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QUALITY

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To





Get Eggs ‘Out of a Chicken---





You Must Have the Courage to Chuck Feed into Her





By James H. Buswell





neither n o r





Force,



For these but vassals be to

Mind—Man



Like slaves, they tyrannize

if pampered,



Serving like friends

Courage rules.

—Frank Channing Haddock





HY do men not succeed in the



”‘1 poultry business? Dick’s un-



usual answer was: “Because

they are afraid!”



It takes a brave man successfully

to engage in the poultry business.

There is keen competition from with-

out and enemies on the inside to

fight. The risk of losing many valu-

able birds by factors beyond the con-

trol of the proprietor constantly

threatens. For instance:





Things





when





A sudden storm may spell loss for“





the chicken man. One wicked “purp”

can kill and cripple a lot of promis-

ing pullets in a few minutes. Or

maybe one might have an unexpected

experience similar to this one: Bill

Smith’s boy was sent to scoop scratch

grain from a barrel and throw it to

a flock of young stock. _



The lad removed the lid, scattered

the grain, then forgot to cover the

barrel. Chickens may be dumb but

they know where feed comes from

if they see you get it! So one bird

flew up on the edge of the barrel. and





ANY of us are curious to know



just what is going to .happen



to the bean market. We won-

der whether the price is going up,

down, or remain constant.



Of the large number of factors

which contribute to price reduction,

the quality' of harvest seems to' be

very important. Weather damage and

a high moisture content severely cut

the profits of the farmer and often-

times lower his income to' a point

where it scarcely pays for the labor

of production.



Since Michigan’s bean crop has suf—

fered throughout the year, we need to





use every precaution available to har—u





vest the beans in the best condition

possible.



The early, ,cool,’ damp weather

caused an uneven stand and the beans

to be spotted in the field. ,The bean

maggot destroyed portions’of fields

during the spring. Later on, heavy

rains in many sections of the state

badly damaged the crop and in a few

places destroyed it entirely.



The spotted condition occurring in

many fields will cause the beans to

ripen unevenly. This uneven ripen-

ins makes the harvest of the crop





then hopped down in. Other pullets

heard her eating. They followed. An

hour later when Bill arrived he found

about fifty smothered pullets packed

tight in that barrel.



There are many known and un-

known hazards to face in this great

business of producing eggs and pou1~

try meat for hungry millions. The

average. man seems to have a yellow

streak as wide as the milky way. He

starts but he gets cold feet and stops

an inch short of success! "





As I sat there pondering over the

experience of Dick Latterner and his

good wife, it came to me, with the

emphasis of a clap of thunder and the

brightness of a lightning flash, that

the average man could succeed in a

big way with poultry if he would just

do the things which experience has

proven successful hundreds of times—-

shut his eyes to the cost if need be,

but go on through and pay the price

for success!





Most of us are like the 'small boy





 





 





 





 





Much Courage and Extreme Patience





Is Required to Get the Big Profits





From Poultry, Says This Farmer





A Sure Way to Harvest Beans





By it You Can Lower the Pick and Increase Your Profits

By H. R. Pettigrove





Farm Crops Department, M. S. C.





beans, the others are apt to shatter

from handling, or become damp and

disdolored as a result of rain.



There seems to be three methods of

harvesting beans which will get them

up in good condition. They are: the

curing and hauling under cover, the

curing and threshing from the field,

and the use of “The McNaughton

System.”



Any one of the three methods is

goOd when successful. But, to elim-

inate all possibility of chance,

McNaughton System of Curing Beans”

is to be recommended. A year such

as this, with many fields of beans

being spotted, this system will aid the

farmer at harvest time and give ex-

cellent returns.



To harvest the beans by “The Mc-

Naughton System,” they are pulled

and, for convenience, raked into wind-

rows with the side delivery rake.

Should one not have a rake, they may

be handled by this method from the

puller rows.”



After the beans are in windrows,

several steel fence posts are placed

on the rear of the hay rack, a small

load of straw loaded on and driven





to the field. The'first post is driven -»





firmly into the ground between the

lad? ' is to





“The .





the side of the field.

forkfuls of straw are





tance from

Several





thrown about the post so as to make





a pad about six inches thick when

matted down. The beans are then

carried in and piled about the post.



The building of the stack is the

most important part of the whole

method. Each stack should be built

with the sides vertical or straight up

and down, and should not be over 3%

to 4 feet in diameter. The beans may

be pressed firmly together, especially

the first half of the stack.



Build the stack well above the

post; in other words— as high as

one can convenientlyiork the beans.

When the beans settle‘about the post

the top portion will form a. cap for

the rest of the stack. The first stack

being built, the second post is driven

into the ground five or six rods from

the first stack, and the operations

repeated for the rest of the field. The





distance between posts and the num-





ber used per acre depends upon the

growth of beans. Ordinarily eight to

twelve posts are used per acre.

The important things to remember

on building the stacks are:

Make the straw pad larger than the

to





"‘The McNaughton System” way.





towhom John Robel refers—walking '

past the " cemetery, afraid of, he

doesn’t know what, whistling ,for

courage.



The trouble is most of us do stop

just an inch short of success. Take

the incident of Neighbor Watkins

who came over one winter’s day to

see the flock of biddies that had been

shelling out eggs for Dick Latterner.

Dick feeds good feed generously. He

believes that the better he feeds, the

more cash he gets. Wattie still tells

his friends: “Dick surely gets eggs in

winter, but that boy isn’t telling how

he does it!” Which is all. bunk. Dick

has no secrets. He does have cour-

age, common sense, is a hard worker,

and believes that consistency is a.

jewel.



Well, Dick advised his neighbor

Watkins to feed thus and so—really

telling him as nearly as possible, just

how to get good results. Wattie had

good birds, too. He went home,

bought some reliable feed, did as Dick

said for a month, but then commenced

holding out on them because “they

ate too much!”



As Dick will testify, just about the

time Watkin’s flock were getting in

fine shape (of course they hadn’t be-

gun to show results yet) he lost his

nerve and went back to rations that



(Continued to page 222)





Build the stack well above the post

so that in settling, a cap will be

formed. ‘



The damage which may have oc-

curred before the beans are pulled

cannot be reduced by harvest meth~

ods. To get a good quality, no pick

bean, the field should be examined

daily and just as soon as the beans

are ready to be pulled, get them uph



It is not necessary to let the beans

dry before stacking as they dry out,

very rapidly in these stacks. Fields





that are ready, except for small areas" 4





of green beans, may be put up by' '

this method without hesitation“,



After the stacks are made and'haveg .

settled, they may remain in the field

until the farmer is ready to thresh.



Any stack which leans will contain

more damaged beans than a straight

stack. A small squatty stack, having

the post stick up through the center; .

will contain more damaged beans'thah

a tall stack that completely com

the post.



The post used may be a steel“ ‘

post or it may be a Wooden st,





. a wooden stake or sapling is.





must be strong enough to sup





“stack.





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VOLUME CLXXI NUMBER TEN





DETROIT. SEPTEMBER 8, 1928





HE slogan for



the bean growers



Start of Michigan this year

Beans at is to “Hold beans for

$7. 00 s e v e 11 dollars per

hundredweight” Sur-





veys of the crop have been made and

this seems to be a. reasonable mice

at which to start marketing Gover-

nor Green has appointed a committee

of growers with J. N. McBride of Bur-

ton as chairman, to inform the pro-

ducers of beans of the situation and

to get them behind the movement to

stabilize values on a. level commen-

surate with the supplies.



The method of stabilizing the mar-

ket will follow the plan of last year

when the state department of agricul-

ture and a group of farmers and





others interested in the bean industry ,





agreed on a minimum price and urged

farmers to hold back their beans

should quotations fall below, the figure

set. This proved effective and was

a benefit not only to the farmers but

to all legitimate bean interests. Only

the bean gamblers found the situation

to their dislike.



Since Michigan grows more than

half of the white beans produced in

the country, any concerted action on

the part of producers in this state

will control the situation. But grow-

ers‘in other states indicate a desire

to join with our people in this effort

to stabilize bean prices.



If this plan can be. made as effective





' Withis .year as last, and then if it can





be followed in future years, it will be-

come a. most unique bit of farmer co-

operation. There will be no organiza-

tion. in the ordinary meaning of that

word, no membership, no dues, no

'tock to buy, no advances to make,

“:‘notee, no manager or salaried

oflicers, no offices or warehouses.

‘L-The thing will function through a.

* supple bit of mutual understanding.



' All that Is necessary is for every

man who has beans to sell simply to

mm on at least seven dollars per

redwolgbt. If he takes a load to





   

 





   

   

 





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the farmer, to be loyal to this agree-

ment, must take the load home and

wait until the priCe rises to the $7.00

mark. . ,



If the bean farmers of Michigan

abide by this slogan, they can secure





'a reasonable price for their product.’





Moreover, since reasonably uniform

prices is the greatest need of the

commercial bean industry, the move-

ment effectively carried out, also will

benefit the wholesale and retail gro-

cers and the canners.



Here is a challenge to the be'an

growers of the state. As we review

the agricultural past, we note with

real pride how that time and again

Michigan farmers have met new situ-

ations and led the way in their solu-

tion. We have every confidence that

they will see this program through to

a successful issue.





0 branch of





Good American agri-

N F culture has enjoyed

81.08 or the extent of pros-

Dairymen perity that has come





to dairymen, and na-

turally the question arises, "How long

will it last?”



The basis of this prosperity has

been the stimulation of demand

through health education. Our people

have substituted milk for beer, and

have become extensive users of other

dairy products. But observers are

beginning to think that our rapidly

increasing production will soon over-

take consumption, despite the in-

crease in the per capita use of this

food, especially when facing the pros-

pects of increz‘isingiy large importa-

tions of dairy goods from Europe and

the southern hemisphere;





Of course, there is the hope that

this outside competition may be off-

set by higher tariffs. But the best

kind of protection against importa-

tion is the increased demand for the

goods in other countries. The facts

appear, from recent reports, that

European countries are now taking

the cue from America by starting edu-

cational campaigns for the more lib-

cral use of milk and other dairy pro-

ducts. The movement in Germany to

use dairy substitutes has collapsed,

and that country and others are now

urging a program of

health.”



So it would seem that American-

dairymen can again take heart. But

they should continue their program of

judiciously feeding only the good

cows to provide our supply of dairy

products.





HERE probably



Books and has been 110

branch of public ser-



More vice that has grown

Books more rapidly in the





past quarter of a cen-

tury than has the public library. A

part of this growth is undoubtedly

due to the change in library service.

Formerly’thcre was too much of the

idea that the library was merely a.

collection of books. Today, through

changes of methods in distribution

and a. general awakening of people to

the possibilities of a library, this in-

stitution has come to be the accepted

center of a. community’s intellectual

life. .



Rural people are keeping step with

this increasfng interest in libraries.

This summer has seen a new county

library established in Barry County,

making the fifth one in the state.





The central unit of this library will,





be qt Hastings, and will be indepen-

dent of the public library. Also, the

first auto book-truCk in this state was

operated in Gogebic County, this sum~

mer. ' , _

Judging from the requests received

at our State Library, 'the books in

greatest demand by rural folk are

practically the same as those request-

‘ed by urban folk. Apparently the

some needs. impulses. and; desires

piotlvete each group unit;





“111 i 1 k for»





better neighbors, and better livingw ~



It is‘gratifying to note this increas-

ing interest iri- good reading, for

wherever the habit of selecting and

reading worthwhile books becomes

fixed, the emotional and intellectual

life of the home, the community, and

the nation is strengthened. ’ .





s.





HE'N is a.





001 wool” blanket

W . not a wool blanket?



or The practical answer

Woolen to this conundrum is,





when it is a. “part

wool” blanket. But a question that is

not so easy 'to answer, and one that

means. dollars and cents to the con-

sume1 as well as the producer of wool,

is how'\muoh wool must a blanket

contain to be a “part wool” blanket.

Theoretically it could contain a frac-

tion of one per cent.



According to laboratory tests on

blankets purchased throughout the

country during the past year, blan«

kets marked “part wool” may contain

anywhere from one to fifteen per cent





of wool with the majority containing





four or five per cent. ‘ The use of the

term “wool” has therefore been re-

tained on a blanket that contains an

overwhelming percentage of cotton.





In order to get an idea. of What

"part wool” means to the average

consumer, a questionnaire was sent

out. Of the replies received, sixty-

eight per cent indicated that to them

the term means a content of more

than twenty-five per cent wool. Four-

teen. per cent replied that they be-

lieved the wool content to be less

than twenty-five per cent. '



To the end that the consumer may

.be accurately informed as to the wool





content of the blankets they purchase,‘





the National Better Business Bureau

has drawn up a. resolution which they

urge blanket manufacturers to adopt

before November 1 of this year. It

recommends that “when the term

‘wool’ or ‘woolen’ is used either in

such expressions as ‘part! wool? or

‘wool and cotton’, or in any other

way, on blanket labels or any other

form of advertising, that the approxi-

mate percentage of wool content of

such blankets be mentioned in the

same size type as the word ‘wool’ or

woolen’ ”





This resolution has a two-fold ‘in-

terest for rural people. First, as pro-

ducers of wool, it would tend to in-

crease the actual market for wool.

Second, as consumers, they would get

the quality of blankets for which they

paid. In playing this dual role, rural

people can do their part in urging the

adoption of this resolution by demand-

ing that blankets they purchase this

fall be plainly marked as to the per-

centage of wool they contain.





EGARDLESS o 1





Swat Corn government poli-

Borers cies, the farmer has

some individUal re-



Now sponsibility in the





work to reduce the



toll that is bound to be taken in

America’s future corn crops by .the

corn borer. That responsibility ex-

tends to all those operations which

can be performed in the regular

course of the farmer’s business that

will discourage or destroy these

borers. . .

First of all, a farmer who intends

to play his part will cut his corn crop

early and as close to the ground as

his equipment-will permit. This he-

cOmes particularly effectiVewhen the





corn is used for‘sllage, and sincevsuch.





a large. pertion of the Michigan crop





is ensiloed, there is hope that ulti-‘





mate control measures will not be-





ceme the burden to our farmers that





they will be in the corn belt.





If tlie\ stalks are to be red" dry,:»

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there is danger of





 

 





e. co’fnnidn interest for better -homejs.l;' _ p . 1

deep in the manure or can be easily





 





collected and burned When dry.





These precautions- are not out of





line with good husbandry and should

cause no hardship since practically no

extra labor is involved. At the same

time, if faithfully followed, they will

make it hard for the corn borers.





ECEN-TLY in the .





‘ The circuit court of

' Barry County a. father

' erng and 8011‘ pleaded

Attztude guilty to the stealing





of sixty chickens

from a farmer of that county. An-

other young man was also involved.

The judge gave the young men a sus-

pended sentence under the condition

that they pay for the chickens in.

monthly installments; but the father





, drew a. sentence of from nine months





to five years in Ionia.‘ We believe

that the judge did right in giving the

heavy sentence to the parent. Cer-

tainly a father has the wrong idea of

parential responsibility when he will

introduce his son to a life of crime.





Sleep





LEEPIN’ is one of them habits we

all get into, and it’s a good habit

even if we don’t do nothin’ while we

are sleepin’. Although some of us

try to be useful by snorin’ while we’re

sleepin’. Sounds like some folkses

make awful hard work of sleepin’.

Sleep is something what takes

about one-third of, our lives.

really ought to have some considera—

tion. Don’t it seem awful to think





 





lots of us spend twenty-five years on

a. mattress.





Seem like a big waste of

time seein’ as we

. got just about so

much time on

this earth. But,

you know, if we

try to get along

without sleep, we

just shorten our.

lives so _. much.



So it looks like



you can’t cheat



sleep.



Life is full of lots of what. you call

complex things. gThey’re sometimes

awful wearin’ on a fellow, just like a.

battle is. Well, sleep is supposed to

be a period of armistice, of rest, so

you kin get ready fer,the next day’s

battle. Sleep is a time of peace, but

from the way some folkses sleep, it’s

the noisest thing they do; it’s worse

than the battle of the four or five

hundred. Anyhow, it was them fel-

lows with cannons. to the right of

them and cannons to the left of them.

That’s just the way I feel when Sofie

gets sto' sleep before me, only Ilfeel

like the last one of the four hundred,

all the rest’d been shot. I kinda feel

all alone just waitin’ fer somebody to

put me to sleep. Sofie’s a. whole war

by herself when she’s sleepin’. There’s

lots of times during the night I’ve

lived through the world war in the

front trenches.





Sleep is supposed to be nature’s

sweet restorer and she is to those

what will let her restore. Sleep is

supposed to repair lots of the damage





 





‘we do to ourselves during the. day.





And we do lots more mean things to

ourselves than we imagine. ’



, I like sleep‘bause it~ makes you fer-

get taxes and everything, and if you;

want to be one of them optomists,

you kin .think that the crops are

growin’ while you’ re sleepin’ so you.

kin pay the taxes.





I alWays try to get to sleep first. .

so I don’t have to listen to Sofie- try‘ ‘





in’ to imitate a. nightingale slngin’ the

battle hymn of the republ -.





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An Interesting and Valuable





seven years ago by the- United

States department of agriculture

to find out what factors controlled or





INVESTIGATIONS begun ‘six or





' determined wheat prices are bearing





valuable fruit. It remains for farmers





: to translate the results into actual





cash by applying the department’s

findings in their marketing operations.



The basic thought back of all the

price analysis work has been to de-

termine how far the department could

safely go in advising farmers what to

produce and when to sell. The inves-

tigations have demonstrated clearly

“that the prices of agricultural prod—

ucts are not made by chance nor by

the arbitrary decisions of any one

man or group of men.” They have





. shown that prices respond to econ—





omic forces which are subject to econ-





_ omic laws just as weather conditions





and crop production are the out»

likewise,

that prices can be forecast from the

laws governing them the same as

weather and crops can be forecast. In

fact, in the last three years, the de-





, partment’s price forecasts have been





about ninety per cent correct.

Weather forecasts usually are about

eighty-five per cent correct and crop

production forecasts early in the sea-





_ son have about the same percentage





of dependability.



The study of wheat prices has taken

several forms. One phase has been a

statistical analysis to determine to

what extent variations in barometers





‘ 'of supply and demand are related to





fluctuations in wheat prices. This has

demonstrated that the general level

of wheat prices from year to year is

rather definitely determined by cer-

tain supply and demand factors, and

that when these factors are known the

probable average price of wheat for

the season can be estimated with a

considerable degree of reliability.





Second, the department, especially





through its “foreign service”, has

greatly increased the fund of vital in-

formation as to wheat supplies and

demand the world over. The depart-

ment takes the position, however, that

the raw facts of supply and demand

do not necessarily lead to right con-





 

 





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clusions as to future prices except

when they are analyzed by statistical

methods, or passed upon by the

trained judgment of an:experienced

observer, or both.

available information has been ex-

tremelyauseful to everyone, «of course,

in improving judgment forecasts of

wheat priCes. ,

Three specific results of the wheat

price investigations deserve particular

notice. The first of these is the fairly





’accurate summaries of probable world





production and international trade

which the department has been able

to make by July or August in recent

years. Since these are two important

factors in the wheat price level, it is

desirable that farmers have this in-

formation as soon as possible in order

to decide whether "to accept the prices

prevailing at harvest time or hold un-

til later in the season.



A second result, which is an out—

growth of the department’s effort to

determine probable world production

of wheat as early as possible, has

been the forecasting of production in

certain foreign countries from weather

data far in advance of the issuance

of official forecasts. Its forecast of

Argentine wheat production last year,

for example, issued two or three

months before an official estimate was

available, was quite close to the

actual harvest. The application of the

same method to Canadian wheat pro-

duction, has given, by August 1, a

forecast which, in the last four years,

has been remarkably close to the

final figures.



Third, a formula for forecasting the

price of wheat'during the month of

May has been developed which like-

wise has been quite close to the

actual price in a majority of years.

Last season, the error was only one

cent. It can be calculated from data

available by January 1.



The department’s recommendations,

based upon its findings, are published

in its annual Agricultural Outlook,

which is intended as a guide to the

yearly‘production plans of farmers.

Since plans for production and mar-

keting are subject to ‘continual

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more or less continuous interpreta-

tion of supply and demand conditions

as they affect, or should affect, farm-

ers’ operations. Hence, the depart-

ment prepares each month a summary

and interpretation of these facts per-

taining to the leading farm products

in the report called the “price situa-

tion”. .



The department’s summary of

wheat market conditions in the latest

“price situation” is unusually com-

plete. If we have not misread it, it

carries the direct inference that now

is not the proper time to sell wheat,

and that a better market can be

looked for later on. No definite indi—

cation of the amount of price improve-

ment to be expected is given, but we

may safely conclude that it is to be

suflicient to make it worth while for

farmers to bin their wheat instead

of rushing it to market as they have

been doing during the past two

months.



The statement is as follows:



“The wheat supply situation has





‘ materially changed in the past month,





with improvements in the crop pros-

pects of Canada and the United

States. It now appears that the

world’s supply of wheat will be a lit-

tle larger than last year. Forecasts

and estimates of crops in twenty-two

countries of the Northern Hemisphere

(not including Canadian spring wheat)

to date amount to 2,420 million

bushels, as compared with 2,426 mil-

lion produced in the same countries

last year. These countries last year

accounted for about sixty—nine per

cent of the estimated production of

the world, exclusive of Russia and

China. The small increase in the

carryover of wheat also contributes to

an increase in supply for this. season

as compared with'last season. The

Southern Hemisphere crops are still

to be determined. Conditions have

been favorable to seeding, and pros-

pects to date are somewhat better

than they were up to the correspond-

ing date last year. The present pros-

pects are that with average yields in

the Southern Hemisphere the world’s

supply of wheat outside of Russia and

China for the 1928-29 season would

be about four per cent larger than

the available supply for last season.

“The prospective increase in the

world supply of wheat compared with

last year, however, is offset largely

by the prospect for a smaller rye

crop in Europe outside of Russia, and

increase in demand by growth of

population and by the tendency to

increase per capita consumption of

wheat in some countries. Forecasts

and estimates of rye production to

date. for all countries reporting in-

cludlng the United States, total 557

million bushels, as compared with 649

million bushels produced last year.

Russ1a may have no wheat to export.

The European potato crop seems like

1y to be smaller. than last year. Con-

sumption of wheat in the form of

flour is increasing at the rate 0f about

six million bushels, or over one per

cent er year inthe United States.

The uropean wheat crop of 1927. was

the .s we as, that, of 1:923.

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red winter wheat at Kansas City aver“





aged 141 cents per bushel, as com—

pared with 104 cents in the 1923-24

season, and British parcels prices

averaged 154 cents, as compared with

121 cents in the 1923-24 season. The

poor quality of the crops of Canada

and some European countries was, of

course, a factor in the higher prices

last year, but allowing for this, a ma-

terial increase in demand is apparent.

It appears that the world’s demand

for wheat has increased at the rate of

about five per cent per year since

1923. -



“The August estimate indicates an

increase of about seventeen million

bushels in the soft red winter wheat





production of the United States, but'





the estimated crop is still about forty

million bushels less than last year,

which was short of the usual demestic

requirements. Last month’s statement

may be repeated that ‘i‘armers should

remember last year’s experience when

prices fell to relatively low points

during the early marketing season,

then rose to high points at the end

of the season after some of the soft

red winter wheat had been exported.

Although the highest prices paid in

the past season may not be reached

this season, the soft red Winter wheat

price level for the year should work

out about equal to the average for

the past season.’





“Improvement in the hard red





spring wheat crop indicates that the t





supply of that wheat may be about

equal to that. of last year, and the

market for hard red spring wheat,

therefore, is likely to be upon an ex-

port basis for a part of the year, at

least. There appears to be an abun-

dance of hard red winter and durum

wheats. The prices for these classes

of wheats, therefore, are likely to be

determined throughout the year by

the world market price levels.



“The world wheat supply situation

now seems somewhat similar to that

of 1923 when the world harvested the

largest crap that had been harvested

up to that time, and prices fell to a

low point in the first part of the mar-

keting season. In comparing with the

1923-24 marketing season, the increase

in the purchasing power of European

consumers and the increase in 'de—'

mand for wheat through the past five

years must not be overlooked. In,1923

farm prices reached their low point

in August and ended the year con-





siderably about the July and. August





prices. Heavy marketings in the be-

ginning of the season tend to depress

prices too much.”



We have tried to apply some of the





methods developed by the department .'





to this year’s wheat situation, using

information on world. production





available thus far. They indicate that





the average price of No. 2 hard win-

ter at Kansas City for the'crop year

should be within a range of a. fey





cents above or below $1.30.'If prices i

stay considerably below this level for;





a long period, as they are at pres ' 1:;

they should even up' by being shag?

it during the latter part‘bi‘ the

year. This probably -' gives "a. ‘

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HE latest report issued by'the

Department of Agriculture on in—

tentions to plant winter wheat for

next year’s crop indicates that there

is a decrease of about two per cent

lie-low. this year. The reduction areas





mare in the corn belt—Oklahoma and





Texas. The increase areas are in

Montana and the Pacific Northwest.





FROZEN PEACHES FOR ICE

CREAM





 





H'E use of frozen peaches for use



in, ice cream making is gradually

spreading according to a report from

the Department of Agriculture.

Canned peaches have been used for

this purpose fer many years. The

new process is to pack in cans and

keep in cold storage at a temperature

of fifteen degrees. Tests in the office

of horticulture indicate that the

frozen material retains the charac-

teristic peach flavor in slightly great-

er degree than that preserved but in

both cases the pulp should be from

fully‘ ripened fruit.





MUST MARK APPLES GOING TO

ENGLAND





 





FTER November 13 of this year



all apples shipped from the

United States into Great Britain must

be marked “U. S. A.” Former meth-

ods of marking using the word

“American” or “American produce”

will not be accepted. This new order

has been communicated officially from

the Agricultural Commissioner at Lon-

don, Mr. E. A. Foley. It requires that

the marking shall be indelibly and

in a conspicuous manner in letters

not less than an inch in height.





WOULD SAVE PRODUCERS A

NEAT SUM





HE hide and leather organizations



of the United States including the

National Tanners Council, the Call‘

Leather Association and others, have

recently carried out an effective piece

of cooperative work with the. Depart-

ments of Agriculture and Commerce

having a program for the elimination

of waste in the production of hides

and skins. It is estimated that $20,—

000,000 annually can be saved to the

producers of hides.





 





PRAISES DANISH COOPERATIVES





 





HE Assistant Secretary of Agri-

culture has high praise for some

of the Danish cooperative bacon and

egg packing plants which, he says,

receive a remarkably steady supply





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of hogs and eggs without frequent

communication with the, country dis-

tricts. The unifmmity of the hogs in

size and condition, he thinks, has

much to do with the excellent market

maintained for Danish pork products.

In one plant visited the hog car-

casses, after passing through the hair-

removing machines, were put through

a singeing machine which left them

blackened, but subsequent scraping

revealed an unusually white, smooth

skin.





 





GRAPES SOLD BY GOVERNMENT

GRADE





 





ENNSYLVANIA Grapes will be



sold under Federal-State shipping

joint inspection this year according to

an announcement just made by the

Department of Agriculture. This car-

ries out the grading of the Lake Erie

Valley grape crop as prescribed by

the United States grades and stan-

dards which was begun by the pas-

sage last winter of a law in New York

state making the use of these grades

and standards compulsory in that

state. The use of these standards in

Pennsylvania is voluntary on the part

of the growers and shippers.



About two-thirds of the table grapes

produced in the eastern part of the

United States are now covered by this

arrangement including the Hudson

Valley belt, the Keuka and Central

New York belt and the Lake Erie Val<

ley which covers the counties of Erie

and Chautauqua in New York and

Erie in Pennsylvania.





INCREASE IN MILK CONSUMP-

TION NOT IN IT WITH

TOBACCO





 





HE most remarkable increase in



consumption of any American

agricultural product is shown by the

report for 1928 of the Bureau of In-

ternal Revenue giving the figures on

the number of cigarettes consumed

and taxed in the United States. The

total number of cigarettes on which

the tax was* paid during the fiscal

year ending July lst, 1928, was 100,-

592,285,843. Ten years before the

total number of cigarettes amornted

to only 30,529,193,538—an increase of

nearly 250% in ten years. The total

tax paid 011 cigarettes amounted to

almost $202,000,000. The total tax on

tobacco amounted to almost $396,000,-

000.





EUROPEAN BUTTER MARKETS

STIFFEN





 





OTWITHSTAN‘DING the prevail-

ing butter price level in the

United States, foreign cables show an

even stronger market in western

Europe, with advances of one and a





Slower! T rain in the W or/a'





‘ of the





-half cents per 'pound- in the. same pe-





riod that New York' prices advanced

only about a cent. This left the situ-

ation as of August 16 with a price

differential’ of 8.7 cents between





Copenhagen and New York, and six





cents between the London price of

best Danish and New York 92 score.

There should be heavy production in

the leading European producing areas

up to this date as the season there

like here has been marked by exces-

sive rainfall. The price‘indicates in—

creased Continental and English buy-

ing.



WANT TARIFFS ON POULTRY-



PRODUCTS BOOSTED





 





THE National Poultry Council, The

American Farm Bureau Federar

tion,. and numerous other organiza-

tions concerned with the producing

end of the poultry industry have,

through Attorney Thomas F. Doherty

_of New York City, filed a brief with

the- U. S. Tariff Commission asking

for increases in the tariff rates on

poultry products. They ask for 25

per cent increase on eggs in the shell

(8 cents to 10 cents per dozen); 50

per cent increase on frozen egg pro-

ducts, (6 cents to 9 cents per pound);

and 50 per cent increase on dried egg

products, (18 cents to 27 cents per

pound). The legislature of the State

of Wisconsin has also asked for this

increase. The Tariff Commission has

been making a study of the cost of

egg production in China, which will

undoubtedly prove to be the “country

of chief foreign competition.”





FORECASTING THE PRICE OF

WHEAT





 





(Continued from preceding page)

liar position, owing to the fact that

domestic production this year is sub-

stantially below our annual average

domestic consumption. The extent to

which it will sell above other grades

of wheat is determined by the price

difference at which substitution of

other wheats will be made-and per-

haps to some extent by the cost of

bringing soft white wheats from the

Pacific Northwest. Last spring, when





soft red winter wheat became scarce‘





and when the market was excited by

reason of the heavy winter abandon-

ment in soft wheat producing terri-

tory, prices of soft red winter on the

St. Louis market ranged from thirty

to forty cents above hard red winter

wheat. This probably represents the

price differential which will invite

extensive substitution or attract ship-

ments from the Northwest and should

be considered' in estimating the proba-

ble average price for it during the

current season.





That economic conditions abroad

are improving is shown by the sales

General Motors Company

which for the first half of 1928 were

nearly fifty per cent higher than for

the same period of the preceding

year and exceeded the total sales for

1926.





 





 





 





News of - the fWee‘k





 





 





 





Senator J. T. Robinson of Arkansas

accepts the democratic vice- presi-

dential nomination and challenges his

political foes on the issues of fa1m

relief, prohibition, merchant marine,

and political corruption.





Henry Ford is building in Dearborn

a village which will be a cross-sec-

tion of villages from post colonial

times to the present—a permanent

pageant of America.





It has been discovered that 15111

6,000 Detroiters have been voting ii:

legally for years because of a tangle

iii] naturalization and election regula-



t.0nB





A bull bolted at the New York state

fair when an effort was made to get~

a photograph of the animal with the

democratic presidential nominee, Al-

fred E. Smith. The animal threatened

Governor Smith and his family before

brought under control.





Six persons were killed in the col«

lapse of three buildings at Shelbv

North Carolina.





If the proposed alliance between

italy and Spain is consummated, diplo-

mats see an entirely new alignment

in European political situation with

faris and Rome as the opposing cen-

ers.





The Hay Fever Association of

America was organized at the 'Sault

Ste. Marie, last week.





It is reported that more than 100,-

000 people are facing starvation in the

hurricane devastated area of Haiti.





GovernOr Green has named a com-

mittee of bean growers to work for

an opening price of $7. 00 per hundred

p.0unds Mr. J. N. McBride of Buiton

has been named chairman Of this com-

mittee.





Chicago is to have a union ticket

office, depot, and information bureau

for air passengers, the first of its kind

in America.





The Canadian government reduces

the interest rate on advances under

the Canadian Finance Act to assist

farmers in. the economic handling of

the season‘s crops.





United States, Canada, Mexico and

Cuba will hold a conference in No-

vembei on the question of allocation

10f radio wave lengths.





A falling off in revenue collections

and an increase in the expenses of

the government brings about a deficit

in government finances amounting to

$94,000,000. However, a large amount

of debts have been paid during the

year, but for which a big surplus

would be shown. .



A serious diplomatic tangle was

precipitated when poiiée in the 1501-

eign section of ‘Shanghai, China,

raided the office of the nationalist gov-

ernment’s ministry of foreign affairs,

seizing pamphlets of importance to

the nationalist ministry. The Japanese

are blamed for the affair.



Senator Johnson continues to pile

up an overwhelming majority for the

Republican senatorial nomination in

California



011 August 29 eight nations com-

municated to the United States their

adherence to the Kellogg anti war

tieaty in lesponse to invitations from

this country to join in this treaty. At

least five other nations will’ adhere to

the treaty.



Bedies from the 111 fated giant tri-

motored British monoplane enroute

from Victoria to Seattle were washed

ashore on the- coast of Washington

state near Port Angeles.





A British concern plans regular air

service between England and Canada.





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. R ten years the world’s peoples

have been seeking some form of

peace insurance—in an anti-war



agreement.



‘ The World must have peace or it

will have war. There is no middle

ground.



“As a first step toward interna-

tional disarmament,” the Treaty of

Versailles demanded perpetual dis-

armament of Germany. And Germany

has completely disarmed in the mean—

ing of the treaty. But the Allies have

talked peace and continued to arm,

While professing good intentions.



At present, war, war debts, and pre—

paredness for war are absorbing

eighty per cent of every people’s fis-

cal energies. These three monsters

consume us in taxes, wasting and de-

stroying annually more than enough

to abolish all the world’s poverty and

wretchedness.



Must we keep them always? I do

not think so. We know this is true:

The longer the nations postpone the

renunciation of war, the nearer war

comes. After ten years of peace talk,

armaments again are increasing.



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Mr. Briand, foreign minister of

France, laboring to find a formula for

preventing war, suggested that the

United States and France unite in a.

treaty outlawing war for any cause as

between them; the treaty to denounce





aggressive war and to define aggres-~





sion as an act of war by a govern-

ment that had pledged itself not to

go to war. I



I believed this a good definition of

aggression and as a member of this

government’s Foreign Relations Com-

mittee, introduced a resolution in the

Senate accepting the Briand proposal

the first day that Congress met last

year, but changing the phrase, “out-

lawing war,” to “renouncing war,”

which I think means more. Neverthe-

less, my resolution has not been

adopted by the Senate and has not yet

come before it for a vote.



Before the Briand proposal could

come before Congress the Secretary of

State, Mr. Kellogg, made a counter

proposal which laid aside the question

of aggression and proposed that’ the

fourteen principal nations unite in an

agreement to “renounce war as an in-

strument of national policy.”



Germany promptly accepted it out~

right, followed by unqualified accept-

ances from Italy and France. Recent-

ly Great Britain definitely accepted

the'Kellogg proposal. -



In correspondence with Mr. Briand,

Mr. Kellogg said that his proposal

for renouncing war would tie no coun-

try’s hands if it were attacked, nor

would it prevent it from taking sides,

if it saw fit, where an aggressive at-





tack was made in violation of a

treaty not to go to war.





Now it might be said that with

these reservations the Kellogg propo-v

sal is merely another pious resolution

against war and not in practical ef-

fect worth the paper it is written on.

. I do not think so. I believe the

Kellogg plan will prove -to be the

most telling action ever taken in

human history to abolish war. It will

mean these powers must next take up

the revision of the code of war. The

great merit of the Kellogg plan as a

Starting point is that it proposes to

make several forms of. war illegal.

It is a long step toward other agree-

ments and measures to be. adopted

later to carry out this c'ompact.



With the Kellogg proposal adopted

by the Powers, the second paragraph

of the. resolution I introduced last

winter in the Senate is as urgent as

ever. W8 .‘mmt._léttle by agreement



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fective. What the resolution pro-

posed was that aggression should be

defined as the act of a government in

going to war, in preference to further

negotiation; or, when that failed,

seeking further arbitration, or appeal—

ing to the World Court for adjudica-

tion of the dispute, when that gov-

ernment had solemnly pledged itself

to renounce war as a means of set-

tling such disputes.



Certainly such a definition brings us

much nearer to the nub of the prob-

lem. For if war is to be renounced

we must have some settled procedure.



* * at



The complete disarmament of Ger-

many, formerly considered the world’s

most warlike nation, is not generally

understood in relation to what it

means to general world disarmament.



Not only was the German navy de-

stroyed and the German army dis-

armed and disbanded, but all muni-

tion plants in Germany were pro-

hibited. Germany is forbidden to.

manufacture arms and ammunition,

even to import them from abroad.



‘.The fact declared by the peace

treaty, written by the victorious Allies,

is that Germany is completely dis-

armed simply as the first step in their

own disarmament. The peace treaty

was a pledge to the world of disarma—

ment by the World Powers, and the

United States is one of these Powers.



No country has ever had a greater

boon thrust upon it than the Allies

thrust upon Germany in requiring her

perpetual disarmament. A tremen—

dously wasteful burden was thereby

lifted from the backs of her people

and a formidable obstacle removed

from Germany’s progress as a nation.

This has resulted in a surprisingly

speedy rehabilitation of the country

economically. By reason of this Ger-

many has reaped the only good which

has so far arisen from the war. The

only good which can arise from war

today is what may be gained from

reducing the enormous waste of war

and of preparedness for war.



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No harm has come to Germany by

reason of not being armed to defend

herself against armed nations—Ger-

many has not been attacked. Instead,

Germany, absolutely helpless so far

as armament is concerned, is never-

theless heard and listened to in in-

ternational councils.



And another thing, Germany is not

asking to be permitted to arm. She

is not asking that this prohibition be

lifted. .



But of this we may be sure: If the

other Powers do not carry 'out their

treaty pledge to disarm themselves,

the time will come when armament

will come back to Germany, for no

nation as great as the German people

will submit quietly .for any long pe-

riod of time to sit at the mercy of

other nations that are armed and

arming.



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The time for disarmament is here.

The civilized Powers, if they are in

fact civilized, will keep their prom-

ise to disarm, and the people of these

countries should demand that they do

so and refuse to be put off .with eva-

sions and denials.



It is admitted everywhere that the

United States is today the greatestl

power in the world. And the great-

est power .in the United States is

public opinion, when that opinion in-

sists upon being heard.



Our government as an earnest of

that opinion, sent Secretary Kellogg





to Paris to a meeting of foreign min— '





isters of the principal powers to con—

clude the negotiations proposing the

multilateral treaty for the renun-‘





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News and Views

~Froni INGLESIDE FARM—By Stanley Powell





 





 





THE Inglelside tractor is well

along on its fifth week on the

I Ronald Community threshing

outfit and we are getting anxious to

wind up the season’s threshing opera-

tions so that we may set that me—

chanical horse power to work in the

twenty-three acres of oat stubble just

north of the house.



According to our usual rotation, this

land would be planted to wheat. How-

ever, it wouldn’t take much persua-

sion to convince me that we had bet-





 





ter discontinue growing wheat, for

f the present a. t

’3‘}, least, and raise





that much more

barley. At any

rate, we shall go

right ahead with

plowing and fit-

ting this field

and then if we

decide not to

plant wheat, the

field will be





 





 





in the spring.



Our experience

and observations this season have con-

vinced us that fall plowing is far

, superior to spring plowing as a pre-

paration for a. satisfactory yield of

barley.



This oat stubble that we have men-

tioned has been the scene of some un-

usually strenuous and vexatious work

during the past month. Our oats

certainly looked like a bumper crop

until just a few days before we

started to cut them. Just at this

critical stage, a heavy wind and rain

storm swept across the field and did

about as good a job as a heavy roller

could have done. The result was that

we had to cut the cats in lands, “car-

rying the swath,” as the old-timers

would say, that is, going empty on

three sides of the field and cutting

them all in one direction.



Despite all this extra endeavor, the

bundles were a shapeless mass, with

[heads on both ends. It Was a nasty

job to set them up and had it been

necessary to put them in the barn and

pitch them out of a mow, it would

have been awful. However, thanks

to our community threshing outfit, we

threshed them directly from the field,

so it wasn’t quite so bad.



I raked the. stubble and secured 94

{bushels of oats out of the gleanings

[from the twenty-three acres». This

brought the. yield for the field up to

1,325 bushels, or 57.6 bushels per acre,

not a bad yield when we consider

that the ground was left strewn with

{heads and shattered oats and some

{terribly lodged stuff had eluded the

binder entirely. In an attempt to sal-

ivage as much of this residue as pos-

isible, We turned our sheep, steers,

sand shoats into the field for a few

.‘days.



! Cleaning the Fence Rows



3, While I was striking out the back-

;furrows in this stubble, I started a

[man around the fence with a brush

.‘hook with instructions to cut all

.weeds and brush. When he had com-

:pleted this circuit, he went around the

"field again, this time taking an axe,

Viic‘utting anything too large for the

'hrush hook and trimming up the trees.

'1. 'The next morning we gathered up

he. debris. It made an interesting

,1 ad—;Canada thistles, nettles, thorn

’apple bushes, wild roses, hazel brush,

elders, wild grape vines, and many

_‘ fir things too numerous to men-

'tion. I remarked while we were

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through this process with each field

”cry time that it was plowed, it

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ready for barley_





plug this job that if we could go‘





pie order without very much work at

any one time. This not only improves

the appearance of the premises, but

allows for working the land closer to

the fences and makes it far more





Work. During theIonia Fair. I sold

a ram to Mr. Joe Bell of Nashville.

All the time that Mr. Bell was 88-.

lecting this ram the one thought up-

permost in his mind seemed to be

that ofmchoosing one that would please

his three sons. How encouraging is

that-viewpoint! How much it holds

in store for the future of farm life!

Abundance Here—Famine There

There is no more normal or no

more commendable desire than that

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pleasant to go the first time around

a field with such a tool as a binder.

We liked the results of our labors

around the cat stubble field so much

that we went and did likewise around

the alfalfa field which lies just to the

east



The neighbors agree that our cats

were the most free from smut of any‘

which have been threshed in this

community this season. Mowing away

up in the straw-barn, I rejoiced con-

tinually that I had treated the seed

for smut just before planting. It is

far better to be nearly asphyxiated for

a few minutes while treating the seed

than to have a whole threshing crew

eating smut and have a fractional

crop besides.





Thinking of the Boys First



The long-time, ancestral aspects of

agriculture have been emphasized in

some correspondence which I have

had recently with Mr. Carl Buskirk

of Paw Paw, who writes primarily

because he is in the market for a

Shropshire ram. Referring to the fact

that wife and I are the proud parents

of little Ronald, Mr. Bus‘kirk writes,

“Was glad to hear that you had

started in farming in the proper way,

by raising someone to build a farm

for. Personally, I don’t believe I

WOuld be any good as a farmer if I

did not have some children that I

thought would some day enjoy the

trees, shrubs, etc., that I put out from

year to year on the farm. I think I

would rob the soil for all it was worth

and then sell it to some fellow that

did not know lan .”



In another letter, Mr. Buskirk men-

tioned that he was asmuch interested

in pleasing his .youngest son as him-

self in the selection of the ram that

he intends to purchase. Each year

it seems that this attitude is becom‘

ing more evident among rural fathers.

I believe that it is to a large extent

traceable to‘the influence of 4-H Club





 





 





his child. How heart-reading it must

be to be unable to provide even the

bare necessities of life for one’s off-

spring and to be forced to see the

little one in misery, sickness. and

death.



When I note little Ronald thriving





Moth Destroys





IN fall one may see a pretty moth,

or miller, which spreads nearly

two inches across its extended wings.

The creature is of a clay color with

an opalescent pinkish tinge and is

quite pretty, especially when large

numbers of them are clustered to-

gether.



This creature is to be found in the

morning sitting around where it has

been attracted to lights the night be-

fore or else sitting on'fruit, engaged

in sucking the sap.



It is capable of doing a great deal

of damage to ripening peaches, pears,

everbearing strawberries, or to any

other juicy fruit that ripens at this‘

season of the year.



This creature is normally a native

of Central America and Southern.

Mexico and dies out wherever frost

occurs. It starts working northward

in the spring, producing generation

after generation, each spreading far-

ther north so that in certain seasons

it reaches us, since the moths are

very strong fliers they come a long

distance and when they do get here

they are usually in enormous num-

bers. ~



'The moth is the only one of which

I know capable of tearing the skinroff

fruit. After tearing their way iii-they

seem to infect the ripening fruit with

a rot which spreads rapidly and com-

pletes its destruction. ’



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and on the more'modern supplements-i

such as the juices ofsfruits and vege‘;

tables, I cannot help'”-but think of the '

millions of little ones in the dark

places of the world who never know

what it is to have enough to eat. And

just now, in China for instance, the

situation is so much worse than

usual. 'I



The newspapers are full of the de-'

pressing, heart-rending details. On

my desk even now are two letters,

from different sources, each appealing

for funds to alleviate the-conditions

in grievously smitten regions. One

reads in part:



“Millions in China are starving!

Because there is nothing to eat,

mothers are drowning their babies,

fathers -are selling their wives and

children. In villages of 500, three to

ten funerals are reported daily.



“Leaves, bark, and chaff are used

as food. Feebly crying children are

fed clay-soup, that helps to. stop their

craving, but only a lingering death re—

sults.” ‘



TB Decreasing





It seems to be the God~given des—‘V





tiny and task of America to lead the

way not only in the prevention of

famine and pestilence, but in wiping

out other not so spectacular, but none

the less deadly foes of health and

happiness. In this latter category I

think of bovine tuberculosis and re-

joice to note the recent government

figures which show what splendid

progress is being made in our efforts

to stamp out this ~menace“ to the

health of our herds and families. The

following figures, showing the decline

in the infection of cattle in the

United States are eloquent in their

encouragement: 1922—4.0%; 1924~—

3.3%; 1926—2.8%; 1928—2.0%. '





Some one has said that the kind of

relief a lot of farmers need is reduc-

tion in the cost of producing the pro-

ducts they place on the market.





Don’t stop spraying potatoes now,

or late blight may get them. If you

want suggestions for controlling po-

tato diseases, write to the'ofiice of

H. C. Moore, potato specialist, for

bulletin giving the necessary informa-

tion.





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ter and all the insects will be killed,

way back to some place in Mexico.

Next year they will start north again,

feeding on cotton in the southern

states, being known there as the com-

mon cotton-worms. They appear up

north every once 'in a while, always





late in the‘ fall. There is no telling

just when they will come. In some





years we see nothing of [them at all,.f'





but in other seasons they succeed in '

reaching us up here.



Now, as to control—the moths are

attracted to light. Several years ago

when we had an outbreak of this

same nature, largely in peaches and

in ripening pears, I recommended the

use of trap-lanterns which at this

time seemed to help somewhat. ”Get

an ordinary milk-pan and set it on

a. soap box or something of this sort,

out in the orchard. In this pan, place

a brick and then put in an inch ori

thereabout of water, with one—half tea-

'cupful of kerosene oil floating on top.

On the brick put an ordinary lantern,

such as everyone 'used to have around

the barn, and light'up about sundown.

The idea is to get the 'moths to fly

towards the light and fall into the«

milk—pan of kerosene and water!





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nearest tag store





ADRIAN. .Wllcox Hardware Co.

ALMA .......... Glass & Mayes

ALMONT....Pollard Hdwe. Co.

ALLEGAN ........ Phillips Bros.

ALLEN ........ Alle‘n Hdwe. Co.

ANN ARBOR .................



. . . .Ann Arbor Implement Co.

ANN ARBOR



........ Schlinker Hdwe. Co.

ARMADA..Wm. Spencer & Son

ASHLEY ............. Geo. Reeb

BANGOR....I. G. Miller & Son

BATTLE CREEK





............ Strong Hdwe. Co.‘





BAY CITY. . . .Rechlin Hdw. Co.

BAY CITY. .John W. Putz Hdw.

BANNISTER. . . .Wm. G. Ferris

BELDING. . . .Belding Hdwe. Co.

BELLAIRE ...... ’. .Fred D. F’lye

BELLEVUE. . . .Shaler Hdw. Co.

BENTLEY ......... Pelton Bros.

BERRIEN SPRINGS ...........





......... Angell Hardware Co. '





BIRCH RUN ..................

......... Birch Run Hdwe. Co.

BRANT ............. A. J. Locke

BRECKENRIDGEP. C. Thomas

BRONSON ....... Henry Deebel

BRUCE CROSSING ............

........ Bjornstrom & Simula

BURR OAK..H. T. Diffenbaugh



CALEDONIA

y D. Clemens





CALUMET .Ke‘ckonen Hdwe. Co.

CAMBRIA .......... B. S. Lige

CAMDEN. . .Camden Hdwe. Co.

CARO. . . . . .......... F. A. Riley

CARO ....... Caro Hardware Co.

CARSON CITY



.......... J. W. Hallett & Son

CASSOPOLIS .................



.. . ... 1.". .W. B. Hayden Sons

CEDAR SPRINGS . John Beucus

CENTERVILLE ...............



.......... Truckenmiller Bros.

SHARLEVOIX. ..... Wood Bros.

CHEBOYGAN .................



........ Cheboygan Hdwe. Co.

CHELSEA ............. Chelsea



Hdwe. & Furniture Co.

CHESANING



.......... Chesaning Sales Co.

CLARE . . . . . ..................



Clare Hdwe. & Implement Co.

CLINTON.O. B. Feldkamp & Co.

CLINTON ,



....... .Fred G. Van De Mark

CLIO. . . . . ........ M. C. Doyle



LIO ........ . . . .Wm. H. Eaton





........ Coloma Hardware Co.

COLOMA ........ Harry W. Hill

COMSTOCK PARK ‘ O



; . . . . . ........... Morris Bros

CONCORD ........ D. E. Warner

COOPERSVILLE .....

' ........... Durham Hdwe. Co.





CORAL. . .John N. Drake Hdwe. -





CROSWELL. .Smyth & ”Strafion

CRYSTAL FALLS ........ , . . . . _

' J.ohn Bauer & Son





DECATUR. ...... A. C. Brigham ’





DECKER .......... O. W. Nique

DECKERVILLE. .Thos. McNabb

DEWITT. .A. L. Eldridge Hdwe.

DEXTER . .

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. . . . . .Winegars & Mulhollan





You will find this tag in their window





LEVERING . . . .





...Rogers Lmbr. & Hdwe. Co.

DOWAGIAC ~





.......... H'mék'lé'y' '3; ' carat.





EDMORE. . ........ F. J. Snyder

EDWARDSBURG

F. W. Manchow

oELSIE .............. H. B. Crell

ELSIE .......... M. E. Williams

ELKTON ..... E’lkton Hdwe. Co.

ELLSWORTH . Ellsworth Hdwe.

EUREKA ............ Ed. Gower

EVART. . . .Bregenzer Hdwe. Co.

EWEN ............ Miles Wilcox

FAIRGROVE. . . .A. R. Malsbury

FARWELL ........ - ...........

......... Binghams Hdwe. Co.

FARGO ...... Heinmiller’s Store

FENNVILLE

...... Fennville Implement Co.

FIFE LAKE ....... J. S. Hodge-s

FLUSHING. . . .Haffner & Lytle

FLUSHING. . . .James B. French

FOUNTAIN ......... Reek Bros.

FRANKENMUTH .............

....... A. Nuechterlein & Co.

FREELAND ........ Bert Ferris

GAGETOWN ..................

......... Gagetown Hdwe. Co.

GALIEN Babcock Bros.

GAYLO-RD..Gaylord Hdwe. Co.

GRAND LEDGE. .James Winnie

GRAND RAPIDS ..............

....... Schantz Implement Co.





GRASS LAKE . . . .Jones & Ray





GREENVILLE

......... Greenville Hdwe. Co.

HADLEY Morton Hdwe

HAMILTON ...... H. J. Lampen

HARBOR SPRINGS ...........

.. alrond, Friend & Cassidy

RT .......... Sayles & Lewis

. . . .Jim’s Hardware

HASTINGS..Fellows Hdwe. Co.

HESPERIA

........ Husband & Anderson

HOLLAND . . . .Nies Hdwe. Co.

HOLLOWAY. . . . .F. J. Blouch

HOMER ...... Adams & Miekle

HOWARD CITY ...............

.....R S. Jennings Hdwe. Co.

HOWELL ..... Sutton Hdwe. Co.

HUDSON .....................

........ Harry T. Dillon & Co.

HUDSONVILLE

. ............. B. &. T. Hughes

IDA .............. W. J. Scheid

IONIA . . . .The Io-nia Hdwe. Co.

IMLAY CITY ..... I. N. Courter

IRON MOUNTAIN.Rians Hdwe.

ITHACA ...... , . . .E. J. Alverson

JONESVILLE.‘ ...... Grill Hdwe.

KALAMAZOO

..... Edwards &

KALKASKA

' ....... F. T. Tompkins & Co.

KAWKAWLINStevig Hdwe. Co.





vKENT‘CITY. .Carlson & Trofast





KILMANAGH .................

........ '. . . .Clement P. Woldt

KINDE .......... Damrow Bros.

LAINGSBURG ....... A. F. Brya

LAMBERTVILLE .

............. ...H W. Capman





LAPEER ..... Lapeer Hdwe. Co. .





LASALLE ..... . ..C. L. Miller

LEONIDAS ....... ..B. J. Banta

LESLIE ........ W. H. Johnston





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..... Wm. De Kruit & Co.





LINCOLN ........ E. C.‘ Nieman

LINDEN ........ M. W. Johnson

LITCHFIE’LD ..... -. . ... ........



...... C. E. Wolfinger and Son

LOWELL ............ M. W. Gee

LYONS ........ Hatch & Baker

MARSHALL



........... Frances Hdwe. Co.

MASON ......... L. E. Salisbury

McMILLAN.H. J. Skinner & Co.

MANCHESTER.Fred Widmayer

MANISTEE ..... Meyer & Wahr

MAPLE RAPIDS



. . . .Upton Lmbr. & Hdwe. Co.

MARCELLUS C. A. Rose

MARION ..... Marion Hdwe. Co.

MARLE‘TTTE



........... Schlichter’s Hdwe.

MARQUETTE



......... Kelley Hardware Co.

MARTIN . . .A. Patterson & Son

MECOSTA ....... W. R. Carman

MEMPHIS ....... A. L. Haight

MENOMINEE .................



........... Sollen & Eastburg

MENDON ..... A. H. Shumaker

METAMORA. . .Alfred E. Unger

MIDLAND ...... Wenzel Hdwe.

MIDDLETON



......... Middleton Hdwe. Co.

MIDDLEVILLE



........ Ed. Finkbeiner Hdwe.

MILAN ...... Sanford Hdwe. Co.

MILLINGTON.Fred Wills & Co.

MONROE ...... Gekle & Martin

MONTGOMERY. . . .L. E. Calvin

MO‘NTROSE



.......... Middlebrook Hdwe.

MORRICE. . .Fred W. Burtnette

MOUNT PLEASANT .



Pleasant Hdwe. &

MUNITH





........... Bidwell.r& Peabody

NORTH BRANCH ............



................ H. W. Buckle

ONONDAGA ...... M. J. Baldwin

OSSEO ........... G. W. Darrow

OTSEGO ..... The Jones Hdwe

OTTAWA LAKE..F. L. Rymill

OXFORD .....................



Wm. J. Turnstead Hdwe. Co.

PALO .......... M. C. Galloway

PENTWATER





Williams HdWe. Co. '





PETERSBURG



....... A. C. Gradolph & Son

PEWAMO. . .Pewamo Hdwe. Co.

PETOSKEY ..... McCabe Hdwe.

PICKFORD ........ Fred Taylor

PIGEON. ..... Doepker & Damm

PIGEON .- ...... Leipprandt Bros.

POMPEII ......... N. B. Fraker

PORT AUSTIN. . .S. J. Wallace

PORT AUSTIN.Schubel & Watt

PORT SANILAC.Fred Raymond

POTTERVILLE ...............



........ Mulhollan & Laverty

QUINCY ........... J. C. White

QUINCY ........ A. W. Brandon

RHODES ...... John Levandoski

RIVERDALE.R. E. Moblo & Co.

RODNEY ....... Geo. Burghdorf

ROGERS CITY ........



....... Rogers City Hdwe. Co.

ROMEO ..... Romeo Hdwe Co.





'ROSEBUSH ..... Geo. H. Fraser





ROTHBURY ..... H. F. Newman

SAGINAW ..... Burrier & Avery

SAND LAKE W. D. Sinclair

SANDUSKY. . .Clare Orr Estate

SALINE ........ H. Gross & Son

SALIN E. . . . . Sanford Hdwe. Co.

SARANAC . .. . . .M. A. Wilkinson





SAULT STE. MARIE

Fletcher’s Hdwe.

SAULT STE. MARIE ......... .



............ Gowan Hardware

SAWYER ................ . . . .



..Zeigler Lumber & Coal Co.

SCOTTVILLE ...... T. D. Smith

SHEPARDSVILLE. .I. J. Frisbie

ST. CHARLES ................



McKeighan—Your Hdwe. Man

ST. CHARLES ‘



.......... Ray Grimley & Son

ST. JOHNS. . . .Spaulding & Co.

ST. JOSEPH ....... Aber-Grimm

ST. JOSEPH .................. I



........ Richter & Achterberg

ST. LOUIS....St. Louis Hdwe.

SEBEWAING



.......... John Rummel & Co.

SHELBY ......... A. J. Rankin

SHERWOOD. . .Sherwood Hdwe.

SNOVER .....................



..Turner Kitching Hdwe. Co.

SOUTH HAVEN ..............



...... The Malbone Hdwe. Co.

SPARTA



....... William A. Rogers Co.

SPRINGPORT



M. L. Haviland & Co. _

STANTON. . .Stanton Hdwe. Co.

STOCKBRIDGE ...............



.............. Kaiser & Shaw

STURGIS. . . .Bassler Hdwe. Co.

STANDISH.Econ0my Hdwe. Co.

SUNFIELD ..... H. V. Sweitzer

TAWAS CITY ..... Eugene Bing

TAWAS CITY



........ C. H. Prescott & Son

TEKONSHA



.......... Warner & Doolitg

TEMPERANCE ...............



Temperance Hdwe. & Supply

THREE RIVERS ..............



F. M. Malbone

TRAVERSE CITY .............



...... Frank Trude Hdwe. Co.

TRUFANT ....... N. P. Nielsen

TURNER. . . .Peoples Hdwe. Co.

UNION CITY .................



. . . .E. W. Merchant and Sons

VICKSBURG ....... R. J. Haas

WEBBE‘RVILLE



....... E. H. Hath Hdwe. Co.

WATERVLIET. . . .O. E. Austin

WATERVLIE‘T.H. Pierce & Son

WAYLAND '



.......... The Farmers’ Store

WEIDMAN ....... E. G. Albright

WHITE PIGE’ON ..............



.......... White Pigeon Hdwe

YALE ....... John Hutton & Son

ZEELAND ..... M. C. Ver Hage





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1248 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich.





Detroit’s Oldest and Largest Savings and Loan Association

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Y surplus cash comes from sell-'





ing flowers at our wayside

stand. My stand is ‘a substantial one,

six foot long, painted the same shade

of green as the old apple tree it

stands under. My bowls are mostly

squat and round aquarium, or gold-

fish bowls, that I buy at the ten cent

stores, together with some of grand-

mother’s old cookie jars. My flowers

are tulips, iris, peonies, phldx, and,

when frosts blight the beauty of the

latter, for my phloxes bloom late,

there are great bunches of bittersweet

from my old garden wall. For my

of bittersweet, I charge

more than my others, and they sell

rapidly: for what city dweller can





“pass by my great bunches of orange





bittersweet when the dark and dreary

days of fall come.

To begin with,





in late April and





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teriorate. About every five years.

when roots become, too crowded, l

transplant and diVide my iris

peony clumps; and always have found

October the best month for this work-





A good many of my bitterS‘Weet'





vines are nursery stock; and these

vines too are hardy and when once

planted require no care only in find.

ing suitable places for plantingl‘that

will not out-run more delicate plants.



After the ground is frozen in the

fall, so as not to cause premature fall

sproutings, I mulch my hardy. flower

garden with leaves or straw, and,





some years, not every year, with well





rotted manure. .



_For all the pleasure I derive from

the beauty of my flower blooms and

for all my surplus cash earnings, I am

indebted to my lord and landowner

who has set aside for me one-half acre

of ground. And next year I am going

to try to grow straw flowers, so that





 





 





May I have tulips in all varieties

from the Single Early and Cottage

through to the late flowering Breeder

and Darwins. I plant tulips in trench-

es and all the same depth, which is

one and one—half times their diameter,

and, because they thrive best in a

well drained soil, I use generous

sprinklings of sand, around each bulb,

when planting them.



From a careful selection I have

iris blooms from late April, through

May and June, and up to mid-July;

and l have them in all their irides-

cent colors from rich yellows, soft

blues, and purples, rose pinks, claret

reds, and bronzes, to pure white.‘ Can

we wonder at the name iris, which

derives from the Greek word meaning

rainbow, for what flower has more

rainbow color tints or more classic

beauty? I am sure there is none

more hardy for they will grow in

most any soil. I plant iris one or- two

inches below the ground and about

one foot apart.



Peonies are another flower that

should be popular for all growers of

flowers for profit, because they are so

hardy and easy of culture. I have

them from my grandmother’s old red

“piney” through creamy white, yel-

low,. and pink varieties to ~the late

single Japanese plants. To me these

plants rival the rose, for what cut-

flower is more beautiful. Decoration

Day they are especially in demand

and at good prices. Peonies should be

planted in good soil but, like the iris,

no fertilizer should touch theirroots.



For brillant color effects in late

summer, when so little else is in

bloom, my hardy phlox are both

beautiful and profitable. Now there

are so many new varieties one can

have them in the purest white,

mauves, and lavenders and blues, to

delicate pink and salmon, orange, and

firey scarlet, and the beautiful dark

There are, too, the many

delicate shades with rings and eye

markings in other colors. Phlox are

very hardy and will grow and bIQOm





'in most any soil but th‘roughthe dry

’ months should have plenty of water





for'best- results. When cutting my

bouquets of phlox, I leave three .or





four inches of stem and they then





bloom again; and} too, I pinch out the

tops of some of my plants before the





buds have formed, and they then cen— ? .





tinue to bloom until first frosts.





quire little care after once planting;





only every three years I (11.8 up and 1





replant my tulips, divide” and





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All these plants are hardy and rev





when winter follows the 'dark and

dreary days I "may still have bouquets

to sell.—~Hazel S. Watkins.





A BARREL APPLE PIT KEEPS

FRUIT WELL ‘





 





HE home cellar nowadays usual-



ly has a cement floor or a fur-

nace, or both. This makes it a very

unsatisfactory place to store the win-

ter supply of apples. When apples

are put ,in an outside pit and cov-

ered with straw and dirt, they take

on an earthen flavor that is not de-

sirable. A much better method is to

place the apples in sugar barrels and

nail old sacks over the tops. Next

lay the barrels on their sides in a

straight row in the garden and cover

with about eighteen inches of straw,

and then a layer of dirt. As soon as

the dirt is frozen several inches deep,

cover with a second layer of straw.





‘When a fresh, crisp supply of apples.





is needed, open one end of the pit and

remove one barrel and take it to the

cellar. It is not uncommon to find

even midwinter varieties such. as

Jonathans holding in fine shapepntfl

April and even May when handled in

this way. If the winter apples are

picked as early as the middle of Cote

b 1r, it is best to hold themin the cel-

lar until November before placing





.them in the barrel pit—C. L. Burk-





holder.





Visitors who accompanied the

cherry tour through Oceana County

saw examples of the value of bees in

aiding the pollination of fruit blos-

soms and the consequent increase, in

the yields of fruits. In the .Roach

Orchards at Hart, several cherry trees

had been placed in. screened cages, so

that no insects could work, ens-the

blossoms. The caged trees'would aver

age a production of only two orthree

pounds of fruit to the tree. fl‘rees

in the orchard which had not been

caged will average 100 pounds of

fruit.





When out often the clippings may





be left on the lawn without marring.

These help to lbuild‘





its appearance.

a good soil.





 





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' MUCK FARMERS GETTING our OF





THE MUCK





 





ICHIGAN can boast of a. real live

group of soil enthusiasts. These

are our muck farmers. For several

years they have been attacking their





‘ peculiar. problems with vigor and per-





sistence.

A large number of the farmers who





‘ had much land to cultivate or go to





waste, organized a number of years

forming the Michigan Muck

Association. Since then





meetings at which important informa-





‘ tion to men handling this type of Soil





has been given out. The Michigan





- State College has worked with this





Sowmg clover this year in the wheat

Withrthe rhsult that the binder had

to be raised as high as it could be ad-





. justed cutting the wheat without cut-





ting off the clover, as the clover had

grown half as high as the wheat. In

another field he put limestone on one

plot, marl on the next, and limestone

on the next. The clover on the

marled land was better gothan that

which had been limed. At most- of the

big marl beds, it is being sold for 25

to 50 cents a load with the privilege

of hauling as much as the wagon will

hold.





STATE TO AID OIL INDUSTRY





 





HE Department of Conservation,

Geological Division, plans to em-

ploy a gas and oil well expert to sup-





ervise the locating, drilling, casing,

repairing, completing, and operating

of all operations .in Michigan. It will





be his duty to see that wells are not





 





 





 





Time and Again It Has Been Proven That Piling Manure Like This Is





Wasteful of This Valuable Fertilizer.





This Farmer Good Profits.





group and thereby added much to the

usefulness of the meetings and the

association to the members.



We have before us a copy of the

report of the last meeting of this

organization.





muck land, but on crops suited for

such land, and on the handling of in-

sects and diseases that trouble these

crops. Then, too, a year ago another

report of previous meetings was pub-

lished. This too has a variety of sub-

jects. treated by specialists and men

well advanced in the husbandry of

muck s‘oils.



Michigan agriculture would be im-





.mensely wealthier if every farmer in





the state who has an acre or more of

muck land would get a copy of one

or both of these. reports, and study

them carefully. Mr. Paul M. Harmer,

of East Lansing, Michigan, is the ac-

tive secretary and he has advised us

that he would gladly send reports to

any who may be interested enough to

request a copy. A post card may

make that muck hole look like a gold

mine.





 





MARL HELPS THESE FARMERS





 





HAUNCEY CARDINAL marled 20



acres and succeeded in getting

good clover on ,flat acid ground,

Whereas for the last seven years he

sowed red clover seed but never got

a crop. He is well satisfied with the

results gotten from using marl



Orville Bear, who has an ineXhausti-

ble marl bed within 100 yards of his

barn, used marl on a flat, acid field

which he sowed in wheat last fall,

top dressing it with manure. This

spring, where he had used the marl

there Was such a rank growth of a1-

sike clover from Seed in (the manure,

it was impossible to cut the wheat

Where no marl was used, there was

no clover at all..



The outstanding demonstration was

at the farm of Irwin Taylor, where

the ground was Wet, acid soil. He

had a plot near an old tenant house,





' which he sowed with wheat and clo—t





two years The clever came





 





It is full of useful ad—‘

‘vice not alone on the handling. of





A Good Spreader Would Return





drilled in the vicinity of public build-

ings, and to see that the casing is

put down so that the oil, gas, brine,

and water bearing beds will not be

effected through-mixture of one with

the other and generally to protect the

state. The oil companies interested

in developing the Michigan field were

anxious that such a man be employed

for they knew through experience

that such a step is necessary to har-

mony and the best interests of all

concerned.





FERTILIZER PAYS ON WHEAT

CROP





 





PLOT of Wheat intended for cer-



tification was harvested separ-

ately to determine the actual increased

yield, if any, due to the use of nitrate

of soda, and it was estimated that

there was an increased yield of about

25 per cent. Four plots treated with

ammonium sulphate were also in-

spected, each being 1~10 of an acre in

size and having an application of ten

pounds of fertilizer. The increases

due to this treatment will run from

20 to 35 per cent more wheat than

the untreated areas. In the case of

the nitrate of soda and sulphate of

ammonia plots, indications are that

the treatment has paid for itself and

in some cases left a profit for the





' owners.





Three‘ fields containing eighty-five

acres of alfalfa are being'grown for

certified seed in Saginaw county.

Many other Saginaw farmers are plan-

ning to cut their alfalfa for seed.





 





W. C. Pliter, Clio, has developed

both a two-row and a six-row smooth-

awned barley. Fifty Genesee County.

farmers inspected his fields recently.





 





_ A new market for Berkeley Rock

wheat is furnished by the .Harbor

Beach Starch company. The officials

of the company are encouraging the





, planting ‘of this variety.





 





. Four field trials to test the results

.of using fertilizers on potatoes are

. V. being conducted in Alp'ena County



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OUR A. S. A. has big news for



you! He will tell you about a



new buying guide to fertilizers—a



guide as important as guaranteed

- analysis!





You know that guaranteed anal-

ysis guarantees the quantity of

plant food. It does not guarantee the

quality of the fertilizer.





Now—a new buying guide!





Now on every bag of Swift’s Red

Steer Fertilizer you will find a Certifi-

cate of Quality. It tells you that Red

Steer is DOUBLE MIXED and

TRIPLE TESTED. That means

best materials, rigidly tested for qual-

ity; even, uniform mixing; excellent

mechanical condition.





This new Certificate is your assur-

ance that Red Steer Fertilizers have

gone through two complete mixings

——DOUBLE MIXED—to make sure

each plant gets a balanced ration.





It certifies that Swift’s Red Steer

Fertilizers undergo at least three

rigid tests in up-to-date laboratories.

The first test is made on the raw

‘materials before they are accepted.



' The second is made during the process

of mixing and curing. The final test

is made before the fertilizer Is sacked.

TRIPLE TESTED!





fertilizer





Double Mixed, Triple Tested

--let your A. S. A. show you the tag





See your A. S. A. Ask him to show

you the tag that says Double Mixed,

Triple Tested— —your assurance of a

plus value in fertilizers.





Ask him about Red Steer high anal-

ysis fertilizers for wheat -— 4 — 16 - 4.

He 'has the recommendations worked

out by Swift & Company experts, in

co—operation with your State Experi—

ment Station, for the analysis best

Suited for your soil.





Your A. S. A. is a good man to

know. He can show you how to make

more profit by the right use of ferti-'

lizer. Make his acquaintance. You

can find him by looking fo the sign

shown below, or write us d ect.





 

   

 





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Fertilizer Works

Hammond, Ind.

Cleveland, 0.

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NE of our lngham Oounty readers



has brought to light an interest-‘

ing story of the activities of a day-

light poultry pilferer. It appears that

a party, representing himself as being

a poultry culler, commissioned by the

Department of Animal Husbandry, to

cull farm flocks, has been fostering

his services upon Ingham County

flock owners. He had a very plausi-

ble story, bringing out the fact that

he had been in the late war, and as

theresult of his activities there, was

disabled in such a manner that he

was given this job of poultry culling

as a Federal aid consideration, and as

he said, he had been educated by the

Federal government in the art of

poultry culling and poultry husbandry,

he got the confidence of those he in-

terviewed.





Whether the confidence was given

because of his play for sympathy or

whether he portrayed the part of an

experienced poultry man has not been:

outlined by our informant, but, at any

rate, it appears that the party in

question extracted a small charge for

the culling service. This charge

could be paid either in cash or poul-

try that was thrown out at the time

of culling.



The crooked deals that this party

pulled off were many and varied. In

addition to his culling depredations,

he bargained for a speed wagon or

truck from an Ingham County poul-'

try hatcheryman, and after paying a.

small deposit and giving every indi-

cation of carrying through his deal

to the seller, he gained. possession of

the truck, loading it with the chick-

ens he had defrauded from those he

had dealt with and left for parts un-

known.





HOME WORK SCHEME COLLECTS

BIG MONEY





 





HE Post Master General has is-

sued fraud orders against four

more “work at home” operators. Up





to April 1 of this year it has been,





estimated that more than one hundred

and three thousand dollars has been

collected from people who have an-

swered classified newspaper ads of

the “home help wanted” class. These

people have answered these ads and

sent their good money for “samples,"

as the idea has been carried in the

circular matter that the “samples”

were absolutely necessary when, in

fact, the “sample” is all the operator

had to sell.



Information has been

the extent that more than ninety

thousand dollars have been taken

from the public by one'“home work

scheme.”



The closing of one of these scheme

promoters by the Post Office Depart-

ment showed from the investigation of

their files, that they had succeeded

in attracting more than eighteen





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thousand people in response to their

“‘house-dresS” scheme. It is to be ex-

pected that these same names and

addresses have been passed along to

other scheme promoterswho will in

turn try to get ‘in contact with these

.disappointed‘ women and that addi-_

tional attempts will be made to paint

other rosy pictures of big money and

easy “work at home" sellemes, 08er-





‘ ing to furnish a “sample” for a dollar





and a half when the same individual

ptece of merchandise could be bought

in a retail store for less than} £101:





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dispensing it, to make his regular

profit.



Due to the fact that the amount of

money involved in these fraud sales

is so small it makes it rather safe as

far as throwing the operator into

court is concerned, due to the fact

that those who are defrauded fail to

start prosecution because of the

small amount of money involved.

With this feeling. of safety on the

part of the promoter or Operator, the

schemes continue.to operate until

brought ’to the attention of the Post

Office Department when they are

closed up for using the mails to de-

fraud. '





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tion of “gyp” tire retreaders. The re-

sult of their investigation reveals

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a thin tape en the insi’degof’the cas-

ing and retreaded with the reclaimed

rubber so as to give the appearanc

of a new tire. _ '



To further the deception these re-

treaders use standard branded molds

making such slight changes in the

molds as to. enable them to get by

patent infringements and even going

so far as to use the trade names used

by well known tire manufacturers.

Then these tires are carefully wrap-

ped with new Wrapping paper. The

work isvcleverly done and unless the

wrapper is removed andl'close in-





spection is made the deception is hard -.





to detect, as the trade names of

standard tire manufacturers are

stamped on the wrapper of the tires

to such a degree of perfection that

the layman is not in a position to note

any irregularity.

foisted upon the unsuspecting public

in many. and various ways. Some

“gyp” artists go. so far as to use the

United States mail, sending out adver<

tising literature, featuring these tires

to special mailing lists, but for the

mast part prospects are interviewed

in person while sitting at the curb

in their car and led to believe that a.

big buy can be had it the oflfer is

immediately accepted. The impres-





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by “gyp” tire retreaders.





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discarded auto tires, .garden hose, ruba

ber footwear, hot water bottles, etc.

All of this cast-off junk is collected

by the junk collectors, retreated-by

a process that gives the rubber the

appearancegf new‘life‘ and it is used

by “gyp” retreaders in making old

casings look like new.



The retreading of tires is conduct-

ed on the sly by those who work on

the quiet after the same fasthn as

does the elicit liquor manufacturer.

Retreading is generally done in old

buildings or, other out of the way

places where such operations would

be least expected. ‘ ‘ ~'





The misrepresentation of .retread’s '





for newfirst class tires in itsel’twould





not be so bad, if care was used in.





selecting the. casings for the retread—V

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these tires have been obtained in

some obscure manner requiring that

they ,be. sold immediately and at a





greatly reduced figure. ’ When tires





are shipped as a result of mail order,

they are forwarded C. O. D. or on the

advance payment plan, as these tires

will, not stand the light of close in-

spection. However, some of the re-

treaders have studied the game so

carefully that they are in the posi—

tion to remanufacture an article that





.the public will accept as a first class





tire. The mistake is not discovered

until the .‘Vuser of the tire has suf-

fered from a severe accident'due'to





over-inflation or over-loading the weak'





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NEW TI—gINes IN RADIO PROGRAM

FOR FARMERS PLANNED





EGIONAL program-making is one

of the chief innovations adopted.

by the radio ‘service of the United

States department of agriculture for

' its fourth season of cooperation with

' . broadcasting stations in supplying in-

' formation to farmers. The five re-

“ , gions for which separate programs

‘ ' will be provided are shown on the

‘ accompanying map. Stations in each

region will broadcast programs of the

same general titles,

given in the programs will apply in

each region only to the farming situ-

-% ' ation there.

Another new development of the

farm and home radio programs repre-

sents an effort to put more system





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into the use of radio for information



_A purposes. The Federal Department is

3 . publishing for the use of listeners to

farm broadcasts the "U. S. Farm



Radio Record” which gives a means



i . of setting down items of broadcast

( knowledge for further reference and

of sending requests for publications of



the department which furnish in fur-



ther detail the summarized'facts pre-



sented in the programs. A similar



publication, “Aunt Sammy’s Radio



/ - Record,” will be available for listen—

ers to the housekeepers’ programs.



The 1928-29 season opens on October



1, 1928, and continues for 30 weeks.





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’ OPERATING RADIO FROM FARM

LIGHTING PLANT





HE problem of supplying current



for a radio receiver from a farm

lighting plant is comparatively sim’

ple, according to radio experts.



The usual system employed is to

tap off three cells of the unit and

run a line to the receiver to provide

‘the required six volts.



. There are several disadvantages to

, this system. It is necessary, for in-

‘ stance, to change the taps frequently

to prevent excessive running down of

any one set of cells. While this is

simple, it is usually a. nuisanceoand

often neglected at the expense of

shortening battery life. If the plant

is located at some distance from the

room in which the radio is installed,

, it is necessary to run a special trans-

l _ mission line, which is rather costly.

‘ é Another solution of the problem is

I to insert a suitable resistance in

series with one lead to the receiver

. to 'cut down the thirty-two volt sup—



" , ply frOm any one of the outlets, down



to the required six volts.



While this system involves a loss

in power, the amount of loss is very

small when measured in terms of con—



, venience ‘and the elimination of the

, hazard of run down batteries.





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‘ NEWS FROM THE AIR





VER'Y school in Cuba is to be



equipped with radio receiving ap-

paratus in order that educational

programs may be tuned in, according

to‘ a report made to the NBC. The

students plan to construct their own

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Goodrich Silvertoums de-

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The program ispknown as the “Fox

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Aged Circus Star Reappears on Air



Lottie Aymer, eightythree years

old, who was a star rider in old Bar-

num and Forepaugh Circuses. came

back to the public eye after an ab-

sence of many years when she took

part in the Dixies’ Circus programs

recently broadcasted through the NBC

system. “Uncle Bob” Sherwood, Bar-

num's famous clown of half a century

ago, appeared with her in the saw-

dust ring. '





When Godfrey Ludlow, Australian

violin radio star, went to get a mar-

riage license at the municipal build-

ing recently. he did so very, quietly

to avoid recognition. Upon his arri-

val home, however, fifteen minutes af-

ter the application, the news had pre-

ceded him, for, ‘on his door-step wait-

ed ,a group 01’ _"reporters and photo-

graphers, waiting for) the details. All

of which proves that a radio star can-

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HIS PLATE GLASS TEST shows that the ‘

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--Permitting the tread to, flatten





—and the massive, deep-notched shoulders

to hear their share of the load.





Simple facts . . . simple action . . . but what

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THE PLATE GLASS TEST. By pressing a plate glass firmly against the

tread. the action ofa Silvertown under load is faithfully re reduced. The

wide center grooves close up—the massive, gripping 5

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deep,

ulders press flush





For in these closing grooves—the visible

action of the famous Goodrich balloon prin-

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reason for the record-breaking performance

of Silvertowns.





Vast Goodrich factories at Akron, on the

Pacific Coast and in Canada are working at

peak production to keep pace with Silver-

town demand.





New low prices further reduce the





cost of Silvertown mileage and safety.

There is a Goodrich dealer near you!





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ECEINTLY a young friend of mine

graduated from the agricultural

college, was married, moved on to a

farm, and started out in life with

high hopes and bright prospects. The

first fall at corn picking time he and





.his. father worked together using a*





mechanical corn picker with which

the young man was thoroughly fami-

liar.





Driving along’ he reached over to

loosen a stalk which threatened to

clog the snapping rolls, the machine

gave a lurch, and his hand was

caught. Fortunately the team stopped

instead of being frightened at his

agonized cry, and his arm was saved;





but he will always go through life





handicapped with only the stump of

a hand without any fingers. And every

season we hear of similar pitiful, be-

cause preventable, accidents! Will

you be the next victim?





Such accidents are entirely pre-

ventable,‘if the driver will make it

an inflexible rule never to put the

hand near either'the snapping or husk-

ing rolls of a corn picker while the

machinery is in operation. A short

stick can be carried with a. fork at

one end and a hook at the other,





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such as can be cut‘from almostany





-elm or other tree. This can be used





to push stalks into the rolls with the

fork, and the hook can be used to

jerk them out. If this is not sufficient,

stop the machine and remedy the

trouble properly. Occasionally it 'wlll

be pulled in and broken, but better

that than to lose a hand.———l. D.





Many Cass County farmers ‘who

have limed fields upon which they

intended to seed legumes are now

planning to lime all the fields on their

farms. They have found that lime

benefits most of the crops grown in

Michigan. Fertilizer dealers in the

county also report that' there has

been a 200 per cent increase in sales

of fertilizers as compared with the

same period of time last year. like

perience has shown that. plants can

make use of fertilizers more effec-

tively in a soil which has been limed.



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The county agricultural agent of

Otsego County is cooperating with a.

local firm to place a carload of agri-

tol in the county. Agritol is an, cx~

plosive used for stump blowing and





7 ditching.





Getting Eggs Out of a Chicken





(Continued from page 211)





may have kept fat on their bones but

that built mighty few yolks, whites,

and shells. \Vattie just didn’t have

the courage to make a successful

chicken man.



Does the sort of gumption that Dick

Latterner, whose place is in Kalama-

zoo County, unconsciously uses, pay

him?



Dick and his wife keep records. He

stated that his average egg produc-

tion for the past three years has been

fifty—eight per cent. During June and

July, the production goes down after

the naturally heavy yield of April and

May. Latterner culls closely in Aug-

ust and September so as to reduce

his flock of approximately 500 to a

remainder of 100 breeders. This close

culling during August and September

sustains the percentage, but, of

course, diminishes the total.



Then the first of October, to the

100 breeders are added 400 pullets.

They commence hitting the oval ball

during that month. From then on it

is a merry race—with an exceptional

yield in April and May. ‘



Mr. Lattcrner sells no baby chicks.

All but fifteen of his best cockerels

His old

hens are sold to a retail butcher in

town. He gets a premium for all but

the smallest eggs. These are sold to

friends in the city who pay him for

a dozen and get fifteen. One year he

supplied a hotel ten miles distant at

an average of eight cents above the

asking price of a (local cold storage

concern. Later on he‘ marketed,





candied, and guaranteed fancy eggs





through a retail bakery. He sells all

he can produce at fancy prices With-

out going outside of- Kalamazoo

County.



Dick’s feed bill is about $1,200 a

year! He made money in 1927. The

less chance he has to make profit, the.

better he feeds! When prices are





low, it is, more important than ever-





that he keep up a high average.





On July 23,1928, this stocky’ young:





business farmer said to me: “It is





costing me $3. 85 a day to feed this I





young Stock- I could do it fol-'32. 00





by feeding cracked corn and. heat. ,

They would probably look as. plump .,





to the casual eye, too: -. But I’d! has

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you get eggs, you’ve got to spend

some money!” Dick might have ad—





ded: “——and it takes courage to spend

money and wait several months for

results!”





'Dhere’s a lot of horse sense in

Latterner’s ideas concerning sanita-

tion. With chickens out in the sun

all summer and on light soil—sani-





tation in'hot weather is not a serious





problem. He disinfects the houses

occasionally but does not thoroughly

clean them often in summer.‘ With

big crops of asparagus, berries, and

cucumbers on hand, he has less time

for manual sanitation—and leaves it

pretty-much to Old Sol! But it is

different in winter. Dick frequently

gives his big Cornell laying house a

thorough cleaning every two weeks to

keep the hens healthy. He tries to

maintain a uniform temperature in

the house where the birds are con-

fined. On mild, winter days, the can—

vas windows are opened wide. On

severe days, the house is closed. Lat-

terner avoids just so far as possible

extremes of temperature in the laying

house.





Shortly after moving on his place

four years ago, 'one of the neighbors

informed him that chicken manure

would make rank strawberry vines

but produce little fruit. He went

blissfully ahead, however, fertilizing

with hen manure! On the same size

patch with identical plants ‘ he will

now pick three crates to the neigh—

bor’s one. By fertilizing with 100%

poultry manure from his brooding and

laying houses, Latterner gets bumper

crops of raspberries, strawberries,

asparagus, and cucumbers.



Mother Nature is neither for nor

against a, man. She is indifferent.

But her laws are powerful. We con-

stantly try to “buck” those laws and

we never get away with it. One mail

will feed just a little laying mash in.

the morning and again at night be-

cause his birds “eat too much” when

he leaves it before them constantly.

He may save a few dollars today but

by failing to parallel the natural way

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"CLEANING SEPTIC TANK TILES





Can you suggest any method of

cleaning out the soil pipes and dis-

posal tiles in a farm sewage disposal

plant without tearing-out the plumb-

ing and digging out drain pipes from

the septice tank? Septic tank is eight

by. four "by four feet with two com-

partments and serves a family of four.

Plant has been in operation eight

years. About four years ago the dram

from septic tank clogged, and I put





in a new one of five-inch concrete tile,‘





which operated all right until just re-

cently when it seemed to slime up and

we can get no drainage from sink,

bath, lavatories, or closet. Is there a

chemical that I could introduce that

would clean out the whole works, or

could I flush it out by forcing water

through it under pressure? Any sug-

‘gestions will be appreciated—C. R.





The first thing is to locate definitely

just where the plugging is located. If

it is in the house soil pipe or in the

sewer to the septic tank, the sewage

level in the septic tank will be nor-

mal and there will be no tendency

for the septic tank to overflow when

you remove the cover. If the stoppage

is in the overflow from the septic

tank, the tank will be- completely full

and will tend to overflow when you

remove the cover. Or if your septic

tank has a flushing siphon, this some

times clogs and causes the tank to





’ discharge at the overflow. pipe, which





the flushing tank should not do nor-

mally.



My guess is that! the stoppage is

in the sewer which leads to the sep-

tic. tank, and may be due t0' a col-

lection of grease or to tree roots

growing into the tile. Both should'be

suspected. About the only remedy for

such an obstruction is to push plumb-

er’s steel tape or cleaning rod

through, with a cleaning or cutting

head on it which will'nearly fill the

tile, or by pushing a wire through and

with it drawing a cleaning brush back

and forth through the pipe until the

grease or other obstruction is re-

moved. You will find this fully des-

scribed in Farmers’ Bulletin 1227——

“Sewage and Sewerage of Farm

Homes,” which can be secured

through the U. S. Department of

Agriculture, Washington, D. C. The

junction between house soil pipe and

house sewer should be so arranged

that by unscrewing a cap, a wire or

steel tape can be run directly into

the sewer.



Chemicals are often used to cut

grease from a trap or from a com-

paratively small vertical pipe, usually

being sold in air-tight cans under the

name of sink solvent. Caustic potash

is very frequently used for this, as it

has the poWer of turning grease into

soft soap, which is easily washed

away by hot water. Where the stop-

page is complete or where it is in the

house sewer, this method is not very

practical. These strong chemicals

should not. be used with a septic

tank, as they interfere seriously with

the bacterial action in the first cham-

ber of the tank. Forcing water through

the system does little if any good.



'If the stoppage is in the drain or

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Are Going Onto the Farms!





HERE was a time when



a man bought a tractor



to use with his horses;

today he buys a McCormick-

Deering Farmall Tractor to

use instead of horses—and

word comes to us often that

-the Farmall plan is doing more

for farm profit and farm hap-

piness than horses and hired

labor could ever hope to do.

Every new horseless farm—

and there are already hundreds

-—-offers new proof that this

new farm power idea is a





profit builder. The word of





success travels fast, with the

result that Farmalls are 'being

put to work everywhere in

rapidly increasing numbers.





Great, long trainloads slip

away from the big Farmall

Works at Rock Island, Illinois,

to all points of the compass.

Even so, it has been difficult





to keep up with the cry for





more Farmalls.





With all indications point-

ing to an even heavier demand

next year, it becomes the part

of wisdom to order your

Farmall now, while the local

McCormick-Deering dealer can

make reasonable delivery.





Turn your horses and mules

into money—there’s no need

to feed them through another

winter—and prepare to enjoy

the convenience and economy





of Farmall power for fall work .

and all work. The local dealer r

will show and. demonstrate

the Farmall on your own

farm upon request.





 





Mr. Butler says:





Gentlemen: I have done all

my work alone. Not a hired

man or a horse on the place

so far, which I claim is doing

the work of two men and two

2-rows in planting and three

men and three 2-rows in cul-

tivating, and does it on one—

half the feed expense. Must

you ask if I am satisfied with

my Farmall?



(Signed) J. A. BUTLER

Nunn, Colorado.

July 27, 1928.





 





 





 





 





 





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septic tank, little can be done unless

the tiles have been laid so that the

cleaning tape can be worked into

them from a junction box or man-

hole. However, you should not have

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N ordinary farm work a man invests

his money in seed, plants it, and then

waits six months for his return.





In Contract Ditching, your money is due

as soon as the tile is buried.



Tile ditching is a new kind of farm

work that pays well.





Based on a fundamental necessity of

successful farming, the drainage busi—

ness is as sound as the business of agri-

culture itself.





Because of government, farm bureau

and agricultural college teaching, tile

drainage is recognized as one of the first

essentials of farm operation. Conse-

quently, the demand is great for the

service of machines that will dig ditch

as rapidly and economically as the

Buckeye.





It is not unusual for Buckeye owners to

have their machines booked up for

months ahead. The Drainage Engineer

is the harbinger of bumper crops—why

shouldn’t he be in demand? He keeps

crops from flooding, prevents droughts,

makes acreage more productive and

.,.. insures early maturity of crops.





More men are needed to operate Buck-

eye Ditchers and take care of this profit-

able business. We want financially and

otherwise responsible men in whose

hands we can place these ditchers,

knowing that this business is being taken

care of properly. Time payments can

be arranged to take care of part of the

purchase price, giving an opportunity

for the machine to help pay for itself.





Men with practical ditching experience

are most successful in this business. Our

field engineers demonstrate each ma-

chine and instruct the purchaser in the

successful operation of the equipment,

as well as in the survey work necessary

in laying out tile drainage systems.





Here’s what a Michigan

Owner 'says :





“The BUCKEYE has always been rec-

ommended to us as a'good machine and

we are now the proud owners of a few.

It is the only real machine on the mar-

ket, especially for grade work.

Repairs are easily and quickly made,

and with the purchase of a machine you

get service, which is most important,for

a machine is of no use to you unless you

can give service and satisfaction".

BUN'I‘E BROS. TILE CO.

Flat Rock, Mich., August 13. 192$





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

   

 





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ACID FOR STORAGE BATTERIES





 





What kind of acid should be used

to make storage battery acid, and

how much to the gallon? Any advice

will be appreciated—J. D.





Nothing should be used in storage

batteries but chemically pure sul-

phuric acid and pure distilled water.

Full strength acid has a gravity of

1.835 and 10 parts by volume of this

acid added slowly to 25 parts of dis-

tilled water will give an electrolyte

of 1.300 gravity, which is the common

reading for fully charged batteries.

The acid should always be added to

the water, as pouring water into the

acid is sure to cause spattering and

bad burns. It is far better to buy

the electrolyte already mixed, as it is

both cheaper and safer, especially

where only a small amount is needed.



The average owner has no business

trying to add electrolyte to a battery,

as nothing but pure water should be

added except when- electrolyte has

leaked out or been spilled. Only an

experienced operator can tell when

more electrolyte is needed, and he

should furnish what is needed and

adjust the different cells so the elec-

trolyte will balance—I. V3. Dickerson.





PAINT SPOTS 0N ASPHALT ROOF





 





Recently I hired a firm to re—roof

my house with asphalt roofing and to

paint my chimney red. They were

not careful and slopped some of the

red paint on the roof about the chim-

ney. Before it dried we. tried wash-

ing it with gasoline, thinking it would

evaporate, but it failed to do so and

left a big brownish reddish spot. Can

you tell me of any chemical or liquid

that will remove it without injuring

the roof?——G. B.



As your asphalt roofing is highly

absorbent to gasoline and oils, I sus-

pect that the paint has thoroughly

penetrated the roofing and that it will

be impossible to remove it in any

way so it will not show. Since (this

firm was to blame for the trouble,

it seems to me that they should either

be required to remove the affected

parts and replace with good roofing,

or else apply a paint which will cover

the reddish. stains and make those

shingles look like the rest of the roof.

With a little care in getting the prop-

er shade of color, it should be a sim-

ple matter to do this—D.





KEEPING CISTERN WATER SOFT





 





I expect to build a cistern soon and

would like to know what I can do to

remove the cement taste of the water,

which to me is very disagreeable. Is

there anything I can mix with the

mortar as I put it on, or with which

I can wash the wall down after it

dries ?——I. W.



This hardness or cement taste in:

cistern water is due largely to lack

of sufficient water while the cement

is setting and hardening. 'It is min-

imized by using mortar applied as

wet as it can be handled easily and

then by filling the cistern full of

water after the cement plaster has

set for a few days. By the end of

the usual 28 days allowed for har-

dening, the cistern can be pumped

out and after that should not give

much trouble from hardness en ce-

ment taste. Usually there is no trou-

ble after the cistern has been filled

once or twice. ,



So far as I know there is nothing

which can be mixed with the mortar

which will keep- down the hardness.

It the finished and hardened wall is





glass with four parts water, applied

with a whitewash brush will help to

prevent hard water and will not at-

fect the taste noticeably. Some re-





face after it drives with a solution of





 





l Ordinary vinegar. another method is





dry, a coat or two of one part water





commend washing the plastered surs





to give the dry cistern wall a coat or

two of paraffin shaved thin and dis-

solved as much as possible in gaso-

line or kerosene. This will likely in-

terfere with its use for drinking or

cooking for a while, but not for laun-

dry purposes. Almost any coating is

likely to taste a little if the water is

used for drinking purposes.





CLEANING PRESSURE TANK





 





Please tell me how I canclean out

my ZOO-gallon soft water pressure

tank—J. G.





Some pressure tanks are made

with hand holes with covers.and gas-

kets, so that these can be removed

and any slime or scale removed with

a furnace scraper or something simi-

lar. Where such hand holes are not

provided, it will be necessary to dis—





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mars aim ~

if it could be obtained. It is quite

likely that dairy “(equipment firms

could supply you, with racks of ”the

proper size, either of menel‘ metal,

steel heavily tinned, or steel covered

with .baked enamel, either of‘w.hich

should be satisfactory. Probably the

simplest solution Would be a wooden

rack of oak orr ash or other hard-

wood, using the bare wood and scrub

bing it every day to keep it perfect-

ly clean.



In my opinion you will have more

trouble from milk and grease on." the

outside of the bottles than from the

wood or tinned racks, unless you are

extremely careful about filling and

handling the bottles.





 





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STRENGTH OF CONCRETE





 





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These Illustrations Give the Farmer Ideas on How the Overhead Supports

May Be Canstructed for an Elevator in His Granary; How a Ventilator

Opening ls Protected; and How Foundations Can Be Built.





 





 





connect the pipes where they enter

and leave the tank and wash out the

inside with a hose under pressure

from a force pump or with a spraying

outfit. If such a sprayer is not avail-

able, you can usually borrow one from

a neighbor or rent one from a dealer.

Any deposit which the spray pump

will not use can probably be loos-

ened with a stiff wire or a piece of

wire cable stuck in through the pipe

opening and worked round inside.





 





METAL RACK +0 PUT IN SPRING





 





What kind of metal can i put 1 to

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a spring and still- not at! .t e

water? '1 wish to make-annual: oi!

this metal- to hold mint vibettles and

then put the entire-1: . " in the water

of a springto keep; ' ‘ at measure

tune using the spring " tor ‘ ‘

purposes.

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building demonstrations. “Concrete

should have sufficient water to give

it a quaky cousistency and as dry as

it can be and worked down into the

forms. The concrete should be spaded

when being placed in the forms.



“The use of additional water in

mixing concrete weakens it and holds

the same relationship as adding water.

to a ‘slopfitA thin ‘slop’ just ain’t

there with aV""thiCk’ one for making

pigs—you know that—so is a too wet

concrete, mixture.





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POSITIVELY take exception to



the term sportsmen as used .in re-

gard to some of the rim raft who

come to our county to hunt. They

come in that disguise but they are

not sportsmen. I am a farmer living

in Alpena. County and in my vicinity

the deer are quite numerous and hunt-

‘ers just as numerous, but I must say

that°not all are sportsmen. They are

not all from the city, either.



I have hunted with... men from dif-

ferent cities in the state and have

found them as a class just as sports-

manlike as anybody could possibly be.

I find that to be a good sportsman,

you have to be a gentleman, be you

rich or poor.



I am fond of hunting. I love to

make a study of the different animals

and birds. I sure have lots of oppor-

tunity, as any evening in the late

summer or fall I can count from ten

to twenty-five deer feeding in my

fields. Don’t think for a moment that

they don’t destroy a lot of crops, but

I am not the only one that is suffer-





ing as my neighbors are in the same





boat



Still we are not complaining as

some of the conservation officers

know how the situation stands and no

doubt will draw the attention of the

game commission to the fact that we

should be paid for the damage done

to our crops. I feel sure the com—

missioners are sportsmen enough to

take care of the matter.



As regards the farmer having any

.more rights to the game than the

men from the city, I don’t think they

have, as game is state property. Men

who shoot first and: investigate after-

wards are not sportsmen. I have seen

accidents—killing of does or fawns on

rare occasions—that there could be





some excuse for, but a man that will-M





fully shoots a doe‘ or fawn, knowing

it to be such, I think should get the

full extent of the law. In conclusion,

will say that the one buck law has

sure multiplied the deer.——-A. J.

Skuell.‘





 





MORE A§OUT THE PHEASANT





 





N our farm paper of February 11

on facts and opinions, I read the

article written by J. J. Forward as

to what and What not pheasants will

do. I. wish to call'his bluff as to

pheasants not destroying crops and

domestic fowls, for I saw with my

own eyes what would have happened

if the pheasant had been a: little wiser

as to a hole in the fence. He surely

would have gotten his game, for he

was after our neighbor’s chicken

which weighs about two or two and a

half pounds. What called my atten-

tion to it was the chicken’s squawk-

ing, and when I looked out of the

window I saw them both making

it across my chicken park, but the

chickeri seemed to know that there

was a hole in the fence and dodged

the pheasant in that way. I know

other people who have seen pheasants

tackle chickens. .

'Now as to the amount of insects

and such like they consume, I cannot

say, but glast fall I shot one just as

he had come from a cornfield and

opened his crop and there was

nothing but corn“ and another had

nothing but weed seed and such. The

last day of the rabbit season I was

out and :went through a cornfield

where there was some shocks of corn,

or rather had “been for all ‘that was

left at lewatffithe todder.‘ The. corn





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would not destroy his cr‘ops so much,

and as for quail killing, I cannot say

that either. for sure, but where has

our, quail gone to in the glast few

years? '



J. J. Forward states that when

pheasants are just hatched and young,

they live on insects and so forth, but

we all know that most, if" not 'all, baby





 





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RIGHT TO CLOSE ROADS





 





Has a contractor a right to close

a main highway, this being a state

road? The nearest town and ship-

ping point is 41,5 miles away (going

on the main road) but the distance to

the same place is about thirty miles

through poor detours.—A. Reader.





The Highway Commissioner has

authority to close roads during the

making of repairs and construction.

The only remedy is by appeal to the

Highway Commissioner.





TIME FOR SOWING WHEAT





Will you please inform me what

time is best to sow fall wheat in

Montmorency County and what kind?

Also is last year’s seed good to sow,

or Ashi){u1d I wait for this year’s seed?



I would suggest sowing wheat from

September 15 to 25 in the section you

mention. The O. A. C. and the Amer-

ican Banner are good varieties of

white wheat, and are well adapted to

that section. Last year’s seed, if

properly stored, should be of value.

It is usually better, however, to use

new seed—C. R. Megee.





 





THE SCHOOL BO‘ARD’S RIGHT





 





We live just outside the 'city limits

and belong to the city school district

but they built a little school out here

for the small children up to the third

grade and they don’t want to take

children from here into town. Can

they compel me to send my small

children out here? Can I compel them

to take the children into our own

district?—-C. C.



The school ‘board‘ of the city dis-

trict has full authority to determine





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birds live on such stuff, the same way.

as a hen starts her brood of chickens

out, but that’s not saying that when

they get older they will not eat grain.

As for me personally, I like to have

them here at least in the hunting

season, for it is the only game sport

we have around here, and you have to

be quick on the draw or you don’t

get them. So let them fight it out.—

A. P.





attend who are located in the various

parts of the district. The board is

required to provide school advan-

tages for all of the resident children

who are of school age—B. J. Ford.





 





BREAKS GASOLINE PUMP





 





A man drove his car against a gaso-

line pump breaking the globe. The

company is demanding $10 in pay-

ment for it. The pump is but 27 feet

from the center of the road. Are they

not supposed to have them clear of

the right-of—way, and' isn’t this a

rather high price for a globe? Can

he be compelled to pay?——J. G.



The abutting owner has the right

to use the highway for any purpose

that does not interfere with its use

for travel and in the absence of fur-

ther regulation we believe the owner

of the pump cannot be charged with

contributory negligence by reason of

its being in the highway. It is be-

lieved’ that the person causing the in-

jury is liable for it and that the

price of the globe is about right.—

Rood.





DEPOSITING SCHOOL MONEY





 





If the electors at a school meeting

vote to make the district and not the

school treasurer responsible for loss

through bank failure or panic, would

this release the treasurer from re-

‘sponsibility? Would not the district

be held responsible when the major-

ity voted not to hold the treasurer re-

sponsible if he deposited the money

in a state bank? How many state

banks have failed in Michigan in the

last ten or twenty years?——G. H.



. There seems some doubt as to whe-

ther the rule excusing trustees from





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the bank in which they are deposited”

with proper safeguard, extends to pill)? '

lic officers. If the treasurer is liable ».

for the money after the loss we do"

not see how a vote of the school,

meeting exonerating him, releases his

liability. Admitting the power of the.

electors to make settlement, upset?

1t’lement appears and no consideratiOn ’ '

is received for the release. To learn

the number of bank failures, write to

the State Banking Department at



Lansing—Rood. ‘





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

 

   

 

 

 

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

   





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We have a. 9 H. P. engine which we .

use for running an 8-inch feed grinder g1?

and Whlch lately has been giving us "

trouble. We can start it easily

ItOpulls the grinder fine for about 10

mlnutes, and then chokes down. We

do not know whether the trouble can

be in the fuel supply or in the exhaust

valve. We have the valves and spark

tlmed as nearly right as we can get

11;, and have recently put in new

rings. Any suggestions will be ap-

preciated—T. J. W.



I would judge either that there is a

failure in the gasoline supply, or that

the exhaust valve is sticking. You

can tell whether it is fuel trouble by

having an oil can full of gasoline

handy and then squirting a little of

this into the air intake when it starts

to slow up. If this causes it to pick

up and run better, you may be sure

it is fuel trouble. Sometimes water I

or sediment collects in the fuel tank

or pipes and partially'shuts off the

supply so it cannot run as fast as the

engine requires. Take out all fuel

filters and screens and see that they

do not obstruct the flow of fuel.





It is very common when an engine

stops this way after getting well

warmed up that the trouble is due

to an exhaust valve sticking because

of a warped valve stem, burned oil

on the stem, or to a weak spring. You

can check this by squirting a little

kerosene on the valve stem and work-

ing it back and forth several times.

Then fasten a string on the end of

valve stem and when the engine

starts to slow down next time, pull on

this string and see if this makes the

engine pick up and run better. If so,

the trouble is located and you need

the valve stem cleaned off and pol-

ished and a new valve spring] If

places 011 the valve stem are bright

and others dark colored, it indicates

a warped stem. Also dark places on

one side of the valve seat indicate

that the valve is not seating properly

and may need grinding.



Another common reason for the

larger engines with make-and-break

or low tension ignition stopping when

they get hot is because the movable

electrode in the igniter sticks so that

it does not make contact inside the

engine. Put some kerosene on the

movable electrode and work it back

and forth until it works easily and

snaps quickly and see if this may not;

be the trouble. This trouble does not

apply to spark plug ignition engines.

It is better not to oil igniters and"

valve stems any oftener than neces~‘

sary and then only with the best

cylinder oil. '





It is possible that new cylinder

rings might be fitted so tightly that:

when'hot they stick in the grooves;

but this is not very probable. If you,

have no compression when the en?

gine stops, even though you can hear

both intake and exhaust valve close.‘

when you push them down, it would

indicate that the rings are stuck. "





 

 

 

   

   

   





 





 





   

   

   

   

   





 





 





 

 

 





 





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AUL’S personal peculiarities and

manneriSms are not given us in

any. detail. We all like to hear

what the personal peculiarities of a

great man are. Still,

mannerisms are put down. Some-

times, ‘nwhen he was about to begin

speaking, he would stretch out the

hand. When excited he would fall

into the old Jewish custom of Show-

ing extreme feeling by rending his

garments. His eyes seem to have had

say, as

some do, that Paul’s “thorn in the

flesh” was an affliction cf the eyes,

seems .to be wide

of the mark,

when you recol-

lect that often

his hold on an

individual or a

crowd lay in the

fact that he “fas-

tened his eyes”

on the person or

groiip. See "Acts

13: 9 14: 9, and 23: 1. It reminds us

of that dramatic scene in Luke’s gos-

pel, Where, after Peter’s third denial,

the Lord turned and looked upon

Peter, and Peter. remembered.”



' In Corinth Paul stayed a long time.

When the Jews opposed him he shook

out‘his garments at them, as if shak-

ing out v‘ermin. It was a gesture of

disgust and disdain. Says Sir Wm.

Ramsay, “It must be confessed that

Paul had not a very conciliatory way





 





with the Jews, when he became an-i





gry. The shaking out of his garments

was undoubtedly a very exasperating

gesture.”



He was always teaching. He felt

that he had something that other

people ought to have. In the study

of religious beliefs in the British and

the American Army, in the Great War,

it was found that multitudes of men

did not possess the simplest ideas of

what the Christian religion teaches.

Their ignorance would have been

laughable if it had not been so tra-

gic. In the report of the archbishop’s

cemmission, the idea was stressed

over and ever that there must be

more systematic teaching on the part

of the church and Sunday schools.

People in these days of superficiality

and much running to and fro, ought





,to know at least some of the funda~





mental beliefs on which their religion





’ stands. _

I takea few sentences here from '





Doctor Warren H. Wilson’s latest

book, “The Farmer’s Church. ” I sus-

pect that no man knows more of the

actual state of rural churches and

rural spirituality than he. O-mitting

quotation marks, here are a few of

his statements from the chapter en-

titled, “Rural . Spirituality.” This

question of rural spirituality is of all

the questions that center in the farm-

er’s church the most important. It

concerns the whole community, and

as the farm is the nation’s greatest

induStry, it is big with national im-





port. ,

' What then is spirituality among

farmers? The primary factor, which





seldom acts alone, is found in the life

and 'conduct of persons who are evi-

dently God—compelled. One or more

persons devoted to God, whether

preacher or layman, man or woman,

must reside in any community and

have access to its common public

life, if there is to be any high regard





' for truth, justice or peace among men.

. The spirituality of a farmer would.

’ .- seem to consist in regarding his life





and work as a trust. For the mate-





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a spiritual people, who have been the

first European nation to consider to—

tal disarmament?



So much for Doctor Wilson.





Like all great teachers of religion,

Saint Paul stresses a few fundamen-

tal principles. One

course, is the idea of salvation. What

is it to be saved? _There are many

answers. As one of the greatest

teachers of religion in our day says,

“To be saved for Paul does not mean

to be rescued from dire torment or

from the consequences which follow

sin and dog the sinner. To be saved

for him is to become a new kind of

person, with a new inner nature, a

new dimension of life, a new joy and

triumph of soul.” Was it ever bet—

ter phrased than that? To be saved

is to be a new kind of person with

a new inner nature. That quotation

is worth memorizing, more than that,

it is worth living. It is Paul’s fam-

ous phrase, “Old things are passed

away, all things are become new,” put

in new words.





In his letter to Timothy, which is

part of this week’s lesson, Paul drives





, home the two foundation principles,





that there is one God, and one

Savior. To say that there is one God

may seem trite. But it reaches to the

depths of our hearts, once we recog-

nize it. If there is one God, we ought

to put Him first in everything. “Thou

shalt have no other gods before me,”

say the Ten Commandments.

a man puts ambition first, he becomes

an idolater. If he is determined to

make money at. any cost. dreams

about it, schemes for it, never con-

sults God in prayer, never seeks to

get the mind of God, as far as he is

concerned there may be one God or

a hundr.ed He has put things before

God.



The statement that Jesus is the

mediator between man and God re-

minds us that Jesus is human. We

Bye, serve, worship Christ, and all

we know of God is from Jesus. When

a child asks, “What is God like?”

there is always a good answer: He

is like Jesus. '





 





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

SEPTEMBER 9th





 





S U B J E C Tz—Paul, Preacher and

Teacher. Acts 17:16 to 18. I Cor.

2:1 to 16. and I Tim. 2: 3 to 7.



GOLDEN TE'XT:~I Cor. 2:2.





I HOPE





 





I hope I’ll never grow so old



As not to understand



Why lovers sit with eyes entranced

Upon the sand,



And watch drab barges. float



Across the bay,





-And see in them the hope





Of a new day.

I want to see the silver

Of a dream

Etch on the rippling waters

Of a stream——

Oh, let me never grow so old

That I

Will sneer when whispering lovers

Pass me by

, —R_osa Zagnoni Marinoni.





 





' A comparison of the. use of poisons

and 'girdling for killing trees which

were growing inside the fences on

the highways of Ottawa County is

being made. Preparations of lye and

arsenic are the poisons being used.





 





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WHEN FOLKS VISITED backend forth in the stately years of long ago, it

was an occasion of importance. The dinners—what dinners they

were! And the hostess, smiling and gracious, spent most of her time

with the guests, in the parlor. The food seemed to prepare itself.





The secret, of course, was the kitchen range. A steady wood or coal

fire in its glowing heart, provided just the right heat for the tasty

ediblcs cooking on its broad and shining top or in the spacious oven——

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So Near and Yet So Far





We Could See the Red Sea But It Was Several Days Before We Reached It

By Francis Flood





E, were at Kebkebia, some-

where between Am Dam, in

French Equatorial Africa, and

Umkedada, in the Anglo Egyptian

Sudan. The young English Captain

stationed alone in this bleak outpost

of Empire begged us not to hurry on.

He didn’t have company very often.



“Why do they make one man live

cut here by himself?” Jim asked the

lonesome British singleton, only three

years out of Oxford. “Why not put

another man here with you? For

company if nothing else. A non-com

at least.” Of course in the English

caste system a non-commissioned

officer could be no company for a

Captain, especially an Oxford man.

Traditional British snobocracy would-

n’t‘ let them speak. But there was

another reason why this man had no

company here.



“Two officers couldn’t live together

alone in a place like this, even if they

were brothers, without getting on

each other’s nerves so much they’d be

fighting within six months,” explain-

ed the Captain. “Damon and Pythiasx

would be putting scorpions in each

other’s beds and living on opposite

sides of the sand dune if they were

stationed here.”





BELIEVE him, too, for the French



had told us the same. Something

about that desert will make the best

of friends, if left alone in pairs, fight

like two bull calves. If you ever want

to break up a David and Jonathan

combination, put the two boy friends





on opposite ends of a two-man saw.





with a dozen logs to cut, or station

them alone in the desert. Even Jim

and I, who had rowed a two-man boat

for 500 miles down the lonely Yukon

River without ever crossing our oars,

used to argue heatedly in Africa over

whether to boil four handfuls of rice

or five. And we fought the Dark Con-

tinent of Africa for nearly five

months before we finally reached the

Red Sea and were friends again.

“Then Why not station a married

man here with his wife?” I asked, for

an Englishwoman will go anywhere

her husband will. They’ re not like the

French. “I could get along with my

wife here, I know. Can’t a married

man bring his wife out heze?”

“Only once,” the Captain

"She’d never come back.”





“Then, Captain,” Jim said fervent-

ly, “the government should station

three men in places like this. Three

could get along.”





“Yes, that would be all right,” he

agreed slowly, “but, lads, this coun-

try isn’t worth three' Englishmen. It’s

hardly worth one. It’s just about

worth me and that’s all.” That may

read like a conceited remark but as

I recall now that lonely military post

it seems about as modest a statement

as I ever heard an Englishman make.



"Don’t go until this noon, boys,"

“The rbad is good once

you get over the Divide, but be sure

to take the left fork on the other side

of the Divide. I’ ve wired the Resident

at El Fasher that you’ll be in tonight.





smiled.





| It’s only eighty miles.”





[N spite of our friend’s advice we





'_’-started early, or we wouldn’t have





 





,vreached El Fasher at all that night.

. lIlhe road may have been good but we

couldn’t find it.

* ficimel that proved our undoing. We

did reach the Divide and registered





I believe it was a.





a few. great moments beholding for the

I t time the Valley of the Nile be-

: us. The famous old river itself

ards of a thousand miles



a "hundseds of miles of desert





 





lay ,before us, but at least we’d

reached its valley. We’d fought our

way through the jungles.of the Niger,

into the Congo watershed, struggled

across the blistering miles ‘of no

watershed at all and now here was

the forbidding vastness of the upper

Nile daring us to come on.



We stumbled down the rocky trail

on the eastern side of the Divide and

just as the terrain flattened out into

sand we overtook a camel caravan

and passed them—all but one. This

evil monster, who had never seen a

motorcycle before of course, evident-

ly figured we were out to run him

down. He knew that if he couldn’t

keep ahead of us on the trail where

he could run his best, he wouldn’t

have a chance off beside the road

where the ground was rough and

rocky. He stayed in the road and

ran. And how he humped! We

thought we could crowd him ed to





with our feet on the front fender or

high on the handlebars, but when, we

had to get off and push, as we fre-

quently did, or double up and push

each other, as we sometimes had 3to

do, we were as plastered with hard

ripe burrs as we would 'have been

with so much mud. Jim started out

with long pants over his khaki

“shorts” but when they became so

stiff they would hardly bend, he pain-

fully pulled them off, stuck them onto

his side can and braved the burrs

in shorts alone. They didn’t stick to

our hard, bare, sunburned legs as bad-

ly as to our clothes. But I don’t mean

they didn’t stick to our legs. When

we finally reached El Fasher, after

dark that night, our . clothes were

matted as stiff as though they were

frozen and we walked up to the Resi-

dent’s house like a couple of deep-

sea divers.



The Resident,





 





 





 





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About Every Fifty Miles, lffiHe’s Lucky, One Finds ‘a Desert Well Like This

One Near Khartoum





one side of the road, pass him and

turn him back. But we didn’t know

our camel. Not the road. Whenever

we could get up enough of a burst of

speed to crowd him a little, the trail

would close up in a mass of rocks

or we’d chug down to low gear in

sand.





A bale of gum arabic flew from

one side of his saddle and a bag of

dried dates was scattered for a quar-

ter of a mile among bits of palm leaf

rope and broken saddle gear. Behind

us raced two black cameleers, shout-

ing at the camel and Allah, and Jim

and me, with no effect on any of us.

They had probably never seen a

motorcycle before and no doubt

thought we were a new kind of raid-

ing Bedouin trying to steal their





camel. It wouldn’t do to stop now,

with the camel still going and the

cameleers still coming. The only





thing was to run him down and slip

past.





.. EVENTUALLY Jim crowded by and





then got off and turned him back.

But in the meantime I think we had

passed the fork and had kept on the

wrong road. A few miles further we

were sure we ‘had so we just struck

off across country over an old trail

that had long been abandoned be-

cause it should never have been there

in the first place. The rocks in the

canyons were bad, ' and the bush in

the valleys were bad, but the sand

burrs on the rolling plateaus between

were by far the worst of all.

The sand burr grass itself was as





tall and as thick on the ground as a

stand of twenty bushel wheat. Every.





blade was well headed out and every





sticky burr was dead ripe and just”





anxious to be carried away to propa~

gate its kind. It was bad enough to

engine.m through this mate of burrs





 





j-td go' 'over ,. us with , tweezers, the

Governor holding the" light.





official that he was, had anotherwur—

prise for us. “The Governor wants

to see you. We were looking for you

earlier, but (you’d better go over to

his house now.”





E didn’t feel like calling on a

Governor, especially an. English

Governor, looking like a couple of

dirty, greasy tramps in armoredgsuits

of sand burr mail. “We’ll see him

in the morning,” I assured the Resi-

dent. “It’s eight o’clock. We’ve got

to change all our clothes and pick out

a lot of broken stickers before we can

even sit down. Besides, we haven’t

had anything to eat since noon.”

“The Governor wants to see you

now,” reminded the Resident, and

that settled it. Must be something

wreng. We started, across lots, and

got stuck in the sand half way up to

the light on top of the Governor’s

hill. He ran down to meet us, a"'i'-g

tall man in white, and he pushed as

much on my motorcycle as did his

four black “boys” on Jim’s. That was

Mr. Purvis, the Governor of Darfur.

“1 want you to put up right here

at our house as long as you can stay

in E1 Fasher,” he welcomed us. be-

tween pufi‘s, and then while the black

boys were busy pulling off enough

burrs so that we could twist out of'

our clothes, he poured us each a bath

with his own hands and a long cool

soda to go with it. "

“I’ll have the-boys pick the burrs

out of your shirts and washI’em to-





' men-ow, ” said Mr. Purvis. “They’ll

bury the socks and shorts. No use

trying to salvage them. " Before Jim





or I VcOuld even bathe, four boys had





Then we

dressed and went into the '

room, and there was .33





dinner mad a real W ,





dignified English ,





 





Purvis, the first white woman, except

Mrs. Glover, we had seen for six

weeks.



We ate.





HE next two days we dedicated



entirely to seeing E’l Fasher and

to the indulgence suggested in the

above paragraph—and it didn’t take

much time to see El Fasher.





A great gray basin, dry as sifting '





sand, sloped in from the desert for

miles and miles around. And in the

bottom of this vast, dry inland sea,

like a leaky stopper in a kitchen sink

to which the roaches of the neighbor-

hood crawl for What moisture-may re-

main, clustered the mud huts of El

Fasher. They were built around the

few deep wells and dwindling pool cf

water that still remained in the bot-

tom of that oasis basin. It was sim-

ply one of those drain holes of the

desert, the cess‘ pools of the Sahara,

but it meant water. And water, in

that land of drouth and heat, is the

lodestone of the desert’s legionshits

families and flocks.



Mr. Purvis put Jim and me each on

a philosophical little donkey that

looked as comical as we felt, sitting

away back there on his hind quarters

with our feet nearly dragging in the

sand. Then we pat-patted down from

the governor’s hill to the municipal

water works in the middle of town

below, not the town pump but the





’ town pool.





“Right after the rainy season,” ex-

plained Mr. Purvis, “this whole part

of town is a little lake. We built that

causeway up there in order to cross

from one part of town to the other.

It’s high and dry now, you see.

And the water that’s left in that hole

down there and in the deep wells

scattered over the basin has to last

this whole country and all its animals

until it rains next season,” the Gover-

nor reminded us. /



“See that watering tank?” said Mr.

Purvis. It was simply a low mud wall

laid up on the ground to form a.

shallow circular basin close beside

the municipal pool of water. A black

deserteer and two naked sons were

marshalling a ‘ flock of goats ' that

drank the water as fast as four shriv-





eled wives and a couple of slaves!





could draw it up from the pool in

skins and slop it, into the muddy

tank. “There are sometimes-a half a

dozen herds waiting their turn to

water at these tanks. Hundreds of

head of cattle and camels and horses

and goats, and, yes, sometimes thou--

sands of people, drink from. this lit-

tle valley here every day.”





_ In addition to the “surface water”

within the pool itself, the El Fasher'

water system included dozens of dry

wells that reached down to the

cleaner and more permanent supply

below. And every well was busy.

Here was a donkey train, each little

beast urged to drink its fill. Then

the goatskin tied.on either side would

be poured full of water to be carried

perhaps for miles to. some family

flock, or village .toodistant to visit

the pool themselves. Here was, a. herd

of haughty camels kneeling beside

their loads in the hot, unshaded sand,

grumbling away between drinking in-

stallments at a round mud tank.



_ “It may be. a week or. two before

they'll get a drink again,” explained

Mr. Purvis, “so they. won’t 11er when

they do get a. chance ’t





 





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Farmer, Detroit, Michigan.

PICKLE PROBLEMS





.- Can you advise me how to keep

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What causes them to shrivel many

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If pickles keep green, it depends





i much upon the canning process and

' the condition of the pickles.





Many

Of our readers believe \that byadding

a‘ few grape leaves or cherry leaves

the color of the

pickles. Over—heating or over-cook-

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green color. Over-heating or too much

sugar would also make the pickles

shrivel. ‘



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larger than a pea is sufficient. Alum

will keep the pickles crisp but is also

an astringent and should be” used

sparingly.





To CL—EAN DIRTY WALLS





 





I am using a gas lamp which has

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I have

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make”:

’ Danish Apple Cake

1A tsp. cinnamon

1 (-up whipping cream





’4- tsp. vanilla

1 cup covoamit





2 tbs. butter



1 pint bread crumbs '

1 pint thick apple sauce

1/6 cup sugar



2 tbs. brown sugar





Melt butter, add crumbs and cool.

Add brown sugar and cinnamon. In a

baking ,dish, put alternate layers of

the crumbs and apple sauce, with

cocoanut between each layer. Cover

top with sweetened whipped cream

and place in the ice box. until chilled.

Serve in slices.





TO PURIFY CISTERN WATER





 





What can I do to purify the water

in our cistern? It smells badly but I

do not want to empty the cistern to

gleam it at this time of year.———Mrs.





Be sure that no stray animal has

fallen into the cistern, then hang a

bag of charcoal in' the water. It will

help considerably until you can have

the cistern cleaned.





There are great intellectual and

spiritual riches tmbe found in the

achieving of a new point of view——

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-Now North Carolina’s really South,

- ~But this “North” states is North;

If I were there when winter comes,



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The pieces of this puzzle when cor-

rectly put together, make a map of

the state which this verse describes.

The star indicates the capitol. When

you have solved the secret of which

state this is, write me all you can

about the state and its capitol.—Aunt

Martha.





 





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Secret was New Mexico and its capi-

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HISgame is heaps cf fun for

. little folks and it teaches them

to be observing. One player is chosen





‘wuys‘ecome the “Mink” who must lie ‘





flat‘ on - the ground, face downward.

with his hands extended at his sides.

The other platters join hands .xnd

circle around him singing:

Who am 1, Mr. Mink? .

Passing by, passing by. -

Tell me by my feet,





Who am I? Who am I? i,

As they pass. the Mink attempts to l





touch some of the passers’ feet but

'must be careful to keep his fingers

from being stepped 'upon. There

should be a penalty if some player

purposely steps on the Mi‘nk’s fingers.

As soon as ,the Mink touches a foot

the player must stop long enough for

the player to guess Whose foot he

touched. If. successful, that player

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, his stomach. and can only see the

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.._ ._-.Thermometer

..._._._Door Mat

.._..-.Door Hooks

....Clothes Line

__..._-Ironing Board

_......Clothes Wringcr

....._Chopping Knife

...Lantern and Wicks

Tar Paper

........ Saw

...Dipper





as a reminder.





Sometimes you find it hard to remember all of

the little things that ‘you cofistantly find need

for around the farm and the home.

lowing list is made to help you . . . . . . pick

the items that you haze need for, tear out this

page and bring it to your Farm Service store

The blank lines at the bottom

are for you to write in other things, for of T‘

course it is impossible to put down the thou—

sands of useful, helpful articles that you find

awaiting you in our “tag” stores.





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.__...__Halter Strap

_._._...Cupboard Enamel

__._._..Staplcs

......_.Aerial Wire



______ LInsulators

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........Wood Screws

____._,..Potato Masher

..__._..Padlock

___...._Shoe Nails

._....._Rope



__..._..Ax Handle

_..,___.Radio Batteries

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Your ”Farm Service”

Hardware Men.
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‘ sugar.





in, restaurants

‘ This is a half and half mixture of‘hot





 





Take a Cup and Drink it Up





Old Standbys, a Cup of Tea or Coffee, are Adapted to Delightful Changes

By Mary Richards





HE hostess that aspires to a.



reputation for originality can



reach her goal by a very short

route if she serves her guests with

beverages so presented that their

creation is undeniably associated with

her hospitalities.



Tea, coffee, and chocolate, the most

universally popular drinks, served the

world over, lend themselves delight-

fully to distinctive treatment and

as foundations to a variety of brews.



If you entertain frequently—and on

the spur of the moment—you will

want to acquaint yourself with the

semi-prepared products available.



On your next trip to the grocer ask

him to show you his orange blossom

tea (made from dried orange blos-

soms), his jasmine tea, with the jas-

mine fiowers among the leaves; his





 





 





 





 





These Two Little Girls from Decker-

ville Resort to the Old Wash Tub

to Keep Cool





 





 





his coffee ex-

chocolate





ready-made tea balls,





cubes, and his tea tablets.



Supply yourself with some sticks of

cinnamon and substitute them for

whole cloves next time you serve tea;

get some nectar raisins to drop into

your cup of tea. Use slices of canned

the usual

orange or lemon; add a piece of

lemon, orange, or tangerine rine to

the tea, and give it a slight twist as

you'drop it in.



After dinner mints lend an intri:

guing flavor to chocolate, and, of

course, the marshmallow and marsh-

mallow Whips are just “kinsfolk” of

this beverage.



Many housewives pack either cher-

ries or peaches in sugar and let them

stand thus in sealed jars for a year.

They are then very mellow, and the

juice made during the process is not

only delicious but has a tempting

A cup of black coffee or a

cup of clear tea flavored with this





juice is superb.





One charming hostess packs her

sugar with rose petals, with rose

geranium leaves, or with violets, and

seals the sugar up in a jar several





‘1 days thefore she expects to use it for





’nfternoon tea. The sugar takes the

fragrance of the flower or leaf. She

passes it in a. small flat dish well

lined and garnished with the flower

or leaf she has used in flavoring the





One of the favorite hot beverages

is mocha chocolate.





chocolate and hot coffee topped with

s .





popular way to make this drink





is to blend well one cupful of cream

with two chocolate cubes, crushed,

and to the mixture add three table-

spoons of coffee extract and one cup-

ful of boiling water. Top each cup

with a marshmallow. Or mocha

chocolate may be varied by serving it

either with iced coffee, with cream

and chocolate ice cream added, or by

using iced chocolate with cream to

which a portion of coffee ice cream is

added.



Important points to

making and in serving tea and coffee

are:



Never boil tea leaves.



Always have freshly boiling water

to pour over tea leaves.



Have at hand plenty of boiling

water with which to weaken tea, if

necessary.



In making percolator coffee, place

cold water in the pot.



In making drip coffee have the water

boiling hard before pouring it through

the grounds.



For drip coffee allow one heaping

tablespoon of coffee for the first cup,

and for each additional two cups an-

other tablespoonful.



Over the desired portion of coffee,

pour one cupful of boiling water, and

allow it to seep through for about

twofiminutes. Then add as many cup-





' fuls of boiling water as ydu intend to





serve cups of coffee.



Keep the coffee pot on a warm

place on the stove, but do not allow

drip coffee to boil.



Whether making percolator or drip

coffee, stuff a piece of cloth in the

spout of the pot. Thus plugged, none

of the rich flavor escapes.



Remember that strong coffee has a

richer flavor than weak coffee. And

in a cup which is filled with half

strong coffee and half cream or milk

you get no more coffee than in a cup

entirely filled with weak coffee.





 





To an

Inviting

Doorway





 





Some doorways look so cold and

bleak,

I never enter there,

Without I think—perhaps it’s weak—

Of something, to beware;

Perhaps, it’s just a silly whim,

To wait for one to beckon me,

Fer one can never tell, within,

Some kindly heart might be,

That hasn’t thought to twine the door

With creeping roSe or vine, ,

That harmonizes ever more,

And softens doors’ square line.

There’nkalways something peaceful-

1 e

In doorways thus entwined,

’Cause nature calls to us alike,

To ever be more kind;

It holds a welcome, “Come within”

, To those who outside roam;

To me, a doorway tells what's in

The heart of every home!

—Belle Walker Smith.





 

 





PRESERVE YOUR sees NOW FOR

WINTER us:





VERY farm housewife should pre-

serve eggs during the summer

months while they are cheap for use





remember in ,





next winter'when prices soar. Eggs

that are to be preserved for‘ winter

use must be fresh, clean, and infer-

tile. A clean five gallon jar makes a

good container. Boil about ten quarts

of water and let stand to cool. When

water is cold, pour it into the jar and

add one quart of sodium'silicate or

water glass. Stir the solution thor-

oughly. It is now ready for- the eggs

and fifteen dozen can be placed in the

jar, provided the eggs

medium ordinary size.

should extend about

above the eggs.



Place the large ends of eggs up to

avoid breaking the air cell. Eggs that

float when placed in the solution are

stale and should not be used. The

eggs can all be placed in the solution

at once or at different times. Set in

a dry cool place, and cover the jar

well to prevent evaporation. If evap-

oration should occur add cold boiled

water to the solution and cover again.

——Mrs. L. H. F.





The solution

three inches





 





CLIPPED FROM LETTERS





 





E have three children and often



take long auto rides on Sunday.

I keep a flat covered tin box in the

car, filled with paper napkins. If the

children eat fruit or candy on the way

they are handy and there are never any

sticky spots on the upholstry. They

are also good for drying the face af-

ter washing—Mrs. R. L.



I use oatmeal, either cooked or un-

cooked, to thicken soups. It improves

the flavor.—Mrs. P. S.



When pulling threads from linen or

canvas, use small tweezers to save

time—Miss D. L.





 





REWARD CARD PROV‘ES HELPFUL





 





E have five children, a girl of



twelve years, a boy of ten, two

girls aged eight and five, and a ten-

months-old baby boy. I have no hired

help so it is necessary for me to

teach the children to help me. Most

mothers realize how hard it is to in-

terest children in work, so I have

studied out a reward system that is

Working splendidly for us.



I have a large card tacked upin

the! kitchen with the four older chil~

dren’s names on it. Beside it I keep

a box of small gold stars, purchased

at the bookstore. Igive the children





a mark for work that they do that I,





consider Worthy, such as washing or





 





' What will work in one 'family

may not have equal results in

another. Let us hear from other

mothers on this all-important

subject. Have you taught your

children to help in and about

- your home, how did you accomé

plish this, and what have you

done to keep them interested in

helping?——Martha Cole.





 





are of the'





 





 





drying dishes, making their OWn beds,





on. Every ten marks 8W6: theni'





 





gold star, and for every tnree [tah‘





they get ave cents.





 





picking up, emptying ashes, carrying

— in coal er water, caring for baby,

practising their music lessons. and so





This system is working wonders for

me and is saving me many steps a

day. It gives me time to do extra

things that should be done and also

gives me time to give the children

some pleasant surprises, such as trips

to the woods, visits with grandma, a

matinee, a plate of fudge, a cake, or

favorite dessert. In fact, our reward

card makes things pleasanter for us

all.——Mrs. A. S.





 





WOMEN FIND TIME TO CAMP





 





ORTY busy farm women from

. Chippewa County arranged their

work so they could spend a few days

or a week late in August at the Dun-

bar Farm Women’s camp on the St.

Mary’s River.

This year’s program included music

appreciation, voting and citizenship,





 





 





 





This Little Miss Believes in Taking

Her Music Lesson Where It is Cool





 





 





food demonstrations on the use‘of





fruits and vegetables, the making of'





lamp shades and braided rugs. Time-

was left for informal visiting, walks

through the woods, and a trip to the»

forestry plots where thousands of

trees had been planted to be used in

reforestation work.





No meals to plan or cook and no-

dishes to wash were not the least of"

the attractions offered to these-

women. One was heard to remark,

“If the camp gave me nothing. more,

it’s joy enough just to get up from.

the table and not wash a dish.”



In expressing their opinions of the

benefits of the camp, “A'good time,

a vacation, making new friends” were

frequent comments.



“The contact with well educated

people is an incentive toward reading

and gives me a longing to improve

my education but does not make me

dissatisfied with my home life,” said

another.





Perhaps every husband who ate

under-done steak or over-done pota-

toes should have the following copied

as a guide and inspiration—coming





from a mother of a large family who





enjoyed her first vacation in fourteen.

years, who Said in part, “Going home

so rested and encouraged and ready

to make a bigger effort to be the best

mother and homemaker possible.”—- "

Mildred Harris.





 





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Eggs are “sealed sunshine” and as '

are especially, v32?!) tg , ,,





 





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"cup grated cheese over it.





-, beets is

,‘ one-half "cup sugar,





‘ ”fine cracker crumbs,





 





Ii'fiEN til/e French disctwered





that certain plants had an enliv-'





' ening effect upon those who

ate them, they appropriately called

them Vegetables, after the Latin

word “vegetabilis” which means en-

liVening. Since we have begun to

talk in terms- of vitamins in relation

to the food we eat, vegetables have





come even"1nore prominently into the





limelight than before.



Health specialists tell us that we

must include some ' other . vegetable

beside potatoes in our daily menus.

If we do this, we cannot serve these





. vegetables in the same old way, day ,





in, and day out, for the family will

soon tire, of :them. When you are

looking for variety, trysome of these

..tried and true ways: '





Green Corn, Creole Style:





6.01m corn 1 teaspoon sugar

1,4: green pepper. chapped 2 tbs. butter



2 tbs. grated onion Salt. pepper



3 tomatoe-





The corn can be cut fresh from the





'cob or canned corn may be used.





"Peel and slice the tomatoes,- mix

vegetables and seasoning together,

andbake uncovered one-half hour in

a buttered baking dish.



Squash Au Gratin





' Cut a "squash in halves, remove





“seeds and steam. When done, remove





pulp from shell, press through a sieve,

and add salt, pepper, and butter for

seasoning. ‘ Turn into a buttered

baking dish. Spread three-quarters

Mix one-

half cup Ciacker crumbs with one-

quarter cup melted butter. Set in a.

hot oven to brown the crumbs and

melt the cheese. .

Vegetable Pie





2 carrots , . 2 onions

~ 1 parsnip ‘ ' 4 tomatoes

1151-1191111 celery 6 potatoes

cup peas IA cup butter

1- 0111) Salt. pepper





Peel and slice potatoes and partly

'boil. Then add rest of vegetables

and cook fifteen minutes. Butter

heavy baking dish and place the





, vegetables in it in layers with salt,





pepper, and bits of butter. Add

enough vegetable stock to nearly

cover and bake in a moderate oven

one and a half hours.

Harvard Beets

A delicious sauce for diced, young

made by cooking together

one tablespoon

ce1nsta1ch, and One—half qup vinegar.

This is sufficient for two cups of

diced beets Pour sauce over beets

and let stand on the back of the stove

for thirty minutes. Add two table-

spoons of butter and serve.

Panfrle‘d Tomatoes

'_Slice" tomatoes one-half inch thick.

Dognot peel. Sprinkle with salt and

pepper.

being sure to





obver the whole surface. Panfry in





I .





VDip each sliCe‘ in. flour or,





 





e _ erstlle Vegetables





as little-Tat as possible until‘brown.





'If the Juice of the tamatoes :makes





too much liquid. in the panbefore the

cooking is finished, remove and re-

serve it. Lift tomato slices to a hot

platter. and keep hot. Return to the





”sauce pan any liquid removed and ‘





add cream and thicken with a bit of

flour, if necessary. Pour this sauce

over the tomatoes and serve. This

makes a delightful supper dish if the

slices are served on buttered .toast

and the sauce poured over just before

serving. .

Mock'Chicken





6 veal chops _6 carrots

1 6 tbs. fat.

2 tbs. water Salt. Delmar

1 cup bread crumbs 3 bay leaves

6 potatoes Milk to cover

Beat egg slightly, add water and

seasoning. Dip chops in this and

then in crumbs. Brown chops in the





fat. Put potatoes, carrots, and bay

leaves in a casserole with the chops

on top. Pour milk over all and bake

in a moderate oven one and a. quar-

ter hours.



Peas With Rice

1 tsp. salt

1—8 tsp. pepper





2 cups hot water

6 tbs. grated cheese





’1. cup fat

1 minced onion

1 tb. minced parsley

2 cups green peas

M cup rice



Melt 2 tablespoonfuls of the fat and

pantry the onions and parsley. Add

peas and cook five minutes. Add un-

cooked rice and cook until rice is dry.

Then add hot water, seasoning, and

cook slowly until the rice ‘is soft.

Add rest of‘ fat and cheese and serve

at once. -





Squash with Corn

Squash is exceptionally good served





with corn. Pantry for two minutes

‘14 cup sliced onion in fat from

one slice of salt-- pork. Add 1A,





cup minced green pepper and two

cups of squash. Cook two minutes,

stirring constantly. Add one-half cup

of milk. Cover, and cook slowly for

twenty minutes. Add two cups of

corn and one teaspoon of salt and

cook for ten minutes.

Harlequin Salad



There is any number of combina-

tions of vegetables that are delightful

for salads but this one is exception-





ally good and satisfying.

1 6111) red. cabbage 1A; cup carrots





1 cup white cabbage 1 onion

1 cup peas Mayonnaise

1/5: cup beets

Shred the cabbage. Dice beets





and carrots and cook until tender.

Mince the onion and when the vege-

tables are ghilled, marinate with may~

onnaise. Serve on crisp lettuce with

a dash of paprika.





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“ ‘Home’ is a place my father is

proud to support, my mother is glad

to keep, and my friends are happy to

visit.” Written by a fourteen-year-old

school boy. ,





Who Wouldn’t be Tied to Apron

Strings Like These?





HESE





comes





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.. blue organdie to be appli~

. ., qued. Price 65c.





, - No.‘ 5471 comes. .

' .' ‘ bleached muslin with peck: '

‘ ‘ ‘ ' ’ ets of orange material to be

,appliqued in Japanese Ian-X

The designs on

-_ the pockets and the flov’yers

are finished in light and dark . -

shades of blue and lavender.





tern effect.





.: Price 60c.





fetching

are really most unusual

and always make .welcome ‘

Christmas gifts.

in. yellow organdie





Address your orders for, .

,, these dainty aprons to the I 1

Stamped Geode Department, . ,' 7 "





 





aprons





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HEN your nerves go you go. Grit,

gumption, and stimulants may help

you for awhile but sleep is the only —





lasting remedy. “You live only as you ,0

'sleep.” And for good sleep you ought -

to have the FOSTER IDEAL BEDSPRING.

When you rest upon the IDEAL its 120

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form. They support your spine, and

provide for more perfect relaxation. The

result is better sleep. Your nerVes get

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refreshed. That’s why when you pur»





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getting the genuine FOSTER IDEAL.





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Some Inspirations ’





From Our Poets





' Harvest Season

I can feel it in the air

That very, very soon,

Fall will surely be here,

Maybe with full moon.

With it will be harvest,

Apples, pumpkins, nuts, and corn;

These and many others,

We will store up in the morn.





Squirrel, mice, and chipmunk,

They will busy be,





“ Storing up their treasures,





For this season is their key

To the winter’s idle comforts

That is soon in store

For these busy little darlings,

Who Will gather more.

—Claud J. Sprague





A Wish

I’d go to the land of

Thoughts;



To the Forest of Golden Dreams,

I’d walk ’neath the trees where the

‘white stars shine,



And the moon sheds its



beams.





 





Beautiful





silvery





I’d list as I walk in that mystical





woo ,



To the soft, sighing breezes above,



As I wait for my Dream Folk to join

me there,



From the many books that I love.





Soon all these heroes and heroines





appear, .

Their adventures again I will share,





i





 





 





 





Mary Walroth Is Dressed to Pick Cu-





cumbers. You’d Never Think It

Was Mary

I’d live once more through their trials

and joys

As I walk and I talk with them

there.





And all night long under star-sprink-

led skies,

All night long ’neath that wonder-

ous moon, _

We’d walk ’neath the trees and spend

happy hours,

But, oh, why must the day come so

soon?





’twill

.. soon be dawn, ,

And so with a last, sad good-bye

They must leave their forest play-

ground dear,

But, alas! and so must I.





I take one last look at that starlit

scene .



Before the soon dawning of day. .

Mystic

Wood, Golden'Dreams, ,



I must return to the earth away.”

. ‘ ———Laura Cheney.





 





The Goldfinch





,My‘ breast. is gold,





And: sous my back,

Fl My wings and tail

‘ Are white and black.





3-_7._My head is black,





And I live on the seed





Of the farmers’ pes





t

Called the “milkweed.”





ir-I eat many insects,





. And in the end,

.I’m always known





' As the “Farmer’s Friend."





——Gladys Maine.





’ or Clr’le

,hrgeurehngergyfor 'gln‘cle Frank





 





 





“ last to lay the old aside.”





And for the Merry Circle.





They teach us not to be old cranks,

But lots of cheer to circulate

And be a happy circle.





Our colors here are plain to see,

As on our dress we wear -

The white which’ stands for purity,

And blue which stands for loyalty;

Will 'drive off lots of care.





Here’s for the Merry Circle page

Whose fame will ever live; ..

Whose glorious name will never fade“.

To whom these tributes will be paid

By those of us who live.



—Bernice N. Cook.





 





Summer Time

When summer comes and the sun is

bright -

The landscape is a beautiful sight.

Dad goes to the field with a big black

team,

Draws hay in the barn till it’s full to

the beam.





Then he tells us in the afternoon,

That we’ll be singing a lively tune,





For we are going to a little lake

And what a jolly noise we’ll make.





We’ll get in the water and wade

around

Because the bottom is safe and sound,

And when the sun begins to set

Dad says, “we’ll have time to get

home yet.”

-—Margaret Brauber.





 





My Message

I sat by my window in spring,

My heart was heavy and sad;

The birds outside sweetly did sing,





Something said, “this is time to-be





glad.”





I opened my shades to the sun;

My room looked cheerful and

bright, .



I said, “A new 'day has begun

I must strive now to live it aright.”





“There is work to be done,” said a





v0 ce,

“There is work which will take one

and all, ..

You will make people now to rejoice.

Oh; hark! to the Heavenly call.”





I arose feeling peace in my soul;

No more now to care will,I how,

I will struggle to come to that goal—

I thank Thee for calling me now.

—Margaret Morey.





 





 





@DUR LETTER BB \





   





 





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I read “Our Page” every week. It

is very interesting. I tried some of

the contests, but failed to get a prize

or member hip pin and card. I hope

some of t e others will try to win

some of the contests.



Uncle Frank, I suppose you are

going for a vacation pretty soon. I’ve

been in Chicago, Ill.; _ Nashville,

Tenn; Toledo, Ohio; and Greenville,

S.C., _visiting relatives this menth. I

just arrived home Sunday. I am plan-

ning on going to Yellowstone National

Park, Wyoming, and to Oakland,

California, then it will be near time

for school to start when I return. I

am expecting to start next week. I

wish you could go, too, Uncle Frank.

I enjoyed my trip very much.



I would like to tell you something

about my wonderful trips but I know

that Mr. Wastepaper Basket-will get

this letter so there won’t be any use.



Now, none of you pick up bad

habits—Me and My Shadow.



You certainly will have some vaca-

tion if you also take in that western

trip. I, too, wish I could go, but this

year I am going north to lose myself

in the woods. You know now that we

are expecting to hear about your

trips. Give my regards to your sha-

dow.





 





Howdy Uncle Frank and Cousins:



As I can’t see you, I am doing the

next best thing and that is to write

you a letter. Maybe it’s headed for

the Waste,Basket, but if not, then I

certainly made a quick job of writ-

ing to five or six thousand at one

time, didn’t I?



I see the M. C.’s are. still discus-

sing “evolution.” It’s rather interest—

ing, I think, to get other people’s

views regarding it. As for myself, I’d

rather “hang on to old Adam' and

Eve” for a while yet. Still, what’s

the difference what we were, what

we’re going to be is more important.



Probably some of you think I’m old-

fashioned. Most likely I am as I





'wouldn’t make a very good flapper,





still I certainly wouldn’t like to try to





- preach, but—+“Be- not the first by





whom the new is tried, nor yet the





Uncle Frank, what do you think of

a person walking down the street,

chewing gum for all he is worth? I

chew gum myself, once in a while,

‘but I certainly hope not like some.

people I’ve seen chew it. Don’t you





should be abolished,” would be a. good}

subject for debate? ‘ .

Lately, I’ve heard that this is the

year for the seventeen year locus-ts

to come again, if .they hays they don t

make themselves very conspicuous, do

they? I wonder if any of the MA). 8

bus seenrnny. . ,. .. .





, my first letter.‘bu





Well, Uncle Frank, I think it’s time

to “climb a tree and branch off” for

me, so, so long. Yours for better or

worse. An M. C. niece—“Hankie.”





Your name makes me think of my

wife. She is always asking “where

is my hankie?” Isn’t it funny how

women so frequently lose their hand-

kerchieves? But, referring to your

letter, I judge you are a sensible

middle-of—the-road sort of person. A

gum discussion would be a sort of

chew-chew proposition, wouldn’t it?

We might get gummed up on it. Come

out of that tree and write again.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



Do you realize how much I enjoy

the M. C. page? That is the first

thing I look at when we get the M. F.

I have been somewhat timid in writ-

ing ,but now "I write this in hopes'of

finding the greedy W. . at rest.



I like the discussio s on “Our

Page” for they show that all young

people of today are not totally devoid

of sense and that they have much

knowledge of the good things in life.



The M. C. gives us plenty of food

for thought and I agree with many

that are defending the younger gen-

eration. I hear so often that the

world is getting worse but I know

that it is not true. Haven’t both evil

and good existed throughout the ages?

I read somewhere'that it is because

the older generation does not under-

stand the feelings and thoughts of the

young so that youth and old age

clash together and there is a conflict.

This is the cause of misunderstanding

on both sides I think.«



Well, Uncle, 1 think I’ll finish my

philosophy for this time. Next 'time

I’ll tell you something of one'of our

prominent M. C. artists for I know

him—Just a farm girl and M. C. My

initials are M. C. also. .





I hope you will philosophize again

for you have a wholesome philosophy.

Also, tell us of the M. C. artist.





 





Dear Uncle Frank and M. C.’s:

Boo-00,

two weeks.





made to travel with down the reads

it it keeps up. _~ ‘



Well, as everyone has been talking

about the Michigan Farmer, I‘am the





' first one to the mail box on; Thurs-





think, “Resolved that chewing gum”. day 851 always know. the M- R 20921188 '





then and the first thing I ”lookifor is

to see how, uch ‘ “eur‘iPageWoO'vers

and then I s- t down and still to read





.and. by ,,803h,_~the next t ing, I'okhoy _,





’I'ni through reading the whole thing!

Well, I hope'the Old Waste Basing:





ls snoring and tasty;





 

 





its been raining here for‘

Golly, I believe we will ~

have to have some- boats or canoes





 

 

 

 





; subject?





three contests. The first time I didn’t

receive anything but the second time

I received a clutch pencil and, by

golly, I’ll tell you thanks a hundred

times for it! My, but it sure was nice

and the last time I did not receive

anything. I guess I’ll ring off for the

first time. Goodbye—Mary Kocsis,

sometimes “Red.”



The weather has been so wet and

hot that‘ most of us have been in hot

water. Glad you like “Our Page” and

the prize. ,





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I am writing to thank you for my

pin and membership card. I had al-

most forgotten that I answered a con-

test when I went to the mail box and

found them. I was certainly glad to

receive them and I thanklyou ever

and ever so much for them. ' I have

never, written in before and I sure





hope that Mr. Wastepaper Basket 'is‘





sfiill having its nap when you open

1s.



Don’tyou think I am pretty lucky?

I received the highest average in

Clinton County through both seventh

and eighth grades.



Thank you again for my pin and

card. Your M. C. niece-Mary Golf.



Congratulations on your good show-

ing in school. It sometimes takes us

quite a while to get M. C. buttons out,

but they go eventually to all who ar

due them. ~





 





Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins:



Hi! How’s everybody? I’ve been a

silent member for a long time, but a

faithful reader. I have enjoyed read-





 





 





 





Henry Verbensky Clearly Demon-

strates That' He Is an Acrobat





ing the discussions on evolution, bad

habits, etc. ’



Why not give your ideas on better

av1at10n, high school education, value

of public speaking, vaCation at camp,

or something more modern? Now, by

saying “more modern” don’t take it

for granted that I’m one of these “im-

pish fiappers” because I’m~not. I live

on a farm and like fresh air and sun-

shine,- and for-that simple reason, I

have a swell coat of tan. Also-“more

modern” brings in the 'idea 'Sof bad

habits; Indeed, the young people 'do

have bad habits, but I wonder f they

are as bad \as some people say, or~ if

they are much worse than other gen-

erations. I certainly agree with those

that say drinking and smokinglaren’t

the best for young people to indulge

in. But, if I may ask, where did they

get the idea? - The example? Al-

though, I don’t care much about danc-

ing, it doesn’t appear to me to be as

ridiculous as some folks try to pic-

ture it, and I see no harm in the rig-ht

kind of a movie at the right time and

the right place. Anyway, I guess I’ve

crossed the border and carried my

ideas a little too far. _



’l‘o Betty Jane Newell I would say

that I’d like. to see that picture of

“The, Setting Sun”, which God paints

for you each evening, because I, too,

am a nature lover. In fact, I don’t

believe I can think of anything any

more beautiful than the way Mother

Nature arranges “Twilight” during

the different seasons. ,



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Far more people are there who are

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to perform their normal function.



hey" must be forever dosing them-

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haps- because of some inordinate fear

that nature, in resentment that man

no longer sways his body on all tours,

will refuse to allow his scavenger sys-

tem to function.



This dread of Constipation is de-

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causing serious damage to the victim

unless good 'judgment‘ is in control.

If the patient who happens to miss

the daily evacuation of the bowels

simply says, “I must attend to that.

I must drink more water. I must eat

some fruit or 'spinach' or head lettuce

everyday,” well and good. No harm

willfollow but much good.



But that is not the usual outcome.

Eating fruit or drinking water is too

normal a method of correction to

commend itself to the average person

as a remedy for constipation. He

must have something strong (and

usually nasty). A pill or a dose of

salts are the common agents employed

andu since one dose calls for another

the taker soon becomes a regular de-

votee“ of the pill habit. Far better for

him to make up his mind that nothing

very terrible happens if the bowel

evacuation is occasionally missed;

that individuals differ; that there are

even.a.people~for- whom clearance of

thei’b‘ov‘vels eVery two or three days

is normal. Have a daily bowel habit

ifpbssible, cultiVate it, encourage it;

but do not try to drive it by repeat-

edly. taking pills and purgatives or

you will soon be the worst kind of a

constipated biped.





BOY E AS» POOR TEETH





What may, e the cause of a four

and one-half , ear-old boy having such

poor teeth? " He \‘s large and very

healthy, eats “lots l of eggs and milk

but doesn’t want any pork or almost

any beef. Had the first double teeth

pulled when three years old—S. K.





Eggs and milk are good but he

should also have green vegetables and

whole wheat bread. He (1 es not need

pork and very little beef." He should

get 'a' lot ‘of Sunlight, playing right

out in the sun with most of the body

exposed, but .begin this very cau-

tiously. “He' needs calcium carbonate

and‘fone of. the very best ways to get

that is a quart of fresh milk every

day. '





 





AUNT HAS PALSY





 





I have an aunt who has palsy. She

is 65 years old andseems to he get

ting more helpless all the time. She

isve‘ry shaky especially in hands and

arms- Is there any cure for this?

How, long may people afflicted in this

manner expect. to l,i_ve?——Subscriber.



,Balsy is a disease of the nervous

system that is, usually slow but pro-

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work of any kind should be demand-

ed. Extra care is needed to prepare

food that is easy of digestion and

particular attention to protection from

any severe weather.





WHAT BLOOD TESTS TELL





Do you think they can tell just what

ails a person by sending away a blood

test?—-M. H. J.



This depends upon who is meant

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tested. A blood test properly taken

and skillfully examined will give re-

liable information as to the presence

of syphilis, typhoid fever, malaria,

anemia, and many other ailments. But

it is only one part of an examination.

It does not tell the whole story and

in some ailments tells nothing at all.





 





PROBABLY STOMACH TROUBLE





 





Every now and then I get a severe

pain in the back of my head and eyes

with backache. I get so tired and

“all in” I think I can’t stand up.

Very nervous and do not get over it

until I run my finger down my throat

and throw up some soured food and a

lot of bile. What is the cause of

this?—R. T. E.



This suggests the probability of en«

largement or dilatation of- the stom-

ach. The home. remedy is very care-

ful mastication of small meals. Five

small ones daily are better than three

large ones in such a case. Every

mouthful of food must be thoroughly

masticated.





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I have ingrowing toenails that are

very bad and would like to know if

there is anything to do for them. Can

a person remove them? Which is the

best way to trim them?—Mrs. G. H.





You can cure them. Use an old

safety razor blade to scrape and pare

the entire surface of nail until thin

as parchment. Trim the top edge of

the nail squarely across. Make no

effort to cut down into the ingrowing

tissue at the sides. If you keep the

top scrapedthin the ingrowing part

will crowd up. Of course, you must

wear roomy shoes and stockings.





ROARIINGTIN EAR





 





I am a woman of middle age in

good health. Have been having a

roaring in my left ear and hear very

little out of that ear. H'ave gone to

a specialist. He says the ear is white

and dry and that the drum is flat.

Have taken treatment for six months

but has not improved any. Would like

to know whether there is any use to

keep on taking treatment—Mrs. F. M.





This condition is middle ear ca-

tarrh which yields very little to any

treatment. I do not advise you to

continue taking expensive treatments.

Live in hygienic fashion and avoid

taking colds. Perhaps the trouble will

spread no further. There is not much

to say that is encouraging about mid-

dle ear catarrh. .





COUGH PERSISTS





 





What is the best remedy for a

cough that hangs on too long? What

IS wrong when cold air strikes the

chest and makes one cough? I can go

Into a room of cooler temperature





'and just as soon as I retire and the





cold air strikes my chest I cough.—

A Subscriber. - ' '





I think you are in a run down con-

dition “with poor resistance. Take

extra nourishing, food and a lot of

rest. Sleep in the l‘open air. Build





the body up in every possible way.





Regular daily baths are good but you

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WHEN the poultry flock is culled



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I have found it is possible to make

them pay their way and with a profit

too.



On almost every farm there are by-

products of one kind or another that

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the by-products on my farm into poul-

try meat and at the holiday season

especially, I turn the flock over at a

good price.



First, I put all the culls into a nice

clean pen and where they will not

have the usual room for exercise, as

will be needed where we expect to

feed for egg production. Then the

twindows are covered in order to keep

out as much light as possible. The

coverings are, however, so arranged

so we can remove them at feeding

time. This is the secret, a dark quiet

pen away from the rest of the flock

makes the birds eat in contentment

and then they will sleep a greater

part of the time for a period of sev-

eral weeks if we wish to hold them

that long. Then, too, they will fatten

in this way more easily. They are

daily given plenty of fresh water as

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and they will not fatten. As to the

feeds used, I have fed soft field and

sweet corn to advantage, shriveled

grains of wheat, oats, and rye,

small amount of buckwheat, floor

sweepings, cull apples, cabbage, beets,

and small pumpkins cut up and fed

with bran, slightly moistened. Have

even fed clover lawn clippings, and,

that is excellent along with grain.

Just before I am ready to market, I

feed for several days, and it pays too,

a mixture of one-third cornmeal, one-

third wheat middlings, one-third rye

chop. This is mixed together into a

fairly wet mash and always fed at

night.



There is a trick in knowing just

when the culls have reached the point

where they are ready for market.

Keep the flock on the diet as I have

given it, as long as they seem to do

well. Never over-feed. Examine them

and when they seem nice and plump,

they are ready to market at once. If





 

   





 





fed in the manner I have described

too~long, they sometimes will go off

feed and begin to lose weight Which

is the thingfwe wish to avoid.



Now here are the figures of my.

flock last Thanksgiving time. I had 80

Rhode Island Reds, hens and roosters,

all culls and they gained one and

three-quarter pounds in a short while

when fed this way. They made a.

total gain of 142 pounds, exactly

which, at the price of 23 cents a

pound, amounted to a nondisputable

profit of almost $33.00. I do not know

any other way in which I could feed

up the by-products on my farm and

make as much profit in such a short

length of time. And, further, what I

have done anyone can do. When I

hear or see where someone has

failed with poultry, I am sure there is

something wrong in the management.

I have kept different breeds of poultry

and I have always made some profit.

[have found it pays to cull and feed

in ‘this way, leaving only the very best

birds for egg production and breed-

ers—H. Swope. .





September With the Poultry





By R. G. Kirby





F late cabbages have been set out



for the hens, it pays to give them

plenty of spray dope and good care

so that they will develop into clean

hard heads suitable for storage. The

cabbage has been used extensively as

winter green feed by poultrymen for

many years but it has only recently

been fully appreciated. It is now

known that cabbages help in keeping

up the vigor of breeding stock dur-

ing the winter. Hens that have re-

ceived cabbage leaves throughout the

winter seem to produce eggs of great-

er hatchability and the chicks are

vigorous.





If an insufficient cabbage supply has





'been produced on the home farm, it





is often possible to buy a few hun-

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mer should help in producing a large

quantity of cabbage, and hens with

the capacity for winter egg production

will surely deserve an ample supply

of green feed. This year we have re-

duced the number of mangel beets

I think next

year the mangels will only be raised

for the cows and the hens will have

cabbages and alfalfa and the mangel

beets will be left out of the ration.





One other vegetable that is useful

in the winter ration is the carrot.

It has been found to be close to green

feed in its value to the hen. In our

experience it has been better than the

mangel. A hen can only eat about

so much feed and much of the feed

must be the concentrated egg mash

which helps production. Too much

bulky green feed reduces the bird’s

capacity for mash and that is why we

expect to leave mangel beets largely

out of the ration.





Fall Poultry Range



A fall poultry range that is occa-

sionally mowed produces more fresh

tender green feed for the poultry. The

birds do not like to range through a

jungle of grass and weeds and will

stay more closely to the poultry build-

ings and thus obtain less green feed

and bugs. On sandy soil the problem

of keeping down the tough heavy

grass causes little worry but on a

heavy rich soil which is constantly

fertilized with poultry manure, weeds.

and graSs make a luxuriant growth.



A good sharp scythe is the poultry-

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buildings where the mowing machine

cannot be used easily.» It helps in

mowing around fruit'trees on poultry

nlsh green feedstor ”the-birds.

ing up masses of weeds .





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ners destroys the hiding place of

weasels. These pests like to hide in

the dense weed and grass growth and

nail the unsuspecting pullets that

walk near them. Last week a neigh-

bor found a large weasel killing a pul-

let in a brood coop. He was able to

step into the coop and crush the-

weasel with his heavy farm shoes.

The weasel fought for the pullet to

the last. A pest with that much

nerve is a real problem for the poul-

tryman.

Take Poultry Inventory



Take an inventory of the young

stock by closing the colony houses at

night and counting the chicks as they

pass through the small trap doors in

the morning. Repeat the inventory

every few days and if weasels are

taking the pullets, the loss, will be

known and easier to prevent. Do not

wait until weasels have been taking

the poultry on the range for several

weeks and then make a. count and

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night. Undoubtedly there are plenty

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tention but nothing is gained by

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weasels and rats which can largely be

prevented.



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0W. the dairy experts at Iowa

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, .nounce that ,a threeyear test indi-

_ cats that if the corn is moist enough





it will keep just as well in the silo

Without any tramping or packing

whatever. This is directly in line

with conclusions reached by other ex-

periment stations as well as by a





‘_great many practical farmers.





The college dairy farm has two silos





~ In each of the past three years the





corn in one silo has been tramped by





three men while that in the other has





had no tramping. One year a boy

handled the blower inside the silo by

means of a rope, but did no tramping.

In the other two years, the corn in

the untramped silo has been allowed

to pile up, tumble over and fill up as

it would with no attention paid to it.



Despite this difference at filling





‘time, the untramped silage has kept

'just as well as that





thoroughly

tramped. In the years when no one

handled the blower in the untramped

silo the liusks leaves and lighter,

more fluffy particles accumulated at

It was feared





wouldn’t pack well. and, hence, would





‘ spoil, but no difference could be found





when the silage was taken out for





' feeding.





At all times they have been exceed-

ingly careful to get a sufficient





1 amount of‘water into the silo when-





" ever the 'corn appeared to be the





' least dry, and is far more important

'-in"insuring that ‘the silage will keep

“than is tramping.





The question is often raised as to

whether it is possible to get much





“more corn into the silo by tramping.





‘ more’?‘Silage into the silo.

'“the; amount of mOisture in the corn is

"belieVe'd ‘to' be an important factor;





The college tests indicate that tramp-

i'ng-‘will result in getting 3 to 10 tons

Here, too,





If water is run into the silo in con-

siderable quantities. the untramped





‘ silage'will‘ settle much more.





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OYBEANS _provide an excellent

. protein supplement for use in the

grain 'ration for dairy cattle Num-





erous experiments conducted by sOme





of 'the leading experiment stations in

the United States have proven ground

soybeans to be equal to linseed oil-

meal as a protein supplement in the

dairy ration.



In feeding trials conducted at the





“Purdue University Agricultural Ex-





perimeIntI Station in 1923 comparing





' grOUnd soybeans with linseed oilmeal,





Soybeans proved to be equal to lin-

seed Oilmeal as a protein supplement





"for dairy cattle when fed in the grain





'ration of corn and oats.

" Experiments conducted at the Pur-

due and South Dakota stations com-

paring soybean hay with alfalfa hay,

soybean hay was found to be prac-

tically equal to alfalfa hay when fed

to dairy cattle. ‘



Trials conducted at the Inwa Sta-





‘tion in 1922'in Comparing ground soy-





beans'with linseed oilmeal, as a. pro‘





tein sopplement for the dairy ration,

' Showed





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worth $60 per ton when. old process





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a . 11111. In other words, t 6 ground soy-I

"1 beans fed as a protein supplement to

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proven to be just as good as alfalfa

hay in the Purdue dairy herd the past

winter. In fact, We think so much

of the bean hay that this year we will

have seventy-five tons for winter

feeding—J. H. Hilton.





PURE-BRED COWS INCREASE

THEIR LEAD





 





OR the 'third year in succession,



figures tabulated comparing pure-

bred and grade cows in butter—fat

production show that the pure-bred

cow is a heavier producer than her

half-sister, the grade cow. .



The spread in production between

pure-bred and grade cows based 011

production yields in 1927 is the great-

est on record. Nineteen pounds of

butter-fat and 837 pounds milk is the

difference in production in favor of

the pure-bred cow.



Examination of the tabulation of

these pure-bred and grade cows indi-

cates that the average number of

lactation periods per cow ranges be-

tween/four and five. The 'pure-bred

cows apparently reach their greatest

production at the age of seven years

,while grade cows seem to yield large

returns up to nine and ten years.



It would seem that grade cows are

more severely culled during the first

lactation periods. The

practice on Michigan farms seems to

indicate that this is the fact.





NET PROFITS INCREASE WITH

PRODUCTION





 





RODUCTION figures based on the



results of 82 Michigan dairy herd

improvement associations during the

year 1927-1928 set the average pro-

duction per cow at 7,917 pounds milk

and 316 pounds butter-fat. The aver-

age test was 4%. The total number.





of cows included in this study

was 13,581/ Only records of cows on

test for twelve months were used.





This is'the highest average reached

by Michigan dairy herd improvement

association cows.



Grouping the cows according to but—

ter-fat production, the records bring

out the interesting fact that returns

over the cost of feed increase at the

rate 01‘ $27.53 for each additional 50

pounds of butter-fat produced. The

additional feed cost amounts to ap-

proximately $10.00 for each fifty

pounds butter-fat produced.



When 500 pounds butter-fat produc-

tion is reached, however, the feed

cost totals $18.51 more to produce the

next fifty pounds butter-fat. The cost

of roughage increases only slightly

while the cost of grain advances

more rapidly with increased produc-

tion.



It would seem that the facts deter-

mined from testing associations point

to feeding to capacity at all seasons.

Cows producing less than 300 pounds

butter-fat make a return over feed

cost, but additional food given to bet-

ter producing cows return proportion-

ately larger amounts above the cost

of feed and thereby return greater

profits to. the dairyman.





HERD IMPROVEMENT WORK TO

CONTINUE





 





0W testing was again taken up

- by Wexford County dairymen on

September 1. The South. Wexford

Association has been inactive since





April first and its members who de- ‘ ‘ ’





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with the. North Wexford men in the





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» . Contagious Abortion

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the udder, upon which the functioning

of our whole dairy industry depends.

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about the disease and the organism.

The bacillus may live for months in





by careful pasteurization and by ordi-

nary disinfectants; its favorite habi-

tat is the pregnant uterus, and it does





pregnant one; but it may reach the

udders of infected cows, and there

maintain itself for long periods and

continue to infect the milk. .. >

One misconception popularly held,

says Doctor Mohler, is the belief in

the importance of the genital organs

of the bull as a means of presiding

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not remain long, as a rule, in the non- .





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illness of human beings with a disease .





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in the udder for long periods have



thrown light on the problem and point

the way to better control methods. ll

A 10ng step toward control is found ‘

in the two blood tests, complement .

fixation and agglutination, which may ‘I

be administered by ‘veterinarians to l

detect infected animals and separate

them from healthy ones. Studies of

infected herds have indicated methods

of taking advantage of natural im-

munity and ofgincreasing resistance, i

by artificial means, and this,,work is

being carried on by experimenters

with the expectation of developing

new facts and improved methods iof

increasing immunity. _,

After a herd has been tested, the \1‘

owner may be able to remove infect—

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At least, he should be able to plan .

intelligently for handling the prob— ' l.

lem. “A unit of effort expended to ,

destroy infection before it reaches

susceptible animals is worth,” says

Doctor Mohler, “many units used to

combat it after it has done so. Many

cattle owners, perhaps most, cannot

practice isolation or elimination of in-

fected animals from their herds. But

there are few cattle men who cannot

reduce the amount of’infection that "

may reach susceptible animals. By ‘

careful and intelligent effort it is pos- , ‘

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sible to reduce greatly the chances of

infection and to eliminate. gradually

the disease itself. It should be re-

membered that indiscriminate move-

ment and mingling of healthy . and

affected animals fosters the spread of

the disease. It should not be forgot-

ten that by no means all infected ani-

mals abort.” w



Doctor Mohler also mentions that





 





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or in ,the small city where the milk

,comes from one or a few cows, it is

a simple matter to test the. cows for

the disease and use milk only from

healthy animals. It is not-wise to

drink raw milk from cows that are

positive to the blood test.



Doctor Mohler reminds stock grow-

ers and dairymen that the bacillus is

not the only cause of abortion. There

are other infective organisms, and the

disease has also been traced to feeds

that do not supply- a suflicient. quan-

tity of‘ certain vitamins or minerals.



The heavy losses from abortion are

adequate reason for a vigorous pro-

gram of study and control. The

Bureau of Animal Industry has asked

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HOLSTEINERS DINE AT BL-YTHE'

‘ FIELD





MILING skies following a rainy



day brought out close to five hun-

dred Holstein folks to the Sixth An—

nual Field Day held Friday, August

24, at Blythefield Farms, Grand

Rapids.





The visitors soon joined the heav—'





ens-that is in the smiling business——

for Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Brewer,

owners of Blythefield and hosts of the

day ushered the crowd to groaning

tables arranged in the spacious- dec-

orated implement shed. .The big feed

served by the Pantlind Hotel started

the program with a bang!

' The one speaker was H. W. Nor-

ton. Jr., of Delavan, Wisconsin, Su-

perintendent of Advanced Registry for

the Holstein-Friesian Association of

America.

test, complimenting Michigan breed-

ers for'the top place held by their

state in numbers engaged in the test.

A surprise attack was made on

'Professor 0. E. Reed when his many





' Holstein friends presented him with.





-'a little farewell memento—a fountain

pen desk set. Prof. ’10Wed that ,he

would not soon forget Michiganders

in his new position as chief of the

Bureau of Dairying, Washington, DC.





There is plenty to be seen in a

herd like Blythefield which was fifth

highest last year in the U. S. A. in

proven production. Each animal was

placarded with hame, age, and re-

cords. In addition, a short parade of

notables was formed with herdsman

George C. Larke explaining points 'of

interest about each herd headliner.



“Florence,” possibly the outstand-

ing cow in the herd—at least she res

Cently completed a yearly record of

“1,279 pounds of butter—was used by



J E. Burnett, Director of the Bureau



Of Animal Industry for the State of

'Michigan in a demonstration of true

dairy type. Burnett talked proper

architecture for bulls with the showy

junior herd sire for a model.



The “You Pick ’Em” contest fol-

lowed. Three cows and one heifer,

each outstanding in some particular

point of dairy type was led ‘before

"the crowd. Thirty 'seconds‘ per animal





was allowed for each “picker” to,note_





on a card his impression. Cards were

"collected and Mr. Burnett. then indi-

cated the respective prominent points.

Out of sixty-eight cards turned in, ‘two

men—~Fred Schroeder of Grandville

and Albert Jenkins of Dimondale—





‘ 'saw the'excellency'or defect in each





animal ,the; same as the judge did;





 

 





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College. on} a ring of four cows the

high sCorer in the men’s division was

“H. A. Knapp of OwoSso. Arvid Mil-

ler of. Fremont was a close second,





and Fred Schroeder, Grandville was "





third. In the Boys’ Club division,

three members of the Sparta, 'Kent

County,“ Club landed highz' Emil K04

ber, Edward H. Frick, and Carroll

Bultema. 'Mr. Knapp received a small

statue of the true type Holstein cow

and Emil a calf show halter, for first

prizes. '



Winners-of top prizes in other con-

tests were:



, Cow calling—smilk pail to Elden

Hunsberger, Grand Rapids.



' Husband Holler—three bags ‘flour

to Mrs. J. A. Vary, Grand Rapids.



Races (girls under 12)—Wi1ma

Moerland of Grand Rapids.

under 12, John Buth, Grand Rapids.

Each received three tablets. Youth’s

baseball—Herbert Gibson, Silka.



In the rattle, the “grown-up” prize

of a true type model cow was drawn

by George Foster, Fostoria, Tuscola

County. The big toy truck prize for

youngsters was drawn by the Howard

Riley family of Charlotte.



In adjourning, the Holsteiners, rep-

resenting over a dozen counties, gave

Mr. and Mrs. Brewer a rousing vote

of thanks for their hospitality—

J. G. H. .





CATTLE OUTLOOK APPEAR

FAVORABLE *





' ONTINUANCE of the present

favorable cattle situation during

the next twelve months is indicated

by the Mid-Summer Cattle'Outlook re-

port just issued by the Bureau of

Agricultural Economics, United States

Department of Agriculture.



“Marketings this fall doubtless will

be somewhat smaller than a year

earlier,” says the bureau, “but the

number coming to market during the

first half of 1929 probably will about

equal marketings during the first half

of this year. The present. active de~

man‘d‘" for‘ beef and consequently for

slaughter cattle is expected to cen-

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er cattle this fall is expected to ex—

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rial change in the present general cat-

tle price level is anticipated, although

seasonal declines probably will occur

both this fall and next spring.



“With the exception of 1921, cattle

slaughter has exceeded production

every year from 1918 to 1927, inclu-

sive,” says the report. “Inspected

slaughter of cattle and calves during

the first seven months of 1928, how-

ever, was eight per cent less than in

1927 and twelve per cent less than in

1926, and it now appears that slaugh-

ter has reached a point where it about

equals. production.



“The number of cattle on feed in

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mated as six per cent less than a year

ago,” according to the report, “and

marketings this fall from the seven-

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Aberdeen Angus Bulls For Sale





Two very, choice. Russell MacFarlane, Newport, Mich.





For Sale-Two Registered Guernsey Cows

with C. T. A. records. Due October lst. Also bred

heifer and 7 mos. old bull calf whose dam has

A. R. record of 400 lbs. BF. Class G. R. B.

SAVIDGE. Reed City, Mich. .





Wanted-—Grade Guernsey Cow





Must be under six years of age. Must carry record

of at least 350 pounds butter-fat. Write JOHN

BOER. Jenison, Mich. ‘





GUERNSEYS Have fine young hulls 3 to

10 mos. old. Sire Dam

A. lt. 905.80 fat. Foundation cows and heifers.

WHITE OAK GUERNSEY FARM. Niles. Mich. R.

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





GUERNSEYS





109.10 milk. 778.80 (at.

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either sex. whose sires' dams

have official records of 15.-

19.460.50 milk. 909.05 fat.

HICKS, Battle Creek. Mich.. R .





FOR SALE Registered Guemscy Bull calves

. G and 3 months old, May Rose

breeding. WALNUT HILL FARM, Milford, Mich.





 





 





FOR practically pure-bred GUERNSEY or HOL-

BTEIN calves. from heavy, rich milkers.

write EDBEWOOD DAIRY FARMS. Whitewater. Wis.





FOR SALE 3 Registered Guernsey bulls. also

a few cows. the best breeding.

Cheap. JOHN EBELS. Holland. Mich., R .





 





 





1 0R SALE—Two Reg. Guernsey cows, 4 yrs. old.

due to freshen Oct. 19L. also year old bull.

LEONARD HASSLER. Sandusky, Mich.





 





SERVICEABLE AGE

Registered Holstein





Bull. Calves at prices the owner of a small herd

can afford to pay. Grandsons of K. P. 0. P.

Bred cows and heifers are available for founda-

tion stock.





RED ._, ROSE FARMS DAIRY

' Northville, Michigan -

Reference: Nortbvillc State Savings Bank





FOR SALE Ten registered Holstein ‘ cows.





. seven have A.R.O. records aver~

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





HARRY COVERT. Lesllo. Mlch.



"ULSTEINS We can furnish high grade cows and

. heifers in carioad lots. '1‘. B. tested



county. Glamor a Brlnscold. West Concord. Minn.





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STEEHS &KHE|FERS





Few bunches nicely marked. dark reds, beef type.

dehorncd. Hereford steers. Calves. Short. le’s.

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





Also a few hunches 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,

HOGS





Eldon. Iowa





 





 





 





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Duroc Spring Pigs

Registered in purchaser‘s name. Pairs not related.

Also service bears and bred gills. .

Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich.

’ L t fll “ b d bred.

0- 1- C S .53., tossiilfiti’. fill”: 33. on...

OTTO SCHULZE, Nashville. Michigan.





[Am Offering. scvcrnl cxlru, good 0. l’. P.





hours. rcudy for scrvlcu

Fred W. Kennedy &. Sons, Chelsea, Mich.. R. I.





[LARGE TYPE P. C.





Fall pigs 'all sold. nothing for sale at present in

hogs. Have a few rcgistcrcd Black Top Dclaine

yearling: rams. good (ll‘lt's. for sale. W. ‘ LIV-

INGSTON, Parma. MIOII.





Large Type





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Poland China bred gllts. also

weanling piss. Priced rec.-

TAYLOR, Balding. Mich.





SHEEP





1 500 Breeding Ewes





1.000 choicc large black—faced ewes. l to 4 years old.

also 500 choice largo Michigan Domino ewrs. l 00

years old. Wholesale prices ALMOND B. CHAP-

MAN & SONS. So. Rockwood. Mich. Telegraph

address: Rockwood, Mich. 25 miles south of Detroit.

him-k face





S H E E P cwcs with big. husky lambs





by side. and a few loads of llnc wool ewes with.

half blood lambs. l‘rlcc right and ready to ship.





(‘on rsc Wool.





 





C (1 th .

Militia! {twisglfi‘m (Gilda. UNCOLN & BRADLEY.

SHROPSHIRES





Our show flock including some outstanding stud and.

farmers ramswxll be at the following Fairs: Detroit.

Jackson. Adirlan and llillsdaio Fairs. W these

ams, or wr 8 us your needs. D. L. CHAPM



SON. So. Rockwood. Mich. A“ ‘L





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For Shropshire Rams :0“ am," Fifi” .





DAN BOOHER. Evart. Mich. R.





For Registered Shropshire Ran;





write or call on. Armstrong Bro... Fowlayl;





FOR SALE Registered Hampshir we’r- ‘





[on or mite; m. BK





 





 





 

 

 

 

   

   

 

 

   

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

 





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1%-
'weeks, corn prices had a sharp set- Stags . . . 9.00

. back in the last two days. Moderate Extreme heavxes 11.50@12.50





“1925. Strong speculative interests heavy,





 





 





GRAIN QUOTATIONS. have much to do with the coursle of

Wheat ' prices during the month. Their ac-

Detroit—~No. 2 white old $151; No. tivities tend to make the market fluc-

2 mixed at $1.51. tuate erratically. _

Chicago~September $1.10%; De- Dry weather in the west and south-

cember $1.157/8; March $12094; May, west has taken the edge from the

$1.231/g. large new crop prospect. A substan-

Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red new at tial area in that section will have

$1.51@1.52. only a small yield. The states which

Corn “' were believed to have liberal reserves

Detroit—No. 2 yellow $1.10; No. 3_ of old corn and those from which. an

yellow $1.08; No. 4 yellow $1.06. early movement of new corn might

Chicago—September 941/30; Decem— have come are included, so that pros-

ber 74940; March 77c; May 793/30. r pects for market receipts in the next

Oats I! month or two have been reduced by

Detroit~—No. 2 Michigan white 600; this turn of weather.





No. 3 white 580. N

new 381,6c; OATS





Chicago—September, . , .

December new 40%0; March 430; . Oats prices have improved slightly

May 44%0. in the last ten days. Receipts have



fallen off sharply, but supplies exceed

immediate consuming demand and the

visible supply is increasing rapidly.

Stocks of barley also are gaining, al-

though demand from exporters and

. . _ . malsters is fairly active.

Detrmt—Malting 85c, Feeding 810. Forecasts of yields of 03.15 in 12

Seeds. countries of Europe show a 4 per cent



Detroit domestic seed—Cash clo-' increase over last year, and forecasts

ver $17.50; October 18.15; December of barley production in 13 countries

$18.15; cash alsike $18.75; timothy at show a gain of .10 per cent. In neither

$2.05; December $2.40. case are the chief producmg countries





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Rye

Detroit—No. 2 $1.11. .

Chicago—September 94340; Decem-

ber 961/90; March 991/40.

Barley.





 





Hay included, and crop reportbs1 from the

. ‘ f .

Detroit No. 1 timothy at 516.0057 mm are rather “n avora 9

$17.00; standard 51450501550; No. 2i SEEDS





timothy $12.50@13.50; N0. 1 light A good demand for alfalfa seed is

clover, mixed $16.00@17.00, NO. 1 010- reported particularly from those sec-

ver $16-00@17-00; wheat and cat tion where winter killing was heavy

straw $12.00@13-00; rye straw $13-00 last year. Offerings of new crop timo-

@$14-00- thy seed are still limited. Rains have

interfered with threshing in the past

week or two, and prices indicated by

buyers are somewhat below values de-

sired by growers. Prospects for the





Feeds.





Detroit—Winter wheat bran at $34;

spring wheat bran at $33;ds]t.andartti:

éfl‘tid‘éifiréi 333.; Sitii-“é‘ofré’égiofn clove seed crop are improving under

meal $46' chop $46 be]. ton in carlots. _» favorable weather conditions, .but With

Poultry feeds with grit $51.00; With— a smaller acreage, the CWP 15 bound





out grit $55.00 per ton. ;,t0 be Short-





'9‘ HAY

. 7 rices or ay ave a vance as

_ WHEAT i P f h h d d

Wheat prices have been fluctuating the scarcity of good quality hay be-

back and forth over approx1mately came even more acute. Prairie hay





- the same range since 6”MW in August was the one exception and values for





without any pronounced trend up or

down . This evidence of stability sug-





this type declined to the lowest point

this season under the burden of heavy

offerings. Timothy had advanced so

that prices are again higher than at

the Corresponding time a year ago.

Only top grades of hay were included

in the advancing market, however.

Receipts of hay at the principal mar-

kets since July have been larger than





a. year ago.

EGGS





Values for strictly fancy fresh

gathered eggs are the highest at this

season in seven years with the ex-

ception of 1924. Fresh laid eggs are.

scarce while buyers are critical of

quality and willing to pay a premium

for stock showing a large percentage

of fresh stock. Many shipping points

are reported to be forwarding more

eggs from the current collections than

at this time last year, due probably

in large part to a lighter consumption

on the farm. Some improvement has

been noted in the demand forstorage

eggs, as the movement out of ware—

houses has been accelerated by cool-

er weather. Fancy eggs will work

higher the next two months, but the

advance will not be shared to any

great extent by the undergrade re-

ceipts.



Chicago—Eggs: fresh firsts, 30@

331/20; extras, 340; ordinary firsts,

29c; dirties, 23@260; checks, 23@

241/20. Live poultry: Hens, 27c;

broilers, 280; springers, 290; roosters,

21c; ducks, 220; geese, 14c.



Detroit—Eggs: Fresh candled and

graded, 32@34c. Live poultry; broil-

ers, 38c; heavy hens, 300; light hens,

24@260; roosters, 18c; geese, 16c;

ducks, 250.





BUTTER





The butter market gained another

step on the way to higher prices last

week with 92 score creamery butter

at Chicago was marked up to 471/2

cents a pound in the wholesale mar-

ket. Prices to the consumer also were

advanced and demand may show

some curtailing effect. Receipts of

butter are decreasing from week to





 





gests that the prolonged and drastic

decline since early spring has come





F ~01 e

a; assassin? assassin? 0Live Stock Market Seerce





Domestic commercial supplies are





 





rather burdensome. Visible stocks

total 84 million bushels, or already

about as large as they usually are by

midwinter when they are at their

peak and wheat is still pouring in at

a high rate. Export demand is not

brisk and flour trade is moderate, but





DETROIT





Cattle





Receipts 716. Market cows and





premiums for high protein wheat are ig‘irlgg‘egéod yearlings

rather firm and soft red'winte pre- dry-fed $14 00@16 50

miums have increased. With_ supplies Fair to goodheayy steers _' '

of the latter below domestic needs dry-fed 13.50@15_25

and with the movement at harvest Handy weight. butcher

time coming ‘0 a 01952 a Strong ma“ steers ................ 11.00@12.25

ket for it hereafter IS Pmbable- Fair to good heifers ..... 10.50@11.25

Canada has practically cleaned 11!) Common light butchers.. 8.00@ 9.00

her old crop and Argentme and Aus— Common butcher cows.. 7.00@ 7.50

tralian supplies available up to the Best cows ............ .. 9.00@10.00

end of the calendar year are less than Good butcher cows ...... 7.505» 8.50

last year. From DOW, t0 the end of Cutters ............ 6.25@ 6.50

February. North America W1," have to Canners ........... . 5.25@ 6.00

supply the bulk of importing coun- Light butcher bulls 7.00@10.00

tries "needs. While Canada probably Bologna bulls ........... 8.00@ 9.75

will continue to dominate, the situa- Stock bulls ............. 7.00@ 8.25

tion, some increase in foreign takmsS- Feeders ................ 8.00@10.50

of United States wheat IS probable. Stockers ............... 800009.75





Shipments from exporting coun- Milkers and springers .- . .75.00@135.00

tries from July 1 to August 25 totalled -

118 million bushels against 93 mllltlfiln



ushels a ear previous. ever e-

?ess, stocksy afloat for Europe have BQSt ~ - - - - - - - - . - . - . - - . - $1ggggfggg

declined about as much ashlast yfiear, Others - - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

indicatin that importers ave een

absorbing liberal amounts right along. . Sheep and Lambs

The evidence is that their takings Receipts 1,600. Market on lambs





Calves

Receipts 929. Market steady.





- ° 250 higher.

e.

W111 contmue mg E Best lambs ...... . ...... $14.50@14.75

RY Light to common 9.00@10.75

Rye production in 13 European Fair ............ . . . . . . . 12.50@_13.50

countries which produced about two- Fair to good sheep...... 6.00@ 7.00

thirds of the last crop outside of Rus— Culls and common . .. . . . 2.00@ 4.00





sia. totals 525 million bushels, a de- H

crease of 12 per cent. The domestic . 093

crop is nearly 16 million bushels un- Receipts 1,166. Market about 150

der last year and the reserves from higher.

the last crop are quite small. gigsd.i..................$ 11%.}?

Xe, ODS eon-.ooooooe- .'

CORN mghts 0.00.00.00.00...





. . 13.00

After working upward for Over two Roughs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 11.00@11.25





coo-cocooaouo I





' 1 ts and a fairly broad distribu- ,

’ ”rage gemand have cafusetd a1 Jedurigg: BUFrfigLO. '



, ' l su 0 mi . .



bliisltigies,‘tllftisbs$nall§srt ysince December, Receipts, 10 cars. Market steady,





$13.00@13.25; medium [and

or to be working actively to yorkers $13.50@13.60; pigs and lights,





.y 51:35:: a “pinch” m the Chicago Sep— $13.00@13.25.





 





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,r delivery a d the defiree of

also: 5:.





rural rts ’ prob 1y will





Cattle

Receipts, 8 cars. Market steady.





 





 

         





bulls"steady; all others slow, around





- closing, at best time,





fins 4





Calves





$20.00. -

Sheep and Lambs

Receipts, 5 cars. Market strong;

top lambs $15.00; yearlings ‘$10.00@

$11.00; wethers, $8.50@9.50; ,ewes





$6.00@7.25.

CHICAGO.





Hogs .



Receipts 10,000. Market closed

slow; better grade hogs scaling up to

240—lbs. mostly sold at early advance;

lower grade kind closed steady; pack-

ing sows 10@15c lower; top $13.10

paid for 185-.220-lbs; shippers took

6,000; estimated hold over 4,000;

butchers, medium to choice, 250—350-‘

lbs, $11.60@12.60; 200-250’-lbs. $11.75

@$13.10; 160-200—lbs. $11.40@13.10;

130-160-lbs. $11.10@12.85 packing sows

$10.60@11.40; pigs medium to choice

90-130-lb. $10.25(r?12.10.





Cattle



Receipts 2,000. Market on slaugh-

ter classes, steers, good and choice,

1,300—1,500—lbs. 14.75@17.65; 1,100.

1,300-lbs. $14.75 17.75; 950-1,100-lbs.

$15.10@17.75; common and medium

850le. up $9.25@15.25; fed yearlings,

good and choice, 750-950-lbs. $15.25@

$17.60; heifers good~and choice, 850-

lbs. down, $14.25@17.15; common and

medium ‘$8.50@14.50; cows, good and





choice $9..25@13.25; common and me:





dium,‘$7.65@9.25; l-ow cutter and cut-

ter $6.15@7.65; bulls good and choice

(beef) $9.50@11.00; cutter to medium

$7.00@9.50; vealers (milk fed) good

and choice, w$15.75@17.50; medium

$13.00@16.00; culls andcommon $8.00

@‘$13.00; stocker and feeder steers,

good and choice (all weights) $11.75

@$13.85; common and medium .$9.‘50@





11.75.

Sheep and Lambs



Receipts 17,000. -Market' ’on fat

lambs unevenly strong to 250whigher;-’

ittler change on

sheep and feedin. lambs;-:-glambs cod

and choice, 92-‘bs. down $14. 6?)

$15.50; med! $12.75@‘14.35; ‘cul s





 





 





 

 





 





 

 





and .commOn 9.25@12.75; ewes, me~





 





. who and ,c‘ominpn 50

feeder lambsrsoodaand all?!





 

 

 

   

 

   

 





di , to choice, 150-:lbs.~.down. 9.4;

$7,125; 1 . 5'





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week and reports indicate that pro-

duction is about on a par with last

year, with some tendency to fall

slightly below. Production in July

was about 1.5 per cent smaller than

in July, 1927, and the August output

likely will show about the same com-

parison. , Some dealers are using stor-.

age butter almost entirely, but for

the entire country, the movement into

sforage is still exceeding withdraw-

a 3.



Prices on 92' score creamery were;

Chicago, 471120; New York, 48%0;

Boston, 4895c; Philadelphia, 49c; De-

troit, 88 to 90 score 44350346140.





POTATOES





Liberal supplies prevent any im-





provement. in the potato market so





long as demand remains dull as at

present. Kansas and Missouri Irish

Cobblers, U. S. No. 1 are quoted at

65 to 85 cents and Nebraska Cobblers,

U. S. No. 1, $1.15 to $1.25 per 100

pounds sacked in the Chicago carlot

market. Nearly all the important

northern states are becoming active

now. The crop in the north central

states is estimated to be 21 millionX

bushels larger than the 1927 harvest.





WOOL-





Wool prices are holding generally

steady although some unevenness is

noted. Boston reports an advance of

about 2 cents on quarter blood wools,

scoured basis, while the fine wools

which compose the bulk of the supply

not yet contracted to mill are slight-

ly easier. Some increase in buying is

anticipated after Labor Day when de-

mand for goods is expected to quick-

en. With the auction at Sydney, Aus-

tralia, showing a decline of only about

5 per cent from the high point on the

closing of the last season, trade ob-

servers see no evidence of excessive

supplies of raw wool. Boston is con-

sidered the cheapest of the world’s

markets since its prices are 10 cents

or more below wool to be imported.

Under these conditions, dealers are

not inclined to sacrifice their holdings

because of temporarily slow demand.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





The first home grown watermelons

of the season sold for $1.50 bu. on

Friday’s markets. The cool weather

caused a sharp advance in the price

of tomatoes, some selling as high at

$2.00 a bu. Prices: apples, fancy, $2

@$3 bu; No. 1 $1.25@1.75- bu. wax

$1.50@2.00 bu; green beans

$1.50@2.00 bu; lima 500 qt; beets 50c

@$1.00 bu, 40@50c doz. bchs; cante-

loup $1.00@1.50 bu; cabbage 90@$1.10

‘bu; curly 75c@$1.00 bu; red 75c@

$1.00; carrots 30@40c doz. bchs, $1.00

@$1.25 bu; green corn 40@50c sack ’

of 5 doz; cauliflower, No. 1, $3.50@

$4.50 bu; No. 2 $1.00@1.50 bu; celery,

local, No. 1, 35@5OC doz bchs; No.

2, 20c; Kalamazoo celery 35@50c doz.

bchs; celery cabbage $1.25@1.50 bu;

collards 500 bu; cucumbers 50c@$2.00

bu; pickles $2.50@3.00 bu; egg plant

$1.00@2.00 bu; eggs, wholesale, light,

380 doz; brown 380 doz; retail, 500

doz; endive $1.00@1.75; lettuce, hot-





,house, $1.25, 7-lb. basket; head, No. 1,





$1.25@1.50; leaf, $1.00@1.25 bu; green

onions 40@60c doz; pickles $2.50@r

$5.00 bu; peaches $1.25@2.00; par-

snips 50cdoz bchs, $2.50 bu; parsley

40@600 doz. .bchs; parsley root, 40@-

500 doz; green peas, $1.50@2.50 bu;

pears $1.50@3.00 bu; potatoes 900@

$1.00 bu; plums, $1.00@1.50; pumpkin,

$1.00 bu; poultry, hens, wholesale, 30

@310 1b; retail 35c lb; broilers,

wholesale, leghorns 300 lb; rocks 38

@400 1b; ducks 24@280 lb; retail 25c

lb; dressed poultry,‘broilers, 45@500;

hens 38@400; radishes, outdoors, 30

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

doz. bchs; rhubarb, 45@500 .doz.

bchs; romain, 75c@$1.00 bu; spinach,

$1.25@1.50 bu; sorrel], 600 bu; 'Swiss '

chard,, 50@75c bu; .mustard, .50@60c

bu; tomatoes, outdoor, 50@650 15-lb.

basket, $1.25@1\75 bu; pink $_1.50@

$2.00 bu; turnip to‘ps,300 bu; turnips

50@60c doz. bchs, , 75c@$1.50 bu;

honey, 15@20c comb; leeks, 75c@1.00

doz. bchs; squash, Italian $1.00@2.00

bu; summer, 50c@$1.00; Hubbard,

750@$1.00; hot peppers 75c@$1.00 bu;

sweet, 50c®$1.00 bu; red, $2.00@3.00

bu; veal _21@230 lb; live pigs,.-$5.00

@$7.’00_,each; kale, 500 bu; fielderber-

ries $1.00@1.25 bu; butter 56@65c lb; .





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’watermelongtsfijo bu; dry pickles, . :
s u p pl y available ' for

slaughter compared Wltb'a year ago.





 

 





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, eases. Hindu New ’chn‘





 





 





FED steer prices advanced to a new

rpeak for the season of $17.75 at

'- Chicago in the last few ‘daYs under

the influence .of light receipts,“ a

strong dressed beef market, and pros-

pects' of still greater scarcity of fin-

ished grades in the period immediate

ly. ahead. The recent weakness in

prices for grass steers and short-feds

has disappeared for the time being

and prices for low grades have been





strengthened by active demand from_





cattle feeders.

Total cceipts are running about 10

percent less than a year ago and the





*smallest' at this season since 1915.





Numbers being taken back to the

country are larger than last year,

which means an additional cut in the

immediate





,. Receipts of choice. and prime steers





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at Chicago are larger than a year ago,





. but they have been decreasing since





peak in 1927.





». the middle of July, and further shrink-

age isanticipated. The oflicialestl-

mate of a reduction of 6 per cent ln

numbers of cattle on feed in the corn

belt on August 1 compared ‘with a

year ago and? a like.amount 1n prob-

able marketings from western range

states probably will be reflected in

recei ts during the next three months.



-Pr ces for cows and heifers have





been firmer recently. Prospects are'





that supplies in this division from the

range stateswill be moderate. Veal

calf prices are the highest since 1920,

and $2. to $3 over the late summer





 





FEEDERS IN coop DEMAND





STRENGTH in fed cattle, the liberal

new corn crop prospect and the



favorable outcome of "last year’s

feeding operations are encouraging

cattle feeders to take hold rather

freely. At Chicago, bulk of the thin

westerns' are being bought at $11.50

to $12.50,. While .fieshy feeders are

being taken at $12.50 to $13.50. ‘ Ship-

ments to seven principal feeding

states from 12 chief markets from

July 1 to August 17 totalled 199,600

head compared with 152,500 in the

same period 'a year previous and 23,2,-

200 two years previous. This in-

crease,vif continued during the fall,

may be reflected in more liberal sup-

plies of fed cattle next Winter and

spring than in the past year.





 





HOG PRICES AT SEASON’S TOP





0G prices are holding at the high-

est level of the season. Re-

ceipts in the last three weeks

have been the smallest for nearly a

year and smallest at this season since

1921. Choice light and medium weight

hogs are particularly scarce as is us-

ual at this season. Domestic demand

for hog products is satisfactory, but





-exportsofboth meats and lards are





.,rather disappointing. The tendency





toward lighter hog production in Eur-

ope has been registered in a higher

foreign price level for both hogs and

hog products rather than in a mate-

rial increase in takings from the





I , United States. .





The course of prices in the next two





N: months will hinge largely on when





> and libw rapidly the fall movement of

hogsgets under way. The scarcity

and high price of old corn during the

Summer‘ appear likely to dictate late

marketing of hogs, in order to make

larger use of new com. If so, sup

plies during September probably ‘will

continue light. The'autumn drop in





. prices when the movement does start





probably will be less than usual.





 





IBETTER TONE IN LAMB TRADE_





HElamb market has rallied 75

cents frdm the recent dip which

carried the market to a new low

point for the 7 eason. Receipts were

curtailed and ow "prices at Chicago

compared with eastern markets at-

tracted extensive shipping orders,

dres'Sed, lamb prices have improved

and actiire demand for feeder lambs

acted as a supporting influence.





Frequently, lamb prices reach what ,





proves to be the seaso ’3 bottom at

about this time. Suppl es are due to

increase moderately until toward the





end of September, but much of this soc





increasecons st's of feeder. lambs' for





I - which demon ”usually expands until





 

 

 

 





" October.





Shipments of feeder lambs from .12





2mm: a1 markets “into 7 leading corn

‘ belts,





tel! :er July 1 to August ‘17



totalled 2339.500 _-head compared with

24000 “in the corresponding period



I!” _. 00:11! 192.3. ‘





and 830.8

cm. aspen-rs ‘





 





 





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Some fall grains-have been sown.~ We

had'a-much needed rain this'morning.

Butter-fat brings 450; eggs 300; hens

15@230; broilers 31c; and leghorn

springers 20@2'Zc.-—_T. B. ‘



Lenawce County: Grain is mostly

threshed. The wh'eat yield was gen-

erally small. On the other hand, cats,

were a good crop. Peaches were be-

low normal ‘while pears are plentiful.

There is, a good outlook for corn. But-

ter-fat brings 45c; eggs 320p wheat

$1,26.—-J. C.



‘ 'Bcrricn County: Our wheat yielded

from 10 to 25 bushels0 per acre. Oats

range from 40 to 90 bushels. Mea-

dows, pastures, and corn are all look-

ing good. There is a large acreage of

potatoes. Some fields are showing

blight. Plowing for wheat is the chief

work of the hour. Eggs bring 35c;





potatoes 80c; wheat $1.18.—J. B. .

Bay C o u n t y: Harvesting and

threshing are in progress. Some good





corn crops can be .seen while most

farmers will have a. fair crop. Beans

have suffered heavy damage in this

localit and sugar beets show some

rot. rmers will increase their acre-

age'of wheat and" rye. Live stock

shows general improvement. Farmers

are repairing buildings and fences and

making other improvements. Wheat

brings $1.21; beans $8.50; eggs 290;

butter 50c.-—-W. D.



.Missaukce County: Our hay crop

was about normal but wheat is poor.

Oats are yielding very Well and mea-

dows and pastures are. good. Sugar

beets are good and (potatoes promise

to be well up to normal. Farmers

are harvesting, threshing, and plowing

for fall grains. Butter-fat is 45c; eggs

30c. Potato growing and dairying

seem to be expanding—B.





lonia County: Corn and beans are

looking fine. Pastures are good.

Farmers are busy threshing oats.

Wheat is yielding about 25 bushels

per acre; cats 65, and barley 50.

Wheat brings $1.25; oats 50c; eggs

32c; cream 47c; potatoes 75c.——J. W.



Osceola County: Hay’ crop about

100% of a crop; much being in bad

condition on account of too much

rain; sdme just finished haying now.

Wheat and rye about 65% of 'crop.

Oats the best ever.

crop, too much rain for best results.

Corn doing very nicely, also potatoes,

but too much rain for heavgr and low

land. Pasture in fine shape, also all

live stock. Farmers are getting

ground ready for fall grain. Dairy

industry getting more to the front

each year. More 'acres can be seen

in alfalfa each year, also sweet clo-

ver and less rye than ever. This

county enjoyed a big cattle and calf

show—A. Z.





   

   

   

 

 





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free Illustrated literature. Tells how we manu-

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processes. -





\ Special Terms I! You "OrderNow! » > .

MICHIGAN 811.0 (10., Kalamazoo, Michigan





Iiollnes,‘Sluwe Co.,2429 Riopelle St.





Commission Merchants. Dressed Beef. Hogs, calves.

poultry, Live 8: Dressed. Provisions. etc. Cor-respond

ence Soliclted. Ref. Wayne County a Home Savings

Bank. Bradstreet. Detroit. Mich. Cherry 7654.





 

   

   





   





 





This classified





consecutive insertions 7 cents a. word. Count as





Beans about 75%’





 

   

 

 





Choice of 5 co are In

Enamel Ranges.

ow Circulating Boaters—

Ityles and

or my terms.

shipments. (lo—do!

. . 360—duy test.

‘ Satisfaction guaranteed. 2'!

{nears In business. 700.000 cus-

mers. Write today for FREE





Kalamazoo Stove Co.





081 Rochester Ave.

Kalamazoo. Rich.





Kalamazoni

'1 Direct to You





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YOUR FARM PROPERTY

With Our lecral Form Blanket Policy





For $1,000. Rodded Clan $

No. 1, "Gold Seal” R A T E 2 ’ 9 4

No Policy or Membership Fee. Pay assess-

ment 6 months advance

Only 10 assessments last 11 years, average cost

$2.42 per 31000—325000 in reserve fund. drawing

interest. We borrow no money—pay no interest.

Losses fairly adjust/ed and promptly paid.

Assessments paid in advance. No dead beats to

leave their share to be paid by other members.

“Gold Seal" Fire Extinguishers, guaranteed, de-

livered to our members prepaid for $1. Chimney





 





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Bolton

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Spark Arrosters at cost.

Se-nd for our 32-page booklet on farm flrc insur-

ea.

Agents Wanted. Write for Terms

Pioneer Reserve Mutual Fire Insurance Company

’ EGGS! producers in your territory bring

-:-~. »—- very attractive prices NOW. Prompt returns

\‘- us your next case. ZENITH BUTTER a

EGG CO., I70 Duane Street. New York City.

Saturday, September 15th

CROSWELL FAIR GROUNDS, One O’clock Sharp

80 Head Two-Year-Old 80 Head

Some with calf at side. Those heifers war?) bought

last March in Wisconsin and Minnesota. They came





ance. It's fl'

Established l9l]. 2970 West Grand Blvd.. Detroit

Etc.-Small consignments from

always. Refer to Dun or Bradstreet. Ship

Jim and Bill Turnbull. Auctioneers

All '1‘. B. tested. AI]. supposed to be with calf.

from good herds. Moat of them are springing now.





FOR SALE—80 acre farm. raise alfalfa. sweet. clo-

ver. certified seed potatoes. Have wood lot. C. A.

Bird. Alba. Michigan. -





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FARM MACHINREY





NOW—for the first time a. large capacity genuine

high , ball bearing. Swing Hammer fwd mill

selling 101' only $75. A marvelous performer.

Grulds any" feed you raise fine as you want. Pul-

verlzes cats to powder. including hulls. Grinds corn

in ear. snapped. shelled or on the stalk. 4.000

lbs. ear corn an hour. Range 10 H. P. to 20

H. P. Ground feed saves grain waste. Easily di-

gested. Brings bigger profits. Investigate this mar-

vel mill. Write. Easy Mfg. 00..

Lincoln. Nd). '





 





WANTED





timothy and mixed has.

Jackson. Michigan.





WANTED: Alfalfa. clover,

Harry D. Gates Company,





CORN HARVESTER





RICH MAN'S Corn Harvester. poor man‘s price-

only $25.00 with bundle tying attachment. Free

catalog showing pictures of harvester. Process Com-

pany. Salim. Kans.





 





PET AND LIVE STOCK





(‘IllNlllllLLA RABBITS. pedigreed.

prlces. E. 1’. Greene. Route 1, Okemos. Mich.





 





MINKS. muskrats, raccoons. martcns. and fur rab-

bits for sale. Excellent foundation stock of superior

animals. We are in a position to handle orders of

small or largc‘quantities. Write immediately for

£21331.“ Belle Riviero Fur Farms. Belle River. Ont...





ARGENTINE CHINCHILLAS—Some fine specim

in both Senior and Junior bucks and docs. Lag:

stock to choose from. Price: reasonable. Satisfaction

guaranteed. Walnut Ridge Rabbitry. G. E. Sparks.

Prop.. Carson City. Mich.





 





GI‘IRLIAN POLICE AN'D .BTACK COLLIE PUPS.





$3.00 while they last. Erwm H.





l" c", '

Mich. \lalhs Sohowalng,





 





(‘HINCIIILLA RABBITS-excelllmt foundation stock

at. reasonable places. D. Hale Brake. Stanton

M mhlgan. '





SEEDS





SCIENCE AND PRACTICE demonstrate .InIDl’OVed'





 





 





Amorican Banner wheat. Wolverine oats Improved

Robust beans host for Michigan. Choice Certified

Aml'l'lczul Banner Sued “'hl'ht. Prices. sample. in-

formation on l'mumt. A. 1;. Cook. OWosso. Mich.

AME [til ‘_A N_ BANN I‘] R SI'IICI) “'II'I'IAT. Hardy.

I]l)(5ll.\‘y ylt'I(IlIl£§.1 41 bushels pvr arm this sédson

l‘l('(l l‘cusolluic. \Vril . . . ‘ " ‘ .

Michigan. L J II I1 ()1 i ll. ( Ilal'lotta.

IMPROVED AMERH‘AN BANNER (‘ol'tifiod Smd

Vl'hcnt .lh' hardy illlll will gill» you the best pos-

znblc ylelds. I“. II, Knox & (.30.. Portland. Mich.





 





FRUIT TREES AND _NURSERY STOCK





mmou AND APPLE rmclzs $5, $7.50 p... 100

and. up. Complutla assortmont fruits. berries. orna-

"(1:13:31 ftreeszr vulcs. shrubs. elm-grains. Catalog in

0. rec. (mm-sane Nurs- C I 2

Cleveland. Tclln. try ompany, Box 1‘5.





 





 





 





 





 





 





Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich.

DELAINE RAM S Big smooth fel~





lows with long



dense fleeces. The wool and mutton combination.

F. H. RUSSELL. Box 40. Wakeman. Ohio.



:1. choice lot of year





OXfOI'd Downs mms. 2 yr. olds. and

ram lambs. WM. VanSlCKLE, Deckerville, Mich.





 





 





 





Oll SALE—l'um-brcd Shropshire rams, spring and.





 





CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING





advertising department is established for the convenience o ‘

Small advertisements bring best results under classified. headings. f moms“ “rm“

advertising miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange.

pal-uncut at classified rates. or in display columns at commercial rates.



Rate 9 cent: a word. each insertion. on orders for less than four insertions: for four of mom





display type or illustrations admitted. Remittances must accompany order.

Live stock advertising has a separate department and in not accepted an classified.





ycal'lillus at fal'nu'l“s .lll‘ll‘i‘fi. Inquire at Lock-

dlore Farm, Crcsscy. Mich. Douglas Scott. Manager.





Try it for want ads and for

Poultry advertising will bo.run in this do-





a word each abbreviation, initial or nmnbor. No





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ONE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL, 17 mos. old TOBACCO

Sire: King chis Flint Do liol; Dam: chis Do Kol

Coloma. GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing, 5

cm: HOLSTEIN BULL._| Year om pounds $125: 10. $2. Smoking. 10. $1.50. Pipe

These Cattle are Worth Comlng Miles to Sec! Em’u “PM postman. United Farmers. Bardwell

(‘ . '

L. l. GRAHAM, Owner F... m... G

TERMS: Twelve months time; interest at seven ‘3 k " ."'“’ “mam-"I‘d Chewing or smoki

per cent. gulmllb'mg'vmagme 5;;331115‘ 1ng 100—$3.25. 1’2:

State Bank (lurks the Sale l’adul-all, Kentucky. 9 090 LIChfl-nge. West

LEAF TOBACCO. . - -

SHEEP 75... 5. $1.00: 10. iW5-SZ§3ii.inillev§mg 3 pound”

5. "5“: 10 $1.25 U " ‘ 1 . ' “mm“ 5‘3";

. ‘ . . mind Banners. Mayfleld. lxy.

Shropshlre and UXIUIII Rams ummsrllN T013At1110—Gum-anum. Chewing: 5





lbs” $1: 10. $1.75. Smoking: 5 lbs” 75c; 10





Pay when l‘(‘('0ived. $1.25.





Farmers Union. Mayfleld’. Ky.





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POULTRY





WHITE LEGHORN HFNS AND ‘

.' ‘ . MALES n



pixie. Thousands of laying pullets, Also ba-bgwchl‘llglg



egg bggézséng-a‘pnwtcd. pedigreed foundation: stock

. ._'e.rs.' honors at 20 egg ‘ont ' Y I 1



log and spemal price bulletin free. 1 Ship (@O‘SDF :fid



glarantoe satisfaction. George B. Ferris 934 Union



Grand Raplds. Michigan. I '





Ill-INSe Strictly yearlin '



. . . g hclLs direct from our hrm -



11311:! pens. at 95- each. Also pullets 12 weeks (Illa

some soon ready to lay. Write us for price-n





and infomlatlon. " '

land. lllol... '11. ammge vww Poul” “m" Z”





TURIflGYS, GEESPZ.

Bronze Turkeys,

Send new for

birds. All

Kalamazm.





DUCKS—large first class stock:

Toulouse Geese. mum l’ckin Dunks.

dom‘l'llltlon and price of these fine





guaralltmxi. State Farn " 1' '

Michigan. 18 “swam"-





\V'HITTAKICR'S REDS. BO’YH COMB

'l‘rapncstcd. Michigan Certified. Cookssi begsoc'ocf;





crels, pullots. Write for catal

Box 9. Lawrence. Mich. 0g. Interlakes Farm,





 





 





dame lo won“. Mll‘IIlGAN'S BEST J’EKIN DUCK-S. BUY your

bra-dun; now ‘ at bargain prices. Mary's Eight '

7 Pontiac. Michigan, R. 3. G'





 





 





   





 





 





One Four One Four

time time. time times

30.90 82.80 20 ....... $2.34 $7.28

.99 3.08 3.43 7.56

1.08 3.36 2.51 1.84

. . 1.11 8.64 3.61 8.12

14. . . . . . 1.80 0.92 2.70 8.40

16...-..... 1.35 4.10 ... 1.70 8.68

46......” 1.44 4.48 .00 8.96

11........ 1.8 4.76 33......” 8.07” 9.24

.. ..... 1.08 - 0.04 ........ 3.06 9.51

10........ 1.1! 5.38 ..'...... 3.15 0.80

M........1.00 5.00 .. 3.24 10.08

1.00 5.88. 8.33 10.36

33-.......-l.00., 0.10 3 ........ g.“ 10.64

18;...... . 2.01 0.44 30 ........ .51 10.98



4.......‘. I.” 0.78 40........ 3.60: 11.

9...... [.25 1.00 4 ........ 3.69 11.48



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REAL ESTATE





SACRIFICING $4,009 on 100 Acre MoneY-Mllking

Farm. Ncan city markets. improved road. 75 acres

heavy-producing crop land, woven-wire fences. abun-

dant water. woodlot: excellent 11-room house. barns.

5110, other bldgs., variety fruit. . Worth 312.500 but

cut to $8.500 & for quick sale 4 horses. 10 cows.

young stock. bull. 150 hens, auto mmk. implements.

3 ac. potatoes. 7 an. beans. 15 so. cats. 11 ac.

wheat. 10 ac. corn. 4 ac. rye. 25 unis hay. 10 ads.

stovewood all included: onlv $3.000 down. James

L. Cross. Strout Agency. 708 Smith Bldg. Flint,

Michigan. .





120 ACRES ON HIGHWAY. good team. 4 cows. 4

calves. 25 hogs. 100 goats, poultry. Scotch Collie and

coon dog. all furniture: 4 miles town; 50 acres in

cultivation. woven wire fenced. spring watered pas-

ture. wood, timber. variety fruit: good 5 room house.

2 porches (one enclosed) cistern and well water..

shade. beautiful view: good barn, poultry house”

opportunity for filling station and roadside business.





 





all $3,000. only $1,300 cash. free list. September

specials. United Farm 'Azem‘y. 828-MF. New York

Life Bldg. Kansas City, Missouri.





 





$4541 .INCOMZE ON $3.000 FARM—101 Acres. 10

Cattle. Crops. Horse. hog. vehicles. hay.



. . corn. potatoes beans & vegetables included:

3.000 takes all: easy terms: sec pg. 20 Strouts Big

Catalog for picture this nice Ill-room house a. big

barn: by'80-acre farm bought





old roll

meow-making farms in 80 states. Strout Am.

11057130 Kruifle Bull. Detroit. Mich. . ,





 





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





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