids in selecting the latest literature

because in some subjects a bulletin

but a few years old may be of little





lvalue.





Now for our farm papers—some

people do save all their papers. I

never have because I like the clip-

ping system better. A group of clip—

pings in an envelope, perhaps, usually

has little value—you forget all about

them. A small clipping may be pasted

on an index card along with name of

paper, date, key word, and title.

Make out a card for large clippings

and fasten the clipping in a book—.

one of the Mich. Board of Agriculture

reports.



Suppose that some stormy day this

winter we decide to make a study of

sweet clover from all its angles so

as.to feel‘more sure of ourselves next

spring. Let’s look at our card index

and there in one place we find a

small group of cards referring to all

our available information from bulle-

tins to farm paper clippings and we

settle down to a few hours of profit-

able reading—what satisfaction.



It is estimated that a workingman

requires from one-fourth to one-third

of a gallon of drinking water per hour

in the summer months. .





 





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FIGHT FOR EQUALIZATION FEE





 





DVOCATES of the )IcNary-Hau-



gen bill, including the equaliza-

tion fee provision, have made a hard

and bitterly contested fight before the

House committee on agriculture in be-

half of what may be aptly termed the

principle of the thing. They have

shown no disposition to compromise.

With them it is the equalization fee

or nothing. At this time, however, it

is evident that. they are leading a

torelorn hope so far as the passage

of the bill through the lower branch

of Congiess is contcrned.



Lnless seve1al u'iembels of the com-

mittee expeiience a 1adical change of

mind the equalization fee plan is

doomed. No bill containing the equali-

zation fee feature will be reported out

of the committee? Several congress-

men on the committee who were ar-

dent supporters of the MeNary-Haugen

bill last winter have declared that

they will not support the bill contain—

ing the equalization fee on the

grounds that they want to pass a

measure which the President will sign.



it, is now thought that the House

committee will report out and that the

House will pass a McNary-Haugen bill

without the equalization fee provision.

It is also indicated that the Senate

will pass a lilcNary-llaugen bill in-





cluding the equalization fee and that.





the two bills will go to conference

where they are likely to be pigeon-

holed because of the inability of the

conferees to agree.

GRANGE FARM RELIEF BILL

BEING GROOMED





 





0W that the equalization fee plan



seems to have little chance for

enactment, Louis J. Taber, master of

the National Grange, says he thinks

the time is ripe to give the National

Orange’s farm relief plan featuring the

export. debenture plan a fair hearing

on its merits.



This plan secures for farmers al—

most exactly the same benefits as are

sought through the equalization fee

plan, and avoids ‘most of the objec-

(ions urged against the McNary-Hau

gen bill by President Coolidge in his

veto message of last spring. It is a

logical supplement to the protective

tariff system, a. supplement fully ap-

proved and contemplated by Alexan-

der Hamilton when our protective sys-

tem was first inaugurated. The exe:

curive committee of the National

Grange has been in session in VVash-

ington for several days consulting

farm leaders from various sections to-

gether with congressional leaders who

are helping to whip the bill into

final form.



‘NESTERNERS WANT TARIFF



ADJUSTED





N View of the probability that they



will not be able (0 pass the Mc-

Nary-Haugen equalization fee bill, and

realizing the impossibility at this time

of securing legislation reducing the

tariff on manufacturedproducts which

farmers buy, several \Vestern con-

gressmen have introduced bills pro-

viding for increases in the rates on

farm products-and the removal from

the free list of numerous products

that enter into competition with Amer-

ican farm products.





FARMERS OPPOSE RECLAMATION

BILLS





 





OPPOSITION to the Federal gov-





ernment apprOpriati-on funds for'





new Western irrigation projects was

stressed by National Grange Master

L J. Taber of, Ohio before the.House

committee on irrigation and reclama-

tion. He declared that the develop-

ment of new agricultural lands by the

government should stop until the

farmers’ dollar has reached par. He

could not see the need of increased





 





 





 





acreage since there were 20,000,000

acres of abandoned farm lands in the

country.



In spite of farmer opposition, it is

now indicated that the Columbia River

Basin project, alongr with several

other reclamation projec‘s will get

favorable action in Congress this Vvin-

ter. It is interesting to note that

every one of the members of Congress

who are advocating these reclamation

projects voted for the McNary-Haugen

bill last winter on .the grounds that

the. disposal of the agricultural sur-

plus is the biggest question before

Congress in the attempt to enact farm

relief legislatiOn.





 





RESERVOIRS FOR FLOOD

CONTROL





1le construction of reservoirs .on



the tributaries of the Mississippi

river as a means of flood control was

advocated by Senator Capper before

the House committee on flood control.

Senator Capper said‘he believed that

flood control 011‘ the lower Mississippi

cannot be carried out successfully

without controlling the flood waters





of the Ohio, Arkansas, Missouri, and

other tributaries. “Five or six reser-

voirs on the Arkansas river would





have prevented floods in Kansas, and

held back the water that. swelled the

Mississippi flood. These reservoirs

could be located in the natural stor-

age basins in Colorado > and .western

Kansas and the wateis could be used

to i11igate thousands of acres of semi-

arid land in these western states.”





 





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SHOALS





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HE Muscle Shoals power-fertilizer

disposal question is believed to be

nearer a solution than ever before. It

is predicted that the House military





affairs committee will report favorably _





on the Madden bill, providing for

leasing the plant to the American

Cyanamid Company, and that it Will

pass the House.

of reaching a settlement of the vexa—

tious problem this wintei.



Instead of making money at Muscle

Shoals undei the present plan Of sell-





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Congress is desirous .





ing power to the power companies,

the government is adding to its deficit,

which now totals $1, 600, 000 in a little

more than two years, and every year

we continue present operations, and

fail to accept the proposals offered in

the new‘bill, says Representative Mad-

den, we add almost $1,000,000 to our

deficit.





 





CAN’T FORCE REDUCTION IN

PLANTING





 





HERE is no law to prevent the



Department of Agriculture from

advising farmers against ove1 plant-

ing, according to Secretary of Agricul-

ture Jardine Action to prevent over

production is taken through extension

workers of the department. Through

the appropriation act the department

has authority to” collect statistics,

interpret them, and dissiminate’ such

information. Hence the departmental

specialists may advise growers to cut

down their acreage. Whether this ad-

vice is followed or not depends entire-

ly upon thefarmer.





 





BARGE SERVICE To INCREASE





 





HE prospective tonnage that could

be handled by the Mississippi river

barge line is limited only by the

equipment and efficiency of barge serv-

ice; This is the conclusion based on

a. survey made by the Department of

Commerce at the request of the. Secre-

tary of Wm.

As a result of this survey it was





' determined that there would be avail-

able for' Mississippi river bargegtrans- ‘





portation cargo to the extent of 6,995.,-

525 tons. This amount of cargo pre-

sents a very significant comparison to

the 1,251,276 tons transported by the

barge line on the Mississippi in 1927.





 





AT MERCY OF FOREIGN

cMONOPOLIES





 





EGISLATION is urgently needed

'to protect American producers

and consumers against foreign mono-

polies in essential raw materials, es-

pecially potash, sisal, and rubber, ac-

cording to' Secretary of Commerce





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Herbert Hoover, who testified before





the House judiciary committee, on the





Newton bill providing for an amend-

ment of the Vi'e'bb—Pomerene export.

trading act, so as to enable importers

of essential raw materials to. avail

themselves of the provisions of the. act

by forming associations for importing

purposes without danger of violation

of the anti—trust laws or the Federal

Trade Commission act.



“\Vhen any American uses rubber,

potash, sisal, nitrates, coffee, mercury,

catiphor or iodine,” says Secretary

Jardine, “he is using a product cori-

trollcd largely by a foreign combina-

tion or monopoly. The United States

is the world’s greatest market for

foreign-controlled products.” ‘





SUPREME COURT CONSIDERS IM-

PORTANT ISSUE





 





 





H AS the state the right to destroy

one man’s property to protect the

property of another man, even though

it be for the common good? This is

the question that the Supreme Court

is asked to decide in a case. arising

under the cedar rust law of Virginia.

which provides for the destruction of





cedar trees that are near apple or-

chards to prevent the spread of the





rust on the apple trees. Counsel for

the state contended that unless cedar

lust is cont1olled by the destruction of

infected cedar trees near 01 ohm ds, the

apple industry of the Valley of Vii»

ginia was doomed to destructiozi.

Counsel for the property owners who

ale contesting the light of the state

to destroy cedar trees, insisted that

the law was’unconstitutional because





'it pioposed to destroy valuable prop

‘erty of one class, who regarded the

"red cedar as highly desirable for on

~namental purposes, for the benefit of





another class who raised apples. Ir.

was further contended that if the

cedars must be destroyed, the owners

were entitled to damages covering the

depreciation‘in the value of property

through their removal.





 





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HE time is at hand for a new



' line of sales talk in behalf of co

operative marketing, says J. W. Jones

of the Division of Cooperative Market-

ing, in the Department of Agriculture.

Field men must. know and discuss

marketing if they are to sell member-





" ships.





Heretofore men unfamiliar with the.

technique of marketing have promised

more in the nature of a reduction in

margins than was possible. Many or"

ganizations have been formed with





(their membership expecting a much





larger portion of the consumer’s dol-

lar than there was any possibility of

their getting. Reduction of margins

generally depends on farmers dispens-

ing with unnecessaiy services which





they have overvalued.





 





use OLD BEET CONTRACT





 





BJECTION to the labor provisions



of the new beet contract offered

by thefactories has been raised on.

the ground that the minimum flat rate

was not low enough. As a result the

contract has been abandoned for this

season. There is general belief in.

the principle of the sliding scale for

labor incorporated in these contracts.

It is hoped by some of the growers

that the proper figures can be agreed

upon in Michigan by anotherseasori’.





Artichokes, both the “globe” and

the “Jerusalem” Varieties, are close

relatives of the common sunflower





 





A kind of Indian cdrn is grown in

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use for plowing out his private roads

or for work on the public roads where

the authorities do not do this work

themselves. It is drawn by horses and

sure does wonderful work in plowing

the road for sleighs and automobiles.

“The plow is made by taking two

timbers 10 or 12 feet long and 8 or

10 inches in diameter. Bore holes

sideway through the logs and mortise

in good sized poles or timbers 4 feet

11 inches long, so the width will be

a little greater than an automobile

tread, preferably using a three inch

hole if an expansion bit is available.



rom the front end of the runners

measure back about. three inches and

cut down towards the front at a slant,





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for baling straw directly from the

threshing separator. l



With this device the wind stacker:

is removed, the large power driven

baling press is brought rather close

to the rear of the separator and belted

to the cylinder pulley which was used

to drive the wind stacker. The straw

from the rear of the separator drops

on an automatic conveyor, which car-

ries it back and up into the feeding

hopper of the press, where it is forced

down by the automatic feeder. The

straw is thus fed into the press with~

out any hand labor at all, and two men

can tie and move back the bales as-

fast as the average threshing machine

will handle it.



Thus this simple automatic device

will take the place of three and often

four men in the baling operation. In

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as shown in the diagram._ Starting

where the slant is cut, bore a hole

vertically clear through the runners

and place two-inch hard wood sticks

in each. Build the plow on these

sticks, as shown in the diagram.



“The team is hitched to the plow by

means of log chains which may be

put through holes bored sideways

through the runners back of the stakes

a few inches, then around the top part

of the plow and then to the front part

of the driver’s platform. These chains

passing over the top of the plow help

to hold it down to the ground.”



We are very glad to get the direc-

tions for making this device, as it

should be easily made and apparently

would be effective in moving the snow.

We would suggest that the addition

of a half-inch rod put through both

runners close to the cross pieces, with

the heads and nuts notched back a

little so they would not strike and

put on extra large and heavy washers

would add a lot to the strength. Also

that a 2 by 6 brace spiked securely on

top of the runners would prevent

twisting if one runner strikes a bump

or a stone. Further, that it would be

worth while before putting crosspieces

and runners together to coat all the

parts liberally with creosote or with

coal tar to prevent decay. Then if

the thing is pulled under shelter and





it should last for years and years;

whereas if left Qutdoors on the

ground, five or six years service is

about all that could be expected—D.





 





SAVING LABOR IN BALING STRAW





 





NE of the largest factors of. the



cost of baling straw and other

roughage is that of labor, and any im-

provements in baling methods which

will decrease this factor of the cost

will be right in line with the new

movement towards decreasing produc-

tion costs through better engineering

and the use of labor-saving machinery.

A good example of this is the new





 





 





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will kee during rainy weather. Most

important of all, however, is the sav-

ing in straw which spoils during the

first rainy spell. We have all seen

the straw which we had planned to

bale for market and bedding get thor-

oughly water soaked before we could

get the baling started, with the result

that a third of the straw spoiled and

the cost of the remainder was in-

creased because the spoiled straw had

to be moved out of the way. With

the new method, not a forkful of straw

need be lost, and the bright color and

good quality of the straw should bring

a considerably better price on the

market. It is conservatively estimated

that the saving in labor and in wasted

straw and the higher quality of the

product will cut the cost of the baled

straw in half. Figure out for yourself

whether such a device will pay, with

the greatly increased demand for

straw for feed, bedding. packing pur—'

poses, strawboard, and paper, and just

recently the new type of insulating

board.





Still further possibilities are in

sight for such a device in connection

with the combine. It has already been

demonstrated that such a baler can

be hitched behind the combine, the

straw fed directly into the baler and

the bales tied by a man who rides on

the machine. and then kicked off to

be picked up later. or perhaps elevated

on to a low wagon and hauled away.—

I. W. Dickerson.





ABOUT BUZZ SAWS





 





VERY little while one reads or



hears of some person sent on into

enternity prematurely through the

bursting of a buzz saw. Buzzing up

wood is dangerous enough business at

best without courting disaster and

flirting with the undertaker. The high

cost of living is a real problem, but

A

cracked, wobbly buzz saw belongs on

the junk heap, not on» the man;

urban—S. P. . » ' . fl " *





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TH‘E‘IMICHIGAN F‘ARMER





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“Only asore throat





Don’t ever underestimate the danger of a

sore throat; if neglected, it may develop into

something serious—as many know to their

sorrow.



The same goes for a cold; pneumonia at this

time of the year is your great enemy.



At the first sign of cold or throat irritation,





use Listerine full strength as a gargle. Keep

it up systematically.





Being antiseptic, it immediately attacks the

countless disease/producing bacteria in mouth

and throat, and halts many an ailment before

it becomes dangerous.





During winter weather, when you are

usually subjected to poor air and sharp changes

in temperature, it’s a good idea to use Listerine

every day as a mouth wash and gargle.





This pleasant and easy precaution may spare

you a trying and painful siege of illness.

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THROAT. Some, of

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and prepare new wood for the crops of coming years





Apply Calcium Nitrate just before blossom time





. The cost is small; the returns very great. Calcium Nitrate is

p; now the preferred form of fertilizer nitrogen for use in‘orchards.

It is the most soluble of all nitrogen fertilizers. It will dissolve



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DRAINING ROAD





They are building a new county

road passing my land. There is. a

piece of swamp where the road goes

through. This swamp is quite full of

water in the spring. They have also

found a still lower place in my land

where the water can be drained off,

and they want. to dig a ditch and let

the water drain into my land. What

right have they to do this?~—J. B.



The county road commissioner has

no more right to turn surface water

upon adjoining owners ”than a private

person would have. The only place

where the water can be lawfully dis-

charged is into some water course.





NATURALIZATION PAPERS '





 





I took out first naturalization papers

in Chicago but before taking second

papers I moved 011 a farm in this

state (Michigan). The papers are six

years old and I would like to make

application for second papers but do

not know where to write or what

should be done in this case. Please

advise—C. L. .



Write to the clerk of the court in

which your first papers were obtained,

stating the facts, and asking for di-

motions—Rood.





LICENSE TO SELL





 





I am about to enter a contract to

sell poultry powders for a company in

Illinois. In selling this, I will have

to canvass from house to house. Does

the state of Michigan require a man

to have a license for this kind of

business?~—E. A. K





If the goods are shipped to Mich-

igan only as the orders are obtained

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Hnerce and not subject to regulation





 





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because the state cannot pass any law

that will interfere with the United

States regulation of interstate com-

smerce, except so far as is necessary

?to protect public health and safety

lagainst importation of disease and so

forth.—-Rood.





EMERGENCY HAY CROP





 





I moved onto a farm last fall where

no clovel 1101' alfalfa was seeded. The

only thing left for hay f01 next yeal

is 10 news 01 timothy that was pas-

two most of the summer, and 10 acres

of mixture of June grass timothy and

weeds that were not out last year.

This will be all right to feed horses.

and d11' cows to keep them f1om

star1ing to death and that is all. “’hat

can I sow ner't spring that will give.

me a. crop to haru'st next summer 01'

fall to feed to milch cows? How many

acres to the cow? I can raise. several

acres of oat bay for the coming har-

vest if it is any good.»—R C.



For an early spring sown emergency

hay crop. oats and peas make a fairly

satisfactory combination. A mixture

of a bushel of oats and a bushels of

peas sown at the rate of from two and

one—half to three bushels of seed per

acre is usually recommended.



The feeding quality of this hay is

good and it is ready to harvest during

mid-summer. The above suggested

mixture is especially good for the up—

per peninsula and the northern part

of the lower peninsula but does not

yield quite so well for the southern

part of the lower peninsula.



For the southern half of the lower

peninsula soy beans are frequently

used for this purpose. The Manchu,

Ito San, and Black Eyebrow varieties

being quite satisfactory. Soy beans

should be sown the latter part of May

or the first of June in 28 inch rows

at the rate of 35 pounds of seed per

acre. On heavy soil that is in a good

state of fertility, soy beans areusome-

times drilled in solid, using 90 pounds

of seed per acre. The first mentioned





 





method of sowing soy beams is the one





which usually gives best satisfaction.



The seed should be inoculated and

sown at from one-half to one inch

deep. If planted too deeply, a poor

stand is likely to result.



The average yield of soy bean hay

is from one and one-half to two and

one-half tons per acre- The feeding

value of soy bean hay is pretty much

the same as that of alfalfa hay. Soy

beans are' ready to harvest for hay

about the first of September. Weather

conditions are not always favorable at

this time but loves are not usually

great.



Oat bay has a fair feeding value

but does not usually yield as well as

either soy bean hay or oat and pea.





‘ l1ay.——C. R. Megee.





BILL OF SALE





 





I gave my sister a bill of sale of

all my live stock consisting of twenty-

three head of cattle and four horses.

Now I have been told that the bill of

sale will not hold as I did not describe

each animal. Will it hold or will it

not? Is it necessary to describe each

animal in a bill of sale? If it will not

bold. are my rights in stock the same

as they were before bill of sale was

made out? Does a bill of sale have to

be recorded to be legal? If I filled

out a bill of sale myself, would it be





as legal as one filled out by a justice,





of the peace ?—R. E. A.



A sale. of personal property accom-

panied by delivery is valid without any

writing at all. The writing is merely

a confirmation of the transaction. and

though irregular, would be sufficient.

Such papers do not have to be re-

corded—Rood.





TO START A LAWN





 





What. can be done to get a sod on

my lawn? In front of my home I have

five maple trees standing about 18

feet apart and 20 feet from the house.

These trees are at least 14 to 16

inches in diameter, and very tall. i

have tried seeding after having good

dirt drawn on for seed bed, and have

tried lawn seed and also mohaid

grass but it comes up yery spindling

and as soon as a little d1y 11 eathm

hits it, it seems to grow yellow and

dies. I had it sodded with heavy sod

one time and this does not last. Can

you suggest some way to get it seed-

ed ?—F. \V.



There are many places where a.

poor lawn is the result of too much

shade and in many instances the,

trees are so close together that none

of them are able to deveIOp proper-

ly so as to make a beautiful specimen.

So that it. would probably, in this case,

add greatly to the final development,

of the grounds to remove some trees

so that they would stand at least 36

feet apart and if they stand in straight

rows some could be removed irregu-

larly so the whole would seem to be

planted that way. Except along the

road, trees for the most part should

be planted unequal distances apart so

as to make the planting as natural as

possible.



There is one special grass seed that:

will grow in shade, this is the Chew~

ings Red“ Fescue, but very few seed

houses have this in the pure form. All

of the fescues will do well in the

shade but if this special kind can be

obtained, it is far superior to the

others.



If there is any orchard grass in the

lawn, it should be. removed before

seeding to this special grass, as or-

chard grass becomes the most. ob—

noxious weed we have in a lawn and

can only be removed by deep plowing

or taking out each individual clump-

The seeding should now wait until

early spring—O. I. Gregg.





There are no polar bears or any





other land animals, in the south polar ,





regions, according to the Explorer

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.VOTE FAVORABLY ON EXTENSION





WORKERS’





HE House and Senate committees



on agriculture have voted to re-

port favorably the Capper—Ketcham

bill, with amendments providing that

in future appointments of county

agents and home demonstrators there

will be an equal distribution of ap-





BILL‘





 





ipointments among men and women.





The bill largely increases the appro-

priations for farm and home demon-

stration and 4-H club work.





FARMERS OPPOSE RECLAMATION

WORK





 





T hearings before the House com-



mittee on irrigation and reclama-

tion, the fact was disclosed that the

proposed Columbia River Basin pro-

ject, the development of which is

being urged upon Congress, would

bring into cultivation 1,883,000 acres

and make 1,117,000 acres available

for grazing. The cost to the Federal

government would be upwards of

$350,000,000.



Speaking in opposition to the pro-

ject before the Washington Farm

Hands Club, A. S. Goss, master of ‘the

Washington State Grange, said that in

making extensive inquiries in VVash-

ingt-on, Oregon, and Idaho he had

found that 90 per cent of the farmers

of the Northwest are opposed to the

government beginning development of

the Columbia River Basin Project at

this time, or until the question of agri-

cultural surplus disposal was settled.

The railroads, banks, and dealers are

promoting Northwestern reclamation

schemes, according to Mr. Goss, but

the farmers out there feel that they

cannot stand any more government-

made competition.





BACK McNARY-HAUGEN BILL





 





HERE are apparently more farm

organizations back of the McNary-

Haugen bill than in former years. Some

farm organization representatives feel,

that a mistake has been made in at-

tempting to change the new bill after

it was introduced as the last word in

farm organization demands. There is

also some basis for the belief that if

Congress passes a surplus disposal

measure this season it will not con-

tain the equalization fee provision.

The National Grange export deben-

ture plan will be introduced in the

House by Representative Marvin

Jones of Texas.





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HE goat of'our present tax system



seems to be the owner of general

property, especially real estate. He is

assessed and taxed with seemingly no

consideration being given to his tax

paying ability or the earning power

of his property. The result is that an

ever increasing number of citizens find

themselves unable to pay the exorbi-

tant taxes imposed upon them and

thus their real estate is confiscated.





Probably few people realize the

seriousness of the situation. Accord-

ing to figures made public a few days

ago by Auditor General 0. B. Fuller,

property valued at $950,467,998 was

returned delinquent for the taxes of

1926. This included 8,275,445 acres

which, it is alarming to note, repre-

sents nearly one-fourth of the entire

acreage of our state.





These are cold figures, alarming in

the abstract, but tragic to those who

know from personal experience or

intimate observation just what they

mean in terms of heart-throbs, shat-

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tem which is discouraging home own-

ership and thus weakening the stabil-

izing influence of the American Home,

which we all realize is one of the

most potent factors in maintaining

high standards of citizenship?



A fool can ask more questions than

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its first semi-annual interest on the

bond at the four and one-half per cent

rate.



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value in farms, back of each dollar in

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HE choice of Mr. Howard Nugent



at Huron County’s Champion

Farmer evokes more than ordinary

interest among the older residents for

turning to Huron County biography

and pioneer society records. We find

Mr. Nugent is the son of pioneers

both father and mother. His father

was the son of Richard and Sarah

(Pangbom) Nugent coming to Huron

County in 1866 from Port Hope, On-

tario. His mother was a member of

the Slack family coming in 1868.



The elder Mr. Nugent saw the first

school erected in the township; school

house of logs was burned in the great,

forest fire of 7, 8, and 9th, October,

1871. Seventy-five per cent, of all

green forest in the thumb district was

also ruined.



Mr. William Slack was one of the

organizers of the first Huron County

Fair held in the village of Verona

Mills, October 20, 1869. Organizations

were effected on July 4 of the same

year. The Verona Mills were built by

Jeremiah Ludington, a pioneer of Sand

Beach. His son, Alman Ludington,

was the first white child of record

born at Sand Beach in 1851. Mr. Lud-

ingion erected a saw mill at Verona

town line the winter of 1864-1865,

having suffered a fire loss at the shore

on June 28, 1864. He added two

shingle saws to the Mulley saw and

later a grist mill in 1866. This gave

the name to the village. Before that

time all lumber was sawed by hand

by a. pit three-man saw. .



Before daylight on Washington’s

birthday thre‘e mills were fired by an

exploding can of coal oil, the use of

which was not common at that date,

1868. The saw and shingle mills were

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who accepted donations from letters to

hurry rebuilding. The grist mill was

not rebuilt by him. Among other do-

nations was the gift of a great cork

pine tree by Mr. Lorkoski.



The butt log of this tree yielded

two planks that became world famed.

They were donated to George \‘l'. Pack.

3. Cleveland lumberman. George Mar-

ten placed them on his sleigh and

they covered the bunks so the chain

had to be tucked around the edges to

hook. The carf on the cant was more

than five feet at small end. A man

is still living that helped get them out

and is janitor of County Court. The

planks were from four 'to six inches

thick and more than sixteen feet long.

One was perfectly clear and received

a metal at the Centennial, 1876. These

mills were all burned in 1871, rebuilt

and a flour mill added in 1887, but-1r

ed again in 1881, flour mill rebuilt

in 1883. Roller process was added in

1887, dismantled and moved to Lake

City in 1895 and Verona Mills is but

a. hall of fond remembei'ance.





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ON’T remember when the cat play



began between the girls and boys

but M. H. Hunt’s article interested me.

Thought maybe it would be Well to

show up the better side of the cat.

A good eat. like a good dog, is ex-

tremely useful.



In my opinion, if naturalists who

find so many cons against. cats, would

discriminate between cat characters

as they naturallly must between dog

characters, horse characters or man

characters, the poor cat would stand

a. fair show. There are good cats and

bad cats, good dogs and bad (logs.

good horses and bad horses, good boys

and girls an bad boys and girls. But

I never heard of a naturalist, arguing

that all these specie must go because

a part of them were bad and useless,

and often worse than useless.



Our family has had many cats. Sel-

dom have we had bird and chicken-

killing cats. Our premises were large

and we found use always for several

When we discovered one

with a bird or chicken-killing propen-

sity, it was promptly dispatched.



Another thing, we feed well our

iabbies while they are bearing and

nursing their kittens. This goes far

to preyent bird killers. We don’t kill

off the baby kittens as is the practice

with most people. We let them sort

of half grow up, until they begin to

show disposition and character. The

objectionable ones are then drowned.

For the better ones we find homes, or

let them grow up, if we are in need

of cats-



There is systematic and organized

effort to improve all other kinds of

domestic animals, but poor cat has

been allowed to shift for itself. With

so many odds against them, it’s a.

wonder they do as well as they do. If

naturalists would set about producing

a superior strain, much or nearly all

cat difficulties would disappear.—

M. W‘. B.





Martha Peters saved a. lot of seed

from the best plants last year but she

put the paper envelopes on a. low shelf

in the store room and the mice have

eaten the insides all out of the seed.

She says she is glad of it as it is much

fun looking over the catalogues and

selecting new seed, and the varieties

which come in pretty envelopes al-

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and the radio once more enforces that

“terrible solitude” when its batteries

part company with the alphabet.



To even adequately sketch Frank-

contribution to science would

take a volume—and then the half

would not be said. And so we are

going to be content with mention of

the three things that he did that have

meant the most to agriculture.





Was there ever a boy or man either

who didn’t get a kick out of the

mysteries of electricity? Franklin

built on what was already known. Be-

fore his time, electricity had been dis-

covered and Leyden jars had been

concocted for storing it. But the cur-

rent theory was that it was caused by

friction. With a glass tube sent him

from England, which he had seen in

crude experiments, he proved that

electricity is everywhere, it is of two

kinds, positive and negative, and you

can corral oodles of it if you have a

suitable lasso.



After performing his classic experi-

ment with the kite, which really dem—

onstrated that lightning and electricity

were one and the same, he wrote a

treatise on it—a lengthy explanation

couched in the finest of simple Eng-

lish, for which he was justly famous

and which in itself is no mean accom-

plishment. Just at that juncture in

the international chess game, George

III of England did not feel a bit

kindly toward America. because the

colonies threatened to cut down his

income by saying they 'would pay no

taxes unless they had representation,

and so his Royal Academy received

Franklin’s experiments with a poorly

camouflaged gesture of respect, but

did not bother to insert them in the

proceedings. “How could a man out

in the sticks work out any such facts

as these” was the portent of their at-

titude. At that time the ten colonies

were a mere fringe upon our eastern

shore with a scant 400,000 population

—less than onefourth the present

population of Detroit.



However, the French scientists, nat-

urally feeling more cordial, dupli-

cated the experiments, found that they

worked 0. K., and accepted Franklin

as the greatest scientists of all time.

Thus Franklin became the first

colonial man with a reputation in

Europe and yet remains abroad the

most famous of all Americans except

Lincoln.



Later the Royal Society saw that

they had overlooked a good bet, said

“We’re sorry,” recanted, and took

Franklin in as a member without

either initiation fee or yearly dues.

It may be properly assumed that no

Scotchmen were on the board.



The kite provided his foundation

experiment with electricity. Franklin,

like Bacon, took for granted the in-

credibility of his aSsociates so he and

his son only, went out one afternoon

when the majestic thunderheads were

floating in from the west. They

made a kite out of a silk handker-

chief and on the upright stick fastened

a stiff pointed piece of iron, project-

ing up into the air about a foot and

a half. A hemp cord ran down from

this, nearly to his hand. Here an-

other piece of silk formed a handle.

Where the hemp left off, they tied an-

other piece to which was fastened an





. ordinary door key. As the storm came





on, occasionally they would wet their

knuckles, put them up to the key and

see an electric spark jump the gap.

Each of them took a shock or two,

then charged two Leyden jars and re-

turned to the laboratory.



For seven years, Franklin’s duties

made it possible for him to delve into

electricity and in that time he made

an electric motor and. several other

applications of the newly found Mes-

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with a red hot iron, Franklin one time

tried to electrocute' a turkey before

some friends just to show that it

could be done. But he did not have

the apparatus rigged up just right and

the juice missed fire and took his

hand instead, so his description of the

experiment throws some light on the

“humaneness” of electrocution. .,



“The flash was very great, and the

crack was as loud as a pistol; yet my

senses being instantly gone, I neither

saw the one nor heard the other; nor

did I feel the stroke on my hand,

.though I afterwards found it had

raised a round swelling where the fire

entered, as big‘ as half a pistol bullet.”



“Poor Richard’s Almanac" was be-

gun by Frankling in 1732 and appeared

every year for 25 years. It cost six-

pence and if a farmer didn’t have the

money, he traded produce, stockings,

tobacco—anything to get it. It con-

tained weather predictions for the

coming year fully as reliable as those

on the almanacs now in circulation.



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A WELL planned and carefully



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If the soil is properly prepared and a

little attention is given the garden as

required, the work need not become

a burden on the members of the

household.



If there is any choice in the selec-

tion of the garden site, avoid shady

locations. The closer to the house the

garden is the more care. it receives

and, like everything else, it responds

to careful attention.





Almost any kind of soil, unless it is

composed of bricks or stones, can be

used for gardening if it is properly

handled. A soil should be well drained.

The use of tile is practical Where na-

tural drainage is not available. A

water supply should be available so

that it may be irrigated during pro-

longed drought.



Soil Preparation and FertilizatiOn



Manure is the best fertilizer for

vegetables and should be used freely.

Apply in the fall and plow under at

that time. If not available until spring.

well rotted manure is preferable.



The liberal use of manure will build

up any soil in a. few years to a. point

where it will be easily and profitably

worked. Applications of acid phos-

phate should be made yearly, using a

pound per one hundred square feet of

soil. This can be scattered after plow-

ing and liarrowed into the soil.





“fork soils when there is no danger

of puddling them. Soils should be

worked as soon as they are dry

enough to crumble easily. Level, shal-

low cultivatiOn gives the best results.

The object of cultivation is to destroy

weeds, and this is accomplished

easiest by never allowing them to get

started.



Planning the Garden



Well planned gardens have the

vegetables arranged in straight rows.

These rows should run north and

south, in order that, an equal distribu-

tion of light may be obtained. It is





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tables which are to be planted at the

same date so that the gardener may





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[for planting at one time.





The groups

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of the garden and gradually extend to

the other side as the season advances.

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made easier by so planning.





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be arranged to suit the needs of an

average family.



First Plaiiting~April

10th.



Row I‘Leaf lettuce, early radish,

and early turnips.



Row 2ml€arly peas.



Row 3~eEarly peas.



Row 4d~Spinacli and kolil rabi.





lst to May





Second Planting~April 15 to May 15.



Row 5~Leaf lettuce, early radish,

and onion sets.



Row (i~——Onio-n seed and parsley.



Row 7—-0nion seed.



Row Lira-Beets.



Row 9~—«Carrots.



Row 10.——Parsnips.



Row ll—Salsify and S\VlSS chard.



Row 12~Early cabbage, cauliflower,

and companion crops such as head

lettuce.





Third Planting—~May 1 to May 15.

Row 13~Bush string beans.

Fourth Planting—May 15 to June 15.

Row 14—-Bush string beans.

Row 15~Bush string beans.

Row 16—Tomato plants.

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rows arranged the long way of the

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garden can be replanted, as soon as

harvested, with sweet corn. Late tur—

nips can replace row 12 when the cab-

bage and cauliflower have been re-

moved. Late beets can be planted fol-

lowing the early crop. Winter radish

may replace row 14 as soon as the

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OESN‘T it puzzle one to make a



selection of either seeds or plants

from the descriptions given in seed

and plant catalogs? Each one is the

best of its class! A sure cropper! A

moriey getter, etc., etc., in flowery,

convincing words. By and large, it is

all very confusing, leaving the reader

in a very uncertain mind as to the

selection best to make. Nothwith—

standing this phase of the matter,

there are possibilities of humorous

pleasure in the perusual of these cata-

logs, not. unmixed with pro-fit. Per—

sonally I enjoy a study of the colored

plates and descriptions which sets

forth the merits of the various fruits

and vegetables. I like to conjure a.

mental picture of a crop thus ideal-





ized. Idle pastime! That is as one

sees it. Harmless, innocent pleasure

at most. Nor who can say what far-





reachingpractical results may have

origin in a half hour study of plant

and seed catalogs. before a bright,

cozy, winter hearthfire.





In strawberry plants I already have

nearly a dozen varieties and had not

intended to send for others this sea—

son—not till I had looked over the

newest catalog, then I “bit” or was

“bitten.” “The very. firmest berry

ever grown!” “The perfect berry.”



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As my son wishes to raise some

peanuts this coming season I would

appreciate it very much if you would

please give me information as to their

culture and harvesting; also the best.

variety—P. C.





Peanuts are. best adapted for regions

with long, hot. summers, however,

they may be grown in Michigan pro-

viding they are planted on warm

sandy soils. The soil should be well

prepared the same as that for any

other cultivated crop. The seed

should be planted in rows thirty to

thirty-sly inches apart late in the

spring after the ground is well

warmed up. A better stand of vines

'will be secured if the shelled nuts are

used for planting. They are dropped

two 01' three in a place in hills about

twelve inches apart. Keep the plants

well cultivated and when they become

of geod size it is important to work

the soil well up to the plant. Later

cultivation should not be close enough





to disturb the roots or the forming

nuts.

When harvesting, the plants are





lifted with a fork. The nuts are us«

ually left on the plant until thor-

oughly cured before picking.





The Mammoth Bush and the Span?





ish varieties are adopted to culture

here. The Spanish nuts are of smaller

size, but the plant is of a low bush

type and it, will probably outyield the

other variety—R. E. Loree.





Simon Peck has taken the glass

windows off the hen house and is

going to use them for hotbed sashes.

He allows it don’t matter if they are

broken as the hens will need plenty

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Poul-try and Egg Outlook

3 A Review of t/ze Market Situation

By Marilla Adams





AIR sailing under clearer skies

Fthan "in 1927 is the early promise



of 1928 to poultrymen. Production

has settled into step with demand, the

fear of “overproduction” has largely

dissipated, no burdensome stacks are

in reserve to depress the market, con-

suming demand for eggs and poultry

meat is well sustained, and feed costs

are moderate. .'



An examination of the principal

price-making factors, including the

tendencies in production, consumption,

and such miscellaneous influences as

stocks in storage, probable feed prices

and foreign trade leads to fairly re-

liable conclusions. These can be

summed up as follows:



Adjustment in Production

1. The signs of overproduction





which were present early in 1927 have.





largely disappeared without a pro—





‘ longed period of low prices, and out-





put in 1928 promises to be in satis-





' factory adjustment to demand.





2. Improvement in other branches

of agricultural endeavor will tend to

prevent any marked expansion in the

poultry industry in 1928.



’3. The number of potential con-

sumers of eggs and poultry in towns

and lcities is constantly increasing.

Their buying power in 1928 is ex-

pected to average as high as in 1927.

3 4. Total income from poultry pro-

ducts in 1928 probably will exceed that

Egg prices

promise to average higher than in

1927 and pbultry meat should at

least equal the average of the past

year.



Feed Costs Steady



5. No pronounced change in feed

costs is expected, at least until the

new growing season arrives when

prospects for the new crops will dom-

inate market values.



In the first half of last year, it ap-

peared that the widespread apprehen-

sion regarding overproduction was

well founded. Receipts of eggs from

January to June at the four leading

markets were the largest on record

for that period. Dealers were slow

to buy for storage, following several

unprofitable seasons. The pressure of

large supplies in this atmosphere of





pessimism caused prices to drop until,





on June 15, farmers throughout the

United States received an average of

only 17.8 cents a dozen for eggs, the

lowest price on the corresponding date

since 1915.



Receipts of dressed poultry during

this same period were larger than in

either of the previous two years, "but

about 10 per cent less than the aver-

age in 1923 and 1924. In addition, the

reserves of frozen poultry in storage

which had to be consumed along with

the fresh receipts were over 30 mil-

lion pounds larger than in the previous

season.





Conditions Improved



Beginning with June, however, con-

ditions improved. Receipts of both

eggs and dressed poultry from July to

December, inclusive, were smaller

each month than in the corresponding

months of 1926 with the exception of

October and November when receipts

of eggs were fractionally higher.



One of the most important influ-

ences back of the change was the

weather. From January to March, in-

clusive, temperatures were above nor-

mal in practically all parts of the

country. Much of the increase in egg

supplies in the first part of 1927 prob-





. ably was due, not to the increase in

.flocks, but to the heavy winter lay





and the early arrival of the main lay-

ing season, caused by mild weather.

Having started to lay early, the hens

stopped laying and started to molt

early; The rise inteed‘ prices and de-





‘Ulinei'in‘eggs during the springstimu-

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caused some neglect of flocks. Heavy

rains and floods in many parts of the





country in the late spring interfered





with the hatch and baby chick mor-

talities were above the average. Egg

supplies were reduced slightly also by

the fact that the Chinese war re-

sulted in smaller imports of dried and

frozen eggs and egg products during

the spring and summer than in 1926.



Consumptive demand had been stim-

ulated by the lower prices, so that not

only were current receipts readily ab-

sorbed, but the large stocks of'both

eggs «and poultry meat steadily de-





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Annual receipts of eggs and dressed

poultry at New. York, Chicago, Bos-

ton and Philadelphia since 1920.

During the past six years in eggs,

and the past five years in poultry,

receipts have shown evidence of

stabilization with only slight

changes from year to year.





creased. On January 1, 1928, hold-

ings of eggs in cold storage, which on

August 1 had totalled 10,746,000 cases,

the highest on record on that date,

had been reduced to 879,000 cases,

compared with 1,096,000 cases a year

previous and a. five-year average on

January 1 of 1,413,000 cases. Stocks

of-frozen poultry on January 1, total-

ling 117,678,000 pounds, were nearly

27 million pounds smaller than a year

previous andcompared with an aver-

age of 116,700,000 pounds on the cor-

responding date in the last five years.

Better Than Expected



The year in reality was far more

favorable than had been commonly

expected. The ability of the poultry

industry to correct, in quick time,

such degrees of over or under-produc-

tion as are bound to occur with so

many individual production units

spread over such a large territory is

one of its strongest assets.



No official estimate of the value of

poultry products in 1927 has been

made as yet, but it probably was 5

to 8 per cent less than in 1926. Since

returns to farmers from their flocks

in that year were estimated by the

United States Department of Agricul-

ture to be $1,181,000,000, the largest

on record, there is little reason for

serious complaint over the 1927

figures. The average price paid to

farmers for eggs in 1927 was 28.2 cents

per dozen compared with 31.5 cents in

1926. Prices paid for chickens aver-

aged 20.3 cents per pound in 1927

compared with 21.9 cents the year pre-

Vious.



Egg production in 1928 probably

will closely approximate the 1927 out-

put. The unusually favorable weather

which was a prominent factor in the

heavy egg production in the first feW

months of 1927 probably will not be

duplicated. The period of low prices

last spring undoubtedly discouraged

some producers who either have got-

ten out of the business entirely or

curtailed operations drastically.



Business influences



While the decline in business ac-

tivity late in 1927 may have impaired

the buying power of consumers to

some extent, the recession promises to

be mild and urban incomes are ex-

pected to .be about the same in 19.28

as in 1927. The regular annual in-

crease in population will create some

additional. outlet. Dealers, on the





whole, made a satisfactory profit on





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['R principal achievements here

at Ingleside during the last two

weekshave been along the line



of carpentry. Very little really new

construction was attempted, but, a lot

of repair work was done. Father

Time has a weapon which he. weilds

relentlessly to destroy everything

made of wood. This devastating force

is known as decay. It is as inevitable

as death, but by proper attention

given in time we can postpone c011-

siderably the evil day of obsolescence.



Among the fifteen or more different

repair jobs which we completed. some

took not over a half hour. However,

some of these

smallest tasks

were ones which

we had been itch-

ing to get at for

a long time and

their completion

brought no little

satisfaction. More

time than

have. been ex-

pected was spent

in rebuilding all





 





sheep barn. All

rotted and weak boards were replaced

and new foundations placed under the

rack so that they sat level and plumb

once more.



By far the biggest thing we tackled

was the rebuilding of all the horse

stalls in the “big barn."

the old partitions, mangers, and floor,

and built six new stalls where seven

had been before.

mangers, and floor were considerably

the worse for wear anyway and for

some time I had thought the old stalls

were too narrow so I decided that as

long as we. were going to be doing





tear everything out and fix things up

so that they wouldn't need any more

attention for a while.



I'suppose our readers have all sorts

of ideas as to the ideal width of a

stall for a 1,500 pound horse. The old

Stalls were four feet and seven inches

wide in the clear and I always felt a

little crowded when currying or har-

nessing a horse. Then too, from time

to time, I would notice that Charlie or

George had knocked a chunk of hide

off a. hip when getting up or lying

down. By sacrificing one of the old

stalls, six new stalls were made, each

with an added ten inches width or five

feet five inches. Possibly expen‘ence

may prove that these are too much

of a good thing. but thus far I am

[well pleased with them. Father-in-law

igays five feet is the ideal width;

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: When we started out on this re-

ibuilding project I supposed that it

would result in our having stall room

in that barn for only six horses i11-

stead of seven. I was quite surprised

to realize when we had it finished that

we had made it pOSSible to stable

twelve horses them, as each new stall

will accommodate 1,110 horses f01 a

short time. Of course, we wouldn’t

expect to keep a team in one of those

stalls over night, but it could be done

during the feeding hour when we have

extra horses around for threshing, silo

filling, etc.



To tear down and rebuild anything

of this nature is considerably more

difficult than to do the original work.

There isa lot of prying, pulling of

nails, and sorting material and so

much wreckage and debris lying

around that it makes the work much

more co111pllcatcd.



“’9' did all this remodeling in the

horse barn without pu1chnslng a

single plank or board, as we had a





 





might .





the racks in our.





We tore out.





The partitions, .





so much repairing we might as well





‘ damage, but I shudder





sufficient. supply of home-grown tim-

ber. This it seems is no small item

nowadays. In fixing over our sheep

racks we thought we were going to

run out of planed hardwood so I

bought one oak board an inch thick.

nine inches wide and fourteen feet

long. Ionv much do you suppose it

cost? I developed a new appreciation

of our farm-grown timbers, planks and

boards when I paid the bill~$1.54.





111 tearing out Charlie’s old stall we

had a regular big game hunt. Clean—

ing up downunder the old manger we

discovered and .dlled quite a few mice.

Then when we began taking up the.

old plank flooring we found mice

wholesale. Frantically weilding vari-

ous weapons and using our feet merci-

lessly, we brought to an end the happy

days of most of them. When the ex-

citement substided I placed thirty-two

carcasses in a row out on the cement

floor of the alley way.



During all this fracus all the cats

that are supposed to patrol that barn

were nowhere in evidence. Having :to

make a trip over to our house in a few

minutes, I took along two mice to our

family cat; Returning to the ham, [

found the other thirty mice still lying

where I had lined them up in a row.

Pretty soon an old mother cat came

along and started eating them. 1[

thought she might get too many, so

drove here away.

four or five 'in her month. 80011 she

was back" again and» the same pro-

cess was repeated. She returned the

third time and. again sneaked away

all she could carry.



Pretty soon I looked at where the

thirty mice had been and there was

that old cat'busily feasting. I de-

cided to leave her alone and watch

the results. Believe it or not,-‘she

didn’t stop until all alone and un-

assisted she had devoured the entire

bunch of 30 mice! She looked like‘a

snake that had just swallowed a frog

01 a. bi1d. Her middle fai1ly dragged

the ground. I was wonled f01 heI wel-

fare, but that afternoon when we ran

onto another nest of mice she was

iight on the job with a hearty appe-

tite.



Y on may remember that I told in a

previous article about repairing the

grain boxes in the horse stalls last.

summer. I don’t beIiev‘e the mice had

any holes in the bottoms or corners

of these boxes, thus making for them-

selves first-rate self-feeders, but. mOst

horses slobber their grain more or

less, so probably these mice fared

pretty well without the necessity of

wandering far from their nests. .Pos-

sibly they weren‘t doing us any great

to think what

that many mice could do to a bunch

of grain sacks.



Our new mangers have a plank floor

and sides and should last a long time.

The grain boxes have plank bottoms

and are of liberal capacity and. sub-

stantial workmanship.



Plowed January 12



Again we remark that this is a

peculiar winter. \‘l'e have had some

quite cold days, but much of the time

it has been unusually mild. We

thought we were doing something

quite out of the ordinary when we

plowed December 14 and 15, but that

record was altogether eclipsed when

we plowed heavy clay sod on January

12. Vl'e could ha1e plowed several

othei days that week but the head-

lands weie too muddy.





About that same time our hired man

dug up a woodchuck and found him

wide make A newspaper report





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Walls for Dairy Barns

Haw T lzey May Be [mu/died

By I. W. Dickerson





FTER deciding on the size and



location for the dairy barn, the



next question is the walls. Foot-

ings for the foundation walls, or the

wide part at the bottom to give better

wall support, is made almOst entirely

of solid concrete, since this is about

the cheapest and the.most effective

material for distributing the barn

weight over a comparatively large soil

area. Usually a concrete footing two

feet wide and twelve inches thick will





safely carry the foundation walls of





any good sized barn.



However, if it is to be built specially

heavy, with high masonry walls and

reinforced concrete mow floor or is

to be loaded heavily with baled hay

or mill feed, each wall footing and

each interior post footing should be

calculated carefully for the particular

bearing conditions at hand. The safe

bearing loads for different types of

soil, the proper method of figuring

footing sizes, and the proper methods

of laying out foundations are discussed

quite fully in the free bulletin “Foun-

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crete,” by the Portland Cement Asso»





ciation of Chicago. The depth of foot-

ing should usually be enough to get

below heaving frost, which may vary

from one to six feet, depending on the

soil and locality.

Basement Walls



Custom varies as to the materials

used for the foundation walls, which

in many cases also forms the stable

walls; but the‘most common mate-





rials are reinforced concrete, concrete .





blocks, hard burned hollow clay tile,

or rough stone. Hard burned bricks

are sometimes used, but not often.

If trouble from dampness is expected

the reinforced concrete wall will prob-

ably be the most satisfactory. A ten

to twelve inch concrete wall should be

used for a large high barn, while eight

to ten inches is sufficient for the av-

erage size. These sizes are usually

sufficient for concrete blockS'or hol-

low clay tile if of good quality and

laid up in cement mortar. Stone walls

are usually laid up sixteen inches

thick.

Stable .Wallc

In many cases the foundation walls

are carried up to form half or all of

the stable walls, and the practice

seems to be growing of using masonry

walls clear up to the eaves- Having

at least half the stable walls of ma-

sonry has two or three distinct ad-

vantages. One is that all this lower

part of the barn walls is of material

that is not damaged by ordinary

weather, banked snow, heaped up

manure, or by rubbing of stock. An-

other is that all the wooden parts are

put well out of the reach of dampness

and of damage from white ants or

termites. And third is the much

easier cleaning of the smooth masonry

surface inside the stable.

Double Walls

The chief objection to the masonry

stable wall, whether of concrete, con-

crete blocks, hollow tile, or stone is

its being cold and subject to frost on

the inside, unless pmper insulation is

provided for. The air spaces in con-

crete blocks and hollow tiles helps to

some extent, but is not enough alone

to prevent trouble from frosting. A

double wall or a wall with a complete

air space, is one of the simplest meth-

ods of overcoming this trouble, pro-

vided the airspace is filled with insu-

lation or with some material to stop

air circulation inside the air space.

Equipment is now available by which

a. double concrete wall with a two-

inch air space can be built without

much additional labor cost. Concrete

blocks are now available consisting of

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so they can be handled and laid as

units. Also, a double wall of two

separate four-inch concrete blocks laid

two inches apart but tied together

with strips of galvanized iron laid in

each mortar joint, is rapidly gaining

in favor. A double wall of two five-

inch clay blocks tied together at each

mortar joint makes a good wall for

a small house or barn, while for larger

buildings a twelve-inch and a four-

inch Wall are used.



To get anything like the real value

of any double wall construction, the

twoWalls must be as nearly wind and

water tight as possible and the air

space must be filled with something

that will stop air circulation transfer-

ring heat from one wall to the other,

and which will also not transfer the

heat itself. Granulated cork is almost

an ideal filling except for its cost.

Dry sawdust is also very effective and

is reasonable in cost, but has the dis-

advanatge of losing much of its in-

sulating value if it gets too damp, and

in time will rot. Much the same can

be said for mill shavings. Possibly



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iabout a hundred and fifty chickens





hatched out and when the skunks got

through with them I had just sixty

Last spring I had about the same





got through with them I had just two

left.





There was no mistake as to what it

was that took my chickens either

year, for we caught three skunks as

they were trying to get at the chick-

ens last year and we caught a mink

as he or his mate had finished killing

my chickens this year.



If these chickens had been allowed

to live till fall they would have been

worth more than a dollar apiece. As

I figure it out, I have lost consider-

ably more than $200 worth of chick-

ens in the last two seasons. Rather

expensive “friends” I call it.



Now we understand that there is to

be no “open season” on mink this

winter but it 'seems that the. “open

season” on my chickens lasts the

whole yearn—Mrs. Catharine Yape.





 





SQUIRRELS IN WALLS





 





Please advise as to how to get rid of

squirrels that have worked their way

into the walls of my house. Would it

be possible to get a ferret? The squir-

rels are working hard and doing much

damage—M. C.



The present laws of this state pro-

hibit the use of ferrets for any pur-

pose. I doubt if a ferret would be of





,much value in this case at any rate.





In my judgment the best policy to

pursue Would be a relentless trapping

and shooting of the squirrels. I would

try to locate the holes through which

the squirrels enter the house, and their

runways in their search for food, and

then set traps baited with corn meal,

oat meal, or other similar material in

spots frequented by the squirrels.

Peanuts are also good squirrel bait.

Niunber one steel traps would prob.

ably be as good as any to use. In

addition to the trapping, it would be

an excellent scheme to shoot at the

animals whenever possible with a

small gauge shotgun. As in the case

of rats, the most important thing is

to keep evcrlastingly at it. If the

animals are subject to continual har-

rassment with traps and guns, they

will leave the place for more congenial

surroundings, even though not many

are actually killed—G. W. Bradt.





 





APPLE PRUNING





PPLE trees require comparatively

little pruning for best results,

while training the trees . to a low-

headed habit of growth, is said to have

decided advantages over the system

that results in high-headed trees.

After the tree is properly started,

little pruning will later produce a tree

with a larger head, having a greater

bearing area, with less‘et‘fort on the

part of the orchardist than will much

pruning. This applies to all standard





. varieties of apples, it is said.





In a pruning experiment it was





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established in the soil and thus of-

fered: greater reSistance to wind than

did high-headed trees. This should

be an impertant advantage, especially

in exposed locations. The low-headed

trees were also much larger and

stockier in the trunks and branches

and had larger heads with a greater

bearing area than did the high-headed

trees.





PNEUMONIA IS'.CONTAGIOUS





 





Is there any reason to think that

pneumonia is a contagious disease?

I have never heard that it was, but

recently my mother died of pneumonia.

and following that there were four

members of the family developed the

disease, all of them being fortunate

enough to get well, but not Without

severe illness.‘—Inquii'ei'.



It is now well recognized by the

medical profession that pneumonia is

contagious and several states require

that it be reported as such. This in-

formation should be given as much

publicity as possible so as to avoid

such unfortunate experiences as yours.

Had you known that pneumonia is

contagious you might have taken pre—

cautions that would have saved the

other members ‘of your household

from the disease.





 





AM ERICA'S FIRST AGRICULTURAL

SCIENTIST





 





(Continued from page 137)

In every home it was put on a stick

and hung by the fireplace. In the

blank spaces, the farmers recorded

the eggs gathered each day, amounts

owed, babies born, etc. In fact, the

present mania for almanacs whereon

we can-keep every bit of information

from the date of the baby’s first tooth

to the number of quarts of fruit

canned, had its beginning with Frank-

lin's “Poor Richard’s Almanac.”



It was somewhat humorous, that in

itself being a new thing in the col-

onies. For the first time in 150 years.

Franklin struck a note of humor. In

fact, about 90 per cent of what poses

as humor at the present day is mere





1y“ Franklin’s wise cracks cracked

OVGI‘.

Benjamin Franklin was the first





man to teach by the demonstration

method. In the old country, farmers

were applying a lot of land plaster

to their lands. On a great clover

field, beside a main traveled road out-

side of Philadelphia, Franklin wrote

with the land plaster, “This has been

plastered.” For some years, the let-

ters showed up and could be read be-

cause of the greater growth of clover.

Legend has it that a few years later.

the sign could be read because the

clover was smaller and sparser here.

If this was the truth, it would demon-

strate in a nutshell the usual story of

the use of land plaster in American

agriculture.



Franklin invented the Pennsylvania

Fireplace which is a forerunner of the

present day furnace. He saw that an

old imported basket made of yellow

willows was sprouting in the ditch

where it had been thrown. He reset

these sprouts, from which has come

all the yellow willows now growing

this side of the Atlantic. And to all

of his experiments he found a prac-

tical application. “What signifies

philosophy that does no apply to some

use." said he. _



Speaking specifically of agriculture,

he struck a chord never truer than

now.



“He that by the plow would thrive,

Himself must either hold or drive.”



At a later time, in the twilight of- a.

busy, useful four score and more of

life, he wrote toma friend: “I think

agriculture the most honorable of all

employments,'being the most inde-

pendent. The farmer has no need of

popular favor, nor the favor, of "the

great; the, success of his crops de-

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Miss EdWards. “there’s more to



club work than raising pigs and

making money. Let Katie tell you

about the good times we have."



“Oil, it’s just glorious. Bob." ex-

claimed Katie O’Neal, her. face alight

with enthusiasm. “\‘(e have our com-

munity clubs and our county organiza-

tion with Mr. Burton and Miss Clara.

as leaders. Last year we spent a week

in camp near Lake Placid.

county clubs joined together and there

were two hundred boys, and girls with

a lot of leaders and agents like ours

here. Training and exercises for all,

with fishing and swimming. And on

the last day the big ball game. Can

you play ball, Bob? We’ve. just got

to beat Harmon County this year.”



Mother Barton had been a smiling

and interested listener. “I don’t. know

anything about your club work, Mr.

Burton," she announced, “but I can

answer Katie’s question. Bob was

captain of his team in high school his

last year."



“What do you play, young man?"

demanded Ross Burton. rising to

stride. over and confront his new

protege.



, “First base,” answered Bob. grin-

ning at this bewildering turn of club

work.



“Can you hit?” Burton’s question

was bullet-like.



“Pretty well,” said Bob. “I hung

up .400 in the high school league my

last year."



Yanking Bob to his feet, Young Bur-

ton execmed a war-dance to the ac-

companiment of loud and unseemly,

yet infectious yells of triumph. “Oh,

my sacred aunt," Burton howled,

“won’t I give ‘Old Tuck’ the surprise

of his life. For two years I’ve been

looking for a first baseman who could

hit and he comes to me ready-made.

Young man, you’ll take, up pig club

work it” i have to. stand over you with

a gun. Clara, did I have a hunch or

didn’t 1?” Burton was off in new





11 OLD on a minute,” chimed in





. paroxysms of enthusiasm.





“You’ll have to excuse. him, Mrs.

Barton,” laughed Miss Edwards. “He’s

only half insane. You see, there’s a

deadly feud on between Ross and Bill

Tucker, the Harmon County agent,

who was Ross’s classmate. The Har-

mon team has beaten us badly for

two years. Ross would give a year’s

salary to ‘rub it in’ on his old chum.

It may seem very frivolous to you

folks,” she concluded seriously, “but

we do instill a lot of club spirit. and

loyalty through our social activities.

We believe that. farmers have too

much of work and too little of play.”



“Well, we’ll see,” commented Father

Barton. “I’d like Bob to have all the

good times possible and make money

of his own if it can be done. llut

we’ve a hard year ahead. And so far

as training for farming is concerned

we don’t know yet that Bob will be

a farmer. VVe’ve never been able to

do anything to brag about along that

line."



“\Vait until you see how acid phos-

phate brings out the corn on that

lower field,” prophesied Burton, “and





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you'll change your mind. With a fair

season you should make money. .Any-

way, all of you folks come to the club

meeting at VVarford, Saturday. The

state club leaders, Mr. Morton and

Miss Rowan, are to be there and we

expect to have a real rally of old

members and new ones, too. We’ll

have the bred gilts right there ready

for the new members to take away.

No, I can’t stop for music this time,”

as he rose to leave. “We’ll come

back again and make a night of it.”

Miss Edwards and the O’Neals lin—

gered for a few moments’ visit. From

down the road they could hear Ross

Burton singing in carefree happiness.



"Join the club, Bob,” was Miss Ed-

wards’ parting admonition. “You’ll





pansive, but his words came sharp and

clear as he rapped for attention.



“VVe’re going to get right down to

business,” announced Burton, “but

first you youngsters must let off steam.

Here’s Carl Benton, our old cheer

leader. Start ’em on a yell, Carl.”



A lithe, tow-headed youngster leaped

to his feet. “Up and at ’em, fellows!”

he cried. “The old rip-saw yell.

Ready now.” Up sprung the old mem-

bers.



“Rip-saw! Buzz-saw! SVho will we

down? Harmon, Harmon. Brown!

Brown! Brown!"



Applause swept the audience.

“Vi'hat’s the matter with Burton?”

asked the cheer leader. “He’s all

right!” came the answer, and Bob





 





 





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never regret it." Katie O’Neal added

a fervent plea. Bob Barton went 'to

sleep that night with the pleasant sen-

sation that even in this new commun-

ity he was not to pass unnoticed, but

might have opportunity for fun, for

wide friendship, for all the things

dear to the heart of a boy nearing

young manhood. Father Barton had

agreed that all would go to the big

rally and Bob slept to dream far dif-

ferent dreams than had come to him

after pondering a mystery.





Every section of Brown County was

represented at Warford when Ross

Burton, as acting chairman, called the

meeting to order, greeting old mem-

bers and welcoming new. Bob Barton

had piloted the flivver along behind

the Baldwins’ big car, an. uneasy feel-

ing growing upon him that a poor boy

would be out of place in such a gath-

ering. But this feeling soon was dis-

pelled as Ted Baldwin introduced him

to boy friends, invariably adding,

“Here’s the bird who is going to play

first and help us beat Harmon.” In

the same friendly manner Kate O’Neal

presented the newcomer to girl

friends. A bit shy and difiident, Bob

soon warmed under the friendly at-

mosphere, and when the boys and girls

formed into a group upon the stage

of the town’s largest hall it was

among prospective members that Bob

found himself. “'0“ up front. with the

Baldwins and O’Neals he could see his

own folks. Father and Mother Barton

appeared interested but a little be-

wildered as to what it was all about.

The club yells which kept breaking

out, the snatches of song put them to

wondering if order could come out of

chaos. Ross Burton‘s smile was ex-





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Barton, joining with a will, began to

feel himself a real part of the gather-

ing.

“What’s the matter with Miss Ed-

wards?” challenged Katie O’Neal.

“She’s all right!” boomed the reply.

“Now that we’ve both been compli-

mented,”_said Ross Burton, bowing to

the smiling home demonstration

agent, “we’ll just make Miss Edwards

pay for her cheer. Give us ‘Green

an \Vhite,’ Miss Clara.”

“Up, everyone,” commanded Miss

Edwards. Standing on the platform, a

radiant and vital figure of young

womanhood which inspires followers,

the girls’ leader began the song.

“Here’s to the good old Green and

White, the flag we love.



Four-leaf clover, honor-bright, fair as

the stars above,



\Ve’ll be ever true to thee, we who

are happy, glad and free



Here is our pledge of loyalty, old

Green and “White.”



“By all the godsof music,” whis-

pered Bradley Barton to his wife,

“that young woman can sing. Wge

must have her out, mother.”



Bob Barton, too, had thrilled to the

song and its appeal. Each step in the

progress of club work was a revela-

tion. As captain of a strong baseball

team, Bob had felt the call to leader-

ship and the joy of victory. He had

thrilled, too, when, as one of a hun-

dred students in high school, the glory

of the school had been portrayed in

cheer and song. But here was some—

thing that seemed to strike down to

the very fundamentals of good citizen-

ship. It was as if some invisible bond

of kinship had knit these boys and

girls, these fine young men and young





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. FEB. 4, 1928





women into one great family. In Bob’s

heart- formed a resolve that not only

would he~align himself but that, serv-

ing under the banner of Green and.

White, he would betrue to its ideal-

ism. In spirit before ever his name

had graced the membership roll, Bob

was a son of the 4~H.





CHAPTER VI

A Call to Achievement





ANY had been the cheers and

M songs before Ross Burton an-



nounced, “Enough for this time,

folks. We’ll get down to business

now. After the talks by our state

leaders we’ll organize the county and

the community groups, enroll new

members and get lined up right. A1-

ways remembering that we should

save the best for the last,” and Bur-

ton smiled at Miss. Rowan, “we will

ask State Leader Morton to speak

first. What’s the matter with Morton,

fellows?” _



“He’s all right!” chorused the crowd

and the hand-clapping which followed

as Morton rose to speak testified to

the warm esteem in which he was

held. A tall, lean man, considerably

older than Young Burton, there was

the same air of authority and poise.

yet friendly comradeship about the

state leader. Tanned by the sun and

wind, an out-door man and not the

“white collar” type which somehow

Bob had expected, Ralph Morton

proved in his opening sentences that

he knew and loved boys and girls.

Farm reared, he‘knew their problems,

and his life was consecrated to their

service and betterment. Smiling,

Morton looked over his audience, then

in a clear voice which penetrated to

every corner of the big building, Mor-

ton began to speak.



“Friends,” said Morton, “we’ll cut

out the bouquets I might hand you

and your leaders and get right down

to brass tacks. What they have ac-

complished speaks for itself. Here is

the living evidence of achievement on

the part of Ross Burton, Miss Ed-

wards, and their helpers. Our Na-

tional 4-H Club motto, ‘To Make the

Best Better,’ is being exemplified. For

the benefit of those who do not know,

the four-leaf clover is our emblem.

It means good luck. We pledge our

head, our heart, our hands, and our

health in better service to our club.

our community, and our country.

Could there be greater aim or

achievement? I think not. ,



“There can be no greater achieves

ment,” Morton went on, “than the

building of a better American citizen-

ship. That is the real object of 4-H

club work. It is the sincere desire

of every leader from those in Wash

ington to those who work with you

in the open country, that through the

training which we may provide for

these fine young people the opportun-

ity for earning, the inspiration of con

tact in social intercourse, a more

happy, a more contented, and a more

prosperous farm citizenship may re-

sult. It is a trite saying that ‘Agri-

culture is the bulwark of the nation.’

If this nation is to be safe-guarded





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WAKE UP,You.'!



I'M THE Nieur WATCHMAN!

WHAD'YE THINK mists,

A DORMITORY?
FEB. 4, 1928 ‘ “i





through agriculthre, the citizens of to-

morrow 'must be business men and

women capable of solving every prob-

lem which confronts them. The work

of the 4-H is no experiment. It has

been tried and not found wanting.

It’s ever-increasing membership, now

pressing onward toward the million

mark, is visible evidence that the

movement is founded upon service.

And real service is the most worth-

while thing in life.



“There is a challenge in our club

membership,” continued the speaker.

“It is a challenge to idealism, to loy-

alty, to the spirit of fairness, to the

joy of achievement. It goes farther

than its hold upon our young life. It

calls to the best in parenthood, mak-

ing the home itself an integral part of

our great plan. You are better fathers

and better mothers,” Morton swept

the audience with his keen glance,

“because your son or daughter has

been enlisted under club banners. Out

of club contact comes neighborliness

which knows no boundary lines. This

fine audience is testimonial to what I

say. But there is another purpose





which appeals to you who have grown.





gray upon the farms. It is to them I

would speak now.

“The duties and aims of club work,”

went on Morton, “provide fine train-

ing for the member no matter what

his avocation in life may be. Not all

here will follow the plow nor in days

to come take up the tasks of a farm

homemaker. But we who lead, and

we realize our great responsibility,

think first of the farm. It is our

privilege to impress upon young and

plastic minds the importance and dig-

nity of agriculture, to bring out its

hidden beauties, to help make of the

farm and home a year-round workshop

which not only yields return for i11-

vestment and labor but is the best

place on earth to live. Into the com-

munity and home we bring, too, the

spirit of play, the spirit of fair and

friendly competition which is an aid

to endeavor. We impress upon your

daughter and son that they must ‘win

without boasting and lose without

squealing.’ To be a member. as I

have said, is a challenge to the very

best. It is a great honor, it has great

reward. To you of Brown County, I

pledge the best that is in me in aiding

whatever you may set out to do.”

“Some old boy,” whispered Bob’s

seat-mate. “He knows his eggs.” The

seemingly flippant remark, neverthe-

less, was sincere tribute from a boyish

heart. The hand-clapping continued

until Morton rose and bowed. Then

Chairman Burton introduced Rose

Cowan, the state leader who as Mor-

ton’s assistant worked with the girls’

clubs. Small, dark. and vivacious,

Miss Cowan caught the instant fancy

0f the crowd. A group of girls, led

by Kate O’Neal, stood and cheered her





1 as she rose to speak.





“Big folks and little folks, tall folks

and short folks,” began Miss Cowan,

“I’m glad to be here, but I won’t make

a speech. To all that Mr. Morton has

said, I’ll just say, ‘Me, too.’ I’m to

have a conference with the local lead-

ers after this is all over and I’ll tell

it to them. You have such a glorious

leader here in Miss Edwards that

there’s really nothing for me to do.

But I do love the club work, and I’m‘

so enthused over it all the time that

I just bubble optimism. Isn’t it won-

derful, girls, that we have opportunity

to do these things? Isn’t it wonder-

ful that we have girls like Miss Ed-

wards to work with us? Isn’t it great

to have our community club meetings,

our club camps, our meetings at the

state fair, our trip to the international.



“Oh, girls,” and Rose Cowan spread

wide lier arms in a gesture of enthu

siasm, “isn’t it just great. to be alive!

Alive with all the beautiful things

around us, just calling us to be up

and doing. Alive to share our friend-

ships, our little secrets, our work, and





our play. working together in the

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state, and the best nation in all the





puppy. Try me on dog."





THE MICHIGAN 'FARMER





world. Why, I never stop wondering

that we have to urge folks to join

the 4-H. It’s the biggest, best‘thing

in all the world—and those who don’t

get in may get smothered in our dust.

Come on, girls, let’s make this the

best year ever in Brown County for

the 4-H. Will we beat the boys?

Well, ask the records, they speak for

themselves.”



Miss Cowan sat down while the

crowd cheered and cheered until she

was forced to rise and bow repeated-

ly. “Some pep, some pep," confided

Bob’s mate. “If I had a sister and she

didn't get in the club I’d break her

neck.” Ross Burton announced that

the club would proceed to organize,

and when Bob Barton, with an approv-

ing nod from his father, came to line

up with the group assigned to sow

and litter contest work, he found that

more than two hundred boys and girls

were enrolled in Brown County in the

various activities. Ted Baldwin also

was to be in the sow and litter club,

while Katie O'Ne’al was assigned to

garment making. A happy, chattering

crowd of youngsters, while the parents

visited and made new friendships, Bur-

ton and Miss Edwards were storm

centers of interrogation. Detaching

himself from a group, Burton hurried

over to shake hands with Bob. “VVe’ll

go get matters fixed up about that

gilt,” Burton announced, “and have

her sent out home for you. But first

I want you to meet another new mem-

ber who may be your rival on the

team.”



With Bob in tow, Burton crossed the

room to where a tall, handsome youth

was in conversation with some of the

older club girls. “Hal,” announced the

county agent as he caught the lad’s

arm, “I want. you to meet Bob Barton,

the new member I told you about.

Bob, this is Hal Carson. He’s cap

lain and first baseman for the \Varford

High team. Going to join our club

this year.”



“Glad to know you, Barton,” re~

marked Carson, and his glance was

appraising and cool. “I hear you are

a first baseman. Sorry, but you’ll

have to play somewhere else this year.

I’ve got that job nailed down.”



“How do you get that way?” Bur-

ton’s words were bantering, but there

was ice in them. “I’m running the

club team and the fellow who plays

first base will have to show he’s the

best of the lot. We may have a dozen

candidates.”



“Sure.” replied Carson easily. “I

know you’re the boss, and I’m willing

to take my chance. But I haven’t led

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for two years and played first on W'ar-

ford High for nothing. Any guy from

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try guys,’ Hal. Remember we are all

‘country guys’ in this club work. And

how comes it that, knowing we needed

a first baseman, you didn’t join last

year? We could have used you

mighty well then.”



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about:



Jim and I had originally bought our

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ping Board freighters from New York

to South Africa as a part of our year’s

trip .around the world. We had

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for little else than a sounding board

for his big bass voice. That may be

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gested, five years ago, that we float

for 500 miles down the Yukon River

in a row boat, Jim immediately said

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all. And he did. I was traveling with

him at the time and so, of course, I

did too.



But Mr. Patterson’s suggestion that

we cross the Sahara Desert and the

whole continent of Africa in an auto-

mobile had even Jim stopped for once.

I was disappointed. Hadn’t I asked

this irresponsible young partner of

mine to come along just so as to lead

me into temptation? And here he was

turning sensible just when we were

threatened with something really in-

teresting! I was desperate.





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"only, we’ll do it by motorcycle. That

will be even more exciting.”



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me, so you see What he’s in for. This

stunt has never been done before—and

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for I’m writing this in a little mud

hut a thousand miles in the African

bush and we’ve got three thousand





 





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but very ordinary.



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middle of the black heart of Africa

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conducted motor tours across the Sa-

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only the next..day to find out whether

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for our bOat would sail in two days.

.and there would 'bevno more for a

month. ,While I was trying to learn

whether there was any trail, or if food

and water could be had in the desert

Jim was simply deciding whether to

take one motorcycle or two.



I think we finally decided on two so

that he could carry along his banjo

and have company when I should fail.

He can always pick on it. and I will

stand for‘only about so much. If he

breaks a. gut string on the banjo it can

easily be repaired.



That’s another way Jim’s funny. On

our Alaska and Yukon trip he carried

along a snapping soprano saxophone

and when all else would fail, as it did



, sometimes, there was always a little

jazz left in the tarnished bell of that

ridiculous old musical abortion and he

usually kept it as carefully soldered

up as he did our famous jitney Oscar

II. It did help, heavy and bulky as

it was to carry all over western North

America from Alaska to Old Mexico,

and during those four months of wan—

dering from chilblains to blisters we

carried his battered saxophone. Many

a meal and many a good night’s rest

were given us as a result. for when

Jim is hungry he can‘pipe for his chop

with the best and with the worst.



But to take a banjo. and a regular

heroic size, full-blown banjo at that,

bulky leather case and all. on a motor-

cycle trip across the Sahara Desert

where every ounce of gasoline and oil

that we could possibly carry would be

sorely needed, to say nothing Of such

minor details as water and food,

struck me as almost too much, if not

quite. But if you are going to the

North Pole in an airplane with my

partner Jim you would take along a

grand piano strapped to the cock pit if

, he should take the notion.

_5" ' Jim is clever in his folly. Just as

' l a canny wife will buy her husband a



' nice new refrigerator for his birthday



preSent, so that he can have ice water

to drink, Jim brought home one eve-

min;’ a shining little musical machine

and presented it to me with a grand

showing of charitable tolerance and

good will. The instrument is on the

order of a first cross between a pure-

bred flute and a slide trombone sport

and is sometimes called a slip whistle.

It looks something like a hand bicycle

tire pump and will carry the air with

about the same results. It is simply

a tin flute with a plunger that slides

up and down its length occasionally

stopping for a. note. I had to accept

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‘5, and comforts and eren necessities



1 when planning my kit and baggage for

‘ many previous expeditions of various



kinds, but deciding what to carry on

a 4,000 mile motorcycle trip across

equatorial Africa was a new one on

me. At the head of the list, however,

stood the banjo.



Here was our problem: Africa, as

you may remember, is shaped some-

thing like the broatlsidc of a huge

ham, and we were at Lagos, Nigeria,

which is just on the lower edge of the

thick part of the ham. Our 4,000 mile

stunt included, first, a thousand miles

l of varying dense jungle. open bush



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Then from Lake Chad, on the



southern edge of the Sahara, our route



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“Why is such an amount of money

raised every year to stamp out tuber-

culosis and at the same time patients

who have the disease in an advanced

form and otherwise are allowed to

mingle with crowds and go to a place

of business and write out checks for

customers. If tuberculosis is a germ

disease, I think a patient with a cough

would be most likely to scatter germs

by the wholesale by so doing. We

have a. very nice neighbor family who

had a son that has had tuberculosis

for three years who does the things

mentioned above and they are intelli-

gent people. In coughing this young

man places his hand over his mouth

instead of a handkerchief and then

touches anything he wishes. Lately

he has not been so well and has been

running a temperature.”





Undoubtedly this young man does a

lot of damage though perhaps not so

much as our inquirer supposes. If a

single bacillus of tuberculosis was

capable of spreading the disease there

would be no escape for any of us.

The resistance of the person attacked

must be considered, however, and also

the fact that the attacking germ must

have favorable conditions of tempera-

ture and atmosphere in which to exist.

I don’t like our peeple to go around

under the shadow of a. constant fear

of attack by some deadly germ. You

readily defeat ninety—nine disease

germs in a hundred and therefore it

is foolish for you.to have such fear.





On the other hand that hundredth

germ is not to be despised. The care-

ful consumptive who makes proper

disposition of his sputum can mix

with the public without danger to

anyone, but the careless consumptive

is a menace. Our correspondenthas

good reason for feeling indignant.

Passing new laws would do no good

but someone with a. little courage

should remind the physician who at-

tends this young man of his duty.

Eyeryone seems to know that this

young man has tuberculosis; no doubt

they also know who attends him. If

nothing else can be done, one might

at least call the attention of the

County Health Officer to the danger.



But—who will do this? That’s an-

other question. ‘We do hate to “butt

in.” We would rather suffer the men-

ace of tuberculosis. That is why the

best method of work is that of educa-

tion of the general public, just as the

Michigan Tuberculosis Association has

been doing for more than twenty

years. As a matter of fact it is now

a. rare thing for a person with tuber-

culosis to be careless about its

spread. That is why there are so

many less cases of the disease and

the death rate has been lowered one-

half.





BAD TEETH





 





My boy of 9 years has a number of

rather bad teeth. They do not seem





was a time when they ached. But

there is pus around them. Should

they be left in so as to hold the shape





of the jaw for the permanent teeth?

. W. ,





It is not so important as to warrant

the retention in the jaw of teeth that

allow the formation of pus. This is

a. dangerous thing, more especially if

there is no pain'to attract attention.»

It may promote several dangerous

ldiseases, even heart disease. A good





 





 





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to give any pain now, though there ‘





dentist may be able to clean the teeth

up so that they cease to form pus and

may safely be left in the jaw until the

permanent teeth come to take their

place; but, unless this can be done to

complete satisfaction, have them ex-

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I am very nervous and my doctor

says it is because I have some

crowned teeth and wants all of them

pulled. I go to a dentist every six

months and try to keep my teeth in

good shape—L. D. S.





It is not at all certain that the

crowned teeth are responsible. If

there is any suspicion, you may have

X~Ray pictures taken that will show

if there are abscesses at the roots or

if there is a condition of pyorrhoea.

It is true that very many persons have

pyorrlioca without knowing what ails

them, but this is not so with persons

who take as good care of their teeth

as you seem to do. Your letter says

nothing about the bowel condition.

You must exercise every care to avoid

constipation. Be careful too about

your sleep. See that you get plenty

and that you sleep warmly in a cool,

fresh room.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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They tell me that if a woman wants

an easy labor she should do lots of

hard work. What do you say? Also,

what about diet in the later months ?—

Michigan Woman.





We know that hard-working Women

have the easiest time in labor, but

that refers to strong women, not those

whose work has exhausted them. In

the last three or four months of preg-

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and vegetables. It is not desirable to

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I have been a reader of the Mich-

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will give you a description of my case:

I am troubled with constipation and

bloating. I am 75 years old, am very

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The Misunderstood Jesus





Our H’eek/y Sermon——By N. A. McC’zme





HEY did not understand him,



did they? Would we do any bet-



ter? Here is what one eminent

church leader says: “11‘ Jesus came

again, we would not c1ucit‘y him—om

age is too Christian to do that, but

we would not accept him in our 01-

ganized life. He could not be p1es1dent

11115,.enator or bishop 01 chu1ch sec1e-

1-111y. In our hyp1r-nationalism ou1

class- conscious selfishness, ou1 racial

11~1lings of superioritV, and 0m sectal-





'ian loyalties, we still ha1e much of





the. thing against 11 Inch he—p1otested.

\\e would not cr'ucify him, but we

would not fellowship him. The taint

11f heresy and irregulaiity would be

upon him, and he would weep ove1

many who call upon his name; but

there would be a multitude whom no

man could number who would honor

him for his works’ sake.”



\Ve cannot call

the roll of those

who have b e en

mi s u n d erstood

and persecuted

for truth’s sake.

It is too long. We

may a few at ran-

dom, with- our

eyes closed, so to

speak. Begin with

Paul, and we note what a time he had.

Never was a man more unselfish, more

afiame with the passion of love for his

fellow man, and yet he had scarcely

a week’s peace for years. He was

diiven from one town to another,

diagged before authmities, and sub-





jected to violent pe1sonal assault, all ,





because he had some 1eligious ideas

from those to

whom bespoke. As Dr. E E. Slosson

says, “When a new idea comes into

the world, it has a. majority of 1,750,-

000,000 against it.” Here is Paul’s list

of his persecutions—condensed: “Of

the Jews five times received I forty





,st1ipes save one, th1ice 11 as I beaten





with rods, once was I stoned ..... ;





, in perils from my own countrymen, in





peiils of the Gentiles, in peiils in the

city, in perils among false brethren.”



Here is good old Athanasius, one of

the. big, brave, brainy souls of the early

church.» His teachings aroused sus-

picion and resentment, and he spent

twenty years in banishment, some-

barely escaping starvation

Probably no man greate1 in benevo-

lence, courage, sincere humility was

produced by the early ch111m‘1, yet he

was misunderstood and persecuted al-

most from the day that he became.

bishop, for forty-six years.



The trouble with many folks was, is,

and I suppose forever will be, that

they do not want to understand. They

have prejudices more precious than

diamonds set in platinum,1 and these

prejudices must not be disturbed,

It is one of the





most baffling foes of all religious





» work. People—many of them—do not





want to get ideas. They do not like

this and that, and that's the end of

it. A minister was explaining a new





. method in church finance, very simple





and very practical. An old farmer

who had been on the church board for

thirty years, said, when the pastor was

done, “Us never done it that way.”

Nothing





is so darlingas a prejudice. One





_ thinks .of the old rhyme:





“I do not like you, Doctor Fell,

Just why it is I cannot tell;

But this I do know very well,



I ‘dornot like you, Doctor Fell.”



Savanarola was burned to death for

preaching the truth as he understood

it. Giordana Bruno suffered a like

fate for his writings. Vl'hen Coper-

nicus had studied the stars for years,

he became convinced that the earth

moves about the sun, and that the

ea1th is not the la1gest of the planets.





' 11911111111 he did not dare publish his





book until an old man, and he received

the first copy of it on his death-bed.



Science has had to fight most of its

way. \l'l1en Doctor Boylston allowed

himself to be vatcinated for small





pox, he did not da: e go out on the-





streets of Dost on at night f01 fea1 of

mob violence The clergy 11 ere

against 1acci11ation because they said

it was an afflont to God. If God sent

smallpox it we perple :4 duty to have

the smallpox, for tl1ei1 soul’s good

Anaesthetics had to travel the same

road. \Vhen it was proposed that

child-birth should be eased by means

of an anaesthetic, there was a storm





 





of protest, because in Scripture it

States that “in pain shalt then bring

forth children." However, Sir James‘





Simpson reminded his critics that

11 hen God fmmed 11 oman out of man’s

rib, he caused a dgep sleep to fall on

Adam. That 11:15 a sockdolager, and

the critics eased up-~—f01 a while



\Vhen Seaman A. Knapp went south

to see what could be done to fight the

boll weevil and build up the worn-out

southern farms, to his surprise he

found almost all the farmers against

him. They did not want the boll

weevil, of course. He was a very ex-

pensive boarder, like the corn borer.

But neither did they want to co-

operate in new methods of tillage.

Only by slow and easy stages was the

fight against the weevil carried on,

and the diversification of crops intro-

duced. Prejudice is a. very peculiar

and a very insistent mental state. No

one seems to be free from it, entirely.

When it runs into moral value, it be-

comes indescribable tragic,

pened with the teachings of Jesus.

When the time drew to the end of his

ministry, he sobbed over the capitol

city, how he would have gathered her

children as a. hen does her brood, but

now it was too late. She was left

desolate and alone.





 





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR,

FEBRUARY 5th





 





SUBJECTz—Jesus Misunderstood and

Opposed, Mark 3:19 to 35, and 6:1

to 6.



GOLDEN TEXTz—John 1:11.12.





 





 





 





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just afte1 he had taken a bath.

said, ‘Aw, ma, why did you make me

take a bath. That hole in my stock-

ing shows plaine1 now.





 





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after seeing a dachshund for the fi1st





time, .“I 51111 such a funny dog this

morning. He was two dogs long and

only half a dog high.”





 





Young lady: “\Vere you pleased

with the school, little boy?”



Little Boy: “Naw, they made me

wash my face and when 1 went home

de dog bit me ’cause he didn’t know

me.”





 





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he had been 1iding only fifteen min-

utes but was going foxty miles an

houn

said, “You are arrested for speeding

You were going f01ty miles an hour.”



“Fo1ty miles an hour!” said the

man Be you1self. I have only been

riding fifteen minutes.”





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town. A nian thrust his head out of

a window and excitedly called out:

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anyone Whiskey?” A man in the

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GUARD YOUR COMMUNITY

HEALTH





OMETIMES I get a letter that ex‘

presses popular opinion so clearly

that I think you folks ought to



read it. Here is one:





“Why is Euch an amount of money

raised every year to stamp out tuber-

culosis and at the same time patients

who have the disease in an advanced

form and otherwise are allowed to

mingle with crowds and go to a place

of business and write out checks for

customers. if tuberculosis is a germ

disease. I think a. patient with a cough

would be most likely to scatter germs

by the wholesale by so doing. We

have a very nice neighbor family who

had a. son that has had tuberculosis

for three years who does the things

mentioned above and they are intelli-

gent people. In coughing this young

man places his hand over his mouth

instead of a handkerchief and then

touches anything he wishes. Lately

he has not been so well and has been

running a temperature.”





Undoubtedly this young man does a,

lot of damage though perhaps not so

much as our inquirer supposes. It a

single bacillus of tuberculosis was

capable of spreading the disease there

would be no escape for any of us.

The resistance of the person attacked

must be considered, however, and also

the fact that the attacking germ must

have favorable conditions of tempera-

ture and atmosphere in which to exist.

I don’t like our people to go around

under the shadow of a constant fear

of attack by some deadly germ. You

readily defeat ninety—nine disease

germs in a hundred and therefore it

is foolish for you_to have such fear.





On the other hand that hundredth

germ is not to be despised. The care-

ful consumptive who makes proper

disposition of his sputum can mix

with the public without danger to

anyone, but the careless consumptive

is a. menace. Our correspondent. has

good reason for feeling indignant.

.Passing new laws would do no good

but someone with a little courage

should remind the physician who at-

tends this young man of his duty.

Everyone seems to know that this

young man has tuberculosis; no doubt

they also know who attends him. If

nothing else can be done, one might

at least call the attention of the

County Health Oilicer to the danger.



But—who will do this? That’s an‘

other question. We do hate to “butt

in.” We would rather suffer the men-

ace of tuberculosis. That is why the

best method of work is that of educa-

tion of the general public, just as the

Michigan Tuberculosis Association has

been doing for more than twenty

years. As a matter of fact it is now

a. rare thing for a. person with tuber-

culosis to be careless about its

spread. That is why there are so

many less cases of the disease and

the death rate has been lowered one-

half.





BAD TEETH





 





My boy of 9 years has a number of

rather bad teeth. They do not seem





was a time when they ached. But

there is pus around them. Should

they be left in so as to hold the shape

of the jaw for the permanent teeth?

—— . W.



It is not so important as to warrant

the retention in the jaw of teeth that

allow the formation of pus. This is

a. dangerous thing, more especially if

there is no pain to attract attention.

It may promote several dangerous





Ldiseases, even heart disease. A good





 





to give any pain now, though there"





dentist may be able to clean the teeth

up so that they cease to form pus and

may safely be left in the jaw until the

permanent teeth come to take their

place; but, unless this can be done to

complete satisfaction, have them ex-

tracted. Diseased teeth are always

dangerous, no matter what the age of

the "patient.





NERVOUS CONDITION





I am very nervous and my doctor

says it is because I have some

crowned teeth and wants all of them

pulled. I go to a dentist every six

months and try to keep my teeth in

good shape—L. D. S.





It. is not at all certain that the

crowned teeth are responsible. If

there is any suspicion, you may have

X-Ray pictures taken that will show

if there are abscesses at the roots or

if there is a condition of pyorrhoea.

It is true that very many persons have

pyorrhoea without knowing what ails

them, but this is not so with persons

who take as good care of their teeth

as you seem to do. Your letter says

nothing about the bowel condition.

You must exercise every care to avoid

constipation. Be careful too about

your sleep. See that you get plenty

and that you sleep warmly in a cool,

fresh room.





MOTH ER’S CASE





 





They tell me that if a woman wants

an easy labor she should do lots of





hard work. What do you say? Also





what about diet in the later months ?——





Michigan Woman.





We know that hard-working Women

in labor, but

that refers to' strong women, not those

whose work has exhausted them. In





have the easiest time





the last three or four months of preg-

nancy I think the mother does better

on a careful diet, eating only sparing—

ly of meats and using plenty of fruits

and vegetables. It is not desirable to

have a baby large boned at the time

of birth. There is plenty of time for

bone and muscle

wards.





AGED PERSON IS CONSTIPATED





 





I have been a reader of the Mich-

igan Farmer for a long time and have

read your advice to other readers. I

will give you a description of my case:

I am troubled with constipation and

bloating. I am 75 years old, am very

well preserved other ways. Hoping

you can give me some advice.~—D. G.





Although constipation at your age

is a little different problem than in

a. young person it will often be re-

lieved by the same agents.





1. A regular habit of going to stool

at a certain hour each day.



2. A diet in which coarse bread,

fruit and vegetables shall have a. good

share.





3. Drinking water freely.



4. Possibly you will have to help

by a. laxative. The best in your case

would most likely be a mineral oil

of which there are many good vari-

eties on the market. This oil does not

do so well taken after meals so the

best plan is either to take a dose of

two teaspoonfuls an hour before each

meal, or a large dose, two table-

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The Misunderstood Jesus





Our H’eeé/y Ser77707z~~By N. A. Mchme





TK HEY did not understand him,

did they? W'ould we do any bet-

ter? Here is what one eminent

chutch leader says: “11‘ Jesus came

again, we would not crucify him—om

age, is too Christian to do that, but

we would not accept him in 0111' -'01-

ganized life. He could not be president

or senator or bishop or church secre-

tary. In our hype1nat1onal1sm our

class- conscious selfishness, our racial

1m lings of supeiiority, and our sectar-





‘ian loyalties, we still ha1e much of





the thing against which he- p1otested

\’\e would not crucify him, but 11e

would not fellowship him. The taint

of heiesy and irregulaiity would be

upon him, and he would weep over

many who call upon his name; but





' there would be a multitude whom no





man could number who would honor

him for his works’ sake.”



We cannot call

the roll of those

who have b e e 11

mi 5 u n d erstood

an d persecuted

for truth’s sake.

It is too long. We

may a. few at ran—

dom, with our

eyes closed, so to

speak. Begin with

Paul, and we note what a time he had.

Never was a. man more unselfish, more

aflame with the passion of love for‘ his

fellow man, and yet he had scarcely

a week’s peace for years. He was

driven flom one town to anothei,

dragged before autl101ities,and sub-





jected to violent personal assault, all ,





because he had some religious ideas

fiom those to

whom bespoke. As Dr. E. E. Slosson

says, ”VVhen a. new idea comes into

the world, it has a. majority of 1,750,-

000,000 against it.” Here is Paul’s list

of his persecutions—condensed: “0f

the Jews five times received I forty





,stripes save one, thrice was I beaten





with rods, once was [stoned ..... ;





, in perils from my own countrymen, in





perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the

city, in perils among false brethren.”



Here is good old Athanasius, one of

the big, brave, brainy souls of the early

church.- His teachings aroused sus-





picion and resentment, and he spent

twenty years in banishment, some-

-times barely escaping starvation.





Probably no man greater in benevo-

lence, courage, sincere humility was

pl'OtlllCCd by the early ch A", yet he

was misunderstood and persecuted al-

most fiom the day that he became

bishop, for forty-six years.



The trouble with many folks was, is,

and I suppose forever will be, that

they do not want to understand. They

have prejudices more precious than

diamonds set in platinum, and these

prejudices must not be disturbed,

whatever happens. It is one of the

most baffling foes of all religious

work. People—many of them-—do not

want to get ideas. They do not like

this and that, and that‘s the end of

it. A minister was explaining a new





_ method in church finance, very simple





and very practical. An old farmer

who had been on the church board for

thirty years, said, when the pastor was

done, “Us never done it that way.”

And that was the end of it. Nothing

is so darlingas a prejudice. One





. thinks .of the 01d rhyme:





“I do not like you, Doctor Fell,



Just why it is I cannot tell;



But this I do know very well,



I dornot like you, Doctor Fell.”



Savanarola was burned to death for

preaching the truth as he understood

it. Giordana Bruno suffered a like

fate for his writings. When Coper-

nicus had studied the stars for years,

he became convinced that the earth

moves about the sun, and that the

eaith is not. the laigest of the planets.





,Kowev'er he did not dare publish his





 





book until an old man, and he received

the first copy of it on his death—bed.



Science has had to fight most of its

way. When Doctor Boylston allowed

himself to be 1acclnated for small





pox, he did not dale go out on the1 :-.





sheets of Boston at, night for fea1 of

mob 1iolence. The clergy 11 ere

against vaccination because they said

it was an affront to God. If God sent

smallpox if was people’s duty to have

the smallpox. for their soul’s good.

Anaesthetics had to travel the same

road. When it was proposed that

child-birth should be cased by means

of an anaesthetic, there was a storm

of protest, because in Scripture it

states that “in pain shalt thou bring

forth children." However, Sir James?

Simpson reminded his critics that

11 hen God fanned 1101112111 out of man’s

1'.ib be caused a d_ep sleep to fall on

Adam. That 1135 a sockdolager, and

the critics eased up!for a 11 hile



\Vhen Seaman A. Knapp went south

to see what could be done to fight the

boll weevil and build up the worn-out

southern farms, to his surprise he

found almost all the farmers against

him. They did not want the boll

weevil, of course. He was a very ex-

pensive boarder, like the corn borer.

But neither did they want to co-

operate in new methods of tillage.

Only by slow and easy stages was the

fight against the weevil carried on,

and the diversification of crops intro—

duced. Prejudice is a. very peculiar

and a very insistent mental state. No

one seems to be free from it, entirely.

When it runs into moral value, it be-

comes indescribable tragic,

pened with the teachings of Jesus.

When the time drew to the end of his

ministry, he sobbed over the capitol

city, how he would have gathered her

children as a hen does her brobd, but

now it was too late. She was left

desolate and alone.





 





 





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR.

FEBRUARY 5th





 





 





SUBJECTz—Jesus Misunderstood and

Opposed, Mark 3:19 to 35, and 6:1

to 6.



GOLDEN TEXT2—John 1:11.12.





 





 





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James was putting on his stockings'

just after he had taken a 11111111111!

said, “AW, ma, 11 111' did you make me

take a bath. That hole in my stock-

ing shows plainer now





 





“Oh, mamma,’ exclaimed Bobby

time, _“I saw such a funny dog this

mornmg. He was two dogs long and

only half a dog high.”





 





Young lady: “Were you pleased

with the school, little boy?”



Little Boy: “Naw, they made me

wash my face and when 1 went home

de dog bit 111e’cause he didn’t know

me.’





 





A man bought a new machine and

he had been liding only fifteen min-

utes but was going forty miles an

hour. A policeman stopped him and

sand, “You are arrested for speeding

You were going forty miles an hour."



“Forty miles an hour!” said the

man. Be yourself. I have only been

riding fifteen minutes.”





 





The train stopped in a rwestern

town. A man thrust his head out of

a window and excitedly called out:

“Woman has fainted in here! Has

anyone whiskey?" A man in the

crowd reluctantly put his hand to his

hip pocket and drew forth a bottle

about half full and handed it up to

the man at the open window. To the

astonishment of all, the 1111111 put the

bottle to his lips and diained the con-

tents. Then as the Main pulled out he

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HAT better can you ask for at

RI» supper, lunch, or breakfast, than



hot muffins.

winds blow, there comes the joint de-

mand of the family for hot bread to

be served more often. Muffins are

especially appetizing and the family

need not tire of them as they can be

fixed in a number of different ways.

I always keep my basic recipe in mind

and with a few alternations the fam-

ily may enjoy a different kind of muf-

fins every night.



My standby requires two cups of

flour, four level teaspoonsful of baking

powder, one-half teaspoon salt, four

tablespoons of sugar, four tablespoons

fat, one egg, and one cup of milk. I

always mix and sift the dry ingre

dients into a mixing bowl. Then pour

a little of the milk into the center of

the dry mixture and stir up a soft

batter with a little of it. Break the

egg into the soft batter and beat it

gently. When the egg is well mixed

in, add the rest of the milk, and last

Then stir until

the ingredients are thoroughly mixed.



if making cornmeal muffins, change

the amount of flour in the foundation

recipe, using one cup and two table-

spoonsful corn meal and one cup of

white flour. Increase the amount of

baking powder one-half teaspoon. The

amount of milk may have to be in-

creased, but that can be told from

the consistency of the batter. The

shortening may be lessened to two

tablespoonsful.



Grahram muffins can be made by sub-

stituting graham flour for the white

flour or by using half graham and half

white flour. Add one—half a teaspoon

of baking owder for each cup of

graham floui used.



For bran muffins I use one cup of

bran, one cup of cornmeal, one cup

of white flour, one cup of milk, five

teaspoons baking powder, one tea-

spoon salt, and one third of a cup of

brown sugar.



I often make oatmeal muffins to use

up the oatmeal that is left over from

breakfast. Lessen the amount of

sugar and fat in the basic recipe to

two tablespoons each. Use the oat-

meal in place of half a cup of flour.

Mix the flour and the other dry in-

gredients, then add the oatmeal to

these and proceed as with the other

muffins. Cold cooked rice may be

utilized in the same way.



Many fruits and berries can be used

in muffins, giving a great variety of

flavors. If fresh or stewed fruits are

used, some of the juice may be used

for part or all of the liquid in place

of milk. In using fresh fruits, the

amount of sugar may need to be in-

creased, the amount depending upon

the kind of fruit used.



Apple muffins which are very tooth-

some require one cup of chopped

apples. Use this in the basic recipe

replacing one cup of flour with a cup

of graham. Add one-half teaspoon of

cinnamon and reduce the amount of

milk as the apples make considerable

moisture.



Prune muffins’ may be made by us-

ing one cup of coarsely cut cooked

prunes in place of the apples in the

above recipe and instead of the cinna-

mon try a dash of nutmeg for flavor-

ing. Figs, apricots or dried peaches





When the cold'





may be used in the same way for

muffins, or one may use any of the

berries. For berry muffins, use one

cup of berries in the basic recipe.

The oven for baking muffins should

only be moderately hot at first. After

the first‘five minutes the temperature

should be increased. A hot- oven is

needed to brown muffins, but if the

oven is too hot at first they will not

rise well before they bake and the

texture and shape will not be so good.

The baking generally takes from

twenty to thirty minutes. When the

muffins are done they should be firm

to the touch, somewhat: shrunken

from the sides of the pan and nicely

browned. They should be tender,

light, and of firm texture—L. H. Funk.





POWDERED HER NOSE ONCE IN A

LIFETIME





 





\VAS much interested in the letter



written by Mrs. L. L. B. of Ingham

County. She is moved by a most laud-

able ambition to make herself attrac-

tive and her kitchen a fitting environ-

ment for herself. Let us hope that

numerous others may be influenced by

her.



A clause in one sentence of her let-

ter brings to mind an incident to

which I was witness a few years ago.

In a group of ladies, some middle-

aged and some elderly, was one in her

eighties and another much younger

but plainly “made up.” Her hair was

henna dyed and her complexion was

very much dusted 011. She said to the

aged one, “\Vill you tell me what cos-

metics you use?”



The little old lady of eighty sum-





mers answered: “I put some powder

on my face one day in Christmas week

in 1860. I think it-must have been a.

good kind, as I have never had to use

any since.” -



“Do you mean to tell us in all these

years you have never powdered your

face?” inquired her surprised friend-



“Yes,” said the venerable woman,

“that is the truth.”



“Well,” said the questioner, “that ac-

counts for your complexion.”——Mrs.

E. O.





 





WHEN GUESTS INSIST ON

HELPING





 





Questions Prove Distracting



When it comes to entertaining I pre-

fer to do my own work. In my own

kitchen I know just where all my

utensils and food are kept and can

prepare a meal much quicker than

when strangers are trying to help. It is

the questions: “Where is this? Where

is that? How do you want this done?”

that are so distracting to me When I

am trying to seive a meal. To tell

them or show them takes more time

than if I did it myself.





When unexpected company comes

for dinner, many times I have seated

them in the living room and then

leaving them to entertain themselves,

I have hurried into the kitchen, got

out the eggs, butter, and sugar and

had a cake stirred up before they

knew what I was really doing. While

the rest of the dinner was cooking,

my cake would be baking and it would

take but a minute to frost it. But

when it comes dish-washing time, my

guests nearly always help.





 





 





 





“Yum, Yum, They Smell Good " If Little Girls Are to Grow to be Good

Cooks, They Nood Mother's Patient Training





I had but two daughters and they

have been away from home since they

were sixteen so I have had to plan

my work carefully in order to do it

without outside help.——Mrs. F. L., Me-

nominee County.





 





Does Not Follow in Mother’s Footsteps

When mother entertained company

for dinner, she would have no help

at all. After the guests were seated

at the table, she brought on the food,

hot from the stove and while they

ate, waited on them continually. By

the time they had finished, she was

too tired to eat. _ .

Observing mother’s mistake, I man-

age much differently in my own home.

My guests always help and I help when

I am a guest unless my offers are re-

fused. I love to visit while working,

and if my cake fails I open a can of

sauce and shed never a. tear. I al-

ways sit down with my gueSts, and al-

though I may get up occasionally to

refill the bread plate or the coffee

cups, I can enjoy my dinner as much

as the rest—Mrs. E. B., Tuscola.





’ County.





OCEANA TO HAVE HOME DEMON-

STRATION AGENT





 





A HOME demonstration agent for



Oceana County in the person of

Miss Mary Seekell, of Albion, was se-

lected recently by the county home

economics extension committee in ses-

sion at Shelby.



The appointment of a home demon-

stration agent was authorized last

October by, the Oceana County Board

of Supervisors. Both the local com-

mittee and the Home Economics De-

partment of Michigan State College

have been searching for the right per-

son for the position ever since that

time. Miss Seekell was selected by

the college from a field of ten candi-

dates before meeting the local com-

mittee.



Miss Seekell spent the earlier years

of her life on a farm near Milan, six-

teen miles from Ann Arbor. She

taught in the rural schools for a year

before entering Albion College where

she studied the art of home making

for four years. Later she took an

additional course in Home Economics

at Michigan State College.



For the past two years, Miss Seekell

has taught home economics in the

South Haven High School where her

work with girls has attracted much

favorable comment.





The home demonstration agent will

take over and enlarge the Home Econ-

omics Extension work for the women

and thelzf-H Club work for the girls

which were so successfully organized

by County Agricultural Agent Carl

Hemstreet during the past three years.

This will give Mr. Hemstreet more

time to care for the growing demand

for Extension work in agriculture by

the men of the county. It will also

mean an increase in the amount of.

4-H Club work for the boys which

can be done.



The ladies in several communities

have already organized local home

economic extension clubs so that they

may be ready to get in on some of

the project's when Miss Seekell be-

gins her work here early in February.

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Two Women W in

Defend Rural Rig/1t: Agaz'mt a Corporation

By Hilda Richmond





OR the first time in our lives my

Fsister and I had a case in court.



I had served on the grand and

petit juries, but never dreamed that

the day would come when it would

be necessary to defend our rights by

that means. The suit was brought

against them but for various

reasons it was not heard until Nov.

30th of that year. It was a case of

seeking damages for shade trees along

our farm that had been unlawfully

trimmed by the employees of a power

company. The trees had been trimmed

in March without our knowledge and

consent.



All summer it was amusing to hear

the comments of people on the case.

Almost to a unit those who felt that

we Would lose, voiced their senti-

ments in the same words: “Two

women against a corporation are

bound to lose. You’ll have the costs

to pay.” It seems that corporations

must have a strangle hold on the av-

erage. citizen of this free and inde-

pendent country of ours.



Naturally there were some who took

a more hopeful view, and said such

companies should be taught a lesson

about trespassing on the property of

farm owners. However, the number

who spokehopefully were far outnum-

bered by the other side. We have

been wondering if this helpless atti-

tude is what makes the line companies

so bold in their work of tree cutting.

If people make door mats of them-

selves, they must naturally expect to

be walked upon. Many people drew

down their faces and told us that cor-

porations have the law on their side.



But, lo and behold! The case was

presented to the jury, argued by both

sides, evidence heard, and then the

judge charged the jury and read the

statutes of the state affecting such

cases. The defense admitted from the

first that the consent of the owners

should have been obtained, and took

up weary hours of time trying to

prove that the damage was very



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‘WHAT OTHER WOMEN MAKE





 





Minced Ham and Cheese Sandwich



Put through the food chopper, one-

quarter pound of ham, three hard

cooked eggs, and two peppers. Mois-

ten with mayonnaise. Cut slices of

white bread, butter and spread with

a layer of the filling, a slice of cheese

and top with lettuce and a buttered

slice of bread.



Whole-wheat Casserole Stew.





3:4 can pm 1% cups left-over meat

4 potatoes in medium-sized piece!

4 carrots ’6 cup whole Wheat



4 onions 1 tb. butter





Salt and DW

Put all ingredients in a casserole





and ‘bake slowly, stirring frequently,

until meat and vegetables are tender.

Keep casserole filled with water and

covered. Serve hot. The kind of veg-

etables and meat in this recipe may

be varied according to taste. Any

left-over gravy may be used.

Whole-wheat and Ham.



Work a good white sauce into two

cups of cooked wheat. Fill a. baking

dish with alternate layers of, this mix-

ture and finely minced boiled ham.

Let wheat be the last Layer. Spread

with bread crumbs and dots of butter.

Brown in the oven.





Cheese Bits



Arrange saltines in a pan. Sprinkle

generously with grated cheese and set-

in oven until cheese is melted.



Pineapple, Pear, and Cheese Salad



Arrange slices of. pineapple on let-

tuce leaves on individual plates, and

on each place a halved canned pear

from which the core has been out

leaving a, boat shaped opening. Pre-

pare a mixture of thin strips of





“ cheese, mixed with thin strips of





canned pimentoes, and shredded green

pepper and fill the pear boats. Top





,with whipped cream salad dressing





and arrange segments of green “pep-

per on the pineapple slices. Serve

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with butter rather thickly. Place in

the oven, cover with thinly sliced

cheese, brown delicately.

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Try baking beans with small sau-

sages instead of salt pork. If any are

left over, they can be used for the

basis of a vegetable leaf or make a

change for sandwiches in the school

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Strong-flavored winter vegetables

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THE FARM FLOWER GARDEN





 





(Continued from page 127)

time they serve you it is not much

after all.





Now after the bulbs there come the

perennials. A perennial is a plant

which lives over out of doors year

after year. An annual you plant in

the spring; it produces its seed in the

fall: and dies. Plants such as iris or

peony are perennial and those such as

zinnia and snapdragon are annual. So

far as I can find out most farm women

seem to be raising annuals. I think

this is very bad when you are trying

to consider the problem from the time

angle. Annuals are so much more

work and so much more disappoint.-

ment! Somehow farm people have

gotten into the habit of sewing seeds

in the spring and this process is the

first one that enters the mind. It is

not impossible to make an easy gar-

den with annuals but you have to

choose the right annuals. The self

sowing ones see‘d themselves in the

fall and after lying in the ground al

winter, come up early in the spring

and later need only a little hoeing and

a lot of thinning. Sometimes, if the

fall is very warm, like the past fall

was, the seeds sprout imniediately

after falling and the young seedlings

are then cut by frost. If this happens

the bed should be spaded and seed

just before winter closes

in. Amongst this class we find a

splendid assortment including cosmos.

snapdragons, c e n t u r i a, California

poppy (now in lavender and pink as





well as orange and yellow), nigella. ,





pansies, verbenas, and several others.

It will be seen that this type of garden

must be set in a place where it will

not be plowed in spring. If you de-

pend upon this method of gardening

you will also find that. small beds are

most satisfactory. There should be

one for each kind of plant and the

beds should be narrow enough to per-

mit reaching across. This will make

it easy to work in them with a. small

tool.



But perennial gardening is so much

more satisfying. Maybe a little bit

more expensive but quicker in results.

You can buy what the nursery trade

calls “field clumps.” These are very

large healthy plants which will flower

immediately. They can be planted

either in spring or fall. But if this is

too expensive, try raising perennials

from seed. Sow the seeds where you

can tend them well the first year and

later transplant them to a permanent

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space for their growth. Select the

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rely on cheap, common seed packets.

Send for the very best named varieties

you can find in the very best catalog.

It will pay you in the end. The first

year they will be too small to throw

much bloom but the second year they

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will need to do thereafter for several

years is loosen the soil around them

two or three times a season, keep out

the grass, and draw a loose covering

of leaves or straw over them when

the ground is finally frozen. Manure

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a permanent kitchen garden if may be

wise to set the perennials in rows in

this. Put them far enough apart to

be easily cultivated with the horse or

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They are very dainty, in many unusual

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Delphinium or larkspur come in many

handsome shades of blue now. They

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nothing of the late successes in white.

They are very tall and stately, their

spikes sometimes reaching eight feet

under unusual circumstances and their

foliage is very nice.



Achillea. will give you dainty white

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Mistakes I’ve Made





1\ ISTAKE'S are our stepping

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carry you up to frost with a pleasant

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bilis, azure sage, veronica, and Violas.

You see there are very many!



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a life-saver. For myself I could be

satisfied if necessary with just shrubs

because I could have somelhing in

bloom for almost every week of the

growing season and in the fall and

winter there would be so many berry-

bearing shrubs that I could hardly use:

them all. All of the single roses are

very pretty and have beautiful ber-

ries. The honeysuckles bloom at dif—

ferent times and have fruits of dif-

ferent colors. Golden bell blooms very

early in springtime and lilacs take

care of May.



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necessity of sighing for flowers in the

country. I know there are farm

women who do so much outside work

that there is just no energy left for

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and should be a little place and time

for blossoms of one kind or another.

Perhaps their presence will help make

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PLANT SALSIFY THIS SPRING





LL home gardens should contain

some vegetables that can be left

outside in the garden and gathered

for use as soon as the frost goes out

of the ground in the spring, enough

so that they can be dug. Fresh vege-

tables are never enjoyed so thoroughly

as during early spring, before radishes

and lettuce are ready to use. Salsify

can be left in the ground all winter,

as freezing will not hurt them. They

also store well in the cellar.

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a. very pronounced oyster flavor. When

they are boiled and creamed, they are

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can be grated and made into patties

to resemble oysters, which when fried

in butter or lard will possess a pleas~

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Salsify fritters are very good. To

make them, b-oil one bunch salsify and

mash. To this add the juice of one-

half lemon, two eggs, a spoon of salt,

one cup flour, and two tablespoonfuls

of sweet cream. Shape like oysters,

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with crumbs and fry in deep fat.

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The star indicates the capitol. When

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Martha.



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GAME OF HORNS is NOT AS

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HEN you get tired of making



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is called “Horns Up.” First a leader

is chosen who sits with hands resting

on knees, facing the players. The

leader names different, animals, say-

ing after nearly all “Horns up” at the

same time lifting her own hands with

the thumb and little finger raised and

the tips of the other three fingers

pressed against the palm. If she says

“Antelope, horns up,” or “Cows, horns

up” all the players lift their hands

in the same position as the leader’s.

But if she mentions an animal that

does not have horns, even though she

raises her hands the players keep

their palms down on their knees.



Any player whose hands are lifted

after the mention of an animal that

does not have horns, is out of the

game or takes the leader’s place. Any

player who lifts his hands without the

fingers being in proper position and

the players who do not lift their hands





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GREEN FEED FOR YOUR FLOCK





VERYONE wants eggs in winter



when the prices are high. We ex-

pect the hens to lay as many eggs as

they do in summer. But how can they

unless we try to duplicate the summer

condition as much as possible.



[n summer they run on grass

ranges and pick up green feed. In

winter they cannot do so. Hens can-

not be expected to lay a large number

of eggs on a feed of scratch, mash,

and grit only. They must be fed

green feed, in some form, in addition

to the mash and scratch feeds.



Sprouted oats is probably the best

form of supplying green feed. And

it is not so difficult to sprout oats as

is commonly believed. Soak the oats

overnight in a tub, or any other con-

tainer, and then spread the oats in

shallow boxes or trays, the layers be-

ing two inches thick. Then stack

these trays near the furnace or in any

other warm place. The oats will be

ready for feeding when they are two

inches long. A 12 by 20 inch tray

should contain enough sprouted oats

to feed a hundred hens. If you add

a few drops of formaldehyde to the

water in which the oats are soaked

you need not fear of molds or any ob-

jectionable odors.



Some poultrymen feed cooked oats

instead of sprouted oats. Others feed

soaked alfalfa or clover leaves. Cab—

bage is one of the best green feeds

for poultry in winter. You can buy a

large quantity of cabbage and store it

for winter use. Sugar beets, turnips,

and other root crops can also be

bought and stored for winter use.



Here is another cheap way of get-

ting green feed for your flock in win-

ter. Most of the grocers sell large

amount of cabbage, lettuce, and celery

in winter. He has a lot of the outer

leaves of lettuce and cabbage, and the

outer stalks of celery left after giving

the customer what he wants. You may

tell your grocer to save these left

overs, and may offer to pay him a

little. Usually your grocer should be

glad to let you have the greens for

nothing. If he refuses to do so it may

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THE ALL-MASH METHOD OF

FEEDING CHICKS



HE all-mash method of feeding



chicks is rapidly gaining in popu-

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results. The mash is made as fol-

lows:



Ground yellow corn ........ 70 lbs.



\l'inter wheat middlings. . . .20 lbs.



Meat scraps (50% protein). 5 lbs.



Raw bone meal chick size.. 4 lbs.



Salt ...................... 1 lb.



Fresh or sour skim milk is fed until

the chicks are ten or twelve weeks

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it has been the practice at this station

to feed it in the form of, a paste in

troughs 0r smeared on the side, of the

brooder house. As much semi-solid

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chicks would seat in twenty to thirty

minutes.



Oyster shells were kept where the

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Ground yellow corn ........ 80 lbs.



Vl'heat middlings .......... 20 lbs.



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three or- four times a day for the first

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The Purdue all-mash ration:



Ground yellow corn ....... 300 lbs.



\Vheat bran ............. 100. lbs.



’Wheat middlings ......... 100 lbs.



Meat scraps ............. 100 lbs.



Dried buttermilk ......... 40 lbs.



Fine alfalfa meal ...... - .. 20 lbs.



Bone meal ............... 12 lbs.



Salt ..................... 7 lbs.



The above ration is recommended

by Purdue to be used until the‘chicks

are ten or twelve weeks of age.



For very early chicks it will be nec-

essary to add two pounds of cod liver

oil to each one hundred pounds of

either of the above mashes to prevent

rickets or leg weakness. There is con-

siderable interest in the all—mash

method of feeding chicks which will

no doubt increase in popularity very

rapidly in the future and will no doubt.

be used by many small chick pro

ducers.—G. H. C.



PLENTY OF CLEAN LITTER

MEANS HEALTHY HENS





HE old adage, “All work and no



play makes Jack a dull boy,” may

certainly be applied to the poultry

flock. Plenty of fresh, sanitary litter

on the floor of the poultry house is

a. playground for the hens and will

more than pay for itself in assuring

health, Vigor, and more eggs. A lay-





ing hen is usually a singing hen and





happiness is encouraged by plenty of

good oat or wheat straw on the floor.



Practical poultrymen differ as to the

respective merits of wheat, rye, and

oat straw for litter. The writer has

used each without any noticeable dif-

ferences as to wearing and sanitary

qualities. Rye straw is somewhat stiff

and oat straw breaks rather readily.

The best advice is to use what, you

have convenient. Many commercial

poultrymen prefer straw from wheat

but the advantages of it. over the

other straws from small grain crop

are not great. The main thing to keep

in mind is that the straw should not

be moldy, wet, or dusty. If the straw

is changed sufficiently to absorb all

dampness there is not much to choose

between any particular crop for litter

purposes. It is well to keep in mind

that the litter serves three main pur-

poses; i. e., absorbs moisture from

the droppings, keeps the mud and

other foreign material from being car-

ried into the nests, and lastly affords

an opportunity to make the birds ex-

ercise which increases blood circula-

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EARLY MATING





NEISTIMABLE improvement may be



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These hens are very desirable breed-

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not be more than a dozen or two of

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they are invaluable stock for up-grad-

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stock and I plan sooner or later to do

my own mating.



In the selection of breeding stock

attention should be paid to early ma-

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breed conformation. I like to encour-

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early winter eggs are more profitable

than later in the season. The aver-

age farmer is not in position to trap-

nest. However, trap-nesting is the

only reliable method of determining

individual egg production. The small

owner, by making a close study of

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out the individuals that evidence

superior laying qualities and, quite

reliably, depend upon such stock for

breeding purposes.



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In a recent article on poultry house

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short extension may have to be sol-

dered to the alarm key to move switch

arm for contact—O. A.



If these small bolts are put through

holes in the insulating base of the

switch and do not touch the metal

contact posts at either end or the

screWs which hold them to the in

sulating base, it should not be neces-

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metal back of the clock. Still it is

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POULTRY AND EGG OUTLOOK





 





(Continued on page 139)

the eggs stored last spring, so that

they are likely to be willing to get in

the market this year at a. price some-

what higher than in 1927. Demand

for poultry also, is large, as evidenced

by the distribution of the large sup-

plies of both fresh and frozen poultry



in 1927. .

Feed costs are much the same as

they were a year ago. Corn and oats





 





ms. 4,“ 1928 -





and some by-product feeds are higher,

but. wheat is lower. No reason is evi-~

dent for any big change in these com-

parisons until the new growing season

starts. Conditions then are most like-

ly to favor a lower range, especially

in corn, than prevailed in the late

spring and. summer of 1927.



The poultry industry expanded rap-

idly from 1920 to 1923, but since then

it has been going through a period

of stabilization. This is illustrated on

the accompanying chart. Annual re-

ceipts of eggs at the leading markets

from 1922 to 1926 averaged 15,117,000

cases. While supplies in 1927 were

about 5 per cent larger than in 1926,

they failed to equal the figure reached

in 1923. Moreover, they were only

about the same as the average of the

six years from 1922 to 1926.



Receipts of dressed poultry at these

some markets in 1927 were about 5

per ccnt lighter than in 1926. They

were almost exactly equal to the av-

erage of the five years from 1922 to

1926. .



Compared with three or four years

ago, market receipts in 1927 did not

Show any increase, so that the over-

production fright last spring was most-

ly a case of seeing ghosts.



The expansion in output since 1920

has been accompanied by a steady

growth in the number of consumers.

From January, 1920, to‘January, 1927,

the population in towns and cities ap-

parently increased from 74 million to

nearly 92 million. a gain of more than

2,200,000 persons a year. This expan-

sion in consuming capacity is accen-

tuated by the tendency toward larger

per capila consumption of poultry pro-

ducts, as a result of the raising urban

standard of living.



Taking a longer View. the poultry

industry is likely to become increas-

ingly prominent in the general scheme

of agriculture in the course of time.

The per cent of profit is not likely to

be greater than it has been in the.

last five years, however, as that mar-

gin has been sufficient to call forth an.

increase in production as rapid as the

growth of demand. But there is an

opportunity for individual producers

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THE EARLY HATCH MEANS MOST

PROFIT





 





AS the early bird gets the first

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The Kansas Experiment Station has,

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The results are as follows:





, ,_ .-. \Veight at \Veigllt at





I-Iatchcd 12 Weeks 16 Weeks

March 18 42 ozs. 72 ozs.

April 16 35 ozs. 52 ozs.

May 13 29 ozs. 46 ozs.





Those same chicks were put on the-

market with the following results:





Price per Value of

Hatched pound each bird

March 18 250 $1.12

April 16 250 .921

May 13 200 .57





These facts are an added incentive

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POSSIBLY ROUP





We have a sick turkey. She has

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The turkey with the large lumps on

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hie away. I’ll forget my earthly

troubles as I’d burst a bunch of

bubbles, for I’m agoing skating for a

day. I’ll tell the spring and summer

that King Winter is a hummer, and

the ice is just as smooth as it can be.

And I’ll tell my Unk and cousins,

though the pastimes come by dozens,

that skating is the winter sport for

me.—Menno Martin.





 





“'hat is filled with more joy and

happiness than to place yourself upon

a huge sled or coaster containing sev-

eral happy, healthy, glowing boys and

girls to race with the wind to the foot

of a long hill? Isn’t it great to feel the

sharp, keen wind flee by your face and

body and feel your blood tingle and

see the cheeks and eyes of-others glow-

ing and sparkling from the effects of

the bristling country air and the abun-

dant fun and excitement?





Even the small child gets bushels of

fun in taking his small sled, probably

a gift, from Santa, running and sud-

denly, for no reason at all, flinging

himself downward upon his stomach,

always landing in the correct position

upon the sled and going spinning

down the hill faster than words can

explain. How he enjoys it! He piles

from his sled at the foot of the hill

and comes tugging to the summit with

a smile on his face which has been

thought to be seen only on the face of

the Man in the Moon. Again and

again he sets out on his happy

journey.



\Vell, here comes the crowd and to

the hill we go with our big coaster.





Three cheers for coasting, for it’s my1





favorite sport.—Zona Amos.





 





All dressed in .warm garments, a

jolly, laughing crowd of us boys and

girls ventured out into the snappy,

cold night air for our favorite winter

sport with our skates and bob sleighs.

The night was clear as crystal. There

were many bright twinkly stars in the

heavens and amid the stars was the

great big moon. As we boys and girls

passed along the road, we noticed that

every object was robed in white, glis-

tening snow.



We walked for about a. mile and

then we turned a corner. What a

sight met our eyes! Below us was a





small lake thickly covered with trans-

parent ice. Around this lake were sev-

eral pine trees thickly covered with

snow and behind these pine, large

hills were to be seen.



We all assisted in building a large

bonfire. Some of us boys and girls

went up to the top of a hill. We, with

much laughing, talking, and scarfs fly—

ing, and the fresh air whistling about

our ears, descended the hill on a bob

sleigh. Some‘of us put onskates and

skated. Around, round the lake we





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would go. Some of us would be

hauled on a sleigh and some wouldn’t.

Many of us fall down, but 'with a. grim

smile at our pain and an audible grit-

ting of our teeth, we would again start

in with our fun and join in the jolly

laugh of our comrades at our fall.





We then started for one of our

friend’s home. Here we were ushered

in a room that had a large crackling

fire. We all helped to make candy,

get apples from the cellar and to pop

popcorn. We pulled taffy, ate candy,

apples, and popcorn and played games.

Then in the early hours of the morn-

ing, with a merry good night to our

hostess, we started for our own homes.

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Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins:



As I was looking through my scrap

book, I noticed a poem. One which

taught me, especially in grammar.



In the grades I never got it straight

for I didn’t like school and grammar

never appealed to me. And I’m sure

there is a number of you who have

just entered high school who have

difficulties in grammar,- unless you

are very intelligent or the subject is

of great interest. So when I became

a sophomore I had to know it back—

ward as well as forward, and I did

after I read this poem.



I wish to give a word of thanks to

an old correspondent, Nina Nedder—

meyer, who told me to find my dis-

likes and try to like them, so I have

and sure succeeded, and now I think

school days are only joy. I am en-

closing this poem and am sure it will

help a good many younger M. C.’s. If

not, I hope it will our enemy, Mr.

Waste Basket—Torn Marshall.



Short Grammar.

Three little words you often see

Are articles—“a,” “an, ” and “the.”

A noun’s the name of anything,

As “school” or “garden,” “hoop” or



“swing.”



Adjectives tell the kind of noun,



As “great,” “small,” “pretty,” “white,”



or "brown.”



Instead of nouns the pronouns stand—

“His” head, “her” face, “your” arm,

“my” hand.



Verbs tell something to be done——

“To lead,” “count ” “laugh,” “sing,”





“jump,” or “run.”



How things are done the adverbs

tell—



As “slowly,” “quickly,” “right,” or

“well.”





Conjunctions join the words together



As men “and” women, wind “or”

weather.



The. preposition stands before



The noun as “in” or “through” the

door.



The interjection shows surprise—



As “ah,” how pretty! “Ah,” how wise.



The whole are called nine parts of

speech



W h i c h

teach.

A good way to learn “your lessons”



is an interesting way as this is. You



are to be complimented on your suc-





cessful efforts to like your dislikes.





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Dear Uncle Frank:



Our Merry Circle contributors have

written on subjects wide and varied

and because of this variety I have

taken a subject to which very few of

you, I think, have given much thought,

that is, hours, or even minutes of it,

only seconds. My subject is common

errors in pronounciation.





Little words which we use in con-

versation with our parents and friends

are those we seem most likely to

slight. When reciting before a teach-

er or talking to someone on whom we

wish to make a good impression, we

are apt to use the biggest words our

vocabulary contains, to use them cor-





rectly and well and pronounce them





as they should be. Why is this true?

In my opinion the solution is that we

are careful because we are going to

receive something in return for our

carefulness. Either a good mark a

little praise, or someone’s admiration.

We neglect to speak well while talk-

ing with friends and our parents be-

cauSe there is nothing to be gained by





they are making the same mistakes

themselves.



You wouldn’t think of saying “paig”

for “peg,” in fact, it would be laugh—

able, yet very likely you say “aig” for

“egg” and “laig” for “leg.” Do you re—

mark to a friend that you have a new

“mahawgony” table when you should

have said “mahogany.” Do you call

your brother’s prize winning hog a

“hawg” or your own pretty pet a

“dawg” instead of a dog?



These are only a very few of the

mistakes so common and they are just

as easily corrected. You would find it

surprisingly comfortable to know that

you are pronouncing your words cor-

rectly. I know it takes courage to

say “ar-mis-tice” day when everyone

about you is saying “arm-istice” day





 





 





The Laizure Juniors on the Laizure

Horses





but effort brings its own reward as you

will find for yourself—if you make the

effort—Copper Penny.





It is true that we should strive for

perfection in pronounciation as well as

in other things, but that is rather dif-

ficult sometimes when we are accus-

tomed to localisms.





 





Dear Unc and the Rest of the Gang:

Here we are again! Just to start

Mister Nineteen T11 enty-Eiight out

right, we’re writing this on the first of

January. Really, I don’t suppose there

are more than seventeen or eighteen

thousand other M. C.’s with this same

happy idea, each one thinking that it’s

very original, but then, it’s all fun.



I might pause here to make a New

Year’s resolution: to write oftener

during this next year, but I don’t be-

lieve I shall. From sad experience, I

know that haphazard resolutions like

that are too easily broken. And any-

way, if I’m not delightfully mistaken,

my immediate future is going to be

pretty well taken up with burning the

midnight oil—lots and lots of it. The

real reason for this letter, to tell the

truth, is that I very probably won’t

have time to write again for quite

a. while, inasmuch as this happens to

be the last day of my vacation. At

that, I suppose I should consider my-

self lucky, because I know of lots and

lots of freshmen at State for whom

this vacation was permanent—terribly

permanent!





Well, J. Norman Hurd, it seems that

the feeling is mutual between you and

me. Ever since you wrote that article

on “Success” I have been interested

in you. If I had known you were'&

freshman at,State, I should certainly

have looked you up. By the time you

read this, I shall have done so. ’31

Rah! The same name “Rothfuss” you

saw on the blackboard of Room 2,

Dairy Building. and in the list of fresh

basketball men—both of him are me!





(I ask you, Unk, doesn’t that last

sentence do me credit as an A student

in English Comp. ?) .



I remember a picture of you, Uncle,

and someone else in a.not—so1~ecent

issue of our mutual friend, in which

you were the proud Wearer of a. dress

and the “someone else” had on a col





legc cadet suit which you said was ’





yours. What college did you attend,

and was military training compulsory?



What has become ofall the really

interesting old writers, like Helen the

Piper, Helen Kish, "Tomboy," "Peter,”

Tom Marshall, not to forget our

estimable friend Herb? Have they

played 11s the scummy trick of getting

too old? How very sad! Just three:

short months from now I expect to

tap out my last adieu as an active:

M. C. Shall I make it funny, Uncle,

or sprinkle in a few “weeps?” Dunt

esk! I couldn' t write a morbid paia—

graph about a first rate morgue! I

thank you .~Guilford



I presume the lamp of knowledge is

burning nightly now for you. I was

an M. S. C. cadet. Make your adieu

what you want it to be. Have you

heard from Hurd, yet? I think some-

of the M. C.’s referred to are just tak-

ing a vacation.





Dear'Uncle and Cousins:



I received a lettrr from Christine

Zeck, some time ago. boosting the:

radio fund and telling of the visit she-

paid to the (.‘vhildrcn's Hospital.



She. wrote me, about. a. plan she;

worked out and so I am asking you

what your opinions are. Hope you all

feel like doing all you can as that is

just my feeling.



Cl11istine said she would like to put

on a play of some sort by our talented

members. It could be presented at an.

auditorium she is sure, she could get

the uSe of for one evening. Folks

would come if even at the price of

twenty-five cents as: they would be

pleased to see. such young charity

workers who do it. of their own free

will. I agree with Christine that, if

we could see how those. children en»

joy the radio, we would be anxious

to get some more.



Well, l'ncle. Frank, hope you feel

like Christine and i do. If you do, 21.111

sure this letter will be in print and

the membe1 1s “ill have a. chance to

give t'hei1 opinions on Christine's plan.

~—F101ence Sisson



The plan you speak of is fine. The

only hindrance is that, M. C ‘1 live so

far apart that they could not get to

gether often for rehearsals. Let’s





have the opinions of others.





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IIIS hunter caught a ring-neck



pheasant in his hands, alive and

uninjured during the open hunting

season. There had come a falf of new

snow during the. previous day and the

night, and the pheasants had crawled

under grass, weeds, and brush for

shelter. The man saw a few inches

of the tip of this bird’s long handsome

tail protruding out from under a

clump of grass. The tracks told him





 





 





 





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that the pheasant was not wounded.

He threw his gun aside and grasped

the biid in his hands



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and placed in a. comfortable pen and

well supplied with food and Water,

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dered through the gardens of Chinese

temples and subsequently skulked in

the Scottish moors, man, had hunted

his family, shooting t-hem‘forfood and

Sport. .' The well-learned lesson of,

hating and fearing man was not to be

forgotten so easily.



The man kept him for weeks, giving

him the best of care, and trying in'

every way to win his confidence. Even

an eagle, the king of birds. would have

been likely to have yielded his friend-

ship in time, under such treatment.

Not so the pheasant. however. When

the manfinally released him. out of

sympathy for the longing for freedom

that gnawed at his wild heart, this

handsome bird was as wild and shy

as the day he was taken.——Ben East.





 





A LATE HOME-COMER





 





I have been a silent ex-Merry

Circler for some time. I was not at

home at the time of the Home-Coming,

so did not hear of it until too late to

write. ,



I was a M. C. for several years and

took an interest in the growth of the

Circle, even since I have passed from

the Circle. The boys‘ and girls’ page

is the first I read of the paper.



I was rather disappointed to think

more didn’t send to the Christmas

Chest, but maybe it too can grow each

year. Think each should be willing

to contribute something for such a

purpose.



I read Vic’s letter when she told of

saving interesting letters. I am doing

nearly the same. I started by saving

only poems but now I save good, let-

ters and pictures. Think in later

years it will bring my past M. C. days

back to memory.



Uncle Frank, I have been wonder-

ing for. some time if the ex-M. C.’s

were allowed to enter the Correspon-

dent Scrambles or it‘ we might have

a Scramble for the ones not able to

take active part. .



Must close and leave space for

others. Wishing the Circle the best

of success, I remain—Ruby French,

R. 4, Elsie, Mich.



It will be all right for ex-M. C.’s to

join the Scrambles, or if. there is a

demand for one

ex-M. C. Scramble.





late than never.





You are better





 





AD CONTEST





HE answers to the following ques-

tions will be found in the adver-

tising columns of this issue. Please

do not write out the questions. Also

make your answers as short as pos-

sible. Number the answers the same

as the questions. Put your name and

address in the upper left hand corner

of your paper, and .\'I. C. after your

name if a Merry Circler. Write your

letter, if any, on another sheet. Ten

prizes will be given: tw0 fountain

pens, three loose leaf note books, and

five little boxes of candy. All who

have correct papers and are not Merry

Circlers will receive M. C. pins and

cards.

Here are the questions:

1. How many ships does the United

State Shipping Board have?





2. What is mounted on heavy

weather proot’ed skids and easily

moved?





3. What are the most, marvelous

motor car values in their respective

price groups?



4. \Vho specialized for sixty years

in making barrows?



:i. What is the price of the greatest

towel bargain ever?



6. Who has made reliable live stock

and poultry preparations since 1886?





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4. What is the greatest name in





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8. What oil costs 20c a half pound?



This contest closes February 10th.

Send your papers to Uncle Frank,

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LETTER Box ANNEX





 





 





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I heard mother reading “Our Page”

so I thought it would be a good idea

to write. She has just finished read—

ing Christine ZeCK’s letter. She said

“So that is what the Merry Circle is

for, to spread cheer.” Yes, I think

the Merry Circlers spread cheer

I try to at least.

As I heard mother reading about





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self. .made to the TB hospital near





the Work House. These were very

intereStin’g; I wouldn’t try to explain

it now, for I amafraid I would get

something wrong. '



I have been an‘ M. C. a long time,

but I have not entered into the con-

tests and letter writing very often.

It seems that mostly every time I read

“Our Page" I read something about

smoking, etc. As for smoking it is

harmful to the body, and also spiritual-

ly. Drinking is the same also. The

use of cosmetics is very harmful to

the face, I think.



I look at smoking, drinking, use of

cosmetics, and other things in this

way: “Who shall ascend into the hill

of the Lord. or who shall stand in his

holy place? He that hath clean hands,

and a pure heart”——Psa1ms 2423.4.

think this is a very good reference.

Don‘t you. I‘ncle Frank?



May God bless and guide the Merry

Circlers and Uncle Frank, I remain,

your niece—Clettie.



Yes, the Merry Circle is to spread

happiness. The reference you give is

good.





My dear Uncle Frank:



I have read “Our Page” for about

a year. I have thought the letters;

very interesting. I've read a letter

in “Our Page“ written by a girl who

thinks it‘s nice to see boys smoke.

As, for me I think smoking and drinkJl

ing are terrible habits. In later yearsf

I would like to be a nurse—Signe,

Broman.





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Dear Merry Circlers:



I’m one of those farmer‘s daughters

who wouldn't live in town for three

cents. .



I have been reading your letters for

several years and find them quite in-

teresting. I like “Cooney’s” letter as

I sho‘ doz like to write odd mysilf

sometimbs.



I like the poem “Blessing on Thee,

Little Dame." the two later ones were

good although I never memorized

them. I live on a farm about two

hundred miles north of Chicago.



A dandelion was in blossom here

the other day. That-used to be the

boys’ sign to begin going barefoot. In

a town farther north a woman picked

a pansy last week.



I have curly unbobbed hair and

haven’t gone to a movie nor tasted

pop for seven years and my face

doesn’t know what rouge and lipstick

feel like. For pets we have “Ouch,”

the cat. “The Twins.” two gray kit-

tens, and “Scotty Allan.” a dob named

after the Alaskan dog trainer—Bill

& Dinah.





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WALLS FOR DAIRY BARNS





 





(Continued from page 141)



some method will be devised for creo-

soting or treating sawdust or mill

shavings so they will be both damp

proof and rot proof. Even ordinary

gravel, while not much of an insula—'

tion in itself, is far better than noth-

ing at all in such an air space. The

eventual solution of the double wall

problem will probably be‘ a thoroughly

waterproofed insulation board which

can be built right into the concrete or

concrete block or clay block double

wall.





It is, of course, possibleto make a

single masonry wall warm and com-

fortable, either by putting furring

strips on the inside and then lathing

and plastering with two coats of co

incnt stucco, or, by fastening plaster-

board or insulating board to the in-

side of the wall, and then plastering

with two coats of stucco. Either of

these methods adds considerably to

the labor and material cost of the wall

and is not quite so solid and sanitary

as the masonry itself.





The standard stable wall construe.

tion is still of wood, usually of rough

lumber, heavy tari'ed paper or half-

ply roofing, and drop siding on the out-

side of the studding, and heavy paper

and matched lumber on the inside.

Sawdust or mill shavings between the

studs adds a lot to the warmth of such

a. wall, but have a tendency to hold

moisture and cause the wall materials

to decay. For that reason commercial

insulation is preferred, either in place

of the layer of rough lumber, or of the

quilt type between the studs. This

may seem rather expensive construc-

tion and naturally is not needed for

mild climates, but in cold climates it

keeps down frost, makes the ventila-

tion work properly, saves feed, and

adds to the profits.





 





FEEDING NOTES





 





ROUGHAGES, such as legume hay,

should constitute a considerable

portion of the ration of the growing

pig. But when the fattening period

arrives then this roughage should be

gradually reduced until, when finish-

ing for market, the course feeds

should be practically eliminated.





 





It is important to keep the lambs

quiet when they are being heavily

crowded for market. Excitement and

over-eating may result in apoplexy.

This may be caused by having extra

feeding places, inducing the lambs to

seek new quantities of feed in parts

of the troughi untouchéd'by theother

lmbst t'. ifiuugf '. , 7; f ‘
. FEB. 4, 1928





Kent Testers Report '





By K. K . Vining





N 1927 five cow testing associa-



tions finished their year’s work in



Kent County. Of these the West

Kent finished its fifty year of contin-

uous work and is organized for its

sixth year. The North Kent, South

Kent. Alto Kent, and Qrand Rapids

Kent have finished four years’ work

and have started on their fifth year’s

work. '



Trouble with Sterility



There have been fewer herds in the

association work this year than the

same number of associations previous-

ly. This is not due altogether, to lack

of interest. In some associations a

sterility problem has kept many breed-

ers out. Here is a problem that is

sorely trying the dairyman and one

that the veterinary profession does

not seem to be able to handle. This

trouble seems to run for a period of

time in some communities, disappears,

and then reappears again. The other

trouble is that many-members after

testing for a year or two become im-



‘ mune to any further cow testing asso-

ciation work, thinking they have

reached the tap in the dairy profes-

sion.



Here are some results in the five

named associations. A total of 1,114

head were on test. The West Kent

C. T. A. had the highest butter-fat av—

erage. The 239 cows in this associa-

tion averaged 7,566 pounds of milk

and 345.1 pounds of fat. The Alto

Kent C. T. 'A., with its 27.) cows, pro-

duced an average of 7.352 pounds of

milk and 342.2 pounds of fat. The

other associations follow in the order

named. The Grand Rapids Kent, 276

cows, averaging 9,458 pounds of milk

and 338.2 pounds of fat. The North

Kent, 188 cows, averaging 7,156.3

pounds of milk and 335 pounds of fat.

The South Kent, 245 cows, averaging





7,491.4 pounds of milk and 321.5

pounds of fat.

The Best Herds

The high herd in fat production





was seven head of pure-bred Jerseys

owned byD. J. Dinsen of the Alto

Ként association. They averaged

8,961 pounds of milk and 490.6 pounds

of fat. Incidentally they have. had

honors fer high herd in the four years

of completed work. Second place

went to a herd of eight pure-bred

Jerseys owned by Harris and Sheldon

in the North Kent association. They

averaged 7,646 pounds of milk and 438

pounds of fat. The other herds were

as follows. Nineteen head of pure-

bred Holsteins owned by John Ruth

and son in the West Kent association

averaged 13,472 pounds of milk and

436.5 pounds of fat. Seventeen pure-

bred and grade Holsteins owned by

Jacob Karseboom of the Grand Rapids

associatiou averaged 12.498 pounds of

milk and 418.8 pounds of fat. Seven

pure-bred Guernseys owned by E. Vi'.

Ruehs of the South Kent association

averaged 8,310.7 pounds of milk and

415 pounds of fat.



Honors for high cow in butter-fat

production goes to a five year old

pure-bred Holstein owned by Dudley

\i'aters. This cow produced 20,938

pounds of milk and 651.2 pounds of

fat. The Waters’ herd of sixty pure-

bred Holsteins had an average produc-

tion of 11,861 pounds of milk and

398.59 pounds of fat. Second high cow

'was a four year old pure-bred Jersey

owned by D. J. Dinsen of the Alto

Kent association. This cow produced

11,553 pounds of milk and 609 pounds

of fat. The rest were in the order

named. . A pure-bred Guernsey owned

by E. W. Ruehs of the South Kent

association produced 9.134 pounds of

‘ milk and 556 pounds of fat. A pure-

bred; Holstein owned by Lynn Brad—

ford _in;the West Kent association

.pquueeuma pounds of milk and

551.4 pounds of fat, and a pure-.bred





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Jersey owned by Wm. Kies of the

North Kent association produced 8,886

pounds of milk and 510.6 pounds of

fat.

The Low Producers

None of the herds were so bad when





 





the reports of the low producing herds

in each association are studied. The

lowest of the average of the four

poorest herds in one association was

218 pounds of fat and the highest of

the. four poorest herds in another asso-

ciation was 293 pounds.





Three hundred and sixty-one ani—

mals qualified for the R. O. P. The

sad part of this feature is that no

herds will take advantage of this

phase of cow testing association work.

The West Kent had ninety-four that

qualified for this work.



Nine herds produced over 400

pounds of fat and seventy-eight over

300 pounds. Every herd on the Kent

County association either owns or

uses a pure-bred sire. Fifty per cent

of the farms have alfalfa and many

are using sweet clover for pasture.





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slight. if anything at all had been in-l

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to view the premises and knew the

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the trees before the trimming had

been done. After a few minutes the

jury, composed largely of farmers,

and wholly of men of sound judgment

who knew the value of farm shade

trees, filed back into the box. The

verdict covered both willful trespass

and damages and amounted $725.00.





Now, if we had listened to the cold

water pourers, nothing would have

been done. We are inclined to peace

and order and law abiding. and have

a perfect horror of being involved in’

litigation of any kind. but the time;

came when something had to be done

and we did it. Be it far from me to

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so the next time we fed clover hay,

but With the same results. We have

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separIate, so we don’t know the reason.



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HOW TO SAVE THE PIGS





 





ITH us the greater part ofthe

spring, pigs are born during the

first half of April, and a great many

of them are lost every season that

might be saved if the owner knéw

just what to do and when to do it.

In many instances where pigs do not

do well at farrowing, the cause of the

trouble starts from conditions sur-

rounding the sow during pregnancy,

such as an improper food ration and

too much or too little of it, or the

conditions may be brought abodt by

too little exercise, the latter has much

to do with the sow at farrowing time.

Conditions are some times such that

it is about impossible to give the sow

just the treatment she should have for

best results, and there is sometimes

trouble when the management is as

good as is possible to make it. If the

feed and care of the sow has been

what it should be and she has not

been too closely confined, the chances

are that she will do well and save all,

or nearly all, her pigs without any

meddling or fussing on the part of the

caretaker.



The average brood sow, if she is in

the proper condition, will do the best

when she is left alone for nature to

take care of the case. A good many

pigs are lost at farrowing time just

from fussing with them, when if they

had been let alone the sow and pigs

would have come out all right. How-

ever, it is never knowu to a certainty

that all will be right, therefore, it is

better to be around so as to give as-

sistance in case it is needed.



In the first place everything should

be ready at farrowing time. If the

weather is cold and wet, the sow must

have a dry, warm nest and out of the

wind, and a. small amount of short hay

or straw for bedding. Should the

weather be warm and dry she will do

better in the open air, but some shed-

like shelter should be provided then.





Large, deep beds made of long,

coarse straw, where the sow can al-

most bury herself, is a bad thing and

the main cause of the sow getting on

the pigs and killing or crippling them.

If there is a hole or low place in their

bed, which there is most sure to be

if a large amount of bedding is used,

the pigs will get into it when the

mother leaves the nest and when she

returns she will root some of them

out, but hardly ever will all of them

get out of her way, and those remain-

ing are most sure to get killed or

injured. A fender placed along the

side wall, about six inches up from

the floor is a good thing, but it fre—

quently happens that the pigs get be-

tween the fender and the sow’s body

and in this way are killed—V. M. C.





 





BETTER LIVE STOCK STATISTICS

DISCUSSED





 





IT has been proposed that new agri-



cultural schedules be drawn up in

order to insure more accurate statis-

tics and also that Congress set a. per-

manent date for taking the agricul-

tural census. The bill under consid-

eration provides that the census be

taken April 1. It was also pointed

out that there have been three

changes in the date when the census

of meat animals has been taken. For

the years 1850 to 1900 the figures were

as of June 1, for 1910 as of April 15,

and for 1920 and 1925 as of January

1, making them valueless for purposes

of comparison.



In the field of animal statistics

there are in some instances radical

differences between the estimates of

the Bureau of Agricultural Economics

and the census figures. In the case

of sheep and lambs the 1925 census

figures show an increase of sheep and

lambs of 556,000 or 1% per cent, while

Department of Agriculture figures

show a, decrease of 2,131,000 or 5 per

cent. For hogs the census data. shows

a. decline of 8,492,000 or 14 per cent,

while the Department of Agriculture





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shows a decline of only 4,245,000, or

only seven per cent.



It was suggested that trained agri-

cultural economists be secured to as-

sist in making up the agriCultural

schedules and to suggest studies that

should be undertaken to insure more

accurate and complete statistics in the

1930 census.





MORTGAGE LIFTERS VS. MORT-

GAGE MAKERS





 





OGS are said to be “mortgage

lifters” but my experience has

been that this depends on the man

back of them. Sometimes they are

“mortgage makers.” While they really

did their share toward lifting my mort-

gage, they also did their share sink-

ing me heavily under mortgage, before

I learned to manage them.

Pigs should be kept growing all

the time, any back tendency in





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





Merry Matiden’s Brown Lady Produced

698 Pounds Butter-fat and 14,935

Pounds M ilk in 365 Days , at

Eighteen Years of Age. ‘





growth is very hard to overcome. I

keep‘them separate from all other

hogs. I have found from costly ex-

perience that it is not a good policy

at any time to feed different sizes of

hogs together, as the weaker will

come out short in their rations.

Sour Milk Feeding



I do not feed my growing pigs sour

milk. It is all right for the older

hogs, but not so for young pigs. Give

them food calculated to form bone and

muscle. When my pigs are able to

care for themselves they are provided

with a pasture lot for themselves.

This alone, with proper feeding, push-

es them rapidly. When this pasture

lot is impossible, I use alfalfa hay.

Where exclusive grain diets are given,

as is often the case, the hogs do not

thrive well. In fact, I have had no

tual loss in such exclusive grain feed-

ing, and this loss is where they are

“mortgage makers.”



Just as well expect yourself to keep

well in body and mind on one kind of

diet as to-hope for the hogs to do so.

I always feed my liquid feeds before

the solids, and these are given plenti-

fully before putting that grain feeds

before them. My object is to not over

feed nor under feed. If the grain is

given first, my experience is that they

are apt to let most of the liquids go

untouched, but feed these first and

then the grain and they do not gorge

themselves on the grain. Another ob-

ject in feeding the liquids is to avoid

constipation. Solid grain foods given

to excess and alone will cause them

to be constipated and my experience

has been that constipation causes two-





thirds of the ills the hog is subject to. “





Danger Signals



On the least sign of disorder cor-

rectives should be given them. Trust-

ing the feeding and care to hired help

is not always the best thing to do.

This has been my experience. Such

help does not have the general inter-

est in the welfare of the hog that the _

owner has, and too much dependence

on the hired man may result in loss.



Cleanliness in feed counts greatly.

To expect a. hog to keep healthy and

fatten when hunting his corn in the

mud is an error. I have seen owners

throw bushels of corn in the feed lot,

and in less time than it took to throw

it there it'was swallowed out of sight

in mud. Such lazinests is unpsrdon-

table. A good. floor of ample size will





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pay its cost in one season. A' good

concrete floor is the best that can be

built. These can be kept clean with

little labor." '



Another item of‘interest, if.we want

our hogs to be “mortgage lifters," is

shelter. I do not mean by this a

shelter under a straw stack, but a. dry

sleeping place at all times for the hog,

young or old.



Straw stack shelters are responsible

for many losses of swine by disease

and smothering. I have tried them

and learned better. Hogs should not

be allowed to lie around them at any

time) Much more than the cost of

good sheltering sheds will be lost in

a short time.



Breeding stock, male and female,

should be the very best—I mean the

best we can afford—~good sound ani-

mals, not necessarily pedigree stock,

but good animals, energetic and hust-

ling in habits. The time is here when

we want more and better hogs, and

where losses "will cease in growing

them.———R. R. i ,





 





IS YOUR CREAM SEPARATOR A

THIEF? _ '





 





CCORDING to dairy experts, any



cream separator that leaves over

four one-hundredths of a per cent of

butter-fat in the skim milk .is Stealing

money from the farmer who operates

it. The efficiency of the machine can

be tested by thoroughly mixing the

skim 'milk, taking a. half pint sample

of it, and having that sample tested

by a cream station operator, a cow

teeter, or at the agricultural college-

dairy department. Before this is done,

however, the following precautions

should be taken on the farm. Make

sure the cast iron frame that holds

the bowl is absolutely level, that the

machine is securely fastened to the

floor so it does not. vibrate to any ex

tent, that the milk is separated while

still warm, that warm water is run

through the cold machine before the

milk is started, that the parts are all

kept clean, and that. the machine is

turned at the proper speed as recom—

mended by the manufacturer.





FEEDING NOTES





 





Even when the shoates have at-

tained much of their growth, it is pro-

dent to keep enough protein-rich feeds

in the ration that the appetites may

be stimulated. Lagging appetites too

often reduce or eliminate the profits.

in hog feeding. '



W'ormy pigs will not make the

owner rich. Gains: from such pigs

will be small. The wise feeder will

keep his animals free from these

pests. With proper care at farrowing

time, the pigs can. be spared the an-

noyance of these unwelcome organ-

isms.





 





Where cattle are being fattened on

corn, the use of legume hay as com-

pared to timothy hay increases the

gains, improves the bloom, gives the

hogs following better gains, and pro-

duces more fertility to be passed back

to the fields for successful crops.





 





Where cattle are fed molasses there

is a noticeable improvement in the

appetites of the animals. It also aids

in cleanifig up roughage that other-

wise is unpalatable. ..





after each

heayy snowstorm, we expected to get

out with a. team and “break the road”

and shovel out the worst drifts. Last

evening as I was going across the road

to do the last of the chores, a. big

motor-driven county-owned snow plow

went throbbing past. This morning

while we were eating breakfaét the

same plow, or another like it, went

by again” Thus do times change.

Many and marvelous improvements

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CATTLE

llerd of 20 head Registered

Holstein Friesian cattle





for Sale at Auction

Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1928





At 12:30 o‘clock. Place 2 miles south and

2 miles west of St. Johns, Michigan. Herd

sire De Kol Posch Grant 391535, dams

record 703.20 lbs. milk, 33.54 lbs. butter in

seven days. Above sire goes to highest

bidder, and sons and daughters of the above

sire and others of equally good breeding.

There are no females over 5 years old. No

reactors since 1919. Also there will be other

stock and farm tools sold at this sale. Bank-

able notes will be taken. Bring your. bank

reference. No catalog, but can mail. ex—

tended pedigree of sire. Herd established





in 1905.

E. E. STURGIS

at. Johns Michigan





SERVICEABLE AGE





REGISTERED HOLSTEIN



Bull Calves at prices the owner ole

email herd can afford to pay. The

sire of many of these calves is a Son

of the highest record (30 lb.) two-

year-old daughter of Creator. Hie

elre to King Segla Alcartra Prilly, an

undefeated Show bull With 70 A. R.

daughters. Others sired by a 5 times

1200 lb. Champion Bull, the famous

K. P. O. P. breeding.



Bred cows and heifers served by

these sites are available for founda—

tion stock.





RED ROSE FARMS DAIRY

Northville, Michigan

Telephone: 344 .

Reference: Northville State Savmgs Bank

* ' . 1d. h Elf ' d to

HOLSTEINS 22333303. Ci’Kicgf prier‘i‘s relian—





able. Come and see them. ._ . REAVEY. Sla.

Mon. Tuocola 00.. Holstein Animation. Akron. Mich.





FOR SALE tuberculin tested for several

years. Never any reactors. GEORGE HEIDEN-

FELDT. St. Clair, Mich.. R .





The Stanley J. Gardner Herd. Croawcll, Michigan.





MILKING SHORTHORNS





ire, Tipperary Clyde 1331772. Grand Cham-

113-1131: bsull Tennessee State ~Fair 1927. Sire of lst

prize bull calf. lst prize pair calves. 3rd prize get-

of—sire. and reserve Jimior Champion bull, at Mich.

State Fair 1927. Bull calves up to 8 mo 5. old for

sale. reds and maps out of cows With records up to

14.000 lbs. milk in one year.





FOR SALE





TENFIELD BROS.





“Claradale Milking Sherthorns”





Young bulls and bred heifers, priced for quick sale.

Duchess breeding. high milk and test records. Herd

under state and Federal supervision. Sixty days

retest allowed. Your success is our success. F. W.

JOHNSON d. SONS. Box 26. Custer. Mich.





Milking SIWIIIWIIIS Central Mich. Shorthorn





Breeders Assoc. offers young

bulls. heifers. and cows. fresh and coming fresh.

priced right. Omar Skinner. Sec.. Gowen, Mich.





For Ssle---Polled Shorthorn Calves





Either sex. milk and beef. Federal tested. PAUL

QUACK. Sault Ste. Marie. R. 2. Mich.





M.“ - Shorthoms Bulls and females for





. sale. all ages. Some

extra line bred heifers. Best Clay breeding. IRVIN

DOAN (i. SONS. Croawell. Mich.





A r n l r

Red Polled for "idiocenovsuii bgii‘oéii





Ton high grade Holstein cows.





Polled Bulb!





1 uiiose Red

Dun I) '1 old. BAT-





from Ill to 12 _mo.~;.

Filo Lake. Mich.





calves





FARM. Will Cattle. West Branch. Mich.

Brown Swiss for sale. cows 10 and

11 yrs. old duo in Feb. 2 bred





tigglctordd

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THE MICHIGAN ‘FARMER





. FIFTY CENTS CULLS THE RUNTS





ECENTLY I assisted in a county



tour where several vocational

agriculture projects were visited. we

had with us on the tour two swine

experts from our state agricultural

college. The interest and enthusiasm

was at a “blood heat.”



One farmer requested the group to

stop at his farm and examine his herd

of hogs. One glance gave us a pic-

ture of some "round worm runts.”

The entire herd of fifty or sixty was

liberally dotted with those scraggly.

scraany, dog-e a r e d, pencil-necked.

stiffed-tailed, slim-legged, weary-gait—

ed, ruffled and starry coated runts.

One of the swine experts immediately

asked if the pigs had been wormed?

The answer was: “I usually do, but

this particular group were not, since

the pigs were dropped at busy times."



The farmer, then, invited the mem-

bers or the tour to see pigs which

Were wormed. There was small re-

semblence between the wormed and

tin-wormed. The pigs that were given

worm capsules had the characteristic

“right curl” and were thrifty, con-

tented, and three times as large as

the first herd examined. According

to the owner. his pigs were all man:

aged the same with the exception that,

the last group were treated for worms.

The self—feeders filled with ground

oats, corn, and middlings were well-

filled and the pasture was equally

good in each case. The only differ-

ence was worming. It cost fifty cents

per pig hid it; made a big difference.

——H. Q. H.





HOLSTEINERS TAKE THEIR

FODDER





HO knows her? This was the

'question asked at the annual

banquet of the Shiawassee County

Holstein Association held at Owosso

on the evening of January 18. All you

had to do was to look at her picture

printed on your paper napkin. Two

men identified her, Jay Bowlby of

Ovid and Jim Hays, the State Secre

tary. Jay got first prize because he

knew her whole name, whereas Jim

tried to get by with just “Maggie.”

She is the dam of the All—American

yearling bull, owned, together with

this illustrious son, .by the Detroit

Creamery Company.

A. C. Anderson of the Michigan Milk

Producers talked on the milk market





situation. He showed that Detroit had

increased in population thirty-three

per cent in a five-year period, that





folks were using about thirty per cent

more milk products and that on the

producer’s side, there were less cows

being milked. So milk markets of the

immediate future should hold good.

“Prof.” Anderson closed with a plea

for pure-bred men to grow better stuff

and for any with grade Holsteins to

raise the heifer calves.



Local talent put on

practical numbers.



In the business session S. C. Bald-

win of Bennington was re-elecred

president. Mrs. Burt Nowlin of

Owosso, the Only woman secretary of

a. Michigan county Holstein associa-

tion, was returned to office. Directors

elected included Charles Paine of

Durand, Jay Bowlby of Ovid, Elmer

Shadbolt of Bennington, and H. A.

Knapp of Owosso.



Vl'ashtenaw Coun t, y Holsteiners

turned out on the eve of January 20

at Saline for the annual mid-winter

meeting. The hit of a program packed

with instrumental numbers, offerings





musical and





of a double quartette, and 'sundry

speeches, was the talk by Kenneth

Proctor. Ken. related the varied ex-





periences connected with the journey

he took to the National Dairy Show at

Memphis, Tennessee. He won the trip

for being the best all around Holstein

calf club boy in Vi’ashtenaw County,

the County Holstein Association fin-

ancing the venture.





A close competitor to young Proctor

in the speaking line was Erny Janisse,

chief of testers for the Dairy Depart-

ment of the State College. Erny res

sponded nobiy to an unexpected re

quest to relate his experiences when

he took seventy bulls to France. The

bull excursion took place seven years

ago. but details are still fresh” in

Erny’s mind. He recalled how one

bull broke loose in New York City and

l[ took most of Getham’s police force

to get him back and on board the ship.

Over across the same beast ran amuck

and had to be brought down by a

French sharpshooter. When the ship

was about to sail from New York it

appeared that, the law governing such

matters prescribed that there must be

not more than fifteen animals to a

caretaker. So Erny had to hire four

men and here is what he got. One

Belgian tailor, who could speak no

English, anxious to get back home;

one French soldier who had TB, there-

by sympathetically securing Erny’s

stateroom so that Erny slept with the

bulls below deck, one Englishman re-

turning home full of his importance;

one magazine writer taking the trip

for the experience, that he might

write of it. Vl'ith such “high class”

assistants Erny found that he had not

seventy but seventy-four animals_ on

his hands.



To get. back to VVashtenaW County,

Frank Geiger of Rushton was

elected president; Mark Lathers of

Milan was returned as secretary;

William Austin of Saline was elected

to serve again as sales manager,

XV. L. Rundel of Saline was elected

vice-president and R. B. VVatrous of

Chelsea, a director.





J. G. Hays, Secretary of the Mich-l





igan Holstein Association talked at

both the Shiawassee and the VVash-

tenaw meetings on the “Herd Im-

provement Registry,” the new Hol-

stein lierd test.





INGHAM ASSOCIATION LEADS





l'RlNG December, Michigan dairy

herd improvement associations

reported by the testers show that the

highest producing association is the

Ingham-Lansing D. H. I. A.. Leslie. Vi'il-

cox, tester. This organization testing





298 cows owned in twenty-six dairy

herds in Ingham County averaged





29.19 pounds butter-fat production dur-

ing March.



The outstanding herd production for

the month is found in the Detroit

Creamery herd, Farm No. 2, where

eighteen pure-bred Holstein‘ cows

under retest conditions milked four

times daily averaged 63.46 pounds but-

ter-fat.



The highest producing cow in the





state for the month among the twenty-l





six thousand cows tested is owned by





Herbert Vi’ilder of Bay City, Michigan. }

Mr. \‘l’ilder is a member of the Bay!





County, No. 2, D. H. I. A. His mature

pure-bred Holstein cow on official test

and retested in the testing aSsociation

milked four times daily produced 102.5

pounds butter-fat and 2,847 pounds

milk. '



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February 23 on the application of the

dairy organizations for an investiga-

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cream in this country and in foreign

countries. The milk producers are

asking for a fifty per cent increase in

rates under the flexible provisions of

the tariff act of 1922. The increase is

aimed at the Canadian milk and cream

which are coming into our eastern

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row; and valves and 24 MW“? spi'inuu's. Also other

All T. R. trutvd. Also yearling and .2

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FINANCIAL KING JERSEYS

We hill? for sale a most excellent selection of bull

calves ranging in ages l'rtmi l mm. to one your old.



,‘Thi-se walrus arc sired by Financial liiiig Sensation

and Finaiil-ial Ford and out of llngislcr of Merit

Stock. Price." reasonable. COLDWATER JERSEY



. FARM. Goldwater. Mich.





bunt-lies.





l ('hoirc Jersey Bulls. grandsons of

! F O 1' S a I e S\h"l'.\ nullihml‘e of “'hitehall.

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heifers. These will pit-the the most careful buyers.

GOTFREDSON FARMS, Ypsilanti. Mich.

HOGS





t‘lmnlpllnl boar flit





sows and gills. bred to Junior .

Premier





State Fair. St‘l’lll't‘ boars and open gins.

breeder at Stali- Fair.





Lakefleld Farms Clerkston. Michigan





on SAI.l-Z~~D1iro~ Gills of type and quality. hired

to High Orion No. 2Ii5227. Also a row spring

hours at right. priv-cs. Shipped (‘. _O. D. on so—



pi‘m'al. E BARTLEY. Alina. Mich.

“rite for





fad-c. Hoe-s on time





t Originators and most extmmve breeders.

Box I96, Salem. Ohio





0. l. C. April & Mayg’igs





of breeding. Shipped on approvals FR VI.

KENNEDY & SONS. R. I. Chelsea. Mich.



7 Good last spring pigs. not akin



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

OTTO SCHULZE 8:. SONS. Nlohwlle. Mich.



‘ ' with quality. Hate a



CheSter Whlte GIIIS few Murr-h gilts bred. for



March furrow. Also fall pigs. Will .5011 cheap.



NEWMAN‘S STOCK FARM, Mm‘lette. Mich.





CHESTER WHITESQL‘, iii-ii mm 1......





sows of first

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Registered 0.I.C. Gills W“





for April and

MANN. Dansvillc. Mich.

Poland China. boars: of March





May far-row. H. W.

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EFO R SALE and April (arrow. Also some

uhoir-u hrml Hill‘s, due in t‘nrrow in March and April.

one imniuned for cholera. WESLEY NILE.





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L. T' P. C' GILTS April. Weighing Hi)

My 2:15 1'0”!le {l5 and 4!! dollars car-l1. prim up to

to Feb. 15. Szitislurtilm guaranteed. JAMES C.

JTAYLOR. Bcldinq. Mich. .





BIG Tyne Poland China Gilt: bred to son of Allen

tom's New Hope. lith yr. Prices reasonable. F.





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L. Miarr. BPl‘I‘len Center. Mich., R. l.



FOR SALE Poland China. Bred Giits and.

liilkinu Shortliorn hull calves.



CLAIR l. BROWN. Kalamazoo. Mich., R I



A FEW good Hampshire spring boars at a



' bargain. Place your order for bred



mite. JOHN W. SNYDER. St. Johns. Mlch.. R. 4.

SHEEP



2GB (‘hoir‘e extra large Dclaim owns. 91 yearling.





balance 2 and 3 yr. olds. Bl‘l'll. to registered Slirop.

rams. Must sell as we are ovarstm-kmi. D. L.

CHAPMAN &. SON. S. Rockwood, Mich.





SHROPSI‘IIRES mm: of 14 choice





lit-g. ewes bred

ported Butter Ram. Priced right. 0.





MAN &. SON. S. Rockwood, Mich.

A FEW lirl'd Karahul ewes for sale. the

right fur bearing kind. NGUB





HOME STOCK FARM. Davison. Mich.





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GRAIN QUOTATIONS.

Monday, January 30





Wheat.





Detroit—~No. 2 red at $1.441/2; No. 2

White $1.42; No. 2 mixed at $1.42.

Chicago — M a r c h $1.30%; M ay

$130175; July $1.273/g.

Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red at $1.441,é

@$1.451,é.

Corn.

Detroit—No. 2 yellow 970; No- 3

yellow 95c; No. 4 yellow 93c.

Chicago~March 88%c; May 9114c;

July 925/30.

Oats.

Detroit-No. 2 Michigan 610; No. 3

white 591,50.

Chicago—March 541,40; May 551/60;

July 51%c. -

Rye.

Detroit—No. 2 $1.17.

Chicago —— M a r c h $10914;

$10914; July $1.03%.

Toledo—$1.17.

Beans.





Detroit—Immediate and prompt

shipment $6.70 f. o. b. shipping points.



New York——Pea domestic at $6.50@

$7.00; red kidneys $7.75@8.25 to the

wholesalers.



Chicago.—Spot navy beans, Michigan

choice, hand-picked, in sacks at $6.45

@$6.50; dark red kidneys $7.75.





May





Barley.

Detroit—Malting 97c; feeding 940.

Seeds.



Detroit domestic seedsz—Cash clo-

ver $18.05; February $18.05; March

$18.00; cash alsike $16.25; February

$16.30; March $16.45; timothy at





$2.05; March $2.15.





Hay.



Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $13.00@

$14.00; standard $12.50@l3.50; No. 2

timothy $10.00@11.00; No. 1 light

clover, mixed $136014; No. 1 clover

$11.50@12.50; wheat and oat straw

$10.00@11.00; rye straw $11.00@12.00

alfalfa hay, No. 1 to choice at Chicago,

$24.00@26.00.



Feeds.





Detroit—Winter wheat bran at $40;

spring wheat bran at $39; standard

middling at $39; fancy middling. at

$43; cracked corn at $43; coarse corn

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

Poultry feeds with grit $49.00; With-

out grit $53.00 per ton.





WHEAT.





Demand for wheat has not been

equal to the large supplies available

in domestic and world markets and

prices have shown. a soft undertone

recently. The Liverpool market has

lost a little of the stability displayed

during the last two months. Buyers

appear confident that supplies will be

adequate right along and are purchas-

ing only from hand to mouth. The

domestic situation is featured by big

premiums for high protein wheat and

for soft red winter, but the demand for

ordinary grades is slow and stocks

are not diminishing rapidly enough to

indicate a cleanup by the end of the

crop year.



If conditions turn unfavorable for

the new crop, the liberal remaining

stock will not be burdensome but

prices are likely to work lower toward

the end of the crop year if there IS

a prospect of a generous new crop.

The southwest still is short of rain

and the lack of snow cover probably

is doing damage through the middle

west. Recent reports indicate some

injury to wheat in northern Europe.





RYE.





Export demand for rye has been

much less active than earlier in the

season, but the small visible supply

creates the possibility of extreme

scarcity before the end of the crop





yean

CORN





Corn prices weakened in the last

ten days under larger receipts and less

active demand, but export sales in-

creased on the break and the decline

promises to be brief. The advance of

10 to 15 cents in the world price level

since the latter part of 1927 tends to

slow down export demand and large

stock of Argentine corn still on ocean

passage enable foreigners to buy spar-

ingly for the time being, but they prob-

ably will need to buy a. substantial

quantity in the next three months.



Domestic demand from industries,

feeders, and dairymen continues rather





,active and in spite of liberal primary

7 receipts, stocks at terminals have not





increased since November I nearly as

rapidly as last year. About half or

the season for the winter movement is





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already gone and it is probable that

further increases in the visible sup-

ply will be moderate.





OATS.





Primary receipts of cats are con-

sideraby below seasonal volume, re-

flecting the small farm reserves. De—

mand has not been much in excess of

primary receipts, so that the visible

supply has been reduced only a little

over 1,000,000 bushels in the last five

weeks. However, it totals only 20,-

522,000 bushels, or approximately two-

thirds the quantity distributed from

the visible supply from late January





until early August in each of the last A





three seasons.





SEEDS.

Price changes in seed markets have

been mostly of small dimensions.





Spring demand from actual consum-

ers has not appeared in volume as yet.

Imports of red clover seed since the

first of the year have been large-r

than earlier in the season. The for-

eign surplus is small, however, and

no large quantity is expected from

abroad. Imports of alsike clover, on

the other hand, for the season to date

have been substantially larger than a

year previous. Alfalfa seed prices

have been firm recently. Dry weath-

er in the southwest has been unfavor—

able for the alfalfa acreage in that

territory. Imports of alfalfa seed thus

far have been smaller than last year

or two years ago.





FEEDS.





Prices for by—product feed continue

firm on a substantially higher level

than a year ago. Demand for these

feeds direct from consumers and from

manufacturers who are doing a good

mixed feed business is active. Flour

mills are operating at about the usual

rate at this season but there has been

no accumulation of bran or middlings.

Corn industries are sold well ahead

on gluten feed. Cottonseed meal and

oil meal supplies are moderate, owing

to the shrinkage in the cottonseed

crop. Only slightly over half as much

cottonseed cake and meal is expected

to become available for domestic





needs and for export during the rest

of the season as was produced during

the corresponding time last year.

Chicago—B ran, $33.00; standard

middlings, $33.00; hominy feed, $37.00;

gluten feed, $40.20; old process oil





meal, 34%, $51.00; tankage, 60%,

$65.00; cottonseed meal, 43%, $52.00.

BUTTER.





Butter prices have lost ground in

the last ten'days as the result of

liberal receipts and expectations of in-

creasing production, together with

substantial arrivals of foreign butter.

Since January 1, receipts of butter at

the four leading cities have been the

largest on record for the correspond-

ing period. Less butter has bee-n

moved out of storage in this interval

than last year when stocks were al-

ready. smaller than this year. About

20,000 boxes of New Zealand butter

arrived at New York a week ago and

added to the pressure caused by lib-

eral domestic supplies. While the sta-

tistical position of butter is weaker

than a year ago, the situation is part-

ly discounted by the fact that prices

are 2 to 3 cents lower than last year.

Also, the decline in recent weeks has

made foreign butter less attractive, so

that imports may be smaller from this

time on.



Prices on 92 score creamery were:

Chicago 451/20; New York, 47%0, De-

troit, 42@45c per lb.





EGGS.





Egg prices declined sharply in the

last few days as a result of increas-

ing receipts and reports of heavier

country collections. Arrivals at the

leading markets have increased about

60 per cent from the low point of the

season early in December. They have

been much smaller than at the corres-

ponding time a year ago, however, and

prices have held up unusual'ly well

until the current week.



Receipts of dressed poultry since

the first of the year have been about

the same as they were a year ago but

the additions to storage holdings of

frozen poultry have been smaller than





 





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Monday,





CHICAGO.





Hogs



Receipts 60,000. Market generally

10@15c higher; tops $8.50, numerous

sales, 170-210-lb. average, at that

price; bulk good and choice offerings,

170-200-lb. $8.35@8.50; 210-300—1b.

$8.20@8.45; 1 3 0 - 1 5 0-lb. $7.75@8.30;

most pigs $7.25@7.50; strong weights

up to $8.00 and better; bulk packing

sows $7.25@7.50; numerous sales on

light, $7.00@7.50.





Cattle



Receipts 19,000. Market early sales

best weighty steers and fat she stock

250 lower; little done; bid off more;

killing quality mostly medium to good

early top fed steers $16.00; bulk on

quality and condition to vealers $13.00

@1450; meaty feeders sharing fat

steer decline; light stockers scarce;

cutter cows and bulls slow, steady to

weak, vealers less; desirable quality

considered about steady, $7.25@7.50 to

big packers; sprinklings $14.00@14.50,

few $15.00 to outsiders.



Sheep and Lambs



Receipts 17,000. Market fat lambs

strong to 150 higher, active to trad-

ers and shippers; early bulk good to

choice 78—87-1b.<wool lambs $13.85@

$14.25, some. held higher; nothing done

on light run; heavy sheep strong; top

ewes $8.25; feeding and shearing

lambs 25c higher; 74-lb. lambs with

strong end, $14.00.





DETROIT





Cattle.

Receipts 689. Market steady.

Good to choice yearlings

dry-fed ............... $11.00@13.75

Best heavy steers, dry-fed 10.25@12.00





Handy weight butchers . . 9.00@11.00

Mixed steers and heifers . 9.00@10.00

Handy light butchers . . . . 7.50@ 9.50

Light butchers ...... . . . . 6 00@ 8.50

Best cows ..... 700@ 900

Butchers cows . . . . . . . . . . 6 00@ 7.00

Cutters loo-OQIOOOOOIIOOO 550@ 5.75

Canners ................ 4.75@ 5.25

Choice II ht b11115 e o o o e e e ' 6-00@ 9.00

Bologna ..,'.........» 7.00@ 3751(5)





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Feeders ............ 7.006) 9.50

Stockers ................ 7.00@ 8.50

Milkers and springers. . .$75.00@115.00



Calves.

Receipts 788. Market steady.



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

Others .................. 7.00@15.50





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 1,607. Market 250 higher.





Bulk good lambs ......... $ 13.00

Best lambs ............. 14.25

Fair lambs ............. 11.00@13.00

Light lambs ............ 8.00@10.50

Fair to good sheep ...... 6.00@ 7.50

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

Culls and common ...... 2.50@ 4.00

Hogs.



Receipts 2,137. Market 25@400

higher.

Pigs .................. . .$ 8.00

Mixed hogs ....... . . . . . . 8.75

Lights ................. . 8.25

Roughs .......... . ...... 6.75@ 6.90

Good Yorkers ....... . . . . 8 00@ 8 25

Stags ...... ’ ........... . 5 50@ 5.75

Extreme heavies ....... . 7.00@ 8.00



BUFFALO.





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Hogs

Receipts 11,000. Hold over, $1,074;

market 10@25c higher; pigs up more;

bulk 150-220—1b. $9.15@9.25; 240-300-

lb. $8.60@9.‘00; pigs $9.00@9.25; pack-

ing sows $7.00@7.75.

Cattle

Receipts 1,800. Market on vealers

and heifers steady to 250 lower; bet-

ter kind at decline; cows $7.00; bulls

steady to 250 up; good 1,050-1,225-lb.

steers $14.00@15.00; medium kind, all

weights, $10.50@13.00; heifers scarce;

vealers $9.75; cutter to medium cows

$6.00@8.00; bulls $7.00@9.00.

Calves

Receipts 13. Market steady: good

to choice vealers $17.50; 011118 and

common $10.00@13.00. ‘

Sheep and Lambs -

Receipts 10,000. Market 250 higher;

bulk good to choice lambs, 92-lb. av-

erage down, $14.50; 100-lb. up $12.00





13.00; culls and common 11.50@

£0900; yearling wethers 11.600





2.25; tat ewes $35,008.00. ,





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at that time. Usually, storage stocks-

reach their peak about this season of

the year and the market should

strengthen somewhat when these hold—

ings begin to diminish instead of in-





creasing.



Chicago—Eggs: fresh firsts, 380;

extras, 45@460; ordinary firsts, 35@.

360; dirties, 32@34c; checks, 3061']

320. Live poultry: Hens, 24c; cap-one,

28@3OC; springers, 27c; roosters, 200;:

ducks, 250; geese, 20c; turkeys, 28c.



Detroit—Eggs: Fresh receipts, _ best

quality, 41@411,éc; dirts and checks,

28@32c. Live poultry: Heavy spring-

ers, 24@25c; light springers, 30@320;

heavy hens, 280; light hens, 23c;

roosters, 16c; geese, 7 lbs. up, 20@'

21c; ducks, large, white, 30c; turkeys,

No. 1, 8 lbs. up, 35@38c.





HAY.





Country offerings of hay have de-

clined in the last few days. Demand

has. been moderate, but offerings, es-

peCJally of choice grades, have been

well taken and prices have held

steady. Alfalfa hay is selling to bet-

ter advantage than timothy or prairie;

owing to an active demand from dairy-

men and, from feeders in the middle

west and in the southeast.





GRAND RAPIDS





Potatoes 90c@$1 bu; onions $1 bu;

cabbage 50@600 bu; carrots 60@75c

bu; parsnips $1 bu; leaf lettuce 14@

150 lb; radishes 50@65c doz. bunches;

wheat $1.25 bu; rye 800 bu; buck-

wheat $1.50 cwt; beans $6.15 cwt;

pork, 9@llc lb; beef 6@180 lb; veal

15@17c lb; lamb 19@220 lb; chickens

16@250 lb; hens 15@24c lb; eggs 40

@430 doz; butter—fat, 47c lb.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Apples 800@$5.00 bu; bagas 500(5)!

$1.00 bu; beets 50@90c bu; cabbage

50@650 bu; curly cabbage 50c@$1.00

bu; red cabbage 75c bu; carrots 50@

75c bu; celery local 500@$1.00 doz.;

celery hearts 10@15c 1;é-doz b'chs.;

eggs, wholesale, white, 500 doz; brown

45@500 doz; retail 50@550 doz; dry

onions 75c@$1.25 bu; root parsley 75c

@$1.2.5 bu; curly 35@40c doz. bchs;

parsnips 500@$1.25 bu; pears 750@

$1.25 bu; potatoes 60c@$1.10 bu; poul-

try, hens, wholesale, 25@30c lb; re-

tail 30@32c lb; broilers, Wholesale leg-

horns 22@24c lb; rocks 26@30c lb;

retail 30@32c lb; ducks 26@300 lb;

geese 25@28c lb; dressed poultry, res

tail 30@35c 1b; ducks 35@400 lb;

horse radish $4.00@5.50 bu; Hubbard

squash $1.50@2.00 bu; turnips $1.25@

$2.00 bu; vegetable oysters 75c@$1.00

doz bchs; butter 60c lb; dressed hogs

14@160 lb.





POTATOES.





Potato markets have been rather

dull and price changes have been.

small. Occasional cold waves check

shipments and prices strengthen tem-

porarily, but the gains are hard to

sustain when the weather moderates

again. Northern round whites, U. S.

No. 1' are quoted at $1.45 to $1.55 in

the Chicago carlot market.





APPLES.





Apple prices have been steady with

midwestern Jonathans quoted at $8 to

$9 a barrel at Chicago and Washing-





ton extra fancy medium to large Wine- .





saps at $3.35 to $3.50 per box. High

grade apples in the Pacific Northwest

have shown strength recently and it

is expected that remaining supplies

will move at high prices.





BEANS.





Producers who have held their bean.

stocks have benefitted considerably

by the recent sharp advance in the

price of that commodity. On Decem—

ber 23, 1927, jobbers were bidding

country shippers $5.30 per cwt. for

choice hand picked Michigan beans for

prompt shipment. The present mar-

ket is $6.70 as compared to $4.80 one

year ago. The advance is generally

attributed to the excellent quality of

the last crop. Moisture has been ex-

ceedingly light thereby lessening the

poss1ble damage in storage. This fac-

tor has enabled farmers to retain their

stocks and there are indications that

good quantities are being held for a

better market.





CHEESE





Production of cheese as indicated by

receipts at Wisconsin primary markets





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COUNTY CROP REPORTS





Clare County—Plenty of hay here

but not much grain. Stock is just in

fair condition. Wheat brings $1.21,

rye $1.00, oats 55c, beans $5.50 cwt,

hay $6.00@8.00; butter 350, eggs 33c,





fowls 180. These are prices paid

farmers—J. M. W.

Newaygo C o u n t y—Farmers are





working for wages if they can to get

cash to pay taxes. Bare ground and

warm weather is helping feed ques-

tion. . Dairying and poultry at stand-

still. Red beans bring $5.75 per own,

cream 480, eggs 350, rye 85c, potatoes

Silo—S. A.



Sanilac County Farmers busy with

winter work. Dairy and poultry b1151-

ness going fine. Lots of roughage and

fair amount of grain on hand. Live

stock is in good condition. Not much

being sold. Hay brings $5.00@$6.00,.

oats 50c, beans $5.50, milk $2.50, eggs

350, potatoes $1.00.—B. ,



'Ottawa County—Few good cows for





 





THE MICHIGAN FARMER .1 .'





ply of roughage and grain rather light

except timothy. Silos need supple-

menting with hay because of shortage

of corn crop. Timothy brings ten dol-

lars in the barn, clover $14.00@15.00,





wheat $1.20, milk $2.65, eggs 38c, pota-I

. H.





toes $1.00—F. C



Oceana County—Farmers busy with

pruning and odd jobs. Great improve-

ment to look for in dairy and poultry

business. Plenty of roughage on

hand. Many farmers buying grain.

Stock is in fine condition. Rye brings

95c, wheat $1.15, White beans $4.00,

potatoes 600, apples $1.50, hay $12@

$15. butter-fat 520, poultry 180, eggs

380.~—J. E. S.





 





Reduce '01:: "Feeding (lasts





sng

Kane Syro Brand Feedlng Molasses





with your home-grown feeds and roughage. Shipments

in barrels from our large tank station.





Write a: fin aur present low price: on tarlaad: and Ian.

Imported and distributed by

NATIONAL “CLASSES CORPORATION





.





PET AND uvs srocx'





REGISTERED

100% increase guaranteed.

Agents wanted. Cleary Bros.

\szhington.





 





FOXIZS—Writc for ranching offer,

Booklet: terms. Breeder-

Empire Bldg. Seattle





 





BOYS. start your own business. Chinchilla Rabbits

are very profitable. unequalled for fur and table.

Pedigreed Chinchillas either sex. twenty dollars do-

livercd, trios. two does one buck. fifty dollars do-

livered cash with order. Money refunded. less ex-

press charges. immidiately if rabbits not satisfactory

when receiicd. Wm. Reed. Lapecr. Mich.





 





POLLIE PUPPIES. Exceptionally well—bred. carry-

ing the blood lines of America’s flnost cullics. Spo-

cinlly priced. C. M. Bcdinger. Berrien Springs. Mich.





 





RABBITS—Make Big Profits with (‘hinchilla Rabbits.

Real money makers. Write for facts. 892 Conrad’s

lunch. Denver. (‘olorado





MATTRESSES





MATTRESSES made any size. low factory prices.

Catalog free. Peoria Bedding Company, Peoria. 111.





 





 





 





FRUIT TREES AND NURSERY STOCK





 





LYMAN‘S GRIMM ALFALFA SEED. Buy direct

from the Introducer. All seed Scarificd, necessitating

less per acre. Lymau's Best 42c per lb. No. 2

Grimm. a lighter and finer seed. but which gives





 





sale' BOth dairy and poultry ShOW - - (\xcnllclllt result-4 23c per lb. while it. lasts. A.

signs 0f further deveIOpments' Sup- 207 Walnut Place Philadelphla. Pa. Lyman. Introducer, Excelsior, Minnesota.

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





 





Small advertisements bring best results under





consecutive insertions 7 cents a. word.

display type or illustrations admitted.





ohargo l0 word 5.





 





CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING





This classified advertising department is estfblisfliifg for the. convenience of Michigan

C 8.581

advertising miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange.

partment at classified rates. or in display columns at

Rate 9 cents a word. each insertion. on orders for less than four insertions: for four or more

(.‘ount. as a word each abbreviation.

Remittances must accompany order.

Live stack advertising has a separate department and il not accepted as classified.





farmers.

headings. Try it for want ads and for

Poultry advertising will be run in this do—

commervial rules.





initial or number. No





Minimum





 





 





 





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All advertin‘ng my},

dilcantimmncr order-I.





25 ........ 2: .

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traded for the Cla.r.rifled Department mm! reach this oflcr ten





 





FARM T0 RENT to a. reliable party with own help.

127 acre dairy farm near Ann Arbor. 14 cows. 1 bull

furnished. Milk goes to Ann Arbor. Rent farm on

50-50 basis. Apply to Chas. MoCallan. R. 6, Ann

Arbor. Mich. References exchanged.





 





FOR RENTMNinety—five acre farm in Jackson (lo.

Large dairy barn. silo. water system. etc. Will rent

for cash or will share receipts. Address F. J.

Fuller. 4883 Spokane Ave... Detroit. Mich.





 





 





MSCELLANEOUS





 





FREE DOG BOOK. Polk Miller's famous (10;; book

on diseases of dogs. Instructions on l‘echng, care.

and breeding with symptom chart. 48 pages. Illus-

trated. Write for free copy. Polk Miller Products

Porn. 1022 W. Broad St. Richmond. Vil.‘





 





ATTENTION LODGES.

double folding chairs.





CHURCHES—I have 150

a full line. of dishes and





In large or small lots direct

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

peers. cherries. grapes. nuts. berries. pecans. vines:

ornamental trees. vines and, shrubs. Free catalog in

colors. Tennessee Nursery 00.. Box 125, Cleveland.

Tenn





87.50 per 100 and up.





SEEDS





 





WOLVERINE OATS absolutely pure. color and ger-

mination perfect. Very heavy. One dollar bushel.

bags free. Freight prepaid. Michigan. on over twenty

bushel orders received before March. (‘hecks cashed

early March when soed shipped. Satisfaction guar-

anteed. A. B. Cook. Owosso. Mich.





REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED SEED (‘ORN~—

("loment's white cap yellow dent. I’icketts yellow dent

and Michigan yellow dent (a. very early dcnt). (‘cr—

titlcll worthy oats. 2—1'ow barley and sweet. clover

seed. Dept. A, Paul C. Element. Britton. Michigan.





 





Improved

Improved

Cook.





SCIENCE AND PRACTICE demonstrate

American Banner wheat. Wolverine oats.

Robust beans best for Michigan. A.

Owosso. Mich. .





 





SWEET CLOVER SEED, white blossom. grown north-

ern Michigan. Reclcaned, scarilied. Sealed bags.

Delivered your station $0.00 bushel. Thos. Buell,

Elmira. Mich.





SWEET CLOVER. bushel $5.40. alfalfa $15.00. seed

corn $3.50. Write for price list. Felton Seed (30..

Sioux City. Iowa. .





 





 





 





4...: in advance of publication date. _ . - spun CORN—Pride of the North. 90 day Yellow

inlgtfoggfitzblgiw'Alzznllglittulgzv 333:; {03.13.}; at from disease free. seed tests nearly 100%. Marion

REAL ESTATE Robinson. Phone 7. Plymouth. Mich. Day, Gem'gem‘m 01““

BUY UPPER WISCONSIN FARM LAND ”Us wuv BIA‘IIF our B II when your cow does not TOBACCO

“3-5“- This Cloverland district offers yguvflnetsoglevs- breed? Ilse (low Gate i‘IIOUI‘ before service. Re- -

the best for (immune—“bad?!" 9”“- r-‘c’ ‘1" ma ' suits or your money back: 85 cents for one cow. HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Ripe, mlaranlfifl. Chewing





root crops. Never had a crop failure. (‘lover grows





wild. Plenty sunshine, and rain. Numerous lakes

and rivers. Excellent: drainage. Plenty hunting.

fishing. and trapping. Good roads. High Schools.

rural Schools. churches. cream routes. telephones.

Only a. few hours to largest markets m United

States. 40 or 80 acre tracts from $12 to $30 per

acre. Lakelands priced a little higher. Small down

mtyment-10 years on balance. Over (300 families

here now. We show you how to start. Write for





booklet "Happy Homes and Farms that Pay in

Happy Land”—~it shows Dictul‘PS-seftlers'letters-11nd

tells you everything. Edward Hines Farm Land (70.,

Room 2152, 100 W. Monroe St.. Chicago. Ill.





FRUIT GROWING in the Ozark region of Southem

Missouri and Northern Arkansas has a big adiantage

in having soil and climate ideally adapted to fruit

llld berry culture. The-gentle slopes of the Ozarks

with its fine grained clay soil. abundant rainfall. mild

winters. early Springs. make the Ozarks ideal for the

fruit grower. The nearby cities of St. Louis. l\ansas

City. and Memphis provide great markets. The health-

ful climate. pure mountain spring water..tlie fine

spirit of ctr-operation. prosperous and growmg com-

munities. good schools. and hard surfaced roads make

a delightful home-land. Land can still be bought at.





$2.90 for live cows. pestpaid. Woodstock Farm.

Reuton. Route 2, Box 490. Washington.





 





125 GOOD WHITE ENV’ELOPES and 125 full size

unruled Letter Heads all neatly printed and Dire-

paid. one dollar. Money back if wanted. Othen‘

good printing at. low prices. Addl'()>s. The Braytons.

Freeport. Michigan.





 





A FEW “SUCCESSFUL“ DEMONSTRATOR INCU-

RATORS for quick sale at great reduction. 60 to 300

eggs capacity. Good as new. Des Moines Incubator

(70.. Box 734. Des Moines, Iowa.





 





WINDOW CURTAINS-Genuine linen net. Very

new. durable. artistic. Will harmonize with any

color scheme. $2.05 per pair. Postage prepaid.

L. M.~Adix. 2879 Buckinmiam. Berkley. Mich.





OUR 1928 (‘ATALOG just. from press. 84 pages

showing Largest Line of Poultry Supplies in the

World. (Oier 300 items.) Write today for your

(‘Olly Free. Brower Mfg. Co.. (3-27. Quincy, Ill.





 





BIG BARGAIN—Semi $2. receive postpaid 100 double





reasonable prices that will insure good profits on she . ' ‘ ‘



' ' . ve e— - “lb and 1”“ Pull-loves. IIJJIIIIII‘I‘IIIIII Bond. oath

”iii" Siiiil§°¥$§sinoi‘émiissm’ilh$133.5??? sis. minted .WHh name- route: Dost 9m... address- J- W-

Elsi; Building Si LOUIS, Missouri. ' Barr l’rlnting (30.. Charlotte. 31101].





 





IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY of (‘alifornia

general farming is a. paying business. feeding millions

of people in towns and cities. Alfalfa combined With

dairying. hogs. and poultry. yields a. good income. .A

small one‘fumily farm, with little hired labor. in-

Sures success. You can work outdoors all the year.

Newcomers welcome. Tile Santa Fe Railway has no

land to sell. but offers a free service in helping you

get right location. Write for illustrated San Joaquin

Valley folder and get our farm pnpcr~"'l‘he Earth"

free for six months. 0. L. Seagraves. General (‘olon-

ization Agent. Santa Fe Railway. 912 Railway Ex—

change. Chicago.





RIVERSIDE FARM—Good Bldgs.. 3 Horses. 18

tattle. (Tops. 100 hens. hogs. implements. vehicles.

hay. grain. vegetables included: 98 acres along beau-

tiful river: easily worked soil. 50 acres tillable. esti-

mated 1,000 cords wood. apple orchard, other fruit;

21;. miles RR town. cream collected. good 8~room

Infuse. water piped to kitchen. pretty riu-r view;

main barn. horse bnrn. other bldgs.: everything sacri—

ficed at $4.800. only part cash. Details pg. 117 big

illus. catalog. Frcc. Strout Agency. 1105-130 lxresge

Kilian. Detroit. Mich.





AN OPPORTUNITY RARELY OFFERED -—fo secure

improved farm homes. 80 acres up. direct from owner.

lo profits. no commission: in famed daily section

Wisconsin: Bread and butter State Minnesota: Rich

prairie soil North Dakota; fertile lands near best.

markets in Michigan. $200 to $1,000 cash. Balance

30 years at 5%. Write today. Federal Land Bank.

St. Paul. Minn. Dept. 33.





 





STANISLAUS COUNTY. California—where farmers

are prosperous. (irons growing all year round. Land





wit-ed low. Write. free booklet. Dept. 0. Stanislaus

County Development Board (County Chamber of

Commerce) . Modesto. California.





 





110—A(‘RE dairy and potato farm for sale on III-44,

Silo. Glenn Gould. Admst.. Ionia,

Mich.





BIO-ACRE FARM FOR SALE in good shape. Owner.

Box 107. Almont. Mich.





WANTED FARMS





WANTED—To hear. from owner of farm or unim-

proved land .for sale. 0. Howley. Baldwin. Win.





 





FARMS FOR RENT





 





'Rifl'l‘e-‘Fam large or small. Amos Klmmel.

'm:‘ “1911. --' . 1 .





. . .





 





» ’ . ‘I.

. . .gg-‘l, $1.33?! .





 





 





VIRGIN WOOL YARN for sale by manufacturer at

bargain. Samples free. . A Bartlett. Harmony.

Maine.





 





S'I'EVVAR’l‘e‘VARNICR ALL—ELINTRH‘. R A D I O S.





 





 





\Vrito for free demonstration in your own home.

Ii. .1. McMilllen. 8'111 (‘oll':ix. Detroit.



PURE HONEY ‘Five ll). pail $1 postpaid. Homer

Blizzard. Fontml. Mich.



QUILT PIECES. Lovely pcrcales. ginghums. :1 lbs.

$1.00. Mrs. George Morgan. Vicksburg. Mich.





 





 





W ANTED





 





$4.50. Smoking 5 lbs..

Farmers Union. May-





5 lbs. $1.50: 10, $2.50; 20.

$1.25; 10. $2.00; 20. $3.50.

fleld. KY-





GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing. 5





 





pounds, 51.25: 10. $2. Smoking. 10. $1.50. Pipe

Free! Pay postman. United Farmers. Bardwell.

Kentucky.





 





LEAF TOBA(‘(‘.0, good sweet chewing. 5 lbs. $1.25:





 





19.530"; smoking. 5 lbs. 90c; 10. $1.50. United

Farmers. Muylield. Ky.



IIOMESI’UN TOBA(‘('0: ("hcwing 5 lbs. $1. Smok-

ing 5 lbs. 75c. Pay when received. l’ipe free.





Farmers Union. A5. Paducab. Ky.





 





 





POULTRY





PURE-BRET) Mammoth “'hite Pekin Ducklings from

carefully selected matings. Expcrtly batched in our





 





own hatchery from all white eggs. 100% delivery

guaranteed. $30.00 per hundred delivered. 20% with

order. Place now. Midwest Duckery. Springfield.

Ohio. Box 477E.



\VHI'I'I‘AKER'S MICHIGAN CERTIFIED REDS

Both Combs. 0. P. Trapnested. Michigan’s





Cockarels, chicks. eggs.

Box 9. Lawrence.





greatest color and'egg strain.

(‘atalog free. Interlakes Farm.

Mich.





 





BARRED ROCK COCKERELS. Start the new sea-

son right with one of our well-deneloped exhibition

quality ('ncke'rels with dark. even. narrow barring.

$5 t‘flf'll. 2 for $9. 3 for $12. Ingleside Farm, H. E.

Powell & Son, Ionia. Mich.





 





ROSE (‘OMB RIIODE ISLAND REDSe—Hogan tested

8 years for high egg production. Tompkins strain.

I‘ockerels $3 to $5. Satisfaction guaranteed. Don

Bevan. Kankakce. lll.





 





8 VARIETIES Record of Performance Male. Malings.

Breeding coekerels. pullets. and chicks. Free. catalog

giving big early order discounts. Beckman Hatchery,

Box 57. Grand Rapids. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





I'll train you in a. few weeks so you can earn

$35.00 to $75.00 a. week to start. Qualify as an ex-

pert. and make $100 to $200 a week or operate your

own garage or service station. No books—no printed

lessons. Work with real tools and real equipment.

Age no barrier. Little schooling needed. Write today

for big free auto book and remarkable tuition offer.

which includes board and railroad fare to Cincin—

nati or Cleveland. Investigate: this is the oppor-

tunity of a. lifetime. Write today-a postal will do.





 





 





 





McSwecney Auto Schools. 31-135. McSweeney Build-

ing; Cincinnati. Ohio or Cleveland. Ohio.



FARM MACHINERY

IIUIIEMER—SA'I'I‘LEY IMPLEMENTS: Plows. Disc.





lever. tandem and tractor narrows.

separator. cultivator, rotary hoe. etc.

logue. Seth S. Bean. Jackson. Mich.





Spreaders. cream

rAsk for cute.-





 





FORDSON (‘LU’I‘f‘H THROW-OUT LEVER. $1.50

Bgmflid. J. A. Weaver. See... Kutler Mfg. (30.. Bryan.

110.





FOR SAI.I‘}'~Pel'f0('l‘.10n Double unit milking machine:

11





latest type. teat cups. all new tubing. Geo.

Summer. Ashley. Mich.





 





 





 





\VANTED—(‘omb Honey in large quantities. Joseph -

j ' '5 r . ' I . ~ '. S. (‘. BROWN ANT) WHITE LEGHORNS. 332 egg.

\Iilnainh. .4 Last (harlotte, Etorse. Mull. “mung. Harlen Fulton. Gallipolis. Ohio. .

EXCHANGE STOCK. EGGS. (‘IIIX. All varieties chickens. dUcks,

. geese. turkeys._ guineas. bantams. Arthur .Ialvis.

SUMMER RESOR" TOWN. property. will exchange \\ meland. Indiana.

for farm property in Southern Michigan. Address .

Owner. Box 1.94, Mi'hl n 1‘ rm _ -. (‘()1‘I\’ERELS, Holterman strain of Barred Plymouth

) ( ma ‘3 a" Detrmt Rocks. strong. healthy birds. $4. two for $7. Mrs.

Glenn Arnold. Surunuc. Mich.

EDUCATIONAL

. LARGE '1‘OUI.OUSE GEESB from 30 pound stock,

BIG PAY JOBS open in auto and tractor work. gandm‘s $8. hens $0. Satisfaction guaranteed. Don





Bevan, Knukakeo. Ill.





MALLARD DUI‘KS. trio $5. singles $2. M. R.

Hodgdnn. Binningimm. Mich.





 





BABY CHICKS



INSUIIE YOUR SUI‘I‘ICSS. buy Ascltine Barred

Ito-ks or White 1.!‘Q‘IIUI‘DS. l’cdigreed males from

Dani’s laying over 200 eggs head our flm'ks. Blood

tested the consecutive years. Trapnesting 400 pul-

lets under Record of Perfomlanco supervision. Rea.-

sonable prices for this quality. Write for cin-ular or

visit our fam. Aseltine Poultry Farm, (‘fomstock

Park. Mich.





 





 





\VHITE LEGHORN CHICKS from big white eggs.

snipped anywhere c.. o. d Guaranteed to live. Low

prepaid prices. Trapnested. pedigreed foundation

ntoek. Eur contest records to 314 eggs. Hundreds of

f'Of'kOl‘ClS. pullots. hens. Bargain prices. Big 28th

nnniml catalog free. George B. Ferris. 934 Union,

lrund Rapidu. Michigan.





BABY (IIIICKSM-ROORS.

week beginning Feb. 13.





Reds. and chhoi'ns. Each

All stack bloodtested and





Mlchim Accredited. Pierce Hatchery. Jerome. Mich.





 





filars.





39 ~163-





TOWNLINE CHICKS. 88125. breeding stock in four

leadina varieties have made a record of mm per-

formnnce for thousands of poultrymen that. points the

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

1928 Catalog . Tells how to raise chicks and Why

our egg blood lines make profits easy. Copy free.

Towinline Poultry Farm. Route 1. Box 197. ‘Zeeland.

. Iie ligan.





 





NOW IS THE TIME to find out. about quality—

plus baby chicks. They are (fort-O-Culd Pure-bred

Chicks. Read what prominent poultry men and satis-

flcd customers say about our quality ,and pricm.

Illustrated catalog free. “Tito at once. VVindluill

Pointe Hatchery; 1318 Alter Road. Detroit.





 





BABY CHII'KSAYou can buy your early hatched

Michigan Accredited chicks right here at home.

First hatch January 15. Also booking order: m

for spring delivery at special discount. Send {or

catalog and prices. Rmmmer-Frcdrickson Poultry

Farm. Box 28. Holland. Michigan.





 





BARRED ROCK ('HII‘KS and

Record at Michigan lntelnutionul





Hatching Eggs.

Egg Laying Com





test: winners heavy broods 1927. Highest. Barred

Rock. pen from Michigan past three years and to

date in present. contest. F. E. Ii‘ogle. Okemos. Mich-

1gan.





 





A(‘.(‘REDI’I‘ED “‘III’I‘E LEGIIORN (‘III("I\'S. Holly—

Wood strain. (.‘Ulllcvt pullers now average. 25 ounce

eggs per dozen. 102V. contest pen averaged 239 eggs

each. Customer's profit. $3.00 per bird. Also An-

conns. Roeks. (‘ntaloguo Wyngardcu Hatchery. Box:

14, Zeclulid. Mich. ..





 





HICLM'S S'I‘A'l‘I-l AFFIUIZDI'I‘I‘ID (‘Illf‘KS——(‘lllled for

heavy winter lining. Barred Roeks. lit-(ls. $13: Leg-

horns. Anconas. Ill-aw Assorted. $11: Assorted $8.75.

{Wee "l’oultry Lessons." Illinois Hatchery. Metropo-

is.





 





MR‘H. (‘E'RTIFII'ID S. 1". W. Leghorn ("hit-ks. Why

not... lake an additional income: this year with Gibbs‘

Wither-Lay Strain Leghorns. All Approved R. 0. P

malos. Our new catalog will tell you all about them.

Gibbs Winter-Lay llutcliery. Bronson. Mil-11.. Box B.





 





BARREI) ROCK ("‘Hlf‘It's-”Incubators now running.

Order chicks early. (‘ard's chicks are better chicks.

('hicks. eggs, and breeding sleek. Flock under State

and Federal supelvision. Leo. V. Card. Hillsdale.

Mich. l’hone (‘umbria 4109. .





 





BARRED ROCK (‘HIf‘KS soon grow into high price





Broilers. ()ur new booklet on chick brooding will

tell you how to rniro them. Free, for the asking.

(‘hapman I’oultry Farm. Box 265. I’Iainwell. Mich-





igan.





 





RARY ("IIIITKSrJi‘rom our extra large type, Eng. W'.

1mg. Heavy producers. Get our circular before

ordering elsewhere. Prices low. only $107.50 per

1.000. Avl chicks. Model Poultry Farm. Zeoland,

ll. 4. Michigan.





 





llllOlLlClt (‘IIIf‘KS»~Why have empty brooder houses?

Make a profit on l'inccroft, broilers. Accredited and.

blood—tested. Incubator now running. l’inecroft

l'olultry Farm, R. 0, Owosso. Mich. Write for cir—

cu lll‘.





RI-j’l'l‘lill BABY (‘HH‘KS from State Fair winners.





 





production class. Eighty per cent of our chicks go

to old customers. Elcien breeds. Booking orders.

lnvilng prices. Write. Litchfleld Hatchery. Litchfield.

. ici. '

MICHIGAN ACCREDITED CHICKS. Barred Roeks.

R. I. eds. Strong. husky chicks. Bred—today

strains. Special February-March prices $14.00 per

100. Order now. Howe's Accredited Hatchery.





Essexville. Mich.





 





BABY (‘HIOKS AND EGGS Superior Binglet. Barred

Rocks. Rose (‘omb Reds. Tam-red and English “'hite





 





Leghorns. Catalogue. Wyndham’s Ideal Poultry

Yards. Tiffin. Ohio.

LOOK! 100.000 chicks 9c up. 20 varieties. Usmg





many 200 to 312

Send for free

counts.





egg record bred ROP cockerels.

catalog giving big early order dis-

].awrcnce Hatchery. Grand Rapids. Mich.





 





BABY (‘IIIOKS and eggs for hatching from bred to

l\t}yhBufl' chhorns. llillcrcst Poultry Farm. Bath.

. lt' .





 





TURKEYS





WHITE HOLLAND TURKEY'S and White Pekin

Ducks. pure-bred healthy stock. Addressed stamped

Kni‘eilopc for reply. Alden Whiteomb. Byron Center.

. lt‘l.





 





 





EDGI‘JVVOOD GIANT BRONZI‘I»-Large hardy Northern





 





 





 





turkeys. _Sire winner at International. son of 102;

All-Amcncan grand champion. Mrs. Edgar Case.

Benzonia, Mich.



TURKEY‘S. all breeds. Strictly pure—bred. Unrw

lured pairs and (nos. reasonable prices. Eastern

Ohio I’oultry Farm. Beallsrille. Ohio.



MAMMOTH Bronze Turkeys. May hatched. Very

good ones. Mrs. Eugene llamstlell. Hanover. Mich.

l’URE-RRED ROURRON RED TURKEYS. Maurice





A. Rector. llm-kf‘ord. Mich.





I’URE-BRED NARRAGANSE'I‘T TURKEYS. not

many left. Ernest clement. lonia. Mich.





IfIIlllLBIil-ID BOURBON RED TURKEYS. large and

vigorous. Archie Ives. lloekford. Mich.





 





 





BOURBON RED 'I‘URKI‘IYS. Axtell strain. Chas.

Really. Milford. Elli-ll.

BRONZE TURKEYS and VVllite. Guineas. liIrs. M.





B. Noble. Saline. Mich.





runs—12mm BRONZE TURKEYS. 10 and .12

M. Love. Bloomingdale. Mich. 3 V3 '





AGENTS WANTED

NEW HOUSEHOLD DEVICE washes—dries windows.





 





 





WE START YOU \VITHOUT A DOLLAR.

extracts. perfumes. toilet goods. Experience unneces~

sary. Carnation (70.. 530. St. Louis, Mo.





 





.WE PAY $100 MONTHLY salary and expenses to

Introduce guaranteed poultry and

Bigler (‘o., .I-l23. Springfield. Ill.





FARMER REPRESENTATIVES WANTED to sell

manure Spreaders. pulverizers and wheat drills.

Write for particulars to Box 287. Liberty. Indiana.





HELP WANTED





MILK ROUTE SALESMAN WANTED—$200.00 cash

bond required. Steady employment, good, wages and.

chance for advancement. Write for further partie-

Free'man Dairy Company. Flint. Mich.





 





 





DRIVER SALESMAN—ozs to 35 mm m. nun-ma.-

nent unploymmt: future. Write 8 int.-

Mich.





SITUATIONS WANTED





MARRIED MAN. 30 years old.

position on farm. dairy.

references. Addresa

Detroit.





Why-.m-

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