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VOLUME CLXXl NUMBER THREE





DETROIT. JULY 21, 1928





E want to com-





Newaygo mend the Ne-

. waygo dairy farmers,

Dairy their county agent,

Show and other leaders on





the type of dairy

show and picnic put on at Fremont

last week. This is truly a coopera-

tive affair. The business men of that

municipality closed their stores and

shops to give their full attention to

this event. The automobiles began to

arrive early at the pleasant grounds

at the lake and by noon everything

was set for the program and the

judging of the stock. _



The quality of the dairy animals

brought to this picnic was astonish-

ing. We feel that many of the

superintendents of the live stock de-

partments of county and district

fairs could profit by conferring with

the managers of this dairy show.



The program was snappy and

gained the attention of the. folks in

attendance. Particularly with respect

to information on their chief line of

endeavor—dairying —- t h e y received

late data and statistics which should

be helpful in chartering their further

course.



The outstanding success of this

event and similar affairs leads one

to, suspect that in this type of com-

munity get-togethers may lie the hope

of rural inspirational and informative

meetings. We feel certain that Ne-

waygo County is much the richer

by holding these annual picnics.





- HE latest data

Children ’8 available shows



_ Ac“. den t: that among children

from five to nine



Increase years of age, acci-





dents are one of the

This cause

is exceeded numerically only by

deaths from diarrhea and enteritis

among children from one to five

years of age.



The National Safety Council reports

that almost one-quarter of the 90,000

fatal accidents in 1925 occurred to

children under fourteen years of age.





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T H E M I C H I

About eleven per cent of these chil-

dren were less than five years old

and more than a third of them were

burned to death or died as a result

of extensive burns.



When :we come to children from

five to nine years old, where death

from accident leads, we find automo-

bile accidents responsible for a little

more than twelve per cent, and burns

a little less than twelve per cent of

the deaths. Among the older chil-

dren from ten to fourteen, firearms

cause fifteen per cent of the large

number of accidental deaths.



A review of these facts is convinc-

ing that safety first education among

both parents and children needs our

more careful attention.





C A R EF U L an-

Swine alysis of condi-

tions affecting the



Guilt)?" raising of hogs indi-

Promumg -cate that, with the



1exception of season-

al fluctuations, there will be two

years of general advancing prices for

hogs during which period hogs Will

reach eleven and twelve dollars for

heavy hogsas compared with the re-

cent low quotation of seven dollars

and seventy-five cents. These en-

couraging words are from L. H. Bean,

agricultural economist of the Depart-

ment of Agriculture.



According to this authority, hog

prices fluctuate in fairly regular and

definite cycles. High prices are fol-

lowed by low prices and then by high

prices again. The chief disturbing

factor in modifying these trends is

the raising of varying quantities of

corn in the country.





HERE are indica-





The tions that the

5 financial interests

"8‘." controlling the sugar

Tariff industry of Cuba are





using strong influ-

ence for the reduction of the tariff

against Cuban sugar. President

Machado in his campaign for re-

election has stated that he will lead

the fight against this tariff and that

he expects his efforts will be suc-

cessful. With such influences at

work, it is well that domestic sugar

growers take heed.



There are 2,176,000 tons of sugar

produced annually in this country, of

which 874,000 are from sugar beets.

There is now an investment of

more than $250,000,000 in beet) sugar

plants in seventeen states from Ohio

to the Pacific slope. More than 100,-

000 farmers are engaged in the cul-

tivation of sugar beet crops. Eighty-

five thousand hands are employed by

these farmers, while 35,000 mechanics

and laborers are employed in hand-

ling this sugar product at the mill.



It has taken years of painstaking

effort and hundreds of millions of





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‘douars to develop this industry





Itwould be destroyed if the sugar

tariff was removed. The domestic

sugar growers have been fortunate in

President Coolidge’s attitude in favor

of the development of domestic sugar

production. But they must remain

awake to 'the powerful influences

being ' brought to bear by those

Americans who have large financial

interests in Cuban plantations and

sugar manufacturing plants. Amer-

ican sugar production is too great an

agricultural industry to leave at the

mercy of those selfishly interested.





T is in our travels





Here“ about that we are



‘ often reminded of

and some of our own

There shortcomings. O u r





latest observation of

this nature was made recently while

motoring across the state of Iowa.

Back in the very early days of this

gently rolling prairie country, by

some phenomenon of nature, this sec-

‘tion was abundantly seeded to an

excellent type of grazing grass but

few or no tree seeds were deposited.

Even today it is only along the creek

beds that one finds any natural

growth of bushes and trees.





As this fertile state became settled,

the need for trees was apparent.

First, to break the constant wind that

blew over this rolling prairie coun-

try and second, to break up the

monotony of the landscape. As a re-

sult, today, one can travel for miles

across this state and not see a home

site but what is delightfully framed

with beautiful large trees.





Even in Michigan, a natural habi-

tat of many kinds of trees, we find

too many farm home sites that stand

out bleak and barren, scorching-t in

the hot sun for want of the cool

shade and landscaping beauty of

sheltering trees. Many farm home

sites in Michigan could be greatly

improved by following the example

of those early Iowa farmers and

planting some native trees and

shrubs to shelter and beautify their

farm home grounds.





HE cost of edu-



The Cost eating the Amer-

f ican youth is two and



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of fifteen years ago,

according to the U.

S. Bureau of Education. Back in

1913 it cost an average of $38.00 while

now the cost is over $102 per pupil.





This higher cost is partly due

to the increased and improved facili~

ties provided for education. It costs

more to educate because; there is

more to learn. At present there are

many phases of activity that are open

to life that were never heard of be-

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T the mid-summer meeting of the State Association of Mutual

Insurance Companies in session at Fremont last week, a most

enthusiastic endorsement was given to the Fire Prevention Program

put on by the Michigan Farmer. This sentiment was expressed in

I the following resolution unanimously adopted during the business





RESOLVED, That the State Association of Mutual Insurance 1:

,= Companies, in convention assembled, _

Farmer, which has fought the battles of the farmers of the state 1:

for more than 85 years, its heartiest and most sincere thanks for 3’

interest shown for the prevention of fires in the :;

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necessaryfire waste, thereby perpetuating the solidity of rural

communities through the saving

erty, which, if destroyed by fire, is seldom replaced, and to mate-

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Therefore, the Association desires to stand firmly back of

for the continuation of the splendid fight

being made by that staunch publication for fire prevention on the

firm in the belief that the start made will gather momen-

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In agriculture alone, there have

been developments which make nec-

essary a much broader and more

complete education than in the old

days when crops were just planted,

cultivated, and harvested. Today,

man has to supply through his own

knowledge and endeavor that which

soils in their virgin richness gave him

before.



As life becomes more complex and

more efficient, education will become

an increasing necessity in the enjoy~

able participation of such a life. So

it is likely that education costs will

continue to increase. But whatever

the cost, the right kind of an educa-

tion will pay big dividends in the

usefulness and happiness of those in-

fluenced by it.





Contmuzty

HERE’S another of them words I

come across in my reading of

Webster’s famous short stories. Each

word in that book is a story by it-

self.



Well, this continuity word means

to keep agoing without stopping. If

you kin keep agoing in any other

way, you’ve gotta use some other

word, ’cause you can’t keep agoing





and stop too.

What made me think of this word

was the weather.





We’ve had plenty

of rain recently

and it kept ago~

ing, so I judge it

was one of them

continuity rains

and the continu-

ity flowed all

over some of our

farms. My farm

isn't enough of

a sponge to soak up all the water

what’s come its way, especially when

some of its coming from my neigh-

bor’s place and the public road. This

big rain stuff don’t do no good which

goes to prove that you kin have too

much of a good thing. .The only good

it does is fer the kids to play on

rafts like they were crossing over

the Delaware like the father of their

country did.



There’s lots of continuity in things.

For inst, there seems to be a con-

tinuity to taxes—they keep acomin’

all the time. And there’s a continu-

ity to work. They say work was

made fer to keep us out of mischief.

Well, I guess the one what planned

this world thought that it was pretty

hard to keep some of us out of mis-

chief so he fixed up plenty of work.

I know I got plenty of it.



But there’s one thing that’s got

the real continuity and that’s life.

Life never stops. Even if we die,

life continues—it’s only a change of

form. And the heart beat is got lots

of continuity. When it stops, we

stop.



Now I see that the word continue

means to persist, to endure. So I

guess it looks like )we’ll have to en—

dure a lot of continuity as long as we

live.



Some folkses probably think if we

could get a. continuity of pleasure and

happiness, it’d‘ be 0. K. But, you

know, pleasure and happiness would

get monotonous if it had continuity,

so we got to have other things what

are disagreeable to make pleasure a

pleasure.



This article ain’t got no continuity,

’cause it’s goin’ to stop right here.

HY SYCKL'E.





 





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ADiversified Farmer Specializes in Poultry





Leo V. Card Makes Success During Years of Agricultural Slump

By Frank A Wilken





HERE is evidence of progress in

Leo V.“ Card’s farming experi-

ence. Mr. Card started as a

tenant farmer fifteen years ago; last

year he was made Master Farmer





‘because of his agricultural accom-





plishments.



The Card farm, which is about five

miles southeast of Hillsdale, consists

of eighty acres of good rolling land.

Mr. Card has not entirely gotten out

of the habit of renting, he still rents

eighty acres which he works with

his own farm. ‘One hundred and forty

acres are cultivated, twenty in per-

manent pasture and ten in woodlot.



In the selection of the Master

Farmers each year, the purpose is to

pick out those who have done out-

standing work in their respective line

of farming. Thus Mr. Card was se-

lected as the master poultry farmer

for 1927.



He has specialized in the Barred

Plymouth Rock breed, of which he

has about four thousand. He devotes

most of his poultry efforts to the

production of high producing pure-





bred poultry, rather than to commer-





cial egg marketing. His specialty is

baby chicks which he hatches in his

12,000 egg incubator. The purpose is

not to hatch large quantities, but to

produce accredited chicks of assured

breeding. For that reason only eggs





laid by his own hens are used for‘





hatching purposes.



The progressive methods used on

this farm in poultry raising are indi-

cated by the fact that Mr. Card Was

one of the first breeders in Michigan

to have his chickens tested for bac-





Better





OG producers are going to get

H a taste of prosperity in the

next twelve to eighteen

months. Production in both the

United States and Europe has been

shifted back into seCond speed as a





,result of the unfavorable ratiobe-





tween hog prices and feed costs dur-

ing the past year. Market receipts

will be lighter, domestic demand fully

as good and export demand larger

during the next year than in the last

one. 'Accordingl‘y, higher hog prices

are in prospect, while

corn crop 0 look promises lower

production cos s



The 1928 spring pig crop in the

United States was estimated by the

Department of_ Agriculture at 7 per

cent smaller than last year. In the

corn belt, which furnishes most of the

commercial supply, the reduction

likewise :was 7 per cent. These de-





‘ creases are equivalent to over three-





million head. in the corn belt crop and





, to about four million head in the total





the present.





cillary white diarrhea. The flocks

and hatchery are also accredited by

the Poultry Improvement association,

and for the past three years the farm

has been used for poultry demon-

stration purposes by the Michigan

State College.



In many cases it takes all of one’s

timeand thought to take care of a

chicken industry such as Mr. Card





The dair}7 cattle consists of four

pure—bred Holstein cows and three

grades. The dairy product sold is

cream, the skim milk being used for





feeding purposes. Last year, Mr.

Card sold four dairy animals for

breeding purposes. The cattle, of





course, are TB tested.

In the swine department there are

raised immunized pure—bred Durocs.





 





 





 





 





 





The Card Farm is well equipped with buildings which are efficiently ar-

ranged for Work and comfort.





has. But here one will also find a

well-developed general farm, which

shows as well the progressiveness of

its manager. That the farm

general farm is indicated by the fact

that the major crops raised are

wheat, oats, corn, potatoes, hay, ap-

ples and peaches. The live stock also

shows diversification, there being

seven dairy cows, thirty swine, and

twenty-eight sheep, besides the poul-

try.





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For butchering purposes, the animals

are sold at 250 pound weights. Four

animals were sold for breeding pur-

poses last year. '



The grade Shropshire sheep have

given Mr. Card an average yield of

wool of ten pounds. The lambs are

marketed when they are about ninety-

five pounds in weight.



Practically all the crops are sold

from the farm on foot. That is, they

are fed to the live stock on the farm.





The plan is to grow those crops which

will become part of the rations fed

the animals. The exceptions are po-

tatoes, apples, and peaches. This use

of the crops on the farm helps to

maintain its fertility and results in

higher prices for the products.



The average acreage of Wheat on

this farm is fifteen. The Nigger

variety is used and it follows cats

in the rotation. The field is plowed

early and well fitted. The fertilizing

is done in the grain drill when seed-

ing the wheat. Certified seed is used

every three years. The average yield

for five years has been nineteen

bushels. The grain is fed to the

chickens and the straw used for

litter.



There are about forty acres of hay

on the place and ten of pasture.

These crops are improved by the use

of lime and by being part of the ro-

tation. The average cutting for the

past five years has been one and one,-

half tons. All of the hay is used on

the farm. .



About fifteen acres of Wolverine





oats from certified stock are grown





annually.

potatoes





The oats follow corn or

in the rotation. As with

wheat, fertilizer is sown with the

seed through a drill. The yield

ranges between fifty and sixty bush-

els per acre. .



Usually about thirty acres of corn

are grown each year, following clover

and pasture in the rotation. Pickett’s

Yellow Dent is the variety used and

each year the seed is tested before

planting. This crop is also fertilized



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Times Ahead For Hogmen





A Study of Conditions is Promising

By Gilbert Gusler





the pig crop of next fall. Based on

the relationship between breeding

intentions and actual farrowings in

past years, there may be a decrease

anywhere from seven to fifteen per

cent in “the total fall pig crop and of

three to nine per cent in the corn

belt crop.



Altogether, the June pig survey by

the Department indicated a reduction

of about 3.5 million to 4.5 million head

in the combined spring and fall pig

crops in the corn belt which will

determine the market supply in the

hog year starting November 1, 1928.

The reduction outside the corn belt

may run 15 million to two million

head.



Since the number of hogs slaugh-

tered by farmers in the corn belt for

their own use tends to run rather

uniform from year to year, it is prob-

able that market receipts in the next

hog year may be reduced by- prac-

tically' the. full amount of this de-

crease in the corn belt pig crop. There

may be a small additional decrease

because of fewer hogs being mar-





“governed it





under federal inspection, which is the

most comprehensive measure of sup-

ply, probably will be about forty—eight

to forty—nine million head in the hog

year ending October 31, 1928. This

is on the assumption that slaughter

in the last five months of the period

will be about the same as a year

previous when it was 16.2 million

head. In the seven months ending

May 31, 1928, tinspected slaughter

reached 32.3 million head. Slaughter

in the current hog year represents a

sharp increase over the year ending

October 31, 1926, when 40.8 million

head were dressed in inspected

plants, but it still falls short of the

52.9 million head dressed in the 1923-

1924 hog year. If the indicated de-

crease of 3.5 to 4.5 million head in

the market supply in the next hog

year materializes, inspected slaughter

will be about forty-four to forty-five-

million head. , .

European hog production tends to

expand and contract parallel with

changes in the United States It is

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European countries have made an ef-

fort since the war to become self

sufficing. Production was not our—

tailed as sharply by the unfavorable

price ratio three or four years ago

and it was expanded more rapidly

since than in the United States.

Slaughter in Germany in 1927 was

forty per cent greater than in 1925,

Denmark increased a third and the

United Kingdom gained fifteen to

twenty per cent in the same period.

Thus far in 1928, European slaughter

has been heavier than in 1927. But,

the heavy receipts have been partly

at the expense of herds. How long

it will take for liquidation to run its

course is uncertain, but it probably

has passed its climax already.



The number of hogs in .Germany on

December 1, 1927, was estimated at

22.9 million compared with 19.4 mil;





lion a, year earlier and 16.2 million.~

Since the number,

dressed at thirty-six leading points“:





two years before





in Germany from last November.

Aprfl, inclusive, was about, fifty ~

cent greater than a year pro





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”THE 'M'ICHIGA‘N- 'FA‘RMER





Our Readers’ Corner





Fact: and Opinion: by





FIXING TH E ROADS?





 





IT is with a good deal of hesitation

that I write this as it may never

do any good to the people of Mich-

igan. The county road commissioner

has been building up with tar and

fine gravel a small ridge across the

road wherever there was a crack in

the road concrete. Now these ridges

are from one-half to one and one-

»half inch as high which causes a

slight jaror bump to a fast moving

car. They are never more than forty-

four inches wide. That is, the tar

has not discolored the concrete to any

greater distance in any one place.

Now instead of chipping off the tar

and fine gravel, they are destroying

a strip of concrete eleven feet, eight

inches wide across the road in order

to have the privilege of laying a new

strip of concrete. It looks to me like

deliberate destruction of good con-

crete in order to have the oppor-

tunity to exercise that Christian vir-

tue, a great liberty with other peo-

ple’s money. Of course, the county

commission was voted on the people

mostly by non-taxpayers who should

not have the franchise. The bureau-

cratic road commission gentlemen





M ic/zngarz Farm Folk





are able to distribute from $300,000

to $400,000 a year without an effort

in the name of good roads. Of this

amount -fully one-half of it never

benefits the public, I have every rea~

son to believe. Law is a good thing

if properly administered, but it looks

to me that the law is more in use to

rob the farmer by due process .of law

than to help him. If the farmer wants

any help he has to organize and spray

the public trees. Cut off hundreds of

the useless officers, especially the ap-I

pointed ones and the ornamental com-

mitteee. Now, Mr. Editor, you are at

liberty to publish this, if you see fit

and my name too, so I will know how

many educated bricks wilt be thrown

at me. Verbally, I can defend my-

self, but am not so good with the pen.

—-James W. Gradwell.





 





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WAS just reading Our Readers’

Corner. It seems as though the

corn borer, rural mailman, and the

pheasant certainly “catch it.” As for

the corn borer we aren’t acquainted

with him, but we keep our stalks

plowed, burned, or shredded. Manis-

tee County isn’t infested yet. But





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why howl about Congress not paying

them for keeping their own premises

clean? If one is too shiftless to take

an interest in his own welfare, how

can he expect someone else to? .



And for the people that “kick”

about our rural mail carrier, there

seems to be an overproduction of:

people that can’t do anythingthenn-

selves but can tell how it should be

done. We have to walk about one-

quarter mile for our mail and would

be willing to go farther if it would

save the carrier any frost-bitten fin-

gers and toes. He ends his thirtieth

year in September and has earned

twice over every cent of pension he’ll

get.



And the pheasant, we know they do

damage. But if they can do any more

damage than the neighbor’s flock of

fifty or seventy-five turkeys, they’ll

have to “get there.”—A Subscriber.





HUNTERS TRESPASS





 





HAVE been a hunter and trapper



for forty-five seasons, and I find

that the farmers protect the game

better than the law or any game

warden. When we stop to think of

the territory that one game warden

has to protect, he can’t do it well. If

the game wasn’t protected by the

farmers there would be little left

living in the game line. Since nearly

all game is fed by the farmers, why





Time to Bar Big Campaign Funds





Letter from Senator Capper to Hubert Work, Chairman of the

Republican National Committee





My Dear Mr. VVork—A dispatch

from Washington in today’s papers

states that the Republican campaign

will be conducted on a much reduced

budget, compared to recent national

campaigns.



This interests, I believe, a great

many party members and will be

heartily approved by them and by the

people. The gigantic size of cam-

paign funds has led not only to ex-

travagant and altogether unnecessary

expenditures, but to scandals that are

deplored by virtually the entire party

membership. The campaign budget

of more than five million dollars eight

years ago was in itself scandalous

and was entirely excessive, as the

vote in November proved.





I do not know whether the report

that you and other leaders in confer-

ence have determined to keep the

campaign fund under three million

dollars, and considerably under that

figure, is correct, but I am writing

you to express the opinion that in this

campaign the confidence of party

members and of the country in the

moral cleanness of American political

campaigns can be greatly strength-

ened if the Hoover and Curtis fund is

solicited from the party membership

in small individual contributions,

rather than from great wealth or

from corporate interests.



This is not altogether a novel sug-

gestion. It was the announced inten-

tion of the National Committee in

1920, and I believe at the beginning of

the 1924 campaign. If before the

close of that campaign the rule was

departed from, it was not because

too little money was raised, but be-

cause too much was spent, and spent

in ways that brought little return.



I know the original purpose to hold

individual contributions within $1,000

for pre-convention contests and to the

same figure for the campaign follow-

ing, was sincere. In his testimony

before the Walsh committee, Secre-

tary~ Mellon recently declared that his

own contribution had been $1,000 be-

fore the convention and $1,000 follow-

ing, and that it was his understanding



' that this was the maximum that

would be accepted from an individual

subscriber. This is testimony of

highest value in confirming the sin-

cerity of the announced limitation.



When the campaign of 1920 opened

in Kansas I remember it was the ex-

press understanding that subscrip-

tions from any source were to be lim-

‘ited to $1,000. 'And more money was

' raised in my own state by this plan

of popular small subscriptions, “from

50 cents to $1,000,” than in any pre-

vious national canvass, when sub-



, scriptions without limit were solicited



and received. Kansas raised the



allotment assigned to it. The signifi-



cant thing bro ht out was the wide



spread sympagtlc response to this

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appeal to the party membership to

finance the party campaign.



This plan, I hope, will be adopted

this year and carried through. Im-

portant considerations recommend it.

It reduces the likelihood or even the

appearance of campaign financing by

large interests expecting political

favors in return. And it interests

more men and more women in their

party responsibilities and will bring

‘them more actively into the cam-

paign, if they become contributors to

the party campaign fund.



So faras Kansas is concerned no

big campaign fund is needed. I find

sentiment for Hoover and Curtis crys-

talizing rapidly. I am for them per‘

sonally and because of the very valid

national and Western interest I repre-

sent. They will carry the state by an

old-time Republican majority. There

is no,need of spending a lot of money

in Kansas and we are not going to.



Laws regulating campaign contribu-





Here is Some Home Brew t/zat We’re 4/1232 Favor 0f





tions and expenditures are desirable,

but the assured and certain method

of emancipating the party from de

pendence upon the large givers, with

a string attached or believed to be

attached to their subscriptions, is to

put up to the party membership

directly the duty of financing came

paigns by a great number of small

popular subscriptions for which there

can be no pretext for thinking they

were made in return for services ren-

dered, or to be rendered, to the con-

tributors.



In my Opinion the National Com-

mittee could do the party no greater

service at this moment than to adopt

this plan and strictly carry it out to

the day of election. Sincerely yours,





TOPEKA, KANSAS, JULY 6, 1928





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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shouldn’t farmers own it now under'

Still I with that,





sneak onto private preperty .to hunt‘





the same as usual."When the sports--





man ends his hunting trip, he had jusfi

as much game as if there was 116

trespass law.



Now, farmer friends, we will tryj

again for what was taken off from;

the Horton bill to make it possiblei

for farmers to arrest anyone found‘

hunting with firearms upon his

premises, and to give him the right' .

to take him or order him before any .

justice where the violation was com‘

mitted.——Arthur Kilts. , ‘





 





The number of growers of certified l

seed potatoes in Charlevoix County

has increased 150 per cent over last

year’s list.





 





 





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Theinsurance companies refuse to .

pay the Insurance on the life of Al-

fred Loewenstein, the famous Bel-

gium financier who disappeared from '

his plane, until they have proof of

hls death. ,





A receiver has been requested for

the Coral Gables corporation, one of

the greatest Florida promotions.





Two hundred and thirty-four people

were k1_lled on July 4th, according to

authentic reports.





.Julius Rosenwald, former president



of Sears Roebuck and Co., is build

mg a ”Utopia” for negroes in Chi-

cago. It IS a $2,500,000 apartment

house to house 400 families on "the

south side.





Pope Pius XI has given up his

usual walks in the vatican gardens

and has replaced them with automo-

bile rides.





The. Russian ice breaking boat,

Krassm, has rescued five more of the

Italla crew from the ice flows. This

makes eight now rescued, six missing,

and two dead.





Two hundred thousand Knight

Tempars met.at their annual con-

clave in Detroit this week.





3:.ijan- ‘921";71928 If i j"





During the first six months this .





year there was 24.6% less automobile

accrdents in Detroit than in the same

time last year.





Germany is acting as intermediary '





to _ persuade Russia to sign the

United States anti-war treaty. Ger-

many was the first of fourteen coun-

tries to sign it.



Of the 107 Reds arrested in Can-

ton, China, since July 9th, 48 have

been executed.





Gov. Al Smith has made John JM





Raskob, prominent in General Motors

affairs, a millitant wet, and a Catho-

lic, chairman of the national Demo-

cratic committee.





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The Elks of America voted twenty 1





million dollars for charity at their

recent convention at Miami, Fla.





Alfred P. Sloan, president of thei

General Motors corporation, said re—;

General ,





cently in Detroit that the





Motors expected to do a two billioni





dollar business this year.





The Farmer-Labor party nominated ‘





Senator G. W. Norris, of Nebraska,

for the presidency at their

convention in Chicago.



Col. Lindbergh’s plane caught afire

from a flooded motor just as he was

starting from Salt Lake City, Utah.





Both he and his mechanic were un-





injured.



The major crimes in .

showed a decrease of 34.86% during

the first six months this year as com-

pared with last year.



An old water-logged boat, called

Betsey Ann, beat one of the modern





. steel boats in a twenty mile race up





the Ohio river.



Twenty thousand people saw the

lighting of Washington Blvd., De-

troit, as the brightest street on the

world on July 10th. The switch was

thrown by little Mary Book at orders

from hen Uncle, Herbert Book, in an

airplane 7,000 feet above.



Because he is not getting relief

from his asthma at Cedar Island,

Wis, President Coolidge is contem-

Dlating a trip to Yellowsto‘ne Park.



Democratic women have . organized

Democratic women’s clubs'for__H00ver

because they cannot agree withlex.

Smith's views. . ‘ . . ,

Henry, Ford gave J

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Lindbergh has flown the "Spirit of St. Louis” over 42,000

miles—with Mobiloil.





Byrd flew to the North Pole—with Mobiloil.

The Citroen cars, first to 'cross the Sahara Desert-used

Mobiloil,





28 of the 30 contractors working on New York’s new

$95,000,000 subway use Mobiloil or other Vacuum Oil

Company products.





The Leviathan, and the Majestic, two of the largest liners

afloat, and the Mauretania, the fastest, use Gargoyle Marine

Oils, sister products to Gargoyle Mobiloil.





When fire. engine builders demonstrate their fire-fighting





equipment, 9 out of 10 use Mobiloil.





Saves you money





There is but one reason why Mobiloil is selected time

and time again for the hardest lubrication work. Quality.

This quality has made Mobiloil the most asked-for 011

among farmers today.





It is very common for farmers to find that Mobiloil

shows reduced oil consumption of from 10% to 50%.





Other savings come from fewer repairs, less time lost

through over—heatingand breakdowns; more mileage be-

tween carbon removals and all-around general improve-





‘ment in engine operation.‘





- How to buy





For a season’s supply we recommend the 55-gallon and

3o—gallon drums with convenient faucet. On these large

drums your Mobiloil dealer will give you a .mbsttmtz'al

discount.





Other Mobiloil containers are: Io-gallon steel drums with.





faucet, 5-gallon cans in easy-tipping racks and I—gallon

and I—quart cans.





Your dealer has the complete Mobiloil Chart which

recommends the correct grades of Mobiloil for your car,

tractor and truck. You are always sure with—





The Worlds Quality on





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Make thlS chart your guide

It shows the correct grade of Gargoyle

Mobilo1l for certain prom1nent cars If your

car is not l1sted below, see at your dealer' 5

the complete Mobiloil Chart, which recom-

mends the correct grades for all cars, trucks,

trae tors, etc.

1928 1927 1926 1925

NAMES 01’ En ine En ine Engine Engine

91155291051; 3 .5 1. 11

CARS E § E E E E E E»

1 E 15 E .E E .E E E

13 3 u”: 3 131 3 v3) 5

Auburn. 6—66 ..... A A A A

8: 1. . 1 A Are A Arc A Arc. A Arc.

' other modrl A Are. A Arc. A A Arr. Arc1

Buick ........... A Arc. A Arc. A Arc. A Arc.

Cadillac. BB Arc. 138 Are, BB Arc. A Arc.

Chandler Special 511 A Arc. A A .... 1... . . 11 v.11

other model: A Are A Arc. A Arc. A Arc.

Chevrolet1 . A Arc. A Are. A Are. A Arc.

Chrysler. 4- tyl A Are. A Are. A Are. A Arc.

Imperial 8 BB Arc A A A A

“ other modzlr A Arc. A A A A A A

Dodge Brothers. . . 1 A Are. A Arc. A Are. A Arc.

Durant ........... A the 1... .... A Are. A Arc.

Essex ............ A Art A Arc. A Are. A Arc.

' ........... . 1 . . ,... A Arc. A Arc. Arc. Arc.

Ford ModeKA ..... A Arc, ....

Model T ..... . 1 . ... F. E F, E E E

Franklin ... BB Arc Bl} Bi} BB BB BB BB

Gardner 8— tyl ..... A Art A Are A Are. A Are.

oilinmodtlr1... A A A A

Hudson ........... A' An: A Arr A Are. A Arc.

Hupmobile ........ A Arc A Art A Are. A Arc.

incoln ........ BB Are, A A A A A A

Marmon, 8-cyl ..... A Arc. A Arc.

" other model: BB A A A A A A A

Moon ............ A Are A Are. A Are the Arc.

Nash ............ A Arc A Are A Are A Arc.

Oakland ......... A Arc. A Arc. A Are. A Arc.

Oldsmobile ........ A Are A Arc. A Are A Arc.

Overland all modzlr. . , , .1 ,111 A Arc. A Are A Arc1

Packard ,,,,,,,,, A Arc. A Are. A Are A Are.

Paige all model: . .1 1.. , .... A Arc. A Are Arc. Are.

Peerless 90 70. 72 BE A A A A A A A

01h" model: A Arc. A Are A An: A Arc.

- Pontiac. , . 1. A Art. A Arc. A Arc. ........

Reo all model: ...... A Are. A Am A Are. A Arc.

Sta .... . .1 A Are. A Are. A Art A Arc.

Studebaker ........ A Are. A Arc ‘ A Arc A Arc.

Vc lie 111111111111 A Arc. A Arc A Arc A Arc.

Willys- Knight 4-cyl. . .1 1... 1.1. B Arc. 3 Ave.

6-c yl. BB Arc. BB Arc BB Are 88 Are.





 





 





 





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. _ News and Views

From INGLESIDE FARM—By Stanley Powell





 





 





HAT “It pays to advertise” is a

truth that we farmers should

recognize and apply to our busi-

ness to a far greater extent than we

ordinarily do. I make the assertion

confidently that on the average Mich-

igan farm there is rarely a time but

that there is some product or desire

which might profitably be adver-

tised.

To illustrate: For a month or so I

have realized that we were not keep-





~ ing abreast with the rush of midsum-





mer work and that we should have

another man on-the job. When I was

a lad there were rarely less than

four men here, while thus far this

season there have been but two of

us. In a crude, ineffectual way I

looked for help. I spent several

evenings driving around, interviewing

various individuals whom I thought

might be interested in some tern-

porary employment or who might

know of someone to suggest, but to

no avail.



Then I spent seventy-two cents for

insertious of a small advertisement

in the classified section of our home-

The evening of the

L day it appeared, I had three appli—

,cants. To date there have been a

=total of eight, all apparently’ able

bodied and willing to work



"Ive hired one of these merr and

'find not the slightest difficulty keep-

ing him busy. I wish that our income

1 would warrant hiring some more man

'power. There are solmany things

that I can see and think of that I

would like to have done, but which

I fear will have to be postponed for

ga long time yet.



This evening I stayed out tinker-

iing the mower and slapping mo-

{squitos until decent bed-time. I

Q think that with the new parts put on

:tonight and the new pinion and box-

}ings referred to previously, this ma-

. chine is in pretty fair shape. It has

.to be to do any sort of job on our

.alfalfa this season. Whether the

:yield is a little heavier than the

’average, I couldn’t say, but some-

} how it seems to drag along and plug

.the mower worse than usual.





Rake Wrecked Again

It proved impossible to obtain a

,new main shaft or axle for our side

;delivery rake from Grand Rapids, so

iour local implement dealer advised

‘me to have the broken part welded.

.I did so and after considerable ef-

'fort got the tool back together

again. However it lasted only about

a half hour and then b1oke square off

in the weld. This time. I have

ordered a new shaft from the factory

and in the meantime am waiting





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'patiently (?) for it to arrive.





Another temporary reverse in our

haying came when the main hay rope

in our sheep barn broke. I rather

enjoy putting in a “long splice,” in

a three-strand rope, but when I

tackled this particular break I found

that I was confronted with the task

of splicing a three-strand rope into

a four-strand piece. This, as many

" of you may know from difficult ex-

perience, is considerably more of a

trick. However, when I got done,

the splice would run through a small

pulley and seems to be holding well

to date.



Splicing ropes is just one of the

‘multitude of little stunts at which a

farmer should be skilled if he is to

be an all around farmer. And yet so

many people seem to class the farm-

or along with “unskilled labor." A

man may learn to operate one ma-





hours, but it requires the background

of long years of experience and ob-

umtlo'n to develop an efficient





Capable farmer. And yet in hiring

help I find that even rarer than these





qualities of skill and knowledge are





those of judgment, and

dependability.



I find the letters that come from

readers of these articles very inter-

esting and enjoyable. Perhaps it

might not be amiss to pass the high

spots of a few of those received re-

cently on to you. For instance, my

classmate, E. J. Leenhouts, who now

holds the important position of Gen-

eral Agricultural Agent for the New

York Central Lines west of Buffalo,

writes from his Chicago oflice in part

as follows:



“I wonder if it would surprise you

to learn that your Ingleside Notes

are read with a great deal of inter-

est by folks as far removed from the

farm as anyone residing in Chicago

naturally would be? Nevertheless,

that is the case and I am particularly

interested in your Notes of a recent

issue referring to‘the tendency on

the part of the farmer to work to-

wards decreased taxes by demanding

the elimination of the only things

which are designed to help him alone.

This is a freak in psychology which





.. initiative,





I have often noted with amazement,

and if you have learned anything in





much extra work if the farmer but

uses his head. There was no hand





 





 





 





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your courses under the late Prof, work necessary on our place this:

spring and still we had a perfect





French that enables you to explain

it,_I wish you would do so either in

a letter or through your Notes.”



No, Ed, this is indeed too deep a

mystery for me to explain. Possibly

the farmer is better informed re-

garding those governmental

ties that concern him most directly

and so he thinks of those things

first when he thinks of how public

funds are spent. There may be a

tremendous waste, criminal graft,

and gross inefficiency in connection

with some other public project that

involves vastly more of the revenue

from taxes, but what we don’t know

doesn’t worry us.





Readers Wish Baby Well





Since publication of the news about

the arrival of our little son and heir,

we have been showered with con-

gratulations from readers. Mrs. Edith

M. Wagar of Carleton, Michigan, that

woman who through her connection

with the Farm Bureau and the

Grange has done so much for Mich~

igan Motherhood, wrote a very kind

letter in which she expressed a host





of good wishes for little Ronald and ‘





his mother, said some rather unde-

served things about his father, and

expressed herself forcefully in favor

of the most vigorous campaign

against the corn borer. Referring to

this matter she writes, “It is not so





Specializes in Poultry





(Continued from page 45)





by broadcasting. Usually about 6 to

8 cultivations are given a year.



About ten acres of the crop are

hogged off, the rest is cut and husked.

Usually about ninety baskets per acre

are harvested each year. The fodder

is shredded and fed or used as bed-

ding. The corn is used for live stock

rations.



Of the hay crops, about twenty

acres are of Grimm alfalfa which

usually follows wheat or cats in the

rotation. The alfalfa is generally

seeded alone in July after a thorough

preparation of the soil. From two to

five tons of marl are used before

seeding if necessary. The hay is

usually raked as soon as wilted and

loaded with a loader from the win-

drow. The alfalfa fields are generally

left five to seven years before being

plowed up. The average yield is

three tons per acre.



Of the cash crops, Mr. Card grows

about ten acres of certified White

Rural potatoes each year. The seed

is thoroughly treated for scab and

other diseases and planted April 1

and June 1. The crop is cultivated

as many times as possible and spray-

ed three times during the season. It

is dug with a digger and put in the

cellar. It is sold locally directly to

the consumer according to the con-

dition of the market. The crop averL

ages about 180 bushels per acre.



The eight acres of bearing orchard

include Northern Spies, Greenings,

King, Russett, Baldwin, and wage-

ner. The trees are kept in sod but

the ground is well fertilized with

barnyard manure. They are kept well

sprayed and the fruit is easily sold

direct to the users in the vicinity.



The acre and one—half of peaches

consist of such favorite varieties as

South Haven, Kalamazoo, and Gold

Drop. The trees are cultivated three

or four times annually and cats are

used for cover crops and also for

chicken range. The orchards really

serve a double purpose as they pro-

duce a profit and serve as a fine poul-

try range besides.



Anyone who‘ farms must know that

it takes some management to work

a farm of such great diversification

as this with the help of only one man

throughout the year. s But Mr. Card





   

 





has things so planned that work as





well as cash returns are evenly dis.

tributed. Everything seems to dove

tail so nicely that most crops serve

double purposes, or are sold at good

market prices. The grain and hay

crops are sold to live stock which in

turn have good consumer markets.

The chickens take the most time in

the winter" when other things do not

need attention and the high quality

baby chick business assures prices

that make profits certain. The mid-

dle man does not get much from the

products of this farm.





The farm is well equipped for





work. The equipment consists of four

horses, a tractor, f o u r electric

motors, automobile, truck, t h r e e





wagons, four' plows, two cultivators,

and all other equipment necessary to

efficiently carry on the multitudinous

duties of the farm





The farm is kept in fertile condi-

tion by manure from the barn and

compost heap, commercial fertilizers

are used on most crops at the rate of

150 to 600 pounds per acre, and marl

at the rate of one and one-half tons

to the acre when necessary. The

crop rotation consists of corn or pota-

toes, wheat, or hay. Each year

twenty acres of green manure are

turned under and there is always

forty acres of legumes on the place.



The home is well equipped with

conveniences including furnace, run-

ning water, electricity, power washer,

sewage system, vacuum cleaner,

ironer, and hot and cold water under

pressure. The house has five bed-

rooms.





Mr. Card is known for his activity

in his community for better farming.

It seems to be his hobby to spread

the gospel of progressive agriculture.

The Card family is a believer in

vacations and take them several

times a year whenever time permits.

Recreation is considered an essential

part of life in this family, so. parties,

theatres, and ‘dances are indulged in.

Church attendance is also quite regu-





' lar.





An important indication of Mr.

Card's success is that his income has

been adequate during the past five

years to meet all expens'es and put in,

many conveniences besides. One has

to farm right to do that. ' '





activi- -





clean-up. And last year we had one

field which had an estimated infes-

tation of 94 per cent, too.”



The ' closing paragraph of Mrs.

Wagar’s letter deserves to be passed

on to youzr“Don’t let’work get too

pressing or disappointments too keen

to prevent you ever from stopping and

enjoying the family—The real mis-

take Americans make is that in their

hurry and bustle they overlook the

comforts of living.” .



In this connection it is timely to

suggest that the Annual Farmers’

Day at M. S. C. will be held this year

on Friday, July 27. If it is humanly

possible, let us arrange an auto load

and attend this worth while event.

I am sure we will feel well repaid

in information, enjoyment, and in-

spiration for so doing.





 





 





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HANDY FUNNEL FROM TIRE

PUMP





 





Claude Northey writes:



“Some time back you had somede—

vice to be made from the handle and

rod of an old tire pump and won-

dered what use could be made of the

barrel part. Here is what we have

found useful and I should be glad to

have you pass it on to other readers.



“We use the barrel or cylinder of

the old tire pump for funnel exten-

sions for filling gas tanks on the rear

of the car where the ordinary funnel

does not fit in well, for filling Ford





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tanks under the seat where we do not

like to get the drip on the car, for

filling in oil where we do not have a

spoufited measdre, and so on.



“A very good long funnel can be

made from an old headlight and a tire

pump cylinder as shown in the dia—

gram. Cut a hole in the cen-

ter of the headlight just large enough

to let the.pump cylinder slip through,

saw off the cylinder to the desired

length, then solder it into the head«

light, solder small pieces over the

rivet holes in the headlight, and you

will have a big serviceable funnel

which will be very convenient indeed

for filling rear gasoline tanks and

so on.”



This seems to be a very practical

use for material that otherwise would

be thrown away, and We all know how

diflicult‘it is on the farm to fill a rear

tank close to the spare tire without

spilling and dripping the oil over

everything. —I. W. D.





 





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By Francis Flood





OME to my office this morning



at nine,” invited the Command-



ant of the French fort at

N’Guigmi. “You’ll see that, difficult

as your road has been so far, your

real troubles in crossing Africa by

motorcycle haven’t yet begun.”



At nine the sandy courtyard of the

post was already dazzling white in

the sun. Each grain of sand was a

crystallized hellion of heat, firing

back to the fevered sun, ray for ray,

every calorie sent down. It‘was hot.

We put on our cork sun helmets and

plowed through the deep, soft sand.



At each corner of the fortress wall

stood a black sentry, gazing out at——

well, at Africa; there was nothing

else. Given barbed forks instead of

their short French carbines and those

sentries would have passed for so

many black imps there in that desert





doorway to shutout the glare of the

sun and sand, and we entered. It was

cool..inside those thick mud walls.

All the direct light was shut out, and

a. huge swinging fan suspended above

the desk was propelled through a

Rube Goldberg system of ropes and

pulleys by a pair of Gold Dust twins

hidden behind a pile of saddles in a

corner.



The Commandant was administer-

ing justice. Squatting on the floor

before the table and the interpreter

was the day’s grist of plaintiffs, de-

fendants, accusers and accused. 01d

Abdul Remnah had had a camel

stolen. When the thief tried to sell

it in the next village, 60 kilometers

away, Abdul’s son-in-law Malam,

recognized the camel and seiied it

from the thief. A few weeks later,

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Wheels sank deep in the soft sand and made going tedious





inferno. Above us stretched the

radio aerial, our only communication

with the rest of the world—or rather

with that other world to which we

did not seem to belong at all. And

above it all, even above the Tricolor

of France, hung the American flag,

withering there in our honor, in honor

of the only Americans who had ever

ventured 'into that part of Africa.

Personally, I think that tribute should

be paid to those Americans who have

not been there, for they have shown

the better judgement.





N the far corner of the courtyard

was the well, with its low con-



crete wall about the top. An old

woman had just pulled up, hand under

hand, a leather bucket full of water.

The wet rope coiled in the sand, and

another black hag, with a wooden

peg in her nose helped pour the

Water into a goat skin slung across

a donkey. They smiled at us as we

plodded through the sand.



A tiny little pickin with a suspicion

of a lighter shade in her bare, black

skin grinned up at us from the sand.



“White father and black mother,”

Jim observed. No white woman had

ever been in that country.



“And nobody’s child,” I agreed.



She’ll always be the plaything and

the property of the post, just as is

.her older sister, the voluptious in-

amoorata in cheap silk girdle and sil-

ver anklets who flashed the same

innocent smiles at us from behind the

grass mat hung over her French ser-

geant’s doorway. Many of these

legitimate concubines there were,

some as dazzling black as the sand

was dazzling white, but many whose

lighter skins and finer, graceful fea-

tures betrayed a higher—or lower—-

ancestry. , They were simply follow-

ing the only life - they had ever

known, the profession that had

brought them into the world in the

first place. Jl‘hey were the playthings

and property of the post.





. ' E camel‘to the Commandant’s

office. ., A soldier held aside the





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law for the camel’s board and stor-

age bill and the indignant Abdul was

demanding the price of the camel.

Abdul declared that his son-in-law

hadn’t intended to return the camel





’and that if he had fed it right it 'had





never died anyway. It made me

think of The Michigan Farmer Pro-

tective Service and some of the

knotty problems they are called upon

to settle.





LD Gamrum, a doddering black



moron with filed teeth and huge

sores on his legs was there with one

of his younger wives, the plump and

fetching Meemo. A triangle case.

Old Gamrum had, always been jeal—

ous, Meemo complained—and with-

out any grounds whatsoever, she in-

sisted, although the court believed

her looks and her youth were against

her. His nagging and suspicion had

been too much and so finally she

thought she’d jolly well give him

something to be jealous about. (And

this ultra-modem philosophy away

back there in the heart of primitive

Africa). So she went away with

another man. She‘ had never done

anything like that before; her jeal-

ous husband had simply driven her

to it.



Gamrum followed and knifed them

both with the very knife now

sheathed on his scrawny upper arm.

The other man had died and thus

kept out of court, but Meemo had

rubbed red herbs and tobacco juice

into her wound and was sore now

only in her heart. Her husband was

glad to let her go, 'but he’d paid

fifteen goats and a hundred francs

for this particular wife and now her

father refused to give the money

back. Said it" was Gamrum’s fault

and therefore he didn’t have to make

the customary refund when a wife

went wrong. One side of the triangle

was erased, but here was a problem

still. ;



'.But the next "case was so etched

into my memory as to remain there,

I am sure, so long as I“ shall remem-

ber any detail of our African trip.

It was the freeing of a. slave. A

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Renewing the Strawberry Bed



' Efficient Care After Fruiting '

By B. W. Keith





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HEN your neighbor tells you



that you might as well plow



under the “old strawberry bed,”

think twice and then some‘before you

do so.



There might be as much in it for

you to renew the old bed as there is

in caring fora new one. Some of the

most successful berry growers in the

state fruitthe same strawberry. bed

'for more than two years, although

it is a general practice among most

growers to allow the bed to fruit only

two crops (2 years) and then plow it

unden



Whether or not it will pay you to

save the old bed for another year’s

crop depends upon at least four fac-

tors—(1) age of the bed, (2) condition

of the plants, (3) soil, (4) whether or

not you have another bed that will

supply under average conditions the

acreage 01' the fruit you wish.



Age Determines Care



First—How old is your old straw-

berry bed, how many springs have

you picked it? If only one or two

springs, surely it will pay to renew it.

Most growers leave their one-year old

beds for another year anyway, and do

only a half job of renewing or getting

it in shape for a second year’s crop,

whereas, if they would take a little

more pain and care for the bed after

it is through bearing its first crop, the

same bed could be made to produce

profitable crops for three or more

years.



Second—When strawberry plants

come through the winter in a Vigor-

ous, healthy condition, not winter-in-

jured or damaged by having or re-

peated freezing and thawing in the

spring like they were in so many

localities last winter and spring, they

are plenty able to fruit 21 large crop

of berries and still be worthy of re-

newing for another‘year’s crop. But,

if they are damaged either by winter

injury, repeated freezing and thawing

in the spring, or heaving in the

spring, there is a question whether

it is worth while to bother renewing.



If they bore a good crop of berries

for you, they sure were not injured

much and it will pay to renew the

bed. Plants injured by the conditions

just mentioned, will fail to mature all





 





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ripen will be small,

poorly colored, tasteless, and the

plants themselves will appear dead

and send out very new, fresh leaves.

If the majority of the plants in the

row are affected in this way, your

better judgment might tell you to fol-

low your neighbor’s suggestions and

plow up the patch.

Fertilizers Will Help



Third—If the fruiting row is small

and the plants in the same are small,

just because the soil was poor and

they didn’t get enough to eat, think

twice before you plow up the bed, be-

cause the use of commercial fertilizer

or barnyard manures will encourage

these small plants to throw out run-

ners and set new plants that can be





ries that do





_made to grow very large, vigorous





and healthy and produce a. large crop

another

year.



Fourth—If the old strawberry bed





| is the only one you have, save it, and





follow some method of renewal so





,you w'll have a chance for berries

, another season.





The two main objects to keep in

mind in renewing a strawberry bed

are.,—first, to do something to invigor-

ate the plants you allow to remain in

the row,—second, get the young run-

ner plants to grow into as large, vig-

orous, and thrifty plants as is char-

acteristic of the variety.



These two ends can be accom-





 





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plants, those that fruite'd, leaving

those that appear to be the most vig-

orous and thrifty and the 111051”. cap-

able of recuperating and producing a

good growth for you. The plants that

you leave should be, as near as pos-

sible, near the'outer edges of the

fruiting row and in a straight line so

to form a straight row' across the

field or bed. By leaving thOSe plants

near the Outer edge of the row, you

get the yomxger plants. You will also

be. shifting the fruiting row for next

year between the old fruiting row

where plants have not been grown

before.



Don’t leaVe too many plants, nar~

row the row and leaVe a narrow strip

about six inches wide' across the bed

from which to select the plants to be

left. This can be accomplished by

plowing away most of the row, leaving

a narrow strip along the right or left

side of the row. Don’t alternate from

right or left side as you plow out the

rows or your renewed rows won’t be

evenly spaced.



After you have the rows narrowed

dowu, go through with a hoe and

“block out” the plants you wish to

leave, hoeing loose dirt up around

them so they won’t dry out. Do not

disturb the old plants you have

plowed under until they are smoth-

ered out. Then you can go through

with a one-horse cultivator and work

loose soil back to the, “blocked out”

plants.



Blocking Out Plants



Just as soon as you have the plants

“blocked out” see that they are fed

by applying barnyard manure or com-

mercial fertilizer, which should be

hoed into the dirt that is used in

banking up around the plants that

you leave to form the new row. The

manure or fertilizer (a 4-8 brand is a.

good one) should be scattered along

the row so, when the soil is cultivated

back, the feitilizex 01 manuie will be

thotoughly mi). ed th10ugh it and there

will be food for immediate use of the

young runner plants when they take

root. The plants you “block out” are

going to make your fruiting row for

another year. The extent of this run-

ner formation is going to depend upon

the vigor of the plants you leave in

the “block,” and how well and how

soon you feed them. Get them “a.

going” as soon as possible after pick-

ing season is oven—the sooner the

better.



In small garden plots or where this

“blocking” system of renewal cannot

be conveniently carried out, a line of

some kind can be stretched lengthwise

over that outer edge of the old row

which you desire to leave, and the

best and most vigorous plants under

it can be left. The plants in the

other part of the row can be hoed

out and taken from the bed. When

this system is followed a wider row

could be left than when the row is

narrowed down by plowing.



Whatever method is followed don’t

allow the young runner plants to form

too thick in the row every six inches

is plenty close. Too many plants in

a fruiting row is bad practice. None





‘of them have an opportunity to de-





velop into large, vigorous plants cap-

able of producing a bumper crop of

You are after as large a

plant as the variety will grow. Plants

of this character bear bumper crops

of big berries.





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convention from his home in Albany, New York.





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Our Weekly Sermon---By N. A. McCune





TRAIGHTWAY he proclaimed

Jesus.” Paul did not wait. »He

got to work at his new religion

at once. On what did he base

his belief that “Jesus is the Son of

God?” First, on his experience.

What we have experienced we know.

If you saw a sunset, in all its mag-

nificent wealth of color and the

glories of the evening sky, and some

one told you that such things never

happen, you would know better. You

had seen just such a sunset. That is

the power of conversion, or of any

form of personal religious experience.

It is something that you know, be-

cause you have been through it.



When the early explorers of what

is now Yellowstone National Park

told of the geysers of boiling water

they had seen, of the pots of boiling

mud, of the scalding pools, they were

regarded as fools

and frauds. Such

things could not

be, they were

told. Yet these

men affirmed that

such. things could

be, for had they

not seen them?

In religion it is

the same. What

you know you

know. The blind

man said, “One

thing I know, that whereas I was

blind, now I see.” Opinions do not

count. Profession is good only when

backed by possession. Experience is

possession. That was the power of

Paul’s early preaching, and the power

of it all through his career. The

reason Dante wrote so piercingly of

hell was that, as men said, he had

been in hell; that is, he had suffered

so, had thought so long on the wrongs

and woes of men that he had almost

literally been in hell.



The next factor that made Paul be—

lieve that Jesus is Divine was his

wide knowledge of the Old Testament.

He knew, as every well informed Jew

did, his Old Testament from Genesis

to Malachi. In reading these pages,

he believed that a hundred facts

pointed forward to the coming of the

Just One. Every Jew believed that

Messiah would come. And those who

became Christians believed that Jesus

was this Messiah, that he fulfilled

every description of the Coming One.

And most of the preaching of the

time was directed to that end. It was

argument, the quotation of passages

to prove what the speaker was say-

ing. and their application to Jesus, as

the one who fulfilled all these condi-

tions.



Of course that sort of. preaching

would not do today in most communi-

ties. No one doubts (or at least most

people do not) that Jesus was the

Christ. Preaching today must deal

with the application of what Jesus

taught, to our day, to persuading

people to accept this Christ, and liv-

ing for Him.



It was a complete reversal for Paul.

What he had been doing he now

undid. He was building the thing

which he had opposed and hated. It

was a complete right-about face. And

that is what genuine personal religion

is supposed to do, every time. When

Paul made his great defense of him-

self before King Agrippa later on, he

said that he had been sent to “open

their eyes, to turn them from dark-

ness to light, and from the power of

Satan unto God.” Does religion do

that now?





This is one of the problems faced

today by the church. The old-time





 





revival is a thing of the past, at least

in most places. And yet the old time

revival had power, when it was con-

ducted by sincere and devoted peo-

ple. Sometimes a whole community

would be changed, and life made

honester, sweeter, brighter. Old ani-

mosities would be done away, old

misunderstandings cleared up, old

hates forgotten. A substitute must

be found for the revival, which does

the work of the revival, but probably

without employing the revival meth-

ods, unless in time the people should

become so hungry for religion that

they would go to any kind of a meet-

ing to get it. But we must not think

that the message of religion is bound





by any particular method. Where

one method will not work, another

will. Dr. Harnack of Germany, the





most noted living authority on church

history declares, “A living faith re‘

quires no special methods.”



But the folk did not like Paul.

Queer, isn’t it? It was a new idea

which antagonized some of their

cherished beliefs, and so they decided

to kill him. That is the final argu-





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ment—kill a man if you don’t like

him! But friends got him safely

away, by dropping him over the city,

wall in a basket. And he was rich

in one friend in particular, namely,

Barnabas. The disciples themselves

were afraid of Paul at first. They

thought there must surely be some

fraud about it—this man who used to

persecute the Christians is now only

pretending to be one, so that he might

get the names of the Christians, and

have them thrown into prison. But

“no,” said Barnabas, “he is all right.

He is a new man, changed by Christ.

Let us give him our hand and our

heart.” And they did. Barnabas was

Paul’s friend through the years. They

had disagreements, to be sure, but it

did not break their comradeship.

Other great friendships in the church

have been those of Paul and Luke,

Peter and Mark, Luther and Melanch-

thon, Calvin and Beza, Cranmer and

Latimer, Wesley and Whitefield.

Christian friendships are mighty. The

church ought to be a society of

friendly persons. Is yours?





 





SUNDAY'SCHOOL LESSON FOR

JULY 22





 





SUBJECTz—Years of Growing Experi-

ence. Acts 9:19-30; 12:25, and Gal.

1:15-18.



GOLDEN TEXT : —Acts 9: 20.





Africa ’ s No White Man’s Land





(Continued from page 49)





nourished boy behind the rag that

was her dress and faltered her story

to the interpreter. Translated into

French and then into English her own

words, of course, are lost, but here is

her brief story:





HE was a slave, bought years ago



from a dealer in the north. She



was a slave because her father, a

chief of a roving tribe in Tibesti, had

been himself captured and sold, and

all his family scattered like the sands

of the Great Sahara. She had learned

the language of her master and had

served his family well, doing the

thankless drudgery that only slaves

may do. Years dragged by. Her

three daughters had been sold, but

that was all right; they’d been sold

as wives the same as free girls and

that’s all women are for anyway.

But now her son was sold, and to a

man in a distant village. She had

learned it only today. Tomorrow

they’d lead him off. She had pro—

tested—and she showed great streaks

across her back where a lash had cut

her to the ribs.





The Commandant spoke to the in-

terpreter and the interpreter ex-

plained to her that now all slaves are

free. There are no slaves under

French rule except those who remain

in voluntary servitude for lack of

other place to go. He told her she

was, therefore, free, she and her son

as Well. As free as her former

master, as free as she wished to be.

She might snap her fingers at her

owner and tell him to Imshi to

Gehenna, if she liked. She was free!





It was hard for her to understand,

to reconstruct in one flash the out-

look of her whole dark life. I could

see her think it through as the





strange. idea of freedom which had

first clogged in her brain suddenly

cleared and became something she





could understand and then realize she

had. It was almost more than she

could carry away and she swayed for

one moment above that stolid black

audience on the floor. Then she stif-

fened, straightened her bruised and

bleeding back, and gasped as, l imag-





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ine, she contemplated for the first

time in her life that “fierce joy of

freedom” which should be no stranger

to a daughter of a desert Bedouin

chief, the freest folk on earth.





HAD seen a slave freed. It was as



though I’d seen a dead man given



life, a lost soul handed back to a

saint, or forgiveness returned to the

damned. Certainly I’d seen Hope

born again. This freedom.



“You want to know about the road

to Rig-Rig and to Mao,” the Chm-

mandant turned to us and brought

me back to earth, back to sand

again. “These men will tell you.”

As much as to say, “I haven’t the

heart myself.”



The interpreter questioned, in de-

tail, a merchant who had traveled

the route many times, en caravan.

Then he discussed it with the black

postman whose fast camel had made

the trip twice monthly for three

years. Apparently he was searching

for one ray of hope—and had failed

to find it. Turning to us, apologet-

ically, sadly, the interpreter broke

the news that, withal our hard trip

from Zinder and Maine Soroa, we

hadn’t seen anything yet. From

N’Guigmi on the sand was deeper

and softer in the caravan trail itself,

and the terrain beside the road was

so bumpy and cut up with sand

holes, clumps of bush, sand burrs,

and stumps as to make it impossible

to travel off the trail. Furthermore,

there were only two villages in the

hundred miles between N’Guigmi and

Rig-Rig. There were “encampments”

occasionally but at some there were

no people and at others not even

water.





E thanked him, for he’d done



his best, and went back to our



quarters in the fort. -

“VVe’ll take the side cars off, Pop,





load ’em on camels along with the

rest of our baggage, tires, gasoline

and such,’ and we’ll tackle this

stretch with our solo bikes,” said

Jim.



“l’ve never ridden a solo motor-

cycle, sans side car, in my life,” I





protested, "and this piece of Africa

sounds. like a. stiff contract for a

professronal motorcycle rider.” I’d

never ridden any kind of a motor-

cycle, even With-a side car, until we

started across Africa, but I’d learned

a 0.



“Well, you’ll probably learn more

between here and Rig-Rig than on

any hundred 'miles back home,” Jim

encouraged. “And besides, the sand’ll

be soft. lighting. And nobody to

laugh at you when you tumble.”



_“No. Not even a doctor if I break

my leg.”





W E ordered five. camels for the

next day and then Jim and Bobo



went to work removing the side

cars. A good “boy”was this big Stygian

Bobo of ours. He’d been given to us

by the French military government to

be our valet, interpreter, watchdog,

and general Man Friday as long as

we would stay in N’Guigmi. He was

a tailor and leather worker by pro-

fession but had been a valet to a

French officer for a time. He had

discovered that when his officer’s

clothes wore out they were given to

Bobo. He also learned that he could





» tear or scorch a hole in a pair of





trousers and thus inherit them

sooner. Then he, being a tailor and

not too proud to wear neatly patched

trousers, could not only keep up his

own wardrobe, but even have a few

clothes to sell occasionally. But like

other clever men who are not quite

clever enough he was apprehended

and sentenced to three years in jail.

When we came along they took him

out and gave him to us. He was a.

model. He sewed on all our buttons,

repaired our canteens, and did every-

thing except prove himself a crook.

Bobo and Jim got some native

tanned antelope skins and made one

for Each tire casing, a complete

inner boot about four inches wide,

going all the way around and sewed

together at the ends. These were

to protect our tubes against punc-

tures by those thousands of thorns

that we always picked up when we

left the road and just struck out

across Africa, off the caravan trail.

We had to do a lot of this cross-

country bushwhacking because the

sand was usually too deep in the

camel trail for us to travel there.

Besides, we had to ,navigate arormd

what hills we could'miss and zigzag

back and forth, taking them on the

slant, up those we had to cross.





OW, we’ll have to deflate our



balloon tires clear down to eight



or ten pounds of air,” said Jim,

“so they’ll flatten out and give the

maximum traction in the sand. But

that’ll make the rear tire slip on the

rim and pull out the valve.” So he

taped the inner edge of the rim to

make it rough, as well as narrower.

Then he split an extra inner tube all

the way around, took out the valve,

and stuffed the rubber into the rear

casing, between the regular‘tube and

the antelope boot, leaving one edge

sticking out alongside the rim to bind

and help prevent slipping.



All those extras filled the casing so

full that it was a half—day’s job to get

the tire on—but it didn’t seem that

it would ever slip, or puncture either.

And it never did. With our motors

wide open, in low gear, we struggled

through sand, our tires deflated al-

most flat, and never an inch did they

slip.



Our struggle from N’Guigmi on,

will be described next week.





Aunt Catherine Selby has been door

tender for a big yellow cat since

1917. She says that in doing this

duty she has walked a total distance

of once around the world at the

equator and half way back to South

Bend, Indiana—Sunshine Hollow.





 





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Our Slogan—"“Lifi’ and Pmperty Protection. ”.





FIRE TRUCK SAVES BUILDINGS





 





UT for the response of the fire



truck from Dewitt, the farm

buildings of Charles Henning of Clin-

ton County in all probability would

have been totally destroyed by a fire

which caught from sparks on the roof

of the tenant house. While this

building was badly .burned, the ad-

joining structures were saved.



This is one mo-re example of the

advantage and wisdom of providing

means for fighting fires on farms.

Scores of communities in Michigan

have already organized the village

and surrounding country into associa-

tions to purchase and man fire fight-

ing equipment.



Investigation shows that fire trucks,

for instance, very shortly save the

original investment, in the property

saved through the use of this equip-

ment. There is much satisfaction in

knowing that a few miles away is

housed a fully equipped fire fighting

truck, manned with men who are

trained in fighting fires, ready to come

to your aid on a moment’s notice.

This is a real source of relief to de-

pend upon such equipment and men,

than on an unorganized neighborhood

with no facilities to deal with fire.





 





ANOTHER DICKINSON ISLAND

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ACOMB County people have also



had the opportunity to accept

free lots on Dickinson Island in St.

Clair Flats. One of our good friends

advises us that he was prompted to

make a confession after reading our

article in May 26th issue entitled “A

Free Lot for $49.50.” It seems that our

informant came out of the deal much

wiser and without losing his abstract





money. After having been advised of‘





his luck and paying his abstract fee,

he made personal investigation of the

project and was informed by the cap-

tain of the boat, who was supposed

to carry passengers to Dickinson

Island, that he was only one of thou-

sands who was supposed to be lucky.

With this information to guide his

actions our good friend immediately

sent a letter to the address of the

realtors, who had swindled him out

of his money, and advised them that

unless his money was immediately

returned he‘ would expose the entire

scheme through his local newspaper.



Rather than stand the limelight of

public investigation, the realtors at

once returned the entire amount that

had been supposedly paid for abstract

fees, and expressed their regrets in

the lack of confidence shown. It

would really seem that a bit of print-

ers ink, when properly administered,

can change individual viewpoints, if

not public opinion.





ANOTHER CHAIN MERCHANDIS~

ING SCHEME QUITS





 





AIL addressed to Cooperative



Distributors, 26 Fair Street,

Oneonta, New York, is being returned

to the sender by the Oneonta, post-

master, marked “Refused.” At least,

a letter written this concern in the

interest of one of our members has

been returned to us.



The concern in question offered the

public an opportunity to securean all

wool blanket through" their ,en'dless

chain merchandising plan. A plan

similar to this one was referred 'to in

our columns some time ago. As

stated by our complaining member,

received three coupons from this





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concern with the understanding that





$2.00 was to be sent the company for

the coupons or the coupons were to

be returned.to them at once, if the

scheme was not to her liking. She

was advised that the coupons were to

be sold to friends at 500 each, and

that each purchaser of the 50c cou-

pon was in turn to receive direct from

the company three additional coupons

for which they were to pay the com-

pany $2.00. Each recipient of the trio





‘ participant 500 out of pocket on the





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TH E ~MVI¢~CHT=G A Ni FARM E R





of coupons was expected to sell them

to friends for 500 each.

This chain selling scheme left each





transaction, but they were assured

that in due time, each original pur-

chaser of $2.00 coupon was to receive

an all wool blanket provided the cou-

pons were sold and remitted for be-

fore December 31, 1928. Our com-

plaining reader informs us that all

had been done that was requested by

the company and that when applying

for her blanket the Cooperative Dis-

tributors had failed to live up to their

agreement. Our investigation brought

to light the fact that the firm had

either gone out of business of their

own choice, or at the request of the

Postofiice Department. It would ap-

pear that in this case as is always

true, it is impossible to get some-

thing for nothing.





 





 





 





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EARS and years ago '1 began to



shout abroad the virtues of the

greatest revivifyer and liquid tonic

known to the world. I advocated its

use in material doses—eight to ten

glasses a day. I insisted that it Was

good in fevers, anemia, arthritis, bili-

ousness, bronchitis, constipation, ec-

zema gout, hardening of arteries,

high blood pressure, low blood pres—

sure, nervous disorders and -what

have you. I wrote articles for all

manner of magazines advocating its

more general use and I have contin-

ued to write such articles ever since

with some result.



It is therefore very gratifying to me

to find that a big concern is now

putting thousands of dollars into ad-

vertising my remedy, and appointing

agents for every state and territory.

This company makes even more defi-

nite claims than I feel warranted, but

I can excuse a little enthusiasm for

such a splendid remedy. They think

they have added an improvement be

cause they are putting the remedy up

in a big earthen vessel with a faucet.

They claim also that they have lined

the vessel with something they call

radium ore, thus charging the remedy

with radium. I am convinced, how«

ever, that the only “charging” that is

really effected is the charge of $35.00

to $50.00 which they make for their

container. I am positive that the

remedy would work just as well if





taken from a cider barrel or even

dipped from a well bucket, for this

wonderful remedy is nothing more

nor less than plain water.



\Vater? That is it. Drink suffi-

cient water and many of your ail-

ments will clear like. magic. The

testimonials of cures presented by

this wonderful company, if genuine,





are undoubtedly owing to the fact

that the testifiers have been decoye-d

into drinking more water. People who

have no taste for pure water may yet

drink a lot of it if they think it is

medicine. So drink the water any-

way, and when the agent appears at

your door in an attempt to unload

upon you a’ Radium Water Jar for

$35.00 or thereabout, tell him that you

prefer to take your water from an

ordinary bucket. Incidentally, you

might put the money into a fund for

supplying the home with running

water.





 





SCHOOL CHILDREN HAVE LICE





 





Our children have been in a school

where some of the youngsters had

lice. How can I tell if they have

caught-them and what should I do?-





Under a rule of your StataDuart- ,





ment of Health, children with head’





lice should be excluded from school

unless kept under supervision of the

school nurse. The louse is of a re-

tiring disposition, but in the very act

of retiring makes his presence known

by tremendous itching, so if your chil-

dren are affeced they will soon let

you know. The most popular remedy

is kerosene, but this is quite severe

on some tender scalps, so if you use

kerosene dilute it with sweet oil.





WOMEN TO DISCUSS POLITICS





 





HO Makes the Issues‘?”, to-



gether with several of the most

important ones in the present politi-

cal campaign, will be taken up‘at the

Pre-Primary Citizenship School to be

held at East Lansing, July 24 to 26

nder the joint'auspices of the State

League of Women Voters and Michi-

gan State College, in cooperation with

Farm VVomen’s Week.

' The agricultural situation, the sev-

eral proposals for farm relief, their

relation to the tariff, important alike

to the producer on the farm and the

consumer in the. city, will be the sub-

ject of a joint session of farm and

city residents on Tuesday evening,

July 24.



Even though no decisions will be

reached at the farm and tariff ses-

sion on the evening of the 24th, suf-

ficient expert information promises to

be on hand to make possible a better-

informed conclusion on the part of

each woman student. attending the

Citizenship School. President Robert

M. Shaw of Michigan State College

will outline the background of the

agricultural problem. The McNary-

Haugen Equalization plan of agricul-

tural relief will be explained by a

representative of the American Farm

Bureau Federation, sent from Chicago.

to carry the view-point of the national

organization most active in its sup-v

port. The Capper-Ketcham Deben-

ture plan will be presented by a

Michigan law-maker, one of the au-





 





 





 





 





thors of the bill, the Hon. John C.

Ketc‘nam of Hastings, congressman

from the Fourth District. Because

the tariff policy of the United States

is so closely related to the agricul-

tural question. representatives of both

parties have been asked to interpret

their party views of the tariff in rela-

tion to agriculture that same evening.



The school is open to the interested

public. Sessions will be held in the

Home Economics building on the East

Lansing campus, and living accommo-

dations provided in campus buildings.





If insects and diseases are troub-

ling your arden, semi to Garden

Dept, Mich (I!!! Farmer, . for bulletin

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Cautions for Canning Days .~





.Two Hours from Garden to Can is Good Rule to Observe

. By Muriel Dundas





Nutrition Specialist Michigan State College





ROM the experience of many



Michigan women, home canning



is one practical means of meeting

the requirement for two servings of

vegetable, other than potato daily.

This standard for the daily

diet, which has" been approved by

authorities on nutrition, is difficult to

attain, unless one provides some

means of conserving the surplus from

the summer garden.



Certain products can be stored to

advantage, while others, lose their

delicate flavor and much of their

sweetness within a few hours from

the time of gathering. For these, the

process by which they can be put in

a can in the shortest time after

gathering provides the best means of

insuring a first class product. Since

one cannot expect to take from a.

can a better product than is put into

it, many precautions must be taken

to insure success. Among these are:



1. Choice of products for fresh-

ness, uniformity and high quality.



2. Cleanliness of product and of

equipment.



3. Adequate equipment.



Canning methods, as well as other

phases of household activity need

constant revision. New equipment

and shorter processes are lessening

the burden in canning; as in other

realms of housework.



For home canning of fruits and

vegetables the Bureau of Home

Economics recommends the hot pack

method as explained in Farmer’s

Bulletin No. 1471. Time tables for

acid and non—acid fruits and vege-

tables are listed. This bulletin may

be obtained by writing to the Home

Economics Extension Department,

Michigan State College.



To meet the requests from some of

the home demonstration agent

counties, demonstrations will be given

in Oceana, Oakland, Ottawa and

Mason counties.



Mr. Henry Chatfield, a student at

Michigan State College, who has had

considerable experience in giving

canning demonstrations will be in

charge of this project in the state

during this month. One special phase

which will be emphasized is the can-

ning of meat. Since the season for

culling the poultry flock is approach-

ing, demonstrations on cutting and

packing of chicken will be featured

in some localities.



To insure success, a pressure-

canner is advocated. The ordinary

water-bath outfit has proven satis-

factory for some products, but to





 





 





MY GARDEN





 





Let others plant their beans and peas,



The world indeed has need of these;



‘ But in my garden spot will grow



Smiling pansies row on row.



Gay nasturtiums, dainty phlox,



Jolly, sun-kissed hollyhocks,



.Roses nodding heavy heads,



Lillies in their brown earth beds



And in the shady spots



Friendly blue- eyed forget-mediate.



-When the little seedlings sprout ,



And the buds come peeping out,



You will think, as I do too—



Joys like these are all too few.

-——Mary Richards.





completely destroy organisms that

might cause spoilage, the former

method is advised. A better under-

standing of its use results in economy

of time and effort.



Canning in tin has many advan-

tages for the home canner. Ease of

handling, less breakage, greater. ease

in sterilizing and cooling are among

the factors to be considered.



Methods of grading and packing in

glass jars will also be shown for

many housewives pride themselves on

the attractive exhibits which they

prepare for county and state fairs.



Assembling and preparing in ad-

vance enables one to reduce the time





 





 





salad and the pineapple with his des-

s.ert Milk took the place of his

parent’ s coffee.





GENUINE MAPLE FLAVORING CAN

NOW BE MANUFACTURED





 





PROCESS for manufacturing a



true maple flavoring, which, when

mixed with ordinary sugar sirup, will

make a reconstituted table sirup es-

sentially the same as the commercial

product, has been perfected by chem-

ists of the United States Department

of Agriculture. The process has been

patented and dedicated to the public.

Already ope large manufacturer of





 





 





These women in Oakland County canned a whole steer in tin in one day





to the necessary “two hours from

garden to can” and to make certain

high grade products for the winter





‘menu.





Place freshly-laundered towels,

sheets, and pillowcases at the lmttom

of the pile on the shelves and thus

prevent the repeated use of the same

articles week after week.





MENUS FOR YOUNG AND OLD





 





OW to prepare meals suitable for



both the adults and the children

in the family is a puzzle to many a

homemaker. Some solve it by pre-

paring a double meal three times a

day—a simple one for the children

and another for their elders. Others

allow the children to have whatever

the grown-ups have or put the whole

family on a kindergarten diet. A

wiser solution than any of these

probably is to choose a menu for the

grown-ups from which a meal suited

to the needs of. the children may be

selected without cooking any special

dishes.



For example, one family meal con-

sisted of lamb stew with carrots,

onions, and potatoes, boiled rice, hot

biscuits, pineapple and cheese salad,

cocoanut custard pie and coffee. Ex-

cept for a few simple changes the

child’s meal. was the same. He was

given whole wheat bread instead of

biscuits, which at best are not easily

digested, and baked . custard 'rather

than pie. Most mothers find it easy

enough to bake in a ramekin a little

of the custard filling without the

crust or cocoanut when they are

making the pie. Instead of salad, the

child was given ‘the lettuce in a





flavoring products has taken steps to

put the new flavoring on the market.

The new flavor may be used by

confectioners, bakers, ice cream

manufacturers, and housewives, or by

any other who use flavoring products.

An excellent sirup can be made at

home merely by adding the flavor in

suitable proportions to a gallon of

ordinary sugar sirup of proper den-

sity. The reconstituted table sirup

will possess the delightful aroma and

flavor of the original maple product.

All flavoring extracts on the mar—

ket at the present time which purport

to be “maple flavor” are synthetic

products and, even though they are

harmless, must be branded as “imi

tation maple” to meet the require

ments of the federal food and drugs

act. Most of them are made from a

number of ingredients, the principal

one in most formulas being fenugreek

seed, an Old World plant of the bean

family.

‘ No one has heretofore succeeded in

preparing a genuine maple flavor. But

this new process removes the sugar

from real maple sugar leaving noth-

ing but the flavoring constituents.





'Removal of the sugar also greatly





enhances the keeping quality of the

flavoring product, sugar being a high-

ly fermentable substance. A by-pro-

duct of the process is a sirup which

is desirable for table or other uses.





 





QUANTITY RECIPES ‘SHOULD BE

WELL PROPORTIONED





 





Molded Ham Salad





4 lane solid hem 3’



1 :2“ m h 5 .4 Cwmsranulated

non am boiled 2% cups 001:! we."



4 the. dry mustard quart. boiling



1% quart cream mun-





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solve by pouring boiling water over

the gelatin. Grind the ham fine, add’

the mustard and dissolved gelatin;

whip the cream until it will just.

stand; fold the whipped 'cream into

the ham mixture; mold in individual

cups using 15 cupful to each portion

or in drippingpans so that each por-

tion may be cut in blocks. Serves 50.

Dressing For Ham Salad





2% quarts mayonnaise radish

1 cup grated horse—





Stir the horseradish into the ma-

yonnaise and serve.

Chicken Timbale





3 quarts chopped cooked 1% cup butter

chicken (40 pounds 14. cup very finely

fowl) chopped parsley



2 quarts milk 2 tablespoons salt



1 Quart chopped brend- 1—8 teaspoon pappcr





crumbs



Melt the butter, add the bread-

crumbs and milk and cook slowly for

a few minutes. Add the parsley,

chopped chicken, seasonings, and

slightly beaten eggs, and mix thor~

oughly. Fill a greased custard cup

and bake in a pan of water. Turn

out of mold and serve with sauce.

Garnish with parsley. Serves 50.



Yellow Beohamel Sauce

3 quarts strained coma



chicken stock 2 cupi'uls butter

$6 medium sized 2 cupfuls flour



onion (sliced) 2 quarts scalded milk

is medium sized 2 tablespoons salt



carrot (sliced) 17% teaspoon pepper

1 very small bay-lea! 18 egg yolks

1 teaspoonful De'DDET- '



Boil the first 5 ingredients together

for 20 minutes and strain. Melt the

butter, and add the flour; add the

stock and milk gradually, the salt and

pepper and cook until the flour-taste

is gone. Beat the eggs very slightly,

add a little of the sauce to the eggs,

then turn the eggs gradually into the





hot sauces—Mary Richards.





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THE TMICTH’IGAN‘ FARM-ER





“ ' Proofi Of The Puddin’





By. Hazel B. Girard





HERE is something about every



conversation that represents a



game of checkers. Either it is

a dead “give away" or crowned with

a cap-sheaf of intelligence that

comes to one’s attention.



By listening for the brief session

of five minutes to a conversation, you

can tell beyond the peradventure of a

doubt, the very caliber of a person’s

mind. It is not alone a simple

veneer or outside polish but a tried

and tested barometer that registers

your personality, your mind and intel-

lectual orbit.



Just what does your conversation

portray—or have you ever paused to

think about it?



The average person is very slovenly

and unexacting about this particular

feature of his make-up. Peeple who

would absolutely refuse to wear a

crumply dress, a wilted collar, or a

single hair out of place will deliber-

ately murmur juggled sentences and

meaningless nothings that would un-

surp the repose of ancient Pharoahs.

All of us are familiar with the type

of person whose wearing apparel is

the chic, ultra-smart variety that

“looks like a million dollars” whose

first paragraph of conversation is a

voluble “give away.”



Too many people after their school

days have culminated and they have

settled down to the plain sphere of

vevery-dayness, allow themselves to

fall into pitfalls of intellectual drowsi-

ness. They read nothing but the

’funnies, lose all interest in lectures,

etc., that once they figured vital—and

gradually let their ears become

gamuts to all the latest tid-bits of

modern slang. And soon—all too

soon, their conversation eclipses into

a formula of staggering sentences.



Conversation is like a personality;

it shows the real “you” to the world.

A good well-balanced conversation is

synonymous to a well-ordered mind;

a brilliant uplifting badinage foretells

an up-and—coming intellect.





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(“Q HERE is no easier and inexpen-

: sive way to add a touch of color

§and cheerfulness to our rooms than

:through bright, well-made pillows.

iQuilted ~pillows are particularly pleas-

'ing and practical. For these pillows,

ithe wadding or quilted part, as well

as the front of rayon and satin, is

"furnished.



- The pillows are made up by follow-

ing the stamped design on the wad-

ding and carrying this design through



. When «.fin-

j visited; these pillows are appropriate

Ether living? room: “or boudoir. I:





Quilted Pillows Give Quaint





 





you stammer—you

your schooling





But, perhaps,



never had a chance;

was limited. Well, at any rate,

there is an antidote. And, perchance

the best one of all is to select a good

writer whose works are well worth

perusing. Read carefully—study dili-

gently the formation of the sentences.

Keep your mind not only on the

meaning wrought but on the individ-

ual words themselves.

. Daniel Webster declared the best

“get rich quick" method of knowledge

was to study the dictionary. It would

seem at first that this was a pre-

posterous idea—for certainly it is a

book that changes the subject a lot.

But so much the better!



Some teachers have their pupils

learn two or three new words each

day—that is learn to spell them and

affix them in the vocabulary ready

for immediate service. And right

here in the built-in cupboard called

vocabulary is the stepping stone to a

favorable conversation. Anyone with

an able vocabulary finds small diffi-

culty in rendering his thoughts in a

punctual, easy manner. _



Indeed, one of the most pitiful

things recognizable is the person who

willingly and lazily lets himself

slump into a one syllable artist and

slang magnet. Perhaps, in their yes-

terdays, they were blue ribbon school

teachers, or brilliant linguists with

wonderful debating abilities but the

waning years subtracted their poign-

ancy of speech and relegated it into

a rhythm that sounds something like

this: “Yeah?——How come?—Re--ally?





WHEN THE JUICE BOILS OUT





 





ANY suggestions have come



from readers in answer to Mrs.

J. C.’s trouble in making apple pie.

Mrs. O. J. H. says that she cuts the

top crust smaller by one-quarter of an

inch than the size of her pie tin.

The bottom crust is then lapped‘over

this and pinched “down. This seals





The price of these pillows is 70c

each, stamped on rayon. [Stamped on

satin, they are $2.50 each. The

wadding is supplied with each design.

Any of these designs can be had in

rose, nile green, saxe blue, maize,

tangerine, or black. Enough satin and

rayon is included to make the back

of the pillow. In ordering, be sure

to specify the number of the design

you want .and whether rayon or satin

is to be furnished with the wadding.

Address your ofders to the Sta'inped





.Gogds Department, Michiganfemar.





 





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the edge more tightly and by not

using a too hot oven she never has

trouble with the juice boiling into her

oven.



Mrs. J. E. R. says that she uses a.

clean piece of white cloth about two

inches wide, dips this in water and

ties it firmly around the pie just be-

fore slipping it into the oven. This

also tightly seals the edges and pre-

vents the juice from boiling out.





MAKES ROSE BEADS





 





GATHER the rose petals in the



morning when the dew is on

them and grind them through the food

grinder seven times, using the finest

knife. A small lump of copperas will

make them blacker. Add to them a

few drops of good perfume. Knead

them on an iron skillet or piece of

rusty tin until the dough is smooth

and evenly colored. Let stand for

two or three days, shape into beads

with the hands. Pierce these’ with a

pin or large needle and let them dry

for several days. Dip them in olive

oil and spread out on wax paper for

twenty-four hours. Then put in a

small paper sack and rub them to a

polish. A small market basket full

of leaves will make one long string

of beads—Mrs. H. E.





The secret of crisp,.succulent salads

lies in having the material fresh and

cold. Dressing should not be com-

bined with the salad mixture until

just before serving.





 





 





For Our Little Folks





 





 





STATE SECR ETS





 





The Caveliers, in days long since,

Found this state an asylum;



To say that they are crazy though,

I rather ’spose would rile ’eml





 

 

 

 

 

   

 





The pieces of this. puzzle when cor-

rectly put together, make a map of

the state which this verse describes.

The star indicates the capitol. When

you have solved the secret of which

state this is, write me all you can

about the state and itscapitol—Aunt

Martha.





 





The [answer to last week’s State,





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W .VM abode. Island; and its leap-

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There are going to be a lot of Sat-

urdays and Sundays and holidays

when you can get away from farm

work for a day or two’s outing.

Even if you only take a short trip,

the change from routine work and

the seeing of new faces and new

places will be good for you and your

family.





Half the fun of going on an outing

is to be well prepared. With good

lunch baskets, vacuum bottles and

jugs for hot or cold drinks, a port-

able camp stove, if you want to

cook a meal or two, and the right

kind of auto accessories for your

car, you can get more pleasure on

your trip. If there is fishing nearby

you need a good fishing outfit, such

as we can pick out for you at our

“Farm Service” Hardware Stores.

Have more than one outfit so that

the rest of the family can enjoy the

fun too. Many of your neighbors

have taken our suggestion of secur-

ing a few outing and picnic con-

veniences and are keeping them all

ready so that they can slip away on

a minute’s notice, whenever there

is an opportunity.





Why don’t you come to one of our

stores and let us ShOW you the

many things we have that put more

fun into your vacation days, and

save trouble and time in getting

ready to go? You will find your

money will go farther here, too.





Your “Farm Service”

Hardware Men.
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Concerning Conflagrations

, M. C.’s Tell of Farm Fires





TWAS on a Sunday afternoon and

we were all gathered inside a



large and crowded country church.

The preacher pronounced the bene-

diction and the throng poured from

the doors. But, as they gained the

open air a wave of horror struck

them and they shuddered as they tot-

tered down the steps. At a short one-

half mile distance away flames were

springing forth and playing among

the beautiful birch, hemlock, pine,

maple and elm, ruining their stature

and the entire landscape.



A terrific wind hastened the racing,

maddening, burning brightness as it

spread over the high hillside—almost

a mountain.



People ran as if mad and boys

throwing their hats aside climbed the

mountain with sacks and boughs

moistened from a sparkling creek

below.



We fought, they fought, we all

fought the rushing enemy as it crept

on. Soon the battle ceased, but not

before a part of mother earth’s grassy

covering and hundreds of Michigan’s

proud trees were destroyed. As all

viewed the horrible scene,.fear of fire

stole into each individual and from

that time on made them respect and





 





 





 





 





The boy behind the dog is Francis

Morse who apparently~~has his hands

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obey our state fire protection laws.



Our most beautiful hill and hillside

laid to waste only because of some

hunter’s carelessness—Josephine De

Groot.





 





Nearing the close of day my sister

and I strolled back to the woods after

the cows.



The sky was a delicate blue tinted

with the red glow of the setting sun;

but glancing toward the north a dif—

ferent scene was witnessed, a huge

black cloud of smoke was darkening

the white lazy drifting clouds.



Rushing to the house we were soon

in the car and on our way to the fire.



Closer and closer the car sped

ahead, higher and higher the flames

were growing, we reached there just

in time to see the rafters of the

barn fall. Thus-k making the mow of

burning hay and the recent“thrashed

grain visible.



The barn and outer buildings

burned completely down. The good

old windmill pumped steady while

the men put water on the flames try-

ing to quench the fire so they might

find their missing boy, Teddy.



The frantic mother and father

searched. in vain but was unsuccessful

until five o’clock the next morning

they found the remains of their boy

by the water tank. EVa Gurd.





 





 





The largest farm fire that I have

ever witnessed was a fire which

was north of Zeeland. The fire

began by sparks which ‘flew from the





‘ «chimney of a house and alighted on





’the roof of a'church. The church

burned down and the wind was di-.

rectly west. It destroyed a large

~fleld- of corn and the sparks flew to a

neighboring barn which contained

many head of cattle and many bush-

els of grain. The owner of the farm

sudceeded in getting only one cow

out of the barn twelve more were





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straw were destroyed and mostly all

of the grain was burned. The farmer

burned some of his hair in trying to

save his tools. The tools all burned

with the barn and also a chicken coop

next to the barn burned. The farmer





 





did not have his farm insured which

made it a greater loss.





The sparks then caught a house

which was just west of the barn. The

furniture was saved, but some of the

other valuable things burned. There

was a sick man in the house and they

got him out. A large straw-stack also

burned dOWn. I hope I won’t have-to

see such a bad fire again as it is a

great loss to the owner.——-Harold

Butler.





 





 





   

 





 





 





Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins:



Thanks very much, Uncle Frank, for

the pin and card I received a short

time ago. One thing I’m interested

III is solving crossword puzzles. Gee!

it’s lots of fun if you know how!



I like to study about nature. I be-

believe in education more than any-

thing.



I hate to go with girls that smoke.

Once the big girls drove the small

girls and boys outside at noon. One

girl had a. package of cigarettes. She

offered each girl one. I didn’t take

any, nor did one other girl. They

smoked until teacher came. Gee! I

laughed at them. I betcha they were

really out of their minds. Smoking

is harmful as well as strong drinks.



I never go out with boys, nor asso—

ciate with people that have bad hab-

its. I go to the shows sometime. The

last show I saw was the “Big Parade.”

It was very good.



I like to read interesting letters

such as Gujlford Rothfusses’ espe-

cially.



I have lots of fun boxing with my

brother. Of course, boxing isn’t for

girls, but it’s fun.



I can make crossword puzzles my-

self. Today I made a large one in

school and made teacher solve it, she

got it all right.



For six years I haven’t seen. a city.

I like to live on a farm. So long.

——Miss Estell Niemi.





I judge you are a wholesome, active

girl You are right in refusing to take

on bad habits. They do nothing but

harm. You are, apparently, a real

country girl.





 





Dear Gang:



Do the members of the Merry Cir-

cle like the German flyers, Captain

Koehl and Baron Von Huenefeld and

their Irish companion, Major Fitz-

maurice, for being the first to make

a successful east to west non-stop

flight over the Atlantic? Or do “you

all” still carry your World War re-

sentment and enmity toward the Ger-

man nation around with “you all” and

are you reluctant to express any ad-

miration or praise for the German

people, even when it’s due them?

I’m glad I may say (and most heartily

and truthfully too) I never had any ill

will toward the German people

aroused in me because of the World

War. I was too young to know what

the war was all about, “me” being

only a little shaver when that part of

history was being enacted.



And while we’re speaking of “air

birds”—— ’ve seen several letters from

members lauding “Lucky Lindy” or

rather “Careful Charlie.” Some even

named him as one of the world’s ten

greatest men, but I haven’t seen a

single letter of praise for any of the

other aviators who were successful in

making a non-stop flight over the At-

lantic nor have I heard anyone express

any regret that gallant Frenchmen,

Nungesser and Coli lost their lives in

a brave attempt to span the Atlantic

or for the other lives that: went to a.

watery resting place. Forwhat rea-

son haven’t I, pray tell? Now don’t

misunderstand me. - I’m not trying to

lower the rank of Lindbergh. In fact

I believe Lindbergh earned all the

praise he got and the place in every-

one’s heart he holds, but why should

we neglect to give other people their

share of admiration when they have

earned it even if their attempts fail?

And that goes for attempts of every

kind whether it be great or small as

long as it’s honest. After all, it isn't

what we do but how we do it.——Just

another “Would-be-Member,” Rogue

Romer.





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more credit than they get, but still

Lindbergh has an outstanding record.

W'hy keep war hates alive?





 





Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins:



Well, I’m back again. I hope that

I’m welcome. I certainly am glad to

hear that there are others that have

the same opinion as I on the country

and being able to take a dive into

the lake when ever it gets sort of

warm.



Well, Uncle Frank, I was in Detroit

several weeks ago and wondered

where your oflices were located, but

as things were, I was unable to pay

you a visit. Are strangers welcome?



What do you all think’of spring?

Isn’t it wonderful? The trees are in

blossom, with all the plants becom~

ing green and the fragrance of blos-

soms, trees and flowers combined. I

often wonder what the people of the

city would say if they could only be

with me at present. You see I’m

writing this beneath a maple tree in

our front yard, as it seemed impos-

sible to write indoors. ‘



I think I’ll just say a few words in

regard to evolution as there seems

to be a discussion on that subject.

As for me, I don’t believe in it, be-

cause it seems almost impossible for

people to have generated from apes

and if they had—why are they not

doing the same at this dayand age?

I certainly don’t see any difference

in the apes of today and those years

ago. Any information in this regard

will be gladly accepted. Another

thing that I don’t understand is how

any Christian can believe in evolu-

tion and be a Christian at the same

time as evolution and the Bible con-

tradict one another. Let’s have other

opinions on this subject. -



Uncle Frank, I wish to thank you

for publishing my last letter. You

can imagine how surprised I was

when I saw it in print—“Not Much.”



Strangers are welcome here at all

times. But, you are not a stranger,

being an M. C. I envy the place, the

surroundings, you had for writing





your letter.





 





Dear Uncle Frank: ~



I think that dances are all right

because you can get away from home

and have a good time. You can see

some of your best friends and talk

to them if you don’t dance and you

can even if you do.



But like Vilma said, the Charles-

ton and black bottom are only jump-

ing, kicking, etc. I think that dancing

is all right, but not the Charleston or

anything like that.



And too, think some movies are all

right, but not all of them, for some

of them are just foolishness, don’t

you Uncle Frank?—Auldra Schultz.



I am glad that you do notlike fool-

ish dancing or movies. Anything sen-

sible is all right, but one must use

care that What one does is sensible.





 





Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins:



I approve of what Vilma, G. C.,

says about dancing. I go to dances

but do not dance the Charleston,

black bottom, or toddle. I~don’t’think

they are fit for a girl to dance. But

don’t think, Vilma, because I say I go

to ,danc’esthat I go to the lake re-

sorts, road . houses, or any such

places because I do not. I only.go

to dances at the homes of my friends.

dirtiest habits a 1 bung boy can have.

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And not a. one of

those boys are half as bright in their





teen years of age.





studies as the boys who don’t. They

really think it looks smart, but I

think it looks ridiculous, don’t you,

Uncle Frank? Drinking is just as

bad a habit. I know a young fellow

that can’t think, talk, or do anything

unless he is full of drink. Yet he is

never drunk. This boy’s parents are

real nice respectable people. But look

at their boy; he is ruined. for life.



Well Uncle, guess it is about time

for me to leave off gossiping and get

to work—Grace Fowler.



Another girl who has sensible

views on common- habits that are

harmful.





 





ADD-A-LETTER CONTEST





 





WE have had requests for other

contests of this type, perhaps



because there are some who

want to try to get the right idea. I

hope that all contestants will read

carefully the directions.



In this kind of contest you start

with a letter such as A, for instance.

Then add another'letter each time

and make a word. With A it would

work out like this: A, an, man,

mane, Maine etc. You will note that

only one letter is added each time,

but all the letters previously used are

used again.



For this contest we will start with

the letter W. Now lets see how

many can get the right idea.



The ten usual prizes will be given

to those who make the largest cor-

rect list of words. The first two

prizes will be fountain pens; the next

three, clutch pencils; the next five

dictionaries. All who have the cor-

rect idea will get M. C. buttons and

cards if not now members. The con-

test closes July 27th. Send your con-

test papers to Uncle Frank, Michigan

Farmer, Detroit, Mich.



Don’t forget to put your name and

address in the upper left hand corner

of your papers and M. C. after your

name if you are a Merry Circler.





ABBREVIATION WINNERS





 





GREAT many tried this contest



and showed that they had a good



knowledge of abbreviations. The

following ten were picked as the lucky

ten. All others who had correct re-

plies and are not new members will

be given M. C. memberships.



' Fountain Pens

Doris Kellermeyer, Oxford, Mich.





 





 





 





 





Ginger is taking Gerald and Edmund

Umlor out for a ride —





Iris Losey, 907 S. L‘afayette St;,

Greenville, Mich.

Dictionaries

Harvey McLaren, Route No. 1, Box

51, McMillan, Mich.

Mary Shutts, Route No. 3, Newago,

Mich. ,

Beulah Tyner, Route No. 3, Big

Rapids, Mich.

7 Clutch Pencils

Mildred Harrison, Route No. 3,

Ithaca, Mich. ~ '

Helen Piper, Shiloh, ,Mich. -

Stanley M. Brown, Bailey, Mich.

Alberta Berlin Route No. 4, St.





 





Johns, Mich. “

Elizabeth M. Blank, Route No. 1,

Box 4.4, Whitehall, Mich. .

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1. Ill—Illinois

2. Colo—Colorado

3. i. e.—-that is

4. .Ga.f—'Georgia.- . .

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TEMPORARY. HOME FOR PU LLETS





ROWING pullets need plenty of

room and clean quarters if they

are to thrive 'and come into proper

maturity so the past year we hit on

the plan of erecting temporary shel-

ters for them in the wood lot. We

chose a well drained spot well pro-

tected by trees and one which would

be in the shade for the greater por-

tion of the day. Four posts were set

in the ground about the depth we

usually set line posts for a fence.

These were set ten feet apart one

way and twelve another making a

ten by twelve foot frame after two

by fours had been nailed to the tops

as plates. The first house we built

was boarded up across one end and

the rear as we thought this would

keep the rain from blowing into the

feed hoppers and upon the birds.

Perches were placed across the rear

of the shed and we found that we

would need an extra post at each

end in the middle as three plates

were necessary instead of two in

order to keep the roof from sagging.

The sheeting was number three

shiplap which we had on the place

and a twelve foot board placed end-

wise just reached across the ten-foot

shed nicely allowing a small overhang

for eaves. This was covered with a

cheap grade roofing and the entire

shed enclosed with one inch mesh

netting. Altogether this shed cost us

or would have cost us had we bought

all of the material new about twelve

~dollars. However we rigged up a

couple more leaving these open and.

had just as good results from them.

Any sort of old lumber will do for the

frame work and, it can be placed

closely together, for sheeting. If

there are wide gaps between the

boards the wind will soon whip the

roofing off because there is no

weather boarding to protect it.



Feed hoppers were placed in these

pens and water provided by means

of. a float attached to a barrel which

was filled every second day and after

a week’s confinement the pullets were

given the range of the woods but

never strayed far from the feed hop-

pers.



This plan insures clean range for

the pullets and clean quarters. If

these are thoroughly deloused when

placed in the sheds they will be both-

ered very little with parasites. Last

fall the netting was taken down and

put away as was the shiplap used for

sheeting. Most of the roofing was

salvaged but is a couple of inches

narrower than it originally was be-

cause we cut along the seams in tak-

ing it off thus losing the inch on each

edge where it had lapped. Our pul-

this plan that

we shall Use it again this year for

we have found that the ordinary col-

ony brooder house soon becomes

wracked if moved from place to place

and besides is a very stuffy summer

home for pullets.—W. C. Smith.





CAUSE OF DIARRH EA





Will you please tell‘ me what

causes diarrhea in hens and what

can be done for it?—W. S.





Diarrhea in hens may be a symp—

tom of several diseases or it may be

caused by simple digestive disorders





due to the method of feeding. The

feeding of the‘ balanced laying mash

containing bran and easily digested

ground grains is a. great help in pre-

venting bowel trouble. It prevents

the hens from filling up on trash, dry

grass and. other materials that may

cause bad conditions in the crop or





throughout. the digestive system.

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of fresh green feed seem to have less

digestive trouble than hens which are

confined where the supply of green

food is irregular or lacking entirely.

Sour milk also helps to reduce diges-

tive disorders. If the bowel trouble

is due to some specific disease like

tuberculosis it would have to be com-

bined with other definite symptoms to

determine the disease and a'labora-

tory examination is considered neces-

sary for a definite determination.





HENS DYING





Some of our hens are dying. The

liver has small white specks on the

outside and the inside seems granu-

lated, and tears to pieces very easily.

The 'e are nodules on the intestines

simi ar to those found in sheep. They

are fat and some that have died were

laying. We feed skim milk, corn,

oats and wheat—C. D W



The death of the hens followed by

the discovery of the white spots and

granulated condition of the liver may

indicate that the hens died of tuber-

culosis. According to scientists a

laboratory examination is necessary

to definitely determine the presence

of avian tuberculosis. 1



If you have a valuable flock and

suspect the presence of tuberculosis,

it will pay to have a veterinarian in-

spect the flock and make recommen-

dations. Some of the hens which.

were in good condition and laying,

may have died from internal ruptures

caused by the strain of laying. This

most often occurs among old hens

that are heavy with fat. A few losses

of this type may occur in spite of the

best of management.



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CARE OF GOSLINGS





I had 13 nice big goslings, just be-

ginning to feather out. I kept them

shut up over night but would let them

out about 7 o’clock in the morning.

One moming about 10 o’clock there

we1e two dead. I saw two of them

die; they were only sick for about 15

minutes. They seem to have eaten

some poisonous grass or poison of'

some kind because they came for

“aim and d1a11k continuously fo1 a

while and then they would shake

illei1 heads as if choking, with slime

running from their bills. What I

would like to know is this, does a

poison fall with the dew or rain 01'

is it some poisonous insect?—O. M.





There could be no poison falling

with the dew or rain that would in-

jure the goslings. Goslings some

times die from eating the poisonous

rose bugs which occasionallycause

losses in flocks of chickens. The

only remedy is to keep the goslings

fenced on a small range until the

danger from the insects has passed.



If you suspect that the goslings are

obtaining some poisonous material or

weed on the range, it would pay to

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a few weeks and supply them with

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can control the ration and find if the

trouble is due to poison instead of

disease.



When animal and mineral ‘matter is

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Dam now on test in Class G shows 4201

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RED ROSE FARMS DAIRY

Northville, Michigan

Reference: Northvillc State Savings Bank

Ton registered Holstein cows.





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Shallenberger. (Near Pokagon)





 





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have official records of 15.-

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aging over 20 lbs. butter in 7 days. Due this fall.

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' (Continued from page 45)



mg on farms is about where it was

in 1926. Financial returns to Danish

farmers from the record bacon ex-





, ports have been quite unsatisfactory





and production» there is being

checked. Last winter, the Nether-

lands reported a. reduction of fifteen

to twenty per cent in breeding hogs

owing to financial losses during the

preceding year.



Increasing native supplies of hogs

in Europe in recent years caused a.

sharp (111.013 in exports from the

United States. Exports of hog meats

in the last year and a. half have been

at close to the lowest rate in half a





century and but little more than half





the amount exported from Denmark.

Exports of lard dropped to the low-

est level in several years, but re-

mained about forty per cent‘above

pro-war. Exports of meats in 1927

represented only 5.7 per cent of the

product from hogs slaughtered. under

federal inspection, which was the

smallest proportion since this record

was started in 1907. Exports of lard

Were forty-six per cent of the federal





inspected production, the smallest

fraction since. 1918.

The stimulation of foreign con-





sumption of hog products because of

low prices and the anticipation of

lighter supplies have already resulted

in some improvement in export de-

mand. In spite of the high rate of

slaughter in Europe, the United

States has exported eleven per cent

more lard and sixteen per cent more

hog meats since January 1, 1928, than

a’year previous. The improving out-

look abroad is refleeted also in the

rise in foreign prices in the last few

months. The average price of hogs

at Berlin in June was about $14.60

per one hundred pounds compared

with $10.45 on May 2. Danish Wlilt-

shire sides were bringing $23.50 per.

one hundred pounds at Liverpool

against $17.38 at the low point in

February.



If the number of hogs available ‘for

slaughter under federal inspection in

the United States in the next hog’

year drop to forty-four to forty-five

million head, as roughly indicated by

the pig survey, and if foreign demand

improves as expected, how much will

prices advance? It would be absurd

to pretend to know the precise an-





swer, but there is some evidence

worth examining. _

For several years, the United





States has been reporting the average

weights of hogs slaughtered under

federal inspection and their average

cost per one hundred pounds to

packers as well as the total number.

With this data, it is possible to cal-

culate the total live cost. The record

for the last five years is as follows:





Crap year ending Inspected

October 31 Slaughter

1922-23 51,609,000

1923-24 52,876,000

1924-25 46,105,000

1925-26 40,812,000

1926-27 43,080,000



Cost Total



Per th Cost

$ 7.87 $ 917,000,000

7.58 897,000,000

11.30 1,158,000,000

12.37 1,195,000,000

10.57 1,061,000,000





It is. evident that during this pe-

riod,» as the number of hogs marketed

went up, the total amount paid by

packers for the crop went down. That

is holding true in the current year

also, since the forty-eight to forty-nine

million head probably will cost only

about $1,000,000,000 or a little less,

against $1,061,000,000 for 43,080,000

head in the preceding year.



If the relationship in these recent

years between supply and cost-to

packers is maintained in the commg





year and slaughter drops to forty-four .





to forty-five million head, the cost to

packers. probably will be between

$1,075,000,000 and $1,125,000,000. This

would mean an average price of





we D .

e. TAYLOR. ‘Beiuinu. Mich. around $10.75 appending somewhat





,upon av’erage live weights. Since this

represents the price at packing cen-

ters, the average to growers would be

around $10 .to $10.25, ‘while _f.or the

Chicago market taken alone, it would





' indicate an average of abOut eleven





Because of. seasonal fluctua-



tions, prices durln the fall and win-



ter would be halo 7 the average, and



those in spring and/summer would be



above the average for the year. ; -

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dollars.





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only a rough approximation as to

future supply. But, it provides what

the: navigator calls an “artificial

horizon” from which the importance

of subsequent developments can be

guaged. , With a. favorable corn crop

prospect, for example, farmers may

breed more sows for fall litters than

they intended early in June. Abun-

dant and cheap corn may lead them

to feed out to considerably heavier

weights than in the last year. Changes

1n the supply because of such influ-

ences would affect hog prices. An

1mportant change in the general com-

modity price level also would affect

hog prices. Within reasonable limits,

however, the total income of farmers

from hogs will be increased if they

decrease production» still further and

their cash returns will be reduced

through larger production than the

June pig survey indicates.





Hog prices have already experi-

enced part of the rise to be expected.

The $2 to $2.50 advance from the

winter level of around $8.25 at Chi-

cago is more than a seasonal upturn.

For nearly two months, hog prices

have been higher than a. year pre-

vious. The improvement is based

partly on anticipation of smaller

production ahead, Receipts have re-

mained larger than in 1927, but aver-

age weights have been three to five

per cent less, and low prices have

brought some increase in both do

mestic and foreign demand as com-

pared with a year earlier.





During the balance of the present

hog year up to October 31, 1928, it is

probable that receipts will be much

the same as. last year. Weights prob-

ably will average somewhat lighter,

so that the total product from current

slaughter probably will be slightly

less than in the corresponding period

of 1927. The amount of product now

in storage to be merchandized in this

period is larger than last year. Meat

stocks exceed a. year ago by the equi-

valent of about three-fourths of 3. mil-

lion head. Stocks of lard exceed last

year by the equivalent of about two

million head. »



With less-beef available, domestic

demand for pork probably will be

larger than a year ago. Foreign de-

mand also should exceed last year,

increasingly so as the year pro-

gresses. Speculative demand as mani—

fested through willingness to carry

over hog products in storage prob-

ably will be larger than in 1927. Un-

der these conditions, a higher aver-

age level of prices is probable. Last

year, the average price at Chicago

was $9.15 in July, $9.10 in August and

$10.50 in September and October.





is





FEEDER CATTLE PRICES WlLL'

REMAIN HIGH





 





PRICES of feeder cattle probably

will remain relatively high for



some time, in the opinion of C. R.

Arnold, of the rural economics depart-

ment of the Ohio State University.

Arnold bases this belief on the fact

that there is an extremely small num-

ber of beef cattle on the ranges, with

a. decided shortage of breeding cows.

Further, it requires several years to

increase this supply to any great ex-

en .



Feeders at the present time are

bringing an unusually high price, and

Arnold doubts whether the supply of

cattle will catch up with the demand

for some time. .



The reason for the present short-



age in the supply of beef cattle goes

back several years. Extreme enthu-

siasm eight or ten years ago over

beef cattle, and high prices for breed-

ing animals at that time, gave a great

stimulus to production. As a. result,

the market was over-supplied and

even the nest cattle feeders began to

lose money. Many barns and feed lots

have been empty during the past four

or five years. *When the price of beef

cattle .dropped, and there was no in-

centive to buy or raise feeders, the

breeding stock 'on the ranges was

thrown on the market and still fur-

ther depressed the price, but cur-

tailed the supply. .

. It is this curtailment, at the source

of supply, which is responsible, at the

present- time, for the shortage and

high prices of 'feede‘r cattle and

breeding stock. '





Prof. O. E. Reed, head of the dairy

division of Michigan State Coll: ,

has been, fig .. ’ _ .

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ICHIGAN farmers are cropping



one and one-half per cent more

acres'of land this year than they did

in 1927 according to a report issued

today by Herbert E. Powell, commis-

sioner of agriculture and Verne H.

Church, agricultural statistician for

Michigan. There is less idle crop

land in the state this year than last,

and an‘ unusual amount of fall plow-

ing was a factor in allowing the in-

creased acreage of crops to he plant-

ed. There are some new farmers

this year, and many are more opti-

mistic because of higher prices for

several farm products and lower

Wages for hired help. The increased

acreage in crops would have been

greater had it not been for the mark-

ed reduction in hay left standing fol-

lowing severe winter damage.



Cats and barley condition is much

above average; and with the in-

creased acreage, the production will

be larger than last year. Although

there are some good wheat and rye





fields in» the state, these crops have

not fully recovered from winter kill-





ing in the southern counties so that

the production of each will be con-

siderably less than last year. Corn

acreage is two per cent larger than

last year, but the condition is but

little better than a year ago so that

the production fareoast is only four

per cent greater. With a short acre-

age and also a low condition, the hay

crop will be short compared with last

year and less than average.



For the third consecutive year, the

state’s potato acreage increased. The

increase this year was eight per cent,

but the condition of the crop on this





early date is below average. Many

beans were planted early, and re-

planting was necessary in many





fields.

abandoned following heavy

important bean growing sections.

For the state the acreage increase

Was not as large as expected but 600,-

000 acres remain for harvest with a

low condition which forecasts a pro-

duction ten per cent larger than that

realize’d last year. The stand and

growth of sugar beets is good, and

the 92,000 acres planted promises

about an average yield.



Michigan’s important fruit crops





Some fields were ruined and

rains in





. are better than last year except win<





ter apples. The production forecast

for peaches, pears, and grapes is

larger than the ten-year average.





Cherries range from fair in the south

to good in the north with promise of

two-thirds of a full crop for the en-

tire state.



A production of 5,200,000,000 bush-

els of wheat, corn, oats, rye and bar-

ley is forecast for the United States

on July 1st. This is 419,000,000

bushels in excess; of the July fore-

cast last year, and 22,000,000 bushels

more than the final 1927 returns. The

July 1 United States forecast is for

443,640,000 bushels of potatoes and

16,571,000 bushels of beans.





 





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HE Michigan Ayrshire Breeders’



Association will- meet at the Bal-



moral Farms, Ithaca, Mich., on

Wednesday, July 25th. C. T. Conklin,

of the Ayrshire Breeders’ Association,

Brandon, Vt., will give an address as

also George Girrbach, of the

Dairy Department of the Michigan

State College, and Prof. S. M. Salis-

bury of the Ohio State University.

The Balmoral show herd will be on

exhibition and will be judged under

the direction of Mr. Conklin. Re-

freshments will be served and every.

body will be assured all they want to

eat and drink. If you are interested

in good dairy cattle. be one of the

hundreds to enjoy a good day at this

Balmoral farm field day. The farm

is just a quarter mile out of Ithaca.

Remember the date—July 25th.





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price of native beef steers to $14.85,

the highest since September, 1920;

increasing receipts and weakening

prices fer grass cattle, especially

cows and heifers; and veal calves at

the highest level at this season since

1919 were the outstanding develop-

ments in the cattle market in the last

week.



With increasing receipts of grass-

ers, arrivals suitable for stocker and

feeder trade are more abundant, but

prices have not yielded qnuch ground.

Good prices for fat steers, prospects

of a liberal corn crop in. the main

feeding states, pastures about up to

normal in condition and realization

of the universal scarcity of stock

cattle are factors supporting values.

Some weakness is likely to be seen

as the range movement gets into full

swing, but no broad decline in prices

is probable.





MODERATE SETBACK

MARKET





IN HOG





 





FTER- advancing to a top of



$11.60 at Chicago, the hog mar-



ket has had a setback of 30 to

35 cents as a result of increased re-

ceipts attracted by the rising mar-

ket. Arrivals at present are slightly

larger than at the corresponding time

a: year ago. The increase probably is

temporary although there is consid-

erable uncertainty as to the number

of hogs remaining on farms avail-

able for the summer market.



Demand for hogs continues broad



as arrivals on eastern markets have

been rather light, so that shipping

orders have been liberal. Large pack-

ers appear friendly to maintaining

the price level as they have large

stocks of product in storage to be

merchandised in the next four

months. Receipts of mgs in foreign

markets have been diminishing in the

last month- and the increase in ex-

ports anticipated for the latter part

of 1928 may begin to show up at any

time.



DOLLAR BREAK IN LAMB



MARKET





 





AMB prices suffered a dollar



break in the last few days, bring-



ing the Chicago top down to $16.

Receipts are moderate but larger

arrivals are expected from this time

on, and buyers are anxious to avoid

any accumulation of product. Last

year, receipts increased about 100 per

cent from the middle of July to the

end of September and a similar gain

is probable this year. While most of

the increase consists of feeder lambs,

there is a substantial gain in the

supply available for. slaughter also.





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CALKED HORSE: I. have a horse

that got calked 2 years ago above

the coronary band. The horse has

been lame ever since and the sore

has grown

opens now and‘ then and discharges

pus. Can this bunch be removed by

applications of some kind? Can the

pus be drawn out entirely and relieve

the horse of pain? P. J.—There is

probably some dead tissue at the

bottom of the wound, which accounts

for its not healing. If the swelling

involves the coronary band, paring

the horn thin at this point would be

of some benefit. Saturate a pad of

absorbant cotton with a warm cresol

solut10n—-—2 tablespoonfuls to pint

water and keep in place with a band-

age. Change the dressing once daily.





FRACTIONS HORSE: I would be

pleased to have you tell me of some

method of restraining a fraction

horse for shoeing so the. animal

would not injure itself or the sheer.

A. A.——There are so many ways in

which various horses make it difficult

for shoers to handle their feet, that

what might help with one horse,

would be of no help with others.

Some strike with their front feet,

klck with their hind, while others put

all their weight on the shoer when

their hind feet are raised. With the

exception of ‘ stocks, probably the

next best method of handling them,

is to take a long %-inch rope, loop

one end around the fetlock, then pass

rope forward over the withers to the

opposite side of neck, bring in front

of shoulders below the neck, then

backward and take 2 or 3 turns

around the rope. just behind front

leg. The foot is then pulled forward

td_a convenient working position. A

tw1tch should be put on the nose. It

18.8.180 better not «to tie the horse at

this time. ,If he kicks and wants to

gilow, imself, let him“ do this a few

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BLOAT: Will you please tell me

what to give for a cow bloated? I

have a cow that is bloated for one

day and the next day is all right.

Every second day she is bloated.

M. B.—Add 4 ozs. each of aromatic

spirits 0f ammonia and turpentine to

1% pints water and give as a drench.

No food should be given for ‘12 to 18

hours following an attack of bloat.

Determining the cause of the‘bloat is

just as important as the treatment,

so that the cause can be corrected.





If you had mentioned something

about the cow’s feed, I may have

been able to advise you regarding





this.





LUMP IN NECK: We have a half

blood Guernsey that we wish to raise

for a cow but find she has'a lump

in her neck. She is 2 months old. Is

there anything we can do for it?

G. N. Clip hair from swelling and

paint once daily with- tincture iodine.

Also add one ounce iodide of potas-

sium to pint water and give one

tablespoonful three times daily.





 





SPOTS IN MILK: My cow has had

milk fever since having calf and now

the milk has little red spots on the

strainer. What can I give her? G. P.

——The red spots in the milk are

caused by an inflammation of the ud—

der. Feed no grain for several days

ornntil the milk becomes normal.

Give one tablespoonful formaldehyde

in quart water, twice daily for 4 or

5 days.





THRUSH: I have a- horse ve-ry

lame in front feet. Neighbors say it

is thrush, for which there is no cure.

Is that right? A. J. B.——Thrush, even

in severe cases, rarely makes a horse

very lame. In treating thrush, all

undermined frog should be cut away,

to expose the diseased parts to air

and medicine. Wash with a creolin

solution—one tablespoonful to pint

water, then apply calomel or- pow-

dered blue stone and cover with

oakum or cotton. If not thrush, soak

feet in cold water or stand in wet

clay during the day for several days

or until the feet are soft.





CURDLED MILK: Will you kindly

let me know what to give a cow who

gives curdled milk—not all the time

and not in the same quarter each

time; maybe only one teat will be af-

fected and again the whole udder.

This cow was fresh last December.

She is a registered Guernsey about

5 years old. A. L.—— It is possible

the feed is causing the trouble-—

moldy or damaged. Not milking dry

would also cause this condition. Give





one tablespoonful formaldehyde in

quart water, twice daily for 4 or 5

days.





 





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GRAIN QUOTATIONS.

Monday, July 16

Wheat

Detroit—No. 2 red at $1.62: No. 2

white $1.62; No. 2 mixed at $1.62.

Chicago——July $12814; September

$13194; December $13534.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red at $1.57,

nominal.

- Corn

Detroit—No. 2 yellow $1.13; No. 3





yellow $1.11; No. 4 yellow $1.09.

Chicago—July $10454;

. 97c; December 811,“.

' .; Oats

‘. f? Detroit—No. 2, Michigan 750; No.

3 white 72c; heavy oats 2c premium.

Chicago—July old 475/3c; new 48%;

September, new 40%c; September,

old 411/80; December 411/8c.





Rye

Detroit—No. 2 $1.30.

Chicago—July 551.09%;

$10894; December $11014.

Toledo—No. 2 $1.25.

Beans

. New York— Pea domestic $10.25@

$10.75; red kidneys $8.25@8.75 to the

wholesalers.

Chicago—Spot Navy beans,

igan choice, hand-picked in

$10.50; dark red kidneys $9.00.





Barley.

Detroit—Malting $1.08; Feeding

$1.03.





Seeds.



Detroit domestic seed—Cash clo-

ver $18.00; October $19.10; December

$19.00; cash alsike $16.50; August

$17.50; October $17.00; timothy at

$2.35; December $2.90.





Hay.

Detroit—No. 1 timothy 21’

$16.00; standard $13.50@14‘! 0; No. 2

timothy $11.50(ri‘12.50; No. 1 light

clover, mixed $14.00@15.00; No. 1 clo-

ver $13.00@14.00; wheat and oat

straw $11.00@12.00; rye straw $13.00

@$14.00; alfalfa hay N9. 2 to choice

at Chicago $15.00@25.00.

Feeds.

Detroit—Winter wheat barn at $39;

spring wheat bran at $38; standard

middlings at $44; fancy middlings at

$50; cracked corn at $44; coarse corn

meal $42; chop $44 per ton in carlots.

Poultry feeds with grit $53.00; with-

out grit $57.00 per ton.





WHEAT.





The July 1 official forecast of the

wheat crop was larger than common~

ly expected, totalling 800 million

bushels against 872 million last year

and an average crop of 808 million

bushels in the last five years. The

outlook for winter wheat improved

more during June than was indicated

by the private forecasts and was

placed at 544 million bushels. Pro-

duction of durum in four leading

states was forecast at 74 million bush-

els, while the forecast for other

spring Wheat in all states was 183

million bushels compared with an

average of 180 million bushels in the

last five years.



Prices fell to a new low level for

the season in the last few days and

are back close to the low point

reached last winter. Liverpool has

been relatively stronger than our

markets, so that quotations are not

far from a basis that will permit ex-

port sales. Under the circumstances,

it seems probable that the declining

market which started early in May in

which prices have lost over 40 cents

is about at an end.





CORN





The government’s forecast of the

1928 corn crop was only 2,736,000,000





September





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serves those who need feed as a cutter mill

prepares it. Check below product and

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September





age was increased 3.6 per cent.

Heavy rains in June checked cultiva-

tion and many weedy and grassy

fields are reported.



Corn prices declined early in the

last week, largely as a result of spe~

culative liquidation induced by favor-

able prospects for the new crop. A

sharp recovery followed the issuance

of the crop forecast, however. Re-

ceipts have been moderate, demand

is well maintained and the visible

supply continues to shrink. Country

offerings have increased in the last

few days, indicating that some hold-

ers are willing to take advantage of

present prices.



RYE.





The July 1 forecast of the rye crop

was 39.3 million- bushels, an increase

of 2.6 million bushels over the July

1 indications. .Rye prices have been

weak along with wheat recently, a

little export business is reported, but

foreign buyers are largely awaiting

the new crop movement.





OATS.





The cats crop forecast was 1,320,-

000,000 bushels compared with 1,184,-

000,0000 bushels harvested last year

and an average crop of 1,348,000,000

bushels in the last five years. The

new crop movement has not yet

started and market stocks are the

smallest at this season since 1902.

A declining market is probable as

supplies increase.





SEEDS.





Grass seed crops, the clovers and

timothy, have benefitted from the

rains and warmer weather recently,

but the bad early start will take a

heavy toll and the crops will be be-

low normal. Some new crop timothy

seed is expected on the markets by

the end of July. Dealers anticipate a

fair-sized late summer and fall de-

mand for alfalfa seed which will be

supplied from the carryover stocks.

Prices generally are nominal with





 





practically no. being made.





sales

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Barley acreage was increased 29.5

per cent, and the crop .forecast was

303 million bushels compared with

264 million bushels produced in 1927

and an average yield of 209 million

bushels in the last five years. The

flaxseed forecast was 21.5 million

bushels compared with. 26.6 million

bushels in 1927 and a five-year aver-

age of 23.4 million bushels





HAY.





The tame hay crap, based'on the

condition on July 1, estimated at 76.7

per cent of normal compared with

89.9 per cent on July 1, 1927, will be,

more than 20 per cent smaller than

the 1927 crop. Production, estimated

at 847100000 tons, would be .the

smallest since 1921.



The first cutting of timothy hay has

started in the Southwest and a few

cars have already been shipped.

Heavy rains recently have benefitted





the late hay crops, but delayed har—_





vesting in many cases. Much of the

hay now arriving at market is out

of condition and sells at a sharp dis-

count. Steady improvement in pas-

tures has reduced the dairy demand

for extra leafy alfalfa hay, but prices

for good quality are generally steady.





J3EANS.





The acreage of dry edible beans

was increased 7.2 per cent this year

over 1927. Colorado grov'Vers in-

creased their acreage 25 per cent;

Idaho, 15 per cent; Michigan, 6 per

cent, and New York, 10 per cent.

Growing conditions have been gen-

erally unfavorable, and the condition

of the dry bean crop on July 1 was

76.3 per cent of normal compared

with 82.1 per cent a year ago and an

average of 85.4 per cent in the past

ten years. Production is estimated

at 16,571,000 bushels, which is slight-

ly below that of last year and about

500,000 bushels below the five-year





 





‘lee Stock Market Service





Monday, July 16





DETROIT

Cattle



Receipts 1775. Market opening

slow. Dry fed steady; all others

slow and 25c lower.

Fair to good yearlings



dry~fed ............... $13.50@15.50

Fair to good heavy steers



dry-fed ............... 13.50@15.00

Handy weight butcher



steers ................ 11.00@12.55

Fair to good heifers ..... 11.00@11.75

Common light butchers.. 8.25@ 9.75

Common butcher cows.. 6.50@ 7.50

Best cows. .............. 8.756% 9.50

Good butcher cows ...... 7.50@ 8.50

Cutters ................ 5.75@ 6.25

Canners ................ 5.00@ 5.50

Light butcher bulls 9.00@ 9.25

Bologna bulls .......... 8.00@ 9.00

Stocks bulls ............ 7.00@ 8.50

Feeders ................ 8.00@11.00

Stockers ............... 8.00@10.00





Milkers and springers ..75.00@130.00





Calves

Receipts 726. Market steady.

Best ................... $17.00@17.50

Others 8.00@15.50

Sheep and Lambs -





Receipts 788.





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Market steady.

bushels compared with the trade Best lambs ............ $ 15.50

forecasts of about 3,000,000,000 bush- Light to common 9.25

f els. It compares with 2,774,000,000 Yearlings ............... 900601250

bushels harvested in 1927 but is Fair .................... 12.00@14.00

about 500,000,000 bushels above the Fair to good sheep ...... 6.50@ 7.00

forecast on July 1 last year. Acre- Culls and common ....... 2.00@ 4.50





Hogs

Receipts 1,290. Market pigs 25c



lower, others steady.

Pigs ......... ‘7 ........... $ “ 10.25

Mixed and yorkers ....... 11.65

Lights .................. 11.00

Roughs ................ , 9,25

Thin roughs ............ 6.00@ 8.00

Stags ................... 7.50

Extreme heavies ........ 9.50@10.50’



CHICAGO-





- ‘ Hogs . ‘

Receipts 45,000. Market slew,

mostly 10c lower than Saturday.

Light lights and pigs 10@250 higher,

around ‘steady with Friday’s average.

Big packers inactive. ,Tops $11.60

packing for a load around 190—lb.





 





 





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weight $11.25; bulk good 150-170—lb.

average $10.75m‘11.40. Strictly choice

170-lb. weight up to $11.50; pigs $9.25





@1025, choice strong weights up to

$10.50. Bulk; packing sows $10006.“

$10.35. Brood sows on butcher orders

up to $10.50.





Cattle



Receipts 15,000. Market fed steers

and yearlings 250 higher, light year-

lings up. Most weighty, roughs, bul-

locks active, good light steers $16.40,

heavies $16.25; heifer yearlings up to

$16.25; grassers $16.25, dry $15.00@

$16.10, Weighty packing bulls $9.006,“

$9.10, few $9.50, light vealers to

packers $13.50 down, only strictly

choice offers to small killers $15.50@

$16.00.

Shebp



Receipts 13,000. Market generally

higher. Market on fat lambs espe

cially draggy, 250 lower on better

grades, inactive, ranger sheep firm.

Feeding lamb indications unchanged.

Native lambs $14.75@15.25; through-

outs $11.00@11.30; packing up to

$15.50 on butcher westerners; $6.50@

$7.50 paid for better grade fat ewes

of 140-lbs. $13.25@13.50 for bulk bet-

ter grade feeding lambs.





BUF F ALO.





Hogs

Receipts 5,900. Hold overs 980.

Mostly 25c lower. Weighty butchers

slo'w. Bulk 170-250-lb. $12.00, tops

$12.05. Pigs and light lights mostly

$11.25@11.50; packing sows $5.00@

$9.150; 280-350-lb. quoted at $11.25@

.7 . - . ‘





Cattle ,,



Receipts 2,600. Dry fed 25@40c

higher; others 250 lower. Bulls

steady. Tops $16.25, for choice $12.10,

steers bulk good dry .fed $15.50@

$15.75, heifers $16.75. Grass steers

$11.50@13.50,_ heavies $12.25@12.35;

few up'to $13.50, all cutter cows $4.50

@$7.00, medium to‘good' $8.00,@9.50,

”bulls $8.50@9.25.



. Cal



, Receipts 1,800.





ves' 4

Market ‘ 50c@$1.00‘

lower.





Tops $1§h50, culls ‘$9.00@,14.





eep .

Receipts 2,000. Market‘s

lambs





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average. The Michigan crop forecast

of 5,628,000 bushels compares with

5,094,000 harvested in 1927 and an

average crop of 6,688,000 bushels.

The old crop has been pretty well

cleaned up and C. H. P. whites are

fire at $10.25 per hundred pounds,

sacked, f. o. b. Michigan shipping

points. "





EGGS.





While receipts of fresh eggs at the

leading markets are- showing the





usual mid-summer decrease from

geek to week, supplies are , larger





an at the corresponding time a year

ago_ when production slumped off

rapidly. Values have remained firm,

however, and premiums 'for fancy

stock have advanced as heat imper—

fections reduced the average quality

of many,of the eggs now arriving.

Breaking plants in the interior are

still In operation in somel sections, 2

taking much of the inferior stock off i

the market. The shortage in storage I

.stocks as compared with a year ago ‘

was reduced during June and on. July

1 totalled 567,000 cases. Total .stocks

of 9,998,000 cases were slightly 1arg~

er than the five-year average on

July 1.



Chicago—Eggs: fresh firsts, 28(1).

28%c; ordinary firsts, 26@27c;

dirties, 24@260; checks, .23@260. Live

poultry: Hens, 25c; broilers, 260;

springers, 37c; roosters, 17c; ducks, '

17c; geese, 14c; turkeys, 20c. -



Detroit—Eggs: Fresh candied and

graded, 29@3lc; dirts and checks,

251/2@27c. Live poultry: broilers,

40@42c; heavy'hens, 27c; light hens,

20c; roosters, 16c; ducks, 20@22c.





BUTTER.





Prices paid for butter were marked

higher last week as the strong sta-

tistical situation featuring continued

moderate receipts and a shortage of

20 million pounds in storage stocks

on July 1 as compared with a year

ago encouraged dealers to believe

values would be maintained. Pastures

are in much better shape than a

month ago and heavy rains have in-

sured their condition .rémaining good

at feast throughout the rest of the ,

month. Production probably will re ‘

main fairly steady during the next

few weeks, but demand is good and

prices are likely to hold steady. For-

eign butter markets are in line with

the domestic situation.



Prices on 92 score creamery were:

Chicago, 4435c; New York, 45c; De-

troit, 4235(03440 on 88@90 score.





POTATOES.





The 1928 potato crop will be ,the

largest on record with oneexception

if the estimate as of July 1 of 444

million bushels is fulfilled. The acre-

age planted in white potatoes this

spring is estimated at 3,842,000 acres,

an increase of 9 per cent over last

year. The condition of the crop on

July 1 was reported as 84.8 per cent

of normal compared with a. ten-year

average of 85.8 per cent. The com-

mercial crop in the second-early

states, which are beginning to ship,

however, is estimated to be 6 per cent

less than last year. The acreage

planted to sweet potatoes was re

duced 8.1 per cent froml last year,

and production is estimated at 75,-

300,000 bushels compared with 93,-

900,000 bushels harvested last year

and a five-year average of 78 million

bushels. .



The condition of all fruit crops on

July 1 was higher than at the cor-

responding time a year ago. The

commercial apple crop is estimated

at 33,200,000 barrels compared with

the small 1927'harvest of 25,900,000

barrels. The peach crop, estimated

at 66 million bushels, is nearly 50

per cent larger than that of 1927.

The pear crop is estimated at 23,-

400,000 bushels as against 18,100,000

bushels produced last year. '





~ GRAND RAPIDS.





Potatoes, $1@1.25 bu; spinach, 50

@750 bu; cabbage, 75c@$1, bu; rhu-

barb, 50@60c bu; tomatoes, 75c@

1.00 7-lb. basket; cucumbers, $1.00@

1.15 doz; radishes, 10@15c doz bchs;

green onions, 10@20¢ bch; carrots

and beets, 20@25c bch; turnips, 25@





 

 

   

   

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 





 





 

   

   

 

 

 





 





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85c bch; leaf lettucec, 30@400 bu;‘

head lettuce, 50c@‘$1.25 ,bu; wax

beans, $1.00@3.00 bu; peas,-best, 1,

@$1.25.bu; wheat, $1.39 I) ; , .

bu; beans,. $9.70 *owt;;-.por -13@_1 c

11); beef 8'@20c lb; veal...15@19olb

lama: sigma eta , ~

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COST or com GROWING





HE investigators employed by the



United States Tariff Commission

to report on corn production costs

have found that the average cost of

raising a bushel of corn in the United

States during the two years 1926 and

1927 was 76 35 cents if interest

charges on farm property were fig-

ured on stated values and 67 7-10 if

the farmer rented his land on a cash

basis. In Argentina, the leading com-

peting country, they found that the

production cost of corn during the

years 1926 and 1927 averaged 79 cents

a bushel.

.To over-balance the slightly higher

cost of production in Argentina, it

was found that the rail haul from the

Middle West is more costly than the

water haul from Argentina to the

American seaboard. Freight rates

from the Mid West to San Francisco,

where much Argentina corn finds a

market, are 38 cents per bushel,

while the water rates from Argentina-

to San Francisco are about 16 cents.

The rail rates from the corn belt to

the Atlantic Coast ports are 22 cents

a bushel while the water rate from

Buenos Aires to the Atlantic Coast

averages 12 cents per bushel.



The corn cost investigation in this

country was confined to the surplus

corn sections. In the region covered

by the investigation 20,999,629 acres

were planted to corn in 1926 and 524,-

913,000 bushels of corn were pro-

duced, about ten per cent of the total

acreage and 24 per cent of the total

production of the United States.

Data on farm costs were obtained for

for 386 farms and marketing costs for

twenty-six local elevators.





 





_CONS|DERATION OF EGG COSTS





PUBLIC hearings on the egg pro-



duction costs in the United States



, and China were held before the



fUnited States Tariff Commission be-



: ginning July 10. The poultry indus-



; try of this country is asking for an



3 increase in. the tariff of 25 per cent



ion shell eggs and 50" per cent on



{frozen and dry eggs.



’ The American poultry producers

were represented by Knox Boude, of

Petaluma, Calif, representing several



‘,Pacific Coast egg producers’ associa-





tions: Harry R. Lewis, of Rhode

Island, president of the National

Poultry Council; Prof. James E.





Rice, head of the 'Poultry Department

of the New York State College of

Agriculture; W. R. Ogg of the Amer-

ican Farm Bureau Federation, and

several producers of frozen eggs and

egg products in this country.



It was shown in the testimony that

the dried egg industry in the United

States has been destroyed by impor-

tations of dried eggs from China;

that the frozen egg industry in this

country is having difficulty in meet-

ing Chinese competition. Directly

and indirectly the egg producers of

this country are compelled under

present conditions to compete with

Chinese producers whose living con-

ditions are very low, with a wage

scale the lowest 0n earth.



The importers, as usual were rep-

resented at the hearing by skillful

attorneys who made use of every

possible argument to show that pro—

duction costs of eggs from China

should include transportation and

selling costs and therefore production

costs were higher than in this coun-

try.





 





EXPORTS 0F GRAIN





XPORTS of grain from the United

States from July 1, 1927, to June

30, 1928, were 229,584,000 bush-

els compared with 221,716,000 bush-

els from July 1 1926, to July 2, 1927,

according to Department of Com—

merce reports. There were heavy in-

creases in barley and rye exports and

a falling off of about 12,000,000 bush-

els in wheat and over 3,000,000 bush-

els in oats. ~..

Imports of wheat from Canada on

which duty was paid amounted to

146,000 bushels during the fiscal year

ended June 30, 1928, compared with

4,000 bushels the previous year.





STUDY LAMB PRICES





 





N reviewing the work of the Bur-

eau of Agricultural .Economics in

., .oreeas’ting lamb prices, M. ,J. B.

E: : (tel, agricultural economist in the





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d’ata covering sixteen years, that an

increase of 10 per cent in the supply

of lambs will reduce prices 6 per

cent.



Shiawassee County: Farmers have

competition between beef and lamb

was sufficient so that a 10 per cent

advance in beef prices would ordin-

arily mean a 3 per cent advance in

lamb prices," all other things remain-

ing the same. A 10 percent change

in business activity would ordinarily

cause about 1 per cent change in the

price of lambs, indicating that lamb

prices are not nearly so sensitive to-

changes in the prosperity of consum-

ers as they are to changes in the

supply of lamb.



One of the earliest live stock

studies made by the Bureau of Agri-

cultural Economics was that of lamb

prices.





U. S. CROP REPORT





parts of the country indicate an



upward tendency in crop acre-



ages this season and some

shifting of acreage away from hay

and toward crops which have given

larger returns per acre. From pre-

Sent indications the harvested acre-

age of the principal crops is expect-

ed to show an increase of about 2

per cent over the acreage harvested

last season. In round figures, the

most important increases are: corn,

4 per cent; barley, 30 per cent; cot-

ton, 11 per cent; potatoes, 9 per

cent; tobacco, 18 per cent; beans, 7

per cent; and peanuts, 5 per cent.

The most important decreases are:

hay, 4 per cent; wheat, 1.5 per cent;

rye, 4 per cent; sweet potatoes, 8 per

cent; rice, 5 per cent; and flax, 3 per

cent.



The increase in total crop acreage

is most marked in some of the semi-

arid sections and in those parts of

the Mississippi and Ohio valleys

which suffered from overflow or from

excessively wet conditions during the

spring of 1927. In other sections, the

increases reflect chiefly the generally

favorable weather for planting, the

somewhat better prices for farm pro-

ducts and the ample supply of farm

labor. If the increases that are now

in prospect materialize the harvested

acreage will be the largest since 1919.





Although the production of most

crops is still largely dependent on the

weather between now and harvest,

there are indications that the increase

in acreage compared with last year

may be more than offset by lower

yields per acre. The composite con-

dition of the 35 principal crops on

July 1 was 5.8 per cent below the

average July 1 condition of these

crops during the last ten years.





Corn: The total area in corn is

estimated at 102,380,000 compared

with 98,868,000 acres harvested last

year, an increase of about 3,500,000

or 3.6 per cent. Nearly all of the in-

crease has taken place in the group

of states extending from Ohio and

Kentucky west to Kansas. In the

eastern portion of this area, wet

weather prevented the planting of the

usual acreage of corn in 1927, and

the heavy loss of winter wheat left





REPORTS from farmers in all





an unusually large acreage to be: ing and 9" ton trailer $05.00. E.





planted to corn and small grains.





The condition of corn on July 1,

was 78.1 per cent of normal,‘com-

pared with 69.9 per cent on July 1,

1927, and 82.6 per cent, the ten-year

average. The best conditions, rela-

tively, are found in the North Central

and Western States, Michigan, North

Dakota, and Montana excepted. In

many of the South Central States

where rainfall was excessive, and

June temperature below normal, the

condition of corn ranges from 60 to

66. Conditions along the Atlantic

Seaboard are fair to good.





_The condition of corn on July 1 in-

dicates a yield per acre of 26.7 bush-

els, compared with 28.2 bushels per

acre harvested in 1927, and 27.2 bush-

els, the five-year average.



Production on this basis is fore-

cast at 2,735,617,000 bushels, which

compares with 2,786,009,000 bushels

harvested in 1927 and 2,752,000,000

bushels the five-year average.





 





COUNTY CROP REPORTS





Shiawasse County: Farmers have

begun to cut their hay which looks

good, being far beyond what was in-

dicated a month ago. Corn looks

fair and beans are putting on a fine

growth. Potatoes are being culti-

vated the second time. The wet

weather has improved pastures. Few

calves are being raised because of

high price of milk. Common veals

are bringing only nine dollars in the

local market. Butter-fat 43c; milk

$2.50@3.00 per cwt; eggs 27®28c;

.. new 900@$1.00:

wheat $1.35; oats 600.; com $1.006)

91.25; seed beans ,910.00,@11.00 per





 





 





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60 lbs; not much demand for fat

stock. The outlook for the wheat

crop is not very good—D. H. M.

Ontonagan County: Haying two

weeks late, about 70% of the crop.

Grain not. very good. Fruit about





50%. Pastures 100%. Butter-fat

brings 430; eggs 250; dairy farming

good. Farmers are doing well and





are satisfied. Not many cattle being

sold now.——E. M.





Manistee County: Seeding about all

done. Fruit looks poor, but meadows

and pastures are very good. Corn

and beans look poor. Farm work is

well advanced. Cream brings 440;

eggs 30c; dressed hogs 12c.——N. W.





Kalamazoo County: Farmers are

busy making hay and cultivating

corn. Hay is light and of not very

good quality. Corn is not up to

standard heighth for time of year.

Strawberries were a. short crop but

the cherry crop will be fair. Farm-

ers are not giving much attention. to

political promises but are plugging

away to better their own condition.

——L. R. H.



St. Clair County: Grain and fruit

below average. Meadows and pas-

tures are poor on account of too





much Wet and cold weather. Corn

exceedingly poor. Bean acreage

small, some pieces look fair. Sugar





beets look very poor. Early potatoes

are below average. Late crop is not

planted. General field work is.about

a month behind. Average price of

milk $2.35; butter-fat 470; eggs 28c;

dairy farming is expanding, but all

farmers are discouraged with the out-

look—J. S. Q.



Missaukee County: Favorable wea-

ther has improved grains which

have prospects for fair crop. Oats,





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spelts, and barley doing well. If we

get sufficient rain when grain is

filling we will have bumper crops.

Fruit prospect fair. Meadows good

and pastures in splendid condition.

Live stock is doing well. Corn~is

late but has good color. Beans are

alSo doing well. There is little in-

crease in potato acreage which is

doing well. Field work is well along.

Milk 100 per quart; butter-fat 43c;

hogs $9.50; dairying, sheep raising,

and certified seed

panding.——H. S. S. _





Ottawa County: Wheat look better





as it gets nearer maturity. Oats

promise above an average crop. Hay

is quite heavy. Recent rains have





held up corn and potato planting and

general cultivation. Many acres of

early potatoes rotted in the ground.

Pastures are plentiful. Field work is

crowding farmers who are short of

help—F. C. H.





Oceana County: Wheat and rye are

fair, oats and pasture good. Corn is

backward but beans and potatoes are

doing fine. Farmers are well up with





their work. Milk is 90 a quart; but--





ter—fat 440; eggs 27c; dressed hogs

13c; cattle $6.00@10.00: veal $7.006)

$10.00. Poultry, dairying, and fruit

are expanding here—J. E. S.

Newaygo County: Fruit and grain

are in good condition. Meadows are

normal and pastures fine. Corn and

beans are looking good but are be-

hind season. Farmers are caught up

with work. Grain is ripening later

than usual. Potatoes never looked

better. Butter-fat and eggs are about

the only things being sold. Butter-

fat brings 450; eggs 250. All branches

ofsfarfimigg are going along as usual.





 





 





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11 ........ .99 3.09 7.56

12 ........ 1.05 3.36 7.84

3 ........ 1.11 3.64 8.12

1.2 3.92 8.40



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. 4.48 8.96



11 ........ .53 4.16 9.24

1 ........ 1.62 5.04 9.52

19 ........ 1.71 5 32 9.80

2 ........ 1.90 5 60 10.08

21 ........ 1.89 5 98 10.36

2 ........ 1.99 6 16 10.64

93 ........ 2 01 6 44 10.92

24 ........ 2.16 6.12 11.20

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landtd forth: Clauifltd Depafimmr mun ranch thin (67:: (m

do}; in advanu of publication dart.





MISCELLANEOUS





WHY BLAME THE BULL when your cow'does not

breed? Use Cow Catch 1 hour before servrce. Re-

sults or your money back: 85 cents for one cow,





 





 





 





$2.90 for five cows. postpaid. Woodstock Farm. Ren-

ton, Route 2. Box 490. Washington.





FOR SALE—Two horse cultivator $7.00. 50 spike

tooth harrow $0.00, walking culstivagér 5%5411 Earls



' d .‘i 'nr $2."0. (.‘orn crib 10. . or ur-

groin. us ( a I’oupnrd, 1011





Yorkshire. Grosse Pt.





FOR SA LIE—Used Dclco Light Plants, with or with—

out batteries. In good condition. Guarantee with

each plant. B. Tindall, 716 Miner Street. Ann

Arbor. Michigan.





SI’IIEADRRS AND PACKERS direct





MANURE .

Write for prices to Box





from factory to .t‘annetz‘.

287. Liberty, Indiana.





 





REAL ESTATE





FOR SALE OR EXi‘IIANGE for small 'property

close town, equipped. 135 acre fruit. dairy, and

muck farm. Grout possibility for right party.

(.'. Zimmerman. Lawton. Mich.





(‘OME TO WONDERFUL Grant County. Arkansas.





 





Wonderful opportunities. Unsurpassed for" home

seekers. \Yi‘ite (‘hnmbor of Commerce. Sheridan,

Arkansas. for absolute facts.



FOR SALE‘Bungalow. Income $72.00 monthly.





C. Condos. 441 W. Troy, Ferndale. Michigan.





MATTRESSES





MATTRESSES made any size. low factory pricel.

Catalog free. Peoria Bedding Company. Peoria. 111.





 





 





SEEDS





 





REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED ROSEN RYE for

sale. ready for fall delivery. Guaranteed first qual-

ity seed grown under isolated conditions. A Blue

Ribbon winner at the lntcrnational Grain Show.

lim years out of seven. \Vrito for prices. Geo. C.

& L. G. Iiutzlor, South Manitou, Mich.





 





PLANT LYMAN'S GRIM'M ALFALFA NOW for a.

big cash crop early next spring. Genuine Grimm is

leader and higher in feeding \aluc than other varie-

tics. All seed scariilcd, nwessitating less per acre.

A. B. Lyman. Introducc'r of Grimm Alfalfa. Excel—

sior. Minn.





 





SCIENCE AND PRACTICE demonstrate

American Banner whcat. Wolverine oats.

Robust beans best for Michigan. Choice Certified

American Banner Sccd Wheat. Prices. sample. in-

formation on request. A. B. Cook, Owosso. Mich.





Improved

Improved





TOBACCO





SUMMER SPECIAL: Guaranteed chewing or smok-

ing, five pounds, $1.00: ten, $1.75: 50 cigars. $1.75-

l‘ipo tree. pay when received. Farmers’ Tobacco

Association. West Paducah. Ky.





 





 





GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOBACCO—«Chewing. 5

pounds, $1.25; 10. $2. Smoking. 10. $1.50. Pipe

Frccl Pay postman. United Farmers, Bardweli.

Ix’cntucky.





 





IIOMESI’UN TOBACCO—Guarantmd.

lbs. $1.00; 10. $1.75.

l’uy win-n received.





(‘hcwing 5

Smoking 5 ills. 75c. 10 $1.25.

Farmers Union. Mayflcld. Ky.





 





 





POULTRY





 





WHITE LEGHORNS. hens and males now half price.

Thousands of oight-wcck-old pullcts. Also baby

chicks and eggs. Trapncsted. pedigreed foundation

stock, egg bred 28 years. Winners at 20 egg con-

tests. Catalog and special price bulletin free. I ship





 





(. . and guarantee satisfaction George B.

Ferris, 934 Union. Grand Rapids, Mich.

W'iIIT'l‘AKER’S REDS. BOTH COMBS. R. 0. P.





Trapnestcd. Michigan Certified.

crcls. Dullets. Write for catalog.

Box 9. Lawrence. Mich.





Cocks. hens. cook-

Interlakes Farm,





 





WANTED FARMS





WANTED—To hear from owner of.1andlfor sale

for fall delivery. 0. Hawley. Baldwm, Wis.





FARMS FOR RENT





WANTED—Reliable married man to run equipped

farm. shares. Box 154. Michigan Farmer, Detmit.





CORN HARVESTER





RICH MAN'S Corn Harvester, poor man's price—4

only $25.00 with bundle tying attachment. Free

catalog showing pictures of harvester. Process Com-

pany. Saline. Kans.





 





 





 





PET AND LIVE STOCK





MAKE MONEY FROM MUSKRAT FUR. Rollo

Muskrats in dry land pens or hutches. Get hots.

692 Conrad's Ranch, Denver, Colorado.





 





RABBITS. Flemish Giants. light gray. Write your

wants. A. Yagcman. Kinde, Michigan.





PLANTS AND BULBS " ‘





. . ., id. Standard varieties.

{ms’ m m,“§:on1”£mifi‘m taco. w. 1:.

W93!" mm 14mins“ ch- . ‘ * .





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WANTED—Single man {cg metal {011111118- oval-’3

gun: modern. Albert , ,

. a. nu: 7124 J a. .





BABY CHICKS





BABY ('IIII‘KS AND PULLETS. Bummer—Fredrick-

son's famous quality chicks 7c each and up. Barred

Rocks, Rhode Island Reds. S. C. White Leghorn.

Shipped C. O. D. Live delivery guaranteed. Splen-

did selection 8-10«12 weeks old pullets in above

breeds. Blummer‘Fredrickson Poultry Farm. Box

28. Holland. Michigan.





 





LOOK! Chicks until September. Reds. White. Buff,

Barred Rocks. Black Minorcas 12c. Buff Orpingbons,

Silver or White Wyandottcs 131/20. White. Brown or

Bufi' Leghorns. Heavy Mixed 10c. Order Breeding

.(‘ockerels from R. 0. P. MALE MATINGS. Lawrence

Hatchery. Grand Rapids. Michigan.





 





BABY (“HICKS—Barred and White Recks.

Wyandottes. Oriiingtons at lic. chhorns 96.

ton Co. Hatchery. St. Johns. Mich.





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’ for judging value, that means as

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You know that “guaranteed

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plant food. It does not guaran-

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chanical condition.





A new standard of value





These things are vitally impor-

tant, as important in judging

fertilizer as guaranteed analysis.





That is why Swift 8; Company,





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~ new buying guide to fertilizers

as important at guaranteed analysis





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   





co-operating with your State Ex-

periment Station to give you the

analysis best suited for your soil, goes a step

further in making Red Steer Fertilizers right.

That is part of the well-known Swift policy

~—every Swift product the best it is possible

to make.





To give you the best materials, to mix them

right, requires great care. It requires exten-

sive equipment and a staff of trained experts.





   

 

 

 





A new assurance of quality

The Swift Certificate of Quality certifies that





 

 





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I complete mixings — DOUBLE MIXED —— to





Red Steer Fertilizers have gone through two .





make sure each plant gets a balanced ration.





It also certifies that Swift’s Red Steer Ferti-

lizers undergo at least three rigid tests in fully

equipped laboratories.





The first test is made on the raw materials,

before they are accepted for use. The second

is made during the process of mixing and cur-

ing. The final test is made before the fertilizer

is sacked. TRIPLE TESTED!





Look for the tag that says

Double Mixed, Triple Tested





Double mixed, triple tested—a plus value in





~ SWift'S Red Steer Fertilizers





“IT PAYS TO USE THEM”,





fertilizers! A plus value over and

above the guaranteed analysis.





You’ll find the certification

tag illustrated on. this page on

every single bag of Red Steer

Fertilizer. It says Best Materi-

als, DOUBLE MIXED, TRI-

PLE TESTED.





See your A. S. A.





Ask the A. .S. A. (Authorized

Swift Agent) for Red Steer. And

look for the certification tag on

every bag. It’s your assurance

of quality in fertilizers.





 





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Fertilizer Works \'





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A tip on wheat





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Did you ever stop to think

that you can help control the

price you get for your whea t? 3

Premium prices, you know, are paid for l

the higher grades. These grades are based

on quality. You can grow Wheat of better ~

(quality by using the right'kind offertilizer. ~ ~-

And you can - sai’e money by buying

Swif t’s Red S teer high '

analysis fertilizers.

AskyoufrA. S. A. about

Swift’s Red S teer

4-16 -4 and. 4-16-10.

Drop in and talk

this over With your

A. S. A. He can help

you make more profit





   

   

 





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