KEEP UP MICHIGAN THE NEWS A Progressive Newspaper On News Interesting to Farmers Through the for Michigan Farm Farm News Home* A Newspaper For Michigan Farmers FIVE CENTS Issued Semi-Monthly Vol. IX, No. 12 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1931. PER COPY STATE TAKES OVER World Speculates On BORER PROOF CORN Guns on Capitol Lawn LESS RAIN THIS , PERMANENT BOVINE Chances For Wilkins A POSSIBILITY IN Have Brilliant History YEAR THAN 1930 T-B ERADICATION Atlantic Distress of Polar the poles of the earth. A few have succeeded. The most recent was Ad- miral Richard Evelyn Byrd, who flew SEVERAL SEASONS Loomis Battery Participated In Critical Battles of were in those days and so had quickly filled the quota. The battery left the state via De- UP TO THIS TIME Sub But a Sample troit. It went first to Cincinnati. over both poles in airplanes. But Cross of So. American Corn Civil War Has $135,000 Annually To Of Dangers. Captain Wilkins, skipper of the "Nau- There its soldierly appearance Crops Large, Coming Good; tilus", will be the first with a new With Michigan Stock Is created a good deal of favorable But Rain Need Is Ever Test And Pay Necessary Lansing—Visitors to Lansing al- comment. Before the end of July Queenstown, Ireland. — While Sir idea of polar travel, if his ship avoids Resistant. Indemnities. Hubert Wilkins, intrepid adventurer, all dangers and hazards, crosses the ways notice the two Civil war can-the battery was in action and be- Pressing. supervises repairs to his "Nautilus" pole area and brings up somewhere nons standing on the capitol lawn, gan to win a name for Michigan as COUNTIES ARE RELIEVED across which was battered badly on its trip near the northern reaches of Alaska, WORK ON~REFINEMENTS on either side of the main entrance wide awake, prepared and depend- to the capitol building. CRITICAL TIME NEAR the north Atlantic, the world is on the other side of the pole and the able. Those guns have a brilliant his- The history of tho bounty well Must Test 500,000 Cattle speculating on the chances Sir Hu- other "side" of the earth, as well. College Developing New Corn tory. They are more than 70 years bears out the contention of Col. O. K. If Rains Continue; bert and his crew will have of making The submarine was re-christened old, and have stood in their prts- John S. Bersey, adjutant general of Per Year To Hold a success of the proposed trip under after the strange boat first imagined For Quality And Seed ent positions on the capitol lawn Michigan, who says that our rtr- Drought Would Find Schedule. the Arctic ice cap from Spitzbergen to by Jules Verne, fantastic fictionist of Vitality. since the late 00's. Where their fense In times past, as It is likely to Alaska. years ago, in his "Twenty Thousand four comrades are, no one knows. bo in times to come, is made up of Subsoil Dry. Lansing.—With an appropriation of With one member of his crew lost Leagues Under the Sea." The orig- East Lansing—Whether Michigan Officially, the two old guns for- men who make things military their $135,000 annually the State Depart- overboard on the trans-Atlantic trip inal "Nautilus", existing only as a is to have a variety of corn that merly were part of Batt. .• A. Mich- hobby. As some make a hobby of Lansing—It will come as a sur- ment of Agriculture is setting out to during rough weather, and entering figment in the mind of an author, be- is resistant to European corn borers igan Light Artillery, also known as golf or of fishing, or this, that, or rise to most readers of The Michi- maintain the entire state as an ac- this harbor almost ignominiously at came imprisoned in ice, but due to and which is reliable for production the Loomis Battery, after its com-the other interest, similarly, seme an Farm News to realize that the credited area free of bovine tubercu- the end of a towing cable from the the fortunate presence of an unlimit- and reproduction probably will not mander. The battery was at Cold- make a hobby of things military ainfall last year through June to losis. U. S. S. "Wyoming", the Captain, ed supply of hot water on board, the be definitely determined for sev- water when the Civil war broko and when an emergency arises they ate, was materially heavier than The Dep't assumes all expense, ac- knighted in England, but apparently surrounding polar sea was warmed, eral more seasons. according to out. It was an independent battery are the ones truly prepared. It was lat recorded for 1931 thus far. The cording to provisions of a legislative adopted by America, was brought ice melted and the submarine released. Prof. Howard C. Rather of the but was regarded as part of the so with the Coldwater battery that ear 1930, known as the year of the enactment which recently became ef- sharply to realize the additional dang- Captain Wilkins, who visited Lan- crops department at Michigan State Michigan troops after the loose ar- became tho famous Loomis battery: reat drought, was wetter during its fective for Michigan. ers which certainly lie before him. sing last summer while on a speaking College. rangement of those days. The it was so with the batteries which rst six months than the first six This new set-up of T-B testing work His strange craft is an outmoded tour, is remembered as one of the in-been Some very encouraging work has Michigan National Guard, as or- went out of Lansing to the World lonths of the present year. done in the matter of bring- means the State will have to carry on United States navy submarine, which trepid pair of flyers who winged their ing about a corn borer resistant ganized today, was not in being. Records in the office of Dewey A. Battery Starts for Front war. an annual test of some 500,000 cattle has been equipped with much expen- perilous way from the northern tip of variety of corn for Michigan during Loomis was the eeley, meteorologist at the United each year with a total allowance sive special machinery and attach- Alaska, to Spitzbergen, several years the past few seasons, Prof. Rather Fort Sumpter was fired upon in captain Col. Cyrus of the O. Coldwater battery tates weather bureau at East Lau- which is about $15,000 less than the ments for the fantastic trip to be at- ago, almost the reverse of the trip says. A good quality of corn has April in 1861 and by the last of the when it went to the front. The ing, show that the total rainfall estimated expense of the work as it tempted this summer. The plan is to contemplated this summer. The other been developed from a cross of succeeding May the Loomis battery government would not take artiller- hortage for the first six months of was conducted under the methods submerge under the perpetual ice capman was Carl Eileson, who was later Argentine, South America, corn and was on its way to the frcjjit. There- ists unless they enlisted for three 930, was 2.05 inches, whereas the used up to this year, where the oper- which covers the entire north pole killed in a crash in the polar region. Michigan corn. was no such arrangement in those years. That kept out some of the hortage on June 24, 1931, was al- ating expense was borne by the re- area, and make an under-water and Wilkins and his companion were days as exists at present for mak- first members. O. B. Clark of Cold- eady 2.53 inches. The variety obtained through ex- ing state forces part of the federal spective counties and the expenditures under-ice dash for the pole. Captain thought lost for several days, during periments conducted thus far will forces, and, consequently there was water contended himself with fur- Satisfactory So Far h for indemnities were borne by the Wilkins plans to get air at intervals, their flight, but their silence and ab-require several more seasons of a great deal of friction in making nishing the horses for the battery. Mr. Seeley summarized condition* state. by coming to surface in open water in sence resulted from a forced landing cross breeding, Prof. P*ather says to the Loomis battery part of the fed-The members of the battery, who y saying: "The weather is quite had belonged more as a matter of atisfactory for crops right now, but, Costs 30 Cents Per Cow ntlnup<1 on pnpp thr««O "Michigan has received a total ot been about 30 cents for each cow in to the use of the game parent stock 2.2 inches of rain thus far this year, varieties in the experiments, a iornial, or the average precipitation the state. Where counties had to make appropriations for work within their own bounds, some delays and COLLEGE HONORS SWAT THE FLY weakness usually found where in- breeding is permitted to occur too WEATHER WORKS ELEV. EXCHANGE or the state for the first half of ev- ry year for the last 45 years, is cal« i unavoidable skipping about the state was made necessary. The new scheme of operating the tests and eradication PROF. R. H. PETTIT SCIENTIST WINS frequently Mr. Rather said. The Argentine corn used in the experiments was found to be hig.hly ANNUAL SET FOR ulated at 14.73 inches. "Crops are uniformly large; the lay crop is made; alfalfa is being work, Mr. Powell claims, should af- ford a means of reducing the cost of the work for the year in some measure CAPPER AWARD resistant to the attacks of the corn borer and while the newly develop- ed variety of corn bears this char- LANSING, JULY 14 ut and secured. Clover and timothy sports indicate, however, that the fop is not quite as good as might be in that the year's program will be acteristic in a marked degree, it al- wished," continued Mr. Seeley. "The Discovered That House Flies, so bears the flint corn characteris- Several Hundred to Attend tate is getting dry; a drought this mapped out to permit carrying on the tics as predominant over the char- task most economically and efficiently. Mosquitoes Carry Sessions of Grain and ear would be a calamity, not only acteristics of the Michigan dent because of the resultant ruination of While, on the face of it, the state Disease. corn used for the cross. Bean Crop. bumper crop in prospect at present, appropriation for T-B accreditation Clipped OfV 7© Days work has appeared to some people as Topeka, Kan.—Dr. O. L. Howard, but became bt the absolute absence Crossing a Michigan corn, w.hich Eleventh annual meeting of the co- of any reserve moisture in the sub- working an injustice on Wayne coun- :hief from 1894 to 1927, of the de- requires but about 110 days to ma- operative Michigan Elevator Exchange lOil. The ground, from :i to 5 feet ty, particularly since about half the partment of entomology of the United ture with an Argentine corn which will b6 held at Hotel Olds, Lansing, elow surface, is practically moist, but state tax comes from this one county, States Department of Agriculture, requires about 180 days for ma- Tuesday, July 14. Managers and below these levels, the earth is 'dry this seeming injustice is said to be was selected in Chicago June 12 by turing, was the greatest obstacle in lirectors of affiliated elevators and ;ts chips'. Last year we were defl- more than offset by the fact that the award committee to receive the the path of the State College ex- armers members are invited to at- ient a whole foot of rain," Mr. Seeley strict milk ordinances, particularly 1931 Capper award of $5,000 cash and perimenters who made their initial end. The usual attendance is about said to the Farm News reporter in those enacted for the Detroit area, a gold medal for distinguished serv- try in 1926. From the meager re- 600. The Exchange serves about ommenting on the dryness of the were a prime factor in bringing about ice to American agriculture. Accord- sults of that first try the college 15,000 grain and bean producers, and sub-soil. T-B eradication work for dairy herds ing to the Capper award committee, has brought out a corn borer resist- markets for them between 9 and 10 Report Cards Tell Story and therefore the benefits derived from his most outstanding benefaction to ant strain of corn w.hich has been million dollars in those products an- A pack of cards containing weekly the state accreditation work are not the agriculture and the welfare of put "on its own" again this sum- lually. eports from weather observers enjoyed solely by the dairymen but this country is his contribution of mer. From 10 a. m. until noon the Ex- hroughout the state was stacked on benefit the entire state, the commis- insect control measures. So far as resisting the corn borer sioner points out. this corn does that very satisfactor- change board of directors and ac- he weather bureau executive desk. Doctor Howard organized and de- ily, the college reports, but another credited delegates from member ele- They tell the story of Michigan's near To maintain the state as an accred- ited area, T-B testing has to be done veloped the biological method of in- big job in the course of the experi- vators will be in their annaul busi- .rid condition. From Coldwater came once every three years. Testing sect control. In this he has long ment is that of building up the vi- ness session, open to delegates only he report: "Growing crops need 500,000 cattle yearly will permit the been recognized as the outstanding tality of the seed toa point where Aobut 1 oclock delegates, members rain." Pontiac's observer wrote: "All state to maintain its present standing, leader not only in the United States, the new corn can be offered safely MR. DEWEY A. 8ESLSY and friends of the Exchange will rops doing well but rain needed." Mr. Powell says, since" there are about but also in the world. His method of for commercial plantings. Mr. Seeley, chief meteorologist at ather in the Olds ballroom for the From Harbor Beach canm word: PROF. R. II. PETTIT insect control contributes millions of In 1926 Maize Amargo, the South the U. S. Weather Bureau station at annual dinner and entertainment as 'More rain needed." 1,500,000 cattle in Michigan. East Lansing—•Prof. R. H. Pettit dollars annually in preventing loss to American corn used, was crossed Blast Lansing, is the source of the ;uests of the Elevator Exchange. While these reports were enough to entomologist at Michigan State Col- the citrus fruit industry in California, with three strains of corn common- interesting crop, rainfall and weather Speakers are Lucius E. Wilson of bring realization that 1931 is, this COLLEGE IS TRYING lege, who probably has answered Texas and Florida and in Hawaii. He ly used in Michigan,: Duncan, Gold- articles that have been appearing in more fan mail than any cf the further discovered that mosquitoes, en Glow and Red Cob Ensilage. A the Farm News this year. In future the General Organization Company of mcouragement wa3 found iu vhe modern movie stars, has been few kernels of seed were secured ar, even dryer than was 1930, some Chicago, and Dr. M. S. Rice of De- •aids from tho Vpper Peninsula. granted the degree of Doctor o house flies, and other insects carry from this first season's efforts of editions we expect to tell how Mr.troit. Both are entertaining and able Marquette had just reported n good CROSS CULTIVATION Science by the institution which he has served for 34 years. diseases malignant to the human race. Seeley forecasts the weather, and howspeakers and are well known to lain; so had Aipcua, in the northern His work led to the "swat the fly" cross breeding. In the second sea- he keeps track of conditions through- Michigan audiences. son of plant breeding work, only part of the lower peninsula The OF SUGAR BEETS Prof. Pettit, or Dr. Pettit, in ac campaigns of years ago. Identifica- two plants of the Duncan, four of out the state. cordance with his new degree, is tion of the carriers of malaria and the Golden Glow and nine plants of dr: est patch i l tLe state waa in To Compare Yield, Costs With best known to Michigan people by yellow fever germs is also a result the Red Cob Ensilage which had Live Stock Producers (Continued on page two) of his work. ben crossed with Maize Amargo SELECTION 28,511 tlcnzie county. Frtnkfort ami Hen • zonia reported almost desert dryness. In addition to this section, other dry Visit Detroit Terminal Hand Blocking, Hoeing Food From the Sea Leland Ossian Howard was born grew. at Rockford, Ilinois, in 1857. He re- The third season's experiments WHEAT, 0UTY1ELDS ports of the o ' a e were the ceutral and southeast r.t« tions. Held Health Necessity ceived his Bachelor of Science degree showed an increase in the borer re- Detroit—Breckenridge and Ba- ' We may have a change in condi- Method: Cross cultivation of sugar beets in 1887 from Cornell university and sistance of the crosses with South tavia Live Stock Shipping Ass'n since then has been honored by num-American corn as compared with members visited the co-operative French Lick, Ind.—Food from the erous college degrees and honorary the crosses with Michigan parent Michigan Live Stock Exchange re- STATE'S RED ROCK tions, however," was the ehuering suggestion of Mr. Seeley. "On Jim J '-23, last year, we had a good rain, afl- as a means of eliminating hand sea is not a luxury but a necessity awards from other countries. His stock. cently, which extends an invitation a dry spoil. TLe 'harae'v.: of the blocking of the young crop, is being for both animal nutrition and the home is in Washington, D. C. Six Years York to all ass'ns to visit their Detroit New and Nameless Variety Is crop yea*1 | , n t d-iermin->d yet, of tried this season for the first time human diet,- both for efficient ani- Having established a satisfactory terminal for an enjoyable and in- Beardless and Stiffer course." by Michigan State College. Early mal production and for the sake of degree of resistance, the new varie- structive time. Michigan is relatively fortunate, indications are that the extra culti- the people who consume thase ani- St rawed. vation made possible by this method mals, said John Manning of the U. of ihandling helps for a good crop S. Dep't of Commerce to the Ameri- RUNNING ECONOMY ty was put on a growing test and is J. W. Doyle, manager at Brecken- is now in its third season as a sepa- ridge, and 96 members made the however, for while the surrounding areas are fairly moist, the north rate strain. The corn being develop- trip by 'bus June 3, arriving at S a. East Lansing.—"Selection 28,511" i middle west tends to be much dryer. yield. In the field test the seed was June 4. drilled solid in rows eighteen inch- can Feed Manufacturers Ass'n here Mr. Manning was discussing the SEEDING TESTS ON ed is eaid to be approximately rn. They were conducted by Vern the only name by which Michigan' The Dakotas and the plains states 3 1/10 times as corn 'borer resist- Stealy to see sorting, grading and new varitey of wheat is known as yet are largely unrelieved from last ant as our native corns. weighing of all classes of stock by Perhaps this is name enough, a year's drought, even yet. This condi- es apart and then blocked by cross value of sea food in preventing cultivation with a specially equip- goiter and in nutrition, particularly ped cultivator. in regions like the Great Lakes THREE BARLEYS Just why some corn resists the the co-op salesmen. least for a few more weeks, but afte tion prevails as far west as Idaho. ravages of the corn borer and After noon the Detroit Packing the harvest this summer Michiga: Extreme heat has asserted itself, iu others do not is a problem for fur- Company was visited whore butcher- State College expects the yield froi H^se regions, too. At Rapid City, Elimination of hand blocking and States, where there is a deficiency ther study, it is claimed by those ing operations were observed. The five acres to be made available for seei supplanting the customary "second in iodine, copper, manganese and Trying From Half Bushel making the experiments. So far as trip was concluded by a pleasant purposes for the wheat growers of thi South Dakota, near former Pres.dent Coclidge's fummi-ring plans in lt\n hoeing" with machine cultivation iron. Animal sea food with which To Three Bushels appearance is concerned, the re- drive over the Ambassador Bridge state. Black Hills, the htffcl ran to 102 de- are two important factors in favor Michigan farmers are most familiar sistant types do not look any dif- to Canada and return. Developed from a selection of Re grees this week. of the cross cultivation methods of is Manamar, made of Pacific ocean Per Acre. ferent than the non-resistant types June 10, Batavia Live Stock Ship- Rock, "Selection 28,511" has proved culture. The experiment is being kelp (seaweed) and fish. and their growinp habits are simi- ping Ass'n directors and the man after several seasons, to be a bal On the whole, Michigan's crops are conducted primarily, however, to East Lansing.—An interesting test lar. Within a short time corn borer ager came to Detroit and saw .how unusually promising. The greatest determine the difference, if any, in Fowler Shipping Ass'n as to economy in the use of barley moths will fly and lay eargs. Borers the Live Stock Exchange handle? variety which has outyielded Re present need of the farmer and of crop yiftld as compared with the old seed is being run at State College. Rock, but the crop has not been rust the nation, is rain, and lots of it. will develop in the stalk and pres- stock on that market. resistant in college experiments. Th hand-blocking and hoeing methoc Has a Good Report Plots of Spartan barley, Wisconsin ently the extent of 1931 corn borer grain furnishes a popular grade c of medium strength. The variet Farm Bureau Services the college reports. Fowler—Fowler Live Stock Ship- No. 38, and Glabion, a Minnesota infestation and damage will be •Cross cultivation has had its ad- ping Ass'n, largest variety, have been seeded at various known. Droue.ht was unfavorable Move Nearly Half Million flour co-operative Authorizes Dividends vocates for a season or two among shippers of live stock in Michigan rates. First plots are each variety to borers in 1930. Pounds of Silver Dollars cause of to promises become a real favorite be the stiffness of the straw a few Wisconsin and Michigan and members of the Live Stock Ex- at the rate of half a bushel per acre; growers, chiefly because of the change, held its annual meeting other plots show each at 1 bushel seed which reduces lodging to r. minimun Lansing—Board of Directors of New Orleans—Early in June more as compared with other wheats na\ simplification of the crop culture June 9, preceded by a concert by the per acre, other at one and one-half No More Boys Need than six million silver dollars were being grown in Michigan. Farm Bureau Services, Inc., meeting and the resultant cut in crop pro- Fowler band. bushels seeding per acre, and so on from the old U. S. Mint here This new wheat is strictly a Mich here June 18, authorized payment of duction costs, said to mean a saving The Ass'n reported( a prosperous up to three bushels seeding per acre Apply For This Job tomoved the customs house, preparatory igan the semi-annual dividend on the pre- of several dollars an acre. variety, the first selection havin ferred stock, at the rate of 1%. The year, conditions considered. Over- for each variety. Norwalk, O.—For years Thomas to renovating the customs house as hem made at Michigan State Colleg board also authorized patronage divi- head was reduced, and though the The standard seeding of Spartan Dimon, fruit grower here, fired a a federal prison. The coin was con-end all the work of developing it to Holstein Field Day volume of stock shipped was lower, barley is one and one-half bushels per shotgun to frighten birds out of his tained in 6,875 sacks, $1,000 to the dends to Farm Bureau members on the financial report was very favor- acre. Interesting feature that ilgures cherry crop, at considerable ex- sack, each sack weighing 64 pounds. commercial stage having been carrie 1930 fall fertilizer sales and on poul- on at the college experimental farm try and dairy feed sales for the East Lansing—Annual field day able. The ass'n serves a community in the results is the fact that Spartan pense. Last year he hired boys to Total weight was 440,000 lbs. of the Michigan Holstein Friesian that is outstanding for live stock barley, having larger grain, has 2 make the necessary noise by goine; The five acre crop from which see period ending April 30. Ass'n will be Thursday, August 6 and crop production, and is about ^ p e r c e n t l e s g s e e d s i n a b u a h e i than about the orchard setting off fire- If necessity is the mother of in- selection is to be made available fo at Arbu Farms, Oxford, Mich., ac 100 per cent for co-operative m a r - | W i g c o n s I n N o 3 8 a n d 3 3 t fe crackers. The method will be used vention, then dissatisfaction is the. Michigan farmers this season i.s bein the best wheat producing sections of cording to Sec'y J. G. Hays, here. ketingkti off live li stock. t k again this year. fattier of progress. raised uear Frankenmuth, on one the state. (Continued on page two) TWO IF T f HT fi A N F A m f NKWS SATT'RDAY, JUICE 27. 1931 New Reo Four- Ton Speedwaeon 300 ATTEND MASON Passing of the Swimming Hole COUNTY MUSICAL By R. S. Clark Bu< desBor to the Michigan Farm Bureau News, founded Home Talent Program Is A In some respects the world is gaining fasf. January 12, 1923 (Here In America, I mean to say) Real Depression In this and that wo far outstrip the past Entered M second 'lass matter January 12, 192.'!, at the postoffice at Charlotte, Michigan, under the Act of March ::, is?y. Killer. And put to shame the pride of yesterday. "Bigger and faster" is our slogan here, Published the second and fourth Saturday of each month by the Scottville—The Mason County Michigan lompany, at its publication office at 114 I^ovett "Broader and smoother," yes, and quicker made. .St., Charlotte, Mich. Farm Bureau evening of music and other entertainment here June 18 The concrete road is coining thru next year Editorial ;in What Is a Boy? vice the full pressure oiling sys persons attended the program. So as to make the new road straight and true, "He is a person who is going to carry on what you tern supplies every camshaft an delegation had authority to pledge an export quota, but they were home in Copenhagen. 3. TOTAL DISABILITY. all were for it "in principle." We will pay $50 per month, Dr. Eckner did not circle the world, plus free insurance should Russia liked the quota idea because she would demand however, and the route of Post and you lose your health from ac- their pre-war export average of 164,000,000 bushels Gatty will fall more than 12,000 miles short of a circuit of the globe, as a Classified Ads cident or illness—be dis- abled. Small extra premium annually; because limited exports by other nations would matter of fact. The earth's circum- provides this protection. ference of approximately 27,000 miles. take the rate of 3 cents per word per edition. enable the Russians to sell more wheat for more money. The previous "round-the-world" flights 4. OLD AGE PROVISION. We will pay $C.OOO at 65 or Before the war Russia exported twice as much wheat have all covered about 14,000 miles. $45 per month tor life. May The flyers circle the northen rim of LIVE STOCK FURNITURE be provided by endowment as any other nation. the two hemispheres, passing through fund and other plaus. The CATTLE WILL SACkiKK'.K t!i7."..i'i) O O M - Principal lesson of the conference appeared to be that the most important cities. plete four room outfit of furniture for older man who later will be It is interesting to note that a line, HBRD SIKi:, FAUVIC RALEIGH balance due on contract of $3°l.O0. O"u't: dependent on you will not universal wheat surpluses will continue until falling through New York City and around •Noble. Sired by Fatvftc Trim-... Medal h't is in best of condition arul na enjoy life unless you make •I" Al.-rit bull. Dam Imported, I,illeth, used only .six months, a part of wl*icl: prices force changes in various parts of the world. the earth, would really chart a route • Ji'lil Medal, ss:: lbs. ?,r,9 days. Improve time it was in storage* In. ludes thret arrangements for him now. which would be entirely water but calves your type and prodtiotion. Five bull piece living room suite with solid wal- 7 months old for sale time given. nut frame on bottom, covered 4 over College Honors chine shop, lie was forced to aban- for less than 4,000 miles, making for Sidney Robart, Itobart J• versible State Farm life Insurance policy plans are especially don his education for a time be- water jumps of 21,000 miles. A true Walkerville, Michigan. (5-23-St-s) cushions, IlxlL' Seamless Axmnifl er Uiif-,. two Junior Lamps, Smoking stand, eight adapted to farmers' needs. You should know what we Prof. H. R. Pettit cause of lack of finances and for a year was anatomist at Ward's "round-the-world" flight from New York would lead south, in the Atlantic, He re fords mirror, walnut dining room suite, buffet <.egfhorns, White and Blank Minorc-as, etc. at reduced prlcea at once if interested (6-13rl<$9-2tJ State Agent -:- Lansing, Mich. preparation for the barrage of let- jump to about the Canadian-United for June and July. Chicks on hand All ters praying tor or demanding ad- ;it tlir experiment station. In 190C the time. Duckling's ami turttey poults. lie was p] i- -I in charge of the States boundary line at the Paciiic Sunburst Egg and Squab Farm, 50] \V. anke .tfnatheniutical circuits of from 225-302 Ggg official record hens. of a LiviiiK Room Suite, Dining Room Satisfaction guarantee^. Biehl's I..-M- Suite, Bedroom Suite, Phonograph, Gas horn Farms, Mam . i.,na, Mich. (6-13-2ts) Stove, Spring and Mattress, breakfast WORM CAPSULES houses, which are rapidly around Michigan cities. The multiplying Run Economy Seeding In addition to the four flyers who room set, etc. Will sell all or part and correspondence also discloses that Tests on Barleys were in the news last week, six more flyers were poised at New York City. FARM MACHINERY deliver any where in the state f- Charge. If interested call us 9-S43€ and FOR SPREADERS. LOWER reverse" the charges. CrfAPPEE BROS. not all insects work outside. Good (Continued from P;IM<' 1) They'were Ruth Nichols, who was in- production MANURE FURNITURE CO., 106-118 Division Ave., housewives sometimes ask for ad- vice and demand that this request than the smaller (ilahion. The field tests, running on both costs save titne make work South, jured when starting a projected trans- easier. We have a few NEW IDEA (hand Rapids, Michigan. ~33 CHICKENS AND TURKEYS light and heavy soils, will help de- AtlaiUic,Might; Russell lioardman and spreaders -latest models—at special low prices. They won't last IODK and this be given no publicity. Easy To Give termine if the farmer, under ordinary John P<»fando. with another plane, i:: your opportunity to s e t a money mak- BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Control methods for the app'e ing—time saving machine at practically maggot and the cherry fruit fly. conditions, will have to sow as much bound for Paris; Clyde Pangborn, and your price. FARM BUREAU SUPPLY Spartan as he has been accustomed to. High Ilerndon. jr., ready for another STORE, Branch of Farm Bureau Ser- WANTKD MAX TO 0PT3R&TE OWN two of the most serious orchard business. Must have |300 and good re- whether the greater stooling by Spar- "round-tin1 -world" Sight; George Kn- rices, Inc., Woodland. Michigan. pests in this state have been work- (5-23-5t-5€b) t o m a n ' s aEarnings ferences. guaranteed according ed out by Prof. Pettit and the warn- tan will make up for the fewer num- dresz and Sandor Magyar, Hungarians, bility. N o selliiiK o r c a n v a s s - ing inquire A. R. Schaberg, Hi:.' West ings to apply the sprays ior these ber of seeds per bushel, and if a re- who plan to fly to their native land. SEEDS and PLANTS Michigan, Lansing, Mich. (6-18-lt-31b) itnt'cts are distributed by a plan duction in ceed per acre, costs is pos- NURSERY STOCK OF ALL KINDS— which gets the information to every fruit grower in time for him to sible. The growing crop indicates that these desirable changes are likely. Michigan Resort Area Strawberry plants: Dunlops, Premiers, Mastadon, Kverbearers. Ked, and black WANTED—FARM* WORK protect his fruit In 1931 some 13 fields of Spartan Poultry Prices Better raspberry plants. $2 per 100. Shmlis - Flowers. Allegan Nursery, WANTED—A3OUT Alleyan, farm work by able young man, I'.', good TEN WKKKS Parke-Davis Product Professor Pettit was born in barley .set production records of GO Ppultrymen in rnore favored sec- Mich. (4-ll-4t-s) milker, all around hand. Worked past Baldwinsville, ?s. Y.. in ISC't, the three summers on In-diana farm. II. year, in his own words, "that the moth came to America." lie to 67 bushels per acre. tions of the state .stand a fair chance of realizing liberal returns on their PIANOS FOR SALE d o s s , Gross AdvortisJng Agency, 330 South Wells Street, Chicago. (t;-27-lt-L') C-A WORM CAPSULES FKWKH STORAGE TI'KKKYS chick crop this summer, it was point- I'ni: SALE FOR BALANCE OF CON- Qulek Action — Low Cost was graduated from Baldwinaville W.WTKit- WORK o x |.'Ai:.\l l:v ac;ui* my in 1887 and went to Cor- Cold storage holdings of frozen ed out this week by Prof. C. G. Card. tract due. Straight I'iano which former- month by young man, single. Kxperi- Practically No Set-Back turkeys on May 1 was ."3 per cent of Michigan State College, due to a ly sold for 1175.00 for balance due on of $43.00. We deliver any eiK ed in general farm work. Lived on nell University in ivx-.i. For the intervening two years he contract less than last year and 46 per cent poultry shortage of possibly 20 per where in the state free of charge. Call wi. A, Dimomlalc, farm all my life. Write Hay Van Ntort- Peultryn™ have long felt *h« need for a worm capsule that would really 4- us 9-3436 and reverse the charges if in- K-2 % Archie McAdam. served as an apprentice in a ma- less than the five year average. cent in Michigan. terested. 6HAFFKE BROS. FURNI- («27lt) Ml large Roundworms and Tapeworms in Chickens and Turkeys at one treatment. Commercial hatrlurymen had a TURE CO., lftfi-118 Division .We., South, Grand Rapids, Michigan. (5-2S-3t-51bJ WORK WANTED FEMALE After 20 years search for a product of this kind. Parke. Davis & C o , Detroit, spring shortage of 25 to ::."» per cent. in hatches which has been partly off- .MIST BACRIFICE—£450.00 AKTKMIS Miclu, produced C-A Worm Capsules which are meeting with great favor. Slate mutual Rodded Fire WANTED l:V REFINED MIDDLE Play Insurance Co., of Itlich. HOME OFFICE — rilNT, MICH. Safe set by more home hatching. June poultry prices have ranged contract mahogany player piano for balance of iln<> of $73.00 plus s t o r a g e . Story & d a r k lifetime guaranteed Oak considerably lower in the industrial Player Piano for balance due on contract ;«;•*'• aged lads'. Would be companion to an elderly couple, or assist in eountrv home of refinement. A - 1 references. Mrs. K. E. Sutliff, Lock Box 28J, Lansing, P«rU t Davis & ' C o , will send free bulletins on request. C-A WORH CAPSULES ARE SOLD Vt **— - * Don't take chances. Get your protection now with the STATE MUTT'ATJ centers than in resort areas, Prof. of $125.00. Rolls and benches go with both of these pianos. These pianos a re Mich. BODDEP FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Over $94,500,000.00 at risk. •> . PaM over $4.0.",8,647.14 in losses since Card explained, indicating that pro- guaranteed to be in A-l condition and ducers who are near to so-called "sum- will be delivered free of charge any- Use a baking powder can invert- FARM BUREAU SUPPLY STORES at i, Juno 14th, IM'X. \ broad and liberal policy. 3,994 new where in Michigan. Telephone ! ed for a pastry blender when mak- • ;i sample copy and for an Agent to call. mer markets" undoubtedly will be Grand Rapids, collect, '"' write Chaffee ing pie crust. Have a hole punctur- Lapcer Imlay City Midland Woodland H. K. FISK, S E C Y , 702 Church St.. Flint, Michigan. able to realize comparatively good re- Bros. Furniture Co., 166-118 South Divi- ed m the top through which the air Lansing, at 221 North Cedar St. turns on their broilers and old hens. sion Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. (6-13-78-2t) may circulate. f SATURDAY, JTXE 27, 1981 M I C H I G A N FARM XETT8 THRFF STATE COLLEGE BD. Guns Have Brilliant History EXAMINE CHARGES On Capitol Lawn claims, and an effort to STEPS TAKEN TO Last Buffalo Hunt of establishing a fair l>;il attempted again. REDUCE FIRES SET OmahaTribe Described CENTERS CONTROL (Continued from page 1t divisions and corps and armies the name of the Loomis battery began FOR HAULING MILK Michigan Man Sec'yof BY LOCOMOTIVES 3 Scouts Ran 100 Miles n o r, \t\c\ 1V/T1 of the short December day before the killing was completed, and it was IN PRES. SHAW o spread. (Jims Replaced The battery in its amateur days Dep't of Agr. Is Checking New Farm Bd. Group Washington Fred l\ HihM dark before the cutting up of the at Coldwater, had been of six- Costs in Detroit Spark Arrestors, Cinder Pans, carcasses was finished. Ends Divided Responsibility pound brass field pieces. But the Cadillac, manager of the Mit ! Report Discovery of Area. Potato Growers Exchange, has Animal's Many I'ses >attery had not been long at the Screened Windows Are The Herd. Almost every part of the animal was In Financial, Executive elected B< arer of tho Na- and organization like front before it received the Farrott Lansing—An investigation, similar tional Fruit ami VegVtabU Helping. Discipline made to serve a purpose. Flesh and Matters. guns of much greater accuracy. The 0 one made a year ago, to determine change, Inc., new n a t i o n w i d e F a r m that of a m i l i t a r y campaign fat were of prime importance for lattery was regarded as particular- Lansing—Regular safety inspections characterized the great semi-annual food. Dried in thin strips, the meat Important changes in the direc- y skilled in marksmanship. On onevhether or not certain fanners serv- Hoard m a r k e t i n g arency in t h e in- and close co-operation given by rail- buffalo hunts of the Plains Indians, was packed in leather cases and seal- ion of Michigan State College af- occasion the southerners were pre- ng the Detroit milk area are paying terest of fruits and vegetables. fairs were made by the State Board oo much for haying their milk hauled The Exchange directors, meeting way officials, which last year resulted who depended upon these animals for ed over with fat, keeping this way paring a retreat when a shot from •here recently, announced that t o n - in a reduction in the number of fires food, clothing, shelter and a hundred for long periods. The hides made of Agriculture June 22 when it one of the Loomis runs was put o market, was asked recently and nage, pledged to date will w a r r a n t caused by railroads, is continuing articles of every day use, from tools clothes, robes, bedding, tent cover, adopted a set of resolutions prepar- hrough a locomotive a mile and he State Department of Agriculture opening their first office at Chi- ed by President Shaw as "The through this season with the expect- to toys, states Dr. Melvin R. Gilmore moccasins, ropes, packing cases, horse maining 25% of the administrative hree-(|uarters away, disabling that re- as begun a check-up to assist in set- tation that the percentage of railroad of the University of Michigan. gear, skin boats, and for many minor eorganization which I started one ocoinotive and blocking the track ling this question, Which is always cago. Later they will have Offices on all the important fruit fires will be still further decreased. The story of the last hunt of the articles. Bones also were valuable, year ago." or other trains behind. ne of considerable interest to the and vegetable m a r k e t s in tho coun- The battery went through such armors of Michigan, whether they A few years ago the railroads were Omaha tribe is told by Dr. Gilmore Shoulder blades made hoes and Most important of the resolutions :elebrated battles as Stone river. erve the Detroit area or not. try, in t h e Interest* Of some ltiO one of the chief causes of forest fires, as he had it from the lips of one ofsquash knives, shank bones made hide entered all college executive Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, fruit and vegetable co-ops now in and many farm fires. Sparks from the the young scouts who served on this dressing tools and shoulder blades and authority and supervision in Presi- and Mission Ridge. It was at the Although there is no governing body the Exchange. locomotives, hot cinders falling down hunt which took place in 1876. This frontal skull bones made spades and dent Shaw, charged construction of Battle of Chiokamuga that it went hat has been given authority to the right of way, and burning tobacco scout, Frances LaFlesche, was one ofhoes. Ribs made arrow gauges and the college annual budpet by plac- through its most harrowing ex- stablish hauling rates for milk, the Clipping Alfalfa Does thrown from smoker cars started three who ran one hundred miles in coasting sleds for small boys. Knife ng the president directly in charge perience. Captain Loomis by that ransportation concerns abided hy Not Boost Seed Yield hundreds of fires annually. "Rail- a day to bring the news to the main handles, saddle trees and many other of it front its beginnings rather ime had been promoted to colonel ecommendations made last year by road fires" were considered inevitable. body of the discovery of a herd of purposes were served by other bones. than have a finance committee pre- and the battery was in charge of he state dep't of agriculture. Last Tho practice of clipping alfalfa t<> ? Today rigid regulations govern buffalo. Long tendons were carefully remov- sent him with a complete budget Captain Van Pelt. At Chickamauga ear's study of the question, depart- increase seed yield has not proved r e - train equipment. Spark arrestors are Because of the great importance of ed'and twisted into all kinds of thread for his acceptance or revision. Sec'y he battery had been giving its nent officials claim, revealed wide liable, according to State College Halladay concurred in the shift of usual yeomanly service, but its in- iserepaneies in the cost of delivering experiments, It was revealed recently. compulsory accessories. Pans to the buffalo to the people, the hunts and cordage. This strong sinew was budget development from the office antry support was swept back, on lilk to the Detroit markets. Pro- The College is running alfalfa clip- catch falling cinders are necessary. were conducted much like military used to attach arrow, spear and tool of the secretary to the president. Smoker car windows must be equip- expeditions. Before starting a "direc- heads, and to make bow strings. The Other resolutions were to the ef- all sides. Its position was literal- ucers were charged various prices on ping experiments again this fear, fol- ped with screens. The Forest Fire tor of the hunt" was chosen, whose I b r a i n s of the buffalo were used in fect: y over-run by Confederate infantry. he several routes with no definite lowing a showing made in VXM) when Division of the Conservation Depart- iword was law until the final division tanning; the stomach and bladder That administrative members of until men The the of Loomis battery held on tandard for mileage or territory undipped, Ant-bloom plants yielded a last. One gun was dragged ment employs regular inspectors who of the last buffalo was completed. were prepared as containers for the college staff should not as a away, but the rest of,the. battery erved by the transportation concerns, at crop of seven bushels; plants clipped make periodical inspections of all re-Religious rites were performed before liquids; the horns for spoons, cups, matter of policy hold official posi- ell into Confederate hands. But 'he mutual arrangement set up last an earlier clip yielded e\cn less seed, six inchos yielded half as much and quired equipment. Last year a thous- starting and before the killing of thewar club heads, by the doctors as cup- tions in financial organizations his, not before Captain Van Pelt ear gave the producers a more near- the records indicate. and locomotives were inspected and animals began, and tribal customs for ping horns for bleeding, and to make with which the college does busi- had rushed before his puns with y equalized cost of delivery, the de- checked. the benefit of all were strictly ob- partment reports. spinning tops for children. Hair was ness directly or indirectly. drawn sword, shouting, "Don't dare WELL DRILLING The prevention of fires along the served. twisted into yarn and teeth made into That as a matter of policy the to touch them'" This at least, is Since the bottom has virtually drop- railroad right-of-way requires that 415 Mile Hunting Trip beads. Finally, hoofs, muzzle and college should not enter into finan- the tradition. He went down, with ped out of the milk market this sea- driller. toUses Two 10 Inch, by able, •xpertenced * they be kept clean and free from all Largely because of the ruthless tough forehead skin were boiled down cial transactions which individuals mortal wound, before the onrush. on, there have ben many requests equipment. Price right. Satisfaction i><>.-st materials, methods, rubbish, old ties, timber, brush and slaughter of the buffalo by the white to glue. or groups of individual staff mem- Another time at Perryville, one or a further adjustment of the cost assured. Pumping equipment. Tell us \\h;it \<>n want. Leroy F. Bailey, 609 other inflammable material. It is theman, the last hunt of the Omaha tribe Thus the Indian, through long ex- bers involving their private enter- of the famous battles in which it of hauling, the state department Clippert St., Lansing, Mich. practice of the railroad companies was a tedious expedition which car- perience, made economical use of the prises. was engaged, the Loomis battery to make through cleaning of the right- ried them 415 miles and through Ne- buffalo, his chief source of food and That staff members should not was under orders to hold a certain * of-way each spring as soon as the braska and half way across Kansas goods. Increasingly, however, the participate weather conditions permit. All burn- before the herd was located. white man's coming made these ani- directly or indirectly in knob at all costs. It was to fire political campaigns. That matters of official business until the last, then spike the guns, Farmers' Buying Guide ing is done under the burning permit The whole tribe moved on these mals obtainable only by long and and policy must not be taken up di-and the men were to save them- Rites on Application law. The co-operation given the De-hunts, and because of the old people, arduous trips. Discouraged at these rectly by staff members of the col-selves. But so effectually were the partment by section crews of the vari- women and children, only about ten prospects, the Omaha made their lege with individuals, committees, juns handled that the battery saved a part of the infantry left riotel Hermitage Grand Rapids. BEAUTIPULLY European, 800 Monuments ous railroads in their burning has re-or fifteen miles a day could be cover- final semi-annual pilgrimage in 1876,or the Board itself without the n an and tself exposed position. ooms. With bath, |1.BO and $11 per day. monuments of the mosl DESIGNED beautiful granite duced the fire loss from this source. ed. Camp at night was pitched in a the last in a hitherto unbroken series, knowledge and consent of the presi- After the annihilation of the bat-Without bath $1 and $1.00. John Moran, and marble. Call or write We employs 4 large circle, every family having its perhaps six or eight hundred, of such dent. tery at Chickamauga the members (gr. no salesmen. You save Largest monument works in Western tii<> difference. Do You Possess Michigan. BIMP8ON GRANITE WORKS, Most Are Honest, But prescribed place. tribal expeditions, since they moved Organizations affiliated with the were heart-broken. Their dejection Young Peoph It was not until the latter part of into the Plains some three or four college were instructed not to de- was a matter of note in the dis- fou can turn your timo Business Worth? 1358 W. Leonard, Qrand Rapids. Into value with Consider George Fritz December, on the evening that the hundred years before. They were velop matters of organization, fi- patches of The New York Herald. is. I,ANSING BUSINESS UNIVERSITY, thirty-first camp had been pitched, never again to look upon a herd of nance or policy without first sub- )ut before tho day was out four of .30 W. Ionia, Lansing. Y. W. C. A. Cafeteria-^2- r South elsewhere for his divisions. He to overtax it. One insurance com- Inconsistent, but she was too tired pany had refused to renew his policy to fight tonight a n d so slie >iodded the table-cards and collect for the tickets. comb kisses of his and began to put her to sleep with his talk of muni- DAIRY BARN IDEAS Polly < ' a i t e r , ;i m o d e i n )-• i; • home, had no right to ureak up Polly's mall town father's home. to And As Polly ciphered at her problem and that hud worried him almo death. Perhaps she'd best keep quiet, feel. a g a i n . It is a l w a y s h a r d for people to say what they really t h i n k There is something indecent and This took away most of Polly's enthusiasm for fighting her father's battles. She had an inkling of the cipal problems and club politics, she realized that as a lover and a suitor papa had evidently gone completely CUT WORK COSTS into an affair with out of business. She tried 'her best .v partner. it grew more and more complicated, after all, for her father's sake, at about it, like stripping a soul to pub- amount of neglect he was inflicting Walter Keith, her I more and more far-ieaching. To least. Still, of course, be might not lic nakedness. on her mother, not to speak of his to imagine him playing the cave man 18 Cows Roam Big Feeding PART II with mamma or working up clinches Room; Handled In Far more Innocent and ignorant of begin with she would tell her father die. He might turn on iiis wile and Mrs. Carter was so glad to have daughter. She did not feel like pick- strike her down, trample on her. someone else to berate besides her- ing on mamma today, but tried to in the moonlight, and disrespectful Relays of 6. the world t h a n she had evi-r realized tiie simplest truth: and dismal as it was, she had to till now, Polly lay stifling tier sobs "Papa, it's only fair to let you That would be a terrible thing for self that she spoke with all sharp- entertain her through a slow after- poor mamma. ness: noon and evening, that seemed an laugh it off as impossible. Keeping eighteen cows in a dairy in a pillow. After her first thin- of know what I've just learned." wrath ended, obe waa suddenly a 'lien her father would turn her Or he might break down and weep. 'I'll have your father speak to eternity. Even in fiction the slushiest novel- barn arranged with but six stanch- piteous or] han out in the night of mother out into the night. Or he Polly had heard him cry once when that young man—" The next day her father came ists had been compelled to abandon ions and having practically no the world, and terribly sorry for her- would walk out himself. Then Polly a little brother of her's had died. S>'ae This was getting into such deep home for luncheon and could talk of such happy endings. They had gone stable litter to remove in the milk- »elf. would have to go too, of course. But never wanted to hear such a sound water that Polly pleaded: nothing but the Community Chest out with hoop-skirts and bustles and ing quarters are but two of the ad- She was suddenly thrown back where? She absolutely refused to again. This would be worse than a "No, no; we mustn't drag poor problems that were to be threshed false hair and other big bluffs that vantages experienced in maintain- from her Imagined peak of sophisti- I be settled on any of the relations; death and he would be far lonelier. papa into this—or you, either. Bob out at a meeting that night. concealed the plain truth. She didn't ing a dairy barn of the nev/est type, cation to the estate of a frightened they were all poorer than papa and The poor, poor man, w.hat would just made me mad, that's all, and I Bob was still angry and nobody think so much of Walter Keith, girl. the most appalling people. Let one he do without mamma! He depend- taught him a lesson. He'll behave else called for Polly. The evening either, at a lover. He was unworthy such arranged as the State of Michigan has on the State College ex- The mother she had loved and thing be thoroughly understood. ed on her for everything and he after this. Please let me manage was ghastly. of her unworthy mother. But get- periment farm, just south of Lake looked to for protection and guid- Polly absolutely, positively, abso- could be rather maddening at times. him." On Sunday they all went to church ting him out of the way was not go- City, in Missaukee county. ance was dead. In her place \\ positivelilutely would not be board- He was always shouting through the Her mother reluctantly consented where Pappa made up some lost ing to be so easy, without either her evil stepmother, an unimaginably ed out with any of the relations. house, "Mamma! Mamma! Where to this, but insisted on helping her sleep to mamma's and Polly's in- mother's or her father'3 knowing Instead of carrying feed down I mid adominable hag in whose did you put my pen?" or "Where did poor stricken dove to bed. Before tense humiliation and the keen that she had been the one to accom- long alleys and devoting regular To move to a hotel for a while plish it. hours to forking out litter each day, heart there could not possibly be would be interesting, but you can't you hide my slippers?" When as like sue could be stopped she was taking amusement of various neighbors who any real love for that outrageous live at a .hotel forever. And how as not they were right in front of oil' Polly's slippers and getting her thought he was drunk. She had grown too maternally the free dairy cows have been allowed access to every corner of a man. would she spend her time? None of him. nightgown out, turning down the In the afternoon he played 18 fond ofL 'her mother, too eager for spacious feeding room in the base- Her mother was an old woman— her old friends would speak to her Her mother had to look him over covers, patting the pillows and be- 'holes of golf at the doctor's orders her happiness to crush her with the forty, if a day—how could a woman probably, after such public scandal; mornings to find if his socks were ing generally so angelic that Polly for his dear liver's sake, so he fell scheme of discovering what her ment of the dairy barn. Their feed daughter had discovered. is provided through two large hay of that, are love anybody except her and, if they did, she would hate to mates, or if he had buttoned all his began to wonder if her eyes had not asleep at the dinner table. Mamma chutes, leading from the barn floor. husband? How could a mother love look them in the face after they clothes up, or: put on a tie at all. deceived her about that scene on the had to take off his F.hoes and steer Polly foresaw that she had a anybody but the father of her chil- knew her saame. She could not bear What would he do without her? porch. him upstairs. Though he was a tee- dangerous man to deal with in Wal- Silage is also sent down through ter Keith. chutea. dren? the thought of a convent. Perhaps Polly's thoughts were in utter dis- The sound of a key was heard in totaler he was always having to be The "lounging room," referring How could any woman at her time she would go on the stage and play array and every plan was unmade as the front door and her mother gasp- cared for as if he were the veriest What her mother really needed of life put on a mask of youth and tragedies—Ibsen and the like. fast as made. ed: sot. and deserved was some handsome, to it in fine terms, is provided with meet a mas secretly? Connive with Everybody would rather expect All this while Mrs. Carter had-sat "Oh dear, your poor father's home Monday night he could not get wealthy and brilliant millionaire plenty of loose, clean straw and the cows, being unhampered in their him, telephone him, hide out on a her father to shoot the man who fearing at Polly's shawl and making and I haven't laid out his slippers home and Polly was so indignant who would take her out of this daily dark porch with him? and he an old despoiled his 'home and she hoped p.nd unmaking plans of her own. or anything. I must go warm some that she could not think of him stodgy town to far places where she chion, activities by tie rope or stan- keep themselves exceptional- white-haired veteran like Walter he would Storms of remorse and of defiance milk for him. It helps his sleep. without anger. She had grown so would have the love and luxury that ly clean, the college dairymen re- Keith! It was revolting! That's And yet, while that would be po- swept her alternately. She reviled He's so worried lately that he's close to her mother that she thought her poor soul had never known. what it was, revolting! etic justice there would be the ma- herself and defended herself. The been very restles3. I've begged him of her as a martyr. She was just W'here to find such a man was so port. Polly had heard them mumbling chinery of legal justice to go gradualness of her drift into her ir- to take a vacation, but he thinks he about ready to advise her to get a far beyond even her young fancy The loose straw litter is left for about not being able to live without through. The jury would acquit timacy with Walter Keith, the fact that she postponed that phase of her several weeks and is permitted to task. accumulate to a depth of several each other. It was as silly as a him, of course, eventually; but he that it was due to her husband's inches before it becomes necessary couple in the old folks' home put- would be locked up tor a while, blind and blundering neglect of Jher When Tuesday night came round to fork out litter. It is said that ting on a burlesque of "Romeo and probably until he had raised enor- and the unbearable monotony of her again, the Keiths came round again. this eliminates a lot of daily work. Juliet." mous bail. He might have to spend a life had absolved -her conscience a Polly sat in a corner of the room Those in charge of this experi- If it hadn't been her own mother year or two in prison and squander little to herself. reading and slyly studying Walter ment claim it is possible to reduce •he could have laughed herself sick. all .his money before he could be ac- But she knew how unpardonable Keith. Suddenly Polly had an un- She did laugh .her self sick. She quitted. she would look in the eyes of a accountable feeling that Mrs. Keith barn costs for dairy herd handling cried and giggled and grieved and By that time his practice would be young daughter who had all the. was watching her husband, too, and by 21 to 30 per cent with this sort of arrangement. guffawed all at once and her mother gone and he would have to resign also Polly's mother. Six cows are milked at one time would have heard her in spite of the all his secretaryships; for people There was something in the old in this Lake City Experiment Farm suffocation Of the drenched pillow wouldn't want him on the com- woman's heavy sleepy eyes that was barn, making it possible to keep a if Mrs. Carter's own blood had not mittees and Boards and more since, not quite sincere and a little om- herd of eighteen cows with the use been roaring in her ears so loudly in the eyes of the prigs, the dear inous. But Polly dismissed the of only the six stanchions for the that she could hear nothing but sweet man would, after all be a notion as silly and found it so tire- milking room. This affects a con- tumultuous thoughts. murderer—not really one, of course, some to sit and watch the four siderable saving in equipment cost, Out of Polly's hysteria rose a fer- but at least a slayer of his fellow solemn gamesters and listen to their it is pointed out. ment of acrid anger. Her mother man. rare and dull remarks that she Allowing the cows to roam free- had shattered the one last ideal left. Tho future along this line grew so finally made an excuse of weariness ly in their lounging quarters, there A line example to set to a child that inconvenient and so slow that Polly and went up to her room. is practically no labor costs for looked up to her! decided against toe* father's killing She left !her door open in the fear cleaning stalls in the milking room, Polly saw no inconsistency in Walter Keith after all. —or perhaps the hope—that some- it is said. This means milking can claiming all the privileges tff a little There was something odious about thing might happen. The people be accomplished under the most girl of nine or ten, and assuming all letting such vermin live, of course, downstairs id. dreary woman, her mother's. And if her father was Anything to postpone the ordeal mother a good before-breakfast lec- quest for somebody worth going to perdition for, if she simply had to O th'> gentleman she hoped he was he was welcome and Polly had made ture such as she had received from old bore' How could so would refuse to believe a word such a convenience of Bob that she her mother in her earlier youth. But (NAME) she simply could not get the first go to perdition. man as Walter Keith against his wife. If he were an found him handy once more. She Polly had not failed, of course, to honorable man ho would slap his nodded her head violently. sentence spoken. She resolved to married her? It wa have her coffee first. She had her consider the matter of converting (ADDRESS) iter over and tell her what "What did he do? He didn't in- coffee and had to chase her mother her father to his senses. She had >, but let him look Polly herself had told Meg Fairley sult you did he?" SATURDAY, .TT*\r 27, IIICHTCAX FA m i FTTF HOME AND FAMILY Edited by MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR. PAGE Address all communications to her at Carleton, Michigan. home making, especially in these days What The Home of unrest and curtailment. College The won.en wlio during the week will heai .< \isil i! Package POOR PA Makers Cov. Brucker extended a hearty welcome and said appreciation for AUNT HET Invites deal about modern n u t hods of in. By CLAUDE CALLAN BY ROBERT QUH.IJ.BN in.L households and children hut they Costs At Detroit study and practice of better homo life was rapidly growing in the minds Farm Women will also have the e h a n r e to listen to talks on methods of . i of the public; he urged the fullest co- their own health, how to ielecl an.I Do you know that a quarter will I )ct r o i l . The annual meeting of the operation between the family and tha buy almost Ewfce :is many soap chips Bast Lansing—The annual Farm make clothes that a r e attractive American Home Economics Associa- extension worker that standard! Women's Week at Michigan State Col- also how to market household prod- in bulk as v.licn they are bought In tion .June -ri-lW, brought 1,500 women might be lifted and that American it package? And that for 46 cents one lege, which has come to he accepted ucts to get money to buj the I t o Detroit, with representatives from home life might function to its best by hundreds of women as their an- looking clothes. can gjftt It! cups of vinegar in bulk, \ all states and possessions of t ho U. S. Trips were arranged to various and only 7 cups when bought already nual vacation, is scheduled this year The p r o g r a m s begin oai h morn inn except A l a s k a a n d t h e Philippine Is- places in Detroit of special interest to for July 25 to 31. bottled? at 8:80, continue after lunch at land-, besides .Miss Lillian Smith of the different phases of home eco-' noniics, those interested in dietetics The committee in charge of the and conclude with an evening meet- These are some of the findings made jj Australia, Miss Pascrlal of Porto P Ri and health service were given an op-i week's program have planned to uti- log called al 8:00. Members of t h e by students in the home economics .Miss Kruger of Germany and .Miss portunlty to inspect the Ford Hos- lize every hour of this time and as the home economics department of t h e department at the University of Wis- TodhuntiT (if New Zealand. pital; tlnj.se interested in textiles held 1 week concludes Friday, which is the college, other members of the college consin in a study of the advantages Members of the Home Economics a session at tin; Detroit Institute of date for Summer Fanners Day, hus-staff, and speakers not connected with of buying household supplies by the Extension Dep't of M. S. C. were host- Arts and visited the textiles exhibit bands who have become discouraged the college appear on tho daily p r o - pound rather than in packages. esses at a house party for Extension visitors over the week end at St. ("lair there". with their efforts to conduct a house- g r a m s . Brown SUgar can he bought at four hold without expert supervision can Inn on the St. ('lair River with about The entire delegation was taken to Complete programs can be obtained pounds for a quarter When bought by "The w a y folks act about h a r d visit the college to persuade their from the Director oi Shorl Cou the pound. In a package, a quarter "People :n-<> just naturally happier LOO in attendance. Cranbrook School in Bloomfleld Hills iim<-s a n ' boom t i n i i s a l w a y s reminds 1 when times are hard,' I saya to Ma. The theme throughout the entire for Information on child development that their place is at home. Bast Lansing. buys only two and one-half pounds, nn» <>' Pa a n ' his religion. Live moro sympathy for othera convention was thflt of the big job of and training. the students discovered. "Pa M«-(S ids religion by Bpolla. Rice in bulk soils at three pounds md more pleasure thomselveB." "Wi 1!, If doiif without things must be legible, contain few words, "When everything is goin' Four greased pan and brown in hot oven. Work q u i c k l y a f t e r p u t t i n g in <• for 25 cents; for the same amount of money, only one and two-thirds makes people happy," Ma says, "you- 've done your pari toward keepin' me Motorists and be large enough so the automo bile driver can see them from sum i an' Btlfferln' he'a ma-kin1 money a n ' fkin't n o ailments-, he ain't Good nut as it hardens quickly. pounds can be bought packaged. Tapioca costs just twice as much in joyful." Buy Coming distance. got no more religion than a hog lias pockets. !!<• never lets nut a cheep Recipes CORNFLAKE MACAROONS Signs which can be seen 50 feet the package as it does in the bulk; 30 cents a pound in the first case, and "Here is the point, rrfartta," I says. "Take for Instance the old Sunday Home from the market give the driver only about sin or repentance or the s a v i n ' g r a c e <>' p r a y e r , a n ' y o u ' d t l t i i t k h e BICE KRISPIE MACAROONS By Mrs. J. P. Hessa Heal :.' egg \\ Kites si nv dinners people had when nearly one second to read the sign and to Add VJ cup sugar only 15 cents in the second. East Lansing—Motorists who buy decide whether he wants to stop or never heard o' such a place as hell. By Miss Barber of Kellogg's Prunes, too, can be bought at con- everybody was poor. I can remember "Then ono d a y , before I ' v e heard 2 egg whites beaten stiff 2 cups com Hakes how i looked forward to the Sunday farm products from roadside markets not before the market is reached, if Add gradually l cup brown sugar l cup shredded cocoanul siderably less by the pound rather a single wheeze, he'll gel h i s Bible than In a package. In those clays, dinner in my old home." usually make their purchases when his car is traveling 35 miles an hour. down a n ' I'll k n o w his bronchitis is Then add 2 cups Rice Krispies and 1 teaspoon Vanilla when every penny counts, it is well to "It's a pity you can't go back l« they are returning home from a drive Plainly printed letters one inch high botherin' him again. N e x t mornin' ' i : cup chopped nut meats Drop from spoon on a know that for 22 cents one can buy your old homo for all your meals," and, as a market on the right side of can be read at a distance of 25 feet, he'll sound like a horse with the J/2 t e a s p o o n vanilla tin and bake in a slow oven. Fine with Ma says. "I would enjoy liavin' a three inch letters at So feet, and six, lemonade for company treat. twenty-seven ounces of prunes in the road is more convenient to stop inch letters at 170 feet. heaves, an' begin aakin' the bteasln' Drop by spoonfuls on a buttered bulk, and only 1G ounces in the pack- rest, from cookin' for awhile." at, the stand on that side of the high- a^ain. pan and bake in a slow oven (275 F) The greatest problem in roadside .11 I I V KOI.I. age. And the prunes are of exactly "What I mean mama," 1 explained, way sells more goods than one on the marketing is to get the driver to stop "As long ns his bronchitis lasts for 15 minutes, then increase the heat By Mrs. Patterson the same sizi3 and quality. "is that if people have everything left side, according to a study made at the market. Only poor quality he'll HO around lookin' solemn and to S00 F and bake, for another 15 Bulk buying means paper sacks, of they want to eat every day in the minutes. S i f t 1 c u p flour w i t h '•> t e a s p o o n by the horticultural department at goods, unreasonable prices, or poor pious, a-talkin' like a presldin' elder course, and these do not present a week the IMK Sunday dinner is not an' worryin' about his soul, an' then gall and :.' teaspoons baking powder. a treat. It is the six poor dinners Michigan State College. salesmanship will discourage custo- COCOAM I MACAROONS Beat 2 eggs, then add 1 Cup sugar, neat appearance on cupboard shelves. Proprietors of these markets must mers who have stopped their cars. he'll start gettin* better an" However, if these staples arc stored that make the big seventh dinner a day I'll hear him euss an' Know he's Whites of 2 eggs beaten stiff '/i cup hoi milk and flavor to taste, success. An' it's the same with remember that the motorist, at the A great deal of information of V-i cup granulated sugar Combine with silted Hour and in fruit jars or in the tightly-covered usual'driving speeds, must be warned value to owners of roadside markets Well. tin boxes in which many groceries everything. If wo don't know what 1 tablespoon cornstarch hake quickly in a large shallow pan. that a roadside market is ahead of is contained in special bulletin 185, "Ever1 time times gets hard I hear must be bought, pantry shelves can privation is we can't properly enjoy Mix and cook in double boiler S When baked turn out on a damp him to enable him to make the stop, which will be sent to anyone who re- folks savin" how sensible an' savin' be just as orderly as when good plenty. It is thirst that makes the minutes then add 2 cups shredded towel, spread rapidly with jelly and especially if the market is placed be- quests it from Director V. R. Gardner, they're goin' to lie if they e v e r get money is spent for paper packages. water priceless. Give man every- cocoanut. Drop by teaspoonfuls on roll into shape. side a busy trunk line. Warning signs .Michigan State College. on t h e i r feet again, but soon a s thing lie wants all the time an' you things pick up they go to si^niir on deny him the occasional extra things These Things for Hot the dotted line an' tippln" the waiter Bear Chases 4 Men Soft Drink Quenches Fire that bring delight." Quartet Contests For This Wind Machine Is a dollar to rliow how rich they are. Weather Comfort "That's a good sermon," Ma says, Am. Farm Bur. Meeting Quick as Lightning "It looks like tribulation is just a Into Volcano Crater Kansas City -If you can't c a r r y a "but there's no use preachin' it to fire extinguisher in your car, head shower from Heaven to keep man's Drink plenty of fresh water, cold me. n whose a^es aver- budge. The men ran over a glacier, s l i k e l y t o r e s u l t . Get plenty of sleep with all air Ann Arbor—Gloves, patterns, cor- Each quartet will be required to sist the force of a theoretically possible; take a daily bath; plenty age 62 years, are learning to swim in the bear behind them, and down into sets and brassiers were the only de- sing "The American Farm Bureau steady wind. of moderate exercise. partments to sell more goods in Spirit" and one additional number, the local Y. M. C. A. pool. The young- a volcano crater. This "stumped" the We are familiar with the three Wear light comfortable clothing; 1930 than in 1929 in large depart- from a selection of seven titles. Se- cups rotating on a spindle, the an- est is 57; the oldest is 67, and a snow- bear, and after a -wait, he turned back. observe health rules. ment stores in 33 midwest and lections shall be memorized and emometer commonly seen on the white head of hair is the pride of ono The men reached this point this week Do these things and you need not eastern cities, a University of Mich- sung without an accompanist. roofs of government buildings. The of the quintette. None of the men after their experience. worry about what the hot weather igan survey reveals. Quartet winning first prize will new instrument is different. It is a could swim a stroke when they signed will do. Sales decreased in all other de- win $150 in cash a n d gold small metal box, the front of which up for their lessons, all are learning Uncle Ab says let';; go fishing; it partments. Toys, women's and medals; second prize quartet will is delicately hinged to bend inward rapidly, and they take their lesson.3 is the best excuse for doing nothing Missro coats, luggage., woolens, | win $75 cash and silver medals; with every variation of wind pres- by themselves every morning. and most of us are doing too much. Carry A Rabbit Foot? men's clothing and umbrellas fell third prize quartet $50 cash and sure on its face. The box face is Rabbits' feet .havo not lost their off 2 0 % . Net profits of the stores bronze medals. Quartets must be connected to an electric magnet, to signifiance as good luck emblems. One commercial rabbitry in Mich- igan, disposing of from 8,000 to dropped from 2.2% in 1929 to a registered with the Home and Com-vary loss of 1/2% in 1930. electric munity Dep't of the American Farm through its coils. The current vi- Bureau, 58 East Washington street, brates a tiny mirror, and the chang- < urrent passing Farm News Patterns (Price 15c each) 12,000 rabbits every week sells all A little cinnamon or nutmeg will Chicago, before Nov. 1, 1931. In- es in the beam of light therefrom of the front feet to concerns manu- improve the flavor of fresh pie terested State Farm Bureaus will are recorded on a photographic facturing #bod luck charms. plant. hold state contests preceding the film. National meeting to determine the Often whon conscience speak it finds the lino busy. tries to There's a whole lot of religion in State's representation in each class. Seeing Ourselves As just getting along with people. W>7 x so Just because a piece of furniture manure to the fields each day and Rose and White [led and Black Blue Tan is old does not prove that it is a scattered rather than put in piles; T a n a m i Whit<> Corn and White Lavender Worth While piece. The three es- the frequent cleaning of outside l:l:i. N. finishing is worth while. the fly population down and thus Enclosed find cents for pattern size. P. O County prevent spread of disease as well as 1 Will mail check S.-pt. 1st. Member Co. Farm Bureau LARGEST CITIES IN AMERICA keep free of the annoyance. The ten largest cities in the West- It's t ie careful every day persist- ern Hemisphere are New 1'ork, Chi- aneo that keeps the pest down. Pattern Name Size Summer 1931 Fashion Book.. R. F. D. aked are high, live cattle prices are un- and hardened may be softened by profitable to producers, Swift & a few minutes in a warm oven. vetoed the cider bill this week, which [eared that the amendment to the pro- would have protected cider manufac- hibition laws might be an opening Company has urged all of its sales turers by declaring that the product wedge to split the dry law open later. State Rodded Serves 23,000 Farms; Was Pioneer With Blanket Policy. Flint—More than 23 years ag Mr. George Whittaker of Dryden, Le peer county, had two new ideas fo a state-wide farmers' mutual fir insurance company: 1. A good company that wouli write only property properly equip ped with lig'htning rods. Hidden PROFITS Come not from the big things in life, but from small, every-day attention to 2. A "blanket" coverage for per details. It's the careful proven facts from analysis of seed and fertilizer that sonal farm property, w.hich providei FARM BUREAU MEMBERS that the entire personal insuranc send your feed and fertilizer sales bring the best crops; of feed and housing that develops the champion dairy would apply to whatever propert; * lj l )s °" Fur >" Bureau Branded herd or poultry flock. Dig deeply—for HERE you will discover the gold of was damaged by fire, and not bind a Feeds and Fertilizers to Farm certain amount to wagons, anothe ^ Bureau, Lansing, for patronage di- Hidden Profits. Look to Farm Bureau Products and buy on proven facts in- amount to other property, etc. The State Rodded Mutual Fire In • ^ vided purposes. stead of mere claims. Ask your local Co-op. surance Co. was founded by Mr Whittaker and others in 1908. Th first $16,000,000 written by th company on farm property was on rodded buildings only. Later it be GROW GROW GROW gaii writing on property not roddei and today has insured some $94. 500,000 in farm property. Its be lief in lightning rods has been prov ed by t.he fact that during the 21 years of the company's life, light 1 ning fire losses paid on rodder buildings have been less than lx/z Mermash 16% carries the organic minerals that of the total fire losses. The company aid rapid growth and vigorous health. Here's the makes a 20'/, difference in rates ir favor of rodded buildings. way to feed it: Pullets—Give them free access to Mr. Whittaker and his associate? acre-hie Mermash 16% and hard grains, both in hoppers if were pioneers In the matter of ex possible. Your cost is lowered—and your pullets tending "blanket" insurance protec tion on farm personal property in will be the large, heavy-bodied birds that produce the farm mutual field. At that time eggs cheaply. and still continuing with some com panies, each piece of farm persona Cockerels—if to be sold for broilers, keep on had to be covered with a specific Mermash 16% straight. It will improve feathering amount or not at all. If t.he insur ed equipment escaped damage and and color, shank, beaks and combs. It will help equipment not insured was damag- ed, that was too bad. Not so under the Stato Kodded blanket policy „„„ you top the market with no "throw-outs." Hens—Mermash 16% with light feedings of hard MERMASH The insurance follows the loss. The State Rodded serves farmers grains—or Mermash 18% with heavy grain feed- 16% in about 78 Michigan counties and ing. Eggmaker with plenty of hard grains or Lay- has paid some $4,000,000 in fire ing Mash where you have a home supply of milk losses during its history. It owns and and plenty of hard grains. occupies an excellent office build- ing at 702 Church street, Flint, op- ALL FARM BUREAU FEEDS ARE RIGHT posite the new post office building now under way. The Company has been located in Flint 20 years or more. It in t.he largest farm mutual fire insurance company in Michigan, with net assets and resources exceed- ing $450,000. Mr. Whittaker, who passed away several years ai"», served his com- Jf0 -. How's pany in many capacities: Was its president, then its secretary. Pres- ent officers: W. V. Burras of Pasture? Lowell, president. Mr. Burras start- ed as an agent mo»*e than 20 years ago. H. K. Ki.sk of Flint is secre- Is it thick and luxuriant yet? Or, is it getting short and try, another who worked up from scanty and rather dry? Milkmaker 16% balances ordinary the bottom, beginning in 1912. W pastures perfectly—and every bag is ready to use when you G. Bimpeon of Vawaf is treasurer, open it. and a veteran with the company. No grinding-—mixing or bother. It saves time and makes milk cost less. Try it this week and watch your cows and Farm Bureau Stores At your milk check improve! Bay City and Pinconning Lansing—Announcement is made by Farm Bureau Services, Inc., that it will establish at Bay City and Pincon- ning in Bay county facilities for re- ceiving, cleaning, bagging and ship- ping beans to be delivered by the Bay City, Munger and Northern Bay Here lies the remains of perfectly good county locals of the Michigan Bean Growers, Inc. The Services will also SEE YOUR LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR OF motor built by experts in 1928 of the best establish a complete Farm Bureau materials known to science with the aid of Hiipply store in connection with the FARM BUREAU PRODUCTS modern equipment. bean handling facilities. Went to an early grave because of poor lubrication. All those who pass by should profit— Use "Mioco" and "Bureau Penn" Oils and insure long life to your motors. or«* .n-rcs Prepare and Plan for | M T A« the Future— Price Buyers—Quality Buyers All Want Quality Twine Do you want alfalfa hay next summer? Then you should sow Farm Bureau Twine goes to quality buyers who want the Farm Bureau Brand Alfalfa Seed and use Farm Bureau Fertili- most for their dollar. Yet—price buyers like Farm Bureau zer this summer. Kememlx- 600-foot twine because they have only to buy 5 balls of it in Protect 1. You need less seed [>er acre when using Farm Bureau place of 6 balls of standard twine. Costs about the same per acre—but Farm Bureau twine is smoother, stronger, more uni- Hogs Brand Seed. form and will take the worry and trouble out of grain harvesting. Don't overcrowd hogs in a car this weather. You may lose 2. You are fertilizing for several years, not only for one heavily if you do, or if you al- crop. low it. What hogs need now is plenty of room, a properly bedded car— 3. That fl .'J-ton crop of alfalfa hay requires 147 pounds of the Thrifty Farmer buys CAMBRIA Fence wet sand is good. Hanging some ice in burlap bags in the car helps nitrogen, 30 pounds of phosphoric acid and 126 pounds of potash. It is a good, economical woven-wire fence and heavily coated with a lot. Hogs should not be heated zinc by a special process. It is light in weight, yet strong and durable. when loaded. An overcrowded 4. Thai tlic feeding quality of alfalfa hay is greatly improv- The thrifty farmer buys Cambria Fence because it saves time and car and a sudden rise in tempera- lends itself to all the numerous applications of wire fence on the ture is likely to cause heavy ed when Farm Bureau Fertilizer is used in conjunction with it. modern farm. This fence can be quickly taken down and erected for losses. fresh feed lots, for hogs, for fencing oft" sheep, for alternate poultry Your local livestock co-op under- runs, and the like. Marauders and stock diseases can be immediately stands how to handle shipments Plan now—see your local Farm Bureau Distributor. fLtXO JOINT to avoid heavy losses. •outfoiled by a quickly erected barrier of Cambria Pence. Ask your Ship through the co-op and your local co-op dealer. stock is in the hands of your salesmen from the beginning to end. Ret inns to patrons guaranteed hv 160,000 bond meeting Gov't requirements. Michigan Livestock Exchange V. s. "BUY CO- OP- ERA T1VELY" ... SEED... FEED ... Farm Bureau Services, Inc. LIFE A UTOMOBILE IN SU R AN C E « AND Detroit, Mich, or TWINE...TIRES... Lansing, Michigan AT A "FARM Producers Co-op Com. Assn. LIME... SUPPLIES RISK RATE" -t Buffalo, \ . Y. 221 North Cedar Street 1