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How a PreaCher “Got a Farm





An Ambition Realized on Light Soil

By Rochester Irwin





S a small boy, I had two am-



bitions: one, to be a minister;



the other to own a farm. Years‘

after, in Illinois, with the first goal

attained, I began to think seriously

of the second. ‘But how was I, a poor

preacher, to buy land there ranging

from two to five hundred dollars per

acre? My chances of paying for it

were about as good as a snow storm

in June. The interest on my large

indebtedness, together with the high

taxes would dispose of my profits as

a pig drinks swill, leaving me noth-

ing with which to pay on the prin-

cipal. Evidently, I could not buy and

pay for that kind of land.



One day, in a religious journal I

saw an advertisement offering for

sale cheap land in the cut-over pine

region of Michigan. “Pay for the

land by raising potatoes; railroad ex.

penses returned to any buyer who

comes to see it,” was offered pros-

pectives.



I went. It was in the middle of

March when, with the owner,‘ I

tramped over a wild, rolling quarter

section fairly well covered with sap-

lings of oak, aspen, and maple. I

could not see the soil at. all, except

where the sled runners of a wood

hauler had cut down through the soft,

melting snow into the humus. Long,

black, rotting logs; tall, gray jagged

stumps: relics of the lumber days,

striped and dotted the surface like

mechanisms on a gambler’s board.

Truly, it was suggestive of the

chances one would. take if he tried

to make a farm there. But, although

opposed to gambling, I was so de-

sirous to own a farm, that I offered

five dollars an acre for it. The owner

stuck for eight. Finally, we compro-

mised, and I bought it on contract at

six and a half, paying $250 down, and

agreeing to pay the remainder in four

equal, annual installments.



For several succeeding summers, I

spent my vacations there, camping in

a tent, and cutting aspens on a cer-

tain forty I had selected for clearing.

Then I employed men at $1.50 a day

to cut the remaining saplings on the

piece, they simply cutting them in

windrows, and allowing them to. lie

as they fell. I thought that after

drying out, a fire with the wind blow-

ing strongly, would burn them away,

along with some of the logs. But in

this I was mistaken. I now had $600

in the forty—a wilderness of brush,

logs, and stumps. I was in, and must

get out; so I employed a professional

“stumper” to clear the land of the

brush, and to pull and pile the stumps

and logs into great heaps; in other





» words, to “fit the forty for the plow.”





This made an ' additional cost of

$1,200. ‘

' I now had $1,800, besides consider-

able personal labor, ' invested in this

trial forty.” Was it worth it? Yes.

Contrary to the" common but errono

eous belief that pi e lands are all but

worthless, is, in many instances, their

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tation of the glacial age. 'Such land,

well underlaid with moisture-retaining

clay, is lively, warm, and easily

worked, and aided by the longer

hours of sunshine, of the northern

day, produces great crops of potatoes,

beans, rye, and clover. My first'crop

-—red kidney beans, averaged twenty-

five bushels per acre, and selling at

$2.25 a bushel made me an income

favorably comparing with that from

the high-priced corn land of the Mid-

dle West, and of much higher per-

centage on the investment.



A little later, I learned that the

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to land clearing in this part of the

country, are not an unmixed evil.

When drawn into line, and on their

sides, with- their roots interlacing,

they form one of the most durable

fences in existence. The turpentine





‘and resin in them keep them from

'decaying, and their fixity is such as





to turn the most lawless stock, ex-

cept sheep and hogs. There are no

new fence posts to set every few

years, and no expensive wire to buy

and stretch upon them.



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For the Want of Water





Dreams of Dessert in the Desert





DREAME’D of ice cream and cold



watermelon—and awoke to find us



still somewhere on the edge of

the Sahara Desert and still out of

water. We weren’t entirely out for

we each had that half-pint in the car-

bide generators of our motorcycles,

minus the taste we’d taken to see if

it was geod. It was; anything wet

would have been good under those

circumstances. -'



But a half-pint isn’t much at nine

o’clock in the morning when you

haven’t had a drink since one the

previous afternoon and were so dry

then you could hardly spit, even if

you’d wanted to. And we were lost.



Besides, it was starting in on an-

other of those Afri-tropic days. The

sun and the blinding sand weretwo

white-hot arcs of heat, and Jim and

I were trapped in the incandescent

gap between. Down poured those





 

   

   

   

 

 

 





 





By Francis Flood





blazing bolts, like molten pollen to be

fertilized in the white Sahara sands

and then to propagate, a million rays

for one, there in that desert spawn-

ing ground of heat. The sun and sand

were two grinning hellions playing

battledore and shuttlecock, a sort of

thermal ping-pong. match with fire

shovels for paddles and “ne plus ultra

rays” for balls? And there we lay

in the cross-fire between these two

arch-crucibles, their shafts ricochet-

ing off our shirts and parching our

very sweat glands dry. No water for

twenty hours past, and none in pros-

pect. We didn’t even know in which

direction the nearest village lay. We

would simply wait for some one to

come along.



This waiting, there on that desert

caravan trail, gave me time to recall

the story which a French captain, a

camel meharisse, had told us a few





 





 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





 





of foundations for barns and houses,

and often the entire walls of the

buildings.



Farmers unable to meet the initial

expenses of getting this land in con-

dition for cultivation, often plow be-

tween the still standing stumps, and

raise fine crops. But this way is

wasteful—wasteful of time, space,

labor, and land; for it is proverbially

true that, “One good crop raised on

the ground occupied by a stump and,

its roots, pays for the pulling.”



Today, the writer has a half sec-

tion, all well fenced—mostly with

stumps, 120 acres of which total is

in cultivation. On one “wild” forty

is a gravel pit which brings some

“easy money.” His boyhood’s dream

is realized—something that would

have been next to impossible in the

older, settled communities of the Mis-

sissippi Valley. In addition, he has

gained, along with the farm, a rugged

health induced by the strenuous but

strengthening labors of the pioneer.

But better than all, he has won that

satisfying sense of having “made two

blades of grass grow where none grew

before,” and of meriting, therefore,

membership in that honorable arisw





tocracy that feeds the mouths and , ‘





clothes the backs of the world.





days before as we sat at the Com-

mandant’s dinner table in N’Guigmi.



The Captain had been lost in the

desert too. (Well, then we weren’t

the only ones.) He had failed to find

a certain well he’d staked his life on

finding. He lived to tell the tale to

us only because he had been fortuno

ate enough to shoot a gazelle, one of

those nimble little beasts who al-

ways know where water is, and had





drunk the water from its stomach, , g _

That same evening a lieutenant

told us of arriving with his caravan





at one of those desert military wells

and seeing the stark figure of a man: *

stretched out

Strange that he should have died so .

near a‘ well, for the victim’s swol-

len tongue told as plainly as





though it could speak how the des-





ert had claimed his life.



When a man dies of thirst in an

ordinary way, the desert simply

laughs, and the bleaching bones are

boast enough of its might. But here

was a wretch who had parched to





death on the very edge of a well with g,





the water [taunting him even as he,





died. It was too good a song tabs

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VOLUME CLXXI NUMBER FIVE





DETROIT, AUGUST 4, 1928





HERE has been

more than a little





Corn dissatisfaction among

_ Borer farmers in the area

Control infested by the corn





. borer, over the pres-

ent control law as enforced by the

State Department of Agriculture.

During recent months this dissatis-

faction has crystallized into organized

action in several counties of the state.

Steps were taken to contest the con-

stitutionality of the law, and a test

case was recently tried, in which the

court upheld the law on every con-

tended count. An appeal from this

decision will doubtless be taken to

the supreme court, to finally settle

this phase of the matter.



In order" to get an expression of

sentiment from all aggrieved parties

and an opinion from leaders in the

various farm- groups in the state, Gov.

Green called a. conference in his

office on Monday of last week for a

general discussion of the situation.

From the’ discussion it appeared that

there is a wide difference in opinion

among the farmers in the infested

area as to the degree to which the

corn borer is a menace to present

and future corn production in the

state. But the real difficulty has been

in the failure of CODgress‘to appro-

priate money to compensate farmers

in the infested area for clean-up work.

Last year the money paid the farmers

of the state for this work approxi-

mated $1,500,000. This year they have

been obliged, under the law and the

regulations of the state department, to





”Isation or sufier the penalty of hav-

-"‘ing the work done by, agents of the

state and have the cost assessed to

,gthem as a tax.



It‘ was generally agreed that the

horn borer is a national as well as

9. state problem; that effective clean

up campaigns cannot be successfully





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infested area. and that this

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do the same work without compen— '





agsubstantial' majority of' the farmers ,





operating farmers for the extra,:work

involved. This sentiment crystallized

in the adoption of'a resolution recoga

nizing the corn borer as a menace

and acknowledging the need of cOn—

trol measures, but recommending that

the continuance of control measures be

made contingent on the action of

Congress in appropriating funds for

the reasonable compensation of farm'-

ers in the infested. area who cooper-

ate in clean-up' work, according to

the regulations promulgated by the

state department of agriculture.



It is. apparent that the calling of

this conference by Gov. Green was a

Wise move. It should aid materially

in ironing out the friction between

the farmers in the infested area and

the Commissioner of Agriculture, who

has no option in the matter except

to enforce the law until it is repealed.

It‘ should also serve to promote a. bet-

ter understanding of farmer sentiment

in the infested area on the part of

the administration and point the way

to possible needed changes in the law

or the rules laid down- for its enforce-

ment. But the most important result

should be in impressing upon Con-

gress the necessity of federal co-

operation if effective control meas-

ures are to be maintained in the in-

fested area, which will retard the

spread of the pest into great corn

producing states of the middle west.



In this connection it may be said

that the- officials of the state depart-

ment of agriculture made a gallant

fight for an appropriation by Congress

for the compensation of farmers in

clean-up work. Unfortunately there

was opposition to such an appropria-

tion on the part of some farmers who

claimed to represent a substantial

farmer sentiment, which may have

had an influence on the action of

Congress.



In any event there can now remain

no doubt in the minds of members

of that body that farmer sentiment

in Michigan demands that corn borer

control be recognized as a national,

rather than a strictly local problem,

and that there must be national co-

operation along the lines indicated if

effective control measures are to be

maintained.



It is a matter for regret that there

should be misunderstanding and

trouble regarding the enforcement of

a state law. But if out of the tur-

moil comes a better understanding of

what must be done to curb this men-

ace to American agriculture and the

nation’s food supply, the end will

justify the means. It is apparently

a sound premise that where the re-

sult is for the benefit of all, the bur

den should not fall on the few. But

having scored this point the farmers

in the infested area should not rest

until the national government is

aroused to the importance of corn

borer control and is awakened to its

duty in that regard.





 

 

 





HAT chain stores





Chain are a growing

Store factor in our lives is

indicated by their in-



Influence creasing numbers, in





large cities, their in-

vasion of smaller towns, their good

financial statements, and the adop-

tion of the chain store idea by the

mail order. houses. The efficient and

economical chain store method of

getting goods before the consuming

public is the :reason for this growth.

This method of merchandizing is

far-reaching in its influence. To the

small merchant it is almost an insur-

mountable problem. ‘Wholesale,- job-

.bing. and commission houses also see

their trade dwindling because of the

chain store habit of, buying and mer-

chandising. ‘ ~ ‘





The influence is even being felt





agdcuiturally‘and may in due time.

bring about some radical chinzeilglni





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cheapest. Purchases droniadé’ from ‘a. .





which point theyare distributed‘to

the retail outlets, This lessens the

local market for small producers and

tends to bring prices for such com-

modies to a common level.



Another factor which operates

against the small producer of perish-

able crops is the' development of big

production in ' the South along this '

line, thus making their products avail-

able to northern consumers and in a.

measure satisfying their appetite for

them in advance of our producing sea-

son. New developments bring new

problems in evcry line of production.

Agriculture, like every other develop-

ment, is a. constant evolution.





HIS mechanical



Two age is rapidly

J evolving into an elec-

umps trical one with elec-

Nearer tricity rapidly taking





the place of steam as

a motive force. In the past, advan-

tages of electricity have been on-

joyed principally in. the city but more

and more the use of the electric

power is being adapted to and adopt-

ed by farmers.



One of the greatest obstacles that

has delayed rural electrification is the

cost of the, current. Due to leakage

when high- voltage is transmitted over

long distances, the price for what

may finally reach the farm has been

considered too high for agriculture to’

pay. But to overcome this leakage,

recently there has been invented a.





. means by which' high voltage may be





transmitted any distance from the

source of generating power without

loss. When the losses in distribution

can be checked and the length of the

line increased, the rate can no doubt

be brought within the reach of all.



Another new development in~elec-

trio—power transmission which, it is

believed, will extend the use! of ”this

power in rural communities is a. [re—

finement in distribution. By adapting

to power transmission lines, the prin-

ciple of radio tuning one of the- tech.-

nical limitations of alternating—current

transmission is overcome. The prin-

ciple applies not only to the high‘

voltage, long distance power line, but

to the low voltage rural electric line

upon which depends the broader elec-

trification of rural communities.



These two new developments prom-

ise to bring electricity two jumps

nearer a greater number of farm

homes, but they do not mean that we

now sit quietly by and wait. There

is much organizing, negotiating, and

real work to be done if electricity is

to be made available generally to

rural communities.





HILE the writ-





Time ' er was roam-

ing through the re-



to cesses of his mind

Detach f o r some editorial





' subject, he became

interested in a fly on his desk, busi-

ly engaged in rubbing its hind legs

together and preening its wings. He

forgot editorial worries in his inter-

est in the simple life and activities

of the fly before him.



These rambling thoughts brought a.

detachment from office routine and

freshened the mind. They awakencd

the realization of the value of de-

tachment. When the mind works in

vain, the body becomes weary and

restless, and routine becomes bur-

,densome, it, is time to detach. We

cannot all go up into. the clouds, as

described in one of our tampon last





‘ week to. change ourpérspeciive; but I





”we, can become. interlocked in-_‘ they,

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new and wholeSomo: realms, for one

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with, much more ease, the things





which seemed to be so insurmount-





able before. _

For the good they do a, poreonlwe '

urge short jaunts and more‘éxtended

vacations wheneyer "possible. ,And

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0U know after workin‘ these hot

days, it’s nice to crank up the old



'bus and burn up a littul gasoline and

to make use of the roads we’ve been

payin’ fer. What's the use of payin’

fer theseroadsand not usin’ them,

and pne of them evening autoeStrolls

is a nice way to do it.



1‘ like auto strolls, about fifteen

miles a. hour, ’cause you don’t use up

so much gas andtires and still you’re



. out on the road.

Well, these auto

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anywhere.

Fer inst, I’ve





found out some-

thing about ini-

tiative, I guess

t h e perfessors

call it. In the old days man was the

one what had this initiative stuff. He

used to go and grab his fair lady by

.the hair and drag her to. hisrden and

make her his wife. Even when grand

pop was a courtin’, the young lady

was supposed to. be sweet, modest,

and what you call demure. I don’t

know whether that word is in the dic-

tionary now or- not, 'cause there don’t

seem to be them kinda. girls now.



For inst, you just drive along and

you'll see two people setting‘ in a. car,

goin' slow, and the boy is drivin’ the

car and the girl is settin' lots closer

than is comfortabul, tryin’ to attract

his attenshun. There ain’t no use

for girls settin’ so close ’cause it

crowds the driver and is dangerous.

It's likely to get them in trouble.



In this day of womanly liberty,

seems like the woman does: as much

courtin’ as the man. And I guess-

it’s 0. K. ’cause.in the' old day-s if

the right one didn’t ask her she’d

have to take somebody else, but today

she just goes right after the right

one and gets him, even if he don’t

want to. It just seems like a. woman

wants a. man to get married. I guess

it’s just as right fer a woman to pick

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I guess woman has found that'man

is one of the necessary equipments to

the home she wants to have. I guess

from the way Sofie thinks, and lots

of others, man is often necessary but

‘useless in lots of cases. ' ' -



- Now if I was one of them perfes-

sorish sort o"fellows, I’d saY. “My

observations on my automotive ramb-

lings have revealed to me that the

female of the species has consider—

able initiative, judging from the way

they like to interfere with the purely

mechanical operations of such an in-

tricataand complex mechanism ah the

automobile. I judge, after extended

observation, ,that their close proxim- .

ity is not due to their interest being .

entirely a. mechanical one." ’ ~



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»Livingston County there is a



flock of a thousand high ”qual-

ity White Leghorn baby chicks and

one hundred seventy-five laying hens

of the same breed that are perhaps

the luckiest bunch of chickens any-

where in the state. And for this rea-

son, day and night they are in charge

of a trained nurse.

. Eight years ago Genevieve Read,

then superintendent of nurses at the

University of Michigan Hospital, de

cided that her own health required





It was anothernstory of the chick-

ens saving their own lives by squawk-

ing at the right time as the suspi-

cious looking culprits stopped at a

gas station and a wide-awake deputy

was on his job. ,



The flock of a thousand baby chicks

are particularly ‘ well trained. A

shout or two at themin a high voice

and they scamper, every one, into

their coop under cover from hawks

or a threatening storm. But with the

flock of laying hens, it’s different.

Their keen, alert eyes note every





movement and color. When the writer

stepped into the yard ever so steal-

thily, they started Skyward. Eliza-

beth, who takes most of the care of

the laying fiock, could not enter the

yard in her bright colored house

frock but had to put on an old coat

to which'they were accustomed be-

fore entering their domain without

fear on their part.



And so in their flock of White Leg-

horns these two sisters have found

health, a neat profit, and high ad-

venture in. doing a job well.





fellow farmers by a deservedly well

known pioneer, whose great delight

was in' sharing the benefits of his

rich experience.





Regulations Concerning the Contest



1, Secure affidavit blanks and in-

formation regarding the contest from

County Agricultural Agents or the

Farm Crops Department of the Mich-

igan State College.



2. Determine the total acreage and

total yield in bushels from five acres

or more, for the crop or crops you

wish to enter. All three crops may





be entered.



3. Record the acreage and yield on

the affidavit blank.



4. Have acreage and yield verified

by a County Agricultural Agent or

a member of the Michigan Crop Im-

provement Association; the signa-

tures to appear on the affidavit.



5. Forward affidavits to the Super-

intendent of Exhibits, Michigan State

Fair, Detroit, Michigan, or Farm

Crops Dept, M. S. 0., East Lansing,

on or before September lst, 1928.



6. Entry of grain in this contest

does not prevent exhibition of an-

other sample of the same grain in the

open classes, nor is membership in

the Michigan Crop Improvement Asso-

ciation required. Any farmer in the .

state is eligible to enter. '





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





, some of the careful, skilled nursing

¢ that she had for years been cheer-

fully rendering to others.



‘ In considering her health problem,

' Miss Read found a solution where so

many do, “back on the farm.” In

her case, going back to the farm was

doubly appealing in. that she chose

her old homestead about three miles

. west of South Lyon where she now



,9 lives with her sister and mother.

“But how did you come to start

raising chickens?” we asked.

f “To have something to do,” was her

frank reply. “If one is to get well

and keep well, one must have some-

thing to do, something to keep one

. busy. We have found that the

3 ' ‘chicken business’ keeps us busy. It’s

l fascinating to watch the young

'chicks grow, and thrilling to gather

the first pullet eggs in the early fall.

. “Caring for and feeding the flock





 





 





 





 





Genevieve Read and Sister Get Enjoyment and Profit from Their Poultry





Memo rial to a Pioneer Farmer





Influence of I. H. Butterfield in Agriculture Recognized

- By P. R. Miller





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takes us out in all kinds of weather

but if one, dresses to keep warm in

cold weather and dry in wet weather

that’s all that is necessary.” By

Miss Read referred to the

splendid cooperation of her sister

Elizabeth in their chicken venture.





When we referred to her success

with chickens, Miss Read gave us but

one rule. ‘ :1 cull all the time. Con-

stantly I am on the lookoutvfor the

chicks that do not. show normal de-

velopment. A bump on the head

takes them off our boarders’ list. Feed

is too high for these chicks that will

not even make good broilers. Then,

too, it’s easy to cull the pullets when

they begin to lay. In this way, we

keepup an efficient flock and make

more economical use of feed.





“Unfortunately we do not have a

good market for our broilers. They

have not brought us ,a ' fair profit.

This year we hope to make better ar-

rangements before selling. But we

have been fortunate in marketing the

eggs. The same commercial dealer

has collected our eggs, once a week,

winter and summer, right at our door.

Prices for the past year ranged from

,thirty to eighty cents.

from sixty to sixty-five per cent

through the winter and net us a neat

profit for shoveling paths and feed.”



“Chicken thieves? What about

them?” ~



“We’ve had them like everybody

else, but, perhaps, our case is a bit

different. One morning last June I





. went out to ‘feed a special pen of





our best-laying hens. Five were mis-

sing with tracks of the intruders of

the previous night Still visible. Right

then our worries began for we sus-

pected that the culprits had been

frightened away and- might be plan-





- ning for a return trip later.





“About ten o’clock that morning,

Mr. Sheriff drove in and introduced

.himself. Still disturbed over our loss





' I reported that he was a bit too late r,





for we had had our first chicken

thieves last night. 'Yes, I know,’ re-

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ICHIGAN agriculture has lost



one of its most devoted and



able pioneers—Ira H. Butter-

field. He was a man of vision, a

leader, active and unceasing in his

whole-hearted effort to better farm

life. During his last years, scarcely

a day passed but he could be found

invinformal conference .with various

agricultural authorities, either on the

Michigan State College campus or

throughout the state. His broad back-

ground of experience, his open-mind-

edness and his optimism left a last-

ing impression on all with whom he

came in contact. "



It was during such a conference

with various members of the Farm

Crops Department of the Michigan

'State College that be advanced the

idea of a plan to encourage higher

crop yields and better quality. From

his intimate knowledge of the history

of fairs in the state, Mr. Butterfield

had been convinced of the efficacy

and popular appeal of grain contests

where yield in bushels per acre and

quality were considered as the basis

of award. He further outlined the ef-

fectiveness of such contests in pro—

moting crop improvement in many

sections, through the adoption of bet-

ter seed, superior varieties and im-

proved cultural practices.



The result of this suggestion was

a meeting with'the State Fair Board

and the inauguratiOn of the Ira H.

Butterfield Special Wheat Class at

the State Fair last-fall. The, idea

met with immediate favor, as indi-

cated by the large number of contes-

tants and the interest displayed.

Wheat of all kinds and varieties was

entered and yield afiidavits submitted

showed a range of from thirty-one to

fifty-four bushels per acre. The dual-

ity of the representative peck sam-

ples taken from each field entered

was; exceptionally good.



Mr. Biltterfield’s interest in the

~projéct did riot end With its adoption.

In 0‘ letteridated November 17th, he

commented“ on the class in those

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being judged and the interest on the

part of spectators and exhibitors was

indeed gratifying to observe. I hope

the class will be extended to cover

not only wheat but oats and barley

next year.” These were his last

written words regarding the class.



His further suggestions and plans

for enlarging and bettering the class

were unanimously approved by the

State Fair Board. Not only were oats

and barley added, but an additional

sum of two hundred dollars was of-

fered, making the total awards in the

class three hundred dollars. Instead

of four prizes offered in 1927, a total

of thirty prizes is being offered this

year. Already, inquiries are coming

in regarding the rules and require-

ments of this class, which has been

renamed the Ira H. Butterfield Mem-

orial Special.



Awards in each class of grain—-

wheat, oats, and barley—will be given

‘to Michigan farmers whose crops

show the greatest value per acre, the

value to be determined by multiply-

ing the number of bushels per acre,

from five acres or more, by the De-

troit market quotation on September

lst, 1928, for grain of the commercial

grade represented in the peck sam-

ple' submitted. For example, if five

acres of wheat yielded forty bushels

per acre and the market price of

number one wheat was $1.20 per

bushel, the value of the crop per

acre would be $4800. If another field

of five acres or more, entered by an-

other contestant, happened to give

the same yield but harvested wheat

of number two or number three

grade, the total value of the crop

would obviously be less. Awards for

each class of grain will be deter-

mined in this manner. All peck sam-

ples submitted will be judged on a

strictly commercial basis for the de-

termination of grade, using the Fed-

eral Grain Grades as Standard. This

is a departure from the basis ordin-

arilyhuged-in the open classes, where

emphasis is placed on the value of

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LOWER level of farm wages is



the result of a larger supply of

farm labor available this year, ac-

cording to the Bureau of Agricultural

Economics. The larger supply in

turn, is probably explained by the

much lower volume of industrial em-

ployment which has prevailed during

the first six months of 1928, thus re-

leasing more labor for the farms. The

larger use of labor-saving power farm

machinery has also had an influence

in reducing the demand for farm

labor and thereby creating a large

surplus.





CLEARING HOUSE METHOD

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HE clearing house method of



marketing fruits and vegetables

has been so successful on the Pacific

Coast that the Department of Agri-

culture is suggesting that the plan

might be utilized to a greater extent

by fruit and vegetable growers in

other parts of the country. Through

the market news service and other

aids furnished by the government,

clearing houses are able to secure a

wider, more efficient distribution and

therefore prevent glutted markets

and the resultant heavy losses. The

California Grape Clearing House, with

a membership controlling tonnage ap-

proximating more than 60,000 cars, is

the largest of the Western fruit and

vegetable distribution organizations.-

The department specialists say that

its last year’s work should be con-

sidered as experimental, nevertheless

it apparently met with a fair degree

of success. The Florida Citrus Grow-

ers’ Clearing House is'a new organi-

zation just approved by Secretary of





Agriculture Jardine, which expects to , L ‘

handle ninety per cent of the fruit.





shipped out of Florida. Commission-





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pretty clearly just how it Works.

The principal points about this

hitch are that the shafts are fastened

to the axle with U-bolts, leaving just

enough play so the shafts can be

raised ‘and lowered; the regular pole

is removed and a stub pole put in its

place; a crossbar is fastened under-

neath the two poles, thus making

them into a pair of shafts as for a

one-horse hitch; and blocks are

nailed to the crosspiece on either side

of the stub tongue to stiffen the

shafts and guide the wagon. Any

three-horse evener can now be used

for this hitch, except instead of the

regular drawpin, a flat-headed bolt

should be put in from below with nut

and locknut or cotter pin on top.

One can'use two short neckyokes

or two pairs of pole chains. My ex-

perience has been that three horses

abreast with this hitch could pull





Farm





GRICULTURE’S price index has

A slumped seven points in a



month, the statistician Babson

reports. It is a fraction lower than

it was at this time a year ago.



An almost equal thirty-day decline

in the industrial price index also is

reported by Babson.



Yet industrial prices are five points

higher than a year ago and at that

are eight points higher than agricul-





tural prices!

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For eight years farmers have had

to contend with a relatively low price

level for what they had to sell, and

a considerably higher price level for

what they had to buy. During a good

part of this time, industry has had

a 100 cent dollar compared with the





A ‘ f : farmer' s 69- cent dollar.





This situation is chiefly the result

30f. the economic evolution of the last

I fifty years or more, which has left

” agriculture farther outside the breast-

"Works of American protection than

any other great industry. '



- When almost every other prospect

leases, it is not pleasant to face dis-

g‘tieeable facts about agriculture. But

{a better to recognize them, and if

:sible cure them, than to imitate

the? Ostrich, and be run over by them.

A 1|: it



111 productivp efficiency agriculture

1‘ as made as rapid strides as the

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more than four hitched tandem.—

F. A. Rather.



We are very glad indeed to get

this practical shaft-hitch arrangement

for three horses to a wagon or other

pole implement. “Our subscriber is

correct in his statement that this is

about the only way by which a true

straight pull can be secured for three

horses abreast, and we are sure that

it will be found very satisfactory. It

will also be found very convenient.

as only a few minutes are required to

put it on or off.





 





PUMP FOR PUMPING MARL





 





Can I use a centrifugal pump to

pump marl out of a lake? If not,

what would be the best thing to use?

Please advise. --O. G. P.





It is possible to use a centrifugal

pump for pumping marl, but the de-

sign and arrangement of complete

equipment for doing this together

with the amount of power required

involves a considerable expenditure

of money, a considerable amount of

engineering. and some experience in

handling the centrifugal pump which

has characteristics of its own, decid-

edly different than any other type of

pump. Where the centrifugal pump

is to be used, it is necessary to de—

vise some mechanical method of agi-

tation, and .this is the part that per—

haps requires the most engineering.

If we were to select a centrifugal

pump having a capacity of 300 gallons

per minute which, converted to cubic

feet, would be forty cubic feet or a.

cube of over three feet on each di-

mension, and if we assumed that marl

could be pumped one-third solid, then

it would be possible to handle about

one-third of this volume or one-third

of a cubic yard of marl per minute.

An agitator which would loosen up

a layer of marl three feet square and

one foot thick each minute would

necessarily be difficult to operate and

control and would need to be of spe-

cial design.





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Such a fact affords the best proof



that the trouble with agriculture is

not on the farm but elsewhere.

V Agriculture’s ills are economic. As

such they are entitled to be consid-

ered with regard to the facts. Agri-

culture is entitled to a practical solu—‘

tion of these difficulties wherever it

may be found whether inside or out-

side of the econdmic theories of a

hundred years ago or less



The world changes and new condi-

tions demand new or different ad-

justments. To wave aside such solu-

tions of farm relief as “uneconomic,”

legardless of new conditions or of a

balanced American prosperity in

years to Come, won’t answer when an

open mind is required to work out

the problem. ' , -



III * *



“Competition is the life of trade,”

is an old maxim of economics true up

to a certain point. Experience has

shown that excessive competition is

highly destructive, that it can be the

death of trade and as much against

the consumer’s interest as the pro-

ducer's. General business has gone

to great lengths to protect itselfer

ruinous competition, and' to that ex-

tent has interfered with the opera-





tion of an economic law virtually,





with the consent of everyone.“



Then there is the economic law of



supply and demand, the Oldest of



economic theories and the holy of



holies of the argufler for the strict

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Mar! has been pumped in at least

,two different set-ups cf equipment.

The agitator in these cases‘consisted

of a propeller blade in a funnel at

the "suction end of: the intake pipe.

This propeller“ was made to bore

down through the marl; the entire

contrivance of pipe, propeller, and

funnel being raised and lowered by

mechanical means.



In addition to this equipment, a.

considerable amount of conveyor

pipe is necessary, and the collection

of this semi-liquid into a pit also in-

vOlves a great amount of hand labor

which tends to make the cost pro-

hibitive.



The most common type of equip-





ment for handling marl is the mast





and cable arrangement which permits

a bucket to run on a track cable and

have cables for pulling in and haul-

ing back the equipment. ' Since marl

is very sticky, a special type of





bucket may be found to advantage. I





The Agricultural Engineering De-

partment of the Michigan State Col-

lege has developed such a bucket and

to those interested in it, further in-

formation can be given—H. H. 'M.





 





Protective Service





 





 





ENLARGED PICTURE SALESMEN

HAVE NEW SALES SCHEME





 





IT is the purpose of the Michigan

Farmer Protective Service to pass

along to Protective Service members

results of our investigatibns in order

that each member may profit from

the experience of others, for after all,

that is the one safe and sure way to

learn.



It seems that the enlarged picture

salesmen have studied out a new way

to get a successful audience with the

busy farm housewife. One of our

readers reports to us‘ that she re-

sponded to a knock at her door to

find a dapper dressed stranger who,

before explaining his business, asked

her to be kind enough to draw one

of the sealed envelopes that he car-

ried in his hand. Instantly the gamb-

ling instinct got the best of our in-





Come





ican statesmen have repeatedly been

directed toward perfecting a protec-~

tive tariff to protect domestic indus-

try from harmful competition and to

insure the full employment of Amer-

ican labor.



This has tended to benefit the na-

tion as a whole and has insured the

prosperity and progress \of our indus-

tries. Nobody is for doing away With

it now



And still the tariff violates the lav;r

of supply and demand in thousands





of instances and sets up and main—'





tains artificial prices, and always has.

a: :1: s .



If we are to have a balanced and

an enduring national prosperity, the

farming industry cannot be left to

contend against such economic'forces

alone. It must be put on an econ-

omic equality.



I am not particular by what meth-

od this is done if it is done effec-

tively. If to do this it should be-

come necessary to modify the force

of an economic law, or to readjust

some of our notions in regard to





economics, it seems to me We should





be able to stand the strain if it cen-

;duces to our welfare-and nothing

else is sought for or will. do. ’



I have great 061133 . that Ame





"fonna’nt [and a selection from the-3' ._

bunch of envelopes was made, 'When "





the choice of envelopes was opened

it revealed that she had drawn a

ticket that represented twenty dol-

lars in trade when applied ', on, the





purchase of a $27.50 picture enlarge- . '





ment, this price including the en—,

larged picture, mounting and frame.





The unsuspecting housewife natur- .,





ally felt elated over her run of luck

and willingly signed the necessary

papers, entitling her to the advantage

of the twenty dollar lucky credit,

agreeing to pay $7. 50 upon the de-

livery of the enlarged picture toge—

ther with the frame.



The real shock came when in con-

versation with neighbors. It was

learned that others in the immediate

neighborhood had likewise

lucky tickets and that apparently no

one had been slighted in being of-

fered _the advantage of the twenty

dollar lucky draw. However, some of

the lucky parties had waited to think

the offer over and had not acted on

the spur of the moment. It is in-

deed startling to see the number of

complaints that are brought to our

attention, showing how easily the

American people can be gulled with‘

the old “something for nothing" at-

tact. It seems to be an inbred trait

in the human family to take a

chance, even when we know that the

chance is possibly all that we can

take.



,We are pleased to pass along this

new scheme so that those who read

this will stop and seriously consider,

before signing on the dotted line, the

fact that no one is driving around the





country to hand out twenty dollar'





chances for nothing.





 





 





News of the Week





The interurban lines of the Detroit

United Railways and the Detroit

Monroe, and Toledo Shoreline, now in

the hands of the receiver, have been

ordered sold at auction,-.by Federal

Judge Simons.





It is reported that Mayor Thomp-

son, of Chicago, will resign as he is

broken in health and finances be-

cause of the million dollar graft case

against him.



The total resources of the national

and state banks of this country are

seventy billions, according to a recent

repert.



Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston, of Chi—

cago, broke her previous swimming

endurance record by stayin in the

water in a New York poo for 54

hours and 28 minutes.

hospital as a result.





Contract has been let for the De-

troit-Biltmore hotel which will cost

nine and one-half million dollars. It

W111 consist of a thirty-five story

hotel, an eighteen story office build-





 





.ing, and a 600 car garage.





The doors of the car carrying Gen.

Nobile through Germany to Italy

will be locked. It is expected that

Gen. Nobiie will be court martialed

by Mussolini because he was the first

to leave the ice flow where the party

was stranded.





Gene Tunney defeated Tom Heeney

in the eleventh round in New York,

thus retaining the world’s heavy-

weight championship.



John Henry Mears and B. D. Coil-

yer, of New York, made a record-

breaking trip around the world in

twe'nty- -three days, fifteen hours, and

twenty-one minutes.

collapsible wing plane which they





'were able to ship across the oceans.





The body of Capt. Alfred Loewen-

stein, the famous Belgian financier.

who dropped from his plane while en-





route from Iondon to Belgium. was,





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_Y most embarassing moment”





remember seeing from time to

time in some newspaper. Wife and

I each have a new incident that we

might submit.



It was a. hot Satmday forenoon of

a very tiresome, strenuous week. As

we were: behind with our work, I had

been on the job long hours with little

attention to my appearance. Coming

up to the barn with a. load of hay,

I was informed by the hired man’s

wife that there were some folks over

at our house who wanted to see me.



On the way across the road I took

mental inventory of my condition. My

‘ overalls were

dirty and greasy.

My shirt, too,

was a sight,

soiled with grime

and sweat, a

patch on one

shoulder and a

place that need-

ed patching on

the other. There

was a. big hole in

the brim of my

battered felt hat.

Worst of all, my

whiskers were altogether too long

for comfort or decency.



So ashamed of myself that I was

very ill at ease, imagine my further

chagrin when I found that the car

in our yard had brought two readers

of this column from Kalamazoo

County. The man is a former M. S. C.

student and he and his wife are in-

fluential farm folks of the progres-

sive type. They explained that they

were on their way to visit relatives

near Alma and had decided that they

wanted to pay a brief visit to Ingle-

side enroute. They admitted that they

were chiefly interested in seeing little

Ronald and we, being fond parents,

weren’t the least bit jealous.



But I haven’t explained how my

wife’s “embarassing moment” hap—

pened. When I came upon our cal-

lers, they were in the midst of quite

a thorough search of the premises on

the side of the road where we live

and they hadn’t been able to locate a

single soul. They had knocked lustily

on the door, but with no response and

had decided that wife Was not at

home. ' .

Thought They Were Agents



I was pretty sure wife was in the

house, so volunteered to go in and

see.

in the front room holding baby. I

gave her a brief explanation as to

who our visitors were and went‘ out

and brought them in.



Later my partner explained thekrea-

son for her seemingly uncordial con-

duct. It appears that two or three





 





just as baby had partaken of a meal

and was dropping off to sleep, some

agent had come to the door and

aroused the youngster so that it had

taken considerable of Wife’s time to

get him peaceable again. So she

vowed that if another agent knocked

afjust such an inopportune time, she

would let the rap go unheeded.

Wife was sitting in an easy chair

with baby in her lap when our com-

pany arrived. They drove in across

the road by our tenant house first,

stayed there long enough to discover

their mistake and then backed L out

and drove into our deoryard. Baby

was just dozing off to -the land of nod.

Wife decided it was another trouble-

some agent so sat [tight and made no

response to the bell or knock. It

was because she was right there; all

the time and .hadnlt gone to 4

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She was not hard‘ to find, sitting,





or three weeks,





times during the preceding day or so, .





found out- who our callers were.



I don’t know whether or'not wife

has turned over a. new" leaf, but I

imagine she has. AnyvVay, I believe

the experience did me some good.

The next time I went to Ionia. I pur-

chaSed two new overalls, two new

work shirts and a work hat. And I'm

going to try 'to keep my stunning

black whiskers cropped ofl slew

notches shorter than those of the

disciples of the 'latelamented King

Bed. ‘ ' ‘ ‘



Once in a while some of us seem to

get in a frame of mind where we

rather pride ourselves on .3 our dirty.

frayed. appearance, as

were some badge of distinction, an

emblem of our “honest-toil." But this

attitude, carried to an..extreme, not

only destroys. our self respect, but

must make us disagreeable compan—

ions to the rest of our~fa.mily and to

our other associates.



An Unflattering Comparison



Anyway, I wonder what our callers

thought. The first time that they met;

me some years ago was when I wore

white collars and tailor-made suits,

shaved every day, made more

speeches, wrote more articles and

knew considerably less about real

farm conditions and problems than I

do today. Probably our friends in-

dulged in some mental comparisons

and decided the manager of Ingleside

was “well on the road to peasantry”

as political crape-hangers so 'fre-

quently put it when they make cam-

paign speeches to farm audiences.



Returning again to the matter of

agents, I might remark that they have

been unusually numerous and time‘

consuming recently. Today a fellow

came along with a sing-song speech

intended to induce me to hire him to

spray our poultry buildings with his

marvelous chemical ‘Which would do

a thorough job in even the filthiest

coop. “My friend, it’s the fumes that

do the business. They kill all the

lice, mites, and those TB germs,”

chanted my would-be helper. Strange

to say; I passed up this remarkable

opportunity. We have disinfectant,

a sprayer, and considerable previous

experience and would rather trust

our own efforts 'than those of a

stranger who probably is chiefly in-

terested in some easy money.



Right now in the midst of the har—

vest and threshing rush, we are-think—

ing about the great Ionia FreeFair,





, August 13—18 and wishing that we had





a lot more time to spend on .our

Shropshires and Shorthorns. We have

selected the show- sheep and .if a.

competent shepherd could spend all

his waking hours with them for two

they would make

quite a creditable appearance.

Interest in sheep seems keen. This

evening a man was here wanting to

buy thirty yearling Shropshire rams.

We wish we had them to sell.-~Last

evening Ingleside was honored by a

visit from Verne Freeman of ='the

M. S. C. Animal Husbandry Depart-

ment and “Monty” Thornton, shep-

herd deluxe of the M. S. C. flocks.





If this article is. not up to par or -4





incoherent in places, blame it. on





"Sandy, the yellow kitten that ap-





peared at Ingleside. from nobody

knows where and which I adoptedras

a. family pet or nuisance, depending

on the point .of view. «A few weeks

’ago we were bereaved by the loss





'of Nicodemus under the order wheels





of a. speeding rear. “Niko," as we

called » him, “Wilma SHOW-white y‘oi'ing

cat that was »gliven,‘rii‘s hen-“a"‘flny

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duty of law enforcement is thrown

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‘ said at prohibition enforcement head-

quarters that in most of the other

forty-four states the prohibition en-

forcement laws are more rigid than

the Vol-stead Act. Upwards of twenty

states prohibit the use of intoxicating

liquors for medicinal purposes. In

some states there is excellent coop-

eration with the federal government.

- In others practically no effort is made

to assist the government in law en-

forcement.





ATTEND SOIL MEET





 





ARME’RS from six counties attend-



ed the meeting at the R. Tanner

farm, in Henrietta Township, Jack-

son County, where the results of four

years’ work in building up a depleted

soil were shown by the growth of a

variety of crops. The value of fer-

tilizers in the production of grain

crops was strikingly illustrated by





the difference in growth of wheat on.





a nine acre field in which one strip

. of-land had received no treatment.



On all of the field except the un-

fertilized strip, the owner will har-

vest a crop that looked to be good

for 30 bushels to‘the acre. On the

. check strip, the wheat is a complete

failure and would not pay harvesting

costs.



Plots of new seedings of alfalfa and

sweet clover showed that potash is a

needed ingredient in a fertilizer that

is intended to insure a seeding of

legumes. Plots used to test the value

of the various forms of lime indi-

cated that the best lime to use is the

one which can be applied most econ-

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CORN BORER WORK





 





A PPROPRIATIONS aggregating $1,-



257,580 will be available for

European corn borer eradication dur-

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Department of AgriCulture specialists

in charge of the campaign. The work

' will be confined to scouting to deter-

mine the further spread of the borer

as a basis for quarantine measures;

maintenance of strict quarantine lines

throughout the infested area, to pre-

vent long distance spread, and a com-

plete research program. The Bureau

of Entomology has five laboratories

studying control ~methods for the

borer in this country and two in Eu-

rope. A 300-acre farm has recently

been established near Toledo, Ohio,





. where experimental work will be car-





ried on. A school for scouts was

conducted at the Toledo farm the

first two weeks in July. A vast

amount of machinery is available for

the 1928 campaign.





 





Cases of black rot of sugar beets

have been reported in the state. Ex-

cessively rainy weather is always re-

sponsible for an increased loss from

the fungus diseases of plants.





Sudan grass and millet are the

preferred emergency hay crops in

Genesee County this year. The acre-

age of soybeans was kept low by the

high price of seed as compared with

the other hay crops.





 





The County agricultural agent of

Genesee County predicts that the

summer seeding of alfalfa will not be

unusually large in that county this

year. The agent believes that spring

seeding of alfalfa ismore satisfactory

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Fact: and Opzmom éy





KEEPING CHILDREN ON THE

FARM;





 





T is so often that the young peo

ple go to the cities and leave the

older people on the farms. Then it

is hard to get help and there are so

many farms which are not properly

worked because father is not so

young and Spry as he used to be, not

so able to do the work as it should

be done. Therefore, the farm’s pro-

duction is very much diminished in<

stead of increased, and oftentimes the

farm is abandoned altogether.



There are many farms going to

ruin, fences down, outbuildings fall-

ing apaxt, and orchards dying; good

lands, too, that would make a good

home for any family if properly man-

aged. There are men in this country,

paying taxes on farms where not one-

fourth of the land is tilled because of

the young men and women leaving

the old folks to manage the best they

can. It is my opinion that there is

a. good reason for their leaving good

farms and homes.



I know one family with several

children, which started on a new

place. They worked hard and man-

aged to build a good home, but as

the boys and girls grew to be about

eighteen, they left for the city one

by one until there was but one boy

sixteen and a girl about eight. I was

talking with the boy one day and he

said he had worked for his board and

clothes long enough.





I knew of another family where

there were only one boy and one girl.

The girl was older and married be-

fore they bought the farm. She lived

on a nearby farm. The father told

the boy, whenever he wanted a little

money, that when he died he would

get everything he had. So that boy

worked out winters for his spending

money and when, his father died he

and his sister had a lot of trouble,

each receiving one-half of what was

left, which wasn’t much. It is too

much to expect boys and girls when

they are large enough to do much

work to go plugging along year after

year just for their board and clothes

and maybe a little money for which

they have to ask dad.



Another way I have seen tried out

is to let the boy put in a patch of

potatoes for his money end of the

business. The father told me that

the boy did not seem to think of any

thing but his patch of potatoes; that

the rest of the farming did not inter-

est him, and why should it?





I came on this place nineteen years

ago and have a. family growing up.

So about four years ago I thought I

would try something new, new to me

at least.

worked and did not like the results.

I want my children to be farmers but

how to keep them on the farm was

the question" to be Solved. So we

talked the. matter over and finally de-

cided on this plan. In the first place

we take.out of the income all .of the

overhead expenses such as taxes,

groceries“ seeds, repairs, and in fact

everything it takes to run a farm and

then divide theprofits among usall

according to the earning ability of

each—so much to me, so- much to the

wife, and to the boys and girls as

many as could do work. '



We nave been running on this plan

for some time now and it has surely

worked great. All are interested in

all of the work because all have a

share in it. We 9.11 buy our own

clothes. It is no more than right that

the women should buy these 'little

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I saw how these other plans -





M zc/zzgan Famz Folk





I knew, one time, of a. friend 51'.

mine who had words with his wife

about money to mail a. letter. We all

know there is lots of trouble over,

money matters. That I know from:

experience. This plan has overcome

it. Then, too, I have taught thrift

so what. money each saves individu<

ally is loaned to the business at four-

per cent interest. I tell you it works,

and I believe my boys and girls will

stay on the farm—Jesse J. Palmer.





 





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What are the state laws regarding '

cemeteries? The cemetery I refer to

is owned by one man. In pioneer

days, he sold lots. There are many

graves. The cemetery is neglected.

There is no fence and it is full of

weeds and brush. The owner is

financially able to fence, clean} the

land, and drive pipe for water. The

people want this cemetery cared for.

What can be done?--I. A.





By Public Acts 1915 No. 113 as

amended by Public Acts 1919 No. 163,

township boards are authorized and

directed to cause all cemeteries with-

in the township exc’ept private ceme-

teries or cemeteries owned by cities

and villages located in the township,

to be properly cared for, and the ex-

pense not exceeding $200 a year to be

paid for out of the contingent fund

By Public Acts 1911 No. 201, being

Compiled Laws 1915 Section 11,192—

11,194, it is made the duty of any

owner of a private cemetery wherein

lots ‘were sold for-private and family

burial purposes, to keep the same en-

closed with self locking gates of such

strength and character as to prevent

live stock encroaching within the

bounds of the cemetery; and by the

same act it is made the duty of the

township board to serve notice on'the

owners to build or repair as to the

board seems necessary. If the owner

upon receipt of described notice

fails to make the repairs, it is the

duty of the Board of Health to enter

upon the premises and cause a. fence

to be erected, and‘declare the expense

to be a. lien upon the estate held in

the property, to be assessed andcol-

lected as taxes.~Rood.





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BEES IN HOUSE





 





Our house was built many years

ago when they put the siding on the

studding and sheeted them on the in-

side. The honey bees are bound to

get in between the siding and sheet-

ing. So far we have three swarms

in the house and they are a nuisance.

Some days it is impossible to step

out on the porch without fighting

bees. How could we drive them out

of there?—R. E



You request information regard-

ing the proper method for re

moving bees from between the sid-

ing and sheetingof a. house.. The

party will probably get best results

by killing the bees with either the

fumes of burning sulphur forced into

the entrance used by the bees with

bellows smoker or else by pouring

carbon disulphide into the hole used

by the bees as an entrance to kill

them. Carbon disulphide is inflam-

mable and the fumes are heavier than

air, therefore the carbon disulphide

Should be poured into the cavity

where the bees are from above, if

possible. Also, no flames should be

used in close proximity while the

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FLOWER GARDEN HINTS FOR

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. 0 be successful 'with Madonna

.‘ lilies, the bulbs should be out of

. the ground' no longer than absolutely

i neces’Sary. Quick and correct plant-

ing is one of the main requirements

‘ of this most beautiful of all lilies. So

many gardeners complain of poor re-

sults in growing the Madonna, I pre-

sume its growing habits are not fully

understood. Unlike Auratum and other

garden favorites, the Madonna is not

a stem rooting variety and, as a con-

sequence, will not stand the deep

planting usually recommended fer

lilies. Some gardeners who are

familiar with the stem rooting kinds

only, plant the Madonna the regula-

tion eight or nine inches deep and

complain because it does not grow

. for them. This lily should never be

planted deeper than three inches and

two inches is better yet.

Care of Lilies

Beside shallow planting, correct

culture of this lily requires a well

drained soil. If the soil is at all

heavy, surround the bulb entirely

with pure sand and preferably lay the

bulb on its side so water will not

stand in its scales. This, together

with a full exposure to the sun,

should insure perfect success in

growing the Madonna. '

For an easily grown pot plant for

blooming from mid-winter until

‘spring, I know of nothing finer than

" Schizanthus or Poor Man’s Orchid.

Sow the seed of the variety known

as Wisetonensis this month and

transplant into very small pots, say

ithose about two inches in diameter, as

' soon as they have three or four true

leaves; pinch out‘the top of the plants

, when it is two or three inches high;

later on shift them into four inch

pots and, as cold weather comes, keep

them in a sunny window that has a

temperature as near fifty degrees as

possible. The plants should start to

blossom as soon as they become pot

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fed a little liquid manure occasionally,





to keep them in good blooming

shape. This plant is one of the easi-

est grown and most satisfactory an-

nual flowers for blooming indoors in

pots during the winter. It may be

had in a number of shades. Two or

~-,.D three plants are all any one will need





summer should not be beyond the

busiest housewife.

Keep Plants Vigorous



Cut back the foliage of the pansies

and Violas that have been blooming

since spring, work in a quantity of

bone meal or fresh soil from the

woods around the plants and keep

well watered if you would have a

good supply of flowers from them

again this fall.



_ Delphinium plants that have ceased

' .\« flowering may be treated the same

way with a pretty good chance of



getting some nice spikes of flowers



‘ in September and later. If the Del-



. ~ phinium show signs of disease at the



. crown during the hot days of August,

a dose of weak lime and sulphur

should be given.



If large individual flowers are

wanted on the dahlias, keep each

plant disbudded to just a few flow-

ers but, if quantity and not size is

what is desired, keep the plant

pinched back to induce the forma-

tion of lateral branches.



If you planted seeds of perennial

flowers in June, the plants should be

ready now to be transplanted to a

cold frame" ~ they. are, to, be win-

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them to remain in the seed bed any

longer than absolutely necessary, and

it maybe that. neglect at this time





may cause serious loss through over—'





crowding. Select a cloudy, damp day





if possible to'rdo' the" transplanting -





and firm the soil well. abOut the new-

ly moved plants to prevent undue

wilting'.—~C. W. Wood.





SHEEP IN ASPARAGUS





 





00K,” said my wife. “There’s a

bunch of sheep in the asparagus

—isn’t that asparagus?” .



I locked quickly from the road

ahead and back again. A glance

showed me my wife knew her aspara-

gus. "



“Guess I’ll stop at the house and

tell the folks,” ‘said I. “I wouldn’t

want my sheep to break into the

asparagus.”



And so I did. The woman who met

me at the door was grateful for my

interest, and then smilingly told me

her husband had turned the sheep

into the field.



“I’d just like to know what that’s

for, if I’m not too curious,” I sug-

gested. '



And she told me that the sheep

were put there as weed killers.



"I was just as surprised as you are

when my husband ‘told me he was

going to do it,” she explained. “He

had heard. it from somebody who saw

it done. We don’t keep them in all

the time—just as often as grass and

weeds grow up late in summer.”



“Don’t they eat the asparagus?” I

queried.



“They haven’t bothered yet. Prob-

ably they would if we left them in too

long at a time.”



I pass this experience along for

what it may be worth to asparagus

growers. Got some sheep?—E. A. K.





GARDEN NOTES.





 





I HAVE always had such trouble



with parsnip seed. It would take

such a long time to germinate, and

when it would come through the

ground, only about half of the seeds

would grow.



This year I tried an experiment, I

poured hot water on the seeds, then

let it cool and planted the seed. I

think every seed grew, for I have

had to thin the plants, and they

came up in much less time than ever

before. . .



I planted early garden peas be-

tween my raspberry plants I set

out this spring. They keep the weeds

from growing and keep the ground

moist around the raspberries, also

furnish us with peas for the table,

from land that would otherwise have

to be hoed all summer, with no crop

for a year at least. My garden is

small but I have proven that “a little

farm well tilled” is better than a

large one half worked. We had gar—

den peas for our family of three on

July 2nd.—-E.- P. C.





 





The use of fertilizers on tomatoesl

and sweet corn, both being raised for

seed, is undergoing a field test on the

farm of W- H. Choate and Son, Lib-

erty Township, Jackson County. Mr.

Choate is also testing the use ofl

mulch paper on a portion of each

crop. ’





Bridge—grafting has proved success-

ful in saving fruit trees which were

girdled last winter iby mice. Several

demonstrations of methods of per-

forming this means of grafting were

given in Washtenaw County the past

spring, and the county agricultural

agent, H. 8. Color. reports that the





 





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For the Want of Water





(Continued





thirst on the edge of a well, for

want of a rope to draw the water out.



A few strips of cloth knotted into

a rope lay tangled in the sand. And

the end of another rag line—very

very short——-was floating on the water

in the well.



“We pulled up the floating rag,” ex-

plained the lieutenant, “and, voila!





there was the poor miserable’s water-





skin tied to the end. And, Mon Dieu,

that piece was short!”



The poor devil had made his rope,

lowered his bag into the deep well,

filled it with the precious water and

slowly, carefully, he drew it up. It

neared the top. He could almost

reach it—for the bit left on the bag

was pitifully, mockingly short. And

then, With life at his finger tips, he

must have jerked too zealously. The

ragged rope parted; his life line

broke. And I think the desert must

have laughed aloud.



“But not so easy do men die," con-

tinued the lieutenant, who had read

the desert’s bragging story well. “He

had torn his remaining shreds of

cloth into even narrower strips until

it was little stronger than a string.

And on the end of this he tied a

larger piece of cloth. He would lower

it into the water and then pull up the

wetted rag and suck it dry. Who

knows? This pitiful sop to death

might have saved his life but, helas,

it finally snagged. half way up the

sides and his flimsy, rotted string had

broken. It hung there, dry and torn,

like a flag of truce betrayed. And



> thus he died, chewing at a bit of rag

‘ until his strength and hope were

gone. When those are gone, men die,

and the desert has won its game."





IM and I still had plenty of both



and we weren’t worrying much be-

cause, surely, in a day or so a cara~

van would come along. And finally

one did. A donkey train came over

the dune into view. Four black driv-

ers with jagged, pointed sagas slung

over their shoulders followed a dozen

donkeys pattering through the sand.

We asked for water. They shook

their heads. Probably want to keep

it all for themselves I thought and

offered a five franc note. Then ’two,

then five. They had no water it was

plain.



“Heinya Lade?” I inquired, point-

ing ahead and then back. We might

at least learn where we were.



“Lade.” The shining leader grunt-

ed, and the knife .sheated along his

upper arm pointed ahead. So we

hadn’t passed the village of Lade

after all. It must be near then, es-

pecially since this donkey train was

carrying no water. The caravan

passed on, and we began to pick up

our camp to follow.



An hour later two more donkeys

and an old black codger





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came from the same direction. They

also had no water, but the old chap

pointed earnestly ahead and we gath-

ered that he meant water was very

near. That news was cheering but

it didn’t quench our thirst. I showed

him our water can and a five franc

note and pointed down the road. The

water may have been less than five

kilometers away but it was farther

than five francs, especially since we

were thirsty enough to pay, for he

shook his toothless head. I gradu-

ally raised my offer to twenty-five

francs and then the old rapscallion

reached for the water can and the

money. I motioned that I’d pay on

delivery, but he was as suspicious as

I. Finally we compromised; I gave

him the money and he left his don-





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came soon and also a big Calabash





of fresh milk, and two plump pul-fi





lets, and a poke of eggs. It was two

hours before we’d eaten it all and

felt like starting out again on our

last short dash to the French fort at

Rig-Rig. The village chief assured





\us it was only ten kilometers but our





faith in desert distances was long

since dissipated. We’d take no

chances.





I HELD up ten fingers to the chief

and had him muster out the vil-

lage. A quartet of dignified patri-

archs, skinny old crowbaits wrapped

in homespun cotton shrouds, headed

the male contingent. It shaded on

down through the cloudy-brewed,

brawny bucks in G—strings and san-

dais, to the little boys in black, the

dyed-in-the-wood black of their bare,

shiny hides. Then there was the

property, -the decrepit, desert-bitten

dowagers, the jabbering matrons with





 





keys for security and then pad-padded

off through the sand for water.



“Twenty-five francs," grumbled Jim.

“Nearly a dollar and a half. That’s

a month’s wages here. I hOpe he’s

not gone long enough to earn his

money."





N hour later a procession of five



stalwart villagers came hurrying

over the sand, and each was carry-

ing an earthern pot of water! Ap—

parently the first donkey train had

carried to Lade the news of the two

black machines on round wheels and

the two white men who were offer-

ing serious money for water. And'

then, just to prove that it never rains

but it pours even in the desert, over

the dune from the other direction

came our own camels, with our bag-

gage, gasoline, and three canteens of

pure, filtered water from the fort at

N’Guigmi. And before we had time

to unpack the canteens, or to boil the

other water, voila! here was our high-

salaried old black water man hurry-

ing back to redeem his donkeys.



We drank.



Then we retained the five good vil-

lagers and true, and started again

floundering through the sand on our

solo motorcycles. It was just as hard

going as before, but we enjoyed it.

The very privilege of being able to

SWeat, now that we’d soaked our sys-

tems with at least a gallon of water

each was worth the effort of pushing

the motorcycles over such bad places

as we could negotiate alone. And,

besides, we had our five black help—

ers who could push a little too.



The oasis and the valley of Lade





wooden pegs in their noses and tat-

tooing on their backs, and the abun-

dant-bosomed daughters with brass

plumbing in their ears and red paint

on the soles of their feet. And every

female of the lot, from the oldest

wizened granny down to the buxom

slave of sixteen years, had the in-

evitable black suckling drawing away

like a huge perennial leach.



From this muster of possibilities

and impossibilities Jim and I selected

ten of the nimblest younger men and,

all in the sign language, bade the

chief order them to follow us on foot

all the way to Rig-Rig. If the going

would be good we’d run away from

them, but they were to keep on just

the same so as to boost us up any

dunes we couldn’t make alone. Then

I showed him two nice shiny one-

franc coins, worth a nickle each, but

much more valuable to these people

than a five-franc paper note. I showed

him that each man would get two at

Rig-Rig. That hope, I know, would

insure their following us all the way.





HEY pushed us up the first big



hill out. of the oasis basin, and

then we roared away in intermediate,

our motors wide open, skidding and

slipping like a drunken man on

skates, and falling about as often too.

But we made good time and in a

couple of hours the most barren fort

of all, the French military station at

Rig-Rig studded the top of a distant

dune. A hundred hands pushed us

up the hill and a bristling young

Corsican, a sergeant in full command

of the post and the only white man

in that whole district bade us a





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whacking, mm ifeloome to the first“

From that moment names amt $0“ :





hum around the domain of the bel-

ligerent little Corsican.

there on a ' mound of sand in the





shade of his castellated battlements‘





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Standing





out orders. to have won 9. Waterloo or '





welcomed a. Josephine. Booboo, a

giant black in'ragged regimentals that

gave up in despair long before they

covered his huge raw frame, straight-

ened himself up to attention, tower-

ing over the little sergeant like an

elephant over his master. The human

machine gun on the mound whipped

out a paragraph of orders, Booboo

clicked a hand salute that would have

broken any head but his own and

was off. A corporal’s guard wheeled

the bikes into the shade, a portable

bar and battery of bottled drinks

from clear boiled water to absinthe

itself was presented bodily to Jim

and me, the» cook got orders and

helpers got busy, and the American

flag was run up on the flagstafl over

the fort.





N less than an hour the grinning



Booboo, with a short' cavalry car-

bine, in his hand and a. deer slung

over his shoulder, strode in through

the big fort gate and dropped his

game at our feet. The sergeant waved

him away, but at dinner that night

the fiery Napoleon called his big

black lieutenant back for one more

job that day. I will always feel

guilty over that. '





In spite of the fresh crisp salads,

the half-dozen huge dishes of green

vegetables from the post’s garden in

the oasis, in spite of the venison, the

fresh pork, the fried pigeons, and

tinned sauSage, in spite of the two

desserts, Jim and I had eaten bread.

We emptied the plate and our host

called for more. The “boy” broke

the news that the bread was all gone.



The Corsican politely excused him-

self from the table, but an earth-

quake was trembling on his brow. He

ordered Booboo to get another cook

before breakfast, one who would

never run out of bread, and to throw

the present cook in irons at once.

Then the dinner proceeded cheerily

as before.



More next week.





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“How’s your wife, Pat?”

“She is awful sick.”

“Is she dangerous?”





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Aren’t you the boy who was here





a week ago looking for a position?”

“Yes, sir."

\“I thought so. Didn’t I tell.you

then that I wanted an older boy?”

“Yes, sir, that’s why I’m here now.”





 





“Auntie, will you please wash my

face?”



“Why, Bobby, I thought you could

do that for yourself.”



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





AID a noted American college

S president, "The concentration of



one's Whole energy upon a wor-



,_.thy end, and the willing accep-

tance, of pains, privations, and penal-

ties which may be incidental to the

effective prosecution of that end, is

the comprehensive formula of every

brave and heroic life.” If to follow

a program is to be heroic, then the

careers of hundreds of missionaries

can be classed in the heroic category.





This acceptance of a life of self-

forgetfulness in service for others

wasrthe program undertaken by Paul

and "his fellow workers thirty odd

years after the crucifixion of Jesus.

Paul, we have good reason to believe,

was a man of considerable wealth.

But he did not use it, at least not

until late in life. He made tents

with his hands, he shared the hard-





‘ships of life on the rough,highways





of Macedonia, he was treated to mobs

and beatings, and yet he went on

cheerfully, face always to the front.

This attitude has been characteristic

of the great missionaries in every

century. They had a principle within

that led them, impelled and buoyed

them, no matter what the outer cir-

cumstances. Says good old Thomas

Carlyle, “Faith is properly the one

thing needful; with it, martyrs, other-

wise weak, can cheerfully endure the

shame and the cross; and without it,

worldlings puke up their sick exis-

tence, by suicide, in the midst of

luxury.” Is it not so? Look about

you and see.



Michigan glories in the career of

Pere Marquette. He must have been

a. man of parts, for he has had a

railway system named after him, and

a city. and university and a river. One

of these honors would satisfy most

men. Marquette came to Michigan

when there was no Michigan. Com-

ing as a missionary in 1675, locating

at! St. Ignace, indefatigable in his

labors to bring the message of the

church to the Indians, voyaging in his

frail canoe from St. Ignace to Green

Bay, from Green Bay down the Fox

river to Lake Winnebago, from Lake

Winnebago down the Wisconsin to

the Mississippi, and down the Mis-

sissippi to the Arkansas thence la~

boriously back, up the Illinois to

where Chicago now stands, he passed

the winter there, probably the first

white man to winter on that shore.

And in the following May, while slow-

ly making his way with faithful .fol-

lowers throughthe ice cakes of rest-





less Lake Michigan, Marquette diedk





and was buried in the sand, near

where Ludington now stands. A sun—

ple, gentle, holy man, in whose quiet

character the highest heroism lay. No

wonder he has been remembered by

all the means that men know of.





I have a friend whose field of labor

is in southeastern China. He is what

they call ‘an agricultural missionary.

He is attempting to show the Chinese

farmers how' to raise better crops,

how- to combat at periodic and fatal

epidemic plague among cattle, and

much more. As he works on these

lines he also preaches on Sunday, and

brings a message good for the souls

of men, as he brings another for their

stomachs on the other six days of

the week. He has his troubles. The

Chinese are almost as human as

Americans. Some of them got jeal-

ous of [the missionary’s superior dairy

stock and poisoned some of the

calves. Once or twice a tiger liked

the smell of the cows and leaped the

barn yard fence and carried: off a

heifer or two. This missionary is an

ingenious as an inventor. He can





make anything. Half the machinery,





around the mission station is not

bought at a mail order-house, but has

been made by the active and skillful

hands of this young American knight

of good will. On his last journey to

his mission station, after the trouble

in the district was supposed to have

subsided, he was robbed by bandits

of all his money, his extra clothes,

blankets, and supplies which he was

taking to the mission station. ,Yet he

writes no whining letters. It is all

in the” day's work, he says. If such

things did not happen. there would

be ‘ no adventures. . en James

Chalmers went to Australia, he



he wanted to go where the, people

were, most savage. He‘ wasndisap-





grpetntedvat am and‘wrote home, “For





years: I- had longed? '60' 83" mug“





if real heathggs and savages, and I was





when, we danded on

f (iv-them So much

' Hound the ' say»





is ,5”





to go out and tell about it and live-





it, among people of the lowest type.

The New Hebrides Islands are east

of Australia. The natives, when

John G. Paton went there, were can-

nibalistic. He spent one night hiding

in a tall tree while below a man was

killed and eaten. Paton got all the

fumes of the human stew, as it curled

up among the branches. Yet these.

same people developed into the best

type of Christians, mild, industrious,

patient, and eager to learn. Mr.

Paton, When at home in Scotland,

longed to return to his island, where

he said the Sabbath was observed as

a day of rest and worship. The story

of Paton’s work on the two islands

of Tanna (he had 'to escape from

Tanna, on account of the ferocity of

the natives) and Aniwa, where the

most remarkable results attended his

teaching, is one of the great stories

of Christian conquest. It is like an-

other chapter in the book of Acts.





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR





 





 





AUGUST 5th

SUBJECTz—The Heroism of Foreign

Missions. Acts 1421-28.





GOLDEN TEXT :—Philippians 4: 12.





Rural Health-





IVY . POISONING





 





 





 





 





T this season of the year ivy

A poisoning becomes a very seri-



ous menace to those peculiarly

susceptible, and cannot be disregard-

ed even by the supposedly immune,

as many find to their sorrow each

season. Ivy poisoning is easily rec-

ognized by the patient. The first in-

dication of trouble is an itching or

burning sensation. As this progres-

ses it may become severe and inter-

fere with sleep. The tissues swell

somewhat and a reddish eruption ap

pears upon the site of which small

vesicles break forth containing

watery serum. Sometimes these

vesicles run together, forming large

blebs, and cover the skin quite ex-

tensively with a weeping eruption. In

cases that are at all severe there is

a. formation of pus and with this come

deepened inflammation and more in-

tense burning. If the lesions are

around the eyes it may happen that

they are closed shut by the swelling.

Cases of such severity are accom-

panied by pain, fever, and swelling of

glands. The patient is disabled and

should be confined to bed.



A complaint that may cause so

much trouble and is so widespread is

worth some pains to stamp out. The

Forest Service of the U. S. Depart-

ment of Agriculture recommends the

use of kerosene as an effective mea-

sure to destroy the plant. Of course,

kerosene destroys other vegetation,

too, so cannot be-used indiscrimin-

ately.



To prevent ivy poisoning the sim-

plest and most effective measure is

washing the exposed parts with a

good suds of hot water and laundry

soap, soon after exposure. If pre-

vention fails there is still much that

can be done to alleviate an attack of

ivy poisoning. The application of

very hot water‘ alone gives appreci-





able relief from the itching, but this





is helped by the addition of cooking

soda, a level tablespoonful to the

quart of water. If the eruption is

severe, apply hot solutions of per-

manganate of potash; use it in one

per cent solution, but remember that





. this drug Stains the skin a brownish"





color. The application of lemon juice

will remove this discoloration, or in

time it will wear away without help.

I «do not recommend the much used

“war of lead." I think that it often

3 longs the case, though 'it (less

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the American former





We take our hat off to the farmer—he is a

shrewd buyer, a rare judge of values. Espe-

cially when it comes to buying a motor car.

He looks for dollar-for-dollar value every time.





It is significant that the Standard Six is such a





favorite among farmers.





Its great value and its low price—its beauty,

its speed, its performance commend themselves

to the man who would pay less than a thou-

sand dollars for a car and yet looks for features

possessed by cars much higher in price.





The Standard Six is big, roomy and comfort-

able, too—a family car—just suited to the re-

quirements of farm and country life.





Your Dodge Brothers dealer will gladly give

you a highway demonstration on roads of your

own choosing. Ask for one today.





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Chicago has one school where_

girls are taught to do the

things the boys usually do.





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show were the world’s largest monoplane with a wing spread of gets cool drinks way up in

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A keg full 01’ “kicks.” Betty Shaw failed to J. 3. Gibson is one of nineteen The birthplace of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.,





ride this bucking barrel at Jasper Park men to be honored by Red





rodeo for even thirty seconds.





will be moved to Coney Island and exhibited





Cross for first aid work. as an object lesson to young America.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





A check-up of the 100,000 cars parked along the six miles of Los





Angeles’ Municipal beach front revealed

every state in the Union were displayed.





bne of the new school houses being built in Amsterdam. Instead

of stuffy classrooms, the building consists of a roof—for rain——





that license plates from . . _ ,

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storm played this trick on a gravel mm in the heart of the

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TACKAGED foods as you buy them today represent a big imv

provement in the quality, purity and economy of your food

supply. The finest products that can be purchased in the market are

now carefully processed, standardized by skilled laboratory .men,

tested at every step of the way, sealed in a neat, tight packageand

sold with a positive guarantee of purity and nutritive value. You

are assured of uniform quality, whether you buy one package or/





a hundred. ’ /





All of the processing is done for you in great factories that are\

models of cleanliness, by workers who have devoted their entire

lives to perfection in this one job. Such foods bring delicious

treats to your table, and offer great economy in time and kitchen

work for the housewife.





   





 





The actual packaging of these foods is a marvel of modern fac‘ fl

tory practice. Machines almost uncanny in their deftness weigh

out the product, fill, wrap or seal the packages, a single machine

producing fifty or a hundred packages in the length of time it took

the old time grocer to weigh out a sack of oatmeal from the barrel.

- And every package is exact in its contents, trade marked with the

name of the manufacturer who certifies its goodness. THE genm; public seldom





These foods stay gOOd either on the shelf at the grocery store or painiijfin‘gbizstei‘fh’ZEJ . ,

~ ‘ in your pantry, because their quality is sealed in and protected. You on by great commercial con—

} can buy with assurance and place them on the table before your :35 ‘goxprjfetfle‘grge‘:

family or your guests with absolute confidence. This keeping '

Quality means economy.





advances in human wel-

fare are the direct result of

, such work, commercial, yet

Nutritive quality, dependability, purity, economy and delighto outstanding m service ‘0

ful new fiavorsrall are found in the food package. Make full use

, ' of these fine products. Save time by serving them often, and use

- - the time for more companionship with the family. Incidentally,





humanity.

By the Trade Mark on the

_ , remember 'that’the increased use of these quality foods greatly





package the manufacturer

gives you his word of honor

that his product is made in

. . good faith, that he sta

, ._ 'f‘ ates the market demand for quality farm products. back of in .

" 7 ' 7 g, , _ . When that Trade Mark ap»

pears in advertising carried by

this publication, you have

double assurance of an have ,

est product and asquar‘e deal.
Forty Points Are Allowed for Two Pints of Milk a Day

Iron makes blood, and if the'child’s





T’S part of a child’s education to

learn to like all foods.



The days when a child could

whine, and pick and choose have

passed in those families where every

effort is being made to rear healthy,

happy children. To help mothers

score children to see how near per-

fect they are, Miss Helen Parsons,

nutrition specialist at the University

of; Wisconsin, has planned a score

card which is receiving nation-wide

attention



Forty points are allowed the child

who takes two pints of milk a day,

or one and one-half if a physician has

advised this particular amount. If

less than this amount is taken, the

child is allowed ten points for every

cup. This includes milk taken. in

cooked foods as well as milk to drink.

If the milk is skimmed, the fat must

be provided in the form of cream or

butter. .



Protein Builds Muscle



If a child has the right kind and

the right amount of protein each day,

he may be given fifteen points. The

child from three to six years of age

should have, in addition to his milk,

one or two servings of the following

foods: poached egg (if eggs agree

with him), sponge cake, cottage

cheese, custard, or a small helping of

fish, chicken, beef, or liver. (It is

well not to serve meat more than

once a day; but egg every day if

possible.) The child of school age

needs two generous servings of such

foods in addition to his quota of milk.

. Other protein foods which are good

I for him include: peanut butter, other

‘egg dishes, and various cheese dishes

[which have been cooked at a low

temperature.



7 For two generous servings of vege«

tables other than potato, the child

should be given twenty-five points.

Ten points are allowed the child who

"teats one generous serving of fruit

preferably fresh) each day. ,



g An additional five points is allowed

111' at least one of the servings of fruit

;-or vegetables has been from the fol-

lowing list: Fresh or canned tomar

' a}, raw grated carrots or rutabaga,

pod raw cabbage, lettuce,



, lemons.





 





diet contains this substance five

points may be added. Foods espe-

cially rich in iron are: spinach, beef,

beef juice, dandelion greens, and egg

yolk.



Energy foods are necessary in the





Just A-





Perfect Children ’3 Food Habits





Score Card Provides ~Means of Checking Up on Health Foods





diet of the child, but they should- not

be eaten to such excess that they

crowd out other foods. Energy foods in-

clude bread, oatmeal, beans, peas, po-

tatoes, macaroni, cereals, lentils, pea-

nut butter, cooking fat, bacon, plain

cake, plain cookies, simple puddings,

honey, molasses, jam, jelly. Fatty

foods which are particularly valuable

for the growing child are cod liver

oil, egg yolk, butter, cream, and whole

milk.



If the kiddies are backward about

eating the full amount of protective

health foods, mother might tack up

a score card in the dining room to

inspire the child to eat those foods

that are essential to his or her grow-

ing body.





HOW TO FINISH FLOORS





 





Am building a new home on my

farm and would like some advice on

how to finish my hardwood maple

floors so as to make the border look

well with the rugs. Would I have

to put oak flooring in for border or

can I finish it with maple flooring to

look well?——H. S.





A hardwood maple floor should be

satisfactory for your house. Although

not quite as attractive in appearance

as oak, it is hard and very durable.



In regard to the finish, I suggest

that you write to the United States





Waitin’





By Hazel B. Girard





VE'R since a windy day last

March when I was rushed to the

hospital all out of wind to have

a reluctant appendix removed and

later to have a goiter excavated

from its hiding place, it was unani-

mously decided by the family that I

should have a summer’s rest.

Rest—rest—that single word in the

quantity of one day is usually enough

to make any woman smile like a

tooth paste advertisement. Now, a

change is guaranteed to be the first

essential of all in a well-ordered rest;

and since I had always contemplated

that a furlough at a watering place

was nothing short of a special dis-

pensation from the Gods, I see old

Lake Huron right out the back door.

The city park is outside the kitchen

window—all truly a sight that would

please the most discriminating.





The sea gulls are here in motley

crowds; the cranes patrol the

beaches—and occasionally stand- on

one foot and look out across the

misty depths in thoughtful contem-

plation.



At times, the lake is tranquil and

like a marvelous galaxy of mirrored

surface—and crooning echoes from

the liquid lips of the waves compares

favorably with a Southern lullaby.

And again, Tom Sawyer never lav-

ished whitewash on a fence with

more viciousness and velocity than

the prolific waves brush lather against

the intrepid sands of the beach. At

these times, it seems that the mighti-

ness and the mystery of it all would

hold one spellbound for an intermin-

able period of time.



Perhaps. But when you were born,

“in the sticks" and the weaknesses

of a country hickess still. permeate





your make-up, even this is not

enough. And, being a woman, nat-

urally I should change my mind.



The nights here are colder than

Spitzbergen; invariably, the days are

windier than fish stories. Even the

gorgeous body of water with all its

changeable moods and transient

beauty does not outdo the fields at

home that are as green as Emerald’s

Isle. The magnificient sea gulls her-

ald not half the symphony as the

alarm clock of the chicken yard. As

yet, I have not observed anything half

as symbolic as a well-behaved horse

stalking cautiously between the corn

rows, with a cultivator at his heels

and a jubilant kiddie astride his back

with russet—brown legs dangling

“Wiggo! WaggoP’



Already I have read all the worthy.

reading material I had judiciously

thrust aside hoping to snatch lucid" in-

tervals at some time or other to de-

vour it leisurely. I have done better

than that—I have read sufl‘icient li—

brary books to be a traveling ency—

clopaedia of universal knowledge; I

have answered neglected correspon-

dence; and last, but not least, I have

darned stockings and wrestled with

patches.



But say—I’d love to be involved in

a. real work-a-day labor again clean

up to the eardrums. I would like

nothing better than to be scrambling

mid the porous turf in quest of wild

strawberries—or loosening the earth

around some choice tomato plants.

Just to mount a cherry tree to the

very summit and pick a while, eat a

while of the most luscious fruit on

the tree! Rest. Oh! yes—11 noses:

slty now and than; an scapula!

luxury at times, but ”any. '_ ‘-

0: it must be atrocious. . ~





Department of Agriculture ffor Farm-

ers’ Bulletin No. 1219 entitled “Floors

and Floor Coverings.” In this bulle-





‘tin you will get complete information





on the finishing of floors.





VARY YOUR VEGETABLE MENU





 





String Beans-Vingrette



Melt one tablespoonful of fat and

add 1 tablespoonful of flour, 1 tea-

spoonful of salt and- onequarter tea-

spoonful of pepper. When thoroughly

mixed, pour on one-quarter cupful of

vinegar. and one-half cupful of the

liquor in- which fresh beans were

cooked. Add 1 teaspoonful'of sugar

and boil. Stir in 2 cupfuls of canned

or cooked string beans and serve

while hot.





Lima Beans Delicious

2 cupfuls lima. beans 1 cupful milk

at. pound sliced bacon ,1 teaspoom‘ul salt

2 medium—sized onions 3% teaspoonful pepper.

Brown the baCon, remove from the

frying pan and cook the chopped

onions in the fat until tender. Then

combine all the ingredients, place in

a greased casserole and bake in a.

slow oven until the beans are tender,

adding more milk if it is needed.

Baked Cabbage

2 cupfuls boiled cabbage 1 cupful milk

1 tablespoonful flour teaspoonl'ul salt

2 tablespoonfuls butter l4 teaspoonful newer

’34 cupful bread crumbs 4 tablespoonfuls cheese

Place a thin layer of the chopped

cabbage in a baking dish, sprinkle

with a little of the flour, salt and

pepper, dot with some of the butter

and cover with a layer of bread

crumbs. Repeat this process until the

dry ingredients are used, having the

top layer of bread crumbs. Pour on

the milk and sprinkle the grated

cheese over the top. Bake in a slow

oven until the top is browned nicely.

Vegetable Combination

2 cupfuls string beans 1.4 teaspoonful pepper

2 cupfuls lima, beans 2 cupfuls tomato sauce

cupfuls young corn 3 tablespoonfuls thick

1 teaspoonful salt cream

1 teaspoonful sugar Water

Cut the string beans in small

pieces, place in a kettle and add boil-

ing water to cover; add the salt and

sugar and cook twenty minutes. Then

add the lima beans and ecok until

the vegetables are tender. Drain and

add the tomato sauce. When this

boils, add the corn cut from the cob

and cook five minutes. Add the cream

and pepper and serve at once.





Tomato Nests

Hollow out tomatoes and drop in 1

teaspoon Worchestershire sauce, salt.

pepper, and ’1 raw egg. Add a few

more drops of sauce, together with

salt and' pepper on top. Place a strip

of bacon over each and bake in an”.



oven until eggs are firm.

Ripe Tomato Fritters ;

Slice firm ripe tomatoes about one-l

half inch thick. Dip in bread crumbs, ‘

then in beaten egg and again in'

bread crumbs. Fry in deep fat. These ‘

are even more delicious than greena



tomato fritters.



Corn Pudding





2 cups corn pulp 1 beta: -

1% cups hot milk 2 the. fate“

tbs. oommeal 1 tb. salt





1 minced green pepper .

, Pour hot milk over comnieal and

let cool.

bake in a greased baking dish for one

hour. After 30 minutes stir well._





Add other ingredients and ‘





 





To clean "
rim miday,”

. writer.





 





OR the third time in as many

Fy‘ears, groups of a hundred or

; more farm wdmen' of Michigan

found it possible to get away for a

few days, some for a week, to vaca-

tiOn at the Michigan State College

and find rest in the change from their

home routine and inspirations in the

programs and discussions of their

common problems.



“Why, you know, I was the first

one to get here Saturday," said one

farm woman whose hair was here

and there flecked with gray. “And

I hope I will be the last one to leave

she confided to the

“By that time I hope all the





stains of housework will be faded





‘Vfrom my hands for the first time in





two years.”



The women spent Sunday in getting

abquainted and on Monday the pro-

gram was devoted to farm and home

power. The highlight of the day was

a trip to Dansville and Mason to in-

spect farm and home electrical ap-

pliances in those communities. Here

the women saw demonstrated the

economical use .of electrical power

both in the home .and on the farm.





On Monday evening the four Mas-

ter Farm homemakers of Michigan,

who hadbeen selected on a score

card, compiled by the Farmer’s Wife,

were honored with a special pro-

gram. Those nominated for this honor

were: Mrs. Charles Gruner of Cold-

water; ~Mrs. Fred E. Morse of Jas-





“per; Mrs. Elizabeth Irish of Coopers-





viile; and Mrs. Mable Weller of Rock-

ford.



Many of the problems of the fam-

ily wash were solved by demonstra-

"tion on Tuesday by Mrs. Louise Hus-

ton; “Why, I’ve washed for twenty

years," said one mother of three chil-

dren in Livingston County who sat

beside me, “but I believe I have

learned most as much today as it

"took me twenty years to learn. The

trouble was that I thought I knew

how to wash and never gave the prob-

lem any further attention, but I be

_lieve I can go home now and wash

things that I thought never could be

washed before. I just hope they will

look as well as those up there ” she

said, pointing to the frocks in the





~ demonstration.





'The’ reason why so many women

have trduble‘ in washing the finer

fabrics, in the opinion of Mrs. Hus-

ton, is thatthey use too warm water.

She suggested that the soap flakes

"first be dissolved in boiling water





‘ and then the suds cooled to ninety de-





grees or just warm enough to take

the chill off. A sample of the mate-





I'rial' should always- be tested first.





“After the frock is‘washed and rinsed,

it Should be rolled tightly in one or





“two toWels for not more than a min-

‘ ute in order to extract all moisture





possible and then shaken gently until





 





Amen Vacation. at College





dry. Quick washing, quick rinsing,

duick drying will keep the most deli-

cate colors from running, she advised.



Mrs. Huston also demonstrated sev-

eral methods of removing stubborn

stains and spots. '



The Citizenship School on Wednes-

day under the auspices of the Mich-

igan League of Women Voters was

especially interesting. The steps in

government that often seem compli-

cated to the average woman voter

were discussed. From graphic word

pictures drawn of the last state and

national conventions by women who

attended, the school received a better

working knowledge of the activities

and functions of these steps in our

political system. Throughout the

school the fact was emphasized that

women must get out to, vote regular-

ly. It is by beginning with the cau-

cas in each local community, that

women may hope to get those candi-

dates into office whom they want.



A group of the League members

put on a dramatic skit “A Woman’s

Hour at the Polls,” which cleverly

dramatized many of the problems of

election day. It proved entertaining

as well as instructive. The skit is

adaptable to any civic day program

in a rural community. Manuscripts

of its are available from the office of

the Michigan League of Women

Voters, 108 Fulton Street East, Grand

Rapids.



“Family Relationships’ were dis-

cussed on Thursday and will be re-

ported next week.—I. L.





 





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BIT of dainty fancy Work is a



recreation for even a warm af«

ternoon. And really it doesn’t take

much more than one afternoon to

make one of these novel quilted pil-

lows.



The price of this design is 850

each, stamped on rayon. Stamped on

satin, it is $3.25 each, wadding in-

cluded. This design can be had in

rose, nile, green, saxe blue, maize,

tangerine, or black. In ordering, be

sure to specify the number of the de-

sign and whether rayon or satin is

to be furnished with the wadding.

Address your orders to the Stamped





 





 





Honor Your Horne





C ONSIDERABLE hard work,





thought, and expense goes into





building a new farm home or remodeling an old one to

meet satisfactorily the needs and comforts of the farm family To

recognize the efforts of those who have built or remodeled their

home so that it is convenient and satisfactory and meets the

individual needs of the family, is one of the aims of the Michigan

Approved Farm Home project as described in our latest service





bulletin, No. 5.





The owner, a neighbor, friend, local school teacher,





banker,





agricultural agent or anyone interested may nominate a home for





this honor.

ination that the home Of Mr.

south and west of





 





All that is necessary is to state in making the nom-





,located such a. distance





town is hereby'entered in the Mich-





gig-.11 Approved Farm Home project. Then a copy of this bulletin

. and questionnaire will be sent to the home owner. Later, some





 





amines Parson will call to fill in the questionnaire and score the

"it the-home a-ttalus a_ total of at least 800 points of the

on the score card. then the owner shall be





Goods Department Michigan Farmer,

Detroit, Michigan.





HOME~MADE CREAM CHEESE

THAT SELLS





 





ANY farm women wish to mar-



ket cottage cheese but hesitate

to attempt it for fear that their pro~

duct will not be satisfactory. This

is the way I make mine and I always

find a ready market for it.



Leave one quart of milk to sour

until it forms a whey. Set in a pan

of .boiling water. Do not let the

water boil but keep near boiling point

for two hours. Strain in a cheese

cloth and let drain for three hours.

Sprinkle with salt, add one-quarter

cup cream and toss lightly to mix.—

Mrs. L. D.





 





 





For Our Little Folks





 





 





STATE SECRETS





 





.With Quakers, thrifty Dutch and then





That gentleman named William

Penn,



This state got such a start I’ll bet



The others haven’t caught up yet!





 





 





The pieces of this puzzle when cor—

rectly put together, make a map of

the state which this verse describes.

The start indicates the capitol. When

you have solved the secret of which

state this is, write me all you can

about the state and its capitol.——Aunt

Martha.





 





The answer to the State Secret in

the July 21st issue was Maryland and

its capitol is Annapolis.





TIGER LILIES





 





I like to play along the hedge

Where freckled lilies grow,



They seem to give me friendly nods

All down their stately row.





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And once I stooped to leave a kiss

Upon a sunburned elf.





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No single improvement in

household equipment brings

more value to the housewife

than the washing machine.

It has done away with hours

of back-breaking rubbing, and

unnecessary wear on clothes.





,The old washboard and tub





brought a terrific toll in un~

necessary sickness.





With a modern power wash-

ing machine washday is no

more a thing to dread. Even

a washing for a big family

can be gotten out in a short

time—easily, safely and spot-

lessly clean. If you are get-

ting along without a washer

or have an old-fashioned one

make up your mind right

now to eliminate the “blue”

Mondays. Come in and let

us show you not only washing

machines, but other laundry

helps that will lighten your

labor and bring a new happi-

ness into your home making.

Come to one of our “tag”

stores and “see before you

buy.” It is the sure way to





complete satisfaction as well .





as true economy.





Your ‘ ‘Farm Service”

Hardware Men.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   





 





   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





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Dear Uncle Frank:



When the Michigan Farmer comes,

do you think that young heads are

the only ones bent over “Our Page?”

No doubt you rather expect that

some of the parents are noticing the

service you are doing for their young

folks, but how about the “oldest in-

habitant?” Well, I suspect I am not

the only grandparent who smiles over

the letters, or nods approvingly at

your sensible comments, or even likes



' to try out some of the contests.



There are several reasons why I do.

One is curiosity. I just imagine I

can get a pretty strong hint of the-





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Mary, Dick, and Rey Hartman, Grand-

children. Guilford’s Picture was

Used Some Time Ago.





sort of a world I am going to live in,

if I live long enough when these

young folks get to steering the ship

of state.



Another reason is a sentimental

one. Among the treasures I am sav-

ing for the evening of life when there

will be plenty of time to look them

over, a little packet of statements

that came with those marvelous

checks I used to get for the little

contributions I used to “send in” to

the “Farmer.” They indicate my en-

tire literary career!



Another reason, personal interest.

I am sure I recognize in Uncle Frank,

one] met 14 or 16 years ago at one

of the State Horticulture meetings,

at Traverse City, or was it Grand

Rapids? He was representing the

Michigan Farmer and so won my

confidence that I confided in him my

literary ambitions. He told me The

Editor was a splendid magazine and

sent me a copy. It certainly is not

the fault of my advisers that I have

not won fame or fortune yet. But

I appreciate the advice. That given

to me and that to the boys and girls

also. I think it would be very hard

. 3 to estimate its influence on the llves

of the young folks who_are glad to

V ‘ be your “nephews and nieces.”



I have decided that the great big

consolation of getting old IS grand-

children. The Bible speaks of chil-

dren’s children as a sort of reward,

doesn’t it?” It has been my great joy

for the last three years to live With

five of my grandchildren although

the heartbreak of it was that it was



because their daddy died. Then their

grandpa and I just asked the tenant

to move off our old farm at Blissfield



.and‘ with Ethel, their mother, our

5 oldest girl, we all came back. Here



.Was ,where great-grandfather planted



the trees, built the Muse and barns,

where grandpa was born and their



mother tee. They go to school where

,~ thine generations before them have



' gone. Muriel is 14. Ray 12, Maurice



10, Richard 8, and Mary 5. -



The oldest four treasure a snap-

shot copied in The Farmer about 6

were? year ago, named “Muriel Hart-



“a has her three brothers all lined

, j' fif- . .



' ’ And it is about snap-shots that all

torature (?) is. about. I am

V some which if not of use for

'6, will help to prove that 1

grandchildren great artistic and

possibilities.

one of the two boys with the



' more interesting, be

th the 6319.!) if Galil-

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A Grandmother Speaks





And Gives Some Interesting News and Views





forgotten what they called the other

two. Guilford’s mother and I were

seatmates in high school and his

father was guilty of “seeing me home

from church,” which was my first real

buggy ride though he little suspected

it of the sophisticated young lady

from out west who was visiting her

aunty.





And it was a long visit and Mr. and

Mrs. Rothfuss have always been

among our most intimate friends. We

always used to go up among the hills

for our summer vacation and camp

on their lake front, and we used to

have great times, for the Rothfusses

always saved their vacation till we

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racers and rattlesnakes around our

camping ground and go out and catch

bluegills for us to cook on our camp





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And at night they would all come

down and we would roast corn

around a big fire and when it died

down and the shadows were black,

Eve’d tell spookey tales. My, it was

un.



The other three were made last

summer. And perhaps when time has

glorified the doings of time that now

is, these days will be interesting

memories too. ,



I should be alarmed at the number

of sheets it' has taken to tell this,

but since it is not for publication, I

am not fearful. The writing of it has

taken up some of a rainy afternoon,

but I fear that because our old type-

writer needs repairs, .the reading may

spoil a long sunny day. Yours sin-

cerely, “Grannie”-—Mrs. Irene Ken-

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Dear Uncle Frank:



I received my dictionary 0. K, and

I want to thank you very much for

it. It sure is a swell little dictionary

and I know that it will come in

handy.



It seems that I am always sort of

lucky on these crossword puzzles as

I won a clutch pencil in another

crossword puzzle contest. I can very

well. remember the contest which I

first answered and from which I re-

ceived my M. C. pin and card. It

was an essay contest.



Well, summer is here again and I

am not sorry either as I do not like

cool weather any too well. There is

a river just a mile away with a good

swimming hole. Swimming is one

sport I like very well as it gives the

muscles lots of exercise. Well I will

close hoping you will have another

crossword puzzle contest sometime in

the near future—Leon Grant.





I have had to change your letter a

little as summer has come since your

letter was received. Hope you have

enjoyed several swims by this time.

Swimming certainly is fine exercise,

especially in hot weather.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



As I have written one letter before

this one and never found it in print,

I thought it would not hurt to try

again. I read the Michigan Farmer

every week and as soon as we get it,

I look up Our Page because I always

find such interesting letters there, and

also different poems of great inter-

est. I think it is a wonderful page.



We have quite a few rabbits and

the funniest thing happened recently.

While we were eating breakfast, my

dad looked out the window and saw

a large bird ready to catch one of our

rabbits. It was an owl. Dad got his

gun and saw that the owl had taken

the rabbit by the back and had flown

into the air. Myfather shot the owl

but not the rabbit. When they .fell

to the ground, ’the rabbit began to

run away with the owl’s claws stuck

fast in its back. My dad caught the

rabbit and took the sharp claws out

but the rabbit was so badly hurt that

we had to kill it. >But it sure was

an exciting,time.——¢A Nature Lover.





It must have been an interesting

and exciting time, but rather harden

the rabbit. The wise old owl was not

as wise as he thought he was.





Dear Uncle Frank: ‘



I like Our Page very much and

think it’s getting better and inter-

estinger every week. There are

quite a lot of M. C. letters that are





interesting, for one instance .Tom



Marshall’s. Wish he w0uld write



oftener. ‘ '

Oh, yes, I almost forgot. .Uncle





Frank, thanks very ~very much for

the M. 0. pin. .Thinkit's cute. I shall

have thanked you some time ago but,

oh well, I was just puttin’ it on.

Uncle Frank, I think your corres-

pondence scrambles have helped me

to get quite a few Manda. even if

they are from far on. Well as my

letter is getting longer and my writ-





. . What matters style





ing worse, I’ll leave hoping to see this

in print—Your nephew, “Sheik.”



It pleases me that you think Our

Page is getting “interestinger.” Tom

Marshall is a girl. I agree she writes

good letters.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



First of all I want to thank you for

the M. 0. pin and card that I re-

ceived a few weeks ago. My little

sister has a play house and a bird

is building a nest in her coffee kettle.

Ha. Ha. It’s interesting to see it

built its nest.



This is the first time I’m writing

to you, and I hope waste paper bas-

ket isn’t hungry to eat this letter up.

We get the M. F. I always read Our

Page, Hy Syckle, Slim and Al Acres.

Our Page I like the best. How can

one become a G. 0.?



With best wishes for a11.—Kather-

ine Juntikka.



I hope the bird making a nest in

the kettle will not hatch boiled birds.

Nest making is interesting, isn’t it?

It is so much like home making. The

only way one can become a G. C. is

to do especially good in some M. 0.





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Dear Uncle:



Am writing to let you know how

thoroughly I enjoy my pin. It sort of

swells a person’s chest to read Our

Page and know that he is an M. C

too.



Say, what is all of this talk about

flappers, chewing, smoking, and using

cosmetics? I’ll agree that it’s all

terrible and I do not admire them.

But don’t you think, Uncle Frank and

M. C.’s, that no matter how much

they rouge and smoke that somerof





them have noble, honest feelings just

the same as some of the more old-"





fashioned ones? I think that some of

their hearts are in the right place

after all. But I do admire a pure

modest girl. I think Steve Hogan has

,itabout right. He says in his poem

.“The Flapperz”

Forget the mode and lipstick preen;

Youth’s‘ not made for sorrow;

if the heart be

clean? ‘

She’s the mother of tomorrow”:

* ‘ ' ——Bud Sweet.

‘ Smoking and rouge do not neces—

sarily‘ ruin a person as some fine

' people do both. But, they just lack

judgment in acquiring such detrimen-

’tal habits.





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A BIRTH AND ADEATH





 





ABOUT aweek ago I received, on

.i the same day a card with the





following announcement on it ‘





and a. letter which is also given here.

{One is an event of» happiness and

gain; the .other of sorrow and loss.



The card read: “Broadcasting the

glad , news of the arrival of James

David on July 14, 1928, at 9:20 o‘clock

A. M. Mr. and Mrs.“ Gordon Winner,





formerly Goldie Kleinhardt.” , ,





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remember that you sent Junior Craw-

ford, age eight, a Merry Circle pin

and card a while ago? Well, last

Sunday, July eighth, we thought we

would go swimming, s'o Junior put on

his bathing suit an hour and a half

before we started. After a while we

got to Black Bridge where a num-

ber of people were swimming about.

He went under the bridge and that

was the last we saw of him. It was

fibout ten minutes before we found

1m.



“He was found about thirty or.

forty feet down the river. They

worked on him about an hour and

then gave up. The funeral was Wed-

nesday at two P. M. at home because

he liked to be home so well. I put

his Merry Circle pin on his coat be-

cause he always loved it so much.



“My grandmother said he had more

flowers than any child’s funeral she

ever seen and at seventy-five she has

seen a good many funerals. He looked

as if he was only sleeping. He had

hiscute little smile on his lips Sun-

day and Monday, but was gone Wed-

nesday.



“He was a dear little fellow and

was loved by all who knew him.”

Elspeth Crawford, age thirteen, Mil-

ford, Mich.



My sympathy goes to the Crawford

family and. my congratulations to the

Witmers.





MIXED NAME CONTEST





 





OHN VLOCH suggested the fol-

lowing contest. It is a mixture of

the letters in the names of prom-

inent M. C.’s. All Who have been

reading this department will recog—

nize these names, I think. The ten

usual prizes will be given: fountain

pens, dictionaries, and clutch pencils.

The winners will be picked from a

pile of correct papers. Also, all

those who send in correct answers

will receive M. 0. buttons and cards,

if not now members. Here are the

names:

. Lylli Vroet

Lazo Smahr

Njeu Lesnno

Trbheer Sstee

Ntolcin Anv Ndieu

Nojh Hoclv

Ufligdor Sotushrf

Neelh Pprie

Ordhoty Mushkare

Dieth Niknogd





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Mary ‘Wesley had Her “Picttire Took”

This contest ,closes August 17th.





“‘Sehd your papers to Uncle Frank,

Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich. .





chosswoao PUZZLE RESULTS





 





F we ever had a contest which ,one

would call in slang a “flop,”*this

.was it. Only two answered and only

one, completed it. She was Germaine





Wylin,_Berville, vMich., Rd, who will .





be sent a prize. . . .



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FOR the control of red mites during

hot weather, I have just finished

painting'the roosts with a mixture of

two-thirds kerosene oil and one-third

carbolineum. :It is usually advised to

paint full strength carbolineum on the

roosts and keep the birds away from

the recsts for about a day. It is a

very strong solution and may cause

injury to the hens if they Walk on

the wet roosts. .



By mixing the'kerosene oil with the

carbolineum, I; find that it penetrates

the wood rapidly and when placed on

the roosts in the morning, it dries by

roosting time and ‘does not appear to

injure the hens’ feet if they Walk on

the roosts during the day. The one-

third carbolineum in ' the mixture

'seems to have killed any mites that

were hiding around. the roosts. I do

not know if this mixture will last a

year but. it did reduce the cost of hot

weather mite protection for the next

two or three months and was easy

to paint on the roosts.





New Del'ouslng Method



I am trying a new method of de—

lousing poultry Without the individ—

ual treatment of the hens. This plan

was first tried in California and has

been used with .success by several

poultrymen in this part of the coun-

try. It consists in placing nicotine

sulphate or black-leaf—40 "on the

perches a'short time before the hens

go to roost. This is the same mate-'

rial commonly used in spraying fruit

trees for aphis. .



Pound a nail hole in each corner

of a can of nicotine sulphate and run

a small line of the mixture along

each perch. Be sure that all the hens

roost over the protected perches in-

stead of outside the house. The next

morning examine the hens for lice

and see if this method does not seem

a practical way for a poultryman to

save time. , '



3 In my experiment with nicotine sul-

‘phate, I placed one roost in.a colony

house and then worked with the

gchicken crook until I located three

:hens which were apparently unpro-

itected by the last treatment with blue

iointment. They seemed to have ac-

,quired enough lice to be worthy sub-

jects for the exneriment.

i Then I ran a line of spray dope

lover the perch just at sundown. The

ne‘xt‘morning these hens were free

1from'lice. The perches in the laying

houses and colony houses have now

been protected in the same manner

although there has not been time to

.inspect all the birds to see if they

,are entirely free from lice. The treat-

ment should be done before any pul-

lets leave the colony houses and start

roosting in fruit trees where the

perches are difi‘icu‘lt to reach.

1 Look Out for Stray Cats and Bags

2 During‘ the. motor season when

the vacation period arrives look out

'n'for'the city folks who drop their cats

tin the country. A stray cat around a

ipoultry farm may hide in deep grass

land pick off a lot of chicks before

Athe cause of the loss is located. Stray

dogs are often- a cause of severe

losses on a poultry range.

THE SUMM‘ER;MlCl-_iIGAN POUL-

i‘ . 'TBY TOUR»-- .

THE.,_summer” tour 0 a'poultrr men

; ~ Will last four days‘ t is year, from

August 28 to 81 inclusive. The

_ «willuhq “wage, fit the . Mishigan

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visited: Silverward Hatchery, Grand-

view Poultry Farm, Superior Poultry

Farm, Hiliview Poultry Farm, and

Wolverine Hatchery. Dinner will be

obtained in Holland and the evening’s

entertainment will be in charge of the

Holland poultry men under the di-

rection of R. C. Jackson.



At eight o’clock the next day the

Holland Hatchery will be visited, then

the Lakewood Farms, generally

known as the Getz farm, famous for

its managerie. The M. J. Kole and

Brummer and Fredrickson hatcheries

near Holland will be inspected before

noon. The business men of Bangor

will provide lunch, with Munro and

Martin of Munja Garden Poultry

Farm, in charge. Then an inspection

of the poultry farm of W. C. Eckard

at Paw Paw when enroute to Kala-

mazoo, where the night’s stop will be

made.



Thursday morning will be given

over to the inspection of the Kellogg

Farm which has recently been turned

over to the State Experiment Station

and the Kellogg food factory. The

afternoon will include visits to the

Battle Creek Sanitarium Farm and

the Layher Brothers turkey farm

near Jackson. The night will be

spent in Ann Arbor.



On the last day the University

campus and athletic field will be





visited and then a drive to the

hatchery of W. A. Downs, near

Romeo. The noon luncheon will be





furnished by the Larro Company at

its research farm near Redford. Here,

also, will be held the annual field day

program of the Michigan State Poul—

try Improvement Association which

Evil! be followed by a tour of the

arm.





IMPROVEM ENT ASSOCIATION

MEETS





 





THE Michigan Poultry Improve-

ment Association held its annual



.meeting at East Lansing, July

13th, at which time it elected Dr.

L. E. Heasley as president;~ W. A.

Downs, vice-president, and J. A. Han-

nah, secretary—treasurer.



The board of directors include the

above officers and .1. . Garlough,

Robert Pool, C. J. DeKoster, C. N.





C. G. Card of M.- S. C.



The program included some very

fine talks on the poultry industry and

its relation to agriculture in general

by such men as Pres. R. S. Shaw,

Dean J. F. Cox, Prof. C. G. Card, and

Reese V. Hicks, of the International

Baby Chick Association. The reports

of the officers showed that the asso—

ciation had a very successful year

and its financial condition at present

is the best ever.



The association passed resolutions

commending the officers for the fine

way in which they conducted the

association and J. A. Davidson for his

efficient service as field manager. One

resolutionwas devoted to the state

accrediting and certification work,

favoring uniformity of state accredit-

ing and certifying plans, and taking

Dr, B. J. Kilham, of the State De-

partment of Agriculture to task for

favoring a plan advocated by some

eastern states which is different from

and unfavorable to the Michigan plan.



.A. fourth resolution commended the

International Baby Chick Association

for its work in behalf of the poultry

industry as a whole. It further went

on record to pay the International





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an average per hen of 162.7

eggs." The difference in cost be-

tween my own mash and AMCO

EGG MASH was nothing when

compared with my increased

net profit.”





FTER mixing his own lay-

A ing mash for eleven years,

during which period he checked

it several times against difier-

ent commercial mashes, Mr.

Elmer Amborn of Fern Glen

Poultry Farm, Bangor, Wis.

began a year’s trial of AMCO

EGG MASH in January, 1927.





Writing of his results for the

year, Mr. Amborn stated:





Mr. Amborn's records for the

month of January, 1928, show

the following:





GROSS iNCOME FROM EGGS 8405.95





1. EXPENSES

While AMCO EGG MASH Amco Egg Mash ....... $86.90

cost more. per ton than my Amco Scratch ......... 54.13





COd Liver Oil ........... 5.20





own maSh' my net profit 01‘! Cases, Egg Cartons, etc. 19.25

0





624 hens was almost three Oyster Shells. Grit ..... __§_._

times greater than the previous Total 171.43

year When I fed my own maSh NET INCOME $234.47





to 626 hens. Besides that, the

average price of my eggs was 2

cents a dozen less in 1927 than

in 1926. On AMCO EGG MASH,

the total year‘s production

from 624 hens was 101,555 eggs,





On May 23, 1928, after heavy

production since October. Mr.

Amborn’s hens were looking

fine, up to weight, and laying

400 eggs at day.





 





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Association ten dollars per member,

five dollars from the state associa-

tion treasury and five assessed

against the members.



The fifth resolution requested Gov.

Green to release the fifty thousand

dollars appropriated by the last

legislature for the poultry research

at the college in order that the col-

lege may construct a worthy and

needed research program in poultry

work. '



The sixth resolution referred to-the

$100,000 appropriated by the legisla-

ture for equipment for thefM. S. C.

poultry department. Gov. Green

vetoed fifty thousand of this which

does not leave enough for necessary

equipment as the department is sadly

in need of equipment at present.





Therefore; the association askslfOr

another fifty thousand from the com-

.ing legislature. in'order that the no 1-





m M 1 9% may be in» position

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Interesting pamphlet of instructive “turkey talk" free

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A Grandmother Speaks





And Gives Some Interesting News and Views





Dear Uncle Frank:



When the Michigan Farmer comes,

do you think that young heads are

the only ones bent over “Our Page?”

No doubt you rather expect that

some of the parents are noticing the

service you are doing for their young

folks, but how about the “oldest in-

habitant?” Well, I suspect I am not

the only grandparent who smiles over

the letters, or nods approvingly at

your sensible comments, or even likes

to try out some of the contests.



There are several reasons why I do.

One is curiosity. I just imagine I

can get a pretty strong hint of the-





 





 





Mary, Dick, and Roy Hartman, Grand-

children. G‘uilford’s Picture was

Used Some Time Ago.





sort of a world I am going to live in,

if I live long enough when these

young folks get to steering the ship

of state.



Another reason is a sentimental

one. Among the treasures I am sav-

ing for the evening of life when there

will be plenty of time to look them

over, a little packet of statements

that came with those marvelous

checks I used to get for the little

contributions I used to “send in” to

the “Farmer.” They indicate my en-

tire literary career!



. Another reason, personal interest.

I am sure I recognize in Uncle Frank,

onel met 14 or 16 years ago at one

of the State Horticulture meetings,

at Traverse City, or was it Grand

Rapids? He was representing the

Michigan Farmer and so won my

confidence that I confided in him my

literary ambitions. He told me The

Editor was a splendid magazine and

sent me a copy. It certainly is not

the fault of my advisers that I have

not won fame or fortune yet. _But

I appreciate the advice. That given

to me and that to the boys and girls

also. I think it would be very hard

to estimate its influence on the lives

of the young folks who.are glad to

be your “nephews and nieces.”

Ihave decided that the great big

consolation of getting old is grand-

children. The Bible speaks of chil-

dren’s children as a sort of reward,

doesn’t it?’ It has been my great joy

for the last three years to live With

five of my grandchildren although

the heartbreak of it was that it was

because their daddy died. Then their

grandpa and I just asked the tenant

to move off our old farm at Blissfield

and with Ethel, their mother, our

,- oldest girl, we all came back. Here

.wns .Where great-grandfather planted

the trees, built the house and barns,

where grandpa was born and their

mother too. They go to school where

,xthrtw generations before them have

gone. Muriel is 14, Ray 12, Maurice

10, Richard 8, and Mary 5. ‘

The oldest four treasure a snap-

' Shot copied in The Farmer abput 6

at? year ago named “Muriel Hart-

“I! has her three brothers all lined





5 about snap-shots that all

ure (1’) is. about. am

some which if not of use for

" , prove that I

' n'dchildren great artistic and

ssibilities.

unpe0 of the two boys with the

(is ”Will be more interesting, be-

se the boy with the cap is Guil-

rd Rothfuss. The other is his

i r, Donald. One of the bounds

”$4" manned Peanut. but I have





 

 

 

 





 





   





 





forgotten what they called the other

two. Guilford’s mother and I were

seatmates in high school and his

father was guilty of “seeing me home

from church,” which was my first real

buggy ride though he little suspected

it of the sophisticated young lady

from out west who was visiting her

aunty.





And it was a long visit and Mr. and

Mrs. Rothfuss have always been

among our most intimate friends. We

always used to go up among the hills

for our summer vacation and camp

on their lake front, and we used to

have great times, for the Rothfusses

always saved their vacation till we

came. The boys used to kill the blue-





 





racers and rattlesnakes around our

camping ground and go out and catch

bluegills for us to cook on our camp





re.



And at night they would all come

down and we would roast corn

around a big fire and when it died

down and the shadows were black,

Eve’t'i tell spookey tales. My, it was

un.



The other three were made last

summer. And perhaps when time has

glorified the doings of time that now

is, these days will be interesting

memories too.



I should be alarmed at the number

of sheets it has taken to tell this,

but since it is not for publication, I

am not fearful. The writing of it has

taken up some of a rainy afternoon,

but I fear that because our old type-

writer needs repairs, .the reading may

spoil a long sunny day. Yours sin-

cerely, “Grannie”—Mrs. Irene Ken-

drick.





 





 





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Dear Uncle Frank:



I received my dictionary 0. K., and

I Want to thank you very much for

it. It sure is a swell little dictionary

and I know that it will come in

handy.



It seems that I am always sort of

lucky on these crossword puzzles as

I won a clutch pencil in another

crossword puzzle contest. I can very

well remember the contest which I

first answered and from which I re-

ceived my M. C. pin and card. It

was an essay contest.



Well, summer is here again and I

am not sorry either as I do not like

cool weather any too well. There is

a river just a mile away with a good

swimming hole. Swimming is one

sport I like very well as it gives the

muscle-s lots of exercise. Well I will

close hoping you will have another

crossword puzzle contest sometime in

the near future.———Leon Grant.





I have had to change your letter a

little as summer has come since your

letter was received. Hope you have

enjoyed several swims by this time.

Swimming certainly is fine exercise,

especially in hot weather.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



As I have written one letter before

this one and never found it in print,

I thought it would not hurt to try

again. I read the Michigan Farmer

every week and as soon as we get it,

I look up Our Page because I always

find such interesting letters there, and

also different poems of great inter—

est. I think it is a wonderful page.



We have quite a few rabbits and

the funniest thing happened recently.

While we were eating breakfast, my

dad looked out the window and saw

a large bird ready to catch one of our

rabbits. It was an owl. Dad got his

gun and saw that the owl had taken

the rabbit by the back and had flown

into the air. Myfather shot the owl

but not the rabbit. When they fell

to the ground, ’the rabbit began to

run away with the owl’s claws stuck

fast in its back. My dad caught the

rabbit and took the sharp claws out

but the rabbit was so 'badly hurt that

we h'ad’to kill it. ‘But it sure‘was

an exciting_time.——A Nature Lover.





It must have been an interesting.





and exciting time, but rather harden

the rabbit. The wise old owl was not

as wise as he thought he was.





Dear Uncle Frank: ‘



I like Our Page very much and

think it’s» getting better and inter-

estinger every week. There are

quite a lot of M. 0. letters that are





interesting, for‘ one instance .Tom



Marshall’s. Wish he w0uld write



oftener. ‘ '

Oh, yes, I almost forgot. .Uncle





Frank, thanks ,very 'very much for

the M. 0. pin. .Think it’s cute. I shall

have ”thanked you some time a 0 but,

oh well, I was just puttin’ it o 4.

Uncle Frank, I think your 'corres—

pondence scrambles have helped me

to get quite a few friends. even if

they are from far 011'. Well as my

letter is getting longer and my writ





, it j about right.





. _ What matters style





'T tal habits.





ing worse, I’ll leave hoping to see this

in print.—-—Your nephew, “Sheik.”





It pleases me that you think Our

Page is getting “interestinger.” Tom

Marshall is a girl. I agree she writes

good letters.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



First of all I want to thank you for

the M. C. pin and card that I re-

ceived a few weeks ago. My little

sister has a play house and a bird

is building a nest in her coffee kettle.

Ha. Ha. It’s interesting to see it

built its nest.



This is the first time I’m writing

to you, and I hope waste paper bas-

ket isn’t hungry to eat this letter up.

We get the M. F. I always read Our

Page, Hy Syckle, Slim and Al Acres.

Our Page I like the best. How can

one become a G. 0.?



With best wishes for all—Kather-

ine Juntikka.



I hope the bird making a nest in

the kettle will not hatch boiled birds.

Nest making is interesting, isn’t it?

It is so much like home making. The

only way one can become a G. C. is

to do especially good in some M. C.





activity.





 





Dear Uncle:



Am writing to let you know how

thoroughly I enjoy my pin. It sort of

swells a person’s chest to read Our

Page and know that he is an M.

too.



Say, what is all of this talk about

flappers, chewing, smoking, and using

cosmetics? I’ll agree that it’s all

terrible and I do not admire them.

But don’t you think, Uncle Frank and

M. C.’s, that: no matter how much

they rouge and smoke that some of

them have noble, honest feelings just





the same as some of the more old-'





fashioned ones? I think that some of

their hearts are in the right place

after all. But I do admire a pure

modest girl. I think Steve Hogan has

He says in his poem

>“The Flapperz”

Forget the mode and lipstick preen;

Youth’s‘ not made for sorrow;

if the heart be

. clean? '

She‘s the mother of tomorrow.”E

‘ ' —Budeweet.

, Smoking and rouge do not neces-

sarily' ruin a person as some fine

"people do both. But, they just lack

judgment in acquiring such detrimen-





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A BIRTH AND A DEATH





 





ABOUT a week ago I receited on

.' _ the same day a card with the

following announcement on it

and a letter which is also given here.

’One is an event of ~« happiness and

gain; the other of sorrow and loss.

The card read: “Broadcasting the

glad news of the arrival of James

David on July 14, 1928, at 9:20 o'clock

A. M. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Witmer.

formerly Goldie Kleinhardt.”

theatre em; .«



. pug _ won , ,

one so! your Merry ”Glam.





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remember that you sent Junior Craw-

ford, age eight, a Merry Circle pin

and card a while ago? Well, last

Sunday, July eighth, we thought we

would go swimming, so Junior put on

his bathing suit an hour and a half

before we started. After a while we

got to Black Bridge Where a num-

ber of people were swimming about.

He went under the bridge and that

was the last we saw of him. It was

flbout ten minutes before we found

1m.



“He was found about thirty or

forty feet down the river. They





 





 





worked on him about an hour and





then gave up. The funeral was Wed-

nesday at two P. M. at home because

he liked to be home so well. I put

his Merry Circle pin on his coat be-

cause he always loved it so much.



“My grandmother said he had more

flowers than any child’s funeral she

ever seen and at seventy-five she has

seen a good many funerals. He looked

as if he was only sleeping. He had

hiscute little smile on his lips Sun-

day and Monday, but was gone Wed-

nesday.



“He was a dear little fellow and

was loved by all who knew him.”

Elspeth Crawford, age thirteen, Mil-

ford, Mich.



My sympathy goes to the Crawford

family and my congratulations to the

Witmers.





MIXED NAME CONTEST





 





 





OHN VLQCH suggested the fol-

lowing contest. It is a mixture of

the letters in the names of prom-

inent M. C.’s. All Who have been

reading this department will recog-

nize these names, I think. The ten

usual prizes will be given: fountain

pens, dictionaries, and clutch pencils.

The winners will be picked from a

pile of correct papers. ,Also, all

those who send in correct answers

will receive M. 0. buttons and cards,

if not now members. Here are the

names:

Lylli Vroet

Lazo Smahr

Njeu Lesnno

Trbheer Sstee

Ntolcin Anv Ndieu

Nojh Hoclv

Ufligdor Sotushrf

Neelh Pprie

Ordhoty Mushkare

Dieth Niknogd





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Mary 'Wesle‘y had He:- “Picture Took”

This contest closes August .17th.





“‘Send your papers to Uncle Frank,

_Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.





onosswoan PUZZLE RESULTS





 





F we ever had a contest which one

would call in slang a “flop,"'this

was it. Only two answered and only

one cempleted it. She was Germaine





Wylin,’ Berville, Mich, R.-~1, who will ‘





be sent a prize. , .

,I guess the key words to; the con-

test were not clear enough ,’and_'-con-

tuned, too, many-Mu .

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AUGUs-r POULTRY NOTES





 





FOR the control of red mites during

hot weather, I have just finished

painting the roosts with a mixture of

two-thirds kerosene oil and one-third

carbolineum. .It is usually advised to

paint full strength Carbolineum on the

roosts and keep the birds away from

the roosts for about a day. It is a

very strong solution and may cause

injury to the hens if they walk on

the wet roosts. .



By mixing the kerosene oil with the

carbolineum, I, find that it penetrates

the wood rapidly and when placed on

the roosts in the morning, it dries by

roosting time and ’does not appear to

injure the hens’ feet if they Walk on

the roosts during the day. The one-

third carbolineum in ' the mixture

'seems to have killed any mites that

were hiding around the. roosts. I do

not know if this mixture will last a

year but it did reduce the cost of hot

weather mite protection for the next

two or three months and was easy

to paint on the roosts.



New Del‘ousing Method



I am trying a new method of de-

lousing poultry Without the individ-

ual treatment of the hens. This plan

was first tried in California and has

been used with .success by several

poultrymen in this part of the coun-

try. It consists in placing nicotine

sulphate or black-leaf-40 "on the

perches a-short time before the hens

go to roost. This is the same mate-‘

rial commonly used in spraying fruit

trees for aphis. .



Pound a nail hole in each corner

of a can of nicotine sulphate and run)

a small line of the mixture along

each perch. Be sure that all the hens

roost over the protected perches in-

stead of outside the house. The next

morning examine the hens for lice

and see if this method does not seem

a practical way for a poultryman to

save time. . ‘



5 In my experiment with nicotine sul-

‘phate, I placed one roost in.a colony

house and then worked with the

Echicken crook until I located three

ghens which were apparently unpro-

gtected by the last treatment with blue

Eointment. They seemed to have ac-

,quired enough lice to be worthy sub-

;jects for the experiment.



i Then I ran a. line of spray dope

lover the perch just at sundown. The

'next'morning these hens were free

from 'lice. The perch-es in the laying

houses and colony houses have now

been protected in the same manner

although there has not been time to

ginspect all the birds to see if they

,are entirely free from lice. The treat-

ment should be done before any pul-

‘lets leave the colony houses and start

roosting in fruit trees Where the

perches are difficult to reach.

i Look Out for Stray Cats and'Dogs

3 During” the motor season when

the vacation period arrives look out

:for‘ the city folks who drop their cats

§in the country. A stray cat around‘a

:poultry farm may hide in deep grass

land pick off a lot of chicks before

ithe cause of the loss is located. Stray

dogs are often a cause of severe



Tlosses on a poultry rangé.



3.. THE SUMMER ‘MlCHlGAN POUL.



f ' TRY TOUR ~-





 





HE, summer“ tour 0 .‘po'ultry men

Will last four days t is year, from

August, 28 to; 31 inclusive. The

tart “be. midget the Michigan



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visited: Silverward Hatchery, Grand-

view Poultry Farm, Superior Poultry

Farm, Hillview Poultry Farm, and

Wolverine Hatchery. Dinner will be

obtained in Holland and the evening’s

entertainment will be in charge of the

Holland poultry men under the di-

rection of R. C. Jackson.



At eight o’clock the next day the

Holland Hatchery will be visited, then

the Lakewood Farms, generally

known as the Getz farm, famous for

its managerie. The M. J. K019 and

Brummer and Fredrickson hatcheries

near Holland will be inspected before

noon. The business men of Bangor

will provide lunch, with Munro and

Martin of Munja Garden Poultry

Farm, in charge. Then an inspection

of the poultry farm of W. C. Eckard

at Paw Paw when enroute to Kala-

mazoo, where the night’s stop will be

made.



Thursday morning will be given

over to the inspection of the Kellogg

Farm which has recently been turned

over to the State Experiment Station

and the Kellogg food factory. The

afternoon will include visits to the

Battle Creek Sanitarium Farm and

the Layher Brothers turkey farm

near Jackson. The night will be

spent in Ann Arbor.



On the last day the University

campus and athletic field will be

visited and then a drive to the

hatchery of W. A. Downs, near

Romeo. The noon luncheon will be

furnished by the Larro Company at

its research farm near Redford. Here,

also. will be held the annual field day

program of the Michigan State Poul—

try Improvement Association which

Frill be followed by a tour of the

arm.





IMPROVEM ENT ASSOCIATION

MEETS





 





'I'HE Michigan Poultry Improve-

ment Assoéiation held its annual

Lansing, July





.meeting at East

it elected Dr.

A





13th, at which time

L. E. Heasley as president} W. .

Downs, vice-president, and J. A. Han-

nah, secretary-treasurer.



The board of directors include the

above officers and ,- . Garlough,

Robert Pool, C. J. DeKoster, C. N.

W. C. Eckard, and Prof.

C. G. Card of M.- S. C.



The program included some very

fine talks on the poultry industry and

its relation to agriculture in general

by such men as Pres. R. S. Shaw,

Dean J. F. Cox, Prof. C. G. Card, and

Reese V. Hicks, of the International

Baby Chick Association. The reports

of the officers showed that the asso—

ciation had a very successful year

and its financial condition at present

is the best ever.



The association passed resolutions

commending the officers for the fine

way in which they conducted the

association and J. A. Davidson for his

efficient service as field manager. One

resolutionywas devoted to the state

accrediting and certification work,

favoring uniformity of state accredit-

ing and certifying plans, and taking

Dr.' B. J. Kilham, of the State De-

partment of Agriculture to task for

favoring a plan advocated by some

eastern states which is different from

and unfavorable to the Michigan plan.



.A- fourth resolution commended the

International Baby Chick Association

for its work in behalf of the poultry

industry as a. whole. It further went

on record to pay the International





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FTER mixing his own lay-

ing mash for eleven years,

during which period he checked

it several times against differ-

ent commercial mashes, Mr.

Elmer Amborn of Fern Glen

Poultry Farm, Bangor, Wis..

began a year's trial of AMCO

EGG MASH in January, 1927.





Writing of his results for the

year, Mr. Amborn stated:

“While AMCO EGG MASH

cost more. per ton than my

own mash, my net profit on

624 hens was almost three

times greater than the previous

year when I fed my own mash

to 626 hens. Besides that, the

averageprice of my eggs was 2

cents a dozen less in 1927 than

in 1926. On AMCO EGG MASH.

the total year’s production

from 624 hens was 101,555 eggs,





an average per hen of 162.?

eggs: The difference in cost be-

tween my own mash and AMCO

EGG MASH was nothing when

compared with my increased

net profit."





Mr. Amborn’s records for the

month of January. 1928, show

the following:





GROSS INCOME FROM EGGS 8405.95





EXPENSES

Amco Egg Mash ....... $86.90

Amco Scratch ......... 54.13

Cod Liver Oil ........... 5.20

Cases. Egg Cartons, etc. 19.95





Oyster Shells, Grit ..... 5 30

Total __l_7_l_._48

NET INCOME $234.47





On May 23, 1928, after heavy

production since October, Mr.

Amborn’s hens were looking

fine, up to weight, and laying

400 eggs a day..





 





YOUR AMCO AGENT CAN SUPPLY YOU WITH AMCO



EGG MASH. If you haven ’1' an Amco Agent in your community



and want to use Amco feed, or handle the agency for it, write

" to the address below.





 





 





FEED-MIXING SERVICE





. AMERICAN MILLING COMPANY

EXECUTIVE OFFICES: PEORIA, ILL.

Plant: at: Peoria, 111.; Omaha, Neb.; Owensboro, Ky.





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Association ten dollars per member,

five dollars from the state associa-

tion treasury and five assessed

against the members.



The fifth resolution requested Gov.

Green to release the fifty thousand

dollars appropriated by the last

legislature for the poultry research

at the college in order that the col-

lege may construct a worthy and





needed research program in poultry





work.

The sixth resolution referred to-the





$100,000 appropriated by the legisléi-





ture for equipment for the. M. S

poultry department. Gov.





do necessary: work“





   





 





Green

vetoed fifty thousand of this which

does not leave enough for necessary

equipment as the department is sadly

in need of equipment at present.

Therefore; the association asks "for

anotherflfty thousand from the com-

.ing legislature in order that the poul-

try department may be in position to





It tells all about the wonderful new Narragansett

turkeys which are so easy to raise and lay their eggs

at home with the chickens. It tells how to get

started with these turkeys that do not wilt and

droop and sleep and die, but grow and feather up and.

fatten from the day they hatch. Gives records of

remarkable remlts with turkeys all. over the U. S.

Interesting pamphlet of instructive “turkey talk” free

to fanners. Address.





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White or Silver Wyandcttes. Buff Orpingmns 13%,0.

White. Brown or Buff Leghorns. Heavy Mixed 10%0.

Less than 100 lots add 400.. Order breeding Critic's"~

913 from R. 0. P. MALE MATINGS 200 to 316 ‘egs





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CATTLE





 





 





 





The Best is the

Most

Economical





It costs the same

per pound to ship

average beef ani-

mals to market as

it does prime beef

animals, yet the

latter dress 10%

more.





 





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FOREST HILL GUERNSEYS





For sale bull calf, 11 months old, dam’s record 450



lbs. fat Class G; sire‘s dam 634 lbs. in EE. sire’s



. sirefs dam 952 lbs in AA. Good type. Onlv



1 $125.00 Also heifer calf. M. HOMPE. ll. 5.



Grand Rapids, Michigan.



11 ttractive Guern-



o I Have For Sale 18,3“qu mom,



old. Dani test. in Class G shows 4201



pounds of milk and 174. 27 pounds of butter- -fat in



152 days. FRANK E. ROBSON. Ann Arbor,

Michigan. Route 3. Box 56-A.





. GUERNSEYS .3)... .1... vow

.‘ mos. old.



966. 80 fat. Foundation cows and heifers.

WHITE JOAK GUERNSEY FARM. Niles. Mich. R.

5. Dr J. F. Shallenberger. (Near Pokagon)





GUERNSEYS





709.10 milk. 778.80 m.

t. v. HICKS. Battle





bulls 3 to

Sire Dam





 





either sex. whose sires’ dams

have official records of 15.-

19 460. to milk. 909. 05 fat.

Creek. Miob., R. I.





 





1‘: R8 practically“ pure-bred GUERNSEY or H01.-

0 cal yea. from rich milkerl.

writs EDOEWOOD DAIRY FARMS. thItcwatcr. WII.





SERVICEABLE AGE

. Registered Holstein





, Bull Calves at prices the owner of a small herd

can afford to pay. Grandsons of K. P. O. P.

Bred cows and heifers are available for founda-

tion stock.





RED ROSE FARMS DAIRY

Northville, Michigan





Reference: Northvilie State Savings Bank

registered Holstein cows.





FOR SALE Seven have A. .0. records aver~

MON 20 lbs. butter in 7 days. Due this fall.

HARRY e“IIZlOVER‘I'. Leslie. Mich.





FOR SWALE G°°d your“! registeredm 3015:3111





cows and 8hlmii’ers of by

AW good

aim. ROB’T. H. commKRAUSE. Oak Grove. Mich.





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HE advantage of purchasing



feeding cattle direct from the



range was brought to my atten-

tion about ten years ago through a

personal experience. I was in Chi-

cago to purchase some feeder calves

but I found the selection so poor and

the prices so high that I had about

decided to come home. without any

when someone called to my attention

that the following day there was to

be an auction of Colorado range

feeder calves in Central Illinois. I

went down there and purchased two

cars and, while the price was not as

low as it usually is at an auction,

the quality and condition of these

calves, all one line of breeding, was

so much better than any I ever

bought out of a. public market that I

was Willing to pay a, strong price for

them. I shipped them home, fed

them nearly a year without losing a

one or having any sick; put on an

average gain of over two pounds per

day, every one doing well and all

looked alike and sold one load of

them as first prize winners at the

Buffalo Fat Stock Show in December,

1919, at 21% cents per pound.





This was quite a contrast from my

previous experience purchasing on the

public market Where I had often had

a. dozen different breedings in the

same carload with nearly as many

different types not mentioning the

fact that some of them had probably

been in the stockyards a week or

ten days and had been gorged so full

of feed and water each day by the

speculatorv to get an excessive fill on

them that th’eirstomachs had been

ruined and their vitality so weak-

ened that the hemmoragic septicemia

and other stockyard fever germs

which they came in contact with

around the yards developed so rapid-

ly that by the time I got them home,

I figured on having five per cent of

them sick, 3. two per cent death loss,

and twenty-five to fifty per cent so

out of condition that they ’made

scarcely any gain or growth for the

first six weeks.



Since that time, we have been try-

ing to buy our feeder cattle direct

from the range but it has been a

hard matter for we are only small

operators feeding four or five cars a.

year and the big range cattleman,

who has several thousand head to

market, wants to sell his whole crop

to one person or outfit, and cannot

afford'to parcel them out in small

lots unless he receives an extra price

for them. So, when the National

Livestock Producers Association con-

ceived the idea of forming a feeder

cattle pool whereby each individual

feeder, large or small, was given an

equal opportunity and could place his

order for one, two, half—dozen, or fifty

loads of these fine, fresh, healthy,

uniform bred choice quality, well.

doing range cattle, bought through

one big organization with its wonder-

ful .purchasing power made possible

by having on file orders for from

10,000 to 20,000 cattle and who could

handle and purchase at the low down

price, theoutput of several of these

big cattlemen in the range country,

I became interested, and have been

and am at the present, active in try-

ing to perfect this system of moving

high-class feeders into the feed lots

of our eastern farmers.



In purchasing cattle onytbe, '

the buyer should be ‘

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ranch herds, as they all have white

faces and might look somewhat “simi-

lar. But the breeding has much to

do with the development of growth,

gains, and conformity and quality of

the animal when finished and spells

to a large extent whether or not the

feeding operations result in a profit

or loss.



While the custom in the range

country has always been to trade on

these cattle on the per head basis

which is more or less of a weight

guessing contest between buyer and

seller with the advantage in favor of

the seller as he is on his own prem—

ises; however, we adopted the policy

right from the outset of buying all

our cattle on the per hundred weight

basis and have adhered very closely

to this principle in all our transac-

tions in the past.



With the many advantages there

seems to be in purchasing feeders di-

rect from the range, there has been

a big disadvantage, especially to the

small feeder who only feeds a carload

or two each year, and that is the

matter of securing uniformity in size

and weight, as it is impossible to

grade these cattle per size and weight

when loading on account of the lack

of time and the lack of adequate fa—

cilities at the loading point. You will

easily realize it is some job to

separate 1,000 calves from their

mothers at a. common country load-

ing station, then weigh and load them

in good shape into fifteen or twenty

cars, taking out the fifteen or twenty

per cent cutbacks or inferior qnes,

and only three or four hours to ac-

complish this task.



After separated, cows and cutback

calves are drvien back to the range

which, in many instances, is a dis-

tance of forty or more miles.



On account of this disadvantage of

not being able to secure uniformity of

size and weight, we are planning on

having our own feeding and grading

yard en route somewhere in the

Southwest territory, about a. thirty

hours run from the place where the

most of the cattle are purchased.

Here we will have ample facilities

and equipment for handling 2,000 or

3,000 cattle. We will carefully select

them for size and weight, pro rats.

the shrinks from loading points to

this point, and then send them. to the

individual farmer or feeder in prop-

erly graded uniform carloads, for

size and weight. ‘



I do not personally feel that there

is the advantage in purchasing the 1

older and heavier feeders direct from , ,

the range' that there is With the ' I

calves and yearlings. In'these few }

brief thoughts, I am only stating my

opinion based on my own experience ,

and observation in feeding and hand—

ling stock cattle for the past twenty-

five years and undoubtedly some

feeders and most of the speculators,

yard traders and stockyard owners

may disagree with me.





 





 





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HE Tractor Field Book published

by the Farm Implement News, is

a 144 page book containing

information regarding the various

makes of tractors, remedies for trac-

tor troubles as well as considerable

information on combinei. bunkers.

shredders, silo ‘ihmhe

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. MBERS of the Michigan Beef,

Breeders. Association will .hold .



,fi'thelr.a'nnus.l‘- tour August 10 and

11. TheJ-lfim‘sr . prominent beef

prodaloersrif :lthe Thumb? will be

visited; . - ,



The route announced by Verne A.

Freeman. secretary of the association,

includes for Friday, August 10: 9:00

A. M., ,farm of Stewart and Son,

southwest of Fairgrove, inspection of

Shorthorn-herd and talks by Profes‘

sor George Brown and Roy E. Decker,

'farm crops specialist; 10:00 A. M.,

farm of George Hickey, Fairgrove,

talk by Verne Freeman; 11:00 A. M.,

.farm of ~Henry Lynch, Mayvilie, in-

spection of Shorthorn herd.



At 1:15 P. M., the Shorthorn herd

of' Dave Knight at Mariette will be

visited; .2:00 P M., James Curry,





Mariette, Angus breeder; 3:00 P. M.,





farm of James Goodwine, Mariette, ,at





this stop the visitors will be shown





how goats can 'be used to clean up

brush land; 3:45 P. M., Sanilac Stock

Farm, Sandusky, this is a Hereford





. herd; 5:00 P. M., Stanley Gardner





"farm, CrosWell, Mr. Gardner raises

milking Shorthorns; and 7:00 P. M.,

banquet and program at Lexington.

Three stops will be made on Satur-

day the 11th. These include the farm

of Sam Pangborn, Bad Axe, 9:30 A.

M.; the Walter Ramsey farm between

,Harbor Beach and Port Hope at 11:00

A. M.; and a dinner and afternoon

program at Port HDpe. The Port

Hope Chamber of Commerce is co—

operating with the tour committee to

make the stop at that town one of in-

terest for live stock producers.





 





BEE MEETING





 





THE schedule of summer meetings

for_Michigan beekeepers has been

announced by Russel H. Kelty,

Michigan State College, as Bellaire,

July 31; Harrisville, August 1; Sagin-

aw, August 3; Ridgeway, August 13;

Traverse. City, August 15 and 16;

Rudyard, August 18; and Crystal

Falls, August 20.



The use of bees as pollinizers in

orchards will be discussed at the

Traverse City meeting. Huber Root,

Medina, Ohio, will be the chief speak-

er at Traverse City.



Mr. Kelty reports that the honey

crop this year will be good in some

sections of the state, . but that the

prospects are not so good in other

sections. Many colonies of bees en-

tered the season... with insufficient

stores to build up a strong colony

rapidly, and the clever in some places

was badly winterkilled.



Beekeepers are advised to requeen

their colonies as soon as possible to.

insure a strong colony for overwin-

tering. The brood nest of all colonies

. should be closely inspected before any

honey is run through the extractor;

Diseased comb in the extractor helps



_ to infect the whole apiary.





SECOND ANNUAL POTATO TOUR





 





HE second annual Michigan P.0-

, tato tour will start from the New



Hotel Mertens, Grand Rapids at

1:00 P. M., August 6th. Potato fields

around Greenville will be inspected

in. the afternoon. '



On Tuesday, August 7th, the tour

"Will leave Greenville at eight A. M.

for Stanton, to visit the Stanton Ele-

vator .Company’s warehouses. Farm

storage and potato fields arbund Ed-

mOre will next be visited. Dinner at

Barryton and then on to Cadillac via

McBain,‘making stops along the way.



Wednesday the fields around Man-

ton and Fife Lake will be inspected.

Dinner at Mancelona and then a trip

to Gaylord, Vanderbilt, Wolverine,

and Petoskey with field inspections

along the route. A local committee

will furnish entertainment at Petos—

key that evening. -



Thursday Charlevoix and Antrim

. Counties will receive attention. Din-

ner at Traverse City. The afternoon

and evening will be spent with ex-

cursions and entertainment furnished

by a local committee. '



Friday will find the tourists in

Oceana County with supper and the

night spent at Grand Haven. Satur-

day Allegan, Van Buren, and Kala-

mazoo Counties will be visited. Din-

ner will be had atthe W. K. Kellogg

experiment and demonstration farm,

near Augusta. The ex erimental pro-

jects ‘Onilthe farm w l occupy the

aligmoon. ,



. otato growers should be sure to





attend. _

FIAT assumes agent.“ In

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I premium of 51) centsgto 931 over com-

parable grades ‘of heavies. .; Fat

~ ling. heifers are selling almo'stss high





States Department of Agriculture.

.They will probably be: of lighter

average weights which will partly





 





year-





as steers, whereas, a year 'ag'o they

were being discounted, a dollar or

more. The effort of consumers to get

away'from .high priced beef by the

purchase of smaller cuts is partly re-

sponsible for the market popularity

of light cattle. ,





 





HOG MARKET OUTLOOK CON-

SIDERED FAVORABLE'





 





MARKET supplies of hogs during

the summer and early fall of

1928 are expected to be about

as large as, or possibly somewhat

larger than, in the corresponding pe—

riod of 1927, according to the United





offset the large stocks of pork in

storage. The present hog price situ-

ation and the anticipated supplies of

hogs and hog products for the next

four months suggest that the seasonal

peak of prices which usually takes

place in» the summer and fail will

probably be reached by the middle of

August and that prices will continue

at about that level until the usual

winter decline begins, according to

the Department’s calculations.





 





MICHIGAN FAIRS





 





Officers and Date List for 1928

Shiawassce Co. Fair. Owosso, Aug. 7~10. W. J. Dow-





Oakland 00. Fair. Milford. Aug. 8-11. W. S. Love-





JOY

Ionia Free Fair. Ionia, Aug. 13-18. F. A. Chapman

Cass City Fair. Cass City, Aug. 14—17. D. W.

Benkelman

Oakland Co. Fair. Milford, Aug. 14-18. W. S. Love-





low



Higgand Fair, Holland. Aug. 20—24. John Arend-



orst



Caro Fair, Caro. Aug. 20—25. Clarence Myers



Allefian Co. Fair. Allegan, Augl 28-31. Swan Se

(1 at



Northeastern Michigan Free Fair, Aug. 27-Sept. 1..

Robert Lusk





 





Washtenavao. Fair, Ann Arbor. Aug. 28—Sept. 1.

R. C. Merithew



Bad Axe Fair. Bad Axe. Aug. 28-31. R. P. Buckley



Crosweii Fair. Crosweil. Aug. 28-31. A. R. Martin



Charlevoix Co. Fair. East Jordan. Aug. 28-30. Kit

Carson



Barry Co. Fair. Hastings. Aug. 28-31. John J.

Dawson



Gogebic Co. Fair. Ironwood. Aug. 28-31. Frank A.





Saniiac Co. Fair. Sandusky. Aug. 28—31. S. E.

Bissonette



Three Oaks Community Fair. Three Oaks. Aug. 28-

31, J. C. Kramer



Dickinson Co. Fair. Norway. Sept. 4-7. Robert

O'Caiiagan



Michigan State Fair. Detroit, Sept. 2-8. John L.

McNamara



Tri-County Fair, West Branch. Sept 3-5, W. J.

Hofl’er



Alger Co. Agricultural Society. Chatham. Sept. 3-6.

F. E. Greenwood



Marquette County Fair, Marquette. Sept 4-8. John

T. McNamara . , _



Clinton County Fair, St. Johns, Sept. 4-7. M. E.

Hathaway.



Emmet Co. Fair. Pet0skey. Sept. 4—7. L. L. Thomas



Flint River Valley Agricultural Society. Montrose.

Sept. 3—6. H. F. Middiebrook



Granger-s. Cleaners and Farmers. Big Rapids. Sept.

,4-7. George E. Hurst



Lixingston County Fair. Howell. Sept. 4-7. R. W.

Woodrufl ~



Jackson Fair, Jackson. Sept. 10-15. J. C. Muck



Saginaw County Fair, Saginaw. Sept. 10-15. W. F.





Jshnke



Imlsy City Fair. Imlay City. Sept. 11-14. Dr. S.

H. Large



Western Michigan Fair, Grand Rapids. Sept. 10-14.

Olive Jones



Otsegopounty Fair. Gaylord. Sept. 11-14. J. C.

Guggisberg '



Kalamazoo County Fair. Kalamazoo, Sept. 11—15.

Britt Preston '



Mason Co. Fair, Scottvllle, Sept. 12-14. G. Coonrnd



Presque Isle County Fair. Millersburg, Sept. 12-14.

George W. Atkins



NhrtimN‘m District Fair. Cadlllm' . Sept. 11-14. Earl



C l



Otis Fair Asaociation. Brohman. Sept. 11-14. Mao

Sweeney



Genesee Co. Fair. Davison. Sept. 17-21. Philips S.





Hill

Upper Peninsula State Fair. Escanaba. Sept 17-22.

George Harvey

Lenawce Co. Fair. Adrian. Sept. 17-21. F. A.

NBrmmtIe M hi

orthwes m to gun Fair. Traverse Ci .

17-21. Arneli Engstrom LY Sept.

Grange Fair of St. Joe, Centerville. Sept. 17-22.

C. T. Boiendsr

Ottawa and West Kent Fair. Marne. Sept. 18—21.





an

Wayne Co. Fair. Northville. Sept. 18-22. F. H.





Arenas Co. Fair. Standish. Sept. 18-21. John

Domelly .

Oceans Co. Fair. Hart. Sept. 18-22. G. W. Powers

Alpma Co. Fair. Alpena. Sept. 18-20. H. A.

Dickinson

Armada. Fair, Armada. Sept. 18-21. H. P. Bar-

Clrlngfr d F F i teph

overrun armers‘ ar. S S t. 1 -2 .

Hugo Hendrickson enson. ,ep 8 1

Manlstee County Fair. Beam Lake, Sept. 18-21. J. L.

Keddie '

NgrthH Branch Fair. North Branch. Sept. 18-21.





San l.flfVan(decar



oocr t .ounty Fair. Manisti . '- .



J. H. McClellan qua sept. 18 21



Isabe Co. Fair. Mt. Pleasant. Sept. 18~22. Lu-

man Burch





M‘lltsh‘mn Fair. _ Muskegon. Sept. 24-29. C. H.





on!

Hillsdaie. 00. Fair. Hillsdai . - .

Terwlliiger , 9. Sept 24 29 C. W.

Haano 531:1- Fair, Hartford. Sept. 25-29. Stephen A.

.ann Co. Fair. Charlotte. Sept. 25-28. J. A. May

Missaukee 00. Fair. Lake City. Sept. 26-28. Get-





. even

Houghbon Co. Fair. Housman. Sept. 26-30. Clyde

Ff'1'M‘i1’feii‘f. 1r erviile

werv e r. owl . Oct. 3-6. . B.

Casi-ooh 00. Fair. Marshall. Oct.“ 3-6.J F. 3%

s‘ .

Benton Harbor Fair. Ben E . -

C. 0 ten other Out. 1 5.





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Well, what’s the use?—there’s no grass on this pas-

ture worth reaching for.



The short dry pastures of July and August furnish

only a very small percentage of the nutrients needed

by cows for body maintenance and milk production. - '

A loss of weight and a consequent slump in produc-5

tion is the almost certain result of not feeding grain

through the hot months. Midsummer is the dangerous.

season for the dairy herd. Flies, heat and dried up

pastures are the dangers; shade, plenty of water and a

good grain ration are the precautions. Make





Diamond Corn gluten Meal





the basis of your grain ration for Summer as well .as

Winter. Diamond furnishes protein more economic- ,

ally than any feed on the market today; and this .

protein is of a sort highly efficient in milk product10n., f

Fill out the balance of the ration ‘-

with bran or midds, ground oats

and hominy, and watch your herd

come through the midsummer sea-

son in full flesh and full flow of milk.

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BREEK FARM DISPERSION





MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1928

MONTPELIER, OHIO

Over 50 Head of R. of M. Jerseys





and their immediate offspring will be sold. The

herd is headed by Tiddlelvwinks Harry 210602.

by the M. of M. Bull. Tiddltm’winks Raleigh,

out of his highest testing daughter. TIDDLEDY—‘

WINKS FAVORITE. M. of M., Gold 8: Silver

Medal Cow. Test. 1074 lbs. 12% oz. butter.

from 11552 lbs. milk, at 4 yrS. Also a. good

son of Jersey Volunteer, out of a. dam by Daily—

like Majesty. with a test of 622 lbs. butter at

4 yrs. 1 mo. Lots of 50 lb. cows and 8 young

cows on R. of M. test now going great. ‘





For Catalog: address:





C. C. CREEK, Owner





 





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GRAIN QUOTATlVONS.

Monday, July 30





Wheat

Detroit—No. 2 red old at $1.43; No.

glzéiite old $1.43; No. 2 mixed old at

Chicago—July $1.19%;

31.21%; December $1.25%.

Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red new at

$1.421,§@$1.43%.~

Corn

Detroit—No. 2 yellow $1.16; No. 3





September





'yellow $1.14; No. 4 yellow $1.12.





Chicago—July $1.11%; September



960; December 781/2; March 80%c.

Oats



Detroit—No. 2, Michigan 730; No.

3 white7lc; heavy oats 20 premium.



Chicago—July old 423/30; new

43%c; September, new 391/10; De-

cember 42140.





Rye

Detroit—No. 2 $1.20.

Chicago—July $1.00%;

$1.02; December $1.04%.

Toledo—No. 2 $1.15.

Beans

New York— Pea domestic $10.25@

$10.75; red kidneys $8.25@8.75 to the

wholesalers.





September





Chicago—Spot Navy beans, Mich-

igan choice, hand-picked in sacks

$10.50; dark red kidneys $9.00.



Barley.

ting $1.04; Feeding





Detroit —— Mal

60.





Seeds.



Detroit domestic seed—Cash clo-

ver $17.75; October $18.90; December

$18.75; cash alsike $16.50; October

$16.75; timothy at $2.35; December





$2.80





Hay.



Detroit—9N0. 1 timothy at $15.00@

$16.00; standard $13.50@14.50; No. 2

timothy $11.50((D12.50; 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 No. 1 to choice

at Chicago $25.00@28.00.



Feeds.



Detroit—Winter wheat bran at $39;

spring wheat bran at $38; standard

middlings at $41; fancy middlings at

$47; cracked corn at $44; coarse corn

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

Poultry feeds with grit $52.00; with-

out grit $56.00 per ton.





WHEAT.





Wheat prices experienced a further

drastic break in the last week. High-

ly optimistic forecasts of the Cana-

dian crop and pressure from the

heavy movement of new wheat,

coupled with speculative selling, were

responsible for the decline. No clear

indication that the downward trend

is at an end is in evidence as yet, but,

with prices at the lowest point in four

years and over 50 cents below the

peak at the end of April, values are

undoubtedly near what will prove to

be the low point for the season.





Allowing for the improvement in

the United States, Canada, and Eur-

ope recently, world production may

run slightly ahead of last year. The

increase will be small, at best, how-

ever, and prices have reached a level

where some increase in consumption

is probable. The shortage in the rye

crop also is likely to mean a moder-

ate increase in demand for wheat.





RYE.





Rye has been weak along. with

wheat. Demand has been negligible.

Prices are only a few cents higher

than a year ago in spite of the sharp

reduction in both domestic and Euro-

pean production. The rye market also

appears to be down to a firm founda-





tion.

OATS.





Oats prices have been readjusting

to a. new crop basis, and probably

will lose additional ground. Receipts

have just begun to increase and ac-





!" , stimulation at terminals probably will

' ‘ begin soon.





CORN





Corn crop prospects have improved





~ 'decidedly in the last month and the

9 large gap between the official and the





nitrate forecasts a month ago is like-

4 e reduced through an increase

xifie former. Some unevenness is

{ ed and cultivation has been ham-

'” fed by too much rain in certain 10-

calities, but, in the main, its condition

“(quite favorable.

V'Corn prices have held better than

wheat. owing to commercial scarcity

the tightness caused by the spe-

holdlnss in the July delivery





at Chicago. Demand is fairly good,

and stocks continue l) decrease.

While the cash situatiOn probably

will remain rather tight for the next

few weeks, a continuation of favor-

able new crop prospects may lead a

little later on to a cleaning up of old

crop supplies on- farms.





SEEDS.





Some grass seed from the new-crop

has drifted into the distributing mar-

kets, but so far, offerings are very

limited. Some old crop clover seed

is being sold by those producers who

did not suffer heavy winter killing

and expect a normal new crop har-

vest. A small crop of timothy seed

is expected and farmers probably will

not sell except at better prices than

a year ago. Many houses have fair

sized reserves of old seed, however,

which will tend to regulate prices. Ad-

vances from states such as Nebraska,

Kansas, Colorado, and Oklahoma indi-

cate that the alfalfa seed crop will

be no larger than the small harvest





of 1927.

FEEDS.





W'heat millfeeds have continued

easy as offerings from the new crop

are large and with pasture and mea-

dows in good condition except in the

southwest, demand is slow. Gluten

and hominy feeds also have been

marked lower. Although stocks and

offerings of cottonseed meal are

small, the market is adjusting itself

to the opening of the new season and

values have been reduced.





HAY.



Haying is proceeding satisfactorily

under favorable weather. Yields of

sweet clover are reported to be more

satisfactory than of red which will

be far below normal. Timothy hay





 





is being sold slowly as producers are

inclined to wait until late in the

summer until they know more defin-

itely what the supply for the year will

be to market their surplus. Receipts

of good alfalfa hay are scarcely large

enough to supply the dairy trade and

prices are firm. Current quotations

for timothy hay average about $1 per

ton higher than a year ago while al-

falfa and prairie hays are about the





same.

EGGS.





The egg market is steadied by the

moderate supplies of fancy quality

eggs, although trade generally is

light, and prices have advanced. Re-

ports from the country continue to in-





dicate a steady reduction in the lay





which at last is showing up in re-

ceipts. Supplies arriving at the four

leading markets last week were near-

ly twenty per cent smaller than in

the preceding week and were less

than in the corresponding period‘ a

year ago for the first time since the

middle of June. So far, the midsum-

mer shortage which many in, the

trade counted on to boost prices has

not shown up. With receipts running

somewhat larger than a year ago, and

consumption showing the curtailing

effect of relatively high prices, the

shortage in storage stocks has been

reduced during July. Last August, a

small supply of fresh eggs permitted

a. very large net withdrawal of eggs

from coolers which is not likely to be

duplicated this season and some deal-

ers believe that by September 1,

storage stocks of eggs will even show

some gain over a year ago.

Chicago—Eggs: fresh firsts, 29@

300; extras, 37@380; ordinary firsts,

27611281420; extra firsts, 30%0; dirties,

23@261/zc; checks, 23@25%c. Live

poultry: Hens, 23c; broilers, 300;





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DETROIT

Cattle

Monday, July 30

Receipts 903. Market 25c higher

on dry fed and good butchers, steady

on others.

Fair to good yearlings





dry-fed ............... $14.00@16.00

Fair to good heavy steers



dry-fed ............... 13.50@15.75

Handy weight butcher



steers ................ 11.00@12.75

Fair to good heifers.... 10.75@11.75

Common light butchers. 8.25@ 9.50

Common butcher cows.. 6.00613 7.25

Best cows .............. 8.75@ 9.50

Good butcher cows ..... 7.50@ 8.00

Cutters ................ 5.75@ 6.00

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

Light butcher bulls 9.00@10.00

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

Stock bulls ............. 7.00@ 8.25

Feeders ................ 8.00@10.75

Stockers ............... 8.00@ 9.75

Milkers and springers ..75.00((F130.00





Calves

Receipts 696. Market steady.

Best ................... $16.50@17.00

Others 8.00@1400





..................





Sheep and Lambs





Receipts 861. Market 500 lower on

lambs; sheep steady.





Best lambs ............. 15.50

Light to common ...... 9.00@10.25

Fair ...... ' ............. 12.00@13.50

Fair to good sheep 6.00@ 7.00

Culls and common ...... 2.00@ 4.00

Hogs



Receipts 1,029. Market on mixed

and yorkers 250 lower; pigs 600

higher; lights 100 higher; others

steady.

Pigs ................... $ 11.10

Mixed and yorkers, ..... 11.50

Lights ..... ' ............ 11.10

- Roughs ................ 9.7

Stags ....... ‘ ...... . 750@ 8.00

Extreme heairies ....... 9.7



CHICAGO. .





Hogs - .

Receipts 50,000. Market slow, most-





ly 10@200 higher than Saturday’s

average, around steady with Satur-

day; big -packers inactive bidding

steady; top $11.00 paid frequentlyfogr

choice 190-270-lb. weight; bulk bet-

ter' aces 180-320-lb. average $10.86

a 1 .15' good 160-170-lb. average

91 .86; largely strictly choice kind at





July 30





outside Weights up to $10.95; medium

150-160-lb. average $8.75@9.75; pigs

largely $8.00@9.00; choice strong

weights $9.50 and better; packing

sows steady, 100 higher; bulk $9.00@

$9.75; light sows on butcher order up

to $9.90. .





Cattle



Receipts 18,000. Market fat steers

and yearlings steady to’ strong; stots

higher on choice offerings; $13.75

paid for yearlings and heavies, some

held higher on steer and yearling

run; fat cows slow, steady; bulls

steady to strong; vealers unchanged;

weighty sausage bulls $9.35; cows

$8.50@9.00 predominating in run;

popular price for light vealers $12.50

@$13.00; shippers and small killers

$13.00@14.00, mostly $13.50.



Sheep and Lambs



Receipts 12,000. Market fat lambs

active, strong 150 higher, sorting and

fleece considered; bu‘lk natives $16.25

@$16.50; throwouts 25c higher $12.00

GD$12.50 mostly; strong weights up to

$13.00; top three decked Idahoes to

butchers $17.15; range lamb crop to

packers sorted less than 12%, $17.00;





sheep steady; top fat ewes, 130-lb.



down $6.00@6.75; heavies $4.00@



$5.50; $12.75@13.25 on better grades.

BUFFALO.





Hogs

Receipts 8,000. Hold over 487;

market mostly 20@3OC higher;

weights above 170-lbs. largely $11.50;

few 220-260-lb. $11.55@11.60; pigs

largely $10.00; few 140-150-lb. $10.50;

packing sows $8.75@9.50.





Cattle

Receipts 2,100. Market active,

steady to strong; cows weak; top





$14.85 paid for 1,200-1,300-lb. steers,

several loads including yearlings

$13.75; medium to good grades $5.75

@$14.00; yearling heifers $14.40@

$14.50; medium to good cows $8.25‘@

$10.35; all cutters $5.00@7.50; me-

dium bulls $8.25@9.50.

" ‘ Calves - -‘ -



Receipts 1,100.;- Market steady;

good vealers $16.00; culls and com-

mon $8.50@13.00; few medium $13.50

@$14.50. ' '





Sheep and Lamb.



Receipts ,2; .



to choice native lambs

outs 912.50018350 ‘»



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, .,.Marke:t steady; good . and

1.6.00: "throw





springers, 34c; roosters, 17c; ducks

170; spring duCks, 200; geese 16c;

turkeys, 20c.



Detroit—Eggs: Fresh receipts, best

quality, 29(a')311;§c; dirts and checks,

25%@27c. Live poultry: broilers, 35

@40c; heavy hens, 260; light hens,

18c; roosters, 17c; ducks, 18@220.





BUTTER. ‘





Butter prices have worked over a.

narrow range the past week. On the”

whole, the market seems well estab-

lished at this level. ‘ Heavier demand

from the fluid milk and ice cream

trade is taking a larger proportion of

the milk supply and receipts of butter

are about 10 per cent smaller than a

year ago although production reports

do not show so large a gain. Dealers

find it hard to dispose of fancy but-

ter at satisfactory prices and much of

it has been sent to storage. Accumu-

lations are on a smaller scale than a

year ago, however, and the shortage

in stocks under last year probably

will be increased during July. Pro

duction probably will not change

much during the next few weeks

save for the usual gradual reduction

as the season advances. Consump-

tive demand is still satisfactory in

spite of the hot weather.



Prices on 92 score creamery were:

Chicago, 43940; New York, 450; De-

troit, 42@431,§c per lb.





POTATOES.





Potato markets have again weak-

ened under liberal supplies and slow

trade. Kansas and Missouri Irish

Cobblers, U. S. No. 1, sell for 75 to

85 cents per 100 pounds, sacked, in

the Chicago carlot market. Some

cars which showed heavy decay have

been sold at a sharp discount. Hot

weather and the competition from

other fresh vegetables has reduced

the demand from consumers. The

Canadian potato acreage was in-

creased 2 per cent over 1927, accord-

ing to an official estimate. No fore-

cast of production has been made as

yet, but growing conditions have been.

generally favorable, and' it is prob-

able that a larger crop than last year

will be harvested. Prices for the

early potatoes have been disappoint-

ing.



{is DETROIT CITY MARKET





Apples, transparent, $2.00@2.50 bu;

asparagus $1.00@1.75; wax beans,

$1.00@1.25 bu; green beans 75%;)

$1.25 bu; beets $1.25 bu; cabbage 40

@50c bu; curly 75c@$1.00; red $1.50

@$2.00; carrots 50@60c doz. bchs;

green corn $1.00@1.25 sack of 5 doz.;

cauliflower $1.00@4.00 bu; celery 25

@600 doz.; cucumbers $1.75@2.25 bu;

eggs, wholesale, white 380 doz; brown

38c doz; retail 45c doz; kohl-rabi 40

@50c doz; lettuce, head. No. 1, 75c@

$1.00 bu; leaf 50@75c bu; green

onions 35@4OC doz bchs; peaches

$2.50@3.00; parsley 50@750 doz bchs; .

green peas $1.50@2.50 bu; new pota

toes $1.00((D1.25 bu; poultry: hens,

wholesale 26@280 lb; retail 350 lb;

broilers, wholesale, leghorns, 300 lb;

rocks 38@400; ducks 21@25c; ‘retail

450; poultry, dressed, broilers, 4560

50c; hens 38@400; radishes, outdoor,

75@900 - doz. bchs; black. 75c doz.

bchs; long white 50@75c doz. bchs;

rhubarb 45®50c doz. bchs; spinach,

$1.25@2.00 bu; Swiss chard 50@750

bu; tomatoes, outdoor, $1.25@1.75 14-

lb.- basket; turnips 50@60c doz bchs;

butter 50@60c lb; honey, 15@20c

comb; sweet cherries $6.00@6.75 24-

qt. case; sour cherries $4.50@5.50 24-

qt. case; huckleberries $5.50@6.00 24-

qt. case; gooseberries $3.00@4.00 24-

qt. case; red currents $4.00@4.50 24-

qt. case; black currants 50c qt; red

raspberries $6.00@7.00 24-qt. case;

black, $4.00@5.00 24-qt. case; summer

squash $2.00@2.50; cucumbers $1.75

$2.25 bu; veal 21@23c lb; live pigs

$5.00@7.00 each.





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than a year, ago, a' is move came as

a distinct sifi‘prise. . g . .

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slack in" spraying, there is consider—

able scab.—J. W. P. .



Gratiot County—Grain crops are

good. Fruit not very plentiful and

meadows and pastures are fair. Too

much rain has hurt corn and beans,

some fields being entirely drowned

Sugar beets and potatoes are

Farm work behind on

Milk brings $1.80

eggs 27c, hogs





average crops.

account of rain.

per cwt., butter-fat 45¢,

$5.00@9.75 per .cw't.,

$10.00.——A. A. l.



Houghton County—No friut here.

Potatoes are good and pasture excel-

lent. Milk brings ten cents per quart,

eggs 3’50. Dairying is only branch





Shiawassee County—Grain is ready

for harvest. Some fields good and

others poor. Small fruits scarce ex-

cept cherries. Pastures are good but

haying has been held up by rain.

Hogs are bringing $11.00 cwt. No

other live stock being sold. Farmers

are buying instead of selling grain.

Eggs bring 300.-—C. C.



Lake County—Grain and fruit crops

fair. Pastures and hay are good. Oats

look fair, but corn is late. Potatoes

are very good. Butter-fat brings 450,

eggs 28c, hogs $13. Dairying seems

to be expanding—M. S.



Missaukee County—-0ats are good,

wheat will not be over a, half crop.

Rye not much better. Bugs are

troubling. potatoes. Meadows are

about 75% of a. crop. Hay has been

secured in fine shape. Pastures are

good and cows are doing well. Corn

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hogs $10.00.-—H. E. N.



Berrien County—Fruit crop is short.

Meadows and pastures kept fine by

rain. Corn is booming. Sugar beets

are good where the weeds are not

bad. Acreage of potatoes is large.—

C. A. C. 4



Tuscola County—Continued rains

have almost stopped work and have

ruined hundreds of acres of corn,

beans, and potatoes. Pastures are

good. Rye and wheat ready to cut.

Small fruit quite plentiful. Potatoes

nearly a failure. Farms are depend-

ing on cows for their income. Butter-

fat 44@47c, eggs 260, hogs 80 on foot,

milch cows are high—J. D.



lngham County—Wheat very poor.

Potatoes are fair. Farm work way

behind. Milk brings $2.25 for cwt.,

butter-fat 45c, eggs 270. More .pota—

toes planted than usual. Haying about

finished and alfalfa ready to cut

again—R. E W.



Chippewa County—Grain crops are

best in 'years. Fruit is half a. crop.

Pastures are abundant. Corn, beans,

and potatoes are looking good. Milk

brings Sc, butter-fat 420. Some cattle

are bringing good prices.——A. G.



Wexford County—Grain doing well

and meadows are fine. Pastures are

good, corn growing well but beh1nd

season. Potatoes are above average.

Milk brings $2.50, butter-fat 46c, eggs

28c. Acreage of certified seed pota-

toes increased and more commercml

fertilizer is being used—C. .



Marquette County—Grain looks fair

but is late. Hay is a short crop. Pas-

tures and potatoes are good. Cream

37c, milk 6c, eggs 300, old potatoes

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\Vtxst & Sea. East Lansing. Mh-h.





varieties.

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Fan's DOG BOOK. Polk Miller’s famous dog book

on diseases of dogs. Instructions on feeding. care.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





SUMMER SPECIAL: Guaranteed chewing or smok—

ing. five pounds. $1.00; ion. $1.75; 50 cigars, $1.75.

l'me frm, pay when l'(!l'i‘l\l‘il. Funnels" Tobacco

Association. West. l’aducub, Ky.





GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOIZAOCO‘Chewing. 5

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

Free! Pay postman. United Farmers, Bardwell.

lwnnu'ky.





HOMESPUN TOBACCO v—Glluramw’d.





lbs. $1.00; 10, $1.75. Smoking 5 lbs.

l’ay when received. Farmers Union,





POULTRY

WHITE I.EGHORNS. hens and males now half price.





 





 





(‘bmv‘mg 5

75v, )0 $1.25.

Mayflold, Ky.





 





 





Thousands of eight—week-old Illllll'LS. Also baby

(-hu-ks and eggs. Trapnested. lltxligreed foundation

stovk, egg bred 28 years. Winners at 20 egg com





I ship





tests. Catalog and special price bulletin free.

0 George B.





(I. D. and guarantee satisfaction





 





Fem-s} 934 Union, Grand Rapids, Mich.

\VHI'I'I‘AKER'S. REDS, BOTH COMBS. R. 0. I'.

Trapnested. Michigan Certified. Cocks, hens, cock—





erels, bullets. Write for catalog.

Box 9. Lawrence. Mich.





WHITE LEGHORN PUlililiTS. 10 weeks 850. se—

lected yearling liens, state 3(‘l‘l'l‘illii‘d. 95o ear-ll.

H. lxnoll, Jr.. Holland. Lib-11.. ll. 1.





BABY CHICKS





SPECIAL CHICK Oli‘li‘i‘llt772 Wonk Old Barred

Rocks, White Ron-ks, Rods, \Vbiio \Vyandottcs, Buff

Orpmgtons $20.00-‘100. 3 week old $24.00—100.

Iloayvy Mixed 2 Weeks $18.00—100, 3 weeks $22.00~—





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100. Order at onto and from this ad. Immediate '



delivery. 100% 1m: dolivmy guamnnxsd by express.



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BABY CHICKS AND PULLETS. lirummccr-F'redrick— I

son's famous quality Chl(‘kS 70 each and up, Barred.

Rocks. Rhode Island Reds, S. (Y. White Leghorns. .-

Shipped (T. O. D. Live delivery guaranteed. Splein- ‘

did selection 8—10—12 weeks old bullets in above.

breeds. Brummcr-Frcdrickson Poultry Farm, BoxE

28, Holland. Michigan.





LOOK! Chicks until September. Rods. Whi a .

Barred Rocks. Black Mlnorcas 12c. Buff Orpinggilng'

Silver or White Wyandottes 13%0. mute, Brown or

Bufi' Leghoms, Heavy Mixed 10c. Order Breeding"

Cockereis from R. 0. P. MALE MATINGS. Lawrence

Hatchery. Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1





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HELP WANTED





WANTED—~Two dry hand milkers,

Job, good wages, include refm'culov-s,

v10us experirmoe in first letter.

Osoodu. Michigan.





Single. steady ,

am‘. and pre- '

Son'adel'la. Farm, 3

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WANTED~MLLK ROUTE EALESMAN: Mun - ‘

tween 25 and 85 years of age and married. $203.8c258h .

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particulars in application. F

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DRIVER SALFSMAN~~23 to 35 years a ‘

s. as . . _ - £5. P "

nent employment; good future. Write us if mt-





;itied‘. Belle Isle Creamery, 3000 Forest E.. Detroit.

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KEARKOV SEED WHEAT—Guaranteed to Increase

,Yidd— xtna Winter Handy. Finest. quality. Pn‘oes

my low. Recleaned. fraud with Owner Carb

sacked. Emma Freo.‘ Also “Best Roam





   

 

 

 





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Hardy Alfalfa $8.90 bushel. NOW

$12.90. Hate Sealed Certified Grimm $18.00 bu.

Timothy 8.20. ert‘ for and ninth“





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_matt‘er. Frank 811m. Box 81. marinas. Iowa.

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and breeding with symptom chart. 48 pages. Illus- WANTED~Reepectable middlo- aged woman as



trated. Write for free copy. Polk Miller Products hOUSekeeDer on farm. Good home. Box 166. Mich- .



Com. 1022 w. Broad St., Richmond. v... 18am Farmer. Detroit. .

. SEEDS AGENTS WANTED '





 





 

 

 





 





REAL ESTATE AGENCY enlarging to cover more '

territory, desires agents west of Buffalo. W '

our proposition stating cerium desired. Clan

Nichols Agency. 921—3 Univu'sity Bldg" 3

New York. ‘

A RELIABLE LIFE INS



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as part time agents. ,

are: cl w policies“ Wendy you get

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DON'T FOOL.

YOURSELF





Since halitosis never announces

itself to the victim, you “simply

cannot know” when you have it.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





nounce‘s itself to the victim,





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 





   

 





 

 





you simply cannot know k. '. _ , j

when you have it. But others The New Baby-

"know—and are offended. LISTERINE

How foolish to risk such ‘ ‘ SHA V I N G

offense when, by simply using , _ _ a - ~ CREAM"

listefine ' Systematically, you . é—you’ve got 'a-ueat ahead of you.

can put yourself on the safe TRY,” '





 





 





 





side—and the polite side.





   





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3% had hah'tosis ’





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Halitosis [unpleasant breath] a handicap

to popularity and a bar to marriage





ANY a love affair is nipped in the bud Listerine ends halitosis quickly. Being antiseptic



' simply because either the man or the it attacks bacteria that usually cause odors.



woman has halitosis—and 1s not aware of it. And, then, being a p0werful deodorant it over,



Don’ t fool yourself that you never have this comes the odors themselves. Even the strong

all’too’mmmon ailment. Since it never an' odors of fish and onion yield to it.





You need only to rinse the

mouth with Listerine to





“eliminate the risk of offend





mg . You’11 find it a precau‘

tion' worth: taking. Keep a





bottle handy in your bath ;





room or on your dressmg

, table. Lambert Pharmacia]

Co,, St. 10111511540" USA.





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