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Hiawatha, made famous
by Longfellow and still
untouched by good
roads. They are close
to the northorn borders
of Luce and ('hippewa
Counties. The best way
to got to thorn is to
drive to Nowberry and
then go to the falls by
wagon road or river.
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A Practical Journal for the Rural Family
MICHIGAN SECTION THE CAPPER FARM PRESS

 

QUALITY
RELIABILITY
SERVICE

NUMBER X

 

 

 

 

 

“Soul Mates” in the Orchard

T fie Influence of Pol/172427072 of Crop:

T is impossible to over estimate
I the importance of a knowledge of

the pollination of fruit bloom.
\Vithout this knowledge the selection
of varieties for planting and their ar-
rangement in the orchard cannot be
intelligently practiced. The cultiva-
tion of self-sterile varieties must con-
stantly be attended by disappointment
and loss when provision has not been
made for Cross-pollination to take
place.

The whole question of pollination is
one that is not generally well under-
stood by fruit growers. Pollination
involves, first of all, the transfer of
pollen from the stamens to the pistil.
Some varieties of fruit do not “set”
well when pollinated with their own
pollen. These varieties are termed
“self-sterile.” In such cases pollen of
other varieties must be available so
that cross—pollination can take place if
profitable crops are to be harvested.
There are other varieties that set
fairly well when pollinated with their
own pollen. Such varieties are “self-
fertile.” However, even self~fertile
varieties “set” a larger per cent of
their blossoms when the varieties are
well mixed; so that cross—pollination
can take place. For all practical pur-
poses, with the possible exception of
sour cherries and most peach varie-
ties, fruit growers should regard all

varieties “commercially selfisterile”
and govern their planting practices
accordingly.

Planting Practice for Apples

Convenience of spraying and har-
vesting demand that as many trees of
a variety as can be adequately pollin-
ized be planted together. When the
planting arrangement of forty feet be-
tween rows is practiced not more than
four rows of one variety should be

By H. D.

planted together. These should be fol-
lowed by from one to four rows of the
pollinating variety or varieties depend-
ing upon their desirability for plant-
ing. More than four rows of a single
variety will tend to prevent adequate
cross—pollination in unfavorable blos-
soming seasons. When a selection of
varieties is made from the following
list (Jonathan, McIntosh, Northern

Hootman

It is not advisable to plant over three
rows of a single sweet cherry variety
together if adequate cross-pollination
is to take place. The Schmidt Biga-
reau, Bing, and Windsor are the three
best black sweet cherries. They will
effectively pollinate each other when
planted near each other. The Black
Tartarian might be added to this list
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An Abundance of Fruit Resulted From the Cross-Fertilization of this tree.

Spy, Steele Red, Delicious, Wealthy,
VVagener, Grimes Golden, or Rhode
Island Greening) and the above out-
lined planting arrangement followed
there is little danger of creating a
pollination problem. The Rhode Island
Greening is “cross-sterile” or a very
poor pollinizer for other varieties and
should this variety be selected for
planting two others should be chosen
to be planted with it.
Sweet Cherries

All sweet cherries are “self-sterile.”
They bloom very early, often during
cold weather when insect flight is
limited to relatively short distances.

but soft in flesh was wanted that

would ripen earlier than Schmidt.
Securing Pear Pollination

The Flemish Beauty is the only
pear variety grown to any extent in
Michigan that is “self-fertile.” The
Bartlett is the variety most in de—
mand. For years growers have been
planting Seckel as a pollinizer for
Bartlett in their orchards because they
blossomed at the same time. It was
not until 1925 that i: was suspected
that these two varieties were “inter-
sterile.” Seckel will not effectively
pollinate Bartlett, and Bartlett in turn
is a poor pollinizer for Seckel. \Vhen

Michigan Aids Prospective

Th3 Service Dz’fiérr from 14 72 y Oflérm’ éy Oléer

ANY farm failures could be
M avoided if those who venture

would only inquire about their
chances of success before they cast
their fat into the fire. Not to men
tion the flock of barren regrets, dulled
ambitions, and dark discouragements
that follow in the wake of failure.
The site of farm failures dot the
country from east to west, no state
is immune.

If those who are thinking of start-
ing on such a course would only con-
sult those who are in a better posi—
tion to know the likelihood of success
in that territory, everyone would
benefit. There is a law of chance and
most people would do well to find out
what the law is before taking a step
that may involve a whole life or even
several years of abject poverty.

With the thought of guiding pros-
pective farmers, the State of Mich-
igan in 1922 embarked on a land-
economic survey. It has no proto-
type elsewhere, no other state has
done anything similar so it is a matter
of some interest and may also indi-

. cute to venturing farmers some of the-
. many 8011mm from which they may

Won About the territory

 

they expect to assist in developing.

It is often thought that the only
use for, land is for agricultural or
mining purposes. But the land-econ-
omic survey has disclosed several dis-
tinct uses for land; among others,
farming, forestry, mining, recreation,
water power, and game preserves.
With the growth of cities, the recrea-
tional use for land is increasing and
many Michigan communities have got
into the “pay as you go” class
through a wider use of their lands for
recreation purposes.

Originally, the intent of the land-
economic survey was to learn more
about the agricultural possibilities of
these regions, but that always in—
volved a matter of local judgment
which was always a controversial
point. Now it has become a matter
of making an inventory of the physical
facts of the region and then anyone
can draw his own conclusion either
from what he already knows or
through the combined experience of
many others. \

This work has cost the. state ap-

". proximately two {and- ‘afihalf cents an

acre for the field Work and over four

million acres have already been in

   

are abandoned. etc

ventoried. There have been in the
past soil surveys, geological surveys,
biological surveys, and others, but the
defect in them was that each special-
ist went off on his own tangent and
without thought of how it tied into
other local facts. Now all the spe-
cialists at one time or another are
called in so when the survey is com-
plete composite of the local picture
is secured.

A soil surveyor and a. forester to-
gether go over the territory first, map-
ing it as they go. They map the soil
types, subsoil, rivers, and character of
the forest cover if there is any. The
forester has some fifty symbols with
which he can designate the approxi-
mate size of the trees, how closely
they are spaced on the ground, what
they are, etc., etc.

Another arm of the field force is
the land economist who secures his
information from the county records
and township assessors. He learns
first the intent in ownership from the
township supervisor who is also the
assessor—which men are owners,
which are tenants, what land is held
for speculation or sale, what farms

   

these two varieties are grown a. third
variety such as Bose, Flemish Beauty,
or Howell should be near by to pollin-
ate them. Pears, like sweet cherries,
should not be planted more than three
rows of one variety together.
Peaches

The J. H. Hale peach is possibly
the only peach variety that is “sclfi
sterile.” When this variety is select-
ed for planting it should be well mixed
with other varieties, if large peaches
instead of “buttons” (small peaches
with undeveloped pits) are to be pro—
duced. Elberta, South Haven, Kalama-
zoo, and Banner will effectively pol-
linate the J. H. Hale.

How Blossoms Become Fertilized

Flowers secrete nectar for the sake
of attracting insects. The honey—bees
and wild insects in gathering the nec‘
tar, crawl deep into the blossoms, cov-
‘ering their bodies with pollen from the,
stamens. In visiting other blossoms
the pollen adhering t-tv their bodies
comes in contact with the sticky stig-
mas. Here it germinates and grows
down the pollen tube until if fuses
with the ovary of the blossom which
becomes fertilized

The young fruits when first formed
have but a slight. hold upon life. l'n-
favorable influences, no matter how
slight, may cause them to perish.
Fertilization gives the tiny fruit life
and enables it to hold upon the parent
plant through nourishment drawn to
supply the developing embryo in the
seeds. Thus complete fertilization of
the blossoms usually betters the
chance of the fruit sticking on the
spur and developing instead of falling
to the ground during the “June Drop.” >
When blossom fertilization takes
place only on one side, with the ac-

(Continued on page 334)

Farmers

Slater

records and plots the farms showing
the range as to assessed valuation.
When these are mapped, any pros-
pective settler can look at the terri-
tory where he proposes to buy a farm
and see what the classification of ex
perience has been, that is—how many
abandoned farms there are in it, how-
many are occupied, and the value for
purposes of taxation. No one need
advise him, the experience of others
is the best of all criterions.

The lakes are also mapped: the
depth to the bottom, whether it is
muck, marl, or sand; the character

of the bank, whether steep or gradual,
marshy or dry. A prospective cottage
builder can then tell at a glance
whether the lot is a desirable site for
a. summer home or a group of farm-
ers can tell whether or not they can
reclaim marl from that lake. The
state division of fish hatcheries is
finding this work very useful.

All of the areas in the counties are
mapped regardless of what their pros-
pect seems to be. I was told of one
very low lying, apparently worthless
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HDETIEOIT, MARCH 10, 119E?
CURRENT COMMENT

GAIN farm prices
Prices Con? move to a more
. advantageous pos1-
tmue to tion. In January,
lmprove‘ wholesale prices for
other than farm pro-
ducts, according to the bureau of labor
statistics, averaged slightly lower than
in December; whereas, farm prices as
a group advanced over one and one-
half points above the December level.
This advance is due to increases in
the prices paid for grains, potatoes,
cattle, poultry, onions. and wool. suf-
ficient to overcome the decline in
prices of hogs and lambs. Compared
with a year ago, farm pricos are con-
siderably higher, while a large de-
crease is shown in prices of building
materials and smaller decreases on
many other commodities.

ROGRICSS is being

made with farm

m . .
Far. f relief legislation. The
Relte House committee on
Legislation agriculture has closed

its hearings and is
making an effort to include in its
recommendations such provisions as
will secure the approval of the major-
ity of the members of that branch of
Congress. A poll of the committee in-
dicates a majority in favor of the
equalization fee.

The committee has been generous
with its time. Any persons or groups,
wishing to be heard, had the oppor-
tunity. Those favoring the McNary-
Haugen equalization fee provision
have been better able to present their
full program than at former hearings.

" The debenture plan of the National

Grange also received stronger backing
than was previously accorded it.
While the measure sponsored by Con-
gressman Ketcham of this state is
generally regarded as the export de-
benture bill, a number of other bills
embodying this provision have been
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THE MICHIGAN 'FARMER

and these men will support this propo-
sition rather than the equalization fee
plan.

“It is promised that a farm relief
bill will be reported out of the com-
mittee of the House by March fifteen,
and House majority leaders have
agreed this matter will have right of
way on the floor. The bill will there-
fore have the consideration of the
lower branch of Congress after the
appropriations and navy bills have
been settled. These next few weeks
will therefore be of special interest
to farm folks whether they favor or
oppose this line of legislation.

HILE aviation

Farmin is making won-
(I g derful strides, and

a." _ men who have been
Aviation brought lip on, farms

have contributed
more than their share to the develop-
ment and promotion of the industry,
most farmers seem to feel that their
opportunity to use the airplane in their
business is remote. Very few farm—
ers likely will own planes in the near
future, but any farmer has a chance
of providing a landing field for a
crippled plane or a lost aviator at the
most unexpected moment.

When an airplane accident occurs
on a farm, both the aviator and the
farmer are out of luck. Then, the im-
mediate neighbors and a whole host
of curious motorists from around
the state, appear post haste to inspect
the remains. This is equivalent to
renting the farm to a dozen circuses
for the same date. It is very hard
on crops to have each plant tread
upon no less than twenty times.

Furthermore, a poultryman often
suffers from the presence of airplanes
in the vicinity. Many report a de-
crease in egg production during the
spring when the hens are driven regu-
larly from the range by low flying
planes. Of course, the planes look
like hawks, and how is the hen to
know they are not.

The introduction of improvements
invariable brings new problems. At
present few laws have been made for
the control of aviators, except to keep
stunt flycrs from exhibiting over foot-
ball ficlds, and to prevent low flying
over cities. However, it is just as

'nerve racking to the farmer to watch

a plane just skim over the orchard
or the lightening rods on his buildings.

The control of aviation will be
worked out step by step. l'ntil then
most farmers will make the best of
unexpected situations that may occur.

1 HERE appca rs to

A Good be a. tendency to
Bad underestimate the im-
y portance of tho physi-
Needed cal well being of the

f a rm 9 r himself. A
strong well-(loveloped body is 21 won-
derful asset in the farming business.
Keeping fit should be one of the first
considerations of the farmer.

Too often the children in the school
are the only members of the family
receiving medical attention. But, the
chances are, that the bread winner
may be the one most in need of the
doctor’s care. Many a farmer has
built an addition to hismchickcn coop
when the money expended would mean
more to him financially if used to pay
a visit to the dentist or doctor.

Struggling along half sick for
months or even ycars trying to keep
the business going, often puts success
just, that much farther away. Equally
significant is the effort of a. wife or
mother who tries tokeep the home
goingunder the handicap of an illness
which could, , if taken in time, be
treated at small expense. '

As a class, farmers like to pay their
bills as they go. Many had rather
suffer physically, than to undergo
mental suffering from 'a debt hanging
over them. But it pays to face the
proposition squarely and realize the

true value of good health. There are
few communities where some farmer
cannot be found who is fighting a los-
ing battle because ill health is too
great a handicap to make success pos-
sible.

' N the office of a

A Central Michigan
Bed of farmer hangs a pic—
ture showing a man

Roses with a broad smile

lying beneath warm
blankets on a large comfortable bed.
The bed is covered with roses. On
the headboard of the bed is the sign,
“A Bed of Roses,” and underneath the
title of the picture reads, “The Other
Fellow’s Job.” ,

This was illustrated last week when
a barber asked a farmer in the chair
the price of fresh eggs. The farmer
replied, “Fifty cents per dozen.” The
barber replied, “That is a pretty good
price for eggs.” When the farmer paid
fifty cents for his hair out, he thought
the barber did very well to collect
fifty cents for the gentle exercise with
the shears.

Each man knew his own business
best. The farmer knew that fifty
cents was not a winter egg price that
was making him rich after deducting
the feed bill. And the barber had
his financial troubles after meet-
ing rent, light, water, fuel, labor, and
other demands from his fifty cents.
Each man envied the other, and both
were earning their money.

All down the line men like the other
fellow’s job. They see the income but
not the outgo. Some farmers think

it would be great fun to own a garage, -

while some garage owners are weary
and would like to be back on the farm.

It does not pay to judge the other
fellow’s job lightly. The doctor, the
farmer, the barber, all have certain
problems to solve, and sensing fully
their own probems they think the
other fellow is enjoying a “Bed of
Roses.” ,

NE who does not
The come i n t o fre-
quent contact with
the Michigan State
College has no reali-
zation of the valuable
work that it is doing. But those who
have been in intimate relation have
a growing respect for the efficient way
in which real farm problems are being

in

handled.

What may have brought this quite
forceably to the writer’s mind was one
morning’s session of the recent spring
State Horticultural Society meeting.
Three college men occupied the time
in discussing fruit growers’ problems.
And if that time was not the most
profitable for many fruit growers in
attendance, we are poor judges.

Practical

College

The first speaker discussed the me-
chanics of spraying. Timeliness is a
great factor in successful control of
fruit insects and fungous diseases.
An orchard should be thoroughly
sprayed in thirty hours to get effec-
tive results. By this man’s unique
and original work he has found the
type of equipment, combined with
night spraying and dusting that will
enable one to do the spraying quicker,
cheaper, and more effectively.

The second subject referred to
spray materials. The speaker, through
his own spraying experimental work,
obtained some real pointed facts re-
garding the getting of results from
spray materials.

The third speaker told of the prob-
lems of pollination which he also dis-
cusses on another page of this issue.
Hitherto thousands of fruit trees have
remained barren for unknown reasons.
This man’s investigations show that
pollination is the controlling factor in
most. all cases. Many farmers will
have more apples to sell because of
these findings regarding pollination.

The grouping of thesethree men on

MARCH 10, 1928

this program brought to mind quite
ferceably the clean-cut type of thought-
ful workers on the college and cxtvn-
sion forces who areseriously engaged
in the solution of’ problems of the
everyday farmer.

HE week of April
Forestry .22-23 h a s b e e 11
Week demgnated as Ameri-
_ can Forest Week by
Designated President Coolidge.
The President urges
that all citizens and appropriate or‘
ganizations give thought to the preser-
vation and wise use of our forests, to
the end that energetic forest policies
will be adopted in all communities.
“W'e have made a beginning in forest
renewal,” he says, “but the task is
stupendous, and we should permit no
satisfaction over what has been done
to blind us to the magnitude‘of what
remains to be done.”

M arc/2

ELL, here it is .again--March

with its longer days and Dame
Nature getting things ready so we’ll
have to work.

Old Lady Nature sure does fix
things so we kin work. She gives us
long nights so we kin sleep and get
rested good and proper when there
ain’t nothing to do and then when the
growing season starts the days are
longer so we kin have light to work
by. The days get longer up to June
’cause there’s more to do in spring.
The farmer is about the only one who
works by the sun—from sun up to
sun down. Most
everybody else
works by the
clock and day or
night don’t mean
much to them, as
long as they got
a clock to work
by.

But the farmers
ain’t gettin’ to be
any better. Fer inst, them radios is
causing lots of farmers to lose sleep
to find out what the jazz orchestra is
goin’ ta play about midnight. It uses
up lots of kerosene oil and Sofie says
it’s lots harder to clean the lamps.
I just wonder if the kerosene com-
panies ain’t behind this radio stuff.

And now besides that, I see they’re
sayin’ night is the best time fer spray-
in’ fruits. I knew night was 0. K.
fer stealin’ them but this is some-
thin’ new. This upall-night stuff will
kinda make a fellow think of his
courtin’ days.

March fourth is a great day not
only ’cause the President of US.
starts on his job, but because then
the farmer is gotta march forth and
get into action fer the annual battle
of crops. He’s gotta shoulder his
spade and hoe and get his horses out
to make some front line trenches. The
fellow that ain’t got his fightin’ equip-
ment ready for business ain’t a good
soldier. The better your equipment is
the more chance you got to win the
battle.

From March fourth it kinda means
“go” fer us farmers who’ve been
sleeping under blankets of snow all
winter. That’s just one reason I don’t
Want to farm in the South. You ain’t
got no winter to have an excuse for
settin’ inside and doin’ nothing. I do
just like settin’ by a roarin’ fire on
a cold blizzardy day.

Well, here’s hopin’ that you got your
harness oiled and fixed, tools sharp—
ened, wagons greased, tongues and
shafts fixed, machinery and wagons
painted, manure hauled, wood hauled
and cut, and etc., and etc., during
them months when we lazy farmers
don’t have nothing to do, so that from
now on you won’t have nothing to do
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[THE MICHIGAN FARMER

Phosphorous Boosted This Corn

Farmer Also Learns Ot/zer Need: of t/ze Crop

By C. E

HRIS HANSEN, a good farmer,
but discouraged because long
hours of work and careful culti-

vation of his fields failed to give pro-
fitable crops, had asked the county
agent to go over the farm and make
suggestions regarding soil improve-
ment. I had accompanied them dur-
ing the inspection of the hay and
wheat fields and wenow swung over
the fence into a field of rich looking
silt loam which was destined to be
planted to corn.

“What trouble have you experienced
with corn in this field in other years,”
inquired Dick, the county agent.

“Not a thing until fall,” replied
Chris. “Then in place of getting ripe
the corn stays soft until along comes
a frost and the result is poor quality
grain and no seed for next year.”

“The remedy for that,” commented
Dick, “is your old friend phosphoric
acid. Did you notice Charlie Wilson’s

. Millar

couple of feet and see what this sand
is resting on,” I suggested.

“No need to do that. I can tell you
what the subsoil is under all my
fields,” said Hansen with some pride.
“Down here on this level sandy loam
there is a brownish red clay and gra-
vel mixture which gets hard as rock
in dry weather.”

“That helps,” I replied. “You can
build up a sandy soil if it has a good
foundation, but when it is sand all
the way down, soil-building is a tough
job. That clay holds water enough
to tide your crops over many a dry
spell. But how does it happen, miris,
that you know what kind of subsoil
is under your land?”

“Dad looked after that before he
bought the place. You don’t suppose
he would buy a farm without investi-
gating the subsoil, do you?”

“I am sorry to say many farmers do
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corn last fall? As the crop stood in
the field you could see little difference
between that on fertilized and unfer-
tilized land, but when it was shucked
out the corn receiving acid phosphate
was firmer on the cob and much more
mature, besides it yielded fifty-nine
bushels while the unfertilized crop
only went thirty—five and one-half.”

“Did acid phosphate make all that
difference? It doesn’t seem possible,”
exclaimed Hansen.

“Those are the actual figures,” re
plied the county agent, “and there
wasn’t. a bit of difference in the treat-
ment of the two parts of the field
except the addition of acid phos-
phate. The increase in yield was
unusually large I’ll admit,” he con-
tinued, “but you know all the farm-
ers who raise corn for Show and to
sell for seed use fertilizer high in
phosphoric acid. If the land is in a
good state of fertility no other com-
mercial plant foods are needed, but if
the soil is run a little nitrogen and
potash should be included in the fer-
tilizer.”

“That sounds as though acid phos‘
phate was the very thing for corn,
but my experience has been that man-
ure is a first class corn fertilizer,”
commented Chris.

“It certainly is,” agreed Dick. “If
a farmer could get all the manure he
wanted to put on his land he could
raise bumper corn crops if the mois-
ture in the soil held out.”

Then he want on to explain that
manure is low in phosphoric acid and
how field tests have proved that an
addition of acid phosphate along with
manure will balance the plant food
situation and make a medium applica-
tion give just as good results as a
heavy dressing.

“That’s one way,” he continued,
“that many farmers are making the
manure supply stretch out over more
acres. Now let’s look at the other end
of this field. It appears more sandy.”

“Yes, the soil at the far side is
pretty light. It blows some if I don’t
keep a crap on it all the time,” ad—
mitted Chris.
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to Grow Good Corn

their mistake after it is too late,” I
admitted.

“\Vhat’s under those sandy knolls
that you say blows some,” asked Dick.

“That’s yellow sand just as deep as .

you care to dig.”

“Why don’t you lime it, give it a.
good coat of manure and seed it to
alfalfa? It will produce more that
way than in other crops,” advised the
county agent. ,,

“W'ell, maybe I will. But right now
I want to know what kind of fertilizer
to use for corn on this level sandy
soil,” said the farmer coming back to
the purpose of our visit to the field.

“Have you manured it recently?”
Dick was surely strong on using man-
ure.

“No. And I can’t get it covered this
spring either.”

“Better use a complete fertilizer
then, say a 3-12-4, a 2-12-6 or similar
analysis.”

“About how much?”

“That depends on how you apply
it. If it is broadcast and dragged in
before planting, from 200 to 300
pounds is about right. In case you
drill it in the row or hill, I would not
advise over 125 pounds.”

“You wouldn’t suggest putting it in
the row or hill, would you?” demanded
Chris in astonishment. “I should
think the roots would all cluster
around the fertilizer instead of grow-
ing out through the soil, and then
when a dry period comes the crop
would suffer for water.”

“Most people thought that until
some of the experiment station men
dug out the root systems of corn
which had been fertilized in- the hill
and compared them with the root
systems of corn fertilized by the
broadcast method,” replied Dick.

“What did they find out?”

“\Vell, there was a whole handful of
feeding roots clustered around the
fertilizer but the main root system ex-
tended through the soil just as far or
further than when the fertilizer was
broadcast.”

“That’s interesting. What’s the ad-
vantage of dropping the fertilizer so

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I know who makes them and I know
who uses them. Swift makes them and
the Swift name on a product always
means the best product of its kind.
Successful farmers around here use them
and I’ll take their judgment on results.

These farmers know that the right
kind of fertilizer gives them bigger
yields per acre and crops of better
quality. That all means more profit.
‘They make sure of the right kind of
fertilizer by using Swift’s.

They use Swift’s high anaIysis fer»
tilizer because it gives them their plant
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the country sees Harry F. Sin-

clair and two of his associates
sentenced to jail for from fifteen days
to four and six months, for criminal
contempt of court. They attempted to
and did obstruct justice by shadowing
the jury in the Teapot Dome con-
spiracy trial.

Sinclair gets the longest sentence.
He is also under sentence of imprison-
ment for three months for refusing to
answer the questions of the Senate
oil investigating committee.

Only one man was fined, the least
offender, a son of Detective Burns. In
ordering the other three men to jail
instead of fining them, Justice Siddons
of the District of Columbia supreme
court, did something to make this
year’s anniversary of Vi'ashington’s
birthday memorable, it seems to me;
something toward upholding the na-
tion \Vashington founded.

The Senate’s arrest of Colonel
Stewart, Standard Oil official, for re-
fusing to answer questions and there-
by impeding justice in this same con-
Spiracy, is in the same category.

* =9 at:

That none of these men are yet in
jail does not signify they will not be
eventually. Just now the encouraging
fact is they have been sentenced to
imprisonment. The Senate sent Sin-
clair to jail a year ago, but through
the law’s delays he has not yet gone
there. Now Colonel Stewart, head of
the Standard Oil Company of Indiana,
is in the same position. But a final
reckoning is coming.

To obstruct justice, to interfere with
the action or enforcement of law, is
morally as wrong as breaking the law
and is so recognized to some extent.
Where great corporations are the of-
fenders, modern conditions demand
that the penalty and the disgrace shall
be as great, for their opportunities for
sinning to the. injury of many are far
greater and more serious.

To try to obstruct justice, to try to
prevent the searching out and punish-
ing of those connected with the Tea-
pot Dome ignominy, is to be as ig-
nominious.

* * >1:

Because of such obstruction and the
legal delays, the Department of Jus-
tice. with all the power at its com-
mand, has been five years laying bare
the Teapot Dome sore. But, so far it
has succeeded in compelling the re-
turn of tvventyvfour million dollars in
cash to the United States. Also 300
million dollars’ worth of oil in the
ground from the Pan-American Petro-
leum Company, and from three to four
millions in cash from the Mammoth
Oil Company.

About 400 million dollars has been
recovered by these five years of legal
battles notwithstanding delays. legal
and otherwise, to impede and defeat
justice, which has made necessary the
pursuing of blind trails up innumer-
able blind alleys, and some not so
blind, at, the. expense of the taxpayers
of the United States.

April 2, the oil magnate Sinclair
faces another trial for conspiracy in
connection with the Teapot, Dome
lease, and, if convicted, still another
sentence to imprisonment.

The game of obstruction is about
played out in the Teapot Dome case.

It * *

It is refreshing to turn from the
sensational, melodramatic, and sordid
phases of the Teapot Dome infamy to
the strong condemnation of such trick-
ery in business expressed by John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., before the Senate in-
vestigating committee and in his let-
ter to Colonel Stewart. It. lays down

a code of ethics for big business.

In his letter to Colonel Stewart, Mr.
Rockefeller said:

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER

‘ Obstructing the Law

ITH much satisfaction, I think, possess not to wait for an invitation

from the Senate Committe, which has
been appointed to look into this mat-
ter, much less a subpoena to appear
befOre it, but to wire Senator Walsh
at once, offering to put yourself at the
disposal of the committee to tell all
you know about this matter.

Unfortunately Colonel Stewart acted
on only part of this advice and re-
fused to answer revealing questions.

Taking the stand himself and an.
swering all the questions putt to him,
Mr. Rockefeller said:

Nobody having information on this
matter has a right to withhold it.

No officer of any company has a
right to make money for himself,
either at the expense of his company
or by reason of the position he holds.

Every stockholder of a company
whose officers participated in this par-
ticular deal should do his utmost to
get the facts revealed and to have the
securities searched for any evidence
which may enable the Senate Com-
mittee to get the evidence it seeks.

I believe that business can be run

on a sound, high, fair basis. As a
stockholder in any company, I want no
profit derived from compromise With
right. I want no officer in any com-
pany in which I own stock, whether
he be high or low, or any employe, to-
do anything that I would not myself
be willing to do.

Before it ends I believe the Senate’s
oil inquiry will have done much to
bring about the general code of ethics
for big as well as little business, that
the younger Rockefeller stands for.
Then there will be no need, for ob-
structing the law or of seeking legal
loopholes for the shelter of the guilty.
Meanwhile those who have the pro-
cedure of the courts in their hands
should see that the law’s delay in
such cases should not become “a

burning disgrace to the jurisdic-
tion of the

U nit e d

States.” .

WASHINGTON, D. C.

The Bean ‘Outlook

HE 1927 crop of about 16,872,000

bushels of dry edible beans is ap—
parently fully equal to domestic de-
mands. While the total production in
1926 was larger than in 1927. the pick
of damaged beans in 1926 was heavy.
it the same acreage is planted in 1928
as in 1927 an average yield would give
about 17,800,000 bushels. An increase
over that figure would probably result
in a further reduction in prices, even
allowng for average pick and for nor-
mal increase in consumption.

The quality this season in most
states is exceptionally high and the
supply of merchantable beans appears
to be greater than last year. Hence,
the 1927
price levels slightly lower as a whole
than were paid for the 1926 and 1925
crops. .

Since 1923 imports and exports have

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been comparatively small. Foreign
price levels range too low to justify
the production of beans for export ex-
cept for limited quantities of some spe-
cial types. Either the surplus of any
crop which is larger than our domes-
tic requirements must be carried over,
with a depressing effect on prices of
the following crop, or the entire crop
must be marketed at prices influenced
by the price paid for export beans.

The total production of pea beans
in 1927 was about 4,800,000 bushels,
which is twenty per cent less than in
1926 and thirty-seven per cent less
than in 1925. However, losses from
weather damage were light this sea-
son compared with unusually heavy
damage the two previous years and
on a handpicked basis the production
is about the same as in 1926 and
sixteen per cent less than in 1925.

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SVVAMPED

E knew that Michigan Farmer readers would respond generously; but
we had no idea of what was in store when we published the first

two articles on Michigan Farmer Protective Service.
\Ve are now compelled to get our breath. There
has been no time to arrange for publication even a small

was enormous—staggering.

The response

number of the

letters assuring us of the fullest cooperation of the farm people of the

state in this effort to gain public respect for farm property.

()ur failure to

run a coupon has added to the office work in explaining to our friends how

to become a. member of the Property Protective Service.
we are publishing below a coupon which

For this reason
we urge our readers to use in

sending in their memberships to the Michigan Farmer Protective Service.

Write name and address plainly.

 

E. A. Shearer,

1632 Lafayette Blvd, Detroit.

Dear Mr. Shearer:

 

Manager, Michigan Farmer Protective Service,

Enclosed find twenty-five cents for which enroll me as amember
of the Michigan Farmer Protective Service and send me the weath-
er—proof, steel Protective Service Sign, the Registered Tag and
Key Chain with proper registration in your Detroit offices, a signed
Membership Certificate,- and a \Varning Sign carrying the announce-
ment of awards for capturing thieves and trespassers.
closing the stencil of my address from the
showing that I am a bent fida subscriber to that publication.

Name ...................................... R. I). ...............

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MARCH 10', 1928' 1

Prices showed a steady upward trend
during the summer of 1927. They have
declined slightly since September, but:
have averaged higher than in any
similar period since 1923. Growers’
returns were enhanced by the lowr
‘pickage and by the high quality of
the crop. The demand for pea beans
for canning has been rapidly increas-
ing during recent years, but its es‘
tablished position as the standard dry
bean in grocery trade is being vigor-
ously contested by the newer western
types. The present supply of pea
beans, which appears ample for nor-
mal demands, was produced with acre
yields materially below the average.
A slightly smaller acreage, with an
average season, would produce a sup—
ply equal to probable needs.

There was a heavy decrease in the
excessive production of red and dark
red kidney beans following the rapid
decline in prices at the beginning of
1927. The present supply is consider-
ably below the average of the past
five years and present prices are high-
es than the low levels of 1927. The
market demand for these beans is
relatively limited and plantings of this
type may easily be overdone.

The production of great northerns
in 1927 was the largest on record—
2,500,000 bushels compared with 1,335.~
000 in 1926, and 1,530,000 in 1925. Ow-
ing to depleted stocks in distributors’
hands the 1927 crop moved rapidly at,
prices to growers only slightly below
those of last year. The rapid’increase
in the production of this class of
beans and the readiness with which it
has been marketed has made it a.
strong factor in the white bean mar-
kets in competition with some of the
older types; however, a further heavy
increase in production in 1928 would
be likely to result in considerably
lower prices.

News of the week

. Harry Brooks, of Birmingham, Mich-
igan, who made a recent record non-
stop fllght with the Ford flivver plane,
was drowned 011' the coast of Sebas-
tian, Florida, when his plane dived
into the seas for some unknown cause.
HIS plane has been recovered but
search for his body has been given up.

The city of Chicago has bought the
O’.Leary homestead for $36,000 and
Will erect a memorial fire station on
this Site where the famous Chicago
fire started.

The much discussed beer~by-‘the-
glass bill was overwhelmingly de-
feated by the Ontario, Canada, legis—
lature.

The Detroit Edison Company and
the Consumers’ Power Company have
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Michigan. Their lines will be con—
nected but the companies will be
separate.

Melvin Thomas, 50 years old, a
farmer living near Ann Arbor, was
trampled to death by an angered bull
in his barnyard. "

Fifteen coeds at ‘Michigan State
College have petitioned the college to-
let them take a mechanics course.
Their petition has been granted.

The tri-motored plane which Com-
mander R. E. Bird will use to make
his trip to the South Pole is at the
Ford airport, in Dearborn.

Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the
former governor of Pennsylvania, has
announced herself as a candidate for
congressional nomination.

Hildegard Braun, wife of a baker
in Berlin, Germany, gave birth to her
thirteenth consecutive pair of twins.

Two hundred and twenty students
have been required to drop from the
literary college of the T'niversity of
Michigan because of their lack in
scholarship~

A report from Washington indicates
that more than 500,000 union workers
are out of employment. This consti-
tutes one—sixth of the memberships of
the unions. , . ‘ '

Lester IIendershot has invented a.
motor which is said to run without
fuel. Electricity generated by the
revolution of the earth is supposed to
be the motive force. _, ,

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LINING ATTIC TO KEEP OUT
SOOT

 

I have a large attic in my home
which could be used for storing a good
many things except for the fact that
dust and soot collect on everything.
The roof does not seem to leak water,
but does let the dust and soot through.
Would it be feasible to tack something
to the rafters and thus prevent dam-
age to the goods stored in the attic?
If so, what material would you sug-
gest for the purpose? Since there
would be about 1,800 square feet to
cover, I am anxious to get the best
material I can without making the
cost too high. Some have suggested
muslin, but a practical painter and
paper hanger tells me that muslin
would last only a couple of years and
that it would hardly pay to put it on.
Some have suggested building paper,
but that is too easily torn. An in-
sulating board of some kind might do,
but I fear it would be rather expensive
for so large a surface. Your sugges-
tions will be appreciated—R. J. N.

I doubt if tacking any material to
the rafters will give you the results
you want, because I think you will
find that when this is done consider-
able soot and dust will still work in
around the gable windows, through
gable siding, around cornice joints,
through and around gable and dormer
windows, and so on. In my own home,
I-covered the sheathing with half-
ply roofing well lapped and then put
on good asphalt shingles, and still
plenty of soot works into the attic.

I do not believe it will pay you to
put on anything less than good wall
board, or 'better, some of the insulat-
ing boards or plaster boards. Almost
any of them are good, although they
do cost a little more. Also the attic
room ought to be totally enclosed and
the windows calked and made as tight
as you would for a living room, as
they are small and this will not cost
much except for the time. You will
find that this insulation will be worth
while in itself for making the house
warmer in winter and cooler in sum-
mer. Unless you are willing to put
enough into it to make the attic into
a sort of room, it will hardly pay to
do anything except to furnish large
cloths to cover up the things you wish
especially to protect. We should be
glad to have the experience of some
of our readers as to how they have
improved their attics.

 

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AX is one of the best finishes

for hardwood floors, as it pre-
serves the natural grain of the wood
and, if properly cared for, will im-
prove with age. Worn places on a
waxed floor are easily repaired be-
cause they may be rctouched with the
wax and still match the rest of the
floor. The following suggestions from
the New York College of Agriculture
will be helpful:

A new floor should be put in shape
and waxed by an expert. After a good
surface has been obtained, it is not
necessary to rewax it often. If it is
dusted with a dry mop, and polished
every month with a weighted brush,
a woolen cloth, or a dry mop, it will
stay in good condition.

Parts of the floor which are used
should be given a thin coat of wax
when they first show signs of wear.
The wax should dry for an hour; then
it should be polished. No retouching
is necessary around the worn area.

Soiled spots may be removed with
a cloth dipped in turpentine or gaso-
line: Either will remove the surface
wax which holds the dirt and will
leave the floor bright and clean.
Water should not be used because it
removes the wax finish. Leaky radi-
ators sometimes cause white spots on
waxed floors. If these spots do not
yield to the turpentine or liquid wax
treatment, rub them with a cloth
dipped in weak ammonia water, and
apply fresh wax. If these directions
are followed, the entire floor will
usually [require waxing about once a

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STANDARDS AND GRADES FOR
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N discussing the U. ,8. Standards

and Grades for eggs on the Farm-
‘ers’ Week poultry program Leon C.
Todd said that the grades of eggs
are not well established as yet in
spite of a great deal of talk by pro-
ducers, buyers, and consumers. Eggs
are not graded like grain which can
be sold under the same grades in both
the Chicago and New York irnrkets.

The federal grades established are
specials, extras, standards, trades,
standard dirty, trade dirty, and checks.
The shell, air cell, white, yolk, and
germ are studied in candling eggs.
The color, size, and shape are also
considered in making up the grade.
In the buyers’ grade are extras, stand-
ards, and trades. The wholesale grade
will tolerate a few eggs of a lower
grade mixed with a higher grade. The
wholesaler sells to jobbers who re-
candle the eggs for stores, hotels, and
restaurants.

Federal Inspectors

There are federal egg inspectors
stationed in New York City, Philadel-
phia, and Chicago who will inspect
a carload of eggs for a buyer on the
basis of the wholesale grading sys-
tem. The buyer will pay for the car-
load on the basis of the inspector’s re-
port and this method has been work-
ing out fairly well.

The system of egg grading must be
less complicated if the trade accepts
it. At present the buyers are not
familiar with the federal grades and
it is not believed that they will be
accepted by the trade. The Canadian
system is on a simpler basis and
works better. A national egg grading
system must be simple and readily ap-
plied from the farm to the consumer’s
table and must touch the pocketbook
all along the line if it is to be a suc-
cess.

In New York City they have the

Mercantile Exchange which sets the.

standard for egg prices. The men
stand in a room and trade back and
forth with boys at the blackboard to
mark up deals. Phone calls and pri-
vate deals on the floor also make up

MARCH 10, 1928
a part of the trading. Seats. in the
exchange are valuable and are only
held by reliable brokers. ,
Pacific coast eggs are sold by the
Pacific Coast Poultry Producer’s Asso—
ciation and they put up a beautiful
product. The eggs are auctioned off
and the price obtained has a great in-
fluence on the New York egg market.
A carload of these eggs can be sold
from a small sample and the buyer
can be sure that the remainder of the
carload will be the same as the sam-
ple. The brokers feel safe in buying
such a product. The. Pacific egg pro-
ducers pay six cents per dozen freight
to get to the New York market.

To Be Common

It is predicted that eventually we
will all be selling eggs on grade.
Weight is only one factor that can be
considered in selling eggs. It is evl‘
dent that an egg which had been
under an old hen for three weeks
would still be of good weight and
other factors are necessary to deter-
mine its quality.

Some buyers are now asking for
dark yolks that formerly asked for
light yolks. They used to think that
a dark yolk meant a stale egg and
then learned that the dark yolk con-
tains more vitamins. By a dark yolk
is meant the rich yellow yolk that
appears dark when the eggs are
candled.

It is better to clean eggs that are
slightly dirty with a damp cloth
rather than wash them- all over.
Washed eggs are often docked and
are easily located by an experienced
grader. Heated eggs cause much
trouble in hot weather and when
candled the yolks flop around like
they were in water. They start incu—
bating in a small way at a tempera
ture of sixty-seven degrees. About
forty-five degrees is a good storage
temperature for the eggs gathered and
held on the farm. They should be
gathered at least three times per day
in the summer and twice per day in
the winter.

An Economical Candler

A good egg candler can be made

from a one pound coffee can with a
(Continued on page 3‘15)

Common Poultry Diseases
IL—Roup and Colds
ROUP and colds are thought by many authorities to be different diseases,

the one being simple catarrh and the other contagious catarrh. But
the modern thought is that colds and roup are the same and need the

same treatment.
mistaken for roup.

Certain symptoms of chicken pox also have been often
Where chickens are kept under hygenic conditions and

are properly fed, this disease is seldom seen except when weather conditions
are bad. On the other hand, it is rather common where Chickens are poorly
fed and kept in filthy or poorly ventilated coops,

Symptoms—The first indication is a watery discharge from the nostrils.

    
 
     
 
     

 

The discharge gradually accumulates and thickens, sealing the nostrils and
finally producing a bulging of the bones below one or both eyes, causing
the eyes to swell and gradually close. Because of this the disease is some-
times called swelled-head. There is sneezing and a shaking of the head
in the efforts of the bird to get rid of the accumulations. As the nostrils
become closed the breathing is through the mouth. From this the tongue
becomes hard and dry, a condition commonly called “pip." Other symptoms
are dullness. suppressed egg production and occasionally diarrhea.

Treatment—The correction of unsanitary conditions and feeding should
be the first step in treatment as they are largely responsible for the disease.
Often that alone will bring about, a cure. However, to prevent the spread
of the disease, the affected birds should be isolated in warm, well-ventilated
quarters and treated as follows: Remove the exudations from the nose.
Press the swollen parts to get, the accumulations out through the nostrils.
Apply to the nostrils with a medicine dropper a healing lotion of twenty drops
of oil of eucalyptus to one ounce of mineral oil. Or, after removing the
accumulations, one may dip the heads of the fowls into a solution of one
teaspoonful of salt to a quart of warm water. A three per cent solution
of boric acid will be just as effective. Do not hold the head under too long.

The medicinal treatment suggested above will be of little value if the
coop is not thoroughly cleaned out, and disinfected. Clean, tempting food
should be given, and pure water in sanitary utensils should always be avail-
able. Some advise the use of potassium permanganate in the water to
help check the spread of the disease. Enough to make the water a cherry
red in color is recommended. ’

Dead birds should be buried deeply or burned, preferably the latter.
Some of the most serious affected birds may not be worth the cost and
trouble of cure; they should be killed and disposed of.

Vl'liile roup is mostly a disease resulting from neglect and carelessness,
chicken pox is an infectious disease often causing heavy losses. It. will be
discussed next week. '

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FERTILIZER ON spuos iN'SUREs
GOODRICH SEEDING

 

OR fifteen years, Norman Goodrich,

a farmer of Lapeer County, Mich-
igan, has been growing forty acres of
potatoes on his general farm in a ro-
tation of potatoes, oats or rye, and
clover. He says that fertilizing the
potatoes not only pays him well on
this crop but it has practically insured
him a. clover stand and this in a terri
tory where clover failures have be-
come the usual thing in that. time.

Goodrich plows up about seventy
acres of clover each year, putting this
into potatoes, beans, and corn. The
corn is put into a silo for milch cows
which gives the owner the manure
that he applies on his potato ground.
He uses a three year rotation which
forces him to plow but once in three
years.

He puts out twenty acres of early
potatoes and twenty acres of late ones.
The clover sod for early potatoes is
manured, from twelve to twenty loads
per acre, then plowed as early as pos-
sible. The early potatoes are really
a late variety — Petoskey — planted
early. His custom is to drill broad-
cost 400 to 500 pounds of 0-12-12 fer-
tilizer just before planting. He claims
that this gets him marketable pota—
toes two weeks earlier than the local
market run and gives him a greatly
increased yield. During the season of
1927, he sold his early potatoes out of
the field at $1.15 a bushel while two
weeks later the price had dropped to
ninety cents a bushel. The twenty

acres of early potatoes yielded 120.

bushels per acre and the field returned
him $2,760 gross income.

On the late potatoes, Goodrich uses
from 300 to 400 pounds of the same
analysis fertilizer and does not plow
until about ten days before planting.
He sows rye after his early potatoes
and oats the following spring after
the late ones, seeding clover with
these two grain crops.

“It is in the clover seeding that I
get double value for my fertilizer,”
says Goodrich, “for I have not had a
failure in clover in fifteen years ex-
cept where the drill clogged up, even
though rye is usually considered un-
satisfactory as a clover nurse crops.”
—I. M.

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At the time it was surveyed, it seemed
to have no future whatever but a few
months later, a man looking for a
muskrat farm came in, went over the
maps and settled upon this piece as
an ideal location for a muskrat farm.
These and dozens of other examples
could be given to show how this work
is constantly increasing in value.
Waterpower prospects are also includ-
ed in the survey. When the reports
are published and printed they are in
such terms that the ordinary man can
understand them.

All land will produce something of
value and when it produces that, little
though it may be, it is an asset; when
it is barren it is a liability, a perfect
piece of tinder that serves to connect
the fires left by campers and smokers
with the valuable forest beyond. The
Michigan land—economic survey has al-
ready shown its utility in aiding pros-
pective settlers, accelerating the set-
ting out of forests, pointing out game
refuges, determining the best sites for
recreational grounds and locating
water power developments. When the
surveyors get through with a county,
they know what is down, up, and in
between. And they have worked out
a method of recording this that is so
plain that anyone can read.—I. J. M.

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SHARPENING DISKS

EVICES of various types are now
on the market for sharpening
disk harrows, and I think that in gen-
eral these can be bought more cheap—
ly than makeshift devices can be made
by the farmer himself. One type is a
heavy frame into which a disk gang
is fastened and the gang is then
driven by means of belt and sprocket
chain from a gas engine. The sharp-
ening is done by a piece of hardened
steel held against disk edge as it ro-
tates. Other devices rotate the disk
and sharpen it with a grinder. In
some cases the disks are removed and
ground separately and then polished
at the same time. Still another meth-
od is to sharpen the disks while at
work in the field by means of a heavy
rod or pipe which hooks over the disk
thimble 01‘ axle, while pressure on the
other end by the operator holds a
piece of sharp hardened steel or file
against the edge as the disk turns.
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end up at a convenient working
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Sugar Beets

Fertilizer Requirement:
By James Tyson

HE Department of Soils of the

Michigan State College has con-

ducted a large number of co-
operative field experiments in various
sections of the state on a great many
soil types in order to determine the
fertilizer requirement of_ the more im-
portant field crops grown in the state.
This work has been rapidly increased
in recent years, but a vast amount of
this kind of work remains to be done.

The sugar beet crop, being the most
important cash crop grown in certain
sections of Michigan, has received
considerable attention, and a compara-
tively large amount of experimental
work has already been done in deter-
mining the fertilizers to use in order
to make the maximum profit with this
crop.

Fertilizers Help on Best Soil

During the seasons of 1926 and 1927,
experiments were conducted on the
farms of Joe Davis at Fairgrove and
Burt Thurston near Vassar in Tuscola
County to study the effect of various

. analyses and amounts of fertilizer on

the growth and sugar content of sugar
beets grown on this soil. These two
farms are located in what is recog-
nized as the largest beet producing
area in Michigan. The soil is known
as Brookston silt loam. The soil is
dark grayish silt loam. The subsoil
is gray and yellow mottled sandy clay
and the substratum is usually a sandy
clay. This soil is a high lime soil.
Alfalfa and sweet clover grow luxuri—
antly on it. Artificial drainage is nec-
essary as the natural drainage is very
poor, due to the almost flat topo—
graphy of this area. However, fields
located on this soil, when tile drained,
can be worked much sooner than ad-
jacent fields on soils of the same tex-
ture, even though the topography is
rolling. This type of soil is probably
the best natural sugar beet producing
soil'in Michigan. It is a naturally
productive soil having a high lime con-
tent, high natural fertility, and a high
content of organic matter. The two
farms on which these experiments
were conducted grow sweet clover and
alfalfa in the rotation. The sweet
clover is usually turned under as a
green manure crop the year before
planting sugar beets. Barnyard man-
ure and high grade fertilizers con-
taining a large percentage of phos-
phoric acid is also applied in the rota-
tion. In this way the fertility of the
soil and the organic matter is main-
tained and increased.

The results obtained up to the pres—
ent time with these cooperative field
experiments on the Davis and Thurs-
ton farms emphasize the fact that the
beet Cl‘Op pays an enormous rate of
interest on the money invested in high
grade fertilizer, even on soils of high
fertility and with a high organic mat-
ter content. The beet, like the dairy
cow, demands a balanced ration for
its best development and production.
Elements lacking in the ration must
be supplied. Applications of 400
pounds of 4-16-4 fertilizer on the beet
crop on Mr. Davis’ farm increased the
yield of beets to twenty-six tons per
acre as compared to fifteen tons where
no fertilizer was used. The same
treatments on the Thurston farm in-
creased the yield from/thirteen and
one-half tons with no fertilizer to
seventeen and one-half tons with 400
pounds of 4-16—4. The tonnage of beets
per acre is greatly increased, the cost
of production per ton is decreased,
and the profit per acre of beets is
greatly increased.

At the present time there seems to
be no correlation between sugar con-
tent of the beet and fertilizer treat-
ment, unless it is that the sugar con-

~ Lent tends to increase when the nutri-

ent supply of the soil is optimum for

 

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER

AGRITOL

the new land—clearing explosive
replacing Pyrotol, the
war—salvaged dynamite, now discontinued

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HOUSAND-S of farmers who never
before used a stick of dynamite
have, since the Government distribution
of Pyrotol, learned to use explosives.
These farmers will never return to the
old back-breaking methods of land-clear-
ing. Yet they have wondered what to do
when the supply of salvaged war ex-
plosives is exhausted. Must land im-
provement stop—must they continue
farming on 30 acres and pay taxes on 40?
The Federal Government announces
that no more Pyrotol will be distributed
for agricultural use after April lst. The
du Pont Company, which prepared
Pyrotol under Government contract, has
met this situation with a new land-
clearing explosive even more efficient
than Pyrotol and about as economical.

AGRITOL

More sticks to the case
The price of Agritol is in itselfI an econ-
omy but that isn’t all. Instead of 150
sticks of Pyrotol to a 50-pound case,
there are about 172 sticks in the case of
Agritol—a gain of 22 sticks. And every

 

stick is worth more because it has more
heaving, shattering power than an equiv-
alent stick of Pyrotol. And when you
slit it for loading or cut it in half, Agritol
doesn’t waste.

Agritol is also more easily and more
safely handled. It is much less inflamma-
ble than Pyrotol, and it resists moisture.

Everything that Pyrotol could do,
Agritol will do; not just stump and
boulder blasting, but also such agricul-
tural work as tree planting and subsoiling.

Get Your County
Agricultural Agent’s Advice

The extension service of your state agri-
cultural college and your county agri-
cultural agent will help you develop and
improve your farm. Your county agri-
cultural agent Will give you sound, im-
partial advice. He’ll tell you how you
can buy explosives on the community
carload plan and save money.

This coupon will bring you a valuable
booklet describing AGRITOL—the new
land-clearing explosive replacing Pyro-
tol. Mail the coupon today.

Your County Agricultural Agent will help
you Make More Money out of your farm

 

REG.u.s. PATZOFF.

E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS 87. CO., INC.
Dept. MF-3,. Explosives Department, Wilmington, Del.

Gentlemen: Please send me a copy, free, of your booklet
describing Agritol for land clearing.

 

 

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OUR GARDEN

 

OR many years we have realized

the real value of a vegetable gar-
den both in the city, where space was
limited, and later in the country
where a larger plot of ground was
available. Our garden has been
planned and worked out: with much
success.

The planning of the garden should
be done early. The location and space
would determine, to a. certain extent,
just what vegetables could be planted
and the personal tastes of the family
being considered as to which varieties
to plant. Each member of the family
is given gt part of the work caring for
certain vegetables that best suits his
fancy. This we find has created a
competitive spirit which adds to the
interest of the work and helps to
make a well-kept garden.

A sunny sandy slope is best adapted
for garden purposes with from eight
to twelve inches of. soil. The plowing
or spading hasbeen done as early as
conditions of the soil would permit.
With a liberal allowance of well rot-
ted barnyard manure worked into the
soil, the soil is well pulverized for a.
depth of at least three inches; this
makes a suitable bed for the seeds.
' Now you are ready to mark your rows
and plant. Many of our seeds are
saved from last year’s garden, such as
radishes. cucumbers, pumpkin, squash,
and many others. To be sure of
germination the seeds should be test-
cd. An easy way to do this is to take
pieces of heavy cloth that will hold
moisture, dampen them, and put a
number of the seeds between layers
or folds of the cloth. Keep them in
a warm place and sprinkled well with
warm water. In a few days you will
be able to tell just what per cent of
your seeds will grow. Plant the vari-
eties that grow tallest on the north
and west. sides of the garden. We save
time and labor by using the hand drill
as most seeds can be planted in this
way. As carrots and parsnips are
slow to germinate, plant a few radish
‘seeds in the rows with them. This
‘hclps to mark the rows for cultiva-
tion- until the slow seeds are up.

We always found room for a few
:rows of early potatoes, even in the
ismall garden. Get good seed for
,these as seed potatoes are injured by
lexti'cmes of temperature. Cut them
{just before planting with two or more
leyes in each piece.

Do not cultivate the garden too deep
but get the weeds early and all the
In a. few weeks you will feel
well repaid for your pains. Our gar—
den, lasts most of the year as beets
and carrots and other root vegetables
keep nicely all winter in boxes of
clean sand. This saves canningfi~M. S.

 

FRUIT PROBLEMS DISCUSSED

 

 

HE Michigan State Horticultural

held an interesting spring meeting
at Pontiac, February 28-29. There
were several hundred in attendance
at most all times and everybody was
awake throughout the sessions. The
subject and the discussions were
enough to keep them awake.

The Tuesday morning session start-
cd with a talk by John Sims on the
need of humus in the orchard soils.
Orchards with plenty of humus are
surprisingly able to withstand drouth
and produce larger fruit than those
lacking in it. Cover crops and the
use of alfalfa are solutions of the
. humus problems. They are helped by
the addition of nitrogenous fertilizers
to stimulate cover crop growth.

Following talk on the geology of
Eastern Michigan fruit soils by W. S.
Toothacker, R. J. Coryell spoke of the
back yard fruit garden. Mr. Cox-yell

 

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is not favorable to the quite common
thought that fruit growing should be
left to specialists but that most farm-
ers can care for a home fruit garden
with profit. . '

E. F. Palmer, of Vineland Station,
Ontario, gave a, very fine talk on
peach cultural practices in Ontario.
It was full of practical information
which will be given in exerpts of his
talk in some future issue.

Judge Arthur J. Tuttle, of Detroit,
told of his experience with the home-
stead orchard in Ingham County. The
orchard contains 4,000 trees of sev-
eral varieties, so the Judge has no
pollination problems. His experiences
were all the more interesting because
of his ability to tell them in an inter-
esting way. -

The “Wednesday morning session
was started by a very interesting talk
by H. A. Cardinell, of the College, on
the mechanics of spraying. More of
his talk will appear later.

W. C. Dutton, also of the College,
told of the spray material side of the
spray situation. Liquid lime sulphur,
dry lime sulphur, dry mixed, and oils
were discussed. Generally he pre-
ferred the liquid lime-sulphur although
the dry lime sulphur was effective but
much more costly. Oils were valuable
in the control of insects on which the
lime-sulphur was not effective. It was
also more pleasant to handle. The
delayed dormant spray was the most
effective in the control of aphis and
scale. Nicotine was the best means
of control for aphis. The prepared
commercial lime-sulphur substitutes
were not very effective.

H. D. Hootman, of the college, told
of his investigation of the pollination
problems of fruit and the value of
bees in solving them. His article, on
page three, in this issue, and contin-
ued next week, gives this information.

Frank Farnsworth of Ohio, impres-
sed the need of supervision of help
on orchard work. He also said that
no one orchard practice would bring
success, but that proper pruning,
spraying, fertilization, and othe r
operations were necessary.

“SOUL MATES” IN THE ORCHARD

 

(Continued from page 325)
companying development of seeds, at
misshaped fruit often results.

Michigan is one of the, older apple
growing states. The idea of our fore-
fathers in setting out these old home
orchards, that, are still standing on
many farms was to assure a supply
of apples throughout the year for the
family’s needs. The orchard was gen<
orally never more than two to four
acres in extent and on this compara-
tively small area were often planted
a few trees each of Red Astrachan,
Autumn Strawberry, Baldwin, Nor-
thern Spy, Rambo, Golden Russet, and
Ben Davis. Under these conditions of
orcharding cross—pollination was am-
ply provided. ‘

About 1900, apple growing received
a new impetus through the demand
for fruit coming from our rapidly
growing cities. In recent years the
demand for certain particular varie-
ties have greatly increased. This de-
mand for certain varieties has largely
determined the planting practice of
many commercial fruit growers.

As a result it is not. uncommon to
find an orchard of ten, twenty, and
even sometimes as large as sixty acres
that has been planted to a single vari-
ety such as McIntosh, Northern Spy,
Delicious, or Rhode Island Greening
without providing for cross—pollination.

In a later article I will discuss
practices that may be resorted to in
correcting' the pollination problem in
some of these orchards in which too
many trees of a single variety have
been planted. '

 

 

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Radio Department

 

 

WHICH DO YOU LIKE BEST?

 

O audience assembled has the
privilege of being more fickle
if it chooses, than does the radio au-
dience. The great variety of programs
that are put on the air gives us the
opportunity of “getting what we want
when we want it.”
But the big prOblem for the folks

to know what the majority of the vast
radio audience wants. Through this
department, let’s have an expression
of the opinions as to what kind of
radio programs you like best. When
you turn the dials of your radio, what
kind of programs do you seek first?
For any of the letters we print we
will award a special prize. Address
your letters to the Radio Editor, Mich-
igan Farmer, Detroit, before March 17.

 

RADIO HAS PAID FOR ITSELF

 

Y husband bought a radio for a
Christmas gift to the family this
year, and I wish to say it has already
paid for itself. Each day, we get the
market prices on everything one
grows on the farm. And not only that
-——we have been well entertained since
we have this “companion.” It’s such
a blessing to tune in and get any in-
formation one wants, even to know
what to cook each day. “The Home
Makers’ Hour” is very good advice
for every housewife. The Sunday
sermons are most inspiring and there
is little chance for misunderstanding.
The use of the radio increases tre-
mendously the scope of those who
seek to supplant misinformation with
correct information, and falsehood
with truth. I would never want to be
without our radio again. I hope it;
won’t be long until every farm has
a receiving set. The Cost is so little
to keep one in good order. It surely
is true that out of the unknown some-
where, people are getting wonderful
entertainment for both young and old.
The best way to forget your troubles
or tired feelings, is to tune in and
get anything you wish ‘to hear.—Mrs.
A. C. M.

 

NEWS FROM THE AIR

 

UNE in on the non-partisan pro-

grams that are sponsored by the
National League of Women Voter’s
through ,station WEAF if you would
gather some valuable pro-election in-
formation. The programs are on the
air every Tuesday night from seven
to seven-thirty E. S. T. March 13 the
subject will be “Power and the Pub
lic;” March 20, “What Congress is
Doing;” and March 27, “How We
Nominate Our Presidents.”

 

 

Mutt and Jeff Now in Radio
Mutt and Jeff, synonymous for all
elongated and diminuative human
beings seen together, have invaded
the broadcasting field. Station WE'AF
proudly announced a few months ago
that Paul Duman, the shortest radio
announcer had joined their staff. The»-
long part of the duo is now complete
through the recent engagement of
Edmund Ruffner, who stands six feet,
five and one-half inches, a veritable
sky-scraper. The question of adjust-
ing announcers to microphones or
microphones to announcers is now be-
coming a problem at that station.

 

Radio Audience Puts on Candy Show

The first large public exhibition of
candy and cakes which was held in
the grand ball room of the Savoy-
Plaza, New York, last week was the
result of the labors of at least ten
thousand members of the radio audi-
ence of Mrs. Elinor Hanna, head of

, the Candy Institute. Besides cakes

 

them.

,THE MICHIGAN FARMER

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Shorter Hours
Bigger Profits

that’s what Delco -Light

now offers every farmer

Saves work in a hundred ways—Builds up profits in g
as many more. Increases egg production. Saves pigs
at farrowing time. Provides running water and thus
ends fire hazard. Cuts cost of hired help. Makes the ‘
farm home a healthier, happier place to live in.

300,000 farmers vouch for every claim
we make. That’s why more DELCO-

: LIGHT plants are used today than all

other farm electric plants combined!
4' 'i‘ °§'

ELP yourself to bigger profits in
1928. Help yourself to shorter
hours—lightened labor. A DELCO-
LIGHT is all you need to gain both of
these objectives.

Talk to any farmer who owns a DEL—
CO—LIGHT. Five minutes with this man
will do more to convince you than any—
thing it’s possible for us to say. Talk,
for instance, to D. J. Sjolseth. He’ll tell
you how egg production jumped just
400% after he lighted his hen house
with DELCO-LIGHT. Talk to August
Moukemeicr. DELCO-LIGHT enabled
him to pocket $135 extra profit from his
hens in just 3 months’ time. How is that
for making easy money? Talk to Julius
Schramm. He raises 250 to 300 hogs per
year. Says his DELCO-LIGHT paid for
itself in the hog barn alone, by
saving pigs at farrowing time.

Other farmers by the thousand
are reaping extra ,
profits every year in
similar ways. And you
can do as well as any
of them in proportion
to the volume of your
farm production.

The New Combination
Delco-Light 'fdoes every-
thing but think." Com-
bines all the advantageso!
both Automatic and Hal:-
tery Servnce Systems.

A Product of
General Motors

Delco Light Co.,

Flint Sales Branch,

Comer Smith & Water Sts.,
Flint, Michigan.

  
  

F. C. Matthews 86 Co.,
111 Pearl St.,
Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

     
      

 

Now Delco - Li ht:
supplants hand la or
[or running the feed
grinder, shellcr, churn
and cream separator.
Does theworkquickem
. and better. too.

  
  
   

 

 

Now, you can get the greatest of wntes
all DELCO—LIGHT plants. An 3;"
amazing new achievement that
combines all the advantages of
both the Automatic and Battery

Service Systems.

A Scientific Marvel

With this new-type plant you
can use up to 7 or 8 electric
lamps and draw the necessary
current right from the battery.
Thus the engine runs infre-
quently. Less fuel is used. But
throw on a heavier load. In-
stantly and automatically the
engine starts—generates current
to carry the heavier load plus a
surplus supply to recharge the

“Our

 

 

Ten Years’ Use
"\Ve bought our Delco-
Light Plant 10 years ago, "

we have had contin-
service. Delco-Light
is certainly an all—around
good investment for any
farmer."

38 Years of Service

has run a total of 20,075
hours. ’
well. ‘
to 38 years of averagefarm
service. This is such a re-
markable record,l wanted
you to know about it."

  
 
  

Not only bright. clean elec-
tric light, but power too.
that runs the washing ma.-
chine. vacuum cleaner.elec-
tric iron and D-L Water
System.

C. R.WllllS. “Since Ed, Besten, Platte,S.D,'

says: “The cost ofoperu
ation has averaged less
than $1 a month. We
have spent not hing
for repairs and never
been without light.”

FREE BOOKS— to
Send No Money
How does it sound to
you? Isn’t it worth
looking into! Sure it is
-—if easier work, more
time for fun and rec—
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farm and big extra
profits mean anything
to you. Sojust put your
name and address on

 

Delco — Ligh t Plant:

says . ax—
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battery! Thus only a small bat-
tery is needed. And even this
small battery lasts longer.

Costs So Little to Own and Operate

This new plant—as well as all our
other models—comes to you under
liberal General Motors
terms. First a small de—
posit. Then the balance
divided into easy pay-
ments arranged to suit
you. Operating costs are
too small to even talk
about—no more in fact
» than the cost of burning
lamps and lanterns. As

   
 

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Toledo, Ohio.

the coupon and mail
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clcoLight—absolutely free.

If you write promptly we will include
“The Miracle of More Eggs”—a valuable
booklet for large and small poultry raisers.

 

 

DELCO—LIGHT COMPANY,
Subsidiary of General Motors Corporation
Dept. T401 Dayton, Ohio

Send Free Books as offered.-

Name. .

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‘~~~DELCO'LIGHT

FARM ELECTRICITY,

There is a DelcoJJght Dealer in every community. The nearest wholesale
istributors are listed below.-

The E. H. Walker‘CoJifi‘l Stover Co., Inc.

445 E. Erie St.
Chicago, Ill.

 

 

and candles made by radio listeners
who used her recipes, there were also
displays of elaborate candy decora-
tions. At the end of the exhibit all
cakes and candies were auctioned off
for the benefit of the Dug-Out Club of
New York, an organization of wounded
war veterans.

 

Two In One
A recent lengthy letter from a lis-
tener-in closed with this paragraph:
“Thanks for the diversified aerial fare
which enables me to keep my head in
the clouds while my hands are in the
dish pan.”

 

Never plaCe batteries near a radia-
tor, advises radio experts, as this will
tend to cause them to dry out and
therefore shorten their life. It is also
advisable to keep the batteries away
from open windows or any place
where the change in temperature or
humidity will affect them. Examine
all batteries carefully after testing
See that. the'wax is not
cracked. The container should not be
wet On the bottom nor should there
be white spots on it. See that the
terminals are not green with corro—
slon.

 

 

A Michigan Farmer Liner Gets Results—Try One

 

 

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Poisons are too dangerous

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3 2-ounce- package of K-R-O. e hear 0
many finding 30 or 40 rats after using K-R‘O.
which is highly successful and should please-
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THE MICHIGAN FARMER

 

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Agriridtural Dept.
. New York, N. Y.
Atlanta, Ga.
Medina. 0.
Montgomery, Ala.
Memphis. Tenn.
Shreveport, l.a.
San Antonio, Tex.
Raleigh, N. C.
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Our Readers’ Corner
Fact: and Opinion; 53/ M zr/zzgarz Farm Folk:

 

 

RECOGNIZE PIONEER FARMERS

 

HEARTILY agree with the idea ex-

pressed through the Farmer a few
weeks ago by Mr. I. H. Butterfield
lthat there should be some way de-
lvised to give recognition to our earli-
ler farmers and live stock breeders
who are either now retired or passed
to the great beyond as well as those
.now in their prime. Mr. Butterfield
should be among the first to have this
recognition.

It strikes me that it would be a fine
thing could a history be prepared of
our earlier live stock breeders espe-
cially as well as a room somewhere
given over to as many of their por-
traits as possible to be obtained. En-
larged photos would be sufficient. As
to obtaining such a room it should be
at M. S. C. and if none now obtain-
able the state could well afford to pro-
vido one.

Mr. Butterfield will have the sym-
Zpathy of all of us in the loss of his
. wife—J. W. Clapp.

 

 

 

5 HELP THE LITTLE HEATHEN

 

MAY go to the rubbish heap with

this letter, but I have felt that the
beautiful pheasant that makes our
fields and woods more beautiful is un-
‘justly blamed for breaking up finan-
cially quite a per cent of the farmers.
Too bad some people begrudge a few
kernels of corn or wheat that the
beautiful birds might eat. It seems
that even if they should eat a hearty
meal off Mr. Farmer once in a While,
he should feel he was well paid when
in the early morning to hear their
voices calling through the meadows.
Just put a handful of grain where they
could get it when the supply of rose
seeds and weeds and bugs are gone.
Please just help the little heathen live
and make our barren world more beau-
tiful. We are farmers and throw feed
to them. We never have killed one
and have our farm posted just to try
and save them. for there seems not
many birds, quails or partridges left.
\Vhen we read
letter, we could not
save the pheasant. We understand
one of our wealthy neighbors com-
plained that a half dozen pheasants
were stealing his corn. So it seems
it was investigated and two killed and
all they found was the wild rose seed
and weed seed. But he has the satis-
faction of having two less birds. Long
live the beautiful birds, and don’t be-
grudge them a good meal once in a
while. \Vant to say we have taken
your paper twenty years and am a
paid up subscriber until 1937. Seems
we must enjoy every page—Mrs. S.
W. P.

 

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TROUBLE WITH .HUNTERS

 

WAS much interested in Angelo

Gennara’s article regarding the
need of the trespass law as seen in
your January 21 issue and still he was
in no man’s land. My troubles here
are rabbit hunters. It’s a quiet Sun-
day when we don’t have from one to
six cars parked. Sometimes so that
we are unable to get out on the main
road ourselves.

Last fall six men with as many dogs
I called
to them. They answered with words
not fit to print. I called again and
told them I wanted to talk with them.
They told me where to go. I said all
right, I’ll shodt if you don’t come out.
I shot in the air. (a mistake, of
course). They answered with a shot
covering the front porch. Two of them
came out and I went to meet them.
They wanted at know, in broken Eng-

 

Mr. J. J. Forward’s‘

lish, if I was king around here. I
said no, I’m just a farmer with horses
and cows running around where you’re
hunting. One of them called me a.
name that Dempsey couldn’t get away
with, being only two feet from him
and not much of a fighter, I only gave
him a slap. He all but broke my arm
with the gun. , .

I didn’t fall but was done for. He
then turned the gun, pulled back the
hammer and his partner cried, “No.
no, don’t kill that man.” I_ walked
back to the house and they went
about their hunting and I nursed a
bruised arm for two weeks. I guess
we farmers need trespass protection
all right before some of us hot-headed
ones take the law in our own hands.—
T. H. Whitburn.

THE RURAL TAXES

 

Y idea of the tax problem would,r

be to make those who get their
living off of the roads, pay to build
them and keep them up, and put the
prohibition offenders and such minor
offenders to building roads instead of
building larger prisons to put them
in. By keeping the prisoners on roads
and in open air, it would be good for
the men and would be doing the state
some good instead of making an ex-
pense. I would put on more gas tax
to have the tourists help pay for the
roads and state parks that are, for
their benefit instead of putting the bur-
den on real estate and improvements
as has been.

If one has forty acres of wild land
the tax is five dollars and on some
improved forty acres it is eighty dol~
lars. \Vhen someone is living on the
land, he will have motors which can
be taked, also the produce he has
makes work for the railroads, etc.
This helps to keep industry and busi-
ness going in the state, so he is really
helping the state instead of being a
liability to it. So why tax him more
than the one who doesn’t contribute
anything?

When they compare the tourist
trade to the lumber industry, there is
something wrong somewhere, as I can
name any number of people here who
make a living off of lumbering, but I
have the first one to see who makes a.
living off of tourists in the country.
I am not trying to hand it to the tour-
ists as I enjoy touring as well as any-
body. but I fail to see where anybody
gets rich off of us as We don’t keep
it up the year around as they do in
lumbering.

\Vhen we hear how many tourists
were here and how much they spend
and then see our taxes go up makes
us think of the story about the. little
boy who swallowed the nickel. They
sent for the doctor to get it out. The
next day his father was telling about
it and said the doctor must have
thought he swallowed the nickel be—
cause he made him cough up five dol-
lars. ‘

“’9 sure like the Michigan Farmer
and appreciate what it is doing
for the farmer. We hope you can
find some form of taxation that will
be more equalized and help us to en-
joy life on the farm again—B. A.
Hillson.

 

RURAL CHURCHES ,

 

R. S. A. Walton’s article regard-

ing rural churches in the issue

of February 18 struck a responsive

chord in me. I heartily endorse every-

thing the writer mentions, not only

regarding rural churches, but the city'
churches as well. ,

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”MARCH 10, 1923

to an electric light plant, everything
functioning fine when everything is in
place, but let the wires be severed
from the source of power and every-
thing is in darkness. That’s. the way
with most of the churches today trying
to function with connections cut from
the source of power. Too many preach-
ers today try to convert the pocket
book first. Convert the heart first and
the pocket book opens easily. What
were burdens then become privileges.
-——«Mrs. F. W. B.

NOT A PUNISHMENT

 

N “Our Readers’ Corner,” February

11, G. E. C. says, “Farming was in-
flicted upon mankind as a punish-
ment.” How so? Before Adam was
created “there was not a man to till
the ground.” Gen. 2:5. Gen. 2:15
“And the Lord God took the man, and
put him in the Garden of Eden to
dress it and to keep it.” By their
transgression Adam and Eve brought
death and sorrow into the earth, and
were banished from the garden, “lest
he put forth his hand. and take also
of the tree of life and eat, and live
forever.” God cursed the serpent “Be—
cause thou hast done this thing.” God
bestowed upon Adam the blessing of
work of keeping mind and body use»
fully employed, evidently hoping to
keep him out of mischief. God said
in Gen. 3:17 “Cursed is the ground
for thy sake.”

Vain hope fer in Gen. 8:21 we read,
“I will not again curse the ground
any more for man’s sake for the
imagination of man’s heart is evil
from his youth. ”

So we see God was trying to help
man when he was sent “to till the
ground from whence he was taken.”—
John W“. Coleman.

THE HUNTING SITUATION

 

WANT to add my protest to the

state taking an unfair advantage of
the farmer. They turn their stock
and fowls loose to get their living off
the farmers, then fine the farmer
when he tries to protect his crops
from being destroyed.

We never knew the quails to de—
stroy any crops except to eat the
shelled buckwheat, but the pheasants
have utterly destroyed or driven the
quails out of the community. They
have destroyed unmeasured quantities
of corn, oats, and garden crops. They
have killed many chickens, especially
the young ones that wandered very
far from the buildings. How do I
know it was pheasants? Well, a hawk,
skunk, or other predatory animal will
eat what they kill. So when yofi‘ find
the dead bodies of chickens here and
there with the skin torn and head
peeked, you readily conclude that it
was done by something which did not
care to eat it, but only to kill it, and
nothing but a pheasant would kill
fowls just for the sake of killing. But
do we get any redress from the owner
of these destroyers? No indeed!

I think instead of fining the farm-
ers, they should be allowed a bounty
on all they kill when found destroy-
ing crops. I don’t mean an open
bounty so that some few can make a
business of hunting them any place,
but only the farmers who suffer the
losses. Then, as the birds belong to
the state, which charges a fee of the

hunters, let people hunt on state land. ’

But oh, no one must even shoot off a
gun on the state land! That is sacred.

The old Roman and early English
tyrannies can scarcely be compared
with this. Worse than all sometimes
the “gentleman” pheasant makes an
immoral attack on an innocent unsus-
pecting hen with the result that when
the eggs hatch, we have a lot of little
sneaking half-breeds which are so
ashamed they won’t come near the
house for feed and the hen feels so
disgraced she tries to keep them hid~
den. Let's get rid of this menace.—
L. M. C. ’

 

 

  
    

   

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MARCH 10, 1928'

 

 

News and Views
From INGLESIDE FARM—By Stan/6y Powell

 

 

ROM nothing at all ten years ago
Fto a volume of business amount-

ing to $9,000,000 during 1927 is
some record for an organization of
farmers, whom we are told “won’t
stick together.” To have distributed
back to the members during the last
five years and eight months patron-
age dividends totalling $53,000 and at
the same time to have accumulated
a surplus of $29,000 still retained in
the treasury, is a rather astonishing
achievement for a. group of “green”
farmers who had to go up against a
merciless competition with firmly‘
entrenched, adequately-financed old-
line business, having the experience,
seasoned management, and accumu-
lated profits of generations at their
disposal to fight competition.

Yet such were
some of the re-
markable facts in-

ports presented
to the delegates
in attendance at
the tenth annual
meeting of the
Michigan Live
Stock Exchange
held at Lansing,
February 23-24,
1928.

Slipping away

 

 

from Ingleside for ,

about twenty-four hours it was my
pleasure and privilege to attend all the
sessions of this memorable convention,
from the opening banquet on the even-
ing of the 23rd on through the closing
business session on the afternoon of
the second day. ,

While the banquet was a new fea-
ture of the meeting, it proved to be
a very popular one and will undoubt-
edly become an annual occasion.
Crowding the facilities of the Hotel
Kerns to capacity, 454 men and
women interested in live stock mar-
keting enjoyed a fine meal, heartening
fellowship, and a splendid program of
addresses. For those so inclined, an
old-time dance completed the evening’s
entertainment. The fact that almost
half of those attending the banquet
were women illustrates the growing
recognition of the truth that the farm
enterprise is a family partnership.

ViSion Becomes a Reality

Opening the banquet program, Mr.
E. A. Beamer of Blissfield, president
of the Michigan Live Stock Exchange,
said, “Ten years ago when the or-
ganizers met and launched this Ex-
change, they had nothing but a vision.
Tonight that vision has become a re-
ality. Our Exchange is selling more
stock in the Detroit Yards than any
other firm and over forty per cent of
all the stock handled there. We are
a part of the National Live Stock
Producers Association which operates
cooperative commission firms on thir-
teen of the largestlive stock markets
in the country. We have gone a long
ways toward the fulfillment of' the
dneams of our founders that we might
set up machinery that would favor-
ably influence prices and handle our
live stock all the way to the packer
or other final purchaser.”

Added facts regarding the history
and achievements of the National Live
Stock Producers Association were
brought out at the Friday afternoon
session when the delegates listened to
an address by Mr. C. A. Stewart of
Chicago, Executive Secretary of that
organization. Mr. Stewart showed
that live stock prices at one market
are almost immediately affected by
fluctuations at other terminals and
that therefore marketing of live stock
is a national problem requiring a na-
tional organization. .

cluded in the res

Established six years ago, the Na-
tional Live Stock Producers Associa-
tion has grown steadily until during
1927 it handled stock valued at $631,-
960,210.05 which was 10.54% of all the
stock marketed through the terminal
yards.

Mr. Stewart explained that the ac-
tivities of the association Were not.
confined to marketing, but included
publicity, transportation, legislation,
research, statistics, and public rela-
tions. He emphasized the slogan
which appears in connection with the
emblem of the organization. This
slogan is, “In the Hands of a Friend
from Beginning to End.” '

President Beamer, in his annual re—
port, voiced as the ideal of the state
organization that 100 per cent of the
locals should patronize the Exohange
with 100 per cent of their business.
He announced that a “100 Per Cent
Club” would be organized, to be com-
posed of those locals that sent all of
their live stock to the cooperative
terminals.

Exchange ls Flourishing

The salesmen who sell the various
classes of stock for the Michigan Live
Stock Exchange were present and
each gave a short talk. The local
managers and delegates availed them-
selves of the opportunity to ask the
salesmen many interesting questions
about market conditions and selling
methods.

Other feautres of the sessions were
the consideration of resolutions and
an illustrated discussion on account-
ing methods suitable for a local live
stock shipping co-opfi This was led by
Prof.‘Howland of the M. S. C. Econom-
ics Department.

Class Visits lngleside

We were happily surprised a few
days ago when the agricultural class
from the Ionia High School visited
Ingleside to look over our pure-bred
stock. They were a fine bunch of
boys, orderly, courteous, and full of
intelligent questions. Through class
room work, laboratory experiments,
home projects and farm visits they
are learning both the art and the
science of agriculture.

When I went to high school I had
no such opportunity. In those days
the farm boy‘ who went to a town or
city high school never heard a kind
word about his father’s business.
Then everything tended to head him
away from the farm. Today the
Smith-Hughes work is giving rural
life new dignity in the eyes of thou;
sands of high school students through-
out; the land.

.A Most Welcome Check

One of the pleasantest things which
has happened in a long time around
here was the receipt today from the
Ohio Wool Growers Cooperative Asso-
ciation of a check covering the cash
advance on our 1928 wool clip con-
signed to them recently. On most
Michigan farms the money side of the
enterprise goes in cycles. That is,
there are periods when there will'
be frequent and encouraging sources
of income and then there will be
weeks and often months when ex—
penses will run on mercilessly, while
income dwindles sickenly.

This is another busy week. Grange
play work Monday and Friday even-
ing; speak on “The Farmer’s Tax
Burden” at a community institute
some thirty miles away, Tuesday even~
ing; social at the Grange Hall, Wed-
nesday evening; Parent-Teacher ASSO°
ciation Thursday evening; and regu-
lar bi-weekly meeting of our local
Grange Saturday night. I’m sighing
for some of those “long winter evenv
ings” at home that farmers are 81m-
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FOREST GROWTH CAN BE IN-
CREASED GREATLY

 

CCORDING to Forestry Service ex.

ports, the annual growth of wood
products in our forests can, with prop-
er management, be increased to more
than four times its present volume.
Adequate protections from fire, plus
crude forestry practice would increase
the present estimated net growth of
six billion cubic feet per year to ten
billion by 1950, and intensive manage-
ment of our forests as crops may be
expected ultimately to result in an an-
nual yield of more than twenty-seven
billion cubic feet.

The Forest Service estimates that
nearly half of our forest area is at
present producing no net growth,
either because it is virgin forest where
growth is offset by decay, or because
it is so denuded by overcutting and
fire as to be unproductive. The en.
couraging forecast is that with pro-
visions made for a succeeding forest
growth upon the removal of the re—
maining virgin forest, and with effec-
tive fire control, care, and planting,
our forest area will again come into
production. Even a small woodlot on
some waste places on the farm, added
to the windbreak every farm should
have, will take care of much of the
farm’s timber needs.

Readers interested in replanting or
better management of farm wind-
breaks or woodlots can secure bulle-
tins and other helpful information
from the Forest Service, Washington.
D. C., or through their own agricultur-
al experiment station.

PHOSPHOROUS BOOSTED TH IS
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near the seed?” That farmer
sure looking for information.

“The crop gets the benefit of it al-
most as soon as growth starts. Corn
fertilized in the hill shoots right ahead
of that fertilized in other ways
and this stimulation of early growth
leads to earlier maturity.”

“Then you really recommend this
method?”

“If the other crops in the rotation
are properly fertilized so that there
is plant food left distributed through
the soil, I would certainly drop a
small amount of fertilizer near the
seed in planting corn. On the other
hand, if fertilizer has not been used
on the previous crops more fertilizer
must be used for the corn and the
larger part of it should be distributed
uniformly over the field, only a small

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amount being drilled in near the
seed.”
“If I could get more humus into

this soil I wouldn’t need so much for
tilizer,” volunteered Chris.

“More humus in the soil would un-
doubtedly permit your crops to make
better use of the fertilizer supplied,”
agreed Dick. “Now tell me what you
have done to supply organic matter
to this soil.”

“Well, I cover it with manure about
every four years and I guess that is
about all.”

“Do you ever plow under green
crops?”

“No. I can’t afford to lose the use
of the land for a year just to grow a
crop to plow under.”

“You don’t need to. There are other
ways of'doing it. W’e’ll talk them
over as we walk up to the barn. I
got to be getting home.”

The U. S. Bureau of the Census re-
ports that the infant-mortality rate for
cities in thirty-three states and the
District of Columbia, which formed
the birth-registration area in 1925,
was nearly three points higher than
for the rural. area—~that is, the city
rate was 73 per 1,000 live births as
compared with 70.3 for the rural areas.

During January prices of grains,
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'I Suffering with Others

Our Weekly Sorrow—By N. A. Mchm:

story of this week’s lesson was

one of the real tests of Christ.
The tests that test us are the unex-
pected ones. Put yourself in his place.
His program had been fast and stren-
uous. He was dealing with people
constantly, the most exhausting form
of work. Ask any teacher, minister,
doctor, social service secretary. After
one has been giving out ideas, en-
couragement, or advice, for about so
long, he feels like going off for a time
of mental and physical recuperation.
Sometimes he gets so weary and
nervous he feels as it he never wanted
to see another (human.

That was Christ’s fix, and the fix of
the Twelve. They were anxious to get
away somewhere, for a bit of quiet.
Probably one of
the men knew
where there was
a. cool, green spot
with a spring of
water. They were
off, but not quite
quick enough.
People saw them
going, guessed
where, and when
the boat touched the shore, it was met
by a crowd of people who had gotten
there first. It was a perfect oppor—
tunity for an outburst of temper.
There they were again, the same sort
of a clamoring crowd, anxious to be
healed of their disease, to ask ques-
tions, to push and jostle him—all of
them wanting something, not one with
anything to contribute; none who
would make his task a whit easier.

I HAVE always thought‘ that the

 

But He does not give way to tem-
per. He does not look at it that way.
The rest He and His men were to
have had is forgotten, and He looks
at the crowd with sympathy. He had
compassion on them. Mark says,
compassion means to suffer with. In
their suffering he suffered also. He
forgot himself, the most difficult
achievement that teases the human
spirit. Somewhere in one of the
prophets We read, “In all their afflic‘
tion he was afflicted.” That was
written as an ideal, but here it is
lived in actual flesh and blood. He
had that virtue that we talk so much
about and which is so much more
easily talked about than possessed—
love. Is love practical? Here is what
one of these modern sociologists says,
those men who are supposed to know
all about society and social relation-
ships. “The few men gifted with the
genius of 10ve which enables them to
feel for mankind what ordinary men
feel for wife or child, have always
stood forth as the teachers capable
of inspiring the world with a new
gospel.” And once more: “To work
effectively for the redemption of our
world from its ignorance, selfishness,
and sin, something more is needed
than the cool, understanding intellect.

That something more is a deep com-‘

passion for men wherever found, no
matter what their social, intellectual,
or moral condition may be. We need
for the redemption of our world a.
deep enthusiasm for humanity which
will gradually spread from the leaders
among the masses of our people. We
shall not get the sacrificial service
which we need from the educated,
from the well-to-do, from every class
of the socially fortunate, without this
enthusiasm for humanity, this deep
compassion for men, this sacrificial
love, which will prompt the socially
fortunate to share their life, their
goods, and achievements, both mate-
rial and spiritual, with the socially
unfortunate and backward.” That
sounds like the parson, of a Sunday
morning, doesn’t it? Well, it's from
Charles A. Ellwood, Professor of
Sociology in the University of M15-
sourl. Love has a high market value.

Jesus did what Professor Ellwood
is talking about. He shared his‘llfe
with the folk who needed him most.
And love is efficient. Efficiency is the
word of this mechanical age. And
often in seeking efficiency we miss the
very thing that makes it. The ento-
mologist tells us that the lightning
bug is the most efficient light-producer
known. He makes light without heat,
which is something that the best elecr
tric lamp cannot do. If it could be
done, the cost of lighting would drop
immediately. Love is efficient, as a
social force, as well as a religious one.
We have associated so, much senti-
mentality With love that it has lost its
force. Yet the real attitude of dis-
interested compassion cannot be
counterfeited.

A striking example of this was the
life of the late Mother Alphonse. She
was the daughter of Nathanael Haw-
thorne, and the wife of an editor of
the Atlantic Monthly. Her husband,
dying, she desired to devote her life
to some form of unselfish service, and
chose the repellant field of nursing
incurable cancer patients. She be-
came a Catholic sister, and founded
a small hospital consisting at first of
three rooms, for cancer incurables in
New York, in one of the poor sections
of the city. She nursed all day, and
wrote letters at night, for financial
help. No patient was too poor to be
received and cared for, white and
colored alike. She carried on for
twenty-eight years, dying at seventy-
five. A striking modern example of
this amazingly beautiful thing called
compassion.

Education is not a substitute for it.
The twelve apostles were probably

not educated men, and yet with this,

spirit of devotion they wrought well.
Paul and Apollos were educated, and
yet neither did anything in religion
until love had entered the life. “Tho
I speak with the tongues of men and
of angels, and have not love.” “Selfish-
ness with much can do little; love
with little can do much.”
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR
MARCH 11th

 

 

SUBJECT:——Jesus’ Compassion for
Human Need. Mark 6:31 to 44 and
8:1 to 10.

GOLDEN TEXT:—John 6:35.

 

 

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Johnnie, boastfully: “I come from a
big family.”

Jenny: “Indeed!
you are there?”

Johnnie: “Well, there were ten of
us boys, and each of us had a sister.”

Jenny: “Good gracious! Then there
must have been twenty of you.”

Johnnie: “No, only eleven.”

How many of

 

A PUP’S PROBLEM

 

An American and an Englishman
were arguing about the queer dialects
of different people.

“Why, the other afternoon,” ex-
claimed the.English.man, “I asked
your colored porter if he thought it
would rain, and he said, ‘Little dogs
it will, and little dogs it won’t’.”

The American was puzzled at this
and questioned Rastus about it. The
negro scratched his wooly head and
replied, “That ain’t what ah said. I
just tol’ theman that p'ups it would
rain, and p’ups it wouldn’t? ‘

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A LINE FENCE QUESTION

 

One hundred and sixty rods lies be-
tween my neighbor’s land and mine.
My brother and I had divided it each
taking half. Before my brother‘sold
the place he took the fence down. The
man he sold to wants me to put up
half the fence. My eighty rods are
built. Will I have to build half of
the eighty rods that is left? If not,
how can I make him put up his line
fence for the eighty rods? He knew
there was no fence when he bought
the place—Reader.

Line fence decisions are not binding
upon successors to the title, but the
fence erected by either belongs to
him and in case the neighbors can-
not agree the probabilities are that
the fence viewers will make the same
division as before. If either party fails
to build his share after being ordered
to do so, the other may build it and
have the same charged as a tax upon
the land of the party who should

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INCOME TAX

 

Is a person having an income of
$7,500 and a net income of less than
$3,500 required to make income tax re-
turn to federal collector’s office? In-
come consists of wages, interest on
investments, payments on real estate
sold, and cash from farm products
sold—A. M. S.

Internal Revenue Act of 1926 pro-
vides that every individual in the
United States and every citizen
whether he is residing at home or
abroad, having a gross income for the
calendar year 1927 of $5,000 or over,
or a net income for the same period
of $1,500 or over if single; or $3,500 or
over if married, shall make an income
return under oath. The tax is 1%% for
the first $4,000 in excess of the exemp-
tions and three per cent on the next
four thousand. The exemptions are
$1,500 for single persons and $3,500 for
married persons, with $400 allowed for
each child under eighteen years of
age, or other dependents.

DRIVER'S LICENSE AND OVER,-
SEER OF HIGHWAYS

 

HE statute Public Acts 1919 No.

368 referred to in our issue of No-
vember 26th last, fixing the age of 16
years for a driver’s license, was
amended by Public Acts 1921 No. 91,
providing that the applicant shall be
over 14 years of age. We were also
in error in the issue of February 11th,
in stating that the qualification of the
highway overseer is governed by Com-
piled Laws 1915, Section 2162. Com~
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Rough and Tumble on Their Way ‘

Across Sodom Desert MM Complete Outfit in T wo Side Cars

LTHOUGH there were some in

Lagos who laughed behind our

backs at the idea Jim and I had
of crossing Africa on motorcycles,
there were many left who felt dif-
ferently about it—and they laughed
freely to our faces. There were rea-
sons too, such as they were. See if
you think them important enough to
consider.

The trip had never been 'done be-
fore by motorcycle. There were some
4.000 miles of untamed jungle and
desert wilderness to be crossed, right
through the black heart of Africa it.
self. There Were the bridgeless rivers
of the west African jungle. the desert
sands of the Sahara, the rough
aplateaus from the Niger to the Nile
valleys—and all within easy sizzling
range of the equator.

In addition to the famous Four
Hoursemen of the Afritropics—Fever,
Sun. Drink, and Death—~with which
we had been threatened even in the
cities of the coast, we were now to
encounter a Whole new troop of horse-
men that would make the original
Four look like President Coolidge’s
oatless exerciser.

()n the coast, we knew that if we
didn’t wear our cork helmets every
minute in the sun the deadly rays
would strike 11s down—~and perhaps
even if we did-—but motorcycling over
the blistering sands of the Sahara we

 

A WORD FROM WORLD
HIKERS

OU will be interested to know

that we received a cablegram
from Flood yesterday, telling of
their safe arrival at Khartum and
requesting us to send some money
immediately, inasmuch as they
have lost their letter of credit.
The cablegram further advised to
mail letters to them at Bombay,
India; Columbo, Ceylon; and
Singapore, Strait Settlements.

We are hoping to receive some
more articles soon that Flood
mailed during the trip across the
desert, and we hope there will be
no further interruption in the
series.

 

 

 

must also wear a red cloth inside the
helmet and hanging down behind, be-
sides colored goggles, and a sun proof
spine pad buttoned to the backs of
our bush shirts. We had taken our
five grains of quinine every single day
to guard against malaria, and had, so
far, escaped yellow fever, blackwater
fever, and dysentery, but now we were
to enter territory where thousands
die’ annually of pneumonic fever,
meningitis, smallpox, and leprosy.

These were the insidious dangers of

Acfz'vz't‘tes of A/ flc‘res— 5/7)”

By Francis Flood

disease in a country where the infant
mortality rate is eighty per cent—and
every adult dies sooner or later.

Of the visible, but equally important
dangers to be considered there were:
(1) Ticks, jiggers, and mosquitoes on
the coast. but inland we would also
find the tsetse fly, poisonous snakes,
and wild beasts. (2) Even in Lagos
all water is boiled before drinking, but
in the desert we would be lucky to
find water to boil. (3) In the seacoast
cities there were the deadly trinity,
wine, women, and song, and in the
bush we would find them just, as bad.
(4) There Were the murderous Be—
douins and Tuaregs of the desert and
(5) the probability of getting lost in
the trackless sand, and (6) the fact
that gasoline stations and repair
shops are at thousands miles apart.

Y November 10, we had two motor-

cycles and side cars and I had
almost learned to drive. I didn’t ad-
mit it to ourrskeptical friends in
Lagos, but I had never had hold of
a motorcycle'before in my life until
I started out to drive this one across
Africa. Personally I consider this
something to boast ,about, especially
if we happen to get across (we’re not
half way yet), but Jim says I had it
easier than learning at home. There
I’d have had to stay in the road, and
here I’ve had hardly any roads to stay
in. There, if I’d broken up a machine
it would have been my own fault,
while here the fact that I broke a rear
axle, three side car springs, six
spokes, and a part of the main frame
is due to the roads and not my driv-

(Continued on page 358)

 

Under the 4—H Flag

By John Francis Case

word. In a few days he was

throwing like a rifle shot, while
Bob leaped for high balls or dug des-
perately after 10w throws. Then the
bat rang as hunted balls showered
down to the perspiring baseman. In
two weeks there had been noticeable
improvement in Bob’s handling of low-
thrown balls. As Katie watched them,
teasing words often upon her lips, Bob
tried to discover whether her interest
in his progress was merely loyalty
to Pleasant Ridge. It was of little
avail. The club team had beaten
Channing High, Carson starring with
a home run, which won the game.
Bob, watching, saw that the first base—
man’s work on hunted balls had im-
proved, due to Burton’s coaching. But
he still failed on low-thrown or sharp-
ly hit ground balls. The task he had
set was not hopeless.

Strolling over one evening, Ted
Baldwin was directed by Mother Bar-
ton to the O’Neal place. It was al-
most sundown, but Bob, wiping sweat
from his face and almost exhausted
after a hard day’s work, was running
bases on an improvised diamond.
“hitting the dirt” in a fallaway slide
under O’Neal’s watchful eye. “That’s
the way our old ‘Ag.’ college coach
taught me,” boomed O’Neal as Ted
approached. “You’ll be stealing that
Harmon catcher’s mask and protector
if you keep that up.”

“Atta boy! Atta boy!” applauded
Ted. “VVhat’s the deep dark secret,
Mr. O’Neal?”

“I’m going to make a ball player out

JOHN O’NEAL was as good as his

 

of Bob if I have to kill him doing it,”
said O’Neal grimly. “Nobody can beat
a Pleasant Ridger if I can prevent
it.”

“You’d better get ready to’ call the
coroner, Ted,” grinned Bob, rubbing a
bruised leg.__ “Mr. O’Neal shows no
mercy. I’m getting ready to play first
base when we go up against Warford
High, for Carson’s got to lead his own
team. Been practicing on low throws
and hunts, too. Coach here thinks I’m
coming on.”

With a joyful whoop the 4-H cap-
tain fell on Bob’s neck and embraced
him. “I’ll tell the world,” he de-
claimed, “that this infant has some
grit. Will we beat the fillin’ out of
Warford? Boy, howdy! You tell ’em,
Katie. What do you say?”

“You might and again you might
not,” was Katie’s enigmatic reply.
“We know,” she added saucily, “that
Warford will have a real first base-
man.” ,

“Ouch!” said Bob. “That hurt.
Don’t hit a fellow when he’s down,
Kate. You’ll discourage your dad.”

“You’ll see a real first baseman on

our club,” prophesied O’Neal. “Keep
this under your hat, Ted. We want
to surprise Burton and a few other

folks. Here, Bob, hit the dirt again.”
The gruelling practice went on until
darkness made it impossible to see
ball or base lines. “Lucky l’ve got a
hired man to do the chores,” com-
mented O’Neal. But Bob Barton still
had his work to care' for. As be
dragged his tired limbs about the
barn, then fed his hungry porkers,

Bumos Uo Against .472 Old flequaz’tztanee

Bob wondered if, after all, it was
worth the. effort. He knew that Bur-
ton never would break up a winning
combination unless he, too, could
really shine in combat. At home, Hal
Carson, making only a pretense of
doing farm work, was putting in hours
with his school mates in play. In-
dolent and confident, Ce‘son yet was
taking no chances. He looked forward
to seeing his name blazoned in the
county papers as the player whose
work had defeated the great Harmon
team.

CHAPTER X
Bob Fights to Win

F the earlier months had been busy
Iones, late spring and summer

brought multiplicity of duties. Never
had the Bartons attempted so ambi-
tious farming operations, and Father
Barton was quite bewildered with the
demands upon time and strength. The
stand of corn was remarkable? and
never before had Bob Barton driven
a. cultivator where loam rolled like
a black ribbon from shining shovels.
With two teams constantly in the

field it would not have been difficult,

to cultivate the crop properly, but
Bradley Barton found the work as dis—
tasteful as when he was tilling sterile
ground. The soil of the Jones place
was no more fertile than his excuses
to “tinker ’round.” Moreover, the
club and community orchestra was
flourishing, and the senior Barton had
finally begun to place upon paper the
bits of melody which came to him.
He had composed a march dedicated
to the 4-H clubs, “Hearts and Hands,”
which made stirring appeal. Now he
was at work on an overture, “Planta-
tion Days.” Into the old-time melo—
dies Barton was weaving strange new
measures of his own.

Recognizing genius, Bradley Bar-
ton’s neighbors were tolerant. But 0n
the days when young Bob, held by the
magic of his father’s violin, neglected
work, their tongues wagged. It was
a sore trial to John O’Neal, who was
self-appointed champie“ of the new-
comers. Commending the grim deter-
mination with which Bob stuck to his
baseball improvementplans, O’Neal
could not understand why man or boy
could not thrill as well to the beauty
of a growing field, recognizing in it,
too, his handiwork. Then at height
of the season, where every hour’s
work might well mean life or death
to the growing corn, Bob came to the
O’Neal home with an amazing propo-
sition.

“\Ve always have a little play spell
along about this time,” Bob had said.
“This year dad wants to drive back
to the old home. Mother is homesick
for her kinsfolk. We’ll be gone about
a week. Ted had promised to look

(Continued on page 347)

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prices are highest.

HE use of insulation is fundamental in

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comfort and health, makes possible a steady
temperature and reduces heating costs.

Your dwelling that is drafty and diffi—
cult to heat in winter and hot upstairs
in summer, is made comfortable by insul—
ation. Your poultry house, where the
hens quit laying from November to March,
is made a busy singing workshop all winter.
In midsummer it is kept cool and comfort—
able. Your garage, where the frigid winter
penetrates the tightest walls is
made snug so it is easy to keep
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on a zero morning. Insulation
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at your local lumber yard. Look at the
thick broad sheets of fiber, or blankets
that go between the studding, easy to
apply, which keep your house warm in
winter and cool in summer. Notice, also,
how handy this material is for fixing
up the attic, or building a new closet.
You will want to keep a supply of it
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HE use of insulation is fundamental in
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tmnperature and reduces heating costs.

Your dwelling that is drafty and diffi—
cult to heat in winter and hot upstairs
in summer, is made comfortable by insul—
ation. Your poultry house, where the
hens quit laying from November to March,
is made a busy singing workshop all winter.
In midsummer it is kept cool and comfort—
able. Your garage, where the frigid winter
penetrates the tightest ’alls is
made snug so it is easy to keep
the. car warm and ready to start
on a zero morning. Insulation
does these things, at low cost.

 

Before you build or remodel, study in—
sulation. Examine insulating materials
at your local lumber yard. Look at the
thick broad sheets of fiber, or blankets
that go between the studding, easy to
apply, which keep your house warm in
winter and cool in summer. Notice, also,
how handy this material is for fixing
up the attic, or building a new closet.
You will want to keep a supply of it
always on hand.

Learn about insulation because it can
increase both your comfort and
your profits. This publication
will be glad to put you in touch
with sources of information about
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Under the 4-H Flag

(Continued from page 342)

after my hogs and the teams. We
want to know it" you folks will look
after the chickens and cows.”

John O’Neal had been too disgusted
to do more than'grunt a “Sure, if
you must go, we’ll look after ’em,” but
not so Katie. Her plain-spoken, “Bob,
you should be ashamed of yourself,

running off when your crop is suffer-l

ing for cultivation, And our Pleasant
Ridge community club meeting comes
next week. Have you forgotten that
you are president?”

But Bob had become familiar with
Kate’s sisterly scoldings and admoni-
tions. “Why should I work myself
to death?” he had demanded. “I’ve
worked five hours this year where I
worked one before. The corn is grow-
ing, isn’t it? Won’t. it keep on grow-
ing while I’m away? As to the club
meeting, haven’t we a vice-president?
I didn’t ask for the job. I’m going on
this trip, and that’s all there is to
say.”

“Quitter!” Katie had flared at him.

",Quitter!” But if there was an un-
comtortable feeling that she was
right,'Bob gave no sign. Neglectful

of his work, the young club’ president
was busy in making preparationsfor
the contemplated trip when Ross Bur-
ton came Calling. Tactful and diplo-
matic, Burton made no allusion to ne—
glected work nor betrayed knowledge
of an impending disregard of duty.

“Fine field of corn, Bob,” observed
the county agent as they walked down
to the field. “Every hour’s cultivation
counts now. Got to do some hoeing,
too. Those last tenants sure allowed
the burrs to grow. You can just about
finish this job in a week; then you
for the hoe.
you are doing here, old man.”

Bob Barton squirmed uncomfortably,
and his reply was almost inaudible as
Burton asked him about the contest
pigs. “Sleek as moles,” commented
the agent admiringly, “and growing
like weeds. By George, you’ll have to
enlarge that creep hole.” Burton
laughed uproariously as one rotund
porker, squeezing through to join his
mates, stuck fast.

“That’s ‘Stony’,” announced Bob.
“Otherwise Stonewall Jarkson. He’s
some pig.”

“I’ll say he’s some pig!” said Bur-
ton. “He’s a sure-fire prize winner if
you can keep him doing as well until
state fair time. What you got in the
self-feeder, Bob?”

“Corn, ground oats, shorts, tankage,
and a little oilmeal,” answered Bob.
“There’s some mineral mixture in that
box, too. We are giving ’em all the
skimmed milk we can spare. Never
fed anything to hogs before but water
and corn,” and Bob laughed a bit
sheepishly. “This ration is exactly
what the state leader recommended.
I’ll say that this club work is opening
my eyes and dad’s, too.”

“Atta boy!” applauded the farm
agent, “Atta boy! It’s going to take
a lot of corn to feed this bunch out,
but you’ll have it if you keep on as
well as you’ve begun. A sure ton lit-
ter here, Bob. The big thrill is going
to come when you make your final
report. By the way,” Burton con-
cluded, “do you realize that you are
responsible for the success or failure
of a lot of others as well as yourself?”

“\Vhat do you mean?” Bob queried.
“I’m all alone here. I haven’t a thing
to do with anyone else."

“Get that out of your head, old
man,” said Ross Burton as he gripped
his young friend’s shoulder in a clasp
that thrilled. “You have been en-
trusted With the responsibility of
leadership. Every boy and girl in

your Pleasant Ridge club has a. right
to demand that you do your best. It
is not enough that you preside at
meetings, take part in games, and
preset: loyalty. You must provide

I’m proud of the job

example and inspiration, especially to
the younger boys.

“There isn’t much romance or ad-
venture about pig feeding,” went on
Burton, “when it becomes just a job.
That’s why hundreds of boys and girls
enroll, tire of their work, and” quit.
It’s up to fellows like me and you to
show ’em that pork production or any
other phase of our work is just a
means to an end. That’s building bet-
ter citizenship. Good training, right
thinking, loyalty, and idealism is what
counts. Unselfishness, too.

“Why,” and Burton smashed a fist
into his palm for emphasis, “Katie
O’Neal had every reason to aspire to
the 'presidency of your club. She’d
been a leader last year and inspired
her mates, so that one hundred per
cent of ’em finished the job. And Ted
Baldwin had been a star on the base-
ball team. He’s captain no-w, but he
didn’t expect it when with Katie he
plotted and planned to make you, a
new friend, your club president.
There’s something finer and far more
important about club work, Bob, than
just going through the motions, keep-
ing records, and turning in reports.
Every boy and girl, especially the
leaders, owe their last ounce of
loyalty. This may sound like preach-
ing, Bob, but club work gets hold of
/me. You can’t evade responsibility.

“Then there’s the question of loyal-
ty to ’the farm itself,” Burton con-
cluded. “Ever think of that? You
owe it to old Mother Earth to help her
serve you to the best of her ability
You’d despise a quitter on your base-
ball team, Bob; a fell-ow who’d back
off from the spikes or refuse to go up
against hard knocks. Deep in her
heart Mother Earth must despise the
man or boy who lays down on his
job. And she has her own way of
punishing.”

Bob Barton had stood with down-
cast eyes, a flush staining his cheeks
and mantling to his brow. But now
he turned and faced the older man,
and in his eyes was the same expres-
sion that had come when he took up
the hard grind of baseball training.
“You’ve given me something to think
about, Mr. Burton,” said Bob, “some-
thing that I don’t think I shall forget.
No boy or girl on' my club is going
to have a chance to feel ashamed of
me, and I’ll do my best to have ’em
go through with their work. As for
‘Old Ma’,” and now Bob’s grin was
boyish and his tone light, “the old girl
is going to get mighty weary of me
tickling her face. They tell me this
farm has had sixty-bushel corn
yields. Watch me go ’em ten better or
more if the season stays favorable.”

“Atta boy!” again applauded the
county club leader. “My guess is that
there will be two winners on this
farm, Robert Barton and Stonewall
Jackson. By the way,” and there was
a twinkle in Burton’s eye, “I’m going
to play first base on the dad’s team
when they play you lads’ 4-H club day
next week. A little bird tells me
that I may have real competition as
a star first baseman. So long, Bob,
keep up the good work.”

“Who’s been telling you things?" de-
manded Bob, but the agent only
smiled mockingly and went on his
way. He was whistling blithely as he
passed the O’Neal home. Whatever
code message there might be in the

wave of a hand we do not know, but.

a happy smile wreathed the lips of
Katie O’Neal as she joined her mother
in the kitchen.

(Continued next week)

 

The practice among Indian mothers
of drugging babies with opium to keep
them quiet while they work in fac-
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Mellie Dunham, famous fiddler,
again taps sugar maple after
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White whales—two of the latest type of Australian submarines
to make the first unescorted voyage from England to Australia,
distance of 12,692 miles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A fiddle for roaring lullabies—it
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Help! Murder! Policel—But this gruesome
sight is only some wax figures on way to

repair shop in Paris.

 

 

By means of indentifying tags, Government
representatives discover that wild ducks
travel thousands of miles annually.

 

Thomas Edison still knows his dots and
dashes on his 81st birthday. He was a
telegrapher over 60 years ago.

 

 

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The largest ship to. go through the Panama Canal—U. S. S.
Saratoga, the world’s largest airplane carrier which is over 888

feet long.

 

World War.

All England mourns loss of General Earl Haig. The flag-draped
coffin was carried on the first gun-carriage to enter action in the

 

 

 

 

 

Bullet-like “B l a c k h a w k” with
which Frank Lockhart hopes to
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Baron Giichi Tanaka, Premier of Japan, dissolves theImpeflal Diet,
or Congress, prior to general election at which time all of the
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Porpoise-like “B l u 6 hi r d" with
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THE 'MICH’IGgN FAR-HER."

 

 

RURAL HEALTH
' By Dr. C. H. Len-5g»

 

 

HOW TO TELL MEASLES FROM
SCARLET FEVER

 

 

N measles the little patient’s eyes
I are watery; the nose runs; there

is an irritating cough; at the be-
ginning the whole thing is much like
a bad cold. About four days later the
child breaks out with an irregular,
mottled rash which usually is a signal
for a drop in temperature. In scarlet
fever the rash comes without so much
notice. It is a smooth, scarlet sheet
of eruption, more likely to have sore
throat with it than not, and generally
prece ed by one day of feeling
wretched and a spell of vomiting.

Anyone who has seen the smooth.
uniform reddened surface of a typical
scarlet fever skin will know how to
distinguish it from the irregular,
raised, and mottled eruption of
measles. But the difficulty arises in
the fact that neither measles nor scar-
let fever are absolutely sure to run
true to type. There are cases of
measles that look like scarlet fever
and mild cases of scarlet fever that
may be mistaken for measles. It is
a tremendously important thing to
avoid any such mistake.

Do not take any risks in these im—
portant matters. Have a doctor see
the case and settle the diagnosis and
treatment for you. Even if it is “only
measles” you will have done a better
service for your child and the com-
munity by calling a physician. After
all, measles kills more children than
scarlet fever, especially in the more
tender years.

Whether measles or scarlet fever
the home treatment is much the same.
The child must be kept comfortably
in bed in a quiet room. It is no use
to heap on bed covers with the idea
of forcing out the rash. Be sure to
avoid drafts and chills but do not
make the child uncomfortably warm.
Give him all the drinking water he de-
sires but do not let him eat a mis-
cellaneous diet. Very light diet. pre-
ferably liquid, is best. If there are
any symptoms of eye trouble keep
the bright light out of the room. In
any eVent, be sure that the bed is
placed so that the light will not glare
into his eyes. The complication to
avoid particularly in measles is bron-
cho-pneumonia; in scarlet fever it is
kidney trouble. Mild types of either
disease will get well without medicine
under good nursing care. But epidem-
ics vary. The malignant type of the
disease may come. Be sure to call
a doctOr for at least one Visit so that
you may have his personal inspection
and advice.

PROBABLY EYE STRAIN

 

For years I have had severe pain on
tOp of right side of head about every
three or four weeks. And for sev-
eral months, when I become tired or
nervous the nerves of left side of face
draw and become numb, also left hand
and foot feel like strings tied about
them. Is this paralysis or a symptom
of same?—T. T. ‘

These symptoms do not indicate
paralysis, which quite generally comes
on with little if any notice. You
should have your vision tested very
carefully on the chance that eyestrain
may cause the trouble. You need a
test of blood pressure, too, so I advise
a complete physical examination.

CURE OF CATARRH

 

I have catarrh and would like it
cured. A doctor removed adenoids
and- my throat has been sore ever
since; What shall I do?——E. C.

There is no remedy that will cure
catarrh so surely as attention to per-
sonal hygiene by forming good daily
habits of living. The skin should be
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ARTIFICIAL

 

What about artificial ear drums. Do
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It depends upon the cause of the
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By Careful Planning Yon Can fla’n’ a Tancn oftne Mode of1928 Inexpensive/y
By Berton Elliot

HAVE had a most delightful time

lately with the new brushing

lacquers. At the same time I have
made for the house such a number of
beautiful things—mostly out of old
things about the house——you’d never
believe so great a change could be
made in the looks of a home for just
a few dollars.

I’ll tell you about it—just what I
did. You can do any of the things
I did, in your own individual way,
with your own individual ideas of de-
sign and color—and many more things
too, for when you get started, ideas
seem to come to you from every-
where. '

In the first place I did a magazine
rack as a “starter.” I had never
had one of these charming bits of
furnishing, although I had always ad-
mired their beauty every time I saw
one. One day I happened to go by
some of the unfinished racks of un-
usually attractive design in one of the-
stores, selling for just a dollar. Then
and there the urge came over me to
decorate a magazine rack for our
home.

First, the wood was sandpapered to
plate smoothness, and dusted off clean.
Then a coat of pure shellac applied,
to seal and fill the pores of the per-
ous poplar. (I always have a small
bottle of shellac about the house.)
After drying about two hours, the sur-
face was again sandpapered smooth——
then two coats of lettuce green lacquer
applied without sandpapering between
coats. Next day the gold trim was
put on all around the edges using a
small camel’s hair “pencil” brush.

The transfer pattern was also ap—
plied—really a surprisingly simple
operation. You first coat the face of
the transfer with quick drying varnish
and allow it to get very sticky or
“tacky.” Then place the transfer in
position, sticky side down, on the sur-
face you are decorating. Press down
firmly, allow three or four minutes for
the adhesive to set, then soak off the
paper backing. Now at once wash
over the surface with a mixture of
half gasoline and half water to re—
move deposits of varnish and the
gummy substance used for temporari-
ly holding the transfer design to the
paper backing.

Our next operation was a tilt-top
table. This was lacquered in black
with a gold edge, and decorated with
a rich floral design in deep reds and
greens—a most stunning combination
against an even-toned, moderately
light colored wall background, yet con-
servative enough for any scheme of
furnishing or any place in the room.
We placed this little gem on the stair-
way landing across the room from the
fireplace, an alcove that seemed to be
just made for it.

Next we carried out a complete re-
furnishing of the sunroom practically
without buying anything new. We had
in this room a sort of accumulation of
odds and ends of furniture. As a basis,
we had two wicker chairs of typi-
cal sunroom design but without much
character as to color scheme and be-
sides considerable the worse for wear.
Then there was a table that did not
match the chairs, but nevertheless of

' a good sunroom type——-and a wicker-

ware fernery—and the radio. Green
and orange was the scheme we de-
cided upon to enliven this cheer-pro-

voking room, and bridge the various
unrelated pieces into a set.

The work was done in lacquer with
one of the inexpensive hand spray
outfits on the market, which per-
mitted getting into the crevices and
low places of the wicker, as well as
doing the work very quickly. The
orange trim color was put on with an
exceptionally full brush and very
little stroking, so it would not soften
and become discolored by the pre-
viously applied green.

Next we looked through various
rooms to see what might be needed
to bring things up—to—date, and add
some little touches of the mode of 1928
to our home—-at the same time, tak-
ing inventory of various odds and
ends about the house which could be
converted into desirable art objects.

A preserve jar of graceful design
was made into a vase quite beyond
criticism, by pouring on two colors of
lacquer (lettuce green and black), and
letting them run down the sides and
blend together, then edging the sides
with gold. A bud vase that had long
ago been relegated to the‘ top shelf
of the kitchen cupboard was pour-
coated in plain lettuce green and the
base brush coated in gold. These
made companion pieces for the man-
tel.

Some wall plaques were made from
colored prints we had been saving for
quite some time with a view of doing
something with them when the spirit
moved us. Suitable plaque shapes
were cut from wall board, upon which
the prints were mounted with pre-
pared glue, leaving a margin of wall
board between two and three inches

 

wide around the picture. A frame
was then built up on the wall-board
margin with a gesso composition,

‘made by mixing about one-half pint

of whiting, one-quarter pint of pre-
pared glue, three teaspoonsful of var-
nish, and three teaspoonsful of linseed
oil to a plastic consistency that would
stay put when applied. The mixture
was spread on with an ordinary table
knife, and modelled into fanciful ef-
fects with swirls and sweeping twists
of the end of the knife. When the
composition had hardened, the frame
was polychromed, this being done as
follows—first brushing on a founda-
tion coating of gold bronze; followed,
when dry, with various shades of oil
colors, corresponding with the tones
in the picture, brushed on, and par-
tially wiped off as desired, and with
touches of bronze powder in various
hues patted on with a soft cloth.

 

GRANTS THEY ARE NUMEROUS

 

TALK about mistakes, I’ve made so

many it would take a book to hold
them. My mother always thought .she
could do her owu work best which left
me without much experience. I had
to learn to do many things after I
was twenty that I should have known
at twelve. I had never made bread
at home but had formed the loaves
for the pans. One day after I was
first married, I tried my luck at mak-
ing yeast. It did not raise. A kind
neighbor explained that I put the yeast
cake in the water while it was too
hot. Feeling ashamed to ask further
questions, I learned by experience
until now my bread is as good as any-

 

one can bake. I have also learned to
make many things from bread dough.

My first cookies were like chips.
My mother—in-law told me it,was all
in the mixing, but what did she mean?
But I finally learned to mix dough as
soft as can be handled and then bake
in a hot oven.

But of all the mistakes I made, I
think my baby’s clothes were the
worst. I hemstitched the hems by
hand, crocheted and knitted lace,
tucked and pleated—and oh, they were
so pretty. My mother-in-law was with
me when baby came and she thought

they must be doll clothes. Baby.

weighed but five pounds, so they fit
in: a way until we could hurry up and
make some more—Mrs. A. K., Charle-
voix County.

 

STEALING A MARCH ON GRANDMA

 

With grandma in the springtime
I heartily agree— -
She gives the family rhubarb
To save the doctor’s fee.

But why wait till spring? Why
not “save the doctor’s fee” in winter
too?

Perfectly simple. Before the ground
freezes, dig up a few clumps of rhu-
barb, leaving the dirt on the roots.
Leave these out-of—doors until they
are frozen, then take them into the
cellar. Put the clumps in a box, as
close together as possible, and sift
dirt over the roots until they are
covered. Cover the box to keep out
light. No further attention is neces-
sary except to water once a week or
so.

What happens? The roots begin to
send up sprouts in a month or so, and
in two months you can begin to pull
fresh rhubarb.

Don’t despair if the ground has al-
ready frozen and you have not dug up
any roots. Dig them the first time
the ground thaws.

If the weather is against you, and
you are kept from digging the roots
all winter, then try this stunt:

Set some old barrels (both ends
out) over several clumps of rhubarb
in the garden. This will cause them
to sprout earlier than the clumps not
covered, and you can pull rhubarb
from the barrels a couple of weeks
ahead of the outdoor seasoni—E. K.

 

EXTENSION WORK PROGRESSES
UNDER DIFFICULTY IN MASON

 

W OME‘N of Mason County are not

worried over companionate mar-
riage and other new fangled ideas;
neither is the question of their growth,
through continued education and bet-
ter home management, a debatable

» 0118.

On February 15, 140 women from
the twelve extension groups in the
county, met at Community Hall, Scott-
ville, for an enthusiastic rally with
Mrs. Louise H. Campbell, state home
demonstration leader, as speaker.

Having neither county agent nor.
home demonstration leader, it has
been more work for the county offi-
cers to keep the various clubs together,
but under the enthusiastic leadership
of Mrs. FrankBarclay as county pre-
sident and the splendid cooperation of
local leaders, the work of two years?

in the clothing project has progressed

smwthlyo_'MrSo GI P! D.

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PROTEINS may build tissue, but sleep
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FLOUR BAG PAJAMAS SENT TO
PRESIDENT

 

AJAMAS from flour bags! This

may astonish housewives who have
been in the habit of using the dis-
carded sacks simply for dusters and
dish cloths, but they will be still more
startled to learn that they belong to
no less a personage than President
Coolidge himself. This is how it came
about! The ladies of the Millard
Avenue Presbyterian Church in Chi-
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MARCH 10, 1928

spoonstul shortening. let loaves rise
until twice the size and bake about
one hour in a moderate oven.

I have found that a twenty-four and
a half pound sack of spring wheat
flour makes four more loaves than the
same size sack of winter wheat flour.
——-Mrs. I. M. C.

 

RUST SPOTS

 

HE most stubborn rust spots can

be removed by this ,method: place
a slice of lemon right over the rust
spot and hold cloth over hot water
so that the steam comes up through
the rust spot to the-lemon. I prefer
the teakettle spout as the rest of the
teakettle protects the hands from hot
steam—Mrs. C. H. F.

 

“Soap it—that will hold it,” advised
another friend when I discovered a
run in my stocking with nothing at
hand to stop it.—M. S.

Our Little Folks

STATE SECRETS

 

 

 

 

 

Here stars of the movies and fruits of
the tree,
With gold from the mountains and
, fish from the sea;
Conspire all together to make this

‘ State be,
F O S T E R B R O S. M F G. C 0. They Were Made From IFlour Bags A rival to heaven—that’s What they
Coolidge, and how much they ap- tell me!

UTlCA, N. Y.

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aproved of his program of govern-
mental economy. Some one suggested
writing him a letter of appreciation,
another lady improved on this with
the proposal that they make a super-
fine cake and send it to the White
House with their regards. Finally,
Mrs. Anna Hayes suggested that they
make a pair of pajamas entirely out
of used flour bags, and this was
agreed upon because of its novelty
which at the same time conveyed the
idea of practical thriftiness so dear to
the New England heart.

The bags were bought for a few
cents from a nearby bakery and five

sidential nightwear. The cutting was
done so expertly that no visible piec-
ing was necessary. If you don’t be-
lieve a full sized pair of pajamas can
be made this way, try it and see,
though the church ladies admit it took
some skillful planning. The frogs and
buttons were of lavendar.

“We took a lot of pleasure in mak-
ing them,” said Mrs. Hayes, “and hope
that the President will ‘choose’ to
wear them.”—H. F.

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ANSWER TO BREAD TROUBLES

 

HAD the. same trouble as Mrs. F.

C. G., when I let my bread sponge
raise too long. Now I always knead
the dough stiff at night the last thing
before I go to bed. I start my sponge
at noon and it is light by evening.
By working the dough at night, it is
ready to put into loaves the first
thing in the morning.

Occasionally, when I do not get my
sponge made at noon,'l start it at
supper time and let it raise until
morning before kneading the dough.—
Mrs. B. S.

 

I am not quite sure what is the

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The pieces of this puzzle when can
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 South Carolina and i‘iS capitol is
Columbia.

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sugar and a big tablespoonful of salt,
and one tablespoonful of flour with
the water in which I boil potatoes.
Then I add one cup mashed potatoes
and enough cold water to make two
quarts. Add the yeast cake which has
been dissolved when the mixture is
lukewarm. In the morning I set the
sponge and by the time breakfast is
over it is light. Then mix until
smooth and let rise again. When I
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spend my time searching for eggsand
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I can go down a tree trunk head
first as quickly as I can go up, which
is something that Neighbor VVood-
pecker can’t do.

I build my nest in a. knot hole or
put a new soft lining of leaves 'and
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ACCREDITING MIGH IGAN’S
POULTRY HOUSES

N connection with the accrediting

of farm flocks, it is found that the
type of poultry house is of great im-
portance and that the accrediting of
poultry houses will help to determine
the kind of house which is the most
satisfactory for protecting the breed-
ing stock that are to produce accre-
dited chicks.

J. A. Davidson. Field Manager of
the Poultry improvement Association,
has given the house problem consid~

'erable thought and has developed the

following score card to be used as a.
starter in scoring poultry houses. This
may be subject to later changes. It
allows 5 points for location and 15
for lighting. The ventilation counts
25 and is divided up into 5 for floor
space, 10 for temperature and 10 for
the ventilating system.

Sanitation is to count 35 points and
is divided into yarding 5, floor 8, an-
dropping boards 8,
equipment 5 and litter 5. The equip-
ment which counts 20 points is divided
into perches 8. feeders 5, nests 3, and
water utensils 4. The tot_al amount
of points required to pass a house as
satisfactory has not been determined
as yet.

In discussing the house score card
with members of the poultry associa-
tion during Farmers’ Week, the fol-
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cold but a lot of light is better than
no light. A crowded house is hard to
ventilate and there should be at least
three and one-half square feet of floor
space for light breeds and four square
feet for heavy breeds. The returns
are often greater when there are
fewer birds in the house.

The building of twenty-six of the
Michigan shed-roof type poultry
houses in different~sections of the
state has proven that the ventilation
system in this house is a success. It
is found that a concrete floor should
always be insulated against soil mois-
ture. Dry mash hoppers should have
a minimum of ten feet of feeding
space for 100 birds. Fountains should
allow three feet. of drinking space per
100 birds. This is about equivalent to
one good sized pail per 100 hens. One

hundred hens should have at least 8003

inches of perch s. ace.

THE BUSINESS POULTRYMAN

 

CCORDING to A. G. Phillips, form-

er poultryiiian at Purdue Univer-
sity, the successful poulti‘yman must
have fitness for the job. This is a
combination of knowledge learned
through study and practical experience
gained by doing things. The “want
to do” is necessary to put the job
over. The poultryinan must want to
do the job and not just think he wants
to do it.

Production and selling go together
in the poultry business. The poultry-
man must have sales instinct and be
the finest type of salesman. Success
ful poultrymen must also be good
business men.

Lack of resourcefulness and the
ability to stick are two causes of
failure. The poultry business belongs
in agriculture and is economically
sound in spite, of slumps. Diplomacy
and fact are helpful in making sales.
Some, farmers buy on a. rising market
and sell on a falling market which
causes the other fellow to make the
money.

Don’t worry about the cost of suc-
cess. Worry about the cost of failure.
It isn’t the cost of the chicks that live
but the cost of the chicks that die
that counts. It isn’t the cost of the
eggs you produce but the cost of the
eggs you don’t get that brings losses.
Business goes in cycles and has its
ups and down. The poultryman should
believe in his job, have faith in the
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show that this case actually pays for itself by the "
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Mr. Tibbals, of Rose Lawn Poultry Farm at Dayton, ~ “
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600 in another type of house. on the one In the other type of house
greater than the combined loss In the two Dickelman bounce.
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nrod to: continuous brooder system. Shipped knocked down. Easily erected.
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SILER’S CHICK?

FOUR years of bloodvtcsting for Iiacillary WHITE DIARRHEA. Three years of ACCREDITATION
and ten years of hatchery cxpcriciiv'e coupled with consistent culling and breeding has given
us good. strong livable chicks, that grow into profitable layers. Two distinctive breeds:

Barred Plymouth Rocks and S. c. White Leghorns
Write for free catalog and prices
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TRADE MARK OF QUALITY DIIIDKS
A pOULTRyo

FARM S. t“. Wh. and Br. Leghorns. Bl. Minorcns ....................... . ....... $12.00 per him.
Barred and Wli. Racks, S. (l. and R. C. Rd. 1. Reds ..................... $14.00 per bun.
Wh. Wyandotlcs and Butt Orninmons .................................... $15.00 per hun.
Ton per cent discount on orders of 500 or more. Three weeks old ciiir'ks add ten dollars
per bun. Baby Wh. l’ekin Ducks. Gccse. and Turkeys. $1.00 per hun. holds shipping
date. balance U. 0. l). Order direct from ad. or Write for folder.

ARROWHEAD POULTRY FAR M

Hatcheries at Montrose, Birch Run and Lapoer, Michigan

 

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if they keep on at this rate. Will use Glass Cloth
every year now."

If you want unusual success with your chicks this year, . _ .. . .. ..
raise them under GLASS CLOTH. This wonder meter 5 P E c I a I

in] admits the life giving; ultra-violet energy rays of the
sun. (Plain glass stops them.) Seience has discovered
these rays prevent rickets, softness, lciz weakness and
many other chick troubles. Death loss from these
causes is stopped. .Ultra-Violct rays promote health
and speed up the buildtixn offbone and ttissuelz. blf . ou
want: to raise every c ic i ' on wan ear y roi era .00 rin bi 1.011451“; Ian and 36h.
andlayers, put GLASS CLOTlI in your brooder house asideflwogvsersgscratch shed 9515 ft.) 11'.
770‘ TIII’I'IOI' windows and build a GLASS CLOTH scratch shed after IOdays' use you do not find it bet-
)ri inator where the chicks can run and exerci se in real sunlight. ter than glass or any-substitute, retum
Jf G asaCloth Jt is nature’siiealth remedy. Millions of yards in use it and we Willrefund your money. Coin-
tod men sense instructions, “Success With
Baby Chicks "samples and catalog free
on rogues . if our dealer does not'bnve
GLA S CLO , order from us direct.
TURNER BROS. Deptdflfi _
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had remarkable success this year .wtth Glass
Cloth. Have lost only 10 out ofLWchtclcs. Thu is
much better than we have ever been able to do be<

arc. The chicks have gro um faster and are
much healthier. They will be laying by October

     

ay. Success everywhere. Experts recommend it.
Repaya its cost; many times a season. Try it. It pays.

IDEAL FOR NOT BEDS
GLASS CLOTH is the cheapest and best cov-
cring for hot beds. Vac-let re a make plants
{new stronger and hurdier. hey transplant
letter, mature earlier and yield bigger crops. Holds Name
heat. Resigns cold. _ Try it on your
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Lakeview chicks grow rapidly into real money We win
and hold our customers by supplying only stock bred for profits.

The Best Strains of Money-Making Breeds

are represented in our laying flocks. Dependability and production
proved by test. Official Records up to 252 eggs at Michigan egg con—
test, 1925. Our Barred Rocks won silver cup, Holland Fair 1927 215
l "" eg hen at Natl. Egg Laying Contest, Mountain Grove, Mo., 1927.
‘0 Aflour flocks are Michigan Accredited and regularly approved by

authorized state inspectors. Chicks are Smitthatched, lively and
vigorous. 100% live delivery guaranteed.

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It tells all about the famous strains from which Lakeview chicks are
hatched. S. C W. Le horns for egg production. Your choice of
standard heavierbree s; prize—winning Barred Rocks, Whlte Rocks,
Bufl' Orpingtons, White Wyandottes, or S. C. Rhode Island Reds
-all high grade Stock. We will ship C 0.1).
Don’t delay your reservations — 1¢ per chick books your
order. Write TODAY for catalog and special price list.

LAKEVIEW POULTRY FARM
M. J. KOLE, Prop.

Box 6 Holland, Michigan

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DILIGENT CHICKS DID IT

and will do it for you.

Your DILIGENT (‘HIt‘KS became DILIGl'INT LAYERS and beat them all
in our neighborhood, enter order tor 500 March delivery. a. customer just wrote
us. Do not hesitate to send your order. You will be satisfied. Thirteen
l’ullets after May first. Please note our

 

years of honest. dealing behind us.
NEW LOW postpnid prices:

50 IOO 200 500

Single (' omb \\ hite L (ghorns .............. $5. 75 $11.00 $21.50 $52.50
Barred Plymouth Ilrx ks .................. 25 14.00 27.50 67. 50
S. U.Rl1ode Island Reds .................. 7. 25 14.00 27.50 67. 50
Mixed (Heavies Only) .................... 6.25 12.00 23.50 57 50

DILIGENT HATCHERY AND POULTRY FARM
Harm J. Knoll, R. R. No.4 HOLLAND, MICHIGAN

HIGHLAND LE GHORNS

Every breeder carefully selected for size.
egg production. Muted to mules of 200 to 300 on
pedigreed ancestry.

CHICKS SHIPPED C. O. D.

See your chirks 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 [rive a big discount). Get our new
valuable catalog which gives complete details. Write {on copy today.

 

   

 

 
   

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 tyne. Get our special wholesale price on brooder stoves when bought
with chicks. SEND FOR OUR BIG CATALOG. It tells all about our pedi-
greed male: and special pen matings. Also gives details about our high
producing utility birds. Valuable book free with each order. Prices reason-
able. Write today.

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Trapnested Matings add 3c; Blue. Ribbon Pens add 4c Each.

       

100% Live Delivery guaranteed, and Postage paid on 25 50 50
White. Brown & Buff Loghoms ............................ $3.50 $0.50 $12.00 $58.00
Barred. White & Buff Rocks. Minerals and ADVODEH ......... 4.00 7.50 14.00 (18.00
White & Sil. Wyandottes, and Orpingtons .................. :1.75 0.50 16.00 78. 00
Mixed all heavy Broilers, No Culls ........................ 3.50 (1.00 11.50 55. 00

BABION'S FRUIT AND POULTRY FARMS Lock Box 354-0 Flint. Michigan

ACCREDITED WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS

Hollywood and Hollywood sired from 200 to 290 egg stock and commercial stock

'00 s 5g? $10100
Star Matings ................................................... $7. 75 $15.00 72. I .
Utility Matings .......... - ...................................... 0.75 ' 13.00 412.50 120.00
Commercial )latings ............................................ 5.25 10.00 47.50 90.00

with order, balance one Week

Left Overs $8.00 per 100. Ordtr djmt from advertisement. Send 10% .
Prompt. shipment on date

before shipment. We guarantee 100 /0 live delivery by prepaid Parcel Post.

desired.
M. D. WYNGARDEN R. 4, Box 40 ZEELAND, MICH.

 

 

w PURE BRED BABY CHICKS UALITY
100% Live Delivery Guaranteed. Send0 for Free Catalog and Price List
Prepaid Prices for 2500 200 500 1000
White Leghorns, Black Minorcas . . . . . . $3.50 $6. 50 $12. 00 $23. 50 $57. 50 $110.00

White, Barred and Buff Rocks
Single and Rose Comb Reds

White Wynndottes, Buff Orpingtons
S. S. Hamburgs. 16c. Assorted Breeds, 10:.

THE LANTZ HATCHERY

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. . . . 3.75 7.25 14.00 27.50 67.50 130.00

Member A. B. C. P. A. Our 22nd You
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This year we introduce to you our Record of performance pedigree male matings up
w 816 on records direct from British Columbia. and 011111-10. Canada, includinz
bloodtested. trapneated pedigree White Leghorn matings, 220 to 313 egg records.
Winners of many prizes. Every bird standard culled. Get FREE circular of
chicks, butt-mus one. and breadth before buylnl elsewhere. Broiler chicks 9c up.

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THE MICHIGAN . F'A‘RME’RV

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MARCH 10, 1928

Poultry House Essentials
Found in Foreman T ype Home .-

By E. C.

TIIIS type of laying house has
been designed to provide a cer-
tain condition within the house
and is not merely a shelter against
the elements. This house is a depar—
ture in design from the common types
of poultry houses and is both a home
and workshop, embodying those fea-
tures that safeguard health, provide
comfort, and stimulate production.
Briefly summarized, a satisfactory
poultry house should be dry. well
lighted, comfortable under wide ex-
tremes of temperature, and providing
at all times adequate amounts of pure
fresh air. The incorporation of those
features in construction that will pro-
vide these conditions as economically
and efficiently as possible has been
our objective in designing the Fore-
man All Year Poultry House.
Twenty years ago no one expected
hens to lay in Winter. Today the Win-

Foreman

is exhaled in breath or excreted in
droppings. Add to this the water
from other sources such as capillary
moisture that gains entrance through
the floor, rain from leaky roofs and
windows, spillage from inadequate and
unsanitary drinking vessels, moisture
of condensation, and air humidity.
The control factors affecting the,
rate of evaporation are. the available
heat and proper ventilation creating
air movement over the litter and car-
rying off the damp vitiated air. The
litter should not be over four inches
deep and should be frequently turned
to release its moisture more readily.
Capillary or floor moisture can us-
ually be corrected by painting the sur-
face of the floor with asphalt paint.
In building the floor, it is usually ad-
visable to select a high knoll as a
building site and the floor should be
at least eight inches above the ground

 

 

A Foreman Type House Provides Healthful Living Conditions ,

ter egg yield is the financial baro-
meter that spells success or failure.
Winter eggs, when eggs are in great-
est demand at highest prices, are not
produced by chance, but are the result
of a. combination of important factors
including careful breeding, healthy,
well-grown stock, culling, feeding, and
proper housing. Slower progress has
been made in improving housing con-
ditions than in breeding, culling, and
feeding.

It is common knowledge that very
few poultry houses operate satisfac-
torily under the variable weather and
temperature conditions experienced in
Michigan. The moisture problems of
fall and winter are difficult of solution.
Excess dampness is a menace to the
health of the birds and retards pro-
duction. Poultry houses that register
wide daily and seasonal temperature
changes are not conducive to consis-
tent laying as sub-zero temperatures
are a shock to the birds, over-taxing
their limited digestive capacity and
causing production slumps and molt-
ing. The opposite condition of ex-
treme heat of summer requires care-
ful ventilation for health and well
sustained production. Hens do not
have sweat glands and close, hot
roosting quarters usually force on pre-
seasonal molting as Nature’s only
method of relief.

These various factors are brought
to your attention for a. fuller appre-
ciation of the fact that in building or
remodelling a poultry house, we should
have in mind the production of certain
conditions within the house rather
than building according to “fancy” and
trusting that it will operate satisfac.
torily.

Moisture Problems

Undoubtedly, the greatest problem
in proper housing is the elimination of
moisture. One hundred Leghorn hens
in twenty-four hours in winter will
consume thirty-three and one-half
pounds of moisture in the form.of
feed and drink. Practically all of this

level. By filling with coarse stones,
the capillary movement of moisture is
checked. Soil water will travel from
seven to eight feet through sand or
gravel and from twenty-one to twenty-
four feet through clay. Whenever
possible, select a sandy or gravel ridge
for the building site with good air
and water drainage in all directions.

Ventilation

The slow interchange of air is most
desired in a pOultry house, as a. more
uniform' temperature can be main-
tained at all points within the house.
Too free a circulation usually creates
cold air pockets and causes huddling.
This is not conducive. to constant exer—
cise nor does it get the desired re-
sponse from the hens. An air move-
ment of from five to six feet a minute
creates no perceptible drafts and fur-
nishes the hens with a constant sup-
ply of pure, sweet, fresh air. The
modified King system of ventilation,
which introduces the air into the build-
ing from a point several feet from the
floor with all inlets arranged on the
south wall and which draws the air
off the floor through metal or box
flues, is possibly the most satisfactory
of all. The inlet and outlet flues
should bear a. definite'and equal open-
ing ratio. Ordinarily, one twelve inch
outlet flue will care for a twenty by
twenty foot house or an eighteen inch
outlet due for each thirty running feet
of house having a. depth of from eight-
een to twenty feet. A suction or va-
cuum cap should cover each outlet
flue for best results. The outlet flue
should come Within eighteen inches of
the floor and should be centrally lo-
cated to exert an equal pull from all
sides.

Insulation

The gable type of roof is preferable,
because it lends itself better in con-

trolling extremes of temperature.’
Many poultrymen‘ build their houses ‘
entirely too low and defeat the very.
The ‘ '

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front and rear wall should be from six mistake frequently made in using roof
to seven feet high. This provides the lights is placing the lights too high
proper volume of air for,freedom of up on the roof or in using too much
movement and eliminates that close, lighting space. Skylights placed near
stuffy condition so characteristic of the peak do not permit ceiling over-
low shed roof houses. Either‘straw head or the use of a straw loft, but in
or insulating material can be used for placing them along the lower margin
spanning from front to rear plate in of the roof this insulation feature can
the gable type of house thus provid- be incorporated and at the same time
ing a dead air space above, which is the light rays enter at the proper
important in holding and maintaining angle to cover floor with sunshine.
uniform temperature conditions. This
eliminates the problem of condensa-
tion and dripping from ceiling and
walls. Overhead and rear wall in-
sulation is all that is really required
and the rear or north wall only needs hole in the side. Cloth can be pasted
to be ceiled to a point even with the around the edges of the'hole. A light
dropping boards. bulb is then dropped in the can. This

The most efficient lighting arrange- is safer than using a shoe box as it
ment is a combination of overhead or avoids some fire risk. A 40-watt bulb
roof lights and front wall lights. The gives good satisfaction.

 

STANDARDS AND GRADES FOR
EGGS

 

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For your FARM F LOCK

Superior Commercial mated chicks are especially adapted. These

, rugged, easy to raise chicks have the ability to make heavy layers.
They have established an enviable reputation on commercial poultry
farms and as farm flocks.

2» are from known record hens.
Michigan Accredited.

Here are the Big Values
500 for $62.50 1000 for $122.50

The male birds used in these matings
They are also

100 for $13.00

We guarantee 100% live delivery at the above
prices and stand squarely behind every trans-
action. We also have a special grade. Our
big 64 page catalog fulbr describes our modern
breeding plant. The largest in Ottawa County.
Superior Michigan Accredited chicks will make
your poultry income safe. Write today.

Superior Poultry Farms, Inc.,
Box 360, Zeelnnd, Mich.

 

 

WOLVERINE S.C.WHITE LEGHonN

BLOOD smgggazlawm BABY CHICKS

WILL GUARANTEED MICHIGAN ACCREDITED

FOR WINTER EGG PRODUCERS

Get our Large Leghorns, the birds with large combs
that produce the Large Chalk White Eggs

lSEND FOR OUR 1928 CATALOG

Tells all about our chicks and breeding stock
EGG BRED SINCE 1910
For 18 years we have specialized in the production of 8. 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.
We can deliver chicks to most points in from eight to ten hours.
l00% LIVE ARRIVAL GUARANTEED

WOLVERINE HATCHERY AND FARMS

H. P. WIERSMA, Owner and Breeder. Dept. 3. Zeeland. Mich.

  

  
    
      
     
     
  
 

 

 

SMITH QUALITY CHICKS Winter Egg Producers
Many Smith customers write and tell us of 50 to 70% Winter egg yield
with Smith Quality Chicks. Write for FREE catalogue. Pure-bred
100% live delivery postpaid.

too 200 500 1000
White & Brown Leghorns . . . . . . . .$10.50 $20.50 $47.50 $ 95.00
Barred & White Rock. R. I. Reds
Anconas ....... . ...... 2' ....... . 12.50 24.50 57.50 115.00
White Wyandottes, White & Buff
Orpingtons ............ . . . . . . . . . 13.50 26.50 62.50 125.50
Assorted all breeds .............. 875 17.00 40.00 79.00

Terms: $1.00 deposit with each 100 Chicks, balance i0 days before
shipping date. Reference, Bank of Berne, Berne, Indiana
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for egg production and quality.

If betw- chicks could be hatched for the money we would be belching than. The”
one reasons why we have thousands of satisfied customers. and that we have never
been able to supply nu. the demand for our chicks in the past eightem year-a. Qnr
Reliable Chink: mm high on producing qualltm. Even mm In our breeding
nooks handed and record kept. Fine Illustrated Catalog free. Send us your order
and you will be another one of our utisfled customers.

Chicks Sent C. O. D. It You Wish. Get Our Plan

Get our oust-l combined offer on chicks. broods:- stone. and broader-«houses We hatch twelve varieties.
Fifi film oblelu nor week. anuabla Book on Chicks and Poultry free with each order or no or me.

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mi Chi.‘elie— ' i ‘ 5‘ " S. 0. Bull
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proved by “Utah Basket Strain)

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ton. Meadow BYOOk n. g: 'dnlkefi; 0.

Take time to investigate one of Michigan's oldest blueberries. Twenty-six years in lmsinens. Every
chick handled from man blood lines and from rugged free range breeders. The above winning
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"line“ in be satisfied MOM. Get our his free catalog today. It's free. 100% llve deliven'

meld guaranteed. II. 00'“. Sun. me
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The Right Seed for a Big Egg Crop

Grandview’s Large Type Production Bred Leg— All. about .Grandv'uyw's Famou-
horns are real Commercial Layers. Tested and mmrggfirgggg-,:;m,,19§{,,,°'§g,gl
Proven in Official Contests, and Trapnested and TEXAS m I;en 52 weeks 253,;
Pedigreed for years, they are consistent heavy emf ' "
winter layers, producing a fine, large, white egg MARYLAND. 2335 page. 51 weeks.
that brings premium prices on any market. MICHIGAN. lst Pen. 10th Mo. by
Every bird of long, deep, wedge shaped pro- Customer: 2231 “£99-

ductifin (type. Matedhto 200 $10 230 Egg Pedigree :30Rgl‘l-82T3NEI3gsrm 51 1'06“
and . * . P. Males, aving t e gg ying Con- UT VA ’1“? , H“! mm
test Winning Blood Lines bred in them through ('Ont‘ibt' 237? ms m 51 ”a?
many generations. Also Winners In ILLINOIS. WI -
JERSEY.

Baby Chicks lor Immediate Delivery PM, with Grandview

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.

Write today for information and prices, stating
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

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MICHIGAN ACCREDITED. 1926 Contest Pen Averaged 2:9 8’
FREE Eggs each. Customers profit $3.00 per bird. Pullete
Citd"! We Also Breed Anconas and Barred Rocks H0118
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Facts About Fathers

~

HAT does my father mean to
me? Just about everything! In

his hands lies my success.
More than I am able to express in
words, more than I can ever repay in
money and more than I could ever
expect to contribute by the way of
accomplishment, am I indebted to him.
He has been responsible for my in-
terest in education, through which I
am gaining a broader range of
thought and a more definite ambition.

 

 

 

 

Mary Kanka Enjoying Her Favorite
Sport

True, a father is not in any sense
a character to replace a mother’s ten-
der companionship, yet. \vhile mother
leads the soprano ot' the harmony that
thrills the very depths of my soul,
father’s influence, with proper beat;
forms the bass, the more substantial
part of life’s harmonious strain.

lt. is always father who travels
through the snow in the winter storms
to take me home to spend the week-
end with the family. Father is, as

 

When

 

 

you buy a tire made by this Company,

you are dealing with a concern that is one of the five
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of it—and this means your money’s worth, and
more, every time.

 

 

M. C’r. Dzlrczm T lzez'r Dad;

I am proud to say, the true, honest,
responsible type of father who re-
mains always the same. As you. see
him today so you see him always,
and as such he is, though far from
perfect, to me “the best father a girl
ever had.”—V.ola M. Marsh.

 

As you said you would not tell my
father what I say in this letter, I will
tell you what he is. He is taken for
a good man, but when he gets to
doing good and making much money
he runs off with other girls. Well, I
must not tell everything I know. He
was a father to me when he was with
me, but he ought to have been the
kind of man Abraham Lincoln was.

A real father is a man who thinks
his wife and children are the best
people on earth. He should be willing
to give his life for them and not for
other girls A father is not a drunk-
ard or flirt but he is all to his family.
A father who does his best to keep out
of trouble and supports his family is
a man. If he hasn’t the most money
he is the same person for the money
isn’t the father; but a man with a
good character, a clean heart and head
is a real father to his family and he
will get his pay for his kind deeds
done on this earth.

 

 

-
tried to describe and not one like I
have.

 

My Dad can and does help me in
many ways, but according to my opin-
ion the difference of how much or
little lies in the fact how I or other
boys and girls cooperate with Dad.

But where my Dad helps me most
is in giving me a good chance in
social life. My Dad is honest and
truthful in all his deals, and as he is
head of the house and does all the
business, it gives our family and me
a good reputation. This helps me
more than anything else or other
helps combined.

My Dad supplies me with food. My
Dad also helps me by buying me
clothes and giving me a space of
ground to grow potatoes and vege-
tables for profit. Also poultry and
hatching eggs. I, therefore, can buy
my own sport goods (baseballs, fish
lines, etc). I once asked for a dollar
to subscribe to the Michigan Farmer.
I got the money. He helped me that
time, don’t you think?

But my Dad, like every other per-
son, is not perfect. When it comes to
doing the chores, he depends on me.
I don’t mind the work, but here is
the idea—he should at least go along
as a boss or guide. (I like my Dad
for a boss). Then everything must
go right or it would be his fault.

Let him keep up his good reputa-
tion and I will thank himn

I wish I had a real father like I have:

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

I was deer hunting this fall; sure
had a marvelous time. We took pic-
tures and roamed through the woods
from morning ’till night. My brother
got a two hundred pound buck. It sure
was large. One day I saw thirty-nine

deer. Will send you some pictures of
some deer also one of myself.—
E'lsie S.

Am glad you had a happy hunting
time. When are you going to send
those “deer” pictures?

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

About this controversy of placing
Lindbergh in front of God, I would
say in my most customary boldness
that they must not think much of
their Saviour. Lindbergh is a type
of man that stimulates hero worship.
He truly has done a great and ma.-
jestic deed in spanning the continents,
also has done lots to improve world
peace and help smooth out difficulties
between this country and the Eur-
opean powers. But Lindbergh has not,
and probably will not, and cannot
equal to this country the wonderful
service rendered by the great Abra-
ham Lincoln. As I am on this sub-
ject, I will announce herewith my list
of the ten world’s greatest men based
on actual service in bettering_cond1-
tions in the world: Abraham Lincoln,
Benjamin Franklin, D. L. Moody,
Charles Lindbergh, George Washing-
ton, Calvin Coolidge, Robert Fulton,
Isaac Newton, John Hancock, Herbert
Hoover—A Critic.

Your list is worthy of consideration
though many may dispute it. Leav-
ing Jesus out is probably a wise move
as He should not be classed with
other men.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

I am writing to tell you that I re-
ceived the Golden Circle pin and card
which you sent me some time ago and
to say that I appreciate them and I
thank you very, very much for them.
They are lovely in themselves, and
the honor which they represent means
much to me. I did not expect you
to send them to little me, for I
thought only scholars like “White
Amaranth” could win them. Please
excuse me for delaying so long to
write, Uncle Frank, for I shall try
to do better next time. I hope to be

able to write a longer letter soon so
I’ll say hood bye for now. With best
Wishes and love, your niece, Elsie
Collins, Fenton, Mich.

It is gratifying to know that the
G. C. honor is appreciated and en-
joyed. Come again when you can.

 

Hello Uncle and Cousins:

Every week when we get the Mich-
igan Farmer the first thing I do is to
hunt up Our Page. The arguments on
cats, prohibition, rouge, powder, etc,
I have enjoyed very much. I am even
surprised in many cases to see how
some of the M. C.’s can bring out
their ideas—Dagmar.

I, too, am surprised at the —way
ideas are brought out so well. But I
believe that there are many others
who could do equally as well if they
tried.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

I am very busy with high school
work especially reading books for
book reports, but I thought I would
write you a few lines. I love to read
your page in the Michigan Farmer. I
take time to do that if nothing else.

 

 

 

Evelyn Barber Poses With Her 009'

Oh, say, Uncle Frank, would you
like me to join the M. C.? J1, would
be very glad to belongkto it a‘sI think
it is a nice place to get acquainted
with other girls of my age and size.

 

 

 

 

 


    

 

 

 

 

. , MARCH 10, 1928 '

Well, I will have to get busy—Doris
Horney, Carleton, Mich. "

I hope you will soon become an M.
C. I know 'high school work keeps
one busy because I am reviewing my
high school work with my boys; that
is, I am going to high school again
by helping them.

A LATE HOME-COMER

 

AM an ex-Merry Circler and simply

neglected to write my Home-Com-

ing letter. I am a junior in high
school and expect to be a. nurse some
day.‘ All the Home-Coming letters
certainly were interesting. Some of
these particular Home-Co-mers have
excellent talents and I am sure. if some
practice with all their ability, they
surely will accomplish something
very great in their life which will be
admired by others.

Our Page is very interesting and
many good lessons are learned from
it. I am sure if we try and do the
best we can, we are surely going to
accomplish some things to be ad-
mired in our life. If we take life seri-
ous and take all good clean things into
consideration and especially try to
obey the rules, our minds will not
wander to the evil doings of this
world. Try to develop a good clean
character. This Home-Coming letter
is getting rather lengthy so I will
close. Love to all.——Just me.

 

ADD A LETTER CONTEST

 

O few understood this type of con-

test last time, so I think it well
to try it again. We Will start with the
letter 0. Add a letter to make a. word,
then add another letter to those two
to make another word. Keep on until
you can’t make any more words. You
can rear ‘ange the letters but do not
use any other letters than those you
have added. For instance, with A'you
could have a, am, may, yams, etc. If
you can make about a dozen words,
you will be fortunate. Try 0 and see
what you can do with it.

The ten prizes for the best answers,

will include fountain pens, diction-
aries, and clutch pencils. Don’t forget
to put your name and address in the
upper left hand corner of your paper,
and M. C. after your name if you are
ll. Merry Circler. Write your letters

THE. MICHIGAN FARMER

on separate sheets. This contest
closes March 15th. Send your papers
to Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer, De-
troit, Mich.

CONTEST WINNERS

 

The interesting thing about this
contest was the mistake we made re—
garding the letters in number four.
We accidentally left out the letter C,
but it was very gratifying to have so
large a number of the young folks tell
me of this error. It showed that they
were observing. Nearly all had cor-
rect answers, so the following were
picked blindly from the pile of papers
as the lucky ten.

Fountain Pens

William J. Tompkins, R. 1, Custer.

- Viola Double, Johannesburg, Mich.
Note Books

Elizabeth Fisher, Crystal, Mich.

Irene Kemppainen, R. 1, Box 23, Pel-
kie, Mich.

Olive L. Fisher, R. 1, Homer, Mich.

Clutch Pencils

Esther Nykanen. Box 157, Ewen.

Anna Shaffer, Almont, Mich.

Marion Sanders, R. 4, South Haven.

Howard Tompkins, R. 1, Custer.

Sherwin V. Hungerink, R. 4, Zee-
land. Michigan.

HIGH SCHOOL AG SHOW

 

HE Sixth Annual Ag-HE Exposi-

- tion which was recently held at

Hastings High School, Hastings,
Michigan, was a decided success. This
Exposition is recognized as a leader
of its kind in Michigan and in the
country, and has gradually grown in
both quantity and quality of exhibits.
The exhibits this year totaled close
to 1,500 and an estimated attendance
was 3,000 people.

It is sponsored by the Agricultural
Club of the High School, consisting of
sixty members, under the direction of
Mr. T. N. Knopf, Agriculture instruc-
tor, and Miss Ruth Marks, Home
Economics teacher. It has grown to
be a county wide proposition showing
the excellence of Central Michigan
agriculture and home products, for
which suitable prizes are given.

Those knowing its value consider it
a fine educational feature. The chair-
man, Louis Brown, and his assistants,
Miss Rachel Cain, Leland Stanton, and
Lowell \Vhittemore, backed by the Ag.
Club, High School, and business men.
have set a record for which Hastings
is justly proud.

 

 

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summer rains and heat,
and repair damage
that winter may have
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If you are building or
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spring, you will need
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You cannot judge
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other such things, en-
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The safe way to save
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pick out the kinds
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It is time to plan for the regular
spring clean-up and the repairs
you will have to make on your
house, barns and equipment. There
will be many things for you to
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work with. To take the easiest
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A good farm is always well fenced. We
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THE MICH IGAN FARME’R-

   

Rough and

ing. In fact, 'he says that even
though I’ve manhandled the 01d bus
over a thousand miles of bush trail,
I don’t know how to drive a motor-
cycle yet, and never will. \Vell, I’ve
three thousand miles more ahead of
me, deo volente, and so maybe I’ll
learn yet.

I’ve always considered it proper for
my wife to boast that she first learned
to drive a car right in the heart of
the Rocky Mountains on a steep,
rutty, one-way road in Yellowstone
Park. We were on our wedding trip.
I had been attacked that morning by
a. big black bear, and my right leg
completely paralyzed, making it diffi-
cult for me to drive our old jitney
Oscar II. My wife didn’t know one
pedal from the other but she learned
then and there and drove old Oscar
over the Continental Divide, her first
morning behind the wheel.

I’ve always envied her that achieve—
ment but now she can boast—and I
hope she will—~that the first time her

" MARCH 10, 1928

Tumble on Their Way

(Continued from page 342)

We knew it would be necessary to
carry all our *gasoline and oil for a
thousand mile jump across the desert
and we wanted to find out-first,
whether we could or not. So we left
Lagos with each bike carrying two
cases of gasoline, or four. five-gallon
cans, and now, at the end of the rail-
road, after a trifle more, than a thou-
sand miles of crashing through the
west Africa bush we still have a little
of the original supply left in our
tanks. We can now start on our thou-
sand mile jump across the desert with
another equal supply and feel fairly
sure that we’ll reach semi-civilization
on the other side.

In addition to our gasoline supply
we left Lagos with six gallons of oil
a half-dozen canteens of water, eighty
pounds of motion picture and still pic-
ture equipment, a pole and canvas
bed which we made ourselves, our
blankets, tarpaulin and mosquito net,
cooking and eating tackle, two big .45
revolvers and a high-powered big

 

 

husband ever tackled a motorcycle he
drove it across equatorial Africa from
the Atlantic to the Red Sea. I shall
see that she doesn’t forget it.

we named the two machines

 

 

Citizens’ Mutual Automobile Insurance
company, of Howell, Michigan

‘ And its agent in your neighborhood

 

 

“Rough” and “Tumble” and Jim
' painted the names in bold, big letters
across the side car doors. At first, we
called them “Chills” and “Fever,” and
“Try” and “Do It” were considered——
as well as “Heads” and Tails,” be-
cause the whole stunt was something
of a gamble—but it has been rough
and tumble aplenty so far. I ride
“Rough” ahead and Jim “Tumbles”
along behind, eating my dust and
picking up the bolts and nuts and
pieces of bro-ken springs and mechani-
cal oddments and general gadgets that
forever seem to be jolting off our
motorcycles.

HESE are English-made machines,

selected for two good reasons:
There were no American motorcycles
in stock in Lagos when we bought
ours, and, second, I don’t believe we’d
have bought them if there were. The
English motorcycles, like the Euro-
pean automobiles, are built on a light-
er basis than we make them and are
very sturdy for their weight. A
heavy, comfortable, substantial Amer-
ican machine is undoubtedly much
better for many purposes, but we
needed a rig that would not only go
almost anywhere under its own power,
but be light enough to push or carry,
it necessary, where it couldn’t climb
by itself. Ours are rated at 4.9 horse-
power under the English system and
this is equivalent to less than four
horsepower under our system of reck-
oning. They are simply a. little, single-
cylinder machine, weighing only 250
pounds each and yet they have each
pulled a. side care loaded to the gun-
wales, besides ourselves, and 150
pounds of gasoline on the luggage car-
rier behind the driver.

 

 

Rough and Tumble on trek across Africa.
chopped through the jungle and it is impossible to penetrate fifteen feet
- into the jungle without an axe.

 

This part of the road has been

game rifle and ammunition, carbide
for our headlights, 75 pounds of spare
parts and tools including everything
from a hack saw to a soldering torch
——all of which we’ve had occasion to
use already—and a few clothes, and
Jim’s eternal and infernal banjo.

S for clothes we bought a bush

shirt and a pair of shorts each,
with one “spare” outfit between us. I
always wear the spare while my regu-
lars are washed—and Jim says he is
going to wear it when he has his
washed. When our spare is worn out,
if we want to change clothes, we’ll
simply have to change with each other
—if we’ve anything left.

The question of “shorts” caused a
brief mental struggle; they looked al-
most indecent in their brevity, little
khaki panties like basketball trunks,
reaching hardly to the knees. But in
spite of sunburn and bow legs we
adopted them as the customary bush
trekkers outfit. Our legs reddened
fiercely at first, either from shame or
the sun, but now they look like a pair
of elephant trunks—and they’re not
white elephants either. A bush shirt
is simply a rough, heavy shirt with a
double back and a red-lined spine pad
buttoned on behind for protection
against the sun.

Thus equipped we set off for our
trans-Africa trip and made 65 miles
to the home of our American mission-
ary friend in Abeokuta that evening,
he who first suggested the idea. It
struck me as a very rough road, good
only for the liver perhaps, but Jim,
01d “Bad Roads” Jim, growled some-
thing about, “It’ the roads are as good
as this all the way to the Nile river,

there’s no use of our making the trip.” ,
They weren’t. And something about -

our rough going through the first

stage of our journey will be described .

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LEANLINESS is the hog man’s
C salvation. Clean pigs are profit-

able. VVormy pigs are liabilities.
But little work is required to prevent
pigs becoming wormy. However, the
returns from this are large.

A decade ago Drs. B. H. Ransom
and H. B. Raffensperger of the Bur-
eau of Animal Industry, United States
Department of Agriculture, made a
thorough study of the common round—
worm of hogs, the cause of much of
the loss and unthriftiness among pigs.
In this work, they studied the life
cycle and reproduction of the round-
worm.

From their studies, they devised a
system of roundworm control which
was tried out in 1919 on the farm of
G. C. Johnstone of McLean County,
Illinois. The same plan was contin-
ued the following year and in subse-
quent years through the cooperation
of the McLean County Farm Bureau,
and thus in this way the “McLean
County System of Swine Sanitation”
developed. Of what does this system
consist?

The Requirements

First, cleaning all manure and filth
from the farrowing house and pens
and scrubbing them with boiling lye
water. The lye aids in removing dirt,
while the boiling Water kills the
roundworm eggs with which the house
is infested.‘ Drs. Ransom and Raffen-
sperger found, in their studies, that
ordinary chemical disinfectants would
not kill roundworm eggs.

Second, washing the sows with
warm water and soap before putting
them into the cleaned farrowing quar-
ters, in which clean litter had been
placed after scrubbing.

Third, keeping the sow and pigs con-
fined to the clean quarters until the
pigs are one to three weeks old. The
sow and pigs must not be'allowed out
of the pen during this time.

Fourth, hauling the sow and pigs to
fresh pasture—“clean ground”——on
which no hogs have been kept for at
least a year previous.

Fifth, keeping the pigs on this
“clean ground” until they are four
months old, after which danger from
worm infestation is very slight.

How It Works
In all of these steps, the main ob—

' ject is to prevent the young pigs from

coming in contact with roundworm
eggs. Some opponents of the system
state that it will not work because
the sows will drop roundworm eggs
which can be picked up by the young-
sters. This is true, but it is a well
known fact that roundworm eggs must
go through a. period of about three
weeks outside of the animal body, dur-
ing which partial hatching takes place,
before they will cause any worm in-
festation if taken into the intestinal
tract of the young pig. For this rea-
son, the statement that infestation
can occur from the recent droppings
of the mother hog is unfounded. In-
festation can occur only when eggs
that have gone through this partial
hatching are taken into the body.
These eggs are found on the teats and
udders of unwashed sows, in filthy,
unwashed farrowing houses and in
filthy lots.

But to get back to the results se-
cured by Illinois Farmers through the
use of this system! During 1925,

‘ there" were 154 farmers in Illinois who

cooperated with the state extension
service in keeping farrowing and
records on litters produced

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under a. sanitary system of produc-
tion and seventeen also kept records
on production under the old system.

Among these 154 farms, as many
pigs as usual were raised by the clean
grounds system from twenty-eight per
cent fewer sows. On the forty farms
where losses were most severe under
the old system, one-third fewer sows
produced the same number of pigs as
had been produced under the old sys-
tem.
number of pigs raised per litter under
the clean ground system was two
more. Among the 154 farms report-
ing there was an average of only one
runt to each one hundred pigs where
the clean ground or sanitary method
of production was followed. Where
the old system was followed on seven-
teen farms, there was an average of
eighteen runts in each one hundred
pigs.

This Man Was Disgusted

Under the sanitation system as out-
lined, these 154 farmers raised ninety-
eight per cent of the pigs saved at
farrowing time. In these comparisons
it was found that the “sanitation pigs”
averaged twenty-eight pounds more at
four months of age than did the pigs
earlier than the pigs raised under the
old system. The sanitation pigs were
also ready for market seven weeks
earlier than the pigs raised under the
old system. Pigs raised in the clean
ground way were much more uniform
in weight and condition when mar-
keted, too, according to these Illinois
cooperators.

The experience of Martin Vander-
haar is interesting. Here was an ex-
treme case of heavy losses under the
old system. In 1924, Mr. Vanderhaar
had ninety-two pigs farrowed from
fourteen sows on his farm. At the
age of two weeks they began to get
sick and die, one or two at a time,
until by the first of November, he had
twenty pigs left. In order to get rid
of ten of the poorest, he sold them for
three dollars each. The other ten were
sold the next March, at one year of
age, at an average weight of slightly
over 200 pounds. Not much profit in
that kind of pork production under the
old system of filthy ground hog rais-
ing, was there?

Naturally, he became disgusted with
the hog business. As a consequence,
he kept only five sows for spring far-
row in 1925. But he followed the
McLean County System in managing
them. These five sows saved thirty-
seven pigs which Weighed 250 pounds
at six months of age. In other words,
he produced 8,250 pounds of pork from
five sows in six months; whereas, he
had produced only 2,600 pounds of
pork from his fourteen sows in a
whole year, the year previous.

‘ Another Example

In the spring of 1924, Otto Schouboe
raised the pigs from eleven sows by
the clean ground method. From these
eleven sows he raised eighty—three
pigs that averaged 240 pounds at six
and one-half months of age. He also
had sixteen sows from which pigs
were raised under the old method.
From these sixteen sows, he raised
sixty pigs, which weighed ninety
pounds at five and onehalf months of
age. The pigs produced by the eleven
sows sold for $2,475 at marketing
time while those produced by the six-
teen sows under the filthy ground
method sold for $1,713. Both lots of
pigs had alfalfa pasture and were fed

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DAIRY COOPERATIVES PROSP‘ER

 

HE dairy cooperatives handled

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ports received by the Division of Co-
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Agricultural Economics. Of this sum
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gaining associations, $205,000,000;
milk distributing associations, $140,-
000,000; cheese factories, $33,000,000,
and cream stations $12,000,000.

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Maine, amounted to $7,200,131 in 1927.
The Land O’ Lakes Creameries, Inc.,
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180. The Chicago Equity Union Ex-
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MICHIGAN LIVE STOCK
EXCHANGE CELEBRATES

 

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stock sold on the Detroit market, or
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handled. The total commissions paid
since organization total $446,350;
profits, $92,000; savings returned to
farmers, $63,000; surplus on hand,
$27,000.

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ping associations scattered over the
state. These local associations have
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members, states the president, Mr. E.
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operative Commission Association of
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HOLSTEIN BREEDERS GET
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NE hundred thousand dollars

worth of cattle, mainly grade
Holsteins, were sold out of Newaygo
County in 1927, according to County
Agent Stinson. These went to six
states, one carload even going to Wis-
cousin.

With such a stimulus to the H01-
stein game, no wonder the Newaygo
breeders turned out in force at the
annual county Holstein Association
meeting held February 23 at Fremont.

Local interest manifested itself:
chiefly in planning for the big dairy,

day which has become such a popu-
lar summer event in Newaygo County.
All breeds are represented in a judg-
ing tournament; the Holsteiners, al-
though in the’minority in the county,
are growing fast and aim at a healthy
show of black-and-whites. To help
the county agent arrange for Dairy
Day, a. committee was appointed: R.
Vantil» of Fremont; Raymond Kempt,
Fremont; Hanson Brothers of Howard
City.

Boosting calf club work is another
project bit off by the Newaygo bunch.
Enthusiasm for backing the boys ran
high, for did not La Verne Zerlaut of
Fremont show a heifer to Junior
Championship last year, locally and at
’West Michigan State Fair? Sure he
‘did! And furthermore the dam of this

heifer recently broke the Michigan,

state record for milk, producing as a
junior two year old 19,677 pounds" in
a year. La Verne’s heifer freshened
in January with a bull calf, sired by
a son of the American yearly butter
champion; and she is now on test in
D. H. I. A. milking around the fifty
pound mark.

Officers elected: President R. Van-
til, Fremont; Vice-President Raymond
Kempt, Fremont; Secretary-Treasurer
Jas. McCallum, Hoibon: other direct-
Ors, Hans Hanson, Howard City, John
Meyers, Grant. Vantil was retained
as Sales Manager. La Verne Zerlaut
was elected as associate Junior mem-
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BETTER HOG SANITATION

 

(Continued from page 359)

in the same way on. the same feeds.

That these differences are differ-
ences in environment is shown by the
experience of George H. Larson. In
the spring of 1927, he divided his
brood sow herd into two groups. One
group of twenty was handled under
the McLean County system, farrowing
31 pigs. The other group of eighteen
sows was handled in the old way, and

-farrowed 122 pigs. This shows that

so far as the size of litters was con-
cerned the pigs produced in filthy lots
had just as much chance as those pro-
duced on clean ground. ,

Results in the fall were different,
however. At that time, 125 of. the
clean ground pigs weighed 200 pounds
each. Pigs raised in the filthy lots
weighed seventy-five pounds each:
that is, the fifty that were left
weighed this. Both groups received
the same care so far as warmth of
quarters and feeding was concerned.
The difference was in the fact, that.
one group was practically disease free
while the other was heavily infested
with worms.

This system is practical whether
the sow herd be large or small. In
either case, the gain in pork produced
per brood sow is much more than
enough to offset the slight amount of
additional labor involved in scrubbing
the pens, washing the sows and haul-
ing the sows and pigs to clean ground.
The labor requirement is very small
and when this labor means an in-
crease of as much as one hundred per
cent or more in the amount of pork
produced from each sow in a normal
growing and fattening period of six
to eight months for the pigs, the re-
turn from this labor is very much

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Milk Production Record of Two Cows for 10 Months

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and Grow an Oak

The weed grOws faster, but the oak endures.
rich-quick schemes are profitable only to the pro-
You can’t make a fortune overnight with
National Loan and Investment Company, but you can
get the safety and profit which assured financial

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
Have you put by anything this week?

We pay 5% and more

Resources Over $13,000,000
3133 National moon 8:
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BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

Change Copy or Cancellations must reach us
Twelve Days before date of publicatmn.

CATTLE

GUERNSEYS

h is for sale at reasonable prices a number of
:ounag bulls. the use of which should improve the
five and production of your herd. Also a._few heifer
calves. John Endicott. Birmingham. Michigan.

Wallinwood Guernseys
BROOKMEAD'S SECRET KlNGfor Bale.
JENISON, MICH.

pom or
F. W. WALLIN.
(‘llilt‘l‘ sex. whose sires' dams

GUERNSEYS have official records of 15.—

109.10 milk. 778.80 fat. 19,400.50 milk. 909.05 fat.
1'. V. HICKS, Battle Creek, Mlch., R I.

Dairy Heifer Calves. practically
Guernsey pure bred $25.00 each. W0 IND
C. 0. D. Writs L. Terwilligor. Wauwatosa. Wis.

lien. Guernsey cows and a few bull
For sale rulws, sire by imp. (foro Honor.
JOHN EBELS. Holland. Mich.. R. 2

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practically pure—bred GUEMEY or HOL-
BTEIN calves, from heavy, rich milkers.

write EDGEWOOD DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater. .Wls.‘

 

SERVICEAB LE AGE

REGISTERED HOLSTEIN

Bull Calves at prices the owner ofa
small herd can afford to pay. The
sire of many of these calves is a Son
of the highest record l301b.) twcw
year-old daughter of Creator. His
sire is King Segis Alcartra Prilly, an
undefeated Show hull with 70 A. R.
daughters. Others sired by a 5 times
1200 lb. Champion Bull, the famoul
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

BULL CALF

Nearly Ready lor Service

At Traverse (‘ity State Hospital
Born May 10. 1927

sire: Prince I'X'lio .ltmiwcrd. a son of Cham-
pion I‘ll'llO Sylvia. Pontiac and. out. of a
34-lb. 3—year-old daughter of a 1.113~lb.
cow with a 30-11). 7 day record.

Dam: Traverse Souls Neiliorlarrd 2nd. 3. 27.9?-
lb. Jr. 4—year—old daughter of a 33.35—lb.
cow with 1,160 lbs. butter in a year.

Write Ior Pedigree 0! Tag No. 694
Bureau of
Animal Industry
1. E. Burnett. Director
Lansing, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/, swollen tissues, curbs, filled ten-
' dons, soreness from bruises or
strains. Stops Spavin lameness.
Does not blister, remove hair or
lay up horse. $2.50 at druggists,
or postpaid. Valuable horse book
l-S free. Write for it today.

Read this: ”Horse had large swelling
just below knee. Now zone; has not re-
? appeared. Horse goodas ever. Have used
Absorbine for yearswith great success- "

ABSORBINE

TRADE MARK acousrnrorr.
w. F. YOUNG. Inc. 468Lxman8t..Spring ieid, Mass.

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S E N 8 ATI 0 N 3:; Otilfhe mOSt Dmductive

cultivation. 75
bu. and upward per acre are frequent with
large white meaty grains weighing 44—46 lbs.
per measured bu. of the highest quality. We
are making an exceptionally low price in quan-

 
      
 

  

 
   
     
 
  
    

   
   

  

 

~ titles. You should by all means try these oats.

SEED CORN Early Clarage and White
Cap. Excellent yielders
and never fail to ripen. Choice seed as low

as $2.75 bu. Also barley. grass seed, soy beans,
etc. Write for circular and samples.

Theo. Burt & Sons 45 Melrose, 0.

§_0After30i)ays
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No Buckles s
No Rings

      
 

  

 

a Welsh No—Buckle Harness
on 30 days free trial. Use it—prove
for yourself that it is stronger. easier
to handle. Outwears buckle harness
because it has no buckles to tear straps.
no rings to wear them. no buckle hole-
to weaken them. Ten years success
—-thousands in use in every state.

Saves Repairs—Lasts Longer

Hence costs less. Walsh special steel test leather‘
which is explained in my big free book. Easily adjust
to fit .any size horse. Made in all styles: back pad.
side backer. breechinaless. etc.
$7.50 After 30 Days’ FREE TRIAL-balance

is paid monthly. Return to me if not

satisfactory. Write today for my big
free book. prices. easy terms. Sold
direct to you by mail only.

ones Fall
JAMES M. w L8H co. rib-v
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THE MICHIGAN‘FARMER

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TB. WORK PROGRESSES

 

HE Bureau of Animal Industry re-

ports that the work of tuberculin
testing has been going forward with
unusual rapidity in recent months.
Close to a million cattle a month have
been tested, and there is a large num-
ber of cattle on the waiting list, in-
dicating that live stock owners are
desirous of availing themselves of this
means of ridding their herds of tuber-
culous animals.- At the beginning of
1928 a. total of 19,299,094 cattle were
under supervision; in accredited
herds, 2,024,505 and on waiting list for
testing, 4,103,396 head. A total of 436
counties are recognized as modified
accredited areas.

FOREIGN COMPETITION IN
ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

HE declining exports of meats and

animal fats from the United States
is due to the increasing European
competition, say trade specialists of
the Department of Commerce. In 1925
fourteen of the more important live
stock producing countries of Europe
had 50,881,000 hogs and 77,791,000
head of cattle, and in, 1926, 52,616,000
hogs and 79,433,000 head of cattle, an
increase over 1925 of 3.3 per cent in
the number of hogs and 2.1 per cent
in cattle.

 

FOREIGN LIVE STOCK DEPEN-
D‘ENT 0N CHEAP FEEDS

 

l'ROPEAN live stock production is

partially dependent upon imported
feedstuffs, consequently when a large
surplus of cheap corn in producing
countries is exported to Europe, pro-
duction of live stock is stimulated,
provided European crops are normal.
This was the case in 1927, when a.
record importation of corn was ab-
sorbed. Before the war Europe im-
ported an annual average of 250,000,-
000 bushels of corn; for the crop year
1925-26 imports totaled 262,000,000
bushels; and for the year 1926~27 they
reached a record of 387,000,000 bush-
els. It is said that conditions in Ar-
gentina. this year point to another
bumper crop. Should this materialize
a still further expansion in European
live stock may be expected, provided
normal crops are harvested in Europe.

STEER PRICES HARD TO HOLD

 

HILE the decline in steer prices

which started a month ago was
brought to another temporary halt in
the last few days, they lack the rally-
ing power displayed during the fall
and eary Winter. Both the action of
the market and the supply and de-
mand situation suggest that prices are
unlikely to regain in the next few
months much of the ground lost re—
cently.

Receipts of cattle at leading mar-
keis have been about five per cent
lighter than a year previous. The dif-
ficulty of maintaining steer prices
three dollars higher than at that time
without a substantial reduction in_sup—
plies is obvious. Dressed beef trade
has shown a. little tendency to clog up
recently and it is probable that con-
sumers are being attracted by the
cheapness of pork. The Willingness of
cattle feeders to curtail loadings on
the breaks may have been shaken by
the fact that the downward tendency
in steer prices has been in evidence
for several weeks and by the advance
in corn.

The decline in steer prices has no-
cessitated some downWard revision in
prices of fat cows and heifers inthe
face of the fact that receipts in this
division are scanty and the normal
tendency is for prices to advance at
this season. They have declined fifty
cents to one dollar from the post-war
peak reached early in February. Veal
calves established a. new peak level

 

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MARCH 10, 1928

Power for
Pumping Water

NEXT to the sun, the wind is the greatest

power for raising water. The sun hits

a tremendous quantity of water every

day which is scattered in mist to the ends

of the earth. The wind, with a few simple

pumping devices, will lift fresh water

from beneath the surface of the ground

and put it right where you can have it

when you want it. With

modern equipment for

:E m; there is no good

. , ' :‘ W-é- reason why any

.1 *- . . .13, “ family should be

.’ ‘ 1. without an ample

supply of fresh running

water at very small expense.

Of all the devices for pumping

- water the Improved Anto-

Oiled Aermotor, the genuine

self-oiling windmill, is the

most economical and most

reliable. It runs for a year,

or more, with one oiling and

requires practically no at-

tention. Just put it upIand

let it run day and _m_ght.

The gears run in 011, in a

tightly enclosed case, and

every moving part is con-
stantly lubricated.

The Auto-Oiled Aermotor

runs in a breath of wind,

< but is so strongly built

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it can be safelyleft to run
in the severest storms.

The Auto-Oiled Aennotor
of today has import-
ant added improve-
ments which make it
more decidedly than
everthebestofitskind.
, Forfull information write

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2500 Roosevelt Rd.
CHICAGO
Branch Houses:

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teacher”

From way out *
at Jay Em,
Wyo., 8.. M.
Foote writes:
“I could have . .
borrowed money at 10% interest and still
be ahead if I had fenced when I started."

A $250 team of mares and five horses frozen
to death in a blizzard— his only cow gorged
to death in a cane field -——a valuable Holstein
bull altered by ranchers— Jennets bred to
a neighbor’s scrub stallion—7 two Holstein
heifers strayed away—200 chickens killed by
coyotes—10 acres of cane mowed clean by
range cattle— these are a few of Mr. 1* oote's
losses before he fenced.

RED BRAND FENCE
“Galvannealed” Copper Bearing

will not only save losses like this for you but
make encugh extra profit to pay for itself,
Over and ovenagain, in the many years of
service it will give. ’

RED BRAND can’t help but last for _ma_ny
years. Copper in the steel keeps long life in;
extra heavy “Gait/annealed" coating of Zinc
keeps rust out; icket-like stay Wires, wavy
line wires, can t-slip knots, help keep it
straight, trim, hog-tight and bull-proof.

     
   
 

out good fence! We will pay $5 or more for each
letter that we use. Write for details, catalog
and 3 interesting booklets_that tellhow others
have made more money With hog-tight fences.

LKEYSTONE STEEL & WIRE C0.
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912 Industrial Street ~ Peoria, Illinois

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CATTLE

Watch this paper for
details of Big Sale of

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Pure Bred Holsteins

from herd of Blythefield

Farms.

 

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‘ Registered Holstein Bull. old
For saIe enough for spring.r service. Also'

-’ one old enoumi for heavy service. Also my liei-dl

l sire. 4 yrs. old, son of a 32 lb. 4«3‘t~iii'-old liciier.

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Also a. few females of milking age. some with semi-
(ifllt'ifll records. Vernon E. Clough. Parma. Mich.. R.2.

:20 Pure Bred Herefords

and herd sire Model Jr. No. 1380131 by Model Fair—
fax No. 1019461 out Modesty 20th and Anxiety bred
cow. Blood lines of held Anxiety breeding. by
Bright Able, Beau Franklyn. Harris Repeater. Fred
Itcal. l’rizcs won. 8 firsts and 2 Grand (‘liuinpions
at Fair. Spn’ng crop of calves just coming on, some
by .«ido of cows now. This is a chance to bin' a
pure breed registered herd practically at bect' prices.
the big bone and muscle. the kind that wuiglis and
sell» Address DR. W JENNINGS. R. 4, Ply-
mouth. Michigan.

88 Hereford Cows

Big wide back kind. dark reds. dehorncd. Bred to
extra good Hereford bulls to calls about April lat.
Will sell you choice car load. Also 22 }’1i\l‘(5l0l‘d
cows and calves and 24 heavy springers. Also other
bun lies. All '1". B. tested. Also yearling and .2
yr. old Shockers and feeding steers sorted even in

iii 3. Bitiiiiiiii, Eldon. Iowa

FIN ANCIAL KING JERSEYS

Wo have for sale a most excellent selection of bull,

onli'cs ranging in ages from 4 mos. tov‘ono year old.
These calves are sired by Financial hing S‘:’lS:1“”."
and Financial li‘ord and out of Register or . ci-ii
Stock. Prices reasonable. COLOWATER JERSEY

FARM. Goldwater. Mich.
BREEK FARM JERSEYS H... and New
Write for catalog. rt you

need Foundation Jerseys. C. C. Creek. Montpelier. 0.
Choice Jersey Bulls. grandsons of

For sale Sybil’s Gainhoge of Whitehall.
SMITH &. PARKER. Howell. Mich. R. u 4.

‘ -'d 1 ‘il -, . ten
JERSEYS ggfilfusxdlid lllltlinttHKl: hioilll prlé—

(Int-er. chew. Peter H. Doumn, Holland. Mich.. R

 

 

 

A few choice calves of both sex
Red PQHed for sale. ROYSTAN STOCK
FARM. Will Cattle. West Branch, Mich.

FAIBFIELD SHOBTHOHN

service bulls.

 

Attractive prices on
. _ . choice ready for
aired by Wilkinholni Monarch. H. B.

 

 

Peters 8:. Son. Eltie. Mich.

I Brown Swiss for stile. cows 10 and
“Cglfler‘d 11 yrs. old duo in Feb. 2 bred
heifers. Also bulls of serviceable age. A. A.
FELDKAMP. Manchester, Mich.

HOGS

 

Sold at I. sacrifice Never a better time to mart in
tho hog bullneoii. . 'fiie loom the market stays down.
the hlmer and (aster-the come back. We guarantee

monies. marina MM“. cumion. Mich.

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in all four’ legs.

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

sharply since. They may rally and
surpass this level but a downward
tendency is certain to start in two or
three weeks. The, decline in fat steers
and higher corn prices have checked
demand for feeder cattle, and prices
have dropped fifty to seventy-five
cents in the last two weeks.

   

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Wound lnfection~Young cow got

hurt so her hips were lower on her
right side. She also had bloated and
we had to probe her. This at the
time‘healed nicely, but now continues
to l‘cster and puffs up. What should
we do”? L.
occurs where cows are punctured to
relieve bloat. It would be advisable
to have your veterinarian open the
wound to allow the pus to escape. The
wound can then be syringed out once
daily with a warm solution of cresol
or lysol—one tablespoonful to pint of
water.

Founder.~—Horse lG-years old is stiff
Humps his back
up when he walks, trying to get his

feet as close together as possible.
Joints seem to be sore. L. B.——Your
horse has been foundered. This can

not be seen at first by any change
of the feet. Keep in a warm, well-
bedded box stall and cover with two
warm blankets. Fold a grain sack
lengthways, saturate with cold water,
then tic around the ankle so that it
will hang down over the hoofs and wet
frequently with cold water. The front
feet only need to be treated. Make it
walk for ten minutes. twice daily.
Give one tablespoonful saltpeter twice
daily. Discontinue grain and give
warm mash, twice daily.

Contagious Abortion—Have a three-
year-old heifer that lost her calf two
months before time. lVill it be all
right to breed her? Will this spread
to the other cows? C. C.—~A cow
should not be bred sooner than sixty
days following abortion, nor until all
vaginal discharges have ceased.
Others may abort at any time after
two or three weeks. It is advisable
to isolate aborting cows for the same
periods mentioned above. The barn

should be thoroughly cleaned, then
sprayed with a 5% cresol solution.

Also clean up the barnyard and do
not store manure in the barnyard or
places frequented by the cows. Dead
calves and membranes should be re-

 

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moved from barn in a water tight con-
and either burned or buried
deeply. This is done in order to pre-
vent the spread of infection all over
the premises.

Calves Have Cold—Calves when a
week old began breathing heavy and
at times would get wet all over body

as if water had been thrown upon
them. Are lively and seem to feel

good, but do not seem to fatten up
as they should. They suck cows morn-
ing and evening. \l'hzit can I do for
them? C. S—Your calves have evi-
dently caught a little cold. The mois-
ture on the hair is due to cold and
dampness in the barn. They should
be kept in a warm. dry, well-venti-
lated barn and given plenty clean, dry
bedding. Since they are lively and
feeling good, there is no reason why
they should not pick up in flesh.

 

Irritation.~Horse rubs roots of tail.
(fan this be cured ‘.’ \V. Y.~-—This con-
dition is frequently
\’aSh and scrub the skin thoroughly
lwith soft soap and hot water,
{dry rub in a mixture of four ounces
sulphur and eight ounces heavy engine
oil. Apply every third day.

 

'We have tried several remedies with-
out good results. \Vliat can we do to
rid him of these worms? F. F.—
, 'l‘hese spells are due to various causes,
las worms, indigestion, constipation,
-eating too much starchy food—bread
land potatoes and not sufficient meat.

| Convulsions—Youug dog has worms.
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We usually advise treatment for
worms. The diet should be watched
and one. meal daily should consist

mostly of meat, he should also not be
fed too much at one time. Constipa-
tion can be corrected by giving a
tablespoonful castor oil once a week.
Young dogs usually eat all kinds of
foreign matter, this causes irritation
of the bowels as well as indigestion
which is often the cause of these fits
or convulsions.

Cough—«Mare seven years old has
cough. It comes in spells. D. M.—-
Take ‘Guaiacol three ounces and raw
linseed 011 one and one-half pints, mix
and give one ounce three or four
times daily, Reduce the amount of
hay and dampen before feeding.

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SAVE

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market value of dairy products is
more favorable?

of raising their calves.

By feeding RYDE’S CREAM CALF MEAL
you are assured of two profits: one from the
milk sold and the other from the grown animal
raised, as compared to the high cost of dairy

cows when purchased.

Aside from that, you take no chances with the home-
grown animal which has been raised under your care.

(with concentrated sweet skim milk)

is an economical milk substitute on which your calves
will thrive and grow. Calves like it, and eat it in pref-

HY raise your calves on milk when the

Thousands of farmers have
adopted this better and far more profitable way

MILK

Double flmfiz‘!

so much

       
      
   
      

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Prepared from choicest materials (not a “by-product’ ’)
especially milled and steam—cooked for easy digestion.

Has proteins, fats and minerals in abun-
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Think of the saving, 100 pounds make 100
gallons of rich, nutritious milk substitute!
We guarantee complete satisfaction.

 
  
 
  
  
 

For sale at your dealer's in 28,
50 and loo-pound bags.

 

“More Chicks “in Be Chickens.” Push your
poultry along, from newly-lintched chick to
laying hen. Feed these well-known feeds,
which contain elements adapted to every
stage of growth—choicest granular grains,
whole seeds with natural oil retained. spe:
cial meat scraps and dried buttermilk. At

your dealer’s in 25. 50 and loo-pound bags,
or write us. Satisfaction guaranteed.
say the Ryde Chick me is

the bestevcr! This interest-

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and _model chicks, Will be sent FREE {worth 75c upon
receipt of your name and address. Include 1°C to 3y
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cows, cake

kind on man or beast it is unequalled.

the wonderful healing properties of Corona.

1

FOR SALE—Duroc Gilts of type and quality, bred

to High Orion No. 265227. Also a few spring
Shipped (‘M O. D.
ich.

right pn‘ces. on ap-

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Originators and most extensive breeders.
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that works like magic

Corona Wool [at is made from the oil ex-
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d udders, sore shoulders and necks on horses,
collar boils, split hoofs, scratches, cuts, wounds, burns of any

LIBERAL SAMPLE FREE Corona is sold by nearly all
druggists or direct from us on receipt of priccf- 3 oz. tint
65c, 20 oz. tins $1.15, postpaid. If you Will (send your
name and address, we'll mail you a liberal sample and our
BIZ—page book of uses Free. We want you to see for yourself

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Udders

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A F Ew right fur bearing kind.

HOME STOCK FARM. deison. Mich.

ANGUS

 

FOR »5ALE it’ll.»’i'é‘fi.‘.l'“in§-“"i;t.“”232 6'7

HAYES. Muir, Mich.

 

 

Registered 0. I. C. Fall Pigs

best of l)l'|'(‘d.lll‘,: from prolific sows, Sliiiipcd . (m
approval. H. J. HUDSON R. 2. Mich.
Good last. spring

0. I. C’s. also fall pigs.

OTTO SCHULZE &. SONS. Nashville.

For SaleuReg. 0. l. C. April & May Pi‘gvs

beat of breeding. Shipped on approval._ FRED
IENNEDY & sONs. R. I. Mich.

Registered 0. LC. Gilts

MANN. Dansviile. Mich.

Romulus.

pigs. not akin
recorded free.
Mich .

Chelsea.

bred for April

and
May l‘arrow. W.

HORSES v

For Sale Rising Three-Year-Old

BELG IAN STALLION

l'rincc dc Rubia. Sorrel in color. weight 1.900, sired.
by Rubis. Full brother to Manitm (lo Ruhis 107”.
Grand (‘hampion :‘llarc at 19:17 international. [in H
also a half brother to the famous l‘cn'cnclio 9030.
Dam of Prince de ltiibis now owned by Michigan
State College. JAMES LYNCH. Coral. Michigan.

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We are offering for sale another

pair of Black Reg. Percheron

unit-es. gentle. sound. weigh about 3.1;00. and bred to

a son of liltudianl. A good pair of brood mares.
E. WHITNEY, Onondaga, Mich.

 

Large Type Poland Chinas

Fall pigs ready to ship, sired by my two great herd
boars, L’s. Big Wonder. by Siever's Smooth Wonder
and Big Stratton by The Redeemer. and from my
Priced reasonable. W. E. LIVINGSTON.

 

best soWs.
Parma, Mich. ‘

P 1 nd (‘h'na boars of March
F O R S A L E arl’daAprll l‘armw. Also some

choice bred gllts, due to furrow in March and April.
Every one immuned for cholera. WESLEY HILE.
Ionia. Mich.

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LARGE TYPE fnqlarboagrllilgd ism: ling;

G. TAYLOR. Balding. Michigan.

FOR SALE Poland (‘lilnc Bred out... ".4

Mllklilil Sheraton: bull calves.
CLAIR I. BROWN. “llama“. Mich" B, IO.

 

 

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I424 Portage St.. Kalamazoo. Mich.

 

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grade Belgian mares. coming 5, Wt.
3,400. A. FLEMING. Lake. Mich.

 

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3,3200 lbs. Sound. E. H. ROWE. Lyons. Mich.

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS.
Monday, March 5, 1928

Wheat.
Detroit—‘No. 2 red at $1.62; No. 2
white $1.61; No. 2 mixed at $1.61.

Chicago -~~ M a r c h $13714; M a y
$1.377/8; J u l y 311.36%; September
$13555.

Tl‘oledo——\\’hea1, No. 2 red at. $1521.43
((9551-6335.
Corn.
'l)etroit——No. 2 yellow $1.05; ’No. 3
yellow $1.02; No. 4 yellow $1.00.
Chicago—-March 94%0: May 98c;
July $10134}; September $10179.
Oats.
Detroit—No. 2 Michigan 640: No. 3
white 621/20; heavy oats 20 premium.

Cliicago-i-March 57c; May 571/30;
rJuly, old 5311c: new 5-1‘1c; Septem-
ber, new, 500.

Rye.

Detroit—No. 2 $1.24.
Chica.go——.\larcl1 $1.18; May $117113;
July $1113.11: September 311.04%.
'l‘oledo~—$1.24.
Beans.

Detroit—almmediate and prompt
shipment $8.05 f. o. b. shipipng points.

New Yorkaea domestic at $80000
$8.50; red kidneys 258.5061‘950 to the
wholesalers.

Chicago—Spot navy beans, Michigan
choice, hand-picked. in sacks at $8.50:
dark red kidneys $10.50.

Barley.
l)etroit~;\lalting $1.01; Feeding 97c.
Seeds.
Detroit domestic seeds:—-Cash clo-
ver $17.00: October $13.00: March
$17.00: cash alsike $15.95: March

$15.95; timothy at $1.90; March $1.90.
Hay.
Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $130060

$14.00; standard $12.50@13.50; No. 2
timothy $10.00@11.00; No. 1 light
clover, mixed $136014; No. 1 clover

$11.50@12.50; wheat and oat straw
$10.00@11.00; rye straw $11.00@12.00
alfalfa hay, alfalfa choice at Chicago,
$15.00@25.00.
Feeds.

\Vinter wheat bran at $13:
spring wheat. bran at. $42; standard
middling at. $42; fancy middling at
$45; cracked corn at $45: coarse corn
meal $43; chop $38 per ton in carlots.
Poultry feeds with grit $49.00; with-
out grit $54.00 per ton.

WHEAT.

\Vhile wheat. prices have not. made
much progress in the last week on the
forward move which started early in
February, the market. retains an ap-
pearance of strength. Holders of

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reports of injury will have a firming
influence on prices even though the
acreage that will be left for harvest
will be comparatively large. The soft
winter wheat territory in the Ohio
Valley has been damaged consider-
ably. The yield of this variety was

small in 1927.
RYE.

Export demand for rye has been
fairly prominent recently and prices
have advanced to a. new high point
for the season. Part of these sales
are for shipment after the opening of
lake navigation when stocks will
dwindle rapidly. Domestic milling de-
mand has been fairly good recently

also.
CORN

Corn prices have been hovering
near the high point reached two weeks
ago. Receipts increased moderately
in the last ten days and demand from
foreigners and from elevator interests
failed to follow the preceding advance.
Buying by industries and feeders has
continued fairly active, however, and
the last visible supply report showed
a moderate decrease. Private reports
show about 100 million bushels less
corn on farms on March 1 than a year
previous, indicating unusually large
winter disappearance.

OATS.

Oats prices advanced to a new high
point for the season in the last few
days. Demand for high quality heavy-
weight grain is fairly active and some
buying of seed oats is reported at ter—
minal markets. The. visible supply of
oats is small and the season when it
usually begins to diminish rather ra-
pidly has arrived. Farm reserves on
March '1, according to trade estimates.
totalled 369 million bushels compared
with 422 million bushels last year and
the smallest since 1912.

SEEDS.
Demand for seeds continues listless
although the usual season of active
trade is at hand. Weather conditions

generally have been unfavorable for
planting and farmers have put off buy-
ing. Dealers likewise are not build-
ing up their stocks, so that the de-
mand for seed still in the hands of
growers is slow. Red and alsike clo-
ver seed declined again last week
without causing any improvement in
trade. Alfalfa seed remains firm fol-
lowing the recent advances as remain-
ing supplies are not large and demand
is fair to good. Timothy seed was
marked fractionally lower last week.

FEEDS.

An active demand for by-product
feeds, particularly bran, keeps feed
markets steady to strong. Production
is on a moderate scale and offerings
are moved without difficulty. Strength
in the coarse grain market is reflected
in the heavy feeds. Demand is large-
ly for prompt shipment as prices are
relatively higher than at the corres-
ponding time in 1927, and with the ap-
proach of the season for lighter feed-
ing, buyers are little interested in of-
ferings for deferred delivery.

Chicago—Bran, $36; standard mid-
dlings, $36.50; hominy feed, $37;
gluten feed, $38.70; old process oil
meal, $52; tankage, $65; cottonseed
meal, 43%, $52.50.

HAY.

Good dairy hay is scarce and offer-
ings meet a ready sale at firm prices.
Other grades of hay, however, are
hard to sell and prices are no more
than steady. Much' of the hay yet to
be marketed is of only fair quality
which is not wanted except at a dis-
count. With the- approach of the pas-
ture season, farmers will probably
ship heavily and prices except for
fancy quality are not likely to show
much improvement.

EGGS.

Fresh egg prices have rallied from
the low point reached late in Febru-
ary and now average several cents a
dozen higher than at the correspond-
ing time last season. Supplies are in-
creasing rapidly and receipts at the

 

 

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DETROIT

Cattle.
Receipts 845. Market opening steady

' but slow.

wheat in domestic markets are not Fair to good yearlings
offering urgently, crop reports and eS- dry-fed ............... $11.00@12.50
timates of reserves of old wheat are Fair to good heavy steers,
attracting speculative demand and dry—fed . ............... 11.00@13.00
foreign markets are. not .y1e1d111g H and y weight butcher
under pressure from increasing arri- steers ................ 1050(51150
vals of southern hemisphere wheat Fair (,0 good heifers 9_50@10.00
and the large stocks atloat. ‘ Common light butchers. 8.0%? 9.50
The course '01" the market .111 the Best. cows .............. 8.5051) 9.00
next few months will become Increas- Butcher cows ....... . 7.005!) 8.00
ingly dependent on new crop dm'elop- Cutters ................. 6.25@ 6.50
ments. The winter has been hard on (jannm-S ............... 5.5043 6.00
the crop both in this country and m Light butcher bulls ..... 3.5057 9.75
Europe and the sentimental effect 01 Bologna bulls ........... 7.50@ 8.25
Stock bulls ............. 6.50m: 8.25
. Feeders ......... . ...... 8006111000
, Stockers ................ 700601000
THE fARMERS OWN THRESHER Milkers and springers. . . .75.00@115.00
Calves.
, .‘ Receipts 654. Market Stf'lgbtlfcj (0
” " Bestsb (0.7.)
Now You Others ................. 6.50@16.25
can Own Shee and Lambs.
p
Your Receipts 980. Market steady. _
8qu good lambs ........ $16.tm@16.25
Own Best lambs ............. 12 5055288
Fair lambs ......... . .‘. . . .
Thresher Light lambs ............ 10.00@12.00
Nrw . , 1 f t r 1 . mm, 10w Yearlings ............... lgHggglggg
1.. ' punt-111a n Venns 1111110! roves am.. ' Fair to gOOd Sheep ...... . > .
mn‘é’S‘r $111.33.".1wt‘. ”mm“ '°' 1:“ “’d "1"" 2 Buck lambs ............. 7.50@12.25
1' . ' ' 0W
fmtfogfif [$3]: “#23133“; figfzrmlg {mflnfimw me Culls and common ...... 3.00@ 5.50
”‘13.;““"P‘fih‘t'm'"3..°‘%.I‘l"°‘ TE‘SLL’héf‘ttttit $23? Hosa-
0 . ." . t . .
32:16:31.8 iyc. rlomr. and soy beans. Perfectly ba.l- Receipts 2,040 Market 200359
anced. Smooth running. Many custom threshers are lower
using it. Saves grain. Saves time. Operated With , ' r
s Fordson or any good tractor. Buy one and be PlgS .............. . ..... $ 6.00
independent. Tim-ah when most. mmeniant for you Mixed hogs ......... . . . _ 8.65
and when weather conditions are most favorable. No Lights 7 75
delay. No waiting. Beat the other fellow to the . ------- .......... -
market. Get-o better price for your grain. The Roughs ......... . ..... .. 6.65
min” 90°" 0" '"r a” ”“3381!”- FW’“ "‘39“ Good Yorkers ....... . . . . 8.75
Form a small threshing ring 1111 our 100th. and Sta S 550
male additional money. Write today or full pmlrulars. F [fiemé'h'eR‘V'ieS- ' - - - 7 00@ 7 75
THE BANTING MANUFACTURING COMPANY A """" ‘ '
Dept. 3, 2981 Don 51., Toledo, Ohio. CHICAGO.
Dealer representative: wanted in, every locallu Hogs
' Receipts 85,000. Market mostly 10
Holmes,stuwe C0.,2429 Rlopelle SI. (1)150 lower than Saturday’s. average;
Contain-till! Hit-gawk ”155.7Bi‘lonewoi. Egg-“gm;- tight hogs active; heavy, butcher]:
”o“ ' '° re" ‘ l” ' " ’ ' l ' kers to in 250 lower" 11
. . f. (.ount & Home Saints 3 0w. pac pp g 9
fifiwitifizr‘fii whim“. inch. cum 1m l good 170-220-112. average $8.15@8.30;

vstrong, 250 higher;

tops $8.30; 230-260-lb. butchers $8.00@
$8.20; 280-340-1b. average $7.70@7.95;
140-16011). weight up to $8.25; bulk
medium to good pigs $6.00@7.00;
packing sows $6.75@7.25 largely.

Cattle
Receipts 15,000. Market largely
steer run very early, sales good:
heavies to shippers steady; early tops

$16.50; bulk held higher; undertone
weak to low on general run; fat
steers scaling 1,200-lbs. down; she

stock scarce, strong tops higher; bulk
uneven, mostly steady; light vealers
$12.00@12.50 to packers; small killers
up to $14.50; steady to weak trade;
few feeders here.
Sheep and Lambs

Receipts 15,000. Market bulk fat
lambs slow, about steady; few better
handy weights early to outsmers,
strong to 250 higher; tops $15.50: sev-
eral decks to traders $16.25; bulk of
run Colorados, 95-lbs., around $154070
$15.75; lighter bids lacking finish
within same price; sheep steady; feed-
ing lambs unchanged; few good 61-68—
lb. $14.50@14.75.

BUFFALO.
Hogs
Receipts 12,000. Hold over 1,065:
market 1061‘125c lower; pigs uneVenly
steady; bulk 180-210-lb. $8.80@8.90;
few $9.00; 240-280-lb., $8.60@8.75; light
pigs $6.75@7.00; 125-150-lb. $7.25@
$8.25; packing sows $6.75@7.25.
Cattle
Receipts 1,700. Market active,
bulls slow, 250
lower; good 975-lb. steers $13.50; me-
dium 1,100- lbs. down $11.50@13.25;
few heavies $13.00@13.50; yearlings
$11.00, others $9.00(a\10.25; fat cows
$9.00@10.00; common and medium
$6.50@8.75;’ all cutters $5.00@6.50;
bulls $6.50@8.50.
Calves
Receipts 1,900. Market steady; good
$17.00; culls and common $11.00@

13.50
Sheep and Lambs
Receipts 5,800. Market ac tive,
steady, good to choice lambs, 80-90-lb.
$16.50; throwoffs $14.00@14.50; ,few
clipped lambs $13.50; fat eWes $8.00(q>

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four leading distributing markets dur-
ing February were nearly 10 per cent
larger than in the same month in 1927
when the season was unusually early.
Retail stores are featuring eggs at
reduced prices and consumption is on
a healthy scale. Some buying for
storage account has already appeared
and reports generally indicate dealers
view the new egg deal favorably. It
is possible prices may stabilize some-
where around present levels unless
production exceeds general expecta-
ion.

Chicago—Eggs: fresh firsts, 27c;
extras, 34®35c; ordinary’firsts, 260;
dirties, 250; checks, 241/20. Live poul-
try: Hens, 25c; springers, 290; roost-
ers, 200; ducks, 28c; geese, 18c; tur-
keys, 280.

Detroit—Eggs: Fresh candled and
graded, 28@281/2c. Live poultry:
Heavy springers, 310; light springers,
24c; capons, 36@37c; heavy hens, 27c;

light hens, 24c; roosters, 18@19c;
ducks, 27@290.
BUTTER.

The butter market staged a rapid
comeback when receipts failed to in-
crease as much as expected and the
supply of fancy butter failed to meet
the demand. Taking the country as
a whole, production is about station-
ary. Receipts at New York, Chicago,
Boston, and Philadelphia. during Feb-
ruary were only slightly larger than
in the same month a year ago. Re-
tailers have passed along to consum-
ers the lower wholesale prices of but—
ter and consumptive demand has
shown marked improvement. The
“surplus” in storage stocks of butter
has not been reduced any further, but
much of the remaining stock is of
ordinary quality and will not compete
with the fresh goods. Until receipts
become more plentiful, butter prices
probably will remain firm.

Prices on 92 score creamery were:
Chicago, 481/2c; New York, 490; De-
troit, 44%@47c per lb.“

POTATOES.

Following the moderate advances
early in February, the potato market
has had a sharp upturn in the past
week which carried prices above the
corresponding period a year ago.
Available supplies of good table stock
are rapidly diminishing and dealers
are ready buyers of all potatoes farm-
ers have for sale. Remaining stocks
in the western states are larger than
at this time last season, but in the
east, holdings are from 10 to 25 per
cent smaller. Present prices probablv
will attract heavier shipments as well
as put a check on consumptive de—
mand, and if markets were to become
oversupplied, values would .work
lower. Northern round whites, U. S.
No. 1, bring $2 to $2.10 per 100 pounds,
sacked, in the Chicago carlot market.

WOOL

Wool prices continue extremely
strong. Mills are not ready to pay the
advances asked recently by dealers ex-
cept to cover immediate requirements
but, the amounts compared with the
supplies available appear sufficient to
place holders in a strong position, es-
pecially in view of the firmness in
foreign markets. Prices have been
gradually rising since early last sum-
mer but since new clip wools will not
begin to reach the seaboard in volume
until well along in May, the most
severe pinch in supplies is still to be
experienced.

DETROIT CITY MARKET

Apples, $1.50@5.00 bu; beets 50@90<3
bu; cabbage 40@75c bu; carrots 40@
75c bu; celery, local 50@65c doz;
eggs, wholesale, white, 30@3lc doz;
brown 28@300 doz; retail, 35@40c
doz; dry onions 75c@$1.50 bu; root
parsley $1.25@1.75 bu; parsnips $1.00
@$1.50 bu; potatoes 650@$1.40 bu;
poultry—hens, Wholesale, 2560300 1b.;1
retail 30@32c lb; broilers, wholesale,
leghorns, 24@27c lb; rocks 26@320 lb;
retail 30@350; ducks 26@30c lb;
dressed poultry, retail, 35@380 lb;'
ducks 35@400 lb.

GRAND RAPIDS

Potatoes, $1.20@1.25 bu; onions,
$1.10@1.25 bu; cabbage, 30@500 bu;
parsnips,‘ $1 bu; leaf lettuce, ‘10@llc
lb; radishes, 50c doz. bchs; rhubarb,
180 lb; apples, $1.50@3.50 bu; beans
$7.40 cwt; wheat, $1.40 bu; rye, 90c
bu; barley, $1 bu; buckwheat, $1.50
cwt; pork, 9@11c 1b; beef, 12@180
lb; lamb, 18@Zlc lb; mutton, 10@13c
lb; hens, 16®250 lb; chickens, 18 256
5b; butter-tat, 500 11’s,- as“. 2.7 2116
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MARCH 1,0,,1928‘

HOG MARKET STILL DRAGS
BOTTOM

LATE in February, the hog market
established a new low point for

the winter but has rallied moder-
ately. Broadly speaking, it is still in
the narrow range which has confined
its movements since early in January.
Receipts have continued heavy much
later in the Winter than usual, arrivals

'at seven leading markets in February

being about 50 per cent greater than
a year previous. The movement fell
off sharply in the last few days and
the indiCations are that arrivals will
diminish rapidly through March.

. In wholesale markets, February
prices for fancy bacon were 15 per

cent lower than a year ago and fresh
pork lo-ins were 39 per cent lower.
Enough of these declines is being
passed on to retail buyers to stimu—
late domestic demand but with the
unusually heaV'yr receipts in February
and moderate exports, storage of large
quantities of both meats and lard was
necessary. Apparently, speculative 1n-
terests are ready to absorb these
stocks on the basis of $8 hogs, other-
wise the market would have dragged
still lower. '

The finish of lambs fed oats and
those fed corn were the same, but the
financial returns favored the feeding
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3. THE MICHIGAN FARMER

Catalogue for
Ind.

BEAUTIFUL DAHLIAS. 20 bulbs $1.
other varieties. Mrs. Curtis Roy. Grcensburg.

L

SEEDS

REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED WOR'I'H‘Y OATS.
certified Wisconsin Six Row Barley. register and
certified Picket Yellow Dent Corn. certified Grimm
Alfalfa. Best of quality. satisfaction guaranteed.
Write for seed circular. Fairgrove Associated Seed
Growers. W. R. Kirk. Secy.. Fairgrove. Michigan.
Members of Michigan Crop Improvement Association.

 

 

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BARRED ROCK CHICKS and Hatching Eggs.
Record at Michigan International Egg Laying Con—
test: winners heavy breeds 1927. Highest Barred
Rock pen from Michigan past three years and to
date in present contest. I". E. Fogle. Okemos, Mich-
lgilll. .

 

ACCREDITED WHITE LEGIIORN CHICKS, Holly-
wood strain. Contest pullets now average 25 ounce
eggs per dozen. 1920 contest pen averaged 239 eggs
each. Customer’s profit $3.00 per bird Also An-
conas. Rocks. Catalogue. Wyngarden Hatchery. Box
14. Zecland. Mich.

 

SEED CORN. 8 row large type Yankee corn, nothing
better for early hogging off. Also choice solo-ted
Pride of the North Yellow Dent. 'l‘hcsc sccds give a
very high germination test. We furnish them at
$3.00 per bushel. either shelled or cars, F. O. B.
Mcndon. Mich. A. B. Bethe & Sons.

 

CLOVEB~-$18 per bu. Home grown double redeaned.
Guaranteed to comply state seed law. Sweet clover.
scarified. $3.90. Hardy northwestern alfalfa. $9.90
per bu. State mtiflcd-Grimm at lowest prices. New
timothy. $1.90 per bu. Sacks included. Write for
samples and circular matter. Frank Sinn. Box 457.

‘Clarinda. Iowa.

 

- ‘ . BUY YOUR GRIMM ALF ALF A direct from the
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ant with some capital and own help. Addmss Box
139. Michigan. Farmer, Detroit.

COUNTY. ('7alifornia.-whcro fanuors
Crops growing all year round. Land
6. Stanislaus
Chamber of

STANISLAUS
are prosperous.
priced low. \Vrite free booklet. Dept.
County Development Board (County
(‘mmucrch Modesto, California.

STOCK FEEDING FARM—85 Acres, 10 room dwell—
ing. 150 head barn. 140 ft. hogshcd. silo. scalcs.
and. loading chute. One night to Kansas City mar-
ket on A. T. & S; J. Priced fight. For photos and
details write W. A. Lee. Halstead. Kan-us.

FOR SALE—100 acre farm in Oceans Co. clay soil.
all tillable. four miles north of Bolton. improved

 

 

roads. twelve» room house. mrnaco. and ham. Large
bascmcnt barn. Price $16,000. Minnie Ayers. Mara-
thon. N. Y

FOR SALE—Michigan Farm Lands. Osceola. and
Lake Counties. From..small acreage to ranch Six".
One forty at $800. one sixty at $1.000. both good
soil. Some exceptional bargains at from $3.000 to
$7.000. M. E. Beecher. Reed City, Mich.

LIVE IN YPSTIANTI. 10 beautiful rooms. stcam
heat. paved street. near Normal €011ch $10000,

Easy terms. Address 966 W. Cross St.. Ypsilanti.

Michigan.
in Bainbridge

FOR S.\I.E——50 acres stock and tools
truiwd

 

twmship. Good land. . Near Benton
Harbor. Albert Scherer. Coloma. Michigan.
BEFORE BUYING farm vn‘ite Wingard. Plymouth.

Michigan for list of Michigan farm bargains.

 

WANTED FARMS

WANTED—To hear from owner of land for sale for
spring delivery. 0. Hawley. Baldwin. Wis.

 

 

125 GOOD WHITE swam and 125 full. she
unruled Letter Heads up mostly printed and. pre-
paid. one dollar. Money back if wanted. Other
good printing at low prices. Addreest The Brutal».
Freeport, Michigan.

NEW HOUSEHOLD DEVICE WASHES—dries win-
dows, sweeps. cleans walls. Scrubs. mops.’ Costs lea
than brooms. Over half profit. Harper's. 173 Third

 

 

than other varietics.
; less per

‘ COPENHAGEN.
cabbage plants, $1.00 1,000; Bermuda onion. $1.00:

‘and Michigan yellow dent (a. Very early dent).

All seed scarificd necessitating
sore. Also ask about our No. 2 Grimm.

A. B. Lyman. Introducer. Excelsior. Minn.

 

W'alteficld, Flat Dutch. frostproof
tmnam $1.00: collard $1.00; Ruby Ring Pepper $2.00:
Porto Rico potato $1.75. Good plants. carefully
packed. Prompt shipment. Quitman Plant Con.
Quitman Ga.

 

REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED SEED CORN—
flelmnt's white cap yellow dent. Picketts yellow gent
,er~
and sweet clover

rim-d worthy oats. 2-row bar-Icy

seed. Dept. A, Paul C. Clement. Britten, Michigan.

 

REGISTERED & CERTIFIED I’Olnr Dent Seed Corn
and Gilbert's Yellow Dent. the corn that made Mich-
igln's highest official record of 112 bu. shelled corn

 

 

CHICKS. We have had eighteen years’ experience in
hatching Chicks of standard varieties. We personally
inspect and cull our flocks which are good producer's.
healthy. and purc-brPd. Write for prices. Special
discount on five hundred and one thousand lots.
Shepard Poultry Farm & Hatchery. Lik-hfield. Mich.

 

RAP-Y CHICKS from fincks mated with cokerels from
host laying sin-aim. Closciy culled for production.
type. and color. Eight most. popular breeds. 100%
live delivery. Post paid. Write for prices. Homer
Hatchery. Homer. Michigan.

 

('IIICKSI LOOK! READ! Single Comb White and.
Brown Leghorns and Anconas. 100. $11.00: 500.
$50.00. Bari-ed ROI-ks. 100. $13.00; 500. $00.00.
Mixed Chicks for Broilers. $7.00 per 100. Shipped
postpaid. 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed. Prompt
deliveries. Order direct from this advertisement.
Black River Poultry Farm. Zeeland. Mich.

 

BUY YOUR MICHIGAN ACCREDITED CHICKS
from an established breeder. TWenty—five years breed—
ing. seven years trapnesting. now under Michigan
It. 0. P. Noted as profit producers. try Strick’s
Chicks this year. Circular free. Write Strick’s
Poultry Farm. R. 4. Hudsomille. Michigan.

 

BABY CHICKS. White and Brown Leghorns no.

Barred and White Plymouth
13c. White Wyuadottee. Buff Orpingtons 140.
Jersey Black Giants 20c. In 100 lots. E. G. B -
gar. Cresthna Ohio.

IIIYERS PURE-BRED CHICKS. 100% live delivery.
postage prepaid. Four leading breeds, White Leg~
horns. White Wyandottos. Barred Rocks. R. I. Reds.
Flock-s bred for egg production. Send for descriptive

 

 

 

 

St.. Fairflcld. Iowa. ”M‘I‘cblm in year 1925- Em?” Gilbert. Waldrom circular. Myers Hatchery, Mt. Pleasant. Mich.
FISTmnA HORSES ('URI‘ID $5. Pay when well. “WI'I‘I‘AKI’TR'S REDS. BO'I'H CORIBS. Grade A.
Chemist. Barncs. Harms. 2"th AND PRACTICE, “WWW” lmmvl’d n. 0. r. Trapnestcd. Grade B. Michigan. Certified.
Rigel-loan Banner wheat. Wolverine oats. Improved Michigan's greatest (.010, and a“ mum Chicks and

“s" beans beat '0’ M‘Chig’m‘ 1" 3- ('OOk- eggs. Catalog free. Interlakes Farm. Box 9. Law—

EXCHANGE Owosso. Mich. rem“ Michigan.

FLOUR AND FEED MILL to trade for Michigan SWEET CLOVER SEED. white blossom. grown north- p (v - . ~ - _
Form. by owncr. u. M. Cosier, Bear Lake. Mich. crn‘ Michigan. Reclaimed. scarified. Sealed bags. in? 3:35.“flémmgf‘fggffrs.“mgfinzggfim; gfigfgz
Delivered your station $6.00 bushel. Thos. Buell. records. See display ad. Hillside Hatchery. Hol—

 

GRAFTING WAX

FURNISH EITHER A IIAN'D OR BRUSH
Made after Michigan State College formula.

 

CAN
wax.

Immediate delivery. Prices as follows: One pound.
45c: live pounds. $2.10; ten pounds. $4.00. Postage
extra. SDCI'IM prices in larger (plantities. M. H
Hunt 6: Son. Lansing. Mich. Box 525.

 

 

FARM MACHINERY

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 FOXES—Write for ranching offer.
100% increase guaranteed. Booklet; terms. Breeder-
Agents wanted. Cleary Bros. Empire B1dg.. Seattle
Washington.

 

RABBITS—Make Big Profits with Chinchilla Rabbits.
Real money makers. Write for facts. 892 Conrad's
Ranch. Denver. Colorado.

thcir dens. also
Newton Falls.

FERRETS for driving rats from
breeding stock list free. J. Younger,

 

01110.
FOR. SALE—Coon. O’l'ossum. Skunk Hounds at ‘5
price on any fair terms. Dot-ace Scott. Box 132,

Calhoun. Gcorgia.,

GENUINE Plymouth Rock Homer Brceding pigeons
$2.00 pcr pair. F. Fuchs. 1550 Gratiot. Detroit.

MATTRESSES

MATTRESSES made any size. low factory prices.
Catalog free. Peoria Bedding Company. Peoria. Ill.

 

 

 

Elmira. Mich.

 

STATE SVVEEPS'I‘AKES SEED CORN. WiIks’ Gold-
cn Dent and Polar Dcnt. Field. selected. fire dried.
tested. shelled and graded to fit your planter. Ger-
mination 95 to 98%. John C. Wilk. St. Louis. Mich.

 

YELLOW DENT SEED CORN. Germination hiith
and guaranteed every way. \Vrite us before buying.
Geo. W. Necdham. Saline. Mich.

 

PURE. CLEAN. HEAVY Wolverine seed oats one
dollar per bushel. bags free on cars, eighty-five
cunts loose at. fann. A. B. Cook. Owosso. Mch.

 

 

 

land. Michigan.

 

BETTER. BABY CHICKS from State Fair winners.
production class. Eighty per «cm of our chicks go
to old customers. Eleien hrecds. Booking orders.
LIivitr‘ig prices. Write. Litchfield Hatchery. Litchfield.
. ll' .

 

RILEY'S CHICKSv—Produced from selected Dune
brod»to—lay and exhibition flocks of healthy. carefully
cullcd breeders. Reasonable prices. Folder free.
White Leghorns. Barred Rocks. Whito Wyandottes.
Sunnybrook Poultry Farm. Iliilsdale. Mich.

 

BARRED ROCK CHICKS of the better grade our

 

 

 

 

 

 

SWEET CLOVER SEED. White Blossom. 016901311 Specialty: Michigan Accreditcd. Strong and husky'
hullcd. $0 bllflbt’l. Guaranteed 95% Ilill't‘k Thomas Bred—To—Lay strains. Ilcomunbly priccd. Writc for.“
Monroe. Essexvrile. Mich. information. Howa’s Accredited Hatchery. Essexville.
\Iich.
cuoror. supp. Speltz. and Certified Wisconsin six ‘
row barley. 51.50.1111. 10 bu. or more $1.30. Harry ENGLISH LEGIIOR‘NS free from diarrhea. Cus-
Rox. Lansing, Mich. mmcr reports 350 pullets averaged 208 eggs for year.
. Chis-ks. Prepaid $14 per hundred. $05 for 500. $120
FOR SALE—Certified White Rural Seed Potatoes. :1 1,000. $1 pcr hundred books order from this
.las. Lynch, Coral. Michigan. :ui. Pleasant View Poultry Farm. Adrian, Mich.
CERTIFIED WOLYERINE OATS. Michigan's leading‘ RARY CHICKS of all standard varieties. Flock!
variety. 0_ D. Finkbeiner. Clinton. Mich. |cumfully culled for laying, scieral years. by M. S.
C. Ipoulfiy lmen. Baby chick prices. 10c to 14c: two
‘ worms 0 c ticks 25c. Clinton County Hatchery. Max—
TOBACCO Well and Rees. I’rop's.. St. Johns, Mich.

GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing. 5 STATE ACCREDITED Barred ROck Chicks from
pounds. 31.25: 10. 82. Smoking. 10. $1.50. Pipe T. B. and B. W. D. tested flocks. You must be
Free! Pay postman. United Farmers. Bardwell. satisfied. Lone Pine Poultry Farm. Leo. V. Card.

[\entucky. IIiIIsdalc. Mich.
BEST CIIEV‘I'ING 5 lbs. $1.50: ten $2.50: smoking MONEY IN QUALITY CHICKS. Poultry experts

5 lbs. $1.25.
$1: pay when rcccivcd.

Common chewing or smoking 5 lbs.
Kentucky Tobacco Company.

and satisfied customers bark our profit making chicks.
Illustrated catalog free. Get the facts. “'indmill
I’ointe Hatchery. 1318 AItcr Road, 1)cl.roit.

 

“'cst l‘aducah. Kcntucky.
HOMICSPUN TOBACCO: Chewing 5 lbs. $1.25.
Smoking 5 lbs. $1. I’ny whcn received. Pipe free.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FRUIT TREES AND NURSERY srocx ”m9 ““10“ A5 ”duh!“ 1‘5
'I‘IIFTON'S RELIABLE PLANTS. Frostproof Cab—
bage. Early Jcrscy and (‘harlcstnn WakgfleldfihFlat POULTRY
hutch. Succession. Danish Ilallhcod. ,ope age!) BARRED ROCKS “light line only Tra .
‘ . . . . .. _. .pncsted. ex-
.»Iurkct and Golden Acre. ‘Tomato Plants. Bonnie hibition quality. IIch)’ a“ production. Eggs. two
llcst. Greater Baltimorc. Livingston Globe. John Bear dollars fifteen. B H “'hite ll 10 Battle Creek
and Earliaua. Bcrnnxda and Prize Taker Onion Mich. ‘ ‘ ' ' ' ’ '

Ruby King and Bull Nose Pepper Plants.

Plants.
$1.00: 500. $1.50: 1,000. $2.50. Ex—

l’ostpaid. 250.

press Collect $1.50 per 1,000. Care used in puck-
ing. We guarantee to arrive in good condition.
'I‘LI'mn Plant 00.. Tifton. Ga.

 

MY FROST PROOF Cabbage Plants will makehoaded
cabbage three chks bcfore your home grown plants.
I makc prompt shipments all leading varieties. Post-
paid 500. $1.50: 1,000, $2.75. Express $2.00. 1,000.
Special prices on large quantities. Tomato and pep—
pcr plants same prices. First. class plants. roots
Wrapped in moss. P. D. Fulwood. Tifton, Ga.

 

TWO-YEAR CONCORD PLANTS from highest pro-
ducing vineyard in Michigan. three dollars hundred,
Garden collection. six each, Concord. Niagara. Dcln-
ware. dollar. prepaid. Agents wanted. Root 8: Son.

 

Paw Paw. Mich.

TENNESSEE NURSERY COMPANY, Box 204.‘
Cleveland. Tenn. capital $100,000.00. establishcd‘
189.0. want reliable men to book orders for fruit.

trccs. vines. nuts. evergreens, etc. Pleasant profitable
outdoor work. Pay weekly. Write today.

EVERY IIOG RAI-SER should grow artichokes. They
will furnish 60 days of the highest. quality of early
spring Iced for hogs before clover is ready. Seed
only $3.00 per bushel. in quantities at lessprice
F. O. B. Mendon. Mich. A. E. Bccbe & Son.

 

 

STANDARD NURSERY STOCK. 64 new.
snmll fruits. Cantalmme flavored. plum.
Hardy. cheap. Catalog.
Minnesota. Mfdm.

OIIR PROGRESSIVE

Lame.
flowers.
Vikla Nurseries. Lonsdale.

 

EVERBEAR'ING cannot be
limit for size or flavor. $1 hundred. $7 thousand.
Inmtpald. Also Mastodon and Champion. Fuch’s
lorry Nursery. Dunningville. Mich. Dept. A.

 

MILLIONS. nice frost proof cabbage. and tomato

plants. leading varieties. 31. 1.000. Bermuda. Onion

Eight $1.50 1,000. Clark Plant 00.. Thonusville.
rgia.

SEND NO MONEY. C.
bags and Onion Plants.
mcnt. 500. 65c: 1.000. 81.00.
’I'ifton. Gil.

S’I‘RAW’B’ERRY PLANTS. Dunlap 1,000 33.50. Hz
.Iim Premier Coopcr 1,000 $5.00. 500 $2.75. Comba-
IDES: Raspberry 1,000 $14.00; Fred Stanley. " w .

 

. D. Frost Proof Cab-
All varieties. Prompt ship-
Standard Plant Co..

 

MISCELLANEOUS

“'IIY BLAME THE BULL when your cow does not
brat-d9, Use Cow Catch 1 hour before service. Re-
sults or your money back: ,85 cents for one cow.
£2.90 for five. cows. postpnid. Woodstmk Farm.
onion. Route 2. Box 490. Washington.

 

 

C. O. D. FROST PROOF Cabbage and Onion Plants.
Quick shipments. All varieties. 500. 65c: 1.000. $1.00.
Farmers Plum. Co. Tim». Go.

PLANTU: W 89.00. 1.00»:
88.00: Raspberries. Bubberrlu. .
price list. Clover Nursery. Three

 

 

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‘llocks or White Leghorns.

1 tcsted five

. ii. 4.. Minimum

 

 

8 VARIETIES Record of Performance Male Matings.
Breeding cockerels. bullets. and chicks. Free catalog
giving big early order discounts. Beckman Hatchery.
Box 57. Grand Rapids. Mich.

 

S. C. R. I.
Prices reasonable.
ington. Michigan.

RED COCKEREIS -good size: color.
Wesley S. llawley. Route 3. Lud<

 

STOCK. EGGS. Chix, Ducklings, Gnslings.
cfics chickens, ducks. geese. turkeys,
guineas. Arthur Jarvis. Waveland. Indiana.

All yam" «
hantams.

 

 

BABY CHICKS
YOUR soccpss.

 

INSL'RE buy Asclfino Barred
I'edigrccd males from
[Zam's laying over 200 eggs head our flocks. Blood
consecutive years. Trapnesting 400 Dul-
Icts under Record of Performance supervision. Rea—
sonable prices for this quality. ‘Vrite for circular or
visit our fam. Aselrine Poultry Farm, Cornstock
Park. Mich.

“'HITE LEGHORN CHICKS from big white eggs.
Shipped anywhere c. o. d. Guaramccd to live. Low
prepaid priccs. Trannestt‘d, pedigreed foundation
stock. Egg contest records to 314 eggs. Hundreds of
rocker-eh. puIIets. hens. far-gain prices. Big 28th
annual catalog free. George B. Ferris. 934 Union.
Grand Rapids. Michigan.

MICHIGAN CERTIFIED VVhito Leghorns Chicks and
Hatching Eggs. First Pen Michigan International
Egg Laying Contest. 1926-1927. Record 2753 eggs in
52 wccks which is the highest rccord- ever made in
Michigan Contest. Grade A. Chicks $10.00 por
hundrcd. Write for circular and prices on special
nutting's. Hurry Burns. Millington, Mil-h.

"EGG-BRED” chicks pay profits. Strength. vitality.
and heavy-laying. Safe dcliicry guaranteed. Single
Comb White and Brown Leglmrns. Single and Rose
Comb Reds. Barred Rocks. Queen Hatchery, Zeu—
lnnd. Michigan. Hoary and light mixed chicks 80
and up.

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. Brummw-Fredrickson Poultry
Farm. Box 28. Holland, Michigan.

BABY CHICKS—Fm our extra large'tvpe Eng. W.

 

Log. Heavy producers. Get our clrflflifl.‘ More
ordering elsewhere. Prices low. only $107.50 per
1 000. A-l chicks. Model Poultry Farm. Zeeland.

_.._————-

(mum-r 1mm noes «maf‘mum Ac~
credited. Pinocmft Poultry Farm & Hatch”.
0mm. war. Write for circular.

 

 

 

 

LOOK! 100.000 chicks 90 up. 20 varieties.
many 200 to 312 egg rccord bred ROI’ cOckerels.
Send for free catalog giving big curly order dis—
counts. Lawrence Hatchery. Grand Rapids. Mich.

Using

 

BARY CHICKS~~S. C. \Vhite Leghorns $10 per 100.
Barrcd and White Rocks $13 per 100. Send for
catalogue. Snowflake Poultry Farm. L. Van Schie.
Prop. Route 5. Middleviile. Mich.

 

im-
low

FOLKS LISTEN. We increased our capacity.
proved. strains of chicks and never uuotcd such

 

prices. Write for price list. Merrill & Clare Hatch-
eries. Merrill. Michigan.

BABY CHICKS Pure—bred. Nnnc Better. Ilorrcd
Rocks. Reds. and chhoms. lino-h mury Monday.
l‘lob'bins Hatchery, 704 N. Chipman St.. Owosso.
.Iici.

 

RARY CHICKS and eggs for hatching from bred to

 

 

1‘11ihllufi' chhoms. Hillcrcst I’oultry Farm. Bath.
. I" .

BABY CIIICIx’S——Rocks. Reds. and Leghorns. Each
wwk'beginning Feb. 13. All stock bloodtested and.
Michigan Accredited. Pierce Hatchery, .lcromc, Mich.
BABY CHICKS $0.00 per 100. Seconds. strong.

vigorous chicks. no cripples.
Holland. Michigan.

Robt. Christopher. R. 4.

 

 

 

 

TURKEYS
VVHI'I'E HOLLAND TURICICYS and White Peldn
Ducks. pure-bred healthy stock Addressed stamped
ggwfiope for reply. Alden Whitcomb. Byron Center.
(I .
TURKEYS. all breeds. Strictly pure-bred. Unre-
Intcd pairs and tries. reasonable prices. Eastern

Ohio Poultry Farm. Beallsville. Ohio.

AGENTS WANTED

FARMER REPRESENTATIVES WANTED to sell
Manure Spreaders. Pulverizers. and Wheat Drills.
\ertc for particulars to. Box 237. Liberty. Indiana.

I'EZLP WANTED

MARRIED MAN [)1 the year. for farm job. Ex-
perienced with hogs. Wife willing to board few
Modern residence. living comiitions.
State experience and wages. Address Box 137. Mich-
igan Farmer. Detroit.

WANTED—MILK ROUTE SALESMAN. Must be be-

twcon 25 and 35 years of age and married. $200 cash

bond required. Steady work and. good future. Gin

gartltcul'arshin application. Freeman Dairy Company.
’in . 1 IL' .

 

 

 

GOOD OPPORTUNITY for married man to work a
400. more dairy farm Must be honest and

.Gfire mu particulars in am letter. Box 142. Mich:

igan Farmer. Detroit.

SITUATIONS WANTED

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