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‘ pend! upon the adopﬂm at a
plan

In“ legume campaign in the county
“ﬂutthecnmjngyw,inaneifm
, mercantile-meagede

successful crop relation, and it in
esecretorsuccessindmyingud
give stock raising.

“:hnbers will be encouraged and
Ned in every way possible to in—
ase the acreage of legnminono
: grown on their farms. Partl-
attention will be given to d-

grown seucessiully on almost any
in Chcboygan county, provided

I  stony. Anticipating that nod
‘ County Farm Bureau is per5
.- ' cute so as to be

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11 this monthT Doubtless the
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dled advantageously l Nah
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manner. the association has
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only meat-gospels“. the organi-
zation ﬁnished its ﬁrst year, July 10,
me. with a total balance includ-
3'3; oi $139.2d—LesHe I. Patty.
Minus. Choboyganoounohm
Bureau. ' _

 

Molahnthatthemuadientnx
is a vicious institution and is not
onbbcmxpassedontothecon-
mot, butiltheexense resonat—
mgaddiﬁomlprodmmingto
published reports attributed to
CongressmenWoodruil, Campbell.
Imesdeetchsm.

The congressmen are not opposed
to the bonus. but oppose the sales
masamethodofﬁnandngihw
cordlngtotheirsmfnment.

Canadian-sproducetheirownbeet
mandhit‘aieboutthesene
coﬁof production that features

sugnrbectsugarproduc-
Mmmwmaddi—
timeout impo considerable
manganmaaalsohnsasalee
malnutLast January when
mmdx'eenuinmcbignntho
WWW declared
bbepayinctencenisapouudror
theta.
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"Mt-thawed thal’when

199 pounds stanza: is sold in
Canada the mes-ﬂint collects tree:
the consumer in addition to the 18
cards government tax $3.83 as ex-
tra proﬁt for himself, the jobber
and the wholesaler, or about. 21
times the amount of the tax. The
Ilchlgan congressmen fear similar
abuses of the in: in America and
saythemttselfisaheavyburden
on them mass of consumers least
abletopwit.

It has been pointed out by the
congressmen that the nation has

otherw-

inveuoory and succumb receiv-

' u" an.

‘ $400,000,000 there
were subscriptions amounting to
$1,300,000.000.

The various term WHOM

 

ﬁnally gets into the pocket
wool grower. On a suit which re-
tnﬂs'fot $40. the grower's share is
Hence the wool grower’s

seemingly had little effect on the

retdl values of arbides manufac-
tured therefrom.

the war. has forced hundreds en-
gagul them out of business. and
caused liquidation at breeding
finch h order to meet financial
didigaﬂous. Strange II is may
seem material beneﬁt has
hem daived. by the consuming pub-

spell ruin to many engaged‘in its
production.

“In order to illustrate the value
of raw nutemi as compared to the
ﬁnished pruiunt, the suit buyer’s
dollar is figured. The calouhtlon
hbasedonlSpoumieotwoolin
its cum state of hdtJblond grade
required to Miniature 3% yards.
diam—rims amount required for an
m men’s suit. Tim not price
00thewooﬂgrowerat20cenisper
pound t heed on actual sales of
the 1921 clip. This ﬂutratea the
extent that the cost of raw material

Plant Corn in May or June for Best Results

gainismadeinyield orma—
turity by planting corn before
conditions of soil and atmos-
phere are right. in the opinion of
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture. Corn growers in , locali-
ties with a long season have observed
that early and late plantings of the
same variety usually show wide dif—
ference in growth and number of
days required to reach maturity. In
general. corn which is seeded early
requires a longer time to come up
than that which is plan-ted later. The
plants also grow more slowly, are
shorter, and bear their ears lower.
Neither the extremely early nor the
very late plantings are desirable.
The department investigations
reviewed indicate that the best
number of days from emergence to
yields of grain may be expected
from the early seedings and the most
rapid development and greatest
growth from the later seediugs.
These are commonly observed effects
of the date of planting.
Studies recently have been made
by the United States Department oi
'Agricultureat the Arlington Experi—

‘mcntal Farm near Washington, 11

0.. in order to obtain data which
would; "supplement that obtained
earlier at the various state experi-
ment stations. Numerous experi-
ments have, been conducted by the
date agricultural experiment sta-
tions to determine the inﬂuence of
the different dates of planting on
corn ﬁelds. The state experiments
were directed more to a study of the

' effects upon growth and development

than to ietermining the! most de-
sir his} date of planting from the
standpoint of yield. The results of
‘these studies, which extended over
a ﬁve-year period, are , presented in

  

Dormant 3.
y.  t. on;

own Ne zine; 

Corn. byE.B.BrownandH. S. G?
rison, which may be had upon ap—
plication to the department.

The varieties of corn used in the
experiments cover _a wide range in
the length of the growing season re-
quired. The data tabulated is lim-
ited to the characters that seem to
have been consistently ailected, al—
though the points studied included

ripening. the height of stalks, the‘

number of ears per plant, the aver-
age weight of cars, the average yield
per plant. and the number of suckers.

In all the experiments the germi-
nation oi corn increased in rapidity
as the date of seeding occurred later.
When sown early the short-season.
northern varieties came up sooner
than the varieties from the central
and southern states. When sown
later the differences in this respect
were not usually apparent.

The total grewth o! stalk was
greatest from the seedings in June
and May. The total, growth was
least and rate of gf'owth slowest
from the April seedings. Develop—
ment was more rapid in the later
than in the earlier seedings. ' ,

Thenumberofemperstalhthe
size of the ear. and the amount of
sucker-mg bore no consistent rela-
tion to the date of seeding. The pol-
lenshodding- period was longer in
plants from the early seedings than
in those .from the later seedings.
Seeding: earlier than normal result-
ed in slight gains in the date of silk-
ins.~ ‘ —

These experiments corroborate‘the
conclusions of the state experiment
stations, that com may be planted
in the vicinity or . washington and
other localities with a similar sea-.-
son.’ any time after Kay .1. without

  

 

danger themed rotting-g  best ,

can   1" .,  “319

The adverse'

'companied- the announcement.  L

" ‘l gh Ignorance at acted
conditions; the 2 statement is tro-
qaenulymedo that domestic wool is:
not  for  manufacture of
the better  at more wear.

' This is-uufouaded: domestic wool

twmwaeuedpurmhuvaluo.
amufordnand'inmanyinstsi-
oeepmterabla ‘ *

“The wool growers are not pooh»
log W the term to hope“ I.
mama burden on the consent.
public in the way of increased costs
of dnished'products but are seeking
to wince their industry in a position
whereby production oan-be main.
tamed. wool is one. of the most
needed commodities and one of‘
m we produce approximately
46 per cent 0! our own consumption.
For the 10-year period of 1910 to
1930 the domestic wool production
of the United States has decreased
1.800.000 pounds annually.

"'Ilhe principles upon which the
moi pooling is ﬂmmded are econ-
omy and eﬁidiensce in distribution.
mus seeming to beneﬁt 'tioﬁh the pro-
dmeer and the consumer.”

RAILROAD REDUCES RATES ON
FEEDER CATTLE

EDUCED rate on inbound cab-

iile and sheep for feeding and

grazing to all points north of.

Bay City mom Chicago- rbecome ef-

fective an the Michigan Central

.Bmilmtsd April let. A new (blanket

rate has“ been eebaﬂilhhed which.
with the present temporary rodeo--
tions on farm products, gives a
rate of 80 cents per hmrmdred pounds
on inbound livestock in cai‘l‘oaad lots.

Farmers taking advantage of the

new rate and the temporary redun-

tions will be beneﬁted by saving
reusing from $9.00 to $20.00 per
car on their grading stool: nor us.
coming seaeon.

Sheep in double deck; cars will
carry the same rate as cattle:
eheeplneingﬂedeckmrstako, until!
June some. a 38 cents per cwt. rate.

Shipper using this rate must give
a certificate to the effect that cattle
and sheep so shipped are intended
for feeding and not for slaughter.

'llhe Michigan Central! is taking
this mums of further aiding the de-
velopment of the cattle industry in
Northeastern Michigan. ‘

GRAIN GROWERS’ SALES 00M-
PANY INCORPORATE
CORPORATION of the U. L
Grain Growers Sales Company, a
grain, marketing subsidiary of
the U. ,8“ Grain Growers, Inc., Which
will immediately make arrange-
ment to open its doors for business
in theChicago, Kansas City. Omaha.
Indianapolis and Minneapolis mar-
kets, has been announced by the ct.-
neers of the U. 8. Grain Growers.
Inc. The company expects to be hv
position to handle grain at a very
early date, the oﬂcials said. The
volume of business already control»-
ed with the U. 8. Grain Growers w
its membership will make the II.)-
sldiary organization the largest
grain‘sclling ﬁrm in‘ the world.

.All grain contracted with the U.
3. Grain 'Growers, Inc., by 60.0..
farmers in the mid—west to date. re-
presenting a bushelage in excess d
110,000,000 to be marketed eaa

year, will be handled through the

subsidiary selling company. More-
over. the present rate of member-
ship increase is around 2,000 ad-
ditional farmer members each week.
resulting from organization activi-
ties. thereby adding more than 4.,-
000.0‘00 bushels contracted with the
farmers organization each six day
period.‘

“The U. - 8. Grain Growers Sela
Company will be able to engage in a
general grain business and perform
all the functions of grain ﬁrms in
the terminal markets at the present
time,” according to a statement
made by President (1 E. Gustaf“
and Secretary Eran): M. Meyer: 1’
the taxman-9' company, which 

incorporation of the selling comp
sets ups-separate and y 
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dollars per ton is the muniﬂcent offer of

the Owosso Sugar Company for 1922 beets.

This is the lowest beet price since 1914. The

Question is, “can. the farmer and will the farmer
grow beets for $5 per ton?”

In all the beet growing districts farmers are
saying, “no beets for me,” but they have said
that so many times before and then changed
their minds 30 days before planting time that it
is impossible to know if. they are sincere this
time. The acid test usually comes near the close
of the contractrseason when the choice must be
made between beets and some other crop.

The Owos30 contract prOvides for; the same
increase in rates in case of higher sugar prices
as in former contracts, that is the company re-
‘ serves to itself $1.50 or thereabouts of the in-

}  crease and gives the farmer $1..
H The failure of Congress to settle the sugar
tariﬂ question has complicated the situation this

year and made it well nigh impossible for either

gree of. certainty upon the coming season's oper-
ations. The $5 minimum protects the

farmers or manufacturers to ﬁgure with any de— I

‘ V ' Sn ar‘ Companies ' .Oiier “$5 . Per Ten fer Beet
' Owosso Concern irst in the Field .mith 1922 Contracts at Lowest Price in Several Years ' 

“As spring and the beet‘planting season ap- -

proaches and the great readjustment continues
on to its conclusion,» Mariner and the beet—grow-
er must soon decide on his plans for next year.
The success or failure of himself and to a large
extent that of all business will depend largely
upon the Wisdom of the plans of the farmer and
it stands out as a plain fact that this year above
all others the farmer and grower should deter-
mine his plans and policies and contracts and
not leave these matters so entirely in the hands
of those who speculate and handle his crops
from producer to consumer. First the farmer has
‘more invested per acre, per bushel, or per ton in
crops sold than ever before especially before the
war. Second, the farmer has more borrowed
money than ever before (some authorities place
it as high as an increase of 300 per cent more
than before the war) and third, the cost of all
materials, labor, farm suppl"‘s will be from 25
to 250 per cent higher than before the war. Tax—
es will be as high as last year if not higher.
Therefore it must now be plain thatthis year the
farmer and beet grower in making contracts for
the sale and production of crops this year must
not be bluffed into contracts and obligations

where he takes 75 to 100 per cent of the chances

  
  
   
   
   
  
  
  
    
   
 
    
   
 
  
 
    
  

 

by promises of some rosy conditions in the future V

“Let us ﬁrst'consider the 1922 contract‘for
beets. It is a demonstrated fact that the only}
contract that can be considered by either factory ‘
or grower is a fair sliding scale contract and on
top of this the condition in the world at this
time point cleanly that all imported sugar must
have a traiff of at least 2 cents per pound or the
beet business in- Michigan will become a dead
thing in a very short time and when that time
comes you can leave it to the importers of raw
sugar to ﬁx the price good and high for the
Amencan consumer. I only need to call atten-
tion to the demands of the'Cuban producers (in,
which around a billion dollars is now invested) 1
during the last war when they ran the price of a
raw up to 221—2 cents as a sample of what they-.
will do when competition is killed or the opporr
tunity presents itself.» It seems to me that the-
interests of the farmer, the banker, the merch- .
ants of small towns, all manufacturers and '
especially all consumers of sugar demands that
the domestic production of beet sugar be saved,
and saved for this year 1922. To my mind there
are two necessary things needed to save the in-ﬂl
dustry. First, an adequte tariff and second and f
above all, a fair sliding scale contract from which
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I manufacturer in any conceivable sit—
uation that may arise, and if the su-
gl gar tariff is ﬁxed at 2 cents per pound
.lt will insure very satisfactory proﬁts
for the manufacturers and perhaps
make the farmers' loss a little less.
By their failure to sit, down with
the farmer and discuss the situation
frankly and honestly the manufact-
urers) are inviting disaster to them-
selves. In former years they have
bluﬂed the farmers into signing con—
tracts. But the- farmers are .wise to
their tactics" and need no encourage-
mqgt now to turn to other crops. The
factories cann'ot run without beets
' and it begins to look as if some of
them will not'operate the coming sea-
son. The factories could be assured
“of a fair acreage if they would only
come down off their perch and accede
to the farmers’ demands for recogni-
tion and a 50-50 contract. ‘
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tract C. E. Ackerinan of Durand
writes the M. B. F. as follows:

on sour soil. Sour or acid soil can be
sweetened by spreading lime. The practice of
spreading lime has been recognized by authori-
ties everywhere as extremely valuable in im-
proving the soil and in increasing crop produc-
tion.
Limestone also does more than correct sour
soil conditions. It releases for the growing plant

WEEDS are the only'pllants which will thrive

the plant food ‘Which would be otherwise held by ,

the soil; it increases the availability of fertiliz-
ers such as phosphates, potash, nitrogen, ma-
nure; it also assists in holding and conserving
moisture in the soil. ‘ ‘ .

Although other fertilizing elements may be
added to the soil, their value is worthless unless
they are made available for the plants. Lime-
stone, because of its chemical action, breaks
down the compounds of ammonia, phosphorus and
potasium of manures and commercial fertilizers
and makes them availableas plant food.

The production of maximum crops is depend- ‘

ent upon (the presence in the soil of all the neces-
sary plant foods. Lack of one vital, element
may render the presence of the other fertilizer
useless'r‘a‘s far as beneﬁcial 'crop results are 'con-
cerned. . . I 4_ v . . 
' Limestone has the, peculiar nature 50f bene-
' nil “making usable bath heavy clay land,
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THE SUN IS SHINING AGAIN

Yen Must Feed Your Land if You Want Your Land to Feed You

The heavy clay soil, with its compact struc-
ture, shuts off the capillary action of the soil
moisture and [it does not reach the planrts.
Limestone breaks up this compact clay soil, per-
mits greater air circulation and increases capil-
lary action. ‘

‘ Sandy land is just the opposite. It is so loose
that the soil particles are too far apart and the
capillary water cannot traverse from one par-
ticle to the other. Limestone in sandy soil
causes’the ‘decay of plant food, which in turn
increases capillary action. Tests made at ex—
perimental stations have proven that in dry
weather sandy soil to which limestone had
been added carried the growing crops through
the drought. Unilimed sandy soil had a com-
plete crop failure.

One indication of the need for lime in the soil
is the failure of clover, alfalfa and other legumes
to grow. These crops cannot exist without lime.

. Every farmer knows that clover and alfalfa are

valuable in order to inoculate the soil with nitro—
gen, therefore the ﬁrst essential is a sweet soil,
improved with. lime in order to obtain these
valuable crops.

-Manure and commercial fertilizers will not re-'
store sick, sour soil; The- only crops this kind
of soil will raise are sorrel]; red top,‘plantain,
sedge, mullen and; Spanish needles. As said be-

, fore, thesecrops' are not proﬁtable.‘

.The mostfeommonand usually the most in-

'1imestone used on the application.

' litmus test, if the soil needs lime.
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benefits of such tariff and proﬁts
from the price of sugar what ever
they may be. Now we come to the
point, what is a fair sliding scale con-
tract for beets? Surely not the one,
oﬁered by the Michigan factories in
the past. If any groWer will take his
last year’s contract it will be found '
that from 6 cent sugar to 7 cent sugar
there is an advance of $1.50 in the
price paid for beets and from 8 cent
sugar to 9 cent sugar there is an ad- '
vance of only $1.00 per ton. Here
is where I base my contention that
if there should be any benefits from
a trariﬁ and the price advances to
where the grower could afford to raise I .
beets the factories would grab off 75
to 80 per ‘cent of such beneﬁts and _
proﬁts to themselves, and forms the}
basis for the contentions of those
who are not in favor of a tariff’ that
a tariff only takes the money out of
the consumer’s pockets and places it
in the hands of the trust and not in
the hands of the farmers who it must
be conceeded are now representing
the ‘infant’ industry.

“In looking over the reports of the

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"fallible test to denote a sour soil is the litmus
paper test. Obtain from any drug store a few '
strips of blue litmus rapr. Moisten the soil to
be tested with some rain water. Roll the soil .-
in a little ball and insert one of the strips of
litmus paper. Be careful not to touch the paper "
with the hands if they are wet or moist 'With
perspiration. After the strip of litmus paper is
in the soil for ten minutes, remove it and observe '
the color of the paper. If it has turned red' or ’.
pink, it denotes acidity and the soil needs lime. V

Growing plants themselves give oﬂ acid sub-
stances from their roots. Sometimes this acid
is given off in such quantities that it has a poison-v“,
ous effect on the very plants from which they;
come, as well as are responsible for ‘sourness. ’1
Proper drainage is necessary when these con—
ditions exist, as well as the conditions of lime.
Even after the excess water is drained from the
soil, there remains a quantity of acid which must
be neutralized by limestone. '

The average, increase of crops from liming?“
84.3 per cent in certain districts. This is a re-
turn of $2.29 for every dollar invested in
No farm
should pass up the beneﬂrts that accrue ’_
spreading lime. It is easy to determine, by
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aid'of distributors which‘can be attacheduto
farm. wagon by merely removing the end

  
    

 

 


 
  

fHE‘best thing to do with apple, cherry and.
 I other fruit trees which have their branches
broken down or split and injured by snow ,and
.ice,'is ﬁrst, to give them a very careful pruning,
-and second to use, as far as possible, methods
of tree surgery to enable them to ‘repair and out-
grow the injury. This damage being done just
 ahead of the spring pruning season gives an op—
 ..portunlty to do the pruning and repair work
before the advent of warm weather and before

   
 
  
   
 
   
   
 
  
 
  
  
 
  
 
   
  
    
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
 
   
   
   
   
  
  
 
  
 
  
   
   
    
 
  
   
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
 
  
   
  
     
 
 
  
  
  
  
 
  
   
  
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
  
   

_.«- in the wounds and scars.

’ The pruning of an injured fruit tree with part
of its branches broken out requires more cutting
and more skillful pruning than an ordinary nor-
mal tree. Each tree presents more or less an' in-
dividual problem, depending on how_severely it

‘ is injured. When one side of Ithe tree has been
badly smashed, the other side may require more\
than normal heading back to attempt to balance
the future 'top, at least eventually. Sometimes
long, slender branches, have escaped, and these
likewise require more heading back, and this

V, may be needed a second and third year before
the top of the tree can be shaped into anything
like the normal. Water sprouts on the stubs of
'branches which in ordinary pruning would be
removed, should be mostly left on an injured
tree. Individual water sprouts properly located

, to form new branches may be selected, headed

,back slightly if too long, and encouraged to
grow into new limbs. Stubs from six inches to a
foot or more in length should not usually be
sawed off on these crippled trees if they are in
the right location for future framework branches.
The ragged ends should be neatly sawed or

. smoothed with a knife and the stub left to throw
a mass of sprouts, as it usually will do if the top
has been pretty generally taken out or removed
by breaking and pruning.

Dehorning or pruning the main branches back
to stubs is often purposely practised by orchar-
dists to renew the top, and essentially the same
methods can be applied in part, even «though the
dehorning is fdrced in this case. Whenever
there are any small spurs or branches on the re-
maining stubs, they should be left to get out new
twig growth promptly.

While abnormally slender, high branches or

in to balance up the tree, it is well to leave as
much as possible of the top-and not try to do all
the balancing up and heading back in a single
year. It will take at least three years to build
a «new head on a ten-year apple tree which has
been badly broken up. In an apple tree with a
badly smashed top, let all or nearly all the
sprouts grow the ﬁrst year so as to get out as

4’ Sudan grass? Could someone tell their experience
with. it? Am thinking about putting in 9 acres this
summer but would like to know something about it,
whether all stock will eat it or not.——I_ Z., Vicks-
burg, Mich.

‘ ‘ UDAN grass is a high yielding, quick growing
‘ annual crop valuablejor both hay and pas-
ture. 'As a hay crop it has a little greater feed—
ing value than timothy and when a temporary
-pas.ture is needed Sudan is practically the only
. cropxthat can be sown during May and furnish
rabundant pasturage during July and August,
when Kentucky blue grass or June grass is in
the resting stage.

All classes of livestock do well on Sudan grass
pasture. On the Woodbury Farm at the Michi-
gan Agricultural Experimental Station, Sudan
grass was SOWn on light sandy loam soil May
the twentieth. The ﬁeld furnished pasture
trom the. middle of June until the ﬁrst of Oc-
tober at the rate of two head of horses per
acre. Sudan grass being related to the sorghums
is just sweet enough to be quite palatable. ‘ ‘

The question is sometimes asked whether
Sudan grass is ever poisonous. 'The United'

,States Department of Agriculturereports that
only three authentic. cases are known. Caution
':should be exercised in pasturing Sudan that has
Y en severely injured by drought or frost, since
. \ contain
 c acid to cause poisoning. Thousands of

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the wood rot fungi can enter or seriously spread I

extra long lateral branches may require heading‘

Will you let me know through your paper about‘

sufﬁcient '

Sudan grass are pastured- yearly. in: the .
' totes «and since only three . ' authentic ’
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U. S.- Dep'artment ' of ' Agriculture
‘ has again demonstrated its great use-
fulness to the farmers by issuing
complete information on how to repair -»
fruit and shade. trees damaged in the
great ice storm whichwﬁeoked many or-
chards in Michigan and Wisconsin the
Week before last. This information is
given in the accompanying article- Or-
chardists who follow the instructions care-
fully will be able to repair a good deal '-
of the damage which has been done:-
Editor. ' ‘ '

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much new foliage as possible and preperly feed
the root system of the tree. '
Such broken trees need special extra pruning
for at least two or three years after the damage
is done. A new head in part or whole has to be
rebuilt on the tree. During the second year,
certain sprouts properly located, and if possible
the strongest should be selected for main frame-
work limbs, headed back to a reasonable height

. to make them fork out and their near-by compe—

titors either Cut Out entirely or temporarily
headed back to a lower level perhaps to be re—
moved later. The proper number of main frame-
work branches is made, the trees are likely to
grow too thick and bushy. In the same way the
branches which were left after the original dam—

age may be gradually cut back and thinned out '
until they fairly well balance up with the new.
~branches.

TREE SURGERY RIETHODS SUGGESTED

Trees with split forks or large wounds made
by branches being broken out, tearing and strip—
ping of "bark and wood from the main branch
or main trunk, and trees with their tops smashed
down beyond recovery present problems of tree
surgery not covered by ordinary or extraordin-
ary pruning. Each case requires more or less
special treatment. A few types of repair w
may be mentioned: <3

Young fruit trees under six‘ years of age, or
even older when they are not more than three
or four inches in diameter, which have their
whole top broken out and perhaps split at the
main forks, can often be brought back into good
shape by sawingoﬁ the trunk at the highest
available point,.at an angle of about 45 degrees,
even though this leaves a trunk not more than
six inches high, and the cut end painted. Apple
trees, especially, will sprout very profusely if
the root system and trunk are sound and all the
sprouts should be allowed to grow until the long-
est are a foot or eighteen inches in height.
late spring one of the best located sprouts

By C. R. ME’GEE

Research Associate in Farm Crops, M, A. C.

 

Average Composition of Bay Made From Sudan
and Other Grasses and Legumes and of
Corn and Sorghum Fodder

 

Average Constitutcnts

 

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'g g 3 '33 gag :5;
o a 2 Ea 332M 5%
Fa <1 h Oh Zhﬁ {Elli}

Hay ‘

Sudan grass . . . . . ..8:6 10:2 29:9 .49:9 1:8
_ Johnson grass . . . 7:7 9:0 32:6 47-7 3:0
Timothy . . . . . . . .. 6:2 ‘ 7:8 82:3 50:6 23:1

Millet . . . . . . . . . .. 8:8 9:8 30:1 48:3 3:0

Alfalfa . . . . . . . . .. 9:7 17:4 29:6 40:5 22:8

Red clover . . . . .. 7:9 15:6 27:7 44:9 3:9

Cowpeas . . . . . . .. 14:3 19:4 22.7 40:5 8:1
Fodder

Corn . . . . . . . . . . .. 6:6 8:4 26:1 56:2 2:7

Sorghum . . . . . . .. 10:1 10:1 2814 49:4 2:0

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son andpart of the season was quite-‘droughty.
When out for hay Sudan has about the same
feeding value as timothy and the yield secured

"is usually greater than fromany other annual

crop adapted to Michigan conditions: The fol-

' lowing table shows. the relative yield of, Sudan h

grass as compared [with other annual crqpaover.
a periosgef‘three were ' " ‘   '  '

 
  

intensiﬁes naming)”; .. red  ,,

 
 
   
 

In‘

. millet in . this . state.

 

  
 

   

  

should then be selected  '

all the others should be  0L  ’

A second pinching may be done ‘a  later.
A year later the sproutselscted to'form than”!
trunk may be headed backimg‘iitiy at about 
point where the new head is «arugula an the

other sprouts trimmed off closely. At that time"

the stub should. be re-cut beginning from one-'1

half to an inch above the newlstem 
downward at an angle yet. 45 degrees from it.
This should then be painted and kept, covered

I until it is healed. With thfentire root system

behind'the newvtrunk, it will grow into a new
tree at a surprisingly rapid rate. ’
Essentially the same principles maybe applied
to growing new branches from' the‘stubs men-
tioned above in the top of the tree. A’ temporary
cut is first made just below thebranch and then
afterthe ﬁrst year's growth a permanent cut

just beyond a twig which is to make a future I

framework limb. Ig‘is not» often necessary in this
case to do summer pinching and it may ‘be de-
sirable in the later pruningto leave some of the
weaker lateral sprouts for future fruiting limbs
instead, of stripping them all'off as described
for training up a new trunk. Forks which have
split down and even bent over so that the
branches touch theground, but with the wood
and bark still intact and not too badly splint-
ered, can be pulled up with ropes and bolted
back into place, using one or more, bolts insert-

ed according to the usual tree surgery methods

described in Farmers’ Bulletin. 1178, ,“Tree Surg—
hery,” which, deals with the general problem of
repairing forest, shade and ornamental. trees.

This bulletin can be obtained free on application" 0

to the Division of Publications, Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. ',C.
desirable to prune back the tops more than nor-
mally of such supported branches for‘the first
year or two, and usually that means balancing
up/the whole tree by pruning the top to corres-
pond. Another premtion which will help great-
ly consists in supporting I these branches by
trong wires the size of ordinary fence or. clothes
'run across the inside of- 'the tree and
g in the center. The branches .can be

drawn together tightly and temporarily support?

ed by ropes placed around them while working
but the permanent Wires should  never: pass
around _a' branch. They should be inserted in
screw eyes, screwed ﬁrmly into the wood on the
~ inside of the branch with the eye left in a verti-
cal position. . ,
PROPER-METHOD OF TREATING WOUNDS
Ifkthe branches are broken down beyond re-
covery, hanging only by splintered wood and
bark, or in case of (Continued on page 17)

.Sudan Grass Valuable as a Temporary Pasture and Hay Crop

ricultural Experiment station are/as follows:

Three year average yield (1919 ’20 ’21) in

tons of air dry hay per acre: Sudan grass, 3.33;
Golden millet, 3.25; Japanese barnyard millet or
billion dollar grass, 3.22‘; Soy beans, 2.67; ‘Hun-
garian millet, 32.48; commbn millet, 1.94: oats
and vetch', 1.99; oats and peas, 1.78. ‘
Sudan grass does best when sown on a well
prepared corn soil about the middle of May at
the rate of from twenty to twenty-ﬁve pounds
of seed per acre. The ordinary grain drill set to
sow two pecks of wheat will sow approximately
twenty-ﬁve pounds of Sudan grass seed per acre.
In southern Michigan it may be poSsible'to secure
two cuttings of hay when the season is quite
favorable. ,Usuazlly, however, one crop of hay
and considerable second growth for either pas—
ture or plowing under is all that is secured.
The accompanying table from the United
States Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No.
981 show the relative composition of Sudan
grass, ; mi ’, timothy, alfalfa, red clover and
other grass and legumes. -.

It is especially ,

p.

Sudan grass is gradually taking the place of.

A few points of comparison
.ma-y be of interest. The yield secured.~from Su-
dan grass is usually higher than that from the

miners. Sudan grass is considered:.asafer‘ feed,

~ﬁhan  considerable more secondr‘growth
'15”; secured-Iron}; swan gross t to 1'
1.3  "

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 Snow” of the Yukon country 'which
James Oliver Curwood describes so graphic-

ally in his f‘Nomadslofgthe North," has found a‘
rival in the great blizzard and sleet storm-which ,

struck the upper half of the lowenpeninsulaon
Feb. 21st and raged without ceasing for three
" days,paralyzing trafﬁc, demolishing telephone
poles, stripping, trees, imprisoning ‘

like woven wire and" woven wire fences were
solid ice.’f Buildings werealso encased with the

ice and barn doors had to be cut open with axes.

Fruit. and shade trees were stripped of their
branchesas though with a pruning knife, and
now stand like naked poles‘bearing a marked
resemblance to the pictures we have seen of the _

 

farm_families and providing endless .
topics. for conversation and com-n
parison with great— storms of other
years._ For the past two weeks all
the “Old :Timers” of ,the district
have been wagging their heads and
saying, “I remember when, ”

‘ and then launching into stories of
other 'famous storms when they
were youngand delighted to tussle
with the blizzard. ’ .

The recent’ storm had many pe-
culiar and unusual characteristics.
From Howard 'City north to the
Grand Traverse region the atmos-

, pherical disturbance manifested it-
self in rain and sleet. ' Farther to

 

 

rails being so coated with ice that it
sibleto run trains over them. ’ I
I -Farming communities were entirely isolat d
for days. Farmers who [happened to hem to: I
when the storm began were obliged to remain?
until it was over.
travel was a comparatively easy matter asith‘

 

 

the" east where the temperature
was lower a hoWling blast piled
the snow in drifts six to ten feet
deep in many unprotected places.
Northwestern Michigan fought ice,.
‘n-ortheastern Michigan snow, and it was a gues-
tion which had the biggest ﬁght on its hands.
The damage from the snow storm was slight;
but the sleet wrought havoc‘which years cannot
repair. '

The ﬁne sleet clung to everything it struck.
Trees and telephone wires were coated so heav—
ily'with ice that in many instances they crashed
to the ground entailing enormous loss. Many
village streets and country highways were
blocked'with tangled masses of telephone wires,
“ shattered poles and branches. Some idea of the
weight of the mantle of ice may be gained from
the story that a piece of ordinary telephone wire
six feet long weighed with its crystal coating over
36 pounds. “Barbed wire fences were 'so coated
with ice,” writes.Wm. A. Jenkins,.one of M. B.
F.’s Wexford county reporters, “that they looked

Michigan Farm Boys
0 recount all of the splendid achievements
of the farm boys and girls of America in
their club projects would be‘a quite impossible
task, because they are so many. It is enough
to say that. thousands of boys and girls have
performed feats of .. production which have
astounded some of the older generation and will
(be the foundation stones.for successful farming
careers. Only one state in the uniOn exceeds
Michigan in the number of’boys‘ and girls on-
. rolled inclub‘projects. And-what they have
accomplished, in fruit'canned, corn, beans and.
potatoes grown, garments made, pure bred live-
stock raised, etc., is something truly :to marvel
.at. ' We have never seen it estimated but we
presume (that the number of quart cans of fruit
put up by Michigan club girls

Michigan.

Scene near Evart, Osceola. county, following worst sleet storm
Thousands of telephone poles in this and other
the ground by the weight of the ice.
Above photo submitted by Mrs,

coun'ties
Shade and fruit trees
Elizabeth Adams, M. B:
Osceola. county.

F:

devastated war areas of northern France. The
only thing which prevented irreparable damage
to the entire western fruit belt was the absence
of high winds. As many farmers. sorrowfully
looked upon their ruined orchards, many others
stood with abated breath and watched the
branches of (their fruit trees bend lower and Jow—
er, fearing every moment that a wind might set
them swaying and breaking. But in most of the
affected counties the rising temperature melted
the ice before any great damage was done. The
orchards of the Grand Traverse region suffered
little if any damage, but to the south and west
the lossswas great. ’

Railway, telephone, telegraph and electric
lighting companies suffered enormous losses.
Towns on the G. R. & I., (from Cadillac north
were without train service for over a. week, the

grinned from ear to ear as the judge steped up
and pinned the “blue” on (his calf in competition
with the calves of hoary-headed exhibitors.

MACOMB BOY GETS ‘LBANKERS’ CUP

One of the proudest boys in Michigan today
lives just a little way from the Business Farm-
er ofﬁce.- His name is Quentin Friedhoff, of
Warren, Mich. And he’s proud because just a
short time ago State Club Leader Ray Turner
stopped at the Friedhoff farm home and left in
Quentin’s arms the big beautiful loving cup which
the State Bankers’ Association offers each year
to the state club winner in corn growing projects.
This is the second time the cup has come to Ma-
comb county.

Quentin produced 73 bushels of corn from a

 

in history of northern
were laid to
also suﬂered severely.
crop reporter for

chores on snow shoes and some cross country
travel was done on skis.

M. B. F. REPORTERS DESCRIBE STORM

Various descriptions of the storm are given
by Business Farmer reporters.
ton, secretary of the Grand Traverse county farm
bureau, writes as follows: 7 '

“The storm set in on Tuesday evening as a.
snow‘ storm and continued throughout Wednes—
day as such until about 9 p. In.
like little pellets.

ing in sand.

sugar, and fell to a depth of about 8 inches. The

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But after the storm was eyes

snow was so heavily crustedrgth
it was possible to drive teams our,
it almost anywhere. ‘ A

EAST GETS SNOW

The central and eastern sections";
of northern Michigan escaped the
destructive sleet storm but wrestl- ‘
ed for days with the worst snow,"
storm in their history. At Alps/ha:
the total fall of snow during;the 
three days measured every 1—57“?
inches while in many sectionsthe ;;
snow drifted so high on street
corners that persons in adjoining ,
business places could not see over,
them. For several days all traﬂic
on highways and railways wer dis-
continued; mail carriers Were un-
able to travel their routes; schools
and business
was at pretty much of a standstill.
Farmers were obliged to do their

Dr. J. P. Hous- 7'

The snow fell
Walking in it was like walk-
It looked like coarse granulated

character of the precipitation changed from time
to time, from snow to sleet and then to rain and‘
back again to sleet and snow. Everything was '

covered with ice two inches thick. The tempera-

ture changed rapidly dropping to zero the se-
COl'ld day Of the storm (Continued on page 16)

Show Father a Thing or Two about F arming

half acre‘ at a total cost of $23.60. His cost
items included plowing, harrowing, spading. ma-
nuring, ($2.10); hoeing, ($1.60); planting
(his own labor, 25c); cultivating, (his own la-
bor, 800); gathering corn, ($2.20); rent of land
($2.50); fertilizer, (172 lbs, $2.90); manure, (4
loads, $8.75); cost of seed, ($2.50). The total
value of the seed and common corn produced
from the half acre was $56.45 and the value of
the fodder was $17.28. The actual proﬁt on the
half acre was $50.13. ‘

“HOW I MADE MY CROP OF CORN” '

Quentin describes his corn growing ventureas
follows:

“During my last term of Club Work (Corn Club) I v
failed to take anything in the line of prizes which
gave me a great determination to win ‘
something this yar, just to show the ~
other boys that I could grow. corn.

 

would, if laid end to end,rencircle
the earth several times or there-

  
 
 
  

 

 

 

abouts, that the corn, beans, po-
tatoes and live stock produced.
would feed a large city for a long
period of time, and that the gar-
.ments made would clothe all the
naked,little children of Armenia.
This may be slightly exaggerated,
yet really the totall result is en-
ormous, _

Moreover, what some of these .
farm boys have done from avery .' ‘
small, beginning has made. their
dad's just a ‘littlebit jealous‘ot
their own ‘reputation as'farmers.‘
'No‘ mere farmer. can produce
140 bushels of'nornﬂ-or 700 bush- _‘
els, of potatoes or 50 bushelsaof 
beans tetheacre’, or” take a little;
rum; 0: a pig or a wobbly logged,
“calf  Ed" make ~ fit‘ 5 into. a'ﬂState
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“I had my half acre plat plowed
V  , and harrowed early in the spring.
"  f  '-.. I had put barnyard manure and Q0qu

 ’ ' ‘ mercial fertilizer in the soil in order
to make a better yield. ‘ '

“I bought a peek of pedigreed
Picketts Yellow Dent corn and plant-
ed it the 21st of May, Luck favored
me. and I did not have to replant. It
was not long before the fertilizers be-
gan to show on the com. I onlti!'_
vatcd my plat three times with a. ones
horse cultivator going twice in a: row

“The week before Boys’ and Girls’
Club Wer I got real industrious as
I was to have this week off and hoed
my corn, leaving it very nearly free
from weeds. Although I spent much. ,
.time among my corn I failed; to thin ‘
it out thus lessening the yield. ,. 

“I had a fairly good stand of corn 
of unusual growth for this variety7t.‘
of corn. I was quite proud of my-
but my pride fell through a.

terriﬁc wind and rain storm that 00-.
curre about a week later“ _
was (1 iven to the ground like
much rass. My plat being near t
house nabled the poultry to get tit
share of the corn, thus damagin v
to a. great extent, -  l, . .
“Early inothe fall the corn 1)
ripen and as our school was 1.8.
'late in starting'I cut-and huske ,,
corn. 1, was much surprised as
as elated to ﬁnd that my plat
ed me 73 bushels of corn. Ir
‘ out 8 bushels of ,seed corn w;
cougty iagent promised t ‘5

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BUN'F‘LOWERS FOR SILAGE
 interested in the growing of sun-
ers for silage, Would it be adv‘ "‘
a t about one-third sunﬂowers and
mo corn in the same row or would

aim and one row, of sunflowers? How
much sunﬂower seed must be sown per
 also what effect has frost on them
" lanting time? Do you knew where
' can be secured?———H. B,. Michigan.
In the majority of Upper Peninsu-
hr counties sunﬂowers give better
results than corn while in the Lower.
{Peninsular sunﬂowers are advisable
Only on unlock soils that are frosty,
and occasionally on droughty, infert-
ﬁe so’il‘s.’ On land that will pro-
duce good" corn, it has not yet been
QW'mat- sunﬂowers are a compet—
’ tor. . '

‘In planting sunﬂowers and corn
ixed it is-usual to plant two quarts
corn, mixing the seed thoroughly.
Whn planting allone from four to
six quarts of sunﬂower seed is nec-
essary. The Russian variety gives
, best yield. Seed can be secured from
 the Farm Bureau Seed Department,
Lansing, Mich., and the S. M. Isbell
Seed Company ofJackson, Mich.
The sunﬂower is very resistant to
trust and Will thrive at an Optimum
growing temperature which averages
at last ten degrees below the best
temperature for corn—J. F. Cox,
Professor of Farm Crops, M. A. C.

 

WHERE ARE YOU JOHN?

- I would like to have you help me
locate through your Farmers Service
Bureau or give any information con-
' cerning the whereabouts of Joe Har-
Wmon. He was last heard from in
. 1909. ‘The winter of 1908 he work-
,~ed in a logging camp near Cadillac
had in the spring word was received
"that he was on his way to the south
{place not known). He was all; that
time in Kalamazoo. He is thought
 a brother in Caledonia, Mich.
 name is not known. Any in-
!os‘mation through these columns
11 be greatly appreciated—J. IL.
Lake Odessa, Mich. ‘

EFFECT OF CHANGE IN OCCUPA-
TION DEPENDS ON POLICY

In the year 1908 Mr. of
max took out a policy for $400 in the
Fidelity Health and Accident 00.. of
Benton Harbor, At that time/he was in
the grocery business in Climax. ms
monthly premium was $1.35. In about
8 years he went out of the grocery busi-
ess and went to draylng and farming.
ntil last fall he was hit and
train While crossing track with his car.
The insurance company sent their agent
to settle with his wife who told her as
ballad changed is occupation and had
at notiﬁed them, he could only allow
or $200 on the policy. She thinking half
a. leaf better than none. accepted it and
vs up the policy He had always paid
premiums to ir agent at ax
. had never said anything about hhn

rill than
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C.. Scotts, M
v I could not advise you as to the
‘Iinbility of the company, without a
copy of the by-laws of the company
:or whatever regulations were in
one at the time you took out the
policy. The general rule is that if
u change of occupation does not in-
crease the hazard it does not rer-
‘teit all or any portion of the policy.
:-’ ,ILthe regulations require that the
' finsured shall notify the company of
any change then he would be bound
by such regulation—Legal Editor.

TEST SOIL FOR LIME NEEDS

Can you please tell me how to test
calls to determine whether they need
lune or non—L, W. F., Leslie, Mich.
” There are several tests for lime
 of a soil that a farmer can
‘ e at his home. The standard
"no is the use, of litmus paper and
isténing the soil with either rain-
, or distiﬂled water which .may
obtained from a drug store or
._ ,0. In making this test the lit»-
no paper should be carefully plac-
' in the soil and the water poured
this soil in suﬁicient quantity
croughly moisten it. The paper
id: remain in contact with tho

  
  
   
 
  
 
  
 
  
  
 
    
 
  

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betterto plant them two rows of

' taxes,

a about 10 minutes. ,‘pUpon remarr'
‘“ the blue . litmus paper has.

1 that the coil is, deﬁcient .,

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oil " lei

Department for farmers’ everw day troubles. Prompt, careful attention elven to
to or "quests for information udrtuod' to this w

 

department hero to serve

comp n _ _ o are
YOQ“AII Inquiries must be accompanied by full name and address. Name not used If so requested)

 

, tact with it. If acid the blue color

will change to pink.

'As a general] proposition it is
better for the farmer to send his
sample of soil to the county agent
or to the Agricultural College and
have it tested—M. M. McCool, Pro-
fessor of Soils, M. A. C.

EXEMPTION FROM- TAXATION

I served sixteen men-ms in the World
taxes on my land during
I am told that
World War veterans are exempted from
Is this true?—G. F., Millersburg.

Mich.
Can I get. exempted on 80 acres of wild
land which I bought last spring and built

 

a house on and a stable and cleared 12-.

acres. Our. supervisor says everybody has
to pay taxes, What is the law?—Wm.
D., Millersburg.‘ Mich.

World War veterans are not ex-
elnpt from taxation as such. If they
own cut-over land, they may be ex—
empt as described below or if they
have a wood-lot on their farms it
may be exempt from taxation under
certain condition.

Mr. D., you'can tell your super-
visor that he has another guess com-
ing.
are entiled to exemption from taxes
for ﬁve years. The law is as fol—
lows: ‘

No. 208. AN ACT to exempt certain
cut-over and wild lands from taxation
in certain cases. _ -

Section 1, Hereafter any {cut-over or
wild lands, as deﬁned herein. which shall
be actually purchased by any person inr
the purpose of making a. home. shall be
exempt from payment of all taxes for a
period of ﬁve years thereafter. Cut-over
and wild lands shall be construed to mean
any swamp land or land from which tim-
ber has been removed and no part of
which description claimed to be exempted
has ever been cultivated, The exemption
herein provided for shall not be operative
in any case, unless the purchaser, either
upon contract or otherwise, actually re-
sides upon and improves at least two
acres thereof each and every year of the
said ﬁve years in a manner to subject
the same to _ cultivation; PROVIDED.
That the exemption herein provided for
shall not extend to more than 80 acres
purchased to any one person.

Section 2, Any person claiming ex—
emptions under this act shall make appli-
cation to the supervisor for exemption
at the time assessment of the township
is made, and the supervisor shall enter
the person’s name upon the assessment
roll and the description of the land the
same as though taxes were to be spr
upon the land, and refer the application
to the board of review of the township,
who shall if the conditions entitling ex-
emption have been complied with. order
to be written after the description “EX-
empt under the cut—over and wild land
act, first year," and each subsequent year
thereafter if the conditions have been
complied with, but using second year,
third year, fourth year, ﬁfth year suc-
cessively, after which the land shall no
longer be exempt under this act.

Approved May 'I, 1913,.

STEP UP, ALL YOU LONELY
i BACHELORS

Mrs. R. E. B. is a lonely widow of
28 summers who wants to corre-
spond with some lonely bachelor or
widower. Name and address will be
given to all interested parties by ap-
plying to Editor, Business Farmer.

 

 

NO RIGHT TO TRESSPASS

I have a. small lake on my fann and
get into an argument every few days as
to whetlnrr I have the right to stop
people from crossing farm to get to
this lake. There is no road to the lake
and never has been one. Lake has inlet
and outlet naturally, Would like to
know the law regarding this—F. W.,
Elm Hall, Mich ‘

Persons have. no right to cross
your farm to reach the lake. Post
your farm against tressnassers and

have them arrested—Editor.

KUDZU vs. ALFALFA
What is Kudzu? Is it better than
ﬂfalfa?——~F. T, M., Metalmora. Mich.
Kudzu is a leguminous plant im—
from Japan, which makes a
viney bean like growth. This crop
has given excellent results for for—
age purposes in southern states but

'it has not been demonstrated as

yet that it is of much value in the
north.

Kudzuqaﬂed \ to mature in :‘ our
plats last year. Our stand was thin
due to a poor start madefrom the

roots which 'we secured from Flori-

 ls so  " ‘

Under the Michigan law you

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reported to have reached a length
of sixty feet under such conditions.
In the ﬁeld, Kudzu sends out long
runners which root at many points
sending up shoots from two to four
feet high. '

Kudzu roots can be secured from

' Mr. C. F. Leach, Manager of the,

Cherokee Farms, Monticello, Fla.—
ii  (80:, Professor of Farm Crops,

 

PROPERTY RIGHTS OF WIFE

I would like to know if. a. married
woman can buy a farm from a banker
and hold it herself is sho‘ gets «no deed
in her own name. If my husband cut
over a hundred cords of wood from my
for clearing
where he from? He sold
the wood for a dollar and 50 cents a
cord. Is there any way he can hold a
claim on my far-mi V‘rs. '1. B. K..
W-hittemore, R. 2, ls. .l.

A married woman has the right
to purchase a farm and take the
title in her name. Unless she
agrees to pay some price to the hus—
band for cutting the wood and he
had the proceeds from the sale of
the wood, she would not be liable to
her husband for the price of the cut-
ting. There would be no way he
could hold the wife’s land for such
a claim.——Legal Editor.

HOW MUCH WE CAN I MAKE?

Will you please tell us what the law
is regarding the making of grape wine?
How much does the law allow one man
to make? Can he give it away by the
gallon jug full? If a man knows of anoth-
ormanmakingmorethanthelawal—
lows and giving it away (if that is pro-
hibited) and does not report it Whalt is
the penalty of the law for him?-——Pu.zzled,
Van Buran County. Mich~

The Volstead act does not permit
anyone to make or possess wine, or
other beverage containing more than
one—half of one per cent alcoholl.
You can make all the wine you wish
it it contains less than that much
alcohol. Violations of this law
should be reporbd (to the State De-
partment of Public Safety, Lansing,
Mich—Editor.

 

“BELL” TELEPHONE CO.
Will you please give me the address

of the head man of the Bell Telephortlio

00.? I know of several places to

but I want only the headquarters or
nothing, It is important that my letter
should reach the right man for it means
much to me if it gets in the wrong place.
——Regula.r Subscriber.

The next time, “Regular Subscrib-
er”, you must give us your name
and address, Otherwise we can’t
give you -the information. You
probably refer to either the Ameri-
can Telephone & Telegraph Co., at
15 Dye St., New York, or the Michi-
gan State Telephone Co., 1365 Cass
Ave., Detroit. Both are erroneously
called the “Bell’” Telephone 00.
Mr. Frahz Kuhn, formerly a mem-
ber of the supreme court, is new
president of the latter company. —
Editor.

PERSONAL PROPERTY CAN BE

SEIZED FOR TAXES
Will you kindly inform me if they can
sell your personal property to collect
tax on land, and if so if thislaw would
apply to party burying under land con-
tract—A Subscriber, Azalia, Mich.

Section 4043 C. L. provides that
if any person, ﬁrm or corporation
shall neglect or requo to pay any
tax assessed to him or them the
township or city treasurer, as the
case may he, shall collect the same
by seizing the personal property of
such person, ﬁrm or corporation. No
personal property is exempt from
seizure by the ﬂoors to compel the
peyment of taxes—Legal Editor.

 

    
 

RURALMAILVICE
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’ My wife has a diploma. sequred in Illi-
nois. as a trained‘mldwito. ‘Would ‘dhc
be able to secure "a license in this state?
Must she pass an examhrathnl-f-A L.

Mich. ‘ >

This state has no law which pro-
vides for the licensing ofmidwives.
consequently your wife would not
be required to take any examination
in order to carry on her profesoio
in this state. I -
~ The law, however, provides that
midwives shall ﬁle berth Certiﬁcates
the same as physicians; also admin-
ister a prophylaxis to the eyes of the
newly born within one hour after
birth—Michigan, Department . of
Health.

 

SHADE TREES ON PUBLIC
HIGHWAYS '

~We are told that the new road law
forbids the land owner from trimming
a tree within 33 feet from the center
of the road, Withoutilrst obtaining per—
mission from the commissioner of his dis-
trict, Without which he is liable to ﬁne.
Is this one more step to rob the farmer
of his ‘constitutional rights or is it a
bluff of the fellows who draw their sal-
ary and wish to hold their jobs?——T. B..
Van Buren County, Mich.

'The law does not specify the dis-
tance from center of road at which
trees may be trimmed without per-
mission of the highway authmities.
It says “it shall be unlawful to out.
destroy or otherwise injure any
shade or ornamental tree or shrub
growing within the limits of any
public highway, without the consent
of the authorities." The law is not
aimed at those who have an appre-
ciation of the value of shade trees
but at those who don’t—Editor.

HOW TO KEEP HONEY

Please tell me how to keep honey over
winter without its sug'arlng,--——C. E. (1..
Mdllersburg, Mich.

Honey is best preserved from
granulation by storing it in a room
that is very warm, and dry.

I feel that I should call your at-
tention to the fact that‘granulation
is a normal phyical change in honey
regardless of where it may be kept.

Heat and. dryness simply put off the-

change as long as possible—B. F.
Kindig, Starts Apiarian.

 

FOR RENT OF TRACTOR

'i‘wo farmers, A and B, each own about
100 acres of land. One of these farm-
ers intends to buy a Fordson tractor
and the other farmer intends to rent
it to do some of his farm work, The
owner is to furnish the tractor and its
repairs only. The renter will pay the
going wages to ,the operator, if the rent-
er isn’t pennitted to operate it himself.
and also to furnish the fuel and oil that
the tractor uses while doing his farm
work. ‘ price should the owner
charge “the renter per acre ﬁrst for plow-
ing, second for discing. and third for
dragglng for the use of this tractor,

‘so that one farmer will not be out any

more than the other when the tractor is
worn out? The owner is to furnish the
plows, discs and drag. Of ’course these
ﬁgures will vary with different tractors
under different operators, but assmno
than you have an average Fordson trac-
tor with an average good man to open-
ate it_——H. W ., Newport. Mich.

   
 
   

»

I have used the following method ‘

if ﬁguring the costs on this equip-
ment and have selected ~ ﬁgures
which should be fairly representa—
tive.' However, if these do not ap-
ply in the community in which the
tractor is used, others can be sub-
stituted and the same method of ﬁg-
uring used. Starting with invest—
mentvof about $600 for tractor and
equipment the following calcula-
tions are made:

Interest ‘on investment at 6%.
$36.00 per year. ..

Depreciation based on 2,500 hours
or 250 days (life, of tractor) eq’uals
895 divided by 2,500 equals .158c
per hour. ‘ ’ , p '

Depreciation on equipment based,
on 10 years or life—205 divided by
10 equals $20.00 per year.

Since the tractor' is \used about
50 days per year and some 'of this

equipment is used «with the-tractor
practically .- of ' the time the -
depreciation. per hour for equipment ‘
would amount tug/$20 1 divided by 6500; '-

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,.  '-:.°“ll1" . 

r flees, say .10c 4pc:
_ é,  Overhead and .opere‘
9.111118“ . as then is 100 plus 19.86
equals "29.8 :‘or say 300 an hour,
which. would be a fair charge for the
use ,of tractor'and equipment loan.
.If fuel were estimated at 16 gallons
i per day at 14c a gallon_»and oil one
{gallon a day at 75c. pergallon the
« cost would amount to $31361? ,_10-,
hour day or 30c an heur. I 11333 a
day were all-owed for the roperator

then the total costs Would be$3 a '

day for equipment, $3 ,a‘day'for fuel
and oil and $3 a day for labor, mak-
' ing a total of $9‘ per day—total
costs not including an item for pro-
ﬁt. . . ' .

As we » have given these ﬁgures
it is easy to remember that about
1-3 of the cost goes for cest‘ of trac-
tor and equipment, 1-3 for fuel and
oil, and 1-3 for labor. .

Now, It would seem that the most
satisfactory arrangment which
could be made between ‘A and B
would be for A _to own the tractor
and charge B’for its use on the basis
of the above figures or a set of
ﬁgures arer wt in the same way.
In case the tractor and equipment
only is rented, then at least $3 per
day should bevcharg‘ed for its use.
In case, tractor, fuel and oil, and
labor are” furnished then $9 a day
should be? charged for its use.
It- would seem that charges when
put on a day or preferably an hour
basis Would be more satisfactory
than on an acre-basis. The work
plowing .and dragging varies so
greatly in hard ground in the sum—
mer that it would be worth twice as
much as in ground in ideal condition
for spring plowing.

If these ﬁgures do not seem to
meet local conditions as I have sug-
gested then taking into account, in-
vestment, depreciation, repairs, tax-
es, insurance, fuel and oil, and la-
bor, ﬁgures can be substituted which
the parties think are fair and a cost
arrived at.

_ Where we have investigated the
price for various kinds of work-We
ﬁnd that the pricefor plowing var-
ies from $1.50 to $2.50 per acre but
since practically all of our ﬁgures
are based on tractors at a higher
price they would not be worth much
.in making an estimate in this case.
-—H. H. Musselman, Professor of
Farm Mechanics, M. A. C.

 

SOWIN G HUBAM

I wish to sow Hubam clover on some
high ‘ land. This land contains much
limestone and is in a'very fertile condi-
tion at the present time. I would like
to know if the land should be limed in

for the seed to be a success, Would
it be best to seed with a grain amp and
$10310 what kind?~—-F. S. G., OnaWay,

It is not necessary to apply lime
in preparation for Hubam clover on
land that centains limestone where
clover ordinarily does well. On the
other hand, it must be kept in mind
that even land that was naturally
supplied with limestone becomes
acid. on the surface after several
generations of cultivation. Hubam is
a lime loving plant and under such .

 

 

Rule: free on reqth addressed to Horseshoe

 
 

HORSESI—IOE PITCHING

'1' l8 OUR OPINION that the farm family is as much entitled to healthy amusement as
city folks and that honeshee pltchlng I! Just ugoood

skill on golf or tennle. The Business rel-me l' is encouraging township, county and state-

wide championship game: to and e liehlqe n challenaer “for the national championship.

We invite oorreepondenoe from those interest ed and will send a copy of the National

Editor_ The Business Farmer. Mt. clemene_

,, 5 " ‘ war not the crop
“should «be .:::;s'eeded- with a grain
“owl”? depends upon the ~ use for
whichit; is intended. v-If mid-sum~
mer hay is desired Hubam should
bosseded without a companion crop
at the rate of from twelve to ﬁfteen
pounds. of seed per acre. on a clean,
Well relied seed bed. The seeding
should be made in April or early
May. If late summerand fall pas—
turage is desired br a cutting of hay
in the fall «the seeding may be made
with cats or barley. A lighter
planting of these crops than usual,
not more than one bushel per acre,
is advisable—J. F.'Cox, Professor
of Farm Crops, M. A. C.

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STATE REWARDS
- What is the‘ state reward on a gravel
road 20 feet wide and accepted by a
state inspector? We thing your paper
0. K. and hope we can get all our
neighbors to take it.——T, L. T., Genesee
County, Mich.

Please be advised that Section 10
of Chapter 5, paragraph B, of the
highway laws, provides that a gravel
road consisting of a traveled track
containing 8 inches of compact grav-
el shall merit a reward of 25% of
the cost of such road, but in no case
shall the reward exceed the sum of
$5,000 for each mile—Harry H.
Partlow, .Legal Advisor, State High-
way Department. _

ALFALFA KILLS THISTLES

Will alfalfa kill Canada thistles? If
not, what treatment would you recom-
mend aJid what cr0p would you plant
upon the land?—-J. A. B.. Owosso, Mich.

Establishing a stand of alfalfa is

 

 

 

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of Canada thistles. The several
cuttings given the alfalfa crop each
year and the crowding effect of the]
plants usually put an end to Canada
thistles in two or three years.

It may be necessary to lime your
land in order to prepare the way for
avgood stand of alfalfa. If clover
has not been catching well on it it
almost certainly needs lime.

4 Northern grown alfalfa seed
should be planted, preferably the
Grimm variety. Killing out with a
.good stand of alfalfa is the only way
that I know of Of getting rid of
Canada thistles at a proﬁt. Any
other way is a costly procedure.—
J. F. Cox, Professor of Farm Crops,
M.‘A. C. 

 

A NOT LIABLE TO C I

A let a contract to B (verbally) to
do the mason work for. his house, B
told A he would build him a ﬁreplace
(not in contract) if A would do a certain
amount of tending mason which A did.
When the time came to build ﬁre place
B hired C to help B build it_ New C
does not seem to be able to get his pay
from B and C says he will hold A for
his pay—Reader.

From your statement I am of the
opinion that C has no contract with
A ahd cannot hold him liable there-
fore. If, however, the steps to estab—
lish a mechanic’s lien for his sevices
have been complied with, it might
require knowledge of all of the facts
to. determine the liability—Legal
Editor.

 

 

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Horseshoe pitching is rapidly re—
turning to its position as one of the
leading national games. It is get-
ting so that even metropolitan dailies
report championship contests. The
horseshoe editor discovered in one of
these dailies recently afstqry on the
world's championship series which-
was pitched the other day, at St.
Petersburg, Fla. There were 32 con-
testants and in 'order that all might
I see, . a booster of the game built
v stands and charged no admission.
The 'man who came through the
series unbeaten and was proclamed
the national '. horseshoe pitching.

_ champion Charles C. Davis‘ef‘f
oetmbns.  This name méen’s 

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Missouri College of Agriculture the
latter part of January, a tournament
was played between the champions of
the Missouri Farm Bureau Federa-
tion and a picked team from the"
college. The following is an excerpt
from an article sent out to the press
by the college: . '

."Much interest has been created at the

college by _the Federation challenge and
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and Thursday...after¥1ycon‘s from 4 eto g:
with a possibllilg1 that the ﬁnals will be
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» ANOTHER VOICE PIPES .UP
ELL, Rube, you’ve got hit on

p ‘ the ivory just as I' thought you

would when you launched that

cram on women's clothes. It
is time
It sure warms the cockles 'of our
hearts to hear you speak a good
word for the ladies—God b’less g’em
—-but look out for that plain farmer
up in Ingham county. He seems to
have a. stout heart

wields a wicked pen.

took to the tall timber.

and he sure

The subject, “What shall women

wear," along with politics and prohi-
bition, ‘has been in
ever since the world
started it with her_ one-piece suit
and from that day to this the path
of history has been strewn with the
cast-off styles v” the finale of the

the spotlight
stood. Eve

specie. Puﬂfs, Lrills, ruffles, panha-

Ilets, crinolines, bustles, pull—backs,

sheath skirts, split skirts ad. lib.

After‘all this, if the ﬂapper wants
to wear the new “nothing at all” on
her lower extremities and almost as

much on her upper extremities, why,
so be it. And if the plain farmers
want to wear their. overalls “en rap-
port” or any other old way, so be
it also. Better so than to be
wrapped in the swaddling cloths of
prejud ea or the winding sheet of
self righteousness.

My dear Mr. "Plain Farmer,”
don’t think the world is going to de-
minition bow-wows because the girls
are rever‘ ng to ﬁrst principles. It
thine eye offend thee———etc. Turn your
back to the girls with the short
skirts and open your Good Book and
read therein—beginning with the
ﬁrst commandment—and the more
you read the less you will care
whether the ladies’ stockings are
rolled shamelessly just BELOW the
knee or tied decorously with a. stout
cotton string just ABOVE the knee.
If you thing the girl of today is net
sufﬁciently clothed, wrap your man-
tle of charity around her —— and
let it stay there. Place 'your
hands on the handles of“ your plow
and let them allso stay there. We
have made the world tolerany safe
for the Republicans and Democrats,
now let us make it safe for the flap-
per and the farmer, for God made
them both. I mmn the ﬂapper and
farmer. Ke’ep close to the side of,
your good wife .and thank your
lucky stars that your lot has been
cast in the wholesome county of
Ingham instead of the odoms and
Gomorrahs we read so much about.
Just one parting word: Let us be
careful how We draw the lines on
personal matters. We, Whose an-
cestors fought and died for the
glorious thing: “Liberty of Con-
science!”——-“Rhoda.,” Olivet, Mich.

Speaking of “wicked pens” we men
folks aren't in it with the women. When
a woman with a versatile tongue enters
an argument all male contenders should
' instantly retire in Food order, They will
eventually retire n confusion if they
remain long enough, “What fools we
mortals be to tell women how they
should dress. The longer we talk the
shorter their dresses become, Prudence
forbids that we should continue the argu-
ment. Anyway where is there a mere man
who can match “Rhoda's” matchless Wit
or arrest her clever pen?—Ed.itor,

CONSOLIDATION AND TAXES
NOTICE in a recent editorial you
call for comment on the 'consoﬂi-
dated school question andthrow
your columns open without any
criticism to the advocates of the
system while you take your editorial
pen and you sit up on your editorial
perch and say the last word to the
fellow who has backbone enough to
oppose the system.

Now “fle a purely educational
standpointl might say that the
system may or may not have its ad-
vantages. I am of the opinion, how-
ever, from what experience and per-
sonal contact I have had with some
young people who have gone higher
than the common grades that the
only object attained has had a ten-
dency to make them heady and con-
ceited and has set them at the cross
roads where they have had their
minds divided, thus. spoiling their
aim in life for the future years be-
fore them. From an economic view

 

-in a time like. this, especially, I
r think that consolidation of schools is

a fool move. * . .
, What is. toibecome of our country ,
schools that. dots our county over?

 

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do what you like 'with them; Sounds

."fo'olish don’t it? "
Do you think that you are going -

to succeed in making people believe
that consolidation 41s a cheaper
method of education? Not all, no sir.
To scrap our country schools and

build immense consolidated schools .

all over the county and keep up a,
transport system to convey children
to these schools is no' small under-
taking and a very expensive one»

. If the rate of taxation continues
with its present strides the state will
own a lot of our Michigan farms
before many years for the land
won’t keepi‘the owners on them and
pay the tax, nevertheless there is a
bunch of fellows allover our state
who are on the public payroll, para-
sites I call them, who persist in
every line of propaganda for the
further expense and burden of the
taxpayer. I, for one, believe it is
time to call a halt to stop this rock-
less expenditure of the sweat money
‘of the average taxpayer. This reck-
less rushin on advocating measures
which invo ve immense outlay with-
out regard to the welfare and safety
of the people who have to pay the
bill is to me the height of folly. To-
day there are vast numbers of tax-
payers who are ruined or on tlhe
verge of it. Yet these new appro-
priations and new measures are be-
ing taken/up and advocated by pa-
pers and individuals without any
regard to the ﬁnal outcome. I will
say this, that as I see it. Europe
will soon be a heaven to live in
compared to our America. I Will
say in conclusion, be impartial in
this school question and this tax
problem. Give opponents- to the
consolidated school the same voice
you give the bbosters for it and
when you say you are in for lower
taxes and will stand ready with your
sleeves rolled up, ready to ﬁght for
lower taxation, be consistent and
don’t work for the very things that
make for high.
——E. F. G., Avocu, Mich.

You infer that we are denying oppon-
ents of consolidated schools the chance to
present their views. Why? Haven't more
letters been published in these columns
against consolidation than for it? You
infer that we are committed to consoli-
dated schools, Again. why? Have we
so Sta/ted? You ask us to be impartial.
We will be impartial as we alwrvs have
been so far as allowing every ader an
opportunity to present his or her views.
How many other papers can you name
that are equally as impartial? But. if you
mean that we should not have views and
declare them we xannot accomodate you.

rWe conceive it to be the duty of every
individual and every publication to not

only have opinions on public issues but

 

__Musmas or A PLAIII FARMER

GUESS I’ll take a milk check

and purchase a comfortable

chair and sit out the act this
summer. I can move it around and
it won’t be much trouble to keep
in the shade. Why should I sweat
and grunt under an existence of this
kind? Only to ﬁnd at the end ‘of
each year my bank book shows most-
in red. Better to rest up a year.
Reserve my energy. Then when
things get back to normal or sub-
normal, pitch in and produce with
all the power at my command.

Can I lay off for a crop season?
Certainly! Why not? Am ‘1 not a
farmer and my own master. Abso-
lutely independent! Raise —my own
living and all these other things so
nice in rural life. What if I should?
I suppose my creditors would say,
“Why you poor man, you look tired
and worn. I am glad to see you tak-
ing a rest". And of course my
neighbors Would come over and pull
the weeds and milk the cows and do
other little odd chores. Bring me
cigars and other dainties.

And my good “""e, bless her. She
would carry my meals to me. Par-
haps within throwing distance. She
is very fond of non-producers. Very
very fond! ‘

I wonder if the general public
would call me lazy or a drag or
something else!l Sur * not. My pride
would notvsuffer, all would beweu
and I would put on ﬂesh. I’ll, see
how I feel When the instigate cut.
THE plat! .

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‘axes all the time.

at?  ismﬁidi‘z

beenfabie . gather-sufﬁcient info

on school!  schools to commend or
condemn M but ,we expect to have
ttbefomhng. Andweeregomgtege
it from the people who live in consoli-
dated school dlstrlcts, Including both the
mauw‘hoie against 1t and theman

we shall

68!
contention ever-yams: invong an
increase in taxes should for the time
be avoided—Editor. -
THE COST OF GROWING BEETS
a farmer raise beets 'at less.
than $6.00 per ton? I hear this
question discussed so often by
farmers who do not keep any re-
cord of expense, or income, that ,I
am tempted t9 send my experience
on the beet problem for the' year
1921, as taken from records kept
on book put out byM. A.‘C. for
farmers’ use:
For six—acre ﬁeld. »
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Discing, $1 per acre..___ 6.00
Dragging 12.00
Rolling  6.00
Drilling and drill rent_ 4.00
Cultivating ) 12.00

. Lifting 7.50
.Drawring 47.60
Use of land 36.00
$143.10

5 * The 'ﬁeld yielded 56 1-2 tons of
boots after the company took out

for .labor, seed, house rent and in-,

terest, etc., approximately $170.00,
received check for $141.96, which
leaves the $1.14 short of pay for my
labor and land with a trifle over a
9—ton yield which I believe is about
the average for Michigan.

Then I’ must say, no we cannot
raise beets for less than $6.00 per
ton. I do not believe it would be wise
to ﬁgure for an average of __the state
for over 9 tons although I do not
know what the average was last
year. Perhaps some farmers could
produce beets cheaper than I did. '

do not like to see the beet industry
fail and I do not believe it will. but
I would like to see it put on a safe
basis for the farmers, with just a
little proﬁt for both farmer and
company—Claude Stowe, Saginaw
County.

When every farmer keeps a record of
his costs as men in other llnee of bush
ness do he will not be asking himself.
-“oa.n I grow bee-ts for $5 or cats for
30 cents or potatoes for 50 cents." He
.will know that he cannot~ The. farmer
who knovis what it costs suffers much
from the competition (it the farmer who
doesn’t. Your ﬁgures indicate that you
are an efﬁcient farmer, and if the ef-
ﬁcient farmer cannot grow boots for $5
a ton what hope 13‘ there for the inefﬁ-
deut7—Edltor.

 

A COUNTY CLERK 0N TAXATION
HAVE just been reading the let-
ter of an “Old Subscriber" from
Macomb county, in the Feb. 11th

issue of your paper, and while he

may be looking through blue glasses
to some extent, there is a whole lot
of truth and sense in what he writes.

I lived and worked on a farm all

my life until elected to. this oﬁice

seven years ago, and I feel that. the
farmers, and the other taxpayers

'also, are hot getting the worth of

their money as too much of it goes

for overhead expenses, useless jobs,
'— and duplication of work. There are

a good many examples that could be

-mentioned if I had time, but I shall

only speak of one or two with which

I am the most familiar. VThe so-

called uniform accounting system

which the auditor general’s ofﬁce
feels called on to defend so much
is one of these, and I notice that
. he does not say how many hundreds
of thousands of dollars went to the
big publishing ho ’ nor what it
cost for inspectors 0 run over the
state and .-meddle with the county
business, nor why it is not in use
in Wayne county, nor what the tax-
payer actually gets for his money.

And some of the statementsthat are

made are absolutely false at least so

far as they apply to county.

and. who gets it, and it fair service '0

is rendered for the sand, He does
not care Whether it is stiﬂ- one you

   
 
 
     

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" and 'more‘c’lhlrtnmin musing too.
.  the: mas has an army or 'in-

specimens. going om the roads, all

the: :tims'andv last summer ‘whan

some; paving was done in this county
they had a lot of young fellows who
were hardly dry behind the ears to
look after the work, 'and‘ some ‘ot
them did not know how to mix ce-
ment to make a stable ﬂoor. The
state started to build a bridge in
this "county! last fall, and cold
weather came before it could be
ﬁnished, but there are several men
who go there once in a. while and
mks a ﬂare in the mixer, and a high—
prieed inspector who spends most
of his time in town entertaining the
ladies.

A great many people accuse the
farmers of being opposed to good
roads, but I_d-o not believe thereis
g. man in Michigan'who is not in
favor of them, but we do not see
how all this useless clerk work and
multiplied inspection is any beneﬁt
to the roads, and voters would feel
more liberal if they» could see a

I larger proportion of their money
going where they received some
beneﬁt from it.———,B. L. Case, Gratiot
County Clerk, Ithaca.

Well, well. it is something new to have
a. man in ofﬁce speak right out loud
about the waste of the taxpayers’ money
in vhlic business. Seems as it we ought

vemeremenetthatklndimofﬁce

and mebbe we wouldn't have so much
extravagance—Editor,

CONSOLIDATION

HY is it that people in the rural
districts never know what
'they want until some one
holding a good, lucrative oiﬁce or
position, or one who is looking for
such, tells us what is good for us?
It took 20 years to, work out the
“Good Reads System“ but when the
automobile industry took hold of it
and speakers were sent to almost
every rural gathering to tell what
a. good thing it was and what bene-
ﬁts farmers would derive from same,
but nothing was said of beneﬁts of
instigators and promoters, all to
help the poor Down—trodde‘n Farmer,
We all want the good roads,.but not
so much red tape. My 1920 tax
receipt shows one-third of total tax
to be highway. Add to this expense
of-highway department, via. high—
way commissioner, deputy engineers,
\oﬂice. help, ﬁxtures, etc. Subtract
this total from your state tax and
add to your road tax and see the

result——an octopus.

Now the same class of ofﬁcials

 

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. , M , a
Let ﬁrms-o
 When the faculties and ad-
vantages of a high .chool at their
door, have attained a high school
education? Think it over for your-
self. Count them and see if you don’t
and a his percentage short the goal.
Then what will be the result in tn
country? You can't educate them
all, neither can you build the fence
so high as to stop those who have
the disposition and will go over
the top. Show me the statement
today to comp-are with our Wash-
ington, Lincoln and many others we
might mention and compare facili—
ties. \Go with me to Ohio, or any
place and investigate and you will
get this 'answer, f‘It is an expensive
school, expensive transportation,
high salaried teachers, superintend—
ents, etc,” I got this Virom a teacher
of 25 ~years' experience, new teach-
ing in a consolidated school. “A good
school, but expensive, and I can do
no more for a pupil than I could
do in the rural school.” You say he
is a logy, a has—been? Meet him.
People settled the country, locat—
ed in diﬂerent parts, some in center
of town, comet-n the corner six
miles from the center. Show us the
justice of a school at the one’s door
and the other 6 miles away. Then say
the. mothers must start her little
children out to meet this convey-
ance early in the morning. One
minute (late, go back home. Car
trouble, driver half hour late, wait
in zero weather. If you don’t be-
lieve this, investigate. Don’t take
someonefs word who is working for
self—aggrandfzerment ,or money—Sub—
scriber, Maple Rapids, Clinton Coun-
ty, Mich.  .

 

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M. B. F. just arrived. Read arti—
clue “Adding a Little Pepper.”
GOOD FOR YOU! Keep on pepper-
ing. For as well seasoned an old
“Sour Sass” as he must be it sounds
a little green, but then he probably
belongs to that branch of the Pepper
family known as “the long yellow.”
Certainly no one would take him for
a sweet Pepper. He would most like—
ly be a red pepper it he saw this,
but we will try hard to see that he
is well peppered with both “black
and white” at the next election, if
the fool killer doesn’t get him. Yours
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THE HIGH COST OF BANKING
" CCORDING to returns from
nearly 8,000 national banks re-
porting to the’ Controller of the
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‘ (Continued from lat' week)
URANT and Ribon did not re-
'turn until nearly noon the next
day. They brought with them
fresh meat of which Miki ate raven-
ously, for he was hungry. man an-
responsive way he tol’erated ad-
vances of these \two.’ A second night
he was (left alone in the cabin. When
Durant and Ribon came back again
in the early dawn they brought with
‘them a cage four feet square made
of small birch saplings. The open
door of this cage they .drew' close
to the door of the cabin, and by
.means of a chunk of fresh meat
Miki was induced to enter through
it. Instantly the trap fell, and he
was a prisoner. The cage was al-
ready fastened on a wide toboggan
and scarcely was the sun up when
Miki was on his way to Fort 0’ God.

 

val—athe day of the caribou—roast
and the ﬁght.
‘before they came in sight of Fort
’0" God Miki heard the growing
so‘und.‘ It amazed him, and he stood
up on his feet in his cage, rigid and
alert, utterly unconscious of the men
,who were pulling him. He was look—
ing ahead of them, and Durant
chuckled exultantly as they heard
him growl, and his teeth click.

“Oui, he will ﬁght! He would ﬁght
now," he chuckled. .

They were following the shore of
a lake. Suddenly they came around
the end of a point, and all of Fort
O’ God law on the rising shelf of the
shore ahead of them. The growl
died in Miki’s throat. His teeth shut
with a last click. For an instant his
heart seemed "to grow dead and still.
Until this moment his World had
held only .half a dozen human be-
ings. Now, so suddenly that he had
no ﬂash of warning, he saw a hun—
dred of them, two hundred, rthree
hundred. At sight of Durant and
the cage a swarm of them began
running down to the shore. And
everywhere there were ‘ wolves, so
many of them «fhathis senses grew
dazed as he stared. His cage was
the centre of a clamouring, gesticu-
lating 'horde of men and boys as it
was .dragged up the slope. Women
began joining the crowd, many of
them withsmall children in their
arms. Then his journey came to an
end. He was close to another cage,
and in than; cage was a beast like
himself. Beside this 'cage there
stood a tall, swarthy, shaggy-headed
halfbreed who looked like a pirate.
The man Was Grouse Piet, Durant’s
rival.

A contemptuous leer was on his
thick-lipped ,face as he looked at
Miki. He turned, and to the group
of dark-faced Indians and breeds
about him he said something that
roused a. guttural laugh. ‘

Durant’s face ﬂamed red.

“Laugh, you heathen,” he chal-
lenged, “but don't forget that Hen~
ri Durant is here to take your bets!”
Then he shook the two cross and
ten red foxes in «the face of Grouse

Pie}. _
‘VCover them, Grouse Pelt," “he
cried. -“And I have ten times more
where they came from!"

snifﬁng the air. It was ﬁlled with
strange scents, heavy with the odors
of men, of dogs, and of the ﬁve huge
caribou roasting on their spits 16
feet over-the big ﬁres that were

"built under them. For ten hours

those caribou would roast, turning
slowly on spits as thick as a man’s
leg.
the feast. 7

Foran hour the clatter and tu-
mult of voices-;7hovered about the
two cages. ,M’e‘n appraised the ﬁght-

‘ Plot and Henri Durant made their

' inmate - hoarse, ﬂinging banter and

contempt at each , other- 'At the and
-oft'he: hour the‘crowd began” to thin

 

This was the big day at the carni- .

For many minutes.

With—his muzzle lifted, Miki was

The ﬁght .was to come before

  

ers and madejiheir bets. and Grouse .

* : I out ‘1n-thsrvlaceftyntmsn and Wo-’
 mew-nan “hundredwd ed
’ﬁilﬂrﬁ" ' d  ab t

Miki" caught glimpses of‘the hoards
of beasts fastened in onesi'and twos

and groups in the edge of the clear- .

ing. _ His nostrils had at last caught
the distinction. They ‘were not
wolves. They were like himself. _
. It was .a long time before his eyes
rested steadily on the wolf-dog in
the other cage. He weiit' to the edge
of his bars and sniffed. The wolf-
dog snarled back. “Henri. Durant
/rubbed his hands exultantly, and
Grouse P/iet laughed softly. ‘ _
“Oui; _they will ﬁght!” said «Hen-
ri again'.’

_“Ze wolf, he will ﬁght, oui," said .

Grouse Piet. “But your dog, m'sieu,
he be vair seek, lak a puppy, w’en
ze ﬁght come!"

A little later Miki saw a white

man standing close to his cage. It
was MacDOnnell, the Scotch factor.
He gazed at Miki and the wolf—dog
with troubled eyes. Ten minutes lavtv
er, in the little room which he had

made his ofﬁce, he was saying.to

a young man: . ‘
“I’d like to stop it, but I can’t.
They wouldn’t stand for it. It would
lose us half a season’s catch of fur.
There's been a ﬁght like this at
Fort 0’ God for the last ﬁfty years,
and I don't suppose, after-all, that
it’s any worse than one of the prize
ﬁghts down there. Only, in this
case-———” _

“They kill," said
man.

“Yes, that’s it. Usually one of
the dogs dies.” 1 _

The younger man knocked the ash
out of his pipe.

“I love dogs,” he said, simply.
“Therefll never be a. ﬁght at my
post, Mac—unless it's between men.
And I’m not going to see this ﬁght,

the

because I’m afraid I’d kill some one .

if I did." ' .
CHAPTER TWENT

T was him o’clock in the after-
I noon. The caribou were roast-
ing brown. In two more hours
the feast would begin. The hour of
the ﬁght was at hand.

In the center of the clearing three
hundred men, women and children
were gathered in a close circle about
a sapling cage ten feet square. Close
to this cage, one at each side, were
drawn the two smaller cages. Be-
side one of these cages stood Henri
Durant; beside the other, ,Grouse
Piet. They were not bantering now.
Their faces were hard and set. And
three hundred pairs of eyes we e
staring at them, and three hundr (1
pairs of cars waiting for the thrill—
ingsignal. .

It came—from Grouse Piet. '

With a swift movement Durant
pulled up the door of Miki's cage.
Then, suddenly, he prodded _him

from behind with a. crotched sticky

and with a single leap Miki was in
the big cage. Almost sit the same
instant the wolf-dog leapt from
Grouse Piet’s cage, and the two
faced each other in the arena. .

With the next breath he drew
Durant could have groaned.
happened in the following half min~
ute was a matter of environment
with Miki.‘ In the forest the wolf—
dog ..wou'1d have interested him to
the exclusion of everything else, and
he would have looked upon him as
another Netah ‘or a wild wolf. But
in his pro ent surroundings the
idea of ﬁgh ing was the last to pos—
sess him. He was fascinated by that
grim and waiting circle of faces
closing in the big cage; he scruti-
nized it, turned his head sharply
from point to point, as if hoping to
‘see Nanette and the baby, or even
Gha’lloner his ﬁrst master. To the

wolf-dog Grouse Piet had given the.

name of Taao, because of the ex-

of Team, to fDur‘ant’s growing hor-

ror, Miki was utterly obliviOus after 7
' .that ﬁrst head-on glance. He trotted . ,
7 than: «
his nose between the“ bars. and ya

to the edge .nfthe’ cage and

.tauntins ' in 130159. out; use

it" 
 si

. the Wolf-dog’s jaws
was transformed into. a thing of nv—e

younger

What

traordinary length of his fangs; and ‘

  

  

  
    

5:; .
 r  _ aimed...
. 3 1 . . g .. ing.‘Miki‘sf‘* I
ment. and the crest on his 

       

stood spanks. bristles; ,’ ‘5   ’
Then Miki stopped,“and .inwthat,
moment Durant "saw"“the‘end of‘all'

. his hopes: Without a soundthe wolf-r
dog wasr'at his opponent. rA bellow~

rose from Grouse Piet’s lips. Adeep

breath passed through the circle of
spectators, and Durant felt a.» cold“
c

in runup his back :to. the roots
of his hair. Whathappened in the
next. instant made men’s hearts

stand still. In that ﬁrst rush Miki. '

should have died. Grouse Piet ex-‘-

‘pected him to die, and Durantex-

pected, him' to 'die. ‘But in the last
fractional bit of the second in which
' closed, Mi"

ing‘lightni-ng. Nq man'had ever seen

a movement swifter than that with .

which he turned on Taao. Their
jaws clashed. There was‘a sickening
grinding of bone, and in another
moment theywere’rollinsg and tWist-
ing together on the earth ﬂoor.
Neither Grouse Piet n‘or Durant
could See what was happening. They
forgot eyen their own bets in the
horror of that ﬁght. Never had there
been such a ﬁght at Fort 0’ God.
The sound of it reached to the
Company’s store. In the door, look—
ing toward the big cage, stood the
young white man. He heard the
snarling, the clashing. of teeth, and
his~jaws set heavily and a du
ﬂame burned in his eyes. His breath

I came in a'sudden gasp.

“Damn!” he cried, softly. .
His hands clenched, and he step-

' ped slowly down from‘ the door and 0
.went toward the cage; It was over

when he made his way through the
ring of spectators. The ﬁght had
ended as suddenly as it had begun,
and Grouse Piet’s wolf-dog lay in

the center of the cage with a. sev-,
Miki looked asthough _

ered juglar.
he might be dying. Duranthad op-

ened the door and had slipped a rope‘

over his head, and outside. the cage
Miki stood-swaying on his feet, red
with blood, and half blind. His ﬂesh
was red' and bleeding in a dozen
places, and a stream of blood trickl-
ed from his mouth. A cry of horror
rose to the young white man’s'lil»
as he looked down at him.’ ,

And then, almost in the same
breath, there came a still stranger
cry. . ' '

“Good God! Miki—Miki—L—Miki”.

Beating upon his brain as if from
a vast distance, coming to him
through the blindness of his wounds,
Miki heard that voice.

The voice!
lived with him in all his dreams,
the voice he had waited for, and
searched for, andv'kn‘cw, that some
day he would ﬁnd. The voice of

"Chall'oner, his master! - v

He dropped on his belly, whin-
ing, trying to. sew through the ﬁlm
of blood in his eyes; and lying there,
Wounded almost unto death, his tail
thumpedthe :ground in recognition.
And then, to the amazement of all
who beheld, Challenger was down up-
on his knées beside him, and his
arms were about him, and Miki’s'
lacerated tongue was reaching for
his hands, his face, his clothes.

“I.:iki—Miki——Miki!’f « , .

Durant’s hand fell heavily upon
Chal'loner's shoulder. ~ , . -~

It was like the touch of a red-1
hot iron to Challoner. In a ﬂash'he.
was on his feet, facing him.

“‘He’s mine," Challloner cried,
trying to hold back his passion.
“He's mine yaw—you devil!"

, ' And then. powerless to hold back

his desire for vengeance, his‘ clenched
ﬁst syrunglike a rock to Durant’s
heavy, jaw, and the Frenchman went
to the ground. For~ -a ,moment:

. Challone‘r stood over him but he did

not move. Fiercer ‘he turned upon

Grouse Plot and the crowd. Miki
- was stinging at  * feet . again;
ere

Pointing .to him,~ 'Qhalloner
udlypso all con! hear: .; ».
at .. ,. .. _

  

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Miki and the bear cub"were lost
from his canes and swept over the
waterfall. _ After registering his
I claim against whatever ,Durant
might have to say he. went to the
Lshack in which he was staying at

,. Fort 0’ God.

An hour later Challoner sat 

Miki’s big ‘head between his tWO
hands, and talked‘ito, him. ‘
bathed and dressed his wounds, "and
Miki could see. His eyes Were on
.‘ his m‘aster' face, and his hard tai‘l
thumped t e ﬂoor. Both were ob-
=livious of the Sounds" of the reve‘l-‘
lers outside; the cries of men, the
shouting ‘of boys, the laughter of
women, and the incessant barking
of‘ldogs. In Challloner’s eyes there'
was a soft glow. . .
. “Miki, old boy, you haven’t forgot-
ten a thing—mot a' dam’ thing, have

\

you? You Were nothing but' an‘
onery-Ilegged. pup then, but you'
didn't forget! Remember what I

told you, that I was going to take
you and the cub down to the Girl?
Do you remember? The Girl I saw
was “an angel, and 'd love, you to:
death, and all that? Well, I’m glad
something, happened -— and _ you
didn’t go. It wasn’t the same when
I got back, an" she wasn’t the same,
Miki. Lord, she’d get married, and
had two kids!’ Think of that, old
scout— two! How the deuce could
she have taken care of you and the
cub, eh? And nothing else was
thesame, Boy. Three years in God’s
Country—up here where you burst
your lungs just for the fun of drink
ing in air—changed me“ a lot, I
guess. Inside, a week I wanted to
back, Miki. Yes sir, I was sick to
come back. So I came. And we’re
going lto stick now, Miki. You’re
going with mequp to that new Post
the Company has given me. From
now on we're pals. Understand, Kolq
scout, we’re pals!” ' 5
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

T was late the'night of the big
 feast, at Post Fort 0’ God that
‘ MacDonnell, the factor, sent for
Challoner. Chailloner was preparing
for bed when an Indian boy pound-
ed on the door of his shack anda

.moment later gave him the message.‘

He looked at his watch. It was
eleven o’clock. »What could the
Factor want of him at that hour,
he wondered? Flat on his belly—
near the warm box 'stvove. Miki
watched his new-found master spec-
ulatively as he pulled on his boots.
His eyes were wide open now. Chai-
loner had washed from him the
blood of the terriﬁc ﬁght of that
afternoon, -. r V ' ‘

  
   

reading iii-by ‘

. preceding ‘
spring, and of the accident in which . p
‘ they went cut into the night.

He had .

' shelters the three

there was nothing left. It was the
silence of Mutai—the “belly god”—
the god . who eats himself to sleep
each night—that hovered strangely
over lthis Post of Fort 0’ God, three
hundred miles lfrom civilization.

room, and Challoner, entered with
Miki at his heels. MacDonnelil, the
Scotchman, was pulling moodin on
his pipe.
in his ruddy face as the younger
man seated himself, and his eyes
were on Miki. '

“He’s ugly. I’m afraid of trouble.
If you hadn’t struck him—”

9 .
'; it'll-“o’hOpes to: get you again.
-M’lki,-i‘-he’s barking up the. wrong
tree. You-ire mine!”

.Miki. thumped his hard tail odthe
ﬂoor and wriggled.toward his mast-
er in; mute adoration. Together

   

It was a night of‘ white moonlight
and a multitude of stars. The four
great ilres over which the caribou
‘had roasted for the savage barbe—
cue that day wore still burning
brightly. Inthe edge of the forest
that ringed in the Post were the
smouldering embers of , a score of
smaller ﬁres. Back of these ﬁres
were faintly outlined the gray shad-
.ows of :teepees and tents. ’In these
hundred half-
breeds,and Indians who had come
in from the {forest trails to the New
Year carnival at the Post were sleep-
ing. Only here and there was there
a movement of life. Even the dogs
were quiet after the earlier hours
of excitement and gluttony.

Past the big tires, with their huge
spits still standing, Challoner passed
toward the Factor’s quarters. Miki
sniffed at the freshly picked bones.
Beyond these bones there was no
sign of the ltWO thousand pounds of
ﬂesh that had roasted that day on
the spits. Men, women, children and
dogs had stuffed themselves until

There was a light in the Factor’s

There was a worried look

“Durant has been here," he said.

Challoner shrugged his shoulders

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“You see—you don’t just under-
stand the situation at Font 0’ God.”
went on MacDonnell. “There’s been
a big dog ﬁght here at New Year for
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to plant and sow‘this year, it is because he feels
that he has got to do it. There is a great lack
of enthusiasm that is generally manifest at this
time of the year. Many are feeling that there
is more in it for the farmer if he cuts down
the acres sown and the number of cows milked.
Congress is being watched as never before.

“High freight rates are cited as the main
cause for the uncertain condition of things. High
faxes and little in return for them is another
' drawback; also too much advice from thine who
don’t know. The farmers’ boys and girls have
been and are deceived by the advertisements in
the popular magazines. Easy jobs are being
lookedsfor, work has become a thing to be do-

spised by many.”

 Here in Michigan our farmers will follow
. pretty much their established rotation with
the possible exception of the boot growers,
who‘are very much at sea to know what to do.
- At present cost of production $5 boots are not
an attractive crop and it would not be sur-
prising if many turned to beans which give
promise of better rewards the coming season.
It would scarcely swm wise for farmers to
plan. on more than a normal acreage, or make
too ‘many investments in farming equipment
in anticipation ~of higher crop prices. It
would be equally foolish for. them to reduce
their acreage with the expectation that to do
‘  so would create a crop shortage. Credit,

"tarmwagedandweether-wﬂlbethemmrt—
mufactors in determining the extent-of farm
emotions this year. If these are favorable
. the acreage will likely be normal; if unfavor-
'ehle some loss  may be expected

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most deﬁnite and practical program for
the reduction of taxes will be the next govern-
or of MiChigan. I

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ernor. Mr. G'roesbeok has given the state a
good administration. He has applied brains
and hard work to the businem of the state and
has secured certain tangible, beneﬁcial re-
sults. He ought to be allowed to complete the
very excellent work he has undertaken. In
other years no one would think of questioning
his right to a second term. But unfortunate-
ly not him and perhaps for the state as. well
taxation overshadows all other considerations
this year, and taxation will be the cross upon
which many a good man will be cruciﬁed at
the coining election. '

Mr. Groesbock has not been able to run»
the state at any less cost than his predeces-
sors. Whatever saving he. has been able to
eﬁect by' the consolidation of departments has
beenmore than oﬂfset by the interest on the
highway booth It may be possible that with
the accumulating interest on highway and
bonus bonds and the creation ' of a sinking
fund to retire these bonds the state tax can-
not be lowered. If Mr. .Groesbeck knows that
to be a fact he cannot promise lower taxes in
the event of his reelection, but his political
enemies who do not know but only suspect it
can. promiiSe anything, and get a lot of votes
on the strength of their promises.

Taxation will be the outstanding issue in
the coming campaign. The. individual who
has the courage to say, “this must be on ”,
and “we cannot afford that”, will make a.
powerful appeal to the voters. Individuals
have been obliged to get along without a lot of
things they thought necessary, so why not the
state as well? ‘ '

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Talk about your city pleasures,

Why, I wouldn’t give a dime

For the grandest mythey om
When it’s maple syrup time!

It's such m to fool around the woods
And watch the sweet sap run,’

And to taste the sticky syrup

When my mes says it is done.

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When the sup rue in the pan.
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land of "ice and snow” which Uncle Sam got
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ever think of going up there inm'de of the
Arctic circle to farm? Well, it appears that
some six hundred imbeciles have started
homesteading in Alaska and grow most all
kinds of vegetables, grain. and small fruits.
Uncle Sam has recently developed a new vari-
ety of potato for them which gives promise of
yielding abundantly in 'that far northern
chine. Last year’s crops were planted about
May 15th and the first killing frost occurred
October 18th, long after many crops in some
sections of United States had been frozen to
the ground.

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Service for Farmers
CARCELY a Week had passed following
the great ice storm which swept northern
W’isconsin and,  before the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture Was: out with detailed
instructions to fruit growers on how to repair
the damage to their orchards. To really azp-
peciate the timeliness of this service one

. should bear in mind that only a very diort -

time elapses before the trees will spring 
life again and the wounds defy the . healing"
arts of man. Orchardists*who act 

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nitrot of sulphur, about half a pound
to the tree, working it into the soil.

This may be applied ﬁrst and will

middle of July, then
using vetch, one

will check the late yowth and force
the tree to ripen its wood for wint-
er. Get the“ trees to growing, then
there will be something’to produce
fruit. But little is to be expected
from starved trees.

Something can be done to induce
bearing when trees are full of vigor.
Treesthstare-ina sod of long
standing are usually made produc-
tire by a thorough plowing that will
cut the roots near the surface, oc-
companied by severe pruning of the
top. The pruning may be done in
late spring, followed by the plow-
ing the ﬁrst of June. In this way
some wonderful results have been
obtained for the following year.

Some fruit growers speak highly
of girdling and if properly done it
is effective. We have in mind some
delicious apples, eight years old.
which weregirdled around the trunk
a little below the ﬁrst limbs, by tak-
ing out a ring of bark about three-
fourths of an inch wide, cutting
clear to the wood, this was done
about June 20, when the trees were

full of sap. The following year these.

trees bore a bushel of apples each.
The wound grew together, leaving
no apparent injury.

If girdling. the whole tree seems
too much of a risk, similar results
can be obtained by limiting the
operation to some of the branches.
By following this method some or-
chardists have made Spy trees bear
when seven years old.

In spraying apples the ﬁrst appli-
cation is made in the spring before
the buds open, preferably as late as
possible before the leaves appear.
A strong solution may be used then,
about one part commercial lime-
sulphur solution to seven of water.

This is to kill the San Jose scale
and germs of disease.

The 'second spray is put on just
before the blOssom buds open. This
is a weaker spray, one to. thirty-
ﬁve, to which arsenate of lead is
added at the rate of one pound to
ﬁfty gallons. ,

For the third application use the
same formula after the blossoms be-
gin to fall.

,Repeat about two weeks later.
Repeat about the ﬁrst of July.
Repeat about the ﬁrst of August.
If there is no sea] the ﬁrst ap—

plication is often omitted, though
it is of especial value as a clean-up.

Such an ommission is doubtful
economy.

. The second spray is important for
controlling the apple scab, which at-
tacks blossoms as well as fruit. It
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the ground, where it remains until
another mater.

On account of its habits the mag-
wmufefrompoisonndtheity
motecteryanyoftheinseoti-
cides, so far as has yet become
known. FortunateLv it . does not
spread rapidly. The s: seems to
come from the ground and go direct
tau/the tree above it.

The best means known is to gath-
er the‘fallen fruit two or three
those a week and feed to stock. A
still better way would be to pick
all tho fruit before it is ready to
fall and destroy it. That would
mean a sacriﬁce of all the prop, but
might be worth doing.

Chickens kept under the trees
will pick up many of the larvae.

Possibly the time will come when
poison gases will be used to kill
the larvae in the ground.

Have any of our readers any-

thing to suggest regarding the con-.

trol of - this pest?

“HOW I DID MY GARDENING”

“Why not have it a real garden club,
like they have in other counties?" This
was the question asked by the teacher
of the agricultural class of the Memphis
school. It was decided to have it. if we
could. .

April 23rd we organized. and are now
a State Garden Club, the only one in
Macon) county. with Miss Lena. Hender-
son as leader.

My brother and I were ’given a plot
of ground, to be divided between us.
Upon measuring mine April 16th, I found
that I had exactly one-half acre. Aside
from the plowing, fertilizing and the ﬁrst
two times of cultivation, I did my own
work.

I planted my garden: May 18th. having
a variety of 23 vegetables. In less than
a. week some of my seeds were up. Then
for a garden.

As time went on, all of my garden
came up, and June 10th, my ﬁrst hoeing
and cultivating was done. As. I wished
to utilize my ground as much as pos-
sible, I set cabbage plant) between each
of three rows of my early potatoes, so
that when the potatoes were dug, the
ground would still be m use. After my
two rows of early peas were gone, I
planted three rows of beans in this way.
not letting any of the land be idle. Three
feet on either side of one row of cabbage
I set a row of strawberries, so when my
cabbage was harvested it would leave my
strawberries six feet apart. This is the
beginning of my strawberry patch.

I had three plantings of sweet corn
and two of peas. During the summer our
gardens were visited by the county club
leader. \Then in November, we gave an
exhibit of our prbducts in the basement
of the schoolhouse. Some of the mem-
bers gave a basket exhibit at the county
fair also.

I think that a garden club is a fine
thing, and if one has the. opportunity
to join one if they can, they are Wise in
doing so. My garden has been . very
proﬁtable, and I have enjoyed working in
it very much and hope that our club will
continue. No one will ever regret their
joining a garden club, at least I didn’t,
——Anna.bel_ De Forest, Memphis. Mich,

FUR DEPARTMENT

 BY A. R. HARDING
America's Foremost Author and Trapper
'“QUESTION S ANSWERED—'—

TANNING BUCKSKIN

Would you please tell me what to use
to tan and make buckskin soft and pli-
able so I can make a vest of it?——C. S.
B., Swartz Creek, Mich.

Put the skin in wood ashes or
lime water that is about as thick as
cream, leave there until hair slips
off easy. ,Now flesh clean, that is,
scrape off all the meat andﬂfat, after
the hair is off. The brown skin
that is just under the hair, some-
times called the grain is scraped oil
also. '- After this is well done grease
the flesh side with bacon grease or
butter and let hang say for a day.
Now take some of the good old home-
made soft soap and make a good'
suds, immerse the skin and leave it
until you can squeeze water through
it easily. Usually it takes from four
to ten days depending on the thick-
ness of the skin.. Keep in a warm
place—4101; freezing. When water
passes through the skin by squeez—
ing easily, take it out, rinse in clear
soft water, pass it through a ringer
a few times, and work until dry. If
you have no home-made soap use
cemmon bar soap:

Now this is ﬁne buckskin but when
it gets wet it dries hard. To pre-
rent this smoke it. Knock both ends
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Farming in 1922

’ I‘HE farmer is looking forward to the
coming crop season- with mingled feel-
ings of hope and doubt. There is little of an
encouraging nature in the prospect. The re
cent price advances which some beheve to
have been engineered to some extent for the
purpose of jollying the famer into a better
mood at the psychological moment he should
be planning on his 1922 operations, haVe ben-
eﬁtted him very little. Still they have raised
him in a measure from his slough of despond
and like Old Dobbin who nears the top of 3
~ long hill he is beginning to prick up his ears
and take courage. A New York state farmer
pretty well expresses the general sentiment
of the average farmer just now when he says:
“In all the years I have reported crops this
is the worst. It compares very favorably with
1872-73 insofar as the farmers are upset and at
sea as regards to what is best to do. Very
little planning is being done. While each farmer
has a general idea as to what crops he is going
to plant and sow this year, it is because he feels
that he has got to do it. There is a great lack
of enthusiasm that is generally manifest at this
time of the year. Many are feeling that there
is more in it for the farmer if he cuts down
the acres sown and the number of cows milked.

Congress is being watched as never before.

"High freight rates are cited as the main
 cause for the uncertain condition of things. High
taxes and little in return for them is another
drawback; also too much advice from these who
don’t know. The farmers’ boys and girls have
been and are deceived by the advertisements in
the popular magazines. Easy jobs are being
booked for, work has become a thing to be de-

spised by many." -

Here in Michigan our farmers will follow
pretty much their established rotation with
the possible exception of the beet growers,
who, are very much at sea to know what to do.
At present cost of production $5 beets are not
an attractive crop and it would not be sur-
prising if many turned to beans which give
promise of better rewards the coming season.
It would scarcely seem wise for farmers to
plan on more than a normal acreage, or make
too many investments in farming equipment
in anticipation ‘of higher crop prices“ It
would be equally foolish for. them to reduce
their acreage with the expectation that to do

operations this year. If these are fumble
. the acreage will likely be normal; if unfavor-
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thehightaxesenlni. Bet’hecenpeym
without more: ' e ’ ' and
the farmer en

diﬂerclee
com to

thicken-

beaded people don’tﬁveinthe city and all Wealth hm M m  a.

the dullards don’t live on the farms. In ev-
crystratumofsocietyﬁier‘eis a large pro-
pondemco of same, sensible, cynipathetie,

breed-minded people. fools
bigots and the pin-heads make up

Wewill alwaysbebotheredw'rththele human
nuisances who delight in misunderstandings
and dissension but we should never make the
mistake of judging all people by their stan-

dards.

 

I'The Next Governor
THE man who comes forward

most deﬁnite and practical program for
the reduction of taxes will be the next govern-

or of Michi gall.

That may and ought to be the present gov-
Mr. G'rOwbeck has/given the state a
good He has applied brains
and hard work to the businem of the state and
beneﬁcial re-
sults. He ought to be allowed to complete the
very excellent work he has undertaken In
other years no one would think of questioning
his right to a second term. But unfortunate-
ly for him andspeghapa for the state as well
taxation overshadow}; all other considerations

ernor.
administration.

has secured certain tangible,

this year, and taxation will be the

which many a good man will be cruciﬁed at

the coming election.

Mr. Groesbeck has not been able to run
the state at any less cost than his predeces-
sors. Whatever saving he has been able to
effect by’ the consolidation of departments has
been more than offset by the interest on the
highway bonds. It may be possible that with
the accumulating interest on highway and

bonus bonds and the creation ' of

fund to retire these bonds the state tax can-

not be lowered. If Mr. .Groesbeck

to be a fact he cannot promise lower taxes in
the event of his reelection, but his political
enemies who do not know but only suspect it
can promise anything, and get a lot of votes

on the strength 0f their promises.

Taxation will be the outstanding issue in
the coming campaign. The. individual who
has the courage to say, “this must be on ”,
and “we cannot aﬁord that”, will make a
powerful appeal to the voters. Individuals
have been obliged to get along without a lot of
ihings they thought necessary, so why not the

state aswelli‘

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MAPLE SYRUP TIME.
Am Campbell Stark

Thntobuyﬁ'inacan.

 

 

Talk about your city plumes,

Why, I wouldn't give a dime

For the grandest m they omer
When it"s maple syrup time!

It's such, in to fool around the woods
And: watch the sweet sap run,‘

And to taste the sticky syrup

' Whennymiasm'sieisdone.

' ,There’saheap o’fuakvin’
thnthesaprlnsinthepm'
Bathe! get my syrup that way

.Seene the very trees are sayin'

In a. M? sort ,og rhyme; t
“we a at: that summer’s cumin”
 3's: maple syrup timer” 

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gummiagainsttheﬂieoryoftxxinginmu
eory of “taxation accordingto 
and the
ﬂ“ ’9“ er,butfailinginthatithasfallenbmkﬁoihi
lastresortefthctaxdodger and is
thatﬁhesenew-fsngledformseftusﬁonm
leadmg the eormtry to the devil and Bolsho-
mm.

with the

Smith, the world’s greatest political econ-
omist, over two hundred and ﬁfty years
"ought to contribute towards the magi?
the govemmentasnearlyaspodblehipro-
portiontotheirrespectiveabilities;tm is,
,m proportion to the revenue they respectively
enjoy under the protection of the state”.
Whom shall we believe, Percy or Amt

 

LearnaLitﬂeEnryDey

WHEN the early explorers ﬁrst set foot
I, upon  continent they had no mm
idea than a jack-rabbit what it was. Four
hundred years have come and gone and still
there are a lot of intelligent American eitimnl

cross upon

can continent than either the explorer or the
jack—rabbit. Take Alaska, for instance, that
land of "ice and snow” which Uncle Sam got
in a ‘hoss trade” with Russia. Who would
ever think of going up there inside of the
Arctic circle to farm? Well, it appears that
some six hundred imbeciles have started
homesteading in Alaska and grow most all
kinds of vegetables, grain and small fruits.
Uncle Sam has recently developed a new vari-
ety of potato for them which gives promise of
yielding abundantly in ‘that far northern
slime. Last year’s crops were planted about
May 15th and the first killing frost occurred
October 18th, long after many crops in some
sections of United States had been frozen to
the ground.

'Ehere are many other interesting things you
ought to lmow about Alaska and the other

a sinking
knows that

countries of the globe. Let’s go globe-tram '

and learn a little something every week about
this wonderful world and the universe in
which it whirls.

 

Service for 'Farmers‘
CARCELY a Week had passed following
the great ice storm which swept northern
Wisconsin and.  before the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture was: out with detailed
instructions to fruit growers on how to repair
the damage to their orchards To really ap-
peciate the timeliness of this service one

 

time elapses before the trees will spring into
life again and the wounds defy ,thcheuling
arts of man. ' ‘

culture can salvage many  which may
seem beyond repair, and save W
thousands of  of tk Do

. of   W
the and other team  of ﬂu
usefulnes to the farmer. _, .«

 

Keynote inquiry at the amen-Emu! «as:
once: Beware W sm'tu "
farm when emu  on the
Richmond» Tim, ‘ -  1 

  

 

 

 

who know little more about the North Ameri—V

should bear in mind that only a very short v

Orchardists‘who act proInptly ,
“P011 the advice of the Department d 

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as the weather will permit, apply
nitret of sulphur, about half a pound
to the tree, working it into the soil.
,This may be applied ﬁrst and will
be an available food before the ma—
nure is ready.

Cultivate the ground like a corn
till the middle of July,

will check the late growth and force
the tree to ripen its wood for wint—
er. Get the trees to growing, then
there will be something’to produce
fruit. But little is to be expected
from starved trees. -
Something can be done to induce
bearing when trees are full of vigor.
Trees that are in a sod of long
standing are usually made produc—
tive by a thorough plowing that will
cut the roots near the surface, oo-
companied by severe pruning of the
top. The pruning may be done in
late spring, followed by the plow-
ing the ﬁrst of June. In this way
some wonderful results have been
obtained for the following year.
Some fruit growers speak highly
of girdling and if properly done it
is effective. We have in mind some
delicious apples, eight years old.
which were girdled around the trunk
a little below the ﬁrst limbs, by tak-
ing out a ring of bark about three-
fourths of an inch wide, cutting
clear to the wood, this was done
about June 20, when the trees were

full of sap. The following year these,

trees bore a bushel of apples each.

The wound grew together, leaving

no apparent injury.

If girdling. the whole tree seems
too much of a risk, similar results
can be obtained by limiting the
operation to some of the branches.
By following this method some or-
chardists have made Spy trees hear
when seven years old.

In spraying apples the ﬁrst appli-
cation is made in the spring before
the buds open, preferably as late as
possible before the leaves appear.
A strong solution may be used then,
abdut one part commercial lime-
sulphur solution to seven of water.

This is to kill the San Jose scale
and germs of disease.

The ‘second spray is put on just
before the blessom buds open. This
is a weaker spray, one to thirty-
ﬁve, to which arsenate of lead is
added at the rate of one pound to
ﬁfty gallons. .

For the third application use the
same formula after the blossoms be-
gin to fall.

1 Repeat about two weeks later.
Repeat about the ﬁrst of July.
Repeat about the ﬁrst of August.
If there is no scale the ﬁrst ap—

plication is often omitted, though
it is of especial value as a clean-up.
Such an ommission is doubtful
economy.

The secOnd spray is important for
controlling the apple scab, which at-
tacks blossoms as‘ well as fruit. It
also kills the early insects. ~

The third spray is for the codl-
ing moth and the scab, as are those

later. ‘

 

  
   
 

  

APPLE MAGGOTS
Can- you tell me how to kill apple
maggots? They burrow all thro an
fruit ‘ £3.1ng figplaynyand how oft—f
lyre. wo
.--L.’H,, Thompsenville. '
Thar. apple maggot is the larva at
a. ﬂy which appears in lay
I, eggsinthgsm'all "
set no.  burr Rm. .

the ground, where it remains until
another summer.

On account of its habits the mag-
got is note from poison and the fly
not etected by any of the insecti-
cides, so far as has become
known. FortunateLv it" does not
spread rapidly. The fly seems to
come from the ground and go direct
to the two above it.

The best means known is to gath—
er the fallen fruit two or three
times a week and feed to stock. A
still better way would be to pick
all the fruit before it is ready to
fall and destroy it. That would
mean a sacriﬁce of all the prop. but
might be Worth doing.

Chickens kept under the trees
will pick up many of the larvae.

Possibly the time will come when
poison gases will be used to kill
the larvae in the ground.

Have any of our readers any-

thing to suggest regarding the con—.

trol of > this pest?

 

“HOW I DID MY GARDENING”

“Why not have it a real garden club,
like they have in other counties?" This
was the question asked by the teacher
of the agricultural class of the Memphis
school. It was decided to have it. if we
could.

April 2311! we organized, and are now
a State Garden Club, the only one in

county, with Miss Lena Hender-
son as leader,

My brother and I were ’given a. plot
of ground, to be divided between us.
Upon measuring mine April 16th, I found
that I had exactly one—half acre. Aside
from the plowing, fertilizing and the first
ﬁve times of cultivation, I did my own
work.

I planter! my garden May ltth. having
a variety of 23 vegetables. In less than

, a week some of my seeds were up. Then

Was my ﬁrst prospects for a garden.

As time Went on. all of my garden
came up, and June 10th, my ﬁrst hoeing
and cultivating was done. As I Wished
to utilize my ground as much as pos—
sible, I set cabbage plant) between each
of rows of my early potatoes, so
that when the potatoes were dug, the
ground would still be in use. After my
two rows of early peas ‘were gone, I
planted three rows of beans in this way.
not letting any of the land be idle. Three
feet on either side of one row of cabbage
I set erow of strawberries, so when my
cabbage was harvested it would leave my
strawberries six feet apart. This is the
beginning of my strawberry patch.

I had three plantings of sweet corn
and two of peas. During the summer our
gardens were visited by the county club
leader. \Then in November, we gave an
exhibit of our products in the basement
of the schoolhouse. Some of the mem-
bers gave a basket exhibit at the county
fair also.

I think that a garden club is a fine
thing, and if one has the. opportunity
to join one if they can, they are wise In
doing so. My garden has been ‘ very
proﬁtable, and I have enjoyed WOl‘lelg in
it very much and hope that our club will
continue. No one will ever regret their
joining a garden club, at least I didn’t,
—Annabel De Forest, Memphis, Mich

FUR DEPARTMENT

 BY A. R. HAW
America’s Foremost Author and Trapper

QUESTIONS ANSWERED——
TANNING BUCKSKIN

Would you please tell me what to use
to tan and make buckskin soft and pli—
able so I can make a vest of it?——C. S.
B._ Swartz Creek, Mich.

Put the skin in wood ashes or
lime water that is about as thick as
cream, leave there until hair slips
off easy. Now flesh clean, that is,
scrape off all the meat and_fat, after
the hair is 'off. .The brown skin
that is just under the hair, some-
times called the grain is scraped off
also. ~After this is well done grease
the flesh side with bacon grease or
butter and let han-g say for a day.
Now take some of the good old home-
made soft soap and make a good’
suds, immerse the skin and leave it
until you can squeeze water through
it easily. Usually it takes from four
to ten days depending on the thick-
ness of the skin..Keep in a warm
place—mot freezing. When water
passes through the skin by squeez—
ing easily, take it out, rinse in clear
soft water, pass it through a ringer
a few times. and work until dry. If
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common bar soap;

, Now this is ﬁne buckskin but when
it gets wet it dries hard. To pre-
vent this smoke it. Knock both ends
out of a barrel build a ﬁre and throw
the skin over top end leaving a‘ little

_. space so note will pass out’slowly.
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,will tell it brieﬂy to you. , "
- ’A. certain city’ in Florida was for
two years ‘in the hands and complete
control of a ring of bootleggers. The
completeness of which you will un-
derstand ,when I tell you that the
mayor, the prosecuting attorney and
the chief of police were the staunch
and active members of the ring. The
cellar of one of them, at least, was
used as a receiving and a distribut-
ing station and the liquor came into
that place in an enduring stream,
in boxes, in barrels and bottles.
Corrupt Babylon had nothing on
tliat fair city. At last the better
and more law-abiding class of citi-
zens banded together and put in a
commission form of city govern-
ment. Then a committee of them
waited on ﬁve prominent men, all
bank ofﬁcials and asked them if they
would give their services to the city,
for a dollar a year, for a term of
two years for the purpose of wiping
_ out the corruption, and then came
the big 1F and that was IF they
could be elected. Of course_ the
liquor ring put up the biggest, and
dirtiest ﬁght in the history of that
town. They did everything but murd-
er and they would have won it, and
here we will write it in capitails, IF
the women had not stood solidly for
clean“ politics and/votedas a body
to eliminate the cerruption not only
of our laws but of our citizens.
Is it not an inspiring story?
Women have ever been the chief
suiferers when it comes to the evils
and abuses of drink and I believe
they can be counted on to vote right.
Who can say she does not be—
lieve in equal suffrage when this
story alone is it’s vindication?

 

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    
 
  
   
    
  
 
 
  
   
  
  
   
 
 
 
 
  
   
  
 
 
   
    
  
 
  
    
  
    
 
  
 
  
   
   
   
  
   
  
 
 
  
   
  
  
   
   
   
      
    
 
    
    
  
  
     
  
    
      
 
     
  
  
  
  
      
   
    
 
   
    
   
  
   
 
   
    
   
  

FROM ONE WHO KNOWS

AKE HEED! Ye who are under

the erroneous impression that

our girls are afraid to get their
hands soiled. One of our lady ex—
perts found upon investigation in
the city of Toledo that no girl could
live respectably on a salary of less
than seventeen dollars and twenty-
ﬁve cents per week. Nevertheless
the average salary of a girl worker
is from nine to twelve dollars per
week, depending upon the work at
which she is employed.

Having been the manager of a
large rooming—house in one of big
cities and also having travelled ex-
tensively both in this country and
abroad I 'have had ample opportunii
ty to study the situation from all
angles. I shall endeavor to explain
just how our girls make up the dif-
ference between that nine and sev-
enteen dollars.

Supposing our girl gets a position
in one of our large department
stores as a sales lady. To begin with
she’s got to be well dressed. She
soon ﬁnds that her pay isn’t large
enough to meet expenses and na-
turally asks the manager for an in-
crease in salary. The manager looks
astonished and replies, “why,
haven’t you got a gentleman
friend?” By making a few inquires
our girl ﬁnds that nearly all her
co-workers have gentlemen friends,
and very soon she has a gentleman
friend also. And that’s just about
the beginning of the end, with the
result that some day she may land
in the hOSpital, have an operation
and‘if she ‘doesn’t die from the ef-
fects of it, she will have her
womanhood taken away from her
which is nearly as bad. The former
happened to an' acquaintance of
mine a short time ago. Shedied
while under an anesthetic and was
dead about ﬁve minutes: before the
doctors, who were so interested in
the operation, became aware of it.
The latter happened to another lady
whom I know and she still walks
the streets. And the cause of it all
is summed up in the one word
“poverty.” '

Ninety-nine per cent of the wo-
men go wrong on that account, re-
gardless of what our employers and
capitalists say to "the contrary.

Some of the girls in my rooming-
house worked hard all day and then!
washed and ironed until one or~two
o’clock in themorning, to try and

. make. both ends meet without going
Wrong. I
In all my travels I have yet to
ﬁnd a girl who, ris,afra_id-‘_to get her _
hands soiled. God l'ble’ss ,, 51711

    
   
   

   
 
 

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too soon the goloshes 'will cease to‘ It lies here en’my desk and every
tinkle and they will probably be the
future mothers of this great and
glorious country of ours—J. H. R.
Veril this letter tells the plain and
unvarn hed truth and I am glad to pub~’
lish it for it tells just what the average p
clerk in the city is up~against. It is a
burning shame to see our sweet, clean,

and turn to something easier. It

know where to. start with it. How
would it be to suggest a book or two
for you to read, then write again
and we will try to get on common

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is, so far frOm the truth I do not,

 notn

;, .r-I have, beenpsu‘rp , 
.ceive mere orders for. . pattern:

’ unusu ‘ snafu-style. I can ‘

r braiding deSigns. These designs cost. .
time I look at it I shake my-head ,

anywhere from 85 to 50 cents a pat-m
tern and, come in blue for ‘light
goods and yellow for, dark.

 

I grouse z. ﬁgmoniod ‘

m e you some e' ago, an asked
if u would help me at the addréss
of iss Z. B, M., of 0 o. I have failed-
to get it. Possibly she s

argue with her but I want .to ri
is kind

 

A 'tired old doctor, died today and a An
b y boy was born—

A little new soul that was pink and
frail and a soul that was gray'and
worn.-

And—haly—way here and half way there,

ThOn a white high hill of shining air,

BY

d then he shook his down head;-

“I think I won’t be born," hede

"You are too my and sad!” He shrank
from the pathway down.the’ skies.

But thgttired old doctor rotting} {Roe mere
., battle-my- o r _
And there was memory in his look of
griel and tait and mirth.
“Go on," he haid, “it’s good—and bad:
ﬁ’s litardi! GO! ON! It’ﬁiOU’RS my lad!”
e s 00 an n - u
g with wise and weary eyes. W m 0e; 0. Bight.

down to the waitin rth
And the little chem stared back at him —-Ruth Comfort Mitch Harpe
with startled, scared surmise; ». elf in n
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met and passed. and paused to
speak in the ﬂushed and/hearty
wn.

'llhe man looked down at the soft, small

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country girls thrown up against such a
situation. Much better do housework in
a respectable, kindly family, where a
comfortable home. good food and some
care may be expected thanto face this
Situation alone in the big town.

COR-RESPONDENT’S COLUMN

The editor wishes to thank the
ladies who so kindly sent copies of
"The Skeptic’s Daughter." The poem
is too long to publish on Our Page,
so I will give the address of the .
ﬁrm that publishes it. Gospel Trum-
pet Co., Anderson, Indiana. They
cost ﬁve cents a dozen.

ground. Read—The Greatest Thing
in the 'World, by Henry Drummond;
The Great Companion, by Lyman
Abbott, and The Story of the Other
Wise Man, by Henry Van Dyke. I
believe your ideas will change. I
, cannot publish your letter for it
would offend many of our readers.
It is a great pity for any one to be-
lieve as you say you do and unnec-
cessary.

 

 

To the lady who wanted a new
shuttle fer her Wilson sewing ma-
chine—Send the old ,shuttle to The
De Stieger Music Co., Macomb St.,
Mt. Clemens, and the company will
obtain one for you. _ . ‘

_Ale TO GOOD DRESSING

FOB SIMPLICI’I‘Y, SERVICE AND STYLE
Patterns, 12c, New Spring Catalogs. 15c.
Address orders to Mrs. Jenney, Pattern Dept. Michigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens

I am at a l to know how to
answer the letter of A. W. Cheney.

 

 

 

 

Never have styles been more varied than this spring, when so many combinations
of materials are used. We may change the line, “Many men of many minds," to
many; cloths of many kinds and add truthfully, all colors. I

I saw one dress of blue and red crepe knit, this rough ﬁnished but soft and

I clinging moterial,,the long loose waist was of red, the skirt of navy blue, hanging ‘

straight and plain, the only trimming was made of bands of blue faced with the
red and nrrangod very much as you saw illustrated in No. 3887 in our issue of
Feb. 25. Which, by the way, is an exceptionally smart and correct style: It/ is good
not only for young girls but for girls who claim the distinction of many years.

Style 3858 is very popular with our readers. It will be found in our issue of
Feb. 11. Let me suggest a method of developing the design or shall I just describe
one that I saw? It would do Just as well for wash goods altho in this case silk
was used. , .

The waist was of black silk and the skirt of red and white cheek, not plaited

Ibut gathered onto the whist with a. double heading at‘ least three inches wide, this

line which was ,long as in our picture. Of course no belt would be used and the
heading fell over at regular intervals and looked like a ruching around the waist
would be ﬁtted in just a little at the under arm seams.

I am sorry not to be able to send samples to the ladies asking for them but I
simply could not ask for as many as were desired. I feared the clerks would think
I was making a patch work quilt. .

Taffetas are much in use as always in spring and summer; also canton crepes
and many cloths of rough but soft and clinging texture. Plaid and checked ging-
hams are seen in bewildering variety and many lovely voiles, some I much admired
were of dark plain colors with ﬁgures or ebroidered dots of white“ . .. .

A' “Cover All" Apron Comfortable Night
3869. First aid to Drawers
cleanliness and neat- 3864 This ‘1‘
ness is stamped on very "pleasing es-
this model, It surely Bential 18 made

with waist portions
~ to whiCh the full
body sections are
joined, The sleeves
may be in wrist or _
elbow length_ .Out- ,, , ‘
ing = flannel1 domet I " ‘

affords ample protec-
tion and may be Wom
as a work dress. The
closing is very practi—
cal and convenient.
Striped seersucker or
gingham in ‘pretty

  
 
  

‘ checks, would develop bﬂa‘rmmeal'hdcrﬁgleé comma;
this style attractively, are for _ma_
RICKTaCR braid .°’ teria s for garments a,
feather stitch banding of this kind.
will make a- nice ﬁn‘ The pelttem is
1511- ’ ’cut in 6 sizes: 2.. 4.
3867_ The pattern is cut 6, 8. 10 and 12

in 4 sizes: small, 34-

years An 8 year

 

3 6 ; medium, 3 8-40 : size requires 3 1—8
large, 42-44 ; extra yards of 36 inch 1
large, 46-48 inches material "

Pattern. mailed to any. address‘von ro-

t bust measure. A me-
ceipt of 120 in silver or stamps.

\ dium size‘requires 3
| 7-8 yards of 36 inch
material.

“The Little. Ono’s
,

t . Outﬁt
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practical so should

 

A Unique Guimpe
Dress
3886.

 
     
 

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smart model for the
girl who likes “some- '
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cross ‘may be joined to

      
       
 

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be, then sewing-and e pe, or be ﬁn;
laundering- and 'i ed to ‘~slip on
wearing them is ove the guimpe. Jer—
easy. The 1 little sey cloth or 'prunella

dress here depicted .would be good for

 . is nice for voile, this style. The sleeve
" dawn, batisne or may be in wrist or e1-,
‘ » gingham, The petti-
. , coat, and drawers

bow length. The
. gulmpe may’ be of -
may be of cambric. Fongee or crepe. This
lawn or crepe. , s a splen id style for
The pattern is cut. wals‘g fabr cs.; - i' 
in 5 sizes; 6 months, ‘ ‘ e pattern is cut
requires- in 4 sizes: .‘3, 10, 1

 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  

  
  
  
    
  
  
  

 

 

and 1.4 ears. A 10-
reQuires‘i 7-8,y,ard,, and the drawors 1 car ,sze requires ,.
yard {for a 2, year.,size, o'r_ ruffles of * 8-4’yard of 32 inch
embroidery on nett’icoat and dress, 2 1—; material...,_ for > the , a ’

wolr’lhesaui De. and/23.x

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dress and any expense that might be in-
curred Thank ”

you—Mrs. Fred A. Peter-

"son; rial-bar Beach, n.1, men.

I' am publishing your
that Miss Z. B. M. of Ohio may write
.to you herself. I thought that the
address was mailed to you several
weeks. ago. Is it possible that the

letter went astray? Perhaps I did ,

not have your address correct.

 

' .5 FOR wnoormo oooen.

For whooping cough steep . chestnut
leaves, Take the tea, put enoughbrown
sugar in it to make a thick, syrup and
willeln boiled dOWn give every once .‘in a.
w e. v -

I cook my pork hams and shoulders'
and pack tight in cans. Fill up with broth
and seal, it is ﬁne, Keeps well, Would
like someone to send recipe for canning
lli‘eewailghout cold ' g.—A Reader of

 

FOR RANCH) LABD

In answer to an inquiry in your paper
for a way of treating lard that has be-
come rancid. I wish to tell you how we
succeeded in an experiment. '
following the advice of a butcher who
told us to reeheat the lard. being care-
ful “not to ﬁll the kettle more than
three-fourths full. When hot, put in a
large handful of salt, stir well for a few
minutes. remove from ﬁre and strain.
The salt will settletothe bottom of the;
kettle, and the lard, will not taste at all
of salt, but will be much improve .

Has anyone a good recipe for dried ~
beef which they wish to contribute"
A Muskegon County Reader.

*— \
DARK damn, I

I can a most ineerested reader of the
M. B. F. and ﬁnd so many useful hints. '
gram .  requestls‘akdarktwmk? recipe.

w sen mine. es. 0 er or
nice loaf oaks. ’ ay 5

3 tablespoons shorten
(brown is best), yolk 1 egg 1 cup
ﬂour. 2 teaspoons baking pow er. 1-4
teaspoon salt, 1-2 teaspoon auspice, 1
teaspoon cinnamon. 2 tablespoons cocoa.

, England Crullers. . ’

1 cup sugar,.white; 1&2 cup thick sour
cream or-soft lard or butter. 6 or 6 cups
ﬂour, eggs, 2 1-2 cups sour milk or
buttermilk is best, 1 rounded teaspoonful
soda, 1 tablespoonfui vinegar. 1 tea-
spoonful nutmeg or mace. Fry the same
as doughnuts, Place in stone jar. They

y will keep freSh for ,a week or more. I
ﬁnd they are nicer than any others I
r tried—From A Reader.

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T0 MRS. S, A. T'., MATHERTON, MIC]!
I would like your moccasin ‘ttem
for baby. Thank you, . - 
Can anyone tell me what will take
the stains off whiteoil ‘cloth, also what
will clean French “ivory and ’make. it
look like new? I would like. a. recipe
for} ginger bread, also a recipe for .a
good jelly-roll cake. ‘ '
' Here is a good dressing ftfr lettuce
(for three): 1-2 cup of sour or sweet
cream (whip cream), 1 teaspoon of pre-
pared mustard, 2 teaspoons of sugar, add
salt and sprinkle with celery salt. and

paprika. D
- Hand Lotion
The juice of two lemons, strained: 4.
oz. of glycerine, 4 'oz. of rose Water,
French Dressilig
1 cup of sugar, 1 teaspoon mustard,
g-gt telazpoori) tamerlc powder. 1. teaspoon
a . - cu negar, , e. um
butter the size of a w‘alnuefg D Of
, If all of us farmer wives would try
and. send our good recipes-and helpful
hints to the- woman’s page, we would
help 0 r editor in. making up a more
interest ng and helpful page. Let’s all
--Mrs_ F.,G. . ‘

 

‘ ELDERBERBY PLANTS
I have been a.rea.der'of the M. B. F.
for some time and must say I enjoy

reading it I always ‘turn to the F

by sending to‘ .W. N.‘ Sea 3
New: Carlisle, Ohio. "I‘hey will send 111?!“
a catalog free on request,» The
berries are described on page 18 of 1922

catalog. I will close, honingB I have been ’

a littlevhelph—Mrs. IR. 8

 

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Pair build some? 'I know you all love I
sht the "birds. And it is very easy to
,build a house and it will show the
-birds they are welcome.‘ For the
and ,little wren you can make a ﬁne
a,” home from an old can which con-
:ile‘d- I . tained coiIee. Or if your mother
 _. ever buys any edibies in tin cans
d I you can make very satisfactory
ﬁle ., homes. from them for the maps.
‘23: .. Remove the entire end that has
in. ; been cut in“ opening. Take a piece
ter- . ,of 1—2 inch board and“ cut out a
. round piece that will ﬁt in this end.
39' V .' Bore ’a hole 1 inch in diameter in
me _ this board neurone edge. Fit the
the heard in the can and nail, then fast-
iral on can to a tree or under the eaves
the r of -the porch, turning the can so
did . .' that vwhen it is nailed the opening-
- will be at the upper edge. The can
should not be more than 10 feet
.from the ground.. .
:ﬁg ' Most ‘of you no doubt know much
and - . I about building houses from, pieces
I: a. .of boards and that all the todls you
lers, need are, jackknife,‘ saw and ham-
Oth mer so I am going to leave it to you
.uldN ' to decide as to the different designs
ins and styles. There are some measure-
°£ ' menrts you must follow, however, if
you wish to attract your feathered
' friends. Inbuiiding‘ a house for the
per wren the inside ﬂoor space should
be- , be at least 4x4 inches; the height
lg“ ~ ’ inside, 6 to 8 inches; diameter of en—
mi; trance, 1 inch; height of hole above
.re- ﬂoor, 4 to 6 inches; and height of
:31) ~ ’ house from ground 6 to 10 feet. This
re; heme will also do for the chickadee. '
Lin, . ‘The house for the bluebird‘ must
the? I have ﬂoor space amounting to 5x5
3'11 inches; height, inside, 8 to 10
186. inches; diameter of entrance 1 1-2
-— ' inches; height of hole above ﬂoor,
6-.to 8 inches, and height: of house
from ground, ‘5 to 10 feet.
the ‘ These measurements will give you
ts. - something to work from and in
.36. , - building houses for other birds you
°" ' )can work according to the size of
par the bird compared with the wren or
mp - the bluebird. But do build some
1': because you know the world seems
0a. , brighter and you are happier when
’ there are many birds about. And
mr crops, .gardens and fruits will be
1'13: better because the birds will kill the
m worms, bugs‘ and other pests. ——
aa- ‘ M UNCLE NED.
me ‘ .
“9% ’ OUR BOYS AND GIRLS
: I Dear; Uuncie Ned—I am writing to
ask you if I can join your merry circle?
. - _ Lam a girl 10 years of age and I am in
3“ ﬁle seventh rade at school. I will de-
lm j scribe mysel so if anyone sees me they
' , will know me. I have light hair, blue
Re , eyes and fair complexion. .I live on the
at Henry Ford farm of 1,620 acres. It has
it 21 buildings on it. My birthday comes
- Se tember 17. - I will be 11. Have I a
'9: A tw ? I wish someofthe cousins would
' write to me. I live 6 miles from Harri-
ce : son and 3-4 of a mile v from; school.
.et ’ I walk to school every day. "We have
,e_ ‘ ' 45 pupils in our school, We have a. Ford
dd sedan and a phonograph and _I expect
ad ' to have a piano and then I am going

to take music lessons. For pets I have
‘ . ,a dog named Sandy and a cat named
4 . Sue. We 'had a valentine box at school
‘ and I got 13 valentines. We have a

getland' pony, I do gymnastic stunts in _

e summer. My favorite sport is
'd. , skating. I have one brother and three
"I - sisters.—-Gladys Bruce, 1 R.“ 1, Harrison,
0! Mich. ‘ _
’V Dear Uncle Ned—I enjoy reading the
111 - * Children’s Hour. ‘1 will tell about the
‘d ‘, nice trip we took two years ago last
F3 August. We went to the Smith’s reunion
L11 We drove our Ford through and it can

surely climb the hills. The reunion was
in Pra'atsburg, N, Y. We stopped at the
Niagara Falls. I think the falls are very
pretty. We ~camped out three nights
going and coming back we camped out
two nights. If you want to see the sights
I am seven years old this

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Smith. St. Louis. :Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned—My, father takes the
M. B. F. and I likethe Children’s Hour
. well. I .am a girl nine ears old
  am in the third grade, I vs 
sisters and three brothers. We live'ou

  
  
  
 

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. love to Uncle Ned and .the cousins. —
Lucile Carpenter, R: 3,
' Dear Unlec Ned—May I join your mer—
ry circle? I live three miles from Alto.
I have a brother rind a sister. My sister
is older than I am and my- brother
younger, We live on an 80-acre farm.
We have 6 Cows and 3 horses.
dogs but have 2 cats. My brother
h' _ have a’ calf which
father gave to ,us. We each have eight
oils. in bank

, and in the eighth grade at school.

nearly spring; ' Does it make. C°lm' Mich'

' you boys think about building

lots of fun. There is a. pond on-the west
side of 'our school house.
the children have skates.
with love to cousins and Uncle Ned.—
OWen Ellis, Alto, Mich.

Hello Uncle Ned—How are you and
the cousins these days?
like the weather last week?

1 about a dozen

 

How did you

every day, and like to go. I am 11 years
old and am in the fifth and sixth grades.
my brother have a dog whose
name is Cherry and a cat whose name
is Minnie, for pets, My birthday is on
the 3lst of March.
old. Have I a twin?
farm and I like to help do the work in
the garden, and do little things around
home in the summer but in‘ winter I don’t
care very much_for‘ working outside. Ci
would rather do something in the house
, or read stories, but I like to go out side
on the ice and in the snow
with our sleigh. and dog.
of the boys and girls would write to me
and tell about their good times they have.
I will answer as many letters as I can.
Your lMailer—Lydia Hang,

1 will be 12 years
I live on a 60-acre

 

Dear Uncle Ned—May I
merry circle? I live
though I do not go on sleigh rides and
such I have good times.
eleven years and on May let I will be
I am in the 6-A grade. I have
dark brown hair and brown eyes and
Iam four feet eight inches tall.
I a twin? I must tell you abOut my pets.
Blossom and Taby.
Blossom is pure white and has blue eyes
and Taby is blue and White and he has
They are Angoras. Blos-

She was white and
I\ am_ sending a pic-
Blossom, Bluebelle and myself.
e_fore Bluebelle died. We just got
hﬁen’t a.picture
Please won’t some of my cousins write
Love to all_—Lucille
1160 Reed Place, Detroit, Mich.

 

have / two cats,

som had a sister,
died last August.
had orange eyes.

Dear Uncle Ned—I have been _ read-

 

      
       
 
    
  
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
   
 
   

 

Fo'r extra furrows

I HE'days are getting
longer. It’s time to

. think about spring plowing.

Westclox will help you get
more done each day.

Put ’em on the job at‘

night. They’ll get you there
on the dot in the morning.

There’s a lot in the old
saying that where a West-
clox is wound up the farm
will not run down.

Hunt up the man who
sells Westclox in your
town. For, after all, he sells

the most important farm
implement you can buy.
Good, honest timekeepers
—clocks and watches—at
good, honest prices.

There are nineteen
models of Westclox. Prices
range from $1 .50 to $4.75.
Look ’cm over and pick
the ones that best suit your
eye and purse.

You can tell them by the
orange and buff, six-sided
tag, and the trademark,
Westclox, on the dial.

WESTERN CLOCK CO., LA SALLE, ILLINOIS, U.S.A.
Factor}.- Peru,llllnole. In Canada: WeetcruClock Co.,Limited,Pcterborough,Ont.

Baby Bnl Amer!“ Slap-Mud Jul I'Lantaru Pub: Bun

 

ing the Children's Hour in the M. B. F.

 

 

much. We lived on a
We have ﬁve

and I like it ve
farm of about 3 0 acres.

 

horses, four sows, 30 hogs and pigs, 230
sheep and lambs. we live on a four
corners so we have lots of travel.
be seventeen years old May 3rd. I am
not going to school.
and . two brothers.

works in Jackson‘and my oldest sister
is married and has a baby
y mother is dead.
father is living and doing ﬁne with farm
, I am 5 feet 3 inches tall, have
light hair and blue eyes, weigh about 120
pounds. I wiSh some of the boys and
girls would write to me.

 

I have four sisters

Your niece.—

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a boy 13 years
old, in the seventh grade at school.
go to a school called Toad Hollow be-
cause one year there was a hollow full
.of water and it was full of frogs. They
were singing very loud.

 

A woman hap—
named it Toad Hol-
, . e on a. 160—acre farm. We have
18 head of cattle. We rent the farm.
have 1-2 interest in a calf. When it was
young my father gave me his share. We

going to move to a smaller farm of
0 acres. We deliver milk in Geleshurg.\
We are going to keep the milk business
and buy our milk and we may get the
Well I will close—Lawr-
ence DeBack, Climax, R.

 

Dear Uncle Ned — May I join your
I will be 17 the 22nd of
We live on a
I have'two brothers and
one sister at home. and one sister mar-
We have a. good
tiine skating and coasting. I learned to
We had an awful sleet
.. storm last week and it broke dowmmany
There is ice all over the
ﬁelds so my brother skates to school
on not going to school this year, on ac—
count of my mother’s health. I certainly
agree with Uncle Ned about not realiz-
ing how much we think of anyone 'till
.they are at death’s door.
sister and her husband died in one day
t the Mercy Hospital,. Bay City, with
and left three
We take the M. B. F. and

merry circle?
Have I a twin?
120-acre farm.

Asp: rm

Always Say “Bayer”

Unless you see the name “Bayer” on
tablets, you are not getting genuine
Aspirin prescribed by physicians for‘
12 years and proved safe by millions.
Directions in package.

Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manu-
facture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicy-

living in Flint.
skate this winter.

$13-50 £1.50 $2.00 {3.00 $1.50
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As soon as it comes I look
for the Children's Hour. W’ishing Uncle
Ned and my cousins success '1 will close

th ice wagon weighs
2.000 pounds what does the man on the
rear end of it I
weighs the ice. May I come again? Some.
:11; thcgo {casing}! var-it‘s tgwmeﬁ—Miss Mar-
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Among the other scores of boys
who won prizes at fairs “ last year-
is H. Rollin Wood. of River Junc-.
ﬂon, Jackson county, who with his
brother captured a number of high ‘
honors at the Jackson County Fair
last fall with his herd of Shorthorns,

I consisting of two cows, two heifers,

two bulls and two yearling bulls.
Rollin's bull calf took ﬁrst place in
the boys and girls club con-test and
won second honors- in "16 open class

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3:735: herd won ﬁrst, second and third

fi‘ﬁ'“""'"‘ places in the open class. He was

am'd“"' anso awarded a. second place in the

sgﬂoﬂo state‘championship contest for beef.

‘Mongy cow and calf in the boys and girls

club contest. His story, too, should
prove or interest to the older folks
and an inspiration to the younger:

"In order to tell the story of my cattle
I must begin back three years ago, the,
summer I was thirteen. joined the
calf club and raised a grade Shorthorn
calf which I exhibited at the Jackson
County Fair, taking ﬁrst premium. That
calf I sold at the fair, ' But we learned
at the fair that it paid to keep registered
stock, so we, my younger brothers and
I, took our money we got from the sale
of the calf and our prize money and
What other Inoney we had and bought
a pure—bred cow with a calf by her side.
Before the next club started the next
year she had another calf which we
entered in the calf club and agam took
ﬁrst prize. Thar. fall our father in buy-
ing a farm and stock came into posses-
sion of three head of registered Short-
horn cattle, In the winter we sold the
calf we bought with the cow for $140.

“Taking that money andsorne other
we had managed to make we bought a
half interest in those cattle. Then father
gave us the other half. saying, ‘Go to
it, boys. and make what you can of
mem.’ l
"In June we bought two yearling heif-
ers of H. W. Darling, giving our note
for them, We believed we had a good»
chance of winning one, of the champion-
ship prizes at the fair. When we had
our cattle tuberculin tested, one of our
best cows reac‘cd to the test. Then we
did feel discouraged But soon after
Mr. Ballard. our county agent, v151ted
us. He told us that he believed we had
a. chance yet. if we put in our old cow.
So we U‘Ok hope and began to try to
get her in shape to show. The day be-
fOre the fair' we started for Jackson With
a cow twelve years old, one four, and
our two yearling heifers, two bull calves,
a yearling bull and a bull two years old,
our entire herd. But with this outﬁt we
won third place on the championship and
were allowed to show our cattle in open
class.with the men, where we won ﬁrst.
sz‘mnd and third prizes and came away
with money enough to pay our note,
It is needless to say we are planning
for next year and expect to do better.
"We feed our cattle a. few ground oats,
a little green corn, and alfalfa hay with
what green grass they get on the pasture
lot,”

NORTHERN MTC'H. SWAPS STOR-
IES ON BIGGEST STORM
(Continued« from page 5)

.and rising again on the third day

when the sun came. out and soon re-
leased the grip on the ice. Our fruit
region immediately adjacent to Tra—
verse City, including Old Mission
Peninsula was not damaged to an
appreciable extent.

“In the vicinity of Benzonia and
southward it rained hard all Wed-
nesday night, freezing as fast- as it
fell. Before midnight the weight of
the ice began to break the limbs and
the night air resounded with the

‘ snap and crack of falling branches,

trees and telephone poles. When
dayﬂight came most of the trees
were partly or wholly denuded and
others were bent over untihtheir
tops touched the ground. Tngs of
grass were changed into cylinders of
ice some two inches in diameter.
Heads of timothy projecting through
the snow would stand up like great
icicles. Fruit trees, especially ap—
ples and peaches, the broad-branch-
ing trees, were split down to the
crotch or broken Just above.
Thompsonville everything was down
and the ice on the railroad crossings
was a foot or more thick. The
story of theadamage in this locality
was told me by a friend who left
Thompsonvllle-tfor Traverse City on
Saturday, driving along the Pere
Marquette right of way. He was
obliged to make many detours be-
cause of fallen trees and telephone
poles and often cempelled to cut
trees audiences in order to tge
through. My friend, who is an or-
charth on the peninsula, had pic—
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. tion simultaneously with the sleet

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'yet completely cleared but crews are

ones. he had paSsed, but gained hope ‘

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ly reports of a. heavy snow storm
with no damage other than that us-

tall of snow. Traverse City was
fortunate. Under like circumstances
a hundred years ago we should have
had a day "of Thanksgiving and
praise for our deliveranté from the

“destruction which walked by.
night." ,
Mr Wm. A. Jenkins, proprietor

Hill Top farm, Wexford county, de—
scribes the storm as follows:

“Tuesday, Feb. 21, about 0
o’clock p. m., the wind being in the
southeast, it started to storm, with
ﬁne snow, changing to rain after
dark. - It seemed to be a great deal
warmer in the upper air than on the
ground, as it froze as soon as! it
struck. Wednesday morning we
had a nice thunder showor lasting
about three-quarters of an hour. It
rained all day without stopping to
rest, all night and nearly all day
Thursday but it. was a good bit cold-
er. Trees were loaded with ice.
Limbs of 1-4 inch in thickness were
coated with 2 to 4 inches of ice.
Roads were impassable. From 4 to
6 inChes of ice were covering the
railroad tracks. Nearly everybody
had to chop their barn doors loose.
There was thousands of dollars
damage done in weir-ford county
alone. Some windows broken. IBut
best of alll no reports of anyone be—
ing hurt. I have lived here over 25
years and do not remember of ’wit—
nessing a storm causing so much
damage. Barbed wire fences were
like woven fencing and woven wire
fences were solid ice. Mail carriers
could notget out of Manton or
Cadillac until Saturday. Brand new
telephone poles were broken off. Big
timber did not escape. Large elms
20 to 30 inches through were striped
of limbs, leaving nothing but a
straight trunk... Also other woods
likewise. The country certainly
looks like one big slashing, only
worse.”

Story of the “Big Snow"

Mrs. George Finch of Wolverine
furnishes the Business Farmer with
the following account of the great.
snow storm which struck that sec—

storm farther west:

“Northern Michigan is just recov-
ering from the greatest storm ever
experienced since the days of the big
lumber woods, but still there are
miles ‘upon miles of roads that are
so blocked *with the drifted snow
that travel .over them is impossible.
The storm began on Tuesday after-
noon gradually increasing in fury
until Thursday night late. During
the two days there was almost no
travel over any of the country roads.
Many teams which were in town on
Tuesday were compelled to wait un-
til Saturday to return home. Some
farmers who were obliged to go to
town had to snow-shoe both ways.
Train service on the Michigan Cen-
tral was cut to one train a day, but
by the incessant work of the snow-_,
plow crews the tracks were cleared
suﬂ‘iciently on the main tracks so
that regular service was resumed
Monday.

“It is truly a beautiful sight to
see the heaps and heaps of snow
piled in huge drifts 10 to 20 feet
high all over the country. Fences in
some places are completely buried
and many buildings are surrounded
by snow higher than the windows. 4
On the G. R. & D. conditions are
more severe than on the M. C., also
on the D. & M. Parties travelling
to Tower 3. week ago are still ma—
‘rooned there.

:‘Pr vperty damage was very light,
however. North of Grayling, on the ,
M. C. to Mackinaw City «there was
practically no trouble with tele-
phone service damage suoh as was
experienced .farther south where the
terriﬁc sleet and hail storm raised
such havoc. Switch tracks are not

doing dOuble duty to speed the
work. In Cheboygan the Union
Bay and Paper Mill Co. assisted in
clearing the streets for traﬁic by
hitching their big tractors onto the
snow plows and_their teams hauled
great piles of snow to the banks of
the river. The weather has not been
as cold as earlier in the winter, but
the snow has packed so (tight that

“the Home Cow Doctor.”

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from using Kow . t winter I
r just as and the valuable

polled to said to the hutch: for what we

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\ Barrenness, as well as most othe

cow diseases,
Abortion, Scouting, Bunches,
Fever. and Loss of Appetite hays th
origin in sluggish genital and digesti
organs. These are Just the o

toning up and creating healthy, no

the milk-making functions.

Don‘t wait tor actual disease:
Row-Kare on your poor milkers.
will work wonders and return
times its cost. '

feed dealer, general stare at dra ' t.
:3;st you the new reduced pri‘c‘eics

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the: one ever kn
' _ chigan but-(folks still all
2 came out smiling and'count them-
: selves far more.
neighbors farther south who have
suffered far more hardships and loss
than us.” (March 3rd). -

Mr. R. D. Bailey, county agricul-

* tural agent at Grayling: ‘ ‘
“The crossing tender
reports this the worst storm in the
history of Grayling.
loading snow onto ﬂat cars in ex-
tensive railroad yards at 'Grayling.
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here, for two weeks. Must still be
several days to" Week before road is
dug out. Farmers who bring milk
to Grayling from country skipped
Their teams
died on crust~ ten
light service here, uninjured. Fuel
supply for town abundant." (March

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Mr. Norman E. Glasser, of Gay-
lord, gives-the following graphic de-
scription of the storm at the “peak”
of loWer Michigan:

“One does not
Northern . Michigan long
that one crop wnicn never fails us
and which can be depended upon to
produce the "average yield’ annual-
ly, is the great white
snow which covers
territory in winter time. But What-
ever production records may have
been made in past seasons, they all
stand shattered by the “deluge” of
snow which has been poured out up-
on this section duriug the past two
weeks. Beginning on Monday, Feb-
ruary 20th, with a light
which at night turned to snow, the
weather continued unsettled
mid—week, when a sudden rise in the
wind became
weather settled down to an old-time

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“When the timid populace arose
the next morning
peered out, it was to gaze upon a
scene which surpassed anything in
the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
Men who have lived here for Iforty
years claim that never have they
seen snow to a greater depth on the
level than has been in evidence here
since the past week.

“Immediately after
traﬁic was practically at a standstill
for a couple of days. In many cases
the crust on the snow was of sufﬁ—
cient strength to bear the weight
of a team. and in others it would
hardly bear the weight of a man.
The result was that
pedestrian on his way to work. go-
ing along with a sense of security
and satisfaction at being

- skim over the surface, would sud-
denly break through and nearly be
lost to sight in the snow bellow. Skis
saved the day for those who were
fortunate enough to possess them
and many persons found these the
only means of transportation which

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Throughout the country everything
was practically at a_ standstill for
several days and it is only recently
that some of the main avenues of
indie have been opened up. Dre."
ging and rolling were found neces-
sary and was made
dangerous to horses by the heavy
surface crust which ,still prevai 

It was not an uncommon thing to
see a snow roller with ﬁve teams of
horses attached. Two days after
the storm subsided a funeral pro-
cession started from a country home
to the village burial ground, seven
miles distant. They had not count-
ed on conditions being. quite so. bad
and after ﬁghting their way thrOugh
for a distance of two miles. and be-
ing neanly exhausted, they found it
necessary to-put up at a farm house
for the night
journey the next :day. Railroad ser-
vice Was particularly hard hit. many
of the cuts being
ﬁlled with snow that the average
snow plow made no impression, and
it was only by putting on asuﬂici-
ent force of men to dig their Way
that service was restored.
01s on the larger
had to be hurriedly

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regret that itis not possible to “em-
balm’ part of the snow supply for
that time he knows is coming in
July when the temperature sizzles
around the 100 mark and we are
helpless and at the mercy of the ice

man."

_____.—'——————

TREES DAMAGED BY. ,ICE MAY

BE REPAIBED

(Continued from page 4)

branches broken off from the tree,
the wound should be. trimmed and'
smoothed as neatly as possible with
a gouge. and mallet. Special atten-
tion should be given to trimming
the edges of the bark neatly, parti-
cularly at the lower part of such
a wound, because growth proceeds
from the top and sides. more than
from the bottom. Ragged stubs
and broken edges of the bark should
be‘trimmed out at the bottom of the

Wound. The splintered

should be removed, leaving a smooth
surface for the healing-in margin
of the wound to cover. The bot—
tom should end in an elliptical or
V-shaped point from which

water can rapidly escape.

The exposed wood on all the scars
where branches are broken and on
all pruning wounds more than three—
fourths of an inch in diameter or
which‘ may be expected to take more
than one year to heal should be
painted at once with a good wound
paint. A mixture of 1—4 to '1—3 creo-
sote oil and 2—3 to 3—4 ordinary coal
tar has proved very satisfactory,
since it is both a disinfectant and
a waterproof covering It is slight—
ly injurious to the cut edges of the
bark and while this may not be seri—
ous and is readily overgrown, if one
wishes to get the best results, a coat
'of shellac should begapplied to this
cut edge of the bark and also a
half inch or so on the sap wood be—
fore the tar and creosote tar is ap-
plied. The coal-tar and creosote
are the ordinary commercial ma-
terials purchased at the paint stores.
The mixture should be made as thick
as -a very thick paint and is best
applied with a stiff brush.
wounds should be kept painted an—
nually until they are healed, though
once in two years will perhaps suf-

ﬁce. ‘

Grafting May Hasten Recovery

The. recovery ,of badly broken
trees can be' hastened somewhat by

inserting grafts according

usual methods of grafting

trees, though perhaps the

may not always be in the usual
positions; Cut stubs can be grafted
with two or more scions, either of
the same or of a new variety.
scions for this purpose should be
saved while the trees are still per-
fectly dormant, but the grafting is
best done while the buds are swell-

ing.

Large injuries on the trunks of
the trees can be covered by bridge
grafting. This consists of inserting
long whip—like scions above and be-
low the wound so as to completely
bridge it over. By this method the
trees can be greatly strengthened.
It may be necessary to cut back the
tops even more than ordinarily to
prevent the wind from pulling the
grafts out, and possibly to support
the grafted tree top by posts and
wires after the method used in sup-
porting telegraph poles. The coal-
tar creosote tree paint should never
be used in contact with the cut sur-
faces of grafts, but only grafting
wax, since this tree paint will kill
the cut surfaces and prevent the
union of the scion and the stock.

Farmers Bulletin 710,

Grafting of Fruit Trees. contains in-
formation regarding this practice.

All the pruning and tree surgery _
above suggested, except the graft-
ing, should be done during the dor-
, mant season before the» buds stroll
and the bark begins to slip. The
grafting. on the other hand, should
be done after the buds begin to
swell and as soon as possible after
the bar! beggars to slip, using scions,
however, that are-perfectly dormant.

  

 especially casinos reports
indicate that Otsego county [was not
as hard hit as? some other sections
- which suffered as a result of the ice
storm. As one gazes down our main
street, however, and views the great
piles of snowbn either side, he is
likely to be seized with a leeliug of

   

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1922 sales. We would like to sell for you. We
have one price for both of us and its right.
Select your date: don’t put it off: write today.
Address either of us.

HOFFMAN
Mich.

In the rins.
selling pure bred his
and
sell

STOCK AUCTIONEERS
J T.

Hudson.

U-Need-A Practical Competent Auctioneer

to insure your next sale being e succese_
Employ the one Auctioneer who can ﬁll
the bill at 0. price in keeping with prevailing

nditicns.

co Satisfaction GUARANTEED or NO CHARG—
ES MADE. Terms $50.00 sud sctml ex-
penses per ssle. The same price end service
one.
to I“:ng in selling Polends. Daron. end
Cheaters. Let me reserve is 1922-dste for you.
'te or wire. .
Wl-IlARRV A. EOKHARDT. Dallas City. Illinois

. JOHN P. HUTTOII

LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEER
ADVANCE DATES SOLICITED.
ADDRESS 118 W. LAPEER ST.
LANSING. MIGH.

' c'mrr

HoLsmm-FRIESIAN

 

   

   
  

y or elven?» must be received one week before to
today ) '

BREEDERS DIRECTORY! THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, ‘ M‘- OIOMOHQ. Michigan. ”

."OLSTEIN GALVES. 1 weeks old. 81l-82nde

pure. Tub: Tested, $25.00 each. creted for

shipment on here. Satisfaction guaranteed.
EDGEW OD FARMS. Whitewater, ‘Wls.

1 YEAHLIIIG BULL cinemas .

Sired by Segis Korndyke De Ni-Jlsnder. s
lb. son of s 'twioe Michigan ribbon winner . er
dam. 29 1-2 lbs. Dsms are daughters of K
Sells Pontlsc. e 37 lb. son of King Hem. R

ords 18 lbs. to 30 lbs. Priced at half velue.
f$10?j t.111). Federally tested June 10. Write
or s '

ALBERT G. WADE. White Pigeon. Mich.

' '. SOLD AGAII

Bull cslf lest deertised sold but hove 2 more

t ere mostly white. They ere nice strsisht fel-
lows sired by s son of King Ons. One I! from
I II lb. 3 yr. old dem end the other is_ from s
so lb. Jr. 3 yr. old dun. she is by t non of
.l‘riend Hengerveld De Kcl Butter Boy. 0'1° 0‘
the sreet bulls.

JAMES HOPSON JR.. Owosso. Mleh.. R 3-

F airlawn Herd—Holstein

Herd sire. Ediblncnoerd 'Lliith champion 1oeo1s

His sire's dam Colenthe 4th's Johanna. world!
ﬁrst 35 lb. cow. and world’s first 1.200Ilb. cow.
The 0 cow that ever held sil worlds butler
records rom one day to one year. end the world!
yearly milk record at the some time. His dam
Lilith Piebe De Kol No. 93710. over 1,150. 1b!-
of butter from 29599.4 pounds of milk in s
yesr. World’s 2nd highest milk record when_
mode and Michigan state record (or 6 year!- 0111!
one Michigan cow with higher milk record “d8!-
Hjs two nearest dams events:

 1,199.22
Edy".f??.??i.232222........28.515.e
Cbsmp’s sons from choice A. R. 0. demo wrll

edd prestige to end money to your

purse.
J. F. IliEMiiii
Owner
Flint. Mich.

- ED BULL
HOLSTEIII FBIESI '"3155? tuberculin
tested herd. Prices are right.
'LARRO RESEARCH FARM. Box A North End.
. ’Detroit. Michigan.

HOLSTEIII BULL DALE $25

from a heavy milking Grade Cow bred to our

Herd Sire 'King Segis Pontiac Komdyke. Just

be quick. He is a. dandy, looks like his father.
SGHAFFER BROS" Leonard. Mich" R 1

your herd

0R SALE—TWO BULL OALVEB, A HOL-
tein and Durham about 3 months old. Both

hove heavy milking dsms. Not registered. 850
each if takenst once.
CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariette. Mich

 

REGISTERED HOLSTEIIIS “33°13:

gout next years bull is interesting. 24 lb_ dam
2 iron .
J ' M WILLIAMS, No. Adams, Mlch_

HOLSTE’III BULL 3°“ °°T- 13'- 1921

Dam is sired by. s 80
lb_ Bull end out of e 22 lb. daughter of s 21
lb. cow, $50 delivered your station_

EARL PETERS. North Bradley. Mich.

SHORTHOiiN S

r SHORTH N O T'I'LE DU—
 roc JerseyOIIJ‘ogs sAnd Percheron
Horses. Quality st the right '

’OHASLEN FARMS. No

 

 

 

 

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hvlllo, Mich.

 

SHOW BULL

Shed by s Pontiac Augie Korndyho-Henger—
void DeKcl hill from s hourly 19 lb. show
cow. first {ﬁll Junior cell. 3m Mr,
1020. high  end good individusl
Seven months Price 8125 to rush
room. Hurryi

Bord under Peder-cl Supervision.

BOADDHAII FARMS .

JAOKSON. MIOH.

new Breeders Since 1.0.

 

 

 

| AM OFFERING LIGHT COLORED HOL-
etoin-Ii‘rieeisn bull 1 year old from 21.51 lb.
dem snd ﬁre whoeevsix nearest dams ere 88.84
lbs. butter. Bord under stste end federsl sup-

ervision.
Oscar Welnn. Wiscoeln Perm. Unlonvlllo, Mich.

 

 

russo'n srocx FAiiI '

Breeders oLReg‘istered Holstein
cattle and Berkshire Hogs.

Everything guaranteed, wrclte
me your won-ts or- come and see'

them.
ROY F. FICKIES
Chesaning. Mich.

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OME GOOD YOUNG REGISTERED "OI-n,

stein cows. size, good color. bred
Erodb hefsomJulytoDecember. Most.

from A. B. 0. stock. rices reasonable as!
every one to e exactly es repro-
W I. J. BOOM

Plnckney. Mich.

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mums 5mm ssomms

Registered stock of al‘ ages and both sex. Herd

headed by the imported bull, ‘Kelmscoti: Vise

count 25th. 848.563. Prices reasonable.
LUNDV BROS., R4. Davison. Mich.

 

HORTHORN CATTLE AND oxronb DOWN

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write out what you have to offer. let us put A In typo. ehow.you i proof end tell you whet It will
' lure of ed. or copy or often so on with. Oop a.

  

"mums" smart...“ rsrttm‘MU': '
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’ Breedere' Auot

SHORTHORNS end POLAND CHINAS: We are

- now offering two ten-months-old bulls. one

bred heifer. ‘snd two ten—months-old heifers.
corvsz pence" St. Louis. Mich.

IAT'I'EII'I'IOII SHOIITHDBII BUYERS

you went 9. reel herd bull or some good
heifers bred. to Perfection Heir. write
Satisfaddon guaranteed,
8. H PANGBORN & SON
8 ml_ out Bed Axe, Mich.

DUROOS AND SHORTHORNS, BRED GILTS.
yearlinge and two year olds. few good bosrs.
bull calf 8 Weeks old, good cow with heifer calf,
Severed bred heifers.

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more snonmonns ...::.:".:.“ ..

Vice. tuberculin te end st bureau prices.
W. S. HUB R. Gledwin. ich.
- \

Accnsorren HERD or snonn‘lonue. e
d cart? I d’blut‘lls, J1 1otut of en Imp. 00"» In
re Y X n 8!.

JOHN sci-limo? supsou. Reed City.

WATERLILY STODK FARM

oﬂ'ers 4 fine Reg. Shorthorn. Bulls from 10 to 22
mo. old at bargain prices;
THEODORE menus. Metamom "1°"-

Mich.

 

JERSEYS ‘
NE or ouw MAJESTY BULLS WOULD Ill.
prove your herd.
P. nonmme'ron. Ionic. Mich.

FRANK
HEREFORDS

.-BEEF
'- PRODUCERE

Michigan» Produces the World's
Best Beef st the Lowest Cost.
Raise for better feeding Cattle

than you can buy, Grow Bsby
M and

“be BeAef Iamen gains ﬁesth lgst'mIn
r .
their, shrink. b'ruiszg cohesioyse. n w “I
SOTHAM’S EARLIRIPE
BEEF CONTRACT ~
Solves your problem—insures your success_ A
fair Intelligent, satisfying system evolved from
81 years conscientious service to Americen 0st-
tle Industry by three generations of Botheme.
GET THE FACTS_ Write now o'r wire. Address
’1‘. F. B. SOTHAM & SON

(Cattle Business Established 1835)
Phone 250, SAINT CLAIR. MICHIGAN

 

  
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

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DEEN
ANGUS ’

 

 

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Iheev. .Both sex for sole.
'I' " D'o‘amo' "M'- m‘"- The reward of pure breeding: thenc-
W _ ::' L ‘ of quellty_ Success hes
OR BALE—REGISTERED SHORTHORNs ' again contributed more lsur'eis to the

end Duroc ’Jersey spring pigs. either sex: two
red bulls. one 11 months and one 5 months old.
Severe] heifers from 6 months  2 years old.
rees
W. ARNOLD or JARED ARNOLD
Willismsbul‘c. R 1. Michigan

m HEAL summon

 

HERD BULLS

FOR SALE
15 mo. old and sired by Imp. Dainty Prince.
' W. .W. KNAPP, Howell. Mich.

 

EXTRA GOOD BULL OALVES FOR SALE.
From the Maple Ridge herd of Estes Short-

 

horns. Celved in September 1920.
J. E. 'I'ANSWELL. Mason. Michigan.
COWS. HEIFERS. BULLS

 offered st sttrsctiye pried

before anusry first. Will trsde for good lend.
' Wm. J. BELL. Rose City. Mich.

; ran POLLED suonrums

Shropshire. Bouthdown sud Cheviot rams write to
L. O.-KELLV A SON. Plymouth, Mich.

FHAIIOISDD FARM SHOBTHOIIIIS
AID DIG TYPE POLAIID OHIIIAS

Now oﬂﬂinlz—Jl‘hrec bulls ready for service.
Mastodon. Clsnsmsn, Emanclpetor breeding in
gilts bred for spring furrow. See them.

pore seamless to

Mt. Pleasant. Michigan

EPEIIITEDmSHOBTl-iomi OUALILY‘.

, judicious mixture of
Just blood lines known to the breed. Write t
JOHN LESSITER’S SONS, '
' clerkston. Mich.

. scours alumnus
awfc.“ t" m my .329:

 

 

 

 

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siready’ remarkable record 0

THE SIRE SUPREME

At the international Live Stock Exposi-
tlon, where gathers each year the elite
~' North American Gettledom to com.
pr“ for the covotous awards, ﬁve more
honors have been bestowed upon the "get"
«if Edgar of Deimcnv,

You too may share these honors. A bull l
by this world famous sire will prove a
most valuable asset to your herd

Write us todﬂ. p
WILDWOOD FARMS
ORION, MIOHIGAN_
w E. Scrlpps. Prop. Sidney Smith. Mgr.
Emil

ODDIE FARMS ANGUS of both sex for- sale,
Herd headed by Berdell 81910, 1920 Int“.
actions] Jr. Champion. :
Or. a. R. Mertln A Son. North Street. Mich.

, EOISTERED ABERDEEN-Alﬂuo—IULLS.
Heifers end cows for Isle. -

riced to move. Inspection invited.‘
RUSSELL BRO!" Merrill. Mlohloen

GUERNSEYS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a REGISTERED GUERNSEY COWS AGE ..
tron: d.

 

GUERNSEY BULLS. 1 REGISTERED. 2

 e"bl. . nﬂn
mﬂhgfndiAges 2mc toilmonths.

w. o. KAHLER'. cons. 

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shortlcn. electrician)
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cows:
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_ B. LUDLOW. Rolling Prairie. Ind: f.

noes one costumes rum... ».

i

This ‘ is, Actinp‘my 00313 .7 or .“lumpy
few." When this disease first makes

  

from one to two dram doses three
times daily is nothing short of'mare
velous in. some cases. The treat-
ment of that form which has gone

and ' the bone itself is not so
satisfactory and requires a - surr
gical operation. That this may

be safely and thoroughly done it ,is
necessary to cast the animal. I
might add this operation should Only
be undertaken by a. qualiﬁed veteri-
narian. Having cast the patient the
veterinarian incises the tumor near
the most dependent part, using an
absess knife and’ making a incision
not more than one inch in length.
The incision is carried well into the
center of the tumor and the interior
is then thoroughly cur-atted. This
is a painful operation and is «best
performed .under anesthetics. When
this has been done a gauzeor cotton
wad, which has been saturated in
a. ten per cent solution of chromium
trioxide, is packed firmly into the
cavity and the animal is allowed to
get up. In most cases this completes
the local treatment in this form of
the disease. After a. week or ten
days the entire mass of diseased
tissue drops out and leaves but little
scar. The internal treatment is to
consist of giving the potassium iodid
as above described.

WEAVER

Our seven-year—old mare
the stable and weaves her head back and
forth. not all the time but is growing
worse. She seems to be well but lazy.
Is this a. habit and how can she be brok-
en of it? If not a. habit what is the
cause? One quack veterinarian said there
were teeth that should be removed—G.
P., Marion, Mich.

_ Cut out the quacks, you know just
as much about your 'animals, and no
doubt more than they. do; what you
don’t know they only have to guess
at. Your horse is what is known as

 

"or less than a habit. Remove manger
and let this animal have the liberty
of a box stall. Nothing wrong with
the teeth. _ _ ' /
RATION FOR SOWS

We have two sows, age 10 months.
due to furrow April 28th. We are feed-
ing them. together, 24 quarts of sweet
skim milk twice per day. Nothing else,
What is your opinion of such a ration
for these sows? They are in the best
of condition and spirits apparently.
Would it be better to mix some bran-or
middling‘s in their milk? If so’ how much?
Would it be good policy to mix some salt
in their feed or just throw. in a lump
in the pen?——-P. R...Grs.nt, R. a. 

By all means feed middlings with
the milk. Salt must be fed very cau-
tiously to hogs as an over .feed will
often cause death. Good clean
quarters and plenty of dry bedding
are indispensable. "_ ~

PIGS NEED CHANGE OF 

Could you advise me what to do 102
my pigs?‘ I have a. bunch of eight that
I am feeding cents in the morning. boiled
potatoes at noon and corn at night. may
are unboqu 2:0 1mainths t1old: The are
get go, one so eycanlzss-diy
walk—Ai Reader of M. B. I“.

Feed these. pigs skim milk and
middlings, provide good warm, well
ventilaited quarters with plenty of
dry straw for bedding and your pigs
will do well. ‘

O
STERIIJTY

We have six cows and have taken them
elltothelmllanordtimeseammd
they have come in heat every week ~cr
1" at? SEES? . " ‘ié‘ﬁi
(an ey an
at the same time r—_—w. Leonenmgy. m.

You do not state whether or not.
you have used more than the one
bull, if not I Would suggest you try
another bull. lit maybe the one
you are using isnot proliﬁc. If you

 

 

I-would “ssyyeu have. 
your herd  be 
modiﬁed  at" ' j

 or' rum-ll.

 of  ’

 

   

its appearance, and tie conﬂnedto '
the soft tissues the results obtained
/fr‘om the use of potaSSium iodid in ’

on and invaded the dense tissues.

stands in ‘.

a weaver and this is nothing more.

are sure the  isproductiye, that: ,

      
   
    
   

    
  
 

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bred
June
your

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poin'
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ty is temporary in character, de-

pending probabtly upon the relative

"activity. ot'the. diseased condition

within the uterus: after one or two

seasons of 'barrenness the cow will
again become pregnant. Many cases,
however, terminate» in permanent
worthlessness of the cow ior breed-
ing or dairy purposes. You should
have your herd examined by a quali-

’ ﬂed veterinarian. '

 

BELIEVE IT IS ABSOESS
I‘m a reader of your paper and like
21 very much. Id  writ for a little
vise in regar one 0
which has a swelling ’or lump about the
size of a quart bowl just below the rump
bone. It has been there about two weeks.
It does not seem to get larger or small-

er.——-A Subscriber, Marion. Mich. _
I am inclined to believe this is an

abscess and if so should be opened.

~Shave the entire enlargement, wash

thoroughly with any good antiseptic
then paint with iodine and make a
good dependent opening Mfﬁciently
large to allow proper drni. ,3. Then
syringe cut good once daily using
one tablespoonful creolin to one pint
of water. Boil the knife yo use to
be sure not to cause infecti n.

 

 

,MACK'S NOTES

 

James Napier. who has been in charge
of the Richland Shorthorn herd at Tawas
City. has accepted a sition with the
Saba-Bar Farms. at rain Valley. Mo.
Robert Bothnie, who has been associated
with Mr. Napier for the past two years
will. hereafter. «be in full charge as
herdsman for the Prescott firm,

The foot and mouth disease is still
raging among the herds of England and
a. large number of outbreaks have been
noted in Scotland, in one period of 34
hours. recently. 67 outbreaks of the dread
disease were reported. The tr‘rtirrtant
spring sales of pedigreed cattle Perth
and Aberdeen. arrangements for which
had already been made. have been post-

. poned. indefinitely.

Parker Bros. out Niles. we)... held
a very successful auction sale of Berk-
shire hogs. late in January and make the
announcement that they will hold another
in August. 1922. At the recent sale of
32 large type Berkshire bred sows, the
average was $120; the highest price was
paid by F. R, ahon, Altoona, Pa...
for Manchester Riyal Lady, a sow with
wonderful scale and outstanding quality.

Geo. A, Prescott, Jr,, who directs the
breeding and sale activities on Richland
Farms, near 'I‘awas City. where the ﬁrm
of C H. Prescott A Sons. is develop-
ing a wonderful herd of Shorthorn cat-
tle, announces an auction sale of pure-
bred bulls and heifers for the month of
June, 1922. The writer has seen these
youngsters and can recommend. them to

- anyone who desires to purchase high-

grade foundation stock, from the stand-
point of individual excellence and the
ponnlar Shorthorn blood lines which they
represent. the oahtle scheduled for this
spring sale are above criticism,

 

THE MONROE rmnoo SALE

An auction sale of pure-bred Duroo
hogs was held on the Plum Creek Stock
Farm of F. J. Drodt. Monroe. Mlch., on
Friday. March 3, The name of the ﬁrm
making the sale was Drodt & Berna.
Mr, Berna being the member of the ﬁrm
in charge of the herd. The oﬂering was
made up of tried sows. spring yearlings.
fall ywlings and spring gilts. Col. E
L. Ingleheart from Elizavbetirrtown. Kern,

‘was the auctioneer and Hayden Ingle-

heart. from the same city, had charge of
the ring Work, Paul H. Gihnan. Peters-‘
burg, Mlch., was the clerk. The Duroc
Bulletin was represented“ by W. P,
Penry. Randor. Ohio, The Michigan Bus-
iness Farmer. Mt. Clemens, Mich_. was
represented by H. H. Mack.

The animals In the sale were of the
best blood lines known to the Duroc breed
and they 'Were the very last word in

mellowness and general ﬁtness for auc- '

tion offering, The spring and fall year-
lings averaged a. little less than $70 and

the spring gilts about $48. One of the

most appreciated features of the sale -

was the splendid-dinner which was served
to the large crowd in attendance,

The names and addresses of the buyers
are as follows: Harlan Wilt, A. T,
Murphy. Edward Handl 1v, G, F. Putnam,
Howard Linn and H. S. Graig. all of
Britton; G. L. Burke, F. Jackson. Al-
bery Cronenwettof Dundee. S, R. Bird
F. L. Wood. Paul H..Gilrna.n and
Bamm of Patersburg.‘ Mld1.. E. H. Mill-
er, B. S. Knapp, Lewis Heorl, Ed.
Schroeder and W. C. Craney of Monroe.
Charles Mortke. New Boston , Harry T.
Wagner, Flat Rock Ellery King. Leon-'
am, A. A. Ding. Biiasneid. w. Zimmer-
mann. La Salle and George Wilir‘nan.
Ida. Michigan. ‘

THE NYE 'IOLS‘I'EIN SALE
0n Thursda '. March 2. (mail herd
of pure-bred olstein. mttle was sold on
the farm of James Nye. northwest of

 

  

 

   
 

   

   

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Pontiac. inst. ott Oakland ayenue. and

' the outer. and "cities new pave- 'v
near toThe . auctioneer  ‘IIEIai-ry Rob- _.
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frequently terminate in barren- V,
In other instances the sterili-

my cows

m...

ass-rs
Cyril Olliver

do _
a" l of Pontiac. M.

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ton and E. E. Van-tin of trait, who

grid the top price. $237.60 The next
ghost price was paid by, A. E. Hardy
tho, stlrgisight ’ a ﬁne two-year-old heifer
or .

PURE BRED STOCK

Reading along in Mack’s notes I
see where Err-Governor F. 0. Low-
den talks about pure bred stock
among farmers. I‘t certame is «hard
to get some started. I believe in
pure bred stock myself, whether for
beef or dairy purpose which it may
be, I don’t mean you all have to have
thes same kind of‘ breeds, there is
quite a number of both kind, also
the same way in swine. There has
been some registered swine and bulls
purchased here, and the owners did
not dare charge 50c more for pigs
than’ they do for scrubs, if he did
say I can get them cheaper to so-and-
so. It seems to make no diﬂerence
about the breed, and the same way
in cattle line, one of our neighbors
purchased a registered Durham bull,
paid a big price for him, and' he only
charged 500 more for the service
of him than they did for their
scrubs, but this man was obliged to
sell him or just keep him for his own
use, of which he did for a while.
But that 50c was a heart breaker.
Pure breed stock ’for me.—A Sub-
scriber, Lake Co.

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Carter of Flint; Roy Farrel§beof Clarke- .

ASSOCIATION. Hereford. Sher-thorn. Jet-so!
tein cattle; Duroe-Jeney.8§oland Chino

hogs: Oxford. opshiro and
Hampshire sheep. ‘ -
A place to buy good breeding stock at reason-

bie prices.
FRED B. BWINEHART. O. E. ATWATER
Presldent Secretary
Giadwln. Mlch.

 

BRED GILTS now ready to ship. bred to boar-co!
Bob Clansman. Defender and Joe breeding at
farmers prices. H. 0. Swartz. Schoolcraft. Mlch.

BUIIHS IIT HALF PRICE.

bred in the purple, sired by Buster.

A Giant and Butler’s Big Bob. No better

bmdlnr. A big rugged, big-boned boar ready

for service.  for $25.00—830.00.
JNO O. BUTLER. Portland. Mlch.

 

BIG TYPE
Poland Ohlnas

.‘..... a... mound:

 SAL

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'2.“ 3'53, “"1 ....‘°*....”"..
to an 0 ~
cows to famw in spring beginningm Cth.‘
Always satisfaotlon or manor back.

I. E. KIES. llledolo. Mlch.

 

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[MST-TIRES ,

An Opportunity To Buy
Hampshires Right

We are offering some good sows and glitz. I’M
Ior March .and April fartowing.‘ Also a tad
ch01“ fall Digs, either sex. Write or call
. GU” THOMAS. New L‘othrop. MID”.

H‘MPSHIBES LOOK! THE ornrpul'i‘ or

20 brood 30" 3°
JOHN w. suvosn. R 4, St. John. Mlch-

 

 

 

IG TYPE B. c. SPRING. PIGS EITHER SEX
from lam growthy am and sized by choice

herd boars. Come and see our stock. prlce'
reasonable.
L. W. BARNES ‘ CON. Byron, Mlch.

 

the 1920 Grand Champion and to Pros—
pect by Liberator Buster the 1921 Grand
Champion They will start you right the
breeding industry. Exceptional burnin- Write
for prices.

HILLCREST FARM!
F. B. LAY. Kalamazoo. Mlch.

 

Ill TYPE POLAND CHIHAS

Spring pigs all sold. For fall pigs, write
W. CALDWELL & SON. Springport. Mlch.

Big Type F. c. Saws bred to Big Bob Mastodon,
gills bred to a son of Peter Pan. that sold for
$1 cash .

 

 

 

.075 Jan. 0. E. GARNAN'I‘. Elton
Rapids, Mich.
DUBOGB
  EXTRA FINE SEPT AND OCT
pigs, either sex, priced right_
HARLEY FOOR a SONS.
Gladwin. Mlch.. R 1_

 

 

 

The Experience Pool

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brine yomI everyday problems In and on
the experience of other far-men. Questions ad-
dressed to thle department are published hero
and answered by you. our , who aro
graduates of. the School of Hard Knocks and
who have their diplomas from the College of
Experience. If you don't want our odltor'o

loo or on expert’s advice, but Just plain.
everythy buolnou advloo. send In
your question here. We will publlsh one
each week. If you can answer the other
fellow‘e question. please do so, he may ans-
wer on; of your: Two‘s?! Address Expeh
Ionoo oo. care noes Farmer Ill
Olanono. Mlch. ' I'

 

 

 

HOUSES 0F HOLLOW TILE
In a recent issue of the Business Farm-
er I noticed an inquiry from R_ 0,.
Ithaca, Mlch.. in regard to houses built
tile. We have one built of N‘atco hollow
tile in 1918 with which we are well
pleased and would be pleased to show him
if he desrred. We are loca‘ed 4 miles
west and one mile north of Chesaning.
or 4 miles south and l mzle east of Brant
guitger, There are $150 several others
is cornmnn ty.— ark Brewer. ,
Chesarr‘ing, Mich, R. 3

PEAIIH HILL FARM

RIED sows and (ill: bred to or sired by Peach
Hill Orion King 152489. Satisfaction guar-
anteed. Come 1 ’em over.
Also a few open gilts.
INWOOD BROTHER.
Romeo. Mlch.

 

AM SELLING A GREAT OFFERING 0F

DUROC BRED SOWS AND GILTS

March 4th, mostly mated to Orion Giant 001..
a son of Ohio Grand Champion. Get on mail!-

f r catalog.
m M ‘0”. c. TAYLOR. Mllan. Mlch.

PURE—SHED IUIIIG JERSEY HUGS

We usually have good been and sows of all

ages for sale. Reasonable prices.

LARRO RESEARCH FARM, Box A North Enc
Detroit. Michigan.

 

uroo Jersey Bred Stock all Sold. Orders taken
for wentling pigs. 1.000 pound herd boar.
J08. SOHUELLER. Woldman. Mlch.

gum-s purulrn unlar

Herd Bonrwﬂeference only—No. 129219
1919 Chicago International
4th Prize Jr. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS “FALL PIGS AT :25
BLANK a. POTTER
Potter-ville. Mlch.

 

  service and bull calves carrying

% of blood of my heifer Norman’s Missaukee

Red Rose, World Champion G. G. Sir d b h
sine. Dams ﬂninshing splendid A. . leiecorlis. u
A. M. SMITH. Lake Clty, Mlch.-

 

BEGISTEHEI GUEHIISEY BULLS

{slime}; for servie. Also yearling heifers. Farmers
c . .
Dr. W. B. Baker. 4809 Fort St. W. Detroit, Mich

.AYRSBIRES

FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE
bulls and bull calves. heifers and heifer calms.
Also some choice cows.

FINDLAY BROS.. R 5. Vassar. Mlch.

 

 

 

GUERNSEY BULLS READY FOR

UROO JERSEY BOARS. Bear: of tho lal‘lq
liesvy~boned type,
or bettFer, come and see.

J. DROIT. R

  JSQILBSriOZFVEizr Elite!)
1“HESELIEILI'VERMORE a. son, Romeo,

1 . Monroe. Mlch.

 

FANNIES'
furrow

Mlch.

 

E OFFER A FEW WELL-EDIE” SELECT.

ml spring litroc Boers. also bred cows and
Gill: in season. Call or write
McNAUGHTON A FORDYGE. 8!. Louis. Mlch.

 

B rd and open sows
pring pigs. 100 head.

rm 4 miles straight S. of Middleton. Mlch.,
Gratiot 00. Newton & Blank. Perrinton. Mich.

urocx. Hlll Great Farms.
and gilts. Boers and s

 

’RED POLLED

THREE, YOUNG RED POLLED BULLS FOR
ssh. Sir-ed by Cory. Ella Loddio. H. took
the prize at six State Mrs.

Mlch.. R 1

WALNUT ALLEY ,

POLAND CHINA
Bil; Type Poland Chinas. I have a few more of

those big boned. h h backed. smooth sided
boars left. The ﬁnd that makes good at one-
hali- their value. Come or write and let me
tell you what I will do. '

A. D. GREGORY. Ionla.

 

 

Michigan.

one some one ollu or“ to Wow; King 8294!
who has sired more prize winning pigs at tho
state fair: in the last 2 years than any other Du-
I’oc boar. Newton Bar-mutt. ﬁt Johns. Mich.

 

R SAL—E:- ONE DUROC BOAR FROM
Brookwater breeding stock. Choice spring pigl.
JOHN CRONENWETT. Carleton. Mlch.

 

FOR SALE: HERD BOAR A MODEL ORION
’ . a line bred and son of Jackson's Orion
Call or write

King.
RICHARDSON, Blanchard. Mlch.

CHAS. F.
  PURE ggED. CHESTER WHITE
T. J. SWEENEY, .Brsnt. Mlch.

 

THE FINEST DUHUG JEIISEY HUGS

in Michigan. Nearly 100 to choose from. Bred
Sows. Gilts. Fall pigs, either sex. Write us you-

 

at reasonable prices. Write. <

 

.. Harmer prices.
SCHAFFER BROS.. Leonard. Mlch., R 1

BERKSEIBES

__.‘

HEBKSHIHES '

Special prices for Registered Berk.-
shire Breeding stock:
10 Mature Bred Sows. . . . . . . 475.00
10 Fall Yearlings, Bred. . . . . . . . 50.00
Best type with size and quality. Sat—
isfaction absolutely guaranteed~ Write
for information.

C. C. COREY

2428 First National Bank Bldg.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detroit Michigan
0. I. O.

egistened O. I. c bred gilt: for sale.

Weight around 250 pounds at $40 00.

clmm.‘ Mich.

0. I. O. SWINE—MY HERD CONTAINS THE
blood lineo of the most noted herd. Gan furnish
you stock at “live and let live” prices.

A. J. OORIEN. Dorr. Mlch.. R 8.

s , SHEEP”
HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

A few good yearling runs and some ram
lambs left to oﬂ'er. 25 ewes all ages for sale
for {all delivery. Eve ‘ g guaranteed as
represented.

ICLARKE U. HAlRE. West Branch.

 PET STOCK

R SALE. FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS does
breeding age, 86. Three months old pair, $5.
Registered does 512 each. Stock pedigreed Quab
ty guaranteed
E Mlch.

HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater.
SHETLAIII POIIIES
We have a few good Shetland Ponies for sale:

prices ranging from $75.00 to $100. VVrito
JOHN FARMER, R 2. Stockbridge, Mlch.

£99".
a
ESTABLISHED 1 879

B E L L S ’
PHIBHHIIIIII BEIIIIIN

The most complete selection
America of these popular breeds.
ternational and state fair winners.

STALLIONS AND MAKES,
Write today.

BELL BROS., Wooster, 0.

JOSEPH R VAN ETTEN.

 

 

 

Mlch.

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

HOFSES

 

in
In

 

 

 

 

PUIIE BEEP STALLIIIIS

One black Percheron. yrs old weight 1800 lbs,
One black Percheron  yrs old weight 1800 lbs.
One 2 yr. old_biack With small star, weight 1400
lbs. Registration papers furnished. ese stal.
lions are sound and right and will be sold on
reasonable terms.

JOSHUA HILL. Box 0, Capsc, Mich.

 

 

——-FOR SALE, LARGE TYPE

I'ULAIIII GHIIIA

“Elﬁn. ﬁlled by r". Glam 391211,
gﬂdlézan's 1920

‘ Gr. Champion 'boar, and
y mooth Buster 895823. Michigan's
1920 lot Jr. Yearling Boar. mune by
double treatment. Priced i) sell. Write

or see thorn. Free livary to visitors.

 

 

 

 

A. A. FELDKAMP . \
Manchester. R. R. No. 2 Mick.
EONARD'B RIO TYPE P. O. BOAR PIOI
at weaning time. from Mich. 0 ion.

pedigree. 8 tie! ctI w
n. n. LEONARD: amt. blmﬁufmch.

23mm
$1.!)ng our °$921 tall are: oﬁi‘fr aft}
v are. y r 'I c
Pris; and t Kind Clan. '
~  I W.“ WWW?“

   

 

. L? 1‘ 1' ll BREE .GILTS‘
: ,  ow {plantar

5 in Pride. grand V.

 

 

lower the cost of production.

 

 

 

' 'OWOSSO SUGAR cozs
PRAIRIE FARM

More of the better kind of Draft Horses used on the farm would
Heavy Draft Horses on short hauls are
economy and will lower the high cost of transportauon.

Buy Heavy Draft Mares and raise your own power on the Farm.
We have ﬁfty mares in foal to select from.
blood that Belgium has ever produced.

‘ Belgian Draft Horses are getting more popular.
as workers cannot be excelled by any other breed.

Before buying see the sires and dams and also_see the largest breed.
ing establishment of Belgian Draft Horses in the world. Located at

They possess the best

Their qualities

 

 

ALICIA, Saginaw County, MICHIGAN

  

  

        
     
        
      
      
        
 
 
 

 
 
 


 

 

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Advertisements inserted under this heading it so cents per line, perv issue. Special mtes fdr I
one what you have,“ oﬂ‘er and sfend It in we will put it in type, send proof and quote rates by..re
Hlehlgn Business Farmer. Advertising Department. Mt. Clemens, Michigan. .

times or longer. Write
us mall. Address The

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POULTRY

D CHICKS

 I “HOMESTEAD FARMS
» ‘ LEGlionliS

We are issuing a Bulletin
that describes the kind 0;”:
I l the farmer now
:ixlts Bend for this descrip-
tion 61 our Pure B Prae-

 

practical

higan; stock

is also ta1:0:

ther s e .

oultry farmers wm’ Brown,
they the

Wyln‘

. I, \
bein shipped to p
You‘z will like particularly the . ‘
Ind Buff Leghorns of this breeding.
the one,
Also Barred anl VVgiite Rocks. Reds.
dotbes. Orpingtons, nconas.
STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Box I41, Kalamazoo, Michigan

0R PINGTONS AND LEGHORNS

. day (or
Two great breeds for profit. WY“. "°
tree catalogue of hatching cull. bu” cmch End

breeding stock. '
CYCLE HATCHER COMPANY. 1“ Ph”° "d"

lmlra. N- V-

ITE AND BUFF
w“ wygndottes and
in sea.-

R‘I

INGLE COMB BROXVN.Wh.t
Leghorns, R. 1. Re 5, re .
Barred Rocks. ', stock and chicks
.on. wnm for pncea.Farm. Dansvilie. Mich-

Cedar Lawn Poultry
mun WAY AUSH-Ki F3339... ..

alters oung stock and a few matur
White yChinese Geese. White Runner Dulcksgillad
White VVyandottes. Also 0. I C. 591’) K

' '(‘es on what you need.
writs IglllilyE  I)liRIILI.ER. Dryden. Mich.

ROCKS!
Mich.

Quality Chicks, Spanish,_ Mlnorcas,
, d Orpingtons.
Wyandottes an Panto",

“‘1’. l
e s,
TYRONE POULTRY FARM.

DUCKS. R. C.

w CHINESE GEESE, PEKIN
‘ - Mich.

mnsfhcuuois BETTS. Hiiisdale.
PLYMOUTH ROCK,

 

 

Wf
ARRED ROCK COCKERELS AND PULLETS
Bfrom America’s best prize-winning heaVY-layinz
strains Winners Detroit National Show Dec.
192150: live First prince_ w prices"I h
TOLLES BROS" R 10. St, Johns. lo I

BARBED rumours, nociis

. . t
i worlds heaviest laying strain. Parks direc ,
smlgw excellent breeding pens at $15 to 
E888. $2 per 5. Satisfaction guaranteed.
WALLACE HALL 155 Stewart Ave., Flint

' its Rocks. Bab Chicks $20 per 100
I‘Dglghgsll‘i‘ghper 15; $8.03 per 100. Robert E.
New Baltimore, Michigan.

Kn‘lzght,

10 lb. ' ies
RUFF ROGK EGGS $.32th N53“;
winners and Hogan tested heavy layers, bred
for 80 years;
Bx. M. J' c' on" ‘ sonssaltlllop Ind.

EGGS—CHIX.

Ich

barred hgoglis.

ted b poultry judge of ex 1 iron
 méood layyers. For prices to. PEKIN
FRUIT & POULTRY FARM. Pekln, lnd., .

LEGHORNS

LEGHORN
{or spring

Imperial ringiet

 

BABY

INGLE COMB BUFF '
deivery_

CHICKS. Order now
f circular,
sendenIAL WEBSTER. R 2. Bath..Micb.
MERICAN ROSE COMB WHITE LEGHORN

(lock is from select mating.
<EllielANK KORCAL; Pierson, Mich.

L E G H 0 R I S .
comb Buff Leghorn Cockerels $3 to
each Hans and bulletin $2_50 to 85,00
ill 'stsrt shipping Baby Chicks in
March

LAPHAM FARMS. Pinciiney. Michigan.

0

'RABOWSKE'S 8. C. WHITE LEGHORN.
6 oockereis and hatching eggs for sale,
LEO. GRABOWSKE. Merrill. Mloh.. R 4.

WYANDOTTE

HEIMBACH’S White Wyandottes

won silver cup for best display at Grand Rapids
Coliseum Show.

5 pullets entered: win 1. 2. 3, 5, 6. 5 hens
.nd win 2, . cock and Win 1st. 5 cockerels.
win 3, 7 8. 1 young pen winning 1st. 1 old pen
winning

Have s
for sale.

 

 

nd.

few utility cockerels and yearling hens
Baby chicks and ha 3 eggs. Also
from Comb Rhode Island Reds of V
stock. Send for catalog.- .

C. W. HEIMBACH. Big Rapids, Mich. .

Puma snap wmra‘ WYANDOTI'E .HATCH:

in e and chicks. Flshel strain.-
“ MERE; TRACY RUSH. Ithaca. Mich. ‘

‘ CHOICE.

' Cumberland, Md.

 

EGGS FOR 'HATCHING. from prize winning
White Wyundcttes at $3‘and $5 .

. per se
ANTHONY WARELE. Mt. Clemens. Mich. ;
RHODE ISISAND REDS ~ _
HITTAKER'B nun 'CHIOKB Both Combs.
I! Blood . :12“: whit. diesrrheem angles;
I want“ a 1. min.

m’lnterlekes ﬁrm, Box  Inmnce. .
0. shoes isuiun "wuvrse. coon

 

 

5-"  r, . new. m 4n

 

SINGLE AND' ROSE COMB RHODE
its kerels for sale, 64 00 each.
.l. couscno. Mich.

ANOONAS
3000 EARLY APRIL HATGIIED ,

FULLY MATU RED ANCONAB.

BUGKEYE AIIGGIIA FARM

NEW LONDON. OHIO.

Heavy layers and show birds, none better. Res-
sonable prices and quality stock is our motto.
Can furnish winners for any 'show. Ask for our
late winnings at Columbus,

0., Louisville, Ky.,
Cleveland, 0., Pittsuburg. Po... Hagentown and
Oils, Hens,

Ckls, P111. and
Mated Pens always for sale. Eggs and Baby
Chicks in season.‘ 100.000 Incubator capacity.
Write us and get the best.’

ORPINGTONS

 BUFF,WHITE

BLACK
HATCHING EGGS IN SEASON.

GRABOWSKE BROS.

Merrill. Mloh.. R 4.

LANGSHAN

DR. SIMPSON'S LANGSHANS OF QUALITY
Bred for type and color since 1012. Winter
laying strain of both Black and White. Have
some cockerels for sale. Eggs in season.
CHAS. W. SIMPSON
Webbervllie. Mich.

TURKEYS

GIAIIT BRONZE TURKEYS

Hens all sold. Have several splendid
toms. Iarge type. well marked.
MR8. PERRY STEBBINS,

Island Wh
JO Monger,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

young

Saranac, M Ich.

 

BIC MASSIVE TOMS, by 1st Chicago winner,
rich 00 per bronze. 25 to 31 lb
Sons.

for circular and price list

gab): Chicks

all sin GHIGKS

Now is the time to think of buying chicks.
You want the best chicks from our. heavy lay-
ing selected breeding stock. 8 rt wrth them at
the right time.- Order now.

0 White and Brown ‘ horns

. 'a
100 per cent live delivery guaranteed. Write

QUEEII IIA'TGIIERY

ZEELAND. MICHIGAN

 

r0 Tom' Berton ~English
White ghorns, 8. . . I. Reds. Parks Barred
Rocks. Big, Strong and Healthy Chicks from
fated heavy producin stock. correct in {lum-
age and color as we as being EXCEL: ENT
LAYERS. Outx prices will interest you. Wnte for
them. We GUARANTEE safe arrival of 'our
Stm and V roua Baby Chicks. FIRST COME
FIRS 'SERV D. so we advise to lace with us

ur order as soon as possible. er A ONCE
or our interesting catalog. t is FREE.

BRUMMERS \POULTRY FARM.

Box. 28. . Holland. Mich.

nAv oLn GHIGKS

Leghorns, Rocks, Reds, Wyandottes, Anconas
Minorcas. Qrpingtons, produced from selected
flocks Live delivery guaranteed. Delivery
charges paid. Send for catalog.

J. a. PHILPOTT, R 1, B 74. Pt. Huron. Mich.

hbred .varieties of
C' R

 

 

 

BABY CHICKS

we furnish Pure Bled Chicks 0! the
ﬁnest quality from high egg-produc-
ing stock, ﬂocks built directly from
Isylnl contest winners. We have

' seventeen breeds. Write for our free
Illustrated catalogue and price list.

LW. 088303 HATCHERY. Dept. 35 Gludorl, Ollie

 

. s. No eggs.

J. C. lipp .7. Ex. M. saltlllo. Ind.
  g MAMMOTH BRONZE TOMS.
1. 24 lbvrggriozus 2 birds. splendid color
year mg. s. ; -yr. old, 45 lbs. $18.
MRS. LEE HALLADAY, Ashton. Mich.

 

OLLINGS BEST: PURE BRED WHITE HOL-
lsnd Turkeys, Hens, $8. Toms, $10 to $12.
MR8 ED. COLLING. Meyville. Mich.

 

 

HATCIIIN G EGGS

 

PURE BRED WHITE ROCKS AND
Toulouif. Geese. Both Blue Ribbon
noes

_ winnirﬁ stoc . right.
M 8. ROY CAKES. Hartford. Michigan.

 

 DO YOU WANT HATCHING EGGS
. from the world’s greatest layers. A
postal brings booket from
THE KLONDY'KE POULTRY YARDS
Mlillngton. Mich.

 

 $1 SETTING, Parcel Post Paid. Thor-
oughbreds. Barred Rocks, White R0 8.
But! Rocks, White Wyandoettes, Anoonas,
gmrcas,hWihit§ad Leggiirmsb Brown Leghorns,
e s n e s. rpingtons. PHILIP
CONDON, West Chester. Ohio.

DUCKS AND GEESE

  MAMMOTH WHITE VPEKIN

. _ and Pure Mallards, ﬁnest
stock. A lumted number of orders accepted for
future delivery, $1.50 per setting.

CEDAR BEND FARM, Okomos. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

BABY CHICKS

 

 

The J. B. FARMS HATCHERY
8. C. White Leghorn Chicks. Best se-
lected stock: large. with capacity for eggs
which they DO lay. Only THE BEST
gnde. Write for terms.
'LORINO AND MARTIN COMPANY
East Saucstuck. Mich.

 

 

‘ciiicxs WIT—ii PEP

If you want chicks that
pay you we have them
. Ours have the egg-laying;
. . habit. From show
.‘ ning strains and
‘ strains as high as

' Leghorns, Rocks. Beds,
nag, W'yandotted, Minor-cu, Orplngtons_
delivery. Prepaid Prices right. Ere,

2 .,
HOLGATE CHICK HATCHERY.
Box 8, Hoigate. 0hio_

BABY GHIGKSW

200,000 FOR 1922.
Sheppards 'Anoonas, English
type White Leghorns and
Bro Leghorns, Barred

Get theln dir
Hatchery_ from .118“ 

out flocks_ Free and safe do.
livery guaranteed. Catalogue free

KNOLLS l'ATGIIERY

Holland. Michigan. R 8.

 

 

been in

The ‘01s ‘Relialrls’ OHIO HAICHIZRY

which has
_ [WENT -

 

.GHIX

,s_ C' B ’ s
flocks in Michigan My price

   
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mpnmsuyomh.

Eleven popular, money-making breeds.
asy to uy—price ow. Easy to raise
—husk , healthy, vigorous. And guar-
anteed Write today for FREE catalog
showing many breeds in ful Icolors.

IS 01115 POULTRY YARDS ud'lIATCIIl-ZRT
BOX 28, ‘MARI'ON. omo

 

BABY CHIX. MARCH AND APRIL DELIVERY.
Prices: Barred Plymouth Rocks, R. I. Reds
B M rcas. White or Brown Leghorns 2!;
for $5.60; 50 for $10.00, or 100 for 31?.00.
parcel post prepaid. 100 per cent delivery snar-
anteed. Our 12th year producing the kind of
chix that please. Get our prices on 500 or 1000
lots. Green Lawn Poultry Farm. R3. Fenton, Mich

QUALITY BABY CHICKS

DON’T place._your order for chicks until you
have secured our catalogue ‘
ROCKS. ANCONAS, ENGLISH .

CAN WHITE LEGHORNS. Our

hatched 1n the best machines. by genuine experts.
and our flocks are of the best in Michigan. We
guarantee delivery a '

Pnoanrssi‘lé‘miiirciirnirs '

Box L, Holland. Michigan.

4. WHY. NOT

buy your chicks from egg~bred stock?

ANGOIIAS 8. WHITE LEGHORIIS

Come and see,our stock if you can or send for
full description and—prices. ,
QUALITY HATCHERY. Box A11. Zeeiand. Mich.

 

 

 

DAY OLD CHICKS
It is now thus to think about
next season’s chicks. You want
the best available. to start with
at the right time, and at a
reasonable. .prlce. . \Ve" are here
"to meet these demands We
supply ‘ei’ﬂciency chicks’ Reds,
Rocks. Wpiandottes, nghorns
Ship them prepaid by special
deliVery parcel post, guarantee-
ing delivery_ You take no
r our ctaalogue for full Infur<

-mation and why you should buy chicks

CLYDE CHICK HATCHERY.BOX5M. Clyde. 0 _

 

FROM TWELVE LEADING VARI-
leties of heavy layers on free range.
Reasonable prices Get catalog
and order NOW. I ’
SUNBEAM HATCHERY. H B_ Tippin-
Box 303. Findiay.‘ Ohio. .

 

LooKlS.”O_ WHITE LEGHORNS, 230—264

I 882 strain ..Pl’ices~ greatly reduced. for

, Satlsiacticn and deliver

guaranteed undrede of ‘ autistic
customers. CatalogE FREE.

GERIG’S L GHORN FARM

‘ Box 50, Auburn.

BABY GHIGKS
Le horns. one. of"

is
per hundred.

Ind

 

only .315 00
none better.
LAPHAM FARMS. Pinckney.

all.

“er” Mich

 

. sin. oh i: lose sugar  95 per -
I”. y “1922"  .5001: can ﬁve » “

mn-
B'EED FREE ,wlth‘j'esch or-g
 an. ear.'40*breeds chich’

Selim q. and ., ,mibitios ,
temps emaciated ' "

i chronicles HAVE annulus ‘.

Could you please tell me thru "-
valuable paper, what is-.the matter cu
my chickens? This disease, or whate 
it is. does not start on ,jhem unfil they
are about half grown. They start 
'limp and before' long theycan't stand =.,g
their feet, but walk around on the
knee joints, and their‘feet stick out L
front of them. They eat "and drink stood

and look healthy otherwise. They do ,

die with it, neither do they get over, ‘
It just seems to be in the'youn'g chi‘
ens. We feed them shelled corn,th
oats and barley. Could you' give ,me 
remedy for the diseaseCL—Mrs. M.
Grand Blanc. Mich. r I, ‘  .,

The trouble you mentioned is 4
form of rheumatism or leg weaknesj
which is rather common in the tal
of the year. It usually affects bird
as they are brought into conﬁnemenr
in winter quarters from free rouge;
The trouble'is augmented by the "
being forced to remain on .113:
ﬂoors such as wood or concrete over
which there is not a good coverin-
of litter: Such birds should 9:
housed in warm, dry,’well ventilate"
houses with a good deal of straw o,
litter‘ of some kind on the ﬂoor, ‘
order that the birds may be induce-u
to take a liberal amount of exer:
cise. The corn in the rations should
be cracked in' order that ~the him
will have to work harder to ﬁnd i,
in the litter. This will give the
more exercise. _-

By following .these precautions, i
believe' that no ‘further troubl
should be expected—W. E. Newlon'.
Professor, Dept. Poultry Husbandry
'M. A. C.

MAN TO CULL POULTRY
I wish to have my poultry culled. " .
. should I apply to?—J. K.. Pinconning
Mich. ‘

Practically all the poultry cullin
work conducted in the state is ca
ried on through the medium‘ 0'! tli
Farm Bureau or county agent. Eael
county agent receives the applied
tions and communicates with th
Extension Department, of the Colleg
for the services of a‘ man at 9. sp
ciﬁed timer—E. 'C. Foreman, Hea
of Poultry Husbandry Dept, .M
A. C. ‘ ~

e

WATER FOR GEESE

Is it neceswry for breeding geese u
have awaiter to swim in for best results
—H_ H., Garden, Mich. ‘ '

While this is not considered abs
lutely necessary greater fertility
usually noted where water is avail
able for svirimming purposes—E.
Foreman, Head of Poultry Husban
ry Dept, M. A. C. ‘

EGGS UNFERTIL

Last year, in the s ring, I bought ‘
gooseand gander of e same hatchin
being a year old last August. The -:
laid six eggs which I set under a -:a
The eggs proved not to‘ be fertile an
those Awere all the eggs that .shc la-l
Will you please tell ‘me the cause of A -
trouble?——-R_ P.. Rapid City, Mich. _

In order to secure high hatch
ability of eggs, it is necessary it
have mature stock. The geese shoul
be at least two years old and th
gander from one'to ﬁve years. In th
absence of water for swimming p
duction is. greatly reduced and th
fertility and hatchability of the» cg
greatly diminished. Evidently ith
reason for the low production w i
a corresponding low fertility w
due to one of the above causes.‘
E. C. Foreman, 'Head of Poult
Husbandry Dept, M. A. C.

TURKEY HAS SWELLING 01s
HEAD ‘

I have a hen turkey that. has 3, egg]
ing on her head which seems to '
larger. It is located just below the icy
is long and seems to be ﬁlled with
watery substance. She eats ,\ good , -
seems healthy. Can you' tell me wise
to do for her?—A, H., Frederig'Mlch..i:

From the Symptoms “described 1
would appear'that it is possibly du
to an injury of some kind. Ifzth
swelling does not recgde. it. may b
advisable to (lance ‘it,_.tresting th,
wound with tincture of iodine. _ .
W. Ferguson, Extension , Speclahs
in Peult’ry Husbandry, M. A. 

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ads. not accepted for'less than 8 times.
ueept'ed for my ad. 'in this department. Cash shouldaceompany all orders.
Count as one 'word each Initial and each group of figures, both in body of Id.
Copy must be in our hands before Saturday for Issue dated
following week. The Business Farmer Adv. Dept” Mt. Clemens, Mlchlen.

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Barron English Whiet Leghorns, also‘ American White
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, . $7.25 per‘ﬁO: $14.00

" J p ~ $67.50 Re: 500; $130

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Postpaid anywhere. Catalog on] price list free.
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Leghorn chicks from Homizedfnd ' £13333
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from stock that is true to
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From the heart of Michigan‘s B .
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catalog.

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JAMESTOWN. MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

DAY OLD CHICKS

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STROUT'S NEW CATALOG FARMS. FARMS
farms. Just out—describing “in detail 1200
poultry, fruit truck, stock, dairy. 'gmin. cotton
and general farms; farms to meet your tequu'ﬁ'
farms near big cities—large
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with stock, tools. seed, equipment, ready
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fnont and lakesule properties. just
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farm with horses, 8 cows and heifers, sheep.
tools. furniture; 300 apple trees; 6-roomhouse.
poultry houses, garage; everythin only
Several pages devoted to Spec 1 Bar-
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_The helpful coast to coast service of
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[WANT TO FIND AND RENT A FARM
furnished, to be worked on shares. WM. BURNS.
R2, Brant. Michigan. -

68 MORE FAR'M FOri SALE, MOSTLY ALL
cleared. Fair frame house. new barn built last
year, 32x48; frame granary 14x20, good well
280 feet deep: well drained, good ditches and
fences; clay and black loam land; good read.
mail route. schools and . churches. Lode in
Bay county, Garﬁeld township, Section six.
With horses, cattle and implements if wanted.
MARTIN SMITH, R 1. Rhodes, Mich.

MISCELLANEOUQQ
TOBACCO

ksurucxv LEAF TOBACCO
old, nature cured. Den't send a. pennay. {5‘33
tobacco and postage on arrival. E line
qmlity chewing or smoking, 1 lbs. 33.00;
lbs. 81.

 

 

medium quality smoking, 13
FARMERS’ UNION, D57, stesville, Ky

TOBACCO: KENTUCKY’S

mellow chewing or smoking 10’ Rlllhslf 
Mild smokmg 10 lbs. $2.00; 20 lbs. :s'so'
FARMERS CLUB. Msyﬁeld. Ky. ' p'

LEAF TOBACCO, 3 YEARS OLD
tobacco and postage when received. 
lbs. $1.50: Smoking 6 lbs. $1.00. FARMERS’
GRANGE,.NO. 94, Hawesville. Ky.

 

FOR SALE: ISABELLA COUNTY BEAN
and beet farm, 98 acres. excellent buildings: no
better root‘s and foundations. All r ded. Mich.
Consolidated Light and power available via a
special line. One mile from village of Shepherd
and Ann Arbor railroad, one-half mie from M‘4
on County reward road. Write owner, N. W.
STRUBLE, Shepherd, Mich. .

GOOD BUILD—
city limits,
BOGART, Big

90 ACRE DAIRY FARM,
lugs, fruit. water, 1 mile to
mile to school. Write W. C,
Rapids. Mich., R-1.

88 ACRE FARM MONROE COUNTY. GOOD
location, fine fruits, soil, drainage, buildings,
water, timber, pasture. Raises ﬂne crops. Bar-
gain. Failing health, must sell. Write owner.
C L. HOWARD. Petersburg, Mich.

120 ACRES BEST FARMING LAND ABOUT
90 acres cleared, 1-4 mile trunk line gravel
road. Young orchard, good well. $4000 of build—
ings, $2000 personal property for cash value of
land. For prices and terms address owner J. W.
PREVOST, Prescott, Mich, R 2. .

FOR SALE. 120 A. FRUIT AND DAIRY
fnrm, Oakland County. Shite rend; 25 miles
from Detmit; good building. For price, etc...
write J. W. COLE. Northvile, Mich, (P)

ElGHTY-ACRE FARM. ALL CLEARED.
good soil. ﬁne buildings. good location= _easy
95211118. WUBBENA, Standish, Michigan,

FARM BARGAINS, NO. ONE 240 ACRE
sfrm on cement road. Four miles to Port Huron.
Write BOX 244*. Croswell, Mich.

7 ACRES WATERED AND DRAINED.
muck celery lend. Particulars write L BOX 94,
East Jordan, Mich.

WANTED: SMALL 6 To 15 ACRE FARM
th good small house near town. Must be a
' particulars addressing

bargain. Give pnce and
B Business 

 Care of Michigan
Mt. Clemens. Mich.

so A. FARM FOR SALE.
incs, orchard and water. JOS.
city, Mich.

60 ACRES CLAY LOAM SOIL, 50 IMPROV-
ed, good house, barn, other buildings. with
stock, tools, penty of hay and grain, all for
$5000.00. Inquire owner RALPH LATHROP,
Le Roy, Mich, R 3.

120 ACRES, BEST OF SOIL.
standing timber, easily cleared. Market 3
$20 per acre. ED‘W. ERLANDSON,
Boardmsn. Michigan.

FOR SALE: 80 ACRES, DAIRY FARM
with steak and tools; feed; $8500; in Kenl
county. Weekly income of $40 from dairy. For
particulars write BO M. 0., cars Business
ll‘armer. Mt. Clemens, Mich.

FOR SALE. 114 ACRES 2 ~MILE8_FROM
town. good buildings, plenty water, fruit, ber-
ries. Good rm 3. Priced right. easy terms.
CHAS. UPLEGGER, Rhodes, Mich.

— FOR SALE OR TRADE. FINE 160 ACRE
farm, fine buildings. 0n main graveled road,
well located near markets and schools. BOX A,
Michigan Business Farther, Mt. Clemens. Mich.

FOR SALE, SMALL POULTRY FARM.
Pleasant home in thriving town. A_ hnrgsin.
Other interests compel Sale. For particulars ad—
dress STANLEY GREENE. Breckenridge, Mich.

- FOR SALE. OR EXCHANGE. BY WIDOW
with or without personal, 200 acres. Improved.
Near Saginaw. Plenty of barns. two houses.

d farm Reason-

100 ,r acre for personal an .
in. $33". Write MRS. CHARLOTTE FAY,

BUILD-
pm”
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GOOD
MOSER,

LOTS OF
miles.
South

Burt. Mich.

STOCK FARM. 181 ACRES. 10 ACRE AP-
le orchard, 30 acres second growth timber end
gnhncs in pasture land and under cultivation.
14 miles fmm Adrian, M11211” 1 11-2 mliles frorg
De Take. Two ante .ms an s10. goo
hing}: Must. sell. Price, $10,500, $2000 cash.
M. CARPENTER, 323 Tuxedo Ave, Detroit,
Mich.

 

R BALE: THREE 160 ACRE FARMS.
twnFomiles‘ frcm Ssndusky, Ssnllac ("mm ,
' . New hind cigared dsnd houltivngettiIt in
I barns an mo em ousos n 11

W30. owner JO O’CONNOR, San-

duslry. Michigan.
F0 SALE: .
80 acres with main bu ldm

clay in. gravel roe. 3 our miles from good
mwn.k%ENR-Y STEINMAN. Remus. Mich.

E‘XOEPTIONAL' BUILDINGS. LOCATION“i
c

120 ACRES OR ~WILL SELL
. Level, ﬁne loation

main road, town mile, ri
. ant farm nearer Deﬁcit. ERNES LA
II'LEUR; Vermontville. Mich.’ (

FOR sAu: '1eo ACRE FARM AND so
sore tram. when” CHARLES mos, a?
kins, Mich...3 _ I i

120 scans NUMBER ONE LAND. REST
tI’ll ibiunmfl'ntifdxm hﬁmrcblfr'mhapgs mti'ies tins:
w: . C 1!. ,
palms. ,R. W. mousse .‘Olsrhton. menu»
.4‘ cuss. suILon’a . ensue 11
119.016“ ﬂ   ' es
we ' .1“. rents

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roascco KENTUCKY’S NAT

Mild, Meuoyv' smoking.10 1b.. $2.|2’glhshEAS:-'
lected chewmg 3 lbs. $1.00. ree receipt for
preparing. WALDROP BROTHERS, 'Mumy, Ky.

NURSERY STOCK AND SEED

RECLEANED ITO SAN SOY

.ted V BEANS. LIM-

imn'sufﬁglht $2.00 bu. E. b. HARRISS. AL
ITO SAN SOY BEANS. EARLY MATURING

stmin st exceeding] 1 ‘
LEY FARM, Biuﬂtgn,01:d.pmea‘ SPRING VAL-

FOR SALE: FINE QUALITY RE
Ito San Soy Beans at Farmers’ priceSFIOErdAgElPt
once. G. P. PHILLIPS. Bellevue, Mich.

 

STRAWBERRY PLANTS

STRAWBE RRY
stor Dunbar,
per hundred,

 

PLANTS FOR SALE. SEN-
$3 00 ppm-an?h Dad Burrill. 400
. ousan . ' '

Everbeorers $1.00 per hundred, $10.10xressll’g
thousand. ROBT. DE GURSE, Ovid, Mich.

STRAWBERRIES
1000 Dunlap Plants. 2
$3.74): l000
STANLEY,

STRAWBERRY PLANTS: SEN
lap and \Vnrfield at $4 per thousandn1:331i GDII‘EJI'N':
anteed stricin first class or money refunded
Our.16 years experience costs you nothing. You
get It Will every purchase you make of us Our
free {mmlogue illustrates and describes ten- best
gil‘et‘reg, ln0l§d1?3 the] three best overhearers A

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LEADING VARIETIE .
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BEES AND HONEY

_ BEE HIVES. SECTIONS. 00

tion. smokers. ptc. Complete out-It‘ll: (£301.13:

ners mth or Without bees. Agents for A I.

32;)ng 802m; 11:11r Igiohigan. Semi for collie
wen e . . . ‘

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puns CLOVER HONEY 1o -
gfwsliofgmpﬁxéagd byﬁ‘ mail 'or .xlbstfege‘t‘iioh‘i
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GENERAL

HAY FOR SALE. suv HAY IN CAR
Write for prices, sintin in d nytzed Fagin,
WELL MILLS, Famer much."a ‘ “F

CELERY. GUARANTEED SIL
multiplying celery. A limited s'upply ‘Lfnthamvna
low prim of $1 for 2 roots. 2 roots will mum
ply to about 50 in 3 years. Can be grown on
gny 3011. Cut every 10 days. Nice fresh celery
from May till Aug. 15th. Send your order
e..rly. Full directions with each order BILAS
ROGERS. Hubbard Inks, Mich. '

(FOR SALE) FIVE SHARES IN
Cleaririigwegltonuseh  mskﬁodisormnt Git-\EArashn.
Good en dress .
me n. X 102. lsdwin.

ALL. MEN, WOMEN. sovs, GIRLS OVER
17, Willing .to accept Government Positions
$135. (stationary or traveling) write Mr,
Pment, Dept. 855. St. Louis, Mo“ Immed-
aey.

WANTED: TENANT FOR HAL
of excellent land in Hillsdele Cour 8“:ng
Appﬂmnt should have sufﬁcient funds .00 '
horses and tools and half interest in other
stock. ggod mIigk nidsrkcg. i{grits H. B. 8
Room or, eco u
Yards, Chicago. In.- “," Um“

WE PAY $200 MONTHLY 8
{1153 rig 1:311 eflpensesk to $tMthggv'Jg:
ea pou sn stoc ers. B 1m ..
PANY. X682, Springﬁeld? Illinois. IG COM

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ME AND BUSINESS REVIEW
E general business situation,
the country over, seems to be
improving rapidly and good

judges of the industrial and com-r

mercial outlook, predict a steady
gain from now until spring build-
ing operations are in full swing.
Merchants are completing 'their
spring buying whi b has been fairly

large in volume. Severe storms, in.

many districts, have had much to
do with limiting the volume of the
Week’s retail trade. The steel and
iron trade is expanding rapidly, as a
result of an increase in the number
of orders for all of the various spe-
cialties in this line. Many of the
steel plants are expanding and in-

creasing their capacity for produc,

tion a fact that indicates that oper-
ators expect a material increase in
this summer’s business over that of
recent years. ’

The wool market, while it is
rather dull, is decidedly ﬁrm from
the standpoint of price; the govern-

ment auctions, which have just come

to a close, revealed the pressing
character of the demand and stabili—
zed the market which was beginn-
ing to hesitate because of the ef-
fort on the part of buyers and manu-
facturers to check the upward move-
ment. The act-ivity‘in the demand
for the raw material is in direct con-
trast with a lifeless market for
woolen goods which nearly. always
developes at this season of the year.
The cotton market is ﬁrm and fair-
ly active but the demand for cotton
cloth is just about on a par with
the market for woolen goods.

While wheat prices have eased
off, somewhat, during the week, in
the main, farm products have been
ﬁrm and fairly active. The 'men
who make a business of reading the
future, in connection with com—
merce and trade in'general, are pre-
dicting a boom in all lines that go
directly to the farmer; there are
those, however, who predict that
the farmer will not, immediately,
abandon his erst while conservi-
tism but will operate with extreme
and unwonted caution during the
coming spring and summer months.
The increase in the value of farm
staples is certainly a boon to the
agricultural classes of this country;
verily, it' is an ill wind that blows
nobody good. We are told that it is
the failure of Russia to produce her
usual share of human food that is
responsible for the growing export
demand for our products.

Reports,_from the great ﬁnancial
centers of the country, indicate that
cash is piling up in the bank vaults,
while the over—careful owners are
seeking opportunities for the safe
investmentof the same. Long lists
of mortgage sales, in the columns of
certain local papers, reveal thefact

that some of our leading banks have.
been speculating in real estate se- .

curities, land contracts, etc.; a fact
that may, in part, explain the lack
of funds for farm leans to assist
production.

Business has been b00ming, of
late, on the New York Stock Ex-
change and prices, for all of the
dividend-paying stocks have been
working higher under persistant
buying; both ailroad and industrial
stocks have been decidedly active,
a fact, that speaks well for the in-
dustrial outlook for the coming sum
mer season. Call money has‘been
easy, ranging between 4 and 5 per
cent. The expansion in business cir-

cles is indicated by increased bank-

 

clearings which, for the week,
‘amounted to $7,189,000.000.
WHEAT ‘

The wheat market rules fairly

steady since the. recent weakness

 

WHEAT PRICES PER BU.. MAR. 7. 1822

 

 

Grade [Detroit ~ichihenol N. V.
No. 2 Hold . . .‘ c‘  {.00 1.48%
N . 2 Wh to . . . , -
Na. 2 Mixed . . . 1.4“!  1.04%

 

 

 

 

A , PR“) 3 ONE YEAR A00» ~r
. T'" "Whagsodl No.2 wnmi No.2 mm
4 031ml; [1  i ' 1.81 i 1.111 \.

 

 

   
 

 

 

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, ket and it

Edited by n, n. MACK

    

 

MARKET SUMMARY - .

Wheat aquiet. Corn and oats steady. Rye 2c higher at De-
troit and Chicago. Beans and potatoes easy. Butter ﬁrm' and
eggs weak. Live poultry unchanged. Dressed hogs and calves
dull. Considerable activity in Detroit live stock market and tone
is steady. Hogs decline on Chicago‘market.

 

(Note: The lbOVe summarized information} we: received AFTER the beience of the men.
let page was set In type.) It contains tut minute Information up to within one-half hour of

gel no to brag—Editor.

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(vi

looks as if the advance has only
been temporarily checked. Export
demand is good and domestic sup-
plies rapidly dwindling to the dan-
ger poinst. Following a period of
dullness which should be expected
as a natural reaction from the sharp
advances during February we may
expect to see another upward trend
set in.

 

- CORN
The Corn market started out last
week strong and tihere were several

 

 

OORN [5"IGES PER BU., MAR. 7. 1922

 

Grade - iDetroit Ionicagol N. V.
No. 2 Yen‘on .. .61 sea/4' .707,
No. 8 Yellow .. .65 58%
No. 4 Yellow ..

 

[mess ONE YEAR 1100
[No. 2 YeillNo. a YeiIINo. 4 you

Detroit ‘ I .72 I .89

aidvan-ces in prices but before the
close of‘the second day weakness
developed and declines iin priices re-
sulted. From then’until the close

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday afternoon tihere Was an up_

and down trend to the market but
in spite of the weak comdibion prices
finished the week be higher at De-
troit, No. 2 yellow being quoted at
68c. The market at Chicago closed
at the end of the week from 2 to 5c
lower than it was the same day one
week before. Demand was good the
entire week and all breaks 'in pnices
bmought out buyers in force; Ex-
porters were good' customers and
they took considerable «grain. Re-
ceipts continued to decline at .all
points. Chicago received only 1,982
oars, agaiinst 3,625 Last week and
3,028 one year ago. Shipments

from Ohiiicago were 5,056,000 bu,

or neanly 500,000 bushels more
than were received.

RYE

Rye followed the bread of wheat

lest Week and on Siaburdiay was dull
and lower. Biuyiers showed little

Foster's Wuther C's-1 for

a north

changes move from

n i- eboutSdeys and from
\ that toAtlantic coast in about 2 days.

line avers e temperatures; crooked line above warmer,

beiow coo er; heavy line severe storm and most pre-

chart a
and south from St.
orthwest to that

  
 
 
 

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WASHINGTON, D, C,, March 9.
1922.1—The week centering on March
17 w111 average above normal temp—
eratures on meridian 90 from Gqu of
Mex1co,to the far north, The high
temperature of that disturbance Will
be in northwestern Canada about
March 15, ll Michigan March 18, and
in eastern sections March 19, A cool
wave will be in northwestern Canada
near March 19, in Michigan March.
22, eastern sections March 23.

Unusually severe storms will‘ pre-
vail from March 11 to 19. and what-
ever‘relicf that is in store for America
a and Canada may be expected during
that ten days, Bulletin of Feb, 4 said
,best crop-weather of month would
come ﬁrst and last weeks of February.
it came. But Marchwill full of
stems and improvements :1 crop.
weather will come with the storms.

I now expect better crop-Weather as
a" result of these numerous severe
storms March than I predicted
some time ago and that the general
crops of North America will be; bet»,

   
  

 

 

 

'going Skyward f0.

THE WEATHER FOR NEXT WEEK
As Forecasted' by W. T. Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer

, six of the centinents are sure to be

.next twenty-four months.

' er’s calculations. June, July and Aug-K

' am- expecting more than usual hail
,during thercoming summer,

#3

x .
interest in the 'market. No. 2 3

$1.03 at Detroit, compared with
$1.05 one week ago. ‘
, -—-——-—-—-—-<.
OATS

Cats are up to 43 cents for best
grade at_ Detroit and are scarce at

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OAT PRICES PER BU.. MAR. 7, 1922
Grade IDetreit ‘chlcaaoi N. Y.
No. 2 WM . .43
No. 3 WM; A1 .4096 A“
No. 4 White
PRICES ONE YEAR AGO
[No.2 WhitelJIoﬁ whitel No.4 White
Detroit .48'/: i .41 ‘I A4

 

 

the prince. Buying. has been fairly

active of late and a good-sized‘dent

was put in the visible supply.
——.———____:

BARLEY

Trading in barley was quite active
at Chicago iliastweek shipping Iiales
amounting to 10,000 bu. On that
market iihe prices have advanced to
65@71Ic per lbru. The Detroit mar-
ket was qniiet and prices remained
unchanged at $1.2-5@$1.35 per cwt.

 

BEANS -
me very thing we have feared
and predicted would happen to the
anAN PRIOESAEER cwrlwsisn. 1, 1022
Grade iDetroli ionicagoi N. v.
2. H. P. . . . . .. 6.00 6.25
Red Kidneys  i725 i

 

 

 

 

 

 

r'RlCES ONE YEAR AGO
K). H. P.
. . . . . .l 3.95

Detnoit bean” market has actually
taken place. This market has been
several weeks
but reacted at the close of last week
and a sharp slump took place, prices
declining forty cents per cwt. in the
course of three or ﬂour days. Last
week we suggested that farmers
mﬂgiht find it to their advantage to
sell at prevailing .priiices, tihoug’h we

 

 

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ter than I indicated in some of my
newspaper‘builetins. I now expect
that about one-third of the continent
will get below normal crops and two-
thirds Will get bumper" crops. Alto-
gether the best average of “creps are
expected for North America that will
have been produced for many years.
In my last week’s comments on _
great droughts betWeen this and April
1. 1924, I mentioned thirteen countries
that would suffer. I should have in-
cluded Japan. Including Australia all

much damaged by drought within the
I do, not .
mean that all of each continent will
be greatly damaged, That would be
too much dought, But I have deﬁnitely
mentioned fourteen countries that are
sure to have great losses from drought
and I am doing this to prove that
these great events are foreknowable,
Some of these countries will get only
a shortage of rain and not a drought,
The damage to winter wheat. in
America this winter is only a short-
age of rain and is not ,a drought, be-
cause there ,has been but little evap-
oration, When a-drought bgeins in the
fall no winter grain should be sewn.
The destruction of crops in hail is
quite an important item in T; e farm-

Lst are the principal hail months. I

. .I am expecting hurricanes during
the coming hurricane season, Most
severe hurricanes come in August,
September and October. - » \

  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

” strength before the next crop. Much

most. . r - . . r
’ ’ . ’ .WOOI'r "
. 1 ‘the, ~wool " 
“Quiet. T

did not at that time expect 
sum drastic. prince deem, 
have felt night wrong, (however, 
the Detroit market has been in use
hands of manipulators and that it
condo not much longer continue it:
upward trend without occasional"
slumps. mat is whywe have been:
anxious and W  this
mhrket. We have violated our 
ers to get the highest possible price)
for their beans but we (have beam
afraid that the rapidly 
paces might lead us ail'l'iinto an 
Warranted belief that pnices wet-0'"
going very much higher and induce
us to hdlid our beans ﬂor pricei‘
which would never materialize»?
While we do’ not believe that the re-
cent Slimmip is anything to Worry"
abo-ut it is something :00 be watched.
very closely. We look for the mar—
ket to recover most if not all of its

  
 

  
  
     
    

 

  
   
      
    
    
   
   
   
   
  
 
 
  
  
  

   
     

will] depend upon the 1922 
We look for another eﬁi‘ort tio ~bol-
ster up prices before the planting
season, and we believe farmers who
have not sold miigiht do well to wait
until the next budge, providing the
recent deciliines have affected macs],

 
 
   
  
 
     
   
   
 
 

 

 
 

prices to any great extent. _ sen-i.
. : “I
POTATOES Berg “

Potatoes have ﬁrmed up' a little u 'hig
following several weeks”, of a drag- .... '

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPUDS PER C‘WT., MAR. 1. 1822
Secieli Bulk
Detroit ........ ...... 2.00
Chicago n... . . . . . .. 1.80
New Von-i  1.00
Pituburu .. . . . . .  2.04
PRICES ONE YEAR AGO
Detroit . . . . . . .‘ . . . . . ..| 1.66 (I

 

 

gy, unsettled market. Prices are low-
er all over the country than they
were a. month ago, but not materi-
‘alily so. While there are many who
lack faith in higher prices they do
not look for very much lower prices.
On the other hand the majority of
the dealers seem to be of the opin-
ion that stocks are unusually light
for the season and that higher prices
will be seen. York state farmers. are

 

quite unanimous in their belief in! hal’evi
higher prices and are selling very- ' of
little at prevailing values. Local and '
primary points in Michigan arenot Lam
any too well supplied with potatoes mm W
due 'to the great storm which has rﬂtlge,

tied up shipping in the potato sec-
tion for the past two weeks. As a
result we look for a stiffening of the
market and possibly higher prices
within the next few days -

 

HAY
Eastern markets are well supplied
with hay and demand is Iliow. How-

 

lNo. 1 Tim.| Stan. rim No2 rim’

 

 

 

 

 

Detroit 1 9.00 @ 20l1 8.00 @ 1 911 1.00 @ 1 3
Chicago [21 .00 @ 28 1 8.00 @ 21
New York I24.oo @ 26 i 2.. 0 25
Pittsbum I22.60 @ 22 20.50 @ 21i1s. )0 1 9
5 No.1 1‘ No.1 1 No.1
Light Mix. |Giover Mix. | Glover
Detroit .. i18.00@19i1!.00@10i14.00¢15.
Chica o 18.00@21i1!|.00 1 11.00019
New ark 23.00 @ 25|20.00
Pittsburo 1 9.50 @ 20.2c .00 @ 21 zqzo @21

 

 

HAY PRICES A YEAR AGO
| No. 1\ Tim.| Stan. Tim.l No 2 Tim

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    
   
    
      
     
   

     

Detroit 120.00q21I19.oo@20|1e_.00@1e
| No.1 i No.1 | No.1,."
ILight Mix. iciover Mix. | Clover

Dem“. l19.00@20l17.00@18l11.00@18 ” 15"
ever markets iin that section of the the “7‘
country show an linclination toward 1'9 5m
, ﬁrmness and business promises to‘ t wee}
improve some within the immediate rk at ‘
future. Cold weather and heavy m 3'11]
snows have improved the market 3 pr“
throughout the west and the better " 9 u“
grades are selling at‘higher levels 01's 0“
at many points. Bad weather has ortati‘
[held up receipts Wlhfiich isalsohaving' '~ 00“
,-much to duo with the tone or the d mar
market. --Sh'ould markets ‘becoma 1?. 134
much stmonger and prices advance V0 8- t1
the gain wouild hardly amount to a ' hardly
substantial sum owmg to the time of‘ t weal
the year. Advances made last week '
only amounted-to $1 on a ten at the EAST

 
   
   
  
  

 
 
   
 
 
   
 

 

  


 

]   ' _.. obi?
ti»- on    . -
~ zed, ‘, e' undertone fn'nncertain
1 waiting. Mills are buying less
 'v.. f . V ‘

The Commercial! Bulletin gives
u‘ ‘quotations at Boston un-
arged .h-o'm lastweek, as follows:
Ohio and Po ﬂeeces:
'- :n unwashed, mason; ﬁne
u 'ashed, 3'8@39c; 11-: blood comb-
-. 42@44c; 3-‘8 cashing, “0m
Michigan and New York ﬂeeces:
— sine unwashed, 4494M; fine
a ashnd, ‘84@36c; 1—2 
‘UH 39@4.183 H blood 1111-
‘m 39®41c:;'
'3: 87@39C-.‘
Wisconsin, Missouri and average
ew England: 1—2,hlood., _38@3901
8 blood, 37@‘380; 1—4 blood. 36
37c. .

LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Themattle trade showed marked
provement, last week, over the,
v before, one of the principal
nses being the short run in Chi—
go where the falling off from the
eek before equaled 7,500 head.
n cos advanced, early in th week,
d held about steady until the
ose on Saturday. The kind that
owed the mostgain were the calf-
; selling between $7.25 and $8-25-
Ia : supply of rough strong weight
core was rather'liberal but only a
 'high—quaiity cattle came to
m The dand for heavy steers

greatly improved from this day
u week, as the conviction is gen-
aL.among good judges of market
ditions, that the crop of long-
d catﬁle will prove to be far short
the needs of the case. 
Eastern dressed beef markets
arted but rather slow, last week,
. they are making it up this week
a result of a rapidly increasing
:n = d. In some parts of the state
. supply of cattle on feed is small,
fact that makes an encouraging
u look for'those who are starting
the business.
Reports from interior points in-
cate an active demand for feed-
, cattle; feeders from- Mineral
int, Wisconsin. are already buying
s the Chicago market in anticipa-
- v of an early rise of pasturage.
Last week’s sheep and lamb re—
ipts were practically the same as
the week before; the big run
the week before and the large
mates for last week, caused
ces to break early in that period
part of the loss. was regained,
er and the close was ﬁrm and
thin 25 cents per cwt. of the
k's high time. Prospects of
u weather hurt the trade in
eased lamb and mutton. late last
-: and the market for live ani-
- was obliged to follow suite.
e demand for feeding lambs ex-
‘enced very little change from
e levels of the week before, the
go being from $12 to $13.75
x cwt. Shearlings brought $13.75
$14.50 in the Chicago market.
one and hesitancy in the wool
v has also tended to take the
e-edge off the demand for all
:;:~. of breeding sheep.
Chicago had an active hog trade
last week resulting partly from
falling on in arrivals of more
 a 15,000 hogs from the showing
the week before. Shipping orders
re small in the Chicago yards,
t week, but small stocks of fresh
rk at all points kept the market
m slipping. Export demand for
g products, continues on a larger
: 9 than ever and the outlook
ors one ‘of the best years, for the

ortation of food products, that.

-. country has ever known. The
d market made a new “high”
1y, last week, but it begins to
vs a. tired look and, the situation
hardly as strong as on this day
t week.
1? - «maroon
EAST BUR Kg;
, . mroh 7th -.>
.v :39“? 41000" has :10 i
 titzl:ndy n33}, .3 ‘{min signs. £7550
" 50;, butchei's.‘ ,8"! .5 @8 5 '
‘ ‘ “ ’ 3315.036?

1

, 9.,"

any up;

new.
.N'I Red. '$3@8;591

1—4 bleedun~

. oral.

picture program dealing with
 life. ~ ‘ . on the

~  and elsewhere in

' vsni' ., k by

 Gr  2““ m

GRATIO'lkr-r-Winter wheat is entering.

‘ freezing and thawing. The sugar contipa-
n.

QUOTATIONS
pea-on. March 7th
BUTTER—Jest creamery. in tubs,

34 1—2@35c per lb. -
EGGS—mosh. current receipts.
-nrme:. $3.so@3.75:

Baldwins,

33.7508; Spy, $8.50@4; western,’
buu, $308.75. .

ONIONS—Eastern, $8338.50 per
per icon. sack. . ,

POPCORN—Globe, Little
Buster, 100 per lb.

DRESSED HOGS—Smail to me—
dium, 12 @13c; heavy, io@1ic per
m ,

5c:

DRESSED CALVES—Choice, 15
0160; inedium, ’ 12@13c; large
coarse, 5010c per lb. ‘

LIVE POULTRY —— Best spring
chickens, smooth legs, 28c; staggy
springs, 25c; leghorn springs, 25c;
large fat hens, 300; mediumhens,

‘28c; small hens, 26@27c; old roost-

ers, 17c; geese, 20@22c; ducks,
35c; choice large trukeys, 35c per
lb. -

WEEKLY MRKETGEAM ,
WASHINGTON, D, .C., For the week

ending March’ 4, 1922

DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter markets
ﬁrm with prices showing advances aver-

aging about 2 cents higher in eastern ’l

markets and about 1 cent higher at Chi-
mgo. Demand latter part of week active;
all grades moving well~ Closing prices
92 smre; New York, Boston and Phila-
delphia 38 cents; Chicago 37 cents,
Cheese markets active following declines
on Wisconsin cheese boards Feb, 27,
Prices at Wisconsin primary markets
March 3: Twins. 18 '1-2c;~Daisies, 20
cans; Double Daisies and Young Ameri-
can 19 1-2 c; Longhorns, 200; Square
Prints. 21 1—40,

FEED: Demand slow, Future offerings
demand light. Linseed meal firmI oilfer-
kets quote ﬁrm prices, Eastern markets
easier. Southern and southeastern de'
mand good for middlings and shorts;
light for bran, Cottonseed meal easier,
moderately liberal~ ' Northwesteyi man
lngs scams. Hominy feed inactive. price
unchanged. Gluten feed production good.
demand good~ ipts and stocks gen-
erally ample to meet requirements, Quot-
ed Much 3: Bran. $25; middlings,
825.50, Minneapolis; 36 per cent cotton-
seed mneal $40.25; white hominy feed.
823, St_ Louis. Linseed meal..$52_ Min-

, gluten feed, $32_15; Chicago.
No: 1, M18118. meal, $17.25. Kansas City.

T AND VEG J BLES: Ne
York and Chicago potato markets slight-
ly weaker, other cities steady to ﬁrm,
Supplies iberal, demand limited. New
York sacked round Whites off 5 cents in
New York city at $2@2_05 per 100 pounds
up 5 cents in other eastern cities at
$2_15@2,25: Northern stock nearly
steady in Chicago at $1.80@1.95; up 5 to
10 cents in other markets at $2 10I?D2 lb,
Idaho rural down 10 cents in Chicago
at $1,95@2_ Prices steady to firm in dis—
tributing markets. New York round
whites up 7 cents at $1.88, Maine Green
Mountains up 10 cents at_ $1.41. Northern
round Whites up 10 cents at 51,60?
81,70 1' o b, shipping point-1,. Cabbage
markets strong. Supplies new stock lib-
Demand limited. New York Dan-
ialr_..ty~p) up $5@10 in eastern cities at
$40@53 per ton bulk, Too few Sales at
shipping points to establish market, Ap-
ple markets ﬁrm: deman‘d limited, New
York Baldwins, @2 1—2 ﬁrm at $7,50@
8.25 per bbl. in leading markets

LIVE STOCK ANT) M’EATSwor Chicago
hog prices advanced 25 to 35 cents high-
er, heavy hogs advancing most, Beef
steer up mm 25 cents; Butcher cows
and heifers up 15 to 40 cents, Good to
choice stockers and feeders steady; com—
mon kinds dull and “'0an Von! calvnq
lost 25 cents to $1.50; fat lambs and
yearlings 25 to 50 cents;,fat eWes 25
cents Feeding lambs unchanged March
4 Chicago prices: Hogs, top $1125, bulk
of sales $11@11,25: medium and good
beef steers, $7,4069JS, butcher cows
and heifers, “1561815; feeder steers,
$5,50@7.50:1lght and medium, weight
veal calves, $7 25631050.: fat lambs,
31301575: feeding lambs. $11 506%
14 50 ' yearlings, $10 85@14 25: fat
ewes, $5 50@9, Stocker and feeder Shl’D-
ments from 11 important markets during
the week ending Feb. 24 were: Cattle
and calves, 5.5.745; hogs, 8,773; Sheep,
26,885: In eastern wholesale fresh meat
markets mutton and beef advanced while
veal, lambs and pork loin) declined,
Mutton up $1@3: Beef.50 cents to 81,
Veal. lamb and pork lolns week at some
markets and as much as $2. Lower at
others. March 3 [prices good grade meats;
beet $12,500“: veal 3166,18; lamb-$25
0729: mutton 814021: light pork loin!
$19@21: heavy loins\$15@18,

gnarl naronrs__‘_~

OHEBOYGAN—Practically no change

, oonditi ' last week.
Just ringworm: from attests of big storm
of Week go, Roads improving but still
for travel. Almost no heavy

ha ‘ being done. Entertaining motion

' 1.6  been givenxby annuityt
~ monum- :01 etc , '
as: - -w‘ ‘

wild 811i-

nies are onerin to contract’beets 35
per ton with '31 labor and sliding
contract. Everyone wants hogs and are
in: fancy prices...‘ Those who sold
s early curse their luck. Many are
constideri fencltéhanging horses ‘for 
trao ors. a, a acreage gain 118‘.
O.‘ DeW‘itt. March 3.
LIVINGSTON —— W

mod t 1th light 12.11 of V
eras W mow on
mm.
woodaml

ers- are busy . up

. getting out manure in prepa-

ration to:- spring plowing. The usual

number of auction sales are being held.

Some farmers movingl to town "while

others are renting eir ﬂaring—Geo.
Coleman, March 3, -

s'r. JOSEPH—March 1. quite heavy
fall of snow, March 2, lovely sunshine
and the.me fast, Farmers hauling few
logs to mi and cutﬁng wood. Some

_ g wood on shares. Eggs are way
. Rye is advancing in price slowly

3, weather better, sun shining and
birds sing-mg. Some skunk trapping be-
ing done: here—Mrs. H. C. Holtz,
March

KENT (N)——Having our ﬁrst spring
weather this week, Saw first robins last
Tuesday, The sleet storm of last week
did but slight damage in this vicinity.
Farmers are getting restless and are
hauling manure, getting up wood and
attending auction sales, Sales every day
now, Bids rather slow. Some beans and
grain being sold, A few potatoes also.
Not many left here—C. A.. March 3.

MONROE—Weather is fair, freezing
nights. thawing days, Not much doing,
Prices of products some better, but not

,much left to sell; some oats and corn

being sold to farmers for seed and feed.
Most of our grain went out on trucks
and crop reporters giVe it as in the farm—
em hands yet. It will be found the same
in lots of places—«G. L. 8., March 3.
EATON—Pleasant and warm this a,
m, Snow nearly all off ﬁelds. Wheat and
rye looking brown, The roots are all
right as yet. Farmers are feeling as if
the worst of the deﬂation has passed,
Prices for hogs and sheep are good. but
cattle are low as yet, Hope to receive
better prices the coming season. So we
will be able to pay taxes without going
to banks,-——C. F. L., March 3.
MIDLAND—During the past week we

have had the worst weather that has-

been experienced here in years, Rain,
whi froze as soon as it touched any-
thing, fell intermittently for about 36
hours. Trees and telephone poles were
broken off, Immesurable damage was
done to fruit trees of all kinds. For
several days the water was over the road
and people from this direction ‘Were un-
able to reach town.——C, L. H , March 2.

WEXFORD (NW) - Sn shining
brightly this morning, lee not all gone
from trees yet. Saw a crow last week.
sounds like spring. Buying hay, straw
and grain now, quite a. bit, Township
caucus next week, Pick out the best man,
Nearly everyone is expecting better
times ahead. They will plant and sow
about the same there as usual,~——W, A. .1 .,
March 3.

GENESEFr—Some snow Friday. Roads
very rough. having been cut up badly
during the rain of last week, Wheat
looks very brown but some of it has good
growth, It may come thru very .well but
late sown wheat looks bad. Not many
farm auction sales, Some farms going
back to fonmer owners because cannot
be paid ton—A. R. Graham, March 3.

SUGAR COMPANIES OFFER $5
PER TON FOR BEETS
- , (Continued from page 3)
several Michigan factories to the U.
S. government for a period of 12
years we ﬁnd that the average ex-
traction of white sugar (which does
not include the by—products) to be
right around 12.9 per cent or 258
pounds of white sugar extracted
fiom a ton of beets. If we take
into consideration the above facts
if true we now have all of the data
necessary on which to build a fair
sliding scale contract on a 50—50
basis. It will be seen that sugar
at one cent a pound would give to
the factory $1.29 and the grower
$1.29 out of a ton of beets. This
$1.29 is some where near the right
spread to use in the advance for a
ton of beets and not an even dollar
as proposed by the factories for each
cent advanced in the price of sugar.
“The factories are raising a point
whichvthey are stressing heavilly
and that is the minimum guaranteed
price for a ton of beets. In this their
point is well taken, but it is some—
thing that cannot be gotten around

‘on account of the bad condition of

our farmers, the high taxes, high
labor and large amount of capital
needed to grow a beet crop requir—
ing interest to be paid on same by
the majority of growers. This is
something that should be and must
be considered by congress if the in-
dustry is to be saved and a protec-
tion tariff high enough 'to cover the
difference in the cost of production
in foreign countries and when this
is properly done I do not believe
sugar will average below 5 cents in
N. Y. and make the factories safe
in oﬂering a contract based on a.
minimum of 5' cent sugar or right
around $6 forgbeets on the 1922

 new. a coin. a}

Wehrmota'leestiemon'
foreign sugar ; will be node-cry.
Why cannot the representatives of
the factories and those of the grow-
hers meet in' a. conference and thrash
some of these things out along
strictly business lines instead of
standing oft submitting to conditions
requiring and’ calling for political
conferences which do not get us, any-
where, and operate generally to the'
disgust of the ordinary farmer and
.maﬁufacturer?" .

JUST AS OUR RANDFATBERS
THO GIIT! 7 .
HE DATE was 1867. The place
was northern Missouri. The
Civil War Was two years away.
The persons were two farmers sit-
ting together on a worm fence. The
theme was the only one they knew
—hard times!

You know what they were saying.
Their world of ﬁnance was warped
and twisted. Interest rates .were
high and money almost impossible
to get. Their good wives were gath-
ering up eggs and selling" them for
eight cents per dozen. They had to
beg the dealer to buy their pork.

. Their corn was worth fourteen cents

and their oats not worth hauling
away over the poor roads.

It was a hard time. What did,
they do? They faced the situation
with hope and hard work; and in a.
few years their farms were paid for,
their children educated, and they
had a comfortable nest built for old
age. But in 1867 the clouds of
gloom hung close over their puzzled
heads.

. Today the grandsons of the farm-
ers of 1867 are sitting in their auto—
mobiles talking hard times, and poor
markets, and low prices. They are
talking the language of their fathers.
Abraham Lincoln had a poem writ-
ten by a Scotchman which he kept
over his desk in the White House
which read, “We are the same our
fathers have been.” We are surely
the same when depression hits our
pocketbooks.

Time has shown that the farmers
of 1867 and 1893 did not have all
the facts, for bad they been able to
forecast the future days they would
have been singing instead of moan-
ing. Better days came just as truly
as better days are sure to come to us.

Just as our fathers and grand—
fathers faced the ﬁnancial chaos of
their times, and turned it into order,
so will we. In the meantime, there
are two things we can do to help:

Let’s stop talking to each other
about hard times. We are not starv—
ing yet, and there is no prospect of
that. If we keep on suggesting to
each other that things are “giving
to the devil,” it will grease the slide
to that state of things.

Then we must keep suggesting to
each other that we believe in each
other; pledge each other our mutual
faith, to our country and the God
above us, that we will stay on the
job and plug and save and dig until
the new economical day dawus. If
we will all do that, our eyes will he
wide open to enjoy the new day when
it comes—The Farmer, St. Paul.

LIVE STOCK EXCHANGE ELECTS

HE Michigan Live Stock Ex—
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meeting last week elected C. V.
Tracy of Iﬂhaca president of the Ex-
change for the coming year. W. J.
Perry, secretary; E. E. Compson,
Wicaemresddent; P. M. Granger, Char-
lotte, treasurer: George Bouteli,
Perry, secretary, E. E. CIompson,
Lansing, «secretary—munanger. ine
Exchange is getting ready to estab-
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In Price  

ELOTTE, the Edison of Europe, manufacturer of the greatest. Cream
Separator the world has ever known, announces a sweeping reduction in
prices. Labor conditions in general together with tremendous rebuilding and
re-organizing eﬂorts put forth by this big mantof Belgium has resulted in cut-
ting production costs to the bone. '
And right now at flu} particular time exchange rates are extremely favorable. Take advantage of
this condition while it lasts. Get the most for your American dollar. Buy now and save money.

Before buying any separator ﬁnd out how the Melotte has won 264 Grand and ‘International 1
Prizes and how, for efﬁciency of skimming, ease of turning, convenience of operation and

durability—the Great Belgium Melotte has won every important European contest. Find out

why 500,000 Melotte Separators are in continuous use today. ’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our 15 Year Guarantee

Every Belgium imported Melotte Cream Separator is
sold under an absolute. ironboun . 15-year guarantee.
No Melotte is ever sold except under this guarantee. A
guarantee written in plain English so that you can un-
derstand it. A guarantee that is 100% stronger than any
other separator guarantee ever made. A guarantee that
really guarantees something—upon which you can ab.

What U. 3. Government
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Vibration of a cream sepamfor’s bowl will soon cost
you more money in cream waste than the price of

‘your separator. U. S. Government Bulletin No. 201

says that a perfectly true motion of the bowl is abso-
luter necessary. the bowl is the vital part of any

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separator—the part where the cream separation takes

solutely rely—an absolute protection to the purchaser.
place. .. Q

and which binds us to our bargain.

Self-Balancing Bow ( 

The Belgium Melotte is the only singlebeariug-bowl separator made.This patented bowl hangs from one fric-

tionless ball bearing and spins like a top. It is self-balancing. It skims as perfectly after 15 years' use as when , .
new. Positively can not ever get out of balance—can not vibrate and thus causecrosscurrents which waste cream .
by remixing with the milk. The 600 lb. Melotte turns as easily as the 300 lb. machine of other makes. Spins for U ,
25 minutes unless brake .is applied. No other separator has or needs a brake. The Melotte bowl has solved the ,
problem of perfect skimming. ' ‘ pg ,

50.  _ _ ~ +  ,

after 30 Days. {
Free Trial 1 I ,

—NO MONEY DOWN—FREE TRIAL- SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS—DUTY FREE
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deposits—no papers to sign—use it as‘if it were your own separator. Satisfy yourself that the porcelain bowlrsas
easy to clean as a china plate. Compare it—test it in every way. ’ .
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clean. lasts longer than all others. then pay $7.50 as ﬁrst payment and the balance in small monthly payments
until the separator is paid for.

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of 37.50 and the balance in small monthly payments.

Ellie Melotte pays for itself from your increased cream
ecks.

it is the machine you want. Keep it for 30 days and
use it just as if it were your own machine.

Compare the Melotte separator with any other-
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great Belgium Melotte and have made up your mind cleanest. _ ‘ p ‘ ' ' ‘ l g

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~ Dept. 3500 2843 West 19th Street. Chicago. Illinois
Mail coupon for catalog giving full des ' tion of this wonder-fulleream separatof..liledd about the
porcelain-lined bowl- Easy. to clean as a ma Plate. Oneahalf‘less tinware to clean. An exclusive
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Don't buy any separator until you have investigated the Melotte.’l‘ake advantage of the sodny  trial which Mr.
Melotte has now authorized us to oﬁerfrest the Melotte against all-other separators and satisfy yourself as hundreds

 

Without cost to me or obligation in any way, please send
me the Melotte catalog which tells the full story of this

wonderful separator and M. Jules Melotte, its inventor.

Also send me your revised price list showing 22 79 reduc—

 

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- so easy to turn thatit spins twenty-ﬁve minutes after you stop cranking. And remember it is guaranteed for 15 years.
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