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UNITED STATES REPORT ON

FEEDS





 





RECENT reports from the, United

States Department of Agriculture

indicate that the dairy industry is

likely to be a beneficiary of the un-

usual weather and crop conditions

which have developed in the United

States dun‘ng the past two months. A

detailed study of the crop report

shows that, unless unforeseen emer-

gencies arise, there is a crop of feed

grains in the United States this year

nearly ten per cent above last year.

At the same time, a. survey, of the

beef cattle being fed for market in the

eight leading corn belt feeder states

shows that there is a decrease of ap-

proximately six per Cent from last

year. The figures for the feed grains

are as follows: ‘



Corn indicated production a. little

over three billion bushels, nearly

three hundred million 'more than the

five-year average. , a

" Wheat, eight hundred and .nlnety-

one million bushels, eighty-two million

more than the flve-year‘averagc.



Oats, one billion, forty-tour hundred





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six hundred and two ty-{our million





bushels of potential in feed from

these tour crops "clearly indicate an





adequate supply and an easy market

.for the coming season. 01' course, the

-. crops are not harvested yet, and some





changes may take place. ,

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Etanst dairy feed crops below the avexn





age. Last year’s hay crop was ab%or-

he

inevitable reaction is a simmer acre

age and crop this year. 88.8 million

million tons less



than the five-year average. Analyzed

by states, this hay shortage is some-

what more serious than indicated by

this small figure. While the-311a} sup-

ply is fully adequate in New England,

the shortage begins to manifest itself





.in New York and Pennsylvania, and





the figures show that there is a de

creasing crop throughout the entire

group of North Central states. Wis.

cousin, for‘example,“is reported as

having 900,000 tons of hay less than

the five—year average and nearly two

and a half million tons less than last

year. The Minnesota crop is above the





five-year average, but more than a. .





million and a half tons less than last

year. Iowa is 580,000 tons less than

the five-year average and 1,139,000

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.News of the Week





 





 





Governor Alfred E. Smith accepted

the Democratic nomination for presi—

dent in an address delivered at the

state house, Albany, August 22. He

assailed the Republican administra-

tion on its Mexican and Nicgragu‘an

policy; promised to make a “real”

effort to outlaw war; declared fin' the

public ownership of water power;

would reorganize the federal govern-

ment departments; gave a pledge that

he would not countenance any “sud-

den or drastic” change in the tariff

law; promised that he would inforce

the prohibition law,- but that he would

use his influence to change both the

amendment and the Volstead act;

promised sympathetic treatment of

the agricultural question by calling in

experts to analyze the situation and

then following their recommenda-

tions; favors the all-American instead

of the St. Lawrence waterway route

in connecting the middle west with

the Atlantic.



Radio operators in the United

States have intercepted messages

from Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer,

American airmen, who have been miss-

ing several days while flying over

Greenland and Labrador. These mes

sages locate the flyers on a little

island north of Newfoundland, where,

although well, they need immediate

assistance. ,



A statement from the department of

commerce declares that the past six

months and the years just preceding





. have exhibited a “general stability un-





paralleled in the history of the‘ United

States or any other important indus-

trial c’ountry.” .



Secretary of ‘State Kellogg arrives



in Paris to sign the pact for :the out-

lawery of war. . . _ 1. ,

‘ Last week Herbert Hoover, Repub

lican nominee for president, Was

feted by his old neighbors and school-

mates at West Branch, Iowa, where

he deliveredan address before 15,000

people who had gathered to Join In

the festivities.



Twelve persons have been arrested

by Mexican'authorities in connectlon

with the assassination of the late

President-elect Ohregon and .for plot

ting against the life of President

Calles. . ‘



President Coolidge has appointed

William F. Whiting, .a paper manu-

facturer of Massachusetts, as secretary

of' commerce to succeed Herbert

Hoover, resigned. '



Five Ohio people were killed when





their automobile was struck by a train





at Yamachiche, Quebec. _

Nine persons are known to have



been killed and a hundred injuredtlas



well as millions of dollars of property





damage done in “a tornado which __





Over ‘ southern Minnesota,

August 20. “ .. ,

\An earthquake in North Central

Persia killed ten persons and did

much propertydamage. ' . .

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QUALITY

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Reducing Hazards In Growing Wheat





This Farmer Has Worked Out a Practical Program for His Wheat Crop





ITH the yield of Michigan



wheat below average for this

. year, especially in the south-

ern portion of the state, and with the

loss which many wheat growers will

realize due to this abnormal condi-

tion, it behooves every farmer to

study and practice the fundamentals

of good Wheat production to the best

of his ability for the next year’s crop.





This is especially true m‘ those sec-

tions of the state where no beans or

sugar beets are grown, and where the

wheat crop is depended upon for the

farmer’s main cash crop. From my

observation and experience in produc-

ing a good wheat crop on my own

farm, and in general, I have come to

the conclusion that producing such a

crop in Michigan under ordinary con-

ditions is not such a difficult task, if

certain necessary precautions are

taken and fundamental practices are

put into' operation. I shall attempt to

outline these precautions. and prac-

tices which have proven very valuable

and successful to me as a. ‘wheat

grower.



From four to six weeks are required

to put land in the best condition for

wheat. Wheat must have a firm, well

worked seed bed carrying sufficient

moisture for rapid germination. If

prepared early and worked thorough-

ly, land can be put in such Condi-

tion. Barley or oat stubble, which is

generally put to wheat, dries quickly

and should be plowed and fitted as

soon as possible. I always like to see

a good job of plowing at an ordinary

depth for wheat, followed with a.

roller or cultipacker to pack the fur-

row slice, and then disc or harrow

frequently. Where wheat is to follow

.beans, ”potatoes, or com, the land

should be disced as soon as possible

after the crop is removed.



The fertilizer requirements for

wheat vary according to the type of

soil. Wheat is a heavy feeder and

demands plenty of plant food.’ Per-

haps the best method to explain the

proper fertilizer to use is to state that

a thirty bushel wheat crop takes fifty

pounds of nitrogen, nine pounds of

phosphorus, twenty—four pounds of po-

tassium, and seven pounds of calcium

from the soil. From the knowledge

of this wheat requirement and the

state of fertility of the farmer’s soil,



the proper amount of fertilizer can be

; computed .



Barnyard manure is my favorite

" fertilizer for wheat ground. From six

to eight tons to the acre not only



',. benefits the crop by supplying the

3 necessary plant food, but it also aids

by increasing the water holding capac-

ity of the soil. Inasmuch as barnyard



manure is deficient in phosphorus, I

‘ make it a practice to apply 150 to 200



pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate



per acre to the soil at time of plant-





ing. Phosphorus is an element which

aids materially in developing a large





.. plump kernel, and increases the yield,

as well as hastens the maturity.





These fertilizer requirements will

-, not fit every type. of soil. Where no

. labia, a‘ complete ter-





 





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is needed to stiffen the straw and pre—

vent lodging.



Many farmers make a mistake by

not sowing. the best wheat obtainable.

I never sow seed wheat until after it

has been properly cleaned and all

weed seed, dirt, smutted kernels, and

light 'kernels removed. Heavy seed

will give a greater yield than light

seed, and nothing should be sown but

the best, whether it be wheat or some

other farm crop.



It seems unnecessary to state that





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all seed wheat should be treated for

smut before sown, and yet there is

a large number of farmers who neg-

lect this necessary and simple pre-

caution. Each year in Michigan thou-

sands of' dollars worth of wheat are

lost due to the disease of stinking

smut. This serious disease can be

easily controlled by the simple for-

maldehyde treatment which can be

applied as follows:



Spread the seed wheat out on a

cement floor and spray with a for-





 





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center received no fertilizer while those on each side

were treated. The results are convincing.





maldehyde solution. One pint of forty

per cent formaldehyde may be mixed

with various amounts of water and

the solution will treat fifty bushels of

seed wheat. I have obtained success-

ful results from using :one pint of

formaldehyde with one quart of

water and applying this mixture to

the fifty bushels of seed wheat with a

hand sprayer. The grain should be

shoveled into a heap after the treat—

ment and covered for four hours with

a canvas or blanket. After this proce-

dure the grain should be aired for a

few hours and sown. The grain need

not be sown at once, but may be

stored for a time in case of rain.



The amount of wheat sown per

acre should vary somewhat according

to the type of soil and time of plant-

ing. On poor soil or in. case of late

planting, more wheat per acre should

be sown. The usual rate of seeding,

however, is six pecks per acre, and

this amount is ample on the majority

of Michigan soils if sown at the

proper date.





There is one more serious hazard

which attacks the wheat crop and

this is the Hessian fly. This pest is

more numerous this year than it has

been for several seasons, and for this

reason more precautions should be

observed in regards to its eradication.



(Continued on page 197)





Extension Worker at Eighty-Two





F THE two hundred women that

0 completed the work of the ex-



tension clothing class in Huron

County this lastdune, there is one

at least, that deserVes. honorable men-

tion. This is Mrs P- C. Smith, of

Bayport, a lady of eighty- -two years of

age. Many women at this time of life

are perfectly satisfied with the. clothes

they are wearing- and are not inter-.

ested in learning about the newer

ideas of garment fitting and construc-

tion; not so with Mrs. Smith. She

attended the clothing classes of the

Bayport group regularly, and, with





the help of her daughter-in- -law, made -





a fitted pattern for herself. She has

lost part of one finger on her right

hand which makes it very difficult for

.her to use a needle. This would have

been a good excuse for not working

with the women in the class, but Mrs.

Smith did not let this stop her. She

kept at her work until the muslin

model was fitted and the paper pat-

tern m’ade. Now she cuts a dress from

this pattern and. without fitting it,





sews it up, puts it on and she looks





as well dressed as any of her young-

er friends and neighbors in her com-

munity. .





Mrs. Smith was born in Milford,





Michigan, in 1846, went to school in .

Ypsilanti, and married rin 1866. They}





moved to Bayport, At that time, there I,





was not a house nor a railroad in the

place. Mr. and Mrs. Smith tank 999-





By Mildred Gardner





outskirts of Bayport and their busi-

ness was dairying and vegetable gar-

dening. Mr. Smith died in 1918 and

since that time Mrs. Smith has lived

with her son and daughter-in- -,law who

have been running the same farm for

the past ten years.



Mr. and Mrs. Smith had only one

child of their own, Mr. M. J._Smith

of Bayport. They‘ adopted several chil-

.dren and gave them theadvantages of

good home surroundings, high school

or college education. There were two





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 





 





little sisters, one two years and the

other four years of age when they

took them into their family. Both are

married now, one is living in Milford

and the other in Bay City. Then there

were two little boys that were 'also

fortunate in .being taken into the

Smith family. One of these boys Went

to college at the University of Michi—

gan, taught in this same university

for several years, and now lives in

California. The other little boy was

five years old when. the Smiths adopt-

ed him. He taught school, married,

and for twenty-five years worked in

the office of the Rock Island Railroad

Company at Chicago. At the present

time he is also living in California.



Mrs. Smith has alWays been a. very

active church and social worker. She

still enjoys taking part in any educa-





‘ tional program that is being given in





_ or near Bayport.





Huron County held its Achievement

Day in the High School at Bad Axe

on June 16th and Mrs. Smith gave '

us two very fine readings on that day.

One was an old time recitation and

for this she donned a dress that hei- .





mother wore in 1860. The audience, ,1





_ was so delighted with her first recita-

tion that they called her back and:

she gave us a very clever little “

core. Huron County is: planni '

taking the 'project “The Well

Woman” this coming year and

Smith is hoping to continua
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VOLUME CLXXI NUMBER NINE





DETROIT, SEPTEMBER 1, 1928





EXT Tuesday is



primary election

day. Then the nomi-

nees .for local and

state ofl’xcers are to

be selected. One bal-

lot may not change the results; but,

it all men and women privileged to

vote, go to the polls and register their

choice conscientiously, the results will

more fairly and satisfactorily repre-

sent what the people want, than

where a handful of interested indi-

viduals who may expect some per-

sonal benefit from the election, are

the only ones to vote.



The privilege of voting is a matter

that, should be taken seriously. A

man is not justified in allowing an

ordinary business engagement to keep

him from the polls. He is not an ideal

citizen if he fails to vote except un-

der the most urgent necessities.



A republican system of govern-

ment, such as ours, demands the

active loyalty of its citizens. If" their

choice with respect to issues and





Remember

the

Primaries





, public officials are thoughtfully and





honestly recorded at each election,

governmental policies will then more

nearly cover the wants and needs of

the people, and officials will seek

more faithfully to carry out. those

policies. Persons who stay at home

from the polls and perhaps look upon

themselves with something of pride——

these persons make possible many of

,our political shortcomings.

Conscientious voting at both pri-

{duties and elections in times of peace





I is alike as important in perpetuating





American institutions as is the shoul-

,dering of a musket when an enemy

{;yo.ppears at our borders.





HE





'lncrcau results obtained

U f 1 from the use of fer-

” o tillzers “on wheat the





an incentive to farm-





ers throughout the state to plan to

fulcrum the use of fertilizers on the

,1.ch which will soon be sown.





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coming through the use‘ of additional

plant food. Often check plots~were

left, so comparisons could be made.

In other cases, the supplies of fer-

tilizers at hand-were insufficient to

cover the fields, so, unintentionally,

the farmers were given an opportun-

ity to see how fertilizer increased

their yields and improved the quality‘

of their wheat. .

Often by adding two or three dol-

lars worth of fertilizer per acre, the

owner has increased his income from

eight to fifteen dollars over that from

adjacent land where no fertilizer was

added. As stated in an article on an-

other page of this issue, the best re-





sults follow the combined use of

barnyard manure and commercial«

fertilizers.





A good place to start a soil-building

program on farms where little con-

structive work of this nature has been

attempted is with the wheat crop.

Since a. legume, which may occupy

the land for some time, is usually

seeded into the wheat, this provides

a most advantageous situation to reap

the benefit from added plant food.





VER since the in-





Radio ception of radio



d "I broadcasting, the edu-

an e cators of our country

School have realized that a.





tremendous educa-

tional form was available. From the

beginning, however, there seems ‘to

have been a hesitancy on the part of

both schools and broadcasters alike

to make definite use of this great

force.



Schools did not go to the expense

of radio equipment forno educational

programs were being broadcast. On

the other hand radio stations hesi-

tated at the expense of broadcasting’

special school programs when few or

no schools were equipped to receive

them. '





But a recent survey of Conditions

indicates a remarkable change in the

past year. Improvements in receiving

equipment have given to daylight re-

ception'a new degree of perfection.

Certain educators have cooperated

with broadcasting stations resulting in

many programs of especial interest

to school children being broadcast

during school hours. .



For the coming year an excellent

group of programs to teach apprecia-

tion of music to children has been

arranged by Walter Damrosch, di-

rector of New York Symphony Orches-

tra. These will be broadcast nearly

every Friday morning at eleven

o’clock from October 26 to May 10.

There is promise this year of many

more programs especially adapted t

school children. .



These programs which connect one

with the outside world are needed in

our rural schools. When school begins

this fall, ifthe school board cannot be

induced to supply the radio equip-

ment, it would be well for the teacher

and pupils to make early plans to

raise the necessary funds that they

may profit from these educational

programs.





E could point





More to several things



. . which prove to us

Eff'c'fnt that Michigan farm.

Farming ers are rapidly adopt-

‘ ing more efficient

methods. of production. But the

one which has come most per-





sistently ’to our attention is, the



wide interest which farmers in



every section of the state have taken

in the multiple horse hitch demon-



strations. Both in tho lower and upper



peninsulns have we seen those hitches"

working smoothly, enabling a. tumor

to do single-handed what,: with the.



horse teams, formerly required two,

and three men to perform. ‘ ’





The fine thing about the hitches be: I





tug demonstrated by the extension

men in that they enable the driver to





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as one or two; put all the homes in





a. position to (10.3 maximum of work,





and they keep the lazy "and, the active

horse, the unbroken or unruly animal,

all in their places, and make each

animal do its share and no more.



These demonstrations will do much

to retain the horse as a major source

of farm power. ‘





T takes but a small ’





Asbestos piece of Ichange‘

. to secure from your



'3 hardware the neces-

Cheap sary asbestos and

comparatively little





time to protect exposed wooden posts

and partitions against 'fire from the

stoves. This little attention may prove

the means of saving the home from

burning and possibly thelives of mem-

bers of the family. In peace of mind

alone, it pays to provide this protec-

tion and to make periodic inspections

of the home and the premises that all

unnecessary fire hazards may be done

away with.





A MOVEMENT is

, on foot in our

sister state of Wis-

consin to extend the





Expand the

~' Rural

curricular





School ‘



the country schools

to include studies in the ninth and

tenth grades. At first thought,. this

idea may seem unreasonable, but it

is receiving the active support of

some of the best educators in pro-

gressive Wisconsin.



The majority of the country boys

and girls complete their school work

when they have finished the studies

now given in the country school. How-

ever, it is the opinion of 4pbserving

teachers that people learn most readi-

ly between the years of fourteen and

eighteen. This change would enable

many to take advantage of additional

schooling when they. could realize a

maximum of benefit.





If the tuition money now paid to

high schools by district school boards

for extending education to those who

have passed the eighth grade, could

be retained inthe district school for

hiring teachers capable of giving at

least two years of high school in-

struction—if that could be done, whole

communities might benefit through

*the leadership of such teachers.



This is a. matter that could well

receive the attention of farm folks

and educators, and we would be

pleased to have their opinions on the

suggestion. What would be the short-

comings and the advantages of such a

change? If anything reasonable-can

be done to continue the usefulness of

our district schools, we are for It.





HE blazing boards





Youth and of electric lights

3 . h the great cities

rlg t charm the country

Lights boys and girls. Dan

zling signs, streets





that never grow dark, and brilliant

window displays do make a sight that

appeals for a. short period, at least,

to those unfamiliar with such things.

But, to a limited extent, bright

lights need no longerbe confined to

the city. They now can be had to a.

satisfying degree in the country. The

longings of the farm boy and girl in

this respect can be .met at home.

The introduction of electric lights

certainly brightens up the old farm.

Under their influence, dark corners

become cheery, family ties become

stronger, and outside attractions are

less enticing. This lighting innova-

tion promises to» renew the .- social





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We have met many farmers who 5





have gone to the bank and hired the

necessary funds to put in eleCtric

lights and electric power. The major-

ity..of these hgvc declaredthat itlwan

the wisest investment, they have ever

made. And the thing most emphasized

in these remarks is the influence it

has had on the home life of the

family.





 





Permanent Wave:





ELL, I went down town the



other day and got a permanent

wave, and I ain’t decided yet if it is

becomin’ or not.



Permanent waves is ~ stylish nowax

days, but they don‘t always look'just

right on what they are. For inst.

me women look like they was wear

in’ somebody‘else’s hair and some of

the fellows who try to look like

movie heroes, look like ma’s little

boy. Just the way your hair is fixed.

‘ d o M: m‘a k 9

heroes anyhow,

although it might

make a few girls

sigh and say,

“Ain’t he a. he—

man.”



And ain’t it

funny about this

permanent wave

stuff? Those that

t, and those that

ain’t got it want it. There’s the choco-

late-colored folkses what pay to have

the kinks taken out, but We folkses

whose ancestors wasn’t born in Africa;

pay to have them put in.



I don’t know just why they havo

them .permanent waves, but maybe.

the girls know that all can’t go to the

sea share, so they pay the price of a.‘





 





 





 





 





automobile tax to have the waves put .





in, so the boys kin look at their hair

and think they are‘ sittin’ by the sea,

wonderin’ what the sad sea waves are

sayin’. And I suppose lots of boys

wonder what those waves moan and

just what’s goin’ on in the head under

them.



Well, about this permanent wave of

it didn’t cost me nothin’. I

went down town and was parkin’nnd

run right into a. car in back of me,

so I got a. permanent wave in the

rear right fender which was just new.

Of course, it was the other fellow’s

fault, ’cause his car shouldn’t be In

my way. All the rest of the fenders

are old, so I ain’t decided if the wave

is 0. K. or not. It makes it look more

like the old fenders, but from! the

standpoint of beauty”, the wave don’t

balance thewaves I got in the others.

But seein’ as it will cost about ten

dollars to have. these waves taken

out, I guess I’ll let. my, what you call,

artistic sense suffer. There's lots of

other things I could do with ten dol-

lars if I had it. Fer inst. I could go

to a prize fight to give my sportin'

blood some exercise. And maybe.

too, I’d get some pointers on how to

stop family arguments. ,



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The majority for us try to put off

eyerythlng except a good time.





[A fertilizer demonstration showing

the use of commercial plant food for

celery on muck land is being run 0n





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URING my six years of work as

a county agricultural agent,

much experience was gained in

the matter of handling quack grass.

Early this year I was called to jury

service. One case involved farming

methods on a quack infested farm.

I was chosen as foreman. The jury-

men were all tillers of the soil. Time





.and again I was forced to call atten-

tion to the fact that we were .to decide





a damage case rather than to deter-

mine the best way to kill quack grass.

But every man' had to explain his

methods for killing quack before the

trial case could be decided.



The interesting thing was that

every man had a different method

and his was the one sure method for

getting the stuff!



During all of my years of farming

experience I have found only one

sure death for quack under all condi-

tions. Follow these simple directions

and you will be sure of success.

First, take a six-pronged fork or pota-

to hook and dig out the quack, being

especially careful to get long roots.

Takes these roots and hang them in

the fork of the cherry tree! After

they are dry use them to kindle the

cook stove fire.



Under certain weather conditions





one method will kill the quack. Under





someother conditions that method is





,not successful. One must fit the meth-

. 0d of treatment to the weather condi—





tions, time of year, the crop that is

to follow, etc. Given a month of dry,

sunshiny weather and any piece can

usually be pretty well whipped by a

very shallow plowing—less than five

inches—and a thorough discing, pre~

ferably with a sharp double disc,

every week. If the period is rainy this

method will not work but with dry

weather it will usually do the trick.

If this work could be done in June





and the pieces sowed heavily W1th.





buckwheat by July 4th, there should

be very little quack left. If the ground

is poor, the_.buckwheat should be well

fertilized. A vigorbus growing buck-

wheat crop will smother most any-

thing, quack included.



Late fall plowing, unless it be very

shallow, does not hurt quack. The

roots that are exposed during the

winter will die, but not so the buried

roots.



Here is a good method .for prepar-

ing a piece of quack for beans or po»

tatoes next year. Net later than Sep-

tember 15th go onto the piece with

a sharp, heavily weighted disc. Go





, over it at least four times—~different





directions. The piece should then be

cut up for a depth of three to six





inches, and all of the quack grass,





roots cut into short segments. Plow

the piece not over six inches deep.

Disc again and sow to a very heavy

seeding of rye. If the ground is rather





poor, put on 200 pounds of good fer- .





tilizer per acre. Next spring when the

rye is nearly ready to head out, go

onto it with the disc and cut it up as

before. Then plow it down, using a





fjointer, as deep as eight inches if





possible. It is best to do this imme-

diately preceding the planting. Then





with the beans or potatoes well fer-l





tilized and with careful cultivation,

the quack roots should all be turned

into fertility for the crop by the rot-

ting process.



Summer fallowing is all right if

the weather is dry, but like this past

rainy summer in central Michigan,





‘ one is wasting his gtime at it.





I do not like to use a barrow on

agatters the roots all over





 





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By 1. CB. McMurtry





for plowing out quack in corn, etc.,

is, the old—fashioned double shovel

plow. It just digs out the roots and

puts them on top of the ground.



\Any ground that will produce a

good crop of quack will produce good

cultivated crops, so do not become

discouraged. If those roots—two or

three tons to the acre—can be turned

into fertilizer it is a fine crop to

grow.



But make your strong gesture to

kill the quack before you put the

crop on the land. The disc should

be theflfavorite tool.





 





EXPECT ALFALFA SEED





 





HIRTY or more Ogem'aw County



farmers are letting their alfalfa

fields stand to produce seed. The

weather is reported to be favorable

for the development of an alfalfa

seed crop. Some of the farmers are

pulling all the weeds from the fields

to give the seed crop a higher value.





WHEAT SCAB ABOUNDS





 





HE prevalence of wet weather in

the state has caused an unusual

amount of fungus diseases this year.

One of these, wheat scab, has been

reported from several sections. Wheat

which is affected with this disease

shows moldy spiklets in the wheat

head or the entire head may be

attacked.

Farmers which have had this

disease in their grain fields this year

should not plant wheat after wheat,





\and they should use especial care to





1THE MICHiGAN FARMER





The QuaCk Grass Bogey





Success in Control Depends Much on the Weather





remove the light kernels from the

diseased heads from their seed wheat.

These kernels can be taken out. by

thorough cleaning with a fanning mill.





 





5-4-1875 *





These yields were all obtained with:

O. A. C. wheat.





GOOD SEED MAKES CLEAN CROP.





 





FIELD of patatoes in Oceans.



County, observed on the inspec-

tion work, furnishes a good example

of the value of t1eating seed potatoes

for scab and black scu1f. A field of.

table stock potatoes planted with un-

treated seed showed a twenty per cent





 





 





 





 





Potato growers get first hand information on potato culture and diseases.





Jersey breeders of Macomb County





“have organized a County Jersey Cat-





tle Club.





 





WHEAT YIELDS REPORTED





 





LTHOUGI—I the Michigan wheat

crop is below normal this year,

some good yields have been reported

by members of the Michigan Crop Im-

provement Association. Glenn

Sprague, Ionia, harvested 600 bushels

from twenty acres; M. E. Parmelee,

Hilliards, had an average yield of

twenty-five bushels for twenty acres;

and Farley, Albion, obtained a yield

of' twenty-eight bushels per acre.





loss of stand due to black scurf.’ An

adjoining field of certified seed stock

which was planted with treated. seed

showed no loss of stand from disease.





INTERESTED IN HOME

CONVENIENCES





 





WO hundred and thirty people



attended the six meetings held

at stops made by the home conveni-

ence truck in Washtenaw County. The

county agricultural agent reports that

there are several requests each .

month for aid in obtaining plans and

forms for the construction of Septic

tanks.





Not Geod far the Sudan





But the Captain Made It Good After We Shaved





a





MAP OF AFRICA—if it’s a big



map—will show a dot called



Abechir. It’s almost in the ex-

act center of the Dark Continent, on

the southern edge of the Sahara

Desert. This forlorn little spot in the

black heart of Africa isnot an invit-

ing looking locus to the average per-

son who has never been there—«and

still less to one who has.





But to us Abechir seemed the end'





of the rainbow trail. At least it was

the peak of. the ,arch, .with only the

downhill slide to the pot .of .gold at

the end. There would be a little

store at Abechir, our first opportun-

ity in 2,000 miles or six weeks’ time

to buy anything at all except long-

legged chickens and long lived eggs.

An automobile expedition had ohCe

made the trip from Abechir to the





By Francis Flood





Red Sea. Thus if we had no trail

we at least had a precedent to follow.

It is true, the head of that expedi—





tion, an Englishman and‘a member





of Parliament, wrote a. book about

his trip, and it was not a good roads

ad by any means. He, too, had

crossed Africa, but by a. more south-

erly and much easier route than we.

And the darkest pages of his book

were about that part of his trip be—





tweentAbechir and El Obeid,whe1e





we had yet to go. Bu? Jim and I

had proved, to . our-selves at least,

that we.could‘ travel on our motor-

cycles abso'lutely any place an auto-

mobile could go. The worst auto re

ports we could get would be good

news for us,‘



_ The gasoline problem threatened us

again. 'We towed one bike behind the





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 





mired o: his hospitality» and





other whenever it was at all possi-

ble and finally reached a little grass

village called Hemmina, only fifteen

miles from Abechir. It was almost

dark. We had just enough gasoline to

run one motorcycle the fifteen miles

into town. Jim took that and started

out, promising to send some gasoline

back on a native’s head for me or to

bring it himself on a horse.



I tried to get a dozen villagers to

tow my machine on into Abechir,

or at least until we met the gasoline

coming back and argued in the sign





language until I Was almost as black» »»





in the face as they I even offered

them money, but they were afraid of

the lions in that lonely land at night.



In English or French I might have

convinced them that I wasn’t afraid

myself, but it’s hard to lie in signs.



They towed me to a little round mud.

but a half—mile from the village and

suggested that I stop there for the,

night. I had no gasoline and I had 31

no choice.



I sent the curious crowd away with

instructions to bring me water, a-

chicken, and some eggs. A few min-

utes later two dusky knavesfia half-

dozen boys and a young woman re-

turned. The two men were in the__

uniform of a French soldier; that is

one were the trousers and the‘other»..f

the coat. They knew a few words 0,

French and explained thatthe c " ‘

had sent them to guard me (1

the night and the boysAto bring,

water and chickens and eggs. "

young black female was 3 SM ,4;

from the able: that I might, ; "
1884-6





S one other Westerner has done

before him, Herbert Hoover has

surprised the nation and touched



the heart of its Americanism. His

speech of acceptance voiced the no-

blest ideals of the people as deep

speaks unto deep, while with splendid

common sense he gave them as clear

an outline of their present-day prob-

lems~—and the means of solution—as

they have ever had presented to them

in so many words.



To have the ,Hoover speech of ac—

ceptance make such an impression on

the people regardless of party, should

please Westerners. To impress on all

that _he meant what he said, he pre-

faced his address with, “We shall use

words to convey our meaning; not to

hide it." Hoover doesn’t quibble.



This brings back to mind the time

when a. tall, ungainly, somewhat shab-

by man, not even nationally known,

k rose in Cooper Union hall, New York,

and electrified the nation with what

he had to say on the issues of that

day, voicing as Hoover has just done

the ideals of their Americanism be—





cause he himself felt them so deeply '





that he had to say what he felt in

words as only a Lincoln could say

and express them.





 





Lincoln was the prophet of that

time as I think Hoover is of ours.

That both of these men should have

come out of the West and emerged

from the humblest beginnings, is

only another proof of the fine Ameri-

canism the pioneers of Kentucky and

of the Great Plains states carried in

their blood. Such also is the lineage

of Curtis. A presidential ticket with

two such sons of the West heading

it. is something which should stir

Western patriotism, I think.



The policies these men advocate are

Western policies, yet none the less na-

tional policies as broad as the coun~

try’s welfare. For this reason they

hold out more encouragement for the

aspirations and ambitions of the West

than the purely Eastern viewpoint

ever can or ever has held out for us.

No better example of this may be

. found, I think, than in that part of

Hoover’s address showing how the

Middle West is cut off from the rest

of the world by the wall of high

transport rates. As Hoover says:



A large portion of the spread be—

ttween what the farmer receives for

his'products and what the ultimate

consumer pays is due to increased

transportation charges. Increase in

railway rates has been one of the

penalties of the war. These increases

'have been added to the cost to the

‘farmer of reaching the seaboard and

foreign markets, and result therefore

in reduction of his prices. The farmers

‘of foreign countries have thus been

indirectly aided in their competit1on

’with the American farmer. Nature

has endowed us with a great system

of inland waterways. Their modern-

ization will comprise a most substan-

tial contribution to Mid—VVest farm re-

' lief and to the development of twenty

_of our interior states. This modern-

ization includes not only the great

Mississippi system, with its Joining of

the Great Lakes and of the heart of

Mid-West agriculture ‘to the Gulf, but

:also a shipway from the Great Lakes

'to the Atlantic. These improvements

would mean so large an increment in

.farmers' prices as to warrant their

, gconstruction many times over. There

,- is no more vital method of farm re-

] lief. But we must not stop here.





 





,' "'jSenator Curtis in his address of ac-

ceptance referred to the extensive

ci‘firoject authorized by the last Con-

igress and now being carried out—the

'bargo line to extend from St. Louis

tb‘Missouri river points which, when

,, in full operation, will bring decided

' ("relief in the cost of transporting farm

C ’fp'roducts. . . . The condition of agri-

culture being the country’s foremost





   

 

 

 





to place agriculture on a basis of

W.Mmuty with other indus.

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:‘oonce'rn, he declared that measures‘





Except for the St. Lawrence—Great

Lakes project, which has met with

steady opposition from New York, our

inland waterways are virtually ready

for the development Mr. Hoover out-

lines, so that the West’s dream of

low-priced transport by water is much

nearer realization than is generally

known. Eventually this will end our

commercial isolation.





 





Governor Lowden, a staunch advo-

cate of the McNary-Haugen plan of

farm relief, speaking of Mr. Hoover’s

utterances on that subject, says:



“His frank recognition that the agri-

cultural problem is the most urgent

economical problem in our nation to-

day is very heartening. I have stated a

thousand times," Governor Lowden

goes on to say, “that a general

acknoWledgment that the problem

exists would be half the battle. If





.~ THE MIC H IGA H FARMER





Western Men For Western Policies





‘ abounding





there had been such recognition years

ago, the agricultural situation would

be vastly different today. Mr;

Hoover’s aspirations to bring the

farm population up to economic equal-

ity with other groups have my hearti-

est approval.”



Western men for Western policies.

If ever there was a time for the West

to show its political wisdom it is now.

This year the situation calls for ‘a

united West for “dry” reasons as well

as agricultural. This, it seems to me,

would be the height of good sense

and patriotism for which for once we

might well sink all party differences.

Certainly the welfare of agriculture

and of the nation can best be served

this way—that the West may take its

place in the sun .of a new development





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prosperity.





 





 





News and Views

From INGLESlDE FARM—By Stanley Powell





 





 





ONE but not forgotten is our



local fair. For two days now



I’ve been decidedly under the

weather and haven’t a thing to lay

it on except the dissipation of spend—

ing long hours each day at that ex-

hibition and eating a few of the things

sold there. Yesterday afternoon we

were threshing cats from the field

here at Ingleside. I was supposed to

be running the tractor, but was barely

able to sit up and watch the wheels

go around. It rained hard in the night

so we couldn’t thresh today. I’ve been

puttering around

“enjoying poor

health” and tak-

ing things more

leisurely than at

any time for a

year or so. Being

sick is a luxury

in which I in-

dulge but rarely,





Tomorrow I ex-

pect to be back

on: a more sub‘

., stantial diet. We

plan to start threshing again in the

morning, and if all goes well we shall





 





be through with that dirty job before _





night, as far as Ingleside is con-

cerned. I hope before another week

rolls around that we may clean up

all the threshing in the neighbor-

hood and put the separator away for

another season. I’m anxious to devote

our full attention and energies to

affairs here in Ingleside again. There’s

no other place where work seems to

yield as much satisfaction and hold as

much interest. .





How glad I am that I don’t have to

follow the fair circuit week inand

week out! To do so is to learn to

appreciate the privacy and privileges

of home and the advantages of one’s

own familiar bed and meals that may

be eaten with confidence and with-

out calamity. ,



Our Milking Shorthorns came back

to Ingleside from the Ionia Fair, but

the Shropshires started on an indefi-

nite. circuit beginning as follows:

Caro, Bay City, Detroit, and Saginaw.

Our plans are not fully decided for

the latter part _‘ of the} show season,

but probably the sheep. will invade

several southern states during pcto'o

her and November. They went on a

similar extended tour a. few years ago

and returned with glory and profit.





Cherry Grower Walt- Us

We were favored this afternoon "by

avian Mm Re if: M





thank PrOVidenCe. '





   

 





their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hoop-

er of Old Mission.

tor of the LeValley Methodist church,

a fine community institution with a

splendidly equipped new church edi-

fice located a few miles south 0f

'Ionia. The Hoopers are fruit raisers

from that narrow peninsula that juts

up from the main body of Grand

Traverse County into Grand Traverse

Bay..They were taking a brief vaca-

tion trip between the cherry season

and apple harvest and being down in

this part of the’ state wanted to visit

Ingleside and become better acquaint-

ed with those folks and surroundings

whose ups and downs they had been

following through these letters-



The conversation which we had

during this brief visit impressed us

anew with Michigan’s varied agricul-

ture. Mr. Hooper told us that he

owned two light horses, but had load-

ed them into a truck and taken them

thirty miles away to pasture and was

carrying on his fruit raising this sum-

mer without any horse power other

than that furnished by his tractor.

He expressed surprise that we were

able to 'pasture alfalfa and maintain a

stand, saying that on the light sand

of his neighborhood alfalfa made good

hay, but pasturing‘it soon replaced

the alfalfa by June grass. To Mr.

Hooper, our 290 acres seemed like a

large enterprise,’ but I guess that I

would just as soon try to run it as

to tackle a few acres of fruit trees.



Mr. Hooper spied the tractor and

exclaimed, “I see I had guessed cor-

rectly as to what kind of tractor you

had.” He was much interested in the

stoneboat load of rocks with which

we had‘practiced Dora» and Fan for

the pulling contest and seemed sur-

prised when I told him that they

could pull it down the bare driveway.



Naming the Homestead 4



Thinking back toward our recent

fair,.the thought strikes me that most

of the live stock exhibits came from

farms that had been named by their

owners. I believe that it is a splen-

did practice for us, each to designate

our farm by an appropriate name. It





gives it a certain dignity and, sense" of‘

permanence and helps a farmer to ,.





realize that he is .really; a business

man. Then, .too. I' believe there

is final-hills, that tsp (ti ' th ' '

.3114 giddtothn m

"the old ”humidified. . »





seem, like a little ’ .1.





far toward, arousing

_;Hna crmraWI -'





Rev. Thies is pas--





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allure—love H: the miss, the Head:





Having named ouif‘ufarm it, is good

business to use this name'in our cor-

respondence. I believe I have advo-

cated in a'- previous article the advan-

tages qt printed farm stationery. How.

ever, this matter was brought to my,

attention again this evening by notic-

ing the following little" article“ in a;

local paper: . - _’



“A neat, well-worded letter head is

the finest kind of advertising for? the

progressive farmer. The name 'of the

farm is the big feature of the well-1

planned letterhead, the product is

second, and the farmer’s name is third

in importance. A short, snappy, easily“,

remembered slogan often adds to the

force of this advertisement. ‘



“Keep the letter head» simple and

dignified. Do not crowd too much on

it. Make every work count. An illus-

tration, if well done, adds to the at«

tractiveness. The paper should be of

good quality.



._ -“Farm letter heads are notaluxury

———they are a business‘necessity,”





Tells Experience as Hired Man





I’ve been receiving, quite a lot of

varied correspondence recently from

Michigan Farmer readers. One. letter

of ,two large sheets of closely types

written . material-,~.was decidedly un<

usual. The writer lived up in Oceana

County and having lost his mother

who kept house for him, had con-

cluded to dispose of his 120-acre farm

and, as he puts it, “be someone’s

good hired man.”





After giving a very detailed review‘

of his career, capabilities and charac~

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epistle with the following soul-search.

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“Now, Stanley, I’ve tom you a lot

about my disposition, now I’ll ask you

a. few questions: Where does your

hired man Wash his feet? Who washes

his clothes? Do you give thanks to

the Heavenly Father for ‘the privilege-

of gathering about the table, spread

with Thy bounties’ and then all pitch

into a saucer full of corn flakes and

anpegg omelet with a glass of

skimmed milk, to pitch hay on till

noon? Did your wife‘ ever drive seven

miles to town to buy a peck of pota-

,toes to feed a family of five and the

hired man? When the little cherub

gets big enough to sit in the high

chair at the table, will his mother

grab the biggest and most choice

piece of meat from the not-too-well

supplied platter, and give it to him

and laugh when he throws .it on the

floor? Will you lick the gravy spoon

and put it back in the bowl and pass

it to the hired man? Will you always

blow your nose on the towel when,

you wipe your face? Will the Mrs.

be peeved, ifvthe hired man does not

choose to let the little fellow play

with his Watch? Do you take skimmed

milk to the barn-«for the calves to

drink and not scald the pail. "bl’efore

milking in it? All these things I'have

witnessed during my three ' years

‘bumming’ around as hired man.



“This is getting lengthy, so‘I’ll quit

boring you and just say the question

of wages is a secondary consideration

with me. I stress the conditions un-

der which I operate more'than the

pay. I forgot to tell you that I can

,cook most anything as well as a

' woman and can beat the most of'them

in the washtub and can patch ,avgrain

sack so it will last till the sack wears

from around the ,patchql have no

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housework while the‘ family. goes t out.





,I despise this wildcat timet'and,won-





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Please send me suggedtions on. how

to make a. convenient device for

handling old barb wire—D. M.





One of the troublesome jobs on any

farm, especially on a. live stock farm

where much use is made of tempor-

ary gences for pasturing sweet clover

and hogging down corn, is that of

handling the‘ barb wire which forms

the basis of most of our temporary

and much of our permanent fencing.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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to a. fairly stiff mortar shduld be pro-

vvided, and be plastered around the

joints between doors and between

doors and frame—I. W. ' _, ‘ ’





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since very little equipment of this

kind is yet available on the market,

and anyway a handy man can usually

work up out of odds and ends some

sort of a barb wire reel which will

suit his particular conditions as well

or better than anything he can buy.





'The accompanying diagram shows a





number of barb wire reels which have

been sent in by our readers and

which have been recommended as be-

ing highly satisfactory. In most cases,

the drawings are so complete that no

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ANY of our readers whose silos



have been in use a number of

years are having m’ore or less trouble

with pockets of spoiled silage around

the outside, indicating that air leaks

in the silo have gradually developed.

The following suggestions as to locat-

ing and remedying the leaks will no

doubt be helpful. ,



About the best way of locating such

leaks is to cover the silo openings on

a bright sunshiny day, then go inside

with a handful of straws and stick one

in each opening where the light

shines through. This locates the

larger openings, which can then be

closed by forcing stiff ‘ roofing cement

into them with the point of a, small

trowel. After the holes located at the

first trial have been stopped, it is

well to go through the operation

again, as more leaks may show up as

the light is shut off more completely.

Special care should be given to joints

between staves and to door casings.

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tightened. go over the inside with [one .





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very much to know whether or'not

a drain is necessary—T. G.





Opinion varies among Silage ex~

ports as to whether a drain is advan-

tageous in an ordinary silo with a

concrete pit; but with the more mas

ture corn now put into silos, a drain

does not seem to .be necessary with

the ordinary type. Sincethe true pit

silo extends Several feet into the

ground and ordinarily -is cemented

tight against water entering, a drain

is hardly practical. '



The trench silo,‘ however, usuallyis

not protected from subsurface ground

water and often. has a good [many

square feet of surface exposed to rain

and snow. Hence it is considered very

necessary to have a drain to prevent

the collection of ground and rain

water. Since. usually about half the

depth is formed by the banked up

earth, it is ordinarily not difficult to

secure good drainage. Good bulletins

on trench silos can be secured from

the College of Agriculture, St._Paul,

Minn; College of Agriculture, Fargo.

N. D.; College of Agriculture, Brook-

ings, S. D.



Allegan County farmers brought 146

samples of soil and seven samplesof

marl to be tested at the county agri-

cultural agent’s office last month.

Sixty~three men also bought outfits

to test soil for themselves.





 





Dr. Charles H. Mayo says that it

is futile to attempt to run away from

infantile paralysis after the epidemic

begins,

have shown that at such, a. time. the

germs. .cfihe dieeaee...cnet‘ Hm the

throats of almost all children and of

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I Who Pays Broad- - -

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MERICAN broadcasting leads the

world in talent, mechanical de-

velopment and' expenditures,



but, unlike other countries, does not

resort to direct taxation as a means

of support. Who pays for broadcast-

ing in foreign lands? ,



In Great Britain, for instance, the

British Broadcasting Corporation, con-

trolled by the government, provides

the type of programs that the British

desire and a direct tax is imposed by

the Government upon every radio set

which must be paid at regular inter-





. .vals by the owner of the set.





In the vast area of the United

States, with its over—crowded air chan-

nels, due to the very great number

of stations—there are more than six

hundred now in operation—it has been

found necessary from a standpointtof

public service to tie together groups

of important radio stations by special-

ly built wire lines. Thus the listeners

in the United States can tune in on

their favorite home station and re—

ceive clearly the great music, religion

and education originating at the cen-

ters of population, where this talent

is most available.



Who pays for radio broadcasting in

the United States? There is no direct

charge to the owner of a radio re—

ceiving set, for the American family

sits by the fireside in the winter and

on the porch in the summertime, and

is entertained by the great artists of

the world, informed of the greatest

public events, reported as the events

take place, and the leading ministers

of the land talk for the first time

directly to the millions in the peace-

ful atmosphere of the home.





Large American industries sponsor

most of these programs. The business

leaders of the United States have

quickly grasped this new instrument

as a constructive force in the devel-

opment of better understanding, sym-

pathy and support for the industry

and its products by American families.



So the answer to the question “Who

pays for Radio broadcasting?” is that,

in the majority of cases, the listener

pays. He does not pay directly three





' or five cents to receive the “Magazine





of the Air,” nor does he pay a regu—

lar tax on his radio receiving set, but

through his response to the institu-

tional indirect advertising of Ameri-

can industry, he is today paying for

the entertainment of the air.



The radio station today which can

show a profit is a rare exception to

the rule. Most of the radio stations

in the United States are owned by

local industries, whether in the radio

business, newspaper or other indus-





, trial activity and the institution own-





ing a radio station must ordinarily

charge the deficit for the year to

goodwill advertising.





 





Vaughn de Leath, contralto and

comedienne of the NBC station,- is a

musician and composer as wellias a

singer. “Rosemary,” one of her latest,

has already had its microphone debut,

and two more, “Honey” and “Ginger-

will be sung this

month. .



One of Miss de Leath’s favorite

hobbies is the collection of earrings.





She has them for every mood and .

So’ far as anyone at the ,





costume.

broadcasting studio has ever observed,

she has never appeared in public





without earrings.





 





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Mrs. Cohen: “What did you say was

the occupation of your new boarder?”



Mrs. Kelley: “He told me he edits

house organs.”



Mrs. Cohen: “Be that so, I wonder

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8 it possible to maintain heavy egg

production'in upper Michigan. dur-

ing the cold winter months? The



opinion of many people is that, this

region has such a cold inhospitable

winter that one could not expect to

get good results from the laying fowls

during the time of the year when

high prices prevail.



When it comes to a question of

raising poultry, we can conclusively

prove that our weather is not too se-

vere for heavy production during our

coldest months. Southern Michigan

poultrymen look‘upon northern Michi-

gan as a poultry region of minor im—

portance. They feel that the laying





Winter Poultry Profits





How One Poultryman Successfully Played the Odds

By L. R. Arnold





 





tains. These proved inefficient; it. is

his contention that their greatest ef-

ficiency lies in their ability to catch

dust. He regards them as being quite

unsanitary. Particular attention has

been given to sanitary measures in

the houses, and about the yards. This

man, who believes in doing things

right, built portable brooder houses

for the chicks immediately upon be;

coming a poultryman. He -raises his

chicks upon new ground each year,

and he has never failed' to fill his

houses with strong healthy pullets.



Due to the profits obtained from his





first experience with poultry, this man F





decided to venture into poultry rais-





 





 





 





 





 





Good buildings largest factor in poultry success where winters are cold.





fowl cannot be at her best in such

weather as prevails in these northern

counties. The writer, a. southern

Michigan resident up to one year ago,

held just such an opinion. After

spending one year in this more north—

ern region, he has come to the con-

clusion that the cold weather need

not be feared, providing proper steps

are taken to protect the fowls.

Records received from demonstration

farm flock owners at the poultry ex-

tension office in Marquette bear out

this contention. Farmers who coop-

erate in such work. with the poultry

department of Michigan State College

send in monthly reports as to number

of fowls kept, production, feed costs,

etc. Many of these farmers have

made records which would compare

favorably with the- records found in

any other part of our country.



In order to be more specific we

will take figures obtained from one of

these cooperators, L. J. Baccus of

Lake Linden in Houghton County.

Houghton County is one of our most

northern counties, and no one can

deny that cold weather does prevail

up there. Mr. Baccus’ record is a fine,

one, much better than the average.

Up to 1925 this farmer had not been

interested in poultry; he had made

his livelihood through dairying and

gardening. In 1925 he decided to try

out poultry, and started in with a

flock of 200 White Leghorn fowls. The

result was so satisfactory that an in-

crease in the size of the flock has

been made each year since 1925. He

started the present poultry year on

November 1, 1927 with 700 fowls.

This continued increase indicates that

he has been well satisfied with re-





sults. In discussing the matter he

says, “As I increased the number of

birds, I found that in order to do





justice to the flock I would have to

give up some of my other work. I

sold off some of my cows and gave

up much. of my garden work. I feel

that greater profits can be obtained by

devoting most of my time to the

chickens.” ,

Through actual experience Mr. Bac-

cu‘s found that much of his success

depended upon proper housing. He

found that the laying house must be

well built, such that it would be com-

fortable at all times for its occupants.





He started ‘by ventilating the first}





house-through the use of muslin cur-





'were at the best.





. 590 hens. '





ing on a larger scale. He became

convinced that a. comfortable laying

house was essential. In 1926 a mod-

ern laying house was constructed.

is a shed roof type house with a low

roof. Such a roof tends to keep the

house warmer. This house was made

wind proof, practically air tight. by

having inside walls of hard plaster.

The outside walls consistedof tar felt,

covered with shiplap. The house

proved quite comfortable and was

highly satisfactory, but in 1927 added

protection to the fowls was afforded

by covering the shiplap with'a coat

of stucco. During the winter of 1927

the temperature in the house was

somewhat higher than during the pre-

ceding winter. There are two such

fine houses on the farm today, both

covered with stucco, and equipped

with the modified King‘ventilating

system. No trouble has ever occurred

thrbugh the frosting of combs,

though some severe weather has been

expérienced.





The record turned in ‘by this co-

operator to the poultry department of

the college proves that production can

be maintained throughout the coldest

of months. The poultry year starts

on November 1, and ends October 31

of the following year. On November

1 the flock consisted of 600 fowls.

On October 31, 1927 it had been re

duced to 300 birds through mortality

and culling. Little culling was done

until the last month of the year, Oc-

tober. The average of the flock for

the year was 531.5 fowls. Total pro—

duction over this one year period was





111,259 eggs, or the high average of.





209.3 eggs per fowl. The most satis-

factory part of the record is that the

highest production occurred during

the four coldest months when prices

During the period,

December 1 to March '31 the produc-





tion was 44,905 eggs,‘ which giVes an .





average production of 19 eggs per

month for each fowl in the flOCk at-

that time. The average size of the

flock-for this four months period was

‘ In , November, the- first

month of the year, When the pullets

were juSt coming into production

only 9. 4 eggs per hen was averaged-

The total egg laconic for the year



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had had a flashlight, the cow

wouldn’t have kicked over the

lantern and burned down the

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amounted to $1,581. 65. Thus Mr. Bac-

cus made a. profit imp -‘

$2,163 9750? "
' the market demands.





 





Production during these same four

coldest monthe during the present

poultry year was practiCally the same

as during 1925-27. From an. average

flock of 683.25 fowls 51,871 eggs were

obtained. This gives a production of

18.98 eggs for each fowl each month,

a very satisfactory figure, to say the

least. ' ,



Some very low temperatures were

recorded during the period in ques-

tion. A temperature of 31 degrees

below zero was registered at the U. S.

Weather Bureau at Houghton on

January 26, 1927. On February 25,

19.28 the temperature dropped to 20

degrees below zero. No frosted combs,

have ever been found, thus one must

conclude that it pays to protect the

fowls ‘by building right. The accom-

panying picture shows one of Mr.

Baccus’ laying houses before it had

received its coat of stucco.



Several other records in the office

at Marquette are comparable to this

one as far as production goes, al-

though in all other cases the flocks

were not so large. Such high pro-

duction is primarily due to the fact

that the houses are built snugly. Good

feeding, sanitation, and culling all

played a part in making such a rec—

ord, yet without a warm comfortable

house, no such record could ever have

been made. Upper Peninsula poul-

trymen are becoming thoroughly con—

vinced that well insulated houses are

essential for best production, and in

the future few houses will be con-

structed without some form of insu-

lation.





 





CAPONIZE EXTRA COCKERELS





 





APOINS fatten easier and at less



coSt, than cockerels. Male birds

not sold as broilers, or otherwise

used, may be capOnized if they are to

be held over. Market Quotations on

capons usually begin in November

and are several cents more a pound





' than these for cockerels, especially





for thexholiday trade.



When successfully caponized the

bird does not havethe appearance of

a cockerel. The, comb and wattles

do not develop and the saddle and

hack feathers grow long. Caponizing

a bird makes him more quiet and

peaceful, and. causes the flesh to re-

tain the fine flavor and torture of

broiler meat. Capone will stand

closer confinement than ‘cockerels.



Breeds used for capons depend on

For the pro-

duction of large capons,

Light Brahmas, and Jersey Black

Giants are satisfactory; for smaller

capons any of the American breeds,





‘ such as Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes,





and Rhode Island Reds are adaptable.





Leghorns make "Such small capons





that it is doubtful whether it pays to

caponize them. -

Cockerels Selected for caponizing

should be about 8 to 10 weeks old

and weight about 11/2 to 2 pounds.





 





YOUNG TURKEYS DYING





 





What is the proper food for young

turkeys, also the older birds? I had

six little ones given to me about four

weeks ago. I fed them a good starting

feed, boiled egg and sour milk most

of the time. They grew fine and were

real lively until about four days ago,

when two of them started to lose their

appetite and acted sleepy, especially

when they got in the sun. They finally

refused to eat altogether and died in

a few days. I cut them open after

death, and their liver had yellowish

round spots on it; also the food in

their crops was decomposed. One

hadn’t eaten for a couple of days, but

his crop had quite a little in, which

smelled very bad. After‘a few days

their droppings became watery and

yellowish. Is there anything I can

give them as a preventive?—E; G,



The candition'ofvthe turkey's liver,

listlessness, loss .of appetite and





bowel trouble, indicate that blackhead

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preVented ‘by raising the poults on





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soil that has not been used as a

poultry range fer, several years.

Turkeys are more subject to black-

head than chickens, but chickens

often spread the disease among flocks

of turkeys. If the poults were brooded

with a chicken hen‘ on soil used for

several years for chickens, that might

be a cause I of the disease. ‘ This

disease may attack the poults in spite

of the best of feeding methods. By

addressing the Division of Publica-

tions, U. S. Department of Agricul-

ture, Washington, D. 0., you can ob-

tain Farmer’s Bulletin 1409 entitled

“Turkey Raising” which will give con—

siderable useful information on tur-

keys. '





 





 





Soils and Crops .





 





 





GROWING WHEAT FOR LOCAL

use





 





UROIN County farmers are report-



ed to be planning an increased

acreage of Berkeley ROck wheat. This

variety prOdqu-s a high gluten flour

and a local milling company offers a

price premium for the variety.





 





LOCATE LARGE MARL BED





 





A MARL bed showing a depth of 10

to 12 feet and covering an area of

nearly twenty acres was recently

surveyed by a specialist from the agri-

Cultural engineering department at

Michigan State College and the Lena-

wee county agent. The marl deposit

is located 10 miles north of Adrian.





 





Antrim county farmers who are pro--

ducing radish seed are having trouble

controlling aphids which attack the

radish plants. The use of contact

sprays promises to be successful in

controlling these insects.





 





Variety tests of-corn are being run

on the farm of Archie McDougall, east

of Petoskey, in Emmet county, and

varieties of peas and oats are being

tested on the farm of Clyde Kaufman

at Brutus.





 





The county agricultural agent of

Presque Isle county reports that

alfalfa which had received an appli—

cation of fertilizer made a growth of

twenty-six inches While unfertilized

alfalfa grew only fourteen inches.





 





The list of farmers growing certi-

fied seed potatoes in Antrim county

this. year totals 179. Last year there

were 108 farmers in the county whose

potatoes. were inspected for certifica—

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Small grains grown in E‘ato‘nlCoun-





gan Crop Improvement Aesociation

for inspection as certified seed include

American Banner, Berkeley *Rock and

O. A. C. wheat; Spartan barley; and

Wolverine and Worthy oats.





 





Evidence of the need for potash on

one type of Macomb County soil has

led to the establishment of a fertilizer

demonstration on alfalfa, One of the

fertilizer companies is cooperating

with the county agricultural agent in

conducting this test.





 





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Discing oat stubble as soon as the

crpp has been removed aids material-





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pose and value.





, Hens fed on Quaker Ful-O-Pep

Egg Mash are eager, consistent

layers. Their eggs are large, uni-

form, and strong-shelled. Such

eggs are unexcelled for hatch-

ing purposes."



Quaker Ful-O-Pep Egg Mash

contains in exactly the correct

proportions just the things a

hen needs to make eggs, and to

keep her vital organs in fine

condition. Oatmeal, nature’s





base Of this mash. With the oat-





 





ly in the preparation of this land for

wheat. Both plowing and after 0111-

tivation is done easier and better.” In

fact, »We: have found: it advantageous

fetishock the oats in" rows .to permit

dishing between these, rows before the





crb‘pisis ”threshed . or' stacked. The

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Anaemic Hens





pay no profit





ISTLESS hens with pale combs never bring

’ prOfit‘ to their oWner. Usually, these birds

are victims of anaemia—they haven’t the blood

strength that makes for vigor, good digestion,





Feed your hens Quaker Ful-O-Pep Egg Mash and

you eliminate anaemia. For this famous ration

contains cod liver meal, known to science for its

corrective and preventive value in treatment of

anaemia. Cod Liver Meal strengthens the blood,

keeps the tissues in better condition, thus pre-

venting bleeding combs, blood clot eggs and other

troubles due to weak blood. Do not confuse cod

liver meal with cod liver oil. Each has its pur-





GetflBetter Eggs and More of Them~





meal, and valuable minerals.

Hens relish this mixture,

and it is economical to use be-





‘cause it does more and goes





farther.





Keep your layers on Ful-O—Pep

Egg Mash this fall and winter

and enjoy top profits. Your

birdswill come through in good.

condition; your spring hatches

will be improved. .





See the dealer in your neigthr-Q ‘- ' I

hood who sells the complete





line of Quaker Feeds.
I SENT the whole troup back with



my compliments and gave my

guards a few francs to pay the chief

ion his provisiOns. An hour later

the zealous black guards returned

with half a calabash of a

smelling liquor they had purchased

with my money. They were bound

to guard me and were already drunk

enough to insist on obeying their

chief’s commands. I rolled the

motorcycle into the open doorway of

my mud house and spread my blanket

on the sandy floor inside. I had no

gun, but I parked the hatchet near

at hand and tried to justify this pre-

caution by arguing that the lions I

heard roaring out in the bush might

try to come inside.



“Zip. Bing!” A ki—ki and a roar,

and the sound of bare feet running

through the sand awoke me in the

dead of night. I seized my hatchet

and peeked around the motorcycle

wheels. A black man, spear in hand,

was crouched behind the compound

wall. Another spear zipped past my

door and I pulled in my neck. Then

I remembered that in the land of

blacks the white man’s constant

show of superiority and fearlessness

is the only guarantee of safety and

respect, and here I was cringing in

the shadows of my mud doorway. I

strode out into the dim moonlight





and sternly called my guards to time





for making such a noise.



They were all excited. A lion,

they said, had chased a jackal inside

the compound walls and they had

thrown their spears to drive the lion

and his frightened prey away. Im-

agination runs high in the Afric

mind, especially when lubricated

with a combination of fear and bad

liquor and a desire to show off their

bravery before a well—franced white

man. They insisted it was “1e lion”

and I piped them down and told

them it was only a “chien”. But

lion or dog it was enough to keep

me awake for—well, nearly thirty

minutes I suppose.





BOUT three o’clock Jim came



back, bareheaded, on a horse. A

black carrier was supposed to be

somewhere behind with five gallons

of gasoline on his head. The

moment he arrived we poured the

gasoline into our tank, gave him the

horse to ride back, and started off.

Since Jim had come away from

Abechir without his cork helmet we

had to be back before the sun got

too high above the horizon.



At Abechir we found a Greek mer-

‘chant. And a Ford! “Every time you

turn up a stone in the Sudan you’ll

find a Greek merchant,” promised

the French Commandant at Abechir.

“But don’t think this car means you’ll

have good roads the rest of the way.





From El Fasher to El Obeid you’ll'





need to be towed. That’s about 500

miles.” This pessimistic prophecy

was seconded by his two lieutenants

who had never been over the road

themselves but who knew all about

it just as they knew all about the

Prohibition situation in the United





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States from their own imagination.

‘They were all wet.





AFTER two or three days arguing

with these irreconcilables who

would believe everything bad abmt

Prohibition and nothing good, Jim

and I started out again. We' made

over 100 miles the first day to Andre,

the last French fort. Geneina, the

first British outpost in the Anglo-

Egyptian Sudan, was only about 20

miles away—and that reminded us of

our passports. Our all-inclusive





There was only a sandy caravan trail

"and not an officer or even a traveler

in sight, but Jim immediately

crossed over to the left side of the

road. “Remember the English traf-

fic rules,” he warned me. “The right

side of the road is the left again

now." We didn’t break any speed

'laws in that deep, soft sand.



We chugged right up to the house

of the resident as soon as we reached

Geneina, and I think our little Eng-

lish motors bummed a jolly “Fee F1

F0 an” all the way to that English-





 





 





GIVE ME A ROAD





By Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni





Give me a road that is narrow and winding-—

A little road that leads up a hill.

I want no grand highway, I want just a byway

That leads out to things that are peaceful 'and still.





Give me a road that is narrow and winding,

Where I may sing as I walk alone,



Where green things are growing, and limpid springs flowing,

Where I may rest on a. moss covered stone.





For as I travel I want to sing loudly

Of the tall trees, the grass and the sky,

And rest by the way, to think or to pray,

When we walk alone, just Myself and l.





 





 





British vise for which we'd paid $10

each read "Good for the United King-

dom and all British colonies, territor-

tories, mandates and protectorates,

including Iraq and Palestine. Not

good for the Sudan.” It was as big

a coverage as a patent medicine

cure-all from cancer to housemaid’s

knee but just like those same medi-

cines it wasn’t good for what ailed

us. If the passport had said nothing

about the Sudan we'd have taken a

chance, but since it went out of its

way to provide specifically that the

vise was “not good for the Sudan”—-

we could only take achance anyway.



“They’ll probably send you back to

Lagos and the West Coast Where you

started from," said the Captain at

Adre on the French side of the bor-

der. “You can fight the desert and

jungle and drouth and heat all over

again."



“Never again, vowed Jim.



“Or you can stay where you are,

here in our Sahara,” continued the

Captain, looking out over a valley of

desolation he. called a lake.



“Not that,” I said.



“Then you’ll just have to slip on

over the line to Geneina, and ask

Captain Evans to fix you up a pass-

port vise. He can get it all right

if he wants to ”





9’





HE next day we reached the

border and British territory

again, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.





Actz'w't‘zrr of Al Acre; —fl/ Seem: to 58 in a H any





man. It was a real house, too, with

even an attempt at a hedge and a

lawn that only a Briton would brave

in that desert of desolation and

drouth. 'We knocked on the first

door we’d seen in any house for

weeks, and a black houseboy, in a

clean white gown, a neat, green tur-

ban on his head and a sash of the

same material corseted 'about his

midriff bowed us plump into civiliza-

tion again.





' I ‘I—IERE were rugs on the floor, real

pictures on a decorated wall and

some magazines, in English, beside a





,,big upholstered, chair. There was a





bookcase to astound us, and this lone

Englishman standing guard on the

ragged fringe of Empire had even

hung some tidy bits of drape about

the first glass windows we had seen

in a "thousand miles of travel. Then,

to complete this transplanting of

Merry England itself there in the

heart of the Dark Continent the

black “boy” brought us a pot of tea

and a little plate of cakes and an-

nounced that the Captain was just

now coming from the tennis court.

An Englishman is always English

and he’ll hang onto his home stand-

ards of comfort and cleanlineSs, his

sports, and his dress clothes as long

as he’ll hang onto his bath, his beer

and his congenital aristocracy—and

that means as long as he lives. You

can lead an Englishman into the





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-myself, and a long,





weeks we were in Frth Material

Africa, but the French—wen, they

don’t dress for dinner in the bush.





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We showed- the Captain our pass-j

ports. and trembled. The English





are sticklers for law and regulations

and we knew it. They will hardly

consider a man horn if there is the

slightest irregularity in his birth cer-

tificate—and our passports were abso-

‘lutely' no good at all. Besides, we

were “fool Americans”, dirty and

whiskered and ragged, and we had

no dress suit for dinner. Clearly

we didn’t belong in the Anglo-Egyp-

tian Sudan the way we looked.





ORRY, old beans,” he finally an-

nounced, “but I cawn’t recog~

nize you from these photos in your

passports. You’re Smooth shaven in

the pictures. You’ll have to cut off

that brush. We don’t live in the bush

here Boy, bring two pitchers of hot

water!”



“He’s got us, Pop ” mourned Jim.

“Shades of Bill Thompson. We’ve got

to shave ”



“He thinks you’ re a Red,” I told

Jim, for my partner’s six weeks’ of

untrimmed beard was a flaming Bol-

shevik red. I had plenty of beard

flowing black

moustache that looked like the spirit

of ’96. It was the eighth of Febru-

ary, and we hadn’t shaved since

Christmas eve. The Captain was





, right.





We shaved. He viseed our pass«

ports and we slept that night be-

tween clean White sheets. We Were

ready for the Sudan tomorrow.





 





 





.“By the Way”





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Flapper: “Would you put yourself

out for me?”



Her sheik: “Certainly I would.”



Flapper: “Please do, then. It’s after

twelve, and I’m awfully sleepy."





NOT on THE LIST





 





~A youthful farmer strode up to the

post .omce‘ window. “Have you any

letters for Mike Howe?" he asked.



“For whom?” asked the perplexed

postmaster.



“ ‘Mike Howe,’ I said,” yelled ve

man.



The postmaster shook his head.

“No, I have not,” he said. “Neither

for your cow nor anyone else’s.”





ANYTHING FOR STYLE





 





Motherz' “Oh, my dear, you are let

ting the sawdust run out of your new

doll.” . ‘ .



Little Betty: “Oh, it’s all right,

mummy. I’m helping her to reduce

so she'll be fashidnable!”





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To TAKE. THE MILKTR’AlN

To Town AND GALLON

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(Lil WRITES HAZEL DELL BROWN y





ANY of you can still remember (and it was

M not so long ago, either) when rag rugs or

carpets covered the kitchen floor—if indeed there

was any covering at all. In many cases it was the

bare wood floor itself, ugly and splintery, and a

slavey's job to scrub it!



Later, old-fashioned oilcloth came in. Oilcloth

was not very practical, as it very soon wore out.

But inspire of its faults, it had its virtues—it was

easy to clean, and, after all, that is important.





NO‘ a-days, I think, nearly everyone has lino-

leum in the kitchen. It is perfectly suited for the

purpose—not only is it easy to

keep I 2'1, but in addition, it

is r really pretty patterns

an ‘ve years of wear.





RIGHT: Armrtrorzg': Printed Linoleum,

Pattern 841 [—4 particularly practical

and pretty design for hallway or kitchen.





 





That is particularly true of Armstrong's Lino-

leum and Linoleum Rugs which are protected by

the amazing new dirt-resisting Accolac finish.

You will be just as pleased as I was, I am sure,

when you first see this wonderful new lacquer-

like surface. The rug illustrated is one of the new

Armstrong patterns, No. 747-printed over gen-

uine Armstrong's Jaspé Linoleum.





Armstrong’s Linoleum Rugs





they wear and wear and wear





LEFT: Armstrong; Araherq Linoleum,





 





 





Pattern 9 oat—in the popular handcraft





tile derigrz, suitable for any room in the





house.

90/. forth!

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Armstrong 3 Linoleum and Linoleum ti"l""z“"'233.

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Rugs with the new dirt-proof Accolac ®





finish, as well as the cheaper Quaker-

Felt Rugs, also with the Accolac finish, can be

seen now in the stores. Ask to see the latest





Armstrong designs.





For 10 cents in stamps, lVlrs. Brown will send

you a copy of her book, “The Attractive Home

--How to Plan Its Decoration," beautifully illus-

trating in color the prettiest linoleum patterns.

Write her a letter, too, describing your rooms,

and she will gladly suggest the most practical

and attractive floor. Address

Armstrong Cork Company, Li-





noleum Division, 102.9 jackson

St., Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
for Economical Transpartation





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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Offering four speeds forward to meet every con-

dition of road and load, equipped with powerful

non-locking four-wheel brakes and incorporating

numerous other advancements in design, this

newest Chevrolet truck now provides for the farm

a low-priced haulage unit of extremely wide utility.





Front shock absorber springs—air bound seat cush-

ions—ball bearing steering mechanism—a greatly

increased braking area—a heavier front axle and

new channel front bumper are additional improve-

ments offered in the New Utility Truck. Depend-





UTILITY TRUCK





able operation and road stability are assured by a

powerful valve-in-head motor and by semi-elliptic

springs set parallel to the load. And outstanding

features of convenience are its low loadingheight

and generous road clearance.





Visit the nearest Chevrolet dealer for a thorough

inspection of this remarkable new truck—avail-

able in a variety of body types for every existing

farm requirement—and providing the world’s

lowest ton-mile cost for every conceivable type of

hauling.





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Division of General Motors Corporation





The New

UTILITY

TRUCK ‘





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Our Slogan—“‘Lifi and Property Pratection. "’





SCARING OFF CHICKEN THIEVES





 





ERE is the way I have solved the

chicken thief problem A number

of my friends also used it successfully.

"At the head of my bed is an elec-

tric” switch connecting with two

searchlights in the attic windows.

These throw a bright light over the

growing yard of the pullets, and also

over the main hen house. And for

some reason or other, the thieves do

not like to work in light!



The equipment is simple. In my

case, it operates on a farm lighting

system, but an ordinary automobile

battery will do it just as well. The

searchlights are home made of 100-

watt bulbs and bright tin. The switch,

costing ten cents, and a few feet of

wire are the rest of the equipment.

My police dog stays out in the grow-

ing yard, and when he barks I throw

on the switch.



I know it works, and it doesn’t

take the thieves long to leave. It isn’t

very expensive, and it may save you

a serious loss-«Haydn S. 'Pearson.





WARNS FARMERS ON FIRE

INSURANCE POLICIES





 





ARMERS should be careful not to



void their fire and tornado insur-

ance, through failure to comply with

certain well-established rules of all

insurance.companies. In a. letter to

all its borrowers, the Federal Land

Bank of St. Paul calls attention to

the fact that a number of its clients

who had fire losses during the past

year had voided their policies by neg-

lecting to observe the conditions of





the contract, and offers the following 3





words of caution:



“If your buildings are vacated, fire

insurance becomes null and void in a

1 ,zrtain number of days, unless the in-

sured obtains a ‘vacancy permit’.



“Remedy: If your buildings are not





”occupied, even for a short time, re-





port the matter to the insurance com-

pany at once "and obtain a ‘vacancy

permit’. In writing, request one from

the local agent.



“The insurance company’s' liability

ceases at once when the farm is

transferred.





“Remedy: Report transfer of farm

to the insurance company immediate-

ly, in writing. The policies can either

be transferred" to the new owner, in

which case the company should be

asked to make the transfer’and the

new owner should pay for the unex-

pired insurance, or the policies can

be cancelled and the unused premium

recovered from the company.



“Insurance is immediately suspend-

ed .and of no force” if any premium

note ‘given in settlement for it is not

paid when it comes due. This is also

true as regards assessment policies

where assessments are not paid in a

certain number of days (according to

the terms of the policy) after they

are levied.



“Remedy: Pay premiums and as-

sessments when due.”





 





. smoxens‘ THREATE'N Fosscrs'





 





EVERY time a careless smoker

throws a burning of





 

 

 





 

 

 





are believed to account for the large

percentage of man-caused forest and

brush fires that are started by

smokers. Even if only one-third of the

cigarettes consumed throughout the

country were smoked outof-doors,

there would still be- over 50,000

chances a minute of a fire starting

from a burning cigarette butt, forest—

ers point out.





 





 





RURAL HEALTH

By Dr. C. H. Lern'gv





 





 





[I

DON’T GET TOO FAT IN MIDDLE

AGE





 





S we reach middle life the danger



comes that we shall accumulate

more fat than is good for our health.

Without giving a long table of weights

and measures, I will just say that the

average weight for a middle-aged man

of sixty-nine inches is 159 pounds and

for a woman of sixty-six inches is 137

pounds. You can judge how far you

are from-standard. If you are more

than ten per cent overweight give

the matter careful consideration.



The chief item in reducing weight

is to reduce food. If you are only try.

ing to cut down some ten or fifteen

pounds, you can do it by restricting

the fats in your diet, such as huttcr,

oil, and fat meat, and by severely

limiting the sweet stuff that you eat.



But it is the folks in the two hun-

dred pounds and better class that are

chiefly in ‘need of reducing weight.

Many a man and woman with no defl-

nite symptoms of ill health, yet a

general feeling of wretchedness, Would

clear up wonderfully by a reduction

of thirty to fifty, pounds in weight.



There is only one definite way to





.do it. Reduce your intake. Don’t try





to do it too rapidly. Be content to

take off three or four pounds a week.

Cut the amount of your food ten per

cent. When. you have become accus-

tomed to that cut it another ten per

cent. If that does not do the business

the fat person is generally pretty safe

in cutting it yet ten per cent more a

few weeks later. After you have re-

duced the weight 30 or 40 pounds

you will be glad to discover that you

have regained your old efilciency.

The human body has many uses

for fat. When properly distributed it

serves to relieve the sharpness of

our bony angles and make us more





beautiful. It is an extremely helpful





agent in keeping our heat in our bod-

ies, serving as insulation in that way.

It acts as padding in our “insides”

and helps ~to keep the kidneys, spleen,

stomach, and intestines in their prop-

er locations. It fills in the chinks,

generally. But don’t put on too much





. of it.





 





KEROSENE AND JOINT FLUIDS





 





I have used kerosene (coal oil) as

a liniment several different times.

Now I am tdld that if used on or near

a joint it Will draw the join water

out causing a stiff joint. 11 you

please tell me in your department if

this is true?—K. R. W.





No. It may blister the skin, but





, will not affect the juint fluids.





 





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old has tron ,





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Whgg’causes hands and feet to





 





ways the probability that, in a young

girl, it is caused or aggravated by

poor circulation and, undernourish-

ment. Such a girl should be given

extra meals of milk and eggs, she

should get extra sleep, about ten

hours a night, and she should be espe—

cially well clothed, wearing woolen

goods, in winter, if possible.





KIDNI‘YS ARE SLUGGISH





 





Is turpentine harmful to the body

to use to flush kidneys? My kidneys

seem to be clogged, and if I use eight

or ten drops of turpentine about every

other day it seems to be of great

benefit to me. I have good health

other ways. But must keep my kid-

neys open good. If not, I feel bad I

am fifty years old and have used it

several years. —J. L.





In the long run it is harmful and

wearing on the kidneys. It will short-

en your life. Drink an abundant

amount of fresh water and you will

not need to whip up the kidneys.





HARDENING OF ARTERIES





 





If a man past middle age has had

“hardening” of the arteries for over

one year, how long may he expect to

live and what are the different stages

of the disease?——R. M.



Every person past middle age has

some degree of hardening of the arter-

ies. It is a natural process. When it

is abnormally intensified there is

usually some form of body poisoning

going on. The worst form is the lead

poisoning that comes to painters and

others who constantly handle such

minerals.





REDUCING HAZARDS IN GROWING

WHEAT





 





(Continued from page 185i



The Hessian fly lays its age on the

young wheat stalk in the fall. The

young maggot hatches and spends the

winter here, and in the spring the sec-

ond generation start working in the

Wheat. It is this generation which

causes havoc with the wheat crop. By

planting after a certain date—“the fly

free date,” or the time after which no

eggs are laid by the fly, we can elim-

inate this pest from the wheat fields.

It is quite evident, however, that the

neighbors must also observe this date

or the fly will lay its eggs on their

wheat fields, and the second genera-

tion will attack your wheat as well

as your neighbors. These “fly free

dates” have been computed for each

county and vary in accordance with

the distance frdm the equator and the

altitude. The average date for my

farm in Branch County is September

24th, and no wheat will be planted

before that date. The “fly free dates"

for each county may be obtained from

the county agent or from the Crops

Department at Michigan State Col-

lege. 1



Farmers should also ,bear in mind

that the wheat crop is not assured as

soon as it is properly planted in the

fall although the precautions already

mentioned are the moSt important

ones in growing a good wheat crop. '



Just. before winter sets in a light

top dressing of strawy manure or

straw will be of great benefit in pre-

venting winter injury. It is also a

good plan to roll the wheat in the

spring especially if the frost has

heaved any plants out of place. The

use of a roller presses the plants into

the ground, aids in case of seeding

and compacts the soil about'the roots,

thus making a smoother field at time

of harvest. Harrowing with a spike

tooth harrow is advisable when the

soil is in -a cracked or open condi-

tion, since the loss of much moisture

is prevented by this process.



I have mentioned nothing concern-

ing the removing of noxious weeds

from the wheat field, the place of





 





 





wheat in a rotation, or the harvesting '

y_,ymethods. b .. '





 

 





 





 





S 6&8011/





is a coming/





It won’t be long before the whit

a; ducks overhead will make

you long to get out the old shot

gun and get your share of the

game.



If you want a new gun of

modem pattern to really enjoy

this fall shooting, come to a

‘ ‘Farm Service’ ’ Hardware Store

to talk “guns” . . . . you will

not only find a friendly welcome

and a real interest in the sub-

ject, but you will find expert

advice. ’Most all hardware

men are real hunters themselves

and the advice they give you is

founded on personal and prac-

tical experience, as well as the

technical knowledge of guns,

ammunition and the right loads

to use, that comes as a part of

their business.



You will find these “tag”

stores just the right place to get

the best value for your money

in ammunition, decoys and

hunting and camping parapher-

nalia of all kinds. Why not

come in now and get everything

ready before the season opens?





Your “Farm Service”

Hardware Men.
‘ ._ .‘





 





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“The Puritan,” baby dirigible,

built at Akron, Ohio, about to

be christened with liquid air.





This peculiar statue was used

as confession letter box for

politicians of the 10th century.





An airview of the city of Fort Pierce which was damaged to the

extent of more than one million dollars by the hurricane that

swept Florida’s east coastrecently.





 





 





 





 





   





 





 





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Left Martha Norelius and George Kojac, right,





records at the Olympic Games.





Mrs. Keith Miller and Captain Lancaster, who

flew from England to Australia, are plan-

ning to fly from London to 'New York.





Capt. G. L. Brown is to pilo—tThe

Chelsea, one of the boats in





established new U. S. .

Byrd’s Antarctic expedition.





swimming





 





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Leirt, a view of the new helicopter at Berlin, Germany, Where its

inventor, Ing Zaschka, on the right, succeeded in rising and

descending vertically in this strange apparatus. -~





 





 





Captain Courtney and his three companions, the gallant crew of

the “Whale,” the flying boat that caught fire and fell in mid— ‘

Atlantic, and was rescued by the S. S. Minnewaska. .-





 





 





 





 





 





 





The winners of the ankle, leg, and-farinbeauty contest held ‘at'

Willow Grove Park

Bertha Zaremba, an





 





 





 





Three men who went‘arfishing off Florida's Coast and caught their





Left to .. right: Claire Firma'n, form;





, Pa. .

and Ruth wallan, leg.





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. . Canyon beat this m?





The

Romans. beat him with clubs,

but in the longvrun he beat





journey than he “starts on another.

One partner tells him and he takes

"another.- People with whom he works

are semetimes faithless, and many of

those whom he teaches are treacher-

ous, but he never yields to disgust.

He never acquires the going-south

habit, either. I mean the habit of

going South in the winter, Where they

drink mineral water for their health,

play golf and avoid draughts.

-< All of us can get an‘ enthusiasm

Which lasts for nurse. But the kind

.- that endures, 'is

I" ’"’ V the kind that





ple are always

getting a new en-

thusiasm, which

lasts about as

long as the shine

on a new car, and

then they are

after another. So

they hop from

one novelty to

' ,' another. But a

passion that endures is a very differ-

ent thing. Great ~genius seems to have

this passionate devotion to its particu-

lar field. Leonardo Da Vinci, for in-

stance, the painter, would mount the

scaffolding early in the morning, and

work until the approach of night, and

in the interest of painting he forgot

both food and drink, his biographer

tells us. Of Dr. Thomas Arnold, an

English educator, it was said by one

of his pupils, “What stirred us was a

sympathetic thrill, caught from a

spirit that was earnestly at work in

the world." Something akin tothis,

but of greater depth, was the attitude

of Jesus when he said, “My meat is

to do the will of Him that sent me,”

and Paul said of himself, “For me to

live is Christ." A11 this, of course, is

very high ground. No one can mount

to such an altitude at one effort. We

get there slowly, unless we get there

by a burst of spiritual vision, as now

and then one does. But usually such a

person has long been in preparatibn

for such an experience.



It may be interesting right here

to suggest what modern psychology

has to say on this subject. In a re-

markable article, “The Psychology of

Power,” by Dr. J. A. Hadfleld, of Eng-

,land, he indicates that the unusual

energy. of some people is not neces-

.sarily due to their being of greatly

superior strength, but to the fact that

these persons become channels ‘ of

energy. Power flows through them.

[They are not merely rBCeptacles for it.

Such people are so engrossed in their

:favorite "work that they forget them-

[selves, and thus become transmitters

of power, like the copper wire which

.transmits the electric current. Says

iDoctor Hadfield, “We are not merely

receptacles but. channels of energy.

,Life and power is not so much con-

.tained in us as it courses through

us." That, of course, was precisely

.what happened in,the case of Jesus,

and in‘the 'caSe of Paul. They were

carriers of life and energy to others.



Paul got over to Berea and found

the people there much more receptive

to his message than those in. other





 





- cities had been. They “were more no-





ble than those in Thessalonica, in that

they received the word with all readi-

ness of mind.” What a congregation

that must have been! Nobody went to

sleep. ‘



I It is a fact worth thinking on why

it is that some towns or villages are

so much easier fields for religious

workers than others. What Paul found

in regard to Berea is as true now of

some towns as it was then. Some

communities are notoriously hard

fields of labor. Others are more culti-

lvabl‘e. The differences that create

these conditions are, of course, many.

But often the main cause goes away

back to the founding of the commun-

ity, and relates to the type of people

,who gave _it_its start. Here is a town

.that has always been a hard one in‘

which to do religions work. Looking

back, we find it was established by

.iree' thinkers who“ had no use for the

church,'and for some reason, the towns

seems; never towhare fully outgrown

that bad beginning. Here is another,





_ town "which enjoys unusually, strong





The churCl‘i’es





Ch an‘gi’nfluences; ,

‘ ‘ :— condition, and religiOus,





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n---By'1.V. A. McClure





be corrected later, in a community,

the same as iri-an individual life. It

can be, but-often itisn’t.’ Another fac-

tor which makes for a good religious

soil are a few earnest‘Christian lives.

Sometimes one person who had

lived to advanced years in a town,

and is known to be of consistent and

sincere Christian experience, will

sweeten the entire community. There

may have been a saint or two like

this in Berea, where Paul went. The

white flower of a stainless life throws

its perfume a long way- Character is

infectious.





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

SEPT. 2

SUBJECT: “Paul





 





Organizer of





 





Churches.” Rom.

15 : 18-20.





Acts 17 :1-15.





' GOLDEN TEXT: Psalm 119:130.





 





HOW TO REMOVE DANDRUFF





 





Will you please tell me if dandruff

is a. germ disease? Does one person

catch if from another? My hair has

been coming out for many months

and the tonics and remedies I have

tried have done no good—S. L.





Dandruff is a real disease though

not a germ disease nor a contagious

one. Every bad habit must be set

aside and all chronic ailments, such

as constipation, indigestion, and low

nutrition must be" cured. The first

thing in local treatment is to remove

the crusts. You will probably lose

some hair in doing so, but it will be

of such low vitality that it would not





Fall Fashion Features

Straight, Slender Ensembles Will be Popular this Fall





 





No. 143—Modish—Slender. Designed

in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40, and

42 inches bust measure. Size 36 re-

quires 3% yards of 40-inch material

with 5%, yard of 36-inch contrasting.



No. 848—Typical Sports Coat. De-

signed in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38,

40, 42, and 44 inches bust measure.

Size 36 requires 2% yards of 54-inch

material with 3% yards of 40-inch

lining and 974, yard of 51/4—inch fur.



No. 239—New Chic. Designed in

siZes 16,18, 20 years, 36, 38, *40, and

4'2 inches bust measure. Size 36 re-

quires 3174 yards of 40-inch material

with 1,5 yard of 36-lnch contrasting.



' No. .875é—F‘or Younger Fashionable.

Designed in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14





years.“ Size 36‘yrequiresf19fi' yards of ,





mine}; material with 1% yard of 36-

inch contrasting and % yard of lining.



No. 871~Peter Pan Collar." Designed

in mes c s. 10, 12,.gnd'1fijyeags, Size





 

   





 





No. 833——Smart Apron and Cap. De-

signed in sizes small, medium 'and

large. Medium size requires 2 yards

of 36-inch material.



The price of‘these patterns is thir-

teen cents.





N EW CATALOG READY





 





Our new 'Fall and Winter Fashion

Catalog is now ready. From it you

will get the trend of the new fall

styles and be able to select the pat-

terns for your new fall frocks. It

contains styles for women, -misses,

and children. Also a five-lesson course

that the beginner needs and that the

experienced sewer will'ilnd helpful.



Order ‘your copy early so you will

not need to rushwith your fall sew-

ing. The price is thirteen cents. , Ad-

dress/your 9111M " I

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stick on much longer anyway. Soak‘ H





the patches with some oily fluid such - *4

Use enough~ '





as olive oil or vaseline. .

to permeate the crusts, rub it in sevs

eral times in 24 hours, and wear a'





flannel cap at night while the treatflr':

When the soaking.“





ment is going on.

is complete, wash the scales with

warm water and tincture of green»-

soap, using a good lather. Dry the-

scalp thoroughly and anoint with a

small amount of zinc oxide ointment,

since your scalp becomes red and ten-

der. After your scalp is thoroughly

clean, keep the circulation activeby

daily brushing and by massage with

the finger tips.





 





 





For Our Little Folks





 





 





STATE SECRETS





 





The Rio Grande bisects this state,

With cactus east and west; '



The bandits from Old Mexico,

Just come across to rest.





 





 





The pieces of this puzzle when cor-

rectly put together, make a map of

the state which this verse describes.

The star indicates the capitol. When

you have solved the secret of which

state this is, write me all you' can

about the state and its capitol.——Auht

Martha.





 





The answer to the last State Secret

was Pennsylvania and its capitol is

Harrisburg.





SKIP ROPE TO BELLS





 





A delightful skipping rope game is

made, by fastening bells to an ordi-

nary skipping rope. Two childrenhold "

opposite ends of the rope and hold it '

first low and as the game progresses

higher and higher. The players form

in a line and skip over the rope being

careful notto ring the bells. Any play-

er ringing a bell must drop out ofnthe }

game until the last player rings a ‘

bell.———Aunt Martha. ' ‘





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Control Household Pests





By Simple Remediesand Untiring Persistence

By Mrs. H. B. Girard





ERY few households are immune

from insect invasions. And

each housewife is prone to



imagine that she has a monopoly on

them until her neighbor voices similar

complaints. These gullible insects

come under the heading of unwelcome

'guests—écome without invitation and

usually stay till they get ready to go,

unless some attending calamity puts

them to hasty exit.



The health of the family, especially

of small children. is greatly endan-

gered unless these insects are extri-

cated from homes very promptly. Fre-

quently, their bites are poisonous;

they are bon ton v'disease peddlers;

and certainly, they are most unsani-

tary. -



Every homemaker should be on the

alert for their debut, and have the

offensive weapons at hand with which

to combat them. The methods for

eradicating them have been greatly im-

proved within the last few years. The

prevalence of screens barricades the

larger insects; the worthy fly swat—

ter puts in many sturdy licks: the





druggists have many wonderful pow—_





ders and preparations which have





proven most effective.





Control Ants by Prevention



One of the most persistent and an-

noying of household pests is the

streams of tiny ants—red and black

ones—that file to the cupboards or to

the table just when you least expect

them. A quiet rivulet of miniature

moving creatures—hungry and clamor—

ous as a nest of young swallows.

Boiling water is effective for the first

contingent of; them but does not pre-

vent the perpetual influx of them that

tag along in that excitable game of

“Follow the leader.” If one is success-

ful enough to find their hills or nests,

boiling water or kerosene poured into

their refuge is a good remedy.



An excellent way to handle the ant

is to put away or cover all the temp-

tations that come within their scope"

of vision. The food stuffs which these

insects like are numerous—bread,

cakes, pies, cookies—and all sweet-

ened knick-knacks.



The red ants have a loathing for

.the odor of cloves. Both the red and

black ones are not on speaking terms

with camphor. Sprinkled cloves in the

path of the red ant spoils his cue; and

small bags containing camphor gum

hung near the cupboard or under

the table are wonderful repellants.



The Cautious Cricket



The cricket on the hearth has been



a slightly overdrawn character. ' It





{.may sound sentimental and wonder-





fully traditional but is accorded by all





housewives as a prolific nuisance.





They come into mest houses now and

then when the outdoor atmosphere

Not only are

they great food inspectors, they have

straw hats and

1which Were carelessly left within

their reach.





Nearly everyone recognizes the





~ H brown insect by the chirping sound,

of, love call,





which the male makes

with its upper wings. One of the easi-

est ways of checking the growth of

the cricket oclony is to place a pan

of milk or water on the floor—the





. thirsty cricket undertakes to dampen





 





his whistle, falls in and drowns as





‘surely as the wolf that went down





the chimney.



Cockroaches are heralded for their

utmost bravery and vociferous annoy-

ance. They are frequently called water

bugs—recognized by a dark brown

color and slippery broad bodies which

delight to fortify themselves in kit-

chens, pantries—any place where food

is stored. They hide from light in

daytime and come forth at night,





crawling over food that is left uncov-

ered—eating it and leaving a disagree-

able odor along their trails. Leather

books and upholstered furniture is en-

dangered when this pest hails nigh.

Their thin, flat bodies are easily

stowed away in small cracks and

crevices where one does not expect

to find them. Worst of all, they are a

rather educated insect, have an unde-

niable instinct which teaches them to





.avoid traps and poisons that are used‘





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Running Water Saves

Most Steps In Kitchen





Says Mrs. D. M. Cray





 





 





 





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The dishwasher cleans vegetables quickly





Y DREAM of running water at

M a gleaming white kitchen sink

really came true! How I did

wish for that sink when I was carry—

ing water from the- well. Running

water in the kitchen can save more

steps than any other single improve-

ment.



I wish the sink had another drain

board, but in the corner where there

was room for it, 'there was not space

for a right hand drain board. If there





.were space I might improvise one out

'of a plain wooden board. But my Sink





does have one lovely drain board, one-

piece, seamless, with rounded corners;

It is so easy to keep clean for there

is no crack or Crevice where dirt can

collect.





A very fine scouring pewder is





' used, and I clean it once a day, when





I finish cleaning vegetables for 'din—

ner. ‘Hot soapy water and a curved

vegetable brush, help to' keep‘ it spot-

less. ,



Spinach cleans quickly if I put. it

into a pan of cold water, with a table:

spoon of ' salt. The salt takes sand

with it to the bottom of the pan. It

is then sorted over,





a quantity of water.

Dishwashlna lc Quick

This same hose 111111.8er «Mere





and}, given a.

rinsing with hose and, spray. in wire .2

' basket whereyit drains fibefore Jncd‘ek

it in my waterless cooker. The«.flav,or.-

is much finer than- when‘cooked ing





 





bought for dishwashing. My wire dish

draineris placed 'in the bottom of

the sink. The stacked dishes brought

from the dining table are put on the





drainboard, and then plaCed in the,





drainer. A rubber dish scraper is used

for scraping bits of food into the sink

bucket which swings under the sink

(an improvement over the sink strain-

er in the sink itself). The hot soapy

water‘then runs through the hose, and

I slant it edgewise .on the dishes so

that'm‘y~ clean apron is not spattered.

I simply press the button on the front

of the soap container, and the hot

water comes through clear, for thor-





‘ ough rinsing. When finished, I usually





set'the drainer on the sink board,

though it may be left in the'sink until

I- have finished straightening’up the‘

cupboard and'stove, when the dishes





‘have‘ dried themselves, read-y'to put





aWay. ,





If the water is boiling hot, there are

no tear drops 01' streaks on the diShes.





This is possible with a kerosene hot.





water heater. It is economical of

Water, though one should never econ-

omize on scalding water for dishes,’

when considering health. _



.My sink is the right height for me

to nae withqnt steeping. The back is

high enough that the wall does not

get splashed. If you need a. low-

backed sink to place beneath a win-





     





. dew. you can hit? fine, deep: 9.30th,

vforwcamtortwbie emit. . j, -





to destroy them or drive them away.



Many excellent cockroach remedies

exist. Sodium fluoride and flOur mixed

in equal parts and broadcasted gen-

erously around their nooks and cran-

nies is unparalleled. They rush hither

in mass formation; very shortly their

discomfort becomes apparent and they

are like the little dog whose name

was Rover—“who died and died all

over.” Another effective concoction

for them is one part of borax to three

parts of cocoa. The cocoa. attracts

them, they consume'the borax with

it and pass into insect oblivion.



Another bothersome household pest

with which every homemaker is fami—

liar is the dreaded and cosmopolitan

clothes moth. They may be seen any-

time during the spring or: summer

flitting around watchingfor an op-

portunity to light on woolen garments

or furs, where they lay eggs and

batch larvae. These clothes moths are

not fond of sunlight. For this reason

it is wise to hang clothes which are

susceptible to moth invasions outdoors

occasionally for an airing. 'Another

habit that moths have is that of eating

soiled spots in clothing. The coat or

fur which has been cleaned before

‘being put away has a better chance of

getting through the summer in a

wholesome condition. Keeping the

storage places clean, and giving the

clothes an occasional airing and brush-

ing has been recognized as the best

panacea against moths.



Moth proof bags are equivalent to

a clothes insurance. Moth balls, cedar

shavings, etc., are excellent for re-

pelling moths, but do not help after

the larvae is present.



Flies are on the wing;' mosquito

breeding places are fewer in number;

the bedbug does not enjoy the popu-

larity it once knew. As a matter of

safety, it is a go.0d investment to

have a house fumigated when one is

moving in. Fumigation by an experi-

enced person is the best remedy to

squelch the notion of prowling bed-

bugs which are waiting to disturb

the slumbers of the newcomers. And

if you would be doubly careful, be-

ware of auction sale furniture or sec-

ond—hand > household articles—for cer-

tainly this is a splendid way to get

initiated into the throes of bedbug

pestilence. A good cleansing with

kerosene or benzine or a mixture of

one ounce of corrosive sublimate, one

pint alcohol and one quarter pint of

turpentine will always recompense

with a radiant peace of mind.





SAVORY SANDWICH FILLINGS I





 





ITH the ringing pf school bells

comes the need of more and

varied sandwich fillings. Then, too,

the hostess is ever in need of tasty





simple sandwich fillings that can be

"made in a hurry.





In these cases, I

suggest: *





Chopped dates, nuts, and cream

cheese mixed with cream. Spread be-





. tween slices of whole wheat bread.





Philadelphia cream cheese with a





small amount of minCed onion and





pepper is very tasty.





Peanut butter) mixed with salad.





 





 





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basis! Idli‘sand’vflch fillings -~—» either



' alone of varied .with nuts, plmentOes,

celery or carawa‘y seed.



Canned salmon' or tuna‘ fish com-

bined with celery, ground pickle, hard

coolfid' eggs and salad dressing is a

change. - 7



Whenever possible use vegetables,

such as lettuce, watercress, and toma-

toes in sandwiches.



An unusual sandwich filling is made

by grinding crisp broiled bacon. cel-

ery, olives or pickles, and combining

with salad dressing—A. D. G. *





FIT IS MAIN POINT IN CHOOSING

SHOES





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HI "first ofhew; your shoes feel

, .- rather, than! how they look is one

. or thez-latev-adyiees,ofrhealth special-

ists. To permit free action of the

feet, shoes should be loose and flex-

ible. Tight orshortshoes press the

toes together so that the muscles and

bones lose their strength, and the

toes deformed. ’



Two rules to remember are: Toe

straight ahead, using the large toe as

a lever; never toe out and keep the

weight on the outer border of‘the

foot.



Exercises often help foot troubles.

These exercises should be taken in

the bare feet two or three times a

day. First pull the toes in and under

as if picking 'up something—repeat

thirty or forty times; pick up marbles

or pencilswith the toes; walk pigeon-

toed; walkslowly on the outer bor-

ders of the. feet with toes turned in.





 





 





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LEATHER BECOMES STICKY





The leather seats of my chairs

stick to one’s clothes. Can I remedy

this without recoyvering?——Mrs. E.D.B.



Leather chair seats on upholstered

furniture frequently become sticky.

This uSually is caused by the leather

drying out: To prevent it, rub the

leather every month or two with a

sot-t cloth moistened in neat’s foot oil.

Wlhen a stickness occurs, remove as

much of it as possible with gasoline

and apply the oil. Do not wipe the oil

of! for a day or two. ..





TRANSPLANTING GERANIUMs





This spring I planted some gerani-

umsin my garden. When these plants

were about .five inches high, I trans.

planted them and brought them in.

Some I set in a place out of direct

sunlight and others <I did not. When

they started 'to grow, I put some in

a south window and some in a west

window. One west window is always

open. Some 1' brought in the house

would thrive for a While and then die

down, while those in the garden grew

well. Now the plants in the window

are fine, but those in the house look





Old-fashioned Art is Revived





NE'of the most pleasing revivals



of the old-fashioned arts is the



. adopt-ion of quilting stitch to

dainty colorful pillows. They a"re both

easy to» make. and easy to clean. An

hour or so of plying your needle in

the cool shade of your porch and you





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«well for-a few days after—transplant-

sing- and then- the roots are found to

be black or dark and rotted just be-

low the ground. W'hat is the cause of

this and remedy for same? We plant-

ed them in the same: kind' of earth.

Mrs. G. B.





To transplant geraniums success-

fully during the summer while the

growth is soft, certain precautions in

the use of soil and shading are need-

ed. Light soils should be used and

after potting, one watering given,

which should- last for several days.

The plants should be shaded at once

from direct rays of the Sun and

sprinkled occasionally with water to

keep down evaporation.



in digging, many of the feeding

roots are broken off, while no cor-

responding amount of top foliage is

removed. Consequently the plants suf-

fer, wilt and often die before new

feeding roots are formed. Shading

will help that. No manure should be

used in the soil in this transplanting.



In the fall these precautions do not





hold in the same degree.~——Alex

Laurie. '





 





WHEN THE CORN IS ON THE COB





HEN the corn is a bit too tough



to serve in truly American

style—on the cob with rivulets of

melting butter running between the

rows of kernels—try these:

Corn Croquettes





2 cups corn 1 tb. minced onion





3A cup milk 1 tb. lemon juice



lfi cup water 2 cups breadcrumbs

1 as; Salt



1 tb. butter Pepper





Mix all ingredients together and

shape into balls or cones. Roll in fine

crumbs, then in beaten egg. and then

in crumbs. Fry in hot deep fat until

golden brown.





Corn Chowder

l slice salt Dork. diced



3 cups sliced potatoes 1 onion. diced

1 cup tomatoes 1 cup milk

1 qt. boiling water Salt. popper

Pan-fry the pork in a saucepan, add .

the onion and cook slowly for five

minutes. Add water, vegetables and

seasoning and cook slowly until the p

potatoes are tender. Add milk and

heat five minutes and serve hot with

toasted crackers.





Corn RelIsh

1% doz. ears com 3 tbs. salt

3 large red peppers $5 tb. mustard

3 cups white sugar 1 tsp. turmeric

4 stalks celery 3 pints vinegar

6 onions





Chop celery, onions, and peppers.

Put vinegar on to boil and, when

boiling, add sugar, salt, corn, celery,

onions, and peppers. Let simmer un-

til cooked. Mix mustard, and tumeric

with two tablespoons of flour. Dis-

solve this mixture in a. little vinegar,

and add to the contents of the kettle.

Let simmer until quite thick. Put in

sterilized jars and seal at once.





Beat sour milk with an egg beater

before using it in cooking.





Even at its worst, life is amusing——

if you have a. sense of humor and a

sound body. -





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Some Views of Education





Two M. C. Boys Make Interesting

Discussion





 





IS it necessary for a farm boy or

girl to continue with their edu~

cation any farther than the eighth

grade? '



Most people say, “No, I never went

to high school a day, an’ 1 get along

just as well as any of them high

school kids ever will.”



These people may be in earnest,

but they do not stop to think that a

high school education is just as neces-

sary to the young folks of today as

an eighth grade education was to

them. About forty or fifty years ago

a yOung person did not need a high

school education because there were

not as many high school graduates to

compete with then, as there are now.

When a person had gone to school

for eight years, he knew enough to





 





 





 





Inez Larson looks like a Spanish lamb

tender.





get a job, and that was all that was

necessary in those days.



But times have changed. Nowadays

a person with an eighth grade edu-

cation doesn’t stand a ghost of a

chance against a high school gradu-

ate.



Folks may give examples of certain

persons that received no benefit from

their education, but these cases are

very few and far between. People

shouldn’t judge all high school gradu-

ates by those that never would make

good if they went to school for twen-

ty—five years.



My opinion is that young folks

should go to high school if possible

But if a person goes to school just

for a good time and not for business,

he should be taken out of school and

set to work' on his father’s farm.—

Hans of Bolton.





 





As I’auIa said, “Education is what

the people of America need today.”

I agree with her, but will add that

have needed it. But

please understand that education and

schooling are two different things.





Everybody likes success in busings‘s; .





that is what most of us get an edu-





cation for.’ ,

_Very recently I read an article writ-





, ten by a prominent business man, who,





as an illustration, stated that about

one. man out of fifty; of our business





A heads were college graduates. 'What





does one call . educated? Were, not





‘ the other forty-nine educated?





 

 





Everybodywants to" acquire an edu-





. cation. An education is. a necessity: ~ to .





sucCeed happily in life, and business.





But if you want a ‘

enough, you can get it without go-





 





,ing to school", as Lincoln did. I be-

' ylieycx-he was an educated. man.





I ihsve'uo desire to master Latin

WM although I have a desire





 





11 education « bad .





to write and speak well and intelli-

gently. I think good reading, the

right friends and experience are good

teachers.

When I passed the eighth grade,

eight years after I started to school,

I was undecided whether to attend

high school or not. It was to be my

choice. At length I decided that I

would not attend. That was three

years ago. I believe I have learned

more in those three years at home

than I would have at school. ’

“So many people mistake book

learning for education,” said Dr.

Frederick B. Robinson, president of





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the College of the City of New York.

——~Claud J. Sprague.





 





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Teacher: “Give me a sentence with

the word ‘boycott’ in it.”





Pupil: “Farmer Jones chased his





son and didn’t catch him till the boy

caught on the fence.”





A Test of Value





 





“I bought a barrel of cider and I’m





drinking it for my health.”



“Is it doing you any good?”



“It is. I’m getting stronger every

day. At first I couldn’t lift the barrel

-—--now I can lift it easily.”





Saved From W. B. «





A Merry Circler, who is also a

Golden Circler, a girl in rather deli-

cate health, wants to find a home in

southern Michigan. Can cook, bake,

sew and do housework. Would pre-

fer to work for an elderly couple who

would like a neat girl to care for

them. She can furnish references.

Graduated from school last June.

Write to Uncle Frank if interested.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I haven’t written for quite a while

but I am still an M. C. I wear my

pin and it attracts the attention of

ever so many. I love to read the let-

ters in the Michigan Farmer from the

cousins.



I am a girl scout and I love the

work. I think it is a wonderful thing

for girls to belong to. Some of our

girl scouts have been camping at our

“Realfoot Camp” on the east side of

Pine Lake on Indian Island. We have

wonderful times together. Our camp

has an Indian 11 e, our girls also

are going to be ca ed by different In-

dian names.



I am another lover of nature. I do

not like to live in the city. I’m glad

I live on a farm. 1 must close for

this time. Your niecel—June Foote.





It is fine that you enjoy the whole-

some activities of scout work. Nat-

urally you would because you are a

nature lover.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I have received my pin and mem—

bership card and I thank you very

much forxit. I’ve live-d in the city of

Chicago all my life except the last

two years. I am living on a farm

three and a half miles from Chesan-

ing which is a nice little town, where

you can see all of your friends on

Wednesday or Saturday night.



On Wednesday nights we have a

band that plays a number of pieces

from eight to ten o’clock, and, believe

me, we’re all proud of that band too,

since it’s considered one of the best

around and people from all over come

to listen to it. On Saturday nights

everybody does their shopping and

goes walking around to see who they

can visit with, so you find our town

quite lively on these-nights although

it isn’t very big. It's a. nice clean

town, everyone takes good care of

their homes, lawns, and plants, every-

thing looks neat and trim. There’s

lots of beautiful scenery in and

around town; everybody does their

bestto improve everything that needs

improvement. We’re going to have a

new bridge built over, the'Shiawassee

River which" runs through town, so

that’lkmake things look better.



I didn’t like the farm at all when

we first movedout here because it

was hard‘ to get used to and lone-

some, but I like it pretty well now.

We all feel lots healthier than we did

in the city. -





I guess “Yours Tmly”,will sign! off _





now‘, with best wishes to' all'M'. C’s.——_—‘

Beatrice Pitour. . . , '

You livein' a real'community. That

helps much to make life worth liv-

ing. You naturally-had to have a time

for adjustment from intense city life

to the peaceful and healthful, life of

the country. A_ good band is a real





asset to the community because good.





music is wholesome influence.





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Dear Uncle Frank and M. C.’s:





I never had a chance to feel the

surprise of Miss Southerner in seeing

her letter in print. Each time “Old

Man Waste Basket” is very hungry.

M. C.’s are disgusted about cold wea-

ther but I am sure I’m not although

I live far north. I am satisfied al-

though it rains almost every after-

noon.



Do most of you go to church? I

wish you would. I go each time and

we have a splendid minister. He

speaks so that a five-year-old child

understands. He often visits the peo—

ple and is very jolly; the kind I like.



I love friendships and it does seem

heaven-like to. be in friendship with

very many.



I always read the' Michigan Farmer

and I like the discussions very well.

Best wfllshes to all for I must close.—

Your friend and cousin, “Mary.”





No one can complain about the cold

now for it’s heat that is troublesome.

Real friendships are among the most

enjoyable things of life. It is fine you

have a good preacher for that makes

church so much more interesting.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:





I think a contest about books as

Edna Stockton suggested would be

very nice. I like to read. My favor-

ite author is Zane Grey. I like best

his stories of pioneers in and about

Fort Henry, now Wheeling, West Va.

There are some rather awful scenes,

but I like to read of them and dream

of them. More than once, in my

dreams, I have been with Betty Zane

in Fort Henry fighting Indians, and

once I was massacred at The Village





of Peace. ‘

Another author I like is L. M.

Montgomery. Of his stories, I like





the books of Anne and Emily, but my

favorite is “Rilla of Ingleside.” She

is a daughter of Anne. Rilla’s three

brothers go to the world war and one

of them is killed. Your niece-Laura

Cheney, M. C’



You certainly like to read thrillers

and have thrilling dreams. I bet the

bed is in an upset condition after you

get through with your dream fighting.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:





I’ve been a member of “Our Page”

for many years and atlast I’ve de-

cided with courage and will power to

write a letter for “Our Page.” Really,





‘I’ve been tempted. many times, to





write to this wonderful page of ours

and now I’ve succeeded. ,

I’m very fond of reading, and there-

fore especially enjoy “Our Page.” I’ve

answered a lot of contests but" never

succeeded yet. I’m‘ patient though

and will livenpto, ourmotto: “Work

to Win.” I hope, all. you cousins do!





I agree with Alfredo. Sting 'rega‘rd— -.





ing correspondence. I’ve a few dandy

unknown friends through ."Qur Page,”





andl certainly never Will ‘r’eg‘retJthe





days I wrote to them. .

The discussion of “Life” by two,

,M. C.’s on “Our'Page” recently, were

excellent.

ways. . . ..

I wonder ,

attend, unday School.

an im Midi"? W

cousins. that. km in





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, a girl.





I agree with them in 4all_,\:

how many, of thé’ cousins ‘ ‘





 





 





help instruct a class and it’s so very



interesting. .

Love and best wishes. Your niece



—“Sunbeam.” ~





It .really isn’t much effort to write

to “Our Page,” is it? Hope you will

write again. Life is a perplexing sub-

ject and therefore it needs discussion.

It’s what we do with life that counts.





 





Dear Uncle Frank and M. C.’s:

How are you? Haven’t written in





so long you probably will have for—1





gotten me. But, I haven’t forgotten

you. Have been going to Write but,

as you see, I live on the farm and

there’s always plenty to do. Mother

has gone away to visit a while and

I am lonesome so: thought I would

write.



Next summer I go to either Pontiac

or Lansing to business college. You

see, I only passed the eighth grade

and did not go on to high school





 





 





 





 





Emella, “Tom Marshall’s” sister,‘ is

apparently doing some household

uty.





which I would like to have done. I

will either do that or try and go on

to high and finish the twelfth grade,

and then take up teaching. I just love

botany, do you? There is no other

study I like better.



You girls who paint, wear your

dresses above the knees, no sleeves,

and real low necks, roll your stock—

ing, I should think the real. nice boys

would not think very much of you.

Rolled stockings for small tots up" to

five years old is not so bad but for

you up to thirty! Not much! I can

say I was brought up better than

that, thanks to the good judgment of

my mother. ’



Smoking! Drinking! The very

horror of our nation. Then think, of

some girls who think they are so

nice doing those very things. Girls,

you’ll not keep very good reputations

doing those very things. '



A boy friend of mine said at a con-

test of some kind or other out in

California which about fifty girls at—

tended, only one said she was going

to marry and keep house. All the

rest were going through life the way

some of you are doing. They wanted

a good (1’) time. I may marry some

day but not for at least tWo or three

years. I am a girl but will sign my-

self—“Whang Chang.”



The fact that you miss your mother

shows that you like her. I hope that

you will be able to satisfactorily ar—

range for your education. You

rightly knock bad habits hard but





let's not judge too harshly.





 





Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins:



I am afraid that I may be called a.

slacker. I have won two prizes and

have never thanked you for them. So

here goes; Thank you, Uncle Frank.

My first prize was a loose leaf note

book, my last one is a clutch pencil

and I am proud of it. I suppose that

many other M. C.’s are proud of theirs

too. I am writing this with my clutch

pencil.



I have six friends .to correspond

with. It keeps me-busy writing but I

like to anyway: They‘are all girls.

My brother alWays gets a letter from

He has, answered two corres-

pondence scrambles. " ‘ ' '





.I hope‘Mr.‘ W. P. B. is‘lasleep when ‘1: . ..





this arrives or at least doesn’t like





the taste of it. , Wishing, 101158311, the





best of luckfivera Philip'l‘. , .

.. It is nice to have so many corres-





‘pbndents, isn’t it?! The ,reasoniryoun f

brother , gets - a . girl; n.cognespondent . is 1. -

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HE Read- and-Win Contest brought

a nice response, but quite a few

neglected putting down the page

numbers on Which the answers to

the questions were found. Mast fail-

ures occurred, however, on question

seven. From among the ones who

had their papers correct, the follow-

ing Were draWu-z ‘

Fountain Pens

Margaret G. Thane, Cass City, Mich.

Mary Labunes, New Boston, Mich.

, I, Dictionaries

Elbin'e Barber, 255 Emmett St., Battle

Creek, 'Mich. '

Doris Harwood, Ionia, Mich. R. 3

Thelma Shelton, Auburn, Mich. R. 2.

Clutch Pencils





. Eddie Laurila, Trenary, Mich.





Lucille Richards, Ypsilanti, Mich.

Maxine Harner, Deford, Mich, R. 1.





READ~AND~WIN ANSWERS





 





Throid—15-149. -



2,333,333~—152-18.



Those with excellent manners and

fine qualities—15248.



335 pounds—15420.



Iodine—154- 20.



Rapidly—150- 16



“There can be as much happiness

on the farm in these twentieth

century years as exists within

our cities”-——143-9.





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$9591“





Most of us are getting more fun

out of work than we realize.





 





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REMOVING‘ RASPBERRY CANES ‘





 





An EsSential in Successful Raspberry

Growing





 





‘ N .order to give the young canes a



7 good chance to develop and be-

come vigorous and healthy, it is best

to cut out the old canes from black

raspbeury bushes (also red rasp-

berries) soon as possible after they

are through fruiting.



' These old canes‘not only take food

and water from the young canes that

come up from the stump of the plant

this spring, but they harbor diseases

and insects that are detrimental to

,the growingyoung canes. These old

canes will die anyway later on, there-

‘fore, the plant foods necessary to

keep them alive until that time are

simply wasted.



In removing the old canes, cut them

‘off close to the stump of the plant,

remove them from the field and burn

limmediately- some growers stack

them up in piles between the roWs

and carry them out later. They oer-

tainly should be removed and burned

before the leaves have time to dry up

and fall‘off. By burning them when

they are green, the disease spores and

insects with which they are infected

will. be destroyed.





, . Gunmen hand pruners can be used

yin removing the canes where only a

‘few bashes’varet-to be cleaned up, but

f‘fi””.¢0mmercial fields, it is a back-

".b‘reaking jdhi'to use the hand pruner,

ibesides ‘gl-ovesgmustabe worn to pre-





‘vent‘thel‘prickers from pricking the





’hands. To prevent all this some wise

fanner devised .a long handle pruner

and,.."pincher” with which the canes

,cpuld:..b,e cut off and pulled from the

row ijthout touching them with the

hand. He took something like long-

handled forge tongs, the kind black-

smiths use, and riveted a sharp blade

on the under, side of one of the jaws,

so when,__the.,‘,‘pinchers” were closed

this blade sheared past the other jaw,

like a one-sided pair of shears, and





'2‘ out the cane off. At the same time

5.1.13.5 jaws of the “pinchers” held the

2 came- last and it could be pulled from

"the; row “and thrown in a pile Any

. blacksmith can easily make an instru-

‘ meat of this kind. The iron handles,





should be made so they could be

driven into wooden handles about

three feet long, thus enabling the

farmer to stand upflght and do the

work.



It Will be found advisable to throw

the canes from two rows in one row

of bliss between them, and they can

then be easily handled with a pitch

taxi-.3. a. new to remove these piles

' it!” held before the leaves

will not die“! and, re





andprotesaional Dumoses, and do all

" an:





 





stroyed which would otherwise escape

and attack the young growing canes

left in the rows for next year’s fruit-

ing—B. W. Keith.





BEAUTIFYING FARM HOM ES





 





ANDSCAPE planting plans for



, eight Lenawee County farms have



been made by a specialist from Michi-



gan State College. Other farmers in



the county have asked that plans be



made for the beautification of their

homes.





TREATMENT FOR POOR

ORCHARDS





 





HE owners of two apple orchards



, in Lenawee County which have

never produced a profitable crop of

fruit were recently advised to make

use of bees and bouquets of flowers





THE-MICHIGAN SAFARMERW





, Beulah Dalrymple, Alma, Mich. R. 1.

John Vloch, Carleton, Mich" R. 2.





 





taken from varieties other than those

in the orchard. This method used at

blossoming time insures cross pol«

lination of the trees in the orchards.



One of the Lenawee orchards con-

tains 300 trees and is forty-eight

years old. The other orchard has 3,000

trees which are eighteen years old.



The method of cross. pollination ad-

vised by H. D. Hootman, specialist in

horticulture, has been successfully

used in many state orchards. Several

varieties of apples are self sterile

and whole orchards planted to these

varieties will_ not prodUCe paying

crops of fruit.





BRACING. WEAK TREES





 





ETHOD‘S of bracing weak trees



are suggested by the New York

state college of agriculture. Braces

should be placed four feet or more

above the weak crotch in order to be

effective, and this may be done any

day in the year before the tree comes

into heavy bearing.



Three methods are illustrated. In

two methods the materials used are

No. 9 galvanized wire or small wire

cable, wood screws, 3/3, % or 5/8 inch,

with eyes, preferably Welded. By one

method the screws or bolts are fas-

tened into the main branches of the

trees, then wire is fastened to these

and stretched directly between the

branches. In another the wires are

fastened with screws or bolts to the

main limbs as before but are all fas-

tened to a heavy harness ring in the

center, held in place by the wires.



The third method illustrates the

use of natural braces. \Vatersprout

growths are intertwined at the pre-

scribed distance above the crotch. As

the trees grow these remaining inter-

twined, form natural grafts, and fur-

nish a strong living brace.



The cost of any of these methods is

small as compared with the value of

a bearing tree.‘





Our ReaderS’ Corner

Facts and Opinions by Michigan Farm Folk





THINKS TEACHERS NOT TOO

WELL PAIo





 





I HAVE long been an enthusiastic



reader of your paper. My father

and grandfather have been sub-

scribers for many years. Just now I

read “Subscriber’s" short‘ article on

the “High Cost of Education". Being

both a teacher and a mother, I believe

that I can See both- sides of the ques-

tion. Therefore, I feel free to express

my opinion.



First of all, let me say that it is my

opinion also that the rural children

should be given a better chance for

a high school education. I am at pres-

ent teaching in the rural schools, and

hopelater to ’go on into the county

normal work and do my bit toward

training other teachers for this work.





I feel that something must be done

to loWer the school expenses for the

rural child; but I feel that it must be

done through some method of equal-

izing the taxes, er through the estab-





llishment. of centralized schools, but





most emphatically 1101; through the

lowering of the teachers’ wages. Any

teacher who cares anything about her

professional standing attends some

godd summer school. Now who can

hope to live a full year, attend sum-

mer classes (which costs from $150 to

$250, depending upon the length of

the session and local conditions), join

the National Educational Association,

subscribe to all good professional

journals in her own field, subscribe to

various charities, buy Clothing suita-

ble to her station in life, attend in-

stitutes, buy books for recreational





' magnificent buildings;





 





year? Perhaps, Subscriber, you are a

much better manager than we poor

mortals are. If so, please tell us how

to do it. We are surely "eager to

learn.



As for the charge that we work

only six hours a day, that is absurd.

Some few teachers may get by on this

schedule, but they surely cannot do

good work. Mostrof us work from nine

to fourteen hours, depending upon the

character of Our work and the time

of the month. Besides, this is brain

work of the most exhausting sort and

more rest is required than for manual

labor, especially if the 'individual is

of a nervous temperament.



Let me suggest that those who

would berate the teachers, take a lit-

tle time to consider the pther side of





the questioa—R. M. P.





I AM THANKFUL THAT I WAS





, BORN ’ON A FARM





 





:HO should not be thankful that



he was born on a'farm? Men

may build castles of glass, stone and

steel; arti‘sts may paint pictures of

beautiful women, landscapes, and

but only God

could have made a. typical rural

home. The wholesome food, the out:

door life, the odors of flowers, the

touch of human sentiment and the

sympathetic understanding of farm

animals will make most youths what

they ought to be. My early experi—

ences among the.hogs, cows, dirty

clothes, fence rows, and grain fields

accomplished much to develop my

physical Capacity and mental inde—

Dendence which are sewing me so





hints to those who want to





2144202." ’





the harrow. My dislikes probably

account fer the fact that I sought and

found other fields of usefulness. How-

ever, the urgent need of self-control,

perseverance, determination, indus-

try, and “give-and take” mental atti-

tude in my present occupation has

more than ever taught me the value

of the early training which I received ,

on the farm. I early learned that one

does not get something for nothing,

to do things which not only required

the use of my hands but also my head.

to not neglect the watering and feed«

ing of the farm animals, to appreci-

ate the value of a dollar and to recog~

nize the fact that lost time is never

gained. .



The many embarrassing puzzles

that confronted us 011 the farm were,

testing and strengthening my mettle.

Through trying days of depression; '

during floods and droughts, hail

storms and tempestuous winds; and

days when not a friendly smile

beamed, experiences were forthcom-

ing that either make or ruin men.

Like a trusted child my family clung

to the soil and Faith gently repaid the

trust not in dollars, but in training

that helped the children to be “square

shooters”;



We boys had the companionship of

the hogs;—not the most sanitary of

the animal species—but they never

sneaked around the corner and pulled

a cigarette. We had to feed and pail

the cows many times when we did

not want to, and early in life we had

the fellowship of our father and his

word- was law.



Five years as a. supcivisor of boys

in athletics and agriculture, convinces

beyond all doubt that there is a dif-

ference between the rural and town

boys. As a rule the athlete from the

country is more apt to train honestly,

think cleanly, and speak frankly. I

have found them to be more reliable,

cooperative, and less apt to indulge

in the “evil smelling” stories. I have

never had much trouble with the

boys from the farm‘ and they are usu«

ally sincere, honest, and apt to be

prompt and‘ available when most

needed.



Yes, I am certainly thankful that I

was born and spent most of my early

i‘ormulative life in the country. I be-

lieve that the farm as a training cen~

ter for leadership has proved itself in

the past and has usually produced

the highest type of citizenship which

stands preeminent in the business

and civic affairs of our country. This

splendid opportunity for successful

child-training cannot be duplicated

anywhere else—Harry Q. Holt.





Successful merchant to the report

er: “When I started in business; I

had only a quarter in my pocket.

That gave me my start.”



Enterprising reporter: “And What

did you do with that quarter?”



Merchant: “Wired home for more.”





 





A salesman was attempting to sell

a. bicycle to a Scotch farmer. , “They

are so cheap that I can let you have

a good one for seven pounds," he

said.



“I would rather put that seven





"pounds into another cow,” reflected ,





the Scotch farmer.



“But you would look mighty foolish

riding around your farm on a cow,

now wouldn’t you?” questioned the‘

sales-.man



“No more foolish than I would milk-

ing a bicycle,” replied the Scot.





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distance from your cow’s

udder to the cream pitcher,

butter plate or nursing bottle.

Keep her surroundings

healthful, free from germs,

and clean smelling, with Dr.

Hess Dip and Disinfectant.





Provide a wallow for your

hogs. To each 25 gallons of

water, add about one quart

of Dr. Hess Dip. Your hogs

will do the rest. Good night

lice and disease germs!



Use the sprinkling can—in

the poultry-house for lice and

mites, wherever there is filth

or a foul odor.





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Ashland, Ohio





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AY, especially the legumes cut at



the proper stage of maturity and

cured-so as to retain the leaves and

green color, makes the best sole

ration for dairy cattle other than pas-

ture. Cattle have been grown on a

ration of hay and salt from a few

months of age to maturity. E. V.

Davenport more than thirty years ago,





 





 





New Dairy Head





 





 





 





. ROF. E. L. ANTHONY has

been selected as head of the

Dairy Department of the Michi-



gan State College to succeed Prof.



0. E. Reed, who now has charge



of the dairy division of the United



StateS'Department of Agriculture.



We bespeak for Prof. Anthony the



fullest cooperation of the various



dairy interests of the state. _ No

department of Michigan agricul-

ture has made greater progress

than dairying during the past de-

cade. Our state college has con-

tributed abundantly to this growth

in stimulating the use of more and

better dairy animals, and by _en-

couraging more efficient feeding.



This good work will continue, un-



doubtedly, under the new admin-



istration.





 





 





While connected with the Michigan

Agricultural Experiment Station, at-

tempted to raise calves on grain alone

without success. Later, while at the

University of Illinois, Davenport

showed that calves could not be

grown from birth to maturity on milk





tion of hay to such rations brought

about recovery. He concluded that

coarse food was necessary for the

proper physiological functioning of

ruminants. ,



McCandlish of the Iowa Agricul-

l tural Experiment Station. was also un-

lable to raise calves to maturity .on

lmilk alone or milk and grain. The

addition of tomatoes as a source of

vitamins to such rations failed to pre-

lvent death. However, normal animals

were produced by supplementing con.

centrate rations with alfalfa hay.

Similar results were obtained at the

University of Minnesota. The addition

of yeast, as a source of vitamin B,

orange juice to furnish vitamin C, or

cod liver oil as a source of vitamins

A and D failed to furnish the factors

carried by hay which are so essential

far, the health of cattle.



The dairy department at Michigan

State College in cooperation with the





 





experiment station chem! try section





 





and department} of





 





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Hay Necessary For Cows

Needed to Maintain Health





By C. F. Huffman

Dairy Section, M. S. C. ‘





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are investigating the effects of heavy

concentrate feeding and are attempt-

ing to discover the factor or factors

carried by hay which are so essential

to the health of cattle. The results

show that concentrate rations ade-

quate for rats and swine are not sulfi-

ciently complete to meet the needs

of cattle from birth to maturity.

Calves fed on such rations usually die

in convulsions.





Coarse feeds in the form of corn

cobs, oat hulls, and shavings when

added to concentrate rations have

failed to prevent the onset of con-

vulsions. Apparently, hay furnishes

some factor other than bulk which is

essential in the ration of cattle.



Different supplements have been

added to concentrate rations. The ad-

dition of calcium carbonate, bone

meal, or magnesium phosphate de—

layed but did not present the onset of

convulsions in calves. Calcium and

phosphorus metabolism of calves fed

such rations is being investigated at

the present time. The blood of ani-

mals fed on concentrates is also being

analyzed for calcium, phosphorus, and

alkaline reserve by the chemistry

section of the experiment station. The

symptoms produced in calves which

are fed rations without hay are

similar if not identical with those in

animals suffering from parathyroid

deficiency. This relationship is'being

studied. 5 There is a pessibility that

hay carries some factor that regulates

or assists in the functioning of the

parathyroid glands. ‘



The possibility of intestinal stasis

is also being studied. Concentrate

supplemented with neutral

paraffin oil, raw linseed oil, and flow-

ers of sulphur have failed to prevent

the onset of convulsions.





Cattle fed hay or grass and little

no no concentrates produce an alka-

line urine. However, when concen-

trates alone are fed the urine is acid.

The possibility of an acid—base dis-

turbance is being investigated, by

feeding calves concentrates supple-

mented with sufficient bases to pro-

duce an alkaline urine. '





Iron compounds have been fed as .





supplements to concentrates. C. 27

was raised to 500 days of age on

whole. milk and 20 cc..-of syrupof





'iron phosphate per day. This animal

,was normal in every





respect until

taken off the experiment. Another

calf, C 58, fed whole milk and syrwp





of iron phosphate, was 109 per cent‘





normal in weight at 405 days of age.

However, death occurred in a convul-

sion at 413 days of age. This animal

received only 15 cc. of syriip of iron

phosphate daily. Other calves fed con-

centrates and syrup of iron phosphate

have failed to manifest convulsions.

Two grams of ferric phosphate added

daily to concentrate rations, however,

failed to prevent convulsions.

Effect of Feeding Wheat Straw in

' Place of Hay



- The addition of wheat straw ad’libi-

tum -to a grain mixture containing

adequate protein, failed to bring about

normal reproduction ‘ when fed to





[dairy cattle. Calves produced by cows





fed this ration were born blind and

paralyzed. ‘



In a long time mineral‘leeding

periment, a ration consisting of "

silage. and flmothy 1.1%? 1h“ 33ml»-

requirements of dairy,

growth, mm .





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' "1 order to dAtermihe the

value of hay in such a ratiOn, four





I' Holstein heifers were fed the same





except wheat straw was fed in

place of timothy hay.

content of the timothy hay and wheat

straw was similar. The ration con-

taining .wheat straw in place of time-

thy hay produced normal growth. The

animals appear normal. The estrus

cycle was not disturbed, nevertheless,

the effect on the strength and health

of the offspring was marked.



Animal C 35 gave birth to two

calves which manifested convulsions

and were blind. However, the fetal

membranes were expelled normally

after both calvings. Heifer C 38 gave

birth toa blind calf which also had





 





' convulsions. This cow' retained the

. fetal membranes, which was responsi-

‘ble for cemplications which resulted

-i11 death seven days





following the

birth of the calf. C 46 gave birth to



ablind calf which appeared paralyzed.

She expelled the fetal membranes

normally.



C 50 gave birth to a dead calf at

two years of age and retained the

fetal membranes. However, her sec-'

ond calf was normal. During the sec-

ond gestation, C 50 consumed more

wheat straw than during the first

gestation and more than any of the

other animals on this experiment. The

palatability of the straw may be an

important factor. C 35, C 38, and C 46

never consumed more than seven

pounds of wheat straw a day, while

C 50 during the second gestation con-v

sumed 10 pounds daily. No difficulty

was experienced in getting the cows

to eat sufliicient timothy hay.



The results of these investigations

indicate that the quality and quantity

of hay fed to dairy cattle are impor-

tant factors. in maintaining health

and reproduction.





LOSSES FROM ABORTION





HILE in the last ten years, the



losses from bovine tuberculosis

have been halved, the losses due to

that other great. animal plague, abor—

tion. have doubled, according to Dr.

Mohler. More than $50,000,000 a year

is a conservative estimate of the

losses from abortion. Abortion, says

Doctor Mohler, strikes directly at the

source.. of our cattle supply, and at

the very organ, the udder, upon which

the functi‘oning of our whole dairy in-

dustry depends.



Up to the present time no medicine

for the cure of abortion has ‘proved

an effective agent. The variable ac-

tivity of the disease in a given herd

has -made it difficult to measure the

value of remedies and has led to giv-

ing undeserved credit to substances

of no value.



The heavy losses from abortion are

adequate reason for a vigorous pro-

gram of study and control. The Bur-

eau of Animal Industry has asked for

an appropriation of $125,000 for the

work on abortion from July 1, 1929,

to June 30. 1930. It hopes to carry on

extensive field trials for the control

of the disease on the basis of informa-

tion now in hand, and an additional

program of investigational work to

discover more facts.





 





ANOTHER DAIRY IMPROVEMENT

ASSOCIATION





IXTEEN Kalkaska County farmers



are ready to enter their herds in

herd improvement association work.

'John H,"Breyfogle was recently ap-

pointed county agricultural agent in

the county, and he expects that the

test association will begin work soon.





 





BLACKTOP DELAINE BREEDERS

sfiLECT OFFICERS





   





The calcium .





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elected President, ‘i'Gleorge‘

Collister, Laingsburg.





CASS FARMERS To GET PREMIUM

" ON HOGS





HE precedure necessary to secure

Cass County live stock producers





' the ten per cent premium on hogs .





from counties on the tuberculin free

accredited list is being worked out by

the county agricultural agent and the

shippers of the county.





The East Oceana Herd ‘Improve-

ment Association is starting another





year of work with a full membership.





Will Vanderveen is the tester this





year.





Members of the 4-H sheep clubs in

Eaton county will exhibit 30 head of

sheep at the State Fair at Detroit.





The county fair board of Ogemaw

County has increased the premium list

for calves shown by 4-H club members

so that each member who exhibits a

calf is assured of getting back a

part of the money spent in showing

the calf.





Guernsey breeders in Charlevoix

County exhibited 29 animals at the

field show held recently at East Jor-

dan. No money prizes were given but

ribbons were awarded winning ani-

mals.





The board of supervisors of Pres-

que Isle County unanimously adopted

a resolution asking that a Michigan





State College employ an extension





specialist whose duties would be to

work in the field, on problems con-

nected with the control of contagious

abortion of cattle. Animal patolo—

tists at the college‘have done very

outstanding work in investigating this

disease; but the Presque Isle dairy-

men apparently want a man who will

visit their herds and give advice on

control measures.





WESTERNS FORCE CATTLE

PRICES LOWER





RRIVAL of the first large con-



signment of western cattle at

Chicago this season featured the past

week. The bulk of the initial string

consisted of cows and heifers. Thus

,far this year, about 7,600 have been

on sale at Chicago compared with

5,300 to the same date last year and

16,500 two years ago.





Choice' steers continue to meet de-

pendable demand almost regardless of

weight. Receipts include relatively

few loads of finished cattle and ship-

ping demand is sufficiently broad to

maintain steady to strong prices on

thOSe eligible to sell at $16 and

above. Choice yearlings topped at $17

again the past week and prime heavy

steers made $16.75.



The increase in receipts of westerns

was responsible for a further price

decline of 25 to 40 cents on the bulk

of the short fed steer and yearling

supply selling at $15.50 down to $14.

Grass—fed cows and heifers also shared

in the price break. The bulk of the

western'steers on sale early in the

week found outlet to killers at $11.50

to $13, the cow and heifer end selling

at $8 to $10. 50. These lower-priced

cattle sold steady and were substi-

tuted for higher-costing beef in dis-

tributing channels.



A report released by the United

States Department of Agriculture re-

cently predicts a decrease of six per

cent in the marketing of range cattle

this fall under lastyear from states

west of the Missouri River. The





’direct-to-feedlot movement is expected





to be the heaviest 011 record. Reports





' from ranchers indicate that an un-





usually high percentage 01 calves will

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CATTLE





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It costs the same

per pound to ship

average bccf ani—

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it does prime beef

animals, yet the

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LOCKSHORE‘ FARM

GUERNSEYS





Yearling show bull, bull calves of excellent

type, also bred and open heifers at reason-





able prices. R. F. LOCKE, Owner. Ad—





dress communications to





L. Stranahan, Supt., Crepsey, Michigan

F0 R S A L Pure-bred Guernsey sire. two





years old. Registered. Son

of Richland's Queen Maggie. T. B. tested. Write

WM. RIPATTE. Lake City, Mich.





 





 





Have fine young bulls 3. to





GUERNSEY mos. old. Sire Dam





A. R. 905. 80 fat. Foundation cows and heifers.

WHITE OAK GUERNSEY FARM, Niles, Mich. R.

5. Dr. .I. F. Shallenberger. (Near Pokaaon)





GUERNSEYSh eithcr sex. whose slres’ damn

have official records of 15.-

109.10 milk 778. 80 fat.19.460.50 milk 909. 06 fat.

1'. V. HI ICKS. Battle Creek. Mieh.. R. I.





FOR practically pure-bred GUERNSEY or HOL-

8TEIN calves. from heavy, rich milkers,

write EDGEWOOD DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater. WII.





FOR SALE 3 Registered Guernsey bulls, also

a few rows, thc best breeding.

Cheap. JOHN EBELS. AHoIland. Mich., R. 2.





 





 





 





STEEIIS & IIEIFEIIS





Few bunches nicely marked. dark reds. beef tyne.

dehomcd, Hereford stccrs. Calves. Short le’s.

le’s. and 2 yr old. Some Shorthorn bunches.

Also a few bunches light weight Hereford heifers

and wet Hereford cows. '1‘. B Tested Sorted even

in size. age, and quality. One to three carloads

in each pasture. Will sell your choice from any





bunch.

VIII 8. BALDWIN, Eldon. Iowa





We Have Prize Winning Hereford Bulls





One year old. from price winning stock. We won

eight firsts and two Grand Champions last year.

The kind that make $16.75 per hundrfll. flhort

legged. straight back. deep red with white faces.

DR. W. G. JENNINGS, Plymouth, Michigan.





HOGS





 





 





Duroc Spring Pigs





Registered in purchaser‘s name. Pairs not related.





Also service boars and bred gills.





Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich.





O I c’S Last fall service boars and. bred.

- - gilts. this spring pigs not akin.

OTTO SCHULZE. Nashville, Michigan.





° several extra. good 0. I. C.

I Am Offering boars, ady for service.

Fred W. Kennedy &. Sons, Che sea, Mich.. R. l.





LARGE TYPE P. C.





Fall pigs all sold. nothing for sale at present in

hogs. Have a. few rcgistcrcd Black Top Delaine

yea-ling rams. good ones. for sale. .W. E. LIV-

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Poland China bred slits. also I

Large Type weanling pigs. Priced rea-

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also 500 choice largo Michigan Delaine ewes. 1 to 4

years old. Wholesale priccs. ALMOND B. CHAP-

MAN & SONS. So. Rockwood. Mich. TeIcgraph

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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: Northvillc State Savings Bank





 





registered Holstein cows.





Ten

FOR SALE Seven have AWRO records aver-





lbs. butter in 7 days. Due this fall.





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SHROPSHIRES





Our show flock including some outstanding stud and

farmer's rams will be at the following Fairs: Detroit.

Jackson. Adrian and Ilillsdale Fairs. See



rams. or write us your needs. 0. L. CHAPMAN (I.

SON. So. Rockwocd. Mich.





For Shropshire Rams Wm? fm"

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Martin;

or write. CLARK MAIRI'S

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS.

Monday, August 27 .





Wheat

Detroit—No. 2 red old at $1.46; No.

glvggite old $1.46; No. 2 mixed old at





Chicago—September $111153; De-

gileigifer $1.165/5; March $1.21%; May,





Toledo—~Wheat, No. 2 red new at

$1.471,é@1.481/a.





Corn



Detroit—No. 2 yellow $1.13; No. 3

yellow $1.11; No. 4 yellow $1.09.



Chicago—September 931,40; Decem-

ber 73%0; March 76%c; May 78%0.



, Oats

Detroit—No. 2 Michigan 'old 60c;



No. 3 white old 580.

Chicago—September, new 38c; De-

cember 40%0; March 43c; May 44%0.





Rye

Detroit—No. 2 $1.10.

Chicago—September 96140; Decem-

ber 97140; March 991/20.

Toledo—No. 2 $1.10.

Beans

New York—Pea domestic $10.25@

$10.75; red kidneys $8.00@ 8.75 to the

wholesalers.





Barley.

Detroit—Malting 85c; Feeding 810.

Seeds.





Detroit domestic seed—Cash clo-

ver $17.50; October $18.00; December





$18.00; cash alsike $18.50; October

$18.50; timothy at $2.00; December

2.45.





Hay.



Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $15.00@

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

timothy $11.50@12.50; No. 1 light

clover, mixed $14.00@l5.00; No. 1 clo-

ver $12.00@l3.00; wheat and cat

straw $10.00mll.00; rye straw $12.00

@1300; alfalfa hay No. 2 to choice





at Chicago $22.00@30.00.





Feeds.





Detroit—Winter wheat bran at $32;

spring wheat bran at $31; standard

middlings at $34; fancy middlings at

$40; cracked corn at $46; coarse corn

meal $45; chop $44 per ton in carlots.

Poultry feeds with grit $51.00; With-

out grit $55.00 per ton.





WHEAT





Wheat prices have shown some ten-

dency to stabilize in the last two

weeks, although they are holding near

the low points of the season. Frosty

weather in Canada has caused small

upturns, but the offerings have ex-

ceeded immediate demand and rallies

have faded away quickly. With the





' movement of the large spring wheat





crop in both the United States and

Canada just getting under way, no

basis for a sustained advance in

prices in the near future is apparent.





Primary receipts h ave declined

slightly as is usual just before the

spring wheat movement starts, but

they still average over 3 million bush-

els for each business day. With Only

small amounts being cleared for ex-

port, stocks are accumulating rapidly.

The domestic visible supply has

gained 40 million bushels in 7 weeks

and already totals 79 million bushels,

the largest on record for so early. in

the season. Exports are running

much smaller than a year ago and

new sales for export are light. Flour

sales have increased in the northwest

and protein premiums are rather firm.

Southwestern mills have a large vol-

ume of orders for flour on their bobks

from the buying movement earlier 111

the season, but the decline in prices

since then has made it difficult for

them to obtain shipping directions.



While Canada has had local frosts,

the crop is so near maturity that little

damage has been done and a crop of

525 to 550 million bushels seems prob~

able. The carryover of old wheat on

August 1 was75 million bushels, the

largest on record, and 26 million bush-

els more than last year. Late reports





from Europe have been more favor-





able than before, and production in 16

counties which produced 90 per cent





’of the 1927 crop, exclusive of Russia,





indicate an outturn of 55 million

bushels more than last year.





RYE





" - Receipts of rye have increased but





illin and export demand has been

gidugfi to absorb thtemthandd‘taléleeggg-

hows a u er .



ible supply 8 in domestic and Euro-





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tion to reduce wheat acreage by 2.1

per cent under that seeded last fall,

but to increase rye acreage by 8.6 per

cent. During the past four years, the

actual acreage of wheat sown has

been about 6 per cent less than the

expressed intentions. Part of this dif-

ference was due to unfavorable wea-

ther at seeding time.





CORN





Corn prices have been developing

a firmer tone in the last ten days.

While the promising outlook for the

new crop in most sections is inducing

farmers to empty their cribs, farm

holdings are so small that offerings

to terminals are not burdensome. De-

.mand is fairly good and stocks are

moving into distributive channels

rather freely. The visible is 12 mil-

lion bushels, however, and the pos-

sibility of any extreme pinch in sup-

plies before the new crop becomes

available appears remote.



High temperatures and lack of rain

haVe caused some injury locally, es-

pecially in Missouri Valley areas, but

the outlook is still for a large crop.





OATS





Receipts of cats have increased

rapidly in the last two weeks, and are

considerably heavier than last year

or two years ago. Demand is only

fair and‘ is coming chiefly from ele-

vator interests at some markets.

Stocks are piling up rapidly at ter-





minals.

SEEDS





The 1928 crop of timothy seed is

believed to be 35 to 45 per cent smal-

ler than the unusually large crop har-

vested in 1927, according to an esti-

mate of the Department of Agricul-

ture. Acreage fell off in practically

all important seed producing districts

as a result of the relatively low price

of seed last year. Drought reduced

the yield in- omdst districts- and dry,

cold weather in April caused thin

stands. Also, a shorter hay crop and





poorer pastures than last year forced

farmers to cut a relatively large acre-

age for hay.





. FEEDS





Feed markets have steadied due to

a slightly better demand and less sel-

ling pressure. Prices of wheatfeeds

were generally higher. Weakening

factors in the market are cheap oats,

prospects of a large supply of feed

grains, good pastures, and a tendency

toward hand-to-mouth consumption.

Cottonseed meal prices are continu-

ing the descent to a new crop basis.





EGGS





The egg market has advanced

steadily in the past week to a new

high level for the season to date. With

really fine stock becoming less plenti-

ful from week to week, prices on top

grades will work higher. Hot weather

has discouraged thexuse of refrigera-

tor eggs, resulting in a freer call for

fresh stock in spite of the advancing

market. Cool weather will bring a

good demand for storage eggs and re-

lieve the present so-called pinch. The

undertone of the market is strong and

prices’ are expected to remain firm al-

though the storage figures indicate a

lessening in the bullish aspect of the

egg market statistically.



Chicago—Eggs: fresh firsts, 30@

33140; extras, 33%@34c; ordinary

firsts, 27613290; dirties, 23@260;

checks, 23@26c. Live poultry: Hens,

280; broilers, 290; springers, 29c;

roosters, 210; ducks, 22c; geese, 14c;

turkeys, 20c.



Detroit—Eggs: Fresh candled and

graded, 31@331/2c; dirts and checks,

25@271/§c. Live poultry: broilers 400;

roosters, 18c; ducks, 22@25c.





BUTTER





A continued short supply of high

grade butter’ .was responsible for

boosting prices of creamery extras

last week to a new high level for the

season: Receipts at the leading dis-





 





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Monday, August 27





DETROIT





Cattle

Receipts 1,339. Market active on

cow grades; steady on others.

Fair to good yearlings





dry-fed ......... - ...... $14.00@17.00

Fair to good heavy steers



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

Handy weight butcher ' '



steers ................ 11.00@12.50

Fair to good heifers. . . 10.75@11.50

Common light butchers.. 8.25@ 9.25

Common butcher cows.. 7.00@ 7.50

Best cows .......... '. . . .‘ 9’.00@10.00

Good butcher cows ...... 7.50((‘D 8750

Cutters ................. 6.25@ 6.50

Canners ................ 5.25@ 6.00

Light butcher bulls 9.00@10.00

Bologna bulls ........... 8.00@ 9.75

Stock bulls ............. 7 00@ 8 25

Feeders ................. 8 0050.10 75

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





Milkers and springer-s





Calves

Receipts 593. Market steady.

Best ................... $19.50@20.00

Others ................. 8.50@17.50 - -





Sheep and Lambs

Receipts 1,362. Market 25c higher.





Best lambs ..... . ....... $14.50@1427‘5



Light ‘ ........ . ......... 9.00@10.75



Fair ................... 12.50@13.50



Fair to good sheep ..... . 6.00@ 7.00



Culls and common 2.00@ 4.00

' Hogs





Receipts 619. Market on stage and

extreme heavies steady; all "others





15c higher. . .



Pigs oooooo eeoeeeeeoeeeesl “13-00

Mixed, tops eeeooeeeooean _ 13.15

Lights ooooooo eeooeeeeeeo 12.75

Roughs ...... . . . . . . . '. . . 11.00@11.25

Stags......._.\........ . 9.0

Extreme heavies . . . . . . . . 11.50@12.00



CHICAGO.





’ H.098 ,_ . , .. 1.



Receipts3 300.1”Mark‘et mestly 1,.0@

15c higher than “Saturday’s'm- steady

with . Friday’s "average; top $12.90

paid for choice 180-220.lb. weight; bulk

good 170—240-lb. $12.55@12.85; 250-300-

lb. weight $12,30@12.55; ' strictly

choice loads at inside We! hrs up to





. ., . 75.00@135.00 '





loafer;





' steady;





$12.25@12.75; pigs mostly $11.00@

$12.00; bulk packing sows less active

than early.





cattle .



Receipts 19,000. Market choice

steers and yearlings and fat she stack

mostly to shippers steady to strong,

nothing doing on other grades; bulk

steers and yearlings early $16.00‘6D

$16.75; best $16.90; ‘bulls steady; me-

dium kind to shippers, few choice

vealers with small killers and ship-

pers barely steady, $17.50; packers

bidding- unevenly lower; stockers and





feeders steady. '





' Sheep and Lambs



Receipts 20,000. Market , feeding

lambs active, strong, 150 higher.

sorts considered; good natives $14.00

@$14.50; bulk $14.25@14.50; best held

higher; throwouts inactive $10.00@

10.50, mostly; sheep weak; native

ewes $6.00@6.75; feeding lambs ac:

tive, asking'a little higher on stots;

good 65-1b. average stro’ng,~ sold' at

$14.25;- choice light weights quotable

$14.00, and steady.



BUFFALO.



‘ Hogs

' Receipts 4,000. Hold‘over 200; mar-

ket active, 15@25c higher; bu-lk good

150-220-1b. $13.40@13.50; 240-325-lb.

$12.75@13.15; strong weight pigs and

light lights $12.60@13.40; packing

sows $11.00@11.75. . ~



‘ . _ Cattle . .



Receipts 1,900. Market dry , fed





isteers‘and heifers scarce, active, fully





steady; medium offerings closing 25c

choice yearlings and heifers

$16.25@16.65; short fed $15.00@‘15~.25

grass steers and heifers $12.00@14;





few $14.25; cows $9.50@10.25; all cut-4 '.





g3r80$5.25@7.25; medium bulls ’$8.50@





- Calves '

Receipts ~‘1,000. Ma r~ke t .. active,





common ~$11._59.@132~.0



. _. 8h.. ..,a,n~d.viLiamb§—i .‘k , -



. Receipts 5.6 0. .Market on lambs



$1.00 lower; good $14.00@14.50;,



throwouts $11.00@11.50.; culls strong]



to $9.00; sheep, Week‘, .250 low ' tat

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good mascaénwo; bulls and,

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tributing markets have fallen to the

lowest pomt this summer and there

may be ‘some further reduction in the





'0





make before the fall increases begin -





to shay»r up. . Ice cream manufacturers

are still taking much milk and cream

away from butter factories. Quality

has showu little improvement with

hot weather. defects still showing up.

The high prices for fresh butter have

turned some buyers to storage stock

which .can be moved at a profit at

prevailing p’rices, so that the period

of distribution of reserve holdings has

already started. Conditions are gen-





Prices on 92 score creamery were:



Chicago, 46940; New York, 4715c;

Boston 47%0; Philadelphia, 481,50;

Detroit 4-3@44c for 88-90 score.





HAY





.Alfalfa hay of good quality is sel-

ling at the highest prices at this time

in the past five years. Rains in the

central west damaged a large per-

centage of the first and second cut-

tings in that area so that the supply

of good quality market hay was great-

ly reduced. Receipts of this class of

hay In the principal distributing mar-

kets have been light and premiums

for green leafy hay have been ad-

vanced. The total alfalfa crop is esti-

mated at 28,579,000 tons, or about 2

million tons larger than the five-year

average, but 3,230,000 tons smaller

than last year’s harvest. Kansas and

Nebraska, where the acreage was re-

duced thisyear, are expected to har-

173;; about 750,000 tons less than in





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Markets were heavily supplied and

trading brisk. A good demand for

tomatoes caused a slight advance "in

the price, the 15' 1b. basket sellingat

50.@600 and $1.25@1.50 a bu. Hearts

of gold cantelope' sold for‘$2.75@3.00

a bu. Cabbage sold out early at $1.00

@$1.25 bu.





Apples, fancy, $2.00@3.00 bu; No.

1, $1.00@1.50 bu; wax beans $1.25@

$1.75 bu; green beans $1.00@1.50 bu;

Lima 600 qt; beets 500@$1.00 bu; 40

@50c doz. bchs; canteloup $2.50@

$3.00 bu; cabbage $1.00@1.35 bu; cur-

ly_ 75c@$1.00; red 750@$1.00; carrd’ts

30@40c doz. bchs; $1.00@1.50 bu;

green corn 40@500 sack of 5 doz.;

cauliflower No. 1, $3.50@4.50 -bu;~No.

2, $1.00@1.50 bu; celery, local, No. 1,

35613500 doz. bchs; No. 2, 20c; Kala-

mazoo celery 35@500 doz bchs; celery

cabbage $1.50@i.75 bu; cucumbers'50

@$2.00 bu; 12'0ka $3.00_@5.00 bu;

eggs, whoa-sea , white‘38c doz; brown

380 doz; retail 50c'doz; endive $1.00

@$1.75;_ lettuce, H. H., $1.25 7-lb.

basket; head, No.1, $1.25@1.50 bu;

leaf $1.00@1.50 bu’;'gr_e-en onions 40(5)

500' doz; picklers‘$2.50@5.00 bu; dry

$1.15@1..25 bu; peaches $1.25@2.00;

parsnips 50cydoz. bchs; $2.50 bu; par-

sley 40@600 doz bchs; parsley root

40@50c doz; green peas, No. 1, $2.00

@$2.50 bu; pears $1.50((D:2.25 bu; po-

tatoes 90‘0@$1~.00,bu; plums $1.25@

$2.00; No. 2, $1.00@1.50; pumpkin

$1.00 bu; poultry, hens, wholesale,

28@3OC lb; retail 350 lb; broilers,

wholsale, leghorns 30c lb; rocks, 38

@400; ducks“ 24@280 lb; retail 45c;

poultry, dressed, broilers 45611500 lb;

hens 38@40c;- radishe’s, out-door, 30@

40c d'oz. ‘bchs; long white 50@75c

doz. bchs; rhubarb 45@’50c doz. bchs;

romain 65@75c bu; spinach $2.00@

$2.50 bu; sorrel 60c bu; Swiss chard

50@750 bu; mustard 50@600 bu; to-

matoes, out-door, 50@600’15-lb. bas-

ket; $1.25@1.50 bu; pink $2.00@2.25

bu; turnips 50@600 doz. bchs; 75’c@

$1.00 doz. bchs- honey 15@,20c comb;

huckleberries" $6,00@6'150 ~24—qt‘: 'case;

squash, Italian,‘$1.00@z2.00~bu; summer

50c®$1.00; hot- peppers 75c@1.00 bu;

sweet 750 $1.00 bu; red $3.50@4.50





"bu; veal 2 @23c‘lb; live“‘pi’gs .$5.00@





$7.00 ea; veal 50's .bu; “blackberries

$4.00@5.00 24-qt.‘_.case; elderberries





GRAND RAPID





Potatoes, 65@800 bu; onions, $1.40

@‘$1.50 bu; carrots, beets, and tur-

cabbage,. white, 75c@

$1100 bu;" red, "$1.00@1’.‘25; tomatoes,

$1.,50@1.75 bu; sweet corn, 15@25c

doz. ears; peppers, $1.00 1.50 bu;

, n} wheat

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Bay County:





the " present time.





harvesting season.

- {Clinton County:





'-‘vines are somewhat yellow.





bean growers are good—B.





Eatdn COunty: The bean crop here water. It is poor weather, also, for the

is very good. There is plenty of mois- crop to set. Some anthracnose started.

ture and the crop is developing fine.





‘The acreage is about normal.—C. T.

Gratiot County:





old fields have been destroyed; how- _

ever, more acres were planted this age 18 about the same as a year ago,

year than last. With the loss the yield wet weather has done the crop con-

probably will run much less than a. siderable damage. In some places wind

year ago. Early beans are now about and hail have added to the destruc-





ready to harvest—A. R.





Acreage of beans planted in this





locality is probably five per cent





above normal. Heavy rains during the However, many farmers have turned

planting season made it necessary to their fields into summer fallows be-





re-plant in many instances. Continued

rains, however, resulted in poor





stands from the second planting. Fav— warrant leaving it. The yield will not





orable weather ‘during July brought

the crop on rapidly and where good





stands were obtained, prospects were





fairly satisfactory, but on August 2,



nearly four inches of rain fell, cover~



ing many fields. A hot sun followed,



which did considerable damage, proba-



bly forty per cent of the crop is gone.

J. C.





Huron County: The acreage of the

bean crop in this section is about

eighty per cent of last year and the

condition premises to be less than

"fifty per cent.——A. C.



Owing to excessive rains and heat,

the bean crop looks unpromising at

present. It probably will run about

fifty per cent of last year.—T. A. N.



The bean crop is in a bad way.

'There was a larger acreage than

usual planted, but wet weather has

ruined many fields.—-—A. N.



lngham County: Without any fig-

ures at hand, I would estimate the

acreage of beans in this county to be

twenty per cent higher than last year.

'The condition is excellent. With a

“few more rains and some good





'weather for harvesting we should





have a large amount of beans for the

Hot weather and frequent

“rains have caused the crop to recover

‘from a'bad‘ start. Some fields are

Weed)”. but the beans are keeping

ahead—J. G. W. .



' The" bean acreage is about the same

here jas‘l'ast year, and the condition

‘is well up to normal. Some fields are

"weedy due to wet weather, but the





'_outlook is for a good crop—R. W.





" About the usual acreage of” beans





Were planted in this locality. The

" crop is backward, stands uneven and





‘the yields will be less than a year





. ago-4A. C.





Ionia County: The bean acreage is





‘ below the average for this part of the





state, probably will not run over sixty

' er cent of an average. The crop at

the present time, however, is growing

fine—J. '



Jackson County: This county is not

theg'great bean section it once was,





‘:b'ut this spring about the number of





acres Was planted 'as in recent years.

The vines look very good at present

reasonable weather we

[should have a good crop—S.



The bean crop seems to be short in

this locality. Fewer were planted than

last year. The fields, however, are

looking fairly good. Rain is needed at

present—J. W.



Kent County: Prospects are not

good. Wet weather delayed planting

and prevented cultiyation, so that

fields are quite weedy. More recently,





hot weather did some damage to' the

«crop—W. N.





.Prospects are for a fair crop. In

some sections it has been a little dry,

although earlier rains were, excessive.





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from farmers "in thong?

‘ .Egrgtfipgfittlta $3111.,” Ethical“; have about the ‘same acreage as last

0 . I yea-r,

£11531; 112.123,? 3%? ggevgiégt 1|ng ”matdgétgg totally destroyed while .others are

are 9publishing below the 3315813110,, of." looking good. The crop Will probably





The bean crop in this

county is almost a total loss. There N

have been excessive rains and in some

fields the water completely covers the a large bean-county, the crop here is



'- .ground.--W. D:



The'bean crop in Bay County this

year is-larger than what was planted

last year, but rains have destroyed section. They are backward. Highland

probably seventy-five per cent up to



Last year, about cent. Lowland beans are not doing as



(”19'th 0f the crop was lost during well. If frost keeps off there should





, The bean crop of

Clinton County is looking fairly good.



H-a'Ve had plenty 0f 'rain and ngme Now that of last year.___.C_ H

ere



"probably ”i511“ 'more than enough ed is approximately twenty per cent

“damage to oflset the extra ““1339 greater than last year. Much of this

planted. Thor-est of the crop promises acreage, however, was planted the

309d ylelds With average conditions second and third times. Rain damage

.from now on. Altogether, would say

that th? prospects for Clinton County have suffered a loss offlfteen to fifty





In a number of About August 1, it looked like an

places in this ocunty water has hurt average CI'OD. hilt now the outlook is

the beans badly and in a few cases, quite unpromising—A. 3- L





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, earlier than-usual which should insure



better__harvesti‘ng.—C. L. B. . .

Hidia'n'd County: The bean crop was

greatly damaged here by water. We





 





 





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be about seventy-five per cent of a

yield as compared to last year which

wash normal crop in.this county.—





. B. , .

Newaygo County: While this is not





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far better than the average, and we

anticipate a. good yield—C. E.



We raise mostly red kidneys in this

Penetrating. soothing

beans are looking one hundred per and healing—an unex<

celled liniment, coun-

Eer-irritant .or b inter

be a. good crop of red kidneys—S. A. _,::,::;§:;,‘;;::t "‘



Oceans County: Beans are looking

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The probable yield is likely to run

very low with many small beans.





Saint Clair County: While our acre-

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Sanilac County: The bean acreage





   





this year greatly exceeds that of 19.27. Egg: 5;:

$2.30 $7.23



3.0: 1.56



cause the crop, due to so much wet a: {jfi

weather, was not heavy enough to a: 3.33

be as heavy as last year, is the gen— 21:: :33

eral opinion.-—G. L. :3; g-g;

Shiawassee County: The bean crop 53.0 10:08

here is looking extremely good with fig 10.36

the acreage about normal. Outlook is 5344 {313‘

for a. good yield. Much, of course, will 6.33 fig





depend upon the weather from now . 7- . A” .1

until harvest t me.-— .-G. S _ a'vmisinr cm.

Tuscola County: Our bean crop. is 119.61%“ Natlce d”""""“‘""'”’"‘-





or (bang: If at] in-





in- a. bad- way. About a normal acreage and“! for tin Clallifild Depaflmmt mm! flat}! lhil ofiu (ml





Was planted_ Some of the fields were day: in aduanu afpublimtian date.

planted the second time. A large part MISCELLANEOUS

of this acreage, however, has been





lost through wet weather and what 300 GOOD WHITE ENVELOPES and 300‘ full 3126

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P . - - address. and business. two dollars. postpaid. Fine

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

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_ ‘ engine. No reasonable offer refused. John Cartwri t.

Centagious abortion—Have a cow Davison. Mich. “h





that will not stay in calf.

about four or five months and then





EGGS WANTED

drops calf and comes in heat again.





. WANTED SELECTED WHITE EGGS NEW LAID.

What ShOUId I d0?-—-A- R- Losmg the We also handle Poultry and Dressed Calves. Write





calf is most likely contagious abor— Ionshilmillg tags and market information. J. H.

thII. Clean and spray the barn With a White & 00.. ‘955 Fulton Market. Chicago. Illinois.

five per cent solution of creolin. Also,

if you have other cows, she should be

isolated in a separate barn for a

. . smour BARGAINS—P. 78. Stro c ill . .tal

period of Sixty days and not bred of 100 pages. am main", of min: writiecim‘éfi

before the expiration of this time. The swarm 120-élcrota”Mid~West" farm on ériliplrovod

aborted calf and membranes should ron . near a van gas; on stream. pasturds ( lead.

. . valuable wood. pleasant 8-room house. ample bldgs..

be burned or buried deeply, to av01d variety fruit. low price, $6.500: includes hrlrses. 11





Spreading the disease, cattle. Stallone 70 pgultry, imp;?l)%?lts’ Inlay. ggainti

. , corn. po ocs. vegeta les; only . net ed. on

KItten has grub.——My kitten has a. your namHoday. for free copy. Strout Agency.





grub on side of neck. Have used tur— 1105430- Kresge Bldgu Detroit Mich-

pentine and iodine. Give directions for

. FOR SALE OR TRADE—160 acres in northeastern



treatment. E. C.-—Clip . hair from Colorado. No incumbrance. taxes all paid. Address

around the diseased area and rub in 1g“?- Gerlili‘lfde Helm”. Route 1. BOX 214- South

Iodexnomtment once daily. Pure tinc- ”en" 1‘ “J"

granodiiie lsdalso gofod, but should WONDERFULd FARM BsgggAINS—In WGlzéivtvin



iscon lnue or a, ew days When “ounly. good airy farms. . per‘acro. ri _or

skin shows signs of blistering. gig?” U‘ 0' Reymms' sans 1' "ms' Gladwm'





Ailing steer.-—-Steer has cough and

FOR SALE—268 acre stock farm. clay loam. fine

hOldS hismouth open a good deal. He buildings. 20 arm maple timber. $40 per acre.

is 1in fair condition, but does not de- . Rowe. Evan. Mich.

ve op as he should. Eats ”grass well

- FOR SALE—105 a~e farm. extra good in every

but 813111 poorlyt Has been passed by way. For descriptiohr and price write Edwin Robins.

yetermaérians as safe from tubercu~ l’ittsford. Mich.

osis. ubscriber.——Since a chronic

. . . . . .1— . . l. .f . -

cough and unthrlfty condition 18 char— 37.93 05%; ggerflfiofli 5323.. “3.3013“ loim'c.dfi.

acteristic of tuberculosis, it would be Bird. Alba, Michigan. ~

advisable to have another tuberculin

test made. There may be other WANTED FARMS

diseased conditions of the lungs’_su0h WANTED—To hear from owner of land for sale

as are frequently seen where animals for fall delivery. 0. Hawley. Baldwin. Wis.

have had pneumonia as calves, which

usuzlilly leaves the lungs in an un-

hea thy condition. It might be advisas

.7 RICH MAN'S Corn Harvester. Door 311' ri

ble to have it examined by your only $25.00 with bundle tying confined.” her;

veterinanan. catalog showing pictures of harvester. Process Com-





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ARGENTINE CIIINCIIILLAS—Some fine specimens

in both Senior and Junior bucks and does.



stock to choose from. Prices reasonable. Satisfaction

guaranteed. Walnut llidgo Rabbitry. G. E. Sparks

I’rop.. Carson City, Mich.





 





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SEEDS





SCIENCE AND PRACTICE demonstrate Improved

Amerlcan Banner wheat. Wolverine oats. Improved

Robust beans best for Michigan. Choice Certified

Amcrlcan Banner Seed Wheat. Prices. sample. in—

formntmn on rmumt. A. B. Cook. Owosso. Mich.





AMERICAN BANNER SEED WITEA'I‘. Hardy.

heavy yielding. 44 bushels pcr acre this season.

Price reasonable. Write J. H. Forell. Charlotte

Michigan. I





FRUIT TREES AND NURSERY STOCK





PEACH AND Al'l’IIE TREES-$5. $7.50 per 100

and up. Conlplclu assortment fruits. berries. orna—

mental trees. vines. shrubs. evergreens. Catalog in.





colors free. Tennessee Nurseu'y‘

Cleveland. Tomi. Company. Box 125,





TOBACCO





GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chem

pounds. $1.25; 10. $2. Smoking. 10. $1.50. lain:





lfrecl Pay postman. United Farmers. Bardwell

lxentucky. I





LEAF TOBACCO. good sweet: chewing 3 ounds

75c; 5. $1.00: 10. $1.75: smoking. 3 pound: 50c:

5. 75c: 10. $1.25. United ll‘arnn-rs, Maylield. Ky.





.HOMESPUN TOBACCO~Guaranteed Chewing: 5





lbs, 31' 10 $1 75 Smol'ing‘ 5 lbs~ 75x ' 10 l 2

, . . . . a \ . ... ‘, , . 5.

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WHITE LEGHORN IIWS ANT) MAII‘S no ‘

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and eggs. Trapnested pedigreed rounds"



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lekg bred 28 years: Winners at 20 egg contests. Calm

gfuagidflgpmiglsfprlce bulletin {no I ship (Y.0.D. and.



Se action. George B. I“: '. ‘ '

Grand Rapids. Michigan. [ms 934 Union.





KENS—Strictly vearling hens direct from



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ling pens. at 951' each. Also pullots 12 weeks old

and some soon ready to lay. Write us for prices





and infonnation. Villa e Vi P ‘ -

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VVHI'I‘TAKER’S REDS. BOTH COMBS.

Trapnested. Michigan Certified.

crels. pullots. Write for catalog.

Ilgx 9. Lawrence. Mich.





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Rocks, Reds. Black Minorcus 12c. VVllitar vigil?



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a. lugs to 6 egg records. 360le



Grand Rapids. Michigan. an Hamow'





HELP WANTED





YOUNG MAN WANTED to assist with rowuig‘



dairy and creamery business. Must have ability to



work and desire to learn business. A fine oppor—



tunity for one interested in this kind of work. Char-



actor references necessary. Outlook Jersey Cream« '

cry. C. J. Cheeseman, (‘larkstom Mich.





WANTED: MARRIFD MAN not over 30 r



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age. to help milk 70 cOWs with Do Laval mulling do

barn and milk house work. Must be steady. neat. > t

3.23%: 53?? fast tdry End milker. State wages ex—

. . give we r crunczs. D. . ' ‘ —

tIon E.. Columbus. Ohio. L J Srhant. Sta. I





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particulars in. oil at' .

Flint. Mich. an e Ion Freeman Dairy Comm. ,





DRIVER SALESSIAN~23 £0 35 Veil - ruin. ‘

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