‘3 --——.—-. Vol. CLXX No. 7 DETROIT,[MICH., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1928 Whole No. 4800 HE upper picture is from the top of Bald Knob, a famous sand dune near Sauga— tuck and Douglas. A fine View of the twin towns and of the Kala— mazoo River is the re- ward of a rather stren- uous climb. Near trunk line U. S. 31. Sugar Loaf, on Mack- inaw Island, is said to be a large meteor and is, therefore, of scienti- fic as well as scenic interest. It rises ninety feet in the very heart of the forest in the cen- ter of the Island. 210--2 _.i-';-5g 5-4:“ -- ass-re: *g [ix 43 w _..':!! .. e form my money ” The properly fenced farm requires less labor to operate and invari- ably makes more profit. The grain always wasted, due to the lack of fences, will pay for a good fence in a couple of years and add to the profits every year thereafter. The key to successful crop and stock rotation is fences—line fences, cross fences, temporary—- good fencing erected on RED TOP posts because RED TOPS will insure more years of sturdy service from the fence. RED TOPS are made of tough, springy long-lived steel—a qual- ity that makes them drive so easily through hardest soil—a ‘Go Now and see RED TOP STEEL POST. COMPANY .1 v; I‘ (a. . that fenced into small fields - farm Wll 1 make more i FOLLOWING the new profitable system of farming means banking money which was formerly lost because it was a hidden waste. Profitable farming is diversified farming—-crop and stock rotation. It builds up soil fer- tility, cuts the fertilizer bill, produces bigger and better props and increases the sale value of the farm. quality that makes them last so many years in the fence line. One man with a RED TOP Driver can drive more RED TOPS in one day than he can set wood posts in a week. RED TOPS combine permanence with econ- omy in boundary and cross fences, give the farm that Well kept look, brand its owner as progressive and successful. They permit closer cultivation to the fence line, har- bor no destructive insects and afford live stock protection from lightning. RED TOPS can be so driven as to be easily withdrawn and redriven, making them par- ticularly adapted for temporary fence support. —RedTop GUARANTEED Steel Fence Poets you'rRED TOP Dealer Let him explain how good fences save enough waste on the farm to pay for themselves, also how a well planned fence system will increase yearly profits. He knows. That’s why he is a RED TOP distributor. Ask his advice. ‘ 38-L South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois Better work--- better service directto you at agmis‘ prices. Turning horse and cow hides. 83.50 to $5.50. Ship where thou- sand: of others are shipping and save 25%. Write (or prices. Badger Robe and Tsnnlno 60.. Steven: Point Win. urine in; _ w a IT E g . 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Two of the houses of the Church of England, the house of bishops, and the house of the clergy have approved the rex'lsed new prayer book, but the house of the laity still has it under consideration. The Retail Clothiers and Furnishers of Illinois in a. meeting at Chicago agreed that college boys set the styles for men and therefore garters are passe but suspenders are coming back in style. _ The shortage of fish in Lake Erie 15.3131111ng the U. S. Bureau of Fish- eries. An investigation of the cause of’ small catches is being started. Col. Wm. Mitchell, Eddie Ricken- backer, and other nationally known people in aviation have started a cam- paign for the opening of a national school of aeronautics. It is reported that rebel activities in Mexico are spreading and that there is considerable looting of Villages. Gov. Fred. Green at an Owosso ban— quet said that tourists spend $70,000.- 000 annually and that 5,000,000 tourists register each year at state parks. The Mexican federal troops are bombing rebels from airplanes. A blockade has been formed around the states of Jalisco, Michoacan, Aqua- scalienes, and Colima. The United States and France signed a new peace treaty on the 150th anniversary of the first treaty of alliance signed by two countries. Major crimes, including murder, in Detroit declined 27.82% in 1927 as compared tothe average of the four proceeding years. Over seventeen hundred freshmen in the Wisconsin University are pro- hibited from returning to school be- cause they lack the ability to main- tain the standard of. scholarship nec- essary to a good student. Eighteen beautiful boat models were found in the famous tomb of Tut- ankhamen. According .to an ancient Egyptian belief the boats were to take the deceased to the sun. Gov. Green proposed that the State University and College ban students that are lax in their studies, in order to make more efficient use of public funds provided these institutions. A recent television experiment en- abled watchers in America to see a man and a woman move about in Lon- don, England. Detroit’s auto death rate is 29.1 per 100,000. Camden, N. J., has the high- est rate, 46 per 100,000. The lifting of the embargo on Amer- ican loans to France and investment in her securities has made a great rush for American money by French business men. It is said that France can absorb $100,000,000 of American money. Radiophone linked the meetings of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the British Institution of Electrical Engineers which met at the same time. Speeches at both meet— ings were heard at both places. The attempt of the federal labor department to bar foreigners, other than Canadians, from coming across the border to work here has been un- successful. A regular passenger and mail air line will be established between Eng- land and the United States in spring, according to Secretary Hoover. It will be a line of dirigible planes. The churches have recommended that the Anti-Saloon League keep the money S. S. Kresge gave to fight the wets even though he has been found guilty of moral indiscretion by the courts. Sandino, the Nicaraguan rebel, has been located by the U. S. Marines in the Matagalpa district.- Col. Lindbergh was Wildly received at Havana where he arrived ahead of time. He made a. five minute speech, one of unusual length for him. Fires are raging in the forests of California in the vicinity of Glendale. Falling high power lines are said to be the cause of the fires. The Alpha Gamma, Sorority House at Michigan State College, which re- cently burned, will be rebuilt for oc- cupancy-in four months. . ”it wan»...— .— a..- - “raw DEVOTED TO , MICHIGAN VOLUME CLXX PUBLISH fl ”V klwgéiwggf A Practical Journal for the Rural Family MICHIGAN SECTION THE CAPPER FARM PRESS QUALITY RELIABILITY SERVICE NUMBER VII he Value of Club WOrk HE object of club work should be to help make rural life more attractive and prosperous by en- couraging the young people to work out practical problems. If club work continues for several years, its effects will be to enlarge the outlook of the club member, improve the Quality of animals and develop leadership among the younger boys and girls of the community. This is a big program for a leader who, to a large extent, deter- mines the success or failure of an undertaking of this kind. The pro- ject year will be divided into three separate divisions, namely: financing and obtaining stock, growing period, and exhibiting. Usually the banks of a community are glad to help in the financing. Our plan in Tuscola County is to have the boy or girl sign a note, the length of time depending on whether he gets a pig or a calf. Our aim is to have the note run until the animal is in a position to return something on the investment. The boys and girls in the pig club usually sell a pig or two from the first litter and the boys and girls with calves usually sell the milk - from their heifers until the note is paid. No amount of care in the selection of feeds fed and no amount of skill in fitting and showing can success- fully overcome the handicap of having an ordinary or inferior pig or calf to start with. Since each animal en- tered in the first year project will be a candidate for second year work, there is a double reason why this . selection must be given much care. Our plan is to select animals from a production and type standpoint, and an animal not showiag some of both of these qualities is not considered for club work. Production is very important espe- cially with calves, for in most cases By Willis these animals are foundation builders. Most Of the animals in our section have gone into herds where they were the only pure-breds. Here was a splendid chance for a comparison and a very critical one in some cases, with the pure-bred usually winning out. Mr. Eldon Bruce, cow tester for Tuscola No. 1 has this to say about club work, “I have found that club heifers have left a lasting impression To Me [fit/lvidlfld/ and to Me Community Campbell a beef animal in mind in placing‘the blue ribbon where he did. The ani- mal in question was a little coarse over the shoulder but otherwise was a splendid type of dairy animal with a straight rump and plenty of middle for a heifer. Since freshening, she has given as high at fifty-one pounds of 3.5 milk in a day. From the local fair, she went to Caro and then to Bay City the following week where A Calf Club Drawing at Cass City different judges placed her first and in localities where they have been placed. In every case, they are among the leaders of the herds they go into.” An incident worth relating hap- pened at the Cass City Fair in 1924. The club heifers were about to be judged and a large group of farmers were on hand to witness it. Mr. Pear- son, the assistant state club leader, placed the awards and did a splendid job of it. After the judging, someone in the crowd spoke up and said that he thought the judge must have had Junior Champion. At Detroit in club work she was grand champion female, and in the open class fourth in. com- petition With the leading herds of the country. In 1925 she again was grand champion female in club work and placed fifth as a two-year—old in milk at Detroit. The heifer that was too beefy to be a good dairy cow had done the unexpected and has made to date about one hundred dollars for her proud owner besides giving a good quantity of milk for a two year old. As a general rule, pigs are overfed and cattle underfed. Our best gilt at Detroit last fall gained at the rate of one and thirty-two hundredths pounds- per day for ninety days while a litter mate starting at the same weight but fed a heavier ration was not good enough to take farther than the local fair. She was in the last five pigs in a class of twelve and had gained at the rate of one and seven-tenths pounds per day. One of the noted Chester White breeders of the present. day had this to say about gains, “Tell me what the pig weighs at-three months old and I will tell you whether she has a chance in the show ring.” Judges last fall were very partial to gilts that were in just good growing condition. There is less danger of the hog going off its feet and a much better chance to develop a good frame- work in gilts of this type. I have found it hard to convince the boys and girls starting out in club work with a calf, that they must feed a. variety of feeds. After they have been in competition With animals that have had the feeds necessary to get a maximum growth, little trouble from this source is noticeable. And right here is one of the big benefits of the club work project. Club mem- bers know what the prize winning calf was fed on and how it was handled. They know what constitutes good con- formation and where their calf is lacking. This was very evident at our drawing for calves last. spring when most of the second year boys picked a straight thin heifer as their choice cf the ten heifers that were distri- buted. The average boy or girl would have easily placed her last in the class for she was anything but attrac- tive in her thin condition. We find that best results come from (Continued on page 241) America’s First Master Farmer Wasflz'ngton Undouéted/y Would Qua/ifi/ For T flat By I. J. .Mathews EORGE WASHINGTON was a great president, but only a few of our citizens have been thus distinguished, hence the worship of Washington as a great statesman has a. very limited application. Washing- ton was a great general, but only war . or saber clank gives occasion for the worship of his great military genius and Washington himself counselled always against anyibut defensive war. Washington was a master farmer— and in all his greatness, his excel- lence as a farmer gave a dignified , background to his other sterling qual- ities. The hero worship of such a farmer as Washington was, can be- come a guid ’and inspiration to hun- dreds of th sands of farm folks in this great ountry.. So we farmers may point With justifiable pride to ._George Washington, the farmer, the - one who exemplified the fact that a . good tamer can also be a keen schol. crouched gentleman. “humanize” Washington, by smearing slime on his character and attributing ulterior motives to some of his deeds. To my mind, they are as far from the truth as his earlier biographers whose pages were filled with adulation and the superlatives of praise. So even for the purposes of this brief sketch, I did not content myself with the works of his biographers, but went back to copies of many original manu- scripts and waded through some vol- umes of his diaries, rather marked for their Saharaness. What a man writes in his diary may be depended upon to represent him as he really is. What he puts into a, public document may be him, but more often his soul is strait- jacketed for the occasion. Almost to a man, Washington’ 5 biographers have played up his military and ad- . minietmtive genius and repressed his most absorbing interests—farming. » One cannot read Washington’s diaries without knowing that he lived on a high plane of lofty thought and ideals. And his biographers who at- tempt to make him appear any less do so to gratify a popular to familiar- ly slap a great man on the back and call him by his given name, rather than to faithfully portray Washington as he was. Washington, at the time of his death, owned about 60,000 acres of land and was worth .'approximately three-fourths of a million dollars. With respect to many aspects of farm- ing, Washington was at least 120 years ahead of his time. Spread-eagle orators like to flourish “If George Washington could come back to Amer- ica now, he wouldn’t know where he was. " and they proceed to recount the many inventions now commonplace, .which were unknown in Washington' 8 day But should, Washington come _. Divination back to earth now, he would say, with respect to much of agricultural meth- ods, “I told you so 120 years ago.” The facts are that he had on his farms a threshing machine, a grain drill and several other forms of modern ma- chinery, perhaps the one development that has most affected hours of farm labor and farm living standards. Washington knew that commercial fertilization was destined to become a basic agricultural practice and he fur- nished the foundation for mule pro- duction in this country. He was also something of a sheep man and his work with the improvement of grain was somewhat spectacular although it must be admitted that the soil at Mount Vernon lacks a great deal of being at all comparable to the good black soil of the corn belt. His interest in national develop- ments as they effect agriculture are almost prophetic. Cabinet members. mayors. governors, and other: with uifr's": ,. Copyricht 191‘! mum-a Weekly Established 1343 The Lawrence Publishing Co. 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HOME—Aid in the solution of all kinds of home problems. VOLUM I! C LXX DETROIT, FEB. 18,1928 CURRENT COMMENT HE reader will observe elsewhere [NUMBER SEVEN cti e PEOte. v in this issue that the 1 ervlce Michigan Farmer is Extended extending its Protec- tive Service. This is being done in the interest of Mich- igan farm people and the agriculture of the state. We have faith in our farm folks and the business that claims their at- tention. That faith has led to what we believe is the most comprehensive service that any farm publication has attempted. This added service is of- fered on its own merit. We commend it to the thoughtful consideration of readers and friends. What the Michigan Farmer has done for Michigan farm people dur- ing the past eighty-five years, is, we believe, sufiicient guarantee that every effort will be made by those in charge to fulfill obligations incurred through the announcement of this Protective Service. NDOUBTEDLY Rural- many of our U 5 R readers have noticed i an e' the advertisements of (atlonships Farm Service Hard- ware which are ap- pearing in our columns. This is a co- operative effort on the part of a large ‘ number of hardware dealers in Mich- igan who want to acquaint the farm- ers with the fact that they are espe- . cially equipped to give good farm hard- ware service and that they are aware of their responsibility to their rural neighbors in this regard. The names of these dealers appear in a full page advertisement elsewhere in this issue. The mere fact that these hardware dealers have united in putting across such a campaign shows that they are . public spirited and are alive to the fact that service is the basis of good , will. They know that modern mer- ohandizing is built on that foundation M ‘ ~ THE MICHIGAN FARMER and not on “trade and barter” or the dog-eat-dog methods of olden times. Since starting this campaign, sev- eral hardware dealers have indicated to the Michigan Farmer that they have become interested in movements for rural progress, such as boys’. and girls’ club work, and similar activi- ties. Such things. will result in the development of common meeting grounds where the urbanites and ruralites will get to understand each other better. True cooperation between various classes of people, as well as between persons in a class, will break down antagonisms and develop a feeling of friendship and understanding which will surely result in mutual benefit. HE other day. we “Face had occasion to discuss poultry dis- th‘ eases with Dr. Staf- Music" seth, bacteriologist of M. S. C., and he men- tioned the common tendency of farm- ers with reference to disease condi- tions in their poultry flocks. For some reason, Dr. Stafseth said, the farmer finds it very unpleasant to be convinced that he has tuberculosis, coccidiosis, bacillary diarrhea, or any other contagious disease in his flock. Such diseases are not due to his care- lessness but to infection. However, it appears that he would much rather have the disease diagnosed as some- thing due to his negligence or care- lessness, than to something beyond his control. Another common fault is to kill a diseased chicken without determining the cause of its death. Killing sick chickens and disposing of them is a good sanitary practice, but to do so without knowing the cause of the death may probably keep the flock exposed to the continuous infection of some serious disease. A postmorten examination of chicks that die from unknown causes, by some capable per- son, should frequently be made. It pays to be frank even with one- self, for one gets nowhere by trying to “kid” the first person. The infor- mation that there is an infectious dis- ease in the flock is not pleasant, but remaining ignorant of the situation does not help matters any. It is economy to know the true status of affairs and then use such measure-s as are necessary to remedy them. The, human weakness to shun “facing the music” is a costly one when it in- volves disease conditions. ~ MONG those se- Follows lected as Master . Farmers i 11 Illinois Mecbanlcal this year is Wayne Agriculture McClure who farms 280 acres with one helper. His rare accomplishment in the application of mechanical helps to farm work is what singled him out for the Master Farmer honor. Mr. McClure feeds and waters his stock automatically. Nine horses and a tractor make the cultivation of his acreage possible with minimum time and labor. Automatic corn pickers help at harvest _time, as do also a maze of other machinery throughout the entire growing year. One almost wonders if he hasn’t Al Acres me- chanical man helping in the multitude of duties necessary on such a farm. Much of the work on this farm is being done by brainless nonenities— modern machinery. They do what they are set to do without judgment or thought. ‘.But there are thousands of tasks on the farm which do not need thought and can best be per- formed by machinery. However, mechanical farming does not mean brainless farming. In fact, thought of high order is necessary to efficientlyladapt machinery to farm operations. The use of machinery also releases thought and energy for more worthy and profitable purposes. “Mechanical farmers,” such as. Mr. McClure, have libraries replete. with agricultural literature which they use. And they keep records which enable them to know 'the financial outcome of their various farm activities. Me- chanical farming is brain farming, and is the farming of the future. F we are to devel- Chan in op a more satisfy- F g! 3’ ing and wholesome “in“? family life, we must Llfe change from the ex- ternal to the internal control of our children, was the opin- ion expressed by Professor H. C. Coff- man of Michigan State College before the largest group of farm women ever assembled for Farmers’ Week. The bonds of fellowship, protection, religion, and economy have held the family together as a unit down through the ages but the changes that have taken place in family life during the last two decades have tended par- tially to sever these bonds. Professor Coffman believes that our one hope for the future lies in strengthening the bonds of fellowship between parents and their children. Through the right kind of education and the right kind of religious train- ing, we must develop a strength of personality and character that will control them from within. To accom- plish this for the future generation, every community needs to give atten- tion to its three institutions—the home, the church, and the school. The rural home must be thoughtfully managed and equipped to raise the standard of home life, the rural church made to thrive and grow, and our rural schools directed by teachers who sympathize with and have a clear con- ception of child problems. T does not take a {- More on philosopher to con- Farmers’ elude, viewing Farm- ers’ Week as a whole, Week that the corner has been turned after seven lean years in the field of agri- culture. One can generally get a fair notion of what lines are paying by noting the attendance at the various sectional meetings. When cattle are down at the heel—not profitable—no one cares to know how to feed them. This year practically all the sectional meetings were well attended. The only sections where there were any inverted-moon mouths were some of the pork producer meetings; but even here, they were assured by market experts, that the next few months would see a sharp upturn in the price of hogs. The hog is such an efficient animal that he may be down but he is never out for keeps. It is a tribute both to the quality of the scientific work which the agricul- tural departments of the College is doing and to the growing interest of Michigan farmers in scientific farming to‘ find the attendance continually on the increase. The best estimate this year is that there were about 10,000 farmers and farm women in attend- ance and at one time, there were about 6,000 people in the New Demon- stration Hall across the Red Cedar, in which various and sundry freshies and sophs have carried on purification rites. There were two features that struck' one as being particularly enjoyable: One was the splendid music rendered by different student organizations of the College and especially the College Military Band whose members gave unstintingly of their time and at no place did the music descend to the commonplace. One event not before enjoyed was the stunt night, on Thurs- day, which gave farmer visitors dur- ing this week a chance to see the best specimens of live stock, most of them reared at the College, and what was even more enjoyed, a brief ex’plana? tion of the 'excelloncies of each one. ! ‘_V{ FEB. 18, 1928 Heretofore, it has .not been possible to put on such a parade as this through lack of space. Farmers have always wanted to get a glimpse of college activities and live stock and here was a. glorious chance. Various and sundry men, most of them big and apparently .corn fed, were brought in to make their contri- bution to a. better understanding of conditions “as is.” Most of them felt called upon to make a. pronouncement as to the ills of agriculture and what could be expected from current politi- cal remedies being projected. At least three of them thought no politi- cal plan that Congress could devise would prove of any lasting benefit. We opine that if they had had the experi- ence of borrowing money to pay their taxes or interest during the last six or seven years, they might have been willing to give almost any feasible plan a trial, at least. Then came John Kitcham, orator superb, settled the McNary-Haugen bill into a back seat with the Ther- mopolyean statement that “it cannot pass” (proxy, of course) and proposed in its stead the Grange debenture plan which was carefully explained as a method of working the tariff back end (Continued on page 241) Vat/amines GOT a niCe cute little valentine from a nice cute little girl about ten years old, and I got a comic one from somecomicbody what is quite a little older. And I don’t know just how to feel about them. I know the older one is tryin’ to rub it in, and, of course, the little girl ain’t. Now if I think the little girl is right, I must think the old crab is just what I called him. But maybe he is right and the little girl thinks I’m 0. K. ’cause she ain’t old enough to know differunt. But anyhow, I just kinda think the girl is a bright little girl. You know I’m old enough to be a crab myself, and there’s some kinda folkses I’d like to valentines. Fer inst, there’s the fellow what comes up to you, pats you on the back, and sticks his face right into yours like he’s . goin’ ta kiss you. and tells you what a nice guy you are until you get tired listening. I always put my hands in my pockets to keep from hittin’ such a fellow and to protect what I got in my pockets. And there’s the fellow what’s tellin’ you your missin’ the greatest oppor- tunity on earth in not buyin’ what he’s got to sell, when he’s really tryin’ to develop a opportunity fer himself by gettin’ you to bite. I’d send two comics to the fellow what preaches and don’t practice, and one to the fellow what don't practice or preach, and a nice valentine to the one what practices and don’t preach. I’d send a comic to the one w at thinks this world is going to the dogs ’cause receivin’ this comic would make him feel sure there ain’t nobody of no account left in this world but him. Or, by accident, it might get him to crack his face by laughin’. Yes, there’s some women I’d send comics to, too. I’d send one to Sofie about a poor married man ‘what’s got to work and obey. But if I did I’d have to stay away from home fer a. few days. I’d like to send some to a. few other married ladies what think the foreign missionary society should spend its time talk-in’ about neighbor- hood scandal, and,etc., and etc. ‘ Sofie just says to me, “If you want to send any comics to anybodyjust go yourself and they’d see the greatest What you . HY .SYGW‘ ' ‘ .. "’h I. f I. comic valentine a goin'.” think 0"th8t? r send some comic . ~,‘.- ‘ Mar. v .u. was. \\ -v \If‘" ‘ "b -'.-.. '- l ~,‘.- ‘ Mae, v .u. mat. \If‘" "‘5 ér~z \\ w ' FEB.18,19228’ THE MICHIGAN FARME'R :- uiting Fertilizers to Require: Me Same Discretion as in Céoosmg a Necktie By C. E. Millar 10K, the county agent, and my- self Were studying soil condi- tions on Chris Hansen’s farm.- We were in the back field about sixty rods from the barn. “This soil in your wheat field seems a. bit sandy and rather low in organic matter, Chris. How often do you man- ure this field?” “I try to cover these light sandy loam soils about every three years but this field is so far from the barn that I don’t get the manure drawn out here nearly so often, Dick. I’m too busy.” “Well,-the reason your wheat looks so sickly in the spring is because it is in need of available nitrogen. I would suggest that you feed the crop early next spring by broadcasting fifty to seventy-five pounds per acre of some readily available nitrogen fer- tilizer, such as nitrate of soda or sul- phate of ammonia.” “If the wheat needs nitrogen in the spring, why doesn’t it show signs of nitrogen hunger in the fall too?” “In some cases it does, but usually ' quite a little available nitrogen is stored” in the soil before the crop is planted, which supplies the needs dur- ing the fall. In the spring, though, the wheat grows rapidly and the soil is so cold that the bacteria do not change the nitrogen into a soluble con- dition fast enough to feed the crop.” “If that is the case why doesn’t'the wheat on my heavy soil need nitrogen in the spring?” was the farmer’s re- joinder. “The heavy soils generally contain much more organic matter than the sandy soils, and even though the bac- teria works slowly, there are so many more of them and they have so much more to work on that they are able to produce enough soluble nitrogen for the crop.” “Then, if I used manure, frequently or grew clover every three years to increase the supply of nitrogen in the sandy soil, it would not be necessary to apply nitrogen fertilizer in the spring?” “That’s it exactly. But tell me how your wheat does later in the season.” “Well, it makes a fairly good growth, not so high and thick as I War 0 prove to the world that Uncle Sam is for peace first, last, and -all the time, the big-navy ad- vocates seem to have set out to give him the largest navy in the world, or approximately that. Expenditures of two and one-half billions of dollars on a navy-building program, spread over a number of years, are being advocated. An ap- propriation of 740 million dollars, as a starter, will be recommended by the House Naval Affairs Committee. The larger program is being urged by the Secretary of the Navy. Admiral Hughes tells the House committee that a billion of dollars will be needed for a starter. It seems to be a time for all good taxpayers to come to the rescue of the country. I am wondering who is going to come to the rescue of the taxpayers should this program go ' through, for many additional millions will have to be supplied to man and maintain this greater navy. If we enter upon this program we must give up all hope of tax reduc- tion, for taxes will have to be in- ‘creased thirty-two dollars for every five, nor will this cover all would like to have it, and the heads are not as heavy as they should be.” “Yes. Well this soil needs phos- phoric acid! That makes for ranker growth and plumper kernels. Did you notice that strip across Art Kiesler’s field last summer where the Wheat was short and ripened about ten days . later than the rest of the field? His fertilizer ran out and he drilled around before he noticed it.” “Did a lack of phosphate make that?“ You could see it for half a mile.” “Yes, and the unfertilized wheat cropping. On a soil which is some- what run down, like this one, a com- plete fertilizer is generally advisable. I would suggest one containing around two per cent of ammonia, six- teen per cent of phosphoric acid and two per cent of potash, a 2—16—2 it is called. Any similar analysis is O. K. What do you think about it, profes- sor?” “Judging from the results of hun— dreds of experiments made by the Soils Department your recommenda- tions are correct,” I said. “Soils which are manured rather frequently, This entire field was treated to acid phosphate, but the good growth on the right is where wood ashes had ing other elements than phosphate yielded ten bushels less than the rest of the field.” “Is that so! Do your suppose I ought to use phosphate on my heavy ground too?” ' “Undoubtedly. Practically all our soils are naturally low in phosphoric acid. In fact, some of the most pro- fitable returns from the use of phos—~ phate fertilizer are obtained on heavy soils that are considered in a good state of fertility.” “What about potash? Whenever I talk to our dealer about fertilizers, he wants to sell me one containing these plant foods, ammonia, phosphoric acid, and potash, a ‘complete fertilizer’ I think he calls it.” "complete fertilizers are coming into use more generally as sour soils become depleted through years of Talk an We are now living in a war—bank- rupted world. Europe is bankrupt and over-burdened with taxes. Even the people of so-called prosperous Amer- ica are being taxed nearly nine mil- lion dollars a day as a result of that war, which increased their public debt twenty-eight millions of dollars, if we add the present cost of our military establishment. V It is hard to believe that this world has not had its bellyful of war, but instead wants more! Also it is diffi. cult to see how another big war is to be financed with every great power except the United States in straitened circumstances and in some instances the existence of their very govern- ments imperiled. Our own business men tell Congress that taxes take all their profits. We know that taxes, direct and indirect, take more than one-third of the farm- er’s income. And there is a big dif- ference between profits and income. At »the present time we are taxed, in one form or another, more than four billions .of dollars a year to op- erate the National Government. About eighty-two per cent of this enormous sum is expended yearly for the up- been applied quite liberally, suggest- are :here needed. or which produce good sods of clover or alfalfa to be plowed under have showed little response to any plant food other than phosphoric acid for grain and hay crops. On the other hand, soils which have been mis- treated, especially those of a sandy nature, frequently need nitrogen, and require rather liberal amounts of pot- ash, if they are to grow good crops of alfalfa, sweet clover, potatoes, or root crops.” “As I get it, you advise a complete fertilizer containing rather low per- centages of ammonia and potash and a high percentage of phosphoric acid for wheat on this sandier soil where little manure is used, and a straight acid phosphate on my heavier soil which is in a pretty good state of fer- tility.” More keep of our army and navy and to pay for past wars and military pre- paredness. All other functions of the Government combined take only a little more than seventeen per cent of the Federal taxpayer’s dollar. Our military expenditures alone now absorb nearly thirty-two per cent of all Federal revenues, Without any big- navy program added. Admiral Plunkett quotes that hoary and hackneyed phrase, “In time of peace prepare for war.” Europe did just that preceding 1914. Europe entered the World War armed to the teeth, and so was enabled to slaughter almost ten million young men while going financially bank- rupt. If anything else was accom~ plished by that war I do not know what it was. ‘ If war threatens the United States, it must be from England or Japan. For a long time, and at the present moment, the English government is facing such domestic difficulties that its very existence is threatened. I cannot believe it is hunting for more trouble. And Japan is by no means 011' Easy Street. Certainly it is m..no condition to wage war on its best cus- . 5—213 Soils “You have the idea, Chris. ” “Well, Dick, when ought this fer- tilizer to be put on?” “The complete fertilizer or the acid phosphate, whichever you use, ought to be drilled at the time of seeding. If your drill doesn’t have a fertilizer attachment the fertilizer may be broadcasted and dragged in before seeding, but it is a little better. to drill it in with the seed; and don’t forget that early spring top dressing of available nitrogen on this sandy soil.” "‘That’s all right for wheat, but what about rye, oats, and barley?” “The fertilizer requirements of rye are very similar to those of wheat, but in a well organized soil” management program, oats and barley usually fol-, low a crop which has been well fer- tilized and so obtains sufficient nour- ishment from the fertilizer left in the soil. In case the preceeding crop is not heavily fertilized, these spring grains should receive about the same fertilization that one would use for wheat on the same soil.” “Suppose I want to seed clover or alfalfa in my small grain, would you use the same fertilizer?” “Not exactly. The legumes, such as clover, alfalfa, and sweet clover, re-. quire large amounts of potash as well as of phosphoric acid and lime. The \ heavier soils, as silt loams and clay loams, usually supply an abundance of potash for these crops, but the lighter sandy loams require potash fertiliza— tion. If you manure-d this field every three years, it would not need any commercial potash since the manure is rich in this plant food. As it is, I would suggest that a fertilizer high in potash be used in the fall. A 2-12—6 or 4-16-8, or fertilizer of similar an» alysis would be satisfactory.” “Then you recommend both potash and phosphoric acid for alfalfa and the clever on sandy soils unless they are well manured, but phosphoric acid only on the heavy soils.” “You have the idea exactly.” “Now tell me something about po- tatoes. I have a few acres of land just like this that is in sod, mostly timothy, that I want to plant to pota- toes this spring.” (Continued on page 227) aXes tomer, the United States, and I very much doubt that it desires to.- It seems to me we need not go fur- ther than the President’s recommen- dation for the upkeep of the Amer- ican navy, to be as well prepared as we need be. Every year since 1922, our appropriations for the navy have been double those of Japan. For the last five years our naval appropria- tions have considerably exceeded those of Great Britain. I favor an adequate navy. The country is for an adequate defense program. But I can see no necessity in time of peace for expending nearly seven-eighths of all its energies to lead the world in naval preparedness. It is folly to think about tax reduc- tion ‘if we embark on a two and one- han-billion-dollar navy-'building policy, or for this nation to talk about world peace to anybody while promoting a. big naval program in time Of peace. The real enemy we shall have to fight for some years to come is a na~ tional debt of eighteen billions of dol- lars. That will be enough to keep us busy for W“ awhile. . , 5 WW :r-a. ‘ , . ( I, ards. ‘ Vimyfiwfll‘fiéxfi. "'msmmwfl 1; '214-6_ HE farmers of Michigan lost nearly two million dollars last year to thieves. That is a big sum to lose. It would buy a herd of ten tliOUsand excellent dairy cows. or a thousand large tractors, or pur- chase and equip one hundred average Michigan farms. Every dollar of that sum increased the cost of farming in Michigan, and it was squandered by a bunch of sneaking crooks too lazy to work! Farm property, being private prop- erty, should be protected. Fruits, ,vegetables, grains, live stock, poultry, and the like, of late years, have been eSpecially attractive to thieves. The situation is deplorable. The loss sub- tracts materially from the farmer’s income. Because of this state of affairs, the Michigan Farmer is posting Three Thousand Dollars to be paid in cash rewards for catching and convicting thieves who steal from Michigan farms. After much careful study it was decided to launch this service. It is comprehensive, and fits all classes of farmers. It serves a real need in a thorough going manner. Most thieves are downright cow- Usually they steal from unpro- tected farms or helpless people. They are no respectors of persons. They take from widows and orphans with- out compunction. The Michigan Farmer Protective Service is aimed at this and all other classes of farm thieves. This Protective Service is an ex- pansion of other services we have been rendering. For instance, our Federal Travel Accident Insurance Service has proven one of the finest projects ever put on by a farm pub- lication. In the past year, it has paid to Michigan Farmer readers under this service over twenty thousand dollars. Farmers appreciate the benefits of in- surance, but generally they have been under-protected. This is true largely because there was no agency to render the service, until the Michigan Farm- er demonstrated that this work could 'be done. But having succeeded, the Michigan Farmer is not going to rest its case. There is the greatest need of further insurance protection in the farm field. So a. broader program is being launched to further protect farm people against sudden losses. That, however, is a story that we will tell later. Our wish now is to give the readers our plans to protect farm property. We do not want to compare human life and property. That is impossible. Property can be replaced, but human lives cannot. However, property is important in providing life with ne- cessities and comforts. That is why we have property, and why the owner should be protected in the en- joyment of its benefits. But protection must be given legally. Otherwise, there is trouble. Our law- makers, in the past, have not pro vided the best safe-guards with re- spect to farm property. That, in part, Imay account for some of the excess farm thieving of today. To aid in remedying this situation, additional legislation was needed. The Michigan Farmer drafted and promoted the Hor- ton anti-trespass bill. In spite of strong opposition, the bill became a law. Under it, a man must secure the permission of a farmer before legally going upon the farmer’s land to hunt. The law went into effect last fall. The results have far exceeded ex- pectations. it is mentioned here, however, be- cause it has a bearing upon the protec- tion of farm property from others than hunters. Thieves adopt many schemes ITH'E MICHIGAN FAR'ME'R Shearer Manager, Protective Service to learn what a farmer has about his premises. One scheme very commonly used was to take a gun and, under the guise of hunting, travel over a farm and about the buildings to learn the location of property and the general lay of the land. This trespass law gives the farmer something to say about who will be his guests.and have. the privilege of his acres, and is bound to have an influence upon farm thievery. Improved roads and modern vehi- county into the other does not solve the problem nor get rid of the pilfer- ing pests. Right here and now we are serving notice on the sticky fingered gentry who are stealing from Michigan farm people that they can take their choice of one of three things. (1). They can quit stealing, go to work, and earn an honest living. (2). Or get out Of the state and stay out. (3). Or do a term in jail or the penitentiary. Our part in this program will be Momma AWN mumm PROTECTI SERVICE THIS SIGN WILL PROTECT YOU AND YOUR PROPERTY ' Post this Michigan Farmer Protective Service Sign near the entrance to your farm. It will be a warning to crooks of every stripe of the danger in attempting to steal frOm you, or trespassing upon your property without your consent. The Michigan Farmer has posted $3,000 to be paid in cash rewards of $50 for each case to any person furnishing local peace officers. with information leading to the capture .and penal con- viction of thieves who steal from members of Michigan Farmer Protective Service, or information leading to the capture and penal conviction of trespassers who violate the Horton Trespass Law upon the premises of such members. This article tells how you can become a member of the Mich; igan Farm er- Protective Service and protect yourself and your family, live stock, and other preperty against thieves and crooks. cles make it possible and extremely easy for thieves to raid a farm and get away with a whole flock of poul- try, a truck load of fat hogs, or other live stock; loads of fruit, grain, and even clothing and valuable presonal property. These raids on farm prop- erty usually are made in trucks or passenger automobiles, which enable the thieves to carry their loot to some of our large cities within the state, or the large cities in adjoining states and dispose of their stolen loot the next day. Thievery of farm property in Mich- igan has reached such a wholesale stage that action must be taken. Farm folks earn every dollar they get. It takes hard work to produce a crop, or build up a flock of nice poultry, or raise a bunch of fat hogs or steers, and when all the hard work is done. there is little enough profit in it with- out having some lazy thieving scoun- drel slip in and steal the whole loot. This thieving business pan be checked and the Michigan Farmer is happy to lend its cooperation to the citizens of Michigan and to the law enforcement agencies to see that this is done. The peace officers of Michigan are doing a mighty good work—but they cannot do it all themselves. They need and should have the full cooper- ation of every law abiding citizens of the state and every agency in the state that stands for law and order. We are going to see that Michigan farm‘people and their peace ofllcers get the kind of help they are in need of in their fight on bands of thieves and trespassers who make their liv- ing. by annoying farm folks. The Michigan Farmer has enlisted in this fight to stay in it to the finish. There will be no let-up until the job is well done. Chasing thieves out of one . carried on through the newly organ- ized Michigan Farmer Protection Serv- ice. We are going to pay cash re- wards to those furnishing information that leads to the capture and convic- tion resulting in penal servitude of thieves stealing property from the premises of Michigan Farmer Protec- tive Service members where the serv- ice sign is posted. In like manner we will pay rewards for the capture and‘conviction resulting in penal servi« tude of anyone apprehended trespas- sing as provided in the Horton Tres- pass Act on the premises of a mem- ber of Michigan Farmer Protective Service, where warning sign is posted. We have posted three thousand dol- lars in rewards to be paid to persons responsible for the capture and con- viction of thieves as above stated, when the stealing is done from the farms of members of the Michigan Farmer Protective Service where the service sign is posted. Herepare the conditions governing payments of re- wards: Thefts must be from farm prop- erty where Protective Service Sign is posted. Application for reward must be attested by county sheriff and made within two weeks after the thief or thieves are captured. Rewards will be paid after thief is convicted and is serving sen- tence. In case thief is parolled without serving an actual prison or other penal institution sentence, no re- ward will be paid. Only ofie reward will be paid in each case of- theft, even though more than one thief is captured and convicted for the same crime. Rewards will be paid to the per- son or persons primarily respon-, sible for furnishing evidence lead- ing to the capture and conviction of the thief or thieves; in case two or more persons are equally re- FEB.18, 1-928 i Complete Farm Property Protection ,Mz'cézgaiiz Farmer Extends Service to Protect all Farm Property I 'By E. A. --- Port: .83, 000. 00 (sipgnsible, the reward will be divi- e . . Any person primarily responsible for the capture and conviction of the thief or thieves stealing from a member of the Protective Service is eligible to share in the reward whether he is a member of the Protective Service or not. In case of a dispute as to the person or persons entitled to the reward, or a dispute as to the divi« sion of the reward among two or" more persons, the Michigan Farm- er Protective Service reseives the right to be the sole judge in de- ciding such disputes or differences of opinion. Rewards of $50. 00 each will be paid in each case wheie a thief or _ thieves are captured and convicted for stealing from farms of members of the Protective Service where the Protective Service Sign is post- ed. Like rewards will also be paid for the capture and conviction of violators of the Horton Trespass Act, where warning sign is posted, . when sentence to penal servitude follows such conviction These regulations govern the pay- ment of aw aids not only for the theft of poultry, but for stealing any class of farm property (except automobiles, trucks, and their accessories), and, in addition, for arrests and convictions under the provisions of the Horton Trespass Law. The Whole Protective Scheme What then does the whole scheme ' of the Michigan Farmer Property Pros tection Mean? It means, first, the protection of the farmer and his family. Health serv‘ ice provides this in a large measure. Then, too, the payment during the past year of twenty thousand dollars to subscribers on Aaccount of travel accident insurance, augurs for " genera ous protection of dependents in Mich- igan Farmer families. The registered key tag further aids in personal iden- tification in time of accident. . Live stock is also protected. Our veterinary columns have contributed in a large way during the past fifty years to a better understanding of dis case control among domestic animals by the average farmer. Further, the Horton trespass measure protects farm animals to a high degree against danger of shooting by ruthless hunt- ers. And on top of this is our bmad program of anti-theft work. Every kind of domestic animal not excepting the farm dog and cat is included un- der the previsions of our Farm Prop- erty'Protective Service. ~ General Farm property is also cov~ ered in our Protective Service. Our legal adviser looks out for the farm- er’s rights in respect to all property. The farmer also receives aid in pro— tecting this property from the ele- ments, and we have arranged to ex- tend further this type of service. The Horton Trespass Law goes far in pro- tecting fences, buildings, woodlots. as well as live stock, against physical de- struction and farm burning. Also, the thief and the crook will have a hard time when confronted by ou1 cempre- hensive Farm Property Protective Service. The registered tag which holds the keys that locks the farmer's car, his granary, chicken coop, his stable, and other buildings where valuable property is stored, is also protected. It bears the replica of the Michigan Farmer Protective Service Sign which is bound to impress the finder not to use the keys for thieving but to restore them promptly to the owner. This is easily done by foliovw ing the directions given on the tag and through the registered number kept on. file in the Michigan Farmer offices. By the same token this regis- tered key becomes a valuable means of identifying the, owner in case of accident. . Then again the Michigan Sinner Commission m m; V i ‘1 a" ‘. o‘—.. ..a.‘ . 9'./»"' a 42‘ I “Vii" 4‘5" at} l. . ,. WW4 ' nun-MICHIGAN FA'RMER‘ it. ll " Charging THE HANDY ANS [DRIER rs \ {ll o9? Batteries Met/tad: of Farm Charging NY farmer with a gas engine will find it a very simple matter to charge his six-volt radio or auto battery by using a small six- volt generator from a discarded auto- mobile; and if done when the engine is used for pumping, operating the washing machine, running the cream separator or milking machine, and so on the small extra load the generator makes will not make any noticeable difference in the fuel used. If the en- gine must be run for the charging work alone, the fuel and oil used will probably cost as much as it will to have the charging done at the battery a good many of them cut in at about 600 R. P. M. and give their maximum charging current about 1,600 to 1,800 R. P. M. About 1,500 to 1,600 R. P. M. will usually give the proper charging rate. ‘ The rule for finding the size of generator pulley required is to multi- ply the diameter in inches of the en- gine flywheel (or pulley, if belt goes on pulley) by the engine R. P. M. and divide this by 1,600 (or whatever the generator speed is), the quotient being the diameter in inches of the required pulley on the generator. Thus, if the belt is driven from an station. Thousands of farmers are engine flywheel eighteen inches in dia- 4me/er I prre from omen/0» lb cufouf 00 re «ab 0/ ’ flue/1:516 U Q? ‘, ,ford CU/ou/ // cu/Dw‘ I5 170/ 1%,, l mmkdon gem r nm In}? 3/ ’0 . me 0/ gene/war /o ctr/Am? o’er/four 7 / P//b;r 0/06/45 A- A+ / —"1 coo/ye oof/ery . *6 '2 Throw Jar/(fl 1’0 r/q/7/ /a g 5 V0” 777/05! .5m/6/7 /0 /e// lo ‘9 one/0 fe rod/0 oe/ I b/pr/ope/ see 0/ f/w ,00//(y\ mu/flp/y d/ome/e/ 0/ flyofiee/ In Inc/7e: by more 5,0ee0' 000’ o’mo’e 0y requ/reo’ genera/0r speed IMO @ 2-8 I2 /0r79 ; Grave/0r ovum/mo may be firs/MM f0 [/00/ or w0// PPM 7/205 f/yIV/Iee/yze /8/fl(fll.‘ f/me: erg/0e speed .500 WM one: .9000 70/5 aimed by /6170 RPM we; Bell / gig/470 foo” fl). wheel 0050/1”? nef ’ n 550/, © (00/ e 5,3 new we .531be 0/ 6 me» We, L———! 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The Generator These six-volt generators usually can be secured through any junk deal- er at a very small price, including the ammeter and cut-out. If possible, have them tested by a battery service man to see that the generator is alright and generates properly, that commu- tator is smooth and the brushes bear on properly, and that the cut-out closes and opens as it should. Also the ammeter should be checked to see that it registers something near cor- rect. The usual method of driving the generator is by a belt running from the engine fly wheel to a pulley on the generator shaft, as shown in the first figure in the attached diagram. An- other satisfactory method is by means of a pulley on an extension to the generator shaft, also shown in the same diagram. In some ways this may be the most easily fixed up, since it takes all of the belt pull off the generator bearings. Since the generator must rotate at “compara- tively high speed,” the generator and shaft and pulley must be securely fastened and must have fairly good bearings and be reasonably well bal- anced. The speed of these generators will vary somewhat. with the make and model, and the generator manufac- turer: should be consulted as to the meter and running 500 R. P. M., these multiplied together give 9,000; and 9,000 divided by 1,600 gives 5.6 in- ches as the diameter of the required pulley 0n the generator. The generator should be driven in the same direction as it was on the car. This can be determined by slip— ping a piece of paper under the third brush, then touching the wires from a six-volt storage battery to the gen- erator terminals and seeing which way it turns as a motor. It should be driven in this same direction as a generator. Connecting Up the Generator The proper way of connecting the generator, ammeter, and cut-out to the storage battery and to the radio set is shown in above diagram, so ar- ranged that by closing the two-pole double-throw switch one way the bat- tery is connected to the generator for charging, and when closed the other way is ready to operate the radio set. The convenience of such a switch is well worth its small cost, since once the connections are properly made the outfit can be worked for months Without disturbing them. The positive terminal of the gen- erator must be connected to the posi- tive terminal of the battery as shown. However, if the generator is connect- ed up either way and the switch from the battery closed and then the cut- out closed by hand for an instant so the battery current Will go throughthe generator, it will be magnetized 'in such a way that the' postive and 119- why. .: ,»,.,.-,-.1« :..,.‘~ _,,,, “Xe!” .0 .. 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The generator will, of course, have to be fastened {solidiy to i-th-e engine frame or very near. stand the closer the battery is to'the‘ generator the be better in the basement or near the set, to avoid damagevfrom freez- ing when the battery is not fully charged.- Since the wires from gen- erator to battery may at times carry feet No. 7 wire or two No. 10’s on each side; and from 50 to 150 feet No.33 copper wire. Since about 2 amperes is the most that the wire from bat- - tery to set will have to carry, a No. 14 copper wire will usually be large enough even for a considerable dis- tance. While a cut-out between generator and battery is not absolutely neces- sary, it is a very decided advantage, since it opens in case the belt runs off or the engine stops and prevents the battery using, up its powet’ to drive the generator as a motor. If one is not used, the charging switch can- not be closed until the generator gets up to speed, and will have to be opened before the generator stops. One thing to be very careful of is that the generator should not be run more than a very few moments without being connected to the battery, as otherwise the field coils may be burned out. Hence the belt should be removed when the ' battery is not charging. Care of the Battery Put nothing into the (battery except distilled water, or rain water caught in the open in a clean glass or earth- ware vessel. A gallon can be bought for a few cents from a battery station and will last a long time. Be sure the solution always covers the tops of the plates one-half inch. Test the specific gravity every few days. Begin charging as soon as the reading falls to 1.175, as standing dis- charged will quickly ruin the battery. The battery is fully charged when the specific gravity reaches 1.285 to 1.300 or when the cells bubble freely and the gravity no longer increases. Keep the top of the cells clean and dry and cover terminals and connec- tions with vaseline or cup grease. TOOLS FOR THE FARM SHOP CCORDING to Arkansas College of Agriculture authorities, the farm shop will pay for itself many times in money and time saved. Care, however, should be exercised in choos- ing the equipment for the shop. Woodworking tools should be chosen first. The following will make the basis of a good kit: A medium weight claw hammer, a 24-inch fram- ing square, a 26-inch, 8-point crosscut saw: a 14-inch jack plane, a brace and bits of 14, 1/2 34, and 1 inch in dia‘ meter. The above list of good quality can be bought for from $10 to $15. As needs demand the following tools may be added: 251/2-point rip saw, a 24- inch wrecking bar, a 24—inch level, a 1/2 and 1%, inch wood chisel, and an 8-inch draw knife. For sharpening the field and shop tools an emery wheel which can be operated by foot power will prove well worth its cost. . A very satisfactory wood for bench vise can be made by using a 1-inch by 16-inch screw and using a well sea- soned piece of hard wood for the vise face. For metal and pipe work a bench or leg type vise which has a re- movable set of pipe jaws will come in very handy. ‘ ' Other miscellaneous topls are: a 14- inch plpe wrench, a 12-inch adjustable .wrench, a 10-inch hack saw and a t better} When the engineand genera: tor are outside or where the tempera-" ture gets quite low, the battery will ' 15 amperes or more, not less than No. - 10 rubber covered copper wires should . , be used where the battery is within . 10 feet of the generator; within 50 - FEB. 18.549283 dozen extra blades, two cold Chisels, a machine punch, 3. 21,5, pound ball pean hammer, a pair of tin snipe, and bits With squat-eishanks. . FIREPROOF MORTAR FOR FIRE : smcx» 'How can I make a fire-proof cement or-mortar to use with fire brick in a sugar ambit—J. S. For brick work to withstand very high temperatures and requiring very little masohry strength,’ as, where firepots, ovens, and chimneys are to stand Coke, gas, or oil, the usual con- struction is to, use nothing but fire- clay'mo'rtar, driving the bricks close together find leaving a very thin joint. The thin joints of,pure fire- clay 'follows the same slight . expan. sion and contraction as the fire bricks themselves and this does away with the likelihood of cracking. Cement or lime mortar'cannot be used for such places, because it crumbles and also its high expansion causes cracks. Fire brick arches must have con— siderable strength to hold their shape. The common method of building these is to lay them up on a supporting form, using fireclay mortar at the face of the arch and extending back about threefourths of the way (in the brick. driving the fire bricks closely to- gether so that only 'a very thin joint. 'is left on the inside face of the arch. Then the rest of the open part of the joint is filled with a mortar made of equal parts of cement and sand, and this is also plastered heavily on the outside of the arch This cement gives the necessary strength and still does not have to stand the intense heat, and its expansion just about meets the normal expansion of the arch.-I. D. REMOVING HARD WATER DE- POSITS FROM WATER CLOSET What can be done to remove a. caked or cement formation which has gradually formed in the inaccessible curve of our toilet seat; caused, ac- cording to our local plumber, by a. combination of lime and iron in our water supply? He knows of no solvent for this and says he has had a man work two days removing similar ob— struction.———F. S. Full strength commercial' hydro- chloric acid (also known as muriatic acid) is the standard solvent for these lime and iron deposits. Force all water out of the closet trap and then fill the trap with full strength com- cercial hydrochloric acid, usually re- quiring about half a gallon. Allow this to stand in the trap over night, then flush it out thoroughly. Usually this will soften up the deposit so it can be pried loose with a piece of hardwood or a blunt screw driver. If the deposit is due to a leaky closet tank and extends on down beyond the reach of the acid in the trap, the only thing which can be done is to take up the seat and turn it up on the side so the hydrochloric acid can cover the deposits completely—J. W. RADIO BRIEFS P RACTICAL methods of soil im- provement and maintenance of soil fertility will be discussed by a group of sucCessful farmers from Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana from February 20 to 25 over station VVLS.‘ E. A. Lund- berg, a Michigan Master Farmer from Dimondale, will tell how he maintains his soil fertility to produce fifty-four bushels of wheat per acre. In the opiniOn of Morse Salisbury who has just assumed the duties of chief of radio. service for the United States Department of Agriculture, "there is no doubt that radio is a most effective means of education. Just how best to use it has to be found by experiment.” service will begin 8' new, series of talks on cooperative marketing which will cover a period of ten weeks. \ 'i. ‘5. , _ a. On February 22 the ; a :1 alnch',-%-inch; and *yg-inch drill . ,o‘a N’Lvs—u...’ ram ,-,. .. I VTH'E ,MIc-HIGAN FARMER" A TIMELY MESSAGE ABOUT é . FERTILIZERS to the progressive farmers of America Too much “filler” is used in making fertilizer. This is only another way of saying the farmer is using a large tonnage of needlessly low analysis goods. The extensive use of filler or of low-grade, low analysis fertilizer materials used in the place of filler increases the cost of plant food on the farm. The farmer pays for excess filler in higher crop- growing cost. He pays for the filler, for the labor ’ of handling it, for the sacks it is shipped in, for freight on non—plant-food material, for unneces- sary hauling and distributing. Good plant food should replace filler in fertilizer. Filler grows no crop. Available plant food grows the crop. Small amounts of filler have a proper place in fertilizer manufacture. By their use higher grade materials can be used. More kinds of materials of varying analysis can be used. Alabama has a law prohibiting the sale of complete fertilizers containing less than a total of sixteen per cent available plant food. This legislation has given the Alabama farmer better fertilizers. It automatically cuts out some fillers, but still leaves too much room for filler and for low-grade materials. . The State of Tennessee is putting a similar law into effect this year. In making low analysis fertilizers there is a temptation to use some low-grade plant food car- riers to give greater bulk and darker color to the finished fertilizer. These inferior materials, such as dried peat, muck, or untreated garbage tank- age, contain nitrogen in a largely unavailable form. They have low crop-growing power. Nitrogen is the most expensive plant food the farmer buys. The trend in manufacturing fertilizer ingredi- ents is toward greater concentration of plant food. The development of air nitrogen fixation is speed- ing up this tendency. ' For some time the Armour Fertilizer Works have been making certain high'analysis grades based on late developments in fertilizer and soil science. These goods have been used for several years on standard crops in different soil types north and south, and have uniformly given bettér results than the older types. We have become enthusiastic about them. We consider them a decided advance in fertilizer manufacturing. We have retained the bulk of the naturally contained lime sulphate found in superphosphate (acid phosphate), as lime and sulphur are necessary elements in plant life. Let’s see how these higher grades work out in increasing the plant food content in the ton, in the same ratio as lowergrades. 2000 pounds of 4-16-4 contains as much plant food as 4000 pounds of 2-8-2, and it doesn’t cost twice as much. 2000 pounds of 2-16-8 contains as much plant food as 4000 pounds of 1-8-4. 2000 pounds of 7-11-10 contains as much plant food as 2800 pounds of 5-8-7, a deservedly popular truck grower. These higher grades can only be made of the . best materials—there is no room for “nonsense.” They lower the cost of plant food on the farm. They grow larger, better and cheaper crops than the older types. They have, one might say, more horse-power—more pep. They get the crop away quicker; they arrive sooner, and mature a big crop earlier. Early markets are generally good markets. We make these and other high analysis goods and urge their use. To supply our trade with their requirements, we manufacture present-day standards as well. These standard grades are made right, and from only best crop-growing materials. They con- tain no inferior low-grade sources of plant food. 4% 4* NZ President firm our FERTILIZER WORKS Chicago, Ill. Make Every Acre Do Its Best ' S ~1'1mwuv.m§mdmcam K1 " ,3.- . _ 1;, .11: ~_1é'.v1-c 218—10 ' ‘ ' * r . - rt, {1'11 , " PICKERING Governors There’s no hesitation—not the slightest—when the load goes on—l! your tractor is equipped with a Pickering Gov erno on For Pickering Governors respond instantly to the slightest load change‘ -—they automatically measuie the power for the load. Bickering-equipped tractors deliver plenty of steady, smooth power—- 25 to 35% mule say farmers who own them And that isn t all! 3 too " gallons of gasa day saved as well. Pickering Governors are built for Fordson, McCormick-Deming, Twin City, Hart-Parr and The Pickering Governor 00.. I Portland, 001111. I Send me your free pamphlet 60C all other tractors : 1131:1111 ........................ ..... Clip coupon for free pamphlet It tells hOW lgaLClt'ESIi-S .u. .......... .............::.. Pickering Governms guarantee better and I Dream” Nge' " ' ' ' ' ' . cheaper tractor power. I Address ..... . .......................... [,,"E! A..: vii-tines mi about our 11m 11.13.3101" hmvuusue'm hook tree wit: each order. Prices renou- tnt , ,. 1 1 ~ WE! "ATOM”! 0 omens 00. IO)! 42 ' NWO". Mild .used in insulation. i is to place the insulators tight against ., 1 boards. ’ ting beneath the perches will keep the ,hens out of the droppings and help hole through the commercial board The best method the siding. ‘ The glass windows should be placed to allow sunshine to reach all of the floor space. The common rule is to allow one square. foot of glass to ten square feet of floor space. If a cellar sash is placed 111 0111' fight 01 ten feet in the n01th 11.2111 of apoultry house, it helps to make the CLhens use all of the floor space. Hens naturally face the light when scratching and throw the litter backwards. The rear Win- dows help to prevent the litter from stacking up under th e dropping boards. Dirt floors are the poorest kind for the poultry house because of the great amount of labor required to keep them clean through the removal of large quantities of dirt each year. Board floors are better than dirt but are hard to clean thoroughly. Concrete floors are the most sanitary and economical. It pays to put in concrete floors in the spring or early summer so they will "have time to dry out before the hens are housed for winter. The concrete floor should be six or eight inches above the outside soil. “ Dropping boards should be placed ten inches below the perches and made of matched material. Run them , in the direction in which they are cleaned. Paint the boards with water- proof or asphalt paint and the boards . will last longer and the droppings will not stick to them as easily as to bare Nailing mm inch poultry net- tdekeep the eggs clean. Most diseases-u - are spread through the droppings, and if they drop through the wide mesh wire out of range of the hens there will be less danger of one sick bird infecting healthy members of the flock—R. G. Kirby. GET READY FOR CHICKS LITERALLY and figuratively, the world will seem a cold and cruel one to baby chicks which emerge from their shells during the earliest weeks of spring. Perhaps the cruelty can’t be helped, but at least a little of the chill can be taken off, if-the poultry grower has seen to it that the brooder house equipment is in good order when the chicks are ready for it. February is designated as a good month to: Examine and overhaul the brooder stove, replacing any broken or worn out parts; test the thermostat with, heat to see that it operates the air intakes and checks; replace any broken or rusted sections of stove pipe; secure plenty of good grade coal, such as was very hard to get last year when it was wanted; start, the stove a couple of days before the chicks are put in the brooder house; test fuel pipes and wicks of oil stoves. Comfortable quarters in the very earliest days means much in the fu- ture development of the chicks and the profit which they will return to their owners EGG SHOW WINNERS VISITOR to the egg show at East Lansing might easily have be— lieved that all of the hen houses in Michigan had been robbed to get the number of eggs in sight, but a casual examination of the exhibits soon con~ - Vinced any visitor that the exhibitors had performed some intensive culling of their supply of eggs in order to obtain the quality on display. The number of eggs shipped for ex- hibition enabled the managers of the show determine what method of pack- ing best protected the eggs shipped. Eggs packed in wooden containers with wood fiber filleds withstood ship- ment the best, according to a state- ment by managers of the show and eggs packed, rigidly in a rigid con- tainer suffered the most damage. The list of prize winners shows that poultry enthusiasts live in all sections of Michigan. In the list of winners given below, the awards made in Col- lege, college student, and college em- ployee classes are omitted; these classes were 1, '2, 3 and 11. Prize win- ners in the othe1 classes were: Class Four—Smith- Hughes Sweepstakes—P. Letts, b1011n eggs, Eaton Rapids High School, Michigan ReserVe S11eepstakes—K.Rockey brown eggs, Eaton Rapids High School, Michigan. White, Eggs Firsthaiold lVarIen, Breckenridge High School, Michigan. Second—~N. Mendel], Eaton Rapids High School, Michigan. Third——A. Covey, Eaton Rapids High School, Michigan. Fourth—Howard Musolff, S o u t h Lyon, Michigan. Fifth C DeCamp, Eaton Rapids High School, Michigan. Brown Eggs First—P. Letts. Second—K. Rockey. ' Third—G. Hawley, Eaton Rapids High School, Michigan. _ Fourth—L. Clark, Eaton Rapids High School, Michigan. Fifth—H. Buckles, High School, Michigan. Class No. 5—Commercial Class Sweepstakes—John Arnold, brown, Lansing, Michigan. Reserve Sweepstakes—~W. A. Downs white, Romeo, Michigan. White Eggs First—W A. Downs. Second—Hugh Green, Charlotte Third—4.. JE Moseley, Grand Rapids. Olgourthw‘l). B. Dargltz Montpelier-,1 Eaton Rapids (Continued on page 289) iw‘rx' ‘ v~._.._.,_ v-1- ,. i Ml-“ . THE MICHIGAN F/‘ARMIER gram, Lam’fllmflu m assay/:2 mac.“ ‘ wrunumxwr amwmmmlm 3‘13: . v4.1; - ,«mv- , ~ . . . , - A Just the Things Baby Chicks Need ' ' Oatmeal! . . . Cod Liver Oil and Meal! . . . Molasses! UAKER Ful-O-Pep Chick Starter Q "does the work” because it’s just the right combination of the things baby chicks should have—and nothing else! A base of pure, soft oatmeal . . . vitamin- laden cod liver oil . . . fresh cod liver meal . valuable minerals . . . and now, molasses! These are ingredients every poultry owner should know about. it: * ' 1‘ Think of this: oatmeal is more digestible (96% available) than any other grain roduct. It is soft and non-irritating. It just fits a baby Chick’s tender digestive tract. The cod liver oil in Quaker Ful-O-Pep Chick Starter is the finest oil to be had. It works like. sunshine, helps prevent rickets, leg weakness, toe-picking, and kindred ailments. It helps to build large, strong bones. Cod Liver Meal, in just the right propor- tion, adds to the efficiency of every other ingredient in Ful-O-Pep Chick Starter. It sends nourishment "right to the spot.” And now The Quaker Oats Company an- nounces another important ingredient for this exceptionally good feed—molasses! ‘ O-Pep Poultry Book. Your name and ad- Quaker FUL-O-PEP CHICK STARTER Tests over a period of years have proved the value of molasses in poultry feeding. It is rich in vitamin B. It contains potash. Being slightly laxative it relieves constipa- tion. In Quaker F ul-O-Pep Chick Starter, it is of exceptional value in preventing coccidiosis. ’l‘ * * Quaker Ful-O-Pep Chick Starter remains a dry mash, pleasant to handle and easy to feed. By an exclusive process the molasses is combined with the other ingredients so that the texture of the feed remains fine and dry. ’ * 3k * Use this good ration this year. You’ll get early birds for market. The pullets you keep will be the finest you’ve ever bad. It’s easy and economical to feed Quaker F ul-O-Pep Chick Starter. You can raise more birds with no more labor. Send for your free copy of the 1928 Ful- dress on a card will do. The Quaker Oats Company CHICAGO, U. S. A. Manufacturers of a complete line of live stock and poultry feeds—buy the feeds in striped sacks Ill/[III 11» 219 " \ - :,J»..+m..-..§7r , , M" . gift»: : msgwggmwwwrnL up . somewhat? mmwamexW' ~3‘ Wm muss. m ““““IIII- A . Lee! -1« .iu'rfl‘fl‘ ‘- I ' . -..‘I: .47 " .4. . 1 " Save Time— Increase Your Yields NCE over the field to sow fertilizer and plant your grain—that’ s how you can save time and insure the big yields you want with the John Deere -Van Brunt Fertilizer Grain Drill The accuracy of this drill insures uniform planting and fertilization the field over. The Van Brunt Adjustable Gate Force-Feeds handle all kinds of need, any quantity per acre. They compel an even, steady flow of seed into the open furrows. The fertilizer feeds distribute any fertilizer evenly in quantities from 65 to 1250 pounds per acre without clogging. Your crops will get a better start, grow rapidly and mature earl1er1fyou drill fertilizerwhen the seed Is planted with the John Deere—Van Brunt. See this money-melting drill at your John Deere dealer' e etore. Write to no for free folder describing it. Addreu John Deere, Moline. lllinoie and ask for Folder VA- 722 KINKADE GARDEN TRACTOR and Power Lawnmower Gardeners. 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Only 10 000 points win-tin N rink obi] -—-no cation—no 0066 to o 1 i1;- 000 .COO as fkk‘": monotone. “on 135” '13:" W l'. I. BAILBY5 Erin-for Prom II: t rl wl l d id 003 It xtreetotb . D so nnblfirblipll ladiefi'fluefnacm oi the.“ .9330 nlgk: name-nil , 537 80. ”author-WWW!" .CIIICIIIOIIII: ms. 18, ‘ms News and Views. From INGLESIDE F.\RM—By Stanley Powell r 0U will be interested to know Y that the shom sheep are coming along nicely. The thermometer in the sheep barn has been hovering around forty degrees and although the fleeces have been off for about ten days now, we haven‘t noticed any ill effects. Of course, as is almost al- ways the case, the sheep have a con- siderably more hearty appetite than befme. A surprise which shearing brought us 11 as the discoveiy of how plump our sheep are this year. I had broken all Ingleside precedents and witheld grain entirely from our pure- bred Shropshire breeding ewes until January 29, but even though they had been subsisting on a ., diet of alfalfa and clover hay, they came out of their overcoats plump as part- ridges. In fact some of them are carrying too much weight for breed- ing stock. Since January 29 I have been giving them a moderate allow- ance of oats twice a day. After the lambs are born and the ewes are suckling them, we shall be a little more generous with the grain and shall feed some extra choice second. cutting alfalfa which we are saving for that period. It is always interesting to study the sheep after they have just been sheared because then their conforma- tion is so evident. Some show up sur- prisingly near perfection in build and proportion, which in others hitherto hidden faults are revealed. Several years ago we purchased an imported ram of which we thought a great deal until he was sheared. When his clever- ly trimmed fleece had been removed he came forth with a poor back, peaked at the rump, pot-bellied, and ewe-necked. ’ProL.;L.‘y the wool on the weak parts of his anatomy had been allowed to accumulate for two or three years, while that over his paunch had been clipped fairly short. Hard to Identify After shearing it is usually baffling to identify many of the sheep that were easily recognized before the wool was removed. There is an old saying that “The clothes make the man.” To a considerable extent the appearance of a. sheep is determined by the floods. When the wool is re- moved there aren’t so many distin- guishing characteristics left. I sup- pose that if all the feathers were to be plucked from our poultry we could- n’t tell one bird from another. In like manner if a few dozen of my good friends were to appear devested of their apparel, I might find difficulty in recognizing some of them imme- diately. It is just four weeks now since we purchased those fall lambs and they are growing like weeds. We weighed them this afternoon and found that they have been gaining a half a. pound a day each. This we think is pretty good considering the fact that during this period they were docked, castra- ted, and have been weaned. We weighed our horses this after- noon for the first time in two months and were pleased to find that each of them has made a good gain in weight during the past sixty days. The gain varied from forty pounds to 110 pounds. The horse that made the smallest gain during this period was in the best flesh at the beginning and the one that took on 110 pounds was our thinnest horse. We have now brought our horses to the point that there is only eighteen pounds differ- ence between the lightest and heaviest. horse in the barn. These gains have been made on mixed hay, containing considerable alfalfa, and an average of only two quarts of oats per feed for each horse. The horse that was the thinnest has also received two or three cars of corn extra per feed. They are watered three times a. day, kept well bedded and carefully groomed at least once a day. Several people who have examined the stalls since we have widened them have remarked about the fact that I keep 'a chain hooked across behind each horse. This may or may not be a good practice. However, we find this arrangement quite satisfactory. It makes the horse barn look heater, keeps the horses from getting their bedding out from under them and pretty effectively prevents them kick‘ ing one another. Sold Last Grade Cow We expected before this to be able to report the arrival of another pure- bred Milking Shorthorn calf, but; there seems to have been a little de- lay somewhere along the line. Wel- fare Marie 3rd presented her addition to our herd eleven days ago. Lady Eleanor 3rd was supposed to freshen a day ahead of Marie, but she is still keeping us in the dark as to her plans. We sold our last grade cow :1 week ago and now have the satisfaction, after long years of struggle, of having nothing but pure-bred Milking Short.— horns in our dairy herd. We started with this breed several years ago by purchasing quite an expensive pair of females. Shortly after that we bought a bunch of young cattle from Chicago and they brought along the shipping fever. The younger of our new pure-brads tooks the disease and despite all that our veterinarian could do, it proved fatal. The other cow lived long and milked generously, but she had one very dis- couraging habit to us Who wanted to build up a- herd—she exhibited a strong favoritism for bull calves! Eight times we lived in hopes and ex- pectation. Seven times we were doomed to dismal disappointment when her progeny turned out to be of the masculine gender. Once not long after we had purchased her she did raise us a heifer calf which is still in our herd. The last time the old cow was bred, the owner of the bull offered father a good price, I believe it was $65.00, for the calf to be delivered as soon as born. Father was so sure that it would be another bull calf that he accepted the. offer. Be it said to his credit that he didn’t back out of the bargain when the old cow brought forth a. splendid roan heifer calf! Thanks for YOur LEtters We can see how it is that those in charge of radio programs like to hear from their audience. It is somewhat unnerving to talk or write and not know how your ideas and efforts are being received. Recently we have had quite a large number 'of letters from readers of these articles. They have been very kind letters, full of appre- ciation or personal experiences sug- gested by things which I had written. Mr. Albert Brender of Mt. Clemens, Route 7, was very much‘pl’eased with my letter .to the young an who in- quired about farming as ., life work. He said, “You told him right from the shoulder what farming is without leaving out one thing ” In another portion of his letter Mr. Brender wrote, “I want to tell you (Continued on page'237) .41 ‘W’,, ”a. . ‘ if, ”a. ' FEB ’ [18.11.928' 5 Service Department. LIABILITY ON NOTE In 1922 I backed a note which be- came due in 1923. I did not hear any- thing about the note and thought it had been paid long ago until yesterday when I received a letter from an at- torney in whose hands the note had been placed for collection by the hold- er. This letter stated that if I did not settle for note in a few days I would have to stand suit. What can I do in this case? Can I be held liable for payment of this note?—H. M. A note due in 1923 would not be out- lawed yet. Unless the note contained waiver of presentation, protest, and notice, or the note was presented, pro— tested, and notice given at the time default was made, the liability of the endorser would be discharged. If these things were done at that time or the note contained a waiver the endorser is still liable—Rood, A ON E-THIRD PLAN Is it customary to feed your third of the hay or grain when the owner furnishes everything and you get one- third for .your share? Do I have to pay Ofiethird of the threshing bill? There are two general plans used for dividing crops. The first is by dividing feeds and grain crops in the mow or stack and each party doing as he sees fit with his share. The second plan is to feed the undivided crops to the stock on the farm and divide the proceeds from sale of live stock and stock products. The grain crops, potatoes, etc., are sold and the pro— ceeds divided in this case. The latter plan is the one that is most commonly used. On the share basis the tenant and landlord bears such expenses as threshing in the same proportion as the income is received—F. T. Riddell. OWNER’S SHARE We are about to rent a farm, the owner furnishing half the cows and we, the renters, furnishing everything else and receiving two—thirds of all but the cows. What shares from the cream should the land—owner receive? Your question relative to income from cows is a difficult one to answer. This is an unusual method of renting and also difficult to answer in that I do not know what portion of the farm income is to be expected from the cows. I believe that as you are approach- ing the 50—50 lease plan of rental, you would find it a more satisfactory meth- od of rental. A TIMBER DEAL I sold seven acres of timber to a company in Indiana. The memoran- - dum agreement reads as follows: “The following timber—all saw timber 12 inches from the ground and 12 inches across the stump, all tips to be left on the farm.” I supposed that the saw timber meant logs to be made into lumber but instead they are tak- ing everything but tops and cutting it into stove wood shipping a few logs to Indiana. PleaSe advise—R. S. R. The words are not technical. It is a question of intention of the parties, to be gathered from the whole instru— ment. The statement “all saw timber” would indicate that nothing but the logs would pass. It would appear to be confined to what could be sawed into lumber. A different construction might be inferred from other parts of the instrument, from prior experi- ence in the same community known to both parties or probably in their con- templation in making the contract. In Balderson v. Seely,‘160 Mich. 186, it is held that a. sale of timber entitled the purchaser to all tops from which saw logs had been cut. 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W.——:fi FARMER "K --m 18.1928 machine-omen V PEAR PRUNING HE merits of high- and low-headed trees have been compared, and a. study made of the effect upon tree growth and fruit production of much and little pruning. Low-headed trees receiving little pruning have been proved most satisfactory in all re- Spects. Such well-known varieties as Anjou, Bartlett, Kieffer, Sheldon, Seckel, and~ Lawrence were used in the Geneva E‘x- periment Station tests to study the relative value of high and low head- ing. Certain of these varieties have also been used in tests of much and little pruning for pears. Fro-1n the re- sults secured it would seem that low heads were best for all varieties of pears, especially for the tall, upright- growing types. Low-headed trees produced larger, broader, and rather more symmetri- cal tops than did the high-headed ones, it is said. This proved particu- larly advantageous for unwieldy va- rieties like Kieffer. Careful heading and early training are always desir- able. ' It can be safely recommended that all varieties of pears will respond bet- ter to little pruning than to severe pruning and thinning. Little pruning seems to produce rather more symme- trical tops as well as larger bearing areas. Heavy pruning appears to stimulate a greater wood growth which results in rather bushy growth or sometimes rangy and unwieldy branches and relatively smaller hear- ing areas. SPRING FRUIT MEETING HE Michigan State Horticultural Society will hold its spring meet- ing at Pontiac, February 28-29 in the ball room of the Roosevelt Hotel. The following program reveals many sub- jects which are of practical interest to fruit-growers. Orchard S o i l Management—John Sims. The Geology of Eastern Michigan Fruit Soils—JV. S. Toothacker. The Backyard Fruit Garden—R. J. Coryell. The Farmers Retail Market—Isaac Band. Peach Cultural Practices in Ontar- io—-E. F. Palmer, Vineland Station, Ontario, Canada. Address—Judge Arthur J. Tuttle, Detroit, Michigan. I'sing Dust to Aid Application Tim- ing—H. A. Cardinell. The Selection of Spray Materials~ W. C. Dutton. The Importance of Cross-pollination and the Honey-bee in Fruit Yields (Illustratedl—H. D. Hootman. The Management of Production Problems on 3. Fruit Farm—#Frank Farnsworth, ,VVatervillc, Ohio. The Demands of the Consumer#G. V. Branch. Director of Detroit Muni- cipal Markets. , FEBRUARY FLOWER NOTES HILE our flower gardens are resting under their winter cover- ing and we are marking time waiting for spring activities to start, we can make the selection of new varieties of flowers for our gardens an easier mat- ter by a little thought and planning now. \Vith this in mind, I should like to direct your attention to a few of the newer things which I have found _ desirable for Michigan conditions. The - very latest introductions have not been included as they are so diflicult for the average gardener to locate in the market nor has an attempt been made to furnish a complete list of all the worthwhile things. ‘Rather have I tried to show some of the best new subjects that will do well under av- erage garden conditions in our state. Among the new perennials of merit, may be mentioned that new Gaillardia '- locality? “Portola.” It is a strong grower, two and one-half to three feet high, pro« ducing three and four inch flowers on long, stiff stems that are ideal for cut- ting. Bright scarlet petals heavily tipped with yellow makes it a. very desirable cut flower. The new Aqui- legias are truly revelations of the plant breeder’s art and in this class I know of nothing that will surpass Mrs. Scott Elliott’s Long-Spurred Hy- brids. The colors of this strain run from red through pink, mauve, laven- der, blue, purple, cream, and yellow to white and the individual flowers are so large and the spurs so long they scarcely look like our old Colum- bines. Those of you who know the old Ire- land Poppy will welcome the news of a new type, a cross between the Ice- land and the annual Shirley. This strain is known as Sunbeams and in- cludes quite a range of colors such as orange, salmon, and apricot. They make delightful cut flowers and, like the perennial half of their. parentage, are perfectly hardy under Michigan conditions. A new hardy lily, easily raised from seed, is the Regal. It is white, outside of petals suffused with pink and throat light yellow. Sow the seeds in a. cold frame or other pro- tected place in early spring. cultivate and weed as you would in the case of other seedlings and transplant the small bulbs in the fall to their per- manent home. With good culture, this lily should bloom the second year. I can not close this short list with- out mentioning the new Lupines. I saw a garden this past summer when these stately flowers were at their best and I assure you it was a sight long to be remembered. For the amateur grower, a strain of the new hybrids such as the Harkness or Downer with their wide range of colors would probably be the most sat- isfactory. However, if a particular color is wanted, one of the named varieties would be the thing. They grow from two to three feet high and produce long spikes of flowers from June until September. This does not by any means exhaust the list of really worthwhile new per- ennials but these few will add much of interest and pleasure to the hardy border—C. W. Wood. CABBAGE I wish to plant about five acres of cabbage. What variety is best for my Should I use seed or buy plants ?—E. L. S. The variety of cabbage and method of culture depends on whether it is an early or late crop. Copenhagen Market or Early Jersey Wakefield are the best early varieties, while a good . strain of Danish Ball Head is best for late crop. For the early crop it is es- sential to start plants under glass in order to have well grown plants for transplanting by April 15. Seed for this crop would be sown Feb. 1—10. Seed for the late crop is sown May 15 and the plants set July 1. There are arguments on both sides of plant- ing the seed directly in the field. By the use of seed bed methods, it is pos- sible to utilize land for some other crop there, less intensive cultivation required, and more seed is necessary. However, planting the seed directly does away with any check in the de- velopment of the plant due to trans- planting and requires less labor. In most cases, however, the seed is sown in a. seed bed and transplanted. _ Egyptian mummies are being stud— led through their wrapping by X-rays. The United States imported sixty- one million pounds of tomatoes from Mexico last year. ‘. ‘s Ail-1 .3: WASHTENAW COUNTY FARM —“ / . _' FEB. 18, 1928 FARMERS ENTHUSE OVER SOILS COURSE HAT Washtenaw County farmers are enthusiastic over the system- atic soils course which is being put on in this county by John W. Sims, soils extension man of the Michigan State College is evident from a hit and miss interview of prominent farmers. “The first lesson has already been given,” said H. S. Osler, county agri- cultural agent, “and the leaders and folks back home in the communities are looking forward to the next one. The real substantial farmers of the county tell me that they believe this work is fundamental and they are eager for it. It has attracted those farmers who are interested in stabil— ity and progress rather than the fly-by— the-creeks and ne’er-dowells.” Osler reports that there are eigh- teen local leaders who have faithfully gone back to their home communities with the idea of spreading the infor- mation learned to those of their friends and associates who care for it. The average attendance at such meet- ings has been fifteen which means that this work is reaching around 275 farm- ers in Washtenaw County. Jay A. Smith, a 400—acre farmer, keeping Shorthorn cattle and feeding sheep, whose son, H. C. Smith, is one of the local leaders, says that he be- lieves this work is of a basic nature. “The fertility of a man’s farmais the capital of his business,” said Smith, “and naturally he should take good care of this capital.” “This ,is perhaps the most funda- mental extension project that the Michigan State College has under- taken,” said George McCalla, president of the Washtenaw County Farm Bur- eau and the operator of two dairy farms. “1 am glad this work has been started and especially glad that it came to Washtenaw County this year.” BUREAU HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING BOUT 160 farm men and women sat down to the banquet which featured the annual meeting of the Washtenaw County Farm Bureau, in Ann Arbor, Friday, January 27th. Headliners on the program were Doc- ton Eben Mumford of the Michigan State College and C. L. Nash, director of organization for the Michigan State Farm Bureau. Delightful numbers were rendered by the Ann Arbor High School Orchestra and of more than passing interest were the quartette numbers put on by the Korrect Kare Kalf Klub, of Washtenaw County. Members of this quartette were Fred Rathfon, Max Ross, Carl DeNight, and Edmund Schuart. The climax of Dr. Munford’s talk which consisted of piling up evidence to show that farm organizations are doing a piece of work so valuable that it is impossible of calculation, came when he said, “All that we have out- side of our heredity is due to our asso- ciation with and suggestions from others.” According to this authority, a study of the methods and policies pursued by eighty master farmers in this and other states shows that they belong . to six or seven organizations and even so, have double the leisure of the low- est paid laborers in their community. “It isn’t the number of hours a farm- er works that counts,” said Mumford, “but rather how he works with what is above his shoulders.” It was pointed out that city busi- nessmen prescribing for the ills of agricultum often say, “If farmers would quit spending money on and in their automobiles, and stay at home more, they would get along better." The fallacy of this reasoning was _ pointed out by stating that the auto- ,, ,_§nobfle‘is no, longer a luxury but a necessity. a. tune saver. and a means From‘i‘o of to basement” Mali the way to buy a c ar BUICK MOTOR COMPANY , FLINT, MICHIGAN ' The man who buys a home goes over it thoroughly from roof to basement, to make certain that it has the » sound construction that means long and enduring service. That’s the way to buy a home —or a motor car. And that’s the way to prove the fundamental superiority of Buick for 1928. Examine Buick carefully, part by part.- You’ll find every bit of material used — every nut and cotter pin—of the highest quality. Go over Buick, from headlight to tail-light. Go into every hidden detail. There you’ll discover the secret of Buick’s famous depend. ability and long life—sound, sturdy construction throughout. Buy your car as youwould a home. Buickwelcomes this search- ...,,_,,,,, , ing test, and invites critical A comparisons. And Buick is m willing to leave the decision ‘ ' V to you. Division of General Motors Cmporatian Canadian Factofies: MCLAUGHLIN-BUICK, Oshawa, Ontario SEDANS $1195 to $1995 1 COUPES$1195 to $1850 1 SPORT MODELS $1195 to $1525 All prices f. a. 1:. Flint, Mich, government tax to be added. Tbe G. M. A. C. financing plan. the most desirable, is available. BUICK WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, BUICK WILL BUILD THEM by which the farm family can enjoy the leisure that has been earned. That much progress has been made in Michigan in fifteen years, despite oft repeated statements of knockers to the contrary, lies in the fact that fifteen years ago, .there was only one cooperative in the state—~over in the fruit territory. In fact, the first co- operative shipping association and creamery was organized in Litchfield in 1913. . C. L. Nash pointed out that the farm ‘bureau program stands for (1) Effi- cient program of production on the farm, (2) Cooperative marketing, and (3) the welding together of an organ- ization so that the voice of agricul- ture could be heard in legislative halls and in the marts of trade. Among instances cited showing that the farm bureau has justified its exis- tence in a business way, Nash referred to the Zone Rate Case which saves Montcalm County alone the little mat— ter of $15,000 a. year on freights in and out of the county. Sent FREE will ive you wonderful yield. Whatever kind of soil you have, there’s an Isbell strain of alfalfa that Beware of inferior seed of unknown quality. Isbel '5 Bell Brand Seeds are of proven hardiness and vitality —-safe anywhere. lsbefl’s Send today for your copy of Isbell's Seed Annual—the authoritative book on seeds 1 928 and crops. Samples of farm seed showing quality sent on request I REE. Annual 5. M. ISBELL & 60.. 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Facts which are miraculous to an animal are com- mon enough to its master. When the wood chopper in the Old Testament lost his axe-head, and the prophet caused it to float, that was looked upon as pure mir- acle. Who had ever heard of iron floating? But n o w a d a y s iron ships sail all the oceans of the world, and no one gives it sec- 0 n d t h o u g h t. More than that, airplanes made of wood and steel, and propelled by heavy engines, travel at high speed through the air, against winds, and rising to great heights. Is that a miracle? It would have been thought so, at one time. The other night I listened in, while some one was sending a. message to a party of men and women in the far north, where a. supply ship comes with mail and provisions but once a year. The operator named the people at the sub- arctic station, telling them good night. and promising to send another mes- sage to them in a month. Was that miracle? Think of it! ‘ No, it was not, as we look at it. But that does not mean that we under- stand it. It only means that it has become common, and we are accus- tomed to hearing about it. Now, we do not understand how Jesus calmed the storm that night. —oo~30-30~30-50-50-3[] \ 0-50—30-50 How Much for a Perfect Stand? Perhaps you have never figured just how much a perfect stand of com 18 worth in dollars and cents. But we know, that men who grow a hundred bushels to the acre use tested seed and a planter that doesn’t miss a hill. That’s how the Black Hawk made its reputation. It was the first planter with p o s i t iv e action—the first that planted exactly the right number of kernels and never missed a hill. Today the Black Hawk has all- its original good qualities—with improved features that keep it just as far ahead as it was when first ofiered to the corn grower. Use a Black Hawk to grow more com per acre. The Ohio Cultivator Co. Bellevue, Ohio o~30—Jow30~30—Jom30—oo-oo—Jo~:o~:o~:o—oo—Jo-3 a But that does not mean that it may not have been done in accordance with the simplest laws, which we do not understand, but which he did. You play the piano, and bring out of the instrument some harmony. That would be amazing to an Esquimaux. To you it is simple. So the mastery which Jesus at times evinced over na- ture was undoubtedly in accord with what he considered to be the most every day facts of His Father’s world.. Nothing miraculous about it, at all. \Vill we ever get to know how he did these things? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Selfish and greedy men will not, in all probability, as Jesus looked out on the world with eyes wholly unselfish and completely friendly. To him, it would seem it was a matter of faith in God, and he was surprised that any one should be afraid in this most kind and friendly world. “Why are ye fear- ful?” he asked. “Have ye not yet faith?” But miracle has symbolic meaning, as well aspractical meaning. The fact that we do not understand how this and that was done, by the Master, does not mean that we do not believe it. That attitude is too silly for words. We are surrounded by mystery on every hand. This is a world of my- steries. I hope my readers are fami- liar with Doctor L. H. Bailey’s little volume of verse, “Wind and Weather.” The poems are all on country life.- a ‘FEB. 18, 1928 . . The shortest poem of all is “Miracle,” where the author says that, talking of miracles, is there anything more mir- aculous than the burst of green in the spring, when the bare limbs are suddenly clothed in beautiful gar- ments? “Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; Today the glint of green is there; Tomorrow will be leaflets spare; I know no thing so wondrous fair No miracle so strangely rare. , I wonder what will next be there!” No one needs to be afraid to believe in the miracles of Christ, or to admit that he cannot explain them. And they are symbolic, as said above. In the case of the cure of disease, we note that disease is cured only when faith is present, either in the case of the patient, or of interested persons. In the instance of the palsied man. four persons believed hard enough to break up the roof, to get him into the presence of the Physician. In this Week’s lesson, the demoniac apparent- ly had no one to bring him before Jesus, yet no doubt many people there had some faith, whereon the healing power could travel. The whole range of Jesus’s healing is only another way of showing how able he is to help poor, suffering humanity. . SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 19th SUBJECTz—Jesus’ Power Over Na.- ture and Human Life. Mark 4:35 1:6 5:20. -‘ GOLDEN TEXT—Mark 4:41. Complete Farm Property Protection (Continued from page 214) . Protective Service protects the farm- er outside his own premises. Our legal adviser and. investment counsi-' lor aid in the investment of surplus funds and in its protection. Claims are handled against advertisers, trans- portation comp anie s, commission houses, and other concerns with whom there are misunderstandings or who. attempt to take advantage 'of the farm- er. Swindlers and crooks who try to work rural districts of the state will be summarily dealt with by every agency that can be brought against them. Who Can Be Members This then gives the reader an idea. of’ the broad plan of Michigan Farmer Protective Service now established. New features will be added as they prove themselves useful. All this service is available to sub— scribers of the Michigan Farmer Who- have their subscriptions paid in ad- vance. When a farmer becomes a. member of the Michigan Farmer Pro- tective Service, he will receive a neat,» weather-proof, three-colored, s t 9 el Protective Service Sign, a. Warning Poster informing trespassers against the danger of invading the member’s premises without permit, a. signed Membership Certificate, and a Regis- tered Tag and Key Chain for the pro- tection of locked-up property and for identification purposes. Twenty-five cents in stamps or coin from a. paid- , above mentioned in-advance subscriber will bring the items, make the sender a member of the Michigan Farmer Protective Service and regis— ter his name and key chain number in the Michigan Farmer offices. Additional Property Protection Warning Signs can be had for posting all outbuildings where valuable live stock, poultry, grain, and other farm products are stored. These warning signs carry announcements of 'the Fifty Dollar Rewards offered for theft of farm property and of the Fifty Dol- lar Reward for trespassing in viola- tion of the Horton Trespass Law. . This is another of the carefully thought out Michigan Farmer projects. It was only after long study of con- ditions in Michigan and of the protec- tive work done in other states, that this move was undertaken. The suc- cess with Travel Accident Insurance Protection, the Master and Champion Farmer movements, together with the long line of successes that mark Mich- igan Farmer History throughout its eighty-five years, guarantees to. the subscriber the successful consumma- tion of the Michigan Farmer Protec- tive Service. We anticipate in carry- ing out this program the same Whole hearted cooperation from our readers and friends that we have enjoyed in putting on other projects for the bene- fit and improvement of Michigan Agri- culture. E. A. Shearer, 1632 Lafayette Blvd, Detroit. Dear Mr. Shearer: Manager, Michigan Farmer Protective Service, Enclosed find twenty-five cents for which enroll me as a member of the Michigan Farmer Protective Service and send me the weath- er—proof, steel Protective Service Sign, the Registered Tag and Key Chain with proper registration in ydur Detroit offices, a signed Membership Certificate, and a Warning Sign carrying the announce— ment of awards for capturing thieves and trespassers. closing the stencil of my address from the Michigan Farmer showing that I am a bani fida subscriber to that. publication. 0...... oooooooooooooooooooo I am en- ........... 3.1).... IOOIIIIDOOI. o. ssssss ....Staote..‘. o o o o - n ...... . , ,.-,., ..,_ 'f""t' .m- , , 4. r. l' l. 4 l . . ,, .L. .. a ' ' . , u a / i l i" m. 13. 1928. ...... E = E‘ = =: .— E 55 2 =3 .... = = = * = = = =' = .. .. == ...... E = = r...- = .... =- = = .... == = .— E E E E E E = E =' = = = ..=_ E = E E = =‘ E = = = ' = = =.-._- = = = ... l. THE MICHIGAN FARMER 17—225 lllllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllIIlllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllflllllllllllllllllllllllllll|lll|IlllllllllllllllllllllIlllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllIIllIllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllll ‘4" Your Spring Needs Check over the things you will need to fix up the barn, your home and your farm equipment for spring. Make out your list and take it to YOUR NEAREST FARM SERVICE HARDWARE STORE. These merchants study farmers’ needs. Their goods are selected from the quality standpoint and their prices are the lowest that quality backed With service will permit. Look through this suggestion list then go to your nearest TAG STORE. need When you need them will be there for you to inspect Garden Seeds Window Glass Chicken Fence Window Screens Door Hooks Grease Cups Whisk Brooms Clothes Pins Gasoline Lanterns Flashlights Chicken Feed Stock Food Curta'in Poles Screen Door Springs Porch Floor Paint Cupboard Latches Furniture Polish Oil and Gas Stoves Floor Varnish Kitchen Enamel Wall Paint Steel Wool Tractor Oil Water Faucets Milk Cans Electric Wire Electric Plugs Bathroom Fixtures Stove Blacking ‘ Check this list before you go to town Picture Wire and Hooks Fencing Tools Chains Pulleys LaWn Mowers Hoes Spades Brooms Refrigerators Rope Axes Rakes Stepladder Screen Doors Forks Mops Hammers Tacks Sandpaper Hatchets Wrenches Window Locks Pipe Fittings Spark Plugs Repair Parts Washers Belting Coat Hooks Pails Hose Look‘ in this list for your nearest tag store ADRIAN. .Wllcox Hardware Co. ALLEGAN. . . . . . . .Phillips Bros. ANN ARBOR ............ . . . . . . . . .Ann Arbor Implement Co. ANN ARBOR ......... Schlenkee Hdwe. Co. ARMADA..Wm. Spencer & Son ASHLEY ............. Geo. Reeb BAY CITY. . . .Rechlin Hdw. Co. BAY CITY. .John W. Putz Hdw. BANN STE’R. . . .Wm. G. Ferris BELD G. . . .Belding Hdwe. Co. BELLAIRE ........ Fred D. Flye BELLEVUE. . . .Shaler Hdw. Co. BENTLEY ......... Pelton Bros. BERRIEN SPRINGS ........... ......... Angell Hardware Co. BRANT ............. A. J. Locke BRECKENRIDGEP. C. Thomas BRUCE CROSSING ............ ........ Bjornstrom & Simula BYRON. . . .A. M. Chapel & Son CALEDONIA .......... Wenger & Clemens CALUMET.Keckonen Hdwe. Co. CAMDEN...Camden Hdwe. Co. CARO ............... F. A. Riley CARO ....... Caro Hardware Co. CARSON CITY . . .......... J. W. Hallett & So CEDAR SPRINGS.John Bencus CENTERVILLE ............... .......... Truckenmiller Bros. CHARLEVOIX ...... Wood Bros. CHEBOYGAN ..... ........ Cheboygan Hdwe. Co. CHELSEA ............. Chelsea Hdwe. & Furniture Co. CHESANING . . . . .......... Chesaning Sales Co. CLARE . . . Clare Hdwe. & Implement Co. CLINTON.O. B. Feldkamp & Co. CLINTON .. ........Fred G. Van De Mark cm Conoholooceooo-MOC.DOyle GUOOOCICOOOCOCCWmC Ho mton ‘ COLOMA ........ H CO'LOMA ell-oceanooeooocoaloo ........ Coloma Hardware Co. arry W. Hill COMSTOCK PARK ........ . . . . ............. . . . . Morris Bros CONCORD. . . ..... D. E. Warner COOPERSVILLE .............. ........... Durham Hdwe. Co. CORAL. . .John N. Drake Hdwe. CROSWELL. .Smyth & Straffon CRYSTAL FALLS ............ . ........... John Bauer & Son DECATUR ....... A. C. Brigham DECKER .......... O. W. Nique DECKERVILLE. .Thos. MCNabb DEVVITT. .A. L. Eldridge Hdwe. DEXTER ...... Quish Steptoe & Arksey DIMONDALE ....... Winegars & Mulhollan DORR ~ . . .Rogers Lmbr. & Hdwe. Co. EDMORE .......... F. J. Snyder ELSIE. . . . .......... H. B. Crell ELSIE .......... M. E. Williams ELKTON ..... Elkton Hdwe. Co. ELLSVVORTH . Ellsworth Hdwe. EUREKA ............ Ed. Gower EVART. . . .Bregenzer Hdwe. Co. EWEN ............ Miles Wilcox FAIRGROVE. . . .A. R. Malsbury FARWELL .................. ,. ......... Binghams Hdwe. Co. FARGO ...... Heinmiller’s Store FIFE LAKE ....... J. S. Hodges FLUSHING. . . .Haffner & Lytle FLUSHING. . . .James B. French FOUNTAIN ......... Reek Bros. FRANKENMUTH ....... A. Nuechterlein & Co. GAGETOWN ......... Gagetown Hdwe. Co. GRAND LEDGE. .James Winnie GRAND RAPIDS ............. . . . . . . . .Schantz Implement Co. GREENVILLE . ......... Greenville Hdwe. Co. HADLEY ........ Morton Hdwe HAMILTON ...... H. J. Lampen HARBOR SPRINGS ........... ..Walrond, Friend & Cassidy. HART .......... Sayles & Lewis HARTFORD. . . .Jim’s Hardware HASTINGS..Fellows Hdwe. Co. HOLLAND ....Nies Hdwe. Co. HOLLOWAY ....... F. J. Blouch HOMER ........... A. E. Adams HORTON ......... Thorne & Co. HOWARD CITY ............... .....R S. Jennings Hdwe. Co. HOWELL ..... Sutton Hdwe. Co. HUDSON ................... . . . ....... Harry T. Dillon & Co. HUDSONVILLE B. &. T. Hughes IDA .............. W. J. Scheid IONIA ....The Ionia Hdwe. Co. IRON MOUNTAIN.Rians Hdwe. ITHACA ......... E. J. Alverson JONESVILLE ....... Grill Hdwe. KALKASKA ....... F. T. Tompkins & Co. KAWKAWLIN ................ ............. Stevig Hdwe. Co. KENT CITY. .Carlson & Trofast KILMANAGH ............... .. ............ Clement P. -Woldt KINDE .......... Damrow Bros. LAINGSBURG ....... A. F. Brya. LAMBERTVILLE ............... H. W. Capman LAPEER ..... Lapeer Hdwe. Co. LASALLE ......... C. L. Miller LEONIDAS ......... B. J. Banta LESLIE ........ W. H. Johnston LEVERING . ........ Wm. De Kruif & Co. LINCOLN ........ E. C. Nieman LINDEN ........ M. W. Johnson LITCHFIELD . . . ... .C. E. VVolfinger and Son LOWELL ............ M. W. Gee LYONS ........ Hatch & Baker McMILLAN.H. J. Skinner & Co. MANCHESTER . Fred Widmayer MANISTEE ..... Meyer & Wahr MAPLE RAPIDS ........... . . . . . . .Upton Lmbr. & Hdwe. Co. MARCELLUS ....... C. A. Rose MARION ..... Marion Hdwe. Co. MARLETTTE ................. ........... Schlichter’s Hdwe. MARQUE’TTE ........ LKelley Hardware Co. MARTIN .. .A. Patterson & Son MECOSTA ....... W. R. Carman MEMPHIS ....... A. L. Haight MENOMINEE ................. ........... Sollen & Eastburg MASON ......... L. E. Salisbury MENDON ..... A. H. Shumaker MIDLAND . . . . . .Wenzel Hdwe. MIDDLETON ......... Middleton Hdwe. Co. MILAN ...... Sanford Hdwe. Co. MILLINGTON.FI‘ed Wills & Co. MONROE ...... Gekle & Martin MONTGOMERY. . . .L. E. Calvin. MORRICE. . .Fred W. Burtnette MUNITH ............ L. C. Harr MUIR .......... R. W. Branyan MULLIKEN ................... ........... Bidwell & Peabody ONONDAGA ...... M. J. Baldwin OSSEO ........... GLW. Darrow OTSEGO ..... The Jones Hdwe OTTAWA LAKE..F. L. Rymill OXFORD Wm. J. Turnstead Hdwe. Co. PENTWATER ............... . Williams Hdwe. Co. PETERSBURG . . . . ....... A. C. Gradolph & Son PEWAMO. . .Pewamo Hdwe. Co. PETOSKEY. . . . .McCabe Hdwe. PICKFORD. . . ..... Fred Taylor PIGEON. . . . . .Doepker & Damm PIGEON. . . . . . .Leipprandt Bros. POMPEII . . . . . . . . .N. B. Fraker PORT AUSTIN...S. J. W‘allaoe You-2 will find this tag in their window Your visit Will convince you that the many things you before you buy. PORT AUSTIN.Schubel & Watt PORT SANILAC .F‘red Raymond POTTERVILLE ............... ........ Mulhollan & Laverty ROCKFORD Dick Kimm Furn. & Hdwe. Co. RHODES ...... John Levandoski QUINCY ........... J. C. White QUINCY ........ A. W. Brandon RIVERDALE.R. E. Moblo & Co. RODNEY ....... Geo. Burghdorf ROGERS CIT'Y ................ ....... Rogers City Hdwe. Co. ROMEO ..... Romeo Hdwe Co. ROSEBUSH ..... Geo. H. Fraser ROTHBURY ..... H. F. Newman SAND LAKE ..... W. D. Sinclair SANDUSKY. ..Clare Orr Estate SALINE ........ H. Gross & Son SALINE ..... Sanford Hdwe. Co. SCOTTVILLE ...... T. D. Smith SHEPARDSVILLE. .I. J. Frisbie ST. CHARLES ............... . McKeighan—Your Hdwe. Man ST. CHARLES ................ .......... Ray Grimley & Son ST. JOHNS. . . .Spaulding & Co. ST. JOSEPH ....... Aber-G-m’mm ST. JOSEPH .................. ........ Richter & Achterberg ST LOUIS. .St. Louis Hdwe. Co. SARANAC ..... M. A. Wilkinson SAULT STE. MARIE .......... ............. Fletcher’s Hdwe. SAULT STE. MARIE ......... . ............ Gowan Hardware SAWYER ..................... ..Zeigler Lumber & Coal Co. SEBEWAING .......... John Rummel & Co. SHELBY ......... A. J. Rankin SHERWOOD. . .Sherwood Hdwe. SNOVER ..Turner Kitching Hdwe. Co. SPARTA ..J. C. Ballard & Co. STANTON. . .Stanton Hdwe. Co. STURGIS. . . .Bassler' Hdwe. Co. STANDISH.Econ0my Hdwe. Co. SUNFIELD. . . .Sweitzer & Esler TAWAS CITY ..... Eugene Bing TAWAS CITY . ........ C. H. Prescott & Son TEKONSHA , .......... Warner & Doolittle T'EMPERANCE . Temperance Hdwe. & Supply TRAVERSE CITY ............. ...... Frank Trude Hdwe. Co. TRUFANT ....... N. P. Nielsen TURNER. . . .Peoples Hdwe. Co. UNION CITY . . . .E. W. Merchant and Sons WEBBERVILLE .............. ....... E. H. Hath Hdwe. Co. WATERVLIET. . . .0. E. Austin WATERVLIET.H. Pierce & Son WE'IDMAN ....... E. G. Albright WHITE PIGEON .............. .......... White Pigeon Hdwe YALE ....... John Hutton & Son. ZEELAND. . . . . .M. C. Ver Hage :1 arm. ‘ as mused!!! .Il's'. 1“..me +1 l Jill's fllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllflflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllflllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllllIlllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllI|||l|l||lllllllllllllllllllllll|llllllllllllIIlllllllllllllIllIIIllIIllIflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllIlllIllllIlllllllllfllllllllIlfllllllllllllflllllllllllllllllll|IlllllllllllllllllIIlllllllllIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllll i l" ‘ ‘lsm .- "1.3m . r "a. as on on. ‘ TILLAGE IMPLEMENTS Whether you use horses or a tractor on your place. there is a Roderick Lean Harrow exactly suited to your power and tillage requirements. You will find any Roderick Lean ,Harrow to be better than the aver- age harrow. We have specialized in harrow building for 60 years. And you will find that Roderick Lean Harrows cost you no more than or- dinary barrows. Why not get the most for the money you spend? See your imple- ment dealer or write to us. THE RODERICK LEAN C0. Mansfield. Ohio 5 2 i l. w— a...» .5..._ .~.- I I I I I1 I I I !'...!.!...'..',_| I . . will; Horse and Tractor Disc Harrows Spike Harrows for every purpose ' , mu mew-rum»: 3N . _ 3 x Chase Tainflway witli Jilusterole Just RubltOn When winds blow raw and chill and rheumatism tingles in your joints and muscles, rub on good old Musterole. As Musterole pene- trates the skin and goes down to the seat of trouble, you feel a gentle, heal- '- ing warmth; then cooling, welcome relief. F or croupy colds, sore throat, rheumatism, aches and pains in back and joints, rub on Muster-ole. Don’t wait for trouble; keep a jar or tube handy. To'Mothers: Musterole is also made in milder form for babies and small chilu dun. Ask for Children 's Musterole. Jars 8: Tubes Barren THAN A MUSTARD PLASTER ATS SENS ATION One of the most productive oats in cultivation. 75 bu. and upward per acre are frequent with large white meaty grains weighing 44—46 lbs. per measured bu. of the highest quality. We are making an exceptionally low price m quan- tities. You should b all means try these oats. I d Whl S E E D C 0 R N 0,2le Cni'c’éiiinl" yieldel': .and never fail to ri en. Choice seed as low jg "as $2.75 bu. Also bar ey. grass seed soy beans. etc. Write for circular and sump es. Theo. Burt & Sons 45 Mslrose. Q. 0 THE "MI CHI six-Ni FAR-M E-‘Rf < Our Readers’ Corner Fact: and Opinion: oy _M1Mz;g'an Farm Folk: ’ ‘ POST THE FAR M WAS reading a piece in the Mich- igan Farmer entitled “Let us all be Good'Sportsmen.” I would like to know how a. farmer can be a good sportsman when the city sportsmen come out on the farm and shoot every- thing” they see running. When a farmer allows them to hunt on his farm, they will not look before they shoot, but will kill anything that comes before them. Can a farmer af- ford to have his cattle shot and wounded or killed or have his turkey hens, out in the field with their little ones, killed and the little ones left alone to die? I suppose the hunters think it is perfectly all right for the farmer to stand for such hunting as I suppose they think it doesn’t cost the farmers to replace anything they kill. * If the farmers would get together and post their farms at the beginning of the hunting season, the farmer would have all his stock and his eye sight, anyway. One farmer up this way had his farm posted and a bunch of sportsmen came to him and asked if they could hunt on his farm if they were careful. The farmer let them. He took his team of horses and went to the field to plow, and all of a sud- den a shot came along and took his eye out of his head. If he wouldn’t have allowed the sportsmen on his farm, he would have had his eye. My advice is to post all farms and stop this hunting—C. R . CURE FOR INSOMNIA \VAS very much interested in the letter in a recent issue of the M. F. signed by Subscriber, who asks for advice to make him sleep all night. I was also amused by the way you side-stepped the question in the an- swer you gave him. Now as I have also suffered the same as Subscriber has, please allow me to offer some of the suggestions that helped me. These are all tested recipes, not copyrighted, and guaranteed to pro- duce results of some kind and a cure in every case, if tried long enough. Number one. I assume that Sub- scriber is a farmer and as such he probably is not getting exercise enough, so instead of only walking about tWenty miles per day to do his chores, etc., I would suggest that he take a stroll of five or six miles after supper, just to quiet his nerves and work off any surplus energy that he may have hanging around: Number two. Just about dark, tell the red cow and. the gray cow that you want them to change stalls for a few days. Then start in and try to have them do it. If you have suc- ceeded by 11:00 P. M. just go to bed at once and sleep till 6:00. Number three. Have your mother- in—law come down to stay for a week. After she has been there two days you will be glad to crawl off any old place and leep like a kitten. Number four. Tune in your radio on WVVJ some Friday night at 7:00 P. M. when the male quartet from the U. of M. at Ann Arbor are trying to sing. If after you have listened to two of their efforts you are still con- scious, just try the next suggestion after this, number five. , Number five. Ask your wife why she cannot bake as good biscuits and pie as your mother used to. If you don’t go to sleep at once, it won’t be her fault. Number six. If you wake up before 1:00 A. M., just try and work this one: If the cost of all the cars that Ford has built plus the cost of all that he will build in the next ten years equal one-half of one per cent of the cost' of all the free garden seeds Congress has sent out since 1870,‘how Old is Ann? (Let x eqUal age of Ann). Number seven. If any one of the above fails to put you to sleep try number three and five on the same evening, but be sure to Wind-the alarm clock first or you won’t wake up in time to get the milk out for the truck. Number eight. In case you don’t get help from any of these sugges- tions, I have one more that will do the job, but I advise it only as a last resort—E. A. T. THE RURAL CHURCH N the January 28 issue of the Mich- igan Farmer, in an editorial on Co- operative Rural Churches, Professor R. A. Felton, of Cornell University, is quoted as saying, More than one church in a small rural community is a mortgage "on the farm life of that community. That may be true, and it may be absolutely false. Every- thing depends on the type of life dom- inant in the church, or churches, as to worthwhile results. True spiritual assets are not determined by numbers», nor by the money saved or expended _in church activities. The problem of the rural church is not one of finance, but our advisers would have us think so. They con- tinually ring the changes on finance, because it smacks of big business. The real difficulty of the rural church is found in its modern innovations con- verting the church into a playhouse and causing its ‘pulpit to give place to the common stage or platform. When one admits into the rural church all that is demanded by the promoters of community life, there isi no room for regenerating power and,l in fact, none is wanted. Today, the gospel of Jesus Christ is winning its way in many parts of the land, even in darkest Russia, not by modernized churches of any sort but by the faithful preaching of the gospel. There is no financial or young people’s problems when the gospel is preached by those who actually know its power to save, keep and satisfy. But the folks who think they have the solu- tion of the rural church problem do love to display their skill in “daubing with untempered mortar.” The real difficulty with our rural churches is: 1. The gospel of Jesus Christ is not being preached by those who have a real vision of lost souls. The preach- ers are cold, unsympathetic, formal, dead. 2. There is no intercessory prayer in these churches, and, of course, they cannot do the Lord’s work in seeking the lost. ‘ 3. There is no sacrificial life in evi- dence, and consequently no conviction of a divine commission to evangelize the world. 4. These churches have despised their separateness from the world and consequently do not have the true Christian spirit. There is no differ- ence between the man in the church and the man in the street in spirit, temper, tone, and disposition. All bear the same “trade mark” of the world. All such churches are a finan~ cial burden to any community, and infinitely more—S. A. Walton. 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SUITING FERTILIZERS TO SOILS (Continued from page 213) “Well, the best growers are plowing heavily manured clover or alfalfa sod for their potatoes and then using com- mercial fertilizer high in phosphoric acid to balance the plant food Condi- tion. I would suggest that you man- ure your sod, using manure which is not too coarse, and then plow early, this spring. Work the ground down carefully being sure to get it well packed to the bottom of the furrow slice. Then when you plant put in about 500 pounds of either acid phos- phate or a fertilizer high in phos- phoric acid and containing small amounts of ammonia and potash.” “I am afraid I’ll not have enough manure to give the field a very heavy application and I want to use some on my corn ground.” “Then it would be well to increase the amount of potash in the fertilizer and use a 2-12-6 or 4-16-8 or similar analysis.” “Would you put this fertilizer on and drag it in before planting?” “That can be done but you will get better results if the fertilizer~ is dropped several inches on either side of the seed piece. In that location the roots will find it early and there is no danger of damaging the seed or sprouts.” “I guess I got that straight. Now let’s go over and look at some heavy soil that I want to put to corn and beans and see what you can tell me about it. And by the way, Dick, you have been talking fertilizers, fertiliz- ers, fertilizers. as though a farmer couldn’t get along without them. My father never used any of the stuff and he got fine crops and I don’t see why the soil should need them now. What are they made out of anyway and how does a fellow know he is getting what he pays for? I can grow pretty good crops. but we, don’t get enough for them, what we want is a better mar- keting system.” - “Maybe you’re right, but let’s talk over the situation a bit.” TREATMENT FOR RUBBER BELTING Is there any way I can preserve a rubber drive belt to keep it from be- ing weather worn? Could I paint it? What kind of paint could I use ?——I-I. J. Tirestoue for 192 Added Achievements in World-Wide complete independence from foreign rubber monopoly. Firestone has recently added to ‘7'": » . Whale its great manufacturing plants the largest About the only thing that should ever be used on rubber [belting is either castor oil or linseed oil, then only a few drops at a time, and the excess wiped off. No paint of any kind, and only a very few belt dress- ings are fit to be used on rubber belts, and before using a belt dressing the belt manufacturer’s advice should be secured, giving the name and manu- facturer of the belt dressing in ques- tion.-D. HALF-BROTH ER’S SHARE My brother died in Canada without a will. I am the only brother but there are four half brothers and two half sisters. Do they come in for the same share of the property as I do? He had quite a lot of property—E. G. The rights of brothers of the half- ,» HT HE"; M IC-H. I G AvN‘ -~ FARME R . ‘ . 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I’m expecting each of you boys to come out for the stock judging team.” Here was another possibility of re- ward, and Bob marveled anew at the opportunities provided by club work. “Now it’s up to you, Bob,” was Bur- ton’s farewell admonition. “When you see Lady Mary ‘making her nest’ camp in the stall with her whether it's day or night.” Bob promised that he would be on the job. Some country doctor who was phil— osopher as well as physician once as- serted that “it’s strange but true that the stork usually chooses a dark and stormy night when she makes a flight.” Veteran stockmen can sympa- thize with the physician. The novice must learn through experience. Loose shingles on the old barn rattled and a freezing wind made Bob’s teeth chatter as he crouched in Lady Mary's stall. Outside the night was dark as pitch. Strange sounds of the night made Bob, big lad that he was, put; out a hand to feel the comforting presence of Jock, the Airedale, who slept in the straw beside him. The dim light of a lantern showed Lady Mary Third and snuggled beside her ten tiny replicas. Cold, indeed, it was, for the comfort of warm blankets, but his heart was singing with the joy of ownership. There had been several trips to the kitchen, where babies had been de- posited in a blanket-lined box. Now it was breakfast time for the new ar- rivals and the porcine mother lay with closed eyes while her lusty family tugged as if long training, not instinct, told them from whence came susten- ance. With not a “runt” in the lot, one pig stood out from his fellows. As Bob watched, this new-born speci- men, rooting his brothers right and left, seized hold and settled back. “The little rascal," chuckled Bob Barton. “He knows what he wants and goes after it. I'll bet he’ll be a winner. Wonder, Jock." Bob pulled the Airedale’s ears, “it’ Squire Jones ever sat up nights here with pigs when he was a boy. Great old Southern fire-eater. liy George,” an- nounced Bob aloud, “I'm going to call that pig Stonewall Jackson. He’ll never know when he’s whipped.” “Golly,” soliloquized Bob as he pre- pared to return the pigs to their warni nest inside. “Never thought I’d stay up all night with a hog. But I pronr ised Burton, and here I am.” So, under such humble circumstances was being implanted the lesson of loyalty. When morning came and the whole Barton family exclaimed in delight and appreciation over Bob’s fine pros- pect he felt well repaid. A ’phone message brought a “Bully for you, old man,” from Burton. “Can’t keep you from winning with a litter like that,” the agent had added. But Bob, know- ing little of the value of ten pig aris- tocrats eligible for registry, apple ciated most the warm words of com- ‘z’ .. m.E‘~"+Mic HIGAN Fania ER}. 0 Under the 4-H Flag By John Francis Case mendation because he had played his part. “Beauties,” was the verdict of Katie O’Neal as she watched the piglets playing outside on the first warm day. “Now, Bob, it’s up to you to grow corn for ’em. You’ve been slowing up,” and she shook a reproving fin- ger. “Went off to town yesterday when you should have been in the field. Every day counts now, and I’ll bet the loss of that half day cost you twenty dollars or more.” “Some little joy-killer you are,” mocked Bob, but he had an uncom- fortable feeling that Katie was right. “I don’t aim to work myself to death,” the tireless horse of steel while the rich loam, emblem of promise, seemed to smile. John O’Neal, with a nod of satisfaction, stopped the driver at a furrow’s end. “Good work,” he com- mended. “You handle her like a vet- eran. Sock her down deep, son, and bring up the dirt that hasn’t been working for years. I’ll warrant you are going to surprise the old Squire when you gather your corn crop this fall. Probably will want to change to share rent. But not on live stock,” and O’Neal grinned; “there’s still an element of risk in that.” Bob frowned as O’Neal started off for home. The weeks were slipping “Dad always says, ‘Save ’1’ yourself for a good old man. he went on. “That may be all right for your dad,” replied Katie, “but he doesn’t pretend to be much of a farmer. He’s a musician. I know enough about farming to know that when work is to be done it must be done. But it’s all right with me,” and Katie’s gesture was more eloquent than her words. “Play it you like and buy feed like some of the shiftless farmers around here do.” In silence Bob saw Katie set out for home. A spark of resentment glowed in his heart. Try to tell him how to run his business, would she? No girl could do that. And then Bob’s common sense, inherited from his mother’s farming forebears rebuked the thought of interference. Katie O’Neal was thinking of his own good. “Thank you, Kate,” he called after her. “I’ll try to remember what: you said.” But the seal of habit long practised is hard to break. Ever the Barton motto had been. “Why buffet the storm. Lie quiet and it will pass." A smile and the wave of a hand was Bob’s reward, and in the field he drove hard at accumulated work. Father Barton, true to his inclinations, “chored ’round.” It was up to Bob al- most alone to win in the hard game played against: all the forces which beset agriculture. CHAPTER VIII A Place of Mystery EVER had there been power N other than horseflesh upon the Barton farm. It was a new ex- perience to Bob Barton when he trundled the O’Neal tractor into a field and left a long black furrow upturned to the sun. As he thrilled to the throb of unleashed power Bob sensed the possibilities of farming with proper equipment. Back and forth traveled Actim’tzk: of A! flora—512772 Get; a H at I den by and nothing had happened. Yet ever recurrent came the thought of possible disaster. Off in the distance he could see Lady Mary and her chil- dren, the pigs romping in porcine playfulness. Must get some fencing fixed so the club entry could have pasture. Gee, it kept a fellow dig- ging. Wonder when time could be spared to cut some posts. Wonder if he could beat that fellow Carson out of a place on the team. Thus Bob’s thoughts race?! as he held the tractor in line and the loam rolled from plow- share. As if in answer to his last soliloquy, came the honk of a motor. and Bob saw Hal Carson spring from a trim runabout, race up the walk to the O’Neal home and, with hat in hand, meet Mrs. O’Neal and Katie at the door. A moment later, with Katie beside him, Young Carson was speed- ing down the road. As they passed the slow-moving tractor Katie’s cheery “Hello Bob” brought only the wave of a hand in response. Hal Carson’s smile had been. mocking as they flashed by. “Some boat,” reflected Bob, chewing the cud of bitterness. “A second-hand flivver would look fine put up against that. That’s me. A used flivver against a big six just out of the fac- tory.” Savagely Bob drove the trac- tor, so that O’Neal exclaimed over the work done when the big machine rolled home that night. “Did a good day’s work myself,” remarked O’Neal casually. “Expected to have to take the folks to W'arford for some trading. W'hen mother 'phoned Carson’s store, Hal offered to come after Kate. Accommodating of him, wasn’t it?” Bob’s muttered reply was lost in the throb of the tractor. - ()h, yes, Hal Carson was accommodating! Mother O’Neal was too old-fashioned to allow her sophomore high school daughter FEB. '18, 1928 ' a to “Keep company” With any lad, but the ingenious. Hal was prolific i‘i ex-.uses to call, and his speedy car often was found parked near the front: gate. On the rare occasions wlrn farm lad and town lad met, young Carson treated Bob with SUDCTCHiOZI; coolness. Bob, biding his time, lonrge l for the day when they would fight it out on the ball diamond. Thee it would be man against man. But as the days passed the friendship of the Barton and,O’Neal families b'h came more closely knit. Katie, play- ing the part of a big sister, alternately teased and scolded Bob whenever work lagged. It was grind, grind, grind. Sometimes Bob felt that he hated-the farm, the endless and mono- tonous round. April had merged into May, and the seed corn had been entrusted to warm, soil before the young worker found time to cut posts for his needed fence. In all the weeks he had‘ not penetrated the fastnesses of the backwoods lot. Ted Baldwin had exhibited keen in- terest in his friend’s club entry. An excellent judge of pure-bred swine, young Baldwin realized the potential possibilities of ten lusty pigs. “M’on- dérful quality,” he told Bob, “but you’ve gotta grow ‘em out. Gotta get a fence around the pasture field. May mean more to you than a month’s work.” Yielding to Ted’s impo-rtuni~ ties and accompanied by his friend, Bob set off early one morning to cut posts. Jock, the Airedale, raced ahead barking at imaginary enemies. Meandering down the valley where- in lay the fertile acres of the Jones farm ran Cold Creek. Peaceful enough in season, it could become a raging torrent with heavy rains, swelling into a river which emptied into the mighty Missouri a few miles away. The tim- ber was upon a wooded hill, approach to a towering bluff. “T’other side of the bluff,” informed Ted, “is a road and not far away the old Missouri River. Boy. she’s some creek! We must go over there some day.” Axes rang and trees began to fall. \Vhen noon came the boys unpacked their lunch'kits and with Jock watch- fully waiting for tossed bits, sat down to eat. Leaning back against a stump, Bob studied the uncleared thicket be- yond the wood lot. At the base of the bluff it became so dense as to ap- pear impenetmble. “Good wood in there,” observed Bob, “if a fellow could get it out. But, whew, how thick that brush is! Ever been up in there, Ted?” ‘ “Never," answered Ted, “and I’m not keen on going, either. The dogs followed Bud Perkins’ trail to that bluff and lost it there.” “The dickens they did!” exclaimed Bob. “Well, we’ll just have a look and see what we can find. 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L ; {(-i 3 l l l ~ : , /'f‘ l. 3 Pl 3 y . l l I l 7 / iii 4 ii: 0? -,. gt . { L§‘\ Vtinkling political cymbals, o ‘ W‘s'v 4‘.” - -.. -. FEB‘ 18, 1928 have re- cently been making the welkin ring urging the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway, but Washington was much interested in the western country, that being what is now the corn belt. He predicted that it would be populated much more quickly than anyone could believe then and quicker than [any similar region had been populated be- fore. In 1783 he made a trip up the Mohawk River to view the possibili- ties of a future water course which is the present site of the Erie Canal. Upon this subject he wrote to his friend, Chevalier de Chastellux: “I shall not rest contented until I have explored the Western country, and traversed those lines or a great part of them,‘which have given bounds to a new~empire.” Washington’s attitude toward to- bacco is curious, to say the least. One studying this should remember that in Washington’s day, tobacco was legal tender and very often it took the place of money. With tobacco, the planters paid their debts and their taxes. Then too, rather often the preacher had to take what pay he got in tobacco. It was also the main ar- ticle 'of export—frequently a pound of tobacco brought more in England than a bushel of wheat and the freight was only about one-sixteenth as» much. There was so much cheap land that the planters would put tobacco con- tinuously on a piece of new ground until it was worn out, then clear up another“ piece and let the old patch go back to trees and brush. This process was described by Washington in a very lucid para- graph: and left under constant cultivation, first in tobacco, and then in Indian corn (two very exhausting plants), until it will yield scarcely anything; a second piece is cleared, and treated in the same manner; then a third and so on, until probably there is but little more to clear. When this happens, the owner finds himself reduced to the choice. of one of three things— either to recover the land which he has ruined, to accomplish which has perhaps neither the skill or industry, nor the means; or to retire beyond the mountains; or to substitute quan- tity for quality in order to raise some- thing. adopted, and with the assistance of horses, he scratches over much ground, and seeds it, to very little pur- pose.” . In 1791, Washington estimated that the average crop of wheat in the col- onies was eight or ten bushels per acre and the yield of corn was very low. So much stress was laid on to- bacco growing that many planters failed to produce food enough for their families, just as many growers now suffer from a one crop system. Washington early saw the devastat- ing effects of prolonged tobacco grow- ing on. his soil and tried to get away from it by producing wheat and flour to be shipped to the West Indies. Later, he became prejudiced against tobacco that he stipulated that his tenants should not grow any more than enough for their own use. Some years ago, I saw a crop rota- tion plan that had been worked out by an "agriculturist" for a certain rich man’s farm. It outlined specific- ally the crops that should be grown on each field during the next thirty years. I thought it was a most un- usual plan and yet this is almost the identical thing that Washington did when in 1785 he worked out a very regular and systematic course of crop- ping .for his farms in order to save his soil fertility- ,This was done in collaboration with Arthur Young. ‘ ,About this time'he also wanted to get? a. plan for a vary complete and 40mm to: a turn of about 1 r 'tramp out this “A piece of land is cut down“ The latter has been generally The First Master Farmer (Continued on page 211) 500 acres which was to include the plans for a barn and all that should go with it. The result of this was the round barn which Washington put up, the first one in this country, and it had a very interesting treading floor in the center of it. From the descrip- tion, I would judge that there were boards with inch and a half cracks be- tween them. The sheaves of grain were thrown in and then the horses were run into the enclosure. After a period of driving, the wheat and chaff would rattle through, while the straw remained on top. Dense Weary Willies who cannot follow orders and Who .think they know more than the boss must have been as common then as they are now. On one occasion, Washington went away, leaving grain sheaves stored in the barn and left instruc- tions for his foreman and help to grain on this tramping floor. Imagine his feelings when he returned and found that the help had constructed a tramping floor outside and had taken the bundles out there to tramp the grain out. Much of the grain had been lost on account of rain. While nothing specific is quoted that he said upon his return, the way the entry is made indicates that he may have used some language that would have been considered something less than a model of dic- tion, had it been put in print. Since his. first biographer was a minister, it was probably considered a minor point. These days, it, no doubt, would have been entered in its entirety—and some besides. Washington was an experimenter. In March, 1760, he tried out alfalfa— called lucerne then. Several other times he tried it and had a big field of it in 1798. Of course, he did not know about its lime requirement and added to this, Mount Vernon soil is such that alfalfa did not feel at home there then—nor would it now. Washington had the vision of fine country homes well landscaped and modernized and he worked for the best in country life. Perhaps the most notable thing about his mental processes was his eagerness to learn. Imagine a past president, a commander-in-chief of the armies who had humbled the great Cornwallis, going back to his farm and counting representative samples of clover seed to determine the num- ber in a pound! Farm boys and girls may well wor- ship the genius of Washington as a farmer for rooted in the soil was his greatest interest and this interest con- stitutes one of his far reaching con- tributions to American history. UNDER THE 4-H FLAG (Continued from page 228) the trees and brush it was almost dark. Slowly they fought their way toward the base of the-bluff, where matted vines and foliage menaced fur— ther progress. Suddenly they heard Jock’s deep growl, then a volley of barking, which denoted game found. The boys had pressed on in silence. Sombre and dark, the wind chill and penetrating, it had seemed as if the spirit of the great bluff itself resented . the presence of intruders. Suddenly and without warning there was the crash of gunfire. A bullet sang peri- lously close to Bob’s head, burying itself in a tree. Down dropped the ex- plorers, to lie for a moment breath- lessly listening, while Jock’s savage barking rang in their ears. “By George, that was close,” whis- pered Bob. Then with a relieved laugh he arose. “Just some hunter,” Bob reasoned, was near.- Probably shot at whatever Jock’s after. Come on, Ted.” (Woodmen week) fine - “who didn’t know anyone. THE‘MTCHIGANAFARMnn ...—.1 .973- .mmmmma mcmw 2'3— 231 ’ Michigan Farmer Club List These Prices Subject To Change Without Notice EXPLANATION:—The figures in the First column represent the regular price of the other publications. The figures in the Second column give our price for subscription to The Michigan Farmer and the other publication for one year. The figures in the Third column give the price at which other publications can be added if more than one is wanted in combination with The Michigan Farmer. 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Detroit, Mich. l; (Jfisez 7r7iiis (Slatzlacatz 15131' ‘l’tJtlr' (CDrwihar' MICHIGAN FARMER, Detroit, Mich. Gentlemen: Inclosed find 35. ...... .. The Michigan Farmer and the following papers: ........ for which send nnnnnn oooooloooo-oooonoucocoon-onloooooloooooolotoo-OOOIOIOOOOl-OCIII to the name and address given below. Name ........ .......... ...... Postoffice ... "R. F. 13-..... State ‘;.W« a... ;-MM W Lynx...“ h... “we. A ‘new German life-saving device Last month seventy Canadian farmers started on a trip for Great Here is evidence of the Americani- 13 for those W130 are 031131111 in Britain and Denmark under the auspices of the Canadian Na— zation of Japan, showing the fiI‘St sunken submarmes. tional Railways to study agricultural conditions on the other side. Japanese subway. Gene Tunney, the heavyweight boxing cham- A new machine has been devised to project Mr. E. F. Albee signing contract which unites pion of the world, keeps himself in trim by advertising matter into the sky. It is called the Orpheum and Keith-Albee c1rcu1ts, the playing golf at Miami Beach, Florida. a cloud writer. - largest theatrical merger of its klnd. There is a dispute as to the ownership of the magnificent Chateau de Chambord near Paris. Among the claimants are the former Empress Zita of Austria, King Boris, and Prince Cyrile. This shows the unloading from a special car of $10,000,000 worth of gold shipped from New York on the S. S. Rochambeau for the Bank of France. It is one of the largest shipments on record. . ¢ Delegates from twenty-one countries attended the Pan-American Congress at Havana, Cuba. The crowded galleries showed the interest that the people had in this Congress. Lieutenant Joe Hart and Lieutenant L‘. Henley are shown looking over their plane which is an exact duplicate of Lindbergh’s, in which they Will endeavor to capture the flight endurance record. ~ A— mtumnnmuuxn \ "(A ‘r y, -WM “ fi_‘ z: . 1' ”FEB. .18, 1928' - out it. Hap Let Experts Mix ‘ Your Poultry Feed The Trade-mark is the manufacturer’ 5 signature, your safe guide to reliable products. ....... The necessity for careful feeding of : poultryisrbeyond question. Hens won’t lay profitably, chicks won’t thrive with— hazasd feeding brings only .. haphazardresults.Thequestionis:what - ration will youfeed. Where will you get it and how will‘you know beforehand V that it is going to give good results! ' THE MICHIGAN :FA'RMER IN THE composition of an ideal poultry feed there are many in— gredients not grown on your own farm. Animal protein, dry butter— milk, mill byvproducts, organic mineral extracts, you must buy in the market. Picture a crew of keen buyers, watching the output of every mill and factory, ready to pay cash. They take trainloads at a time; command the lowest possible price, but they buy only on rigid chemical analysis. Every ingredient must be choice or they don’t accept it. Another crew of experts, posted up to the minute on researches, combines these choice ingredients into a complete commercial feed. With modern power machinery they mix a carload as cheaply as you could mix a few hundred pounds. The result is a mixed feed of known value. Every sack is the same. Good because it is made that way. EconOa mical because of mass buying and mass production. Trade—marked to show who stands back of it. If you should go into the market as an individual purchaser to buy a few hundred pounds of any of these ingredients, you could not secure either quality or price to compare with the purchases of these experts, When you buy a high grade com— mercial mixed feed, it means that you have the most skilled buyers and the most expert students of feed! ing problems to mix your feed for you. By the economies of modern business they are able to furnish it at a lower cost than a feed of similar quality which you can mix yourself. . You Can Depefid on Feeds You Buy . 2W fromAdver'tisers inMiChiganFarmer ,4V,~,.fi4,~ 4...; a: . .n can. wmmr ._ Will“? 8' u l'llumm I'm-mm. ' . FEB.’ '18, i558 ets Sun be Her Baby’s Doctor Ultra- Violet Ray: Mate He'd/My If No! Prez‘ty Bel/522:3 UR baby may not be the pretti- est one or the best one in cap- tivity (though, frankly, we be- lieve he is),” said a young mother to me recently, “but he is without doubt the healthiest.” “How do you know he is?” I asked. “Why, because he is so healthy that nobody’s baby could be healthier. He is 100 per cent. He is six months old and has never had one single pain of any kind in all his life. He has never once cried at night. His weight is normal. He and his food get along.” By Lois placing more and more windows in our homes, in order to capture as much of Old Sol’s brightness as pos- sible. This sunlight, thus captured, was a splendid thing; but it is only in recent years that we have learned to what extent we were being cheated by the glass through which it streamed. When scientists discovered the fact that the invisible ultra-violet rays of Sunshine Babies Are Usually Happy Babies To be sure, he looked the healthiest baby in captivity, all right. “But what makes his skin so dark?” I asked, in the fashion of Little Red Riding Hood. The mother had that pink-and-white school-gi r 1 complex- ion. “I suppose his father is a, bru- nette?” “Oh, no, indeed, my husband is fairer than I am.” Then she added proudly, “And so would this mite be if he had a chance.” She confided to me then the secret of her child’s complexion—and his health. It was the sun! That natural tonic of the ages and the universe. Every morning, since his advent from the hospital when he was two weeks old, the baby has had a sun-bath. On the back lawn he has his special bas- sinet, every bit as essential (if less elaborate) as the one where he spends his nights in the nursery, though it was formerly a laundry basket. In this basket, unsheltered and complete— ly naked, he spends one hour out of twenty—four. This sunny hour is us- 'ually the one immediately following his morning bath. He has his bottle here, and afterwards surveys the broad open spaces of the world from this vantage point. This baby has never had even a slight cold or, as his mother said, a “pain of any kind.” His skin is as brOWn as a little Mexican, though he has never been blistered or suffered from too much heat from the sun's rays. His parents live in California, where the “sun forever shines” and where there are few months of the year when it is too cold to be outside, unclothed. However, the time has come when practically every child can have his “place in the sun.” regardless of the frigidity of. the climate in which he dwells. For Years past we have been the sun (which are the most bene- ficial to the human body, of all the sun’s rays) are absorbed and wasted by ordinary window-glass, they began to search about for something to sub- stitute; some form of transparency which would permit the penetration of these valuable health-giving rays. Smelling And now their efforts have been re- warded by a new type of glass which freely transmits the ultra-violet rays in amounts varying from fifty . to ninety per cent. The price of this glass is not so exorbitant but that every home of moderate means may contain at least one window. Certain- ly, the years would soon pay its full price many times over in the saving of doctor’s bills. This glass has been tried out by experiments in hospitals and schoolrooms with most satisfac- tory results. It has also been tested in chicken-houses, as a prevention for rickets, and in zoos where wild ani- mals were languishing from lack of their accustomed sunlight. In all cases, the recipients of the rays have taken on new life and prospered. Recognizing the curative and pre- ventive value of sunlight, even in a “denatured” state, we can readily un- derstand its increased power when the ultra-violet rays are also present, if we know that these rays (which are only about one per cent of the whole) are more necessary to bodily growth and health than all the visible rays of the sun put together. The child must be accustomed to his sun-bath by gradation. The “healthiest baby in captivity,” referred to above, received his first bath, of only a few minutes duration, when he was two weeks old. These minutes ”Were added to each day, until now, at six months, he spends an hour each day absorbing into his little growing muscles and bones, the health-giving ultra-violet rays. Give your child a sun-bath each day, either outdoors or behind penetrable Echoes From Farmers’ Week Women S/zow Great I nterert in Child Prod/cm: URING Farmer’s Week, several D hundred wide~awake farm women hopped into cars along beside friend husband and motored down to Michigan State College to spend a day or two or three, gathering information, inspiration, and enthusi- asm for their job of home—making. The final enrollment will indicate that there were more in attendance than ever before. Well rounded programs on the vari- ious subjects for home-making occu- pied the attention of these home makers in the morning and they met in general session in the afternoon. Those women who were mothers of children were particularly interested in Dr. Ada Arlitt, child specialist of the University of Cincinnati. AccOrd- ing to Dr. Arlitt, there are reasons back of all kinds of child behavior. It is the parents’ problems to search—out these reasons if they are to intelli- gently train their children. Many times they can trace these reasons to their own lack. ofginderstanding of the child. Too Many Don’ts Dont’s, contended Dr. Arlitt, call at- tention to trying something the child may not have thought of before. Af- ter he has done something, a. “don’t” calls attention to the bad character- istics and often fixes it as a‘ habit. In such cases, Dr. Arlitt recommended that something interesting for the child to do be substituted or, in deal- ing with stubborn children, the idea he sold to them to do what the parent wants them to do. I After a certain age, a child enjoys being the center of attention in the family and often resorts to doing wrong things to hold this attention. Especially is this true when a new baby comes into the home. At such times, Dr. Arlitt advised, permitting the child to do simple things in car- ing for the new baby so that he or she would feel that the baby belonged in part to them. Dr. Arlitt spoke of the value of praise in establishing the right rela~ tionship with the child, but advised that the deed rather than the child be praised. Punishment, the specialists contended, should be administered like medicine, only occasionally and in small doses. It should fit the crime and not be merely a series of slaps for everything. Particularly with very young children, it should follow on the heels of the wrong doing for chil- dren’s memories are not long. To punish without an explanation is apt to result in the child being afraid to do a. thing when it is perfectly right, for he is not able to differentiate. (Continued on page 236) , glass, and watch him or her thrive like a properly tended little plant. READERS' FAVORITES Peach Whip This dessert is much easier to pre- pare than pie and I think it is better for the kiddies. Drain the juice from a quart of peaches, and add enough water to make two cups. In this syrup cook one-half cup of minute tapioca and three tablespoons sugar. When the tapioca is clear, add the sliced peaches. When cool, fold in two beaten egg whites and one fourth teaspoon of vanilla. Serve very cold with soft custard or plain cream.—Mrs. G. H. , Kraut Peppers My husband is especially fond of peppers fixed this way. First I re- move the seed and partitions and par- boil for five minutes. Fill each with a dressing made from one cup soft bread crumbs, one cup sauerkraut, two tablespoons of minced onions, and a. sprinkling of paprika. Cover the tops with bread crumbs, place in a baking dish with one cup of meat 1-.— This Anaemia Little Lady Has Decided , to Take Old Doctor Sol’s Treatment stock and bake thirty 'minutes in a moderate oven—Mrs. L. I. Buttermilk Cake 1 cup sugar 1% cup flour or com Cream our 1 cup buttermilk 1 tb. hot water 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. nutmeg 1 tsp. cloves 1,5 cup raisins 34 cup butter Mix dry ingredients. Add liquids. Beat well. Bake one-half hour. Cheese-Marmalade Sandwich Cut thin slices of either white or brOWn bread. Spread the bread with marmalade and sprinkle it generously with grated cheese. KEEP BROWNED FLOUR ON HAND ROWNED flour adds to the flavor and appearance of gravies and seems a necessity when preparing roasts and poultry to be roasted. In- stead of browning only enough flour each time it is needed, put a pint of flour into a baking tin and place it in a hot oven. When the flour is ,browned .to the color you want. put it into an empty baking powder can.- You’ll find it a time saver to haire’ browned hour on hand.--C. H. F." ‘ FEB. 18, 1928 They Profit By Our THE greatest mistake I made in the beginning of my housekeeping career, was the over-emphasizing of economy and self denial. Being a farmer’s wife with a desire to aid my husband in his enterprise, I began going without the many little things every woman wants, in order that there might be more money for the purchase of fertilizer, machinery, and better stock. In fact I went so far as to allow my personal appearance to become shabby and I used many makeshifts which perhaps were money savers but not usually labor savers. 'As I look back, I do not consider that these sacrifices assisted as much as I thought because, in time, they made me feel that I was living the life of a martyr to such an extent that I could not be a true pal and helpmate to my husband. Now that- these makeshifts are being replaced by real conveniences and my wardrobe supplied with a few suitable dresses, I find I have more time for outside interests and have a new out- look on life. Although these changes cost a few extra dollars each year, I am certain my husband feels doubly repaid by possessing a happy and con- tented partner who can rejoice in his gains and sympathize in times of failure—Mrs. E. T., Van Buren County. Planted Too Much Garden ‘Although I am not a young, inexperi- enced housekeeper, I still make many mistakes. After keeping house in the city for more than twenty years, we moved to a farm in Macomb County and during my first year there, it seemed like I spent most of my time making and correcting mistakes. It took me a year to learn that garden— ing on paper is a very different propo- sition than the reality. The first spring I bought a great many seeds and really enjoyed helping in the by Mistakes Readers to attend all of the committee meet. ings and bridge parties that I form- ally did when I lived in town. I only gave my flowers and garden my spare. time which was very little. My flower garden was a miserable failure due to neglect. If I had only planted a small bed,. it would have been more worth while—Mrs. L. H. B., Macomb County. Trick in Rendening Lard I have never been successful in rendering lard. It always had a queer taste and, if there was any quantity of it, it did not keep long without becoming rancid. Last week, mother happened to be with me when I put the big kettles of fat on the stove to heat. I was quite surprised after finishing up some other work to come back to the stove and find the covers I had so carefully placed on each kettle, removed. “Always leave the kettle uncovered when trying out lard,” was mother’s advice. The result was that this batch is much superior to any that I had ever tried out before. In covering the kettles, the steam had no chance to escape thus keeping a certain amount of water in the lard—Mrs. S. M., Jackson County. Saves on Wash Day I used to make, wash, and iron bloomers for my three little girls, but now I have learned that crepe cloth is cheaper, requires no ironing’and is as durable as any other material. If I use white crepe, I always dry in the sun to keep them white. Like many young housewives I bought cotton and woolen blankets because they were cheaper than all wool. But I have found that woolen blankets last twice as long as the cot- ton ones and thus are more economi- cal. Even when worn, the woolen ones can be made over into warm blankets for children or covered with silkoline for soft bed covers, that are planting. But in the summer I tried ‘ \‘J V v; I, g r’ ’7 1‘ flu" u—————_—_——.—.———____—— 1' Use this department to help solve your household problems. Address your letters to Martha Cole, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan. AU GRATIN POTATOES I would very much like to know how to make au gratin potatoes. My family gets tired of potatoes served the same way.——Mrs. G. ' There are so many ways to serve potatoes that you should not permit your family to become tired of this healthy vegetable. For an gratin pota- toes use: 2% cups diced cooked 3% cup dry bread crumbs potatoes % cup gmted American 1% tbs. flour cheese 3‘tbs. butter 1% cups milk 1 tsp. minced green 1 tsp. salt pepper Make a cream sauce of the flour, butter, milk, and seasonings, add the green peppers and cheese. Cook until the cheese is melted, then pour over the potatoes. Put in buttered baking dish, cover with bread crumbs, dot with butter and bits of cheese, and brown in oven. - If you will send five cents in stamps or coin, I will be glad to send you our bulletin which gives fifty different ways of serving potatoes. RUST 0N TABLE LINEN When washing, I left my table cloth stand in the tub over night and now it is covered with rust spots. What can I do to remove them ?——Mrs. L. M. There is a number of things that ”671an '0—— will remove rust stains, the most com- mon one being lemon juice or lemon juice and salt. First, spread the stained piece over a vessel of boiling water. Then squeeze the lemon juice on the stain. After a few minutes rinse the stain and repeat the process. This method is rather slow but does not injure delicate white cotton or linen fabrics. For lemon juice and salt, first sprinkle the stain with salt, moisten with lemon juice and place in the sun.‘ Add more lemon juice if necessary. Cream of tartar will also remove rust stains. Boil the stained spots in a solution of four teaspoonsful to one pint of water until the stains disap- pear. RUG BASE STICKS TO FLOOR Before we moved into the house where we now live. someone glued a rug to the floor. It was glued only around the edges but a part of the felt base still sticks to the floor. What can I do to remove it?——Mrs. A. R. If this felt base does not yield to an application of warm soap and water, you might sponge it over with vinegar, letting it soak for a minute or two. The vinegar would undoubt- edly spot the varnish finish but I note that you intend to floor. proper precautions for fire. we ‘ N THE M CHIGAN rant/inn light in weight and easily washed.— Mrs. C. E. D., Calhoun County. re-varnish your Gasoline is also good for cut- ing glue but be sure to use it under For Our Little Folks ‘ STATE SECRETS This state has lots of mountaineers, That just stay put for years and years; It has a city, Chatanoo—I That’s ’inost naming you! Whoa! it for The pieces of this puzzle when cor- rectly put together, make a map of the state which this verse describes. The star indicates the capitol. When you have solved the secret of which state this is, write me all you can‘ about the state and its capitol.-—Aunt Martha. The answer to last week’s secret was North Carolina and its capitol is Raleigh. WHO AM I? No. 1. My coat is glossy, black. My body is about seventeen inches long, and when I extend my wings they measure two feet from tip to tip. I eat worms, insects, shellfish, fruits, seeds, and the eggs and nestlings of other birds. with small sticks and twigs lined with grass, bark, and leaves. The kingbirds do not like me and often chase me high into the air, pecking at me if I cannot keep out of their way. Can you guess who I am? Study over all your feathered ac- quaintances and guess which one an- swers to this description. Next week watch for the answer. JOHNNY’S OPINION OF WASHINGTON I like to read of Washington And all the things he did, About the cherry tree he out When he was just a kid. Too bad the critics all agree That there isnothing to it, That someOne just invented it, He didn’t really do it. But then we know the other tale \Ve’ve often read about him, Of how he tried to break the colt That tried in vain to rout him. The colt that was his mother’s pride, gnused to rein or rider, e thought she would be ve lad When he rode up beside her. ry g How neither boy nor colt gave in, Refusing to be humbled, Till lifeless dropped the panting steed And rider headlong tumbled. Gone all his dreams of conquering . power, His dreams of pride and glory, Poor George was just a naughty boy Who had to say, “I’m sorry.” It’s comforting to boys like us, It helps us to be strong To know that even Washington Did sometimes get in wrong. ~—Mildred M. North. I build my bulky nest _ r money-saving y 27 235 . . , Bargains Like These on Every . Page of Our Great ' F EE Cat-ale Bigger Bargains Than Ever Before That's what our wonderful bi Free Spring Catalog oflen you. It Will mean real do late in your pocket to have this marvelous book handy when selecting clothes forall the family. Send for it NOW The coupon is handy-01- a postal will bring your Free Copy. 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Fruit groduction or local market is very profits leuMany owe their _g 9... success in market gard in to our high- a ‘ > grade,high-producingstock. tushelpyou; _ Buy Direct—Save Money Buoses Shrubs, Fruit Trees 0 mid eman’a or ent's profits- on aln In lower prices. Mill ine of stands man: i bowl: 0 book. out :8 the prose. Beautifully tra to In colors. Also a mwer'a eating and cultural guide Free- Send or than. today. o.a.n. Baldwin Nurser%3 Co. Box Bridgman. Mich. e and money with . 'THE MICHIGAN FAR’MER FOUR-H CLUB LUNCHES MAKE BIG HIT WITH PUPILS OT enough parents or teachers realize that good hot lunches can be served with meagre equipment and low cost at most any school. At the John A. Doelle Agricultural School, one hundred and fifty pupils are served to one lunch each day at an actual cost of ten cents for an eight weeks’ period. ~ Miss Helen Peterson, the domestic science teacher has a systematic co- operative program which represents the best ideas of the state club pro- gram and the accumulation of four years of experience in our local situa- tion. In the program, days are as- signed when certain girls prepare the the hands until dry. The specialist also demonstrated how water spots could be removed from silk by gently stroking with a. nickel. In explaining the changing family life, Professor H. C. Coffman, of the College, assigned the reason to the severing of the economic, protective, religious, and fellowship bonds of the family. He expressed the belief that the one hope of holding the family as a unit in the future lay in strengthen- ing the family bonds of fellowship. The right kind of education and reli- gion, he said, must develop person- ality and character in our boys and girls from within and not from With- out. ' Jealousy, guilt. and fear of sex and poverty are the principal factors that food while others serve. Still others keep the records and wash the dishes. Some bring milk, others bring bone meat for stews, others bring potatoes, and miscellaneous vegetables. To add variety in supplementing the home supplies, canned tomatoes, canned corn, and cocoa are purchased in bulk lots. In the matter of equipment the fol- lowing is about all that is necessary: kerosene or wood stove, large kettles, ladle, mixing dishes, spoons, and a large spoon or a dipper for serving. The pupils can bring their own bowls, cups, and spoons. One good play or social will raise enough money to pur- chase the necessary equipment. The dividends on this money invested and energy expended will be richly re- warded in better health of the chil- dren. Information regarding hot lunch club work may be had free of charge by writing to Emma DuBord, Assis- tant State Club Leader, Court House, Marquette, Mich. Or if you are in the lower peninsula, write to A. G. Ket- tunen, State Club Leader, Michigan State College,——P. P. Banker. ECHOES FROM FARMERS’ (Continued from page 234) When it comes to the adolescent child, there should be few punish- ments but rather an attempt made at cooperation. A child at thirteen is usually ready to assume the entire re- sponsibility for his actions and should be put upOn his own responsibility where it is possible. Some do’s and don’ts in washing the new silks and rayons which are made in so many shades and colors were discussed by Mrs. Louise Huston. In using the specially prepared soaps and soap flakes that are on the market, she recommended carefully following the printed directions. To remove grease spots, she suggested applying dry suds as gently as cold cream is applied to the face and then squeezing and rinsing carefully. All delicate silks and georgettes Should be Squeez- ed to eliminate as much water as pos- sible and kneaded in a turkish towel. The material should then be shaken in WEEK Hot School Lunches Help to Grow Healthy Minds and Bodies hinder wholesome family living. Every woman that crowded the little theatre was interested in Emma Garri- son’s discussion of art needle work in the home. She attributed the revival of interest in the old crafts to our re- action to things made by machinery and our revival of interest in colonial things. With our complex lives, she recommended keeping our home simple and selecting only a. few really fine pieces of artistic needle work. There was a reward for the early comers to each of these sessions of a half hour of excellent music. The music department of the college is to be complimented on the very fine pro- grams arranged for each session. FERN LIKES SHADE, NOT DARK CORNERS ECAUSE a. fern is able to grow in the shade, is no alibi for sticking it away in a dark corner of a. room and expecting it to grow as well as it Would in a. window with some sun- light. But that ability of the fern to get on with less sunlight than some other plants need, adapts it for use as a house plant. Best of all the varieties is the old fashioned Boston fern with its long, graceful fronds. But it is often too large for the average house,. where the dwarf Boston or “Teddy Junior” will suit. These are all the simpler leaved Boston ferns. There are many, however, which have the finely and delicately divided leaves, such as Whitman’s fern. They are not, as a. rule, as satisfactory as the Boston ferns. All ferns prefer a sandy, coarse, well-drained soil, so we can make up an excellent fern soil by mixing leaf mold and a. light, sandy loam. To this, for fertilizer, we may add a'little well-rotted manure or a small amount of bone meal. Drainage may be se- cured by putting in an abundant quan- tity of broken pot in the bottom of each pot. Freddy: There’s more unnatural things at our house than there is at yours, Mary, because my father’s got a wooden leg.” Mary: Pshaw, that's nothing, my sister’s got a cedar chest. . FEB. 18,, iszgi To break a cold harmlessly and in a hurry try a Bayer Aspirin tablet. And for headache. The action of Aspirin is very efficient, too, in cases of neuralgia, neuritis, even rheumatism and lumbago! And there's no after ciicct; doctors give Aspirin to children—often infants. Whenever there‘s pain, think of Aspirin. The genuine Bayer Aspirin has Bayer on the box and on every tablet. All druggists with proven directions. 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Address INDIANA BOTANIC GARDENS BOX 5 HAMMOND. IND. ’ 6 New crop tested seeds. sure to produce. Sold for 68 years to satisfied customers. Prices reasonable. Extra aokagee free with every order. rree— arge catalog- with 700 pictures of Vegetables and. flowers. Send your own and neighbors addressee today. a.H.eHuuwAY.Dopc- solidi-dill- r‘t-.--.¢ 5 I l i l I i Z . ._ fl...“ .......- -r\.——4M»~ l E i ‘ something FEB. 18, 1928 POULTRY NOTES 0‘ ‘ OULTRY does not receive the at- tention on \Vexford County Farms that it deserves,” stated Mr. Hannah at the two day poultry school con- ducted at Cadillac last Tuesday and Wednesday. “Your census figures show that you have about 60,000 birds in the county. This divided equally among your 1,200 farms gives an av- erage of fifty per farm. It is very diflicult to make a flock of fifty birds pay. It is not an economical flock to handle, it is a flock expensive to house, diflicult to properly house, and not large enough to warrant much consideration. With properly designed houses and fixtures it is as easy to Care for 200 or more as for forty 01" fifty.” The poultry business is the third largest agricultural business in the. United States. In 1927 the sale of poultry products amounted to $1,319; 000,000. Michigan produced six per cent of this grand total. There is money in the poultry business if you go at it in the right way. If you have a flock of 100 birds and they do not return you 51 average of $2.50 per bird over and above the market value of the cost of all feeds consumed, whether raised or purchased there is wrong with your birds. your house. your feeding, or yourself. Many poultrymen secure returns of $3.00 and $4.00 over cost of feed per bird under average marketing condi- tions. The poultry business is dependent on four very important factors. The success one has with poultry is very largely dependent on the considera- tions each of these factors receives: 1. Well bred birds. 2. Well Housed for Winter Laying. 3. Well Fed. 4. Kept free from diseases. At the present time and during the past few years little if any money has been made in the prOduction of meat. The profit in poultry must be made in the sale of eggs. The sale of meat is of secondary consideration. In order to make a reasonable profit on eggs, the flock must come into and maintain a satisfactory production about October 15th for the rest of the winter. A satisfactory poultry house is one lh‘lt is comfortable for the birds and is sanitary. The above conditions can be met if the house is tight on three sides so as to eliminate drafts, is well lighted, well ventilated, and easily kept clean. In housing birds one should con- sider the number of birds the build- ing will house comfortably. in gen- eral, for the heavy birds four square feet of floor space should be provided while for the lighter breeds three square feet is sufficient—K. O. HEAD WOUNDS BLEED , My hens pick each other’s heads and make them bleed. Please give cause and remedy, if any. Am feeding egg mash of 100 lbs. each of «corn meal, ground oats, bran, and middlings, also 100 lbs. meat. scrap, 5 lbs. salt. Oats in the morning and wheat, barley, and buckwheat at night, made of 1/3 wheat and 14 each of barley and buckwheat. —\V. N. C. The ration you are using would not be responsible for the hens pecking each other’s heads. Even with the best of balanced rations the hens will occasionally fight and draw blood and then other members of the flock will ‘ peck at the wounds and keep them bleeding until they dry down and gradually heal. In our experience this has occurred more often with White Ieghoms than with Barred Rocks. Sometimes ‘rubbing the combs with pummel “spline will aid in heal-l r ’a ,3 3:. - THE MICHIGAN ‘FARMER ing the wounds and prevent the peck- ing. Often they heal up and return. to normal condition without any treat- ment. If a comb continues to bleed it pays to place adrenalin chloride on the wound or, the bird may be bled White and die from weakness. Dry mash, green feed, clean scratching litter and everything that keeps the hens from centering their attention on each other is a help in preventing fighting and the resulting head wounds. PROBABLY CHICKENPOX Our hens have become infected with a. yellow scale on their combs and wattles. When we first noticed one in this condition we. isolated her at once. Today we find another in the same shape and another just begin- ning. well. Do not droop. We are giving cod liver oil in mash, potassium per- manganate in drinking water and cleaning combs and wattles with lysol solution. What is the trouble? Is there a cu.re?—M. G. The sores on the combs and wattles are probably due to chickenpox. Touch the sores with iodine to destroy the infection and the birds may soon re- cover. As the birds are alert and ap- pear perfectly healthy, they probably have a mild form of chickenpox and will soon return to normal. SURGERY FOR ROUP Can you tell me what is wrong with my hens? Just one side of their heads swell, till the eyes close and then the other side does the same—D. C. W. The swelling on the side of the head is probably caused by roup. When the face swells until the eye is closed it means that a large amount of thick matter has backed up and it can only be removed by surgery. This means cutting the lump with a sharp instru- ment like a safety razor blade. Then pick out the matter with the point of an old penknife. Inject one of the soothing commercial roup cures into the wound-and pack it with a bit of cotton to keep the cut open so it will heal from the inside. Commercial dis- infectants or iodine can be used but cause the bird more pain than the commercial roup cures which contain healing oils as well as disinfectants. Treatment of this kind is hard on the bird and takes time. The wound may need to be cleansed and dressed several times. Roup should be con— trolled by preventing the colds which clog the nostrils and cause accumula- tion of matter in the side of the face. The word “roup” seems to describe a great variety of troubles more or less severe. The hatchet is probably the best remedy f0r the serious cases and the advisability of treating other cases depends on the poultryman’s time and the condition and value of the birds to be treated. NEWS AND VIEWS (Continued from page 220) that you have got the world with/a fence around it by being so content with your occupation and living on the homestead.” He explaines that his farm is located just eleven miles from the Detroit City Hall and that his is the only family from his old silo fil- ling gang that is still farming. He writes, “The rest have all sold their farms for lots and moved into swell city homes, so swell that we just can’t have our old house dances and parties any more and that means that we don’t see our old neighbors much.” Well, that’s one thing that we don’t need to worry about here at Ingle- side. We aren’t in danger of being swallowed up by any omniverous metropolis. The American death rate has been decreasing more rapidly in the cities than in rural districts. Twenty million pounds of explosives Eire used yearly on farms in this coun- W- ’ mum 1 OYSTER SHELL‘ FLAKE M' 29 231 . AND PLUS FOR POULTRY 0 POULTRY F PROFITS Hens minus VOyster Shell are hens minus eggs. These hens are alert and eat.-- :1: al: 3!: * To put: the plus into poultry raising, keep Pilot Brand Oyster Shell-Flake before your flock all the time. A more let, stronger—boned fowl. than 98% pure Calcium Carbonate content makes it rich in eggshcfl material. With more eggshell material your hens can produce more eggs, and make themselves meat; The majority of the successful poultry men in the country have realized the “plusage” of Pilot Brand for years. They always say “Pilot Brand,” because it is a sure way to get purified, triple—screened, odorless, wasteless Oyster Shell always. One bag of Pilot: Brand is just as good as another. OYSTER SHELL PRODUCTS CORPORATION beds special mated grades. Write for it. HUN DERMA R. R. 3, Box 50 - .. - (guanine A pawn-(13° FARM Wymdottm and Buff ()rpingtons. Our Chicks are Hatched from Free Farm Range Breeders Every chick is Michigan Accredited which means it is from breeders that have passed the official inspection of poultry specialists under the supervision of Michigan State Poultry Improvement associations. §aving Bank. Order from this ad 0 S. C. White & S_. P. Brown Leghorns..$3 Barred Racks ............ S. (‘ l . 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Write (or con-pm Price List of all . .. JOHNSON FISH 00.. firm I”: WI.- N. _. ma.....~mv~ Q 238—30 ' WOLVERINE S.C.WHITE LEGHORN BLOOD SAF'éagazliu/AL BABY CHICKS WILL GUARANTEED MICHIGAN _ ACCREDITED TELL “ , FOR WINTER EGG PRODUCERS Get 'our Large Leghoms, the birds with large combs that produce the Large Chalk White Eggs Send for Our 1928 Catalog Tells all about our chicks and breeding stock EGG BRET) SINCE 1910 For 18 years We have specialized in the production of s. C. White Leg- horns. and breed no other variety. All our time. thought. and energy in selecting and mating has been devoted to our Leghorns. You are assured of very desirable stock. I00% LIVE ARRIVAL GUARANTEED WOLVERINE HATCHERY, AND FARMS H. P. WIERSMA. Owner and Breeder, Dept. 3, Zeeiand. Mich. ‘1 Have been bred for Irish egg production for may generations. They are particularly well adapted to Commercial egg farms. Their large size and rugged constitution enable them to stand up under extreme conditions. Every male and female inspected by authorized state in- Doctors supervised by Michigan State College. The free catalog tells all about. them. MICHIGAN ACCREDITED—PURE BARRON STRAIN Our catalog shows pedigrees and gives a full description of the pen we importdl direct from Tom Barron. England. The males in this pen wereout of a 298 68¢ hen that layed eggs weighing 30 ounces to the dozen and_were sired. by a 301 eg: male. The females records range from 259 to 271. _This is the foundation you get in Pioneer Leghorns. Many males direct from this. pen now hear! our matings. We are Breeders and have spent many years with this one strain. Write for Special Discount Now _ PIONEER POULTRY. FARM No. II), Box to Holland, Michigan MICHIGAN ACCREDITED CHICKS Buy your chicks from heavy laying flocks that are officially accredited by in- s ectors supervised by Michigan State College and of prize Winners at the oIIand Poultry Show, having the best display on Barred Rocks 1n the lpro- duction class. 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WRITE TODAY \ Zeeland. Mloh. ' «SELECTEDYCHICKS Varieties "r "[9 on —BIG EARL ORDER 8 ———DlSCOUNTS-—l$ VARIETIES Winners of many prizes. Every bird standard culled. Get FREE circqu 0! chicks, hatching eggs. and broods" before buying elsewhere. Broiler chick: 9c up. Is. mulch . _ White Leghorns and Barred Rocks. Carefully bred struauins that are produced _ to make good winter layers on your farm. Every breeder carefully selected v W' Free catalog gives low prices. Before you order your Chicks get this free catalog that tells all about than VILLAGE VIEW POULTRY FARM. R. 3. Box 2 SERVICE PURE BRED BABY CHICKS UALITY 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed. Semi for Free Catalog and Price List Pr paid Prices for 25 60 100 200 500 1000 Wm. Leghorn, suck Milton-1. . . . . .. . $3.50 86.50 812.00 $23.50 857.50 $110.00 White. Barred and Buff Rocks Single mi in... Combufiogs . . . . .3.7s 1.25 14.00 27.50 07.50 130.00 ivi'fhlvdtzafat‘i‘a” smith...“ io¢.' Member A. e. c. r. A. Our 22nd You rm: LANTZ uncanny pox o urnn. OHIO THE MICHIGANrA‘RMEn FEB. 18, ‘1928 Poultry Improvement . I: the Purpose of tin! Mtrlzrgaanoultry Improvement Amocz'atz'on HE Michigan State Poultry Im- of instilling confidence in the buying ' provement Association was or- ganized in June, 1925, for the pur- pose of undertaking a. general program to include educational work in co- operation with the Poultry Depart- ment of the Michigan State College and any other agencies that may co- operate for the advancement of the poultry industry; to develop and main- tain in cooperation with the Poultry Department of the Michigan State Col- lege an inspection service to inspect the hatcherles, flocks, and premises of its members who make application for such inspection; to establish rules and regulations for various grades in connection with the accredited hat- chery group; and to accredit or cer- tify such hatcheries and flocks as shall. satisfactorily pass inspection. Large Membership This Association has a membership of approximately two thousand. This Association can accomplish more in a few years than any individual or indi- viduals can in a. lifetime for the ad. vancement of poultry in general. The Record of Performance Home Trap- nesting Project was started by the Poultry Improvement Association. This project is carried on by the Re- cord of Performance Association as an affiliated association. The Association has assisted in securing legislative ac- tion for the benefit of the poultry business in cooperation with other agencies. This Association furthers any work of any nature that will have any bearing upon the welfare of the poultry industry in Michigan as a. whole. The Association is also inter- ested in any national program that has any connection with the poultry industry, particularly insofar as it af- fects Michigan and various officers of the Association have spent consider- able time in connection, with the es- tablishment of a standard national breeding plan so that the grades throughout the country would be uni- form. An Important Function The Association has retained the in- spection of flocks and hatcheries as its main function in accreditation and certification of poultry. This in itself is a sufficient and important project to warrant the expenditure of time and money. This work is carried on entirely under the Accredited Hatch- ery group. The Board of Directors that direct this work through the Field Manager of the Association is made up of nine men from the mem- bership and the Poultry Department of Michigan State College. This board handles all the details pertaining to accredited and certified flocks and hatcheries. Reason for Inspection Perhaps it would be well to explain the reason for having this inspection program before explaining in detail how it is done. In the past there has been a tendency, as in any other busi- ness, for many individuals to make claims and statements absolutely un- founded in the furtherance of their own financial gain or to place them- selves upon the same plane as some competitor. The actual quality was present only on paper. A. great many flocks were used for breeding pur- poses that were not good representa- tives of the breed or variety that they were supposed to represent. Many flocks were not systematically culled and satisfactory breeding males were not always used. Incubators were not satisfactorily cleaned and disin- fected after each hatch and conditions were not ideal for the production of good chicks. Chicks were not prop- erly culled in some cases. Complaints against losses did not receive the at- tention that they rightly deserved. The establishment of this inspection l service was instituted for the purpose public, and protection against indi- viduals operating hatcheries with no consideration of their buyers. Fur. thermore, the establishment of such a service gave the reliable and honest breeder and hatcheryman recognition of his efforts both physical and finan- cial in the improvement of the quality of his product. Inspection Cost The cost of this inspection is car- ried by the members of the Associa— tion. Each Accredited Hatchery oper ator signs a legal contract binding. him to the observance of all rules and regulations, and provides for a fine of three cents per chick for every chick produced and removal from the Asso- ciation in case of violation of any part of the contract. As soon as this con- tract is signed and the association proceeds with the actual work of ac- crediting the flocks from which that hatchery purchases eggs. Before a flock can be accredited, all the birds must be handled and banded with a permanently sealed legband furnished by the Association. These birds must be banded in the presence of someone authorized by the Associa- tion and holding a certificate for pro- ficiency in culling for standard and production qualities from the Poultry Department of the Michigan State Col— lege. The birds that are left must be good specimens of the breed, free from standard disqualifications, well matured, and show satisfactory qual- ifications for good egg production ac- cording to the standards set forth by the Poultry Department of the Mich- igan State College. In addition, no flock is accredited which shows symp- toms of any serious disease. The flock must be well cared for and well managed. All rejected birds must be removed from the breeding flock and sold. A certificate is furnished to the owner after the inspection of the flock by the Association inspectors and the approval of the Accrediting Board. Accredited Flocks Before a hatchery may become ac- credited all flocks furnishing eggs to that hatchery must be accredited. The purchase of eggs from unknown sources of unaccredited flocks is pro- hibited. The hatchery is inspected from time to time, for cleanliness and sanitation. Accurate records must be kept of the purchase of eggs, number of chicks hatched, and to whom the chicks were sent. All eggs used must average twenty-three ounces to the dozen and be uniform in quality. All chicks must be carefully sorted and culled and properly packed for ship- ment. Mixed chicks or cull chicks cannot be sold under the Association trade mark. An accredited hatchery cannot purchase chicks from an un- accredited hatchery for sale. The in— spection of hatcheries is just as im- portant as that of the breeding stock to see that it is properly operated and that the business methods are entire- ly ethical. The advertising copy and catalogs must be approved before being used. This insures the statement of facts and the absence of misleading state- ments. The Association in the past has prevented several concerns from using fraudulent advertising. Welcomes Information The Association welcomes any in- formation concerning poor quality stock or chicks or complaints ‘that are not satisfactorily or promptly handled. The Association maintains an ofliice at East Lansing in connection with the Poultry Department and, any trouble with Association members may be reported there. Accreditation is the first step in the improvement program. Certification is the second step differing only in the use at approved Record 01"?”- . l‘ ,. FEB. 18,-192‘8 formanco male birds. All other in- spection is carried on in the same manner as in accreditation. The ap- proval of all R. O. P. male birds and the supervision of trapnesting and pedigree work is handled by the Re- cord of Performance Association. No hatchery is permitted to produce both accredited and certified chicks. The Association has accomplished a great deal of good so far. It will ac- complish more, if it receives the sup- port from the public which it is striv- ing to serve. It has been accused of being a selling organization with the coinage of new terms for the purpose of advertising. The Association con- ducts no business other than inspec- tion and the promotion of—a high qual- ity product. It is interested in seeing the purchaser receive what he buys and the production of a good product truthfully advertised. THE RABBIT BUSINESS I wish to raise rabbits in the spring. When would be the proper time to start? Also, please tell me the kind of feed and buildings nec. essary and the most profitable breed to raise in this part of Michigan.— Hay, oats, and carrots are among the most substantial feeds for hutch rabbits. Hutches can be 6 feet long, 2 feet deep, and 2 feet high. One-third of the space is enclosed for a nest with a wire covered door over the re- mainder of the front. The hutches should be placed in a building or shed where they are protected from the wind and snow and yet receive as much sunshine as possible. The regu- lar cleaning of the hutches is an im— portant factor in keeping rabbits healthy. The Flemish Giants are about the most popular market rabbit at the present time. Raising rabbits for a company that agrees to buy all you raise has seldom been found profit- able by practical rabbit breeders. Usually the company must sell you the original breeding stock for more than it is worth and then they will buy back your surplus for less than it is worth. They make their require- ments for acceptance high enough so there is no danger that you will over- stock them with rabbits. I would advise you to start on a small scale and learn the business be- fore risking much money on rabbits. Last summer the price for rabbit meat was very low and they were often diificult to sell at any price. At pres- ent the price is not high enough to warrant risking much capital in the business. As a sideline or hobby it may be very interesting and also produce good meat for the home table with an _ occasioral surplus for sale. EGG SHOW WINNERS (Continued from page 218) Fifth—Harry Brink, Grant, Mich. Brown Eggs First—John Arnold. Second—John Arnold. Thirdmlrayher Bros, Jackson, Mich. Fourth Elmer Haynes, Vassar. Fifth—Pinecroft P o u l t r y Farm, Owosso, Michigan. Class No. 6 Sweepstakes—L. E. Heasley, white eggs, Grand Rapids. Reserve Sweepstakes, white eggs—— H. B. Dargitz, Montpelier, Ohio. White Eggs First—L. E. Heasley. Second—H. B. Dargitz. Third——W. S. Hannah & Son, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Fourth—Paw Paw High School, Paw Paw, Michigan. Fifth—~—W. S. Hannah & Son. Brown Eggs First—Wm. Brott, Charlotte, Mich. Second—Pinecroft Poultry F a r m, Owosso, Michigan. Third——Pinecroft Poultry Farm. Fourth—H. B. Pelton & Son, East Tawas, Michigan. Fifth—C. N. Whittaker, Lawrence. Class No. 7 Sweepstakes—Elmer Haines, Vassar, Brown Eggs. ‘ Reserve Sweepstakes—H. B. Darg- itz, Montpelier, Ohio, White Eggs. ' White Eggs Firet—s-H. B. Dargitz. Second—~11. B. Dargitz. mm~0tm S‘aarilro, Rock. Mich. Fourth——Daniel Holm, Ishpeming. Fifth#James Meeks, Hillsdale. Brown Eggs First—Elmer Haines. . Second—Howard Riley, Charlotte. Third—Elmer Haines, Vassar. Fourth~—Tin Poll, Hamilton, Mich. Class No. 8 Sweepstakes—Edwin Sawyer, Olivet, Michigan, Brown Eggs. R e s e r v e Sweepstakes—Pinecroft Poultry Farm, Owosso, Mich, Brown. White Eggs First—”H. B. Dargi'tz, Ohio. Second—Mrs. Harvey Steffens, Man- ton, Michigan. Third W. S. Hannah & Son, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 0 Montpelier, Fourth—L. E. Heasley, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Fifth—H. B. Dargitz, Montpelier, Ohio. Brown Eggs First—Edwin Sawyer. Second—LPineCroft Poultry Farm. Third—Edwin Sawyer. Fourth—J. R. Worthington, Lansing. Fifth—~W. R. Brott, Charlotte, Mich. ' Class No. 9 Sweepstakes—4.. E. Heasley, Grand Rapids, Mich, White Eggs. Reserve Sweepstakes—W. A. Downs, Romeo, Mich. White Eggs First—L. W. Heasley. Second—IV. A. Downs. Third——L. E. Heasley. ' & Son, Fourth—W. S. Hannah Grand Rapids, Michigan. Fifth—~L. E. Heasley. Brown Eggs First~~Pinecroft Poultry Farm, Owosso, Mich. Second--—\V. R. Brott, Charlotte. Third—NV. R. Brott, Charlotte, Mich. Fourth—~—C. N. Vv'hittaker, Lawrence. Fifth—~Pinecroft Poultry F a r m, Owosso, Michigan. Class No‘. 10 Sweepstakes of Class—A. Covey, Eaton Rapids High School, Michigan. Reserve Sweepstakes of Class—C. Van Aken, Eaton Rapids High School. White Eggs First—A. Covey. Second—C. Van Aken. Third-lce Lake Poultry Club, Iron River, Michigan. Fourth—~Harry Schramike, Saginaw. Brown Eggs FirsV—Tho-mas Ditwiler, Saginaw. Second—F. Naylor, Eaton Rapids High School. Third—«Harry Schramke, Saginaw. Fourth——Elder Van Wormer, Sagin- aw, Michigan. Fifth—Harold Blackman, Saginaw. Class No. 11 Sweepstakes Class 11———D. Finch, Eaton Rapids High School, Michigan, White Eggs. Reserve Sweepstakes—~A. C ovey, Eaton Rapids High School, Michigan, \Vhite Eggs. \Vhite Eggs First—D. Finch, Eaton Rapids High School, Michigan. Second—~A. Covey, Eaton Rapids High School, Michigan. Third—F. Naylor, Eaton Rapids High School, Michigan. Brown Eggs First—L. Williams, Eaton Rapids High School, Michigan. — Second—R. Haitte, Eaton Rapids High School, Michigan. OILING BROODER HOUSE FLOORS N a recent visit with Roy Waite, in charge of poultry work at the Maryland Experiment Station, he ad- vised using the old engine oil from the crank case as a paint for colony brooder house floors. Whenever this old oil is available it can be applied to the floor quickly with a wide brush or swept around with a broom. The oil gives the board floors a smooth finish which is easier to sweep clean when the colony houses are filled with dusty litter. The cracks become .sealed with the thick oil and this helps in keeping down red mites and disease. If the roofing paper nails work loose during the winter and a leak goes without attention for. sev- eral days, there is less danger of the water rotting the floor boards if they are protected with oil. We always add a little commercial coal tar disinfectant to the old engine oil and believe that it gives the oil more value as a destroyer of disease germs and mites. A poultryman with many colony houses and one engine will not have enough 01d engine oil for painting the floors and it can often be 'obtained at filling stations which usually have a supply of old all they are glad to have carried away—R. G. ‘THE-‘MICHI‘GAN FARMER fights Ric 72d Lay eakneszv a Death Loss ‘ If on want unusual success With your chizks this our, raise them under GLASS ' LOTH. his wonder material admits the life giving ultra-violet energy rays of the sun. (Plain glass stops them.) Science has . A Great Succcu with otnss 'cLo'rn - our mail come Haif a million goultry raisers use GLASS CLOTH. In . . undreds of lo praising it. Above is.WillOwen. Ho saysfl‘Woarocei-tainl well pleased With Glass Cloth. 6 used it as a front or the brood- er house this spring]. The chicks were warmer than those brooded by ens. In severest weather they were cozy and fine. Lost only a very few out of 300 white rocks. They have grown faster and are more Vigorous than any we ever raised before." Glass . Cloth ays big returns. [1' you want to cut down . death oases. use it this spring. discovered these rays prevent rickets, soft- ness leg weakness and many other chick troubles. Death loss from these causes is stopped. Ultra-violet rays enter the body, Frod Tumor Wine iii? Rem- O'iginato" mg 3? bone and - “G‘mcm’l tisgue. 0 hi c k s thrive amazingly and grow very fast. If you want to raise every was ~ an era, u , in yogbroo er house Windows and builds GLAss CLOTH scratch shed where the chicks can run and exercise in real sunli ht. Itis nature's health remedy. All you need IS_ a roll 0 GLASS CLOTH and a few scraps of lumber. Mil- lions of yards in use today. Success everywhere. Experts recommend it. Repays its cost. many times 3 seasons Ideal for [101‘ BEDS Much Cheaper Than Glass GLASS CLOTH is the cheapest and best covering for hot beds. Costs 8 fraction as much as glass and gives for bet- ter results. Vegetables and flowers mature weeks earlier and produce big or yields because GLASS CLOTH. admits the life givin u tra-Violet rays of the sun. _ (Plain glass stops them.) lanta ow stron er and hardier and trans- plant better. GLAS CLOTH oids the heat of the sun and throws it to all parts of the frame. Under lass, plants become weak and spindley for want of Violet ight. Turner Bros. Dept. 421 5 Hidden. Nebr. Wellington, Ohio cmcxs from Michigan Accredited ~ «. Flocks . Get our big catalog before you . buyl it tellsgvliy Knoll's Mich- igan ccro ited poultr ay you better. Large, heavy, carefully selected bigds. Good wmter layers. in White Leg- . s horn,HeavyType . Brown Lexhom, Barred Rock Chicks. 100% Live delivery guar- anteed. Strong, healthychicks thatlive and ng. 3‘6 CASH if you order this month— ‘ 10 a deposn: books you! DISCOUN or cr—-for delivery when _ wanted, Shipped c. O. D. Pay balance on urivol. Soc ohlch bola" you guy. Write today. f discount on I“ orders rocclvod before March 1. Get ready now for bin" profits next acuon. ’I , " I (I . { t'thquf, . , ' ’HIWfiIF/Zjfl (If Knoll’o Hatchery and Poultry Form R. R. 12, Box ME. Holland. Mich. Netigut -\ n j; [Send fjortthislilzg \. r, _‘..' no a or In ”Wk/II '5} Br u e 00]: — . u... [LI/fl “Ill 7am ace the dollar: = \J %‘W our NowCut I_ .sg. Prices save you. wo I) well- known rma— . . Wisconsin Ind I Ironclad—have consoli- - dated—to cut costs_nnd sell at lower priceu.pon’t buy untilyou ct this money saying book. 1'! Incu- ntoru—ld Branders to select from. ITE FOR CATALOG TODAY Tell: how to get eggs in winter: how to stop chick lumen. 80 day trial odor. WISCONSW-IRONCLAD COMPANY Box. 388 Raolnomvls. - GGaDAY’ MAKES HENS LAY Keeps hem laying 3 and 4 times normal all winter. Guaranteed to make you a profit. Thouundo closers praise It. Get a 65c pkg. Supplies 250 hens a mouth. Your dealer has It. Looflor the aim on hiowindow. 0:. order dim! Dom us. TODAY. STANDARD CHEIICAL IFG. C0. Dept. 25 JohW.GamlIle.Pres.. Omaha. Neb. A penny a day supplies lOOhena Quality Brooding Counts ' FAIRVIEW Day-Old Chicks. 3 Weeks Chicks. Pallets. Hens. and , Pedigreed Cockerels have paved. the 1: way to bigger Poultry Promo for . hundreds. Send today for Big. New. ‘ 1928 Catalog that tells you all about '1. how to raise poultry for profit. and get our Live and Let Live Priced FREE Broader with every order for 1.000 or more Baby Chicks. Michigan Accredited. FAIIIVIEW HATcuEnY AND FARMS. Box M. Zoolcnd. Mich. Patented—Accept No Imitation. Genuine GLASS CLOTH is made only by Turner Bros. , by patented formula. Ijlew, super-strep h material. No in- crease in price. Bi value. Avoi imitations. Name marked on every . Look for it. Flexible. trnnspnr- ent, watergroof. weatherproof. Originated in 1916. Proven by 1 years spectacular success. 5 P E C. IAL TRIAL OFFER $5.00 buys abig roll of our super—strength material, 45 ft. long and 36 in. Wide. Only 3 2-3c per sq. ft. If. after tén days’ use, you do not find it better than glass or any sub- stitute, return it and we will refund our money. Common sense instructions, “Success with Ba )7 Chicks" with each order. Samples and catalog illustrating uses free on re- quest. This is as ecial rice. Act now. f your dealer does not have GLAS CLO , order from us direct on coupon. Mail the COUPON! : TURNER altos" oopt. 4215 Bladon. Noon. Wellington. Ohio I enclose: .......... for which send me tpaid ...... roll! of GLASS CLOTH at the advertise trial ofior rice. If notsatisfied after 10 days use I may return i: and you Will refund my money. :2 gt State BE SURE To get our free Catalogue and prices on DEAN QUAL- ITY CHICKS. White - horns, Barred and VVhi o Rm-ks. It. I Rods. White Wyandcttcs. All - Michigan Accredited. Some Certified. Established Hill—Better this year than ever. DEAN EGG FARM dc. HATCHERY. Box 8. Birmingham. Mich. 8. (I. W. Leghorn Baby Chicks Buy Mich. Accredited Baby Chicks from Michigan's largest poultry farm. We buy no eggs to put in our incubators but produce them on our own farm from selected liens mated with 50% 200 to 336 egg Tam-red males. ptxhgrccd. All breeders have been bloodtosted for BACILLARY WHITE DIARRHEA for the past. 4 years which insures you chicks prac- tically free from this dread disease. N0 better- chicks at. any price. Only one grade. . S. HARKEMA SONS. R. -1, Holland, Mich. HILLSIDE I'IA'I'GIIERY Chicks. Genuine Tom Barron English White Log- horns., large type. overlaying combs. with egg laying qualities. Non-setters Barred Rooks from M. S. C. stork, 1928 flocks, headed with corkcrel whose dams have official trapncstcd rovords 203—233 M. S. C. egg—laying contest. Free circular rxplaining our 1928 specxal. surprising you, low m'it'i‘. HILLSIDE HATCHERI. HOLLAND. MICH., II. 3 OOS QUALITY CLASS A CHICKS From healthy heavy layers of large eggs. 8 C. English VVlilte Leghorns, Brown Leghoms. Ant-onus, R. I. Reds and As- sorted chirks at reasonable prices. No money down. Pay full amount. 10 days before ('Ilil‘ks are shipped or C. 0. D. Special disrounts. 100% live delivery postpaid. Catalogue free. 803 HATCHERY R. 2 Zoeland. Mich. M ' . WHITE LEGNORNS ONLY smweo coo. Immune _ LOW PREPAID PRICES if an; Egg comes! Winners for years. Guaranteed Ind insured. Also . 5-] o cockerela. pullers, hens. Catalog and special price bulletin free. GEORGE B. FERRIS. 934 UNION. GRAND RAPIDS, Mien. Accredited thick-5".- O . D- Sce your chicks before you pay for them. Especially selected. accredited stock. BEAUTIFUL CATALOG FREE. Send for details. prices and catalog. Write today. Our chicks are highest quality South Kenton Poultry Farm. Box II-A. Kenton. Ohio. BABY CHICKS From Michigan Accredited flocks. Three leading breeds. B. P. ROCKS. It. I. Reds, and S. C. White Leghorns. Writ.- for 1928 catalog. it tells all about. our chicks. Place your orders early. 100% live! do. livery guaranteed. CARLETON HATCHERY. Carleton. Michillan c. 0. D. Fine mus-bred GHIGKS ““1 flux chicks and baby ducks at prices to fit your ponketbook. Pedigreed males and selected females make chicks of finest qual- ity. Free poultry book and catalog. Got. details of our liberal C. 0. D. offer. COOPERATIVE BREEDING 8.. MATCHING 00.. Box l26. Tlro. 0. ‘ 64 BII EEDS saga-“sag: ‘t‘ii‘éi’aii'fi ducks, geese. turkeys. Fowlo, eggs. chicks. in- cubators at low prices. 35th year. Lar‘gat plant.Valunble loo-pogo outdo: km 1'00. II. F. Noubort Co. 801:!)ng Minute. Minn. 3 , ,uWWAWaLSWAy ....~ 2. .-A _ ‘K—T‘I’o‘e , - .-..‘ a» ;.<,-.o.r..~..,.:_..a -. W .mbxfizi'» ‘ « 4... .. . - . TH-E MI'CH ITGA'N FARMER ounmc More Mature Musings Ot/zer I ntererlz'ng Parent," Parley Letter: ACH week I read the letters and E discussions on your page of the Michigan Farmer, oftentimes be- fore I do the interesting page for us mothers. Why? Because I have five children myself and I am most inter- ested in just how other boys and girls are spending their time and directing their thoughts, realizing that the fam- ily of cousins is a very large and Gertrude Derks Says “Just Me” growing one in a large and progres. sive state represented by our own Michigan Farmer. 80 now,‘when by special invitation, we are allowed to comment on “Our Boy’s and Girl’s Page.” I cannot refrain from adding my bit of appreciation and encourage ment to Uncle Frank, our young cor- respondents, and our state paper. Many have written of White Amar- anth. I, too, wish to say I am one of her admirers. However, we are not all gifted with power to express our- selves so beautifully and forcefully. Our greatness lies elsewhere, perhaps, so no one need be discouraged. I enjoy the letters of those who have achieved honors in club work. There are hundreds of these boys and girls who will be well fitted to guide our great Ship of State in the future if they follow the 4-H work faithfully. The variety of letters make the page interesting. I liked the parable on education in a late issue and I think a letter adverse to my concep- tion of good morals occasionally adds spice for the deluge of whole-hearted comebacks and does one good to know that this old world is still full of clean- minded, sound-bodied, young folks who are ready to uphold the principles of righteous living. I smile over the digs the “flappers” receive from Harold and others for well we know it is characteristic of this sort of chap to find just this kind of girl his companion for life for bet- ter, for worse, etc. I have even noticed how your Merry Circle Fund is carrying sunshine here and there. May this world of cheer from one mother help a little to make this your most successful year in every way—Mrs. Alice Christiansen. I would like to write a few words on the subject of ambition. Most of us have an ambition for one or more things. My parents and grandparents were pioneers in this place and were all poor folks. What troubled me most was to have to borrow dishes when- ever the threshers came. I used to say I will have enough dishes so I will not need to borrow. I have them. I also wanted a home of my own even though humble, and have it paid for. I have that. I also wanted to write something for a newspaper worthy of print. I have done that. I wanted to bring my children Up to be trusted, respected citizens and I am happy to say I have no fault to find. The boys and girls of “Our Page” seem to be holding their own and more too, so I will say “Live up to your name” and strive to win what- ever is the depth of your heart’s de- sire. Gather the roses while we may, Of righteousness, truth, and love. Gather sweet roses every day, For our crowning up above—Aunt Julia. My, how time does fly! Another year has passed into eternity. I read your request for the opinions of grown-ups on the M. C. page so will try and express a few thoughts. I have read several other pages de voted to the boys’ and girls’ letter writing and will'say the M. C.’s have them all beat for I find that their dis- cussions are of a much higher order. It may be those who write in other papers are not so old. The contents of a great many let- ters which have appeared, show the earmarks of much thought and study well into the senior year of school- ing. I was much pleased to see Doro- thy Shoemaker’s picture in print as I admire her talent, and would enjoy seeing some of the others who have submitted letters worthy of comment.‘ I am glad so many of the boys and girls who have reached the age limit have not forsaken the M. C. page as they can derive much good through reading the lively discussions. All in all, I think the M. C. page very fine as it creates a desire to compete with one another and competition is one of the big factors in today’s problems. —An Interested Reader. OUR LETTER BOX Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins: Cousins, don’t you ever rebel against the criticism we youths of today re- ceive? Are we any worse than our grandparents of fifty years ago; would they own up to it? Of course, our precise ancestors never side-stepped the rigid rules of propriety. Aren’t the bobbed heads and short skirts of our flapper sisters more san- itary than the fanciful hair dressings and dirt-catching dresses of grand- mother’s youth? Are the sleek combed heads of our lads less manly than the flowing curls of our Pilgrim fathers? Didn’t the youth of a half century ago ever go out riding, the same as our modern lads and lassies do? It’s true old Dobbin could be trusted to follow the crooked trails of yesterday better than Lizzie can the smooth pavements of today. In spite of the paints and powders of our modern girl, you’ll find the same dauntless courage and bravery that carried our great grandmothers across the continent in the covered wagon. In these days of science and inven- tions, doesn’t the modern girl make just as happy a home for her husband and babes as did our grandmothers in their cabin homes? Didn’t a per- ' ll Robert Nothdurft, twelve-year—old Potato Club Member of Dowagiac, won the sweepstakes prize on the Potato Show Train operated over the New York Central Lines in South- western Michigan in December, in co- operation with the Michigan State Col- lege. Robert won over 228 other ex- hibitors representing most of the best growers of Southwestern Michigan. He is shown here standing beside a basket of the high quality potatoes he grew. ‘ ~ - . SOD of great renown say that “The hand that rocked the cradle was the hand that ruled the world?” ‘ So I say, hurrah! for the youth of today with their clear minds and bright ideas. Have I worn out my wel- come, Uncle Frank? If not, I’ll come again. Your dutiful niece and cousin. —Sammy. You make a good defense for mod- ern youth. Youth has always needed its defenders, but today’s youth is no worse than yesterday’s it seems to me. And I am one of yesterday’s. Come again sometime. Dear Uncle Frank: I hope you and the cousins are all well. The last Michigan Farmer that came I just started right in and found “Our Page,” which always is the first page I look at. When I read the letter signed by “Cooney” I just laughed. He said he wanted to write something to make the M. C.’s laugh; well, I surely laughed. I think he had the next to the best letter and I think Christine Zeck had the most interesting of all. Don’t you think so, Uncle Frank? Say, Uncle Frank, if we send in some kind of a picture of ourselves, will they be on “Our Page?” If they~ will I might send in a few (some good ones, too). I mean some funny ones. How old must we be when our time is up for the Merry Circle? 1 think I must sign off now.—Susie. I’m glad you got a. laugh out of “Cooney’s” letter, and found some- thing interesting in Christine’s. I can’t promise to use all pictures sent in, but usually use the good ones, al- though I have to keep them for quite a while. Eighteen is the age limit for M. C.’s. Dear Uncle Frank: I, for one, certainly admire Guilford for his sensible letters and good looks, but I don’t agree with Bubs for say- ing that farm work is fun. She should cook, bake, churn, wash, scrub, keep the house clean, milk, and during hay- mg time, help with the hay and grain, also lots of other things that I have to do and I’m quite sure she wouldn’t call it fun. ‘ You see, my mother is dead; that’s why I have all the work to do. But then, of course, I have my pleasures too, after work is done. The greatest of the pleasures is playing the banjo. I can play on that banjo for hours and hours and never tire of it. Every spare. moment is spent on the banjo. My Sister plays the piano very well. Every win‘tershe goes to Chicago and while there, she plays in an orchestra, .so during the summer when she’s :-home, she plays the piano, my brother the violin, and myself the banjo and we entertain ourselves as we have no radio. My greatest ambition is to some day become a real good banjo player so I can broadcast over the. radio. I love music of all kinds. As to dancing, I like to dance very much and I go to dances every once in a while but I neither smoke nor drink and I despise anyone that drinks—“Boots.” - I am glad you like music for it af- fords real enjoyment in life. Most every activity in life has some drud- gery to it and farming is no excep- tion. One can even find fun in doing farm work. Dear Uncle Frank: I notice that there is some dispute regarding the city and country. I cer- tainly am head, feet, and everything for the country. I have lived in a few of the large cities but have found nothing like the great open spaces. With Lake Michigan but a mile or so from our house, it certainly is re- freshing to awake on a burning hot day, put on your bathing suit and take a dip in the lake before breakfast. How fortunate we are to be able to go forth upon the street or road without a policeman or traffic cop to halt us. Who can imagine going for a walk in the city, not a tree in sight, with the blistering sun shining upon us and our feet burning from the scorching side walks. One might say, “Oh, yes! but we have our swimming pools.” No doubt, but what they have, but who could enjoy themselves with a crowd of about five hundred people. Oh, yes, you have room for your feet (maybe). Nothing like taking your lunch with a crowd and making a day of it, climbing the sand dunes, some of which are near five hundred feet in height. “Great!” Why, it’s wonder- ful. Who can be so conceited as to say the city life is the life for me? With my piont of view it is not the real, clean-spirited life of the coun- try. “Not much.” It is real fun and some work to climb some of those sand dunes. A dip in the big bath tub, Lake Mich- igan, is a real pleasure. Dear Uncle Frank: My folks take the Michigan Farmer as well as several other farm papers and I always get the Michigan Farmer first if I can. Elizabeth Rowley, I agree with you. Of course, Jesus Christ did more for the world than anyone ever did be- fore His time or since. How anyone can think any different is more than I can see. I do not use tobacco or drink any- thing stronger than milk or water. Best wishes to all, your M. C. nephew and cousin—Everett A. Fi- field. You write a sensible letter and you have sensible habits. Just keep doing those things which are beneficial for you and you will not regret it. FIRST FLOWER OF SPRING HE skunk cabbage may be a humble plant whose blossoms are not in great demand by the wild flower gatherers, but at least it can claim one distinction. In the northern Skunk Cabbage states where it is found it is the first plant to b100m in spring. The strange cowls of the skunk cab- bage sometimes push up through the half frozen soil before the, last, black,_ ened snowdrlfts h‘ave‘melted from the ‘ northern hfilsides. "The plant IS" a lowland. dweller, growing only in the ‘ FEB. .13, {1928 black, mucky soil of swamps or marshes. The spathe or cowl of the skunk cabbage is green, striped or mottled with reddish purple. Hidden within, and well protected from the chill of early spring winds, is the fleshy spadix, bearing the true. flowers which are tiny and inconspicuous. The big glossy leaves follow the flowers. If.crushed or broken they exude a strong fetid odor from which the plant takes its name. Despite the fact that the flowers share to some degree in this odor, they are a favorite early spring food of bears and other wilderness animals. Bruin particularly considers them a succulent morsel and ranges the marshes constantly in search of them, during the weeks while Winter is re‘ treating. ADD-A-LETTER CONTEST I WONDER if most of the contes- tants can get the right idea of this type contest this time. Many failed to before. Start with the Letter T and add a letter each time you make a word. For instance, with the letter A, it would work out somewhat as follows: A, at, ate, seat, etc. See how many words you can make starting with the letter T. Ten prizes will be given: two fountain pens, three loose leaf note books, and ten Michigan Farmer pencils, (two to each). Write neatly, put your name and address in the upper left hand corner of the paper, ‘put M. C. after your name if a Merry‘ Circler, write letters on separate sheets, and send your papers to Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich, before February 24th the closing date. All, not now mem‘ bers, who send in good papers will be given M. C. membership cards and pins. THE AD CONTEST WINNERS E got' a nice lot of replies to this contest but there was an un- usual number that had some of the questions wrongly answered. In most contests of this sort some one ques- tion is usually the stumbling block but this time no certain one seemed to be the trouble maker. Following are the names of the prize winners and the correct answers: . Fountain Pens Wallace W. White, Garnet, Mich. Walter Buffenbarger, R. 1, Custer, Michigan. , Loose Leaf Note Books Mary K. Bender. Martin, Mich. Reino Tuuri, Kiva, Michigan. Pearl La (‘hapclle, R. 2, Box 185, Chassel, Michigan. Candy Lilly Tervo, Chassel, Mich. Mabel Grainger, R. 1, Mt. Morris, Mich. Gordon E'cker, Clarion. Michigan. Theodine Andres, R. 5, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. Terne Cradit, R. 5, Clare, Mich. Correct Answers 1. Three hundred. Pig incubator. Chrysler cars. Roderick Lean Co. Eighty-nine cents. Standard Chemical Co. Goodyear. Nopco cod liver oil. . geese-9w FARMERS’ WEEK (Continued from page 212) to. To a humble jake who had found all of the proposals everything else but after~dinner reading, it looks like this might work about as well as any of them. Governor Green stated that the gen- eral property tax is an unfair tax. Let thanks be given that the men in au- thority are realizing that there can be no lasting remedy for agricultural high-costs so long as tangible prop— erty must hear an undue proportion of the costs of state, county, and local government. Of the big men who spoke on the program, none were heard with more sincerity than Doctor W. O. Thomp- son, for twenty—six years president of Ohio State University, and, the. dean _of land grant college, presideiits in America. He showed how the land grant colleges have not only had a measure of. liberty, in workin'g'but new It“. ,; 5:.‘u. \ courses but how they have been forced to do this because of the conservative- ness of the older institutions. Per- haps his statement, coming from a man of such imposing eminence, will still some of that small talk coming from elsewhere that at Michigan State College little else should be taught except how to milk the cows, how to keep the gas engine running, the art of boiling water without burn- ing it and a. few pointers about wood- lot thinning. Michigan has made a niche for her— self in potato' production, all of which the Potato Commodity- Exhibit por- trayed. The number of entries as well as the number of exhibitors was more than double those of last year. Al.- fonso Verschure, of the Upper Penin- sula. (Manistique), was declared the champion potato grower with 338 bushels per acre on five acres. Mr. Verschure is still a bachelor and since 1928 is divisible by four, we judge that the girls of the U. P. might be more aggressive. By the way, it would have been well worth any potato grower’s time to make the trip to the Farmers’ Week just to study these exhibits of everything connected with potatoes—— even to the consumption thereof. Soils are such inanimate things, de- void of sentiment, or romance—it is small wonder that the usual tendency is to take them for granted. But I noticed that the soils conferences and meetings were well attended. It is apparent that many producers are coming to View their soils as the most fundamental part of their business. Interest was about evenly divided be tween the upland and the muck soil sections, with the edge slightly in favor of the latter. This may be con- strued as a growing realization on the part of Michigan farmers of the im- portance of these muck soils as well as to the very embracing and compre hensive experimental work on muck soil crops and problems which have been conducted during the past six years by the M. S. C. Soils Depart- ment. THE VALUE OF CLUB WORK (Continued from page 211) getting yearling heifers rather than something smaller. At about this age the animal is taking on the form that we expect to find in the mature ani- mal. Then too, the feeding of the older animal is not as difficult as with a younger calf. Exhibition Period The exhibiting period is. of course, an exciting time. Previous to this event at intervals during the summer the club members have met to discuss 3 such matters as feeding. care, and «'f’» H THE-"N to H I‘GA N “FARMER showing of animals. The club leader can direct feeding when visiting the» different projects, but the training the, animal gets is left to the boy and girl. It is a very important consideration if the animal is to go to some of the! larger fairs. I usually tell my club‘ members that there are just three individuals in the ring—~the judge, the animal he is showing, and himself. Never is he allowed to talk to any one and his personal appearance should be for the. occasion. An incident happened at the 1925 State Fair illustrates the value of Showmanship. One of my boys, Ray- mond Wallace, was showing a Duroc gilt that" previous to this time had not been defeated in three shows. She carried a fine back, had plenty of length and good feet but showed some weakness over the shoulder, cially while standing. The pig club pigs were placed, with Raymond’s gilt, placing fifth in a class of sixteen gilts. _ The pigs that placed ahead of her dis- ‘ played splendid type and I think were The next day the open . litter mates. , class Durocs were to be judged and espe- g ,r ‘,.a re." - '. E4". ,_ l .l- k cessful for he left the ring with the blue ribbon safely clutched in one hand and his lead stick in the other. In that ring were twenty-seven gilts from four states. Showmanship had won. . In 1926 the Grand Champion Hol- stein female was a splendid calf raised by Clarence Merchant of Cass City. She was beautifully fitted and well shown by a typical farm boy. In 1927 in our banner year, for the fourth con- secutive time, the Grand Champion Holstein female came from this club. Jim Milligan for the second consecu- tive year copped the Grand Champion steer prize. Our prize money distri- buted at a big. banquet given by the community club amounted to $1,750 clear of expenses. It was held in the high school auditorium where we sur- prised the club by displaying on our fine new stage, the Grand Champion steer at the Michigan State Fair. This was a splendid climax to a most suc- cessful year in club work and a real job ahead if we expect to better it in 1928. The student that completes a pro ject of this type learns more about the business of taming because it is his problem and not dad’s. He feeds, cares for, and exhibits his animal and everyone of these operations present some difficulties to be worked out in a practical way by himself. The successful farmer of tomorrow must know how to keep records, use best cultural methods, weigh values, and last but not least come to realize that farming is a business requiring a. scientifically trained man. ‘ I " “Kn ' .Cultivateth var (It costs just as much in time, labor, and seed to get poor crops as it does to get good ones. It's entirely a matter of proper cultivation. STUDY KOVAR CONSTRUCTION Look at the high arched tooth which the center hitch buries into the ground at exactly the right draft. Complete flexibility of frame causes a hinging action on the teeth protecting them against breakage and preventing accumu- lating of rubbish from the field. Chrome vanadium steel in teeth and high carbon steel in body make an implement without an equal. Big Success in Michigan Every year sees more of these sturdy general cultivators and quack grass diggers in use in this state. They are proving to be exactly suited for soil conditions of this state. Get Full Information Learn all about this cultivator for your crops’ sake. Write dis- tributor or direct to factory now. W. J. HARDY. Dockerville, Mich. Distributor Joe. J Kovnr Co., Owatonnn, Minn. "The Original Quack Grass Digger" I Please send me information of the KOVAR I Cultivator. I l I Name . .............................. I I Addrogg .................................... State ............ I --—_——_——_-—-J Try a Michigan Farmer Liner Communication Raymond insisted on showing his pig.., 5 ‘ She was well' trained and his plan was to keep her moving while in the ring and if possible cover up some of” her prominent Shoulder. He was suc- . . Pride in Accomplishment Prompts MICHIGAN BELL l TELEPHONE co. * To Call Attention to the Bell System’s Far-Reaching Developments in These Include: I Television, by means of which it is possible to see a person as well as to hear the voice over the telephone, and which was given its first public I demonstration during 1927. Trans -At1ant1'c teIephone service, making it possible to talk from any telephone in the United I States to any telephone in England or Scotland. Direct telephone service to Mexico, All of these developments help toward the realiz- ation of that principle of the Bell System—— A communication service by which anyone, any- where, may talk with anyone else, anywhere, at any time of the day or night. During 1 92 7 . gr» a <. : . 242-34 n. TH E T MI (2 Hi GIAN ‘ FJA RMnR FEB. 18;. 1928 Com Borer Has InVadcd Africa Along wité toe‘Boooon [2‘ T oreatem Com Production 1'72 toe Dart Condom} By Rush F. Wagner Agrimltural Minionary to South Africa, from Methods}: Episcopal Chart/1 HE baboon sat back on his haunches with a disgusted look on his dog-nosed face. In his hands was an ear of green corn which had been ripped open by one vicious swipe of those great fangs‘ of teeth. He was eyeing it with some misgiv- ings. “You think you’re tough,” said the larva of the European corn borer as he shuddered at his narrow escape The baboon has ever been a prob-‘ lem with the blacks, who almost in- . variably locate their villages and gar— . dens in the sandy soil of the valleys. up among the granite mountains. De- fense against raiding parties of other tribes was easier among the rocks. Furthermore, the light soil there re- Two Blind Men Helping 'to Husk and Shell the Corn Crop from a Native Rhodesian Garden from those wicked teeth and blinked at the sudden light which had re- vealed the devastating work he was doing to the growing ear under the protection of the husks. “You sneak out from your hiding place high up in the rocks of the hills when you think the farmer is not looking,” he continued, “and go through his fields breaking off the ears. You have no sense about it either. If you only took what you wanted to eat and went away the farmer would not miss it, but you make him your mortal enemy by de- stroying ten times what you eat.” “Gr-r-raawk,” said the baboon, which being interpreted is,——“Where did you come from, you little sass-box? ve found some of your brothers in early half the ears I’ve bit into this orn- ing. You must have come in ith these white farmers. I never used to see the likes of you when we had only black people here in Rhodesia.” So they spat, back and forth, these two destroyers of the corn growing in- dustry that the hardy pioneer farmers are trying to build up way down there in the interior of South Africa. Not only do they menace the success of white settlement in the British Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia, but they also threaten the food supply of the hundreds of thousands of native black people. “Ar-r-w-f-f ” sounded a deep bass voice from farther up the field where the bulk of the drove of forty or fifty baboons, young and old, was busily ripping down ears of corn. This meant danger, so our friend, who had been pausing too long already in pondering over the presence of this offensive worm, dropped the ear he was. holding and made haste to join the exodus that began at once. A small black boy, perhaps twelve ,years of age. came bounding along with many whoops and yells, sending the baboon tribe the faster on its way. These were already well out of sight beyond the brush and pole fence that bor- dered this native farmer’s field or “garden”—as any cultivated area is termed. The boy carried only a crude wooden gun for a weapon, yet the baboons are so timid that a whole drove of them led by a great hairy monster weighing 300 pounds or more fled at the first glimpse of a human that appeared to have a gun. : sponded to their short-handled hoes with a much lighter application of back‘ power than did some of the heavier soils out in the more open country. The baboons live up among the rocks and caves of the higher mountains so that a watch must al- ways he set for them during the ear- forming stage of the corn season. The corn borer has come in more recently but with the slack methods of culture, which will be discussed further on in this article, the pest has made a rapid spread throughout the entire corn growing area of South Africa. The corn borer, depending on his thousands of small farmers with an ignorance of pest control as profound as is their contentment with the nub- bin cars they ordinarily harvest. To get a comprehensive picture of this nest-bed of all sorts of crops’ pests and diseases one must consider some of the cropping practices of these na- tive people. The primitive nature of many of the operations can scarcely be credited by one who has not dwelt amOng these people lohg enough to see the crop season come and go. The usual sandy soil is quite produc- tive when properly handled. It turns up quite easily even when there has been no rain for three or four or even five months during the winter. In choosing a site for a new garden, a native will pick one that has a good growth of trees on it in preference to one where the rank growth of tall grass indicates a fertile spot. The tree stumps are no obstacle to the na- tive cropping system. In fact they are an asset. They afford support for the long strings of knotted bark strips that are hung up with the ends converging at. a central elevated, look- out point, to be jerked to frighten away birds at the time when grain is ripening. On the day when work is to begin in the field, the wife (or wives) and the girls will be seen with hoes, at- tacking the ground around the base of the trees, and turning it up in ridges about ten inches high and three feet apart from crown to crown. On level ground these parallel ridges may run in any direction, the course usually being determined by the meanderings of a footpath or by following the first ridge no matter what curves and con- volutions it marked out. On hilly land the ridges run up and down the slope, thus giving the excess water Travel Stories Delayed E regret that the next in the series of travel articles by Francis Flood, who with his traveling companion, Jim Wilson, are on a trip around the world, was not received this week. The article is undoubtedly delayed in the mail somewhere between here and Central Africa. The last message received from the world-hikers indicated that they were crossing the Sahara Desert via motorcycle, a stunt that never has been attempted. Mail transportation from this region is not rapid but we trust that the articles will be on hand to resume the series in a week or so. unobtrusive size as a protection, went on with his eating. He seemed smug- ly content with his lot as he tunnelled away under the husks again. And why not? There was 'no price on his head as had been, rumored on his cousins that were invading the United States. From all accounts they were in for a tough time of it, with stubble and stalk chopping machines and fire in the hands of men who were deter- mined to make things unpleasant for them. Their one hope of holding their own lay in the advantage they had gained by getting well established be- fore these cut-throat humans were aware of their presence. Here in Africa there was no such trouble in rearing a family. So thought the little larva. And he was very nearly right. ‘ His African tribe has the advantage of a favorable climate where two gen- erations may come to maturity in one season. There is a long season in which corn is being planted so that young tender host plants are available for the hatching broods for several months. Furthermore, no systematic practice of destroying the left-over stalks and stubble can be practiced in a land where there are hundreds of from the heavy deluges of rain 3. chance to get away without washing out the seed. to the loss by this practice of the al- ready scant humus supply. This dig- ging 0f the ground is a half-Way pro- cess for only half the ground is turned. A little soil. is dug up from one side and a little from the other but that under the ridge is not touched. That will be turned the next year when the ridges are dug down from both sides to make a new ridge where the furrow had been. prepared No thought is given- Native Grain Huts Are Built on Bare Rocks for Protection tlve WhiteAnts Meanwhile the men and boys will be seen lopping ofi‘ the smaller branch- es of the trees with small axes or hatchets and piling these on top of the ridges around the tree trunks. When dry, these will be burned, as ‘it has been noted from long experience that the wood ash “makes the ground strong to grow grain.” (But tell them that manure will do' the same thing and you will he laughed at. Great mounds of accu- mulated fertility are going to waste in every village because of some taboo on the use of manure to grow human ' food.) Some of these branches are trimmed up and used to make a crude brush fence to keep cattle and wild deer from straying into the field. In an old garden the old stalks and vines and stubble are collected and burned just before the rains are ex- pected in the spring. Rain usually commences in October or November and corn planting may continue as late as the first of February. On a moonlight night in early October one may look to see or may listen and hear the usual “digging bee” in pro gress. These people delight in con- gregating into crowds where there is plenty to talk about while the work is going on. The field has been cleared of rub- bish by the farmer while the women folk were busy for days preparing the refreshments for this digging and so- cial bout. The big black pots are now brimming full of home-brewed grain beer, which has plenty~of kick. Drum- mers and dancers have come in at the call of the drums, which have been sounding out signals all through the day. These merrymakers will rate a share in the convivial. liquid without any turn at the hoes, but all others, though they may dance and play at intervals, will be expected to shed a lot of good perspiration in laying old Mother Earth up into new ridges and furrows. The staccato drtim beats, to which the dancers are timing their wierd contortions and girations, to- gether with the yodels and shoutings that accompany the oftimes lewdly suggestive dances, may be heard for miles around. These affairs are an integral part of the soil preparation program. They will continue at dif- ferent garden sites right up to plant- ing time. The one outstanding characteristic that marks a native garden is the fact that every kind of crop is mixed in,- hit or miss, right through the field. Some spots may be almost bare while others are jumbled up with a mass of vines of the pumpkin, the soy bean. the peanut, and the sweet potato, all ‘ trying to overgrow the corn, millet, and Kaffir corn that are struggling for standing room. This state of affairs is due to the absolute lack of system in planting. The two kinds of millet that are grown extensively as staple food crops, shatter very badly and conse- quently seed themselves. Corn is «aw—h” sum... Again l «n—mw- ,4... <., mw,._w—‘W.W. . run—tn...“ .N‘ , the next crop. . seen. me. 18. 1928 growing in popularity due to its heavier yields and the presence in some localities of grinding mills to supplant the hand grinding on rocks. It is planted after the first soaking rain. A girl may often be seen plant- ing with a hoe to open up a hole for the seed from one of the twisted nub- bins she carries. No effort at seed selection is made. Often the poo-rest, left-over‘specimens furnish seed for The person doing the planting does not follow down the . ridge rows, planting at regular inter-V vals, but wanders at will, pausing now . and again to put in two or three ker- _ nels. A glance around to see if any others have been planted near. suf—' fices to locate a hill. Next day some beans will be put in in a like man- ner, some effort being made not to crowd the corn hills if they can be However, in case of a heavy rain befo-resubsequent planting of the various other crops, such as peanuts, Kafiir corn, pumpkins, ground beans, or pig melons, the planter can only guess where to put in the seed. Cultivation is practically impossible under these circumstances even with so simple a tool as a hoe, the only native farming implement. Conse- ‘quently, the land soon gets infested with weeds that choke out the planted crops to such an extent that yields are very meager. Then a new piece of ground is prepared and the old one abandoned except as a part of the general grazing area for cattle, sheep, and goats. Harvesting is a cumbersome and wasteful process. The entire field must be tramped over to garner in the in- crease of each crop. Any given crop matures very unevenly too, because of the scattered dates at which planting was done and the unequal conditions under which it grows. Much grain is thus shattered from the continued bat- tering it gets. Everything is picked into light, woven baskets and carried on the heads of the workers to the grain huts. These are built of the common building materials of Africa, namely—poles. mud, and grass, and are located on a bare flat rock to give a good threshing floor as well as to keep out the destructive"‘white ants” or termites. When harvest is over the live stock is turned in to clean up any grass or edible forage it can find- This is the fat season for the cattle. 'It is a great relief for the animals to be in an en- closure 'where they may eat or. lie down 'at their own inclination instead of being forced to keep along with the bunch as the boys are herding them out to graze. Abandoned fields are a-pro-liflc source of infestation of new fields by all kinds of insect pests that have a flying stage in their life cycle. The great number of these fields can be judged by the fact that fields are abandoned after four years of crepping. The amount of European corn borer damage varies within extremely wide limits from year to year. The late planted crop usually suffers less than that put in early. Especially is the damage light in years when rains come late so that the moths have near- ly all emerged and been destroyed before host plants are available. “Late” and “early” plantings of course mean different things in Africa than they do in America. Corn-belt farmers of the United States have a good chance of keeping this extremely dangerous pest in check by using intelligent control measures and by pulling together. But never will the so~called “African corn- belt” come into the world markets with anything like the supply of corn that would be possible under intelli— gent management, until an entire revo- lution is effected in the native crop- ping system. HODGIN'S DISEASE b Will you please advise whether Hodgkin’s disease is very dangerous? Is it something like cancer? A rela— tive of ours has had the second oper- ation on his neck for what the doctors call Hodgkin’s disease. \Vill you please tell what you can about it? They say it is a new disease—M. H. Hodgkin's disease is not new but a very old and very serious. disease. It is not related to cancer but is just about as fatal. anemia with serious enlargement of the glands. While I hesitate to say that it is incurable, I know of no cures in my own experience. NOSE BLEEDING A woman of sixty years of age is troubled with nose bleeding. Blood is clear, dark red. The bridge of nose and forehead feel so full before bleed- ing starts. Has a headache at times. At times back of head aches and has shooting pains at times—Mrs. A. C. The character of the blood indicates a congestion. In View of the age and other symptoms this patient should at once have a careful physical examin- ation with especial reference to heart action and blood pressure. If high blood pressure is a factor, it can only be relieved by finding and removing the cause. CONSTIPATION I am now thirty-seven. At sixteen I had gallstones and jaundice. My liver does not work and so I am con- stipated. A friend suggests “blue .mass.’ What do you think?—E. C. When a liver trouble in early life has left that organ deficient in its at There is progressive secretions one of the greatest mis- takes possible is to be constantly “whipping it up” with medicines. That is what “blue mass” and kindred drugs do. They “whip up” the liver. It responds to the Whip and then col- lapses. It is proper for you to give the liver only light work and therefore to ab- stain from eating fats, sweets, and in- digestible foods. You may help it fur- ther by eating food that will urge the bowels to work. This calls for vege- tables, especially those that are bulky, for whole wheat bread, for fruit, and for plenty of cold water. You will find body exercises that cause you to bend at the waist and to make the abdominal muscles work will help you. Do not disregard this suggestion. It is quite practicable and may be the very thing you need. As a temporaryaid to the bowels you will find mineral oil, “Liquid Petrolatum,” helpful and harmless. TREATMENT OF GOITER Can one do anything for goiters with Iodine-after they are once started? If so, is there such a thing as color- less odine, which a girl going to school would be more inclined to use, if external applications would do any good.~—~Mrs. 0. After a goiter is large enough to be conspicuous there is not much to be gained by external applications of iodine. A doctor who is skilled in treatment may inject a preparation into the substance of the gland and thus help some cases. But any devel- oped case needs the personal atten- tion of the physician. "' Thin E 7 in c H 'I 6- AN 4 FA R-M‘E‘R An Account with your soil bank 0U would not try to overdraw your bank ac- count. You should be equally sure that you do ' not overdraw your soil fertility account. The point frequently is reached where the soil becomes so de- pleted that profitable crop production becomes im- possible. Farmers of foresight anticipate such conditions before they occur. They follow a carefully planned rotation involving the regular and plentiful use of commercial fertilizers for each crop grown. 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Most of them thought that all it consisted of was the test- ing and weighing of the milk and the keeping of the records of the cows. The first thing to be done was the figuring of balanced rations suitable for the roughage fed to each herd. I explained to each member why a ra- tion must be balanced to enable the cow to use the feed with the greatest efficiency. As a result, one member’s cream check from seven cows was forty-two dollars more and his feed cost was less the month he fed the balanced ration than it was the month before. Many other members out down cost of production. Twenty-five registered Holstein bull have been purchased since last spring. All five bulls have good records. The grand- mother of the Holstein is De Kol Plus Segis Dixie and is world’s champion. One member will build a safety HIS is the first prize story of accomplishment written for the annual contest of the Mich- igan cow testers. The story gives an idea of the broad line of work coming to the attention of the " progressive cow testers. keeper bull pen next year and two others are quite interested. Two bulls can be proven next year. C. L. Bulgrien of Sanilae County Having Read About Ton Litters Gives a a little demonstration of my twenty-seven members are now using the rations that I figure for them. It was explained Why rations fed with alfalfa hay are the least expen- sive when compared with those fed with any other roughage. Other bene- fits to be had by growing alfalfa were pointed out also. As a. result practically every member will be grow- ing alfalfa next year. Members are convinced that all alfalfa seed should be inoculated before it is planted in soil that has never grown alfalfa. Be— cause the soil in this vicinity needs liming, ten cars of lime were unloaded in one community last fall and ten thousand yards of marl have been con- tracted from a. nearby bed for next spring. Some of the other results of other discussions along various lines were as follows: Five out of nine members who did not have silos put up silos last fall. The other four will build soon. Two members have installed milk- ing machines; two others have com- pletely remodeled their dairy barns; two others have put in new cement _floors and stanchions (they expect to ' install drinking cups later); two dif- ferent members put in new plank floors back of the stanchions; another put in a supply tank and drinking cups alone; and another installed a litter carrier in his almost modern dairy barn. . Sixty-four of the least profitable cows. have been sold by twenty-three of the twenty-seven members. Better bulls are being used by the members. One registered Jersey, three registered Guernseys and one Members are learning how to care for their manure and how to make it more efiicient through discussions that we have had concerning Soils Schools that were directed by Mr. Sims of M. S. C. These methods are being adopted. Besides keeping up my association work, I have taught members how to pick: and care for seed corn, have culled eleven flocks of chickens and given suggestions on construction and ventilation of coops and so forth. I have figured balanced rations for sixteen dairymen who were not mem- bers of cow testing associations. During the summer months I used my spare time in soliciting for new members and obtained twenty-one. These with five others were organ— ized into a new association last Octo- ber and this association is now being operated successfully. I have a wait- ing list of six other new members who wish to join the association for which I work as soon as the year is ended in March. Members have been brought into closer contact with the county agent and with the Michigan State College. A much greater interest in the dairy cow and in their individual herds has been shown by all members. As a result of my first year’s work most of my old members express their desire to keep on with the association with me as leader. All of my‘ mem- bers emphasize the fact that they were very well pleased with the work ac‘ complished this year. Some folks’ idea of contentment is being too lazy to complain. ml FEB. 18, 1928 HOW ONE MAN CONTROLS TICKS I THINK I have heard more than the usual complaint about sheep ticks this winter. The animal that goes into Winter ticky is sure to grow more ticky and conditions are decid- edly unfavorable for dipping. When lambs on feed become quite ticky the unrest caused by the ticks is sure to cut deeply into thrift and gains. Few farms are equipped for dip- ping. The season is right ahead when the most efficient knockout blow can be given to the next year’s tick crop. We always kept ticks off our sheep by two means, the thoroughness de. pendent upon our doing those two things. We have never had a dipping tank on the farm. . After an aged sheep has been shorn the wool is too short for the ticks, they have to drop off. Of course, the man who has sheep with wooly faces would have to clip there too to pre- vent the ticks from going to the face for cover. In a week after shearing the ticks that escaped will be on the young lambs running in the flock. At that time we always dipped the lambs in a barrel. Instead of throwing the dip away when through with the lambs we confined the owes to small space and dashed the remaining dip solution over them. After that there are few ticks left for breeding purposes. When only a boy I saw old sheep men feeding sulphur in the salt to the sheep—they said it kept the ticks off. I am not saying that it did or that it does not, but I like to have sulphur in the salt for sheep. Now and then we find a. tick in shearing, but one now and then is not to be bothered about. One season a fast hand with the shears put out fifty-two head for us in one day and said at night that he had not seen a tick that day—G. P. Williams. LAMBS ACT HUMAN A COUPLE of weeks ago we men- tioned the fact that we had specui lated by purchasing some sheep. Among them were six little fall lambs, The first thing that we did was to dock and castrate them. Next we ar- ranged a creep so that they could get through into a separate compartment and eat gain at will. I mix equal parts (by volume) of cracked corn, oats, and bran, and keep it before them at all times. There is'one thing that I cannot understand. These lambs can get this special grain mixture any time they want to. They nibble away at it quite daintily and moderately, but when I give the old ewes their oats, the lambs line right up to the rack and eat frantically. I wonder if it isn’t the influence of example or the natural thrill which comes from doing things in unison. I told my wife how they act and she said, “That’s the kid of it.” “Yes,” I said, “They act almost human.”~S. P. MICHIGAN COW WINS SILVER MEDAL SAMUEL ODELL of Shelby, Mich., is the owner of Fauvic’s Fern Princess, 3. young pure-bred Jersey cow which has been awarded a silver medal by The American Jersey Cattle Club, New York. Princess produced 438.31 pounds of butter-fat and 9,790 pounds of milk in a 305—day official production test. She carried calf for 181 days while making this record and in her best month her yield reach‘ ed 5,259 pounds of butter-fat. The sire of Princess is Fauvic Noble, a son cf the great medal of merit bull, Fauvic’s Prince. Her dam is Will Do’s Fern Princess, which has a junior twoyear—old record of 407.30 pounds of butter-fat and 8,184 pounds of milk. ' , , .. We lve advice b take 1 by 51:119. TWA-zit“. the' . ' t 'Wlmfim ,, u, ‘ 0 . .«u-Mww~‘iM-‘ .. m- .1 .«.-~»m.wum.um ham... FEB. 18, 1928"; Condition Your Cows before The inodern dairying pace demands special care and treatment Between periods of freshening a cow has little chance to build up a reserve vigor to carry her through the terrific strain of producing a vigorous offspring. All her energy is directed to milk production. No wonder so many cows break uno der the unnatural load. Expensive and serious disorders rob you of profits— make the cow an expensive boarder. Elements that are lacking in the ration—no matter how well balanced --are needed to safely app-roach calving. KOW'KaI'e supplies these ele- ments. It builds up the digestive and reproductive organs— makes them function nato ‘ ’ ' urally and without drain on bodily vigor. Feed 3 tablespoonful of Kow—Kare with the grain for three weeks before and after freshening. Note the absence of serious troubles, the strength of the calf, the vigor of the cow. You’ll never fail to give KOWvKaI'e to freshening cows once you’ve tried it. 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Special dis- , The Thomas & Armstrong Co. Est. 1904 Buck-yo Insist Houses. can Grills. Ini- Iii 1.— THE MICHIGAN FARMER The Sheep Outlook HEEP continue to increase in num- S bers and prospects indicate a lamb crop for 1928 somewhat larger than a year ago. Consumer de- mand for lamb is not likely to im- prove sufliciently to offset the prospec- tive increase in production. With wool stocks in this country light and with a strong foreign market the outlook for wool appears favorable. The number of sheep and lambs in the United States continued to in- crease during 1927, and on January 1, 1928, the number was estimated at 44,545,000 head. This number was 2,- 699,000 head or 6.5 per cent larger than the revised estimate of numbers January 1, 1927, and the largest num- ber in sixteen years. The lamb crop of 1927 was esti- mated as about the same size as that of 1926, with a considerable decrease in western lambs, offset largely by an increase in natives. The slaughter of lambs from last year’s crop to the end of December was about the same as the slaughter of 1926 lambs up to the end of December, 1926. The death loss of sheep in 1927 was larger than in 1926 because of severe spring storms in the northern Rocky Moun~ tain States and unfavorable spring weather in the far Northwestern States. Despite the heavy slaughter of lambs in 1926 and 1927 there was a material increase in flocks both years. The upward tendency in sheep num- bers in 1927 was evident in all the principal sheep producing areas but it was most prominent in the South- western States, with Texas showing the largest increase of all states. The number of sheep and lambs on feed for market January 1 was esti- mated at about 450,000 head or 1.0 per cent greater this year than on January 1, 1927, and 100.000 head greater than on January 1, 1926. The increase this year was due mostly toincreases in Northern Colorado and W'estern Ne- braska, where numbers fed last year were much below normal. All of the Corn Belt States east of the Missouri River had fewer lambs on feed this year than last with the largest de- crease in the states cast of the Mis- sissippi. The Lamb Market The market supply of fed lambs during the first five months of 1928 will be greater than during the same period last year, and about the same as in 1926. Average weights, because of a greater proportion of heavy lambs, will be larger than last year. A larger proportion of the Colorado and \Vestern Nebraska fed lambs will be marketed in January and February this year than is normally true in these months, with a smaller propor- tion during March and April. Present indications are that the 1928 crop of early California lambs is larger than last year’s, and the larg- est on record for the state. \K‘cather and feed conditions have been very favorable for the growth of these lambs and a heavy movement to eastern markets in April and May is expected. A spring movement of grass wethers and yearlings from Texas, as large, or larger, than the heavy spring movement in 1927, also is indicated. Apparently the supply of all sheep and lambs for slaughter during the first five months of 1928 will be con- siderably larger than last year and the largest for these months since 1914. The supply of lambs during the last seven months of 1928 will depend largely upon the size of the lamb crop, but if weather conditions are not un— favorable over the Western States and the Corn Belt, it seems probable that the 1928 lamb crop will be larger than that of 1927 and that the slaughter of sheep and'lambs during these months of 1928 will exceed 1927. During the last half of 1927 prices at“ I don’t look like a calf Now I’m mighty considerate-ask any cow I Say! I won’t mind the I’m so easy to clean and what’s more—this I’m a bear for simplici Just a teat cup of two So try me . . then buy How perfect my action For my Free Trial Offer, and then you will That's felt my Surge motion, and she’ll tell you how I give a quick tug—then a suck—then release . . She says when 1 milk it’s Contentment and Peace. Yes, I’m fast as can be and just take it from me I never “say die” till she’s dry . . then I cease. I’m preferred by the women-folks (that's not a boast) For the facts of the case are—they like me the most! I don't claim all these virtues—I prove them to you! You can learn from your wife how I’ll brighten her life By easing and pleasing with less work to do! The milk travels four inches . . No “ring-marks" on udder. (I massage with my rubber), When it comes to Bacteria, bugs and the like—- They quake in their boots when they see me—and hike! Yes, I’m built for sure cleanliness—sturdy»—compact, (Bugs all hate my short tubes . . in long tubes they're packed,) Oh, my milk is so clean! There’s no other machine That can claim this high fame—that’s a fact! 80 I'm asking you this—Mail the Coupon below That tho I look different (and may make you laugh) My actions will show you I’ll stand all the gaff! Your doubts l’ll submerge with my wonderful Surge— Goodbye . . and please try . . the Mechanical Calf! Copyrighted—A ll Rights Reserved 37—235 eclumical Calf I Written by Myself I’m a queer looking specimen that, I'll admit but really I’m “it”. Born of the best brains—a product of man Conceived to milk quickly and gosh! How I can! Not a cow can complain (for I cause her no strain) I’m the milker that follows Dame Nature’s wise plan. I’ll acknowledge I'm homely but honest-to—Pete I can do two men’s work and still keep my feet! I’m a glutton for labor—I’ll work while you rest, (If you happen to doubt me . . just give me a test!) flies or a tail in my eyes, I’ll surge ’em and urge ’em to give down their best. is true—— ty! Milk claws? Not one! No long four foot milk tubes with dirt by the ton. parts! From teat-to-the-pail short and sweet tale! me—you'll find I won’t fail. Here’s a little experience which surely will show when I start to go: Small Red-Head (the calf) watched .me milk Mother Cow . . When I finished he tried the same thing, but somehow He got ’nary a drop so he made a quick stop And then cried, “I’ve got pride—but you’re good I’ll allow!“ ACTIONS 32:»: as) . know - an- free copy of above poem! 'I' Get the New Surge Milker Catalog. Get details of our famous Free Demonstration Offer and our Liberal EASY Payments I Plan. No obligation. Mail this coupon NOW! I Number of cows milked _____________ R. F. 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C. explained in greater detail the rules for the Holstein Friesian herd improvement registry test. Re- ports from Michigan cow testers show more than 115 herds entered in this new Holstein Friesian test for the month of January. Other speakers were Professor 0. E. Reed of the Dairy Department and W. E. McCarthy, County Agricultural Agent of Bay County, Michigan, also Mr. J. H. McClain and W. E. Winter- meyer of the U. S. Bureau of Dairying, 'r H E' M‘I c ’H‘IG'A N FAR M'ER COW TESTERS GET TOGETHER ment of dairymen’s profits. Needless to say proper repairs have been made or adjustment to stop the losses in- curred by these separators. WHAT TESTING MEANS TO A COMMUNITY RECENTLY the manager of a. big dairy concern in Michigan ex- plained his view of dairy herd im- provement associations. Dairy farm- ers will appreciate to know how whole heartedly business desires to cooperate with those who desire to co- operate with them. This manager stated that the testing association records in 1927 in his neighborhood showed the average D. H. I. A.'cow produced 8,700 pounds milk per year. A census of the patrons of his plant Few groups are doing more for dairying and farming than the cow testers of Michigan. This picture was taken at their recent annual meeting dur- ing Farmers’ Week at East Lansing. Washington, D. C., commented very interestingly about the proving of bulls through the dairy herd improve- Irpnt associations. Mr. McClain urged the keeping of pure-bred sires until the daughters have proven themselves in a testing association and showed by charts that not every pure-bred bull is capable of producing a. big increase in butter-fat production in the daugh— ters of the dams. Herd owners that have herds aver- aging about 350 and 400 pounds or more of butter-fat have a. more dif- ficult problem to solve in the selec- tion of sires that can bring improve- ment. Mr. VVintermeyer referred to the fifty proven sires found to date in - Michigan testing associations. Only four of the fifty are known to be alive. Outlines for the testing association program during 1928 were suggested by A. C. -Baltzer, in charge of the dairy herd improvement association in Michigan. Need for filling the mem- bership of each association was point- ed out since the average Michigan association contains but twenty-three members. Emphasizing the losses that have occurred in the testing as- sociations over a. period of years, the statement was made that more than fifty associations had failed to con- tinue the work in the last five years. Testers can assist materially in keep- ing the organizations alive by render- ing services that mean improved pro- duction for their members. ' Each testing association was urged to make further effort to have at least two more safety keeper bull pens built during 1928 in order to assist in the program of proving out dairy sires in Michigan. Enlargement in the acreage of sweet clover and alfalfa seedings was also encouraged and feeding of grain with pasture was emphasized. SEPARATORS GO WRONG EDWARD MORTIMORE, cow tester for dairy production at Trufant, Michigan, Montcalm County, reports finding two separators that were skimming poorly. One separator was losing butter-fat at the rate of one dollar a. day. Another separator tested two per cent butter-fat in the skim milk. Such findings by the 104 Michigan cow testers are instances of locating losses that are stepped for the better- made in 1926 showed the average milk production shipped to the plant per cow was 5,700 pounds. This is a difference of three thou- sand pounds milk per cow per year. There were 3,000 cows in the area, so the estimated difference would total nine million pounds milk per year. Using $2.00 per hundredweight as the average yearly price (it actually was $2.05), the estimated money difference would total $180,000. The estimated money difference per patron for near- ly 400 patrons would amount to $280 per year. These figures show what might have happened if all of the patrons’ cows had produced as well as the D. H. I. A. cows produced. Profitable dairying and good farming speak in a language understood by all. The fact that the D. H. I. A. cows did produce so efficiently is proof enough that other cows in that section and in Michigan, similarly fed, bred, and managed, should do about as well. En- larged net return per cow and herd during the year is desired by Mich- igan dairymen. This case is average and it can be duplicated in other Michigan commun- ities. Michigan dairymen and farmers can obtain the largest return for their effort whenever the most eflicient methods are adopted to produce qual- ity dairy products. Seriously the in- vestment on the part of a dairyman of forty dollars or even fifty dollars per year to test out his herd of cows in a D. H. I. A. is one of the best paying investments possible for a. dairyman. Not alone are money re- turns made for this investment but also satisfaction is given the dairyman that his efforts, his labor, his equip- ment and crops grown are being mar- keted through efficient live stock on his farm. Information of this kind will help bring about a better dairy farming business—A. C. Baltzer. THE FEEDER STEER I LIKE H AVING had a good deal of experi- ence feeding cattle, I am natur- ally inclined to favor a. certain type of feeder steer. I am prejudiced in favor of the red steer with a. white face. To me he shows up better than any other. When fat he is attractive. 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Write TodayFor Big Ncwoox FREE BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY Change Copy or Cancellations must reach ul Twelve Days before date of publication. CATTLE GUERNSEYS I have for sale at reasonable prices a. number of young bulls, the use of which should improve the type and production of your herd. Also a. few heifer valves. John Endlcott, Birmingham. Michigan. GUERNSEYS either sex. whose sires' dams have official records of 15.- 109.10 milk. 778.80 fat. 19.60.50 milk. 909.05 fat. 1’. V. HICKS. Battle Creek. Mich., B. l. Dairy Heifer Calves. proctlcolll Guernsey pure bred $25.00 each. w. my C. 0. D. Writ: L. Tcrwllligor. Wnuwatosn. Wis. —Reg. Guernsey cows and a. few bull For sale calves, sire by Imp. Coro Honor. JOHN EBELs. Holland. Mich.. R. 2. FOR nrsctlclev pure-bred IUERNSEY or HOL. STEIN calves. from heavy. rich unlike". write EDBEWOOD DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater. Wit. FOR SALE— Registered Guernsey: fresh. and swingers. Rollin Anderson. Holton. Mich. FOR SALE Ten high grade Holstein com. tuberculin tested for several years. Never any reactors. GEORGE HEIDEN- FELDT. St. Clair, Mich.. R. 3. SERVICEABLE AGE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN Bull Calves at prices the owner ofo small herd can afford to pay. The sire ol'many of these calves is a Son of the highest record (30 lb.) two— year-old daughter of Creator. Hio sire is King Segis“ Alcartra Priliy. on undefeated Show hull with 70 A. R. daughters. Others sired by a 5 times 1200 lb. Champion Bull, the famouo K. P. O. P. breeding. Bred cows and heifers served by these sires are available for founda- tion stock. RED ROSE FARMS DAIRY Northviile, Michigan Telephone: 344 Roforonco: Northvillo State Savings Bunk I I I Disperswn Auction MONDAY. FEB. 27th. at Farm, six mils southwut of Goshen, Ind., beginning at 10 A. M. Household goods. farm implements. 18 head of horses. sixteen Registered Belgians sired by Rubia 8004, Lourdes!) 8072. William Do Bois 13338 to Bay Mares 8 years. Two sorrel mares 4. 2 sorrel mares 3, one boy mm 3. one bay mare 2. One filly 9 months, one stud colt 8. These mares are bred. Six stallions. roam. buy and sorrel coming 4 and 5. ERIAS SNIDER & SONS. R. 6. Goshen. Indiana. D 1 Red. P lied 31111! FOR SALE {11:11:} 1311305102 mos. did. BAT- TENFIELD BROS.. Fife Lake, Mich. For Sale---Polled Shorthorn Calves Either sex. milk and beef. Federal tested. PAUL‘ QUACK. sault Ste. Marie. R. 2, Mio‘h. Milking Shorthorns 3‘1”" Sid “mu” m sale. ages. Somo extra. fine bred heifers. Best Clay breeding. \ IRVIN DOAN &. SONS. Croswell, Mich. Brown Swiss for sale. cows 10 and Registered 11 yrs. old due in Feb. 2 bred heifers. Also bulls of serviceable ago. A. A. FELDKAMP. Manchester, Mich. 88 Hereford now: Big wide back had. dark reds. dehomed. Bred to extra. good Hers! Will sell you choice car load. Also 22 Hereford com: and calves and 24 heavy springer-s. Also other bunches. All '1‘. 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If you are cast of Pittsburgh send $2.20 ($1.95 plus 25c post- age). If west of Pittsburg. send $2.35. Namc ................................................................... sThaf .lr. Ni ./ n 4 Address .. V FenceLes - » ,2¢ perRunnmgFoot M‘y now out prices on Farm ,_ &nan Poultry ence,Netting, '\ . Barb Wire, tsel l’o ts.Roofing, ‘ " 4 aces. etc., will SAVE YOU big 1; Paints. Cream Separators. Furn- -.../ _. -‘ '7 money. y - owwnd new cur PRICBCATALOG \ "919: \ is FREE. Sand for it today. See I fight“ the dollars you save buying di- ‘3“): i not from Jim Brown. 1 pay the Ca _.- . freight — guarantee qua it'y— ..nmi ive 24-hour serVice. — Jim ‘ no Co. ' ‘ wn. .. The: Brown Fence anre Dept. 2805. Cleveland. Ohio , CATTLE . FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE Registered Shorthom Durham Cattle All of the stock of the Bidwell Stork Farm. Now owner going into dairy cows. 1 herd bull. 3 yrs. 1 15 m0. bull. 7 yearling bulls. 8 heifers and (3 rows. These are the best of the Bidwoll breeding; are all T. B. tested and have been selected. Price to close. Will be less than the adults will bring, and must be all or none at these prices. A chance of a lifetime for a. young breeder. or will trade for a registered herd of Holsteins, Jerseys. or Gucrnscys. Get. busy. Bidwell Stock Farm Box 671, Tecumseh, Mich. For Sale Hog. Holstein Bull its. ?. siii'“ib.2p.’i‘£.?: tbs. bull. Dam has 27.76 7 dys.. 55 8 lbs. in yr. 0. T. A. Good individual. JAY B. TOOLEY; Howell. Michigan. FOR SALE Six high grade and registered _ . Jersey cows. holler oaks 6 mo. 1 y ‘11:: heifer. 1 resrllns bull whose dun _.~a..~ n . THE MICHIGAN 'F-ARMER In selecting a bunch of steers for feeding, I choose those With short, compact, and deep bodies. I want them to have well sprung ribs, deep lung capacity and Wide heart girth. I cut out all crippled, deformed, or diseased steers. A steer with the lump .jaw, bent, or crippled limb does not feed well and sure spoils the looks of the herd. A bunch of uniform steers will command a. better price when sold—W. D. THE SHEEP OUTLOOK (Continued from page 245) of dressed lamb averaged about 7 per cent lower than in 1926 with only about 4 per cent increase in consump- tion, indicating a slackening in de- mand. This was further borne out by the fact that choice, light, and handyweight lamb carcasses at New York averaged $1.37 or 5 per cent lower than for this period in 1926. Slaughter lambs this Winter are heavi- er in weight than a year earlier, and medium and heavy weight carcasses at New York in December sold $2.50 or more under light and handyweights as compared with a differential of $1.25 a year earlier. This also partly accounts for the lower average price of dressed lamb this winter. Part of the slackening in demand and the lower dreSsed lamb prices, especially during the past few months may have been due to the dullness in business activity and the reduced pur- chasing power of consumers. The ef- fect of higher beef and veal prices and increasing consuming population were not enough to offset larger lamb supplies and lower business. Present conditions indicate that beef prices will continue to be maintained at a relatively high level through 1928, and that general business conditions and the purchasing power of consum— ers during 1928 are likely to show some improvement from the present level, which should tend to improve the demand for lamb. Market prices of live lambs during the last half of 1927 averaged about the same or slightly higher than a. year earlier. The relatively high level through October to the middle of De- cember was largely caused by reduced supplies of feeder lambs at central markets and the strong feeder de- mand as feeder lambs sold at a rather wide premium over fat lambs. Lamb pelts were also higher than a year earlier. Near the middle of Decem- ber increased supplies of killing lambs, accompanied by an apparent slackening in feeder demand, caused a. rather sharp break in prices of all lambs with the greatest decline on heavy weights. The increased numbers of lambs on feed and the increased proportion of: heavy lambs as compared with a year ago indicate a considerable increase in marketings during February and March as compared with a. year ago. Prices during the next few months will de"pcnd to a considerable extent on the distribution of marketings. both geographically and as to time. lVith increased supplies of lambs from California. and from other spring lamb areas indicated. it is probable that the spring advance in prices will be less marked than usual. Given average weather conditions there will be more lambs to market during the last half of 1928 than a year earlier. Consumer demand may show some improvement next fall and winter over present levels, but with a lower feeder demand than a year earlier probable, the increase in con- ficient to offset the prospective in- crease in production. Among our pure-bred Shropshire ewes there was a variation of five and a quarter pounds between the heaviest and the lightest fleece. This is well , has. m., was. / ‘ ,i . modal hitter-m i 390 . 2 5'1. .G'q‘ti- iii " 4‘" ”“1 sumer demandis not likely to be suf-. 39—247 4 n Profitable Dairying depends on high producing cows fed properly! This is the age of individuality. Study your individual cow and her feed needs. This bulletin To feed properly you must have the right amount and the right kind of protein feed. Cottonseed Meal supplies more pounds of digestible protein at less cost per 100 pounds than any other concentrate. Sign and mail coupon TODAY! __________________ A. L. Ward, Director Educational Service Dept. 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Write Dr. David Roberts for free Veterinary Advice. > DnnavldnohertsVetei-in 00., 124 Grand Avenue,Waukesha,Wis. ’ ‘ ’ F‘ r: . ,—. - cm .5 . .»-— r-~- ‘A 4‘5 ‘ - - — - -— !---.-;-‘.-J——‘"—-..-.,.__J’— _. sunrn GENSEYS AT Aucmm Absolute Dispersal of Capitol View Guernseys owned by E. J. Himelberger and Emil Evert Wednesday, March 1, I928 At the farm 3 miles south of Lansing on U. S. Highway 127, and 8/4 mile east on Miller road. Sale starts 1:00 p. m., E.S.T. Lunch served at noon. The herd includes. 20 cows, 9 bred heifers, 10 heifer calves, 2 herd bulls, 5 bull calves. Herd averaged 8804 lbs. milk, 408 lbs. butterfat in C.T.A. last year. Accredited County. No abortion. For catalogs address llllllilliAli GUERNSEY BBEEDEBS’ ASSDGIATIOI . Box 1018 East Lansing, Michigan QUALITY JERSEYS F O R S A L E Poland China hours of March . . . and April furrow. Also some Havo a. few young bulls and heaters that Will im- choi-g b - . . prove your herd. Our show record speaks for itsnlt'. ( red suits. due to furrow 1n MM?“ and April. livery one’ immuned for cholera. WESLEY HILE. RE - o I I - E. W. MARTIN, Ann Arbor. Mich.. R. 3 Ionia, Mich. JERSEY BULL‘; . . B D .‘ . . ‘ Poland China bred gllts. also But-£3551. 31131}on srockbiii‘nbiiu’ LARGE TYPE fall hours and gilts. JAMES .. . . .‘ -' . G. TAYLOR. Belding Michigan. Silver Cieek. Allegan (.ounty, Michigan ' F S l (‘hOll'O Jersey Bulls, grandsons of SHEEP or a e Sybil’s Gumbogo of “'hit.cliall. TW) in d i d it SMITH a. PARKER. Howell. Mlch. R. No. 4. FOR SAL In-s-.E«1axiivn.‘r€:es,“(iii-03m“; iiél‘iwllisllll'P Jams. medium wool, good condition. IS ER ST. Box H6. Saline, Mich.. Phone 78. HOGS A F Ew hrml Karnlnil cwcs for solo, the D U R 0 C right fur hoaring kind. AN603 HOME STOCK FARM. Davison, Mich. sows and gilts, lircd to Junior (‘hnmpion boar at State Fair. Service hours and open gilts. Premier hrocdor zit Stall- Fair. _ ' mmtly Delaines, bred c.,...,..,,,,.....,.,.. 200 Head Breeding Ewes .3... sum...” Lakefield Farms 0. LEMEN. Dexter. Mich. HORSES For Sale Rising Threa-Year-Old BELG IAN STALLION Prim-c do lluhis. Sorrel in color. Weight 1.900. sired. by ltubis. li‘ull biotin-vii to Mnnittn do Rubis 10750. Grand Champion Mim- at 1027 Intcrnationul. He is also a half brother to the famous l’crvcnche 9030. rams. OR SALli~Duroc Gilts of type and quality. bred to High Orion No. 24‘: 227. Also a row spring hours at right prices. Shipped (‘. . . D. on ap— proval. E. BARTLEY‘, Alma. Mich. Write for (LI-C. HOGS on lime llogBook Originators and most extensive breeders. THE L. B. SILVER 00., Box I96, Salem, Ohio . - Dam of Prince do Ruhis now owned by Michigin For Sale--Reg. 0.1. C. April & May Pigs State College. JAMES LYNCH. Coral. Michigan. best. 0, hmeding, Shipped on approval._ FRED W. h ' . . tfi‘ENNEDY &. SONS' R‘ I’ Cheuea' MIG“. F0 R S'A LE i2ng123nzi1ridmi fit-2.1,mhlllssrkcm ! Good last spring pigs, not akin Iiui‘k gray. Arc sound and will make ton stuff. Also 0. I. C So also fall pigs, ref-orded free, Shorthorn hulls. Write H. B. Peters. Elue. Mich. OTTO SCHULZE 3‘ SONS- “‘“h'me' M'°h' FOR SALE A roan Belgian Stallion 5 . - with quality. limo a. , ”8‘ Old“. V 1' GILBERT' Chester White Grits tow Mun-h gilts bred for I424 Portage St.. Kalamazoo. Mich. Mun-h furrow. Also fall pigs. \Vill .3911 cheap. Belgians, Stallion Roan NEWMAN’S STOCK FARM. Mariette. Mlc'l- FOR SALE and Sorrals, coming four, five and Six. ERIAS SNIDER. Goshen. Ind. CHESTER WHITES {31.11 gig fiaflimfbgiar? Three soar old B lg'an stallion. an I‘ SUWS 0 rs. ' 0 1 quality. F. W. ALEXANDER. Vassar. Mich. FOR SALE son of Rubls. .Soe him before in“ bus. HENRY ElCKENRDTH. Pierson. Mich. a. tow bred gilts. fall . , CHESTER WHITE p... n... .1... AL. FOR SALE {geyégmfigggbgmegP-g BERT DORR. Clinton. Mich. SIMPSON. Charlotte. Mich.. R to. . ' bred for April and Reglstered OolsCs G‘lts [flay flu-raw, H_ w. F O R S A L E mgéch‘egmphgond mpaumm‘ MANN. Dansville. Mich. L. c. HUNT. Eaton Rapids. Mich. I good Hampshire spring boars st s " - . A FEW bugsln. Place your order for bred F 0 R S A L E I‘lof‘lferOlscllllemlghlm‘lvlgltldt IVAN BURSLEY. R. 8. Charlotte» lilohlsso. worth knowing about.——S. P. tilts. JOHN W. SNYDER. 8!. Johns. Mloh.. R. 4. g. . 248—40 i MARKET .‘.->.-..............-.-...-..._......'... .......................................................................................... EEP©RT , _ THE LATEST ....................................... GRAIN QUOTATIONS. Wheat. Detroit—No. 2 red at $1.48; No. 2 white 351.45%; No. 2 mixed at $1.45%. Chicago — M a r ch $1.30%; M ay $1.301/2; July $1.27%. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red at $1.48 @$1.49. Corn. Detroit—No. 2 yellow $1.01; No. 3 yellow 98c; No. 4 yellow 960. Chicago—March 930; May 960; July 9714. Oats. Detroit—N0. 2 Michigan 62c; No. 3 white 600. Chicago—March 55c; May 551/2c; July 521,130. Rye. Detroit—No. 2 $1.17. Chicago—March $1.095/g; May $10954; July $10415. Toledo—$1.17. Beans. Detroit—Immediate and prompt shipment $7.75 f. o. b. shipping points. New York—~Pea domestic at $7.50@ $8.25; red kidneys $8.00@8.75 to the wholesalers. Chicago—Spot navy beans, Michigan choice, hand-picked, in sacks at $6.45 @$6.50; dark red kidneys $7.75. Barley. Detroit—Malting 97c; feeding 94c. Seeds. Detroit domestic seedsz—Cash clo- ver $18.05; February $18.05; March $18.00; cash alsike $16.20; February $16.20; March $16.35; timothy at $2.05; March $2.10. Hay. Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $13.00@ $14.00; standard $12.50@13.50; No. 2 timothy $10.00@11.00; N0. 1 light clover, mixed $l3@14; No. 1 clover $11.50@12.50; wheat and oat straw $10.00@11.00; rye straw $11.00(d)12.00 alfalfa hay, alfalfa choice at Chicago, $24.00@25.00. Feeds. Detroit—Winter wheat bran at $40; spring wheat bran at $39; standard middling at $40; 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. While wheat prices were easy dur- ing the past week, they still show the sidewise trend which has prevailed for nearly two months. Heavy offerings from the Argentine, small clearances from the United State, a downward tendency at Liverpool, an unusually large world supply in commercial channels, and rains over part of the drouth-striken area in the southwest were the chief depressing factors. The situation was not one-sided, however, as flour trade has shown slight im- provement, no real pressure from cash wheat has developed in domestic mar- kets and unofficial reports point to rather serious damage to the new crop "TBABY(HJKH( LIFE INSURANCE ' Why not buy Baby Chicks . that are insured to live for the first ('ritit'al thirty . days? Send for one of i. the most amazing lll’OpO- sitiorm ever offered on quality B a h _v t‘hicksl FREE BOOK explains our insurance. proposition on . “him and Brown Leghorns. Barred and White Rocks, "0418. \V 11 i t o Wyundottes, ]) u c k s, Goose and Turkeys. Get your copy of this bookl Stale Farms Association 313 North Rose Street KALAMAZOO, MiGiiiCitli in the soft winter Wheat belt as well as in some of the hard winter wheat sections. The, outlook for the new crop will play a large part in determining the trend of prices from this time on. If winter damage is no greater than nor~ mal and weather conditions favor planting spring wheat, prevailing prices would be difficult to maintain. Severe damage and an unfavorable spring would pave the way for a sub— stantial advance, however, since prices are already low enough to discount some excess in supplies. , RYE. Receipts of rye have been large enough to cause slight accumulation in the visible supply recently, but it is so small that a moderate volume of export business next spring could create a very tight situation. Export sales were reported during the past week. ' CORN Corn prices have shown decided strength in the last few days. Pri- mary receipts have fallen off slightly and domestic demand has continued active so that the accumulation at ter- minals has not been as rapid as the volume arriving would indicate. Some export business is being done right along which helps to support values. Weather has turned unfavorable for country deliveries and receipts are ex- pected to diminish as a result. Re- ports that the crop failed to come up to expectations are numerous and many sections in the eastern part of the corn belt which usually have corn to sell are obliged to ship in corn. Since November 1, primary receipts of corn totalled 101 million bushels compared with 75 million bushels a year ago. Only 11 million bushels were added to the visible supply, how- ever, compared with 19 million bush- els last year. This shows that distri- butive demand is much broader than a year ago. OATS. The oats market has been showing a firm tone partly in sympathy with corn. Receipts have been about equal to the demand, so that the visible supply has not been diminishing rap- ‘idly, but it is already much smaller than usual at this season of the year. With the usual spring distribution of cats into consuming channels due to start soon and with a healthy corn market situation, it is probable that oats prices will work somewhat higher. FEEDS. The feed market Was firm to strong last week, with firmness in corn and oats prices a prominent factor. Heavi- er feeds showed more activity and prices advanced. Buyers are exhibit- ing more confidence in deferred feeds, particularly for March and April ship- men t. seas. The fresh egg market slipped a little more last week as receipts showed some further gain and the conserva- tive trading policy which dealers adopted at the first Sign of a heavier lay continued. The supply of storage eggs has bee-n practically exhausted so that the trade is largely dependent upon daily receipts. Prices are still seeking a level at which the flush spring production can be moved, and - Live Stock Market Service Monday, February 13 DETROIT Cattle. Receipts 649. Market opening strong to 250 higher. }ood to choice yearlings dry-fed ............... $11.00@13.75 Best heavy steers, dry-fed 10.25@13.00 Handy weight butchers.. 9.00@11.00 Mixed steers and heifers. 9.00@10.50 Handy light butchers . . . . 8.00@10.00 Light butchers .......... 6.00@ 8.50 Best cows .............. 7.00@ 9.00 Butchers cows .......... 6.00@ 7.50 Cutters ................. 5.50@ 6.00 Canners ................ 4.75@ 5.25 Choice light bulls ....... 6 0000 8 50 Bologna bulls ........... 7.00@ 8 00 Stock bulls ............. 6.00@ 7.25 Feeders ................ 7.000? 9.50 Stockers ................ 7.00@ 8.50 Milkers and springers. . . .75.00@115.00 Calves. Receipts 680. Market steady. Best ................. . .$15.00@18.00 Others .................. 750601700 Sheep and Lambs. Receipts 1,235. Market 500 higher. Bulk good lambs ......... $ 13.00 Best lambs ............. 1.5.75@16.00 Fair lambs .............. 12.50@14.00 Light lambs ............. 1000601200 Year ings ............... 12.00@13.00 Faiéto good sheep ...... 6.00@ 8.50 Buc lambs ............. 7.50@12.25 Culls and common ...... 3.00@ 5.50 Hogs. Receit'ps 1,944‘. Market slow at about 250 lower than last week’s close. Pigs .................... $ 7.75 Mixed hogs ........ . . . . . 8.60 Lights .................. _ 8.25 Roughs ............. . . . . 6.50 Good Yorkers ........... 8.60 : NOW IS THE TIME f Stock. 500 I 000 I FREE 13““?sz c2165, 5, c. White Leghorns, Red Star Mating $15.00 $72.50 $140.00 in c k S. C. White chhorns. Select Mating 13.00 62.50 120.00 I poultry manual. Elaborate boo Barred Plymouth Rock. Select Mating 15.00 72.50 140.00 given with every order. Write. ' - Don't Walt-«Order Early Michigan Accredited—Blood Tested State Inspected 00 ”Chicks with a Future” TO BUY BBOILERS I RICHARDSON HATCHERY Dundee. Box B Michigan hat are ”ya S C. Byron Cantor Strong and Sturdy and from hens that are mated to cockemels from Contest Winners. Our 10th season. [00 500 [.00 (I. W. Leghorns .................. $11.00 $52.50 $100 Barred Rocks & Rhoda Island Reds.. 13.00 05.00 125 Broiler Chicks ...................... 8.00 40.00 Order direct from ad. Terms 10% with order. balance 0. D. 100% live delivery guaranteed. BYRON CENTER HATOHERY niobium Stags ........... . ....... 5.50 Extreme heavies ........ 7.00@ 7.75 CHICAGO. Hogs Receipts 100,000. Market 15@25c lower; mostly 15c lower; tops $8.35; bulk good 170-210-lb. $8.20@$8.35; 220- 300-lb. $8.00@8.25; 140-160-lb. weight $8.00@8.35; most pigs $7.00607.25; se- lected strong weights up to $7.50; bulk packing sows $7.00@7.20. Cattle ' Receipts 20,000. Market fat steers and yearling trade 250 under last week’s close; slow at decline; better grades at standstill; steer run and light weight offerings of value'to sell at $14.50 down, predominating; mod— erate sprinklings with Weight eligible to $15.50 and better; light. stockers steady; meaty feeders tend lower, bid- ding 250 lower on fat cows and heif- ers; bulls and vealers steady; most sausage bulls with weight $8.25@8.50; light vealers $14.00@15.00; shippers and small vealers $15.00@16.00, few $16.50. Sheep and Lambs Receipts 22,000. Market on lambs of quality unchanged, demand broad; fat lambs active, unevenly strong to 25c higher; bulk steady grade lambs -87-1b. down $15.50@16.00, nearly $16.25 on best handy weights; nothing done 011 heavies or Colorados; light native throwoffs around $12.00; sheep 25@ 500 higher; cream of fat ewe run $9.50 ((P$9.75; culls up to $7.50: feeders 250 higher, $14,50@15.50; 63-lb. average $15.40. BUFFALO. Hogs Receipts 12,500. Hold over 418; market 25@500 lower; pigs steady; 160-190-1b. $9.00; 200v225-lb. $8.75@ $8.90; 300—350-lb. $8.00@8.25; light gig5s0$7.75@8.00; packing sows $67563 Cattle Receipts 1,750. Market steady 25c lower, closing slow; $12.25 paid for 925-lb. yearlings and 1,230-lb steers, few $13.50@14.00; bulk medium steers $11.00@13.00;. heifer yearlings $9.00@ $11.00; fat cows $6.50@9.50; all cut- ters $4.25@$6.25; vealers $6.50@$9.00. Calves » Receipts 1,500. Market 50c higher; bulk good choice vealers $18.00; culls 0 and common $11.00@14.00. Sheep and Lambs Receipts 7,400. Market on lambs 50c higher; bulk good and choice 78-90-lbs. $15.25; bullocks $13.00@14.00; vealers $13.00@14.00; tat ewes $8.00@9.00. barring temporary rallies as unfavor- able weather conditions delay produc- tion, the trend of the market will con- tinue downward for another month or we. Chicago~Eggsz fresh firsts, 29c; 'extras, 37@380; ordinary firsts, 27@ 28c; dirties, 26c; checks, 250. Live poultry: Hens, 25c; capons, 28@30c; springers, 290; roosters, 20c; ducks, 27c; geese, 220; turkeys, 28c. Detroit—Eggs: Fresh receipts, best quality, 3207331,“; dirts and checks, 27@290. Live poultry: HeaVy spring- ers, 28@32c; light springers, 23c; ca.- pons, 35@360; heavy hens, 280; light hens, 23c; roosters, 160; geese, 20m 21c; ducks, 26@30c; turkeys, 36@380. BUTTER. Price changes in the butter market recently have been small and the un- dertone is generally steady. Supp-lies are increasing gradually and the out- look favors a good sized spring but- ter production. This supply situation is ,offset, however, by the fact that prices are several cents lower than a. year ago and that the supply of really fancy top grade storage butter has been fairly well cleaned up already. In addition, British butter markets have strengthened in the past fort~ night, so that there is less danger of any sizable imports. Prices on 92-score creamery were: Chicago, 450; New York, 461/20; De— troit, 42@450 per lb. POTATOES. The potato market has stiffened re- cently and slight advances have been marked up in many markets. Demand for seed potatoes is still active as all southern requirements have not yet been filled and dealers even in the more northern states are beginning to contract. for their needs later on. The western. crop is being marketed rapid- ly and in most sections the crop will be cleaned up by April. A larger per- centage of the crop than usual was stored in pits this year, so that the shrinkage has been heavier than when stock is kept in warehouses. Northern round whites, U.,S. No. 1, are quoted at $1.65 to $1.75 per 100 pounds, sacked, in the Chicago carlot market. BEANS. The bean market has advanced to an unexpectedly high level with Mich- igan C. H. P. whites now quoted at $8.00 to $8.25 per 100 pounds, sacked, f. o. b. Michigan shipping points. The crop of Great Northerns has been pretty closely cleaned up so that Michigan beans have little competi- tion. Demand from the consuming trade is not heavy as the cold weather is breaking, and the market is so high thatt some reaction would seem immi- nen . DETROIT CITY MARKET Apples, 80c@$4.50 bu; bagas 500@ $1.00 bu; beets, 50@59c bu; cabbage, 40@500 bu; curly cabbage, 50c@$1.00 bu; red cabbage 75c@$1.00 bu; car- rots 4063600 bu; celery local 50@65c doz; celery hearts 10@15c 1/2 doz bchs; collards, green, 60@900 bu; eggs .wholesale, white, 45@50c doz; brown, 40c_doz; retail 45@55c doz; French endive 75c@$1.00 5-lb. box; dry onions 750@$1.15 bu; root parsley $1.50@ $1.75 bu; curly 35@40c doz. bchs; par- snips 50c@$1.25 bu; pears, No. 1, 750 @$1.25 bu; potatoes 600@$1.15 bu; Poultry, hens, whole, 25@3OC lb; retail 30@320 lb; broilers, wholesale, leg- horns, 24@27c lb; reeks 26@32c lb; retail 30((335c lb; ducks 26@3OC lb; geese 25@280 lb; dressed poultry, re- tail 35@380 1b; ducks 35@4OC lb; black radishes 60c@$1.00 bu; horse radish $6.00@8.00‘ bu; rhubarb H. H. 65@85c 5-lb. box; Hubbard squash $1.50@2.00 bu; spinach $1.50@1.60 bu; vegetable oysters 75c@$1.00 doz. bchs; butter 600 lb; dressed hogs 13@15c lb; veal 21@22c lb; root celery $1.00@ $1.50 bu. BEAN MARKET CONTINUES TO ADVANCE THE Michigan bean market contin- ues firm with prices at their peak, demand fairly good and supplies slowly diminishing, says a Detroit dealer. The situation this year is somewhat like that of the year of 1922, although the. shortage alt) tpresent is not as erious as n a year. On Jan ‘ 15, 1922. while the. Canners Congas?- tion was in session at Louisville, the Michigan market -w ad.“ an» “a“! 04-45.. affab- ru 181: the ride “ ‘ cart" to. _ 85.0 and condoned . v ' . . i l ,i i; ‘2 i . .Ww:4s.mu ~ ... .. I . «IN-ACRE FARM F B SALE in good shoe. Owns. “»Ieiun.eeuerébs ’ FEB. 18, 1923' reached $9.75 a cwt. f. o. b. Michigan points. The present price of $7.90 a cwt. is $2.60 higher than it was on December 23, 1927. The general opinion is that this ad- vance is partly due to growers who held together for a $5.00 basis. They were severely criticized by some of the largest buyers of beans and these buyers apparently are the main cause of such a rapid advance because they were expecting lower prices when pur- chases were possible at around $5.50 a cwt. and evidently let their stocks run low in anticipation of a free move- ment from the farms. Another factor is the belief that the state final production figure of 5,094,- 000 bushels may be too high. A survey just completed by‘the Michigan Bean Jobbers Association shows estimated shipments from the present crop of I. ' ATHE MICHIGAN FARMER 4,098 carloads with 2,227 carloads“ still on hand, or a total of 6,325 carloads for the crop which is 1,316 carloads less than the government estimate. Stocks in other states are not at all burdensome and although the Califor- nia crop was good, it seems the de- mand along the coast is sufficient to take care of any surplus. Early in the season the Great Northern beans grown in Idaho and Montana were forced on the west and southwest markets but the surplus has disap- peared and the price is now higher than Michigan. The possibility of im- portations causing any effect is dis- fallided due to foreign crops being ig t. As for the future price there is nothing impossible; however, the pre- sent market is strong and should con- tinue to hold its own. This classified advertising department Small advertisements consecutive insertions 7 cents a. word. Count as Live stock advertising has a separate departm charge '10 words. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING is established for the convenience of Michigan farmers. bring best results under classified headings. Try advertising miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange. partment at classified rates, or in display columns at. commercial rntcS. Rate 9 cents a word. each insertion. on orders for less than four insertions: for four or more display type or illustrations admitted. Remittances must accompany order. it for want ads and for Poultry advertising will be run in this do- a word each abbreviation. initial or number. No ant and is not accepted as classified. Minimum Four One Four times Words time times $2.80 26........:2.34 $7.28 3.08 21"... . 2.43 7.56 3.36 8......” 2.52 7.84 3.04 2 ........ 2.61 8.12 3.92 30. ....... 2.70 8.40 4.20 . 8.68 4.48 . . 8.96 4.76 . 9.24 5.04 . 9.52 6.32 . 9.80 5.60 . 10.08 5.88 37. . ...... 3.33 10.36 6.16 38. ....... 3.42 10.64 6.44 3 ........ 3.51 10.92 6.72 40 ........ 3.60 11.20 7.00 41 ........ 3.69 11.48 . ° All advertising copy SpeCIal NOIICC .1........~................. or change of copy in' undad for the Claulflcd Dtpartmmf must rrach thi: slice in: dam in aduana cf publication date. ‘ REAL ESTATE BUY UPPER WISCONSIN FARM LAND THIS YEAR. This Cloverland district offers you fine son—- the best for denying—barley. oats. rye. hay. potatoes. root crops. Never had a. crop failure. Clover 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 few hours to largest markets in United States. 40 or 80 acre tracts from $12 to $30 per acre. Lskelands priced a little higher. Small down payment—10 years on balance. Over 600 families here now. We show you how to start. Write for booklet “Happy Homes and Farms that Pay in Happy Land"——it shows pictures—settlers' letters—and tells you everything. Edward Hines Farm Land 00.. Room 2152. 100 W. Monroe as. Chicago. Ill. IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY of. California 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-family farm. with little hired labor. in- sures success. You can work outdoors all the year. Newcomers welcome. The 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 foldcr and get our farm paper—“The Earth" free for six months. C. L. Seagraves. General Colon- iznlion Agent. Santa. Fe Railway, 912 Railway Ex- change. Chicago. BEFORE BUYING farm write Wingard. Plymouth. Michigan for list of Michigan farm bargains. WANTED FARMS WANTED—To hear from owncr of farm for sale for spring delivery. 0. Hawlcy. Baldwin. Wis. MSCELLANEOUS 125 GOOD WHITE ENVELOPES and 125 full size unruled Letter Heads all neatly printed and pre- paid. one dollar. Money back if wanted. Other good printing at low prices. Address. TheeBraytom. Freeport. Michigan. WHY BLAME THE BULL when your cow does not breed? Use Cow Catch 1 hour before service. Re- stilts or your money back: 85 cents for one cow. $2.90 for five cows. postpsid. Woodstock Farm. Renton. Route 2. Box 490. Washington. OUR 1928 CATALOG just from press. 84 pages showing Largest Line of Poultry Supplies in the World. (Over 300 items.) Write today for your copy Free. Browor Mfg. Co.. C-27. Quincy. Ill. BIG BARGAIN—Send $2. receive postpaid 100 double sheets and 100 envelopes. Hammcrmill Bond. each printed with name. route. poSt office address. J. W. Barr Printing Co. Charlotte. Mich. A FEW “SUCCESSFUL" DEMONSTRATOR INCU- BATORS for quick sale at great reduction. 60 to 300 eggs capacity. Good as new. Des Moines Incubator Co. Box 734. Des Moines. Iowa. VIRGIN WOOL YARN for sale by manufacturer at bargain. Samples free. H. A. Bartlett. Harmony, Maine. QUILT PIECES. Lovely pcrcales. ginghams. 3 lbs. $1.00. Mrs. Gcorgc Morgan. Vicksburg. Mich. COMPLETE JOB PRINTING PLANT—only $275.00. Frank Reed. (‘arsonville. Mich. FARM MACHINERY HUhIhIER~SATTI.IflY IMPLEMENTS: Plows. Disc. lever. tandem and tractor harrows. Spreaders. cream separator. cultivator. rotary hoe, etc. Ask for cats.- logue. Seth 8. Bean. Jackson. Mich. PET AND LIVE STOCK 80 ACRES NEAR RR TOWN—Horses. 12 Cattle. Crops. Hay, corn, fodder. machinery. tools. etc. in- cluded. immediate cash income from dairy. pleasant warm 6-room house. ample barns, 60 acres level loam. for good crops. 60 apple trees, other friut: only 1% miles RR. high school town over improved road. Real bargain in lovely resort district: $2.000 takes all. part cash. For details see No. 662 in bargain folder. Copy Free. Strout Agency. 1105«BC Kresge Bldg. Detroit, Michigan. IT MUST BE A BARGAIN—Dairy Farm. 80a. all tillable. best soil. no waste land, Flint Road. Base- ment barn 32x76x9 ft; 14 steel stanrhions. Cement water tank for horses, cattle. sheep: Windmill. 8- room house: plenty outbuildings: apple. and peach orchard: Brick schoolhouse on farm; 10 tons hay. 10A wheat. 10A alfalfa; Bus service to Flint. and Lapcer. One of the best in the county. Buildings cost more than asking price. $100 per acre. Terms: No Trades—II. C. Kudncrr, Lapeer, Michigan. 85-ACRE EQUIPPED FARM BARGAIN — High Priced District. Convenient city. on improved road; 85 acres. mostly big-producing fields. spring—watercd, estimated 2,000 cds. valuable stovcwood. abundance fruit. good (broom house and farm bldgs. Complete modern equipt.. also horses. cOWS. sow. 100 cliickcns. corn. oats, wheat. potatoes. all includcd for only $5.500 with $1.510 cash. James L.'(‘r()ss. Sir-out Agency. 708 Smith Bldg. Flint. Michigan. AN OPPORTUNITY RARELY OFFERED—to secure improved farm homes. 80 acres up. direct from owner. no profits, no commission: in famed dairy section Wisconsin; Brcad and butter State Minnesota: Rich prairie soil North Dakota; fertile lands iicar best markets in Michigan. $200 to $1.000 cash. Balance 36 years at 5%. Write today. St. Paul. Minn. Dept. 33. STANISLAUS COUNTY. California—whore farmers are prosperous. Crops growing all year round. .Imnd priced low. Write free booklet. Dept. 6. Stanislaus County Development Board (County Chamber Commerce). Modesto. California. FOR SALE—120 acre farm. including 30 acres tim- ber. orchard. horses. cows. piss. equipment. etc. - room and broom house on farm, town. Wiu sell cheap at reasonable terms. Apply Box 265. Harbor Springs. Mich. Catalog and list free. Eastern Esta FARMS: All kinds. Shore Trust Co. to Department. Cambridge. PLANTS: Strawberries $3.00. 1,000: 100 Mastodons. Maryland. $2.00: Raspberries, Blm‘kbcrries. Grapes. Wholesale . price list. Cloverleaf Nursery. Three Oaks. Mich. llo-ACBE dairy and potato farm for sale on M-44, good bulldlnu. Silo. Glenn Gould. Airliner... Ionis. 100 MASTODON E'VERBEARING $1.75. Catalogue Mich. free. Edwin Lubke. New Buffalo. Michigan. Federal Land Bank” $7.50 per 100 and up. REGISTERED FOXES—Write for ranching offer. 100% increase guaranteed. Booklet: terms. Breeder- Agents wanted. Cleary Bros... Empire Bldg. Seattle Washington. skunk. and O'possum hounds. FOR SALE—Coon, l‘riink Barker. Dept. 49. shipped on 30 days’ trial. Springfield. Tenn. RABBITS—«Make Big Profits with Chinchilla. Rabbits. Real money makers. Write for facts. 892 Conrad's Ranch. Denver. Colorado. FOR SALE-«Guinea Pigs, few pains breeding stock. Adda L. Pearce, Adrian. Mich. Drcxel Park. MATTRESSES MATTRESSES made any size. low factory prices. Catalog free. Peoria Bedding Company, Peoria. Ill. FRUIT TREES AND NURSERY STOCK 'l‘IFTON‘S RELIABLE PLANTS. Frostproof Cab— bage. Early .Icvsey and Charleston Wakefield. Flat Dutch. Surcession. Danish Ballhead. Cepenhagen Market and Golden Acre. Tomato Plants: Bonnie Best. Greater Baltimore, Livingston Globe. John Bear and Eai‘linna. Bermuda and Prize Taker Onion Plants. Ruby King and Bull Nose Pepper Plants. Postpaid, 250. $1.00: 500. $1.50: 1,000. $2.50. Ex- press Collcct $1.50 per 1.000. Care used ~in pack- ing. We guarantee to arrive in good condition. Tifton Plnnt Co.. Tifton. Ga. PEACH TREES. $5 per 100 and up. Apple Trees. In large or small lots direct to planters. by freight. parcel post, express. Plums. pears. cherries. grapes. nuts. berries. pecans. vines: ornamental frees. vines and shrubs. Free catalog in “colors. Tennessee Nursery 00.. Box 125. Cleveland. Tenn STANDARD NURSERY STOCK, 64 new. Large. «mall fruits. Cantaloupe flavored plum, flowers. Hardy. cheap. Catalog. Vikla Nurseries, Lonsdale. Minnesota. Mfdm. 5 MONTMORENCY CHERRY TREES and 20 good grapes. 3 colors, $2.. delivered 150 miles. Gobles. Mich.. Nurseries, Vfl'll Burcii County. LYMAN'S GRIMM ALFALFA SEED. Buy direct from the Introducer. All seed Scarifled. necessitating less per acre. Lyman's Best 420 per lb. No. 2 Grimm. a lighter and finer seed. but which gives excellent results, 28c per lb. while it lasts. A. B. Lyman. Introducei'. Excelsior, Minnesota. 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. Checks cashed early March when seed shipped. Satisfaction guar- anteed. A. B. Cook. Owosso. Mich. REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED SEED CORN— Clement's white cap yellow dcnt. I'ickctts ycllow dent and. Michigan yellow dent (a very early (lciil). Ccr— tifled worthy outs. 2