V01. CLXX No. 12 Whole No .- - '9' IN 7.,’/,' a Wi/kéfi 'r- ,, ”in! ‘.\ 1"‘lv‘\“‘ .( ' AY up in the northern n10st point 01" Michigan is Fort Wilkins, now a state park. It is at Copper Harbor in Kewvenaw County. Many of the fort buildings are still standing. Above are shown the stockade en- trance and the, log build- ings. M-15 is the state tour road to this point of interest. On the road to Fort Wil- kins, one passes through Calumet on the Keweenaw peninsula. That there is beauty in Winter unsur- passed by that, of summer is proven by this Calumet winter scene. Calumet is one of the thriving cities of Houghton County. l'.’ , x'/ / , . ,. l,‘.\(/IA ',< 43/”. ’F" g I ,. ‘ . . x w, _. / ,.. 7/ / ,;// 404~2 TAHE MICHIGAN DCVFARMER L\ ' MW Mair . W ‘ . / Wm so MANYASMOKERS HAVE CHANGED TO CHESTERFIELD WE STATE it as our honest belief that the tobaccos used in Chesterfield cigarettes are of finer quality and hence of better taste than in any other cigarette at the price. 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Please send me a free copy of "Land Development with Hercules Dynamite.” ‘ ....................b.....N:":w'¢;,:d.4.dtd;:';.........................a;;9 I H WANT MONEY TO GO TO FARMERS ROI'PS of Indiana farmers are voicing their opposition to the proposed $10,000,000 Federal appro- priation for corn borer control, unless a large part of the appropriation is to be used to pay them for clean-up work. This information is brought to Washington by representatives of farm organizations and individual farmers from different sections of the Corn Belt, who say that many farm- ers are dissatisfied with the methods of corn borer control which were used by the Federal and State officials in charge of the corn borer control cam- paign last season. SMALLER—STOCKS OF WHEAT ON FARMS MALLER stocks of wheat and corn are being carried over by farmers than last year, according to the De- partment of Agriculture. Stocks of wheat on farms on March 1, 1928, are estimated to have been 14.9 per cent of last year’s 'wheat crop, or about 130,000,000 bushels, compared with seventeen per cent for the ten-year average. Farm stocks of corn for the United States on March were about ten per cent less than a year ago. WORLD SUGAR PRODUCTION HE 1927-28 world sugar produc- tion is estimated by the Depart- ment of Agriculture at 27,538,000 short tons of raw sugar, an increase of 4.6 MARCH 24, 1928 per cent over last season’s production. The increase in production over last season is accounted for by the beet sugar producing countries which for the 1927-1928 season report a crop of 9,675,652 short tons, which is 15.4 per cent above that of 1926-27. The European beet sugar crop was 1,119,- 000 short tons above that of the pre- ceding year. It is the first time since the war that Europe has had a sugar production well above the pre-war av- erage. PLAN FOR REAPPORTIONMENT IN 1930 HE number of representatives in Congress will be fixed at 435 in the reapportionment which will take place after the 1930 census, if the bill favorably reported by the House com- mittee on the census becomes a law. This apportionment based on esti- mates of a population of 123,288,000 in 1930 submitted by the Census Bureau, would decrease the number of repre- sentatives for sixteen states and in- crease the number fo-r twelve states. The losses in representation would be in the agricultural sections and the increases in such states as Michigan and North Carolina where the indus- trial population has increased greatly since the last apportionment. News 00f the Week Captain Walter Hinchliffe, w ell known English aviator, and Hon. Elise MacKay, an English peeress, left Eng- land for flight to America. They have not been heard from and hope for them has been given up. _ Michigan has made a 30% increase in population since 1920, according to the U. S. Census Bureau. It is the third largest gain, being exceeded by Florida, 48%, and California, 35%. Augustino Sandino, the Nicaraguan rebel leader, has sent a note to the U. S. Senate that no North American resident in Nicaragua would be safe unless the marines were withdrawn from the territory. Detour and several other towns in the Upper Peninsula have been iso- lated because of heavy snow fall, the fields being covered with six to ten feet of snow. The breaking of the St. Francis dam in the Santa Clara valley caused the destruction of $30,000,000 worth of property. The loss of life will run into the hundreds, 264 being accounted for already. The dam was part of the Los Angeles water supply system. Nancy Miller, a Seattle girl, has gone through the unusual rites of conversion to the Hindu religion in order that she may become the third. wife of the former Mahararah of Indore. William Germayne was reelected as president of East Lake, a village in Manistee County, because he proposes to make dances pay the expenses of local government. Mrs. Harry Pearson, of Lake Orion, was elected treasurer of the village, defeating her husband as opposition candidate. Land slides at Santos, Brazil, the world’s greatest coffee shipping cen< ter, caused the wrecking of the Santa Rosa hospital. The sliding of the earth from Mt. Serrat is responsible for the trouble. Rabbi Meier Yechiel, of Warsaw, Russia, who ate only once a week for forty years, on Saturdays, because of religious commandment, died at the age of seventy-four. The Senate sub-committee, investi- gating conditions in the Pennsylvania coal regions, found housing conditions unbearable, and living far below the standard. “Kid” Lavigne, one of the world’s greatest fighters, and former .light- weight champion of the world, died in Detroit at the age of fifty-eight. He was born in Saginaw, and recently worked at Fords. Mrs. Christine Woodside, of Kansas City, was fined $100 for unduly spank- ing her daughter for taking out the family car and not telling where she had been. A gamekeepers school has been es- tablished in New Jersey to teach men the raising of wild birds and game restoration work. There is a big de- mand for men so trainedwfor sports- men’s clubs and private estates, etc. » ": “a... . . \\‘ DEVOTED TO MICHIGAN VCLU ME CLXX A Practical Journal for the Rural Family MICHIGAN SECTION THE CAPPER FARM PRESS QUALITY RELIABILITY SERVICE NUMBER XII Quality Fruits Bring success Good Fruit W 6/1 Marketed is a Mama” Maxim By Frank A. Wilkcn ARMING is a heritage to J. Pomeroy Munson, his father, Wil- liam K. Munson, well-known as originator of the King Grape, having established himself in agricultural pursuits in Michigan in 1878. In 1887, the father set out the first commercial vineyard in Michigan which later became known as Vine~ croft. It was then a farm of. fifty-five acres, quite a ways out from Grand Rapids, but now partly in the city limits. The farm’s principle asset in the early days was a good-sized mort- gage. It was an asset because it made work and thought necessary to get the mortgage paid. , While Roy, as his friends call him, was going to school, his father divided his time between his nursery, selling the King Grape, and running the com- mercial vineyard. From the begin— ning, the Worden grape was a favor- ite on this farm, as it has good qual- ity and ripens earlier than the well- known Concord. It is a little tender for shipment, but is ideal for the local market. At times the Worden brought as high as eight cents a pound. It has helped to bring Vinecroft a repu- tation for quality. After finishing high school, Roy at- tended a short course at M. S. C. and took up landscape gardening. For a time he was employed by Simons, the well-known Chicago landscape archi- tect. Later, in his father’s declining years, he came home, devoted his sum- mers to helping on the farm and the falls, winters, and springs to landscape work. He has to his credit the plan- ning and planting of several well- known parks, cemeteries, and homes of wealthy western Michigan people. Early in his farming career, Roy displayed good sales ability. He had the faculty of getting higher prices for their products than others who tried. Therefore, the selling end of season as possible. Gooseberries, cur- rants, raspberries, cherries, apples, and grapes make available cash crops throughout the entire growing season, keep the help efficiently employed, and give the pickers a long season of work. Vinecroft is very fortunately situ— Vinecroft, the Attractive Home of J. Pomeroy Munson, Master Farmer the business was his speciality, and it was his regular habit during the selling season to get up at 3:30 or 4:00 A. M., take a load of fruit to the municipal, and bring back a pocketful of money. After his father’s death, Roy bought out the other heirs and has since steadily developed the fruit business. The farm has been enlarged to ninety- five acres, and various kinds of fruit are grown to make as long a sales ated regarding help as well as mar- kets. The Munsons never have. to worry about pickers. Foreigners with large families of children have kept these children busy at “Roy’s farm” for many years. The children are treated very kindly but firmly, and they like to work for “Roy.” They are paid by the quart and some of them earn surprisingly good wages during good picking time. Most all of the Vinecroft fruit is sold in Grand Rapids direct to con- sumers or to merchants. This makes it a cash deal with no commission to pay, but instead premium prices are received because of the, reputation Vinecroft fruit has established. The Vinecroft grapes packed in characteristic four-pound baskets, have also established themselves with the merchants in (.‘adillac and Lan- ing, so a good crop is always readily sold. As the farm is on a well-traveled road, there is an increasing roadside trade. Some people have been regu- lar customers for their appearances at tln- farm when their favorite fruit is l'lIM'. Others order by phone for dilivcry at their homes. In fact during the busy sea- son, the Munson telephone is a busy affair, and Mrs. Munson has nearly as much to do in handling the “office” end of the business as Roy has om- side. For a time Roy rented apple or- chards in order to lviigtlieii his season, but now he, has ten acres of bearing orchard 01' his own and more coming on. A comparatively young five hun- dred tree orchard is: widely spaced and is interplanted with raspberries to make the land product- an income early. The apples are winter varieties which he stores on his farm and sells throughout the winter. He also makes cider out of the smaller fruit for which he gets a good price. The apples on the Munson farm are sprayed six times. the cherries are (Continued on page 420) Benefits F rOm My Soil Program Improving Soil is 4 Game Wéere Crop Yie/r/r Tell Me Score By R. V. Tanner Pres. Michigan Soil Improvement Assn. OR the past number of years I Fhave studied with a great deal of interest the general trend of the farming situation. It has become very apparent to me that localities of fer- tile land or farmers with well—kept, fertile soil have been the most pros- perous. At least they have grown better crops with a great deal more ease and certainty of profit. I have come to realize the importance of the problem which has confronted me since I started out. As time has passed and I have made some pro- gress the whole problem of soil build- ing has become extremely interesting and has taken" on the aspects of a. game, with the score showing in each season’s harvest. Our farm, which is located in Jack- son County about half way between Jackson and Munith, is typical of that community, both in type of soil, gen- eral fertility and in the crops which are grown. Only a limited amount of lime and fertilizer was used from 1913 to 1925. Realizing the possibilities in soil building, I decided that our soil must be built up if we were to do a. profitable job of farming. The Soils Department of the Mich- igan 'State College" and the Jackson ,iCofinty, agricultural agent have been .pf ,mat assistance ln'outllnlng a. for- tilizing and cropping program for my farm. The substance of the program has been to sweeten the soil, to in- crease the organic matter, or humus, in order to put the soil in better physi- cal condition and increase the mois- ture for the crops, and to increase the plant food in the soil. This is being done by the use of lime, man- ure, by plowing under green crops and by using commercial fertilizer. It is a prOCess which takes time, but I be At Left,.Wheat Received Lime, 200 lbb, 4-16r4 fertilizer, and 100 lbs. Nitrate of Soda In Spring. At Right Only Lime Wan Add“! lieve we have already had experiences by which others may profit. Soil Program Helped This Field The story of the performance of each of the twelve fields for the past three years is interesting. but I will tell you of only two of the fields. They are typical of the rest of the farm and have an unlimed and unfertilized strip through them. The soil in the field which we call N0. 2 is mostly a Hillsdale sandy loam as surveyed by the College. It is gently rolling land with a sandy loam surface and rather sandy clay subsoil. In 1922 a light clover sod was plowed under followed by beans and wheat. The seeding failed and corn was planted in 1925. Two hundred pounds per acre of 4-164 commercial fertilizer was applied with but little difference showing up. The field was manured the following wipter and after plowing in the spring two tons per acre of limestone were applied. Beans were planted and two hundred pounds of 4-16-4 were used. The latter part of the season was wet and weeds came on decreasing the bean yield. Judging by the growth on the weed-free places the limed and fertilized beans out-yielded those 0n the check strip. The field as a. whole (Continued to {page 417) years and make‘ 406-4 MICHIGAN SECTION THE CAPPER FARM PRESS Published Weekly Established 1843 Copyright 1928 The Lawrence PublishingCo. Editors and Proprietors 1632 Lafayette Boulevard Detroit. 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HOME—Aid in the solution of all kinds of home problems. all points. from a VOLL'M ii CLXX DETROIT, MARCH 24, 192? , NUMBER TWELVE ‘ N the lower house ° of Congress the A Little budget bureau of the More United States was the Budgeting subject last week of a bitter attack. It was declared that the bureau was de- veloping into a third House of Con- gress with more p0wor under certain conditions than have the present branches of our national legislature. The. director of the budget, it was llt‘ld, virtually exercises the veto power over a very considerable part of legislation. This, of course, refers to power over appropriations. And because of this power. We, take it, the federal government has been able to make consistent reductions in her expendi- tures. If this be true, we feel like saying, more power to the budget sys- tem; and further, that its beneficient influence might be extended to our state and local governments. ' I ‘H E management I! of the Interna- T 3d tional Fat Stock Show War has addressed a re- Moves on quest for information as to the where- abouts of steers such as won high honors at the International fifty years ago, when that great Show made its debut. The grand champion of 1878 was a bullock 1,328 days old which weighed 2,185 pounds and stood four feet nine inches at the shoulders. On that occasion eighty-four fat steers were shown, the heaviest weighing 3,155 pounds with a height at the shoulders of five feet five inches. No one knows where to find such steers today. The International is broadcasting their request hoping that somewhere in, the United States there may be located one or more such animals in order to contrast them with the type that now takes honors at the big shows. This illustrates how an improved type of beef animals has been devel- oped for the public. Similar changes -.m__-. . .....Lf’«........ -w..,...~.._..__., ,.;,.i....; . .0 ' . *’ 1.....sxe.._s.g_.‘n mam?“ » - V ’ 0 ‘ . . -~_ 4 / THE MICHIGAN. FARMER have taken place in other lines of agriculture despite utterances to the contrary. And it all increases our regard for the progressiveness of the tiller of the soil and the feeder of live stock. INCE the first of Gospel of the year the Mich- igan Farmer has pub- Better lished over sixty Col- 50118 ums of matter dealing with fertile soils. From the beginning of its existance in 1843 this has been a major subject in its columns; but in these later years the need for thought on the part of the practical farmer as to the plant food available for the growing of crops and the physical condition of the soil, has increased. On the majority of our farms, the surplus fertility left by nature has been exhausted. Good crops now usually result only from ideal weather, supplemented with the supply of manure from the stables and the plow- ing under of crop residues. But this combination occurs only occasionally, perhaps once in five years; and the farmer of today is coming to realize that he cannot keep on farming unless he secures good crops more often than that. In fact, successful farming requires the production of crops well above the average for a majority of the seasons. Instead of its being the rule to occa- sionally have a good crop, too suc- ceed the farmer can now be bur- dened with a poor crop only occasion- ally. To grow better than the average crops with only fair weather condi- tions, demands all the advantages of good soil. This comes only when the farmer has a soil program—~a proce- dure that regularly brings back to the land as much or more fertility than is carried away'with the crops. The Soil Department of Michigan State College is now trying to intro- duce through the extension depart- ment this idea of a soil program on every farm. They should be com- mended and encouraged in this effort by the heartiest cooperation of the farmers themselves. OIYSEKEEPING The New is an old art but . the amount of exact Hired scientific information Girl available concerning this art is quite limited. An enormous amount of time is expended in keeping and managing the home, much of which is not di- rectly compensated for. If but a small saving of. time and effort on each task could be effected. it would amount to a great saying of time and money in the aggregate. In this respect perhaps no agency has come to the rescue of the home- maker more purposefully than has electricity. it has been harnessed to wash, iron, sweep, clean, cook with out smoke, eliminate dust, and light homes at the mere pressing of a but- ton. But it accgnplishes these ser- vices in but a small per cent of homes and why? . Undoubtedly it is due to two rea- sons; there is bound to be opposition and resistance to new practices and inventions in a field where habit and tradition occupy such an important place, and second, the general idea that electricity as a household servant is expensive. To consider and study these reasons and other relative prob- lems, the committee on the Relation of Electricity to Agriculture was or- ganized. It has been ‘functioning ac- tively and recently, to further its pro- I gram, it requested the secretary of agriculture to consider the possibility of the department furnishing research specialists “to make a study of the labor in the farm home for the pur- pose of ascertaining the relation me- chanical household equipment to the well-being of the farm family." The well-being of the American farm family is a recognized problem of modern agriculture. Research in labor- and time-saving household equipment would be a direct contribu- tion toward more convenient and comfortable farm homes. N a short time the The House committee C B on agriculture will or" . orer hold hearings on the Bull Purnell bill which provides for a ten mil- lion dollar appropriation for corn borer control. 0 Two schools of thought appear to be developing with respect to this work. Both have farmer followers. The con- servatives hold that the control of this insect comes within the routine of good farming, and that outside assis- tance is not wanted. This group has been mobilized largely by the thought that such an incons’iderable portion of the appropriation made a year ago reached the farmer, and that too much control machinery seemed nec- essary to secure the ends sought. The progressives defend this bill on the ground that the corn borer is a real menace to the production of corn and that the time to fight the pest is while it is confined to its present limits of infestation. They do not ex- pect the extermination of the pest, but they do hope for a minimum of damage by retarding its progress until effective control measures may be worked out and adopted. Now, if some Moses will work out an efficient means of checking up on work done in the control of this pest and of getting the money to the farm- ers who do their bit for protection of the country against the menace, that person would have the full approba- tion of both groups. What do you suggest? AST week three Cloverland Upper Peninsula farmers were honored Farmers at a special dinner at Honored Duluth as the owners of dairy herds of spe« cial merit. These men are Victor Ganin of Crystal Falls; Carl P. Han- son, of Wallace, and C. E. Johnson of Wallace. They were the guests of honor on this occasion, and were awarded silver medals for what they have been able to accomplish with their dairy herds. \Ve confidentially believe that these dairymen and others are going to dem- onstrate to the world that the northern peninsula of Michigan is a real dairy country. Enough has been done with dairy cows in that territory to show the. climate to be most favor- able for the production of quality dairy products. Excellent herds are being introduced, and the farmers are taking a keen interest in all that goes to make for the efficient manufactur- ing of milk. The example of the men who have been selected for the above honors is bound to redound to the benefit of the whole peninsula and to the. state. May they and their neighbors be inspired to go on and build substantially the dairying business of northern Mich- igan by growing proper feeds, breed- ing good cows, and giving them the advantage of the best care. We desire to join in honoring and congratulating each of these men. HEN one makes Practical an analysis of Farm the situation he finds . . that the requests for Relief farm relief have come from those states where one crop predominates and where real constructive work in diver- sified farm crops has been lacking. The urge for farm legislative relief in Michigan has been weak, but on the a . hay production. MARCH 24, 1928 other hand during this time of depres- sion, wonderful work in increasing farm profits has been accomplished. One of. these is the alfalfa campaign which has increased the alfalfa acre- age in the state from 74,000 to 513,- 000 acres in the years between 1919 and 1927 and brought to the state an added income of $5,000,000 by increased The increased fer- tility brought by alfalfa has added millions more. , Other factors in practical farm re- lief are the development of the seed potato business, the cow testing asso- ciations, increased yields from qual- ity tested seeds of all kinds, poultry culling, soil- fertility campaigns, and other constructive work. We should feel fortunate that Mich- igan is a specialist in diversification which likely has made its greatest agricultural progress during the world’s greatest agricultural depres- sion. We have taken advantage of the opportunities to work out a prac- tical farm relief while others were talking about getting one. It is pleas- ing to know that work now in pro~ gress will add still further to the sta- bility and prosperity of Michigan agriculture. ‘ Modernist: 0U know, we older folkses is liv- ing in what I call a privileged age. Most every one of us is come from the old horse and surrey to tin cans, moustach cups to safety razors, from the time when you'd have to look old to know anything to the time when you gotta look young to make folkses think you know some- thing, and etc. Even some of us has sort of evolved from dippin’ candles to pushin’ the ’lectric light button, and so forth. When I was a. pup, Diamond Dick and Jesse James was our youthful heroes, but the other day there was some little four year olds playin’ with their dogs and some was Wm. Hart, other Buck Jones, and others Rin T i n T i 11. Of course, the dogs were Rin Tin Tin. You den’t even have to be old'enough to read to have your heroes nowadays. And it made me think what lots more the young folkses know than when I was wearin’ kilt skirts like they used to. But you gotta. know more now days to get along, and ’cause they know more ain’t no reason that they’re goin’ to the dogs. Well, I went to the movies the other day when I was in town. The pic- ture was about the old days when it was immoral fer a woman to show her ankle, and when love was long and lastin’, instead of short and fleetin’ liketnow. It took lovers a long time to get started, them days. There was a couple of girls settin’ back a’ me, and when the old-time girl flirt was makin’ the man feel uncomfortable by stickin’ her face near his’n and doin’ all those things girls know how to do, and the man was tryin’ his darnest to be a gentleman, one 0’ the girls back 0’ me says, “Ain’t he dumb.” And while he was still tryin’ to exercise self control, she says, “Why he cer- tainly is dumb. In these days they don’t even have to be coaxed.” When the show was over I felt like thankin’ the‘ girl fer entertainment I got and didn’t pay fer. But anyhow, it shows times is different than they used‘ to be. But I don’t think they’re any worse. I guess the difference is that in our days we could think a lot but dared not to say very much, but nowadays they dare say what they 'think. In the old days it was sup- ,pression, now it’s expression. Which lis best? 7. . HY SYCKLE.‘ M—a - l kind 9: c MARCH ‘24, 1928 ‘ ITHIN a stone’s throw of the ”‘1 great productive agricultural counties of Michigan,' lies a laboratory—in Southwestern Ontario ——wherein the European corn borer has demonstrated in a most convinc- ing manner that it is capable of in- flicting serious commercial damage to the corn crop, and, in a great many cases, of utterly ruining fields of this basic agricultural commodity. But while King Corn has tottered in his shoes, and his vassals in untold numbers have forsaken him for other crops, the Canadian Government has been fully aware of the dagger car- ried by this European pest. From the first, the Government has toiled inces- santly to acquaint'Canadian farmers with the seriousness of the problem, with measures to combat the pest, and with the aftermath of What would fol- low if the corn borer were allowed to become established in this great agri- cultural empire. In fact, Canadian agricultural lead- ers did everything in their power to get their farmers to avoid the same experiences which state and federal agencies are now trying to help farm- ers in the United States to escape. On the other hand, Canadian farmers assumed a passive attitude, until severe losses were suffered in the great corn~growing areas of Essex and Kent counties. The situation finally culminated in the passage of the Ontario Corn Borer Act in 1926. In an effort to avoid the Canadian experience, a similar law has been passed in Michigan and other states. The operation of the law in Ontario should prove of interest to Michigan farmers. The act was put into effect in eight counties in the Province of Ontario. This law is very similar to the one passed by Michigan, Ohio, and other states. The clean-up regulations are virtually the same in that all corn de- bris must be disposed of prior to the time when the corn borer moths are expected to emerge. Compulsory clean~up may be done and assessed as taxes against the property when this operation is nec- essary. In addition, however, persons who fail to comply with the regula- tions may be fined a minimum amount of ten dollars and not more than fifty dollars for each offense. Offenders An End NSTEAD of seventy—one new war- 1 ships for the American navy, the House naval committee recom~ mends fifteen new cruisers and one airplane carrier. This is moderate, as President Cool- idge says, and need not alarm any country, nor start another naval race. Secretary \Vilbur, however, con- tinues to urge his 740-million-dollar navy building program. And this is understood to be a “starter” for a larger program for new warships for which an expenditure variously esti— mated at from two and a half to three billions of dollars would be necessary. And an airplane can sink a fifty- million-dollar battleship in three minutes! Admiral Sims, who commanded our naval forces in the World War, has several times told the country that as an offensive or defensive unit, the biggest warship afloat is now as obso- lete as the extinct dodo. It takes courage for a high naval officer to admit that his trade is not as important as it once was, but Ad- miral Sims has both this and the other garage. THE MICHIGAN 'FARMER Ontario and the Corn Borer Canadian Experience Proves tee Worm of E fictive Clea/241p Regulations may be brought into court repeatedly and fined until they do comply with the regulations. The administration of the corn-borer act is performed by the Ontario De- partment of Agriculture, which cor- responds to our State Department of Agriculture. The work is in the charge of Professor Lawson Caesar, provin- cial entomologist, with headquarters at Guelph. The provincial entomolo- gist is empowered to appoint one or more supervisors in each county to carry out the provisions of the act. Clean-up work in cities, however, is done by the cities themselves, as The inspector resumes his work in the spring as soon as field operations com- mence and works through until about June 10. It is his duty to see that the act is complied with by everybody and that the clean-up is accomplished in accordance with the law. Clean-Up Law Effective The corn borer population was re- duced in five of the eight counties in the 1927 compulsory clean—up area of Ontario, according to a survey made by Prof. Lawson Caesar, provincial entomologist. These eight counties, with the excep- tion of Prince Edward and parts of How the Chain ls Fastened to the Walking Plow to Turn Under Corn Stalks in Fighting the Corn Borer cities, or “separated towns,” do not come under the county council, or governing body. Upon notice from the provincial entomologist such localities are required to appoint an inspector, and, as a result, the enforcement of control measures in municipalities is usually done by the police. The county corn borer supervisor commences work about September 1 and continues until fall plowing ceases. This period is spent in ob— taining an estimate of the corn acre- age to be cleaned up and explaining the regulations to farmers and advis- ing them how to meet the regulations. Norfolk and Oxford, were so heavily infested in 1926, the report states, “that had the borer multiplied as rapidly as it did in XVelland and sev- eral other counties not under the Act, almost all of‘the cornfields would have been ruined.” Due to the clean-up last, spring, in Kent and Essex Counties, the number of borers was reduced fully fifty per cent in spite of a fifty per cent reduc- tion in the corn acreage. In Elgin County, there was a reduction in the average infestation from forty-seven and seven-tenths per cent in 1926 to approximately thirty-eight per cent in 5 407 1927. Similar decreases in borer popu— lation were noted in Norfolk and Ox- ford Counties. Lambton, Middlesex, and Prince Edward Counties had a slight increase in the number of borers last. year. For various reasons, it. was very difficult to get a satisfactory clean—up in these counties. In Prince Edward County, one of the difficulties was the common practice of using narrow instead of wide plows. “A narrow plow will not cover stubble and debris satisfactorily and this gives an opportunity for many borers to survive," states Professor Caesar. . Clean-Up Area Enlarged Outside of the eight counties which were placed under the corn borer act last year, the pest has multiplied ra— pidly, thus emphasizing the need of clean-up measures wherever the pest is known to be present. In most dis- tricts there were apparently twice as many borers as last year and four times as many in some localities. Due to the large increase in borer population in those counties where the Corn Borer Act was not in force. eighteen additional counties have been added to the cleanup area for’l929. This action places all of Southwestern Ontario south of a line from Goderich to a point about eight. miles north of Toronto under the Act, and also an area about six miles wide along Lake Ontario from Toronto to the east boundary of Hastings County. As indicated by the report of the provincial entomologist t0 the Minis» ter of Agriculture, the large increases in borer population in Ontario during 1927 took place in those sections of the Province where the Ontario Corn Borer Act was not in effect and where compulsory clean-up regulations were not prescribed. To repeat, as Professor Caesar has stated, had the borer multiplied as rapidly as it. did in \Velland and sev- eral other counties not under the Act, almost all of the cornfields would have been ruined, if clean-up measures had not been resorted to in the Cana- dian Corn Belt last summer. The experience of Canadian farm- ers with the corn borer has been costv ly. It has taken serious commercial damage and ruined cornfields to (Continued to page 434) to Poverty If We End War Even if this country expected to be called to arms within the next ten years, a battleship would seem to be a poor investment from a prepared- ness standpoint. However, I do not pose as a military expert myself, and a squadron of fast cruisers might be even more useful in time of peace than in war. In the present state of the world we cannot put down our arms unless others agree to do so. * * This country now spends more than $600,000,000 a year for military pre- paredness. Our navy already costs us $319,000,000 annually and its budget is rapidly increasing. The army’s ex— penditures last year were $361,000,000. They also are increasing. What we are now spending in a year on our army and navy totals more than twice over what all the forty-eight states expend for charities and prisons, and one-half of all we spend for public schools. Every year the present naval ex- penses of France, England, and the United States consume more than one billion dollars’ worth of human energy. This is a tax which rests on the backs of all who labor in these countries. As has been pointed out by another writer, what the nations expend on armament and armed forces, would wipe out. every city slum, educate every child in the world, put agn’cul- ture and every other industry on their feet, and restore prosperity to man- kind. IVhen the world abolishes war it will abolish poverty. \Vhat world peace will save us when achieved is indicated by the fore going. What another world war would cost may be imagined when we learn that latest estimates place the total expense’of the last one at thirty mil- lion lives and four hundred billions of dollars! Representative' Berger calculates that 400 billion dollars would build a $2,500 house and fill it with $1,000 worth of furniture, for every family in the U. 8., Canada, Australia, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, and Russia. And this home would be situated on five acres worth $100 an acre. I There still would be enough money left to present to every city of 2,000 and more in all the countries named, a $5,000,000 public library. a $5,000,000 hospital and a, $1I’L000,()00 university. Out of the remainder there would be enough left to set aride a sum at five per cent interest which would pay for all time an annual salary of $1,000 to 125,000 teachers and an equal number of nurses. Even then there would be enough money remaining to buy up all of France and Belgium and everything of value that France and Belgium pos- sess. This is what the world paid for the last war, the United States contribut- ing a large share. If We could stop this war foolish- ness, what a reduction we could make in taxes and in the prices of every- thing else that costs money! Therefore it is correct to say that when the world abolishes war, it will abolish po~ verty. It can b e done. 40846 Everything Comes to Him. W50 Orders Hose—Being a Dissertation 072 tfle Activities of a City Farmer VERY rural community has its city hick—its hay-shaker who has answered the back-to-the- land movement from town. He may have done it for reasons of health. or he may have been smitten during the first nice, warm days of spring with a craving to get closer to nature—w and 110w painfully CIOSe he got if he ever weeded sugar beets or pulled a field of beans by hand! I can't recall a single crop that can put the “ache” in acres any quicker than either of those. Can you? Anyway, the city guy’s efforts, along no matter what line of endeavor, are watched, criti- cized, and speculated upon by those charter members of the agricultural fraternity who happen to be his neigh— bors. Our little community was no excep- tion. In fact, we had at least a half dozen who had transferred their affec- tions from town to country, and if I had time I’d like to tell you about all of them. You’d get a big kick out of some of their experiences in the "country school.” 1 know i did. For instance, there was Nathaniel Norton, the last of the smoke eaters to join our grange, and without a doubt the most citiiied jay I ever met. This country gentleman was born, raised and lived in Chicago until he was thirty, at which time he took nine counts in a titular bout with old man asthma, and his trainer, in des- peration, prescribed the great open spaces of Northern Michigan, where men are Eskimos about eleven months out of the year. Subsequently, Nor- ton purchased an improved forty right on the shore of Lake Charlevoix in the charming resort section of western Michigan, and within one-half mile of Ironton—the last resort. He always maintained that he was single, and as far as we could see he was unencumbered with a wife. But I know better. I am convinced he was married to Lady Luck, and I think you'll agree with me after you've lis- tened in on some of his episodes. ln appearance, Nat was of the type that called for at least a second back- ward glance. Picture, if you will, a guy who, according to Bertillon mea- surements couldn’t possibly cast a shadow over five feet two inches long, Weighing only one hundred and fifteen pounds soaking wet, black hair and eyes, complexion somewhere between a light maroon and a vivid cerise, his pan always encased in a contagious grin, and you’ve got the hero of this lullaby. He was actually handsome and would have been a complete knockout if it hadn’t been for yardage. But when Mama Nature drafted him she omitted a good twelve inches somewhere between the adenoids and the arches. I’ll say this for her, though: she proportioned him right. Lots of runts will run to stomachs 0r Adam’s apples when they begin to crowd thirty; but not this one. Every- thing about him was symmetrical, even to the part in his hair. In town, he would probably be just another human being, but out here in the sticks he was a wow and as fine a neighbor as you’d want. I distinctly recall our first meeting. It was in the very early spring a couple years ago and, at the time, I was out in our hotel Barney giving the cows their dairy lunch. My at- tention was attracted by that familiar ~ mechanical sound which indicated the presence of one of those universal ' cars in the yard, and as I glanced out the window a man was just in the act of defording. At least it turned out to be a man. He actually looked small enough to mail. He evidently sensed that I would be doing chores for he headed right THE MICHIGAN FARMER By Harv Hess for the cow house. We met at the door and I know he must have thought I’d left my manners in bed. the way I looked him over. I couldn’t help it. He was just a scant eyeful. and that’s all. He obviously guessed my thoughts, for as he extended his hand in greet- ing, he says: “Never mind the size. Buddie; it ain’t what you got below the ears that countsuit’s what’s between ’em. We’ve all got our shortcomings and when they picked mine I’m glad they bobbed my stature instead of my brains.” . He wasn’t peeved. understand—I’ve never seen him that way since I’ve known him—but I presume he had been treated so often to such scru- tiny that the words, or speech, slipped out easily. “Yeah,” he continues, “take Napo- leon, for instance. They tell me that frog could walk under a day-old‘chlck; yet he was considerably more of a hero than Goliath. But speaking about names, mine’s Norton. Nat Norton.” “Do you spell that first name with a ‘G’ ”? I inquired. glancing down at him. “You can if you want to. I’ve been called everything that has a diminu- tive meaning and I can answer to Gnat. There’s nothing sounds more friendly than a good nieljjame and I’ll say I’ve had my share. I came dowu here to get acquainted." “You struck a good place. brother; come on in the barn and I’ll open a case of eggs. There isn’t much in the way of chairs around here but try and make yourself comfortable on a piece of that hemlock upholstery,” and I indicated an empty potato crate. “I’m going to let you in on a little secret,” says he. shifting his weight to the crate, “or maybe you know it already. I’ve just bought the Chap- man forty and that makes you and me neighbors. Now don’t bust out cry- ing.” “You’ve bought the Chapman farm?” I asked incredulously. “why I had no idea it was even on the market. How did you happen to pick that place?” “It isn’t much of a story, so I’ll tell you. It seems that ever since our old family physician told father ‘it’s a boy’ I’ve been afflicted with about every variety of bronchial and cranial diseaSe in the catalog or patent medicine almanac, and after an un- usually heavy siege of asthma a month ago, the doctor told me that unless I wanted to give some em- balmer a job I’d better move into the fourth zone. In other words, northern Michigan was the place suggested for relief.” “And have you been relieved?” “Yeah—of about four thousand dol- lars. That’s what this ranch set me back, and I shant begrudge one cent of it if I can just get a good breath once in a While. Honestly, if he had said the word, I would have gone to Iceland.” “You ain’t far from it right here, Norton; there’s only about two de~ grees and six inches of snow differ— ence. But you’ll like it.” “I’ll have to; or else get myself in some nice obituary column. So far, so good. I haven’t even sneezed since I struck this latitude.” “Are you married ?” “No; and I don’t ever expect to be.” “I’ve heard ’em say that before. Take it from me, marriage is a great institution.” “Yes, but who wants to live in an ' institution all their life. I’m going to buck this agricultural game alone, and from all I hear there’s a lot of hard work connected with it. What is your specialty?” “Oh, nothing in particular,” I an- swered. “I practice what they call ‘diversified farming.’ That’s where you raise everything but the mort- gage.” “I thought this was the day of spe- cialization.” “Maybe it is, in bootlegging or bobs; but not in agriculture. That is, unless you’re a good gambler, and I ain’t. Take this country around here. It’s fine for spuds and beans but I wouldn’t any more think of planting all my eighty to either of Arzot/zer Farm Tragedy MARCH 24, 1928 ~~--. . t those commodities than I would of planting it to cocoanuts. If I did, I’d be sure to buck up against a drouth, or a wet spell or a frost. Either that, or every one else would be seized with . the same grand idea and the manket would be flooded. up on hogs with the idea of bringing home the bacon. A guy can study Buys a lot of stock, ‘course, some cows are nicer to handle ‘end there; you’d probably be all night equipment and fencing, and about the time he starts spending the money he’s going to get out of all those shoats, a family of cholera germs de- cide to start a subdivision on the pre- mises and that long looked for check turns out to be a black one. My ad- vice would be a few good cows, with some attractive side lines for cash.” “I see you keep cows.” “No. They keep me. There’s a dif- ference.” “I get you,”‘he smiles. “Say, do you suppose I could ever learn to milk?” “Easiest thing in the.world. 0f than others. Take that one on the getting enough out of her to float ‘a. toothpick.” “How much does she give?” “Not an ounce. You have to take it all from her, and the taking ain’t so easy. what I mean.” “What’s a cow like that next one there worth ?” 'need my advice. 'maybe tomorrow;” “I wouldn’t take a dime less than three hundred dollars for her. She—J” “My gosh! is she giving oil?” “No; but animals like her don’t grow on trees. She’s all cow.” “Speaking about trees reminds me that I guess I'll have to leave; there’s a couple of bankers down town who But I’ll drop in, and, grinning, he headed for his car. Well, that’s about all for today’s lesson; but the wurst is yet to come, as the weiner casually remarked. CEMENT BARN FOUNDATION I plan to remode my barn and would like to make concrete founda- tion but am afraid it would be too damp. Is this true? Would the stock keep well in a barn like that? I have a lot of stones but they are round. That would make it "quite hard for the mason to use, but I can use all stones mixed with concrete for I want to have a 12-inch wall. How can I put air spaces in if they are neces- sary? Would we need air spaces if we had good ventilation ?—V. P. It is common practice to use con— crete for the foundation of barns. So far as strength is concerned, this type of wall is ideal, but because concrete is a good conductor of heat, there will be condensation of moisture on the inside of the wall during cold weather, and it will be more difficult to keep the barn warm. If you care to go to the expense it will be desirable to place two by fours flatwise against the concrete wall and cover them with sheathing and one-half inch insulating lumber. There is no reason why stones should not be used' in making a concrete wall. Only perfectly clean stones should be used since cement cannot adhere to a dirty stone. In regard to air spaces in the wall will say that you could have a very desirable wall by building two six inch walls of concrete about four in- ches apart and fill this space with dry gravel. Such a wall would be warm and you would have very little con- densation on the inside. The two walls would need to be tied together with No. 9 wire—F. El. Fogle, M. S. C. Albinos are found among almost every species of bird and animal, The famous. Blarney. Castle in no- land was built in the fifteenth century: .",4 .»’ ‘..".r1’. MARCH 24, 1928 f Feeding Small Grains Nitrogen May Still Help W lzeat By G. R. Schlubatis Soils Dept. depends upon soil fertility. Our money-making crops are put usu- ally on our best soils, and we do all we can to maintain and improve the fertility of such soils. Natural differ- ences in soils and variations in the plant food requirements of crops raise many practical questions. About 1,600,000 acres of oats and 140,000 acres of barley are grown annually in Michigan. Much of this acreage is raised on light or run—down soils reducing the average ten year yields of oats to only thirty-two and four-tenths bushels and barley to twenty—four and seven-tenths bushels. The high yields produced on many fertile soils makes evident the great PROFITABLE production largely , M. s. C. which manures or green manures are plowed under during the rotation, will respond to superphosphate (acid phos- phate) alone. Some potash may be included where legumes are to be seeded. On the heavier loams and silt loams the amount of nitrogen and pot- ash may be reduced or eliminated be- cause of the natural supply of these elements in the soil. Here superphos- phates alone are usually adequate. Phosphorus is generally lacking in our soils.‘ The light sandy loams are also usually low in nitrogen, unless supplied by manures or the growing of legumes. Hay crops following the grain respond to the application of potash. The amount of these fertiliz- ers to be applied, depends on the ex- Th‘is Farmer Complained of Poor Yields While Neglecting to Give These Old Stack Bottoms a Chance to Do Their Bit possibilities for improving the soils on which these small grains are grown. A definite plan or system of soil building extending over a period of years will produce increased yields for all the crops in the rotation. Mich- igan soils, especially the more sandy types, are likely to be acid, a condi- tion which can be corrected by the use of ground limestone. The suc- cessful production of many crops de- pend, first of all, on the correction of this soil acidity. Experiments show increased yields of oats, barley, and wheat through the use of lime. For best results, lime should have been sown on acid wheat ground last fall, but, if a legume is to be seeded with the oats or barley this spring, or later on in the rotation, lime should be ap- plied as soon as possible. The composition of a fertilizer for oats and barley depends on the type of soil, its previous treatment, and whether or not the following crOp is to benefit by the residual effects of the fertilizer. Barnyard manure should be applied to the cultivated crop preceding the grain crop. The cultivated crop can readily use the nitrogen in the manure but, if applied on the grain crop, this nitrogen may produce a tall, rank, growth of straw, which usually lodges and is difficult! to harvest. But these grain crops benefit markedly from manure or le~ gumes plowed down for some preced- ing crop. When clover or alfalfa fol- low small grains, increased yields re- sult if a fertilizer mixture, especially one c0ntaining some potash, is sown with the grain. While the best yields of oats and barley are generally obtained on the heavier soils, good crops are grown on light sandy loams if a complete fertilizer is used. When legumes are grown in the rotation or manure is applied, the amount of nitrogen and potash in the fertilizer may be some- what reduced. 011 soil, low in fertil- ity, a 2-16-2 fertilizer should give profitable returns. .If legumes are to be seeded in the grain, a 2-16-8 should give enough more bay to more than rower hummer. A‘llght soil, on of land receiving no manure. tent to which the soils have been cropped and on the system of soil management being practiced. For soils of ordinary fertility, the fertiliz~ ers recommended give excellent re- sults when applied at the rate of about 250 pounds per acre. The Winter Grains At this time of the year We begin to think about the condition of our fall sown grains and to speculate as to what we can do to increase growth and yield, if the crops do not look good. Light soils of medium to low productivity usually respond well to spring applications of nitrogenous fertilizer or manures. In the early spring when the young plants are starting to grow, a good supply of nitrates is necessary for the maximum development of the plants. On these soils of medium to low productivity, the growth of the plants are stunted by an insufficient amount of nitrates during early development. This handi- cap they never quite overcome. In case of severe winter and spring weather, the wheat and rye plants are forced not only to start growth in a weakened condition, but to withstand undernourishment at a critical stage of development. Dry weather delayed the seeding of wheat and rye a little last fall. This with some winter injury justifies a special effort to overcome these handi- caps. Applications of fertilizers should be made about the time the plans start growth in the spring. If machinery is used to make the application, the ground should be firm, or the material should be applied during a time of the day when the ground is frozen. Barnyard manure applied at the rate of four to eight loads to the acre should give good returns. On the Cass County experimental field, located on a sandy loam soil of low productivity, applications of manure, topdressed at the rate of eight tons per acre, have given as an average for four years sixty-five per cent increase in yield of the small grains over a similar piece This (Continued on page 415) j 9: $2.} .34 THE MICHIGAN FARMER \ ‘3». in i ”-1: \\. .‘x‘ih‘t .‘ 3m GIVE YOUR FARM achance 0 you need a new tractor, a cultivator" or other farm machinery.7 Does the barn need rebuilding? Is the old car worn out? Or perhaps there is a son or daughter to send to College. Here is a way to make the necessary added income from your farm. 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Power Sprayers for Orchards ...... Crop... wmwmwmngm.4...:xymmwamnwm aw.” . MARCH '24, 1928 . News and Views From INGLESIDE FARM—By Stan/3y Powell AM continually hearing farmers I say, “There isn’t anything that I can do but chores this dark and gloomy weather.” I *‘don’t disagree with them openly, but in my heart I can’t help doubting their statements. I never yet was on a. farm that I couldn’t see plenty that might be done to advantage no matter what the weather. Aren’t there some doors, windows, mangers, or stalls to repair? Isn’t there some shed or corner full of use— less junk that might be cleaned out and disposed of? Have you any cattle that should be dehorned before fly season ar- rives? Are the harnesses all cleaned and oiled for another sea- son? What about doping the cattle or poultry for lice? Aren’t there some business or family letters that should be written? Would wife like to have you clean the cellar? Have you run your seed oats and seed barley through the fanning mill and selected and tested your seed corn? Is every tool that you are going to use this coming season repaired and adjusted ready for use? Are your farm accounts and pedigrees of pure- bred live stock in good shape? I fervently wish that I might an- swer all of these searching and em- barrassing questions satisfactorily. If you can, I’ll agree that there “isn’t much that you can do but chores this. kind of weather." How AbOut Your Side Roads? Did you attend the recent party caucus in your township? For some reason or other our local caucus was the most largely attended and prob— ably the most interesting which we have held in many years. The. meet- ing developed into a general discus- sion of the best methods of improv- ing and repairing township roads and supervising this work. Someone sug- gested that we devote an entire even- ing to the consideration of these mat- ters. He urged that. we set a date, arrange with some suitable local or- ganization to serve a supper and then sell tickets at fifty cents each to all citizens of the township who were sufficiently interested in local roads to be willing to devote an evening and a half dollar to such a cause. My friend who proposed this Side road supper meeting asked for a Show of hands as to how many would be willing to buy tickets at, fifty cents each. Hands went up by the dozens. In fact, I believe that well over fifty per cent of the larger number attend- ing the caucus indicated their desire to be present at the proposed supper. It remains to be seen whether any— thing will be done along this line. We haven’t any copyright or patent on the idea, so you are at perfect liberty to try it out in your township. This ought to be a good time. of year to get folks interested in side roads if your conditions are like ours. Dur- ing these spring days even the state and county roads are rough and chOppy, but township roads are well nigh impassible. A Most Interesting Letter When I get to thinking about the financing of township highways, my mind goes back to a very interesting letter which I received some time ago from D. E. Williams of Bronson, who is master of his local grange and secretary of the Branch County Po— moma Grange. Commenting on my statement in one of these article that forty-one per cent of our general prop- erty tax was for highawys purposes, Mr.- Williams wrote in part: “I have compared supervisor’s war- rants of Gilead and Bethel townships and find the road tax is thirty-three and one-third per cent of the total, while the per acre tax of average farm land is $2.00 to $2.50 per acre and these same farms are renting cash rental-at three dollars per acre if worked. “High taxes are confiscating the rural homes at a terrible rate and something must be done. We are sug- gesting a four cent gas tax ‘50—-50 or bust’ which in plain English is two cents for the state, one cent for the county and one for the townships within the county-—this for construc— tion and maintenance of grade A gravel roads only. The two cents to counties and towriships must be ap- portioned on a mileage basis, includ- ing all established roads exclusive of state trunk lines and roads within in- corporated cities. Counties with aver- age mileage of roads would receive about $120,000 01' $60,000 for the county and $60,000 for the townships. This would reduce our road taxes five dollars per thousand and build every mile of dirt road into a grade A standard road in twenty years and furnish $100 per mile for future main tenance without one cent of direct tax on real estate. “The benefits would be too many to number. It would stabilize values of reality, profitably employ country labor and the unemployed of the cities, place Detroit and other indus- trial centers at the door of every farm in Michigan, solve the maintenance of the highways without direct tax on real estate, city or rural, open the door of opportunity for rural-minded young men and women to stay on the farms, increase value of farm mort- gages, check closing of banks because of frozen assets in farm paper, and increase the business of every mer- chant in every town and city in the state. Township Officers Stretch Dollars “We insist on a division of town- ships because highway commissioners under county survey and supervision employ local labor and build an aver- age mile of road about $500 cheaper than professional road contractors and occasionally $1,000 cheaper.” I haven’t checked over all these figures, but it is evident that Mr. Wil- liams has given the matter careful study and his ideas are certainly very interesting. Mr. G. Gaskill of Albion, R. 5, writes that he thinks I spend too much time watering and grooming the Ingleside horses and am feeding them too many valuable oats. Answering Mr. Gaskill’s letter, I wrote in part, “While it may be all right to water horses but once a day this time of year, it seems to us that two or three times would be better especially if the water is not heated. We can hardly imagine a horse drink- ing a day’s supply of cold water at one time. “As to the grain and grooming, we must admit that we have. had some idea. of changing horses this spring and hence wanted ours to look a. little more attractive than the. average. “One of the best horsemen in this territory was at Ingleside recently and he stated that with chunky horses he preferred to start the spring work with them a little below normal weight, but with those of rangy and a somewhat nervous temperament, he preferred to start the seasoh with them in quite good flesh." . _ . MARCH 24, 1928 FARMERS STUDY SOIL PROB- LEMS NSPIRED by the state and county extension service over three hun- dred Cass County farmers are study- ing soilsrthis winter. The method fol- ‘ lowed is the relay or local leader plan whereby thirty-six leaders represent- ing eighteen local groups receive monthly instruction from a soils spe- cialist and then relay the information at meetings of their local groups. At a recent session the point was made by specialist John Sims that, in the past, much money had been wasted due to the non-adaptation of commercial fertilizers to the different types of soils and varying require- ments of crops. This had been the experience of one of the group leaders present. Farming a prairie type of. soil, he had in the fall of 1926 fertilized part of his wheat with twenty per cent superphosphate, part with a completed fertilizer an- alizing 212-2, while part of the field was left unfertilized. As harvest time approached in 1927 the apparent advantage was with the 2-12-2. However,'in cooperation with the county agricultural agent, equal and representative areas of the three treatments were cut and, when cured, threshed in a small machine used by the College in experimental work. The apparent superiority of the .2-12-2 showed in the weights of straw, as the bundle weighed twenty-one pounds and two ounces as compared to eighteen pounds and two ounces, the weight of the bundle from the straight superphosphate area. But after threshing, the story was reversed. Reduced to an acre basis the superphosphated part of the field yielded twenty—five and a half bushels per acre while that getting 2-12-2 yielded twenty-three and one-third bushels, showing that the phosphate had furthered the development of kernel even though the straw was not quite so rank. This farmer realizes that conclu- sions should not be too hastily drawn and is repeating the same experiment, but his first trial indicates that, for his soil, the superphosphate is the more economical. On a different type of soil the situation might be re- versed. It is interesting to note that the part of the field receiving no fertilizer yielded only sixteen and one-third bushels per acre. FEEDING SMALL—ERAINS (Continued from page 409) large increase, which was obtained, is probably due to the residual effects of the manures. Over a number of dif- ferent types of the lighter soils, it is doubtful if this large percentage of in- crease could be maintained. Nitrate of soda at the rate of sixty to one hundred pounds per acre, or sulphate of ammonia at the rate of forty to seventy-five pounds per acre, used as a top dressing, has proved profitable on a number of the experi- mental fields. Sulphate of ammonia should be applied only to land which is not sour. A number of trials of ni- trate of soda and sulphate of am- monia on several different types of soil, ranging from sandy loam to sands gave a twenty-nine per cent in- crease in yield of small grain over tests on similar pieces of land not receiving these fertilizers. The application of nitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia presents a rather difficult problem in securing an even distribution of such a small amount. Sulphate of ammonia may be spread with the combination fertilizer and grain drill and the nitrate of soda may be spread with an Endgate broadcaster. Either of these mate- ' rials may be spread by hand. As much as fifteen to twenty acres a day can be covered in this way. 13—415 that sweeps awayall records x. . . 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Why not set it aside to pay damage from marauders? Why not save some to prosecute them the same as in any similar crime? We pay a license‘on our dogs and the money is saved to pay the farm- ers for the depredations they commit on the sheep. The dogs have to do a. lot of running and don’t know about the law. What can a. farmer do when he hears shooting among his stock and when he finds the sportsmen to be strangers? “Nothing.” Here is my remedy. When a farmer hears shooting on his premises, phone the game warden to come with his car—with a John Doe warrant, take them to the justice, fine them aplenty so the justice and the game warden will get ample pay. If they are hunt- ing out of season or without a. license, take them to the calaboose.——C. H. Snow, Sr. THE ADVENTURE OF FARMING HAVE just been reading News and Views from Ingleside Farm by There is a man after my own heart. Farming is truly a. great adventure. I have heard people say, and have read articles on the same subject; farming is so monot- onous. What is more monotonous pray tell me, than the life of a poor man in the city. He must rise early to start work by the whistle or the clock, works steadily at the one thing until the whistle or the clock announces dinner time, hurries home to dinner, oats as quickly as possible, hurries back to his same work until the whistle or clock relieves him at night. Then he hurries home to his evening meal too tired usually to do more than eat his supper and go to bed, to be ready for the next day’s work at the same thing. The sameness of the days is the killing thing. True there are many places he could go if he were not so tired but he must rest or he cannot work the next day and most of the places he could attend for recreation cost; and if he has a fam- ily he cannot afford to spend the money. 011 a farm, it seems to me, no two days are alike. There is sucha vari- ety of things to be done. I remember one time my husband was in the hos- pital with a lame kin-c, had been there for ihrcc weeks, during which time I had had no visitors, but had been vary busy taking curc of things. \V’c had about an acre of wheat to cut, and I had hired a man to cut it and was in the field helping L0 set it up, when my sister came to stay all night with me. “’9. had not seen each other for some time so I left the work in the field and went to the house to talk with her. This was at three o’clock in the afternoon. We talked until supper time, then I did the chores, while she cleared up the supper work, then we talked until about two o'clock in the morning before we finally do- cided to go to bed. She stayed until after dinner the next day, when I hitched up a horse and took her ten miles to her train, staying in town for my supper, drove the ten miles home, milked my four cows, fed my pigs, calves, and horses, took care of the milk and was in bed by midnight, with a feeling of well-being, except for my Stanley Powell. sick husband. Farming is certainly; anything but monotonous and the un- expected is waiting just around the corner.——E. P. C. COMING OR GOING? HE. question is often asked Whether prohibition is coming or going. Well, in 1920, California. voted wet by 65,062, and swung dry by 63,- 617 in 1926; in 1920 the Missourians voted dry by 61,299, and by 275,543 in 1926, more than quadrupling the 1920 majority; in 1922 Massachusetts voted wet by 103,876 and two years later the bean eaters switched dry by 4,247; in 1914, Ohio voted wet by 83,000 but changed to prohibition in 1920 by 290,194; and Illinois went wet by 553,- 131 under an “advisory” referendum in 1922, but in 1926 that majority had dwindled to half, or exactly 284,035. The majority in Chicago dropped 129,— 103. Mathematically, prohibition is com- ing, as one blind in both eyes can see. As soon as Coolidge penned “I do not choose,” lightning rods appeared over a score of political air castles. Among the Barkises were President Butler, of Columbia University, Speak- er Longworth and former U. S. Sena- tor Wadsworth of New York, all able, outstanding men, and wet. Now, all that is left of their air castles is the lighning rods! “Dry, and proud of it” would describe every Republican presidential probability. The Democracy also! Al. Smith, Governor of New York, fonnerly the plumed knight of the anti’s, is yelling himself hoarse in behalf of prohibition enforcement. Senator Reed, long the congressional big noise of the boozo~ cracy has become as silent as a suck- ling oyster on the question, and Jimmie Walker, Mayor of New York, has mounted the water wagon. Politically, prohibition is neither going nor coming—it is here to stay.— VV. G. Calder-wood. THE RELICTED LAND SITUATION RECENTLY read a statement that the conservation department would take no action—filo advantage of the latest supreme court decision affect- ing frontage of improved relicted land owned by the state. This ruling may seem neighborly until we refer to memories calendar and review some other rulings where a lover of the wild waded a creek and cut stock fence in quest of game against the protest of the owner of the land. The farming farmers wonder if this relict- ed land was regularly planted to staples of agriculture if the same courtesy would be lasting with the conservation department. The writer would never favor a nu?- sancc to be spitet‘ully kupt in front‘of a. lake cottage, yet, I never would con- sent to forever allowing the free. use of land caused by the actions of poo- plo of lllinois lowering the water and exposing same. A fair plan would be to determine from the tax rolls the acreage tho present owners had title to during the lust fourteen years, no- tify said owners of the fact and pro- ceed to lease the state land annually to the highest bidder giving the front- age owners of improved property the prior right to protect their frontage from vandalism and allow free action to lease all other frontage. So much for tenting privilege for a single sea- son. A lease for a team of years for a wooden building. A lease for a. longer term for a. more permanent structure and a lease for fifty years for a structure of concrete and 888914 E. Richardson. ‘1 ' " l r" ‘ MARCH 24, 192.8 BENEFITS FROM MY SOIL PROGRAM ' (Continued from page 405) did not have a fair chance, however, and the value of the fertilizer was not returned. This, of course, keeps the fact in mind that while fertilizers are of benefit, failures sometimes occur. Weeds surely respond to fer- tilization also and cultivated crops must be well cared for. Last spring the land was again plowed and fitted and sown to barley and Seeded to White sweet clover. Two hundred pounds per acre of a 2-16-2 fertilizer was drilled in when the bar- ley was sown, the unfertilized strip being left as before. The check strip gave a yield of 16.2 bushels of barley per acre against 31.6 bushels per acre on the fertilized soil. The fertilizer cost $3.92 per acre and gave us an Bundle on Left Received No Fertilizer. The Other One Did. increased yield of 15.4 bushels of good quality barley with the same amount of labor. The sweet clover came on fine except on the unlimed check strip. I feel satisfied that we are in- creasing the productivity on this field. Field No. 12 Was The Poorest on the Farm Field No. 12 is sandy loam soil and was the poorest field on the farm. In 1925 a light red top sod was turned under and two tons per acre of ground limestone and two hundred pounds per acre of 4—16~4 fertilizer were applied and beans were planted. The check strip yielded nine bushels per acre while the rest of the field gave us thir- teen bushels per acre, an increase of four bushels. This was a worthwhile increase and the fertilized beans ripen- ed up better than those which were not fertilized. We drilled wheat after the beans, but, due to rainy weather, it was sown rather late. Two hundred pounds per acre of 4-16-4 were applied, while the same check strip was left unfertilized. The wheat barely showed above the ground when winter set it. In the spring one hundred pounds per acre of nitrate of soda were sown on the wheat. The check strip only pro- duced two bushels per acre of poor quality wheat while the fertilized soil gave twelve bushels. Grimm alfalfa was sown in the wheat in the spring. The alfalfa was cut for hay in 1927, the limed and fertilized portion yielding two tons per acre of hay while the check strip has no alfalfa at all. I would say that in this field with the lime and fertilizer, the three years’ work was very profitable. Had there been no lime or fertilzer applied most of the labor would have been lost. At the present time the condition of the field is such that for producing crops on the limed and fertilized portion it is easily worth three times its value in 1924. On the other hand, the value of the check strip is just three crops less than it was in 1924. Increased yields have been secured on other fields by using lime and fer- tilizers. Oats, tomatoes, and potatoes were also fertilized and the yields compared to an unfertilized strip. The results surely show the benefits of a well planned soil building program and 'I attribute much of our success to the use or well chosen fertilizers and lim- How Big Is Your Farm? 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Now I can sow alfalfa seed in the small grain in the spring and get an excellent stand where before I could get only a few spears of clover to grow. Our soil building program is just getting nice- ly started and I look for better results in the next few years. If any readers should be in my neighborhood, stop and look over the fields and draw a few conclusions for yourself. l-ii’tx-tively. Teacher: “What did Alexander the Great do?” » Boy: “He died." The Only Good Corn Borer Is a Dead One Ham’s the way to fix the corn borer. Plow him deep by plowing com stubble deep—that’s the first step. Then kill him With an Acme Coulter llarrow~the only barrow that can really do the lob For the sharp. double run-ed Acme Coulters penetrate to the full depth of the furrow and slice. cmsh. and completely pulverize every stalk. every bit of trash, every r-lod and lump. And the downward slope of the coulters prevent the stalks and other valuable mganic matte: from being pulled up to the surface. 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Back in 1849 the Michigan Farmer was conducting a household service. The pioneer women had limited wants compared with the modern standards of living, but they appreciated this effort on the part of the Michigan Farmer to give them information on matters of interest to homemakers. The issues of this publication of a quarter of a century ago contained answers to legal queries presented by readers- This branch of the service department is increasingly active in extending help to those who have questions of a legal character. For the past several years family health problems have had personal at- tention of our health doctor and through him a popular branch of the Michigan Farmer service has devel- oped. Today thousands of anxious folks consult our physician with ques- tions pertaining to their own bodily ailments or the troubles of loved ones. From the very beginning in 1843 the Michigan Farmer has been a sort of Mecca for letters concerning the pro- duction or crops, the fertilization of soil, the feeding and breeding of live stock, the marketing of farm pro-ducts, the construction of farm buildings, the growing of vegetables and fruit, and the making of homes. Progress in agriculture has not diminished, but in- creased the demand for such service, and our staff of capable men and women are kept busy supplying in- quiring readers with the latest avail- able information. Another class of questions hasto do with the supplying of information on the investment of surplus funds, se- curing satisfactory insurance, the handling of claims against transporta- tion companies, commission houses, and other concerns doing business generally with farm people. Through What it Covers M ic/zzgcm Farmer Protective Service By E. A. Shearer, Manager this service the experience and the business contracts of the Michigan Farmer are placed at the service of its well-meaning patrons. l Although regrettable, it is neverthe- 1 less true that, during recent years there has been a never-ending line of l swindlers, crooks, confidence men tak- . ing from farm people their hard- earned capital and giving nothing in 'return. The Michigan Farmer isout ‘\ . to get these fellows. Besides going after them directly, we hope to give the farmers something with which to protect themselves as, for instance. such information as contained in the article published last week on oil leases. I Then closely related to these are the thieves. Apparently one of the most thriving businesses in rural com- munities these past few years has i been the organized stealing of farm property—live stock, poultry,‘ grain, fruit, implements, and scores of other items. It is our purpose to solicit the cooperation of every agency against thieving and encourage the capturing of thieves by posting fifty dollars cash rewards to those furnishing informa- tion leading to the capture, convic- tion, and penal servitude of those who steal from premises of members of the Michigan Farmer Protective Sen vice Where signs are posted. This fifty dollar reward will be paid to any person or persons whether sub- scribers or not, who are primarily responsible for furnishing evidence leading to the capture and conviction of a thief or thieves guilty of stealing from a member of the Michigan Farmer Protective Service having Pro- tective signs posted. The application of such rewards must be attested by g the county sheriff and made within two weeks after the thief or thieves are captured. Rewards will be paid after the thief is convicted and sen- tenced. If two or more persons are equally responsible, the reward will be divided. In case of dispute, the Mich- igan Farmer Protective Service re- serves the right to be the sole judge in deciding such disputes. A fifty dol- lar reward in also posted for the cap— ture and conviction of the violators of the Horton Trespass Act. \ The registered key tag described ‘ last week is also a feature of this service. This covers in a brief way the gen- eral features of the Protective Service offered to readers of the Michigan Farmer. The following coupon will aid those not yet members who may wish to join in this work. E. A. Shearer, 1632 Lafayette Blvd, Detroit. Dear Mr. Shearer: Manager, Michigan Farmer Protective Service, Three Times Stronger Than Buckle Harness Buckles weaken and tear straps. . Walsh 1 96-inch breeehing strap holds over 1 100 lbs. The same strap With buckles will break at the buckle at I about 350 lbs. pull. Ordinary harness has 68 buckles. \Valsh Harness has no buckles. Easy to see why Walsh is three times stronger than ordinary harness. 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It is a good substitute for lime, farmers are finding. They haul the supply several miles. The bed is open and the marl lies to the weather. Many people believe that it should be allowed to stand for a season before applying to soil—F. B. MOORESTOWN STUDIES COMMUN- ITY PROBLEMS HE idea of broadcasting informa- tion about soils by relay methods has been the means of starting an- other study movement of Moorestown, Missaukee County, where the farmers who gathered for the local soil schools are now holding regular meetings every two weeks for the consideration of other community problems. The relay soils schools, as conduct- ed by Mr. John Sims, soils extension specialist from Michigan State Col— lege, are really leader training classes. Harry Remington and Harold Blake, the chosen Moorestown leaders, re- layed the first two soils lessons to their interested neighbors and then conceived the idea of holding similar meetings every other Saturday after- noon in the schoolhouse to consider other matters of local interest. For the first meeting the prospective users of marl were called in and plans were made to handle the excavating at the nearby dry bed so as to avoid unnec- essary waste. An overseer was ap- pointed and the marl users agreed to contribute a few cents a load to pay for his time. The subjects discussed at these' meetings are determined by What the leaders think are the main sources of farm income for the community, that is, dairying, potatoes, p0u1try, etc. The local leaders, who are also members of one of the cow testing associations, discussed herd improve- ment methods at one of the meetings. By showing their herd books and ex- plaining the benefits they had re- ceived, they were able to sign up sev- eral new members. At another meet- ing, poultry management was dis- cussed by John Baker, agricultural teacher at the Lake City high school. At future meetings it is proposed to study potato growing, small grains and forage crops. The discussions center around methods for improving the profits from each source of in- come. Limiting factors are noted and needed improvements pointed out. The result is a real revival of interest in better farming—B. WIDE SLEIGHS AND AUTO ROADS NE of the results of the recent re- vival of lumbering Operation in Missaukee County is to prove that wide runner sleighs help greatly in keeping country roads open for auto traffic in winter. This winter the few remaining sections of virgin timber near Stittsville are being cut and the sawed lumber is being hauled over a county road, nine miles to the railroad at Mynnings, on wide sleighs. This road is not included in the county’s snow removal program, and it would be impassible for wheel trafiic if the wide sleighs were not in use. So far, however, it has been possible to drive cars freely wherever the wide sleighs have made a track. The use of wide sleighs as a means of keeping side roads open for cars is so convincingly shown that it is expected another ef- fort will be made to induce all farm- ers in the" county to widen their sleighs. A few years ago, before snow removal on the trunk lines was tried, 17—419 study the picture above. The 01 iv e :- No. 2 18 Ad- justable Gan Plow cuts 1 8 per base. 01111 is All Set, for the CORN BORE]! John Buck is a real “for sure” dirt farmer who lives near Kingsbury, Indiana. Read John’s letter and then It is easy to see why Mr. Buck is all set for the Corn Borer. A, wonderful story is told in the illustration above. Note the height and size of the stalks. It’s a two—bottom gang; each bottom is cutting 18 inches. 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Wound, 0- AN FARMER QUALITY FRUITS BRING SUCCESS (Continued from page 405) given the dormant spray and oneafter the blossoms chucks are off, and the . gooseberries and cur-rants receive the necessary applications to keep them free from aphids, mildew, and worms. But in the care of his vineyard, Roy is strictly unorthodox—he does not spray but gets excellent results by using the “sanitary method.” He keeps the vineyard in good tilth and every little while during the time when disease is likely to develop the men go through the vineyard and pick off any fruit which may show signs of infection. The vineyard is on rolling clay loam with good air drainage which makes conditions favorable to the production of good fruit. Those who know Mr. Munson real- ize that he typifies the business farm- er for he runs his farm in a business- like way. Roy himself is full of energy and a very hard worker. He expects his men to earn their money, and figures to get the most out of his in— vestment in equipment by keeping it busy as much as possible. But behind this cold business effi- ciency, there is a humanness shown by the three fine homes nestling in ksurroundings made beautiful by Mun- son's knowledge of landscaping. One house is occupied by a man who has been with him thirty years, the other by one who has worked at Vinecroft for eighteen years, the third is Mun- so-n’s home. The same day help also comes back year after year because they like to, and the young pickers greet Roy pleasantly at all times. This shows that the Munsons believe in the efficiency of kindness. The various kinds of fruit are prac- tically the only creps on the place, although about four acres of potatoes are grown each year. These potatoes sell very well to the apple consumers in the winter. There is no live stock on this farm except two horses for the farm work the tractor will not do. Sometimes a cow is kept for the home milk supply, but usually milk is bought. Sixty chickens in a Michigan type house, furnish eggs for sale right, at the farm. The chickens are kept in accordance With the latest methods, including the use of lights during the winter time. J. Pomeroy Munson, as his name usually appears in publication, is a thorough believer in the use of ma- chinery on the farm. His equipment FREE ”All” RUPTURE —-that has proven amazingly effective in conquering very bad ruptures. En- tirelydifferentfromtrusses. N ostraps. buckles or springs attached. Easy to apply—inexpensive. Plapao Co., {:93 Stuart Bldg, St. Louis, Mo. is_sendmg FREE Plapao to all who write now. ’10 DAYS TRIA‘L! The S HAW Du -Al| Tractor ' Try II: at our risk! Write for Liberal Trial Ofl‘er and Low Direct-from-Factory Price. ‘ o_ SH ' d r jobln less time With ' ro- Bo tells how power farming sgyeatyou mon y—no o iza ion _ ‘ ~po§tcard brings it. ”ohm-uh Either-Cutter , leE‘SflAW "$.00. 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Quotes direct from Miner prices on Bell Brand Quality Seeds. rite today. It’s FREE. 8. M. ISBELLl-CO... Seed Growers 126 Moot-outs luncheon. I'M. 1': includes a tractor, three gasoline en- gines, three electric motors, two auto- mobiles, two trucks, three wagons, two Sprayers, etc. For many years the Munson home has had modern conveniences such as light, water, furnace, and bath room. At first, the lights were acetylene, then a farm electric light plant, but now come from the city lighting sys- tem. \Vater is furnished by a large windmill which provides water for all three houses, a gasoline engine fur- nishes water when the wind fails. The employecs’ houses contain all modern conveniences. rolling type with soil of clay loam. The homes overlook a broad expanse of low land country, giving a distant view. The land needs no artificial drainage and is naturally quite fertile. However, additional plant food is con— tinually added to maintain fertility. The barnyard manure is spread imme- diately if possible to do so without interfering with cultivation. Cover crops are plowed under each year in the orchard and vineyards. Sulphate of ammonia is also added to the hear- ing fruit lands as needed. During the lDwinter manure is hauled from the city. The operation of the Munson farm involves considerable detail, sufficient to keep one busy. However, both Mr. and Mrs. Munson are very active in public affairs. Roy is an outstanding Michigan horticulturlst because of his fruit growing success and his activi- .. .i, . . . , , (WW, H. a», The farm is of a picturesque, gentle, MARCH 24, 1928 ties in behalf of the Michigan State Horticultural Society. One can hardly remember when he was not an officer of that society. ‘At present he is treasurer. As the society frequently meets in Grand Rapids, he has addi- tional duties in preparing for the meetings. He has been a member of the local school board for fifteen years and has been an active officer in the county farm bureau since its start. The family attends church regularly and takes an active part in most all of the church doings. Roy is also an active member of the local community club. That he is well-known by the business men in Grand Rapids is shown by the number of times he is greeted when in town. The home is well supplied with mod- ern reading, both books and maga- zines. It has a radio and piano. The family frequently goes to theatres in town and are fond of week end auto trips and vacations when time permits. Automobile trips have extended as far as Florida and New York. There is one son, Austin, eleven years old, who is gaining business ex- perience by tending the roadside stand during the summer. From it he sells fruit, cut flowers, and even orna- mental shrubbery. Munson’s success, his public spirit- edness. and his family life assured his appointment, after nomination, to the honor of Master Farmer in the 1927 class. ONION GROWERS WANT HIGHER TARIFF VIDENCE presented by the Na- tional Onion Growers’ Association in a brief filed with the United States Tariff Commission by W. R. Ogg of the American Farm Bureau Federa- tion, shows convincingly that the vast quantities of onions coming from Egypt and Spain into this country enter into direct competition with the onions grown in New York, Ohio, and other Northern states. It is also shown that there is no need for fear that the increased duties if granted would result in a shortage of onions which would place an undue burden on consumers. Ample evidence is given to warrant the belief that if foreign importations were excluded entirely domestic producers could sup- ply the domestic market. MARCH GARDEN NOTES ARCH will usher in the first out- door work in many Michigan gardens. Even if the weather will not permit planting in the open ground, frames may be used to start the cold—weather plants. If all gar— deners realized how useful cold frames Wi‘l‘O at both the beginning and end of the garden season, every garden would have as many as circumstances permit. Two three by six foot sashes and the material needed for the frame. will cost less than ten dollars and even that small an area will produce a lot of plants. If you will make the start in frame gardening, 1 am sure you will never be without that garden- ing accessory again. The problem of construction is very simple. The first consideration is to select a well-drained site with a. southern exposure and one protected from the north and west winds if pos- sible. It must be remembered that frame gardening is a most intensive operation, so, if the soil is not natur- ally very fertile, the top soil should be removed where the frame is to rest and replaced with eight or ten .inches of the most fertile soil obtain- able. A compost of equal parts of well- rotted manure, sand, and leaf mold makes a very good combination for this purpose. Make the frame six feet wide and as long as desired but, in any case, a multiple at three Such as twelve feet long for tour ~nineties, etc. The back of the frame should. be about fifteen inches high and the ,tront .4 . ‘ t MARCH 24, 1928 about ten, thus giving a southern slope to the sash to catch all possible sun- light and to drain away all moisture. If very col-d weather is expected after the frames are in use, they should be banked up with soil and heaVy mats or burlaps used over the sash to ex- clude frost. Weeks may be gained in maturing many of our hardy vegetables by the use of frames. Early Root Crops For an extra early crop of beets or carrots, seed in the cold frames three or four weeks before the normal date for planting outdoors and transplant to the open when the weather per- mits. Early maturing varieties should be used for this purpose. Although you cannot hope to get plants for an extra early cabbage crop from spring sown seed in the frame, it is possible to advance that crop several weeks by starting seed as early as work in the frames can commence. A better way is to start the seed in the hotbed about three weeks before it is safe to use cold frames, harden the plants off in frames and trans- plant to the open ground when safe. Cauliflower may be handled in the same manner but will not stand as muchfrost as the former. The only way in our climate to grow the large sweet onions variously known as Spanish, Bermuda, Texas, etc., is by starting the plants in a frame or hotbed a month or six weeks before outdoor planting would be safe. When the weather is settled, transplant them to a well enriched place in the garden where it will be handy to keep irrigated. Onions of a surprisingly large size and of superb quality may be grown in this manner. Lettuce in Frame Lettuce is an ideal crop for frame. gardening. It may either be matured in the frames or the plants may be started there and later transferred to the garden. An extra early crop may be grown like this: Plant the seeds in a flat in the house, if a hotbed is not available, harden off the plants gradu— ally and transplant to the frames about ten inches apart just as soon as safe. For a later crop, plant the seed in rows about a foot apart in the frame and thin to stand about the same distance apart in the row. The plants that are thinned out of the frame may be transplanted to the gar- den if the weather permits. Big Bos- ton is a good variety for frame cul- ture. A quick maturing crop like radishes need not take up any particular space in the frames but may be intercropped between the rows of slower growing plants. Select a forcing variety that produces slight leaf growth. Start Long Season Plants In addition to these hardy crops, tomatoes, egg plants, and peppers may be given a start in the cold frame. Of course, a better way to handle these long season crops is to start them in February in a hotbed but where this is not. available the cold frame will give you a start of two or three weeks. A few of these tender plants may be started in flats in the house and later, when they are hard- ened off, they may be grown in the it it 39% \ 32% W a a a a a a a a a a 39% 33% fl /.\/\/\/..\/\/\/.\/ The NEW MCCORMICK-DEERIN G Has . Everything . " AVE you heard about the re- markable new cream separator announced by International Harvester? 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I" not; a lone a.*o. 422 -, 20 RIENDS,” began President Barton, and the eyes of Father and Mother Barton were warm with pride and effection as they looked up at him. “it is a great privilege to be enrolled under the banner of the 4-H. \Ve are only boys and girls today, but tomor- row we will be carrying the burdens of our elders, helping with the world’s work. It is to train us for better work, for better citizenship, that we follow the club flag. Let, us be loyal followers, inspired leaders. Let us put. our very best into our work at home as we put our best into work and play here. best that is in me.” “Thanks to you, Bobbie Barton. thanks to you,” sang Bob’s mates as dads and mothers cheered, “we’ll do the best we can; we'll stand by you like a man. Thanks to you. Bobbie Barton, thanks to you.” “Top dog here, all right," growled Carson to himself, “but wait till he lines up against \Varford High.” Car- son had not joined in the club yells, songs, or pledge. Ross Burton made a mental note of that as Bob called for club reports. It was not difficult to see that the girls under the inspir- ing leadership of Miss Edwards and with the stimulus of Katie O’Neal's example were setting the boys a hot pace to follow. “Gee,” confided Ted Baldwin to Bob as the meeting broke up, “I’m glad I don't have to compete against a member of that garment club. Some pep, some pep!” As the club officers met together for a moment Katie O’Neal found oppor- tunity for a sly, “Sorry you didn’t. miss this meeting, Bob? I never really thought you would.” ' “I’m not going to miss any meet- ings,” declared the club president. “There’s the soon-to—be-substitute—first- baseman waiting for you. We are going to play his team in two weeks. Vi'e fight it out for the club team then. Wish me luck, Kate?” Bob's tones were light, but there was an under- current of feeling. “Four-H luck, Bob,” replied Katie. “As Mr. Burton says. ‘May the best man win’." With only a nod to Car- son she joined her parents and was off for home. “Kate saw that I‘Ial didn’t join in on the club pledge,” remarked the assistant secretary. “She hates dis- loyaltyn That was a fine speech, Bob. You talk like a man.” “Come on, thou learned friend,” interjected Ted Baldwin. “Time to go home. Maybe your friends will give you a lift.” In solitary state Carson was driving off in his high-powered car while derisive yells of “Come again. VVarford, come again,” uttered by small boys followed him. Young Carson was too “high and mighty" for that gathering. Moreover, they had sensed the rivalry betWeen one who now was their acknowledged leader and an alien. Bob was to have the solid backing of his community in the coming fight. Of that he felt assured with one possible exception. Again, with O’Neal’s friendly help, he re- doubled effort to perfect play. And Again I pledge loyalty and the - THE MICHIGAN FARME'R Under the 4-H Flag By John Francis Case Ted Baldwin, now an open partisan, gave counsel and cheer. “I thought you were just kidding when you talked about playing War- ford,” Ted remarked as he worked out with Bob at the O’Neal home. “Never supposed we’d really go up against 'em.” “I had a hunch that Carson would want to show me up,’ said Bob. “He did it, the other time, all right, but he didn’t have a crowd to look on. Next time it may be different." Torrid days and abundant rainfall not only made the corn grow until when I were a boy. It was a ghosty bar and his marster. Them Perkins’s and Harkins’s had done somethin’ to plague ’em. They. won’t trouble you all.” “Let’s hope so, Uncle Lem,’ said Bob, and then in sudden decision, “I’m going to tell you something that I haven’t told the folks. You wouldn’t want anything to happen to drive us away, would you?” “I’d fight for you,” said Uncle Lem. “But not agin speerits.” “Spirits don‘t use guns," replied Bob. “Now listen to what. happened , They ’3 Been Folks That I’ve Liked Better! By S. D. McDowell They’s been folks that I’ve liked better Fer a man 'ill make mistakes, An’ pass by solid merit While he grabs fer glitterin’ fakeS; " But ez sure ez death an’ taxes They is bound to come a day When the weeds an’ chaff don’t pay him Fer the wheat he’s throwed away. Tihey’s been folks that I've liked better Fer a man is apt ter try Ter pick up shinin’ baubles Right when truth is goin’ by; But the jewels he gethers tarnish An’ their value’s mighty small When compared ter honest friendship That he longs fer most of all. They’s been folks that I’ve liked better As the years went hurryin’ by But now I find ’em shaller As a restaurant apple pie; Fer I’m older now an’ wiser So I’m tryin’ to make amends An’ my hand is reachin’ toward you Shakeii Let’s me an’ you be friends!! you could “hear the jints pop," accord- ing to Uncle Lem Peters, but put vigor into the temporary pasture whereon Bob‘s fast-growing, thrifty pigs held forth. Uncle Lem, ancient hunter and trapper, who had plied his profession until rheumatism made it impossible to follow the trap line, still roved the woods. He had taken a great fancy to the Bartons and came often from his cabin in the hills. A firm believer in “hants” and “speerits,” the old woodsman had in- sisted from the beginning that some supernatural being bad afflicted folks of the farm. As he stood leaning against a post one day watching the playful pigs, Bob questioned him anew about, the trouble which now seemed merely a shadow of the past. “You caint ever make me believe it was man," solemnly pronounced Uncle Lem. “Nary a bar ever lived in this kentry, and yet there were bar tracks just as I seed ’em in the moutings to Ted and me this spring.” “God Amighty," cried Uncle when the recital closed. “An’ I been thinkin’ of huntin’ right thar’ again’. Keep away, Bobbie, keep away." “I’m going to let ‘sleeping bears lie,’ just as Mr. Burton told me to do,” said Bob. “But there’s still a mystery on this farm. We can’t afford to take. a chance of losing stock as the Per- kins’s did, but when these pigs are sold and my note paid I’m going to comb that bluff from top to bottom. \Ve like the folks here; it looks as if we’ll do well on this farm. The same persons who drove the other tenants away may attack us. We must solve the mystery. I’m going to depend upon you, Uncle Lem, to help keep watch." “Plants,” quavered the Old man. “Speerits. I ain’t, afeered of anythin’ human or animile, but I caint fight somethin’ that disappears. Howsome- ever, I’ll keep watch. An Uncle Lem Lem Activities of 14/ Ac‘reJ—-We’// Bet He Doem’z‘ W 073% a: Hard as T in Henry MARCH 24, 1928 can foller a trail wherever that trail 'goes." - Despite the old man’s timidity, Bob felt that he had won a strong ally. The time was soon coming when he must penetrate deeply into the woods for needed posts and the winter’s supply of fuel. The old hunter’s woodcraft might be helpful. Never for a moment had Bob lost thought of ever-present danger. Yet as the weeks merged into months and the Jones farm continued in peaceful quietude, there were times when the print of a. giant foot and the whine of a bullet seemed but illusions. Squire Jones had made good his promise to visit the farm frequently. Won by the cordiality of his welcome, the superior intelligence of his ten- ants and the industry of the lad who was accomplishing far more than any other tenant of recent years, the farm owner astonished neighbors by his liberality. The house had been paint< ed and re-roofed. the barn repaired, the fencing ordered for extensive im- provements in fall and winter. But, above all, the old man exhibited in- terest in Bob’s hogs. A lover of blooded stock he could recall the days when, as a pioneer with pure-breds, pedigreed porkers had been sold on the farm. To Bob’s amazement the old Squire reeled off pedigrees glibly when first. they discussed the breeding of Lady Mary and her family. “That’s a fine pig, sah," the Squire had observed when first he viewed Bob’s promising pet. “He should be a winner, sah. What do you call him?” Bob was in a quandary. Would the old man feel insulted to find a mere hog bearing the name of a distin- guished advocate of the “lost cause." But it was not like Bob Barton to evade. He decided to tell the truth. “The night the pigs were born,” Bob informed, “I sat up with ‘Lady Mary. I got to thinking about you, Squire, and wondering if ever, as a boy, you'd had to do the same thing. This pig was such a lusty fellow and had so much more pep than the rest that. I called him Stonewall Jackson. Hope you will take. no offense. I meant it as an honor to a great man.” “God bless my soul!” exclaimed the old Squire, “why should I' feel that you had done wrong? From a man it might be an insult, sah. But a boy thinks with his heart as well as his brain. “I am honored, sah,” went on the old man, and now his eyes were misty, “that you should think of me. No, there were no fine hogs such as yours here when I was a boy. But once I bred hogs of quality here, sah, as you do now. I was a pioneer. I have never lost, interest. My own son loved them as you do yours. I can see him now, standing and looking down with pride in his eyes.” A tear rolled down the old man’s withered cheek. His voice was husky with emotion as he went on: “Robert Lee was his name, lad. He was a fine boy. He died here in the room you have when he was just a bit older than you are now. It has been F rank R, Leet WHAT’S THAT co NTRAPTION, THAT‘STIN HENRY, MY MECHANICAL HIRED MAN, HEHAS EVERY WING BUT BRAlNS‘. HE NUGTBE Just“ LIKE MY l—llRED MAN, AL! .\ .. w r, .4». I .7 ‘3 A- ‘\ t t i 1 MARCH 2.4, 1928 long years, but to me still he is a ‘4 boy.” Bob’s eyes, too, were wet in sym- pathy. They could call the old man cold and hard, but hidden springs had been revealed. “Thank you for tell- ing me, Squire,” said Bob. “I shall try to do honor to the name of Robert Lee. And I am glad that you feel that in naming ‘Stony’ I felt no dis- respect.” From that day Bob Barton and Thomas Jefferson Jones were firm friends. Moreover, the old Squire be- gan to take a surprising interest in the club project. “If we had had such things,” he would often say, “when my boys Were young, how much happier they would have been. Only Robert took interest, and he was taken young. The older boys left me to carry on alone. One by one they have passed away. Their dear mother, sah, a Southern gentlewoman, has been dead these many years. All alone, Robert, there is none of my blood to inherit the old home. It is hard, sah, hard.” Now the tears were streaming unashamed and Bob choked as he tried to speak words of comfort. “It is hard, Squire,” said Bob, “and we all feel sorry for you.” Then with boyish impulsiveness Bob spoke what long had been in his heart. “This is your home,” he said, “you must love it. as you love no other place. Why not live here with us? Mother and dad would welcome you, I know.” into the eyes of the old man came a light which had not been seen there in many years. “God bless you, son,” he replied, “Squire Jones is not wel- comed in many homes. But I could not trouble your good mother. I shall visit. you often, sah. It seems that you—all are kin to me.” Solemnly they shook hands: the old man bent and frail, the youth a virile remembrance of one who had stood with a fond father upon that self-same spot. “They tell me you have a fight on your hands. sah,” remarked the old Squire irrelevantly. “\Vhat is it all about?” Briefly Bob recounted the story of rivalry and his determination to win over young Carson. A gleam came into the old‘ man’s faded eyes. “Fight him. sah.” he cried, “fight him! I shall be there, sah, to see you win.” To the amaze- ment of those who knew Squire Jones and his eccentricities, the_old man be- gan to haunt the Warford school; grounds where Hal Carson was daily; “prepping” his team for the expected! easy victory. The town team, withl its hours of practice, had distinct advantage. Even the most Optimistic Pleasant Ridge rooster could hardly vision a win under such handicaps. “He’s a dirty player, sah.” confided the Old Squire to Bob as again they stood watching the lad’s porcine beauties. “Cut one boy with his} spikes just to show off. Watch him close, sah. He’s none to good to crip- ple you.” Bob had smiled and thanked his aged friend. He could not know that even now the once grim owner of the home which sheltered them was see- ing in his wholesome, likeable young friend the son of days gone by nor that his fierce partisanship was the welling of long dried springs of par- ental affection. With neither child nor grandchild to care for, the gods of greed had claimed the old man for almost a quarter century. Even in the ‘ short weeks of contact he had become a changed man, and those who knew him best marveled at the change that had come and could not solve the mystery. CHAPTER XII ’ Warford Vs. The Club IT might have been a holiday for both Pleasant Ridge and Wax-ford ' so far as work was concerned! .Through all the consolidated school community an undercurrent of feel- ing ran that the game between the . ’ THE MICHIGAN FARMER club team and Warford High was for bigger Stakes than a mere victory. Bob Barton’s gruelling toil at practice even when days of work had left him slow and sluggish lost nothing in the retelling for now it was an open secret. Bob Barton was out to beat his rival and Pleasant Ridge, with all its clannish consciousness aroused, was on hand to see the scrap. VVar- ford citizens were proud of their team which had gone through the county high school league season with but one game lost and now proudly fiaunted its championship banner. Rumors were afloat that the 4-H Club team was not lacking in strong mate rial. VVarford would pull for the team against Harmon County, but now its youth and age crowded the stands to cheer Hal Carson and his showy com- rades. Ross Burton, cool as the pro verbial cucumber, called his lads about him before the game began. “Horton can hold Warford,” Burton announced, “and it’s up to you to get some runs for him. If you have had any idea that this bunch is unbeatable get that out of your heads. \Vart‘ord has a few stars,” Burton went on, “but man for man we are their equals. On your toes now and fight to the last ditch. My guess is that this will be a hard, close game, perhaps decided by one run.” Digging his spikes into the dirt at first base as the club team took its preliminary workout, Bob Barton saw his old friend the Squire perched high in the stands. Ho waved a greeting and the Squire waved back. Massed in one section the 4H Club partisans, with Pleasant. Ridge largely in the ma- jority, shouted and sang under the leadership of Miss Edwards. \V‘ell down in from Bob could see Katie O’Neal, her curls wind-blown, blue eyes shining. Disdaining a seat, Big John O’Neal lounged on the ground near the club team’s bench. The. farm boys seemed slow and uncer- tain in fielding, while VVarford’s in- field tiashed the ball around with a precision that seemed uncanny. There was many an inward groan from club well-wishers as the umpire called “Play ball!” Here was a seasoned team against raw material. But. as Ted Baldwin, leading off for his team, went to bat, the “Fight Club, Fight!” of the 4—H friends matched the. men- ace of VVarford‘s “Smash ’Em \Var— riors!" Baldwin smashed hard to the shortstop and was thrown out. The game was on. Before two innings had passed it was evident that Ross Burton knew whereof he spoke. Vance Horton, big and powerful, held hard-hitting \Var— ford at bay, while the fast-fielding 21—423 school team threw a defense around their pitcher which seemed impreg- nable. As the innings passed with but two scores each, Carson unleased the batteries of wrath upon his mates. “Going to let a team of rubes whip you?” he shouted so that all could hear. “At ’em this inning. Get on; no matter how, get on.” Putnam, the shortstop, responded with a clean single and \Vart‘ord cheered madly. Up came Carson to smash a terrific drive at. Ted Baldwin who knocked down the ball, then threw wildly to first base. 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Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, yew York '} , K .,‘ 1‘ ,,_ 1 i vvvvvv va ‘\ MARCH 24, 1928 Under the4-H Flag (Continued from page 423) game. That’s dirty work, Carson, sliding into a baseman as you did just now)? “He tried to block me off,” snapped the VVarford captain, “when I go into a base the baseman must look out for himself." Slow to anger, Bob Barton had taken no part in the argument. But now, as Ross Burton came hurrying up, Bob faced his opponent with blaz- ing eyes. “That’s a lie, CarsonA’ said Bob. and although his voice was low it carried clear to his gathering mates and those of the Warford team who had come to the scene. “That’s a lie," Bob repeated, “for I was back of the bag." Carson lunged forward, to be caught in a grip of steel. “Enough of this," said Ross Burton, “we are here to play, not to fight. Go back _to the bench, Hal. Here, Bob, let’s have. a look at that leg. We’ll see if you can go on.” Muttering, Carson retreated, his mates a storm cloud of wrath. Coach Burton stripped down the sock, dis- closing an ugly gash. “Better call it a day. Bob,” he advised, “VVe’ll put in a substitute.” “Not on your life,” answered Barton. “I’ll play if I have to run on one leg. Tie it up, please. I’ve played with a worse hurt than that.” There was a gleam of admiration in Ross Burton’s eyes. “Game anyway,” he said, “if you can’t play ball. All right old man, it’s up to you.” Skil- fully Burton bandaged the cut and play was resumed. Randall, next War- ford batter, lined to the outfield. In came the 4-H boys fighting mad. “Here’s where we put it over on these big bums,” announced Ted Bald- win. “lt’s the lucky seventh; let’s go.” But despite their desperate efforts, there was no score. In their half VVarford, by solid hitting, put over two runs. Gloom enveloped the club fol- lowers, for it seemed evident that a tworun lead was enough to win. Car- son had driven out a long two-base hit which scoring tw0 runners had put his team in the lead. Cocky and con- fident he cheered his mates. Quickly the first club boy was thrown out. Hope revived as Ted Baldwin scratched a single down the third-base line, but when Curtis struck out, even'Ross Burton groaned. A moment later, however, the club con- tingent was shattering the atmosphere -with “Fight, Club, Fight!” for Mooney had lined a long single to center and by daring running had stretched it into a two-base hit. 011 third base Captain Baldwin danced and howled. Up came Bob Barton, batting in the clean-up position vacated by the switch when Carson shifted to his own team. Strive as he might before Bob had been unable to get the ball safe. There was grim determination in his eyes as he faced the W'arford pitcher. Gone was the pain in his injured limb; cooly he let the first ball pass for a strike, then heard the umpire call, “Ball one!” . Up from his place on the grass rose big John O’Neal. The fire of: old col- lege days was in his veins. Turning to the shrieking club crowd, O’Neal megaphoned through cupped hands. “Yea, Barton!” yelled O’Neal, and the club folks took up the cry, “Yea, Bar~ ton! Fight! Fight! Fight!” Out of one corner of. his eye Bob caught a glimpse of Kate O’Neal, her face aflame with enthusiasm, her clear voice calling his name. lilp came the ball waist high and Bob put all his sturdy strength into the swing. Like a bullet the ball passed through the in- field, sped past the center-fielder, who madly pursued. Around the base lines ‘ tore Bob, his mates ahead, twin streaks of eagerness to score. Round- ing third base he saw the recovered ball coming straight and true to the waiting shortstop. “Come on!” howled John O’Neal. “Come on!” But now the pain of his wound had slowed Bob so that al- though he strove desperately it seemed as if the winning run was surely lost. For a second Bob fal- tered, then high and keen above the pandemonium of friends and enemies he heard the fighting yell of old Squire Jones. A flashing glimpse showed him the old man, hat off, gray hair wind— blown shouting the battle cry of death or victory. In came the ball to the waiting catcher. “Slide!” howled O’Neal. “Slide!” Only long hours of practice. of pa- tient instruction, could have made pos- sible the thing that happened. Smack came the ball into waiting hands, and the VVarford catcher dove at his enemy. Almost on top of the plate the umpire waited tense and watchful. A split second before the touch could be made Bob slid, hooking the toe of one spiked shoe into the plate, falling away from that outstretched eager hand. “Safe!” cried the umpire. Strawberries in Danger Need Care from Now 072 TRAWBERRIES are not going to S be as plentiful this coming season as expected. There were more acres planted last spring, but the stand is poor, and when all angles are summed up, it looks as though the crop is going to be below what it should be, but what prospects are ahead of us are in danger, moreso from now until the end of the fruiting season, than they were at any time. How Plants Are Injured From now on until freezing and thawing is over, strawberry plants are subject to a great amount of injury. From now until in April, depending upon locality, is “heaving time” in strawberry fields. The alternate freezing and thawing can do a lot of damage to strawberry plants, espe- cially if the soil is subject to heav— ing, by heaving the plants out—that is lifting them out of the soil, thus disturbing their root systems as much if not more than if we were to run under the rows with a plow, lifting the plants up and letting them fall back in the row. Not only does heav- ing lift the plants out of the soil, but it breaks the roots off at the ends when they are still in frozen ground and the top layers of the soil has been thawed out and then freezes again. Thus “heaving” breaks, strips off, and disturbs the root systems of strawberry plants, consequently mate- rially affecting the yield, because anything that disturbs the root sys— tems of a strawberry bed, (or patch as we farmers call it) affects the feeding system of the plants, and therefore they cannot absorb all the plant food and water necessary to de- velop their full crop of marketable berries. Repeated freezing and thawing will also affectvthe physical condition of the plants, not exactly as it affects a person's ear, but this might be men- tioned to impress upon the strawberry grower's mind that there is some bad effects anyway, and he should prevent it when and where possible. How Danger ls. Prevented The danger that strawberries are in can be headed off by mulching. Of course, if the rows are already mul— ched, no further attention is neces— sary at present, unless the mulch has been blown off the rOWs. lt would be well to look over the rows with this in mind. For mulching use straw, marsh hay, THE MICHIGAN FARMER In a. mob of frenzied players who pounded his back or strove to shake his hand, Bob Barton found his shoul- der grasped in the clasp that always thrilled. “Atta boy!” said Ross Bur- ton, but there was far more than the conventional words of encouragement in his voice. “Atta boy! I’m proud of you. It took gameness to do that.” Among the club folks Bob could see his father and mother, his small sis- ters, their faces aglow with pride. The old Squire whose challenge had inspired him to final effort waved a battered hat and shouted defiance at Warford partisans who had turned bat- teries of wrath upon him for deser- tion to the enemy. “He’s my boy!” shrilled the old man. “By gad, sah, I have a right to cheer for him.” (Continued next week) FLOOD ON THE WAY HEN we complain, it’s human to blame the other fellow. This time. I think we will have to pick on the postmaster over in Africa. But whether or not he is to blame, the next installment of Floori’s travel ar- ticles failed to arrive in time for this issue. We hope for better luck next week—Eds. or any course material free from grain or weed seed, and place it over the rows about four or five inches [I know) CHAMPION . Champion for all can other than Model T Ford — deep. It would be best to do this when the ground is frozen as the plants will then be kept more dor— mant, and it ivill be found more con- venient in getting over the field than if the ground were soft and wet. Leave the mulch on the rows until after the dangers of repeated freezn ing and thawing are over, then re- move only part of it, leaving about two inches on the rows to help keep down the weeds, conserve moisture and keep the berries off the soil dur- ing wet weather or after rains, at which times, the ripe berries would be sandy and soiled if not for the mulch under them. Leave just enough mulch on the rows so the blossom, stalks and leaves can push up through it. Place the mulch that is removed in between the rows _where it will conserve the moisture, keep down weeds, and help keep the berries clean that form along the outer edges of the rows. Spring Mulching Beneficial Even though strawberry rows are not mulched at this time, it will be l‘ouml very beneficial to place a straw mulch between the rows in early spring. }rowers that practice mulch- ing between their spring find it a very paying practice. The mulch will help keep the berries clean along the edges of the rows, but the greatest benefit comes from con- serving moisture. As the pickers go up and down between the strawberry rows, they pack the soil and before the season is over it becomes a beaten patch and from it tons of water es— cape from the berry field which, if held in the soil, or prevented fro-m es« caping, would be available for the plants to assist them in developing their maximum yield of berries. The lack of moisture (water) is one rea- son why strawberries “run small and buttony” toward the end of the season. A mulch placed between the rows in the spring also helps keep the soil cool and open, just what strawberries want. Strawberry growers who wish to produce more better berries this spring from their present fields should consider the benefits derived from a mulch applied now or one applied later in the spring—B. W. Keith. strawberry rows‘ after the ground warms up in the‘ 75¢ "FOR years, farm 3._ owners have looked to Cham- } pionfotdependablm ‘ spark plug perform- ance in trucks, trac» . . tors, engine-driven . ‘ farm equipment, as _ well as in their personal '3‘ cars. . That Champion has fully fulfilled this expectation '- is strikingly shown by the , fact that Champions outsell two to one. ‘ 1, Today, new and advanced j methods in heatvtreating the l, exclusive Champion silli‘, manite core which resists the higher compression of the modern engine—a new glaze which keeps free from car— { bon and oily deposits—new ,1 compression—tight patented 1 gasket seal and improved 3 special analysis electrodes as' suring a fixed gap -— make ‘ Champions even better than i ever before. Try a new set ‘ this season. l Champion X ‘ for Ford ‘_ Model T— um»; u- .w... ,. flCiZIA' M p I 0M fit”: f’m”. , M L Pep Up With Nature’s Spring Tonics Serve Fruits and Kegetaé/es Wéen Vitality is at Low EM ' By Martha Mae Hunter Nutrition Specialist,»Michigan State College BOUT this time of the year, when the home supply of fruits and vegetables is exhausted, and we begin to get that “all gone” feel- ing, our minds revert to the old- fashioned tonics mother used to give. But, in this modern age, even the style of. spring tonics has changed, and the “wise men and women of today” urge that we go to Nature’s storehouse for our spring tonics rather than to the drug store. Nature provides these tonics in the form of fresh spinach, endive, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, Chinese cabbage, Swiss chard, celery, green onions, beet and turnip tops, and tender alfalfa leaves (which are good for man as well as beast). Practically every type of green vegetable may be found on the market or should be found in the home canned food supply, even through the Winter months, if the farmwife, as well as the grocer, “knows their greens.” Many wild greens are delicious when properly prepared, but few people take advantage of these greens. At the present time, watercress is abundant in many localities and where can we find a more delicious salad green? Within a short time. the tender cowslip and poke weed Just Girls! A Loose Jacket of French Flannel with Charming Basket-Pockets of Felt Flowers Tops This Smartly De- mure Sports Model. shoots (which are used like asparagus tips) will add other delicious tonics to our list. A little later, dandelion greens, lambs’ quarter (pig weed), purslene (pussley), mustard, and dock may be gathered. Through the nutrition project, car- ried on in fourteen counties in Mich- igan this year, many families have learned the value of green vegetables, and have. learned to eat many vege- tables which they formerly never even thought of eating. Many grocers have been selling green vegetables all winter long, since a demand has been created for these commodities. One grocer, when asked by a nutrition project leader, why he didn’t keep fresh vegetables, replied, “Huh, I’d keep ’em all right; can’t sell that fodder around here.” The leader only smiled and handed him a long list of names from her nutrition groups, each promising to buy a cer- tain amount of spinach each week, if the grocer would only order a supply. Health Specialists Prescribe an Assortment of Vegetables for Spring Tonics This grocer could hardy believe his eyes, but he has been selling fresh spinach and other fresh vegetables all winter long, as well as more whole grain products and more fresh fruits. The following recipes have helped many of the nutrition group members and their families to like green vege- tables. Vegetable Salad Combinations Vitamin Salad 2 cups shredded cabbage 1 cup diced celery 1/2 cup chopped, raw. 1 shredded ripe pepper tender green leaves or pimcnto lettuce. spinach. watcr- ‘4 cup chopped onion cross, dandelion greens 14 Carrot Salad (~pinach, watercress, or dandelion greens) 1,; cup onion 1 cup raw grain-d carrot 1 cup diced celery 3% cup chopped. raw. ' tender green lean-s Garden’s First Offering 1,-2 cup sliced radishcs 1 cup chopped, raw. 1,4 cup chopped grccn tender green leaves onions Golden Glow Salad 1’2 cup cm: yolk (put. 1 cup raw chopped green through river) leaves 1 cup celery 15 cup chopped onion Something Different Cooked asp-drama tips. shoots may be used) (cowslip. or poke Wl‘t'll Sliced radishes Sea Salad 1 cup shrimp. tuna fish 1 cup pimento or salmon 1/; cup chopped, raw, green leaves Cream Soups Cream Sauce for Soup 1 cup milk 1,3 teaspoon salt {é cup cabbage 1 tablesxmn fat. 1 tablespoon flour Scald the milk; cream the butter and flour and add to the hot milk. Cook in a double boiler until of a creamy consistency. Cream of Spinach Soup 1 cup vegetable pulp 1-8 teaspoon celery 1 cup cream some salt 1 tcasmon chopped onion Any cooked, leafy vegetable may be used. Steam the spinach (do not add water; the moisture left on the spin- ach from the washing will suffice), put through a sieve or ricer. Add the vegetable pulp to the cream sauce, season, and reheat. Spinach, Carrot, and Celery Soup 1 cup cream sauce 1 teaspoon onion juice 1/2 cup vegetable pulp. (equal parts spinach. carrots, and cclcry pulp) Special Spinach Recipes Spinach With Cheese Sauce 1 cup cream sauce. 2 cups cooked spinach 1/4 to 1/4; cup grated checsel»8 cup chopped onion Any cooked green leaf may be used. Prepare a cream sauce as for making cream of vegetable soup, but using two tablespoons flour and one and one- half tablespoons butter to one cup of" milk. Remove the cream sauce from the fire and add the grated cheese. The heat of the sauce will melt the cheese. Steam the spinach, add the seasoning; serve with the cheese sauce. Spinach With Cream 2 pounds spinach 1,4 to it» teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons butter 1 cup cream \Vash the spinach thoroughly in running water until free from grit. Press the spinach into a saucepan, add a very small quantity of water or cover the pan and cook the spinach in the water which clings to the leaves. Cook'for ten or twelve min- utes or until well wilted, and stir the spinach occasionally so that it cooks evenly. Chop the spinach very fine. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the cream and salt, and when hot, add the chopped spinach, but no liquid, and simmer until fairly dry and ‘ creamy. Spinach Loaf 4 cups cooked spinach onion 4 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons vinegar or 2 cups bread crumbs lemon juice 2 tablespoon.». minced 1 teaspoon salt Wash and clean the spinach and steam until tender (no water other than the moisture on the leaves is necessary)? Melt the butter and add the bread crumbs. Add the cooked spinach and seasoning. While the mixture is hot, place in hot serving dish, garnish with slices of hard cooked egg and slices of crisp bacOn. Swiss chard, turnip, or beet greens, endive or any edible, wild greens may be used. Spinach With Egg Sauce 1 cup cooked greens 1 hard cooked egg lé cup cream sauce Few grains salt and pepper Chop the egg white and add to the cream sauce. Pour the sauce over the greens and sprinkle on top the egg yolk which has been put through a sieve. HOUSEKEEPER NEEDS PLEASANT LEISURE HE best quality of a housekeeper is the quality of her leisure” is the opinion of Martha Van Rensselaer, director of the New York state college of home economics. “We must make judicious useof means to accomplish our ends in order to attain that qual- ity of satisfaction, of enjoyment, and of peace which is known as leisure. “What is leisure in the home?” Miss Van Rensselaer asked. “Is it mend- ing, entertaining, writing letters, talk- ing on the telephone, reading, or its tening to the radio? Is it driving out in the car at a. fast rate, hurrying, bustling, and not getting anywhere? Is it similar to idleness? No, idle- ness is more stereotyped play—mak- ing ourselves play cards every after- noon is idleness, for it is not spon- taneous play, and spontaneousness is the earmark of leisure. Why Women Marry “Women do not marry to keep house, but they do marry to have a home. And to have our homes suc- cessful we must make them democra- tic. If the housewife tries to do all the multifarious tasks alone she is cheating the other members of the household. Every member of the home, by learning one more task, will grow in the enjoyment of increasing his ability that much. “Interruptions are the worst enemy to leisure in the home. A visitor, the telephone, an agent, the children run- ning in and out, upset our day’s schedule; but in doing so they only emphasize the necessity of finding how to use our time to do things in the easiest way, in a way which will thrill us, give us enjoyment, and the feeling of a sense of growth—~all of which help make up that state of lei- sure which is essential in our lives.” _. LET UNCLE SAM HELP YOU OFTEN wonder why everybody doesn’t use Government Service as much as possible. Occasionally our congressman sends us a list of bulle- tins that are available to us by send- ing for them. We read the list Over, mark ones we want and send for them. Once he sent a few along with the list. They contain valuable infor- mation, and one can never get too many of them. We have over forty of them and keep on adding new ones right along. Bulletins can be procured on almost any subject imaginable so there is enough of a variety to choose from to help us all.——-Mrs. C. H. F. ANSWERS ROLL CALL S I read, “Calling the Roll,” in the March 3 issue, I recognized many names which appeared in the House- hold department a generation ago. My acquaintance with these old-time cor- respondents dates back to the little four-page supplement to which Mrs. M. S. R. refers. “Beatrix”——Mrs. Johnstone, was its presiding genius for many years. As for the little poem, “Snowflakes,” the author recognizes it, but is greatly surprised to learn that anybody cared enough for it to treasure it all these years. I shall be interested in watching to see how many of the old-timers re- spond to Martha Cole’s cordial invi- tation. Here is one who proudly answers, “Present,” at roll call—Ella E. Rockwood. SAVES FOR CHILDREN’S FUTURE NE ingenious mother, who signs herself “Mother of Three,”,uses considerable judgment in clothing them. She has ample means to go out and buy what she may wish, but she feels that possible supplies, on hand might as well be, used, anthhe outlay that would be. necessary ,othor: Mac is saved toward their" Gilliam ’- ‘ hdAdiCEI a4,i928 ‘ or extensive travel trips when they are older. From a good, woolen plaid skirt, she made two very attractive little mac- kinaws or lumber jackets, with knit- ted bands at the wrists and about the waist. She finds it takes very little more effort to make two sets of bloomers to a suit than one. In place of doing, or having done, a back- breaking wash. once a week, a few articles as may be needed are washed out quickly each morning, dried, and pressed out ready for immediate use when there is a spare moment. She declares that she would rather wash ten slightly mussed handkerchiefs than one terribly grimy and much soiled article of this kind. The re- sult is that a modest-sized laundry basket is sent out once a week, and she estimates that the bill is less than a third what it would be otherwise if she did not put her plan into ac— tion. Then she has the convenience of having ready for use what she needs at any time, and fewer supplies are necessary. BRINGS SODA TO HER RESCUE T was always a bugaboo to me to wash the milk dishes for the water became so slippery until I added a heaping teaspoon of soda to the water in place of soap or powder. Soda is also good to use in the water when washing varnished woodwork or other surfaces that require washing. It re.— moves the dirt and does not harm the gloss.———Mrs. J. S. ‘Household Service Use this department to help solve your household problems. Address your letters to Martha Cole, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan. TINTING DRAPERIES SUNFAST. I would very much like to know how to color curtains a dark cream or beige or even an ecru that would be sunfast and tubfast. My mother used to dye with barks but I don’t know how she did it.-—Mrs. R. M. ’ When dyeing or tinting with chemi- cals or bark one must use great care to get the right shade. After prepar- ing the dye bath, put a sample of the material through the bath, and press to be sure you have the tint you want. For browu on cotton or woolen fab- ric, dissolve two ounces of alum and one pound of catechu in enough hot water to wet the goods. Put this solutiOn into a tin boiler or a brass kettle on the stove and put in the goods when it is boiling hot and re- move from the fire. You should have ready four ounces of bi-cliromate of potash dissolved in hot, water in a wooden pail. Drain the goods from the catechu and then dip them alter- nately into the bi-chromate of potash and catechu until of the desired shade. This formula is for coloring five pounds of goods. Yellow———For five pounds of goods dissolve one pound of sugar of lead in enough water to thoroughly wet the goods and in the same quantity of water in another vessel dissolve one- half pound of bi-chromate of potash. Dip the goods well and drain in each alternately until of the desired shade, then rinse and hang up to dry. Red—'Put two~thirds teacupful of muriate of tin into enough water to cover the goods well, bring to a boil, put in the goods and leave for an hour, stirring often, then remove them and empty the kettle. Put one pound of nicwood into the kettle .with clean water and steep for half an hour at hand heat, then put in the goods and slowly increase the heat for an hour but do not boil. Air the goods and dip an hour as before. Wash without soap. Ifyou’r curtains are of a silk texture. I, w0uid not advise using any of these \ THE MICHIGAN FAR—MER dyes because the water needs to be boiling hot, but would advise that you use the tinting soaps that are adapt- able to silk. MORE ABOUT BREAD TROUBLES HAT there is a number of farm housewives who yet treat their families to delicious home-made bread was evinced by the number of letters that were received in response to Mrs. F. C. G.’s request for help with her bread troubles. I want to thank each and every one for their kind help and I hope we hear from Mrs. F. C. G. about the method she has adopted. Here are more suggestions a bit dif- ferent than these printed last week that have merit. ' Says Mrs. S. W. of Gogebic County, “I believe Mrs. F.,C. G. allows her bread sponge to stand too long. The first thing in the morning, I soak a yeast cake in a cup of lukewarm water for about twenty minutes. To four and one-half Sifters of flour, I add two tablespoonsful salt, the same of sugar and a small half cup of lard. This is worked in well with the hands. The night before I boil one medium- sized potato and mash it in the water in which it was boiled. This is added to the flour when lukewarm. Mix the soaked yeast with a half sifter of flour and add enough lukewarm water to make a medium batter. Cover and set in a warm place for an hour or until light. “Next mix this and the potato water with the flour mixture and add enough warm water to form a solid mass. C0ver in a warm place and let rise. until double the original size. Knead down and when it rises the second time put in pans. Let rise for twenty minutes, knead again and when light, bake for one hour.” “Our family is fond of coffee cake and I make it every time I bake bread. To four cups of bread sponge, I add one-half cup sugar, one—half cup butter, two eggs, and one—half cup Build Your Own Ensemble HEN we begin to feel that win- ter may leave us at most any minute, we are eager for some- thing new in the way of clothes—a something fresh and rejuvenating in the spirit of the season just around the corner. For spring, we believe, Madame Fashion has been most kind to the feminine for she has made for us styles that are particularly pleas- ing. She has planned a decided change from the mannish and boyish sport lines that dominated last sea- son. In spring’s new mode, the frock is straight and slim, fitting snugly at the hip line and then breaking into a dashing, silhouette of flaunting lines by pleated apron fronts, ruffled tiers, shaped tiers, and every known devel— 0pment of the flare line with the full- ness approved in both front and all- around hanging. Sometimes, we find these flares and drapes for afternoon wear fluttering below the hem line. When on the straight, skirts are a bit longer than previously, but only a bit. Variety holds sway with the aneck line for it may be square, V— shaped, or the diagonal lines are still favored. Spring fashion this season must “know its geometry,” for geometrical lines and designs add the note of chic to the costume. These lines are developed by means of pleats, tucks, inverted tucks, and applied bands of contrasting material. One of the most important roles in spring styles is played by the en- semble which means that every detail of the costume, coat, frock, hat, and shoes must “belong” together. This does not mean that every frock has its own coat, but rather that all frocks match or harmonize with the type of coat. A tweed, twill, or cash- mere coat, lined with light weight wool or silk may have a crepe frock, the color of the coat or lining, and a skirt of the coat or lining material to- be topped by a smart blouse of con- trasting print. For afternoon wear, one may have the more formal type ‘of dress with tiers. flares, and fullness pushed to one side. The material may be of crepe, satin, or.one of the small patterned prints in relative color. Color is always important in dress but especially so in the spring. Beige is one of the favorites for its many shades make it complimentary to a great many people. All the shades of blue, gray, gray green, dark red, nut- meg brown, ashes-of-roses, grege, will be seen in the spring promenade. Perhaps some of these patterns will help you to decide the lines for your spring ensemble. No. 735 is simple and chic for after- noon wear. Pattern comes in sizes 16, 18 years, 36. 38, 40, and 42 inch bust measure. The 36-inch size requires 2% yards of 40-inch material. N0. 708 is smart in its tailored lines. Pattern comes in sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40, 42, and 4-1 inches bust measure. The 36-inch size requires 37/8 yards of 40-inch material with 1/2 yard contrasting. No. 848 is a smart ensemble coat adaptable for sport and general wear. Pattern comes in sizes l6, 18, and 20 years, 36, 38, 40, 42, and 44 inches bust measure. Size 36 requires 2% yards of 54—inch material and 31/3 yards of 40-inch lining. The price of each pattern is 130. Address your orders for these patterns to the Pattern Department, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan. 25 427 raisins. Beat well, let rise in a warm place. Divide, put in three layer cake tins. Let rise, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, and bake in a hot oven one-half hour.”—Mrs. J. R. R. Our Little Folks STATE S EC R ETS This State is famous for its mules, Red apples, mud, and Ozark pools; From Kansas City to St. Lou, The finest'l‘olk-s you ever knew! The pieces of this puzzle when cor- rectly put together, make a _map of the state which this-verse describes. The star indicates the capitol. When you have solved the secret of which state this is, write me all you can about the state and its capitol.—Aunt Martha. The answer to last week’s secret was Delaware and its capitol is Dover. WHO AM I? 0U know me well.,for you look for me every springi'iel am more so- ciable than my cousin the bluebird and also bigger than he, in fact, I mea- sure ten inches from the tip of my yellow bill to the end of my tail, which has two white “thumb marks” an it. You can see these only when I fly. My breast is not red, as many of you think but orange, or reddish brown. The top of my head and‘tail is black, but my coat is grayish brown. I sing “trill-a-ree, trill-a-rah” to You from the tree while I am building my nest of grass and rootlets. I stick them together with mud and line my nest with soft grass. ' I am a very busy bird, for I raise two families of little birds every year. The farmer often scolds me for eating his churries and strawberries, but I don’t like to eat insects and cutworms all the time. Who am I? (The answer to last week’s bird guessing contest was the Chickadee. Did you guess rightly? Write a letter and tell me some of the things you know about our feathered friends.— Aunt Martha.) Mamma: “Where have you been, Johnnie?” Small Boy: “Playing ball.” - Mamma (severely): “But I told you to beat the rug, didn't 1?” Small Boy: “No, mamma, you told me to hang the rug and then-beat It": 1aw...a»......i:.a...;_..;.. _...e..-,.-‘. -. a. ....... The spirit of f “A Mighty Pleasant Place to Save” service—Which you Will find in dealing With The National Loan and Investment Company, grown from the desire to do all things thoroughly and courteously. And our helpfulness, certain safety, makes this “a mighty pleasant place to save”. 5% and . more Send for our free booklet now. Resources Over $13,000,000 mtg National illuan & jjnuratment Ql'umgam! 1248 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich. Detroit’s Oldest and Largest Savings and Loan Association Under State Supervision ’\ ISEND FOR ‘ ‘ CIRCULAR TH‘E MICHIGAN FARM’ER service—helpful has coupled With Established 1889 News HE chief officer of the Steamship, Sirsa, writes that while his ship was nearing India, the program from WGY, especially the aria from “Pag- liacci” as sung by Titta Ruffo was distinctly 'heard. The waves came through the ether a distance of 8,200 miles. While in Russia during the World War, Henry Horlick, leader of the A. and P. Gypsies, was captured by the Bolsheviks. After several thrilling adventures he escaped and was able to return to his parents in the United States. from a blind man is one of cherished possessions of “Roxy’ of radio fame. Six lines of straggling script, covering a whole page, carry a message of thanks from this sightless man in Dorchester, Mass. Much of the writing is not de- cipherable but the words that can be read tell the story of a shut-in who finds that radio programs lighten the tedium of endless days. A letter the most Justin Laurie, tenor of NBC musical group, carves wood, makes furniture, and draws caricatures of friends in his spare time. “Chanson,” a composition that is said by many musical critics to be the best of the works of Rudolph Friml, had its origin in an extremely acci- I No. 3.209 Simple Styling. Designed in sizes 16. 18 years, 36. 39, 40. and 42 inches bust. measure. Size 36 re- quires 275', yards of 40inch material with 41.} yards of binding. No. 3,023-Smartly Simple. Designed in sizes 18 years, 36. 38, 40, 42, 44, and 46 inches bust measure. Size 36 requires 27/8 yards of 40—inch material with 11/4 yards of 27—inch contrasting. No. 3,182—F‘or Classroom. Designed in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 years. Size 8 requires 2 yards of 40-inch mate- I rial with 1% yards of binding. , No. 3,098—For Wee Lads. Designed : in sizes 2, 3, 4, and 5 years. Size 4? requires 11/8 yards of 32-inch material? for trousers with is yard of 36—inch contrasting. No. fill-Tailored Lines. Designed in sizes 8, 10, 12, and 14 years. Size 8.1'lequires 1% yards of 40-inch mate- ria . No. ENS—Striking One-Piece Type. Designed in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36. 38, 40, and 42 inches bust measure. Size 36 requires 3% yards of 40-inch material with 1/2 yard of 36-inch con- trasting. e24 - é 000 ”:11! M iii” 1H. Ill Ill >Oooioooofinoo dental fashion. One day he visited the Ampico recording studio, but with no intention of paying more than a friendly visit. In an odd moment he sat down to the piano and began to improvise, growing more and more in- terested as he played. Musicians in the next room, which housed the actual recording apparatus, were entranced with Friml’s playing and, unknown to him, turned on the MlChlgaIl Farmer Pattern serViCe iapparatus. In a short while the pianist ,stopped playing and was called into :the recording room to listen to what he had just played. He was so pleased with it that, in a few mo- ments, he wrote the conclusion to the song. The mouthpiece of a saxophone is the most important part, according to Merle Johnson, specialist on that in- strument, who has spent $1,000 re- cently in obtaining a mouthpiece that is most nearly perfect. HELPS SOLVE PROBLEMS B have always had home econ- omics in our county until last year, at which time it was voted down, so I enjoy listening to the radio pro- grams from VVKAR. One is never too old to learn and we often hear some- thing that helps us solve the problems over which we are puzzling. I also enjoy hearing the sacred music at any time for those melodies never grow old. Musical programs of any description, I like, for I am a great lover of music. This spring we have heard many good speeches that will help us when we go to the polls to vote. In fact, we get so many fine programs from the air that I cannot decide which I like best of all—Mrs. W. J. R. KEEPS BOYS AND GIRLS INTER- ESTED IN FARM No. 40, 42, and 44 inches bust measure. Size 36 requires 31/4 yards of 40-inch material. The price of each pattern is 13c. Send an extra 130 with your order and a copy of our Spring and Summer Catalog will be sent. Address your orders to the Pattern Department Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan. 704 — Sportive—Practical. De- I signed in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38.| FROM my own experience and also several observations, we should love our boys and girls above any- thing else on the farm. Of course, parents would answer immediately, “Why we do.” But do you tell them lso or show them so that they are ‘really impressed with the fact? Next we must have faith children. They must be allowed cer- tain reasonable liberties. If they are in our - MARCH 24, 1928 From the Air old enough to drive the family car, they should be permitted to do so under their own responsibility. In such cases they will make a greater effort to live up to the faith that their parents place in them. Radios are splendid to keep the children interested in the home. They can» have their owu entertainment right at home and entertain their friends there also. The farm home should be equipped with modern con- veniences, and furnished attractively so that the child will have no oppor- tunity to see the contrast between his home and that of his school friends. Parents should be willing to con- sider suggestions made by their chil- dren for often much labor can be saved by the new methods. We have tried to develop love, faith, and co- WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOUR RADIO? ERHAPS, first, we should ask what’s right with your radio? But with any invention as com— paratively new as the radio, there is bound to be some trouble in getting it installed, operating satisfactorily, and keeping it in good running order. The amateur ' who Ibuilds his own set has many problems to solve and many in- terferences to overcome. Write us and explain your special problem with your radio, and if you have solved it, tell us how you did it so we can pass it on to our readers. If it is still un- solved, We will try to help you. For any of the letters we are able to use we will award a spe- cial prize. Address your letters to the Radio Editor, Michigan Farmer, Detroit. operation in our children by this plan and apparently they have no desire to leave the farm.—Mother of Five. NO CURE YET FOR STATIC \Vould like to know if there is any way to eliminate static. Have heard that if the antenna be coiled and put underground it will eliminate all sta- tic. If this is true, please tell us how it is done—R. L. W. There have been various unofficial announcements that different people have found methods of eliminating static, but these all seem, to have been false rumors, and so far as I know there is, as yet, no practicable way of eliminating static. Possibly some scientist will work it out. Such a. thing would naturally be a wonderful step forward in radio. So far as the underground antenna is concerned, most people have not found it very satisfactory and hardly worth the trouble and expense. It probably does decrease static to some extent, but it also cuts down the sig- nal strength a great deal and so- doesn’t seem to help much. At pre- sent I do not believe it will pay to bother with it, and when something is found which works satisfactorily we will explain it through this depart: ment.——I. W. Dickerson. ‘ PROPOSING VIA RADIO My mind becomes a vacuum tube Whene’er I think of you; My heart gets quite ec-static My headband goes ‘askew. Your eyes that flash like unquenched sparks, ' Your hair like copper Wire, Break down my high resistance Like a transformer amplifier. I really think we’re both in tune And ere through life we roam, Suppose you hook up withme And share my humble ohm! -Goo d {lardwara , , we ' ‘,_- -- 1—-“ .II’ u.:- r 1‘ ————’ I MARCH 24, 1928 Common Poultry Diseases IV—Tuberculosis VIAN tuberculosis, or tuberculosis of poultry, is an insidious disease which causes untold losses. It is often present for a long time before it is recognized, thus lowering the vitality of the fowls and their efficiency in egg production. ~ The disease is peculiar to various kinds of fowls and transmittable to no animals, except hogs. Hogs take it readily but not as seriously as cattle or bovine tuberculosis. Rarely are slaughtered hogs affected with avian tuberculosis entirely condemned for food as the infection is localized in the glands of the throat or the membrane surrounding the digestive organs. ' Symptoms—Lameness in fowls is usually the first indication of the disease. Emanciation or “going light” is also common. This is accompanied with a pale comb and wattles, and lustreless ruffled feathers. In the advanced stages the birds are droopy. The appetite is generally good, in some cases ravenous. Some of the birds showing such symptoms should be killed and given a postmortem examination. The spotted liver is characteristic of the trouble, but is not a reliable symptom as it does not develop in some cases and other diseases also develop it. The tube‘rcular liver, however, is usually enlarged and spotted with whitish nodules, varying in size from a pin head to a grape. Similar nodules are also found on the intestines and the spleen and if found there are good indications of tuberculosis. However, there may be no interior or postmortem indications of the disease and still the fowl be infected. It is wise, therefore, if there is any doubt at all, to have a veterinarian make a diagnosis, and even he may have to resort to a laboratory examination to make sure. The disease is rarely found in birds less than nine months old. ,. Treatmenthhere is no cure as chickens are not worth the cost of an cure that might be given them. The method of procedure then, should be one of prevention and eradication. All domestic fiowls are susceptible to the disease. Chickens and turkeys shows greatest susceptibility while ducks and geese have considerable resiS- tance. ‘l‘he infected fowls discharge the tuberculosis germ with their drop- pings thus contaminating the premises, food, and drinking water. ‘ The disease is spread from flock to flock by the introduction of infected birds or carried by sparrows, pigeons, mice, rats, dogs, cats, and men. Pre- vention involves keeping wild birds, rats, and other prowlers from the poultry yards and exercising caution in not carrying the disease from one place to another on the person. The windows or openings should be screened’ so that sparrows cannot get in. The houses should be rat and mice proof. The purchase of day-old chicks is much safer than to buy adult fowls because the former is not infected. The house should be sanitary, with provisions made for plenty of direct sunlight. Keeping the houses and feeding utensils clean and moving the birds to new ground, sanitary measures which every poultry keeper should use, will help prevent the disease. It is also wise to keep old birds away from young ones. Eradication—It is a common habit to shun the truth regarding the con- dition of the flocks with reference to this disease. This may be due to the fact that eradication measures are rather severe ones. However, this attitude is a most foolish and expensive one. If there is tuberculosis in the flock, the wisest thing to do is to learn its extent and then immediately use the drastic eradication measures advised. If tuberculosis is suspected it may be wise to consult a veterinarian and take his advice. The disposal of the entire flock is usually suggested as the disease has probably been in the flock for some time and all the birds have been exposed. Then the house should be thoroughly cleaned and sprayed with a good disinfectant of creosol or similar product in a three to five per cent solution. Everything including the feeding and drinking utensils should be thoroughly covered with about three applications. Corrosive sub- liniate should not be used as organic matter prevents its germicidal action. TB. Test—If the birds are valuable, an intradermal tuberculin test may be, made to determine the infected ones. This test is rather difficult to apply and will only give proper results if given by one familiar with it. A veterinarian had bes, be employed. The test does not. react on birds having general tuberculosis. However, such fowls usually show symptoms from which one can diagnose the disease. Those not reacting or showing generalized tuberculosis should be removed to unaffected quarters until the houses and yards are thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. Prevention—The best way to prevent tuberculosis is to renew the flock each year. The disease does not appear in young birds and if the birds are kept through one laying season and then disposed of, there need be little fear of the disease. However, one should thoroughly clean and disinfect the houses before letting a new flock occupy them. Also, baby chicks' for renewing the flock should be bought from reliable sources. Next week—Fowl cholera and fowl typhoid. ' THE MICHIGAN FARMER “ More Chicks Will Be Chickens” Make it live ~ and pay THE test of life or death for every chick occurs during the first few weeks after hatching. Every normal chick raised to maturity will amply repay the effort. Avoid double loss of egg produc- . , tion and loss of chicks by death, by feeding - \ . \ \\ WITH BUTTERM | LK. -—--- foundation, robust health is vitally impor- tant at the start. Make sure that “More Chicks will be, Chickens" and insure poultry profits at maturity. Complete feeding di- rections with every bag. Your local dealer has Hyde‘s “Startrite” Chick Food in 25. 50 and loo-lb. bags. If not on hand, write us. Satisfaction guaranteed. One pound of Rydc’s Startrito Chick Food will raise a baby chick well past the (lan- ger period. It is a natural, safe food made from choicest granular grains, hulled oats, selected whole seeds with natural oil re— tained, special meat scraps and a liberal portion of dried buttermilk. These are all necessary to rapid uniform growth. Jasy to feed and economical; best results are had by feeding it dry from the hopper. A good Use Ryde’s “Hav-To-Grow” Chick Mash for rapid, uniform growth after the first few weeks. Combines the best growing feeds correctly balanced with necessary minerals. Makes broilers 0r layers in double quick time. At your dealer’s in 25, 50 and 100-lb. bags. “Make Them Lay.” Ryde's "Hav- To—liay" Egg Mash with Buttermilk supplies egg—making elements for greater egg production in one conve- nient, unequaled food. Contains choicest FREE Children and grownups alike eating and instructive ame, ceipt of your name and address. Include materials—not a by-product. Econom- say the Ryde Cliick.Game including 1Flay board, 8 inner and mo e] to a posta eand pac in .Address Ryde an: 80., M # ical to feed. Guaranteed. is the best ever! This inter- chjcks, wi be sent Free .worth 750) upon re- 13.. 6434 . evelt Road, DAY OLD CHICKS from 3 proven breeds; bred 31 years for higher egg production at wholesale prices from pure—bred stock. Direct from the farm to your door. Prices for March. 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They THIS AD have established an enviable reputation on commercial poultry farms and as farm flocks. The male birds used in these matings are from known record hens. They are also Michigan Accredited. We guarantee 100% live delivery at the above prices and stand squarely behind every transaction. We also have a special grade. Our big 64 page catalog fully 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. ..2t.i.f’"i‘l§‘§2t.f‘gtt... lg IIITE lEliIItl PIIIIE IioLLrwoon w IIIIS Get Our Egg Bred From Nationally Known Blood Lines Chmks 1928 MICHIGAN ACCREDITED. 1926 Contest Pen Averaged 239 Egg“ FREE Eggs each. Customers profit $3.00 per bird. Pullets C3tal°8 We Also Breed Anconas and Barred Rocks Hens WYNGARDEN FARMS & HATCHERY, Box M, Zecland, Mich. It. will pay you to investigate one of Michigan's oldest and best. hatidierlw. Twenty years' experienees. livery ehiI-k hatched from rugged free range breeders officially Lccredited by lllfillflt'lors supervised by Michigan State Poultry Improvement Associa- tion. Large wretmtage of business to satisfied old customers. White Leghorns (Eng- lish two and Ainerit-anl. Barred Rocks. Ant-onus. “Never 11 Burn Lot in Sixteen Consecutive Years” so writes a eustonier who has been purchasing t'lllt'liS from List for sixteen con- ' Require. years. Some record, you’ll agree. Your Michigan Accredited chicks ‘ bong-ht of this old reliable. cont-em with an established reputation for square dealing are sure to please. Get. our Free eatalog that tells all. Holland Hatchery & Poultry Farm Holland, Mich. Van Appledorn Bros. R 7C Hollywood and Tan cred Strains and English ‘ Type, S. C. White Leghorns Also Brown Leghorns, Ant-onus, and Barred Rocks. All large type Production Bred birds. Bred for 15 years for heavy commercial egg production. Every bird individually handed and mam-ted by an authorized Inspector. In breeding up the Famous Townlino Egg I ' Laying Strain. we have bred. not for a few high record hens only! but {or'HIGtII FLOCK AVERAGES. Oni- Direct from Farm to You Method, sates you 5 to 10 cents per chick on this High Quality . REC CATALOG tells how we hatch. breed, cull. inspect. and raise our stock. Tolls what. to {Ectiilx‘kandFhon1 to be successful. Full instructionson the Care of Baby Chicks. A genuine Poultry Guide. \Vrim us. TOWNLINE POULTRY FARM, Route 1, Box 207, Zeeland, Michigan TRADE MARK OF QUALITY GIIIGKS S. C. Wh. and Br. Leghorns. m. Minorcas ............................... 812.00 per hun. Barred and “‘11. Itoeks. S. t‘. and II. C. Rd. 1. Beds ..................... $14.00 per bun. Wh. Wynndottes and Buff Orninmons .................................... $15.00 per hun. Ten per emit. discount. on orders of 500 or more. Three weeks old chieks add ten dollars tier him. Baby W11. I’eliin Ducks. Gccsct. and Turkeys. $1.00 per liun. holds shipping date, lialanee C. 0. Order direct from ad, or write for folder. ARROWHEAD POULTRY FAR M Hatcheries at Montrose, Birch Run and Lapoer, Michigan ACCREDITED WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS Hollywood and Hollywood sired from 200 to 290 egg stochand commercial “3:01; 50 . s 5 :15 ii?) 3 500 31 0 00 _ . my :1. ................................................... 7.7 . 72.50 4. Iglttiilitr Militias ................................................. 0.75 13.00 02.50 120.00 (‘onniioreial Matings ............................................ 525 10.00 47.50 9000 Left Overs $8.00 nor 100. Order direct. from adi'cti'tisentent,_ Send 10% with order. balance one week infarct shipment. We guarantee 100% liie delivery by prepaid Parcel Post. Prompt. shipment on date d icd. it}: D. WYNGARDEN R. 4, Box 40 ZEELAND, Mica, QUALI TY SERVICE PURE BRED BABY CHICKS 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed. Send for Free Catalog and Price Li“ Prepaid Prices for 't L h 3, Black Minorcas . . . . . amt; Befrrzrdnand Buff Rocks Single and thlse Come gags 'ngtons ' I . rm 5? isn't-1:23;; 8136c.“ Assorted Broads. 10c. THE LANTZ HATCHERY 25 50 100 200 500 1000 . $3.50 $6.50 $12.00 $23.50 $57.50 $110.00 . . . 3.75 7.25 14.00 27.50 87.50 130.00 Member A. B. C. P. A. Our 22nd Your BOX D TIFFIN. OHIO ' crop. THE. MICHIGAN FAR'MER‘ GRASS-SOD POULTRY RANGES CCORDING to reports from Wil- lard C. Thompson, who has been doing much useful poultry work in England, nearly all English poultry farmers manage their poultry ranges on a permanent grass-sod basis. It' is evident that English poultrymen have raised birds on land which has been farmed many years longer than the land in Michigan and I cannot find from reports that their struggles with poultry diseases are any greater than in this country. Possibly the permanent grass—sod poultry range with its thick mass of rich green grass may absorb and util- ize the poultry manure in a way that causes less contamination of the sur- face soil than the method often used here which consists in the frequent plowing and seeding of the range with the idea of plowing under the poultry manure and turning up fresh, clean soil. On the permanent grass-sod poultry range the grass grows faster than the hens can eat it. And tall grass be- comes tough and lacking in succulence and not suitable as green feed for poultry. So the grass must either be mowed and used for hay to give the young growth a chance to develop or live stock must. be used to keep down the grass. At. the National Institute of Poultry Husbandry in England they are trying the experiment of using goats to keep down the grass on poul- try ranges. Permanent Poultry Pasture We have one poultry range permanent grass-sod which is also covered with old apple trees. On this fenced range we allow cows to graze until the grass is cut, down as if it has been covered with a lawn mower. The hens range on this permanent grass-sod and the mortality rate has been very low. The range is large enough so the grass is not killed out readily and grows right up to the sides of the buildings with the exception of a few spots where the hens come out of the small doors or form dusting holes in summer. The mortality rate up to this time has been very low and the appearance of the birds is very good at this time. On other ranges in a permanent grass-sod we have started young or- chards so it is not possible to turn in the cows to help keep down the grass. We find that the hens help in keeping down the grass. Mowing around the trees with a scythe and leaving the cut grass as a mulch helps to keep down more of the growth and a mow- ing machine can be run up and down the orchard rows if the permanent sod becomes too heavy with a high growth of grass. Right now I can’t spare the time or the price of the ticket to visit Eng- land and find out about this perman- ent grass-sod method of raising poul- try in England but I shall try and Visit with farmers who have been there and try and find out if there is any relation between their permanent grass-sod poultry range and their con- trol of poultry diseaSes.——R. G. Kirby. ina A CASE OF CROP BOUND ESTERDAY I performed a surgical operation upon a white Leghorn hen that had become crop bound. She is doing nicely. This morning she ate a bit of soft bread and drank of her own volition and seemed quite herself once more. There was not as much in the crop as I thought. The hen had been in confinement over one day and I had kneaded the crop several times, so I presume the packed material had begun to loosen and pass from the But as bowel trouble had al- ready developed I dccided to take no further ch'ance. Taken in its earlier stage, crop bound difficulty may be overcome‘ simply by confining a fowl with. no food, only water to drink, aided by 8. MARCH 24, 1928 little kneading of the crop with the fingers in a. case more advanced. Fail- ing this, there is no reason why a simple operation may not be used to save the bird. Just remove a few feathers, make an incision through the skin, press the edges aside and make an incision through the crop proper, at a point that will not line with the outer incision. I use the handle of a spoon to clear the crop. Wash the parts well with warm water, take a few stitches uniting each edge of both incisions each one separately, of course. Keep the fowl confined in a. clean box for a few days, feeding sparingly for a few days and there you are. A small simple operation with very little practice. I have oper ated on quite‘a few, losing but one where bowel trouble had advanced so the comb had turned purple. The hen I have under care now laid an egg the first day of confinement—M. N. Edger. ton. MINERALS IN LAYING MASH I feed my hens equal parts wheat and oats for morning, and scratch feed and shelled corn for supper. My mash feed in a self-feeder is: 50 lbs. com, 50 lbs. oats, 50 lbs. bran. 50 lbs. mid- dlings, and 25 lbs. meat scraps. With this I feed all the sour milk they will drink. Is there anything more I should add to this mash? Have had fairly good results as it is, but some say there should“ be salt and other things added. Will be very thankful for any advice you can give. We keep Barred Rocks. I am planning on buy- ing some day old chicks. How would you advise feeding them. There was a man here who had been to the State College who advised feeding cottage cheese the first week and then an all mash feed. Of course, he was selling the feed. What do you think of it? I never heard of cottage cheese for young chicks—Mrs. \V. E. In addition to the ground grains in the home-made laying mash it can be improved by adding two per cent ground limestone, two per cent bone meal and one per cent fine table salt. Oyster shells and grit. should be sup- plied in hoppers. Your grain ration and mash feed will probably give good results. Some poultry owners feed cottage cheese to chicks but it is a difficult feed to keep clean and distribute evenly among a large flock of brooder chicks. I think the dried buttermilk starting mashes in long low hoppers give much better results. By sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Michigan Farmer, Poultry Depart- ment, you can obtain the Michigan Farmer Chick Bulletin which gives considerable information of use to poultry owners. The all-mash method of raising chicks has given good results and it was used quite extensively 'last year. However many poultrymen will con- tinue with the old combination method of feeding both mash and scratch grain. There are so many good feeds and good methods of raising chicks that it is not possible to tell which is the best under all conditions. LIVER ENLARGED A lot of our chicks have died lately. They are sick for about a. week and then die. We examined one sick chicken and found the liver enlarged and green spots all over it. The gall bladder was very large and black.— Mrs. J. T. The disease called blackhead which commonly kills turkeys also attacks chickens. A postmortem shows an en- larged liver covered with yellowish- green or yellowish spots. There is no cure for blackhead. In fowl typhoid the liver is enlarged and often covered with greyish spots. In cholera the liver may be enlarged and dark in color and the spleen may also be en- larged. If you have a large and valu- able flock and are losing many birds, it will pay to have a veterinarian in- spect the flock and make recommenda- tions. In some cases a laboratory examination is often necessary to diag- nose a'disease correctly and 10115013- tanoe advice is not satisfactory. «.I‘ new”... w... ‘- vw sadly... .2 su'mfl‘- -.- u ..,. “N. ,4”. “a '5‘ .og' “Why don’t my ‘Hens Eat more Pearl Grit” We have had this question asked time after time. The answer is simple. "Hens don t need any more than they eat." The Proof is Here Maryland Experiment Station in comparing Lime Stone with Oyster Shell found: The Limestone pen consumed 4g%less material but laid 20% more e gs. ;‘(I).liam§stone cafn c1381 safely fused as the . ource o a cium or ' chicks and laying hens." growmg Kentucky. Experiment Station found that Limestone Grit produced by far the most eggs and the hens ate much less of the grit thus making a gain both ways. PEARL GRIT ls Carefully Selected Limestone It is clean and healthful. It is pure lime- stone. high iii Calcium. It furnishes the necessary grinding action in the gizzard. also insures amp e supply of Calcium for boneaiid egg shellstructure. Asmall amount of Pearl Grit will do more good than larger amounts of other grits and shells. Less grit to buy and moreeggs to sell" is borne out in actual practice when you use PEARL GRIT. Made in three sizes: For Chicks. Grow- ing Birds and Laying Hens. The Ohio Marble Company moms. omo We Have Dealers Everywhere Ask Your Dealer 5 ’ 'e e 6. 9060.0 ‘0 e‘ Ghee ‘ca. ¢.e 0.oo:¢¢.ogo‘90 0596 0‘00 o§o¢°¢23§° .———____ Death loss stopped in few hours, and sick chicks full of pep. Simply drop an Avicol tablet in the drinking water, and watch the dying chicks revive and begin to thrive. Mrs. E. E. Franks. Ramsdell, Tex., writes: "I was losing 10 to 15 chicks a day before the Avicol came. I haven‘t lost one since." Used in time, it prevents the whole trouble at trifling cost- A mild, safe intestinal antl- septic that controls all bowel diseases in chicks. Entirely different from anything you ever tried. Money back if not satisfied. Send 50c for liberal package (or $1 for large economy size) to Burrell—Dugger Co.. 926 Postal Station Bldg., Indianapolis. Ind. Baby Chicks F i‘om Egg Bred Northern Grown Laying Stock Pulled for years for higher can pro- duction. Let our now 1028 Catalog trll you ALI. TIIl-I FAI‘TS about our White Leghorns. BIII'I‘t'd llOcks. White llocks. \Vliito Wyandottcs. and It. I. Rods. St’nd for copy at once. Many orders now being hookcd for spring delivery. Wu guarantee your satisfaction. and 100% Live Delivery of your Chicks. GILT-EDGE POULTRY RANCH Zeeland, Michigan BE SURE To get our free Catalogue and prices on DEAN QUAL- ITY CHICKS. White Leg- Box ll horns, Barred and “line liocks. It. I Rods. _VVhite “'yandottcs. All Michigan Accrcditod. Sonic (Ru-titled. Established 1911vBettor this year than ever. DEAN EGG FARM 8L HATCHERY, Box 8. Birmingham. Mich. 805 QUALITY CLASS A CHICKS From healthy heavy layers of large eggs. S. 0. English White Leghoms. Brown Lt-ghnrns. Ant-onas, It. I. Reds and As- sorttd chicks at reasonable prices. No money down. Pay full amount 10 days before l'hlt'ks are shipped or (‘. O. D. Special disronnts. 100% live delivery ~L ‘ pmtpaid. Catalogue tree. _ 808 HATCHERY R. 2 M Zeelsnd, Mich. Ereuper’s Chicks Better chicks for bigger profilt.t It: mat $20322}; s.butwlwtxoodtiuaiy. 'e_re fidtp-fl’on.‘ Barred Itm'ks. Reds. White Longhorns. 'KIUEPI'I 'IIAWHEIIY. Wllush 8L. Mllsn. ”lob. . I 7"“ . THE MICHIGAN FAR-MER ' EMERGENCY MASH-FEEDER WANTED some mash feeders right away. My “ever-ready” was away and although I might have made a. passable one, I had no time. So necessity evolved this plan which I like so well that I’ve never asked the man to make one of the regular feed- ers. I took two old dish pans, discarded because of leaks, filled them about half full of mash and inverted a. handle-less pail, likewise leaky, and pressed it down into the mash. When I fed them next time they had eaten the mash almost to the bottom of the space around the pail. I picked out the few straws they had scratched into it, lifted the pail and scraped the clean mash under it to the sides of the pan and replaced the pail. This feeder is easy to fill, never clogs, doesn’t tip over, keeps clean, and holds enough for a day’s feeding. I usually look at it at noon when I give the liens fresh water and scrape out what is under the pail so they can eat it during the afternoon. Some- times I fill it at night, then they have it if I do not get out on time in the busy morning. If you have something you wish to put; in a dish for chickens and do not want them to perch on the edge and tip it over at once as often happens, put a brick or a stone in the middle of the dish—Mildred M. North. CEMENT BLOCK POULTRY HOUSE I intend to build a hen house and would like to build it of cement blocks. Some of my neighbors tell me that a hen house of cement blocks is damp. Would you please give me your advice ?——G. \V. Cement block poultry houses are not commonly constructed because there are more poultrymen that understand working with lumber and it is the general opinion that cement block houses are more apt to be damp and cold than houses made of lumber and insulated. Even in a cement block house the: roof must be of lumber. the windows and open front. it does: tors. *1 Meadow Brook not require a large quantity of lumberll for the front of a poultry house. Ifl the door is in the side that takes more lumber. The fact that most poultry houses are built of lumber is good evi- dence that experience has found lum- ber houses the most satisfactory. If a farmer made cement blocks or lived close to a cement block factory and understood working with blocks, that might change the situation. In that case he might build a modern poultry house of cement blocks and in- stall a proper system of ventilation and find that it worked alright. But it would probably take longer to build and be more expensive than a lumber house. DO TRAPNESTS AFFECT PRODUCTION? Since we put in trapnests, we do not get any eggs to speak of. I think large breeds are better without them. Our hens have all different feeds, good coops, plenty air, are in good condi- tion, are kept clean. and get hot water. Kindly give me your opinion. —C. S. We have had no nests being responsible for a reduction in egg production. 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DeProo Sons, Proprietors i proved by author- .4, l ized State lnsnoc- . Meadow Brook Hatchery 0 Box F Holland, Michigan DILIGENT CHICKS DID IT and will do it for you. Your DILIGEN'I‘ (‘IIIl‘KS became DILIGl-IN'I‘ LAYERS and beat them all in our neighborhood. (inter order for 500 March delivery. a customer just wrote I J us. Do not, hcsitiite to send your order. You will be satisllvd. Thirteen years of hum-st dealing behind us. l’ullots after May first. Please note our NEW LOW postpaid prices: 50 mo 200 500 Single ('omh White chliorns .............. $5.75 $11.00 $21.50 $52.50 Barrcd Plymouth llm‘ks .. 7.25 14.00 27.50 07.50 S i‘. llliodu Island llcds.... . 7.25 14.00 27.50 .67.50 Mixed (”curios Only) (5.25 12.00 23.50 57.50 DILIGENT HATCHERY AND POULTRY FARM Harm J. Knoll, R. R. No. 4 HOLLAND. MICHIGAN Our Chicks are Hatched from Free Farm Range Breeders liwry chick is Michigan Accredited which moans it is from breeders that have 'pzisscd the official inspection of poultry specialists under the supervision of Michigan Stiito Poultry lmprovcmcnt assm-intmn. llct‘cr you to State (‘onimercinl Saving Bunk. ()rdcr from this ml. 25 50 I00 500 I.000 (English Type) S. C. White Leqhorns. . .. ..$3 2 $6.00 SI [.00 $52.00 I00.00 S. C. Brown chhorns (Heavy Type) ....... 3.25 6.00 H.00 52.00 100.00 Barred Rocks (Laying Type) ........... .. 4 00 7.75 I5.00 72.00 No.00 S. C. Reds ................................. 4.25 7.50 l4.00 67.50 130.00 Light Mixed ............................... 2.5) 4.00 7.00 Heavy Mixed .............................. 3.25 6 00 ”.00 It tells all about our 10% down books your Ol‘llt‘l‘ —100’,”o live delivery prepaid. Get our free catalog. Get our lstest'pricas. spo-ial matcd grades. Write for it. It is time to order your pullcts now. reports of trap-1 some 1 hens might not take rapidly to the: nests at first and there might be an increase in the number of eggs laid 0n the floor. The confusion resulting from remodeling alien house and in— stalling trapnests might cause a re- duced egg yield for a few days. We are now approaching the end of March when even the old hens which have rested during the winter should be in good production. The days are lunger with more sunshine and I think your hens will soon re- turn to normal production. HUNDERMAN BROTHERS, R. R. 3. Box 50 — - - ZEELAND, MICH. — Blood Tested FOUR years of blood—trusting for hacilhny WIII’l'l-T DlAllltlIEA. Three years of ACCREDITATION and ten years of hatchery experience ('Oll|)l(‘(l wi1li consistent culling and breeding has given us good strong livable chicks. that grow into profitable Ian-rs. Two distinctive breeds: Barred Plymouth Rocks and S. C. White Loghorns Write for free catalog and prices DUNDEE A‘E‘é%*éb‘i‘%gn CHICKS STOCK ALL BLOOD-T55 TED FOR WHITE DIARRHEA FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS. You can save money by ordering Dundee Pure-Bred, Mich. Accredited and Blood-Tested Chicks. We hatch B. P. Rocks, R. I. Reds, and S. C. White Leghorns. Write for 1928 Catalog giving all details of our matings and full directions on how to raise baby chicks for greater profits. We guarantee 100% live delivery. DUNDEE HATCHERY & POULTRY FARMS — DUNDEE, MICHIGAN . .\\\ Contests Preferred and”? Why M. C’J Seem to Life Ermy T ype Bert T is entirely impractical to say which type of contest is most beneficial to the Circle at large. Human nature demands a variety, each individual chooses for himself the course he is to follow. My choice of career lies wholly within the literary world, therefore, owing to my ambition to develop every surface of that field, I choose the essay type of contest. Since “Practice makes perfect” I knack of “essaying” and may improve his ability along those lines. There is some measure of satisfac- tion in having an essay in print as most of the prize winning ones do get in. In searching for material to compose a theme, many interesting facts are disclosed hitherto unknown to the writer. If, in the course of time, you have perused this epistle thus far, it is probable that you will come to the conclusion that I’m in favor of the essay contestl—Herbert Estes, M. C. Having just recently made known to Uncle Frank that I was anticipating the pleasure of the announcement of an essay contest sometime in the near future, I would undoubtedly be prov- ing myself deficient in his expecta- ’tions should I fail to respond now. The “why” of the topic irritates me more, perhaps, than all the remainder. Why, oh why! is there always 3. THE MICHIGAN FARMERS “why” to question our likes and dis- likes? Since I have already made known my preference for the essay contests I have now to contend with the “why and wherefore” of my preference. Never having questioned my likes and dislikes in the past, “except in exceptions,” I find it exceedingly difficult to do so now. Would it satisfy you if I should say I preferred essay contests because they afford more “scope for imagina- tion” than the majority of contests? You must comprehend my weakness for preferring anything that possesses “scope for imagination” if you would appreciate my choice. To come right down to brass tacks I like essay contests because I pre~ fer them. That is my simple straight forward reason. Dare you question it? If you have any literary inclination and_you participate in these contests, it has a “never failing” tendency to develop your literary powers. When you’re reading, did it ever occur to ydu that the article you are reading has been written by some human hand? I have yet to be con- vinced that “writers are born, not made.”—Dorothy Munn. The Seven Sisters in the King Family Make Good M. C.’s exercise many efforts to gain prac- tice by answering calls to write. The M. C. affords many opportuni- ties for this drastic measure of my life’s work. I have many reasons for choosing the essay type of contest. Not simply from a standpoint of per- sonal benefit but taken generally, it is a benefit to the Circle. First, it is of universal value be- cause it is representative of the Circle as a whole. Secondly, it is valuable because it expresses the ability of the individual to place his thoughts on paper such that they can be felt by others. Third is the value that comes from the recognition that is given by readers of the contests. Fourth is the value of self confidence and self re- liance, invested in the individual, and fifth, the prominence which it gives the Circle. The greatest of these qualities is perhaps, the fourth, which finds ex— pression in the definition of genius, found in Emerson’s “Self Reliance.” “To believe your own thought, to be- lieve that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius.” Zola M. Marsh. After due consideration, I have come to the conclusion that the essay contest holds the most pleasure for me. Notwithstanding the fact that other types of contests are not so difficult and that your work is cut out for you in several of them, I get more genuine enjoyment from the essay contest. Also there is more competition in this variety of contest. When you win a prize with your writing it is in recognition of your ability but in a Read and \Vin contest, for instance, any prize which you may receive is because you are possessed with a lucky star. When one realizes he is competing with hundreds from all over the state, he will exert himself to his best power and will probably turn out a better manuscript than he would if he knew all the papers were to be put in a basket and ten drawn out. If a pezwm is not required to write very many themes, thee” contests benefit him by helping him retain the DUR LETTER BOX Dear Uncle: I am writing to thank you for the membership card and pin. I think the law you have set for us is one which we all should be glad to obey. \Vhen I first received my pin I wore it to school and was astonished at the number of students who told me that they also belonged to the Merry Circle. I thought you would like to know that there are probably from ten to fifteen students in this high school who belong. The questions that come up for dis- cussion on this page are interesting and the way they are handled by the members of “Our Page” would make anyone sit up and take notice. I know I did. One thing I have always wanted to do is travel and since I have never had the opportunity to do so, I learn of other countries through books. I sincerely believe that a book is one’s truest and dearest friend and the only one on which one can entirely rely.— Gertrude Thorne, R. 2, Dewitt, Mich. The discussions on Our Page fre- quently make me sit up and take no— tice. It is gratifying to learn there are so many M. C.’s in your school. Books are both friends and enemies, depending on the kind of book. A good book is a fine companion. One often gets more from “book travelling” than from actual travelling. Hellow Unc: Uncle Frank, did you have any sis- ters to tease? If you didn’t I’ll bet you teased the girls at school. Didn’t you, Uncle Frank? Well, my brothers are real tease cats. They like to tease the girls. But don’t fool yourself, the girls like to tease too, and we get quite even with the boys. One day my older brother was teasing me and he really got me mad and he laughed at me and teased me all the more. But I got even with him. I took a pail of water and waited till he came to the house and when he did come he got all wet and had to stay wet until his clothes dried. Then it was my turn to laugh and I did laugh. The next time he dodged the pail of water. Here’s a joke my little brother tried on us kids. He put a can of water above the door and tied a string to it. He waited for some one to come, as no one came he went to the barn and I happened to see him coming so I waited until he opened the door and then pulled the string. The water spilled down his collar and I had just time enough to run out of the door before he caught me and I ran out- side toward the barn and he ran after “it! until he slipped and fell on the .didn’t chase me any more. ice. Boy, that got him mad. He But, of course, it made me laugh because he got fooled on his own trick. Ha, ha. He waited till I came, but he pulled the string too soon and that made him madder. But he refilled the can and happened to catch dad at the trick which spilled all over his face and head. That gave him a chance to lauglt.——Peggy. Yours must be a teasy family. I had no sisters to tease and I was one of these good boys who never teased girls, perhaps because I was afraid of them. Sometimes teasing ends in fighting. Dear Friends: I think it is about time for a 1928 quilting party, don’ you? I would like flocks of white muslin, twelve inches square with name, address, and favorite design on them. I have some made ahead so will send flocks in re- turn as soon as I receive them.— Eleanor Johnston, Box 3, Edmore, Michigan. Yes, I think this is a good time to start quilting. I hope many of the girls will make quilts this year. Dear Uncle Frank: I might as well confess that the real reason that I have not written before is because I was tight with my pen- nies. Ha, ha. I enjoy reading the Michigan Farm- er every Saturday and think you are a rough farmer by the looks of your picture. I have an easy life here in Cloverland in the winter—just milk a few cows every day and then sit around the fire and grow fat. I do not go to school anymore, but sure Would if I could—Emil Koski. I think I’ll have to come up and stay with you to find out if I can grow fat by sitting by the fire. I’m sorry you do not go to school, but' am glad to learn that you would if you could. Dear Uncle Frank: With much pleasure and surprise I received my M. C. pin and membership card. The day I received it was very stormy, only ten were at school. The roads were drifted with snow four feet deep. Our teacher told me to answer a knock at the school door. It was the mailman. He said he couldn’t get through the drifts up our way so left our. mail at the school. At recess I looked through the mail and I saw a letter for me from the Michigan Farmer. Of course, I was very interested. I opened the letter very quickly and saw the pin. It cer- at c ' .‘ {MARCH 24,1923 . tainly was a glad surprise. is real nice. adored it. I am a lover of books. I read all the Camp Fire series I can get ahold of. I read a few Boy Scout books, but not many. Do any of my cousins like to read? I love nature also. My best sport is to roam in the woods and study the trees and flowers and ferns and dif- ferent leaves and grasses. I don’t see why everybody doesn’t like nature.— Brown Eyes. You probably will always remember the snow storm and the pin together. It is a funny person who doesn’t like nature. An interest in Camp Fire work is wholesome. The pin Many of my friends Dear Uncle and Cousins: I am writing this letter to tell you that I received the dandy loose-leaf note book. By golly, how I like it, and say, when I opened up the pack- age and found the prize 1 was tickled half to death and nearly fell through myself! I thank you very much for the prize.'—Clinton Van Duine, R. 1, Dorr, Michigan. If I had known the prize would have such serious effect, I would not have sent it. I hope you have fully re- covered by this time. Dear Uncle Frank: After reading the fine letters that. have been written by our M. C.’s of late, it has inspired me to try to equal some of them. It’s a pleasure to read letters that are interesting and that show the thoughtfulness of the writer. I, also, admire “White Amaranth’s” ability to write. It’s not the length that counts so much but the expres- sion and clearness and I might add brevity, that 7catches the reader’sat- tention. Justjoyfiproof thatVbrevity ' more clear and "impressing than 101$ monotonous compositions, I’ll refer “to ‘ the Ini‘d’s“;Prayer and‘ Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, both are short, but they could hardly be made, more. clear or contfincing. Earl Bowen’s letter was very inter- esting; he undoubtedly believes it is best to have an aim and purpose in our work. I certainly agree with Earl that it gives a person a different spirit when he knows what he is work- ing for. But still as I reflect, success isn’t always gotten by those who are work- ing toward some certain purpose. No- tice many of our heroes. They didn’t have that ambition which have made their names famous. It seems the op- portunities came to them and they were prepared. The Scouts motto “Be Prepared” is a splendid one. By being prepared for work and opportunities every‘ day, one will probably be prepared when his great chance comes—Albert Peter- son. You have filled the that you have laid down for good let- ter writing. Your selection of require- ments is good. Dear Uncle Frank: I have received my M. C. pin and card and I thank you ever and ever so much for them. The pin certainly. is nice. to the statements on the card. _. ,J. I belong to a 4-H Club. I certainly-w do like to belong to It. I am. in the requirements , I will try my best ‘to livej‘up‘v Meet This Better All-Leather Work Glove The National Napa Goat is the modern edition of the old-fashioned “goat akin” glove. It is still made by the same con- cern—a better glove and more popular. All-leather—soft and pliable—easy on the hands. Yet durable and heavy enough for the toughest job. An all- use, all-year—round work glove. It will outwear a half dozen pairs of canvas gloves—and at a lower cost for glove service. The leather, a 25 year development. pro- duced by our special exclusive 011 tan- nage and practically odorless, keeps hand! from cracking and chapping. Try a pair of National Napa Goat gloves and you will get more for your money than you ever did. If your dealer cannot supply you send his name and 50c {or a pair postpaid. Made exclusively by THE NATIONAL GLOVE CO. [005 E. Main St. Columbus. Ohio I J“. .3 "AD! MARK NAPAwtiOAT G LOVES This trade-mark sewed on each pair denotes the only genuine NapaGoat tannage-“National. " l , WOLVERINE S.C.WHITE EGHORN ' 2 AB :00 BLOOD 5M: ~2va WILL GUARANVEED TELL H ICHIGAN STAYE ACCRE DIT ED Winter Egg Prd'ducers Our New 1928 Catalog. in Colors, mlls all about these Larger Leghorns. egg bred since 1010. that “v produce the Large. (‘lialk White l-Zggs. Send for your copy today. We can deliver chit-ks to most points in from eight to ten hours. l00% Live Arrival Guaranteed WOLVERINE FARMS 8i. HATCHERY Henry P. Wicrsma. Owner & Breeder Dept. 3, Zeeland. Michigan BABY CHICKS 100% Live Delivery Postage Prepaid 100 50 0 White & Brown Leghoms..$6.00 $11.00 $52.50 Butt and Black Leghorns.... 0.00 11.00 52.50 AIII'IIIIZIS ................... 6.00 11.00 52.50 Barred Rocks .............. 6.50 12.50 00.00 “'liitt‘ and Buff Rock ..... 6.50 12.50 00.00 S. (‘. and R. (‘. Reds ...... 0.50 12.50 00.00 5'. (‘. Blni'k Minonras ...... .50 12.50 00.00 \Vli. & S. L. “'s’andottes... 7.50 14.00 67.50 Bilfl' Owingtons 7 50 14.00 07.50 All absolutely first class purebred stock from :ulled flocks. I’rompt shipments. JAMES A. KREICI 9507 Meech Ave. Cleveland. Ohio. HILLSIDE Hiioiirin Chit-ks. Genuine Tom Barium English White Leig- borns.. large type, overlaying combs, with egg laying qualities. Non»st-tters Barred limits from M. S. (‘ Stork, 1028 fl0"1\5, headed with rot-kei'el whose dams haw official trapnested rot-ords 203—233 M. S. C. egg~laying contest. Free ('ll't'lllai' explaining our 192 special, surprising you, low DI'll‘e. HILLSIDE HATGHEHY. HOLLAND, WM. 0.3 S. n. W. Leghorn Baby Chicks Buy Mich. Accredited Baby Chicks from Michigan’s largest poultry form. We buy no eggs to put in _ our incubators but produce them on our own farm 1 from selected hens mated with 50% 200 to 33!) em; Tanored males. pedigreed. All breeders have been bloodtested for BACILLARY VVIIITI') DIARRHEA for the past 4 years which insures you chicks prec- tiealLv free from this dread disease. No better chicks at any price. Onlv one grade. 5. HARKEMA sons. R. 1, Holland, Mich. WHITE LEGHORNS ONLY SHIPPED COD. ANYWHIRF ." LOW PREPAID PRICES »- G E contest Winners for years. Guaranteed and inSured. Also . coc mls. pulletsJiem. Camiogand Ipecill price bulletin free. . GEORGE B. FERRIS, 934 UNION, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. \ ‘ "m D" c. 0. D. Fine pure-bred chit-ks and baby ducks at prices to fit your pow-ketheok. Pedigreed males and selected females make chicks of finest qual- lty. .Free poultry book and catalog. Get details of our liberal C. 0. D. offer. COOPERATIVE BREEDING 8i. HATCHING 00.; Box 126. Tim. 0. ‘ English Single Comb White I - Bab, Chuk‘ horns $10.00 per 100 for Mag-zit dgllfory. MA! $9.00 per 100. Discount on era of 00 or more. Live delivery guaranteed. fiA‘ClflWAYo H. C. H ”ENBY olland. Mich. I second year sewing club. Our motto is “We Will Work” or “W. , W.” I think the 4-H organization surely is nice. There are so many different kinds of clubs and things to attract the people’s attention that I think it is worthwhile being a member. My opin- ion is that the 4—H Clubs are of great benefit to the country. If it were not for the clubs so many boys and girls would never know how to sew or raise crops prpcrly.——Luise Mcrinar. I am glad you are an enthusiastic 4-H Club member. The 4-H work is all you say it is and then some. ADD«A-LETTER WINNERS More young folks understood this contest than last time. But still some did not read directions or could not understand them. Twelve words seemed to be the limit. The winners were picked from those having twelve words. Fountain Pens Elizabeth Olajos, R. 8, Owosso. Lucille Penzien, R. 2, Imlay City. Dictionaries William Nelson, Filion, Mich. Virdie M. Ilaer, R. 3, Remus, Mich. Martha Nopola, L Box 13, Coving— ton, Mich. Clutch Pencils Esther Bentham, Alto, Mich. Grace Mitchell, R. 3, DeWitt, Mich. Arthur Pelto, Box 157, Ewen, Mich. Mary Kocsis, R. 1, Prescott, Mich. Werner Olgren. Chassell, Mich. Winner’s Solution 0, 011, ton. tone, stone, stoner, trea- son, treasons, assertion, serrations, re- assertion, reservations, presei‘vations. cORRESPON—BENCE SCRAMBLE HESE Scrambles have become known as makers of wholesome friendships. As friendships is one of the valuable assets of life, these scrambles are of value, for they are ways to new friendships. Write a letter to “Dear Friend,” or Dear Merry Circler,” then address an envelope to yourself and put a stamp on it. Place the letter and the ad- dressed and stamped envelope in an- other envelope which should be. ad- dressed to Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan. If you are over thirteen years of age put the letter A in the lower left hand corner of the envelope; if below thirteen, use the letter B. This Scramble closes March 3151; when your letter will be put in another envelope and some- body else’s letter in yours, and sent out. COMMENTS FOR MRS. A. B. O. OH poor dear misguided mother How my heart aches for you. Your friends tell you that you are too good to your children. “Thy, my dear woman, you aren’t even the least, bit kind to them in allowing them to be so inconsiderate and dis- respectful to you and to grow to ma— turity with selfish dispositions. I cannot conceive such conditions as existing. Did you just write that to “rile” some of us up? Vi’ell, if you did, I am “riled,” but what I am about to write won’t be any help to you at this late day, nor any consolation per- haps, but it may be an inspiration to some young parent or even those whose little ones have not come yet. Married at twenty-one years of age to the best John the world ever knew, we wentto an Oakland County farm which was heavily mortgaged at a. time when butter was sixteen cents and eggs ten cents. After ten years of married life a daughter came to brighten our home. The first few months she ate and slept blissfully ig- norant of the financial struggle of her parents. Almost from the cradle we taught obedience and respect for our- selves and for all with whom she came in contact and the utmost kind- ness to'dumb animals. Anyway, as she grew, we talked over all matters pertaining to our busi- ness before her, led her to believe that she was a partner which she was. She knew just what we could afford and why she did'or didn’t do this or THE MICHIGAN FARMER the other thing. When she went to school we taught her to obey and re— spect her teachers, discouraged her in bri ging home little grievances, and belittled rather than sympathized with her for fancied slights. I taught her that her father was the most wonderful man and daddy thatf any little girl ever had. And I think? he must have done the some. concern-l ing me. For listen, friend, I am very“ plain looking with a common educa- tion, but she falls all over herself to have her friends meet. her mother and: delights in bringing .acqnaintances home. \Ve have the best times to nether, she and I. The Lord took her daddy when she was twelve years old. She will soon be sixteen now, a student in high school, a lovw of good books, of music, clean sports, and clean people, kind and sympathetic. I firmly believe she is what she is because of firmness on our part and our refusal to give her the moon just because She may have cried for it. Before I close I inust’tell you of a. self imposed sort of catechism she re« peats every night of her life before going to sleep. You may smile at it and I must tell you that some times when I am just too tired and sleepy it seems rather superfluous to me but I wouldn’t have her know it for worlds. I cannot remember when she began it, but I hope down deep in my heart she won’t abandon it during her life at home. It l'llIlS thus: Mother, have I been a. good girl today? Am I a good little Christian girl? Am I refined and well bred? Do you think I live up to God’s standards? Do you think every one likes me? Rest assured I always answer in the affirmative, however much I may feel I have cause for criticism of any little sidestepping. I take another time for suggestions and corrections. She is only human and 911‘s occasion- ally as well as her mother and all the rest of the species—«Mrs. Egotistical Mother.- ‘ 31 -- 433 Power for Pump'ng Water ,7 NEXT'to the sun, the wind is the greatest ‘, power for raising water. The sun lifts i 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. 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One likes to eat and rest, and at times he was ,not permitted to do this. Henry Drummond, the Scotch professor, and as the author of “Natural Law in the Spiritual World,” had a popularity hard to explain. At twenty- three he was sought by college men in the great cities of Great Britain, who opened their lives to him without reserve. Huge audiences hung on his words. He had, it was said, a genius for friendship. To write his life, said his biographer, was like writing the history of a fragrance. How did he get that way? we ask. No one can tell exactly. You cannot define per- sonality. He was not selfish, he s ought nothing for himself, and his head was not in the least turned by his popularity. He liked people, and they in turn liked him. Multiply this enough times, and one has a partial picture, at least, of Christ. He loved people. He would do anything for them. He always seemed to have plenty of time for the humblest. The same thing was characteristic of Drummond. Christians all ought to be friendly folk. We ought to specialize in friendliness, and take time for it. Maybe if we did, we would be more popular. PERSONALITY. Jesus undoubtedly had a striking personality. We do not know what he looked like, though a tradition has come down to' us, as to his appearance. What is it that makes personality? It is not good looks, that is, regular or symmetrical features. Some of the homeliest people have had most impressive per- sonalities. Lincoln, for instance. Some folk who have made a deep impres- sion on their fellows have been small of stature, as Napoleon or Wesley, or Wilberforce, or Alexander Stephens. Others have been large. The physical is important, but not everything. It seems to lie in that indefinable thing we call character, that looks out through the physical. Goodness makes personality, if it is the kind of good- ness that Christ exemplified—positive goodness. POWER. Ah, now we are talking. Power is what we want, show us the road to it. We do not need to travel far. This is the age of power. I was in a restaurant a while ago that has machinery for washing 40,000 dishes per hour, and other machinery which can peel and wash 1,500 pounds of potatoes an hour and can bake 500 pies an hour. It has required, we are told, twenty-seven million dollars for new machinery for making the new Ford car. We live in an age of un- precedented power. On the average, each of us has the equal of twenty slaves to wait on us day and night. Oceans of power. But somehow we remain unsatisfied. Jesus had no such mechanical helps. The fastest he ever travelled was when he walked. He never saw an ordinary plow, or talked over the telephone. And we are going back there, to tiny Palestine, to get the real values of life. In other words, the finest power is not mechanical, at all. It is personal. It speaks to hearts from the heart. It can not be counter- feited for any length of time, and it cannot be produced by short-circuit methods. It takes as 10ng to grog);r a tree or a bird now as it did when men popularity“ travelled on foot. It is no easier to do ”right now than it was when John Hancock put his signature to the Declaration of Independence. Tempta- tion is as insidious and as persistent as when Jesus kept his lonely vigil in the wilderness. Power of soul, the power behind everything good, the power that gives value to everything else, and without which nothing is safe, must be cultivated much the same as it was in the long ago. There are no short-cuts to the City of Man- soul. PRAYER. Jesus went apart to pray a good deal. Just how much we, of course, do not know. No doubt He went many times more than the gos- pel records mention. This was not a form with Him, but a reality. In prayer He got in connection with the Eternal Batteries, which gave Him all the power He required. There is no other explanation for the cures He performed, and the teachings He ut- tered. A much-read writer says that he believes Jesus found power in three ways: “He lived close to human need, He withdrew from the multitude for periods of silence, and He spent hours in fellowship with the inner circle.” The art of prayer has to be cultivated, like anything else. Through prayer anger is turned into love, fear into joy. It is renewing in its effects. PLAY. “If we make our work drudgery we are slaves; if we make it work, we are men; if we make it play, we are gods. All great geniuses have made their work play. ‘I never worked a day in my life’, says Edison, c. MARCH 2mm . ‘it was all play’.” Was it not so with Jesus? He became so immersed-in _ his work that it seemed play. He for- got to eat at times, he used the night often in talking with God, rather than in sleep, he exulted as he saw the coming Kingdom. It was toil, but . there was the play spirit in it all, the spirit of liking to do it. Is it pos- sible to introduce that spirit into church work? Suppose it- suddenly: became fun to teach that class of: wriggling boys. Can it enter into farming? Suppose all the farmers suddenly stopped moaning, and began to tell what a great work they have, and the fun there is in farming. The price of farms would double, and you couldn’t drag people off them. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR MARCH 25th SUBJECTz—Review The Early Minis- try of Jesus. GOLDEN TEXTz—Matthew 9:35. ONTARIO AND THE CORN BORER (Continued from page 407) awaken the Canadian farmers to the economic danger of the corn borer. But now control measures and clean- up regulations have become estab- lished farm practices in Ontario, and farmers are solidly behind this pro- gram. Michigan farmers might well profit from the experience of their Canadian neighbors and avoid the embryo stage by cooperating one hundred per cent with the state and federal govern-» ments in their program to control this. alarming crop pest—the European corn borer. An excellent start was made last spring. . WHERE BORER WILL BE FOUGHT THIS SPRING I I927 "$31926 @ 19.25 fM1924 . ;§\ \Q'qzs ~ REIT ’E 1922 \ tarts-14 EH2! ”\ () ALL [CAN VAN BURII CASS / INDIANA \ , nova CALH .\ mum I r “A“! V5 9, 'GP‘ _ ‘. LAKE ER'Hé OHIO Requirements in Corn Borer Clean-up ERE are the requirements of corn in the corn borer quarantine areas of the state. Michigan law for farmers growing, These- areas are indicated on the accompanying map. 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The act, however, in recent years has been circumvented by the discovery of a yellow fat contained in old cattle which when boiled down produces a yellow oil and when mixed with oleo~ margarine causes it to look like but- ter and it can be sold as such. This he considers to be unfair to the man who uses artificial coloration, because the one is just as pure as the other. His amendment provides that when any ingredient or artificial color- ation is used oleomargarine shall be taxed ten cents per pound. This would protect purchasers of the oleo- margarine however colored. A bill with the same object in view has been introduced in the House by Representative Haugen. chairman of the House committee on agriculture. WOOL OUTLOOK ENCOURAGING HE bill authorizing an appropria- tion of $50,000 to be used in im- proving the quality of wool has been passed by the House. It provides for acquiring and diffusing information on the standardization, grading, market- ing, utilization, transportation, hand- ling, and distribution of. wool. It is predicted that the appropriation will movement, which through standardiza— tions, sheep breeding, and better care and handling of wool, Will ultimately bring the standard of American wools up to the high level of Australian wools. With no immediate prospect of any further increase in wool production in the Southern Hemisphere, J. F. Walker, who recently completed a year’s study of the wool industry in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, predicts an encouraging future for the American wool industry, with the opportunity“ for American wool growers to place their business on the best financial basis in history, but it will require a vast improvement in marketing methods in this country. STEERS BRING GOOD RETURNS HE Gratiot County Farm bought twenty-four Hereford steers Octo- ber 20 which Weighed 15,955 pounds for $1,435.95.‘ These steers were sold March third weighing 22,320 pounds for $2,511.00. The cattle were owned by the County Farm 129 days. For twenty-one days they were on pasture, and for 108 days on feed. For the first thirty days they had shock corn twice daily, then was added 150 pounds bar- ley and oats ground equal parts with two and one-half pounds of cotton- seed meal per steer daily. The County Farm still has twenty-four hogs that followed these steers to market. For six years this farm has been feeding steers, and have made a little money each year—the top load making $1,200 while the smallest net was $125. No farmer has dime to milk a cow that will not produce enough butter— fat to pay for the cost of feed. . . 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The goal set at the start to have the average of the three hundred cows placed under test return at least one hundred dollars or more above the cost of feed has been realized this year. Now that this goal has been reached, the dairymen are fully aware of the further progress that may be made through continuing their testing work. Fifty dairymen and their wives at- tended a noonday banquet in order to take stock of their results over this period of time. To Fred Leonard, the tester, belongs the credit for develop- ing the plans for this very fine dairy meeting. Local talent was used en- tirely in the make-up of the program. The first speaker was Mr. Emil E. Eppick, a local dairyman, who told of his experience in improving in the the feeding work and how to properly value the testing association rEJcords. Briefly, Mr. Eppick explained that mail order test business, as he had seen it in Wisconsin, gave him no results. This type of testing he found to be just a little better than nothing. Good Breeding Helps Mr. Sam Beck commented upongpe gradual improvement his herd has made each year in milk and butter-fat production. Emphasis was placed on good sires and facts brought out by Mr. Beck proved the point that it pays to analyze the records in the D. H. I. A. herd book. George E. Dean, owner of the high- est producing Guernsey herd during 1927, showed through figures how pro- duction improved through careful feeding. Each speaker gave the credit for the improvement to their tester, Mr. Leonard. Exception to the local talent on the program was A. C. Baltzer, Dairy De— partment, Michigan State College. Comment was made by him regarding the new herd test that is now being used by pure—bred Holstein breeders and the values that will probably be realized through such a test. The Michigan Guernsey Breeders and the Michigan Jersey Breeders are also mentioned as favoring this sort of test, for they have petitioned the na- tional breed association headquarters to provide a similar test. Results of the mineral feeding experiment being conducted by Carl Huffman, research assistant of the Dairy Department, were also mentioned. Fred Leonard closed the afternoon’s discussion by showing results in im- proved feeding and how he figured ra- ti0ns. Roy Decker, County Agricul- tural Agent, spoke briefly regarding the possible further development of another D. H. I. A. in the county and the boys’ and girls’ club work. TESTING INCREASES THE Bureau of Dairying, U. S. D. A., reports in a news letter that the gain in the number of dairy herd im- provement association was thirteen per cent during 1927 as compared with eight per cent in 1926 and six per cent in 1925. Nine hundred and forty-seven dairy herd improvement associations are Operating in the United States under date of January 1, 1928. For four years Michigan is credited with more than one hundred of these organiza- tions and at present eleven and one- tenth of the total herd improvement associations in the U. S. are operating in Michigan. The original start of these organi- zations occurred in Michigan in 1906 when the first association of its kind MARCH. 2i4',‘i"_»9‘i'§ was formed in Newaygo County at Fremont. Wisconsin and Minnesota have a larger number of dairy farmers belonging to dairy herd improvement associations than Michigan, but Mich- igan has an equal percentage of cattle under test as does Wisconsin. Four thousand two hundred and forty—one herds are being tested in Wisconsin and 2,560 in Minnesota with Michigan ranking third testing 2,428. ‘ The average per cent of cows throughout the country is only two per cent while Michigan dairymen have three and seven-tenths per cent of their dairy cows in testing organi- zations. The excellent production re- sults and improved money returns coming through these organizations should be incentive for Michigan dairymen to make greater use of these organizations in the state. Denmark is credited with more than one thousand resting organizations having approximately 27 per cent of the cattle under test. Year after year production at a high and efficient level is necessary in order to expect the largest money returns from the cow investment. JERSEY BREEDERS TO MEET ORMER instructor and extension specialist at Michigan State Col- lege H. E. Dennison, now field Secre- tary for the American Jersey Cattle Club, has been engaged to address a. general Jersey meeting at Reed City March 20. The evening will be given over to organizing a club for Osceola. and Lake Counties. HORSE MARKET IS ACTIVE HORSE markets have been more active this spring than for sev- eral years. At present, trade is mor brisk that at any previous time durir the season. During the month January, the number of horses r- ceived at public stockyards was seven- ty-seven per cent greater than a year previous and twenty-seven per cent above the average of the last five years. Drafters, wagon horses, and farm chunks which have been properly fitted for market are selling well. At Chicago, the top recently was $300, with one pair at $600. Bulk of sales have ranged from $100 to $150. Quo- tations at Chicago are as follows: Good draft horses, 1,700 pounds] and over, $200 to $300; good chunks,':I,600 to 1,700 pounds, $150 to $250; good wagon horses, 1,300 to 1.500 pounds, $125 to $175; good farm chunks, $60 to $110; common farm chunks, $20 to $50; good mules, $125 to $200. WAYNE GANG HAD VISITORS HAT would you think of a threevcounty response to a coun- ty-wide invite to attend a Holstein talkfest? And how if a breeder of Jer- sey cattle came also! That was the set-up in Wayne County recently. County Agent Carr had sent notices to breeders of pure—bred Holsteins in Wayne County to come hear Jim Hays, Secretary of the State Holstein Association expound upon the new Holstein herd test. And lo! the turn- out included dairymen from Wayne, Oakland, and the Jerseyite from Wash- tenaw! Joe Cook, herdsman for the Wayne County Training School, Northville, stated that this institution had already entered its herd in the test. Main in- terest, outside of discussion of the test, lay in planning for a. Holstein summer tour amongst Wayne County breeders. County Agent Carr was re- quested to arrange for such an expe- dition. Feeding oats to lambs increased .the rate ofgain and decreased the cost of the feed. Their use also reduced. the ; roughage consumption, (on! per. seat. - v r > , . . . .. i - . v. _ u MARCH 24, 1928 35—437 {I‘HE MICHIGAN FARMER HERD AVERAGES 681 POUNDS BUTTER Your Old Separator Takenh'l‘radex , Regardless onge, Make or Condition) Serradella Farm milking herd was placed urider S. 0. test. Thirty-nine Mail Coupon Before Offer Closes! ‘ head finished S. 0. records during 1927. The average of these thirty- nine head was 16,2481 lbs. of milk, 681.43 lbs. of butter for an average of 337 days. 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Lansing, Michigan, closes a' very in— d”; talnt teresting and unusual chapter in the ' history of the Guernsey breed in o the mllkJ Michigan and demonstrates what can ‘ _/ \\ , be accomplished in a few years of I constructive breeding. A Clean, Pleasant ointment that A parnership which began between heals and restores without leaving E. J. Himelberger and Emil Evert its mark in the milk—that’s Bag // Balm, the great healing ointment: with an. initial investment of. $900 .in Treating injuries of the udder or nine heifers, seven years Elf-IO. (“111111111- teats need not affect purity and ated in a dispersal sale of two of the cleanliness. Bag Balm leaves no original animals and forty-three of flavors or Odors {01‘ consumers to their descendants for a total of $9,835. detect. The milking goes on with» . . , .- , r out a halt while the healing pro— In addition, appioximately $3,000 has been realized at private sale for ani— gresses. . For most cuts, chaps and injuries mals from this herd. to udder or teats Bag Balm effects The forty-five head fetched a total a healing between milkings. It has of $9 835 wonderful power of penetration ’ ’ and healing, being compounded making an average of $218.55. Three blemished cows and especially for use in the delicate eight bull calves brought the average tissues of udder and teats. For all down to the above lo-w figure. Thirty- inflammationmakedbag,bunCheS: five females brought $8,955, an aver- COW pox: craCked teats, teats age of $255.86. The eight bull calves stepped on, etc., the relief is quick and complete. Bag .Balm makes averaged $5125 full—time milkers of every cow— Two of the original animals went keeps milk—flowsteady by insuring under the hammer at $425 and $340, comfortto the cow and ease to the respectively, and a daughter of each milker. of these cows sold for $500 and $400. Bit-’- 10-ounce package 60“ at A feature of the sale was the sellin ‘ t d - ‘ . " ’ g 23::(15.255225223135151(defiardutgo of Lorna Girl of Fairinonde 114938, obtain locally. Booklet, “Dairy one of the original animals, and fifteen Wrinkles” mailed free. of her descendants for a total of $3,- Dairy Association 60., Inc. 525. The old cow, now nearly nine Lyudonviue.Vei-mont N years old, brought $340, and five of '5. her daughters brought $1,450. ‘ ‘ The top cow of the sale was Cava- ' . , " ‘ \ t ‘, .5, lier’s Dot of Capitol View 147739, a \. A . . A . daughter of one of the foundation ani- )1. \g \ ~ mals, who went to L. J. Moreland of / _ » .m [Kalamazoo for $500. Three other fee ‘ NEWWU' lmales fetched $400 or over. The top bull w as Corium Nellie’s Hector 118726, the junior herd sire, which brought $330 from Herbert Martens of White Cloud. Calves of this bull were exceptionally promising and were eagerly sought after. The forty-five head went to twenty- seven buyers, including two from out of state. Rea Riggin 8: Son, Muncie, Indiana, were the heaviest buyers, tak- Sound ing five head for $1,180. A bull calf out of Lorna Girl of Fairmonde 114938 ' went to S. F. Morton, Fordyce, Arkan- agaln sas. A. C. Houseknecht, Jonesville, , took four head for $1,120. H. J. Gold- and ready for longdavosf toil—lamenessgoes stein, Detroit, took three head for quickly, under this easy home treatment: 5950' L' J' Morelalld’ Ifalamazoo’ also took three head, including the top cow SAVE THE HORSE and her half sister, for $925. I(fiuarmgteezllfor Sdptaviin, tliltfrgpiri, A crowd estimated at. 400 attended S int,_cur ,an injure en on,a S ou- the sale. \Valter Andrews Beach er, hlp' leg and fOOt troubles. FREE City, Ohio, auctioneered the sale in “Symptom Book” describes all lame- . . nesses, and tells how to end them while his usual alert and pleasing manner. l horse works. Write today! The Michigan thernsey Breeders’ ‘ TROY CHEMICAL co_ ' ASS’D, VV. D. Burrington, field score 322 Sta“ 5“ a'fllhlmton-N-V- tary, managed the sale. Bidding was Druglzists can supfily “Savo-tho-Horoo"—01. we . - . - . . ship direct, paslpaid. No substitute willdo as much. vely aCth 9' 101 the InOSt Dal t and 95' pecially so on the outstanding offer- ings. Good young cows and typey Please Mention Th6 MlCh- heifers were in good demand at very igan Farmer when writing to sa'triisifacimfi 31.115826: a “ed up just .. ~ e ie't \" re.. —~ advertlsers' in its working clothes. The prices re- ceived are not altogether indicative of the true value of the. animals be- cause most of the cows fresliened dur- ing the falland early winter and had milked off much of their conditioning. STEER PRICES RECEDE IN spite of a semi-starvation run, the steer market has weakened and the SHEAR Sheep and 60313 for recent upturn of fifty cents to one MORE PROFITS dollar on better grades with weight has been erased. Changes in prices Why stick to slow hand-shearing when you can get10t015%morewoolinl$8umeby5heafing both up and down on the lower grades this new way. have been small, while light yearlings SEND FOR FACTS! have shown independent strength. Th Stewart machine shears better. quicker. easier. - . . . . , Thgusandsin use. Paysior itself the first 40sheep Prlces 0f heavy fat cells ddv‘lnced’ —then goes on pifinlgutpfirofitslfgigiéguigefilsoagg but lower grades, cutters, and bulls . H an y u ex u ' . algae Will’sendvflree. Tgllsgrovenwaysto malice Slumped during th" paSt week- morenioney frloim same siliee&w%hiessego:t- N0 While total receipts in the last ten mugfghgndfdwgbaandcgttgge days have been smallest in several CHICAGO FLEXIBLE SHAFT co_ years except at holiday periods, arri- Mm mw.floouvoltfld..chiouo,lu. vals include an increasing proportion of well—finished steers, so that the pro-- mium for those showing long acquain- tance with corn is diminishing. Sup- plies of intermediate and low grade steers are not likely to change mate- rially until the grass season arrives and prices for them will be sustained also by feeder demand. LIVE STOCK CO-OPS DO LARGE BUSINESS N 1927 more than twenty-three per cent of the live stock receipts at Chicago came from cooperative mar- keting agencies, according to figures compiled by the Bureau of Agricul- tural Economics. \Vith the exception of 1926 the increase in business handled by the live stock coOperatives during the last five years has been consistent. BETTER MARKET AHEAD FOR COWS AND HEIFERS RECEIPTS of cows and heifers are more likely to diminish than to in- crease in the next two months and a. higher market can be expected later on. After declining about two dollars from their high point two or three weeks ago, veal calf prices rallied sharply in the last few days. They probably will drop two or three dollars before reaching bottom. although this break will be partly due to poorer quality of the arrivals while the spring rush of light reads from dairy districts is under way. PORK PRODUCTS IN BETTER DEMAND ABROAD RADE conditions abroad have changed in favor of slightly larger exports of hog products from the United States. Clearances of both meats and lard have increased in the last three weeks and shipments of lard from January 1 to March 3 show a gain of nearly twenty-five per cent over the same period a year previous. The peak of winter slaughter in both Germany and Denmark has been passed although the extremely unfav- orable ratio between prices of hogs and feed costs is still forcing liquida- tion, especially in Germany. In the I'nited Kingdom, supplies of bacon from the continent are expected to diminish slightly in the next few months. Low prices during the past year have stimulated consumption and this increase in demand is likely to continue for a while. LAMBS HIGHEST OF SEASON ECEIPTS of lambs diminished sharply last week and prices ad- vanced to the highest point of the win- ter with the top at Chicago at $16.75. Heavyweights have lagged behind in this upturn, however. In spite of the larger number of lambs remaining on feed, it is probable that receipts in the next three months will not aver- age much larger than in the last three weeks. The early lamb crop in all sections combined is estimated at eight per cent greater than last year. FURTHER DECLINE IN HOGS 0G receipts have. declined about fifteen per cent compared with three weeks ago in line with the usual tendency at this seasmi. Prices have strengthened ‘slightly but they still re— main in the narrow groove ~in which they have fluctuated for the last two months. Chicago prices have ranged from $7.80 to $8.35 since early in January. With prospects of a further shrinkage in receipts in the next few weeks, higher prices are probable. Whenever the market gets out of the rut in which it has been for the last sixty days, a sharp upturn can be ex- pected. 31$ch 24, 1928 AMwushum: /: for the ‘ ' Red Brand flopufinfi SHEEP andsoYBEANS J. L. Fleshner, Allenville, Illinois, plants 2 or 3 soy beans in each hill of com. A carload of Fall lambs get fat on the beans, lower blades of corn and stray weeds. _ Soy beansplanted with com and rye . drilled between the corn rows gives ; R. V. Disharoon, Villa Ridge, Mo., a ‘, live stock profit out of his corn field. . RED BRAND FENCE “Galvannoalod”—copper Bearing ,, « makes extra profits possible for many years \ to come. More than this, it keeps the chil- dren on the farm. “F or what boy or girl will learn to love the farm if they are con- tinually worn out running after breechy stock or chasing neighbors’ pigs?” asks Mrs. Grace Frey, Abilene, Kansas. 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Beat the other follow to th- murket. Got. a better price for your min. The ravines soon my tor the climber. Folds:- f‘m \ " Form a. small madam ring in» your locality. and ‘ make additional money. Write today for 1in particulars. mi? BANTING muuucnnuuc £me l ., ;i F ‘5. 'JOI‘SOY Bull militia iii}. 9'ifii..m‘”" 5"“ MARCH 24, 1928 BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY CATTLE PUBLIC SALE OF PURE BRED GUERNSEY CATTLE on Wednesday, March 28, I will sell at Public Auction, on the . farm known as the H. B. Tripp Farm. Horton, Mich., 13 head of Registered and 5 head of Grade Guernsey cattle, consisting of 7 registered cows, 1 grade, 3 yearlings and 6 calves. These animals carry the best blood of the breed, and the herd is free from T. B. and abortion. Sale of cattle begins at 1 o’clock eastern standard time. Dinner at noon as there is a quantity of. tools to be sold in the forenoon. E. C. Fowler, Horton, Mich. Wallinwood Guernseys BROOKMEAD'S SECRET KINGtor Bale. JENISON, MICH. Sons of F. W. WALLIN, GUERNSEYS either sex. whose sires’ dams have otlicial records of 15.- 1001!) milk. 778.80 fat. 19,400.50 milk. 909.05 fat. T. V. HICKS. Battle Creek, Mich., R. I. 8 mo. old. M... . l-,r".‘...l' Guernsey Bu" Ifi'éllafllli‘fllilli Farm breed- ing. Sire, Marshall Chief of Triclm. “'i'itc ELIAS, 306 David Whitney Building. Detroit. Two young Guernsey balls of senir-eable ago. good breeding and records, priced to sell M. A. CARPENTER, Edmore. Mich. ulllt'k. ' Dairy Heifer Calvel. practically Guernsey pure bred $25.00 each. We ship C. 0. D. Write L. Terwillizer, Wouwotosn, Wis. ~l‘teg. Guernsey cows and a few bull For sale calves, sire by Imp. ()oro Honor. JOHN EBELS. Holland. Mich., R. 2. FOR practically pure-bred GUERNSEY or HOL- BTEIN calves. from heavy. rich mllken. write EDGEWOOD DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater, Win. BULL CALF Born July I. l927 At Traverse City State Hospital Slred. by Sir Bass Ormsby Folios 50th whose dam made almost 1,100 pounds butter in a. year and over 32 pounds in seven days. Dam. Traverse Marathon Rag Apple, a tested (laughter of Marathon Buss Burke 32d the great son of Wisconsin Fobes 0th who made 1.105 lbs. butter in a year and 38.58 lbs. in 7 days. Write for pedigree ol‘ Tag No. 703 Michigan State Herds J. E. Burnett. Director Lansing, Michigan , SERVICEABLE 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 (30 lb.) two- year—old daughter of Creator. His sire is King Segis Alcartra Prilly, an undefeated Show bull with 70 A. R. daughters. Others sired by a 5 times 1200 lb. Champion Bull, the famous K. P. O. P. breeding. Bred cows and heifers served by these sires are available for founda- tion stock. RED ROSE FARMS DAIRY Northville, Michigan Telephone: 344 Reference: Northville State Savings Bank PRODUCTION SALE 45 Registered Holsteins West Michigan Fair Grounds, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 18th, 1p. m., daylight savings. All animals from the Accredited Herd of Blythe— field Farms owned by Joseph H. Brewer. Write for catalog. $250 00 buys five head of llolstcins, four ' high grade heifers nicely market]. from four to eight months old and one registered bull nine months old not, akin to heifers. B. B REAVEY. Akron, Michigan. I "AYE "In" Iullrlnn MoLsrslu (Anu for sale. l'ilII't‘f-i. antll RegIStered HOISIeInS vcarlings. males and females, good breeding. 2 bulls about ready for serHt-e. Prices reasonable. Orr Bros., Decatur. Mich. Auction Sale of Pure Bred Jersey Battle 7g; miles northwest of lonia, Mich., MARCH 28th 6 COWS in milk, all in Mich. R. of P., average production 356.36 lbs. fat per yr. Six heifers from 9 to 13 months old, and 2 heifer calves sired by high class bull from a dam producing 529 lbs. fat at 2 yrs. of age which will be sold. He took 2nd prize at Io-nia Fair (6 entries) in 1927. T. B. tested, State and Federal supervision, FRED C. SHENDORF, Beldting, Mic'higan. 6 dams average 515 fat. Also bull calf from a RAY BAKER. Omo, Mloh. " me dm' .‘ _‘ r‘ . . . ' P I lllllllifi SHOB‘THW 3:33. Thine... mm. Shorthorn THE MICHIGAN FARMER HOLSTEIN MEETS EE‘TINGS of pure-bred Holstein breeders seem larger and livelier than usual this year. Possibly the rising market for surplus Holsteins accounts in part for these healthy manifestations. The annual rally of the Gratiot County Holstein Association held March 7 at St. Louis came up to the 1928 style; more out than usual and more pep. One thing that, has jazzed up the boys is the part: they played through their association in putting across the TB. test program in Gra- tiot County. Another stimulator is the successful work pulled off last year along calf club lines. Glen Boyd, St. Louis, reported twenty boys in calf club work last year and a larger num- ber planning on getting in this season. In gazing about, for something to tackle, the boys cspied a move on foot to install a “dairy-minded” county agricultural agent in Gratiot. Formal action was taken at the meeting en- dorsing such a worthy project. Officers elected are President, T. B. Himcs, Perrinton: .Secret-a1').'»'l‘reasurcr. Glen Boyd, St. Louis; Vice-President, Lee Roycraft, Ithaca: other directors, Levi Pritchard, Alma: and Louis Brink, Alma. Kent Meeting Staging a free feed for “any and all” Holstein enthusiasts may account in part for the copious turn-out March 9 in Grand Rapids at the annual meet of Kent County Holstein Association. I Another drawing card was a, brand Inew line of talk handed out by Dr. 1 E. T. Hallman of M. S. C. Doc talked on “Infectious Abortion.” The fact that he was’almost swamped by ques— tions proved that Dr. Hallman’s talk scored big in interest. Another speaker who gripped the crowd was Emil Kober. a local calf club boy. Emil described his trip to the National Dairy Show held last fall at Memphis, Tennessee. Emil. by the way, won this trip by the simple act of turning in the highest score~~ ninety-five per cent——evcr rung up by a calf club boy at the State Fair in a judging contest. Mayhap the fact that the local asso- ciation has over four hundred dollars in the treasury may account for some of the good spirit. Most, of this money accumulated from the association’s share of commission through the county sales manager's plan of doing business. Some of this money is to be spent in advertising Kent; County Holsteins, part in sending the best calf club boy to the National Dairy Show next fall. Officers are headed by John Krum of Lowell: William Anderson of Kent: City was chosen Vice-President: Al- bert Jen kins, Grand Rapids. Secre- tary; H. A. F'ick, Kent City, Trea- surer; and John C. Buth, Grand Rapids was continued in county sales -manager. Jim Hays, Secretary of the State Holstein Association, talked at both office as Mm. ~ on! cows, from and coming n-edx. Mood t. Dollar Skinner-L 890.. (low-n. melt. the Gratiot. and Kent meetings on the new Holstein herd test, the Herd Im— provement Registry. Three herds in Gratiot and five in Kent are testing in this new division. ONEKAMA ASSOCIATION PROSPERS T the annual stockholders’ meet- ing of the Onekama Farm Bur-i eau, Inc., the following directors were elected for the coming year: Fred Bradford, John Gould, Jr.: Ole Miller, Wm. Kline, August Berklund, Eugene Koegler, and Gardie Anderson. These are the same members as last year with the exception of Gould, Berk- lund, and Koegler who replace An- drew Hansen, W. F. Wagoner, and Louis Porter. The new board will meet in the near future for election of officers. Currie J. Chrestensen, manager of this farmers’ cooperative organization, , 37’-439 88 Hereford Bows read the annual business report show- ing an increase in sales from $177,- 707.00 in 1926 to $194,411.00 in 1927. Big wide mm kind, dark reds. dehorncd. Bred to _ . extra good Hereford bulls to write about April lot. Flint sales dropped from $49,951.00 to Will sell you choice my load. Also 22 Hereford - - , cows and calves and 24 heavy springers. Also other $33'829'00 due to kllllng frOSts laSt hunches. All T. B. tested. Also yearling and'2 spying and ullugually unfavorable! yr. old stm-kers and feeding steers sorted even in tl d't' th l1 ut , size and quality. .wea lel‘ COD 1 10118 roug 0 Eldon. Iowa the ‘ growing season. iVA" S. BALDWIN, The most noticeable increase was in. F O r s a I e lifGl‘fiLngED’w ”£57335:- . f .s .' _' (‘l s, ' '., the cream buying department where ; livo valves. one bull. two years. JUREN MURRA. tilt" jump was from $21,139.00 to $33”; Blanchard, Mich. Six miles east Blanchard. 605.00. This would seem to indicate1 Registered an increased interest in dairying int Manistee County, better feeding prac-i tices as the result of cow testing asso- ’ Red Polled A "W "ll“ii‘t‘nafllll’s of W" 5“ lit-own Swiss for sale. cows 10 and 11 yrs. old duo in Feb. 2 bred limiters. Also bulb of serviceable age. A. A. FELDKAMP, Manchester. Mich. , , , , for sale. YSTAN STOCK motions, and a consnlerable improve- FARM, won some, West Branch, Mich. ment in the standard of stock. It was decided by the stockholders 3 . .‘ ' ' ) ' ‘ ~ to ddtfclziitf a stock (lfllVldtlld this yteatd, HOCS an». or do comm, ve ears ms ea 2 y ’ .‘. . on SAM; ~1)ur0(' out. of type and quality. bred 0f the usual seven per cent cash (llVl- ,0 ”my, Orion No. 2.;5227. Also a few spring . , . ' s. st' .1 C. O. D. on a- dend in order to build the working} ""4” “WT"?- g3‘§;LEYI“‘X‘.‘;,, Mich, ' p proval. capital up from $12,000.00 to where it} 5 will meet demands made upon it by? D U R O C IS 0 W t . . ' ' .' Sold at a sacrifice. Never a letter time to star. in the expansion "1 bllSIIlCSS. tho hog I)llslll('~h. The longer the market stays down. the higher and faster the come bat-k. We guarantee bilii\'II:J 11... Sound. E. H. ROWE. Lyons, Mich. R. l. Portland phone 335 2 L 2 S. # Hours SAVED M ahc MONEY Farmwi fe . fir the For homes with elec- tricity, the Maytag is available with electric motor. we trial Do your next washing with a Maytag. There is no cost, no obligation, no influ- ence other than the remarkable way in which it will wash for you, the speed with which it gets clothes clean, the remark- able freedom from hard work and long hours. Phone or write any Maytag dealer for an electric or a Multi—Motor Maytag. 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