§ . i l ..<,.,.~. 1 «i'l’rO/‘Knl‘kw HEexception- Tally rugged construction of Grand Detour Tractor Disk Harrows has been proved be- yond question. It would amaze you to see the excellent condition of these harrows after many years of gruelling work. A Grand Detour user in Wyo- ming writes of the Tractor “B” Disk Harlow, “It IS satisfactory 111 every way. It is clean cutting and has ample clearance and consequently does not gather trash.” Here are some other reasons why this har- row is so satisfactory: 6) Rear gangs are slightly off-set— no clogging of trash and no ridges left behind the harrow, either on the straightaway or turns. ® Equipped with electrically heat- treated disks—which wear and THE ‘\\\ W The Grand Detour Tractor “B” Disk Harrow keep their sharp edges several times as long as ordinary disks. @ Extra heavy IVs-inch gang bolts. @ Single lever control—no need to stop or back up to change angle of gangs. ® Disk blades of special concavity for deep and easy penetration. The Grand Detour Horse-Drawn Disk Harrow can be quickly and easily changed into a tractor har- row by attaching two rear sections and a special tractor hitch. Get the facts on Grand Detour Harrows and other tillage ‘tools be- fore you buy— mail coupon for at- tractive, interesting literature. And see your Grand Detour dealer J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co., Inc. Name mti 9° “he!“ vi: Address Grand Detour Plow Division Established 1837 GRAND DEToun \v‘o deorademseDrmm g TILLAGE IMPLEMENTS Racine,Wis. J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company. 11:10.. 6 Racine, Wis. Please send me free literature on implements I have checked. (If interested in others not listed. write them on margin of page.) 04-743 B Notice: WOW the public to know that our plain. and harrowa are NOTIM Can flows and liar-rows made by 01111.]. Can Plow Work: Co. Mention the Michigan Farmer When Writing to Advertiser V - minutes a Diamond Wood toyour Fordson. 10—20 International, or John Deere Tractor and you have scompleterig for sawing any sized materialfrom stickstologs. Aneasy way to setyo u tractor to man efl-making durin the winter months. Saw for yourse and your neigh lSl “70 cords 1n 10 hours"—-th1s1sone user’ 5 record. The Diamond Wood Saw Unit has no rival for speed and ease of operation. Write for illustrated circu at today! Asksbout ourlineof Feed Grindersand Com Shellersl NEW WINONA MFG. CO. .. 910 Hill! St. Winona. Mllill. WobDSAw u N 11'. Now FREE book quotes Reduce Factory Prices 3. 5- Your 'Gunaranteo Bond on Stoves s.Furnnces 20011 tyles and sizes. elicautiful rcelnin enamel ran es and com ination gas ”1 c . 1 to. 80-11. ' treo' Shin nlmggflsdsy test. Satis- faction gunran ed. ?6 years in business. 660. 000 1:.ustomsrs ti for FREE b0 0k. Kalamazoo Stove Go. Manufacture 121 Rochester Avenue Kal smazoo. A Kalanxazm. Direct to You' SQUEEZE DOLLARS FROM APPLES WITH A F arquhar Cider Press PREPARE NOW TO TURN CULLS AND SECONDS INTO MONEY Operate a Roadside Market Apple Growers in your community will keep the press busy through the entire season and you will have a, profitable income each year. Built in sizes up to 400 barrels of cidcr per day— for Roadside Marketing the Individual Or- rhardist and Custom Pressing New Catalog No.12?» just oil' the press Write today and learn how a small investment will reward you handsomely. A. B. FARQUHAR “Company, Limited Box 148 YORK. PA. MICHIGAN “Rim um um... «cu-nag?“ “ m. ':. “W. 9‘ ‘~.‘M "‘ ,1 5""1" '. f ' FEB- . 25, 1928 THREE-IN-ONE SERVICE GATE I RECENTLY made a handy gate for use at the barn and as I have found it so very satisfactory, thought your readers would also be interested in it. I call it the ‘Utility or Three- In-One Service Gate. When used as shown, it is a plain slat or summer gate. When the small gate is opened, it makes a fine creep for hogs and sheep and will at the same time ex- clude larger animals from the barn. As the opening for the small gate is the same width of my loading chute, it makes an ideal arrangement for loading hogs and sheep. One man can load about as fast as the hogs can ‘5" it in D r . m walk. As the gate is a permanent equipment, the stock is accustomed to its use and show no hesitancy in passing through it when the loading chute is in place. The bar marked “C” is a sliding bar and is removed when loading stock, in order to make plenty of overhead room. This same bar prevents calves and other animals of similar size from passing back and forth when in place. As the small gate swings inward, it is very con- venient to close in case a. stubborn animal undertakes to back down out of the chute, after once entering it. The entire gate is hinged to the door frame and swings inward thus per- mitting stock of all kinds to enter or pass out. This gate is made of poplar mate- rial 11/4 inch by 4 inches and seems to be heavy enough. However, where many cattle are kept would suggest that the pieces marked “A,” be made of 2 by 4 inch material. There are two pieces—one on each side—shown as “B” in the drawing. This makes the gate strong and makes the track for slide “C.” The slats on the small gate are also cut sufficiently long so that they will butt against pieces “A” and “C.” This prevents stock from pushing the gate through. The entire gate is bolted, thus making it strong and rigid—P. S. Hunt. WORKTABLE COVERS ARIOUS materials are available as covers for the kitchen worktable. The New York State College of Home Economics states that oilcloth, a mate- rial often used for such covers, is easy to wash and not expensive, but does not last long and is quickly spoiled by heat. A smooth wood top is not hurt by hot dishes, but it is difficult to keep clean. Zinc, although good in most respects, is easily stained by acids. Linoleum which matches the floor not only helps make the kitchen at- tractive, but it has many practical ad- vantages besides. It is a. good surface to use for cutting bread and is not harmed by moisture or hot dishes. Moreover, it is a quiet surface on which to work, and it is easily kept clean. A linoleum table' cover should be made with care. To begin with, the linoleum should be clean and dry. If it must be washed first, let it stand for several hours or over night. When it is dry, brush over the surface a very light coat of melted paraffin, then iron in, with a warm iron, all the paraf- 'fin the linoleum will absorb. If some paraffin remains on the surface, quick- ly wipe it up with a soft cloth before the wax hardens. When the wax has cooled a trifle, coat it with a. good spar varnish. The unvarnished side of the linoleum should be cemented to the table top with waterproof glue or cement that is used for cementing linoleum to floors. Baked enamel and enameled sheet steel covers are now available in many sizes, but are somewhat more expensive in first cost—I. D. FOLDING CLOTHES DRYING RACK NY farm boy can make this fold ing clothes drying rack, as shown in the diagram. Get some broom handles, some 1 by 2-inch lumber in 3 and 4-foot lengths, four small bolts about 21,4 inches long, a few screws and nails, hammer, saw, and a brace and 34-inch bit to enter ends of broom handles into the two side bars. The method of construction is evident from the diagram. We have two of these racks near our kitchen range where\there is about six feet of clear wall space. They sure come in handy every day to dry children’s clothes and small articles that we do not wish to put on the line. They are out of the way and out of children’s reach. Also, on stormy days the family wash can be dried in a. day. The higher up on the wall the’rack is placed, the quicker ._ ~—-——- ~ 0565. Ka/d/rg (/o/bes Dar/n9 Par/i - the clothes will dry. When in highest position, the bars are above one's head to avoid bumping, and when lowered it is very convenient to place on and take off clothes. A few screws at the top will hold it securely to wall. It is always there and ready, but out of the way. If properly made with offsetting bolts as shown in drawing, it will fold flat against the wall—J. F. Seichter. WOODLOT IMPROVEMENTS IN WINTER OST forestry experts agree that winter is the most suitable time for improving the farm shelter belts and woodlots, since the farm owner has more time, timber is more easily handled, and it gives a chance for the horses to earn part of their winter board. Winter-cut logs are better than those out in summer, since they season more evenly and are less dain- aged by insects. The lumber should be looked upon as an annual crop, to be harvested by cutting out for lumber and fuel the trees that'are fully matured and start- ing to deteroriate, diseased trees, dead and down ones, and those which are crowding out younger trees of more valuable species. The second growth coming on should be carefully watched and all poor trees removed which are preventing more valuable ones from growing. In some places the good new. growth may be too thick and in other places too thin, and some resetting of very small trees may be advisable. \ www.mmflmwsnauw: 11;: 1,: ,, . .-. .1.» - 5‘ ._ = . é. “m. _ -....-.. ,.,.... wanna-we: . .. ,,FEB.“25..;9‘28 _ , ' (I‘HE MICHIGAN FA'RMVER K...— ~..- 1 new "A? A y.” vwv—L—a-u.“ . w EE WHIZIT e==’ . No Buttons to Bother Washing, Lee Fabrics Orrie Kirkpatrick of Kirkpatrick 3m] proprietors of ' Hillside Stock FamyReeds ‘ burg, Wis.,.pure bred Holstein.» / "Sevres-v1, , , t . ,_.,.- w Genuine Hooldeu Fastener. Will not jam, nut or Launden with per- fect. safety. Absolutely Guaranteed. UCCESSFUL men everywhere -—farmers, famous engineers and outstanding individuals in all indus- _‘tries—wear these handy buttonless work suits. For instance, seven of the ten winning national cornhuskers wear the famous Lee Whizit—a nice majority. “fl"‘TJ-V‘Vniuw The Whizit means no buttons to bother—to come off—to sew on. Just slip it on—pull up the Whizit—and presto! you’re ready for work! ‘The famous Lee fabrics, with their :special weaves, are strong, durable land wash more easily, keeping color and shape through months of hard service. ‘The' .Whizit is a real man’s lining“, N" H u. 3,. I... i W“ nu.- .4 / D . 'umou {MADE 1 Whizito Open! Whizit: Shut !- 2 Famous Special Weave, Easy Uni0n~A1lf~Ovemllr~PIar Suit: Studn McLeod, Glcnelg Farm, Goodridge, Minn. President, Red River Valley Dairy- men's Association. Breeder of pure bred Quemseys. Earl V. Bruington, Cameron, "1., owns; Brookside Ruth 7th (#1307370) ,ist prize 3 year old Milking Ska/thorn, American Royal Show in 1927. Also :5: prize 2 year old, 1926. work suit, keen looking, roomy and comfortable. Lee dealers, carrying both Whizit and button style garments are in every; city and almost every town, village and hamlet in the United States. Slip? on a Whizit at your dealer’s—you’ll: like it. Lee UnionvAlls, Overalls, Play Suits Are Made in Clean, Light, Airy Fac— tories by Hundreds of Union Employes THE H. D. LEE MERCANTILE COMPANY Kansas City, Mo. Trenton, N. J. South Bend, 1nd. Minneapolis, Minn. Salina. Kans. San Francisco, Calif. THIS GUARANTEE WITH EVERY GARMENT If you do not find this to be the most satis‘ factory and best value—giving work garment you have ever worn,you can get a new one. free or your money back. 9—259 . . UTSTANDING MEN .i in Farm sze Everywhere Prefer the Seven of the First Ten Winners in the National Cornhusking Contest Wear the Famous Lee Whizit Orville Chase -— Wet- more, Kans. - Champion of Kansas- 8th in na» tional contest. Valerius Altermatt—an In Minnesota - 7th in na» tional contest. Gent-fie Dickinson-— Steam oat Rock, Ionia— 2nd in Iowa—5th in na- tional contest. 0e Korte — Petersburg. eb.-2nd in Nebraska ~6th in national contest. ‘Harold Holmes—Wood- hull, lll.-—Champlon of Illinois-4th in national contest. 35>... Houston Franks — Erie, Illinois- 2nd in Illinois— lOth in national contest. Charles Budd—Misha- waka. Inch-Champion of Indiana—9th in na- tional contest. . .4: ,._.;.,-‘-<:-..uuy, ...’ H, , 1... . . . . _- ”A”... y... m...“ w...“ ~~ —»-——-—-w~--.—~--..—. .....--—_—~..........w _.. __.. .._....,........_.m _..._...___...__.. _~~_W.¢. -. n . .,,.. . 1.... \. dwg‘, . .m...;;...~...-T. "an”...w. - >....—..........»W MW -._. ..._.... ._ _.. ..___-..._....1..-._~_..._.._ .w. a. .. - 2 fax e . neg, 260-10 T HE M to H I G A N F A R M'E'R FEB- 25. 1925; LIME NEAflRLY DOUBLED SEED PRODUCTION N the fall of 1925, Jacob Paul limed ten acres in a seventeen-acre field. applying two tons per acre at a cost of seven dollars per acre. He seeded it to clover in the spring of 1926, se- curing a fairly good stand on the en- tire field. He did not pay much at- tention to the clover until he cut the hay crop in 1927 when he cut one-third more hay from the limed land. But his biggest surprise came when he cut the clover seed. On the seven acres of unlimed land he threshed fourteen bushels of seed 01' at the rate of two bushels per acre. On the ten acres of limed land, he threshed thirty-four bushels or three and four- tenths bushels per acre, an increase of one and four—tenths bushels per acre, which at the selling price of six- 00 o /\\ V xiii/v.1 ‘LIEA\\; , {I masses; —- ~ ~: 7*“ is .... A\ .\ -1. ,J , ~1 /- . Kill Rats *Without Poison A New Exterminator that In Absolutely Safe to use Anywhere! 1 It runway '<‘.:k-,"vr " J -. Will not injure hurnan beings. livestock. dogs. cats, poultry, yet is deadly to rats and mice every time. Poisons are too dangeroue K-R-O does not contain arsenic, phosphorus. barium carbonate or any deadly porson. Made of powdered squill as recommended by the U.S. t > Dept. of Agriculture in their latest bulletin on 3 i “Rat Control." ' "Never saw anything work like it did. We are ordering from our Wholesaler in our and now the finest, fastest, cleanest threshcr . .‘V—nnt » , , teen dollars per bushel is $22.40 per next order. It is_not ncccssary to say ;. acre value of increase on the limed gift “‘c3fesé’tiifligoifif‘0' Huey 3- ‘ l \ land. Mr. Paul bought enough lime 75c :‘ gem. dsrgggist; 13%?! 'Sizet. {(fom- “$13931” . W ‘ last fall for the other seven acres. "we > 2-0“ “tI’OS‘W‘ "ec ”mu“ '3 e” ; s ecial The 1928 Red River Special Line represents the result of .___.___1 gemgggyggukg‘354c335mag-gram: 3 inc 8}? fiarsnolf cgiusriluousdbgilding of Threshing Machines by WINNERS AT FARMERS, WEEK E D [:1 i f for 1928 t e 1c 08 epar ompany. ,_-__- < i . . e \ ' \ Thrashers Only by keeping laith Wlth the farmers and threshermen , HE following is the list of Winners LY , . . . . 1 , . . 22x38 of America has it been possrble for this company to grow ‘ 111 the weight. value, and produc- KILLS'RATS 0" l ggigg from a small blacksmith shop in 1848 to its present great ‘tion estimating contest held by the — ‘ 32x56 factory with branch houses in every grain growing center. . Animal Husbandry Department of the . 36x60 . . , . . I Michigan State College: Horses—How- i ,‘ ' ‘ Tractors And what a. machme this year 5 machine ts. 3rd Laycock, Mason; Dairy Cattle— M M f 300st m m N&S - -. . . - a . SILO - onre eeo . en‘s-me" hm" 3““, The finest, fastest, cleanest thresher ever offered to agricul- H0“‘“d LdyCOCI" Mason, Beef Cattle BU,mgggggggmfgfigggg'gg;“9;:- 20-35 tural America. Hyatt Roller Bearings at every main bearing l :A‘ G“ TBoétomleyl. Armada, Sheep_ Rs Hoomgg'éfi.n§§é3“53.0372§£":" . - . . 1 . ‘ ' - . - _ -. rnu W0 roo e I, 20-40 pomt -— Alemite-Zerk Lubrication - a great new feature, g ‘Luiiuft S '1‘ (31110929113, {$111211}? Ell/lash “mo“ :gionmefll'ymlfee‘i’gtg Nichols & Weatherproof Fiber Pulleys on every high speed drive, % 0 sa .c1u 9 0 01' us “1’ 1° - Lfloanngohzaérrggt: ’ Shepard Armco Ingot Iron in all sheet metal parts, Bridge Truss ’ 3337...???“ 5'8 H £012;- Construction, French 8 Hecht Wheels, all in a thresher l SUGAR BEET TRAIN a) 'H‘O‘O 53'0ch him -—H‘:lsker built around the famous 4 Threshermen. f M Bldg.” '31:?“ 9; o. 3'50. " . . ' HPOUGH the coo erat' n , "W" Alb . [diu- E w Combine These famous 4 Threshermen, The Big Cylinder, the Man l . .‘ . p m 0f the > rut "y n ; , _ _ , r- 1 Michigan State College and the leO --:_-. , :3; cu: Behind the Gun, the Beatlng Shakers, and the Steel W inged New York Central Lines a sugar beet ' . - / : 5 l C“ ' ' ' ' J ’ ' ’ . I Alli 2' Prairie 1.,” Beater are the gieatflcst combination ever devrsed for getting train will be conducted in Michigan “I _ W Boom _ } Nichols& the grain from t ‘e ““1““ from March 5 to March 17. The pur— ” ' " “H m Shepard You will find the whole story in our new book,“The Finest, D059 0f the “"3111 is to 'aSSiSt MiCh- ESt°?m Fastest, Cleanest Thresher,” that we will gladly send to any- iga“ farmers “1 Pmducmg a larger '. "gm” one interested. Send the coupon for your copy. tonnage 0f sugar beets per acre. Profits come in the production of high ' yields. Soils will be tested, experi- . mental data presented with respect to‘ fertilizers, depths of plowing, time and I methods of planting, thinning, spac-' , A r’a’u,__i,_.-. , ing, cultivation, and crop rotations! i insulators (-4 SHEPARD t_10.'\1:_’;\1\i 286 neuramiL steals? Creek, Mich. The following schedule will be fol- if Pleasesend me the bookzwl‘hcl‘mcru.his. ..-.-.'mL-:-t lliresher. lO‘Vt‘d. All meetings \‘fill be held OD ,' ; Name __________________________________________________ RED ------------------- eastern standard time. At each stop . ': City ____________________________________________________ State ------------------------ the train will be available for inspec- TELLS YOU'N PICTURES APOUTTHE ROTPROOF ‘ [My mum,” ________________________ size ______________________ make ------------------ tion at the hours mentioned: STORM pfigé’éopfiétdfwfi'figgfiécWE“ ; NATIONAL" FIRE ' PRCI) Fl NO '(IOM PA NY\ PITTSBURGH 9A0 R Mason, Monday, March 5, 2:30 P. M. to 6:00 P. M. Charlotte, Tuesday, March 6, 9:15 ‘A. M. to 12:00 Noon. ’ Eat”n Rapids, Tuesday, March 0, .' - i U ’ BOWSHER Crush 2:00 P. M. to 6:00 P. M. , . Grind Chesaning, \Vednesday. .. _ _- . {Feed Mulls- Mix' 9:15 A. M, to 12:30 P. M. POXWOSSO’ \1’ednesday. March 7, 2:00 , . ii. to 6:00 P. M. . . . Laingsburg, Wednesday, Rapidly crush ear corn (With or with- 7:00 P. M. to 10:00 P. M. out husk) and grindall the small grams; _, either separately or mixed—mixed as they are be; ::. ing ground-not beforeor after. .; This saves time and labor. ’ St. Charles, Thursday, March 8. 9:30 i A! - “Combination” Mills i} k. FU LTON BLDG. S? 1E C [1 AL" 1 Li ”rite l .Qi'héy WANTED---Fivc Men Address Dept. C, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich. March 7, March 7, Saginaw (G e n. S t.) Thursday, March ts“, 2:00 P. M. to 6:00 P. M. Auburn. Friday, March 9, 9:00 A. M. to 12:00 Noon. Midland, Friday, March 9, 2:00 P. M. to 6:00 P. M. Standish Saturday, March 10, 9:30 A. M. to 12:30 P. M. A. M. to 12:00 Noon. Use the famous Cone-Shape burrs. Light Draft. Large Capacity. Solidly Built. Long Life. 10 sizes—5 tol76 bus. perhour. Handy to operate. 7 Sucking or Wagon Box Elevator furnished. Pinconning S‘atni dav 10 Circular Free d. ' k I ‘ ’ ' . . . , s [113 (1.10 1:30 P, M, [-0 5:00 P. M. The D N P Bowx-ihet-Co_2 out en Mt. Forest, Monday, March 12, 9:30 ' ABM. to 12:00 Noon. ay City, Monday, March 12, 1:30 . . P. M. to 6:00 P. M. WE WANT FARMER-AGENTS _ Get our proposition on the celebra. ~ Munger, Tuesday, March 13, 9:00 A. B. V. T. M. to 12:00 Noon. , 1:00 SILO M arch c... a- March 13, GREAT SEALOF YNE SYATE 0F FLOQIDO March 15—May 1, 1928 Reese, Tuesday, P. M. to 4:00 P. M. Richville, Tuesday, March 13, 7:00 P. M. to 10:00 P. M. u... Ashmore, \Vednesday, March 14, 5 '. Under the Lodging Certificate Plan, you can stop at our best hotels, 10:00 A. M. to 1:00 P. M. “afilfiifigfii‘figfi; ‘ {i "‘ ' e e I . ‘ 7 ,7 ‘ .' ' 40 Nights $50.25—2o nghts $25.25—1o Nights $12.75 2:88‘1‘31’i‘ilet’o 33861333113,“ Mm“ 14» gamut. cos . m... g... i ‘ Live and bask in Florida’s sunshine for less than it will cost you to live Vassar, Wednesday, March 14, 7 ; 30 BMZII HOLLOW BRICK ‘1 g and keep warm at home. Buy Lodging Certificate Books in your city from P. M. to 10 t 30 P. M. AND TILE COMPANY ,5. 3' Seaboard Railway Ticket Office, “Ask Mr. Foster” and other Travel Vassar, Thursday, March 15, 9:00 Brazil, * Bureaus, and American Auto Association and affiliated clubs, or write A- .M- to 11100 A. M. Indiana . Caro, Thursgiiy, March 15, 1:00 P. STATE OF FLORIDA M- to 5300 P Revisit TRAVEL BUREAU LYNCH BUILDING JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA JOHN W. MARTIN. rmzdm jenny w. CARTER. Executive vrmidm Governor of Flor' . State Hotel Commissioner Blissfleld, Friday, March 16, 9:00 A. M. to 1:00 P. M. ' Ottawa Lake, Friday, March 16, 3:00 P. M. to 10:00 P. M. Deerfield, Saturdatharch 17, 9:30 A. M. to 12:30 P. M. , Monroe, Saturday, March 17, 2:00 P. M. to 6:00 P. M. l ALSIKE 9 AND TIMOTHY ‘. 33.!“ 45mm. mummaenzopercnzw. .. meme W. Young company. ”one.” 1......” -~.-....‘.«...., ,,... ,M . . «or». - . I FEB. 25, 1923 WOODEN BEAMS COMPARED} WITH l-BEAM Expect to build a barn next spring and would like to know if a steel 1- beam eight inches high and four inches wide would be as strong as a wooden beam eight inches square My barn is 40 feet wide and the joists run crosswise of the barn. Would these I-beams be suitable to run lengthwise under the joists? How far apart under the I- beams should I put the four-inch iron supporting posts?— The safe uniformly distributed load for a standard 8-inch steel I-beam of light weight 171/2 lbs. to the foot is about 16,000 lbs. for a 10—foot span and about 13,000 lbs. for a 12-foot span. For the heavier weight (25% lbs. to the foot) the safe loads are 18,200 lbs. for 10-foot and 15,200 lbs. , 3 for 12-foot span. For an 8 by 8 wooden beam of average white pine, spruce, or fir is about 4,000 lbs. for 10-foot span and about 3,300 pounds for 12-foot span. Assuming that you will have your joists of 10-foot span and thus have these beams running lengthwise and assuming a total load of floor and hay load of 75 lbs. per square foot, this would make a total load of 750 lbs. per foot-length of I-beam. Even with the lighter I—beam, a 12—foot span would give a load of only 9,000 lbs., where as the safe load is 13,000 lbs. If desired the span could be made 14 feet and still be within the limits of safety—D. COUNTY AGENT GIVES ADVICE (Continued from page 255) plies those needs. Always buy your fertilizer according to the analysis which is printed on the bag.” “How do I know that their analysis is correct? Don’t you suppose the fer- tilizer companies print whatever they want on the bag,” asked the cautious farmer. “You’re wrong again, Chris. The state law requires the companies to put the correct analysis on every package of fertilizer, and furthermore the state chemist has inspectors who sample shipments of fertilizer in all parts of the state. These samples are analyzed to make sure that their plant food content is as guaranteed.” “1 see. The state protects us farm- ers in buying fertilizer and makes sure we get what we pay for. Here’s something else I don’t understand though, our dealer offered to sell me two grades of fertilizer, one for around thirty dollars and the other at forty dollars a ton, he claimed they were both complete fertilizers. Now what’s the use of my paying forty dollars for fertilizer when I can get one for thirty dollars?” “The difference lies in the analysis again,” explained the county agent. “The forty dollar grade undoubtedly contains a much higher percentage of plant food, in fact it may contain twice as much.” “You surely don’t mean that a forty dollar fertilizer may contain twice as much plant food as one that sells for thirty dollars.” “Exactly that,” insisted Dick. “You see there is a general or overhead charge for mixing, bagging, handling, shipping, etc., made against each ton of fertilizer. This amounts to quite a percentage of the cost of the thirty dollar fertilizer, what is left pays for plant food. But for ten dollars more the company can put in a lot of plant food. It is always cheaper to buy the highest analysis fertilizer that fits the needs of your soil and then apply less ‘ per acre.” “1 can see that easy enough. Now here is this cornfield. I want to know what kind of fertilizer to use, how much per acre, and how to apply it. And while you are here, I wish yOu would tell me how to increase the humus content of this soil.” I The belief t at stars can be seen in the daytime y looking down a. deep Well is’ untrue. , ' '. 3‘ THE MICHIGAN FARMER It Buries All the 11—261 rash and GETS THE CORN BORER I -g~ Z ' ,... ILI‘ "y; \C‘ {I T”; ‘ ' \V 7\\ a"! .‘n ”T? u.- Ni Ill‘ \x yi‘sfl “from...“ .11....“ a 41’ 3‘», s}, ’7 LVI: ”I, fix v11“ g’x‘f v ‘ x<~ ‘ \\ \‘\ ‘. 4'0““ ‘. A?" . 4.. EXPERIENCE has shown that clean plow— 1ng 1s the most practical and economical control measure for the European Corn Borer. HoWever, every particle of field refuse must be buried, not one piece of stalk or trash can be left on the plowed ground. But this is just good farming—a sound practice for every farm. “Plowed the heaviest growth of standing stalks under so that all fields passed Government inspection. None of the farmers had to hand-pick a single piece of stalk or trash.” ** Take the Oliver 18—inch Big Base Plow into your heaviest stalks and see how it covers every particle of trash. It pulverizes the furrow slice nicely and your fields are easier to cultivate. The difference 1n the work of these plows and the aver— age plow is so striking that farmers throughout the corn—producing states are rapidly adopting the Oliver 18—inch Big Base as standard equipment on their farms. 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In the Oliver No. 218 Big Base Gang the designers have not only built the base right, . but they have built into the general design / aclearanceorcapacityfor - trash heretofore found only in the Oliver Big Base Sulky. \’. The Oliver No. 218 Big Base ' Adjustable Gang is something entirely new in gang plow construction. stubble and sod plowing. Isl? OLIVER "Plomnakers for the World” GENERAL OFFICE and WORKS, SOUTH CHILLED PLOW WORKS BEND, INDIANA ’ The Baker Gas Tractor Two Size: 22-40 and 25-50 The tractor with the answer. Strong substantial frame. Heavy Duty Footie Transmisxion. The harder the tractor pulls the closer it hugs the ground due to special draw bar hitch. The purchase price of 11. Baker is not. an indebtedness. only an investment. Moderately priced. Terms fair. Visit our factory. You are welcome. 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Nunerymen. Fruit Grown. American Form Machine Co. im-urd AV. 3. E.,Mioneepolle.Minn. Free Cot-log '3 ‘field of newly set cabbage, also 10- FEB. 25, 1928 MY VEGETABLE GARDEN OW that is an interesting subject. To begin with, I plan what. I wish to have and buy my seeds of a reliable seedsmau. I found to my sorrow that cheap seeds are very expensive in the end. Out of two beautifully colored packets of onion seeds I got one onion. ' I am not able to have a hotbed so I start my seeds in the house. Pep- pers are sown about March 15 and to- matoes and early cabbage about two weeks later. Later cabbage I sow in the hills where I want them to stand and any surplus plants are pulled out. There are only two of us so we need only a few plants. I use small boxes or pans for tomatoes and peppers. The peppers are moved into a. larger box when the fourth or fifth true leaves come. Then I sow seed for later pep- pers. VVheu tomatoes get. three or four true leaves I transplant them into pots from which they can be removed later without disturbing the well watered roots one bit. I find it an excellent plan to wrap the stems with heavy paper when setting them into the, gar- den as a precaution against culworms. I set them an inch or two deeper than they were in the pots. By setting the pots in baskets it is not troublesome to move them onto the porch to get the benefit of the sun and air and take them in at night. The cabbage I sow in a box large enough to hold it until I want. to put it in the garden. As soon as I dare, and that is pretty early as l have a. south porch, I set the box outdoors. I have cabbage to use in July—fine, Solid heads. All these early seeds are started behind the stove where the necessary heat from quick germination is to be bad. When they come up, they are moved to a window. For awhile they are set by the stove at night to prevent chilling. Celery and cauliflower do not do well here and we. don’t care for eggplant. A few hills of melons and cucumbers may be started in berry boxes for early fruit- ing. When the “good man” gets some fine, well rotted manure, he spreads it on the garden. Then it is plowed and harrowed well and is ready to plant. I use three kinds of peas, early. medium, and late, and sow them all at once. I do the. same with sweet. corn and so have a succession, l al— ways plant, a few beans when I put: in the early garden and usually suc— ceed in raising part of them. I make three plantings of wax beans about; three wcvlzs apart. Carrots, kohl rabi, beets, parsnips, salsify, and onion seed I sow but once, pulling out the largest. to use and so having little thinning to do. I put in sets. for early onions. Swiss chard cannot be beaten for greens and spinach is real food. For relish and sandwich filling mustard and upland cress are unsurpassed. Let,- tuce and radishes must be sown sev— eral times depending on the season. i use a. hand cultivator to keep the weeds down and make a dust mulch. I never water my garden. From Juno 15 we, are living on the garden and there is always plenty canned for Winter. And what a. joy that garden is through the whole year.—-Mrs. Flor- ence L. Saunders. GLENWOOD FARM GARDEN NOTES S our greenhouse and plant beds are in a. sheltered location en- closed by timber, rabbits are a real nuisance during the early growth of the vegetable plants. Last spring con- siderable damage was also done in a OlemnesoedREN cated in an enclosed garden. We vowed at the time that we would sure- ly take measures to eliminate the pest or at least lessen its numbers. This winter we are proceeding to do so by trapping the rabbits. While it will be impossible to get them all, believe me, the numbers will surely be less! There is a secondary consideration also a by-product, so to speak. I wasn’t aware that rabbit meat was just about as good as chicken. Par- boiled by pouring 011 boiling water and leaving the meat in three or four minutes. Then add a pinch of soda shake or stir, drain, then cook as to choice. The specimens we are getting run about two pounds' each ready for the kettle. in our market, the rabbits are worth thirty to forty cents each. At chicken prices considerable more which is something. But, as I said, this is a. secondary consideration in the present venture.——-M. N. E. SOME PEACH GROWING OBSERVATIONS (Continued from page 255) The next variety in period of ripen- ing is a comparatively new one, being the Rochester. This is a. hardy sort. inclined to bear heavily. 'Must be severely thinned in order to secure fruit of good size. It is meeting with favor from the buyers’ standpoint and in many localities may be planted quite liberally. Overlapping the latter part of the ripening season of the Rochester, we have the South Haven. This is ordi- narily a period of the year that has not been well supplied with peaches from any source, and the few reach- ing the market during this time gen erally command about the best price for the year. It is very hardy in the bud, while possibly not so resistant as some in the wood. Bearing begins when the tree is very young and seems to be continuous. The fruit is invariably large and very uniform in size. We have a five year old block of this variety, consisting of one hun- dred and fifty trees, that has now pro- duced over seven hundred bushels of fruit. These have been sold for an average price of better than two dol- lars per bushel at the farm. This is not phenomenal but is so much better than the record the average variety produces at this age that it is worth mentioning. I am informed that in some localities this variety has not proved to be equal to some others. The Prolific continues as a. stand- ard variety following the South Haven in season. l'nless good care is given the fruit will be small and the trees are inclined to overhear. As it reach- es into the Elberta season there is often a serious sacrifice in price due to the conflict. However there seems to be a. growing demand for this peach and during the past season. a. certain trade demanded it at a premium above the Elberta. _ Little need be said in regard to the Elberta as it holds a preeminent place in peach history. Many markets fail to recognize any other variety, judg- ing by price standards. The majority of consumers that visit the farm to make a purchase do not want this peach. Ordinarily it is picked too green for real quality to be developed. If allowed to ripen it has a flavor that is difficult to equal. This is especially true when canned by .the cold pack method. Probably one-third to one-half of every planting should consist of this variety. It is the one peach in the southern part of Western Michigan, but toward the northern part it is evidently far surpassed by others.- _ . Ripening with the Elberta, butpcr At beef and pork prices l -.._—_A—_ w . FEB. 25, 1928 cupying a. position that it may be picked before or after, is the J. H. Hale. From the standpoint of size, beauty, and price this surpasses any other; but in several other respects it is far outclassed. The tree is slow growing and tender, subject to winter injury and of short life. It must be interplanted with other varieties of the same blossoming period in. order to secure a set of fruit. But very few of the plantings of this variety in the state have been profitable. However, if you have never experimented with it, I would advise you to give it a small trial. An old sort that is often inclined to bother in Elberta time is the Kala- mazoo. Much more expensive to pro- duce and harvest than the Elberta, smaller in size, and as a shipping peach, commanding considerable less per bushel. However, it is unexcelled for a canning peach, and consumers who know this are often willing to pay more for this variety than for the Elberta. Another old peach that the consum- ers are bringing back into general favor is the Gold Drop. Always noted for its hardiness, great productiveness, and excellent quality, yet inclined to be small in size, it is now demanded more than any other name when the housewife comes peach shopping. For three weeks before its season of ripen- ing and two weeks after it is gone, the demand is evident. Asking a certain grower what had been his most profitable peach over a period of years, he immediately said, “Banner." While this is a splendid peach, yet its greatest value is un- doubtedly due to the fact that it large- ly has the market to itself and, often- times, people are just awakening to the condition that peaches are nearly gone and they have not secured their supply. It is another sort that does not obtain a satisfactory size if left to itself, but if properly cared for the resulting product will meet the re- quirements of most demands. Lemon Free is another excellent kind of the late varieties. It does not appeal to the eye but is splendid under the skin. Very prolific under all con- ditions and always in demand by com- mercial canners it is a good peach to remember‘in selecting the varieties. For a real late peach the Salway is still the favorite. We have found this to be a very profitable fruit as it al- ways produces and the canners de- mand the product. It is not adapted to the individual engaged in growing a large quantity of apples as the har- vest conflicts, but for the genuine peach grower it is very satisfactory. Considerable interest is manifest in the new clingstone varieties that the canners are anxious to have produced. Some of these are being planted and we will await results of the next few years to determine the advisabilityof; embarking in this new line of peach! production, in order to meet the com- petition of California. The idea seems to have considerable merit, if a vari- ety can be found that will produce sufficient fruit to make it profitable. It is evident that the individual pro— ducing these clings will be entirely at the mercy of the canners, as there will not be any other market for the product. 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Once in a while we wonder at something which goes wrong in connection with this complicated process of reproduc- tion. How much’more appropriate for us to marvel at those unseen forces and little-understood laws by which a new being comes into existence and grows into the image of its ancestors. When my thoughts turn to these matters they often Wonder on to many other features of the great Riddle of the Universe. Probably I am fortunate in that I have never been in the least troubled with any supposed conflict between modern science and reli- gion: In fact, as far as I can as- certain, the most eminent scien- tists hold the greatest reverence for God and His creative and sustaining power. While this is no place for a discus- sion of evolution, possibly I may be pardoned if I air my views to this extent. I do not see that complete be- lief in organic evolution removes the necessity for a belief in God or in any way belittles Him. It does not explain how anything could come from to the process which God may have employed in bringing the universe up to its present complicated state. If He chose to create the myriads of living things in the sequence depicted in Genesis. but by the orderly process of evolution, it is no less marvelous than as though it were done in a brief period of time by divine flat. The Source is the same and the Power is identical. Back of Creation—A Creator Evolution may or may not. have been the method which the Creator employed in his mighty work. Even though we accept it as a partial ex- planation of the development of the more complex from the more, simple, this system of thought does not, go back far enough to include a “self- starter.” N0 scientist has ever dem- onstrated “spontaneous generation,” that is producing life without, having life to start with, and I’ll hazzard the guess that no mortal power will ever be able to make {something out of nothing. L Inevitably our thoughts revert. to those majestic words with which the Bible opensiJ‘In the beginning God . .” No matter how far we go back in speculation or conjecture we come at last. to the point impene- trable and incomprehensible where we too must say, “In the beginning God.” Those who find difficulty in accept- ing the doctrine of evolution might possibly see new light on the subject if they were to realize that the. unborn lamb goes through practically all the stages which evolutionary scientists outline as tracing the development of animal life on this planet. Some years ago I was privileged to take a course in embryology and to follow under the miscroscope and otherwise, the changes that occur from day to day as the fetus deVelops ll'rom a single-celled fertilized egg to 19. fully developed animal. Contem- nothing, but is merely a hypothesis as plating these mysteries, some scien- tist used three,5 long words to voice a very remarkable contention. He said, “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.” In other words, each organism in the course of its individual development seems_to go through all the stages which the exponents of evolution out- line as having been the history of that particular species. Another Heifer Calf You will be glad to know that our pure—bred, red roan Milking Slro'rthorn cow, “Lady Eleanor 3rd,” who has been causing us not a little anxiety here at Ingleside during the past two or three weeks, has at last presented us with a. splendid White heifer calf that was very much worth waiting for. It just arrived today. \Ve ex- pected her to freshen about the same time as “Welfare Marie 3rd,” who pro- duced her calf almost three weeks ago. Quite naturally we have been watch- ing Lady Eleanor with a. good deal of concern. In fact, I have trekked across the road to look at her around two A. M. for the last five nights and it will seem good to go to bed and not have the alarm clock disturb me but once during those brief but blessed hours which separate one day’s work from another’s. These trips of exploration in the wee small hours of the night reveal several things of interest. I am al- ways curious to see which cows and horses are lying down and which are standing and what the steers and young cattle are doing. One day we got our steer pen just half cleaned. We freshly bedded the portion from which we had removed the manure. That night I was interested to observe that practically all the steers lay con- tentedly in the clean half of the pen. while the portion which had not. yet received our attention was practically deserted. This demonstrated that steersuhave a decided preference for a clean bed. I have a growing conviction that if we will find out what it takes to make our stock happy and contented and then provide those conditions just as far as we are able, our efforts are sure to be crowned with success. There is much that we cannot learn about our stock by merely observing them at mealtime. We need to study their ac- tions when they are not feeding if we expect to really understand their true condition. Crime Wave Emphasized “"0 have heard from time to time the. prevalence of a “crime wave" and of a somewhat general disregard for property and the rights of others. This state of affairs was driven home to us mm at Ingleside by two recent hap- penings. One of our neighbors had about one hundred dollars worth of clover< seed sucked up ready for market which he was holding to sell a little later in the spring. One day shortly after a young man who had been help- ing him for several months had quit work, the farmer imagined that there was something not quite right about the appearance of those sacks of c10- ver seed. He felt of them and found that the seed had been removed and the sacks filled with oats! To make a long story short, the law enforcing officers located the ex~hired man, ob- tained a complete confession and he is now serving time in Jackson prison, but the neighbor wasn’t able to collect a cent from the young criminal for the seed that had been stolen for it had been sold and the money spent. The second illustration came a little closer home. While wife and I slipped away from Ingleslde for a. few of‘the session of Farmers' Week our old car (Continued on page 287) ‘ti‘v ‘ ' F"... r-,.-.¢~‘ :v a. ”W‘t“: *‘-“"‘:-'art.g.' -‘. . .5. 5‘14.- 5-... .a 44-1- 5 a», ”a. w"? x: ‘ 1. 1.11.“. ~:- mm,“ ”a ‘ - .FEB..25;,1328 Sugar Beet Problem , I: (2 Soil Perri/fly Prod/em By M. M. Prof. Soils, M. S. C. HERE is considerable concern with respect; to the future of the sugar beet industry in this state. There need be no concern with re- spect to the future of it, provided the one really big factor involved in its production is considered. The out- standing thing in the production of the sugar beet crop is soil fertility. The profits derived from this crop de- pend in the main upon the yields per acre. It costs about ten dollars a ton to grow beets when the yield is six tons per acre, six dollars when the yield is ten tons per acre, four dollars and a half when it is fourteen tons per acre, and three dollars and thirty cents when it is eighteen tons per acre. The average yield in the state is about eight and one-half tons per acre. Of course, when we strive for high- er yields we are forced to follow bet- ter practices. It is true these higher yields cost more in cash and labor, but fortunately the increase in yields goes up faster than do the costs of the extra treatments responsible for the higher yields. Since sugar beets as a rule are grown on the most naturally fertile soils of the state, the problems in volved in raising the yields are not very difficult. After having been in contact with the production of this crop and studied the results obtained V Plant Food Made Corn (Continued from page 253) It was not until Ohio was reached that the full effect of the weather was to be seen. Probably half of the corn- fields there were what you could call “sick;” the others, though somewhat late, showed unmistakably how effec— tive the employment of good soil-fer- tility practices had been in meeting the vagaries of the weather. The re- markable effect of manure and com— mercial fertilizer in Ohio in 1927 is best shown by a statement made late in the season by Robert M. Salter, chief in Agronomy at the Ohio Experi- ment Station, who writes in part: “As a whole the season was such as to magnify greatly the usual ef- fects of differences in soil fertility. Farmers who used manure and fer- tilizers liberally have been excellently rewarded. In fertilizer tests on corn at the Ohio Station some remarkable effects have been produced upon the rate of development and maturity of the crop. “An extreme difference of twenty- seven days in the time of average silking date is found between the no- treatment plots of the May 13 plant- ing and the plot receiving the com- bination of manure and 400 pounds of 3-12-4 in the hill. Also, by comparing the average silking date of the plot receiving manure and 400 pounds of 3-12-4 in the hill (planted on June 3) with the no-treatment plots planted May 13, it is evident that this gener- ous fertility treatment has not only overcome a difference of twenty-one days in planting date, but has produced corn which silked nine days earli— er, making a total gain of thirty days.” The observations made during the growing season gave accurate fore- casts of what the yields would be when the plots were harvested. Here , are figures on the silking dates, yields, and quality of grain for plots 24, 25, and 26 of the May 13 planting on the Wooster, Ohio, plots. Plot 25, no , treatment, silked September 7, yield- ed 33.5 bushels with 61 per cent nub bins; plot .24, 400 pounds 3-12-4 fer- _ tilizer in the hill. silked August 15. - r IVIcCool, during the past several years from co- operative experiments with prominent farmers, I am lead to conclude that there is a tendency on the part of some people to enter into academic discussions relative to the composition of fertilizers to apply and also the amounts to use per acre on the land for the sugar beet crop. Organic matter and commercial fer- tilizers will raise the average yields of this crop. Sweet clover will grow when seeded in small grains on many of the sugar beet soils. The practice of turning this crop under in the late spring or the residue following its grazing by live stock is growing in the best sugar beet sections. During the past several years in cooperative tests with numerous prominent Mich- igan farmers, yields of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, twenty tons and in some in- stances more per acre, have been ob- tained by following well balanced sys- tems of soil management. Acid phos- phate gives good returns on the in- vestment when used on soils high in fresh organic matter or in conjunction with liberal applications of barnyard manure in the rotation. Our results go to show that for most cases a high grade complete fertilizer, such as a 4-16-4 or 2-16-2 or similar composition is best over a period of years. The application should average about 300 pounds or more per acre. yielded 62.4 bushels with 29 per cent nubbins; plot 26, 8 tons manure and 200 pounds 3-12-4 in the hill, silked August 14, yielded 89.5 bushels with 21 per cent nubbins. The accomplishment of Ira Marshall of Hardin County, Ohio, in this year, producing 1,577.7 bushels of corn on a. measured ten-acre field stands out as a classic demonstration of how good methods and soil treatment prac- tically nullified the effects of an irre- gular and unfavorable season. Mar- shall grew his corn on an alfalfa sod, planted thirty-three inches apart in thirty-four-inch rows, and used 350 pounds of 8—16-8 followed by a side- dressing of nitrate of soda when the corn was a few inches high. The cornfields of Indiana presented the same general appearance as thOSe of Ohio, except that fewer of them appeared to have been adequately fer- tilized. In Allen County, W. F. Bur- bank, the county agent, took me out to see some fields of corn which he considered good examples of what high fertility means in a season like 1927; also he showed me others that were equally shining examples of what low fertility means in such a year. 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Nam and Addnu llll’l I . \‘ oooooo concoct-o received, in preparation for tobacco, twenty loads of manure and 500 pounds of 3-8-6 fertilizer to the acre. Commenting generally on his ob- servations of the fertility experiment plots in Indiana, Professor A. T. Wiancko, chief in Agronomy at Purdue Univei‘Sity, writes: “. There have been throughout the season very important differences between the for tilized and unfertilized corn. These differences have been more important than usual because all corn got a late start and the well—fertilized corn went ahead so much faster than the corn on the unfertilized land. In some cases this advantage on the fertilized land put the corn out of danger of frost injury from a week to ten days or moreahead of the crop on the unfer- tilized land. The properly fertilized plots will make satisfactory yields of good quality but with little or no soil treatment the handicap of poor treat- ment combined with late planting and an unusually slow season was too great to make even a fair crop on some of the plots.” Illinois was little different from In- diana or Ohio. The soil experiment fields of the State showed marked dif- ferences in the growth of corn which was especially noticeable in the seri- ous lodging on practically all check, or untreated plots. On some fields limestone in combination with other materials prevented the lodging: on other fields, it required phosphate or phosphate-potash treatment to over- come the tendency. “During the growing season there were striking differences in the ’growth of corn under various systems of soil treatment on the Illinois soil experiment fields. Later in the season the influence of soil treatment was evidenced by marked differences in lodging. Marked differences in the quality of the corn were noted at husking time. These observations indicate that the productivity of the soil, as influenced by soil treatment practices, will be an important factor in' the yield and quality of corn in Illinois this year,” writes Dr. F. C. Bauer of the University of Illinois, who has charge of the soil experiment fields of‘the State. If the results in Wisconsin were representative of those throughout the north edge of the corn belt, good soil fertility practices will virtually move that section a week or ten days closer to the center of the corn belt. The properly fertilized corn seen on Wis- consin farms showed a thicker stand. better color, and more advanced growth. That this effect carried through to the end of the season when the corn was harvested, is‘shown by statements of Professor C. J. Chap- man, of the, Soils Department at the University of lVisconsin, quoted below: “Due to the adverse weather condi- tions in the early part of the season. the corn crop in Wisconsin made a very slow start. Farmers who used commercial fertilizers, either applying it in the hill or drill or even broad- cast, noted remarkable response in the early part of the season. The ferti- lizer seemed to stimulate the growth of the corn and mixtures containing some ammonia and potash as well as phosphoric acid, such as the 4-16—4, 2-16-2, or 2-12-2, under most conditions. were preferable to the straight acid phosphate in the central and northern parts of the State. “The large increase in fertilizer ton- nage used in Wisconsin this past sea- son has resulted in advancing the ma- turity of thousands of acres of corn.” Very pronounced effects were seen in Marinette County in which section of the State phosphorus is so deficient in the soil and feed crops grown as to produce a. disease of dairy cattle called “pica.” As would be expected not only corn but grain and hay crops and even white beans and soy beans showed more advanced growth and ‘earlier ripening as a result of fertili- "21—55%”; Adm-fi.m-aum.wN.WIS-Mfl \ FEB. 25, 1928 zation with superphosphate (acid phosphate) or other fertilizers contain- ing a large proportion of phosphoric acid. ' N In southern Minnesota numerous fields of corn on muck or other drained soils gave excellent demon- stration of the ability of these soils, plus a phosphate-potash fertilizer, to compete successfully with a season as backward even as that of 1927. The season of 1927 was disastrous to the yield and quality of corn grown on millions of acres in the east two-thirds of the corn belt. It was not without some beneficent features. however. It showed, perhaps more strikingly than ever before, that there is a high ,degree of “crop insurance” in a soil kept in good physical condi- tion and well charged with available plant food. IT PAID VAN RIPER TO FERTILIZE OATS BECAUSE oats are usually planted on corn ground that is not man- ured, and because they are such an excellent protein grain for growing all classes of live stock, many farm- ers are finding that it pays them to use commercial plant food along with the cats they sow. During the season of 1926, a series of oats fertilizer plots were put out on the farm of Everett Van Riper in Monroe County, Michigan. There were all one-acre plots and were started while Claire Burton was county agent of that county. In due time, the plots were harvested, the oats threshed out, and the increased yield and profits resulting from the use of fertilizer were computed by R. W. Kidder, the present county agent of Monroe County. In order that readers may visualize the field and soil. conditions, this is a clay loam soil, tiled, and level. Prior to the time that Mr. Van Riper came into possession of this farm, it had not grown any alfalfa or sweet clover, at least for a number of years. In fact, the preceeding owner had a one year rotation of timothy hay, which was baled and sold off the place each year. There were four plots. One received no fertilizer, the next a 200 pound ap- plication of 20 per cent superphos~ phate, the next 200 pounds of a 2-12-2 fertilizer, and the fourth, 200 pounds of 0—10-10. The no treatment plot produced about 39 bushels of oats, the 20 per cent superphosphate produced a little in excess of 57 bushels, the 2-122 produced 53 bushels while the 0-10-10 produced almost 71 bushels. After taking out the cost of the fer- tilizer, county agent Kidder computed the profit on the grain produced by the fertilizer using the current price of cats. There was some increase of straw also but this was not taken into consideration. The 200 pound application of 20 per cent superphosphate per acre produced a profit of $9.17; the same sized ap— plication of 2-12-2 produced a profit of $7.14 while 200 pounds of 0—10-10 made a. profit of $15.99. It is evident that all of the fertilizers used made a hand- some profit on the investment which says nothing about the better feeding quality of the grain produced—J. M. IT MUST BE POLITICAL “'hat spleen some folks like to vent on “political nostrums” and how they gnash at “political” as’ it goes through their teeth. I would like here and now to call attention to the fact; that no plan can be put through Con- gress that is not political. Congress is a political body, 'in fact, it is the only body that is endowed by popular franchise with the function of minis- tering to the ills of a. nation. And for anyone to refer to an act of Con- grass as being non-political shows a shallow sense at governmental action. ‘9 a VI :1 g |\ "N141 * . x We“ -‘." A. ~ '3502qm 4mm? mm?“ “:7 < a'“n.s4~ (we 1.03% , ”I‘- 1 ’- , at» :49. ms. 25, 1928 '. ' , Listenin In After T lire: Years“, Radio Rem/err Better Reception T [um Ever Hazel B. Girard ROM the snow-capped hills of .Alaska where the giant peaks stand as alabaster altars to God to far-off Australia, the home of the boomerangs, the wide indulgent world is listenin’ in. Radio—those precious crystals of radio, mean more than the sordid mar- ket reports, the reckoning of the mer- cury, the symphony of music—they mean more and more each passing day. The whole effect has become what might be termed a family ensemble. Radio hour is the conventional home- tying interval of the times. It is the one period of the day when the busy, rushing ripple of the twenty-four hours is forgotten—a quietude like those historical fireside hours of the long ago. (>5. Right now, with plenty of cold weather still waiting in the offing— long nights When the growling winds sound like prairie coyotes, and heaps of snow pile closer and closer to shut us in——is the time when we turn to the solace of the radio. There was a time when the radios were within the reach of very few. Now they are absolutely within the reach of all. Out of the unknown somewhere, people are getting won- derful reception, glorious clean enter- tainment for the whole family for seventy-five dollars and less. In our own home, the radio has heralded the events of the times, performed all sorts of syncopation, jazz, and melo- dies for the last three years and ren- ders better reception now than ever before. All this may sound like the bizzare radio advertisements in an illustrious magazine or like fluent lingua of a radio salesman—but it is merely the honest-to—gosh testimonial of one who has found the radio an indispensable item in the institution known as the great American Home. When utter tiredness engrosses the body and the world seems far away, there is nothing that will bring you in closer contact with the outside realm than those precious crystals of radio. Just to flop into an easy chair, turn on the radio—and something to eat in one hand, a ginger snap or a. juicy pippin will do—and you have at command all that is recognized as per- fect bliss. If you have not a radio in the home and are considering the purchase of one, consider well and choose wisely. Visit your radio neighbors and hear the reception. DrOp in at a radio store and have a-demonstration. You will not have to mortgage your thatched roof or live on prisoner’s fare “to make the raise.” You will really be surprised how little a good radio, plus the equipment, will cost you. Not only will you be sittin’ purty for the winter, you’ll be sittin’ purtiest for years. RADIO BRIEFS ORE than 500,000 school children in the East, Middle West, and South listened in to the experimental broadcast programs instituted by W‘alter Damrosch, conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra, to teach the appreciation of music via the air. The programs proved so highly successful that there is a ten- tative plan to carry them on next fall. “My plan for next fall,” says Mr. Damrosch, “is to conduct twelve con- certs for grammar school children, to be offered during school hours and to be broadcast as widely as possible at that time. Over a like period, I hope to [conduct twelve concerts for stu- dents of high schools and colleges. s “The“ plan is not designed. to sup- ~ 1* ,, », ' . 1141,1146)“: l‘ru.’ f.‘_":_'.:' plant whatever musical training may already be in the courses but rather to supplement the teachers’ work. It is the little red school house in rural districts that interests me most,” says Mr. Damrosch. Radio Solves Dishwashing Problem An Arkansas woman has discovered a way of getting. the family dishes washed in a hurry on Saturday night, she reports. Her rule is: the. radio must remain silent until the dishes are washed. Her oldest. boy and girl are. ardent followers of the Philco Hounpresentations of light opera and musical comedies. The children a]- AT THE DIAL l'I‘HOUT referring to the log, can you turn the dial on your radio to give you the market reports on farm products? Have these reports been of any advantage to you financially? If so, tell us about it. Don’t fuss over trying to write it up; just explain how it happened in one of your everyday letters. If we can use your letter you will be sent a prize. Mail your letter on or before March 2 to Radio Editor, Michigan Farmer, Detroit. ' THE MICHIGAN FARMER ways get. together to "do up" the dishes in a rush so they won’t miss the beginning of the hour each week. Yascha Bunchuk, sometimes called the “Heifetz ot‘ the ’Cello,” but better known to “listeners in” as a member of Roxy’s Gang, has a bit of interest- ing foreign history connected with him. \Vhen a student of the Russian Imperial Conservatory of Music in Petrograd, he was presented with a $30,000 Guanarius ’cello by General Leemoff, then in command of the Rus- sian forces. The war was on, and the young artist, desiring to make his way to America, succeeded in getting as far as Constantinople. Here he came to the attention of Admiral Bristol, commander of the United States Naval forces of that port, and through his aid Bunchuk finally succeeded in being allowed to embark for America. Just. recently he received his final papers as an American citizen. The “Great Moments in History,” broadcasts of the NBC Red Network are followed closely by school stu- dents," according to a letter received from a high school principal in Mich- igan. 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Rolling, tumbling, trembling with excitement, they brought up at a' seemingly safe distance. “Some hunter, all right,” jeered Ted. “And we came darned near being the game. Me, I’m needed at home. I hear my dad calling me right 110w.” Still the incessant barking of the dog came to them. Bob Barton’s lips set in grim lines. Into his eyes came the light which betokens a fighting man, a light which Ted Baldwin was to glimpse often in coming days. “I’ll never go off and leave Jock there to be killed,” said Bob. “He’d fight for me, and I'll fight for him.” Only pausing to secure his axe, Bob started toward the bluff again and now his gait was headlong, impetuous. “By heck!” cried Ted. “I haven’t lost any dog. But I’m going along with you.” “Play safe. old man.” called Bob as he plunged through the bushes. “No need of taking any risks.” But again the chums were side by side when they reached the place of their pre- cipitous leave-taking. “'arily they pressed on, dodging from tree to tree, until finally they reached, without mis~ hap, the place where Jock was vis- ible. To the intense disguest of Bob, the Airedale was digging madly in some burrow. “Of all things,” chortled Ted. “The durned mutt. is after some skunk or ’possum. And us riskin’ our lives for you!” Playfully he grabbed the eager dog and boxed his ears. “Like fun he was,” said Bob. and there was no levity in his voice. “What do you call that?” In the soft earth not far away was the imprint of a booted heel. But the thing which held Ted spellbound, then caused him to cry out in alarm, was the mark of some giant foot. Even as they looked, Jock, with bristling hair, sniffed at the track, then resumed his mad (lig- ging into the Cliff’s face. “Bear!” said Ted Baldwin. “Bear! Boy, let’s get away from here.” “Not until I look around this place,” was Bob’s dogged response. “That fellow that made that track never went into that hole.” But search as they might, there was no clue. If the towering bluff held any secret, it seemed locked in its grim breast. No other track could be found, no evi- dence that beast or human had stood there in defiance of the approach of man. Baffled, the boys retraced their steps, taking the Airedale with them, and resumed tree cutting. “Mum’s the word,” Bob commanded. “No need to worry our folks over this. THE MICHIGAN FARMER But now I’m sure that whoever drove the Harkins and Perkins folks away, again will be after us. We’ll fight ’em, Jock, old boy.” ”Count me in,” announced Ted. “All I need,” he added with a rueful grin, “is something to make my knees be- have. The rest of my body is all right, but my knees knock like a worn out flivver trying to pull a hill in high. There can’t be any bear around here. Yet there’s a bear track. It gets me.” “That bear,” said Bob, “seems to be pals with somebody who handles a high-powered gun. Both of ’em must have wings or be able to evaporate into a skunk hole. I’m going to tell Mr. Burton,” concluded Bob with sud- den resolve. “He’s a keen guy and Under the 4-H Flag By John Francis Case unseen, so intangible, so mysterious, gripped both boys as they worked, hushed their voices, clogged their steps as they advanced farther in search of suitable trees. It was a sub- dued pair which set out for home when the day ended and night began to darken the western sky. The fu- ture weighed heavily upon Bob Bar- ton’s young shoulders. What if they should lose all invested? What if harm came to those he loved? CHAPTER IX Club Work and Play 088 BURTON had listened grave- ly as Bob related the happenings of a few days before, had ques- tioned both Bob and Ted closely. Then, borrowing a small rifle owned That ne’er shall fail? he‘s had World War training. see what his advice is.” “Good idea,” commented Ted. “Ross Burton won’t have any trouble with his knees. Some day there’s going to be a ‘showdown’ over this mystery. I’m glad it isn’t on our farm. Heck, Bob, I do hope you folks won’t be driven away.” “We won’t be driven away!” Bob Barton’s voice had risen almost. to a scream as he faced the dark forbid- ding woods which seemed to hold a menace of death itself in their gloomy depth. “We’ll fight to win!” Brave words, and Ted thrilled with admira- tion for his comrade. Yet fear of the We’ll dctivitz'e: of 11/ flcreJ—“Om z'r Enoug/z !” Sayr Slim VAN QUISHED - - - VICTOR All flushed and breathless in the eager race, Forward l pressed and blindly reached to clasp The warm hand of Success. My own imprisoned; in the winner’s place Another stood, and I, brought face to face With grim Defeat, knew all was lost. Down the long slope up which I late had sped, While proud Ambition urged to quickening pace; Down, down to a deep valley, lone and drear, Whose grinning rocks seemed mocking my despair As ’mong their jagged shapes I cast me down Disconsolate and heard the echoing cheer Resounding from the lofty summit where My rival held the prize and wore the crown. Through the dim chamber of my consciousness A still voice thrilled; l heard the Master’s word: ' “The servant is not greater than his lord. Canst thou forget the woe and weariness Of failure out of which was wrought success The death upon the cross, The sealed tomb bespoke despair and loss Such as earth had not known; God’s processes Changed them to triumph and eternal gain. Arise! My strength shall nerve thy feeble hand. Unclose thine eyes that thou by faith may’st see The race to run so that thou may’st obtain.” Trembling, l rose to do my Lord’s commands, And to! Defeat gave place to Victory. A chilling grasp She led —lda M. Budd. by O’Neal, Burton, with the boys, had visited the scene of action. Nothing had been found, although the footprints still were visible. The county agent examined the bear track closely. “There’s no question whatever,” he announced, “that this track was made by a bear. I've hunted ’em. He’s a big fellow,.too. lut why a man and a bear should be together here is be- yond me. And why there should be any desire to drive residents from this farm is another thing. My advice,” Burton concluded. “is to let ‘sleeping bears lie.’ Keep a sharp lookout, Bob, and as live stock was the thing taken before, tie Jock in the hog house ' FEB. 25, 1928 nights to be on the safe side. “I don’t like to keep this from your parents,” the county agent went on after they had agreed on procedure, “yet there seems no good in worry- ing them unless something really hap- pens. I’d keep‘away from this tim- ber. Let me know at once if you have need for me. I like a fight,” and Bur- ton’s grin was boyish, “but hanged if I could enjoy being shot at from am~ bush. If Mister Mystery shows his hand, we’ll try and smoke him out.” Waiting seemed the logical thing to do, and yet, as the days wore on and the nights passed, Bob found himself often stopping to listen apprehensive- ly or waking to lie tense and specula- tive as to what the future might bring. Farm work was an endless grind. It was a relief to Bob’s strained nerves when Ross Burton and Miss Edwards announced that a community 4*H Club would be organized and preparations made for the good times of the sum- mer months. It would give him some- thing to think about beside crops and possible encounter with strange mar- auders. The boys and girls met in the Pleasant Ridge schoolhouse, its fine community hall a credit to the pro gressive neighborhood which had voted school consolidation. It was not as a stranger that Bob Barton' came. Co-mpanionable and eager to do their part in community building, the Bartons quickly had won friends. Father Barton’s violin and Bob’s cornet had been welcome addi- tions to the school orchestra. A bit reserved, yet wholesome and manly, Bob had been received with approval by old and young alike. Yet to a de- gree he still was a stranger, a bit lonely as the group of young folks representing several school districts came together fifty strong. Mr. Bur- ton presided, and the local leader, Margaret Collins, a high school teach- er, quickly was chosen. “iVe will now elect officers for the club,” announced Burton, “and I hope that you will give due thought to the importance of this phase of the work. We want a presi- dent with pep, perseverance, and per. sonality. Whom will you have?” Up sprang a girl member of the high school orchestra which had played for the gathering. Bob sat idly, cornet in hand, wondering whom she would nominate. Dark and vivid, a chum of the fair-haired Katie O’Neal, Elsie Duncan began to speak. “The most of our members, Mr. Chairman,” said Elsie, “belong here in the Pleas- ant Ridge community, so I think we should have the president and secre- tary. I desire to nominate a new member for the presidency. He has proved to us who know him that he. is able and worthy. I nominate Rob— ert Barton.” Elsie sat down while a ripple of applause ran through the room. 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Speech!" yelled the boys, while the girls clapped. The room grew silent, and many of the mem- bers unknown to Bob pricked their ears as he began to speak. “Fellow members of the 4-H Club,” said Bob, “it is not necessary to say that this honor is as surprising as un- expected. But I shall give you the best that is in me. That is all that anyone can do. I thank you sincerely and hope that your confidence has not been misplaced." There was dignity and sincerity in Bob’s presence and words. The members warmly ap- plauded and a little hum of satisfied comment -ran through the room. Quickly James Curtis. resident of an- other district, was elected vice—presi- dent. “Now we come to the secretary,” said Chairman Burton. “You know,” and he smiled down at Bob. “21 presi- dent do‘esn’t amount to much. It takes a real secretary to make things go. Whom will you have?” The response was spontaneous. “Katie O’Neal! 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It is only human to appreciate honor bestowed, and Bob Barton was an, intensely human indi- vidual. Katie’s interest proved that friendship which sometimes he had doubted was sincere and abiding. Yes, he’d do his best to prove worthy of the trust. Katie came out and joined them. “Congratulations, Bob,” she said, put- ting out her hand, “Didn’t you see how surprised I was when you were elected?” Bob took the small hand in his strong clasp. “Little politician,” he mocked, but his voice had a note of seriousness. “You got me into this, but I’ll pay you back. You’ll have all the work to do.” The look in Bob’s eyes caused the new club secretary to flush and hurry on. (Continued next week) Immigrants‘ at Ellis Island are shown moving pictures each Friday night. a “i; \, ‘ \" a CROPS WERE 50% BET- TER . . . Mr. Arthur Lane of Nlarietta. Washington County, Ohio says: “I used ‘AA QUALITY' Fertilizers on my corn and potatoes last Spring. 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McCune N the story of Jairus and his daughter,” says a recent writer, there is a peculiar warmth of humanness. We see the man of wealth, a prominent citizen, a ruler in the synagogue, utterly broken by anxiety, begging piteously for help for his little girl. There are surroundings of luxury, retinue of servants—but what do these avail? She is twelve years old, and an only child; she lies there like a broken flower amid all the wealth that was to have been hers some day.” This is well said. The raising to life of this little girl is one of the most beautiful of all Christ’s miracles. Somehow, it has not lost its pathos, even after the lapse of cen- turies. The death of a child always goes home to peoples’ hearts. I remember seeing, some years ago, in the English c e m e t e r y in Rome, Italy, a grave with a ~ ‘ neatly carved stone over it. On the stone were the words, “0 my boy, so far from home.” As we have said before, all these healings and signs had spiritual sig- nificance. The raising of the dead child is a symbol of the raising of the soul to life. “In the New Testament,” says Bishop Westcott, “it might seem as if every great form of disease were brought before the Savior, that He might show that only an enemy had brought it among men. -Work fol- lowed work in the manifestation of mercy, with ever-widening lessons of spiritual import, till all was consum- mated in the crowning act of the rais- ing of Lazarus, the last and clearest type of the resurrection.” Why were so many of the folk in the house put out, when Jesus came to the bedside of the child? Why not perform this amazing work in the eyes of all the people possible? For one thing, he would never do any work for the sake of the curious or the gos- siping. Always and always, his works were done as quietly as possible. He hated show. Had he not taught that praying should not be done preten- tiously, but in secret? This rule he followed as closely as possible in his “mighty works.” Always he was say- ing to the healed person, “Don’t say anything about this. Keep it still.” But usually the healed patients were in such ecstasies that they told every- body. But there was a deeper reason. The cure depended on the people as Well as on him. Does not Mark say that at Nazareth he could do nothing, because of their unbelief? Why does he ask people to tell him exactly what they want? Because he must know if they have some simple, direct faith. He cannot work where people do not believe. When the frantic father of the epileptic boy begged him to do something for his child, , the reply was, “if thou canst believe, all things are possible.” .In other words he had to have a favorable environment, people who really believed in what he was about to do. , Are any such works as the healings of Christ done now? Has it come true,——“Greater things than these shall ye do? One has to ascertain the facts, and then judge of such things for himself. Some people declare that wonders in medicine are constantly going on, almost equal, if not quite, to anything that Christ did, except, of course, bringing life back into a life- less body. Even leprosy is being inas- tered, thanks to ceaseless experiment and the disc'dvery of chamoolgra oil. Every day persons who would die in . [a short time are restored to health through surgery. Jesus always asso- ciated bodily sickness with the ills of the soul. “Sin no more lest a worse ° THE MICHIGAN FARMER ; 23—273 - x ' Motor Covered with Celluloid Today, paint is not used in finishing motor car bodies. Instead, they are “Ducoed” or lac, quered.__When a car body is lacquered, it is actually covered with coatings of colored cellu’ loid, sprayed on._The use of lacquer has resulted in a, far greater variety of colors and color combinations in finishing motor car bodies. It has another great advantage, that of, retaining its luster much longer than paint.— Although lacquer has greatly simplified body paint’ specialize in this delicate art. Method of Finishing a Fisher Body After a Fisher Body receives four coats of “rough stuff” it is ready for 3. Japan ground color. It then receives four to six coats of lacquer. Then there are, of course, five drying periods, one between each coat of lacquer. It is then carefully rubbed, once after the ,“rough stuff" has been applied and again—this time with oil and fine sandpaper—after the lacquer has been applied. Finally, it is polished; and then, if the paint design calls for striping, it is striped by highly skilled men who work free/hand and who Body by F1 ing, as many as 15 major operations are required be fore the lacquering of a Fisher Body is completed. x.— thing befall‘thee.”_ It is, therefore, when the spiritual and the scientific work together that the greatest re- sults are obtained. Bodily sickness is still a type of the sicknessess of the soul. Here are a few lines from the; “Edge of the Primeval Forest,” by; that astonishing modern Saint Paul,l Doctor Albert Schweitzer, of Africal Describing.» an operation in his tinyl hospital on the edge of the jungle: “I? watch for the sick man’s awaking. Scarcely has he recovered conscious- ness when he stares about him and ejaculates again and again, ‘I’ve no more pain! I’ve no more pain!’ His hand feels for mine, and will not let it go. Then I begin to tell him and the others in the room that it is the Lord Jesus who has told the doctor and his wife to come to the Ogowe. Then I have to answer questions. The African sun is shining through the coffee bushes into the dark shed, but we, black and white, sit side by side and feel that we know by experience the meaning of the words: ‘All ye are brethren.” SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 26th SUBJECT :—-Mark 5: 22-43. Just Try a Michigan Farmer Liner for Quick Results. 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Many times what seems like flagrant disregard for the parents’ requests is to the child only an earnest desire to help mother or father, as the case may be. The little girl of four, who had been told time and again not to play with water, when found in the kitchen drip- ping wet, having spilt water all Over herself, was punished for her dis- obedience. Later it was learned that what she had done was to climb up on the sink to get a basin of water and a cloth with which to wash the finger marks off the doorway as she had seen mother do. She slipped, the water spilled, and punishment fol- lowed. To her it must have looked as if she were punished for trying to help. Another little'boy had learned that he must never pull up the plants in the garden. He watched his father at work getting out the little weeds in the flower bed, and a few days later, in an attempt to be helpful, he pulled up all the little new growth of carrots and left standing the tall, well-devel— oped ragweed! Some restrictions are placed on children that it is nearly a physical impossibility for them to carry out. “Sit still” 'and “Be quiet” are very easy to say, and yet to a healthy youngster, full of life and vigor, such commands are extremely hard to carry out for more than a few minutes at a time. Little children are growing and developing new muscle power all the time, and they must have freedom to run, jump, shout, and play. Nature de- mands it. Perhaps some special part of the house or yard may be set apart as theirs—a place with few dangers or hampering arestrictions where they may safely “work off their steam” un- checked by continual nagging. PLAN HOUSE WIRING TO MAKE WORK EASY HEN a home is wired for electri- city, plenty of floor plugs, out- lets for electrical equipment, lights in dark closets, and plenty of convenient switches should be provided, for electricity should help make house- work easier as well as to light the house. ‘ In the kitchen, lights should be lo- cated so that they illuminate the work. They should not be located so they shine in the eyes of the worker or throw her shadow on her work. Ceiling units especially devised for use in kitchens, if properly located, provide excellent lighting . Wall serv- ice outlets in addition to lights are especially to be recommended and the kitchen should be wired for one or more plugs to suit conditions. The dining room needs a wall out- let or drop socket from the fixture over the table for electric toasters, ,percolators, waffle irons, or other electric equipment used for cooking at the table. The outlet may be used for the vacuum cleaner, too, when the dining room is being cleaned. Several low, wall or base-board out- lets are desirable in the living room for bridge lamps and table lamps and for attaching the vacuum cleaner. Having more than one such outlet pre- . By Dr. D. vents the need for unsightly extension cords about the room. A low, wall outlet is also desirable in each bed- room and a higher one in the bath- room will permit electric heaters or curling irons to be used. In Dark Corners Shoes and hats do not get lost in the corners of large clothes closets equipped with ceiling lights. Dark hallways and staircases need wall or ceiling lights, and, with convenient switches at both ends, no one need stumble up or down dark stairs. A switch by the cellar door with a pilot light connected with all the cel- lar lights will save electricity by in- dicating when the lights are on. Con- sideration for both the present and future needs of electricity in the home when the house is being wired will save the expense of additional wiring later and the inconvenience of too few electric outlets. HANG PICTURES THOUGHTFULLY ECAUSE pictures seem such small unimportant things in furnishing the house, many a homemaker is con- tent to hang them anywhere on the wall that seems convenient. But pic- tures are some of those details that give a room character, that can make or mar an otherwise attractive in- terior. The woman who is anxious to make her home as attractive as possible should remember that the same rules of good taste which she uses in the rest of her l‘urnisings should be ap— plied to hanging pictures. One of these is that light pictures are best hung on fairly light walls and dark pictures on dark walls ex- cept when, for balance, a dark picture is placed over a dark piece of furni- ture. For the sake of harmony, tall pictures generally look best in verti- cal wall spaces and broad pictures in A. Thom horizontal spaces are more pleasing. Many people hang pictures too high. This means that the eye is carried up toward the ceiling, instead of being kept at the most interesting points in the room., Pictures are apt to make the room more attractive if they help form a group with a desk or a table. Pictures which are hung together in a group should be somewhat re- lated in size, shape, and color. A large oil painting, for example, should not be placed next to a delicate etch- ing, and oval and square pictures should be hung in separate groups. To make the most of pictures, al- low plenty of plain space around them. An over-mantel arrangement should not include both a picture and a large clock. This arrangement looks as if both are striving for attention; the space should be given ‘to either one or the other. HOW TO HOLD A CHICKEN OMEN are so brave and efficient these days that it is not sur- prising that many of them will catch and kill a rooster in less time than it would take them to ask a man to do it for them. For those that dread to do so because the fowl might pull its head back just at the critical moment, I write of my own discovery. Drive two strong nails into the chopping block far enough between. them so that they will hold the fowl’s head firmly between them, then—the rest is easy.—Mrs. C. H. F. MY FAMILY LIKES THESE Fig Brown Betty 1,; cup melted butter of orange 1 pint sliced apples 1 pint bread crumbs 1/5; cup fruit juice or 1,5 cup sugar or molasses water % pound chopped nuts Juice and grated rind Arrange alternate layers of buttered bread crumbs and thinly sliced apples and chopped figs in a pudding dish. Sprinkle with sugar and a little cinna- mon or other spices. Finish with crumbs and pour mixed molasses and water or fruit juice over all. Cover and bake for one-half hour. Remove the cover and bake three-quarters of an hour more. Serve with lemon sauce. Apple Mint Jelly Strain apple jelly and add two tea- spoons mint extract to each cup of apple jelly. Use green color paste to make a delicate color and pour into glasses. When firm, cover with melted paraffin—Mary Richards. Samantha says: Beauty is skin shal- low and soul deep. Vegetable Candies Hold Vitamins N order to fill my family’s sweet I tooth, which seems to be always hollow, I resort to many different schemes to keep them “eating for health.” For instance, neither of the children would eat carrots but after I surprised them with crystallized car- rots in their lunch pail, they soon asked for a serving of creamed or but- tered carrots when the rest of the family were being served. Crystallized Carrots Peel young tender carrots, and let ""~zrr'-7:*—.- Little Miss Four-Year-Old Who Has Been Punished for Playing in Water Cannot Understand Why Mother teaches her to Help With the Dishes stand in cold water several hours. Cut crosswise into slices 1/; inch thick. ‘Drop into boiling water and cook until tender, drain, then put into a syrup made by boiling one part water to three of granulated sugar three min- utes. When the carrots have boiled in this syrup ten minutes, pour into a dripping pan with a wire cake cooler in the bottom of it. Spread the car- rots out over the wire, cover, and let stand twenty-four hours. Lift out rack, pour syrup into kettle, and cook to 220 F. when it almost threads, not quite. Stir the carrots as they cook until heated through, then wash the rack, place it in the dripping pan, and pour syrup and carrots in, cover and leave a day. Repeat four times, and the candy will be perfectly preserved. Potato Fondant The children have no idea that po- tatoes are the basis of the little pink or yellow candms that I wrap indivi- dually in waxed paper for dessert for their school lunch. To make them I force one-half cup of hot mashed po- tatoes through a seive, add a beaten egg, and gradually add confectioner’s sugar until the consistency of bon bon cream. This may be colored to suit the fancy, molded into tiny balls and dipped in chocolate. Sweet potatoes may be used instead of the Irish ones for variation. Bran Taffy Two cups granulated sugar, 1 cup brown sugar, 11/.) cups corn syrup, 2 cups molasses, 1 cup water, are stirred constantly until a little dropped in cold water is brittle, 252 F. Then add In cup butter, 1/2 teaspoon salt, soda the size of a pea, cook to 254 degrees. Remove from fire, add 2 cups bran, and mix well. When cool enough to handle, pull until light and creamy. cut with Scissors. . . ' \ 1.9.57.‘ 1 M 1......N .. ...v~\ ._ .~‘-.<‘, . 9n.»— ~.¢. .4». ‘5 fi' '1‘, l , mm”. vs— V”. e“ " ...,_.K~.._ , ‘.~/— FEB. 25, ”1928 I Keep Winter Vegetables Tempting UR choice of vegetables is nec‘ essarily rather limited in the winter months, and we long for the fresh green things of spring. It is remarkable, however, that just a few variations in the methods of cock- ing the common vegetables such as cabbage, carrots, and sweet potatoes, will make the family sit up and take notice. Following are some recipes which have found favor in my own household. Creamed On-ions With Carrots \Vash, pare, and cut into small pieces, five medium sized carrots, slice two good sized onions and boil to- gether until tender. Blend together two tablespoons of butter, and two of flour and add gradually one cupful of milk. Season with salt and pepper and let come\to a boil. Drain the onions and carrots and stir into the sauce. Serve hot. Dutch Cabbage This is an especial favorite at my house. Place a layer of bread crumbs in a pan and season, then a layer of cabbage, another layer of bread crumbs, cabbage, and lastly bread on top. Then slice pork or bacon and lay on top. Cover with milk and bake until nice and brown. Glazed Pumpkin or Squash Pare and cut the required amount of pumpkin into small squares. To each square add one teaspoonful of corn syrup, dot with bits of butter and bake in a slow oven until tender and glazed. . Deviled Vegetables Cut into cubes cold cooked pars- nips, carrots, beets, onions, and pota- toes. Have prepared in a frying pan some hot pork fat in which has been mixed a tablespoon of prepared mus- tard, one-half teaspoonful of powdered sage, and pepper and salt to taste. Pour the prepared vegetables into this, and stir constantly until all have become brown. Southern Style Beets Wash beets and boil until tender, drain and remove skins, and slice. Canned beets may be used. Add one teaspooni‘ul of flour for eight medium (sized beets, one tablespoonful butter, two tablespoons vinegar, and one‘half cupful water, season to taste with salt and pepper.—Mrs. L. F. MAKE YOUR SPRING FROCKS . _ Jacket En< semble. Des1gned in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, and 40 inches bust measure. Size 36 requires 3 yards of.40-1nch material with 14 yard of 18-inch contrasting for dress with 21/», yards of 40-inch material for jacket. No. 70Q—One-Pieee Sports Dress. Des1gned in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40, and 42 inches bust measure. Size 36 requires 27/8 yards of 40-inch material With % yard of 27—inch con- trasting. The price of each pattern is 130. Send an extra 130 with your order and a copy of our Spring and Summer Fashion Catalog will be sent to you. Address your orders to the Pattern Department, Michigan Farmer, De- troit, Michigan. NOTHING TO DO TILL TOMORROW OTHING To Do Till Tomorrow” was the title of the three act play given by a group of eleven women from Coopersville before the Home Economies Section during Farmers’ Week at Michigan State College. Mrs. Ruth Vandergrift, author of the play, in the role of Louise, a city-bred, society girl who had married a farm- er, succeeded in convincing her aunt and friends that rural housekeeping is not all drudgery and endless labor after all. In the first act, “Aunt Mary” pays a visit to the country home of Louise with a picture in her mind of Louise buried in the work of the farm. To her astonishment she finds Louise an able manager with ample time for lei- sure—due to the ideas of better home— naking which she has received through instruction given by the ex- tension service of the college. Louise not only has time for entertaining her aunt but also to assist a neighbor with some of her problems in meal plan- ning and management. Chorus numbers by the entire cast added local “hits" and reflected also some of the project instruction given. Especially clever was the one en- titled “Use Whiting.” Violin selec- tions by Mrs. Kathryn Titus accom- panied by Mrs. Minnie Wolcott at the piano were enjoyed. The play was cleverly written and well portrayed the service which is available to the homemakers through extension group instruction—M. A. NUTRITION SCHOOLS GAINING RESULTS EADERS in home nutrition at Eastport, Antrim County were de- lighted when the two school girls whom the specialist had scored on their health standards at the previous meeting came back to report their ac- complishments. The specialist had recommended more milk, more vege- tables, and cod liver oil. since both girls were underweight. During the month these suggestions had been fol- lowed with the result ‘that one girl had gained two pounds, and the other three. Both were much better in gen- eral appearance as well. Mrs. Margaret E‘cklund, local leader in Charlevoix County is adopting prac- tices suggested with good results. Her entire family is taking cod liver oil during the winter and she reports fewer colds than ever before. A woman who visited a nutrition meeting not only joined the group but took her three children to the family physician for thorough health exam- inations. In one case the child needed glasses, while another had diseased tonsils. The mother was not aware of either condition, which she prompt- ly had corrected. Instead of the late suppers at their community meetings, several nutrition groups in Saginaw and lngham Coun- ties have voted to serve simple, well balanced meals at supper time. M. A. BREAD TROUBLES _ Will some one kindly tell me what 15 wrong with my bread? The sponge raises fine at night but falls before morning. It has a sour smell, raises when put in leaves but falls when put in the oven. I would also like directions for making a starter. Mrs. F. C. G. There are a number of things which might cause this trouble in bread. Would some of our readers who make bread help Mrs. B". C. G.? Just drop a' card to this department—Martha Cole. ' ‘T'HE MIchG'AN.’ TF'ARMiER Leads to a . Farm Service, 0 Hardware Store It is a comforting feeling to know that not far from, your farm home you will be able to find a “Farm Service” Hardware Store. Your road leads to one. In case of emergency for machinery repairs and for the many different kinds of supplies that you need to keep your farm going from day to day you will find there a friend in need! - \\ When you go into one of them you know that it is with the privilege of “seeing before you buy.” “Farm Service” Hardware Men want you to come in often to talk about the use and care of tools, heating equipment, paints, builders’ hardware and equipment of most every kind. The more you study what is offered in your local “tag” store, the more easily you will see that it is economy and good business for you to purchase everything there. Your money will go farther because it buys, first of all, dependable quality, and, second, because every« thing that you buy is backed with the reputation, the service and the responsibility of one who is virtually your neighbor. Next time you drive to town, stop at a “Farm Service” Hardware Store and It will pay you. get better acquainted. of the “tag"in the windoy You Can’t Plant a Weed and Grow an Oak The weed grows faster, but the oak endures. Get— rich-quick schemes are profitable only to the pro- .moters. You can’t make a fortune overnight with National Loan and Investment Company, but you can get the safety and profit which assured financial success requires. This Institution has served Michigan people for 39 years without a loss and recently paid the seventy- seventh consecutive dividend. You owe it to your future, your family and yourself to save. Have you put by anything this week? We pay 5% and more Resources Over $13,000,000 Established 1889 @113 National moan & jjnuratment anmpang, 1248 Griswold St.‘, Detroit, Mich. Detroit's Oldest and Largest Savings and Loan Association Under State Supervision ' \\\‘ THE, MICHIGAN FARMER Articles. RY a Michigan Farmer Liner to sell Your Poultry, Real Seeds and Nursery Stock and Miscellaneous T Estate, See Page 289 for Rates. . tears-memes.» . ~ 1; ~;-,- ' ' " "1 ”r , . an“ .r .- . ,x A. You Are Invited to Come T 0 E aslern Ole/enamel T/ze Inland Empire of Undeveloped Rerourcer Altho less than 21 years old since admitted to statehood, Oklahoma stands well to the front in agricultural production. The Western half of the state was opened to settlement first, the Eastern portion being reserved for occupancy by the Five Civilized Tribes of American Indians. Later, as the Indian has adopted the manners and customs of his white brothers, the surplus lands have been sold and are being brought into cultivation. The Eastern half of Oklahoma probably has greater resources of agriculture, oil, gas, zinc, lead, coal and lumber than any other equal area in the United States. Almost in the geographical center of the nation, with easy and quick access by rail or hard—surfaced road to such market centers as Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago; only a few hours run by rail or motor car to gulf export harbors; with the teeming urban population of Tulsa, Muskogee, and other fast growing cities, we have an unsurpassed market for all the products of field, garden, orchard and dairy. Alluvial valley of unfathomed fertility—-undulating prairies of black limestone soil—wooded hills and ridges specially adapted for growing peaches, grapes, and other fruits—limpid streams stocked with many kinds of fish—the home of the quail, the winter feeding ground of countless wild fowl-this is a panoramic view of Eastern Oklahoma. Based on production values official records show that farm lands can be pur. chased here, now, at a lower price than in any of the surrounding statesi Located far enough south to escape the long, dreary winters of the north central states, not so far south as to encounter the dampness of the lower Mississipp— valley, we have here an all year climate that makes life worth living. We have room for many more thrifty, energetic, intelligent farm families, and we therefore earnestly and cordially invite you to COME TO EASTERN OKLAHOMA National Colonization Company -COUPON NATIONAL COLONIZATION CO. Room 122, No. 14 E. 3rd 5L. Tulsa,0k1a. Gentlemen: Please send me at once. free literature and price list of your Eastern Oklahoma farm bargains. ................................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................................................................... w FEB. 25, 1928 .- When Company Comes UITE often unexpected visitors come to give us a happy surprise and quite as often we invite someone to dinner or supper at the last mo- ment. On such occasions I want my company to do just as I would like to do for them under similar circum- stances, come right out into the kitch- en and help. I tie them up in a big kitchen apron and what a good social time we have. Though we may for- get to salt or flavor something and things aren’t just right, what do I care. A kitchen friendship is worth more than a. parlor one anytime!— Mrs. L. R. A., Ionia County. The hostess surely wants her com- pany to enjoy themselves and feel comfortable. I refer to mental com- fort as well as physical comfort. I think the best way to manage this is to consider the vocation and tem— perament of one’s guest. The person who works in an office or at any in- side work will enjoy the privilege of gathering flowers from the garden or wild flowers from the near-by woods, and arranging them in vases about the Mrs. Anna Knickerbocker of Colling, Michigan, with the link cat she shot this fall. Her daughter caught the white weasel. house. If you have a friend that likes to cook, but seldom gets the chance, just put a pretty apron on her the next time she visits you and set every- thing out for her to mix a cake or a. salad. Be sure she has all materials necessary and then leave her right alone—Mrs. L. R. K., Lapeer County. Last summer I was a guest for a. week at the home of a girlhood friend. The very first day I asked her if there was something she wanted done and had been putting off for want of time. Without further urging she brought out a. quilt that she had been wanting to quilt for her daughter. We put the quilt on the frames and when there was nothing else offered, I quilted. My hostess would come in at times and quilt a few minutes. In the course of three days we had the quilt finished. My hostess was most grateful to have that job out of the way and I had the pleasure of thinking that I had really been of some help to hen—Mrs. E. P. 0., Lake County. BLAME THE WOMEN IF AUDIENCE DOZES PEAKERS who address audiences which have just eaten meals served by “the ladies of the commun- ity” and who find their audiences sleepy and unresponsive may blame the’ladies who served the meal, ac- cording to the nutrition specialists of the home economics extension depart- ment of Ohio State University. “If a menu is planned, and only those foods planned for are served,» the complaint of the speakers will be done away with, and much time and labor will be saved for those who are preparing the meal Too often the meal is so elaborate that it requires the women to miss the program in order to prepare and serve the food. The specialists point out that the variety of foods should be limited, since great variety is not necessary to meet food requirements, and en- tails too much work for the foods committee. Three menu suggestions for commun— ity meals made by the specialists are: 1. Escalloped ham and potatoes, cabbage and carrot salad, whole wheat bread and butter sandwiches, canned fruit, cake, cocoa. or milk. 2. Baked beans, vegetable salad, brown bread and white bread sand- wiches, canned fruit or ice cream, cookies, cocoa or milk. 3. Vegetable stew, cottage cheese or meat sandwiches, celery, baked ap- ples, cake, milk or cocoa. For Our Little Folks STATE SECRETS Its capitol’s Atlanta Gay, And cotton is its king; The Queen’s a peach,~a peach I. say, Now guess like anything. 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 Tennessee and its capitol is Nash- ville. WHO AM I? MY legs are proportionally shorter than any of my flying friends and I‘have two toes pointing forward and two backward instead of three forward and one backward like other birds. With my straight chisel-like bill, I drill holes in the bark of trees in search of insects and spear them with my long barbed tongue. My coat is grayish brown. There is a. scarlet band across the back of my neck and a. black cresent on my breast. My wings and tail are a beau- tiful golden yellow, tipped in black. \ Have you ever seen me and can you tell my name ? The answer to last week’s guessing contest was the “crow.” How many of my little readers guessed rightly ?- Aunt Martha. _ i ' at , “A. m . ”I”; . l .-< ’fi- -.2 a"; ; “‘12s..- war. - N4 4" .y-‘Wrr—n - ‘ glory. *J“ m.» 1. .,.__ :35- mnvuu H... .r—é. . Ma‘rva : Mun-gunk - ' FEB. 25, 1928 YOUR CHICK . ’ LOSSES WITH A MARIETTA .‘~" es in . illllllliii TURDY simple round construction. 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AUTOMATIC INCUBATORS make money for you whether you sell chicks DI ‘taise them. Automatic Egg Turning Trays. Csn't overheat or underILest. \ Fl r _i ‘TH'E MICHIGAN ‘FARMER UP-TO-DATE POULTRY EQUIP- MENT NE winter some fifteen years ago during a protracted period of zero temperature, the writer hung a ’ lantern in the. poultry house during the night to alleviate somewhat the frosty condition therein. Upon going in at break of day to remove the lan- tern, I would find the hens off the perches and happily engaged in scratching in the straw litter to the ac- companiment of a musical chorus sweet to the ears of the poultryinan. More than this, I found the biddies already on the job of daily egg output. While I have no record of the results for that season, I do recall that the hens shelled out the eggs in great shape. This incident long past, was called back to memory upon reading a news- paper item saying that a certain po-ul- tryman had arranged the electric light- ing of his poultry buildings so that by pressing a button on the wall of his bedroom the lights were turned on at 5 A. M. with no getting out of bed to do it. A bright idea and some little stunt if you ask me. As I understand it, this electric lighting of poultry houses to extend the length of working day for fowls. especially layers, is a profitable propo- sition where an electric current is to be secured. As for us, we will need to get along with the old lantern until the time when the mechanical “wiz- ard” gives us electric current by wire- less. What! “Impossible.” Who dares to say “impossible” with all the present age marvels in evidence. Not I.— N. M. E‘dgerton. COD LIVER OIL I noticed in a recent issue that cod liver oil should cost $3.00 instead of $2.00. I recently bought some at one of the poultry supply houses here at $1.35 per gallon. is there anything in the cheap stuff that is of any value as a. poultry feed since you say that vitamins A and l) are what is re- quired in cod liver oil? Are these vitamins contained in the $1.35 kind? -.— . R. The wide publicity given the food value of cod liver oil has caused doubt- ful kinds of cod liver oil to be put on the market. Professor J. A. Han- nah, in his talk on chick feeding dur- ing Farmers’ \Veek, said that the cheaper oils were often cotton seed oil to which a small amount of fish [oil had been added to give it a fishy 5 odor. He said further that there were only five companies in the United States that put up cod liver oil for poultry feeding which come-s up to the standard required for such pur- poses. There are two things necessary in good cod liver oil. One is freshness and for that reason cod liver oil should be bought in sealed containers. A container ordinarily should not be left open more than two weeks as otherwise the oil will become rancid. The other important factor is that the oil be high in the vitamins A and D for these two vitamins make cod liver oil so valuable. From good authority we have it that cod liver oil at retail the cost of Automatic ventilation and ’ manufacturing and the handling charges make it impossible to sell the oil much less than $3.00 per gallon, but even so we believe the good oil is the most economical as the use of 0ne~half or a third as much of the good oil will bring it down to the cost of the cheaper oil. The general chick requirements for cod liver oil is from two to four moisture control. Egglhatches of strong healthy. pounds of the oil to one hundred C chicks. Fourteen mo Eleven models Automatic Brooders. Semi for big free catalog and complete information. The Automatic Incubator Company Established 1912 DELAWARE, OHIO -—-—~—-—n—. ept,22 ———_—. You may I send me Name Catalog A63 I and Inn .-. . l iotmaflon 3 Automatic Incubators—' —-* —_—-——"w~_—I °'“'°'°P°- . pounds of mash, but with the high i {grade oil one can get efficient results iby using as low as one pound to one hundred pounds of mash. i i For a practical bulletin on raising E baby chicks write the Poultry Depart- ' ment, Michigan Farm-er, Detroit, Mich., enclosing a self-addressed stamped \. I7 ~— 277 (7&9 Simplest and Cheapest way to raise young chicks ‘1“! a. \ .5“. FROM START TO FINISH AMCO STARTING and GROWING MASH grows bigger broilers and better pullcts be- cause every feed in it contri- butes to the needs of the chick. It is rich in dried buttermilk. the best insurance of rapid. sturdy growth and low mortal- O START their growth, young chicks need a mash that is easily digested, containing proteins of higli‘ quality. and certain minerals. To carry them through to quick maturity, economically, they need these some proteins and minerals, only in larger quanti- ties. A special chick starter is a needless bother and expense. ity. It contains an abundance of minerals and vitamins. It supplies ample animal pro- Chicks grow vigorously on teins. It is of fine. flaky texture AMCO STARTING and CROW- ING MASH from their first feeding to maturity; As they get older and run about more, they need feeds which furnish and does not become pasty. It is mildly laxative. The chicks get more out of this mash! See your/{moo Agent or write to the address below for for- mula and price. Compare the price with that of a closed for- mula chick starter. Amco energy (wheat, corn) and these are best supplied Scratch Grains. in Amco ED MIXING SERVICE AMERICAN MILLING COMPANY EXECUTIVE OFFICES: PEORIA, ILL. Plant: at: PEORIA, ILL; OMAHA, NEB.; owstnono, KY Alfalfa Plants at: POWELL, GARLAND, and wouLAND, wvo 6"» H E Rtu lEC H CKS ' ’ g Our 19$}! Year For 18 Years we have culledour flocks Icr egg production and quality. I! better chicks muld be hatched for the money we would be hatching them. There are reasons why we have thousands of satisfied customers. and that we have nnvcr be“? able {0 Sillmli' all the demand for our chicks in the past eighteen years. 0_ur Reliable Chicks possess high egg producing qualities. Every bird In our breeding flocks banda-d and record kept. Finn Illustrated (‘utnlog free. Send us your order and mu will be another one of our satisfied. customers. Chicks Sent C. O. D. If You Wish. Get Our Plan (get our sped“ Combined Offer on Phli‘ks. broader storms, and broodcr—hrmscs. We hatch twelve varieties. '“3' thousand DINO“ Der woek. Valuable Book on (‘hivks and Poultry free with each order of $10 or more. HUBER’S RELIABLE HATCHERY, EAST HIGH STREET, FOSTORIA, OHIO Increase Your Profits With Arrowhead Poultry Farm Chicks S. (3. WI]. and Br. lmrhorns, Br. and Wh. Rocks. it. (‘. and S. (7. Rd. I. Reds. W'h. 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L i. 278 28 _ More Chicks Will Be Chickens com. 1923 ,3 BY RYDE a co. , 7— ' 6‘ . l 9’ o F d When Fed flqder Startnte Chick 00 best growing feeds, correctly balanced with necessary minerals, and butter- milk iii abundance. - Makes broilers or layers in double quick time. “Make Them Lay” To make that lien “lay an egg a day” feed Ryde’s “Hav-To—Lay” Egg Mash with Buttermilk. It supplies egg- making elements for greater egg pro- duction in one convenient-to—feed, com- plete food. Contains choicest ingredients —not a “by-product.” Economical. 0 need now to fear poultry losses due to death of baby chicks. This safe starting food contains every element necessary to rapid: uniform growth, and in easily digestible form. One pound of Ryde’s Startrite Chick Food will raise every normal chick and bring it well past the danger period, proper care being given. _ After six weeks, during the growmg stage, feed Ryde’s “Hav-’l‘o-Grow’ Chick Mash with Buttermilk. This unequaled complete feed combines the RYDE’S FOR RESULTS Poultry raisers are assured that better ingredients. cannot be had at any price. Every bag of Ryde’s feeds is guaranteed to give satisfactory results. Remember the bag. Be sure you get the genuine. Your dealer stocks Ryde’s Feeds 11125, 50 and alOO-pound bags. _If not, . ; write us. Complete feeding directions are included with every bag. Children and grownups alike Free say the Ryde Chick Game is the best ever! This interesting and instructive game, including play board, spinner and model chicks, will be sent free (worth 75c) upon receipt of your name and address. Include 100 to pay postage and - packing. Address Ryde & Co., Mfrs, 5434 W. . . Roosevelt Rd., Chicago, Ill. ' ion to investigate one of Michigan's oldest and best. hatcherics. Twenty gagglefiinhm-es. Every chick hatched from minted free range breeders officially werediled by inspectors supervised by Michillan State Poultry Improvement Associa— tion. Large Ml't‘flt’dfle of business to satisfied old customers. White Leghorns (Lug- Iish type and American). Barrul Rocks, Aneonas. “Never a Bum Lot in Sixteen Consecutive Years” so writes a, customer who has been purchasing chicks from us for sixteen eon- _ _ .. aet‘bitive years. Some record, you'll agree. Your Michigan Accredited. chicks ‘ bought or this old reliable cont-cm with an established reputation for square dealing are sure: to please. Get our Free catalog that tells all. ' Holland Hatchery & Poultry Farm Holland, Mich. ’HIGHLA ND LEGHORNS > Van Appledom Bros. Inc Every breeder carefully selected for size. type. and egg production. Mated to males of 200 to 300 egg ,r ’5 pedigreed ancestry. ~ * CHICKS SHIPPED C.O.D. See your chicks before you pay for them. We know you will be pleased and we are willing to take. all the risk. This assures you of 100% live delivery and shipment exactly when you specify. SPECIAL DISCOUNT NOW! On all orders for chicks booked this month we give a big disoounti. Get. our new valuable catalog which gives complete details. Write fort CODY today. Highland Poultry Farm, R. 9, Box C, Holland, Mich‘. 7 Varlotlos of Male Mating: Up to 314 Egg Record. Also 15 varieties of purebred chicks from selected flecks, including direct Morgan-Tancred 313»egg-record. blood~tcsted. trarpnested White Leghorns. l‘iiii-ks 9c tip. Breeding l‘ix'kerels. FREE catalog gives big discounts on chit-ks. hatching exits. broodors. Don't fail to try our high produc- tion quality chin-ks! “'e guarantee them to satisfy! ORDER NOW! LAWRENCE HATCHERY Grand Rapids. Mich. CHICKS C. O. D. SEND ONLY $1.00 Our chicks are from leg-banded stock selected by expert poultryman. You can feel safe for you know every chick is up to highest standard for egg production and breed type. Get our special wholesale price on brooder stoves when bought with chicks. SEND FOR OUR BIG CATALOG. It tells all about our pedi- greed males and special pen matings. Also gives details about our -high producing utility birds. Valuable book free with each order. Prices reason- able. Write today. WOLF MATCHING & BREEDING CO. BOX 42. that offer you chicks: from breeders from tnipnestcd stor-k and at prices you pay for common Leghorns. Semi for liarstcn's new Leghom book written by men who have been breeding S. (‘. White Leghoms for years and who know "Their Chickens." This free book fully explains Karsten's Famous Feed. Formulas and gives full instructions on feeding and care of chicks and laying thck. Karsten’s Farm, Box 17, Zeeland, Mich. ). GIBSONBURG, OHIO Assure you large white eggs and lots of them, as the Karstcn’s are the breeders TH'E MICHIGAN FARM-ER STOP BAD HABITS AD habits are a sort of disease. Like other diseases in the poultry flock, prevention is better than cure. They usually result from improper feeding, a lack of some sort in the diet, or from idleness. In many cases time hangs heavily and the birds do not know what to do with themselves, .consequently, they start pulling one another’s feathers or eating eggs. As a rule, these habits are not formed because the hens have a taste for fresh eggs or want the blood at the roots of the feathers but the habits are learned by accident. Later the taste is acquired and then it is an- other story. Considering first the question of feather-pulling, it may be said that this usually results from idleness When the birds are kept closely housed, this vice becomes most common. If there is available ample scratching room and the grain is' fed in deep litter, the birds should spend most of their time The Michigan Farmer Sweepstakes Cup and A. B. Covey’s Eggs That Won it at Farmers’ Week Egg Show when not laying searching for grain. Plenty of sunlight and fresh air tend to keep the litter dry and pleasant to scratch in. See that these elements enter into the conditions of the Quar- ters for the laying hens during the winter season, when vices are most easily acquired. One of the best kinds of litter and one available for most poulti‘ymen, is a mixture of dry planer shavings and straw. Straw alone holds too much moisture. Dry shavings will absorb a good deal of moisture and still remain in good condition. If it is necessary to close the house at night because of weather conditions, be sure all windows are open during every sunny day. Let the sunlight enter unrestrained by passing through window glass, so, if glass is used, see that the sashes are made so they can be removed. Small windows at the rear 01‘ the house are useful in that they let in the light, so the birds will not pile all the litter in the back part of the building. Egg-eating results from scratching in the nest. The bird is in search of something which she requires for the diet. An egg is bro-ken and she eats it. The taste is acquired and the pro- cess is repeated. One thing we should always do is to see that the nest- boxcs are dark, that is, the entrance Should be on the side away from the light; also, the entrance should be just large enough to admit the bird. Large open nests are not desirable. To avoid formation of these habits. in addition to keeping the birds busy, there should be a sufficient supply of animal food in the diet. The hen is taxing herself to make eggs, but perhaps her diet is a little shy on the animal part of the material. The ancient Israelites were required to make bricks without straw, and often we are employing the same sort of tactics with the laying hen. Do not let her lack for the animal part of the material. Once these habits are acquired, they are difficult to break. ' their mouths. FEB. 25, 1928 If a few birds are noted which have learned to 'pull feather or eat eggs, ’the best thing to do is to remove them at once. These habits spread rapidly if not checkedfiat the start. Remove the birds and send them to market, if necessary. Better sacrifice a few good layers than spoil the Whole flock. Sometimes the imme- diate furnishing of suflicient animal food will stop the trouble. We have hung pieces of.salt pork around the mash hoppers. The birds pick at this and forget to pick their feathers. once the habits are well learned, however, they are difficult to cure. Better pre- vent them by feeding an adequate diet and keeping the birds busy.—C. H. C. WHY HENS CHOKE Will you please tell me what is the matter with our hens. Most every day one will get behind some thing and will seem to be choking for breath. Their combs are dark red and a sort of brown substances runs from The hens get ground oats, bran, corn meal, and meat scraps as a mash; whole corn and oats for scratch feed. They also get oyster shells, pearl grit and sand, lots of fresh water, and free range. Most of the hens live from 3 to 5 hours after I find them. They are quite heavy, about 41/2 to 5 pounds, especially for White Leghorns.——Mrs. C. M. The hens that choke may have been eating chunks of meat, large peelings, or other bulky material which has be- come lodged in the throat. Hens some- times choke fi'om trying toswallow field mice. Examine the throat as deeply as possible. See if the yellow- ish cheesy canker has formed about the windpipe causing slow suffocation. Bronchitis and pneumonia also cause difficult breathing. A postmortem ex- amination of the internal organs may give some further clue to the trouble if it is due to disease. DESTROYING HEN LICE I have a flock of pullets and they got lice. Some tell me that I should put sulphur in the water. I have tried everything and don’t get help. Will you please tell me what to do?— F. M. Placing sulphur in the water might not be the best way to keep lice from hens. Mix equal parts of blue oint- ment with low grade vaseline. This can be purchased at most drug stores. Rub a bit of the ointment about as laiige as a pea into the skin of the fowl beneath the vent. _)Place a small dab on the skin under each wing and rub it in thoroughly. This will us- ually keep hens free from lice for about six months. Sodium fluoride is one of our most useful louse powders and can be purchased of mail order houses and drug stores. Finches of the powder are placed around through the feathers of the bird and the lice are soon gone. Red mites on the perches are a more serious pest than the body lice. The mites suck the blood and reduce the vitality of the fowls. Lice make the birds very un— comfortable. Paint the perches with commercial disinfectant, earbolineum, kerosene oil, or the old engine oil from the crank case and the mites will be destroyed for varying lengths of time. POSSIBLY TUBERCULOSIS I wonder if you can suggest a rem~ edy for my Rhode Island Red hens. They first appear unthrifty and their heads become pale and they are weak but still eat though do not hunt for it. On opening one, the liver was found to be as large as one’s hand and a dark- green, the intestines are covered with small, hard bunches or clusters about the size of a pin head and white or transparent in color.— Your Weekly Reader. The symptoms described indicate that the Rhode Island hens may have had tuberculosis although scientists tell us that a laboratory examination is necessary to definitely determine that disease. If you have a valuable flock and constant losses are owing _ ‘w ’n-wn. - ~ -u- —\—~‘v n. i; .5 “Why don’t my Zt'l-lenfs Eat more Pearl Grit” We have had this question asked time after time. i he answer is simple. “Hens dont need any more than they eat." The Proof is Here 0 o .0 o 0 Maryland pxperlmeut Station in o COiiiparingLimeStonewithOysterShell 9 found: ‘The Limestone pen consumed 43%‘l'ess material but laid 20% more 8, eggs. 3 s‘(I).liem§gtone cafn gel safely fused as the ' urce o a mom or ' 0 chicks and laying hens." growmg o v o Kentuckii Experiment Station found that mestone Grit produced b 0 far the most eggs and the hens ate muc 0 less of the grit t us making a gain both 0 ways. 0 i: PEARL GRIT 0' le Carefully Selected Limestone ' It 15 clean and healthful. It is pure lime- 0 stone. high in Calcmm. It furnishes the necessary grinding action in the gizzard. also insures amp e supply of Calcium for boneandeggshellstructure. Asmall amount of Pearl Grit will do more good than larger amounts of other grits if. and shells. Less grit to buy and ‘0 o..‘. moreeggs to sell" is borne out in actual :1 practice when you use PEARL GRIT. Made in three sizeS' For Ch' k G - a . . e 1C 8. 0' ing Birds and Laying Hens. row g The Ohio Marble Company . PIQUA. OHIO .0 i We Have Dealers Everywhere All: Your Dealer Tells how to raise more chicks and make more money. Gives full details of famous American Brooder to which leading breeders on Pacific Coast. including hold- ers of world's laying records, at— tribute phenomenal success. Automatic lieiit regulation. Self ven- tilation. Direct oil burncr. Saves time, money iindfucl. Breeders say American Breeder is greatest value on market. Write to- day for FREE Cata— log. Coal, gas. oil and electric mod- els $7.50 to $70. Largest line of Brooders in erica Dealers — write for big Sales 0p. portunity. ' Alhambra. Cel.. or 39 Barclay St.. New York. Dept. 812 NewVCut Prices $5... s at cm 1928 .KA? lggubzrtorlend Rfi/‘élll‘ Brooder Book- .07? /.,.' see the dollars “H 7 Mr N Cut I % .. 1V! N “our ew \. Prices seve you. Two - ' known a— : Wisconsin and I Ironclad—have consoli- . dated—to cut costume! sell at lower prices.Don't buy untilyou get thislmaney saving bookt. f1'1 neu- ators— rooders o to ac rom. WRITE FOR CATALOG. TODAY Tells bow to at eggs in Winter: how to step chick asses. 30 day trial offer. WISCONSIN-IRONCLAD COMPANY Box. 284 Racine.W|s. well- BE SURE To get our free Catalogue and prices on DEAN QUAL- ITY CHICKS. White Leig— horns. Barred and White Rel-ks. it. I Rods. “'liite anndottcs. All Michigan Accredited. Sonic ('ertit‘iid. Established 1911a Better this year than ever. DEAN EGG FARM a HATCHERY. Box 8. Birmingham- Mich- S. 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 hens mated with 50% 200 to 336 egg Tam-red males, pedigreed. All breeders have been bloodtested. for BACILLARY WHITE DIARRHEA for the past. 4 years which insures you chicks prac— tically free from this dread disease. No better chicks at any/price. Only one grade. S. HARKEMA SONS. R. 1, Holland, Mich. HILLSIDE HAIGHEBY ('hicks. Genuine Tom Barren English White Leg- homs.. large type, overlaying combs. with egg laying qualities. Non-setters Barred llor-ks from M. S. C. stock. 1928 flocks. headed with cookerel whose dams hale official trapnested records 203-233 M. S. (‘. (-nglui‘ing contest. F‘ree circular explaining our 1928 spu'lnl, surprising you. low price. H'LLSIDE BATCHEBI. HOLLAND. HIM. Ii. 3 \ THE MICHIGAN. FARMER it will pay to have a veterinarian in- spect the birds and make recommen- dations. In the meantime isolate or kill all sick birds and give the re- mainder a balanced ration in a house as well ventilated and sunny as pos— sible. FARM FLOCK MANAGEMENT (Continued from page 257) when the pullets lack growth and ma- turity and do not lay. It pays to keep records. It is nec- essary to know the cost of production at all times to locate mismanagement if it occurs. The poulti‘yman should know the cost of producing young stock. Sometimes in the north it pays to buy eight to ten week old pullets rather than raise late hatched pullets. When the money lost in a poultry business is down in black and white, the owner is very apt to make a change in methods—K. BREEDING PROGRAM N any breeding program there are three fundamental principles which must be kept in mind. They are, first, a standard of excellence or ideal; sec. 0nd, constant breeding toward that ideal; and third, courageous culling from the time eggs are selected for the incubator until the time when males and females are put in the breeding pens. Aside from the personal element of the poultryman himself, two sets of factors control results. The first set can be grouped under the term heredity—those causes which are in- ternal and relatively hard to control. The characteristics of an individual due to this set of factors are pos- sessed by the individual at the time of birth, although they may be influenced a great deal by the second set of con- trolling factors. Inherent characters are dependent, in part, upon this sec- ond set of factors, environmental con- ditions and influences, under which a bird lives. Feeding, housing, and gen~ eral care and management fall under environmental conditions and influ- ences. The most accurate method of con- trolling heredity is by the use of a. system of individual pedigree hatch- ing and progeny testing. Such a sys- tem requires trapnesting and carefully kept records. Birds to be pedigreed should be carefully selected and only such matings or lines which show progress towards the desired goal should be continued from year to year. Mass Breeding When it is impossible to do indi- vidual pedigreeing, pen mating may be used. In pen mating, from three to five males may be used in as many pens with twelve to twenty selected females each, and the progeny from each pen may be marked so that the different lots can be identified later. The offsprings from each pen can then be observed, and the male lines con- tinued from only those birds which Show best results. Egg production may be improved also by selecting the best individuals, both males and females, and mating them by the flock or mass method. This is the most common practice among farmers. Progress with it is slow, however, and after a time a point is reached where the average egg production increases little, if any, from year to yeah—G. 0. Hall. . \ O Bigger and Better for Less Money — At lasti—It's here! Just‘the kind of a coal-burning Brooder you have long been waiting for—at the Juice you want to gay. For simple construction—for ease of han ling—for accurate eat control—and for economy of first cost and future operation—this remarkable new Drew Coal-Burning Brooder will surpass any- thing on the market. We want you to compare it point by int with others—see its_many new convenient features—for i you do, you Will agree With us that for fine quality. true value. perfect performance andlow cost this new Drew LineBrooder hasnoequal. Burns Either Hard or Soft Coal- but, the big, outstanding features which make the New Drew Line Broodersuperior are:—13t It coals through the hover,with« out raising or removing the cane y. 2nd Every other section of the big 60 inch wide cover is mged so you can reach under any part of the canopy at any time—easily. And (it'd-the ther- mostatic control of simple check and draft dampers on the stove gives an accurate and positive control of the temperature at all times. Don’t fail to get all the facts about these and other improve- ments on the new'Drew Line Coal-Burning Breeder. Drew Line Breeders and Poultr Equipment are sold by good dealers everywhere. See them at your ealer’s before you buy, or Write for our Free Poultry Book If you do not know the Drew Line Dealer in your locality—write us. We will send you his name, also a co y of our valuable book, "Profit- able Poultry Keeping." Tells t 9 methods and uipment used by other successful poultrymen and describes t e new Drew Line'Coal-Burning Brooder fully. We send it FREE and poet- paid on request. Write for it NOW. The Drew Line Company Fort Atkinson.Wle. Elmira. No to Better pay/fry [go/Lament For Less Money WOLVERINE S.C¢. WHITE LEGHORN '°°’° BABYJCHICKS BLOOD SAFEARRWAL MICHIGAN - ‘ACCREDITED. WILL GUARANTEED FOR WINTER EGG PRODUCERS l film" Get our Large Leghorns, the birds with large combs that produce the Large Chalk White Eggs VITAMINS IN MILK Skimmed milk or buttermilk in any' form provides vitamin B but little if, any of the others. Vitamin B is found ‘ in large amounts in all cereals and; green food. Therefore, it would not? appear necessary to feed milk for this Vitamin alone. Although the vitamins contributed by milk are not very im- portant, still it does carry much more than any other high protein feeds fed to chickens. ‘ Send for Our 1928 Catalog Tells all about our chicks and breeding shook EGG BIIICD SINCE 1910 For 18 years we have spa-ializccd 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. Zeeland, Mich. DEE ““me CHICKS D U N ACCREDITED STOCK ALL BLOOD-TESTED FOR WHITE DIARRHEA FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS. You can save money by ordering Dundee. Pure-Bred, Mich. Accredited and Blood-Tested Chicks. We hatch B. P. Rocks, R. 1. Beds, and S. C. VVhlte Leghorns. Write for 1928 Catalog giving all details of our matings and full directions on how to raise baby chicks for greater profits. We guarantee 100% live delivery. DUNDEE HATCHERY & POULTRY FARMS — DUNDEE, MICHIGAN R 8 Varieties o O. CHICKS Po SERVICE PURE BRED BABY CHICKS 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed. Prepaid Prices for 25 50 100 200 500 1000 White Leghorne, Black Minorcns . . . . . . $3.50 6.50 12.00 2 . . . girlie. Ranked sled BEHRRSCIKI ) $ 3 3 3 50 ‘57 50 $110 00 inge an ace am e s . . 3.75 7.25 14.00 2 . . White Wyendottee. Buff Orpingtons g . 7 50 67 50 Member A. B. C. P. A. BOX D ‘ ~SELECTED CHICKS —BIG EARLY ORDER 0 u r P u re B I o o —DlSCOUNTS—~15 VARIETIES This year we introduce to you our Record of performance pedigree male matings up to 316 egg records direct from British (‘olumbiit and Ontario. Canada. including bloodtested. trapnested pedigree White Leghorn matings. 220 to 313 egg records. Winners of many prizes. Every bird standard culled. Get FREE circular of chicks, hatching eggs. and breeders before buying elsewhere. Broiler chicks 9c in). QUALITY Send for Free Catalog and Price List 1 30.00 Our 22nd Year TIFFIN. OHIO S. S. Hemburze. 16c Assorted Breeds. 10:. THE LANTZ HATCHERY Beckman Hatchery, Box 57, Grand Rapids, Mich. .zvr-m‘w- fans,» 3 I THE MICHIGAN FARM‘E-R ”OUR PAC ivflf/ The Present Generation Some Parent: Ha‘ve T llez'r Say ‘ E have taken the Michigan Farmer for eight years and I have watched the letters of the parents and the young people. I see where you have given the parents a chance to have their say. Although I have never written before I would like to say a few words. Why does this generation take such an unfair advantage of parents? They go when they please, come when they please, get up in the morning when they please, and go to bed when they please. My children have done this The art of building snow houses which will stand and yet not be dan- gerous is worth mastering. The Es- kimos test the snow to see if it is of right quality before cutting out the circular blocks for making the well rounded roof and walls. The more the snow thaws and freezes the hard er the walls of the snow house will become. Philip and Alice Bankern of} Chassell, get real joy out of_build1ng a snow house and then making good use of it. from thirteen years of age up and the older they get the more insulting they are to us. They never say where they are going or where they have been. Now our children have a lovely home. We never nag nor scold when they want to go anywhere. So why should they be so deceitful towards their par- ents? People have told me time and again that we are too good to our offsprings. When I was a girl I never thought of going anywhere without telling my peeple wherever I stayed or where I was going, and asking them if they cared if I went. If they said I should stay at home, I stayed there. Now, if we want to go anywhere even the youngest must know where we are going, and they make fun of us if we go to certain places. If we stay after ten P. M. then we are called old fools, even if we just go to a neighbor’s, which is very seldom. Life is surely hard in such a household, especially where parents are considered pieces of machinery and dogs to do the dirty work while the eighteen and twenty year old sons and daughters sit and read or play the phonograph. Then they come to the table and sniff at what stands before them, but are too lazy to help cook. Everything we do is criticized by our children, but in the eyes of others we are considered most perfect. This is making a nerv- ous wreck of me. Please don’t let W. B. get this as I sure want to see what other mothers and children say about their household and maybe our children will see it and feel at least a little remorse—Mrs. A. B. C. Last summer I asked a farmerette to motor with us to California. She was all happy excitement, but later, insisted that We take her pretty young daughter instead. I alone saw her tears as we left. \Vhen we returned the girl would not come. She had joined the religious sect of volunteers and her relatives there applauded her. She and her friends wrote to her dis- tracted mother how selfish and Wicked she was to hinder Katy from winning a seat in Glory. They say her mother - doesn’t need her—just wants her com- pany. Now the mother blames us and we only meant to be kind. Never again. Is the girl doing wrong? I hear lots of women say they don’t want their boy to be a farmer—its so uncertain—yet someone will have to until our inventors can make bread of stones or something. It is claimed God will perfect the earth and people and heaven will be here without any great fire at the last. “I thank you.” This is G. A. B. signing off after a. frequency of once a year. “Our Page” is the first one I look at when the Michigan Farmer comes because of the interesting discussions, the clever ideas, and the glimpses into human nature which it contains. 1‘ consider the Christmas Chest an exceptionally good feature. I hope it will be continued next year, but start- ed sooner. ' I do so sympathize with “Rees” who cannot have a dog. I think every boy and girl is denied a character-building companionship when he or she has no dog for a playmate. Cats, calves, and chickens are all right but cannot take the place of an intelligent dog. The desire for broad-mindedness ex— pressed by Wilma Enyant is a most commendable one. I’d like yOu for a neighbor, Wilma. Two neighboring families planned to go to town to a show. Unexpected company came to one place, so they were delayed in starting. The other family then refused to go and are still peeved. Most feuds and quarrels be- tween individuals and many bloody wars between nations have been caused by narrow-mindedness. Many a community which has three or four empty churches today could have one well-filled one if people were only more tolerant. A great deal of fam- ily fraction could be avoided if fathers and mothers, and boys and girls, too, would only try to get the other one’s viewpoint. Here’s to Uncle Frank and all the M. C.’s and G. C.’s. May the long, long thoughts of youth continue to find expression on “Our Page” and help keep us older ones youthful—“An- other Mother.” Dear Uncle Frank: This is my last year in high school and can truly say I have enjoyed it very much even though it has con- sisted of late hours of study and now and then a scolding from some wise spinster. I am specializing in steno— graphic work as I am very much in- terested in it at present. Uncle Frank, don’t you think club work should be stressed more than it already is? I am a worker of a club and enjoy it more than any other work I do. Club work is not only helpful now but will be beneficial all through one’s life. Cooking, canning, and sew- ing are things every girl can’t know too much about. The Merry Circle has gained for me more confidence in myself; more and better ways to express my own thoughts, and last and best of all, my corresponding friends—“Merry John.” Club work is worthy of all the sup- port that can be given it. There is nothing equal to it, either in city or country. I am glad that you take such an interest in school work, and that the M. C. has increased your con- fidence. Dear Uncle Frank: _ A great many of the old members have passed on and others, I see, are going. I started reading The Page five years ago and my first letter was printed shortly after. The Page, then and now, is certainly strange to itself. Then, there was no M. C. or radio fund. Very few articles were written but a lot of letters were printed. The contests were mostly Read-and-V’Vin but new contests were being thought of all the time. The button and card, motto, names of club and songs were added and a lot of other improvements were made. Now after three or four years have passed, the Page is entirely different. Some active member would write and his articles Would become familiar to all the readers and then he would write a farewell letter and soon be forgotten. This tends to change the aspect of the page a great deal. There have been a lot of discus- sions, some of them silly and others that are quite interesting. Now, I think, The Page has almost reached perfection and I am proud to be a member of the club. ‘ I see the boys are holding their own in the club doings. I received a good many letters last year and only one was from a boy. Can you beat it? From an “old timer.”———Herbert Estes. I certainly am glad to hear from you, Herbert. When I get acquainted with young folks through their letters, I often wonder what has happened to them if I do not hear from them. Come again, old timer. Dear Uncle Frank: I wanted to tell you, Uncle Frank, that the Methodist Church of Owosso, where I attend, every year has a “White Christmas,” and all that is re- ceived goes to the Farmington Chil- dren’s Home. A certain member of the church doubles every dollar that is given, thus doubling the gift. Don’t you think this is a fine way to show a Christmas and Chm‘stian spirit? The class to which I belong is plan- ning to give ten dollars, so, you see, really in the end we will be giving twenty dollars, and every little bit helps. This home has to send away many children from its doors each year because of the lack of funds to carry on the great work. I wish, Uncle Frank, that you would make the announcement that those who care to make clothing and toys for the small, unfortunate boys and girls may send them to you before a. certain date and you will see they are distributed. 1 am sure the majority of the members would be in favor of the plan. Many are willing to do something but can’t see any way to help and this would give them a good chance—Zena Amos. I think that we should make a big drive for the Christmas chest next year but I am willing at all times to receive clothing and other useful things for poor people. I will see that anything sent in will be put to worthy purposes. Dear Uncle Frank: Must say a few words in regard to the letters concerning smoking. For a long time I have considered it, and still I see no moral wrong. If it is done out in the open and still cen- sidered wrong by the person doing it -——it is wrong. Some doctors that I know smoke. Our family doctor does, and Lady Nicotine doesn’t seem to have hurt him in the least. Drinking, though, I consider a dis- gusting habit. I think that anyone who indulges hasn’t any respect for anyone or himself either. I feel ashamed for one who does—if they can’t depend on themselves they might better be dead—Ruth Jonson. If it is wrong to do those things we only think wrong, we can make everything right by thinking it so. Smoking does not show its effects as rapidly as does drinking, but never- theless its effects are not beneficial. Doctors sometimes have habits detri- mental to health. Dear Uncle Frank: I notice the Merry Circlers are at present discussing Lindbergh’s rank among the ten greatest men. A Mod- ern Farmer’s Daughter ranked Lind- bergh first. another said this was im- possible as Jesus Christ held first. But really is Jesus Christ a man? ’Tis true he wore the form of man for over thirty years, but in reality was it not only a cloak? He was the Son of God, therefore a spirit. He suffered the agonies of being hung on a cross. But was this bodily agony or the agonies of his soul? In my opinion he is not eligible for considera- tion.in “the ten greatest men’ dis- cussxon. A Modern Farmer’s Daughter is un- reasonable in saying Lingbergh is the greatest for was not Columbus greater in sailing the then called Dark Seas—— this great body of water entirely un- explored whose depth and largeness was unknown and was thought to be the boundary of the earth. Columbus sailed in a sail boat with- out a single map or chart. Lindbergh sailed in an airplane, but with many maps and instruments at his disposal. Both accomplishments took unlimited courage and will power. Both were dangerous feats and both were fin- ished. But in my opinion Columbus did a greater deed than Lindbergh. Far be it from me to lower Lind« bergh’s glory. I think he is an ideal youth of today, one which every young person should strive to be like. With all the rest of the world I admire his courage, character, and high stand- ards of living—Crimson Rose. You write a good thoughtful letter. I hope Crimson Rose isn’t a Rambler. At least her thoughts are not rambling. Dear Uncle Frank: Now, Uncle Frank, I am going to ask you a question. Do you really think that to take a drink or smoke now and then, not too often though, is going to harm anybody? I don’t think so, provided they don’t indulge in these things too often. I know lots of boys that smoke, also I know some that don’t, but I don’t think that those who smoke have any weaker There Are Four Generations In the J. J. Fletcher Family hearts or are less liked than those that don’t. ~ Here’s looking for another corres- pondence scramble—Just Fifteen. Smoking and drinking do no one any good. If one smokes or drinks very moderately the‘harm is not as great as when the indulgence is great. but there is some harm. Also, both smoking and drinking are habit form- ing and in time the moderate user often becomes an immoderate one. Dear Uncle Frank: I have not tried for a long time to win a prize as I am so busy in school. I am janitor so I have to» 50 early. We have had some big snow storms; The mail carrier did not come for two .- . . .. . "5-: “:21; ”wefingasnw w" ‘ .. In “:21; "‘ "waging 3.3-... “L. .. , . .w ‘ FEB. 25, 1928 days, but it is nice again and the cars plow through the snow. I see they have discussed smoking again. I for one will never smoke or drink. It is expensive and it isn’t good for anyone anyway. I bet Uncle Frank doesn’t use either of them, do you? And I bet he doesn’t powder and paint either. Well I have no time for a long letter this time—Edwin Snider. You are an industrious lad and are a good guesser besides, especially as to my habits. My bad habits do not include the ones you refer to. A NEW CONTEST APPY GO LUCKY” suggested this contest and I think it is a good one to test your spelling ability. Be- low you will find the letters which make up five words. See if you can NOTICE ‘ EVERAL Michigan F a r in e r readers have confused me with an “Uncle Frank” who is running a pony contest from a Chicago address. In order to avoid any further confusion I as- sure you that my only address is in care of the Michigan Farmer and that I have nothing to do with contests of that type. My sole activities are in connection with the Merry Circle—Uncle Frank. put them together so as to spell those words. Put your name and address in the upper left hand corner of the paper and put M. C. after your name if a Merry Circler. \‘Vrite your words in the order they are given below and put each on a separate line. Put nothing else on the paper. All the correct papers will be mixed together“ and ten lucky ones pulled out for prizes, which are fountain pens, loose leaf note books, and clutch pencils. All who have correct papers and are not now M. C.’s will get but- tons and membership cards. The explanation of the follow: 1. Five s’s—sssss, two e’s—-ee, one 0, one p. A verb denoting ownership. 2. Three s’s—sss, two C’s—cc, one 11, one e, one i, one 0, one u. A noun meaning in order. 3. Three m’s—nimni, one 0, one e. one t, one 11, one 11. A noun denoting the result of applied force, impetus. 4. Two s’s—-ss, two a's aa, two o’sv—oo, two i’s,——ii, one t, one n. A noun meaning a union or organization. words 5. Four s’s—ssss, four i’s—iiii, two p’s—pp, one m. The name of a stream. This contest closes March 2nd. Send your papers to Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich. DAD CONTEST WINNERS HIS contest was very interesting to me for it brought many young folks’ opinions of the influence of the father in the home. I know these letters will interest many others when THE MICHIGAN FARMER GRANDVIEW'S they appear in our columns starting next week. It was rather hard to pick the winners as so many letters had good qualities, but after several readings I picked the following: Fountain Pens Ruth Irene Burkett, R. 7, Dowagiac. Idolia L. Smith, Luther, Mich. Loose Leaf Note Books Osmond L. Beckwith, Ovid, Mich. Zola M. Marsh, Kingsley, Mich. Clinton Van Duine, R. 1, Dorr, Mich. Pocket Knives Lilly Tervo, Chassell, Mich. John Vloch, R. 2, Carleton, Mich. Wilma Secord, R. 2, Wiedman, Mich. Anne Petrovic, R. 1, Wallace, Mich. Claude Feighner, R. 2, Leroy, Mich. MANAGING IN CORN-BORER AREAS (Continued from page 253) of control: (1) feeding corn to live stock direct from the field, or as silage, or as finely cut or finely shredded material; (2) plowing under cleanly; or (3) burning completely. The actual damage to the corn crop in the United States has been limited to small acreages, and no pronounced shift from corn to other crops has oc- curred. In the Canadian areas where the infestation and damage have been heavy, there has been a marked shift from corn to such crops as oats, bar- ley, wheat, peas, beans, hay, sugar beets, and tobacco. In some localities over half the corn has been displaced by these crops. Whether Michigan farmers should shift production will depend mainly on two things: (1) the advantage of corn over other crops either as a feed crop or as a crop for sale; and (2) the ease or difficulty with which methods of corn production may be modified so as to keep down the borer infestation and avoid seri- Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1562-F should prove of value to all farm- ers in regions infested or likely soon to be infested by the corn borer. It may be had by writing 'to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. ous commercial damage. The general adoption of practicable methods of control such as are outlined by the State and United States students of the borer problem should prevent seri— ous damage to the. corn crop and ob— viate the necessity for any general re placement of corn with other crops. In southeastern Michigan where a shift is most probable the crops to which farmers turn naturally are such as oats, wheat, mixed clover and bar- ley. Oats, wheat, and barley are rela- tively unprofitable in this Vicinity. Al- falfa is more nearly on a par with corn in value per acre and would be useful on dairy farms with the use. of silos as an additional control mea- sure on the remaining corn acreage. Mixed (Heavies Only) _ _ 50 l00 200 500 Single (‘omb White Lt-ghorns .............. $5.75 $11.00 ' $21.50 $52.50 Barred Plymouth ltocks .................. 7.25 14.00 27.50 67.50 S. C. Rhoda island. Reds .................. 7.25 14.00 27.50 07.50 ................... 6.25 12.00 23.50 57.50 DILIGENT HATGHERY AND POULTRY ,FARM Harm J. Knoll. R. R. No. 4 oumnvr omens mo IT E and will do it for you. I I I Your DILIGENT ('IIH'KS became DILIGENT LAYERS and beat them all in our neighborhood. cntcr order for 500 March delivery, a customer just wrote us. Do not hesitate. to send your order. You will be satisfied. 'rteen years of honest. dealing behind us. I’ullets after May first. Please note our NEW LOW postnaid prices: HOLLAND. MICHIGAN these money makers. Write today for complete information about. our large English type B. 0. White Leghorns and heavy laying Barred Rooks. Carefully bred strain- that. are produced to make good winter layers on your farm. Every breeder carefully selected for size and cut: production. FREE CATALOG GIVES LOW PRICES—WE SHIP C. 0. 0. Before you order your chicks get this free catalog that tells all about [rinks direct fi'om farm to C. 0. D. Live delivery guaranteed. In previous years we have sold fully 80% of our chicks to customers within 20 miles of us who know our square dealings and have awn the quality of our stock. VILLAGE VIEW POULTRY FARM—Harry Tor Hart, Owner R. 3. Box 2. Zeeland, Michigan One cent per chick down books your order. Baum-e mdtenyeoru SILER HATGHERY SI ER’S s'andard Brad 0 H I K < I. Blood Tasted FOUR years of blood-testing for bullion WHITE DIARILHEA. hotehelry experience coupled with Three years of ACCREDITATION us good strong llvoble chicks. that grow into profitable layers. Two distinctive breeds: Barred Plymouth! Rock- and S. e. White Leghorn: Writo for {no catalog and once: BOX A stem culling and breedim has given DUNDEE. MICHIGAN ritoiiUCiioN. The Right Seed for a Big Egg Crop Grandview’s Large Type Production Bred Leg- horns are real Commercial Layers. Tested and Proven in Official Contests, and Trapnested and Pedigreed for years, they are consistent heavy winter layers, producing a fine, large, white egg that brings premium prices On any market. Every bird of long, deep, wedge shaped pro- duction type. Mated to 200 to 290 Egg Pedigree and R. O. P. Males, having the Egg Laying Con— test Winning Blood Lines bred in them through many generations. Baby Chicks Ior Immediate Delivery Our Baby'Chicks are easy to raise, fast grow- ers, and mature early into Profitable Layers. Chicks are available for delivery when you want them. Large production makes this possible. the number of chicks you want. Our Poultry House Plans, Methods of Brooding and Feeding, Catalog and Poultry Guides will give you a complete Poultry Course for profitable egg farming. Get these books before you buy your chicks. They’ll help you cash in on Grand- view’s 20 years' experience. Grand View Poultry Farm, Inc. ZEELAND, Dept. I I MICHIGAN R” ARD stock. It means your silcccss or failure. horns. Slicppairds. Anconus. ctc. 'l‘licy are ilnc chickm moderately priced. Tl_\’ some this ycur. The catalog is tree. - SILVERWARD HATCHERY Box 29, WeldMic. _g Write today for information and prices, stating . SELECT. CHICKS. You can save money by ordering your Silver Ward Michigan Accredited Chicks now. We give a Inecial discount that means a. substantial saving in tho cest of your chicks. Furthermore you are sure of your chicks exactly when you want them. The big free catalog gives complete details. GET THESE FACTS You owe it to yourself to get all the facts as to Sources of well. bred. Ward has long bccn recognized as one of tho loaders. ' ' Get the catalog. It's free and it tells all about us. Michigan Accredited Silver Ward (‘liicks are chicks bred Ironi foundations of such blood lincs as Barron and Tancrcd Log- 31- 281 :LARGE TYPE LEGHORNS GRANDVIEW’S PEDIGREE SIRED CHICKS I928 CATALOG TELLS}— All about Grandcicw‘s Famous Winning Strains. with 1027 Official Conto. MARYLAND. 2335 Rims. 51 weeks. MJI‘HIGAN. 1st I’en. 10th MO. by Customer. 2231 Eggs. FLORIDA. 2008 Eggs in 51 weeks. SOU’I‘HI-IAS’I‘IQIIN E gg Laying Contest. 2372 Eggs in 51 weeks. Also winners in ILLINOIS. WIS« CONSIN. ALABAMA. and NEW JERSEY. Profit with Grandview Leghorn: thin year in your own flocks. Silver This catalog i8 your: for-the Egg Laying Contests and for Commercial Egg. li‘unncrs. HIGH EGG BRED BLOOD LINES during lllll'L‘ While (“III-IS averaging over 25 ounces to the dozen. daily from 130 pullcts during Dec. and Jan. Lower List Prices This Year With Higher Quality FREE I928 Catalog making, high egg laying strain. We also produce Auconns and Barred Plymouth Rock. I ' Laying Strain. AVERAGES. Our Direct from Form to You Method, Stock. FILER CATALOG tells how We hutch, brood. cull, feed and how to “'rito us. HOLLYWOOD WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS From stock dircct from Hollywood l’oultiy Farm. of the same Four» (latlcn that. has made such wonderful records in recent years in many The Hollywoiul (‘Ockcrcls wc I)l'illlll-.'(‘(l last ycar were direct from 200 to ZUS Jim: Ilolliwood Stork. ’l‘liew Hollywood Males were mated to our Contest Quality Bret-(leis of exactly the same Strain that produced 2.303 eggs in 51 weeks at. the! 1020 Michigan international l-lgg Laying l‘ontcst. liens Weigh from 4% to ii pounds. (‘ontest l'ullets now pro- This mating produced pullcts that averaged 0\'(‘I‘ $3.00 net profit. each for their owner, ('ustmncr from Minn. also writes he averaged 100 eggs Sand for copy. Tells the story of our breeding methods with this profit. Wyngarden Farms & Hatchery, Box M, Zeeland, Mich. . U : a . , . (711/ "1‘ L14“; PFARM , Hollywood and Tancred Strains and English Type, S. C. White Leghorns . Also Brown Lpghfims, Anl'OnaS, and Barn-d Rocks. All large type Production Brod birds. Brod for 15 years for heavy comincrcial egg production. Every liird individually bonded and inspectcd by an authorized inspector. In breeding up the Famous Townline Egg We have bred. not for a fcw high record hens only. but for HIGH FLOCK same you 5 to 10 cents per chick on this High Quality t.. and raise our stack. Tolls what. to be successful. Full instructionson the Care of Baby Chicks. A genuine Poultry Guide. ;fi “N"-.V~ ~llr m$rrjéqfiéfid OULT'R TOWNLINE POULTRY FARM, Route 1, Box 207, Zeeland, Michigan Michigan Aocred- I * itod Chi.oko— \ Every breeder an- . , , proved by author- I‘. '/ \ ' ’ 3 3 had State Insnoo- p _.' J m L. 3" Meadow Brook Take time to investigate one of chick hotdied from nroven blood lines business is to satisfied customers, Get our big free catalog today, mold summed. II. DoPno sons. Proprietor. 'Moudow Brook Hatchery Box F Michigan's oldest butcherics. Twenty-six years in Mailman. Every and from rugged ‘Iree range breeders. The above winnlu Ins mode in Production and Exhibition classes in strong competition. Oui- hi 8. 0. VIII. Leohorno ‘ S. c. Buff Leghorn: (Dr. Hensley Eu Basket Strain) Barred Rocks 8. c. and 8. c. R. I. Rods gm ohm of our It's free. 100% live We?! Holland, Michigan *— 1.,1. “Ln“ M... ..W.WW.LW~L COLDS.ROUP.CAN KER AND PNEUMONIA WONDERFUL new REMEDY When sickness comes to your family, you want the BEST medical advice and help you can get. Why experiment with "Tom, Dick and Harry,” when diseases threaten your poultry or hogs? For more than thirty years. Geo. H. Lee has been an outstanding leader in the fight against poultry and hog diseases. He has a Research and Clinic StaE of TWELVE GRADUATE VETERINARIANS. To ' show farmers how to diagnose and treat diseases, these specialists have held more than 6,000 free clinics on the farms throughout the country. Just as could be ex. pected. an organization like this has perfected a really effective treatment for the serious cold troubles and do now so prevalent. Flu-Rot! Emulsion and Verso-Spray Flu-Kof‘t‘ Emulsion is an internal medicine, given in the feed. No individual dosing: no bother. Pigs and chickens like it. It acts on the mucous membrane lining of the breathing passages. to ally the cough. reduce temperature and overcome irritation. much like a medicine for human beings. Vane-Spray is a. combi- nation of healing oils. which is sprayed in the henhouse or the hoghonse at night. As a vapor. the healing oils are breathed into the air passages. A double treatment. simple. sensible. marveously effective. Its great merit was proven on nearly 50.000 sick chickens and many droves of sick hogs. before it was offered to farmers. Thousands of users have since obtained the same satisfactory results. At Your Dealer Your local dealer prefers to sell you the BEST remedy on the market. 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Simple colds often lead to the more serious flu or to pneu— monia. All should be treated with a remedy that could reasonably be expected to correct a dis— ease of the breathing passages. . So similar are they to the colds and bronchial . troubles affecting people. we had four leading phy- sicians assist the twelve veterinarians of our Re- search Staif in determin- Ing the ingredients and their percentages used in 4 Flu-Kof’E Emulsion and VapOoSpray. The‘same scientific care as if for human beings. """ g ,4: helped perfect this V 1 remedy for your , ‘ hogs and poultry. @3 Vapo-Spray. cal. cans. 82: 1-2 gal. $1.25. FlueKol! Emul- sion, gal, $6.50; 1-2 gal. $3.50; at. $2; l2 02.. SI. One gal Flu-Koff Emulsion and one gal. Vapo—Spray is sufficient for a 4-day treatment for 80 hogs or 1.000 chickens. Smaller amounts in proportion. l f ordered direct from our factory, express is EMULSION Hammer—Type , Feed Grinders (I I ' "KEEP your tractor busyearning 3‘3"? 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DAIRY INCOME STABLE ROSS cash income from the sale of dairy products has been more stable during the past eight years, than the gross cash income from any other department of agriculture, ac- cording to the rural economics depart- ment of the Ohio State University. V. R. Wertz, specialist, has studied the gross cash income of agriculture as an index of farm prosperity which is more reliable than unit price in- dices, because it shows the volume of business done. His statistics are based upon an index of 100, which is the average gross cash income from the principal sources in 1924, 1925, and 1926. - On this basis the dairying income started in 1920 at 147 and dropped with all other sources of income in the feeding period alone justified the extra care necessary to handle the" pigs in a sanitary manner; but an- other important advantage was getting . the pigs to market in September and October. The sales report showed that . $11.60 per hundred was secured, two . dollars more per hundred than the slow-growing pigs brought that were not handled in a. sanitary manner and marketed in November and December. On one farm, the pigs were one hundred pounds heavier at the age of seven months than were the pigs raised on the same farm at the same age in 1926. The success of these co- operators has encouraged others to handle their pigs according to the sanitary plan. However, it is neces- sary to begin a year ahead of time, as many farmers find themselves without a pasture that has. not had 1921 to 97, which was a shorter drop than was shown by any other group of commodities, and was seven points above the total gross cash income. In 1922 there was a further drop to 91, which was three points above the figure for the total. It was above the index for every other department ex- cept the sale of meat animals. Dairy- ing income soared in 1923 to 116, the highest figure reached by any impor- tant department of farm industry since 1920, and 21 points above the total income index. It dropped in 1924 to 103, but was still above all other figures. In 1925 the index was 97, three points below the figure for the total, and in 1926 dairying income belied its past performance by regis- tering 99, the lowest of all the indices. In 1926 all important departments of farming other than dairying showed peaks as compared with 1925. But in 1927, according to preliminary esti- mates, there was a sharp drop which was not shared by the dairying branch. While the index for the total income in 1927 was down to 91 points, dairying remained at 99, the point reached in 1926. The average index for the eight-year period for dairying income was 108 points, while the total gross income average has been 102 points. SWINE SANITATION PAYS HE Swine Sanitation project con— ducted in Warren County, Indiana, by County Agent H. H. Madaus has given some interesting results. Ten farmer cooperators produced 1,030 pigs in the spring farrowing, averag- ing around six pigs per sow. The pigs were farrowed in clean houses and transferred to clean ground where no pigs had been kept for at least one year. In most instances they were transferred to clover pastures and given access to self feeders placed in creeps and kept on full feed. Some of the pigs were marketed at six months and weighed over 200 pounds. The rapid gain made during The Paved Barnyard Has Many Advantages for the Live Stock Man on Certain Types of Michigan Soils hogs on it for the required length of time and consequently the ground is infested with worm eggs. TREATMENT WOULD INCREASE DAIRY PROFITS ICHIGAN dairymeii are loosing millions of dollars through con- tagious abortion in their cattle. This disease can now be checked according to our leading veterinarians. At a re- cent conference of animal doctors. held in Illinois, the requirements were discussed at length. The blood test for detecting abor- tion in cows has been perfected after numerous experiments. It now is thoroughly reliable. Facilities for making the tests have been provided at most of the agricultural colleges in the various state. The testing and segregation system is being followed. Elimination of abortion increases the production of both calves and milk. So evident have been the- re sults to progressive dairymen that they are becoming enthusiastic over the outlook. Specially interested are these men in the “repeated testing” system. By this plan the abortion in Same badly infested herds have been reduced to five per cent as compared with a reduction to tWenty per cent under the best treatment that was given formerly. In time farmers and dairymen may demand a complete clean-up of the disease as now is being done with tuberculosis. But compulsory testing of all herds for abortion cannot be undertaken until proper public support is given. We were interested to note that among the Rambouillet ewes, those that raised two crops of lambs during 1927 sheared an average of two‘pounds per head less than those which had no fall lambs. Thus we had demon- strated once more that you can’t burn the candle at both ends and you can't have your cake and eat it too—8. P.. / FEB. 25, 1928 THE, MICHIGAN FARMERS - Cull Beans .forCows By W. F. Taylor OR fifteen years I have been feed- Fing cull beans to the cows. I have fed them cooked and uncooked, and have found them of considerable value in either case. The argument in favor of cooked beans is that the cows like them. There are few things our cows like better than beans well cooked. We have put just salt enough in them to attract the animals, and have tried not to use too much water in cooking. Enough to keep the beans from burn- ing, is just right. " Beans are twenty per cent protein and for that reason should not be fed alone if cows are giving much milk. Just how much grain should be fed with the beans, and what it should be, depends upon What roughage is fed. If clover or alfalfa is fed liberally, less beans and more grain should make up the balance of the ration. I have found a number of dairymen feeding beans as the only grain in the ration, and if the roughage. other than ensilage is corn stover and timothy hay, such a ration is apt to give fair results, While its cost is usually very low. As to its effect up- on the cows, I should look for no trouble. There Would seem to be no reason why beans would be worse for a cow than for a man, and in many parts of our state, the folks are living successfully upon a ration that in- cludes as large a proportion of beans as is often fed to the dairy herd. I have figured the cost of cooking beans and it is not much greater than the expense of grinding them. Of course, the cost of cooking depends somewhat upon the quantity cooked. \Vhere only a few are required the labor of cooking is proportionally greater. Our roughage is largely clover and alfalfa, and if we feed too many beans the cows will get too much protein. Just now, I seem to hear some one say, “What of that? I am feeding a twenty-four per cent feed and no other grain. My cows are doing the best they have in years. This talk about the danger of too much protein is non- sense,” All right, my friend, keep it up if you like, but there will come a time when something will happen. Alfalfa is one of the best forms of roughage known, but even alfalfa cannot be fed alone to a herd of cows for a long time without damage to them. The only safe way is to feed a ra- tion as nearly balanced as we can. At the present time I am alone with a lot of chores and do not cook beans. I am having them ground and using them in the proportion of twenty—five per cent of the grain ration. We mix them at the mill with corn meal, bran, ground oats, and gluten meal, the lat- ter forty-one per cent protein. It would be as well to vary this mixture somewhat if it were necessary. \Ve could use cottonseed meal, or linseed meal, or both, to help furnish the re- quired protein. We put in one per cent of salt, but are using no other mineral as we prefer to let the cows get it from the clover and alfalfa. When but twenty-five per cent of the ration is beans, the cows consume the grain as readily as I have ever seen it done, no matter what the ration is made of. Results seem as good as we have ever gotten from any for- mula, and the ration is cheap. A friend has asked us several times within the last few years, if we ever figured the cost of our' rations in feeding the hens. Now the truth is, we have often suspected a little Scotch blood might be within us, though we can not account for it. The suspicion comes from the fact that we never part with good money for feed for either hens or cows and" fail to note results when it is fed. A wise 1 man of old. said “There is a with- holding that tendeth to poverty." True indeed. How many there are who have not the courage to feed their cows enough to enable them to produce a profit. \Ve are writing this article because we have found that cull beans can be used either cooked or ground, and will prove a source of profit to the dairyman if they are fed wisely and do not cost too much. This brings us to the question of how much one may pay for them. We have been able to secure them in the past for not more than half the cost of ordinary grains, and when we cannot buy them With- out paying more, we shall let some one else have them. To be more definite, when we have to pay more than a cent a pound for them, we shall not buy them. and if we can buy them for less we shall use more of them. Beans serve well as a part of the ration for young heifers when we have good ensilage. The animals will do nicely with plenty of ensilage, two pounds of beans daily, and a little hay or straw, with no additional grain. Of course, if we are to feed beans alone we must cook them. May we close by saying that in mak- ing up the ration we must consider‘ always the well-being of the herd. While we keep the cows we must see that they are. kept in as good health as possible. Only when they are in the pink of condition can they do their best for us. To learn how to keep them there, and do it at a cost that will leave. us a satisfactory mar- gin of profit is to be a good dairyman. HOGS SOLD SATISFACTORILY HE pure-bred Poland China pig sale, held by W. E. Livingsten of Parma, Michigan, drew a large crowd of breeders and farmers from all parts of the state. The offerings were well grown and seemed to meet with the approval of the ringside gathering, the top of the. sale being an outstanding boar pig sired by L'Biz \l'ender going to Amos Curtis of Manchester, Mich- igan, for $156.00. There were a num— - ber of high class boar prospects that {ArtICIeS' were eagerly contended for. The Michigan State College secured a num- ber one prospect, as well as Kengen Bros. of Grand Ledge. Nineteen young sows brought an av- erage of $51.81, while twenty-three boars averaged just a few cents less than $49. Among the buyers were 0. Sober, Fowlerville: W m. Pulling, Parma; Chas. Goldsmith, Clarks Lake; 13. Arnold, Marcellus; F. L. Vt‘hittaker,v Concord; F. Skuse, Pittsford; G. R. Dickey, Goldwater; H. Hazelswartz, Grass Lake; P. W. Ballinger, School- craft; C. J. Fox, Marshall; R. Martin, Hastings; J. J. Foster & Son, Niles; L. Butcher, Homer; Hillcrest Farm, Kalamazoo; A. Gregory, Portland; A. Fieldcamp, Manchester; C. Weaver, Ceresco; L. W. Rickraft, Ithaca; Ken- yon Bros, Grand Ledge; A. Curtis, Manchester; L. L. Chamberlain, Mar. cellus; C. Mesler, Albion; E. Butcher, Homer; D. Armstrong, Plttsford; A. \V. Humphrey, Ithaca; J. Hoffman, Hudson; F. Wilson, Parma; D. Begole, Ann Arbor; Creglow Brothers, Marcel- lus; M. S. C., East Lansing; A. Gir- bach, Saline; F. Lane, Bloomingdale; C. Mesler, Albion; B. Davis, Reading; \V. Schaltz, Ann Arbor; F. Tilford, Springport, and J. Butler, Portland. The bidding was brisk from the start to finish and a number went away without securing what they came after although they were good bidders. Andy Adams of Litchfield, Michigan, did the selling in a little over two hours. 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Special Tom (I You OrderNow! ‘ IICIIIGAH mo (20.. Isis-ruse, lleid ~ — THE MICHIGAN ‘F-‘ARMERL', Future Nat HE outlook for W001 appears fa.- ‘ vorable. Supplies abroad are light, foreign markets strong, domes- tic prices of wool are below the tariff differential from foreign prices, and no further recession in general busi- ness conditions seems probable in the near future. The average price received by pro- ducers in the United States was 30.7 cents for the year as compared with 32.5 cents in 1926 and 38.5 cents in 1925. Domestic prices showed consid- erable strength during the last half of 1927 with an upward trend. The absence of violent price fluctua- tions throughout the past year and the satisfactory clearance of manufac- tured goods indicate that the wool textile manufacturing industry has re gained confidence in the stability of [wool prices. American purchases abroad have been light. Stocks of wool held by re- porting dealers and manufacturers in This 14—Year Old Cow Produced the United States on September 30, 1927, were 7 per cent greater for do- mestic and 20 per cent less for for- eign wool than on September 30, 1926, with a greater decrease in combng and clothing wool because of the in- creased stocks of carpet wool. Stocks of combing and clothing wool in bonded warehouses in the United States on October 31, 1927, were 53,- 570,000 pounds, as compared with 83,-- 377,000 on October 31, 1926. While imports of combing and cloth ing wool during the first eleven months of 1927 were 62 million pounds below the same period in 1926, con- sumption by reporting mills was 31 million pounds greater. Foreign markets throughout the year continued active with keen com- petition at practically all the Colonial and London sales, and prices for prac- tically all grades advanced through- out the year. Notwithstanding the lack of active competition from the United Kingdom and the United States last year other important wool consuming countries readily absorbed the quan- tities offered at sale points although wool prices constantly advanced. Estimates of wool production for the 1927-28 season in nine important pro- ducing countries; which usually pro- duce from 65 to 75 per cent of the world’s clip, indicate a decrease of about 4 per cent from last season. Sheep numbers in 18 countries, which in pre—war times produced about one- half of the world’s sheep, at the be— ginning of or in the summer of 1927 were 361,000,000 head or 3 per cent over 1926 and 6 per cent over pro-war. The estimated number of breeding ewes for 6 European countries was 31,350,000 for 1927 as compared with 30,728,00 for 1926 and for the United States the number of breeding ewes FEB. 25, 1928 The Outlook For lWOol Discouragzizg . one year old and over was 27,658,000 in 1927 and 29,574,000 in 1928. the increase in breeding ewes indi- cates an increase in those countries in 1928, reports of lambing in New South Wales, in Australia, and in Ar- gentina (which countries support about one-seventh of the world’s sheep), have not been very satisfactory. The preliminary estimates of sheep num- bers in Australia on January 1, 1927, is slightly below the revised 1926 fig- ures, and a still further reduction in 19,28 is not improbable because of drought in Queensland and New South Wales during most of 1927. World wool production during the past four years has been on the up- ward swing of the cycle, but the per capita production for the period 1923- 26 was less than for the pre-war pe- riod 1909-13, when total production was at the peak of that cycle. Prices of the better grades of Colonial wools at London have advanced relatively 21,967.6 Lbs. Milk in One Year. more than have the lower grades and have averaged higher than the index of average wholesale prices as com‘ pared with the prewar average, and the keenest demand has therefore been felt for the finer grades. All statistical information indicates that wool is in a firm position. It must be remembered, however, that wool prices could be influenced by fac- lors which cannot be measured 'sta- listically. Lamb production in this country is trending upward and approaching the peak of the cycle. The outlook for the next few years indicates the need of considerable caution in regard to fur- ther expansion in the production of market lambs. Since 1922 the number of sheep and lambs has shown an av- erage increase of around a million head per year. With favorable weath~ or conditions a very large lamb crop is not improbable and should such a. crop materialize the situation might be further aggravated by the market- ing of ewe lambs ordinarily retained for flock replacement or expansion and by liquidation of flocks. The out- look does not appear so unfavorable for sheep producers who depend on wool for the major portion of their income as for those who produce mar- ket lambs. The trend of production to heavy feeder lambs made it difficult for lamb feeders to secure light feeder lambs suitable for finishing for the late Winter and spring market, espe- cially during years of good range con- ditions. Therefore it seems that pro- ducers should give serious considera- tion to the. production of lighter weight feeder lambs. It also appears that consideration should be given to the production of higher quality wools in adaptable areas- . ,, .6" r. While .’, FEB. 25, 1928 Officials Endorse Protective Service l \ THE MICHIGAN FARMER (Continued from page 256) will be of great help to the law en- forcing machinery of the state. I have just had a pleasant experience with the ‘Prairie Farmer,’ published in Chi- cago, in lunning down a national gang of eye doctors, who were sWindling the farmers throughout the United States, therefore I appreciate the value of this brand of service of your farm papers.” George B. Lawcock, Sheriff of Shia- wassee, offers a good suggestion. “I believe your Protective Service Plan is a mighty good thing for the farmers and hope they are quick to take ad- vantage of same. The farmers are fairly good about reporting any loss they may sustain. I believe it would be a great help if they would ascer- tain the license number of suspicious cars they may see parked in their neighborhood. We will be glad to assist you in this Farm Property Pro- tective Service in every way possible.” Byron J. Patterson, Sheriff of Kent County, registers appreciation when he says: “I am very glad to know that the Michigan Farmer is reaching out and assisting in such important work as you are. The farmers of Kent County are business man. All have automobiles and most of them telephone service. They are very alert in notifying my office of losses from their premises. This morning I re- ceived a call from a farmer in the southern part of the county reporting the loss of baled hay. which he thought a minor offense but I dis- patched two deputies at once, to in- vestigate and arrest if possible the guilty parties.” Floyd E. Myers, Sheriff of Gladwln County, expressesL his appreciation. “We are glad to know that you are or- ganizing the Michigan Farmer Protec- tive Service, which I know will be of great help to the farmers of the state and of much assistance to this office. Our people do very Well in re- porting stolen property, but are often late in making reports which is a handicap to this office. Thanking you in behalf of the farmers and officers of Gladwin County, I .assure you of our assistance and cooperation.” Report Your Losses Without Fear Ward I. Waller, Prosecuting Attor- ney of Cheboygan County, said his people are too considerate of crooks. He says in part: “The stealing from farmers in this county has been pretty much limited to poultry. ”We have had some cattle and sheep thefts in the south end of the county by . three men. Most of the farmers were afraid to make complaint against them for fear their buildings would be burned or their cattle poisoned. They finally killed a steer belonging to a farmer who made complaint. One of the three offenders pleaded guilty and confessed, and the . other two were sent to Jackson. Since that time the man who made complaint has not been harmed and we have had no more trouble in that vicinity. I believe this work you are doing will be beneficial to farmers and it certainly will be a great help to the law enforcement oiiicers, if farmers will take your ad- vice in this matter.” Carl Holbrook, Prosecuting Attor- ney of Clare County, finds that some of his people are tender hearted when it comes to furnishing evidence and pressing for conviction of thieves after they have been apprehended. “Your work is a very praiseworthy enter- prise. I am glad that such an organi- zationas yours has taken a step to aid the law enforcing agents of this state in this regard. Many farmers are not always ready to demand con- viction of thieves and it is difficult in many instances to get the necessary convicting evidence, although we may be practically sure that offenders are guilty. This activity on your part I I am sure will aid materially in eradi- cating such petty thievery as now exists. Your publication will no doubt bring about a change in the attitude of many farmers and prompt them to demand convictions in theft cases.” Prosecutors and Judges Pledge Assistance Clarence A. Looker, Prosecuting At- torney of Ottawa County, says he was surprised indeed to know the appal- ling sum lost annually to the farmers by this kind of thievery. He says officers of his county have diligently sought to protect the farmers in this respect. He says, “We have brought many criminals before the court on these kind of charges who have been dealt with very severely by Judge Cross, who has absolutely no patience for a farm thief. You are assured that the officers of this county will con- tinue their vigilance in this cause.” Earl W. Munshaw, Prosecuting At— torney of Kent County, shows he’s on the job when he says, “I have your letter of recent date relative to prose- cuting thieves and trespassers. Please be advised that this office will do everything possible to see to it that the laws regulating thievery and tres- passing are vigorously prosecuted.” The above are extracts fro-m a few of the many letters that have come to us from law enforcement agencies and assure us of their cooperation in stamping out thievery and trespassing in this state. .. In whatever county you may live, you may be sure that your sheriff and county attorney, are ready and willing to give you and your neighbor every possible aid in hunting down and con- victing the thieves or trespassers who steal from or trespass on your prop- erty. You will also find the town‘ marshal], state police officers and every local agency of your community ready and willing to give every pos- sible assistance to catch and convict thieves. The law enforcement agen- cies want to stop these enormous losses of farm folks but they must have your assistance. The first thing to do is to post your farm with a Michigan Farmer Protective Service sign. That will serve notice on all thieves and trespassers that come your way that your property is pro- tected by our Property Protective Service and that a reward will be paid for the arrest and conviction of any- one stealing or trespassing on your property. An unposted farm is an in- vitation to thieves to come in and help themselves. Get your neighbors to post their farms too with the Protec- tive Service Sign. Remember that this Property Protection Service pays re- wards for the capture and conviction of thieves who steal from farms only where the Protective Service sign is posted. Thieves and trespassers will soon learn that it is not safe for them to prowl over property thus posted. The posting of your farm with the sign of our Property Protective Serv- ice, protects your live stock, poultry, grain, and the other crops, machinery, tools, and personal property. Even the dog and cat comes under this service. There will'be a $50.00 cash reward for the person or persons fur- nishing evidence to local peace officers that will result in the arrest and penal sentence conviction of thieves or trespassers who visit your property. The first thing to do when you have had a visit from an undesirable party is to report the matter to your sheriff or prosecuting attorney. Don’t wait until you go to town. Telephone the officer even though it be in the mid- dle of the night. Promptness in this matter is very important as it gives the officers time to get in action and catch the crock. Milks Cows as No Other Machine Has Ever Milked Cows Before! 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West 19‘” S 1‘ ounce?“ ’°° s ourself .IIII-I- 0pc.91'02 .. D ee mums M'ghe‘rf, Chiculto- “" N --'. I and 5190 : ‘Ddgglzrmtrotion an I No. cows milked .......... BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY Chance Copy or Cancellations must reach us Twelve Dave 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 calves. nu Endicott, Birmingham. Mlchigan. Wallinwood Guernseys Sons of BROOKMEAD'S SECRET KINGIOI sale. F. W. WALLIN, . _—-“'§'.fi GUERNSEYS /€ltllel‘ sex. whose sires' dams _ have official records of 15.- 109.10 I'llllk. 778.80 fat. 19,460.50 milk, 909.05 fat. T. V. HICKS. Battle Creek. Mich.. R. I. Rog. Guernsey herd sire, age 3 For sale yrs. 6 mo. linp. dam has A. R. rccord of 11,190 lbs. milk. 570 lbs. fat as Jr. 4 year old. HENRY VAN FAROWE. Zoeland. Mich. FOR SALE Reg. Guernsey bull, 20 months old. Three nearest. dams average 665.09 lbs. butter-fat. A splendid individual. GARROD BROS.. Lawrence. Mich. Dairy Heller Culver. practically Guernsey pure bred $25.00 each. We lhip C. 0. D. Write L. Terwilliger. Wauwatosc. Wis. For Sale _'RPE- Guernsey cnws and a. few bull ‘ calves, sirc by imp. (Zoro Honor. JOHN EBELS. Holland. Mich.. R. 2. FOR practically purebred GUERNSEY or HOL- STEIN calves. from heavy. rich milkerl. write EDBEWOOD DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater. Wis. FOR SALE— Registered Guernseys fresh and snringers. Rollin Anderson. ilolton. Mich. MICHIGAN STATE HERDS Bred for Production The State of Michigan maintains 1,500 pure- bred Holstein cows to furnish milk to the various state institutions. Those herds must produce milk at a. low cost. This requires high average production. Your herd needs high producing ability to enable you to pro- duce milk at a. low cost per hundred pounds. Can We help you by supplving you with a. young bull bred along production lines. Allow us to send you pedigrees and prices on young bulls that will increase your annual production and lower your cost. Bureau of Animal Industry Department C. Lansing, Michigan JENISON. MIcH.' SERVICEAB LE AGE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN Bull Calves at prices the owner of. small herd can afford to pay. The site of many of these calves is a Son of the highest record (30 lb.) two- -ycar-old daughter of Creator. His sire is King chis Alcartra Prilly. on undefeated Show hull with 70 A. R. daughters. Others sired by a 5 times 1200 lb. Champion Bull. the famous K. P. O. P. breeding. Bred cows and heifers served by these sires are available for founda- tion stock. RED ROSE FARMS DAIRY Northville, Michigan Telephone: 344 Reference: Northville State Savings Bank 22 Grade Holsteins Also pure—bred licgistcrcd bull, $2.400 for the herd. A good bunch of young cattle that are workers and will produce for you. Ilan‘n bred our own stock for . the hut twonty years. always using pure-bred hulls. [ licrd 90% purc—brcd. Goim.r out of dairy business. , inquire at lx’iskaddcn form. 3 miles southeast of I Bellovilll‘. or c. H. KISKADDEN. Buhl Sons 60.. Adair St.. Detroit. High Class Yearling Holstein ~Bull For sale. L. C. HUNT. Eaton Rapids, Mich. I Brown Swiss for sale, cows 10 and RQgISIOI'Od 11 yrs. old due in Feb. 2 bred heifers. Also bulls of serviceable age. A. A. FELDKAMP, Manchester. Mich. 88 Hereford Bows Big wide back kind. dark reds. dehomed. Brcd to extra. good Hereford bulls to calm about April Ist. Will sell you choice car load. Also 22 Hereford cows and calves and 24 heavy springers. Also other bunches. All ’1‘. B. tested. Also yearling and 2 yr. old stacker: and feeding steers sorted even in size and quality. VA! 3. BALDWIN, ' Eldon. Iowa FINANCIAL KING JERSEYS We have for sale a. most excellent selection of bull calves ranging in ages from 4 mm. to one year 0111. These calves are sired by Financial King Sensation and Financial Ford and out of Register of Merit Stock. Prices reasonable. COLDWATER JERSEY FARM. Goldwater. Mich. F0 R SAL E T3361? 3305: age ggderrfllsm i335. lloieiiii."imi‘§§f’ia lm’gtfin’éfiyi’mzl flisi$m c. H. FREEMAN. Alto. Mich. ' 6" QUALITY JERSEYS Have a. few young bulls and heifers that will i prove your-held. Our .ahow record speak m.- E. w. MARTIN. Ann Arbor. Mich.. Sam mam GREEK Hill] JERSEYS Hm type and notion D a [Dd . write or no! .‘i ' " m acumen-it John". 0. o. o'mcc who’d: ‘ FEB. .25, 1928 HOG MARKET ABSORBS BIG RUNS H OG markets have been absorbing heavy receipts in the last three weeks. Receipts probably have passed the peak for the winter_an_d a shrinkage of 25 to 35 per cent 1S like- ly to be seen in the next two months. Apparently, speculative demand is ready to absorb the excess of meats and lard above current distributive needs at the level of prices which has prevailed recently, so that this sea- sonal shrinkage in arrivals should bring somewhat higher prices. Domestic demand for hog products I . THE MICHIGAN FA’RMER is satisfactory as consumers are being attracted by lower retail prices. For- eign demand continues disappointing, however. Exports of hams and shoul- ders since January 1 have been less than half as large as in the salne pe- riod a year ago. Exports of bacon, however, have been nearly as large and lard exports were slightly larger than last year. Supplies of hog-meats in British and German markets from European sources continue heavy. The hog population in Germany on Decem- ber 1 was 22,880,000 compared with 19,412,000 a year previous, so that mar- ket supplies are likely to remain heavy for a number of months. This classified advertising department partment at; classificd rates, ' Rate 9 cents a word, each insertion. consecutive insertions 7 cents a. word. Count. as display type or illustrations admitted. charge l0 words. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING is established for the convenience of Michigan Small advertiwments bring best rcsults under classified headings, advertising miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange. . or in display columns at commercial rates, on orders for less than four insertions: for four Remittances must accompany order. Live stock advertising has a separate department and is not accepted as classified. farmers. and for Try it for want ads this de- Poultry advertising will be run in 01‘ mOl‘Q a word cach abbreviation, initial or number. No Minimum Four Four times times $2.80 $7.28 3.08 7.56 3.30 7.84 3.04 8.12 3.92 8.40 4.20 8.68 4.48 8-96 4.70 9.24 5,04 9.52 5.32 9.80 5.60 10.08 5.88 10.30 0.10 10-64 0.44 10.92 0.72 11.20 7,00 11.48 All advertin’ng ropy' (lirrontimmnu ordrrr Special Notice .. W, Itndtd for the Clauifitrl Department must mic/1 this ofice ten day: in advent: of publitalion dun. REAL ESTATE S‘I‘ROUT'S SPRING FARM CATALOG JUST OUT! Large illustrated buyers guide crammed .Wllll unusual bargains from 19 states. Money-making equipped dairy. poultry. fruit farms; grain, general and truck farms; roadside businesses, village places. summer homes on mountain. lake and river. Pg. 42 describes lakei'iew farm 240 acres ncar village, 100 acres Icvcl tillage. abundance fruit, good 9—room house, furnace and lights. large ccment—Imscmcnt barn. other bldgs: a. money-maker and only $3,000 with horses. 0 cattle, sheep, poultry. implcirionts, tools, focd. crops and firewood included; part cash. Hundrcd others“ up to $20,000 and one Strout buyer reports a 103 acre farm costing $4,500 rcturncti $2,500 from timber. $3.300 from 35 acrcs sold, $1,000 worth produce and stock. and 120 acrcs good land left. There’s a. bar- gain for you too in this handsome big catalog. Write today. at once, for your free copy. Strout Agency. 1105—BC ’Krcsge Bldg, Detroit, Mich. ’1 BUY UPPER \VISCONSIN FARM LAND THIS YEAR. This Cloverlaiid district offers you fine sell— the best for daii'yingwbarlcy, oats. rye, hay. potatoes. root. crops. Never had a crop failure. Clover grows wild. Plenty sunshine and rain. Numerous lakcs and rivers. Exccllcnt: drainage. l'lcnty hunting. fishing, and trapping. Good roads. High schools, rural Schools, churches. cream routes, telephones. Only a few hours to largest markets in United States. 40 or 80 acre tracts from $12 to $30 pcr ucrc. Lakclainds pi‘icid a little higher. Small down payment—~10 years on balance. Oicr 000 families here now. We show you how to start. Write for booklet “Happy Ilomcs and Farms that Pay in Happy Land"—-it shows pictures srttlcrs’ letters—and tells you everything. Edward Hines Farm Land 00.. Room 2152. 100 W. Monroe St. 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 frce service in helping you got right location. Write for illustrated San Joaquin Valley folder and get our farm Dallt’l‘v—"Tlle Earth” free for six months. C. L. Seagraves. General Colon- ization Agent. Santa Fe Railway. 912 Railway Ex- (hange, Chicago. 30 ACRES AMONG FINE FARMS—Eniiipped:_0n Easy Terms: Beautiful home spot on improved high- way. short walk motor bus to city: all fertile tillage. well fenced. apple orchard, peaches. grapes and her ries: homelike 5-room cottage, good 00 ft. cement- bascment barn. hcn house. etc. Age forces sale, only $3,400 with horses. cow, poultry. implements. hay. wheat in ground. ct.c.. included: $1.300 cash needed. Loyd M. Howcll. Strout Agency. Cor. Cherry & Jef- ferson Sts.. Mason. Mich. AN OPPORTUNITY RARELY OFFERED—to secure improved farm homes, 80 acres up. direct. from owner. no profits, no commission: in famed dairy section Wisconsin: Bread and butter State Minnesota: Rich prairie soil North Dakota; fertile lands near best. markets in Michigan. $200 to $1,000 cash. Balance 30 years at 5%. Write today. Federal Land Bank. St. Paul. Minn.. Dept. 33. COME TO EASTERN OKLAHOMA. We have bar- gains in improvod farms of all sizes. adapted for crain. stock. and poultry raising, dairying and fruit. growing. Excellent markets, good school and church facilities in an all year climate that makes life worth living. VVr'lte today for free literature and price list. National Colonization (‘0.. Room 122. 13 E. 3rd St... Tulsa. Okla. FOR SALE—160 acre farm in Oceans. 00.. clay sorl. all tiliable. four miles north of Holton. improved roads. twelve room house. furnace. and bath. Large bascmcnt barn. Price $10,000. Minnie Ayers. Mara.- thou, STANISLAUS COUNTY, California—where farmers are prosperous. Crops growing year round. Land priced low. Write free booklet. Dept. 6. Stanislaus County Development Board (County Chamber of Commerce). Modesto, California. FOR SALE—120 acre farm. including 30 acres tim- bar, orchard. horses. cows. pigs. equmment. etc. 8- room and 4-1-0011: house on farm. 1% miles from town. Will sell cheap at reasonable terms. Apply Box 265. Harbor Springs, Mich. FOR SALE—50 acres stock and tools in 1335anng township. Good land. Well fruited. _ Near ‘Benton Harbor. Albert Scherer. ("oloma. Michigan. FOR. SALE-208-ure farm. ('I'IV loam. fine buildings, 20 acres maple timber. electric plant. $50.00 per ccrc. Terms. G. 1). Row", Evrii't. Mich. 120-ACB‘E FARM F013 BALE in sood shape. Owner. nos. 1%. mm inch. .3” .' 2 ,‘V. BEFORE BUYING farm write Wingard. Plymouth, Michigan for list of Michigan farm bargains. VI’ANTED FARMS 1 00 Mastodons. Wholmale Mich. PLANTS: Strawberries $3.00. 1,000; $2.00; Raspberries, Blm-kln-i'i'ics, Grapes. price list. Cloverleaf Nursery. Three Oaks, $1.75. Catalogue Michigan. EVERB EARI NG New Buffalo, 100 MASTODON frco. Edwin Lubkc, SEEDS REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED WORTHY OATS. certified Wisconsin Six Row, Barley. registered and ccrtilicd Pix-ket Ycllow Dcnt Corn. certified Grimm Alfalfa. Ilcst of quality. satisfaction guaranteed. \Vrite for sccd circular. Fairgroic Associated Socd Growers. \l'. R. Kirk, S""\'., Fairgrove. Michigan. Members of lilihigan Crop IiiIIlI‘OVt’lnt'l'lI.>As.—‘O"i:llll)n. 39-289 MYERS l’URE-BRED CHICKS, 100% live delivery, postage prepaid. Four leading broods, \Vhite Les“- horns. W'liite \Vyandottes. Barred Rocks. R. l. Reds. Flocks bred for egg production. Scncl for descriptive circular. Myers Hatchery, Mt. Plenum, Mich. \VHI'I'I‘AKER’S REDS, BOTH COMES. Grade A. R. O. P. Trapnestcd. Grade B, Michigan, Certified. Michigan's greatest color and egg strain. Chicks and eggs. Catalog free. Intorlakcs Farm. Box 9. Law- rence. Michigan. CHICKS, genuine English VVhito Iroghoriis. overlay- ing combs and non—setters. Barred Rel-ks 203233 records. Son display ad. Hillside Hatchery. Hol- land, Michigan. CLOVER $13 per hit. Homo grown double. rccleaned. Gunrantcod to comply stiitt- sci-d law. Swnct clover. scai'ifiod. $3.90. Hardy northwcslcrn alfalfa, $9.90 pcr bu. State certiflcd Grimm at lowest prices. New timothy, $1.90 per bu. Sacks includcd. Write for samples and circular matter. Frank Sinn, Box 457. t‘larinda. Iowa. WOLVERINE OATS ubsolutcly pure, color and gor- mination perfect. Very heavy. Ouo dollar bushel, bags free. Freight prepaid. Michigan, on ovcr 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 dent. Picketts yellow dent and Michigan yellow dent (a very early dcnl). Ccr— titled worthy oats. 2-row barley and swcot. clover seed. ])t‘l)l. A, Paul C. Clement. Britten. Michigan. MICHIGAN REGISTERED Certified Hardigan Alfalfa seed, certified by Michigan Crop Improvement Ass’n. Purity 99.50 clcancd. and scarificd. Price $32.25 pcr bushel. immediate delivery. Irwin Reibling. Elkton, Mich. WANTED—Jib hear from owner of farm for sale for spring delivery. 0. Hawici'. Baldwin. Wis. FARMS FOR RENT REGISTERED & CERTIFIED Polar Dent Seed Corn and Gilbert's Yellow Dent. the corn that made Mich- igan's highest official record of 112 bu. shelled com FARM FOR IIENT-KIHkhdd0fl Farm. 304 wcrcs. good buildings. lomted 3 miles southeast. of Belle-ville. Mich. Twenty arm‘s apple orchard. trees 15 to 20 ycars old. l’lace farmed by owner last. .thirty years. Inquire at farm. or I). S. Kiskadden. 1012 Biihl Bldg” Detroit. FARM T0 RENT to responsible party. with family. for dairy purposes. 162 acres near Farmington. Close to Detroit. References required. Julius l’orath, 5959 W. Warren. Detroit. EXCHANGE WANTEDLFlour and feed mill in exchange for 95- acre farm. 12940 Patton Ave. Detroit. Mich. MSCELLANEOUS FOR SALE CHEAP-I Manure Box made from 1‘4 white pine. price $20.00: two horse wagons $1200: 1 American riding Cultivator $8.00: 1 Dick hand and power feed cutter $10.00: 1 Giant paris green duster $3.00. For particulars. write Ed. l‘oupard. 1011 Yorkshire Hy., Grossc Point, or call Hick. 9771. 125 GOOD WHITE ENVELOPES and 125 full size unrulcd Letter Heads all neatly printed and. pre- paid. one dollar. Money back if wanted. Other good. printing at low prices. Address. The Braytons, Frccport, Michigan. \VHY BLAME THE BULL when your cow does not breed? Use Cow Catch 1 hour before service. Re- sults or your money back: 85 cents for one cow. $2.90 for five cows. postpaid. Woodstoek Farm, Renton. Route 2, Box 49C. Washington. 84 pages in the for your Ill. OUR 1928 CATALOG just. from press. showing Largest. Line of Poultry Supplies World. (Over 300 items.) Write today. copy Free. Browor Mfg. 00.. C—27. Quincy, VIRGIN WOOL YARN for sale by manufacturer at bargain. Samples free. A. Bartlett. Harmony, Maine. per acre in year 1925. Ernest Gilbert. \Valdmn. Michigan. SCIENCE AND PRACTICE demonstrate Improved Amcrican Banner wheat, Wolverine oats. Improved Robust. beans best for Michigan. A. Cook, ()ivosso. Mich. SH'EE'I‘ CLOVER SEED. While blossom. grown north- tcu Michigan. Rcclcaned. scarified. Scaled bags. Delivered your station $0.00 bushel. Thos. Bucll, I’iIllliI‘lL Mich. HIGH YIELDING STRAIN Ccrtiflod and Registered Golden. Glow Sccd ("om ripened five successive sca- ::'>ns ncar Manistcc, Mich. Kate L. chisch. Frec- soil. Michigan. YELLOW DENT SEED CORN. Germination high and guaranteed every way. Write us before buying. (lee. W. Necdham, Saline. Mich. FOR SALE—Certified White Jars. Lynch, Coral, Michigan. Rural Sccd Potatoes. CERTIFIED “'OLVERINE OATS. Michigan's loading variety. C. D. Finkbcinetr, Clinton, Mich. TOBACCO SPECIAL OFFER—Chewing or smoking 5 lbs. $1: 10. $1.75; Cigars 50 for $1.95: pay when received. money refunded if not satisfactory. Farmers Asso- ciation. \Vest Paducah. Kcntucky. GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing. 5 pounds. $1.25: 10. $2. Smoking, 10. $1.50. Pipe Free! Pay postman. United Farmers. Bardwell. Kentucky. HOMESI’I‘N TOBACCO—Ripe, guaranteed. Chewing 5 lbs. $l.50: 10. $2.50: 20. $1.50. Smoking 5 lbs.. 31.13.1110. 82.00; 20, $3.50. Farmers Union. May- .“ . \3’. IIOMESPUN TOBACCO: Chewing 5 lbs. $1. Smok- ing 5 lbs. 5c. Pay when received. I’ipe free. Farmers Union, A5, Paducah. Ky. TOBACCO: Kentucky Swoctlt‘af. hfcllow. Aged. Smok- RARY CHICKS—From our extra large type Eng. W. ch. Heavy producers. Get our circular before ordcring elsewhere. Prices low. only $107.50 per 1,000. A-l chicks. Model l’oulti'y Farm. Zecland. R. 4, Michigan. VIGOROUS BABY (‘IIH'I(S. I‘IOcks culled for vitality. type. and egg production. Iarrcd. Whilfi. Illuf‘f Rocks, Rcds. $11; \VYIIIIIIOIICH. luff O‘fliianDS. $15; White chhoms, $12.50. \Vatcrville Hatchery. \Vatcrvillc, Ohio. BETTER BABY CHICKS from State Fair winners. production class. Eighty per cent, of our chicks go to old customers. Eleven brccds. Booking orders. Living prices. Write. Litchticld Ilatclicry, Litchfield. Mich. RILEY'S CHICKS——-I'roduccd from selected pure brcd—to-lay and exhibition flocks of healthy, carefully culled breeders. Reasonable prices. Folder free. White chhoriis, Barn-d Rocks, White Vyandottcs. Sunny-brook Poultry Farm, Hillsdalo. Mich. BABY CHICKS of all standard variciics. Flock! carefully dulled for laying, seicral ycars. by M. S. C. poultry men. Write for prices. Clinton County Hatchery, Maxwell and chs. Proust. St. Johns. Mich. BABY CHICKS. White and Brown chhorns 12c. Single Comb Rods, Barrcd and “'hitc Plymouth. Rocks 13c. White “’ynndottcs. Ruff Oi‘lringtons 140. Jersey Black (Rank 20-. In 100 lot~;. it). (I. lur— ger, Crestlino. Ohio. the better gradc our Strong and husky: BARRED ROCK CHICKS of Specialty: Michigan Accrcdilcd. Ilrchl‘o-Lny strains. Itciisririabli' pricctl. \\'rilc for information. Howc's Accredited Hatchery. Essoxvillo, Mich. ENGLISH LIIGHORNS free from (liarrlicn. Cus— tnmcr rcports 350 pullcts ai‘cragcd 20R cggs for your. Chicks. I’rcpaid $14 pcr liundrcd. $05 for 500. $120 a 1,000. $1 pcr hundrctl books order from this ad. Pleasant View Poultry Farm, Adrian. Mich. March 500 LEOHORN Disvmmt CHICKS. on orders of S. C. IV. ENGLISH dolivci'y $11.00 lN‘l‘ l00. or more. Satisfaction and live dclivcry guaranteed. Henry V‘Vaici'way, Hullnnd. Mich., R. 0. STATE ACCREDITED liarrcd Rock Chicks from T. 1%. and B. W. I). tcstcti flocks. You muxt be satisficd. Lone Pine Poultry Farm. Lco. V. Card. llillsdnlc. Mich. AIONI‘ZY IN QUALITY CHICKS. I’oullry experts and. satisfied (hammers back our profit making chicks. Illustratcd catalog l'rcc. Gct the facts. Windmill Pointe Hatchery, I318 Altcr Road. Detroit. BABY CHICKS ANI) EGGS Superior Ringlct. Barred llocks, Rose Comb des. Tam-red and English White Leghorns. ('atalogu. Wyndham's Ideal Poultry Yards, Tifl‘in, Ohio. LOOK! 100,000 chicks 9c up. 20 varieties. Using many 200 to 312 cm: record bred ROP cockcrels. Scnd for free catalog giving big curly ordcr dis— counts. Lawrence Hatchcry. Grand Rapids. Mich. BABY CIIICKSu-S. C. “'hitc chliorns $10 pcr 100. Barred and White, Rocks $13 per 100. Send for cataIOguc. Snowflake I‘oultry Farm, L. Van Schie. I’rop.. Route 5, Middlcvillo, Mich. FOLKS LISTEN. We increased our capacity. im- loguc. Seth S. Bean, Jackson. Mich. Box 57, Grand Rapids. Mich. HUMMER-SATTLEY: 76 years in business. get. price: on tractor. orchard and garden disc. barrows. Seth S. Bean. Jackson. Mich. PET AND LIVE STOCK REGISTERED FOXI'IS~—\\'rito for 100% increase guaranteed. Booklct; terms. Agents wanted. ("leary Bros. Empire Bldg. Washington. Breeder Sca tile RABBITS—~Make Big I‘roflts with Chinchilla. Rabbits. ranching offer, i S. C. R. I. I‘ri cs: i'cusmiablc. iiigton. Michigan. RED COCKERICLS»Ag00d size; color. Wesley S. Ilawlry. Route 3. Lud- MALLARD DUCKS. trio $5, singles $2. M. R. h llodgdon, Birmingham. Mic . BABY CHICKS INSURE YOUR SUCCESS. Rocks or \Vhite Leghorns. buy Aseltino Barred . l'cdigrccd males from Dani’s laying over 200 eggs head our flecks. Blood FRUIT TREES AND NURSERY STOCK 'I‘IFTON'S RELIABLE PLANTS. Frosfproof Cab- bage. Early Jersey and Charleston Wakefield. Flat Dutch, Succession, Danish Bullhead. Copenhagen Market and Golden Acre. Tomato Plants: Bonnie Best, Greater Baltimore, Livingston Globe. John Bear and Earliana. Bermuda and Prize Taker Onion Plants. Ruby King and Bull Nose Popper Plants. Postpaid. 250, $1.00: 500, $1.50: 1,000. $2.50. Ex- press Collect $1.50 per 1,000. Care used in pack- ing. We guarantee to arrive in good condition. Tifton Plant Co. Tifton. Ga. PEACH TREES. $5 per 100 and up. $7.50 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, iincs: ornamental trees. vines and shrubs. Free catalog in aolors. Tennessee Nursery 00., Box 125, Cleveland. enn 100 MASTODON GENUINE, thrifty, nonlicrn grown ci'm‘lwaring strawberry plants $2.00. Not cheapest. but selected for success. 1,000 $12.50. 1.000 Champion $8.50. Dunlap $3.25. Gibson $3.75. 1,000 heavy- rooted grape plants $20.00. 40 varieties. Catalog free. Wcsthauser's Nurseries. Sawyer. Mich. STANDARD NURSERY STOCK. 6! new. Large. small fruits. Cantalorupe flavored plum, flowers. Hardy. cheap. Catalog. Vikls. Nurseries. Lonsdale. Minnesota. Mfdm. MILLIONS. nice frost proof cabbage. and tomato plants, lending varieties. $1. 1.000. Bermuda Onion plantsI $1.50 1,000. Clark Plant 00.. Thomasvule. Georgia. . STRAWBERRIES. Mastodon Everbcaring plants, frmn originators patch. eleven other varieties. prices inter- cstlng. Catalog free. E. M. Kline 0. Sons. Twelve Mile, Ind. . -. i' - '02 L‘ - ' . . Iiifilt'hnlofiglvtl’xlidl‘f'quI'OI‘IIIEIHa for fart» 8 oiirads “‘5th fire consecutive Wars. 'I‘rapncsting 400 pul- ' ' ' lets undenRecord of Performance supervision. Rca- RAT TERRIOR I'UI'S. bred for rattors. Satisfaction 5.0911“? “““f-‘i W ““5 Tum-V- “W" W "i”‘um 01‘ guaranteed Crusaders Kennels Stafford Kansas 'i'isitk 011‘” Ifam. Aseltuic Poultry Farm, Cornstock ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ar , lici. MATTRESSES \VHITE LEGIIORN CHICKS from big white eggs. Shipped anywhere c. o. (1. Guaranteed to live. Low MATTRESSES made any size. low factory prices. "mmld ”M's" Trapnostctl. pedigreed foundation (,‘atalo f , . ) - » ‘n t . ., - ’ _ stock. Egg contest records to 314 eggs. Hundreds of g ree leoria. Bedd) 5: Company lwna’ Ill cockercls. pullots, hens. Bargain prices. Big 28th annual catalog free. George B. Ferris. 934 Union, Grand Rapids. Michigan. MICHIGAN CERTIFIED “’liito chhorns Chicks and Hatching Eggs. First Pen Michigan International Egg Laying Contest, 1920-1927, Record 2753 eggs in 52 weeks which is the highest rccord ever made in Michigan Contcst. Grade A. (‘hicks $10.00 per hundrcd. \Vrite for circular and prices on special matings. Harry Burns. Millington. Mich. QUILT PIECES. Lovely pcrcules. ginghams. 3 lbs. . , . r , provcd strains of chicks and never quotcd such low $1.00. Mrs. George Morgan. Vicksburg. Mich. ‘I‘F’Hm ”(funds 51- ”mm“ .31‘00- “WWW“ 1“ priccs. Write for pricc list. Merrill & Clare Hatch- reiird. lxcntucky Farmers. Wingo, Kentucky. erics, Mcrrill. Michigan. ? FARM MACHINERY POULTRY mpv CHICKS and eggs fnr hatching from brod to . lay Buff chhorns. Hillcrcst Poultry Farm. Bath. IlUMlVIER—SATTLEY IMPLEMENTS: PIUWS. Disc. 3 VARIETIES Record of Performance Male blatings’ Mich. lover, tandem and tractor barrows. Spreaders. cream m-deg pmkmels, pullcts. and (.mpks. Free (catalog separator. cultivator. rotary hoe. 0N?- ASk [01' 0313‘ giving big early order discounts. Beckmaii Hatchery, BABY CHICKS—Rocks, Rcds, and Leghorns. Each 13. All stock bloodtestcd and. Pierce Hatchery. .Icromc, Mich. wcck beginning Feb. Michigan Accredited. BAHY CHICKS $0.00 > per 100. vigorous chicks, no cripples. Robt. Holland, Michigan. strong. R. 4, Seconds. Christopher. QUALITY BARRED ROCK CHICKS. credited. Pinccroft Poultry Farm Owosso, Mich. 'Write for circular. Michigan Ac- & Hull-hum, TURKEYS WHITE HOLLAND ’I‘URKEYS and White I’ekin Ducks, pure-bred healthy stock. Addrcsscd stamped envelope for reply. Aldcn Whitromb, Mich. Byron Center. EDGEH'OOI) GIA NT BRONZE ~»I.argc hardy Northern turkeys. Sire winner at lntcrnational, sun or 1926 All-Airici'ican grand champion. Mrs. Edgar Case, Benzonia. Mich. TITRKEYS, all brccds. Strictly pure-bred. Unre— lated pairs and tries, reasonable prices. Eastem Ohio Poultry Farm. llcallstillc. ()hio. l'Il'lll"«BRICD MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS. Champion and Goldlntiik strains. Earl &. Merle Phelps. Dowzigiac. Mich. BRONZE TURKEYSand “'hite Guineas. Mrs. M. B. Noble, Sailing, Illicit. AGENTS WAN I ED BABY CHICKS—You can buy your early hatched Michigan Accredited chicks right here at. home. First hatch January 15. Also booking orders now for spring delivery at special discount. Send for catalog and prices. Bnimmcr-Frcdrickson Poultry Farm. Box 28, Holland. Michigan. HARRIET) ROCK CHICKS and Hatching Eggs. Record at Michigan International Egg Laying Con- tcst: winners heavy breeds 1927. Highrst Barred Reck pcn from Michigan past three years and to date. in present contest. F. E. Foglc. Okemos, Mich- ignn. ACCREDITED WHITE LEGIIORN CHICKS. Holly- wood strain. Contest piillcts now average 25 ounce cggs per dozen. 1920 contest pen averaged 239 eggs each. Customer's profit $3.00 per bird. Also An- mnas. Rocks. Catalogue. Wyngarden Hatchery. Box ll. Zcelund. Mich. CHICKS. We have had eighteen years’ experience in hatching chicks of standard varieties. We personally inspect and cull our flocks which are good producers. healthy. and pure-bred. Write for prices. Special discount on five hundred and one thousand lots. S'icpard Poultry Farm & Hatchery. Litchflcld, Mich. NEIV HOUSEHOLD DEVICE washes—dries windows. sweeps. cleans walls. scrubs. mops. Costs less than brooms. Over half profit. Harpers, 173 Third St. Fairflcld, Iowa. \VANTED—Farmcr or farmer's son or man to traiel in country. Steady work. Good profits. McCon- non & Company. Dept. F 26, Winona. Minn. ______ HELP WANTED MARRIED MAN by the year, for farm lob. Ex- perienced with hogs. Wife willing to board few hands. Modern residence. Good living conditions. State experience and Wages. Address Box 137. Mich- igan Farmer, Detroit. HELP WANTED. Working Herdsman. single. must be a. good milker. good care taker and reliable. Give age. experience. wages expected and reference. H. F. Probe-rt. Route 1, Jackson. Mich. \VANTED—MILK ROUTE SALESMAN. Must. be be- twccn 25 and 35 years of age and married. $200 cash bond. required. Steady work and good future. Give inirtiteuitalxishm application. Freeman Dairy Company. a in.. c . IMP-Y CHICKS from flocks mated with cokercls from bcst laying straim. Closely culled for production. type, and color. Eight most popular breeds. 100% live dclivcry. Post paid. Write for prices. Homer Hatchery, Homer, Michigan. EARN $5 gathering evergreens. roots. herbs. Booklet frcc. Botanical, 77, Ncw Haven, Conn. WANTED—~Expcrlenced single man for form was Oscar Paul. Ann Arbor. Mich” B. 0. is no lubricant after 200 miles SPECIAL WINTER CHART. Mobiloil Arctic should be used in Winter (below 32°F.) in all cars marked*. PASSENGER CARS 1927 1926 E 1924 Auburn all erupt Modd! 4-44 (56-66 Buick .............. , ............ Cadillac ......................... Chandler :3:th Spatial Six ......... Chevrolet ........................ Chrysler Hyl. . . '. . . .- ............. Dodge Brothers ............. . ..... Elcar all txttpt illodrlr 6-65 {:5 4 tyh. Erskine .......................... Lssex ............................ l‘lint ............................ Hudson ......................... llupmobile ...................... jordan .......................... La Salle ......................... Locomobile ...................... Marmon 84yL .................... Moon ........................... Nash ....... . ..................... Oakland ......................... _ Oldsmobile. . Overland & Overland Whippet. ..... Packard Six ................. a . . . “ Eight ................... Paige ......................... -. . . Peerless Model: 60. 80 U Eight ..... Pontiac ......................... Reo .............................. Star ........................... Studebaker ............ .......... Velie ............................ Willys—Knight .................... Q.................Iil§.‘l........ .I.....I .ifi‘l. 0.......I....'-. .I...... i .I....... eIIIQ Q Illi'l I i.... .. .I'... .. Ii... If your car is not listed above, consultthe complete Mobiloil Chart at Mobiloil deal— ers’ for your winter grade of Mobiloil. Today’s added winter mileage intensifies an old problem. The increase in winter driving has brought in many so-called “winter oils”. Many of these oils are unusually light in body. Many are produced solely to give you easy starting. A cold morning finds this thin oil in your crankcase. You start your cold engine. You must use your choke freely. The cold combustion chambers fail to vaporize all the fuel. Some of the gasoline is forced by the piston rings. Gasoline dilution begins. In 200 miles of driving you may easily get a full quart of gasoline mixed with your lubricating oil. Two winter troubles minimized For winter use in most cars we recommend Gargoyle Mobiloil Arctic. Gargoyle Mobiloil Arctic meets the gasoline dilution problem with scientific exactness. Mobiloil _Arctic is quick-flowing without being a "light oil”. It is fluid enough to give you easy starting at zero, and at the same time has a full rich body that will provide thorough lubrication for all fricrion surfaces. If your car is listed in the Chart on this page Mobiloil Arctic is the oil you should use this winter. For other cars, consult the complete Mobiloil Chart- any Mobiloil dealer has it. ween? l-I l/ Mobiloil Arctic VACUUM OIL COMPANY 4 Other branches and distributing warehouses throughout the country New York, Cbicago, Tbiladelp/Jia, 30mm 7340210, ’Detmit, St. ?ittsburg/2, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Winnmpolit, Kama: Gt], (Dallas \. {ii/x ./. l l l .i if . 4. l 1 / x, ' -.' \3\ H is ‘4 I