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He Plans Well and Works

T flat 1': Me Secret of Success in Me Farming Operation: of
E. A. Lam/5e23, Master Farmer

NDUSTRY, the mother of good
I luck, has been an important factor

in the success of E. A. Lundberg
of Eaton County. Further, this in-
dustry has been applied to a sound
system of farming—a system that
uses labor economically and distri-
butes it through-
out the year.
Alsq every
branch of the
Lundberg farm is
functioning.
There is nothing
“run down,” each
crop and kind of
stock stands on
its own merits.

That this man
has carefully
worked out a.
thorough-going policy and put it into
practice, is one’s first impression of
the Lundberg premises, and that im-
pression grows as he investigates
closely the methods adopted in crop
production and live stock husbandry.

Born in Sweden, Mr. Lundberg
came to this country when a small
boy and with his parents enjoyed (1’)
the usual hardships of the pioneer.
His early years were spent on a farm
near Eaton Rapids from whence he
secured his common and high school
education. For ten years thereafter
he worked as an electrician, when the
call of the land brought him back to
the farm. Since 1907 he has been
building soils, barns, and a splendid
herd‘of Holstein cattle. The original
farm consisted of 150 acres to which
enough has been added to bring the
total acreage to 256.

His farm program is a combination
of dairying and general farming. The
major crops raised are wheat, beans,
oats, corn, and hay. Sugar beets, po-
tatoes, and barley are produced to
some extent. The dairy herd consists
of over forty head of pure-bred Hol-

 

Crop Failures Inspire Better

OME years ago a new so-called dry
farming method was introduced in
the semi-arid sections of the west.

'As is often the case with progress
along any line, the development in
this so-called dry farming system was
largely due to a disastrous crop fail-
ure. Briefly the story follows:

A mid-western wheat grower had
almost a complete crop failure. The
large area which he had sown to
wheat did not produce a crop worth
harvesting. Following the seeding
period, the weather had been too dry
to produce vigorous germination of
the seed and strong winds prevalent
in that section had moved the loose
and poorly-fitted soil and actually
blown much of the seed out of the
ground, or buried it deeply in other
portions of the field. And yet, not-
withstanding this complete crop fail-
ure there were narrow streaks of good
wheat showing here and there on this

    
 
  

steins of which about twenty are cows
in milk. The farm income is derived
largely. from the sale of milk and
cash crops.

In working out a practical and pro-
fitable system of farming, Mr. Lund-
berg has never for a moment lost
sight of the importance in that system
of fertile soils. When he started, his

first desire was to determine what was
needed to bring production above the
average.

“The first crop of wheat I harv-

broadcast, as I didn’t own a fertilizer
drill. On this field I received twenty-
one bushels per acre and an excellent
stand of clover; but another five acres
where no fertilizer was sown, was
again a failure.”

This convinced Mr. Lundberg of the
advantages in the use of fertilizers.
He soon learned other lessons about
soil. One was the need of tile drain-
age where natural drainage failed to
get the surplus water off the fields
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There Is a Dignity and an OrderlineSS About the Lundberg Farmstead That

Captures the Imagination and

ested,” he said, “was eight bushels
per acre, which I considered a failure.
I knew there was something lacking.
We discussed commercial fertilizers
in the grange, of which I had become
a member, and I thought I would try
it out. I sent to Detroit for a ton by
local freight and sowed it on fourteen
acres, leaving test strips. The strips
were a failure, but we harvested from
the field thirty bushels per acre. I
was convinced at once. The stand of
clover also was fine. Again I sowed
five acres by applying the fertilizer

Reflects the Spirit of Industry

to do,” he told the writer. “is to tile
the low spots in the fields. Our land
is clay with a red clay subsoil. It
injures this land to work it when wet;
but when tiled we can get on the fields
early in the spring.”

He also plows down green craps.
In a four-year rotation he plows under
a crop of clover every eight years, if
the field is near the barns where it
gets an application of manure. But
on the land removed from the barns,
a cr0p of clover is plowed down every
four years.

By I. R. Waterbury

called dry farming system was devel-
oped. This farmer still used a narrow
tired wagon. He had drawn his seed
over the soft ground to points where
it was needed in this wagon and here
and there across this big wheat field,
wherever the wheels of this wagon
traveled, were narrow rows of good
wheat which stood out in sharp con-
trast to the non-productive area.

This farmer was a close observer
and quickly got the idea that if he
could have worked the entire surface
of the soil in a manner similar to the
effect produced by the wheels of the
narrow tired wagon, he would have
had a good crop of wheat instead of
this disastrous failure. Thus was
born the idea of the so-called sub-sur-
face packer, the intelligent use of
which was largely responsible for the
success of the so-called dry farming
method. . .. « . . _

  
 

to my imagination very strongly, even
though I was farming in Michigan
under comparatively favorable clima-
tic conditions and did not then feel
the need of such an implement in my
farming operations. But some years
later, when I commenced to‘ experi-
ment in the growing of alfalfa, 1 pre-
pared a field and sowed it to alfalfa
without a nurse crop. The seed bed
had been well prepared and after the
alfalfa seed was sown it was rolled
With an ordinary land roller. There
was plenty of moisture to germinate
the seed which came up quickly, but
it so happened that there was no rain
for some two weeks and after the
seeding was nicely up we had a very
severe and continued wind which
whipped sharp particles of sand from
the smooth surface and cut the tender
young plants of: or injured them I

    

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The writer aided in measuring a
seven and one-half acre field of wheat
on this farm last summer which
yielded at the rate of fifty-four bush-
els per acre, while forty acres gave
an average of forty—three bushels per
acre. He also raised ’ ninety-three
bushels of oats per acre. This indi-
cates something of the condition of
the soil.

Stable manure is hauled to the field
directly during the winter and spread
on the corn ground. When the soil
becomes soft in the spring, the man-
ure is left in the yard. Mr. Lundberg
believes that hauling wagons over
wet land does more damage than the
manure can do good. The spring and
early summer accumulation of manure
is used for top-dressing the wheat
ground.

Unusual care is given to the pre-
paration of the seed bed. Soil rich
in plant food and humus requires
comparatively little cultivation to se-
cure that fine mechanical condition
best suited for crop production. Fur-
thermore, it is easier to maintain this
condition for the hoed crops. But this
Master Farmer is not negligent be-
cause of this advantage. He plans
early and carefully that. he might
have ample time to put in every crop
and care for it in a manner that
should give a maximum yield.

To keep farm work up to the min-
ute, one must have! ample power avail«
able, says this practical man. To this
end he finds the tractor most valuable.
When he farmed 150 acres it required
eight horses to do the work as he per-
formed it. Now, with the same hired
help, he is able to carry on even more
effectually with five horses and the
tractor on 256 acres. When it is too
wet to run the tractor on his clayey
land it should not be worked, he de-
clares.

The dairy herd is an important fac-

(Continued to page 485)

Methods

level but I noted that in the dead-fur-
rows and wherever the slope of the
ground protected the surface from this
heavy wind, the plants were unin-
jured.

Soon after that experience I hap-
pened to be in the warehouse of an
implement distributor and there saw
an exhibition of a new implement
which had recently been developed,
called a culti-packer. This embodied
to a degree the principle of the sub-
surface packer, as well as the useful-
ness of a land roller and harrow to
be used in fitting a seed bed or in
packing the surface after the crop
was sown. I decided at once that if
I had had an implement of that kind
I would not have lost my alfalfa seed-
ing. I immediately purchased one.
That was something like fifteen years
ago and this implement has been used
on. my farm ever since. At first 1?:
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ECENT measure-

" ments of the
Conditions state. of industry and
Leak trade make more
Better pleasant reading than
those of a. month or

two ago. Activity has increased in

many important lines and enough m0-
mentum developed to carry through
the months immediately ahead. len-
oral business activity has recovered
about two-thirds of the slump which
occurred in the last quarter of 1927.

Building contracts awarded in Feb-
ruary wore the largest for that month
on record. In the first half of March,
they were larger than a year ago. Ex-
tensive programs of national, state,
and municipal improvements, espe-
cially road building, indicate continued
activity in this field. The automobile
industry is turning out about as many
cars and trucks without Ford as were
being produced with Ford included a,
year ago. The steel industry has been
receiving liberal orders from the auto
and construction industries and is
operating at eighty-three to eighty—five
per cent of capacity. Stool produo
tion for the first quarter was slightly
larger than a year ago. The cotton
goods industry appears to have gained
in activity in the last month.

Employment has increased com-

pared with midwinter volume. The
department of labor’s index of manu-
facturing employment; for February
was eighty—five and five—tenths COlll-
pared with ninety—one a year ago.
March probably will make a more
favorable comparison with last year
than February.

Loading of freight cars are smaller
than last year, and for the year to
March 10, they have fallen behind by
seven per cent. However, loadings of
coal were unusually heavy in the early
part of 1927 in anticipation of the coal
strike, whereas, present coal loadings
. are below normal.

In the important field of money
rates,» a. little stiffening is noticeable.
Increased commercial demand, be-
cause of business, and continued ex-
ports of gold are responsible. March

THE MICHIGAN FARM'ER

exports will total about $100,000,000
and close students predict further
shipments abroad in the early future.
While tightening of credit may result
eventually from this gold movement,
no immediate change of importance is
probable.

Our hope is that this prosperity may
reach way back to the farmer and his
family.

AST week Hon.

Friend of . I. H. Butterfield,
M. [1' rather of the Presi-
‘c '3‘" dent of Michigan

Agriculture State College and a

11 f eslong friend of
Michigan agriculture was laid at rest,
having lived beyond his four score of
years. To the last Mr. Butterfield re-
tained an active interest in agricul-
ture.

To him Michigan is much indebted.
Perhaps more than any other person,
he was responsible for the building of
the Michigan State Fair. No one knew
better the history of that institution.
For many years he served as secre-
tary of what was then the Michigan
Agricultural College. He was a leader
in the Michigan Live Stock Breeders’
and Feeders’ Association. He did
much to promote the breeding of bet-
ter grains and other crops. 1. H. But<
terfield will be accorded a permanent
place among the pioneers in estab-
lishing a. sound agriculture in this

state.
S one notices the
A Few sentiment about
agricultural matters
Chances and learns of the
Left types of organizations
that now have stand-
ing and special agricultural com-

mittees, one would conclude, unless
wise, that you should go anywhere
but to farmers for sympathetic or in-
telligent help in dealing with these
troublesome farm questions.

But, however much outsiders have
forced their attention on agriculture,
there is a large part of the problem
of agriculture that can be handled
only by the farmers themselves.
And We believe that the part that
awaits treatment directly under the
hand of the farmer, is much larger
than most of us would recognize.

The things which are likely to add
more to the right side of the ledger
at the end of the year than any na-
tional legislation could possibly do, are
good soil, well-fitted fields, the best
seeds, and timely planting. These are
within reach of all farmers. And as
one farmer said, “before we complain
too severely, we should make the full-
est use of the opportunities to grow
crops efficiently. That is not only a
privilege but a responsibility.”

l-IE best security

Approved for civilization
F lies in the home, and
arm particularly the farm
Homes home. It is this class

of homes that has
given us educators like Horace Mann,
inventors like Thomas Edison, and
editors like Horace Greely.

But considering the rapid strides of
progress, too little has been done to
improve the farm home. Various
manufacturers of conveniences, com-
forts, and necessities of the farm
home have done commendable re-
search along the line of their individ-
ual product in making it adaptable to
the needs of the farm home and the
size of the farmer’s pocketbook. But
if we are planning to build a new
farm home or remodel our present
old-fashioned one for greater conveni-
ence, practical information is limited.

The agricultural college has been
working earnestly to help solve this
problem and it was in cooperation
with them that the, Approved Farm
Home project was worked out, as an-
nounced sometime ago through these
columns. Already we have published
the story and plans of two Michigan
farm homes that have been approved

  

by the committee. The scoring of
several others is practically complete.
The plans of these approved homes
represent the best in the way of con-
venience, comfort, and economy. ‘

Every farm is and should be an in-
stitution that expresses the individual-
ity and meets the needs of the family.
Yet there are certain basic principles
and requirements that should be con-
sidered by those who anticipate build-
ing or remodeling. These standard re-
quirements for the Approved Farm
Home have been compiled in a bulle-
tin, copies of which are available to
our readers at ten cents each.

Stories and plans of convenient,
comfortable farm homes, whether new
or remodeled will be published
throughout the year as they are ap-
proved by the committee. In this
way, the farm homes of Michigan that
best suit the rural families’ needs can
be studied and adapted in part or in
whole by the farmer who anticipates
building a new home or remodeling
his present one.

HE garden is one

Wealth of those “extra

things” in the opera-
and the tion of: a farm that
Garden is often thought to be

a nuisance. It is not
called a part of the big “he-man”
work of the farm and is therefore
often looked upon with scorn by the
male part of the family. It is, there-
fore, left to the discretion and labor
of the women who have nothing to do
but work.

The, garden is one of the greatest
health factors on the farm and should
therefore be put up with, even though
seemingly a nuisance. But it is also
a wealth factor that is increasing in
importance in Michigan especially.

Michigan has an increasing fame as
a place for summer recreation. Its
beauty spots are so well distributed
that most every section has its recrea-
tional development. This offers many
a farmer a good opportunity to furnish
resorts, camps, hunting clubs, hotels,
and stores with fresh vegetables and
fruits. This recreational development
of the state is bringing the consumer
right to the source of production at a
time when vegetable production is
at its best and when these vacation-
ists want to gain health and vigor
through healthful diet, fresh air, and
sunshine, the three greatest remedies
ever discovered.

The good roads are also bringing
city dwellers into the country where
they will buy from attractive roadside
stands which will'sell quality products
at fair prices. There must be money
in it for a lot of fake-farmers are run-
ning roadside stands for a living.

We believe that the status of the
farm garden is comparable to what
the form flock used to be. That was
woman’s business and, therefore, no
good, but now often it is a main
sour-Ce of farm revenue. So will this
neglected line of farming, the garden,
come to its proper place of esteem in
farm activities.

HEN one tries

Farm .to summarize or
S classfiy the founda-
uccefs tions of success in
Essentials farming, he can get

them down to about

three ‘cssentials: maintenance of soil
fertility, knowledge of the relation of
cost of production to profits, and the
efficient use. of labor and equipment.
The maintenance of soil is of ut-
most importance for the soil is the
fund from which the farmer draws
his farm resources. One sometimes
hears of a man growing a crop which
brought nearly as much as his farm
cost. But that man will be poor if
he does not replace in the soil those
things which his big crops have taken
out. The net result of such crops‘may
be a loss if one considers soil fertility.
But the man who feeds his soil prop-

his farm.

crly will have an increasing asset in

  

APRIL 7, ”328

The knowledge of cost and profits
will solve many farm problems. To
know what the profits or losses of
each animal, or crop are, will gener-
ally lead a. man to increased profits.
His efforts will, make him see the need
of better animals, better feed, better
seed, and greater soil fertility. A
knowledge of how his present plans
are working will furnish a foundation
for making his future plans work
better.

Labor and equipment may in a. way
be called part of the overhead. Often
more labor is used on an unsuccess-
ful farm than on a. well-managed one.
The successful farmer will so plan
that he can get the most efl‘icient year—
round use of his farm labor and
equipment. One getS' much greater
returns from equipment used every
day than once a. year. However,
where timeliness is a factor there may
be economy in equipment infrequent-
ly used. To know what one is doing
and why are great success factors.
The essentials referred to above are
great helps in this respect.

Society

ELL, we’ve been out in society,
me and Sofie. You see, Mrs.-
Wellington, of the church, gave a. re—
ception for her brother-in—law who is
alderman from the thirteenth ward of
Detroit, and we was invited. Maybe
he is goin’ to run fer Governor or
something like that and wants to show
us What a good fellow he is.
It takes about a week to get ready
for these receptions which-last about
an hour, but an hour is too long fer

"WWW/[WM me. But you see

     

about a week
or so before
hand, the womin
folkses begin to
worry about what
they’re goin’ to
wear, and they
talk about new
dresses, new
hats, and etc.
But mostly its just talkin’ about them
because when the husband is taken
into the deal, he kinda diplomaticly
decides a new dress ain’t necessary,
and etc, if he can.

Well, after you get yourself as un-
comfortabul as you can with a white
collar on and etc., you’re ready. Then
you go and stand in line to shake
hands with the big gazaboo, I guess
you call ’im. Then you stand around
and talk a little or try to, and feel
uncomfortabul a little more, get a.
little drink of fruit juice or something
like that, and listen to somebody ex-
press their bad feelin’s on the piano,
and then somebody makes a very im-
perfect singin’ of the. End of a Per-
feet Day or something like that, next
you go to what you call the
hostess and say you’ve had a excel—
lent time when you ain’t had no such
thing.

The womin is talking about this
reception yet, about what everybody
wore and also what they didn’t wear,
how Susie’s knees was exposed, and
etc. '

You know there’s lots of: folks what
is social climbers. They want to get
in the upper society and will stand
lots of discomfort to do it. But society
ain’t nothin’ but folkses gettin’ to-

gether. Me and Sam Jones and Will
Robinson and a few others settin’
around the store stove is society.

Lots of folkses don’t think so because
we’re comfortable about our gather-
in’s. There’s society all along the line
from the poorest to the richest. Of
course, the poor can’t match pennies
with the rich so they don’t go to
gether.

But I ain’t fer no society what ain’t
comfortabul to me. If my communion
with my fellow men is gotta be pains
ful, I’m fer enjoyin’ what you call soli-
tude. There ain't no discomfort if
there ain’t no false pride and pretbm
tion around. . If folkm,wu_l Mfijbe
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‘ Povver for Making Silage

Electric Motor Prove: Economical for t/zir foé

By 0. E. Robcy

AST fall the Agricultural Engi-
neering Department of the Mich-
igan State College endeavored to

.find how practical an electric motor

might be in operating an ensilage cut-
ter. This experiment was carried out
on farms along the Mason—Dansville
Experimental Electric Power Line.

“In adapting electricity to farm ma-
chines, changes in the methods of
doing the work often have to be made.

‘Elect’ricity can conveniently be used

with smaller power units and by ex-
tending the time, the same amount of
work can be accomplished with fewer
hands and often the machines can be
made practically automatic. .
Filling the silo, as is ordinarily
done, with a large ensilage cutter

largely for lights and the 220-volt cur-
rent for power.

Another requirement, where an ex-
tensive use of current is to be made,
is a satisfactory rate. 011 this line
when more than thirty kilowatt hours
are consumed, current is secured for
three cents per kilowatt hour.

In connecting up this ensilage cut—
ter, a long flexible cable was used to
carry the current. This was attached

directly to the service box at the’

house or at the panel box at the barn.
After a few experiments it was found
that the ensilage cutter could be run
at a much lower speed with motor
drive than what it was rated to run
at. The rated speed of the ensilage
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With the Electric Motor Attached Directly to the Cutter Frame, it Was
Possible to Do This Work Economically with a Small Crew '

Operated with a tractor and neces—
sarily requiring a large crew, is not
an ideal job for an electric motor on
a rural power line.

At first it did not seem feasible to

- use a motor for this purpose because

a rural power line is not usually de-
signed to handle more than a five-
horse power motor; and also, in most
cases, it would not be practical to pur-
chase a large motor for operating the
ensilage cutter when a tractor is al-
ready available.

The problem then seemed to be to
select a small ensilage cutter and see
if it could be satisfactorily operated
with a small motor which would be
suitable for other jobs on the farm.

An eleven—inch ensilage cutter was
selected. This was belted directly to
a five—horse power single phase 220-
volt electric motor, mounted on the
frame of the cutter. The motor could
be stopped or started by a push but-
ton at the feed table, and was pro-
vided with a special overload release
which stopped the motor if a continu-
ous overload was applied. A belt
tightener was also provided which per-
mitted the motor being started under
no load, and power gradually applied
until the cutter came up to speed.

Having the motor mounted on the
frame of the cutter, eliminated the
necessity of staking or bracing the
machine and did away with the long
belt which sometimes interferes with
driving through the yard with loads
of corn. This outfit was used in fill-
ing four silos ranging in height from

' twenty-eight to forty feet.

It might be well to state here that
before electricity can be used exten-
sively for power purposes on a farm,
proper provision should be made to
have ample transformer capacity and
large enough wire from the transform-

' er to the house and to the various

buildings to carry the large amount of
current necessary for power purposes.

All the farms .on the Mason-Dans-
villa line were wired for power. Each
f " ' , sr' 20-volt‘cur:

ute. This was reduced to 550 revolu—
tions per minute with greater effi—
ciency and better elevating capacity.

The first silo filled was thirty-two
feet high. The cornfield was adja-
cent to the barn. The crew consisted
of six men and two teams. Forty tons
of ensilage were put into this silo in
eight hours. No difficulty was experi-
enced in elevating the silage. One of
the things that was very noticeable
was the quietness of running. Men
working twenty rods away could not
hear the hum of the filler. This was
due to the low speed. A meter was
attached to the outfit to determine
the amount of current used. This first
silo required forty-one kilowatt hours
or $1.23 worth of current.

The second silo was thirty~seven
feet high. Fifty-three tons of ensilage
was cut and placed in the silo. The
entire filling operation was done by
two men in eighteen hours. Two
wagons were taken to the field and
filled by the two men. These loads
were brought to the barn and unload-
ed and fed to the filler by one man
while the other tramped the ensilage
in the silo.

These men commented on the ease
of stopping and starting the outfit by
merely pushing a button. No crank-
ing was necessary as with a tractor.

In this silo a little trouble was ex-
perienced due to low voltage. The
transformer was too small and too
far away and a drOp of forty volts oc-
curred under a heavy load. One dol-
lar and ninety-eight cents worth of
current was used in filling this silo.
The low voltage and the starting of
the motor many times caused a slight
increase in the cost of filling this silo.

The next silo was forty feet high.
A crew of seven men put up sixty-
five tons of silage in fifteen hours.
The field in this case was located one
hundred rods from the barn. The cur-
rent consumed cost $1.59.

The fourth silo, filled was twenty-
elght feet high and whilesonly thirty
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No Farm

HE agricultural committees of
both houses of Congress have
favorably reported the newly-
drawn McNary-Haugen bill for pas-
sage. And both committees have ap-
proved the equalization fee principle.

The purpose of the bill is to stabil-
ize the prices of farm products by
removing the surplus from the do-
mestic market. If there is a loss in-
curred in the operation, each producer
of the losing product is assessed his
share of the “fee” to make up the loss.

That is about all there is to the
much discussed equalization fee. It is
not a charge against the Government.
The farmers producing the surplus
crop, marketed at a loss, are the ones
who pay the money to make up the
loss.

* * *

In the new bill now before Congress,
the proposed Federal Farm Board is
directed to apply first the loan fea-
tures of the bill, to stabilize prices. If
with this assistance cooperative and
other farm organizations should be un-
able to bring about stabilization, the
board may resort to the equalization
fee.

The bill makes 375 million dollars
in loans available to cooperative asso-
ciations, besides twenty-five 'million
dollars for the purchase of facilities
and equipment.

The nub of the matter is that farm-
ing as an industry cannot go on With-
out a fair price for its products and a
reasonable return on its investment,
and that means there must be some
sort of a stabilized market.

What shall be the means employed
to stabilize the market, has been the
chief question all along. So far noth-

ing as likely to be effective as the.

“fee” plan, has been evolved in the

six years farm-relief has been debated.
* * =l=

It is nothing new for industries to
be in need of legislation. Every indus-
try from manufacturing to railroads,
from labor to bankers, has been so
helped and is being helped all the time
to their benefit and the nation’s weL
fare in most cases.

After a prolonged and gradually
losing struggle, the agricultural indus-
try finds that if it is to go forward
henceforth it must participate in the
American protective system on an
equality with other industries.

Those who say the condition of the
agriéultural industry is improving
permanently do not know the facts, or
they disregard them. There is, of
course, some temporary improvement
occasionally, but the real farm prob—
lem is here to stay until we solve it.

Every once in awhile some person-
age of more or less consequence tries
to hypnotize himself and the country
into believing there is no such prob-
lem. Disagreeable facts are not to be
waved aside that way.

There was one such instance re-
cently. A man whose opinions are
marketable, who has lived most of his
life in an agricultural state, but has
done his farming in an office, declared
in print that he was “suspicious of any
man who said there was a farm prob-
lem.”

That should make him suspicious
of Roosevelt’s Country Life Commis-
sion of twenty years ago—and coming
down to present times—should make
him suspicious of the National Indus-
trial Conference Board, of the Busi-
ness Men’s Commission on Agriculture
of the United States Chamber of Com-

‘ymerce, of the Illinois Bankers’ Asso-
/ ciation, and others. ‘

They not only found there was a
farm problem but that it was a knotty
one. .
t it t ‘

There was decided lack of optimism
in the report of the National Industrial

"APRIL”V, 1928

Problem

Conference Board following'its care< "

ful survey of agriculture. And the
Business Men’s Commission on Agri-
culture of the United States Chamben
of Commerce rectfinmended rather
general tariff reforms in the interest
of the farmer—~a remarkable demon-
stration of unselfishness on the part
of well-protected business.

When such a businses group admits
that agriculture’s difficulties “are
traceable to the undue advantages that
other groups have secured for them-
selves” through tariff laws, etc, can
there be any further doubt of it?

In its appeal recently broadcast. to
editors of newspapers and magazines
to support the pending farm legislzn
tion in Congress as all—important to
business, industry, and finance, the
Illinois Bankers’ Association said:

The lack of real purchasing
power of the farmer’s dollar is
not alone due to natural influences
but has been caused to a large
extent by an artificial stimulation
of other products brought about
by prior federal legislation. There-
fore sorne balance in legislation is
required.

That puts the case in few words.
There is a. farm problem and that
problem is to bring the agricultural
industry up to the level of other indus-

tries. Until this is done we shall
have a serious economic condition
on our
hands

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News of the Week

 

 

 

 

 

The Senate soft cold investigation
committee may call on Henry Ford to
explain why he can pay his coal
miners eight dollars a day while other
mine operators claim that they can not
pay more than three dollars a day.

The income tax returns show that

-fifteen in Michigan made a million dol-

lars or over during 1927.

. Australia is demanding a revision of
Its immigration restrictions to keep
out negroes and Italians. The slogan
1s “White Australia.”

It is rumored that an ,oil well near
Muskegon yielded a chunk of rock
which contained goldin the ratio of
nine dollars a ton.

Last week a telephOne conversation
was held between Detroit and Paris,
the human voice carrying 4,200 miles
very distinctly.

Ira H. Butterfield, pioneer Michigan
agriculturist and father of Kenyon
Butterfield, president of M. S. 0.. died
at East Lansing March 24th. He was
eighty-seven years old.

The Pope and the Italian govern<
ment are again at outs due, this time,
to an attack on Mussolini government
by the Pope in a recent address.

A club of Detroit and Birmingham
men have bought 11,000 acres near
Metamora to be used as a hunting
club.

The Charlemagne tower, a famous
historical sight at Tours, France, col-
lapsed recently.

The Nicaraguan government has
given the American agent full right to
supervise and regulate the election to
be held in October.

President Calles has signed the new
oil agreement which will end the
trouble between Americans and Mexi-
co with reference to working the 011
wells.

Northern California rivers are at the
flood stage due to heavy rains, and
Reno, Nevada. reports some sections
of the city five feet under the water.

Ten thousand idle and homeless
Danes have stormed Copenhagen as a.
demonstration of their condition.

James Ward Packard, founder of
the Packard Motor Co., died last week
in Warren, Ohio.

Twenty-two countries lined up!
against the Russian Soviet govern-
ment's preposal for complete d1§arma~
ment, at the international meeting at
Geneva. The United States is one

. of the twenty-two.

Warren. G. fiwdatd. $6113.91? .. sheriff
of Jackson County has on found
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Sore throat’s easiest victims~

: _ reducing women!

Neglecting a cold or sore throat is

dangerous business for anyone—doubly

dangerous for reducing women weak!

ened by strenuous exercises and “canary

* bird” diets.

For both colds and sore throats often

. lead to serious complications if not

, . treated immediately;

Look upon throat irritation as a warn,
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repeatedly with Listerine, the safe anti»
septic, used full strength.

If rapid improvement is not apparent,
consult your physician.

Time and time again, however, Lis’

before they had a chance to become
serious.

Certainly, this pleasant precaution is
worth taking during winter and early
spring weather when grippe, “flu,”and
pneumonia are a constant threat. Lame
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PAPER CRACKS OVER WALL
BOARD JOINTS

 

I have wall board on the ceiling of
one of our rooms. I have tried plasters
of different kinds to fill the joints; but
always after repapering the ceiling,
the paper cracks. Have pasted mus-
lin and old window shade material
over the joints, but the paper cracks
just the same. Cannot panel the ceil-
mg as the wall board strips are not
of uniform width. Can you suggest
some way of overcoming this diffi-
culty?—~D. A.

It is extremely difficult to stop this
trouble of wall paper cracking over
these wall board joints. The most
common method is to fill the crack
smooth with plaster paris, wetting the
edges of the wall board just before
forcing the plaster paris into the
joints, and smoothing it off level just
before it fully hardens. Then paste
strips of heavy muslin over the
cracks, wetting the muslin before the
paste is applied. This dries tight and
usually will prevent serious cracking.

One firm secures very good results
by filling cracks as already directed
with plaster paris to within about one-
sixteenth inch of the surface, then
finish filling the joint with Swedish
putty applied with a squeegee roller
and spread thinly over the edges.
While this is still soft, a strip of wire
screening is app-lied over the crack
and pressed down into the wall board
as much as possible with the roller.
Where the wall board surface is rather
soft, this makes a joint that can hard-
ly be detected, but probably would
show with a hard surfaced board.

Swedish putty is made by mixing
2% pounds well-cooked stiff flour
paste, 2 pounds dry fine whiting, and
one—half pint boiled linseed oil, knead—
ing them thoroughly together. This
dries very slowly, hence the lower
part of crack should be filled with
plaster paris and allowed to dry. and
plenty ‘of time allowed for the Swed-
ish putty to dry before the paper is
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I have in mind to rig up .a power
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you seen a better way of using an out-
fit of this kind? Any suggestionswill
be appreciated—N. V.

I see no reason why something of
this sort could not be made to work,
but doubt whether your plan is the

require special gears or sprocket
wheels to get the proper speed reduc-
tion which would add to the. cost of
the outfit. Also it seems the wrong
policy to limit the use of the attach-
ment to a single machine, and ‘let ‘it
stand idle the rest of the time, in-
stead of having it so it can be used
on a number of machines. .
One of the simplest arrangements
would be to use the entire auto

' chassis as a tractor and. pull drill with

an ordinary tractor hitch. Some of
the seed grain could be carried on
the chassis to give more traction to
the wheels. Other implements could

‘ be hitched behind the auto chassis in

the same way. This would make three
sets of wheels in turning, but would
be no worse than with a tractor.

We should be glad to have the ‘ex—
periences of any of our readers as to
their experiences along the line of
pulling light draft implements with an
auto chassis and engine.~—I. D.

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, spreading phosphate, and in estimat-

bat the European corn borer.
, ing corn stalks and other vegetable
, refuse, and leaving the surface of a
h field perfectly clean so that the borers
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4 that these pests cannot stand.
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FAIR CHARGE FOR LIMESTONE
SPREADER

 

AS a number of subscribers have
, inquired as to a fair charge for
the use of a. limestone spreader for
spreading limestone and phosphate,
, perhaps the following suggestions may
be of interest to other readers.

' Where used in the ordinary way by
two or three neighbors and properly
,,Cared for, I would estimate that the
life of a limestone Spreader should be
around ten years and that the total
overhead cost, including interest, do
preciation, repairs and upkeep, shelter,
etc., will be about nineteen-0nd one-
tenth per cent per year of the first
. cost. On a low down spreader costing
. ninety dollars, this gives $17.19 as the
yearly cost. Dividing this by the num~
ber of acres covered or the tons
spread averaged for each season will
give a fair charge per acre or ton.
Assuming forty tons on the home farm
and forty tons custom work per year
this would make a fair charge about
twenty-one cents per ton for spread-
, ing limestone. '
Phosphate is much more severe on
the spreader, because of its greater
. tendency to work into and clog the
bearings and cause them to cut out,
and the bearings should be inspected

for this purpose. Because of this
extra care and wear, it would prob-
ably be fair to charge fifty per cent
more or thirty-one cents per ton for

ing tonnage for the purpose of esti-
mate costs, each ton of phosphate
should be counted as one and one-half
tons.

The same general plan can be used
for estimating a fair charge for any
type of limestone spreader. Take
twenty per cent or one-fifth of the
first cost as the yearly cost, and di~
vide this by the average number of
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and drive it to appreciate the
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Only Chrysler’s great engineer-
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Chrysler Standardized Quality
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Only Chrysler engineers could
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as well as extraordinary power.

You can, at will, do 72 miles an

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It takes mountain grades at cono
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the “72” flashes to the fore with
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The safety and simplicity of
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four wheels at one time and
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will. Demonstration will prove
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HOUSE COMMlTTEE APPROVES
FARM RELIEF BILL

 

Y a vote of fifteen to six, the
House committee on agriculture
lapproved the McNary-Haugen equali-
zation fee bill, after turning down the
1 National Grange export debenture plan
{by a thirteen to eight ballot.

' The new House bill is evidently the
last word in the McNary-Haugen plan
.of farm relief. It is held to be a de-
cided improvement on the McNary
:bill which recently passed the Senate.
It provides for a. fund of $400,000,000
to be loaned to cooperatives, whereas
the McNary bill provides for only
$250,000,000. Like the Senate bill, it
provides that the Federal Farm Board
would be directed to undertake stabili—
zation of prices of staple farm pro-
ducts by first applying the loan fea-
tures of the law. The equalization fee
is to be resorted to only in case the
cooperatives are unable to bring about
stabilization with the aid of govern‘
ment loans.

Some friends of the measure profess
to believe that it would be rarely that
there would be a need for levying an
equalization fee on the farm crops. It
is also provided that when levied on
a. domestic product the equalization
fee shall be levied on imports of the
product. In the new House bill, re-
strictions are placed upon the use to
be made of the money loaned to co-
operatives which are not in the Sen-
ate bill.

 

 

 

BILL WOULD LOWER POSTAL
RATES

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i HE new postal rate revision bill
1 approved by the House committee
'on post offices and post roads re-
stores the one cent rate on private
postal cards, and follows closely the
1921 rates on second class matter.

In fourth class matter the parcel
post rate is reduced one cent on each
parcel destined to points in the fourth,
fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth zones.
Parcels mailed on rural routes are
exempted from what was formerly
known as the service charge.

AMERICAN FARMER COMPETES
WITH CHEAP LABOR

 

HEN Admiral Dewey won the

battle of Manila he opened the
way for the exploitation of the Philip-
pine Islands by American. capital,
much to the disadvantage of the Amer-
ican farmers who have to compete
with the. cheap labor of the Philip-
Epines. The American dairymen are
hard hit by the vast quantities of
vegetable oil materials coming from
the Philippines tariff free, and now
the rapid development of the Philip-
pine sugar industry by American cor-
porations promises to injure badly our
domestic cane and beet sugar indus~
tries.

“Continuation. of the flood of duty-
free Philippine sugar will, it is feared,
eventually displace the million tons
now contributed by the domestic in-
dustry,” says Congressman Timber-
lake of Colorado, who is sponsoring a
bill placing a limitation of 500,000 long
tons on duty-free sugar from the Phil-
ippines. “For the United States to
build up a tremendous sugar supply
across the Pacific at the expense of

. the domestic industry and become

largely dependent on that supply
would not only be wiping out a quarter
century’s progress by the American

"farmer and eventually sacrificing an
investment in the beet sugar industry
of $225,000,000, but would be disre-
gardingentirely what, to the nations
,of Europe, has long been an establish-
ed principle essential h economic
' security.

 

 

“Imports of duty-free sugar from
the Philippines have increased from
147,212 long tons in 1921 to 173,674’
tons in 1927,” says Congressman
Timberlake, which leads him to insist
that something be done to forestall
what now looms as an inevitable de-
cline in the domestic industry. “Amer-
ican farmers in 1927 received $55,000,-
000 for their sugar beets alone. Other
benefits from live stock operations
and improved yields in other crops in
rotation with sugar beets equaled
$100,000,000. Analysis of our tariff re-
lations with the Philippine Islands
demonstrates that the United States
government never intended to place
the American farmer in competition
with tropical labor 7,000 miles across
the Pacific.”

The cane and beet sugar producers
will have to faCe competition from an-
other source in the near future, if
predictions of experts in the Bureau of
Standards are well founded. They
have now perfected a method of.
crystalizing levulose sugar in a water
solution. Levulose is the sugar pro-
duced from Jerusalem artichokes, and
it can be manufactured in commercial
quantities at a reasonable cost by a
method discovered in the bureau. The
artichokes are being grown in the De-
partment of Agriculutre’s experiment
farm at Arlington and are converted
into sugar at a. small factory operated
by the Bureau of Standards.

 

WOULD INCREASE RATES ON
POTATOES

 

HE National Grange has filed a

petition with the United States
Tariff Commission for an increase in
the tariff on potatoes. Official reports
show that during 1926-1927 the impor-
tations of white potatoes into the
United States amounted to 10,938,383
bushels. This represents an increase
of 261 per cent as compared with the
volume of white potatoes imported
during 1924 and 1926.

This situation has been called to
the attention of the Washington rep-
resentative of the National Grange by
members of the organization in dif-
ferent parts of the country with the
request that the Tariff Commission in-
vestigate cost of production of pota-
toes in this and other countries. The
present tariff on potatoes is thirty
cents a bushel. Under the flexible
provisions of the tariff act, if the find-
ings of the commission warrant it, the
tariff could be raised fifty per cent.
which would make a rate of forty-five
cents a bushel.

FARMERS FAVOR PURNELL BILL

 

LARGE group of farmers from
Ohio, Michigan. and Indiana were

in attendance at hearings on the Pur-
nell bill providing for a $10,000,000
appropriation for another corn borer
control campaign, to be conducted by
the Department of Agriculture in co-
operation with thc states and counties
and the farmers in the infested areas.
These farmers we re practically
unanimous in favor of the Purnell
bill. They voiced the belief that the
government officials did the best they
could under the handicap of lack of
experience in the conduct of last sea-
son’s campaign, and that with the ma-
chinery already in readiness, much
more effective control work can be
done the coming season, if the $10,000,-
000 appropriation is voted in. time.
They believe that corn borer control
is a great national problem, that it
should be continued by the Federal‘
government, and that the farmers-who
engage in the control work ,mm he - ;
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HE PLANS WELL AND WORKS HIS
PLANS

 

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tor in the successful management of
this farm. In the first place, milk
brings in a substantial portion of the
farm income. Feeding farm grown
crops with the needed concentrates to
good cows gives a higher price for
those crops than could possible be re-
ceived on the market. In addition, the
soil program is simplified where a
generous amount of stable manure is
available.

Averages Above 400 Pounds Fat

His dairy cattle are pure-bred Hol-
steins. They have been carefully se
lected for production. His herd was
federally accredited before the county
unit method of fighting tuberculosis
was adopted. Furthermore, for the
past two years he has received dip-
lomas from the National Dairy Asso-
ciation for producing an average of
over 400 pounds of butter-fat per cow
per year. He is a member of a cow
testing association and finds the in-
formation coming through that work
most helpful. Silage, legumes, rough-
ages, and grain from the farm are
supplemented with purchased concen-
trates to give the animals a balanced
ration which is fed on the basis of
production. Each year he sells from
five to ten head of Holsteins for breed-
ing purposes.

The cattle are kept in a basement

stable forty by ninety-six feet, with.

cement floors, steel stanchions, water
fountains, manure carrier, and milk-
ing machine. The stables are well
lighted, convenient, and kept in the
best of order.

On the farm a flock of pure-bred
Oxford sheep is maintained. Roughl
age, legumes, and farm grown grains
are used for winter feeding. Pastures
are rotated. His average yield of wool
in 1927 was nine pounds per head.
Five animals were sold from the flock
last year for breeding purposes.

He also keeps a flock of White
Wyandotte chickens which is renewed
each year with chicks from an accred-
ited hatchery. The house is of the
shed type, and is well lighted. Eggs
and poultry are marketed locally.

Home Has Every Convenience

The chief cash crops grown are
wheat, beans, and sugar beets. He
also has fifteen acres of Grimm al-
falfa. This he seeds in either oats
or barley. Although he tried two
tons of lime to the acre, his soil he
finds will grow alfalfa without lime.
These alfalfa fields stand from five to
ten years before plowing.

The Lundberg home is dignified, im-
pressive, and attracts the attention of
the passerby. It is nestled among
stately trees. It has a full basement
with inside and outside entrances. On
the main floor are the kitchen, dining
room, living room, and parlor, bath
and wash rooms, and two bedrooms.
The home is equipped with a furnace,
running water, bath room, sewage
system, septic tank, electricity, re-
frigerator, power washing machine,
electric lights, and vacuum cleaner.
There is also a radio, piano, and cornet.
A son and daughter both'play. The
family attends church regularly. Mr.
Lundberg teaches a class in Sunday
school. >He regularly attends to his
duties as a citizen, is a member of the
grange, and belongs to several lodges
and community organizations.

In all his farming enterprises, Mr.
Lundberg credits his good wife with
a full share of the success attained.
She maintains a spotless home, and is
well acquainted with the various
activities about the farm—B. W.

Doctor Thomson, of the University
of Aberdeen, and one of the most pro»
lific writers on science says, “All our
scientific experience is rounded with
mystery.” And again, “How did
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accident or the upsetting of a day’s work is too
much to pay, when you can buy Columbian Tape-
Marked Pure Manila Rope for only a few cents
more. It’s common sense and money in your
pocket, to buy rope you can depend on.”

Columbian Tape-Marked Pure Manila Rope is
the strongest, most durable rope—size for size—
you can buy. Ask for it by name. Identify it by
untwisting the end and finding the red, white and
blue Columbian Tape-Marker. If any rope so
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PAID IN CLAIMS SINCE 1915

 

 

 

 

 

This company was organized in 1915 to take care of
all kinds of automobile losses for Michigan people. The
company has written insurance for farmers in all parts
of Michigan and has paid about $5,000,000 in losses. Mr.
Farmer, there is an agent or attorney in every part of
Michigan to give you service in case of a serious loss.

There were 1,335 deaths by automobiles in Michigan
last year and over 30,000 serious personal injuries. Many
people were not able to meet the loss. Automobile
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If necessary, you can drive to the main office in a few
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THE MICHIGAN FARMER

OW is the time to go into the

black raspberry business. When

others are going out of a phase
of fruit growing because of adverse
conditions and plant diseases which
can be controlled, that is the time to
begin.
Owing to the disasterous results of
leaf curl, mosaic, and other conta-
gious plant diseases, old plantations
are being condemned and cut out, and
new plantings are producing less.
Growers .become discouraged after
their fields have been condemned and
they are not allowed to sell or take
plants from them to make new plant-
ings, and rather than buy plants from
outside sources, they quit the rasp-
berry business and turn to other lines
of horticulture or farming.

Poor plants, diseased or otherwise,
will never make a profitable planta-
tion no matter how good the location,
or how well the soil is prepared or
fertilized. Set only disease—free plants.
Although plants of this character are
scarce, because more fields than ever
have been condemned by state inspec-
tors, good healthy plants can be se-
cured, but they will cost more than
usual—another reason for some to get
out of the growing of raspberries.

Raspberries, both red and black,
can’t stand “wet feet.” Good water
drainage must be supplied, either by
natural or tile drainage. While there
must be good drainage, there are times

that it needs plenty water, but this
can be had if the soil is of a sandy or
clay loam and well cultivated. These
are two soils on which this fruit can
be profitably grown, however, other
soils should not be discarded unless
subject to drying out during the sum-
mer and wet and soggy at other times
during the year.

From eight to twelve loads of barn-
yard manure per acre will be found
very beneficial. It should be evenly
applied and disked into the top layers
of the soil ahead of plowing, so when
it is turned under it will become quite
thoroughly mixed with the soil instead
of lying flat in the bottom of the fur—
row in unbroken lumps. After the
ground is plowed, and ahead of har~
rowing, apply a few loads of fine, well-
rotted manures to the soil and have
it well mixed with the top layers right
where the roots of the newly-set plants
will get it for an immediate, vigorous
start. Raspberry plantations which
are of bearing age will be greatly
benefited by a similar application in
the early spring after the ground dries
so a wagon or manure spreader can
be drawn between the rows without
cutting deep into the soil and injur-
ing the roots. But do not expect the
most noticeable results from an appli-
cation of manure at this time, or com-
mercial fertilizer if it is used, in the
crop that season. The greatest returns
will be in the next year’s crop. This
is because of the effects of the manure
in producing a strong, vigorous cane
growth on which fruit will be borne
the following season (the next year’s

in the growth of the black raspberry,

, APRIL 7, 1928

Start Growing Raspberries

T /2€ Opportunz‘z‘zrr are Good
By B. W.,Keith

crop). Begin to feed raspberry plants
for strong, sturdy cane growth a year
ahead of that time when you are want-
ing that big crop of large marketable
berries. ‘

From the fact that the black rasp~
berry is a shallow rooted plant, level
or very shallow cultivation should be
practiced. By all means keep the disk
out of the raspberry patch, unless it
is in the hands of a very careful work-
man. If the plow, disk, or harrow is
run deep enough to cut off the hori-
zontal feeding roots, the leaves of the
plants will take on a yellow appear-
ance, appearing as though they were
diseased, and the crop will be almost
worthless. More damage can be done
by deep cutting implements than one
can imagine, and, therefore, their use
is to be discouraged in caring for
black raspberries, the reds also.

When it comes to pruning the black
raspberry, most growers leave too
much wood———that is, leave too many
canes and too long side shoots. or
canes, on the upright canes. In the
spring, when the young canes are
about three feet high, nip their tips
off, thus causing them to branch and
become sturdy and strong, forming a
well—shaped bush. No further nipping.
or heading back, is necessary until the
following spring before any signs of
growth takes place. Go through at
that time and cut out the weak. slen‘
der, unevenly-branched ones, leaving
not over six or seven of the strongest,
sturdiest ones, and the laterals or side
branches, on; these should be cut
back to four or five inches. Here is
where most growers make their mis-
take in pruning black raspberries—
they leave these side branches too
long.

As intimated at the beginning of
this article, the ravages of plant
diseases, such a leaf curl and mosaic,
are causing a falling off in the yields,
also the acreage of black raspberry
growing. For this reason, some sec-
tions that used to grow this fruit on
the large scale, have just about dis-
continued the occupation, and other
sections are following suit. Of course,
the diseases of the black raspberry
are not altogether responsible for this
falling off, but they play the greatest
part.

The two most disasterous diseases
are leaf curl and mosaic, which are
caused by some organism, “a some
thing,” that scientists have not been
able to “catch” and identify. As the
disease is carried from one plant to
another, the only method of control
is to out out infested bushes, take.
them from the field, and burn. By
watching this end of the business.
and setting disease-free plants from
disease-free plantations, leaf curl and
mosaic can be kept under control.

A man and his girl were walking
around town looking for a place to

go in. Finally they came to a theatre
with a sign reading “The Woman
Pays.” I guess we’ll park in here,

Ella, he said.

 

lege‘ Experiment Station.

fruit.
eases and pests.

MICHIGAN “FARM ER,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spraying Calendar Free

ANY farmer growing fruit should have this Spraying Calendar
written by W. C. Dutton, R. H. Pettit, and C. W. Bennett of
the Horticultural, Entomological, and Botanical departments, re-
spectively, of the Michigan State College, and issued by the Col-

This bulletin gives in short, practical form the latest informa-
tion on the control of the common diseases and insects attacking
The most effective spray materials to use and when to use
them are important factors in successfully controlling fruit dis-
These, with practical hints gained from experi-
ence, are given in. this bulletin. A copy will be sent upon request to
HORTICULTURAL “DEPT,

 

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PLANT‘ ‘BOXES

W HILE I had time this past win
‘ ter I made some boxes to start
plants in. I made them in two sizes,
twelve by twelve and fifteen by
fifteen, and four inches deep. On the
bottom of the boxes I put narrow
strips so that they will stand up from
the floor or shelf a little. This gives
air or ventilation underneath the
boxes which I think is beneficial.

I got some good soil and put it
through a piece of wire screen'to get
all the hard pieces out. The plants
I have started in these boxes are doing
fine, because the soil is rich and fine
and there is a chance for drainage
and ventilation below—Wm. Holtz.

 

HOW TO FERTILIZE THE GARDEN

 

HERE stable manure is avail-

able it should be used as a gar-

den fertilizer. Where this cannot be
procured it is well to use lots of vege-
table refuse of different kinds and
green manure to keep the soil well
supplied with humus.
Poultry manure applied at the rate
of one pound to each nine square feet
together with acid phosphate added to
the garden at about the rate of one
pound to each forty-five square feet
makes a well-rounded out fertilizer for
any garden—H. F.

 

TESTING SEED CORN

 

ALWAYS test my seed corn before

I plant it. This is how I do it:
Pour the seed corn into a receptable
holding water. Some of the kernels
will sink immediately, others will float
awhile and some will not sink. 1
use only the kernels that sink at once,
which upon examination proves to be
the well-shaped kernels. They yield
by far the best. If one likes to prove
this to be true, it can easily be done.
Plant the kernels that sink in one
row and the kernels that float in an-
other row. It will be a surprise to
see the difference in the yield of the
two rows providing they are both
given the same care—C. H.

MAKE THE (OIL FIRM

 

ALWAYS knew that after a row

was planted the ground should be
made firm so that the loose soil would
come in contact with the firm damp
soil underneath. When the row was
planted I would lay a board along it
and walk on this. Last spring the
children ran across the garden several
times and to my surprise where they
had stepped on the lines their foo-t-
prints were green when the rest of
the seed in the line had not yet ger—
minated. Later I planted some seed
for a later crop and to try this out I
walked carefully along one line and
used the board on the other. The
one I walked on was green several
days before the other one and I had
a much better stand. The seeds ger-
minated at once where the soil was
firm and this prevented them from
drying out as they will in looser soil.

FUN GROWING STRAWBERRIES

 

IF the highest yielding kinds of
strawberries are to be grown in your
garden or under field conditions, they
must have plenty of room in which
to develop into strong, thrifty plants
-—they must have a suitable, well pre-
pared soil in which to grow~and they
must not be neglected by the grower
so they will have to “rough it” among
weeds and grass while the grower is
out looking for exercise or a. little
excitement in his new car. There is
just as much excitement and exercise
to be had in an “up-and- coming”
strawberry bed at the end of a hoe
handle as there is on a golf course at
the end of a golf stick or chasing
that elusive little ball over the green
- the res111ts are much more ‘

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THE MICHIGAN IRA'RMER

 

News and Views
From INGLESIDE FARM—By Stanley Powell

 

 

to report what occurred at our

township road” meeting to which
I have referred in previous issues.
However, the weather man played a
strange trick on us and sent the worst
snowstorm of the season on the day
'We had set for our pot-luck supper and
open forum discussion of the care of
the side roads in Ronald township.
Although we live on a county road,
there had not been a vehicle of any
kind by Ingleside up until noon and
I noticed only two passing during the
afternoon. Even if the snowplows had
opened the county roads, the side
roads would still
have remained
impassible. Hence
the meeting was
postponed until
later in the week.

In anticipation
of this road meet-
ing I have been
studying the last
Ingleside Farm
tax receipt again.
Taking into con-
sideration o u r
special a s s e s s—
ments for Covert roads, I find that the
highway portion of our general prop-
erty tax amounts to $1.26 per acre,
which represents more than fifty-five
per cent of our total general property
tax. Figuring it another way, every
day in the year I must add over a
dollar extra to the overhead expense
of running Ingleside Farm. in order
to meet our general property tax levy
To this total
should be added our contribution in
the form of the gas tax and auto and
truck licenses. Despite this fact, wife
and I use the highways considerably
less than many people who are not on
the tax rolls at all.

Changing Hired Men

Just as I was writing this, the hired
man, who has been with us for nearly
sixteen months, came in to go over
and balance his account, as he is leav-
ing the first of April. We have a new
man hired to“ take his place who comes
highly recommended, but there is
always a good deal of uncertainty as
to how a man 1. ill fit into the situa-
tion and only time will tell whethei
or not we have been fortunate in our
selection.

I didn’t advertise for a. man or
spread the word around much, but
seven men applied for the job, so it
would appear that: farm help is a little
more plentiful than it has been during
the past few years. Some of these

I HAD hOped in this week’s article

 

 

 

 

 

applicants oti‘e ml to work for con-
sidmabl}. less than we have been pay-
ing, but it is sometimes the case that
cheap help proves pretty expensive in
the long run.

No matter how willing and able the
new man turns out to b“, i realize that
it will be impossible for him to work
to best, advantage for a. month or so.
He will not understand the “lay of
the land,” know where to find things,
or, more important still, where to put
them back. I shall have to work with

 

 

 

him considerably and be patient with
my explanations and assignments of
tasks.

Few hired men are mind readers
and it is usually futile for the pro-
prietor to fume inwardly and to friend
wife about the way the hired man
does or doesn’t do a certain job. If
the hired man knows what is desired,
there’s a fair chance that he might do
it. .

Talking with a fellow farmer a little
while ago, our conversation drifted to
the matter of farmers and salesman-
ship. Just to draw my friend out, I

 

didn’t appear to be particularly im-
pressed with the idea. of the impor-

 

tance of salesmanship to the average
farmer. It was then that he made this
interesting observation, “Why, a man
has to have salesmanship and use it
in order to get along with his hired
man to the best advantage. He must
sell him the idea of what is to be done
and then sell him the desired way of
doing it.” Many of us probably hadn’t
thought of it that way, but there’s a
good deal of truth in the statement
after all.

Some folks have the idea that al-
most anyone who has a fairly strong
back is all right for a farm} hand.
However, .readers of this page realize
that this is absolutely not the case.
In the modern factory the ordinary
workman can learn to do his little,
monotonous task in a relatively short
time and unless he is looking forward
to a promotion, that is all there is to
it. But on a farm there are never two
days just alike. There are many
rather complicated machines to oper-
ate and circumstances constantly aris-
ing which call for a combination of
experience and good judgment.

There has been a lull in the lamb—
ing activities. A fine pair of pure-bred
Shropshire lambs arrived this mom
ing, the first to appear in about four

days. There is a new thrill in feed-;

ing ,the sheep these days, as many of
the lambs have reached that age when
they hold a regular athletic carnival
while their mothers are eating. It is
good to see their joyous exuberance
and watch them get rid of a little of
their surplus energy.

A job that is often delayed or neg-
lected on many farms is that of dock-
ing and castrating the lambs. We
try to attend to these none too plea-
sant operations when .the lambs are
between a week and two weeks old.
We cord the tails and do the docking
with a. sharp knife, applying disinfec-
tant afterwards. The Strings are re-
moved aftcr about four hours. With
large flocks the special docking irons
which are kept hot while in use would
probably be preferable to the knife.
These sear the wound and prevent
bleeding.

Those Gas Tax Refunds

As the season of the year is arriv-
ing when many Michigan farmers will
be using gasoline in their tractors, the
matter of the rebate of the three cent
gas tax paid on gas so used assumes
increased importance and interest. I
was therefore rather distressed to re-
ceive recently the following letter
from a reader of those articles, Mr.
R. JAY McMullcn, who gave. his address
as R611 Colfax, Detroit.

“I have a largo farm in Oakland
County and pay road tax under eight
different headings in my general
taxes. Also have a truck which is
used in the late summer and fall.

“But. the rankcst form of gyp tax
comes in the so-callcd ‘I'efunrl’ of three
cents per gallon used in the farm
tractor. ‘Try and get it’ seems to be
the attitude of Mr. llaggerty’s office.
I have gas invoices that have been to

Lansing and back any number of'

times. Of (503 gallons of gas used this
season we got one or two small rc-
i‘unds, the rest of the time only alibis,
excuses and importincnces. I was
wondering if Ionia County farmers
fared any better in getting gasoline
refunds of the three cent highway tax.”

Our tractor runs on kerosene, so I
have not had any personal experience
collecting refunds, but one of my
neighbors sent to Lansing for such a
refund recently and received it
promptly. I hope that the rest of you
may have similar good luck and not
run into all the trouble which seems
to have befallcn‘Mr. Momma.

 
 

 

r,'l.'llli BAHTING “EMBLEM WAIT

3.91211. 7.1933

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prominent men helps me to keep up
with current history. They can put
things so much more clearly than one
can get them from newspapers.

The radio helps me to a larger
store of general knowledge. For in-
stance, I once heard a man just re-
turned from missionary work in India,
describe the change of conditions
there during the last twenty years.
He also described the exquisite work-
manship so gorgeously displayed in
the Taj Mahal—marble screens so
delicately carved as to appear to be
lace curtains when seen through the
heat waves. From his description, I
received such vivid pictures that I
shall never forget them. '

Over the radio I can hear music
that I would never know about
through any other source. In Bible
study, I can listen to an intelligent dis-
cussion of the questions which have
puzzled me. In group leadership, I
learn what other groups of young peo-
ple are doing—what songs they sing,
what games they play. Last of all,
I can find relaxation—a time for pure
nonsense—and a time for the songs
that are so familiar and so precious
that they are a part of myself.—
Alfreda Sting.

BATTERIES FOR RADIO

 

 

We have a 3 tube K set operat-
ing on 1-C battery, 3 dry cells for A’s,
and 2-45 volt B batteries. Our B’s
are exhausted and am unable to get
any more around here but can get the
layer built B’s or the cell built heavy
duty B’s. Could we use one or the
other of them on this kind of a set
without installing different tubes? Our
tubes are the U. V. 199 short prongs,
% inch long. Please advise. If we
could use the heavy duty or layer
built, would we need two?—V. G.

Each of your B batteries which are
now exhausted are made up of thirty
cells of one and one-half volts each,
thus totaling forty-five volts. If you
are to use separate Cells in the make-
up of B batteries it will be necessary
to use sixty cells of one and one-half
volts each connected in series to give
the necessary voltage of ninety to re-
plaCe the‘ two batteries now exhausted.
Forty-five volts on the plate circuit
should give you fair reception but
ninety volts would be preferable. I
am not familiar with the set you have,
but believe it to consist of one de-
tector and two amplifying tubes, the
detector tube having supplied at its
plate contact forty—five volts and its
amplifying tubes ninety volts. Any
style of battery, whether of dry cells
or of storage battery furnishing nine-
ty volts is suitable for U. Y. 199
tubes. Any radio supply dealer should
be able to furnish you built—up B bat.
teries either light or heavy duty—m
E. C. Sauve, M. S. C.

NEWS FROM THE AIR

 

ARIA KURENKO, the Russian

nightingale who has been heard
by radio listeners several times,
poured over her uncle’s law books,
studied law at the University of Mes-
cow, was admitted to the bar, and
opened her law office in her native
country. Less than ten years ago her
initial performance with the operatic
company of the little city of Charko-ff
proved a sensation and she immediate-
ly signed for the Grand Opera Com-
pany in Moscow.

 

Since 1922 the United States public
.health service has furnished medical
advice by radio to ships at sea. This

”message was received from a ship out

fine Hospital: -
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over50 acres a day in later cultivating.

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Use Fax-mall with the 2 or 4vrow planter and you
will put in 25 to 60 acres of corn in an 8-hour
day, and do it easily. With the 4—row cultivator
on the Far-mall (the outfit shown at the top of
this page) you can clean the rows at the rate of
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F ARMALL

ARMALL is the ideal tractor for the medium or
small-size farm as well as for larger farms. Until you
have operated it yourself you cannot fully appreciate its
fine work and easy handling, and its wonderful range of
usefulness. Mr. E. S. Humphrey of Belleville,W.Va., for

instance, writes us as follows:

"As you know, we bought the Farmall equipment with
the understanding that wewere to be completely satisfied
with it. . . Am glad to say that we are more than pleased
with all of it. If it were not for the many things that
can be done with this tractor, I would not have bought it,
as we only operate a farm of 100 acres. . . You sure hit
the right name when you called this tractor the ‘Farmall’f'

Two and 4-row planters and cultivators, mowers, sweep

' rakes, middle busters, 4-row lister cultivators, beet tools, and
potato machines—all are made to usewith the F armall and to
fit the every-day farm. F armall is equally eflicient with till-
age tools and drills, with the plow, and in all belt operations.
l Ask the McCormick-Deering dealer to demonstrate for
you at any farm poWer work. Investigate Farmall farm-
ing. Be ready for spring’s work, for plowing and tilling,
and for planting and cultivating.

 

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cut 25 acres of the heaviest hay in an 8-hour day.
By adding a 7.foot trailer mower, as shown here,
you can cut 50 acres, and more. in a day. At
raking, tcdding, on the sweep rake, loading.
hauling. etc.. the Farmall means new economics

 

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606 s. Michigan Ave. “F AMEN“ Chicago, Illinois

(Incorporated)

93 Branch Houses in the U. 8.; the following in Michigan Farmer
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body, dazed condition, symptoms of
concussion, require doctor’s advice, if
necessary assistance.” (Signed) Mas-
ter of Vessel.

Within twenty minutes the follow-
ing message had been broadcast in
reply: I

“Absolute rest in bed with ice cap
to head, should patient become un-
consciOUs later rush to hospital at
once, patient can be taken off at quar-
Director Gustave Haeschen.

 

Radio Develops New Technique

Camparatively few of the greatest
present—day singers and musicians are
a success on the, air, according to
Director Gustave Haeschen of the
Palmolive orchestra.

“Other forms of presentation have
three dimensions—radio has but one—
the air,” says Haeschen. “The heart-
breaks of screen aspirants are few in

comparison to the failures of would-be

radio stars. Many of the greatest sing-
ers and musicians are totally unable
to broadcast their art without distor-
tion. They are lacking in what might
be termed radio personality. On the
other hand, a number of fine perform-
ers have succeeded in mastering the
radio technique and are today directly
identified with‘radio entertainment in
the minds. of nation-wide. udidmflil,

. Nothing finer for Garden
‘ Plowing. Han-owing.
’ Seeding, Cullh'll‘mg. Spravlng, lAwn

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make: I“ tools
45 lbs.. Bags extra 25c each, 20 per cent clover.
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Able. lmpomm new tools. Arched Air 2.

Tool Control. Power Tum and other vital

(nun-en. Power Pulley (or Belt Work.

Time Payment plan. Write rod-y.

CILSON MANUFACTURING. CO"

733 Plrk Slrcel. Port Washington, Wis. WV

 

 

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Try one.

STRAWBERRIES $3.5“? ip°i..i§”°.é‘”%£§i’y‘

Plants. Grape Vines. Fruit Trees, Ornamental Shrubs,
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perience. Write at once for free illustrated catalog
giving big discounts for early orders.

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running—if the tractor is equipped with :1 Pickering Governor.
’lhat s because of the Pickering built—in Speed Changer. It means
time and money saved when you change from one job to another.
The built-in . Speed Changer is only one ad- -- -- -- -' -' '-
vantage of 8. Pickering Governor on your tractor. THE PICKERING:

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PER ATING a tile ditching

business is just like having a
bumper crop every year. You don’t
have to endure several lean years
to enjoy one good year. You can
make every year a good year with o
Buckeye Ditcher.

has made hundreds of
folks independent. The
most successful operators
come from the farm. You
can be your own boss,
work only about seven
months out of twelve,
and yet have plenty of
money.

We Help You Get Started

Experience is not necessary. Our Service
Engineer instructs you thoroughly in ditch-
ing, surveying, etc. Buckeye service is
always available and will assist you any
time iris called upon. Our finance plan
will make it easy for you to purchase a
Buckeye Tile Ditcher.
98 % of Farm Land Still Needs
Ditching

Thereis plenty of work for the mechani:
cal ditcher. Only about 1 % of all farm land
is properly drained. Everywhere farmers
are talking and planning farm drainage.
You. like many others, can make big pro-
fits in the Contract Ditching Business.

This Farmer Made$71 in One Day
“On one job I cut 1 1 7 rods of ditch, aver-
aging 42 inches deep, made four connec-
tions and two curves in one actual day’s
work, for which I received $7 1.00”.

R. W. Sherrard, Rochester, Ind.

$1900 Profit from 84 days’work
“I purchased one of your No. 1 tile ditch—
ing machines in A ril and the gross earn-
ings from 84 days'.operation were $2200.
I paid out for help and supplies $287.00
and my repair bills amounted to $20.00
This netted me $1902.00”.

Ed. Uvaas. Larson, Wise.
You, too, can become Independent!
Send at once for the Buckeye Traction
Ditcher literature and learn more about
the Buckeye plan of making money.

 

  

RACTION IDCTHER

The Buckeye Traction Ditcher Co.
285 Crystal, Findlay, Ohio

Please mail me at once details of your plan for start-
ing in the Contract Tile Ditching Business.

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ANY problems are solved and
M questions answered for mem-
bers in addition to helping them
protect their property against thieves.
Everyday we receive scores of letters
asking for help to settle some diffi-
cult quéstion or annoying problem.
Many of these letters ask for infor-
mation or advice on What kind of in-

‘ suranco to buy, both life and fire, and

others on investment problems or
financial matters. Some want legal
advice, others bring their marketing
problems; some want assistance in
settling claims against transportation
companies and other corporations;
others ask for aid on farm and home
subjects, or help in the solution of
some unusual problems that come up
but a few times in a lifetime.

To give you some idea of the assis-
tance we give members in addition to
life and property protection, I am
going to ask you to take a peek over
my shoulder at some of these inter-
esting question letters. Here is a
member asking how he can get pay
from a commission firm who failed to
remit the contract price for celery
shipped; another inquires how to col-
lect on a check issued by a. creamery
that went into bankruptcy; still an-
other asks information about a cor
tain seed firm, as to whether they are
reliable.

Here is a member having difficulty
with his cream separator. He didn’t
give enough information in his letter,
so we will have to write him for more
data before we can advise what should
be done. We will not attempt to pass
judgment on a question until we have
both sides of the question clear in our
minds, for you know every problem
has two sides and both are worthy of
consideration. If we don’t know the
facts in each case, we might give the
wrong advice and the one who asks
the question would be in greater diffi-
culty than before.

Here is a big fat letter. Yes, there
is a check in it. This member, shipped
three hogs and some dressed calves
to a commission house and they have
taken out for freight which was not
in the agreement. From the informa-
tion received it would appear that
someone had got careless with his
pen and on the wrong side of the
ledger, at that. We will see what can
be done to make the member and the
commission house understand the deal
a. little clearer.

Sometimes people sign papers and
make contracts without reading them.
Then when the time comes for a
settlement, they are surprised to
learn there are certain conditions of

 

 

From a Single Mail

By E. A. Shearer

Manager Michigan Farmer Protective Service

the contract they knew nothing about.
Here is a member who purchased a
used automobile.
read the contract carefully before he
signed it. He possibly thought every-
one was as honest as he knew him-
self to be. Now this member is com-
plaining because he didn’t know what
was in his contract. He had paid the
last payment on his car, and the sol-
ler, or party he purchased the car
from, sold the contract and left the
state without furnishing the purchaser
a. title. In this particular case we
were able to prove the case to the
Secretary of State and receive for the
buyer a title whereby he could secure
a license, thus enabling him to use his
car. This good member was a, victim
of his own carelessness. He is satis-
fied now that no one should sign a
paper of any description without
knowing what is in it and thoroughly
understanding every clause of it. It
just goes to show that we shouldn’t be
afraid to ask questions when we are
not sure.

Here is another letter asking the
name and address of a. certain harrow
manufacturer. This member lost the
address and desires repairs. If you
have equipment that is in need of re-
pairs and you don’t know the manu-
facturers address, give us as much
information as possible and we will at-
tempt to help you out.

Sometimes it seems impossible to
satisfy people as they are not willing
to respect the other fellow; and there
are always two sides to every story.
The selfish side of the human makes
it harder to serve our members. This
is so clearly brought out by a letter
received from a fire insurance com-
pany. They tell an entirely different
story to that of a complaining mem-
ber. The company goes into detail
to give their side of the case and the
member explains clearly his side. Now
continued correspondence must be car-
ried on to determine which one has
over-stated his case, as justice must
be had for the party in the right at
all costs. It seems it will take some-
time to get this case settled.

Here is a number of letters ask-
ing advice on insurance; three on in-
vestments; a complaint against an
express company for cream lost in
Shipment; a complaint against a com-
pany that sold a member poor seed;
four asking for legal advice, and eight
we turned over to our veterinarian for
his personal reply to our members.
This shows the variety of letters re-
ceived in a single afternoon mail. They
are important and receive personal
attention.

 

E. A. Shearer,

1632 Lafayette Blvd., Detroit.

Dear Mr. Shearer:

Name

ss-sssososossosso

 

 

 

 

 

Manager, Michigan Farmer Protective Service.

\ Enclosed find twenty-five cents for which enroll me as a. member
of the Michigan Farmer Protective Service and send me the weath-
er-proof, steel Protective Service Sign, the Registered Tag and
Key Chain with proper registration in your Detroit offices, a signed
Membership Certificate, and 3 Warning Sign carrying the announce-
ment of awards for capturing thieves and trespassers.
closing the stencil of my address from the Michigan Farmer
showing that I am a boni fida subscriber to that publication.

I am en-

 

 

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It costs just as much in; time. labom.
and seed to get poor'crops as it
does to get good ones. It's entirely

a matter of proper cultivation.

STUDY KOVAR CONSTRUCTION
Look at the high arched tooth
which the center hitch buries into
the ground at exactly the right
Complete flexibility of frame
causes a hinging action on the
them against
breakage and preventing accumu-
lating of rubbish from the field.
in teeth
and high carbon steel in body make

draft.
teeth protecting

Chrome vanadium steel
an implement withdut an equal.
Big Success in Michigan
Every year sees
state.

of this state.
Get Full Information

Learn all about this cultivator
Write dis-
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Dockorvillo, Mich.

for your crops’ sake.

W. J. HARDY,

Distributor

Jos. J. Kovsr Co., Owatonna, Minn.

"The Original Quack Grass Digger"

I Plesss send me information of the KOVAR |

Cultivator.

 

more of these
sturdy general cultivators and
quack grass diggers in use in this
They are proving to be
exactly suited for soil conditions

    

 

 

 

The night the
barn caught fire

SAME old story—the lantern
upset and it cost me a pretty
penny for a new barn. I carry
a good flashlight now—a gen-
uine Eveready. It gives me
the kind of light I want and
it’s SAFE. I wouldn’t leave the
house at night without one.

I keep mine in prime condi-
tion with the same brand of
batteries—genuine Eveready
Batteries. I don’t know any-
thing that holds so doggoned
much- usefulness for its size.
They’re crammed full of pep
and long-lasting power.

The flashlight habit’s
a good one on the farm. I’ve
found it the best kind of fire-
insurance.

 

 

 

   

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Absolutely Sate to use Anywhere!

Will not injure human beings. livestock, dogs.
cats, poultry. yet. is deadly to rats and. mice

every time.
Poisons are too dangerous

K-R-O does not contain arsenic, phosphorus.

barium carbonate or any deadly poxson.

Made
of powdered squill as recommended by the_U.S.
Dept. of Agriculture in their latest bulletin on

“Rat. Control}:

“One of our cat] customers inst told us he
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whic is his ly successful and shou d please
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T is eaSy to increase the bean pro-
duction to a point where there is
no profit. This has often been experi-
enced by growers. The present satis-

' factory price is likely to bring about

this situation in the 1928-29 marketing
season. Here is what the experts at
Washington say about the situation:

Evidence of increased demand for
beans that has appeared since the
January outlook was issued seems to
justify some increase in the acreage
this year, but it is to be remembered

,that the yield last year was about

fifteen per cent below average and
that average yields with no increase in
acreage this year would increase the
production by fifteen per cent. Pres-
ent price trends suggest that stocks
of beans are not large and that the

carryover will be light.

An intention to increase the bean
acreage about ten per cent in the pea-
bean territory of Michigan and New
York and in the Pinto bean states of
Colorado and New Mexico is reported.
No definite figures are available for
California, Montana, and Idaho, but
general information received from
those states shows a decided tendency
to increase both limas and baby limas,
small whites, and great northerns.

The marked advances in the prices
of principal kinds of beans during the
past two months have no doubt en-
couraged the reported intended in-
creases in acreage. However, inten-
tions concerning bean acreage are less
positive and subject to greater change
than for most crops, as beans are so
largely planted as an alternative or
emergency crop. Rainfall during the
next few months will be an important
determining factor in the actual acre-
age planted to limas and pintos.

While the marked advance in the
price of pea beans is mainly due to
increased demand and a relatively
short crop, it is due also in part to
the high quality of the 1927 crop. As
the yields per acre of pea beans in
1927 were almost twenty per cent
lower than in an average year, such
an increase in the acreage as is now
proposed would produce, with average
yields, a crop at least one-fourth larg-
er than last year. The cumulative
effect on the market of the intended
increases in the acreage of pea beans,
California small whites, and great
northerns, which are in direct compe-
tion, should be considered by growers
of all of these varieties.

CROP FAILURES INSPIRE BETTER
METHODS

 

(Continued from page 477)
seed bed and close contact of the
small seeds with the soil. It gave an
added stirring to the surface and left
a fine soil mulch in little ridges suf-
ficiently packed so they were not dis-
turbed by the heaviest winds.

Since using this implement we have
never lost a seeding where other nec-
essary requirements were met, which
on our soil includes occasional appli-
cations of lime. We have, however,
had a rather recent demonstration of
the profit in using this implement.
Two years ago only a portion of one
field sown to oats and seeded to al-
falfa was culti-packed due to the ur-
gency of other work. On the portion
which was culti-packed we had our
usual good alfalfa seeding but on the
portion which was left without pack-
ing, the seeding was thin and poor in
spots.

For some years our use of this im-

' plement was limited to this single pur-

pose but as we began to experiment
with it for other purposes, its use was
extended to the packing of the soil
for all crops either in fitting the seed
bed or after the crops were in the
ground. After these years of experi-
once _I would not be without a culti-

. pack»; on my, type of son, and obser-
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his

Discovery

Goodrich prevents wasteful tread
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.THE PLATE GLASS TEST FPressing Ibis beaoy glass dieiniindf: $24;

bows the action of frbe rub
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LISTEN IN EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT,
Goodrieb Radio Hour 9:30 P. M. Eastern
Standard Time, over WEAFand the Red Network

equal value on other types of soil
on which the clods and lumps need
to be pulverized. It is my belief that
there are few farmers in Michigan
who would not find the 'culti-packer an
implement of such value that they
would care to be without one
after having seen its advantages dem-
onstrated in actual use on their farms.

LAMBS MAKE GAINS

 

HE sharp gain in lambs prices in

recent weeks, which carried the
Chicago top to $16.50, is attracting
larger receipts, so that the market has
a top-heavy appearance. The number
of lambs and sheep remaining on feed
in northern Colorado, the Arkansas
Valley and the Scotts Bluff district of
Nebraska, which will furnish most of
the market supply of fed lambs dur-
ing the remainder of the season, was
estimated at 1,300,000 head on Febru-
ary 11 compared with 680,000 head a
year previous, 1,090,000 head two
years previous, and 1,190,000 three
years previous. Part of this increase
over 1927 was offset by a smaller num-
ber in the corn belt. Early indications
are for larger numbers of spring lambs
from California than last year.

 

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WHAT you see under

the plate glass, happens about 300 times
every minute when you drive your car.

First, the tread yields as it meets the road,
for balloon tires are soft. '

So'the Goodrich Silvertown tread is flex-
ible —— triple grooved —— hinge-centered —
and it yields without distortion.

Second, the weight pressing down on the
tire spreads toward the outer edges of the
tread—the “shoulders.”

So the Goodrich Silvertown tread has mas-.

sive shoulders—continuous tracks of rub-
ber—with the sharp-edged, all-direction
grip of the safety blocks along the sides.

Such a tread is smooth-running. It doesn’t
"pile up.” Because it is undistorted, it is
free from the uneven, choppy wear which
tire men call "Cupping.”

By this one discovery, the hinge-center
tread, Goodrich puts thousands of extra
miles in Silvertowns.

Naturally, it takes unusual inner strength
to equal the life of such a tread. This
strength is assured by two important proc1
esses in Silvertown manufacture.

All the 5,000 cords in these tires are stretch-
matched and pressure filled with rubber.

Then all the rubber in every Silvertown is
accurately toughened from inside and out-
side both, by the Goodrich Water'Cure.

Goodrich dealers everywhere are ready
to equip you with Silvertowns.

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TAXATION

 

HIS is the season we hear so much

about it. Mr. Powell is with the
majority discussing the great increase
in local taxes, however, local taxes——
largest and most unfair tax some of
_us ever paid were made possible by
reason of petition of non-resident
owners—owners, not even electors or
liable to service on warrant. Such is
the looseness of some of our statutes
which public service commissioners
are privileged to act on.

The drain law is one of these loose
pieces of legislation which is worded
to give a non-resident an opportunity
to lay a. heavy benefit tax on a resi-
dent owner or a township.

The old covert road act was another
measure giving an organized body of
real estate men advantage though
they may have been liable to very
low frontage tax and still less gen-
eral tax.

Our school laws seem as they be-
come amended to resemble the Pisa
Tower, leaning a little away from up-
rightness when a sizable farm comes
within a high school district.

Still the greatest injustice to the
land proprietor of the township is the
absent voters’ law compelling twenty
days between caucus and election, but
still leaving annual settlement day
(set by statute) in the interim, de-
priving the electors of the township
a report until after nominations are
made. The only protection the heavy
tax payers have is to nominate at a
regular called caucus an opposition
ticket on suspicion or run someone on
slips; a desirous route.

Again I wish to call attention to the
manner of electing highway o-verseers
by district “viva voice" vote. This
does not seem a large matter until
the change in highway law is con-
sidered. The county system has all
but annulled some of the old path-
masters districts but township boards
are helpless in many instances be-
cause of popular vote—a. vote as
transient sometimes as the Aurora.

Your correspondent has no proven
remedy for the seeming injustice to
Michigan land owners though it would
seem that a vote of interest by resi-
dent owners would eliminate much of
the present difficulty. Said vote to be
taken after interest had been found
and before final determination was
made by public service commissioner.
It has been claimed that such a
course would prevent many drainage
highways and high school projects
from being consummated but the an-
swer to that is if the persons that have
their homes invaded annually by the
tax collector shall not have the say.
who should?

In Huron County on some farm
lands, the school tax is a real burden
to the owner, and the amount of the
bonded tax and annual levy is much
against the sale of such land.

Offhand it would seem that a limit
placed on the liability of land to taxes

,for such purposes would be the

remedy—placing a limit on the amount
that could be collected from each
householder.

As for township defects, the remedy

‘ would seem to be in the direction of

larger units. Many townships have
lost land to the state and many more
have become also depopul‘ated by shift-
ing industry. Consolidation to elimin-
ate a number of o-fl‘lcers now displaced
in fact by county and state officials
should be provided by legislation—E.
Richardson.

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work you do is really the
most expensive part of the
job, and remember that it
does not take as long to put
on good paint or roofings as
it does cheap ones.

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hand, dependable informa-
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By Fran

OU’LL have to ship your motor-
cycles a few hundred miles by
rail from Ilorin to Kaduna," the

government officials in Lagos,

West Africa, told Jim and me when
we were planning our motorcycle trip
across the Dark Continent. “There
are no roads in that part of Nigeria
at this time of year.” And they were
dead right about the roads.

But they were wrong about our hav-
ing to ship the motorcycles. “No,
we’ll take ’em ourselves all the way
from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red
Sea if we have to pack ’em over the
rivers on native canoes and push ’em
through the jungle and the desert
sand ourselves,” said Jim, who nor-
mally decides things entirely on im-
pulse and then does the best he can
afterwards. We haven’t reached the
Red Sea yet, nor even the Nile River,
but we’ve done all we expected to do
already and a good deal more besides.

In the jungleland about the Niger
,river in equatorial West Africa, they
have what the people there optimist-
ically call “dry season roads.” This
means that, if you have good luck you

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our bed safely between, and all our
baggage pushed warily under the bed,-

except for our two big .45 revolvers,
and our money, which we stowed
where our pillows should have been.

Maybe it was the big lump of re-
volver (no, not money) under my head
that kept me awake that Whole night
long. Or maybe it was the soft pat-
tering of jungle noises shifting here
and there and continually reminding
me that it was night in the African
“bush.” Or perhaps it was the zipping
jungle mug of the myriads of mo-
squitos, most of them out side our
thin white netting which hung like a
flag of truce between our bikes. Or
perhaps it was our bed, made of three
long poles with canvas stretched be.
tween, the ends resting on cases of
gasoline, and the middle propped by
our luggage underneath.

Perhaps it was the story told us
two nights before by a British Dis-
trict Officer of how the northern Ni—
geria night robbers always work in
pairs, one to steal the money While
the other black savage stands steal—
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We and Our Motorcycles Crossed the Oshun River on Two Dug Outs

may be able to make a trip over those
roads during the proper season after
the bridges are all built and before
they wash out again. The difficulty is
to find out just what day that “sea-
son” is.

Since practically all of the freight

traffic in that bush land is by head

carrier and all the passenger traffic is
by foot there is little need for a per~
manent, all year road—except for the
fool Nebraska boys who want to see
whether it can be made by metor-
cycle. And if the road were guar-
anteed good in Nigeria, the Nebraska
boys would go to Timbuctoo or Siberia
or some place else where the roads
were not good.

“Bad Roads,” my traveling partner
on our Alaska and Klondike trip five
years ago and on many others since,
has always insisted that he detests a
paved highway, but since we began
this trek through the black heart of
Africa, through the desert and jungle
and bush, many times on no roads nor
even caravan trails but just some-
where “in Africa" I’ve heard him sigh
for the paved streets of Khartoum in
the Egyptian Sudan in east Africa.
And when-—-and if—we get there, I’ll
be glad to see ’em too.

"Road closed, Ilorin to Jebba,”
wired a. missionary from whom Jim
inquired, following his custom of de-

ciding on a course of action and then

searching for advice on the subject
until he gets just the kind he wants.
He failed this time. If a hundred resi-
dents had told him the road was
closed and one had said it was pos-
sible, Jim would have ignored the hun-
dred and depended on the one he
wanted. But this time he couldn’t find
the one, so we just went anyway.

A FEW miles north of Ilorin where
the road was supposed to end—
-- and did—the sudden tropical

darkness settled over‘ the jungle and
fire Iprepared for our first night in the
us . -

“’Ware the northern Nigeria rob-
bers,” and ’ware the snakes and all
the other things that lie in wait for
the traveler in the African interior—
mostly imagination we found.
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with a raised machete ready to split
his skull if he wakes too soon. Or
perhaps it was the peaceful snoring
of my partner Jim who slept soundly
through it all! My, what he missed
that night!

EARLY the next morning, a dozen
peaceful natives cautiously

stepped out into the little clearing
where we had made our camp and
“ohed”—and “ahed”——at the funny

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white men who handled their own
baggage and prepared their own
breakfast. That was all the effect our
presence had on the “bad men of the
north.” And before our trip was over
We learned to sleep on the ground in
little grass huts in isolated villages
or in lonely places in the bush or
desert, without guns, and without
thought of worry. A white man tra-
veling in the African bush is far safer
from robbery than he is in civilized
America.

Then the battle with the road be-
gan. No car or motorcycle had been
through for months—and I am sure
none will be for some time to come.
All of the bridges, and most of the
roads as well, were spread over the
Niger valley and a new road was be-
ing built. We would clatter and
stumble along over a stumpy, rocky
trail and there, voila, a place where
a bridge should be. Perhaps a per-
pendicular drop from the edge of the
washout to the rocky river bed below
with anywhere from no water at all to
the depth of a tall negro’s head, and
then all we had to do was to get up
on the other side.

Sometimes we’d chop out a road
around, with our hatchet and mach-
ete, worry across the river somehow,
and then lift the machines up on the
other side. Sometimes we’d wait for
the obliging natives to collect about
the scene and, with a few welldis-
tributed pennies and words of en-
couragement, our black villagers
would help us for miles. But there
weren’t always these folk around and
then Jim and I, in the sweltering
equatorial sun, would hack out our
own rocky stairsteps down to‘the river
bed, and then tug and push and prac-
tically lit our heavily loaded ma-
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CAN see the time when it will pay

me back,” went on Bob. “Perhaps

the days I take from play mean
schooling, further opportunity. You
asked me how I feel about farming. I
hardly know. This year, despite all the
hard work, has been wonderful, and
sometimes when I stand looking over
a. field like this or feel the power of a
team or a tractor it gets hold of me.
But if we have to move on and on as
we have before from one rented farm
to another, even if we stay in the
same community, I want to change to
a steady job.”

“But if you had a farm of your
own?” queried Kate, and her eyes
were moist in sympathy as she re-

called the story of hardships told by

Mother Barton. -

“If we owned a farm—this farm,”
and Bob Barton swept his hands in
a gesture which included all the fields,
“all I’d ask was a chance for an edu-
cation to help make me a better farm-
er than 1 now am, then I’d show old
Mother Earth that she’d have to sup-
port me for life. But no such luck,”
Bob concluded, “for it would take
years of renting to even make a pay
ment on a farm like this.”

“Don’t be so sure,” encouraged
Kate. “Remember your club pigs.
Our state club champion made $500
one year. Do as well and with a good
crop you might surprise yourself."

“I’m not kidding myself,” answered
Bob. “If I pay my note and have a
fair profit, I’ll be satisfied. Thanks
for the drink, Katie. I must get back
to work."

Queer conversation for maid and
lad? Not in the least. Underneath
the frivolities of youth lie hidden

depth, springs which are revealed in
‘rare moments of contact when both
sociability and sentiment are in the
background. Bob Barton, wielding his
hoe, Kate O’Neal back in the farm
kitchen helping her mother with home
1y tasks, were facing the realities of
life at a time when many a boy and
girl of like age were in the kinder-
garten of experience. Each had been
helped by the interchange of confi-
dences. Bob Barton knew that this
girl friend had become a potent in-
fluence in his life for good, an inspira-
tion for high endeavor. As uncon—
sciously, Katie O’Neal was measuring
her standards of other associates by
the yardstick of a friend who played
the big game of life hard but clean.

As she walked slowly homeward
Katie mused over the things Bob had
said. As she looked over the place
which had always been home to her,
a. heritage from forebears of her

father, sensed the quiet beauty of the
scene, something gripped hard at her
heart and her eyes were wet. How
terrible to move on and on, like some
restless wandering Jew, who never
knew a home. And Mother Barton had

never known roof which she could call .

her own. “He said we’d been pretty
good pals,” said Katie softly, “and a
pal can help. I’ll do all I can to help

‘ him win.”

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the dinner bell and rounded the house
an amazing sight met his eyes. Seated
under the trees Were a score of boys,
while stacked like rifles against a tree
rested hoes. Each lad was calmly
munching sandwiches, while Ruth and
Bess fluttered about like excited birds,
carrying lemonade. The taciturn Slade
rose to greet Bob. “Hello,” he said
“this is the invading army. We’ve
come to help you kill weeds so you
can go fishin’. Couldn’t get away
earlier, so we brought lunch in order
to get an early after-dinner start. Ted
will be here soon.”

Bob stood in silent amazement while
delighted but muffled chuckles from
food-filled mouths broke on the air.
All boys of the 4-H Club, they had

tive genius was all he needed. When
the “army” deployed and attacked
weeds in mass formation the musician
took up his stand under a great tree
far in advance. As Barton began to
play his bow seemed a living flame as
it swept across responsive strings.
“ ‘March of the Farm Brigade’,”
shouted Father Barton and the call of
the violin seemed a challenge to every
boy to do his best. Strong and clear
the music carried across the fields
until Mrs. O’Neal came out to peer
across toward their neighbor’s farm.

“Of all things,” cried Mrs. O’Neal
to her husband, who was enjoying a
well-earned rest, “what do you think
has happened, John? There’s an army
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TfiE GIT7T
By A. W. Peach

Funny what a cheery heart can do in this great world

When topsy-turvy all our hopes in wreckage dire are hurled.

Grief seems never quite so deep, misfortune not so gray,

If some glad heart is near to cheer our mood to thoughts more gay.
Happy tunes with happy words can set the heart in time,

Though sad it be, to lighter beat as to a merry rhyme.

Some one smiling through the house can brighten every room;
And some one singing drives away bitterness and gloom.

So here’s a little song that would this cheery hope impart

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come for a practical demonstration of
friendship. Something hot and warm
splashed on Bob’s cheek as without a
word he turned and entered the house,
to emerge a few moments later with
the food prepared by his mother and
join the group. He made no apology
for his seeming lack of appreciation,
none was needed. Here were friends
who understood.

“They wouldn’t let me feed ’em,”
mourned Mother Barton, “insisting
they would muss up the house.”

“Wanted to make it a picnic, Mrs.
Barton,” replied Slade, who seemed
the acknowledged leader. “If we’d be-
gun eating your good cooking, we’d
never get. away to work.” An hour
the boys lay under the shade, then
each seizing a hoe the “army” was
off for the scene of action.

“lley,” cried Father Barton, bring—
ing up the rear. “I don’t like to hoe,
but, I’ll make a half a boy.”

“Say,” remarked Ted Baldwin with
sudden inspiration, stopping short, “I
know how you can help more, Mr. Bar-
ton. Bring your Violin and play while

we work. That will make us forget
how hot it is.”
“Good idea,” called Vic Slade.

“Maybe you'can compose a new piece.
I’ll bet no bunch of farm hands ever
worked to music before.”

Bradley Barton required no further
urging. Opportunity to exercise crea-

,father is out there under a tree, play-

ing like mad.”

O’Neal came out of the house, to be
joined by Kate. “Well, I’ll be tee-
totally hornswaggled!” he ejaculated.
“If that don’t beat any darned thing
I ever saw. But listen to that music.
Say, its’ callin’ to me just as if Brad
Barton was sayin’, ‘Come over and
help.’ I’m goin’, too. Mother, you and
Kate fix up a big jar of lemonade. By
and by I’ll come back and wheel it
down on the cart. I’m off to join the
gang.”

More than two hours had passed
when the sweat~saturated “army”
threw down its weapons and with a
joyful whoop made for the shade of
a great tree which graced the divi-
sion line. Mother Barton and her
daughters had been summoned by tele-
phone, and as Kate O’Neal ladled out
refreshing fluid, Bess and Ruth passed
crisp ginger-snaps. The tired workers
relaxed to lie prone, but Father Bar-
ton, with eyes closed and violin cud-
dled leaned back against the tree.
Softy he began to play. Conversation

languished, the boys stopped playfnl‘

interchange of jokes and pokes. Even
the little girls, to whom Father Bar-
ton’s playing was part of their daily
lives, fell into unaccustomed silence.

Sweet sang the violin, a song of
hope at seed time. The listeners could
vision upturned soil, the green of pas-

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tures, the rhythmic click of drill or
planter. The measure quickened and
farmers were about the work of cul-
tivation, the gleam of shining shovels
reflected in the sun; .Again the rhythm
changed. It was a time of drouth.
There was wailing of women ‘and the
bitter cries of children in taut strings.
Now a storm ,broke. Winds roared
like beasts of prey, but strong stalks,
a living barrier, held fast. The temp-
est hushed, a dainty patter of rain-
drops fell to increase in volume.
Childish voices in triumph broke on
the air. Now strong and sonorous,
presaging victory over opposing
forces, the violin told the story of re-
newed hope. Smoothly the music
glided into a hymn of thanksgiving
and praise. It was harvest time, the
husbandman repaid for toil, food in
plenty assured for those he loved. The
last notes of the violin die-d away, the
group still hushed and silent seemed
under a magic spell.

It was John O'Neal, no mean judge
of music, who broke the silence. “By
the Almighty God, Barton,” he said,
and there was no irreverence in his
voice, “you have a great gift. No man
with such ability should waste his
time on a farm. Such work is for
men like myself, who love our live
stock and our tools for service as you
do your violin. You must write that
music down. What will you call this
new mine of melody?”

“The Spirit of Agriculture," an-
swered Bradley Barton and he spoke
as one gripped with strong emotion.
“It is all about us: in this field, in
the air itself, calling, calling to be put
into words or melody. I am but the
poor instrument upon whose heart
One unseen plays. It is true that I
do not love the work of the farm as
you do, it would always be but an
unwelcome task to me, but there is in-
spiration here, neighbor. I have found
friends who understand and appreciate
what I try to do.

“If you will excuse me now,” and
there was a simple dignity about the
musician as he rose that became him
well, “I shall go home and put down
the things that have come to me."
Carrying his beloved violin as a
mother might her child, Barton set off
through the fields.

“I think your father is a wonderful
man,” said Katie O’Neal impulsively.
“Bob, you should be proud of him.”

“We all are proud of him,” replied
Mother Barton, and her eyes shone.
“He is a wonderful man, as fine in
mind and heart as his music is fine.
But, as he says, there is something
here that has brought out his best; it
is bringing out the best in all of us.
I was sick at heart when we came
here and felt that we had been de—
frauded, but since I have thanked God
that we came to this community.”

Emotion cannot long grip boyish
minds. With a yell Ted Baldwin
sprang up to lead his mates in a race
back to the cornfield. Shadows were
lengthening before the last weed lay
prone and a wearied brigade marched
back to feast at the Barton farm
house. There they found Father Bar-

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ton still poring over sheets of newly
written music. “Barton pluck, son,”
he smiled as Bob came into the room.
“We always finish what we start."
Across the page of the first sheet was
scrawled, “The Spirit of Agriculture."
In peace of mind, in contentment and
happiness, Bradley Barton at last was
coming into his kingdom.

More than a clean field of corn had
been the result of that day of com-
bined activity. As they came in from,
work the club boys stopped to admire
Bob Barton’s lusty litter of growing
pigs. The son of a swine breeder of
more than state renown, Victor Slade
had been trained in the ways of the
showman, sleeping many a night upon
the straw near his father’s animals as
they made the fair circuits. “Get the
opinion of the jedge here,” Ted Bald-
win» had observed facetiously. “he can
tell you whether the curl in a pig’s
tail is right to win and if his toes
have to be manicured.”

Vic Slade had gravely inspected the
fine young porkers. “A promising lit-
ter,” he remarked, “but here’s one pig
that stands out. This is our breed,
Bob, and I’ve seen the best that grows
bristles. This fellow you've namedK
Stonewall Jackson is better than last
year’s junior champion at the state%
fair. You say you’d like to go up to,
the International, but you haven’t?
time to try for the stock judging team. 1
Leave that to Ted and me. The cham-g
pion club pig of the state pays thef
way for his boss when he wins the:
purple ribbon. Fit ‘Stony’ and show"
him at the state fair. He’ll take youl
on to Chicago.” I

Bob could hardly believe all that]
was told him. but Ted urged him toi
take young Slade’s advice. The weeksf
were slipping away and it would notf
be long until fair time. Into a separ—i
ate lot went the prize porker, wherel
under the supervision of Agent Bur-‘
ton on his occasional trips and Bob's‘
untiring care, “Stony” not only waxed,
fat but grew amazingly. To Bob came‘
a new joy, the anticipation of match—j
ing wits with other breeders as he:
showed the product of his owu breed-‘5
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The three days and nights spent on}
the banks of a river not far from‘
home were memorable, not only for
the joy of relaxation from labor but
for added opportunity for boyish inti-
macy. It mattered little that the catch
of fish was hardly enough to “make
the pan smell,” as one boy put it.
With old Lem Peters as guide, coun-
selor, and friend to show them haunts
of the fox squirrel, plates were heaped
high with tender morsels. Hours were
spent in the water, where they
splashed and sang. With clear calm
nights there was no need of tents, and
for the first time Bob Barton knew
what it meant to lie beneath the open
sky and look upward toward serene
stars. pondering upon the majesty of
night. In Victor Slade he had found
a kindred spirit, the type of early ma-
turing mind which takes hold upon
the problems of life and seeks to solve
them,

“The thing I like about farming”,
confided Slade one night, “is that it’s‘
permanent. Your land may depreciate 1
in value but it can’t run away, burn“
up, or blow up. Treat it right and a
field’s right there year after year
ready to pay you back for the time
and care you put into it.”

“Our farm has been ‘in the family’
for eighty years,” went on young Vic-
tor. “It belonged to my grandfather
and some day it will belong to me. I
like to think,” and the lad cleared his
throat self-dbnsciously, “that someone
who may come after me will be carry-
ing on at Cloverleaf Farm some day
as I am now.”

“But what if you had no farm and
had no hopes of owning one,” Bob
queried softly, “would you still feel
the same way about it?”

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farm I’d earn one.”

As he lay while his comrade slept
beside him, Bob Barton pondered over
the things that had been said. Had he
a heritage of desire which had needed
only the incentive of understanding
and appreciation to waken into life?
There had been vague visions of cities
teeming with busy life, of employment
by great industrial concerns whose
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light -on rippling water, heard the
faint call of a wakeful Chanticleer,
faint resolve grew into certainty of
purpose. Born of the soil through his
mother’s heritage, please God some
day he would give her the home she
had longed for even beforehe was a.
toddling babe. And after that——

'Who shall analyze the dreams of lad
or lass? Dreams as sweet as the per-
fume of new-mown hay, fair as an.
opening bud, pure as the waters of
crystal spring. Bob slept.

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expedition over land and water in Alaska. It travels 40 miles
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“Zealandia,” owned by Philip S. Henry has been offeredvtcr—Presi-
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located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

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ES, colds are contagious. There
never was a truer expression than
“I’ve caught a cold.”

Every cold should be quarantined.
And just two persons can manage the
quarantine, One is the person who
has the cold, the other the person who
hasn’t.

The person who has it should stay
at homewhile the fever stage is on,
both for his own good and that of his
neighbor. When he emerges from
obscurity he should carry a supply of
paper napkins and something to re-
ceive them.

All sneezing, coughing, nose-blowing,
and other assaults should be carried
on under cover of the paper napkin,
superior to the handkerchief because
of final disposal.

The person who hasn’t the cold
should avoid public towels, com-
mon drinking cups, and other known
scourges of contamination.

He should cultivate resistance by
maintaining activity of the mucous
membranes and the skin—positively
the best chest protector on the mar-
ket. Anyone who is in good health
and strength may learn to enjoy tak-
ing a sponge bath every morning. It
should be taken in a warm room and.
followed by vigorous rubbing with a
big rough towel until the whole skin
is in a glow. Not every person can
do this but those who can, find it a

' source of enjoyment as well as health,

once they are used to it. And it does
not take longto get used to it.

I am in some doubt as to the efficacy
of the injection of “cold” vaccines.
Scientifically they are based on an un-
sound principle and not reliable. Prac-

tically, however, there are many doc--

tors who use them every year and
insist that they give immunity from
colds. Personally I prefer the morn—
ing bath.

LOW BLOOD PRESSURE

 

Does low blood pressure affect peo-
ple in the mind so they have delu-
sions? What treatment is good for
low pressure?—A. C. F.

Persons with. low blood pressure
usually require extra rest, very nour-
ishing food, and general building up
of the body. This may mean a pro-
longed period of treatment in a sana-
torium, as occurs when the low pres-
sure is due to tuberculosis. Persons
with mental delusions may have low
blood pressure but there is no reason
why those having low pressure should
necessarily have mental delusions.

STOMACH ULCER

 

My doctor tells me I have an ulcer
in my stomach. But I do not vomit.
I have pains in my stomach causing
much belching and much distress.
Seems as if my food is all in a lump
and causes a heavy pressure-like feel-
ing. I have spots before my eyes, am
nervous and weak. Am a youngwo-
man 21 years old. What do you think?

I can understand the distress- of
mind that makes this inquirer turn
from the decision of her doctor to find
someone who will say that she does
not have ulcer of the stomach. But,
of course, it is a foolish thing to do.
What value can'ther’e be in a decision
made by cerreSpondence as compared
with the first hand opinion of a doctor
who sees‘th'e patient and all of her
symptoms? “The fact that this patient
does not vomit is not against the diag-
nosis of ulcer, for vomiting is not an
invariable symptom.,No one can-make
accurate diagnosis of such serious
troubles without opportunity for care-
ful examination, which should,include
X-ray pictures and laboratory tests of
the stomach contents. If your doctor

cannot make thou tests, get him to

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REMOVAL OF WARTS

 

Please tell me what will remove
warts from the hands—P. J. M.

One way is to pierce the wart with
a red-hot needle. Another is 'to pro-
tect the tissue around the wart with
vaseline and then touch wart with a
stick of silver nitrate. They may also
be removed by the application of
glacial acetic acid.

BACK STRAINED

 

Three months ago I had a very
severe strain of the back in lifting. I
just can’t seem to get over it. Can
you give any suggestions?——T. D. S.

A severe strain of the back such as
you describe is not very easily cured
by ordinary means. If your doctor
will give your muscles the extra sup
port of a broad swathe of adhesive
plaster, renewing it as often as is nec-
essary for several weeks it will be a
great help to you and will give the
strained muscles 3. chance to recover
their tone. '

TONIC FOR BOY

 

Aside from plenty of fresh air and
good food, what would you recommend
as a tonic for an‘ underweight 14-year-
old boy?—-Mrs. W. M. B.

Plenty of sleep in the fresh air,
watchfulness that his play is not ex-
hausting. Boys of 14 are quite prone
to overdo in this respect. Plenty of
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and apples are very good. No medl-
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EAUTIFUL lamp shades add so

much charm to a room that one

can no longer consider them
merely a convenience. And to be kept
truly smart, lamp shades must be
changed often~the heavily fringed
and draped shades of a few years ago
have been forced to give place to more
pleasing designs. But even these
change in design and decoration.

It is very easy, however, to have
new designs for one may easily decor-
ate the plain, parchment paper shades
at home. These may be had either
pleated, or in straight designs. It is
often difficult to buy a lamp shade
ready-made that has exactly the right
color and design for the place it is
to occupy, but it is always possible

 

The Pleated Shade Is New and Novel
As Well As Practical

to decorate a shade that will fit per-
fectly into its surroundings.

The designs that are seen on many
of the lamp shades that look like hand
painting are really not hand painted,
but are “scissors painted.” That is,
a design is first selected from one of
the many subjects available in decor-
ated crepe paper, and then it is care—
fully cut out. After brushing the shade
with paint made from ordinary sealing
wax, the design is pasted in place.
Crepe paper designs may be had in
old galley ships, flowers, autumn
leaves, birds, kiddie designs, and many
others, all in fresh clear colors that
will have the appearance of real paint—
ings when the final touch is given.

The plain parchment paper shade
may be purchased in any size and a
variety of shapes, and the pleated
shades come all pleated and ready to
be decorated. These are most satis-
factory for scissors painting.

To make sealing wax paint, select
the colors of sealing wax as near the
colors in the crepe paper design as
possible, and have a separate con-
tainer for each color. Break the wax
into small pieces, cover with dena-'
tured alcohol, make air-tight, and al-
low to stand from 12 to 24 hours, until
it is dissolved. In addition to the
colors, there must be some paint made
of the transparent amber sealing wax
for the first coating, which should be
very thin, like a thin syrup. The color
for the background must be carefully
chosen to blend with the colors in the
design. The background paint should

' be about the consistency of cream. If

the paint is too thick it may be
thinned with the alcohol, or it may be
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the alcohol will evaporate.

Stretch the pleated shade out flat on
a board and fasten with thumb tacks.
The plain shades are easily handled
when standing on a table in front of
the worker. Whichever you choose,
the work is the same. Brush the en-
tire shade'with the thin solution of
transparent amber wax. When dry,
brush over the shade, where the de-
sign will be, with glue—not over the
back of the cut-out—and fasten the
cut-out in place. Use a piece of tissue
paper over the design so the fingers
will not come in direct contact with
the colored crepe paper.

When a colored background is de-
sired, saturate a piece of cheesecloth
with alcohol, then dip it into the
colored paint and rub it over the part
of the shade that is exposed, but not
over the design. Several colors may
be blended in this way until the de-
sired effect is obtained. If a. deeper,
or brighter coloring is desired, both
sides of the shade may be tinted.

To make the colors in the design
more vivid, apply the corresponding
colors in the wax paint, with a small
brush. When the surface is entirely
dry, apply a finishing coat of thick
amber sealing wax paint.

If you would like to know more
about scissors-painted lamp shades
send ten cents in stamps or coin for
a packet containing special instruc-
tions for making many different de-
signsl Address your requests to Desk
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GET THE GLOVE HABIT

 

HOUSECLEANING time and gar-
dening time aren’t far away and
even now I am laying my plans for

the semi-annual fixing-up-time, both in
the house and out-of—doors.

Particularly at such times as these
do the hands suffer and when the
cleaning is finally finished and things
in order they are usually rough and
swollen and so grimed 'with dirt that
no amount of scrubbing and soaking
will remove it.

Gloves are rather clumsy things to
wear when one wishes to work, it is
true, but it is possible to become ac-
customed to them and they do save
the hands so very much. You’ll find
a pair of the big cotton ones just what
you want, and when they become bad-
ly soiled and stained they may be dis-
carded without the least feeling of
extravagance. I keep a pair on hand
the year round and find them useful
in a dozen different ways—Mrs. W. H.

 

For emergency mending of rain-
coats, goloshes, or even umbrellas, use
adhesive tape.

 

NOVEL USE OF CROSS-WORD
PUZZLES

 

HIS is how I solved two cross-

word puzzles. Having an abun-
dance of good wool pieces, the rem-
nants of made-over dresses for my
two daughters while they were going
through school, I wanted to piece
them into a quilt. First, I measured
a good sized quilt, and counted the
squares in a cross-word puzzle, to find
the size the blocks .would have to be
to make a quilt. I found that by cut-
ting the blocks six inches square, I
could make a large quilt. I sewed
them together in strips, dark and light
alternately, counting the blocks up to
the design of the puzzle, and making

Easter Dinner on the Farm

LONG toward spring when appe-
tites begin to lag and the whole
family seems to develop a case

of spring fever all at once, the home
cook’s problems become more numer—
ous. Not too numerous to mention,
by any means, for each one needs her
special attention. When company
comes, that’s just one more problem
to figure out. If you are to have com-
pany for Easter, here’s a menu that
may help you:

Cream of Tomato Soup
Roast Ham with Pineapple
Golden Potatoes

Spinach Rolls
Easter Salad Apple Tapioca
Coffee White Cake

Roast Ham With Pineapple

This will probably use up the last
of your sugar-cured hams. Boil the
ham for ten minutes and simmer
until nearly done. Remove from the
kettle and place in roaster. Skewer
three or four slices of pineapple to
the outer surface and bake in a mod-
erate oven for one hour. Baste with
one cup of pineapple juice, one cup of
the ham liquor and one teaspoon mus~
tard. Use the pineapple and parsley
as garnish.

Golden Potatoes

Mash potatoes as usual using but-
ter, cream, and salt as seasoning.
When beaten light, add two beaten

eggs to seven medium-sized potatoes,
and beat well. Pile in a deep serving
dish, heat in the oven until golden
brown and serve.
The spinach should be cooked in a
cup of the ham liquor.
Easter Salad
Mix one-half cup of diced cooked
carrot, one-half cup of chopped nuts,
and two cups cottage cheese. Shape
into tiny eggs and arrange in a nest
of crisp watercress. Dot with mayon-
naise.
Apple Tapioca
Cover three-quarters cup of pearl
tapioca with water and allow to stand
over night. If granulated tapioca is
used, only half this amount is re-
quired and it does not need to be
soaked. Cook the tapioca in a double
boiler until transparent, and season
with salt. Wash and core apples;
place in a buttered baking dish; fill
cavities with sugar; pour tapioca
around them and bake in a moderate
oven until the apples are soft. Serve
with lemon sauce.
Lemon Sauce
Cream one-quarter cup of butter
and add one cup sugar. Add two beat-
en eggs, a pinch of salt, and one-half
cup boiling water. Cook in a double
boiler for five minutes, add three
tablespoons lemon Juice and one tea.-

spoon grated lemon rind and serve '

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the year around and production
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During the winter months I have
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baskets. These help to make my stand
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TO USE UP THE LEFT-OVER
CHICKEN

 

REQUENTLY the last remains of

a chicken are a bit unsightly al-
though as nourishing and delicious as
the first part. Instead of using up
these remains in the time-honored
creamed chicken dishes, and chicken
salads—often more or less tasteless
because of the nature of the remnants,
try this plan:

Remove the meat from the bones,
saving every shred, and not dividing
the larger pieces into too small por-
tions. Put the meat to one side in a
bowl. Now prepare a small amount
of batter, the amount depending upon
the quantity of chicken. The follow-
ing rule can be doubled or divided:

Sift together one cup of flour, one-
half teaspoonful of salt, a few grains
of pepper, and one rounding teaspoon-
ful of baking powder. Mix two well-
beaten eggs with twothirds of a cup
of milk. Add the milk mixture gradu-
Beat until
smooth. Salt and pepper the chicken,
using a little onion or celery salt as
desired. Bind the pieces of chicken
with the batter and fry slowly in a
spider or a frying pan, using fat as
may be needed.

Fried chicken served in this form
may be quite flat like small cutlets.
Or, if the chicken is in larger pieces,
it may be almost. suggestive of a smell

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WHOQAM I?

 

TO most people I am only a voice

for few people ever really see me.
I live in the woods and seldom ven-
ture out far, for it is here that I am
the safest. My striped and mottled
plumage is so very nearly the color
of the bark on the trees and the dry
leaves that you cannot see me even
when you are but three or four feet
away.

I do not bother to build a nest but
push a few leaves together and lay
two eggs on the leafy carpet in the
woods.

The little boy who has stolen the
jam from the pantry is often
frightened when he hears my call. Can
you tell why and who am I?

 

The answer to last week’s bird
guessing contest was the red-winged
blackbird. Did you guess rightly?
Write me a letter and tell me some-
thing you know about our feathered
friends—Aunt Martha.

 

KNOWS ABOUT BATS

Dear Aunt Martha:
I am eight years old and I know a
lot about bats. I think they are very

 

interesting. They usually stay around.

old houses and under old boxes. They
always sleep with their heads hang-
ing down. I wouldn’t like to do that.

They seldom come out .of their hid-
ing place in the daytime for they can
see only at night. If they do come
out, they flop their wings, tumble
around, and bump into things. They
can’t have black and blue spots cause
they are nearly black anyway. In the
night they fly around to catch insects.
——Harry Paulsom.

STATE SECR ETS

 

Across in Europe, most folks think
America’s a Wild West Show!

Out here near Butte, it Baas look like,
Life’s one incessant rodeo!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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
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APRIL POULTRY NOTES

 

0 you remember when it was the
common advice to get the chicks
out on the bare ground even if you
had to shovel away the snow to give
them a place to range? I used to feel
very guilty if I didn’t do that although
the chicks seem to get along fairly
well. And many a brood of baby
chicks were chilled by being driven
out on the ground on cold days in
order to save them from leg weakness.

The use of cod liver oil and glass
substitutes Which permit the violet
rays to strike the chicks has greatly
reduced the work of caring for the
breeder houses. Now it is not neces-
sary to drive very small chicks out of
the breeder house and into the sun-
light. It takes a lot of worry out of
the business as the poultryman does
not have to work with one eye on
the clouds, ready to begin the chick
round-up at the first sign of rain.

Little chicks can now stay in the
colony houses until they are sufficient-
ly feathered to furnish considerable
protection from the cold and if they
are not turned out until several weeksI
old, they are laige enough and W188‘
enough to find their way back to thel
brooder stove very quickly. It saves!
a lot of work teaching them the way
to go out of the colony house and the
way to get back. In raising early
chicks, I believe that cod liver oil
saves its cost in the labor saved by
the poultryman who can always keep
his chicks under control during storms
and bad weather.

Preventing Poultry Thieving

Down in Indiana where they have
been doing much useful work in
rounding up poultry thieves they have
found that the strong padlock is one
of the best means of stopping poul—
try thieving. Many thieves who will
not hesitate to pick up a few fat hens
from the open house will hesitate ~a
long time before breaking into a pad-
lockcd house.

The padlock helps to slow up the
thief who is stealing poultry and may
enable the owner or the watchdogs to
obtain useful evidence. The owner
can often obtain an auto license num-

 

 

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A liequent invent01y of both the
growing stock and the old birds is a
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try thieves especially the regula1 visi-
tms 11110 pick up a few birds at a time
£01 home use.
1 Block the hole to each house so
* there is just 100m enough fox one bird
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pad and a pencil and Wiite down the
number of birds in each house. As
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all tho birds one day and count the
cockereis the next day. By subtract-
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in each house. If this inventory is
repeated at intervals, it may help in
locating losses from thieves, weasels,
hawks, skunks, stray cats, and colli-
sions with motor cars.
Some poultry losses are

 

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throughout the summer by weasels,
hawks, and other pests. Sometimes no
inventory has been made for several
months. The night before birds are
to be marketed a thorough count of
the stock is 11121119 and many are found
to be missing. Often the loss is
blamed on thieves who a1e suspected
of taking them in one big scoop. The
real cause are the pests which have
been reducing the flock a bird at a
time for many weeks.
Cars Kiil Many Chicks

Uncle Bob over in Chicago conducts
a radio campaign telling the children
that the “Curb is the Limit.” It is a
useful work, Over in
poultrymen need a slogan for chickens
which might be termed the “Ditch is
the Limit.” Farmers who are raising
poultry frequently need nothing worse
than a chicken-tight fence along their
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(Continued from page 501)
frontage which will keep the poultry
out of the road.

When a five foot poultry fence can

rod, the loss of one broiler cockerel
is equal to the cost of a rod of fence.
A big plump hen will buy two or three
rods of fence. The fence Will be good
for many years of service.

Ten or fifteen years ago it was a.
common custom to blame all chicken
collisions on the motorist and not on
the chickens. With our modern high-
ways and rapid travelling cars it is
necessary that the roads should be de—
voted exclusively to the travelling pub-
lic and not used as poultry ranges or
cow pastures.

The use of high fences along the
highway adjacent to the poultry bulld-
ings is also some protection from
thieves. If unwelcome visitors make
a. practice of climbing the poultry

be purchased for about sixty cents per'

    

fence, small strips can be nailed to
the topof each post and a. line of
barbed wire placed at each end of the
strip. This makes a fence that is al-
most impossible to climb.

In driving on main highways I have
noticed that the heavy breeds of
chickens have the poorest luck in get-
ing away from motor cars. Many of
the casualties are Barred Rocks and
Rhode Island Reds while few of them
are White Leghorns. In our own ex-
perience we have lost very few Leg-
horns although some of them will fly
into the road or range in the road
especially in the early morning hours.
The losses of Leghorns seem to have
been just about sunrise when possible
cars with their bright lights still burn-
ing have blinded the birds.

When the poultry are on a. fenced
range the ranging in the road is great-
ly reduced and the heavy breeds which
are most easily killed by cars are also
the easiest to keep inside a. fence and
out of the highway.

on 11.1;71191: f' ‘ .

Common Poultry Diseases
VI—Blackhead and Limberneck

LACKHEAD was commonly thought to be a disease primarily affecting
turkeys but it is also quite common with chickens. It is called infec-
tious entero-hepatitis as it affects the intestines, principally the ceca,

and the liver. It gets its common name from the fact that often the skin,
comb, and wattles on the head turn bluish or purplish. However, all birds
having blackhead do not show this head symptom.

The disease is usually brought in from diseased flocks by animals, Wild
birds, or persons. Therefore, there is need forsanitation, the keeping out
of the coop wild animals, rodents, Wild birds, and the use of personal clean-
liness on the part of humans after visiting strange flocks. Chickens and tur-
keys which have recovered from the disease may be carriers of it.

Symptoms—The characteristic indications of the disease are droopiness,
ruffled feathers, slow movements, weakness, lack of appetite, yellow or
yellowish green diarrhea and the darkening of the head. Death may occur
on the third day after the first symptoms appear or chronic cases may live
three or four weeks. Sometimes the mortality runs as high as ninety per
cent of the flock. Young turkeys from a month to a, year old are most sus-
ceptible, while older turkeys and chickens are more resistant.

Internal indications are that the ceca, or blind pouches of the intestines,
become thick and ulcered, and there are spots on the liver which vary in
size and color. They may appear sunken and are usually grayish in color
with yellowish or greenish tinges.

Treatment—This disease is very difficult to prevent and to eradicate.
Various treatments have been tried but probably the most effective and
economical is the use of crude catechu in the drinking water. It is claimed
that excellent results have been obtained from using one teaspoonful of the
crude catechu to each gallon of the drinking water, keeping it before the
fowls as long as the outbreak lasts.

To make the treatment more effective, the birds should be fed sparingly
the day before. Then give epsom salts at the rate of one to five teaspoonsful
to ten birds, depending upon their size, in sufficient wet mash to be cleaned
up at one meal. The following afternoon put the catechu in the drinking
water, using a little less for young turkeys and chickens than recommended.
As the catechu is constipating, epsom salts should be given from time to time.

Prevention—Blackhead infection is hard to get rid of. It is known to
stay in the soil for many years without losing its disease-producing power.
On this account turkey raising has proven unprofitable in some sections of
the country. As a means of prevention, therefore, one must have clean
premises and clean stock. All care should be used in getting stock from
uninfected sources. If there is any doubt as to the source, the chickens or
turkeys introduced should be kept isolated for at least a month, to determine
if they will develop the disease. As an extra safety factor, all eggs bought
for hatching should be washed with a seventy-five per cent alcohol solution.
The Histomonas meleagridis, or blackhead germ may be on the shells.

If the disease has made its appearance, all affected birds should pre-
ferably be killed and burned. The litter should be burned and the houses
thoroughly cleaned and disinfected with a three per cent cresol solution. It
is practically impossible to cleanse the ground. If turkey raising is at-
tempted on infected ground, it should be done in enclosed yardsto limit
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Stagnant pools of water are sources of infection and should never be left on
any poultry farm. Birds under treatment should be kept apart from those

GIBSONBURG- OHIO l which still appear to be well.

. LIMBERNECK

Limberneck is a symptom, not a disease. It is usually an indication of
eating poisonous or spoilt food. Spoilt meat scraps, garbage, or decaying
flesh with maggots in it are common sources of trouble. Anything causing
ptomaine poisoning, internal parasites, or digestive disturbances may cause
the limberneck condition.

The bird loses control of its neck muscles and the head hangs limp
Some conditions cause the head to be twisted which is usually called wry
neck and is very similar to limberneck. However, wry neck is thought to
be more often associated with epileptic spasms or rheumatism.

No treatment can be advised for these conditions except perhaps a dose
of epsom salts at the rate of one pound to twelve quarts of water. This
should be given in the morning when the birds are thirsty and left for an
hour or two. The food supply should be looked after to make sure it is
sweet and clean. It is also advisable to see that the birds do not havowacceu
to impure water.

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THE. MICHIGAN FARME‘R

EVERY FARM SHOULD HAVE
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APO-NIZING should be carried on
to a certain extent on every farm
Where chickens are raised. Capons
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much more easily handled than cock-
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Generally the capon price is equal to
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Any of the general purpose or heavi-
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It is a false notion that capons grow
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Many people believe that capons will
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Caponizing is easily learned, and
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As soon as one has learned to perform
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One should watch the development,
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bird is developing sexually, and is

about ready for capouizing.——Mrs.
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TURKEY PADDLES

 

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to prevent flying, the loss of feathers
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They should be about four inches wide
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HAT could be a better subject

to write about at this Easter

time than “the Resurrection of
Our Christ?” It is strange, is it not,
that Christ arose from the dead in
April, as the trees, flowers, and grass
come forth too, in all their “budding
glory?” Mother Nature comes to life
as if from the dead, just as Christ
arose, to do good to all.

The great place that the “Resurrec-
tion” can be found, is in your own
life. There are very few who have
not gone down, or risen in despair. It
is not the going down that matters,

 

 

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Cold Winters of Northern Michigan

‘ but if you do not rise again, that is

the mistake.

But we must forget our mistakes,
and just think of these words, “for-
getting” and “reaching.” “Remember-
ing” is a favorite Bible word, but we
give it a wrong meaning. It is of
God we should remember, not our mis~
takes. We must forget our hurts.
There are hurts in every life. Do not
cherish them or let them rankle in
your heart. The Master forgot the
wrongs and injuries done to him. He
loved on as if no wrong' had been done
to him. “A few moments after a boat
has ploughed the water, the bosom of
the lake is smooth again as ever.”
So it was in the heart of Jesus after
the most grievous injuries had been
inflicted upon him. Thus we should
forget the hurts done to us.

I wish to suggest here of the ways
God speaks to us—through the many
wonderful pictures that are painted.
The picture I am thinking of is “the
Angelus.” Surely, most of you have
seen it. There is a potato field, a
country lad and a country girl bowed
in reverence, and on the horizon the
spire of the village church. In those
Roman Catholic countries, at the hour
of evening, the church bell rings to
summon the people to pray. If they
are too far to come to church, they
bow their heads where they are, and
pray.

The three elements of life are work,
God and love. The “Angelus” ex-
presses them all. We know as soon
as we see the field, that they work,
and also they resemble the peasant
people of long ago. You cannot look
at the picture and the young man
standing in the field with his hat off,
and the girl opposite him, with her
hands clasped and her head bowed
on her breast, without feeling a sense
of God. Also in the picture, you no-
tice the sense of companionship,
whether they are brother and sister
or lovers. If the man had been stand-
ing the field alone, the scene would
be almost weary. If the woman had
been alone, it would have been senti-
mental. Together, you have the idea
of friendship.

So these three; thing—work, God,
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at ease, ask yourself if you are not
lacking in one or the other of these

,three things and pray for them, and

work for them.

Thus you will have a “Resurrec-
tion” of your own life, equaling the
greatness of Christ and Mother Na-
ture.——Geneva Ko-hlenberger.

It seems but a few weeks and not
months that I was racking my brains
for suitable matter for a G. C. con-
tribution, and now you spring the sur-
prise by requesting letter from Golden
Circlers.

It seems strange with me as it
does with other M. C. members to be
standing upon the upper deck slowly
fading from the view and memory of
active circlers. But we ourselves can-
not forget the “Page” which we were
and are so intensely interested in. It
has brought upon some of our
puzzled minds, clear and convincing
facts which We were in doubt, and it
places us in a position that we might
endeavor to convince others whom we
believe to be in the dark.

As to me, I’m still a staunch be-
liever that every person should be
educated to a certain extent. Some
are naturally too dumb to learn be-
yond a child’s small knowledge, while
others have their minds ladened with
silly pranks and pure nonsense, and
will not learn or even try. Again we
find young people who are anxious to
learn but handicapped in numerous
ways. The latter are the ones to be
pitied or helped but not the former.

I am still one of the few boys of
Michigan who never have used tobac-
co in any form, nor any form of in—
toxicating liquors. I not only believe
that either are harmful, but both are
filthy habits, which we all know are
extremely expensive—An always in-
terested G. 0., George W. Nichols.

 

 

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Dear Uncle Frank:

I have been getting the Michigan
Farmer now for quite a while and like
it better, especially Our Page, than
any other paper.

I noticed especially the letter from
“Peggy.” I agree with you and her
both. A girl who is so “fussy” ought
not to be alive. I go outside just as
much as I can. When I come in I’m
just covered with freckles. But what’s
the use in staying in all the time?
I also do dishes. My hands are not
very pretty but that doesn’t keep me
from doing dishes.

My name may sound bad, but don’t
take it that I am.—Hazel Badder.

It is not good grammar to say

 

Golden Circle Time

UR first installment of Golden

Circle messages appear on
this page, as this is Golden Circle
time. There are still many other
well known Golden Circlers to be
heard from. In fact, I have had
requests for messages from sev-
eral. So if you are a Golden
Circler, whether past age or not,
let us hear from you soon—Uncle
Frank.

 

 

 

“badder;” it should be worse. But
your name could be worse than Bad-
der. I’m glad you are a practical out—
door girl. What’s the use. of being
only half alive?

 

Dear Merry Circle Folks: .

Howdy, everyone! How’s th
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20% down pooh your odor—100%
lnooiol noted nodal.

APRIL 7, 1928

makes me shiver in my tracks.

Jerry, you’re some letter writer and
I sure do hate to have to disagree
with yo I must stick up for my “be-
loved outh.” Of course, Michigan
winters aie alright for you all “Mich-
iganders” but for me a full “fledged”
southerner, they ale overly long and
tedious. To be frank, “I hate ’em.’
One of my dreams is to go back to
“ole Virginny” where I am now in my
dreams. There all people are my peo-
ple and I am their people. They are
friendly, hospitable and warm blooded
like myself. I find the people of the
north unfriendly (most of them) and
cold. I love my sunny South and some
day I will go back. Vhen I do go
back I’ll be plumb tickled to death.

“Sammy,” your letter was powerful
good to cheer we young uns” up. I
entirely agree with you, only I think
“we uns” of this day and time are liv-
ing a healthier, safer, and saner life
than the life led by our grandparents.

Uncle, sometime ~when I go back
South, come and see me. I’ll give you
some “real grub” as well as a good
time—Miss Southerner.

I’ve been South and have enjoyed
Southern hospitality, with emphasis
on “enjoyed.” The South is O. K. in
winter, but you’ll like Michigan win-
ters when you get warmed up to them.
I wouldn’t mind accepting your invita-
tion to another dose of Southern hos-
pitality.

Dear Uncle Frank:

I received that nice pin and card
you sent me and I thank you very
much for them.

We live on a farm which has ninety—
four acres. We have electric lights,
electric curling iron, electric flat iron,
electric sweeper, electric washing ma-
chine, electric churn, and electric
water system. The water system pumps
water to sink and for our flush toilet.
We have a bath tub too. We also have
a five-tube radio.

Papa milks nine cows every night
and morning with the milking ma-
chine.

I have twenty-nine school mates be-
sides the teacher and myself. I enjoy
reading the letters in the Michigan
Farmer. I think this Will be enough
for the first time, so will close. —Celia
Semmelroth.

You certainly have a convenient
home to live in. You are fortunate to
have electricity available. I wonder
if others have more labor-saving con-
veniences than are mentionel here.

Dear Uncle Frank:

Don’t be angry, Uncle. I’m not going
to pester you any more. You see, I’ll
be eighteen within a few days so I
only came to say “hello’ and “good
bye.” I certainly enjoyed the Circle
while I could, and I wish I could have
taken a more active part.

I’m still in the city and like it fine.
I expect to go back home in July for
my vacation. When I go, I’ll go like
a shriek—excuse me, I meant shiek
but evidently I’ll be more of a shriek
so the slip is O. K. I expect to paint
the town red, and how. I have a hot
outfit for the occasion. White fiannel
trousers, red hot sweater, hot socks,
and what have you. No kidding,
Uncle, my old pal would bark at me
in the rig. (I mean my dog.)

Am enclosing a picture I drew of
you (Oh. what a slam) some time ago
but did not have nerve enough to send
it, Hope you don’t feel hurt and all
that. Again I beg of you not to be
angry and now I’ll scurry along. Love
S’long.
——Helen Kish.

How come, flannel trousers and your
name Helen? Of course, that is not
so uncommon nowadays, but I agree
that you and your dog will have to
get reacquainted. I had wondered
what‘ become of you. Why flatter me

with such a picture.

Dear Cousins:

I have been an admirer of your let-
ters. I am a nature lover, and I can’t
see how anyone could help but love
it when they were with it. I liked
the letter by “Not Much” especially
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her. I love to be near water of all
kinds except a dirty river. When I
see some great work ‘of nature it all
gives me a strange feeling, like I
would burst with joy.

The largest body of water that I
have ever lived near is the Atlantic
Ocean—both in Virginia and Massa-
chusetts. I liked both states very well,
but Micihgan suits me alright.

I am also very fond of animals,
horses, and dogs being my favorites.
I own a pony and I have a great deal
of fun with her, as I have no one else
handy to play with.

I have an aunt who owns a farm of
two hundred acres. It is beautiful. It
is nearly all woods and hills and the
river runs around it, forming a horse-
shoe. There is a smaller stream that
runs back into the farm. Along the
bank of the stream there is so much
foliage and brush that it is nearly im-
penetrable. It is a great deal of fun
to walk along the top of the ridge
under the trees and look down The
sheep graze on the hillside, and way
below them the river glistens and
sparkle-s. It is all very beautiful. I
prefer this life to the life in a stuffy
ho-t city. Don’t you?

I am also fond of sports. I think
track is my favorite. I was on the
track team once. My
mer sports are swimming, riding, and
tennis. I am fond of music and art
too. I do quite a little drawing, most-
ly of horses or other animals.——“Amo
Naturam.”

What joy one gets out of life when
he sees beauty in Nature. I pity the
one who lives a sordid life when there
is so much to be thankful for. You
apparently have artistic inclinations.

MIXED WORD CONTEST

ERE’S one suggested by Clinton

Van Duine; that is, he made up
the mixture of letters below.
are of words familiar to
Circlers.

Do not repeat the mixed words but
number your corrected words as their
respective “mixtures.” Don’t forget to
put your name and address in the up-
per left hand corner of your paper.
If you are a Merry Circler, put M. C.
after your name.

Merry

All the correct papers will be
mixed together and ten lucky ones
pulled out. The prizes will be two

fine fountain pens; three handy school
dictionaries, and five good clutch pen-
cils. -

Here is the mixture:
I—Remry Ricelc
2——Telret Xob
3———Wisernn
4—Nucel Nakrf
5—Tonit‘una Pesn
6—Oru Geap
7——Ared
8—Meoh Romecs
9—Michgain Marefr
IO—Tonesct

Please remember that this contest
closes on April 13th, and that you
should send your papers to Uncle
Frank, Michigan Farmer, Detroit.

IN MICHIGAN

The sky is ever bluest,
And friendship is the truest,
And enemies the fewest,

In Michigan.

The blue lakes are the clearest,
And home hearts are the dearest,
And Heaven is the nearest,

In Michigan.

The sunshine is the brightest,

The merry hearts the lightest,

And the moonbeans are the whitest,
In Michigan.

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Easter Morning
Our Weekly Sermon—By N. A. Mchme

OW do we know that Christ rose
H from the dead? When you

think of it, it is a stupendous
claim to make. Other religions tell
stories of miraculous happenings in
connection with the founders of their
religions. But to relate such stories
is one thing, and to have historical
evidence is another. We Christians
hold that the resurrection of Christ
has as much historical evidence as
has any other event in ancient his-
tory. For instance, how do we know
that Julius Caesar was stabbed to
death by Cassius, Brutus, and other
conspirators? We get this from the
Latin writers, such as Plutarch, Sue-
tonius, and others. And how do we
know that the
writings of these
men are authen-
tic? Because
there are several
of them, and
while they differ
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agree on the
main facts, and
we have good rea~
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they are trustworthy, and hence we
accept their statements in this.

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Jesus Christ died at the hands of
government officials, and that he was
later seen alive. Paul was probably
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Corinthians he says, “For I passed
on to you, as of first importance, the
account I had received, that Christ
died for our sins, as the Scriptures
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by the Twelve. After that he was
seen by more than five hundred
brothers at one time, most of whom
are still alive, although some of them
have fallen asleep. Then he was seen
by James, then by all the apostles, and
finally he was seen by me also, as
though I were born at the wrong
time.” (First Corinthians, 15:3-8;
Goodspeed’s translation.) Thus we
have here a list, though only a partial
list, of the appearances of Christ,
after his resurrection. These are
widely scattered in time and place.
Some on has made out a list of the
people to whom He appeared, as fol-
lows: 1. He appears to Mary Magda-
lene (John 20:16). 2. To other
women (Matt. 28:9). 3. To Simon
Peter (Luke 24:34). 4. To two men
on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:15).
5. To the apostles, without Thomas
(John 20:19). 6. To the apostles,
with Thomas (John 20:26). 7. To
seven disciples by the sea of Galilee
(John 21). 8. To the eleven apos-
tles on a mountain, in Galilee (Matt.
28:1620). To more than five hundred
people at one time (1 Cor. 15:6). 10.
To James, the brother of Jesus. 11.
To the apostles at the time of the
Ascension (Acts 1:4). 12. To Paul
(Acts 9:3, 22:6, etc).)

This is not all. When Christ died,
his followers were in utter dismay.
They were scattered and beaten.
Peter so far forgot himself, the night
of the arrest, that he denied ever hav-

ing known the defendant. But follow-
ing the resurrection all this was
changed. Men who had been timid

became as bold as soldiers, openly
defying the authorities. The man who
had lied about his Lord now declared
publicly, “We must obey God rather
than men.” The depths of despair
into which they had plunged was the
measure of exaltation to which they
now rose. They were like men who
had been born over again into a new
world. And this was the foundation
of the organization which became the
church.

When these men went about preach-
ing, they preached the resurrection.
On that, and from the Old Testament,
they based their faith that Jesus was
the Christ. This belief was the in-
spiration that gave rise to the church.
There are a few deductions to be
drawn, that may not be without inter-
est to us.

1. The early Christians were a
gladsome lot. Such expressions as
these occur frequently: “And there
was great joy in that city;” “And the
disciples were filled with joy;” “That
I might finish my course with joy;”
“Count it all joy when ye fall into
manifold temptations;” “They were
filled with gladness and singleness of
heart;” “Rejoice in the Lord always,”
and so on, a long list that makes one
happy even to read it over. It will
naturally be asked, where has this
note of glee, of exhilaration gone?
Why has the church ceased to' laugh?
Well, I don’t exactly know. Your idea
would no doubt be as good as mine.
Why don’t you laugh with delight
when the time comes to go to church,
instead of sneaking in late, after the
collection is taken? No doubt much
of the want of spontaneousness is due
to the fact that we are not as fully
devoted to the Lord and His cause as
these early folk were. When you find
a Christian that is, he is a joyful soul.
We must go back to the primary
truths, and ask ourselves, “What are
the chief tenets of the Christian
faith?” And we will not inquire long
until we conclude that it is not so
much the teaching as the Teacher.
Christ Himself is the inspiration of
the believer. .

2. He is the Living Lord. Buddha
was a good and great man, and found-

ed it i'bllxion. that is believed was,

lions of people. ‘ But'Bu'ddha is dead.

'. Mohamet founded a religion, and he is
Jesus founded a religion, and

dead.
He is alive. ‘ That is the. foundation-
stone of our faith. We worship, not a‘
dead- Christ, but a. living Christ; not
a prophet who lived long ago, but the
living and reigning Lord of experience.
“He was dead, but is alive forever-
more.” '

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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR
APRIL 8th

 

SUBJECTz—The Power of the Resur-
rection. Mark 16:1 to 20.
GOLDEN TEXT:——-John 14:19.

 

OUR FIRST NIGHT IN THE BUSH

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chines up the other side. If we
couldn’t splash through the river un-
der our roaring motive power we’d
take off our shoes and socks and push
em’ through that way.

Finally we came to the Oshun
River, forty yards wide and five feet
deep. It looked had. We thought of
inflating all our spare tires and tubes,
tying them to the side cars and then
using the side cars as boats to carry
our baggage and motorcycles across.
But before we had to try that stunt
a dozen babbling blacks appeared with
two lop-sided canoes hollowed out of
a mahogany log. Their headman was
a wizened old tarman with one ear
off and the stub of one arm encased
in a long piece of calabash that looked
like a baseball bat. A doubtful dozen
whiskers were rooted on either side
of his chin, and, most of the time, he
wore a piece of bright purple cloth
about his withered loins.

 

ONE of his crew could. speak a
word of English, nor therefore
follow our directions, which prob-
ably accounted for the ultimate suc-
cess of the undertaking. They lashed
the two awkward crafts together with
some bits of grass rope and then,
with four men baling all the time, we
rushed one motorcycle down the al-
most perpendicular bank to'the water
edge, loaded it on the canoes and ac-
tually reached the other side safely.
Then the other machine and our bag-
gage and gasoline and the expedition
had crossed the Oshun River. It cost
us about a dollar and about three
hours time—but we were still going.
That was the hardest day of all
up to that time—and when we fin-
ally reached Jebba, on the banks of
the mighty Niger River, which we
hoped to cross on the railroad bridge,
we were tired indeed. It was just
dark; we’d eaten but little that day
in our effort to reach Jebba before
dark; and our supply of boiled water
had given out long before. We weren’t
as hardened to roughing it then as we
are now and life looked dark. But
just as we sighted the towering bridge
at Jebba, the railroad supervisor, one
of the only three white men in town,
hailed us from his little round bush
house and invited us in to dine, bathe,
shave, and sleep—all in the world
that a man needs to make him good
as new again.
Our experiences from Jebba on
farther into the African interior will
be described next week.

 

 

“By the Way”

Looking Around

This clipping from the Clarksburg,
W. Va., Exponent may be of interest.

“We have our troubles with law en-
forcement, with the sleuthing after
bootleggers, keeping the eagle eye on
traffic violators and such‘ nonsense.
Perhaps the story in the Morgantowu
New Dominion on the action of a
Georgia farmer may help.

“On a farm in South Georgia is
posted this sign: fTrespassers will be
persekuted to the full entent of 2 mean
mongrel dogs Which ain’t never-bane
ovarly soshibil. With strangers and 1
dubble barrel shotgun, which ainjt
loaded with no sofy pillers.. Dam, if
T ain’t tired of this hel raising on my
proputy.’ -

“Or, if that doesn’t suggest any-
thing, there is another posted on a
fence in the German section of the
valley of Virginia:

“ ‘Notis.

“‘If enny man or. women’s ox or
cow is cot in this ores, feel, .LWflJ ,cut
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APRIL 7, 1928 .

THE DAY IS AT HAND—SO SAYS
THIS DAIRYMAN

 

HE following address was de-
livered by President C. P. Reed of
the Livingston (Michigan) Holstein
Association at the annual meeting.
While this was delivered to Holstein
breeders, there are thoughts regis-
tered here which it would be good for
dairymen generally to read. He said:
In a recent article in Colliers’,
Roger W. ,Babcock says, “There is a
definite tide in business swinging from
prosperity to depression and back
again to prosperity. Every
state, every business, every industry,
has an action and reaction of its own
and these do not syncronize or keep
in step. Hence the sun is always shin-
ing somewhere. Many econ-
omists believe that if business in-
creases for three, five, or seven years,
thenthe next three, five, or seven
years must bring depression.”

We breeders of of Holstein-Friesian
cattle have first hand information that
depression does follow boom times,
and we fully agree with the econom<
ists who say the greater and longer
sustained the period of inflation the
greater and longer the period of de-
pression time. At our various meet-
ings for some years we have looked
long and anxiously at the clouds hop-
ing in vain for some indication for re-
turn to normalcy. But the inexorable
laws of economics have been at work.
Thousands of farmers have given up
and gone to the cities. The beef men
have sold their breeding stock ”so the
slaughter. The dairymen have vealed
their heifer calves. The veterinaires
have condemned thousands of milch
cows as diseased. The dietitian and
medical men have steadily increased
the consumption and demand for good
pure milk in large quantities. All this
has been'in progress seven years and
more and the results are evident. The
tide has turned and the sun will now
shine again on the Holstein-Friesian
breeder and the dairyman everywhere.
The U. S. Department of Agriculture
says that it will be scarcely possible
to raise enough heifer calves in the
next seven years to produce a surplus
of milch cows.

The period of depression has worked
hardship on all breeders and disaster
on many, but the breed as a whole has
been chastened and cleansed. Thou-
sands of pure-bred scrubs have been
sold without papers; and the pure-bred
cows that find themselves in grade
herds no longer produce all heifer
calves, as some superstitious folks
used to maintain. The true type cam«
paign of the national association has

manner that is producing commend-
able results. All will admit that type
was largely forgotten during the spe-
culative period when the short time
test was commercialized. The short
time test and related activity is now
in large part a matter of history and
all muSt admit it has been the best
publicity campaign for pure-bred cattle
the world has ever seen. In spite of
its shortcomings and even failures, it4
has its advantages and will be re-

although popular favor has turned to
the longtime tests. These long-time
tests have been so difficult and ex-
pensive that they have been prohibi-
tive to most of the small breeders.

Fortunately the national association

reach of the average breeder. The
fundamental value of a cow, grade ori

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Plan" commends itself on sight as the
best method yet devised to show the
enormous superiority of the Holstein-
Friesian cow over all competitors in
all kinds of conditions especially in
those conditions Where ninety-nine per
cent of the nation’s milk supply is
produced. This plan commends itself
on sight; at least it seems to do so
in Michigan, as up to some time in
February the Advanced Register
office had received one hundred and
forty-one applications, seventy-eight of
which were from Michigan. Michigan
had 104 herds enrolled March 24th.
If the plan is given whole-hearted sup-
port it will do much for both the breed
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I expect to build both a hog house
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fowls and a. hog house to hold about
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be advisable to have the poultry house
and hog house joined together? Any
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It never has seemed advisable to
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the houses and lots adjoining. There
is always trouble from the poultry get-
ting crippled or sows getting to eat
them when they run together, or with
chicks getting caught or heads being
pulled off where they run in adjoining
lots. Also, there is more danger of
tuberculosis spreading from one to the
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DECLINE IN STEER MARKET
CHECKED

 

IGHTER receipts in the last few

days coupled with broader ship-
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ward tendency of steer priCes. The
market for cows, heifers, and bulls
has improved also but veal calves are
still in a seasonal downswing.

It is too soon to conclude that a. per?

manent turning point has been reach-

 

In Feed Lots Located in Areas Infected with Corn Borers, All Cornstalks
Should Be Raked Up and Completely Burned by May 1

ed in the cattle market, but values are
certainly closer to solid footing than
in mid-winter. The average price of
good beef steers at Chicago is around
$12.75 at present, compared with
$14.30 at the peak. The top at $14.75
compares with $19 at the extreme high
time. While supplies of choice and
prime steens probably will increase
further during the spring, total arri-
vals are likely to continue moderate.
The seasonal scarcity of butcher stock
and spring demand for grazing cattle
will help‘ to prevent any excess in
beef tonnage, on the basis of the
price level reached recantly. Beef
trade will not absorb large receipts
.even at these prices, however, and if
arrivals are larger than expected,
values will be reduced. Even with
continuation of moderate receipts,
stabilization of steer prices near the
present level rather than a pronounced
upswing seems probable.

Cow and heifer prices show no clear
indication of having reached their
usual spring peak. They are higher
than a year ago, but the gain is less
extreme than in the steer market.
With stability in steer prices, she
stock should advance moderately. As
in the steer division, heavy, fat grades
probably will not fare as well as the
lighter kinds.

With fat cattle prices declining, the
margin over feeder cattle prices nar-
rowing, and corn advancing, there has
been no inducement to refill feed lots.

POWER FOR MAKING SILAGE

 

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profitably in, the form of fluid milk or
cream if the latter products could not
be purchased more cheaply from Can-
ada. In other words it is not the in-
ability of domestic producers to sup-
ply the fiuid milk and cream but
rather the ability of dealers in the
United States to purchase supplies
from Canada cheaper than in the
United States which accounts for the
consumption of milk and cream in this
country.

Instead of importations from Canada
coming in as an act of kindness on
the part of Canadian producers to re-
lieve alleged hunger of American con--
sumers, evidence was submitted at
the hearing, according to Mr. Ogg.
showing that Canadian imports enter
the United States at a time when they
are least needed. According to the
New York Department of Markets the
peak of the surplus of milk for the

York is in the months of June and
July. July and August constitute the
peak period of the importations of
milk and cream from Canada, accord-
ing to information gathered by the
Tariff Commission.

Evidence was produced at the hear-
ings showing that carload rates on
cream from Canadian points to Bos-
jton have been mateiially 1educed,
whereas domestic Mites on the. rail-
roads have been inmeased ten per
cent, giving the Canadian dairymen an
undue advantage in transportation
rates over milk producers on this side
the line.

 

ACTIVE HORSE TRADE
CONTINUES

 

EMAND for horses continues ac-

tive and all good horses are sel-
ling well. Choice weighty drafters
sold as high as $35 at Chicago, with
pairs at $600. VVell-shaped wagon
horses weighing 1,450 to 1,550 pounds
and farm chunks are in demand. Re-
ceipts of horses at public sto-ckyards,
which are a barometer of demand,
were 18.6 per cent larger in February
than a year previous and 6.4 per cent
over the average of the last five years.

THE DAY IS AT HAND

 

(Continued from page 507)
and the breeders both great and small.
If Michigan continues in the front
rank in this as she is in the TB eradi-
cation work she will surely have “a
place in the sun” for the next seven
years, and more. I am confident Liv-
ingston County will maintain a prom-

' inent place among the counties of the

state in this new plan as she has al-
ways done in all progressive move-

 

 

 

 

manufacture of dairy products in New'

 

 

BULLETIN No. \‘

On Wormy Pigs

 

When nine weeks old these wormy pigs
averaged 29 pounds each.

The local veterinarian said:

“On November 17, 1926, I was called by I. H. Doll to
his farm to see these pigs—five of the litter having
already died, two of them the day I was called. Upon
post-mortem examination of one of these, I found more
than fifty worms in the intestinal tract. I beIieve they
were the wormiest lot of pigs that I have ever seen in
my twenty years of veterinary practice.”

Given Improved Stock Tonic

0n the 19th day of November these pigs began
to get Dr. Hess Improved Stock Tonic in their
Swill—the worming dose for the first two weeks.
Thereafter the thriving dose.

They consumed

1592 pounds of com, 731 pounds of middlings,
73 pounds of tankage and 96 pounds of milk,
given the first 10 days.

They gained
659 pounds in 126 days, at a cost of less than
5 cents per pound.

They gained
12.8 pounds to each bushel of corn or its
equivalent.

They required
only 378 pounds of feed for each 100 pounds
of gain.

 

The same five pigs after receiving Dr. Hess
Improved Stock Tonic for 126 days and
having gained 659 pounds.

Dr. Hess Improved Sleek Tonic

WORMER —— APPETIZER — MINERAL BALANCE

-—all combined in one product

Never use capsules, worm medicine or minerals of any
kind where Dr. Hess Improved Stock Tonic is used.

Costs little to feed Dr. Hess Improved Stock Tonic.
A loo-pound hog requires one pound per month, at a
cost of 10 cents.

PRICES: 25-15. pail $3. 00; 100- lb. drum $10. 00; 500 Ibo. at 95c;

1000 lbs. at 9c; ton lots at 8%: per ll).
Except in the Far West and Canada

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Just before Pasture Time

is a time to feed well. This early Spring season finds
most dairymen with short supplies of home-grown feeds
from last year’s harvest, and with cows that are restless
from the winter’s confinement in the barn. Your cows
that freshened last fall have naturally fallen off in milk
flow due to advancing lactation, and need to be helped
along by careful grain feeding until they can get the

stimulus of pasture.

Do not take a chance on a bad slump now. Feed a
ration carrying plenty of protein. Such a ration is not
necessarily expensive. Based on

Diamond Corn Gluten Meal

it can be very economical as well as highly effective in

filling the milk cans.

profits for you.

Ration Service Dept.

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New York City

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latter dress 10%
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WILD WOOD FARMS

ORION, MICHIGAN
W. E.SCRIPPS.Prop. SIDNEY SMITH, Sup_

SERVIGEABLE AGE

Guernsey Bull Galves

Records Up to 800 "39.3
IED ROSE FARMS DAIRY. Iorlhvlllo, Michigan

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Forest Hills Guernseys

SA! E-‘Helfer, 15 months old. {our bull calves
i133 7 :2, 18 months old mi cam the blood of
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Steel Poets. Gates, Barb
to You. 12450-24410“ service.
men Fence now 99“.
cent are as or:

re rite
BROS. Dept. 2 7 BMuncIe.

    

 

 

Wallinwood Guernseys
Sons of BHOOKMEAD'B SECRET KING for sole.
F. W. WALLIN. JENISON, MICH.

 

of attrartii‘e Guernsey bull
I Have a "unlllel' calves for sale at reasonable
prim-s. FRANK E. ROBSON, Box 56-A, R. F. D.
No. 3, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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- 100.10 milk. 778.80 fat. 19,400.50 milk. '90905 fat.

T. V. HICKS. Battle Creek, Mich., R

 

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STEIN calves. from heavy. rich mllkers.
write EDBEWOOD DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater. Wls.

 

Two young Guernsey bulls of serviceable ago.
good breeding and records, priced to sell
quick. M. A. CARPENTER. Edmoro, Mich.

 

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Guernsey pm ma $25.00 not. w. my
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SERVICEABLE AGE
Registered Holstein

Bull Calves at prices the owner of a smell herd
can afford to pay. Grandeons of K. P. 0. P.
Bred cows and heifers are available for founda-
tion stock.

RED ROSE FARMS DAIRY
Northvillo. Michigan
lemma: Nonhvllle am: Saviors flunk

 

AN .EARMER‘

STRAW LOFTS FOR FARROWING
Houses

 

HE straw loft poultry house has
proved so satisfactory in removing

’moisture and other impurities and at

the same time in keeping the house
at a comfortable temperature, that
hog breeders are beginning to apply
the same principles to bog farrowing
houses.

An experimental farrowing house of
the straw loft type has been tried out
by Kansas farmers under the direc-
tions of the Kansas State College
authorities. The house is seven by
eight feet of the shed-roof type, with
a. rear wall three and one-half feet
high and the front wall six and one-
half feet. The straw loft is put in at
a. height of three and one-half feet
and extends to within two feet of the
front, where a flat hinged door covers
the rest of the pen.

While the idea is so new that not
much data is as yet available, the re
sults of the first farrowings were
markedly in favor of the straw loft,
since the sows in it averaged twice as
many pigs saved as did those in other
houses under similar conditions.

752 TON-LITTERS PRODUCED IN
1927 \

 

HE 1927 hog-raising contest, in

which swine growers in twenty-
nine states competed was won by
Pennsylvania. with 125 litters that
reached a weight of a ton or more
each in 180 days, according to Dr.
C. D. Lowe, extension animal husband-
man' of the United States Department
of Agriculture. Indiana and Tennessee
tied for second place with eighty ton-
litters each. Illinois produced fifty-
nine, Texas forty-six, Kentucky forty-
three, Minnesota forty, and Michigan
thirty-six.

Wisconsin produced the heaviest lit-
ter reported, twelve pigs that weighed
3,598 pounds at six months of age.
Pennsylvania is credited with the
largest litter, one of eighteen pigs. A
total of 752 ton-litters were produced
in the twenty-nine states.

This year’s results again demon—
strated the value of well-bred hogs
for pork production, for no litter in
which pure breeding did not predom-
inate reached the goal of a ton at six
months of age. The selection of sows
having the ability to farrow large lit-
ters, as well as the application of im-
proved practices to save every pig far-
rowed, was also an important factor
in the production of these ton-litters,
most of which consisted of ten pigs
or more.

Feeding tests long have indicated
that pigs make the cheapest gains
when “crowded” from the time they
begin to eat until ready for market.
The shorter feeding period lessens the
feed required for maintenance and re-
duces the disease hazard. Another
reason for the practice of finishing
pigs within six months is that March

‘pigs will be ready for market before

the seasonal drop in prices which
usually comes about the first of Sep-
tember.

The experience of the 1927 ton-litter
producers not only proved the advan-
tages of a short feeding period for se-
curing cheap gains and in reducing
disease, but also demonstrated the dis-
tinct advantage of having the pigs
ready for early marketing. Hog prices
“broke” from $2.50 to $3.50 a hundred—
weight between September and Decem-
ber, causing reduced returns and in
somecases heavy losses to growers
whose hogs were not ready for market
before this period. '

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in 1927 totaled 328,137,000 pounds as

1926, according to the Department of
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unit 7. 1928

CATTLE
PRODUCTION SALE OF

Registered
Holsteins

West Michigan Fair Grounds, Grand Rapids,
Wednesday.April 18th,l p.m., daylight savings.
38 head efcows and heifers, 7 young bulls. ll of
the females have official records from 20 to
nearly 25 pounds. 8 are daughters'ofA. K. S.
Model Pietje whose 7 nearest dams average 38.38
lbs. in 7 days. 8 others are bred to this great
sire and 7 others are bred to Blythefield Sir
Be“ Ormsby. Send for catalog of the sale.

BLYTHEFIELD FARMS Accredited Herd.
JOSEPH H. BREWER, Owner.
Get your dinner on the grounds.

J ERSEY BULL Tiddlowink's Gold Tycoon, 3. splen-
did grandson of Tiddlerwink’s Raleigh. Dam by
14 months old. splendid
type and ready for service. Bull calf. three months.
sired by son of Oxford Sultan of Oakland’s. Dam
line bred Golden Tycoon. Priced reasonable.
R. EUGENE INWOOD. Romeo. Mich.

88 Hereford flows

Bis wide beck kind. dark reds. dehomed. Bred to
extra good Hereford bulls to (‘iille about April let.
Will sell you choice car load. Also 22 Hereford
cows and calves and 24 heavy springer-s. Also other
‘bunches. All '1‘. tested. Also yearling and _2
yr. old stockers and feeding steers sorted even in

size and. quality.
VAII S. BALDWIN, Eldon. Iowa
M i c h. Shorthorn

MiLKiIG SHoRTHUHNsILSS'getdzi‘s Assoc. offers young

bulls. heifers. and cows. fresh and coming fresh,
priced right. Oscar Skinner. Sec. Gowon, Mich.

Registered

heifers. Also
F E LD KAM P.

Hill SALE Milking Shorthorn Bulls

serviceable age. WASTA HUBER. Gladwln. Mlch.
A few choice calves of

both sex
Red Polle, ma sale. ROYSTAN STOCK
FARM. Will Cattle. est Branch, Mich.
WHY "01' start in Brown Swiss now? Write
for sales list to Michigan Brown
Swiss Breeders' Ann.. Sebcwaing, Mich.

Eminent’s Gold coon.

Brown Swiss for sale. cows 10 and

11 yrs. old due in Feb. 2 bred
bulls of serviceable m. A. A.
Manchester. Mich.

HOGS

0R SALE—Duran Gilts of type and quality. bred

to High Orion No. 265227. Also a, few spring
hours at right prices. Shipped C. ‘0. D. on ep-
provai. W. E. BARTLEY, Alma, Mlch.

DUROC SOWS

Sold at a. sacrifice. Never a better time to start in
the hog business. The longer the market stays down,
the higher and faster the come back. We guarantee
satisfaction. LAKEFIELD FARMS, Clarkston, Mich.

nu n a r: s . .... m-

brcd for April farrow,
priced to sell. . _
NORRIS STOCK FARMS, Casnovra. Mich.

O-I-G- HOG-S on time with

Originators and most extensive breeders.
THE L.‘B. SILVER 00., Box I96. Salem, Ohio

0 I. C‘s. good gills to furrow in April and May.
' last fall pigs and this spring pigs. TTO
SCHULZE & SONS, Nashville, Mic-h.

Registered ‘0. I. C. Fail Pigs

best of breeding from prolific sows. Shipped on
approval. H. l. HUDSON. R. 2. Mich.

For Sale--Reg. 0. I. C. April & May Pigs

best of breeding. Shipped on approval. FRED VI.
KENNEDY &. SONS. R. I. Chelsea. Mich.

Registered 0.I.C. Gilts KISS f§2$ow§prifi. a3}?
MANN. Danaville, Mich.

Large Type Poland Chinas

Fall pigs ready to ship, sired by my two great herd
boars. Its. Big Wonder, by Siever’s Smooth Wonder
and Big Stratton by The Redeemer. and from my
he~t SOWS. Priced reasonable. W. E. LIVINGSTON.
Parma. Mich.

 

 

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Big Type Poland Chmas
Sim pills quality and bred that way. (‘hoice gills
bred to Redeemer's Son or The Robber's Son, for
April farrow. Choice fall pigs. either sex. We spe-
("Iflille 'iwn therd foundation steak. WESLEY HILE.
onra, Ic .

Pl dCh' bed ‘1..a.l
LARGE TYPE fallarboars 123d ligriltss.’l NAMES;

 

 

 

 

G. TAYLOR. Beiding. Michigan.
SHEEP
lb‘no' 3-1.1“ — Its,- nun-:4" x.— m.
S H E E P Fine wool ewes. one load,
bred to Dorset rams. one

load bred to Black Face rams. for April lambs. All
young andgood shearers. LINCOLN & BRADLEY.
North Lewrsburg, Ohio.

 

HORSES

Two Registered Belgian tnllions.
For sale 3 yrs. old. sired by $6 great
horse Rubia. These are two fine specimens of the
Belgian type and half brothers to Pervcnt-he and
Minolta. De Rubis. Grand Champions at Interna—
tional. Inquire of J. E.SKEOCH.
Hich.. B. R. No. 5.

For sale Pair four Year old Belgian

. _ mares. Sound. W i lit 3. .
lrvmg Rings. Believille, Mich., Tel. 75 ng 4. 300
Registered Percheron stallion.

FOR SALE comlnil 5 Years. color black.

sound in every way. John Ebola. Holland. Mich.. R.2.

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THE MICHIGAN ’FARMER

uHOG RECEIPTS CONTINUE HEAVY

HILE receipts of hogs thus far

in March have been about
twenty per cent lighter than in Febru-
ary, they remain unusually heavy for
this season of the year. Moreover,
they have increased slightly in the last
ten days. The rally in prices ten days
ago proved to be a false start as the
market has fallen back close to the
low point of the year. Medium and
heavyweights have shown more weak-
ness than lighter hogs.

While receipts may diminish dur-
ing the next thirty days, the gap until
fall pigs will begin to move to mar-
ket in volume will be brief and the
possibility of any important advance
in prices is rapidly vanishing. In spite
of some improvement in export de-
mand, the quantity of hog product
going into storage is large. With
stocks accumulating at this rate, pack-
ers are unwilling to bid up for hogs.
Fortunately, speculative demand for
product appears. ready to absorb the
accumulation on the basis of an aver-
age hog cost of around eight dollars.

Much camplaint is being made
against present hog prices by Euro-
pean producers and foreign production
is being curtailed, but it will be some
time yet before this curtailment re-
sults in a substantial reduction in
market supplies abroad.

WOOL PRICES CONTINUE STRONG

00L prices continue strong in.
Mills are buying:

all markets.
moderate quantities in Boston and are
making inquiry for substantial
amounts of new clip wools for de-
livery in early summer. Apparently,
their nearby requirements are fairly
well supplied. Unwillingness of deal—
ers to offer wool until more of the new
clip has arrived tends to restrict
trade. It is said that about ten mil-
lion pounds of contract wools have
been sold to mills at about $1.07 to
$1.15 for fine and fine medium staple.

Additional contracting in the west is-

reportcd at twenty-one cents for best
half blood and fine medium wools in
Montana, at thirty-eight cents for
Idaho wools and at thirty-three to
thirty-three and one-half for Oregon
and Washington wools. The London
auction shows an advance of as much
as ten per cent on some grades over
the previous sale and the season is
nearing the close in Australia at the
high point.

Properly installed and. well main-
tained lightening rods have shown an
efficiency in protecting buildings

 

against lightening of close to one
hundred per cent efficiency.

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Fright Disease—Collie pup acts as
though someone was scaring him. He
barks all the time. Does not act
Vicious, nor froths at the mouth. Bowels
are loose. Some days he has three
or four spells and then he will skip
a, day or so. Now our hound is actingr
the same way. Also our chickens
have worms. some of them three
inches long. Can you help us? D. N.
~—’i‘hese spells are due to various
causes, such as worms, indigestion,
constipation, too much starchy food—~
as bread and potatoes and not suffi-
ment meat. Withold food for 12 hours,
then give 2 grains santonin in 1/3 oz.
castor oil. Warm the oil and shake
thoroughly before giving.

in treating poultry for worms, it is
essential to thoroughly clean hen
house and runs, burn all refuse, then
sprinkle heavily with a strong brine
solution to destroy the worm eggs.
Watering and feed troughs should be
scalded da1ly and so placed when in
use that they will be kept free from
droppings. Take tobacco stems—
finely chopped, steep in hot water and
mix w1th mash. One—half pound finely
chopped stems are sufficient for 50
fowls. Give 2 doses 3 days apart. In
2 hours give a mash made with water,
in which 4 ounces epsom salts have
been dissolved. Do not give an other
Mite .

   

  

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Says Mississippi Farmer of
Dr. LeGear’ Stock Powders $553 M0,

 

West. Point. Miss. Jan. 7. 1928.
. LeGear Medicine 00.,

I am engaged in the dairy busi-
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me as Dr. LeGear's Stock Powders.
I mixit with the feed. It keeps my
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Am milking sixteen Jerseys. but
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electric lights and other conven-
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Dr. LeGear’s Stock Powders. It has
helped me to make a success of my

business.
Route 1. Box 8. A. W. Gable.

 

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Graduate Ontario Veterinary College,
1892. Veterinary practice for 36 years.
Poultry expert. author. lecturer and au-
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digestion, purify the blood—L AXA T I V E S to
correct bowel trouble —— V E R M I F U G E S to
expel worms—MINERALS for bone and blood.

WHITE DIARRKOEA—Pmtect your
chicks against this deadly disease which kills mil-
lions annually. Save them with Dr. LeGear’s
Chick Diarrhoea Tablets. Get a can from your
dealer. If not satisfied with results, your money
will be refunded.

EGGS—Dr. LeGear's Poultry Prescription—Mineral-
ized. keeps hens healthy,vigorous and laying. Insures better
fertility. Contains all the essential minerals for egg produc-
tion, rich blood, bone tissues and feathers-tonics for blood.
nerves and egg organs—conditioners for the digestive organs
—laxatives for the bowels. Get a pail or package from your
dealer. Use all. If not: satisfied, your money will berefunded.
FnEE: Dr. LeGear’s Big Stock Book: "Care and Treat-

ment of Stock and Poultry"—128 pages: 50 illus-
trations. A scientific treatise on diseases, treatment and care
of horses. cattle, hogs, sheep and poultry. Askyour dealer for
free copy. or send us 10 cents to cover mailing.

Dr. L. D. LeGear Medicine Co.',St.Louis,Mo.

 

 

 

 

COMPLETE DISPERSAL
AT AUCTION

Brae-Heed Ayrshire Dairy

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and clean.
others due soon.
fairs and expositions.

ican breeding.
splendid heifers;
number of good young bulls.
Cavalier.
Iect it.

_ Will sell at Almont, Michigan,
THURSDAY, APRIL, 12, 1928, 1 1:00 A. M.

HEAD AYRSHIRE CATTLE

This herd is one of the outstanding Ayrshire herds in Michigan. It includes
some 75 pure-breds and a few grades.
A large number
The entire Show herd is included—many winners at state
A splendid oppportunity to get good foundation
animals as well as good commercial cows. The best of Canadian and Amer—
Some 40 cows to pick and choose from;
15 yearling and heifer calves;

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_ The herd is up in splendid condition
of cows have freshened in recent weeks and

a number of
8 great herd sires and a.

. Herd headed by a great son of Bargenoch Gay
Here is the opportunity you have been looking for—don’t neg-

A Clean Herd—A Typy Herd—A Show Herd—A Producing Herd

Almont, Mich, is located about 35 miles north of Detroit.
Good bus connections from Detroit.

JAMES C. WATSON, SALE MANAGER, BRANDON, VERMONT

 

FRANK STAFFEN 8- SONS

REGISTERED HoLsrrms

TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1928, 1:00 P. M.

At the farm of Frank Steffen 85 Sons, three and three-quarters miles
northeast of Amble or five and one—half miles southeast of Morley.
Herd includes 31 fresh cows; 10 heifers, bred; 11 open heifers and three
bulls; Lakeside King Joe, 351743, a son of Weedie Queen De Kol, a 35
lb. cow—free from TB. and abortion. Cash or terms with bank refer-
ence. These cows are in yearly work in C. T. A.

AT
AUCTION

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS.
Monday, April 2,
Wheat.
Detroit—N0. 2 red at $1.71; No. 2
white $1.70; No. 2 mixed at $1.70.
Chicago——May $1.42%; July $1.45%;
September $1.391/2.
Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red at $1.71
@$1.72.
Corn.
Detroit—No. 2 yellow $1.10; No. 3
yellow $1.07; No. 4 yellow $1.05.
Chicago—May 99%c; July $1.02%;
September $1.02%.
Oats.
Detroit—No. 2 Michigan 66c; .No.
3 white 641/2c; heavy oats 20 premium.
Chicago~May 577/8c; July, old,
511/2c; new 51%c; September, new,
46%. -
Rye.
Detroit—No. 2, $1.27.
Chicago—May $1.193/g; July $1.143/g;
September $1.06%.
Toledo—$1.26.
Beans.
Deti‘oit,«—Michigan
picked $9.85 per cwt.
New York—Pea domestic at $9.25@
$10.00; red kidneys $8.50@9.50 to the
wholesalers.
Chicago—Spot navy beans, Michigan
choice, hand-picked, in sacks at $8.65
@$8.70; dark red kidneys $10.00.

choice hand

Barley. _
Detroit—Malting $1.01; Feeding 97c.
Seeds.

Detroit domestic seeds:——Cash clo-
ver $17.25; October $16.25; cash al-
sike $15.45; timothy at $2.10; May,
$2.10.

Hay.

Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $12.00@
$13.00; standard $11.00((D12.00; No. 2
timothy $9.00@10.00; No. 1 light
clover, mixed $12@13; No. 1 clover
$10.50@11.50; wheat and oat straw
$10.00@11.00; rye straw $11.00@12.00
alfalfa hay, alfalfa No. 1 to chaice at
Chicago $25.00@26.00.

Feeds.

Detroit—Winter wheat bran at $45;
spring wheat bran at $44; standard
middling at $44; fancy middling at
$46; cracked corn at $45; coarse corn
meal $43: chop $41 per ton in carlots.
Poultry feeds with grit $51.00; With-
out grit $56.00 per ton.

WHEAT.

Wheat prices have advanced to the
highest point of the season, partly
under speculative demand stimulated
by reports of damage to the new crop,
both in the United States and Europe.
The prospects of a closer cleanup of
old crop wheat than previously_ ex-
pected has made the market senSitive
to adverse new crop developments.

Reports from the soft winter wheat
territory are described as calamitous,
with indications that the abandon-
ment will much more than Wipe out
the increase in the area planted in
that section last fall. .In the south-
west conditions have improved, and
there is a. possibility of a big crop 111
that section, but regular rains Will be
needed to bring this prospect _to_ reali-
zation. In Europe, winter killing is
rather severe in Rumania, Germany,
Sweden, Poland, and France. Unless
this is offset by favorable weather
hencforth, there is a pOSSibility of a
smaller European crop than last year.

RYE.

Rye prices have not recovered all
of the loss suffered on the break of
ten days ago. Stocks of rye are accu-
mulating slowly, but most of the_sup-
plies at the seaboard and in Winter
storage on the lakes have been con-
tracted for export.

CORN

Corn prices have recovered most of
the setback of a week ago. Demand
for corn diminished in some markets
recently, partly as a result of higher
prices. The arrival of the pasture sea-
son in the southern states also may
have been a factor. Export sales fell
off following the spurt of activrty re-
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receipts have dropped from the winter
peak, but they remain much larger
than at this time a year ago.

OATS.

Receipts of oats have been fairly
liberal for this season of the year, but
the visible supply is being gradually
reduced. Some buyers are turning to

oats because of the high prices of'

mill feeds. Weather conditions have
favored seeding in some sections, but
it has been delayed in others. Heavy
winter abandonment in the soft winter
wheat belt may result in more oats
being seeded than previously expected.

BARLEY.
Demand for barley has been less
active in the last ten days. The re-
ports showing large reserve of old

crop and prospects of a 25 per cent'

increase in the acreage of the new
crop may have been partially respon-

sible.
SEEDS.

Red clover fields in the middle-
western states have been seriously
damaged by alternate freezing and
thawing and lack of snow protection
during the winter. Winter killing of
clover on any extensive scale would
mean a corresponding reduction in the
amount of seed produced in 1928. It
also would bring an increased late de-
mand this spring for clover seed and
for seed of other hay and forage crops.
The warm weather early in the past
week improved the demand and deal-
ers are looking forward to an active
trade during the next thirty days.
Prices have steadied and may work
higher as stocks of seeds are whittled

down.
FEEDS.

Wheat feeds developed a weaker
tone last week as demand slackened.

Pastures and meadows are showing
steady improvement, but the opening
of the pasture season is at least a
month off, except in the southern
states. It is possible, however, that
prices will work lower, particularly
for bran, in the next two months.

Chicago—Bran, $39; standard mid-
dlings, $38; hominy feed, $38; gluten
feed, $38.70; old process oil meal,
$54.50; tankage, $65.

HAY.

Supplies of hay at some markets are
barely equal to trade needs and prices
have been marked higher, particular-
ly on top grades. Good clover hay is
in demand for shipment to the south.
The bulk of arrivals is low grade hay
which is difl‘icult to sell. All better
quality of alfalfa hay moves readily
at steady to strong prices. Demand is
expected to remain good until the
grass season begins. As supplies of
alfalfa hay diminish, timothy Will be
in better demand, and prices should
show some improvement.

EGGS.

The egg market has been able to
remain fairly steady during the past
week, although receipts at the lead-
ing markets are increasing rapidly as
production gets farther into the
“flush” season. Buying for storage
account is not as extensive as last sea-
son, due to the fact that the season is
later and prices average several cents
higher than a year ago, but the move-
ment into warehouses probably will
continue later than last spring. On
the western coast in the south, stocks
in storage are accumulating more
rapidly than at middlewestern mar-
kets. Consumptive demand is active,
stimulated by the reasonable prices
and good quality. A premium has
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Monday,
CHICAGO.

Hogs

Receipts 55,000. Market slow, most-
ly 10((Dv15c higher than Saturday’s
average; big packers inactive; heavy
butchers showing most price improve-
ment; tops $8.55; trade for choice
200-1b. average; bulk better grade
170-220-lb. $8.30@8.50; 230-260-lb. aver-
ages $8.10@8.35; 270-350-lb. weight
$7.80@8.15; bulk 140-160-1b. weight
$7.50@8.25; choice 160-lb. average up
to $8.50; pigs mostly steady; bulk
§$.§g@7.25; bulk packing sows $7.10@

Cattle

Receipts 15,000. Market fed steer
trade very slow, steady, 25c lower;
light yearlings fully steady; shipper
demand narrow; better grade fat cows
and heavy heifers dull; lower grade
cows and cutters steady; bulls fully
steady; vealers 50@75c lower; early
top fed steers $14.40, some bid above
$15.00; most cutter cows $5.75@6.00;
heavy sausage bulls up to $8.50; light
vealers largely $11.00; few kosher of-
ferings $15.00 and better.

Sheep and Lambs

Receipts 19,000. Market fat wool
lambs slow, 15@250 lower; bulk
$16.50@16.75, asking around $17.00 on
handyweights, price not established;
one-double deck lambs to shippers,
part decked choice native springers
$22.00; good to choice light weight
clipped lambs steady $14.75; sheep
steady; good wool ewes $9.25@9.75;
choice clipped ewes $8.00; light sup-
ply feeding and shearing lambs weak.

DETROIT

Cattle.

Receipts 582. Market active and 25c
higher.
Fair to good yearlings

dry-fed ............... $10.50(a);13.00
Fair to good heavy steers,

dry-fed ............... 10.75@13.00
H a n d y weight butcher

steers ............... . 10.50@12.25
Fair to good heifers . . . . 9.50@11.00
Common light butchers.. 9.25@10.25

Common butcher cows .. 6.50@ 7.75

Best cows .............. 8 50@10 00
Good butcher cows ...... 7 50@ 8.75
Cutters ............... . . 5 506), 6.25
Canners ................ 4,75@ 5.75
Li ht butcher bulls 9.50@ 9.75
Bologna bulls . . . . . . . .. 7.50@ 8.25

. $8.00@10.00.

April 2,

Stock bulls 7.00@ 8.25
Feeders 9.00@10.75
Stockers ..... 7.00@10.50
Milkers and springers. . . .75.00@125.00

Calves.
Receipts 725. Market 500 lower.

Mixed .................. $17.00@17.50

Others ................. 8.50@16.50

Sheep and Lambs.
Receipts 423. Market 25c higher.

Bulk good lambs ........ $16.75@17.00
Best lambs ............. 16.75@17.25
Fair lambs ............. 12.00@14.50
Light lambs ............ 10.00@11.75
Yearlings ............... 12.00@13.25
Clipped lambs ........ .. 14.00@15.00
Fair to good sheep . . . . . . 7.00@ 9.50
Buck lambs ............. 7.50@12.25
Culls and common ...... 3.50@ 6.00
Hogs.

Receipts 1,723. Market mixed hogs
steady, roughs steady to 150 higher,
pigs 15c lower, others steady.

Pigs ................... $ 7.35
Mixed hogs ............. 8.75
Lights .................. 8.20
Roughs ........... 710@ 725
Good Yorkers
Stags ............. . . . . . . 5.50
Extreme heavies ..... . . 7.50@ 8.00

BUFFALO.

Ho

gs

Receipts 11,200. Hold over 1,431;
market steady, closing weak; bulk
170-220-lb. $9.00@10.00, few $8.90; 225-
260-lb. $8.75@8.90; 280-300-lb. $8.50;

pigs $7.75; 125-1.50«lb. $8.00@8.50;
packing sows $7.00@7.50.
Cattle

Receipts 1,700. Market on weighty
and better grade steers 15@25c lower,
others steady; few good steers $13.00
@$13.50; top yearlings $13.60; bulk
medium steers andayearlings $11.00@
$12.75; fat cows $8.00@9.00; low cut-
ter and cutters $4.50@6.50; bulls $7.00
@$8.50, few $9.00.

Calves

Receipts 2,200. Market 50c@$1.00
lower; good mostly $16.50; culls and
common $8.00@12.00.

Sheep and Lambs

Receipts 5,000. Market 50@750
lower; bulk good wools $17.00; throw-
outs $15.50@16.25; good to choice
shorn kinds $14.75.@15.25; fat ewes

  

fancy large white eggs for the Easter
trade.

Chicago—Eggs: fresh firsts, ., 27@
2734c; extras, 34@35c; ordinary firsts,
261/20; dirties, 251/30; checks, 2794c.
Live poultry: Hens, 27c; broilers, 48‘
@50c; roosters, 180; ducks, 30c;
geese, 160; turkeys, 300.

Detroit—Eggs: Fresh candled and
graded, 27@271,éc; dirties, 25c. Live
poultry: Heavy springers, 31c; light
springers, 25c; heavy hens, 27c; light
hens, 25c; roosters, 18@19c; ducks,

30@320.
BUTTER.

An aboundant supply of high grade
butter at all markets brought about a
sharp reduction in prices last week,
the decline on 92 score creamery at
Chicago amounting to 2% cents a
pound. A large percentage of the cur-
rent receipts graded better than
extras. Consumptive demand is fully
up to normal. Storage stocks are
being depleted rapidly, and production
shows no marked increase from week
to week, so that the position of the
market is good. Dealers are not will-
ing to buy ahead of actual needs, how—
ever, in the fear that a sudden gain
in production would break the market
severely, so that daily trade is of a
hand-to-mouth nature.

Prices on 92 score creamery was as
follows: Chicago, 461,40; New York,
480; Detroit, 44@47c per lb.

POTATOES.

Farmers were quick to hold back
potatoes when prices began to weak-
en, and the market has strengthened
again. Northern round whites, U. S.
No. 1, are quoted $2.10 to $2.20 per
100 pounds sacked in the Chicago
wholesale market. Bad roads also
helped to reduce deliveries. Probably
most of the potatoes held by farmers
have been marketed during the recent
period of high prices, so that the
amount of stock still remaining in the
country is not large.

WOOL

Wool prices remain firm every-
where. The volume changing hands
in domestic markets is not extensive
since goods trade is rather uneven,

some mills have provided for their

nearby needs, stocks of spot wools at
eastern points are small, and many
of the dealers are not inclined to dis-
pose of wools held on contract. Sales
of Ohio and Pennsylvania delajne
wools are reported at Boston at 49 to
50 cents, grease basis, and half blood
at 50 to 51 cents. Some western
wools bought on contract have been
resold to manufacturers at $1.07 to
$1.15, scoured basis, for fine and fine
medium grades delivered at the mill,
or about the same as present quota-
tions for spot wools. Some contract-
ing is still being done in the west,
with choice medium Idaho wools sold
at 40 cents, grease basis, and Mon-
tana wools at 42 cents. Foreign mar-
kets continue strong, with the final
sale in Wellington, New Zeeland, es-
tablishing a new high point for the
season.

DETROIT CITY MARKET

Apples 800@$5.00; bagas 750@$1.00
bu; beets 75c@$1.25 bu; cabbage 40@'
75c bu; curly cabbage 50@75c bu; red
cabbage 60c@$1.00 bu; carrots 5061)
600 bu; eggs, wholesale, white, 320
doz; brown 28@30c doz; retail, 35@
40c doz; dry onions $1.50@2.00 bu;i
root parsley $1.25@2.00 bu; curly 35@
500 doz. bchs; parsnips 50c@$1.‘50 bu;
potatoes 75c@$1.50 bu; poultry, hens,
wholesale, 30@320 lb; retail 32@35c
lb; broilers, wholesale, leghorns, 24@
27c lb; rocks 26@32c lb; retail 32@
350 lb; ducks 26@300 lb; dressed
poultry, retail, 35@400 lb; ducks 35@!
40c lb; H. H. ra‘dishes 900 doz bchs;
horse radish $7.00@10.00 bu; Hubbard
squash $1.50@1.75 bu; turnips $1.00@
$2.75 bu; butter 600 lb; dressed hogs
10@13c lb; live pigs $5.00 ea; veal
22@23c lb; root celery 75c@$1.00 bu.

 

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Holsteins

_April 10—Frank Steffen & Sons,

Howard City, Mich.
April 18—Joseph H.
Rapids, Mich.
May 22——Michigan Holstein Friesian
Assn, East Lansing. M1

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APRIL 7, 1928

CROP AND MARKET REPORTS

Eaton County—Winter grains have
suifered a little. Fruit appears to be
0. K. The dairy business is expand-
ing slowly. Wheat brings $1.55; beans
$8.40; oats 63c.——D. M.

St. Joseph County Farmers are
plowing for oats. Normal acreages
will be planted. The use of lime is
on the increase. The same is true of
commercial fertilizers. Winter crops
look good. Ninety—five per cent of the
farmers buy their baby chicks. Wheat
brings $1.50, rye $1.10, potatoes 90c,
clover seed $16.00, hay $12.00.——H. S.

St. Clair County—Farmers are busy
preparing the summer’s fuel supply
and many are planning on repairing
buildings. Beans bring around $8.00.
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GENUINE MASTODON EVERBEARING World's
largest. strawberries, 100 $1.75. Catalog. Edwin
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GLADIOLUS—Rulnbow collection. sixty large bulbs
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CERTIFIED IMPROVED ROBUST SEED BEANS.
choice in every respect. One to nine bushels. eight
dollars bu.. ten or over. seven scventy-flvc. Bags free
and freight prepaid Michigan on orders received before
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GOLDEN GLOW SEED CORN that will please you.
grown from Registered Seed. Field selected. before
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IMPERIAL WHITE PEKIN DUCK EGGS. $1.50 per
11. Postpaid. Chas. Stutz. Saransc. Mich.

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MYERS l’URE—BRED CHICKS. 100% live delivery.
postage prepaid. Four leading breeds. White Leg-
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certified Wisconsin Six Row Barley. registered and
certified Pickett Yellow Dent. Corn. certified Grimm
Alfalfa. Best of quality, satisfaction guaranteed.
Write for seed circular. Fairgrove Associated Seed
Growers. W. R. Kirk. Beryl Fairgrove. Michigan
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CLOVER—$18 per bu. Home grown double recleanm.
Guaranteed to comply state seed law. Sweet clover.
scariiled, $8.90. Hardy northwestern alfalfa. $9.90
per bu. State certified Grimm at lowest prices. New
timothy. $1.90 per bu. Sacks included. Write f
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REAL ESTATE

IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY of Cshfornia
general farming is a paying bunness, feeding millions
of people in towns and cities. Alfalfa combined with
dairying, hogs. and poultry. yields a good Income. A
small one-family farm. with little hired labor. in-
sures success. You can work outdoors all the year.
Newcomers Welcome. The Santa Fe Railway has no
land to sell. but offers a free service in helping you
get right looation. Write for illustrated San Joaquin
Valley folder and get. our farm paper—"The Earth

free for six months. C. L. Seagraves. General Colon-
ization Agent. Santa Fe Railway. 912 Railway Ex-
change. Chicago.

620 ACRE IMPROVED H'WAY FARM—51 heed
stock 8:. equipment. Income averaged over $85
weekly. 450 acres tillable. 100 acres hog-tight; plea-
sant 6—room house. farm bldgs. a help houses. W111
leave 6 horses. 3 mule-s. 10 Jersey cows. pure-bred
Jersey bull. 20 beef cowa, pure-bred Red Poll bull.
9 sheep. - 0 sows. pure-bred boar. flock poultry. full
line machinery, corn. hay. potatoes. seed. all house-
hold goods. complete only $14,000. part. cash. De-
tails pg. 47 illus. spring catalog. (,‘opy free. Strout
Agency. 1105-30 Kresge Bldg. Detroit. Mich.

SPECIAL OFFER—Federal Land Bank offers limited
number of farms at bargain prices. Write today,
for new descriptions of farms in North Dakota.
Minnesota. Wisconsin. Michigan. Deal direct with
owner, no commissions. These farms are priced to
sour—small down payments—$200 to $1,000—essy
terms on balance. Land prices are going up. Buy
now at. our low prices. Write to Federal Land
Bank. St. Paul, Minn. Dept. 33.

COME TO EASTERN OKLAHOMA. We have bar-
gains in improved farms of all sizes. adapted for
grain. stork. and poultry raising. dalrylng and fruit
growing. Exoellent markets. good school and church
facilities in an all year climate that makes life worth
living. Write today for free literature and price list.
National Colonization 00.. Room 122, 13 E. 3rd St...
Tulsa. Okla.

BRAZIL. SOUTH AMERICA—COLONY FORMING.
Your opportunity to own stock ranch or farm near
Atlantic seaports at trifle of value. Sure market.
healthy climate. highest references. Ha Frank. Box
800, Station “C." Los Angeles. California.

FOR SALE—Good cut-over farming and pasture lands
close to new dairying centers in Middle and Southern
Sunny Tennessee. Tennessee Products Corporation.
Nashville, Tennessee.

SEVEN ACRE POULTRY FARM‘: good buildings,
mile from thriving town on M-38. Opportunity road-
side market. 31500—3500 handles. E. S. Grinnell.
Martina-Mich” R. 1. .

 

60 ~ACRES,’ some fruit. building. 1% milm U. S.
31. $4,500. Would rent. Charles Fitch. Ludington.
Mich.

 

57 ACRES, good soil. Isabella Co. Fair buildings.
U. S. 10 $5 mile. Electricity. $3.500. Owner.
Homer Loomis. Clare. Mich.

IOU-ACRE FARM. stock and tools. for sale. MD.
for cash.‘ 2% miles from Memphis. Mich. .‘I. A.
Tinsman. Memphis. Mich.

WANTED FARMS

WANTED—By private party good form within T5 miles
of Detroit. Must be on lake and boys good buildings.
Prefer rolling country. Will pay cash for the right
price. Box 145. Michigan Farmer.

WANTED—To hear from owner of land for sale.
0. Hewley. Baldwin. Wis. .

MISCELLANEOUS

CLUB TOGETHER and buy your coal in cariosd
lotssndsovesmrulfpienty. Gus-l .prepantlon.
and weights guaranteed. What am your require-
ments? Write us mday: Sales Manager. 1205 Fisher
milling. Chieaso.,ll.

CLEAN‘Vluo‘weelll 'bflflt mot barn straw Wheat
greet. tea dollars ton. 1.0.3. oars. 0mm

0 I

 

FREE DOG BOOK. Polk Miller's famous dog book
on diseases of dogs. Instructions on feeding. care.
and breeding with symptom chart. 48 pages. Illus-
trated. Write for free copy. Polk Miller Products
Corp. 1022 W. Broad St.. Richmond. Va.

 

WHY BLAME THE BULL when your cow does not
breed? Usc Cow Catch 1 hour before service. Ite-
suits or your money back: 85 cents for one cow.
$2.90 for five cows. poatpald. Woodstock Farm.
Benton. Route 2, Box 490. Washington.

 

NEW HOUSEHOLD DEVICE washes—dries windows.
sweeps. cleans walls. scrubs. mops. Costs less than
broom. Over half profit. Harper's. 173 Third St”
Fairfield. Iowa.

 

 

EXCHANGE

 

GRAFTING WAX

CAN FURNISH EITHER A HAND 0R BRUSH
wax. Made after Michigan State College formula.
Immediate delivery. Prices as foU0ws: One pound.
45c; five pounds, $2.10: ten pounds. $4.00. Postage
extra. Special prices in larger quantities. M. H.
Hunt & Son. Lansing. Mich. Box

 

 

PET AND LIVE STOCK

RABBITS—Make Big Profits with Chinchilla Rabbits.
Real money makers. Write for facts. 888 Conrad's
Ranch. Denver. Colorado.

PEAFOWL. Pheasants. Bantams. Pigeons. Guineas.
Canaries. Eggs. Stock. Free Circular. John Hess.
Bettendorf, Ia.

 

 

 

FOR SALE—Coon. skunk,
shipped on 30 dsys‘ trial.
Springfield. Tenn.

and O‘DOSsum hounds.
Frank Barker. Dept. 49.

FOR SALE. Coon. o'possum. skunk hounds at 3‘
price 03 any fair terms. Dorsce Scott, Box 132, Cal-
101111. a.

SEED CORN. 8 row large type Yankee corn. nothing
better for early hogging off. Also choice selected
Pride of the North Yellow Dent. These seeds give a
very high germination test. We furnish them at
$3.00 per bushel. either shelled or ears. F. B.
Mendon, Mich. A. E. Beebe 6: Sons.

 

EVERY HOG RAISER should grow artichokes. They
will furnish 00 days of the highest quality of early
spring feed for hogs before clover is ready. Seed
only $3.00 per bushel. in quantities at less price
F. O B. Mendon. Mich. A. E. Beebe dc Sons.

 

REGISTERED ($7.00 per Bu.) and Certified .($6.00
per Bu.) Polar Yellow Dent and Jewett Yellow
Flint. 50 lbs. shelled and graded. Butts of Polar
Yellow Dent for ensilsge $3.50 per bu. Arthur W.
Jewett. Jr.. Mason. Michigan.

 

SCIENCE AND PRACTICE demonstrate Improved
American Banner wheat, Wolverine oats. Improved
Robust beans best for Michigan. A. 3. Cook.
prsso. Mich.

 

STATE SWEEPSTAKES SEED CORN. Wilks' Gold-
en Dent and Polar Dent. Field. selected. fire dried.
tasted. shelled and graded to fit your planter. Ger-
mination 95 to 98%. John C. Wilk. St. Louis. Mich.

CERTIFIED WOLVERINF. OATS. dollar bushel.
Certified M. A. . Yellow Dent corn $6 bushel.
Bags 25 cents. Lansing. Allen Eaton. Grand Ledge.

Mich.

 

YELLOW DENT SEED CORN. Germination birth
and guaranteed every way. Write us before buying.
Geo. W. Noedham, Saline. Mich.

 

CHOICE SEED. Speltz. and Certified \Visconsln six
row barley. $1.50 bu. 10 bu. or more $1.30. Harry
Box. Lansing. Mich.

CERTIFIED WOLVERINE OATS—Won premium at
International Grain Show and Farmers' Week Show.
J. W. Kennedy d: Sons, Orleans. Mich.

 

MATTRESSES

MATTRESSES made any size. low factory prices.
Catalog free. Peoria Bedding Company. Peoria. 111.

 

 

FRUIT TREES AND NURSERY STOCK

BIG NURSERY. SMALL AD. 100 BARGAINS of
everything to plant. Six fine transplanted evergreens.
three varieties. $1.00. 100 Mastodon overbearing
strawberry plants $2.00; 100 blackberry plants $2.00;
1.000 two—year Washington asparagus root-s $8.00.
100 three-year roots $1.50. Five mixed pconies $1.00.
Twelve spires. $1.00. Twenty Barbcrry $1. Six (0)
flood sized red apple trees. $1.00. Shade trees $1.00
cach. Five Hydrangea. $1.00. Free list. Write Pres-
tage Nurseries. Allegan. Mich.

 

 

WANTED—300 bu. Rural Russett seed potatoes. first
quality only. but second size preferred. Address J. 0.
Beachlor. R. 7, Medina. Ohio.

SEED CORN: Pride of the North. 90 day Yellow
from disease tested seed. tests nearly 100%. Marion
Day, Georgetown. Ohio.

DUNCAN YELLOW DENT SEED CORN—Field se-
lected. Germination over 06%. A. J. Lutz. Saline.
Michigan.

 

 

REID'S YELLOW DENT SEED CORN. field selected.
high germination. Sample on request. Chas. Towns-
end. Dowaglac. Mich.

 

FOR SALE~Clemcnts White Cap and Michigan Yol—
low Dent Seed Corn $4.00. Write John Mitchell.
Holloway. Mich.

 

PLANTS AND BULBS

 

’I'IFTON’S RELIABLE PLANTS. Frostpu'oof Cab-
bage. Early Jersey and Charleston Wakefield. Flat
Dutch. Succession. Danish Ballhead. Copenhagen
Market and Golden Acre. Tomato Plants: Bonnie
Best, Greater Baltimore. Livingston Globe. John Bear
and Earlisns. Bermuda and Prize Taker Onion
Plants. Ruby King and Bull Nose Pepper Plants.
Postpaid. 250. $1.00: 500. $1.50: 1,000. $2.50. Ex-
press Collect $1.50 per 1,000. Cm used in peck-
ing. We guarantee to arrive in good condition.
Tifton Plant 00.. 'Tii‘ton.

 

EARLY VEGETABLE PLANTS for early crops.
Frostpmof Cabbage Plants: Jersey Wakefield. Charlo-
ston Wakefield Golden Acre, Copenhagen Market.

Flat Dutch. Tomato Plants: Earllana. Bonny Best.
John Beer. Stone. Onion. Beet. Lettuce. Potato
Plants. Prices all above: Postpaid. 100. 50c: 500.

$1.50; 1,000, $2.75. Express collect, 1,000. $2.00:
5,000, $8.75: 10.000, $15.00. Packed in moss. de-
livery guaranteed. Piedmont Plant 00.. Albany. Ga.

MY FROST PROOF Cabbage Plants will make heeded
cabbage three weeks before your home grown plants.
I make prompt shipments all leading varieties. Poet.-
paid 500. $1.50: 1,000, $2.75. Express $2.00. 1.000.
Special prices on large quantities. Tomato and pop-
per plants same prices. First class plants, roots
wrapped in moss. P. D. Fulwood. Tifton. Ga.

 

COPENHAGEN. Wakefield. Flat Dutch, Frostproof
cabbage plants. $1.00 1,000; Bermuda Onion. $1.00:
tomato $1.00; collard $1.00; Ruby King Pepper $2.00:
Porto Rico potato $1.75. plants. car
packedd Prompt shipment. Quitmsn Plant 00.. Quit-
man. 8..

FROSTPROOF CABBAGE and Onion Plants. Ber-
muda and Prize Taker. $1.00 thousand. Prompt
elliip'i‘nyena of very fine plants. Guarantee Plant 00..
y . a.

FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS. $1.
Tomato Plants. $1. 1.000. Onions. $1.25.
and Potato Plants. $8. 1.000;
Thomasville. Ga. ’

SEND NO MONEY. C. 0. D. Frost Prool Cab-
bage and Onion Plants All varieties. Prmnpt drip-4
$331: a. Sic: 1,000. $1.00. Standard Plant 00..

 

1, 000.
Pepper
Clark Plant 00..

 

COHEMW‘W' “MM‘
Quirk filaments. Will. . 050: 1.000. 1. .
Fm Plant 00.. m 05- ‘ 00

 

REGISTERED AND
Gilbert’s Yellow Dent Scod Corn.
Waldron. Mich.

CERTIFIED Polar Dent and
Ernest. Gilbert,

ACCREDITED WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS. Holly-
wood strain. Contest pullets now average 25 ounce
eggs per dozen. 1926 contest pen averaged 239 eggs
each. Customer's profit $3.00 per bird. Also An-
ronas. Rocks. Catalogue. Wyngarden Hatchery. Box
14. Zeelnnd. Mich.

 

CHICKS. We have had eighteen years’ axperimce in
hatching chicks of standard varieties. We personally
inspect and cull our flocks which are good producers.
healthy. and pure-bred. Write for prices. Special
discount on five hundred and one thousand lots.
Shepard Poultry Farm 0: Hatchery. Litchfield. Mich.

 

BABY CHICKS Michigan Accredited Barred Rocks.
R. I. Rods. White Leghoms. shipped C. 0. D.
Immediate, delivery of pure—bred chicks from heavy
laying foundations. Big free catalog gives new
prices. Brummer-Fredrickson Poultry Farm. 30x28.
Holland. Mich.

 

BUY YOUR MICHIGAN ACCR-ITED CHICKS
from an established breeder. Twenty-five years breed—
ing. seven years trapnesting. now under Michigan
R. O. P. Noted as profit producers. try Strick's
Chicks this year. Circular free. \Vrite Striok's
Poultry Farm. R. 4. Hudsonville. Michigan.

 

BABY CHICKS. White and Brown Leghorns 180.
Single Comb Reds. Barred and White Plymouth
Rocks 13c. White Wysndottes. Buff Orpingtons 140.
Jersey Black Giants 200. In 100 lots. E. G. Bur—
ger, Crestline. Ohio.

 

WHI'I'I‘AKER'S REDS. BOTH COMES. Grade A.
R. O. 1’. Trapnested. Grade B, Michigan. Certified.
Michigan’s greatest color and egg strain. Chicks and
eggs. Catalog free. Interlskes Farm. Box 9. Law-
rence, Michigan.

 

 

BABY CHICKS of all standard varieties. Flocks
carefully milled for laying. seieral years, by M. S.
C. poultry mcn. Baby chick prices. 10c to 140: two
week. ld chit-ks 100. Clinton County Hatchery. Mek-
weli and Kces, PrOp's.. St. Johns. Mich.

BABY CHICKS—From our extra large type Eng. W.

Leg. Heavy producers. Get our circular before
ordering elsewhere. Prices low, only $107.50 per
1,000. A-l chicks. Model Poultry Farm. Zeeland.

R. 4. hflchigui.

 

BABY CHICKS from flecks rigidly culled for breed
type and production. White Leghorns, Barred Rocks.
S. C. Reds. White Wyandottes. Write for prices.
Jones Chick Hatchery. Box 6, Goldwater. Mich.

 

BABY CHICKS AND EGGS Superior Ringlet Barred
Rocks. Roee Comb Reds. Tnncrcd and English White
Leghoms. Catalogue. Wyndham's Ideal Poultry
Yards. Tlilin. Ohio.

 

LOOK! 100.000 chicks 9c up. 20 varieties. Using
many 800 to 31 egg record bred ROP cockeu-els.
Send for free catalog giving big early order dis-
counts. Lawrence Hatchery, Grand Rapids. Mich.

BABY CHICKS—S. C. White Leghorns $10 per 100.
Barred and White Rocks $13 per 100. Sand for
catalogue. Snowflake Poultry Farm. L. Van Schie.
Prop. Route 5. Mlddleville. Mich.

 

BABY CHICKHuslity breedings. plus guaranteed
satisfaction at reasonable prices, our standard. Free
Batalog. Wlndmill Points Hatchery, Alter Road.
e or .

 

MICHIGAN CERTIFIED S. C. REDS. R. 0. P..
trspnested. Chicks $25 per hundred. Hatching eggs
$12 per hundred. From B. . P. hens $15 for 15
eggs. Will Loomis. Casnovia. Mich.

 

BABY CHICKS—Rocks. Reds, and Le orns. Each
week beginning Feb. 18. All stuck blghodtested and
Michigan Amrredited. Pierce Hatchery. Jerome. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—Certified White Rural Seed Potatoes.
Jas. Lynch. Coral. Michigan.

 

FOR SALE—Sand Vetch. about. 10 per cent oats.
$12 per hundred. Dan Becker, Munlslng. Michigan.

 

WANTED—Irish Cobbler seconds potatoes for seed.
northern grown. Floyd Luce. Bronson. Mich. R. 3.

 

 

TOBACCO '

GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing. 5
potions. $1.25: 10. $8. Smoking. 10. $1.50. Pipe
Freei Pay postman. United Farmers, Bardwell.
Kentucky.

LEAF TOBACCO—Good sweet chewing 5 lbs. $1.25:
10 $2.00. Smoking 5 lbs. 90c; 10 $1.50. United
Farmers, Mnyfield. Ky.

 

HOMESPUN TOBACCO: Chewing 5 lbs. $1.25. Smok-
ing 5 lbs. $1. Pay when received. Pipe free.
Farmers Union. A5. Psducsh. Ky.

2:013" CSIEKS $6.30 lper E1530. . Seconds. stronl.
c c s. no c ppes. ht. Ch . . .
Holland. Michigan. ristopher R ‘

 

 

 

TURKEYS
DAY OLD TU ltKICYS~~Something new but good.
Raise in brooder housc or by chicken hen. Easily

raised as chickens. Return five times the profit.
Mammoth Bronze and White Hollands. $1.00 each.
Special prices on more than fifty poults. Eggs for
hatching. Pine (frock Turkey ROOSL. R. F. D. No. 4.
Holland, Michigan.

 

WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS
Ducks. mire-bred heal-thy stack.
envelope for reply.
Mich.

and White Pekin
Addressed stamped
Alden Whitcomb. Byron Center.

TURKEY EGGS: All breeds. strictly pure-bred. <
(61:10 prices. Eastern Ohio Poultry Farm. Be Spe

 

P0 ULTRY

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS. Purdue Demonstration
Farm. Production medal winners. Eggs postpaid,
45 $3. 100 $5.50. 500 $25.00. Floyd Robertson.
Lexington. Indiana.

BARRED ROCKS—Light. line only. Trapnested. six-
bibhmm quality. Heavy egg production. Eggs. two
doighars. fifteu. B. H. White. B. 10. Battle Cred.
Ml' .

S VABIHIES Record of Performance Mala Matinee.
Breeding cockerels. pullets. and chicks. Free c

giving bk early order discounts. Beckman Hatchesy.‘
Box 57. Grand Rapids. Mich.

BARRED ROCK HATCHING EGGS $6.00 per hun-
dred. Imperial Ringlst and Aristocrat strain. Bobt.
Martin. Woodland. Mich.

S. 0. BROWN AND WHITE LEGHORNS. 332 on.
Eggs 100 $5.50. Chicks. stuck. catalog. Harlan
Fulton. Gailipoiis. Ohio.

BARRED ROCK EGGS. Moll bulbs. W. 5'. Al:-
snlsr. Owens. Mich.

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AGENTS WANTED

STRAIGHT SALARY: $35.00 per week and expenses.
Man or woman with rig to introduce Poultry Mixture.
Eureka Mfg. Co.. East St. Louis. Ill.

 

FARMER REPRESENTATIVES WANTED to sell
Manure Spreaders. Wheat Drills. and Pulverizers.
particulars to Box 287. leu'ty. Indiana.

HELP WANTED

WANTED—MILK ROUTE BALESMAN. Inst be be
bwesnflandiwyearsoi'agsandmarried. $100M
bond required. Steady work and good future. Give
:EWMRII in application. From Dairy Company.

DRIVER SALESMAN—88 to 85 years an. Pm

neat unployment: good future. Write us if int-H

aging. Belle Isle Creamery. $600 For-t 3.. Default
C .

 

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fly the Ma tag is avail-
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kI7" or Farm Homes

Without
Electricity

The Maytag Gasoline
Multi—Motor is a skillfully
made, modern, dependable
little gasoline engine, exclu‘
sively a Maytag feature, and
so popular with farm homes
that have no electricity, that
Maytag has become the
world’s largest producer of
engines of this type and size.

Compare the two washers
above and you will see that
the Multi-Motor takes about
the same space as the electric
motor. There are no belts to
line up. It is a part of the
washer and starts with a step
on the lever.

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WHT, Chicago. Tues. Wed.. Thur.. Fri., Sat.,
9:00 P. M. WCCO, Minneapolis. Fri., 8:30
P. M. WHO, Des Moines, Sun., 7:15 P. M.
KDKA, Pittsburgh. Tues. and Wed., 10:00
P. M. WBAP, Fort Worth. Mon.. 8:30 P.M.
KEX, Portland. Ore. Tues. and Sat., 8:30 P.M.
KSL, Salt Lake City. Mon., 7 P M.

   
   

 

F b r i n g s

T IS like adding a day of leisure to the farm-

wife’s week when the Maytag does the

washing. Of course, she will probably
spend the extra hours with her garden, her
chickens or her children, but it’s a valuable
gain anyhow.

There will be no more hand-rubbing when
the Maytag comes—not even on the edges of
collars, cuffs or wristbands, on overalls smeared
with machinery grease. - The Maytag flushes
out the grimiest dirt by water action 'alone.
That is why the daintiest clothes are safe in
its satin-smooth, cast-aluminum tub—the tub
that keeps the water hot for an entire washing,
then empties and cleans itself.

Deferred Payments You’ ll Never Miss
THE MAYTAG COMPANY, Newton, Iowa
. Founded 1894
INDIANAPOLIS BRANCH: 923 North Capitol Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.

 

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For home: without elec-

tricity, the Mayta is

available with 01- m‘lt
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The New Roller
Water Remover

has large soft rolls that spare
the buttons, remove both the
surplus soap and water evenly
regardless of lumps and seams
in the clothes. It automatical-
ly adjusts the tension for a
thick or thin garment, swings,
and locks in seven different
positions, has a handy feed
board, a self-reversing drain-
board, and an instant safety
tension release.

There are some other val-
uable Maytag features and
you can learn all about them
by a free trial washing.

FREE TRIAL for a Week's

Washing

Write or telephone any Maytag dealer.
Ask him to send you a Maytag, either
powered with an electric or. a gasoline
Do a big washing—it will take an
hour or so, and you will see why the
Maytag has been awarded first place by
the farm and city women of America.

 

 

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